Chapter 1
The Ravages of War
We live in a violent and dangerous land. the government encourages the lords of our realm to war against one another they believe if the lords are to busy trying to kill one another they will be to weakened to threaten the government.
This leaves all the villages bereft of protection. Recently a new lord has risen above the rest. He plans to do away with the corrupt government.
He was a dark and powerful lord. My village had always lived surrounded by the dangers of various warring lords but this new menace was very different. We were not only in danger of being raided but of complete annihilation. In the first month of his advance he destroyed the countryside on his way to the capital we were the first village in his path. He was notorious for his cruelty and brutality as his armies revenged the countryside the village elders became more and more worried. They only wanted to survive. They sought to appease him, the great Battousai. He was a wrathful godlike figure in their eyes. Who can blame them? What did the coming of a new era matter to us the poorest of the poor? How could a new government that began by destroying the few semblances of structure that remained in our world be any better than the one we had? Did they think of resistance no we were simple folk let the nobility and royalty speak noble thoughts of revolution or revenge we would toil just the same under their uncaring gaze. My village sought to gain the favor of this new powerful lord by offering forth a gift. A sacrifice of sorts, A lovely maiden for his household that he might overlook their one small village in his wrathful march on the capital. I live alone on the outskirts of our village, my family has been dead for ten years this summer I shall turn eighteen. I am Kamiya Kaoru, and this is my story.
This was all for the good of the people. Violence and war were necessary to bring about the peace that the current government prevents. I would bring about this peace, who better than myself to commit this act, then I who will live forever a denizen of the night. This generation and many others may curse my name for all I have done, but by then I will have established a stable world for them. These people who despise me, it is for them I do this. So that they may live in a world free of vicious power hungry men. I will create for them this world and then I will fade back into the endless darkness of night. I who have walked this world for a thousand years seen the corruption of the ages they should thank me for I have and will exist for many centuries more. I will leave them once I do this that is the existence of one such as myself, the blood of innocents upon my hands, how could I burden another soul with my curse. I am Battousai the Vampire Lord.