A young girl standing by a creekside breathing in the fresh air and feeling the cool breeze that caresses her face. The sound of the creek flowing gently in the background was soothing to her mind as she stood there by herself gazing at the vast expanse of the night sky. Her silver hair swayed lightly in the wind as her scarlet eyes glimmerd with the reflection of the stars.
The peaceful moment was soon interrupted by a distant scream, she looked back only to think nothing of it. Soon a bright gaze dawned on her. She walks over on top of a hill looking above until she gains a frightened look, smoke and fire was noticed at the nearby village she lived in the whole village was burning.
'No,' She thought to herself as the luminance of the fire reflected off her eyes. She began to run toward her village, she continues running and running until she finally makes it.
'Ruyu village'
The village in nothing but hellish flames.
She hears the villagers running screaming in terror as people with swords cut them down.
A villager screams out as he gets stabbed in the throat.
"No please!"
Splinch!
"Heuk! k,kkkyyyyaaahhk!"
The man that stabbed the villager takes the sword out of the villagers throat and swings his sword out flicking the blood off.
"Heh, What a pitiful death!"
The young girl hides behind a small house up in flames and she continues to walk quietly until she was noticed by one of the attackers.
"Heheh! Found youuuu!"
The attacker ran at immense speeds toward the girl swinging his sword at her she jumped out of the way in time. The attacker angered.
"I won't miss this time!"
To evade the attacker's strikes, the girl circled around him, keeping a safe distance. She knew that she had to be careful, as even while retreating, the attacker continued to lunge forward trying to pierce her in one blow.
He keeps swinging aggressively, displaying his deadly intent of harming her. She remained alert, watching for any opening allowing her to strike back.
'I'm going to need to act quickly if I want to live'
As the attacker lunged forward again, she twisted to the side dodging the strike, and she saw an opportunity to strike back. She steps forward with lighting-quick reflexes hitting the sword out of the attackers hand.
The attacker stumbles back shocked. The girl continues forward with an upright swift kick to his head disorienting him. The attacker gained his composure. His eyes deeply snared.
"You're f*cking done you b*tch!"
"Hmpft"
The attacker lunged once again. The girl was ready, swiftly dodging and hitting him with a powerful counter-attack to the jaw.
The attacker staggered backward onto the ground dazed and vulnerable for a finishing blow, the girl picks up the sword he dropped, and walks toward the attacker.
The attackers eyes widened which he knew it was near his end.
"No please! I'll leave I SWEAR! SPARE ME!"
She begins to move closer as the chilling steel blade glistened in the moonlight, she swung up.
SWOOSH!
"STOP PLEASE, NO!!!"
SPLINCH!
The blade stabbing him right between his eyes.
She stares down coldy, although it was her first kill.
"You always get what's coming to you."
She led out a deep sigh, and as she remembered she has to get to her family. She takes the sword out of the attackers head and ran towards her home.
As she looked around there was 100s of attackers, she wondered who would do such a thing to a small time village as this. There was nothing much to gain out of this attack, they were just hopeless village in a remote area. Far from the big sects and cities.
She keeps running in the blissful flames ready to kill any attacker who wishes to get in her way. She finally makes it finding her father fighting the attackers off.
He quickly notices her.
"Mizuki! Are you alright! Quick find a place to hide!"
"But dad-"
As the attackers hurriedly ganged up on him clashing swords with her father.
"NN-NOW! IT'S DANGEROUS OUT HERE!"
Mizuki follows her father's orders and runs to find a place to hide.
Mizuki's father grinned and quickly fended off the rest of the attackers in one swing, tearing their body into pieces.
Slice! Slice! Slice!
Assuming a distinctive posture, his gaze intensifies and his weapons poised, poised to take down any threat in his way. The strength of his presence overwhelming, almost as if his energy exerts a force of gravity crushing anyone opposing him.
But an even greater force arises one so deep it's like everything is engulfed in an eternal darkness. Then a woman's voice is heard.
"Miyamoto Bennosuke! I'm so glad to see you again, I've been looking forever."
Bennosuke stared up at the sky to see a figure shining so bright the night sky is nowhere to be seen. He frowned as he recognized this presence.
"I should've known it was you Izanami. What are you doing here?, I settled ties with you long ago."
As the figure slowly descends onto the ground and the light fading slowly. A beautiful woman appears forth, long black hair, glistening skin, with calm dark brown eyes.
"Tsk, you're still putting up that little facade Izanami, show the people how you really look."
"Silence."
As her voice echos loudly.
"Do You know why I'm here Bennosuke? I don't think you have any clue as a matter of fact. The Order of Eternal Night has officially gave direct orders in which it requires to Eterminate any loose ends and anything that becomes a problem."
Bennosuke with a confused look on his face.
"But, I promised to keep my mouth shut when I left the order!"
Izanami grins with a bright look on her face, her eyes wonder and notice a presence nearby.
"I'm sure we killed everyone here, seems there was a little rodent left."
Izanami walks toward the presence and Bennosuke notices who it is.
'Oh sh*t Mizuki!'
Bennosuke unsheaths his sword at light speeds and stops Izanami by putting a blade to her neck.
SHING!
Izanami with a shocked expression on her face glared at the blade. She chuckled.
"And what do you think you're doing? Move the blade."
Bennosuke not budging in the slightest.
"I can't that's my daughter you're trying to kill."
She moves the blade from her neck and speaks.
"The little peacocker has a daughter quite interesting so you really did get soft after you left the order. Well I can give you two choices, you watch her die and you die next or she watches you die and she dies next."
Bennosuke stared with malice, infuriated by her arrogance.
"And what makes you think you're killing any of us?"
Izanami replied back, "Cmon now we both know if we both clash swords I would win in an instant, that's the difference in power Bennosuke. Now pick."
Bennosuke not ready to back down in defending his only daughter gets in his stance ready to fight. With determination in his eyes.
Izanami 'tsks'
"Then so be it, you're going to die anyway."
Bennosuke, now on high alert. He sees a flash of silver as Izanami unsheats her sword and blinks to the right cutting his right cheek open with a clean cut.
SLICE!
Despite his skills, Bennosuke is taken aback by the attack. He quickly regains his composure and swings his sword towards Izanamis neck in retaliation, but she catches the sword with her bare fingers and kicks Bennosuke down.
He quickly gets up and gains distance. He grins and speaks.
"Seems like you've gotten better within those few years."
Izanami stares at Bennosuke with a disgusted look on her face.
"I can't say the same for you, you've gotten softer and weaker, if it were many years ago we've would've been on par but what a pity."
Izanami charges at Bennosuke with great speed and engages him in a fierce sword fight. The sound of metal clashing echoes through the air.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Bennosuke struggles to hold his ground as Izanami relentlessly pushes him back with each strike, their swords clash repeatedly creating a dazzling of sparks that illuminates the battlefield.
"BENNOSUKE IT'S TIME TO END THIS!"
Bennosuke knows he's in trouble, he's faced many opponents but no one has been formidable as Izanami one of the 8 strongest members in the order.
He grits his teeth as he decides to go on the offense, he lunges forward aiming for Izanamis chest, but she disappeared in a instant its like she evaporated into thin air.
Bennosuke searches around for any sign of her. As soon as he notices her presences from behind he gets impaled in the chest, but he returns the favor. Before he gets impaled he threw his sword up using his telekinesis ability and drives the sword into her neck. [T.L.The telekinesis will be explained later it will all make sense]
SWOOSH! SPLINCH!
She chokes on her blood and tries to talk, "KEUK! W-W-Well played Bennosuke well played, but remember this, the order won't stop with just yo-u-uu they will come for everything."
.....
As Bennosuke falls to the ground, he sees her body crumble to the floor, lifeless. He clutches his wound, gasping for air as he struggles to stay conscious. Mizuki runs over.
"Dad! Dad! Stay with me please!"
Mizuki puts pressure on his wound, as the blood clogs his lungs and he can hardly speak he says one final thing. He grabs Mizuki's face.
"B-Become, cough cough, be-tter than I ever was Mizuki, m-m-make your own path and follow it through."
As Bennosuke takes his last breath he reflects on the mistakes he made like joining The Order Of Eternal Night. He realizes his stubbornness and pride brought him nothing but pain and suffering but despite the pain he wants to cherish this last moment with his daughter.
Mizuki starts to tear up as she realizes this is her final moments with her father.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! DAD GET UP RIGHT F*CKING NOW YOU CANT DIE ON ME YET!"
Bennosuke eyes close and his heart beat gets slower and slower until it stops. As his body lays motionless on the ground, a peaceful expression spreads across his face.
"Dad! Wake up! Wake up!"
Mizuki checks his heart beat but theres nothing. She begins to fall apart and scream out.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
"SOMEBODY HELP! PLEASE!"
Mizuki eventually realizes everyone is gone, pools of blood filled the streets, bodies of people she once knew laying lifeless, and people she loved gone.
She lies on the ground soulless for the rest of the night. When day break hits sounds of people were heard. Mizuki immediately prances up to find people with weapons. She thought it was another attack by the order.
A man dressed in a blue kimono, hair tied back into a ponytail and tan skin suprised by the reaction approaches her.
"No need to worry we're not here to hurt you we're from the Celestial sword sect, we're here to help."
Mizuki not convinced picks up a blade off the ground and takes a distinguished stance, nothing but emotions driving her at the current moment.
Mizuki replied, "Turn back unless you want to die."
The man and his subordinates laughed hysterically.
"I don't think you could hurt me, maybe this will help. I'm yuta yamamoto of the Celestial sword sect, True Master rank. You've probably heard of me before."
Mizuki eager to cut his throat is still not convinced, Mizuki gets closer and lunges toward him. Yuta dodges with ease, Mizuki fakes a downward slash and steps back for a boost to thrust toward him. He's caught by surprise and has to block with his hand shattering the blade.
"You're pretty good kid, where'd you learn that?"
Mizuki replied, "My father."
Yuta has a confused look, "Your father? Then where is he?"
"He's dead."
Yuta shocked by the response, "Sorry about that, but are you finally willing to listen?"
Mizuki nods.
"Okay then, first thing is uh, there's nothing left here in this village and I kinda like you so why don't you come back with us to the Celestial sword sect."
Mizuki replied, "I don't want to, I have something to finish."
Yuta replied with a peculiar look on his face.
"Oh and what's that?"
"I have to destroy The Order of Eternal Night."
Yuta's face starts to tenses up trying not to laugh."That's no easy feat kid, at your current strength you can barely defeat an expert. How about this deal if you come with us I will offer to train and mold you into something that can rival the order. How about it?"
Mizuki ponders on what she should do since she just only met the guy, she doesn't know who to trust right now after all that happened. She thinks for a while and finally works up an answer.
"Okay, but on one condition forget rivaling the order I want to dominate them, can you make that happen yuta sir?"
Yuta smiles ear to ear, "you got yourself a deal!"
"Then let's go."