A/N- Hello there, This Idea just popped into my head and I ran with it. Let me know what you think. Pairing undecided but I'm Leaning towards Haruhime. Sora will arrive in Orario two years before the start of cannon at 14 years old.

As he lay there the boy couldn't help but wonder how this all happened. His parents were celebrating his fourth birthday one moment and the next they were lying in pieces all around him. He knew there was a war going on somewhere, there always was in the east, but he never thought soldiers would just break into his home.

Why would they? As Renards his clan lived in isolation up in the mountains, they had been for generations. Renards were the only race other than elves that had a high aptitude with magic. For this reason humans had always tried to use them, capture them, and enslave them.

Long ago his people had fled to the mountains, it had been hundreds of years since they last had contact with the outside world. They were content to live in peaceful seclusion.

So how did the humans find them? And why kill them? The boy just couldn't make sense of it, how could he when he was soaked with his parents blood.

"Forget the adults! Take the kids, they'll be easier to use!" someone shouted. Just as he heard this the boy, who was still in shock, was roughly grabbed by a human man. "You're coming with us mutt!"

The last thing the boy saw was the man's fist coming down towards him.

—-

When the boy woke up the first thing he noticed was the cold steel collar around his neck. The second thing he noticed was the forty or so other Renard children around him, all wearing the same collar.

"Seems they're all awake now. Listen up children! My name is Amatsu and I'm the goddess of the stars! I'm in charge around here. Those collars are magic tools called Obedience collars, as long as you wear those you will be magically compelled to obey any orders you receive from me, but please resist I'm sure it will be very entertaining." The boy looked up as the silver haired blue eyed goddess spoke. "You see, right now my nation is at war and we were planning on flanking the enemy by going through the mountains, buuuuuuuut we happened across a village of cute little foxes. So I decided to make you little ones my new trump cards! I assure you it is a great honor to be used by one as stunning as me." As the goddess continued some of the Renards started crying, most were just shocked into silence, and some of the older ones started to yell but were quickly beaten down by the soldiers lining the room.

The boy was among those shocked into silence. He wasn't sad or scared, he was furious. This creature is the reason his family is dead? To fight in some pointless war?

"Line up and I'll give you my blessing now, Oh! The cute blue haired one first" Amatsu said while pointing at the boy. He wanted to yell and attack her, to do anything but obey, but he found his body moving against his will. Then he remembered the collar around his neck. As he finally realized the situation he was in he snapped. His expression went blank and all the tension left his body. As he walked towards the smiling goddess there was only one thought going through his head, I will kill you, no matter how long it takes, no matter how impossible, I will cut you down.

"SO CUTE! Navy blue hair and royal purple eyes, you look just like the night sky! Just like my night sky! Alrighty take your shirt off and turn around little one." His body complied on its own and he felt a warm sensation on his back.

"Wow! You foxes really do have some cool magic. Here you go lil Sora!" the goddess said as she handed him a sheet of paper.

Sora

Level 1

STR I0

END I0

AGI I0

DEX I0

MAG I0

Magic

Astral Raiment- Coat the user's body in dark purple light that enhances all physical stats by 500.

Chant- Let the stars guide me.

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The next day all the Renard children were brought out to a courtyard and given weapons, the bigger ones were given katanas and the smaller ones like Sora were given wakizashis. Each of the children were pulled aside by one of the human men told to attack them. Apparently their "Training" would be trying to kill their captors, which suited the foxes just fine, however no matter how hard they tried they couldn't kill the humans, even with their magic. After a while the humans started laughing and said they were all a higher level, mostly level two and three with a few level fours.

Sora was beyond frustrated with his weakness, but he didn't scream or cry like the others. He kept a perfectly neutral expression and remained silent. He still hadn't said a word since his parents were killed. Speaking was unnecessary, he just had to get stronger.

The training carried on like that for two months, from dawn to dusk the Renards would try to kill the humans. Their status grew a bit, but it was difficult to gain excellia without killing anything. The only stat that increased more than a hundred points for them was their magic stat.

One day they were all brought to Amatsu instead of the courtyard their "training" took place at. "Alright foxes gather round! I've got some news for you! We're finally going to strike back against those hicks across the mountain! Take the rest of today and tomorrow off, the following day you'll all be going to war!" Amatsu said with her seemingly ever present cheer.

The Renards visibly paled at the news. They were going to war? They were going to kill people? Likely to get killed themselves?

They may have wanted to kill their captors but they didn't want to fight in any war, alas the collars around their necks left them no choice. Only Sora didn't give a reaction, he remained as blank and silent as ever.

Finally a chance to really get stronger. It doesn't matter what I have to kill, as long as I can get stronger.

Nobody present realized how broken the boy was. No one realized that if the boy survived long enough he would become a true monster.

—-

The Renards were all silent on their way back to Amatsu. The battle had been won, the fortress taken.

But half of them had been killed.

Only twenty Renard children remained, Sora among them. He had been wounded but nothing serious. The enemy had been arrogant, assuming a four year old child was no threat. They were wrong.

The moment they took their eyes off of Sora he used his magic and started taking heads. He was small so he jumped. He was slow so he threw mud in their eyes. He was weak so he only dodged, never blocking. To Sora it didn't matter how he won, just that he got stronger.

He would never stop, not until he cut that so-called goddess down.

—-

Years passed. As the never ending war raged on, the Renards kept dying, as did the humans. As Sora grew he graduated to a katana, and recently to a tachi. He was only thirteen years old so the 36 inch blade came all the way up to his chest. He had to wear it on his back to keep it from dragging on the ground, his arms were still a bit too short to draw it so Amatsu commissioned a master smith to make him a special sword. It was Durandal, supposedly unbreakable, and had a custom scabbard that opened from the side to let him draw it. It's name is "Hikarikiri" meaning light cutter. It had a white blade and hilt with a pale blue guard. The sword was made of hihirokane, a rare ore only found in the east.

He also wore special clothes made from materials imported from the center of the world, Orario. He wore a dark gray hakama made of Goliath robe and mithril fiber as well as a dark blue haori made of mithril fiber and amphisbaena skin.

Sora didn't just grow taller, but also stronger. He was level four now and had gained more spells and skills, but he wasn't strong enough yet. He was still bound by the collar.

Amatsu had grown more and more unstable as her nation was gradually beaten down, her ever present cheer had changed from being mostly amusement to mostly insanity.

And then it happened, Sora doesn't remember exactly when but at some point Amatsu started using him. It was disgusting, Sora vomited in the beginning but as time passed he became numb to it. It didn't matter, nothing did, only getting stronger.

Sora was currently on his way back to Amatsu from yet another battle, but this was the last battle Amatsu would win. Sora was the only one left.

Her entire army, humans and Renards, had slowly been killed off over the years. Sora was the only blade Amatsu had left, and he alone was not enough to win a war, no matter how firm his resolve.

Amatsu must have already known, she should have felt her blessings disappear. Sora still hadn't spoken once in the nine years since his parents were killed, except for his incantations, and he didn't plan to start now. As he approached Amatsu, who for the first time Sora had ever seen, wasn't smiling, and removed his dark blue haori and his dark gray hakama.

Neither said a word and Amatsu started updating his status. Just as Amatsu was copying his update onto a piece of paper something shocking happened. Something Amatsu didn't think possible, something Sora had been praying for for nine long, bloody years.

His obedience collar shattered.

Amatsu tried to say something but Sora would not let her. Without a word he drew his tachi and turned to her, no not her, it. The creature that had taken his family, his home. The creature that had driven him to slay thousands, the creature that had defiled him.

And for the first time in nearly a decade, Sora spoke. "Finally…"

Before Amatsu could even react, Sora's blade drew a cruel line through the air and her time in gekai came to an end.

As the pillar of light pierced the palace ceiling Sora felt all the strength leave him as his falna sealed. He didn't cheer or scream or cry, he had been suppressing his emotions for so long he didn't even understand them anymore. He felt several things but had no idea how to express them.

"This isn't the end… There will always be an Amatsu… I still need to get stronger…" Sora said. He looked over to Amatsu's desk and saw two things, one was his new status. The other was a letter she had received, from someone in a distant land.

"Orario..."

—-

SORA

LEVEL 4 - 5

STR A872 - I0

END A851 - I0

AGI S989 - I0

DEX S981 -I0

MAG S999 - I0

MAGIC

Astral Raiment- Coat the user's body in dark purple light that enhances all physical stats by 500.

Chant- Let the stars guide me.

Starlight- Fire a piercing beam of pale blue light. Swiftstrike.

Supernova- Generate twelve magic circles that condense energy into a single point, fire a bomb of that condensed pale blue energy that first implodes on impact, pulling everything nearby to it, then explodes.

Chant- Pressure overcomes radiance, impossible weight crushes existence to make way for even greater light. Inescapable attraction leads to absolute radiation. Death of stars, life of realms.

Skills

Kensei- immensely increases stamina, grants swordsman development ability.

Kenja- immensely increases mind, grants mage development ability.

Kitsune- use mind to enhance agility and dexterity stats, grants chain attack development ability.

Jiyuu- immune to external influence

Development abilities

Swordsman D

Mage D

Chain Attack E

Abnormal Resistance F

Spirit Healing E

Strong Body E

Flash cut I

A/N- I am intentionally skipping most of Sora's time with Amatsu. Just key points, family killed, he killed a lot of people, and has the emotional maturity of a four year old. I might go into more detail later either through Sora sharing his story or a flashback, maybe. Thanks for reading!