4am. I’m wide awake, again… I can’t sleep these days. Don’t want to. I can’t rest until I destroy those that tried to destroy my world. My consciousness taunts me relentlessly; the voice of my fallen Sensei echoing through my mind. I keep replaying it. I could’ve done something. I could’ve defeated them. But I wasn’t strong enough then. It’ll be different, this time…

I can feel it flowing within me; a life force and a poison combined. I have no control over it. I’m not sure anymore of what’s in my mind and what’s real around me. The lines blur; my rage torches everything around me. It’s growing, my vengeance. It flows out of me… a fireball that I can no longer (nor want to) contain. They’ll find me here, I know it. But when they do… I’ll be ready. The secret within lies beneath…