Prologue - Accidents happen

Our story begins on a mountain. The name of the mountain is Mount Natagumo. It was a mountain, that was like many others around him and yet something seemed off about it.

Had you asked the villagers of the surrounding villages about the mountain you would have undoubtedly heard many a tale of death and sorrow surrounding that mountain. How many a traveler has gone missing there or how townspeople, that ventured too close to the mountain, were never heard from again.

The mountain was undoubtedly a place of death. And yet it hid that fact about itself quite well. Were you to stroll through it during the day, you would find a beautiful forest full of animals and herbs there. The air would be filled with birdsongs and a cool breeze would blow through the forest. It would be quite a sight. But alas, as is a law in nature, nothing is meant to last forever.

At night, when the sun would leave the celestial sphere and the moon would take her place, you would only know terror and fear. The light that had previously given the forest such a feeling of livelihood would then feel twisted. Instead of the warm and lifegiving rays of the sun the pale, silvery, almost sickly light that shone down from the moon above would feel like nothing but an imitation.

The undergrowth, that was so vibrant during the day, would look like thousands of spindly, bonelike arms reaching up for the night sky. The normally cool breeze would be turned into a frigid and harsh wind. While the shadows of the trees elongated and stretched, like something within was waking up from its slumber.

But that would not be the most daunting change to the mountain one would notice.

No, that honour would fall to the many, many spiderwebs that would have been seen affixed to every tree, every bush and every plant.

To put it quite shortly. Mount Natagumo was a terrible place to be at night, even if you didn´t count its special inhabitants.

They were the sole reason for the disappearances of the many people that went to the mountain and never returned. Fearsome beasts in human form. Devourers of flesh and blood. That is what they were known to be by all who laid their eyes upon them. But underneath it all they were victims. Victims of a sole man´s, no, a sole monster´s quest for perfection. Twisted by his foul blood into the beasts that they were today and placed under a geass to never speak his name these poor souls lost all but a spark of their humanity.

One of these demons is the main protagonist of our story. A demon only known as Mother. She was once only a mere child. Like so many others she too was turned into a demon and began to prey upon men, women and children alike. She was discovered by the demon Rui on Mount Natagumo, where she had lived for most of her demon life. He was one of the demon kings generals, the lower moon five. He made a deal with her. In return for letting her live she would become part of his family. And with only a choice between death and his offer, she accepted.

Now there is one thing you have to understand dear reader. Rui was nothing more than a young bedriden boy, when he was turned into a demon by the demon king. At first he and his family were ecstatic, but after he was overcome by his demonic urges for the first time and killed someone his parents were horrified. And so it happened on one fateful night, that his father tried to kill him to save him from himself. Riu awoke to this and instinctively killed him and his mother with his own two hands. And ever since then he had tried to recreate the bond that he had with his family.

And so he created a family of his own. Yet it couldn't give him what he sought. Because the bonds of his family were not voluntary. They were forced upon the demons of his family by his own will.

Mother was a small child, when she was turned into a demon. She didn't know how to be a mother. Even though that was the role Rui wanted her to play in his family. On her frist day there he turned her childlike body into that of a young woman and expected her to just know how to be a mother.

But she didn't and that displeased him greatly. So he punished her by raking his claws across her eyes. It was torture. Plain and simple. After that day she tried to act like a mother, but failed countless times. And each time she was punished by him and later on by the other members of the family. It was so bad, that she secretly wished for death. But the same blood that made her strong and gave her superhuman abilities also made her unkillable by ordinary means. And so she suffered in silence. Nothing more than a punching bag to her supposed family and secretly yearning for a death, that would never come.

One night demon slayers started a big attack on the mountain to finally clear it out and rid the surrounding villages of the demons that had plaged them for so long. Mother had her hands full trying to stop them from infiltrating the mountain. She took control of some of them with her strings and made them fight each other. But this was not exactly a fast way of killing them and Rui showed up several times to threaten her to work faster. It was exactly after he left, that something unexpected happened.

Somehow from one moment to the next Mother's soul was separated from her body. She was finally free from her torment and in that brief moment, that seemed to stretch into infinity, she only felt warmth. It seemed to envelop her and say to her that it was okay now. That she was safe and that she wouldn't have to suffer anymore. She relished in the comfort and remembered. She remembered kind eyes and a winning smile. She remembered a house and a lively family. Her family. The one that she had killed in cold blood one day.

It brought her peace. And so she faded into oblivion.

But what of her body? It wasn´t empty for long, because it just so happened that several parallel universes away a crack in the space-time continuum appeared and sucked an innocent soul into the now empty body. And make no mistake. This wasn't destiny. This wasn't the doing of some higher being. No, this was just an accident.

And so it came to be, that from one moment to the next one tortured soul left for the afterlife and another soul came to inhabit the now empty body of its former owner.

That is where our story truly begins. With a cross-universal accident.

Author's Note:

Hope you like the prologue to my fanfiction. If you find spelling mistakes please excuse me.

I am not a native english speaker.

Have a good day :)