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Chapter Eleven: The Great Goddess Tagiri-Hime

(Ni Chang Point of View)

Ni Chang could gloat all she wanted. Soon, after her mother was blackmailed, she would be a goddess once more. And then her mother would see. Amaterasu would see the mistake she made in making her beloved daughter a mortal. And she would pay for it.

The white-haired woman walked around camp, giving orders as she prepared to take the Jade Emperor's throne. That was the first step. Once she did then she would be one step closer to gaining back her goddesshood.

But first, she would have to deal with Jason and Emily. She sighed. There was only one way. She would have to get information first.

The woman closed her eyes and a second later she was in a small cottage, the monkey king in front of her, acting crazy. A large basin was by her side and she drew a steaming potion from it. "Come," she told the Monkey King soothingly, luring him to his doom. "Come have more medicine. This potion will make you feel better. I've prepared it just for you."

"Okay!" the Monkey King giddily replied, bounding over to her like a hyperactive monkey, not acting like himself at all. Ni Chang smiled. She knew why. The potion made him different, gave her control over him. The Monkey King was laughing as he took the cup and drank from it.

His eyes curled upwards and he fainted, groaning. "Want more, want more," he murmured almost incomprehensibly.

Ni Chang carried him over to a chair so that he could rest. She paced around, growing impatient. "Tell me what you know about Jason Tripitikus!" she demanded.

"I already told you," was the response, and then a muffled laugh came. "The witch wants to know more! The witch wants to know more!"

Ni Chang hissed in frustration. "What is he likely to do to stop me!" she yelled.

The Monkey King shrugged. "He'll probably fight you. Bang, bang, boom!" Then he let out more weak laughter, hyper.

Ni Chang sighed. He was of no more use. He had lost it. She growled and transported herself back to her time. "Prepare for battle!" she snapped.

One of her men nodded and sent an eagle into the sky. The eagle soared high above the earth and into a different camp. There, it landed on a wooden stake placed into the ground that was high above the earth. When a man in blood red and gold stepped out, he held out his hand and the eagle soared, circling above for a moment, and then finally landing on his arm.

He took the letter out and red it. "Make way for battle!" he shouted, and the ground began to rumble.

The earth opened up, and many people, riding hideous animals of various sorts came out of the crevices that had formed in the earth. The earth began to tremble again and the land shifted, causing the camp to go upwards a few hundred feet in the air, causing many to gasp in shock. Moments later water flooded in, coming from far away, and gigantic boats with sails were then circling the camp on three sides. The camp was now in the midst of a wide ocean.

The sails were also blood red and gold, and as they came close to the shore, the sun darkened yet again. The earth went completely black and there was no light. But the leader gave the order anyways, many people continuing to come out of the holes that had just formed in the earth, an underground society that had existed for many thousands of years.

"Board the ships!" the man called. "Serve your goddess! Bring her back to her goddess-hood!" He sounded a battle cry and the others pitched in, unsheathing their swords, yelling loudly, eagerly. It was time for them to leave.

"Support your goddess! Make her the queen of the gods!" the man shouted. He had on a samurai outfit, and he looked very young for his age. He was thin, but obviously strong from the many muscles that bulged. He had no mustache and medium red hair. He wasn't Japanese, but he had been raised in Japan. He looked more Irish, but he spoke with a Japanese accent. "It is time for Tagiri-Hime to rule! Overthrow Amaterasu! Her time is over! All the gods and goddesses have spoken and found her weak but her daughter strong! It is time for Tagiri-Hime to rule heaven and earth!"

They shouted once again, a long, drawn out battle cry. Then they shouted praises to Tagiri-Hime, praises of success and gratitude. "Long live Tagiri-Hime! Long live Tagiri-Hime!" they shouted in Japanese and all their native dialects. They shouted in many languages, having come from all over the world, organized to bring Tagiri-Hime victory. "Long live Tagiri-Hime!"

They shouted again and flooded the ships in waves, many falling over the edges and to their deaths in the excitement because they had no light for them to see with. But all in all, the army stayed intact.

They were like ants in number. They were a massive body with one purpose: to destroy and make Tagiri-Hime their queen. They hoisted the sails gladly, turning the ship around to head towards land. But instead of bumping up against the land another earthquake would occur and more land would open up in front of them causing massive amounts of water to flood in and the ships to move without need for the sails on them because of the movement of the water as a path was drilled in the middle of the land to take the deep seafaring ships through with ease. And yet they still had a lot of room to maneuver as if they had been on the ocean.

The Irish looking man moved with ease in the darkness as he went to find his ink bottle, for they all moved around by feel since many of them had never known sight and had grown up in the darkness. Then, writing quickly, he sent the bird in the air who had been trained to fly without sight. In fact, the eagle was blind since birth. She found her way to Ni Chang's outpost in no time. A man took her down and read the note.

He read the note by feeling the paper. It was amazing. Even though the ink was dry, he could feel where the ink was and the shapes the ink made. That was how they read. They didn't need raised bumps to read. They did everything without sight.

He felt his way so swiftly to Tagiri-Hime, and he was practically running towards her. For one living with sight all their lives it would have been an amazing thing that one could move that fast. The way he moved it was as if he were in full light and could see well. Such was the way it was for them. In fact, the only people who had fallen off the ships and into the water were the people who weren't used to moving without sight. "The Dark Army is on the move," he announced to her.

Ni Chang's hair glowed and looked silver in the darkness. She nodded and the man could immediately tell, although he could not see her. He could feel it; he could feel the motions of it and the way that it affected the air waves and everything else around it. "That is all," she told him. "Dismissed.

The man bowed to her and went his way out. Ni Chang closed her eyes, trying to imagine her victory. "Soon," she murmured to herself. "Soon."

I am really, really sorry that I haven't updated this story in some time. I apologize!

So, here's this chapter, and you're introduced a bit to the Dark Army and how they live and work. I hope you enjoyed it.

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