Chapter 1
Akako wandered around the forest looking for real answers. For years, her search for her true family has led her to demon after demon after demon. Towns' people could not be trusted, nor could other demons seeking her power. She looked down at her sword strapped to her waist, the only thing she had to give her any sort of clue as to who her parents really are. It was three feet long with a sliver dragon for a hilt. The dragon had emeralds for eyes and onyx stones for nostrils. Akako pushed her long, black hair behind her ears as she scanned the areas around with her ruby colored eyes and saw absolutely nothing. The moonbeams were bright tonight, but Akako stayed in the shadows. She hated the very sight of herself and refused to let anyone see her. A villager passed near where she was hiding and her eyes shot to him.
"Is someone there?" the woman cried desperately. She looked scared with an unconscious child in her arms. Akako sighed and stepped into the moonlight in front of the frantic woman. The woman gasped in fear as she saw Akako. Akako's eyes were a vivid shade of red and a scar ran from her forehead to the base of her neck. The other side of her face was marred with tattoos of warning that ran down her face, and all over her back. Her clothing only consisted of a black warrior's robe and a red obi. Her upper fangs stuck out of her mouth and her ears were pointed. "W-what are you?" the woman stammered, backing away.
"Please, will you let me help you?" Akako asked with no actual hope. Her appearance was frightening, even to her. The woman shook her head and ran off towards the village. Akato sighed and grabbed the cloak she had stolen in the day. She put it on and covered her face with the hood. She walked down the path heading away from the village silently. There really wasn't much hope in going to the village; no one wants a demon around. Once at a clearing, she pulled out her sword and held it out as an enormous demonic aura surrounded the thing. "Enlil, lord of the wind, I call upon you. Wake from your slumber and serve me." When Akako thrusted the sword up, the aura grew stronger and the sword turned into a pure silver dragon.
"How may I serve you, lady Akako?" he asked.
"We need to find Daichi, Moana, and Vulcan. It has come time to rejoin your brothers and lord over this pitiful world," Akako replied. Enlil bowed his head and leaned closer to the ground, allowing Akako to hop on his back. With his powerful sliver wings, Enlil flew up into the air and scanned the area below. "You know, I really don't like all the formality that comes out of your mouth. You are my friend, my only friend come to think of it and I don't like having to treat you like a servant."
"Your mother taught me only respect, it tis hard to get out of that sort of habit right away. Please, give me time and I will fulfill your request," he responded. Akako smiled a bit and stroked the scales on his back. "Out of the few millennia I have lived, you are the only one who has ever treated me as a friend and not a servant. I thank you for that, and I hope you realize that to get my brothers back you will have to kill their owners and make claim over my brothers."
"I am well aware of what I must do, and I will not regret having to do so. Besides, killing is the only thing I am truly good at," Akako stated and was right. Through out her life, all her mother taught her was how to fight, and how to fight with any weapon, if only a slightly sharpened stick. "Human opponents will be easy and demon opponents will be no harder." Now Enlil smiled. He will help her in any way he can to retrieve his brothers from servitude just as Akako did for him. They flew silently and Enlil felt Akako rest her head on the base of his long neck.
"Sleep well lady Akako, I will wake you if there is any sign of my brothers," he told her. He felt her nod and stroke his side, as if he were a puppy or some sort of furry creature. The journey to find the other dragons was going to be challenging and it was doubtful the yellow striped insects buzzing around him were going to help.