Introduction Part 1
First, there was pain. Only pain. His eyes saw white fire then nothing at all. He felt nothing.
How long he floated in that nothingness, he did not know. It felt like an eternity, and at the same time, only seconds passed. Only seconds before he felt his fingers again. He slowly could move his arms, then his legs. Feeling slowly returned to his armor-covered body. Finally he opened his eyes.
The Demon Emperor Arago saw black, and a small spot of light flickered into being. Slowly, his eyes adjusted and two figures appeared in his vision, standing in front of a large fire. He held out his hands, and sighed contentedly as he felt two small hands in his own.
"My jewels. My precious ones. My... daughters."
Introduction Part 2
Arago breathed deeply. He was alive again. Not only was he not a spirit, he was not just a demon either. He could feel his flesh, and the blood running beneath it. He was truly alive.
"I should have never trusted the Mashou to bring me back to life again. Not when my own children could do it without problem." They bowed slightly at the compliment. "Now my children, tell me what has happened while I have been away."
One of the girls, with short red hair and an elaborate warrior's outfit of black and red, stepped forward.
"I'm both afraid and delighted to say that nothing has happened since you have slept, near 4 years." She saw Arago's eyes glow slightly in anger at hearing the time he was away. The girl continued, unfazed. "The earth is peaceful again, and no one seems to remember your last try at a conquest. This will make it easier to control them again."
Arago nodded.
"And the Mashou, and Kayura. What of them?"
The other girl, in a decorative blue and white dress, giggled. She pushed her black hair behind her ears, two white streaks in it falling forward again as she turned. A mirror was summoned. As Arago looked, he saw the forms of the four, chains holding them in place. They writhed in pain as they tried to fight some unseen force. He saw a red spot glowing in each of their armors. He laughed.
"I see, Tama, that you have used the power of the blood diamond well." The girl with red hair smiled and nodded passively. "They are again under our control. We shall use them in our conquest. And what of my armies?"
The scene on the mirror switched to show the outside of the castle. It was surrounded by soldiers, dressed in black samurai armor. Their eyes glowed with a dark blue color. The other girl smiled widely again as Arago sighed with satisfaction at the power of his innocent daughter.
"Suzume. You have not let your sister surpass you. Even now I can feel the earth stone radiate its influence across our territory. You have both done well. But I must still recover my strength. I already have a plan forming for this Earth. Rest today, and tomorrow morning..." Arago laughed evilly.
The girls smiled and bowed as they left the room.
"Tomorrow our conquest shall begin."
Introduction Part 3
Despite the return of Arago, the Nether Realm still held the peace that appeared with the death of the Demon Emperor. There was silence, instead of the rumblings of war. It was a silence that had kept Tama awake for a good portion of the night, and the last thing she wanted to do this morning was wake and greet the day. Her sister, on the other hand...
"Wake up, sleepy!"
The fully awake girl bounded into her sister's lavish palace room, and dove into the bed. Tama groaned indignantly and curled tighter into her blankets.
"I said, wake up! Father has our mission for us today" There came a mumbled speech from the lump under the blankets. Suzume frowned. "But I thought you'd be excited." More muffled speech. "What do you mean 'five more minutes?' The day has already started!" A short mumbling. "No the day cannot wait!"
Suzume jumped to the end of her sister's bed, taking the sheets in her fists and pulling on them with all of her strength (which was quite a bit). The sheet came and her sister, who was quite wrapped up in them, also came. She rolled right off the bed, onto the floor. There was an indignant 'oof,' followed by a deathly silence. The sheets were slowly picked away from a very disgruntled head.
Before Suzume knew what hit her, an angry Tama flung her whole body at her sister. The girls tackled each other, each trying to get the upper hand. Tama growled at her sister, while Suzume giggled at the commotion. This was the scene that Arago decided to interrupt. There was a glowing from a stone on the wall of the bedroom. Suzume jumped from his sister's scrabbling arms and lightly touched it with a finger. The form of Arago's face appeared in the room.
Suzume greeted her father with a happy bow, and Tama tersely nodded her head towards him to show that he had her attention. He laughed.
"I see my children have taken no time at all to return to their rivaling ways. It brings this great warlord such joy to see his daughters again and even greater joy to know that this time the Samurai Troopers do not stand a chance against our reign over their world!"
Tama stood and walked up to stand next to her sister.
"The time has come, girls. I have had many mistakes in the past, and I now know what needs to be done." He looked at the girls' faces for recognition. "Last time I let the Samurai Troopers come to me. They infiltrated my kingdom and then I attacked, but too late. This must not happen again! This time... we will go to them."