𝐀 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫 (𝐉𝐮𝐣𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐮 𝐊𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐧)

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏 : 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡

"Come on my lady one more push!" She looks up at the ceiling breathing heavily, sweat dripping from her face falling onto her night gown and damping the bed. the woman lets out a strained cry as she leans forward giving one more last push with her all strength, the midwives surrounding her as they help her through the rough delivery.

"It's done my lady!"

A infant's cry fills the room the midwives smile in happiness as they go and comfort their lady by damping her head gently with warm wet towels and the others tending to the newborn child, they clean the child with warm wet clothes and wrapping the baby in a warm blanket.

"A beautiful baby girl my lady." One of the midwives smiles at her lady as she is about to hand the child to her lady, the door slams wide open making everyone in tense and quickly dropping everything they were doing. A man enters the room who wears a dark green yakuta and who wears wooden sandals with socks with two other men right behind him.

"Leave us." Everyone obeys the Nobel man's command leaving him and his wife alone in the room with their new born child, the man with a stern face walks up to his wife to examine the child.

"Do you have any idea what you have done, How could you make a deal with Chthon!" His wife looks down in shame, but does not dare to say a word to her husband, she tends to her child.

"I had no choice" She knew what she had done with the demon but she had no other choice it was either her or her family, she had wished her dear husband would understand of her sacrifice to her family but his pride clouded his judgement.

"Not only you made a deal with that filthy demon,  but as well made that child the reincarnation of a sorcerer who we shall not name! You have disgraced this family not to mention the rest of the clan." The man huffed in anger as he clenched his fist in anger as he was thinking of all the punishment that would fall onto him, he looks at the sleeping child who is asleep in her mother's arms. He quickly takes the child away from her mother.

What are you doing?! Give me back my baby!" his wife shrieks  as she tries to get up from bed but grunts in pain from the aftermath of the delivery, she knew of what the child was but how could she depart with the one child she had given birth to she had so much to look forward with her daughter, after all chithon gave her what she wanted most.

"No!" The man yells back, "you should've have thought about that before you made a deal with that demon!" He takes a step back, looking back at his wife with anger and disappointment. "You have disgraced the clan, and now you will pay the price." The noble man
and his men take the child to get rid of it in the river, they go through the village to avoid any suspicion. The sun is just beginning to rise, casting a warm glow over the calm waters. They move quickly their steps as they carry the child through the quiet streets of the village. They come to a small bridge that crosses a narrow creek, leading to the Main Street.

As they approach the riverbank, the Nobel man pauses for a moment, looking down at the child in his arms, his face remains impassive, but there's a hint of regret in his eyes. He knows that this is for the best, for the honor of the clan. He looks up at his men, who stand ready to do his bidding. Suddenly a red mist of energy begins to swirl around them, obscuring their vision. The air grows thick with an unearthly chill. The Nobel man's men exchange frightened glances, but he remains stoic, he knows of this curses presence.

The Nobel man's face blanches at these words, his knees nearly giving out from fear and disbelief. He tries to speak, but no sound comes out. Chthon continues, its voice growing more ominous. "Your family, and the other two clans, have sought this vessel in every era, hoping to slay it for their own ends, But all have failed."

The air around the man begins to shimmer with the unmistakable feel of magic. He gasps as his body is consumed by a crimson haze, the essence of life and death itself twisting and contorting him. His bones rattle, his flesh shudders, and then, with a final agonized scream, he is no more. The red mist dissipates, revealing the dismembered form of the noble man lying on the ground.his men stand frozen in fear not daring saying a word to the demon with their eyes wide with shock. The river continues to flow serenely, as if nothing of the ordinary has happened.

Chthon cradles the child in his massive clawed hand, a small, almost fond smile playing at the corners of his mouth. He turns away from the smoking remains of the Nobel man, striding through the forest with an easy grace that belies his immense size. The trees part before him, as if bowing to the presence of the ancient and powerful demon.

Far off from the forest In the city a woman sits up in her hospital bed. Her eyes filled with tear as she cries next to her husband she looks next to the empty crib beside her. Her heart shattering into a million pieces as she couldn't accept the news that her newborn daughter  was gone and the doctors tried everything.

The woman looks up at the nurse, who stands there with a happy and relieved expectation on her face. The nurse holds the newborn baby wrapped around a blanket in her arms, and she seemed to be fighting back tears of happiness. "Mr (L/n) and Mrs (L/N,  we all thought she was gone but she came back to us."

"What?" Mr L/N stands up from the chair the nurse walks over to the other side of the bed with the tiny newborn in her hands as she hands over the baby to Mrs L/N.

"Your daughter is a fighter, she managed to come back on her own." the nurse says

"oh my god. Thank you!" The mother cries as she holds her baby closely to her heart and the father crying with tears of joy that god was able to bring back their daughter, as the new parents enjoy the moment with their newborn child the nurse smiles and excuses herself out the room, she closes the sliding door and walks down the hall passing by the medical staff who were doing their hourly rounds on the patients in the hospital. She goes into an empty room and looks at the sight of the city enjoying the scenery she grins proudly as her eyes glowed red and her body began to decay to reveal its true form Chthon, he slowly warped himself out of  sight disappearing into the night sky as a red mist.

He could now rest in peace, now that she was reborn into a new era.