Continuation
Hope you like it! I know it's still short chapters but I can't help it! It goes with the flow more than I originally planned! Anyway back to the story!
Chapter 2: Enter: Kurai Nohana
"Where would I be if I was the humans?" Wondered Kurai out loud. He had been walking all over the place, as he couldn't find anyone that he needed. He didn't quite knew it yet but he's stranded on a battlefield, not to mention he's right in the middle of it
"Hm... I really have a bad sense of direction" he muttered to himself. For the past millennia, the only thing that didn't improve was his terrible sense of direction. But on most cases, thanks to it, he would end up someplace where he wanted to be in just a few seconds. Hopefully that would shone on him that day
He sensed some figures were approaching him as he summoned his scythe before he cautiously looked around his surroundings. The shadows were helping quite a bit because he was able to see what they saw, too bad the sun was at its highest peek meaning the shadows were directly below everything which made him harder to see the whole area
A swish of a sword was heard from behind. Kurai, who had master the ways of the "Death Scythe" nearly a thousand years ago, blocked the strike easily by simple using the skull on the edge to push back the blade. Again, he felt another presence. He looked up to see a giant club above him, almost instantly shadows began to cover his upper side, blocking the club
His eyes widened as he saw two circular wheels and several arrows heading towards him covered in fire, 'Not good!' He thought. As a shadow user, his only weakness is light. Even fire could extinguish the darkness he had. He was a demon of the darkness place in hell, but how ironic he ended up serving the Jade emperor who was the leader of Heaven. Total opposites
His shadow began to make the portal he used to transport himself as hands began to drag him from below. He disappeared in one pull and appeared again not too far away from them, his heart was beating fast. He panted slightly before asking, "Who are you? And why are you attacking me?"
The figures narrowed their eyes as a third one appeared. It was Kurai's turn to narrow his eyes. One figure was an old man but was very buff and in too shape as he looked at the muscles of the old man. Wearing a red armor and his white hair tied in a braid, he was the one who wielded the pig headed club. Just from being in front of him, he could tell that the elder warrior was stronger than his age
His eyes widened however at the other 2 figures. One was a man, brown haired, modern clothing as he used a light lavender colored, flack jacket with a hood and a zipper. Black trousers and boots, wielding a sword with him. A white and red badge could be seen on the warrior's right breast.
The last was a woman, wearing a red armor as well. You couldn't really describe it as an armor, but more like clothing. A tight red shirt and a crimson mini skirt. He just tanked the Jade emperor that the woman was wearing brown pants beneath that. She also wore a red bandana with a flower on it and chocolate colored gloves. The one wielded those gigantic rings and arrows were her as he saw her holding those weapons
"Hey! We should be the ones who asked you that!" Said the woman. Kurai rose his eyebrow before chuckling and stabbed his weapon on the ground, "Forgive me then. May I introduce myself, Kurai Nohana from the Mystic Realm. I serve the Jade Emperor as one of his servant and as you can see, I am a demon myself" he said as he bowed gracefully to them
The three warriors lowered their weapons slightly, still quite curious on the new figure that was known as Kurai, "Then what is your goal here? In this world?" Asked the elder. He lifted himself back up again before answering, "I'm here for personal reasons, to free a certain dragon from the snake's fangs. I am sure you know who I meant"
The other male rose his eyebrow as he stabbed his own sword on the ground, he walked closer to him and started to inspect him from head to toe, "I don't sense any lie radiating from you" he said before going back to the group. Kurai nodded as the woman looked at him with confusion, "'A dragon from a snake's fangs?' Who is he?" She asked.
Kurai simply looked at the sky before answering, "Orochi, of course. Or his true name, Yinglong" he said. That took them aback slightly, what does he meant by that? Orochi's true name is Yinglong? What does it mean?
"I am sure you have a lot of questions, Master Huang Gai-" the elder warriors looked at him with surprised eyes, "Master Sterkenburg-" the younger one narrowed his eyes, "-and the Princess of the Wu Kingdom, Lady Shang Xiang" she gasped slightly
Kurai chuckled before saying, "I have come here to recruit 9 specific warriors with a certain item that is strong enough to seal away a portion of his dark energies. No one will be sacrificed but those warriors will be the bearer of those items" he explained. Sterk looked at him suspiciously
"And who are these warriors?" Asked Huang Gai. Kurai pointed at Sterk and Sun Shang Xiang. The war veteran looked at him as if he was crazy, "I have studied seals and so much more for over a millennia, and I am very much certain that Master Sterk and Lady Shang Xiang held that item"
Again, Sterk narrowed his eyes as he grabbed his sword, "Then tell me what are these items" he demanded with a very low growl. Kurai twitched, no wonder Sterk was known as the "Devil Face". Though he wondered, how could he maintain his looks when he was almost middle aged? He looked like as if he was 25 years old and yet he's 39! He thought only immortals could do that!
Not to mention he was good-looking as well, the only problem he had was that his only friends were pigeons, "The items, right" he pointed towards Sterk's crimson badge, "That is item number 1. Item number 2 is not with us, unfortunately. It's kept in Lady Shang Xiang's tent, the iron combined with silver bow that you received from your father" the bow princess was shocked
How does he knew that? Why would-!? Where!? What! But most importantly HOW!? It seemed he was right in studying some things over the past millennia. The three warriors lowered their weapons, seeing that this Kurai was telling the truth, "Very well then. You can explain your little plan once we gathered the rest of the 9 in our camp" Sterk said in stern voice
Kurai nodded in agreement until he felt something tingling. He shot out several shadows towards them, shocking the warriors. But all of them had missed to reach the supposedly his target, Sterk was the first to recover. He looked behind to see several, blue reptilian soldiers. Stabbed and bleed to death. He gave Kurai his infamous death glare, "You should have at least warn us about them" he said as the shadows began to shrank
He chuckled softly before saying, "Forgive me, but I'm a man with few words sometimes and it's better if I didn't say anything or else you'd be cut into pieces anyway" Sterk sweat dropped as he sighed on Kurai's antics, "Anyway, I should be going. I have a few other people I must look before my plan could come to fruition. I'll see you back in the camp" with that he disappeared in a black flash.
Huang Gai looked at them wrote asking, "Should we trust him?" Sun Shang Xiang thought about it, "Maybe it's best if we ask the mystics first. They'll know what to do" she looked at Sterk to earn his confirmation. He nodded, "The mystics know more about him since he is from the same realm as they were. Come, princess. Let us go" she nodded and walked towards the direction he was going.
Huang Gai sighed before joining them. That Sterk... As a knight's duty, he will always protect the princess. No matter who they were or where they were from, 'Thanked god no one called Tamamo a princess or else he would be our enemy'
The dusk had set, the sky was glimmering brightly. In a camp, not so far away from the trio of Sterk, Huang Gai and Sun Shang Xiang, Fu Xi looked up te sky. His silver armor illuminated little light as the sun began to sink over the horizon. Sakon was right beside him, a scar-faced man with the intellectual mind f many.
"Do you think we can defeat Tamamo with our current strength? It seemed impossible with her kidnapping our warriors every now or then" Sakin spoke to him. Fu Xi nodded, it was so true. With the Shīnkyo at her hands, Daji and the remaining Orochi army at her side it seemed impossible. How on earth would they stop a nine tailed fox from raging wildly outside?
They then heard footsteps as they saw Sterk was on their way towards them. Huang Gai decided to hit the hay early to flexed his big muscles, while Shang Xiang had a training meeting with her bodyguard Lian Shi, "My lords, forgive me to have interrupted your meeting but I have come to ask a question" he bowed to them
Sakin looked at him strangely before saying, "It's alright, we didn't do anything much but figuring how to defeat Tamamo. So what's your question? And before you ask, stand up for god's sake. No need to be too formal around us" He asked the knight. Sterk nodded before dusting himself off while standing up
"The question is concerned around master Fū Xi however" he said to the strategist. Fu Xi perked up before letting him continue. It was the first time that Sterk had asked them a question, he would always isolate himself with his pigeons, "Do you know a demon that goes by the name 'Kurai Nohana'?" If he was drinking something, them he would spit that drink into Sterk's baby face and chocked to death
Sakin saw his reaction as began to worry for his friend. What if this Kurai person was allied with Tamamo? And who was he that could make Fu Xi like that? "Oi, you alright?" He began to shook his shoulder a bit. That seemed to have worked as he snapped out of his trance, "Y-yeah, I'm fine. But did you say Kurai Nohana?" He asked Sterk again, he earned his confirmation
"Is he our ally or enemy? We met him after today's battle, claiming that he needed 9 warriors to help him seal a dark energy radiating from Orochi and he saved us from some Orochi soldiers by using his shadows as weapons. He also claimed that he is from the Mystic Realm like you" he said.
Fu Xi was more than interested as he heard his claims, but this Kurai person... His name was Nohana, he could use shadows as his weapons and from the Mystic Realm... Could it be-?
"Fu Xi? Do you know him?" Salon asked him as he saw his friend thinking ever so hardly, the said mystic nodded, "I think so. He sounded awfully familiar to a certain someone I failed to protect" he said. Sakon raised his eyebrow as he waited for an explanation. Sterk was also interested to hear his side of the story
"He sounded like the young demon he took in, a friend of mine from long ago. He said to protect him if something ever happened to him, but I lost him after that... That incident" his voice grew lower as quieter as he remembered the past. Sure the interrogation part of Sakon and Sterk were pushing, they held it inside to give him some time
"I... See. Anyway, back to Kurai" Sakin said, changing the topic, "He wanted 9 generals from our world to seal Orochi's powers? Now why would he want to do that?" He asked. Sterk shrugged, "That is currently a mystery for us. Trusting him so fast would be very foolish but what choice do we have? We don't have any lead on Tamamo's actions"
Sakon nodded as he waited for Fu Xi. He had been quiet ever since Kurai was bought up, did he really failed his friend's quest? That was really, uncalled for. He couldn't blame the man for that though, soon enough he would have speak on who this friend was and how he made his promise with him. For now, they would just wait and let time tell
To be Continued...