The Dragon Tattoo

Here I am alone in prison chained up against the wall, waiting for a change to happen. Waiting for you.

Chapter 1: The Beginning

My name is Akiko Ryuu and I have a special gift that people fear. I am exquisite at martial art, and I'm deadly with my hand made blades. I have black eyes and long black hair, but when I'm in attack mode I have piercing red eyes that look right through your body into your soul. I also am marked with the dragon, meaning destruction.

Now your probably wondering why I'm waiting, and why I'm in prison. We'll I'll tell you my story right from the beginning.
I was in a small poor village that was home to me and my family. I was about 3 and my older sister was 9. We were playing together while our family was trying to make dinner. We didn't have much food, but it was better than nothing.
As we started playing a old Chinese game we saw and heard a big explosion in the distance. My sister Emiko screamed at me in a scared voice, telling me to run inside and protect our family. As I'm running home with tears in my eyes, I hear screams in the distance towards my little cottage house where my mother and father are.
But when I got to the front door that was wide open I fell on my knees to the site of a gory death. As tears are rolling down my cheeks I'm sobbing at the fact that my mother and father are gone. While I'm crying on the wooden floor of the house, I hear soldiers running to kill everyone in the village even my sister that was screaming. I lift my head up realizing that my sister was still alive, so I ran and grabbed the samurai sword hanging from the wall so I could help my sister, neighbors and friends. When I held the old sword before my eyes a soldier walked through the door and laughed. " Look at this disgusting mess I made, I should clean this up," the soldier said as he grabbed a torch to burn down the house. I turned around and slowly lifted my head, with no tears in my red eyes. I stared into the ugly soldier's hazel eyes and said in a angry voice,"YOU BASTARD HOW DARE YOU DO THIS!! YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID!!" My pupils got smaller and my eyes got more red. The dragon tattoo on my arm started to glow red."You bitch I will take off your head for what you said," yelled the soldier. Now I got really mad, but yet I started laughing. That's when the soldier got really irritated. He started walking toward me and took out his heavy blade. He swings his blade screaming,"AAHHH DIE YOU UGLY BITCH!!!" I closed my eyes waited for the right moment when the blade would be close enough, and then opened them swinging my blade up and blocked his attack at me. His nose was almost touching mine cause he was so close to me, when I looked in his eyes I gave him a smirk. Swiftly, I move my blade, pushed him back, turned and cut off his hand that held the heavy blade. In his agonizing pain he screams. I turn again and cut of his other hand, then move to the ground with my sword and cut off his feet. As he falls to the ground with blood squirting out if his arms and legs, his blood on the blood of my parents, I stood on his stomach. Blood pouring out more cause of the pressure on his body, he yells and screams for help, but no one can help him. I look into his eyes with disgust and asked him,"What does your cocky ass have to say now, tell me what's your last words before I rip your fucking head off!" The wounded soldier didn't know what to say, he was crying and screaming and was wiggling around like a fish out of the water. He opened his eyes right into mine to see the blood-shot red eyes. that's when he asked me," W-why do you have red eyes? Wh- who are you? What are you?" I was shocked at the question he asked and didn't know what to say. I didn't even know I had red eyes. I was hesitate and was confused. He was pushing the question and kept asking me who I was, what I was. I got frustrated and started to get angry. I looked around me to see what could help me answer the question. For some reason I just couldn't answer the question it felt like was going to throw up. When I looked around all I could see was blood and two decapitated bodies. That is when I realized I didn't have to answer that question, he killed my parents he doesn't deserve to ask me anything. I quickly turned my head and slashed my blade across his neck. His head flew across the floor and started rolling. There was a blood trail from the body to the head that was hard to see because of all the blood in the room. I dropped the sword and ran to find my sister. I tripped and fell on the dirt. I was grabbing my twisted ankle, and trying to make it feel better. I struggled to pull myself up with a stick I found on the ground. I was wobbling trying to get up, while I felt pain run up my leg. I finally got up, and with the strength I had left I hopped to find my sister Emiko. There were soldiers everywhere so it was difficult to look for Emiko. I was starting to lose my strength so I found a small hidden place to rest. I tried to close my eyes and rest my body, but all I could focus on was the striking pain in my arm right where the dragon tattoo is at. I kept repeating the question the soldier asked me, what are you and who are you. I put all my concentration on that thought