Son of Raijin (1)

Prologue

It's always hotter than a mid summer day down in the underworld; and yet it's so dark that you had to carry a torch just to see the ground under you. But the darkness was not important then. Several figures lay fallen, but alive. Only three remained standing, and they were facing their greatest fear. 

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" laughed a cackling woman's voice "Is this really the best you can do? You truly are pitiful."

You fiend!!" yelled one of the figures. He was bald and looking aged, armor covering his arms and chest, with a spear in his right hand. "We will never let you leave the underworld!!! Our fellow gods may have fallen, but we will not concede!!! Least of all to you!!!"

"Silence, you underling!!" the woman yelled back. "You cannot keep me here forever, weak gods!! Nothing can. And nothing ever will."

"You dare-"

"Do not attack her Hachiman," said another figure, dressed in silver robes,and had slick black hair, not much expression or complexion in his face. He was holding a khakkhara staff in his left arm, stopping Hachiman with his right. "If you charge in there with blind rage, you could die!"

"Get out of my way Tsukiyomi!" Hachiman demanded, rage in his gray eyes.

"No." Tsukiyomi replied. "We cannot let her provoke us again."

"You know that my brother is right Hachiman." said a female figure dressed in golden robes; she had long blonde hair, and a face that made her look gentle but deadly. She had a Yata no Kagami mirror in her left hand, and a scepter in right. "Please, do as he asks."

Hachiman looked angry for a few moments, but eventually backed away from the entrance to the throne room.

Suddenly, a small tornado broke into the corridor that they were standing in. But the gods did not panic, for they knew it was a friend.

A split second after the tornado appeared, it was gone. In its place was a thin man in tattered green and gray robes. He had long and wavy gray hair and a short beard, with a large sack on his back. He seemed to look a little old, but he could hold his own in a fight.

He said "The barrier is ready to be repaired, Amaterasu. All we need to do now is get back to the entrance and begin."

"Thank you Fujin." she replied. "We will be there shortly."

"I'll go inform Raiden as well."

"Yes, please do."

Fujin then opened his sack, a tornado appearing as he did so. The tornado stayed there for a full second, and then vanished without a trace that it or Fujin had ever been in the room.

"Come, Hachiman." Tsukiyomi asked. "We must go back to the entrance now."

"Very well." Hachiman replied. "Let's go, my friends."

In an instant, they all transformed into something else. Hachiman turned into a dove, but this looked nothing like an animal of love. His feathers were black on his wings and body, his head completely white, with a beak that looked sharper than a dagger.

Tsukuyomi turned into a silver eagle. Even his talons and beak were the same color as his feathers.

Amaterasu transformed into a gold jay. But unlike her brother, her talons and beak were pink-white.

With their transformations complete, Hachiman broke a nearby window with his beak, and they all flew out of the castle together, several demons behind them.