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2/9/09 Halberd artifact My halberd was tightly in my grasp on the New Year. The imperal palace was dark and most of the ministers were asleep. The emperor went to his chambers earlyer that night. Guards were spread out surounding the palace grounds about 0 0surrounded the place and there were 70 more guards inside the place. There were 10 guards sourounding the wall around the place. I was talking to another guard when 40 hevily amored soilders came out of the trees around us. How did they get through the gate, I though. They carried swords and spears. I had a feeling that there was something odd about this attack. I dodged a slash at my head and stapped the man with my halberd. There were 50 guards fighting and more were coming. After fighting for about 30 minutes I saw three black clad assasin creep past the fighting and into the palace. "It's a diversion," I yelled. I gathered up about 10 guard and pursued the assains because the chief guard was killed and there was no one else that was incharge. We ran through the corridors and short cuts. The assains were extemely fast nd it took us 10 minutes to cut them off even with our knoledge of short cuts and secret passage ways. We cut off the assains but two of them ran through two cooridors on both sides of the corridors. Two of the guards attempted to follow bu the assain killed them both with a knife. The rest of us got ready to fight him but my friend said "let me handle this guy and you guys cut off the other assains." " No, you will be killed!" I debated. " Just go I can handle him," he said. I nodded and ran after the other assains with six other guards. While running I thought about my friend. Then all of a sudden a assain appeared out of the shadows and stabed one of the other guards in the heart. I Quickly thrust out my halberd and it stabed the assain. We ran after the last assain and in 5 minutes we saw a man running throught the throne room. We quickly dashed after the assain. He threw his knife at another guard and it instantly killed him he drew his blade and slashed at another guard. He blocked with his halberd but he used it as an opening to cut the man in half. Another guard ran at him but the assain cut his halberd in half and cut his head off. Just me and one othe guard remained. We stabbed hat him but he blocked both attacks. We attacked him unsuccesfully then I jumped up in the air turned and brought down the blade on the assain. It snapped his blade in two and it cut him in half. My friend was able to kill the assain and the 5 survivors of the fight outside, my friend, the soilder with me and myself were made mayors of towns and were given alot of money. 2/10/09Emperor painting A servant of the emperor walked with a bowl of steaming soup to the emperor. Many other servants rushed to serve the emperor. This servants hands were burned from the heat of the soup. His eyes watered uncontrolably and it blurrred up his vision. He couldn't even see his own hands holding the soup. A tall bamboo in a pot was infront of him. His eyes were so blurry that he didn't see it. He tripped on the potted bamboo and the soup went flying. Unluckily the soup landed on the emyperor. It took him afew second for his vison to clear up and for him to realize what he had done. He immedialy got on his knee and appologized but the soupy emperor was furious. "Excute this man," yelled the emperor. Two imperial guards came and surrounded the servant. "But your majesty I have a family to feed," said the servant nervously. The guards dragged the man out of the dinning hall and to a dungeon. The dungeon was dark and damp. There was a man lying in the coner of the room. He made no movements or sounds. The servant anxiously wait for his excution day.Each day he though about his death and about his family. The day finally came and the same two guards that brought him to the dungeon brought him to the courtyard. A block of stone lay in the center of the courtyard surrounded by officals and the emperor in stands. The man incharge of executions said in aloud voice "this man has commited high treason against the emperor and he will be executed." The two guards brought him to the block of stone and put his head on it. He was held there untill another imperal guard came forward with a sword. He walked slowly towards the block of stone. " Please take care of my family," said the servant to one of the guards that were holdinghim down because he knew his well. " I will," said the guard. The executioner rasied his blade and brought it down. It severed the servant's head and it dropped to the ground in a pool of blood. A man's life was lost for the simple reason that he spill soup on the emperor.

2/11/09 Pearl harbor painting I sat in the mess hall of the battleship the U.S.S Freedom when I felt the whole ship shake. It felt like an earthquake but I knew that earthquakes weren't common in this area. I quickly ran up four flights of stair to the ship's deck to see what was going on. When I got to the deck of the ship a plane what was going on when a plane with red circle on it wizzed over my head and dropped a bomb that hit the water next to me. Many men were yelling and running around while the planes bombed the battleships that were in Pearl harbor. " What the hell is going on!" yelled a man that had just come on deck. " I think that the Japanese are bombing our ships," I said. I rushed over to the cannon that I manned and shot at the planes. There was ship that was being bombed by a fast moving plane and I quickly amied my cannon at that plane. I shot once but it missed. Then I found a pattern in the pilot's and aimed for a spot that I predicted that he would go and fired. I hit him but to my horror the pilot didn't bail out of his plane heaimed his plane toward the nearest ship and drove his plane into it. That was the fist time I witnessed a kamikaze and it was a horrible thing to see. The ship burst into flame and sunk in ten minutes. For the twenty minutes the harbor was bombed I was afraid to shoot down another plane so I blew up two planes with two shots each. At the end of the bombing my ship was one of the 5 surviving out of 20 ship. That day cause the United States to fight in World War 2 and drop the atomic bomb.