User blog:BTR180/The CrimsonSamurai

Are you sure that they were not Youkos?

I do what any self respecting man worth his word does. I storm into my home with a great fury boiling within me. I fling open my wardrobe to reveal a suit of Crimson armor. I inspect my sword and staff, then collect supplies for the journy and mount my horse. I set off on my journey with no second thought. No mountain is too high, no crevice too low, no price too much, for if it get's in the way of me and my beloved I will surpass it whether it be by force or cunning. After a few days of travel and hardship I am given a lead by a local Danuki merchant and her husband who through hearing my story convinced his wife to assist me.

As I approach the Fox temple staff in hand everything goes quiet. The birds stop chirping and fly away, the frogs dive into the pond, the crikets fall silent, and even the very sun setting cowers and goes into an eclipse as if to hide it'self from my wrath. I am greeted by a servant of the temple "We have been expecting you please follow me" She leads me into a large and highly ornate room. It has forest green walls traced with red and gold images of fowes and flames. At the far wall on a large golden throne lay the mistresses of the temple an Inari in a gold and blue kimono with ocean patterns, and an Youko in a revealing red and gold kimono with flame patterns.

"We have been expecting you." they say in unison, one with lust filled voice as if greeting her lover and the other speaking calm and monotone as if addresing her lord. "Then you know why I am here correct?" I ignore the inari servants offering me tea and the youko dancers who try to seduce me with their ribbon dance. "Yes, you come here to rescue your beloved, but we ask you why? Why do you risk so much for her a simple human woman when you could have any and as many of our servants as you please?" they snap their fingers and then the youko dancers approach me, and the Inari servants drop their trays and begin to remove their gowns and fall to my feet. They start to moan lustfully as they rub their bodies against my armor. Not moved by their actions "My heart belongs to one woman and that will never change. No amount of women whether human or mamono, no amount of riches no mountains of gold will change my mind! I demand that you return to me my beloved or I will have to take her back by force!" The mistresses sit up from their velvet bed/throne. "Fufufufufufu! we're so sorry but we cant do that. We're so sorry that you couldn't see things our way. We truly hate it when things revert to violence."

They snap their fingers and smoke appears around me and the group tryng to seduce me dissapear. A split second later several Kunoichi katana slash through the smoke and I block them all with my staff. We all jump away to plan our next attack. A battle ensues, I struggle to block and return blows with all the kunoichi but manage to hold my own. After a fierce battle I manage to land finishing blows on all 7 of the kunoichi. I stand there breathing heavily my robes tattered and armor scratched surrounded by the unconcious ninjas "You have seen what I am capable of, surreneder or you will meet a worse fate!"

The two stand up and walk to me and try to seduce me. As if captivated I freeze up in my combat stance. My mind if filled with the pattern of their kimonos, the ocean and flames. These images flow through my mind and a feeling of intoxication and pleasure fill my mind as they rub themselves against me. I feel heart flutter, my grip  and will to fight weaken and then just when I feel the last of my will start fading I see her. My beloved, sitting under the cherry blossoms next to the pond, she turns to me and smiles. The look of purity and innocence on her face and  I hear her say my name... My heart stops, then it beats again and again, with more and more ferocity each time. I regain the will to fight and fight back I do. I drop my staff and grab them both by their collars and raise them to the air. "Listen! You two will never make me forget my beloved, will never make me abandon her! Not you or your army of Vixens. I will fight the very demon lord herself if I have to and if it comes to It I will! Suddenly a bright light washes over me and the mistresses and I hear multiple voices in my head. "You have proven your strength and willpower young warrior. We have watched your plight since the very begining and have seen you succeed where many others would have given into their temptations. And for this I Eros, Ares and many of the other gods have decided to aid you in your plight. May you stay noble and true young HERO."

As the light fades away I regain my vision and see that the two foxes have dissapeared and that the room is now filled with valkyries and cupids. In the center of the room I see my beloved kneeling unscathed I runto her and remove my helmet cup her face in my hands and look into her eyes. "Yes, it's you! It's really you HANAKO! I'ts really you!" I begin to tear up when she smiled "You came for me, you really came for me! -sniff- y-you really came!" We embrace each other shedding tears of joy. The moment was so moving that the cupids and even some of the Valkyries began to cry for excitement.

Days later at the Shogun's palace we had our wedding under the new bloom of cherry blossoms next to the pond where we first met. We were happily married and had two sons and two daugters and lived our lives in peace under the protection of the Eros, Aries and the other deities. Suddenly the entire world begins to shake and I hear a muffled voice call out my name. "Jorge... Jorge... wake up!" I feel a hard thud hit me on the back of the head and I get up dazed with drool oozing down my face. "Huh wha was hapn?" As my vision clears, I see Hanako standing infront of me. "Hnhnh! The library is going to close soon let's go." "Huh? Yeah I'll be there in a minute." As she leaves I look at the book and think to myself "Never again"

Fin.