HRL1223
Picture should say it all. Fan Fic with no so subtle inspirations from other works not of my own, but what is my own is the characters and story line. Just a fun Exercise. This is not polished or finished just putting out what I got working so far. Would love feedback..of any sort.
An Oni-Predator Chronicle of Honor and Ruin
In the dying years of Japan's warring states, legend says demons descended through the thunder - not spirits, but hunters from beyond the stars.
The peasants call them Oni.
The wise know a darker name: Yautja.
When Lord Sakai is murdered under mysterious light, his bodyguard Han - a loyal samurai and student of the Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryū - is branded a traitor and cast out.
Haunted by the scar across his eye and the memory of an unseen foe, Han wanders a land where myth and truth have fused.
To restore his honor, he must find the creature that slew his lord... and the proof that demons walk the earth.
Joined by a band of outcasts - Aya, the dagger-wielding assassin seeking vengeance; Tetsuo, a monk whose fists channel the rhythm of heaven; Gen, a marksman from distant shores; Shinta, the inventor who tames gunfire and flame; and Mei Mei, the spear-bearer of the tide - Han's path becomes more than a hunt for redemption.
It becomes the final trial of humanity's spirit.
Above them move three Yautja clans, fractured by their own creed:
R'kara, the Elder Oni who honors the code of the duel;
Vek'tal, the Skin-Collector who twists the hunt into slaughter;
and S'hen, the Young Blood who begins to wonder which race truly deserves the word honor.
As storm and steel converge, blades forged from alien metal will decide the fate of two species.
In the end, the line between hunter and prey, man and demon, will vanish - leaving only the question that echoes through every strike of the sword:
> What is honor worth when the blood that keeps it alive is no longer your own