Welcome readers. If it's okay with you, there's a few things I want to say first before you start reading this fic. First, English is not my mother tongue so please don't be mad at me if I make some grammar mistakes or making odd choices of wording. Second, like the third Warriors Orochi, this fic will have a lot of deaths, but the game was rated T so I rated this fic T, too. Finally, since the game never reveal the actual map of the land Orochi created, I will make a map of my own, I hope you can understand. Now, let the story begin.
Chapter 1: A sudden beginning.
CLANK!
The loud sounds of swords clashing each other violently awoke me. I hurriedly stood up and take a quick look around. I'm in the middle of a plain, a plain litters with countless lifeless corpses to be exact...
I'm clearly in the middle of a battlefield. But why am I here? My head hurts and my mind is still a little hazy, I try to recall what had happened but I can't.
"EEEEEEEE! Die you human!"
Suddenly, someone yell out loud and plunge torward me with a sword in hand.
" Lord Masamune! Watch out!"
A man who seemingly my ally cut down the enemy who tried to kill me while I'm still dazed. I take a look at the man. His face look familiar... No, what am I thinking? I know this man!
"... Shigezane?"
"Lord Masamune! What the hell are you doing! You almost got yourself killed!"
"... Ugh, sorry. It looks like I got hit in the head a little. I still can't think clearly yet."
"Get a hold of yourself quickly then. You don't want to be killed by these disgusting demons now, do you?"
Demons?
I glance at the corpse of the enemy, it isn't a corpse of an ordinary man, it has blue skin and some weird stupid looking tattos, and its eyes look like some kind of cat eyes... or rather, snake eyes.
Ah... That's right! I vaguely remember now. I was fighting the demon army and got hit in the head by some stupid giant pig,
Ugh... Yeah, a giant pig with a giant spiky club. I turn around and I can see the corpse of that pig lying on the ground not very far from where I'm standing. It probably was killed by Shigezane while I was unconscious.
But why the hell am I fighting them anyway? Aren't they suppose to vanished after Orochi's second death a few years ago?
... Ugh...
"Lord Masamune. Stop acting like you're having your skull smash open already. The enemy isn't going to wait for you to recover." Shigezane yell at me and dashed torward the waves of demons in front of us like an idiot he is.
... My head hurts more and more as I try to think about what happened... So maybe I'll just save it for later, I have to concentrate on those demons rushing straight at me first.
I took out my guns and shoot them down one by one before they could even reach me. Easy as heck. Or so I thought, the speed I pulled the triggers isn't as fast as the speed that they rush over to me. They are a lot more aggressive than I remember, and a lot more in number for bonus points for annoying.
"Ugh, you freaks are just too annoying damnit!"
I take out my sword to cut down those demons and try to open a path to run. But I cut down one, five more would rush forward to stab me. It seems like there's just no end to them. Damnit! Know when to get lost already you imbe...
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Ugh... Damn! I got a little careless, and one of them took the chance and slashed my right arm. I took my revenge by punching it in the face and slashed it across the chest. Some more demons try to follow up the demon that fell down to finish me off, but I managed to block their weapons and repel them. The other demons wacthed cautiously, like those imbeciles are waiting for me to bleed to death from the wound or something.
I pause a second and look at wound on my right arm. Thankfully, it's still attached to my shoulder, but it's still a rather serious wound, the bleeding just won't stop. If I have to fight for too long then I might seriously gonna bleed to death from a wound like, no kidding.
Damn...
This doesn't look good at all... Having my right arm disabled while I'm not left-handed is bad enough, I now find myself to be surrounded on all sides without even a single ally .
... Wait a minute? Without a single ally!
"Hey... Shigezane, where are you? You've been awfully quiet for while already."
...
No one responds.
I turned my head left, right, desperately looking around for Shigezane, but all I can see are blue-skin demons everywhere...
"Hey! Shigezane! If you can here me then answer me already! Stop joking!"
Again, no one responds. A sense of helplessness, of desperation, suddenly washed over my whole body. I now realize that it's futile to keep resisting the demons, the fight is just too one-sided, the result is obvious even from the very beginning.
I will be killed.
I definitely will be killed... Right here... Very very soon.
How can this be? I, the famed one-eyed dragon, will be killed right here? By the hands of these no name blue-skin freaks!
Sweat starts to roll down my forehead, my cheek, down to my neck. The fear of death made me sweat like I'm bathing under a giant waterfall. My left hand holding the sword also start to shake like crazy...
"EEEEE! You one-eyed human, are you so afraid of us now that you can't even stand straight!"
A deep demonic voice violently break my train of thought. The demon is a little different from the others, it wears a mask cover his whole head that make it looks like it only have one eye. If I remember right, when I was serving Orochi, he told me that demons like that are called Dodomeki... Or something like that...
"Heh... Being the only sane man that got surrounded by a bunch of freaks like you, who doesn't want to smash his head into a wall?" I tried to respond a little to show that I'm not afraid, it somehow looks like I just failed... miserably.
"Try to look cool won't do you any good, human. If you want live so badly, you might as well be honest and start begging for your life already." The demon mocks me.
Heh... Like hell I would... Wait, no. What the hell am I thinking! I would! I once served Orochi along with them anyway, so what's the problem surrendering now? And... No no no, not just once but twice! I surrender twice already... Might as well make this a third. I immediately puncture my sword into the ground, and hands up in the air as a sign of giving up.
"Okay... Okay, I give up. Now tie me up and send me to Da Ji or Kiyomori already."
"Eee, Ehehehehe. He... He actually give up just like that." The Dodomeki burst out laughing like a maniac, other demons also start laughing like it too. Tcht... What's so funny? Being prideful won't help me keep my head attached to its neck, mind you. "Ehehehehe, ehehehehe." Argh, their laugh is driving me nuts. "Ehehe, heh heh... And you just gonna give up just like that? After all that big talk of yours? Ehehehehe."
"What talk? I don't remember ever talking with a pig before."
"Heh, playing innocent now, eh? What happened to all those thing about aveging your family?"
What... What did he sayd? Ah... That's right. I remember now. I was talking with Sima Zhao in his castle about some suspicious movement in the area around the Wu Zhang Plains, I was there with Kojuro, Shigezane, Tsunamoto... And also my father was there too. And... my wife, Megohime, was also with me!
But... But then there was a sudden raid by the demon army. Tsunamoto and many men were killed in the confusion. The rest of us managed to escape out of the castle. But then something happened... Ugh, I still can't recall what it was, damnit! What happened? What happened? WHAT HAPPENDED DAMNIT!
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... Whatever happened... My father and Megohime were killed by it... I would have also been killed right there if Kojuro hadn't pushed me out of the way and... He died to protect me... Argh... I got too shocked by their deaths that I momentary shut down my mind, Shigezane had to carry me out of the place... And when I finally came to my senses, I got so angry that I foolishly run back to those demons to seek revenge, and dragged Shigezane to whole mess.
Arghh damnit! Why the hell I only remember it now? Damnit! Damnit! DAMNIT!
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3rd POV
After finally remember the reason why he was fighting, Masamune regained his sword, forget about his wounded right arm, forget about his hopeless situation, forget about everything else in the world, the only thing currently occupied his mind is to kill all of those demons he can see. Tears rolled down his cheek as he charged straight into the horde of demons.
Any pitiful demon dare to stand in Masamune's way got cut down mercilessly, blood from those demons sprayed all over Masamune, all over the ground, those blood sprayed all over the place like it was rainning. No, it was actually rainning at that moment. It rained like the sky was crying for Masamune, the sky cried for the hero who got robbed of everything in an instant, his friend, his father, his wife, everything.
The battle raged on, most of the demons had already been slained, the ones who are still left standing can be count on two hands. But... Masamune had already been too worn down at that moment, aside from the cut wound on his right arm from earlier, there are now several more wounds on his body, a spear still stucked on his right shoulder, a sword still plugged in his abdomen, and several cut wounds inflicted on his back. It's a wonder that he's still able to stand up, much less fighting.
Even though he is heavily wound like that, just another strike would definitely finish him off, but not a single demon dare to raise its weapon, for they fear that he would killed them before they have a chance to finish him off. The Dodomeki that lead the demons can see that the fear has already run deep in each and everyone of them, so he raised his hand to order a retreat "He's barely alive anyway... We'll just leave him here and let him slowly dying in pain."
"Wait... I haven't..." Masamune tried to reach out to them. But he only took a step forward, his whole body had already crumbled into the cold ground.
Back to Masamune's POV
Urgh... How pathetic can I be? I can't even force my body to stand up straight, and after swearing to kill them all, I let those freaks get away in the end...
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... Now what? Am I gonna just lay down on the ground like this, enjoy the possibly the last rain I'll ever see in my life? The battle has finished... But the rain was still falling down, with no side of stopping anytime soon... Whatever, I might as well enjoy it while it last...
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And just like that, I did nothing else but lie down on the ground, stare up to the bleak, dreary sky as the rain pour down on my face... Maybe I should try to think back about what happened once more, try to figure out what really happened...
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... Okay, the demons made a sudden raid on us, but I remember that Tsunamoto was killed instantly... If he had got into trouble, surely I or Kojuro or Shigezane would have rescue him immediately... But the fact is that we didn't... So that mean that we couldn't.
Meaning... It wasn't just those freaks like I just fought earlier, there was something else. Something that go way beyond my level...
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... And then Megohime and father got killed, too. Just like when Tsunamoto was killed, I couldn't do anything... I also almost got myself killed if it wasn't for Kojuro's sacrifice, and Shigezane dragging me out of the place. Just... what could that thing be?
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... Is it...
... It is something...
... A hideous...
... A giant...
... Eight-headed snake...
... Is coming right at me...
... !
... The last thing I could remember... was a pitch-black void dyed with the crimson color of blood, as my consciousness faded away.
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Masamune: Hey there my dear readers. *wave hand*
Masamune: So you've finished reading through the chapter 1 already? What do you think? It must have been a really good read, right? Of course it is. *cough*
Masamune: Since I'm the main character of this story after all, right? *smirk*
Sanjima: You can't be the main character if you're already killed in chapter 1.
Masamune: What?
Sanjima: Anyway, now that you've finished chapter 1, please do look forward to chapter 2. Thank you very much.