The land was covered in an immense forest. The creatures, the yokai and their kami, their gods, ruled over the mighty landscape.
So many kinds of yokai flourished in this land. There was the nature yokai, those with animal forms like the kitsune fox or the Okami wolf.
Another type was the yosei. Tricky, magical creatures full of light, these fae protected the powerful forest.
There were also the elusive yurei. The spirits of the dead that howled through the night and dragged the souls around them into the makai—hell itself.
No ningens had been in Yokai. And why would they need to? It was a spiritual world. It flourished without need for a physical being. Humans could not see all that passed on in the Yokai world; they were so limited.
And yet...the Plumbers ship landed, hoping for an alliance between Earth and Yokai, and knowing they had come into contact with Vilgax some time ago.
Out of the ship walked Earth's hero Ben Tennyson. He wore a green jacket with a number ten on it and jeans. He ran a hand through his neat brown hair. As he looked around with green eyes at the spirits of the earth and sky, he wondered if his watch would be enough to relate to this world.
He was being watched in turn. For deep in the forest lay its hime, its princess, Princess Kiku.
Kiku was a beautiful young woman of average build who wore ragged clothing and a cape made of a wolf's fur, and had what appears to be red war paint on her face. She wore a head necklace with a single small gem in her front. She also bore long, straight, ebony hair and had blue eyes with bangs slightly parted in the middle. She had a medium necklace with three fangs tied across her neck. She wore long dangling, oval shaped earrings. She held a decorated dagger. She currently wore a mask. The mask was red with ears and white wavy lines and three yellow holes for a mouth and eyes.
Just what was this world, and what was another human doing here?
Ben moved towards her, but she was already gone.