It was a dark and stormy night, Issun was in the northern mountains along with Oki. They were sitting around a fire, to keep warm from the blizzard, in Oki's house not too far outside the village. The wind blew harsh and made whistling noises against the wooden house.

Issun stood up.

"Hey Oki, do you think Ammy will ever come back?" Issun's head had dropped in mid-sentence.

Oki looked at Issun. Doubt had shrouded both of their minds. They believed that Amaterasu would never return. It has been four years after all.

"I still have a little bit of hope left that she will someday return, just don't give up hope okay, Issun?" Oki had lied to himself and to Issun. He had given up hope a long time ago, when his village was attacked by strange monsters from the east causing the war between good and evil. Most of the village people had been slaughtered, including the chief and Kai. Oki and Issun were the only warriors of the village.

A sudden noise that sounded like many foot steps entered both of their ears.

"Monster's?" Issun gasped at Oki.

Oki's muscles became tense, he was ready for a long and hard battle. By the sound of foot steps, their was a whole squad of them.

Issun grabbed his needle-sized sword.

"Issun, are you ready?" Both of the two nodded to each other.

Both of the two warriors gasped in surprise, there were no monsters.

"Dragonians!" Yelped Issun.

Oki halted and stopped himself from striking anyone in front of the fleet of Dragonians.

Oki knew that this was going to be bad news. "What news do you bring from the coast lines?"

The Dragonian squad commander walked up to Oki, anxiety clouded the eyes of the great commander, Oki knew now that something had gone wrong

"Sei' An city has fallen. A whole entire army of demons are right behind us. You must warn the people of the village to get out quickly." The commander spoke in a heavy voice.

Oki felt a sharp pang of fear. Sei' An city was the only thing that was keeping a hold on the monsters. His heart began to race. A whole entire army was going to attack. He began to run straight for the village as fast as he possibly could leaving Issun behind with the Dragonians.

"Hey Oki! Don't leave me here!" Issun's voice faded as Oki ran to the village. The village was thirty minutes away, but that did not stop him. He went into his wolf-form to become faster. After a dreadful fifteen minutes, Oki had reached his village. He went back to his human-form. Oki raced through the village yelling as loud as he could.

"Everybody, get out of the village now! Your lives are in grave danger!"

Suddenly, a hand grasped his arm causing him to almost trip. It was Samickle who had stopped him. Samickle's grip was strong on Oki's arm.

"You are acting like a mad man! Oki, what's going on?" He demanded an answer.

Oki hesitated for a moment and gathered his thoughts again.

"There is an army of monsters heading toward here, we must get everybody out of here as quickly as possible! We haven't the time to lose!"

Samickle stared at him for a moment. "How did you gain this information? And why is the army coming here?!"

"A fleet of Dragonians came to warn us, and I have an idea why but now is not the time to explain, you should have the same idea as me anyways."

Samickle stood and seemed to be aggravated.

"Did they bring any other news with them?"

Oki jerked his arm out of Samickle's grasp.

"Sei' An city has fallen to the monsters. The Dragonian fleet seems to be very weary. We must take haste!"

Oki noticed that Samickle seemed to be shocked now.

"Go back to the Dragonian fleet! I will round up all of the villagers and take them through the mountain tunnel to the west. Do not follow us, the demons will follow your tracks, you know what you owe them."

Oki knew what Samickle spoke of. Awhile back, he almost died. A great demon lord came to him to finish him off. The demon walked on four legs and had large ears. The demon's body seemed to be made of black smoke, and had piercing yellow eyes. It had long claws that seemed like daggers sticking out of it's paws. The mighty beast had raised it's paw to kill Oki. In that moment, Oki drew all of the remaining strength he had, and raised Kutone, the silver sword, and pierced the demon's heart. The sword acted like a bridge. All of the monster's demonic power went straight into Oki's body. Kutone had many abilities, but never had Kutone done anything like this. Oki had gained a strange new kind of strength, even though he had been bleeding severely, he got up and face the surrounding monsters. He felt new. In the crowd of demons, a larger one faced Oki. Oki was tensed, ready to attack.

"Do not attack me," growled the demon "Because you took the powers of this demon lord, you shall serve us someday, I can foresee your future. You will lose all control and become a great weapon for us." The demon gave a smirk and they all faded back into shadows and smoke.

Oki remembered it like yesterday. He nodded at Samickle and headed out of the village back to the Dragonian fleet. When Oki had gotten back to the Dragonians Issun greeted him to a lecture.

"Issun, I am sorry I left you here but now is not the time, we have to lead the army away from here!"

Issun stared blankly into Oki's eyes.

"Where will we go to?" asked Issun.

Oki had an Idea. He looked down at his micro-sized friend.

"We will go to the southern forest, their we can build a fortress, and we can create a rebellion."

Issun looked at Oki with a raised brow.

"How are we gonna do that hmm Oki? It would take months to get there!" Issun thought that Oki was nuts. "Kutone has transporting abilities. Remember?"

Issun gave a big grin. He became happy.

"That is great! Then we can protect the village. When we get to the forest, the demons will set their course to their, and it would take months for them to reach us! By that time, we would have plenty of troops!"

Oki stabbed the ground with Kutone, he kneeled in front of it and his hands were wrapped on the handle. He closed his eyes behind his mask.

"Everybody, hold on to me now!"