Prince of the Forest
Authors note:
Hello everybody, I wish to thank you for showing interest in my work. Yes I know this story might seem similar to one of the fics out here (I think is called Prince Mononoke) but I have you know that I was thinking of writing this sometime ago since I found this website. Yes, I was surprised that someone else had used the idea. But I was not that sad because his story went in a whole different direction form the one I was thinking about. I decided to keep most of the movies characters including San, Ashitaka, the wolves and the boars. However some of the characters would be completely out of my own imagination. THIS STORY IS STILL ON WORK IN PROGRESS .A little warning to you young readers, I plan to include disturbing content in this story so be careful. I do realize there are spelling mistakes and I am trying to revise it. English is not my first language so bare with me. I will try to update as much as I can. I can hardly find time anymore but the most you can expect to wait will be about two weeks. But one thing you can be sure of is that I will finish the story :) , Enjoy!
Once upon a time there lived a tribe known as the Akuna Tribe. They were respected amongst the other ruling powers because of their traditions and their trained bowman. The Akuna's depended on trade to survive, mainly precious animal fur, meat and rare metals often found in their expansive cave system. The village sat at the highest point of an enormous mountain witch overlooked the great valleys and rivers the land held. The village was often under attack by foresters seeking to claim the resourceful land for their own purpose. Akuna's were always worshipers of the gods. They believed if the gods were happy they would have let them share the land. That soon came to an end when the chief met an untimely death by the point of a dagger, the killer was never found. The new chief was nothing like his brother. He was known as Kurnias. He was arrogant and did not respect or acknowledge the gods power over the land. He always sought to take the territory for himself.
Kurnia's had a beautiful daughter called San. She was a strong girl with a voice like silk. She had short red hair and her skin was white as milk. Her eyes were light green and one could easily find themselves lost in them. She was passionate and very kind to animals. Her cousin and best friend was called Ashitaka. Ashitaka was a strong, tall and brave boy with short dark hair and kind brown eyes. He was also one of the best Archers the tribe had to offer. He'd win every tournament the Chief would uphold and won many titles.
"San! Cried Ashitaka, can you help me out with this?" Ashitaka was doing one of his favorite pass times, feather hunting. Ashitaka prefers to make arrows himself with the feathers of the great eagle that sat majestically at the tallest point of a sloped rocky mountain that easily stood out amongst the sea of trees. "Come on how you expect me to reach the darn place if I don't have anyone to give me a lift." "You expect me to touch you? May I remind you were you have been crawling all day?" said San. "How about I give you a lift huh? After all I have been doing all the work around here while you have been talking all day long about how your dad is so mean to you blablabla" mocked Ashitaka. "Quite you! May I remind you who is the only idiot in all of Thir who does this kind of trash I mean for the love…" San's voice would have been silenced by Ashitaka.
He pointed to a nearby ledge that was close enough to the eagles nest and with enough effort he could get on it. "San I am going to have to ask you a favor". "What?". "Would you shut up already! I need your help to make that jump if not I can't compete in this year's tournament and I can't go through that okay?" yelled Ashitaka. "Huh San you there?" asked Ashitaka with nervousness. A loud smack would have been heard and it was loud enough to make nearby birds fly away, even the great eagle. Ashitaka would have been thrown to the ground feeling his face that it was bright red with the mark of a hand. "Are you mad woman? You almost smacked the living out of me." said Ashitaka . "That's what you get for being mean to me! I don't deserve this kind of treatment, humph" San would have now looked away from Ashitaka's face sitting down covering her face with her hands as tears began to hit the leafs on the soil. Ashitaka would have stood up looking at his feet for a great shame he felt. "Look I am sorry, can we at least go look for the bird. I think he went down to that lake probably to hide from us. Bet you can't make it down the hill faster than me huh?" said Ashitaka with a calming voice. San's attention now turned to Ashitaka with a look of curiosity. "Is that a challenge? You couldn't even get that oversized chicken faster than me even if I had pig strapped to my back!" implied San.
Ashitaka would have dusted himself off leafs and dirt. "Well I don't mean to be rude so I will even give you a head start, he'd chuckled, but even then…" His voice would have stopped as he saw San sprinting through the creek that led to the lake. Ashitaka soon followed behind, making second place. "What took you so long huh?" asked San. Ashitaka arrived exhausted. He went towards San were she was kneeling behind a bush that had a great view of the lake and would have fell on the floor taking heavy breaths with his arms wide open making a form of an angel. "Easy for you to say, I have been carrying my bow with me all this time. Besides you know what they say about girls. They are light on their feet but slow when it comes to…"
Ashitaka's words stopped as San kicked him in the ribs, making him gasp for air. "I wasn't going to say anything bad .I swear if you do that one more time…" Said Ashitaka. " Shhh, can't you see it. He is there by that pike." San pointed at the eagle as it sat in a massive looking spear tilting upwards towards the sky. It was stabbed on the ground, next to it on the shore of the lake were two empty canoes filled with fishing nets. "Let's get him, come on!" shouted Ashitaka. Ashitaka stopped as San held his right shoulder tightly as she stared at him with a worrying face. "Ashitaka I believe is not safe. She'd pointed at the giant rock which blocked the view of what it seemed like a camp site. See that white smoke ascending from behind the rock and the freshly caught fish?" Asked San. "Yeah, what does it mean?" said Ashitaka with a careless remark. San took a deep breath and said "I believe there might be Foresters out there, she pointed at the all the items she could spot, see that spear? It's not made by Akuna's and neither are those canoes. Their design is strange. We should get back to the village right now." Urged San.
Ashitaka's eyes open wide with determination. "You are joking right? I did not just race you and get slapped for nothing. I am not going back until I get those feathers" he yelled. "Ashitaka be quiet you want to get caught?" San said. "I bet you have no idea how hard is to track the darn thing in the first place…" Ashitaka continued. Both of them would have still been arguing when suddenly Ashitaka heard a twig brake not far from him. He suddenly hushed San with his finger and he'd look around the silent forest. Only hearing nothingness as if the forest itself took a long pause. The he said "We are not alone here…" The silence was broken as the great eagle gave a loud shriek making both of them to turn their attention towards the bird, then out of the stillness came a loud yell "Get them! Don't let them get away!"