Here is the first chapter of All That I Need to Be. I am very excited about writing this story. The decision is also in about Jaden and Yusei. There will be a one shot some time during this story. It will be separate however. Hope you enjoy the first chapter!
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Summary: Sequel to All That I Have Left. Malik has always been a fighter. He has been fighting since he was five years old, after the murder of his mother. Conflicts between rebel groups have alerted generals from the palace to their location. Now, a real war will begin as demons and humans clash on the battle field. MalikxMarikxMariku
This Chapter will begin after the last chapter in All That I Have Left.
Rules of the Bonded (For those who did not read previous story)
Pure human souls have the ability to stabilize demon souls
If the human is killed, the demons live and retain their powers
If the human is too far, the bond will kill them.
If the human was a true bond, they will reincarnate
Chapter 1- Ambush
The meetings always ended in the same way. With me being assigned to another mission to go and kill more demons. Maybe even some of the Western rebels. I don't mind the killing. I need to protect the people that I care about. I was used to killing. It wasn't that, that was bothering me. I have been feeling restless lately, as if something was about to happen. It made me anxious, and only time in the oasis seemed to ease me. The caves were quiet at the moment. Everyone must be busy getting ready for the raid, so they were either in their rooms or in the training center. My Father, Shada, had alerted us to a group of demons traveling a crossed the desert toward a settlement under our protection. There wasn't any more information pertaining to them, such as where they were from. The village was close to our location and it housed families for some members in the caves. We had already evacuated the village, but we needed to keep the pretense that it was occupied so that the demons would not continue looking for our people.
The living quarters were in the eastern part of the caves. The training center and dining halls were in the west. The center held the meeting room. The living quarters reminded me of an anthill with many rooms that all worked their way to the top of the cave. I lived on the ground floor. At the top of the cave was a red flag that was the color of the Desert rebels. Mirrors brought light into the cave. I opened the door to my room at the end of the cavern. My sister lived next to me along with my father on the other side. My room was very plain. I never found a reason to decorate it. It was just a room. On the walls were weapons that I used to practice or to fight. My bed was in the corner with white blankets and a basin on a counter next to it for washing.
I took my knives off my waist and went to the counter for my riding bad that had been leaning against it. It was already filled with everything I would need. Some extra knives, a sharpening kit, a medical kit, extra food, my mask, and a pendant that had been my mothers. I pulled out the necklace. It had a simple leather chain and a silver clasp. On the chain were small silver and gold beads with on small dark blue gem. My father had given it to her when they were married. I had taken it off of her when I found her after she had been murdered. It was the only thing that hadn't been covered in blood. To this day, my father thought the demon that had killed her had taken the necklace and I never bothered to tell him the truth.
I placed the necklace back in the bag. I leaned down to pick up my fighting clothes that had been next to the bag. Light brown pants, a black top without sleeves, and a pair of black boots. I took off my home clothes and changed into the fighting clothes. Once I was dressed, I walked to the weapon wall and replace my knife belt. I was most skilled with my curved knifes. I also picked up two smaller knives that could be place in my boots for emergencies. I picked my bow off the wall along with the quiver and tied them to my back. There was a knock at the door before I had finished arming myself.
"Come in."
The door opened and my sister, Ishizu, walked in. Ishizu was two years older than me. She was also dressed similar to me, except around her waist was a single khopesh and she had a crossbow on her back. He long black hair was tied back over her shoulder in a braid and her brown eyes were bright. She was also tan like me.
"I see you are almost ready. You and I will be fighting together. Father wants us to enter the city first so that we will be able to ambush the demons as they enter. And we will be able to alert the rest of the force to a complication if one occurs."
I nodded.
"Are you scared?"
I scoffed. "No!"
She laughed. "Of course not, not my brave brother." She walked to me and ruffled my hair.
"Hey, I'm an adult you know."
"Yes, I know. Are you ready to walk to the stables?"
I had finished packing, so I nodded and we walked out of the room.
"Do you want to race?" She asked when we were almost to the meeting room.
"And have you beat me again? You just want a chance to gloat."
"You're right, I do. But it would still be fun."
She took off without warning and I ran after. She was incredible fast. By the time I made it to the stables, she had beat me by a landslide. Both her and Jou, we standing by the entrance laughing. Jou saw me first.
"Here comes the great warrior now. Where have you been, we've been watin forever for yah."
"Have not." I said panting.
"You're right little brother, it was only two minutes. Faster than last time." She was laughing.
I was about to retort when my father's voice rang out.
"It is time to ride out. Find your mount and form your groups. I will remain here to monitor your progress."
Jou sighed. "Time for business. I guess I'll see you both later. Have fun!" He walked to his tan horse.
Ishizu and I both walked to ours that were ready and tied to a post. My horse was gray and Ishizu's was white. I tied my bag onto my horse. I climbed on my horse Alec and moved him to the entrance waiting for Shada's command to leave. My sister stopped next to me. We only had to wait a few minutes and I looked around the cave. There were fifty soldiers. Most of us were human, but there were a few demons that fought with us.
"Ride out and stay with your group." My father yelled out and the door opened. I clicked Alec's reigns and he began to gallop. The sky was dark now with only a small amount of light still on the horizon, which meant it was the perfect time for an ambush.
Marik POV
I could see the town on the horizon. It has been three hours since sunset. We would be in the town very soon. The soldier we brought were tense and excited. I mirrored their excitement. I have been anxious to make it to the settlement. I was ready to find and kill some rebels, anything to ease the tense feeling surrounding us. I had also been feeling anxious lately. The closer we can to the village, the more anxious I became. I could tell Mariku was feeling the same way, he way leaning forward on the horse. We haven't seen any rebels yet, which was odd. I had expected to be stopped before we made it to the town.
"Stop." Mariku told us.
His eyes were trained to the right of us. I looked to where he was fixated on and saw another group moving to the town. They had green flags with them. We had no knowledge of this group. We know that the rebel groups were color coated, but the most active group was the red group. That is why we came to this town.
"Another rebel group?" I asked.
"Yeah. There has been in fighting among them lately. I guess we weren't the only ones planning to raid the town tonight."
"What should we do? We could beat them there."
Marik stared at them a little longer.
"We will head to the town but we will wait to attack until they get there as well, then we can get intel on both groups."
I nodded and we change our course to go the back of the city. We found a high vantage point that we would be able to watch the green group of rebels move to the town. The town was small, around 50 to 60 houses and a market. We waited a short while before they were almost at the gate when we saw movement just inside the gate. I saw two human hide behind a house. Both of them had red masks around their faces. I looked at the boy, he was familiar. He had long sand colored hair and slightly tan skin. My heart began to pound when he turned to look behind him, giving me a look at his face. I heard Mariku gasp next to me. A shock ran through me. It was Malik and he was armed to the teeth ready to fight the rebels entering the town. Fear raced through me when I noticed that they would be surrounded. Mariku and I raced down the hill.
Malik POV
We didn't see them coming. Keith and his warriors from the Western group managed to surround us. One of his men raced toward me and I pulled out my knives. I slashed his chest and the shoved the other knife into his chest. I turned and immediately blocked the sword of the man behind me. He fell quickly too. I looked at Ishizu. She was fighting two at once, but they were no match for her. I killed two more men before I looked around. Where was the demon army? Then I saw them. They had gone around the left side of the settlement and were approaching us quickly.
We were going to be outnumbered.
"We need to leave now." I yelled at my sister.
I pulled out my fire starter and lit the signal fire to shoot a flaming arrow into the air to alert the other group to leave.
She looked at the oncoming army and killed the last of the Westerns fighting us. She nodded and we raced to where we left our horses in the market. The demons followed us, I couldn't see their faces in the dark. Keith was nowhere to be seen. He must have hidden when he seen the demons, coward.
I jumped on Alec and Ishizu got on her horse, and we raced off.
"Well, this wasn't the plan."
"There never really was a plan." I argued. The demons were still following. "We can't lead them back to the caves."
"We will go around to the back."
I looked behind me again. They were closer. I pulled my bow off my back and nocked an arrow. I aimed at one of the demons in the front. The moon came out from behind the cloud giving me enough light to see their faces. One of them was older, dark red eyes and tan colored hair. He was muscular and tan. The other one was also muscular and had red eyes. He was covered in scars. The strangest part? They looked like me. I pulled back the arrow some more and aimed at the younger one. I was about to let the arrow loose when I felt a pang run through me when I looked him in the eye.
I knew them, I thought shocked. But that couldn't be true.
I let the bow fall slack.
"Malik!" I heard my sister yell.
I turned around to see another one of Keith's men on a horse coming toward me. I aimed the arrow at him and I loosed the arrow. It hit him in the neck and he fell to the ground. We were almost out of the town.
"Malik, shoot the arch." There was an arch over the gateway to the town. We raced out of it and I turned to shoot it. The specialty arrow hit the arch and it collapsed, stopping the demons from following us.
"Malik!" I heard the older demon yell in a rough voice.
We didn't stop. Ishizu looked at me.
"You know them?"
I was still looking at the arch where the demons had stopped.
"I don't know." And we went back to the caves.
Marik POV
He was right there; I could still see him riding away through the desert.
"We have to follow." I told Mariku.
"We can't yet. We know who he is with now. We can find him again." Mariku said also staring at Malik's fleeting form.
One of our soldiers walked up behind us.
"My lords, we have captured the leader of the green group. He has refused to talk. We have also searched the town, there is no one here."
"We will make him talk," I sneered.
Mariku nodded and chuckled darkly.
We walked back to the market after a soldier took our horses. In the center of the market was a human with blond hair and a green bandana.
"Who are you?" Mariku asked harshly.
The human just smiled. So did we.
His legs lit on fire and he screamed.
"I'm Keith. A soldier of the Western rebels."
"So there are two groups?" I asked and we stopped burning his legs.
"Yes. Those two in the red masks are part of the Desert rebels. They are the children of their leader."
"Do you know where they are going?" Mariku asked.
"No, we haven't found their camp. We hoped to capture some of them tonight to find out." We both growled at him. He had more information. "We know it is near the oasis." He continued quickly.
"The oasis by the mountains?" I said.
Keith nodded. Two soldiers removed him from the area.
We turned to each other then looked at our soldiers. We pointed at two of them.
"You two will follow the human back to his camp and then kill him once you have the location. We will go an investigate this other group. The rest of you go back to the palace and alert the other generals and the King and Queen to the information we have found. Now move out."
The soldiers left quickly. We walked back to our horses.
"It's a day's ride to that oasis. What will we do when we get there?" I asked.
"We search for Malik. And take him back, no matter what."
The next update will be on December 24th (Early Christmas Present for all of you)