The east of Lightning country is home to the Spine of the World a chain of dizzyingly colossal mountains which span from the southern tip of Lightning country up to the very northern borders were it smashes into the Thunder Mountains. The spine covers nearly thirty percent of the country, and its main streams, lakes and rivers are responsible for most of the land's fresh water supply and geographical layout. Winter storms usually plague the mountains for eight to ten months of the year, especially in the north, and very little vegetation exists on their snowy caps. Despite the difficult terrain, many of the most magnificent and dangerous creatures in Lightning call the mountains home. One of those creatures, or a Youkai that calls these mountains his home was Maru. Since he usually gave off an aura of fear he decided to separate himself from general population to keep his demonic aura from spreading, not to mention he's been accidentally turning people into Youkai's and creating Youkai from his tainted chakra that just won't go away. Since those little fiends were too ugly for general population so he decided to move them to the spine since this was actually where he trained with the Kotengu of the mountains to become a Youkai sage. Plus it was close to where his clan was since they lived near the spine too so he decided that he'd hang around in the cave that he dwelled in when he first arrive to lighting country. Good training grounds, close to clan, and keep his cursed chakra from affecting other people since he messes with the environment a lot since taking the powers of a sage. Don't want neighbors knocking on his door saying there's a demon in their house licking their dirty bathtub or a little weirdo eating all the sugar.The rogue sat on the edge of a cliff, kicking his legs as he watched the moon in front of him that looked so big at bright. There were a few clouds out but the full moon dominated the skies with millions of stars as Maru sat on the cliffside of a mountain that he called his home. Maru wore his usual navy blue kimono he wears during the night, his curved horns now visible and he now had his small batlike wings outstretched since there wasn't anyone around to call him a freak for his appearance. He didn't even understand why he grew wings to begin with, they were the size of his hand so they couldn't exactly support his body weight for him to actually fly with. They were also pretty easy to hide since they seem to be only for show, since taking the sage arts he usually takes on the powers of a full youkai with Maleficium however his curses are causing him to look more and more like a demon each time he released his true hellish form. He has only done it twice, once to beat up some monster and another to show a friend who he trusted. He might need to work on cleansing himself from the demon taint before he ended up looking like an ogre thing every night with useless wings.
He yawned, stretching as he felt like it was nearly midnight. That's usually when monsters would come out to play, so he figured he'd do the usual then put his talismans up in the ancient forest to try to flush out that demon that may he haunting the forest. “Welp! Time for work.” He said, scooting back from the cliffside so he could stand up. His hand sized bat like wings flapped though he wasn't flying, they simply just moved with his emotions. “Man this is a rip off, got wings and can't fly with them.” He complained, sure he liked running everywhere he went since it was good exercise and being pretty good at Taijustu he loved to exercise a lot. But having these small wings he would think that he would at least be able to ride the skies like the tengu everywhere he went. A lot of people would like the power to fly, why was bat wings a part of a demons natural traits he had no clue… hopefully the night would bring the Youkai Sage something different.
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