Disclaimer: sadly I don't own AMG or any of the Final Fantasy references. But I do own Night Lancer, I guess that's enough to be proud of ;v
AN: this is the redone version of the 1st chapter with fixed up tenths and a few other changers hope you like it.
Night Lancer… Lost and forgotten…
Night Lancer Chronicles.
Chapter 1 Blades, Lightning and Sake.
So you want to here the story of the swordsman Night Lancer, well I guess the best place to begin would be in the beginning. It all started one night with a tall figure draped in shadow standing at the entrance to a small temple compound in Japan that we all know very well.
"Hmm, this looks cosy," said the Shadow. "A Temple, and there seems to be something of divine energy floating around. Hmm maybe I'll pay them a visit."
"Good morning Bell-Chan," yawned Keichii as he walked into the kitchen.
"Morning Keichii," Belldandy replied as she walks over and hugged him.
"What's for breakfast this morning?" Keichii asked.
"Hot English muffins with te…" she replied just as she dropped the cup from her hand and it shattered on the floor. "There's something here and it's not a god nor is it a demon. There seems to be a bit of mortal and something else to."
Just then the bell rang.
"Told ya," replied Belldandy as she ran down the hall with Keichii, Skuld and Urd behind her. They ran out the front door to see a man standing at the entrance. He looked in his late teens early twenties and was wearing a heavy black trench coat with black pants, hiking boots, long blonde hair with a long purple bandana wrapped around his head, partially hidden under his hair and what looked like the hilt of a katana and its holder was held over his back with a long, black, leather strap.
"Yes, may I help you?" asked Belldandy politely.
"Ahh yes you can," said the man just as Benpie the robot came around the corner.
"Target located. Analysing…fifty percent mortal human energy fifty percent unknown. Attack all unknown life forms attack all unknown life forms, attack all unknown life forms," said Benpie as he charges the man with arms outstretched.
Luckily the man jumped out the way just in time. He drew his sword and yelled. "Come and get me you bucket of bolts!" as Benpie swung around for another charge. "Ok if ya want it that way," said the man in a relaxed voice as he charged the mecha, he swang his sword and stoped with his weapon out stretched as Benpie stoped and the mecha's head rolled of its shoulders and landed on the ground with a massive thump. The man returned his weapon to its original place, turned around and said, "Pathetic."
"Benpie!" yelled Skuld as she ran towards the decapitated remains of her mecha. "You killed him, whoever you are!"
"Well if you let me explain my self instead of sicking your psychotic robot on me I would tell you who I am!" yelled the man who was undoubtedly pissed off by the kind of welcome he got.
"Yeah!" Skuld retaliated.
"Yeah!" yelled the man back.
"Quiet!" yelled Belldandy, trying to get control of the situation. "One, Skuld you shouldn't set Benpie on auto attack like that and two, mister, don't yell at my sister like that."
"Sister, that ain't good," thought the man.
"Ok if you would be so kind as to come indoors," said Keichii, who was trying to get a hold of the situation, "you can explain yourself. Bell-Chan if you could sort out her," he said while pointing to a now extremely upset Skuld, who was clutching Benpie's severed head, "and you can leave that sword out doors. I don't know about Urd but I'd like to keep my head."
"Sure. Mind if I smoke?" he asked.
"Yeah I don't, but my girlfriend does," replied Keichii.
"OK," said the man as he, Keichii and Urd walked into the tearoom.
"Alright," said Keichii, "who are you and why have you come here?"
"They call me Night Lancer and I'm actually here ta talk with the divines of this household," Night Lancer replied.
"D… Di … Divines," stuttered Urd completely surprised by Night Lancer's reply. "How do you know about that, who told you?"
"Nobody told me, I can sense you three," said Night Lancer.
"How? No mortal can," asked Urd.
"I know, because I ain't no normal mortal, you see I'm half human and half Spiran," replied Night Lancer.
"Spiran, Oh that ain't good." Urd said while putting one hand to her forehead.
"What, what's going on?" yelled Keichii who had completely lost the plot.
"How, Spira is a completely different world?" asked Urd
"I don't know," replied Night Lancer. "Never met me father, my Katana is the only thing that proves that he was here and my mother died about three years ago, killed by a demon who was looking for my father. When my mother didn't tell him he killed her. But before she died she told me about who I really am. Shortly after she died I found this sword, packed up my life and left in search of the mada fucka who killed my old lady. When I find him I'll turn him into sushi. Then, about two years ago there was this massive shot of some sort of energy signature. I followed it to its source which led me here."
"Wow! What a sad story," said Belldandy who was now standing at the door. Obviously she had found out a way to calm down Skuld.
"Hang on. Did you say two years ago?" asked Keichii who was trying to remember what happened two years ago.
"Keichii, don't you remember what me and Skuld so kindly did for you and Belldandy. Or have you already forgotten?" asked Urd. "Remember it got me a thirty day licence suspension."
"Yeah, he he the look on your face was priceless," laughed Keichii.
"Shut up!" yelled Urd at Keichii who was on his back laughing at the memory of Urd's and Skuld's faces when they got their sentence from the almighty.
"Well I guess well be having a new person staying with us now?" asked Belldandy.
"Heck no, I've got my own apartment about an hour walk from here." Replied Night Lancer.
"Oh, OK," answered Urd who was now taking swigs from a new bottle of sake (her third for the morning).
"Ah, sake you've got good taste," said Night Lancer.
"You drink?" asked Urd.
"A bit," replied Night Lancer.
"Want a glass?" offered Urd.
"Ok," answered Night Lancer.
Several hours and sake bottles later, Night Lancer was passed out on the floor and Urd was completely loaded and laughing hysterically at the now unconscious Night Lancer. Skuld was still in her labs reattaching Benpei's head and Keichii and Belldandy were sitting in a quiet corner of the temple compound relaxing.
"So?' asked Keichii.
"So, what?" replied Belldandy.
"What do you think of him?"
"Well, it's about his saying that he's a demon hunter," replied Belldandy. "Demons are 10 dimensional beings. There's no way he could hit let alone kill it."
"I guess … I guess we'll have to see it for ourselves," said Keichii.
"Keichii you're so simple minded …and that's one of the reasons I love you," replied Belldandy as she reached over and hugged him, while in the background Urd's ever-louder drunken laughter echoed across the temple compound.
"Ahh, great. Your sister is drunk again," complained Keichii. "Well, might as well go and calm her down."
"I guess," replied Belldandy. "I wonder what happened to our guest?"
"She's probably drunk him under the table four times by now," answered Keichii as the two walked over to the direction of the laughter.
"Ha ha ha ha!" laughed Urd. "Look at him … hic … it's only eight bottle of mi stronged vintage … hic … 'n 'es 'llready o … hic … hic 'is 'ack."
"Oh god," said Keichii. "Night Lancer you Ok."
"Uhhhh!" groaned a now half-conscious drunken Night Lancer from somewhere in the corner of the room. "Where's the puke bucket? I wanna get off this ride."
"Ahh, two doors down the hall to the left," replied a surprised Belldandy. "Urd, just exactly how much did he drink?"
Urd just sat there laughing and held up four fingers.
"Ohh shit, I'm surprised that he can withstand one bottle of this stuff let alone four," replied Keichii as he picked up a bottle which read "Vintage 1824 Sake (Strong Urd Style)." He passed it to Belldandy who shot an angry glance at Urd, while in the background they could hear the sound of someone throwing up.
"Urd! You know that you shouldn't let mortals touch this stuff!" yelled Belldandy
"But it was …hic… so funny. Besides, he's half Spiran. He's …hic… got a better resistance to alcohol compared to mortals," replied Urd still half drunk.
"I don't care, he's half mortal too which lowers his Spiran alcohol resistance," retaliates Belldandy.
Um Belldandy you seem to have things under control here, I'll go check on Night Lancer," said Keichii as he backed out of the room, cautious of the divine family fight going on. He walked down the hallway and into the bathroom to see a half passed out Night Lancer slumped against the wall.
"How ya feelin'?" asked Keichii
"Like total, utter shit," replied Night Lancer in a half-awake voice.
"Ok," Replied Keichii just as Belldandy walked through the door. "So what happened to Urd?"
"Well she's gone off to her room to sober up a bit and we'll take it from there," replied Belldandy. "How's Night Lancer feeling?"
"In his words, 'Like total utter shit'," answered Keichii.
"No surprise after what he drank," replied Belldandy sympathetically.
"I'll be out in about five or so minutes," said Night Lancer from the corner of the bathroom.
"Ok," replied Keichii, but as he turned to signal Belldandy to leave he saw his girlfriend had a very startled look on her face. "What's wrong Bell-Chan?"
"This is bad," she replied fearfully.
"What's bad?" asked Keichii.
"SHIT! NOT AGAIN!!" yelled Night Lancer as, still half drunk, he ran down the hallway, grabbed has Katana and ran out the door.
"What's all that yelling out here!" yelled Skuld, who was standing at the front of the entrance to her labs "I'm trying to concentrate in here." as Night Lancer ran past grabbed his Katana and swang it over his shoulder.
"I hate these mada fuckers," said Night Lancer as he stepped out side to see a person standing in a clearing in the compound. This man was wearing a white singlet, long trousers and had a rather large build.
"Yes?" asked Night Lancer, as if he already knew what was going to happen.
"Ahh the legendary Night Lancer, he he he, I'm here for that bounty on your head," replied the person.
"Yea you and every other fuckin demon in existence!" yelled Night Lancer as he reached for the hilt of his Katana and drew it. "So… I'm in a good mood to day. How would you like to die? Decapitation or rough divide?"
"I don't think so," replied the demon as he extended his hand and a ball of energy formed in it. "You see I'm not like those others you killed, I'm much stronger then the others, I'm a First class, Unlimited, Unrestricted."
"Yea… just like the past three others I wiped out," replied Night Lancer in his normal cocky attitude.
"What?!" yelled the demon, "that's it you're dead!" He fired the energy ball at Night Lancer who easily jumped to the side and dodged it.
"Night Lancer, he's a first class demon, you don't stand a chance!" yelled Belldandy.
"It's ok Belldandy, I eat pathetic mada fuckers like him for breakfast," replied Night Lancer while dodging energy blasts, one of which burnt his hair.
"Hang on a sec, are you the Belldandy, as in Belldandy the goddess slut who fell in love with a pathetic mortal named Morisato Keichii?" said the demon cruelly.
"S… S… Slut, how dare you call my younger sister a slut!" yelled Urd, who was now standing at the door to the temple house. Obviously she had heard the explosions and yelling from her room and come to investigate. "I'm going to shove a lightning up your ass!"
"Its all right Urd, I've got every thing under contro… Ahh!" replied Night Lancer while ducking to avoid another energy ball flying at his head. "Hay you mind, you could have done some major damage that time."
"That's… what… I'm… trying to do," replied the demon while going trigger happy with his energy. "If you would just stand still I'll make this as painful as possible."
"Dahh, fuck you," replied Night Lancer, while charging the demon with his Katana ready to strike. "Ya know for that I'm going to decapitate you." He swings his sword narrowly missing the demons head. "Dahh fuck!" He yelled while spinning around for another strike, this time hitting the demon in the side completely slicing him in two. "That'll teach you for pissing me off," Night Lancer replied as he pushed the now two piece demon over onto the floor.
"Well that's it, he's definitely a demon hunter," replies Urd, now glad that it was all over. "Now we can go back to our lives."
"Hahaha, guess what? There's absolutely no way that you can go back to your lives!" yelled a voice from behind Night Lancer, "Because you see I'm about to end them!"
"Dahh FUCK!" yelled Night Lancer as he turned around to see the demon that he just killed reattaching his body, "You just don't know when to die."
"Nahh, its not that you pathetic mortal," replied the demon in a superior tone of voice, "You and your pathetic weapons can't kill me."
"Hmm, you'd think that wouldn't you," replied Night Lancer coolly as he reached into his jacket for his box of cigarettes, lit one up and put it back. "You just haven't seen what I can do."
"Yeah, right, what ever," said the demon while sticking out his hand and shooting a ball of energy at Night Lancer, hitting him in the chest and knocking him flying into the wall.
"Dahh fuck," coughed Night Lancer. "Lucky shot, but you ain't gonna get the chance to do it again." He got up and cleared the dirt off ht jacket. "Alright now I'm pissed." He said while he inspected a burn hole in his jacket.
"Alright this time you ain't gonna get up again!" Night Lancer yelled as he grabbed his Katana and charged the demon. "FUCK YOU!!!" he yelled as he jumped up swang his blade over head with such force it hit the demon and cleaved it in half from the head down. Night Lancer landed on the ground effortlessly, stood up and said under his breath, "And stay down this time."
Meanwhile, on the sidelines, Urd, seeing the destruction of their opponent, yelled at the top of her voice. "LET'S SEE YOU STITCH THAT UP AGAIN!!!"
Belldandy took one look at the horrific mess and gore of the battle went green in the face and ran in doors followed closely by Keichii.
Meanwhile, Night Lancer dropped his katana and fell to his knees. He looked at his opponent and said, "I need a drink… A big drink." He fell to the ground with blood coming out of the wound in his chest where the energy ball had hit him earlier. The blood made a small puddle on the stone pathway leading up to the temple building and just as he slipped out of consciousness he could hear Urd's voice yell out, "Night Lancer!"
To be continued…