Chapter 10
It has been a month since that day. Amaterasu has become more dependable on fighting. Yet she has only practiced with me.
Today will be her first actual kill.
"Now, those imps are really stupid. They mainly will go in a circle for half a day trying to chase their friends over a cookie." I said to Amaterasu as I pointed to three green imps scratching their butts.
"You may have gotten use to trying to hit me, but I wasn't even warmed up yet. I'll kill two of them and leave the last one to you." I said sensing a trap below the tree branch we stood on and around the imps.
I didn't know what the imps were planning, but it sure was stupid by the looks of it.
I pushed off the branch and pulled out both swords before ramming them into the back of one imp.
I threw the dead imp at the one next to me and he was sent flying out of sight.
I grabbed the last imp by the head, cut his arms till he couldn't move them and waited for the trap.
It never came.
Soon, Amaterasu jumped down and pulled out a Divine Glaive from her back and slowly walked over the imp who trembled in fear.
I ran the blades at the muscles behind the knees making the imp fall onto his knees.
I held the head in place for her to see the neck and cut it.
The imp was now only a foot away from Amaterasu who had a confident look on her face.
The imp pleaded and begged to be let him go, but I just squeezed his head harder and made him shut up.
Amaterasu placed the blade against its neck.
I saw the fear in her eyes right then and there. Her resolve was gone and she backed away in freight, dropping the Glaive in the process.
I sighed and said "Amaterasu, you've gotta do this, or you'll die if your home is attacked."
Ammy just shook her head and ran off, tears started to form in her eyes.
I just gave a huff and dragged the imp with me, picked up the glaive she dropped and slung it into a sheath I made for it on my back.
And no sooner had I walked 5 feet from the spot the glaive laid, I heard a high pitched scream and shook my head.
I walked over to the sound of screams and cheers of imps.
I walked through a bush and saw Amaterasu getting tied to a stick like a big dead animal from hunters.
But she wasn't dead or big for that matter. She was about 5-6 feet tall to my height.
I cleared my throat very loudly and made the imps stop chanting and look at me.
"Hello, it appears you have found my friend. I demand that you let her go right now." I said in my best gentlemen voice with a friendly smile.
"Why should we? We've been watching you for a month now; we're not letting this beauty go. She's special and the master will love her." A black imp said as he pulled out his bongo and rested it on his shoulder.
I dropped the imp in my hand and said "Wait here, don't even move a muscle."
The imp just moaned in response with his face in the dirt.
I pulled out Waru and Yoi before getting in a battle stance by holding both swords tip downwards as the hilts were raised above my head, the weight of my body on my back leg ready to counter attack any of their moves.
I counted the imps I could see. 2 black, 3 green, 1 blue, 4 red, and 1 yellow imp in front of me.
I quickly turned around and split the head of the yellow imp emerging from underground.
I then ran straight at the green imp in front of me and rammed Yoi into their chest, where I left him as I ran to a red imp and pulled his instrument away.
I then used the instrument against him and broke his skull in.
I dropped the broken weapon and then spun in a circle before slicing off the arms of a green imp and then kicking him into two other red imps who fell over.
I jumped high into the air and stretched out one leg as I was sent back down from gravity.
I crushed the red imp on the left's head and curbed stomped the one on the right. All the while, they were blooming into flowers.
"Talk about real censorship." I thought after ripping out the head of both a red and green imps' heads off and flowers appeared.
I dodged the incoming attack by the blue flying imp by tilting my head slightly and made him miss completely.
I then threw Waru at a black imp and killed him.
I then decided to have a little fun and go to fisticuffs.
"Hey, there's something on your face!" I said pointing to the imps face.
I then punched the life out of him and said "It was death!"
I looked for the blue imp and found him stabbed through a tree branch.
"A kite flying imp stuck in a tree, how ironic." I thought as I put Waru and Yoi back in their sheaths
I then grabbed the yellow imp's big drum and punched a hole in it before dragging him off into the distance and out of view.
"Excuse us; we need to have a little talk." That was, all I said to Amaterasu and the limp imp.
I busted through the first barricade with ease and met quite a few enemies' to kill.
"A wolf, isn't this that goddess chick that has the power of the sun?" A soldier said to his friend.
The only thing his friend said before unloading an entire clip of ammunition on me was "Good! I needed a gift for my girlfriend! That white snow coat will be... uh, a great coat!"
I just increased the air pressure around me greatly, blocking every bullet coming near me. I wanted to put every ounce of fear into their hearts.
They started firing explosive rounds at me; I just kept walking like it was just breeze.
"Oh god, I'm going to die by a Goddess!" a soldier said in freight.
"Correction, you're going to die by the hands of me. I'm the entire reason why you are in this so called Empire. Looks more like my high school book club if you ask me." I said before ripping his throat out with my fangs.
I grabbed my sword and cut my way through all of the soldiers. That's when I stopped a few moments later.
I was now facing the ruins of an old castle inside a mountain covering all of it but the entrance and a few windows and a tower flag pole.
"So many memories…" I thought as I got closer with every step.
They brought out swordsmen and they ran straight at me.
"Amuse me…" I said before one tried to slice me in half.
After 2 minutes of torturing the Yellow Imp, I had the information I needed and was heading back to Amaterasu.
I saw her still tied and undid the knot on the rope.
She rubbed her wrist a little before saying "Thanks."
She then turned around and walked away.
But I grabbed her by the shoulder and pulled her back to me and made her look into my eyes.
My, inhuman eyes…
I saw her in my mind, trapped by the puppeteer for a very long time. She was about 16 when she became entangled by his strings for the first time.
For her entire life, she has been killing Celestials and left no evidence of them by pushing them off the Celestial Plains and cleaned the mess left behind.
She would cry for help, but only of those touching her glaive could hear her true voice behind the fake spitting lies from its mouth.
I understood now, she was forced to watch as she killed her own people. She believed it was herself killing them, but it never was.
From the day I freed here of her torment, she never wanted to kill again and made that a promise.
"She already broke that promise when she snapped my neck." I thought before letting go of her.
She stood there stunned by my facial expression, it was a look of understanding.
"I know that you never want to kill again, but you are the goddess of the sun. You are born to fight evil, that creature controlling you in the past was born to be killed by you." I said trying to tell her that she can't run from her responsibility without having consequences.
My words didn't get to her as she just looked down and I could hear her mutter "What would you know about being a god and killing your own people? You don't know what it feels like."
I sighed and pulled out Waru and Yoi.
"What do I know? I know more than you ever will." I thought.
"Master?" Yoi asked concerned of what I was about to do.
"Oh, this should be fun." Waru said with mental smile and chuckle.
"By Onmyō, the strongest of all things. He is everything, yet nothing, everyone, yet no one, everywhere, and yet nowhere. I demand that Junsuina Waru, and Yoi Junsuina to guide Amaterasu." I said twirling them before throwing Waru and Yoi in the air.
They spun in mid-air and before they came back down, the handles split in two and grew in length and width. The split soon became a pair of legs on each sword. Waru had metal armored boots on, as Yoi had sandals on.
Moments later, a man in a white kimono holding a smaller version of Yoi in hand, landed from being thrown.
A black haired woman with Onyx black metal armor landed next to him. She also held a small version of Waru in hand.
I gave Amaterasu her Glaive and said "Waru is made of pure evil and cannot be harmed by anything evil. Yoi, is made of pure good, the same thing goes for him. Each one can hurt each other, but only if I give them the order to. They will teach you how to fight and get rid of your fear. But that's up to you."
I walked away and didn't look back.
I could hear them talking. I was done teaching Amaterasu how to fight. It now up to her, would she fight and live or become a sacrifice to a great evil that seeks her blood?
I walked through the trees and thought over what happened.
I tried to summon the door, but it did not appear and I realized something.
This universe was hidden and I was too busy to notice the state it was in.
The universe would change locations and the only way to get inside was that roughed up door. A barrier covered the universe, but why?
I just sighed and continued walking.
I thought of heading to the Celestial Plains, but what would I be able to do? Amaterasu and I traveled the Plains as I sign of her gratitude. No one came with us, but why not?
I just rubbed my head for a minute. "I know too much stuff and now I can't even remember what the imp called his master. Douchie was it?" I thought.
I just shrugged and sat against a tree.
I snapped my finger and a cigarette appeared in my hand. I put it in my mouth and snapped my finger again, this time a small flame was produced from my thumb.
I lit the cigarette, took a breath in and killed the flame before letting out a puff of smoke.
I sat quietly against the tree for a while before I trailed off into my head.
"What it feels like?"
"The excitement and thrill of battle is all I feel."
"I feel anger, but I've never gone fully enraged. I don't feel sorrow, for I cannot cry."
"She's just a kid learning from the oldest, most experienced, strongest, and fearless master of all fighting styles."
"She doesn't understand a damn thing and thinks she has seen it all."
I finished my cigarette a while ago and saw the sun setting in the distance as its rays changed to a shade of orange.
I heard some footsteps and only turned my head to see who it was.
Amaterasu, she looked troubled by something.
She sat next to me and asked "How do you do it? How are you able to kill without feeling bad?"
I turned to her and said "I have no soul or heart for the life of those I kill and their loved ones. They could exact revenge on me, but I'll just brush it off and kill the next one."
I took a deep breath and said "I'm unable to feel the emotions that make you, what you are."
I could see the shock in her eyes that I am almost heartless and can't feel anything but adrenaline rushing through my body.
"Did Waru and Yoi tell you who I am?" I ask.
"No, they said that I should talk to you." She replied.
"I'm not one for these kinda talks…" I thought with a quiet sigh.
"There is this creature, he is the master of the imps we attacked, or should I say, I attacked. The creature, whose name I cannot remember is supposed to have the head of a very small mountain and the body of a small island. But since you won't fight, because I don't know what's it like to feel… lose and defeat. I have to settle this myself, and I'm going to take my time to get there." I said as I lowered the brim of my black fedora over my eyes.
Ammy was silent, as if searching for the right words before saying "When you stared into my eyes, I saw these, cat like eyes but had horizontal pupils instead of vertical. What are you?"
I chuckled a little before saying "For now, I am Noreel. I will tell you my identity to you in the far future."
I lean into her ear as the sun was fully gone and said "Beyond your vision, lies the enemy. You can run, but may die or worse and prove that you are not worthy of being a God, only food for petty demons. You can fight, survive and face your fears, be successful and almost nothing can stop you. It's all up to you, because I'm not moving from this spot for a few more hours if you don't fight them."
I could see the auras of evil beings through the brim of my hat.
Branches shook and bushes rustled as they drew closer.
I could feel the hesitation and weight of pressure on her. I knew that she looked back at me and then the path she walked.
I didn't move a muscle as I heard her footsteps get farther and farther away.
I gave a slight huff and listened as the sounds of rustling got closer and closer to me, yet also moving away from me.
"Aw look, he's so scared he can't even move!" A voice said circling right in front of me.
"Scared? Me, scared? I think you should just walk on your marry way and go after that woman." I said not looking up but waved my hand in the direction Amaterasu went.
A hand or something knocked my hat off and said "Why should we listen to a human like you?"
I had my eyes closed and could just smell the blood on the monsters breathe.
I saw the aura in front of me pull out something which soon became engulfed in the aura, it revealed to be a katana as the creature pulled it out from its sheath.
The creature raised the tip skyward with a smile on its face.
It gave a scream and swung the sword down.
A loud thunk vibrated through the woods as I felt the sword, stuck deeply in the tree I sat against land above me.
"Your Katana is too long and you are more accustomed to shorter blades, that makes you step closer towards the enemy for better reach." I said trying not to take advantage of his mistake.
He pulled his sword out successfully after a few minutes and then backed a few steps from me.
He checked to see if the katana would hit the tree again and adjusted the distance to be a little closer to me.
He raised the sword skyward once more and I just waited for it.
He lowered the sword with what seemed to be all his strength and did not hit the tree.
Until I turned my head to the side, making him miss again and get the sword stuck again.
I felt the heat of embarrassment coming off him.
But before he could make a single move, an aura came into my few and cut the creature's head off.
"About time… Amaterasu." I said reaching for my hat and put it on top of my head with a smile.
I opened my eyes and saw the Sun Goddess with eyes full of rage in them.
"It is not the person that makes their own path, but what they stand for." I thought as I got up.
"You are the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, Mother of all things good. And as a mother you do the most important thing a mother must do; protect her children." I said as I held out both arms to my side and Waru and Yoi appeared in my hands out of black and white mist.
I then put them in their rightful sheaths and watched as Amaterasu, no… as Ammy fought every opponent.
She got hurt then and there, but she still kept fighting.
Yo! How you guys (and girls) doing? I'm doing just fine, though with each chapter we come closer to the end of Part 1. Part 2 will not be as long as Part 1 (I think). The reason why I'm telling you this now is becuase I can't/don't want to explain it all at once. It may get confusing if I do. But as always, rate, review, fav and whatever this website allows you to do that I havent mention THAT IS A BENIFITE TO ME AND MY LOVEABLE READERS! Later!
