Chapter 20: Yokai Swelterrier
"I ain't talking!" Swelterrier huffed, trying to ignore his cold lower half.
"We've got all night, Hotdog, you will crack," Damona scowled at the fire yokai.
"Every time a yokai has legitimately attacked us, they've been with Komane, while yes he's been quiet the last couple of days, a yokai setting a building one of us happened to be in is a pretty big coincidence," Nate said bitterly.
"Ok, play it cool, hotshot. You've been in worse scenarios," the fiery canine thought to himself, "just have to keep quiet, Gabe's gonna summon me back any minute."
"Not talking, eh?" Damona asked before her hand began glowing purple. The ice at swelterrier's waste began to rise, a chill rolling down his spine. The ice was beginning to get to him, however it did not feel as intense as Blizzaria's.
"What? Did someone open a window?" Swelterrier kept his poker face, "I can take it."
Demona looked at her captive with a sneer, this was taking longer than she'd thought. Then, she got a nasty idea which brought her signature grin to her face. She flew over to Nate and whispered into his ear. Swelterrier couldn't hear what she was saying, but was unsettled when the boy donned a similar grin.
He left the room prompting the heat yokai's suspicion, "they're up to something."
"Last chance, Hotdog," Damona said in an almost musical tone, "tell us who sent you… or else."
"Or else wh- AHH!" Swelterrier was interrupted by Nat pouring ice-cold onto his back, the cold liquid practically like acid to his molten skin.
"That," the oni princess giggled, "So, gonna talk?"
"ERGH," the canine growled in pain, but then he breathed, he knew a way out of this. He whispered, "I'm Mister Hot Summer…. I'm Mister Sun..."
"Wait, what are you doing?" Nate asked in confusion.
Swelterrier's voice raised, "I'm Mister, Heat Blister…"
"Knock it off!" Damona said.
Finally, he screamed, "I'M MR. HUNDRED AND ONE!" his elemental core lit up as he shattered the ice, freeing himself. Nate could swear he heard heavy metal in the background.
"WHAT!?" Damona said in shock, lighting her hands to freeze him again.
"Not this time!" Swelterrier yelled as his fiery aura swirled, "HEAT WAVE!"
His sword appeared in his clutch as he did a slash of flames launching it at Damona. She used her ice to form a wall blocking it.
"I never wanna see a day, that's under 60 degrees, I'd rather have it eighty, or a hundred degrees," Swelterrier continued as the room temperature increased. Damona began to feel purple sweat drip down her face.
"They call me, Swelterrier, whatever I touch… Starts to burn in my clutch, I'm too much," the canon continued his little theme song, the room becoming hotter by the second.
In a desperate moment, Nate got an idea.
"CALLING FAUX KAPPA!" he said taking out said yokai's medal, "Yokai medal, do your thing!
"SUMMONING, CHARMING!" the watch chimed as the pink runes burst into the room.
"Alarming! Boom, boom, wala wala, dance dance, CHARMING!"
"Faux Kappa!" the turtle demon said on his arrival, "what's the word, chief?"
"Thank goodness," Nate sighed, "Swelterriers trying to do something to Damona, he's a living fire-hazard so she can't fight him alone."
"Fire, huh?" Faux smirked, "I got this."
"I'm Mister Hot Summer-" "HEY MUTT!" Swelterrier was interrupted, his attention turned to the kappa before him.
"Ya call that music?" Faux asked in a cocky demeanor. Suddenly, the unexplained metal music was replaced with much more freestyle music. Faux kappa did a wave like dance as his sea-green aura flowed like a whirlpool, then he began rapping, "Sorry Hotdog, but you gotta go, try as you might, you can't match my flow. I'm the toughest fighter from the deep, now I gonna extinguish this creep! Faux Kappa is here with the save, now stand back, imma hitcha with a MEGA WAVE!"
The kappa's aura faded as Faux leaped into the air, being surrounded by growing water particles. The particles became a large body of water which the turtle slammed down on top of swelterrier, hitting him with the force of a tidal wave.
The now soaked fire yokai, shivered, "I-i'm M-m-m-mister h-h-hot-" "Hey Hotshot!"
The yokai looked to Damona, who was now on the offencive, "COOL IT!"
She sent a blast of her ice toward him, effectively crawling up and freezing Swelterrier's wet skin. In the end, he looked like an ice sculpture of his former self, with the exception of his face, which was a clear expression of pain.
Seeing her handy work, the oni princess smiled, then turned to Faux, "I didn't know kappa could rap."
At this, Faux's cheeks turned a deeper green, "Uh… well you know, I got pretty into it a couple years back, no biggie."
Damona laughed at his discomfort, then flew over to Swelterrier, "last chance, tell me what I want to know, or I lock you in the freezer!"
"O-o-o-k-k-k, I-i-i-i'll t-t-tell y-y-you!" the canine said in pain, "t-t-the O-order s-sent m-me."
At that, Damona's grin was replaced with a look of worry, "wh-who?"
"T-the O-order o-o-of T-the C-cross!" Swelterrier spat out.
At that Damona's expression became one of fear, flash back's ran through her mind, "DEMONS HOLD NO PLACE HERE!"
"The Order of the Cross?" Nate asked in confusion, "What's that?
His demonic fiance did not reply. She was frozen in place, a fear she thought would never come had taken hold of her.
"Damona?" Nate said as he worried for her, he went to touch her shoulder, but she swatted his hand away in a panic, he saw the terror in her eyes, "Damona are you-"
He was cut off by Damona flying out of the room in a silent panic, tears in her eyes. She heard Nate call for her, but she didn't look back, she just kept moving.
From above, two yokai that resembled old women watched her with great interest.
"I do believe we have an opportunity, sister," one said.
"Yes, indeed," the other replied.