[keninu_heartthrob]

:<3 An Anime cross :<3

It was a dark night. Nothing but the sound of dripping could be heard. And the clatter of splashes. Quick paced. Someone was running. Then a clack, clackity clunk. It was chains rattling off each other. Poised was Theetan. Ready to fight this threat. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, or at least that's what it looked like, a small lad crashed into Theetan. He had been running as fast as he could. He wore shackles and carried a sword hidden in its sheath.
Theetan had been knocked off his feet by the sudden impact of the small boy.
"What's with this boy?" thought Theetan trying to rebalance himself and shake not only the boy off but the dirt that clung to his clothes.
The boy was tightly clinging to the coat he had worn that evening and hid his face in it. Feeling bad for raising a weapon at a kid, Theetan kneels down and asks the boy what was wrong and why he was in shackles.
"I'm hiding." the boy responded.
"If you are, you sure aren't doing a good job. I can see you." Theetan said.
"No, no, from the government. They want to use me to kill innocent lives. I just can't do that. So I took my sacred sword and had my old friend put shackles on me before they killed him. :'("
"So Shackleboy, what do you want me to do?"
"I can work for you, right? Or something like that?"
"Ok, Shackleboy."
And that was only the beginning of the relationship Shackleboy and Theetan would share...

Theetan then led Shackleboy to where he lived and what do you know? It looked like a castle, even though technically it was a church. Theetan walked on to the perfectly trimmed grass while leading the young boy by the shackles...
TBC...[br]Posted on: October 10, 2008, 09:20:31_________________________________________________I t wasn't long before Shackleboy was put to work cleaning with the kitchen drones. However, his favorite place after working for six hours was the humongous library where a brown haired drone worked by herself. Her name was Kaoru Kaido Ishinna, and wore white robes like a dojo instructor, but with green silk ribbons in her short hair and on her pale white human like arms and legs. Theetan explained that she wore the green to show she was enlightened by her work.

"Welcome back, Shackle-San."
"Ah, good evening Kaoru-Chan."
"Have you come to check out another book, Shackle-San?"
"You know well, Kaoru-Chan. Is there any left on the ancient Ryu here?"
"No, Shackle-San. You've read them all. Although...I've found some on another ancient, the Ishu Hiten Ritsu, if that would interest you, Shackle-San."
"Thank you Kaoru-Chan. Your kindness know no bounds." O

Returning the last Ryu book, Shackleboy finds the section where Kaoru had told him about, and gets his daily book, and begins to read it when the church bell rings. Some government hounds (literally) had been spotted. Behind them were some officers of the Hokkai region, who own some of the most fearsome warriors and murderers. They were known as "Hokkai-battos-demos" or mad assassins of the Hokkai district. They had come to reclaim their runaway. When the door drone opened the door, Theetan and Shackleboy were by his side.

"What are you here for? This is holy land."
"We've come for our runaway vagabond."
"Sorry. You can't have anyone taking refuge in a church. Surely, even Hokkai's 'mad assassins' must know that.

[LustrousDragon]

Not bad, I tell you. You should look at the keys more when writing. You need to be one with the characters. You see, you can't think what they are going to say, but you have to be like them when writing. Think in their way, not in your way. If this is your first time, that's great.