Prologue
The girl with blonde pigtails clutched her mother and father's hands as they walked across a field of white flowers, it was the start of summer and everyone in their village was celebrating the start of it. That was when the hell started. Screams suddenly sounded from further into the village, the bell started to ring, demons. Her parents both turned around and took off, still dragging there daughter with them, running back to their home when a demon fell upon her mother, gibbering madly as it did so. Her father screamed and snapped his hand out, a beam fired from his hand and seared through the demon as it's fangs ripped open Kami Albarn's throat. Maka's father guided her to there home as another demon leapt at them, he was ready and fired another beam at it. Maka screamed in horror and Spirit changed course and charged into town. That was when he saw it, there in the sky floated a man staring down at them. He was tall with dark eyes and had six arms protruding from his back
"Asura!" Spirit screamed at the demon master and Asura's eyes lit up at the sight of them
"Ah Spirit!" He floated down to land on the blood stained dirt road "I was wondering where you were." Spirit without warning sent his magic flying forward in the form of claws that would have racked down the master's body and left pre-cauterised furrows in his flesh, instead he ducked and the claws swept over him without harm. Spirit grunted and fired a bolt of power at Asura but he flipped backwards as it turned the ground at his feet black and charred.
"My turn!" He chuckled and with a murderous roar fired a blot of red energy from his mouth, Spirit shoved his daughter out of the way and pressed both of his hands at the air forming a shield that instantly began to crack under the power of the beam. Maka stood there, unable to comprehend what was happening to her father, why was the mean looking man firing laser beams at her dad? Asura stopped the beam and Spirit immediately counteracted with a beam of his own that one of the hands blocked for him, leaving a hole in the palm of it. A demon with the face of a zebra with bloody cuts instead of stripes and a body of a crocodile that had legs of a human leaped at Maka and tried to bite her. The crocodile demon suddenly stopped mid-leap and flew high into the air, this move left him defenceless against the demon master and he fired red beams of light from all of his hands that seared through her fathers body and turned it to ash. Maka screamed for her father as Asura laughed and the demon thumped into the dust next to him, suddenly Maka was yanked away from the site of her father's murder to look into face of the village's resident "Hermit" He was an old man who looked and moved more like a young man
"Follow me girl!" He grabbed her and shoved her ahead, Maka wiped her tears from her cheeks and remembered something her mother had always said when she cried
"Be strong Maka!" Maka knew she had to be strong. There was a sound from behind them as they fled through side alleys, Maka looked back and saw three demons chasing after them, the hermit Bill spun and he gestured upwards and a pillar of earth followed it and blocked their paths. They reached a hill and they both ran up it still aware of more chasing them and when he reached his door Bill stopped and looked back, Maka stood by him and tried wrenching open his door but it wouldn't budge and now there were at least six of them chasing them. They were frog like with orange spores on their backs and had razor sharp teeth. They leaped at the pair and promptly turned to dust.
"We're safe!" Bill unlocked his door and led the little girl into his home, it smelt like some kind of incense and looked very spacious. Maka turned to the man and a thousand questions burst from her lips. But he silenced her
"In the morning," He said firmly "You need to sleep," He led her to a large double poster bed where she laid on but couldn't sleep, she thought of her father, of her mother and of the terrible screams that echoed from her home village...