Sleeping Shadows

Disclaimer: I do not own Princess Mononoke, or any of the original characters.

Summary of chapter one: A creature is moving through the night, nothing can stop it, the flames of its evil will be wide spread and no one will be able to stop it's fury and hatred.

Chapter 1: The God of demons

(Have fun reading, I've been gone a while but I hopefully will recover and update galore including my death honor and the way of the shinobi story (Naruto), in case any of you are wondering, that next chapter is called Z.A.Z)

The creatures cringed in fear, barely managing to scram out of the way. A god was coming and it was the most hated one there was, no one knew its name, they just spoke of it as 'Fury: The God of Demons'. Visible rings of black hatred engulfed it and blood formed in its foot steps swimming around its bare feet.

It was heading to a certain forest, by a town full of humans, which was once home to the forest spirit; now that he wasn't here Fury could rule supreme. It would start at the home of the most spirits of any place. It could hear quivering breathing and taste fear. A human was near. It let the hatred flow away from him, and screaming started as the man was dragged towards the demon.

"You're a demon! Calm yourself and reek no havoc upon me or my family."

Its amplified voice thundered in reply, "Where is your family, I shall rid them of the world as well."

"I will not tell you, demon!"

"Then late hatred tear you apart, human!" The human screamed in fright and struggled against hatreds' bindings.

"Please good creature, spare me… You're human!" The humbled man said, just now noticing Fury's human body.

It had had enough; Fury let hatred relinquish the puny side presence and continued its journey.

Humans; they're even stupider then I remembered, the puny thing just than noticed I was human, at the end of its retched life.

It sped up and came upon a small village beside a mountain. Fury noticed small town beside a mountain and saw a forest beyond that. It could almost feel the power residing from within the forest of Mononoke (spirits). Two other towns were visible as-well. One was the village of iron town and the other housed Lord Asano. Fury made his way to the small village, wishing a warm up on it's fighting skills. He grabbed his long sword and let it's hatred roam free. His human form would be much more inconspicuous, and more fun to desiccate the humans.

It pulled out its sword and charged in. The lookout bell rang once; signifying the approach of a small force. Three men ran too meet him. "Halt and leave this place, you have no permission to be here." Said the largest of the three holding up a threatening looking axe.

"You do not deny grant to a god to enter your residence, it will enter no matter what the circumstance." Fury said softly, using a more humane voice.

"And who are you that things you are a god." Said a more perturbed voice, withheld by the small man to the right.

"I am, what do you humans refer to me as… Fury: God of Demons." It said using its amplified voice to strike terror in the humans. "I have come to destroy your village and kill you all as a warm up to my humane fighting skills." Perfect the tremble in fear meant they would not counter as fast. Fury swung it's sword at the small man, but somehow he managed to block the blow and than all of the villagers ran out to outnumber Fury. It still wasn't going to use it's powers over hatred to win this, it wanted to try these humans' strength in this part of the world.

Fury swung it's weapon as hard as it could and cracked the swords of the men encircling him. They gasped and Fury only had to swing once more to behead them, this scared the other villagers and axes, swords, and other weapons went flying as they ran for their lives. The only three still there were the three men who had confronted him when he had entered there town.

"Leave, Lord Fury, leave us at peace. What have we done to anger you such?" Said the man in between the large and small man, this one bore a crown on his head.

"You have done nothing to anger me more, but your pleas will not be heard by my wrath. It is my curse thousands of years ago a spirit came to me and interrupted my life with my family. It killed my family and bestowed the curse, the power of hatred and all of it's abilities. You have heard what other humans have not. I must kill you even though you men are brave to defile a god."

"Go, sir, flea and warn iron town. I will hold them here. Akio, care to lend a hand?" The small man dashed forward along side him as the 'sir' leaped over a wooden stile and mounted a horse.

Fury was angered and suddenly all of it's hatred flew around killing the villagers left and right. It slowly told hatred to stop it's devastating procedure, he wanted to fight these two men. Akio charged to the left and the large man flew straight at Fury causing a misbalance as Akio jabbed him in the hand with his sword. The axe held by the large man planted itself into Fury's back. Fury swung madly at the small man and the human came up with many small wounds. Fury withdrew the axe from it's searing flesh and flung the axe at the small man, severing his head.

"Akio, noooooooo!" The large man screamed as Akio's body went limp and fell to the ground bleeding like all of hell was being unleashed inside of his body. All of hell pretty much was being released because it was back and it would crush anything in it's path. The large man ran after his lord into the mountains veiling iron town.

I remember when I once felt pain. I was a simple man when that damn spirit came. He ruined my life which would have been thousands of years shorter if I was not a god of demons…

(P.S I hoped you liked the first chapter of my first Mononoke story. Fury (or whatever I decide to name him yes it is going to be a him) is my character dude, so just keep reading and REVIEW if you have any suggestions or want to tell me how terrible my writing is -.-)