Contract

Pov Dareth:

'I was training my students when a man covered in black come into my store, he had a creepy mask on his face. When I went over to ask if he wanted to become my student, the student of the best Martial artist in Ninjago Dareth, he wasn't looking to be my student but was looking for a job, When I asked him why he said "I could beat you in a fight". I didn't doubt that but I couldn't let my reputation and pride be hurt by this rando.

'He absolutely wiped the floor with me, and I immediately hired him, he might be able to save my business, but I couldn't offer any money as my business was not making a profit, on the sign I said that he will get a room in exchange for work, it's been months since I put that up, I almost forgot about it.'

'It's been a week and I've got to say this was the best thing that could have happened to me... Other than becoming an official ninja. Artamentum was his name? It's a weird name but he's been a big help, we might be able to get out of debt at the rate we are going!'

'Anyway, he has brought over a couple of new students, he's been the one training them how to do martial arts, the only ones in the Dojo that still train under me are my two original, I'm so proud of them. The only bad thing I could say about Artamentum was that at the beginning of every day he stays in his room for 5 hours doing who knows what, I just hope it's not horrible magic to curse us all! Probably not Artamentum seems like a good guy.'

Artamentum - "I've brought some more students, this we should be able to turn a profit, it won't get us out of the debt you collected over the years but it's a start". He said with a kind tone, I admire this guy, he was able to turn my scam of a business into something profitable in just a week'

Dareth - "Oh thank you so much, you have no idea what it means to me to be able to get out of debt, thank you" I was on my knees crying.

Artamentum - "Yes you are very welcome, oh yeah" he takes out a contract "I wanted to buy some of the shares from the company" he hands me the contract, and I skim over it said something about getting some of the shares for the company, but what caught my attention was the tag of 1,000$ when I saw that I immediately signed, not taking another second to look at the rest of it, after all, Artamentum was a nice person.

Artamentum - "Oh you didn't read all of that did you, are you sure? well it doesn't matter anymore you already singed" Hearing Artamentums still kind voice I get a bad feeling, looking back at the contract I just signed, I saw a percentile "51%", Dread came over me as I read that, dread that I haven't t felt in a long time, my stomach sinks and black lines formed on my head, I had just sold 51% of my company that had just started turning a profit, for a measly 1000$ dollars. (Is this how it works? or is this just bs? if so then let's just attribute it to how Ninjago works, I'm not business savvy anyway)

Artamentum - "Say hello to your new boss," he says with the same gleeful tone as always. 'I had to just accept the situation, I was scammed, just like how I scammed all those other people, well at least he left me with 49% with how I was in that situation he could have just taken the entire thing'

Artamentum - "If you are wondering why I didn't take the entire thing, it's because you are still useful, So be proud," he said and it did lift my spirits. 'Yea he could have just taken the entire thing, and under his leadership, this is going to become a good business.' Artamentum took out 10 one hundred dollar bills and handed them to me.

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Pov Vex/Artamentum:

'This place is going to become my new base of operations, I left Dareth 49% percent of the company because he will have to be here when the ninja comes, don't want the plot to diverge too early, though it might have already happened and what I'm doing is useless. The reason why I'm helping this business is that I news some consistent source of money, of course, this will become obsolete when I get Cyrus Borg under my control, but he won't get truly rich until a few years from now.'

'Another thing I want to do is go to an ink factory, If I could absorb outside ink and not just the ink produced by my body then I will be able to become a giant or make a giant crossbow or something like that, I also want to see if I can absorb different colors of ink, I couldn't turn my natural ink into any color other than black, so maybe artificial ink could help with that, in fact, ill go there now'

Vex - "Dareth I'm going out, I'll be back in an hour or two," I say and make my way out of the Dojo, using my phone I bought a couple of days before, yes there are phones, Ninjago starts in the Modern era and it's rapidly progressing technology-wise, I search for "ink factory near me" and make my way there. When I arrive I am met with an old lady sitting at the counter.

Vex - "Hello I would like to buy one of every color of ink you have" what? did you think I was just going to stroll into the factory and steal their ink?

Old lady - "of what size and of how many" her cracking voice rang out.

Vex - "The smallest you have and only one of each," I say with a kind smile. The old lady did some calculations and said

Old lady - "That'll be $43.18" I hand over the money and get on my way back to the dojo. When I get back immediately headed to my room and take out the ink, I was getting a little excited. I first took out the black one and tried to absorb it, I was able to do so but something was wrong, after a minute of nothing happening suddenly the ink started stirring out of my skin, this time it was soaking into my clothes and turning my skin black, I felt a little sick.

'So I'm not able to absorb artificial ink if I were to describe it I would say it was like someone with A blood type putting B blood into their body, but instead of blood it was Natural Ink and Artificial Ink, ok let's try one of the colored ones' I take-off my clothes as to not get them covered in ink and try and absorb the red ink, like last time I was able to succeed, and the same thing happened where the ink oozed out of my body. But instead of last time, it felt as if a lock was unlocked, I quickly turn my arm into ink but instead of it being black it was red.

'Chameleon time' I think as I start to go over every bottle of ink and absorb them, unluckily the factory didn't have any invisible ink so I wasn't able to try and absorb that. The blood analogy from earlier gave me the idea if I turned my blood into ink and then stored it somewhere then I'll have more ink than my body can produce at a time, it is like Garaas sand from Naruto.

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