Chapter 1

A strong gust of wind blew the pink hair of the sword through the air. The long hair danced behind the demon’s back. He bent down at the edge of the cliff that over saw the large city of Humder. The city that is said to never sleep. Umi found himself going nowhere on his journeying to become stronger. It was slowly becoming clear that maybe he shouldn’t have left the demon world. He could see this realm wasn’t made for demons to live and get stronger.

It’s been years since he left his homeland and fled to the human realm. Everything in this place pissed him off and his sword never helped his mood. The gray clouds above him were now forcing him to seek a place to stay. He glared on at the town thinking about what to do.

“Just kill them Umi,” Niku said opening her eyes from her nap. She always knew what the demon was thinking. This is why he hated the sword more then anything else in the world. There was one other thing that he hated more, but he left that behind long ago.

“That’ll take to long and I don‘t feel like wasting my time on humans right now,” Umi snarled as he got up from crouching. “Humans are the most useless creatures ever made.”

“They all should die. So, why don’t you kill them?” She asked, worried about Umi willingness to not kill others at the end of a fight. She always hated this about him and his code of fighting. She knew that he’d been in the human world for too long. She only wished he could go back to being the demon that he was when they first met. Deep down she didn’t wish to be with a demon that didn’t kill everything weaker then itself.

“We have better things to do then kill unless being. I need to get stronger then I am now,” he mumbled with anger in his voice. She’d pissed him off with questioning his ideas. He knew what he wanted and getting into a fight with weak humans wasn’t going to take care of that goal. “Lets go.”

He turned his back to the city that he over looked and walked off into the forest. “Like I have much of a choice Umi,” Niku snarled back. She found it stupid that he would tell her that. “I can only go where you take me fool. Or have you forgot that?”

“Trust me I haven’t forgot. There’s a reminder on my back everyday.” Umi wasn’t in the best of moods with haven’t to find a place to stay. The sword questioning the things that he does wasn‘t making it better. He thought about leaving her but knew that would leave him less powerful than he already was.

“I can’t help that I’m in this sword. You released me on that day for my power so deal with it,” Niku quickly shouted back closing her eyes.

“I wasn’t talking about the damn sword. I was talking about the big egoist vampiric being behind me,” He mumbled, but she could hear every word the demon said.

“You could always leave me behind and go. Go ahead and try to get stronger on your own!” she yelled, angry that he would dare say that about her. “I hope you die one day Umi. I have no need to be with a weak demon like you anyway.”

“You need me more then I need you. If it weren’t for me you wouldn’t be able to move around. You’d be in that lonely basement still.” Umi came to a stopped with out warning and glanced around the dark forest. All he could see was tress everywhere he looked. The moonlight didn’t even reach through the thick leaves in the forest. He only could feel the light breeze that swirled through the place.

“I hate you Umi!” Niku screamed not noticing the demon had stopped. Umi grabbed the end of his sword ready to take action. He knew he heard something, but couldn’t find out where in was in the forest. He couldn’t see it nor smell whatever it was that he heard.

“Shh!” Umi said quietly and slowly lifting the sword off his back. A smile came over his face as he thought about the strength of this thing. Niku finally took notice that the demon was ready to do battle with something. She too couldn’t feel the being moving around through the trees.



The demon lord smiled and laughed at what his worker told him. He wasn’t worried about the vampire coming to life and killing them. He knew the history of the legendary being and that her soul no longer was in this realm. “Don’t worry. The seal was most likely to keep us out of this place,” He said taking a step closer to the cave. He had finally found the power he wanted; the power to take over all realms.

The demon lord didn’t notice he was being watched. He didn’t sense any others around him. At the edge of the city just a mile from the cave a man in a blood red shirt and black pants crouched on top of a build. He didn’t look like any demon nor was he a weak human soul.

The strange man watched as the demon workers and the lord when into the cave. He could feel the great power that still pulsed weakly out the cave. He could smell the sweet powerful magic in the air. He gave an evil smile showing the fangs of a vampire.

“Master…” he uttered in a deep sick voice. The man licked the fangs still watching from a mile away. He could see the demon lord as if he was standing in front of him. “I’m coming for you… just wait.”

He disappeared from the building giving the only hint that he was around as he left. The man landed himself on top of a building on earth. He glazed at the moonlight that bathed its light on the realm. He can heard each person around him; blocking whoever he wished. One by one the man listened for a voice a sound of the true demon lord.

He knew the history, the legend of the great vampire that almost took over hell back many years ago. He watched, as she was sealed in the kings black ash bladed. He watched as the king fell to his own son’s hand and released the blade from its sleep. He still remembered the young boy’s name that took his chance to save her. The name rung in his mind everyday that he was left to watch and wait for the right time to get her back.

He kept searching through the endless people that filled the planet. He wasn’t going to let other chance like this pass up again. With his master body free finally he’ll be able to restore her power again. He was her guardian; that what she always told him. “I wasn’t talking about the damn sword. I was talking about the big egoist vampiric being behind me,” he heard Umi said miles away in the forest.

“I Fin-,” he begun to say getting cut off by an old man coming through the door to the roof. He glared at the man walking through the metal door. The old man straddled at him standing at the edge of the roof like a bird. “I don’t have time to deal with you,” He said disappearing from the roof.

The old man didn’t know what just happen. One minute he saw a man on his roof and that next his was gone like the wind. “Wha-, what was that?” he mumbled falling to the ground.

“Nothing you will be able to tell to anyone,” a dark evil voice said within the man’s mind. A shadowy figure walked calmly and slowly out from behind the door. He passed by the old man only to brush his body up against the old man. He glazed at the moonlight that gleamed down on his face. An explosion went off inside the old man’s body that sent a strong gust of wind and dirt at him. Everything that flew at the mysterious man seemed to miss his body. An evil grin went across his face as his laughed on top of the roof.


Where is he at, Umi thought, glaring hard into the forest trying to see in the black of night. The demon red eyes glowed as he forced himself to see more of the forest. He held the sword tighter ready to attack anything that attacked him.

The young man looked on that the demon trying to find him. He didn’t think the demon was that sharp with his skill to sense things around him. “You’re better then hell’s new ruler, demon,” The man said standing on top of a nearby tree.

“What the hell do you want?” Umi asked being pissed at this game that the man was playing. The man voice sounded like it came from everywhere around him. Umi grinded down on his teeth. Blood came out of his mouth as he pierced through the forest with his eyes.

“You’ll grown much since the last time I saw you, Umi,” the man said looking at the demon try and find where he was at. “But I’m going to take her back!”

He jumped down from the tree pulling out a small sword from behind his back. Umi finally could tell where he was and swung his sword at him. The wind danced between the two men as he came down with his short sword. The odd man’s power shot out of his body smashing into the sword before he’d reached the blade. “Die!”

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Wonderful set by, Lady Knives,
Alliance of Tasogare member, Restoring the Luna Bracelet