Chapter 9: High tech Hide n seek
The next day, a raven was perched upon a street light staring down at a woman with a shiny bracelet. In a flash it swooped down towards the woman, snatching the accessory in it's clutch.
"Hey, get back here you stupid bird!" the woman cried out, but the raven kept flying
Nate sat on the bench at the triangle park, damona by his side(at this point he did not trust her alone.)
"So what are we doing here, again?" Damona asked twiddling with her YokaI-pad, playing some flash game.
"My friend, Eddie said he had something cool to show me," Her human fiance replied staring at the yokai watch thinking, "why can't this thing tell time."
After a few minutes, a voice yelled, "Hey Nate, you gotta check this out!" a boy about Nate's age, with dirty blond hair, tan skin, and slightly shorter than nate, wearing a white shirt with green jean jacket, blue jeans, black sneakers and his signature orange headphones.
"Hey Eddie," Nate waved as the other boy ran up to him almost out of breath. Damona shot the other boy a glance but then returned to her game.
"Whoo, I really need a bike," Eddie sighed, but then straightened out with a smile, "You are not gonna believe this!" he pulled up his sleeves revealing two high-tech looking watches, one blue, one red. The watches caught damona's eye, immediately making her think, "Wait does he have yokai watches too?"
"WHAT!?" Nate gasped, "Mega-watches?! How those aren't supposed to come out for another year!"
"Cool hun? My uncle works for the company, he pulled some strings to make me a beta-tester, even got me the limited edition red version!" Eddie replied with a grin, "they got gps, internet, flashlight, cell-phone, practically everything!"
"Sweet!" Nate exclaimed. Upon realizing the watches were just human tech, Damona lost interest and returned to her YokaI-pad. Nate then asked another question, "wait so you got two?"
"Three, gave the other one to Bear," Eddie answered.
"Don't expect to see it intact anytime soon," Nate snarked.
His friend sighed, "I know." but then he immediately perked up, "So I was thinking, since these things can track each other, we could use em to play high-tech hide and seek!"
"That would probably be the funnest waste of technology ever!" Nate replied with a grin, "Rock, paper, scissors for the red one?" his friend nodded. The two counted to three, nate threw out two fingers, while eddie held out his entire hand. Nate stuck his tongue out while Eddie groaned taking the red watch off his wrist.
Unbeknownst to the two boys, a certain raven had been staring at the shiny wrist watch with great interest. The minute Eddie took the watch of his arm, the bird took action. It swooped from its perch, gliding toward its prey. In a half of a second, its talons gripped the watch. The bird flew away leaving the two boys dumbfounded.
For about three seconds they were both dazed and confused, then the realization set in as the both screamed.
"MY WATCH!" Eddie screamed running after the bird.
Nate ran over to damona and said, "Come on we gotta go help him!"
"And why should I?" his fiance asked not looking up from her YokaI-pad. The boy shot her a "really?" look, then smacked the tablet out of her hands. Damonas jaw dropped at what her human fiancé had just pulled, "What the hell is wrong with you, that was expensive!"
"So is Eddie's watch, now come on!" Nate said running after his friend.
"Alright, I'm coming!" Damona pouted floating after. The two caught up with Nate's friend who had stopped in the middle of the sidewalk.
"Ah, man I lost it!" Eddie sighed in defeat.
"What did you expect, birds can fly, you can't," Damona retorted despite being fully aware Eddie couldn't hear her.
Nate thought for a moment, "hey wait… doesn't the mega watch have a built in GPS?"
Eddie perked up, "Oh, my god, Nate you're a genius! I can use the watch I still have to track the other one down!" he pressed a few buttons on his watch and after a few seconds of loading, a red blinking dot appeared on a map of Springdale, "let's see, if we're here… then it's this way!"
The boy ran to the left, Nate taking off after him, Damona sighed, "Ugh, more running?" before floating behind them. The two boys ran about five blocks, before they saw the same raven, watch still in its clutch, perched on a tree looking away from them.
"Alright, be quiet, if we scare it it will involve more running," Eddie whispered beginning to creep up on the dreaded bird.
"Wonder why that bird took his watch, anyhow," Nate quietly questioned.
"Probably because it's inspirited," Damona replied taking out her yokai pad, lounging in mid-air.
"It's what?" Nate asked.
"Inspirited, when yokai make living creatures act out of the ordinary," his undead fiance replied, "most of the time you can't tell the difference, so I just always assume it's a yokai's fault."
Nate thought about it for a moment, yes yokai were invisible so them having a hand in unusual circumstance was certainly a possibility, and given everyone who has ever died at any point in history(basically everyone who isn't alive now) it is safe to say that they could be a yokai behind every problem, but he had to be sure, so the young yokai watch user put his wrist forward and began to shine his light.
The black light engulfed the tree, a shape coming into sight near the raven. After the light faded a creature that vaguely resembled a human came into view. It had a large, pale pink head that was covered in what looked like one of Komasan's bags, it had a short, chubby body that was wearing midnight blue clothing and was only a fraction of the size of its head, it had a gaping mouth with it's visible blue tongue hanging out that took up most of the frontal view of its head, and also it had a big head. On the yokai's wrist was Eddie's Mega watch, the raven standing on top of it.
"What is that thing?" Nate asked quizzically looking at the strange yokai.
"Says here his name's Yoink," Damona answered reading from her YokaI-pad.
Yoink: D rank
Shady
"Yoink?" Nate asked his fiance, looking over her shoulder. Her YokaI-pad was on a page in a wiki-like website that had a picture of a Yoink on it.
"According to this they are what you get when you combine a thief and a beggar," Damona read on, "inspirtings caused by Yoink can result in petty theft, borrowing without asking, refusal to return borrowed objects, shoplifting and…" she stopped to reread the last part, "burglebezzlement?"
"So basically he used the bird to steal Eddie's watch?" Nate asked as said bird got off its perch and began chasing Eddie.
"Pretty much," Damona shrugged.
"Hey, yoink!" Nate s yelled at the big headed yokai.
"Huh, what do you want!" Yoink replied in a ridiculous voice likely due to his tongue.
"You took my friend's watch!" The human yelled again.
"So?" Yoink yelled back.
"Give it back!" Nate Yelled again.
"No!" Yoink yelled back.
"Why not?" Nate demanded.
"Because I took it, So it's mine!" the big headed yokai yelled back again.
"But that's stealing!" Nate Yelled for another time.
"What's your po-" Yoink yelled before getting cut off by a blast straight to his big head, knocking him out of the tree.
Nate turned his head to see damona had her right hand outstretched which was smoking, "He was getting on my nerves."
Nate ran over to the yokai who now had a burn mark on his very large head. He saw the mega watch on his arm, and attempted to take it, only to have his hand smacked away by Yoin's free hand.
"No, it's mine now, no take backsies!" Yoink wined.
Nate grumbled at the yokai's stubbornness, then Damona whispered something into his ear, in which he gained a smirked, "Ok then, can I borrow it?"
"Sure!" Yoink replied with a grin almost as big as h-*OUCH! Sorry turns out I am required by law not to make that joke again. Anyway, Yoink took the red mega watch from his wrist and gave it to Nate… at which his pupils immediately shrank, "wait a minute."
"No Take Backsies!" Nate and Damona said in unison, both with huge grins.
"Ergh, alright keep it, ya outsmarted me," Yoink sighed, "Here, anyone who can steal from me deserves it!" the yokai held out a green yokai medal. Nate took it as the yokai began walking off, "Call me if ya ever need'a master thief!"
After he was out of earshot, Damona said, "we're never gonna call him are we?"
"Nope," Nate said turning around and running toward Eddie who was still being chased by the bird, "Hey Eddie, look what I got!"
"My Mega Watch!" his friend replied running up to him, the raven seemed to have lost interest and flew away. Eddie ran up to Nate who held the watch out, "Thanks man!"
"No problem, wanna do the "high-tech hiden seek" thing?" Nate replied.
"Do I!" Eddie answered.
"Go nuts, you guys," Damona said returning to her yokaI-pad.