Chapter 7:Hyakki-hime
"PAWS OF FURY!" jibanyan yelled as he unleashed his barrage of punches on an incoming camaro. After the third punch the car increased speed knocking him into a tree.
"Heh, wimp," Damona laughed from a lawn chair, she then turned to her fiance and said, "Aw, isn't this just swell, the hot summer sun, Jibanyan getting hit by trucks, a girl could get used to this! Refill!" she held a near empty glass to No-bot, whom took it and poured in some lemonade.
"Why do you enjoy the pain of others, so much?" Nate asked with a sigh.
"It's funny," the demon smirked. Her human groom to be turned his back on her, "What's your problem?"
Nate looked at her with a frown and spoke with an aggravated tone, "My problem is that you keep throwing caution to the whim and hurting people, first you taunt an emotionally broken cat, than you haunt my parents, and to top it off you sent someone to the hospital yesterday."
"He had it coming," Damona scoffed.
Jibanyan came limping over to the couple holding his left paw, "how'd I do?"
"According to recorded data, you maintained the soultimate for 2.6 seconds longer than previous tests -_-" No-bot replied in a deadpan tone.
"Yeah, like a six out of ten," Damona added still glaring at Nate.
"Awe right," Jibanyan exclaimed disregarding his injuries. Her ran back toward the street and prepared for another car, he leaped up and prepare to attack when he and the other two heard a female voice yell, "Hey Nate!" because of this he lost focus and was hit by an oncoming minivan.
Nate looked in the direction and saw the familiar brunette girl in a white jacket, "Oh, Hey Katie!"
Katie rushed over to him, and sat on the lawn chair, not even noticing she knocked damona off of it, "You didn't answer your phone earlier."
"Oh, I was, uh, preoccupied," Nate said rubbing the back of his head. Damona floated off the ground and scoffed, "who's this chick?"
Nate quietly replied, "Katie, she's a friend of mine."
"Friend, huh, ask her what she wants," his fiance demanded.
"I heard about last night," Katie said with a concerned tone.
"Eh, y-you did? From who?" Nate asked nervously
"Um… Doesn't matter!" Kaite dodged the question, then said, "look nate, I think I can help, just… sit still."
"What's she playing at?" Damona thought to herself as Katie reached for a pocket watch around her neck. She held it up and press a button flipping open its pink lenses as a black light flooded out of it. Katie move the light around until it hit demona showing off a black energy in her place. The girl stopped shining the light and Damona became fully visible again.
"You," She pointed to the yokai, "you've been inspiriting Nate!"
"You can see her?" Nate asked in shock be for taking a good look at her pocket watch, the dial had the same design as his watch, at that moment he put two and two together.
"Inspiriting him? Nah, I just hang around, if I was inspiriting him he would've already robbed a bank by now," Damona snickered, but then she noticed something.
"Well regardless, Leave him alone," Katie demanded.
"Hey, Honey," Damona nudged Nate disregarding the human girls comment, "something ain't right here, use your watch on her."
Nate nodded then held out the arm that had his watch, he pressed the button engulfing katie in the black light, two figures were revealed, one an ice-cream like ghost, and the other a lion dog.
"I thought so!" Damona smirked, "so you want rid of me, eh? Well sorry toots, but I'm not going anywhere. Nate, get the cat back here!"
"Fine," He sighed as he took out a yokai medal and inserted it. The watch sung out, "SUMMONING…. CHARMING!"
"Alarming, boom boom, wala wala, dance dance, Charming!"
"JIbanyan!," the nekomata said leaping forward, claws bared. Damona cracked her fingers engulfing her hands in purple aura.
"Whisper, who are those two?" Katie asked the floating yokai next to her.
"I'm looking, i'm looking!" Whisper replied frantically, "Ah-ha! Here we go, Jibanyan, a D-rank cat yokai of the charming tribe, the spirit of a deceased feline who met their untimely demise on the highway, they spend most of their time disrupting traffic by attacking cars!"
"Thanks whisper, and the other one?" Katie asd again.
"I'm still looking," Whisper replied before turning to the other yokai, "is she the one you saw?"
"Darn tootin," the other yokai replied.
"Well then, let's teach her a lesson!" Katie said as Nate mentally asked what the hell was going on.
"If ya want to fight, i'm down," Damona locked eyes with the human girl, "but know this… I fight dirty!" she fired a blast of dark magic at the trio who only barely dodged. Jibanyan jumped into battle attacking whisper, rapidly clawing at his face. Suddenly he was knocked off of the other yokai by a blast of blue fire from the lion dog.
"Hey, you varmint, leave whispcream alone!" He said in anger.
"My name is whisPER, whispcream is a completely different yokai," Whisper retorted in a daze.
Katie kept on her feet dodging Damona's blasts.
"Dance, little girl, dance!" the demon cackled as she continued to fire blasts at the human, mostly towards her feet.
"Don't worry Katie," the lion dog jumped in front of her, "Spirit Dance!"
Katie and her two yokai were surrounded by a barrier of blue flames. Damona attempted to cross through, but was unable, the flames didn't feel normal… they were blocking her.
"Holy Fire," Damona sighed as jibanyan attempted to run through it, only to be pushed back, "Don't bother, this fire is enchanted to prevent yokai from crossing, Priest used to use it to protect their temples."
"So nyaow what?" The nekomata asked.
"We wait for the flames to fall, they can stay in there forever," Damona said folding her arms.
Meanwhile inside the barrier, Katie, Whisper and Komasan were regrouping.
"Whisper, did you find that yokai's wiki page?" Katie asked her butler.
"Yes, here it is, her name is Damona and…" He suddenly dropped his jaw, "oh no."
"Oh no, what?" Katie asked concerned.
Whisper gulped then read on, "Damona, otherwise known as Hyakki-hime, the S rank Daughter of the Pirate King Plundros. Being half oni, half Yuki-onna,she is a deadly combination of Dark and Cold. Warning: Approach with extreme caution, Damona is prone to attacking those who deny what she wants, your best bet is to appease her than escape at the first opportunity."
"Wow, for real?" Katie asked grimly, "if she's all that how do we beat her?"
"Our best chance is reinforcements!" Whisper declared as he pulled out two yokai medals, "You can use the medals of yokai you've befriended to summon them forth!"
"Alright then," Katie said taking the medals, "come on out my friend, calling Dismarelda! Yokai medal, do your thing!" she put the medal into the slot causing it to announce, "SUMMONING… EERIE!"
"Oogly, boogly, flipp a'tedee, oogly boogly, bubba, Eerie!"
"Dismarelda," the deadpan voice of the blob like yokai sighed.
"And Happiere!" her husband said from behind.
Outside the barrier Damona was getting impatient with those cowards, and nate was getting impatient with her.
"Really, can't we just talk this out with them?" Nate groaned.
"They Threatened me, they need to pay," his demon fiance said in a cold tone lacking her usual cocky demener. She heard katie's yokai watch go off, immediately after the flames dropped and too more yokai had appeared.
Jibanyan ran head first into the purple blob yokai, knocking it back a bit. He went for another punch but was engulfed in a dark purple aura. He frowned and slouched back.
"What are you doing?!" Damona demanded.
"What's the point? It's nyot like anything we ever do will ever matter, nyo filter," Jibanyan sighed in a deadpan tone.
"What are you talking about," the Demon yelled in rage.
Katie took notice of the situation and asked in confusion, "wait, yokai can inspirit other yokai?"
"As a matter of fact, they can!" her butler replied giving her an idea.
"Dismarelda, inspirit Damona!" Katie exclaimed to the yokai.
"Ok, I guess I can do that," Dismarelda replied. Her mist like, dark purple aura began to expand toward the oni-girl, who ,at the sight of the energy, gained a wicked grin. Dismarelda's aura engulfed her, but the grin remained. Upon touching her skin, the aura changed from a calm mist to a violent storm, the aura swirled around her as if it had suddenly changed its legence. Damona raised a hand toward Dismarelda, and fired a blast of black energy. The attack made immediate contact within a split second, causing the blob yokai to cry out in alarm. With in a puff of purple smoke, all that was left was a faint, blue flame. Her soul.
"DIS!" Happiere cried out in alarm.
"W-whisper? W-what j-just happened?" Katie asked in pure terror, stumbling backward.
The butler looked back at his YokaI-Pad, "Not good, it says here that Damona's familial line is gifted with the ability of cursed skin!"
"What the heck is that!" Katie asked.
"It's quite simple really," Damona's voice boomed, "my oni half makes me immune to negative inspiritments, but thanks to my father's blood flowing through my veins, any time a negative aura touches my skin, it is added to my own temporarily boosting all facets of my power!"
The demon girl shot another blast at Happiere, reducing the positive yokai to just his soul. Komasan used his spirit dance to set up another barrier, but Damona unleashed a frigid wind blowing it out, then shot an ice blast at the lion dog freezing him solid.
Damona set her sights on Katie, she knew she only had about thirty more seconds of her buff, so she decided to use it on the human who dared threaten her. She began to swirl the aura around her in a spiral. Just before she unleashed her Shiny Chaos, Nate jumped in front of her.
"Damona, that's enough!" He yelled at her. She canceled her soultimate as her aura began to fade, a frown replaced her grin.
"Nate, get out of the way," Damona said to katies confusion. Did she… actually care about him?
"Damona, I've had enough of this, everytime a problem crosses us your first choice is to go guns blazing, well guess what, all thats done so far is hurt people, we done things your way too many times, Let's just talk this out for once!" Nate Yelled in response. The demon let out a sigh, as her aura faded completely and she floated down to Nate's side.
Katie watched in confusion, "wait, so she wasn't lying?"
Nate looked at the ground, then forced himself to say, "Katie, I'd like you to meet my fiance, Damona."
"YOUR FIANCE?!" Katie screamed loud enough to hear it three blocks away, "WHY ARE YOU ENGAGED TO THAT LITERAL SHE-DEVIL?!"
"Well you sure know how to pick em," Whisper remarked.
"She tricked me into it, I freed her from some prize-ball machine prompting an afterlife debt, the only way she was willing to pay it is marriage," Nate sighed.
"Makes perfect sense," Whisper said getting surprised looks from everyone, the butler than clarified, "Damona is a Princess thus it makes sense that if you saved her the only real thing she could offer you is a place in her royal family through her marriage."
"I'm sorry, who are you?" Damona asked him.
"Oh, right, I am Katie's yokai butler, Whisper," Whisper bowed.
"So wait, you're a princess?" Nate asked his undead fiance.
"Of course, where'd ya think I got all that money?" Damona replied.
"Eh, yeah you're right, makes sense in retrospect," Nate agreed before turning to Katie, "look I get you were just trying to save me, but I'm fine, a little disappointed that I became engaged before even getting into highschool, but apart from that…"
"Well, I'm glad you're ok, but.. You? Engaged to someone who took pleasure in killing two of her own kind? I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with that, you're one of my best friends and I don't think I could ever live with her doing something like that to you."
"Oh, those guys?" Damona pointed to katie's yokai friends, "they'll be fine in like, two hours."
"Wait what? They aren't dead?" the girl asked confused.
"They were dead before I blasted them, were the undead, you can't kill a yokai," Damona replied.
"Well, ok, so you're not a killer, but I still think you're insane," Katie admitted.
"Regardless, there's nothing we can do, regardless of whether I like it or not, Damona and I are engaged," Nate sighed, "Look at the bright side, You and I both have yokai-watches, both of us will be able to see yokai!"
"In fact because of it, she might be the only human we can invite to the wedding," Damona added.
"Well… ok, I guess I'll try to not attack Damona, for your sake," Katie sighed, "Guess we have a bit to talk about, huh?
"Yes we do," nate agreed.
Damona didn't take her eyes off of Katie, there was something about her she didn't like, and she wasn't one to keep things she didn't like around.