Eastern Fury and other Tales

By Andrew Scorah

From the land of the rising sun to America in 1865 comes the Ninja warrior Chihiro Kitagawa, on the trail of a renegade Ninja. See him smite a religious maniac and take on a family of cannibals in order to save a friend from becoming lunch. This trio of stories is a wild rollercoaster ride of adventure, thrills, spills and kills.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Feb 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301232338

Andrew Scorah

Andrew Scorah-1965-, I was born in Doncaster south yorkshire but moved to Swansea in 1999. Andrew has worked in a variety of jobs over the years,mostly in the security industry. He worked as a security supervisor at the Dome leisure centre in Doncaster for many years, after that he became a DJ and karaoke presenter before moving to Swansea with his fiancee Lisa. In wales he worked for a firm specialising in security for various events such as football matches, music concerts, and such prestigious events as the Brit Awards, and door security. Andrew always wanted to be a writer but life got in the way, now an 'old fogie' he has taken up the pen again. He has just had a short story published, Eastern Fury, you can find this in ACTION:Pulse Pounding Tales, a book of some of his poems, A Collection in Time, is also published on Amazon. At the moment he is putting together a collection of short stories involving the character from Eastern Fury and doing research for a gangland novel set in Swansea. I have also published Eastern Fury and Other Tales featuring a trio of adventures featurng my character from the Action novel.

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This is a work of fiction, any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidence and a product of the author’s imagination.

Copyright © 2012 by Andrew Scorah

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Published 2013 by Creativia

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Eastern Fury

Forged Steele

The Good, the Bad and the Hunger

Author biography

Introduction

The story in the title of this book first appeared in a book compiled and edited by Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter novels, titled Action: Pulse Pounding Tales Vol 1. It featured a character named Chihiro Kitagawa; a Ninja warrior from Japan. Because of the premise of the book was a harkening back to the days of the pulp action thrillers of the seventies and eighties, The Mack Bolan books by Don Pendelton and the Destroyer series by Warren Smith and Richard Sapir to name a couple. I thought back to those days and what stood out in my mind was not only the books, but it was also when I first encountered the spaghetti westerns: A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, My Name is Nobody and also the TV series Kung Fu. So I decided to combine all the elements and add the twist of a Ninja warrior and dump him into the old west. If it works or not is for you, the reader, to decide.

Ninjas and Ninjutsu achieved a boom in the eighties and nineties through the work of the Bujinkan and its teachers, taking it out of the darkness so to speak. An art that had supposedly died out many years ago was found to be flourishing through the teachings of Masaaki Hatsumi, 36th Grandmaster of the Togakure Ryu.

Even today, much is misunderstood about this art, this all stems from the society where it was born. The Samurai, a rigid class system that followed rules that touched on every part of their life, not only for battle. The Ninja; who never actually called themselves by this name, did not have to follow those rules. Because of this the Samurai employed them in work that their code of Bushido prevented them from doing, the biggest clans being the Iga and Koga, named after the regions they lived. Most were farmers or fishermen, but developed a special set of skills to defend themselves in their isolated villages.

Today the art is taught as a set of 18 skills-

Seishintekikyōyō(spiritual refinement)

Taijutsu(unarmed combat)

Kenjutsu(swordtechniques)

Bōjutsu(stickandstafftechniques)

Sōjutsu(speartechniques)

Naginatajutsu(naginatatechniques)

Kusarigamajutsu(kusarigamatechniques)

Shurikenjutsu(throwing weapons techniques)

Kayakujutsu(pyrotechnics)

Hensōjutsu(disguise and impersonation)

Shinobi-iri(stealth and entering methods)

Bajutsu(horsemanship)

Sui-ren(water training)

Bōryaku(tactics)

Chōhō(espionage)

Intonjutsu(escaping and concealment)

Tenmon(meteorology)

Chi-Mon(geography)

I could go on but there are plenty of books out there if you want to look more into the art. Enjoy the stories within.

Eastern Fury

His name was Chihiro Kitagawa and he tugged at the bindings securing his naked body to the cruciform platform; they held him fast. All around came the chitinous rasping of tiny claws emanating from the thousand or so scorpions that shared the pit with him. He cursed himself for a fool, having listened to that drunken scoundrel, Lord Kingsley Pugh, who had led him into this trap. Above him swung a scything blade that dropped ever lower if he struggled against his bindings. He tried to ignore the scurrying things that crept and crawled about his person, using his breathing to calm down. Chihiro examined his surroundings. Above him, beyond the blade, a stone plug with only a window-sized opening through which he could see the starry night sky sealed the pit. One of the cowboys who had abducted him was standing over the opening. He unbuttoned his pants and urinated into the hole.

That should keep the critters off ya a while longer, he said and walked off laughing.

A year ago, Chihiro had come to America looking for his teacher's son, who was wanted for the murder of a fellow Ninja of the Iga Kansetzu Ryu clan. Sygo Takagi had left a clear trail behind him, leading Chihiro to the town of Red Bluff. Chihiro had happened upon Lord Kingsley Pugh, a drunken foul-mouthed English man, who claimed he knew the whereabouts of Sygo Takagi - his quarry. Chihiro had trusted him and they travelled to a canyon