Chapter Fifty Six
Tokyo was so much different than it was in her time. The busy city was filled with so many people. She sat watching curiously from the top of the building. The city was in ruins in her time, in fact most of Japan was in ruins because of repeated attacks from the nether realm. She only came to Tokyo to scavenge for stuff. She wondered when things would change. She thoroughly enjoyed all the senseless pandering and gluttony.
She pulled a picture out from her pocket and smiled at it. It was her and her parents when she was a little girl. She was maybe three or four and sitting her dad's shoulders, her hands holding on to his deep blue hair. Her Mom was giving her Dad a big kiss on the cheek even though he was wincing from his hair being pulled. Cherry blossoms were falling around them. It was a perfect day out.
She felt her tears well up, she missed them. Dad was grumpy, and Mom was always busy, but they always told her how much they loved her. Rowen didn't know her, and she hadn't seen her Mom yet. She wondered when he would meet her. They never did tell her how they met. She rubbed her head in frustration, she wished she knew. She missed them and her baby brother, although his was fifteen now.
She walked through the stores looking at the terrible fashion of the time, and tried some on but ended up putting them back, its not like she had any money for the time. She decided to keep walking through the city, it was so easy to be no one in this time.
A guy came up to her and draped an arm over her shoulder, "hey, there, pretty little thing."
She starred at the very average looking man, "I wouldn't try it..."
"Aww, but you're out so late, aren't you looking for some companionship," the man cooed in her face and she noticed the stench of beer. She hated alcohol.
She pulled away by grabbing his arm that was over her shoulders and twisted it behind his back. He yelped in pain until he fell to his knees. She placed her boot foot on his back, "sorry, I don't speak drunk, perve."
She kicked him and he fell into the ground face first. She groaned and kept on her way, which was no where particular.
She looked up at the sky and saw the blood red moon, and her virtue lit up for War. She was a happy kid, more or less. The times were tough, but her parents made her and her brother's child hood great. The armor of Rabbit became hers very young, maybe she was too young to bare the armor. Ten was even younger than when her father got Strata. War is hard virtue. It's not like she craved fighting or anything, it just pleased her. She remembered how sad her mom was when she found out her virtue. She never figured it was as a big of a curse as they made it out to be. War was inevitable. People fought against the nether realm, against each other, against anyone. She always considered the most honest of the virtues besides her uncle Torrent's. Honesty was as honest as you could get.
She pulled out her transformation orb and looked down at it briefly before she placed it back in her pocket. War. She was always going to war in her time against the nether realm. She wish she knew what what went wrong. She felt herself get mad at her parents for not telling her, but she also felt some blame. She had left for battle when she was fifteen and never real went back unless it was holiday.
She looked up, clouds were moving in. She gulped as she smelled the spiced scent of the nether realm in the air. She shuttered it was so strong. The clouds began form thick and dense over the city, and she noticed the big red gates appear in the distance between some sky scrapers.
"No...no...no," she mumbled as she backed up into an alley.
Lightning began to jump and spark through the clouds. A big lightning bolt struck the ground on the busy street not to far away. Cars swerved, and honked, and she heard the crunch of metal on metal. The lightning kept striking, and she heard the screams of civilians as the glass from the skyscrapers shattered. She saw them running for cover, but they were vanishing as they ran, and she looked up at the clouds. A dark castle sat among them...
She knew she couldn't fight the nether realm alone, she had to go get her uncles. She summoned Lokasenna as she ran through the alleys...