A Better Life

[Hayate_Amatsukami]

The fire was to draw you outside. What is this man planning? Yamato yelled as the Corpse King began running through the first few lines of men standing in his way. Even just his mighty feet as he ran past the men was enough to send a number of them flying off. In the Corpse Kings right hand began to form what looked like a huge katana of similar make up as Hayate’s own. Considering Yamato was the spirit that lived within his blade and the Corpse King was the physical form Yamato manifested himself as it was fitting that he molded his own weapon after his owners.

With one mighty sweep of its arm the Corpse King cut through a hand full of enemies also sending a powerful shockwave through them lifting even more of the ground and sending them flying back. The Corpse King was an absolute monster on the battlefield and was a tactic that Hayate hadn’t ever shone to those outside his clan until very recently. Many of the Shogun’s men had already turned tail and ran seeing the pure devastation Hayate and his partner could cause. Probably wondering why Hiruzen would allow them to go off and fight such a powerful opponent without warning.

The answer to.their question was simple.

Since the beginning of the Amatsukami the head of the Clan has always been given the power to control a spirit Avatar. But like many great secrets, they were never allowed to share this information with anyone outside their own bloodline. To do so would be punishable by death and any member of the Amatsukami convicted of such crimes were executed publicly. It wasn’t a perfect system but until now it was crucial to their survival to keep their greatest weapon from falling into the hands of those who would seek to oppress them.

But no longer would this be the case.

Hayate was here to break the cycle that has kept his family and his people in such a state.

This would be the end of his suffering. This would be the end of all his family’s pain. This would be the beginning of a new era. One in which nobody would live in fear. One where he would be the hero that saves the world. This was the beginning of his new life as a free man.

This was going to be the end of the cycle, or this was going to be the end of him.