Fox Fire-Introduction

Note from OC: This is a disclaimer. ReinaBlaka does not own Warriors Orochi. She only owns me.

Sometimes, life just isn't fair.

You get things you never even asked for. You find your fate twisting this way and that, sometimes leading you in a way you never wanted. You confront such terrifying things in your lifetime that you sometimes even want to die.

And yet, this is all Heaven's rule. Nobody starts out life with everything they want. They must work to make things ideal for them. This is the same for every being in the world, human and demon alike.

In my case, however, everything is about life or death. I happened to get everything I never wanted. From being a fox-demon to having a villainous sister and a life full of danger, you can say I'm a poor soul whom Heaven decided to ignore. But, since you might not see me—or even know me—you might not say such a thing.

You see, I've been spending my entire life either on the run or in the shadows. I never dared to venture into the light, for fear of being hunted down. For five centuries, I've been living that way. Just because of my family background.

There's not much to see about my parents—I don't even know who they are—but one thing is certain: I've got a sibling. Her name is Da Ji, and she's my older sister, if I can even call her that.

She's just about the very reason I'm living like this. She's evil, uncaring, and keen to cause chaos when she can. She's also devilishly clever, and that's why she has created such carnage and suffering among the humans. And, while I know her very well, she doesn't even know me—let alone know her relationship with me.

Da Ji was once a servant of Nu Wa, queen of Heaven and one of the three sovereign mystics of the Mystic Realm. For most of the time, Nu Wa had kept a firm hand on her, but then a king in the Human Realm enraged her when he carved rude comments on her statue. In her anger, she sent Da Ji there, telling her to ruin his kingdom, and that was exactly what she did. The Shang Dynasty—the dynasty that the king was ruling in—was brought to a violent end, with continuous war, blood, and chaos. Thousands of people died by Da Ji's hand, until Taigong Wang, the third of the three sovereign mystics, came down and brought her to justice. The world calmed down and the Zhou Dynasty rose, then Qin, then Han. And finally, the present era, which is the Three Kingdoms—Wei, Shu, and Wu.

All this time, while I was chased for the sole reason of ridding the world of Da Ji's cursed kin, my sister lay in the shackles of the mystics. And all this time, she was watching another demon who was also locked away. A demon by the name of Orochi.

Orochi, the Serpent King, was immensely powerful—even more powerful than several mystics. Long ago, because of his terrorizing of the humans, he was captured by the mystics and sealed into a cliff face at a place called the Wuhang Mountains. Seeing a person that had suffered the same punishment as her, Da Ji made it her goal to get to him. She escaped her own prison and, with the help of two other demons, freed Orochi from his bonds.

Orochi wasted no time in trying to find a worthy foe. Using his unparalleled magic, he tore the land from its roots and created a whole new realm—a twisted world consisting of the Three Kingdoms and an era that came a thousand years after it—the Japanese Sengoku period. I was pulled along with it. That was what many of the humans now call the Great Merging.

With Da Ji as his grand strategist, Orochi swept through the new land, subduing and enslaving the human forces. The sovereign mystics came to stop him, but he defeated them as well, forcing them to rethink their strategy. Hate for my sister soared as she forced the humans to fight one another for her pleasure. And with that, the danger I was in also grew.

Finally, the humans could bear the situation no longer and rose in rebellion. Miraculously, by forming alliances and putting aside their differences, they managed to defeat Orochi, slaying him two times—for after the first war, Da Ji revived him—and sought to live alongside one another in peace. My sister has finally been brought to true, divine justice. But the hunt for me continues.

Who would find me? No one knows. I can only do what I can to survive, and wait till my fate leads me elsewhere. Right now, I am still on the run—as I have been for the past few centuries. From the time when I was a mere pup to the five-tailed, mature age I am now, I have never changed my ways.

All right. I've told you everything you need to know about me and my life. You'd better be going. What? You want to know more? Can I trust you? Oh, well then. I'll tell you, but you'd better not tell anyone else about it. It's the remaining part of my story, where my destiny is revealed, and my life takes a turn for a pure adventure.

My name is Da Li, sister of Da Ji. And this is my story.