Taming the Lord of Death (Quest: Rei, Invited)

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: Domenance

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The sun lingers, hovering teasingly over the waters of the expansive sea, just out of the horizon’s reach. The evening skies burn with colors mixing between violent and crimson. I stand gazing out onto this sunset view, looking across the waters that span from my abode. As I do, something floats down from above, buzzing like a mosquito and sparkling like a spirit particle. My gaze shifts to see the approach of what apparently was the budding fairy, found by Kazakura and myself and freed from his former master to serve me in the revitalization of the stagnant powers within me. The fairy hovers several feet from me and to the side as he greets, “good evening master! I’ve bought you good news once again!” My gaze lingers on the fairy for a moment before turning back to the ocean to continue my thoughts of brooding. The fairy, expecting a reply, waits for a moment, realizing that he would not receive one. A sweat drop descends the side of his face. He clears his throat, turning to the side a bit, before re-facing me and speaking as if given permission to speak. He continues, “Master, I was speaking with other fairies when…” I interrupt, “there are more of you?” He blinks and informs, “hell yeah, we’ve got a fairy council in the fairy world.” I frown, speaking to him without looking as I comment, “fairy world.” He folds his arms and nods several times, grinningly, before pointing up and speaking, “fairies are very advanced in their soci…” I interrupt again, “but you were saying?” His eye twitches and he sighs, then lowers his hand and continues, “apparently there is a loose Onisu in this realm! Master, you can claim it for yourself!” I pause and turn to look at him, requesting, “Onisu?”

Moments later, a golem is dispatched in order to look for and locate the boy who served as my apprentice.

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"The Onisu"
The story of the Onisu is lost in the chronicles of time. These demons came into being as an indirect consequence of the betrayal of a Katsuhito priestess (Mizuho) when her family turned against her. She swore the soul of her first born child to the rulers of hell if only for the power to fight back against her betrayers and thus the Onisu were born. After being summoned they faithfully served even after Hell had gotten its payment in the form of Mizuho taking the life of her first born. After her death the Onisu fled into different parts of the world to influence it as they saw fit. If you hunt down and slay an Onisu, then you can steal its fleeting soul and gain one use of its power or it will bond to you allowing you to summon its power once.

Hakai, Lord of Death
A dark reaper spirit that has the ability to perform a large and devastating scythe slash from the heavens leaving a rut in the land.
Location: Past Realm, Forest

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: Domenance

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The golem picks up on the movement as the boy shifts from where he was in order to follow behind. It would seem that the boy was content on simply following the golem, but that would not due. The golem was a warrior of chaos and darkness, and as such, this process of retrieval would not be as simple as merely a fetch and follow. The dark golem, versed in chaos and evil, stands before Rei, blocking the path of his passing in a menacing manner. Slowly its appendages lift up in an ominous fashion and it moves around in an odd manner. After a moment, it could be noticed that the demon was attempting to communicate through charades. It folds its arms at its chest to represent Domen, before pointing towards the boy and making odd gyrations that loosely translated to come. After a moment of this, it leads the way as normal.

After a while, I turn to notice the approach of Rei as my golem leads him to me. By this time, I would not longer be inside of the cavern as the golem would have lead Rei outside to the surface grounds where everyone else but myself normally dwelled and where the construction was taking place. On the outskirts of the construction zone, I turn to face Rei with my arms folded as he and the golem would approach. A small glint of spirit energy would be hovering to my side at head level. Seeing him, I nod and comment, “good, you are here.” Turning to the fairy, I speak, “tell him what you told me.” The fairy nods happily and then flies in front of Rei, about the size of half of his face. The fairy would be wearing a roguish feathered hat along with a green leotard and a half vest. He holds out a tiny hand and greets, “nice t’meetcha! I’m Domen’s personal fairy, Paco. You must be Rei.”

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: Domenance

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My hand reaches out and grabs the thing as I start to ball it up in my massive palms speaking, “I said to tell him what you told me. You’re name is unimportant…” There is protest and screams of pain, uncle, and little bones breaking during this process. With a toss, I release him and the wrinkled little thing floats about woozily before shaking itself off and returning to normal. To my annoyance I had found the thing was very resilient. He clears his throat while taking off his hat and smoothing it out. He places it back onto his head and readdresses Rei. He continues, “achem. But what the master would like me to tell you is about the Onisu.” He looks back towards me and gives a wink and a thumbs up before turning back to Rei. I frown noticeably, but ignore the gesture further. The fairy continues, “The story of the Onisu is lost in the chronicles of time. These demons came into being as an indirect consequence of the betrayal of a Katsuhito priestess name Mizuho when her family turned against her. She swore the soul of her first born child to the rulers of hell if only for the power to fight back against her betrayers and thus the Onisu were born. After being summoned they faithfully served even after Hell had gotten its payment in the form of Mizuho taking the life of her first born. After her death the Onisu fled into different parts of the world to influence it as they saw fit. If you hunt down and slay an Onisu, then you can steal its fleeting soul and gain one use of its power or it will bond to you allowing you to summon its power once.” He pauses to gauge Rei’s reaction. He concludes, “Hakai, the Onisu of death awaits you! I happen to know where it is and the master wants me to lead us there! He’s decided to let you defeat and take Hakai instead of keeping its power for himself. As expected of our glorious and merciful master… ain’t that great?”

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: Domenance

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After the fairy is done speaking, I nod and confirm, “so that is how it is.” Looking upon my disciple, I was glad he seemed to take the news well. It was a monumentus task, and I did not believe he could do it alone at his level, but I would allow him to try for as long as he could hold out. The last summons I fought against proved to be a foe comparable to my own power. Looking to the fairy, my order is concise as I speak, “lead us there.” The fairy turns around and salutes before flying off in a trail of pixie dust. A frown would come to my lips as I would move after it, allowing it to lead with the boy assumed to be in tow. As the trip progresses the evening skies begin to wane even more. Night creeps over the skies as we approach the forests which had become dark with the death of the daylight. The fairy hums lightly to himself as he leads the way towards and through the forests. Both of us would be moving at a height above the treetops. Of course I would not give any mind to if Rei had any difficulty keeping the same height as us. My arms would be folded at my waist as I flew wondering what type of setting we would find this particular demon in. I look to the fairy and ask, “where exactly is it?” All smiles, he assures, “we’re close master, we’re close!” Afterwards his voice murmurs, “I hope…”

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: Domenance

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The trip is made further into the forest and soon the environment would start to alter and change around Rei. The stars in the sky would slowly dim and the moonlight would vanish leaving nothing in the skies to guide his movements. As the scene moves closer to being pitch black, his the area would be enhanced by a dull emerald glow that seems to illuminate the forest around him from a center point based on him, moving with him. The trees would start resembling one another with no identifying markers to assist in navigation through these woods. Small swirling ‘souls’ about the size of an orange in amorphous shapes start drifting around the terrain with the taste of death in the air.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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There is no answer to his words. Since had stopped his motion, the environment almost appear to seem as it if were swirling with him in the center. Instead of a rustling noise, there would be a soft sound of air being moves from one side as if something where passing that way. Much in a similar fashion, the same thing would occur on the opposite side of him, then to one side, then the other. The ground starts to glow with a dull crimson hue and from above, the outlines would create the symbol of a skull. The souls transfer their feelings to him. They do not speak in a language, but moreso in emotions questioning why some would seek death and trying to warn Rei of the reaper. Their feelings would imprint the words to him, “run, for he has already noticed you! Escape from death!” A path illuminates with the same dull glow which had possessed Rei and spans from Rei’s current position to an area far away in the forest. Along that path, the Reaper makes his first appearance, moving slowly, consisting of bones encased in a black hooded coat with a metallic scythe sliding along the ground, creating a scraping noise as he approaches.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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The trees sink into the ground around Rei and the area turns into a black void with only darkness and the light of the trail and the light emanating from Rei, signifying his own life force. As he became more determined, that light would get brighter, but if worry were to come into his mind, the light would dull. The path leads up to the center of the glowing skull tribal marking on the ground, which would now consist more of some dense black substance than the dirt of the forest. It was almost as if Rei were in another realm.

Death flickers, his image appearing in three places for a moment and then it appears to the side of Rei, within three feet of him. Death’s scythe rises into the air and swings down, its blade seeking Rei’s upper body.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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At the time the scythe is blocked, Rei would find out the true weight of the attack and it should come as some surprise. Though death had no muscles on his cloak covered form, his scythe would be much heavier than a normal human would be able to tolerate and a bit much for a demon to attempt to block one handedly. Death does not pull his blade up as he is countered by the second sword, rather he exerts force into the weapon lock strong enough to break the ground beneath Rei’s feet and create a small line in the ground beneath him. This should at least throw off the sonic thrust from meeting its precise destination at the least. With overpowering and mystical strength, Death would seek to push Rei’s blade against him, then swing in a horizontal manner to send the boy flying.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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The cloak tears at the areas where the sword slashes. If blade met with undead bone, it wouldn’t fracture it, rather the blade would be damaged where the strike was made. The foot comes in contact with death in an attempt to kick him back, but it would be much like a human trying to kick back a building. Death would be resolute and concrete in his spatial position, seemingly an unmovable force. Even so, death acknowledges the tenacity of the human and exudes a force to counter act the kick with enough strength, in the fashion of a harsh wind, with the intentions of sending Rei back. It’s form would then lift in the air, swinging back and forth as it accelerates into the sky several stories before spinning and turning facing down towards Rei. The CGI takes over as his attack would initialize. The imprint of death’s skull forms in the manner of an aerial sphere grid and solidified dark mist swirls about the reaper as the scythe is spun about in one hand before switching over to the other, then lifts up, held by both hands, above the reapers head. There is a high pitched squeal like that from a siren as the mist swirling about death and red symbols from the sphere grid are sucked into the metallic scythe causing it to burn with energy. The reaper swings down his blade performing a large and devastating slash from the heavens with enough force to leave a large fissure along the ground upon its impact.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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After the attack, the onisu named Death slowly creeps down from the skies. He moved as if having experience that mortals generally did not survive that attack. Death swings the scythe around and it comes to stick on his back as if holstered. His hands move out in front of him. He reaches cryptically for Rei to inspect his body. He gets within feet of Rei and lowers down. He slowly bends over bringing his face down to Rei’s face to read any movement from him. A white mist pushes out from his breathe as he inspect Rei who plays possum.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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Death is caught off guard as the vaspire lunges towards him and clamps down. Of course, death would be only cloak and bones. Just by touching him, Rei had damned himself into rotting and becoming nothing but dust for merely touching death. Death’s influence would start to interact with Rei, causing his body to show the effect of skin corrosion as his body would start to slowly rot with death seemingly unaffected. But just then, something happens; Rei’s regenerative abilities seem to fight against death and the corrosion pushes back against him. The lack of no physical fluid is negated as Rei actually sucks the spirits from the bones. Death attempts to resist and there is a bit of a tug of war between their influences, but in the end, Death loses grip to the vaspiric ability and is devoured by Rei. After this, the setting returns to normal. The forest, stars and moon would return as normal with the sounds of the forest filling the air.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: Domenance

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A frown forms on my lips as I notice that Akechi seemingly couldn’t keep up with the fairy and myself. I looked down and back and noticed that my disciple was no longer following us. Aside from that, the fairy seemed to have mislead me, which would cost him his life if death had not appeared before us yet. This did not go unnoticed as the fairy looked about feverishly trying to figure out where the Onisu could have gone. My arms are folded as I wait in the air for his answer, or acceptance of his fate. Breaking the silence of the night, I hear a voice call out for me. I recognize Rei’s voice and the message in it surprises me slightly. Without a word, I turn and move towards the area where I had heard the voice. The fairy notices the voice as well, and comments, “hey wait for me” before following along to chase after me.

My body lowers through the tops of the trees and comes closer to ground level in the area where Rei was in the forest. On visual of him, I could tell that he had been in some type of battle. It seemed as if his arms were injured and he was in the process of replicating them. Making sure I understood his words, I speak, “what did you say?” I wanted to know how he was sure it was death he faced and not something else. The fairy flies past me, littering pixie dust in his wake and examines Rei, coming to Rei’s body and placing his ear to his chest. His eyes widen as he comments, “no way… I can feel it… he actually did it?”

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: Domenance

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I found Rei’s words pleasing as he spoke them. I felt he would not lie to me, so I would believe them. The fairy seems to co sign this as well, but it could, of course, be so that he is not killed by me. I would trust Rei’s words over that of the small sprite. I found it odd that I had not heard a battle, but odder things have happened in the forest. Paco is quick to move out of the way as Rei moves to collect his blades. I nod at this and knew that with this complete there was no further reason to be out here. I would not ask Rei to demonstrate the affects of his win. With a nod, I speak to them both, “we are leaving. Your training is complete for tonight. You are free until I need you next.” With that, it wasn’t important in he or the fairy followed me back, I would be heading back for my own purposes. With that, my body lifts into the air and I take off flying towards the east to swiftly fly the long distance which spanned between the forest and the coastal edges of this land mass.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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With the master flying off to head back home, the fairy starts to follow, but is stopped by Rei when he speaks. He nods and says, “oh ya, sure thing” realizing that Rei couldn’t fly like the master. He felt good if he was able to be helpful. The second question comes in and the fairy folds his legs in the air and things for a moment with his arms folded and looking down. An exclamation pops over his head as he visually realizes something, opening his eyes wide. Looking to Rei he grins, “ya I know a place that’s open this late! We’re in luck, since we’re in the forest already. I can lead you straight to it, it’s this way!” The fairy start wandering in one direction before he stop and rethinks, “or perhaps it’s this way…” He pauses and licks his finger, holding it into the air for a moment, then looks left, then right. “Aha!” he says, sure this time, “the forest shop is this way!” With that, he leads the way in some arbitrary direction, seemingly knowing where he was going.

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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The trip takes a bit longer than the fairy expected it too. It is almost dawn by the time they reach the area where the shop should be at. The fairy gets to the location and there is an x on the ground. He nods and rubs his chin assuring; this should be the place. Oddly enough, for the amount of time he was flying around, the fairy was not tired. Still, there was no visible shop yet. There is a rustle of the bushes and an old man slowly walks out of the foliage and towards the two fairy and Rei. The old man has a rag tied about his head in farmers clothing and a large wooden case on his back held by straps. He hums a light hymn to himself, seemingly somewhat senile as he approaches and smiles, “oooh… Fairy Paco-san… how are you today.” Paco smile and greets, “hola miscellaneous merchant. I have Rei with me who would like to make a purchase! Ne?” He turns to Rei and coaxes, “go ahead and tell him what you want. Misc-san can get you anything you need… almost.”

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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After Rei speaks to the old man, he stand as still as a stone for a moment with his gaze on Rei’s face. If Rei were to move, he would notice the old man’s gaze would not. For a moment it seemed as if he went comatose or had fallen asleep in a standing position. After a slight pause he blinks and then smiles and yawns. Looking around he notices the fairy and speaks, "oooh… Fairy Paco-san… how are you today.” The fairy blinks and then leans forwards and yells, “we’ve already been over that gramps! Now we need to get the…” The fairy is cut off by the old man as he nods, “ah, yes, he would like a ladle for his soup.” The old man turns around gingerly and pulls the strap from his back. He squats and places the wooden case on the ground and stands up stretching out his back. “Boy that’s heavy…” he comments while turning around to it. He crouches at it and then opens it up, pulling open what looked like two double doors. It was kind of odd to think that a naginata could fit in that case unless it was broken into pieces and needed to be constructed, but when the man opens the case, only darkness is visible. The man hums, “hmmmm…” and closes his eyes. Opening them quickly, he reaches into the case and pulls out a naginata. After that he continues the procedure to pull out the rest of the order, sitting them on the ground for inspection. As it would appear, the case interacted with the old man’s ability to manipulate void magix. The old man looks up at Rei with a closed-eye smile as he speaks “1810 Shinny will get all of this for you. Go ahead and inspect it if you need…”

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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The fairy protests lightly as he is manhandled, but it seemed that everything was all good. The old man smiles graciously as the deal is made and he accepts the money. As Rei puts on the gear, the old man packs up his box and turns around, pulling the straps back onto his shoulders before standing up and turning back around to face them. He smiles and waves good bye to the fairy and boy when the salutation is given and then proceeds in making his way back into the forest, vanishing from sight. The fairy nods when Rei turns to him and says, “let’s go!” He turns with Rei and starts to float to his side if Rei were to walk. The fairy pushes his fist into his palm and notices, “ah, we didn’t get anything for the master. I’m sure I could get him to like me if I would have gotten him something…” The fairy looks up and then turns to Rei and says, “hey, the master likes workers, maybe we can get him some of those? What do you think?”

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Taming the Lord of Death
Location: The Forest

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The fairy frowns lightly, but he was too little to do anything on his own. He realized that Rei probably needed rest and they still had a very long way to go before making it to the cavern. With a smile and a nod, he agrees, “sounds good!” Technically it might be easier to camp for a while before taking the trek back to the cavern, but the fairy would go along with whatever Rei wanted to do following the chain of command. Though Rei seemed a bit tired, the fairy would be his peppy self the entire way home. Powered by pixie dust, the fairy never seemed to get tired, but as they walk, he explains to Rei that when his kind when to sleep, it was for several years, so when they woke up they were very well rested. This wouldn’t be all the fairy would say; with a good amount of distance and time spent crossing that distance to pass, the fairy would be a chatterbox pretty much the entire way there. He would go on about when he first met the master and then speak some on meeting Kazakura and watching her and the master do it in the lake. He would talk about the time Kaelas tried to eat him and how he valiantly fought back the tiger, bringing the large beast to his knees, along with other stories on the way.

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