Pilgrim by Harmon Cooper

Author:Harmon Cooper [Cooper, Harmon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boycott Books, LLC
Published: 2020-07-20T22:00:00+00:00

.Chapter Four.

The next morning was bright, no sign whatsoever that spirits had been out the previous night for the red moon.

Danzen awoke to find Kudzu stretching, the white fox with her tail up in the air, humming something. She had yet to notice that he’d awoken, and for a moment he simply watched as she practiced bending her echo.

Danzen knew what bending one’s echo looked like, and he realized now that the other morning she had been doing the same thing, likely part of her morning ritual.

Eventually, she stopped, the white fox making her way to the small pond outside their cave. She sat there until Danzen joined her.

“Are you ready?” she asked.

Danzen nodded.

For a brief moment, before they could slip away, he caught his reflection in the water. He saw himself in his robes, his hood over his head as he stood next to the white fox, who seemed to radiate with energy. Once again, he was reminded of how far he’d come from where he was just two short years ago.

Without fish to eat, they pressed forward into the Asura Forest.

Danzen was light on his feet, and didn’t leave much of a trace as they moved through the woods. He wasn’t as light on his feet as some that he had faced off against in his past, those able to even land on the broadside of a sword and jump off it, but he could move rather rapidly, while making little sound.

This had been part of his training in his youth, and his enhanced powers only aided him in his ability to move in such a quiet yet swift way, Danzen preferring the silent killer approach rather than something that would require extended confrontation.

As the forest became thicker, he kept his eyes on Kudzu’s tail, watching as it bounced left and right, the fox stopping every now and then to sniff the ground, her ears twitching as she listened to the woods.

“Anything?” Danzen asked her after they’d been traveling for well over an hour in silence.

“Something is not right,” she said, her nostrils flaring open again. Kudzu’s eyes narrowed. “Are you ready to fight?”

Danzen barely had time to withdraw his blade as a small humanoid with gray skin hopped down from a tree with the spear in his hands. The yokai was naked, his belly distended, his teeth yellow and sharp.

And he wasn’t the only one.

Three more burst out of the bush, another two appearing behind Kudzu and Danzen with big rocks in their hands.

Danzen sprang into action. He loosed his boomerang sword, which tore through the chest of the being with the spear. The yokai bellowed as Astra returned to Danzen’s hand.

Danzen spun just in time to avoid a rock from another of their opponents, this one coming dangerously close to his head.

Once again, he sent Astra into the air; his blade met his opponent between the eyes, the tip breaking through the creature's skull and pressing out of the back of his head.

Danzen’s sword returned to his hand and he ducked another rock, as he charged forward and cut this yokai down.

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