Celestial Reyvateil: Hello and welcome to "The Paladin, The Rouge, and Their Harmonious Singer". This fanfic was inspired by the song "Utau Oka ~ Salavec rhaplanca ~ (Singing Hill ~ Salavec rhaplanca~)", sung by Akiko Shikata. I hope everyone enjoys this fanfic! ^_^

Disclaimer: Celestial Reyvatiel doesn't own Durarara! nor any songs or their English translations.

Prologue

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom that was on the brink of destruction. It was because a malicious demon, was destroying the kingdom. The inhabitants of the kingdom were beginning to lose hope, when a lone maiden appeared. The maiden had long silver hair and azure eyes. She also had a voice that could rival the very deities of music.

The silver haired maiden used her own voice to imprison the demon. However, before she could finish the song she was singing to imprison the demon. The demon, at the very last moment, killed the maiden.

In her last moments, before death could take her away. The maiden tells the witnesses that watched her almost succeed in imprisoning the demon. Tells them that since the song she was singing to imprison the demon was incomplete, it only succeeded in sealing the demon away. The only to make sure that the demon stay sealed, was to sacrifice someone with a pure heart every 100 years. Then before she closed her eyes, she muttered her name. "Candra…" She softly muttered with her dying breath and closed her eyes.

The witnesses swore to themselves that they would find a way to either kill the demon or imprison the demon forever. They then told the people of the kingdom that the maiden sacrificed herself to imprison the demon. The people silently mourned for the maiden who saved them. In memory of the maiden, the people built a statue in her name.

The witnesses tried to find the song that Candra sang to imprison the demon, but their time was running short. So they passed on the torch to keep the secret of the demon's imprisonment, onto their children. Who also did the same thing when their life flames were about to go about.

When 100 years passed, the witnesses descendants had to find someone with a pure heart to sacrifice, to keep the demon from coming back. The descendants and their children shouldered this burden until the day they died. Just to keep a malicious demon from coming back and annihilating the kingdom. It wasn't until many tedious years of searching, that they finally found the song. However there was a catch. There was a reason why the song was incomplete; it wasn't because the demon killed Candra when the song was almost completed, there was also something else involve that would complete the imprisonment. Not only was the song a song of imprisonment…it was also a song of slaying.

It turns out that the song drains the singer's energy, which explains why Candra was killed so easily by the demon. If the song is only sung, it can imprison any being that shows ill intentions. However the slaying effect of the song was different. To make sure that the slaying is a success, it also required two people wielding two special weapons. One needed to wield Ouranos, a sword that is said to be blessed by the gods; while the other person needed to wield Abaddon, a dagger that used to be from an archangel before he had fallen from grace.

At first the descendants just wanted to imprison the demon, so they had the person who they were going to sacrifice to sing the song. However just like Candra's fate, the demon also killed the one singing the song. The cycle of singing the song and killing the singer continued, until the descendants finally decided that they were going to find the two weapons and slay the demon. Their search so far, has not been a success.

However, the endless cycle of sacrificing is about to end when three individuals met. And this is the start of their tale, of how two unlikely individuals work together, to protect their precious person from harm and danger.

Prologue end

Celestial Reyvateil: Yay the prologue is finished! Sorry if it was short, but I want everyone's opinion on something. Does everyone want an all-out fantasy setting, or does everyone want a fantasy mixed with modernism setting? Just curious.