Okay I can't really find out when Cid saved Yukime but it said that the Stylish bandit slayer saved her from getting killed by her fiancé, so Cid was still using that persona which means he still hasn't met alpha.
Which means he still hasn't become shadow which is why he saves Yukime whens he's 9 (something I made up)
This is for any future questions about Cid and what he did before he officially became shadow.
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~Omni pov~
Ever since Cid has gotten money from bandit hunting with Claire when he was 6 years old he grew to enjoy it and would sometimes go and hunt them just to see his stacks of coins grow.
And three years later as it kept growing Cid had accumulated 100,000 gold coins which if you convert everything is 10 billion zennies
Just from hunting bandits alone and keeping all their gold coins and not wasting a single coin for 3 years.
When Cid finished counting all the coins he couldn't believe just how much money he had, he even had to question himself how the original Cid was so poor and desperate for money that he willingly turned himself into a princesses dog.
It's been a year since Cid has saved rose and during the year Cid has been trying to master his usage of armament Haki
Cid can be seen standing infront of tree with his fist close to his chest and his eyes closed concentrating on his Haki's flow.
He guided the Haki to his fist and punched the tree and as his fist made contact the tree exploded outward instead of caving in and breaking.
Seeing the tree's in pieces Cid just looked at his fist and thought 'So this is Ryou, awesome' and just as he finished his practice he noticed smoke in the distance.
Seeing the smoke Cid just put on his slime suit on and made his way towards it.
Meanwhile in the village....
You can see a bunch of Beastman running around and killing all the Dire wolfs and Spirit Foxs.
Fox and wolf, man and women, young or old, can be seen running around for their lifes but they didn't make it far as a beastman soldier from a neighboring clan soon appeared killing everyone in their way.
Gettan and Yukime can be seen crouching down all bloody and dirty.
Gettan was seen holding his bleeding arms with gritted teeth and cursed "Damn it... DAMN IT ALL!!! If only I had been stronger i would have been able to protect everyone...To protect our village!!!"
Gettan the lowered his head slightly "I'm really sorry. All I could do was take you away and run away!!"
Yukime then tried to comfort Gettan "You don't need to apologize, Gettan. The only one to blame are the army and soldiers who attacked us. We had no chance against these numbers..."
Which just made Gettan snap "SHUT UP!!! If I had more power, I wouldn't have lost anything!!! I would have been able to protect it all!"
Gettan then stood up slowly as he had a hand over his eye
Yukime then softly asked "...Gettan?"
Which prompted Gettan to say "... sorry but please understand, Yukime. It's a fact that we lack strength."
Gettan then took a bottle of pills and held it infront of Yukime and as he held it he started yelling once again "That's why I suggested that everyone take this medicine to gain immense power!
If we gained the "cults" protection we will be able to make it through any strife"
Yukime backing away in confusion started asking "...Medicine? Cult...? What are you even talking about?"
But Gettan didn't even bother to answer and just continued shouting "It's all her fault. She rejected the medicine so everyone followed her!! But don't worry that's won't happen again.
Because I've already murdered her!! I snuck in the chaos and sent her head flying!!
But you're a smart one. So I'm sure you'll understand right?! That was the only way to protect you!!"
Seeing her backing away Gettan just grabbed her shoulder and tried to forcefully feed her the red pills and with a crazed look he said "NOW, TAKE IT!!! Let's avenge our village together, we'll kill every single one of them!"
Yukime just pushed Gettan off of her and shout" NO ENOUGH!! Stay away from me!"
Yukime then quickly turned around and started running as fast as she could out of there.
Gettan just crouched down and picked up his katana and said "so you're making the same mistake as your mother then, huh
SO YOUR ALSO REJECTING THIS POWER!!!"
As Gettan yelled he swung his sword towards Yukime's back which caused blood to splash everywhere
And as he kept slashing at her back he kept saying "If you don't want anything robbed from you, you have to rob from others!! Why can't you understand this!!!"
Yukime was then on the ground begging him to stop until she heard a voice from the sky
"Well what do we have here, this isn't a very gentleman thing to do, hurting a beautiful lady like this"
And with that Yukime lost consciousness...
The first thing Cid did was kick Gettan off of Yukime. He then looked around and saw that everyone from the village was murdered which prompted him to gain a cold expression.
He then called out to his newly acquired shadow soldiers "You guys been training with Igris inside my shadow dimension for a while now, it's time to show me what you've learned"
Shadows of all the bandits he killed over the year then spawned all over the battlefield and rushed to the army of beastman and started attacking them killing everyone their Liege and Monarch sees as an enemy.
Gettan seeing this just gained a scared look and went to grab the bottle he dropped when Cid kicked him but was stopped by Cid's foot that came stomping into his hand.
"ARGHHHHH"
Cid didn't even pay any attention to his screaming and gathered Haki on his feet. He then used internal destruction when he proceeded to kicked Gettan on the stomach destroying a chunk of it from inside.
(A/n: from now on anytime Cid is dressed in a disguise imma call him by the name of his disguise like right now he's dressed as Azrael so imma name him Azrael)
Azrael then made a sword out the slime and slashed it right across his eyes blinding him and he proceeded to turn the sword into gloves and grab onto the screaming Gettan and ripped off his eyeballs
Which cause him to scream even louder.
Azrael then grabbed him by the collar of what he was wearing and threw him across the field far away letting him escape and as he threw him Azrael said outloud "I would kill you but that isn't my job and this isn't my revenge story, it's hers" and looked at Yukime's direction as he slowly made his way towards her.
He lowered his hands onto her scarred back and started healing it, except the long scar across her entire back. He decided to leave that on as a momento for now and a reminder to get her revenge, to motivate her and become strong like she's supposed to become.
He then shook her awake "Oi wake up"
Which made her shot open her eyes in a quick manner and as she did she jumped back in fright and looked around in a frantic manner looking for any danger.
Until she layed her eyes on Azrael which caused her instincts to go wild
'I'm going to die, I'm going to die' these thoughts kept repeating over and over in her head as her instinct told her only one thing 'DEATH'.
However before she could run away He called out to her "Wait I mean no harm" he said with his hands slightly raised
"As you're the only survivor I thought I should help you out"
With a bit of apprehension she then responded "And why should I believe you, I was already betrayed, who says you won't take advantage of me". The more she spoke the more teary eyed she got.
Azrael just sighed and nodded while saying "You shouldn't believe me, you're right, it's good to always be cautious about everything especially when you're weak, but you really don't have a choice but to take my help.
If I hadn't finished off all of the invading beastkins I'm pretty sure you would have been caught as a war slave"
Hearing that he finished off all the beastkins she slowly looked around the area and what she saw shocked her
All the buildings were mostly destroyed while beings made out of shadow impailed soldiers on the ground with their swords
And while looking around her eyes narrowed in dread as she started running while sniffing the air.
She then arrived near a destroyed building and started to push away all the debris and as she pushed everything out of the way she dropped to her knees and hugged the body she found dead
It was the body of her mother...
"WAAAAHHHHHH. MOTHER PLEASE WAKE UP."
She then hugged the body tighter and whispered "Please..."
After a while she let out a beastial roar into the sky which was accompanied by an outward explosion of magic due to her distress.
While hugging her mother she roar "I'll never forgive you Gettan!!!"
Azrael then appeared behind her and put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down and somewhat comfort her. Which worked.
"Why don't we give her a proper resting place so we can talk" Azrael said while looking down at the body of Yukime's mother.
Yukime then nodded sadly and picked her mother's body and took it to the top of a hill overlooking the destroyed town
Azrael then used his earth magic to make a proper coffin for her and when he did Yukime just looked at him in disbelieve not expecting him to be able to possess such abilities and manipulate the earth like that
After getting over her initial shock she layed her mother's body down in the casket. Manipulating the earth once again Azrael closed it and as it closed it he sunked it into the ground and put up a tomb stone that said "Yukime's Mother Rest in piece"
He then manipulated the elements of Water, earth, and Life to make beautiful flowers to show his respect for the dead and put it on top of the place she was resting.
Yukime while looking at the tomb just looked at him and with a bit of suspicion said "How do you know my name we never introduced ourselves"
'Ah shit' Azrael thought and with a bit of quick thinking he said "When the direwolf beast-kin was about to finish you off he said your name before I stopped him"
Yukime found the scenario of such a thing likely and nodded her head accepting his story.
Since you're the only one left alive
He then looked around the entire village with cold eyes which started glowing a bright purple color and said
"Come forth and serve"
And with that every beastman and women shadow started to come to live and drop to one knee showing their respect to their now Monarch and Leige.
Cid just let the kids and old rest in peace not even bothering to call them forth.
~Omni Pov~
"Since you're the only one left alive it's going to be tough for you to even get started on finding a place to live
So how about a invest in you and we can plan out your future" Azrael said to Yukime who was sitting down near her mothers grave and looking over her burnt village .
Yukime just nodded feeling lost on what to do next since she doesn't have any money or residence, since her whole village is destroyed.
The shadow soldiers then came marching from the village with a bag over their shoulder and as they marched they made their way towards Azrael dropping the bag by his feet and kneeled down while looking up towards him for praises.
Azrael seeing them just rolled his eyes at their exaggeration and said "Good worrk" which cause the shadow soldier to beam in happiness
And with that they went inside his shadow happy at being praised by their Monarch.
Yukime seeing all this happened, just stood there in shock
'Just who is this being... And how strong is he truly to possess such unearthly abilities that are out of this world'
While looking up at him she asked hesitantly "Just who are you"
While still looking at the village he answered "You can just called me Azrael and thats all you need to know, the time is not right for you to know anything else"
Azrael then looked at the bag infront of him and said "This is for you, in there is all the zenis in the village, there should be more than a million zenis in the bag, it should help you out when you need it"
Yukime then looked at him in surprise "Are you seriously giving all of this to me? Why?"
"Like I said it's an investment, I might need your help in the future.
As for what to do with all that money, you could go to the lawless city and buy a building and buy some girls turn it into a brothel and make even more money
You don't even need to be a prostitute yourself, you could just get other girls to sell their bodies and you could be paid for it."
Yukime just continued looking at the money on the floor and the more she thought about it the more she liked the idea and decided to agree.
"And while the other girls make money for you, you could spend the rest of the time training yourself so you could get your revenge on the Dire wolf beast kin" Azrael said pointing Yukime towards the profession she was going to have if Azrael didn't intervened.
And as Azrael finished speaking to Yukime she just looked at him wide eyed "He's still alive?"
"I didn't kill him so you could get your revenge on him in the future, thats why I left that scar on your back as a reminder. I'll fully heal it when you accomplish your revenge"
Yukime hearing him then gained a determined expression and expressed her thanks
"Thank you for letting it be me that gets to kill him in the future"
Azrael then said "Come forth, scarface"
A being made out of shadows and a face with a large cross shape scar by its eyes then appeared from underneath Azrael in a kneeling position awaiting for his orders
Azrael then pointed towards Yukime "Protect her until she finds a place where she can safely store her money and a place to stay
Scarface nodded as he then stood up and grabbed the bags full of coins and sunk into her shadow.
Yukime then looked at her shadow in fascination while looking at the purple eyes looking at her from inside it.
And as she stood up from her mothers grave she gave Azrael a deep bow expression her thanks
"Thank you for giving me such an opportunity. I'll do everything in my power to make it up to you"
Azrael just nodded and sent her towards the direction of the lawless city.
While looking at her disappear into the distance Azrael then looked backed towards the village and started walking towards it
And with cold eyes which started glowing a bright purple color he said
"Come forth and serve"
And as he took a step forward as he uttered those words beastkins made entirely out of Shadows started to come to life.
A three tail fox also appeared behind him and looked towards Yukime's direction.
The three tailed fox beastkin then knelt down behind him expressing her thanks
While all the shadows in the village just expressed their servitude.
Azrael didn't even bothered to call forth the children and elderly into the mix of shadows in ordered to let them rest in peace as they had no use for him.
He then called all the shadows into his own shadow except the three tail fox woman beastkin.
He then turned towards her direction and saw her standing straight and said to her "Since you're daughters name is Yukime, I shall name you Yukihime"
As soon as Azrael named her Yukihime then grew another tail behind her back enhancing her strength making her a 4 tailed fox.
Yukihime then bowed down expressing her gratitude once again with a soft smile and got pulled into his shadow.
Azrael then looked towards The Lawless City's direction with a pondering expression before summoning Kaisel beneath himself
Kaisel whipped its long neck into the sky and let out a roar signifying that it's about to take off and with a flap of his wings he took off into the sky going into the direction his Monarch directed.
~Omni pov~
Cid is now officially 10 years old and right now he standing infront of a boulder with his sister right next to him with a boulder of her own.
Cid was just standing there while looking at his Boulder and after a while he just puts a hand on his sword that hangs to his hips
And as he put a hand on his sword he takes it off. Everyone from the staff of the manor who came to watch just looked at me in confusion until the builder was then split into piece in perfectly shape cubes.
Everyone who watched it just looked at it in away and started clapping.
While when Claire got a hold of her sword she kept swinging it in a really fast motion that was impossible for any normal eyes to follow all people saw her arms moving but not her sword all they saw was blur.
And as she finished she put the sword back in the scabbard and as she did so the boulder just sliced into pieces.
Seeing this the staff clapped again even tho it wasn't as cool as Cid's it was still phenomenal to watch.
Everyone just had one thought in mind "As expected of the Kagenou siblings"
Due to how good both of Cid and Claire are with the sword they were then dub the 'Kagenou siblings' which in Cid's opinion its a bad moniker.
As the staff went away from watching their little show Cid and Claire just stay in the training field while looking at each other with their swords im their hands
Claire then uses 'Soru' and disappears and reappeared infront of Cid, but to Cid all he saw was Claire running at him in slow motion
He uses a 'Soru' of his own and reappears infront of Claire as their swords clash which causes sparks to fly everywhere due to the collision.
Their hands along with their swords can be seen moving at a speed at which normal eyes couldn't possibly follow. Although their hands and sword were moving they just kept staring each other in the eyes not looking anywhere else.
Until Cid thrusted his swords to create a cut on her arm but as it made contact the cut wasn't made, it was like slash at something made out of metal. Seeing this instead of being surprised he just smiled at her for using Tekkai.
Tekkai is one of the 6 techniques he taught Claire when asked him how he has gotten so strong.
Tekkai is the ability to hardens the users' muscles to the level of iron, allowing them to withstand and effectively nullify any damage they might have taken from attacks.
Tekkai can also be used to enhance the user's attacks by the increased density one gets from using it
Cid just increases the speed of his attacks and its power which eventually actually manages to cut Claire. Feeling herself being cut the only thing she could do is click her tongue in annoyance and continue attacking while still looking deep into her brothers eyes
which were just displaying pure confidence in his skills, and he has every reason to be for the most part since Cid was born into this world all he did was train and train and even more training. Even his mana core was at the high silver color stage.
And that's how he spent most of the day today just fighting Claire until she could barely move her arms.
When Cid was done it was already night time and he was quite excited since he heard a bunch of bandits have decided to take residence nearby, he would finally get a chance to have his first living subordinate in all three of his life.
So with a plan in mind he decided to suit up and look his very best already playing the scenario in his head and how it would go.
All he could think about was on how to put on a good show and performance like he did in his past life.
And with that he made his way into the forest where the bandits where staying and party.
'Lights,
Cameras,
And
Action'
The first thing he did when he arrived was active his dragon fear and bloodlust towards all the bandits making them go to the ground gasping for air while fearing for their lives
And as they were gasping for air they heard the sound of slow heavy footstep appearing from the distance.
With one step at a time The Shadow Monarch appeared with his head held high and purple glowing eyes looking down on everything.
He didn't even bothered to look at the bandits on floor that were starting to get light headed from the wheezing for air they were making.
With slow steady steps he made it to a giant box with a white sheet covering it. He didn't even bother to touch it and just used Ruler's Authority and moved the sheet out of the way.
What appeared before him was a pile of flesh that was just overloading with magic.
He just made a crushing motion with his hands as the door to the cage got crushed die to the force of Ruler's Authority.
After opening the cage The Shadow Monarch just aimed his hands forward as it gained a green hue and started to heal the pile of flesh.
And with a flash of light what appeared was a naked beautiful elven girl with long golden hair just flowing by her back.
The elven girl just started blinking in rapid motion to get use to the light and when she opened them she saw a being looking down at her while lowering his hand that was glowing slightly green.
She then looked around her body in amazement she then softly stuttered in a cute voice "B-b-but how?, my body was almost completely rotten and it turned back...?!
I...I don't even know how I could express my gratitude. I'll devote my entire life repaying you..."
And as she finished speaking The Shadow Monarch turned his back towards her and as he did he summoned a throne using his shadow magic and sat on it. He then positioned himself in a lazy manner with a leg over the arm rest while leaning his head on his hand in the other side of the arm rest.
He then looked towards the elven girl and said
"Does that mean you would be this Monarch's follower?"
She then gained a confused expression "Huh?"
He just continued looking at her, he then says "I have decided, from now on your name shall be Alpha and you'll be my follower and work for me.
And our goal is to prevent the resurrection of the demon Diabolos."
The elven girl who's name is now Alpha gains a nervous expression "The demon, Diabolos...? The one from the fairy tales?"
The Monarch just slowly nodded as he then explains "Yes, long ago the world was at risk of being destroyed by the demon Diabolos.
'However, 3 Heroes representing Human, elves, and beastkin defeated the demon' Thats how the story goes.
But what people don't know is that it really did happen however that's not the end of it. With his dying breath, Diabolos unleashed a curse on the heroes. A curse that would be passed down to their descendants as well.
'The curse of Diabolos' or simply 'possession'... is the name of the illness that was gnawing away at your body.
Which means "Possession" is proof of being a heroes descendant. In those times, they would have been revered and held in high regard"
Alpha hearing this just covered her mouth in shock. "You must be kidding! Instead of being revered, were suffering from prosecution"
Cid using his light base projections to just conjured images of kids in his hands being respected which later changed into a kids being thrown out and mistreated.
He then continued his explanation "Someone rewrote history to make it so, they covered it up so they could erase any one who carries the heroes blood.
The Diabolos cult, The ones scheming to revive Diabolos, those are the enemies we face. The cult never makes a move in the open. They erase those who stand in their way from the shadows."
He then stands up from his throne and says "But they aren't the only ones who can use just tactics.
How can I called myself The Shadow Monarch and let such atrocities happen in the place that I rule.
As the Ruler of the Shadows it is my job to make sure such things are take care of"
He then takes off his hood and extends a hand towards Alpha "We are Shadow Garden, We lurk in the shadow and we hunt in the shadows.
Preventing the resurrection of a demon is now easy task but unless we succeed the world is fated to perish. Won't you help us?"
And as he says this his shadow started to expand as multiple beings made purely out of shadow stand tall behind him with imposing figures
Alpha seeing his power just stared in awe and gains a fanatical light in her eyes
Alpha then gained a determined expression and drops on one knee and bows with a hand on her heart and while lowering her head she says "The Diabolos Cult... If their influence even allows them to falsify history they must hold immense power.
Like me many others are forsaken to die because the truth is hidden... That can't be allowed to continue...
I understand everything, I shall put my life in the line then...
For Shadow Garden
And for the Shadow Monarch"
She then slowly lifts her head and continues where she left off "And bring upon these sinners the death they deserve!!!"
The Shadow Monarch then just nods his head and lowers his arms and as he did so he controls his shadow to envelope her figure and as he controls his shadow to return Alpha is now dressed in her signature slime suit.
Alpha just looks over herself in away and when she finishes she saw her new master just walking away ahead, which prompted her to quickly followed close behind.
And as she follows she notices the bandits on the their knees just looking a them with great fear.
She then asks "What are you going to do with these bandits my lord"
Cid then turns to Alpha and said with a smile "when I'm showing my face you can call me Cid and as for the bandits their nothing to worry about" and with that Cid's eyes glowed a bright purple and clenched his hands into a fist. Suddenly all the heads of the bandits just bursts exploding everywhere.
He then continues walking ahead and as he walked her just said "Come forth and serve" and the shadow of the dead then came back to life and knelt down with a hand on their suppose heart which was quickly followed by them sinking into the shadows and moving into his.
Alpha's eyes seeing this just grows wide 'As expected of the lord I now serve'
And with that they leave the forest with Alpha skipping along behind Cid.
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