PSO: Orochi Agito: The story of the Agito
Come and hear a tale about a man and a sword, and the legacy they will leave behind. This legend starts on the planet called Coral in the Cele Solar system around AUW 1970. In the land of Gale there was a war being waged. On one side of the war were the peasants; on the other were the royal court and its Emperor. The peasants had grown tired of the oppressive tyrant and his exuberant taxes so they banned together fight for freedom and a new government. The Emperor and his court were not going to take this sitting down so they used their army to subdue the uprising. In the first battle of the war (the one the Emperor was sure would end the uprising) the Royal Guard lost. It was all thanks to group of young warriors; their leader was Orochi Agito. Our story begins in the year AUW 1974, two years after the Battle of Gale Bridge.
"Orochi, Orochi," someone called. Orochi was well on his way to sleep when he heard the call. Orochi tiredly picked himself up from the bed, removing the silk sheets to revel his cloth underwear. He walked over to the window; his eyes half closed and full of coal. He pushed open the Daki (similar to Earth plant: bamboo) blinds that blocked the way to answer the man on the street. "What, What," he cried "It's midnight, what could possible be good enough to miss some sleep.' He was cranky and with good reason. He and his group had just finished a crucial battle where they guarded Simoo City from annihilation. If that city had fallen it would have meant a loss to their weaponry. In Simoo City there were three Blacksmiths who made the most of weapons that Orochi and his men used. Having them on their side was critical and protecting them was a given. "The Emperor has just sent one of his men from the Royal Court with platoon of Shadow Rabbits (a special sub-division in the Guard) to this town to dispatch of us sir!" "(Damn) Tengai, get the other men ready for battle and meet at the Water Dragon fountain." Tengai responded, "Understood." With that Tengai ran to the other house to wake the men. Orochi and his crew were resting here in Piki village, they slept in different houses ensure that if one had got caught the others would be safe. It was easy to find shelter in the town, they were abandoned when the war had began; the people living here picked up their belonging and fled the country.
Orochi closed the blinds and walked over to the side of the bed. He looked underneath the box-spring to grab his armor and sword. His armor was of the traditional sense, it resembled the Earth-Japanese Feudal Samurai Armor worn a long time ago. On the back of the armor was a huge sheath for a sword, Orochi grabbed the sword from underneath the bed. It was long sword (about as long as eight feet in length and weighted about two-hundred and fifty lbs), long enough to swipe down five men in one swing. It requires great strength and stamina just to wield it, Orochi wasn't lacking in both fields although by looking at him you couldn't tell. He was a lanky man, about six feet two inches, and he only weighted about one-sixty. Somehow he was able to control the blade. He took the sword and sheathed it; with his armor strapped on he walked down the stairs and out the door.
Orochi walked down the stone-cobbled pathway that led to the Water Dragon fountain. There was a full moon out that night; it was the night of crimson for the moon was red. A frigid wind bit and clawed at the neck and ears of Orochi. He bit his lips to try and numb the cold feeling with his mind all the while walking to his destination. On his way he past torn-down houses and dilapidated stores all made of wood, mostly likely the work of the Guard before Orochi and his men pushed them out. The Guard used to use this area as a brothel where they would bring unwilling maidens from local towns they had ransacked and have their way with them. The young warriors freed the maidens from the clutches of the Guard. Looking at this building brought back those memories. Orochi made it to the Water Dragon fountain; his men were all ready there waiting for him. The Dragon they stood near has had it's share of the years; the paint that was once a vivid flash of aqua blue with violet on the underside of the dragon was now just a hint of blue with gray all around. Even worse, it was covered in Aril(a Coral bird) waste and began to mildew and had fungi underneath its base.
There were six men near the statue; Tengai, Gan (A tall muscular lad), Kamuu (another lanky person), Sang (A stocky man), Sakura and Kristina (twin sisters...hey just because I said "men" doesn't mean that they all are men!) They there were, all standing near the ghoul of a beast within a ghost town. Gan turned to Orochi, "You're late." Orochi looked at Gan, wearily, and said, "Give me a break...look at what I'm carrying here" as he point to the giant sword on his back. Gan said, "I guess that would wear anyone down, I even have trouble lifting that thing! I just don't see how you do it." There was silence for five seconds, "Tengai, how did you get information that the Emperor sent his men here" Orochi said. Tengai said, "Remember when we captured five of the Guardsmen and we let one of them go (they tied stones to the rest of the Guardsmen's necks and tossed them in a lake.) Well I placed a tracking device on him, he returned to the castle and spilled his guts about the battle. After they spilled his guts I could faintly hear the Emperor giving orders for Nero and some Shadow Rabbits to come here." Orochi asked, "Do you know when they'll be here?" Tengai said, "Considering the distance from here to the Emperor's palace I would say they would be here about four."
"All right then, we have some time to plan an attack," said Orochi. All the men were good at a certain skill; Tengai was a blacksmith and quite adept at swordsmenship. Gan was a marksmen and strong enough to carry the new Barrel Cannons (they were five feet long and weighted about three-hundred pounds.) Barrel Cannons were slimed powder keg shells that could fire enough force to blast twenty men to pieces. Kamuu was a telemental, that was enough more than enough reason to keep him on the team because his mental ability to control the elements proved handy. Sang was another marksman and had a sharper eye than Gan. They used him to pick off other snipers in the distance or if he was in the fray they trusted him to clear the room with his two Yasminkov 2000Hs (a new gun that was a favorite of marksmen in those days.) Sakura and Kristina were female ninjas; their beauty and their deadliness usually gained them access to places where an ugly mug like Gan's couldn't. Plus they were hella good fighters to boot! Orochi was a master swordsmen, he learn his craft from the famed Master Hui. Hui died at the hands of a Guardsman while pleading for peace (although he was a master of a deadly weapon he did not believe in killing.) His last words to his pupil were "Don't seek vengeance, it will only lead to more bloodshed." Ten seconds later, Orochi took his master's sword and killed the Guardsman that had taken his master's life. To this day Orochi feels like he let down his mentor but he continues to walk down the path of Damnation; death and destruction.
"Tengai," said Orochi, "what direction will they be coming from?" Tengai pointed past the bell tower, "From the west." Orochi said, "Good, Sang you can make a spot in the bell tower to shoot them down." Sang nodded whilst chewing on some bark. Orochi continued, "Gan, I want you to stand on top of the locked tomb in the graveyard. Set up a stabilizer and a barrier (a stabilizer was a metal hurdle with slots to hold feet held a person in place in case they fired a strong gun with great force. A barrier was metal shield with an opening for the gun and two slots for sight that shielded against frontal assaults) and aim towards the west." Gan said, "Right." Orochi turned to face Kamuu, "Kamuu, I want you to plant some of your fire bombs into the ground out there. About sixty of them will do, since they're the Shadow Rabbits I'm expecting them to miss most of them. After you do that I want you go to the graveyard with Gan and fire some fireballs into the distance." Kamuu said, "With that kind of linear attack they'll have a hard time evading." Orochi said, "Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. Sakura, Kristina, I want you two to hide in those two building over there." Orochi pointed to two building (an old store and a stablehouse for horses) on opposite sides of the street. "When you find an obscure place where you can see outside and not be seen yourself I want you two to ambush the group with a furry of fight cutters." Sakura and Kristina said, "Sure." Orochi said, "When they reach Sakura and Kristina's location I want Sang to go down into the bell tower and attack from the stairway out the window." Sang said, "Uh wouldn't that make me easy to hit?"
Orochi said, "Not really, see if you stay up there at the top that would make you easier to hit. By then they would have found out your location and have a guy shoot you down. However if you move down and preach on the stairwell you could see out the window and shoot at them without fear because..." Sang finishes Orochi's sentence "...because they can't see me from that angle, it'll be dark. Yeah I get ya." Tengai says, "What about me?" Orochi said, "You'll be with me in that house over there. I'll have Kamuu blow the house opposite to that one to create a diversion when they get near. You'll be on the second floor; you will jump out from the window and attack after I rush them with my J-Sword (Jenpei, his huge sword) into the raging fire. Orochi asked Tengai "Do you know how many will come?" Tengai said, "About fifty of them." Orochi said, "By the time we're finish with our ambush there will be about two of the Rabbits and Nero left." Kamuu said, "Why do you think Nero will be left?" Orochi said, "Because he's a Royal member, they will protect him with their own lives if they have to." Kamuu says, "Oh." Orochi says, "All right then let's break." With that all the men scatter to their posts.