Fire Demon of Night Raid

by Amaterasu-335

Keiji, a young man with a power over fire never seen before and abilities beyond reality makes his way to the Capital, meeting Tatsumi along the way, soon finding himself in unforeseeable events, but maybe their for the better? maybe he can be the missing piece of the puzzle towards fixing this corrupt country, and maybe some of it's people whilst he's at it?

1. Chapter 1

Flame of Night Raid

chapter 1: Beginnings

After days of travelling by foot, the empire was finally within view to a hooded young man, his ice blue eyes narrowing at the sight of the seemingly prospering nation. The wind blew fiercely, causing his' hood to fall revealing a young looking face, with pale white skin and short silver hair.

For the rest of him he had a muscular but lean figure, and reached a height of exactly 6'0ft. he was wearing a white hooded knee-length coat with a crimson lining, a simple black undershirt with a belt of white golf ball sized orbs crossing from his left shoulder to the right side of his waist, black combat pants, black combat boots that reached just short of his knee with armour plating, a pair of short swords with black blades, simple golden cross guards, white leather handles and a black jewel beset in both of their hilts were at the respective sides of his waist.

Behind his waist and hidden from view by his long coat is a pair of black pistols with white accents that have abnormally long barrels, each gun being close to a foot in length, both held in a dual holster.

On his back were two objects; one being a simple black bag which was strapped over his left shoulder, and a long object reaching almost 4'0ft in length was wrapped in black material, hiding whatever was inside from view, and was held by a simple black strap that went from over his right shoulder to beside his left waist.

The un-named youth released a sigh in annoyance at how he still had at least a few hours before he reached the Capital. He continued along his path his mind filled with thoughts of what he was going to do once he finally reached the capital, such as finding a place to eat aswell as accomodation.

Suddenly he stopped moving, his eyes focusing in the direction of the road he was headed down, the faint sound of cries reaching his ears as he took off down the path at high speed, a trail of dust being left behind him. He reached the commotion that he had heard and was intrigued to find a trailer with two men sitting with shocked expressions on their face as they watched a young boy with brown hair and green eyes swing his sword to the floor, flicking off the blood that was on it from the earth dragon that lay dead beside him.

Keiji walked towards them with his hands in his pockets, the group still unaware of him being there as they talked.

"are you guys alright?" the boy asked the two men as he slid his sword back into its sheath in his back, "y-yeah we're fine, that was amazing, your skilled!" one of the men said having finally picked his jaw from off of the floor at witnessing the young boy take down the danger-beast with ease.

"ha, I know." he replied smugly, causing the two men to sweatdrop, "so where are you headed kid?" the second man asked, "the names Tatsumi, and you better remember it, because i'm going to be big in the Capital." the now named Tatsumi answered with a grin. the looks on bith men's faces turned grim at his answer, "your skilled kid, thats easy enough to see, but the capital isn't the place you think it is."

Tatsumi frowned at this before the first man continued, "it may look like a place of opportunities, but there are monsters lurking everywhere in the capital." his brow furrowed in confusion at this, "what? you mean there are danger-beasts in the capital?" the men shook their head, "no, we're talking about the people that live there, you'll find out soon enough that many of them are several times worse than any danger-beast."

the silver haired youth finally reached the group before calling, "you guys headed to the Capital?" the men and Tatsumi turned to see him before answering, "yeah, we're headed to the Capital why?" the men answered as he finally reached beside them. "Any chance I can get a ride in with you guys?"

the men looked him up and down before asking, "your going there aswell? I don't reccomend it kid. The Captial isn't the great place you think it is." he grimaced at this. "So the rumors are true then." he muttered to himself before replying, "I heard it's pretty bad there, so I'm going to check out how bad for myself." "well we can give you two a lift to the Capital but we still don't reccomend it."

Keiji smiled as he took his hand out of his pocket and extended it to the men, "thanks, the name's Keiji by the way, it's a pleasure to meet you."