Unkeen had just appeared at the Wicked's base. He then started walking to the newly made throne room. But on the way he passed by Unkaind.
"Unkeen, what happened to you?" she asked with concern, referring to the deep cut on his hand.
"A mere flesh wound, it is of no concern," he said as he covered his hand.
"Perhaps you should have one of the flicker's look at?"
"I'm fine," he said sternly, "Now, I must report to her highness,".
"Well, okay," she said, before Unkeen walked away, "Don't push yourself,".
"Ooh, does someone have the hots for Unkeen?" Unfairy said teasingly after appearing, "Aren't you a sly snake,hehehe".
Unkaind just groaned before snapping her fingers and causing the mouse like wicked to be doused by a waterfall.
Meanwhile up a head,
Unkeen walked into the throne room. While it was still in an old factory, it was a pretty fancy room, with Japanese lanterns made of scrap and an imported velvet carpet leading to a throne.
Unkeen walked closer to the throne and bowed, "My liege, I have intercepted the yokai of the watch holders, and wounded them greatly," he reported, "However, they escaped do to the interference of the moxie hero yokai,".
"Whaaaat!" the hag screamed from her throne, "What do you mean they escaped, dun dun duuuun!?"
"It is a minor delay, I assure you I will track them down at the utmost conveniences," Unkeen calmly pleaded, trying to calm the wicked leader, "However, I am unaware of the location of the traveler is at this moment,".
"Yes, that is most disturbing, but who cares about him," Deadtime said, "However, I have already made preparations to deal with those horrid children and their stupid yokai,".
"How so your windbagyness?" Unkeen asked.
The villain then stood up and started chanting something. When she was done, two portals that resembled gold and silver clocks appeared, and out of them came two old lady twins.
One was gold with a red dress and the other was silver with a blue dress.
"Ah it's about time," the gold one said as she stretched.
"Feels just like a good nap," the silver one added.
The two then turned towards Deadtime, "We are ready for your commands mistress Deadtime," they said in unison.
"Ah, Kin and Gin, good to see you again," Deadtime greeted before sounding intense, "I need you to go break the bound of the brat that beat us, and later the one who shouldn't be in this world and their yokai,".
"It will be no problem," Kin said.
"They won't be able to stand against our power!" Gin added.
"Well then get to it already, dun dun duuuun!" she yelled.
The twins nodded, before Unpleasant appeared between the two, "Why hello laaadies!" he said sounding uncharacteristically smooth, "Perhaps after you two are done, we could go out for an experiment or two, hehe,".
The twins shrugged, before kicking the elderly wicked aside,
"Buzz of bug!" Gin yelled.
"Where out of your league!" Kin added.
The two then teleported away.
"Honestly Unpleasant," Unkeen face palmed.
"I'm a player youngen," Unpleasant chuckled, still dazed from the attack.
"Wasting your time with romance, how pathetic!" Deadtime shouted, "They all get tired of you eventually, everyone one of those humans are despicable!".
"Calm yourself highness!" Unkeen said, "We already know your hatred for humans,".
"We'll have them all taken in over in no time, so don't stress yourself," Unpleasant added, "No need to dwell on that guy,"
"Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuun!" she yelled, prompting the executives to leave.
Meanwhile with Nate,
Summoning, Slippery!
Trippery!
Gippery!
Slimey-whimey do!
Slippery!
"Draggie," the young dragon said, "Huh, what do you want?".
"How is this pipsqueak going to help?" N asked.
"Excuse me!" Draggie shouted, "I happen to be a mighty dragon!".
"Um, sorry?".
"Draggie we need to find Ben," Nate explained, "I just figured you would know where he was,".
"Oh, trust me, you don't have to look that hard," Draggie said with an unamused tone.
Nate then realized that Ben was standing right behind him.
"Mind explaining what you're doing with my partner, Nate?" Ben asked, sounding very annoyed.
"Gaahh!" Nate said with surprise, as he fell down.
"That was fast," Jibanyan said.
"He certainly is dedicated to his dragon," Whisper added.
"But of course, now what do you want?" Ben asked again.
"Oh, so you're the traveler?" N said.
"Pardon?".
"I've heard the wicked talking a lot about you," N explained.
"Um, oh, what did you hear?" Ben asked nervously in a low voice.
"Just that you had rare yokai or something," N said, trying to remember.
"Which is why we called you," Nate said after getting up.
"You mean me?" Draggie said, still slightly annoyed.
"Listen Ben, we need your help to find rare yokai that can best the wicked!" Whisper explained.
"Really?" Ben asked, sound almost amused, "I never thought you'd be in to that Nate,".
"Look, we were attacked by one of the executives," Nate explained, "I wasn't able to stop him, or completely protect Katie,".
"That sounds rough," Ben said, feeling a bit of pity for Nate, "I can understand why you would be worried,".
"So, will you help?" Nate asked.
"I don't know, I'm still a little salty on early," Ben said, much to the Nate's concern, "However, I could always use some more medals, and I guess I could take some time to be helpful, for a friend,".
"Great," Nate said, "So which yokai do we need to track down?".
"Y'know, they say go big or go home," Ben then looked to Draggie, "The medallium s'il vous plait,"
"Sure thing," Draggie then pulled out a cyan yokai medallium, and handed it to Ben.
"Thank you," Ben then flipped through the book, "I'm sure you are aware of the legendary yokai, yes?" to which the others nodded, "One happens to be one of the most powerful yokai in existence!".
"Really, which one?" Nate asked, sounding a bit excited.
"Oh, that be, um, let's see," Whisper said before looking on his yokai pad, before Draggie bonked him with a rock.
"Don't spoil it Whisper," Draggie said.
"So it's Spoilerena?" Jibanyan asked.
"No, it's not Spoilerena!" Ben said, sounding annoyed, "Honestly, how is that jerk even considered legendary?".
"Focuses Ben," Draggie suggested, "You can rant about how she spoiled wizard later,".
"Right, anyways in order to summon this yokai, we need to find some of the most powerful yokai," Ben explained, "Each one is one of the strongest of the eight main tribes,".
The page then turned to a black page that had eight pedestals for each of the tribes, with the ones for tough, eerie, and shady already filled by three medals. One was Goldenyan and the other was some sort of women with a stick, while another seemed to be a black vampire devil of some sort.
"As you can see, I have already found some of them," Ben explained.
"When'd you get the eerie and shady one?" Jibanyan asked.
"Oh that's one's Eterna, but we um, don't talk about what happened with her," Draggie explained, "The other is Count Cavity, though I doubt giving the wicked a toothache will really help,".
"Right," Ben said feeling guilty, he then waved his hand over the empty slots making images of the yokai appear, "Even if we can't find all of them, having even just a few of them would prove to be a great advantage,".
"Wait, Katie just got that one!" Nate said, referring to the heartful yokai Auntie Heart.
"Wow, she's a hard one to track down, and a great healer" Draggie pointed out, "Though I like Betterfly more,".
"Speaking of which, where is Katie?" Ben asked, "She wasn't hurt by the executive right?".
"Of course she's fine!" Nate said, sounding slightly annoyed, "It's just,".
"Well, she kinda went off to go find more yokai," Whisper explained, "Something about wanting to prove herself I believe,".
"Oh, good for her," Ben replied, "She could use some more character development,".
"I hope she's okay," Nate muttered, still a bit saddens from earlier. He didn't mean to make Katie upset, he just wanted her to be okay.
"Oh, she'll be fine," Ben said confidentially.
"How are you so sure?" Nate asked.
"Please, with her good luck and charm, she'll probably find these yokai before the both of us," Ben explained causal.
"She is pretty cute after all," Draggie added.
This made Nate feel a bit better.
"So where can we find these yokai anyways?" N asked.
"Yeah, um, I actually don't know," Ben said sheepishly.
"What, how can you not know ?!" N shouted.
"Give me a break, these guys are some of the hardest to find!" Ben explained, seeming slightly hurt, "I used to think they were only in the crank-a-kai, but with what Katie found, I was apparently wrong!".
Nate sighed, "Any ideas how to find them Whisper?".
"It's hard to say, there's been very few sightings of these guys," Whisper explained while swiping things on his yokai pad.
"So, what are we supposed to do now?" N asked.
"Just start looking them," Draggie suggested cheerfully.
"But where are we supposed to look?" Nate asked.
"I'm sure you'll figure it out," Ben said, "Your more competent then people give you credit for,".
"Really?" Nate asked, a bit astounded by Ben's complement.
"Well, probably," Ben mumbled, "Any thoughts then?".
Nate thought for a moment, before getting determined. "Alright, I think we should look around school!".
"How come?" N asked.
"I think I get it," Ben said.
"With my expert intuition, I have determined the most logical reason to look there" Nate said confidentially with his professor vacant impression, "Yokai are always bugging me at school, there for there's bound be at least a few good ones there!".
"Brilliant deduction Nate!" Whisper praised.
"Let's go thenyan!" Jibanyan said.
Everyone nodded before heading off to the destination.
Back at the wicked lair,
Unpleasant was working in his lab, or to be more specific, commanding his minions to do work.
"No, no, it goes there, to your left, not that left!" he commanded, "Ah yes, perfect, hoho,".
Just then Unkaind appeared, "Unpleasant, I need you to, what is that?" she said, referring to the rather 'exaggerated' portrait of the wicked scientist two schemers and a flicker had just hung.
"Oh Unkaind, what brings you to my lab?" Unpleasant asked in way that annoyed the snake.
"Ugh, look I need more power!" Unkaind demanded rudely.
"My, my, why the sudden need for strength my dearie?" he asked, "Trying to impress a certain horned hooligan, hoho?".
"Shut up weird beard!" she hissed.
"Come now, no need to hide your feelings dearie, hoho" Unpleasant taunted, before sounding calm, "Fortunately, I may be able to help,".
"How so?" Unkaind asked.
"With our regrettable defeats at the hands of the watch holders, I've been looking into a way to enhance the power of the wicked executives, in order to provide more positive results in our future tussles," he explained as he walked deeper into his work area, which Unkaind slowly followed. "That said, I believe I have stumbled open a most intriguing discovery,"
"Get on with it, what did you find?" Unkaind asked, her patience growing thin.
"Very well, I'm sure you have noticed that each of us executives have the traits of a specific animal," Unpleasant explained, "Such as Unfary being a mouse or you being a snake, correct?".
"Yes, I've noticed and I'm quite proud of my serpentine figure," she replied arrogantly, "Wait, what animal are you then?"
"Not important right," Unpleasent brushed off, "Now than, I have found that with proper channeling, and this device I have invented, we should be able to draw out more of those traits and assume a stronger form,".
"Really, how can you be sure old man?" she asked skeptically.
"Glad you asked, if you look this way, I have already tested this theory on Untidy," he gestured the mouse like yokai, "However, the results are a bit, urm, debatable,".
Unkaind then looked at Untidy and burst into laughter, "HAhohohohaha!".
"Hi guys!" he shouted, while chewing on some hay and looking more horned mammal like than usual, "Have you seen a bird that could perch in me, or maybe an orca?".
"Yes, well his animal was that of a Rhino, it's hard to say if the rest of us will turn out as well," Unpleasant explained.
"Whatever, can you make me stronger with this or not?" she asked, having gotten over the laugh attack.
"Listen, the process is still very unknown, there's no telling what effects it might have on you," Unpleasant explained, sounding serous and somewhat concerned, "Are you sure you want to go through with this?".
Unkaind thought for a moment. She hated the idea that of risking her beauty, but she hated that girl who beat her even more. Then she thought of the injury Unkeen had gotten from his last battle.
"Do it Unpleasant," Unkaind said sternly, "I need to be stronger, for Unkeen-sama,".
The wicked elder let out a sigh, before perking up, "Alright then, let's get to work my pretty!".
"Whatever, thanks," Unkaind said, seeming relieved.
"Hoho," he laughed.
Back with Nate,
Nate and his yokai were almost to the school yard. Ben, Draggie, Whisper and Jibanyan had already ran ahead, with Ben being hyped to get more yokai.
Nate however, was still worried about Katie.
"You okay bold basher?" N asked.
"I fine," he lied.
"It's that girl isn't it?" N said, which alerted Nate.
"Um, erm, well, yeah," Nate replied, "I was really worried about her, and now she's kinda mad at me,".
"Don't you think she can't handle herself?" N asked.
Nate thought about this. Katie had been pretty good with befriending yokai, and she had some pretty good yokai like Komasan and Blizzaria to protect her.
So why was he so worried?
"You really care about her, don't you?" N asked, sounding calm and comforting.
"Yeah, I really do," Nate replied, "When the wicked attacked and I couldn't protect her, I felt so scared,".
This reminded N of how he couldn't protect his friend from bullies back when he was alive.
"I don't want her to get hurt because yokai problems," Nate than thought of something, "Hey grandpa, how did you deal with keeping yokai away from grandma?".
"Oh, you mean Lucy?" N replied, "Simple, I didn't,".
"What!?" Nate said, feeling very surprised.
"Yeah, it didn't take her long to find out about my Yokai pals," he explained while flouting like he was lying down, "After that, we spent a lot more time with each other, and as time went by we really became a lot closer,".
"Really, the yokai didn't mess up your friendship with her?" Nate asked.
"Well, there was a few bumpy times, but they only helped our love grow," N explained, "There's going to be a lot of struggles coming up, yokai or not, if you really care about her, then it will work out in the end,".
Nate was astounded by this. He felt a lot better now, which was good since they had made it to the school.
Whisper and Jibanyan had just gotten back from searching.
"Find anything guys?" Nate asked.
"Nyope, sorry Nyate," Jibanyan said.
"There is not a single other yokai in the entire premises!" Whipser said, feeling very sure.
"What about that one?" N asked, referring to the Butterfly floating nearby, which made Whisper surprised.
"Oh that's just Betterfly," Jibanyan explained, to which the bug nodded.
"Is Ben still looking?" Nate asked.
Betterfly nodded happily before twirling.
Suddenly Moximus N felt something that made him shiver, "The wicked are near!".
Nate quickly pulled out his watch and started looking around. He eventually found them on the flower mural on the ground.
It was a small group of loiters, a few schemers and flickers. But hovering above them was the wicked executive Unfairy.
"What on earth are they doing here!" Whisper asked dramatically.
"Doesn't matter, there going down!" N shouted before charging in.
"Hurry up, we to find that slime spitter before," Unfairy said before he was punched into his minions by N, "Yow, what the heck dude?!".
"Moxie!" N shouted after doing his dance.
"Yipe, you shouldn't be here?!" Unfairy squeaked.
"And whys that?" Nate asked suspiciously.
"Um, no reason, we're not trying to summon a giant boss to join the wicked, what you are talking about?!" Unfairy nervously said, before getting worked up, "What are you waiting for, get the guys!".
The wicked minions quickly sprang into action, the one Loiter had to be woken up by a Schemer.
"Go get them Jibanyan!" Nate commanded.
"Right!" Jibanyan then jumped in.
The schemers charged the cat, Jibanyan knocked one away but the other dodged and retaliated with a wind blast.
"Take that!" he laughed.
"Nyo you don't, Paws of Fury!" Jibanyan said before attacking.
The wicked were hit hard, landing into the loiters.
"Don't worry, I got you covered!" The flicker said, before he tried to heal him.
"Nate you need to stop him from healing!" Whisper said dramatically.
"I know," Nate then pulled out a medal with a cicada on it. "Come on out my friend, yokai medal do your thing, summoning Cadin!".
Summoning Charming
Alarming
boom boom
walla walla
dance dance
Charming!
"Cadin!" the cicada yokai said.
"Stop that guy from healing Cadin!" Nate commanded.
"Right away, ming ming!" he replied, before dashing forward and slashing the flicker.
"No, no, no, no!" Unfairy shouted in frustration, "Why do you stupid heads have to get in the way!"
"You're going down!" N shouted as he flew in for a moxie filled punch. But before he could connect, a snake made of dark energy appeared and attacked him, "What!?".
"Hahaha, my, my, what do we have here?" the female wicked asked after appearing, "I don't believe I've met you?".
"Whisper who is that?" Nate asked, feeling a bit worried.
"Well that's um, let's see, aw ah, that the wicked executive Unkaind!" He replied, after looking it up.
Unkaind
Wicked
Executive
"Oh, how nice to be recognized, haha," she said before looking at Nate, "Though, you remind me that annoying girl I fought a while back, how irritating,".
Nate quickly realized she meant Katie, "What did you do to her!?" he said with fury.
"Oh, I just showed her that those who mess with the wicked get no mercy from me," she boasted.
"I thought she beat you with an ice girl and a mermaid?" Unfairy said, loud enough for the others to here,".
"Be quiet you fool!" she yelled, briefly losing her composure.
"Oh, so you're just a poser trying to look tough," Nate said accusingly.
"For a minute I was almost worried," N said mockingly.
"Silence!" she shouted, "I'll show you I am the real deal!".
"Hehe, now you've done it," Unfairy snickered.
Meanwhile inside the school,
Ben and Draggie were walking down the hall,
"This is sure an odd place" Ben said.
"Haven't you ever gone to a school?" Draggie asked.
"Nah, I was homeschooled," Ben replied.
They then heard the commotion from outside.
"What going on out there?!" Draggie asked.
"Sounds like they started without us," Ben said, before pulling out his watch, "Ready to power up?".
"You know it!" Draggie said with eager confidence.
Ben then pulled out Dragon Lord's medal and flipped it in the air, "Come forth my friend's power, Dragon Lord," he then slept the medal into the watch and spun it once before turning the watch, "Evolution go!".
Slippery, Evolution!
Dragon Time!
Draggie then glowed as his transformation began. His body became longer, like a serpent, his hair erupted into a glorious main, a dragon mustache grew on his face. his horns became like that of a dears, his limbs grew longer with talons sprouting from his fingertips, scale spikes appeared on his back, with a little tuft forming from his tail. The dragon orb and the crystal ball on Draggie's head merged together, the new orb was then grabbed by the dragon's talons, after which the yokai opened his eyes. The dragon flew into a pose and let out powerful roar.
"Dragon Lord!".
Back outside,
The wicked minions tried to swarm the heroes.
Jibanyan punched a few, but it didn't do much. A fact the Schemers took advantage of, and kicked him back.
"Nyaaa, oh come onyan," the cat moaned. But soon he felt his wounds heal and his power increase, "Nya, wait I knyow this!".
He then looked up to see Betterfly healing him once again.
"Nice job bug," N complimented.
"Yeah thanks!" Jibanyan added.
Betterfly let out a cute giggle, feeling happy to help.
Jibanyan then got back to battle and started taking out wicked minions left and right. However, the cat was then struck by a water attack.
"Well that was a wash out," Whisper said, before getting attacked himself, "Gaaaacck!"
"Your no match for me boy!" Unkaind laughed.
N noticed that Nate was looking really agitated.
"Hey you okay?" he said after flying towards him.
"Huh, what?"
"Get your head in the game bold basher!" N said, "We need to stop the wicked!".
"Oh right, sorry," Nate replied.
"Enough, I'm sick of you pest, finish them my minions!" she commanded.
"Um, Unkaind, we're out of minions," Unfairy regretfully said.
"What, how can that be!?" she said with annoyance, "That cat couldn't had beat them all!?"
Suddenly, large rocks appeared around the executives and tried to smash them. The rocks crash together with great force, the villain's barely avoided it.
"That's for what you did in chapter 6!" A familiar voice said.
The wicked executives looked to see Ben and his fierce partner Dragon Lord.
"The traveler!" Unfariy said with fear.
"Heh, I'm starting to like that nickname," Ben chuckled, "Now, I believe we have a score to settle?".
Dragon Lord snorted out flames in agreeance.
"We got you now!" N said triumphantly.
"You may think you've won, but I have a secret weapon!" Unkaind then pulled out an odd-looking device that resembled an early 2000s device and held it in the air "Now face my full power!".
This left everyone nervous in anticipation, until they noticed nothing was happening.
"Um, is something supposed to happenyan?" Jibanyan asked.
"Give it a minute," Unfairy said, trying to be helpful, "A-any day now,".
But still nothing happened.
"Why won't this work?!" Unkaind shouted, before shaking the device and throwing it to the ground, "Can't you do anything right Unpleasant !?"
"Dragon rock!"
Unkaind was then knocked to the ground by the soultament.
"Are you okay Unkaind!?" Unfairy asked.
"Why can't I do this!?" she grumbled in frustration as she punched the ground, "I'm a wicked executive, why can't I beat these brats for Unkeen!?" suddenly a dark aura started to form around her, "Its so, Frustrating, hissssss!"
Unfairly quickly jumped out of the way, before the female wicked was ingolfed in shadows that had snakes in it.
Wicked Dark Beast Unleased! Said a voice that sounded evil, deep, sickly, and was accompanied by a jingle like hebisukai metal, before ending with a violent hiss.
Unkaind's eye glowed through the dark, before the shadows flew away like snakes.
What happened to the wicked was freighting. Unkaind's colors and details were still the same, but her humanoid appearance had been transformed into a snake with sharp fangs.
"What just happened to her!" Jibanyan asked.
"Um, well, she, she?" Whisper said as he frantically looked up, but he couldn't find anything, "I-I-I, I don't know, this has never happened before!".
The serpent breathed heavily, before slowly cackling, "Heheheh, haahhahahah HAHA, Yesssssssss!" she laughed, "I finally have more power, behold my wicked beassssst mode weaklingssssssss!".
"A wicked beassssst mode?" N asked.
"No, it's a wicked beassssss, no I mean beassss, beassssssssssss ,I can't I sssssstop with the hisssssss!?" she yelled in frustration, "Oh forget it sssss, now that I can desssssstroy you and pleassssssse Unkeen-sssssssama!".
"Hah, I knew you had a crush!" Unfairy mockingly pointed out.
"Sssssssshut up!" she demanded, before swatting the mouse like yokai into a wall.
"I was still right, hehe, ow," he said before sliding down.
This left the others shocked.
"How should she hurt her own ally!?" Whisper asked.
"Well she is a wicked," N mumbled.
"Ssssssshut up, all of you sssssssssshut up!" she hissed, before beginning her strike.
N slipped out of the way, but Jibanyan wasn't so lucky.
"Nyaaaa!" he shouted as flew into a fence, with Betterfly flying after him.
Unkaind then turned her sights to Cadin. The bug warrior tried to rush up and slash the serpent, but Unkaind got him first by summoning a water geyser that sent him flying into the air.
"Miiiiinng!" he shouted, before flying into the sky and leaving behind a star.
Dragon Lord then then charged at the snake, the two reptile yokai quickly butting heads.
Unkaind then got the upper hand, erm tail, when she made her eye glow and summoned a dark snake that grabbed Dragon Lord's tail and flung him back.
"Oi!" he shouted.
Unkaind didn't let up, she then summoned more dark serpents and quickly let loose a water attack with them at the dragon. This forced him back a good distance.
"Hehe, yesssssssss, none can ssssssssstop me!" she laughed, "Once I'm done with you twerpssssssssssss, I will exact me revenge on that ssssssssssssstupid girl!".
Nate then closed his eyes, he was getting very frustrated with all that was happening. Which was noticed by Ben.
"You okay Nate?" Ben asked.
"All these yokai, I just don't know how much longer I can take this," Nate said, sounding hopeless, "Why can't it all just disa-?"
Before Nate could finish, Ben covered his mouth and shushed him.
"Shhh, choice your words wisely," Ben grumbled, before looking at the sky "There be old ladies among us, that are waiting like vultures with pocket watches to strike,".
"What are you talking about?" Nate said with a muffled voice.
Ben then looked at Dragon Lord, "Can you handle this buddy?".
"Sure, I got this," he said before dodging a bite from Unkaind
"Come with me," Ben then dragged Nate elsewhere.
A few moments later, in a nearby alleyway,
"Dude, what is it with you and alleyways!?" Nate asked, feeling somewhat annoyed.
"Never mind that, we should be safe" Ben said, "Now what's bugging you?".
Nate let out a sigh, "I was just thinking, maybe my life would be better without yokai," his voice was very unsure and frustrated, "Then maybe, my friends wouldn't be in so much danger!".
"You can't be serious," Ben said, feeling annoyed and somewhat sad.
"Well, I, I'm not sure!" Nate confessed, "My friends have been in so much trouble because I got this watch!" Nate explained, "I'm scared something will happen to Katie, and eventually yokai will mess with Eddie and Bear again!" Nate was feeling frustrated, "I just wish it would all go away,".
However, the time twins Kin and Gin were hovering nearby.
"His frustration is nearing its limit!" Kin stated with glee.
"Soon we will rid him from our plans forever!" Gin added.
"I doubt you'd understand Ben," Nate sighed.
Ben was quiet for a moment.
"And I was just starting to like Nate," Ben groaned, "But boy, are you ignorantly ungrateful,".
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Nate asked, "I just care about my friends okay!".
"And yet, you only care about 'some' of your friends," Ben pointed out, leaving Nate confused, "You've gone on so much about your precious human friends, and yet it seems you don't care about your yokai friends?".
Nate didn't know how to respond.
"I'm right aren't I, I've seen how you treat them?" Ben asked sounding sly, "Have there really been so many bad experiences, that you can't think of any good times you've had with your yokai?".
"No, it's just," Nate said slowly and doubtfully.
"Y'know, the Whisper pal of yours seemed really upset at that he was causing so much strife," Ben explained, "He may not be perfect, but you got to give him credit for trying,".
"Yeah, I guess," Nate let out a slight chuckle, "He can be kind of annoying, but I know he cares and wants to help,".
"What about the cat of yours?" Ben asked, "I mean, I'm not a big fan, but is he really that bad?".
"Well, Jibanyan is pretty lazy, but he is a cat," Nate replied, "But when it really matters, he does come through, usually,".
"Surely you can think of some other good times, perhaps when you helped frog or a hat find its way?" Ben said calmly, while sliding a medal into his watch behind his back,
Slippery,
"Or maybe when you had gone and met your grand dad, surely your yokai must have helped you through the tough times on that adventure?" Ben continued, "Come on, try to think back,".
Nate then began to feel the memories.
He saw when he first met Whisper and Jibanyan.
He then saw many of his other adventures like with Kadin, Buhu, Robonyan, just to name a few.
Nate then saw the time he spent with Nathaniel and how they defeated the wicked with al there yokai.
"Wow, I've, we've really had some good times," Nate realized he had been so worried about Katie, Eddie, and Bear, that he had forgotten about his yokai friends like Whisper and Jibanyan.
"So, do you really think your life would be better without yokai," Ben asked.
"Do you really need to ask?" Nate replied.
"Hmm, guess not," Ben smiled, "So, what are you going to do now?".
"I'm going to stop the wicked and protect all my friends!" Nate said sounding confident.
"Well then, get going and do it!" Ben encouraged.
Nate nodded, before running off.
Ben then looked to the turtle yokai that had a plunger on his back he had summoned.
"Great job Flushback," Ben complimented, "You must have found some good memoirs,".
"Thank you, sonny," he replied, "But I didn't find those memories until now, so how did you know about them?".
"I have my ways, hmhm," Ben softly laughed as he stroked his hat, "Well, can't let Nate have all the fun,".
Ben then ran off the join the battle.
"Okay I'll see you later boss," Flushback said before he teleported away in a swirling fashion.
"How did you do that!" Gin asked.
"The traveler is a sneaky one!" Kin stated, before noticing that Ben was making a funny face at them with his tongue hanging down while pulling his lower eyelid with his hand that had a mood ring, "And a cheeky one!".
Ben then chuckled before running off.
Back at the school,
"You sssssssee now, I can't be ssssssssssssssstoped!" Unkaind bragged.
"Nyo, nyever surrender!" Jibanyan said, though his strength was beginning to fade, while Betterfly had been temporarily downed.
"Then perisssssssssssh!" Unkaind then charged up a water attack.
But before the attack could send Jibanyan to Davey jones locker, Nate ran in, grabbed Jibanyan and jumped out of the way.
"Nyate, you saved me!" Jibanyan said, "Why weren't you helping early !?".
"Yeah, sorry I needed a moment," Nate explained sheepishly, before sounding confident, "But now, I'm not going to let my worries stop me from protecting my friends," he then put Jibanyan down and pointed at Unkaind, "I'm going to make sure you never hurt Katie or anyone again!"/
"Haahahahahisssssss, you really think you can beat me?" Unkaind laughed with hisses, "Go ahead and try, not one yokai you sssssssssssssummon can ssssssssssssstand up to me hissssssss!"
Just then, N thought of something.
"Wait, didn't you get my present from Lucy?" N asked Nate after zipping towards him.
Nate thought for a moment, and then he knew what his grandfather meant, "Great idea!" he then pulled out a green medal that had a familiar cat on it, "Whisper ready!" Nate then raised his arm that had the yokai watch up.
"Huh, oh right, I'm on it!" Whisper then flew upwards and spun before chomping on Nate's arm.
With a flash of light Nate's watch was replaced by the model zero yokai watch.
"Come on out my friend, calling Hovernyan!" Nate said as he slipped the green medal into the watch, before turning the gold rim to 1.
"AH, SUMMONING TIME !"
The charming song then played has Jibanyan walked down the stardust road to the watch, then posing.
Nate then turned the gold watch rim to 2, which played the familiar tune before the watch said,
"Summoning Brave!"
"Hovernyan!" the super hero cat said, "Don't worry, I'm here,".
"Hovernyan, we need help beating Unkaind!" Nate explained.
"I'm on it bold basher!" he said heroically before flying in.
"Yay, he's in the story again!" Ben cheered after returning to the battle.
Hovernyan grabbed onto the snake's body, which it quickly noticed.
"Come in get me fowl beast!"
"Your going to get is ssssssssucker!" she then lunged at the hero. But Hovernyan quickly flew out of the way, causing the snake to bite herself, "*chomp* Yoooowww, ssssssssstupid sssssssuper hero!".
Dragon Lord then summoned a rock that knocked Unkaind back.
"hisssss, I'll sssssssssssstrangle you all!" she roared and summoned a hoard of dark snakes.
They then wrapped around Dragon Lord and held him down.
"This feels wrong," he mumbled.
"Hehehe, get them now my sssssssserpent ssssssssevents!" Unkaind commanded as she summoned more snakes, "Ssssssssstrangle them all, hissssss!"
The snakes then lunged at the other yokai. The cats and Whisper quickly dodged, but only for a short while. They were soon slammed down by the serpents' water attacks.
"I'm not even in this fight!" Whisper shouted.
"We need to get rid of those slimy snakes and fast!" N shouted.
"I got this, Paws of Fury!" Jibanyan shouted and he unleashed his soultament.
It was able to take out a few, but the survives was able lash at the cat.
"Nyaa!" He cried, "Nyo, nyot strong enough,".
Betterfly quickly flew over and started to heal the cat.
"Isn't there a way to make him stronger!" Dragon Lord growled while still held down by the snakes.
"Actually, there is!" N said, "Just use the moxie attack feature on my model zero watch!".
"The what?" Nate asked.
"It's a feature I added that powers up a yokai's soultament," "Just point the search light at three yokai, with the last one being the one who will attack, and then turn the dial from one to two!".
"Any three yokai?" Nate asked.
"Yeah, just make sure there ready to use there soultaments,".
"Pick me Nyate, my Paws of Fury will hit all of them!".
"But Jibanyan just used his, so it needs to recharge!" Whisper pointed out.
"Don't worry, I can fix that," Ben said before pulling out a purple and orange bottle that had a tag that said Volt Extreme and threw it at Jibanyan.
That cat caught the drink, with his mouth, and started chugging it down, "MMH, oh yeah, I feel energized to the extreme!" he shouted as a lightning bolt struck behind him.
"What about me!" Dragon Lord yelped, as one of the snakes were giving him a funny look.
"Don't worry, this should work!" Ben then slid Draggie's medal into his watch.
This caused him to Dragon Lord to revert to Draggie. Which made him too small for the snakes to hold, which caused them to humorously fall to the ground.
"Nice one, yipe!" he said before running towards the others after the snakes glared at him, "I'm ready!" he said after getting into position, his soultimate recharged from the transformation.
"Okay, here it goes!" Nate then shined the watches light on Hovernyan, Draggie, and Jibanyan, before turning the dial as instructed.
The yokai then glowed as they shared their energy with Jibanyan.
"You think that will sssssssstop me, hah?!" Unkaind scoffed, "My ssssssssssssservent sssssssssssshal sssssssssave me!"
The dark snakes huddled in front of Unkaind.
"Go get him kitty!" Draggie cheered.
"Show them your moxie!" Hovernyan added.
"Nyever surrender, Paws of Fury Moxie!" Jibanyan then let loose a flurry of blows.
The snakes were brutally beaten back by the soultament. They tried to bite back, but each attempt foiled by the nekomata.
"Get Jibanyan, show her that no one messes with Katie without messing with us!" Nate cheered, which made Ben groan at how true that was in chapter 6.
Jibanyan slugged all the snakes, Unkaind then tried to strike but she could not overcome all the blows of the fury hero,
"Feel my fury!" he shouted before landing his strongest blow on Unkaind.
"Hiiiisssss aaaaaaaagh!" she screamed as she slammed into the building and fell, her snake form disappearing and returning her to her wicked executive form.
"Yay, I did it I did nya!" Jibanyan cried.
"Sweet job Jibanyan, now finish her off!" Nate said.
"No, no, this cannot be!" Unkaind cried.
"Survs you right for taunting Nate with Katie's safety!" Whisper proclaimed.
Jibanyan was about to attack, when suddenly.
"Enough!" a powerful and familiar voice shouted.
Jibanyan paw was then caught by the hand of Unkeen. He then punched the cat back with great force.
"Nyaaaaa!".
"Un-unkean?" Nate said with fear, still remembering how strong he was.
"I won't let you fools lay another blow on my comrade!" he said sternly, which Ben took notice of.
"Unkeen," Unkaind said, not knowing how to feel.
"Will discuss this later," he said as he looked at the serpent wicked, before teleporting away with her.
"Hmm, interesting," Ben said to himself.
Just then, Unfairy recovered from being smacked.
"Huh, what I miss?" he asked, before noticing all the others looking at him intensely, "Oh my, would you look at the time, bye!"
The wicked then frantically teleported away.
"Thank goodness that's over," Whisper sighed.
"We actually wonyan!" Jibanyan cheered.
"That went well," Draggie said.
Whisper then noticed Nate looked like he was thinking about something.
"Whats wrong Nate," Whisper asked, "We beat two of the executives, Katie will be fine now,".
"Huh, oh I know, but that's not it," he replied, before sounding sincere, "Look, I'm sorry I haven't been thinking about you guys lately,".
"Apology accepted," Whisper proudly said.
"It's nyo problem Nyate," Jibanyan said, "We didny't even notice,".
"Thanks guys," Nate said with a smile.
Everyone was happy, but then Nate thought of something.
"Though is something I don't understand?" Nate said, "How come the big bad yokai the wicked were looking for wasn't here?".
"It was probably just a myth," Whisper brushed off, "But I suppose it wouldn't hurt to double check,". Whisper the looked on his Yokai Pad.
"Yeah, hehe, funny about that," Ben said sheepishly.
"Ben, what did you do?" Nate asked sounding very annoyed and suspicious.
"Oh, um, er, nothing much, I just kind of uh, got to him first," Ben explained.
"So, it was you undoing the seals weeks ago!?" Whisper pointed out.
"Yeah, that was me Draggie doing some yokai hunting, hehe," Ben replied, "Hey, I need to get stronger yokai too you know,".
"But, where is he nyow?" Jibanyan asked.
"I don't think that's important to the plot," Draggie said.
"Well with that said, I best be one my way," Ben said, "Come on Draggie, Betterfly,".
"See yah later," Draggie said happily while waving good, before leaving with his partner.
Betterfly winked before fluttering off.
"So Ben has a powerful boss yokai in his collection?" Whisper asked.
"Should we be concerned about that boy?" N asked.
"Well I'm done worrying!" Nate proclaimed, "I'm going to beat the wicked and protect all yokai and human friends!".
"My, my, where did this confidence come from?" Whisper asked.
"Let's just say, I remembered who all my friends are," Nate replied with a smile.
However, not to faraway the twins were watching.
"How did that boy get rid of that fool's despair!?" Kin demanded.
"He was at the perfect moment for us to nab him, and now he's happier than ever," Gin added.
"If we want to stop those fools from messing up Deadtimes plans, we'll need to get rid of the traveler first!" Kin stated.
"The question is how?" Gin pondered.
Kin then looked at the dragon that was with Ben, "I think I might know how, muhahaha,".
Ben: At long last a chapters out!
Draggie: Finally!
Ben: this was pretty fun, especially that wicked dark beast concept!
Draggie: Yeah well you didn't have to be close to her. Also what the heck is Unpleasant's animal!?
Ben: I'm still not sure, if anyone knows please tell us. Even though its going to be a while before that plot point shows up.
Draggie: I guess school's been really rough on you huh?
Ben: Yeah, sadly I have to work on school again, so its going to be awhile until the next chapter, sorry. Not mention with the show's terrible discussion to change voice actors, its a little hard for me to get in a yokai watch mood now a days.
Draggie: But at least this isn't effected by bad voice acting.
Ben: At least we have that. And maybe those blasters games will do it for me?.
Draggie: Don't you have something your close finishing that's yokai related to tie them over?
Ben: Well, I do have that story of how we got that boss from the school half way done. So if anyone wants to see it soon, please let me know.
Draggie: It's pretty fun, filled with epic bosses, and more of our antics. Hopefully it will be out soon!.
Ben: Remember, reviews equal sooner chapters and better quality stories!
Draggie: See you later, and we hope your excited for the new yokai watch blasters games! Try to find me in them okay?
Ben: Choa!