Chapter 8 - The Poetic Samurai(Part 1 of 2)

The sense of honor, implying a vivid consciousness of personal dignity and worth, could not fail to characterize the samurai, born and bred to value the duties and privileges of their profession.

Lilith and Arthur are in the time portal and Lilith is getting weaker and weaker as they get closer to there objective time period. As she gets weaker she hears a voice in her head. "I will take control and banish your weak minded heart. You know I'm more powerful than you. All you care about is making love to that outcast child". Lilith hears this and screams "SHUT UP!!!!" as she does this she hits Arthur through the face. The time portal opens and they land in a valley of sakura trees, Liltih is screaming in pain as DL is taking over her once again. Arthur tries to grab her and she knocks Excalibur out of his hands. He then hears a horn sound and looks for where the sound is coming from and as he looks up he sees a man with a big straw like hat on but he then hears footsteps and looks in front of him and sees 1000 strangely armored men, they hit him and they were speaking in a language that he had never heard before. he tried fighting them off but to no avail. They then went to Lilith and picked her up. She looked at Arthur and gave him an evil smirk he knew then that DL took over. They hit him over the head, as he was falling he heard all of them repeat the word "Amaterasu sama" and he also saw the man that was standing on the hill was gone.

The strangely armored men surround Arthur and Lilith, as Arthur is half conscious he looks up at the strangely armored men and cant understand what they are saying but men open up a path and a man searing a white and blue uniform approaches them, he orders the men in a language he doesn't understand. Some of the men pick up Lilith(who has been taken over by dark Lilith) and place her in a carriage. The uniformed man approaches the half conscious Arthur and silently says to him" Worry not i will help you and your corrupted friend, I can sense and feel she is consumed by an evil force".as he said this he grabs Arthur by the arm forces him to his feet and grabs him closer and whispers in his ear, " I'm so sorry for this". He then head buts Arthur that his nose bleeds. Grabs him and throws him in the back of a travelling prison.

The 1000 Armored men lead and the men are speaking to each other and some are spitting at Arthur and screaming at him. He then notices something odd. The soldier's are carrying on straight but Arthur and his captor are moving to the left. Arthur looks at the man on the horse and as he is about to speak the man interrupts him. "My name is Okita, Okita Souji. I am the captain of the shinsengumi" "My name is Arthur Pendragon and I am, well I don't know what I am, I've never had a title like you have or a purpose. That woman you guy's took saved me from my abusive parent's and all my life since childhood I've been with her. I love her a lot. What have you done with her". They had gotten to a tree with a mountain in the distance and Okita slowed down. Got off the horse and looked around as he walked to where Arthur was locked in the cage. He opened the cage door and said, "Help me get rid of this and push it over the cliff. I want then to believe that you escaped, after we're done here. We will go to my home. There's lot's I need to teach you. That woman you spoke of I can sense that it was not the real her, she was consumed by a evil force that has a hold over her but it's her as well".

They struggled a little to push the carriage prison off the cliff. They had left the horse by the tree to eat some of the grass. As they pushed it off and were watching it fall fast, Okita remembered about The sword he picked up, "Oh hey I picked up your weapon that fell out of your hands as my men were attacking you, sorry again about the blow I gave you. I just had to make it as believable as possible. I need to obtain my Demon sword back. The emperor gave it to me when I was a kid but asked for it back and told me to earn it again but he is enslaving my people. The swords name is Muramasa. They started to walk back to the horse that was eating grass and as they got closer Okita looked at Arthur and asked, " Are you a swordsman?". "Yes I am. How did you know?"(Arthur). " I can just tell, there's just something you pick up in my line of work if you've been doing it for as long as I have. Oh and I picked your sword up before the guards could see it. It's on the back of the horse. I can feel it's immensely powerful. I sense you'll have a enormous battle in the distant future and I would like to train you".

Arthur looked at him with a puzzled face, smiled and just nodded and hoped onto the horse.

They then started on their journey to Okitas house.

As they were passing through Okitas territory, Arthur noticed a lot of things that he had never seen before. Simple homes that looked sturdy and stable but had a strange design. Woman wearing simple clothing while doing their daily chores, men talking with each other while also doing their daily chores, but what caught Arthur's attention is was the surroundings. Expansive greenery with multiple fields full of vegetables, breath-taking pink colored trees and the wonderful landscapes but what Arthur next left him dumbfounded. "Why are those people planting their crops with so much water, wont they rot?"Okita looked at Arthur strangely, "it's a rice field, rice is normally grown in watery fields like that, and have you never eaten rice before?" "No this is the first time I've ever seen it before". Okita smiled at Arthur and was about to utter something when he realized Arthur was mesmerized by something else now. Arthur was looking at a hill with a stairway leading up the hill. "Come follow me and I will show you what is at the top of the hill" Okita said as he got off his horse. As they were approaching the top of the hill Arthur noticed a strangely shaped gate. "Oh that is called a Torri, it's the entrance to the shrine" Okita said as they enter the shrine.

Once again Arthur is taken aback by the sheer beauty yet the simplest design of the Shinto Shrine. Okita is standing in front of the shrine and kneels and recites a poem, "The Shinto Shrines are conspicuously devoid of objects and instruments of worship, and that a plain mirror hung in the sanctuary forms the essential part of its finishing". Arthur marvels at Okitas word play. "Ive never seen such a peaceful place, it's like this place is one with nature, not overthinking or imposing on nature but simply one with it". "Ah so you have felt that your senses truly are sharp, as expected of a warrior". Okita and Arthur spend some time at the Shinto shrine as it unexpectedly brings Arthur peace. As Arthur and Okita enjoy the Shinto shrine. In the capital of Japan, Kyoto. Lilith is being led to the Imperial palace by the worriers who separated her from Arthur. Lilith or now Dark Lilith smiles as the warriors who she heard refer themselves as Samurai, busy chanting Ameterasu constantly.

Dark Lilith smiles smugly and thinks this is how she should always be treated and worshiped. The samurai take Dark Lilith to the emperor of Japan. As Arthur and Okita leave the Shinto Shrine. Okita tells Arthur to follow him to his home, they get on their horses and just gallop a few feet. Arthur is shocked once again when he sees okitas home, as Okita was being modest about his home when he described it. A magnificent large wooden gate, with the same symbol as the one Okita has on the back of the uniform. The gates slowly open revealing a magnificent mansion.