Ch 7: Lock and Load
Very little was said after that, barely a word until Yukari returned. As soon as she did, Reimu asked her to take Issac to the Kappa village, to get Nitori to equip him to survive the fight that was going to happen. She nodded, not going to question the shrine maiden before the incident. Another trip through the nightmare dimension, and Issac was standing in a field, bright and sunny as Issac was told the hills of California were.
"This Is the outskirts of the Kappa village. I'm sure we'll find Nitori out here somewhere." Yukari said, looking around then down towards a large river running through the grassy hills. Sitting down by the shore was a single girl, blue haired and wearing a green hat. Issac found it odd enough for a second glance before Yukari started walking towards her without a second thought. "Is that who we are looking for?" He asked.
"Nitori," The woman said, her hands on the parasol. "Reimu has sent me to gather your help. An incident is taking place, and we need to prepare Issac here with some equipment that will allow him to survive and fight back, as he has no grasp on Danmaku." She said as the girl sitting by the river's edge put her hands on her lap and looked up.
"Well, sounds like a challenge. I'll take the job. " She took the small block off plastic of her lap and put it into one of the many pockets of the backpack she sat next to. "Walk with me, I'll get a mental list together while we get to my place."
The walk was unsurprisingly quiet, the small kappa girl listing off items, shaking her head lightly with each one. Yukari opened a portal, claiming she could hear her familiar calling to her, and left Issac alone with Nitori. After a few more steps, The kappa stopped and sniffed the air. "Do I smell...oil?" She asked quizzically.
"It took a moment or the question to register in his head before Issac answered her. "Huh? Oh! Y-yeah. I got tossed here right after work, so I didn't have time to change." Issac sighed, "I must have gotten something on my shirt while I was changing the oil from that truck." He muttered, earning a smile from Nitori as they started walking again. "Work with your hands I assume? I can respect that." She nodded and spied the small warehouse like building that served as a lab for her.
"Here we are!" She said and opened the sliding metal door, then pulled it close when he was inside. "I have a few treats for you, so wait here." She promised and put her pack down, running off to the back of the warehouse. She returned after a few minutes, her arms full of different things, ranging from grenades, to blocks of C4, to some black disks, to a broom. That last one confused Issac until she set it down on the ground, where it started to float.
"Alright! Crash course here. C4, semtex, witch's broom, and these black disks are in case something bad happens and someone gets too close to you." She started explaining. "I can see you have a wrench, and while that won't work on Youkai, it may on humans and fairies." Nitori spoke quickly, showing off what each of the things she had brought could do. Issac couldn't get a word in, but he didn't mind much.
"All you do is stick and push as far away from them as you can." Nitori said, putting a black disk on the small dummy, one he would note looked a lot like Aya, wings and all. Nitori ran back to the small standing area where Issac was, then smiled. Five seconds after she placed it, The black disk flashed once, then made a blinding light before Issac covered his face with his arm. When he looked back, the dummy was a pile of wood wings, and feathers. "That will teach her to come here with that 'magic fingers' bullshit."
Issac wasn't paying attention, his mind going back to an image he had thought of earlier. 'Bloody feathers...why am I thinking...Oh GOD! Syrena! She flying into a trap!' Issac jumped, grabbing the things and shoving them in a back pack and in his pockets. He jumped on the broom, putting his feet on it like it was a hover board. "Sorry Nitori! I'll have to figure it out on my own!" He yelled to her as he started speeding off, leaving her in the dust.
Nitori blinked, putting the pin back in the grenade she had pulled it from and putting it on the dummy she had just set up, this one of Yukari. "Issac! Aw damn..." She called at first before looking to the dummy, pulling the pin from the grenade before walking away. How would she explain this one to Yukari?
