The Guardians
Ch.1: Prologue
A long, long time ago the world was nothing but a spiraling mass of energy then out of that void of energy beings of great power and majesty were born who later would be known as Kami. The first of these majestic beings to be born from the void was the Kami Amaterasu or as she would later be called the "great mother" soon after many other Kami were also born. Much time passed and as the Kami grew to understand the void from which they were born and it's power better they became restless and wished for something to call their own besides the companionship they shared with each other. One day a Kami named Ikigai came up with a brilliant plan how about they create creatures that resembled themselves when he told the other Kami they agreed that it was a good plan of course whatever they created wouldn't be exactly like them for even the Kami's were unsure of how they came to be all they knew was that they were. So the Kami brought their great powers together and created humans and as companions to the humans the Kami created animals and a variety of other life forms. Many years passed and more humans were born from the original humans the Kami created however when the humans started dying quite shortly after they were born in the Kami's opinion the Kami's realized that in their haste to have something they called their own they had forgotten to give their creations a very long life span. Anguished but unable to change what had happened because of laws laid down at the beginning of time the Kami decided to create another race of beings they called youkai these beings lived longer than humans and also many of them had an earth real grace and beauty about them that was Kami like. Finally content the Kami's returned to the heavens content to watch over their creations and bestow gifts to them where they felt it necessary. Time passed once more and both dominant beings on the earth got along well so even finding love among members of the other species the results of these unions were called Hanyou and they were cherished by both races as a symbol that meant the two being could co-exist in peace. However that peace was not to last forever for one of the Kami a Kami named
Lucifer grew jealous of the attention the other Kami were paying to the mortals and decided to put an end to it. Secretly he went down to the Earth and released the plagues as well as all the flaws that both races had. When the other Kami's found out about what Lucifer had done the were shocked as well as outraged after all Lucifer had helped create the mortals to and he was also one of the most respected and beautiful of the all the Kami as well as the first Kami to be born after Amaterasu. And so with a heavy heart the Kami stripped Lucifer of most of his power and created a separate realm that would be his prison for all eternity from which he could never escape they called this realm hell and set the Kami Enma as that realms guardian. When it was done the Kami returned their attention to those on Earth and were dismayed by what they saw their two greatest creations were fighting each other and the Hanyou were being treated badly by both races. What was worse was their first creation the humans were losing because they were weaker than the youkai wanting to aid the humans they created a breed of humans capable of harming the youkai greatly called Mikos and Monks. Monks had steady hands to create objects that helped the Mikos and Mikos had the power to subdue the youkai. However the creation of the Monks and Mikos things only seemed to get worse as the Monks and Mikos although pure were unable to see the youkai's side of things killed indiscriminately babes, mothers, children it did not matter so long as they were youkai or Hanyou that were killed. The Kami's knew if things kept up the way they were both races would be wiped out and they could not bear the thought, so like they had done twice before they gathered their powers together and created another being that was neither youkai, nor human, nor Hanyou, nor Kami but something in between all those things and called them guardians. Since the Kami's this time had made these beings the guardians more Kami like than any of their other creations they were able to resist the curse Lucifer had put on mortals better and they were able to bring peace to the land youkai and humans still fought but never again did they fight to the point they nearly destroyed each other. The guardians traveled the landing helping out people and very few after the Great War ever saw the guardians true appearances only thinking that the people that helped them were in humans cases another human or in youkai's cases another youkai because of this the guardians soon faded from memory just as they wanted for they did not want to be hunted by the power hungry and greedy taint that both youkai and humans alike could achieve. And after the very first guardians died they were reborn again and again as a precaution so that if the balance of the world were ever upset in such a way again there would always be some hope of righting it again. And every so often there would be others besides the guardians born who could resist Lucifer's curse they were called the sons and daughters of the Kami created by the Kami for a specific purpose these sons and daughters were always watched over by one of the guardians as the guardians also had a deep tie to the Kami.
