A/N: hello to all! Here's another story by yours truly. Just something I had to get off my chest. See A/N at bottom if you want to hear me rant. ^.^
Disclaimer: I do not own anything pertaining to Ouran save this humble story.
Imagine if you will a time ages past when demons walked the earth. Taller than any man and covered head to toe with fur, some with deadly horns growing out of their skulls, many with fearfully sharp claws and pointed teeth, they were truly monstrous beings. Powerful and terrifying these creatures of myth stalked all the Great Forests, places thick with trees so tall and strong that not even the sun could penetrate the upper canopy so that the world beneath knew only a green glow high above and dark shadows well below. And within these shadows these demons went about their lives, living and hunting far and apart from the rest of the world, taming the Forests and all its wildlife, and protecting the precious gifts it held from the greedy humans who dared to venture within their territory to take these gifts. Time and again these humans came and time and again the demons defended the Forests from the harmful influence of mankind with a ferocity that sent the survivors fleeing back to their fellows with tales made worse with fearful imagination.
But still the humans came.
Now imagine a great war between the humans and the demons. Imagine blood, and rage, and burning fire, and an endless stream of tears wept over the broken bodies of the fallen.
To the demons of the Forests, there was a cold realization that no matter how hard they fought there was no hope of keeping the humans at bay. From every direction they came, hacking away at the proud giants who had stood for timeless centuries until they fell, polluting the streams that ran throughout until everything began to sicken, and killing off all the animals until there was scarcely any food left to feed their young.
With heavy hearts, the demons of the Forests understand that if they continued to protect them they would all die and the gifts of the Forests would still be lost. Their only hope was to flee and pray they could thrive elsewhere, and yet as they were where could they go without being recognized for what they were and being attacked? As they despaired at the hopelessness the future bore the Forests heard their cries, feeling the pain they all shared as one and, remembering the dedication with which the demons had shown in protecting them, offered up their precious gifts to them.
Taking them the demons fled the Forests, fleeing the safety of the trees they once had called home for now they were no longer safe and ventured out into a world they had never known, disappearing without a trace.
The Forests left unprotected were dominated by mankind, all their resources taken away, used for the humans own benefit, and the memory of the demons that had once lived there faded away into the mythical tales of the present as generation upon generation of humanity was born into the world.
Imagine if you will a time ages past when demons walked the earth. Now imagine if you will that, despite all you have been told, that time had yet to end.
A/N: All right, just so everyone is clear, this story is going to be a theme crossover with another manga called 'Lycanthrope Leo' by Kengo Kaji and Kenji Okamura- which means I'll be using the terminology and general theme of the story as well as possibly bringing in characters from that story. And now, onto the rant.
Now many of you might not be familiar with title since so far, of the four volumes it's comprised of, only one was ever translated to English… Back in 1997!!! WTF!?! You can't imagine how friggin pissed off I was when I found out that little detail. Reasons for why Viz had yet to complete translations vary from it not being as popular as many people had hoped to one bloke being told quite plainly that the series was just too brutally violent. Again WTF!?! In my opinion the artwork is just fricken awesome and just from the first volume the story seems to hold a considerable amount of potential. And as for that crap about it being too violent? - Well there are probably a few titles I can name off in my head that go beyond brutal. In my opinion there is absolutely no reason why the series shouldn't be continued. I could've gone postal when I also realized there weren't any translations on the net that went beyond the first book.
And so it was during my hate fest that a rather clever scheme was conceived. If any of you keep up to date with a site called onemangadotcom, you might have noticed that a certain story called Bitter Virgin gained 2nd place(if I remember right) on the popularity board, coincidentally not long after I had posted the first few chapters of my other story "Virgin Heartache". Possibilities notwithstanding, after its sudden boom in popularity, the rest of the chapters to that story where suddenly translated within a month after six months of inactivity. I hope by now you've seen where I'm going with this. If you haven't caught the drift of my devilishly ingenious plot, this story I write serves not only to release my own creativity but also to jumpstart the popularity of Lycanthrope Leo and hopefully get the rest of those volumes out.
In short to all that I have said, GO AND CHECK OUT LYCANTHROPE LEO!!! And so ends my rant.