Soul Hunter/ソウルハンター

Prologue 1 part 2: The Shadow Scythe. Lord Aryas's long lost secret of the Shadow Scythes?

JP: Purorōgu 1-bu 2: Shadō Ōgama: Shu Ariasu no nagaiai yukue fumei no kage no kama no himitsu?

Previously on Soul Hunter:

Mıkenna Saholanai is a Scythe Meister and is looking for any scythe she can wield. Lord Aryas tells her of a scythe named Jigoku Shinigami, a Shadow Scythe.

Mıkenna and Soul Eater head for Shinigami's last known location; the Kouri Mountains, and learned of its haunting past.

When they arrive, they find Shinigami, but is unwilling to work with them and claims that He is his own meister and will trust no one else. He claims that if Mıkenna can beat him in a battle, he will work with her, but that would be impossible.

His skill surpassed that of Mıkenna's and Soul's combined. After getting attacked multiple times, she gets the wind knocked out of her.

All she remembered next was seeing blood.

Prologue 1 part 2: The Shadow Scythe. Lord Aryas's long lost secret of the Shadow Scythes?

Mıkenna woke from a quick black out, pain running down her chest and legs where Shinigami hit her. She opened her eyes and saw Shinigami's arm blade held to her throat, quivering. She looked up and saw Shinigami's red eyes, void of any sign of life, blood dripping down his chest and a familiar looking blade protruding from his copper smelling gore covered breast.

The blade pulled back and Shinigami fell limply to the floor. She looked back up to see Soul, his arm in blade form with Shinigami's blood dripping from it.

"Did you kill him?" Mıkenna asked slowly.

"I think so," Soul responded in a dry tone of voice. "I don't want to stick around to find out."

His blade turned back into his arm and held it out to Mıkenna to help her up. When she stood, she noticed that she was covered in Shinigami's blood from her face to chest. He had a lot of blood in him, she thought to herself. She looked down and saw Shinigami's body, laying face up. His unseeing eyes open, gazing straight at Mıkenna, almost seeming to follow her. She started when she noticed that his mouth was slightly curved into a small grin.

"Why would he be smiling like that?" Soul asked.

"I have no idea," Mıkenna responded. She looked back into his eyes; large pupils, each with a blood-red iris, almost looking blood shot. Some of his blood got into his hair, but Mıkenna barely noticed the difference between his blood-red colored hair and the blood. She examined him closer, black clothing with a long jacket. She looked closer around his neck where she would have sworn she saw something glow a light blue for a moment then vanished.

"Let's go," Soul said finally. "He's dead, yet he still gives me the creeps."

Mıkenna agreed and stood. There are no more scythes that I can partner with now, she thought privately. They reached the doors where they entered through before. Soul tried, yet he could not get the door to open. Mıkenna came forward to try, and then, it hit her; something was not right.

Soul saw this and asked "What's wrong?"

Mıkenna looked at Soul with horror in her eyes. "We are the only two souls here right?" she asked Soul.

"I believe so," Soul responded. "Why?"

Mıkenna's eyes widened as she said "Then, why do I sense three?"

They looked at each other for a moment, realizing what was going on. In unison, they look back at Shinigami's mangled body. For a moment, all was still, and then they heard laughing. As the laughing sound resonated throughout the temple, Shinigami's body began to stir and move in unnatural ways as the wound in his chest healed and the blood around him began to return into his body.

He rose like a vampire rising from the dead. Through his blood colored bangs, Soul and Mıkenna saw his blood eyes, slit like a cats eyes in bright day light. The slit-pupils reminded Mıkenna what a dragon's eyes would look like when they were hungry for meat.

Shinigami opened his mouth revealing his threatening teeth into a smile. "Do you think you can defeat me with that?" He said ominously.

At that moment, Soul turned back into a scythe and Mıkenna raised him in hopes of giving Shinigami at least a little fear, but Shinigami did not even flinch at the intimidation.

Shinigami fully rose to his feet and the blades about his body appeared once more. "I smell your fear," Shinigami said. "Were you not expecting that?"

Instead of lunging at Mıkenna, like she thought he would, he simply raised his hand, palm facing Mıkenna, and said on word; "Brisingr!"

Mıkenna noted that the word sounded like the crackling of fire, then she noticed something; Shinigami's soul was somehow changing. His soul became warmer, almost burning hot and surrounded him in a blanket of heat and light. When she tried to look closer, Shinigami's arm caught fire. A large tornado of flames covering his arm fingers to shoulder. The fire began to descend from his shoulder, to his elbow, to his wrist until finally it rested into a large ball of burning fire in his palm and began to increase in size.

Magic? Mıkenna asked herself. At that thought, the fireball left Shinigami's hand hurtling for Mıkenna at blinding speed. She barely got out of the way when the fireball struck the doors behind her leaving her out of breath and slightly hot. She landed a good distance away when the full explosion knocked her further away, striking a wall hard. She could not tell if it was her imagination but she thought she heard a nasty crack. She landed hard onto the floor below her, knocking the wind out of her. She was seeing stars and white veins of lightning dash across her vision. It took the ominous approaching footsteps to rouse her and she felt Soul's cold handle in her hand. If he gets close enough, I can cut him down. Mıkenna thought. The footsteps stopped, from Mıkenna's judgment, about three feet away from her, not close enough. He heard him say a new word; "Fumo ni kosa nai!" Mıkenna began to rise off of the ground like she was floating. "Fi!" Shinigami said and she went flying across the room, landing in the wall again with the same crack form before. She held there until Shinigami came and said "Nai!" She hit the ground again.

Mıkenna rose slowly and painfully. She tried to find Soul to cut Shinigami down, but he was nowhere in sight. Shinigami stepped closer. Mıkenna could see a nasty smile across his lips. She thought it was from hitting the wall, but she thought she saw a small eye on his forehead for a moment, and then it vanished.

She could hear Soul calling her name, telling her to run, but she could barely stand.

"Your soul is mine," Shinigami said. He rose his hand and said another word; "Sylviya!"

Silver-white lights flashed around him in ring patters then the rings when to his raised hand and darts the size of a spear began to form around his hand.

Mıkenna could barely feel her legs to run, so she closed her eyes and accepted defeat. The darts whizzed from his hand and Mıkenna could feel the white hot darts go through her soft flesh. The pain was excruciating, and then the pain ceased, along with all of her other senses.

Thanks for being so patient. Prologue 1 is about to end. If you are familiar with my writing styles, you would know that I do at least 3 parts of 1 or 2 prologues. (My prologue parts are very short as well.)

Will Mıkenna survive the Sylviya spell and defeat Shinigami? Find out in Soul Hunter Prologue 1 part 3: Resonating souls. A Resonance that should not be there?

Author's note:

I know you are getting bored with all of these short prologues, but I do not have enough time to work on the whole project so of course it will be short. When we get into the actual story, they will be longer and more enjoyable, I promise.

I know you're wondering "Brisingr? Isn't that from Eragon?" well, you would be right and wrong. Brisingr is from Christopher Paolini's Eragon, but it is also Atlanitan for Fire. Below is a graph of Atlantian words used here:

Atlanitan word

Translation

Brisingr

Fire

Fuma ni kosa nai

You are not on the ground (Illusion that causes something to float.)

Fi

Fly backwards

You will understand why Shinigami is using magic in the next prologue.

Spoiler alert! In the next prologue, which will be shorter, the character Shinogetsu Samau will be introduced, along with his weapons; Liz and Patty Thomson. I took the Death the Kid character from Soul Eater, gave him drugs and took him a step further. After that, we will get to the main story.

You are wondering why I called this story an OC when I add my own characters. Let's just call it an OCX. (Original Characters with Extra)

Hope you continue to enjoy Soul Hunter.