Okay, so this isn't really "arts and crafts" necessarily but I plan on adding a few illustrations, as of now, I have none to add, I hope you enjoy it, and constructive criticism is not required, but always welcomed and promoted, hell you can even recommend things for me to add to the story,
don't take it as a promise that I'll update this every week, I will try to update this every week, there are some punctuation issues and I'm working my best to fix them.
Additional info: No this isn't based on my Vindictus character or something, I came up with the name Mihile before I even started that game, these chapters have no proof reading as of yet. (more info will be discovered in the story).
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Prologus (prologue)
[SPOILER="Spoiler"]PROLOGUS
I gasp in sorrow as I look upon my sister and mentor…. next to the bloodied bodies is a child around the age of fifteen, holding a bloodied blade, sharper than even the fangs of a hellhound… The child looks at me and smirks "Why..?" I say to the boy looking upon him..
he disappears
"Mihile.." my mentor calls my name
"Leon" I say, walking to my dying mentor I crouch and look down at Leon, his armor is completely shattered his organs are exposed "Mihile, please do not cry.." my tears dripping like that of a light rainfall. I point to the corpse of my sister "Oh… I never meant to get her into this.." tears flow down Leon's face his pupil fades and his eyes roll into the back of his head, I sob.. tears are rolling down my cheeks, my mouth is dry, my fingers are tingling, I lost the only people I ever cared about.. "WHY!!?!?" I screamed, two knights rush in my direction only to find me sobbing and the corpses.. My eyes are turing blood red.. my teethe are turning to fangs..
one of the knights hits me across the head with the hilt of his sword, knocking me out.
I awaken in my bedchamber as if it were all a dream, my clothing is covered in blood, I get out of bed, I hear a speech going on, a new advisor has come to the kingdom, everybody loved him, he looked like the boy that killed Leon and my sister, "My name is Ciel Albelin, I will do whatever I can to strengthen our army even if it means taking the souls of our men, we will be victorious in every battle, every war, and we will forever be safe from any harm."
But this is all a memory now….
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Chapter I
[SPOILER="Spoiler"]CHAPTER I
I grab a gnoll and pummel him into the ground, blood spatters everywhere and shards of bone are stuck in my hand.
I hear a clapping noise, Ciel walks in my direction "Excellent." he says to me, my face is covered in blood, corpses of beings killed without any reason surround me, I feel not a bit of remorse looking at them.
I am a soulless being constructed to kill and to kill only
Ciel slashes my stomache with a sword
"But not excellent enough!"
I feel nothing
"Try again"
I am told, I grab my bloodied sword, more gnolls, more beings, sent to be slaughtered,
I stab one, rip him off the blade of my sword, and throw him at full force into another gnoll, I pull out a small crossbow and release a barrage of arrows upon the gnolls, all of them dead, a beast my people call "The Titan", a last resort during battle is sent into the arena, I jump, attempting to land on his back and kill him, the beast catches me and throws me at the stone wall, incapacitating me instantly.
I am knocked out for days, "RISE N SHINE!!" an obese knight screams directly into my ear, I immediately punch him in the face, he flies back and hits the wall.
"You failed me" Ciel says to me "Best make sure you don't get your soul back during your mission and run off"
he grabs me by the neck and tosses me into a small prison like room and throws what appears to be a smoke bomb, it emits a gas which drains the soul,
I must obey whoever drains my soul,
I pass out.
A few hours pass and I awaken
"Good.. Time for your mission, I need you to capture people from a nearby village and bring them to me, alive." Ciel says
This was a common order from Ciel
I must obey anything he tells me to do, I immediately take my horse and leave the kingdom.
I arrive at the nearest village to our kingdom only an hour after I was sent to capture somebody, a young man and his wife walks out of his home and says
"We know what you're here for.. just take me and leave my people alone.."
the woman sobs as I grab knock the man out and tie him to my horse, I whip my horse and it lets out a scream, I put my foot in one of the stirrups and head back,
I look at the scenery trying not to feel bad for the man I knocked out, I'm actually feeling something,
my body has 7 hours to reclaim my soul before I am poisoned again, my eyes remain a shadow that bears no light.
I arrive at another small village and cut the man loose, and drop him off with a map so he can find his way back.
As I arrive Ciel looks into my shadowy eyes.. "You failed me, and your kingdom!" He grabs me by the neck and tries to break it, I kick him in the chin and he drops me, I try to escape but he catches me in no time, if I hadn't been wearing my heavy armor I would have had a fighting chance, he pushes me onto the ground with the palm of his hand, without any trouble at all.
Ciel grabs his dagger and tries to stab me in the head, I catch it with my hands, but I am powerless compared to Ciel, the blade is slowly stabbing into my skull, I pull out my knife and slit his wrists, blood is dripping all over my face, I kick him in the stomach and he moves back a little, I leap up and drop kick the top of his head, he taught me well,
his face smashes into the ground with a powerful blow.
I prepare for the duel, I take out my giant sword, said to be the most powerful weapon around, it has engravings on it which I cannot understand, the engravings are in Latin, some say it is a living, breathing creature, most call it "The Soul Taker".
Ciel comes at me, I swing my sword with one hand and the side of the blade smacks him in the stomach, he is lying, flat on the ground, I take a swing at him with my blade, but I was far to slow to match Ciel's speed, I run, throwing as much armor behind as possible, in attempt to escape.
I jump onto my horse and ride off as fast as I can, the venom is wearing off, and if I manage to stay away for several hours I can keep my soul.
I ride my horse, slowly the horse is losing speed and archers with horses are chasing after me, all I have is my Giant Sword, my Crossbow, and Two Short Swords, I take the crossbow out and load an explosive arrow into it, I take aim and right as I am about to shoot, the Crossbow explodes in my hand!
I tumble off of my horse and onto the ground, I am left to fend for myself without a horse, I take my Swords out and tell the archers "The only way Ciel is gonna have me as his slave again is if you kill me.."
the archers can kill me with ease, as I am without armor, one of the archers jumps off of his horse and onto a nearby tree, they are agile, but are they as agile as I?
He immediately starts firing upon me, one arrow stabs and lodges directly into my left shoulder, the arrows have serrated heads, I am unable to pull out the arrow during battle, I drop the sword in my left hand, I charge at the other archers with the one sword I have left, I leap and manage to cut the head off of one of the archers, as I hit the ground I roll, and leap off the ground, kicking the second archer,
he flies off his horse, I land atop the archer with my sword, and stab him in the neck.
The last archer, an archer clad in clothing of all colors, as if made of quilts, he introduces himself, "I am Barrighan, I would like to join your rebellious acts against Ciel, he too has stolen my soul at times.. Let me heal your wounds, you don't want to bleed to death."
I don't trust this man, but I let him heal me anyway, I do not care if I die or not, I serve no purpose, Barrighan wraps some shreds of cloth around the right side of my head, I rip the arrow out of my left shoulder and let Barrighan wrap the cloth around it.
It has been hours since the escape, we're tired and hungry, the shadow hiding my eyes is fading, Barrighan and I arrive at a small village,
it seems deserted, we walk around through the village hoping to find an Inn or a Shop, we look around and find a little two floor cabin, with a sign that reads "La Petite Inn" I open the door and walk inside, Barrighan follows me, a sort dwarfish looking lady hobbles out from behind the counter and asks "What can I do for ye?" "We're in need of a place to stay, we don't have much but I'll give you what I have on hand." I said, handing her all of my coins,
"This'll buy ye bed an' breakfast." she told me, "I think we'll take this offer, thank you, miss." "Ye beds have been made an' ye can go tah bed when ye feel it be necessary for ye to do so." "I'm going to look around the village for a while." Barrighan said as I walked up the stairs, I put my weapons against the wall and get into my bed, this is the best rest I've gotten in a long while, my eyes slowly close and I fall asleep..
The following morning I wake up late, the sun is almost down again, I look in the spot where I had put my weapons, "The Soul Taker" had been stolen, I know exactly who stole it..
"Barrighan, you bastard.." I say to myself, I grab my swords and run down stairs while sheathing them, I look around and discover the body of the person who owned the inn, I can tell she had been brutally killed, it looks like the work of my stolen weapon, I look around hoping to find money, surely enough there was a crack in the wall, so I sink one of my swords into the crack and pry it open, I find coins and other trinkets, mostly jewelry which appears to be of somewhat high value, so I take the Jewelry and coins, I crack the door open and look outside, I see many knights, which appear to be knights from my kingdom, and one of huge muscle mass he has my sword I can tell who it is, it was Sir Mendez, the general of the army. I see Barrighan had been captured, it looks as if he is going to be executed, by Mendez, I would stand no chance against him even if I had "The Soul Taker" back in my grasp, I slowly push the door open and try to get away as I'm pushing the door the bell rings.. everybody heard it, the knights start charging at me with their weapons, I would have to kill them to escape, my wounds from last night have not fully healed, so my combat skills will be stunted, I pull out my dual blades and get ready to die, one knight charges me with a spear, and attempts at stabbing me with it, he missed me by nearly an inch and hits the wall, I slice his arm off, it was instinct as a born killer, to remove the arms, I grab him by the neck and cut his head off, I run in Barrighans direction and slice the chains off of him, he pull a mace out of his cloak with one hand, and sends flames out of it, he was clearly a skilled Sage, as it burned about six knights into nothing, by this time only a few knights remain, and Barrighan finishes them off.
The last standing knight was Mendez, even if we had an army with us, we would be unable to defeat him, "Heheheh.. you call THAT skill? You know nothing about combat, these weaklings wouldn't even stand a chance against a dog!" I say nothing, I am paralyzed with fear.
"Here, something to remember me by..!" he slashes my stomach open and I collapse, I think of the night Leon died, I failed them if I die now.. I must bring peace to my kingdom..
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