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The Sanzo group only stare at the carnage in shock, bodies were laying everywhere, all of them yokai. Sanzo got over his shock first.
"Come on dumbasses, we need to find this female yokai." Sanzo commanded. Suddenly a random yokai slid to a stop in front of them arms up in case they attacked him. When they didn't attack immediately, his arms lowered some, but he was still ready to fight.
"Who are you? Do you have any relation to the berserk yokai attacking us?" He demanded.
"I'm Sanzo and these are my slaves."
"That asshole!" Goku and Gojyo thought angrily.
"They should have seen that coming…" Hakkai thought unoffendedly.
"Shit, the leader's not going to like this." The yokai turned and ran deeper into the forrest.
"Let's follow him!" Goku said, running after the yokai after he was a good distance away, forcing the others joined in the chase.
As they followed the mysterious yokai, groups of berserk yokai attacked them; they quickly killed all that attacked them. Eventually they hid as they approached a clearing, where they saw Clover unconscious under a tree with an old woman kneeling over her. The old woman noticed them; she looked right past the yokai at them. The only reason they knew is because she made direct eye contact with each of them.
"Boskov, you need to work on your senses." She said, gesturing to the men who stalked him. The mysterious yokai, Boskov, whirled around and spotted the hiding Sanzo group.
"I guess I was wrong to assume you meant no harm." Boskov said, getting ready to attack.
"No Boskov, let them state their case first." The old woman told him, looking at the Sanzo group expectantly.
"We are here in search of someone." Sanzo told her, stepping out his hiding spot, the others following his lead.
"Who?" The old woman asked before the cries of a child were heard.
"Uncle? Uncle! UNCLE BOSKOV!!!" A young yokai boy ran out of the bushes and into one of Boskov's legs. The child sobbed and gasped for air as he tried to tell Boskov what was wrong. Boskov kneeled down to the child and cupped his little face with his rough hands.
"Jason, take several deep breaths, now tell me what happened."
"They found the safe house! The woman and children are being slaughtered!"
"Shit, stay here Jason."
"No, Boskov you stay, I'll kill them." No one noticed Clover awaken and stand as Jason told them what happened.
"Clover, I have a better idea, how about we recruit help?" The old woman suggested.
"Who, who, mother, who? Everyone else we tried said no, and there's no way in hell I'll trust a bunch of strangers!" Clover snapped at the old woman.
"We make a deal with them."
"What kind of deal?"
"They get rid of the berserk yokai; we let them have who they're looking for." Clover was about to object when the old woman, her mother, interrupted her. "You can go fight the berserk yokai if they reject the offer, but you stay here if they accept." Clover turned to the Sanzo group.
"Will you or will you not accept the offer?" Clover asked them knowing she was about to sell someone's freedom.
"We accept your offer." Sanzo told her.
"Boskov, show them the way." She commanded.
Boskov nodded and turned in the direction that Jason ran in from. The Sanzo group followed right behind him. As they neared the safe house, the screams of woman and children could be heard. They stopped at the mouth of a cave, the screams echoed out of it.
"I'll stay out here in case more come." Boskov told them, resentfully he didn't want to trust the strangers any more than his leader, but the safety of the tribe was at stake.
"Come on, let's just save these people so we can take the girl and leave." Gojyo said, walking into the cave as the rest of the group followed, except Boskov.
They followed the screams to find a large group of children huddled together behind a small amount of woman, surrounded by bodies of mostly woman and a few children.
A group of ten yokai stood over all of them menacingly, ready to rape and kill them as they have done to the dead that surrounded them. One lone woman stood her ground, as she desperately tried to fight them off. Three unconscious yokai lay on the ground around her.
"NO! There's MORE!" A little girl shrieked pointing at them.
The woman standing at the front threw a punch that could have done some damage to the berserk yokai's face if it wasn't slow enough for him to catch. He slammed her into the wall beside him and ripped her shirt and skirt, causing her to scream in pain.
"LEAH!" one of the children shrieked.
A child ran out of the huddled group and made a jump for the berserk yokai's neck, hoping to rip his throat out with her teeth, and save her brave older sister. The berserk yokai smacked the little girl with the back of his hand while she was in mid-air, easily sending her flying head first into the wall behind all the other children.
"MIA!" The brave woman shrieked at the top of her lungs, reaching for her sister. But the yokai slammed her into the wall and prepared to force himself on her, when the handle of Gojyo's Shakujou hit him in the head, he dropped the scared girl on the ground as he fell.
"You should know you don't force yourself on a lady." Gojyo said as he held out a hand out to help the young woman up. She allowed herself to be helped up, then ran to help her mortally wounded sister.
The other berserk yokai turned to attack the Sanzo group, but one of the other women kicked the yokai that held her down, he had stupidly got off of her when his attention had changed. He hit the cave ceiling hard, leaving him dazed and disoriented.
"You… bitch…" he growled, advancing on the girl before he fell down dead, the bullet wound in his head sprayed blood.
"You got to admire the fighting spirit of these people." Hakkai said to no one in particular, blasting one of the other yokai with his kikou jutsu, causing him to disintegrate.
A yokai lunged at Goku; he just extended his Nyoi-Bo and stabbed it through the yokai's chest, killing him almost instantly. Goku kicked the body off Nyoi-Bo. Gojyo cut three more yokai in half, without harming the women they held captive. Hakkai disintegrated two more yokai. Goku managed to smash the skulls of two more yokai. Sanzo shot the three unconscious yokai, in case they would attack any of them if they got the chance to get up. With their job done, they turned to leave, when one of the children ran up to Sanzo's leg and grabbed his pants leg.
"Thank you for saving us." The young child said with big puppy-like eyes.
"Don't. We're just fulfilling our part of a deal." He told the child with cold eyes.
"Ugh… what deal?" One of the captive women demanded, standing up.
"You want details, ask the guy outside," Sanzo told her, walking out as the others followed him. When they stepped out of the cave they told Boskov their job was completed. The woman who stood her ground before, Leah, slowly and cautiously stepped out of the cave.
"Boskov!" she called happily when she saw him. She ran up to him and tackled him in a hug, crying.
The other women and children stepped out of the cave when they heard Boskov's name. He got them to calm down, while some of the children opted to talk to the Sanzo group in hopes of reassuring words. They got what they were hoping for from Hakkai and Goku, but Sanzo and Gojyo were too cold for them to talk to.
"Come on, we have to hurry back to the clearing, Clover is left alone Jason and the elder." Boskov told them. One of the children noticed the shadow of a flying yokai pass overhead, in the direction of the clearing Clover, her mother, and Jason were located.
"Hurry! There's more!" He yelled pointing at the flying yokai.
Everyone chased after the flying yokai, but it reached the clearing before anyone else. They made it in time to see Jason lunge at the yokai and get smacked aside, rolling on the ground. The yokai dashed at Clover trying to grab her, but her mother jumped in the way. The yokai did the first thing that came to mind, it slashed Clover's mother and grabbed her.
"Argh! Let me GO!" Clover screamed, thrashing around. "Holly, ATTACK!" Clover commanded.
Suddenly the giant six foot tall wolf, Roscoe, leaped out of the trees and transformed into a giant silver bird with gold wings. The giant bird, Holly, sped at the yokai holding her master hostage. The yokai held clover up in front of his body. Holly never slowed down; she only adjusted her wings so she could knock his head off with her wing, which worked successfully.
The body floated for a few seconds then let go of Clover, Holly was under her and caught her without reopening any wounds or causing too much pain. Holly landed gracefully, Clover dismounted her, and she turned into the smaller version the Sanzo group saw on her shoulder the day she talked to the inn keeper.
"Boskov write a message for Holly to deliver to the humans. All of you look for injured and wounded. Could you give me a description of the person you're looking for here?" Clover addressed different people with each command.
"We're looking for the leader, we believe she a special power that could aid us in our quest." Hakkai told her.
"What is this quest, exactly?"
"We're looking for the cause of the yokai going berserk."Hakkai told her.
"We believe that your leader has ability repel the very cause. If not, all those people in the village down there would be dead." Sanzo said bluntly.
Boskov finished writing the note and gave it to Holly; she gently lifted herself off the ground and shot through the air to the village, arriving in seconds. Where Maria read the note and assembled help immediately. Within an hour half the town had been flown into the forest via Holly. The villagers treated all of the wounds each yokai from Clover's greatly diminished tribe.
"Maria, I-"Clover started but Maria interrupted her.
"Don't say it. You're not moving this tribe." Maria snapped at her. Clover smiled to herself, she always knew she could depend on Maria.
"It's not tribe that's moving…"
"What? What are you talking about?"
"I made a deal with those men over there, and now I have to go with them."
"…So who's going to lead the tribe?"
"Boskov."
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Hi… hope you liked it… um… I should probably mention this is an as I go story… the main story line I have down packed but… all events leading to the end are kind of random feel free to give ideas…
