Author Note: Wow. I'm happy everyone is enjoying the story so far. I really enjoy writing it. I hope you like the different views and ways the characters behave and act. Anyways at the bottom of each chapter I am now going to answer reviews from you all. I am happy you like the story and I hope it is good. I am trying my best to make this a really good story. Also the other daughters will have bigger parts in the future. Please keep reviewing and favoriting. Thanks.
Author Note 2: This chapter was harder for me. We were not shown how the daughters of Aku knew what Samurai Jack looked like or how to find him. Also since they had apparently never left the clan area how they would they know how to handle the cold or find their way. So the first part of this chapter is for how I see that going as well as making it clear that the clan thinks Samurai Jack is bad.
Chapter 3: Seven Daughters Are Unleashed
+Just prior to the daughters twentieth birthday Alia had sent out many of her clan members to find the whereabouts of the samurai. One day near the middle of fall there was word of a huge number of monsters that the samurai had unleased and then killed once they finished their job. This was reported by the highest ranking spy group of the clan. A group of three elite spies. Alia told those spys to keep tabs on the samurai. These spys were her best in all of the clan. They had prevented assasination attempts on Alia and her daughters before. On one such occasion after a plot to to kill her daughter Ashi was uncovered, Alia got the spies to train her daughters to be more self aware. These spies were never brutes or capable of assasination or physical feats but to avoid a fight was smart and to know and prevent a fatal altercation beforehand even more so. After several weeks they returned with news. There was a monster beetle warlord headed to meet with the samurai.
Outside of the walls of the clan of Aku was a vast and beautiful forest. Although the trees had shed their leaves the forest was abundant with life. The clan members had protected the surrounding land the best they could. Fortunately there was no samurai attack and monsters almost never came near. These monsters were tough but killable. It was said the samurai unleased them and then slaughtered them when they had completed their destruction.
The daughters were informed of all of these things and shown photos of the samurai. They were given a map and taught how to navigate it. When the daughters were fully prepared they were set out to kill the samurai. They would all return alive and Aku would come back as well. After being given final instructions and being fully aware of the situation and what to do the daughters were ready. And so the day came and the daughters set out to kill the samurai.+
Ashi and her sisters journeyed throught the forest. Ashi had never experienced fall before up close. On their birthdays the trees were always full of leaves and were green, there were berry bushes, many bugs and animals, it was much prettier and warmer. Ashi wondered why the forest was not beautiful all of the time. Was it because of the samurai? He must truely evil to make trees lose their leaves. The forest was still beautiful to her and wonderous. The trees were colorful and dropping leaves soon to be bare. She looked around and noticed her sister following her in their suits and masks. It was not time to observe nature. It was time to kill the samurai.
It was a three day journey to get to the spot where the samurai was going to meet the Beetle lord. They would watch the meeting. It was suspected that the samurai would kill the Beetle lord. After that they would make a plan and attack the samurai. But for now the daughters walked on.
So the daughters walked on. The daughters came to a bridge and crossed it. They walked for a couple more hours and then decided to use the map. Aki and Ati were in charge of the map. Ati looked at the map and pointed left saying "It's that way" but her sister Aki took the map and turned it and pointed right saying "No, it's this way". The two sisters then started arguing. Ashi sighed. She would have to handle this herself. She took the map and looked. She pointed left and said " It's clearly this way" and then she said "No wait, it's this way" and she turned the map and said "uhhhhh". Finally Ami took the map and was able to figure it out. So the girls went straight with a slight right. Ami was now in charge of the map. [Note: Ami is the daughter on the tv show that Samurai Jack slit the throat of]
The daughters continued on. They kept walking for hours. The area was darker now and more spooky as it got later. The daughters stayed close together in formation as they had trained. They were used to dark spaces but not dark spaces in unfamiliar areas. In an hour it was much darker and the daughters were getting tired. Ashi instructed the daughters to camp on ground while she looked out in a tree in case there was any trouble or unwelcome guests of any sort.
Ashi climbed the tall thick tree with big branches. She got on a branch and looked at the stars. They were pretty and calming. Ashi sat down. She breathed and sighed. She was neither happy or sad and she was not scared or confident. She was anxious. She had never took a human life and days from now she and her sisters would do that. The stars calmed her. She took a look around. She saw no trouble. Half an hour later she lay down and rested. She was tired but calm. She loved the stars. She fell asleep.
When the morning came the birds were chirping. Ashi awoke. She went down the tree. Her sisters were all up waiting for her. She must have been very tired. They started the second day of travel. Tomorrow they would face the samurai. They walked on.
The girls neared an area with pretty trees that still had leaves on them. It was a prettier area and the daughters felt more at ease. As the girls walked on it was pretty uneventful. Ashi lead and thought and observed nature, Ami followed her with the map, Axi kicked rocks as they walked and Achi did too. Avi watched them and Aki and Ati followed as well.
Achi and Axi started a game of kicking rocks to see which one went furthest. At one point Achi stopped everyone. A rock that she had kicked skipped on water and she wanted to show them. Axi called her a liar. Achi tried again and again but failed. So there was a break to see which daughter could skip a rock first. Achi kept on and Axi called her a liar. Achi couldnt get it at all. Eventually Ashi was the winner because she made the first and only rock skip. Achi crossed her arms. The group continued on.
That night after traveling nearly to the destination Ashi again took watch in a tall tree. She lay down. She thought of tomorrow. She would have to kill the samurai and release the world from his evil. She repeated it in her mind again and again as she had done for years. Her resolve was solid as she fell asleep. Tomorrow the samurai would die.
The next morning the girls were ready. The didn't talk much but traveled the short distance left of their travel. Soon they started hearing noises. They slowed down and looked around. Soon they came to an area with a clearing in the trees and saw him. He looked exactly like the photos. He wore some armour and looked very fierce.
It was the samurai. They heard the noise getting louder. Ashi felt the need so she reminded her sisters to stay calm and strong. A huge beetle emerged through the trees. The daughters watched but a few of them put their hands on their weapons. They were all a little nervous due yo the loud sound.
The samurai threw his spear and destroyed the Beetle lord. Ashi and her sisters looked at one another. They looked at the samurai. He stood there. The girls went ahead. They lay a trap to destroy his vehicle and hopefully rid the world of him as well. If not they would handle him themselves with their hands and weapons.
The samurai hit the trap with his vehicle and fell. It was time to kill the samurai. The daughters went on the attack.
To be continued...
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Depicable Kiwii - Yeah. I hope you are enjoying! Leave me a new review and let me know how you feel about these new chapters? Am I doing it right?
Gamaroc - Thank you for the kind reviews. I am trying to present the characters as real. Pure evil is not at all common. Often good and bad are the two sides of a coin. They are one and the same. Our views and our choices make us. Disillusionment is not pure evil in my opinion. We are all misguided in some form.
Levicorps - I do hope you enjoy. Tell me how you feel about this chapter so far? Am I going the right Speed?
Bluelantern2814group - You are probably right. In the recent tv episode I don't think she changed her mind but I feel she felt a moment of reflection in her past. When you think someone is evil and they do something good, especially something close to you, it means a lot and makes you think.
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