Chapter 22
The night before…
There was singing, dancing and drinking… who knew Gojo could break dance when he had enough to drink!
Suiryu thought it was hilarious, and yet as the night wore on, he paused as mom appeared to have spaced out. Suddenly, she left and didn't return for the rest of the night. "Whoa, that's not good…" Suiryu muttered.
The sisters froze too. "Something has happened…" one said.
"Is everything okay?" Choso asked.
The sisters had frozen in place, with the same shocked look their mother had. "We should go…"
"Stay," Choso insisted. "If this is serious, your mother will return for you. At the same time, if you go into this blind, you maybe endangering yourselves."
The sisters paused to his logic, Suiryu came in to reinforce it. "If mom needs help, she will ask for it, won't she?"
The sisters peered away. "Mom wants us to stay here… in the earthly realm… with everything that is going on back home."
"Rhea?"
"Mom doesn't want us at in the heavenly realm anymore. Uncle is really pushing us to take a mate, forcing those he approves of on to us. We have refused, at the same time… mom knows he is taking this too far." Rhea explained farther that her uncle has started taking young female dragons and training them to be submissive and accept any male's command, no matter what. They have seen a few females like this and it scares them. "They have no emotion, no expression on their faces, they answer 'if it pleases him, then I will do so' they never say no to anything."
"Oh gods…" Suiryu muttered. "In that case, let's make more houses for you ladies!"
They were stunned, but politely declined. "We have our own territory here thanks to mom, at the same time… this doesn't feel right…"
Suddenly, Suiryu felt anger… he surged with such anger, that he saw his sister get swallowed up by the same feeling. Yuuji too! "Mom…" Suiryu said with great determination. "Bros, keep the sisters safe… YUUJI!" he shouted.
Yuuji nodded as the two rushed to the heavenly realm. They went to their mom's domain but smelt blood the moment they arrived! "MOM!" they shouted.
Running into the domain, they saw her, holding on to something and yet, the tears in her eyes…
"Mom…" Suiryu whispered.
He dared to approach, in her arms, barely breathing was the grey fox who tended to her. "I'm… so… sorry… Lady Tia..mat…" His breathing was becoming more laborious.
Suiryu surged his hands ready to use reverse jujutsu, but mom shook her head. "I have the best healing powers… I can't heal him…" she whispered.
"Oh God…" Yuuji whispered.
"Lady… Tiamat… Your… your uncle…"
"He will pay with his life for this… I swear it…"
"He… tried to get Raynn."
She froze stiff.
"Raynn?" Suiryu asked.
"Ryujin's brother," she explained. Looking to her room, she froze. "He's… not there…"
"Escaped… Lady Tiamat… I saw his essence escape… it's in the earthly realm as we speak… where… I don't know…" the fox suddenly coughed up blood. "It… was an honor…"
"Shh, save your strength."
Suiryu watched the life leave the fox, and then, he vanished into white mist.
Mom sat there in silence, but both he and Yuuji could feel her rage growing. "What can we do?" Yuuji asked of her. "Name it mom, we will do it!"
She was about to speak until something else caught her attention. Yuuji suddenly felt it too, he was holding his heart oddly. "Bro?"
"Kiyoshi…" he whispered. "Kiyoshi is in danger!"
"Go, we will settle this later, save your son now!" Mom ordered.
Suiryu froze. "How much does time pass here?!"
Mom paused oddly. "You've been gone for almost ten hours. What little time passes here, allow a lot of time to pass on earth, go quickly!"
Yuuji was pissed, his face altered drastically, his fangs grew in and his dragon eyes were out in full force. "I'll KILL HIM!"
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They rushed back to the earthly realm. Yet the moment they did, Yuuji went into hunting mode. "Tokyo, down by the water, warehouse…" He suddenly pinpointed where they needed to go. They rushed without hesitation. The pier they found was abandoned long ago, but he could smell him where they stood. "Sukuna…"
Then, the smell of blood came into the air, not just one type either. "THERE!"
He blasted one of the warehouses without hesitation, inside Yuuji stepped in and saw such carnage. There was a man who appeared to have been butchered. His son tied up to one of the support beams yet passed out. On the ground with a dagger in his heart was Sukuna, and yet, he was still breathing. But all around were his legions. "Too late brat! Our master has a new vessel!"
"Suiryu…" Yuuji said in an oddly calm tone. "Take Kiyoshi out of here… bring the bastard with you… I'll deal with him myself."
Suiryu was stunned by his tone yet agreed. He took Kiyoshi and Sukuna, Yuuji went as far as healing Sukuna's heart to ensure he doesn't die until he gets to him! Once Suiryu was gone, he was left with forty sorcerers. "Oh, we get to deal with master's former vessel? How fun!" one cheered.
Yuuji merely glared… then snapped his fingers.
The room appeared confused until these strange looking people suddenly came out of nowhere and lingered behind him. 32 in total, but there was something about them that startled the sorcerers. "You see them, right? Those who just entered the room?" he asked.
They nodded with uncertainty. "They're not sorcerers!" one protested.
"No, they are not… but you will die by their hands. I am calling in a favor, after all, they only got this way after they ate my teeth. You see them for at the time, my teeth contained curse energy."
The tooth fairies that Yuuji fed his teeth too before he turned into a baby dragon surrounded him. Yet, they stood at tall as regular people. "At last, we can play and pay our debt…" one of them said, she smiled and it scared the sorcerers. For in her mouth were rows upon rows of sharp teeth. She sharped them with every bite, one could hear the enamel scrap against each other to perfect the point of her fangs.
"Such a gift from our master, we are not just able to eat bone, but every part of the body… such decadence!" said one of the male fairies. "Ladies first…" he teased.
Yuuji didn't stay, he turned his back before the fairies were unleashed, merely saying. "No leftovers."
"Don't worry, master, we came to this hungry…"
