Chapter One: A Destined (Yet Rather Unwelcome) Meeting

Waka, the last of the Moon Tribe, was on a quest. A very small, stupid one, he had to admit, but it was a quest nonetheless. He followed around a large brown dog in small circles. He felt very stupid doing so, but the dog had stolen his flute, and Waka needed it back. The dog walked slowly, so Waka did the same.

"Ma Cherie," he said to the canine in his velvety voice, struggling to keep his patience, "would you be so kind as to give me my flute back?"

Some of the villagers were staring at the prophet with strange looks as if they were questioning his saneness. Waka sighed. He wasn't surprised. He, Captain Waka, the Tao Master, was walking in circles after a dog.

He did not know why he did not just grab the dog and pull the flute out of its mouth, thus saving his dignity. Perhaps the reason was that he was just too weary from traveling for two days.

Waka had been passing through Kamiki Village when the elder's wife, Mrs. Orange, had insisted that Waka try one of her cherry cakes. She took him into her house and then proceeded to beat the crap out of the fruit. Then, she beat the crap out of some bread and then beat them all together. It had been a very strange process, but it had tasted great.

"Ukele!" Waka heard a little kid call. The brown dog's ears perked up and looked over to which the voice was coming from. The dog, whose name was apparently 'Ukele,' started to wag his curly tail and gave an excited yip. He still was holding Waka's flute.

"Come here, Ukele!" the kid called again. Ukele went bounding over to him. The kid gave the dog an affectionate pat and commanded, "drop." Ukele spit out the flute and licked his master's face. "Good boy, Ukele!" the boy praised lovingly. He rubbed the canine's ears.

The little kid walked over to Waka and presented his flute to him. "Merci," Waka thanked, grasping his precious flute and wiping off the dog slobber on his clothes.

"Sorry about my dog, Ukele," the boy apologized.

"Oh, that's quite alright," pardoned Waka, trying to sound patient.

"My name's Toshiro," the young child painfully pressed on. "What's yours?"

"Waka."

Toshiro's eyes lit up as he grew excited. "You mean Captain Waka the Tao Master?" the kid clarified excitedly.

"So you've heard of me, then," Waka sighed.

"Yes!" Toshiro exclaimed so loud that his shout probably could have been heard from miles away. Ukele jumped back a little, startled by the sudden noise.

Gosh! thought Waka. How can a six year old make such noise?

"You are so amazing! You…" Toshiro then went on and on about all the amazing things Waka had done.

If only he knew about the drastic things I've done.

Waka had, over 200 years ago, piloted the Ark of Yamato to the Celestial Plain. The Ark, built by the Moon Tribe, was basically a huge jail for demons. One of the demons contained inside the Ark of Yamato at the time Waka had taken it to the Celestial Plain was Orochi. Orochi escaped from the Ark and destroyed the Celestial Plain. For that, Waka was responsible.

Then, when the Celestials saw Orochi, they all rushed onto the Ark of Yamato, thinking that it would be a safe place and not knowing that there were even more demons in there. Before Waka could get to them to warn them of their mistake, the demons had already killed them all.

Then, Waka, realizing that the only way to get rid of the demons in the Ark was to crash it, attempted to do this, willing to sacrifice his own life in the process. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't very good at crashing. He ended up crashing on Earth in a lake. The Ark broke and all the demons came swarming out of it, threatening all of humanity. That wouldn't look very good on a resume!

It took Waka a few moments to realize that Toshiro had stopped talking and was looking up expectantly at him. "Well?" the boy asked with hope-filled eyes.

Waka bent down to be more at the boy's level of height. "Excuse moi, what was that?" Waka asked.

"I said, 'would you like to stay in the village tonight?'" Toshiro told him tolerantly. "Please?"

Waka was about to say no, but he then had a prophecy.

White wolf with red markings…Amaterasu, the reincarnation of the Goddess Okami, will appear.

The reincarnation of Okami? Waka wondered. Hmmm…

He looked back at Toshiro and smiled. "Sure."

Toshiro smiled widely and started dancing around.

That night, Waka, while everyone else had gone inside, waited outside on the grass next to the top of a tall waterfall that was in the village. In just a few hours, his prophesy came true. A white wolf with red markings and small wings on her legs came rushing through the village, leaving a trail of yellow flowers behind her the disappeared after she lifted her foot. Waka jumped down in front of her, causing her to come to an abrupt and confused stop.

"Bonjour," Waka greeted. "I am Waka, the Gods' gift to man."

"I'm Issun, and whatdya want?" a voice seemingly coming from the wolf declared.

Issun? Was this the wrong wolf? No, surely not. This is a Goddess, no doubt about it, Waka assured himself. Upon closer inspection, Waka noticed a little green thing bouncing on the wolf's head.

"Oh, bonjour, my bouncing little friend. Is this the Goddess Amaterasu?"

"Yeah, and how would you know we were here?" Issun shouted. He was a little green Ponacle and he was bouncing up and down on the great God's nose.

Annoying creature, thought Waka.

"I am a prophet," replied Waka.

"You half-baked prophet, whadya want with us?"

Waka drew his sword. "Can you defeat me, the Gods' gift to man, Goddess Amaterasu?" Waka challenged, pointing the blade at the wolf's face.

Thank you everyone for reading!!! I will try to update soon!!! Please, please, PLEASE review! That really encourages me! Please give me suggestions or something! Thanks!

P.S.: I know this doesn't really follow the storyline, but Waka's past is true. I got that information off of: .com/page/Tao+Master+Waka?t=anon

Thanks again for reading, and please stay tuned!!!

-Ratt9

3/29/2009