Chapter Eleven: The Brother and more Puppet History

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Kokiri Yusaga, a.k.a Kegs, is the older brother of Chug Yamazaki. He has long lavender hair that flowed like water down to the middle of his back, wore dark sunglasses, and prefers a black ensemble. Except for his shoes. They were a tan-ish color. He has very pale sea shell peach color skin, is 5'11'' tall and sounds just like Paul McCartney when speaking. He loves to drive and play piano and loves his brother dearly, and although you cannot see them, he has very green almost polished emerald green eyes and long lashes.

Of course, that's just a brief public record. What is not on public record is that he is virtually immortal.

Yes, he cannot die. He survives for the sake of his brother. And one of his appointed jobs is being the Guardian of Life and Magic. Yes, Life and Magic, he can perform magic. It's one of the reasons why he's immortal in the first place.

He was currently wandering around some property that he had purchased ages ago to rent for land use. The public record say it is called Bodega Bay and once upon a time there was a hotel that was working quite well.

The hotel was still there but no longer in use. Some contractors had contacted him about tearing it down and would have if it hadn't been for the contract he had passing governors sign to keep him informed of the land's business and happenings.

The hotel was working great until 1941 when a man had killed himself to prevent capture from Nazis. He thought it odd that Nazi soldiers would come all the way to America just for one man.

Further research concluded that the man was a puppeteer named Andre Toulon who knew the secret of bringing life to the inanimate. He found it interesting that a mortal entertainer would do such a thing and dug further into it.

Andre had apparently learned the secret from an Egyptian Sorcerer who claimed to have stolen it from an Egyptian Dark Lord named Sutekh. It was amusing to say the least. Being the Guardian of Life and Magic, Kokiri found the so called secret highly amusing. The system was very basic, an organic elixir requiring brain matter for the neural energy and independent thought was needed, and blood extractions from the brewer to secure loyalty and obedience from his puppets.

Andre had been a veteran doctor from WW 1 and retired afterward, shifting his knowledge of anatomy and chemistry into the art of hand-carving wooden puppets and becoming a puppeteer. His new career was quite a success and when he learned of the secret, brought his friends back after they were murdered by Sutekh's own puppets.

Kokiri was quite impressed when Toulon discovered the secret's secret for it to work properly. Will Power, a powerful source of magic that embodied all three levels, Physicality, Mentality and Emotion. Some people claim this to be the soul, but that was actually a different level, the Fourth Level.

Kokiri looked up the puppets Toulon had carved and found some rather interesting things. The first group of puppets to regain life were labeled Retro Puppets, another set of puppets were created and each were given a second chance at life, they were called Toulon's Miraculous String-less Marionettes. But there was one interesting factor in these two groups. It was the fact that one character remained the same: Six Shooter.

Toulon had a six armed puppet in the first group called Six Shooter that had basic anatomy, six arms and held the soul of the Sorcerer. In the second group he was re-carved, still had six arms, wore stereo-typical cowboy clothing and was the one who gave the O.K. to Toulon to take the brain matter of another doctor and place it into his newest puppet called Blade.

There was another quirk that caught Kokiri's interest about the two groups. The Retro Puppets had a comrade named Drill Sergeant due to the drill on his head, and Toulon's String-less Marionettes had a similar one named Tunneler wearing a Navy Colonel outfit. Both had working drills.

Blade was another one. Retro Puppets had a comrade named Blade, who was close to Toulon, and Toulon's String-less was also close to him and eventually became the leader of the new group.

Both groups were practically the same in almost every way, there were just a couple differences: Jester and Leech Woman from the String-less, Dr. Death and Cyclops from Retro.

Jester was a young spirit who used to be a Book Keeper and was shot down by the Nazis. Being a Book Keeper meant he held records. There was nothing dangerous about a job like that, but it did give him power to make private records public, accidentally or otherwise, and the Germans weren't going to take the risk while they were winning and gaining forces.

Leech Woman was the wife of Andre Toulon but was also shot down. After seeking his revenge for his wife, Toulon then retreated to America and after a few months shot himself.

Fifty years later, the puppets gained a new master in a pa-psychic named Neil Gallagher who turned out to be power-hungry and, after reaching his goal of immortality, became abusive towards the puppets, so they bumped him off. They were then handed down to his wife but had to kill her to keep themselves alive long enough to revive their old master from the grave.

But they only brought back the physical and mental part. Toulon was dead for fifty years so he lost his emotion and decided he wanted immortality. During his resurrection Dead Toulon made another puppet. This one he called Torch. Torch was made up entirely out of metal, his right arm constructed into a flamethrower and had bullets for the top row of teeth and had animal brains.

When the puppets realized what their former master had become they destroyed him and Torch set him on fire and Toulon jumped out the window. Three years later, the puppets gained another master in the form of Rick Myers.

Rick Myers had become the caretaker of the hotel while looking for a peaceful, quiet and private place for him to continue some work he was doing in bio-mechanics. He and some friends of his had come across the puppets with the help of another pa-psychic.

But one of the party wanted the elixir for himself and, after manipulating the psychic's Channeling abilities had accidentally summoned puppet-sized demons to retrieve the stolen elixir. However, he was later killed by one of them.

Kokiri later found out that Toulon was in the process of making another puppet before he died, one with removable heads. It was named Decapitron and needed a lot of juice to come alive. Decapitron was awakened to help destroy the demon-puppets and could be used to channel Toulon's spirit.

Decapitron needed not only a lot of the formula but also a lot of electricity, powerful electricity.

During the whole time between Dead Toulon and Rick Myers, the puppet Blade had kept himself alive. Why he pulled such an act, he wasn't sure. It could have been Toulon's spirit requesting him to for the next Puppet Master. Which would make sense since he probably felt trouble brewing in the Underworld and ordered his puppets to protect the next one from harm and/or to keep the elixir safe, no matter what.

Kokiri stopped doing his mental research when something shiny glinted in his peripheral vision and looked over. There was a small gold light coming from the weed overgrowth and he headed over.

The gold light was coming from a small gold bell that was attached to a crushed-velvet, three-legged, maroon colored, medieval-style jester hat.

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