Alternate Ending

Emica Kana:

Despite being disarmed and greatly outnumbered, I still put up my hands.

"Emica," Noon says, floating beside me and putting up her fists. "You have a plan. Right?"

"Reach the flying notebooks," I answer, "Destroy it and then destroy the dakura tchingu controlling the person."

"Uhhhh, got a plan B?"

I do not have a 'plan B', whatever that is, but I don't get the time to tell Noon. With the swing of his hand, Jaakuna Sakka orders all his paper ninjas and the one giant paper guardian to attack.

Charging from all sides, the paper ninjas are the first to reach me. Jumping and running at me, I throw my fist against the first paper ninja. Hitting it directly in the chest, this paper ninja falls back. As it falls back, it loses its weapon. Seeing a long paper bo staff just floating there, I reach out and grab it.

"Thank you for this," I say with a smile. Holding the newly acquired bo staff, I hear footsteps coming from behind. Turning around and swinging the bo staff, I hit and knock two more paper ninjas to the ground.

When three paper ninjas land in front of me, they start throwing ninja stars at me. Holding up the staff, I twist and turn as I block and dodge all the stars.

Jumping and flipping through the air, I slam the staff down as I land. The staff sends a shockwave that knocks all the paper ninjas to the ground.

Spinning the paper staff while moving it from hand to hand, I turn my head when Noon warns me of something.

"Emica, behind you! Paper guardian!"

Turning around, I swing the staff with all my strength. I hit the paper guardian but it doesn't seem bother.

Pulling back its massive arm, the paper guardian slaps me away. I fly through the air, dropping the paper staff, before hitting a metal wall and falling off it.

"Emica," Noon screams. "Emica! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," I lie, holding my waist as I push myself up. Standing up now, I get into a fighting stance, spreading my legs while holding out one hand in front and one hand behind.

I try to hold my stance but Noon must have noticed my shaking hands.

"You're not fine, are you?"

"I am fine," I repeat. Looking at my shaking hands, I give them one last shake before steadying them. I then look up and see the paper guardian approaching me. Trapped in its shadow, I watch as paper ninjas surround us.

Jaakuna Sakka:

"Trapped and unarmed," I write, "The Red Rose Ninja is left defeated. She is outnumbered. She is overpowered. She had lost her weapons. There is nothing she can do."

As I keep writing the story, I hear a voice in my head.

"Excellent story," Don' Yokuna Yokubo says. "But do not forget our deals."

"Of course, Don' Yokuna," I say, "I will not. Once I collect the Red Rose Ninja's trinket, I will find the Green Emerald Ninja and collect his."

Watching as my paper ninjas approach the exhausted Red Ninja, I dip my pen in the ink jar.

"Out of option and left with no choice, the Red Ninja gives up her ruby rose. Her secret identity is exposed and I, Jaakuna Sakka, give both the ruby rose and the emerald dragon to Don' Yokuna. He then let me keep my powers, and because of my powers, I became the greatest writer ever! The en---"

Before I can finish writing, I hear screaming and turn around.

"Aahhh," the Green Ninja screams as he jumps off the rooftop and toward me. Pulling his wooden swords behind him, the Green Ninja throws them forward.

Screaming as he hits me, I'm knock off from my paper dragon and worst, away from my notebook.

"Nnooo," I shout while falling to the ground. "Ahhh!"

A few paper ninjas rush to help me up. Pulling me up to my feet, I look and see the Green Ninja standing on top of my paper ninja.

"Red Rose," the Green Ninja shouts. Everyone, including all my paper ninjas and even my paper dragon, all look at Green Ninja as he shouts. "I believe these are yours! Catch!"

Shooting his hand into the air, we all see the Red Ninja's staff and chain. Throwing them at the Red Ninja, the Green Ninja then looks in front of him.

"The notebook," he says. Raising his wooden sword into the air, the Green Ninja is about to slam it down but before he can, I shout.

"Dragon! Shake him off!"

My paper dragon does as I ordered and immediately, starts jumping around.

Akio Hisashi:

Screaming as the paper dragon starts jumping around, trying to shake me off, I jump back its neck and wrap my arms around it.

"Oh boy," Nemo shouts, watching from the side as I desperately hold on. "Akio, hold on!"

"What do you think I'm doing," I scream back. Barely holding on as the dragon keeps jumping and shaking, it then starts throwing itself against the building's walls.

I scream again as I am thrown into a wall myself. When my grip slips as I am thrown into the wall, I tighten my grip and tie my fingers together.

"Hold on," Nemo shouts. "Just hold on Akio!"

"You're not helping," I shout, barely seeing Nemo as the dragon runs past him.

"I'm a ghost, not a rodeo clown!"

"What is a rodeo clown?"

Nemo doesn't get the chance to answer. The dragon throws its whole self through a wall and into one of the buildings. My fingers come undone and my grip breaks. Slipping off the dragon, I fly through the air before skidding against the ground and hitting a bunch of things.

"Akio," Nemo says, flying to me. "Are you okay? Say something!"

"Ahh," I say, pushing a bunch of things off of me. "What are these?"

"Hmm," Nemo says, looking at what I'm holding. "Those are croissants. You were thrown into the snack tables."

Shaking my head and throwing the strangely-shaped piece of bread, I pull myself up. Once I'm back on my feet, I pull out my bokken swords.

"Uhh," Nemo says, looking at me and then at the paper dragon as it pushes itself up and turns to us. "No offense or anything, but I think we're going to need more than a pair of wooden swords to beat a whole dragon."

"What do you suggest then," I ask, holding my bokken swords in a defense stance.

Nemo doesn't answer right away. Instead, he spends the next few moments looking up. Looking up myself, all I can see are beams in the ceiling.

"Nemo, what are you looking at?"

Again, Nemo doesn't answer right away. Instead, he looks back at me.

"Akio, I have an idea."

Noon Encarnacion:

"A big thank you to Akio for getting your bo staff and chain back," I say, watching as Emica spins both her weapons in the air, keeping all the paper ninjas back. The giant paper guardian, however, doesn't seem too bother as he walks toward Emica. "But we're still outnumbered here."

"I know," Emica says, wincing as she tries to keep everyone back. She stops spinning her bo staff and places her hand over her waist.

When I see this, I place my invisible feet on the ground and stand beside Emica.

"I got your back," I say, putting up my fists. Emica smiles when she sees this.

We both watch as the massive paper guardian pulls back its giant paper arm. Throwing its arm forward, the paper guardian stops.

"Incoming," someone yells. Again, all of us turn our heads and we see Akio running out of a building. Running toward all of us very fast, we then hear an earth-shaking roar.

"The paper dragon," I shout, seeing the paper dragon running out of the same building as Akio. It chases Akio, even when he jumps, and starts running on top of the paper ninjas' heads.

Emica and I watch as the paper dragon crushes a bunch of paper ninjas, flattening them. The paper dragon doesn't even stop when Akio slides underneath the paper guardian. The dragon runs right into the paper guardian, and the two skid against the ground before crashing into another building.

"I will admit," Akio says, looking at his invisible host. "I did not think that would work. Yes, you did tell me. Yes, you did tell me. You can stop repeating yourself.

Turning his head, Akio waves at Emica.

"Emica," Akio starts, "My host told me he had an idea. Follow me!"

Emica and I look at each other before following Akio as he strangely leads us back into the building where he and the paper dragon first ran out of.

As the three, or I guess four of us, head toward the building, the paper guardian and paper dragon reappear. They come crashing through a wall and are back outside.

"Pick me up," Jaakuna Sakka shouts. "Pick me up! Put me back on the dragon!"

The paper guardian stops and grabs Jaakuna Sakka. It then gently drops him on the paper dragon.

"This is not the ending," Jaakuna Sakka shouts from on top of his paper dragon. "The story ends with both of you surrendering and giving me your trinkets. This is not the ending!"

"Call this an alternate ending," I shout, smiling as I fly behind Emica and Akio. Jaakuna Sakka and his paper guardian and dragon chase us into the building. They chase us until Emica's and Akio's backs are against a wall.

"No way left to run," Jaakuna Sakka says, armed with his notebook again.

"I couldn't agree more," Akio says. I watch from the side as Akio pulls out some pellets. Throwing the pellets toward the ceiling, they explode and trigger the sprinklers.