The Midnight Wolf Of Terror

The Princess was still shaking as the Celestials comforted her, Waka kneeling in front of her as Amaterasu watched the Imps approaching.

"Who was that Princess? Who is Mori?" he asked and she looked up and shivered.

"He is a curse upon this land… right hand man to the demon who has a grip on our dying land. He is a demon of unimaginable strength with evil intentions and connections…" she muttered and everyone else shivered. The drums in the distance could be heard getting closer, but Amaterasu watched still, growling softly. She squinted as the army halted, still drumming, the imps taunting her and the armed Celestials, screeching and jumping up and down. She took a step forward and instantly she was frozen by an evil presence that had not been felt since she left Earth. Her legs trembled as she growled, her teeth clenched as she was slowly forced to the stone walkway, unable to move. The Celestials saw her and ran to her, only to meet the same fate.

"W-what is going on?" shouted a celestial, and he gasped as, from behind the army rose a black ball, as black as the night, with red jagged lines all over it. The lines began to glow a dark red as it approached.

"Y-Yami!" shouted the Celestials, causing Waka and the Princess to look up quickly. An echoed laugh rung from the shadows all around them, the light blue sky slowly fading to black, as if it was dyed. The darkness consumed the sky and only the moon and stars remained.

"So… Amaterasu… You've returned to the Plains? How stupid of you… Don't you see the terrible condition it is in? I did this, and I will not let you try to take it back… sure I may have over looked that one simple issue of that damned tree… but no more trees exist that will do that. You and all of the Celestials will perish beneath my forces!" the voice shouted and from the shadows behind the Celestials materialized five deep purple hydra heads. The eyes were blood red, their scales a sickly very light green, and their teeth surprisingly white. They hissed and snapped at the Celestials, while one of the heads slowly moved towards the Princess.

"You should just give up now Princess… you see? Look around you…" and as she did, she saw the once defeated enemies that Amaterasu had vanquished: Orochi, Ninetails, The Spider Queen, Yami, the Crimson Helm, and a human sized Blight. These foes were terrifying to see, due to their demon-sidedness. The Crimson Helm snorted, fire and smoke billowing out his nostrils. He stood ten feet tall, was six feet wide and seven feet long. He resembled that of a bull wearing armor all over his body as flames licked the ground and his hooves. He flexed his muscles, holding two large dark gray swords with golden hilts. He had the symbol for fire upon the helmet.

Orochi was perhaps the tallest of all of the demons. He was around fifteen feet tall, had eight snaking and winding heads with dark gray scales. The heads were around ten feet long and five feet wide. Each head looked relatively the same, the only part that differed was the helmets with the elemental symbols of fire, water, light, darkness, poison, earth, wind, and lightning. Each head snaked around and gazed at Waka and the Celestials, watching them cower.

Blight slowly took out his sword, the green flames licking it as he withdrew it. He was nothing more than a suit of armor impaled by dozens of swords. Normally he would be smaller than small, but he was a larger, fire feet tall size.

The Spider Queen hissed and got really close to Wakas' face, sniffing. She was the second tallest of the enemies that was there, standing twelve feet tall, with eight long skinny legs. She had mangy black hair that fell in her face and a mouth which seemed to be able to unhinge itself. She had no eyes on her light, pale blue skin. As the Princess cowered she peered behind her to see the last two enemies: Ninetails and Yami.

Ninetails was much larger than Amaterasu , standing only ten feet tall. His fur was not snow white, but it was white with a yellow tint to it. His eight tails swayed in the air, the tips of the tails, which resembled paint brushes, swatted the air. He growled, holding a large and very long sword with L shaped rods attached at on the blade. Lighting pulsed from it, slowly traveling up the blade as he stepped forward. And finally, the most demonic of all of them, the Dark Lord Yami. The most simple of them all, yet the most fearsome of all.

Yami was in his final form, a midnight black, five fingered claw with red lines all over the hand and fingers. In the center was a small circle that held his true form. The seven enemies all watched the Celestials as the Purple Hydra head spoke one more.

"You see? You stand no chance against us… The Plains are ours now!" it roared and shot at the Princess, its mouth wide open. A black blur shot out of the crowd and the hydra head screeched and flailed, blood spraying from its mouth. The midnight black wolf stood there, a sword with a star hilt in his mouth, blood dripping off the yellow blade. The Hydra roared at him and slowly faded.

"You are a traitor Morisondo! You will die with them!" and the hydra vanished, the sky returned to normal after the darkness faded. The seven demons watched Morisondo as he turned to face them and he let the sword out of his mouth. It slowly fell to the ground before spinning and returning to his back. He watched them and they watched him back, both side silent. Then, Morisondo spoke, to break the silence.

"You had all the opportunities in the world to strike and take out Amaterasu and the Celestials… Yet you did not. What held you back?" he asked and Orochi growled.

"We do, of course, hate both Amaterasu and the Celestials… but we worked for Yami, who is the most powerful being alive… we are not going to let that thing wipe out the race we tried so hard to do thousands of years ago! Nor the Goddess they worship so much! That is our job. So long as there are foes out there aiming to finish our goals that Yami had, we will protect them and fight off their enemies so we can finish them off ourselves!" The five nodded, and Yami clicked his fingers together as Amaterasu leaped in the air, growling. Yami turned slightly and her Reflector met his finger as she hurled it at him. The flames and the reflector hit his finger, sending sparks flying.

"Amaterasu calm yourself. Save your strength for the battle that lies ahead. You of all need it the most." Chuckled the wolf as he walked towards her. She landed on the ground, growling as Waka and the Princess ran to her. Morisondo spoke to the seven as Waka and the Princess spoke to Amaterasu.

"You must travel to the land of mortals, Waka and Amaterasu…" she said quietly. "We are low on numbers... and we hate to do this but we must bring mortals to aid us... we are breaking all the rules here... we are involving innocent mortals to our combat and that alone breaks a few commandments we have made in the pas... but this must be done. We will not survive otherwise! The two nodded and rushed towards the Arc. The Celestials watched them, the ship slowly powering up. The seven demons watched them and Morisondo nodded at them as the ark began to hover off the ground. Waka went to pull a lever to slowly take them down to earth but accidentally pressed the button that powered the ship down.

"And why did I make such a damn button! And why there?" shouted Waka, and the Arc fell towards the Earth. The Arc rushed past the clouds, lightning skimming the side of the ship. It slowly gain speed, the lightning skimming the ship as it raged towards the ground. Amaterasu stood on the front of the Arc, against what Waka said, but soon enough was thrown inside by the lightning that struck just in front of her. She rushed beside Waka and watched as they quickly closed in upon the Mortal plain.

End of The Midnight Wolf of Terror

Next Chapter: The Reunion!