Five Elements Ninjas - Fate of the final wood ninja
Of all the fights and deaths in Five Elements Ninjas, the fatality of the final wood ninja is, without a doubt, the most brutal of all. Such a demise should be reserved for the clan leader and not a grunt ninja?
Yet there is some beauty and poetic reciprocity to condemn him to his fate. Let's first introduce our unsung hero in this tragedy.
The wood element ninjas specializes in camouflage and ambush. They hide in trees and pounce on their unsuspecting victims with a variety of weapons. Of the different ninja-yoroi of the five element formation, the wood element stands out as the most effective in serving their purpose.
Our wood ninja shows up first super cool and edgy like a boy scout with a new uniform, ready to show us what he's got.
In the first fight against the wood ninjas, he shows us that the uniform is not just for looks, and he has a combat skills to back it up. His agility and deft attacks proves his skills.
As the other wood ninjas joins in, they easily finish of the challenger, but he could have won this fight by himself!
The second fight with the wood ninjas however...
Things don't go so smoothly for the ninjas.
The first wood ninja gets his right arm ripped off! He falls to the ground and is taken out by the protagonist by a sickle to the chest.
The second wood ninja gets torn right in half
And the third wood ninja is met with sickles when he tries to get back on his tree.
Our wood ninja, though he failed his surprise attack, is able to get out of hiding and face the fighters.
We see the first fight reciprocated here, though to the dismay of the ninja instead.
In the first wood element fight, the challenger fought against one, then two, then all four ninjas, with victory dwindling as each ninja emerges.
In the second fight however, it is now the wood ninja that has to fight an increasing number of opponents.
Against two opponents, our wood ninja was able to hold his own. Only when the third ninja fell that things go downhill. The protagonist whistles and tell all the challengers to retreat to the trees, and that's when our wood ninja finally sees his dire situation.
You can see the look of terror in his eyes as he see's what he's up against.
With the entire battlefield in frame, the fight is completely one sided. The fighters are now the ones attacking from the trees and the wood ninja is the prey. With only a sword and a knuckle weapon, the wood ninja can only defend against the barrage of projectiles with no way to counter attack.
The wood ninja is not giving up, he looks so determined to win.
Our wood ninja looks so happy he blocked another attack!
but...
he's forgetting something?
By blocking the attacks from the front, it left him wide open from the back. Two of chained sickles, now upgraded with hooks, connects and wraps around his arms. Looking at these chains, he knows the fight is over. He prays this will be over quickly... but no, the fighters have other plans.
With his arms immobilized and no way to fight back, the remaining two hooks connects with his legs. Now there's no way to run.
The fighters pulls taut the chains and the hooks digs into the poor ninja. He drops his sword and is completely immobilized from the pain.
The wood ninja gets dragged up and suspended in the air, at the complete mercy of the fighters. As they pull tighter, the wood ninja's body is pushed to its limits. The wood ninja gets brutally drawn and quartered and as his limbs scatter to the winds, what's left of him drops to the ground.
But where would the fighter learn of such a technique?
Possibly from a raid to their base? Where the protagonist was also chained at each limb?
Where the protagonist was also suspended in the air at the mercy of the ninjas?
Where the protagonist was also left without the use of his limbs?
Unfortunately for our wood ninja, no one is coming to intervene and he suffers the fate the protagonist would have.
The five element formation of the ninja clan is a formidable challenge for any fighter. A ninja who masters all five elements should be unstoppable.
Our good little ninja here has done just that! Mastering the five elements formation, he gets to wear all the different ninja-yoroi and show off his skills... but mastering all five elements also means... he gets to be brutally taken down five different times!
Without using any elemental skill, in just the black uniform. Our ninja was tasked with espionage on the hero. In single combat, he was easily cut down and taken out
Gold
The gold ninjas used reflective hats to blind and disorient their opponents, but those hats crumbled to the hero's axes. After losing his hat, our ninja gets crucified to the mountainside and left as a warning to the other ninjas
Wood
The wood ninjas camouflaged as trees to ambush their prey, but without the element of surprise, they become the prey to the hero's chained sickles. Our wood ninja has no where to hide as he is ensnared by the hero's attacks. He gets brutally drawn and quartered .
Water
The water ninjas ambush from their lake, but the hero's nets prevents their escape. After getting captured, our ninja humiliatingly flounders around and makes for an easy target
Fire
The fire ninja uses smoke and fire to hide and attack, but the hero's flagged spears blows away their cover. Looking at those abs, is our ninja more shredded than his uniform?
Earth
The earth ninjas specializes in moving freely underground to attack, but the hero's stilt spears stops them in their tracks. As an earth ninja, he tried to escape, but was met with spears instead