Chapter 19: Climatic Showdown (Part 1)

Norrisville Pawn Shop...Tuesday...

If Theresa was being honest, she enjoyed her date with Randy after she formed a friendship with Cassie and Lyra, they actually went to a semi-fancy restaurant and talked about non-Ninja and non-Oni things, which really did surprise the Violet-haired Oni Keeper for she would expect Randy to at least acknowledge the fact that they're now two more Oni Keepers in Norrisville and now their stealing even more of the Ninja's 'thunder' than ever before.

Nevertheless, it was Tuesday after school and there wasn't a single monster attack, not a single one in the entire day, Theresa was relieved by this due to the fact that her Oni friends were rather injured after the fight at the lunchroom on Monday, because of this Theresa was rather grateful for the lack of Oni presence if it means that her Oni friends could tend their wounds and repair their armor...Except for one certain thing that can't be simply repaired by Shirokuma.

However, by Mizuwani's humble request, Theresa was currently browsing through a local pawning store for something very specific, a Japanese conical hat, Mizuwani's hat was badly damaged during yesterday's fight and Shirokuma can't fix non-armor headgear.

'Found one yet Theresa?' Miuzwani asked as he and the rest of the Legendary four were all in Purgatory as Theresa was looking around the store for the hat.

"Not yet, you know, in hindsight I should've probably went to a costume store, a way higher chance of finding a good replacement for your hat." Theresa answered as she shrugged lightly.

'Shall we take our leave then?' The Blue Alligator suggested honestly and humbly, his voice lacking the usual smugness or arrogance that it usually bears.

"Yeah...We probably should." Theresa answered as she exited out of the Norrisville Pawn Shop and instead went to a costume shop so she could buy the Blue Alligator Oni another hat.

"Anyone need anything while I'm out here?" Theresa asked the Legendary Four, it was the Red Peach Girl Oni that answered.

'Can You Buy Some Spring Onions For Me Theresa? I've Been Told By A Certain Purple Dragon That A Certain Golden Samurai Bear Cooked Some Breakfast For You, I Would Like To Do The Same.' Pichigaru said, Theresa smiled in response, happy that Pichigaru feels obligated to cook some breakfast for her.

'Onee-chan can you buy me some more crayons please? I have a lot of paper but not anymore crayons' Kazeryu asked after the Red Peach Girl Oni spoke.

"Sure Kazeryu, and thank you Pichigaru for the thought of cooking for me, its a nice gesture especially with all of you four helping me with my daily struggles." Theresa answered with a soft smile as she began to walk a bit more quickly than beforehand.

Elsewhere...

Kurushimi growled loudly as he opened his bloodied jaws to devour some more flesh of a Rat Oni, the taste of its diseased and skinless flesh being foul at best, especially since it was an easy kill for the Hungering Oni. Kurushimi was currently in the Norrisville Outskirts and more specifically the forest part of the Norrisville outskirts, usually forests like these are the main spawning place of Oni's due to the large quantity of animals readily available to be corrupted by the Sorcerer's magic.

Kurushimi ripped out another piece of meat off the Rat Oni corpse and devoured the unappetizing morsel, Kurushimi growled loudly once more as he spat out the piece of meat, already tired of the disgusting meat, he desires more, he desires something more delicious, he needs something that will satisfy both his hunger and his desire for a greater challenge.

He roared loudly before walking away from the disgusting corpse, Kurushimi began to ponder on his next move, he has heard that the Four Legendary Oni are back into this world through irregular means of possessing a single person rather than possessing multiple people, something that perplexed the Hungering Oni for sharing a single body to possess isn't good at all when it comes to the numbers game.

Nevertheless the Hungering Oni needs to be even more stronger than he is right now, he needs more food, he needs more Oni flesh, something that is rare in this modern world of humans, he lumbered off putting on his cloak and hood once more to hide his Oni identity through the guise of cloth, the Hungering Oni heard a rustling sound nearby, instead of just ignoring the rustling noises, Kurushimi walked closer to the rustling noise.

"Who go's there!?" A metallic voice said as all of the sudden what appeared in front of Kurushimi is a robo-ape wearing a bowler hat, he was hiding in the trees and probably accidentally kicked a shrub, that's most likely the reason why there was a rustling sound to begin with.

Kurushimi didn't answer immediately for he noticed the Robo-ape had a vial of green liquid, Kurushimi knows that liquid, its the same poison that turned Kurushimi into this starving brutal monster, despite this Kurushimi wants the green stank, he needs it if he wants to become stronger than ever before.

"What are you deaf or something?" The Robo-ape said as the Hungering Oni was still staring at the Robotic ape, after another moment of silence, the Hungering Oni roared and charged to the Robo-ape, the robo-ape wasn't fast enough to move away from the Hungering Oni as Kurushimi tackled the robotic primate.

"I'm am not deaf...But you being Dead is correct." Kurushimi finally spoke, his voice being deep and monstrous, the Robo-ape was quite astounded when the cloaked Hungering Oni spoke for the first time.

Before Bertram could even respond to the Hungering Oni, Kurushimi quickly grabbed the robotic ape's head and with one single motion, ripped the head out of the ape's body, Kurushimi laughed loudly as he threw the head on the forest floor making a noticeably loud thud as it hit the ground.

"I will be taking your power...For my power will be greater than ever before..." Kurushimi said as he laughed once more happy that he now has a vial that contains the thing that turned Kurushimi into this brutal monster, Kurushimi left the Norrisville Outskirts, most likely to find more power as he left Bertram's corpse to rust and eventually fade away.

Norrisville...

Theresa was still in town but it was fairly apparent that she was quite happy with her current state of affairs, she got the spring onions that Pichigaru needs, she got two packs of crayons (including a large sketchbook.) for a certain Purple Dragon Oni, and she got two of the same conical hats for Mizuwani so he can shadow his Oni face once more and can keep a spare one if the replacement gets destroyed.

Before the Four Legendary Oni could thank Theresa for her willingness to use her own spending money to buy things that they want or need, Theresa heard a scream and the roar of an Oi, more specifically a scream of pure terror, Theresa instinctively spoke to the Legendary Four.

"Everyone ready?" She asked clearly not afraid of the Oni threat, despite asking this question it was rather apparent that she already knew the answers.

'Always!' The Golden Samurai Oni said, the strength and gruffness in his voice making his voices seem more honest and have a lot more meaning that it already has.

'Of course Onee-chan!' The Purple Dragon Oni said,despite having a childish voice that was light and energetic, it was clear that he was being serious.

'As ready as I'll ever be...' The Blue Alligator Oni said, being honest but having that small tinge of arrogance allowing his words to be have more flare and prominence.

'Do You Really Need To Ask?' The Red Peach Oni said, despite her kind and naturally sweet voice it was clear that she was strong and powerful.

With a light nod, Theresa ran to where the danger was, greatly contrasting what Theresa used to do whenever danger or evil causes havoc throughout Norrisville.

"This is all mine and mine alone!" The Oni said with a roar as it was inside a large jewelry store breaking display cases and grabbing whatever it desires, this greatly contrasted the other Oni's for this Oni in particular had a desire for personal gain which could be its biggest reason why it was attacking a Jewelry store.

To describe the Oni's looks it was very much feline in appearance having similar jaws and paws but being skinned and diseased like most Oni, it had a skull of tiger on its right arm seemingly stitched on to be used as a brutal fist weapon and was fairly well-armored in green and black metal similar to the robots of Mcfist's, the armored covering its chest and legs, it only had one bloodshot eye as the transformation from animal to Oni most likely caused the other eye to be rendered unusable.

The Oni roared loudly as it quickly broke another display case with its skull head arm and then grabbed a diamond necklace and eyed the chained jewel with a look of awe and glee, the Mountain Lion Oni laughed loudly, that is until in a quick flash of red light the diamond necklace disappeared in the Oni's hands.

"What the?" The Mountain Lion said loudly as it quickly looked around only to see Pichigaru holding the chain of the necklace she wielded her katana on the other hand and the three other weapons of the Legendary four strapped to her back, the Mountain Lion Oni roared loudly before speaking in its shivery and screeching voice.

"Hey! Raid your own gem store will you! That necklace is mine and mine alone I saw it first! Give it to me!" Pichigaru smiled honestly to the Mountain Lion Oni's words.

"You Want It? Then Come Get It..." Pichigaru said as she turned her honest smile to a smile of pure smugness as she threw the necklace in the middle of herself and the Mountain Lion Oni, it roared in response as it charged to the necklace, completely ignoring the Red Peach Girl Oni with its one and only eye, before the Oni could grabbed the necklace once more it was quickly shot back by a purple bolt of energy.

The Mountain Lion Oni roared at Pichigaru but it was surprised that it wasn't there anymore and instead it was Kazeryu who had his crossbow pointing right at the Mountain Lion Oni, Kazeryu laughed cheerfully as he spoke with his natural upbeat and childish voice.

"Mind if I shoot you down?" Kazeryu asked the Mountain Lion Oni, despite already having a response to anything that the Oni would say.

"I would mind fretfully now get out of my sight!" The Mountain Lion said as it punched the tiled floor and grabbed a large chunk of rock and then threw it at the purple dragon Oni, Kazeryu quickly dodged the stone and then quickly the Mountain Lion Oni with another purple bolt as he spoke his usual catchphrase.

"Can't hear the answer!" He said as he gave the Mountain Lion Oni a peace as he laughed loudly, the Mountain Lion Oni roared as it was fairly clear that it was being incredibly bothered by Kazeryu's childish and inappropriate antics.

The Mountain Lion Oni charged at Kazeryu's its claw raised as its desire to shut the purple dragon Oni increased tenfold, Kazeryu laughed happily as he spoke to one of the Legendary Four.

"Tag in!" The Purple Dragon Oni said as he picked out Mizuwani's trident in particular effectively switching with the Blue Alligator Oni with a puff of blue smoke, Mizuwani scoffed loudly as he struck the Mountain Lion with a swing of his trident causing the enemy Oni to screech in pain, Mizuwani then kicked away the Oni before saying in a calm and collected tone.

"Don't worry...I'm different from the Purple Dragon of the storms..." Mizuwani said with a shadowed smirk as his old conical hat was replaced with a new one, this new hat was bigger than his previous one and had less of a cone-like top.

"You Bastard! Stop switching around!" The Mountain Lion Oni shouted as it charged to the Blue Alligator Oni with its skull gantlet raised, Mizuwani smirked even so smugly as he quickly the avoided the attack with a simple sidestep, right before tripping the Mountain Lion with one of the trident's prongs, Mizuwani quickly swung his trident down to the tripped Oni's back causing the beast to emit a pained growl.

"Alright Shirokuma...You can finish this..." Mizuwani said as he strapped his trident to his back and instead equip the axe of Shirokuma, causing Mizuwani to be replaced with the Golden Samurai Oni known as Shirokuma.

"My Strength will make you fall!" Shirokuma said right before noticing that the mountain lion Oni was actually lying on the floor, Shirokuma scoffed at this sudden revelation and then said in his usual gruff and strong voice.

"But it seems like you have already fallen even before I display my strength!" Shirokuma said as suddenly his axe started to glow an aura of black, before the Mountain Lion Oni could even react to the new Oni Shirokuma quickly drove his axe in the enemy Oni's back causing the Oni to scream in pain right exploding in an explosion of white and yellow right before saying in a calm and collected tone.

"Climax...Chop." He said as he disappeared in a puff of yellow smoke, after the smoke cleared, Theresa replaced the Golden Samurai Oni as she quickly stashed the four weapons of the Legendary Oni back into the duffel bag which also had spring onions, coloring books, and a rice hat inside of the bag as well.

Theresa smiled happily as the Legendary Four complimented one another and complimented Theresa for how 'Possess-able' her body, Theresa thanked the Legendary Four with a smile but sheepish smile on her face.

Elsewhere...

The Hungering Kurushimi looked at the green portal with awe as he stood inside of the same cave of where Shirokuma's axe used to be, right beside the Starving Oni is an empty vial that formerly had some of the Sorcerer's magic inside, it was used up to make this massive green floating and swirling whirl-pool, Kurushimi laughed loudly in response, step one of his masterful plan is completed, now he needs to attract the legendary four to this portal.

His plan to satisfy both his almost insatiable hunger and his battle lust is almost complete, using the dark portal he managed to make using both the Sorcerer's magic and his years of longevity of living as an Oni, the Hungering Oni will go back in time and awake an ancient and powerful Oni lost forever and laying dormant in modern times and then devouring it so he can become the stronger than ever before and then finally fighting and devouring the Legendary Four, and after the Legendary are slain by the jaws of Kurushimi, Norrisville is next, and no one, not even the Ninja, not even this so called Oni Keeper will stop him from satisfying his brutal hunger.