A Tangled Summoner - Chapter 1
At night in Tokyo, a lone schoolgirl dressed in a school attire wearing a bowler hat lies at a park, with no memories of her previous life. As she begins to wake up, she surveys her surroundings to find that the place she was at didn't seem familiar to her at all.
???:"What happened...Where..am I?"
As she starts to get up from the ground and dust herself off, a masculine, gruff voice coming from her head under the hat spoke.
???:"So you're finally awake, huh kid."
???: "Samson, is that you?"
Samson:"Who else, Filia?"
Samson, Filia's hair parasite occupies her own head, and acts as her hair, with yellow eyes and sharp teeth, with an abnormally long tongue if he ever stuck it out.
As Filia begins to walk along the gravel path of the park, she questions Samson about their whereabouts.
Filia:"Hey Samson, do you know this place?"
Samson:"Hell if I know, kid. All I know is that we're not in New Meridian anymore, that's for sure."
Frowning at this, Filia ponders and then ask,
Filia:"Then how did we end up her..",
but before she could finish her sentence on wondering how her and Samson arrived in this strange new place...
???:"Oof!!"
Filia:"Ahhh!!"
Someone had bumped into her, sending both Filia and the person flying onto the ground, with her hat coming off.
???:"Oww...What did I bumped into? Ah, s-sorry! I don't know who you are but are you okay!?"
As the person comes towards Filia to help her up and return her hat towards her while brushing away the dirt on it, she notices that he was also wearing a school uniform that she was unfamiliar with, with a chubby body and physique, and matching amber hair and eyes to boot.
Filia:"Oooh..."
Groggily standing up, Filia wanted to thank and ask him who he was and why did he bump into her, although Samson had other ideas about asking this kid who the hell does he think he is, bumping into his host like that? He's going to teach this brat a lesson. But before they could voice their opinions..
???:"Human...Human...flesh!!"
A large, red orc carrying a big club, wearing nothing but a colored loin cloth appears and approaches towards them.
Filia:”A..a..A monster?!?”
Samson(Thinking): What the hell?!?
???:"Ack! We got better stuff to do right now! Let's get outta here!"
Grabbing her hand and running off, the boy drags Filia towards places where he believes that they would be able to escape from but...
???:"Ugh...there's nowhere else to run! I was just trying to take a shortcut to the station and I had to run into a stray Transient!"
Red Oni:"Grraaaagh!!!!!"
???:“Ekkkkk!!!”
Filia:“Oh no!!”
Samson(Thinking):We're doomed.
As the Oni approaches towards them both closer, the boy moves forward towards the Transient, which shocks both Filia and Samson.
???:"Stay back! If you're not a Transient yourself, you don't stand a chance against one!"
Filia:.....
Filia, touched and inspired by his kindness and bravery for trying to protect her, walks forward in front of him, challenging the Oni herself instead.
Filia:"Why don't you take on someone your own size?"
???:!?
Red Oni:!?!
As everyone is shocked by Filia's comment and decision to stay back and fight rather than run away, Samson begins to whisper to Filia about her decision.
Samson(Whisper):"Filia!! What are you doing!?! You should have taken the kids' chance to bail!!”
Filia(Whisper):"Sorry Samson, but you know I'm not that kind of person, and I can't just leave him. Not after when he tried his best to save me even though he was afraid, and just now when he tried to selflessly offered to sacrifice himself to make sure I was safe, even though that's something I won't ever let happen in the first place, not when we have the power to fight back. Not when we have each other."
Samson(Whisper):"Great..just great...there's no talking you outta this one huh?"
Filia(Whisper):"Sorry Samson, but we're going to protect him."
Hearing how determined Filia was about this, Samson grumbled, and following with a resigned sigh answered,
Samson(Whisper):“Fine. Let's take this big guy down together, since it’s been a long time since I’ve let loose, so this should be fun. When you're ready kid, just say the word.”
As the oni prepares to charge towards the the pair to attack, he bellows out,
Red Oni:“You get in way? Then I eat you first!! Grrraaaaarh!!!!”
What happened next though was something both the Oni and boy didn’t expect, as Filia calls out Samson’s name with confidence, as he burst out of the hat, destroying it in the process.
Filia:"Let's go Samson!!"
Samson:"Hell yeah!!"
???: “Huh!?!”
On the other hand, regaining himself rather quickly, the Oni declares,
Red Oni:“It no matter...who you are….I will defeat you....and then eat you!!!”
Samson:“Just try it, bub!!”
{Skullgirls OST #6 - Moonlit Melee} ‘Ladies & Gentleman It’s...SHOWTIME!!!’
The Oni charges towards Filia with the club in hand, ready to smash her into a pulp as Filia meanwhile goes down on the ground in a relaxing position with Samson digging deep into the surface below, creating a twisting spike of hair that come out of the ground right in front of the Oni, catching him off guard.
Filia:“Surprise.”
Samson:“Ringlet Spike!!”
As the Oni was off-balanced, wasting no time, Filia calls out to Samson, for the next set of commands.
Filia:“Let’s go!!”
Samson:“Got it!! Airball!!”
Grabbing her by the left ankle, Samson flips Filia over into the air and quickly cocoons her by transforming into a spiked, razor-sharp ball of hair that travels in the air straight towards the Oni, landing multiple hits just below the collar bone. As Filia emerges from the ball, Samson quickly transforms once again into a giant spider and grabs the Oni before he hits the ground, lifts and throws the Oni up into the air, only to grab him once more as he comes back down and slams him onto the ground as hard as possible.
Samson:“Widows Peak!!”
Red Oni:“Guh!!”
Throughout the battle, the mysterious boy watches on in awe as he mutters to himself,
???: “Just who are you?”
As the Oni lays on the ground, without missing a beat, Filia lifts up her right leg in the air as Samson covers it with her hair and spins, turning her leg into a deadly drill, and just before descending down onto the Oni,
Filia:“Please make sure not to kill him Samson.”
Samson: “I know. I’ll try.”
With that, Filia declares her final command to finish the fight.
Filia:“I’m ready!!”
As those word left her mouth, Filia quickly plunges down right onto the Oni, who upon impact, let’s out a mighty roar.
Red Oni:“OOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
‘It’s Super Effective!!’{End Track}
After the battle had ended, Filia with a worrisome look and a guilty conscience, removes herself off on top of the Oni and proceeds to check him for the puncture wound that she might of left during her last attack, believing that her and Samson may have gone too far judging from the scream that the Oni gave out, but before could she get started, she seemed to notice that the Oni was now...glowing…???
Red Oni:“Urrrgh...”
Filia:“Ah!”
Red Oni: “I wanted to find...and serve master…even...at cost...of sanity…But now...I die..in unknown land.”
Hearing this, Filia felt immense sadness and regret for the Oni, and also berating herself for the role that she played in harming an innocent individual who just wanted a place to belong, which she emphasizes with, as she doesn’t remember her own life before Samson. Realising this, she extends her hand and says,
Filia: “Then is it okay..if I became your master instead???”
Samson:“Filia…”
As the Oni lays on the ground as Filia awaits his answer, a few tense moments pass by as the park becomes eerily quiet all of a sudden, until...
Red Oni:“No...you can’t...it..impossible…”
Filia:“Oh….”
Feeling herself deflated, the Oni was now starting to glow more brightly and appeared to be transparent now as Filia now noticed.
Filia(Thinking):What’s..happening?? Is he...disappearing?? If that’s true, then..
Walking and kneeling towards near a top of his head, Filia softly asks the Oni,
Filia: “Would you..at least..let me have your head on my lap...as I..hold your hand, until you disappear...if you want…???”
Red Oni:“...Very well…”
Although the moment didn’t last for long, if only for a few seconds, the Oni’s simple thanks of gratitude before he disappeared in a blinding light, was able to help Filia find solace upon her actions on the Oni himself, if only for a while.
Red Oni:“Ah...I finally go...back home...Thank you..and..goodbye.”
Filia(Softly):“Goodbye…”
With the disappearance of the Oni, as Filia stood up a voice behind her says,
???:“D-did that Stray Transient just disappear?”
Turning around with a somber face, Filia answers the question towards the mysterious boy that she just saved with a somber voice,
Filia:“Yes.”
???: “Hey, are you okay??”
The boy worried, digs into his pockets and takes out a piece of candy which he hands over towards Filia, which gets a smile from her.
???: “Hope this makes you feel better.”
Filia:“Thank you.”
???: “Anyways, I gotta thank you first. Thanks for saving my butt!! I’m Ryota. Ryota Yakushimaru!”
While looking at Ryota’s cheerful, smiling face, Filia couldn’t help but smile as well as she then introduced herself.
Filia:“Hi Ryota it’s nice to meet you! My name is Filia!!”
Character Bio: Filia
Gender: Female
D.O.B: March 16th
Age: 16
Blood Type: AB
Height: 5'4
Weight: 142 lbs
Likes: eating, coffee, milkshakes, reading and learning, radio dramas, comics, romance novels, and dogs.
Dislikes: Samson’s bluffing and gambling, seeing innocents get hurt, hair getting tangled, being lied to, and side effects of Samson's parasitism.
Fighting Style: Although Filia and Samson are strong, both are incompetent on fighting together as both do not know how to fight. As both of them are aware of this, Filia relies on Samson utilizing her hair to transform into varieties of different shapes and sizes to deliver strong, offensive attacks and quick mobility to quickly overwhelm the opponent, with little to no regard to defenses except for their quick reflexes to block or dodge attacks. With this rushdown rough and tumble style, if Filia is able to land a hit on her opponents, a bad hair day is going to be the least of their worries.
