The nightmares beginning

Ch 17

Flash back

( 900 hundred years ago Tauta had been home to many bloody battles. Nations used it for the final battle ground for when their own lands got to badly damaged and to many of their innocent lives were lost. People went mad from battle anxiety or clam to hear voices when left on the island after a battle, even before the demons this island seemed to kill people. Once the final war ended people who were forced to leave their homes or for different reason and felt they wouldn't feel at home or welcome in the other nations came across this island. They made this place their home and started a new existence, over time people continued to come and lived in harmony or close enough. But at different times of the year people seemed to get violent or simple crazy and committing the worst of crimes. Later they returned to normal as though nothing happened but had to live with what they did and accept their punishment. They clamed they were possessed and hearing voices, of course no one believed them but a priest. His name was Sako, he had blond short hair, had a little gut (like Iroh but much smaller), a go tee, slender in size, and wore a brown baggy shirt and pants. He was a beloved man be the people of the island and his family and tried to help the people who clamed to be possessed and failed every time. One evening he returned home from helping a family home and returned to find his house was of pure darkness. "Hello Mai, kids are you still here!" yelled Sako, but got no response. He searched the house calling his family finding each room empty and black.

When the opened his room what Sako found made his blood run cold and his mind blank. Mia lied there next to the bed with their two children bleeding each with their throats cut. Sako ran to his family praying they were still alive, but found his children were cold and his wife barley hanging on and muttering something. "Mia what happen who did this?" Sako pleaded, crying and gasping for air Sako tried to stop the bleeding only to have his wife grab his hands and put them on the ground. She smiled coughing while attempting to speak with a straight face. " Sako… love, understand please… I did this for our own good. I've finally relished were all dammed. We don't deserve this world or to live. We kill for no reason but to satisfy our own greed…. And have no regard for one another. To live is to suffer… there is so much suffering… death, illness, and ourselves. We cause it, ourselves and turn our back on all that we believe because it gets in the way. (cough) Our beliefs are different and if someone won't believe the same as us we destroy all that is perishes to them, that's why were here on this island. God doesn't care about us other wise he help and set everything right. Smite the evil and reward those that are good instead of it the other way (cough)… around. I couldn't let our children live in a world like that… I'm sorry if you don't understand(cough, cough) but please trust me this is right. Mia said, Sako squeezed her hand, completely not understanding what she was talking about and wondered where she got these ideas. Before he could ask Mia started coughing madly spitting blood as she did and spoke. "Please take the knife and join us. Please I don't want you to live in a world of pain like everyone else……" Mia said, as she spoke those words she finally died leaving Sako in the room alone sitting in the dark, crying and praying that this was a dream but if it was he wouldn't wake.

He buried his family in the back alone not telling a soul not wanting to anyone to know his wife would be in hell alone. As he stood over the graves each marked with a stone a voice echoed in his head. "Tragic isn't it? You are not going to follow?" The voice asked, "No if she didn't want to suffer or for me to suffer she should not have killed herself and our kids. Now she will rest in hell and suffer for eternity." Sako answered, he then relished that someone spoke and turned quickly looking for who talking to him but found no one. He turned to head inside to come up with a story to tell everyone when a voice made him stop. "Hurts doesn't it? Lose, to lose loved ones for reason you don't understand can truly drive a man mad. Do you understand why she did it?" asked the voice, Sako looked around again seeing no one, running through the house trying to find the owner of that voice only to hear him asking the same question over and over. Sako thought he had gone mad and started to think about what Mia said and wondered if this is what drove her to it. " Do understand what she meant or not?" yelled the voice, Sako took a deep breath and cleared his mind trying to keep his sanity. " She listened to you that's why she did it. You caused her pain you drove her to it!" Sako yelled, the house went silent, Sako stood in his house sweating and painting for his experience and thought it was a moment of madness. "She just relished the truth and understood what needed to be done to help purge this world of the creature that inhabit it. Try to think, no your not insane your really hearing me as your wife did. She didn't believe at first ether but in time understood as will you. Think about it what humans are, are they righteous, good, selfless, caring, believers? No…. They clam what they do is right but only telling themselves what ever they need to get through another day or to do anything questionable. What people believe to be good is only their point of view, if something is good for one and blood should be spilt for it then that makes it right? A sin is a sin no matter what and people can't except that everything must be for the greater good and that it's self is only a point of view. People rarely do anything that doesn't benefit them in some way even you. You do what your lord says to earn a just reward in the next life are you not? So tell me what is human but weak creatures only out to destroy their own kind and wanting nothing but to benefit?" the voice asked, Sako was speechless, everything this voice said was true and he never noticed. Sako quickly shook his head in disbelief trying to keep true to his beliefs. " Humans are not what you think, true there is evil in the world but majority of us are good and don't always hope to benefit! What lies in the next life is unknown and what we believe is what keeps us going and that alone makes us strong! Now leave me alone!" Sako yelled, the house went silent again, after a few minutes Sako thought he was cured and this was a test god had laid out for him and passed. " If god cared, then why does evil profit while those good suffer and die? Your family was good, so why did he let them die? How many people have you helped in your little church for they are wronged by evil people only to have the evil go free while the people you help are in pain and are forced to live a life of pain or fear? Think about it, look around, Mia found proof of what I speak of. " the voice bellowed, Sako spent weeks alone, telling no one of what happened and going about his daily life. The voice continued to haunt him, questioning his beliefs, human kind and their worth, and he was beginning to dough everything he new.)

End of flash back

"Wait a second, what was this voice and how do you have this information?" Sokka asked, "The voice was a demon and someone kept a record of what happen. Now shut up and no one interrupt me again! Leiko yelled, Everyone glared at Sokka and making sure his mouth was shut while Leiko continued.

Flash back

(One night Sako was in his room sorting his cloths from Mai's when he found one of the floor boards was loose. He bent down to look at what was inside and found books. Sako was shocked at what he found knowing these must be the books the voice was talking about. He knew he shouldn't look and was about to put them away when he suddenly stopped. " What's wrong? The floor board was loose for a reason, she wanted you to find them so read." the voice said, "No." Sako refused, "Afraid to what you may find? Or simple can't accept that maybe your life is for nothing. Poor Mai had wished you to do this and you won't honor her last wish?" the voice taught, Sako knew that this was a trick but something in his mind kept telling him to read like someone was yelling at him. Each book was about something different but were in some way related to religion of humans , alchemy, Buddhism, the black arts, Christianity, Catholicism, the bible, and a old black book that looked to be nothing but notes of different people and Mai's. Sako spent hours looking through the books each one shocking and horrifying him opening his eyes to new possible truths, each one seemed to say the same humans were the evil he had clamed to reject. Once finished Sako sat back in his chair soaking in what he read and wondering how Mai got a hold of all these? "So do you understand yet?" the voice asked, "No I don't how did she get these, the bible and other religious books I own but what about the others? Sako asked, "People from other villages of course. The people of this island are from all over different beliefs, different cultures, all here. She has spent months reading trying to find something about humans that justified the lords son death. But found nothing, humans are succumb by evil and will kill each other. Each religion shows this, martyrs were needed for some to get the point, but no matter what religion and no matter what culture you are you will find humans yearn for the darkness. How else can you explain why some don't believe in a lord or why people commit such sinful acts. You can't deny this you have heard people confess their sins and you've just about heard them all what can you conclude from all that?" the voice asked, Sako spaced out staring at the books, remembering all the sins he has heard. You must have heard every sin ever thought of confessed here and watched as good people are punished for nothing while the evil people god has left untouched. His own wife and children were taken from him and he did nothing. People attempt alchemy in hopes of achieving power and become gods them selves while others worship their gods, in hopes of reserving a reward or live a just life. Sako thought

Sako continued to stair into space, images flashing in front of his eyes, his family, his old life and home, people around him all his life, and his teachings. All of a sudden the images stopped, his head dropped and his arms dangled from the arms of the chair lifeless. After a couple of minutes went by he heard a familiar voice and looked up and nearly screamed. It was Mai standing in front of him smiling, her long red hair hung past her shoulders, her eye as innocent as ever, slender body did not faltered her skin still smooth as a blanket, she seemed to glow. Sako got up and ran to her only to run through her. Sako stood in shock and turned to see if he was seeing things but continued to see his loving wife. "Sako I'm sorry but we can no longer touch… it pains me to see you like this but there is a reason this is happening and you must carry out a mission to save this world." Mai said, Sako stood in the corner baffled not understanding what it was he was talking, was this a test of faith or was this truly Mai? "What are you talking about? Is it really you Mai? Why did you leave me and why did you read all this, you must have known it could have lead to nothing good?" Sako asked, Mai face soften and dropped her head and a tear fell from her eye. "I'm sorry I know this is hard but you must listen I don't have much time to talk. I knew yes but I couldn't stand not knowing and when I found out the truth I just couldn't live in a world like this. You can save it though, bring back the true heirs to this world." Mai stated, " True heirs what do you mean?" Asked Sako, " I mean demons, they inhabited this world first before they were cast into hell. You see demons are not all evil, like us some are and some aren't, and they don't try to justifies them selves they accept their evil nature. They don't fight useless battles for pride or meaningless problems, they chariest their lives and don't try to destroy them selves.

Please the human kind are destroying this world and each other and won't stop until nothing is left. We hold no true values out side material possessions and our selves. Do you understand?" Mai asked, Sako stood starring at his wife trying to understand what she was saying, all that was written about demons said they were evil. But then again humans seemed evil as well and were destroying them selves, all this information was pouring in so fast Sako could hardly stand, then screaming in frustration, sweat fell from his head. Tears poured from his eyes and veins in his arms bolded out and finally he fell to his knees. Mai took a step forward but as she did Sako looked at her but his eyes were blood shot and the look of a mad man. "Yes I will save this world, we will only kill it and our selves…. What must I do?" Sako asked, Mai smiled and walked over to him, bending down and kissing him one last to before starting to fade away. "Listen to the voice he is the one that will fix everything." Mai said as she faded away, Sako stood and started throwing all his books and anything that stood for his or any religion away and replacing it with nothing. Once finished he stood in the middle of the room panting in frustration and excitement. " What do I do…. My lord?" Sako asked in a whisper, "Go to the village and grab a pregnant women that is ready to give birth, bring her back here and do as I say I will need a body. Don't worry the body will change quickly I won't be human." The voice said, as Sako walked out the door and headed to the village the wind blew a cool chilling breeze and the night seemed to cover him in darkness. "What do I call you my lord?" Sako asked, "Ronin or Lord Ronin ." the voice answered, as Sako reach the village he snuck into the birthing house and grabbed the women closest to giving birth only a day or two away. Putting a gage in her mouth he ran with her on his back silently into the night never making a sound and disappearing into the night.

Three days later the women gave birth to a baby boy but different, the brutal ritual that had brought his master into this world left the mother beaten, ragged, and lifeless. Sako left his home and disappeared into the wilderness carrying the demonic child who had sprouted horns and eyes as empty as the darkest shadow. The villagers came to investigate a week later when no signs of Sako or the mother could be found any where. What they found horrified them, the mother dead and the child gone and the room covered in blood and symbols drawn in it. Ritualistic symbols were all over the floors and walls of the fathers room and books of the cult, the devil, and alchemy and Sako's dead family found buried in the back were found. No one could believe what had happened Sako had gone insane and left with the child. The island was search but those who found him were ether killed or beaten and left alive only to say what they saw. With each sighting everyone reported the priest possessing incredible strength and speed. His face had become pale and eyes dark. But Also a child was seen each time standing near him and every time appearing older by at least fives years with every sighting and looking more and more inhuman. A month later a dark figure in black demonic roamed the island killing everyone he met and raising the dead. People tried to get off the island but each time prevented by the walking dead. Over time word got out and help came only to be killed until a monk and a priestess came and began to destroy the evil in what took three months until the Demon born of a human was left. Leaving to fight him they clamed one way or another it would end and the people of this island would be safe. No one knows to where the final battle took place of what became of the monk and priestess only after that day life seemed to return to normal.)

End of flash back

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Whoa, that took a while, first let me say the parts where Sako was talking his words weren't recorded just the event, I added them so you can understand what made him nuts. Second I'm not someone bent by religion, I believe in god as my savior and there is a devil/hell… if for some reason I wrote something to offend someone I'm sorry. Well hope you keep enjoying this