A torch in the dark, a flicker of light,
Fighting the shadows, chasing away the night.
A glimmer of hope, through the darkness,
The flame keeps burning, drawing close.
The torch in the dark, a glimmer of hope,
Guiding the lost, lighting the way.
In the silence, in the cold,
The torch in the darkness is hope.
A hooded figure runs through the forest he jumps onto the branch of a tree. He leaps across the many branches of trees. The moon illuminates the darkness with its gorgeous light. The light reflects off the black robes of the figure. The growls of the undead fighting off the silence of the forest. The hooded figure sighs "I hate that sound." He removes his hood. It's Ryo a much older version of him about 3 years older. He appears tired and bored. Showing no interest only signs of annoyance. He extends his hand conjuring a scythe its snath and blade camp blood red its rigid not smooth at all it feels like the snath and blade camp is made up of the meat of an animal. He jumps off the branch falling onto the hordes off undead he swings his scythe cutting the undead in a circle the blood spills to his face. He sighs "I hate the smell of rotten blood." He dodges and weaves while swinging his blade cutting down the undead. He hits an undead in the gut with the snath. Piercing through the undead. He high kicks it on the head he jumps off the undead's body onto the another breaking its neck. He swings his blade cutting the head off many undead with ease with a final swing of his blade he cuts down the final undead in two. He sighs "The blood stinks." The scythe disappears out of his hand "But I can't change its smell."
He goes to a beautiful village the village where Rin lives. The people of the village are laughing and joking around with each other. The houses decorated with light for no purpose. He extends his hand washing his hand in the fountain. The remaining blood falling off his hand. "How can they smile, laugh when they know danger can come at any moment." He sighs leaving the village climbing the mountain to the cabin he lives with Yusaki. He opens the door with a cracking noise. "Did you finish off all the undead?" Yusaki asks with a cold voice. Ryo nods before going into his room and falling onto his bed. He closes his eyes "I am tired."
The orange rays of sunlight bouncing off the wooden wall of the cabin. Ryo wakes up getting off the bed and heading out the wind brushing against Ryo's white skin. He runs to the village. As he runs through the village the villagers smile at him. Their smiles are warm without a care in the world of what happens next they are content with who they are and what they have. A woman is cooking for her family. A man is chopping down wood. Children are playing games with each other. A boy kicks a ball sending it flying towards him he catches it throwing it back to the boy before running out.
He makes his way back to the cabin covered in sweat. He catches his breath after the long run. He wipes sweat off his face using his hand. Yusaki comes outside "We need to go to village." Ryo nods. They head back to the village. Yusaki heads to cartographer of the village. "Wait here till I come back." Ryo goes and sits near the fountain. The kid who was playing ball comes near Ryo. He had black hair with brown eyes "Thank you for passing me the ball earlier." "Its fine." He says with a nonchalant attitude enjoying the wind brushing against him. The kid sits near him "Why are you sitting here like this." He asks curiously. "My father said he wanted to buy something from the cartographer." "Who is your father?" "Yusaki." The kid gasps in shock realizing who he is talking to "So you are Ryo." Ryo nods. "My name is Shinjoki. It's nice to meet you." His voice is humble his smile giving off a warm sensation. Ryo nods. They sit there quietly Shinjoki doesn't know what to talk about and Ryo doesn't care. Shinjoki pokes Ryo's arm with a pouty expression on his face "Hey why are you not talking to me." "I don't know." He says his voice cold and distant like he is not here or something. "How can you not know?" He says as he continues to pout. Ryo does not answer his question. "Fine then I will say something." He says with a confident attitude. "I know you are a necromancer and mama said they have very strong weapons can you show me your weap-." "No." "B-B-But why not. Why? can't I see your weapon." He asks with a sad expression looking as if he is about to cry. Ryo sighs "Fine I will show it to you." Shinjoki's expression changes from sad to happy in a second his eyes beaming with excitement. He extends his hand. Blood swirls around his hand before the scythe appears in his palms. This is my weapon it's a scythe. "Ohhh it's so cool. It is way cooler than the sword of your father." Ryo forces a faint smile. "I didn't expect you to say my weapon is cooler than his." "Can I ask you something?" He asks reluctantly. Ryo nods "Is it about my father." Shinjoki nods "You personality I like your father I don't see you much here so is it because of your father." Ryo gazes at Shinjoki's "The boy is smart." He says to himself before answering his question. "Yes." Shinjoki's face turns serious "Then why do you obey him." His tone serious completely different from his previously childish and innocent tone. "I am not strong enough to beat him." "Have you tried killing him." He says as he plays with a pebble. Ryo shakes his head "No." Shinjoki looks at Ryo with a smile on his face "Do what you want. Listen to your heart." Yusaki comes out of the cartographer's office he calls out for Ryo. He gets up and leaves. Shinjoki waves and says good bye Ryo responding with only a nod before leaving to his father. "Where were you." Yusaki asks with a stern voice. "I was sitting near the fountain." Yusaki nods. They leave towards their house.
As they walk towards to their house Yusaki speaks "I went to the cartographer because I got the news that vampires were found on the outpost near our village. This map will show you the way." Ryo nods "When should I go." "2 days later." Yusaki gives Ryo the map as they enter their house.
2 days has passed Ryo leaves after finishing his daily routines. He passes by the village. Somebody calls Ryo from behind. He turns around to see Shinjoki's bright face "Where are you going Ryo." "I am going to check a site with vampires." Shinjoki's eyes bright up "WHAT VAMPIRES AREN'T THEY REALLY RARE AND STRONG." Ryo nods "I should get going." He turns around and leaves. Shinjoki waves him a good bye before going back to his mother.
He jumps through the forest. His hood hovering off his body he spots a group of undead near the outpost. He drops down. The undead runs towards him. He kicks the first one then he conjures his scythe. He pierces through the jaw of another undead before throwing it to a group of them knocking them to the ground. He swings his scythe cutting many undead in half "There seems to have no presence of a vampire. But I cannot confirm it just yet." Suddenly a giant muscular undead jumps down slamming the ground with its giant enormous arms creating a small crater on the ground. But Ryo is able to move out of the way completely unharmed by the sneak attack. "This one is strong huh." He charges in cutting the undead hand a little. It punches back sending Ryo flying. He grabs a branch and launches himself back at the undead. The undead attacks but he moves out of the way cutting the side of its arm. It attacks but he dodges and kicks it back in the face. The undead throws a punch Ryo blocks it with his left arm but is knocked to the side by a few inches. It pulls out a tree and swings it around in a circular direction. He jumps and stands on the tree as the undead swings it. It roars and smashes the tree on the ground. Pieces of tree trunk pierces onto his body causing small wounds across it. He charges towards it cutting its side. The undead claps it arms together creating a shock wave before it reaches him he pushes his scythe into the ground like pole and grabs onto it so that he is not sent flying. The undead punches but he jumps up and lands down with a kick. He takes his scythe from the ground and with a swipe cuts off the undead's head. He jumps off the undead's body. He moves to the cave.
He drops down the cave. It's filled with glowing gems of many colors. He looks around seeing glowing red eyes in the darkness. He sighs ready for the fight. As the werewolves run towards him he cuts one of their head and swings his blade cutting many down from the middle. A wolf tries to bite his head off but he grabs both of its jaws and tears them down in both directions. He stabs the tail end of his scythe into the chest of a werewolf. He chops the head off another werewolf. "Such a pain." He says as he swings his blade cutting the many enemies in his way. They were no foe for him only nuisance in his way. Finally, he is able to the kill the final werewolf.
As he moves through the cave the wall on his right breaks into pieces as a two giant zombies like the once he saw before. "No chance these many giant zombies won't exist in a place with vampires. The strength and control that vampires possess over zombies will not be stable" As they attack he moves out of the way and attacks back cutting off one of its hand. But the second one punches the back of Ryo's neck. He falls to the ground "This is a tight spot I can't move around to dodge." He blocks an incoming attack. His eyes blinded by the dust from the punches. He gets hit and backed into a corner. He attacks cutting one of the beasts from the middle. He dodges the punch from the second zombie. The cave crumbing on them as they fight. He cuts the arm of the beast. It roars before it slams its hand on the ground. Ryo tries to chop its head off but before he could do that He gets punched into the wall and the cave crumbles on him. His view blocked by the rocks falling on him.
Where Am I Am I Dead No Its Too Soon I Just Fainted I Have To Wake up WAKE UP. He conjures his blade destroying the rocks and getting out. His Body battered and bruised Bleeding out of his eyes, nose, ears, head and his hands. His hood torn apart
"I have to… find.. a way.. out." He navigates his way out of the cave to see the outpost completely destroyed. "The outpost its destroyed wait does that mean the undead and the werewolves escaped the cave and…" His mind wanders off to the worst of worse possibilities. He tries to run as fast as possible not concerned about the pain he is feeling.
As he reaches his village he sees the scene of it burning down and a blonde haired girl standing in the middle of it with two guns in her hands. Her Beautiful ocean blue eyes contrasting the bright orange flames of destruction. She smirks "Took you long enough. I saved as many people as I could but not everyone. You should go rest you are in bad shape Ryo." Ryo nods Rin helps Ryo get to the village hospital which is still intact acting as a bunker for the survivors and a keeping place for the dead bodies. Yusaki is also present in the dungeon seemingly waiting for Ryo's arrival. Rin helps Ryo get on one of the beds and the nurses instantly start taking care of him. Dressing up his wounds until the bleeding stopped.
After the nurses leave Yusaki approaches him. "You failed didn't you isn't it why this all happened." He says in a cold tone. Ryo nods knowing full well that it's his fault that the village is destroyed. "You are a failure Ryo." Ryo doesn't respond.
After sometime he gets off his bed and heads to see how many people passed away. He enters the room to find it full of bags containing bodies. Men, woman and children everybody was included in this massacre. Ryo seemed as if he didn't care he had no expression on his face. As he looks at the faces of the bodies he spots the body of a young boy. The dead body of Shinjoki He goes near his body and kneels down. "Oh." He says his voice didn't contain any feeling this kid he met a few days ago was his only connection other than Rin and Yusaki. But still he didn't feel any sadness. He stands up and leaves as he does so Shinjoki's words appear in his mind. Do what you want to. Listen to your heart. He leaves to his bed.
A few weeks pass after the incident Ryo has healed completely and the village is slowly returning to its former glory. Yusaki enters Ryo's room "Are you just going to sit there and waste time Come on let's train." Ryo nods and both of them leave the cabin. Yusaki conjures his sword in his left arm. Ryo conjures his scythe and gets ready to battle Yusaki. As he attacks with his scythe it gets blocked easily and counters successfully unarming Ryo. He places his sword on Ryo's throat. If you don't fight with a clear mind you will be weaker than your true self. Listen to your heart if not death is the result. His eyes widen as Yusaki says this. "Now go do your daily exercise and come back. Ryo nods and leaves.
As he runs through the village he sees that the villagers are working hard. But something is different it's not the same as before a lingering fear exists in them the fear of what happened. Many lost the life of their parents brothers husbands wife and even children so it makes sense why. He notices that the kids are not playing they are just sitting there just wondering what to do. As he looks at them he remembers Shinjoki. His smiling face that he last saw with no emotion. He remembers his and Yusaki's words. In a way they were the same. "But what do I want. Do I want to kill Yusaki after all he is the one that is causing me all this pain and suffering or should I kill myself who is feeling all this pain and suffering. I know, there is no reason for me to die. He should die He is the one who deserves to die. He turns around and looks at the mountain that his cabin lies on. "But if I do so it's sure that I will get exiled from this village but I don't care."
As he reaches the top he sees Yusaki standing on the flower bed covered with beautiful flowers of many colors his face serious like always "Yusaki I will end your life right now." "So you have finally made up your mind." Ryo nods As he dashes towards Yusaki conjuring his Scythe and attacking. He moves back avoiding the attack. He conjures his sword and attacks back. As Ryo blocks it Yusaki front kicks him. Pushing Ryo back He attacks cutting Ryo from the middle. He uses the blade camp of his scythe hit Yusaki on the chest. Yusaki tries to slash Ryo but he blocks it and is able scartch Yusaki on the cheek. But before Ryo is able to bring his scythe down and injure his shoulder Yusaki blocks it. Yusaki's blade turns red the air stirs around him and he swings it sending many hurricanes in Ryo's way. He dodges two of the hurricanes but gets hit on the leg by the third one. Ryo attacks but Yusaki blocks the attack. Ryo moves down his scythe and slits Yusaki's stomach. Yusaki groans in Pain but strikes back onto Ryo's shoulder but Ryo blocks it and hits Yusaki on the jaw with the snath of his scythe. Ryo lands a blow on Yusaki's shoulder but before he could pull the scythe back Yusaki stabs him through the chest and then kicks him. Before he can recover Yusaki punches him on the face. Yusaki tries to slash him but Ryo moves out of the way narrowly escaping attack. Ryo blocks Yusaki's next attack with his snath before cutting Yusaki's wrist. He uppercuts Yusaki. Ryo's slash gets blocked but Ryo hits Yusaki in the head with the snath of his scythe. Yusaki counters landing a slash on Ryo. He quickly strikes Ryo's scythe and kicks him sending him a few steps back and sending his scythe flying out of his hand. "Now what will you do Ryo. How will you fight back? How will you kill me? Tell me Ryo. If you are going to be silent then I see no reason not to kill you. Don't worry Ryo you are actually strong. Lusaka's blade glows red and as he is about to swing his blade to land the final blow his head gets cut off from his body by Ryo's scythe. He catches the thing as it returns to him and makes it disappear. A long thread tied to finger. He walks closer to Yusaki's decapitated head and sighs before he goes inside the cabin.
A young man comes running to the village yelling. "Ryo killed Mr. Yusaki." Everyone in the village is surprised to learn about this news to know that the hero protecting their village had been killed by Ryo. They were devastated in fact. The village elders took a collective decision of exiling Ryo from the village.
At Rin's house. "Rin did you know your best friend Ryo killed his father." "Yeah I heard about it." She says with a calm tone not caring and sits down on a chair. "He is going to get exiled from the village that's what I have been hearing and he deserved that for killing a man like Mr. Yusaki." "Shut up Mom I know if Ryo killed his father he will have a good reason to it." "No he doesn't Mr. Yusaki was such a good man." Rin rolls his eyes "Like you know anything." "Rin you are supporting a criminal. If you do so the village elders will take the decision of exiling you too and I won't be able to take it I am not capable of losing another person that I care about." Her eyes tearing up. Rin hugs her mother "Don't cry mom even if I leave. You have to be strong and live." "What are you talking about you won't leave me won't you. Rin smiles If they exile Ryo I am going to go with him. Because I am his friend the only one he has." Rin's mother nods knowing she can't change her daughters mind.
A few days pass the village elders and a few villagers forces Ryo to leave the village. Somebody calls from behind its Rin. "Ryo I am with you." Ryo looks at Rin "No." "Hey come on Ryo stop acting like this let me tag along please, please, please, please, please, ple-." "Fine." Rin jumps with excitement. Ryo turns around and leaves. Rin waves everyone goodbye before following Ryo to wherever he is going.