Chapter 24
The ceremony was ready. The Suzaku Seven stood in their places, surrounding the shrine of Suzaku, where flames rose about the statue. Kristin made her way into the room, dressed in the splendor of the Priestess's garments. She came up to the statue, which was like burning gold, thanks to the fire about it. Chichiri handed her the scroll, and she put her hands into prayer position. She thought hard, realizing that she hadn't figured out what to do with Amiboshi. She didn't bother with the wishes, knowing that this was going to fail. She had tried in vain, with Caitlin, to figure out what to do about the situation, and they finally decided to let Amiboshi have his moment. They were going to let the scroll burn, knowing that this way, they would expand the story, and Martha and Seiryu would finally be able to come in.
So, Kristin said the words of Priestess to summon Suzaku, and then, she threw the scroll into the fire, her heart muttering, "So long."
They waited, the air tense in the room. Nothing happened, just as Kristin and Caitlin had already proposed.
"What's wrong?" Tamahome asked. It was then that Chiboshi finally became Amiboshi, and began to play his flute, madly. Unfortunately, it was Phil's theme that he was playing, which was highly dangerous to the ears.
Everyone sank to their knees, while Nuriko cried out, "Chiriko! What are you doing?!"
Everyone was groaning, as Amiboshi blasted them with his terrible flute music. They were all in pain, laying on the ground, before he took a moment to stop playing.
"Ha!" Amiboshi said. "You've all fallen under my spell!"
"What's wrong with you, Chiriko?!" Tasuki yelled.
"I'm not Chiriko," Amiboshi said. "I've tricked you all. I'm Amiboshi" and at this he showed them his character written on his elbow "one of the Seiryu Seven! And now, I'm gonna kill you all with the curse of--"
Amiboshi couldn't continue because there was a sudden blast of high- pitched sound, and everyone turned to see that Katie had burst through to the shrine, holding up a flute. She was now dressed in a black cloak with a black school uniform and her hair was down, rather than in the little buns she usually wore. She played that flute madly, then stopped long enough to say, "You'll pay for this, Kristin! I should have been the proper Priestess, and now you're going to die. because I don't have Phil's theme stuck in MY flute, I can use my high, killer notes!" And she blew hard into the flute (which was facing the wrong way, and she was playing a lot of invisible notes as well), forcing terrible high notes that screeched in the air, and forced Amiboshi to cover his ears.
"Damn it!" Tasuki cried. "What the hell is up with all this bad flute music!? My head's gonna split apart!"
Everyone groaned in agreement. Hotohori managed to make his way to Kristin's side, shielding her from the blasts of flute. It was then that a soft, pleasant noise was heard. Kristin recognized the sound of music made by a single blade of grass (hey, that's what I thought it was) and knew that the real Chiriko had finally come. Of course he would have gotten troubling visions by now. He would have seen that Sieryu was messing around, and even worse, that the Lone Wolf Warrior was in play. And now, it seemed as though a new foe had been made. (Let's face it, Katie wasn't that much of a foe before.)
"Katie!" Kristin cried, hearing Chiriko's music cut through her own. "You don't know what you're doing. You're not meant to be a bad guy! Just come back over to our side. Just because I'm the Priestess doesn't mean you can't have Tamahome!"
Katie staggered in her playing, realizing that Chiriko had come, and his music had taken off her power off of the Celestial Warriors. They now got to their feet, growling at her.
"Katie!" Tamahome cried. "How could you?! I thought you still loved me!"
"Tamahome!" Katie cried. "I thought YOU loved me. and then you choose Kristin as your Priestess. WHY?!"
"Just because you don't become the Priestess doesn't mean we can't be together, Katie," Tamahome said, his face flushed from the impact of the flute.
"Wh.What are you saying?" Katie stammered.
"You know how terrible it would have been," Tamahome said, "if all the warriors picked Kristin, and I was the only one picking you? We'd never get to the ceremony. Think of it! Kristin and Hotohori are in love, you know that! We can be together even if you're not the Priestess!"
"We. we can?" Katie stammered, sniffling.
"But she can't," came a voice from behind her. Everyone turned to see Andrew step out from the shadows.
"Wolf Lone Warrior!" Tasuki shouted.
"It's Lone Wolf Warrior!" everyone else corrected him.
Tamahome growled. "How dare you. what have you done to Katie?!"
"I've officially made her the Flute Master," Andrew said, his face beaming. He was playing with his little lighter, his eyes flickering over the angry and confused faces. "She's on my side, now. She's going to help me retain MY Priestess."
"Oh, go find a Priestess who gives a damn," Caitlin said.
"That's right," Tasuki snapped. "Why you keep pickin' on the girls that don't want to join your team of wolves?!"
"I thought you liked wolves, Tasuki," Andrew said, smiling a bad smile at Tasuki. "Perhaps you should be introduced to my. WOLF PACK!!! "
From the shadows there appeared five wolves, all big and monstrous.
"Allow me to introduce you to. Monwolf! Tueswolf! Wednswolf! Thurswolf! And. Friwolf!"
"Uh." Kristin said, "did you just name the days of the week ending with wolf instead of day?"
The wolves all growled at Kristin. The Warriors were all standing around her, their faces on Andrew and Katie. Katie whimpered, "Sorry guys."
"Don't worry," Tamahome cried, "I'll save you, Katie!"
Just then, the fire grew big, and two eyes appeared. Caitlin looked up and cried, "Look, it's a pair of headlights!"
"It's a pair of eyes!" Mitsukake said.
"It's superman!" Chichiri said, then, cleared his throat and said, "I mean. Naiidoska!"
A voice rumbled out, "Who dares disturb the story line, Mr. Lone Wolf Warrior?!"
Andrew just put on a sheepish grin, acting casual at Naiidoska's presence. Kristin stood to her feet, then bowed, and faced Naiidoska.
"Naiidoska," Kristin said, "What brings you here?" Though she had an idea of why he might have come.
"For two reason's have I come," Naiidoska growled. "First, to tell you that you OBVIOUSLY ruined the ceremony, and I will give you a detailed explanation of how you need to summon Suzaku in a different manner. Second, I want to give you, Kristin, Suzaku no miko, a special power. since that Lone Wolf Bastard is here."
Andrew growled at this comment.
A pale hand read out from the fire, and sprinkled magic powder on Kristin.
There was a * pop * noise. and Kristin was a cheez it.
"Whoops, my bad," Naiidoska apologized, seeing the horror in Hotohori's face. He sprinkled a different powder on her, and she became a wolf again.
"What the HELL did you do that for?!" Tasuki shouted. "We just got her back to normal!"
Caitlin slapped Tasuki hard on the back of his head, saying, "That's Naiidoska! Don't yell at him like that!" The began an argument right then and there, and Nuriko rolled his eyes. Kristin was pretty sure it was going to end up in another * awkward situation *.
"Never fear," Naiidoska said. "This is a slightly different powder, which I call, the Magic of Wolf. with this, Kristin can turn herself in Wolf form and back again anytime she needs to."
Kristin closed her eyes shut, and felt her self transform back into human form. This time, she was wearing clothes, but they were special clothes. They were pearly white and sparkling, and a silver streak ran through the left side of her hair. She had a sword at her side, made of diamond and pearl, and it shined and sparkled at the same time.
"But doesn't this make the Lone Wolf Warrior more prone to get her as his Priestess?" Hotohori asked. "I mean, now that she's got this power, he's definitely going to want her back."
"I understand," Naiidoska said, "but please realize that this will make the story far more interesting and dramatic."
Everyone nodded, agreeing.
"I shall also supply the rest of you warriors with special powers to help you defeat the terrible, monstrous power of the Lone Wolf Warrior, and his two sidekicks, Phil the Tuba Master, and Katie the Flute Witch."
"I thought I was the Flute Master," Katie pouted. "Why am I a witch?"
"Cause Phil the Tuba Master and Kate the Flute Master sounds to redundant, don't you think?" Naiidoska explained.
Naiidoska's pale arm made a swishing movement, and then Hotohori was in white uniform, with sparkly hair, and shampoo bottle at his side. He also had a new and more powerful sword that shone and glittered just like Kristin's. Nuriko got changed into white uniform, too, with magic bracelets to make him stronger. Chichiri had a change in uniform (white) and . (I don't remember what he got in the anime from Taiiutskun, so just fill in the blank here, but, just for the Naiidoska touch.) his staff turned into pearl and sparkled greatly. Tasuki's fan became diamond, and he was also, suddenly in white, sparkly uniform. The normal beads that hung around his neck became pearl. Mitsukake was transformed into white and sparkles with a special bag of medicine, and Tama was turned into a Wolf cub. Everyone gave Naiidoska a sheepish look.
There was a sound of someone clearing his throat, and then, Naiidoska said quickly, "So I like white sparkly stuff! Fine, you can have your old uniforms back. except for Hotohori and Kristin, because they look very pretty in white."
Everyone had their uniforms back, and Tamahome and Caitlin began to complain. "What about US?!"
"Oh, yes," Naiidoska said. He looked over Caitlin and decided it would be cool to have her in opposite of Tasuki, and turned her brown curls a really cool shade of bright blue, and she was suddenly in splendid robes of blue, and she got a fan as well.
"What's this.?" Caitlin asked, surprised.
"I thought it would be nice if we mixed Fire with Water," Naiidoska said. "When YOU say Rekka Shinen, water will come out of your wand."
Tasuki began to laugh. "Ha! What's water going to do?! Ha, ha!"
Angered, Caitlin screamed out, "Rekka Shinen!" and Tasuki was hit by a large wave of water. He lay on the ground, gasping for air.
She grinned, saying, "Thanks, Naiidoska!" and plopped over to Tasuki, who was muttering about girls and their love of water. two things he detested rolled in one!
"And what about me, what about ME?!" Tamahome cried.
Naiidoska said nothing. "Well, it looks as though it's time for me to go. Good luck, you guys! Oh, and by the way. there's a Boboshi stealing your cheez its right now." And Naiidoska was gone.
Kristin and the rest turned around, seeing that the Lone Wolf Warrior was ready to commence battle. Then, she noticed Amiboshi, writing furiously on his arm. Kristin knew that she was writing to his twin brother, Suboshi, who was a Celestial Warrior for Seiryu as well. Then she realized. that Boboshi number 2 that ran away. he had been stealing cheez its this whole entire time for Kutou!
Deciding not to get in between Nakago and his cheez it scheme, Kristin put Amiboshi out of her mind, as she stood facing Andrew and his new sidekick.
Tension was in the air, another battle ready to begin.
The ceremony was ready. The Suzaku Seven stood in their places, surrounding the shrine of Suzaku, where flames rose about the statue. Kristin made her way into the room, dressed in the splendor of the Priestess's garments. She came up to the statue, which was like burning gold, thanks to the fire about it. Chichiri handed her the scroll, and she put her hands into prayer position. She thought hard, realizing that she hadn't figured out what to do with Amiboshi. She didn't bother with the wishes, knowing that this was going to fail. She had tried in vain, with Caitlin, to figure out what to do about the situation, and they finally decided to let Amiboshi have his moment. They were going to let the scroll burn, knowing that this way, they would expand the story, and Martha and Seiryu would finally be able to come in.
So, Kristin said the words of Priestess to summon Suzaku, and then, she threw the scroll into the fire, her heart muttering, "So long."
They waited, the air tense in the room. Nothing happened, just as Kristin and Caitlin had already proposed.
"What's wrong?" Tamahome asked. It was then that Chiboshi finally became Amiboshi, and began to play his flute, madly. Unfortunately, it was Phil's theme that he was playing, which was highly dangerous to the ears.
Everyone sank to their knees, while Nuriko cried out, "Chiriko! What are you doing?!"
Everyone was groaning, as Amiboshi blasted them with his terrible flute music. They were all in pain, laying on the ground, before he took a moment to stop playing.
"Ha!" Amiboshi said. "You've all fallen under my spell!"
"What's wrong with you, Chiriko?!" Tasuki yelled.
"I'm not Chiriko," Amiboshi said. "I've tricked you all. I'm Amiboshi" and at this he showed them his character written on his elbow "one of the Seiryu Seven! And now, I'm gonna kill you all with the curse of--"
Amiboshi couldn't continue because there was a sudden blast of high- pitched sound, and everyone turned to see that Katie had burst through to the shrine, holding up a flute. She was now dressed in a black cloak with a black school uniform and her hair was down, rather than in the little buns she usually wore. She played that flute madly, then stopped long enough to say, "You'll pay for this, Kristin! I should have been the proper Priestess, and now you're going to die. because I don't have Phil's theme stuck in MY flute, I can use my high, killer notes!" And she blew hard into the flute (which was facing the wrong way, and she was playing a lot of invisible notes as well), forcing terrible high notes that screeched in the air, and forced Amiboshi to cover his ears.
"Damn it!" Tasuki cried. "What the hell is up with all this bad flute music!? My head's gonna split apart!"
Everyone groaned in agreement. Hotohori managed to make his way to Kristin's side, shielding her from the blasts of flute. It was then that a soft, pleasant noise was heard. Kristin recognized the sound of music made by a single blade of grass (hey, that's what I thought it was) and knew that the real Chiriko had finally come. Of course he would have gotten troubling visions by now. He would have seen that Sieryu was messing around, and even worse, that the Lone Wolf Warrior was in play. And now, it seemed as though a new foe had been made. (Let's face it, Katie wasn't that much of a foe before.)
"Katie!" Kristin cried, hearing Chiriko's music cut through her own. "You don't know what you're doing. You're not meant to be a bad guy! Just come back over to our side. Just because I'm the Priestess doesn't mean you can't have Tamahome!"
Katie staggered in her playing, realizing that Chiriko had come, and his music had taken off her power off of the Celestial Warriors. They now got to their feet, growling at her.
"Katie!" Tamahome cried. "How could you?! I thought you still loved me!"
"Tamahome!" Katie cried. "I thought YOU loved me. and then you choose Kristin as your Priestess. WHY?!"
"Just because you don't become the Priestess doesn't mean we can't be together, Katie," Tamahome said, his face flushed from the impact of the flute.
"Wh.What are you saying?" Katie stammered.
"You know how terrible it would have been," Tamahome said, "if all the warriors picked Kristin, and I was the only one picking you? We'd never get to the ceremony. Think of it! Kristin and Hotohori are in love, you know that! We can be together even if you're not the Priestess!"
"We. we can?" Katie stammered, sniffling.
"But she can't," came a voice from behind her. Everyone turned to see Andrew step out from the shadows.
"Wolf Lone Warrior!" Tasuki shouted.
"It's Lone Wolf Warrior!" everyone else corrected him.
Tamahome growled. "How dare you. what have you done to Katie?!"
"I've officially made her the Flute Master," Andrew said, his face beaming. He was playing with his little lighter, his eyes flickering over the angry and confused faces. "She's on my side, now. She's going to help me retain MY Priestess."
"Oh, go find a Priestess who gives a damn," Caitlin said.
"That's right," Tasuki snapped. "Why you keep pickin' on the girls that don't want to join your team of wolves?!"
"I thought you liked wolves, Tasuki," Andrew said, smiling a bad smile at Tasuki. "Perhaps you should be introduced to my. WOLF PACK!!! "
From the shadows there appeared five wolves, all big and monstrous.
"Allow me to introduce you to. Monwolf! Tueswolf! Wednswolf! Thurswolf! And. Friwolf!"
"Uh." Kristin said, "did you just name the days of the week ending with wolf instead of day?"
The wolves all growled at Kristin. The Warriors were all standing around her, their faces on Andrew and Katie. Katie whimpered, "Sorry guys."
"Don't worry," Tamahome cried, "I'll save you, Katie!"
Just then, the fire grew big, and two eyes appeared. Caitlin looked up and cried, "Look, it's a pair of headlights!"
"It's a pair of eyes!" Mitsukake said.
"It's superman!" Chichiri said, then, cleared his throat and said, "I mean. Naiidoska!"
A voice rumbled out, "Who dares disturb the story line, Mr. Lone Wolf Warrior?!"
Andrew just put on a sheepish grin, acting casual at Naiidoska's presence. Kristin stood to her feet, then bowed, and faced Naiidoska.
"Naiidoska," Kristin said, "What brings you here?" Though she had an idea of why he might have come.
"For two reason's have I come," Naiidoska growled. "First, to tell you that you OBVIOUSLY ruined the ceremony, and I will give you a detailed explanation of how you need to summon Suzaku in a different manner. Second, I want to give you, Kristin, Suzaku no miko, a special power. since that Lone Wolf Bastard is here."
Andrew growled at this comment.
A pale hand read out from the fire, and sprinkled magic powder on Kristin.
There was a * pop * noise. and Kristin was a cheez it.
"Whoops, my bad," Naiidoska apologized, seeing the horror in Hotohori's face. He sprinkled a different powder on her, and she became a wolf again.
"What the HELL did you do that for?!" Tasuki shouted. "We just got her back to normal!"
Caitlin slapped Tasuki hard on the back of his head, saying, "That's Naiidoska! Don't yell at him like that!" The began an argument right then and there, and Nuriko rolled his eyes. Kristin was pretty sure it was going to end up in another * awkward situation *.
"Never fear," Naiidoska said. "This is a slightly different powder, which I call, the Magic of Wolf. with this, Kristin can turn herself in Wolf form and back again anytime she needs to."
Kristin closed her eyes shut, and felt her self transform back into human form. This time, she was wearing clothes, but they were special clothes. They were pearly white and sparkling, and a silver streak ran through the left side of her hair. She had a sword at her side, made of diamond and pearl, and it shined and sparkled at the same time.
"But doesn't this make the Lone Wolf Warrior more prone to get her as his Priestess?" Hotohori asked. "I mean, now that she's got this power, he's definitely going to want her back."
"I understand," Naiidoska said, "but please realize that this will make the story far more interesting and dramatic."
Everyone nodded, agreeing.
"I shall also supply the rest of you warriors with special powers to help you defeat the terrible, monstrous power of the Lone Wolf Warrior, and his two sidekicks, Phil the Tuba Master, and Katie the Flute Witch."
"I thought I was the Flute Master," Katie pouted. "Why am I a witch?"
"Cause Phil the Tuba Master and Kate the Flute Master sounds to redundant, don't you think?" Naiidoska explained.
Naiidoska's pale arm made a swishing movement, and then Hotohori was in white uniform, with sparkly hair, and shampoo bottle at his side. He also had a new and more powerful sword that shone and glittered just like Kristin's. Nuriko got changed into white uniform, too, with magic bracelets to make him stronger. Chichiri had a change in uniform (white) and . (I don't remember what he got in the anime from Taiiutskun, so just fill in the blank here, but, just for the Naiidoska touch.) his staff turned into pearl and sparkled greatly. Tasuki's fan became diamond, and he was also, suddenly in white, sparkly uniform. The normal beads that hung around his neck became pearl. Mitsukake was transformed into white and sparkles with a special bag of medicine, and Tama was turned into a Wolf cub. Everyone gave Naiidoska a sheepish look.
There was a sound of someone clearing his throat, and then, Naiidoska said quickly, "So I like white sparkly stuff! Fine, you can have your old uniforms back. except for Hotohori and Kristin, because they look very pretty in white."
Everyone had their uniforms back, and Tamahome and Caitlin began to complain. "What about US?!"
"Oh, yes," Naiidoska said. He looked over Caitlin and decided it would be cool to have her in opposite of Tasuki, and turned her brown curls a really cool shade of bright blue, and she was suddenly in splendid robes of blue, and she got a fan as well.
"What's this.?" Caitlin asked, surprised.
"I thought it would be nice if we mixed Fire with Water," Naiidoska said. "When YOU say Rekka Shinen, water will come out of your wand."
Tasuki began to laugh. "Ha! What's water going to do?! Ha, ha!"
Angered, Caitlin screamed out, "Rekka Shinen!" and Tasuki was hit by a large wave of water. He lay on the ground, gasping for air.
She grinned, saying, "Thanks, Naiidoska!" and plopped over to Tasuki, who was muttering about girls and their love of water. two things he detested rolled in one!
"And what about me, what about ME?!" Tamahome cried.
Naiidoska said nothing. "Well, it looks as though it's time for me to go. Good luck, you guys! Oh, and by the way. there's a Boboshi stealing your cheez its right now." And Naiidoska was gone.
Kristin and the rest turned around, seeing that the Lone Wolf Warrior was ready to commence battle. Then, she noticed Amiboshi, writing furiously on his arm. Kristin knew that she was writing to his twin brother, Suboshi, who was a Celestial Warrior for Seiryu as well. Then she realized. that Boboshi number 2 that ran away. he had been stealing cheez its this whole entire time for Kutou!
Deciding not to get in between Nakago and his cheez it scheme, Kristin put Amiboshi out of her mind, as she stood facing Andrew and his new sidekick.
Tension was in the air, another battle ready to begin.