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Snake Eyes recalls his past...
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His Ninja Master, The Hard Master, leader of the Arashikage Clan!
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He was as deadly armed...
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... as he was unarmed!
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His Eagle Claw was legend!
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Back then, Snake Eyes was just an eager young apprentice!
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He was always trying to impress his master...
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...but the Hard Master was focused on results! "Get down here so we may begin your lessons!" he would say!
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Now Snake Eyes is the Silent Master and must train his own apprentice...
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The young man known as Kamakura!
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He is eager to learn and quick with a sword!
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Much like Snake Eyes himself once was all those years ago!
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The Hard Master constantly tested Snake Eyes skills...
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...as Snake Eyes must now do with his own apprentice!
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The Hard Master never relented...
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...Snake Eyes must now be equally harsh!
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Snake Eyes was forged into a living weapon!
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So too, shall be Kamakura!
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Snake Eyes often sparred with his friend, the Hard Master's nephew, Storm Shadow!
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They seemed to be evenly matched...
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Storm Shadow was a fast learner,
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while Snake Eyes had a rare natural, instinctive talent!
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But the Hard Master was becoming wary of the jealously growing in his nephew's heart for Snake Eyes, which was poisoning it!
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This is why the Hard Master entrusted Snake Eyes, and not Storm Shadow, with so many of the Arashikage Clan's most mystical secrets!
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Like the time he brought him to a Sacred Gazing Pool. "What do you, see my student? Only your own reflection?" He had asked.
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"You must empty your mind of everything, live so thoroughly in the moment that you see time itself for the illusion that it is, then look again upon the waters."
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"Then you shall catch a glimpse of your own future or perhaps your past, for it is all happening in one breath of the cosmos."
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"When you have mastered this lesson, you will be able to respond to any threat with the speed of thought."
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"I entrust these, our most sacred secrets to you because I know you will someday be the one ...."
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"...who will guide the Arashikage Clan into the future!"