The War Against Drakath
In this chapter, our heroes will tour the Yokai Shrines…which suffice to say are dedicated to powerful monsters our heroes will have to fight…looks like our heroes have quite some work on their hands…
Chapter 34: The Yokai Shrines
The Emperor was still in a trance. Whatever had happened to The Emperor, it wasn't going to wear off anytime soon.
"We've got to find out what happened to my father." demanded Princess Ai No Miko.
Not even my holy magic was able to reverse its effects. If we were going to break the spell, we would need to dispose of whoever cast it on him…and I got the feeling that it was the 4th Lord of Chaos given what he had been up to lately…
I got the feeling that Kitsune was probably trying to awaken the 3rd Beast of Chaos as I spoke…so my friends and I went to stop him…
Our first stop was at the Yokai Shrine in the Bamboo Forest…which was populated by vicious raccoon creatures. Princess Ai No Miko referred them as Tanuki…I wondered if they had rabies or something.
Princess Ai No Miko claimed there was a fiery monster that we would have to defeat if we were going to get to the next Yokai Shrine. She referred it as the Soultaker. Suffice to say we would have to get to work.
It was pretty fast…Masamune34 had a hard time slashing the thing with his sword. And to make matters worse, the Soultaker kept on trying to set us on fire. Thankfully, Blackmagic13 knew a few water and ice spells, so we were able to destroy it before it could cause us any more harm.
Afterwards, the princess directed us to the second Yokai Shrine…which curiously was located in a junkyard. It was populated by Yokai known as Tsukomo-Gami…spirits of objects that had been left behind by their owners, in other words, it was time to take out the trash.
For some reason, a Yokai known as Onibaba was also living there…she was basically an old crone that tried to cast nasty spells on us. Why she was living there I'm not actually sure…Anyways, Masamune34 himself got turned into a frog, the poor guy. It took me a while to find the spell to change him back to normal.
"That was horrible…" stated Masamune34, letting out a frog croak. Curiously, he mentioned this happening to one of his adversaries previously. How long had they been fighting the Chaos Lords?
Our next target was the Yokai River. It was populated by undead…which Princess Ai Ni Miko referred to as Funa-Yurei. It was also populated by our old friends, the Kappa. There was also a Yokai there known as Yure-Onna, a snake woman that kept on trying to ensnare us with her coils and bite us with her venomous teeth…suffice to say that was where my healing spells came in handy.
Our next target was the graveyard. Unfortunately, Princess Ai No Miko wasn't able to travel with us. How unfortunate…then again I suppose it wouldn't be in our best interest if she ended up getting injured either…even if I did have holy magic that could nurse her back to health…
Anyways, on the way to the bridge, we met someone who told us about the background of Kitsune…apparently, he joined Drakath due to the fact that he thought the emperor was allowing too many humans on the island…I wonder what humans ever did to him…apparently he was the one responsible for all the Yokai plaguing Yokai Isle.
We met a strange cat creature there…who sent us off to defeat the creatures that had been plaguing the graveyard that were known as Skello Kitties…unfortunately, he was in cahoots with Kitsune…and the quests he gave us were actually him trying to stall us so that the Chaos Shogun could finish summoning it without interruption.
Suffice to say, Blackmagic13 was not amused, and quickly burnt him to a crisp with a fire spell. He immediately surrendered and told us where we could find Kitsune.
"Please don't hurt me! I'll do anything!" he screamed.
But by the time we got there, we were already too late…
We could only watch as the 3rd Beast of Chaos emerged through the roof…
"Now that I've summoned the 3rd Beast of Chaos…I suppose I won't need this anymore." stated Kitsune, dropping the sword on the floor.
O-Dokoru immediately got angry and began attacking us, pummeling with its fists.
Suddenly, the monster grabbed Masamune34 and Blackmagic14 with its hands and started squeezing them both.
What in Lore was I going to do?
This is quite the cliffhanger isn't it? Don't worry, we'll find out what happens in the next chapter…of course then again you all probably know what's going to happen next…