Chapter 48~
Rin felt his heart sink even lower, as him and his classmates looked up at the huge lantern sitting in front of a wheelbarrow. The demon wondering how anyone of them would be able to get it back to camp, and seeing why Miwa had called on Bon and Shima for help.
"You were right," Shima spoke, as he looked up at the huge lantern; his staff resting against his shoulder. "this is impossible alone."
"This is the lantern? It's huge" Rin practically yelled, reminding himself to kill his younger brother later for giving them this test.
"It looks like a stone garden lantern." Shiemi spoke beside him, as hand over her mouth in awe.
"It's a peg lantern." Bon spoke up, as they turned and looked at him. "It waits in the night for someone to light it, and as soon as it's been lit it starts moving, and hunts living things and uses them as fuel. Usually women are its favorite. It's a demon that stops moving with dawn or when it's fuel runs out."
"When I saw it, I thought maybe we had misinterpreted the mission." Miwa spoke, as he looked at them.
"Yeah. This training requires cooperation." The demon's boyfriend spoke, just as Shima interrupted with one of his jokes.
"Oh, Bon? I recall you saying something about "no helping each other"?" Shima teased.
"That's because he said that there are only three permissions!" The older teen almost yelled, frowning at his friend.
"Yeah, he never said only three people, didn't he?" Miwa asked, as he interrupted the two of them.
"Let's all get to it." Bon spoke, as he looked at them and the demon mentally sighed. "Does anyone have Kamiki's or Takara's number?"
All four of them gave the older teen a shake of the head and the demon slightly frowned, wondering where Bon was going with all this.
"I've asked Izumo a bunch of time, but she never gave me her number." Shima said, a disappointed look on his face, before he added. "Before I met Sensei."
"Anyway, I thought up a formation for how the five of us can carry this." Miwa spoke, raising his hand.
It taking them no time at all to get in the formation Miwa came up with and the demon to anxiously grip the handlebar to the wheelbarrow, wondering why in the hell he was supposed to drag the lanterns weight all by himself. As Miwa climbed into the wheelbarrow and place a tag on the lantern.
"I'll seal it so that it can't move when we light it." The smaller teen spoke, as he looked at all of them and started to explain. "Bon memorized the whole of the sutra we need, so he'll do the chanting. We should gather some demon bugs to feed the peg lantern with. It needs feeding so that the fire won't go out. That will be your job Moriyama."
The teen spoke, as he gave Shiemi his lit flashlight and lit the lantern. Shima being the first one to freak out.
"Here they come!" He practically yelled, as he tried to hide behind his staff and Miwa rolled his eyes.
"Shima and I will protect us from the demon bugs attacking in masses." He spoke, as the pink-haired teen was swinging his staff around to protect himself; while Miwa was getting ready to start chanting. And finally the strongest one of us will be pulling the cart."
Frustrated on the part he was the only one pulling the dammed cart, Rin let out a growl and started running as fast as he could with the weight of the cart holding him back. Shiemi letting out a gasp in alarm, as she hung onto the edge of the cart and looked at him.
"Rin, you're amazing!"
"Which planet are you from, Rin-chan?" Shima asked, trying to throw out a joke as he was fending off the bugs attacking him.
Just as one of the demon-repelling fireworks went off and Rin and the others looked up.
"Who was that?" Shima asked, as Rin was too focused on pulling the cart.
"Either Kamiki or Takara." Shiemi spoke, as she tossed a demon moth into the lantern.
Just as the demon skidded to a stop and the lantern tilted up a bit, before it hit the cart again. Bon angrily chanting, as he rubbed his bruising face and the demon panicked on the inside, knowing he was going to get an earful for his boyfriend for hitting his head on the peg lantern. Although, that wasn't their biggest problem at the moment.
"What happened?" Miwa asked, as he walked over to Bon.
"What do we do about this?" The demon asked, as he pointed to the old and nearly broken bridge.
"Lo-Look down!" Shima practically screamed. "There's a ton of them!"
The demon and the small teen next to him looking at the so called 'river' under the bridge was crawling with huge centipedes. As Shima was shaking beside him and gripping his staff tightly, as he muttered:
"I think I might've just wet myself."
"Wouldn't it help if you just got over it?" Rin asked the pink-haired teen, who was shaking beside him.
"Okumura-kun, don't say such silly things!" Miwa spoke, as he frowned at his friend. "And if you wet yourself, you'll lose all respect!"
Just as Bon walked over and grabbed his best friend's staff, as Shima protested and the teen started poking and prodding into the river of bugs. Shima freaking out, as the teen continued and Miwa looked up at the arc on the bridge; tags and seals clinging to the posts and the bridge.
"What are you doing?" Shima yelled, as scared and pissed off look on his face.
"Those are the Seeds of Khan! It looks like something's already sealed here." Miwa spoke, before turning back to his friends. "Be careful you guys!"
Bon pulling out a sketch book, the demon never knew he had, and using a marker to write out a message to them; as he continued with his sutra.
'I've got an idea.' Bon wrote, before he wrote on the back. 'Make the peg lantern cross by itself.'
"But how?" The demon asked, as he looked at his boyfriend and the others were giving him a weird look.
"I see!" Miwa spoke, beside him. "I think I get it!"
'I'll draw it.' Bon wrote, as the demon frowned and started sketching on a new page.
"I thought you couldn't draw." Rin frowned, as Bon practically shoved the drawing at the demon in annoyance. "It looks like Miwa and I bring the cart across. The swarm isn't deep so you can walk through it?"
Bon turned the page and Rin almost laughed at the cute little version of him Bon had drew, as Miwa continued explaining.
"I'll prepare the seal on the other side. On the this side," Miwa explained as he pointed to the side they were standing on. "Moriyama piggy-backs Shima and waits."
"Then Bon removes the seal from the lantern and frees it." Shima spoke in alarm, as Bon turned the page and showed them the next drawing. "Then I run as fast as I can to the other side with Moriyama on my back!"
"And the peg lantern will come chasing the girl. then I'll seal it again." Miwa finished, as Rin looked at his boyfriend and smiled.
"You're so good at drawing!" The demon spoke in excitement, only to frown a him moments later. "But your regular stick figures sucked on the paper we were drawing on a month ago."
Only for Bon to smack him in the back of the head with his sketch book and Shima to let out a laugh, making all of them look at him.
"Are you telling me to dive into the bug swarm?" The teen asked, in a relatively calm tone, it obvious he was second from freaking out; as he gave them a thumbs up and tears rolled down his face. "With Shiemi's thigh's around my head? I'm so dead."
"You should tame your worldly desires, Shima." Miwa frowned, as Rin frowned and wondered why the teen hadn't said a word about his younger brother the whole time they had been out here.
"You're so mean, Miwa!" Shima pouted.
"Then I'll carry her too, dammit." Rin sighed, getting a somewhat thankful look from the pink-haired teen.
"Hold on tight." Rin spoke, as Shiemi gripped the hair on his head and gave him a small nod.
Shima and Miwa standing across the way, the pink-haired teen having begged the demon to carry him across the river of bugs while he sat in the empty wheelbarrow. Which only made the task a little harder, but the last thing he needed was Shima's screaming his head off, if he tried to cross the bridge and fell. Not even Yukio would be happy after that, especially if he had to hear about it for the next week. None the less, now he had the task of getting Shiemi across the river of bugs while the peg lantern went after them. Which actually made carrying Shima and the wheelbarrow sound a lot more fun than trying not to get eaten by a demon lantern, but he wasn't going to complain at the moment.
Only for the demon to stand up and the girl clinging to her to desperately cling to his hair and let out a few protests, as he jumped into the river of bugs and definitely wished he could carry the wheelbarrow over again. Already having lost a good clump of hair, from Shiemi practically yanking it out of his skull, and was now walking through the bugs.
"Be careful." Rin almost growled, as he was trying to ignore the pain.
"Sorry." Shiemi apologized, as she rubbed the spot where she ripped the hair out of his head.
Only for the demon to hear Shima complain, as he hid behind a tree, and Miwa called out to them.
"I'm ready!"
"We're ready too!" Rin called out, as he turned and gave his boyfriend a thumbs up, before grabbing his classmates leg to keep her steady.
As Bon pulled the tag off the lantern and called out to them, having no need to continue with his sutra.
"Get going!"
In seconds the lantern came to life and looked around till it saw the demon and Shiemi, hearts filling up his eyes as Rin mentally groaned and it ran after them.
"It saw you!" Rin yelled, as he started running across the river of bugs and toward Miwa and Shima.
"This way!" Shiemi yelled, as she looked back at the lantern and the demon growled.
"Don't go calling it!" The teen yelled, as he ran faster and realized it was almost on top of them.
Only for the demon to throw his classmate the rest of the way, and for her to land in a bush. Completely unharmed and looking around in confusion, as the lantern landed back in the wheelbarrow and Miwa slapped the tag back on it. Sealing the lantern, before it could run off, and starting over the sutra Bon had started earlier.
"Rin, you did it!" Shiemi called out, as the demon leaned against the rock wall of the river and tried to catch his breath; laughing a little.
"Rin-chan, come on out." Shima spoke, as he appeared above him and held out a hand.
"I'm fine." The demon spoke, as he easily climbed out of the river of bugs and Bon ran across the nearly broken bridge.
The demon leaning against the arches post, as Bon made it to the other side and the demon let out a sigh of relief.
"Now this is one less thing to worry about." Rin spoke, just as a creaking sound sounded under is hand and everyone froze.
The arch falling backwards and into the river of bugs, as it fell apart and a few tags flew through the air.
"Rin, behind you!" Shiemi called out.
The demon looking at her in question, before something wrapped around his leg and arm. Pulling him backwards and off the ground, as a huge moth like demon came out of the river of bugs and he let out a scream.
Scarlett: Here's your next chapter guys! Enjoy! *grins*
Akira: *frowns at her* that's it? No random comment about your life or your mental problems?
Scarlett: *frowns at Akira* Do I need to share every waking moment of my life with the world?
Akria: You have so far
Scarlett: *growls at and throws a book at Akira* Anyway! Enjoy your new chapter! I'll have a double posting next week so leave lots of reviews!
Akira: *angerily rubbing back of head and glaring at Scarlett* i really hope Drew changes you back soon
Scarlett: *ignores comment* now, if you excuse me I'm going to play Sim3 on my computer. *squeals like a fangirl* I have my Ao no Exorcist Yaoi pairs all in one household!
Akira: Great the world is coming to an end... *gives her a warning look* who'd you stick in the house?
Scarlett: *thinks* Bon and Rin, Shima and Yukio, and I had to have adults so I put Amaimon and Mesphito as the adults.
Akira: *frowns* I'm suprised they aren't killing each other.
Scarlett: *nervously laughed* well...Yukio and Amaimon get into fights really often for some odd reason, but everyone else is fine.
Akira: *frowns and looks at Yukio in the kitchen scolding Rin* I can see that
Scarlett: *jumps with joy* I could put you, Kito,and Kiru in a house together if you want!
AKira: I'll pass *gets up and leaves room*
Scarlett: *pouts* fine. More fun for me.
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