Chapter One

Misaki Yuki finds himself confronted by a Myobu Kitsune named Tenko and is given the responsibility of becoming a ninja of the Japanese Moon God Tsukiyomi and saving the world. He is given the legendary Hyourinken (Moon Blade) and is told that the Japanese God of Evil, Amatsu Mikaboshi, is planning on unleashing hell on earth. He accepts the task and heads off to school to stop the impending disaster.

Once in school he gets help from his best friend, Johannesburg Michalangelo Lockhart the Tenth, or Joe for short. After a bit of explaining and the small distraction from Yuki's crush, Kelly, Joe believes Yuki. The two try and decide on what to do, but are interrupted by the appearance of Kappa, a Japanese Water Demon. Yuki is upset when Joe leaves him to fight the Kappa.

During his fight with the Kappa, Yuki realizes that the Hyourin-ken imbues him with "magically jacked speed". He uses this to try and defeat the kappa, but unfortunately, his speed cannot make up for the size deficiency of his sword. When Yuki tries to attack a second time, the Hyourin-ken slips from his grasp. To the surprise of both Yuki and the Kappa, it disappears mid-flight, reappears behind the kappa and impales him in the back of the head.

Watching from the sidelines is a mysterious figure named Lord Hawk, a general of Amatsu Mikaboshi. He expresses his displeasure at the Kappa's failure as he has a conversation with Rei; who is apparently a voice without a body. Lord Hawk then reveals his new super mega evil genius plan. He will capture Joe Lockhart and force Yuki to give up the Hyourin-ken!!

Meanwhile, Yuki is thrown in the Time Out room by Dean Brandes for leaving the Kappa carcass on school grounds. He is sent a message from Lord Hawk. Due to the ambiguous nature of the message, Yuki mistakenly believes that it is Kelly who is in danger and not Joe. He rushes off immediately to Kelly's house to try and protect her.

Once he arrives at Kelly's house, Yuki unwisely decides to break in to "check" in on Kelly. Kelly then returns home from school to find Yuki lurking in her bedroom. After Yuki explains everything to her, Tenko reappears to give Yuki some more information on the Hyourinken.

According to Tenko, the sword hides four separate techniques that correspond with the phases of the moon. When Yuki fell and threw the Hyourinken by accident, he had luckily activated the crescent moon "Engetsuzan" technique.

Armed with this knowledge, Yuki begins to train in the Engetsuzan technique in Kelly's backyard. He does this thinking he still has over two hours to kill before the deadline Lord Hawk had given him. Yuki finds mastering the technique hard until Kelly lends him a pair of gloves which he thinks allow him a better grip when he throws the Hyourinken. Yuki's celebration is short-lived however when he discovers the real time and realizes he will be almost an hour late! Yuki rushes off on a pink banana bike that Kelly lends him.

Joe tries his best to stall Lord Hawk, but Lord Hawk stabs his in the stomach. Yuki arrives a moment later and is upset to find out he is a tad late. He begins his fight with Lord Hawk and right off the bat he tries using the Engetsuzan technique. Yuki fails miserably as the Hyourinken fails to reappear and Yuki is left weaponless.

Lord Hawk then mounts his offensive using the magical spear known as the Susanoyari. Yuki is surprised and relieved to find that even without the Hyourinken in his possession that he still has magically jacked speed. Using that speed he is able to dodge Lord Hawk's attacks, but fails to mount any of his own.

Lord Hawk then announces that he has seen enough of Yuki's moves to be able to use his super evil ultra mega genius mind to predict which moves yoke will use in any situation. Yuki thinks it's all a bluff. However when Lord Hawk connects with his first hit Yuki realizes it is not. Yuki is bloodied and beaten up in a matter of minutes. Lord Hawk tries to finish Yuki off by using his Lightning Execution technique that actually allows him to hurl bolts of lightning from the Susanoyari.

It is at this point when Joe wakes up to find himself the afterlife in the company of a Japanese man dressed like Elvis. The man introduces himself as Vase Holystar and explains that the world is on the brink of destruction due to the imbalance caused by the massive influx of humans in hell. Joe wishes to see it for himself. Vase gives him a crystal that indeed allows Joe to glimpse into hell and before his mind is lost in the "spiral" a flame burns brightly around him.

Joe wakes up to find himself very much alive and without the deadly wound that lord hawk had inflicted upon him. He is also surprised to see Kelly has appeared to help them out. She mentions that she had found Yuki's Hyourinken lying near Joe and that she also has a plan to help.

Kelly then joins the fray by distracting Lord Hawk with a huge cloud of gravel. While Lord Hawk is distracted, Joe tosses the Hyourinken to Yuki. Lord Hawk uses his Lightning Execution to knock out Kelly and the final fight between Yuki and Lord Hawk begins.

Yuki mounts a huge comeback as he follows Kelly's parting advice as how the Engetsuzan really worked and is able to use the technique to cause serious damage to Lord Hawk. Before Yuki is able to finish him off, Lord Hawk tries one more Lightning Execution. He misses and that is when yoke realizes that Lord Hawk had never cleaned the gravel off his sunglasses and that he even still wore them in the dark.

Yuki puts two and two together and uses a feint to attack Lord Hawk's sunglasses. He succeeds and Lord Hawk is finally defeated. They all find out that lord Hawk's real name was David Btwys-y-Cawr and that he is a classmate of theirs.

It is then that the Nogitsune Reiko comes flying out of the broken sunglasses that Dave had been wearing. It turns out that Reiko has been influencing Dave until Dave had finally become convinced he was Lord hawk. Reiko promises that this will not be the end of Amatsu Mikaboshi's plan to eradicate humankind and disappears.

Meanwhile, Tenko and Vase are seen conversing in the afterlife. the two seem good friends as they confirm that not only is Reiko involved, but that his involvement means that Amatsu's plans are close to their conclusion.

Back on Earth, Yuki, Joe, Kelly, and Dave finish the endless day by eating at Nick Tahoe's. Thus finishing a chapter in the best way possible...

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