Akame ga Kill: Fall of the Fire
Prologue Part I:
A Lord's Son
*WARNING*
This fanfic contains rape, abuse, other adult themes and is rated M!
Younger readers are advised not read this, if you read it is at your own risk! You have been warned!
JellalRavan:
So, it is time to start my third fanfic, an Akame ga Kill one. I like the series and I love the concept. I have always liked my series a bit darker… So this work will be as dark as the original series, but I will focus on the OC Arthur Riot. This first chapter is his backstory and how he gained his powers.
This story will be tragic and as said dark! Keep that in mind!
Now, let's begin!
Arthur's POV
Who am I?
I am simply Arthur Riot…
I was the son of a lord, far back when I didn't care about anyone, about anything. I was a spoiled brat that would trip old women and kick young children. I took what I wanted and didn't care about the people in my land, make no mistake; I didn't live in the Empire, but the land I lived in was going to be concurred by the Empire soon enough.
I had no idea that the Empire treated its people worse than trash, but one day I saw the cruelty with my own eyes; that shaped me and made me what I am.
My father, Lord Riot, was a supplier of slaves and crops for the Empire and helped them plan the assault on our own land. My father was a traitor to his country and at first I didn't know; I didn't even care if I knew or not, I was not interested. But I changed; I changed in time to become a force to be reckoned with!
Lord Riot's Castle Courtyard
It was like any other day, it was in the middle of the summer and an escort from the Empire had arrived so they could go over the deal with my father, the deal that would end my country.
My father asked me to show one of the generals of the Empire our castle and our grounds while he helped the ambassador go over the deal, I was not to disturb or displease the general; she was known to be a bit sadistic and classed as the strongest general in the Empire, but I wasn't so sure.
I didn't fear her. My father had trained me in various forms of combat to ensure that I could join the Imperial Army when they took over our land. When my father told me why the escort from the Empire was coming I was lost for words, I wasn't the same bastard I had been at that time. But my father became infuriated when I told him I didn't want any part of it. That wasn't good enough for him or our family. I got beaten by him, again.
For family; I had a younger sister, Helena and my father. My brother had left the country when father told him about his plan to aid the Empire take over our homeland. My mother had died from childbirth when my sister was born, from what I remembered, she would not side with my father.
I was now eighteen and looked like any other lord; handsome and overdressed with expensive stuff. I didn't like it, it didn't fit me. I didn't care about a lot of things my father told me; dressing like a lord was one of them.
I was glad that I hadn't inherited my father's jet-black hair or red eyes. I had my mother's silver hair and silver eyes. I liked to keep my hair short, it was better while in battle.
As I said, I changed; I changed from a complete bastard that didn't care about people to a boy with hopes of humanity and wanted to help. On the day I was reborn, my hopes had all but vanished!
As I waited for the general to arrive for her tour of the grounds I was thinking about a girl I wanted to see again. It was a peasant girl, about my age, she was not afraid of me, like all the other peasants in the village a mile from Castle Riot.
The peasant girl was named Rowa, she was poor and had a weak body, but she was mostly happy. I had met her a few years ago and we were good friends now. I didn't understand her at all when I first met her, she was living in horrible conditions and she didn't have much to eat, yet she was happy.
I had been intrigued by her happiness and wanted to know more about her. At first she was hard on me, called me a bastard and a stuck-up loser, but I didn't take offence, she was right… I kept seeing her and her family, creating a bond and learning new things from them about the lives of peasants.
One day I just simply knew I was their friend.
When a soldier of my father attacked Rowa's home because they didn't pay taxes I felt the urge to help Rowa and her family.
I stopped the soldier and told him that they were of no use to me and my family dead, so he left and I gave the family money so they could pay the next tax pay-up.
Rowa asked me why I helped her. I gave her the honest answer.
"I don't know… Aren't we friends?"
Rowa and I slowly became good friends after that, I made sure she and her family had tax money and even taught Rowa's younger brother how to use a sword. I managed to supply some bits of food to the village by smuggling from my home.
Rowa and I met more and more in the years to come, but I always felt sad to see her in such misery. She told me not to worry; me being less of an ass-hole was enough to help the whole village.
I had become less of an ass-hole thanks to Rowa and her family; hell, they acted more like my family than my own. I had great times with Rowa and her brother. She even told me I could be more than my father's puppet. I didn't care when they talked shit about my father or the Empire or our own country. The sad thing was that they were right.
But all those happy times was going to end.
My father told me that I was to be sent to the Empire to be trained by the best Imperial Generals and later be one myself. I didn't like the idea, but my father told me that I had no voice in the deal. I was part of the deal with the Empire; I was to be a puppet for them instead of my father.
I would not have that!
I planned my escape and asked Rowa and her family to come with me. My brother had sent me a map with a secret route that would take us to a safe house; there, my brother would meet us. I was surprised when I got the map, I didn't know my brother was still keeping his eyes on me. He must have a spy in the castle, and that spy must be my sister, because on the map he had told me to bring my sister.
I had met with my sister and she had told me she was a spy for the Revolutionary Army and she told me that our brother was a part of that army now. She had kept contact with him after he left, but he wasn't sure if I was god enough as a person to be trusted, the fact that I had supplied the village with small rations of food and didn't agree with our father was good reasons for my brother to trust me.
It didn't surprise me; my brother never was the one to bow to my father or the Empire.
My sister and I made up a plan to escape the castle, meet up with Rowa and her family and leave the country. The only problem was that the general from the Empire would visit us the day before we were going to leave, time was against us.
My sister told me to play nice with the general and make sure that we could leave during the night that she stayed in our home, because the day after her visit I was meant to come with her to the Empire, becoming a puppet for the Empire.
I was now waiting for the general, Esdeath was her name. I had heard that she was a sadistic bitch and that she took pleasure killing others, the weak. It sickened me. I used to be a bastard to others, but Rowa changed me, now I was set to help the Revolutionary Army.
I still didn't understand why I was meant to join the Empire's army. I was not the strongest in the land; I was too young to be strong like that. Helena told me that father's secret weapon was meant to be used on me so that I could become stronger than any ordinary soldier, making me an asset to the Empire.
"You mean his fake teigu?" I asked my sister the morning before the tour.
"Yes… He intends for you to be the user, he knows you have rage in you, that rage is needed if you are to survive the Teigu…" Helena and I didn't want the Teigu to fall into imperial hands, so I promised to steal it during the night and take it with me to the Revolutionary Army, but I had a bad feeling already back then.
"Just be ready to leave when I am done!" I told her and I hadn't seen her since. It had been hours since we talked about the plan, I was starting to worry. And I worried about Rowa and her family too.
"You don't look too eager to show me around!"
I turned around and saw Esdeath. She was beautiful, light blue long hair, nice figure, wearing an imperial uniform and a sword hanged from her hip. She could have been the most amazing woman I had ever seen, was but I could sense that she was evil. I didn't like her.
"I was trapped in my thoughts, sorry, ma'am!" I said and tried to act like a soldier, I didn't like that either!
"And what were you thinking about?" She asked me.
That you seem to be a bitch! I wanted to say it, but I didn't, she would have me killed if I did.
"Just how the Empire will look, I've never been there before!" I told her and straighten up my posture.
"It's a marvelous place; I think you will like it!" She said and walked past me, heading towards the gate. "Shall we go?" She asked me, heading to the stables.
"Yes, ma'am!" I said and I know something was off.
At the village
I was right.
Esdeath had ordered me to ride down to the village with her, she wouldn't tell me why. But when we arrived my heart cried out in rage and sorrow.
The whole village had been massacred, only a few villagers were alive, but they were being brutally beaten and some even got hanged from the trees. Blood had colored the ground red and I the bodies had been mutilated and beaten to the extent that I didn't recognize any of them. I looked desperately for Rowa and her family, but I couldn't know whose body belonged to who.
Why would they do this?! I thought as I got down from my horse.
"Why?" I simply asked Esdeath, my lips trembled.
"Because we expected them to be in league with the Revolutionary Army, you do know of it, don't you?!" She asked me, her voice was like toxin.
She knows!
I backed away from Esdeath and heard a scream a few meters away from me.
"NOOOO! PLEASE! DON'T HURT ME! NOOO!"
Rowa!
I saw her being raped by a soldier and the rest of the soldiers were either raping other girls and boys or killing them off in the most brutal fashion, beating in their heads, slitting their throats or hanging them. I saw Rowa's younger brother, Arow, lying dead a few meters away from his sister, she had a gaping wound across her left arm and her head was bloody. Arow's head had been crushed, blood and organs was spread across the ground and I felt how my rage got the better of me.
"You find joy in this?" I asked Esdeath, my voice was almost broken.
"Yes, the weak have no rights! They couldn't defend themselves, so this is their doom!"
Her words made my rage hurt even more; I didn't care any longer…
"You are dead!" I hissed as I pulled out a hidden knife and threw it at the soldier raping Rowa.
The knife sank into his throat and blood started to paint him as red as the ground. I acted on instincts. I rushed at the guard and kicked the knife through his throat, breaking his throat and splashing blood all over the place. I was already dripping wet from his blood, but I had not had enough, they needed to pay!
"GET HIM!" A soldier roared and he got an arrow in his eyes for it.
I had brought my bow I case I would need to show off in front of Esdeath, she was meant to take me to the Empire after all, I had to be good to go and if I weren't my father would make sure to send me there anyway, he had told me that after he had me beaten for not wanting to go to the Empire. I was still sore after the beating, but more mentally than physically.
"SHOW OFF IN FRONT OF THAT GENERAL IF YOU SO HAVE TO! WHAT EVER YOU DO, JUST PLEASE HER!" My father had screamed as he beat me.
I nocked another arrow and shoot down a soldier that was beating a little girl. The arrow hit his neck and killed him. Sadly, the girl didn't move after I killed the soldier.
I hope you like this show, Esdeath! I thought as I shoot another soldier in his eye.
"KILL THIS BASTARD!" The soldiers screamed as they attacked me. I shoot another soldier before I dropped my bow and drew my sword.
I let my anger and skills cope together as I cut down the raging soldiers. Esdeath didn't even try to attack me. She knew she was stronger than me; this was only a test from her part.
"ROWA, RUN!" I yelled as I cut a man in half. My sword was slender, but could block the soldiers' weapons with ease. I dodged the attacking soldier and bashed his head with the hilt of my sword, making him drop to the ground.
Rowa bolted away from the battle and I hoped she would be okay. But I got chills down my spine.
"Pathetic!" Esdeath had joined the battle, but she didn't attack me. "The weak are meant to die!" With those words, she killed Rowa. She elegantly swung her sword and slit open Rowa's throat..
As Rowa fell to the ground, she didn't get back up, she didn't move, she was dead. At that point something inside me died. I later discovered; it was my humanity.
"NOOOOOOO!" I yelled out as I started to cut down the soldiers in front of me. I hacked and slashed as I felt tears dripping down my eyes. "DIEEEE!" I screamed as I made my way to Esdeath, I had killed twenty soldiers and I didn't care if I died or not, I just wanted to kill the damn bitch.
Esdeath rushed at me and I saw by her movements that she was holding back. As our blades met I quickly jumped away from her and threw a knife at her. She deflected it with her sword and rushed at me again, this time way faster. I didn't stand a chance.
I tried to jump away from her, but she was too fast, she stabbed me in my right arm and as I felt the pain I dropped my sword. I rolled away from her and drew my last knife.
"You should have been dead…" Esdeath stated.
"If you went all out!" I hissed at her.
"Ahh! You noticed! Good, not too bad for a young man, you don't even have a Teigu!"
"But you do! Don't you!" I yelled, the mark at her chest indicated just that. "Why don't you just kill me!?" I demanded to know.
"Your father wanted you to feel anger and rage. With those emotions you can use his secret Teigu!"
"BULLSHIT!" I screamed. "My father couldn't have a secret Teigu! Only the Empire got those!" I lied to myself, but I didn't care, I had watched my best friend die, I couldn't care less now!
"But your and your father's ancestors came from the Empire!" Esdeath told me and smiled at me. "They created a new Teigu, a Teigu that would burn down the last enemies of the Empire! But they were foolish enough to make a few adjustments!"
"What are you talking about!?" I asked as I started to lose the last of my cool.
"Those who created the Teigu have made sure that only someone from your bloodline could use it! Someone that would always serve the Empire!"
"NEVER!" I yelled and attacked Esdeath. But she was still too fast for me and pinned me to the ground with ease.
This strength! It's amazing... So horrifying!
"You are still weak, but with the right training, you might be worth more! Light it up!" Esdeath pushed me down with her foot and I watched the remaining soldiers set fire to the whole village; the worst part was that they had trapped people inside the houses, they were now burning alive.
Why? Why are you so cruel? I started to cry as I heard children scream for their parents, for a savior that wouldn't come...
"Sweet dreams!" I didn't understand what Esdeath meant until she hit me in my head, knocking me out cold.
Inside Castel Riot
When I woke up I noticed that I was strapped to a table, both my wrists and my ankles were tied to the table with my father's iron ropes, ropes that could even stop smaller danger beasts, I couldn't move at all.
"Good, he is awake!" My father slapped me after he had declared my awakening. "You punk, you didn't think your little adventures to that village would go unnoticed by me?!"
You know that too… I felt how my heart got heavy and I felt tears run down my face.
"DON'T CRY YOU BASTARD!" My father yelled as he punched me in my face, breaking my nose. I felt how the blood and my tears mixed in my face as my father slapped me over and over. "WHY WOULD YOU CARE ABOUT SUCH LOW PEOPLE!?" He yelled as he kept on beating me. "DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO BE A STRONG MAN THAT COULD AID THE EMPIRE!? YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON ME AND SIDE WITH THAT WHORE OF A SISTER YOU HAVE!"
Helena! He got her! If my father knew about Helena being a spy, he must have known about our plan to escape. Damn! I had been such a fool…
"Don't!" I whispered. "DON'T YOU DARE LAY A FINGER ON HER!" I yelled out, but my father punched me in my face again.
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK BACK TO ME!" He yelled infuriated. "I AM YOUR MASTER, I AM YOUR FATHER! SHOW ME RESPECT!"
I laughed. He was truly a fool.
"You aren't my master!" I giggled. "You're not my father, you're not even a man!"
"INSULENT FOOL!" He yelled as he stabbed my left arm with a dagger. I didn't yell, I would give him the pleasure. "THAT BITCH OF A SISTER YOU HAVE WILL BURN!"
"DON'T YOU DARE GO NEAR HER!" I yelled and tried in vain to get free. "IF YOU HURT HER, I'ILL KILL YOU!"
"ENOUGH!"
Both my father and I stopped and watched Esdeath drag Helena into the room.
"The soldiers are done with her!" Esdeath said as she threw Helena at my father's feet.
"YOU HAD YOUR OWN DAUGHTER RAPED!?" I screamed as the iron ropes started to dig into my skin. The ropes were as hard as iron and could easily cut into your skin, there of the name Iron Ropes. My father was far more sadistic than I first thought!
"SHE DECEIVED ME! SHE BETREYED ME! YOU DAMN BITCH!" Father screamed as he kicked Helena.
"STOP IT! SHE'S JUST A GIRL!" I yelled back and I felt how the ropes cut deep enough into my wrists to make me bleed.
"I think now is a good time!" Esdeath claimed as she drew her sword.
"Do it!" My father ordered the general and I was lost for words when I saw Esdeath stab Helena's heart. It happened so fast, I didn't have time to say good bye, to save her… It should have been me!
"NOOOOOO!" I yelled as Helena's blood partly flooded the stone floor.
"She was with the Revolutionary Army, she tried to inlist you!" My father told me as i screamed. "SHE WAS A WHORE AND A TRAITOR!"
Like an animal I tried to free myself, the pain the ropes inflicted on my wrists and ankles was nothing to me, I wanted to end both my father and Esdeath. I started to scream without control and I noticed that my father stood next to me, but didn't beat me.
"And you will obey!"
Those were his final words to me, as he injected my arm with a syringe and let a red liquid flow into my bloodstream. At first I was paralyzed. I couldn't move, I had problems with my eyes and I didn't hear clearly.
"And if he dies?!" Esdeath asked my father.
"Then I'll breed another son!" My father answered and I felt how my body started to change, I felt how I got warmer, I knew my fate was sealed, I was doomed.
JellalRavan:
And that is the end of the first part of the prolog.
At first it got too long, so the prolog is two chapters now! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the way I am writing the story. After part 2 of the prolog there will be a time-skip and Arthur will meet Night Raid and the adventure will start. I have chosen that Arthur will be introduced to Night Raid after Sheele's death.
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See you in the next chapter!