The Gyushu, a race of bull demons, borrowing the seal of the empress of the Yin summoned the merchant lord of the Southwest and his eldest son to Zheng Zhou, the Henan Province capital...
A boy with short shaggy hair could not sit sell receiving this forgery; his hand scratched his smooth hair.
"Meditate not for yourself, Shu," the old merchant lord of the Southwest sat with his family cross-legged, "Meditate for the sake of mediation."
Ignoring him, playing with her peg pig, Pichan, a young girl faced her intellectual father.
"Something wrong, Little Mei," the would-be sage watched the pink struggle in her arms.
"Yonk!"
Shu grabbed the pig out of her arms.
"Give me back Pichan! My Pichan!"
"Shu..."
The old merchant gave a scowl as if this here was more important the useless accusation of wealth and power – he could care less about keeping up with the Jones.
Grabbing the little swine back and so tight that it could turn black, "I heard disturbing things about Lady Yin, Dakki..."
"That she eats human flesh and has the body of a supermodel..."
Shu grinned like a little pervert.
"If you cannot say anything nice do not say anything at all," their father lectured, "There are people you cannot stand, situations you cannot tolerate, strange foods you cannot or dislike to ear. Smile, speak when you are spoken to, bow lower than they do, eat and drink what is served happily. In doing so you will be reward yourself and the people you are with and therefore you and they will be rewarded in maintaining the status of the Five Relationships..."
"Not to interrupt you, lord husband," their green-haired mother cleared her voice, "But dinner is about to be ready..."
"Of course it is, as according to the Five Relationships," the merchant told his children and his submissive wife, "Man is not man, unless there are other men around them. A lone man is not a person at all, he needs a group to exist and how do we maintain the group?"
"With the Five Relationships..."
Shu snorted, "So se should in respect of them should answer the summons..."
He moved ready and able to go. If he did not, his legs would have fallen off from too much meditation.
SMACK!
"Not so fast my student," his father gave a tap on the head, "What are the Five Relations I speak of, boy?"
"Father-to-son," the daughter chimed, "Sons should do the will of their fathers, for fathers have the right to execute or demand their children to commit suicide if they disobey him."
"Mother-to-daughter," the woman with green eyes looked at her growing reflection with pride – someday soon she would have to arrange her wedding, "Mothers have total control over their daughters until they are married. Then the daughter can be whipped by the mother-in-law and her husband."
"Husband-to-wife, wives wait on their husbands, they obey without objection or speech, and they do not intercede in their education of the children," the old man reminded her, "Wives are the husband's first slave - women have no rights anyway..."
The woman bowed very low almost to the ground to the objection of her daughter and son, "As you wish, lord husband..."
"As for you, Shu, do not be so hasty, do you know why there pictured a dragon with a gold orb in every Hsien office?"
"Why, father," I thought it was only to make it pretty, to decorate the administration office," the cute girl with her long green hair put up in a high braid in a small cornet of bronze asked him.
"To remind the ministers of humility, the Emperor is the Sun and Moon. Emperor-to-subject, subjects wait on their Emperor. Subjects are to only obey their leaders without objection or speech. They are under the Emperor, like Man is under the Sun and Moon, and subjects do not intercede in the leader's education of the state," the old man reminded her, "We are the Emperor's children and his slaves ... For surely not even a dragon cannot swallow the Sun..."
"Hey! Ass-shit! I was eating that!"
The boy with brown shaggy hair shouted at the perverted water sprite.
"Not anymore!"
"I had dibs on that!"
"I didn't see your name on it..."
"But...I..."
"Here," Tails brushed off half of her plate, "Here, little brother, have some of mine..."
"Why would she do that?"
Xi asked in a whisper, "She must have some real motherly instinct about her..."
"Watch it, Xi, or I might make it up with your liver, I am still a carnivore and proud of it," then her face softened asking Goku, "Something the matter, little brother? You do not have to thank me... after all, you are my little brother..."
Sanzo and Hakkai exchanged glances, Hakkai just grinned at the priest's statement that he was somehow happy about the turn of events. The guy with the monocle added, "At least it keeps the children quiet..."
"You heard him, keep quiet child," Gojou reached over to take a meat-bun and ruff the poor teen's hair.
Slam!
They blinked, there was Gojou's hand pinned by Tail's ranseur, "You leave little brother Goku alone, or you will have to face me."
"I can fight my own fights..."
"Little bother!"
"Stop calling me that!"
"Now, now guys..."
Hakkai tried to intercede.
"Stop it! Or I will shoot you all! Why are you here..."
"Ask her," Xi pointed at Tails as Sonic again bopped him for touching her thigh.
"My sense of Honor, pure and simple," her extra appendage twitched in anger, "I want to stay here for a couple days and then continue what I set out to do ... kill those demons ... If I don't kill them now, they will come after me, it is pure self-preservation. You and that un-tasty Sonic are my personal meat shields, nothing more and nothing less..."
"As for you, pervert, I am not interested in sleeping with anyone that is not as Noble as a Wolf," coldly she looked at the Sanzo-party like they were her playthings, "And as for you, priest ... I could careless that you've been sidetracked again – you are set into a War and a Quest. Don't you see in a Quest of Honor "the question" by one doing it is more important than the answer ... before you ask me what I seek, ask yourself ... I have already found what I want to do, and I will do it in the fashion I want ... That is how I want it to be – a Noble War."
"A what?"
"In Noble War, you cute little humans, you can actually determine the destinies of you and me ... great things can be formed or destroyed by the strength of arms and the Will," she lifted up her ranseur, "Here, is the position of life and death."
"My Way is to tentative observation, obliteration, and survival of the fittest," the wolf-woman then faced Goku, "As for you, child born from a stone egg of a mountain, imprisoned in the mountain as the King of the Monkeys ... I, as part of the Earth, was doing you a favor calling you "little brother," I see something very Noble in you, you have a potential that is untapped ... "Sage Equals that of Heaven," Noble War is not child's play –it is a game between existence and fatality, Noble War is an issue that contends both the individual and the entire pack. Beware about where to fight and when to..."
"Let's pack up and go!"
Tails ordered grabbing her "meat shields" and pulling them off... Nobody spoke after that.
Smile
"Welcome, Lord of the Southwest..."
The woman in the bodysuit tightly clad to her body, "Thou you weren't invited..."
"Not invited your majesty," the old man's face asked as it was pressed flat to the floor. Shu was a little higher in a bow getting his eye-full of the gates of Hell though the thin red-edged spandex and silk. The old man pulled the blushing boy in a lower bow, citing the invitation letter...
Smile
"You may sit up ... I must teach you a lesson though," she walked around them as if the an sitting on the snake-entwined throne did not even exist anymore, "I'll take you to my Shuchi Nikuren and maybe we can have some FUN..."
"Really," Shu's voice pitched an octave.
"You are the empress, now. We cannot accept. It would be an insult on our family honor to be given such a lesson and reward."
"He is a real stick-in-the-mud isn't he, Shu-Chan?
The voice inside his head asked," Should I find something to punish him or you?"
"What!"
Shu shouted jumping to his feet.
"How dare you shout at her!"
Dakki faced the old man, "Hold your tongue. I was talking to your son... besides..."
She snapped her fingers revealing thirty prisoners," I think the lives of these innocent souls have priority over your insipid sense of honor. Should I invite them to the Shuchi Nikuren, the lake of sake and forest of evil or not?"
"This is madness! My lord," the old man looked hesitantly at the throne.
Nothing.
"What will you do? The emperor will not lift a finger. Only you can save them, Shu-chan. Your father has insulted me. Either him or these thirty ... what do you think of my sadistic choice, sister?"
"Very nice indeed – it is not every day that somebody comes up to a hero and makes them make a sadistic choice. Kill your father or watch innocents die," the tall woman agreed, "I do have a craving for matsu-yaki..."
Smile
"Mastsu-yaki?"
"A Chinese dish. Pork, chicken, beef, or whatever meat available on a roasted skewer..."
Smile
"How fun of you! Mou! Matsu-yaki, turn them into matsu-yaki!"
"Wait! Stop!"
Shu shouted, mumbling, "I..."
Smile.
"Yes? How will you save them? Your flesh and blood or thirty people who did nothing except being born..."
Xi asked finally, "What do you mean by "Part of the Earth?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
She snarled, "Shut up and keep moving! We are burning daylight!"
"Come on, at least consider it a favor for insulting me..."
"If I wanted to insult you, I would piss on your grave," she barked, "If you are that curious, it was written that Pan-ku, born from the singularity after Yin had separated from Yang. With chisel in hand, he and four mystical creatures created all things from the Celestial Granite ...I was one of the eight things left over to lay there in the light of the Moon ... Goku, my siblings, and I are very much alike and not alike..."
"I still don't get it..."
Sonic answered adoptively, "One who bathes in the light of the Full Moon for a hundred or so years can become a yousei ..."
"Moon?"
Tails only heard one word out of that sentence. By speaking it, she had calmed down, "That beautiful orb ... ah ... I like to watch it, with my real siblings – Fire, Water, Wind, Thunder, Wood, Sand, and Metal ... We love it deeply ...beautiful like a immortal pill ... beautiful like a tasty little rabbit..."
As she went on to describe every hollow, crater, sea, and plain on earth's closest neighbor, Sonic took a deep breath with the educational lesion, "It is likely that Tails was created from the primal maters by the light of the Moon in the direction of the element of the Earth and her other siblings having the other seven directions ... The yousei, after training can take human-form. In this form, yogetsu, is the true yokai. So it is also likely that all seven of Tail's siblings can take human form and have about the same disposition. After the yokai goes through mystical-spiritual training as a doushi, the animal or spirit is called by some youkai-sennin..."
"We find it irresistible, deeply ... We cherished our surveillance of it, watching its Phases ... watching it like we were making its frog our prey ... The Moon, beautiful like a immortal pill ... good-looking like a delicious little bunny ... gorgeous like a woman ..."
"Youkai-sennin?"
"That Tails and her siblings might be searching for Enlightenment or Noble Honor," Sonic rejoinder glad that Tails had mellowed out, "Of course I might be reading too much into her..."
"We worship it deeply ... stunning like a flavorsome tiny hare ... We prized watching it, our scrutiny of its Phases ... The Moon, beautiful like a immortal pill ... inspection it like we were making its toad our quarry ... beautiful like a woman ..."
The chief demon looked at his underling. His smile as his horse headed men descended onto a city. He stood up and said to the peasants, "You are now citizens in my empire, bow to me, bow to the independent empire of Jo....or die..."
"Never!"
"Long live the Yin!"
"Long Live our Emperor and Empress Dakki!"
The lead demon said smiling at these loyal fools, "Kill them all..."
"What fun, technology is... don't you think, student council pres?"
Nii checked on the female scientist, "Science can make things better? How would you make things better? What world would you want to create with her majesty? In the West, the United States, and Europe, humans are really stuck in that they can make the world a better place..."
The other scientist constantly at the computer chuckled at Nii's teasing. The guy with bunny slippers, "In seeking that ideal world, the solutions are worse than the problems that are solved. Take DDT, penicillin, automobiles, chemical weapons, computers, bio-warfare, mass production, the steam engine, harnessing the atom..."
"What do you mean by that..."
"Nothing really," his stuffed bunny squeaked, "I was wondering if it is all worth it..."
"Wake up, Sonic... please wake up..."
Tails nudged her softly. All spines stuck up ready to strike her.
"Eh?"
"Wake up..."
"What time is it?"
A hazy look at her cheery face...
"Before sunrise..."
"Let me sleep..."
"No...I have thought my strategy out," the wolf-girl nudged her, "I want to have a baby..."
A pink fluster came under the hedgehog girl's eyes. She blinked, wondering it this was still a dream, "A baby ... shouldn't you ask Xi..."
"No... Not him – he isn't my "type," her bushy tail swished form left-to-right, "If anything, I would wait two years and have little brother Goku..."
She rested her extra appendage on her toes, "But...I think I should go first and apologize to you and them..."
"Hsüan Yüan Huang Ti," a sigh, "You are one trained dog..."
"Watch it... but ... I'm sorry... Sonic..."
She whimpered very happy, "I cannot make a pack of my own without my own sense of the Way right? The pack must be in complete agreement with their Alpha's decisions - Alpha's have to take in this count and the unmanageable, right?"
"You have the sense of honor not I..."
"Watch it – I take you as an uncontrollable, like storms, they sky, the mountains, the terrain," she said with a fang poking out of her mouth. Then she glanced at the river goblin, "Wake up, Xi ... Please ... I'm sorry..."
Kindly she nudged the green and yellow-scaled creature awake.
Xi scratched his potbelly with his claw.
Tails began a long rational that sounded like something an associate of Confucius
(Confucius lived, between BC 551-479. He was not born yet!)
write, "I know it is very early. I want us to be pack mates... You do not have to follow me if you don't have to. You can choose to go home and return what you did before. I do care for you; the priest only angered me... A good Alpha should rule by what is good for the pack, the pack must decide what is good for the Alpha ... My pack-mates might be given casualty or existence; nevertheless there is no alarm of risk and disloyalty if they are with you, right? If you join me, you may die but I can promise you a modicum of glory and honor and riches. It is up to you, my pack-mates. If you even want to be my friends and pack-mates and let me be your Alpha..."
"Tails ... I will follow you," the creature with heavy feet with webbed toes placed his claw on her waist ready to move up and stoke something very nice and lush, "We all cannot write 33 in front of 13 in the Resister of Life and Death..."
"Hands off," Sonic bopped him, "She is our Alpha ... she chooses her mates, right?"