Anilagatari | 阿尼羅語 [Chapter 1]

On a mountain rising from the deep dark jungle, enshrouded by dark storms, a fight can be witnesses. A woman with a blue button long-sleeved shirt, dark blue pants, and red flowing hair battles an great humanoid dragon, it was green with an neck as long as an giraffe's. It wore an torn shirt and large pants. Its antler-like horns were made of gold. And so was its large shield and sabre. Its body was was muscular and has strong as steel and spikes dotted over its neck and back.

"You are too weak, Eve Anila. You are no match for my prowess!" the dragon slashes his sword.

"Oh shut up Vedari! You don't know how powerful I've become!" the woman dodges swiftly, avoiding the slash attack.

"HA-HA-HA-HA!!! How long did you trained for this?" Vedari jumps over her and to the other side of the battle field.

"It's been a few weeks. The mana burning within me hasn't died!" Eve charges forward with her two katana.

"In this battle. It WILL!" Vedari jumps back and blocks the attack with his shield!

Eve jumps back as well, forming her battle stance, she then charges forward again, yelling out an battle-cry! But then Vedari attacks with an powerful tail swipe, knocking her off the mountain top. She tumbles down and down into the dark jungles below. She was unconscious for hours, she wakes up and finds herself in the dark jungles. From an distance an giant armored tiger leaps into the ground and attacks her. She quickly escapes from the mauling and tries to pick up her katana, but she finds out that they are gone missing!

Eve quickly with anxiety runs about in the jungle with the tiger in pursuit. Her weapons are nowhere to be found. Then she decides to fight back anyways. She punches the tiger, but it only made it angrier. It then pounces on her once more, now she is captured by the grasp of the armored tiger. She struggles in the tiger's clutches, trying her best to avoid being mauled. it then made an near fatal claw swipe, but as soon as it did. An sword resembling hers pierces through the tiger, killing it. The sword nearly went through her as well, but she managed to not get stabbed by it.

Eve throws the tiger with all her strength and gets up from the dirty ground. She sees another woman, she was a bit taller than her, her skin was pale grey, her eyes were purple. She wears a black coat and silver pants and wears wooden sandals, like that of an tengu. Hear black hair was short with an very long and thin ponytail. She holds two black, scythe-like weapons on both hands.

She walks closer to Eve. And as she does, Eve steps backward, picking up the sword that had pierced the tiger's heart.

"Woah! Woah there, girl! I'm not going to do anything to you!" the mysterious woman said.

"Who are you?! What are you doing here?!" Eve points the sword at her.

"The name's Lilith. Lilith Blackmoon. I just saved your life from that Ginkora Tiger!"

"Wh-what??" Eve became confused to this.

"I've seen your swords and took them. I thought you were dead but then I saw you fight that monster back here. So I decided to join in!"

"Where's the OTHER sword of mines?" her face looking at her with anger.

"Right over here." She pulls out the second katana from her back and gives it to Eve. "Heh. Sorry about that, girl. Who are you anyway?"

"My name is Eve Anila. I was fighting Vedari at Mount Koronix."

"Ah. Vedari huh? One of Balmara's right-hand goons! Heh! Almost no one's prepared to fight that bastard!"

Eve takes a deep breath, "Tell me about it. I've been training all these months and I still can't kill him! That beast killed my parents when I was young. And I see it as my duty to track him down an slay him!"

"Interesting. Looks like you got a long way to go!" Lilith giggles and she walks past her. Eve follows.

"Where are you going?" Eve looks at her straight in the eyes.

"None of your business!" Lilith jumps over an boulder and grabs an tree to break her fall, "Unless you wanna come with me, assuming that you are."

"Hmmm. Sure." She then joins the vampire on where-ever she is going.

They go deep into the darkest part of the jungles. Lizards, giant insects, and beasts lurked in the shadows. The leaves from the branches of the tress were so thick and cloud-like, that they blocked all of the sunlight. They approach an lake where Lilith began picking up rocks and throwing them at the surface, watching them skip.

"Where are you going to, anyways?" Eve said to her.

"I'm trying to get to this huge city called Ke'unmae. Its this metropolis with all this huge money banks and all that. I heard each one of them are guarded by these huge robots called the Zenigards. Nothing that my Black Moons have any problem with."

"Ah. So we're robbing an heavily guarded city. Yeah. Sounds like suicide."

"Not if we actually survive that is! And if we do, you could probably buy some rare, legendary sword!"

"An legendary sword? Like what?"

"How about... this!" Lilith pulls an sheet out of her pocket depicting an giant, flaming sword. ""The Agnitalver. One of the most powerful swords in the world! It was said that it lies in an ancient temple built by the Fire Goddess, Agmeo. Since Ke'unmae has been built over this temple, I bet its in some random store somewhere!"

"Awesome!" Eve grabs the paper from her. "I'm definately in on this hunt! Let's go to that city!"

"Now we're talkin'!"

They then continue walking around the lake. Suddenly, an huge creature arose from the murky waters. It reveals itself as an large, red, cephalopod with green spots and an large, gaping mouth with sharp teeth and multiple eyes.

"Wh-what that hell is that?" Eve looks at the monster in horror.

"I think that's Grozzan, an infamous monster found in Feramon Jungle. And this is that very jungle!"

Grozzan attacks with its tentacles, Lilith jumps over one, while Eve gets captures by them. Lilith slashed the tentacle binding Eve with her Black-Moon weapon and cuts it off. Freeing her in the process. They then make an run for it. They looked back to see Grozzan emerging from the waters, seeing they it doesn't need it to continue the pursuit.

"What?!" Eve yelled, "That things crawling out of the lake!"

Grozzan then slithers its tentacles on the jungle grass and runs after them. Lilith turns around and attacks the monster once more.

"What are you doing?!" Eve turns around to see her fighting the octopus beast.

"I ain't RUNNING from an fight!" She unleashes her Black Moons once more and slashes more of its tentacles off. Grozzan uses its remaining ones to knock Lilith down onto the ground. She gets back up and kicks it on the face. Grozzan is knocked down, she then jumps high and lands down striking her blade weapon at the monster's chest, ultimately killing it.

"Amazing, girl! That was an awesome fight!" Eve gives out an applause.

"Yeah! I bet I'm an better fighter than you!"

"Aw come on! That was only one fight I've seen you in."

"Yeah, but I fight bigger monsters before. Monsters that'll kill you in an instant."

"Not if I had that fire sword!"

"A fire sword that may not actually be there. I mean, it could be found by someone already!"

"It better not be gotten already! We have to get there as fast as possible!"

Eve runs forwards through more of the jungle, Lilith runs after her.