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With Group 1…
"Inaho did this on purpose didn't she," Keizou said.
"You're definitely right about that," Fumiaki said.
"Well, if it makes it better, at least we all know each other by now, regardless of the fact that we're related by blood," Keisuke said trying to lighten the mood even though two members of the group weren't helped by his comment. Keita and Fumi were still somewhat flustered from the exchange not too long ago before a thought struck Fumi's mind.
"By the way, didn't your group mention something about a scepter of darkness which can seal up Mephiles?" Fumi asked.
"Right. Here's a fragment of it but we need to remake the whole thing," Natsume said showing the fragment to the others.
"So, how would we do that?" Keita wondered before the two chaos emeralds with them started to glow before transporting the group.
"Where are we?" Fumi wondered as the group soon came to their senses.
"It seems like we're in some sort of vision," Fumiaki said.
"You're right. It seems like we can only see what's happening. We can't interact with anything down there," Keizou said before something appeared in front of them. One was a plaque that was describing what they were seeing, as it was a string of events that took place here in the distant past.
"The Solaris Project has begun, its purpose to control time from a being called Solaris, who was seen as a sun-god by the local people of a place called Soleanna," Fumiaki said.
"Hold on, Akinori's grandma said that Mephiles and Iblis were actually two halves that make up a more destructive being who was named Solaris," Natsume said when the realization struck her.
"Let's see what happened during this project," Fumi said before a large sound was heard leading the group to see a massive explosion at what looked like a research facility. The group then saw who they presumed to be Solaris before it split off into two familiar figures they did recognize.
"Mephiles and Iblis. So, that's how it happened," Keizou said. "Who are those two?" he wondered as the group saw two figures appear out of nowhere before. "Wait, that one has the scepter of darkness," he said before reading that this said figure was Shadow the hedgehog as the group saw Shadow sealing Mephiles away in the Scepter of Darkness.
"So, that's what happened with Mephiles," Keita said before the group then saw the other figure talking with someone else. "But for Iblis, he was sealed within the princess of the kingdom of where this project took place, Soleanna," Keita said reading that the other two figures present, were Silver and Princess Elise.
"So, they were sealed to prevent any more damage to the place before this project was officially abandoned. Despite this, Iblis was released during the death of the princess as Iblis began his rampage in this world," Keisuke said finishing up with what was left to see.
"Wait, it says here that once Iblis is in his weakest form, he's able to be resealed within a body with the use of two chaos emeralds, which we have. That's how we can defeat him. For Mephiles, we'll simply need to remake the scepter," Natsume said after seeing how Silver and one of its allies, Blaze were able to defeat Iblis with Blaze having Iblis sealed within it.
"I hope we can at least find what we need to make the scepter," Keita said.
"On the bright side, at least we finally know how to defeat Iblis," Keizou said before the groups found themselves being sent back to the period in where they all met each other, but now in front of the facility where Project Solaris took place.
"I think that should be it," Natsume said after some time passed by, where the group searched and gathered what they needed to remake the scepter of darkness with the archived blueprint of the item.
"It's a very good thing that we were able to at least get that fragment. It should make it a lot easier to remake it," Keisuke said.
"Ok then. I guess we should head back to where we were before we get started," Fumi suggested as the two chaos emeralds responded to her wish as the group soon found themselves to where they started.
"Let's get to work then," Keizou said before a familiar magma wave was coming towards them causing the group to avoid it. "Iblis," he said.
"So, that's who you were mentioning about," Fumiaki said.
"But it looks a bit different this time," Keita remarked as unbeknownst to them, Iblis appeared in his third form. "Let's all defeat it together," he said.
"Transformation!" Hovernyan said as he transformed into Darknyan.
"Jibanyan, Whisper, become Buchinyan," Keita said as Jibanyan forcefully fused himself with Whisper becoming Buchinyan.
"Faux Kappa, I need your help once more," Fumiaki said as he summoned the classic yokai.
"Summoning. Shadow. Come on out my friend, calling Seiryu," Keisuke said summoning his yokai friend.
"I think we should call in some ice-oriented yokai. The clash of the super-hot magma and super-cold ice should work," Fumi suggested. "Come on
out my friend, calling Damona. Yokai medal, do your thing," she said as she summoned the purple kimono wearing yokai.
"Keisuke, pass me the watch," Natsume said as Keisuke tossed the watch to her. "Summoning. Shadow. Come on out my friend. Calling Blizzaria," she said summoning the yuki onna.
"Remember, his weak spot is his green eye," Shadowside Whisper said as everyone, including the yokai, heard this piece of advice.
"Hmm, no matter how many are against me, I won't lose," Iblis said as he launched several fireballs.
"I'll handle this," Darknyan said as he brought up a windstorm hoping to send the fireballs back to Iblis before the fireballs exploded on impact.
"Night Claw," he said using his soultimate move as he charged forward aiming for Iblis's weak spot. Iblis tried to attack Darknyan at a close range with his fiery fists.
"Buchinyan, help Darknyan out," Keita said.
"You to Jibanyan," Keisuke said.
"No problem, flurry of fury," Buchinyan replied as the yokai fusion used its soultimate move to counter out the fiery first heading towards it, while Jibanyan dealt with the other first with a flurry of punches, giving Darknyan the chance to strike as Buchinyan essentially took the hit for him.
"Take this," Iblis said as he now launched a wave of magma towards the group.
"Blizzaria, try cooling it down," Natsume said.
"Damona, help her out with your ice powers," Fumi said.
"Got it," the two ice-oriented yokai said as both blew a frigid air which soon hit the magma wave before steam was everywhere from the clash of hot and cold before some more incoming fireballs were heading straight for the two yokai, hitting them for a lot of damage.
"We're not done yet, shiny chaos," Damona said using her soultimate move as she launched a frigid yet bright beam full of dark energy towards Iblis, hitting its mark.
"Shiny snowdrifts," Blizzaria said as she launched a powerful ice attack trying to obscure Iblis's vision as the attack soon surrounded him creating more steam as a result.
"Not bad, but that won't work," Iblis said as he regenerated his body with a red glow.
"Clever thinking. Now's your chance," Natsume said to Keisuke and Fumiaki.
"You got it, let's go," the two said. "Mega wave," Faux Kappa said as he used his soultimate move by bringing a massive wave as Seiryu launched a powerful blast of water towards Iblis before Iblish changed its form trying to minimize the amount of damage it was about to take.
It dealt enough damage to cancel out almost all his regeneration, but Iblis was still standing as the steam completely dissipated by now. "Didn't think it would get down to this, you leave me no choice," Iblis said as this time, a group of fiery shadows was thrown towards the group.
"I'll hold them off," Komasan said as he used a spirit dance, to send a barrage of ghastly flames to hold off the shadows.
"This should do it," Darknyan said as he summoned another windstorm hoping to push the shadows back as Buchinyan and Jibanyan aided the windstorm's power with their soultimate moves, as the fiery shadows soon started to fade out before being extingusihed by the water attacks of Faux Kappa and Seiryu by the orders of Fumiaki and Keisuke.
"Blizzaria, try freezing the area around him," Natsume said.
"You to Damona," Fumi said before the two yokai summoned a blizzard, as it overtook the heat from the magma that was being emanated from Iblis's body.
"Buchinyan, do it once more," Keita said as it used flurry of fury to beat down the entirety of Iblis's body including its ever-present weak spot resulting in a powerful explosion sending everyone back as the two chaos emeralds the group had started to float from their grasp. Iblis soon shrank down to his weakest state as a mere fireball.
"Alright, now to not waste any time," Keisuke said as he grabbed the two chaos emeralds before attempting to seal Iblis within his body. The gemstones started to glow before surrounding Iblis in that same glowing light before, it started to get sealed in Keisuke's body before being completely sealed in. Keisuke's body was surrounded by a red aura as the gemstones stopped glowing before Keisuke soon got to his senses.
"Keisuke are you ok?!" Shadowside Whisper asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Keisuke replied before he started to glow red again before feeling some pain. He soon let out a scream of agony which caused Iblis to be ejected out of his body.
"It didn't work but how?!" Fumi wondered.
"Quick, let me try," Natsume said as she took the chaos emeralds before beginning to have Iblis sealed up in her body before he could regenerate his strength. She soon was able to seal Iblis within her body as she soon glowed red before showing no sign of Iblis escaping.
"Natsume, are you alright?" Keisuke asked.
"I'm fine. Don't worry about me," Natsume replied.
"Well that's settled, but I wonder why it didn't work when Keisuke tried to seal Iblis?" Fumi wondered.
"It could be that Iblis could only be sealed by those like the one who originally had Iblis sealed within them. This being the princess of Soleanna," Keizou suggested.
"So, are you secretly some sort of princess?" Fumiaki asked with intrigue in his voice.
"Well actually, yes and no. You see during our adventures, we encountered two yokai from time to time. These were Douketsu and Shutendouji, who both were on the search for this said yokai princess named Shuka. She was apparently the ruler of the yokai world before Lord Enma took over. As time passed by, the two thought that Ayame was the princess, but that was false. As she was merely being inspirited by a malicious yokai, named, Jorougumo," Natsume replied. "Then on one day, after Keisuke was being held hostage by Doukestu and Shutendouji, a battle was initiated between us and them, which soon came to me using the hidden powers of the yokai princess as her spirit was inside me this entire time. They said that this was due to me being the reincarnation of Shuka. Then at the end, Shuka's spirit officially left my body as she was able to reunite with her lover's spirit during our final confrontation as a group of yokai watch users and the rest is history," she said finishing her explanation.
"Wow, that's quite a story," Fumi said.
"But then, if that did happen, then wouldn't that make me and everyone in the family be the reincarnation of some yokai king and queen then?" Keita asked excitedly.
"Uh sorry, dad. That's not how it works. I wasn't the reincarnation of a yokai prince when this revelation was found out," Keisuke replied as to which Keita was somewhat disappointed by this. "Well, at least we can now begin to remake the scepter," he said as the group started their work. Unbeknownst to him, nor anyone else, there was some sort of pain that was starting to manifest within his body that was going to cost him his life sooner or later.
To Be Continued...
