Message from Arkeem

So i have no idea how to change the sizes and colours so bear with me and sorry for taking so long for this chapter I've been busy.

Chapter 6

To help or not to help

Akino and I have been walking for a while now without saying a word to each other. I guess I said too much again as she’s just following behind me. But I heard running behind us then I heard a girl shout out, causing Akino and I to stop.

“Stop, Stop please! Please help me!”

I turned my head first seeing the beautiful Akino then a tall black haired woman running at us; it was the one of the girls from Ladies hold that I had assaulted. Seeing her coming closer she stops in front of Akino with her hands on her knees head down and breathing heavy.

“Thank you so much” she said, to Akino.

But when she saw me her eyes filled with fear; but it was too late I had slammed my foot into her chest slamming her body onto the ground. I kept my foot on her chest as she groaned from the pain and being out of breath.

“Oh if it isn’t the girl I fucked in ladies hold and what do I owe the pleasure of this visit” I asked her, pushing down on my foot.

“I, I was with my group trying to find you but we were attacked; I… I don’t even ‘Sob’ even know if any are alive” she said starting to burst into tears.

Akino grabbed my shoulder and nodded at me to release my foot. Then she helped the girl up and let the girl sit on her knees; Akino then started to ask questions.

“What’s your name; from what I see from your violet coloured eyes you’re an elf right?”

The girl nodded “I am an elf and my name is Daiyu Mar” she said, starting to stop her sobbing.

“May I Call you Dai” Akino asked getting a nod from the girl “OK Dai what world are you from.”

“I’m from World Shi Xin, continent Zui hou. I was a sworn priestess of the Elven god Ai An Juan” she said, a sad look on her face.

“Dai can you tell me what happened to your group” Akino asked with a stern voice.

The girl looked at Akino then me and said “Not till I’m sure my life is safe from him” she pointed at me.

‘Fucking little bitch’ I thought as I stepped quickly past Akino Grabbed Dai by her hair and slammed her face first into the dirt and yelled at her.

“Now you listen here slut; this isn’t negotiations but an interrogation and I am your interrogator. So don’t give me some bullshit answers, just answer the questions or I’ll get the answers from you in a way I think you’ll dislike.”

Looking down at the once again crying girl I released my hand grabbed her by the chin brought her face up I whispered in her ear “If you in anyway lie to Akino and trust me I’ll know; I will skin you… A.L.I.V.E.” I made sure she heard the last part.

After whispering in her ear the trembling girl’s body shook hard at the idea of being skinned alive.

“Arthas it’s ok now” Akino said, grabbing my hand “I’ll take care of this I mean I was an assassin in my past life too hehe” her giggle made me feel lost in gentle softness and gave me a warm feeling in my long cold dead heart.

‘Dam… this isn’t good’ I thought worried about the new feelings I was feeling. Akino released my hand and went and crunched down in front of the crying shaking girl.

“So I think for your sake that you should answer my questions right?” she asked, getting a nod from the girl “so I’ll ask again; who attacked you and your group?”

The still afraid girl stuttered her answer “IT… It w… was Orthrus DEATH HOUNDS! They… they attacked everyone… even with how… how big they are they don’t… make any sound when walking!” Dai was terrified remembering the scene.

“Orthrus! You don’t mean Orthrus Death Hounds do you!?” Akino slightly shouted, a little panic could be heard in her voice and she got a nod from Dai.

“Arthas this is bad those Orthrus death hounds are most likely after us” Akino said, standing up and walking to me with a very serious face

‘The Dai chick isn’t lying to us hmm. We need to move faster now; I should stop fooling around now’ I then looked at Dai after thinking to myself and said.

“So Dai tell me why I should take you with us and not slit your throat right now” I took out my dagger and waited for an answer.

“I… I can give you tons of items!” Dai said, afraid as her eyes followed the dagger that kept switching between my hands.

“Strike one! You have three strikes hit the third strike and I’ll kill you and so… two more tries” I said, grinning as I started to flip and play with my dagger.

“I can!... I… I can provide you with services” the girl said, desperate for this to be the right answers

“STRIKE TWO!” I said, like an empire from a baseball game; I even put up two fingers on my hand and started to slowly walk closer to Dai saying “I don’t need a whore following us around; so last chance Dai.”

“I… I can” she started to slowly move backward dragging her bottom on the ground “I know a lot about purgatory and I can tell you about all the secrets my seniors told me” she said, a pleading look on her face.

I looked down at Dai that was now just at my feet and crutched down beside her “DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!” I yelled out “Well then Dai I have to say you were cutting it close there haha” I said, with a small laugh and stood up and turned to look at Akino.

“Well what do you think Akino do we keep her around” I said, pointing my dagger at Dai.

Akino smiled at me and said “yea this is a good choice; I may have been here a long time but someone in her kind of business will hear and know more than me.”

“A ‘long time’ hmm, and just how long is a ‘long time’ A.K.I.N.O” I asked glad to have something to tease Akino with again.

Akino just glared at me “anyhow now we have someone with extra info that will help us” She said.

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With Dai with us we traveled faster; thanks to the extra info she knew. So we traveled like this for a full 4 years and as we traveled we kept hearing info on the Orthrus hounds as they got closer and closer to us. I knew I’d have to fight these beasts one day; but in these 4 years I had increased my usage on the power of my dagger. So today I’ve decided to add the wind rune to my dagger.

“Well let’s do this” I said, as Akino watched over me

As I added the wind rune; the rune lit up the tornado symbol on the wind rune let off a yellow light and the dagger let off red, blue and black lights. Then the daggers lights reached out and pulled in the wind rune out of my hand; as the runes mixed there was no big reaction like the first time as the wind rune seemed to meld together with the fire and ice rune making them stronger.

“Impossible, how did you do that!?” Dai said, astonished at what had happened in front of her eyes.

“I can’t believe your theory is working” Akino shook her head “If people in the outside world saw this; the very world as we know it would change” Akino said, with a sigh; knowing that somehow this man’s knowledge on magic was most likely higher than hers now.

“Well this is cool… time for a test then” I said, pumped for the power upgrade I got.

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In our travels in the last 4 years I’ve learned a lot from Dai about world Shi Xin. On the world Shi Xin there are 3 continents Chu Ru Kou, Gu Shou and Zui Hou; the Elves home is Gu Shou. There are 3 types of Elves Tianshang (celestial) Elves, Liming (Dawn) Elves and last and the type of Elf Dai was Huanghun (dusk) Elves; their Elven Emperor when she left was Bai Fang Xing a Tianshang Elf. Only Elves of one of the royal families of the 3 races can become emperor; the three families are Xing royal family of the Tianshang, Han royal family of the Liming and Song royal family of the Huanghun. When I asked how the Elves got onto World Asura she seemed not to know how ether.

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As we headed to a nearby camp I saw men surrounding the small set up camp. The men looked over at me and saw the two ladies behind me, they started to smile and some even licked their lips. Then a larger man walked forward all the men in his way moving aside. ‘Well I know who the leader is’ I thought as the man walked straight up to me stopping right in front of my face. His height was little higher than me causing him to tilt his head down to look at me.

“Well, well, well it’s been decades since I’ve seen ladies as beautiful as you” looking at Akino and Dai caused the man to almost drool “Ladies how about you hang with me and my men we’ll show you a good time… at least more than this wimp little shit! HEHE!” the man said, looking back at me grinning and chuckling.

The two girls sat back and started to talk with each other not paying any attention to the large man that was talking. I shook my head and sighed and said this in one large breath.

“Man do you really have to be so stereotypical; I mean I get it you’re the big muscled up tough guy but come on be a little new with your content… and let me tell you a few things about these girls AHEM the one with the black hair was raped by me and is scared to death of me and the silver haired one is just as strong as me if I didn’t have my let’s say ‘special’ little dagger.” I finished out of breath and grinned at the man.

The man looked at me strangely then said “so what you’re saying if I beat you I get the girls, hehe that’s almost funny little man.” The man said, tone full of arrogance.

“Well then let’s stop comparing dicks here and lets fight” I said my grin now a full on smile.

The man sighed and said “you think you can fight me? Men kill this little shit and take his lady friends!” he had a larger grin now “Lets add these girls to our… collection”

As the large man backed away a two smaller men ran out at me with huge swords in their hands. I backed up as they swung them at me from both sides. I used the wind runes power to increase my speed and slammed my dagger into one of their weapons with a huge amount of force sending it back; then ran past him just dodging the second man’s weapon.

As I slipped past the one guy, he tried to bring his weapon back but I just sliced his throat. I then sent out fire and added some wind element to it at the second man. The result was a huge blast of hot yellow flame; rather than the normal red flame. The Flame burned the man to a crisp in seconds; the rest of them seeing this started to back off. The larger man face turned to a scowl and he grabbed a smaller thin man and threw him to the front.

“Don’t bother coming back here if you can’t beat him” the large man said, with a scowl still on his face.

The new man stood up and looked at me timidly then pulled out a long staff about 8 feet long (aka a Chang gun staff). As he stepped toward me he started to spin the staff around himself moving the long staff with ease. As he stepped toward me he jabbed with the end of his staff, as I stepped to the side the staff swung to the side forcing me to block with my dagger and step back. The man spun the staff more and did multiple strikes at me; causing me to have to dodge the staff by a ½ of an inch. I could smell and almost taste the blood and death coming from that staff.

The man’s staff skills were great and from what I saw he had an earth rune in his staff. The staff once again came jabbing at me I willed the ice and wind element out of my dagger and touched the tip of his staff. As they touched the staff started to freeze and thanks to the wind element the ice moved fast freezing the staff user’s hands. He looked in surprise at his hands.

Slash!

Cough

He coughed and fell to the ground dead as I had slashed his throat. Then I looked as the staff disappeared and my face sunk!

“FUCK! The god dam earth rune!” I looked at the surprised large man “you better have an earth rune” I said, and then started to mumbled cusses to myself.

‘Fuck I was having too much fun and forgot the earth rune dam!’ I thought to myself; but the larger leader man was very angry and his face had turned red.

“Fine I’ll do it my dam self” he said, taking out a large battle axe.

The battle axe blade was a circled and was jagged all around the blade; it looked like a saw blade on a grey stick. The blade was bigger than my head and the overall length of the weapon was about 6 feet long. He wield it like it had no weight and… it had an earth rune!

Grinning at seeing the earth rune I charged at the axe wielding man and as he swung at me I used my dagger and threw it at his right foot. This caused the weapon to veer of course letting me dodge down to the ground and after I ran at the man coming up close and punched him in the throat. I leaned down and picked up my dagger out of his foot. His weapon was now out of his hand having dropped it after being struck in the throat. I put the dagger to his throat and asked him something.

“Hey do you think you can remove the rune on your dagger please” I asked I a polite tone

But before he could answer more men came at me. So I channelled the darkness element and wind element and swung at the charging men. The result was horrifying; all the men even the one’s in the back were sliced in half in a split second. The wind element had sped up the darkness element giving the 23 other men no time. I looked down at the ex-leader and asked him again to remove the rune; this time he agreed as long as I didn’t kill him. Well I crossed my fingers so I killed him anyways; after that my party of 3 entered the camp.

The camp had been built at the top of a flat hill and in the middle they had dug a hole and placed 4 guards around it. Akino took charge and slice the 4 men’s heads off in the blink of an eye and what we saw was what I had thought was happening. Women were in the hole; 8 to be exact and they were in horrible condition. Akino and Dai helped them out of the hole; I didn’t help as I felt… off.

“Akino I think we need-” I was cut off by screaming I turned to see an Orthrus head biting the head of one of the ‘saved’ women.

As I saw this I ran up to the Orthrus and slashed its ‘busy’ sides head the dagger slashed through. But the black blood that leaked out was like the poisonous saliva and burned the ground it touched. ‘Dam it this doesn’t work’ I thought as I moved back I turned and saw Akino and Dai fighting 3 more Orthrus’s.

Seeing this I ran over and as I got up to the two girls I saw that Dai was in trouble but Akino was not having it easy as she was fighting two and defending the women they’d saved. But without a second thought ran and grabbed Akino’s hand sliced with black mist stopping the 2 Orthrus attacking her even cutting two heads in half but they started to grow back. Then dragged Akino with me and started to run; but Akino stopped me when we were a little farther away and yelled at me.

“Arthas stop we need to help Dai she’s in trouble!” but it was too late.

Two of the Orthrus’s heads had grabbed Dai’s lower legs and hip and the other Orthrus’s heads got her upper chest and head.

“AAAAAAAAARGH!”

Rip!

Crunch!

Dai’s blood curdling scream, Crunches of bone, tearing of flesh and muscles could be heard. Akino looked at me and yelled.

“Why, why didn’t you help her, I could hold them off for a little” tears could be seen in her ice blue eyes “why did you leave her to die! And the other women we have to help them!”

I started to force Akino to move seeing the Orthrus were starting on their other ‘meals’ screams of pain and horror could be heard from the once ‘saved’ women. ‘These meals will keep them busy for now’ I thought; then I looked at Akino and said.

“Akino the only thing that matters to me is that you’re safe and Dai completed her task she had no use to us and damaged women have no use to me”

“How can you say that Dai traveled with us for 4 years she was a friend and those women are innocent they need help!” Akino was yelling and fearful of my lack of care for Dai and those women.

“Akino, she was your friend not mine; to me she was my death row prisoner that had her time come and those women are in purgatory they are murders and killers just like us.” I looked at Akino as she had stopped us again then looked at a Orthrus running at us and

said leaning closer to Akino “Akino all I care about in this realm is you” after that I kissed her on the lips.

Her face turned red and I started to pull her again running from the Orthrus. I headed for a known trading center. As we got close I looked to see the other 2 Orthrus had joined up; making 3 Orthrus hounds chasing us. I ran through the gate of the stone wall, slicing the throat of the guards that had tried to stop us and as I was half way through the trading center screams could be heard as the Orthrus had made it inside. I found the other exit on the other side and kept running. We ran for days without rest when finally I stopped and looked at a blanked faced Akino. ‘I guess that kiss really shocked her huh’ I thought and started to snapped my fingers in front of her face.

She looked at me a started to blush and said “why… why did you kiss me.”

“Well we needed to move and you were sad and angry at me; so I thought kissing you would help” I said, with a smile.

“…..” she looked at me and sat down on the grey ground “why didn’t you help her at least…” she asked me again.

“Because she was not a priority to me and she had no use to me” I said the smile disappearing from my face.

“Will you do the same to me then?” she asked, bringing her knees up to her chest and looking at the ground.

“No. Never, I couldn’t even bare the idea of leaving you Akino” I said, kneeling down beside Akino “Akino you are the only person that has made me feel like a person rather than a monster since childhood”

“But Dai did the same” She said, in a light tone.

“Dai was always scared of me; she doesn’t have the power that you have to not fear me” I said, with a gentle smile

“Haha at first I could be said to be equal to you but now… now I don’t think so” Akino looked up from the ground and looked at me with gentle glittering eyes.

Seeing her like that I moved in and kissed her again this time Akino was shocked again but closed her eyes and as I moved my hand up her body to her breast; her hand stopped me.

“We… we can… can’t do this now!” she said, in a panicked tone as she wiped her lips.

“Ok, ok you have a point” I got off the ground and smirked “Later then”

Akino just kept sitting on the ground face fully flushed; hand clutched in a fist over her heart.

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Akino’s POV.

‘HE- He kissed me… never in my life was I kissed who’d have thought my first kiss was in purgatory hehe’ I thought with a giggle to myself. Then I looked at Arthas and thought ‘why is he like this I- I want to know more about him and about his past life.

“Hey Arthas can you tell me in detail of your childhood” he looked at me with that smile of his “I just wish to know more about you”

He stopped walking a thought for a sec then said “ok but first tell me your story of your life for I can know more about you”

“OK- Ok but you have to keep your promise” he nodded at me so I started “well it was 70 years ago now”

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WORLD ASURA 70 YEARS AGO CONTINENT YUN

8 year old Akino:

I have listened to the teachers lessen for 4 hours now; but at least this is the easiest part of my day before this we had warm ups of running 200 Po (about 656.17 feet) around the sects’ track twice. These lessons teach us how to use shadow magic, how to be a good assassin and the sects rules.

Thanks to shadow magic being a darkness element magic we are hunted by the holy union. This means that the sect kidnaps young girls to be its disciples; this includes me and the other girls in my class.

After the lesson ended we headed outside and trained and sparred for hours. This time a girl was killed by a wooden weapon crushing her throat; she had struggled for breath for a few minutes the instructor even forced us to watch her die. As I curled up in a ball on my bed and I cried… cried for a girl I had just talked to, had been even nice to me being gone. That had been the first time I’ve seen someone die directly in front of me.

10 year old Akino:

We have spent the last week executing prisoners; they said we had to get used to death. For the first 3 days it was hard but then I got… numb to the feeling but not the smell; the smell of iron and feces. Who knew peoples bowels emptied after they died most of the girls vomited after the smell first leaked out; but now we can keep our food down at least.

We all have weapons we specialise in, I use a needle sword the blade is 3.5 Zo wide (about 1.4 inches) and 91 Zo long (about 35.8 inches) a flexible weapon. The weapon uses the theory of soft to defeat hard; due to how flexible my body is it’s a good weapon for me.

As I head to my dorm I see two girls fighting; they are older than my groups’ girls by a year. The two use short spear like weapons that have curved blades and as they fight at fast speeds due to the shadow magic they use. The magic makes their bodies turn into black mist, the fight lasted a long time and I watched the whole thing. The fight ended when a girl caught the other girl with her blade on the neck.

“What are you looking at you little bitch” an older girl said, to me as she went to the girl that had just won.

I looked at her then turned to walk away, the older girl started to walk at me and grab my shoulder. But as she was about to; I pulled out my sword and it stopped on her neck just Zo away from cutting her head off.

“Leave now.” I said, in a cold voice.

This got a nod from the older girl and I sheathed my weapon; but as I turned around the girl pulled out her weapon which was the same as the other girls. Then slashed at my back; I used the shadow magic to let the weapon pass through me the spun and lobbed her head off. The other girls looked at me surprised then scared and I turned to see an instructor standing there.

“The master would like to see you Akino” she said, with a blank cold face and emotionless voice.

I nodded and followed the instructor; she then led me to a large old looking building, then down large stairs that led deep into the ground. We stopped in front of a large stone door; then the door opened and leaked black mist and an ancient voice spoke.

“MARY YOU MAY LEAVE NOW”

The instructor bowed and left then the voice spoke again but this time to me.

“ENTER IN SIDE AKINO WE NEED TO SPEAK”

I bowed like the instructor did and entered the dark, mist filled stone room. As I was half way into the room the door slammed shut. I looked around but no one was there then I asked the voice.

“Where are you?”

“ALL AROUND YOU GIRL, I’M THE MIST AND THE SHADOWS AND THE SHADOWS AND MIST ARE ME” the ancient voice said.

The mist in the room spun around me and formed into a beautiful woman in front of me.

“HELLO GRIL YOU HAVE MANY QUESTIONS I’M SURE BUT I’LL LET YOU ASK LATER. FRIST I’D LIKE TO SAY YOUR AFFINITY WITH THE DARKNESS ELEMENT IS AMAZING AND SKILLS WITH THE NEEDLE SWORD IS GOOD I’D LIKE TO TAKE YOU AS MY DISCIPLE” the woman said

I kneeled on the ground in front of the woman and said “I wish to be your disciple master”

“GOOD”

16 year old Akino:

Today I’m going on my first mission; it’s been 6 years since my master took me in and my years with her have been pretty good she’s hard to train with but my life in the sect has been good. My master is the immortal of the shadow sect her age is around 800 years old; being her disciple has given me some respect in the sect and no one messes with me anymore.

My first mission is a simple assassination mission; my target is a mayor of a small town. But the mayor is a paranoid man and his home is heavily guarded.

As I snuck up to his home I see it’s a large mansion in a town of houses that look more like shacks. The mansion has a large wall around it with patrols; so I wait till night time to sneak in. Night time hit and I willed my body into black mist and spread it low to the ground blending in with the ground and passed right through a crack in the wall. I proceeded into the house and stopped in front of the door where I willed the mist to reform my body.

That had taken a lot of mana out of me and I only have enough mana to leave this place. So I entered the room silently; I saw my target sleeping in his bed and I walked silently next to him. That’s when I saw his small child sleeping next to him; thinking of my masters’ words “Cut your conscience and complete your mission regret comes later” I pulled out my blade and added my black mist to it and stabbed into his heart. The mist filled his body and he couldn’t make a noise or even move then he died; died next to his sleeping child.

I walked over to his window and opened it then stepped into the window sill and waited. Moments later a breeze came and as it passed I willed my body in to mist and floated away within the breeze.

That was my first mission nothing exciting or hard just another mission and it continued till I was 26.

26 year old Akino:

My sect has been on edge lately due to the holy union closing in on us. My sect is located in the mountains surrounded by a barrier that keeps people from finding us. But the leader of the investigation is a 3 soul immortal; which is more powerful than our 2 soul immortal.

Boom!

A loud bang could be heard then a booming voice shouted out making my eardrums feel like they were bleeding.

“Demons and heretics, your day of doom has come”

An old man floated in covered in a blinding golden light. He wore white priest robes with golden straps of cloth hanging off his shoulders. The man’s name was Polygamy Bammer and he wielded a large golden hammer that had white glowing runes all-over it.

Whoosh

The sound of the wind picked up as black mist leaked out of the and a beautiful woman appeared she had pitch black hair pale white skin and ice blue eyes that seemed to have black mist within. This was my master Kyla Moedashie the immortal of my sect.

“SO YOU HAVE COME POLYGAMY” said my master, in her ancient voice “YOU GET BORED OF YOUR WIVES HMM”

“HAHA funny Kyla, but no it’s time for you demons to DIE!” the man’s voice boomed “Men for the GOD of light and grace”

All the holy unions’ soldiers ran in to the sect then I heard in my ear a whisper from my master

“Go, save the children Akino”

I nodded and ran to the dorms and started to gather the children getting them to the back gate killing the men that got in my way but then a man with two large hammers stepped in the way with two others.

“Sir what about the children?” the younger man asked the man in front.

CHILDREN! Ha don’t make me laugh Hoden these are demons not children!” the man looked at the young girls and licked his lips “let’s kill them! And have some fun with them too!”

“Yes sir as you order” the young man said, disgust on his face but he hid it quickly.

As he approached me I stepped toward him taking out my sword, causing it to fill with black mist and yelled at the children.

“When I give the order run into the mountains follow the heart of darkness!”

The children nodded; only sect members know what that saying means and it’s the first thing learned when you come here. The man took out a golden long sword and slashed at me. I used my sword to let the long sword pass by me and as my sword hit his it would bend and slash at his throat; but his armor protected his throat.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” the perverted man yelled “Gordan go help him she can’t turn in to mist or the children behind her will get hurt hehe” he said with a creepy chuckle.

The Gordan man pulled his large golden axe off his back and came at me with the other man. It didn’t take much for me to get my first cut then second and more and more cuts and within a minute I was full of cuts and was bleeding and breathing heavily.

“Dam it how long does this take… well I’ll just get to work with the children hehe” the perverted man said, walk toward the children.

Seeing this I stressed and as the man approached I knew I had one choice. The two men were slashing and I didn’t block but jumped in-between them taking the hits that almost split me in half. But as I got past I stabbed the perverted man with my sword in his heart.

The attack filled him with the black mist as his ears, eyes, mouth and nose leaked the black mist he collapsed to the ground. Seeing the man die filled me with relief, then I collapsed to the ground too and when I looked at my stomach my guts were hanging out mixing with the dirt.

Don’t worry we’ll leave the children” the older man Gordan said, kneeling next to me

“Th… thank… thank y… you…” I struggled to say.

The last thing I saw was the children escaping through the gate.

Back in purgatory, year 32 in purgatory

Arthas POV.

‘Man that story took 17 years and 2 months to tell; I mean dam that girl will talk your head off’ I thought to myself ‘but dam her story is easy to listen to, my story is going to be fun to tell… to say the least.

I looked at Akino and said “well my story starts…”

TO Be Continued!