Prelude: Takashi, the fighter of Earth, is the second and sixth warrior of time, he is the second oldest and very determined in who he is, his personality can lead to antagonism troubles, but starting here is how he became Twilight.*
CHAPTER 1 - The Woman
2. Around the first birthday of Morlagon came Takashi, a young striking boy who came from not a wealthy family, but from poor villagers who were treated like the trash for the unhealthy animals, overlooked by many people and often left to starve, until one day a young woman came alongside the affected trees into an alley looking way that dirty animals would sneak upon, and in this fantasy world was like the wild winds, each nation can vary, and the Eneki's from the Ashio Nation have a thing of looking appropriate and being appropriate, always dressed in gold.
When the lady turned around and saw the troubled couple, shivering from the cold weather and crying of the babies pain, she put her basket of warm bread to the side, as it was protected by a large fabric of cotton cloth, and came to them, saying in worried tone of voice, "oh my, what has happened here? You guys are not well, you need shelter in this weather."
"We are practically homeless," the father says back, "my wife here and our three day old son have been here for a week, as I lost my peasant like job due to something I didn't even do, such shame we are like this, but we had to get away."
"This is never the answer! Here take this bread before it gets cold, my needs are in different matters, yours are now, here eat, and where is your wife?"
"In this tent." He says pointing behind him to a small tent.
The woman walks up to the tent and the mother is sleeping in the tent with the baby, "please, feed her some bread when she wakes up, and I might have something for the baby, to give him some goods, you guys stay put until I come back." "Alright, thank you very much." He bows his head, giving thanks.
"Oh you're welcome." She says then leaves.
"She must be rich, her dress is made of golden silk." He says while watching her leave.
Exactly thirty minutes later, the young woman comes back with baskets of food and goods for the baby. She puts them in the tent, and the wife, now up, starts saying, "oh my, what is this..." In a very tired voice. "Nia, This young lady is helping us, she brought us goods, even for our son, she is very trustworthy."
The young woman smiles and says, "kisho." (Which means Hello in the Eneki language) Then Nia says it back and thanks her for all of this while breastfeeding the baby.
"What is the babies name?"
"Takashi"
"Very nice, he is going to be so handsome and determined, I can see it now." Nia smiles and says, "thank you."
"My pleasure, well I'll just leave now and get back to the people, take great care of yourselves, I'll be back." She gets up and starts to walk away saying, "what is your name, sir?"
"Toshi, and this is my wife Nia, what is your name?"
"My name, Anorishi." She says then leaves.
...
Takashi now a month old, is growing up nicely as Anorishi has been taking great care for the family, but finally she comes over to them and grants them a place to stay, over in a village of people, not so far off from them.
The place is surrounded with trees and beautiful plants, along with tent houses so small to fit only a kitchen and living area. Anorishi walks with them to a house where an old man is sitting on a chair in front of it, watering yellow lilies.
"This is my father, Hanako, I take care of him here, it's his favor to take care of my lilies. It is the easiest thing he can do for himself, here, come meet him." Anorishi walks them over to her father, and as they walk up to him, he sits up and says, "hello, you guys look so sick, come inside, Anorishi here will show you were to sleep."
They walk inside and see that the home is cozy looking and pretty small, but enough to get around. "Thank you very much." Toshi says back. Anorishi walks them towards the back and a small comfy room is seen, "this is where you'll be sleeping until things get worked out."
"Thank you." "You're welcome." Anorishi smiles her usual red lipped smile.
Later at night, while the village lights light up the place, was Anorishi and her father talking in the small living room, drinking tea, with the coziness of the room surrounding them.
Anorishi starts saying, "so...Am I doing great or what, it seems that everything is working very fine, everything will go perfect once I tell the Emperor this weekend, he will be punished for what he did."
"Yes, but keep quiet before they hear you, with a baby they'll keep waking up."
"I know father," she looks over at their room, "they're fast asleep..."
...
The next day, Anorishi walks in the room where Toshi and Nia are staying, saying, "come outside, quick! You guys don't want to miss the blossoming plants!"
Toshi and Nia with Takashi walk outside and see all the villagers holding small baskets on their hands, and once Anorishi's father shows up he says, "release!"
Everyone releases their strange but beautiful plants and watch as they start flying by themselves in the sky, releasing glowing particles on the villages vineyard causing more seeds to be planted, waiting for more plants to grow.
"It's beautiful isn't it."
"Yes, Anorishi, it really is." Nia says back.
"What are these types of plants, I don't remember?" Toshi asks.
"They are called Shaludo's, they are the rare special plants that grow only in this vineyard and it rises into the city of Naminek, helping others as well, like the Emperor."
"Wow!" Toshi says back, "as a farmer, I wish to have these around more."
And for the past few months, everything becomes great and peaceful, the Shaludo's rise every month on the fifteenth, allowing more peace everytime for Toshi, Nia, and Takashi.
CHAPTER 2- The Outside of One To The Dangerous Inside
2. On the first birthday of Takashi, Anorishi and her father threw a party for him, to show appreciation to Toshi and Nia, and everyone in the village and ones she knew came to support them on it. They congratulate them and give them gifts, even their own home to stay in, for their love and support of the village.
As they are partying, a strange crippled old man comes up to them, back far and bent, outfit dirty and rusty, and as if he never washed, but he taps Toshi on his shoulder with his cane, whispering and saying, "beware of the princess, beware of the princess..." In a raspy saddened voice.
"Excuse me? Sir?"
"Your son, save him, I've seen everything in this village, it will crumble, they are dangerous fiends, not friends."
"Who is they? Who are dangerous fiends?" Toshi desperately asks.
The old man stops speaking and walks away slowing, disappearing in the trees and woods.
"Sir!" Toshi shouts.
Hearing him, Nia walks over to him and asks, "honey, what's wrong?"
"This old crippled man showed up, telling us to beware of someone, some fiends..."
"He probably didn't mean us, I mean look at today, today is a happy time for us, don't think about those things."
"I just want to make sure he doesn't come back then."
"We will." Nia adds to his words.
...
As evening reaches and everything starts to calm down and people start leaving, Toshi and Nia sit down outside of their home with Takashi who never says any word, and watch as the sun goes down.
Then Anorishi walks up to them in a slow but steady way and says, "you guys, how is everything going?"
"We are doing fine." Toshi says back.
"That's great to hear, because you guys forgot my present I made myself for Takashi, here, open it."
Toshi and Nia take the gift and open it and see a card wrapped tightly, they open it and see the beautiful gold and ruby covered card.
They open the card and see the writings of Anorishi on it, and that is when Toshi realized that the words of the old man were about them and were true, after he reads, "thank you, now Takashi is our son, but trust one of your own next time you lay on the ground as a dead run over animal..."
Anorishi quickly grabs the card in a tricky manner, and the face of Anorishi just changed completely, wolf in sheep's clothing she is, the darkness in her eyes build up, and then all these people start showing up from every corner, armed with weapons and armor, ready to kill just a passing squirrel if they wanted to.
Her father gives Anorishi a five foot tall golden sword and then she puts her long black hair in a bun and starts saying, "My Emperor, come forth to these heathens!"
Then the vicious Emperor himself shows up, and people start surrounding them even more, as if the whole city is watching. The Emperor of Naminek comes towards them in full armor and with guarded men surrounding just him, he takes out his golden sword and starts saying, "so...You guys are the heathens that Anorishi tells me about...Why are these people still alive in my city, but you guys look so scared and worried, gonna cry aren't you?"
"You may speak!" Anorishi shouts.
Toshi clears his throat to speak and says, "I truly don't know what's going on? Please, may you spare us and let us keep our son, he is the most important thing to us, don't take him away from us! Please..?"
Nia starts crying while firmly gripping Takashi, her tears fall on his face and Takashi starts saying, "Mommy...Daddy..."
Nia opens her eyes and continues to cry more, while Toshi hugs the both of them.
"Pathetic." Anorishi says.
The Emperor kneels before them and says, "we are to take your child because that is law, you should know that, you failed your job because you kept breaking the law and hiding as a farmer, and know since you never made up for your criminal record, we have to take your child with pleasure, because you don't deserve one, no criminal does, in the city of Naminek."
"And if we don't?" Toshi says sternly.
"Then we will kill the both of you, right here right now, in front of everyone, criminal."
"No! Please! I need my son, I love him too much, we changed! We really did!" Nia shouts with a weeping voice.
"Anorishi is my personal assassin as well as her father that I hired, and she tricked you guys just like this whole village did, all was for show, she pretended to be a fine maiden, when in actual reality more than one hundred lives were taken in her hands by her sword, Shaludo."
"Shaludo? The flower?"
"Yes, her sword is such a deadly delicate thing, right?" He grabs onto Anorishi saying, "just like this fine woman, hm, so now..." He turns towards Toshi, "give us the child!"
"No, you will not take our son, no matter if we did or not!"
"But then you won't be alive to take care of him, so would it matter? You don't have a choice here, now give...Us the child..!!"
"No!!" Toshi shouts.
The Emperors guards grab Toshi forcefully and put him in cuffs while Nia starts yelling at them to let him go, but as she yelling and screaming, Anorishi, strikes her shoulder completely as fast as a cheetah does when attacking its prey.
Nia falls to the ground bleeding in pain, and now this causes utter chaos of everyone arguing and screaming against each other, with Nia still lying there in pain as Anorishi snatches Takashi away.
He starts crying for his parents as well, then Anorishi takes him away, while guards hold Nia back, while she is badly wounded, at the brink of passing out.
Then Toshi gets taken to prison while guards dump Nia by a far body of water, then everyone leaves to return to the city.
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