Post by chiru on Oct 15, 2006 14:45:33 GMT -5
History:
In the 1030s, Abe no Seimei's daughter gave birth to a girl, being also cursed with Desire's blessing, her mother hopes to break this curse by given the child to their God of Chaos, Chaos did not seem to want the child but Death who was worshiped above all Gods in their village, took the child under her wings. She was given the name Nightshade, to be lovely and yet deadly.
She would grow up happily, perfect normal like other childern, worshipping their Gods, she would learn of the curse that befell her familiy and how her mother had ran away from such things, because she did not wish to be known as a Kistune (A White Fox Demon) in her home land of Japan, hence why she was in a village where those who did not fit in anywhere came. Her father was a Shaman, and Chief of this village who came here because the Great Spirit had told him to come here. She believed nothing could ever go wrong in her live.
This was to change as in late 1940s when she was about 16 almost 17 years of age, she would stand next to her Grandfather the old Chief of the village, as her people were rapped, murdered, in the most sickening ways, however because her people worshiped Death above all Gods in their village, they held no fear and made no sound as they were killed. Her grandfather, last words being "Tonight, under this full moon, Our Gods, will hear our prayers and bring forth a Servent of Death, to kill your family as you have a killed ours." with that his head was taken from his shoulders, an order was soon given in more or less screams to kill everyone, as their own men died at the hands of something unseen by their own eyes, Nightshade would be taken in the arms of this creature, and given a new life.
Something had touched this vampiress heart that she had turned, Nightshade, into one of the creatures of the night, at the same time, Chaos would place a hand over her soul making her one of his childern. She would be known as Blood from this night onward, she had been the very thing that her Grandfather had spoken about, she killed the mothers of the childern, childern, siblings to those who had caused it, their parents. It mattered not if they shared the blood with them they died. She only took the hearts of those who had not been apart of the actually killing of her village. The one time that her sire had tried to stop her she had taken it out on villages, killing anyone she came across during the nights, in the end she was given the right to kill those who had killed her village, her sire being there only to keep her from getting harmed, her sire had even been the one to save a small baby, making sure it was found by the humans who lived in the village.
During a rather cold winter night, she had came to the last family who had ever caused her people harm upon moving towards the place, she was faced with one she knew was a Priest, however, he was clearly also a hunter. His words rang though her head, telling her she didn't have to do this, she gave him a warning to leave her be, that these people had destroyed her family and her village she was only paying them back. She moved passed him, which turned to be a mistake, as two daggers dug into her back moving slowly and painfully downward she fell to her knees the next think she felt was a bottle of holy water hit her, she had cried out in pain at this point turning so quickly she killed the one who had hit her with the holy water, rather slow and painfully, before tossing him to the side. Again she felt the two daggers in the same location as before cut into her and this time she attacked the Priest, something she would of not done normally, she took his life quickly, but with his last words he forgave her for her sins.
She laid him down on the ground, full of not only a hunters power but that of one who was truely holy in their ways and with this strength was able to kill this family. Her sire had tried to make her stop, leaving the head of the house alive, yet in a fit of rage, she seemed to go forward to kill her own sire, however at the last second her sire had moved out of the way, to grab her childe, Blood had killed the man with her dagger, laughing wildly she bite her sire arm in freeing herself and ran into the night, where she would return only to gather the hearts and put their spirits to rest.
It was during this time that a Red Fox would come and lead her onward to her next life, a life that the only way to be able to be truely happy was to die once again, and that's just what would happen. The Fox was much more powerful then he had seemed and with a quick motions that proved he wasn't your normal type of Fox was able to 'zero' the vampiress in which he brought her body to rest with the wolves, who he had learned were cursed by not Desire but Chaos, just as she now was. He would then leave, her there and disappear back into the night.
This time when she awoke she would be known by a name that in truth had no real word, however the closes it would come is Reborn, and so she started this life as Reborn, the vampiress who was a wolf, she would spend countless winters with this pack of wolves, who lived longer, then normal wolves, almost as long as humans tended to live. She was nothing more then a 'animal' who would sometime in the 1210s would be found by a Shaman, he seemed to be able to speak with her on her level, she wasn't sure about him at first but after many nights of him coming to see her, he talked her into coming with him to his village to live, and so she traveled with him.
He would give her the name she would use for perhaps the longest amount of her unlife, One-With-Wolves, because she was in truth linked with the wolves, not just wolves but all forms of wild dogs, or so it would seem, her connection however was stronger with wolves, but even that was outdone by her connection with her very own strange pack of wolves. She would complain of it getting cold when the pack wasn't close enough, and about being alone, and the Shaman, who she only called 'Shaman Father' informed her that they where her soul and her heart, when they were near and her connection was strong with them, she wasn't like the rest of their kind, she in a way came to life, when they left her side, and the connection weaken she began to lose what held her in the world, this was both a curse and a blessing.
They were to protect their village from the whiteman during the night, and in respect the village protect them she knew no better life with humans, something inside her felt like she had indeed found her place a home. This was to end sadly in the 1300s when a vampire hunter walked into their home, he had come for a healing having just attacked another vampire, killing them. Her Shaman Father had offered to help the hunter but seeing that he was a vampire, shot him dead, her Shaman Father never stood a chance, in a fit of rage, she attacked the hunter, only to have his crossbow fly hitting her in the chest, almost killing her, she is not sure why she didn't die in fact as it should of killed her.
But when she awoke several days later, she was told that her Shaman Father was indeed dead and that the village and the pack of wolves had hunted down the vampire hunter and killed him. In her sadness she ran back off into the forest, yet she would watch the village from a distance, howling into the night. Years would leave fly by and she would watch them leave and travel onward, with this she too took her leave from the place she had watched over for many years and seemly disappeared not to be seen again until 1730s.
At this time she had came to RavenBlack City, still going by the name One-With-Wolves, she would watch many vampires that would later become leaders, powerful figures within the city walls when she returned. She tried to fit in with these vampires but she didn't seem very welcome by them and so after trying for a little over ten years she left, returning back to the world she knew.
However, that was not to be the case, she would try going to other places, soon gaining some trainning to be a Miko; a Magic User, all over Asia and for a short time in Egypt, it was during this time she had a dream that would tell her to return back to RavenBlack City, her reasons she wasn't sure about, but return she did, before leaving she had changed her name to Chiru Shuukakshamaru, meaning Blood Reborn Reaper...
In the 1810s she had come across a rather homely looking Temple, that she was was to learn was called Blood Temple, the Temple of Death, she had been looking for a place for the night when she had came across a rather old Monk who lead her into the Temple, Informing her of the history and offered her a place, the next night she was awoken to a great surprise several older monks and priestesses the elders of the Temple were surrounded the bed she had taken, her two wolves had been just sitting on either side of the bed so clearly they had not said or done anything that would make them attack. It was then they informed her they had looked up her history and learn she was Abe no Seimei's Granddaughter she called them all mad but that didn't seem to matter, to them, they claim her the Meishu and began to teach her several different arts of Onmyoji her heart at the time wasn't into this form of magic and so they went back to the magic she had been learning when she had lost her Shaman Father.