The blood-curdling screams of his name could be heard throughout the entire camp. As Kiyoshi turned, he saw a shadowy figure continue to scream his name with rage and anger "Kiyoshi, Kiyoshi, Kiyoshi ".The shadowy figure continued calling out to him. As he begins to walk closer to the shadowy figure, his feet sink in the blood-soaked sand, creating miniature pools of blood that drowned and covered his feet with each step. As he continues to make his voyage towards the figure calling out to him, he finds himself surrounded by the tearful and sorrowful widows and children of the men that he had just killed.
Looking at them, he can see the terror in their eyes, but more so he can see the hatred for him building inside them even among the children. Three quarters to his destination, he can finally figure out who it was. It's Maxwell, but his appearance has changed a bit. For starters, he now sports a pair of spiked iron shoulder pads, which were a crimson color, and on his hands were large gloves no more like small gauntlets." Kiyoshi thinks to himself. The gauntlets were golden brown with red markings and symbols on them.
One of them had the face of a lion engraved on it, whilst the other one had a dragon engraved on it. But the most shocking change was his new weapon, a large double-bladed ax that could be at least ten feet in length. The grip and hart of the ax were made of gold with a statue of a black snake with white diamond shapes on its back with each diamond shape having a different marking on it whilst the snake wrapped around the grip and heart of the ax. The pommel of the ax was a diamond tip and the blades of the ax were blazing red and orange, with rows of multicolored gems embedded into the edge of each blade.
The top of the ax was a sun and moon with an angel above them embracing them with its wings. The ax shined brightly in the sun's rays showing off its beauty and power, mesmerizing everyone still alive to see, including Kiyoshi. Kiyoshi took a few steps forward and stopped in front of Maxwell. " It can't be after all these years and of all places for me to see it again," said a different disembodied male voice this time. This one sounds different from the one before it as its voice sounded deeper and creepier than the last voice coming from the sword. "What" replied Kiyoshi? "It's the ax of Rebecca" stated the voice. "The ax of Rebecca"? Asked Kiyoshi. "Yes it's a weapon as Infamous as the sword around your waistline, a weapon created during the great demonic conversion event." continued the voice. "Back in those days, there was a man named Jacob Wood-heart, a tall and bulky man of Caucasian descent with long flowing black hair.
A man they said was gifted with out worldly strength and prowess, a physical monster in every shape and form. A man who made his living as a blacksmith by day and a father and husband by night, a man who was contented with his life. Even when humanity's United army came begging for his strength and prowess beyond his blacksmith skills to defend against their demonic invaders from hell he declined, stating he can only offer the weapons he makes as his place was with his family. As the war raged on and humanity continued to fight to live on the earth in peace.
The blacksmith continued his work making weapons and going back home to his family, never getting involved in war more than he had to. Until one day, as he walked back to his home to meet a demon eating his beloved wife in their bedroom with his two sons nowhere in sight. From what I can recall, the female demon had a serpent's tail, bat wings, and a face of a horse with goat's horns on top of her head, and her body was covered in gray scales. Remarked the disembodied voice. The demon watched Jacob laughing with a big smile on her face and continue to devour his wife. In his rage Jacob rushed over to the demon and crushed her skull with his bare fist, killing the demon instantly. His rage and strength were so intense that he even split the foundation of his home. As his wife lay dying in his arms, she whispered to him to protect their sons and to help humanity survive. As his wife lay dead in his arms, he vowed to avenge her and keep his promise to her.
After burying his wife, Jacob spent over a month gathering materials for his ultimate weapon to avenge her. For the next forty days and nights, he works endlessly without food or sleeps, forging his ultimate. On the morning of the forty-first day, his ultimate weapon was born, a double-sided ax forged from gems and material so rare they have never been seen anywhere else besides this weapon. A weapon almost ten feet in length and three tons in weight. The ultimate demon-slaying weapon was named in honor of his late wife Rebecca. It was said when the ax was finished, light from the heavens shone upon the ax and gave it more prowess and strength. Even though the ax was too long and heavy for any normal man to wield, Jacob, who became feared by the underworld and demons everywhere for his ability to wipe out legions of demons by himself with little to no resistance effortlessly wielded it.
With him and the other two members of the trinity saviors, humanity was able to defend itself and win the war against their demonic invaders ending the demonic conversion event. At the end of it all Jacob Wood-heart was more than a man he was more of a god that even the sound of his name made hell shake in fear, he was a man who demanded respect from all and he died a very successful and powerful man in his sleep". Stated the disembodied male voice. "It was said that he was the one that came up with the idea and design for your sword," stated the disembodied female voice to Kiyoshi as it injects itself into the conversation. "And before you say anything and ask why I didn't mention the gauntlets, Jacob didn't create them. His eldest son, Matthew, created them. As even though he was strong beyond mere men, he was no match for his father's strength and created the gauntlets to bridge the gap between him and his father's strength," announce the male disembodied voice. "Hmmm so basically we are up against a guy with a weapon design to stop us" replied Kiyoshi." Us'' laughed the male disembodied voice "remember you said you didn't want our help so have fun with that"." Sighhhhhh I have to end this quicker than expected, " remarked Kiyoshi. The two men stood silently facing each other as the crowd of children and women surrounding them looked on, awaiting the two men to clash. "You don't have anything to say" remarked Maxwell. Kiyoshi gazed at him with the blood of Maxwell's men still dripping off his face and clothing and replied "NO".
Maxwell sighed and replied "your right the time for vocal discussions is done, we can only debate with our first, blood and sweat now" before Kiyoshi could register the full sentence made by Maxwell, Maxwell appeared in front of him bringing down his might weapon upon Kiyoshi, who nearly manages to block the attack with his sword due to Maxwell's sudden increase in speed. The force of his attack brought Kiyoshi down on one knee. The shock waves from the two weapons colliding created small fissures to appear behind Kiyoshi. As Kiyoshi tries to bring himself up, Maxwell grins and states, "remember this' ' then proceeds to kick Kiyoshi in the chest several feet through the sand, causing the sand to make a pathway. As Kiyoshi blows through the sand like a cannonball he stops on all fours and begins to cough up sand but before he can cough up all the sand he had consumed, He saw a shadow coming down on him, looking up he saw Maxwell coming down with an Aerial attack. He barely managed to roll out the way dodging the attack, which caused a huge mushroom cloud to appear, pushing Kiyoshi back, causing him to crash himself into a house. As Kiyoshi gathers himself between the rumble of the house, he can see the figure of Maxwell appearing out of the dust. "How does it feel now that you're the prey and not the predator, huh?" Ask Maxwell as he exits the dust cloud.
"I never wanted any of this if you would have just listened to me," replied Kiyoshi as he slowly got up. Enraged, Maxwell replies, "You walk into my domain, make demands, then kill my fucking men, my brothers. You left the women in the camp brotherless and husbandless, the children fatherless and you are telling me I should have fucking listened to you. The only thing I want to listen to now is the gushing of blood when I cut your head off your neck". In a flash, Maxwell dashes across the field, swinging his ax towards Kiyoshi, who manages to dodge the attack, causing the ax to destroy a support pillar of the house. Kiyoshi went on the counter-attack with his sword but was blocked by Maxwell's ax. Maxwell continued his onslaught with a flurry of swings and jabs with his ax putting Kiyoshi back on the defensive. Kiyoshi was unable to attack with his sword due to the Force of Maxwell's attacks slowing his ability to swing his sword, thus only giving him enough time to defend himself with his sword. He tried attacking Maxwell with a roundhouse kick to the face. But Maxwell caught the kick and with his newfound strength, thanks to his gauntlets, he managed to lift Kiyoshi with one hand, slamming him into the ground, creating cracks and fissures to appear. As Kiyoshi coughed up blood, Maxwell lifted him, looked at him, and threw him across the camp through several houses and back to where their fight originally began.
While coughing up blood, Kiyoshi struggled to compose himself as he stumbled to get back up to his feet, he can hear the screaming and cheering of the women and children as they watch their nightmarish enemy getting knocked around. "You can't keep fighting him with strength alone. He is stronger than you clearly, but you realize what advantage you have over him, right?" Remarked the female disembodied voice to Kiyoshi. "Speed," stated both the disembodied female voice and Kiyoshi simultaneously. Maxwell walks up and stops several feet away from Kiyoshi and points his ax towards him and states. "It's time to di ". Before Maxwell can finish his sentence, something blurred flashed across him, cutting him on his left cheek.
When he turned around, he saw Kiyoshi behind. Before Maxwell can swing his ax, Kiyoshi attacked him with a burst of speed, cutting him across his chest and making several slashes across his legs. Enraged, Maxwell leaped toward Kiyoshi, trying to decapitate him, but before the ax could reach his neck, Kiyoshi disappeared behind him, creating several slashes and cuts about Maxwell's body. "I have had enough with this." Declared Maxwell. "We're going to get this now," Maxwell continued. "I agree," replied Kiyoshi. The women and children, even the air itself, grew quiet as the two men were at a standoff, getting ready to end their dynamic battle. With only primal instinct guiding them, the two men catapulted themselves towards each other. Towards the final moments of their climactic battle, Maxwell got flashbacks to the events that led him to this dynamic moment in his life.
As their battle comes to its climax, Maxwell gets flashbacks to the moment that led him down this path. It was many years when Maxwell was just a young lad, about 8 years of age. He and his friends sat on rocks by the swamp, their skin and clothes dirty and torn. Maxwell's fiery reddish hair was in cornrows. They sat by the swamp throwing rocks at Croco-slugs. Grotesque abominations. The slugs. Grew up to twenty to thirty feet. They had teeth like crocodiles, but much longer.They had silver hard plated scales on their backs and the center of their heads, which took no damage to gunshots or even blunt weapons. Their tails look like crocodile tails and their slime was acidic, melting everything besides the other inhabitants of the swamp that grew accustomed to it. The boys continued throwing rocks at the monster as they slowly swam across the swamp unfazed by the rocks being thrown at.Then suddenly, a voice started shouting at the boys. "Get down here you little bastar
Early the next morning, Maxwell and John headed to a field in the middle of the forest. John told Maxwell to step back a couple of feet away from him and wait on his word. There were several sticks wrapped in cloth next to him and, without warning, John began throwing the stick at Maxwell at blazing speed. The projectiles were upon Maxwell, but he dodged them with ease and within a fraction of a second. But before Maxwell could come to terms with his current situation, John approached him faster than the projectiles and he threw a variety of kicks and punches some moves Maxwell didn't know that the human body could do, causing Maxwell to go on the defensive. He evades all John's attacks with ease because of his slight frame and remarkable agility and reaction time.As the fight goes on, Maxwell looks for an open and tries to roundhouse kick John in the rib cage, which was rejected as John caught Maxwell's foot and launched him into a boulder. As Maxwell tries to recover himse
"Maxwell," John called out to Maxwell as he leave. Maxwell turned to face John. "Go to the center of the forest. There is an old tree stump. There, I left something for you." remarked John. "For me?" replied Maxwell. "Yes, I think you will need it," remarked John. "Thank you," replied Maxwell as he left. I Maxwell reached the center of the forest. He saw the stump with something wrapped in cloth on top of it. Maxwell picked up the item and unwrapped it. It was a sword, a unique one at that. The blade of the sword was black and silver. Curved in design, with the base of the blade being its widest point as it narrows down to the tip of the blade.The handle of the sword was iron with gold wrapped around it. The gold had animals engraved in it. Maxwell only recognized the animals from the stories John told him about his homeland. He can recognize the lion, elephant, and zebra. As Maxwell examined the sword, he saw a piece of paper attached to it. Opening the paper, he saw a note
As their climactic battle ends, the man with backs turns to each other, awaiting the results of their last clash. The air stood still as the women and children surrounding them looked on in anticipation, hoping but yet still fearing the final out-coming. A sudden burst of blood jets off Kiyoshi's shoulder with the two men standing still as a huge slash appears. The slash is long as it runs down Kiyoshi's shoulder to the lower part of his chest, with parts of his bond showing because of the depth of the cut. As Kiyoshi bleeds on the ground, holding his own to his sword with one hand, Maxwell laughs monstrously, claiming his victory, as he continues to laugh a sudden and sharp pain in his midsection takes him and he too drops to his knees. He grabs onto his midsection and realized his hands were wet. Looking at them, he saw blood confirming he was indeed cut as well. With the pain intensive, Maxwell realized the cut was getting bigger and that he needed to hold it together to
As Kiyoshi walks through the town once more, to take his leave. He sees one of the slave traders in a corner with one girl they have captive. The slave trader curses and argues as he claimed the girl was unsellable and that he was losing money because of her. He chokes the girl and even though her blue hair was blocking her eyes, Kiyoshi could tell she was terrified. In a flash and with blinding rage and fury, Kiyoshi cuts off the trader's arm causing it to hang around the girl's neck like a pendent as his hand was still around her neck. Kiyoshi removes the arm from the girl's neck and throws it on the ground. He signals to the girl to run, and she takes off. With the rest of his arm bleed the slave trader crawls on the road trying to meet the others. Kiyoshi walks over to the trader, pressing down on the trader's chest with his foot and slits his throat. As the trader bleeds out on the ground, the other slave traders took notice and began gathering their weapons to attack. With his
A few weeks later, Kiyoshi arrives in a new town called Temirchi. A town that is renowned for the amazing blacksmiths that it had produced over the centuries. But for now, it is home to Kiyoshi's new mission. As Kiyoshi follows the directions given to him by Sairon, he can see that the town is filled with old, outdated but very well-kept buildings and houses, which could be at least two centuries old, Islamic-style architects. Smoke fills the air as blacksmiths work on their craft from every corner and every other building. As Kiyoshi continues on he can see fishing boats returning to dock from the Qora Dengiz sea with rough and dark waters pushing the small vessels around. The atmosphere of the town is quiet with no one in sight, which could be because Kiyoshi is passing through the back alleyway of the town, avoiding major roadways as requested by the client.As he walks through the back passageways, he notices a red flag with a black and yellow dragon circling the sun. "Wh
Within the depths of sleep, Kiyoshi begins having the same dream he had in the cave. Him playing by the river bank until he is being bullied and attacked by a group of boys. His eyes turn a demonic red and right before the day sky turns dark, he awakes from his nightmare. Cold sweating and breathing heavy Kiyoshi was too bothered to notice the breakfast laying next to him in bed. Next to him was flatbread and cream with honey-infused hot tea and on the side were dried fruits. Kiyoshi confused pondered who left food for him when Ashri walked in. "Hope I didn't disturb you, just wanted to make sure you got the breakfast I left you," remarked Ashri. "You made this for me?" asked Kiyoshi. "I sure did!" replied Ashri, excited and with a dazzling look in her eyes. "Looks like someone has a girlfriend," giggled Lilly. "Shut it" whispered Kiyoshi. "What" replied Ashri. "Oh, nothing, I was saying it looks beautiful and thank you," replied Kiyoshi to a confused Ashri. "Your most welcome," rep
As the two beings stared at each other, Kiyoshi repeated his statement. "What do you want, Devivial?". The demon on the throne smiled and replied, "Nothing". "It's always something with you, demon. Just split it the fuck out already so I can be on my way." Replied Kiyoshi annoyed by Devivial, who is clearly playing around. "You're always so mad when we speak, but to answer your question, I realized you have a deep affection for that human girl. What was her name? Oh yes Ashri,". replied Devivial with a devilish grin. "And what if I do? How does that concern you demon". replied Kiyoshi, who was annoyed by the entire conversation. "I was just thinking that maybe you want my help," proclaimed Devivial. "Your Help?" asked Kiyoshi confused. "Why will I want your help, demon?" Devivial smiled. "You can use my powers or even set me free and we will make quick work of that stronghold and keep Ashri safe. Isn't that what you want Kiyoshi," remarked Devivial. Kiyoshi, who became angry, replie
As the figure comes down the stairway, Kiyoshi observes the person who attacked him previously with such a power attack. The figure turns out to be a beautiful woman in her early twenties of Asian descent. Her long blackish-purple hair was pulled into a ponytail with a white ribbon. Her skin was clean and flawless and the sunlight reflected perfectly off her skin. Her eyes were a sapphire blue that captivated the young samurai in their beauty, even if it was just for a moment. A cute round nose and a set of full lips that were covered in black lipstick complimented her beautiful eyes.She wore a long white kimono with white socks and sandals. In her left hand was a spear with a wooden stick and a large triangle tip. At the button of the spear tip were five feathers tied with string, two black and three white, all with a small coconut-like fruit that shook as she came down the step.As she came down the stairway, all the monks gathered themselves on opposite sides of the stairway and b
Several days later, as Kiyoshi nears his destination, he seems to get opposition from Lilly, Tyrook, and Kivuli as to the mission destination."Kiyo, are you sure you heard Sairon correctly as to where this mission is taking place," Lilly asked with a concerned tone of voice, to which Kiyoshi replied yes the northern light temple you were there when he said it. You all were there stop acting like we are not going the correct way."I knew it, that bastard Sairon is sending Kiyoshi to his death. After years of using the kid now he sends him to the northern light temple to die that bastard and the poor kid is going all with it clueless to the painful end that is about to meet him."Tyrook shouted while also cursing Sairon's name in an unknown demonic tongue."I hope you're not trying to put a dark spell on my master Tyrook. And relax master Sairon will never do anything to put me in harm's way the fact that the mission is located in the northern light temple just amplifies how serious it
With the horde of the undead slowly coming towards them. Kiyoshi approached Jin seemed too overwhelmed by the experience dropping to his knees and placing his swords on the ground."Are you ok? One minute you seem ready for battle now you looked defeated." Kiyoshi remarked looking down at Jin and waiting for him to reply."No am not. I knew these men. I watched them die and could do anything to save them. Now you wanted me to kill them again that bitch I will never forgive her for this. But I just can't kill them a second time my guilt wouldn't let me. Please understand." Jin replied as tears streamed from his eyes."Don't you worry I will finish this in seconds just sit there and watch." Shouted Kiyoshi as his sword suddenly was set ablaze, to the shock and disbelief of Jin.With lightning speed, Kiyoshi rushed toward the horde."What move are you going use on them?" Lilly asked. "The Doragonfenikkusuu~orutsu." Kiyoshi replied he cut through the horde of the undead in a serpent-like
"Am not going to ask you again, why did you kill those people?", Kiyoshi asked enraged and Deliah stood there in silence."I was going to let you live but your too smart for your own good," Deliah whispered before attacking Kiyoshi and slashing a huge hole in his chest before Kiyoshi could react properly. As Kiyoshi lay on the ground bleeding deeply from the hole in his chest Deliah transformed in front of him from a cute little to girl a deadly woman as she licked Kiyoshi's blood from her hands. As she transformed her hair grew longer and nine white fox tails with golden tips emerged from her back, she laughed as Kiyoshi gasped for air." Normal I would let my prey die slowly and painfully, it's more fun that way", Deliah giggled. " But like I said before I was planning on letting you live but you just had to be too smart for your own good so I will make your death quick since you were such a gentleman to me." Deliah continued as she made her way to Kiyoshi with her tails pointed at
The nightmares soon turned into night terrors as the vivid pictures of a young Kiyoshi being bullied by young boys by the river grew sharper and sharper inside Kiyoshi's head. Suddenly creepy hands appear out of the depths of the river but unlike the past nightmares, the identities of the entities behind the hands were finally revealed. Pure black humanoid creatures emerged out of the water. The creatures resemble Kivuli as they were faceless and pure black in color. But unlike Kivulo who was made out of shadows, these creatures were made of a thick black fluid that dripped off of them.They also had three horns on their heads and bat-like wings on their bats and a pair of smaller wings on their heels as well as a long dragon-like tail. Before too long there were at least one hundred of them as they quickly emerged out of the water. The creatures turned to Kiyoshi before turning to the boys that were bullying him, who were now frozen in fear by the monsters in front of them. Before ei
A few days later Kiyoshi could be found resting under a large maple tree in the middle of a savannah around by forest. Smiling while listening to the various birds sings in the branches above him. When suddenly a loud commotion could be heard and as the noises grew closer Kiyoshi could make out the sound of a little girl crying and begging for help.Hearing the desperate cries of a little girl Kiyoshi stands to his feet and looks around for the source of the commotion. Then all of a sudden an ominous silence filled the air before something flew out of the bushes. Out of the blue two people ran out one was a little girl with blood running down her right arm and the next was a man with two blood-stained swords.The man who was clearly chasing the girl had reddish-orange hair with complimented his light green eyes. He wore and torn-up brown and black kimono. As he chased the little swinging his sword with usual hatred and killing intent, especially since his target was a little girl.His
The man slowly walked among the other peacemakers before standing in front of them with his back against them and his eyes fixed on Kiyoshi. He stood out from the rest of the peacemakers. Besides his unique armor, he was incredibly gorgeous. With his spiky long dark brown hair and light green eyes complimented by flawless skin and a perfect smile gave him the appearance of a lead singer in a K-pop band than a commander in an army. "Dear people of this town we the peacemakers how come to free you from the curse of No man's land at least. But we now realize a greater threat here among you all." The man remarked as he gently rub his hands on his flawless face before continuing. "You there with the child, is the blood samurai holding you and your kid hostage? That fiend!" The man remarked as both Bella and Leon look and at Kiyoshi terrified of the situation that they are in. But before either Bella or Leon could answer the man Kiyoshi drew his sword and swung it at Leon cutting him on h
"Otto, are you ok?" Kiyoshi asked relieved that Otto had returned to help him."Forget about me am already dead now its time to attack him, so if you have a powerful attack do It now." Shouted Otto as the creature continued trashing about in pain.Without hesitation, Kiyoshi leaped into action and attacked the creature. Using a smooth spiral attack which cut the creature in between the creature's plates in its armor and creating a black vortex of flames as he did it. As Kiyoshi stood next to Otto they notice that several of the creature's armored plates fell off but the damage that Kiyoshi had done to it wasn't enough to seriously injure it. Noticing this Kiyoshi immediately launched an attack but it was too late the creature had already gained back its eyesight and was on the warpath. Enrage the creature began destroying everything around him in an attempt to kill both Kiyoshi and Otto for what they had done to it. Both in its past life and now that it is undead. As both Kiyoshi a
"The general? Why is the general coming and why is he a gigantic monster?" Kiyoshi asked as the creature closed in on them, smashing and moving trees as come."He is looking for me. Since we have been here, the general has been looking for me and I don't know why he transformed since he is the only person that did inside here, but what I do know is that it is me he is after." Remarked Otto as both he and Kiyoshi prepare themselves for battle by hiding Leon under the roots of the massive oak tree."He must want revenge since you are the one that killed him". Laughed Kiyoshi as he placed his menpo back on his face."Even in death he is blood cra", but Otto didn't get to finish his sentence as a huge creature hang above them.Both Kiyoshi and Otto moved to higher grounds to observe the creature as well as moved the battle away from Leon. When the two arrived, they stood in shock. The creature above them was a giant centipede at least four hundred feet in length.The massive creature had