Ok, folks..time for my next work. In this one, I've taken quite a few liberties with the "Seek My Master" offline quest to tell the story of the origins of Shade Stalker, the villain of "Shadows of the Past", and my upcoming fic, "Evil Returns".
Seek My Master
A Phantasy Star Online Fanfiction
by
M_BlackHawk
"Leave my training hall," Zoke Miyama told the white haired young man standing in front of him, "I do not train murderers here."
"Don't think this is over, Miyama," the man answers as he turns to leave, "I'll be back, and stronger than you'll ever be."
"True strength doesn't come in fighting technique, Dansen," Zoke told the young man as he left, "It comes from inside. You will never have the kind of strength that truly matters. You will just have the ability to kill, not the desire and power to protect."
That said, Shane Dansen left the training hall of Zoke Miyama, as a young blonde-haired man walked up and began talking to his master. He glared back at the younger warrior, and realized what had just happened.
The HUmar had remembered that day, like it happened just on the previous one. The day he was banished from the training hall of "Great Sword" Zoke Miyama, and his sparring partner had assumed the mantle of master of the Soaring Heaven style.
Today, Shane Dansen is with a team of hunters, down in the third level of the ancient ruins, which had been uncovered by a different team. He was carrying his DB Saber, which he had traded off his old katana for. He had strayed from his team, feeling more at ease, alone.
"Come to me," came a strange whisper of a voice, "I will set you free." Shane grabbed his head, not knowing where the voice was coming from, but feeling it in his mind, instead. "Come to me," it repeated, "Let me set free your real power: Your rage."
Shane proceeded further into the ruins, through a really long hallway, and past one monolith, and into a teleporter. He reappeared in a garden, where he saw a huge structure in the center of the garden. He walked up to the structure, and felt his hand moving toward it, as if guided by some unseen power. When his hand touched the monolith, he felt a surge of power enter his body, coursing through his entire being. Shane Dansen then collapsed to the ground, and started to get back up. His eyes held a strange purple glow to them.
Elsewhere, in the manor of Zoke Miyama, the swordmaster sat in quiet meditation. Suddently, images of his former student, filled his mind. He saw images of the monolith in the ruins, and the power that now coursed through the young man's entire being. "I knew this would happen," Zoke thought, then continued his meditation.
"How are you holding up?" asks a HUcast of his FOmar partner, "Needing fluids yet?"
"Oh, I think I can hold up for a while," replies the FOmar, "Wait, is that Shane ahead?"
It was Dansen. He was holding the saber at the ready. He seemed to disappear from sight, and reappeared behind the force, slicing the man in the back. He then attacked the stronger android, hitting him multiple times in rapid succession. In no time, the android was reduced to spare parts.
Zoke winced as new images entered his mind. This time, he was shown images of the gruesome murder of a team of hunters. The speed of the attacks used could only have been done by a student or master of the Soaring Heaven style. "I now know what I have to do," Zoke Miyama said to himself, walking over to the dias on the wall of his training hall, "I have to finish what I started with Shane Dansen. I can't let him become a devil." He takes the 3 katanas, Kamui, Sange and Yasha, off the dias, setting them at his side.
What will come of Zoke? Find out in the next chapter of "Seek My Master".
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