Disclaimer: I don't own Pikachu or the Ronins. Neither does the Streamer Ninja. I own the Streamer Ninja.

"This is driving me insane!" yelled Jett at the top of her lungs.

It was three months later and the situation in the spirit world and the physical world were growing worse by the day. More demons were appearing and taking civilians, and the Twin Warriors could do nothing about it. Either they were blocked by their 'guests' or couldn't get out due to other factors.

At the moment, they were sitting in a meadow. The cold air from the north blew, making them shiver. No snow had fallen yet, but to the girls it was a blessing, or they'd be sitting in the snow as well as damp ground. They had to resort to this sort of thing to be able to talk about what they were to do with the constant rising of demons and not being able to fight them because of problems on the home front. Still, the girls were determined to keep their reputation as demon slayers.

"I know…." Sighed Opal. "I can't do anything without having my rituals interrupted. I can't meditate, give thanks to Mother Earth, do my annual powering rites, or anything!"

"I'd suggest a campout for the next week or so, but not with the weather being so cold and school getting in the way. Dammit, we have to find the power points and fast. The Warlords are getting more powerful by the day, not to mention more insistent. We're running out of time."

Opal nodded and rubbed her temples. "Random train of thought time. Who are you going with to the semi-formal?"

"Probably Jay again, as usual. You wearing your black dress again?"

"Uh-huh. But I need new stockings. My old ones ripped in the attempts to kill off Drew."

Jett laughed. "Are you going with anyone if asked?"

Opal made a strange noise in her throat. "Right. Like anyone outside our small group would ask me to dance. You forget Roy dumped me and spread even more nasty rumors about me after he found out I was a Witch." She was still sensitive over that. Though of late she had been thinking a lot about Seiji, which royally pissed her off. How could she care for one of the most wanted guys in school, especially when he's being such a damned dick?

"Blake is probably helping too. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one who got them to hate us in the first place. You know, I've been thinking. Shin is hot, even if he is a pathetic moron. And it still sets me off he knows Shakespeare better then I do!" She angrily tossed a stone down the hill.

Opal kept her opinion to herself. "Touma just better not be torturing Lilith right now. I'll set him on fire if he is."

Finally, it got too cold for the girls to stay out any longer. They traveled to Jett's house to get some cocoa. Inside where it was warm, they found Shuu pigging out on some chips and Seiji reading a book. Jett gave a disgusted look at them both before stalking off to the kitchen. Opal gave Seiji a second glance as she past, then mentally smacked herself. She sat in a chair in the kitchen to await the boiling water.

"I'll be back in a sec," said Jett. She disappeared into her room. She reappeared point five seconds later, steam seething from her ears and nose, eyes glowing with malevolence. "SHUU REI!" she shouted. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE GODS WERE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM????"

Seiji poked his head around the corner, his visible eye narrowed. "Would you keep it quiet? Some of us are trying to read out here."

"Can it, fuzz ball." She snarled. "Your name isn't Pig."

At that moment, Jett's mom walked in. "Jett, will you please quiet down? I got a headache and you screaming doesn't help it."

"But mom! That person who doesn't even live here went through my room and totally trashed it!"

After a brief argument, Jett stalked over to the kettle to stop it from boiling and poured the hot water into the cups, all the while grumbling how her parents favored Seiji and Shuu. Shuu had stuck his head in to make a face at them. Opal gave him the triple finger, a trick she learned from a former friend. Shuu only stuck his tongue out before going back to the living room.

Opal helped Jett clean up her room. All her herbs and supplies were scattered, as well as treasured books, candy, and stuffed animals. Jett had to reorganize her CD collection and her violin case. That pissed her off even more. Absolutely no one touched her violin without her permission.

"That's it! I'm going to curse them!" she exclaimed.

Opal looked out the window. It was still cloudy and overcast. "I wonder… Think the disturbances has anything to do with them?"

Jett stopped tuning her violin. "I've thought of that. They act enough like demons and bother us like them." She went to playing a furious fiddle tune on the violin.

Opal leaned back on the bed, wondering.

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"Do you guys think they could be it?" asked Ryu for the second time in the last five minutes. He was trying to keep the group on topic, but everyone was talking of the up-coming dance and whom they were taking. Ryu gave up.

Shuu had been forming a plan of total humiliation of Opal and her friend for the past few days. Well, it'd be fun for him and the guys, and whoever else was watching. He was, after all, the class clown of the group and he was determined to live up to his reputation. "Hey Shin, Seiji, I got an idea."

Both of them look at him. "What?" they asked at the same time.

"Shin, I dare you to ask Jett to the dance. Seiji, I dare you to ask Opal."

"What?!" exclaimed Seiji. "I got better girls to date then her!"

Shin shrugged. "Ok." He was going to at any rate anyway, though he didn't know what Shuu was planning.

"Where the hell is your logic?" asked Seiji.

"No, listen to me. You two have been complaining about those two, right?"

"We all have," said Ryu, not liking where this was going.

"Well, if those two was to get back at Opal and Jett, it wouldn't be effective to get Shin with Opal and Seiji with Jett, they wouldn't agree to it."

"I see…" said Touma. "So we get them back by Seiji and Shin ditching them the next day in front of everyone."

"Got it!" said Shuu.

Ryu groaned. This fight between the two groups was getting old. And he wasn't all up for humiliating them. Opal was nice enough—if you didn't say the wrong thing to her. "Let's just forget that, Shuu. That's beyond low."

Shin nodded. "Besides, I got my own reasons for asking."

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Opal mentally smacked herself. She found herself drawing Seiji's picture in her notebook again. Stop it! She ordered herself. He's not interested in you, and you're not in him! She snapped her notebook shut and daydreamed somewhat through her class.

When the bell rang for eighth period, she packed her things from her English class slowly. She didn't feel like going to gym to face Shuu at the moment. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Seiji walking towards the door. To her surprise, he stopped at her desk.

"Hey, Opal," he said casually. "How are you doing?"

Opal looked up in shock. "I'm surprised you're actually talking to me." She replied, voice neutral.

Seiji just shrugged. "Hey, you got a date to the semi Friday?"

Opal's mouth dropped. "Y-you're asking me? To one of the more classier dances of the year?"

He nodded. "Yeah. You wanna go or no?"

"Oh hell ya!" She said, dropping her neutral expression.

"Ok, see you tomorrow during class then." He left for his next class.

Opal raced to her next class. She couldn't wait to tell Jett and Jay during the break for the class afterwards. Once in the girls' locker room, she found her friend, the Streamer Ninja. She was nicknamed this because she was a huge anime fan and was caught running with streamers around her one day.

"Streamer Ninja! Guess what?"

"Pikachu!" greeted Streamer Ninja. "What?"

"Guess who asked me to the Semi."

"You're kidding? Dude, that is cool!"

"Hell ya!"

And it just got weirder from there. Shuu was actually being nice to them, which was highly unusual for him. Although this didn't stop Opal from taking the opportunity to beat him in a boxing match. She had a feeling he let her win, but she didn't care, she was happy. And when the bell rang for her to go to the next class, she went and found MoonBeam first. And she had exciting news too.

"Dude! Shin just asked me to the Semi!" Jett exclaimed. Opal told her who asked her. Jett's mouth dropped. "He asked you? I thought he was taking Jesica. Oh well, that's cool! So are we meeting at my place or what?"

"Your place so you can take us in the van. I can drive Touma and Shin over and I think Ryu is getting a ride with Blake."

"Ok, gotta go. Later!" They parted.

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There was a knock on Opal's door. She almost didn't hear it; she had her CD player blasting really loud. She turned it down and opened the door. "Oh, hi Shin. What's up?"

He came in and shut the door. "Are you sure Jay and Jett aren't going out?"

Opal nodded. "Yes, for the fiftieth time, I'm sure. They just like to pick on each other. She wouldn't have said yes if she was."

Shin looked nervous. "The Semi is tomorrow. I seriously never really danced with a girl I really liked before."

"So if you trip over your feet we all get a good laugh?"

"Very funny," was his reply. "Hey, what's wrong with Lilith?"

Opal looked over to her bed. Lilith was standing on all fours, hair raised and teeth bared. She was looking at a particular part of the wall. She hissed a warning at the wall. Opal sighed and took a stick with different runes on it and forked at the end. She hit the wall with it three times rather hard before Lilith stopped hissing. Shin looked at her weird. "What was that about?"

"Rats. They bother Lilith a lot when she can't get into the walls. They don't come often because Lilith keeps them at bay."

"Oh. So what is that instrument?" He pointed at the stick she was holding.

"Called a Stag and used for some series of witch's rituals. Also good for when you need a weapon." She flipped it around a few times rapidly, causing the air to whine.

"You're good," he said, watching. "Do you fight with a Bo?"

"Depends what I grab first. Usually it's a dagger. I can throw quicker then I can twirl." Lilith hissed again, causing Opal to drop her Stag. She gave a frustrated glance towards the Stag and picked it up. She sighed as she replaced it in its place and looked at Shin. "Sorry to cut this short, but I got homework I haven't finished yet."

"Oh, sorry," he apologized. "You're mom is taking Touma and I to a tuxedo shop after dinner, so if you need to use your other room, go for it."

"Ok, thanks," she said. This was getting weirder by the moment. As soon as he left and her music was back on, she gave the air a hitch kick, kicking Dais in the head. "You stupid idiot. I don't care if you wanted my attention, you morons do not show yourselves anytime when I got people in the room!"

Dais was forced to take off his helmet so the ringing would stop. "I just came to see if you wanted to help us or not yet," he whined.

Opal shot him a dirty look. "If you're so great and powerful, like you and the other Warlords boast, why can't you do it yourselves?"

"Because," was all he replied.

Lilith hissed at Dais. She jumped at him claws extended, and latched on to his face. Dais yelped and with some effort managed to pry the cat off his face without causing any major damage. Opal pets Lilith as she jumped onto her shoulders. "There's my final answer to you damned Warlords. Bother me again and I won't hesitate to shove a stake through your chests."

Dais shot her a cold look. "You and Jett will regret this day." He vanished.

"Uh-huh," Opal answered, letting Lilith rub her nose on Opal's cheek. "And it will be a cold day in hell when he manages it, huh kitty?"