In 1560, Lord Nobunaga Oda defeated Yoshimoto Imagawa in Okehazama…

Soon after his victory, Nobunaga fell to a fatal arrow, which pierced his throat. However, Nobunaga was far from finished. With the help of the demons, he rose from the dead. With his tyrannical evil restored, the demons began their rampage, slaughtering innocent people. Then a young warrior, Samanosuke Akechi, stood up and defeated the demon king.

The nightmare, however, did not end. A few years later, his strength restored, Nobunaga was set to conquer the entire country.

Prologue: Yagyu Village

Silence fills the lone forest of the Japanese lands. Through the sunlight scenery and the quiet and innocent village from afar, even the sounds of working villagers and playing children from afar is too silent to break the ominous hissing that silence itself could reveal. The hissing coming from a serpent slithering about in search of prey. With the slowly falling sun shining on its dark green scales, its orange, keen eye catches a glimpse of a shadow of a man kneeling before it. It hisses a warning as it moves to a defensive stance, only to flare its tongue in curiosity when the man reaches his gauntlet hand, offering it. As if summoned by this man, the venomous snake slithers around his hand as it travels up his arm.

For this man, as powerful as his overlord outfit would show, is the new demon lord Nobunaga Oda. The demon lord stands, his grand black armor and his long dark cape bear his Oda banner; a symbol of his intentions of uniting Japan under his rule. And with the help of his new allies, who see his cruel ambition useful them their own campaign to rule amongst humans, Nobunaga will finally have that plan become a reality. He mounts on his armored horse as he stares down at the Yagyu village from a hilltop covered with trees. From his shogun hairstyle, to his thin mustache and beard, he looks human. However, from the red marks above his eyebrows to his red-orange eyes, he is more demon than a man. And with a grin across his lips, he makes his next step of conquering Japan.

In the peaceful village of Yagyu, villagers live peacefully as they continue their daily deeds before nightfall. Men work in their farming jobs, a few pulling carts and using hoes in the dirt. Some women harvesting crops and others caring for the young. Even children run around town playing. Sitting on a bench near one wooden, self-made house, a village woman holds a baby as she wags a instrument and making the baby laugh happily. Suddenly, the baby sees something from afar, getting the woman to turn her head to the sky.

As if on cue, a fiery arrow shots down into the hay-made roof, causing it to burst into flames. The woman holding the baby runs from the bench, avoiding the house's fate of being burned to the ground. Where one arrow came from, a rain of multiple arrows follow shortly. A few villagers are shot down and fall to the ground, scorching and dead. As the houses catch on fire, one villager tries to run, only to be ran over by a group of horses mounted by soldiers wearing shiny, black samurai armor. Clad in the black color and the banner of the Oda clan, one soldier wields a bladed staff as he stabs it into the back of one villager. And, with the horse still going, the soldier laughs as he uses the spear to drag the screaming man across the dirt. In the rush of the slaughtering, one soldier knocks one villager to the ground, but this villager was not just some innocent farmer. Trained in the bladed arts, the man waits for the soldier to turn back as he pulls his hoe apart to reveal chains. The soldier charges his horse to the man's direction, but the villager swings his chained tool to knock the soldier to the ground. On the dirt, the soldier didn't have a chance to fight as the villager wraps his neck in chains. The villager pulls to suffocate the soldier, but he is soon shot in the back by another fiery arrow. From a few feet away, the soldier wielding his bow and arrows grins in his own sinister satisfaction as he pulls back an arrow and fire it at the door of another house. Before the arrow could burn the door, another trained villager cuts the arrow in half with one of his one-handed scythes. The older, frail man demonstrates his learned skill as he joins the scythes together and throws the weapon into the back of another soldier. On his horse, the soldier stumps forward as the blade cuts into his back. The old man smiles in confidence, but that confidence was short-lived when the soldier sits back up. This soldier, along with the others, has proven to the villagers that he is not just any soldier. With his eyes changing to demonic, and his mouth opening to reveal a long, purple tongue, he uses that tongue to reach behind him, grab the weapon, and throws it back at the old man. And with the surprising ferocity, the old man is swept off his feet and hanged against the door; by one of the scythes keeping his neck in place. However, the old man now faces a worse death when he is repeatedly fired by fiery arrows. And soon, his frail and wrinkled body burns.

A villager screams in agony as he is dragged across the dirt by a rope stringed up by a soldier and horse. And the same woman with the baby cries out for help, only to find none as she is soon killed by the spear of a soldier if not the hooves of a horse. As the slaughter and the burning of the village continues on, men and women become killed by the weapons of war and the hooves of horses. A woman cries out for her dead husband as she, too, was killed. For a soldier was there to hear her cries before piercing her back.

The slaughtering did not last very long. Riding his horse casually through the ashes and cinders, Nobunaga observes the burning village and dying innocents as his army follow with him. Nobunaga's dark and cold eyes glare in satisfaction as they leave the town behind to burn under the redden moon. This is just the beginning of the death and darkness that will spread across Japan. And soon, the world.

What Nobunaga also leaves behind, is the same instrument being played by the serpent before being crushed by its strong, constricting form.

The death is devastating, and the scenery is unbearable, but unknown by the demon lord, a mysterious force has called forth to a force from another world to stop his reign. A bloodline of Oni; ancient warrior and slayer of demons. An Onimusha.

Little did this mysterious force would know, that this "Onimusha" would be in the form of four heroic warriors. The four willing to give their best to save their own world. Today… their new and unexpected tale begins.

This is PsychoReptile here! And, from the writer that brings you Five Nights at Goji's, Godzilla vs Pumpkinhead and Godzilla's War comes my newest series called RWBY: The Onimusha Quest! Now, obviously, there are people that know RWBY and who I'm thinking of bringing in this "Onimusha world". If not, good god, what are you doing with your life!? (laughs)

Seriously, though, if there's some of you who has never heard of Onimusha… I don't blame you. Onimusha is basically an old Japanese video game franchise that CAPCOM use to do in the early 2000's. Basically a lone warrior gaining an unmatchable power and gains magical weapons to defeat these monsters that people called "demons". They're not technically demons, just monster coming from an underworld wanting to rule amongst humans.

So, anyway, I thought I had to publish this story as a lone category, but there's a category for Onimusha, apparently! (laughs) So, yes, this is a crossover!

But, I shouldn't spoil too much of the story. The story awaits in the near future and others. So, thank you for reading this prologue! Please follow us soon and please leave a review, and as always, this is PsychoReptile signing off!