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.
Back in the future period…
"Grandma it's an emergency!" Akinori screamed.
"What is it?" Mitsue asked.
"Well first, we managed to get some of the scepter back, but Keisuke was no longer with us, as we were against an evil yokai named Mephiles, who managed to escape. I mean it sort of resembled a yokai. But did Keisuke come back here by any chance?" Natsume asked panting.
"I'm afraid no. He didn't. As a matter of fact, I didn't even see him pass by, even though he goes by this road to go back to his house," Mitsue replied. "But you said that the scepter broke right and that the supposed yokai was named Mephiles?" she asked.
"Yes," Natsume responded handing over the remaining fragment of it.
"I think this event can now explain this scepter and something else important," Mitsue said. "You see, Mephiles is a semi yokai that composes one half of an even greater being called Solaris, who's been said to be the conscious mind of Solaris," Mitsue said. "What we need now is a chaos emerald if we want to find Keisuke," she continued while looking for the book talking about it. "The chaos emerald is a gemstone that's capable of many powers such warping time and space, allow transformations to gain more power and this power can be shared with others. They hold immense power which can be used for both good and evil. This is because they can sense the thoughts of people and can have their power be triggered with no physical contact at all," she said.
"That could be an explanation for what happened to Keisuke," Natsume said.
"Furthermore, if you were to collect all seven, then you could grant a miracle to happen, no matter how unlikely it can happen. With this, our first task should be to find all possible ones here," Mitsue continued.
"But wait. If they're full of powers to warp space and time, then we wouldn't be able to find them all in this period, right?" Ayame asked.
"That's a possibility. Some can be found more closely with each other, and sometimes the opposite will be true," Mitsue chimed in.
"So, there could be other people that have gone missing then," Akinori said.
"Now this tells us how we can find them. It says that they would appear in important places where bonds and/or trials are made between people," Mitsue said.
"Well, that does give us a list of possible options," Touma said. "The locations of the yoseiken back in the yokai world and Suzaku's mountain for example," he said.
"But there's no way we can check each place. We don't have the time for that," Akinori said.
"Not to worry. We can simply instead, put a pin on each location to see if there have been any changes within the environment that should signal a chaos emerald. Akinori and Ayame, would you please lend me your help?" Mitsue asked.
"Sure," the two said as the three gathered around Mitsue's crystal ball before holding hands and then, focusing on the crystal ball as the specified locations appeared along with some others. Several minutes passed by as none of the featured locations showed a signal of a change in its environment before the vision in the crystal ball completely faded.
"Hmm, so, it must be a location in the human world then," Touma said.
"I would say so. I'm sorry for not being able to find it within the crystal ball," Mitsue said.
"Grandma, there's no need to apologize. It was a bit much to assume that we could've found it in a different world, where we've never been to before," Akinori said.
"Wait a minute, you said that they would appear in places where bonds between people are formed right?" Natsume asked.
"Yes, that would be correct, I double-checked to make sure I was reading the correct text," Mitsue replied.
"I have an idea, follow me," Natsume said as the group reluctantly followed her. "It has to be that place," she thought to herself. Back when she first found out about yokai, the yokai watch, what Keisuke's been up to, and finding out how much he cared for her, her family, and with the other members of the group. Natsume soon found herself back at that abandoned port side as the rest of the group caught up with her.
"So, you think it's here?" Ayame asked.
"Yeah, I thought here as, this is where I first found out about yokai, back before the detective group was formed and before when we met you," Natsume replied.
"Looks like you were right. Over there," Akinori said to where a similar light was radiating which made the group approach closer, only for the group to feel the wind pick up and dark clouds starting to emerge when three eyes appeared in front of them.
"You won't have the chaos emerald that easily," it said as a battle soon ensued.
"Why that's Eyeclone," Akinori said.
"Getting ahold of that chaos emerald will allow me to control over the weather-orientated yokai, and as such, I can't have others get in my way. Even then, I remember hearing about a massive storm that happened around here quite some time ago," he said. This made the group besides Ayame, remember what he was referring to what happened with their encounter against Nazo.
"In that case, we'll just have to stop you. Possession!" Touma said as he rotated his yokai watch ogre to become Goemon.
"Micchy!" Natsume screamed, to which Micchy appeared by her side in his lightside form.
"Yes, Natsume? What can I do for you?" Micchy asked.
"Take on that yokai," Natsume replied.
"Leave it to me," Micchy said as both he and Goemon jumped towards Eyeclone.
Eyeclone sent out a strong wind blast, but Goemon was capable enough to slash through it to prevent being thrown off balance before striking Eyeclone. Meanwhile, Micchy opted for a standard punch attack but had his attack countered by Eyeclone throwing a punch back at his, canceling the attacks out. Ayame attempted to hit Eyeclone's two hands with a magic blast but, they got easily countered back with a typhoon that has been raging around it. Akinori called out for Suzaku as the giant phoenix appeared before him before Suzaku was able to eliminate the typhoon around it with its power.
"Now what do we do?" Ayame wondered.
"I have an idea," Natsume said before whispering something to Micchy.
"I understand," Micchy said before jumping towards Eyeclone. "Micchy beam," he said as he fired a laser from his eye at both of Eyeclone's hands.
"Everyone now's your chance to attack," Natsume said as while the laser beams did nothing, due to Eyeclone being relatively much stronger than Micchy, that distraction was needed for Goemon, Suzaku, and Ayame, the opportunity to destroy Eyeclone's hands and two other eyes enough with their attacks.
"Eye of the storm," Eyeclone said using his soultimate move, in where he created a much stronger windstorm and threw it towards the group, and coupled with the current storm raging behind him, it hit everyone for major damage and enough for Touma to revert to his normal self. Eyeclone then took the opportunity to use its somewhat recovered hands for a double punch.
"Touma, Natsume, run away we'll take care of this," Akinori said as he and Ayame then used their magic to make a shield blocking the incoming attack to which it blocked it successfully as, without those hands, Eyeclone was starting to become low in stamina.
"Possession once more," Touma said he transformed into Yoshitsune before landing a blow with his sword with an attack on top of Eyeclone's main eye, with Suzaku launching a powerful wind blast, while Akinori and Ayame using one more magic blast towards its main eye, knocking it out.
"This match is over," Touma said.
"You should think about what you said before. About wanting to control over yokai and not once considering what others may say to that," Natsume said.
"Fine, you can have the chaos emerald," Eyeclone said begrudgingly before disappearing into thin air, as the storm soon subsided. The chaos emerald soon came into clarity, radiating a blue color.
"With this, we can now use its time and space warping powers," Natsume said while Akinori quickly updated his grandma on their status before his grandma told them to be careful with whatever happens next. "Micchy, I must say thanks to you. Because of you, we were able to hinder that yokai's attack before being able to finish it off," she said.
"No problem," Micchy said happily while crying tears of joy after hearing that genuine compliment.
Natsume then took a hold of the gemstone before thinking where she wanted to be. Then soon, the group was surrounded by a blue light before vanishing.
To Be Continued...
End Notes: A bit of a heads up, this chapter, and the next three chapters will also be happening around at the same time. Where these four chapters are taking place sometime after the events of the first three chapters of this story.
