Take One (hope you guys like it)
-STORY START-
"Onii-chan, get uuuupppp", said Hina, my ever loving, throwrocksatyourheadifyourdon'tobeyher, beautiful little sister "mom's making breeeakfaaast"
Now there's something that can get me out of bed,
"Why didn't you say that sooner", I replied
"hungry onii-chan", she said,
"What?, you think it's easy to sleep as long as I can?", I told her, "a boy's gonna get hungry eventually", I said while patting her teeny little head,
"buuuttt, onii-chan, mom said you're old enough to cook for yourself", she said, calling me out on the fact that I'm a whole fifteen year old boy,
"Yes I am and yes I can" I replied,
"Then why don't you?", she asked
"Simple, I don't wanna", I told her smiling, "I can cook a fancy meal for everyone in the house, but I don't wanna, so let's go and get breakfast, shall we?", I asked,
"Yay, breakfast!", was her response,
So after shooing her out, I got dressed in my signature attire: a simple baggy white shirt with my favorite black baggy pants that have some elastic at the end of the legs to make it look all puffy at the ends and to finish it off, a black jacket yeah I'm a monochrome guy, I'm also 6 feet and nonchalant *wink*
in contrast, my eyes were (as always) a light shade of blue, "kinda like the sky", mother once told me, which went perfectly with my white hair, which I made dreadlocks out off and tied to the back of my head with a black band.
After putting on my 'fit for a king attire ', I decided it was time to grace my family members with my presence
"Good morning to all souls here!",
"You're late for breakfast", replied mom, "any later, and Hina here would have munched away your breakfast",
"She wouldn't dare commit such an atrocity against her beloved onii-chan, now would she?", I said as I turned to behold a horror too great; for my sister was in the process of devouring my steamy salvation from hunger aka steamed buns, so in an act of beautiful grace, I lunged at her and in an instant I had closed the gap between us, and in a swift swipe of my hand, I had reclaimed my tender prize alongside the remaining six opposite her.
"Onii-chaaaaannn!", she cried, "sharing is caring",
"And that's why I don't care", I retorted before stuffing two steamy buns in my mouth, "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH", I screamed in a definitely masculine way, as I always do,
"HAHAHAHAHA, onii-chan screams like a girl", I most certainly do not,
"are you alright my boy?", asked my Dad,
"Yeah, I'm fine, just burnt my tongue a little", I replied
"That's good to hear, you know you really shouldn't inhale hot food like that ", he said,
"Yeah, I know but...… wait, inhale?!", I asked,
"Of course, what else could possibly be used to describe the way yjou eat?",
"uuumm, I don't know EATING!", I suggested,
"No, of course not, such would imply that you are eating like the rest of civilized society", he retorted, setting his grey eyes once again on the paper he was reading,
"Sure, call your own son uncivilized why don't ya" I mumbled,
"Hmm?, you say something?", he asked,
"Nope, just inhaling ", I retorted, and with that he once again set his eyes on his paper.
"HEY MOM!", my sister yelled,
"What?", my mother responded from the kitchen,
"I wanna get me some new clothes", she said,
"Why?, your clothes are still pretty new", and it truly wasn't that long since she got them, they had been a gift from my mom on her last birthday, and really wasn't a bad look too, her regular clothes just consisted of the pink haori that had little white triangles on it and another pink kimono with black spots, all of which complimented her black eyes that always seem to shine any time she had one of those mischievous little thoughts of hers, and with tan skin, long-flowing jet black hair and a mouth that can make any grown ass man cry she was a perfect little copy of my mother, almost like those little dolls that have smaller dolls in them, hehehe,
"onii-chan, what you thinkin' about?", my sister asks after seeing me doing a "great job" of hiding my laughter,
"~~nothing~~" (sing-song voice; I'll be doing that a lot),
"mom, oni-chan is being weird again",
YOU'RE one to talk, you little menace to society,
Looking over to my Dad, I see that his hair is looking grey-er than usual, isn't it funny "Haiiro" Tamashi, Haiiro literally means grey, which according to grandma (bless her soul) was his hair color for the day he was born, come to think about it odd hair colors in males seems to run in our family, :gramps (also bless his soul) had red hair, Dad has grey hair, I have white, gramps even told me someone had spiky pink hair, but he also had black on the sides, but the females just have the same long flowing jet-black hair, booriinngg, anyways, I'm sure he's fine, being a letter writer looks like it can take a lot out of ya: I mean try you translating 100 letters a day, for a village were 90% of people don't even know what a fucking adjective is, sooo…, when they realized that my Dad and mom were one of the only scholars in here they decided to make them letter writers or some shit title like that, and due to the fact that they were both scholars, there was absolutely no way my sister and I will be speaking vulgar or incorrectly (if you do you'll probably catch a boot to the head if you're lucky, and if fate wants to fuck with you, you could get projectiles ranging from: an inch thick vase, rolling pin, maybe even the whole chop block if you're lucky, all courtesy of my loving, beautiful, loving, retired scholar, fucking kung fu specialist mother: Mei Tamashi)
I managed to regain focus just as my mom finished her lecture on saving money and some other shite like that, then telling me to go get some of the ingredients for lunch , thankful for the reason for getting out of the house, I took off to the grocery, saying hellos, greeting old guys, etc, I made it to the particular spot an orphan with some sickness or the other usually sat, I think I consider her a friend cuz, she and I usually chat a lot as I'm making my regular grocery runs, the rest of my fam not so much; they keep saying the disease could be contagious, but I feel quite fine, cute girl too that Mina was, neck length purple hair, with the most shiny pink eyes you've seen, and a smile you'll always wanna see, but anyone could tell that with each passing day, her shine dulled more and more, maybe, she died, hope it wasn't a painful death, rest in peace Mina), anyways, off to the grocer a boys gotta eat.
After a brief chat with the grocer, (that guy's always saying some shit about buying wisteria for protection against demons), I walk home with lunch and dinner in hand, feeling quite sad for my friend (I am sure some food'll cheer me up, it always does), I make my way home, say some goodbyes, greet old guys(again), submit the ingredients and wait(for lunch of course).
After dinner, some guy knocks at the door, while He and Dad are talking about what ever, I get a good look at the guy, he had a sword, and was dressed in a weird all black outfit: it was in a way gakuran-ish but it had a military like look, and his trousers were for whatever ungodly reason tucked in his boots, then for some reason Dad allowed this complete stranger enter our home and announced he was staying the night, and asked mom to get him some food, annoyed by my father's out of character action, I decided to get some early sleep, so I said goodnights to everyone (except the stranger of course), and retired to my chambers for glorious slumberous rest.
As I was drifting up into the land of dreams, my journey was cut short by a scream from my mother, that bastard's probably trying to rape my mom!, so I burst out of my room and ran towards where the scream came from, in my head I had already made a plan of attack against the bastard, as I reached the door ready to pounce, my heart began racing, not out of anger anymore but, out of fear, for in front of me stood the weirdly dressed stranger, missing an arm, and barely being able to lean on his weapon, with two hideous creatures in front of him, One had sickly grey skin, a horn, and was standing taller than any man should, almost touching the ceiling of our 2.13 metres(7') high ceiling, that's almost a foot taller than I am, with hands almost as long as his body, the other one was way shorter than the first, one I could boldly say I am taller than you, he seemed to crouch down and was eating something, probably the man's arm, while I was thinking of how I would assist the stranger in killing these things, I noticed a blur of movement at the side of my eye, instinctively, I brought my arms up to block the incoming blow, what I didn't think about, was just how much force the blow carried, it sent me flying across the room, straight into the kitchen, alerting everyone and thing of my presence, and as the shorter thing reared its head to get a clearer look at me, the light had finally shone on what it was actually eating, it seemed a short girls' torso, Almost like..., No, there's no way that's my sister, it's probably some girl he picked up from the village, there's no way it's her,
Then I saw it.
As the thing that bitch slapped me across the room was munching on the stranger who was caught off-guard and the tall one drew near,
I saw it;
My little sister's head rolled out of the short one's arms, eyes dull, lifeless and open, staring into my very soul, my loving mother's chewed out, missing an arm, eye, and leg lifeless corpse, my fun, quirky, always had the answer father, at the corner of the room looking barely recognizable due to all the being feed on, even the stranger staring into my eyes, using his last breaths to mumble something incorrigible to me as the demon thing devours him,
"H-h-how... C-c-c-could you..",
"Huh?, you'll have to speak louder brat.", said the short one, as if he didn't just take the lives of three people!, all my loved ones!, people who gave birth to me!, raised me!, flashbacks of my parents teaching me through my childhood filled my head, of my sister and I having laughs and playing pranks on our Dad, Mom scolding us for doing so, all those memories, they all reinforced my resolve to end these bastards right here and now.
"I fucking said", I replied with more clarity than I have ever had, "HOW COULD YOOUUUU!", and with the two knives I had taken from being tossed to the kitchen while they were distracted, I charged straight at the nearest demon thing; the long one.
As it reared its fist at me, preparing for a devastating haymaker, the one at the door strangely ordered it not to touch me, obviously confused by the order, he had dropped his guard ever so slightly, and for me, slightly was more than enough, after ducking it's punch, I had gotten into the perfect position to land a fatal blow, with a shout, I reared my arm back, and using all the strength I could spare, I lunged forward an stabbed it straight into the heart,
"AAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!", it screamed while doubling back with my blade still in its chest and blood seeping from its mouth to tried and lunge at me but, in my frenzy, I spun round it as it tried to grab hold of me and stabbed it in the knee, robbing it of its ability to stand and making sure it fell to the ground, I retrieved my knife and then delivered multiple stabs to its heart, spine, head and most important internal organs, every strike was made pierce through the body and deliver fatal damage to it,
The short one seemed to have recollected himself, neither expecting me to charge at them, nor his 'boss' to forbid any damage to me, too bad it's not a mutual feeling, despite, the order the short one still attacked, striking a blow, making me tumble off of the taller one, "THE FUCK YOU MEAN "DON'T TOUCH HIM"!", Shorty asked the boss who, still fazed by the brutality displayed didn't say anything, then Shorty, sensing movement, turned just in time to see me drive my two knives into both his eyes,
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH", he screamed in pain, and in that moment I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine,
"WHAT THE FUC….", unfortunately, he couldn't finish due to the fact that I had already clamped down on his neck in clarified anger, destroying his 'voice box in the process, and once again I was launched away from another chance to end one of them,
As I turned around to get a good look at the boss, I caught sight of the tall one majorly healed of the wounds I inflicted on him, WTF!, HOW IN THE ACTUAL FUCK DO YOU HEAL FROM THAT!?,
"HAHAHA!, surprised?, we demons", so that's what they're called ,"have been blessed with eternal life!, you cannot hope to defeat all three of us", the bloody short bastard said as he of fucking course had also healed,
And with Shorty's proclamation, the two of them charged straight for me,
And now the obvious solution for this is running away but..., there's no way I'm leaving these demon things here to desecrate my family's bodies!, and with hardened resolve, I also charged,
even if I die right here and now, I'll make sure these guys remember me throughout their lives!,
And with a battle cry, I bolted forward and closed the distance between us and unleashed a flurry of strikes, cutting the tall one's legs and multiple strikes going to the short one's neck,
is it just me or did he look scared when I came for his neck?
While paying attention to that detail, I was forced to focus on the tall one who threw another haymaker at me which I caught at the last second, gripping his arm I twisted my body to throw him off of my back, having successfully flipped him over due to my strength and his momentum, I had gotten him back to the floor and decided to test my theory, and as my knife cut through the air and aimed for his neck, he had the look of pure terror in his eyes, in that moment, he looked like someone deserving pity, too bad I don't give two fucks, with their weakness discovered I gained a rush of adrenalin for the knowledge that they can be killed, my family can be avenged, and with that thought my anger slowly faded into clarity, I could see all openings, all lines of attack, and in that moment as I was about to behead the tall demon that I remembered and understood what the stranger was mumbling, "use the sword", unfortunately due to that lapse in concentration the knife couldn't go all the way and stopped about halfway through the neck, and for my troubles I got a vicious kick in the chest courtesy of Shorty,
"BLEEGGHHH!", I vomited blood, I think that broke ribs there, and that move gave everyone in the room some breathing space, and as I scrambled to get to my feet, I hear shorty shout to the boss, "HEY BITCH!, GET YOUR ASS IN HERE OR I'LL TAKE THAT SLAYER'S SWORD AND KILL YOU MYSELF!", so the sword to the neck is their weakness!, the boss having repositioned herself to the other side of the room, finally agreed to fight on their side after spectating our scuffles from the side,
unfortunately for you I've already found out your weakness, and lucky me, I had been booted right beside the man, so I reached out to get the man's sword from his mutilated side, thanks sir for the weapon, I'll take good care of it, R.I.P, with my silent prayer for him complete, I levelled the blade towards them and thanks to my mother's badgering about learning how to use one for self-defence, I knew what I was doing and was ready and resolved to take them all down,
"YOU'RE ALL DYING HERE AND NOW!!!!", I hollered as I charged forward, propelled by the spirits of all the dead who lay there, I shall avenge you all!,
the tall one, who stepped forward, fist reared and aimed at my head, swung at me with all his might,
third times a charm,
As his fist reached the blade, I gave it a nudge big enough to throw him off balance and make him fall to his knees, and allow me strafe to his side and get into a picturesque beheading position,
This must have horrified him, because he started screaming in terror, "I DON'T WANNA DIEEE!!!!".
To be fair, they probably can't eat regular foods so humans could probably be their only edible food, I thought considerably, but unfortunately for them they killed the only people I care about in this world, so they have to die, even if it was to survive, they must die,
"Sorry but you have to", I replied calmly as I raised my sword high,
...and I swung
...with all the strength I could muster, I swung...,
And with my swing...his head fell…...,
It fell never to rise again,
And just like that, I killed him, I thought still processing what just happened,
I…took…a life….,
and I'll take more, I told myself, removing any form of remorse from my being,
One should not kill without preparing to be killed their selves, I thought as I remembered one of grandpas life lessons,
They killed, so they must be killed,
"YOU KILLED HIM!", Shorty said as he pointed to the now disintegrating corpse of Tall one,
"And?", I asked coldly while staring him straight in the eye,
"YOU JUST KILLED HIM!", he repeated evidently scared now,
"I know and I'm coming for you next", I replied walking him down,
"NO STAY AWAY!", he screamed tripping on his own two legs,
"MINA!, HELP MEEEE!", Mina?!, no focus you can question her later.
As I finally reached him, he had already pissed his pants and was pleading, "p-please, d-d-don't kill m-me", repeatedly and it was such a pitiful sight that for a moment, the thought came to my head to free him, only for a moment though, for I had banished those into the abyss the second they came into existence,
"You killed my family",
"It was a mistake", he said,
"Unfortunately, it was a fatal one", I replied as I brought my sword down with enough force to slice his neck with one swing, he was still pleading for mercy even after his had tumbled to the ground, and as the final demon remained, I decided to address the elephant in the room,
"Is that you Mina?".
She took a seat at what remained of our dining room and answered "Yeah Bash, it's me",
"You're looking good", I complemented "must be the moonlight", with obvious shock practically written in bold on her face,
"h-how...?", she asked, "how can you be say something nice after killing two people",
"Demons", I corrected,
"In cold blood", she finished,
"it's simple; I don't care", I replied, "but you", She visibly tensed up after hearing that, "I care about…. Well partially anyways", I completed,
"sooo… you're not gonna kill me?", she asked,
"Well, that depends",
"On what?" she asked,
"Did you eat any of my family members", I asked her coldly with our eyes locked, she broke into a sweat
"n-n-n-no I didn't", she replied shakily,
"Yay, you get to live then!", I hooted,
"b-b-but I-I k-killed that man", she said befuddled
"Meh, he's just some guy I don't know, who gives a shit about strangers anyways", I replied reassuring her with a smile,
"you wanna catch up?, I've got some juicy gossip about some of the villagers", I suggested,
"they're all dead",
"Hmm?",
"they're all dead", she repeated,
"Again, I don't give two fucks... but gossiping about dead people's probably bad isn't it?", I asked thoughtfully as dawn was finally breaking after one of the longest nights of my life,
"Welp, you hungry?", I asked,
"yeah?", she answered,
"Kay, I guess you can have the bodies, but I get to keep the heads, alright?", I offered,
"huh?", was her reply,
"umm, you eat bodies", I said while demonstrating with my hands, "me keep heads",
"I understood the first time", ohh, "what I don't understand is why you're so friendly to me, do you have a fetish for demons or something?, is that it?",
"okay eww, no why would I have a fetish for flesh eating monsters", I replied cooly,
"then why?", she asked,
"because", I said as I walked up to her, "I kinda liked YOU", and then *smooch, I kissed her on the lips, leaving the two of us blushing wildly and after a few seconds of awkward silence I decided to gather up the heads and leave the bodies for her to eat, they're already dead so I don't think it really matters, I thought as I prepared the burial ground and after I finished, I said a prayer for their souls and sat there thinking,
Sooo…, here I am, all alone, no family or friends I can trust (there's no way in hell I'm trusting a demon), no goals to chase (not really surprised there, never really wanted much), why not go on an adventure?, far away facing dangerous perils: now that sounds like a good way to probably die.
"so it's settled then", I said out loud "I'm going on an adventure, hope I have loads of fun"
-outro-
So after acquiring supplies from the village, (he totally didn't steal any btw), our MC makes his way to what will be the start of His very own adventure
-----------A.N-----------
Hi guys, if you've reached this part of the story it means you've probably enjoyed it so far cuz you can't not like it and yet reach the end, so thanks for reading and as for my schedule, I'm in university so we'll just hafta see, well the second chapter should be out soon so, matte kudasai
Also check out "Everything My Lips Won't Say" by blackie017 (They're a friend and you hafta promote your friends right?)
Bye guys, till I post again.