Chapter 1: The Prologue of Ancient Times and The Birth of The Ninja Warrior: Part 1 (Revised and Rewritten)

(A/N)

(Greetings my followers and welcome to my improved Ninja warrior story. I wish to apologize for the unofficial hiatus but due to financial reasons, I was struggling tremendously due to being let go of my dream job and had to go find myself another job. After I pulled myself together and paid all my debts I'm finally done and back to typing stories. I did a complete rehash of both of the stories I created and just going to make a single story instead of branches and give you just enough origins of the ideas and my unique OC. So, with further ado let the story begin and enjoy.)


Heaven. A realm of eternal happiness and harmony. A place where all life who died doing good would be reunited with their friends and family and never deal with the harshness of life. But heaven and life have a major difference of what they truly are. Life is unfair and selfish but it never lies about what it truly is. Heaven, on the other hand, was built upon lies and deceit and those that went to heaven would wish that they were alive once more. Back then heaven was what its name was suggesting and instead of one god or more, it was just three queen goddesses.

These goddesses were born from the universe to create the universe and spread free will to all intelligent life. Centuries upon centuries of peace and prosperity roamed as Gods, deities, animals, humans, mythical, and alien lifeforms began building their civilization, but then something started to go wrong. The powers that were bestowed on the supernatural beings had corrupted them as they willingly gave into their power and began wanting more power and humans grew jealous and greedy for power as they began waging wars against each other to gain power, sacrifice the weak, spreading disease, hatred, hopelessness, destruction, death, and chaos.

That was the time when evil and hell was born.

The goddesses watched on as the universe they love was beginning to be consumed by evil but due to the absolute law of the universe of protecting its most guarded secret, they were not able to interfere or mess with free will. It got worse when three gods that had gained more power than any other god caught wind of an omnipotent weapon that was guarded by the goddesses at all times. These gods searched for the weapon until they finally found IT and the queens. These gods were the epitome of male superiority in their attitudes and were livid that females were guarding the weapon to ultimate power.

The gods then began to battle the goddesses to take their power for themselves but soon realized the goddesses were too much for them. Although The queens had power and experience on their side the Gods had a plan. As they battled one of the gods made a distraction attack blinding his foe and making a grabbed for the Primordial weapon. The queens were horrified as the power of the universe was in the palm of their hands. With the weapon, they took away the queen's powers making them weak as a mortal and banished them out of the heavens.

It was truly the beginning of a dark era but this isn't about gods at all. This is about a being with limitless potential and with an unknown power that when trained enough can equal primordial forces that govern the universe. It begins on a planet in the very center of the first universe ever created. A planet like the Earth but with the combined size of Jupiter and Saturn, a planet named Citadel 626-4-12. This planet is the home to all types of supernatural, demons from the hell realm and mankind. However, mankind was close to extinction as the evil of the universe ruled with an Iron Fist as humans were the lowest on the food chain and were getting picked off one by one.

The human race began to grow desperate as their kind was getting picked off one by one becoming slaves or sacrifices to the gods. So, they gathered all the brilliant scientists that were left in the world to hide from the outside world trying to create a weapon to fight back. The weapon was born as a human male but not with a mother and father type of birth, more like a test tube type...in other words, he was created. For as long as he remembered, he's been trapped in this facility for years but for a soon to be explained. The reason he was physically, and biologically the age of 3.

The first three years of his life was spent inside an isolation chamber suspended in some type of stasis liquid that kept his body from aging, gave him air to breathe, basic vocabulary to understand their language implanted in his brain. After the 3 years in the chamber, he was released and went through torturous experiments then put right back into the chamber. Due to the insane amounts of experiments the child had suffered chaotic mutations. Although the experiments were successful, scientists continued to take samples and the tests always came back 100% human and the subject was always in a docile state no matter how many times they tried to 'Encourage' him to follow orders to see if their experiments had paid dividends.

What they weren't aware of was that all that tampering and surgery on his head caused his brain to unlock a hidden power that laid dormant inside the child advancing the body, mind, soul, and the foreign DNA to suit the child and stabilize the body but since it laid in a docile state, the child could not activate the full potential of the hidden power. Years of never eating and endless pain caused the child to snap physically, mentally, and emotionally causing the child to develop a genetic hatred of all life. Anyone that came close was immediately attacked and eaten. Seeing that their tests on their weapon was successful but wouldn't obey orders they tried to terminate him and start anew.

Keyword being tried. When they tried exterminating him, the subject tore apart and eaten all those that were sent for him to be terminated. They found out that he had a healing factor and that his body was highly adaptive and that if 87% of his body was damaged or ripped apart the healing factor will slowly heal him but increases immensely from anything he ingests, organic or inorganic. Digestion seems to be aided by a set of filtering gills which adapted to the child from the mutations inside of his nose and mouth which were able to remove usable matter from any liquid, solid or gas solution, enabling him to constantly regenerate and giving the child the ability to heal by just merely breathing air since it is a gas solution as well when they tried other uses of termination.

It is truly a terrifying sight to see a child with only a torso and an arm suddenly spring at you and begin eating you until his body grew back minutes later. The child had performed 7 containment breaches and over 1,000 fatalities, the costs to the facility were almost over the budget and morale was low as some of the greatest scientific minds was butchered and eaten by the subject and those that tried to take retribution met the same fate. They tried all types of terminations like; burned alive, put in acid, frozen, suffocation, and electrocuted but the subject still survived because of its adaptive ability and advanced resistance. They even tried to go for decapitation but were afraid that if he survived, he would build an immunity to it.

Fortunately, the adaptations only lasted for a week before breaking down rendering him vulnerable again and the subject had an extreme case of Algophobia sometimes causing him to go into a seizure, but the major drawback was that the adaptations would activate immediately after something damages the subject's body. Throughout 1 year the remaining scientists noticed something strange about the child. The subject had continued growling when no one was there in its docile state. It never talked even though it could understand their language it just hissed and growled every three seconds.

There was a time when a new worker accidentally got trapped in its containment cell, the worker was screaming and banging on the cell to be let out but the subject took no notice to the worker. At first, they thought that the weapon had calmed down and its hatred was cured but as soon as the subject stopped growling and looked at the worker...Well, at least they could say that the money they paid workers to continue on did cost an arm and a leg...and a heart...and a brain. Anyway, the point was that the subject just kept making noises to itself, almost like it was...talking to someone.

What they weren't aware of was that the docile power inside the child's brain was once again mutating his body but not physically. The human brain can only hold an IQ of 300, This number cannot be surpassed. All the people the child has eaten with their brains intact are adapted to his but the docile power separate and store the memories from the brain giving the consumed brain a clean slate to make new memories that weren't someone else's to not cause mental damage to the host but leave the IQ energy it had from the consumed brain to give the host more natural advantages for its survival.

Once the brain mass is consumed, the IQ energy goes into the child increasing its learning ability immensely to the limit which is the IQ of 300. If there is still IQ energy left, the docile power will create a new consciousness and connect it to the child's central mind with the energy stored there. In other words, he was a single entity with multiple minds that could work together or separate from the central mind or in a simpler example, the central mind is the monarch and the rest are its advisers. Meanwhile, the workers of the facility appeared to be in a good mood since one of their scientists had created a mind control machine to finally get their weapon under control and let the weapon age properly to get older and stronger.

So, with glee, they flooded the subject's room with a sleeping gas so strong it could put a whale to sleep and carefully carried the subject to the laboratory and strapped the subject to the machine. The machine they strapped the child to was designed to destroy every emotion to create the perfect weapon to mold in their image, but they should have paid attention to what they were doing. Due to faulty wiring and miscalculated blueprints, the machine did something unintended to what it was designed to do. Instead of destroying all his emotions, it lowered them immensely and destroyed all the pain receptors in his body.

What they had created was the perfect monster that knows nothing but insanity and feels no pain. Meanwhile, the subject and his subjects since there's now more than one of him, found himself in a black void. There were whooshing and humming sounds coming from somewhere. The host had no clue where it was coming from but it knew that it was the only thing that actually helped him and gave him his abilities due to the voices talking to him about it. The subject was finally able to tell where the sound was coming from before heading towards to a direction his voices were telling him to go to unknowingly going deeper into the recess of his central mind, the closer he got, the louder it got.

As he finally pinpointed the sound, he noticed a glowing pool full of a chrome liquid. The subject was ever so curious about what was in the pool because this was the thing that was keeping him alive. As he came close to the pool a mind shattered pain shot through his entire body that caused him to screech in agony. Not only did he feel it, his other consciousness felt it too and that multiplied the pain a thousand-fold rendering him 8 types of brain dead before falling into the pool.

Despite dying from what was happening outside of his mind, his subconscious body ended up falling into the pool as the sound of raging rapids and violent winds started becoming louder and the liquid began bubbling and hissing steam before the pool exploded as a massive amount of the liquid flooding the void as it worked overtime to bring its host back to the living. Meanwhile outside the mindscape scientists took notice of the chrome aura surrounding his body. Suddenly the aura shot out like fire and began engulfing everything and everyone. Those that were close to it suffered a slow and painful disintegration or slowly burned alive till nothing was left. No one was safe. The aura was not burning everything, it was consuming all organic and inorganic mass and adapting it to the host. Since the power has been awakened, the full adaptation of his abilities will increase and be added permanently. More brains and bodies were absorbed to his body, mutating them and healing the body and minds, but it would take a while to heal and fuse 10,000 minds into one.


A year goes by since the child had disintegrated the foundation, he had woken up to stars in a blackened sky in tattered rags and soot buried over his body that covered the soil for miles. The child was confused as he never in his life seen anything like this before. The air tasted different and tasted warmer than the air inside the facility. The child tried to stand up while struggling to keep balance as he looked around seeing nothing but ash on the terrain. He then noticed one crucial piece of info. He was free, no more being a weapon or slave, he finally gained freedom, but there was another question burning on his mind? What was he going to do now?

Suddenly he started hearing the voices of ten thousand whispers. He immediately went into a rage state looking for anybody that was making those noises and give them a horrid death. The whispers were telling him to calm down and that they were inside of his head and that no one was alive anymore. They also told him that the unknown power was inside him spilling out his body in waves like radiation and were studying it to see if they could get it under control. Although he didn't know what radiation was or what it meant but he knew that it must be dangerous if the word sounded so important plus he didn't want to lose something that had brought him back to life and made him stronger so he tried to help. He finally gained control after all the excess energy spilled from his body covering the air in a thick radioactive mist.

After gaining control he started making plans to study and master this power. The bad news is that it would take a while to just figuring out the power, what it does, and how to come up with theories to control this power even with an IQ of 300 and even longer to see if he could master it and survive in a world he did not know on his own. It was an uphill battle that he didn't think he was ready for but the reassurance of the multiple whispers in his head comforted him as they told him they would help lessen that time and be with him all the way. That boosted his morale and with that, he started his first step to freedom and enlightenment. Another year goes by as the child was finally able to age. During that time the child has learned a little about the world and lot about himself and his power. He learned that the humans in this world were being butchered by supernatural beings and despite seeing some gruesome deaths and other atrocities he was able to stay one step ahead of them without getting caught and scavenged the remains of cadavers, human or not.

He also learned the reason of his creation. He learned that the people that created him were using him as a weapon against the supernatural deities and then destroy him after he caused a massive plummet in the supernatural population and made him genetically hate all supernatural beings. He hated them all right, but he hates humans as well. He hates them all. He learned of this info from the whispers in his head telling him that he had memories in his head that were not his. All the inorganic material his power consumed had information that the voices studied which gave him the power of Technokinesis. He learned that the facility he was trapped in was called "The Humanization of Evolutionists and Leading Logistics." Their long-term goal was to raid the high heavens to take the powers of the gods to rule all.

If someone had put it in an acronym it would be called the "H.E.L.L. Foundation." (A/N If you're subconsciously adding the "Of" and "And" in that acronym then you are an arrogant jackass. Anyway, continue reading) He also learned that he wasn't the first subject as there were over 105 subjects going through the same process he did. It was just that he was the first human created dubbed the "Efficient Readjusting Mass Assimilating Creature" or "Project E.R.M.A.C." What was ironic about it was that when studying his power and looking at himself it was the perfect thing to call him since he looked nothing like a human child. Speaking of his power and complexion he learned that his power was a fusion of reactive adaptation and kinetic energy absorption. That meant that whatever damages he suffered from, the power would grow from the kinetic energy and with it he could upgrade his healing factor that made the healed tissue and mental defenses stronger than the damage dealt permanently instead of temporarily.

His power worked like a loading bar, the bigger kinetic power he absorbs from battles, the longer but better adaptations can be added to his mind and body. The power also had an emotion empowerment ability that only seems to feed on negative emotions which increases his power from consuming negative energy. The child had taken a look at himself in a nearby lake and what he saw was not even close to being human. He also took notice of a few things that looked and felt different. His skin was a mix of beige and Caucasian color, his hair was black with crimson frosted tips and his eyes looked like a blind zombie. He noticed an opened scar that started at the top of his right eyebrow that ended vertically under the bone below his eye exposing chrome flesh and a row of platinum sharp canines and grinders.

The child carefully meddled with the scar but he didn't know his own strength as he ended up damaging himself as chrome blood burst from his scar hitting the ground with a really loud hiss. Seeing how fast it was eating the ground meant it was highly acidic, but he was shocked to find out that although he felt it, he felt no pain and the blood wasn't melting his skin like the blood on the ground was as it began forming a small crater. Testing out how far he doesn't feel the pain he started punching himself. Even though he felt the heavy blows, violent thuds, and the cracks of bones in his body, he found out that he felt no pain anywhere. He had every other sensation but pain and his scar automatically glowed platinum as his healing factor slowly healed him back to full health.

Every time the power is used, his aura would appear on the scar as it slowly travels down which made him realize that it means how much power he had left. He would later go on to learn that it travels up the scar every time he was damaged physically and possibly mentally by absorbing the negative emotional and kinetic energy giving him more adapting power as well. However, his power does not get stronger from self-damage. After the aura reaches pass the epitome of the scar it would mean he would reach the maximum limit of power he could contain but if he ends up absorbing more than he can take he would suffer a power overload and would enter a demonically insane state where he becomes completely unstoppable and mindless of whatever he does as his power is spewed out like a geyser, exhausting his reserves into fatal levels.

The good news was that it lasts for only 1 minute and it wasn't like back at the foundation which killed 10,000 people and burned his body to a crisp due to an extreme power overload and used the excess power to rebuild his body and minds to create new reserves so the child could learn to build it all over again. The bad news was that the power would consume the host's biological energy and biomass he had. If he didn't have any of them, then the power would consume 75% of the host's body causing extreme hunger to make sure the power doesn't eat itself. This type of scenario happened when he traveled around only to be attacked by a giant serpent known as a basilisk. It happened when he was hiding from a pack of lycanthropes and stumbled upon a cave that for some reason, they didn't follow him.

The child had thought that he was safe but stood incorrect as he sensed something was there as he could feel the bloodlust and hunger coming from whatever it was and 20 minutes later as the child carefully tried to escape the cave, the beast made its move. The snake was fast but the child was slightly faster at dodging it. However, he was unaware that he was scrapped in the arm by its poisonous fangs causing its venom to spread through his body like wildfire and unintentionally looked into the creature's eyes immediately causing mental and physical damage. His aura covered the entire scar and rose like a boiling thermometer and like a switch the child turned into a mindless killing machine once more and viciously ripped the basilisk to pieces.

After a minute passed, the power inside him began taking his mass leaving him extremely skinny and extremely hungry. Fortunately, the basilisk had more than enough mass for him to gain his back and then some. As he began eating the basilisk, leaving nothing but a blood puddle, he felt the reserves his power to grow more than before and he began adapting newer traits to his body. His sense of smell and taste increased immensely as he could smell things or taste the air molecules for food from a mile away and feel the vibrations of those in his range which was 100 yards at the moment. After that scenario, he never again wanted to experience that massive hunger again but his problems were about to get worse.

Since he had escaped from the cave to a desert, there was no food for miles and since organic mass sustains and heals him while inorganic mass only heals him, his hunger slowly began taking control as minutes turn to hours, hours turn to days, days turn to weeks and so on. 3 months passed the child searched far and wide for anything to eat but there was none for miles in the horrible desert. The hunger took a hold of him 2 months ago as he searched desperately for food but he could never find any and he didn't have enough power to sustain him. After accepting the fact that he would finally die, he wept and screamed in sorrow and hunger as he was nothing but skin and bones close to death with little to no energy.

As the child had collapsed in a catatonic state, he began spouting his hate and sadness knowing he was going to die alone with no purpose and no food on the 3rd month. It just wasn't fair, damn these humans, damn theses monsters, damn the gods, damn them all! Suddenly he picked up vibrations and the smell of organic flesh coming from 800 meters northeast plus he could taste negative energy in the air and it empowering him just enough to stand. Looking in the direction, he saw a giant scorpion that appeared to have a hut on top of its back meaning there were people as well living on the creature plus he can taste the pain the creature was in and it was delicious. With hunger in his eyes, he immediately tried to run after it but each step it took would be farther than he can run with the little power he had.

Luck appeared to give him more leeway as the scorpion suddenly stopped and collapsed and appeared to be dead enabling him to finally catch up to the scorpion and rapidly began consuming it, tail first. Meanwhile, the hut on top of the scorpion exploded as four figures flew out of the wreckage before landing on the sand. The four figures appeared to be three males and one white-haired female in a 3-1 battle. The woman put up a decent fight as she was able to take two of them down but the leader had skill and power above her own. Beaten and tired, the woman knew that she would not live to see her people again but the look on the man's face told her that he was about to do more than just kill her. As the male began to rip apart the female's clothing, he was unaware of his death right behind him.

Meanwhile, the child just finished eating about 90% of the scorpion leaving only its claws and a pool of blue blood. His mass had stabilized and his hunger was full for the next 8 months. As his power activated, he felt it was stabilized and had grown more powerful as he felt that another adaptation was needed to be made. A chrome, segmented, blade-tipped, tail began took form swishing and whooshing from side to side with a range of 30 meters. After admiring his new tail, he took notice of the battle between the four humans. Looking at them in pure disgust and hatred but also in curiosity, he was under the impression that humans were weak and being exterminated but these humans were anything but as they moved at speeds faster than him.

He could barely see them and every time they collided little white balls of sparks would fly around and shock waves would erupt from random spaces. He took notice that the three males were ganging up on the only female. It looked like the female would win as she had already killed two of the males but the third appeared to be too much of a challenge for her as he injured her with multiple slash marks. He thought that as soon as the male kill her, he would kill the male while the male celebrates his victory, killing two birds with one stone and gain extra biomass and to keep his power from eating his needed mass. As the male began ripping the female's clothes off the hatred in the child's mind was growing rapidly as he continued to stare at the male.

The more he stared at the male, the bigger the hatred became and the urge to kill this male as his power began feeding off the negative energy of the two humans. The voices in his head were roaring in outrage about what the man plans to do to her and was pleading with him to stop this madness. Although he couldn't feel any pain doesn't mean he can be driven more insane than before and he doesn't want to go into madness again and whatever the man was about to do seems to be driving the voices in his head chaotic causing noise and in a way hurting him. So, following his voices advice of killing the man now. A loud whooshing and squelching sound erupted as the child's dagger tail-like tail pierced through the male's left pectoral missing the woman's face and slamming into the sand.

The female watched in shock as the male screamed bloody murder in agony as the tail wrapped securely around the male causing the barbs of razor spikes to hook and lock on to his flesh causing more agony and began dragging him towards what appears to be some mutant disguised as a baby toddler. As the child dragged the soon to be food closer to him, he proceeded to bite the male in the neck as the child felt something eject out of his teeth and into the man's neck, unaware he was poisoning him with his newly adapted venom and neurotoxin. The man hit the ground with a thud and started shaking violently as white foam spewed from his mouth with the child still latched on.

Fifteen seconds later he stopped shaking and was dead and the toddler untangled his tail from the dead corpse as it suddenly dissolved into his back and began eating him at a very fast pace. Two minutes later, the child finished eating the male he killed, leaving absolutely nothing, he then went to the other dead bodies and ate them too. The female watched on in disgust and horror due but also in fascination and curiosity. Her mind was running wild that a Yōkai had actually saved her from getting raped, it was unheard of. She wasn't sensing any power from him but she was downright disturbed as she sensed massive amounts of insanity, hatred, and hollowness and what made it worse was that the creature looked to be a child.

After finishing the two other dead males and was completely full of extra biomass, the child turned his unnatural eyes to the female who stared in fear and wonder of those eyes. The child stared back at her in confusion. She showed the fear of what he is and what he did, but she wasn't trying to control him or trying to end his existence like the other humans were. All he saw in her eyes were unknown emotions and expressions that he did not understand. She began speaking in a language he did not understand, as he only understood one language the foundation programmed to his head but he had no experience in other languages or talking for that matter, all he could do was hiss and growl, there was no one that wanted to talk to him except the voices in his head and they were telling him to calm down.

Her hand started glowing black and he immediately got prepared to fight but she merely put her hand upon herself as some of the wounds she suffered were starting to heal. After she healed a little bit, she turned back to the child who had stared at her with hostility. The child saw that she still showed that unknown look as she seemed to giggle at him but he wasn't feeling any hostile intent which was very strange to him. Although the madness in him screamed to kill her, his voices told him to look at this logically. He was stuck in this desert and she might be the only one who knows the way out. Following the voices suggestion to throw a little trust to her, he settled down. As she came close to him and placed her glowing palm on top of his head, a small rush of knowledge flowed through his minds and a calm and gentle feeling coursed through his body.

The female removed her hand from his head and spoke again. This time he did understand what she said although he still remained quiet as he stared at her in complete awe. What was she? Was she really a human being? She smelled like one but her power said otherwise, it was all so confusing. She asked him what was he doing in the "desert of illusion." He shrugged saying nothing but now he understood where he was and why he was trapped here. She asked if he was a supernatural being to which he shrugged not knowing himself. Then she asked if he was half-breed to which she noticed him stiffen at that word as he growled. The lady spoke again about how he seems to have gone through horrible pain and he was shocked that she read him like a book.

She gently asked what happened but veins around his face pulsated as he hissed at her with a warning of treading on thin ice. She realized her mistake and apologized telling him he can tell her when he's ready. After calming down from her pestering, she asked him now that he was away from whatever made him this way what would he do now? He had no clue, what was there to do? Once he mastered this power and control the passive absorption what would he do then? Finish what he was created to do? He didn't know. She asked him that if he wanted to, he could join her to find meaning and see what living in peace and being loved feels like instead of hated.

Some of the voices in his head were completely against this due to mistrust while the other voices in his head had made logical arguments that the supernatural beings were the problem that the humans caused his suffering and if he could learn the powers of the humans, he can master it and kill all those that started this in the first place and what he really is. So, without hesitation, he nodded his head and joined her. The little toddler had learned that the woman was actually a 15-year-old soon to be co-empress of a village of 100 clans and a population of 1.8 million people with 20% or 360,000 of them made up of samurais with two ruling emperors. After exiting the desert, she had taken him to her village that was hidden between endless amounts of dark grey trees with black leaves and a sapphire mountain covered in white.

As they got closer towards the village gates two male samurais stood guard as they seen the princess approach as they bowed greeting her and sending for a large palanquin. The child looked on as the village gates opened and 4 more people appeared holding what appeared to be some miniature house as the woman entered the palanquin. The child came close to her but immediately sensed hostility as the two gatekeepers had swords directed to his neck calling him something called "Yōkai" and warning him that if he made one move, his head would be sliced clean off. The child knew that he's been stabbed, burned, crushed, broken, amputated, hung, shocked, and drowned before, but he did not want to be decapitated and find out that this would really kill him.

The fact that these supposed "Lowest weaklings on the food chain" moved faster than he could blink with swords on the front and back of his neck caused the voices to tell him to don't make any rash decisions. Even though his emotions were numb and he can barely feel them, he remembers the experiences of all the negative ones and the one he should be feeling right now is fear. Thankfully the woman had stopped the guards from taking his life as she stated that he saved her and like a switch the hostile feeling disappeared and they apologized. The child was shocked beyond all reason. Are humans truly this mysterious and dangerous? He didn't know what to think but now seeing this had really humbled him. He will never again underestimate anyone or anything again, this he swore.

After the debacle, the female asked the child if he wanted to ride with her which he declined as he motioned that he would walk beside her. As everyone who watched the group enter the village gates, the female was welcomed back with praises and greetings while the child was welcomed with hostility and mutters of Yōkai behind his back. The child was mesmerized how beautiful the village was. It was...new and refreshing to be in such a peaceful environment. As they made their way to their destination the child was amazed at how big and extravagant the palace was as guards knelt welcoming the princess back to the village. As the female exited the sedan chair, the child followed silently behind her.

As they entered the palace heading into the throne room, sitting on a throne with all kinds of extravagant jewelry and a crown appeared to be the Emperor. The child could see that the male was looking at him like he wished to slice him into pieces if the tightening of the sword strapped to his hip said anything. The girl bowed and greeted the man that she stated was her father even though his hair was black as the shadows but the man told her to address her as emperor and had demanded why she brought the child which he called "Yōkai abomination" to his land. The girl nodded before correcting her mistake and addressing him as "Emperor Matsumoto." Before she could report, two more guests showed up. The first person was a white-haired male followed by a black-haired female that looked to be the same age as the other female.

As they came in, the male sat on the other throne beside Matsumoto, the other female bowed to him as well. Seeing the royal garments on the male, the child assumed that this male was the other emperor as well and the female was his daughter. The man on the other throne began an argument about what was the problem over why some of his white samurais were not back with the fake white samurai before everyone turned their attention to the new subject in the room as the emperors glared at the abnormal child and debated if this Yōkai was the problem and why it wasn't mercilessly tortured and executed. Emperor Matsumoto ordered his daughter to give a mission report as the white-haired female explained to her father and emperors that her mission was a success.

She also reported that when she was on her way back, the samurais that were sent to protect her, betrayed her and wanted to get rid of in their words the "wannabe white samurai trash." She explained that they were committing treason and she was merely defending herself. She was able to kill two of them but the leader was stronger than her as he injured her and prepared to rape her. The child saw that the males showed no concern nor care of what she went through but he did notice that the black-haired female was balling her fist. She went on to explain that before the leader could have his way with her, the child had saved her and killed him. The white-haired Emperor who was called "Naoki" looked at the child in shock before asking the female how was the child able to defeat a high-level Samurai and demanded the child's name.

Matsumoto had mocked Naoki about his weak samurai being defeated by a mere child abomination. Naoki fired back that his so-called "Heir" was beaten and always making mistakes while his has a perfect mission record and make his samurais and the emperor himself look like a bunch of imbecilic amateurs. Matsumoto didn't take that lying down as he got up from his throne as a black aura blazed out his body with his katana at the ready. Naoki stood up as well as an aura of white enveloped him as well with his sword ready to battle. The girls tried to stop their fathers from damaging the throne room but the emperors ordered them to leave and take the child to an orphanage or get rid of him before he was executed.

After escorting the child out, the throne room the white-haired female was about to talk again before the black-haired female out of nowhere just tackled the girl to the ground. The child was expecting to see some type of battle but only tilted his head in confusion as he saw them feeling each other up, and exchanging lip-to-lip contact, and making sounds he never heard before. The black-haired female spoke about how she missed her, wished that she was with her, and if she was alright while kissing her. The other female responded back saying that she missed her too and saying some mushed-up word that the child thought she said "olive juice" which only confused him more. After the two got control of themselves the black-haired female asked her of what really happened to her as the female explained just as before that she was saved by the child.

The black-haired female thanked him and kissed him on the jaw. Feeling her kiss caused the power in his body to stabilize and become easier to control and he felt much calmer than before. She introduced herself as "Yumi Naoki" and her mate as "Ami Matsumoto and welcomed him to the village of "Kagemori" which stood for "Shadow Forest" or "The village hidden in the Forest's Shadows." Yumi asked the child if he had a name and he shook his head no. For as long as he could remember, he was always called "Subject #106" by the scientists so he had no idea what his name was. She then told that if he didn't have a name for himself then he can just create his own name. He had nodded and this was something he took time to think on.

He wanted his name to spread fear to his enemies. A name no one would expect to have. A name for him and the others in his head of what he truly is and what he can truly do. Making up his mind he looked at the females and for the first time in 33 years of being genetically stuck in the toddler stage. A year unconscious and another year surviving and starving, a raspy, and scratchy voice from growling, hissing, crying, and screaming but still a child's voice none the less, a name and was born.

"The demon that is me is called Scorpion. The human that is us is called Zalgo Asura"

After introducing himself, despite his manner of speaking. Ami and Yumi merely accepted it and took him on a grand tour around the village showing him stores, playgrounds, spiritual gardens, academies, and warrior clans where many looked at him in disdain and caution and a few welcomed him with open arms and smiles. Whatever Ami or Yumi had done to him, Scorpion had never felt such positive energy before and it felt really good. It didn't give his power any boost since it was positive energy and not negative energy that his power absorbed. For all his life, all he ever felt was pain, insanity, and hatred as he can barely feel his own happiness since going through that machine that numbed almost all his emotions and destroyed his pain receptors.

But, feeling someone else's positive emotions was like a drug that he refused to stop taking. The people that gave kind, genuine, emotional energy made him wonder if this is what humans were supposed to be like or was it some kind of ploy. To learn about it he decided that he would learn to control his hatred and insanity and learn how to be human. After the tour, the ladies dropped him off at an orphanage bidding farewell and hoped he finds purpose in his life. A year goes, at the age of 6, Scorpion spent the year inside the orphanage picking up a lot of things. He studied the emotions children showed as he discovered the emotions sadness, confusion, happiness, fear, anger, interest, disgust, and jealousy.

After going through his hypothesis of if he had those feelings as well, he found out that he had them but they were extremely dulled except hatred and only a high dose of emotion exposure would help him feel the others. Although he suffered those handicaps, he sought to overcome them by learning to be normal by reading the expression of every human he saw. He played games with the children to learn how to act like one and be one with his inner child but that didn't work out due to the kids fear of him eating them due to orphanage's guardians spreading rumors to the orphans about him so he learned from observing them all creating his personality. He watched all types of personalities and attitudes that showed up at the orphanage from happy-go-lucky to arrogant, from stoic to hot-headed, from stupid to battle-hungry and so on.

After learning that he began molding his own personality that would go with his identity and further build his personality and finish another piece in his quest to gain true purpose for his life. Another year goes by and at the age of 7, Scorpion found out that due to the war with the supernatural, it was legal for orphaned kids from ages 7 and up were randomly drafted into the samurai military. Luckily for him, depending on how one looks at it, he was chosen. After being drafted they went through an initiation of how they were tools to the emperors to end the existence of supernatural beings. The teachers may have told an abridged version to the children but Scorpion knew what they really meant by that. After explaining to them what they were doing and they were ordered to choose which warrior color they were going to fight for.

Being curious, Scorpion asked why couldn't they be both colors. That innocent question immediately caused a heated confrontation and they immediately expelled him for coming up with such a blasphemous idea. Word had spread around pretty fast as kids called him "dropout" and muttering adults stating that no blasphemous Yōkai has the right to learn their powers. After being kicked out he was sent right back to the orphanage where the madness in his mind began growing. Scorpion couldn't understand what he did wrong as the voices inside him roared at their insolence and wanted to consume this entire village while the other voices were angered as well, but explained to him that he wasn't dealing with an average human.

These humans were on whole different level that he did not know and they might have ways to possibly kill him. If he was successful in killing everyone here then what would he do now? Would he continue what he was doing before and wait many more months to find food again until his own power devours his mind and body again? Sensing the voices quiet down, Scorpion followed the advice of his voices and calmed down. If those foolish arrogant creatures think that they will stop him from gaining purpose then they were wrong. After being kicked out, he headed towards the public library to learn all he could about the world, monsters and warriors alike. He learned that the giant snake-like creature he killed was called a basilisk.

Reading what the creature was capable of. It gave him the answer of why he randomly went into his "Manic state" as he called it. Apparently staring into a basilisk eye caused instant death due to some type of magical ability and its poison cause untold amounts of damage but ever since dying, he gained adaptive resurrection, making it much harder for him to die. After experiencing the killer glance his power built an immunity to it and after testing it on rats, he was able to use the ability as well but got tired immediately meaning he must have used a power source he didn't know he had. Although those were major abilities, the others were good too like the enhanced sense of smell and taste that he could pick up a mile away, the sensing of seismic vibration in the earth, and the ability of camouflage.

After 8 hours of non-stop testing of his abilities away from prying eyes, he had gained adequate control of his abilities and was able to control the passive absorption. He also learned from the many minds going through the information that was absorbed in the explosion that whoever and whatever organic mass he has eaten becomes a part of him and that he could change his eyes. After doing that and checking a nearby mirror, white eyes with tiny black pupils stared back at him. Deciding to keep the eye color, he continued on with his studies. He sought to master reading, writing, medical, military, and any other branches of educational activities. To the average human, all that studying would be impossible or take decades to learn but since his IQ was 300 and he had ten thousand brains in one with the same IQ he could cut that time down exponentially.

After that, he would learn about the village's history and find out what was the difference between white samurais and black samurais. The "Guāng samurais" or "Light samurais" were aristocratic warriors that speak the high-class language called "Chinese" and are made up of high-class rich people of half of the samurai clans. They also trained to control an energy source in their body called "Yang-chi." Yang-chi gives the user power of their physical side, with this they are able to use the elements of the world, heal physical wounds, enhance of their speed, strength, endurance, and stamina, create sealing and cursed sealing formulas, increase the five senses of the human body and much more.

After that, he studied the "Hēi'àn samurais" or "Dark samurais." These warriors were the low-class warriors that were made up of peasants and people that were disowned from high-class families due to either being a failure in the high-class samurai life-style or not rich enough to be a high-class samurai and spoke the low-class language called "Japanese." The dark samurais also had an energy source like the light side called "Yin-chi." Yin-chi was a power that gives the user control of their spiritual side. With it, they were able to enhance their physical capabilities, summon or transform into their spirit animal, heal mental wounds, enter spirit form, sense energy, enhance a weapon's effectiveness, form barriers, create talismans, perform sorcery, cast illusions and much more.

In other words. The light samurais were the "Warriors of the day" while the dark samurais were the "Warriors of the night."

The reason that samurais have bad blood against each other was due to the different color they wore and power source they wielded. If you were a woman then you were forbidden from becoming a samurai. The only exception for women to become a samurai was if she was born from a clan head or emperor. All samurais were servants and took orders from the emperors they followed with blind loyalty. As a clan head, it was legal to own slaves as any man, woman, or child was subjective to slavery but some is done through a legal contract. If the person that was a slave owed a debt to someone, they must work for them to pay it off. Slave owners would just adopt orphans to raise into soldiers to do battles while keeping the "Pure" members of the clan from dying out and making more money. Scorpion didn't understand why were they doing the same thing that their enemies were doing to their own kind.

They truly were moronic humans. Anyway, samurais were also a master of swordsmanship and had a skill system which were Scholar, Journeyman, Provost, Master, Grandmaster, Legendary Grandmaster and True Grandmaster. It is the #1 law in the village for a samurai to be a master of the sword or nevermore pick up a sword and become a samurai. If a samurai had slain their master, they would be called Ronin who were given bounties and a 'kill on sight' order and if a samurai brings shame to their name and clan, they must commit seppuku to regain their honor. He also learned about the Bushido code which was the morale way of the samurai warrior. Although the codes were good, it was too strict and the people who followed them are either disrespectful towards the codes or were arrogantly hypocritical, blaming their mistakes on others.

After going through the history, Scorpion can confidently say that while these humans were rightfully strong, they also were extremely stupid and hypocritical. It's illogical to hold hatred over a color when they are basically the same category and were striving for a common goal but no, they want to hate on someone due to the color they wear or the money they make more than others. But then again, he thought, who was he to judge? He hated all life, so what he said or thought was hypocritical but at least he is willing to give the benefit of the doubt, no matter how disgusting that idea is to him. Besides, what idiot hates someone with a different color or something they do not understand? (A/N: Hmm... I wonder where that came from? So confusing.) Not only was it illogical, it was downright remedial but once again, who was he to judge?

At least he had a legit reason instead of a stupid one. He couldn't be a samurai, nor does he want to, so what was he to do now? He decided then and there that he would create his own race of a warrior. A warrior that did not fear death. A warrior that lives and fights in the light and shadows. A warrior that embraces the unknown and is a true master of all he sees, all he hears, all he touches and all he is. A warrior that takes their secrets to their grave. A warrior that is neutral but knows what must be done that is right and always protect the balance of light and darkness from corruption. A warrior that does not follow the illusions of what is good or evil. A warrior that means to walk the shadows unseen and unheard and walk the light unknown and unassuming and achieves absolute patience and wisdom. A warrior that follows his own warrior way.

The first "Ninja Warrior" was born.


Another year goes by and at the age of 8, Scorpion had studied everything there is to know about the world and the village and now he that he's caught up and surpassing everyone academically it was time to surpass all of them physically, mentally, politically, swiftly and honorably and to do that he must gain experience in all he learned. Today was the day that graduates from the academy go on a special field trip. Scorpion had heard from civilian villagers about the academy taking 200 graduates to the south gates of the village and heading towards the mountain and two hours later come back with supernatural powers each year. This would be the perfect chance to study the unknown powers and somehow fuse the powers together with his own power.

Deciding to put his plan to work he began to follow them but since it was forbidden for civilians to leave that way unless they're escorted by a samurai and there was the fact that the 200 graduates had with them 20 samurais guiding them so he had to sneak out with his camouflage ability and follow at a long distance by smell and body heat. Since there were many graduates, Scorpion was able to follow the scent of the humans. After 30 minutes he took notice that the group began splitting up heading in different directions. Thinking quickly before he loses their scent he followed after the dark samurai graduates trail toward a cave opening around the mountains. After going close to the cave, he picked up another scent which dwarfed the humans a thousand-fold. The whispers in his head warned him of a massive predator and that he should tread lightly.

Listening to his voices, he carefully trotted the cave. Due to the abilities of the basilisk and scorpion he consumed, he was able to see in the dark and crawl up and along the walls and ceiling without alerting the others of his presence. As he traveled deeper into the cave he came upon an amazing discovery. Hidden in this cave was a giant dragon the size of a small mountain. The dragon had the purest and darkest of black scales, pure white teeth, and black eyes with white pupils. At the very top of its forehead was a giant black jewel shaped like a magatama with a small white jewel in the middle embedded in its head. Looking at the creature made Scorpion experience intense memories of the past.

Why was this? Because the dragon was chained up to the stalagmites on the walls and judging by the glowing chains around the dragon must mean that the creature couldn't break free. He saw the 10 samurais flare their power into their hand before their power shot towards the gem on top of its head. Scorpion could tell from the roars that it was making that whatever they were doing to it was causing it pain. Multiple pieces of the black jewel were ripped off its head and given to the 100 graduates who didn't know what to do with it. Suddenly, an unseen feeling of hatred flooded the cave. Scorpion was hit harder with the feeling that he was unintentionally absorbing it and making him almost go into his manic state as he desperately tried to calm down and stopped turning all that hate and pain into his energy before he explodes from his own power again.

The graduates had felt it too and to say they were horrified would be an understatement. Suddenly, the oppressive feeling disappeared as the sound of a thousand birds chirping and a roar of anger and pain resounded around the cave. The roar came from the dragon who appeared to be responsible for that oppressive feeling and that chirping sound was the chains around its body suddenly flared up with lightning shocking the dragon back to submission. Scorpion can speak from experience of that hurting. After that episode, the samurais begin to help the graduates absorb the jewel's power into their bodies. After 45 minutes the graduates had the power of Yin-chi in their bodies and the jewel in their hands were nothing more than a clear piece of glass.

After gaining the power they got ready to leave the cave before the samurai grew alert and began looking around suspicious that someone was here. Scorpion, who was hiding upside down on the dark ceiling held his breath activating his camouflage again to blend in with his surroundings before closing his eyes. He may not have seen it but he suddenly started hearing loud booms and feeling the heat that was coming very close to him. He knew he had to escape but they might give chase and if they caught him, he might be executed or experimented on, he was caught between a rock and a hard place. Before a samurai could fire another projectile exactly where Scorpion was, a deep, rumbling, chuckle which caused everyone, including Scorpion, to look at who was chuckling which turned out to be the dragon itself.

Then it spoke. It spoke about the humans' stupidity and arrogance and that when it gains freedom it will burn their village to the ground and consumed everyone they loved. The 10 samurai mocked the dragon about never escaping and that it would die in this cave with all its power stolen making the humans the most dominant species in the world and purge the world of the disgusting creatures that weren't human and anyone that likes the supernatural. Now Scorpion knew these types of humans very well and he's going to make sure they suffer a horrific death, he will remember those faces. He owed the dragon a debt for stopping them from hitting him and the warrior race he was creating will be all about paying back debts no matter how minuscule it will be to someone who deserves it.

After spouting their arrogance to the dragon, they began exiting the cave heading back to the village. Scorpion waited 10 minutes for them to be far enough away from their senses before exiting the cave. Although he came here to see if he could fuse the power to his own, it was not worth the risk of angering the intelligent dragon. Before he was about to leave, the dragon spoke again looking directly at him even though he was camouflaged. The dragon said that it could smell him and that he better come out. Complying merely out of interest plus for owing a debt to the dragon for its distraction, he showed himself. As Scorpion revealed himself, the dragon's eyes narrowed in confusion and suspicion. It expected some foolish creature trying to get a free meal or another wannabe warrior trying to gain power.

The dragon did not expect to see an 8-year-old hatchling. Something about the child's expression disturbed it because by looking into the child's eyes it saw nothing but pure hatred, madness, and hollowness. The dragon asked what was he doing here to which Scorpion replied that he wanted to gain the power that the humans had. At first, the dragon began to grow enraged at the child but the dragon didn't sense an ounce of fear, arrogance, or greed in Scorpion, just an almost endless source of madness and mild interest, plus the way the child was staring at it like it was a chicken with its head off not only made the dragon want to crush him but it was also something that disturbed it. The dragon asked the child where were his parents to which Scorpion replied what were those. That stunned the dragon. Didn't the child know anything about family and friends?

Deciding to change the tense and awkward subject the dragon asked why did the child want to use its power to which he explained what he was doing. After Scorpion told the dragon about what he was planning, the dragon was interested but was not going to blindly throw its power as the dragon stated to him that its power was its own and it worked too hard to gain it. The dragon was expecting the child to whine and babble about not gaining its power and bringing those samurais back to take its power. Scorpion merely nodded and stated his thanks for saving him from the samurais and began to walk off. The dragon was shocked. It was never thanked by anyone before and the first time someone wasn't afraid or jealous of its power. It was...refreshing. The dragon called him back again to ask him another question.

Scorpion came back as the dragon asked why was he going through all this and for what his goal truly was. At this, Scorpion sat down and ponder this for a while as the dragon could see the concentration on the child's face. Finally, Scorpion spoke saying he merely wants to have an answer. He explained to the dragon that he was sick and tired of those smarter, tougher, and stronger than him trying to create his own destiny, tired of the suffering in fate's hands. He wants to create his own purpose that was bigger than himself and if others got in his way then he would get them to join him, get out of his way, or have no choice but to snuff them out. If they haunt his nightmares, he will bare their hate, pain, and continue on to find his answer to a purpose while fixing all his mistakes and no so-called "Divine Being" would string him like a puppet.

That was his goal.

The dragon didn't know what to say. It was amazed by this child's maturity and willpower. If there was one thing that dragons respected more than power, it was willpower and this child had the absolute willpower of a dragon and with hard work and dedication, the child would be something more. The dragon stated that it believes in the child and that he will accomplish great things. Scorpion's emotionless expression turned into shock at what he heard. It was the very first time that someone believed he would do it and whatever he was feeling was causing him to smile. What he wasn't aware of was that after two years of being in the peaceful environment and him feeding off of children's innocence and happiness and experiencing enough positive energy had made his emotion empowerment evolve due to his power's slow speed of automatic evolution.

Due to his power automatically upgrading, He gained the ability to absorb positive emotional energy as well instead of negative emotional energy giving him the full empathic empowerment. With a very rare smile, Tarkata thanked the dragon and hugged its hand. The dragon was shocked but then understood what this was about. Scorpion was still a child. He may be more mature and respectful than any human or life form for that matter and whatever torture had made him snap and mature extremely fast, he was still physically and probably somewhere buried extremely deep in that madness, there was still the mind of a child. An hour goes by as Scorpion and the dragon talked about each other, he learned that the dragon actually had a gender, it was a female dragon named Yin Ryūjin.

Yin explained to him that she was the Dragon God of darkness and death created by the queens and deals with all spiritual phenomenon and the afterlife. Immediately after saying the word "God," energy exploded from Scorpion, losing his disguise, and revealing his true form as his tail whipped around. Yin felt the absolute madness of that power. It wasn't massive as hers or any other high-powered creatures or master samurais, it was the feeling of the power. It was nothing like anything she ever felt before and for the first time since her imprisonment, she began to grow worried. The psychotic feeling disappeared and the aura dissipated. Scorpion solemnly apologized explaining that the three-letter word had caused him traumatic experiences when spoken out loud and causes immediate rage that gets stronger the more he hears it, but he's working on controlling it.

Still alarmed by the outburst, Yin calmed down and accepted his apology. Now treading very lightly on the "G" word Yin asked what was that power and who was he. Scorpion stated his demon and human name and what he did. There were two things that disturbed the dragon god about his introduction. The first thing was that he sometimes prefers to himself as we proving that the child was truly insane. The second was that after hearing what he did, Yin became fearful of a sudden realization of what that power truly is. Seeing her expression, Scorpion knew that the dragon must have heard about his power. Yin explained to him that his power was called "Jìnhuà da," or "Evolving chi." She explained the theory of evolution to the child stating that all living things, whether predator or prey evolve every one million years through each generation of new life. It was a power that was buried deep in the DNA of the brain

The dragon questioned how did the child gain that ability and stating that the only way to gain that power was if someone unlocked it for him or he went through years of physical, mental, and emotional pain only to be healed over and over again to start it again. The second method was extremely dangerous because although they would unlock it, the person would have a genetic hatred of all life and would be nothing but a mindless demon that kills everything in its path. Judging by the way Scorpion was staring at her, Yin couldn't believe it but she can see that the first and second options had happened to him. For the first time since her imprisonment, Yin felt a sense of sympathy and humbly apologized for what he went through to which he somberly thanked her for.

Scorpion asked her could he learn more about her power to which she agreed and began to explain the origin of Yin-chi wanting to change the disturbing subject. She explained to him that Yin-chi is a power that is focused purely on all magical and spiritual essence of all things. It is what made souls, spiritual and magical creatures exist and every spiritual and magical power source known in the universe. This was something that spooked Scorpion and in a very rare sense of vulnerability, he asked the dragon that if he had a soul. Yin could taste the desperation rolling off the child. It seemed that having a soul was a very touchy subject for him. Treading very lightly, Yin told him that the chains attached to her has decreased her powers and senses immensely and that she could not tell.

But she did say that if he doesn't gain perfect control of his evolving chi, it would mutate his body and soul consuming him entirely as he will become a true demon that has an endless hatred that won't stop until he either kills himself or everything around him. Luckily, she said since he just activated the power, he could purify himself with spiritual meditation but the power works extremely fast and the process takes a month to complete. Hearing the truth of what he might...What he became really rattled him as a massive feeling of hollowness entered him and pools of tears spilled. No sounds or screams of sorrows echoed through him and the madness and voices were silent. This was the ultimate form of sadness. Yin saw as the child break down which she thought was horrifying.

Scorpion stated that it was too late since he had died already and was resurrected and unconscious for an entire year and that the process was done a long time ago. So, in a way he died a human and was reborn as a demon. In a rare show of compassion, Yin gently grabbed Scorpion and hugged him close to her bottom jaw with him hugging back. 10 minutes later, Scorpion gained control of himself thanking her and stating he owed her double to which he swore that he would free her. While considering his declaration touching and cute, Yin chuckled somberly stating that he must have a massive amount of power, knowledge, and strength to free her which he stated that he will start training immediately. Yin sensed no deceit so she knew that the child meant what he said was the truth. With that, she put Scorpion down as he said his farewells until next time.

Yin asked that now that he was reborn as a demon would he still continue on. Scorpion looked to his hand, balled it into a fist and declared that he once thought that being human was a curse but now, he has two answers to find and he needs to get stronger to find out so not only would continue on, he would travel to infinity and beyond to get his answers. If others get in his way, they will either join, move, or die. He will accept the consequences. Before heading out Yin asked him that if he somehow frees her could he help free her opposite and mate known as Yang as well. Ready to pay his debts and free someone, he agreed to her request and left.


After returning back to the village undetected and back to civilian form, Scorpion began heading back to the orphanage for the night but ran into a problem. The matron who ran the orphanage had a deep-seeded hatred of Yōkai due to her husband being murdered by them; Ergo she had a hatred for him as well due to his abnormal appearance and had to play nice since the princesses came by every weekend to see him but on this month, they suddenly stopped seeing him and the matron verbally cursed at him and demanded he leave or she would take drastic measures. Although he could have just killed her and gone to sleep, he remembered everything in the library and kept tabs on the village media and that this woman was a part of the emperors' civilian council and killing her will cause suspicion that would be pointed to him and he couldn't have that.

So, without saying a word, he left the orphanage and didn't look back. After leaving he ran into another problem, the black samurais were out tonight guarding the nights and if anybody was out past civilian curfew then they were to be arrested. However, Scorpion saw this as great way to train his stealth skills and due to the planet's rotational period of 36 hours a day for 7 days; 12 hours of morning, 12 hours of evening and 12 hours of nighttime for 372 days a year, he had 12 hours of nighttime to train in the art of stealth. 4 hours go by as Scorpion trained his in his stealth, there were major close calls but the little luck he had saved him. Another 4 hours in the night he gained a minimal amount of experience but was nowhere close to mastering it.

His body and mind would be worked passed its limit but with his evolving chi plus his healing factor, he was able to heal his body and mind and continue on longer each time. Some may call it a cheat but that's just jealousy talking and to him, it's survival and determination of mortal potential. The last four hours of the night is where things got serious. On the 11th hour, he had stumbled upon a group of 3 samurai beating on an unarmed merchant who was just getting ready for work. They continued threatening him to hand over his money to the which the civilian begged he that he already got robbed of his money by some local gang members that they failed to stop. They didn't take kindly to that as they viciously beat him with an inch of his life.

Scorpion continued to watch as he had an inner debate in his head. Some the voices were telling him to help while others disagreed stating to only to look out for himself. The voices in his head caused endless whispers that started to grate Scorpion's already shredded sanity and commanded silence. The two samurai held the civilian on his knees while the other drawn his sword hoisting it high to slice the merchant's head off. Scorpion reached his decision and decided to help. Finding a nearby rock and changing his eyes to a different color so that the heat doesn't come for him. Scorpion threw it at the back of the man's head but due to his unnatural strength, the man fell to the ground dead from the blunt force. The other samurai looked on in shock then rage as they pulled out their swords looking around for threats.

The samurai and battered merchant soon noticed a small figure with blue eyes shrouded in a dark cloak and kabuki mask sprint away with the samurais giving chase. Scorpion knew that he couldn't outrun them for long so he continued making sharp turns every block he passed, unaware he was heading to the forbidden part of the village. According to village history, there used to be four regions of the village. The north side is the territory of the Emperors and their chosen bodyguards, councilors, and other rich entrepreneurs. The south side was for the Yang samurai clans, the west side for Yin samurai clans and the east side for merchants, farmers, miners, and other civilian workers. A collective of Yōkai attacked the east side slaughtering hundreds of civilians. The place was immediately taken over and the samurais decided to seal the east side due to a massive amount of Yōkai residue energy that enveloped the east side district that corrupted and transformed humans into chaotic, bloodthirsty, Yōkai as well.

This was where Scorpion was heading toward but was unaware of at the moment due to being too preoccupied with losing the two samurai as he headed towards a destroyed bridge. Seeing the problem, he put all his speed into his legs and with a mighty jump, he soared gracefully to the other side...Only to smash right into a purple force field that stopped him, lit him aflame, and pushed him off the bridge down a 50 ft drop into a raging rapid. The samurais, seeing that the target had the shittiest luck in the world couldn't stop laughing as they insulted his death, sheathing their swords and began walking away.


The sun began to rise as a body rose from the calm river in tattered clothing and life-threatening wounds that slowly began to heal as Scorpion laid on the grass spread eagle and huffing as his blood ate at the grass and ground. 3 minutes later, Scorpion gained his composure as took a look at his surroundings as he studied the geography of the land, finding out that he was three miles southeast of the village. Cold and slightly hungry, he decided to hunt for something to eat. Suddenly, he picked up a familiar scent of a dragon and it was coming from the direction 50 meters where he had washed up from. Now curious, Scorpion followed the scent which took him to the center of a river with a waterfall. The scent he was picking up was coming from the waterfall which told him that the waterfall might have a secret cave entrance.

As he came toward the waterfall, he found out he was right and quietly crawled through the entrance avoiding the rocks. 30 minutes later, Scorpion came upon the cave center hearing soft growling in the distance. As he got closer to the growling sounds, his sense of danger skyrocketed. Following his instincts, he jumped up to the ceiling, hanging upside down, barely dodging large, white, claws that destroyed the walkway of where he was. Scorpion gained a full view of the dragon that looked like the exact opposite of Yin and it was also chained up as well. The dragon looked at the child in shock as it watched him crawl along the walls like an insect before dropping to the ground and staring at the dragon. Scorpion greeted the dragon with a dead tone stating that it must be the dragon called Yang.

Yang's expression went from shocked to enraged as a heavy pressure of murderous will was blasted into Scorpion but that only made his power react and his madness slowly began to leak. Yang felt the child's madness slowly began to push back its will shocking the dragon. Suddenly, images of itself dying flashed in its head. What made it so terrifying was the deaths weren't even physical, they all ended with it brain dead from mental and psychological trauma. Intelligent beings believe that physical torture is the worst kind of pain that leaves wounds, and scars. Wounds heal and scars fade but those who were not mentally healthy will forever have psychological trauma. Physical torture can break the mind and body but can be repaired, but mental torture can erase the mind, body, and spirit in a single swipe.

The dragon stopped his willpower before he was consumed by this child's madness who was now looking at him with a demonic smile as the veins on his face pulsated and the glow on his scar was extremely close to the breaking point. A cold silence echoed in the cave as the physical monster and mental monster continued their stares just waiting for one another to attack. Deciding to break the ice once again, Scorpion greeted the white dragon with a hint of steel and poison in his tone. The dragon, deciding to tread lightly had greeted him back and asking how did he know his name to which he replied that his mate Yin told him about him. Yang knew for a fact that his bond mate hated mortals and immortals as much as he did but if his mate gave this child her name it must mean that she trusts this child or she owed him a favor.

The dragon asked what was he doing here to which Scorpion replied that he was running away from samurais only to smash into some barrier that lit him on fire and crashed into the raging rapids and ended up out here unconscious. Yang laughed at him like a mad lunatic but the seriousness of the child's tone and attitude told him that it was no joke. After gaining his composure Yang asked that now that he was here, what did he want with him to which Scorpion stated that he owed a debt to his mate to free her and him and asked to learn what Yang-chi truly is. Once again, the dragon was shocked that a human or whatever the child was wanted to learn about his power instead of just demanding it and was dead set on freeing him and his mate just to pay off a minor debt? He was truly baffled.

As the child sat down on the floor looking up the dragon with child-like curiosity Yang was reminded of his mate's and his dream. Some dragons wanted power, some wanted destruction, some wanted treasure, but Yang and his mate wanted one thing in their lives and that was to have a child. Due to the Heavenly civil war and the fact that he was sterile and his mate had no embryos they were not able to, his mate took it harder than he did. But the way Scorpion looked at him made him feel like a father teaching his son about the difficulties of life. If his mate trusted the child with information about her power then he would slowly do the same. Yang went on to explain that his full name was Yang Ryūjin the dragon god of light and life. If he had looked closer, he would have seen Tarkata lightly twitch but remained calm.

Yang explained that Yang-chi is the source of all physical powers and deals with all creation that lives and breathes life. Yang-chi helps the body gain complete control of their cells, muscles, organs, and bones to become one with nature and gains control of the body's soul. Scorpion was fascinated and asked was it true that living things had more than one soul. Yang stated that it was true and began to tell a story about something called, "The Cores of Balance." He explained that all sentient beings have not 1, not 2, but 3 souls fused into one. The first soul is the "Soul of The Body." The soul of the body is the vessel that breathes all life and experiences the environment all around and records everything it goes through in muscle memory.

If one wishes to unlock one of these soul's powers, they must become one with its very energy and one would be able to, with training, surpass all limitations the physical form has placed upon itself. The next soul is the "Soul of The Spirit, this soul breathes the essence of magic and spiritual energy. It continues to live on in the afterlife after the body dies. The soul of the spirit takes a tiny fragment of energy from the soul of the body. Once the body soul is almost depleted, the fragment of the body soul attaches itself to spirit soul and slowly absorbs some of the spirit soul's energy to be reborn into the living again by way of reincarnation with all of the incarnation's memories wiped cleaned and sometimes their experiences turned into natural talent. If one is able to become one with the souls of the spirit and body, they will control how much one feeds off the other to achieve longevity and if one has mastered it, semi-immortality. They would also be able to control their reincarnation cycle to come back alive in their very own pod instead of waiting to be born again. It is repeated cycle of one living off the other.

That is the origin of the physical and spiritual souls and the birth of Yin-chi and Yang-chi, The opposite twins of the universe.

This confused Scorpion because he didn't understand how could they be twins when they are very different from each other. Seeing his confusion, Yang explained that the souls need each other to exist because without light there is no darkness and vice versa. He explained that even though they were opposites they always have a piece of each other, that there was always darkness in light and light in darkness and that good and evil is nothing but an illusion because something considered good could be corrupted and something considered evil could bring peace and that one must balance those ways if they wish to achieve the right path. This is where the third and most mysterious soul of them all come into play..."The soul of the mind." The soul of the mind is what controls both the spirit and body souls. It is this soul that upgrades both the body and spirit and give the being a limitless amount of potential and abilities.

With those three souls fused together, it makes a true soul. There were two ways that one unlocks the ability of the mental soul. The first method is to unlock their mindscape which holds everything in their essence. After that, they must find out what their mind represents and find it. After finding out where it comes from, one will encounter an orb or any other miscellaneous object of what their mental soul looks like and activate it by fusing with it. After becoming one with the soul they will have unlock the greatest ability to ever exist. An ability that takes millions of years by countless species reproducing again and again and again. The ability to evolve and devolve at will. What usually takes millenniums to evolve the power reduces the time immensely to days or weeks that works by absorbing kinetic energy.

However, the other way would be the strongest version that could make one evolve in minutes or seconds but comes with a horrid consequence. The other way to unlocking is to have been psychologically tortured for an extensive amount of time that would mutate the mental soul causing absolute insanity and would have a genetic hatred of all living beings no matter the race and become a true demon with a negative empathic ability. Scorpion had soaked in the wisdom like a sponge. However, by the way the Yang was describing his chi, he knew for a definitive fact that he went through the second method. Yang finished the story saying that luckily no one knew this or haven't suffered enough to activate it. This is where Scorpion proved him wrong.

As he got up platinum flames acting as the color chrome burst from his body looking at the dragon dead in the eyes shouting his demon and human names and what he suffered and gained. After that outburst, he collapsed to the ground on his knees. Yang, hearing the things the child suffered through was appalled, shocked, and livid. But most of all he felt shame and guilt. Shame for acting like a fool in front of someone that showed nothing but respect and guilty for trying to make the kid have a heart attack when he's already suffered enough. Dragons can do a lot of cruel things but the one thing that sickens all civil dragons is never torturing a child. Yin will surely kill him hypothetically or literally for this, especially if she trusted this child. Yang gently grabbed Scorpion and brought close to his upper jaw.

Scorpion reacted and began hugging him while the dragon merely patted his back softly with a finger. After the emotional episode and cool down, they continued to talk till the sun finally raised. Scorpion learned from Yang that anyone can create their own Yin-chi and Yang-chi but it was recommended that one unlocks the Yin-chi first before Yang-chi. After learning about all he could from the dragon about Yang-chi, Scorpion had stated the same directive that he would free him and Yin after saying his farewell to which the dragon amusedly replied to him not to be a stranger and that he'll be waiting.


Returning back to the village was harder than before due to the village being on high alert of someone tampering with the barrier that closed off the east side plus the dead samurai. After narrowly dodging Light samurai patrollers, he traveled back to a makeshift box home he made from behind the local library with his spare set of clothes and quickly changed his eye color back to zombie form. After performing the average hygiene cleansing, he got ready to build his ninja career and the first thing to do was to unlock both yin-chi and yang-chi through meditation. Setting himself in a comfortable position and his hands in the Dhyana Mudra Position, he slowly began to calm his minds and body. The true key to meditation is not to shut off all thoughts or emotions, the true way is every single thought must be stored in an alphabetical order by experience.

One must order the first thought they had since birth to the last thought. Yang had explained the reason this method was not used instead was because most beings were extremely impatient or were too cowardly to face the dark thoughts and dark experiences in their heads. Yang had sheepishly stated that he and Yin were kind of the lucky ones since they were created by the queens, they didn't have to experience that mind freak plus even they couldn't do it. He stated if one does, they will gain absolute balance in the mind and will be able to access their mindscape at the drop of a hat. Scorpion made it his mission to be the very first to master the art of meditation. With the information, Scorpion got to work on the exercises, after stilling his body and steadied his breathing he got to work on fixing his mind. Seconds turned into minutes, minutes turned into an hour.

10 hours of meditating was truly excruciating as Scorpion sweated in shaken resolve and mental exhaustion but kept on. On the 12th hour, Scorpion was at his limit and passed out. After passing out, Scorpion awoke to a blue sky with clouds and an endless field of grassy planes. 100 meters away from him, a building designed as the same library that he lived behind of and studied at was there. Scorpion slowly and cautiously walked inside marveling at the work he created. As he searched the library, he noticed that there were bookshelves all around and had many scrolls and a sign that said "Scorpion's Memories." Scorpion was amazed and proud of what he did. He finally unlocked his mindscape as memories from his past, present, and others he and his chi consumed was stored in scrolls and stored in slots in alphabetical order by the number of years he lived.

It was a wonder of why it took so long. Getting back to business, Scorpion then remembered what he was supposed to do here. According to what Yin told him, his evolving chi has consumed his body and his spirit soul. So, with that, he began exiting the building to search for the manifestations of his soul cores. A few minutes later, Scorpion came across a small stream. This immediately caught his attention because the stream had no regular water. The water was liquid chrome. This was his evolving chi. Slightly sticking his hand in the stream, Scorpion was once again filled with the intense feeling of power and madness. It was intoxicating, he felt the massive hatred grow as he craved for horror, chaos, and destruction. Scorpion took his hand away from the chi.

He knew that this power was extremely potent and knew that the hatred and madness had swallowed him but he will have absolute control of himself, not the other way around. This power helped him gain so much so that it took his mind, body, and spirit but it will not take his life. With that out of the way, Scorpion had continued on his following the stream. He had also finally remembered that this was his happy place away from the torture in the H.E.L.L. foundation. This was what he thought the outside world was like when they downloaded the knowledge into his head. The grassy planes, warm winds, blue skies with puffy marshmallows and colorful waters that looked so refreshing that made him always crave to drink it. That's when it hit him. The colorful waters!

Those waters were there before he first created them but every time, he got close to touching it or getting a taste he was viciously awakened or entered a comatose state. After a while of searching, he found what he was looking for. He stopped following the stream as it ended at a small hill that had a rocky waterfall that split the stream in two and mixed with two other streams as the went into two medium size pools designed as hot springs... One was the purest of gold mixed with chrome and the other was sapphire mixed with chrome, no doubt that it was his evolving chi infecting his Yin-chi and Yang-chi as well. Deciding to test a theory, Scorpion closed his eyes and concentrated. Sounds of moving earth and flowing waters entered his ears he began to remember what Yin had told him.

The inside of one's own mindscape are considered an all-powerful god and can do virtually anything in their mindscape. If that theory proved correct, Scorpion was going to abuse this ability to the bone. After five minutes, the noise stopped and Scorpion opened his eyes and was satisfied with what he saw. The two hot springs had turned into four hot springs that were moved into four sections like cardinal points with their own personal streams. Located in the north hot spring was his evolving chi that was no longer infecting his body and spirit energy as it now flowed like a calming river. On the east and west sides was his Yin-chi and Yang-chi that glowed with a beautiful bioluminescence of gold and sapphire cleaned from the corruption of his evolving chi. The final section was merely a pond that had three trenches filled with all three energies that perfectly blended together in the pond.

In the very middle showed a holographic projection of himself in the spread-eagle position and was surprised to see that it showed the conditions of his body, mind, and spirit and was surprised that it still said...Hybrid demonic human. He was filled with joy that he was human but confused about how he could be a demon as well and wondered how was it possible since Yin had said that he'd be a demon forever. The only thing that he could think of is when he exploded, his healing factor must have still been active and was working on keeping just his brains alive, healthy, and oxygenated before working the other parts. It also explains why it took a year. Not to mention the fact that since he has new reserves and system of evolving chi, it must have taken longer to consume his body and spirit since it was too weak which in a way made him half-human, half-demon.

Without wasting time, he disrobed into nothing but white loose boxers. Scorpion climbed down the hill, folding his clothes and setting them aside as he entered the east hot spring and sat down closing his eyes. Suddenly, Scorpion felt a strong, calm, cooling sensation flow throughout his entire body. The feeling was absolutely superb. It was just like that kiss that Yumi gave him but the feeling was multiplied to the 50th power. It felt like all the suffering that happened to him felt like he could brush it off and moved on with his life. Scorpion suspected that this must be his spiritual energy reserve and the gold one must be his physical energy reserve. After getting out of the Yin-chi pool, he headed toward the Yang-chi pool and performed the same position. A much different sensation flowed through his body, this power felt like absolute freedom, wild, untamed, and full of limitless stamina.

After getting out of the pool, Scorpion clothed himself, seeing that everything is in complete order. As he was about to leave, something caught his attention. He looked toward the pond in the south hot spring and saw 3 glowing orbs were floating in the mixed pond with the same colors as the sections of the pond. Scorpion could feel that whatever it was, it was calling for him and he followed the call. As he came toward the pond, he felt an unknown compulsion to walk into the middle of the pond and when he did, he was amazed that the mixed liquid acted like a solid as he walked on the pond of mixed energies. Stopping in the center of the pond, the orbs began spinning in a circle with the liquid following their signature orb. Scorpion watched on as the orbs began spinning faster and faster as he and the orbs began to levitate higher.

The orbs were moving faster than Scorpion could see and the pond was now a cyclone that shot up and turned into a waterspout twisting, turning, and being absorbed by the orbs. After a few minutes, the pond was empty and the orbs stopped on a dime and like a bullet, shot straight into his body which then a mixed aura of flames exploded from his body. The aura slowly died down as Scorpion started to descend back into the empty spring. Scorpion looked at the gold aura surrounding his body changed to platinum, to sapphire, and then back to gold before deactivating his powers. He had done it. He has finally unlocked his Yin-chi and Yang-chi. And to top it all off, he has safely fused his evolving chi with them giving him balance.

As Scorpion consciousness began to fade from his mindscape meaning he was awakening, he thought of the perfect name for his power. Tarkata began awakening and looked around seeing that the sun had set, he felt pure exhaustion in his mind and body but tried to will a little power into his hand. A mixed aura of sapphire, platinum, and gold enveloped his hand and the scar on his eye. Tarkata canceled his power and sighed in elation and satisfaction, he has accomplished part one of his long-term goals and now was a time to get started on the next plan. But, for now, he will celebrate this achievement and take a break. As he groggily got up, he began exploring the village. The art of Sānwèiyītǐ chi or the "Chi of Trinity" has been born.

Now his legacy can begin.


(The End of Chapter 1: part 1)

(And there you have my loyal readers. Some parts rewritten and some abilities revised. I hoped this has given you a more in-depth informant of my OC and possibly fixed all the mistakes. There will be more coming so get ready for part 2 and on my behalf, I thank you all for your patience and support. Farewell warriors.)