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Descent of a Dragon
Once upon a time, in the ancient Japan 1340, a great warrior was born. He was born as the second son of the Nagato clan, in the month of the Azure Dragon, and thus was destined to carry out a great task. To keep the world in balance, by serving as the avatar of the Azure Dragon of the East, Seiryu. From the beginning of the universe to the end of the world, an avatar for each of the Four Guardians is born, every time the previous passes away. The spirit will live alongside the person, as long as their heart beats. It will not only grant the person higher strength, speed and intellect than an ordinary human, it will also be an eternal companion, serving as an alternative identity.
My name is Nagato Seiryu Choshu. You can just call me Choshu. At birth I was given a heavy burden to carry, but it was my destiny, and I could not deny it. As the avatar of the Azure Dragon of the East, Seiryu, it is my duty to keep the world at its highest, by balancing out good and evil. I cannot do this alone, though. Fighting crime alongside the heroes of Paragon City to keep evil at bay is hard enough, but I must also seek the other three other avatars, scattered around the world.
The avatar of the White Tiger of the West, Byakko, the Vermilion Phoenix of the South, Suzaku, and the Black Tortoise of the North, Genbu. As soon as we all four unite, our power will be able to round up the corners of the world, and the Earth will be at peace. At least until we all pass away, and new avatars are born.
My role as the avatar of the Azure Dragon was identified when a birthmark on my right shoulder reading the kanji, "East"( ), was located, thus I was given the child name, Seiryu, after the Dragon of the East.
I was allowed to grow up as a normal child, first getting informed of my position as the avatar at the age of 14. Since I was a child, I have always had a thing for sword fighting, and the art of Iaido and Bushido. I trained hard every day after school, still keeping up my homework and getting good grades. When I turned 14 and was told of my role, my devotion to the uchigatana only grew. At the age of 15 after my genpuku, and receiving the name Choshu, I had honed my skills to a level that only the expert veteran samurai of my clan could keep up with. When moving, I could feel air pass through me as I swiftly and effortlessly struck and assailed my enemies, while easily dodging and evading their attacks.
This was due to my inherent mutant powers.
As I kept training, I discovered that I could temporarily slow time around me, and still move normally. This proved a great feat for me, as I was unstoppable in war. Many clans such as the Akuma and Otonashi tried to subjugate my clan by kidnapping the women and children, but being the avatar of the Azure Dragon, it was not possible for me to give in. As I turned 24, the pain and suffering I simply let by, by being a war chief, almost drove me insane. Not being able to take the guilt, I fled to an underground shrine, where I sat down and started to meditate. I slowed down time around myself, while speeding up the whole world, preserving my body.
I awoke again, 700 years in the future; nothing was left of what I could recall of my village and clan. As I searched through the ruins of the temple of the Four Guardians located in my village, the spirit of an elder from my clan appeared in the temple and spoke to me. He told me of the things that had happened in my absence, and that he had foreseen my disappearance and prepared my clan for war, because as soon as the other clans found out that the only know avatar had disappeared, they would surely attack the village. And so they did, but it ended up with them destroying each other, ending an era of Japan and beginning a new. The elder summoned my clan's traditional uchigatana and samurai armor, once worn by my father, and now passed on to me. I was supposed to receive it on my 25th birthday, but that day never came to happen. The elder then told me that the presence of the three other avatars of the Four Guardians could be felt in America, Paragon City. It took me a long time to journey there, and I wasn’t quite welcomed with open arms. It appeared that I had arrived in the middle of the Rikti War.
I fought for many months alongside the heroes of Paragon City, and I was informed that the Rikti had started appearing all over the world. When the war came to an end in November 2002, the world had suffered greatly, and so had I. But that didn’t keep me down for very long. I was able to use my mutant time manipulating powers to speed up my healing, and continue helping Paragon City, until I find the three other avatars.
To this day, I can be found patrolling the streets in my golden red samurai armor, and uchigatana by my right hand.
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