Chapter 5:let's Exorcise.
"So, you and Nyate are engaged?" Jibanyan asked as he and Damona were playing battleship. Nate himself had plans with his friends leaving the yokai alone.
"Yep, be thankful you weren't put into the Crank-a-kai or you'd be in a similar position. B-5 by the way," Damona replied.
"Ah, man, you sunk it!" Jibanyan whined.
"Heh, wimp," Damona said with a grin. At that moment the door opened and Nate's mother, Lily walked in. she had a similar skin tone to her son, dark brown hair, glasses, a yellow shirt with an orange ascot, jean shorts and leggings. She began picking up dirty laundry while muttering to herself
"Oh, yeah, Nate's mom's home," Damona said in realization, "Let's mess with her!"
Lily took the hamper downstairs and began switching over laundry. She was about halfway done when she here and bang. She turned around to see one of the dining room chairs had been knocked over.
"Well, that's odd," she said walking over and putting the chair upright. She began walking away but then it fell again. Lily looked at it dumbfounded. She put it upright again and walked away, she heard the banging again and turned around once more. This time however all of the chairs were stacked on top of the table in a very Poltergeist-like way.
"W-w-what?!" Lily said shaking. Unbeknownst to her, Damona was laughing her butt off.
"Damonya, are you sure this is a good idea?" Jibanyan asked, "I don't think Nyate will like this!"
"Oh, quit being a party pooper, I haven't had a good Haunting in almost two hundred years!" Damona retorted.
"Haunting?" Jibanyan asked with a confused look.
"You know, when yokai come into a house just to mess with whoever lives there, it's at it's best when there's a ton of em!" Damona said, "come on, you too much of a wimp to haunt anyone?"
"N-Nyo I'm Nyot!" Jibanyan said.
"Then do something you think a ghost would do in a movie," Damona said with her wicked grin.
"Fine!" Jibanyan said. He thought to himself for a moment and then snapped, "I got it!"
A little while later, after Lily had called Nate home, she began to take things out of the fridge to make dinner, she set a carton of eggs on the counter. She began to go for the milk but then the egg carton opened by itself, and a sizzling sound could be heard. She turned back to the eggs to see they were now cracked and frying. Then the refrigerator shut itself, and things started floating.
"W-w-what's going on!?" Lily screamed at the sight.
In reality, Jibanyan was using his flames to fry the eggs and Damona juggling the other things.
"You're right, this is fun!" Jibanyan giggled.
"And we're just getting started!" Damona replied with an evil smile.
Later when Nate and his father Arron got home, Lily tried to explain what she had been seeing.
"And then they just started cooking!" she exclaimed.
"Well, honey, I want to believe you, but…" Arron started.
Nate, on the other hand, was completely convinced it not only happened, but he had a pretty good idea of the culprits. Just then, the T.V. turned on and began to randomly flip through channels.
"Wha-, who turned on the T.V.? then the lights went out. Arron went to look outside and saw everyone else still had power.
"Hm, must be a problem with our grid, I'll go fix it," he said as he went to the back of the house, it was almost pitch black outside but he managed to find the box.
"Let's see here," he said. Unbeknownst to him a sheet floated behind him in the shape of a person. Arron turned around and saw the sheet and jumped, but after a few seconds he laughed, "Okay, you got me, honey, now take off the sheet."
There was no response.
"Um, Lily, you already got me," he said again sweating a little, "seriously Lily, take the sheet off. Lily?"
He pulled the sheet to find that nothing was under it, then two voices said, "Boo."
"AHHH!" Arron screamed as he ran inside.
From the yokai perspective, you could see Damona lifting up the sheet, and Jibanyan turning the power back on.
"That was awesome, he nyever saw that coming," Jibanyan said.
"Ya got that right," Damona said. The door quietly creaked, as the two yokai grinned, "he's coming back!" Damona put the sheet over her head while Jibanyan jumped onto the fuse box, the half-demon continued to snicker until Nate pulled the sheet off her, his face practically screaming disappointment.
"Uh, hi honey!" Damona said with puppy eyes.
"Don't hi honey, me! Why are you two going poltergeist on my parents?" Nate asked with a scowl.
"What, you don't expect a ghost to haunt?" the oni girl puffed her cheeks.
"Yeah, and I suppose you don't expect two terrified humans to call an exorcist, do you?" her fiance said making her pupils shrink, "say what now?"
Yes, within the hour a black car pulled up into the driveway, the backseat door opened and a short man with a big mustache, purple cloak, glasses and wooden staff hopped out.
"Keep the car running, phil," the exorcist said to the driver, "I'll only be a moment!"
The man walked up to the door, and used his staff to ring the doorbell. A few seconds later, Nate's parents hastily opened the door.
"We're so glad you could come!" the two shouted in unison.
"Well from how you sounded on the phone this was an emergency," the man said walking in, "how many entities are involved?"
"We don't know, but at least one," Aaron said.
"So how exactly does this work?" Lily asked as the man observed the house.
"It's quite simple," the exorcist began, "I will perform a basic cleansing ritual, if that doesn't work, I will use a higher level ritual, if there are no results still, and the entity proves beyond my power a more advanced exorcist will be assigned to deal with it, if nothing he does prevails, then I'm afraid it's a lost cause."
Lily shuddered, "I hope it's nothing that serious!"
"No need to worry ma'am," the man said, "there hasn't been an exorcism that serious in decades, most of the time they are lower level E ranks, maybe a D rank at most."
"Oh, thank goodness," the two parents said in unison.
Meanwhile upstairs, Nate and Demona were listening in.
"I told you!" Nate quietly scolded her, "now that guy will use the power of christ on you or something!"
"Power of what?" Damona looked puzzled.
"You know, jesus, god's son?" her fiance specified.
"Which god? there's several, and I've never heard of a yokai called jesus," Damona said then thought for a moment, "oh wait, are you talking about the poser from a thousand years back? Dude, noones had any real power like that since shuka got reincarnated! This guy won't do squat!"
"But what about all those stories?" Nate questioned further, "and didn't you get put into the crank-a-kai by an exorcist?"
Damona scowled at her groom to be "Look, he can't do anything and I'll prove it!"
The half demon floated out of the room. She then floated back in holding jibanyan and a watermelon. Nate quizzically looked at her, "what the hell is she doing?"
Damona floated through the banister and dropped jibanyan in front of the trio of adults, than floated behind him. All three of them noticed the floating watermelon, Damona spun around for a few seconds then released the fruit which was then launched in the exorcists face. The oni-girl cackled as Nate's parents freaked out.
The exorcist wiped his face and glasses off and looked at jibanyan.
"Ah, here's the little rat, or should I say Cat!" the man said, "looks like it was nothing more that an angered nekomata, they are relatively common and easy to deal with."
The man began to chant something in japanese, "精神を追放し、家を浄化してください."
Damona rolled her eyes, that is until she noticed something, like some kind of golden light. Her gaze shot toward the ceiling, in the middle of it was a circular, golden hole, on the other side of it was many bright yellow clouds in a sunset lit sky. The yokai realm.
She then noticed jibanyan was covered in a golden aura and was levitating towards it. A stupid grin on his face, clearly the chant was messing with his common sense.
"This guy's for real!" Damona yelled in anger as she flew toward jibanyan. She grabbed the nekomata by the tale and smacked him across the face, "Snap out of it, loser!"
She sawked him one straight in the face, leaving him with a black eye and a lot of pain. The oni proceeded to slam him into the floor, leaving a small crater.
Nate's parents backed away as the exorcist turned to damona and adjusted his glasses.
"Well this is interesting," the exorcist said, "there seems to be a second, more powerful entity in the house. She appears to be a fully body humanoid, very rare among yokai, must just need a more powerful chant."
Before he had the chance to say anything Damona ripped the staff out of his hand, "I don't think so!" she slammed it down on her knee snapping it in half, then threw both halves across the room…. And then burnt them.
The exorcist jaw dropped. The demon girl's face gained her signature wicked grin, "Ya think I'm done yet, Old man?" her eyes and hands glowed in dark purple aura, "this is what happens when you mess with Damona! Shiny Chaos!"
A small ball of her aura formed between her hands, it grew to the size of a person in less than a second. She then fired the orb at him launching him through the door and into the street. Nate's parents looked at the man with shock, while Nate himself just stared at the demon. The aura faded from her eyes, but the grin was still on her face, the fact that she might have just killed someone didn't even deter her grin, if anything it made it wider.
From the street the man weakly sat up, he tried to stand but winced in pain. Lily walked over to him and helped him up. He winced again and said, "I'm sorry, erg, this spirit is very powerful and very violent, erm, I will send another exorcist as soon as I can, and for the time being I would get out of that house!"
Lily helped the exorcist to his car, which soon pulled out of the driveway and drove off.
Nate was terrified, just then Damona flew up to him, "relax honey, I nerfed the blast so he'd go tell his friends. I always got a kick out of messing with exorcists."
"Messing with em, you almost killed that guy!" Nate exclaimed, his voice in a panic.
"Chill, kid, I won't due that to you," Damona laughed, "but if you've got any enemies, just send em my way!"
"Nate, grab some clothes, we'll be staying in a hotel for a couple nights!" Aaron said.
"Coming dad," Nate yelled back. He turned to Damona and whispered, "you'd better keep quiet if you don't want trouble, and grab the cat."
He walked away leaving Damona alone in the hallway, "What'd I do?"