Chapter seven

Kuroi-Ryu smirked as he and Hikari shook hands, "Your terms I can meet lord Kuroi-Ryu and I am pleased that you have given us this opportunity." Hikari said as he and his new lord went to go get the troops ready for battle.

"Now you must convince the Dark Elf Lord Hiroshi to fight on our side and the war between China and Japan really will begin." Kuroi-Ryu cackled.

Hikari went into the cavern where his men stayed and smirked, "Lord Kuroi-Ryu you are looking at an army of about fifty thousand and considering that the Dark Elf army has about twenty thousand you have an army of approximately seventy thousand men"

A week later Jesse glared as an evil aura was approaching the Defender's Realm. He went and got Koji, Kyo, Rick, and James. They all went outside the gates to the Defender's Realm and watched as the evil aura approached closer. The leaders all called their men for battle, within minutes the front yard of the Defender's Realm was covered in archers, samurai, and riders.

Jesse blinked as he saw Lord Hikari, Hiroshi and Joseph all together. "What the hell is going on?" he thought as he watched the three lords of darkness walk over to the Defender's Realm border, their troops behind them.

Jesse and the others all curse and prepared for an all out war. The Elvin archers were behind the gates of the mighty city.

Kuroi-Ryu smirked and looked at Jesse" Such a lovely army you have Jesse and the archers behind the gates aren't going to help you much so you might as well summon them out into the open."

"Nah, how about I try to kill your ass with them and you surrender to my forces." he said as he raised his hand to set the signal for the archers.

Hikari and Hiroshi cackle evilly and look at each other. "Jesse, that army of Elvin archers won't be able to with stand our forces so like Kuroi-Ryu said bring those archers out and let's play."

James glared icily and watched as Kuroi-Ryu began to chant spells underneath his breathe

"Run! He's chanting the sealing spell!" shouted Rick as he and Koji raced inside the gates but it was too late the spell took hold and the gates of the Defender's Realm were sealed. Rick cursed and looked back at Kuroi-Ryu.

"Idiot! Let us in! I'm not going to fall into the hands of you before the final war even starts!"

Kuroi-Ryu cackled and his army of Shadowed Souls attack.

Jesse smirked and quickly began to chant the barrier spell, Rick cried out as the Dark Elf Lord began to torture him inside his head. To Rick it felt like someone was trying to rip out his soul, and trying to tear his body to shreds.

Koji cursed and tried to counter place the Dark Elf Lords spell but it wasn't working all he did was make it worse for the Southern Lord.

Jesse growled as Kuroi-Ryu broke through the barrier and both men attacked each other their swords clashed together.

"Come on Jess! Unleash the red fury!" Cackled Kuroi-Ryu as he quickly dodged Jesse's glaive.

"Forget it! I'm not like you! I don't give into the powers of darkness so easily!" snarled Jesse as he clashed sword on sword with Kuroi-Ryu.

"Just give it up Jess. . . Jung-woo already has Zander and I well, I obviously have the upper hand on you. All you have are your archers, samurai and your riders. Come on Jess do you think that's going to win this war?"

Jesse pushed back on Kuroi-Ryu with his sword and watched the enemy closely. "You must remember Kuroi-Ryu I also have the power of magic and so does Rick Koji, and James. We will win and your loss of Morgan shall be reborn. If you return to our side and fight once again on my side I will personally make sure that when this war is over I will revive her."

"Bullshit! Stop trying to get me to fight on your side again Lord Jesse of the Western Lands!" snarled Kuroi-Ryu as he lunged towards Jesse and sliced his torso open.

Jesse winced in pain and fell to one knee holding his bleeding chest. "D-damn you Kuroi-Ryu. . ." Jesse said as his eyes began to flash a midnight blue color.

Kuroi-Ryu didn't give Jesse anytime to recover, he attacked the western lord and attacked hard and fast.

Jesse cried out and tried to dodge but all attempts failed.

"Jesse!!" screamed Alex as she came running out of the gates of the Defender's Realm and over to him. "Lord Jesse are you okay?" she asked as she kneeled in front of him.

"Move!" he snarled as he pushed her out of the way and took the full blow of Kuroi-Ryu's sword into his chest.

Alex watched in horror.

Jesse took the handle of the sword and removed it from his chest as blood pooled quickly around him.

Kuroi-Ryu smirked and looked as Hiroshi was still torturing Rick and the others were still in full battle. "Have you had enough yet Lord Jesse?" Kuroi-Ryu taunted.

"N-no," Jesse shakingly got to his feet and grabbed his sword and made Alex appear back in the gates of the Defender's Realm and despite his wound lunged at Kuroi-Ryu.

Kuroi-Ryu smirked and just moved to the side and watched as Jesse fell to the ground wincing in pain. "You can't win Jesse, just give it up. You're going to kill yourself. But if you want to kill yourself that's one less demon I'll have to deal with."

Jesse again got shakingly up to his feet and got ready for another attempt at taking Kuroi-Ryu down or at least injuring him. For hours Jesse did this only getting injured worse.

Koji finally called it off and raced over to Jesse who was still standing but lost in the red fury. It was a form that Jesse took when he know he's going to lose and the smell of blood just made his senses go berserk. In this form the only thing that he knew how to do was to create more and more blood to the point of when the blood he had created would be so strong that it would destroy him.

"We surrender Kuroi-Ryu, you win this battle." Koji said as he bowed in front of the black fury lord.

With that said Kuroi-Ryu and his army vanish. Thousands lay on the ground dead and hundreds were injured.

"James! Quick we need to get Jesse to the healer!" Koji said as he began to take Jesse into the gates.

James helped Koji take Jesse to the healer.

The healer got to work almost immediately. Hours passed and the troops that had lost their life were buried and the injured troops were getting healed by the females in the village.

Koji went over to the healer and looked down at Jesse. "Well?"

The healer sighed and sat Koji down. "Lord Jesse's soul was lost in the fight. It was taken over by the red fury that used to control his mind before. Right now he lies in a comma and it could take years for him to reawaken."

"What about your magic? Can't you remove the red fury?"

"The red and black furies are a magic that it can not be removed, Jesse was born with it and shall die with it. His son or daughter will also bear the red fury. Lord Kavin tried to lock up that Jesse bore this magic but it failed. The first child that Miss Mayu had bore was the new heir to the curse of the red fury."

Koji sighed and nodded.

Nightmare watched as Alex went over to Jesse and sat next to him, tears in her eyes. She blamed this whole incident on herself, if she hadn't of gotten in the way Jesse wouldn't have unleashed his red fury and he wouldn't be in a comma.

"It's not your fault Alex." Nightmare said to ease her thoughts of being guilty.

"Yes it is! If I hadn't of gotten in Jesse's way none of this would have happened." She looked away as tears fell to the ground.

"Yes it would have, Jesse is just as reckless as his father Kavin. Don't worry Jesse isn't going to die he has to make Jung-woo pay. Besides that demon is too stubborn to let Kuroi-Ryu end his life." Nightmare said as he nudged her.

She smile and pet him.

Nightmare purred as she scratched him behind the ear.

Josh stared at the ceiling of the tent as he woke up again.

Shadow went over to him and handed him a plate of food. "You stubborn dragon need to eat."

The dragon lord scowled at the twin-tailed saber-toothed cat and gladly ate. "So where is Zander? I still need to kill him for practically killing me."

Shadow chuckled. "I'm sorry Josh you are not to lay a hand on the black mage; it is Jung-Woo's orders."

Josh growled and just continued to eat his food.

Jung-woo went into the tent, "Hurry and eat I'm sending you to go find something."

Josh blinked and looked at Jung-woo. "To find what?"

"The stone of Black Internal Chaos." Jung-woo said as he looked at Shadow. "It has been lost nobody knows were it is. I want you to go and find it."

"Sounds impossible." Josh said taking a bite of the rice from his teriyaki bowl.

Jung-woo chuckled bitterly. "Oh it's possible, all you have to do is look in both China and Japan for it."

Josh grumbled and nodded. "Yes, sir."

"Good because you leave when you finish your teriyaki bowl." Jung-woo said as he left the tent.

Josh mocked him and continued eating.

Shadow snickered. "You really don't like obeying any type of order do you?"

"Nope."

Shadow just sighed and lay down on the floor and fell asleep.

As the days passed Josh left and Shadow had went with him and the war was put on pause. Everybody was tired and hungry, the war needed to end soon or soon all the troops were going to be dead from starvation. They would go out and hunt wild animals but they had all vanished. Even Jung-woo got frustrated at this and just sat at his desk and thought of calling off the war for a few more years to regain the troop's strength and just to relax and to give Josh time to find the stone of Black Internal Chaos.

A year later

"Daddy!" Mary-Ann screeched hiding behind Jung-Woo's legs.

He blinked. "What's wrong?"

A soldier came running into the study of Jung-Woo's castle panting heavily. "I'm sorry my lord she forced me to play tag with her." the soldier panted.

He laughed. "Really?" he smirked glancing down at his daughter.

"Uh-oh, mommy!" Mary-Ann shrieked as he scooped her up and began to tickle her sides.

She squealed in laughter. "No! Stop it daddy!" she screamed as she continued to laugh.

Rika smiled as she watched them. She was happy that she could make Jung-woo happy by giving him a family.

Jung-woo stopped and held his eight month old daughter close. Mary-ann lays in his arms breathing hard and is soon sound asleep in his arms.

Rika yawned and lay down on the bed she and Jung-woo shared and cuddled herself up under the blankets and sighed deeply. Jung-Woo noticed his mate's actions and has slightly worried look on his face.

Mary-ann snuggled into her father's kimono falling into a peaceful sleep.

Jung-Woo laid his daughter down on her small futon that was placed in the room he thinks to himself. As he continued to think he ponders if he should just forget about the war completely, he has what he's wanted for years. A mate and a daughter. He sigheddeeply and lay down beside Rika wrapping his arms around her.

She smiled and snuggled into him her face buried into his kimono shirt.

He smiled and held her close and is soon fast asleep himself.

Keith went to a nearby village and tied his white Friesian to a tree and went to the hut where the lord of the village slept.

He knocked.

The lord of the village answered his door and blinked. "Keith? What is it?" he asked as he let his old friend in.

He and the lord sat at the table and were each given a cup of sake by the lord's wife or mate as the demons refers to.

"What are the orders? I'll have my men ready to ride in hours."

"No, just protect Kashia. Hiroshia has already been taken out." Keith said as he took a sip of the hard liquor.

"Where's Koji?"

"The Defender's Realm, he's been watching his villagers. From what I hear when Joseph or Kuroi-Ryu went to go rescue his girlfriend there was nobody in the village, but I could be wrong."

"You probably are, I saw the fire and heard the screams of the villagers. The smoke even filled our town slightly."

"All I know is that we need to get a hold of Koji before he too unleashes the black fury, Joseph becoming Kuroi-Ryu is enough black fury for me."

The lord nodded and finished off his sake. "Koji has the power of both the light and dark furies. Each generation of the wolf pack of the eastern tribe either bares the white fury or the black fury; in Koji's case he bears both the light and black furies."