Legend of the Nephilim by melony922

~Prologue~

In an ancient time ruled by the great Kami's all that existed were the gods and their initial creations; these creations were given the honored name of Angels. These angels were created to resemble and altered version of the Kami's themselves and were able to transform into beautiful creatures with wings of clouds.

These magnificent beings were also given amazing powers by their creators and were taught how to command the elements. They were very powerful beings and they lived along side their creators in happiness for centuries.

The Gods decided to create another race of beings after many centuries with the angles. Their creations were made to resemble the creatures of the earth and, unlike the angels who all held the same strength of power, the demon's powers varied in strength. Some were incredibly strong others were not.

They were sent to live on earth while the Kami's watched their newest creations from afar, not letting the angels and demons mingle. Angels watched from the heavens but the demons held no knowledge of the Kami's or the angels above.

Eventually the Kami's became troubled over their demonic race for it seemed that they were constantly fighting among themselves for possession of the land. So after a century of watching from afar the Kami's descended to earth and made their presence known to the demons.

In order to maintain peace among the demons the Kami's divided the land into fourths; North, South, East and West.

They then appointed the four strongest demons to sit as lords of the lands making it known that the position of lord would be past down from generation to generation. To signify their position, markings were placed on the four lords foreheads each mark representing a land. The marking on the forehead would be past down along with a marking on the cheek to signify their nobility and rank.

The Northern lord, who was a wolf, was given a red star to represent the northern star of direction.

The Southern lord, who was a cat, was given a golden sun to represent the morning star.

The Eastern lord, who was a fox, was given a green sphere to represent the earth.

The Western lord, which was a dog and the most powerful of all, was given a blue crescent moon to resemble the night star and the gods themselves.

They also created another race of creations for the Lords to govern over. A race that was more fragile than their two previous ones; a mortal race, the human race. They also gave the demons the ability to change forms from their animal like forms into more Kami looking forms so that the two races could relate more closely with one another.

The humans were created to look identical to the Kami's but unlike the demons and angels this was their only form. Each human was given a shorter life line and their deceased souls were sent back into regeneration so the soul could live again in another life.

The demons took their rolls as lords with honor and with an understanding that they were to live in peace with the human creations.

As the decades past the demon and human creations slowly mixed and lived in harmony.

As the angels watched from afar some became jealous of the attention given to creatures of earth. Others watched with curiosity and grew to love the demons and humans as their creators did.

The small spark of jealousy remained for several decades before it was fanned into a burning flame. With that flame the angelic race was split in two; thus beginning the angelic uprising.

The group of angels upset with the Kami's stormed the castle and accused the gods of no longer caring for the angelic population.

The group of angels who had learned to love and care for the demons and humans fought back their rebelling brethren.

The battle raged in the heavens for many days and nights causing the skies of earth to become dark and filled light and thundering sounds due to the battle above.

After the rebelling angels were contained the Kami's decided their fate.

Not able to kill their first creations the Kami's banished them to earth to live among the humans and demons they despised so much and stripped them on their cloud like wings so they were unable to return.

In the end over one third of the angelic race was banished to earth.

The leader of the rebellion, an angel named Yama, was banished to the underworld where the mortal souls of humans would go to be reincarnated. It would forever be his job to watch over the resting souls of the humans until they were reborn into new bodies.

The angels who fell from the heavens were given the name of 'the fallen', and whenever they would morn the loss of the fallen the Kami's would cover the skies of earth and would water the ground with their tears. They would also fill the sky with light and thundering sounds to remind the fallen of their lost battle.

For decades the fallen lived among the creatures of the earth. There presence never known.

Eventually the fallen angels who could no longer stand life on earth moved to the underworld with their banished leader, the others lived on earth forever regretting their mistake of rebellion.

The angels of the earth slowly came to terms with the demons and humans. They saw the demons take the humans as mates creating hanyous.

Envious of the love and respect shared between the races the fallen angels of the earth decided to keep their true identity to themselves and mingle with only the human race, concluding that the demonic race would learn of their identities due to their advanced senses.

So the human and angelic race combined creating the nephilim.

The nephilim however were far too powerful for their human mothers. As a result the mother of a nephilim died during birth.

The angels of the underworld became clouded with evil and plagued the earth with war and disease. They lived to watch the creatures of the earth suffer. They also used their angelic abilities to control the elements to cause the creatures of earth pain and destroy their habitations.

The fallen watched this from afar and decided to teach the nephilim the ways of the angels so that they could protect the humans and demons from the raining terror of the fallen of the underworld.

They also did this in hopes of earning forgiveness from the Kami's above.

The Kami's noticed the efforts of the fallen of the earth and forgave them of their transgressions. However they were still not able to return to the heavens until their deaths on earth. This also came with the condition that they could not die by their own hands.

To show their acceptance of the nephilim they gifted them with demon life spans and souls. They also allowed the fallen angels powers to be passed down to the nephilim and were also given the gift of flight; their wings were not made of clouds but of feathers like the ones of the birds of the earth and could be hidden until needed. Their powers, however, were not able to be accessed until their 18th year.

So the fallen of the earth and the nepheilim lived protecting what they once despised so much. As the centuries pasted their presence still remained hidden and the three leading generals of the fallen of the earth were given the name the elders. The nephilim took their palace as the guardians of earth and slowly made their way into the lands of the four lords, taking the name guardians.

The elders continued to breed among the mortals but only enough to keep the dieing souls of the nephilim in existence due to the death of their mortal mothers.

It didn't take long for the fallen of the underworld to become enraged at the elders and the guardians. They saw them as traitors and so they also became the enemy.

Civilizations were built and destroyed as the history of earth carried on. New countries were discovered and wars were fought, all the while the guardians made sure that the interference of the underworld fallen was kept to a minimal.

Centuries came and went still the fallen remained undiscovered hiding under a false veil of humanity forever guarding their secret afraid of what the inhabitants of earth would do if they discovered their existence.

Then came the dividing war, the lord of the south had slowly turned evil and believed the other lords to be taking more than their fair share of land. Soon the eastern lord allied with the southern, thus dividing the population. The war raged for years, lives were lost, loved ones were divided as the boundaries dividing the two sides became uncrossable.

The elders learned that the leader of the underworld fallen had joined forces with the eastern lord.

Desperate to help the fighting creatures of the earth, the guardians slowly infiltrated the northern and western territories knowing that the underworld fallen would someday strike.

Enter Kagome Higurashi.

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TBC

A/N: well there is the introduction. Review and let me know if you like it and I should continue.