"Dammit!" yells one man bleeding, fighting alone ten against one. "I WON'T LET YOU BASTARDS GET PAST ME! I WON'T LET YOU HURT THEM!" he screams. It's dark, rainy, and dawn is approaching. A woman in a deep ash wood forest in the far distance is carrying and running for her baby's life while two men behind her are getting ever so closer. "YOU WON'T GET AWAY YOU BITCH!" one yells angrily. The other is at the top of a nearby tree. He draws his bow and arrow and takes the shot. She tries to escape, but before she can, she trips and nearly falls, but she is caught by the arrow one of her assailants shot at her. The arrow has a line attached to it which kept her from falling into a small ditch. Before the arrow could reach her baby, as if by instinct, she dropped her arms allowing her baby to just dangle in her hands. The man who shot the arrow lived his victory shortly because out of nowhere, a bullet found its way into his skull killing him instantly. The other man finally caught up to her. Nearly out of breath he says, "So you thought you could escape from us forever huh? You witch." He proceeds to kick her to make sure she is dead, but if not, he wanted her to suffer for her "crimes." The assault made her fall on her side still holding her baby. He stops briefly to notice that she was carrying a newborn baby. "So this is your spawn?" he draws a knife and continues to say, "I better not let your blood prosper in this world any further." He raises his knife to deliver a finishing blow to her baby, but the mother's will to protect her child sprang into action. While still holding her baby in one hand, she used the other to take hold of her assailant's ankle. Before he could stop her, she somehow managed to break his entire ankle, but the strange force she was sending through her enemy didn't stop there, it continued to spread throughout his whole body. "AAAAAAAEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!" the man screams from the terror and pain he was experiencing echoed through the forest until someone heard it. With her assailants gone, she used the last of her strength to put some form of a magical seal on her child's chest. After she was finished, she used a piece of her cloak to keep her child warm hoping that help would arrive.
Her wish was granted when an old friend appeared in front of her looking surprised that she was even alive. Tears in her eyes and blood coming out of her mouth she kisses her child on his head and does her best to hold him up to her comrade and says, "Please take him." Her friend gently takes the baby in his arms, but before he could say anything to her, the mother was already dead with a smile on her face. As he was starting to cry, he heard footsteps and fled the scene. As he was running, he looked at the baby. The baby was opening his eyes and started to cry, but it was something that the baby's savior hasn't heard in over a year. It was the roar of a dreaded monster, who many thought, years later, was dead along with the boy's father. This is the story of a man who will go through thick and thin for what he believes in, who will fight and constantly get stronger to protect his family, who will not only change the lives of others, but who will change the world along with his destiny. This is the story of the second member of the Zero clan, Spirit Zeroichi.
<21 years later>
This is a world where magic, monster, criminals, corrupted politicians, revolutionaries, bounty hunters, demons, angels, and gods exist. The world itself is in its 100644th year. This story begins in a small rural village on the outskirts of the nation, far away from any of their laws and protection. The village itself is open to all forms of economics: farming, shipbuilding, fishing, and more. Because it is so small, the people know each other very well, so crime is usually an oddity, but that changed when a boss and his crew moved in on the border of the town. This gang has committed a series of crimes like kidnapping and extortion bringing turmoil upon the citizens of this little town. Because of this, a simple robbery in broad daylight in an alley is underway. A gang of five thugs all wearing white shirts and two of them wearing black jackets have surrounded a single mother and her child. One gangster with a scar across his face yelling at them, "C'mon lady. You know the rules. How do you think our boss can keep protecting you and your little boy there if you don't pay your monthly dues HUUUUUHHHHH?" "No, please I have already paid your boss for this week. Why do you need more?" she asked. The scar-faced gangster grew angry and slapped the woman to the ground. "Don't talk back to us you bitch." Despite being only seven, the son yelled, "LEAVE MY MOMMY ALONE" and lunged at the attacker, but his attacks were ineffective, and he was caught by his arm dangling in the air by a different gangster with a mullet. "How about we take him to the boss?" He poked the boy and said, "I bet we can get a few good bucks for this shrimp." The mother pleaded to them grabbing the leg of the man who was holding her son, "Please no not my boy. Please leave him alone." In response the mullet gangster quickly kicked her off and was about to stomp her into the dirt when he heard scream from one of his companions. He turned around a saw one man alone standing on top of two bodies checking their pulses. The third gang member said "HEY YOU PUNK!" The man looked up, "Hmm?" The third one asked, "WHO THE F*CK ARE—" but before he could finish, the victims' savior threw a baseball bat right into the third thug's stomach. In surprise, agony and bending over, he finished his sentence in a parched voice saying, "YOOOOOUUUUUU??????" The savior kicked the third into a wall finishing him off. The first gangster wasted no time and lunged at the newcomer with knives in his fists yelling, "DON'T F*CK WITH US YOU LITTLE-" but yet again, the man action and uppercut the thug so hard, his teeth shattered and was sent flying into the sky. The last one dropped the boy and was petrified. He has never seen something like this before in his whole life, he had no idea on what to do. The man rushed over and grabbed the final thug by his face, picked him up and threw him into the fourth thug as he was falling and the both collided with the other two men lying on the ground as they were waking up. The man sternly told them, "Get your friends, get your crap and get the hell out of here!" The man walked over to the guy he and checked his pulse, then proceeded to pick him up and said, "Hey, don't forget your friend," and threw the last guy at them. The once terrifying gang were terrified and followed the man's advice as they and crawled away. The boy was relieved that someone came to their rescue. He proceeded to run over to the man and give him a hug and a smile excitedly saying, "Thanks a lot mister." Just as the man turned around and was about to return a smile to the boy, the mother quickly pulled her son away from their savior and ran off with her child neglecting to say a single word of gratitude to him. The son was confused and asked her, "Mommy, why did you do that?" and his mother kneeled hugged, and replied to him, "I was scared for your life. You're too young to understand. Just promise me that you'll never go near that man again. Please just don't get involved with him." The man had superb hearing and took note of her words. He repeated them, "Don't get involved with him." With those words lingering in his mind, he picked up his bat and walked off into the direction of his favorite bar.
