Ch.1 Land of the Sand Demon
"99 years ago a Sand Demon came to our lands, at first all he did was scare away the ravenous beasts that came our way. When all of the monsters in the area were gone, he turned on us. Tearing and destroying what above ground buildings that we had. For 90 years we lived like that, 90 years underneath the Sand Demon, Cragion!" The fire erupted, spewing ash into the ceiling the kids around the fire ran for cover as the Elder stood up yelling at the top of his lungs. "But that is not the end of our story; in order for you to know the end you must first know of the birth of our demon tyrant."Smoke filled the air as a picture formed in the middle of it. Sand was being tossed back and forth, as two giant golden snake-like creatures stood fighting each other; they had long necks and tails, a pair of wings and legs sprouted from its body each with two gleaming white claws sticking out from it. Their heads were a rounded triangle shape with deep dark red eyes; spikes erupted from his cheeks finishing off the demonic look. In the distance more Cragion could be seen fighting, all this over a mate. A giant Cragion bigger and taller than the others flew into the area blocking out the sun. The others stopped fighting and split leaving the single female to the giant Cragion.
The smoke cleared leaving the kids dumbfounded over what they just seen. "Then 9 years ago a hunter by the codename of 'Lynx' showed up promising us salvation from the Sand Demon." He lowered his shoulders low. "Lynx never made it out of the desert; I don't even think he got one good swing at him. That didn't stop hunters from all over the region to come and try to free us from our tyrant ruler. Hundreds came over the next 9 years, only one ever came back, he went by the name of 'Shi'. When he returned he didn't drag the body over the hundred miles, all he brought back was its head. Later on when the hunter didn't leave he revealed to us that the one that he killed was a female, and not the tyrant that we have feared for nearly 100 years. He pulled out a tooth, the size of my forearm, it was then that he told me that the Tyrant died of old age, not by him. So that leads us to our new problem, we need hunters to protect our village, you young ones if you so wish, I will have 'Shi' take you to the grand city of Daitoshi, to the west, there you will learn how to be a hunter, to protect the village of your ancestors!" He stood up slamming his walking stick into the ground shaking the nearby roots hanging down through the ceiling. "So children, who will help us, turn our underground refugee, back into our above ground oasis? For we were not always called Suna Oni No Tochi, we were once called Anzen'isu."