A New Story

Escape:

The shroud of the doom stone's ahead of us weakened; Hakari and I had already shattered our rocks. It was left to Amoroto to eliminate the last of the gloom stones that darkened our thoughts with doubt despite our efforts to repel its malevolent power. The world shaded with the nightfall of our insecurities, darkened only from our perspectives, with minds muddied by insignificant details we were blinded by the pettiest inconveniences. Our existence paled grey, the air turned stale and no longer fey, sensation had died and the glory of living felt as a burden leaving only a dull outlook in splendour to the majesty of his mouth open in song.

Amoroto's song:

All of the pain and anguish that I see before me is such a terrible sight and I hope that I can make it right

Make what is lost before me right,

Make oh what is lost before me magnified.

Break this dark night into day with the power of the sun and reverse oh what the universe has done!

...

The heavens opened and shone out a beam of light, to hover and descend upon the burning blight.

...

All I could see in my sight suddenly turned blindingly white, and then I opened my eyes. There in front of us all was the last remaining boulder, its colour petrified and dulled, bleached by the sun. A sudden wind blew and the boulder crumbled, cascading rubble and dust and then that too was turned to nothing until all proof that any such boulder was; vanished from existence.

"You destroyed it..." My words fell from my lips without any thought, as if carelessness had overcome me and my mind and mouth had joint into one; unabridged from concealing my intentions in thought or action. "but... that's impossible, there's nothing left." I stepped forward but halted, fearing running up to inspect where the stone had been would rip open a void and suck me in too.

"I asked that creation remove what had been done... so it did." Amoroto stepped away from me but then stood his ground unopposed, for surly who would dare oppose him now!

"You can't do that to a person can you?" Hakari asked and it was a question I had tainted on my inner most thoughts too, my face held in a façade of confidence.

"I think?" The returned uncertainty in Amoroto's voice brought me ease. It was strange to say it but knowing that he lacked confidence in his ability brought me relief, that he and people like him couldn't destroy the world with any number of words. "When I sing the feelings mix and build in my chest gathering stronger and stronger until I can't hold them anymore. If I sang a song that is too powerful for me to perform, I wouldn't be able to finish it and my jutsu wouldn't execute. This is how I know my song is complete, when the built up emotions release, my ninjutsu is done."

Hakari dropped her shoulders and we all felt the stress leave us. Not only Amoroto's shocking power but the trial itself brought on a heavy strain that now washed free from us. We have passed.

It wasn't long before Tensue returned...

"Now class, I want you to inspect each one of these boulders and tell me exactly how they were destroyed." Tensue returned to our trial with a troop of followers, all in white coats carrying clip boards with pens. "Agh, I see that you are still here?" The medical ninja looked over us as if he expected us to be elsewhere, he was just about to turn to be elsewhere himself when!

"I believe congratulations are in order" Hakari intervened, and my first team mate was not alone. I held my fist raised and was just about to bark at Tensue like I had seen Naruto do, in some instances that knuckle head was right.