The thought crossed me of foreigners traveling from other countries, and also slaves, and the name and backstory for the Demon was born!
Also, Americans.
Tanjiro: Let's see how this goes…
Let's hope I don't overpower the OC Demons too quickly.
Chapter 4
Wagons
"Listen, if you break this sword, I will break you!" Sakonji told Tanjiro as he handed Tanjiro a sword. "Alright, have fun running."
Today marked three months of training with Sakonji Urokodaki, and so far Tanjieo was somewhat regretting his decision to train under Sakonji, though he knew that he had little say in the matter. Throughout the three months, he had ran down the mountain and had made astounding progress since he go to higher spots with each monthly run. Which was followed by more dangerous traps, diversions, and wild animals.
Luckily he scared the bear away.
He hadn't heard much from Nezuko, but when they did talk after each day of training, he learned that his sister was improving her Blood Demon Art which changed the size of her whole body. So far, only the speed of which she either shrunk or grew improved. They were looking to possibly making a set of clothes from some sort of fiber that would stretch or shrink for her with her Blood Demon Art, but the idea was forgotten a while ago, though it just seemed rather difficult to make if not impossible.
Currently as Tanjiro descended the mountain and avoided most of the traps, and almost fell into a pit of spikes which scared the ever living shit out of him, Tanjiro picked up a mysterious scent he didn't recognize from any of the previous days and stopped and looked towards the direction the smell was coming. "What in the world?" Tanjiro questioned aloud, before he recognizing it as a Demon's scent. "Crap!" He immediately began to run towards the area of which the Demon was in, before grabbing the hilt of the sword. "Let's hope I can still do something though I'm inexperienced."
He entered what was a clearing and saw… nothing. There was no Demon here. But Tanjiro noticed a large rock in the center of the clearing, and it was split in half. A perfect half. Tanjiro walked forward to inspect it before he smelt the Demon and rolled to his side before he spotted the Demon.
"Is it really you Master?" The Demon, apparently a female which threw Tanjiro off for a moment, asked. "Is it really you?"
The Demon herself had a rather boyish appearance, wearing a brown tunic that was short sleeved, and also wearing black leath pants. She wore grey shoes that looked more like house slippers with their rounded front, and also because the pad of the shoes were flat. She had short brown hair that made Tanjiro mistake her for a boy at first, and he saw that she had hazelnut colored eyes. However, it was the mist that came out of the corners of her mouth that were black, with glittery bits of blue, pink, purple and silver, that rose into the air and dissolved.
"Wh-Who are you?" Tanjiro questioned while relaxing, realizing that this must've been a tamed Demon since she wasn't burning up during the day, the light shining in the clearing.
The Demon's expression sadden. "You… you smelt like the Master… But I guess you're not. Damn… I hoped that this was just a prank since he's been gone for thirty years, but I guess you're just some different human."
"Wait, Master?" Tanjiro questioned. "Are you a Tamed Demon from the Demon Tamer?"
"Yeah," the Demon said while standing up. "But… you're still similar to Master… are you a part Demon?"
"No, I'm full human. My name is Tanjiro Kamado," Tanjiro told the Demon, but he got what she implied and half-blooded Demons and Humans just went through his mind, and he creeped him out a bit. For some reason, he felt a name come into his head. "...what is your name?"
"That's rather rude of me to not give my name," the Demon acknowledged her mistake before smiling and saying, "My name is-"
"Lizzy," Tanjiro blurted out randomly, which surprised the Demon.
"Y-Yeah, th-that is my name," Lizzy replied, while Tanjiro began to blink repeatedly.
"S-So… wh-what if I told you, I'm apparently the reincarnation of the Demon Tamer?" Tanjiro asked Lizzy, before her eyes widened and she ran up and hugged him and began crying.
"I found the Master!" She told herself as they fell to the ground. "I found him, I found him, I found him!" She looked at him. "It's explains why you smell so much like him!" She stood up, grabbed him, and helped him stand up. "I need to take you to the others right now! Everyone's going to be so happy!"
"Woah hold on one second," Tanjiro told Lizzy which made her stop. "I can't just leave, I'm in the middle of training under Sakonji. And besides, I wouldn't know all of the Demons that were tamed. It's a miracle that some voice in my head told me your name. Plus, I can't just leave my sister alone without saying anything. That's gonna terrify the shit out of her!"
"You have a sister?" Lizzy asked.
"Yeah, she's a Demon because of Muzan," Tanjiro said. "It's a miracle the powers of the Demon Tamer manifested in me at that moment and I managed to save her in time before Giyu tried to kill her."
"Right… right, I'm sorry," Lizzy apologized. "Um… I think I'll go now…"
Tanjiro was confused. "W-Wait, what?"
"Well, it doesn't seem right for me to intrude on your training any longer than I already have," Lizzy said before she began to walk backwards. "It's nothing personal… but I should probably go." Her expression lied to her words. Tanjiro felt it. Her smile was meant to be sincere, but it was actually a sad smile. She didn't want to leave. But she was forcing herself to. Tanjiro gritted his teeth. What was he meant to do?
'Tame her…' The voice from earlier said in his mind. 'That way you can call upon her. And so you can make her stay and inform you about the others. That is what you want, right?'
'It… it is,' Tanjiro thought back. As Lizzy was about to run off, he shouted, "Stop!" She stopped in her tracks. "You're not leaving!"
"And why not?" Lizzy asked as she turned to look at him.
'Crap, what now?' Tanjiro questioned himself, before he tried to look like he knew what he was doing. For now, he had to wing it. He sniffed the air that filled with Lizzy's scent, which smelt a lot like his sister's once he tamed her. He began to focus on the smell before he felt his senses focus solely on Lizzy, and everything else going blurry. He held out his arm towards her as if on instinct. "I present to you, a choice," he voice said, though it sounded like it was overlapping with another voice, the voice of an older man. "But, what will you choose?"
He was late.
Sakonji sat outside his house drinking a coffee, the sun setting while he waited for Tanjiro. It was possible that he died, but he would've heard a scream since most of them were excruciatingly painful. He's heard it happen a lot too, especially by now in the training. But then he smelt it.
A Demon.
He immediately grabbed the spare sword he had that was secretly hidden within a walking stick and ran up the mountain towards the scent of the Demon. Whoever or whatever it was, it's possible the Demon had a Blood Demon Art that hid the smell of blood.
As he ran up the mountain, he noticed that the Demon must've been in the clearing. Tanjiro probably was either chased into the clearing, or he smelt it and tried to kill it with just the first three forms. Either way, it's possible Tanjiro is dead, or suffering from a Demon who torments their victims.
As he entered the clearing, he noticed how still everything was, and he saw a Demon standing away from Tanjiro, which was odd, before Sakonji saw Tanjiro's eyes.
The Demon Slayer Trainee's eyes were now yellow, and they were shaped like that of a predator. He arm was outstretched towards the Demon and Tanjiro was talking.
"But, what will you choose?" Tanjiro asked the Demon, with a second voice overlapping with his own that the Water Breathing trainer recognized and made him gasp in surprise. "Do you choose the path of freedom; Free of stress, grief, and full of redemption? Or do you choose the path where depression and stress lingers over you like a black cloud, where you wish you could die?"
"I…" The Demon, a female judging from the tone of voice which shocked Sakonji a little bit. "I want to be with the Master again. I want to help the others find you!" She was crying now based off of the sobs the master heard. "I owe you so much for saving me, Master!"
"Then let the contract be finalized," Tanjiro said as blood came out from his eyes now, and Sakonji smelt the Demon's blood also come out of her eyes. "You will now be free of the temptations and sins that come from being a Demon, and your life will be returned to normal! You will now help the humans you stumble across, and you will stop any Demons that try to hurt an innocent human! Let me guide you through this world, and let me help you atone for any sins you've committed!"
The Demon screamed and then she fell to the ground, and began to pant. The blood went back into Tanjiro's eyes, and he smiled, before he also fell to the floor, and vomitted his lunch, before his eyes returned to normal.
"Amazing…" Sakonji remarked as he looked at the two while sheething his sword back into the walking cane. "So that's what the process looks like…" He's heard of the process before, but he's never seen it himself. Sakonji wouldn't admit it if asked, but the process was nothing like he expected.
"I… am… tired…" Tanjiro said as Sakonji looked at him.
"Well, this was a change of events," Sakonji commented as he walked up to Tanjiro. "I didn't expect a Demon to show up, let alone you tame it first try. Congrats."
"Th-Thanks?" Tanjiro replied unsurely.
"I'll give you today off," Sakonji said, before looking at the Demon. "You, who are you?"
"I'm Lizzy Wagon," the female Demon answered. "I'm a Tamed Demon who knew the Old Master."
"Since you were tamed by Tanjiro, you're staying with us for a while," Sakonji said. "You can help with his and Nezuko's training."
"O-Okay!" Lizzy said.
"Now, get to the base of the mountain," Sakonji told them. "Until then… don't do anything funny." He then proceeded to leave, while Tanjiro just turned beet red and just made a random noise from pure confusion and embarrassment. While this happened, Sakonji sighed.
Now he had another person to cook for…
This is just a personal opinion, but I feel like these chapters are as short as the chapters for another story I'm working on called Katsuku, which is an MHA (My Hero Academia) story. Irrelevant, I know, but I just felt like sharing that.
More on Lizzy's backstory, and her powers next chapter! And for the people who want to know if I've made a shit ton of OC tamed Demons…!
I'm accepting fan requests because Lizzy was the best I could come up with for now. I am not going through this whole process of creating so many Demons. So I am accepting fan requests to include some work from the fans in this!
The format is this: Name | Gender | Age (Optional) | BDA (Blood Demon Art) | Looks | Likes | Dislikes | Personality | Backstory | A Line of Speach of how the Character Would Talk or Act |
I don't expect anyone to follow through with this, but if you do, leave a review for your character or PM me. Either or. Thank you for reading, have a good day.