Prolouge 4-1: Reunion in Hinomoto.
Night... Beautiful but eerie. Hinomoto was in the night, many of the people sleeping but there was one place where the demons would spawn. Many priestess' corrupted by Darkness were there, chanting to the fire in front of them. "Rise! RISE! Oh spirit of that which is darker than the Devil himself!" The head chanter shouted, but do too fate with this, her body became a candle light, burning in pain. The 4 other priestess' were terrified, but unfortunately, they were lit to flames aswell.
"It's all going nicely..." The leader of the demonic shrine had a grin on his face. "This will take care of that Warrior Priestess... Once and for all..." He laughed to himself, seeing the bodies becomingt ash in front of him.
At sea, that's where Aldra was. The former Queen stood on top of a rail of her sail boat to Hinomoto. She was still in her nun outfit, thanks to Melpha who helped her at the church. Tomoe came by to see how the former Queen of Gainos was doing. "We're almost there. Me and Shizuka's homeland... Hinomoto." The priestess closed her eyes inhaleing the fresh smell air, having the wind blow through her black hair.
"I know..." Aldra told Tomoe flattly. "We searched the Continent far and wide... But she wasn't there..." She had really hope for her sister to be in the Continent, but sadly she was not. She could feel it that she's out there... Somewhere... "This nation of yours, is the only one we can think of."
Tomoe kept on her smile. "Than let's have hope. Shall we?" The priestess, always positive and calm.
"I know that, but I've lived while things have died, and I've lost things more important than life itself," Flatly and depressed she told her. "The little, short-lived hope I did have was stolen by the fallen angel. I couldn't care less about hope at this point..."She tightend her fist, almost about to cut the palm.
"Then why are you following me to Hinomoto?" Tomoe asked her.
"No reason. I didn't follow you because I believed in you." Tomoe giggled. Knowing Aldra she had to keep her pride up, even if she wasn't the Queen anymore.
"In Hinomoto, the Cherry Blossoms should have already started. I wish to hurry and see them."
"Cherry Blossoms?" Aldra questioned, not knowing what they were. It sounded like a flower of something. The priestess started telling her, the beautiful trees that come every spring.
"They are my absolute favorite flowers from my home." She admitted with Aldra still looking ahead of sea. "The capitals are very beautiful aswell." She looked down, thinking of her surrounded by trees of the pink flowers. However, it wasn't until she saw Juan walking to her, then running. Tomoe ran to him as she tackled him to the ground, rolling around in the grass laughing. The priestess had pinned her lover, only pressing her lips on his, he accepted. Tomoe stopped fantasising, blushing brightly. "S-S-Shameless!" Aldra only knew what she was thinking of. She jumped off the rail, landing some feet away from it to turn in for the night. Tomoe still kept positive, hoping everything will go well. "Once you see the capitals cherry blossoms in full bloom, I'm sure they'll cheer you up." She thought in her mind, but it was interrupted. Tomoe sensed a spirit near her, turning around to see the water, but everything went black for one second. She saw that of a pale hand attaching to her eyes, she didn't know why. The spirit vanished leaving a confused Tomoe behind. But that was just the beginning. Out of the blue, the shipped blew up! Leaving a fire starting! Aldra managed to escape with ease. The two didn't know what was happening, but they now know who started it. Out of the fire, showed a troop of assassins the Priestess was familiar with. "The Kouma Ninjas?!" She knew this wasn't going to be good.
"I'm the younger brother, of the person you killed..." He had venom in his voice. "The anguish of a disappearing clan... and... the grudge of the surving memebers." He was almost finished with his sentence, having two of the soldiers attack Tomoe, but she managed to block their attack with ease. "You shall know them both!" The ninja's, they started melting into that of black ooze... "A Kouma ninpo! Demonic Corruption!" All of the sludge they turned into, piled together to create something. The priestess and former Queen took a step back.
"Even I would consider their wicked ways foolish!" Tomoe said, still not letting her defense go. All of the sludge transformed into a monster! It landed right on the ship, destorying it, leaving little space for them. They had to jump away to get to better footing, but what came too was something they didn't like, especially Tomoe. What stood in front of her was a giant black octopus. The Warrior Priestess throw her spiritual papers at the monster, causing damage. She charged forth, jumping away from an under attack, slicing off the tentacle. She was certain she would win, but her head began to irritate her, having her loose balance in her feet, she didn't know why... The octopus to a hold of her, leaving Aldra worried. The younger twin landed in front of her.
"There's something I want to ask the warrior priestess. Don't interrupt!" He threatend her, she had to do it, or something bad would happen... The younger twin looked at the priestess who was caught by the monster. "Unfortunately for you, I know you've brought the former Queen, Aldra! Now where is she!?" He shouted at her, having the monster tighten it's grip. It made Tomoe's breast pop out of her shirt, just giving the younger twin a sadistic smile.
"What do you want with me?!" Aldra asked not wanting to get the answer.
"So you're Aldra, huh? I heard you're appearance has changed, but..." He shook it off. The younger twin stared at her breast, but he had to focus. "No matter. Now will you come with us?" He asked her, having the monster circling around her. It had the former Queen in it's grasp, leaving the younger twin chuckling. But unfortunately for him however, many loud bangs were heard! Seeing holes in the tentacles arms, than being sliced! By who?!
"HEY! HOW COULD YOU START A PARTY WITHOUT ME?!" A voice shouted, leaving Tomoe and Aldra to look up. Tomoe smiled at what she saw in the sky. A few feathers fell down from the top of the ship, showing that help has arrived.
(Play Total Eclipse from Darker than Black here)
"W-who did that?!" He looked up at the destroyed railing but saw a figure there. It showed to be that of a man, leaning on the wooden pole having a gun in his hand. "Y-you?!"
"Juan!" Tomoe became joyed by this.
"It's good to see you again..." Another voice was heard by them, seeing a female with white hair dropped from the top of the pole, landing on the railing next to Juan in a crouching position. "It's been a while..."
"SHIZUKA?!" The younger twin didn't know how this was possible. "H-how are you still alive?!" Tomoe couldn't believe her eyes! She saw Shizuka in the flesh!
They could see the silver haired beauty smile as she pointed up to the sky. "I thank the angels, for giving me another chance." She stood up from the crouching position, about ready to fight.
"It was a hard trip to fly here. But listen ninja boy!" He looked at the younger brother, pointing his sword at him. "You got 5 seconds to let Tomoe and Aldra go! Got it?!" The statement made the priestess heart pound, knowing she would be rescued. She felt like it was a little girls dream. Then, in no time a tentacle came at the two like a missle but they simply dodged it with ease. "Whoa big fella! You got to by me dinner first before we have THAT kind of relationship!" He joked at the octopus, only getting it mad. Both of them jumped off as Juan slashed the tentacles Aldra was held to, with Shizuka making a blade appear out of the shin of her leg. She started spinning in air, cutting the arm of the octopus Tomoe was held in. They landed safe, but they had to finish this. "WITH A BANG!" He pointed his guns at the monster, firing multiple shots, seeing the flesh of it.
"Lady Tomoe! Let's go!" Shizuka and Tomoe jumped high into the air, for Shizuka to transform into a katana. Tomoe gripped the white sword, seeing the now weakspot of the demon. In one strike of the swords, it was dead. But it made Aldra loose conscious from the miasma it spred from it's open flesh. It must only work on demon blood, even Juan felt a bit woozy because of Delmore's power in his body. Shizuka transformed back seeing Aldra falling to the ocean. Tomoe did what had to be done, she jumped after her, grabbing the former Queen so she was safe. The younger twin fled from the fight, using that of what looked like to be a kite with him on it. Juan smirked at him, giving him a message that he'll kill him in time. Both Juan and Shizuka jumped off the boat after them... Hoping they would end up with them...
Tomoe was unconscious, but she could hear that of the ocean's waves hitting the sand. She came too only seeing Aldra watching over her. She took notice that their clothes were ripped, exposing alot of skin on their bodies. "Aldra? You're okay." She thanked the lord. The priestess sat up smiling, but was puzzled by something. "Aldra, why are the Kouma Ninja after you?" She asked her, not even she knew.
"I guess no one like me where ever I go." She said flatly.
"Not true!" Tomoe had to brighten her up. "Melpha told me that as Queen, you'll meet your citizens, and they'll see your wonderful inner self." Aldra could sense the honesty.
"Political power means nothing... I only became Queen to find my sister." Tomoe still thought that what she did was sweet and a good thing. She'd risk anything for her sister, even making a deal with a devil.
"Well we've came all the way to Hinomoto for that purpose, let us have hope."
"I'm getting tired of hearing you say that." Aldra said annoyed, standing up to strech her legs. "Anyway, is this the capital of Hinomoto?" She asked her only seeing the sea, a stone wall and a forest that looked to be on top of the wall.
"No. I think we were carried somewhere to the west." They looked at their surrounding again. Nothing but wooden pieces of their ruined boat, with torn up cloth. "Where's Juan and Shizuka?" She asked puzzled.
"We may have been seperated from them." They needed to come up with a plan on how to fix everything.
"Oh my." The two heard a voice behind them, seeing that of an old woman carrying a green sack over her back. "The two of you are warrior priestesses, am I correct?" The old woman asked gaining a nod from the two. The old woman smiled. "My, to think that the priestess who saved Hinomoto would come all the way out here." The old woman looked at Aldra, eyeing her body. She saw how their clothes were ripped, Aldra's left breast was showing, and Tomoe's shirt was completely destoryed, showing her breast with some of shirt still tucked in her pants. "Please let this old lady take care of you." Tomoe covered her breast with her arm, not wanting to be shameless.
The night hit the country, seeing many people at night. Music was playing, people were socializing, it felt great. So lively. The oldwoman that took the two others let them stay at her work place. With the lack of staff, they needed help after losing their money on the ship. Their clothes were being fixed by the old woman, so they decieded by taking a hot bath. Aldra still felt uneasy about this. "She was very kind to let us stay for while." Tomoe said to her friend, sitting in the hot water. "I'm glad we found an inn to stay at. I usually depend on Shizuka to take care of these kinds of things."
"If I recall, Shizuka was the former head of the Kouma Ninjas, right?"
"Yes. One served the Emperor, the other opposes the Emperor." She closed her eyes. "Me and Shizuka, we first met through a destined fight..."
FLASHBACK! YAY!
Tomoe was ordered to by the Head Priestess that there was an enemy near them. She had to investigate, only carrying that of a kodachi with her. She ran through a bamboo forest, seeing a figure up close to her. It threw a pair of kunais, stopping the priestess in her tracks to be cautious. She saw the head of the Kouma Ninjas, Shizuka. "Nice to meet you..." She said wielding a kusarigama.
"You're the Kouma's leader..."
"Well, looks like my reputation is famous." Shizuka charged forth. "Sorry, but anyone who gets targeted by the Kouma Ninjas never survives!" The two slashed blades with eachother, fighting to the end. The two ended up in that of a shallow river, still fighting.
"Why do you start such a pointless fight?" Tomoe asked her, having the kunoichi smile.
"I am responsible for the Kouma Ninjas... I am not allowed to lose!" She charged forth, but Tomoe won in the end. The kusarigama was knocked out of her hand, having the kunoichi on the ground. She thought she was about to die, but Tomoe sheathed the kodachi. "Why won't you finsh me off?" Shizuka asked her.
"You toss yourself aside," She stated. "And you fight, bearing responsibility for something." The kunoichi looked up at the priestess. "Even though I'm your enemy, I can understand the reason behind your strong will." She smiled at Shizuka, offering her hand.
She took the offer, standing up. "I guess that settles it. I'm following you from now on." Tomoe only looked puzzled at this. "My will belongs to that of a insignificant chief, but yours is much more stong. I lose, it's my utter defeat."
FLASHBACK END
The priestess started crying, still thinking of what she remembered. But why was shy crying? She saw Shizuka with Juan, but was it really Shizuka? She wanted to find that out.
"I'm jealous." Aldra came right out with it. Tomoe wiped away the tears, getting her attention. "All I had was that fallen angel..." The moment she remembered him, she felt Delmore... Near her... Why? The girls attention quickly went to that of the old woman who was clapping at them.
"Alright you two! Let's get to work!" The old woman said having them nod. The stood up from the water, starting their work. But strange thing was, that they were in a dressing room, having some workers putting makeup on them.
Aldra was confused at her outfit. "What are these outfits?" She asked Tomoe.
"I'm guessing our uniforms?" She wasn't sure about it. She looked at a worker smoking a pipe. "Excuse me, but what are we supposed to do?" She asked her with the worker blowing out smoke.
"It's easy. All you have to do is sit and pour alcohol for the customer. Become his partner." She said going back to smoking. "Reminds of the new guy around here. Since he was a man, all he needs to do is clean." They were curious about that, but decieded to meet him later. Tomoe went to her customers room, a big guy who looked like a noble.
"Excuse me." She said politely. "My name is Tomoe, I've been sent to pour you alcohol." She was bowing to the man as he eyed her. "I'm new so I may make mistakes, but I hope to please you."
"Enough of the formalities!" The noble said looking at Tomoe's bust. "Come sit closer." With Aldra, she was ready for the customer.
"This is your guy. Oh and just to let you know, he sorta has a weird fetish." The old woman informed her. "Just do what he tells you."
"Okay." Aldra headed in. She could feel that inside her body she wasn't going to like this.
Tomoe was doing her best to keep the noble happy. Though he was staring at Tomoe's exposed cleavage, laughing in his thoughts. She poured alcohol for him, thinking she was doing a great job, but he took this chance. He slipped his hand inside her yukata, having the priestess puzzled at this extremly. "Your body is very attractive to men." He started groping her her left breast. Tomoe shrugged him off.
"What're you doing?!" She stood up about to walkaway, but the fat noble grabbed her sash making her worried. He started pulling the sash, spinning Tomoe. She felt super dizzy along with her vision becoing dim again.
"C'mon! Fight back! It's a turn on!" He said pulling the sash off. Tomoe fell to the ground hard as the man smirked. "Are you a virgin? Than I'm lucky..." He slowly walked to Tomoe who was in shock that this was happening to her, but she saved. Holes with loud bangs were happening having the man duck down with Tomoe getting up smiling. The Warrior Priestess knew this kind of attack came from only one man. "What was that?!" He asked completely terrified at what the hell just happened. He didn't know why Tomoe was smiling.
"Hey... Pervert..." The doors were kicked opened, having the one on the left fly open, passing Tomoe. It crashed to the other doors, causing them to break aswell. The right one was hanging from the top hinge, giving a squeeky sound. They saw someone with a large sword wearing strange clothes, the person showed to be Juan. "I can't believe we ended up here, working in a damn Whore House..." The Nephilim scratched the back of his head. Tomoe did not want to believe this, then began to think back to the instructions. When they told her to be the customers partner, she knew what it meant now. "Anyway, what're ya doin' with my wife?" He asked not even smirking or smiling, he had a pissed off-serious look on him. He pointed his sword at him, as the japanese noble started backing away from him in fear.
"Wait! You mean that bitch is you're wife?!" He pointed his finger at Tomoe, but unlucky for him, Juan slashed down at him. His finger slowly slid off his hand until it fell to the floor. Blood was gushing out the chopped finger, as he started yelling in pain. "Why did you do that?!"
"It's not polite to POINT!" He kicked him straight in the face knocking him back. "Oh and you can get out of that stupid disguise of yours. I hate to see the real form..." He got what he asked, as the man disturbingly transformed into digusting looking orc. "I knew I'd regret it..." He swung his sword under as it touched the floor, cutting the boards. He slashed the orcs face in two. "Too easy... A little too easy.." He started slashing again, but this time in many swings. Tomoe couldn't keep up with the speed he had. He walked to her, picking her up bridal style having her blush. Juan went out the room, with the body finally being chopped to pieces. "You okay?"
"Y-yes." Tomoe answered blushing very brightly. "I had no idea this was one of 'those' places." He placed her down as Tomoe remembered. "Aldra!" The two ran down to find her, not before hearing that of a loud scream coming from the room they left but ignored it.
Aldra wasn't liking this at all either. When the old woman said he had a weird fetish, this was weird. Everywhere around the room was dolls from the west. The scrawny man rubbed Aldra's legs, with her sitting on a high table. "Are you from a foreign country? You look like a western doll!" He started kissing her legs until he exposed her breast, groping them. Aldra was being more annoyed with a pervert like him touching her. "So? How is it?" He asked her but he was knocked out by someone. Aldra looked up to see a certain white haired kunoichi with a wooden stool in her hands.
"Hey there, Sweety." She said smiling with Aldra thanking God Shizuka came. They left the room, now about to find Juan and Tomoe. They turned the corner to see them examining their whereabouts. "Juan! Over here!" He heard Shizuka having a grin.
"Alright let's go!" They all ran out of the building with Juan punching any guy in sight. However they were ambushed by many of the geisha holding weapons. As they tried to go back, they saw more guys there with the old lady there too. Shizuka only sighed in disapointment. She grabbed from her clevage a smoke pellete, slamming it to the ground causing a smoke screen to appear. The smoke cleared up with everyone coughing, with the four not there anymore. They were out of town now, having their old clothes back seeing out the city lights from atop of a hill.
"I'm so sorry Aldra.." Tomoe said feeling pathetic. She blamed herself for this, but Aldra didn't blame her. "Thanks to my carelessness, we stepped in a disgusting place."
"It's alright, Tomoe. You don't need to apologize." Aldra looked at the priestess. "To be honest, it was an interesting turn of event."
"No joke." Juan said having an angry look on his face. His arms were crossed, not wanting to remember what happen.
"That reminds me," Tomoe was VERY confused about this. "Juan, Shizuka, how did you guys get there?" Tome actually wanted an answer to why her friend isback from a spirit, but she didn't care. She was glad to see her friend again. The two, Juan and Shizuka, looked at eachother for a moment before sighing. The other two were confused at why the two were so depressed when she asked them that.
FLASHBACK
Juan woke up with a killer pain in his back. He looked to see Shizuka having her clothes ripped! The Nephilim had a nosebleed seeing his white haired lover sleeping topless. She looked so sexy, and so cute! He covered his nose, shaking thoughts off from his mind. He shook the kunoichi who slowly woke up to see him. "Hey there, sleepyhead." He chuckled nervously.
"Good morning." She stertched her arms out, letting the Rebel blush seeing her breast bounce alil. He took off his jacket, handing it to her.
"You're clothes..." He looked the other way with Shizuka now noticing. She took this advantage by glombing Juan. He didn't know what was happening, until Shizuka placed his hand on her breast, seeing her breathe heavy. "S-Shizuka?"
"It's beating so fast..." Shizuka was near his lips, but they heard someone clear their throat. They awkwardsly moved their heads slowly to see a woman there, carrying a blue sack. "Uh..."
Juan held up his hand in defence. "W-Wait! We weren't-!"
"Say no more." The woman interrupted him, having the two blush. This was awkward. "I can see that you were shipped wrecked. Please, follow me." The woman left them behind, giving them a shrug of 'why not'. They started following the woman to see that of a town village there. They continued to walk, entering the village, examining the town around them. "This village is more lively at night than day." She spoke to them.
"It does look like a ghost town..." Shizuka elbowed him in the gut, not wanting to be rude to the kind woman. "Anyway, where are we?" Juan looked up at the building to see it. Shizuka whispered in his ear, giving Juan a giant blush. "YOU'RE KIDDING!" He shouted loudly, even the birds in the forest started flying away.
FLASH BACK END
"And we don't even want to remember what happened after that..." Juan said being embarassed. Tomoe was blushing brightly after hearing it, but Shizuka placed his right arm in her breast.
"But hey let's face it! It was interesting to be clean up people." Shizuka said kissed his cheek smiling at him. "Especially hearing people from the screen doors, but I was sneaking around so I peaked at what was happening." She honestly said, not having any shame in the word, but Tomoe couldn't stand for it.
"S-Shizuka! That's shameless!" Tomoe looked cute blushing, but deep down she wanted to do it with Juan too. "Anyway, can we please just go?"
"Good idea." Aldra agreed. All 4 of them headed out now, to search for Aldra's missing sister. Day came by for the 4 of them, taking a brake at a hut was a good idea. They needed some food, and thanks to Shizuka for stealing some money they were okay. All of them began to eat. "So this is a Hinomoto pastery?" Aldra looked at the sweets. They were sweet dumblings, that were pretty tasty for Aldra. Juan and Shizuka were eating rice balls.
"Hey, these ones have jelly." Juan said taking another bite of the snack.
"They do." Shizuka took a bite out of hers. After Juan was done, Tomoe placed her finger near his mouth. He didn't know why though.
"You have a piece of rice.." She blushed brightly. She took the piece of rice and ate it, giving Shizuka a surprised look and a blush from Juan. "W-well you called me your wife... So I'm acting as a wife..." She said playing with her fingers abit.
"Oh yeah! I-I did didn't I?" He chuckled nervously. But it wasn't until Shizuka immediately placed the nephilims head in her chest, causing him to have a nosebleed.
"No fair!" The kunoichi complained. "Don't I get to be your wife too?" She asked her lover seeing his face red. Shizuka this was cute of him. Juan he took his head out of her soft cushions to wipe his nose.
"O-of course!" He admitted, but Tomoe became alil angry. The priestess stood up about to scold tghe two, but her vision went black. She could feel herself about to fall, but was caught by Juan. "Tomoe!"
"I-I'm alright." Her vision dimmed darker, but she didn't know why. "Maybe I'm just tired." A surprise smile came on Aldra.
"That's a shock." She said looking at the priestess. "To think that The Warrior Priestess Tomoe would get tired." This gave her a look of 'what's that supposed to mean' on the priestess' face.
"Of course I can get tired! Don't talk about me like I'm some strange creature." She told Aldra alil angry about her statement. This only caused the former Queen of Gainos to laugh, which made everyone else laugh too. Juan was surprised however, who knew that, Aldra, would have such a cute laugh. She always seemed like a very serious person from start to finish. They headed out again, hoping that they'll find her. There was however, a figure following them with their unawareness, but Juan kept his hand on his gun, feeling the figure close by.
"I hope to God that we find her..." He thought in his mind. He knew something would appear, and that something was gonna be eviler than Satan...
TO BE CONTINUED...
Hey guys, thanks for reading this and I hope you enjoy it. I know I am. Oh and I'm thinking of making a polls chart. So look forward to that, so LATERS!