Raidou Kuzunoha XVIII Minato Arisato!
Case 4: A Glimpse into the past.
A crash. Blazing blue light, and a silent roar of white flames.
A large white muscled and mechanical being emerged forth from Minato's body.
Large chains surrounded and encased most of the creatures torso, rattling creating a bone chilling screech of ghostly wails... a large rock was attached to the chains and strapped to the giants back and eagle like wings.
White flaming streams burst from several sections of his arms, legs and eyes. A crooked black and bronze like sword gripped in his right hand.
Takaya stared at the being, then scowled in disgust. "That's not who I was looking for".
His words created a taste and pain like deadly poison stabbing into your veins.
"Hm, Takaya you won't get what your looking for here. I merged them all together with this evoker. To get to Thanatos you'll need to rip his psyche apart somehow. Can you really do that safely?"
Orpheus made a wide smile and then turned to Minato, who stared at the large figure floating above him.
"Who are you?" Minato asked, and it replied.
"I am Prometheus . The god who lives in eternal torture for bringing man the joys of fire and the form of human kind. I shall serve as your new guardian from now on!".
The giant then howled in pain, then leapt forth, and began to rip apart the bodies of the Hypnos's, relishing the sensation of death and destruction. Swings of its crooked blade rapidly at the sleeping god's it was attacking.
Minato felt like fire was burning through every cell and pour of his body, rage and a sense of familiarity and peace simultaneously surged through out his emotions, power. Pure power was what he felt.
"MAGNADYNE!" Minato yelled at the top of his voice, straining his lungs as he felt the impulsive wish to destroy. Prometheus raised its blade, swung it down, and the ground shook in fear.
It raged forth and towered over the area, a tidal wave of concrete and stone, charging towards a single man. Takaya was engulfed by the waves of earth and was soon buried beneath the wrecked ground, bones shattered to pieces.
Prometheus disappeared into blue light and Minato fell to the ground, barely with any vision or strength left, lifting his head to see the results of his attack.
The earth had shattered and crumbled before his force, the sheer damage was devastating to behold.
Minato was scared of the force he had unleashed. He then realised. He had killed another human being.
Or so he thought. Water began to seep from the mess of over turned soil and began to form a shape.
A human shape. Takaya.
He flexed his body and moved his neck. Then sighed. "Well that's all for today. Goodbye. We'll return upon the next full moon. Please do not disappoint and show me a better performance".
Minato's head fell as Takaya walked away. He had almost killed a man in cold blood.
As a summoner he would need to apprehend the man. But as a person... as Minato Arisato he...
He wanted to kill him. It was against every fibre in his being but... he wanted revenge.
He closed his eyes. And then dreamt of the past.
(Minato, first person)
"Nii-san! You forgot didn't you!" A cheery red haired girl pushed a small silent blue haired boy.
He looked away but smiled. "Yeah, I forgot. Let me guess, you want to go out today so I can buy the anniversary gift for mom and dad?"
The red haired girl nodded and grinned. Hamuko Arisato. My sister. Wait... this day!
I reached out to my younger self, but in my hands I held nothing. No. Why!
I don't want to remember this day! My sister, and I... we got into the car with mom and dad.
We asked to go out to shop that day. Everything looked fine, it was normal. It was supposed to be a simple normal day dammit!
My sister and I ran off and went to use some money to buy some presents, we were dumb little kids back then. But it was fun. I wouldn't go out much or talk to people, but my sister was there to cheer me on and encourage me to step out into the world.
Like the sun and the moon. She was always burning brightly, happy and jovial.
I was always silent and shone the light off the sun. Well that was how I thought about it back then...
It was the day before the anniversary... and I forgot... or maybe I didn't really care. But my sister always did her best to help out others and appreciate people. She wouldn't forget the birthday of anyone she knew and things like that.
She had bought a bunch of presents and stuff in advance and hid them away. I was lazy and didn't really give much effort into picking out a present, not sure what would be good or what they would want.
My sister would say "As long as its something to show how you care and feel about other people right?" So I finally picked a gift and then we then ran back to find our mom and dad.
But we were obviously lost. I then lost some of my stuff, so my sister searched for it. Before we knew it, it was night time. Eventually we decided just to find out mom and dad and go home.
Looking back it was pretty stupid. Even then I knew in the back of my mind that they knew what we were up to.
But they played along to try to make us happy. We finally found the car and our parents, they were worried sick of course and we all then started to go home after they scolded us.
I fell asleep in the car so I don't know what happened. But when I woke up I was under the corpses of my parents and others. Their eyes dead and white, their bodies rotting, but what was sick was the large smiles scarred into their faces, staring at me. But then they slowly started to move.
I couldn't move. I was trapped. Enclosed in a pile of moving smiling corpses of people I cared about. So I stayed silent, but the contorted corpses just smiles more and began to approach closer...
Their ruined bloody jaws opened. I couldn't hold it any more. I screamed!
Then... fire. Black purple fire! Right that was Orpheus! The mechanical silent man had eradicated the undead creatures... he was dying though.
Bullet holes and large rusty patches, along with severe damage and a spear had impaled into his body. He knelt down and looked at me. He smiled for a second before the pain caused him to grimace.
I saw my sister. I rushed forward. I grabbed her, I saw soulless eyes crying, I shook her body frantically, yelling her name trying to wake her from her daze, but she wouldn't respond.
She fell down in a near lifeless and motionless state. As if she wasn't in this world, and the will to live was stolen from her.
Then I saw the red cloaked figure with his dumb mask. Gun in hand and slasher smile. Gleaming murderous golden eyes. Around him was demons. And water danced around the red man.
He walked towards me. Orpheus rushed forth, ignoring his pain, and threw himself in front of me.
A bullet lodged into his head, and he turned to dust. My body shook in madness and fear.
I bit my lip in my terrified state, blood dripping on the ground. I balled my fists and ran forward.
I punched at the man, but nothing worked, a child fighting a monster wouldn't have a chance.
I just collapsed. I cried. I didn't know why this happened. What I did to deserve this.
I couldn't do anything. Nothing but a powerless child. And then I heard the turn of the gun barrel.
I scrambled up and tried to run. But no bullet every came. Instead a clash of metal and raining blood. A man clad in black, wielding a gun and blade, fighting the demons, tearing their bodies apart, fighting the red cloaked man.
He had saved me. I then fainted. Then next day I was in an odd traditional home... and became part of the Kuzunoha's. (Now leaving Minato's memory and point of view)
Minato groaned as he awoke. A white room and a hospital bed. He wiped away at his sleepy eyes and looked around. He saw everyone else standing by him.
"Hey your awake. Man you had me worried, you've been out for a whole week". Akihiko sighed and was now relieved. Minato pushed his body up and grabbed his headphones by the table and put them around his neck.
"After we fought off those guys we found you, you really wrecked the place dude. It took a lot of magic from your demons to clean that place up. Those guys were strong as hell. We were lucky to beat them off. I guess we'll have to train up or something next time".
"Oh, and all the people at the concert didn't remember a thing. And all the pain and blood they lost almost seemed to have never been there at all. It was freaky. Well as long as their okay, I guess".
Junpei finished speaking and then walked to a nearby bed and laid on it.
"When you get better you can leave here, do some light training and we'll get back onto some cases! Next time we meet those bastards were going to crush them. Anyway get your rest okay?"
Minato nodded as everyone left the room, Orpheus walked up to Minato who smiled.
"Hey, thanks for saving me as a kid". Orpheus looked embarrassed but then looked at Minato.
"Hey, its natural right? Because Thou art I and I art Thou".
Minato felt a feeling of peace, nodded, and then fell asleep.
Authors Note:
Okay I tried writing Minato first person, it probably wasn't very good so sorry.
Also forgive me for the short chapter but I need to get my sleeping pattern back on track before I think I can make large active updates. My school's going start back up in a few days... ugh.
Also I decided to give Minato a version of Prometheus because... well it makes a lot of sense when you consider their situations.
Anyway enjoy the following omake!
Junpei: Okay guys and girls! We got something special for you!
Chidori: You people get to choose the next arc.
Minato: Yup. See the authors pretty scatter brained with plot, so he's made these options to help your experience and it'll help him write.
Akihiko: So here are three scenario's you can pick from. Small cases we'll occur and eventually lead up to the main focus of that arc.
Yukari & Aigis: So here are you options!
Hamuko Arisato, rival and sister.
Shinjiro and the Deluge.
Jin's Judgement.
The Other Summoner.
Souji: Now depending on what you pick different events will happen and different characters will interact. For example, picking Hamuko will cause her to appear in the story and characterise Minato and her more, along with their past and what occurred at the Kuzunoha's.
Takaya: If you pick Jin's option I will die in the story sooner on. And Jin will be the first "boss battle" as you people would call it. Wait what?
Akihiko: Why the hell are you here!
Takaya:... I do not know.
…
Minato starts spamming the Jin option.
Igor: However, if you stay your hands from that option he may die an even more gruesome death later on.
Minato stops and is considering what he should do...
Akihiko: Picking Shinjiro would make him be the next party member, and will show more of the underlying plot that'll be slowly piecing together to the final section of the story. However if you pick Hamuko before Shinjiro they might be a pairing.
Tam Lin: Choosing the Other Summoner will cause more characterisation to us demons as well as Minato making more social links to help him evolve as a character.
Minato: So audience pick wisely.
