Nova

Ninja art - Stars

despite the lack of training, Nova is to inherit the ninja art, stars, from her parents. she is supposed to launch thousands of stars and command them according to her directions. unfortunately its still in training.

so far she does trendy or silly dances with her stars and launches them in her dances. 

Description

a ninja heir to blue who is a noob at ninja training in general. Just wants to have fun and make up her fighting skills. she Trains under Tacky to help her with killing people for her clan's tradition, but also prepares to fight properly. 

she landed in Home X0 for the amount of failed shooting of ninja stars and the amount of pranks she did with tacky around the guardianship. she still pranks everyone now and then but just chills and trains with tacky like sisters with the cringe they spread around. 

Backstory

blue blood

There were two ninja clans, one blue and one red, there was a rivalry between the two but two heirs of the clan, and they got to lead the clan soon.

The blue clan had an heir of a girl, she had hair like a star and a long ponytail that looked like a blue nova, of course her name was Nova to fit it. Nova is next in line of the blue clan, but she skips out and takes missions and has fun. In the blue clan, the heir must kill one of their parents to show superiority over the clan, but if she doesn’t do it, then the parents has to disown the child, or murder them in front of the clan for public humiliation. She has to do this before her 18th birthday. She is 14 right now and she’s practicing her ninja stars in a forest park, secluded from anyone anywhere.

Nova: “alright I got this,” throws ninja stars at apples and only one got hit, “alright I finally got one.”

???: “only one? wow that's pretty impressive with ninja stars.”

Nova: “yeah, wait who’s there! I'm the heir of the blue clan. I'm not afraid to show you my moves!”

Tacky: “WOW YOU'RE PART OF A NINJA CLAN AND YOU'RE THE HEIR OF IT, WOW!”

Tacky comes out of nowhere and introduces herself. 

Tacky: “hey there im Tacky, what’s yours?”

Nova: “Who are you and how did you get here?”

Tacky: “that’s a pretty long name, ill call you blue star because of your hair!”

Nova: "ITS Nova!”

Tacky: “Well that's better then.” Nova looks up to see Tacky’s face. “Let's be friends.”

They now appear in front of an ice cream truck, Tacky grabs some ice cream cones and heads back to Nova by the monkey bars.

Tacky: “got some ice cream yall.”

Nova pulls out kunai and holds it towards Tacky, “what do you want, I see that streak of red in your hair, so you must be with the red clan huh!”

Tacky pushes the kunai down and gives Nova her cone, “well first off don’t judge people on appearance, two im here to recruit you with another kid from the red clan.”

Nova: “what no way then and why recruit me with my clan's enemy!”

Tacky: “Well, do you like your clan?”

Nova: “Well duh, there my family of course I love them, after all I grew up with every member!”

Tacky: “then you don’t mind killing them then?”

Nova froze in realization of what Tacky said. She turns to Tacky with a blank but terrified face to know that she knew about the clan's ritual when only clan members know.

Tacky: “surprise, I know some things about your clan and the red clan too, but can’t tell you~.” 

Nova: “BUT HOW DID YOU KNOW. NO ONE BUT CLAN MEMBERS CAN KNOW THIS INFO. HOW CAN YOU-”

Tacky quieted her with her next line.

Tacky: "If you really love your family, then don’t kill the ones you care about the most.”

Tacky walked past Nova. As soon as Nova turned around to see Tacky, she was gone. Nova stands still bewildered until her clan’s royal servant has come to bring Nova back to her duties as the heir, practicing assassination for her parents.

servant: “madam you need to get back to training for your initiation of the clan.“

Nova: "I know… its just that… nevermind, let’s get back to training”

Nova heads off to the temple to train, with Tacky looking at her from behind a tree, worried for her future choices. At the temple Nova is learning how to kill her parents from her servant.

Servant: “Here's how you will learn how to snap someone’s neck. You have to turn the head at the right angle to sever the nerves and pipes from working in one shot, mess this up and your victim would instead get a broken or fixed neck.”

The servant snaps a dummy's neck with chopsticks and paper on the neck-breaking the chopsticks and ripping the paper.

Nova: “ok lets give this a go,” thinks, “please work, please work, please work.”

Nova tries to snap the dummy’s neck but only bends the paper and the chopsticks are still stuck together even broken. The servant looks disappointed and explains

Servant: “Well as expected, this is the result of a sore neck with breathing problems, the paper is the nervous system and the chopsticks are the lung pipes. You managed to break the lung pipes well enough, but they must be completely broken instead of a strand. The nervous system is still intact but they will be light headed for a bit. I'm sorry madam but”

Nova: "I know, I know, I got to practice. Just give me the dummies.”

The servant left, leaving Nova with breaking the dummies’ necks when suddenly Tacky appeared from above. Scaring Nova backwards 

Tacky: HEY~!

Nova: ah! (falls backwards) HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE. THE GUARDS WOULD HAD SEEN YOU AND KILL YOU.

Tacky: "Well, unless you’re a born killer like me. Slipping pass security is a breeze.”

Nova: “wait. YOU'RE A KILLER. I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING UP WITH YOUR LOOK. STAY BACK OR I'll SNAP YOUR NECK”

Tacky notices Nova's attempts. See comes to a dummy and snaps its neck perfectly on the first move. Nova is frightened and impressed.

Tacky: “and that’s how you snap a neck, girl. It's all in the wrist. Quick and painless. Of course its hard to do mine especially since it's hard to feel pain. Well maybe that’s not how it works since I never had my neck snapped yet.”

Nova: “wait you can’t feel pain, but never had your neck snapped. Don’t you ever feel stiff around there.”

Tacky: “nope, like I said it's hard to feel pain, but fun fact I've been flexible and moving around so feeling stiff isn’t much of a worry.”

Nova: “you got to be stiff even when moving! Here let me help you.”

Tacky: “but wouldn’t my neck not be stiff because-”

Nova snaps Tacky’s neck before Tacky can conclude. A snap is heard and Tacky falls to the ground.

Nova: OMG I'm SORRY I DIDN’T MEAN TO KILL YOU. PLEASE WAKE UP. PLEASE WAKE UP!

Nova hears someone coming towards the room, so she hides Tacky’s body in a closet before someone can come in and see her. It was the servant, he came in to see Tacky’s snapped neck thinking Nova did it and praised her for it.

Servant: “oh madam you’ve done it. I see you had a few struggles but you got one. Good job, keep up the work.”

The servant leaves and Nova checks the closet to see Tacky somehow gone, or at least behind her. Tacky comes out from behind her and surprises Nova.

Tacky: “Wow my neck is feeling much better, I mean it feels lighter like it's supposed to be right.”

Nova is in shock at what she is seeing.

Nova: “how are you alive, I snapped your neck right.”

Tacky: “Well one I can’t feel pain and I guess my neck was that stiff, but count on it getting stiff again. Two, what did you expect it to sound like if it hasn't been snapped for a long time, of course it will sound like that. But I'm sure you’re disappointed in not killing me, huh.”

Nova:(trying to look disappointed) “oh yeah, definitely disappointed.”

Tacky: “dude you know I would be listening if you didn’t snap my neck. I heard what you said and it sounds like you’re not much up for killing someone, but wouldn’t be scared when doing so. Tell me…”

Nova is getting worried about what Tacky might say to reveal it all.

Tacky: “... You seem neutral to killing, but do you actually want to be an assassin at all?”

The words hit Nova deep, making her question her life and what she wants to do. Before she could say something, the servant came back in to give advice to Nova but saw Tacky with her. 

Servant: “Nova who is this?! Is it a spy from the red clan”

Nova: “Wait, I can explain.”

Tacky: “well sir blue, I AM AND NOW I MAKE MY GREAT ESCAPE!”

Nova: what!

Tacky books it through the door and dodges the guards spontaneously and makes it through the gate. Nova is in shock from Tacky’s performance and the servant comes to Nova to see if she is alright. 

Servant: “are you ok miss, she didn’t hurt you right.”

Nova: “I'm fine but-”

Nova’s father & mother: “Nova!”

Nova’s parents came in hearing and seeing what happened.

Nova: “Mom! Dad!”

Mom: “Are you alright sweetheart? We heard a spy from the red clan was here. Thank goodness you’re alright. We can’t lose the heir of our bloodline.”

Nova looked happy but turned to slight sadness.

Dad: “We'll find that spy and behead her.”

Nova: “what!?”

Dad: “oh what’s the matter? She’s an enemy from the red clan. She must be dealt with.”

Nova looks worried and shocked trying to make an excuse.

Nova: “Well yeah, but she was after me, it should be me that kills her.”

Dad: “Ah you want to kill her yourself for revenge?! You can finally have live practice. Well don’t worry, we’ll capture her and you can kill her. Finally you get to prove yourself as an assassin.”

Nova looks happy but it was fake knowing she had to kill something living. Especially to someone who was being friendly to her, even if it was extremely crazy.

Later in the day, Nova is trying to figure out what to do when Tacky gets captured, but hears commotion at the front gate of the temple. Tacky is standing in front of an army of guards far away. Tacky has her arms up trying to make peace.

Tacky: “chill everyone, I'm just trying to see you’re princess and become friends.”

Random Guard: “oh yeah why should we believe you.”

Another guard: “yeah red spy, we see that red in your hair, and claim yourself an enemy. You have no reason to make peace.”

Tacky: “wow you actually listened to that and used appearances, maybe you guys are just a bunch of rednecks.”

Guards: “we’re not red, we’re blue.”

Tacky: “Look, let me just see your heir and we can just talk, I won’t fight back. Promise?”

Servant comes out in front of the army. Walking towards Tacky to have a conversation.

Servant: “Well, the mistress wants to see you too. Would you kindly come along, madam.”

Tacky: (nods) “alright.”

Tacky and the servant walk into the temple. As soon as they got in, Tacky was tackled by the servant. Nova comes out to see what’s going on and sees Tacky being captured. Nova’s face turned into worry and fright from the sight. Tacky didn’t fight back like she said and was tied up by rope. Nova comes up to Tacky wanting to free her but Nova's parents get in the way.

Dad: “don’t worry you’ll get your chance to kill her soon, it will be tonight and you can use whatever weapon you want.”

Tacky: “So you're going to kill me. I guess it runs in the family.”

Nova froze in horror from Tacky’s words. Just as they were taking Tacky away, Nova stopped them with a few words

Nova: “No, we’re doing it now!”

Everyone is shocked but proud of Nova wanting to get revenge. But Nova was getting more nervous and frightened. Everyone in the clan gathered in front of a platform in front of the temple. While everything was being set up, Nova and her parents had a talk with her. 

Dad: “Finally some live practice for when you have to kill us.”

Mom: “wouldn’t this be cheating to watch this? If we see, then we can prepare.“

Dad: “I had to kill one of my parents, and they taught me everything.”

Nova: “dad? I have a question, but please don’t be mad.”

Dad: “What is it?”

Nova: “why do we kill one parent, why not keep both if the heir isn’t the best?”

Mom: “how many times do we have to remind you.”

Dad: “when the clans were starting out, the blues had trouble stating power and who was going to be in charge, an adult and their child were fighting for dominance, until the child killed the adult and stored power over all of the land members, and led them on to this day. Ever since then, we stick to tradition, to see if the next generation is ready to lead… and to see that they can handle the responsibilities of killing, no matter who it is.”

Nova’s father got to Nova's level putting his hands on Nova's shoulders and giving her a serious look With dead eyes. Nova, looking with sorrow, understands what she has to do. It was time for the execution of Tacky. Tacky was chained up, cuffed at the wrist and ankles, her axes were taken from her so she couldn’t get out, her face unmasked to show her face across the crowd. Nova walks onto the platform towards Tacky, the crowd is cheering for Nova to do the deed. The closer Nova got to Tacky, the more her face became blank and dead. Nova is in front of Tacky, they both look at each straight into each other’s eyes.

Tacky: “So… you’re gonna do it huh!? Well I would leave but I'm kinda chained up here.”

Nova: “Why did you come back?.. to recruit me again? I already told you-”

Tacky: “Oh please~ I don’t care if I recruit you, I mean someone else does, but… I just wanted to say hi to my new friend and wanna make sure you’re ok.”

Nova’s face was surprised by the answer Tacky gave.

Tacky: “Well do what you have to do. I lived a life at least, and got to meet you and get killed by you, bring it on.” (smiles evilly but genuinely happy)

Nova walks behind Tacky, the crowd is in confusion. Nova grabs Tacky’s head and whispers something to her and snaps Tacky’s neck. A loud crack is made and Tacky falls to the ground. Everyone was stunned into silence from the sound. The servant came to check her pulse, and nothing. The servant came up looking at Nova with a proud face.

Servant: “the spy is dead, congratulations on your first kill.”

The two of them bow and Nova walks in front of the crowd with them cheering. After the execution, two guards drag Tacky’s body off but Nova comes in. 

Nova: “Can I take care of the body?”

Guard: “oh yes, need to know where to hide the bodies. Here you go.”

The guards give Nova Tacky and Nova carries Tacky behind the temple's walls.

Nova: “You can wake up now.” (Takes a star out of Tacky’s neck cover)

Tacky: “finally! (Gets up and alive) thanks for the second neck snap, that felt good.” (Stretches) 

Nova: “hey about that offer-”

Tacky: “you want to come along?”

Nova looked at Tacky with assurance in her decision. Nova went back to pack a few things and left a note. Before the servants came in, Nova left through the window leaving the servants confused and a note. Nova is on the outskirts of the land with Tacky looking back at the temple. 

The note monologue -

“ Dear family, I know you have high hopes for me but I'm sorry to say that… I don’t think I can handle the thought of killing those I care about. I know it’s tradition but I love you guys way too much to even do it. I'm leaving for a while until I'm properly ready to lead the clan, and whether I can kill someone or not. I know I brought dishonor to the clan but I know you guys will find someone who is better fit for my position. I will always remember the times we had together. Sincerely, Nova”

Nova and Tacky turn away from the temple view and face two others; a ghost boy and the red ninja heiress. A little tension forms until a door portal appears with Lifehacker opening it.

Lifehacker: “Are you ready, new recruits?”

Tacky: “Are you ready girl? There's no turning back after this, unless you’re ready to kill.”

Nova looks at Tacky then at lifehacker with determination.

Nova: “if I come along, then you got to train me in killing, you got that.”

Lifehacker: “you’ll learn plenty of fighting and killing methods young one, especially since I'm pairing you with Tacky to teach you. But just know you can choose your own paths, you two, tradition is one thing but a broken record is another, you can keep doing one, but change the other. Now let’s get you settled in.”

The group heads through the door.