The Washed Out Prince

Under the great oak tree

Nomu had been walking for about 20 minutes, he reached the village. Pulling his hood up enough to cover his face, he made his way quickly through the village and into the farmland. He sighed and held his arm up to cover his nose. 

"Smells like shit here.." He looked round and the humans covered in filth and felt his pace pick up in order to get out of this area as quick as possible. He walked very quickly through the first few farms, the smell only got stronger; especially when you have a sensitive nose like his. He made efforts to further cover his nose and inadvertently blocked his vision briefly; he felt a thud. He stumbled back and looked down, he saw a human infant covered in dirt looking back up at him. He stepped back and looked at it with disgust, making the child cry.

"Watch where you're going brat!" He said...rather ironically as he was the one who couldnt see where he was going. This only made the child cry more. "Shh, stop..." He reached out to cover the childs mouth before thinking better of it, filthy peasant on his regal hands...the thought makes me sick. 

"Whats going on Mary?" A womans voice shouts from the distance, Nomu jolted in shock and shoved an expensive sweet he found in the pockets of his cloak into the childs mouth and gestured for her to be quiet. The childs eyes lit up for a second and she stopped crying and began enjoying the sweet, she ran over to her mother. 

"That was close..." he sighed, he didnt want to be seen by anyone. Luckily children dont know what the royalty looks like. He reached into his cloak pocket again and continued walking, he pulled out a handful of sweets and looked down at them. "That maid..always doing unnecessary things" he threw the sweets on the floor and continued walking. He reached the clearing, He'd never walked in this direction before so this was all new; it was only in the last few months he'd began exploring like this. He looked up and saw a tall oak tree, the tallest tree he'd ever seen..perfect for napping under. He ran towards the tall strong looking tree and as he got close enough to see the base, he saw a figure laying on the grass below it. 

"Tch.." he clicked his tongue and looked angrily at this messy looking peasant sleeping in his spot. "How dare he sleep where I was going to sleep" He was like a spoiled child when it came to these things. "I'll just get rid of him then, we're far enough away from the farmland for me to get away with it.." He smirked and lifted his arm from under his cloak. A thick dark purple orb began to form in his hand, the atmosphere around him began to fill with darkness as the dark orb radiates heat and power. "I guess I'll only use 30%... They usually cant even handle 10% but i'd rather not have to clean up a body...so obliterate it!" He laughs and he charges in and throws his hand down towards the sleeping man, a bright light flashes in Nomu's eyes as then man lifts a sword to block the attack. The force throws him back as if his own attack had been used against him with extra force. 

The tall, dark haired man rubs his scarlet eyes and yawns, looking over at the cloaked stranger slightly bewildered. "Who are you? What do you want with me?" He quizzes the young prince who is still in shock that a human had survived his attack. The man sighed and lowered his sword as if losing interest, turning round to lift up his bag and put it over his broad shoulder. "Whatever, thanks for ruining my nap brat." He ties his hair up into a high messy bun before proceeding to walk away.

"Wait!" Nomu finally snapped out of his shock and walked towards the man, who understandably raised his sword at Nomu. "I was beginning to think you were a mute.. Care to explain what you want?" He stood firmly in place, he was not intimidated by the small cloaked figure.  

Nomu ignored the question altogether and began asking his own. "How did you block that? Was it the sword?" He seemed panicked. He'd never experienced this before, his father was stronger but this man was certainly powerful.

The man laughed and sheathed his sword. "Not a mute, just deaf huh?" He shook his head and began walking away.

 Nomu tried to chase after him but the man was not pleased with his new fan. "Don't follow me, isn't your mother wondering where you are. Go home kid."

 He continued walking until he reached a carved in trail through the grass and followed it away from the farms, going north. Nomu was still tailing him, beginning to get fed up with this peasants audacity. "Where are we going?" Nomu asked in the sweetest voice he could muster, hoping the man might allow him to follow. 

"We aren't going anywhere."  He started stretching as if warming himself up for something. Nomu examined his muscular body, his clothes tight enough to see the firm form of his manly back. The man was quite unseemly, messy unkempt hair, stubble that looked as if it would itch to touch it, he had scars all over his arms and one rather large scar across his face spanning from his forehead to his cheek; running over his eye. "Why are you doing that?" Nomu ask curiously as the man began stretching his legs. Nomu approached him slowly and got rather close to the man who was reluctant to be so close to him. The man reached out and slammed him hand down on Nomu's shoulder, pushing him as far back as his arm length could manage. 

"Well, I'm leaving now. Hopefully we never see each other again. Next time, I'll kill you" He looked at Nomu with hostility in his eyes and Nomu backed up on instinct. The man then ran off, he was extremely fast...for a human. Nomu didnt try to follow, he didnt need to.

He smirked and summoned a grid above his hand, with 3 dots; each with different colors and information. Each demon had 2 powers. Base powers were the power he had used earlier on the man, it can be used in two separate ways, melee or ranged. Then unique powers, developed by the individual either in early childhood or late teens. Nomu had developed his scanning/tracking power as a child, its limited to only 3 people at a time, at first he could only manage 1 person; as he got older the limit increased. Nomu had already been tracking 3 people, so when he decided to track this new man; the earliest person to be tracked was now lost from his list. His power activates on touch, so when his shoulder was touched; he registered him.