"The Servers are the Seven Chaos… Chaos is Power… Power is enriched by the Heart…"
-Ancient echidna litany.
Once upon a time… In an unspecified time of an unspecified place…
Seven warriors… Seven unique beings gifted by powers and abilities superior to many… Decided to engage battle against an ominous evil who threatened the peace of a small village in the middle of nowhere…
3 of them survived…
4 of them died…
This is their story… A tale of unspoken tragedies… A tale of Suffering and Death… Of Honor and Bravery… Of Courage and Cowardly…
Of Love and Hate.
A legend, a myth just like others… Nothing more. Nothing less.
This is the tale… Of the Seven Chaos Warriors… The Seven Kaosu.
SHICHININ NO KAOSU
Prologue.
In this part of the land, nothing usually happens.
Sat on the borders of a small lake in the middle of the Mystic Ruins forest, stood a very huge anthropomorphic purple, black striped cat with long downward ears and a not particularly clever expression.
He was known by his fellow villagers as Biggu za Kyatto, due to his noticeable stature… He was also considered the village fool because of his un-mistakable slowness. Biggu liked this place, his own secret place… He would often come here and entertain himself with his favorite activity (his only activity), fishing.
He didn't mind what the others would think about him as long as he could come here and fish. The cat was very good at it. He and his loyal bamboo fishing line were about to surpass their personal record of 100 trout in less than two hours when…
His feline ears caught a rather disturbing noise… A loud metallic noise not so distant from his position.
Pushed by the proverbial feline curiosity, Biggu decided to investigate the source of such unfamiliar peace-breaker… He slowly rose from his seat and, ever so slowly, started to walk over the direction where he heard that noise.
In the outskirts of the forest, two peculiar figures were observing a small rural village in the distance… Or should I say, scanning.
These two figures were not regular living creatures… They were humanoid robots.
"Scanning complete. Results: Knothole village. Strategic value: high. Defenses: inconsistent."
Said one of the two bots with its emotionless voice.
"Designated attack: two weeks from now. When barley will be harvested." The other one replied.
"Affirmative."
With that said, the two androids left the county.
A very frightened Biggu came out from the woods he was hidden… Terror depicted on his face. Despite what many pretended to know about his personality… This cat was not half as fool as anybody thought.
One of the few positive things he was known for, was his honesty… Biggu used to be a simple enough person to never mutter a single lie in his entire life… Therefore, when he rushed towards the Knothole village, his hometown, and practically yelled to everybody who could ear, about the impending assault… He found no problem in being believed.
In this part of the land, nothing usually happens… This was NOT one of those times.
Panic was the key word. Fear and horror, too.
They knew who or what those robots were…
They heard the rumors… Voices of entire villages reduced to ashes by their blind wrath… Voices of innocent people turned into robotic slaves deprived of their own mind…
Violence and Death were the words commonly associated to this infernal army… And to its leader…
Dokuta Egguman… The last human alive, the one who swore to conquer this world and forge his own Order… An Order made of metal and misery…
Other's misery.
The history of Mankind, as far as the few possessed informations would tell, was bound in blood… More blood than anybody could ever imagine…
And apparently, even the last of them hadn't had enough of it.
And they, the Knothole villagers, would have been the next few victims in a very long line.
An emergency reunion was been held inside the chief's hut…
Knothole was just a small rural town, made with poorly built wood huts and inhabit by simpleton farmers, fishers, and their families… All anthropomorphic animals or Mobians, as they chose to call themselves. They didn't hold anything besides their lives and their precious barley. Their only guilt, was the fact that their humble home lay on a strategic point between Egguman's owned lands and the city of Station Square… A technological paradise that happened to be part of the human's interests.
Eventually, the town's council reached a decision… They needed protection. They needed to hire someone to defend their village from this threat.
They needed… Kaosu warriors.
In this troubled age, Kaosu used to be the most skilled fighters money could buy… Unfortunately, these villagers didn't have the required figure for a Kaosu's paycheck… They were poor, simple people, after all.
The solution? To find some warrior desperate enough to fight for a bowl of rice and a place to rest… Some very hungry warrior… And there was only one nearby place where they could have been able to find the desired help… The very same city Dokuta Egguman wanted so bad, Station Square.
A small party of three people was chose for this task…
The first was the very same individual who spotted the robotic scouts in the Mystic Ruins, Biggu za Kyatto. The second was one of the most prominent and strongest younglings in the county, a young red and yellow armadillo by the name of Maiti za Arumajiro. And finally, the third member, who offers herself as a volunteer (despite the general disapproval), Emi Rozu, a pink hedgehog girl who wanted nothing more than an excuse to leave the boring place she was born in.
Needless to say, an entire village's hopes lay on these three person's back… Failure meant demise.
Station Square was a really big city, especially for three seemingly lost peasants. Its buildings were humongous and covered in metal… Being rural simpletons, the view of such ominous constructions inevitably sent shivers on their collective spine. Emi Rozu, however, didn't feel intimidated by such spectacle, she was excited, to say the very least. Right now, the three of them were in the city's main square, desperately trying to hire some Kaosu to fight a suicidal battle for a poor paycheck… They weren't lucky.
"Stay away from me, you miserable peasants!" Said a very mean looking crocodile Kaosu to his two unwanted interlocutors right before leaving them behind.
Maiti exchanged a defeated look with Biggu and sighed.
"We'll never find anyone… We're doomed." He muttered in defeat while sitting dramatically on the ground.
Biggu just shrugged and didn't seem faze at all. He lowered himself to his companion.
"Maybe Emi will have more luck." He tried to reassure but his slow talking only managed to irritate the armadillo even more… Then Maiti abruptly snapped.
"EMI!? WHERE THE HECK SHE WENT!!?"
Emi Rozu loved this city… Not anymore.
She was currently surrounded by a gang of nasty looking hyenas… Male hyenas, I should point.
She was a scared, little girl from outside the city, therefore naïve and easily gullible, she was cute and young and she wore a dirty looking kimono… In other words, she practically had the phrase "I want to be gangbanged here and now, no jutsu" written on her body…
Worthless to say, she was utterly terrified. She was trying so hard not to cry and look strong… To no avail.
Luckily for her, someone decided to come in her help… Someone very fast. So fast, actually, that the hyenas didn't even have the time to notice what attacked them… And I didn't even have the time to write it.
Within a blink of an eye… Emi's eye… It was all set and done. All the brutes and would be rapists lay on the ground, beaten and badly battered… But not dead. That was not her savior's style.
In the middle of that improvised battlefield, a lone figure stood tall… A cobalt blue male hedgehog with long smooth, downward quills on the back of his head and shoulders… And enchanting emerald green eyes.
The girl found herself instantly kidnapped in his amazing gaze.
He spoke.
"Are you okay?"
She slowly nodded, still entranced in his eyes… He felt the awkwardness of the moment but didn't give it so much importance… He didn't really care of anything, actually. He saved this girl only because he happened to be around, out of pure instinct.
He was about to leave.
"Wait!" Emi suddenly yelled.
He turned and looked at her form, once again.
"Who are you?" She asked her savior… A fair enough question, indeed.
His stone-like glare fixed itself on the younger girl in front of him… And answered.
"My name… Is Sonikku za Hejjihoggu." And then, he just went away at unearthly speed, leaving a bewildered and fascinated girl in his dust…
A lamp turned on in Emi's head as she smiled… She's found the perfect kind of warrior her group was looking for.
The first Kaosu.