Chapter 8 : The Fire Within This Fateful Day

My new teacher, the princess of darkness is at this instant giving me important lessons related to magics.

First of all she tells me the basics that there are three ways of using it, one is to sacrifice blood or life energy, while the other and most common way is to use the energy of nature itself.

Nature is an unlimited ressource of energy, everyone is able to use it, it's favored due to not putting your own life in danger. While giving up on blood isn't such a high price and as she explains me, it increases the body regeneration but curses anything that isn't a demon, so If I were to use this method, a curse would be placed on me and it can take many forms... and admist all of them, giving up on life energy means living a shorter existence, in other words it isn't something worth doing unless that's your only way to survive a deadly attack.

She now asks me to choose one of these options, I go for the safest option because it has definitely proven over the past 1600 years of history that it's strong and can get stronger with a lot of training.

In magic, talent is not a thing, you have to work hard for it, the one person I know who trained so much is Naomi, I always worried about her health over her training when we lived under the same roof, she usually didn't sleep more than 3 hours and because of me and the demon king her efforts were wasted... In the past when we met each other for the first time, she swore to protect the world she cherish and her friends, that's why I clinged to her in the hope of this happening.

Three years ago in the village of grandfather were I lived in, a peaceful village where only kitsune lived, where beautiful flowers grew inside a forest close to a lac, a war started between kitsunes and demons outside of this village it started, the demons were greedy and got bored of the peace alliance we had. Back then I was still at school learning my lessons of transformation with my classmates, I wasn't aware of any of what happened outside until our male teacher got us out of school once the dawn had arrived. Me and my other classmates were about to die from a rain of arrows while our feet were on the ground, that's when our teacher protected us with all his might, creating a wall of fire that turned the arrows into ashes he then ordered us to run and hide, he fought the demons within his grasp, not letting them go near us... but even as powerful as he was, he got killed during this assault.

While I was running, I could notice some kids being killed in the spot by the demons, with their black horns, red skin and black wings, I could never forget how they died like you would put butter on your bread by being sliced, their head falling on the ground, it rapidly became bloody on the ground, while I was still running one of them shooted an arrow at me, I saw it and was able to dodge it, finding my house and hiding inside after closing the door. My little brother was hiding in the bedroom where I stand next to him, hugging him tightly to keep him safe from the danger. We then hid under the bed, watching our parents, my human dad was the only exception in this village full of my kind, he was my everyday hero for every fairy tales he told to us his children putting bright smiles on our face. My mom was the prettiest and sweetest person you could think of, whenever someone was in trouble she would help even if it meant putting herself in danger, she wasn't always a perfect mother but she will always remain my one and only perfect mother.

That's a few minutes later that the devil decided to knock at the door, my mother opened carefully while my dad was ready to burn anybody coming through the door. It was a demon, he was surprised of seeing him and got burned to death, screaming in pain, an horde of other demons came near the house, my parents went outside, closing the door behind us, I cried out of desperation and so did my younger brother I don't wish to name again.

I sneaked in in the kitchen everything inside it looked like darkness to me, I was watching over the windows, I could see all the houses on fire, an army of ten thousand demons were outside, all of my kind died this day, the one that could save the day were cursed, they did it in secret behind everyone's back and then I saw someone around my age, the window already being opened and the demon having this fat figure of a bald boy in his hand wearing a red shirt and blue short, the evil being was talking loud and clear to my parents, they inherited my grandfather will when he died to his disease, the will to protect the village of anyone.

I knew my parents were strong, they could handle things, but this brat was the problem, he was the one who said where are our village was, he was the one who often skipped classes to go who knows where and he got caught by a demon, because of this... it happened, I felt bitter when they faked killing him, I wished for his death from the bottom of my heart but he survived that night, as a witness and went missing after, the demons threw him away so he didn't caught in the fight.

Both my parents were at the peak of their strength, my mom was able to throw lightnings while my dad was able to throw fire out of his mouth, their combination was so crazy that they overpowered them with ease, throwing tantrums at them... I could once more see my mother in anger, she transformed into her kitsune form with 8 tails and at the same time she used her own lifetime to generate an amount of energy that looked like the sun from up close, so bright that the demons had to summon dark cloaks in order to not get blinded, that's when she awakened her 9th tail.

She lifted her purple hair up, she might have been winking at my dad and smile graciously before going all out, the demons were throwing their death and dark magics against them, but with her overwhelming strength, she only had to sneeze to eradicate one thousand of them with her combination of red flames, pink fire and thunder, they were overloaded, they exploded like fireworks, she even went in close combat and at the speed of light scratching a whole bunch of them with her claws and her thunder tail who shocked them and came back to my dad's side, she then rotated her head directing at my father, the only one living human being that could trespass in this land where his kind like any other kind wasn't welcome, in this village we were always suspicious of anyone that isn't our kind, but my dad was in love and he never gave up, that's why I'm born.

He laughed happily, being proud of mother and the second that followed, he took out a cigarette out of his pocket, put it himself in fire by sighing and smoked, the fire went bigger and bigger as it approached the demons that kept throwing spells, dark monsters and even trying to hide the light from their eyes, and mom staying behind my father, checking if someone tries anything behind his back she would protect him.

The fire from my dad was so incredible that he wiped out half of the others remaining demons, he was always working hard in order to impress my mother, and he always outdone himself from what she told me before me and my brother went to sleep most of the time. My dark and desperate expression rapidly turned into hope after seeing them do that, my little brother went here in the kitchen and hold me tight by the legs, seeing what our parents are doing, he at least knew that they were protecting us, I did told him just in case he didn't understand.

My parents died after beating this army of demons that kept being stronger and stronger, it was enough to tire them but not to kill them... then the figure of a tall person showed up, it was a demon wearing a white hat, his wings were bigger than all other demons, he flied to get close to my parents, they defended themselves against him and his deadly attacks, he had a weapon that looked like a scythe in his right hand, he gave a high amount of his own life energy into it before finishing my parents with a single blow of his scythe, they died while holding each others hand and even at their full power they couldn't defend themselves against it... and it's also at that split second time that I had to react, that we hid under our bed with me telling my brother to not say a single sound, we both remained silent...

The demon is laughing near the entrance door, and both me and the only thing of my family I have left are crying due to their deaths... this fateful day wasn't over... we still remained silent for hours but the demon found us after searching everywhere, he last checked by looking under our bed, so we had to get out of here, there was no chance of us surviving but the demon was the devil in person.

I asked him to not kill me, but he didn't like it and then once he was being ready with his scythe, I told him to forgive my brother and kill me instead, he refused and took his head like he was farming wheat, the head of my brother fell towards me, I was desperate... I wasn't even able to perform any magic, so I closed my eyes knowing what would await me... but a sound made me open my eyes, a girl with long blonde hair, wolf ears was there, countering the demon scythe with her sword impregnated with light magic, one of the magics that can kill demons.

"I'll save you." Those words were those of this teen and her angelic voice.

Many questions raised in my head, how did she know I was here ? How did she found the village I lived in ? How was she able to fight a demon stronger than both my parents reunited ? And why is she protecting me ?

The demon raised an eyebrow, being impressed by the arrival of this girl who could defend against him.

"Your scent send you here. How annoying."

He throwed his white hat at me before trying to leave, but this mysterious girl would not let him go away.

"You are way too strong for your age." He says in a cold voice. "This girl will carry a heavy burden, being one of the two only kitsunes left."

He laughs heavily and leaves knowing he has no chances of winning against her.

She give me her hand but I'm too scared to even take it, I'm terrorized, this nightmare was real I could just witness things... Just being a witness is why I was left alive...

"What's your name ? I'm Naomi, I promise you I will save the world from the demons and I will protect you from any dangers !" Her tone and actions gave me hope, so I clinged to that hope.

And she led me to her village where a lot of species are living together, but in the end it's like the history books says.... I am hated for what I am, I was traumatized for weeks, I was shy, I had a hard time even saying a single word, whenever someone approached me I was blushing out of my clumsyness, after 7 weeks living under the same roof as her, she presented me to her friends... unlike what I expected, they didn't have any hate towards me, it was the opposite they liked me because of how cute I looked... but I grew up turning into a problematic teen and here I am to day with who should be my enemy, because death scares me... even with that demonic eye... all I know is that the devil wasn't the demon king, because he killed me when I saw the future just before the end of the world, the end of... I can't remember the name.

Plutaria punches me, reminding me that the past is already settled in stones, I hide my pain not crying, trying to smile again in the hope of one day bringing them back to life.

"Could you stop daydreaming ? It's been 5 minutes already geez !" she says in an angry mood, kicking the ground like an excited kid.

"Thank you."

"Don't thank me yet. Kill one pig around here, but keep in mind... With your powers and do not hesitate."

I understand what this means, because I'm physically weak compared to militaries, I do have powers that I trained for years unlike them who have only the experience of around one day of training... It will be a walk in the park.

I create blue fire from all my fingers and walk carefully toward the closest pig I've seen, pigs are fat but I do not hate them.

"Think about how delicious their meat is." is what she told me.

In fact, if she didn't say that I wouldn't even have killed the pig out of pity, but his specy will not go instinct so I don't feel so bad about it when I burn him to death with the blue fire, blue fire has the particularity to be cold and freeze things.

My newly found teacher claps after seeing me killing this poor pig who did nothing wrong, but thinking about how delicious he will be once we cook him... my animal instinct can't resist this sight.

I am the one to cook it and the princess praises me because she wants a bit of this delicious food, I share some hot meat with her and she ends up in tears, I am now wandering if I was always this good at cooking and now I leave for the real thing, by no means I would stop her from crying because it shows another side of her, she felt like a friend to me... so I slightly smiled seeing her like this.

But when we are leaving I have a vision and... it does not end well.