The First Hunters

by Wblade01

The world of Remnant is full of Fairy tales. Some are about Monsters, Creatures of unimaginable powers that are hellbent on destroying everything. Some are about heroes, people of all age and sizes from different walks of life achieving the impossible. This one in particular is about both of them at once and this story tells of them being a Monster, and a Hero.

4. Chapter 4

AN. WB- sorry for posting this up a bit later on monday than my usual early post. I just wanted to tell you guys that college just started up for me and TW so things are going to be a bit hectic as we try to balance things out. Hopefully once we get use to the new semester beginning and everything gets in order. This is just a quick warning for the future if anything happens that prevents us from getting the next chapter done on time. That's all I had to say for now, thanks for listening and enjoy the chapter.

Also a Shout Out to rubberduck248 for guessing my OC's anime origin.

Chapter 4: Origins part 2- The Storm

Magatsu's Point of View

Today was suppose to be just a simple day, albeit somewhat special. I just finished training with the great toad summonings of Mt. Myoboku on how to harness the power of nature, senjutsu. I was heading back home to the hidden leaf village, the last shinobi village left that survived the passing of the age of chakra, the life energy within all humans that allow them to do amazing things. Although if you weren't careful with your chakra and spam it all before you can recover it you would die, after all it is the energy of life.

A long long time ago during the 4th shinobi war, the final shinobi war that occurred and one that would decide everything on the course of future we shinobi would take. The legendary shinobi Naruto Uzumaki and his allies, the five great shinobi village, fought in that war against a legendary shinobi of the past. Madara Uchiha who wanted to put the entire world into an illusion using the moon as a medium where everyone would live in a fake world created by him. Naruto himself fought in the war for days on end without any sleep and at the end of it all they succeeded and triumphed against Madara Uchiha. ending the 4th great shinobi war. As the times past, the need for shinobi gradually disappeared and eventually all the remaining shinobi decided to leave from the history of the world quietly.

As the shinobi population dwindled the came together to live in a single village together, the hidden leaf village. They would hide in the open by living with people whilst continuing to train in the shinobi art as it is their heritage, something they wouldn't let die out. For they trained not only to preserve the shinobi culture but also to make sure that they are ready, for the day that they would be needed again should this world face a darkness that it couldn't handle. The shinobi will arise once again if needed. Generations down the line shinobi bloodlines had special abilities that were only usable by those within their own family,the bloodlines began to mix and if you look through a modern shinobi's family tree you could see people from all five great shinobi village linked together. Everyone living in the village today could find a link in their family line to anyone of the five great village if they looked deep enough.

I myself am linked to the nara clan and uzumaki clan this means my bloodline allows me to be able to manipulate shadows and conjure adamantine chains to use freely. Although that wasn't what you were restricted to though, everyone has an affinity with one or possibly more with the five elements fire, wind, earth, water, and lightning. With training you could learn to manipulate the powers of these elements to your advantage in many amazing ways. My affinities I was born were Fire and Wind, but even if you were born with an affinity towards something you would still have to train because an affinity just shows what would be easier for you to learn. So theoretically you could learn all five element.

Even through all of this though we still had the fire shadow or Hokage, the leader of the hidden leaf village who acts to keep us strong and hidden until we're needed again by the world. I was offered it but turned down the role and gave it to my younger brother instead, he actually wants the job and it would get in the way of me taking it easy 'hahaha'. Anyway like I said, I was heading back home after mastering senjutsu from the toads and today was also supposed to be my younger brother's coronation as the hokage. Halfway to my village though I suddenly got a letter from a lion cub, the summoning animals used by my younger brother. Just got orders to go check out New York for this virus outbreak that occurred a few days ago and to possibly end it if possible, if not call for backup.

"All passengers please prepare for landing in ten minutes" announced the pilot over the intercom.

'Hmm… guess I'm almost in Vermont, that was a nice long nap I had. Haha although if any of the other leaf shinobi knew I took a plane here instead of the more traditional way of running my ass here or at least a private plane instead of a public one, god what a lecture I'll receive.'

Luckily though this is a solo mission and I have authority over myself on what I feel is necessary to do the job.

"All passengers may now take off their seatbelts and head out through the door in a fashionable order" said the pilot.

With that line I proceeded to walk my way out the plane door and without anyone noticing me I vanish using high speed movements. In a blink of an eye I was outside the airport and standing on top of it for a better view. Ah, there it is I thought. My eyes zoomed in forward as if I was seeing tunnel vision and saw that new york had some activities going on, soldiers in black were fighting against these…. Humanoid creatures. If i'm not wrong I would say their zombies, but these guys have bloated body parts on them, yellowish decaying skin, and… seem as if their hands are like knives. The zombies I supposed, thats what i'll call them for now, are rushing at the soldiers quite fast although I guess zombies are stronger than average.

"Open fire" a soldier shouted.

All the soldiers in formation shot numerous bullet at the zombies and in seconds the small group of zombies were killed.

"Quarantine the area until all traces are erased" ordered their commander.

Hmm…. seems this outbreak might be more than I thought it was. Although these zombies don't seem that tough considering how easy those soldiers eliminated them. But the questions I need to figure out is how this virus started. Lets try increasing my range of perception. I jumped down from the top of the building and landed quietly on the cement floor. I then shunshin, a shinobi technique that allows the user to move at extremely high speed movement in a straight line with a burst of chakra, all the way to the top of one of the tall buildings covering new york.

Alright first let me get something to cover me first I thought. One of the shinobi art is fuinjutsu or in English, sealing techniques. The art of sealing is a diverse powerful skillset and not something everyone can just learn, it takes years of studying to understand the intricacies to use it. It took me 14 years starting all the way when I was 8 years old to become a master with this, and even then once you become a master the only limit left was your own imagination and ability.

Writing down the symbols needed I created my vision restriction seal, a full 3 dimensional barrier that makes it so that no one can see anything inside the barrier. This will make it easier for me to concentrate on what I'm going to do without needing to worry about anyone seeing me. I sat down on the floor cross legged and began to meditate.

I began to channel into me the chakra of nature itself, this is what allows me to be able to use the senjutsu that I learned from the toad sages. It was a tough and rigorous training because if I messed up taking in natural energy then I would have turned into stone and killed myself. The results are worth it though if you master the senjutsu art, the short version of senjutsu's effect on me is that I gained a huge power boost and can sense chakra for quite the distance. Having the title of Sage under your belt is also pretty cool too. I close my eyes and began drawing in more nature chakra even faster and once I was done I entered sage mode. I extended my senses all across of new york to get a better feel of what's going on in this city and holy shit everything is in a state of frenzy waiting to be unleashed.

I could senses a lot of fighting going on away from public eye, must be from the soldiers and the group they belong to. There were also these places filled with… I don't know what to call them but they were in like a hotspot I suppose. These zombies seems to be coming from there and slowly spreading out across the city. Slowly but steadily they were increasing in size and there were more of them. Those soldiers seems to be stationed throughout almost every few blocks of new york and containing this virus. They're doing a good job for now but to me everything feels like a dam on the verge of breaking and they're just putting duct tape on it. This… has been going on for much longer than just a few days, but when could it have started? Let's try a close encounter. I extended my senses to search for anymore possible conflict happening at the moment and jackpot. There's a group of soldiers searching for anymore zombies in an old building about 3 miles from me, perfect for a small horde of them to hide out and start spreading. With a shunshin I made my way over there and used my Chameleon technique, the technique works by bending light to make the user invisible and have no shadow or scent.

I followed the soldiers in black close by until they encounter the zombies who began charging at them. Just like last time the soldiers took out the zombies pretty fast, but these zombies didn't have bladed arms. Now I think I'll just borrow one of these guys real quick. Just as I was about to take one of these guys to interrogate I heard a loud growl and out of nowhere the walls was smashed open. The wall broke down and I saw what caused it. It was some sort of giant zombie dog ape thing with no skin or eyes. It stood on all fours with sharp claws on its hand and feet with a jaw full of large teeth. Even on all four it was about 6 ft tall and it look pretty damn big. Without waiting the creature leaped forward and immediately mauled one of the soldiers to death. The soldiers in panic started firing all their rounds onto the creature but it seems like it didn't really have much of an effect on it at all. It swiped it's claw and killed two soldiers in one attack and started rampaging on the soldiers.

While this was happening I activated the flashing weapon seal on my palm, a seal that allows me to store non living things within it to act as a storage that I can take things out of, and took out my sword. My sword didn't have anything fancy on it like most other shinobi. It was simply designed like a katana but instead it was straight and didn't have the signature curve or even a hand guard. The length of my blade was also only about 19 inches long and another difference is how thick the blade of my sword is compared to other swords. It wasn't long or super sharp, hell it wasn't even that good of a blade and was only a bit above average at best. But I made this freaking sword myself and it'll be the only sword I'll ever use in my life. This is my most important weapon and even should I receive the legendary thunder god sword used by the second hokage, within a heartbeat I would choose this sword over the thunder god sword. Call me sentimental but hey, I don't mind.

By now all of the soldiers were dead and the only two left alive were this thing and me. Silently I leaped up and stick my feet to the roof of the room by using chakra. I walked forward and got above the thing before letting myself fall down and thrusting my blade downward into it's brain. It got angry and started shaking me off so I jumped off his head and let go of my invisibility jutsu. Then it looked at me and saw what had hurt it. Then it decided to go berserk and started swiping its arm wildly at me in an attempt to kill me. Too bad for him though, I'm a shinobi and speed is a forte all shinobi's should normally have against their opponent. To me this thing was practically just like a kid trying to hit a world champion fighter. But I don't really wanna touch it too much, so I guess I'll use that. Weaving the hand signs necessary I used my kagemane jutsu, the shadow imitation jutsu. What it does is it extends my own shadow and allows me to connect with the shadows of other, anyone's shadow connected with me can no longer move and will imitate whatever action I make. Their are other technique but this is the basics one all member of the Nara clan learns. The only ways to counter it is for the caster of the jutsu to be forced to cancel it or if your physical strength is much much stronger than the caster and brute force your way out. With the creature stuck I moved forward and so did it. I began to channel wind chakra into my blade to make it sharper and with one strong overhead swing I unleashed the chakra in a sword wave attack, letting it fly forward to cut the thing in half. In but a moment the thing fell apart in half with a perfect split from the blade cutting it perfectly.

'Great, I came here to look for answers and yet all I found were more questions to the one I already have. Night is coming soon and I need to get out here to find somewhere more secure first instead of staying in the open.' Later I made it back to the more busy parts of new york and rented a room for the next few nights in a hotel, I may be a shinobi but I like to relax too. Lets try relaxing for tonight and hopefully I'll find more clues tomorrow.

I woke up early in the morning when I sensed a large gathering of energy, the same energy that surrounds the zombies and whatever that thing was I killed last night. It was barely the crack of dawn and I already had to wake up, but luckily I only need 4 hours of sleep minimum for recovery efficiency. I left the hotel and immediately made my way towards the energy spike I felt earlier. That spike was big like a horde but it felt concentrated rather than being spread out, like a bunch of whatever this things were in a single person. I reached a water tower as the source of energy I felt and standing there was a woman. Her face was scarred and bloody and she had messy hair in the shape kind of a like mohawk wearing some black body suit. She put her hand into the water tower and something came out of her and into the water. Soon the water tower started rusting and getting covered by red vines? I sneaked up behind her and put her into a choke hold.

"Mind telling me what you're doing?"

She struggled to escape from my hold on her. But before I could get any answers a large claw broke out from the water tower and I was forced to let go of her and dodge. Bursting forth from the water tower was another one of those large creature that I killed last night.

"Kill him for mother, my hunters" ordered the woman.

Mother? Is this woman high or something. I would have chased her as she ran away but more of them came out of the water tower. But at least I learned they're called hunters. The 4 hunters surrounded me but it seems they didn't understand that I'm never the prey. One of them lunged at me from behind and I backflipped over him and plunged back down to stab him with my blade. This hunter wasn't down yet and was still flailing about trying to kill me. Two more rushed at me from the sides trying to get a swipe at me and dodged it falling backward and flipping back onto my feet. I activated my kagemane no jutsu and struck all of their shadows with mine, preventing them from moving. Then I activated the next stage of this jutsu, the shadow strangle jutsu. With it I cause the shadow to gain more physical property and they would slither their way up to a person's neck and snap it. I used the jutsu but it seems they were still alive, it seem these guys don't die that easily.

Either they're that strong or they just have no bones to snap off in the first place so there goes that plan. They're all still stuck though so I ended this battle quickly by using my wind blade jutsu and did a circle swing and cut all of them in half. Now I need to go after her and hopefully this time get some answers. What she doesn't know is that you can't run from me, because now I recognize the signature of her energy. I let my sensors go on full drive and scoured each and every corner of the entire damn city looking for her and I found her, but she was underground. So I left her for now but constantly tracked her, for the moment she let her guard down and come above ground. Those soldiers in black appeared again though, so I hid from them as I follow them back to their Base. When they arrived, I noticed that we were in front of Gentek, the biological and genetic research company.

Of course, of fucking course it had to be some biological warfare type shit I'm dealing with here. At least this was man made, so it might be easier to fix rather than something else. I sneaked my way inside to the more forbidden area and search through all the files. It seems this started way back in the 60's with some chemical the government release and a survivor who made the virus apart of her, Elizabeth Greene. So she's in her 50's huh, but what I need to figure out isn't how this started but how to cure it. I might need her alive since she was patient zero to figure out a cure. For now though I've been here long enough. I put made copies of the files and put everything back where they were as if I was never there. I made my way back to my apartment and took a rest. Now we wait I thought as I fell asleep.

Today was the day, I put on my mask and prepared to move out. The whole city was in fucking chaos but it seems like the government was doing something about greene and her 'children'. I'd get involved sooner but I needed to let the key players come out first and revealed their hand. The blackwatch, as I learned, was drilling blood tox into the ground to drive greene out. The moment she comes out I'll make sure she's trapped forever until I figure out a cure. Greene came out but when she did she took the form of this fucking huge worm, at least that was the best description for it. She was more like a giant lump of mass than anything else really.

I was about to leap off after her but then I saw another man far too my left doing something similar. He was different from everyone else and had on this black armor he was wearing. His right hand was shaped like a giant blade and he could certainly use it to cut something. He rushed past every thing like some berserker cutting away at each and every enemy that gets in his path. More leader hunters came out and his blade and other hand both turn into claws instead this time. He unleashed some sort of AoE tendril pillar attack on then killing them all. What surprises me is that he seems to be consuming them from time to time. In his rampage he didn't notice me but he did reach greene first. I got too distracted observing his powers. He then unleashed some sort of tendril wave beam attack on her new form instantly killing it. He dragged greene out of that body and seem to be relishing in the fact that he was about to kill her. Sorry but I can't let you do that yet. I flipped through the handsigns quickly and unleashed a Katon: goukakyuu no jutsu, or fire release fireball jutsu, at him.

She escaped and ran away but not before sending other hunters at me to try and kill me. I didn't have time for that so I used my windblade technique immediately and killed of the hunters near me. I nearly didn't see it but the man in the armor rushed at me with his blade arm trying to kill me. I had to face him and stop his blade arm with my sword and I think he was pretty shocked from the reaction I got. Seems he's never had anyone stop his blade before. I jumped backward and unleashed another fireball at him. He dodged it pretty quick and charged straight at me so I used wind Release: Great breakthrough, a release of a large powerful wind that increase in size and power with more chakra put in. I used this to blow him back as he was trying to charge at me.

He got back up even angrier and switched to this whip-arm thing and sent it at me but I ducked under it easily. Turns out though he was grabbing the building behind me and he jumped forwards using his arm as a bungee boost. He slammed into me and we both tumbled into the ground with him sitting on me. He opened up his hands and turn them into a claw form right before closing them in to kill, but not like I would let him. I brought up both my hands to catch the wrist of his claws and stop him from killing me. Holy shit though this guy is strong. I'm struggling just to hold this guy in place but I need to focus on keeping this guy still so I can gather nature energy. The ten seconds I needed pass by and I finished gathering nature energy and soon enough my body become stronger and so did I. Another benefit of learning senjutsu is that it can make your body much much more durable along with boosting all your stats.

I got strong enough to push him off me and send a kick to his face. I pushed myself off the ground with my hand and began to use another jutsu, fire release: fire dragon flame missile. I took in a deep breath and unleashed with a burst a large flaming dragon from my mouth that got hotter the further it got from me feeding it chakra.

*loud shriek*

After my fire died down I looked ahead to see that he dodged or to be more correct he half dodged my attack. He escaped alive but I burn off his left arm, so I got that at least is what I would've have said. If the mother fucker just didn't grow back his left arm like it was nothing. Great now even with the mask on I can tell the dude's even angrier at me than before. He picked up one of the military tanks and threw it at me but I easily jumped over it only to see the armored man with a rpg in his hand. He shot at me and I had no time to dodge so I used wind release: godly wind from the mountains, a jutsu that release a beam like hurricane of wind. I shot it at the rpg missile to try to change it's direction and contain the blast. The missile still went off and the shock wave blasted me to the ground, but luckily it didn't do too much damage.

The armored man then came out of nowhere and landed in front of me. I unleashed a wide swing with my blade and he made a angled downward slash at me knocking me backwards. It hurt a lot but I got right back up but I saw that my clothes were cut and also a bit of my skin leaving a small red line of blood. I was surprised by this since, even if that missile hit me with sage mode I would have been perfectly fine. The fact that he can even cut my skin is surprising enough, but looking at his body react I could guess that even he was surprised that he didn't cut me in half.

*RUMBLE*

It seems the military is sending in more soldiers. Sorry but I can't let them know about me being involved in this.

"Another time Berserker" I shouted out loudly to him.

I threw down a smokescreen and shunshin out of there before the military could see me. Now it seems there's a new player on my radar and just like greene, I remember his energy signature after that close encounter. Hopefully he will be more cooperative even after that…. First meeting we had with each other. First I should let him cool of first then maybe he'll be in a better mood to talk with me. Now what to do?

I've sent the armored man an anonymous message in his base of operations, or rather his apartment, to meet up with me in penn station at midnight. Now hopefully he shows up and decides to talk with me instead of trying to kill me like last time. Ah, there he is. The man came but it seems this time he came without that armor form of his.

"Welcome Zeus" I said from the shadows where he couldn't see me.

"What the fuck do you mean?" He said while looking, not at me, but close.

"Well, I've read the file blackwatch made about you."

"Bullshit, I've never shown my face to those fuckers." replied Michael angrily.

"Yes you haven't, but they've been trying to find you. Zeus happens to be the codename they assigned to you." I replied in a jesterly tone.

"Why Zeus?"

"Well aren't you the epiphany of the virus? A dominant lifeform among all those infected and doing whatever he wants."

"There is a point to that but what the fuck does that have to do with anything?"

"Nothing at all. It's just that, you haven't told me your name"

"That's intentional with me being disguised most of the time." he said with a snarky tone.

"Well yes but tonight I want your help and to prove that" I walk out from the shadows and allow him to see me. Slowly I took off my mask and allowed him to see what I actually look like. "My name is Magatsu Silver, nice to meet you. And your name is?"

"...Michael Steele. Former scientist at Gentek"

"Nice to know. Now what I want to know is, what is your goal? I can feel that you're a good man at heart but you're causing a lot of destruction".

"I want this all to stop ,the virus, Blackwatch, and Greene. I want all of these thing gone. I would have had the last one earlier if it wasn't for this asshole who stopped me."

"Sorry bout that but I still needed her so I could find a cure. She is the origin and I still needed her alive to do that"

"I don't, I could have killed her and already have been working on a cure, which I should mention isn't actually possible. The virus mutates too fast and any attempts at a cure will just make it stronger. And even if you can get past that there is nothing really to cure. I have the ability to take the memories and thoughts of people I absorb. Whenever I ate an infected however, there was pretty much nothing left of the originals, maybe a day or two worth of memories but that's about it." He says finally ending the rant he went on.

"Convenient powers that would have been nice for me to know about ahead of time but what about those who haven't turn into a zombie yet. What about them? And as for a cure, Micheal you need to learn that everything in this world, no this universe has an opposite to it. Just like yin and yang or light and darkness even this virus will have an opposite to it that could fight off the disease. We simply haven't found the answer to it yet. One mustn't give up hope no matter how dire something maybe which is why I called you to meet up with me in this specific spot. From what I've learned this is where you first got infected and where everything began because of what Alex Mercer had with him. This is where everything started to go downhill but you stayed strong and tried to fix it in your own way. I called you here specifically because there is where you started and where you can start again once anew. Team up with me and let's get rid of this virus."

"... To go in order, the people who haven't gotten infected yet just simply aren't infected, this isn't like the common cold where someone might be hiding the symptoms. Secondly if the opposite of the virus has yet to be discovered what will happen if it does, my guess is more death from both sides. And thirdly….. I accept your offer, just as long as I get to kill Greene, the bitch has been a pain in the ass."

"If that all then it's nice to work with you… partner" I said as I gave my hand out for him to shake.

"I think this is going to be the first time in awhile that I touched something without trying to kill it or using it to kill something else." He said as he stuck out his hand to shake my hand.

"Like I said, a new beginning for you." I said as we shook hands firmly.

"I suppose so." He looked away from me, and towards the ground where there was a faint red stain.

On this day, two warriors met one another. They would join forces together in order to stop this plague haunting new york. They would face many trials ahead of them of which they do not even know of yet. But together they would survive and continue forward into a different tomorrow. These two warriors will fight together and defeat everything in their way, forming an unbreakable bond with each other as brothers. For they would become, The First Hunters.

"Sir, sir come quickly I've discovered something!" said a scientist.

Rushing into the room was an unknown man but he was wearing a black watch uniform and seem to be pretty high up on the chain of commands.

"What is it" he said with a rough voice.

"I've discovered something within the redlight virus, a different codex of genes that have performed above anything else the redlight samples have done. I am still unable to determine what causes it but the most important thing is what it does!"

"Well what does it do?" The uniformed man seemed impatient.

"Sir, it targets other redlight cells, it groups up and kills all differing cells nearby!"

"So, you're saying the virus is killing itself?"

"No, I'm saying that there is a new virus that targets redlight, I put some other samples into the mix, but the new virus ignored it until redlight infected them. Not only that but when redlight attempted to fight back and absorb the virus, but whenever a cell of the new virus died it simply disintegrated itself!"

"Amazing, a possible untraceable virus that kills redlight. Start figuring out whatever you can about this new virus and how we can utilize just might be what we need to turns things around and kill off redlight." he said with a grin.

Wblade- there you go, the back ground of Maelstrom or Magatsu as it's his real name. Good job to anyone who figured out my OC came from Naruto and to anybody who didn't, it's fine the clues were pretty vague unless you know a lot about naruto. This one was written mostly by me since me and Titanwalker decided to solo the origins of our OC's ourselves. It was pretty hard to integrate myself into the prototype verse but I think I did a fairly decent job. Anyway this has been part two of Origins- The Storm. Hope yall had a good time reading it and get ready for the next chapter where we settle things with Greene and Blackwatch.

Until next time

-Wblade Out