Chapter 2

The Soul Eater

10 years later

A time skip really so soon? I know but my life in purgatory was boring up to this point I mean I just killed a lot of weak people and I don’t want you to think of me as a bad person ok.

-----------------------------Chief Chen POV-----------------------------------------

A monster is all I can call the man at the gates of my camp, they call him The Soul Eater he showed up around ten years ago and he’s killed just over two thousand people in that time and about two years ago started eating the cores of souls earning him his name. He is as fast as lightning he has black hair with dark brown eyes about 6’1 and has a handsome face. The reason that I call him a monster is that as he is killing my men with quick slice’s to their throats he has a huge friendly looking smile that sends shivers down my spine.

As I take out my two crescent moon knives I sigh to myself at the thought of fighting this monster. Each blade has a different colour covering it; the right one had red fire covering it and the left one has a blue ice mist covering it. I look at him and it seems he has noticed me as he has lowered himself and started to run at me. Seeing this I lower myself into my fighting stance he then sends a slash that caused a black line to appear and attack me I blocked with my weapons but sends my arms back into the air and before I can move my hands back he knees me in the face then spins and back kicks me in the chest. I stumble back a few steps with blood flowing out of my nose and breathing heavy from the kick. Looking up I see he is still smiling at me and god dam it pisses me off. I start running at him slicing up with my right blade up at him, but just as it’s about to hit him he leans back and brings his dagger up slicing my right hand off

“Ahhhhh” I yell as pain of my hand missing runs through my body

Clenching my teeth I try to back off but before I can do so his foot comes up and hits me in the chin pushing my head back but as I force my head down to see he is somersaulting backwards I and with my left blade put a small cut on his left leg. As he lands I see him look at the cut leg that looks like its freezing and his smile becomes even bigger.

“Hehehehe” he does a small creepy chuckle and continues to say “It’s been so long since someone has hurt me what’s your name good sir mine is Arthas” he says with a small bow with his right hand over his heart and left behind his back looking me in the eyes the whole time with his dark emotionless eyes

“Ch… my name is Chen I am the chief of this group of people” I respond back

“Well then Chen you have earned my respect any last words then?” the man asks

“No”

“Well ok then” he says while lowering himself again to attack

As he runs to my left with lighting speed I swing my blade at him but he stops it by grabbing my left arm with both of his. He continues by kicking my feet out from under me forcing me to fall forward, as I’m on the ground he pulls my left arm back and knees it in the elbow joint snapping the arm back and as the knife come’s up to my neck it stops.

--------------------------------Arthas’s POV--------------------------------------

As I was about to finish the man named Chen off when I remembered there was some questions I needed answered.

“Hey is there a way to take runes off of other peoples weapons?”

“Why… are…. you asking… me this?” the man said in pain

“I just want the runes on your weapons is all” I stated, I asked because the weapons disappear when you kill the owner taking the rune with it.

“Only… the owner can… remove it” Chen said

“OK then if you don’t mind removing the runes from your weapons I’ll let you request anything other than your life”

“Pl… please spare my… my men” Chen asked

‘Weird didn’t think there were any good people here in purgatory, but hey learn something new right and I forgot about the other guys that were standing here why are they not helping their chief’ I thought then said “ok I’ll let them go but any that attack me will die and I’m taking all of your loot is that a deal?”

“Fine tha…” before he could finish he was cut off by one of the men around us.

“Chief we can’t let that happen we came to purgatory together and we leave together!”

“You guys stop I’m taking this deal this is a final order do you understand me! ‘Cough’ ‘cough’” Chen yelled with some coughs

“Yes sir” they all said straightening their backs and placing their right hand over their heart

Then I put his arm back in place and letting him drink the pink liquid which I found out heals people he removed the runes from the two weapons and handed over two black stones with a fire symbol and the other with a snowflake symbol to me.

“Thank you for this and I’ll keep my end of the deal” I said as I sliced his throat with my knife ending the man known as Chen letting his body fall as blood rushed out of his neck his weapons also disappeared.

“Sorry Chief but we’ll be disobeying your orders let’s get this fucker!” one man yelled out

“FOR THE CHIEF!!” they all yelled as they ran at me

‘Idiots hehe’ I thought as I ran into the group of 20 men slicing the throat of each one I passed. The fight lasted a whole five minutes; taking this place and fighting the man named Chen took only about 20 minutes. After storing the blood of all the men into my pouch and eating the cores and cleaning the blood off myself I walked in to the cave they had cut into the side of a hill.

Then I got about half way inside when I felt that there was someone further inside. The cave had been cut into a wide hill there was a hallway that lead to a big circular main room. The hallways firestones were unlit; oh and by the way fire here is caused by these red hot little rocks that start to burn with a bright yellow flame if hit hard. As I stayed in the dark with my back to the wall I snuck up to the main room and as I got to the end of the hallway and poked my head out to see. I saw a woman walking into a small room. The circular main room had smaller rooms on the side were I guess they slept. I waited to she was still in the room before I snuck up to the room and with my dagger in hand I waited at the doorway for her to walk out.

I must say I waited at least 2 minutes before I decide to poke my head to see if she was still there to my surprise my face was met with a sword that I dodged by propelling myself back off of the wall. The woman I was met with was beautiful with long silver hair and ice blue eyes as well as beautiful pale white skin. ‘Dam it I have never seen a more beautiful woman up close in my life and have seen a lot of women, and I mean a lot but a story for another time’ I thought upon seeing her

“How about we split the gains half” the women said with an ice cold voice

“Wait why?” I asked with a smile

“Because if we did fight none of us would get out unharmed it’s not worth it for the small amount that’s here” she said

“Well ok no problem” I said as I turned to start looking around

“Wait really that easy” she said in a confused tone

“Well, all I want are runes and better clothes to wear anything else you can take, that should sound good right” I told her

“sur… sure that’s fine I guess” she said

After about ten minutes all that I found was a sick looking mask that just stuck to my face with no strings and was a cool smiling skeleton.

“Why aren’t you taking any weapon matter” she said holding a vial of grey liquid

“Well it don’t need it I have a lot of it” I said back to her

Weapon matter is how weapons are made, by drinking it creates a weapon from your body and by drinking more it makes it harder to break. but my weapon doesn’t seem affected by it maybe because it wasn’t created by weapon matter. Anyway my words seemed to confuse her as her face changed from ice cold to a blank look if there is a difference.

“Well I guess that’s”

RUMBLE

Before I could finish what I was saying I heard the sound of thunder that was so loud that the whole cave shuck. ‘Didn’t think there was rain here’ I thought then looked at the silver haired woman and saw that in her ice blue eyes there was fear

“What’s got you so scared?” I asked

In a light whisper I heard “Grims…”

‘Fuck this looks bad I stayed away from them for two years’ I thought ‘well maybe if we stick together we’ll get out of this’

“Hey have you fought them before?” I asked

“Yes it was only once and in my group of seven I was the only one to make it out” she said in a grim tone

“Well shit it’s worth a try right or are you going to give up here?” I asked giving her a bright smile

“Fine” she said as she put the last of her things in her pouch (called a void pouch) and started walking out.

I followed her out taking in the great view ‘fuck that ass is great in tight pants god dam that outfit is like a some ninja outfit that’s just so hot’ I thought like a gentleman. As we walked out I looked up and saw that the normal grey clouds have been replaced by blood red storm clouds and have brought with them howling winds and rain that was the colour of blood or was blood. When I looked ahead at the front gate of this place there was a lanky motherfucker that was about seven feet tall in a robe that looked to be made of blood it, it had its hood on but from what I saw of its face it was a skeleton face but instead of eyes there was a flickering ice blue flame in the empty socket and in its skeleton hands was Flails with a chain about five feet long with a huge spiked ball at the end and seemed to be made out of the same black metal as my dagger.

“LOTR motherfucker we got here right” I said

“What’s LOTR?” she asked

“Never mind shall we get this done hahaha” I said with a smile and a chuckle charging out.

“Wait!” she tried yelling but was too late as I had already charged out

Crack

Crack

As the grim started to move cracks could be heard from its body and as I came up to it, it swung the Flails horizontally which I dodged by bending backward ‘and man I would fucking rock at limbo’ but before I could attack I was pulled back by the sliver haired girl and less than a second later the ball hit the ground I was just standing on and it caused dust and dirt to blow everywhere.

“So girl what’s your name” I asked as we jump and dodge the grim’s attacks

“Can we talk about this after if we make it out of this!” she yelled at me

“So what you’re saying is if I beat this you’ll tell me your name, well that sounds

like a deal!” I yelled in a happy tone

After this I ran at the grim dagger in hand I then ducked under the metal ball I got close and slashed at its side but all I cut was the red blood cloak that mended back together right after the grim moved a step back throwing another attack at me

“Well shit that didn’t work it just heals” I grumbled dodging back after failing my attack

“You see this is why we can’t kill them easy and you can’t break their bones” She said

“Easy you say so there is a way to kill them?” I asked her

“Ya you have to crush the core in their chest but that’s easier said than done” she answered

As we dodged the grim’s attacks that was getting faster as time went on I got an idea after looking at my dagger then at the grims Flails.

“Hey do you think you can distract him for like two to three seconds please I think I can hurt him” I explained

“Sure but make it quick” she answered back to me

As a response to my request she ran up make quick slashes at it causing it to turn to face her and at the same time I charged up an attack to use causing black mist to appear on my dagger and in less than a second it was ready. Next I ran staying as close to the ground as I could and with the grim’s side to me I slashed out at its feet. The black mist formed into a small slash that flew quickly at the grim’s feet passing through them.

Crack

Crack

Two cracks could be heard as the grim fell to the ground and due to being in the middle of a attack, causing it to fly backward. After it hit the ground, the girl and I flew up to it stabbing our weapons into its core.

BOOM

A huge boom happened and we were lunched backward we both hit the ground and rolled to stand to see the grim turning into a floating globe of blood that flew into the sky.

RUMBLE

RUMBLE

When it reached the sky huge rumbles could be heard as the ground shook. But after that the clouds started to go back to their dull grey colour and the wind and blood rain stopped.

“Well that was fun” I said looking over at the woman beside me “so, what’s your

name” I asked with a wink.

“What is that dagger to have broken the bones of a grim so easy” she asked with eyes filled with disbelief.

“Don’t know it was the only thing given to me when I got here” I responded.

“WHAT you just had it in your void pouch when you got here… oh and my name is Akino” she said the last part with a slightly shy tone.

“Well Akino since we already seem good at working together how about we travel together I feel having a companion can make this boring place a little more fun don’t you think?” I asked keeping my smile on my face

I got was a look from her that was saying ‘what really’

“Look I know we have just met but as you have said in a fight we are about even and all I want are runes so what do you say” I asked.

All I got was a slight sigh and a small nod then she started to walk away. Then without hesitating I followed from behind. ‘I feel like she’s one of the easily teased girls’ I thought to myself while enjoying that pleasant view again.

This was the start of Arthas and Akino’s adventures through purgatory.