*Miss Uots says: Sorry everyone, I've been having a bad case of writer's
block. . . but I'm back now, thanks to Kristin. . . got some ideas,
thankies!*
Chapter 24
So, they were stuck in a cavern, no openings of any kind giving them any escape. Chichiri tried to magic them out, but it didn't work. Apparently, the Lone Wolf Warrior had set up a shield of some kind. Then, Nakago was ready to ki-blast them out, but Hotohori feared that the blast would send the cave tumbling upon them all. That's when Tasuki suggested they use Wedneswolf, who was still by his side. Wedneswolf happily began to dig a hole in the ground, and soon, the gang was following the wolf, talking in the tight darkness of the tunnel he was making, crawling along.
"What happened?" Hotohori asked Kristin as they crawled after Wedneswolf. "Tell me . . . what did that horrid Lone Wolf Warrior do to you?"
"He tried to sacrifice me, you know," Kristin said, "but it didn't work. You see, he had to transform me into wolf form, but I wasn't going to transform for him, so he got out all the magic powders he had. He only succeeded in turning me into a cheez it twenty times."
"Cheez its," Nakago whined. "Damn it, I need food."
"Hey," Mitsukake said, "at least now you can fit through this little tunnel Wedneswolf has made for us, you know? You would've gotten stuck like you did before at the tree in Maybury."
BAM!
Mitsukake found himself with a black eye.
"Did that Wolf Lone bastard try anything to you, Caitlin?" Tasuki growled.
"He kept flashing his lighter at me," Caitlin grimaced. "Until he finally scorched my fingers."
"That bastard!" Tasuki growled. "Him and that stupid little lighter of his! Why I oughta . . ."
"Calm yourself, Tasuki," Hotohori said. "He's been defeated."
"But he's still alive," Miboshi groaned.
"Oh, Mibibi!" Makiko squealed. "Your arm! What shall we ever do about your arm?!"
"I'm fine, really," Miboshi said. "You get used to not having an arm after awhile. Don't worry about me, Makiko." *Miss Uots says: he, he! Guess what other character of anime got his arm severed?!*
"Oh, Tomo," Kailein said. "I've been feeling ill, you know . . . morning sickness. I can't wait until our son is out! I've been thinking of a name for him while in that cage . . . what do you think about Aiko, Tomo? And if it's a girl, we can call her Akiko."
"Hey," Makiko said, "that's my mother's name."
"Hey," Kristin said, "if you guys are going to have a baby in nine months . . . shouldn't you be getting married soon?"
There was a pause from Tomo. ". . . well, yes."
"Oh, I can't wait!" Kailein squealed.
"Tasuki . . ."
"I know, I know."
The men were suddenly tense, knowing what the Damsels wanted. Only Hotohori seemed rather open about it.
"Of course, my dear Kristin . . . I'll have to make you my bride as well, if you are to join me as my Empress back in Konan. It will be a large wedding, and I'll have the best of the best of the country there, to help fashion it out and make it the grandest wedding that Konan has ever seen!" *Miss Uots butts in to say: mind you, I'm sure in ancient China they didn't have weddings they do now-a-days in America, but as I don't know how their wedding ceremonies went, we're just going to stick with the old fashioned type . . . besides, in the anime, Tamahome and Miaka had a regular American wedding and none of the warriors seemed to object it.*
"Oh, Hotohori!" Kristin said, blushing, glad that it was dark. "I can't wait!"
"Who gets to be Best Man?" Chichiri asked.
"I was hoping to give that privilege to Mitsukake," Hotohori said.
"Oi," Tomo said, "you gots to be our Best Man, too, Mitsukake."
"And ours, too!" Caitlin squeaked.
Tasuki gave a weak laugh.
Martha began to say, "Mine, too!" but did not feel like embarrassing Nakago. In fact, later, long after finding their way out of the hole, Nakago asked rather quietly to Mitsukake, "I'll need you as a Best Man, too." Mitsukake was feeling rather popular and happy that evening.
Finally, after traveling in the dark for so long, the gang emerged out into the light of the Forest of Doom, where the moon was shinning down at them, accompanied by stars.
They took to sleep, (after Nakago asked Mitsukake his personal question), and when they woke up, it was morning.
Through the dark Forest of Doom they walked, not knowing where to go. Wedneswolf took the lead, and Tasuki encouraged the others that Wedneswolf knew where he was going. For a few days they traveled behind Wedneswolf, and as they did, they passed by the Wolf City. They did not go inside the city wall, but walked around it, retracing their steps from when they first arrived here in the Wolfdom.
They were talking, of course, and the subject turned over to voice actors.
"Dose any one notice that the English voice actors of Tasuki, Eiken, and Koji all sound as though it's the same person?" Miboshi asked.
"I think it is the same person," Tasuki growled, growing red in the face.
"Does anyone know that Hotohori's voice actor's name is Sparky?" Mitsukake asked.
BAM!
Mitsukake found himself with a black eye, but not before he went on to say, "And have you ever noticed how terribly dull Jack Hammer's voice is? You know, the English voice of Nakago? He doesn't know how to express his emotions."
BAM BAM!
Both Mitsukake's eyes were black now.
Past the Wolf city they walked. They got back into some more woods, crossed a bridge or two, and soon, Wedneswolf stopped, four days later of traveling. They had approached a gaping cave, and the moon was high in the dark blue sky.
"That's where we came out, no da," Chichiri said. "Remember? We fell through the tree, and found ourselves walking through a long tunnel until we emerged into the forest. That's the long tunnel. We've got to go in there."
"Let's rest first, okay?" Mitsukake whined.
"No," Hotohori said, firmly. "I don't want to stop until we are out of the Wolfdom. Who knows what might happen in our sleep while we are so close to home? We are not going to rest until we are back in the world of Maybury!"
"Just you try," a voice croaked out from behind them. The warriors and their Damsels spun around, horrified.
There he stood, the Lone Wolf Warrior. A smile smirked his face, his eyes searching each and every face before him. "So, you think you're going to make it home alive, huh? You think you can outsmart the greatest of all the greatest villains there are out there?! No one can defeat the Lone Wolf Warrior, I will make sure of that!" And with a snap of his fingers, Phil and Katie both appeared, and soon, both Phil's theme and Katie' theme were belted out at top speed and volume, from a swarm of men hiding in the trees around them. Phil's army of tube players had increased greatly, and the warriors fell to the ground, holding their ears in pain.
"Stop!" Hotohori cried.
"The pain!" Kristin cried.
No one could move. The Lone Wolf Warrior strode forward, and smiled down at the helpless warriors. "You call yourselves great?!" he cried. "Look at you! You can't even stand because of the awesome power of Phil and Katie combined, and they are but flies to me in power! Not, watch as I unfold my wrath! You shall now know who is the greatest warrior of them all! It is the Lone Wolf Warrior, and you will not be leaving this Wolfdom alive! Feel my glory, feel my power! FEEL THE TASTE OF DEATH THAT CAN ONLY COME FROM THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST!!!!!! YOU - SHALL - ALL - DIE!!!!"
BAMMMM!!!!!
The Lone Wolf Warrior was thrown backward, soaring high above Phil's and Katie's heads, disappearing into the woods behind him. The Tubas stopped, shocked.
"Good work, Nakago!" Kristin cried, and she turned into her wolf form.
"Right," Hotohori said, "let's get out of here, quick, before the Lone Wolf Warrior catches up to us!"
And they turned and fled down the long dark tunnel, running as fast as they could, with Tasuki easily in the lead. They all collided at the end of the tunnel, and looked up, realizing that they didn't know who to get back up the tree. From somewhere behind them, they could hear the Lone Wolf Warrior screaming in disgust chasing down the tunnel after them.
"How do we get up?!" Hotohori cried.
Everyone was tense, trying to figure out what to do, as the sounds of the Lone Wolf Warrior got nearer and closer to them, a terrible strangled cry that was hurting their ears and minds. Even Nakago was a tiny bit worried. A tiny bit.
"Your Highness!" Chichiri finnaly said. "Your wish! You never had your wish made!"
"Then this is it!" Hotohori cried. "Kai-jin!"
A mini Suzaku appeared before them, beaming down at the warriors. The Lone Wolf Warrior was drawing closer.
"I wish for you to send us back into Maybury, at once!"
"It is done then!" the mini suzaku cried, and suddenly, it felt as though a great force had kicked the warriors up, up, up the tree, and then, they were all spilling out into the moon light of the other world, where they landed in a heap, panting and swearing, and relieved that they were finally back.
Chapter 24
So, they were stuck in a cavern, no openings of any kind giving them any escape. Chichiri tried to magic them out, but it didn't work. Apparently, the Lone Wolf Warrior had set up a shield of some kind. Then, Nakago was ready to ki-blast them out, but Hotohori feared that the blast would send the cave tumbling upon them all. That's when Tasuki suggested they use Wedneswolf, who was still by his side. Wedneswolf happily began to dig a hole in the ground, and soon, the gang was following the wolf, talking in the tight darkness of the tunnel he was making, crawling along.
"What happened?" Hotohori asked Kristin as they crawled after Wedneswolf. "Tell me . . . what did that horrid Lone Wolf Warrior do to you?"
"He tried to sacrifice me, you know," Kristin said, "but it didn't work. You see, he had to transform me into wolf form, but I wasn't going to transform for him, so he got out all the magic powders he had. He only succeeded in turning me into a cheez it twenty times."
"Cheez its," Nakago whined. "Damn it, I need food."
"Hey," Mitsukake said, "at least now you can fit through this little tunnel Wedneswolf has made for us, you know? You would've gotten stuck like you did before at the tree in Maybury."
BAM!
Mitsukake found himself with a black eye.
"Did that Wolf Lone bastard try anything to you, Caitlin?" Tasuki growled.
"He kept flashing his lighter at me," Caitlin grimaced. "Until he finally scorched my fingers."
"That bastard!" Tasuki growled. "Him and that stupid little lighter of his! Why I oughta . . ."
"Calm yourself, Tasuki," Hotohori said. "He's been defeated."
"But he's still alive," Miboshi groaned.
"Oh, Mibibi!" Makiko squealed. "Your arm! What shall we ever do about your arm?!"
"I'm fine, really," Miboshi said. "You get used to not having an arm after awhile. Don't worry about me, Makiko." *Miss Uots says: he, he! Guess what other character of anime got his arm severed?!*
"Oh, Tomo," Kailein said. "I've been feeling ill, you know . . . morning sickness. I can't wait until our son is out! I've been thinking of a name for him while in that cage . . . what do you think about Aiko, Tomo? And if it's a girl, we can call her Akiko."
"Hey," Makiko said, "that's my mother's name."
"Hey," Kristin said, "if you guys are going to have a baby in nine months . . . shouldn't you be getting married soon?"
There was a pause from Tomo. ". . . well, yes."
"Oh, I can't wait!" Kailein squealed.
"Tasuki . . ."
"I know, I know."
The men were suddenly tense, knowing what the Damsels wanted. Only Hotohori seemed rather open about it.
"Of course, my dear Kristin . . . I'll have to make you my bride as well, if you are to join me as my Empress back in Konan. It will be a large wedding, and I'll have the best of the best of the country there, to help fashion it out and make it the grandest wedding that Konan has ever seen!" *Miss Uots butts in to say: mind you, I'm sure in ancient China they didn't have weddings they do now-a-days in America, but as I don't know how their wedding ceremonies went, we're just going to stick with the old fashioned type . . . besides, in the anime, Tamahome and Miaka had a regular American wedding and none of the warriors seemed to object it.*
"Oh, Hotohori!" Kristin said, blushing, glad that it was dark. "I can't wait!"
"Who gets to be Best Man?" Chichiri asked.
"I was hoping to give that privilege to Mitsukake," Hotohori said.
"Oi," Tomo said, "you gots to be our Best Man, too, Mitsukake."
"And ours, too!" Caitlin squeaked.
Tasuki gave a weak laugh.
Martha began to say, "Mine, too!" but did not feel like embarrassing Nakago. In fact, later, long after finding their way out of the hole, Nakago asked rather quietly to Mitsukake, "I'll need you as a Best Man, too." Mitsukake was feeling rather popular and happy that evening.
Finally, after traveling in the dark for so long, the gang emerged out into the light of the Forest of Doom, where the moon was shinning down at them, accompanied by stars.
They took to sleep, (after Nakago asked Mitsukake his personal question), and when they woke up, it was morning.
Through the dark Forest of Doom they walked, not knowing where to go. Wedneswolf took the lead, and Tasuki encouraged the others that Wedneswolf knew where he was going. For a few days they traveled behind Wedneswolf, and as they did, they passed by the Wolf City. They did not go inside the city wall, but walked around it, retracing their steps from when they first arrived here in the Wolfdom.
They were talking, of course, and the subject turned over to voice actors.
"Dose any one notice that the English voice actors of Tasuki, Eiken, and Koji all sound as though it's the same person?" Miboshi asked.
"I think it is the same person," Tasuki growled, growing red in the face.
"Does anyone know that Hotohori's voice actor's name is Sparky?" Mitsukake asked.
BAM!
Mitsukake found himself with a black eye, but not before he went on to say, "And have you ever noticed how terribly dull Jack Hammer's voice is? You know, the English voice of Nakago? He doesn't know how to express his emotions."
BAM BAM!
Both Mitsukake's eyes were black now.
Past the Wolf city they walked. They got back into some more woods, crossed a bridge or two, and soon, Wedneswolf stopped, four days later of traveling. They had approached a gaping cave, and the moon was high in the dark blue sky.
"That's where we came out, no da," Chichiri said. "Remember? We fell through the tree, and found ourselves walking through a long tunnel until we emerged into the forest. That's the long tunnel. We've got to go in there."
"Let's rest first, okay?" Mitsukake whined.
"No," Hotohori said, firmly. "I don't want to stop until we are out of the Wolfdom. Who knows what might happen in our sleep while we are so close to home? We are not going to rest until we are back in the world of Maybury!"
"Just you try," a voice croaked out from behind them. The warriors and their Damsels spun around, horrified.
There he stood, the Lone Wolf Warrior. A smile smirked his face, his eyes searching each and every face before him. "So, you think you're going to make it home alive, huh? You think you can outsmart the greatest of all the greatest villains there are out there?! No one can defeat the Lone Wolf Warrior, I will make sure of that!" And with a snap of his fingers, Phil and Katie both appeared, and soon, both Phil's theme and Katie' theme were belted out at top speed and volume, from a swarm of men hiding in the trees around them. Phil's army of tube players had increased greatly, and the warriors fell to the ground, holding their ears in pain.
"Stop!" Hotohori cried.
"The pain!" Kristin cried.
No one could move. The Lone Wolf Warrior strode forward, and smiled down at the helpless warriors. "You call yourselves great?!" he cried. "Look at you! You can't even stand because of the awesome power of Phil and Katie combined, and they are but flies to me in power! Not, watch as I unfold my wrath! You shall now know who is the greatest warrior of them all! It is the Lone Wolf Warrior, and you will not be leaving this Wolfdom alive! Feel my glory, feel my power! FEEL THE TASTE OF DEATH THAT CAN ONLY COME FROM THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREATEST!!!!!! YOU - SHALL - ALL - DIE!!!!"
BAMMMM!!!!!
The Lone Wolf Warrior was thrown backward, soaring high above Phil's and Katie's heads, disappearing into the woods behind him. The Tubas stopped, shocked.
"Good work, Nakago!" Kristin cried, and she turned into her wolf form.
"Right," Hotohori said, "let's get out of here, quick, before the Lone Wolf Warrior catches up to us!"
And they turned and fled down the long dark tunnel, running as fast as they could, with Tasuki easily in the lead. They all collided at the end of the tunnel, and looked up, realizing that they didn't know who to get back up the tree. From somewhere behind them, they could hear the Lone Wolf Warrior screaming in disgust chasing down the tunnel after them.
"How do we get up?!" Hotohori cried.
Everyone was tense, trying to figure out what to do, as the sounds of the Lone Wolf Warrior got nearer and closer to them, a terrible strangled cry that was hurting their ears and minds. Even Nakago was a tiny bit worried. A tiny bit.
"Your Highness!" Chichiri finnaly said. "Your wish! You never had your wish made!"
"Then this is it!" Hotohori cried. "Kai-jin!"
A mini Suzaku appeared before them, beaming down at the warriors. The Lone Wolf Warrior was drawing closer.
"I wish for you to send us back into Maybury, at once!"
"It is done then!" the mini suzaku cried, and suddenly, it felt as though a great force had kicked the warriors up, up, up the tree, and then, they were all spilling out into the moon light of the other world, where they landed in a heap, panting and swearing, and relieved that they were finally back.