Dan The Half Demon: Mystery of the Past

[HalfDemonDan]

Prologue:

PLACE: Sometime in the far future!

Hello there! My name is Charles and I'm an archeologist. I recently came across a certain book. A book which tells a story. It is a story that has been told to children as a child's tale, but this is no ordinary children's tale. This tells a different story than the usual darkness comes, hero appears, then hero saves all. This tells of that certain hero of not a human like he was portrayed in the children's story. This hero apparently is only half human while the other half of him is demon. We now begin our story of Dan The Half Demon and his struggle against an unfamiliar area known as the Kingdom of 8 Elements.

PLACE: April 15, 2049. A forest path flowing with lush vegetation.

I walked along the path through the forest. This forest is called the Realm of Earth yet this place doesn't seem much like an area for holding great elemental power. Let's see... A tree over there... another tree there... and.... I... am lost... I was thinking looking around all over the place. Man this forest is endless! All you see is stupid trees for miles! Why I ever came here is beyond me... but... at least this place is nice unlike the Realm of Fire, which by the way had me sweating the whole entire time, and reminds me that I still haven't found what I was looking for! I thought while letting out a deep sigh. I found nothing there and nothing here as well... Maybe I should just give up my search for power by obtaining the elements around this mysterious land. It was starting to get dark and I started gathering firewood by chopping down some of the trees with swings of my sword. I cut about three trees down and commenced with forming my little campfire. I cut the three trees into about one hundred fifty some pieces. Really, I didn't much use to count them just a big pile that would last me for awhile.

I placed leaves from the trees upon the pile of wood I formed. I picked up two nearby rocks. With the night sky closing in I tried and tried to use the rocks to light my fire. "Presto" I gently whispered as the leaves caught fire. With my campfire lit, I layed down and looked upon the night sky. I love looking at the stars... They make me feel so calm... which is strange since rage is my greatest weapon. Slowly I drifted into slumber, and...

PLACE: Realm of Souls, Dan's Soul

Where am I...? Was the thought that first came to my mind. It was a bit strange looking. It seemed that everywhere I looked all I could see were lots of doors. These doors were ordinary plain doors while the rest of the area was just... white. It seemed there was only 78 doors which 77 of those doors were locked. Seeing no other way to go I opened the door closest to me in that strecth of a hallway. A huge flash of light came before I completely opened the door and before I knew what was going on, I was standing in a lab area. I looked around the small room. There was a larged console and there were four tubes and inside these tubes were people and a strange liquid substance that glowed with a bluish hue. For some reason one tube was seperated from the rest. As I took a closer look at the tubes I realized something shocking. "T-They all look like... me!" I said in disbelief.

"H-How can this be...? And why are these people that look like me in tubes?"

"This is a fragmant of your past that you have forgotten." A voice said as I turned around quickly towards the voice. It was a woman... A woman in robe completely white. I could not see her face nor could I see any other part of her body, including her head. In her hand she was holding... a sword? I grabbed hold of my weapon in case she was going to attack but... I couldn't sense any hostility from the woman. I asked the woman in the white robe, "Who are you and what do you want?"

"Want?" she asked as if surprised. "I do not want anything. As for who I am you will discover as you explore through more."

"What? You mean the locked doors? I have no idea how to unlock them? And while I'm at it, where am I?" I said sort of demandingly.

"It's a shame really. You have no idea where you are but yet... you've been here before."

WHAT!?!? How could I have been here? I've never seen this place before! I thought as I was becoming extremely confused.

"I see that you are confused. Let me explain. You are within your soul."

"My.... soul?"

"Yes... and within your soul are those locked doors which are the forgotten memories of your past."

"What are you saying? I was born a human, transformed into a half demon Outcast from the society I grew up in."

"You may have been an outcast, but you were never human."

"What? Y-You mean that I wasn't born human?" I said hopelessly confused.

"You were never born at all. You were created. One of those people in the tubes... is you!"

Now this is where I'm lost! First I'm created and then I'm in one of those tubes?

"It is time for you to know the truth and that truth is... You were created by someone that you resemble, and that very person died the minute that one person in that tube woke up." She said pointing to the tube that was seperated from the others.

"That one seperated from the others... Why did he kill his creator?"

"If you wish to know what happened here... push that button on the wall next to the door."

It was a small button that was on the wall. Trusting the woman, I walked up to the button and pressed it. Another flash of light came but I was still in the same room except... there was someone using the large console. "Do not worry, you can not be seen or heard" the woman in the white robe said. Then the person using the console spoke, "My creations... I shall name you all Dan, but that would be confusing so I shall give you all titles. This Dan, the one seperated from the others, shall be known as Dan The Evil. Even though he came from me directly he has huge signs of evil. These other three were created from Dan The Evil yet... for some reason they have no signs of evil within them. Now to name the other three!"

This is really, really weird. I thought to myself as I continued listening.

"The one on the left closest to Dan The Evil, shall be known as... Dan The Psychic! because he shows huge signs of being a mind reader. The one on the right shall be known as... Dan The Fighter! because of his surpassing agility and ability to sense movements. And now for the one in the middle... No special signs yet... he is very odd. I shall just simply give him the title of Dan The Half Demon."

Huh? So the one in the middle is me? But what does he mean by saying I have no special signs? And he said I was very odd... I thought to myself as the guy continued to talk.

"As a half demon half human I always had to steal food to keep myself fed. I, Jake shall show the world that I am not a demon thief.... I am also human too! WIth my creations I shall help the world and prove I am not an average evil demon."

Then I heard a shattering sound. What the? Dan The Evil's tube has broken open, but where is Dan The Evil? I looked over at the guy who called himself Jake and right when I looked Dan The Evil snapped Jake's neck killing him. I gasped. How could someone do that to their creator? I thought horrified. Dan The Evil looked at the console. "So... I am called Dan The Evil... and who are these fools that look like each other? Dan The Psychic, Dan The Half Demon, and Dan The Fighter... Well, at least they have not waken up or else they might try to kill me after what I just did..." The evil half demon looked at a drawer which was labeled Creation 1.

"Since my tube is seperate... the stuff in this drawer must be mine." Dan The Evil said as he opened the drawer. He put on the clothes he found, which was a simple komono in all black and he picked up a remote that had one single button on it. He pushed the button which caused the wall behind the tubes to disappear. All there was in there was just four pedestals which held three different types of weapons. Two of them were swords. The other two, one being a pair of brass knuckles and the other being a deck of cards, were of least interest to the evil half demon. Dan The Evil picked up the sword that was shrouded in darkness. The Blade of Evil was what was etched onto the pedestal the sword was on. Laughter came from the evil half demon. "With this I can create some massive destruction!" Dan The evil left the building by blasting the wall left of the tubes away with some dark energy that came from his hands. "So this is what power I have... This will be quite useful." was the last words he said as he disappeared from my sight.

Then I heard more shattering. I looked over and saw the other three tubes had also broken. "What the?" The one know as The Psychic said as he looked at the motionless body on the ground. "Arrghh!!! I can't make any sense of this machine." The other me said frustrated.

"Let me see it." Dan The Psychic said. "It says... My name is Dan The Psychic, Your name is Dan The Half Demon, and his name is Dan The Fighter. I am creation number two... you are creation number four... and he is creation number three."

"So our clothes and stuff must be inside those drawers with those labels on them correct?" Dan The Fighter asked.

"Yes, they must be."

As I watched myself and the two others open the drawers I began to wonder why this had been forgotton. This single happening is very important so why did I forget it? Stuff like that was what I was beginning to think about. I saw Dan The Fighter pick up the brass knuckles, Dan The Psychic pick up the cards and myself pick up the other sword. "Cards of Angelic Power huh? They look like summoning cards" Dan The Psychic said examining his cards.

"Well, with these brass knuckles which are called... Brass Knuckles of Heaven, I can kick some serious butt." Dan The Fighter said.

"Well... I... uhh... I...." My other self collapsed to the ground.

A familiar voice spoke suddenly, "He is not ready to take on the responsibility that you two are ready to do." It was the woman in the white robe who which I now noticed was no longer beside me. "He is incomplete... Unlike you two and the other that had killed your creator Dan The Half Demon does not have any specialties. Not yet anyways. I am going to make him appear as a human baby and leave him at the doorsteps of a family. There he will grow as a human until destiny calls for him. Until then, you two will have to try and deal with Dan The Evil which I know will be difficult as he was made the strongest out of all of you."

"We understand." Dan The Psychic answered. "We will try our best to deal with Dan The Evil."

Again another flash had come. I awoke and was back in the forest. That was very odd... did that really happen?

END OF PROLOGUE: TO BE CONTINUED!

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