CHAPTER VII
"Know any good places to see Ashuri?" Dan questioned hoping for a place he could separate Kurumu from Tsukune, and finally get a chance to talk. The group was walking towards Ashuri's house where she, and Jake had to grab things.
"There is the infamous sunflower field," Ashuri stated then giggled, "I guess with all of you monsters 'witch hill' shouldn't be that dangerous."
"Witch hill?" Yukari inquired scrunching her nose.
"Yea, there's apparently a witch that abducts people that go there." Ashuri stated without considering that Yukari herself is in-fact a witch. The gang walked for a good fifteen minutes after Jake, and Ashuri gathered some clothes in some small backpacks, then they arrived at a beautiful meadow of sunflowers, the clear skies and light shining radiantly made it a sight to see indeed.
"Wow, it's beautiful, isn't it Tsukune?" Kurumu asked pushing her chest up against Tsukune's. Just then Dan started thinking of instances of how he could separate them, and hey it would give Tsukune more alone time with Moka, come to think of it.
"Hey, uhh, Kurumu, I think you should come check this out," Dan said putting his plan into action, she looked at Dan a little annoyed then when he waved at her, she complied.
"What is it?" Kurumu asked looking a little annoyed and furrowing her brow.
"Well actually it is over here off the path a little, but it's worth it trust me," Dan said convincingly.
"If you say so…" Kurumu said falling for his tricks, Ashuri simply said not to stray too far off cause of the apparent witch, still she had no respect to Yukari when saying it, the two walked a little ways away "Umm, where are we going."
"Well, you see, I think were lost….." Dan said hesitantly, giggling inside. His entire plan was going accordingly, he had them walk in an almost opposite direction from the group, and now he was the only one who knew the way back, or she could just fly back.
"Well I guess we could fly back…." Kurumu said stating the obvious; Dan looked slightly annoyed for not considering this.
"Well, umm, we can't use our powers in the human world remember," Dan said trying to keep her to stay, "and besides I think I know the way back to the path, so let's just walk."
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"They've been gone a while," Nick said winking at Jake who laughed at the thought of Kurumu betraying Tsukune, but when looking over at Tsukune and Moka, they we're laughing... somehow he knew she was hiding something though.
After walking a little Kurumu was convinced Dan was lying, when suddenly they heard a growl nearby. "That didn't sound like a small animal," Dan said going into a defensive mode, they then started hearing it all around them, "We need to get to a shelter, there surrounding us, do you see anything!?"
"Umm, yea over there," Kurumu said looking at Dan and being slightly grateful she wasn't stuck with someone who would have no idea on what to do. Still she knew he was up to something.
"Block the door with that, ill close the windows," Dan said demandingly, wondering how the others were faring.
The others were walking and started hearing the growling too, except not as many, they still decided to play it safe, and make a perimeter. "It's probably that witch," Ashuri said condescendingly, this made Yukari drop a wash tub on her. "Hey, what the hell was that for" she added rubbing the small bump forming on her head. Instead of saying anything Yukari ran off.
"Wait, Yukari," Moka shouted, while starting to run after her.
"Let her go, we don't really know what the threat is at this point, and if you run off all defenseless you're going to get yourself hurt. I'll go check up on her instead" Don insisted. Moka frowned then nodded knowing what was true.
"I'll go too," Tsukune added stepping forward.
"Nice try 'noble knight' but you're staying here with Moka," Jake said smiling.
"But….. Whatever," Tsukune said looking away from Jake. Tsukune isn't the type of person to hold grudges; however Jake knew he was still mad at him, and while all this was going down, Ashuri managed to beat the living shit out of Nick for a gross comment, and a fondle.
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"Yukari!" Don shouted looking for the slightly annoying girl, he was in fact worried, about her condition due to the potential threat lurking about.
"What do you want," Yukari said sitting on a log, she hung her head and sighed.
"You shouldn't run off like that, it was stupid and childish." Don said with little emotion.
"Just shut up, what do you know, jerk." Yukari said sadly.
"If you're still hung up about Ashuri's snide remark, well, you shouldn't fret," Don said sitting down next to her after surveying the area.
"What do you mean, of course I'm going to be pissed, that stupid human will never understand what it's like to be a witch, none of you will." Yukari said sadly.
"Why should it matter, the opinions of the weak, they obviously are jealous of people like us. They are useless humans, their opinions don't matter.." Don said without emotion, yet again.
"That's... sort of mean don't you think?" Yukari said raising her head a bit.
"Yea, and, so, what about it? The point I'm trying to make is that weaklings don't matter in this world, only those with power." Don said standing up. Suddenly out of nowhere a giant plant like creature grabbed Don and caught him off guard, tripping him he fell backwards and snapped his neck on the log.
"DON!," Yukari shouted going into attack mode and wiping out the few monsters that made themselves noticeable. Suddenly Don asked Yukari to put his head back into place…."You, you're still alive…" Yukari inquired, looking extremely freaked out.
"Yea, it's going to take a lot more than that to kill 'that which is already dead' wouldn't you think." Don said without even considering she had no idea. "Now, you want to help me so we can get back to the group?" he added, Yukari nodded and grabbed his head hesitantly cracking it into place. While all this was going on a strange woman kept her eye on Yukari from a distance.
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"The coast looks clear, and I haven't heard any growling, let's get back now, we should fly under these circumstances." Dan said looking as if he's analyzed any possible scenario.
"Weren't you the one who said we shouldn't fly…." Kurumu said impaling Dan with a scary stare, "we could have avoided the ENTIRE MESS….."
"Ugh, yea sorry…" Dan said hanging his head. "Listen, Kurumu... The truth is I just wanted to get you alone so we could talk." he added.
"What!? I knew you were up to something," She narrowed her eyes at him, but couldn't help being flattered.
"Now is not the time for childish things however, we need to move." Dan said unbuttoning his shirt.
"Wait what..!?" Kurumu said blushing.
"Well, come on!" Dan said, letting his wings extend he shot a hole through the roof, and waited for Kurumu to follow.
"Oh this is what you meant.." She said looking the other way, embarrassed. The two scouted the area and finally found the group. When they landed Kurumu simply shouted "Tsukune, protect me!" and jumped at him bouncing her boobs off his face. Suddenly a group of weird creatures emerged from the sunflowers.
"How did we not notice that one," Nick said squinting his eyes.
"Let's go while we still can," Yukari said, while backing away from the one about to attack them, the group of teens ran out of the area and made their ways back to town, Ashuri of course lead the way.
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When the group arrived back in the city, Yukari was chased by a group of disgusting imbeciles, who thought she was cosplaying; in turn the brothers chased this mob down and beat the shit out of them. Suddenly a murder of crows swooped down at the others who stayed behind, when they dispersed Yukari was nowhere to be found.
"I think she's up there," Tsukune said running towards a building with the crows hovering above it. As the group ran towards the building Yukari was confronted by a woman in a punk looking get-up.
"You, you're a witch too aren't you..." the strange woman stated, Yukari nodded still a little ticked off about the annoying humans. "Join me then, on Witch Hill, and together we can kill all the humans," She added, Yukari hesitated at first before saying yes, upon her response a huge smile appeared on the other witch's face. "We're going to be such good friends, I'm ruby, nice to meet you Yukari!" Ruby said Hugging Yukari.
"Wait, how do you know my name?" Yukari inquired.
"I've been watching you duh, how else would I have known you are a witch." Ruby said smiling, after stating this really creepy truth, however it didn't faze Yukari in the slightest. After the brief introduction Tsukune and the others, busted through the rooftop doors.
"There you are Yukari, I'm sorry about the crowd, I can assure you that not all humans are like that," Tsukune said lightly jogging over to Yukari, when suddenly Tsukune was cut deep from the sternum, up to the collarbone and through the neck muscle. Spurting blood violently from his new wound, Tsukune fell lifelessly to the ground.
"TUSKUNE!" Moka yelled running over to his nearly dead body, she knew there was only one thing she could do, inject her blood into him. Moka sank her fangs into his neck injecting as much blood that was needed, when Tsukune regained consciousness, there his wounds healed, instantly, and eyes as red as the others, Moka and Jake that is.
"What, how, that blow would've killed a normal human, unless you aren't human... Doesn't matter, ill end you this time." Ruby said cynically whipping one of her six wings at Tsukune, he however dodged and countered, ending the battle with the single blow.
Ruby fell to the ground unconscious, as the blood Moka injected into Tsukune began to go dormant. The group rushed over to Ruby, and lifted her up off the ground, they weren't just going leave her there. When the four of them made it outside, they were greeted by the brothers, and Ms. Nekonome who was carrying a bag of groceries, shortly after explaining everything that has happened and the situation with Jake and Ashuri the large group made their way back to the place they were going to stay.
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"What? Where am I!" Ruby shouted as she woke, the brothers were sleeping in the other room so the Yukari, Moka, Kurumu, and Tsukune were the only ones there to greet her, "Where... Where am I? What are you guys..." She demanded.
"I'm Tsukune Aono, and well, I'm Just a human." Tsukune retorted quickly before a conflict arose, "and well this is the motel we're staying at."
"Hu... Human!? That's impossible, humans cannot defeat me, because I am a witch!" Ruby shouted surprised.
'Moka, could you guys keep it down over there I'm trying to get some sleep.' Jake thought to Moka who nodded and said to shush to the rest of the group.
"I'm not kidding, I really am human, I was just borrowing Moka's power. After stating that, the group that was there went over their secret identities.
"You're kidding right, Ayashi!? that's impossible. Ayashi cannot possibly be friends with humans and witches!" Ruby shouted yet again, this time waking up Ashuri, who was in no way shape or form a 'morning person'.
As soon as the group and Ruby started talking after the shout, Ashuri whipped open the door, with a devilish look on her face, "WOULD YOU GUYS KEEP IT DOWN!" she shouted slamming the door and walking away.
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"Ugh... What's going on." Don said waking in a black room. His brothers we're sound asleep, he walked out of the room carefully and went to get a drink of water, that's when he felt it, the immense youki energy from the distance, he immediately slipped his jeans and shit on and ran towards it.
When he arrived he saw it, a giant plant monster and his friends struggling to stay alive.
"Looks like it's my time to shine." Don said lowering his head grinning.
As he did so, glyphs of power started burning bright blue into the earth around him, his hair and all loose objects began floating as his flesh began peeling off slowly. Boney wings pierced his back where his shoulder blades were, and shortly after he was floating 30 feet off the ground, in his demonic looking monster form. Don conjured his scythe, and flew towards the thing, as fast as he could to save time.
The first thing Don managed was to summon a murder of crows and have them tear his friends free. He then proceeded to rip and tear at the beast with his scythe, as he tore through it a type of essence slowly started being ripped away from the creature, and flowed into a ring he had on his hand.
Within minutes he had it down to its knees, figuratively speaking of course, he rose his scythe high and pulled it back down. The earth around the beast cracked and shook viciously until it started to fall inward, under the ground a blue flame poured through the cracks, and within seconds it swallowed the beast whole.
Don passed out, and hit the ground hard...
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"Huh, what happened," Jake said tiredly slipping off the bench onto the floor of the bus.
"You missed one hell of a showdown, that's what!" Ashuri said excitedly, "Moka was like *POW*, and then Yukari was like *WATANG*, it was so badass!" she added. "Then Don showed up and saved the day." Then another long explanation occurred, and the brothers were finally introduced to Ruby, who seemed really fucking weird to all of them except Nick, whom like any and all women.
As more time passed by they all reached Yokai Academy, and Jake finally felt at home, which was the exact opposite reaction for Ashuri, as shivers went down her spine just looking at the place.
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Don walked aimlessly for a few minutes along the dark path outside of Yokai academy, he assumed it was roughly 1:00 A.M. He couldn't sleep much lately, he kept thinking about the past he had been through, and his brothers shared pain. He pondered ideas on end for another few hours until the sun peeked over the mountains in the east, he figured it was time to head back. Maybe things would be normal for a while.