Log2: prologue
My name is hidden except to those who I trust. My age varies depending on what dimension I'm located in. you will never find me doing anything suspicious if you ever see me, you will most likely never see me, ever.
The universe is endless, and so are its inhabitants. Just like pie or some other number is endless.
In fact your understanding of what the universe is quite different from the truth. The universe is an expression for all that exists, including the forces that created us. The world in which we come from is part of a dimension. Dimensions are a parallel mini universe, each containing its own version of earth, its own time period and its species of in habitants. Some species are so similar that the only difference from another dimension is the time period, or what people can do.
You see when someone says you are unique their right. That's because there is no person that is exactly alike. You may have to go down to a molecular level but you'll see that no one is the same.
Moving on, in each dimension there is one family line of people that has more power than the rest. These people contain the ability to travel to different dimensions. Now why only one family? Why not everyone? The answer is simple, chaos. If everyone was like that select family new wars with the potential to destroy entire dimensions, hatred, greed, a simple power struggle for ultimate ruler.
But the universe isn't like that so for the most part where safe. Or so we think. If it weren't for those select families the universe would be dead. This is the job of the travelers.
God created us for a reason, for he has a plan for all of us. But as I said before nothing is perfect not even god. For some people, being gifted isn't enough and those people seek to be stronger. The select families have what's called free destiny. This gives them the power to run their own life regardless of gods plan; he needed to give the families this power in order to maintain the pax eternal.
Hell is real, just as god is. But not in the way that you think. Yes demons are real the going to hell if your bad is real. But who the demons are and the way they live is different.
You see god created humans, Satan created demons. You see they're really just a rebellious, aggressive, stronger, evil version of human. Of course there are a variety of demons, some what seem to be two animals fused to one or some practically human.
But contrary to popular belief they live in an organized society with a code of laws. They may be more lenient with them but law is law and there's no denying it. So really the demons that brake into other dimensions are really just the criminals of hell.
Traveler is the name given to the members of the select families who devote their lives to protecting those who are helpless against any force that opposes the peace. There are different levels of traveler, trainer, mind wipers, minor disturbance operative, medium disturbance operative, major disturbance operative, private mission operative, and demon slayer. Then there's the head, the big cheese that controls everything.
Travelers have more than their assigned positions to do. People who are gifted often don't know until they are told. At that point it becomes the travelers job to maintain his/her earlier assignment while having to now train the person that they just told that they where a traveler.
A travelers level is decided not only on how well they do their job but how much ki they retain as well as create. You may be familiar with the term ki, from some martial arts, swords styles or religions. Well, there right. Ki is as real as everything else I just described. There is more than one type of ki depending on what you want to do. The basic forms of ki are fire, water, earth, air, poison, spirit, and mechanical. From there on there are more complex and advanced forms of ki such as soul, vorpal, nature, lightning ECT. Of course there are many more types than the ones I just listed. Regardless, depending on what type of ki you use depends on what kind of spell you can perform.
Anyways as I was saying depending on how much ki a person has. The amount of ki a traveler can retain is not limited. That doesn't mean that they can just go up and buy it. No it's much more complex than that. A traveler may only gain ki through use of it. Not just using the oldest or easiest spell you know, no it can only be achieved through pushing your physical being to the max. Only then through extreme use of your ki may a traveler increase his limit off ki. This is my job. This is my world. This is my life.
Things where not always this way. At one point I was just as oblivious as you to the truth. But then it happened.
I was four at the time not caring about anyone but me. I was by myself, or so I thought. I went to my favorite place, only to something I wish that I would never see again. There was a man. Sprawled on the grass, he was bleeding badly and was covered in wounds the size of my hand. At the time I did not know that I was the only one who could see this, I was too little to understand.
I attempted run towards him but something pulled me back, it was a large gruesome paw. Screaming with fear I tried to escape but I was helpless. I watched the man bleed to death right before my eyes. Once the man had died, the creature redirected its attention to me.
It looked hungry, probably was. It took one of its giant paws and swung it towards my face attempting to kill me. I was scared. Probably the most scared I've ever been in my life. I wanted to do something, anything. So I did.
I shifted my head downwards towards the creatures' skin and did the only thing I was good at, at the time. I bit it. It howled a cry that would kill a cat if one were nearby.
That's when out of the blue a beam of light came and speared it through the heart. The monster fell to the floor now much less fierce than it had looked before.
A man walked out from behind me. He was tall and dressed in what would be referred to as medieval rags. He looked down to me and smiled. "Nasty bastards, glabrazu" he said in a deep Australian accent.
"Well then, I suppose we better get going" he said cheerfully. I looked up to him afraid and worried "G...go ware" I said in a weak voice. "I'll explain on the way" he said at last. With that last note he grabbed me by my hand and took me off to what I would later find out to be a different dimension.
From that point on it was my life. I trained day and night working myself up in the ranks. I would always make good friends with new travelers I hade to train. I've been to many places in my life, and made many friends. Some of my greatest pupils/travelers have been what you may think to be part of "fiction." An example would be Yoh Asakura, my equal, or my greatest student and now currently my partner Motoko Aoyoma. I have many, many more but those are some of my greatest friends that anyone could have.
I never had a home after my first encounter, not until recently. It was a fate full five years ago when I found it. It was my latest assignment, a simple one to. There had been major disturbances in the area and I had to get rid of them. It was also an infiltration assignment, use resident of the area as a host, wait until danger strikes then eliminate the source.
I was waiting at the top of the Hinata Inn. Waiting for the first human to walk up that horrid seemingly endless staircase. Of course I expected for a female to walk up those steps, it being a girls dormitory. Now don't get me wrong I'm not a pervert, it just happened that this was the closest area to the disturbances (unsurprisingly).
I was pondering on what my friends where doing at the time when I noticed a figure walking up the steps. Without hesitation I reverted to soul form and entered what I thought was a perfectly healthy female. Only to find that it was my future friend Keitaro Urashima. I though I was screwed, but surprisingly he was the manager of the place (how that happened I'll never understand).
Anyways, after continuous beatings by a hyperactive evil genius, a homicidal ditz and a destructive kendo girl, the enemy finally showed its face.
I was ready to leap from my unsuspecting host when Motoko leaped in for an attack. It was too late I had already leaped from Keitaros' spiny body and was moving at to fast a pace to stop. I went flying into her. Completely shocked, me as well as Motoko where dumbfounded and no clue what to do.
But that moment didn't last long, because even though I was knocked stupid the disturbance wasn't (which turned out to be a balrog).
It swung its mighty hand towards us with such for that there was a sonic boom. Realizing what the heck was going on I grabbed Motokos' confused body and sprung to the top of the annex.
The balrog screaming with rage drew its whip lashed it in my direction. Motoko finally out of shock shoved me forcing me to drop her on the roof of the annex.
Luckily for her though doing that not only made me drop her but prevented her from the clutches of the balrogs' fiery whip that encircled me.
I screamed in pain as the burning sensation set in. I wanted to cry but my adrenaline was too high to do that. "Damn balrog" I shouted as steam fumes flew from my body. Freeing my hands I clenched them together. "SLOW MOTION" I said with a voice filled with pain. Sure enough though my charm worked.
Everything but me had been temporarily slowed down to 0.05 times, times' speed. Using my arms I pushed myself free of the whips intolerable hold. Now free of the whips clutches I rushed along its out stretched neck towards my practically frozen enemy.
Jumping high in the air I unsheathed my katana. Throwing myself in mid air towards the balrog, I pointed my sword downwards so upon my re-entry of normal time speed, my sword would pierce the balrogs fiery flesh.
But it doesn't happen that way, for as time went back to its normal flow when a blast of positron came from my left. It nailed the balrog in the temple causing it to shriek in pain. With a soundless thump my sword pierced the ground.
I looked to my left to find Su and her newly patented positron cannon, or as she called it "Mr. Merkaba." "Nyahaha…you like that?" she laughed, mocking the balrog. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!" I said in the angriest voice I could produce. "YOUR ONLY BLOODY AGGRIVATING IT!" I shouted and shouted, even though I knew she wasn't listening.
By now the balrog was now so infuriated that the flames that surrounded its body had gone white. Not only that but it had lost all aspects of what little strategy it had and was on a rampage headed straight for her.
Now being the person that she was Su just kept on firing not noticing that what she was doing was only making things worse.
Within twenty seconds the balrog had gone from the court yard to the outside of the bath, Su's location. Sped as fast as I could towards the bath and beating the balrog by to seconds. To you two seconds may not seam like much, but in a battle like this it made all the difference. As I jumped in front of Su and her cannon, the now out of control balrog attempted to step on us.
Gathering up all my energy I pushed against the weight of the balrogs foot holding it at bay. "RUN DAMN IT" I shouted to Su from behind me. Realizing that her life was in threat, Su ran off to her room.
That left just me and the balrog, or so I thought. I was beginning to yield to the weight of the balrog; I wouldn't be long before I was just a head in the ground. I needed to think, but I didn't have to.
"Demon cutting blade! Second form" shouted a voice from behind me. I felt a whoosh of ki fly through my body then into the balrog. It didn't do much though, nothing more than deteriorate the balrogs toenail.
Even though it didn't do much it seemed to nock the balrog of balance, and that was enough for me. I ran out from under the balrog sending it crashing into the bath.
Now, everything has a weakness. Everything… werewolves and silver bullets, vampires and garlic, vegetarians and meat ECT. So it came as no surprise that the balrogs' weakness, being made forty percent out of fire, was water.
It spun in agony as slowly its fiery light went out. This would only be a temporary until its body dried of so I had to act fast.
I turned around to see Motoko standing behind me in a mixture of confusion and bewilderment. "You," I said rather rudely. "You, do you have any exorcist seals." "Yes," she replied rather distantly while pulling out a talisman.
"Good, give it to me now!"… "NOW!" I grabbed the talisman from her hand and placed it on the balrog. Pulling my katana from the ground I gathered what little spirit ki I hade left and shouted loud and clear "EXCORIST SLASH." I only saw a glimpse of the balrogs deterioration but I had an idea what it was like, for shortly after I sealed the demon, I passed out from exhaustion.
