Intro Notes: All of Yokai Watch and Sonic belong to Level-5 Inc. and to Sega respectively, as well as to all other respective owners.

*Minor spoiler warning to those who haven't seen the Yokai Watch Film: Forever Friends, as some plot events, will be mentioned.


Yokai Watch Universe (Past Time Period)…

"Things really have changed over this 90-year period now hasn't it?" Mephiles thought to himself as he now arrived at the past. "There he is," he said when seeing Keizou and Fumiaki exiting a bookstore.

It's been quite some time since the Wicked were defeated by Keizou and his grandson, Keita. After their victory, the two said goodbye to each other as Keita went back to the present. It was during this time when Keizou really started to appreciate the fact that he did meet his future grandson who taught him about the importance of friends and showed his thanks for the yokai watch being made at all. It made him happy for even coming up with the idea of making the yokai watch and befriending the various yokai he met prior to meeting Keita.

It wasn't long after before he met his best friend Fumiaki as they instantly bonded over their love for the Kamen Guts manga series, to where he told Fumiaki all about yokai, the yokai watch model zero he wore, and his yokai companion, Hovernyan. Keizou knew Fumiaki was a good friend and trusted him, so he really didn't hesitate to tell him about his secret. This led to Fumiaki wanting to make his own yokai watch model zero, which he did along with Keizou's help. Then from then on, the two would encounter various yokai and make friendships with them wherever they went.

(An hour earlier in the past…)

"So, is there anything you want to do now?" Keizou asked.

"If it's alright with you, do you want to hang out at Sakura New Town for a change of pace?" Fumiaki asked.

"Yeah, that sounds fine to me," Keizou replied as the two headed to their destination.

In Sakura Motomachi … there stood two kids who both bore somewhat of a sad look. These two were Shin and Tae. Shin was a yokai watch user who wore the yokai watch elder zero, while Tae was a sorceress who could utilize magic from her family lineage. The reason for their sad expressions was that they were suddenly reminiscing about Itsuki's departure. Itsuki was a good friend of the two and who was the reason why they even all met each other in the first place or even got to know more about the yokai. During their first encounter, to them, he seemed like a normal boy who had a rich upbringing, only for them to find out that he was already dead but was still wandering this world. He then became the new lord Enma, before going back to the yokai world and the rest is history.

Ever since that, Shin and Tae have become quite close with each other, as right after Itsuki's departure, Shin was quite hard on himself for not doing more for who he considered his first and best friend. Despite this, Tae was there for him as she too, considered Itsuki a very good friend which led to them spending more time with each other. Also, Shin's guardian spirit, Suu-san, thought that it must've been a coincidence that during their grand adventure with Itsuki, the two found themselves saving each other from danger in that made it seem like their actions were destined to happen. How else would he explain the time when Tae grabbed Shin's hand and literally dragged him on the floor while running away from the yokai Yamanba or the time when Shin found himself pushing Tae in a random shopping cart while also running away from the dangerous yokai, Tamamo-no-mae. But Suu-san hesitated on bringing that up, as he also interpreted these events as just their fight or flight responses simply being triggered.

"Well, we should be glad that his sister and your mother are now fully recovered," Tae said trying to comfort Shin.

"You're right. Sorry if I worried you," Shin said.

"Don't mention it, why don't we get something to eat to cheer ourselves up," Tae suggested.

"Sure," Shin replied before the two went off into town to find something to satisfy their appetites.

(Back To the Current Time…)

"Can't wait to read the new volume once we go back home," Keizou said.

"You're right about that, oh, there's where we got off," Fumiaki said as the two walked over there waiting for the train to take them back home while unknowingly, passing by Shin and Tae. While on their way, something in the air changed around them. "You felt, that right?" he asked.

"Yeah, let's go Hovernyan," Keizou said as he called forth his yokai friend with his yokai watch.

"Come on out Blazion," Fumiaki said his yokai friend with his yokai watch as a gassy figure emerged in front of them.

"Leave this to us," Hovernyan said as he and Blazion charged in with an attack only to be pushed back by a powerful sphere of energy causing the two to check on their friends.

"No one gets in my way," Mephiles said as he threw some shadows engulfing Fumiaki and Blazion for a distraction while throwing another sphere of energy towards Keizou and Hovernyan. Hovernyan threw a powerful punch towards the energy sphere, but it was much stronger than him, resulting in him and Keizou being sent to a different world with that attack. "Looks like I'm good for now," he said before vanishing.

Blazion soon took out the shadows with several rings of fire as Fumiaki was able to get out mostly unscathed before thanking Blazion as he took his leave. "Man, what was that? Keizou, you alright?" he asked before to get no response. Realization soon hit him that his best friend was definitely gone. Where are you?!" he said with panic in his voice.

"Did something happen? We thought we heard a scream," said a voice, which prompted Fumiaki to turn around to find Shin and Tae.

"Uh, well, my best friend vanished!" Fumiaki said, who was still panicking about it.

"Can you explain what happened?" Shin asked, to which Fumiaki told them what he had just gone through.

"I see, well, if it's alright with you we can help you," Tae suggested. While Fumiaki was a bit hesitant on trusting these complete strangers, he knew that he had no choice anyway, given this was something that he has never seen before, and agreed to their offer.

"Thank you very much. Name's Fumiaki, nice to meet you," he said.

"My name is Tae, and this is Shin," the girl said.

"Hi there. Oh, is that a yokai watch?" Shin asked.

"Uh yes and I assume that watch is another model of the yokai watch?" Fumiaki asked.

"I guess so. This is yokai watch elder zero," Shin replied. "What about yours? I have never seen one like that before," he said.

"This is the yokai watch model zero. Uh, well, to be honest, my friend and I made this watch model," Fumiaki responded.

"Wow. That's really cool," Tae responded. "Anyways, we should start our search at my grandma's house. If it's anything to do with yokai, my family should know," she said.

"So, your family can see yokai?" Fumiaki.

"Well yes, but not only that, I come from a family line of sorcerers who all have abilities to use magic," Tae replied.

"That's so cool," Fumiaki said as the three were now heading their way back.

To Be Continued...