Work in progress (Made by Raven and Kyoki)

[ravenwithoutcause]

((A side note, I’m leaving the story open. This chapter is detailing how my character made her mind up to come to Alastair so the second chapter can be anything you want ^.^ Alastair is a city I made up so please feel free to change it))

Are story begins in a small unknown village outside the grand city of Alastair...

Inside a small-decaying building on the outskirts of this village, a young girl ponder’s her fate...

“Man I’m bored... work been slow these past moons”. A young girl sat in front of a counter pouting and leaning back in a dusty chair. “Bored, bored, bored. No money, no work, no food... -_-. HOW DO THEY EXPECT A 14 YEAR OLD TO SURVIVE! EATING SUNSHINE AND FARTING LOLLIPOPS!! Dammit... (Grrrrr)” The girl stomachs begin to growls. “My stomach is turning on itself... I feed you when work... (GRRRRRRRR) shutup”!

A armored figure suddenly walks in. “Hello Miss, I be ne...”<br>
“Bathroom out back” the young girl shouted out.

“No, no. I have a job for you. You make deliveries right”?

“YES”! She shouted as she sat up with anticipating eyes. “(Hear that stomach! You can shut the hell up cause we be eating tonight”! Who is my employer and what will I be delivering”?

“I can’t give you the details to neither but the package is 5'6 tall and...”<br>
“No deal! If I can’t have the name of my employer then leave”! The young girl spitfully shouted. “sorry stomach...” she said while looking down at it.

“I think you don’t understand. You saw my face. You WORK for me now” he ‘pleasantly’ stated.

“Get out” she said spitfully as she closed her eyes. “I work for myself...(GRRRR) and my stomach”. She then open her eyes. “I said...!? Where the hell did he go”!!?

A voice suddenly echo throughout the building. “I regret that you choose to think with your own will. I heard nothing but good things about you”.

“Yeah, yeah. Tell your ‘anonymous’ employer to shove that package up his ass and meet me in person if he want to talk”.

“Hahahaha...” the voice echo back.

Man how irritating... I thought I had an easy meal -_-...”<br>
*Knock knock*

“What now”?

*Knock knock* Dust begun to fly off the door as the knocking grew louder.

“COME IN ASSBITE”! She said annoyingly.

“....come out and play....” a shadowy voice said. The building begun to shake violently.

“ Sure, why not”. The went in the back room and came out with a stainless steel sword. “I didn’t hold you for awhile, how long have it been... three days ^.^”. She threw the blade on her back and made her way to the window. Gently leaning by the window seal just barely peeping out. “Hello. Is anyone out there? Come, don’t be shy”? Wind started to blow the dust outside. “...Man, show yourselves!.. Fine! I’m coming out”! The girl made her way out but not without her colorful dailoge...

“!#$#%^ come out to play... let’s play shove this sword so far up yall father...”<br>
“Attack”! Several figures appear from the shadows and drew there swords into the girl. Nothing but black armored figures where seen as the girl completely vanish in the pile. Blood began to spew out as the solders began to speak.

“Did we get her”?

“Hell, who cares. No one can survive this! Hey Rick. How you like your first team kill”?

“I ask him when he wake up” a girl voice suddenly shouted out.

“!!!!!!!!!! What the he...” The pile erupted as soldiers bodies flew in every direction. Several landed and return to there battle stance.

“It’s a freaking little girl! How the hell”! One of the soldiers blurted out.

“Calm down! She still got her outnumbered”. The lead soldier added.

“!!! She took out 5 of us! How can we stand up to that! The third one said desperately.

“It’s still 3 against one, calm down. You will pay BRAT”!

“Brat? A little girl like me? Hehe, you started this...”<br>
Booooooooooooooooooooom!! The top floor of her house soon cave intothe basement and the sky feel with dust.

“Dammit! Look what you have done to my shop! I didn’t even name it! She then pointed her sword towards each soldier. “I hope yall have enough to cover this”!
“You cocky little! ATTACK”!

The girl jump neck high to the first soldier and spun her body around sideways as the blade cut through the soldier sword and armored as she landed on his shoulders.

“Damn, Wedge! Are you alright?” the lead soldier said nervously.

“Agh, agh, agh”.

“It seams your friend is short on words ^.~”. She jump off and landed next to him. The soldier body begun to split into two as the girl stroll her way towards the second soldier.

“no, weak, no, she's a demon man”!

“Keep your cool...”<br>
“Screw this”! The soldier drop his weapon and ran the opposite direction.

“Damn you. You really is the Demon from Fairytales...” the lead soldier said surprised.

“I run if I was you” the girl face suddenly turned dark.

“Tek”! He soon join his teammate in retreating.

Rain begin to fall as the girl look to the cloudy skies.

“why... why... those bastards destroyed my shop and home”! She threw her blade on her back and made her way down the dringe road humming a tone to herself.

*humming* "and the blue bird flies away”

[Kyoki]

Chapter 2
A young woman with long brown hair was walking through what looked like a forest. She was wearing a black Chinese looking dress that went down to her knees. She wore black boots. She stopped walking for a few moments and closed her eyes. She began to remember the day before when she set out on the journey that she was currently on…
* * *
The young woman, whose name was Aiko Okazaki, was on her way home from work. She was speed walking down the street to her home. People looked at her oddly as she sped past them. But she didn’t pay any attention to them.

When she was a few feet from her house, she sprinted the rest of the way in. She opened the door and entered. She closed it behind her. “Mom? I’m home! Where are you?” Aiko wondered as she walked around the house. She finally found her mother in the living room.

“Hi, honey. You’re home early. Did everything go well at work today?” Her mother, Sakura Okazaki, smiled at her daughter.

“Work was fine. We had to close early today though. Not a busy day, I think. But that is good. That means I can get a early start to Alastair.” Aiko said nervously.

“So you’re really serious about going? I really wish you wouldn’t go. But I know you won’t listen to anything I say.” she say as she smiled again.

“I’m sorry, mom. But I really want to go find Ayumu. He’s my best friend. I want to go find him.” Aiko said, looking down at the ground as she said this. But she quickly looked up at her mother and said, “Will you be ok here on your own? Is if ok if I go and look for him? If you really don’t want me to go, I won’t go. I don’t want to cause you any trouble.”

“I’ll be fine. Don’t worry about me. I’m just worried about it being your first journey on your own. And I’m worried about you. But don’t worry, it’s just what mothers do, they worry about their children whenever they cannot be with them. I’ll be alright.” Sakura said when she saw the concerned look on her daughters face. “Besides, I knew this day would come eventually. After his parents died and he disappeared days later, I had a feeling you would want to go out and look for him. You two were always together. The best of friends, you were. You two have a special bond. And I’m sure you’ll find him. Bring him home when you do. Tell him he is always welcome to come live with us, okay?”

Aiko’s eyes began to tear up. “Thank you mom.” Aiko rushed to her mother and hugged her tightly. “I’ll find him! And I’ll bring him back!”

Sakura hugged her back. She barely was able to hold back her tears. “Just promise me that you will be very careful and come home if something happens. Like if you get hurt, you come right home. Do you understand?”

Aiko slowly let her mother go. “I understand. I’ll come right home. But I’ll be fine, really.”

“Promise me, Aiko-chan.” Sakura ordered.

“I promise, mom.” Aiko said. “I should start heading out now. That way I can try and get to a motel or something before it gets dark.”

“Ok. Don’t talk to strangers! And if someone offers you candy, say no. Don’t drink alcohol or do any drugs, they impair your thinking. And you don’t need any of that. Don’t-” Sakura began to ramble on.

“Mom. I’m not a kid. I know not to do that stuff. Don’t worry.” Aiko smiled.

“I know. I’m just reminding you.” Sakura laughed. “You’re grown so big, Aiko-chan. I remember when you and Ayumu use to play tag in the backyard with all the other kids. And when you were a baby, you crawl all over and it was so hard to catch you. You were a fast crawler.”

Aiko laughed as well. “Hehe. Was I?”

Sakura nodded. “You use to cause me and your father so much stress because we thought you would bump and hurt yourself. Oh! I packed your bag for you. I added a lot of those snacks you like. And I had your javelin sharpened.”

“Really? Thank you, mom! Awesome!” Aiko said happily.

“I’ll go get your stuff. You wait right here.” Sakura ran out of the room to get her daughters’ stuff.

As Aiko waited she walked around the living room that she had known her whole life. She smiled as she remembered all the good times she had in that living room.

Sakura came back carrying a black backpack and a black javelin. “Here you go.”

Aiko took her things. She swung the backpack over her shoulder. She then put the javelin in a holder she had placed specially on her backpack so when she walked she wouldn’t have to carry the long weapon in her hands. “Thanks. Okay, I guess this means I’m going to be off on my way now.”

“Ok, honey. Take care. And be careful and come home soon.” Sakura said. “I remember meeting your father when I went off on a journey on my own. Months later, we got married and had you.” Sakura smiled.

Aiko smiled at her mother.

Sakura then said, “Well, you should be on your way, right? I don’t want to keep you from finding Ayumu.”

“Yea, I should be. Thank you for everything, mom. I’ll talk you to later. I love you.” Aiko hugged her mother again.

Sakura once again, hugged her daughter back. “I love you too. Now be careful and fund Ayumu-kun, alright?” she let go of Aiko.

“Right.” Aiko said. “Later.” She waved, smiled, and then left the room and made her way to the front door.

She kept walking and didn’t turn back until she got to the entrance of her town. She then looked back over her shoulder. “It’s time for me to go off on my journey now. I’ll find Ayumu and bring him back. And then things will be just like they use to be.” Aiko smiled and then looked forward again. She continued on her way.
* * *
Aiko began to walk through the forest again. She had been planning this journey to find her friend for two years now. Ever since her best friend, Ayumu Mazaki disappeared one day when they both were sixteen years old. Since that day, she vowed that she would find him and save him from danger if he was in any. All her life Ayumu had always been there to protect her, now it was time for Aiko to protect him from whatever had caused him to leave his home.

Aiko smiled as she continued on her way to Alastair.

[ravenwithoutcause]

(( Sorry it took so long. Pretty sweat flashback! I been absent ALOT! I Apologize for that. Anywho, here's chapter 3 of it, it begins alittle after Chapter 1))

A dark storm began to settle over a barren and deluded forest. Lighting roar as the wind blew furiously through the trees dead braches. Death could be smell through the air as the down pour continue its unrelenting rage. Civilization was nowhere in sight. From within the hellish forest, a slender and young figure makes her way through.

“Uuoooooooohhh… uuoooooooooohh” she moan.

Rrrrrooooaaarr!! A Demonic roar out.

“Don’t you start dammit! I put some food in you… but without a job or money, it doesn’t look likely” she said to her stomach. “ Man this sucks!” She lowered head as she stopped in place. “Cold, wet, hungry, and homeless. Didn’t see this coming…” She quickly raised her head.

“ Whooaa! What person in there right mind will built this! Come, look at where we are”. A giant ice covered statue of a three headed beast stood in front of her. It loamed over her making her appearance seem shorter then it usually was.

As Nagase stepped forward, the sculpture began to shake. Parts of ice fell onto the floor as the beast shook itself free. This isn’t a sculpture of Cerberus. It is Cerberus thought Nagase the beast fully emerged from the ice and each of its three heads turned towards him.

“Leave now mortal!” The booming voice from the narrow head in the centre commanded. “The likes of you are forbidden in this land.”

“Cool.” Nagase laughed. “I’ve never seen a talking mutt before.” She mockingly pointed a finger at Cerberus. “You know in a dog show you’d definitely take first place.”

“You! A mere human child dear make a mockery of me!” The head yelled in its rage. It threw its head back and fired a block of ice at Nagase. Nagase jumped and the blast hit some trees. She looked back and saw that the way she came through was now covered, preventing her from turning back.

“Easy Fido. How about I take you out for a walk.” She clapped her hands close to the ground and motioned for Cerberus to come forward. “Come on puppy. Let’s go.”

“You’ll regret this you worm!” The head shouted at Nagase. How dare this human insult him? He would make her pay with her life.

“It’s ShowTime.” Nagase moved into an attack position and raised her arms in a manner of martial arts. She taunted the dig to come forth. “Come on.”

Cerberus swiped its paw at Nagase, but it pulled back when it felt the sting of her blade cutting against it. Nagase wasted no time and ran up to the heads and started swinging the sword in a frenzy that caused one of the heads to explode.

Cerberus reared back in pain and slammed its paw against the ground. Spikes of ice came out of the ground heading straight for Nagase. Nagase leaped out of the way and started firing her custom made pistols at Cerberus.

Cerberus roared and caused icicles to drop from thin air at Nagase. Swinging her sword, Nagase carved up any icicles and resumed her firing at Cerberus.

“What’s wrong? Having trouble aiming? Why don’t I throw a stick and see if you can hit that?” She said over the shots she fired.

This only infuriated Cerberus even more. It prepared to lunge at Nagase, when it felt its second head explode due to the bullets. Only the narrow head remained.

It heard Nagase cheer at her achievement. Cerberus lunged, stretching out its paws, at Nagase. Nagase stuck out blade and embedded it in Cerberus’s snout. Cerberus leapt back in pain.

“You are not human, are you?” It said asked suddenly afraid.

“Who knows?” said Nagase shrugging her shoulders. “Sometimes I’m not even sure myself.”

“Regardless, you have proved your strength. Take my soul and go forth. You have my blessings.” Admitting defeat, Cerberus disappeared in a flash of light. In its place lay a blue three headed nun chuck.

Nagase walked over and picked it. Suddenly she swung them about show-booting with them. The nun chucks sprayed ice as they traveled. Nagase twirled them and then held them in a pose.

“Too easy!” She strapped them to her back and continue to make her way to the metropolis known as Alastair. She suddenly laughed.

“This just keeps getting better and better.”

(( There's chapter 3. Hope you like it. Hope you don't mind curse-words. There's a few but nothing serious.))

[Kyoki]

((That was a awesome chapter! It’s fine that it took so long. Don’t worry about it. And I don’t mind the swear words. I’ve probably heard every swear word in the English language and they don’t bother me. ^^ ))

Aiko was currently walking down a dirt path road through the forest. She was still on her way to Alastair. She wasn’t sure if this was the right way or not, but she was hoping this path would take her to Alastair. Her mind began to wander as she walked, so she didn’t realize that there was someone walking right next to her.

“Hello? Did you know that you’re the most prettiest girl that I have ever seen?” the guy walking beside her said.

Aiko gasped and leaped a few feet away. “Who the hell are you? Don’t do that to people!” she yelled at him as she looked at him carefully. He was about five feet eleven, had brown hair that went down to around his ears. His eyes were a pretty dark brown. He was wearing a black long sleeve shirt, dark blue baggy pants, and black shoes. He had a black jacket tired around his waist.

“Who am I? I’m your future boyfriend, perhaps husband, that depends on how well we get along.” he smiled.

“Are you on drugs? You can’t just pop up and say stuff like that.” Aiko growled. “I really don’t have time for this. I have to go.”

Aiko glared at him and then continued walking.

“Hey! Wait!” he ran in front of her to make her stop walking. He looked down at her. “You can’t just leave me like this. I chose you.”

“Yea, that’s great. Now please go chose someone else.” Aiko snapped. Getting irritated that this person would not leave her alone while she was on her way to do a very serious task.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t.” he said. “What’s your name?”

“You tell me you name first, since I asked first.” she snapped. She then crossed her arms over her chest.

“I’m Ryuichi Sakurazukamori. Now, will you be so kind to tell me of the name of the girl that I have fallen in love with?” He smiled.

<i>Fall in love with? Is this guy for real? He doesn’t even know me, yet he is talking about all this crazy stuff. I really hope he’s not one of those guys who tell you he loves you and when you don’t feel the same, he tries to kill you. But that won’t matter, I can defend myself. </i> Aiko took a step back. “I’m Aiko Okazaki and you’re making me extremely angrily. So if you want to keep your body parts in tacked, then I advise you let me continue on my way.”

“Oh! You’re feisty! I like that.” he said.

“Whatever.” Aiko walked around him. “Now leave me alone, please.”

“Okie dokie. I’ll see you around later then. Hopefully you’ll like me more then. Wouldn’t that be great?” he said happily.

Aiko ignored him and kept on walking. After walking about ten feet, she turned around to see if he was still there.

Ryuichi was gone. Which made Aiko smile, she then turned back around and continued on her way.

A few minutes later, she saw something in the woods out of the corner of her eye. But she dismissed it as her imagination.

A little later on, she could have sworn she heard someone say “Aiko-chan? Aiko-chan?” But she ignored this as well.

Finally, as she was walking, she could sense that someone was behind her. In one swift movement she grabbed her javelin and spun around to find Ryuichi. The end of the javelin was mere centimeters away from his throat.

“Wow, you’re pretty good with that thing, aren’t you?” Ryuichi said.

“Yes, unfortunately for you, I am. Why are you following me?” she demanded to know.

“To make sure you get to where you are going safely. I can’t leave the one I love and have her fend for herself. I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to you.” he said.

“Yea, whatever. I can take care of myself. So just leave. I’m not some helpless girl in the big woods. Got it?” Aiko glared at him. “Now go away before I cut your head off.”

“Fine! Fine! Don’t be so mean about it!” Ryuichi whined. “I’ll go. See ya later.”

Aiko watched him as he turned and walked away. She didn’t turn back around until he was out of sight.

Aiko spun around and began to stroll down the road again.

“Aiko-chan! Aiko-chan!” Ryuichi yelled as he began to run toward her. “I can not just leave you like this. I’m going to escort you to Alastair and then I’ll leave you alone for awhile. Please let me take you there.”

“How did you know I’m going to Alastair?” she asked him.

“Because this is the path that heads to Alastair.” he said.

“Oh…” Aiko continued walking.

“So, can I come with you, you know, until we get there?”

“No.”

“Please?” Ryuichi whined.

“No means no. Didn’t your mom every teach you that?” Aiko asked.

“She couldn’t.” Ryuichi said.

“What do you mean, she couldn’t?”

“She died when I was really young. I don’t remember her that much.” Ryuichi said. “But my aunt said she was really pretty.”

“Oh! I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to…I’m sorry.” Aiko said quickly.

“It’s ok. Don’t worry about it, you didn’t know. So, can I come?”

Aiko sighed. “You promise to leave me alone as soon as we get there?” Aiko asked.

“Yep!” he said happily.

“Do you promise?” She asked.

“Yep!” Ryuichi said, hopping up and down.

“How old are you?” Aiko asked.

“I’m twenty years old.” he said.

“Then act like it.” Aiko said.

“Huh? What do you mean by that?” Ryuichi asked curiously.

“And if you want to walk me there, that means you have to be quiet. I don’t’ want to hear one more word come out of your mouth. I have a headache right now and I need some peace and quiet. Ok?” Aiko said.

“Yes, ma’am. I’ll be quiet as a mouse.” He said.

“Ok. Thank you.” Aiko said as they continued walking.

They walked in silence for a few minutes.

“You can call me Ryu, if you want. In case you don’t want to say Ryuichi.”

“Huh? Oh, ok.” Aiko said. <i> This guy is really weird…but he is super cute. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so mean to him earlier. But you just don’t come up to strangers and say all that kind of stuff to them… <i> “Hey, Ryu, I’m sorry for the way I yelled at you back there. I’m just worried about my friend.”

“Oh, it’s ok. I guess I came on somewhat strong.” He scratched the back of his head. “Sorry about that.”

“It’s ok.” Aiko smiled.

“You have a really beautiful smile.” Ryuichi said.

“Oh, um, thanks.” Aiko began to blush. She looked up ahead to see Alastair up ahead. “Hey look! We’re there. That was faster than I thought it would take.”

“I guess I’ll say good bye then.” he stepped in front of her and kissed her on her forehead. “Talk to ya later.” he ran off in the busy streets of Alastair.

“Bye…” she stood there for a few moments. She then shook her head and entered. “I’m hungry. I better go find a place to eat…” Aiko began to wander through Alastair looking for a place to get some food.

((Yay! I finished this chapter. My hands really hurt now though. >< I hope you like this chapter! ^^ ))