Chapter 17: Yo-criminal: Falsina

"Ready?" a much younger damona said to a small, toddler Yuki-onna with green hair.

"Gah!" the smaller yokai cheered.

"Ok!" the older child said putting her hands out in front of her. They began to glow as a purple snowflake formed in her hands. She gave it a push upward, it flew to the high ceiling of the room creating a purple cloud, from which light violet snow began to fall.

The toddler giggled as the snow fell to the floor.

"Wanna build a Snow-kai?" Damona asked.

"GAH!" her little sister cheered.

"Damona?" she heard a voice echo through the halls. Suddenly she was her grown self again, glacial clip and all. Within a couple seconds the scene changed to a burning village in the middle of winter.

"This… this is where…" she began saying, she turned back to her sister who was replaced by a tall man in a black cloak with a cross on his chest, his face obscured.

"Demon…" he said in a cold, hate filled voice.

"No… not again! I-i just got out!" Damona pleaded floating backward in fear.

"Damona?" the voice said again. The demon princess was in a panic as more cloaked men appear, some with yokai at their backs, others armed with staffs like the exorcist she attacked wielded.

"DEMONS HOLD NO PLACE IN THIS WORLD!" they all said as they began chanting, energy flowing between them all.

"Damona!" Nate yelled shaking his fiance awake, a look of distaste on his face.

"Huh? Oh thank Enma, it was just a nightmare," the oni girl sighed, she rose from the bed realizing that it was colder than usual, she looked to the side to see the room was filled with purple snow, "uh…"

"You made it snow in your sleep, hence why I woke you up," Nate sighed.

"Oh… my bad," Damona said lifting her arms, the frozen purple water glowed and began floating toward her, absorbing into her skin as the room became normal temperature.

"What were you dreaming about anyw-" Nate was about to finish yet realized she had stopped paying attention and was now on her yokaI-pad. She opened her face time app and rung up her dad. After a few seconds the screen turned to Plundros, who appeared to be yelling at someone.

"Fer the last time, Ogralus, ye ain't gettin a raise! Gargaros does the most work and Orcanos manages, that's why they're paid more! If I hear ye ask again!" he yelled at someone off camera.

"Uh, sir," a leadoni said tapping his shoulder.

"What?" he asked before noticing Damona on the screen, she gave a little wave, "hi, dad."

"Oh, ahoy, me daughter. Sorry about that, ye caught yer daddy in the middle of business," Plundros said rubbing the back of his head, "wacha need?"

"Well, i've been wondering… what happened to Falsina?" his daughter asked.

"Wait, who?" Nate questioned.

"My sister, Falsina, haven't seen her since she was a tiny," Damona said in a cutesy voice," OME, it's been almost two hundred years, she probably gotten her glacial clip by now!"

"Actually," Plundros started, but pause choosing carefully how to say this, "well, ye see… what with ye mother's imprisonment and ye goin missin… Falsina became somewhat of a… problem child."

"She what?" his elder daughter questioned.

"She started becomin' more and more of a trouble maker, settin off fireworks toward houses, floodin rooms in the pallace, freezin' a schoolmate's skirt," Plundros listed off, "I tried to talk her down but she ended up running away from home."

"She did what?" Damona shouted in shock.

"Well given she's your sister, i'm not surprised," her fiance sighed.

"Now, I know where she be, but every time I try to talk some sense into the lass, she shuts me out!" the oni king sighed, "maybe ye can set her strait, she always did admire her big sister!"

Damona nodded as coordinance were sent via email. About 45 minutes later, Nate and Damona had found an abandoned shed on mount wildwood that had a sign that read, "KEEP OUT!" although it was written in crayon on cardboard so this was likely the place.

"This is the place," Damona said looking up from her yokaI-pad.

"So, we doing this good cop/bad cop?" Nate asked.

"Um… sure. Falsina is my sister, so I'll be good cop," his fiance replied.

"Got it," Nate gave a thumbs up. Damona held up her hand about to blow the door down, but he stopped her saying, "No, you're the good cop, bad cop takes down doors."

The watch user took a deep breath, then kicked the door, a crack was heard as he was frozen in pain near the foot.

"Want me to do it?" Damona asked with a smirk.

"Yes," he said falling over. The half yuki-onna resumed the attack and blew the door down with a blast of her black energy. The door went down in a blast of smoke, when the dust cleared Nate began illuminating the shed with his watch, he saw several purple figures leap out of sight, hiding in the various boxes scattered throughout the shed. Where they had fled from was a clearing in the middle with a carpet, monopoly set laid out, and had an old T.V. set to a cartoon channel.

"HELLO!" Damona called out, "we know you're in here!"

"You'll never take us alive!" one yokai yelled followed by what sounded like several others tackling him.

"Well duh, we won't, you're dead," Nate retorted as damona moved to the area of the noise's origin.

"Holy crap he's right!" the yokai yelled again. Damona shoved a box out of the way revealing a green crystal dog yokai being choked by a skeleton in a yellow dress with a pink bow, both of which were black striped, and next to them what looked like a sentient puff of yellow smoke;

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Wanted: Dullebel, Wutring, and Fussky

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"Alright, fess up…" Damona started before the dog said, "Ok, it was me who replaced all the ketchup at Nomburger with hot sauce!"

The half demon just stared at him for a couple seconds, before saying, "where's Falsina?"

"Who wants to know?" Dullebel asked in a harsh tone before Damona grabbed her by the collar and ignited her hand making it clear she wasn't messing around, "uh, she's…. Uh."

"Damona?" a young feminen voice said catching the attention of both Nate and Damona, the ladder dropping the skeleton yokai. Walking from behind one of the boxes came a shorter version of Damona with green hair, blue clothing, and a little pink hood wrapped around her head, "is it really you?"

"Falsina!" Damona exclaimed at the sight of her sister.

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Wanted: Falsina

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"What…. Happened to you?" Falsina eyed her elder sister, she didn't look a day older than when she disappeared.

"It's complicated," Damona said, "why don't you come with us, then we can explain."

"Absolutely not!" Fussky yelled running between them, "Falsina is a valued member of our gang and if you want to take her you'll have to go through m-"

He only barely finished that sentence before he was immediately frozen.

"You really suck at being good cop, " Nate sighed.

Falsina took notice of the human and asked, "wait, who's he?"

"Oh, this is Nate, my fiance," Damona told her.

"Wait, so I have an… ONI-CHAN!" Falsina said clinging to Nate's leg.

"Uh, looks like she likes you," Damoan sighed a little.

"Ya think?" Nate replied.