Just to let everyone know, after the third arc is completed, I plan to go back and rewrite my earlier chapters to add some non-dialog writing, correct grammar, and make them better in general. After I am satisfied with all of my rewrites (which might take up to two or three weeks just to warn everyone in advance), then I will start writing for the fourth arc.

In case anybody was wondering, I have only been using the Monster Dictionary with monsters that have not already been featured in the R+V manga since I did not want to make extra work for myself by doubling up on their profiles. Besides which, this story was designed for people who were already familiar with the manga in the first place (as some of you have no doubt already figured out), meaning that there should not be a problem with me doing it this way in any event. So I hope everybody does not mind me doing things like this and enjoys all of the new monsters that I have brought you and have in store for later (which are a lot).

While most of the Aono Clan was still fighting for their very lives, another one of Carl Reinfeldt's strike teams attacks the Wong Family Mansion. Both of Fong-Fong's parents were away on a cruise together and Touhou Fuhai was also away attending an anime convention. Leaving just Fong-Fong, Mei Ren, and a handful of guards left at the mansion. A squad of gunman invades the house, find Mei Ren there, and fire dozens of bullets through her body. Seconds later, one enemy after another began to fall apart into bloody heaps for seemingly no reason. After the last enemy fell to the ground, the previously thought dead Mei Ren floated up through the floor. She had wiped out the entire squad. Fong-Fong then came rushing down the staircase to find Mei Ren safe and sound and dashed outside to find himself surrounded by the other enemies with sub-machine guns who opened fire on him. Fong-Fong then right away summoned Yankee (his North American Alligator Snapping Turtle) that not only provided excellent defense but a solid offense as well. As the battle heats up, two hooded figures with dark, murderous auras around them watch from one of the trucks and decide to enter the battle.

Chapter 21: The Wong's Struggle for Life

The Wong Family Mansion

March 7, 2017

"Shoot it! Shoot that thing!"

SNAP!

Yankee stood up and started chasing after every bad guy he saw.

"The bullets are just bouncing off of it!"

SNAP!

"Get away from its head! Try to get behind-"

SLASH!

GWUAH!

Another enemy fell to the ground, but this time it was Fong-Fong that cut him up with his Jian like a blade tornado. He then jumped up to avoid the bullets that landed where he was just standing, reached in his sleeve with his left hand and threw throwing needles at the gunman that just tried to shoot him… [*1]

CHICK! CHICK! CHICK!

…Hitting him in the head and killing him.

Another gunman was about to shoot Fong-Fong as he landed, but…

SLICE!

…He was cut to pieces by Mei Ren and her twin Tiě Shàns. Mei Ren saw another enemy that was about to shoot her so she jumped up, reached into her hair bun, pulled out and threw the throwing needles that she had hidden in her bun at him. [*2]

CHICK! CHICK! CHICK!

She sends all of them straight into his heart, killing him. She then lands on her feet with her hair now down and swaying just past her shoulder blades.

GAH!

Seeing Mei Ren not only actually fighting but fighting that well, Fong-Fong is at a loss for words as he slashes at another enemy.

GUAH!

Fong-Fong wanted to ask her where and when she had learned how to fight like that, but now was definitely not the time to be asking questions. He lands between two of the intruders and jumps straight up, tricking them into shooting each other.

Seeing the support troops getting wiped out, the two hooded figures emerge from the back of the truck that they were in and walk towards the still fighting and distracted Fong-Fong and Mei Ren.

"Wo-man, me want kill."

"You just prefer their tenderness and taste don't you, Keme?"

Keme grunted.

Annawan sighed.

"Very well, you can have her."

Keme grunted happily and started walking toward Mei Ren to their right while Annawan walked toward Fong-Fong on their left.

STAB!

Fong-Fong got another one and saw another enemy about to shoot him. He tried to pull his Jian out of the body in front of him, but it would not come out. So he grabbed the dead body, held it up in front of him, and used it as a shield just before the other enemy soldier started shooting at him.

It's good thing they're using sub-machine guns that do not penetrate very far. Otherwise his bullets would go right through this body and into me.

Looking over to his side while waiting for the enemy to change magazines, Fong-Fong is astounded by what he sees.

Is that really Mei Ren? I've never seen her like this before. Where and when did she learn how to fight?

Seeing Mei Ren make a stance after making another kill, Fong-Fong can't believe his eyes.

Wait a minute! I know that stance! That's my mother's fighting stance! Did she teach her how to fight? Why would they keep that from me? What's going on here?

Feeling nothing from the body he was holding and having finally drawn his Jian from it, Fong-Fong peeked around the body to see the gunman slamming another magazine into his gun. He pulled the gun's bolt back to reload it and was then cut in half by Fong-Fong.

"Not fast enough you scum," Fong-Fong stated after he landed on his feet.

Fong-Fong looks up and sees a hooded figure walking towards Mei Ren and another towards him and feels an unnatural chill pass through him. Yankee starts to walk towards them, but Fong-Fong orders him to stay back. Whatever they are, the only thing that is certain is that they are not ordinary beings.

That was when the rest of the Wong family guards showed up from the other side of the mansion after they heard all of the commotion out front. Right away they fired on the two unknown individuals who then dodged their bullets with amazing speed, ran straight down the middle between Fong-Fong and Mei Ren before they could even react, attacked and quickly subdued all of Fong-Fong's men, all within a matter of seconds.

"What the hell are these guys?" Fong-Fong asks himself in disbelief.

The two of them then each dashed toward Fong-Fong and Mei Ren.

"Yankee, protect Mei Ren!" Fong-Fong orders him.

Mei Ren decided to play it safe and jumped back. She landed on Yankee's back with her fans at the ready. The figure runs towards her and to her amazement he dodges Yankee's bite with tremendous speed. Before she even knew it, he was already next to her, and kicked her in her lower back.

GUH!

CRASH!

He sent her straight through the second story wall of the Wong mansion and jumped through the hole after her, his cloak floating down on its own.

"Mei Ren!" Fong-Fong shouts.

"Your opponent is me!" the figure shouts as he attacks Fong-Fong with his bare hands.

Fong-Fong reacted quickly and swung his Jian around and managed to slash at him before he sent Fong-Fong flying with a single punch. Though disoriented from the sheer strength of the punch, Fong-Fong was able to land on his feet and looked up at his opponent. Even though he had taken the business end of his enemy's right fist, Fong-Fong had cut off his left which was now lying on the ground.

This will make things easier for me, Fong-Fong thought to himself. The faster I defeat this guy, the faster I'll be able to save Mei Ren. What the… What is he doing?

The figure in front of him then picked up his severed left hand and held it against his stump. After a few seconds, he lets go of it and flexes his now reattached left hand.

"What the hell are guys?" Fong-Fong asks in disbelief.

The figure dropped his cloak to reveal an ash-gray, grotesque figure, wearing only a dark brown loincloth.

"I am Annawan, he is Keme, and we, are Wendigo." [*3]

This is bad, Fong-Fong thought. I have never heard of these guys or what they're called before, but they seem to be very fast, strong, and their regenerative powers are unbelievable! Mei Ren… I hope that you'll be okay until I can get to you.

Mei Ren coughed and tried to breathe properly and get back up after having been thrown through the wall face first and landing in the second floor of the Wong mansion.

How the hell could he do that? Mei Ren thinks as she tries to get up. How could he dodge Yankee's bite and-

GUAH!

Mei Ren's thoughts were interrupted after Keme had jumped in after her and punched her square in the back, sent her hard back down into the floor, shattering the floorboards under her. He then grabbed her tightly to hold her still while he bent down to bite a chunk of flesh out of her right shoulder.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Keme screamed after Mei Ren had pressed the release button on her fan handle, flicked her wrist to get the hidden blade inside to slide out and lock in place, and jammed it into Keme's right ear. He then jumped back while groaning in pain, pulled it out of his ear, and threw it to the side. By then Mei Ren had gotten back up, faced her attacker with her other fan at the ready, and for the first time, got a good look at him.

"You're disgusting."

He looked at her with a pained expression and grunted angrily while stile still clutching to his ear.

"How's your ear? Getting stabbed in the ear must have been incredibly painful for you," Mei Ren antagonized him to keep both his anger and eyes on her and not the fact that she was slowly inching toward her other fan that was about 12 feet away from him.

He brings his hand down from his ear and glares at her while she slowly bends down to pick up her other fan. She then looked down to pick her fan up and took her eyes off of Keme for a split-second. That was all the opening that he needed. Looking up again, Mei Ren sees him right in front of her and feels his hand on her throat as he pushes her back and pins her down on the floor.

Reacting quickly, Mei Ren slashes at his throat and cuts deep into his flesh. She closes her mouth and eyes and turns away to protect them from the dark gray blood and yellow puss spraying all over her face. The putrid smell filling her nostrils was so overwhelming that she felt sick to her stomach and almost threw up on the spot. Instead of falling over dead though, he maintained his grip on her throat, but his movements froze.

She wiped away most of the stuff that was on her eyes, looked up, and watched in utter disbelief as his throat slowly closed up and healed itself.

What's going on here! Am I dreaming? Is this even real? How am I supposed to kill something that refuses to die like this thing does? What am I supposed to do?

Now fully healed, Keme starts to squeeze the life out of her and lifts her up by her throat. Being jogged back to reality, Mei Ren slashed at him with her fans several times and cut up his arms and torso. The only reaction she got from him was more grunts and a tighter grip around her throat as she struggles more and more just to breathe.

Seconds later, she could no longer breathe at all and could feel her eyes bulging out of their sockets. She was in an extremely bad situation with only mere seconds left to avoid death.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

She had flicked her wrist to bring out a hidden blade in her other fan and as a last desperate attempt to save herself and jabbed the blades from both of her fans into both of Keme's eyes.

SHATTER!

Unable to see her anymore and in intense pain, he had thrown her towards the wall but she crashed through the large window instead.

Fong-Fong looked past Annawan and saw Mei Ren flying out of a second story window.

Seeing that she did not look like she was conscious, Fong-Fong tried to get around his opponent and catch her, but Annawan slammed into his side and sent him tumbling. Looking up again, he saw her still falling.

"Mei Ren!"

THUD!

Mei Ren hit the ground hard, like a sack of flour. Now enraged by his failure to save her, Fong-Fong opened his third eye and attacked his enemy with a new vigor. He repeatedly slashed at him over and over, but Annawan managed to effectively dodge most of his slashes.

"I heard that you were a half-decent fighter, but if this is the best that you can do after watching your woman die, then you're not even that."

"I will kill the both of you for that!"

Fong-Fong unleashed a flurry of slashes with his Jian with such intensity that he forced Annawan to jump back, just as Fong-Fong had aimed for. Annawan looks up and sees Fong-Fong just standing there, but doing something. He wasn't sure what he was doing, but he sensed that he needed to stop it and jumped forward to attack him.

As soon as he got close to him, Fong-Fong stopped what he was doing, kicked him with everything that he had toward his left, and right into the waiting, open jaws of Yankee. He immediately clamped down on him, but Annawan was fighting him by holding his mouth open from just inside the edges of his beak. It would have ended up being an endurance contest if they were left alone, but Fong-Fong was in no mood to wait that long.

SLICE!

Fong-Fong had run straight at him and cut Annawan in half and Yankee's jaws snapped shut. He then spit him out and pinned his top half under his huge foot and claws. Looking towards Mei Ren, Fong-Fong sees the other Wendigo right in front of him and…

BASH!

GUH!

…Feels a blunt pain on the left side of his face where Keme had hit and knocked him to the ground. He then ran past Fong-Fong and tried to attack Yankee. Keme managed to dodge his quick bites, but he inflicted very little damage against his hard shell. Realizing that it was useless to attack the giant turtle, Keme turned his attention back to Fong-Fong.

He then charged at him and Fong-Fong did the same.

If I can time this just right, I can split him in half too and that will be the end of it!

SLICE!

Fong-Fong felt his sword cut deep into Keme as they passed each other.

That should do it! Fong-Fong thinks to himself. Now I have to check on Mei Ren!

Turning around, Fong-Fong feels a blunt pain in his chest as he is knocked back down with something else falling on top of him. He feels a second sharp, agonizing pain in his left shoulder, and notices some liquid spraying all over his face. He gets his legs underneath him and pushes whatever it was off of him. Looking up, he sees that it was Keme and that he was missing his left arm. Looking him over, he quickly figures out what had happened.

I see. When I cut into him, his arm got in the way so couldn't cut all the way through him. After that, he took me by surprise, punched me, and did something to my shoulder with his stub gushing blood all over me. Wait a minute...! That son of a bitch has red blood coming from his mouth! That bastard bit me!

Keme came at him again and Fong-Fong quickly got up to face him again.

"Get down Master Wong!"

Fong-Fong dives back down.

"Fēnglì yèpiàn!" [*4]

Fong-Fong watched from the ground as several white, crescent shaped blades cut Keme up from behind and he fell onto the ground in pieces.

Looking up, his heart soared as what he saw.

"Mei Ren! You're alright!"

"…I'm alive, Master Wong," Mei Ren replied with a pained voice.

Noticing that she was limping and that her maid uniform was covered in blood, Fong-Fong became worried again, ran to her, and held her hands up together.

"Are you really alright Mei Ren? Tell me the truth!"

DOKI!

Her heart skips a beat after hearing his words.

"…I-I-I'll be a-alright, M-Master Wong," she answered with a flustered face.

"I'm so glad that you're alive, Mei Ren!"

Fong-Fong hugged her tightly and her heart races.

DOKI! DOKI! DOKI!

Th-this is s-so sudden! What should I do? What should I say?

"U-umm… Master Wong… D-Did you kill your opponent too?"

Snapping back upright, Fong-Fong remembered Annawan.

"I forgot about him! Thanks for reminding me Mei Ren."

Fong-Fong runs off to take care of him.

Mei Ren thinks to herself as she watches him run off.

Just my luck, he finally hugs me for the first time in my life after everything that just happened and I had to blow it by saying something unromantic like that! I'll never win his heart at this rate!

Fong-Fong signaled to Yankee to lift his foot up so that he could finish off the other Wendigo. After his foot was up, Fong-Fong saw nothing there.

"What the hell?"

AAAAAHHHHH!

Annawan, who had been holding onto Yankee's foot still with just his torso, fell down on top of Fong-Fong, grabbed onto him tight, and bit into his right biceps.

"What the hell?"

"Master Wong!"

STAB!

Fong-Fong turns his blade around and stabs Annawan through his forehead, his grip on him then loosened, and he throws him to the side.

"Are you okay Master Wong?" Mei Ren asked after rushing to his side.

"He bit me! That bastard bit me! They both bit me!"

Yankee then racked his sharp claws across Annawan's motionless torso and severed him into several pieces.

"Thanks Yankee," Fong-Fong tells him.

Yankee then hung his head over Fong-Fong and drooled out all of his spit onto Fong-Fong's head.

"Hey! What was that for?"

"Master Wong, I think that he might be mad at you for having him put something like those monsters into his mouth."

Yankee nods his head up and down.

"Well that's still no reason for drooling on me, you overgrown bowl of Jiǎyú tāng!" [*5]

SNAP!

Yankee had popped a blood vessel and snapped Fong-Fong up into his mouth. He swishes him around to soak up all of the Wendigo taste and flicks him back out with his tongue before going back home.

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

Fong-Fong flew up into the air before he fell back down.

BAM!

Fong-Fong landed on his head and got knocked out cold.

"Master Wong!"

Mei Ren runs to his side and holds him up in her arms.

"Are you hurt?"

"…"

"Oh Master Wong, some things will never change."

Mei Ren dries off his forehead, kisses it, and holds him close, despite the way that he smelled.

"I'm just glad that you're alive, my Fong-Fong."

2

Hong Kong International Airport

"Ara ara, there was still no answer when I called. We'll just have to go out there ourselves then," Amaya states as she rejoins her sister. "How's your ice cream cone, Nariko?"

Amaya is Nariko's older sister. She has long jet black hair and violet eyes. Amaya has short silver hair with dark green eyes. They both appear to be in their teens, but Amaya's body seems to be well developed for her age while Nariko's is a little underdeveloped for her age.

"…Good," she answered and then continued licking.

"I'll see if I can get us a taxi out to there. We don't have the money to pay him, but that can be easily taken care of when we get there. You stay here and watch our things."

"…Okay."

Amaya found them a taxi to take them, loaded up their bags into the trunk, and they drove off.

"I wonder why nobody answered any of my calls. What could they be doing? What do you think?"

"…Who knows?"

"Ara ara, ever the helpful little sister you are. Well just be prepared for going back to work again Nariko. The Aonos are anything but easy to deal with."

"…I know that, Onee-sama," she replied and started licking her ice cream again.

The taxi continued to drive along toward the Aono home with the two mysterious girls riding in the back.

To be continued…

Note #1: Jian – The Jian is a traditional double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. Historical one-handed versions have blades varying from 45 to 80 centimeters (17.7 to 31.5 inches) in length. The weight of an average sword of 70-centimeter (28-inch) blade-length would be in a range of approximately 700 to 900 grams (1.5 to 2 pounds). In Chinese folklore, it is known as "The Gentleman of Weapons" and is considered one of the four major weapons, along with the Gun (staff), Qiang (spear), and the Dao (sabre). There are several Taoist immortals that are associated with the Jian. One of which was often depicted holding a Jian, which was then referred to as the "sword of wisdom". The swords or the techniques used to wield them have been said to be effectively or explicitly supernatural. Due to its light weight and ease of use, it can be effectively wielded and for extended periods of time by a novice with little trouble. In the hands of a master swordsman, it is easily one of the deadliest swords on the planet, rivaling even the famed Japanese Katana (Samurai Sword).

Note #2: Tiě shàn or Iron Fan – It is a Chinese war fan similar to the Japanese Tekken (that were wielded by some Samurai to great affect) that has been used for hundreds of years. They look like ordinary hand fans, but are actually lined with steel razor blades (that were specially treated for strength, sharpness, and the ability to keep their edge) that can cut through most types of flesh and even some bones with ease. Since Mei Ren is still not very good with using the Jigen-Tou (the only part that she can do well is the ability to shift her body and pass through solid objects), she uses her twin Tiě Shàns whenever she can. They also pack a hidden surprise.

Additional note: I bet you all thought that I had created an Akuha knock-off, huh?

Note #3: Monster Dictionary: Wendigo – It is a creature appearing in the legends of the Native American Algonquian tribe. It is a malevolent monster with inhuman strength and that can physically transform into a human at will. It is believed that they used to be humans once, but developed such an intense craving for human flesh that they turned into cannibals and then into evil spirits. No matter how much they eat, it is never enough. An exiting account passed down through the Algonquian tribes describes them in grim detail.

"The Wendigo was very thin and bony to the point where it looked like a skeleton with skin. Its skin was dried up and pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a thin skeleton recently dug up from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [...] Unclean and suffering from many pus filled wounds on its flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption."

They are very fast, strong, vicious, and have unreal regenerative abilities. They normally act on their instincts alone. However, some of them were able to either preserve some of their old higher brain functions or regain them in time and are able to think and talk like normal human beings instead of near-mindless killing machines. The only being capable of controlling a normal Wendigo is a more intelligent one.

Note #4: Fēnglì yèpiàn or Wind Blades – It is a youjutsu that Mei Ren performs with her fans. She charges her fans with her youki and slashes them across the air to create several wind blades that can hit multiple targets in the direction that she slashed her fans in.

Additional Note: During my rewrite of this chapter, I realized that my original translation "kaze no ha" was incorrect since it was in Japanese while Mei Ren is Chinese. I corrected it by translating it into traditional Chinese.

Note #5: Jiǎyú tāng means turtle soup in traditional Chinese.

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