Phantom Guardians|Episode 1|

They both continued walking aimlessly till they reached the entrance of a forest. It was an ominous looking forest and the atmosphere was quite unsettling. The leaves on the trees started rustling as the cold wind blew past the forest. Whispers could be heard from inside..

"You're not going through that forest are you?" asked a random passerby.

"What's wrong with the forest?" Shiroi asked back.

"You don't know? This is the forest of the wandering lost souls! Many rumours say that souls that never passed onto the afterlife wander aimlessly in this forest!" he replied. "Well good luck to both of you if you're even thinking of going in there.."

The old man walked off into the opposite direction rambling to himself. "Foolish kids these days.."


.:The forest of the wandering lost souls:.


Violet and Shiroi looked at each other and shrugged. They had no sense of direction and the only way to go was forward. They believed that going forward would be the only way to find their destiny, whatever their destiny is.

As they slowly walked inside, it got darker and darker.

"Shiroi, I think we should take a rest here. There's no point getting lost in this darkness."

"Are you crazy?! It's dark and there really might be wandering souls.."

"But we'll get even more lost if we walk through this darkness."

"Yeah..I guess you're right. Okay then, I'll try to make fire to keep us warm."


As they fell into deep slumber, Violet suddenly heard a raspy and deep voice calling her out.

She woke up and started to sleepwalk deep into the forest. She was sure that someone was calling her name.

"You....are a host to a phantom guardian...sweet delicious phantom guardian in its raw form..come to me..."

As Violet walked closer to the voice, she suddenly regained consciousness. As she slowly opened her eyes, a luminous shadow of light blue outline glowed dimly infront of her. When she fully regained consciousness, what stood infront of her shocked her so much till her body froze. Violet tried to grab the katana from behind her but her arm just wouldn't move. It's as if something was constricting her arm.

"What...what are you?" Violet asked as her eyes stared violently at this...ghostly figure.


"Me...? I'm a wandering soul..or a rogue phantom guardian. You on the other hand..are a host to a delicious raw phantom guardian that's still lying dormant inside that fragile body of yours....Just let me rip you open and allow me to slowly rip out that sleeping phantom inside you so that I can eat it to satisfy myself.."

"Wh..wha..what are you talking about?! phantom guardian?! what the hell is that? And why would I have it in my body!? Just let me go!!!"

Suddenly..

BA-BANG!!


In the far distance, smoke trailed from two gunbarrels that two bullets had just exited from.

"Don't you dare touch even a single hair from her!" Shiroi said with a smirk and still aiming his dual barrelled handgun at the figure.

The wandering soul suddenly dropped Violet from his grip and stared at Shiroi

"Hmm..looks like you too are a host to a phantom guardian.....
hehehhehhahahhahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahaha. Looks like it's my lucky day."

Violet slowly moved her right arm backwards and grabbed the handle of her katana from her back and took it out slowly

SCHWING~

The blade reflected even the slightest bit of light from any source and it suddenly illuminated the whole forest with a shockwave of light.

"I..I don't care whatever being you are. If you're gonna try and kill both me and Shiroi, then I'm sorry cause that's not gonna happen."

With a determined look, she held the handle of her katana tightly and started running towards the soul. As she jumped in the air ready to slice downwards, a light blue-ish aura surrounded her fingers and the blade suddenly glowed white.

"You can do this. You're strong and determined. Strike with precision and don't get distracted by any of your surrounding, not even the breathing of any life form in this forest. CONCENTRATE!"

The silver blade changed to a pure white blade that was as white as the snow during winter.

The soul stared at her hands as it glowed dimly in a light blue aura.

"Damnit! You're Phantom Guardian...it's awake!"

And with that last sentence, Violet's blade sliced right through the middle of the soul from top to bottom with ease and the soul was sliced in half. The lifeless body of the wandering soul started to crumble slowly to dust and blew away.

"What..the hell just happened?" Shiroi's mouth gaping open and awe struck.

"I..I don't know..." Violet answered, looking surprised as much as Shiroi was.