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KamuiRKei
11-23-2003, 07:39 PM
Here's a fic i wrote... i dont write very often and im actually planning to transfer it into manga form because that was my original intent. So the way i wrote it was in parts that helped me organize the layout of the manga, so just ignore the headings such as prologue, end scene and such... well.. read and hope you enjoy, and please comment, because if it turns out bad.. i'll probably actually start over on the fic, because i think its just too generic... but whateva... so yah.. hope you enjoy ^^


---==Prologue==---

In the early stages of the world, when war was the settlement between all men, when pride and honor was all that mattered and only the strongest survived... a demon appeared before the world - one known as Shi no Kami (God of Death), feared by all; his name, Seishin Ryu.


As the sun set on a serenely beautiful midsummer night, you could hear nothing in the calm serene silence...
Graced by a red tinted moon, it was peaceful. Yet suddenly, as a man began to run, he gathered followers as he ran, and the peace was shattered as they called out, ?Seishin Ryu has come! Everyone, we must defend ourselves!"

As Seishin Ryu leaped onto a rooftop, he heard a crack and found swords piercing the tile, and pikes came erupting from where he stood.
He says "Damn, they're armed already?"

He sprints along the roof, trying frantically to dodge the weapons springing up all around him in a random effort to kill him.
He jumps far and high in what seemed an open and clear path, as he heard the strings of bows ring clear and sound through the night, as arrows came towards him! He turns his head towards his right, only to see thousands of arrows rain upon him.
He screams as the force of the arrows bit into him, pinning him to the ground. The sound echoed of the landing as Seishin Ryu felt the air get knocked out of him.He passed out as the pain began to slowly overtake him.

Thus, the life of the legend, the legacy, Seishin Ryu - Shi no Kami, ended. However, the proginies of his clan did not die away with him.
The family that he had fathered cast away their direct relation to him, yet retained his name ignoring the discrimination from society.
No one would dare to harm them in fear of the family's power and capabilites. The family was an elite clan composed of natural talents, born year after year, each which could succeed and hone their powers in their bloodline elements Katon (Fire style) and Kageton (Shadow Style).

A thousand years later, as the clan nears destruction, a youth discovers his potential?

---==End Prologue==---

---==|| Chapter 1 ||==---

---==Begin Openning Scene==---

Kei awakens suddenly, in the morning a couple hours before dawn, unaware of why he'd woken up. Looking at his clock he sees its only 4:32 A.M. He flops back down onto his pillow in an attemp to go back to sleep but couldn't. He was bothered for some reason,
but all he understood was the uneasy feeling he had going down his back, unwavering. Kei instantly knew that today was going to be
a bad day to have awoken to.

Grumbling as he got out of bed and tired with lazy eyes, he puts out his hand to help him find his way to the bathroom to wash his face.
The lights turn on and he went through his daily routine of soaking a towel is hot water and puts the tooth paste on his tooth brush and
then sprinkling some hot water on it before brushing his teeth. He drains the water and lifts the towel as he brushes, wiping his face at the same time. As he brings the towel over his eyes, he feels a chill go down his back. When he finishes bring the towel away from his eyes he sees a familiar face. He doesn't know why it is familiar, and after a moment, he realizes the face isn't his own and is instantly shocked and somewhat afraid. He gasps as he blinks and opens his eyes again, finding the face had disappeared. After a moment, he sighed and finished brushing his teeth before leaving the bathroom, while turning off the light behind him.

Kei walks downstairs and entered a dark room with a family portrait of his father, mother, brother and sister. He prayed in front of the faces of his passed on family, and left for the kitchen to make breakfast.

As he walks towards the hall he noticed a small light begin to come towards the entrance way. The light got brighter as it approaches and then his sister Hikaru appears. Suddenly he realizes that she was a ghost. She smiles at him and he smiles back. Kei walked by and into his kitchen where he finds breakfast already made. Then he remembered the reason why he could see Hikaru. It's the second anniversery of their deaths. Although in pain, he was glad they were allowed to visit him from Heaven. Kei turns around and sees his mother. His face brightens and he yells excitedly "Mom!" and runs to embrace her. As he stepped through her, slightly shocked, he realizes the truth: that even though they can visit, even if his family can touch the items in the house, they cannot touch each other... Sadly, he turns to face his mother and says in a meloncholy tone "It's good to see you again."

After eating his favorite foods that his mother cooked, he got up to leave. As he steps outside, he sees his father and waves goodbye. Outside infront of the mailbox, he sees his cousin - Jonathan - paying his respects. After Jonathan finishes, he says "Hey, so I guess today is gonna' be a little good for you huh?"

Kei replies, "Yeah, I guess so..."

Jonathan tries to encourage, "Awww, c'mon, at least you got to see them again today right?"

Kei sighed heavily. "Let's not talk about it, okay?"

Jonathan pauses before saying "Sure..."

And they walk off to school.

---==End Opening Scene==---

---==Begin Mid way Scene==---

As they're walking, Jonathan excitedly asks, "Hey, have you seen what's on the news?"

Kei replies, "No, sup?"

Jonathan - "Dude, they're like these huge canyons ripping up all over the place. And they say it looks like chasms of fire, and some people are saying it's a hole to Hell..."

Kei laughed, "Hahahahah, you sure this was in the news and not your wacked out imagination?"

Jonathan, "No way! Dude, I'm so serious, like they say there're humanoid looking creatures towards the bottom that are trying to climb up."

Sarcastically, Kei said, "Hmph, maybe it's my parents coming back to life?"

Jonathan - "You really shouldn't take this lightly and joke about your parents like that... but anyways, there are these problems they are getting too. Because they're having all these equipment failures and explosions whenever they try and get close to the rift. And people who walk by get like half their clothes blown off and if they're too close still, they get burned.'

Kei - "HAHA, nice... hope they're some hot girls too, then maybe I'll actually start watching the news. Man, you sure you should be going to school when you're hallucinating?"

Jonathan yelled, "Screw you, I'm f***in' serious, this is crazy, it's
almost like what our grandparents used to say about all that crazy stuff that happened back in like the feudal ages and stuff where you
could use magic and had special abilities."

Kei started to get mad - "You don't actually believe that stuff do you? Because if it were true, are you saying it's true that my family were killed by demons? HUH?" Now angry, "You think it's true that some f***in' freaks just came out of the f***in' ground and killed my parents right in front of my eyes and slaughter my bro and sis? What the F***?! I didn't see sh** like that at all... if anything, they were shot, and I saw bullets and I heard gun shots you-"

Jonathan slightly angry now too, "Hey, I didn't say that! Dude, I'm just sayin'..., back off will ya? Besides, they say you wouldn't see them because you were in too much shock... so what you saw probably wasn't what happened...

Kei even more angrily "What, and you think we can shoot fire balls out of our mouths? I haven't seen you f***in' do it before? You think we can jump twenty feet into the air and come crashing down without a scratch like some f***in' anime? I don't believe in-"

---==End Mid way Scene==---

---==Begin Climax==---

Suddenly, the ground started shaking and cracks started to appear everywhere. Kei turns around "What the hell?"

Jonathan - "Well, I guess this is where we find out if they're real or not huh? I hope your ready, because I believe there are magic and demons, and I also believe we are decendants of a god!" As Jonathan said that, his eyes flared and shimmered for a split second with a light blue haze. Kei, now confused, could only look at him. As the ground erupted and split apart, Kei and Jonathan grabbed onto oppossite sides as it split.

Kei turns around and screams, "Jonathan!" Jonathan only looked back, confident at what he said earlier and turned away and lept back up. Kei was confused at how well Jonathan could control his body under such circumstances, as if Jonathan had gotten more athletic and fit then he was just a few seconds ago. Kei felt air pushing against him, then heat. The pressure from the heated air gushed forward and blew him out of the canyon and ten feet into the air to the side. He came crashing down with a thud. Kei moans as he realizes he is still alive, so he tries to get up, but is slowed by the pain. "Ack, damn... I feel like I'm about to die already. Yah, some super powers alright... he was just lucky or the air helped push him up."

Suddenly a large foot came crashing down right infront of him. It was red and had a rock like texture, with seven claws mounted as if formed to help it pierce through a tank. As Kei looked up, his face slowly contorted in horror as he stared at the horrific monster leaning above him and strangely, the being spoke as he raised his foot- "Heh, so we meet again. Die you pathetic weakling." Confused at first that the creature had spoken English, Kei reacted fast enough to avoid getting stepped on.

Kei confronted the creature asking, "What are you?"

The creature replied, "A demon, created from the fires of Hell by the God of Heaven to serve and bring death to all those who are failures."

Kei noticed a large "S" shaped scar across the demon's left side of the face. And then, At that moment, ten small rodent like creatures came out of the chasm, bearing humanoid type features but their flesh was formed in a way of a type of carapace.

Kei jumps back and tries to turn and run but as he was turning, he felt a hand with three claws grab his shoulder. Kei yells as he turned and
punched the thing in the face,

"Get off me!"

Although he had punched the small demon, he believed he felt more pain because the demon didn't look phased at all while he felt like he had punched a wall of ten-inch solid steel. He cringed and recoiled in pain, cursing. The smaller demon then lifted Kei by his shoulders which looked like an impossible feet considering he was seemingly only half the size
of a regular teenager, and throws Kei five feet away.

As Kei fell, he heard a voice, "Kei, believe in your power..."And somehow, as he heard and listened to this voice, he felt renewed and filled with vigor. Kei caught himself and landed on his feet as he skidded backwards on his hands and feet. Confused, he just stood there as the demons came, one after the other screaming random words of how they intended to kill him.

Even after this refreshing feel, Kei still felt doubt, as if he was about to die. Then, the voice came again, "You have to live on, you
have to avenge your family, and you have to obtain your destiny..."

Kei repeated, "My destiny...I have to... live... for my... destiny...
I have to live... No..." and then he screamed, "I MUST LIIIVVVE!!!"

Kei turned towards the closest demon and flattened his palm, as if to
make his hand into a blade, with his fingers pointed all in one direction and then thrusted his hand forward towards the demon's chest. Suprisingly to Kei, his hand and half his arm went straight through the demon's chest, spilling blood both from the back and front. The other demons paused and started to regroup, now suddenly surprise.

Kei just slowly lowers his arm with the body and the body slowly slid off, as if the hand had torn off more then just the flesh that his
hand had pierced. In shock, he lifted his hand and looked at how blood stained it was. Even though the demon's were not human, they still
had the same tint to their blood and he could feel how warm it was. Pain shot through his mind as a flash of how his family died, and then
he saw the truth. Demons pouring out of a ripped tunnel under a large oak tree. And they came charging towards Kei and his family like
bullets, and stabbed them to death... leaving only Kei. And then, a large demonic being stood over him, and then, all he remembered was
a bolt of lightning struck the demon on the face, leaving a large scar across the left side in the shape of an "S" as a familiar voice spoke to him. Then the same voice, but so much more familiar now, came to Kei again as he snapped back into reality.

"Use your power that you have. Use that beautiful power that you have running through your veins, use that power that you inherited from Seishin Ryu! Do not waver, let your emotions guide you and then defeat all who oppose you!"

No longer in fear, that innocence that filled him earlier as he looked at his blood stained hands disappeared as he clenched his fist. His eyes now filled with confidence just as he had seen in Jonathan's earlier.

"Now I understand, I have this power, it is not fake, and I will... I must... SURVIVE!" Rage filled Kei as he turned towards the nine other demons and he charged at them.

---==End Climax==---

---==|| End Chapter 1 ||==---

---==|| Chapter 2 ||==---

---==Begin Opening Scene==---

Jonathan leaped from the cliff of the ravine, onto stable ground. He turns toward the school to make sure that there were no other openings around the area. As he started to run, he quickly glanced back to check on Kei. He then sees it, the proof of what he believed was possible - that they could use techniques of old to fight just as the family legends told of, as Kei ran his hand through a demon infront of him and completely impaled the beast. Even though he had firmly believed in the tales, he was still in shock by the power that was just displayed. However, it relieved him to know that now, there was a way to survive if anything were to attack him also.

When he reached the school, he saw that it was still untouched. The blinds were open in some of the classes and he could see that the school must have announced the shockwave, of the chasm that opened, to be just an earthquake. Realizing that the people at school would mostlikely not believe him, he turned around and acknowledged the fact that he would have to be the last line of defence.

Jonathan drew in a deep breathe and he clenched his fists in preparation for what could happen. While at the same time...

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Kei reached the first of the other nine demons that were left and punched him in the face with his right hand followed by a jumping left kick to knock the demon down. Another demon came and tackled him from the left side that he left open and he fell down easily yelling in pain as he noticed the claws had scratched and ripped at his skin. The demon then lifted his right claw to deliver the final blow to Kei's face. Wasting no time, Kei quickly repeated his earlier movement of flattening his palm and tried to strike the demon in the chest, however, the demon lowered his right hand's angle to try and cancel out the attack. This moved Kei's fingers back and broke a couple of the finger bones. Kei yelled in agony as the pain quickly shot into his whole arm. The demon then tightened his grip on Kei's hand and slowly ripped and broke the four fingers that were pointed at him. Kei's eyes widened as he felt his hand being broken to pieces right in front of him and he screamed as loud as he could.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

His earlier momentum and confidence started to deminish as he felt he was going to die soon. The demon wanted otherwise, he wanted to slowly torcher this human that he saw as a pathetic being who just happend to luckily kill a fellow demon. The demon didn't understand how this flimsy, fragile, pathetic and oblong creature could have killed one of his kind who were obviously more physically superior. None the less, he grinned happily as he continued to crush this human's "claw."

---==End Opening Scene==---

---==Begin Midway Scene==---

Jonathan heard a loud scream of agony coming from where he had left Kei. He turned his head towards the direction of the scream and felt a shot of pain and agony, as if he could share his cousin's pain. He feared the worse, thinkin that Kei could have died already, even though he had earlier displayed such promising abilities. He quickly dashed back to where they were to get to Kei as soon as possible.

As he neared the chasm, he saw his cousin lying on the ground with the little demons he had seen earlier standing around him, each waiting to torture him. Jonathan felt somewhat relieved to know that his cousin was not dead yet. He then saw, out of the corner of his eye, a much larger demon-like being. He almost towered over all of the smaller ones and Kei, even from the distance he was away from them. Jonathan quickly scanned the area to find somewhere, anywhere the chasm hadn't ripped too far apart or hadn't ripped at all so that he could cross. He saw it, to the left. His face brightened as he ran there to quickly aid Kei. A large flame shot up from the chasm and flowed over towards Jonathan. He looked towards it and quickly judged how to dodge it and threw himself towards the right. He fell and rolled over to the side and was stopped by something large and solid. Jonathan looked up to see a large, bear like demon, like the demon across the chasm that was looking upon Kei. There were 3 others with him but this one infront of him, this other large demon lifted Jonathan by his head with just one hand-like claw. The ends of the claw slightly bit into Jonathan's head which hurt a lot more then he thought it would. Realizing that he could not waste anytime and that this demon wasn't going to willing let go of him, he screamed

"F***in' bastard! Get your hands off of me!"

and he grabbed onto the long arm with both of his and flung his legs onto it to hang on. He then lifted his right leg and kicked the demon in the face while crossing his left over the arm and under the shoulder. He tilted his body slightly to the left and tightend his leg to dislocate the arm.

The demon let go because of the pain and Jonathan, relentlessly continued to try and kill this thing before it could recover. Jonathan let go of the arm to fall freely to the ground and he spun while doing so to land on his arms and legs. He quickly jumped off from that position towards the demon and elbowed it in the gut. The demon grunted in pain while almost falling back from the hit. Feeling energy in his arms, he remembered the training, and the words that he was taught.

Jonathan spoke them in a way, as if chanting them while focusing energy into his right hand that was free -
"Fiery Death of Chaos
Erupt from my Fist
Create Death all around
Raise fire from even Ashes!"

Small parts of energy began to gather around him and the demon. They slowly turned into a red light that emitted large amounts of heat, the little bits then turned into small flames and gathered and flickered around the two, while slowly engulfing them. The path then slowly smoothed into a sphere around them and centered into Jonathan's palm. Jonathan finished the technique he was performing... -
"Fire Style, Fire Sphere Technique!"

At that moment, the energy dispersed around them and engulfed them as an energy ball that surrounded so tightly that all you could see were the fiery glow of the attack, and then, like a mushroom cloud, the energy shot upwards above all their heads and dispersed into four directions while taking off the head of the demon that was infront of Jonathan, all aiming towards the ground and the other three demons that were still alive. The flames shot towards the other three in a constant stream that drained at the sphere till it disappeared and they rapidly seared the demons and exploded on the chests while ripping through them before they finally hit the ground. Jonathan, now barely able to stand, felt like he had been hit by a truck and almost passed out, but his will to save Kei pulled him forward. And oddly, the demon whos head was now burned off, still stood erect. Jonathan, not able to move any further just stood there in a trance, about to fall down, as if he was knocked unconcious. He breathed heavily and closed his eyes slowly and fell to the ground. And then the body of the demon began to fall on top of him with the spikes of the arm aimed towards him...

---==End Midway Scene==---

---==Begin Climax==---

Kei felt heat, pressure and pain. As he heard Jonathan scream, he tried to look to his side but was distracted by the demon on top of him. Now he could feel real pain that was unbelievable. It was tremendous, it shot through his arm, he felt it in his shoulder, and then he knew, the demon was breaking his entire arm through just his hand. Kei's faced torted in horror and his eyes widened with fear.

Kei thought to himself, "What can I do? I have no chance, not against this... was that earlier kill just a fluke?"

He then felt a warm glow forming from his left side, across the chasm. He felt energy being drawn into a focal point. He turned and saw Jonathan chanting words, but too low for him to hear, and then, he saw energy gather around him, and then the energy turned into small flames and gathered, and melded together to form around him. The energy then came into a spot in his hand and as Jonathan shouted "Fire Style, Fire Sphere Technique!" the energy exploded in flames around him and shot upwards and came raining down in four directions killing the demons that surrounded him.

Kei then thought to himself, "Wait, that was something we learned, something I didn't want to pay much attention to because I didn't think it was possible, but it's true..." He then said with hope in his voice "We can use magic..."

Kei's eyes flared again, filled with confidence once more, he quickly remembered some of what he had learned from his grandparents and chanted while he moved his hand towards his chest and placed his palm on it -
"Cold Strength from Darkness
Come Forth from with-"

Pain shot through his arm, the demon had clenched harder and had now rammed his other hand into Kei's shoulder, obviously the demon knew something of what was to come, but this didn't stop Kei -
"-in"

Kei drew in a quick deep breathe to gain strength to finish the spell -
"Power of the stars
Chaotic fury blossom
Lay waste to all around me
Raise Shadow from Darkness!"

Strans of dark light gathered towards Kei's body and incased him in an luminescent glow. The glow was black but had a tint of dark blue that hazed over and around. It almost looked beautiful in a strange and majestic way. And then the light intesified.
"Shadow Style, Nova of Chaos!"

Then the energy shocked Kei and drew him upwards and erupted. He gasped and drew in air quickly as the energy streamed out into a sphere of four meters in radius, killing off all the demons at once. The energy formed a dark ball that streamed around and circled the area it had erupted and as quickly as it had appeared and erupted, it drew itself back in a vaccuum motion like a dark hole and disappeared.

Kei stunned and drained from the energy he had released went into shock from pain that surged all through out his body. He had never felt any pain like this before. It was like electricty moving throughout - shocking and burning within his skin, his muscles, his bones. His body started to contract almost into a spasm but then it slowly subsided. Now breathing heavily, as if he sufficated, he tried desperately to draw in air. His body was covered in sweat almost instantly from the heat of the energy that was released. He moaned

"Uhhh... sooo much pa.. pa.. pain-..."

Gasping and breathing heavily, he layed there, exhausted and closed his eyes.

Then, as he felt he was about to pass out, his eyes popped open, only to realized he was now being approached by the large demon he saw ealier with the S shaped scar on his face. Kei looked up in mixed feelings of anger and fear as the demon raised his arms and pointed his claw-ish hands towards him. They came down swiftly to deliver the final blow. And the demon spoke -
"Hmph. You may have managed to kill those weaklings, however you may have done it. Mostlikely it was by luck, but it seems your luck as ran out. Now die, screaming in agony so that I can enjoy this killing. Because you never stood a chance against me anyways..."

---==End Climax==---

---==|| End Chapter 2 ||==---

---==|| Chapter 3 ||==---

---==Begin Opening Scene==---

As Jonathan began to walk over to where Kei was to help him... the energy that had disapated from his earlier technique started to take its toll on him. He waivered as he felt drained of all his energy and he slowly fell forward without any resistance.

He hit the ground with a thud. This caused small bits of shockwaves that shook the earlier motionless, and don't forget headless, body of the demon he had slain earlier to start to tilt forward and towards him.

---==End Opening Scene==---

---==Begin Midway Scene==---

Fuzor sat in class, almost falling asleep as usual. Fuzor could be called Kei's best friend if you will. He was always ten minutes early to class everyday so that he could not worry about being late and get cosy enough to sleep in class. The funny thing was, even though he slept for about sixty percent of the class, he was always the highest scorer on all the quizzes and tests. Very calm and wise for his years. He was a very contradictory character because he was very childish and energetic at times yet wise and calm other times. He was very athletic and was six feet one inch. His family came from a temple who raised monks to worship bears and was always able to tame them, however that was possible. Because of this, Fuzor was always very facinated by bears and always had a keen sense of being able to relate to them. His clothes were always uniform, yet had a sense of savage and untamed wild look to it. Again, very contradictory. No one every knew why he was called "Fuzor" considering it was an odd name. No one knew his real name, but everyone did know that he had his parents change his name to Fuzor just because of his own personal reasons that he never said. Some people thought he was weird for this but he made up for it with his other traits, such as his energetic outlook and his ability to make things fun for everyone.

Kazeki, who sat right next to him, was also one of Kei's best friends who was sort of the slacker type. He had just gotten to school and on time for once since he actually turned his clock hand fifteen minutes faster to make up for his procrastination. Kazeki was always a joker and was sometimes... very stupid, to be blunt. However, he's always there for his friends so there was no need to worry when it came to loyalty from him. He was a bit mysterious, no one knew of his parents, where he lived, or anything of the sort, it always seemed to be washed away from the records but put in when needed. He always seemed to be day dreaming, with a blank look on his face...

As Fuzor and Kazeki were in class chatting for a little about Hikari, (the chick Kei had a huge crush on but never talked to) and how they should set up a way for Kei to look like an idiot infront of her for laughs, a huge shockwave came flowing in towards the school, causing a massive earthquake. Remembering some of the news reports they had seen earlier the day before, Kazeki looked towards Fuzor to see if he remembered. Fuzor nodded his head. As the other students prepared for the earthquake evacuation and so forth, Fuzor and Kazeki bolted out of the school. Kazeki went away from the shockwave while Fuzor went to the front of the school. When Kazeki realized he just got ditched, he turned the other way and went after Fuzor.

Fuzor not realizing he had left Kazeki behind kept going and saw Jonathan turn away and run away from the school as a loud scream echoed. Fuzor then realized it sounded like Kei and ran after Jonathan screaming,

"Hey Jonathan!! Wait up!!"

Jonathan not hearing him just kept on going. Fuzor then turns to his left where he thought Kazeki was and was about to tell him they should follow but realized Kazeki wasn't even there but way behind...

"What the hell? Kazeki, what are you doing you dummy? Get your slow ass over here, we gotta' follow him!"

Kazeki breathing heavily considering he had to double his efforts in running to catch up to Fuzor considering they had earlier went seperate directions, could only nod.

As they ran, they finally got to the area where Kei was. They were shocked by how the ground had erupted and was in devastation. Kazeki looked backwards trying to see if it had reached anywhere else but couldn't see any other disturbances. He gave a sigh of relief and looked foward again. He then looked dumbfounded when he realized that Fuzor was already running towards Jonathan again as a huge demonic figure was about to topple him. He could only say...

"What the hell?"

But he then turned towards Kei as if it were instinct. And to his surprise, he saw another large demonic figure walking towards Kei and was about to deliver the final blow when he sprinted as fast as he could and then, all went blank for him as a bolt of lightning struck him...

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Fuzor jumped kicked the demon from the side only to barely move it out of the way from landing on Jonathan, but the momentum he had was stopped by the big bulky mass of the demon and he fell on Jonathan instead of going with the demon. Jonathan, still unconcious didn't even react.

Fuzor sighed in relief, "Phew, good thing he wasn't awake. I guess that hurt me more then anyone else..."

Fuzor got off of Jonathan as quick as he could and tried to wake him up. Then, a huge bolt of lightning hit him from behind and he was knocked unconcious.

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The large red demon proclaim in a victorious voice, as if boasting,

"Because you never stood a chance against me anyways..."

Then, out of nowhere, a being emitting a dark aura with two black wings come between the two and punched the demon right in the face from his right blind spot with energy that dispersed and sent lightning all around while sending the demon four feet to the side.

This new angelic looking creature was floating above Kei like a savior, a champion. He slowly landed on one foot gracefully and then set down the other while still looking at the demon. Kei, unable to keep his eyes open any longer passed out.

---==End Midway Scene==---

---==Begin Climax==---

The demon, now pissed, got up to see who had dared to strike him. His faced changed from anger to shock when he saw who it was. It was Shikazetori, the Angel of Chaos!

Shikazetori, "Fool, you dare to look at me with such insolence? I should make you suffer for an eternity for that! Rhiner, do you defy me? Bow down to your MASTER!"

Shikazetori's voice echoed with fervor and majestic pulses.

Rhiner could only react in fear and bowed as he was told.

Rhiner, "My lord, I'm sorry, but what is the meaning of this?"

Shikazetori, "First insolence, then defiance and now questioning? Do not talk to me unless I ask of you to use your voice!"

Rhiner's eyes expanded and grew with his fear at the previous statement.

Shikazetori only glared at him. "Hmph, since I'm going to kill you anyways for your insolence, I guess I'll tell you... Since you're such a low level being, you cannot sense the presense of something far greater then you I suppose, but this child that you tried to kill was none other then our master, Seishin Ryu. He is the reincarnation. Although he may not seem like it, it is because he has dual personalities, the present child that is growing, and the spirit of Shi no Kami that lies within to give the child guidence..."

Rhiner begged, "My lord, my apologies! Please, forgive my pathetic existence! Do not kill me!"

Shikazetori's face veered into an expression of pure hatred and anger... "You DARE ORDER ME TO SPARE YOUR LIFE?" He slowly stepped towards the now groveling creature.

Rhiner whined, "I did not mean it that way my lord-"

Shikazetori started to mouth phrases, casting a spell...

Rhiner continued, "-when I was begging, I was asking, pleading, please, I did not mean for it to sound like an order, I beg-"

Shikazetori finished his last verse and at that instant, Shikazetori put his hand infront of the beast's chest and materialized a blade of energy that gathered and formed straight through Rhiner, killing him in the process. He then slowly pulled the energy blade out and dismantled it by having the blade burst into pieces, sending bolts of lightning in multiple directions.

Shikazetori, "Hmmm... it seems you are incomplete master, but I will watch over you. However, I cannot understand why you chose this youth of all your decendants to inhabit. He doesn't seem special at all, although, his earlier abilities that were displaed seem promising... Still..."

And then... Shikazetori faded into nothingness...

---==End Climax==---

---==|| End Chapter 3 ||==---

And thats all i got so far.... well.. at least i didn't leave any of you new readers hanging, because i actually wrote chap 3 last night and posted it this morning.. so... for those of you who read last night, be satisfied that i finished off the beginning for you ^^

*Note: Edits were for spelling errors and to add in chap 3...

phantom of fate
11-23-2003, 07:50 PM
The story so far is pretty good.I like how you describe the characters and their attacks.Plus,I like how you left people hanging at the end of chapter 2.
Can't wait to read more of your story.

Radical Ed
11-23-2003, 07:55 PM
I love this fic, can't wait to see when/if it becomes a manga. Don't quit, bastard!

phantom of fate
11-24-2003, 11:16 PM
Chapter 3 was cool...I like how you introduce the new characters and the current badazz,Shikazetori.Can't wait to read the rest

KamuiRKei
11-26-2003, 08:46 PM
Well.. i feel kinda lame that im updating when almost no1 reads, but every1 has to start somewhere neh? and so those of you who read... heres chapter 4!!!

---==|| Chapter 4 ||==---

---==Begin Opening Scene==---

Jonathan awakens from being unconcious for the last two days.

He groans as he takes a look at his surroundings,

"Ugghh.. man... where am I?"

He notices he is in a bed in clothing other then his, see's a heart monitor and some other instruments which lead him to believe he's in a hospital.

"Hmm.. wonder how I got here?"

The door opens and Fuzor steps in.

Fuzor raises his right hand as he steps in, "Yo."

Jonathan, glad that someone familiar came in, answers "Hey, what's up? How'd I get here? The last thing I remember is passing out... What's going on? "

Fuzor - "Hey, slow down... hmmm... now, where do I start?"

Fuzor explains how he had saved Jonathan but had also got knocked out by something he didn't even know about.

"And that's about all I know, and then the same thing happend to me, I woke up in this hospital."

Jonathan, "How long ago did you wake up?"

Fuzor, "Yesterday, about... I think they said sixteen hours after the incident 'involving abnormal anomolies of disburstment of energy.' I thought that was funny how they worded it."

Jonathan -"Heh, well... ughhh... man.. my head hurts..." Shakes his head a little back and forth. "How have things been? Did I miss anything important?"

Fuzor, "Don't worry, you weren't out that long... you've only been out for two days..."

Jonathans eyes widened as he remembered something, "Oh yeah, WHERE'S KEI?" He almost screamed while trying to get out of bed.

Fuzor -"Hey, hold your horses, he's fine... he was brought in also."

Jonathan, "So he didn't die?" Jonathan sighs in relief, "Where is he?" he questioned...

Fuzor only points to the left of Jonathan. Jonathan turns to look only to realized he had missed the fact that his room was much larger and had a screen up to block something.

He slowly got up due to the pain to see but turned around as Fuzor said calmly...

"You may not wanna' look. He's in pretty bad shape."

Jonathan turned back towards the screen and started to move it out of the way. As he moved it to clear his vision of Kei's upper body, he started to see Kei's heavily bandaged right arm. He kept moving the screen. He only finds Kei, lying there with bandages all over the right part of his body and the left shoulder with life support devices connected to him.

Jonathan, "What happened to him? He wasn't this badly injured was he?"

Fuzor, "Well, the doctors wouldn't say much except that he had lost an extremely large amount of blood. Also, his arm has fractured bones and ruptures all over expanding from the fingers up. Then his left shoulder has a very large opening from what they said looked like blades that cut into it."

After a moment of silence, "So what happend to you guys anyways? I thought it was weird, but were those really demons that were there like on the news?"

Jonathan could only nod yes.

Fuzor, "So, how did you kill that one demon that almost fell on you?"

Jonathan looked at him. "Only One?"

Fuzor, "Yah only one, what, there were more? I find that hard to believe, but man... that one that almost fell on you didn't even have a head. What did you do to it?"

Jonathan only looked at him and then turned back towards Kei. "You wouldn't believe me even if I told you..."

Fuzor, "What are you talkin' about? What, the fact that you made some huge fireball thing and went all superman on him and kicked his ass? Nah, I wouldn't believe that... hahahah"

Jonathan looked at him in surprise. "You saw?"

Fuzor, "Yah, as much of it as I believed what happened. But what's there not to believe when you see a bunch of freaky looking monsters come out of the ground huh?"

Jonathan could only look at Kei now with depressed emotions. "The world is changing... I don't think for the better either..."

Fuzor remained silent at these words.

---==End Opening Scene==---

---==Begin Midway Scene==---

A figure in dark clothes with a hood stands in the middle of an endless plain of grass. The grass is long and comes up to his knees. The wind blows steady but gently, rustling the grass in a trance inducing motion. The wind grows stronger as clouds start to form. The place darkens. The clouds thicken. Sounds of thunder start to echo into the distance. A bolt of lightning strikes and the wind blows the hood down revealing the figure's face.

It is Kei, yet it is not. He is different. His eyes have lost their childish innocence. He is dark and silent. He stands there, unmoving, staring off into the dark nothingness infront of him. Then, a ray of light pierces the clouds as small bits of rain start to fall. The clouds then part into a large circle displaying rays of blinding white light. A voice then speaks, echoing throught out, somehow speaking to him, but from within him, within his head even.

The voice says, "The world is changing...
Soon, everything you know will change...
Everything that you thought was reality will shift...
Destiny will be set...
Fate, unchanging...
Dreams will fade...
Hopes will die...
However, do not waiver...
Even when Light turns to Dark...
Do not stop...
When Cities will Fall...
Do not crumble...
If Buildings become ruins...
Do not decay...
Technology will be but a ghost in the past...
Everything will go back to the way it was years long past...
Everything, judged by the blade...
Magic will return...
The world retold...
As God intended...
As God created...
As God wanted...
Humanity's destiny will lie in the hands of the chosesn few...
You are one of the few...
Gifted...
Which side will you choose...
Will you step into the Light or fall into the Dark...?"

As the voice said the last few words... the light started to fade... the clouds merge together. The rain thickened. Kei's right hand reached for the collar of his hood. Then, as he was doing so, the ground erupted and shook. It lifted a plateau of land far into the sky where Kei was standing. It stopped at about twenty stories into the air. On the ground, raptures of earth parted as fire spewed forth. Out of these openings, rifts appeared and the demonic, rodent-like creatures appeared in dozens and then reached numbers that couldn't be described!

Instantly they started to climb up the plateau, quicker and quicker they mounted on and began squirming and crawling upwards towards Kei.

Kei only closed his eyes and finished taking off his robe. He held it in his right hand and let it hang. As the robe fell off to the side, You could see that he was now dressed in a black vest with long sleeves but the bottom of the vest barely came down to his stomach. His pants were decked with four belts with three straps along the right side. His clothes were the darkest shade of black. Like a void, he stood there, unmoving...

Kei started to chant words that were recognizable yet not his own...
"Blade of the forgotten
Bring forth Power
Darkness from light
Blade of Death
Become born from Evil!
Summoning blade, Shinryu-Satsujin-ken!"

As he summoned the blade... it created a dark red light in the palm of Kei's hand as he pointed it down and outwards. The sword bursted forth. It was long and bright. The blade was beautifully clean with no dulls or wears. Yet the blade and handle were pure black with a purple hue and red engravings in the base of the blade. The engravings were characters that ment "Death is the End."

As Kei moved his left hand into the same position but on the opposite side he began to chant again...
"Blade of the forgotten
Bring forth Power
Light overshadowing Darkness
Blade of Life
Become born from Purity!
Summoning blade, Tetsuryu-Katsujin-ken!"

The movement and appearence was mirrored, however the light that came forth from Kei's left palm was a bright blue light. This sword was clearly a pure oppossite of the other. It was just as long and bright. But the blade was pure white, with a silver and pink hue and blue engravings. The engravings for this sword however ment "Life from the Beginning."

As he finished summoning the swords, the first of the demons appeared finally and then the battle commensed...

---==End Midway Scene==---

---==Begin Climax==---

Kei took two steps forward. A bolt of lightning struck to the left of his face drew away the lighting of his face on the right side, leaving a dark shadow. And as he opened his eyes, his left was as it was before, but his right eye glowed with a crimson red light. And as the lighting faded back to normal, he closed his eyes again. The first demon infront lept towards him with arms stretched out and aimed at Kei's face. Kei opened his eyes and then his faced turned to an expression of anger in a second. He raised his left hand upwards and cut the demon in half from the bottom-up, splitting it and making the different halves pass by on oppossite sides. He then turned and swung his right arm backwards to cut another demon behind him and brought his left sword down, following his right, and cut another. He then tilted his right blade upwards and sliced a demon that jumped towards him from high above and sliced him diagonally. Kei then started to repeat this movement over and over again while stepping around in a circle, as if compossing a waltz, a "waltz of death." He stopped when there was a settled clearing and many of the demons stopped coming forth when they realized they were just jumping to their random death. Kei placed the swords infront in a cross shape and tilted his head downwards, ready for anyone else who wanted to die. As the last of the bodies fell to the ground, you couldn't see one spec of blood that had landed on Kei or his blade...

Then a small trace of blood started to come out of Kei's mouth. His grip loosened on his swords as he felt pain in the right shoulder blade of his back. He turned to see what had happened and then saw that the shirt had ripped and something was coming out of it. He felt pain surge through as something dark started to grow. Then slowly, energy seeped out of the wound and slowly started to spread itself outwards. Kei now tightened his grip in pain and fell to his knees. The other demons saw that he was struggling and took advantage of it. They all swarmed him once more, from the sky, from the shadows of the ground, from the sides.

Finally, the energy bursted and formed into a dark angelic wing with feathers that were unholy and demonic. The wing knocked tons of demons away that crashed into others that were headed towards Kei from behind. The wing then bent forward and covered the front of Kei from oncomming enemies. As the demons came towards it and hit the wing but then Kei's body faded and disappeared leaving a few feathers to fall. The demons looked around to see where Kei had gone. He was nowhere to be seen. At least not on ground level, but he was in the sky. The clouds began to part as he appeared. Now, with two wings that incased him, he fell upside down head first back into the mix of enemies. He opened his eyes as a demon screamed his name...

"Kei!!"

But Kei answered, "Wrong! I am the God of Death," and then he screamed -"SEISHIN RYU!"

He then turned upright and came down on top of six demons and cut them in half with his blades. He then started to cast a spell...
"Fire of the Immortal
Burst forth from beyond
Erupt from my Fist
Create Death all around-"

Energy began to be drawn around Seishin Ryu. It circled him and flickered into small flames and scorched the area. The rain evaporated instantly when it fell upon the area. Heat waves became visible and the light emitted was blinding...
"Lay waste to my foes
Create corpses from the weak
Black flame of Darkness
Engulfing heat of the Phoenix
Breathe of the Inferno Dragon
Raise fire from even ashes!

Then, Symbolic characters began to appear, representing fire, dragon, darkness, and phoenix and gathered towards Seishin Ryu also. The heat and intensity magnified. The demons around were too shocked to move, they could only watch in fear as the technique neared completion.
"Master Succession Fire Technique, Eye of the Apocalypse!"

As he stated the spell, the energy burst forward in all directions engulfing the entire plateau in a thirty yard radius sphere. It sent shockwaves in every direction and parted the clouds and silenced the wind. The plateau began to crumble and Seishin Ryu began to fall.

As he began to fall, he felt his eyes open once again, but it was no longer Seishin Ryu. It was Kei. And as he looked upwards, he realized he was in a building with charred bars and wood that were so burnt, they were black and cinged to the point where they could not catch fire or burn anymore. He also noticed that three stories above, he saw Jonathan, Fuzor and Kazeki in shock staring down at him and another three stories above were more broken floors with the same amount of damage about along a spherical shape in the building like it had been shot through...

Jonathan and Fuzor could only watch in shock as Kei started to ask, "What happened? Where am I?"

His voice barely heard underneath all the chaos, the sounds of screams and sirens echoing through out the building...

---==End Climax==---

---==|| End Chapter 4 ||==---

Again, any comments or opinions will be greatly appreciated!!!

KamuiRKei
12-06-2003, 11:25 PM
Well... heres chapter 5, again, i hope you guys comment, i would really appreciate it... and please enjoy!

---==|| Chapter 5 ||==---

---==Begin Opening Scene==---

Jonathan saw Fuzor's face stared in awe at something. He turned, only to find Kei's body was glowing. Then

energy started to radiate out of his body, giving off a warm feel that covered the whole room.

Jonathan - "What's going on?"

Fuzor - "I don't know, should we wake him up?"

Then, Kazeki burst in, "We have to get out of here, now!"

Jonathan and Fuzor - "Kazeki!"

Kazeki's look in his face intensified... "Now! There's no time to explain, we need to move, we need to get as

many people out of here as soon as possible!"

Kazeki left them, wasting now time, went to the other rooms to help people out.

The ground started to shake, the building started to rumble. Cracks started to from all along the side of the

building where Kei was. Jonathan started to feel a familiar energy.

"This feels like the same energy I felt when I did my Fire Sphere... Is he...?"

Fuzor - "If he is going to perform any sort of technique, we better get out of here... NOW!" He screamed the

last word as he stepped out the door to make sure it caught Jonathan's attention.

Jonathan ran outside and started to help others. On an intercom, a nurse started to tell everyone to evacuate.

Then a siren started to sound.

After the majority of the people were out and only a few were left, just barely getting out of the building,

Jonathan, Fuzor and Kazeki went back into the building to see how Kei was doing... When they got to him, they

saw his body lift. Energy was spewing forth in every direction. Waves of power surged forth and blew at them,

pushing them with large amounts of pressure.

Then, the guys faces' grew expressions of horror as they heard Kei begin to chant -
"Fire of the Immortal
Burst forth from beyond
Erupt from my fist
Create Death all around
Lay waste to my foes
Create Corpses from the weak
Black Flame of Darkness
Engulfing heat of the Phoenix
Breathe of the Inferno Dragon
Raise fire from even ashes!"

Jonathan screamed at everyone to get back - "That was ten verses, it's going to be too powerful for us to be

anywhere near, we have to move back, NOW!"

Energy began to orbit Kei. Flames grew around and flickered a majestic light. The surrounding area grew dark,

as if all the light was being drawn to that one point around Kei. Then the building begain to crumble in areas

where the support was weak. Jonathan, Fuzor and Kazeki ran for their lives as far away as they could, they

didn't want to go down because they knew it would take too long, so they went as far as they could to the

other side of the building.

Then Kei finished the spell...
"Master Succession Fire Technique, Eye of the Apocalypse!"

And all hell broke loose as Fire engulfed everything in sight...

---==End Opening Scene==---

---==Begin Midway Scene==---

The destruction was instant. Everything began to melt and burn as the sphere of energy expanded. As the spell

neared completion and began to vanish, you could start to see a figure in it, it was dark and had a demonic

pressence. The more you could see, the more you started to fear. Soon, wings could be seen and the image

imprinted into anyone that saw was clear, it was Death...

Then the sphere disappeared and the wings vanished. All that was left was Kei falling... falling to the lowest

platform that was burnt away. He crashed with a thud and gasped as he awakened. Jonathan, Fuzor and Kazeki

came to look at where he was.

Because of the force from the spell and how quick it worked, the building didn't even react to it or crumble.

It was just there, with a large hole in the building that went for the most part, straight through were the

width was smaller.

Kei looked up at his friends in shocked at what he saw and could only ask,
"What happened? Where am I?"

They could only respond with bewildered looks on their faces. None could explain what was going on, none could

explain the horror they had just faced in their own friend, Kei.

Then, a sound different was heard, above the sounds of screams and sirens. It was the rotating sound of blades

from a helicopter. It got louder and more were heard. Kei and the others looked towards the left where the

sound was coming from and saw four helicopters coming their way. On both sides of the copters, there were

ensignias with the letters E, T, and M.

They came closer and closer till they hovered just above Kei. Then groups of five from each helicopter came

scuffling down ropes and they surrounded Kei. Theses, what looked to be soldiers, were dressed entirely in

black, completely covered, all over. Then one stepped towards him and took off the face mask to reveal that it

was a she with long orange hair and blue eyes. She looked like a total ice queen, with a cold pale face, she

had a very mean glare as she started Kei down.

"Your coming with us before you can cause more trouble..." said the mysterious, blunt woman.

Kei, breathing a little heavily, "And... what if.. I don't?"

The woman only answered with, "GET HIM!"

Then the other dozen soldiers grabbed Kei and began lifting him.

Kei screamed, "Let go of me... dammit, LET GO!"

But all he could do was swing his arms around for he was too tired to cast a spell...

Then, the soldier that was holding Kei's right arm suddenly collapsed to the ground, and as Kei looked up

towards his right, he saw Fuzor stand straight up on the guy.

Fuzor, "Hmph... was that all you had to offer?"

The same happened to another holding his left arm and one behind him, and they were replaced with Jonathan and

Kazeki.

As the soldiers started to come in, Jonathan, Fuzor and Kazeki moved into fighting stances, ready for them.

---==End Midway Scene==---

---==Begin Climax==---

As the first soldier approached Fuzor, Fuzor flared his eyes wide-open and lunged forward with his left elbow

pointed at the person. He then planted his feet and shifted his weight to punch the guy right next to him and

cross face another at the same time.

Kazeki jumped and soared four feet into the air. He twisted his body and did a spiral while coming down on two

guys. He then leaned down, to the right and got one guy in an arm lock. As he tumbled down to the right, he

locked his arm and twisted the neck and made the guy twist in a weird form as he rolled over the guys back and

landed on the ground. Kazeki then slammed his left hand into the guys throat, knocking him down and continued

the motion into a flare kick knocking the other guy he had landed on, down.

All the while, Jonathan began focusing his energy into his palm. It seemed a lot harder for him this time...

He wasn't sure if it was because he was fatigued or if it was because of something else, but it was taking a

long time to gather the energy. Then his right hand started to surge with pain. He flinched as it began to

grow. He grabbed his wrist with his left hand and began to double his efforts to focus. Suddenly, energy began

to gather around and it swirled around him, as it did before. Then the energy focused and gathered in strans

of light, right into his palm.

He tried to chant the spell, but the words wouldn't come out. He was in far too much pain to say anything. The

light started to intensify and then the power erupted, backfiring on Jonathan and knocking him, Fuzor and

Kazeki out.

Kei had enough time to recover and was behind too many bodies to get hit. He gets up slowly.
"Damn, what happened to him?"

The woman replied "His spell backfired. But you'll learn about that soon enough... now quit wasting time and

come with me..."

Kei - "What do you mean I'll learn soon enough? And you expect me to go with you when I don't even know who

your name or who you are?"

She only says, "My name is Kylie. Now come..."

Kei was still reluctant, but then he saw the soldiers picking up his friends and they didn't seem too bad.

Plus, he was curious, and there was no way he would be able to stop them or let them leave with his friends so

he went along.

Kei - "Fine, but if you try and backstab me, you'll regret it..."

Kylie - "Fare enough."

The soldiers air lifted the others and helped Kei get into the helicopter and they went east from there. But

there was only water east, where were they headed?

---==End Climax==---

---==|| End Chapter 5 ||==---

phantom of fate
12-06-2003, 11:33 PM
I like this chapter like all the others.How you introduce Kylie was pretty good and your description of Kei's attack was good as always.

Radical Ed
12-09-2003, 12:24 PM
wtf? Why all the double spaces? Makes it feel really weird to read. Oh well... It was okay. Kinda... Vague feeling to it, I guess. Can't describe. May as well wait for the next chapter.

KamuiRKei
02-15-2004, 11:14 PM
Well.. sorry to all those who actually follow this... ive only written up about a 4th of this chapter... but here it is... and ill finish it up as soon as possible...

---==|| Chapter 6 ||==---

In the end, I knew nothing. Where were we headed for? Where were we going? What are they going to do to me? Even thought I thought that this Kylie person could be one to trust, a sense of paranoia swept me and made me feel uneasy looking at her.

This Kylie had cold white skin that resembled soft snow. Yet, her eyes were smooth slits that looked solid cold like ice daggers. Her long orange hair was bright and ran down her back to just above the knees.

She turned to look at Kei.

Kylie – “What are you looking at?”

Kei – “Umm… uhhh… nothing…”

Kylie looked at her watch – “We’ll be there soon. So prepare to get off.”

Kei looked out the window to see only vast ocean and no sight of land. None of where they had left and none of which they could be heading towards.

He whispered to himself softly – “Arriving where…?”

He turned to look back across from him. There sat Fuzor, Jonathan, and Kazeki with their heads leaned back. Kei wanted to wake them up. He felt alone. Afraid. What if they didn’t wake up? Would they be left behind? Killed? He had to protect them no matter what, but… could he really defend them in the condition he was in? Kei felt so tired. His eyes slowly closed and then…

A familiar voice – “Hey, wake up… Hello? Kei, wake up…”

Kei opened his eyes and he saw Jonathan.

Jonathan sighed in relief – “Hey, your up.”

Kei got up and looked around – “Where are we?”

Jonathan – “We’re in a base and a weird one too. But it’s cool. The place is huge! Come on, get off your lazy butt and check it out!”

Kei groaned – “Man, Hey! Stop pulling me, I’ll get up! Geez…”

Jonathan only laughed as he stepped out. Kei got up and rubbed his head.

Kei - "I don't think anything could be too cool to check out after everything that I've seen already…"