Bacon Wars: A Crescent's Eye
Prologue
"The one who sees the red crescent moon knows what lies beyond the shadows of the red moonlight…"
-11:00 PM, Akihabara Japan-
In a dark alley way, a person wearing a dark hoodie carrying a bag of groceries makes his way towards his home where he lives a humble and quiet life.
"Man, Bacon for 500 yen, what a steal!" he says.
*Rustling* The sound came from the bush near the sidewalks where he was about to cross over to.
"Is anyone…there?" The guy wearing a hoodie asks in a slightly concerning voice.
As he went closer to the bush the rustling became even louder. He prepares himself by making a stance while going closer to the bush. He leaps at the bush giving it a swift and sharp roundhouse kick which cut the bush in half. What he saw in the bush was a cat trying to clean itself.
"Ah. Haha, those late night works really gets me on edge huh…" He says to himself
Until he heard a whisper behind him.
"You don't mind me taking your groceries now don't you?"
"Who—"
Before he could finish his line, he felt a swift punch was about to hit him, so he instinctively dodged it and tried to counter it with a tornado kick. The mysterious person tried to grab the bag of groceries, but the person with the dark hoodie stomped the ground so hard it made a force strong enough to make the mysterious person flinch and gave him an opportunity to counter. He tried to subdue him by trying to hit the back of the mysterious person's head, but he swiftly grabbed his hand.
"You're pretty fast for a thief." The guy with the dark hoodie said.
At that very moment, the mysterious person used his arm as a pole for him to grab on and to boost himself to his other arm to grab the bag of groceries.
"But I don't think that speed is fast enough." The dark hooded guy said as he whispers "Blind eye."
The dark hooded person disappeared from the mysterious person's view and appear right behind him.
"This is bad!" The mysterious person exclaimed.
But before the dark hooded guy tried to knock him out, a strange aura filled the streets…
"Impossible…of all times!? A Tsukikage shouldn't be allowed in the mortal realm at this time!" The dark hooded person shouted with dread in his voice.
"Oi, oi, oi! Not that thing again!" The mysterious person shouted with a scared tone.
"Wait…he can see the Tsukikage!?" The dark hooded person questioned in his mind. He asks "How can you see that thing?" to the mysterious person.
"I've been seeing those things for weeks on end and I thought I was just lacking some sleep bruh." The mysterious person said.
"And I thought I was seeing things…" as the dark hooded person said to himself after remembering being paranoid about a rustling bush.
A dark and slender figure starts emerging from the shadows of the moonlight. Its dark-red eyes piece the night sky with its long and dislocated mouth hanging from its head. Movements that move with a menacing intent to kill.
"tHE moOn LiGHt bRingS deATh!" as the creature says it with a dark and decrypted voice while screeching to the sky of the night
He remembered that him and the mysterious person were going to die of they don't run so he told the mysterious person to run. "You have to run! That thing is a monster!" as he takes a stance to prepare to fight the beast.
"Black Dawn!" The guy with the dark hood shouts. His hands proceed to burn with raging black flames that reflected the moonlight. He rushed to the beast hoping to pierce it chest and burn it with the black flames. The sheer raw power of the monster was so strong that it flung the dark hooded guy across the street.
"UAGHHH!" He shouts in pain while landing on the ground and breaking it with the sheer momentum from the monster's strength. "R…run" He says with a weakened voice.
The mysterious person grabbed the bag of groceries and ran to the hooded person.
"You can thank me later!" as the mysterious person says while running towards him.
"Idiot!" the hooded person shouts. "Get out of the way or else you'll—"
Before he could finish his words, the mysterious person was pierced on his shoulder by the creature's long and slender arms which had extended from across the street.
"Damn it! I wasn't strong enough…" The hooded person says in grief.
The monster dragged the mysterious person to it and it was about to devour him.
Until…
"The one who sees the red crescent moon knows what lies beyond the shadows of the red moonlight…only those who wield the tears that flow from the blooming majushage…death is inevitable…but the path of the crescent does not fear death…it fears the actions they take before death…"
"Do you like to bloom like a manjushage under the red moonlight…or take a step in the shadow and live…"
The hooded person was shocked to see what he has just witnessed. The mysterious person sliced off the arm of the Tsukikage under the moonlight. With no time to react, the vile creature flung three arms at the mysterious person, but in a flash, he disappeared and reappeared right behind the monster.
"Bloom." the mysterious person whispered while he stabbed the monster with his hands.
The moonlight became red like a manjushage and the creature screamed in agony until the mysterious person removed his hands and the creature exploded and turned into petals of sakura that reflected the red moonlight.
"Who…is that person…" the hooded guy thought to himself.
"A step for a cost…"
Suddenly, the moon returned to a white moonlight while the mysterious person suddenly vomited blood and passed out.
"Hey! Are you alright!?" The hooded person ran to him as quickly as he could. "Don't die on me now you thief!" He quickly pulled out his phone and gave someone a call.
"Hello? Vezavio, is that you?" a voice from the phone said.
"Yeah, it's me. I need you to send some help here, I gotta save someone." Said Vezavio.
The person on the phone said help with be there ASAP and he ended the call. He found and took a good look of the mysterious person's ID card.
"Ringo, huh." as he read the name of the mysterious person's name from his ID card and looks up the bright moonlight.
To be continued…