Okay, first Supah Ninja fanfic. Hope you enjoy Let me know what you think. Oh, and I apologize if Mike's pov doesn't seem like him, I tried my best, and don't forget I'm a girl, not a guy so… -Chinaluv

Chapter 1: The other Name

Mike's Point of View

Amanda, Owen, and I were in my room, well more like under it. The three of us were ninjas, we protect our city and take down the evil bad guys. It just so happens that the entrance to our secret dojo was located under my bed. We had just entered fifteen minutes ago, after we got out of school.

Now, at that particular moment my holographic grandpa was trying to tell us about how we should always be honest with each other and not keep secrets.

"Okay then Mike, you're a super nerd." Owen said surprisingly enough Amanda playfully punched him in the shoulder and started laughing.

"I don't think that's what he meant Owen." She said and smiled at me. Gosh I liked her a Lot.

"No it is not. In order to be a successful team you need to trust each other with your secrets. Isn't that right Amanda?" I looked to Amanda who sort of just nodded, honestly it was a bit weird, she always agreed with him.

For the next hour we practiced with Yamato, a robot training ninja, who could really kick our buts when we weren't paying enough attention. Today none of us were in sync with the others. Owen was being his goofy self, and surprisingly enough Amanda was just not herself today. After getting beaten by Yamato for the fourth time I spoke.

"Come on guys, we need to focus." Just to my luck and alarm went off.

"There's a robbery at the bank, lets go." Amanda said and started to sound like herself again. I was really glad because when she was sad, or not herself none of us were.

The three of us ran across the roof tops of the city until we reached the bank. We barged into it only to see one man smiling.

"Hello ninjas. I've been waiting. It's almost unimpressing that you didn't' get here earlier." Ugh, he didn't even have any money. This was just a trap, and waste of valuable practice time.

"What do you want you bad guy." Owen said. Amanda and I stared at him as if he were crazy, which I guess he was.

"Really… Really dude." I said sadly not surprised at him.

"I've already gotten what I want, you three. I've been studying you. I propose a challenge. To one of you." He paused to look at each of us. He smiled when he got to Amanda. "You first, if you defeatme I will go willingly, but if you loose you must reveal who you are." I looked toward Amanda who seemed confident.

"I accept." She smiled, way too confidently.

"Don't, you don't know what he's capable off." I said a bit to worriedly.

"I can handle myself Mike. I'm ready for a fight." She stepped toward him in a fighting stance.

"Let us begin; the guest makes the first move." He said and got in a defensive stance. I couldn't move. I knew I had to let Amanda do it herself.

Amanda lunged for him with her weapon. She was quickly defeated, the bad guy had a sword. He broke her weapons. I threw my weapon at her and she smiled happily for them. She used them the best way she could and then threw them back to me when she grabbed the guy's sword. I caught my weapons, and felt more confident now that she disarmed her enemy.

I watched the fight intensely and waited for Amanda to win. From every second I could tell she was getting tired. At one point I wanted to jump in and help, but I knew she'd never forgive me if I did. I continued to watch, and I noticed Owen doing the same, although he seemed less worried.

After a few minutes of fighting, the bad guy had Amanda in his grasps. Then Amanda took control and attacked. She'd won. It was a relief, she'd won, and now he'd have to come willingly, at least I hoped he would. Not all bad guys followed their words.

"Congratulations ninja. You win fair and square, but before you take me in I'm really curious to see who you are." I nearly started laughing. He would never find out who we are, at least I hoped not.

"There's no way you'll ever find out who I am." She said happily. I nodded glad that she said it before I could. He laughed at her.

"You're wrong dear girl because I already know who you are." Amanda, Owen, and I stared shocked.

"And just who do you think I am?" Amanda questioned just to make sure we were in some trouble. Instead of answering; however, he reached up and grabbed her mask. He yanked it off before Amanda could even react. Her blonde hair moved slightly as the wind blew. Owen and I were speechless. He actually found out.. This was not good.

"Armarla?" The bad guy said surprised. I looked at Amanda who seemed as confused as I did.

"What? Who are you talking about?" I asked really confused.

"We'll meet again ninjas, but for now I must say goodbye." He laughed evilly and in a puff of smoke was gone. The three of us were left standing there beyond confused and defeated. We would have stayed there longer but we knew we had to leave, so we retreated back to our secret dojo.

"Amanda, what was he talking about? Who's Armarla?" I asked hoping she had an answer.

"I… I don't know… It confused me as much as you guys." She said, and I figured she was partially lying. It seemed she had some clue as to what it meant.

"Are you sure Armarla?" Owen joked, I could see Amanda really didn't like that. So I glared at him and he stopped.

"Even if she does know something about that she doesn't have to tell us." I defended her and she winked at me, thanking me.

"Wait, didn't holigramps just tell us earlier to tell each other our secrets?" Owen said, and honestly he did have a point.

"Look, I don't' have any idea what the guy was talking about, he surprised me, now I know what I am dealing with so I can defeat him. So can we just do some training? I need to hit something." Okay, that last bit didn't' seem like Amanda at all.

For the rest of the night we just kept training against each other and Yamato. Amanda seemed more fierce and determined now than earlier, maybe because of how she fought the bad guy. That sad thing was we never even got the guy's name. I'm sure we'd meet again, as much as I hated to admit it.

The next day at school I was just hanging out with Owen when Amanda came in, she looked like she didn't get any sleep. I felt bad for her, and honestly I was a bit curious as to why. Nothing seemed truly weird though until the night patrol later that day. Amanda seemed not herself, more anxious than usual.

"Amanda, are you okay? You seem, um, not yourself lately. You okay?" I asked and she just looked at me. She nodded and ignored me. The rest of the night. She left early from patrol, and I couldn't blame her because she seemed annoyed. Owen stayed back and he seemed almost sad.

"It's not fun when she's like this." I was a bit surprised at what he said, usually he said a joke every time he had the chance, but tonight it seemed he had no reason to.

"Yeah, she's been acting weird since she fought the guy the other night." I said and was really sad about that.

"We just have to let her deal with it. Next time we see that guy we're attacking, all three of us at once. We're not taking any chances." Okay, Amanda wasn't the only one that was acting weird… What was happening to everyone. No one seemed the same… It was kind of driving me crazy. I said good night to Owen and went to my room. Thankfully my dad was already asleep and I got a decent amount of sleep.

I woke up at my usual time of seven, not to early or late. I got up and did my usual routine, but when I went to the kitchen I noticed something weird. My dad was gone, I half expected him to be there reading the newspaper, but he was just not there. I walked over to the fridge and got my breakfast when I heard the door open. I figured it was Owen so I just sat down. He nearly ran into me and my chair, I saw the look on his face and knew something bad had happened.

"Owen, what's wrong? Did something happen?" He looked down and I knew something had occurred last night. Then I noticed what was in his hand, a newspaper, okay that was a little weird. I quickly grabbed it and read the front page. My mouth fell.

"No….!" I yelled. This couldn't be happening.. This just couldn't.

Okay… Big Cliff hanger, don't worry, all questions will be answered in the next chapter, and if you really want to I will give you a sneak peak of what happened. Well, I hoped you enjoyed Please review

-Chinaluv