A Task Never Succeeded

There was a peaceful presence in the sleeping starry night as the wind carried the peaceful sensation of calmness and cold. The crickets chattered within the grasses, while the others whispered in silence... Each night in the village of 'Althon' was a lovely dark.

Some were wide awake with exciting warmth for the next morning, while some shivered due to the fear in their lives. The others proceeded to carry their adventures in their dream.

SUDDENLY, Dark Energy emerged from the center of the village as it converted into an enormous explosion of Void Black Flames surrounded by dark energetic bits. It soon became a stormy night as terror and fear instantly developed within the hearts of people.

The village head, 'Tsumiyoshi Takagi' catches the grip of the situation instantly as he rushes out of his house out in the village, with an attempt to gather all the available swordsmen in the village. He yelled out with all his life:

"GUARDS UP, EVERYONE! WE HAVE BEEN ATTACK--"

A moment of silence until the impact of the explosion takes over the village EVEN MORE! The houses collapse, bones and hopes shatter, living bodies are now ready to be called corpses, life was burnt and the flames turn everything into ashes. The whole village is turning ruins.

Fortunately, the explosion still wasn't much effective to the area where Tsumiyoshi and his family lived in. The surviving swordsmen and guards took no more time as they rushed out in the situation too and spoke:

"An enemy attack?!"

"At a time like this, their only goal would be to capture something!"

"They had us off guard...!"

Tsumiyoshi turned his head back as he looked towards the other swordsmen.

"It is obvious... To think an enemy would be strong enough to get through Althon's protection barrier... Such strong enemy would only settle on capturing "The Lost Piece Of Black Sun" as their goal." Tsumiyoshi thought to himself, guessing.

As he wielded his shining crimson sword in hand, Tsumiyoshi ordered:

"Send the best of the best swordsmen to protect the Lost Piece! Supply medics to those who survived and those who have the chances to! We don't know how strong and prepared the enemy is. Everybody, be ready for the worst."

Tsumiyoshi had long dark hair which were styled like ancient samurai's... He wore a Red Kimono and a Black Hakama, with his sword sheath on his waist, Tsumiyoshi was identified as 'The Blazing Samurai'.

Another figure chased towards the flames out of the same house as Tsumiyoshi, but stopped right by him.

He had Crimson Red Eyes... Silver and spiky hair which slicked back, a crimson red sword which was as sharp as a dragon's claw and with an hilt of a dragon's roar. He wore a black and white swordsman uniform.

"Ryuga, I was waiting for your arrival." Tsumiyoshi said to the boy who stopped by him.

"I have arrived, father. What... is this tragedy?" Ryuga replied back to his father, the village head.

A twelve year old, strong and intelligent boy who survived his life with extreme hard work, stood prepared beside his father. This majestic youth was Ryuga Takagi... He also identified mainly as, "Dragon's Fang."

An adorable young child who peeked out his house's window glared upon the mass destruction and forest fire in his village, as his eyes widened.

"Ahead now, bring me the Lost Piece Of The Black Sun, slaughter each and every life which took birth in this cursed village." Spoke the anonymous voice deeply from afar.

As the unknown figure took one more step and pushed the pebbles down to land, he stood almighty on a tall large cliff near Althon, gazing down at the mass destruction of the village.

His appearance was shadowed by pure darkness as unrevealing as he is. Behind him kneeled another similar man.

Judging by their shadows, both of them had long hair like ancient swordsman, and wore kimono's with a cover of haori.

One who spoke stood front, and the second kneeled behind.

Both of them wielded swords.

"Make sure to not even leave the slightest marking of living soul in this village."

"As you wish, My Lord." Accepting his order, the one who bowed down to the shadow stood.

As Tsumiyoshi and Ryuga together with the other swordsmen rescued the citizens of the village, Tsumiyoshi stopped at a place as he spotted two strange men standing on the top of a cliff.

"Are they, the attackers...?" Tsumiyoshi doubted in his thoughts.

It was only a second after Tsumiyoshi noticed the two men, suddenly a several armies of Rakshas chase down everybody in the village as they raid it in large amounts! People have started getting killed by man-eating demons like Rakshas.

Only some could fight back, as the others died in vain.

"Tsumiyoshi-sama! It's not just two people, it's a vast army of 'Rakshas'!"

"He's right! Lord, what should we do?!"

Tsumiyoshi's face dwelled in an upset emotion with a mix of pure anger, as he stepped forward and prepared to fight.

"Isn't it obvious..? We fight, and kill all of them." Tsumiyoshi's order motivated the heart's of all the swordsmen.

As they charged into the monster creatures named Rakshas, there was a massive bloodshed everywhere, slaughtering and getting slaughtered, one could not see an end to the blood pouring down like a river on the ground. The flames spread more leaving no one to escape.

"HYAH!!"

"Argh!!"

"KILL IT!!"

Many died, as many killed. Tsumiyoshi killed more than twenty five in the battle ground, as he would go for the rest... Someone...

The second unknown man which resided behind the first's back, jumped down the cliff as he broke the ground with his hard feet. Standing, menacingly in front of Tsumiyoshi's honor.

Mighty Village Head instantly prepared to battle the strange man.

"Tsumiyoshi Takagi..." The anonymous man spoke,

"Tell me now, where is the Lost Piece? Or do I have to kill you and find out myself?"

"Hah, do I look like a tattletale?" Tsumiyoshi mocked with a smirk.

The wind blows heavily and swiftly around him, it's sharp enough to give a shallow cut to a body. He gracefully pulls out his dark sword. It's pure black for unworthy people.

The shadow made a disagreeing noise as a blade appeared right before Tsumiyoshi's throat, pouring down with dark energy, the Black Blade is in an attempt to slice Tsumiyoshi's neck open!

The Blazing Samurai could feel the sharpness before the blade even touched him, as his eyes were quick enough to catch the unknown movement, he instantly dodged the attack, dashing towards the strange man with his sword charging up flames!

They both dash towards each other as their swords clash, the slashes are so fast that they can't be seen by the human eyes, and trying to block them all is just like trying to reach the horizon. Impossible.

Tsumiyoshi swiftly and fluently swings his sword through the firm arms of the unknown man, as he slices both of his arms with Flames of the Sun!

The man instantly regenerated his hands back again, as he jumped up in mid air and swung his sword freely...

Tsumiyoshi's eyes widened as he instantly backed off far, sensing a dangerous attack he looked behind him... A whole house and many trees behind it, sliced up and destroyed... into bits and pieces.

He gripped his sword firmly.

"I see, you're a Rakshas too."

"Tch."

'His regeneration speed exceeds every other Rakshas…'

Now the moment focused on Ryuga, as he ran back to his half destroyed home and witnessed his little brother sobbing inside.

Ryuga gritted his teeth and instantly took his little brother on the back as he dashes even faster towards the opposite direction, in an attempt to get out of the village and escape.

Soon, he took his final step out of the village as a feeling struck inside him, he did not stop.

"Ni-nii chan?! Where are we going?!" The little boy questioned.

- Nii-chan means Elder Brother.

Ryuga spoke to Zen as he ran faster, "Zen, we need to escape as far as we can!"

"B-but why?! W-What is happening...?" He hid his face in Ryuga's back in fear.

"You've seen the explosion and mass destruction now? Haven't you? It is because of two people with outstanding power, they have attacked our village."

"Father figured out what they're after, he told me to escape the village with you, some might already have escaped. Their goal only comes when they kill us all.

"So to fail that, we'll escape."

As Ryuga ran with Zen on his back, he slightly looked back over his shoulder... Looking upon the mass destruction of Althon burning in hell, the lovely village was ruined to nothing but ashes. As the fire burned and melted everything...

SUDDENLY there was another giant explosion inside the village! It was an explosion out of Flames of the Sun!

"The Flames of the Sun! Dad..." Ryuga carried the last memory of his father's flames in his mind, as he looked front again and kept, moving, forward.

Footsteps echoed through his ears as his eyes sharpened, Ryuga recognized someone approaching them at a very quick pace.

"Tch."

"I wanted to spend time with him... just a little, goddamn, more!" Ryuga was frustrated in his mind.

The other anonymous man who appeared to be the lead of this raid instantly formed in front of Ryuga, kicking him in the guts! Ryuga was knocked far back again, he protected Zen through out the fall.

"It's a shame that the Blazing Samurai's sons are lying on the ground, in front of death."

"You... are the cause, of 'EVERYTHING'!"

Ryuga instantly disappears, as he appears behind the man, attempting to slice off his neck with his sword.

The man moved quickly in order to dodge Ryuga's attacks, only to meet a spree of sword slashes again, which he dodged in a perfect movement.

"Even an infant would be able to read movements this slow." The anonymous man mocked him.

There was an instant flash of crimson red and blazing orange as the Dragon's Fang instantly moved like lightning, circling and dashing around the hideous figure, surrounding him with his Sun Flames.

Zen was not at his position.

The shadow followed Ryuga till every depth of his feet's step, not giving him a chance to strike anytime soon, the boy gave in and dashed towards the strange man with all his force and flames in an attempt to behead the man.

The strange man freely swung his sword towards Ryuga's direction in an instant, as it cancelled out all of Ryuga's power towards him. He kicked Ryuga in the stomach with his knee, as he hit his neck and knocked him out.

The man looked behind to spot the other kid, but would not find him in his place.

The cruel person gave a stare at another direction, as he notices Zen running far away and escaping him.

"I am coming."

As he instantly clenched his feet into the ground and charged for a long run, Ryuga thrusted his flaming sword deep into the unknown man and forcefully pinned him down with all of his strength.

"Tch, I was imbecilic to not check you again."

"I ain't, getting fucked up easily"

"Ashur--"

A flashback switched inside Zen's mind.

When Ryuga surrounded the shadow with flames, Zen was behind his back as he whispered to Zen and he carefully listened.

"And when I dash towards him, run away as far as you can. Make it really fast."

"N-Nii chan...!" I, I can't--"

"You can do anything, Zen. You are my hope, the Dragon's Hope."

"Mm!"

The present,

Ryuga twisted his sword and more flames turned up and burned the internals of the man.

"You aren't down... I see, you're a Rakshas too-"

"Silent."

The Rakshas instantly hit Ryuga's neck again as he properly knocked him down this time, Ryuga started to lose his consciousness.

The man who accompanied this Rakshas instantly appeared behind him as he kneeled down once again,

"Forgive me, I took too much time." The assistance apologized for his lack of efficiency.

"We have already failed. By this time, many have escaped the village."

"We will come again."

"The Next Time."

Zen ran, and ran, and ran far away as his image got more faint in the eyes of Ryuga who was getting carried away.

"I let the other child go, take this child with us."

Ryuga's eyes filled with tears as each drop signified the future which lied ahead of him, a future which he--

"I am sorry! Zen! I'm sorry!" Ryuga cried out in his thoughts.

"I am sorry, because..."

"This is the last time..."

"We Say Goodbye To Each Other."

"As Brothers."

BLACKLIGHT: The Last War For Humanity