The Emperor and the Servant: A Tale of Two Heroes

Chapter 15: Hope

  “Why has she not awakened the Evil Eye yet?”

  “Lord Kentaro, she is just a young girl. Give her time.”

  “Shimorinku, you do not know what you are talking about. The moment she awakens one of the Spirit Eyes, that becomes her. Fushima lacks the potential she has. I think we need to take drastic measures.”

  Fushima overheard all this and was saddened. He attempts to find his mother and warn her of the impending danger that would befall upon Eri but…

  “MOTHER!!!” He only saw a blood-splattered corpse covered by a black veil.

  Kentaro weeps over her death…with his Evil Eyes glowing in the darkness as he covers them.

  Shimorinku and some attendants bring the corpse away from the mourning men.

  Eri was the one who was most affected. She gazed upon the blood that was left there but still…

  Her eyes have not lost their sparkle. However…

  “Father…” Fushima asked “Did you by any chance…”

  Kentaro looked upon the face of the young man. “KILL MOTHER?!”

  “Why would I…” Fushima suddenly grabs the man’s throat and squeezes it so tightly he coughed up a huge amount of fluid. “I SAW YOU AND HEARD YOU AND FELT YOUR PRESENCE. I WAS ALWAYS AT YOUR SHADOW DAY AND NIGHT BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT THOSE EYES YOU HID WERE FOR!!! YOU KILLED MY MOTHER TO BRING MY SISTER TO THE DARKNESS!!!”

  Kentaro’s head falls down but it rises back up and laughs at him maniacally.

  “WHY WOULD I CARE FOR HER STUPID LIFE? I JUST NEEDED YOU TO BE BORN!”

  Fushima throws him down and prepares to execute him but he vanishes and reappears grabbing Eri.

  “Your light may not have faded but soon…darkness will fall upon you.”

  “LET MY SISTER GO, YOU DEMON!!!”

  “If you want her safe, do not come after me. If I ever sense your presence, I will do to her what I did to your mother.” He vanishes again…without a trace. The wind howls that cold night.

  The man’s eyes were filled with anger, unknowingly…awakening the Evil Eye himself.

  Fushima opens those same eyes. He has already awakened the Eye of Darkness, with an X-shape protruding around it. “I cannot allow you to revive Kentaro! He will not come back!!!” Fushima struggles out of the Earth Hand and weaves signs. “Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!” From the mud stream came a mud dragon, to the shock of both men, which attacks Fushima. “I redirected control over your little jutsu. This is sacred water and I added soil from the very ground Lord Kentaro has stepped on…to produce this sacred mud bath.” Shimorinku claps his hands twice and the mud dragon swallows him up until he is petrified, with only his eyes left intact. “I shall take those.” Shimorinku recalls how Fushima kept resisting. He had the same ocular prowess as his father and when he awakened his Eye of Darkness when Eri had been caged, he had obtained the same exact powers as his opponent and father, to the point where their battles ended in stalemates. At one point, he allowed himself to disappear…intentionally allowing Eri to awaken the Eye of Enlightenment in mourning.

  “A testament to the lies you created from the shadows. Now you will become the vessel for which your father shall return to this world…immortal.” The petrified body enters the mud bath. “It begins.”

 

  September 29, 1205 A.D.

  Paris, France