Maru

"“Finally got a punch in! This trip finally got exciting. That fire is hellfire; it burns everything it touches till it is gone. Water cannot douse that. You were unlucky to be pounced by the Prince of Saiya- err, Prince of the Underworld.” - Maru's tongue-in-cheek boast fighting an evil mage transformed to look like Jinsoku. Karyu's best friend. Maru Kiba is an Eurasian-like anthropomorphic wolf that appears in Oltanis Zeta and Oltanis Sigma. Born in Brasov, Romania in his old life, and again reborn in Austria.

Currently, he is the king of the Kibellicus Kingdom located somewhere in Austria, but on another plane dimension that covers the entire region between Austria and Romania. He has been a king of his land from the start of Oltanis Sigma.

He is also the second in command of the Oltanis Team and best friends with Tanor and Kota.

First Moon Era (1812 - 1839, 1889 - 19??)
Marius Kibellicus, full name of Maru Kiba, is the second child of Cerberus and his mother Camilla, and the godchild of Dracula Kibellicus. Dracula needed a new child that would bestow his wishes onto the land, and with Darkus's manner of leaving the family, he had to find another. This is where Camilla, a dragoness from Austria that Cerberus had been seeing. It was set up that Camilla would be part of the birth ritual. This would be a painful memory for both Camilla and Maru, but her last wishes were enchanted deeply in her son and passed along to Cerberus in secret as she knew what Dracula was planning.

After the birth, born on May 15th, 1812... Maru had soon lost his mother and lived a childhood under the watchful eye of Dracula and Cerberus was locked away deep in a North Austrian Castle with Maru unable to see him for a long time. He was properly educated, taken care of almost normally, and trained to be a knight and right hand warrior for Dracula. He was killed sometime during a war with the Order that broke out in the mid 1820s. This was up until a war broke out in 1837 and a vampiress had planned to revive Dracula to take revenge against the Baldwin family and reclaim Austria again.

Maru had broke Cerberus out of his dungeon finally being able to see him for the first time since his birth, but Cerberus had been under Dracula's full control and was violently raging against anyone he saw and burned everything in sight. Maru teams up with Nathan to take down his father and break Dracula's control. Maru having been taught directly by Dracula knew his spells, and to reverse them. Cerberus was still too weak to fight Dracula and risk being controlled again, but came up with a plan to take him out. Maru, Nathan, and Hugh had to work together to fight Dracula, and free Hugh's father and seal Dracula.

In 1839, Maru had saw his death with the Bounty Hunter of Dark Swamp. A curse had been placed on Maru upon Dracula's death and a bounty hunter controlled by Dracula's final spell had activated itself. He was known to be a deadly warrior and would go after any demon. Unable to defeat him, Maru was killed.

In 1889, Maru was revived back to the living in order to exact revenge against him. He was still not fully revived with one death, in order for his soul to fully reincarnate, he had to amass a number of them, and this was a very slow process, having to live in the world of the living as a soul, but he could interact with it as long as he had a soul to sacrifice, but he could only do this once a year during the Night of Sangue.

Maru wouldn't see his full revival until the 1980s.

The Moon of Illusions
Maru was given a new chance at life with his rebirth in the 1980s. Born to a new father and mother far away from his old life. Maru was born in some place in the United States. During his new childhood, he almost seemingly lived a normal life, having no idea who he was and where he came from. He was however under the watchful gaze of his real father Cerberus, and Darkus would also be in contact a few times.

Sometime in his late childhood, he began to question his normal life and his then-new family. He had been slowly figuring out who he actually was and started remembering pieces of his old life. This would have started happening once Cerberus came in contact with him for the first time. This was further evidenced by his curse mark on his head, which started appearing ever since then. This was a hook-like glyph in the middle of his forehead, with a dot inside the hook, two dots beside, and a < > mark enclosing it.

Maru was upset about this realization and had to find his way out of this life and away from them. The last straw was when Cerberus was posing as a teacher in his school to keep a closer eye on him, as Cerberus knew that his control was going to break, and feared that this might crush Maru's outlook, if he finds out any more about his old life. It was not known if Cerberus knew Maru was tracking him through his mark, but when Maru's mark suddenly appeared again and his classmates points it out in shock or curiosity. He always wore something to cover his forehead or had his hair long to cover it in case it would appear. He confronts his real father after this in visible anger. He leaves this whole fake life and runs off on his own. Never to appear there again, and this time Cerberus and Darkus can no longer track him.

His teenage years were spent on his own; travelling and searching for his life. He ended up in Japan at some time and met a young wolfess, named Kota Rae. They seemingly became friends and having a reason to stay in Japan, managed to get an apartment outside Nagoya. He always enjoyed the life there and his weird aura was met with positivity by just one person. Other people seemed to keep their distance from him, but he looked no different from any Eurasian wolf or so he thought. Kota was a Eurasian-Hokkaido wolf herself.

Maru lived and breathed the underground community in the area and took notice to a cage fighting club that was seemingly popular and took part. This is where he'd find out someone special to him was there herself. He had only seen her up till then as a schoolgirl, and occasionally with her uncle and brother along. Maru was working at a temple outside Nagoya as he couldn't really go to school there, but he was educated enough to do his work and learn Japanese so he could immerse himself further. He was formally taught in education in his old life and also while he lived with his new parents in the US until he left.

Appearance
Maru Kiba has several appearances depending on which form he took.

At the start of Oltanis Zeta, he was a young Eurasian wolf that lived on the eastern continent of Earth. He was mostly gray in appearance, with shading down to white across his frontside from his neck to his inner thighs where it would trail from white, light gray, to dark gray. His arms would be white on the bottoms down to his palms, and bottom his fingers, and the back of his arm would be dark gray down to his hands. His hands are pad-less. His feet however had pads, and were mostly gray, and his pads were dark gray. His tail would be of the same pattern as this.

His tail is actually razor sharp when it is used for battle, his fur can act like needles when he fights with it. Otherwise it would appear and feel very fluffy to the touch. The white edges of his tail acts as the razor when he uses it.

He has black hair that varies in length throughout the series, but at the start, it was mostly short and bangy in the front his head, which slightly goes over his forehead's markings.

His face is mostly a light gray and his ears as well, his nose is black, and his tongue is pink.

Abilities
Maru is capable of using fire abilities as his main ability. He mostly uses this power during the early to mid seasons of Oltanis Zeta, and starts gaining dark magic abilities since his awakening when the curse mark was fully removed. In Oltanis Sigma, his power seems to have gained considerable growth despite being in peaceful times over the six years time skip between. Though it's possible he continued to train and used his role as King to fight with his army during wars his kingdom is involved in.

Main Attacks:
Darkness Flame:

Darkness Fire Blast:

Darkness Rush:

Wolf Flame Thrust:

Darkness Wolf Barrage:

Darkness Sword Blitz:

Dark Phoenix Flight:

Black Ruby Sword Style Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3