Tale Of Xeos Yoshimori

Darkness. That's all I can see. Where am I? These are all typical responses when someone's at someplace they don't know. Unfortunately, I do know where I am and what's going on. I opened my eyes and slowly adjusted to the light. Which doesn't help much since I am half blind in both of my eyes. It wasn't from a birth defect or a random accident. No, i lost my eyesight due to the tortured i'd received 3 years ago. I don't really remember anything of my past except the last 5 years. I am currently 8 years old. My village was attacked and plundered by both bandits and monsters. I don't know how they worked together or if some sort of spell was being used. All I know is one minute, I'm in my mothers arms and the next I'm on the ground and my mothers head fell off her body. Since I was only 3 years old and wasn't very athletic, I landed on my arm and caused it to break. That's all I can remember from back then. Not where my home was, or who my parents were. Hell, I can't even remember my mom's face. It's just blank to me. After that, all i know was that i was taken as a slave and a trophy since I'm one of if not the last of my kind.

I'm a wolf youkai. At the very least that's what my captors said. From what I can see, I have semi long hair that's as black as the darkest night. "Basically ichigo's final getsuga tenshou hair except shorter" Silver eyes that can glow slightly especially at night. I'm very small even though I'm 8. I'm 3 feet tall and weigh about 35 pounds due to the lack of food and nutrition. I have multiple scars and bruises throughout my body due to the beatings and torture sessions. I'm in a training camp if you can call it that. Where we learn to become mindless killing assassins or mercenaries. A type of child super program of some sorts I guess. Yes they do experiments on us to try and strengthen our bodies and minds.

They force us to attend classes to gain knowledge to become smarter while punishing us to make us submit. We have all sorts of classes and whatnot. We have Combat Classes, Archery, Poison making, Herbalism, stealth, dual wielding, martial arts, medical and so forth. Basically making us the perfect soldier for any situation. We also have our daily beatings and torture again to keep us in line. Right now we are in cages being transported to another area since our last base was getting suspicious activity from the nearby authorities. The reason why they took my eye sight despite training us was to make an example out of me to the others.

Also to try different experiments on my eyes and try to see the different kinds of reactions it'd have. The result was losing half my vision. So yes I can see just not super far and everything is just a tiny bit blurry. Though my hearing had improved by leaps and bounds. I've been secretly training my hearing for a while now and have managed to unlock a skill similar to echo-location. So basically I channel and tune everything out and use my chakra which I have since I'm a youkai and I send out pulses of chakra that basically outlines my surroundings. If I push myself to the limit, I can sense anything around a mile in every direction around me. Though that takes a lot out of me considering my weakened body. Anyways, I look up and notice that we are drawing really close to a rundown home that looks like it should have been condemned a long time ago. The men dress in robes, open the cages and throw us on the ground and force us to get up and head inside. Once we entered, I noticed a stairwell that led us to an underground cavern. The robed men push us and lead us down a series of corridors and stop us in front of a door.

The robed men pulled out a key and opened the door and threw us in one by one. Then he closes the door and locks it and then walks away. I decided to take a look around and noticed that we were in an arena type place. Kind of like a coliseum. Suddenly, lights get turned on and up on the stands we are surrounded by hundreds of robed men just standing there watching us. One of the robed men stood in the center and looked really imposing and he started to speak. "Welcome children to the final test. Today, in order to leave and become one of us you must first slaughter the rest of the children around you. Only one can prevail and the others that fall are just failures. To sum it up, a battle royale with you all as participants." He started to laugh hysterically and manically. As I looked around no one showed any surprise and neither did i. We were brainwashed into this kind of mindset and have lost all our emotions.

I can't feel anything anymore as well. Instead I hardened my gaze and immediately without hesitating grabbed the guy closest to me and snapped his neck without any signs of flinching or remorse. I noticed some rusty daggers and knives spread throughout the area and some of them had dried blood on them. Telling me that they were here since the last group was here. I ran and picked up two daggers and instantly took an offensive stance and looked around me. The children no longer holding back or anything started killing each other in order to survive. One of them spotted me and rushed towards me and slashed his dagger across my throat. I dodged his swing and brought both of my daggers up and stabbed him in the stomach. While the kid was recovering, I immediately kicked him where I stabbed him to stagger him and then thrust my dagger up through his chin and out his mouth while my other dagger went straight through the side of his head. The kid's eyes lost their light and he fell to the ground dead.

I swiped the daggers in the air to clear off the blood and rushed towards another kid that wasn't paying attention to me and stabbed the back of his throat. I saw in my peripheral vision, a child rushing towards me to stab me. I yanked the kid I stabbed and pulled him behind me to use as a human shield. It worked quite well as I expected. I didn't lose the moment and kicked the corpse towards my would be attacker causing them to fall. I jumped up and slammed both my daggers in my attackers head and yanked my daggers out. I Stood up and started breathing roughly. My body was still not in the best of shape and now I'm paying the price. I heard footsteps and turned around instantly but was too slow to counter or dodged and the kid brought the dagger down on my face successfully cutting my forehead, through my eye, and down my cheek. I clutched my eye and immediately slashed with my other hand with the dagger and slashed his throat open. I fell to my knees and instantly knew that my eye was gone.

I cut off my shirt and wrapped it around my eye to slow the bleeding. I took up a defensive position and held my ground. Like this, fifthteen minutes have passed and I earned a few more cuts and bruises but also managed to kill another 16 kids. I was completely exhausted and dizzy. My body is beyond spent and I'm having a hard time staying awake. "There were 65 Children that were brought here with Xeos." I managed to regain my breath and looked around. There was only one more kid left and he was looking just as bad or worse than me. Without even hesitating or caring I used the last of my strength while the kid was recuperating and threw my dagger straight at him. The kid did notice what i did, it was too late and the dagger hit the middle of his forehead and he fell over dead. Once I confirmed that I was the last one alive I fell to my knees and passed out. The leader of the robed men laughed hysterically and was quite happy with how it ended. He ordered the men to take the survivor and bring him to a "medical" room to recover. He has lots of work to do, hehehe. After they brought him to the "medical" room, they immediately began strapping the boy in on the table.

Around the room you can see a bunch of different syringes , tubes of liquid and paper all around. They called in the specialists to take care of the young boy. After a while, two men come in with a suspicious looking syringe filled with black liquid. The leader came in and told them to begin the final experiment. The specialists immediately injected the black liquid into the boy's neck and the effects took place instantly. The boy's veins turned black, his muscles condensed and became stronger, his body began to develop to a very healthy body. His injuries healed up very quickly. Though unfortunately the eye couldn't be saved, it made up for it by enhancing the remaining eye further and better. The boy now looked like he had worked out for years, still short but very fit. The regeneration doesn't erase the wounds, only heals them quickly. Meaning if the wounds would have naturally left a scar then the regen would heal the injury but a scar would remain behind. So though his injuries healed, all the injuries are now scars. This also means if the injury wouldn't have left a scar, then a scar won't show up.

The leader looked at the two specialists and they immediately kneeled. They left soon after and the leader ordered the men to bring the boy to his cage and inform him when he woke up. The men nodded and dragged the boy to his cage and threw him in there. The leader looked away and muttered "For Evilus"