The man and The demon

The Death Of Men and The Unmade Promise

Kata pull the reins again and again, but the horse doesnt stop, as the horse runs kata notice the flag of the divine warriors coming  closer and closer but suddenly the horse tremble down, throwing kata on the ground, the horse  tries  to breathe with his life slowly vanishing from his eyes, kata  gets up fast and goes to his horse, he place his hand on its chest feeling nothing, he then picks some flowers  and place them close to the  horse corpse, as he gets ups  an explosion  interruptes him,  kata quickly turn and rush to the palace,  after a bit of run he comes close to an army of horrors, he hides in the bushes and eavesdrop two of them "have you heard the news?" "you mean about our  general who will fight one of the divine warriors?"  "yes the one that oppose him says that our general took away some close people from him"the horror smirk  "at least our general didnt make them suffer like the divine did to his family, they deserve every little bit of curelity " kata then  pass throught from the forest  doing a full circle and then finding a window which is a bit taller than hin , kata knocked and a warrior slowly opens the window a bit and  sees kata, he then quickly open the window and help lata get inside , there he sees miyamoto, takeda and uesugi arguing and gozen pulling toyotomi , kata gets close hearing gozen saying "toyotomi i beg you dont go" "shut up gozen  i have to kill them" "no, i will not let you die" "just shut up already" toyotomi  hits gozen arm and she screams falling  down,   with toyotomi walking towards the door before opening it kata rush telling him "toyotomi whats the meaning of this" "kata we will talk about that later, now i have to fulfill something"  "did you find your family or your friends killers?" " yes i find them both  and i will duel with them" " are you an idiot?  You will face both of them alone?" "yes is there a  problem with that?" "of course it is, you will die if you go there "  "just shut up kata its for my family and  my friends, you would do the same if you were in my place  " kata goes between toyotomi and the door  "i will never let you go die like this " toyotomi  grit his punch  "leave  kata, i dont hesitate to hit you" "then so be it but i will not leave my position"  toyotomi raise his fist hitting kata in the face "will you leave now?" "no" toyotomi punch him  again and again  screaming    "why dont you move? " "because i care about you " toyotomi  eyebrows lower and  open his fist, looking  on his hand which is filled with a drop of blood  "im really an idiot after all, i let my rage to  drive me again " kata grab his shoulder saying " you are one of us, we will leave you alone  " toyotomi then take his look on gozen "gozen im sorry that i hit you and you kata" gozen says " its fine toyotomi at least we change your mind and thats enough" kata says "now lets gather and make a plan to repel them" " no" "what do you mean no?"  i will face them" "why are you so stubborn? " "because i feel ashamed of myself that my family sacrificed  Their lives for me, my borther and my friends and then i drag them  in a mess leading them to their death "  kata camly says  "you think you can kill them?" "yes, especially now that i have someone  else to fight for"  kata took his look down and steps beside leaving toyotomi to open  the door,  before  going in the battle  toyotomi says " kata, that night, when we talked about them i felt a wright leaving my soul that i have someone who understands me , i thank you from the bottom of my heart , after i will kill them i promise you  we will go together to find  your wifes killers taking your revenge" kata smiled "you are a kind man toyotomi " toyotomi then smiled back and  leaves,   steping  outside, gozen  runs towards him  but kata grabs her  "what are gou doing we have to stop him, he will die " " he needs to do it or else this thing eill haunt him until his last days  " toyotomi then face the horrors, divine warriors and horros gather around thrm  watching the fight , before starting toyotomi yells "be ready to die demons" the horrors doesnt respond and the fight begins  the horror that looked like a fish with scales on his body   attack him first,  toyotomi rush towards him deflecting each other attacks, he  tries to step forward pushing the horrorback, but the horror  dodge the attack by leaning down, toyotomi grabs the tantos and push with force down slashing the arm of the horror, but the horror also slash his leg leaving a big wound, the horror then steps back and toyotomi tries  to walk but his leg was ready to collapse, the horror then rush to him again, toyotomi gets a defensive stance and waits, the horror  tries again to lean down but toyotomi deflects the attacks, the horror tries to  fall back but  toyotomi  cuts his head in half leaving his corpse standing beside him and the giant horror  "why do you stand still? Your friend just died" " he wasnt a friend and now i can finally kill a piece of shit like you all by myself "  the demon quickly rush with his eyes full of anger  and with his  sword  he tries to break toyotomis defense, toyotomi then deflect the attacks but the horror kick his wounder leg bringing him to kneel, the horror is ready to slice his body , toyotomi place his wounded leg forward and attacks in the horror wounded his shoulder ,  both fell down, crawling  towards each other, the horror was getting up but toyotomi throw one of his tantos in the horrors grip dropping his katana down and  rush with all his strength  with  his leg  bleeding and pushing the horror down , pushing  his tanto down in  the horrors heart  the horror tries to resist ,and both scream like never before,  with anger taking their voices ,  after both of them standing  with no clear winner the tanto  slowly  made it  all and more close to his  chest, the horror screams "i will not be defeated not until you and your gods  suffer " the horror lose his strength and toyotomi put the tanto in the horrors chest as his life vanishes from his eyes   the horror whispers "murako im sorry" toyotomis eyes open wide, his muscles stop moving  staying rooted in the same place , the crowd of the divine warriors starts cheering , he then sees a small horror coming close, toyotomi with his lifeless face watch the horror kneeling  and grabing the dead  horrors hand, with tears dropping from her eyes , toyotomi stand still saying nothing  , the horror then takes her look on him with  tears still dropping and an angered  face, she takes the sword and rush towards  toyotomi, but she fall with no strength to weild the katana "why? , first    the warriors take  his family and friends away, now him, he just wanted to live happily becoming a warrior who can protect others , but you destroy every little piece of hin   " " im sorry to say  this to you  , but he also killed my friends " "then you should understand  him better than anyone  , but you just killed him without second thought, but its no matter to talk to a divine warrior ,you were never listening, you are  killing us like we are some insane beasts  without  emotions" toyotomi with a lifeless face says "im really sorry" the horror takes back the katana and puts it on toyotomis neck, as tears drop from  her  face and  with  her  muscles tighten  she slowly moves it closer and closer to his throat with  the sword finally touching the skin but the horror  just drop the katana at the last moment  "im tired of all of this death, all of that because of your beliefs in  the divine, why cant you just open your eyes and  see the truth" toyotomi sees his covered in blood hand and   gives it  at the horror saying "i know that even  if i change  now, the lives that i took will never come back,maybe im not even worthy of   redemption, but i want  to change myself i want to make something my family and friends would  be proud off , i want to learn about you and  put an end in this hate, maybe even get a chance  for everyone to undertsand ypur kind   "the horror eyes glitter and   as the horror goes  to  touch toyotomis hand toyotomi hears kata  screams with all his streght "behind you toyotomi" toyotomi looked behind seeing a man with a mask of a serpent and then a knife deep in his stomach, his body collapse down with the last thing that sees is kata running towards him  and then everything becoming balck,kata  tries to slice the man , but he   falls back with his horrors on his side covering him , kata was ready to contunue forward  but gozen and the divine warriors pull him , kata howls, shakimg  his whole body trying to get towards the  man ,but the warriors and gozen pull him back in the palace locking the door and placing whatever they find ,kata  tryies to open it but gozen hugs him tight feeling her tears in his armor "please, not you too, i dont want anyone else to die" katas face change from an angry face to a sad one , the masked man then take his knife from toyotomis corpse  and put it back, screaming" look at them, the ones who took away the once you  loved , the ones that are standing between us and the divine , we  cannot trust this killers and  we cannot show them mercy " the horrors start to  march towards them trying to break the doors with arrows falling on them  , miyamoto goes close to kata whispering in his ear"bring nozomi down here" "miyamoto if the divine see him they will slice him in their first sight" "trust me i know what im doing" kata walks up going in his room and  miyamoto  screams "my soldiers come close to me" everyone gathers around him, takeda says "do ou have a plan to counter them?" " i will tell you in a while takeda" hirohi brings everyone and says " my comrades i have to ask something from all of you " the divine respond with "we will do whatever you wish  miyamoto" "alright then, i want you to tell you about a person who is hiding with us almost one year, his name is nozomi and is a horror" "the divine left speechless"i know its something very unusual to have a horror stepping foot on our palace but right now its our only hope for us to seal the horrors, only him knows where the horrors are coming and how to seal them" the warriors still lest speechless "i know i wasnt the best leader like my father but its my last request, i just want us to seal them and after that  i will leave the horrors fate on you" a warrior respond "my lord maybe sometimes you did some wrong   decisions in battle but you always treated us so well, you cared for us, you understand us, you give us hope when no one else would, your actions always make me feel proud as a divine warrior and i will follow your command with no second thought "the other warriors also agree and cheer for miyamoto", miyamoto respond "im happy i have  so many great men like you, at that moment kata walked down with nozomi, everyone looked at him with disgust with miyamoto screaming we dont have time for that defend the palace and  repel them" everyone took their look  on  their weapons and protect the doors or  throws  arrows and  spears on them from above, takeda goes close to miyamotot saying  "father you said this is your last wish" miyamoto kneel with his one leg and looks takeda inside his eyes"my  son please tell uesugi to come here " takeda  stand rooted saying nothing, after a while he asks" its not what i think it is, is it? " miyamoto is ready to speak but he gets  intervened by hirohi and hina who are accompanied by some warriors, hirohi says" my lord we brought you the barrels shall we place them everywhere? " " yes" " hina, with her eyes glittering says "my love i lock the horses on the stable its enough for everyone " "excellent hina, now go talk to everyone " "what does all this mean father?" "i think you understand the situation takeda" takeda shocked says  "no you are lying, this isnt true" "takeda tell uesugi  to come here" "no" "takeda please do it for me as a last wish" takeda took his look away and says "alright" "thank you" takeda   goes in the upper floor  noticing uesugi and the warriors shooting at the horrors from the windows "uesugi come with me" "takeda what is more important than this right now?" "its our father" uesugi with his eyes wide open says "what happened?"  "he wants to speak with us" a  warrior who is behind uesugi  says "uesugi  go your father needs you, we can hold " uesugi and takeda run to his father, with uesugi saying  "father what is it?"  miyamoto open his arms and  hugs both of them  them tight , whispering "my sons i want you to hear me well  alright? " "as you wish father" " you both grow so much, im proud for both of you, getting stronger, more mature" "father" "i have to leave you now my sons, but you will not be alone,your mother, your friends and the divine warriors  will always protect you, be always by your side " miyamoto puts out of his pocket two emblems of a hawk"this is my final present to you my sons"  miyamoto first   place one of them on takedas arm " , takeda with a little more  practice and a sharp mind you will become a great leader" he then place one on uesugi"and you uesugi, i was watching you every night training  seeing the work you put in,  hoping you will be  the perfect leader, but i m wrong that i havent teach you something important,you must stop focusing so much on perfection because it  will slowly  blind you  and eventually take you down into despair without realizing it" miyamoto then screams "hirohi,hina take everyone from here" uesugi screams  "dad we are not leaving you" "im sorry my sons but this is our final goodbye, always strife to be good men and help your comrades " hina  grab takeda and uesugi pulling them   in the same horse as hers while they both see their father smiley waiting  with some of the warriors the horrors , everyone  abandon  the palace and ride in the rain as they ride takeda gets ready to jump but hina  push him back yelling " takeda have you lost your mind?"  "mother  please go back we have to save them"  hina  place her palm on his head saying with her eyes lower   "we cant its too late , the only thing  we can do now is live  as  your father will  wanted" takeda  lean his head  down  and  an explosion is heard from the distance, the horses  stop and everyone turn their head  seeing a  fire  spreading  throughout the wild, takeda and uesugi lean  their heads down sobbing, with her mother looking at them with a sad face  ,   as they continue to run, gozen finds a small unconscious girl being  curled with mud in the middle of the  road  , gozen stops  and dismount from her horse   going  close to the girl  seeing  a big open wound in her  arm, ahe rips  out her clothes sleeves and   bending it  on  the girls wound, kata then goes close putting his hand on the girls forehead " her wound is not so  deep, so she  will survive " "thank god" "but  this seems to    become  very  recently , we must  watch for other  horrors " gozen  shake her head and place her on her horse     continuing  carefully with everyone  towards the choguko region