It was a nice day in the village of the Ember. The students all gathered to the food stand to meet their teacher. They were particularly excited today as it was time for the test, the time to see who of them were actually worthy of being a young warrior and future protector of the nations.
Satoru, a 13 year old boy with hair as white as snow, didn't bother going to it. He was sure that no matter how much he tried that he couldn't win. He was seen as his clan's failure due to him not inheriting the Eyes of the Demon like every other member.
The teacher of the students arrived, cheerful, and took them all with him.
Satoru, on the other hand, returned back to the school facility, entered the chilly, empty classroom and sat down.
For what seemed a moment to him, he closed his eyes as he put his head on the table and fell asleep.
About an hour has passed since he woke up and everyone was entering the classroom, all of the other students, none of which he is friends with. He didn't communicate much with anyone outside of his half-brother.
"The winners of the Qualification test are Rai and Aza! And with that out of the way, you all will be assigned your team, your unit."
Satoru, with a sleepy look on his face yawned. As he heard his name being called out, his eyes widened.
"Satoru, you will be in Nova and Zankoku's unit."
He sighed as he looked out through the window and saw the other teacher entering the facility. A moment later, a knock was heard on the classroom door. The door was opened as a person dressed in pure black and wearing a black mask, walked into the classroom. Before anyone could say anything, the teacher began speaking.
"Nova, Zankoku and Satoru. My name is Primal and I will be your Unit's leader until you graduate to the higher rank. I even have an assignment for you as your first mission of this unit. Come with me." said the just arrived teacher. "I have no intention of placing you behind books and at tables to learn so get a move on."
All of them got up from their seats and left the classroom, following the teacher. Before they even left the school facility, the teacher began explaining their mission, whilst still continuing on guiding them to it's location.
"The task is simple. A threat has been spotted near Ember. His real name is Tomiji and he is not to be underestimated. Only be sure not to look into his eyes as he can change the reality you each see with those eyes of his."
"Sensei Primal, there's more to it, isn't it?" Asked the young Zankoku
"Of course... Once we kill him, be sure to look for a shard. It should be light blue. You can't miss it." answered Primal to his question.
No one had said a word as they continued on walking towards the location of Tomiji. The closer they got, the more divine power they sensed as they felt it warp to a darker one, one filled with evil and spiteful anger. The sky started to change into a darker color. The clouds were much darker, as the sun from earlier could not be seen at all.
In the open area of the wild forest they had passed, they saw Tomiji. He has long black hair with a purplish tint tied into a bun, black eyes, and pale skin. He wears a purple mask on the side of his head, a brown strap, gray clothes, a purple hakama with a lavender rope holding it to the waist, and a plain black cloak over his upper body.
Tomiji faced them, slowly drawing his black blade as he spoke "Surprising that it took this long for you to locate me, Karoi. It's been what, 13 years?"
"Who's Karoi?" asked Nova in confusion, turning towards his teacher.
Primal's eyes began to fill with anger as he heard that name.
"No one... He's a puppet to a much larger story, a puppet who soon will have his strings cut."
Primal revealed his Spear weapon, as he was getting in a fighting stance. The students, after this sight, took one as well. Nova, whom was a prodigy, placed his hand out in front of himself, pointing with the palm at Tomiji.
For a mere moment, nothing happened. It was so quiet that the leaves could be heard whilst they were falling and the whistling of the wind itself.
All of a sudden, the ground started to rumble from underneath Tomiji. He was confused, but figured that it must have been an attack.
One which he hadn't seen much before. Giant trees the length of 90.7meters emerged from the ground, automatically targeting Tomiji. [Speed : Subsonic, 32.2m/s]
Tomiji focused on cutting through them with his blade - Heaven Blade. It's a blade that's a black broad and flat sword that resembles a large non-folding fan.
Whilst Tomiji was distracted, Zankoku attempted to use his speed seeing as he's quite fast for his age .
[Name : Zankoku]
[Age : 12]
[Max Speed : Subsonic (84.3m/s)]
In Satoru's eyes, in the next blink, Zankoku vanished infront of him and appeared behind Tomiji, he formed a knife hand and went to chop his neck though before his attack even connected, their opponent had ducked below it and punched him in the face with his fist. Zankoku was sent flying into a tree, hitting it with his back and the rear side of his head.
[Name : Tomiji ???]
[Affiliation : Rogue, Hunter]
[Physical Strength : Multi city block]
Blood started to drip from his mouth, and he couldn't move after getting hit, meaning that he remained on the floor.
The teacher, Primal, decided to step into the fight himself. The moment Tomiji was for a second on the floor, he punched the ground and from it was lightning [Speed : Supersonic (600m/s)] headed towards him. It hit him, stunning him greatly and electrocuting him, rendering his abilities both divine and physical useless whilst getting shocked.
A large explosion then occurred from him, as a ball of black flames was there instead of him. Not even a second passing by, sensei Primal and Satoru witnessed Nova falling, to what it seemed like, asleep onto the floor.
"Don't look into his eyes, Satoru!" Yelled sensei Primal to Satoru who was literally standing 3 feet away from him.
In that moment, Primal saw a slight bit of movement behind the bushes, and instantly raised his arm up and his palm pointed towards the sky. Tomiji, appeared out of the bushes and was headed straight for Primal, and judging by his form, he was going for a head slice.
Being able to quickly close the distance with himself and sensei Primal, neither of them had the opening to cast an ability so they went in for hand-to-hand combat with sensei Primal successfully ducking under the slice aimed at his head and delivering a well calculated and placed uppercut to his chin, even knocking him back and making him tumble, trying to uphold his balance.
Getting this opening, Satoru went in to strike him down from the back and sensei Primal from the front, yet before being able to, the black flame ball exploded as he had gotten out of there and stood on the trees.
Enveloping himself with the demon eyes' special samurai spirit, he began swinging and unleashing energy slices towards them, forcing sensei Primal to evade them. The missed slices easily destroyed multiple trees from behind them, having them all run around evading them.
Seeing no end to them, sensei Primal performed what seemed a high pitched whistle and the samurai spirit was entirely cracked by what appeared to be 5 raging bulls crashing into him full force.
With that being an issue, Tomiji quickly sliced through them, but sensei Primal appeared from behind him onto the tree, grabbing him in a suplex and perpetually suplexing him into the floor from the large tree, which even left a small crater and cracks in the grass floor.
The leaves from the tree began to fall down as sensei Primal lifted his hand up and pointed it at the air.
Out of Primal's hand a lightning beam was sent out into the sky and a millisecond later a lightning bolt that rained down at him and hit Tomiji, stunning and electrocuting him more than the previous one, even causing his flesh to become a bit deformed and burnt.
Without any time wasted, Satoru conjured 3 small white lightning bolts the size of knives and placed them between his fingers. He threw them at Tomiji at a moderately fast pace which true, is still able to be perceived by a vast majority as they're not faster than the eye, though that's not their main intention.
Due to their slowness, Tomiji managed to block them in the state he was in.
The moment he blocked them, and the moment they vanished, out from behind him Satoru appeared and drew his Tanto weapon from the small sheathe on his back.
Without any wasted second, he stabbed the blade through the back of Tomiji, aiming for the heart, hitting it and it killing him instantly.
[The tanto has a tan-colored scabbard and blue handle, it rests diagonally on Satoru's back.]