The Legends of the House of the West

Prologue: The Four Entities of Evil

By: Rainemarauder

Author's Note: Gomenasai! So sorry for just now letting out the first chapter of this story it's a bit of short one too anyways I'll try to update soon… Inuyasha not mine "" Revised Prologue minna enjoy!!

The Earth, a beautiful living blue jewel in the vast cosmos, it draws everything to it, charmed by it's teeming life and motion. Made up of vast seas and oceans, the living source of life, from these waters spawned life and from these simple beings grew more complex beings, some beings diverge they grew into power and became youkai, some grew in spirit and became mononoke, some grew in soul and became kami, gods and goddesses

The Earth too grew into being and was further divided into realms the four realms were: Rekai the spirit world, where kami, gods and goddesses abound, Makai the death and extension of the Rekai exists (and it is also where the youkai, hannyou, and onni exists) realms ruled over by King Yama he who decides punishment over a soul and whether your reincarnate or not, Ningyoukai the human realm wherein the humans non spiritual and spiritual both exists, and lastly Mahoukai, the magic realm where all of these beings converge and where magic and power exists.

Father Creator and Mother Chaos from which all beings came from, then created the Forces of Creation and Destruction, and from these forces were born the Gods and Goddesses, which were further divided into the Tennoh Kami, or those who rule from both the Makai and Rekai (ex: Susana O, Apollo), and the Kunitsu the ones who rule the realms of Ningyoukai and Mahoukai and mingle with the human and other creations of mother nature.

One of the most important fertility and guardian spirits or Kami where the ryu/tatsu/long/dragon kami, whom have rule over both spiritual and material realms, they as powerful spirits of nature and creation and destruction represent an element or a force of nature and are known as the very essence of fertility (I mean they could get anyone pregnant even without sexual contact, conception may happen through a blessing, a sloppy kiss, a sneeze, through exchange of saliva and through there elemental touch as long as the female is fertile) There are different dragon spirit species divided into winged horse like dragons from the Norse, the winged lizard like dragons of the Celts, the birdlike feathered snakes or coatles dragons of the Americas and Australia, and the most graceful of them all the heavily-scaled snake-like creature with small clawed legs with horned or antlered mammalian heads, the Asian dragons that may be five toed claws for the Chinese Dragons(lung), the Korean Dragon's (yong) four and three toed claws for the Japanese ones, these Asian Dragons are usually associated with water, sky, heavens, and clouds.

All dragons are born guardians and are known to be protective and are dangerous when roused in anger. They are also able to see the core of every entity as jewels so in a way that contributes to dragons being hoarders of treasure which for them represents these jeweled entities, they also have Celestial Pearls or Jewels, which allows them to enter heaven and seek council with the Higher Gods. The ability to see these jewel souls, helps them find there soul bonded and mates usually these mates are pure and have souls of a jewel persuasion.

And some of the famous ryu of all was from the inner depths of the Kohakugawa, in a fortress called Nigihayami no Shiro, ruled the Lord of the River, Nigihayami Kohakunushi with his wife, mate, vessel and Nisou, Ogino Chihiro. The lovely love story of how a child priestess made a river kami fall in love with her while she was made an onsen attendant at the spirit world's Aburaya, of how the young dragon freed her from this enslavement of enchantment and how she waited for him to come to the earthen realms to fulfill his promise to her as his chosen mate. It has been four years since their fabled marriage and union, and while Chihiro serves as his connection to his humans and guarded in his guardian realms which is the territory spanning the Kohakunogawa, it's shrine and it's city. They have not been yet blessed with children due to Chihiro was only 18 years old when they married, her mate waited for her physical and spiritual maturity to be make sure that her body and spirit can hold ryu kami souls, and so on their fourth year anniversary Chihiro surprised her husband while he was visiting her during his off days in the shrine and in his human/kami form with the news that she was fertile and that night they conceived the first of the children of the river god.

During Chihiro's 6th month of pregnancy, the Ancient Asian Ryu Council have been urgently convened, the six council members; a golden dragon, Tin Ryuuko, a black dragon, Tenyoru Fujiyama, a mountain dragon who is the guardian of Mt. Fuji, a silver or white dragon, Nigihayami Touya, a spiritual/rain/snow ryu responsible for bringing winter snow, summer storms, spring rains and autumn showers to Asia, a red dragon, Honoo Rei, a fire dragon, a blue dragon, Tennoh Haruka, a metal dragon, a green dragon, Kino Michiru, a wood dragon.

The crisis in current discussion was about the break out from the spirit prison, Aerinaiz, of one of the most dangerous Arimatama's to exist, Yoruchi, the Arimatama of Amatsu Mikaboshi's, the god of evil and chaos. All kamis have Arimatama, being all gods have a balance of the four souls in humans, spirits, kami and other beings of good and even all beings in perfect balance meaning they nor good and neither are they evil these four souls are in balance, but in the case of the August Star his Arimatama (supposedly the soul of courage) has an evil will and consciousness of his own, the foul influence of Cruelty and Tyranny which caused the almost destruction of the four realms, so Mikaboshi's Arimatama was separated from his other souls to put him in balance since his ariamatama's evil overpowered the other three, his arimatama to be further contained was divided into three separate beings, the Ari who took the form of a tatsu was killed and it's fangs forged into the Sword of Destruction and Conquest called Sounga, the Ma took the form of the criminal Yoruchi, whom was imprisoned in Aerinaiz the most impenetrable prison in Makai and the tama whom stayed within Mikaboshi, as a balance to his Nigimitama, Kushimitama and Sakimitama. (The Arimitama (courage), and Kushimitama (wisdom) are negatively inclined while Nigimitama (friendship) and Sakimitama (love) are positively inclined in Amatsu Mikaboshi's case his Arimitama overpowered all three) Without these two other beings Amatsu is both a benevolent and un-benevolent kami, who rules over hell and punishment.

So the escape of Yoruchi is grave news if he ever rejoins with his tama and gets Sounga, then the end of the four realms will be absolute. And this affects Amatsu Mikaboshi for his much darker half the one that yearns for death, blood and destruction would bring this age into chaos wrecking the fabric of life and breaking the loom of creation, would be set free, not that the god of evil was a pushover but while existing with only his Nigimitama and a small bit of hid Arimatama, he stays within perfect balance.

With Yoruchi free it will unleash Amatsu's chaos form, that of the ancient soul eater ryu kami Amatsu Chiyoru Mikaboshi created both by cruelty and tyranny and there in lies the problem. So the only way to keep safe the balance was to seal or get a guardian for Sounga.

The gods pondered and found the answer in the unborn children, nestled in the womb of the human priestess mate of the god of the Kohakunogawa, Nisou Chihiro Ogino Nigihayami. They, the council of the gods, have decided to ensoul these living embryos with powerful guardian souls, even if the children are half kami spirit and half human. With the promise of protection and future training for the young one before it can take-over such as destiny as a guardian the master of the Kohakugawa with his wife gave a reluctant agreement, and with this the process of ensouling the embryo was commenced and completed, within a fortnight of the council meeting.

Time passes by like sand through a sieve, it was now mid winter, exactly three months after that faithful meeting and the Nisou Ogino's birthing month has arrived to ensure that the birth of the guardian is well Kohaku had taken his miko mate to his castle deep in the river it was just in time, for Chihiro's birthing time came upon just after settling herself in the castle's nesting grounds, the castle echoed with her cries of pain and the smell of birth fluids permeated throughout the castle halls…

The birth of twins was greeted with much happiness and celebration, these two powerful babes both females inherited their mother reiyoukai and their father's kami power, such little bodies holding such strong reiki that they glowed with their own light, these tiny little beings are hannyous half human but half spirit kamis. Nestled in their mother's loving embrace, and under their ryu kami father's protective and caring eyes the twin guardians rested and suckled their mother's breast content and unaware of the adventures they will encounter in the future.

And so to the legend has begun….