The Ascension of Barubaroi-Prologue

The Ascension of Barubaroi

By Trevor Thomson

A Sequel to C.L. Werner's “Koumajutsu: The Coming of Bagan”





Prologue

Nothing had been the same since then. “Then” being the moment two mad men, of indescribable power and unfathomable insanity, decided that the rest of the world didn't matter in comparison to their selfish desires, and irreconcilable lust for vengeance. The two men in question being: Kato Yasunori, a descendant of the indigenous tribes of Japan, who could never forgive the Yamato people's taking of his ancestors' land, and had become, in death, a nigh-indestructible Oni, and necromancer. His sole purpose in his new state of being was to completely eliminate the metropolis that symbolized the greatest sin committed by the Yamatos upon his people: Tokyo. The other was Eiji Isayama, a small, ancient, almost-skeletal man who had become a sorcerer; not as powerful as Kato, mind you, but still a force to be reckoned with. At some time in his life, Eiji had lost his sanity, and had decided that he would somehow, someway, become the new Emperor of Japan. Not like what they considered an Emperor in the present day; no, Eiji wanted to be an Emperor like the ones of old, before Japan had been “corrupted” by the malignancies of industry and technology. To achieve their goals, the two men had done what no one in their right mind would have done. Kato had freed the ancient dragon-demon, Bagan, from his icy prison in the Himalayas, and had sent him on his path to retrieving the shards of his soul, the last and most important being the one that represented Death itself, the Heart of the Dragon, an obsidian gem that, unfortunately for Kato, Eiji had found first, thanks to the assistance of the greedy director of the CCI, Katagiri. Eiji had used the Heart to revive another titan of Death, the King of Terror, King Ghidorah. The world had made a collective sigh of relief whenever the Elder Mothra had saved them from Ghidorah's wrath. Eiji had undone all of that in less than five minutes, driven by the foolish fantasy that Ghidorah would be his “Champion”, the “War Horse” that would defeat Bagan, and allow Eiji to reshape Tokyo, and then the whole of Japan, in his twisted image. But, not even Ghidorah was a match for Bagan, who, even without all the shards of his soul, still had manged to level most of Asia and the Middle East, & killed or severely wounded 11 mighty kaiju before making landfall in Tokyo. Eiji too, was no match for Kato, and had died horribly at the necromancer's hands. In the final battle between the fully-powered Bagan, and the monsters Godzilla, Mothra, Anguirus, King Seesar, Mechagodzilla II, Borodan, &, begrudgingly, King Ghidorah, the ancient fiend had almost conquered again. MG II and Borodan, despite their valiant efforts, had been indisposed. Ghidorah, the coward that he was, had fled to the stars, but not before taking Anguirus, and dropping the courageous super-saur away from the battlefield. Godzilla & Mothra, having been tainted by Bagan's malevolent soul in their previous encounters, fought on, driven by a darkness that had changed their very being. Ultimately, however, it was the technical prowess of man that stopped Bagan. The Dimension Tide project, a weapon that could create black holes, had sent the dragon-demon to Hell, along with his temporary master, Kato. But, were the fiends truly vanquished? The consequences of their actions, and Eiji's as well, had threatened to plunge the world into a new Dark Age...