The land was dark and the giant massive trees were making it even darker and hard to see in the land of the northeast. The darkness is making the land becomes a dead land.
Kaminari Raiu is standing in front of four swordsmans in the distance. They were in the shadows menacingly as the four swordsmen suddenly flew towards him. He steps back and breaks the ground behind him and made a force.
Thunder is trembling in the clouds. An unknown suddenly is in upfront of him and made a powerful kicked. It was about to reach his face but he quickly defended it using his sword. The kicked reaches his blade and made a powerful force making him fly back.
He was hovering until he step in walking back like and flying. He looked around him and sees the man in front of him, attack him again. The unknown man swings his sword right at him, he also swings their swords making their blade collide making another force.
"What...? Is happening...?" he asked as he feels his body heavy and the wind blowing around him. Their blades collided and exchanged swings. It's a furious battle between the two making the air blow and a little by little breaking the ground they're currently standing.
Their swords collided again but Raiu made a force he jumped and swing his sword down making more force than him, and the enemy defended. Kaminari Raiu quickly pulled back his sword and kicked the blade of the unknown man and flew back. He uses the sword as a step.
He flew back and touches the ground, as soon as he touches the ground he breathes strangely and hold his sword in his right hand tightly. He stares at the man and suddenly senses that there are more than three watching him move.
"They're watching me... I can't stay here any longer, I don't have any reinforcement," he said in his mind as he grab something in his pocket in the back of his left waist using his left hand.
"Such speed! Like lightning, or I'd say thunder speed... I haven't seen any like you for a while, I think it's over twenty-five years ... Oh! I think because I killed him..." the unknown speaks as the unknown stroke its blade menacingly.
"No one asks!" Kaminari Raiu shouts as the unknown man giggles. "That mount of yours! It's dirty!" the unknown man said furiously.
"What? Did that offend you quickly? You just said you killed a thunder swordsman too, now you'll pay for that," he said as suddenly his eyes glowed yellow-orange and the air around him commence heat.
"Yeah... I know, so who cares? If I speak... I just want you to hear it... Why won't you make a mistake and lose everything you love... And you have no way of escaping, you know why? I show you later when I'm finished having fun," he said as he smiles, the man is wearing a half mask only the top part of his face is covering but his mouth is open.
The unknown swordsman is wearing a dark coat kimono and a cape and a sword that is supposed to be a dueling sword. His sword has a pattern of a dueling sword the only reason why it's called.
The air around Kaminari Raiu is starting to vibrate as he suddenly steps on his right foot and suddenly made a force on the ground making it break and go down. The air starts to vibrate as he suddenly flew using the force of his right foot by stepping.
Suddenly he was in front of the unknown swordsman, the unknown swordsman's eyes widen behind the mask, and can't move for a split second. The unknown man in front of him steps back. Kaminari Raiu's blade of his sword was about to reach the unknown man's neck until an arrow strike his blade making it snap into two.
"What?!" he said in his mind furiously as he sees that he failed to cut the head and his blade was snapped into two. Suddenly the unknown swordsman's blade was about to reach his chest but he suddenly bends and kicked his chin making a backflip. He backflips and made an attack, he steps onto the ground and flew back a little and a little.
Suddenly an arrow was about to reach his right hand, but he quickly bowed and dodge it right in time. He was holding his snapped blade in his right hand as he kneel his left knee to the ground.
"What do you want?! Who are you?" Kaminari Raiu shouts asking as he looked around him in a place in complete darkness.
"We are part of the travelers, in a country in the far west, where here to kill you, we have an order in our government to kill all thunder swordsmen alive in this eight great nations in this world, now... So! Just die already and give us your head so that we can finish and give more food to our families and children," the unknown man answered in an abrupt voice.
"This man is weak but still, the one who shot an arrow at me is on a completely different level, snapping a sword into two with just one shot of an arrow is impressive," Kaminari Raiu said in his mind as he sees the man Infront of him running towards him holding his sword in both of his hand in his right ready to swing it towards him.
He stands as he suddenly senses someone in the tree up above behind him on a branch ready to shoot an arrow at his back. He pointed his broken blade Infront of the unknown man.
Suddenly hundreds of arrows are got shoot behind him. He quickly turned around and suddenly the man behind him vanished. He stares at the hundred of arrows coming at him as suddenly the air around him started to vibrate and suddenly his eyes turned white.
He jumped and hover for a second and suddenly the ground breaks the leafs got blown, and he was suddenly not in there. The arrows reach the ground he was standing on ago. It stabs the dirt and leaves.
The four unknowns were on the grounds. They suddenly can be seen, they unvanished behind the shadows in the dense forest. They see that the thunder swordsman suddenly vanished and did not leave a trail. They looked around them as everything goes in completely silent. They began to walk towards the place where Kaminari is standing on.
They reach it after walking in a couple of minutes. They see the ground he's standing on is obliterated. There's a hole but not that deep, it's at least two feet.
"Where the hell did he even go, the air around him started to vibrate and he suddenly has for a second and vanished, the ground got obliterated," the unknown man speaks who is behind the three.
Unexpectedly the thunder starts to tremble above them in the clouds. They all looked up and suddenly thunder occur and trembles and they see a man falling at great speed. It has its sword pointed at them and going down and has the trail of thunder. All of their eyes widen as they go into a defensive position and they realised it's too late.
It's Kaminari Raiu the thunder swordsman who uses a technique to fly a thousand meters up and obliterates the ground. He was suddenly in the middle of the four he reaches the ground stabbed the ground with his snap blade and made a loud boom and struck the ground like a meteor.
A loud explosion occurred, smoke covered the entire area and fog vanished and the massive trees got blown by the force of the wind, and three massive trees is forced to go down.
Kaminari Raiu obliterated more of the ground making a deep hole or at least nineteen feet crater wide. He was standing in the middle of the crater as he gently put back his sword on his left waist looking down with killer intent.
The four unknowns are on the ground heavily wounded and the archer is slammed into the tree and holding his cut into two bows. The unknown archer was bleeding and the other unknowns. They're all unconscious and heavily wounded by the impact.
Kaminari Raiu heavily breathes as he slowly raised his head. He looked around him furiously quiet. He sees the archer on his left slammed into a tree that is soon will fall killing him. He began to walk towards him.
As he began to walk, he sees that the archer is slowly waking up. The unknown man slowly opened his eyes and sees someone approaching and sees that there was a crater in front of him and a man wearing a patterned orange-yellow kimono.
He was stuck in a large rock that crushed his right hand. He was trying to get it out as he can't no longer stand but watch and sat. He reached the archer and sat in front of it a little bit below.
"What made you become a traveler? Archer? You're bowmanship is different than the others or you just got lucky and snap my blade into two..." he said as he ask the archer who has blood dripping on the side of his mount and blood dripping in his forehead.
He slowly speaks but before speaking he looked to his left and sees his bow destroyed and his arrows in the distance to his left. He looked at his left hand and sees it was okay except for his right hand.
"Just kill me! I don't speak if I know I'm gonna die!" he answered.
"Then why are you speaking if you know you're gonna die? Answer my question and I'll let you live," Kaminari Raiu said as he looked the archer in the eyes. The archer is wearing a full green kimono with a leaf pattern around his kimono and bright green eyes with a flat face that looked like a beautiful girl but he's a man.
"That's a lie!" he answered furiously as he was feeling the pain in his right hand and it was non-stop bleeding. "Painful isn't it? Your comrades are dead, you're the exclusively left, I'm a thunder swordsman of the east I'm here to protect my land from you travelers... Now tell me, who are you exactly, I'll let you live if you also bring me to your place, I heard that one of these men, or your men, is also fighting for their loved ones, you also know that every man has fought on their own, and I fight for my village and nations and the new generation," Kaminari Raiu said as the archer lowered his head and looked down.
"This tree will later fall and squeeze you to the death," he said as he slowly stands in front of the archer menacingly.
"The land that I'm fighting off with is my home... We've got called travelers because we've come from different parts of this world, my name is Katakura, I want to live so, please... Let me..." he answered as he suddenly tears out, he cried.
"Tell me more and I'll let you live," he said as he turned around and goes in front of him.
"My home is a country far from here and far from you call like far east or far North or even west and south, it's far than that, if you travel more you'll see a port of the ship, it's an actual small village far from here, it's a peaceful place, there you'll find massive ships, there you can buy a ticket, that ticket is a one-way ride, you'll have to buy another one to come back if you bought one and right the ship you'll a prosperous country that you've never seen before," Katakura said as Kaminari Raiu is calmed down.
Suddenly the tree behind Katakura was about to fall. He pulled out his half-bladed sword and swing it towards the tree. His half blade reaches the side of the tree and it pierces through cutting it and moving it to the side of Katakura.
"Thank you! Even though you killed them, it was my mistake," he said as he lowered his head down. "They're not dead... I just want to know something before I clarify, the four of you are still alive and even though it's non-stop bleeding you can reach a village for enough time and get treated successfully, now goodbye, I'll be meeting you on that pier, expect me in there in the next three days," he said as he sees Katakura nodded and slowly remove his arm that got crushed. Kaminari Raiu vanished as Katakura treat himself first and stop the bleeding in his right arm.
"I'm Kaminari Raiu, the Thunder Swordsmen! The last five us will bring peace to this world and shall know are fallen comrades till date," he said as he jumped a hundred feet to a giant tree and a giant branch and slowly vanished insight.
In the southern part of the north. Kaika was waking up after sleeping for four hours. It's midnight. He looked around him and sees the fox swordsman is woke up and currently lighting up the campfire again. Hirishna was still asleep.
"How's sleep? Looks like your friend got beat up, what's your name again both?" Kitsune asks as the flame suddenly appeared in the campfire.
"My name is Kaika, and his Hirishna, my partner, also... I've heard that the duo fox swordsmen's we're supposed to help us...?" he asked as he sees Kitsune standing up and stretching his arms.
"Yes, but I've heard that the heads command them to go to the southeast, the land of Kartirya to check the lands that are currently on a secret rehabilitation, I heard it's the Project B, I hope it wouldn't go wrong as the others did," Kitsune answered as he looked around him and heavily breathes.
"I see... I haven't seen both of them for quite a while a lot of swordsmen are saying that they're quite unbreakable for a duo," Kaika said as he leaned on a tree behind him. Hirishna is on the right of him and is still asleep and the campfire is a couple of feet away from him.
"Those two, we're already training in the age of five, when they wield a wooden sword they don't stop swinging for a week except if you stop them forcibly, both their parents got killed in an attack, they got adopted by a former master and sees that their bloodline is from also a master that is one of the fox swordsmen a powerful one, powerful than this master that adopted them, but he's still powerful than them because they were kids but he was wrong, they're already in the age seven, they can run the whole village with just an hour and they're still not tired doing that," he said as he slowly reaches his face using his left hand and slowly remove his fox mask and slowly put it on the ground where there's grass and dirt and leaves.
Kaika's eyes widen as he sees the fox swordsman Kitsune has a lot of scars on his face. "What happened to you?" he asked as he's eyes are widen and cannot speak properly.
"I was on training, if my master wasn't there I would've died, I trained myself and I was lucky that he was there," he said as he smiles and sees Kitsune has honest black brown normal eyes. He let go of his mask as he stares at the fire.
Kaika heavily breathes as Hirishna was wake up and pretends to sleep. "That was your training, the training that you had to endure until the last second, you can't blame a master if that master approaches you and teach you how to become strong and protect others," he said as he sees Kitsune still smiling and still staring at the flame.
"You're friend just awake," Kitsune said as Hirishna suddenly giggled. "I was listening! I don't wanna ruin you both chitchats, now what happened to those scars of yours, those aren't normal scars those scars are more than a... Uhh ... A a..." Hirishna said as he suddenly blacks out and forgets something he has to say for Kitsune.
"Gentlemen," a girl swordswoman speaks on the left side of Kitsune who suddenly got serious, the smile on his face suddenly gone. He grabs his mask on the ground using his right hand and put it back on his face covering his whole face.
He turns around toward the girl that is a fox swordswoman. "You're back, how's Kurokushima? And... His partner that I command you both to find," Kitsune said and ask as he looked at her who lowered her head down and suddenly another fox swordsman arrives behind her.
"He said that it's near the southern part of the north, it was said that it's different than another forest, and the mechanical dolls are completely overpowered, there's a total of seven fox swordsman arrive and one woman, me... And... I cou-- we couldn't find his partner's body but we found a part of the grass that was supposed to be a human lying down on it but there was none and we see a tree cut down into pieces this tree was at least four hundred meters long and wider than seven humans, these dolls are different and the heads said that more than two dolls are protecting Hidden Project E... There's a possibility that they just fought first-level security dolls and not the super enhance and finest dolls, these two dolls that they've fought are probably just an outside guard of it, we need to stay in the shadows," she answers as Kaika was sat down on the floor again.
"You said Hirokushima's body was not found... Then the mechanical dolls must've taken, and I'm sure that these dolls are the main security because of how powerful they are," Hirishna and Kaika said in one voice.
"Wrong! The mechanical dolls can surpass human abilities a hundred times! They can wipe out a whole village! A city! The same project as them! A whole country or even a nation...!" she said furiously as Kitsune calms her down by taping her in the back carefully.
As he calms her down foxy arrives with a letter in his left hand and a messenger bird on top of his right shoulder. "We found the hidden Project E location, we're on the move as soon as she gives us the information, and the heads give us too. The other fox swordsman that is with us is in the area, locating the right location and looking for these mechanical dolls, they're hidden in the shadows," he said as Kitsune nodded at him.
"Let's go!" he said as they all nodded and suddenly the wind blows in a strange direction around them.