Chapter 1: When Everything Becomes Hell...
A small figure accidentally trips and can be seen falling in the huge valley. You can hear screaming coming from it, and it was flailing as it fell. It took a while, but the small figure finally stops falling and lands at the bottom-most part of the valley. He looks around, not aware of another figure approaching him. He's amazed by the beautiful valley, but he's snapped out of his amazement when the figure stops in front of him.
The figure had tanned skin, dark bluish hair with two parts that curve into his face and two above, that curve into each other. The figure also had black eyes and a small smile as he extended a hand to the fallen one.
He hesitates for a moment, but after noticing the smile, he gladly accepted the help and is pulled up. He doesn't know what to say, and the figure notices this quickly. "You know, running around by yourself is dangerous these days. You never know when you'll stumble upon a Witch."
The other laughs cheerily at that. The tanned one was confused at this and he was going to ask, but his question was answered for him. "I'm not worried about that. No matter what they say, Witches are still people! I'm sure they'll understand if I just explain what happened."
The tanned one smiles. "What's your name?" A hand was extended to him as his 'guest' grinned. "Endou Mamoru. But Endou is fine. What about you?"
He accepts the handshake. "Rococo Urupa."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN ENDOU LEFT TOO!?"
The sudden scream could be heard across the village. And it almost blew the ears of the few people that were around the goggle wearing kid. They were all in their village, checking on the situation of their friends after one of their friends left. He knew this was going to be the start of chaos, and he intended to stop it.
"Calm down, Kidou. Let Genda explain." A tanned, light cyan haired boy that wore an eye patch was trying to calm down his panicking friend.
The one that wore goggles; now known as Kidou, let out a sigh of frustration. First Gouenji leaves by himself and decides to figure out the legend, now Endou left to search for Kazemaru as well? This was anything but good news for Kidou. He was stuck on what to do, from what Genda told him, Endou could be anywhere by now. But Gouenji was also in danger, since he was going to meet a Witch by himself. Kidou was always the one that stuck to the number one rule of the village, avoid Witches at all cost. But noooo, his friends just had to get themselves into trouble.
"What do you think we should do, Sakuma, Fudou?" He asks his companions. Sakuma hung his head slightly as he thought.
"Why should we even do anything? They were the ones that wanted to get into trouble." Fudou interrupted their thinking processes.
"Fudou!" Sakuma got angry almost immediately, and was about to give him a punch to the face until a hand stopped him.
"This isn't the time to get angry." Kidou said. Sakuma took his reasoning easily and calmed down. He understood his friend's anger, but they had no time to standing around arguing and fighting. They went back to thinking what to do.
"You guys should go after Endou. He's in more danger than Gouenji. Gouenji can take care of himself more than Endou." Genda told them his opinion. And they agreed. Gouenji was trained in hunting Witches by his father, he would be fine.
"Then we'll leave protecting the village in your hands, Genda." Kidou says and Genda nods as a reply. They went to get their stuff ready and headed out in search for Endou. Of course, Fudou tagged along for fun. Or so he claims.
The legend of the Witch in the lake just didn't make sense to him. If the Witch had the power to kill so many people at once, why didn't the Witch attack the village in so many years? His father said that the Witch didn't come to the village from that day on, and none of the villagers dared to go to the lake as well.
Gouenji clutched his long sword tightly as he walked into the forest. He had to keep his guard up, Witches could be disguised as anything and he had ferocious animals to worry about too. He was always told to kill Witches on sight, but after a few moments of thought as he walked, he decided to help the Witch in whatever way he could. Even though he was trained to be a hunter, he wasn't going to be one.
As he felt the air becoming more humid, he saw the lake in the distance. The sun was shining on it, making the sunlight resemble stars in the water. The area around the lake was certainly calming, and he would be, but he clutched his sword a bit tighter as he saw a figure by the lake.
A frail looking, short, spiky sliver-haired and pale skinned boy was sitting on the ground. He had his knees near his chin and his arms were hugging his legs. Gouenji noticed his teal-gray eyes were gazing at the lake, lost in thought. He also noticed the boy wore a pure white scarf, despite the hot weather they were having.
At that moment, only one question arose in his mind. Was this the Witch he was searching for?
A light-grey haired boy that had teal eyes kept his spear and walked into the village. He was in need of supplies, and also because a rumor said there was a Witch in this village. He went to the street to buy his supplies before he went to find an inn to stay. While he was on the way, a boy with red crimson hair and golden eyes stopped him in his tracks.
"Who are you? I haven't seen your face around here." The red haired boy rudely said to him.
"It's none of your business. I'm only here to kill the rumored Witch." He replied.
"Oh yeah? You think you can take a Witch on by yourself?"
Of course, they banter for hours nonstop. They instantly clicked and treated each other as rivals. But it was cut short when a troublesome passerby shouted at the red haired boy.
"What do you think you're doing in here, Witch!?"
The two stopped. They stared at each other for about a minute before the Witch threw a fireball and ran away as fast as he could. He dodged the fireball easily and took note of where the Witch headed before going to the inn to take a good rest, since he just wasted hours on his enemy.
A boy with dark navy-ish hair, with two teal clips on the top, two strips of hair are colored red at the top and white at the bottom, stood near a shrine. He looked at it determinedly with his dark navy-ish eyes. His heavy sword that was secured to his back was ready whenever he wanted to use it.
The shrine was called the 'Holy Shrine' by the residents at their village. But if he had anything to say about it, it wasn't holy at all. It may look like it, but what happened was something he would never forget. The residents had sacrificed his sister to the Witch in the shrine years ago. Now, he was strong and he learned how to fight.
The only thought in his mind was that he had to take revenge for his sister. He let himself wonder about how horrible the inside of the shrine would be as he walked towards it.
A boy was walking through a Forest. But not just any forest, it was named the 'Dark Forest'. The village where he came from had missing children. But they were always found outside said forest and all of them said a nice person guided them out, since the children got lost in the forest. Ever since those cases happened, there had been rumors of a Witch living there.
The boy had brown hair which was shaped like whirls, and big metallic blue eyes. He had a Hunting Knife in his pocket, just in case anything came charging at him. He was told to not go to the forest multiple times, but he just had to thank the person for helping the children, and he also wanted to become friends with him. He didn't care about the fact that the person could be a Witch.
He stopped when he heard the sound of rustling leaves nearby. The sound stopped as soon as he turned towards the direction of it. He decided to push his fear aside and continue walking.
But he accidentally bumps into someone and falls down. He looks up to see a spiky navy blue haired boy with orange eyes, looking at him with surprise visible on his face.