Fan Fiction ❯ DEMON WITHIN ❯ Dreams I ( Chapter 1 )

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DEMON WITHIN: DREAMS

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the DOA characters, or any other part of the series. I am not a Tecmo employee nor do any of these stories have any connections with Tecmo. These are all my own ideas that I create while sitting in front of the computer, typing. I wish that I did have a DOA connection with Tecmo, then I would be able to create an Anime of the DOA series, but that's life, so I don't and I write up what I think will be a good story-line.

Hey all! Thanks for the reviews! It was a downer for me to see a review that stated that my writing sucked and that the story blew, or something like that. I was down for a bit, but then the reviews that stated that the story had a good possibility of being good cheered me up. All the reviews from www.fanfiction.net were positive, and www.mediaminer.org `s reviews were constructive. I wish that the reviewer would have told me what I should do to improve my writing. After all, I am not an English major or that good at English in the first place. I usually pull off a 75% in English. But hey, English is my second language so please bear along. But the good news is that due to all the positive feedback I have received, I felt bad not writing another chapter to see if you like where I am heading, so here's the next chapter in this series. Oh, I don't really know how to express the fighting scenes as I picture them in my head so if anyone knows a really good fanfic with a great fighting scene description, please let me know. Please review and enjoy!

THE PAST

The sky was illuminated by the white light of the fighting between the Gods, high above the clouds. Every few minutes there was a deafening crack of thunder followed closely by a flash of lighting. There was a storm brewing but it had yet to reach their beloved abode. She heard every crack of the thunder that sent shivers down her spine. She envisioned some heavenly maiden utilizing a whip in order to subdue some hellish demon. And the light was from the magical arrows from some other heavenly creature that would protect the maiden with all his heart. It was a love that was never possible. One that will never be realized on the face of the earth.

Kasumi lay cradled in her brother's arms due to the fear of the sounds and lights she heard and saw. Thunder storms always made Kasumi seem more feminine than normal. Usually this 14 year old girl was just a bit short of being considered a boy. Due to her Tomboyish attitude she was mistake for a boy for the greater part of her life and she had become accustomed to it. Being born into a poor family that lived in a little village on the outskirts of the city, Kasumi did not have much to do but play with her brother. Her parents were farmers and they did not believe that their children should suffer the tedious work of farming and let them roam around, least until they were 12. But things never work out exactly the way they are planned and it was the case with Kasumi and Hayate (Ein). Hayate, 16 at the time, went with some of his friends and it seemed that they had found a stranger living in a nearby village who had some fighting skills. After careful persuasion, the boys doing most of the labour of this elderly aged man, the man agreed to bestow his knowledge of the arts of fighting unto them. After months of this labour and training, Ein and his friends were beginning to become strong, tough, and fast. It seemed as if the labour was part of their training because it helped them build up there strength and stamina. Every day they grew stronger and faster, always sparring when ever they got the chance.

Kasumi, being a tomboy, was friends with the boys more than the girls. One in particular, Ryu Hayabusa. She and he were friends from the moment they met each other. It was as if there was some unseen force pulling the two closer together. Ryu's mother had died just as she gave birth to Ryu. Apparently, from what Kasumi gathered from her conversations with Ryu, and from overhearing conversations between the adults, this was considered a terrible omen by Ryu's tribe. Ryu's parents were not part of the high class structure within their tribe but they were somewhere in the middle. They had ties to both upper and lower classes but the upper class ties were with people of a different tribe. Upon the death of Ryu's mother, both Ryu and his father were forced out of their tribe and left stranded in the middle of the desert that was vast and surrounded Kasumi's village, among others. Their tribe moved onto their next destination and left only a sack of water, made of cowhide, for the both of them. Both Ryu and his father traveled for days and Ryu received the greater portion of the water but after 3 days of traveling on water along, not coming upon any sources of food, both were exhausted. On the 5th day their water supply ran out and they were left traveling the rest of the way with no source of food or water in sight. As they settled down to rest for the midday, traveling by night since the heat was not as great, Ryu's father collapsed and was unconscious. After who knows how long, he awoke to find Ryu sitting next to him, eating something. Surprised and confused, thinking this a dream state, Ryu's father rose slowly and saw that Ryu was engulfing a cooked rabbit!

Ryu's Father:

*But how?! He's only 15! I have never showed him how to hunt nor to make fire! Yet, here he is, surviving while I was unconscious! Is this a dream? Is this real? How am I to know? *

As Ryu's father kept pondering the situation that had arisen, his stomach rumbled with hunger and his throat desired liquids. Slowly Ryu's father approached Ryu and stared at the 5 rabbits that were pierced with a stick and freshly roasted. There were 2 more roasting on the open fire. Ryu's father looked on in awe and would have been drooling at the roast rabbits if he was not as dehydrated. After their meal, Ryu and his father began their travels again and after a couple of days, came upon a well. This was an odd site for there was no town or village in sight of the well yet there it was. Cautiously both of them approached the well and peered towards its depths. Far beneath their location, they made a small glimmer of a refraction of light. WATER!! FINALLY!!!

Without waiting any longer, and not paying any attention to their surroundings, both drew up the well pail and inhaled the water. Though they were coughing, due to the water slipping into their wind pipe, caused by the rapid consumption of the liquid, they kept on drinking furiously. Suddenly there was moment all around them and in seconds they were surrounded. Not by warriors, assassins, or fighters of any type, but ordinary villagers with a confused look upon their faces. With the pail still dripping water into his mouth, Ryu's father confronted the villagers.

Ryu's Father:

"We … ll … ~cough cough cough~ I be… ye … wee … blur …. slars … keap …. do … and trus … hen …. drink …. wastr …"

All the villagers just stared at the two with a cautious distance between them. Ryu's father drank the last of the water in the pail and then cleared his throat. He then explained their story of the journey through the desert and wait to see what the villagers would say in response. After what seemed like an eternity, a couple minutes, one villager stepped forward and offered his hand to welcome the stranger. This act caused a commotion between the rest of the villagers and soon there were two groups, one for giving the two strangers patronage and the other for letting the two go on their way. After a while, nothing was decided between the two groups but it was getting late and they all headed back to their humble abodes for the night.

Villager:

"FINE! IF THEY ARE GONING TO STAY HERE THEN THEY CAN STAY AT OBUNA'S HOUSE SINCE HE IS THE ONE TO OFFER THEM A HAND!"

Obuna:

"That is fine by me. My family and I will give them shelter and share with them what we can. In this world filled with hate we need to have some peace. And Kasumi and Hayate will keep this little one company."

With that, the villagers returned to their own homes for the night. Obuna led the two strangers with him to his home, where his family was waiting. When he entered, followed by the two strangers, his family fell silent and stared, waiting for an explanation of this new turn of events. After the story had been told again, they accepted them with open arms. They shared what little food they had with the strangers and they made as much space in their little shack for the strangers to sleep. As the adults went off to sleep, the three kids stayed and began to talk. They talked about all the things they liked; would like to have; would like to see; and so on until they could keep their eyes open no more. Soon they all were drifting away into the world of dreams and as they were, Ryu could not help but be glad that now he had some friends. For the first time, he had friends.

SO? How is it this time around? I know I kinda slowed down the whole pace after that fight opening but I need to build up the events that caused all the fighting and the fighting between brother and sister! Please let me know if you like this new method I am trying out, the whole starting at one point and then going to the past and running the story until it meets up at the starting point. Please, if you do like this story so far, bear with me because I do have a lot of homework, which I am really far behind in, since I'm watching Ranma and Initial D a lot, so updating and even writing the chapters for both this DOA fanfic and the Inu Yasha fanfic will take longer than before. Thanks for all the positive reviews and please let me know what I can do to make this better. Positive criticism is all ways appreciated. Hope all who read the story so far enjoyed it! Peace!