Chapter 1 – Land of the Amazons

The sun was high in the Land of The Amazons, blazing angrily down at the dark-bending people of its city. The inhabitants of The Amazon tribe were all females, due to their ancestors passionate hate for men and their ways. The only time men were allowed into the village was to mate, and take the male children away to an adoption family.

The tribe lived amongst the trees, their city not being as big as the likes of Suna or Konaha, and they went through lives living and working on the forest floor and up in tree house-like structures high in the canopy. Any men, who snuck in themselves, were killed on sight unless carrying an important document. Any men aided in sneaking in, were killed and the women were banished.

Mia Thermador, a 13 year old genin of the Amazon tribe, sat under a weeping willow with her two teammates, Lara and Santana. They were currently glancing over their ID cards for the chunin exams in Konaha, they read:

NAME: Mia Thermador

AGE: 13

D.O.B: 13/4/1998

PLACE OF ORIGIN: Land of The Amazons

RANK: Genin

TEAMMATES: Lara Yamanaka, Santana Dean

SENSEI: Leah Davidson

NAME: Lara Yamanaka

AGE: 12

D.O.B: 21/7/1998

PLACE OF ORIGIN: Land of The Amazons

RANK: Genin

TEAMMATES: Santana Dean, Mia Thermador

SENSEI: Leah Davidson

NAME: Santana Dean

AGE: 13

D.O.B: 5/2/1998

PLACE OF ORIGIN: Land of the Amazons

RANK: Genin

TEAMMATES: Mia Thermador, Lara Yamanaka

SENSEI: Leah Davidson

"So we have to carry these around, what if they get stolen?" Lara frowned picking at the edge of her card. Mia just glanced up to the sky, observing the birds that flew effortlessly through the air, she wished that she could fly like them, like would become so much easier.

"Even worse, boys will be there. They always assume that just because we're women, we stand no chance at doing anything" Santana scoffed and lay back against the trunk of the tree. "We'll show them what real power is" Mia deciding to join the conversation pushed herself up so she was sitting, facing the pair.

"Yes, but remember there shall be no fatally injuring them, unless we have a valid reason. Also don't forget to hold back, or there won't be a place to hold the exams" they all laughed and relished in the fact that they standing a great chance in the Chunin exams.

Lara was of average height standing at 5'6, she had blonde hair that reached just under her shoulders and was layered, she had deep chocolate eyes and a curvy form and her skin was sun-kissed.

Santana was very slim with quite a big chest, she stood at 5'5 with chess-nut hair that reached just under her shoulder blades, she usually wore it in a high ponytail or a messy bun. She had light freckles, that covered most of her face, giving her an interesting look. Her eyes were a dull blue, almost grey

Mia was the tallest at 5'7, and had an athletic but feminine form. Her hair reached a centimetre above her shoulders and was black, with one white streak in her side fringe. Her skin was pale, and her thick black eyelashes framed her amber eyes.

Their clumsy Sensei then decided to make her appearance, her blue hair tied back into a high ponytail. She grinned at them and motioned for them to follow, the trio did as told and grabbed their luggage, following swiftly after their teacher.

The soon came to the gates to their city, their journey was about to begin.

"Girls, I am not able to accompany you down to Konaha, but I will meet up with you before the first exam. Do your best!" with that Leah disappeared into a puff of smoke, leaving the three teens to gather up some adrenaline and race off towards their neighbouring city.

The first few hours were quiet and went by like the breeze, giving Mia some time to think over her situation. Mia was very unique, she was not born into the Land of The Amazons, but dropped off there by a mysterious woman who fled shortly after.

Unlike most other ninja, Mia could not use jutsu, instead she could bend elements to her will, not only that but darkness also aided her wherever she went, she was its host. At the tender age of 6, she was bitten by a wolf, its venom going straight to her heart, meaning that she could shift into her wolf form at any point but became blood-thirsty on full moons.

They had just had a full moon and Konaha was not due one for the most part of the exams, except for the night of the last stage, if she made it that far, not that it would be difficult with the evil power that the darkness could supply to her.

The sun was setting over the hills, but the trio did not feel the need to make camp, they didn't want to risk any rouge ninja wandering around picking off the future Chunin. "I always loved the sunset" Santana smiled to herself, whilst the other two girls stared down at the bustling city that was their destination, Konahagakure.

"Let's take it easy, all that running's making me hungry" Lara rubbed her stomach, frowned playfully as the other girls giggled at her priorities. They sauntered down to the front gates, noticing the two ANBU, staring back at them with probing eyes.

"State your name and business!" the girls rolled their eyes at the lack of grace the men held, they held up their cards, not speaking a word to the scowling men, who muttered something about their homeland and stepped aside, allowing them entrance.

"Pretty stupid having men at the gates, they'd let anyone in, we could have faked those and they wouldn't of known a thing" Santana laughed sharply, they had always been told that they were just as good if not better than most men, but the girls still hoped to find love someday. "Though I wouldn't mind some eye-candy in the exams"

The girls laughed more casually now, joking about who was going to be the first to fall in love and declare their leave from the village and get pregnant with twins. "Personally I think it will be Lara, she flirts enough for all of us" Mia smirked as Lara grinned and faked offense.

"I've just thought, where are we actually supposed to go?" the girls just stood there in the middle of the empty street, glancing between themselves.

"Well there is a place supplying mixed housing for the foreign Genin, so we go find the Hokage and ask him I guess" Mia stared up at the large mountain, with faces carved into them, she nodded at them, before following her teammates up towards the Hokage tower.

The trio had been directed up to his office, before being left alone to speak with the Hokage himself. Lara took a deep breath and knocked swiftly, before pushing the door open, when a rough voice beckoned them inside.

Sat behind the oak desk, was an old man with a grey beard, and surprisingly warm eyes. He smiled at them and placed his pen on the desk and taking his glasses off, silently asking them of their needs.

"Hokage-sama, we are the Genin of the Land of the Amazon, we request to know where to stay for the night" he nodded and reached over to grab a piece of paper with directions on it.

"Here you go girls, the Shinobi there will direct you to your room, their will be a meeting room if you wish to socialize with the other Genin. Have a good sleep" Mia accepted the paper with a sharp nod and strode out of the office, Lara and Santana hot on her heels.

"so do we mingle or do we sleep?" Santana asked, folding her arms over her chest, the air was getting chilly, and they were only a block away from the houses. All Genin taking part were required to stay here, even if they were native to Konaha.

"We should check out the opposition, see if there is anybody you would want to chat to" Mia wanted to meet some new people and make friends, people who knew about their land usually avoided them in fear that they would attack them, but those who did not seemed to be fine around them.

The building was large and they assumed that they would be sleeping in separate small rooms, rather than communal rooms, in case anyone tried to kill or drug another contestant. The trio held their heads high and sauntered into the building, face showing no nerves, they were ready for this. The woman behind the desk was in her early twenties and wore an outfit too tight for her, it made Santana grimace, no wonder people thought so little of woman if they dressed like this.

"Can I help you girls?" her voice was high pitched and she wore her glasses on the edge of her nose, indicating that she probably wore them to look 'smarter'.

"We are here for the Chunin exams, can you direct us to room 312 please?" Lara kept her voice sweet and plastered a realistic smile on her face. The woman nodded and told them to go up the stairs and it was the third door on the left from the meeting hall. "Thank you"

They walked off glancing around, at the abandoned hallway, at the end was a lift and a door to some stairs. "Let's take the stairs" Mia took the stairs two at a time, easily reaching the top within a minute or so. There was a commotion at the end of the hall, in the meeting room. They ignored it for now and set off towards their room, before dumping their bags on their beds.

A knock brought them out of their trances, Santana glanced to the other two before opening the door to a flustered looking girl. "Can you fight?" her voice was rushed, and it took the girls by surprise. Santana nodded and the girl explained that there was a fight going on between the older kids and no one could stop it, and they were all going to get in trouble if it was not stopped.

Mia growled, annoyed that her time of peace was being disturbed and stalked out of her room, scaring the girl with the look of hatred in her eyes. Lara and Santana looked worriedly between themselves and quickly followed after their pissed off teammate.

The room was manic, there was people getting hit all over the place, though Mia noticed three ninja sitting in the corner of the room, glaring into the noisy crowd. "Mia! We don't want to draw attention to ourselves" she sighed and nodded, though she was sure she could take down most of the people in the room quite easily.

Mia noticed a fist fly towards a scared looking girl, who had short dark blue hair, and pupil-less lilac eyes. She zipped over and grabbed the fist before it came in contact with her face, she heard a soft sigh of relief come from the girl. Mia stared the boy down, making him flinch, the fighting had to be stopped and she knew how to do it.

She looked over to Santana and Lara who had remained by the door, giving the crowd disapproving looks. Mia flipped the boy and kicked him into a nearby wall, making him groan and stay there, in fear of pissing her off even more.

She glowered and told the darkness to separate the crowd, darkness swirled out from around her, like a thick black gloopy fog, but it was completely opaque. It wrapped itself around each person fighting and held them up of the ground pinning their arms to their sides, cries of shock and protest emitted from the hovering people. They were desperately looking around for the source of the dark gloop, no one else dared to move.

Mia sighed and strolled back over to her teammates turning back around to face the panicked Genin. "If you don't want to be humiliated then don't get into ridiculous fights, or trust me, I'll show you how hard it can squeeze" she hissed out the last bit and swiftly walked out of the room, releasing the darkness, not bothering to look back.

Lara scratched her forehead and looked around at the shocked ninja, who were muttering things like, 'spoilt brat', 'who does she think she is', 'he started it'. Santana nudged her and walked over to the lilac eyed girl, Mia protected, she looked very frail and they felt as if they should check on her.

She was sitting with a group of people, one boy looked exactly like her but with long brown hair, next to him sat a boy in green spandex with a black bowl cut and bushy eyebrows, on the floor infront of him was a girl who wore a pink wrap around top and had her brown hair in two tight buns. On the other side of the girl was a boy with a grey coat on and a little puppy on his head, next to him was another boy with another longer grey cloak on, that covered most of his face, under that he wore black sunglasses, not giving anything away about him.

Lara spoke first. "Erm, hi" they all stared at her as if she had grown another head. "You didn't look so good so we thought we'd check on you, we hope our teammate got to you in time"

"and we hope she didn't scare you" Santana added, with a roll of her eyes. "she's not always like that, she just needs some sleep" the girl smiled at them.

"T-Thank you, b-but I'm f-f-fine. T-tell yo-your friend t-thank y-you for h-helping me" Lara smiled and plonked herself down infront of the girl, ignoring the glare she got of the lilac eyed boy next to her.

"So what's your names then?" Santana asked sitting on the bench next to the girl, the little dog jumped onto her lap and she giggled, scratching him between the ears.

"I-I'm Hinata" the dog barked and wagged his tail, as if telling her it's name too.

"I'm Kiba and that is my dog Akamaru, this is Shino our other teammate" the boy said giving them a wolfish grin, Lara smiled and reached over, patting Akamaru.

"I'm Lara and that's Santana, oh and grumpy is Mia, but she's actually one of the nicest people you'll meet. Well… if she thinks you're ok" the two girls winked at eachother, as if sharing an inside secret. Then Mia came back into the hall and silence fell, she just rolled her eyes and strolled over to her teammates.

"I forgot the keys" she couldn't help but return the cheeky smile Santana sent her, before she was tossed the keys, she waved at them and exited the hall once again.

"Well beautiful girls, I'm Rock Lee, and I will always protect you" Santana scowled, again with the protecting thing. Lee frowned, confused why the girls looked miffed with him. "Why are you so angry, I'm rather confused" his eyebrows knotted together as he tried to muster up a reason for their annoyed faces.

"Just because we're girls does not for any reason mean we need protecting, you seem like a nice guy Lee, but if you want to keep that up, don't offer that around Mia" Lee nodded and promised never to say it again, causing the girls to smile, nothing seemed to put his happy demeanour down.

"And the lovely lady here is Tenten, and that is Neji" Tenten smiled at them and Neji just nodded, Lara frowned at him, he was the typical boy, 'I'm better than you'.

"You're an all-girl team, that's highly unusual, where do you come from?" Tenten asked , turning to fully face them.

"We come from the Land of The Amazons, there are no males there, they are strictly forbidden from entering the village, or they get killed on sight" Kiba gulped, Shino remained passive and Neji simply glowered harder. Santana stuck her tongue out at him and ignored him after that.

"I'm tired so I'm going to head off to bed, and pray Mia is in a better mood in the morning" Lara waved them goodbye, getting many back, Santana also bidding her goonights.

Tomorrow should be an interesting day…