A very, very long time ago...
There was a world. It was big, full of life and beauty. There were many species of life forms; plants and animals being the broadest classification for them.
But this world... This world was dangerous. There lived a species so powerful, so destructive and so tough, that it would take an entire army of the world's greatest soldiers to take it down. They were named... Danger beasts.
They were evil... or so everyone thought.
In a cave, on the largest mountain on the planet...
The mighty dragon, feared by all, known as Tyrant, flew into the cave, carrying a carcass of a once-mighty Danger Beast. He dropped it on the floor next to the most beautiful sight the human eye could ever see...
It was a pure snow white dragon, with four eyes, colored a deep emerald green, a large snout, white armor plates covering its body, a tail forked at the end to make it look like a trident, with white fur covering the body to protect it from the cold.
This was the wife of the legendary Tyrant, Nyarul. She was a Danger Beast unlike any other... She was powerful, yes, very powerful. But this one dragon, she didn't want to fight the humans, like every other Danger Beast humans had discovered.
But the thing is... She's dying.
Some heavily armed humans had attacked her the week before while Tyrant wasn't around... and fatally wounded her.
She was pregnant with Tyrant's baby, and she just hoped to live long enough to get to see and love their child before she died.
Alas... it was not to be.
Two weeks later, the female snow dragon laid an egg, pure white and gigantic, and not five minutes later... she died.
Tyrant was wracked with grief, and took it out on the humans. However, he came across an army of Imperials, the word Danger Beasts used to describe humans that came from their wretched 'Imperial Capitol'.
The humans, elated to find the legendary Tyrant, attacked. The battle lasted for weeks... During that time, in a cave, next to the carcass of a pure white dragon.. An egg cracked, and wiggled.
The egg was soft, so that the dragon inside was able to easily break it open and escape into the outside world.
In the fastest time that for a baby dragon to break out of its shell in history, (not that anyone's recording) out crawled a baby dragon.
If anything, this baby was more beautiful than its mother. It was a dark maroon red with black accented on the tips of the wings, snout, legs and tail, with a white back and underbelly. From the get-go, this dragon was immensely powerful, as it had gained the best qualities of his mother, father, and even grandfather, who was the most powerful Danger Beast to ever live, more so than Tyrant, and its name was... Xiuhcoatl, meaning 'Fire serpent', as he held domain over fire.
This baby, like all baby dragons, was born intelligent into this world. It knew that it was supposed to have a mother and father, and that his mother was not supposed to be dead on the ground at his side.
He knew how to speak and understand all languages, and gained domain over ice, fire, and earth, a hidden ability Tyrant hadn't yet been able to unlock. He had his father's incredible adaptive ability, with skin stronger than the strongest steel, teeth sharper than the sharpest sword, and claws like spears, long and very, very deadly.
This cave, he knew from the look of the outside world; a huge forest with hills dotted around, but everything covered with a layer of snow, was in the north.
The beautiful baby dragon, yet still large, ten feet in length, including tail, and five feet tall, listened for the remainder of the horrific battle taking place in the outside world.
He heard as his father destroyed thousands of human soldiers, he heard as the great Tyrant was downed, and heard his final words before he parted from this world... "My son... Your name... is Tatsumi. Make your father proud, my boy. Goodbye."
Almost a thousand years had passed since that fateful day where Tatsumi's father died. He had watched as the humans took his skin to make this thing called a 'Teigu'. Tatsumi had trained every single day since then, practicing his ice, fire and earth, and over time, while he did not know, he had elevated to the strongest living Danger Beast in the entire world. One day, he had a feeling.
This feeling was more of an urge. It said, 'Try being human.'
It was odd, this urge, but Tatsumi thought of himself looking like a human. All of a sudden, he shrunk! he didn't know what happened, only that he felt... different.
He went outside to a nearby lake to look at his reflection. He was so startled, the water all froze!
He was... human. He had a spiky mop of brown hair, his emerald eyes that he had inherited from his mother were no longer a slit-pupil, and.. he was... also... um... naked.
He needed to fix this! He tried turning back into a dragon, closing his eyes in concentration. Nothing happened. Tatsumi was still human! He tried again, and again, until the sun was low in the sky.
'What mess have I gotten myself into this time?' Tatsumi thought, in despair, until a sudden idea hit him. 'I can use this!' He thought. 'I can train in human form in armed and unarmed combat! I can be even stronger.'
Many more years passed, until Tatsumi was a master of all kinds of human combat. He hadn't tried to turn back into his dragon form since that day at the lake, but this day, he tried it again.
He closed his eyes in concentration, the strain showing on his human face. Then he felt it... He began to grow again! He was back to being the legendary Tatsumi, dragon on the mountain.
He continued to train, until this dragon smelled something he hadn't smelled in a long time. Humans. A woman walked into the cave, and Tatsumi used his father's ability that he had mastered, invisibility to hide from this girl and shrink into human form. From the shadows, Tatsumi watched as the woman laid down a sleeping bag, a tent, basic camping equipment.
Tatsumi was intrigued, so he watched for a little while before making himself known to the woman in human form.
"What bring you to this cave?" Tatsumi asked the woman, startling her so much that she dropped the food she was trying to cook over a fire into the fire.
She slowly turned around, seeing the teenage-looking boy dressed in a cloak he kept lying around for his human form.
"Phew! Don't scare me like that!" She said, looking relieved that it wasn't someone hostile. "I'm camping here for a while on a hunting trip away from my village. My name's Sayo, and I'm 15. What's your name?" Sayo said in a friendly manner.
"I'm Tatsumi, I live here, and I am 16." Tatsumi replied, picking a suitable age that would match his human appearance. He had learned to make himself older and younger in human appearance, but never bothered. "Mind if I go back to your village with you? I've been looking for a place to stay." He continued, thinking he might as well venture out into the human world.
"Of course! I think the Elder would be happy to have you!" Sayo answered eagerly. It was at this moment Tatsumi really looked at her, taking in her appearance, height, clothes, seeing for the first time that she had a bow, how did he not notice that?!
Sayo was tall for an average woman, with light, silky looking skin, and long, straight black hair with a flower pin in it near the top. She was dressed in cold-weather clothing, with combat boots, and a quiver strapped to her back. She was truly beautiful, both in elegance and tranquility, but also in a 'I'm gonna kick your ass!' kind of bad-ass way.
After a few days of talking and hunting together (A/N: Sayo had also found out that he was an incredible fighter, but she doesn't know he's a dragon), Sayo announced that it was time for them to go back to her village.
Tatsumi complied, and after about a week's travel even further North-East, they arrived at Sayo's home village, Doragon Pasu. (A/N: Doragon Pasu is Japanese for Dragon Pass, don't judge, I was out of inspiration ok)
The villagers were elated, to say the least, to see Sayo, as she had taken much longer than they had thought, and they began to worry. Seeing this, Tatsumi, who had originally harbored a deep hatred for the humans for taking away his father and mother, began to re-evaluate humans. Caring? Check. Loving? Most of them. Accepting? Let's see.
Let's see indeed, because just then the villagers noticed Tatsumi for the first time, and were immediately suspicious.
"Who is this?" An elderly man inquired, parting the crowd. Tatsumi could tell he was a person of much respect in the village from the way the crowd parted, and with heightened dragon senses, could feel the respect flowing off everyone gathered in waves.
Sayo, always happy and eager, which really annoyed Tatsumi for some reason, answered "This is Tatsumi. I found him when I was in the mountains hunting, and since he was looking for a place to live and stay, let him come back here with me. Don't worry, he is trustworthy, and also an incredible fighter!"
The villagers visibly relaxed at Sayo's explanation, and the old man, who Tatsumi correctly assumed was the Elder that Sayo spoke so highly of, approached the disguised dragon and held out a hand, saying "Welcome to Doragon Pasu, son."
Phew! That's the end of Chapter 1 everybody! Hope you enjoyed, and please review if you have any comments or complaints, always much appreciated. This is my first ever fanfiction, and seeing as how much I love Akame Ga Kill, I decided to do my own spin. Tatsumi will be very op in this fic, be warned... :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Akame Ga Kill/Kiru or any of its characters.
Goodbye, GoldenElite57 out~