This was a book I wrote based on my siblings and I's imagination during our anime phase. We were the main characters.

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Kawakami Mari

It's been four months since Komatsu and the others went to bring down Azazel, a fallen angel. Azazel insists we're in the Dawn of the Forsaken, and his madness has become unbearable. My brother, Komatsu, and the others were supposed to stop Azazel, but they haven't been back, and Azazel's clones are still attacking the town. The villagers hold up hope that they're alive, I think they're dead, and if not, I'm going to find my big brother. He's my only hope of staying alive. My mom and dad have no use for me as a girl. If Komatsu isn't alive, they'll have a new son and abandon me, so I'm going to find him and save him, possibly help him and bring him back, so I have a purpose to live. I'll sneak out the border and find him.

Yoshihara Mizuki

Everyone's delusional. They say that the chosen ones have defeated Azazel, and they're on their way back. Please, it's been four months, and the clones keep attacking us. Mom and dad have to work relentlessly at the border to keep us safe. My twin sister, Yamaoka, promised to write letters, and I know she's possibly dead because I felt it. A sharp pain three months ago, on my side, like I was stabbed, must have been what happened to Yamaoka. Mom and dad don't want to believe that Yamaoka might be hurt, let alone dead, but I should be able to still feel pain, and I don't. I already cried and accepted the fact that Yamaoka was killed. I don't want to tell anyone because the villagers already call us the cursed twins for feeling each other's physical pain, and I now sense Yamaoka's death, and I will bring her body back and give her a proper burial. I'm going to sneak out to the border tonight, and I'll find her.

Mita Isamu

Idiotic villagers hallucinate for their own benefit when people lose their families—my father's dead, and they decide to smile and say he's coming back. My mother's power is of Necromancy, and she involuntarily speaks to the dead, and when she screamed and thrashed out of her sleep, I rushed to her side, and she sobbed and cried, she told me to get my sister, and she sat us both down and painstakingly told us our dad's dying wish. To stay away from the coming war, but I'll defy that wish, I'm going to kill Azazel for what he did to my father, my mother needed him, I needed him, my sister needed him, and now he's gone. For the past three months, I've been secretly training with my dark magic and fire element, tonight, I'll sneak out the border and act out my revenge.

Narrator

The three young adults set out at midnight and traveled to the border. Kawakami sets camp there, resting after fighting Azazel's clones. When Yoshihara and Mita meet together, they are startled by each other, but the similarities of their conquests join them. They walk together in the sight of the campfire Kawakami's at. They ask to join forces, and they find each of them is going for their family, and they make a plan.

Yoshihara

I met Mita and Kawakami. Mita is a nice guy who's putting on vengeance for his beloved father. Kawakami is strong-headed and a great fighter, but she's weak-spirited and quite insecure.

"I'm Yoshihara Mizuki. My abilities are shapeshifting and using the element of wind."

I show them by creating a gentle wind current. I bow my head respectively and sit down.

"I'm Kawakami Mari. My abilities are Illusion and Electricity, my mother's fire, and my dad's dark magic mixed and gave me my electricity."

Kawakami shoots sparks from her hands.

"I'm Mita Isamu. I have dark magic and fire elements."

Mita lights fire from his palms.

We all look at each other before Kawakami gets up. "We're not allowed to be here, but we are, so let's not waste our time and bring back our loved ones." Mita and I nod. We all agree we shouldn't go and die while being the rescuers; we couldn't possibly do that to our parents.

Mita

I look at my new friends, and they better not disappoint because I will not fail at my revenge. I shake my thoughts away and take a deep breath, we must teleport to the other side because of the guards, and I'll have to use dark magic.

I circle my arms around, creating a blackish purplish void.

I step away and usher at Kawakami and Yoshihara. "I'm not the only dark magic-user. The guards sense my power."

They both nod and jump in quickly, I put my foot in, and I already hear people coming. I jump in and quickly close the teleportation route. Kawakami and Yoshihara smile in relief; I guess I took a bit longer to jump in.

It was the first time my power came to good use. The townspeople always said I had the face of a villain as a jest, and not only that, I had acquired dark magic, and it always made me afraid and pondered...

Is it really a joke?

"Are you ok Mita-senpai?" Kawakami brought me back from my thoughtful state.

"Please call me Mita. I'm sure we're all seventeen, right?"

The girls nod.

"Yes." Yoshihara answers.

Since we're not eighteen, we're not allowed near the border for any reason, but we have a reason, a reason that cannot be left alone.

Kawakami

As we walk, I wonder if I'm as delusional as the villagers. I believe my brother is alive, but Yoshihara can feel her sister's death, and Mita's dad is dead and is talking to his mother in his spirit form. If Komatsu is gone, my parents will–I don't want to think about it; all this mayhem makes me look like I have an inferiority complex. I need to be strong, or I'll disappoint myself along with the others.

"I stole a map from the mercenary."

I hand it to Mita.

"Couldn't you just buy it?" Yoshihara asks.

I shake my head. "In my parents' own little world, a girl is useless to them. They don't care enough to let me help in their shop and make money."

Yoshihara and Mita lower their heads a little.

"Sorry. We shouldn't have been in your business."

I sigh and blink back my tears.

How embarrassing it is to have to tell someone that my parents give zero worries to where I am or how I suffer.

"No, it's okay; it would have come out sometime during our journey."

Narrator

The trio walks out of the thick jungle to a body of water, the water of death as they say. Waters containing deadly creatures, abnormally vast and dangerous currents, and wild whirlpools. They should usually be afraid but knowing that before them, five people didn't end there was enough to expand their courage. Kawakami would be their engine, with her electrons. Mita would make the ship, and Yoshihara would be the engine of wind. Not a moment after they set sail, the impediments of cursed waters appear.

Mita

The winds begin to rise, and our boat tilts from side to side. Our resources are little to nothing.

As the curse of this water goes... hundreds of years ago, a witch who was desperately in need of love was rejected and turned away from humanity. She was angry and cried along the water; as her tears fell into the water, the witch poisoned it with her sadness. She continued to cry and poison the water for hundreds of years until seventeen years ago, a recently fallen angel who pitied her came down, and out of that relationship, they had a child. The witch secretly had the baby transported into the village and died by the waterside. That child still lives in the town today, and no one knows who they are or where they are. Now the water is raging and wants us out.

"What do we do?!" Yoshihara's tie comes off her hair as Kawakami's electricity slows down due to the sudden freezing weather.

"My power is useless. I don't know who's power will calm down the water." Kawakami yells back.

Yoshihara doesn't reply; instead, she screams. A wave the size of a continent comes our way.

"That's not possible," I say. "This is just a river. How can it amass such water of an ocean?!"

"Move the wave away from us!" Kawakami grabs onto me. "Get ahold of yourself and move the wave! You can do it, Mita!"

I nod and gather my energy. I spin my arm counterclockwise away from us, and I move the wave, knocking me off the boat instead of everything else turning over.

"Mita!" The girls call, but if Kawakami does anything, she'll shock me, and Yoshihara's winds will worsen the currents.

Kawakami

Mita falls into the water. Yoshihara and I witness him succumb to the currents underwater. Yoshihara fell to the floor in tears, and I was almost doing the same when I saw the river push Mita back onto the surface of the water.

"Yo-Yoshihara! Mita's alive!"

The waters calm, and the skies turn blue.

Yoshihara looks at the sky, gets up, and looks into the water.

"M-Mita?! Mita! Oh my god!" Yoshihara looks at the water's calmness and jumps in the water to get Mita.

I shock him a few times to jumpstart his heart, and he spits out the water and gasps for breath. Yoshihara and I hug him tightly.

Mita looks confused. "How did you guys manage to save me and calm down the water?"

I thought of the legends, and maybe Mita might be the witch's son, but that is too low of Mita and of me.

"I don't know. The water pushed you back up and calmed itself down." I explain.

Mita furrows his brows. "How-?"

"Let's not worry about that. There's land ahead of us!" Yoshihara smiles and points to the land before us.

CHAPTER TWO

Yoshihara

I interrupted Mita because I figured out a secret. Mita might be the witch's son, the witch had stopped poisoning the river seventeen years ago to birth her child before dying, and Mita is seventeen, and the waters show affection to him only. I don't want to go forth with this hench because it might not be accurate, and I also do not want to hurt Mita and break his family apart if it's true.

Narrator

As they step on this new land, you would think they'd rejoice to be off the waters, but no, they've made it into a far more dangerous place where fists and power are involved in surviving. These teens have been sheltered from the ways of the fight and have practiced on their own. Let's see how self-teaching really helps.

Kawakami

No... Don't tell me my brother went through this island.

I face Mita with a pleading face. "Mita, please tell me this is the wrong place."

Mita looks on the map, and his face looks back up with a displeased look. "We're supposed to be here, it says. We shouldn't worry. This is our second to last obstacle before facing Azazel." No, this can't be our obstacle.

This is too much.

"No. We can't; we just can't-,"

"Kawakami, is this what you want your brother to see?! Do you want him to see you cowering at something we haven't even faced yet?!" Yoshihara screams at me. "We are strong; it's proven by how we survived the trenches."

Mita nods. "If we die, we die of glory, and if not, we defeat Azazel and take the bodies of our loved ones and give them a proper burial."

I breathe in and nod. "Let's walk then."

Yoshihara and Mita nod as we walk through the thick forest. Our guard is up, and we walk in formation. These forests are known for their weird creatures, creatures no one knows about because they have not made it out to tell about them.

A man by the name of Nagai Yoichi made it out barely alive. He was put in the hospital and only said six words before dying, "The legends are true. Deadly creatures roam." His injuries match, six huge scars slash his chest, and it wasn't a tree cut. It was a monster.

Komatsu didn't die here, I'm sure of it. If he did, we would find his body here. I'm being paranoid. I shook out of it and continued to lead until the moment we were waiting for.

A growl.

Yoshihara

A growl, I heard this creature growl. I'm going to hope it's a mere tiger. Mita and Kawakami seem to think otherwise, which makes me fear for the worst. How can we survive if our strongest, Kawakami, is afraid? I shudder in fear as the creature's growls get louder. We stay still, hoping the beast won't hear us, but we forgot one thing, this creature can smell.

The creature

The creature smells the three teens from miles away. It lurks closer and closer until it could smell the sweet blood of their youth and could hear the juicy tendering muscles (meat for the creature) bounce.

It could hear hearts beating for release.

This creature is called a Tigren. A mutated tiger and wolf mix is a beast made from an experiment gone wrong. If it can smell and hear your fear, it cannot be tamed, but if you remain calm, this tigren will be as loyal as a dog.

The creature is clever; it calls itself Sakurai. Over the few hundred years, he never got to say his name to anyone. They ran from him, hurt him, attacked his impervious body, which hurt his soul instead.

When he saw these teenagers and felt their fear, he let not his hopes up, for he already knew he would gain no friend in this lonely forest. He planned to take out the strongest, which was Kawakami. Strong is her power, her mind but not her soul.

"She's just like me," Sakurai thought. "Hurt, and paranoid, dependent on someone to keep them alive."

Sakurai pounced on Kawakami; the teens screamed behind them as they tumbled down.

"Let go!" Kawakami screams.

She placed her hands on his chest and shocked him with enough volts to render him unconscious. Sakurai fell on Kawakami unconscious, Kawakami was already hurt, and now tons of a creature lay on her body.

Kawakami

This creature looks peaceful when it's sleeping, but I cannot focus on that. Not while this heavy creature is on my already injured body. I should have known; the beast that Nagai Yoichi so ardently insisted was deadly was just a tigren. No wonder why this tigren attacked. Our fears were bent on this tigren being an entirely different monster. I'm glad Komatsu is not a fearful person. I'm sure he survived the forest.

I'm glad.

Narrator

Kawakami also fell unconscious due to her injuries.

Mita

We found Kawakami and the... Wait, this creature is a tigren? The legend was ever so persistent that there was a creature far more deadlier than a tameable tigren. I guess legends indeed are just legends. Kawakami went out of her way not to kill this creature, but in doing so, she made her injuries from the tigren graver, and now we have an injured soldier.

"You think we should keep this tigren alive? After all, Kawakami would have killed it already if she wanted him dead." Yoshihara asks.

I nod, this tigren attacked her, and she didn't kill him.

"I agree." Yoshihara and I gently pull her out.

The infamous six scars this creature had given Naigai Yoichi had now been imprinted on Kawakami. I fear she might die, but Yoshihara still hears her heart. Yoshihara does the best she can to bandage her up when the tigren sniffles and grovels like a cat before awakening before us. Yoshihara stands up next to me as the tigren sniffs Kawakami gently.

"What is this tigren doing?" Yoshihara whispers.

I watch in shock as the tigren sits beside Kawakami and glows up; I get worried and speak up.

"Tigren, what are-?!" The tigren connects with us.

"This human... Kawakami chose not to kill me after my ardent desire to rid of her, so I will remove my marks of pain from her. For the first time in a century, a human chooses to acknowledge me as something other than a monster."

Yoshihara and I tremble; how can a wild tigren know such vocabulary?!

The tigren heals Kawakami, her scars and pains are gone, and her eyes flutter open. Instead of fear gushing through her with a tigren in her face, she smiles.

"We have mistaken you. I am terribly sorry." Kawakami sits up as Yoshihara sits next to her and apologizes too. I roll my eyes at having to apologize too.

Narrator

Sakurai is happy. He has found his friend, Kawakami, and he will leave this miserable forest and join them on their quest. After centuries of wanting companionship, he finally found it through a group of teens.

CHAPTER THREE

Narrator

Getting closer to Azazel means the fighting gets harder and harder. Mita, Yoshihara, Kawakami, and Sakurai have fought so many of Azazel's clones that they began to wonder if their loved ones are really dead. If the five of them stopped and defeated Azazel, wouldn't the clones go back to the trapped human inside of them? Hundreds upon thousands gang up on the teens, and eventually, they're circled. Every clone is within a hundred-mile radius.

Yoshihara

We're surrounded by rotten clones. Any moment now before they pounce on us.

"I can't use my power; if I electrocute them when they pounce at us, I risk the chance of electrocuting all of you." Kawakami explains.

I nod. "Use illusion."

Kawakami gasps and snaps.

She inhales, and her eyes turn entirely purple. The clones stop running towards us and start crying. Is Kawakami using their own memories against them? It seemed to be working fine until Kawakami's eyes began to bleed.

She gasps. "Azazel's fighting back!"

The clones break out of the illusion. I wish I could shapeshift right now, but I can't, not on my own, so I cut them into shards with the wind. It doesn't work; the clones surround us again.

Kawakami

I let out long streams of electricity, hoping to kill them all, but there are more. They just spawn so wretchedly. They surround us, and I cover myself and yelp as they jump. I stayed in this position for some time before realizing they hadn't touched me or made a sound. I look up at the same confused faces of Mita and Yoshihara.

"What happened? Did one of you make them disappear?" Mita and Yoshihara shake their heads. I thought who might have saved us, and so did the others. I get up and make sure Sakurai's alright. A few belly rubs and pettings wouldn't hurt. After that, I get up and join the others, searching for the mysterious person or thing that could've saved us. We walk around the area. As the fog gets thick, our fatigue kicks in; I try not to sleep in a place like this, but Mita had already fallen, and he looked so peaceful and happy sleeping, and I wanted to sleep too. Soon, Yoshihara, Sakurai, and I fell asleep on the ground.

Narrator

The teens were chained up against their will, as they soon realized when they woke. Sakurai was also chained but with more robust and better restraint. He even had a muzzle attached to his mouth; oh, he was angry. Upon learning this, a young man comes in, about seventeen to eighteen, with an aura that spells sexy.

Narrator

"Hey, Hattori, they finally woke up." Another man walks in with a raised eyebrow; he's devilishly fine. The teens are totally wowed. They never knew anyone in the town who came close to these two men.

"About time. I've never seen anyone who's slept for more than twelve hours after being kidnapped."

Hattori mocked them as the other man snickers. "Hey, that's what I do."

The men stopped joking around and brought their attention back to the heavily annoyed teenagers.

Mita

These men annoy me, their those types, not to mention how they talk. I don't want to sit and watch Kawakami or Yoshihara force themselves to fight these men, knowing full well they have small crushes on them; look, Yoshihara's already checking out that man who called for the other–he called him Hattori, but what's his name?

"My name is Sano Kou and this is my brother Hattori Katsuro."

They have two different last names, interesting. I don't have time to care about their surnames I need out of here. I have better things to do, to kill Azazel.

Azazel won't kill himself.

"You are brothers?" Hattori sits next to Kawakami with an annoying smirk.

"Are you deaf? Sano said, we're brothers. End of discussion."

Kawakami blinks out of her fear for him and sneers at him.

"We know what you guys are here for."

Yoshihara scoffs. "We've made it this far and even got ourselves a pet that everyone has feared for centuries; why must we stop at the hands of you? On the contrary, we won't."

Sano smiles. "You shouldn't talk when someone hasn't finished and to go off on you. What's a bunch of sheltered, inexperienced seventeen-year-olds gonna do? Nothing's keeping you going but the fact that your little loved ones are dead and someone needs to clean up the mess." Anger boils within me; how dare they? I jerk in my chains, trying to go after this Sano, but I'm only held back by the chains.

"Clean up? If cleaning up means killing Azazel and bringing back my brother then so be it; you don't know the real reason we're here. On the outside, we're just trying to save our loved ones, but do you know the depth of it?! We have deep reasons for this, and you're here delaying and mocking us!" Kawakami reasons.

Sano sighs, and Hattori glares at her.

"Kawakami, right?" Hattori asks, catching Kawakami's attention.

"Shut your damn mouth and listen."

Kawakami sneers, her eyes turn purple.

"Kawakami, stop!" Yoshihara screams. She tries to move over to her but is held back by the chains.

Kawakami doesn't stop; she puts Sano and Hattori into an illusion.

"You will not get in my way." Kawakami strengthens her spell.

Hattori smiles sinisterly. "You're actually pretty good, but you don't know the weaknesses and strengths of your enemy. As the strongest of the three, you're weak-spirited and dumb."

Kawakami growls, her eyes bleed.

"Kawakami, please, if you don't stop, he'll kill you." Yoshihara pleads with her.

"Kawakami, take a look at him. He's immune to your attack because he also has illusion." I pitch in.

Kawakami's eyes slowly turn back, her breathing ragged, and she struggles to speak.

"Sano's... trying to help us?"

Yoshihara

Kawakami almost let her emotion get the better of her; Hattori seems to really have in for her. But Kawakami said Sano's trying to help us before passing out.

"You didn't have to go hard on her Hattori, or are her powers too strong for you?!" Mita yells as Hattori scoffs.

"Enough, Mita," I say. "Kawakami saw something from you, Sano."

Unlike Hattori, Sano was captured in Kawakami's illusion, and he's getting himself together.

He looks at me and smirks. "Azazel is our father, and we want to help defeat him." I laugh, and Mita does too.

I laugh so hard my ribcage hurts. "You think we're dumb enough to trust the sons of Azazel? He's your father. How could we entrust you to kill him?!"

Hattori points to Kawakami. "Your friend here noticed how our last names were different. That's because Azazel stole us from our birth parents; Azazel only has one true son."

I cover my mouth. "Oh, how sad," I say as Mita rolls his eyes.

"I actually have to thank Kawakami because, before today, I couldn't remember my parents because Azazel cleared my memory."

Hattori sighs. "Yea, I saw my loving mother and father and how I was stolen too."

I scoff. "And you still chose to knock her out?!"

"Because she used it against us." Sano snaps back.

Mita growls. "As you guys said, we're inexperienced with our powers. She doesn't choose what to show you; she just puts you in there."

Hattori rolls his eyes. "The point is we want to help because we also want answers. You in or not?"

"Yes."

"No." Mita looks at me. "Yoshihara, what do you mean yes?"

I look at Mita. "We need help. If you don't get help from here, we'll be like your father, and my sister, and Kawakami's brother, dead."

Mita sighs and pouts as I make the agreement.

Narrator

When Kawakami wakes up, the rest tell her why they're with the two men, and although she doesn't like them, Sano and Hattori know a lot more about Azazel than they do, and so they ride to Azazel's castle in heated arguments and turmoil, the only sufferer here is Sakurai, he wants nothing to do with this.

CHAPTER FOUR

Kawakami

Arguments arise every five minutes. I was very grateful to the men for letting us ride on a more spacious boat, but it's too big, and it looks like a pirate ship. I don't want to catch the attention of other pirates, and if I open my mouth, that stupid man, Hattori, will too.

Yoshihara seems to have taken a liking towards Sano as they converse together. Mita steers the boat with an angry expression, and Hattori is lying down like the lazy fool he is. Seeing as everyone has something occupying them, I make my way below deck to make dinner, and I start cutting up the onions.

I don't know where these men find their resources, but I hope it's not voodoo or some sort.

I stir up the contents in my soup when I feel a large hand grab a fistful of my...butt.

I gasp and try to turn around, but the hand makes its way to my waist to keep me turned.

"If you weren't so annoying, I would fuck you till you forgot your own name." Hattori's deep voice rings in my ears.

"Hattori, let go of me." I dismissed his words; they made me feel a certain way between my legs.

Hattori chuckles. "So easily aroused...." He mutters before letting me go.

I straighten myself before turning towards him. "I am not easily aroused and definitely not aroused by someone like you."

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