"For the next several years Wren traveled the country from the north to the south, fulfilling the Emporers wishes and liberating the outer cities from the tyranny of the outland hordes. Training with the master swordsman, Wren was naturally gifted and soon became an unparalled fighter, surpassing even his master. Never were thoughts of the princess, nor the enchancted bow far at hand. Eventually he returned to the cities to find the Emporer had died and been replaced by another. Times had changed and the new Emporer was young and corrupt, having taken the young princess against her will as his bride to secure the throne. When Wren returned to the Great City and found the princess all but captive, with the help of master swordsman Elijah he took stormed the royal palace liberating her and stole away to the woods, thus suspending the corrupt Emporers reign and leaving the governing of the Great City to the group of advisors from the previous ruler. Several more years past, Wren and the Princess Aurora were still relentlessly persued by the power hungry usurper. Now during this time the Princess and the young warrior had fallen deeply in love, and conceived two children, twins. A boy and a girl. It came to a point where there seemed no where left to escape, so the two small children were tearfully given to the care of Elijah, to be raised in secret far away from the usurper. Being of blood decent of royalty, they were the true heirs to the throne." Here theyre teacher stopped for a long while, watching the reaction of the children, seeing in both their eyes, the comprehension, each searching their souls to absorb this news, their place in the world finally realized.
Chapter 7
Many years later, a woman in her won right, Azumi stepped into the blood soaked clearing with the man in white and her injured brother. "Elijah of Ghiessi?" The man in white repeated. Azumi stretched her neck, slowly rolling her head in a circle, then flexed her right arm, snapping in back into fighting stance in such a way that the blade rung in the air, penetrating the ears of the man in white. "So it is." he said almost grudgingly. "Well it shall be my great honor to kill both of you and claim them for myself. I am of the Cotati clan, but you may call me Death." The man in white brought the blade down to his face, closing his eyes. He made a shuttering sound of pleasure, and to Azumi's disgust she can see he had an erection inside his robes proportionate to his height. "HI! Ryu!" She said, "Oh, you know me... never better." he replied dripping blood into the dirt. The man in white inhaled deeply, charging the air, pausing for a moment, then shrieking a high shrill baboon shriek, charged at Azumi with ferocious speed. Ryu loosed an arrow, just as the man in white leapt into the air, spinning head first in a dive towards Azumi. Spinning in the air, the arrow peirced only cloth and shot towards Azumi who was able to dodge it with a side spin, recieving a smal gash on the outside of her calf, but able to counter the first strike of the man in white, ducking her head under head blade a mere inch from where their blades clashed. Sparks flared, singing the stray hair from Azumis forhead, as she directed the force of the blow downward, the man in white burying his blade in the dirt. Once more spinning in a sideways motion, Azumi ducked a mere inch from her own blade, sending is sweeping at the eyes of the white demon-man. Another arrow shot by the creature, again only catching a swath of robe, and teh man in white was only able to dodge Azumis blade by a hairs width. Another baboon-like shriek and the man in white, redoubled his efforts, moving even faster, slicng at Azumi with his gigantic blade, and all she could do was retreat from his long sweeping attacks. A moment later a second blade joined the melee as Ryu got within range of his sword, striking as usual with nothing held back "Hya!" While the blow was barely caught by the man in white, it did little to slow hid down, as he forced a long bony elbow into Ryu's solar plexus, knocking him backwards off his feet. Rolling into a crouch, the look on his face was that of fiery anger, though it was obvious he had no breath left. Grabbing the short sword that he wore on hi sside, he swiped with a stabbing motion at the man in white, who spun out of range. The short sword however caught the edges of the man in whites robes, plunging into the ground. Azumi, familiar with Ryu's fighting style as her own saw the restraining gesture coming and was ready. For an instant the man in white was caught up in his robes, and Azumi thurst with all her might and speed, but was again countered, but spinning around kicking high, she was able to plant a foot squarely on the temple of the man in white. A fatal injury to any normal man, he only spun stunned, slicing off his robes where they were tacked into the ground. Never showing an instant of mercy, Ryu shot forward with his blade, barely missing the heart of the demon, as Azumi shot another blow, deflected over her shoulder, spinning to deliver another kick as her brother parried another blow, which was also met with steel. Azumi cut low with her blade, the demon-man jumping high into the air flipping backwards, cutting low with his blade. Azumi flattened herself against the ground with amazing limberness, rolling out of the way of the devastating blade as it bit a trough into the ground a foot deep. The demon-man let out another shriek and shot off a barrage of strikes against Azumi, pushing her to a corner of the fort. Ryu shot a handfull of heavy darts from his gloves, an old but deadly trick. With a backwards sweep the man in white swiped all five of the darts out of the air, still advancing on Azumi, swords flashing in the air. Azumi's eyes did not waver in their deadly concentration as her back hit the wall, and thoug she parried the next deadly blow, a long slender hand shot out to her neck, pinning her to the wall. Azumi brought her elbow down on the wrist with all her body weight, over and over again, but the man in white simply pressed his face into hers, the porcelain white face cold as marble the sweet smell of lavender pervading her nose, mixing with the sickly scent of blood. He moved the edge of his tongue up the back of her neck behind her ear "Your soul smells soooooo sweet..." And then he pierced her ear with another shriek of pain. Dropping her in the dirt, Azumi saw Aisha, sword drawn and dripping red, as she had sworn a mortal vow to never have again, standing right behind the man in white, Ryu beside her, still trailing blood. "Aaaaaaah... new bitch! I'll enjoy ripping up your soul!" the man in white said with palpable hatred. "If you wish to die today, I invite you to try, that I may oblige you!" Charging at the two, he released a volly back and forth, sparking flashing, driving htem backwards with such ferocity there was a smell of steel on steel in the air, the burnt smell of death. It was in this attack Azumi was able to see a stripe of red along the back of his right elbow, where Aisha had drawn blood. Though her head was still swimming from being choked and ruptured ear drum of the creature shrieking in her ear, Azumi lunged at the man in white. He saw her coming and flashed her a deadly backhand that would have surely killed her had it been at full speed, but due to his injury, Azumi was able to roll under his parry, planting her sword in the side of the beast man. A shriek louder and shriller still of any they heard exploded in the clearing, driving them all to cover their ears as the man in white stumbled back clutching his side. Ryu recovered first throwing another desperate swipe at the demon-man, which was dodged, but quickly followed by an overhand strike from Aisha. Pained but still masterful, Ryu made a low arc, aiming for the man in whites ankle, missing by a fraction of an inch, following through with another overhand attack, trying to power through the creatures defense of Aishas blade. For a moment they sdtruggled there, in perfect balance, one side unable to overtake the other. They al locked eyes and a suden gasp from Aisha made the creature eyes light up. Looking down she saw the demon-mans hand planted to the knuckles in her midsection. He with drew a closed fist with long sharp dangerous nails, and AIsha fell to the ground. Azumi let out a scream of rage and attacked with the wildness of madness, striking each blow with all her strength, flashing relentlessly driven by madness, striking sparks with each blow, but landing all on steel, none on flesh. The creature cackeled, lifting its hand above its head, still drippin with blood from Aishas wound, tilting his head back and catching the droplets. "So strong, this one..." his eyes rolling into his head. Then over Azumis shoulder a black arrow flew, the same arrow the demon had plunged into Ryu's back, and unlike the other before it, buried itself halfway through the demons shoulder with a spray of blood, knocking him to the ground. The white robbed figure shrieked and crawled backwards, glaring at Ryu now collapsed on the face down on the ground. The arrow had so narrowly missed his heart. With a hiss, the demon gained his feet screaming "Transgressors! You shall all paay! I'll eat your bowels!" For a moment the mans face transformed, gaining the features of a lizard. The skin bulged into scales, the eyes narrowed into slits and with amazing speed the demon jumped to the outer walls of the fort, and off into the woods, retreating with inhuman screams of rage and pain.
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