Prologue incomplete

Perched on top of a red wyvern was a tall beautiful woman with long light blue hair and eyes. She was dressed in a General's apparel with long sleeves with buttons on the upper arms, a blue scarf on her neck, and high-heeled boots. She also had a tattoo on her chest that symbolised her might the sign of her teigu demon's extract.

"This was a complete waste of time, to think I held such high hopes for this battle." Esdeath muttered to herself in disgust as she pulled onto the steel chain causing the red wyvern to take flight within the snowy skies.

"Some undefeated hero he was... It didn't take long for him and his people to crumble underneath my might." Esdeath said as she surveyed her handiwork, the entire stone fortress that was once known as the heart of the north was riddled with impaled citizens and the frozen remains of enemy soldiers.

"In the end that is the natural order of this world only the strong shall live while the weak dies." Esdeath said as she watched from on top of the red wyvern.

Not far from Esdeath was large swathes of empire soldiers pillaging and subjecting the local northern towns and villages. Given free reign by the general herself they sought to satisfy their own dark desires with reckless abandon. Once the soldiers was satisfied, they rounded up the remaining civilians and herded them towards the great ravine where they would be buried alive alongside with the remainders of their defeated army.

"I wonder somewhere out there is an enemy that can satisfy me?" Letting out a small sigh Esdeath looked longingly towards the mountain ranges far off in the distance where untold horrors laid in wait for the unassuming traveller.

If it wasn't for the prime minister recalling her back to the capital, she would have left her men behind while she delved deeper within the mountains to search for better prey but strapped for time all Esdeath could do was watch from afar as she took a small contingent of men with her.

"Oh there's still survivors remaining within the vicinity? I thought we hunted them all down? On top of her pet wyvern Esdeath noticed small groups of lightly armed people within the distance fleeing towards the mountains.

"I guess they could do with some slight enjoyment." Esdeath murmured to herself as she pulled on the chain to change their direction back to where they came from.

"River, Nyau, Daidara." Esdeath said as the red wyvern landed in front of the three men who knelt down reverently in response.

River was a tall man with gray hair worn in a long ponytail along with blue eyes and a mustache. He was dressed in the standard black uniform of the three beasts.

Nyau was a young man of small build with blond hair and golden eyes. He had a somewhat feline look with sharp teeth and slit pupils. He wore the same black uniform as the other Beasts, with the exception of wearing shorts instead of pants. He also had hornlike accessories in his hair and a demonlike tail.

Daidara was a man of large muscular build with long, spiky blond hair and pure white, pupil-less eyes. He wore a headdress similar to horns and the same black uniform as his teammates.

These three men was the three beasts, an elite unit attached to Esdeath and answered to her alone. They were the most sadistic and bloodthirsty out of her entire army but more importantly they were the strongest, each in possession of a teigu a powerful relic of ancient past.

"I have new orders for you three."

"Give us any sort of order master."

"The three of us are your faithful servants."

"We will accept any orders, at any time madam."

"Good." Esdeath smiled sadistically as she gave out her orders before taking flight once more. As soon as their master was gone the three beasts leapt into action, each splitting off and heading toward a different direction.

"Sakura..." Watching the snow fall down in front of me I felt a strange sense of peace as it was just like that day. The day where the last vestiges of my world crumpled away but in the end my choice wasn't wrong. I managed to take back what I had thought I lost, I had fulfilled my snowy oath even if the cost was the world and all that I once held dear.

"Hurry up Shirou we don't have all day! The empire soldiers will be upon us any moment!" An old man covered head to toe in animal hide snarled at me as I stopped moving to watch the snow fall in front of me.

"Sorry about that Artem it's just that the scenery reminded me about an important memory." I responded to him while carefully making sure not to disturb and wake up the patient on my back. It was because of him that I was found as he was Artem's grandson and was the reason why the old man made a perilous trip across the harsh snowy terrain in the first place, to convince his only grandson to leave the army and return home to start a family.

In front of me was Artem my saviour a retired hunter, he was an old tall man with grey hair and brown eyes with a mean look on his scarred face. He was missing his left arm having lost it during one of his failed hunting missions. He chanced upon me when I was lying unconscious deep within the snow a couple of weeks ago.

Author notes

Lazy bad author here that only writes first drafts, with no planning and editing.

In order to get back into the mood for this story, I will rewrite the beginning including the battle scene although since I'm lazy I would be reusing parts of it. I would be leaving the old chapters up until the new version catches up to it before deleting it.

Normally I wouldn't rewrite it but considering that the majority of my other stories are getting a redo due to me changing parts of my version of Shirou and that this was originally was done on a whim of wanting to write a battle scene so... yeah might as well give this story a proper shot.