Chapter 1

Our story starts off in Japan where a young boy named Ronin was going back home from his martial arts class. Ronin was sixteen going on seventeen, and lived with his father since he was four years old. His father named him after a social class in Japan's older periods. The legends fascinated his father so much Ronin got the name.

Ronin with his bokken on his back in a small zipped up bag ran to his home. He opened the door and his father was no where to be seen. " Maybe he's just late from work. " Ronin thought. Ronin exhausted quickly set down his bag and fell asleep on the living room couch his pale complexion glowing in the afternoon light.

Ronin jumps up too the sound of the door opening.

"Dad ?" Ronin said aloud.

"Yea it's me. " his father said and peaked through the doorway.

The two mingled for a bit about there day, and although they had similar interests you could not identify them as father and son. Ronin's pale skin and brown eyes and silk soft hair. While his father looked more Japanese black hair the small but detailed eyes and rough shiny skin. After the mingling had ended his father said he would have to go back to work for the night shift, and told Ronin to stay home for the night. Ronin nodded and went back to sleep almost as soon as his father left.

The next morning Ronin awoke his father was not home, he shrugged and decided to get some breakfast.

A couple minutes pass and the phone starts to ring. Ronin answers. "Kon'nichiwa! "

The muffled voice slowly starts to inform Ronin. A few moments pass and Ronin ends the call and falls to his knees in tears. Ronins father was killed in a car accident where a bridge collapsed and destroyed the car with his father inside.

A few days pass and custody is then given to his mother Emily Williams. Which means Ronin will have to move to the states. To a small town called Beach City. Ronin got on a night flight to America and it took about twelve hours to get there and all Ronin truly brought with him was some clothes his bokken and a picture of him and his father in his jacket pocket.

When he got off the flight he saw his mother holding a sign with his name on it. He walked towards her and she gave him a shinny white smile.

" Ronin it's been too long." she said moderately loud.

Ronin simply nodded and interrupted any form of physical interaction with her. He threw his stuff in the car and sat in the back seat.

" So how was the flight?" Ronin didn't answer " I missed you..."

Ronin clenched his fist "Yeah well if you didn't leave 13 years ago you wouldn't have had to."

His mothers eyes widen a bit and she looks down in disappointment. When he got to Beach City he quickly got his stuff out of the car and went to where his boxes were. He closed the door locked it and laid on his bed as he screamed into the mattress. He passed out and woke up jolting the next day. He opened his door and stomped downstairs.

" Good Morning Ronin? You slept a while." Ronin did not respond. " Well I have to go to work so why don't you take a look around town."

Ronin's mother worked in the next town over and lived their on occasion, and the house in Beach City was mainly there so she could get out of the city. So she left Ronin there to enjoy himself. When she left Ronin strapped his bokken bag to his back and went to the beach in some torn jeans and a T-shirt.

Ronin closed his eyes and smelled the ocean air the salty sea reminding him of home. When all of a sudden he heard an explosion of sorts. He thought he might have been hearing things until he felt a vibration in the ground and he fell on his back. He got up and hurried towards the sound, and almost in an instant there he saw them. The Crystal Gems, fighting some form of worm creature with a green gem in its center. He saw one of them a small chubby boy fall over, and was about to be attacked. Ronin ran towards the boy not thinking of his own well being his bokken removed from his bag as he hit the creature right across the face and got in front of him in a fighting stance.

" Stay away!" Ronin yelled and got in a downward strike stance.

Fire in his eyes the other gems looked at him shocked for a moment as the young boy and worm both hit each other at once. Ronin caused a little damage to it's head, but the beast launched him across the beach and destroyed his weapon. When Ronin hit the ground everything went dark. When a few hours passed Ronin started to awake,but it was not on the beach it was in a home as a green gem was poking at him. The gem coward away when Ronin looked at her.

" Where am I?!" Ronin yelled.