It was a sunny day in Bali, but not a happy day. A war ravaged on with the people of Bali and the lower gods. The innocent people of Bali, the ones who aren't filled with rage and plotting the gods deaths, they know not of these beings that walk among them day after day.
A few people in the market streets stopped and stared upwards at the sky above, to gaze upon black rose petals slowly gliding down from the sky. The black petal's suddenly spun, swirling around in a mini tornado and then flew outwards, revealing a women dressed in a black. Purple off the shoulders dress, that was skin tight at the top and lose when it went past her hips. Her long blond hair with purple streaks, flowed out from behind her then softly fell to lay against her back. She opened her eyes and looked down at the lower gods with cold green eyes glaring at each and everyone of them. Slowly she raised her hand midway, with a puff of air, a staff appeared in the palm of her hand, she pointed the end of the staff towards them with
anger.
"What are you doing here? This is not your land, it belongs to the people of Bali!" shouted the woman, a few guards glared at her and a couple ran towards her enraged and shouted at her with rude comments. The women glared at those who came towards her with shields and spears. With a slight sweep of her staff to her side, the men went flying into the air and crashing into the ground in front of their comrades who helped them up again.
"Who are you wench?" The leader said, some of the men snickering.
"My name is Dara and I am a demon of the underworld who was sent here to protect Bali from the gods and I will not fail!" Dara shouted thrusting her staff into the air, the staff glowed a dark purple and from the end of the staff came a black figure that shifted into a demon.
"Come out Despair! And do what you wish to these lower gods who dare rage war against Bali!" Dara shouted again, the demon Despair shot from the staff and invaded all the lower gods minds. They fell to their knees screaming in despair, pleading to be killed and that's what Dara did. She took out her whip that hung from her hip, she flung the whip and it flew threw the air and severed all the heads from their bodies. The people of Bali stood in shock, that within minutes, their enemies were all dead before them. They looked at Dara and cheered. Dara turned around to gaze upon the people but as she did, they quieted. She turned back around and walked off but not before a young child ran up to her and pulled on her dress. She stop and turn around to stare down at the boy.
"Is there something wrong little one?" Dara asked kneeling down in front of the boy who smiled up at her, the boy stood up on his tippy toes and gave Dara a kiss on the cheek. Dara blinked, stunned and smiled at him, the elder of the village came up to Dara and smiled.
"Miss Dara we have discussed with each other and we would like it if you stayed here on Bali as our goddess" the elder man said, Dara stared at the man and nodded.
"Just don't call me goddess okay? Dara is fine" Dara said smiling, the Bali people smiled back and cheered.
"Is there anything we can give you for saving us Dara?" the old man questioned, Dara tilted her head and nodded.
"Yes, there is something I would like. There is a castle deep within your island and that's what I want" Dara said staring at the man, he stared back and smiled.
"You can have it as long as nothing happens to it, it is a historic castle for us" he said and Dara nodded her head understanding, when the old man nodded is head to her she disappeared in a swirl of black rose petals.
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Deep within the forest of Bail, black rose petals were seen swirling in front of a big castle. When they stopped, out came Dara who gazed up at the castle covered in nature and she smiled. She walked into the castle and looked around and nodded her head liking what she saw, but there was dust everywhere, so she raised her hand to her mouth and blew. The dust was blown away out of a window and into the forest below, and she smiled with eagerness.
As years flew by, Bali was under attack again by other lower gods, but this time there was a new leader within there grasp. The villagers were running around screaming in fear, when black rose petals started to fall from the sky, the villagers who were still alive ran behind the petals. The petals stopped swirling and out came a women with blond hair. The villagers cheered and Dara smiled at them with a reassuring smile, then turned around and glared at the men.
"Have you not had enough beating's from all those years ago" Dara said taking out her twin swords. The leader smiled, disappeared and reappeared behind Dara who turned around and swung her sword out to hit him, he had ducked down and she had missed. Dara growled and quickly brought up her knee hitting him in the chin, knocking him over onto his butt. She smirk and pointed one of her swords down at his neck, but he smiled and disappeared before her eyes. Dara quickly turned and found him standing in front of his other men.
"Who are you? And why are you here" Dara said clenching her hands around her swords, glaring at him with hatred, he just smiled.
"My name is Giovanni and I'm here to take control over this island" Giovanni said smiling at Dara with lust in his dark eyes, Dara glared even more and charged at him with her swords raised high. The two fought for what seemed like forever, till Giovanni finally pinned Dara to the ground but not without her struggling to get him to release her.
"Get off of me!" Dara shouted trying desperately to push him away but couldn't since he was a lot stronger then she was. Dara stilled when she felt a hand on her hip and looked up to see Giovanni watching her and before she knew it. She was in a trance. Giovanni smirked and leaned closer going in for a kiss but it was quickly interrupted when he heard a young boy scream in terror. He looked down at the women, her eye's beneath him flashed sinisterly red and he was thrown off her into a tree behind him. When Giovanni slammed into the tree he grunted from the impact, he finally came to a stop on the ground gazing up to see Dara taking a stab to the stomach for the little boy. When the boy screamed again Dara's head whipped up and her eye's were scarlet red.
"How dare you try to kill him!" Dara growled at the one in front of her, she quickly reached back and pulled the boy close taking his hands and covering his ears then reached forward and grabbed the mans neck in front of her, tearing off his head. When she turned her head to glare at Giovanni he stared back at her softly but he heard the battle cry of his men and saw them heading towards Dara. He looked back at Dara and saw a black mist start to surround her, he quickly tried to warn his men, but it was to late. The mist had already shot towards them and they were killed instantly, when the mist turned towards him he saw glowing red eyes staring down at him. The mist turned with-out a care and went back to Dara who stood motionless by the little boy who was still clinging to her. When the mist finally resided back into Dara her eyes went back to their bright green color and stared at him.
"Leave now before you too face what your men have gone threw with my demon" Dara said turning around and leading the boy back to where the villagers were waiting safely inside the tree lines. When she turned again Giovanni had disappeared, she frowned but turned back around and lead the villagers back to their homes.
On the other side of the field Giovanni sat in a tree hidden from eyesight and was grinning.
"She will be mine" he whispered to himself and then disappeared into thin air.
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Days passed by quietly with-out any worry to the Bali's villagers. Dara was out playing with some of the children from the village, when suddenly thunder and lighting started. Dara quickly turned and narrowed her eyes, quickly sent the children back to the village. Then a bolt of electricity hit the ground in the center of the field, the light disappeared and out appeared Zeus. A few of his guards were seen, Zeus looked around and when his eyes landed on Dara with the children behind her back, we walked over without a word.
"What is your business here on Bali Lord Zeus?" Dara questioned waiting for his answer while keeping an eye on him and his guards.
"You must be the women Giovanni talks about all the time, you must work for Hades right?" Zeus said watching Dara's reaction, when he saw her lip twitch upwards in a snarl.
"I work for no one Zeus, not when all someone wants is you in their bed. I will ask again what is your business here?" Dara said and questioned again when she didn't get an answer, Zeus laughed.
"You have spunk girl, I'm here to purpose a deal" Zeus said.
"What deal?" Dara suspiciously asking, her eyes turned towards the figure that came out of the forest then back to Zeus.
"Well, we will leave this island alone, if you will join my guards" Zeus said, Dara thought about it for a while.
"On only one condition, I do what I want and take only what missions I want as well" Dara said back, Zeus thought about it as well and nodded.
"You got yourself a deal Miss Dara, I have one favor to ask of you" Zeus asked.
"What favor?" Dara asked narrowing her eyes at him.
"I would like to see you fight with my best guard Giovanni" Zeus said motioning for Giovanni to come forward, when he did Giovanni grinned at Dara while she glared at him.
"You want me to beat up your best guard? Alright" Dara said taking out her staff and Giovanni followed getting out his sword and they charged at each other. Dara swung her staff but Giovanni jumped and landed on the staff grinning at her.
"You think its funny, well how about this!" Dara said, faster then lighting her staff disappeared from beneath Giovanni and then he was hit in the side thrown to the trees on the other side of the clearing.
"HA! That's what you get for thinking your better then everyone" Dara said standing at her full height, watching Giovanni come out from the trees and glare at her.
Dara smiled and raised her staff to the side and swung it straight upwards, then straight down sending a blast of fire from the staff towards Giovanni. He jumped out of the way but the ball of fire followed him wherever he went, till the ball of fire stopped in front of his face and before he could react it spread and caged him in bars of flame. Giovanni tried to teleport out but he couldn't.
"So what ya think? Like your new cage boy?" Dara said walking closer but then jumped backwards six feet from the cage, when it exploded and Giovanni burst out running towards her. Dara quickly cart wheeled backwards and jumped into the air avoiding Giovanni's punch. When she landed on the ground behind Giovanni, she stuck out her leg and tripped him, he fell to the ground hard. Dara quickly took advantage, punching him till he finally passed out. She stood up and looked at Zeus who nodded and disappeared with the rest of his guards, she looked back down at him and shook her head.
"Yo, get up. They're gone." Dara said kneeling down, Giovanni's hand shot up and grabbed Dara's wrist pulling her down on top of him. Dara gasped and looked at Giovanni.
"What are you doing?" Dara angrily whispered, glaring down at him. Giovanni smirked and wrapped his arms around Dara, her faced flushed red.
"How about we get to know each other?" Giovanni said wiggling his eyebrows, Dara pushed away and got up.
"In your dreams Giovanni" She said walking away from him and disappearing into the forest, Giovanni leaned up on his elbows and smiled.
"She likes me,".
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For the last couple days Giovanni had tried everything he could to get Dara to notice him, and nothing he did worked. He sulked in Dara's castle, Giovanni's nose started to twitch at the smell of food being cooked. He got up and walked out of his room to the kitchen where he found Dara cooking, he quietly walked up behind her and took a peak at what she was making. When he placed his hands on the counter trapping Dara inside his arms, Dara looked up and then carelessly look back at the food she was making.
"Can I help you Giovanni?" Dara said dryly stirring the food slowly, and watching him out of the corner of her eye.
"Nope, I just smelled food and thought I would investigate what it was" Giovanni said placing his head on her shoulder and wrapping his arms around her waist, Dara shook her head and ten minutes later the food was ready and she served it out on two plates. Dara placed the plates on the table and started to eat, Giovanni sat down and also started to eat. Once they were done they placed their dishes in the sink, Giovanni went to train and Dara went to meditate. After Dara would visiting the kids in the village.
Couple hours later Dara left to visit the villagers and spend some time with the children like she always did. When she returned a couples hours after, she found Giovanni still training inside the castle, She watched him for a while and was impressed with the training. Dara turned around and walked away from the door to her room where she got ready for bed.
He had trained for hours, when he noticed Dara by the door. Stepping up his abilities a bit to impress her, he saw her nod her head and then leave. Giovanni smiled to himself. It was eleven at night when Giovanni stopped training and sluggishly went to shower. Once he was done his shower, he put on some pajama pants and passed out on his bed.
It would be years later that Dara fell in love with Giovanni and they got married, and now it was not just them in the castle they had more allies come and join them. Dara had stopped working for Zeus after he tried to kill Giovanni, she had stopped the guards and Zeus but had taken a brutal stab in the stomach and stabbing her in the heart. Which had let out her demon Despair who was not really happy that they had hurt his mistress. Despair had gone on a three day and three night spree into peoples head and making them kill themselves, Zeus had been the only one to survive the battle on his side and left never to return again. But now there was another thing to deal with, their love for each other. What would they do?
Well you will find out on the chapter 7!
Their will be many different one shots or two shots to come!