The evil queen herself

"We need to leave but we can't until Ren comes back. Otherwise, we're sitting ducks." Orochi says to Tomoko.

She frowns and softly brushes back Ren's hair, "I don't know if she is even safe her anymore. If those demons truly got in here and went straight for her, then someone already knows who she is."

"Possibly, but those demons had sigils on them. Someone had to have summoned them and sent them here. Ren killed them both but there are still demons coming. If it comes down to it, we might need to do something and leave Ren here." Orochi glanced down to her on the ground, a sweat was breaking out on her forehead.

"What's happening to her?" Tomoko holds Ren's face between her hands, watching the delicate unconscious girl.

"I guess that Aiya is teaching her swordsmanship, her spiritual form is getting weaker so she will return here soon. I believe that Aiya is trying to blossom her full power of a slayer." Orochi covers his palm with his sleeve and wipes off the sweat from Ren's forehead.

*Boom!*

Orochi and Tomoko stand up to see that the estate on one side had been blasted creating a giant hole with purple flames dancing on the wood. With that amount of fire, the estate will be gone in minutes "Orochi! What is happening?!" Tomoko ran up in front of Orochi.

"Hello, Orochi."

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I fall on the ground, weak from the sharp hits Aiya kept giving me for doing the simplest thing wrong.

"Aiya! I give up! I can't, I can't keep going." I breathlessly roll ontop my back, closing my eyes in exhaustion and the ache of the hits all over my body. I am going to be done with just by training with Aiya. No wonder no one knew how powerful she was, just with a bamboo stick she could bring anyone down.

*Whack!*

I double over on the ground, grabbing my stomach in pain. "Who said you are done? Do you know what is happened in the demon world right now? And yet, you give up with just simple training."

I look up at her confused, "What...What do you mean? What's happening in the demon world?" I sit up, wiping the sweat from under my eyes.

Aiya turns her back towards me, clearly disturbed by thoughts of her own. 'What could be happening?'

"Right now, an old acquaintance has shown themselves to Orochi and it is best not to show yourself to them."

'Old acquaintance?' The last thing I remember was killing the two hounds and passing out. I saw someone run up to me but I couldn't make out who was there. It could have been Orochi but he wasn't near me for that to be possible. All of a sudden, I was here and being told to train. Something is not right.

"What exactly is going on Aiya? I know for a fact that those hounds weren't there for no reason." I stand and slide my sword into place on my hip.

Aiya tilts her head upwards to the canopy's of the trees and sun, "Beliath has returned."

"Who is Beliath?"

She laughs in pity and turns her head towards me, "Beliath, is the Demon Queen of the Darklands. The demon world is split into two parts; the part where the living, good, and the capital. The Darklands is where the evil, the dark, dead, and corrupt are. Beliath is the queen of that land. You can only enter the Darklands unless you are dead."

"Aiya, I don't understand. Then why am I here?"

She reached up to my chin and looked at me in the eyes sorrowfully, "Beliath has ruled the Darklands for thousands of years by herself. A few hundred years ago, she traveled to the human world and killed a family one day on her way out of the human world."

I looked at Aiya who seemed to be trapped in a distant memory all of the sudden, "She killed your family didn't she?"

Aiya stayed silent and I could feel my bother growing weaker. "What happened after?"

Her face grew dark, "When I became old enough, I traveled to the demon world and killed her younger brother when I was hunting. She swore revenge and when I went to go kill her, she killed me. She did not know about the demon blood but I am assuming she heard about you and has come to kill you. To finish her revenge on the Lotus family."

I feel a tugging at my chest, 'No! I'm being pulled back to my body. I can't leave Aiya!'

"Ren, you need to go back, Orochi is waiting for you."

I grasped onto her hand tightly, "But what does she want from me!"

But it was already too late, everything turned black and the colors faded away. I felt myself returning to my hallow body.

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My eyes shoot open and I stagger in deep breathes. I look around and notice a fire in the distance. What in the world is going on? In the distance, two figures stand in front of the fire. One is black and the other a caramel brown.

Orochi and Tomoko.

"She has awakened, just in time witness this heartbreaking moment." A woman says.

I look dizzily over to search where it came from and my eyes land upon her. She has long black raven hair reaching down to her but with subtle evergreen shine to it. There was bone and feathers woven into two thick braids that went down the sides of her head.

Her skin was bone white and contrasted her hair beautifully. Her eyes were a rich green and with spider long lashes. The kimono she wore was tattered at the ends of the skirt revealing her small bare feet. It hugged her curves effortlessly, her breasts were pushed up enough to give her an underlying sex appeal.

Dark horns from protruded from her hair and stood up like a crown and pins were shoved into her hair making it look like a sun was behind her horns. This was no denying that she wasn't beautiful.

"Who are you?" I cough as I try getting up.

"Beliath, the queen of the Darklands."

As I stand, my heart skips a beat. Aiya wasn't kidding when she said Beliath came back.

"Beliath, what do you want from us? Why did you risk coming from Darklands to destroy my home?" Orochi yells across the yard to her.

Beliath chuckles darkly to herself, "Why my dearest Orochi, I have come to finish off what I started. Ren is the last of the Lotus and I came here to end it."

Last? What does she mean by last? I look over to Orochi who is angrily staring at Beliath. His eyes were growling an intense yellow and Tomoko was growling at her in her adult form.

"What do you mean, the last?" I look back to Beliath who is wickedly smiling at me.

"I killed all the Lotus besides you."