"Aki, I came because I brought the Magic Hero Balthasar Black and his Kitsune here so you can make her your heir as I intend to do the same with the Shield Heroes Filolial" Fitoria said to the current Kitsune Queen

"A Kitsune Queen? Please, Little one come here" Aki said motioning Emiko to come closer

Balthasar had tapped the Kitsune in the back before giving her a nod reasurring her that it was okay. Once Emiko was within reach Aki began feeling her face as well as her body

"She's beautiful" the Kitsune Queen said cupping the girls face

"Thank you miss" replied Emiko

"Emiko, remember what we talked about when you meet the Queen[the Melromarc Queen]" Balthasar said

"Oh I'm Sorry Master, Thank you very much your majesty" Emiko said Slightly bowing to the Kitsune Queen

"So well mannered, tell me what did your master name you, is it just Emiko or do you possess a last name as I do?" asked the Kitsune Queen

"Emiko Black" Replied Emiko with a smile

"He's given you his last name, interesting" Said Aki

"How is that interesting?" asked the Magic Hero

"I have met many of the Cardinal Hero before meeting Fitoria, and many of them had their own mounts, some Dragons, some pegasi, and others Filolials. the majority gave their mounts their last name when they transformed into human, and there are only 2 reasons they gave them their last names, the first was becuase they never had a child of their own, and the other was because they lost a child and wanted to fill in the hole in their heart" Explained Aki

So tell me Sir Hero, which one are you?" Asked the Kitsune Queen raising the anger of the Magic Hero

"Does my reasoning matter to you Miss Ran?" asked the Magic Hero

"No it doesn't, but moving on I would like to ask you to not use the Cursed weapon or its spells especially the Cursed Configuration" Aki said feeling around the ground for her knocked over chair

"The Cursed Configuration isn't as bad as you make of it" the Magic Hero said causing the Kitsune Queen to jolt back into a standing position

"Which ones have you aquired?" asked Aki

"Just the Sword of Wrath" replied the Hero

"I strongly advise you to Never use any of these weapons to kill anyone, the toll it takes it to great, But above all else Do Not use the Crystal of Gluttony, it drains your enemy health increasing yours, however it also drains your parties health as well" Warned the Kitsune Queen

"How do you know so much about the Cursed Series?" Asked Balthasar

"The Previous Magic Hero, Kuro Merlin once wielded the same power you use, from what I gathered he unlocked it when he watched his Wife die in his arms. The Previous Magic Hero had fell in love and Married a Fox Demi-Human named Irena, the Three Heroes Church caught wind of this and had her kidnapped, they sold her as a sex slave, it took us months to track her as she was constintly being sold and traded, but by the time we found it was too late. she was dying the moment we got into the bedroom she was locked in, even after all these years I can still remember what she said and the screams of my master" Aki said as she retold a memory of her past

~Many Years Ago~

Utilizing the Many skills and spells within his arsenal the Magic Hero rushed into the Estate before grabbing hold one of the knights

"Where Is She?!!" Yelled the Magic Hero

"Who.." began the Knight before being slammed into the wall

"Don't You Dare Test Me, You Know Damn Well Who I Seek!!"

"She's locked in the Guest bedroom" the Knight said before he was knocked out by Kuro's Sleep spell

Rushing through the estate both the Hero and his Kitsune make it to guest bedroom before Aki broke down the door revealing a sickly and bleeding Irena

"Irena!!" Kuro yelled running to his wife and prepared his magic only to find both his MP and SP to low to cast a healing or skill

"No! No! NO!" yelled Kuro as Irena placed her hand on the Heroes face

"I'm sorry my love, I have been unfaithful to you Kuro"

"Please don't talk, We can still save you Irena" Kuro said grabbing her hand

"No you can't" She said softly "I'm just glad the last thing I see is both you and Aki"

Irena's grip slowly began to loosen as her hand fell from the Magic Heroes hand

"I...Love..You...Both...." Irena said as the light left her eyes

"I..Irena" Kuro said tears falling from his eyes as he hugged Irena's body

"Master I'm sorr..." Began Aki before she saw a powerful and unholy aura covering the Magic Hero

"Aki..."

"Yes Master" Answered Aki

"Stay...Here..." Kuro said as his clothing and staff glowed orange and red

Kuro stepped out and proceeded to attack the inhabitants of the estate. Leaving a trail of blood and bodies wherever her went

~Elsewhere~

"This isn't good, the Magic Hero has grown stronger than any of the other Heroes. We must get out of here and inform the Pope of..." Began the Cross wearing man as a fist emerged from the wall and began choking his associate

"ECCHHH ACCHH....Reckon Hel.."

'Snap'

The arm wraps around the body's neck and pulls it throught the wall leaving a massive hole in the wall,

steping through the wall stood The Magic Hero clad in his Cursed Armor weilding the Staff of The Seven Sins, Kuro looked at the fear stricken man and pointed his staff at him. The Magic Hero then began to recite a incantation of a unholy spell

'

Black flames spewed from his staff and engulfed the man holding the cross which melted along with the flesh off his bones

~Present~

"....Since that day he was no longer the same man who raise me, he was someone with a huge distaste for Humanity, vowing only to serve and Protect the Demi-Humans alongside the Shield Hero. during our travels he unlocked the Cursed Configuration and used them on Slavers and members of the Three Heroes Church. He dispised Humanity as well as himself for letting Irena die, to the point he almost took his own life so he could be with his wife. During the Final Wave the Four Cardinal Heroes perished and left Kuro and Myself to fight the wave, we were surrounded, all odds were against us, master was low on health from protecting me, and his Mana and Skill Points were depleted, deep down he regretted what he had to do"

~The Final Wave - Many Years Ago~

"Master, there's no excape, were surrounded"

"I know Aki" Kuro said though ragged breaths

'May God have mercy on me'

"I'm Sorry Aki" Kuro said shifting his weapon and Armor to their Cursed form

The Magic Heroes Staff vanished while being replaced with a levitating red crystal ball with a flaming Eye gazing from the center

Green, Blue, and Red energy began to pour into the crystal from the monsters and Aki body all the while Kuro's body glowed brighter as he began to laugh psychologically {think Joker Laugh}

Aki fell to the ground as her body felt weaker and weaker, One by One the monsters fall to the ground dead, however even with all the monsters dead it did not stop the Magic Hero from using the Crystal

"M..Master" Aki said reverting into her human form as she began to crawl to the Magic Hero

"Master...Please" Aki said as her vision began darkening

Aki was a full foot away from the hero before her vision went completely black

"K...Kuro" Aki said collapsing at the Heroes feet

The Magic Hero snapped out of his Trance and looked around before gazing in horror at his Kitsune

"Dear God" Kuro said picking up the purple haired girl

"I'm Sorry, I'm so very Sorry" Kuro said walking away from the battle field

~Present~

"My master than brought me here, a place were no monsters or humans can get in with out help from either me or Fitoria's help, however days later he vanished without a trace, not a word, not a goodbye, I had thought he returned to his world, but I was wrong when I later found him........He was dead, with a rope around his neck tied to a tree branch. with the help of surrounding Kitsune's I was able to get him down and bury him. I spent years thinking he kiiled himself because he didn't want to be with me anymore, that changed when I met Fitoria, she had found a note stabbed into the same tree" Aki said reaching into her pocket pulling out a old piece of paper

Aki, I just couldn't take it, I failed to protect her...the one woman I vowed to protect and I failed, I couldn't save her but I thought that If I could keepyou safe then this guilt would leave me and it did. Aki I Loved you like a daughter, I truly did....that being said I used a cursed skill that not only lowered your health to a perminint 3 and also took away your sight, I Hurt you. No parent should Ever harm their children, you must hate me for this but I know as long as I'm alive you'll only get hurt by either myself or people trying to get to me, and I don't know what would happen if I lost you. There is so much good in this world if you know where to look, But there isn't any good left in me, and the only option I have is to purge the last morsal of evil in your life, I Sorry I wasn't as stong as you, you were the only light I had in my life of darkness

Goodbye Aki, I love you

"I will only advise you this once Magic Hero, Never Use the Crystal of Glottony, overcome your anger, and purge the darkness that clouds your heart" ordered the Kitsune Queen

"Miss Ran, I swear on the name of Bahamut, That weapon will Never be used" Balthasar said taking a knee before the Kitsune Queen

"Very well, Little Emiko" Aki said gaining the Kitsune's attention as she soon bowed to

"I, Aki Ran, hear by name you the Next Queen of the Kitsunes" Aki said placing a gold crown on her head which vanished and was replaced with a red circle in her hair while her eyes had red markings

Thanking the Kitsune Queen, Emiko and Balthasar begin to leave until Aki calls for the Magic Hero

"A moment Mr. Black"

"Sure" Balthasar said as he followed the Kitsune Queen

"Tell me, does this artical of clothing look familiar to you" Aki said handing a piece of black cloth

Turning the cloth over Balthasar's blood ran cold

"Where did you get this?" asked the Magic Hero in a stern voice

"My Kitsunes brought that along with a body, the body was extremely banged up but the person was still alive...Barely. I've been sparingly spending my last remaining Mana points to ease his discomfort and keep him alive, my Kitsune's have told my this boy jumped off a cliff trying to save someone, quite noble of him if you ask me, from what they have told me he slammed into 3 rock formations before crashing down into a shallow lake, he's lucky he landed in the deepest part, otherwise we would not have saved him" explained Aki

"Is he a Demi-Human?" Asked Balthasar in a hopeful tone

"See for yourself" Aki said pointing forward

Looking ahead Balthasar saw the body on a bed of Kitsunes. It was Gray Morningstar, his clothing was ripped, bloodied wrappings covered his body, his physique was thinner, and his breathing was extremely shallow, Without hesitating The Magic Hero runs up to the Demi-Human before he grabs his staff and aim it at the Wolf Demi-Human

'Moonlight Revival'

The Orb of magic covers Gray in a grayish Green healing aura as his face relaxes and his breathing improves

"Lady" Balthasar said moving to the Kitsune Queen

"I could kiss you right now" The Magic Hero said but was stopped by the Queens hand

"I appreciate the gesture, but I still hold a deep distrust in humans much like you and my master did, so a thanks is all I will need

"Hmm..mm" Gray began regaining consiousness gaining the attention of The Hero and Kitsune

"One moment, I need a little family time with my brother" Balthasar said walking towards Gray while cracking his knuckles

"B..Balthasar?" said Gray before he was on the recieving end of Balthasar's right hook knocking him off the three-tailed Kitsunes

[Number of tails = Strength and size]

"YOU IDIOT!!" Yelled the Magic Hero

"I swear to God if you weren't half dead already I would kill you!!" Balthasar said kneeling in front of the Wolf Demi-Human before wrapping his arms around him "Don't ever Do something like that again"

Balthasar helped his brother up and made his way back to the campsite only to stop to give the Kitsune Queen a sideway glance

"You were right. I had a Daughter at one point, But The hole in my heart will never fill until Erigor dies by my hand" Balthasar said Leaving the Kitsune Queen

~Time Skip~

The next day at the Filolial Sanctuary, Balthasar watched as Lily and Emiko were double and triple checking to make sure that Gray was real which made the two of them happy, seeing this Balthasar smiled seeing his family back together. However Naofumi is still bitter as he recaps Fitoria's harsh words about killing the Four Cardinal Heroes if they don't get along and unite against the Waves, though he still doesn't let it out to his companions. While both parties ate the breakfast, Fitoria suddenly approaches the 2nd Princess and traps her inside a magic wind prison, this alerted both The Shield and Magic Hero

"Melty!/Princess!" Naofumi and Balthasar said as the spell blew away the table

"W..What's Happening?" Asked Melty as she reached the barrier of the spell only to reel back as the spell left a cut on her finger

"Fitoria Stop this" Ordered the Magic Hero

"I'm sorry but I must claim you as my Hostage" Fitoria said without any emotion in her voice

"You can't Melty is my friend" Said Filo

"I can't let you do that Your Majesty" Balthasar said as he began to use his Nullification Skill

However Fitoria appeared in front of the Magic Hero and Fired a wind spell at him at Point Blank blasting him into a wall of the ruins, Gray, Lily, and Emiko rushed to help the Hero

"Balthasar" Gray said kneeling in front of the Magic Hero

"...Ok....That one Hurt" Balthasar said picking himself up from the wall

"Stay out of this Magic Hero, this Is between Fitoria and the Filolial" Aki said walking next to the Magic Hero while petting a two-tailed Kitsune

"Why are you doing this?" Asked Naofumi

"I need your word Shield Hero, promise me you will reconcile with the Others" demanded the Filolial Queen

"let Mel Go" Ordered Filo

"And what if I don't, are you still going to harm the Princess?" asked Naofumi

"Look I told it won't happen, the other three only see me as a lowly criminal they won't even listen to a word I say" argued Naofumi

"Never the less I must ask you to reconsider"

"Why are you so obsessed with getting us to work together?" Asked the Shield Hero

"Because The Four Hero fight together to combat the waves" Said Balthasar walking towards Naofumi

"It is the job of the Four Cardinal Hero to fight the Waves while it is my job to protect the people from the wave, and as much as I hate to say it after what the king show me during the boss fight in the last wave, The Four Heroes Need to work together, even if they are morons" Said the Magic Hero

"The Magic Hero is right, I made a promise a long time ago to the Hero who raised me and because of that if this would is to survive The Cardinal Hero must work together to stop the Waves of Catastrophe, Please Shield Hero I beg you Reconsider" said the Filolial Queen

"No matter how many times you ask, I'm not going to make nice with those idiots" Naofumi said in a stern tone

"Then there is no choice, if you Heroes won't cooperate then New Heroes will be summoned..." Began the Filolial Queen

"That means I'll have to kill all four of you" Fitoria said in a grim tone

This statement causes Melty, Filo, Raphtalia, Gray, Lily, and Emiko to gasp in surprise while Naofumi and Balthasar looked at the Queen with a fierce determination

"You'd kill all of us Just because we don't get along?" asked the Shield Hero

"Kinda petty don't you think?" Asked the Magic Hero

"It is what is best for the world"

Yeah and considering how easily she killed that monster, she'd have no trouble killing all four of us Thought the Shield Hero

"But if you all reconcile It won't come to that" said Fitoria

"I understand, but I still can't do it and taking Melty hostage doesn't change anything, so if you're going to kill me then do it" Naofumi said raising his shield

Balthasar was about to raise his staff until the Kitsune Queen grabbed his wrist

"Like I said this isn't your fight" Aki said pulling the Magic Hero back to his party

"And I promise I'm not going down without a fight" Naofumi said as he shifted to his Rage Shield

"No need" Fitoria says lifting a hand with a blue magic aura covering it

Fitoria again prevents the transformation of Naofumi's Cursed Weapon.

"I understand how you feel Shield Hero.........I shall give you a chance" said the Filolial Queen

"Huh?"

"If you and your party can prove that you can defeat the Waves of Catastrophe without the aid of the other Heroes I'll let you live" said the Filolial Queen

"How do we do that?" Asked Raphtalia

"That's generous of you" Naofumi said in a sarcastic tone

"So what you want us to fight you right here?" asked Naofumi