3x3 Eyes: Shadow under the Moon
Chapter II: The Girl of Legends
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Jessie Harris was an average girl, of an average height of 5 feet 7 inches, with an average weight of around 120 pounds. She had average, shoulder-length brown hair, and average light blue eyes. Average, right?
Wrong. When all the other girls were out playing sports, Jessie was inside reading. Not reading just anything, but reading legends. Legends that came to life, legends as obscure as the moon on a cloudy night, legends that made no sense or all too much sense. The legend of the Hindu god Shiva, who was supposed to send the world into chaos where there came too much corruption; the legend of Heracles (Herculese) and the three headed behemoth Cerberus; the legend of Pandora and the box; of Daphne and Apollo; of Isis and Osiris and Seth. But her favorite was a myth so obscure she had come upon it by pure chance: the legend of the three-eyed divine demons, the Sanjiyan Unkara.
Supposedly, the Sanjiyan Unkara were a race of (as previously stated) three-eyed demons who possessed the secret of eternal youth and immortality. But a ruler by the name of Kaiyanwang disrupted the peaceful life of the Sanjiyan. He had wanted to conquer the whole of the demon world, slaughtering all who refused to help. He came very close with the help of his immortal Wu, Benaris, when he was sealed away in Kun-Lun by the few remaining Sanjiyan. After the sealing, those few Sanjiyan died.
Jessie thought it was a tragic story, and was sad that such a powerful race had met its downfall by one civil war.
In a way, Jessie wished some of the legends were actually true. Sometimes, she wished she was a Sanjiyan's Wu. To be immortalto live foreverlike most girls, she thought that this was good, because you'd be forever beautiful and have a lot of money. But then she remembered they were only myths, legends, stories made by the first people to occupy time and explain certain events. They weren't real, had never been. And there was no such thing as demons.
Oh, she didn't know how wrong she was
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