(Disclaimer: I do not own YST nor RW, they are owned by Sunrise. Neither do I own the characters of the original series.)
(Author's Notes: Please, DON'T BLAME ME if some of the details are insufficient, since I had never seen the entire series before. I'm just fascinated over the series, that's why. Some of the characters added are of my own and not related to other anime, in short, ORIGINAL. So please, enjoy reading and review it! This is my first taste of writing fanfiction, and I'm not too good at English, so please BEAR WITH ME...)
SAMURAI PHANTOM REKKA: CHAPTER ONE
Episode Seventeen: THE BLUE ARCHER
Looking in one direction, they saw a mysterious, shadowy figure in folded jacket of an unknown color, floating behind the silvery-blue full moon, holding something. It looks like a golden bow shimmering when its luster has been penetrated by the moonlight.
"Who could that be...?" Toshitada wondered.
I could never be wrong, Byakkouen's mind spoke, I can sense a diffusion from here... and it comes from that mysterious person!
"You, troublemaker!" as Toshitada's forehead gave a pale yellow glow and his scythe emitted another energy ball to aim at the floating figure!
But everything is so fast, that when Toshitada was about to make a attack, he was pushed by an unknown force and was bumped in the wall!
The cat watched everything in amazement, remembering about what just happened. He even didn't have a chance to attack him... when he was about to attack him, he was pushed by an invisible force! It means...
It made Toshitada even furious. But in his face, like Byakkouen, he found out that a diffusion is within the said person. I know that boy... I couldn't believe that he will betray us after so long...
Furious, he made another energy ball that will surely knock the boy out. But the mysterious figure got ready by aiming his golden arrow towards the incoming energy ball. Its tip created a ball of swirling blue energy, sucking the air pressure into it, and as he released it, the arrow became one with the energy ball.
The red energy ball went through the window to meet the opposing force. But as the two forces collided, it seems that they are pushing at each other.
Meanwhile the painting's aura started to glow more intense, as Byakkouen set his eyes on the nearing trouble. "Oh no... Rekka..."
The mysterious archer saw it right away. He had his bow and arrow ready... to aim at the painting! As Toshitada saw him, he was about to stop him but an idea came in his mind. "My... It seems that you didn't betray us after all... Go ahead, boy. Do it!"
The cat's sense of trouble worked as he saw the archer about to hit the painting. What is he doing??? He didn't know that someone's inside there yet!
"That's it, boy!" Toshitada laughed insanely, "Do it NOW!!!"
And what the cat has been frightened for... the mysterious archer released his second arrow and at the same time the opposing light forces finally expolded, thus made Toshitada flew away, back inside the hall.
The arrow pushed itself into the painting and disappeared, leaving the painting lifeless.
"What... happened..." the cat wondered worrilly. But as he remembered what the archer had done, "Oh, no... what happened to the oni inside...?" he looked at the painting. But it looks like it was tamed by the blue light. Feared that something worse might happen to the five others, he went almost in tears as he shouted...
"RYO!!!!"
But as for the mysterious archer boy, from above, he sensed that something was wrong with what he did...
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Phantom Rekka was shocked at the oni's true form: truly a thousand-handed hag holding, strangely, different art materials. "H-he-hey..." he tried to talk to the monster, "I'm not that good to be yer model... Sorry, lady, but please get yer claws off them, will ya?"
But instead of listening, the oni attacked him using the art materials as its weapons, started by razor-sharp pens, and charged at him! But he managed to avoid them using his sword. The oni tried again using different art medium and attacked him. The water colors spurted against him but luckilly he avioded it again.
"Lady, pink's not MY type!" since it used pink water color. But something on it made Rekka shocked, that the water colors were actually...
"...Acid?"
He saw the water color sizzled as it hit the darkness, releasing a very foul smell."Pheee-yoo!" he covered his nose, "That sure stinks to death!"
The oni attacked again, and this time no one could stop it, now that it has the four men as hostage. This made him pissed off. "Okay, lady! No more huntin'! Just let 'em go and just take me instead!"
The men became speechless. However, the oni's face is still the same. Actually, it grinnedwhen it heard him about the trade, "They didn't do nothin' 'gainst ya! Why ya still hafta do this? Oh yeah, I forgot, you're 100EVIL, that's why! Because you don't have a heart to listen to a human like me! But these people...They have families waitin' for them... Oh, come ON! Let the hell go of 'em, will ya?"
When the men heard about the trade, one of them even tried to oppose his offer, "Are ya nuts? Why do ya hafta sacrifice yerself fo' nothin'? Ya don't need to do this hell thing!"
"He's right!" another agreed, "Save yerself, boy! We'll befine!"
"Just tell our wives that we're happy that we have them even in our last breath..." another said.
Upon hearing their pleas, Rekka became anxious at the men, "You're more nuts than this oni! If I left ya here, It'll be my guilt! No way, man! I don't wanna see ya like this! We'll go outta here TOGETHER! Hear that?"
The last victim just smiled faintly. "Thank you, boy..." his voice became hoarse, "At least youtaught us something thatwe never possessed in our lives... And we owe it all to you... Whoever you are..."
"But..."
"Save yerself, boy!" one man shouted, "Don't worry 'bout us! Think of yerself! You're still too young to die, I know! Unlike us here!"
"No way!" Rekka protested, "Don't make me waste my time here! What's my purpose here, anyway? To save ya, right?"
"Go, boy!" another begged, "We're beggin' ya!"
"No, I won't!"
"Please..."
"But..."
Later the oni charged Rekka without any warning, thinking that it was already left out because of that 'stupid' trade. He was pushed by one of the hands, and two pairs of hands grabbed both is hands and feet. He dropped his katana unintentionally due to its tight grip. One razor-sharp pen aimed at his heart, about to shatter it! The four men couldn't look at what will happen to the poor, raven-haired Samurai Phantom.
Man... he closed his eyes tightly, This is it... I'm done...
He was about to confess all his sins to Buddha, but...
A swirl of blue ray is fast approaching, and it's heading towards the oni. The five, especially Rekka, turned around as he saw the blue light heading towards them.
"What's that???"
But before he could react more, the blue light had already penetrated the oni's body thus made it jerked hysterically. It dropped the four men and released him unintentionally as it still wretched with pain.
While Rekka just went speechless as he saw the light that almost hopelessly saved him from near end...
"Whatta..."
Meanwhile the four men, though still couldn't believe what happened, rejoiced a little now that they were free... for now. One of them even managed to find something that will lead them to their final escape.
"Hey, look!", it is the last victim who saw it, "Light! There's a hole there!"
"Where?" they asked. As they followed their comrade's eyes, they saw a little hole only a meter or so away from them. A little light was seen in the darkness. It was the hole that the blue light left just seconds ago.
"It means..."
"Oh, ma' Lord... WE'RE SAFE!"
"IT'S THE EXIT!"
"I can't believe it..." with tears almost streamed in his eyes, "We can now escape..."
Meanwhile Rekka remained speechless. He even thought that the blue light that just came to save them gave more hope as it left a hole big enough for them to pass through. Man... dunno how'd that happened... who made that thing, anyway... No way, if Kitty did this...
Unknowingly, the four men were about to approach the said hole to escape. He only noticed them when he heard one of them calling him.
"Hey, kid! Don't tell me you're not goin'!"
"W-what?" as he saw the men starting to escape, "H-he-HEY! Wait for me!" he grabbed his katana and followed them, leaving the oni still in crisis.
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Byakkouen was shock on what the mysterious archer had done. He didn't mind Toshitada almost gone crazy laughing. Meanwhile the archer sensed something wrong, as he went inside the hall floating still. The two turned around as he saw him revealed his appearance even for a little: He was wearing a black folded jacket with blue tank top inside, the black denim pants higlighted in blue matches his jacket, as well as his peculiar dark blue headband that matches his azure hair. He was also wearing a pair of dark blue handgloves and a pair of shades to mask his mysterious face. What made the cat shock is his insignia marked on the left side ofboth his tank top and his jacket: A resemblance of an arrow pointing upwards with three golden rays underneath it. This made him convince...
...That he is also, like Rekka, a Samurai Phantom.
But the thing that made him upset is that he hit his arrow straight to the painting that leaves to Rekka's and the others' 'untimely death'. He scolded the archer almost in tears...
"Why did you do that? You didn't care even your fellow bearer of the diffusion is still there? How could you? Who ARE you, anyway?"
But the archer just stared at him for an answer, thus made the cat pissed off.
While Toshitada stopped laughing and decided to save it to congratulate his 'comrade'. "Well done, boy," as he clapped softly as his appreciation, "Even I didn't guessed what you will do that time, I knew it... You never betrayed us..."
But the same stare Toshitada got form him. Worse, it is much scarier than he did to the cat. And for a proof, using only his mind, he was able tothrow him away from his sight!
Another event that made Byakkouen breathless. And Toshitada... a little shocked.
"So I was wrong, after all..." he said with a grin while trying to get up, "So then... what's your business here? Getting all the onis as your own? Don't you ever realized that this job is only for grown-ups and you still have no enough power to control them all?"
He didn't answer.
He just went close to the painting with an anguish face, predicting that something will happen in the painting. Byakkouen didn't get it, but what he only knew that he is waiting for something to happen.
And the redhaired former priest didn't get even a single action from him. "You are still stubborn, I see..." as he tries to get closer to him, "Maybe you need a little help from the expert here..."
The archer laid his hand on the painting, sensing something. And as expected, he sensed a powerful aura about to come out. And with a flash, he suddenly went away a few steps from the painting.
Byakkouen finally gotit.This means... Rekka... he's SAFE... as well as the others... but how?
Until a flash of light came out of the painting, thus made the others covered themselves due to so much light entering the hall!
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(Whew! Kei, onward to Episode Eighteen! By the way, SALAMAT PO ULIT (thank you again) to: darkblade507 for another review! You think this is cool? YAY! Also I appreciate your tip. I think I'll try that. THANKS A LOT! And PLEEEEEEEEESSSSSEEE, people, keep on R&R, kei? THANKS!!!!!!)