Artificial 3: The Valla Chronicles

Chapter 1: Personal Journey

Sense the death of Demon King Metatron,
we partied one last night before going our separate ways,
we watched all the Spiderman movies and a few others I couldn't name off the top of my head,
but it was basically a night full of the MCU.
The next day me and my siblings boarded our plane and went back to America,
Yuzuhara sent me a text asking me to meet her in Mexico at my earliest convenience,
so I replied ok.

When I got home,
the first thing I did was take two days to myself,
and then I got ready for my personal journey,
I made sure I had new clothes,
spare clothes and my signature black trench coat repaired.
On the third day, I stoway on a plane to Mexico with my shadow rune and hid in the cargo section,
you'd think that being in shadow form, it'd be cramped,
but no,
when I'm in shadow form,
my body is the shadow,
so it's like I'm able to lay down on my back and stomach but still run.

Once I arrive in Mexico, I merge into a passenger's shadow and wait until they exit the air port before I take my human form,
man,
it feels good to be back in a physical body,
I stretch my legs,
and then I follow Yuzuhara's scent, which smells like roses and cherry blossoms.
By sunset,
I was so deep into a forest and the furthest away from a town that there were a few farms,
but I was still pretty far out.
Yuscent leads me to a small Japanese style house,
hand built by likely Yuzuhara herelf.

"Yo Yuzu, I'm here like I said I would be." I hear footsteps,
and just to make sure I'm not at the wrong house,
I focused on seeing the aura, and surely enough, she was coming,
she opens the door and gives me a big hug, then welcomes me inside.
I sit at a matt by the table and we jad some nice hot jasmine tea and green tea, we watched a bit of television on a cheap old tv for a few hours but then Yuzuhara broke the ice on why she asked me here.
"Before you go on your personal quest for the Legendary Weapons, I want you to learn all the sword play the world has to offer, follow me to my dojo."

She leads me to another room,
and I take off my shoes and socks,
going in bare foot.
She tosses me a bokken,
Japanese wooden sword for all you, none sword enthusiasts. "Jikanteido." Everything in this room turns silver, even then, color on the walls and cieling, even the floor despite being able to see some green. "What did you do?" I ask. Yuzuhara grabs her own bokken and faces me as she ties her hair into a pony tail with her favorite white ribbon.

"I cast a time spell called Jikanteido, which means time stop. The reason why I did that is so you don't have to worry about losing time while learning all swordsman styles." I don't quite understand her meaning, but it seems she wants me to not lose any more days for whatever reason,
we begin training where her lessons proceed to knock me on my ass and hurt my wrist and legs.
We ended up training for three days until her lessons were beaten and drilled into my head,
we definitely resumed time for food and bathroom breaks,
but byond that it's been the same night it was three days ago.

With training done and our stomachs full on Japanese ramen,
Yuzuhara pulls out a shikibuton,
which is basically a Japanese futon,
or,
as Yuzu puts it,
her sleep system.
I change into my pajamas in the bathroom and return to her bedroom where she's in her usual burgandy red sleeveless crop top and pink panties,
I was gonna take the floor,
but she insisted we shared a bed,
so I complied,
and she hugged me all night in her sleep,
I got okay sleep,
mainly because I'm not used to sleeping with people,
and the other reason was that I couldn't stop thinking about Brandon's last words.

I can't help but feel like there's something he left out on purpose,
by morning,
Yuzu woke us up by sunrise,
which,
at this point,
I'm used to sense the whole Demon Realm journey.
Me and Yuzu get dressed and tidy up her room before we set out,
she insisted I follow her and that she could lead me to my first Legendary Weapon,
so I followed her for a few hours before we arrived in the Wind Tribe,
home to the wind Artificial Demons and ninjas.

She warned me beforehand to watch my steps as this land is filled with traps, and to say it was filled was an understatment.
I put my foot on the wrong piece of ground and broke a bunch of twigs that were littered with plucked grass,
my foot just continues on, and I step on bamboo spike,
thankfully,
I wore steel toed sneakers and reinforced the bottoms of my shoe with shadows, making very sure that the bamboo spike didn't go through my new pair of shoes.
I lose my balance and fall over the side of the trapped pit,
and climb my way out.

"Looks like I was a little careless." Yuzuhara hangs back then points out all the traps in sight and told me to stick by her,
I say okay and follow behind her until we reach a massive wooden gate built and connected into trees around us, I could sense multiple auras from behind this gate.

"Well, this is as far as I can take you without altering the timeline no more than I already have,
you're looking for a bow with no string, and it's a bronze color,
after you get that,
you'll be heading to the Dusk Tribe for a two-handed claymore it's black,
looks demonic with a purple dragon eye built into the cross guard.
Then, in the same Tribe you'll find a tome called Brynhile,
just look for a demonic looking tome. It's gonna radiate demonic energy from inside, cant miss these things really, and finally go to the Light Tribe in the Chihuahuan desert
there you'll find the final Legendary Weapon Brandon told you to look for, the Raijinto Raikiri."

As much as I'd like to know how and why she knows this information,
I decide against it,
Yuzu is still mysterious in her own way, but she means well.
Yuzu gets beside me and caresses my face before giving me a peck on the lips. Before I could even kiss back,
she broke it off.
"Goodbye Seth, I'll see you again next year."
She begins to walk away,
almost looking sad.
"Later, Yuzu, you have my number. Text me anytime."
For a second, she stops,
I think I made her smile,
as she begins to walk off again,
for some strange reason, I got this aching feeling in my heart that I won't see her again, and before I knew it, a tear fell down my cheek. "Weird, why am I crying?" I wipe my tear and calm my mind before I enter through the gates,
I get the feeling I won't be getting a warm welcome and that this will be my most bizarre adventure.