Chapter 2 - Questions

Soma held his sword tightly in hands while the monster tried to hit him with very slow claw swipes, they were easy to dodge but the impact they made each time they hit the ground it made a big shockwave throwing dust in the air, while the monster got distracted by Soma, Marisa pointed her Mini-Hakkero at the beast and charged up a master spark while she aimed it at the beast.

"Soma, I would get out of there if I were you take this! Love Sign, Master Spark! "

then she fired it once soma jumped away from where the blast would hit the beast was hit by it, however even though it managed to hit it, it only made some burns on the beast since she didn't have time to charge it completely and shooting a full blast at this distance would be very stupid since the explosion would hit her and her comrades as well, however Reimu had a plan while both of them were distracting the beast she would use her own attack, she knew she needed to do her best to defeat this monster since it managed to tank a halfway charged master spark, while her orbs began to circle yet again around her she yelled before started preparing her attack.

"Keep it busy!"

Soma nodded and then rushed at the beast and began to slash at it's face, it managed to get a few cuts on it's face while Marisa did the majority of the damage they were able to do to the beast, however Marisa found weird that he wasn't using his powers to fight this beast it was unclear if he wasn't using his powers because he couldn't or because he didn't want to do it, however Soma was slashing away at the monster and it kept it busy so he was still doing his job.

"This thing is resistant!"

Reimu was nearly done preparing her attack, however the beast managed to land a hit against Soma making him fly against a tree however the impact seemed not to do too much damage to the male, he was able to stand up afterwards despite having a few light bruises on his face and arms, however before the white beast could do anything else, Reimu yelled and Soma jumped in the air next to Marisa and then flew to a safer distance .

"Spirit sign, Fantasy Seal!"

Next a giant Yin yang orb fell on the beast utterly obliterating it, making near trees break in half and making a crater on the ground, Soma and Marisa shielded themselves from the wind from the impact of Reimu's attack once the battle was finally over Reimu flew over at the Youkai and the magician and said.

"Let's go, this needs to end soon before this gets worse..."

Soma crossed his arms and nodded, however Marisa looked towards the north, she actually saw someone fly out of sight in the woods, disappearing afterwards, it was unclear who it was.

"Soma I might have seen yer Yokai."

The male looked at Marisa in the eyes and then he flew after the person she saw, Reimu however noticed something that they didn't so she explained.

"I don't think she would risk coming here to see us fight… Maybe she needs to be close to control these puppets…"

Marisa seemed to agree with idea because it made sense, even though Youkai are very unpredictable, there was a large chance she needed to be close to be able to control these puppets, Reimu then said.

"Let's go after Soma."

The both females then flew at the same direction as while he had gone way further than the both girls, however Soma didn't find for who they were searching for, but however he knew it was her, next the male landed on the ground while Reimu and Marisa still flew after him, while he searched around the forest for a bit, a few minutes after that Soma felt someone behind him once he turned around there was no one there, But before he could take another step he felt a presence and someone dropped a note near his foot, He knew who it was but it was unclear where she was at the moment but he knew she was somewhere near him, to him it was like she was using some kind of teleportation, however once the presence disappeared the contents of the note were quite urgent this is what it was written.

"Long time no see, soma well since you're being so persistent I'll tell you a little secret i might attack the human village, well maybe I will who knows? but you wouldn't trust your enemy would you.?.."

Soma crumbled the paper and gritted his teeth, he couldn't believe what he did just read, now he knew this was just a game to her, after he calmed down the two girls landed behind him and he decided to tell them about this note.

"She left a note near my foot while I tried to search for her, she said that she might attack the human village, but I don't know if she'll do that…"

Reimu clenched both her fists squeezing her purification rod tightly while Marisa got a little annoyed as well, next Reimu said.

"Does she think this is a game?"

The male simply nodded and then said to Reimu while sliding his sword inside it's sheath.

"Yes... She doesn't value any type of life, all she wants is power that is what turned into what she is now after all, she will betray all her allies if that means she'll get more power."

Reimu then noticed he knew a lot about this female, he was obviously hiding something he knew about this Youkai but she decided to ask it after she knew the human village was safe for sure, Reimu then flew towards to the human village with Marisa and Soma following her afterwards as the wind rushed past them making their air sway a lot, however a shadow appeared over Soma's eyes while he gritted his teeth, he was quite angry, once they arrived they landed in the middle of the village waiting for anything suspicious start happening, Reimu however had an idea, she knew would be better if they split up if they were lucky they could find the Youkai easily, so the female then said.

"Let's split up, we have a better chance of finding her if she attacks, if my theory is right that is."

Soma nodded and then he flew towards the south while Marisa flew towards the north and Reimu decided to fly towards the east, however none of them found someone suspicious after a while Soma started to think they were lied to he wasn't surprised however something happened, he was sure he saw some looking directly at him while wearing a cloak covering it's facial features, it was clear to Soma who it was judging by Reimu's theory it must have been her, however she disappeared once he heard some humans scream nearby, he then flew at the direction of the scream he saw a lot of humans running away, once he arrived where the commotion started he saw a blonde haired female however something was extremely off about her since she didn't move at the direction of the other humans, however she was holding a bloody Katana, once she saw Soma she jumped in the air and slashed at him Soma however managed to block the attack after he unsheathed his sword, making the blade clash against his, next the male slashed at the blonde at herculean speeds, however surprising enough it's reaction time and strength was very similar to his however this wasn't the only one attacking the village, there was another 2 nearby him, but Reimu and Marisa were nowhere to be found, since they were busy fighting their own opponents, it seemed they were organized to attack Reimu,Marisa and Soma in a 3v1 strategy and that would be a problem while Soma saw the other two puppets show up he said.

"Damn! This might be a problem; she seems to have gotten better at creating monsters!"

The male sighed and then the 3 of them attacked him at the same time the male could only defend their attacks there was no opening for him to attack, however he actually saw an opening and immediately flew behind her slashing the 3rd puppet on its back cutting it nearly in half however that didn't kill it, before he could attack another puppet the 1st puppet kicked his sword making him fly away, in the moment of distraction the male got kneed in the face making him crash into a house destroying part of it because of the impact dust flying up in the air, thankfully no one was inside the house, however before the dust settled, Soma flew from inside the dust at them at immense speeds cutting one of them in half destroying the puppet, he seemed to have a few scratches but his head was bleeding as well, he seemed to be a little different than before it was like he got more skilled, but that wasn't the case at all, the male then began to deflect the slashes made by the puppets, however something bad happened the both puppets attacked him at the same time he could only block one of the swords, so the male blocked one of the swords, however the other sword managed to hit him. drops of blood fell onto the floor, he had actually bitten into the of the 2nd puppet who attacked him breaking it, the male's mouth was cut a little however with immense force and speed he swung his katana while he saw the opening, cutting both puppets in half, destroying both of them. Once he knew they were defeated he panted while he cleaned some of the blood covering his eyes and said while breathing heavily.

"They are getting tougher… but they are still stupid."

Once he was done he was done with his enemies he flew towards the center of the village and he saw Reimu and Marisa, they seemed to be done fighting since they seemed to be talking to eachother, the male then landed close to them and said.

"It seems you were right Reimu, I think I saw her yet again.."

Reimu nodded and then they got surprised because he was quite hurt compared to them, because of that Marisa commented.

"Ya got yer ass kicked, are ya sure yer alright-ze?"

Soma nodded and then sighed, he was a bit glad they decided to help him, he knew he wouldn't be able to fight the Youkai he was trying to kill, however Reimu stroked the back of her head and sighed.

"Let's take him to the shrine… I need to talk about something else with him as well."

Reimu said while he looked at Marisa and Soma, the humans however were a bit afraid because now they knew now that them could get attacked at any moment, even though there weren't any casualties some of them were still hurt with deep wounds, once the three of them arrived in the shrine Reimu asked for Soma to follow her, without thinking twice he followed her inside her shrine, the then male sat down on the ground he asked while Marisa walked inside the house as well and sat down on top of one of the pillows near the table Reimu however looked at Soma and asked once all of them sat down and only her was standing up.

"You seem to know a lot about this Youkai… Too much in fact, I can tell you're not telling us a lot of stuff, now tell us everything."

Soma closed his eyes and sighed once the female asked that, he didn't want to speak about it but he knew maybe if he told them what he knew the information would help them find this Youkai.

"Alright I'll tell you two everything I know."

Well, here's the 2nd chapter sorry this took too long to write, Constructive Criticism is welcomed, also i'm a bit glad that some of you guys like the story, because of that i managed to think of how to continue this so look forward to more chapters.