Extinguishing a Light

This was the day. When her hunt would be at an end. She had done it, tracked it down. Here it had decided to be its resting place before rebirth. However, she had different plans.

Yamabiko trudged through the forest, close to a clearing just ahead. She climbed the tree, and looked out, and was pleased with what she found. The majestic bird, its plumage a mixture of flame and red feathers, a phoenix, sat in a nest of twigs about eight feet across. Its red eyes glazed over, Yamabiko noted it probably had a few days before it would die.

Meaning the time to strike would be now. Initiating her stealth mode, she silently jumped from three to tree, trying to get a better position around the bird. Generating a sound wave of the trees, she sensed there was no other phoenixes around.

It was just her, and the bird of flame. And her quest, would be coming to a close. Right. Now. Yamabiko threw a kunai at the bird, to test what the bird would do. She also threw three shuriken into the air, to fall down on the bird, and maybe even pin it.