The Tale of Raskaya: reincarnated into an unknown world

4. The Fall of the Demons

The time flew by and years passed.
As the yokai had a reliable source of food thanks to the forest fairies the baby, Raskaya, continued to grow fast and healthy. No matter how much work the assassins had, Akabane and the others made sure that there was always someone home to watch the baby and take care of it. Even though the nature of their work was so violent, they raised the kid with the most affection they had to offer and Raskaya had not the slightest deficiency of love while growing in those years. Aka, Shino, Ari and Aru might not have been the most cheerful of people but the little baby brought them joy and made their lives happy. They were excited when the little child started walking and speaking its first words, Aka even teared up when little Raskaya called him 'baba' which somewhere along the way turned into a 'papi' and Ari somehow became 'mama'. Maybe because Ari stayed at home most of the four since he got less jobs than the others, it wasn't that he was bad at his job it was just that the others were a bit better. Aru became the teaching uncle who was a little more serious than the others and Shino became the big brother who taught baby Raskaya all kinds of nonsense.

The five of them somehow miraculously became a complete and overly happy family and for two years it was as if nothing could ever destroy their little world.

It seemed as if the happy laughter could never leave the black house in the forest,
but unfortunately it came the way it had to and how Aka feared it from the beginning.

A few months after little Raskaya turned two the black house, which was originally not much more than an assassin's base, was getting daily attacks. In the beginning it was nothing to worry about since the four could still deal with it easily. However the attacks did not cease and when it became obvious that they wouldn't be able to hold out much longer, Akabane took action.

He sent a message to his old friend that he should come immediately, where in the house he hid the baby and to take Raskaya away before it was too late.

The message however needed time to arrive and so did the fairy.

When the fairy Siourua, Akabane's old friend, arrived there was only deathly silence in the forest area where the black house stood. It was nothing like the situation Siourua imagined from the message he received nor anything like how Akabane described it.
Wondering whether they managed to ward of the attackers after all and slightly concerned that maybe they didn't and he was simply too late, he rushed the rest of the way to the house as fast as he could. Outside there were only massive amounts of blood stains on the forest ground, which still didn't clear up the situation.
Siourua now stood in front of the door at the entrance and hesitated before he finally knocked.

Silence.

No answer.

Siourua's concern grew and he busted through the door.
In the message Akabane said that he hid Raskaya in his room upstairs, between the clothes in his closet, so he planned to first look for anyone who might still be in the house and then look for the baby. But what he wasn't prepared for was to find directly in the first room he entered the bloody sight that awaited him.

In the living room were the bodies of Ari and Aru lying in a pool of blood as well as dead soldiers who from their uniforms should be elites from the bordering kingdom. Now panicking Siourua rushed to the stairs, but there was still more. At the foot of the stairs lay Shino who was dead as well. Remaining from the moment of his death he wore an absolutely furious expression which appeared to also partially be frustration in the own failure and a hint of despair.
Seeing him like this his eyes began to burn and Siourua had to hold back his tears.
Before his body on the ground lay another soldier and behind him on the stairs, which blood flowed and dripped down from, were two more of them, also dead.
Afraid of what would await him, Siourua flew up the stairs, as in not to touch any of the dead bodies, and found exactly what he feared but already suspected.
Unable to hold back any longer, the tears flowed down his face as he leaned over Akabane's dead body at the top of the stairs.