"A story that takes place with a boy named Hekari Taro, who lived in Lazuli Village", the old lady said. The boy asked grandma to tell the story, but grandma looked sad. Grandma mustered up her strength and told the boy about the whole story. 

       A girl, a girl with white, beautiful, silky hair yelled, "Hekari! It's gonna be time for our marriage!" Hekari scurried to get ready for the marriage. When he went out of the building, he heard the girl scream, "Help", but he ran after her and screamed, "Ericka!" The carriage which took her, he pursuited, taking his wedding clothes off. "Man, the clothing was sure hot and tight", Hekari said,"Also, I need to rescue Ericka, my fiancé."

       Running through the forest, he was stopped by an archmage who casted an Dragon's Breath (the dragon appears from the archmage's portal and spewed lava). He retaliated with a sheathed cut, "Dark Cut!" (The sheathe turned into a dark aura blade), the archmage dodge in return. The archmage threw a few needles towards Hekari, while Hekari deflected most of the needles. One of the needles punctured his knee caps, rendering his right leg immobilized. 

     The archmage prematurely activates Sprouting Vipers (From the melted ground the Lava-coated Vipers appears), which makes the archmage vulnerable. Hekari took the chance and threw his kunai to pierce the archmage's right hand. Hekari chanted, "The curse weapon will burn the target: Darken Flame" as the Elemental Power poured through the archmage's veins (the kunai abruptly combusted into cursed flame, entering the archmage's veins). The archmage couldn't continue on, due to the unbearable pain, then Hekari limps towards the nearest beehive (these types of bee specie's stinger heals the creature's biggest injuries).

       Hekari moves out from the forest after 3 days and 2 nights. Seeing the trial, he moves to the opposite side of Lazuli Village to continue his journey. He enters Lapis Village, known as the sister of Lazuli Village and finds his airy friend, Christopher Valley. Hekari asked once, "Could you help me rescue my fiancé, Chris", Chris replies, "No, I am already in an engagement, Taro, I am sorry". Hekari tells him, "Thank you, protect your pride, Chris" as he smiled, holding his tears back. Chris offered Hekari, "Hekari, when you have a child, I will take care of your kids for you.

      When the night shifts, Hekari takes his leave to the nearest imperial kingdom with a few rations and a whetstone. Traveling through the plains, he found a woman being forced to make a decision. He uses Stealth (A unique skill for the Dark Family, which turns the user invisible while removing their presence until the user creates a disturbance). Hekari roundhouse kicked a knight, which the knight launched into the other knight.

     "Grandma, are all the knights like that?" The boy questioned. Grandma rustled the boy's silky hair, "Only some knights, but not all. If you are those knights, I am ashamed of myself for not teaching you well". He shouts confidently standing up with a stern face, "I will never be like that, grandma, okay", she counters this statement with a strong bear hug, "You'll never know my sweetheart, Rihe." "You can continue to the end, okay grandma, but call me Riheka, like my mom named me" Riheka tells her in a serious tone.

      Hekari ran through the knights creating an illusion. "How are you there, I stabbed you" knight 1 said in shock, "ouch, my back". Knight 2 told Knight 1, "What are you talking about, I snapped out of the illusion, he used stealth and kicked you". Both saw a crater that Hekari created himself, displaying strength differences. They both knew they had no chance, 0% at best, running away with dishonor at worst, and tried to attack, but to no avail. At the end, the woman and man were terrified, except the girl in her teens.

     "I will go with you, man", she told him, he then said, "My name is Hekari Taro, what is yours, young lady". She replies, "Shirley Chasmfell, who will be your apprentice, Hekari''. Thus, Hekari's first ally was made because of fate. "So Shirley, why are your eyes rainbow?'' he questioned. "This is because of my mother's side, Hekari", she answered. They both continued to practice throughout the morning. Then they continued to Shirley's home, Imperial City, Sparkson.

     A few months after, Hekari and Shirley arrive with a dramatic intro. "Psst~ Hekari, this might not be my brother", Shirley smacks him to whisper. "Aghhh… is it because of the eyes not rainbow", Hekari panted to her, recovering from that smack. Shirley grumbled and just acted like it was normal. Hekari was confused about these gestures by Shirley, but went along with it. Hekari, while walking with Shirley and her brother sensed an earthly presence down to their house.

   Hekari wakes up due to their noisy arguments and takes his leave, activating "stealth". He goes and investigates the imperial castle, due to hearing the argument from Shirley and her brother. When he infiltrated the castle, he saw what he expected, some ugly, handsome, and beautiful nobles, servants, royals. When he explores the castle, he ends up getting lost, decides to bathe in the soothing bath.

   Once finished, he aimlessly wandered to the king's secret chamber. "I now need a distraction", he thought to himself. He noticed a awfully suspicious looking stone staircase filled him with curiosity. He threw a black needle to one of the stair supports and it collapse without detonation. He was really shocked how fragile it was to cause a commotion, and just ran so as not to be found. (This one stair support cause half of the second floor to collapse)

   Shirley saw Hekari came back as if he committed a murder. But Hekari as he came back saw her "brother" as a musky goblin. "Is that a ugly, musky goblin, Shirley?", Hekari questioned. She replied furiously, "How did you not saw this among all people will literal element". The goblin swipes with its claws and Hekari defends Shirley with his sheath.

  A man that looks like a green hair man version of Shirley appears in front of his eyes. "Help me if you want to live", the man calls. Hekari went accordingly what the man called and went into the offensive. "Urk, this already went south, Katanist", the man yells. "Hey I am a Bladen Sheathe soldier, man" Hekari thrusted himself back in confidence as he yelled. "This is gonna be fun for a bit", then gets into a wall crash.

  He yells at Shirley, "Is this the person who saved our family?!" "Yes, he certainly is, but not use with the urban city, Thornwood!" She refuted. "And… he also passed out, literally got sledgehammered by the goblin". She had no choice, but grabs Hekari's blade and felt elemental surge flowing through her veins. She felt powerful for the first time and started to show the technique she learned from Hekari. Thornwood recovers and sees Shirley's transformation from rainbow hair and pupils to black.

  "She even surpassed him", Thornwood mutters to himself. She hacked and slashed the goblin with her shadow power, she just obtained. The goblin could do nothing as it wished it was back to the moon. "Let's try, Shadow Slash!", she commanded the blade to finish the goblin up. (The blade is imbued with Shadow-like essence in physical form. It carves into the body of living or spiritual beings).

  She looked into the reflection in the ruinous house, her hair and eyes were black. When she blinked after dropping Hekari's blade, her eyes and hair shifted back to rainbow. She looks around and see Hekari passed out on the pee tree, and a rising Thornwood from the bed. She observes the area and before the dark surge runs out see a girl with white, silky hair and white, glistening eyes. She passes out, and the two boys panic and bring her to a fine house.

  She wakes up and sees the two helpless boys panicking. "Hekari, use your element to hide her colors!" The boys were freaking out shouting at each other. "Man, go use yours, you're her brother!" Shirley punches the wood and screams, "What is going on!"

  After explaining to her about everything, she straight up said, "Hekari, just use your shadow powers." "What shadow powers… I only had Dark power, but okay", Hekari answered confusedly, but proceeded to lend her some elemental surge. Then Shirley asked Hekari, "Who's that girl in white? Is she a Shrine Maiden? What happened to her? How are you two related?" Hekari tries to ignore the question, stressing, "Who are you talking about, is it just a hypothetical situation". "Just te-", "Hey Shirley! This is something that you should not dig into" Thornwood cuts Shirley off.

    Later in the night, Thornwood asked Hekari, "Did she make you uncomfortable, man?". "Yeah, especially how she knew her… really though, is there something unique about rainbow hair people?" Hekari continued, "It's like she delved into my memories, sometimes something should not be asked." Thornwood listened to Hekari's talks throughout the night.

   Thornwood asks Hekari how to infiltrate the castle with as minimal damage as possible. He replied, "A few days ago, I found something strange in the king's chamber". Thornwood immediately told him, "Yep with that destroyed stone staircase you caused, I know. But I do know a way to strengthen your Elemental Rift." Hekari asked, "How?", he replied, "Your inner self, you will battle, but do that later."

   Five days later, Thornwood and Hekari made 'flawless' plans to infiltrate the castle. "Why do we have to go to the sewers?" Hekari grumbles. "Well… it's the only way to travel with stealth for the both", Thornwood counters. Walking to the seamlessly unending tunnel, gets spooked by Shirley Chasmfell's screech.

  Hekari dashes to block his allies from poisoned daggers. "Quickly jump away from the water, Shirley and Thorn" Hekari told them telepathically. "Continue without me now! I will be fine on my own." Thornwood followed through with Plan B - 'Flawed' and grabbed Shirley by her shirt.

The battle began with Shadow attempting to kill both the runaways. "Not gonna let you!" Hekari yells, parries the blow and gets launched into the poisoned sewer water, "Nghh~". He gets up from the water and immediately feels the poison effect hitting him. The shadow tries to catch up with the runaways, but is immediately shocked by his recovery speed. "Two seconds I was trapped, taste the water", Hekari roundhouse kicks the shadow into the water, and hears the water sinking.

    The shadow jumps out, throwing needles that punctured him. Hekari noticed that his leg was numbed, and formed a "Shadow Shield" (The shadow was formed into a physical shield) with his sheathe. Right in time, he defended multiple "Fireballs" in contrast with arrows. His leg returned to normal, told the shadow, "Are these poison from Jackal Bees and Silverscars?" (Jackal Bees are known for Chill Spines poisoning and Silverscars are known for instant numb poisoning [which is up to 3 seconds])

  A pack of silverscars runs, trying to bite him. Hekari activates his trump card and chants, "When the darkest nights arrive, the metallic sounds break, one life taken to one grabbed… Dark Style: Cursed Dash!" After he'd used his trump card, he was wide open and he thought to himself "I had to use it". He looked forward and saw the man, he knew this 'thing' was a hooded man, he chanted. "The wavering suffering consumes you, as if the body of the enemy softened, as cold as the freezing fire… Icicle Condensation (Raindrop): Incinerating Pulse!" The Bladen Sheathe Soldier thought to himself, "Am I dead?", was devoured by The Icy Pulse.

  The Bladen Sheathe Soldier noticed a shadow completely armored him. The shadow told him something, he couldn't understand it, but subconsciously pulled his sheath out and threw it. The hooded man was hearing a blunting sound and it grew closer. This sound soon envelope into a sound of death, this itself had stabbed the hooded man's chest. The freezing pulse subsided afterwards and it seemed as if the sewer water was no longer a frozen polluted yard. He chooses to walk away from the possible danger he could only make up from the shadow's talk.

   Thornwood and Shirley ran, almost to the king's chamber. They had felt a sense of warmth again, Thornwood pulled his great sword in a defensive position. Whispering to Shirley, "Run now, go straight forward to the chamber with my elemental surge", she does what her brother said in this dire situation. The man appears standing let's Shirley pass through and glares back at Thornwood.

   "Let's go and finish our disrupted battle from the king", the man said. Thornwood said, pulling his secret lightweight sword, "Yeah, how far do you want to go, Ralk Airind?". "To our maximum capability, General Thornwood Chasmfell." They both dash towards each other from 50 feet away and meet in the middle at 0.7 second. The water completely vaporized by their speed and elemental/magical attacks.They parried each other's attacks and both replied, "1,000 blows during our trip and 10,000 once we met."

  The clash echoed across the underground complex. Each clash caused a sonic boom, and purified the nearby water droplets. Right after, the odor was removed and Thornwood's magic transformed the sewer into a natural ecosystem, filled with plants and fungi. Ralk's wind pressure gave the plants and fungi nutritional air quality as they battled. 

  The water started to dissipate and starved the life around them. "Our 10 millionth clash… no injuries occurred from in and outside", Thornwood finally spoke in the first minute. Yeah, true about that, except the fact the spark we produced burned our skin", Ralk further out the truth to Thornwood, while twisting his armed arm. They continued to clash, crushing each other's blade with equal stepping.

   They know if they continued, the castle would just collapse by multiple impacts. Neither did not cared about the king, one who only joined to protect their family. While the other joined just to accompany his true best friend. So they continued to clash because of those stand points from the beginning. "Then now the girl fled with the evidence needed to demote the king, let's now go full on out", Ralk yells in excitement. "Yes indeed, my true best friend, Ralk, a battle to the beginning to the present", Thornwood yells in happiness.

    Then they resume attacking each other in full power. One of them fought like an experienced knight, as the other one fought like an experienced samurai. They were shooting elemental projectiles against each other. The elements neutralized each other and there was no sign of them falling. "Guess this will be a win-lose situation, this means we are in a draw only situation", both states in a way that makes them monsters. Then both continued, but appeared as figures in the dust fog to everyone else.

    Both the generals found new powers, Nature and Tempest. Both used their new incantation at the same time. "The Blessing of Nature dwells in me… Spears of Nature!" Thornwood chanted. Ralk chanted, "The destructive ball formed by the wrathful wind… Tempest Blast!" Then they both lunge towards each other and their weapons shattered. They both formed crystallized versions of their old weapons to continue the battle. Though they made premature attacks, the other saved another for their amusement.

  When Shirley saw what was happening, she covered her eyes, falling down. Hekari returned to see this happening and forced himself to activate his full power, The Yang. He made this action clear, since this completely goes against his culture. "Don't", Shirley slowly shouts louder, "Don't… d-... STOP IT PLEASE! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE! Not again…". "I see, I will do what you say Shirley, I shall do what my disciple told me to do", Hekari said to the fainted girl.

  "These folks can't hear them, they had faded from reality a long ago", Hekari knew muttering this. The generals couldn't hear, but only feel. Hekari let the element to take over him, since he knew The Element of his follows his deceased father footsteps. He had to swipe then down, he doesn't know how. Then he knew, just knock them out with the Bladen Sheathe technique. "All evil, all myths, all legends, everything starts to the origin. The shadow performs, death's claw configures, life's scythe breaths outwards", Hekari chants to grab the general's attention. "All blessings, all life, all techs, they must all come to their end. The Yin, life, good, truth, The Yang, death, evil, deceit, Weiju, the null, nothing, half, hearsay I. Yang Style: Darkness Dance!"

    The ultimate attack started to really injure the generals, since this ultimate attack is made to take down the unbreakable, immortals, the deities. Yang Style: Darkness Dance brings them the target's worst trauma, while gashing their physical flesh.. Thornwood and Ralk snapped out after this move was used. They both saw Hekari vanished from the ground, then Thornwood dive into the air. He saved Hekari and was then saved by Ralk with his Tempest power.

     Their arrival, Shirley saw Ralk and Thornwood, then started to cry. She yelled while crying, "What were you thinking, this is absurd! Why you guys thought it was fine to kill each other and I, having to worry about you! I-I thought I was going to lose you guys again, that feeling really aches my heart!" She continued to cry, but when the general tried to comfort her, she backed out. "The hell were you doing, you two, don't try to comfort me!" She screamed.

   "Don't look at me, the reason I am so far from my village is to find my fiancée", Hekari declined their offer because it was the generals fault. "Hey, you could've been there, Hekari", Thornwood raised his voice at him. "Aren't you her protector, Katanist'', Ralk further push the blame to Hekari. 

   "How can I protect her if she saw you two trying to kill each other! It's obvious why she doesn't want to be comforted by what she saw! I don't know what happened, but you two lost control of yourselves! Just how I lost my fiancée and I don't want to let her leave", Hekari finally threw his burden out. Then Thornwood and Ralk felt really ashamed of themselves for their actions. 

   1 week after the incident. When both Shirley and Hekari were about to go through the sea, Hekari talks to the generals. "If you want to come with us, you can, not for me, but for Shirley. Just don't do what happened last week", he said leaving. Then the generals chose to follow for keeping Shirley safe. There is a new king in Sparkson City after Shirley collects the evidence.

  "Finally, this is my first time on the ship", Hekari exclaimed on board. The generals caught up and yelled, "I am joining you both! Whether you like it or not!" Then they continued into the seas, hoping nothing bad happens.