Prolouge 4-2:
Back in the Continent where Juan's new family resides. Nyx was knitting, Naomi did the laundry, hanging them outside, but Echidna was outside training with Irma. The two were getting better and better, but in the end, the wild elf won the battle. "You're getting good. But you still have a long way to go, Little Kitten." Echidna giggled seeing her student on the ground panting from all the intense swordsmenship.
"I-I'm not done!" The Assassin's body was shaking from the bruises on her body, but she didn't care. She charged forth to her teacher, but Echidna jump over elegently, pushing Irma to the ground. Naomi flinched from it, seeing at how bad it had to hurt. The Assassin slammed her fist on the dirt very hard. "Dammit!" She cursed to herself. The elf sheathed her weapons, giving her student a hand. She took it wiping some dirt off her arm. "I guess that's it for today?" She asked with the Elf nodding.
"Come. We should bathe." They walked away from the backyard of the crops, entering the home they lived in. They walked upstairs to see the bath, taking their clothes off having no shame whatsoever. The bath was lovely, feeling calm and cool about it. "How long has it been since we bathed together?" The elf asked with the student thinking back.
She counted by her fingers, finally getting the answer. "When I was 16." She grabbed the soap, scrubbing her dark skin legs. "Do you think, Master Juan will come back?"
"Have no fear, Little one. He's my soon-to-be Husband." She was full of confidence at this, knowing Juan he always keeps a promise. She eyed the dark skin assassin and her body, seeing how sexy she was. "Why do you ask?"
The Assassin started blushing. "W-well, I'm in dept to him for saving my life! N-nothing else!" She looked away, giving Echidna the chance to grab her. The elf groped her breast, kissing the assassin's cheek giving her a crimson blush on her face. "E-Echidna?!"
"Are you SURE?" She slid her hand down Irma's stomach to her downpart. "Because when you're talking about him now, down here, you're really quite-"
"THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE WATER! IDIOT!" She interrupted her having the elf just giggle. After about 20 minutes, the Wild Elf opened the door having a loose fitting bath towel on that exposed her cleavage. The bottom of it almost exposed her crotch. "Y-you dirty..." Irma was on the ground blushing brightly, but she also looked paled. Like her soul was leaving her mouth.
"I'm not a Wild Elf for nothing." She winked at the student leaving her there. Irma got up only being angry at what she just experienced with Echidna. The elf was still in her bath towel drinking something out of a wineglass, looks like champange. She took a look at what Nyx was knitting, looks like a blanket for an infant. She smiled at this taking another sip of the champange.
Naomi came in with the laundry, wiping some sweat off. "Echinda!" She called the wild elf. "Can you help me?"
"I'm on my way, Honey." She stood up from her spot walking outside placing some sandles on. She placed the wet clothes on the rack feeling like she did a job well done. She entered the house so she could relax, but before she could sit in her chair, she heard a knock on the door. The Veteran Mercenary opened it to see that of soldiers there, holding banners. "Who might you be?"
"Is Juan The Renengade Swordsman here?" He asked him making the elf cautious of them. "We Request a favor."
"Sorry, but my love ain't home." She leaned to her right side on the doorway, having her arms crossed with her right leg behind her left, taking the pose of 'not giving a fuck' she learned from Juan. She remembered when they saw that of a challenger who was a noble, saying he could kick his ass, but in the end, Juan won with just a punch to his face. "What kind of request is this?" She asked them.
"Well since you're the Veteran Mercenary, we have no choice." He took out a bag of gold coins, not wanting to fight. "We are going to war against Vance Castle... That bastard Count..." The man in armor was enraged about what happened. What made him so upset, she didn't know why. "That's the amount of gold."
Echidna looked at the gold, this much could help them, she knew that. She took the gold, but didn't let leave the mans hand. "On one condition." She requested this. "No killing the innocent... I'd rather have my own blood spilled than others..." She had venom in her voice, looking at everyone giving a spine chiller look. "If you disobey this, I'll have your head... Do we have deal?"
He nodded his head with a gulp. "Deal..." He shook her hand, but little did she know, his fingers were crossed.
"I'll get my things." She walked upstairs to the bedroom seeing her armor, along with her pet snake. "Keltan. Let's go." She took off her bathrobe for Keltan to climb from her leg to her crotch. The snake covered it up with it's body, for Echidna to place her armor on her body again, along with her sword and shield. She walked down the stairs, but stopped at the door. "Irma."
The assassin showed in a split second. "What is it?" She asked, knowing her teacher was serious.
"Guard this house. Protect Nyx and Naomi." She walked out the door with Irma having a bow, Echidna had to make sure that this battle would not have any blood shed...
Hinomoto was different for them. Everywhere they went in Hinomoto was a deadend. They've come to a village crop to ask the question if they've seen a foreigner like Aldra, but they shook their heads saying sorry. They then went to that of some travellers, upstanding men at that. Juan went up to them, asking if they've met someone like Aldra. The two looked at Aldra for a moment but shook they're heads having the group sigh in disapointment, but Juan silently said 'fuck' in anger. They continued on their journey, finally seeing the Capital of Hinomoto! They crossed their fingers hoping they'll FINALLY find her here. The group entered the village to see that of a inn. Shizuka saw the Landlord talking to a person, must have been a traveling seller to inn, like re-stocking their shelves. Shizuka walked up to him, getting his attention. The kunoichi asked if the both of them if they've ever met a girl like Aldra. Foreign and not from around Hinomoto.
The answer they got was not good. The Landlord told them that he's never met a foreigner until now. Shizuka bowed in apologizing for wasting his time, but he forgave them. They walked away to another part of the city, it was foggy. They couldn't see a damn thing. "I'm very sorry." Tomoe was very sincere. "I thought a foreigner would stand out."
"But we couldn't find her..." Aldra hissed, just building so much rage in her body. "I hoped, but all my efforts are in vain! It's always been like that..." They all stopped at the bottom of the stairs, Tomoe looked at the former Queen. She saw her expression, misery, pain, anger, sadness. Juan started tighting up his fist, just hearing the stuff Aldra was saying was making him loose his patience. "If I have to keep feeling this way over and over, then what's the point in living?" She questioned this, with Shizuka frowning at Aldra's negativity.
"Aldra, you must not be discouraged!" Tomoe tried to cheer her up. "You have to have hope. I'll ask the Emporer myself, and then we'll find her for su-"
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH!" She interrupted the priestess, having her step back. The white haired half-demon girl looked at the priestess with tears in her eyes. "As if you could understand my feelings!" She ran away from the group, into the fog. She didn't care where she ended up, nor what happens to her. Tomoe tried to reach out for her but was too late.
"Aldra!" She called out to her, but no success. Juan started running towards her, but stopped to look at Tomoe for a sec.
"I'll go after her!" He said running again into the fog. But both the Shrine Maiden and Kunoichi couldn't just stand there, so they followed him into the fog after Aldra. The Former Queen was walking through that of a valley area, seeing a big tree in front of her. She punched the tree causing some of the bark to fly off. She could only shed tears, not because of the punch, but because of how broken she feels...
"You're finally away from them..." A voice was behind her, she knew it was. It was revealed to be the younger twin of the Kouma Ninja. She could feel that there were many more with him, she had good senses. "Will you come with us?" He asked her.
Aldra grew a small sad smile on her face. One of lost hope. "You again?" Asked him in annoyance. She turned around to face many of them, seeing them smirk behind those masks. "Do whatever you want... My hope has already died out..." Flatly she put in those words. The leader knocked out Aldra, making her fall asleep on the ground. He ripped off a piece of her clothing, placing a folded piece of paper on top of it. The young leader stabbed the note as it penetrated the paper getting it stuck in the tree. He knew they were coming to find her. He picked up the former Queen, vanishing in a flash.
"Aldra!" Tomoe shouted to her. "Where are you?!"
"HEY! ALDRA!" Juan shouted too, trying to find her.
"Aldra, come out!" Shizuka shouted aswell. They were at a lost, thinking that they took a wrong path in the fog. But they weren't.
"Those are..." Tomoe ran up to the big tree to see black cloth with a note on top of it being stabbed by a kunai. The priestess took the projectile off, unfolding the piece of paper to read what it said. She didn't expect what it said however.. "The Capitals Eastern gate. Come to Kinjikyu..." Juan looked at the note along with Shizuka, having the two Hinomoto women angry by the symbol they saw. "The Kouma ninja?! Unforgiveable!" Tomoe was in anger.
"I don't remember the Kouma ever taking hostages..." Shizuka said remembering the time of her days as their leader. She couldn't believe something like this would happen. Juan grabbed the piece of paper from Tomoe's hands, looking at the symbol.
"East it is..." He said walking away, throwing the paper in the air. Juan pulled out both of his guns, shooting at the paper in anger. Shizuka and Tomoe covered their ears from the loud bangs, knowing Juan was mad now! The paper was in shreds, not wanting to see that symbol again.
"Let's hurry!" Shizuka ran passed the both of them, having Tomoe on her tail. Juan followed them to the East gate, hoping they would make in time! This place was BIG! They hoped for the best for this moment.
The Kinjikyu, somewhere a place where everyone is forbidden! Inside however was where Aldra was being tied up. Who was also inside with the Council of Hinomoto with the Kouma Ninja! They all eyed the beauty in front of them, their eyes filled with amazment, power, lust. "Good work.." The leader of the Council said to the younger twin, only smirking. "Now things can begin!"
Aldra began waking up from her sleep. She was astonished seeing the Council right in front of her, she sensed in her heart they were evil. "What is all this?!" She demanded answer right away, before she loosed her temper.
"One born from demons shall return to the demons, Aldra!" The leader said smirking. "but first thing first, will get rid of that meddlesome Warrior Priestess!"
"Don't speak nonsense!" She hissed at them with venom. "You can't kill Tomoe!" Aldra didn't like these guys, but her attention was now towards the violent fire. It was like something was coming out of it... The fire was put out by a dark being coming out of the flames...
"It's been a long time... My darling, Aldra..." The presence took form of a black aura demon, having spiked hair with red eyes. It had a red grin pointed at her. Aldra couldn't believe who it was...
"D-Delmore..." She didn't like the feeling. Delmore began rubbing her chin like a sexual predator. "H-How are you here?" The girl felt very uneasy of what's happening right in front of her eyes.
"I was summoned of course... But now..." The demon gropped her left breast. "How about a reunion? For... Old... Times... Sake..." Delmore spirit went into her body, giving her a shout of pain. She couldn't handle it after she got rid of him when Juan saved her. It felt like her whole flesh was being torn, her bones becoming crushed, her heart shattering to pieces. The ropes began to break, having the Council grin widely, but it was turned into a frown. They heard Aldra beginning to laugh, causing a bright light to blind the Council. They screamed in terror, seeing their bodies becoming statues! The leader of the Council took one more look at what he just released. Half of his head was sliced off horizontally, having blood spurt out of his head, with the top half still seeing the monster. The top part than also became a statue, with the other remains of it's body being sealed in stone. The only one safe was the younger twin hiding with a black cloth over him. He could now see as the light dimmed. He saw Aldra's figure, grinning at the moment... "We have guest..." Delmore said laughing sadisticly.
Outside of the temple is where the other were. Juan was on his knees, coughing up blood. "Juan! Are you alright?!" Shizuka asked him.
"Please! You must rest!" Tomoe wanted him better. This trip to the temple, he's been coughing up more blood when they got close to it. All the anger he's builded up when they got here by night time. Juan lifted up his head to show his eyes changed.
"NO! I'm alright..." They could tell it was happening again, but Juan felt strange. "I don't... Feel Him anymore... Oh no..." He knew what this meant, as he ran passed the two, trying to catch up with him. He saw the entrance being guarded by the Kouma Ninja's but in one swipe, he was already at the top of the stairs with his sword out. All the remaining Kouma Ninja were shreded to pieces, causing a large blood stream flowing down the river. Tomoe couldn't believe what she saw, but she understood his reasons. They weren't human anymore... They were demons now... "OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR!" He shouted loudly, but it didn't. "Damn you!" He swung his sword heavy, breaking the barrier causing the door to explode. Chips of wood bounced off of him, with Tomoe and Shizuka by his side. Shizuka was really amazed at how much strength he possessed, breaking a Kouma seal that strong... They all walked inside, preparing for an ambush.
"I admire all of you coming here..." Juan pointed his guns at the younger twin, shooting at him but he missed. He landed right in front of them, with Tomoe gripping her blade, Shizuka transforming her fingers to long very sharp talons. "What took you guys so long?" He mocked them, seeing Juan growling like a beast.
"Where is Aldra?! If you harmed her..!" She threathened him, but he just brushed it off.
"We wouldn't even so much as scratch an important guest..." They were confused at this. "Hinomoto is coming to a new age. The cabinent ministers think the Emporer can't govern Hinomoto anymore." He clenched his fist, showing them how powerful the future of the land would be. "And so we move on from the Emperor to a new Queen!" He laughed at them.
"Queen?" Shizuka was confused at this. "What the hell are you talking about?! The Emperor will always govern Hinomoto! Bastard!" She got in position to just kill him already.
"Not after this night..." He walked to the side not showing any form of harm. But they kept their eyes on him, seeing the younger twin leaning on the wall.
"Are you the ones...?" They knew that voice! They looked infront of them to see who's voice it was. "The ones foolish to defy me?" They couldn't believe who it was... In front of them stood Aldra herself, but she was in her armor when she was still Queen! Her body was normal still, but if she was like this, that only meant one thing. "I am the Queen of Demons, Aldra." She smirked at them.
"Aldra?!" Tomoe was confused at this. "If you're back like this..."
"Then that means The Snake is back!" Juan got in a defense position. "Come on out... DELMORE!" She shouted at Aldra, seeing her shadow appearing out of the ground. He grinned at them with a glowing red smile with his eyes glowing red too.
"That's right... I've returned!" He admitted only causing Juan to get even more angry. "Shall we smash the flys? My beloved Aldra?" He asked her, sticking her arm right in front of her. In her hand appeared the red large demon looking blade she once wielded!
"Don't give me orders!" She jumped in the air, giving one swing at them. It caused a large slash of demonic power to charge forth at them! They all dodged except for Juan, who just stood there.
"Juan!" Tomoe called out to him. Out of the dust and dirt of the power, a larger demonic power slash came from it, being shot directly at Aldra. She dodged it, becoming angry at what she just witnessed with her eyes.
"You thought you were the only one to learn any new tricks?" He asked them with a cocky tone. The smoke cleared up, showing Juan having the Nephilim sword in a reverse grip, seeing a red glow surrounding the blade. He returned his grip to normal position, smirking at Aldra. She only shot herself right at Juan, who dodged her in the nick of time. She impacted right into the entrance of the shrine, causing it to crumble. She came out of it with nothing, not a scratch on her.
"I'll teach you to not bow down!" She downward slashed at Juan who parried with an upward. In the moment, he changed his weapon to the lightning spear he uptained, thrusting towards the demon, but she dodged it! She kicked him hard right in the face, sending him flying to the wall.
"Aldra! Stop this!" Tomoe called out to her. "You mustn't let the Demon corrupt you!"
"Be quiet!" Aldra charged at her, having her feet glide through the air. A dark aura surrounded the Demon Queen, hitting Tomoe in the process. "You'll never understand how I feel..." She quietly told herself, slaming the priestess in a tree. She fell to the ground with Aldra pushing herself away from her.
"LADY TOMOE! JUAN!" Shizuka ran towards the Queen, but was stopped by the younger twin. Shizuka jumped back. "Damn you!"
"Sorry... But we got personal buisness...!" The two started fighting eachother, causing sparks to be born from the metal. Shizuka swiped his shirt, as he was about to slash the kunoichi downwards. But thanks to her new ability, she transformed the bottom half of her arms into blades, covering her head. They pushed eachother back. "My! My! My! You sure got a new way of fighting!" He admired it.
"Yeah, and it's gonna have you're blood on it!" She charged at him, jumping in the air to land a kick. Shizuka used the ability to make a blade come out of the bottom of her foot. The younger twin blocked it with his sword, having the two smirk at eachother. Aldra was still looking at the Priestess getting up slowing, thinking she just wanted to die.
"Evil has taken her heart, but she bears no sin..." Tomoe was wishing she could find a way to help her friend. She tried her best, gripping the sword to fight. "If I'm defeated here, then the Emperor, and Hinomoto... No..." She unsheathed her blade, with the beautiful light showing off the metal. She charged forth, with Aldra blocking her attacks.
"Decapitating Slash!" She kicked at Tomoe, but it was really pointed at her neck. Tomoe dodged it, jumping away from Aldra. "Minons!" The demons she called were the one with one eye ball, they all attacked at Tomoe, but were nothing but targets for Juan! The Nephilim shot all of them with ease, slashing down at Aldra with the spear now a scythe. Aldra dodged it, but Juan knew he wasn't done yet. He kicked Aldra right in her gut balancing on the scythes pole. He made the scythe dissapear, bringing back his Nephilim sword. Aldra got back up, with Delmore looking at them.
"Juan, why don't you join us?" Delmore asked him. The Nephilim could tell that he was planing something, no matter what.
"I'd rather become Elina's bitch than do that!" He snapped back at Delmore, making him only amused.
"But Juan, you're like the family of me and Aldra... A brother." He started to explain. "Your blood carries that of a demon Juan... Come join us..." He hoped he would join them.
Juan only smirked at them, laughing. "Now I get it. You want you're power back, right?" The Fallen Angel had to come clean now, giving a light laugh.
"It looks like you found out..." He only chuckled. "No matter, all I have to do is drink some of your blood, and the seal will break..." Juan began spinning his sword in his hand then grabbing it like he was bored.
"So, you want a piece of me. Literally." The Rebel smirked at the pair. "Alright than 'Bro', come and get it... If you can." He pointed his blade at the Fallen Angel, taunting him. They stared at eachother with intense eyes. Shizuka landed by Tomoe who was very exhausted from her fight, but the younger twin wasn't. He was behind the three, about to ambush them.
"All of you should just surrender and die..." He laughed at them but they wouldn't give in. Not to him, nor a Devil!
"That's too bad... Time to finish them off, Aldra." The Demon Queen opened her right eye, about to turn them into stone. Tomoe saw this, thinking fast at the moment by placing a paper seal on the ground. A yinyang symbol appeared under the three, having Shizuka smirk.
"Nice plan." She whispered to the Warrior Priestess. Aldra turned all of them to stone, but the younger twin didn't relize at the moment he too was becoming a statue. He begged and screamed for mercy, but it was too late. The Kouma Ninja was no more, they were done. The group of three were all in one big crystal, but it began to crack with Aldra's surprise. They were free now, causing Aldra to worry!
"You're still holding on?!" She questioned them. Aldra's still had her thrump card with her. "Secret Griever!" The shots of her crotch piece fired at them, having all of them block it. Tomoe felt woozy however.
"It's happening again..." She thought in her mind. The priestess couldn't feel her body, seeing that her pants were cutted to ribbons, having her shirt now open revealing her chest. "Dang..."
"Tomoe!" Juan called out to her, but she could only see Aldra right in front of her. Delmore appeared all happy.
"It seems you've been cursed by the Swamp Witch! How exciting.." Her memories went back to the time on the ship, seeing a spirit placing her hand on Tomoe's eyes. She now knew what it meant. Aldra started walking forward, but Tomoe dropped down, she couldn't feel her legs move!
Juan still didn't give this fight up, as he walked towards Aldra too. But he was stopped by Tomoe, holding her katana out. Juan knew what she had to do. "I'll kill you!" Aldra started running towards the Priestess, about to kill her. Tomoe needed enough strength to stop her. The Warrior Priestess felt a hand in hers, seeing Shizuka smile at her giving a thumbs up. She transformed into a light, turning into a white katana. Juan took a defense position, like he was waiting for the right time to strike. The Priestess and Kunoichi felt that their souls were connecting, having Tomoe know she can win this. She closed her eyes, waiting for the right moment.
"NOW!" She parried Aldra's attack causing a bright light to appear! Aldra felt like time stood still, she was in a deep thought, surrounded by light.
"What am I doing?" She asked herself, feeling guilty. "I came to this remote island to find my sister with Tomoe... Came with Tomoe... Kill Tomoe?" Her thoughts turned into a deep abyss of darkness, seeing Delmore's eyes.
"That's right. Kill Tomoe... KILL JUAN!" He ordered her. Aldra felt like time was moving again. She stood still from the parry.
"I... I won't! I won't kill my friends!" She stabbed the ground fighting the darkness in her, but she felt like something was choking her. Delmore appeared, strangling the girl.
"Now My beloved Aldra... If you don't do my orders... I'll get REALLY upset!" He was choking the girl of her very life. Aldra's face began turning blue, worrying others.
HEY! DELMORE!" His attention was towards Juan, having his sword being surrounded by a pure heavenly light, with Tomoe by his side. Shizuka's spirit came out of the sword, pulling Delmore off Aldra. Tomoe launched a light blue slash at her, but it didn't hurt her, only freeing Aldra from the grasp of Delmore. Juan's heavenly light transformed into a red hellish light. "BACK TO HELL!" The nephilim jumped in the air, slashing downwards at the Devil.
"Y-you do know... What you're doing?!" He smirked at him. Delmore began thinking what Juan was doing was very stupid. He was sending him to the depth of Hell, but he would only come back.
"I do... I have no regret..." They looked at eachother, feeling their rage to eachother just by looking in their eyes. "This is between me and you..."
"See you soon... 'Brother'..." Delmore vanished into the night dissapearing from them. Aldra was now free. The Demon armor vanished into specs of light, along with her sword. She fainted on the spot, having Juan catch her in his right arm. He placed her down on the grass, for her to rest for a while. Some of the specs of light returned, to cover up Aldra in her nun clothes.
Shizuka spirit went back to the sword, transforming back into a human. Tomoe ran up to Aldra's body, for her to feel that she was resting. She sighed in relief. "Is he gone?" Shizuka asked.
"No... He's still out there..." He looked up at the moon. "But I know where he is..." He began walking away from them. Shizuka only ran up to the Nephilim to grab him by the shoulder.
"H-Hey! Wait!" Shizuka caught him. "Let me come with you."
"No. I don't want anyone envolved in this fight..." He didn't look at her. She knew he was serious about this. "You and Tomoe stay here with Aldra. I'll be going."
"To where?" The kunoichi was confused. Juan stopped in his place, looking at Shizuka with his eyes red.
"To Hell..." He started running from them, to see a portal made by heaven to appear in front of Juan. He could feel that his Aunt, The Head Angel, wanted him to go, knowing that it was personal now. It was a one way ticket to the Swamp... Where he also needed to talk to someone there. "Time to end this!" He entered the potal for it to close. Tomoe and Shizuka wished him good luck...
TO BE CONTINUED!
This is it! THE FINAL BATTLE BETWEEN JUAN AND DELMORE! I'm sorry if I'm making this prolouge really long, I just want it to be something great! And I want to give that to you guys! And don't worry, the prolouge will continue in another couple of chapters, because I want to get them all done! I'm doing my very best and I hope you guys will support me all the way through! Thank you everyone! Stay tuned!