Ken

We are seven. We are vengeance. We are power. We are strength.1

My story is what im here to tell. I am Ken, the original soul of this body. I come from a village of gerudo. A village on the outskirt of the country of warriors. I my self have just turned sixteen and joined the cities militia. I have received my first sword from my father. It is a katana. A grip made of a very rare material. A circular hilt and a pure silver blade. My father is a master blacksmith as he is a master swordsman. He even brought the blade he created to the mountains of prophets and got it blessed for protection. Before this i trained for years, since about the age i was able to pick up a sword. At the moment i start my story i am twenty, i have served in many wars for four years now. I am right below the general, my father. I have achieved this rank mainly through the great war. I reunited both sides of the country. Now I am getting ready to defend, for I just heard shouts of intruders. "Ken they've entered through the front gates" my apprentice told me. I ran for the front gates and took out a few of them on my way. When i got there all the villagers were either slaughtered or taken prisoner. I seen the leading man there and he had five men with him. "Theres one. You get him" the leading man said. A few intruders approached me. I pulled out my blade and deflected one mans blade and sliced him in half. then decapitated the other one. "I'm sorry but i must cut your visit short" I say smiling. One of the five men walk up to me while pulling out a sword. "Kill him" the leading man says as he walks toward the village with the four following. I go to chase them but the other man steps in the way. He goes to slash me but i dodge slashing at his head. He dodges and strikes down on my head. I go to block but he punches me in the head with the other hand and kicks me to the ground then strikes again. This time my sword glows and when i block his sword at the hilt, it slices right through his. I then trip him flip up and decapitate him. "Unhonourable" I say rushing into the village. There are dead bodies everywhere and when i get into the center of the village all i see is my father dead on the ground and the rest of the militias heads on pike. I feel anger rushing through my body and i lose it. "B A S T A R D S" I rush the men i seen earlier. "He failed. Get him Ryu" A man in white Armour and a pure white blade walks in front of me blocking the path. "I wish i didn't have to kill one so young" he says blocking my strike. I slash again but before I even knew what happened was on the ground. He goes to slash me but one more survivor blocks. He turns towards me and I see my old friend Naraku. He is my only friend in the militia. "Nice timing" i go to slash him while Naraku holds him off. Then Naraku just goes out of it and falls to the ground. He blocked my hit and kicked me back to the ground. He slashes down at me so I roll and slash at his ankles. He jumps and lands on my sword. "Mistake no1" I say smiling. The sword blows off his leg with a rush of enchanted energy. "Ryu has a look of surprise on him but quickly goes back to normal. He hops back a little and stands there. "An Enchanted sword. That may prove troubl..." Narakus blade cut off his ankle cutting his sentence short. He falls to the ground, then I jump and stab him in the head. "One down" i turn my attention to the others. Naraku beside me. Then my eyes appeared to have deceived me because I still seen Ryu among their ranks. He walks forward again holding out his sword. "Seems you might have more skills than I thought, but I know your strategy now" He cuts at me and kicks Naraku. Naraku grabbed his leg and then before he hit the blade i was using to block he turned it and stabbed him in the thigh. I slashed at Ryu and he bent his body so that it just skinned his nose, then he landed rolled away and slashed at me. It got me in the right eye. I screamed in surprise and pain going back holding my empty eye socket. "How is he able to move like that" i asked to Naraku. "I can't keep track of his movements" Naraku replied with the same confusion. Time to get serious. My blade glows a fluorescent yellow. "My soul will live through this but part of it will always be here in this mess. My mother bounded my soul with this sword, that was my wish and it was granted." i thought to myself, knowing that I couldn't beat this enemy. I will kill him I thought. He approached again. Once again I flashed for a second only to find that i had ten cuts on my chest. "Why did you just stand there" Naraku yelled. I realized he had me in a spell. How,he didn't do anything, how can he just access that kind of magic without consequence. I slashed at him and Naraku attacked from the side. Ryu jumped and dodged right in between our swords and stabbed Naraku in the back and brought the sword up and cut my other eye without us even registering it.Only now recounting this story, do i fully comprehend what happened. After that I felt a stab in the heart and the blood of my life spraying from my body. I fell dead. My soul fleeted from my body and I seen how badly injured I was. Naraku was glowing in a weird aura, that i wasn't able to see in my body. Everyone else had auras. But Narakus scared even me. But it was all flashed away, just as fast as it came. I was traveling though a tunnel of some kind and at the end seen two dark purple malevolent eyes. "Come Ken. My realm awaits you. I Damnion will console you" It says laughing. "NO NO. NOT YET. THEY ARE NOT DEAD. I REFUSE TO DIE. IM GOING BACK. I REFUSE TO JOIN YOU YOU BASTARD" i said willing myself with anger and determination i felt myself flying backwards, but slowly and roughly. Damnion was not ready to give up his new prize. Then suddenly i realized. It would all be over, no more fighting, no more blood shed and he could see his father and mother again. He gave up for a second letting Damnion guide him towards Damnion. But then a picture of his village and Naraku and his father and mother. No i need to kill them for what they did. I fought with all my will and finally I broke loose of his grip. I flew what seemed like the speed of light and arrived back in my body. I got up and i seen like my spirit seen. Everything had a life, an aura if you will. I could tell things reason, emotion and mood. But everything was an unearthly blue. A hellish dead blue. Then i realized there were three people in front of me. They were holding out blades. "Ken. You have survived the passage. You escaped the demon and you are now the only one who can help us. WE offer our services only if you promise to get revenge on three parrticular people. You will know all just accept the three blades" So i took them. Each a katana. But as soon as I touched them they turned from air to physical steel. Each one had magnificant power, that was there but undeveloped. Yes each person had there village attacked by the people who raided my village. Except the three they want dead were not with that man. They were strong and they each reside in the spirits town that they took over. "okay" One of the katanas was a gold blade. The others looked regular but felt powerful and different from one another. The two regular ones felt like to parts to the same thing. "That is because me and my brother is twins, we are known as the oricals" I heard in my head. I took a look around to realize two things. I still had my body but it looked dead and the scratches were scars, never to heal. And no eyeballs. The other was my village was overrun with wildlife. "Thats because the world has moved on since your trip. It's been five years" the oricals said switching back and forth between words. I walk through the town seeing destruction as i go through. I go to the hill overlooking a valley. It just has a tree and i big rock beside it. On the rock sits. I can see his aura right away and although it is faint he has the aura of the men who attacked his village. I recognize him i thought. He was on eof the four. I pull out my blade. I walk silently up to him and I slash down. His ears twitched and he rolled off the rock and off the cliff for over a 100 story drop. I looked over and a bird flew towards me. I dodged and it came up into the air. It swooped down and flew after me. I slashed at it, but it turned to a snake and dodged the blade. It wrapped around my neck and went to bite down with venom drenched fangs. I grabbed the head and tried to wrench it off, but it only increased its grip on his neck. "Use me" said the mage. I sheathed my blade and drew the mages. He gave me all the information i needed to know telepathically. I summoned my energy and focused it on the snake. It was cut into five pieces and was sent flying. The other pieces desinigrated but the head morphed into a wolf. It growled at me and it spoke "Why did you attack me?" it asked. "You were part of the savagery which took place here 5 years ago. You must pay, not for me but all the other people and towns your band has hit" I yelled at him now in a fury. His eyes filled with water and a river flowed from his eyes. He bowed down and turned human. He was on his knees bowing at my feet head out, shaking and sobbing. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to. I've begged for forgiveness over and over. I really..." he was sobbing so badly he couldn't finish the sentence. "Kill me if it will give you consolation. I know it would to me. If you can forgive me in death for the sins i committed, then so be it. To die at your hand will free my soul. I won't have to deal with this grief anymore". Ah I recognized the tone of losing the will to live. My father flashed into my mind again and I brought up my sword and struck. I stopped short at his hair. "What is your name" i asked head down a shadow over my face. I had an extreme clash of emotions. Sadness, anger, blood lust. But also pity, understanding and forgiveness. "Tsubasa" he said without hesitation. "Rise Tsubasa. Your sins are forgiven. You will join me. I need a companion. Will you join me, Ken?" i asked with a tone of sadness. My cheeks were now wet with tears. "I would be honoured to accompany you Ken" he said rising wiping his face free of tears. We walked out of the valley without a words. I tried to talk to the blades, but there was no answer. Tsubasa and me went to the town of Kisashi. We stopped by an inn and picked up a drink and some food. We headed up to the rooms for a good nights rest. I was sleeping soundly until I was slammed into the wall. I looked at who did it and I realized I could see like a human. I looked and found to my horror the purple eyes i seen after my death. "Your soul is going to be mine Ken. You apparently were stronger than i initially thought, making your soul even more valueable" The man said. He was just wearing a black trench coat and black jeans. He has ruffled black hair and those develish dark purple eyes. I felt myself being lifted and launched through the building. I kept rolling and rolling and looked back to see the man right in front of me. He kicked me and i was lifted by an invisible force to meet eye and eye. "Give it up Ken, you can't beat me" he laughed maniacally again. I was launched through another house and hit through a tree and launched into the cement wall surrounding the city. When i looked up with a struggle he was in front of me. I wasn't falling and I can't move. DAMN IT. He pulled back his arm and punched me with the strength of an ogre. 1 2 3 and four. I fell to the ground. Fighting off death once again. NO I JUST ESCAPED ONCE NOT AGAIN. I felt another presence enter my body. I got up and picked out my gold blade. Damnion sent another blast of energy but I swung my gold sword and deflected the energy. Ken heard the mage thinking. "Damn his energy can't be absorbed, why?" Damnion sent me flying again but I could hear the mages concentration. It was an errie sound that i still don't like. Then there was a blast of energy sending Damnion through the tunnel i almost went through. "Damn it. Mage, your stronger than i thought you were. Next time i won't hold back as much and i won't let you cast that spell again" and he was gone. Everything was gone and i woke up in my room. I started getting up and seen my body wasn't beaten to shit. But it still felt like it. I also seen that there was now bandages over my eye sockets. Ahh good old fashioned spirit vision. Tsubasa went right to my side, when he seen me up. "What happened, you were out for three days now?" Ahh great. "Must be exhausted . Long day when I met you. Anyways, I think i need to rest a little more" i said. "Really. Ok" Tsubasa stayed just in case i went out again although, i don't know what he could've did. Well i thought a lot that night. I need to get stronger and more synchronized with my blades. When we woke up i asked Tsubasa if he knew any masters who would be able to train me. He told me he might know one. He was in a place called Scorpio village. So I asked around and I found out the master there lives on top of a huge mountain. His trial to see if your worth training is fighting your way through trials. So I told Tsubasa were going. So we went there and I stood. At the gates . "Tsubasa. I'll be back. Just wait for me in the villages inn."I went through the gate and started up the stairs. I got up to a landing that was just a ring of ground and a pool of lava. The surrounding was blocked of by raised earth so i couldn't escape. A dragon appeared in the middle. "Ahh. Well your a big fellow" I said with a smile. It replied with with a roar. It spit a fireball at me and I dodged. But just barely only to have another one coming at me. The mage was about to take over. "No, you must learn to trust me with your power, or we will not be strong enough to exact our quarrels" I tried for the golden blade and it didn't repel me. I grabbed it. "Just focus on the flame going into the blade" I did so and the flame dispersed. "Don't release it, it will have mental turmoil, but you'll have to get used to it. The only way to take this thing down is to grab some of it's energy and mix it with our's. That would be strong enough to penetrate dragonscale" So I held on to it. It went to swoop down on me and I jumped onto it's head but got knocked off with a quick nod of the dragons head. It blew another ball. I focused again and it absorbed. The dragonsflame was searing my sanity. I got up and faced it, a little dizzy. It realized the fire was getting no where so it started on physical attacks. It swooped again. I was about to jump again, but it opened it's mouth and blew flames. The mage quickly took over and the flames dissappeared and then he slashed and the flames turned to a frost and froze the dragons insides. He then sent a blast of slicing winds, with sliced the dragon numerous times. "We got to work together" the mage said and relinqueshed control. A circiling staircase rose out of the lava and it lead to the next cliff. I continued up.