It happened on a night filled with rain and thunder. No one expected an army of Scorpion samurai to moving through the thick mud of the forests just to the south of the Imperial Palace. The guards at the gate stared in awe as the sorcerous fire fell through the pelt of cold winter rain, falling against the walls, ripping them from their foundations. The battle was over before it had even begun, and when the Lord of the Scorpion Clan, Bayushi Shoju found that the Emperor Hantei was dead, the trappings for the ritual of seppuku about his motionless form.