There are many different kinds of people living in the world but there are a certain few that can rival the power of a god. These people are those that command a legendary weapon known as an Imperial Arms or more commonly known as a Teigu. These are weapons whose way of making have long been forgotten. Each Teigu can give its wielder strength that only another wielder can challenge making it impossible for a regular person to stand a chance against one.
Does this make the world unfair or does it make it just? Some may say those who have the capability to wield a Teigu deserve their power while others say that is completely unfair for one person to command so much power. While others take advantage of their Teigu and use it for the most atrocious reasons that make even a danger beast seem more human than them.
This is a world where ones full potential can mostly be assessed by the time they are born. The weak stay weak, the strong stay strong, but occasionally they are a few errors in this system. There is always an error within every system and thus not everything is truly set in stone. One of these errors was a human born in a isolated village that was considered among the weak. But that did not matter because everyone in this village would be considered weak by the strong as no one of significance had ever been born here. But that all changed when the child that was born met someone completely different from what he was used to.
A brown haired green eyed child around the age of five walked around a snowy forest as a snowstorm raged on. Now there was many things wrong with this situation because no child should be alone in the middle of a snowstorm but that didn't matter to Tatsumi. He was used to being alone every since a year ago when all of the children in his village had been sold. Apparently his village couldn't pay their taxes so soldiers came and took all the children. Tatsumi had luckily been away scavenging in the woods at the time so he wasn't taken but sadly the same couldn't be said for the other children. Even his two best friends Sayo and Ieysau had been taken away from him. Thus formed the habit of him playing by himself since he had no other choice.
He had been caught up in this snowstorm unexpectedly since there had been no warning signs one was going to appear. Normally Tatsumi would be able to go home due to him having memorized the area like the back of his hand but due to the poor visibility the snowstorm caused he was unable to even see more than three feet in front of him. And so he was forced to blindly stumble through the violent cold winds as he tried to find some short of shelter that would shield him from the elements. After another couple minutes the young child was lucky enough to stumble into a cave that was surprisingly warm despite the raging whirlwind of snow going on outside.
Tatsumi nearly collapsed as he entered as it had took almost all of his strength to have come here. He managed to catch himself on one of the walls of the cave before he slowly sat down to take a rest. He didn't know for how long he sat as he just sat at the entrance staring outside watching the snowstorm. After he had regained his energy and become bored of watching the outside he had decided to explore the cave as he could not see the end from where he currently was. So Tatsumi stood up and began to walk a straight line going deeper into the cave.
The cave had become dark due to the lack of light coming from the entrance and the further he went in the dark it became. After a couple more seconds the darkness had become absolute making it impossible to see anything but Tatsumi did not care and continued his walk. After another couple of minutes he saw a very small speck of light which confused him at first. He rubbed his eyes and after confirming it wasn't just his imagination picked up his pace eager to see where the light came from. Soon enough he had reached a another room in the cave that was in the shape of a dome. At the top of the dome was an opening form which light entered the cave. None of that attracted Tatsumi's attention however as he looked at the opposite side of the room where a bed was.
He slowly approached the bed as he wondered why one would be here in the first place. The bed looked ordinary and had no distinguishing features but as he got close he saw that it was currently occupied. He paused in his walk in fear of who this person was but after watching and confirming that they seemed to sleep he resumed a slow walking pace to get closer.
As he got to the side of the bed he was able to make out the features of the sleeping person. It was a young girl around his age but that wasn't what was catching his attention. Tatsumi could not stop staring at the young girls hair as it was composed of five different colors each of them going neatly straight down the long hair. The colors themselves only helped to amplify the beauty of the girl. From left to right the colors of her hair were a dark deep purple, a light carefree blue, pure innocent white, bright bubblegum pink, and a light fiery red.
Tatsumi didn't know for how long he stood there as he just stared at the girl entranced by her beauty. Part of him wanted to wake the girl up while another part told him not to. He had no idea who this girl could be but something inside him told him that she was no threat.
And so he slowly leaned forward and said, "Hello, Can you wake up now?" Tatsumi had no idea how to wake a person as he had never done it before. Sure he could do something as slapping her awake or pushing her out of the bed but that was just plain cruel. He got no response and he knew that any verbal attempts to wake the girl up would be pointless. And so he decided to slowly extend his arm with a single finger extended. He paused just before he touched her cheek before steeling his nerves and pushing forwards connect their skin.
Tatsumi had no idea what he was expected to get a reaction but it sure wasn't the girl sitting up instantly letting out a shriek and then falling back down onto the bed as she had been before he touched her. This had caused Tatsumi to jump away from the bed as the shriek the girl had let out had scared him immensely. It was minutes before his heart had returned to its normal pace and during that time the girl had yet to make another sound or move. Slowly he approached the bed and as he noticed this he saw that the girl's eyelids were twitching slightly. Knowing something would happen as it did last time he slowly extended his finger and poked her in the cheek once again.
However, unlike last time the girl did not jerk up straight and let out a scream but instead let out a soft moan. After waiting for a minute and nothing else happening he repeated this and this time the girl's eyes slowly opened. Her eyes much liker her hair were also astoundingly beautiful. They were a shade of dark blood red and even though the color seemed dark the light that shone within them was nothing but pure sweet innocence. Tatsumi stood still as he was transfixed with the girl's beautiful eyes but was snapped back to reality when she spoke.
"Who...are you?" She asked with a timid shyness as she sat up, her voice soft and sweet.
"Tatsumi." He said introducing himself not exactly sure what to say. "Who are you?" He finally decided to ask.
"Iris." The girl responded in same was as before.
"Why are you in this cave?" Tatsumi asked wanting to know why a bed and a girl were inside a cave in the middle of nowhere. Instead of giving him an answer she just shook her head sadly in response.
"You don't know?" He asked feeling pity for the girl. She gave him a simple nod. No more words were said as neither of them moved for minutes. Finally, the silence was ended by the growling of the girl's stomach. Tatsumi let out a laugh as the girl just shuffled in place embarrassed. Tatsumi thought to himself for a minute before he reached into his pocket and pulled out a plastic bag which contained six small cookies. The girl eyed the bag as a predator would eye their prey.
"You want one?" Tatsumi asked her as he took one out and held it before her. He didn't see anything but a blur as she lunged her head forward and retracted with the cookie in her mouth, the action reminded him of a cobra. After she had devoured the cookie she resumed her intense staring contest with the bag of sweets. He took two of them out this time and like last she just lunged forward and ate the cookies. Tatsumi let out a laugh of amusement before piling the final three cookies out but the addition of the third cookie proved too much as she could only get two of them. But that didn't matter much as the girl quickly tore through the two before snatching up the final one and let it joint he rest of them.
"Yummy." Was all she said with a content smile as she leaned back. A strange vibrating noise began the air and Tatsumi looked around to find the source and was shocked to find that it was coming from the girl. He was trying to remember where he had heard a similar noise from before until an image of a cat flashed to his mind making the connection between the new noise and that of a cat purring. He couldn't help but let out a small laugh at the cute girl before him.
"Would you like more yummy food?" He asked her. The girl's eyes widened slightly before she nodded her head as a slight amount of drool came out of the corner of your mouth. "I live not too far from here and I can promise some good food if you come with me." He told her. Truthfully he wanted her to come with him because it had been so long since he had hung around someone with a similar age to his. The snowstorm outside had probably stopped by now so it should be safe to return to his village anyways. She stared at him as if she was judging him before giving a soft nod as she got out of the bed revealing her clothing which consisted of a pure white sundress and matching sandals.
And with that, the two of them left the cave on person hungry the other happy to have finally found a friend. But neither of them knew what would happen when they would arrive at the village.
Hope you like the first chapter! I have been planning this story for months and I am really excited to finally publish it! Please leave a review as it helps motivate me!
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