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.
*Warning*: Temporary Character Death
"I think that should do it," Fumiaki said as he and Keizou were putting on the finishing adjustments to the scepter of darkness after the group did their best to recreate it.
"That's great," Keita said before familiar voices caught the group's attention. "Hi everyone," he said.
"How did it go?" Fumi asked.
"We found three so far," Inaho replied.
"For some reason, the three took us back here for some reason," Touma said.
"Perhaps it needed the other chaos emeralds to have the final one reveal itself," Ayame said.
"That could be the case," Akinori commented before thinking about what to do next.
"The scepter of darkness has now been repaired," Natsume said switching the topic of the conversation.
"That's great, now we can take on Mephiles. How did your confrontation with Iblis go?" Akinori said before asking the question.
"It went well. Iblis is currently sealed within me," Natsume replied.
"Are you hurt, or is it like before, where you don't feel anything?" Ayame asked concerned.
"I'm alright. I currently don't feel any interior pain," Natsume responded before seeing that her brother was acting a bit weird. "Keisuke are you feeling ok?" she asked.
"I don't know. It feels like the inside of my body is quivering or something," Keisuke replied as he honestly had no idea what was going on with him.
"Well, we just need to now find Mephiles," Shin said.
"Already on it," Tae said as she checked her yokai energy reader, which made Akinori do the same.
"A strong reading up to the north," Akinori said to which Tae got a similar result, which led the group to go to where they needed to go. The group then found themselves in a snow-covered place called White Acropolis where they followed before the two yokai energy readers' marks were becoming more frequent.
"Looks like he isn't here either," Mephiles said to himself before picking his next location to look for.
"Stop right there," Keisuke said as the group had found Mephiles.
"Looks like you already brought Iblis to me," Mephiles said as he launched a dark sphere towards Natsume.
"Oh no you don't," Micchy said as he comedically appeared out of the blue before jumping in front of Natsume to take on the incoming attack with his fists.
"Jibanyan, help Micchy out," Keisuke said.
"Leave it me," Jibanyan said as he reverted to his shadowside form before blocking the attack with a flurry of punches.
"Transformation," Hovernyan said as he transformed into Darknyan. Fumiaki soon called for Dracunyan, to join up with Darknyan, both Jibanyans, and Nekomata, as the present and future group a group of yokai. These being: summoned Kyubi, Venoct, and Shogunyan. Seiryu, Blizzaria, and Suzaku. Suu-san reverted to his godside, and Goemon appeared.
"Think you can defeat me?" Mephiles asked taunting them as he created a group of shadow clones that were approaching them. "We'll handle this,"Nekomata said as all the cat yokai, except for Shogunyan joined together and took out the shadows with their combined punches while taking some damage from the attack.
"Take this," Kyubi said as he charged through the wall of shadows before firing off a blast of fire to Mephiles, to which he dodged it before getting hit by Venoct's soultimate move from behind. Mephiles soon countering with two dark spheres of energy, so quick that Venoct got hit for good damage, but was able to avoid the second one as Shogunyan slashed through it with his sword. Mephiles soon transformed into a liquid state and was starting to seep into the grounds and within the shadows.
"This should slow you down," Blizzaria said as she began to freeze Mephiles with her cold breath, which did slow him down enough to be completely frozen, giving Suu-san and Goemon the perfect moment strike with their powerful attacks, causing more damage to be done by Mephiles, especially after being broken out of the ice barrier caused by Blizzaria's attack. Mephiles then disappeared into the shadows before sending out multiple powerful and invisible shockwaves, hitting everyone in the process.
"Suzaku, use your wind powers. It should help us find his location," Akinori said.
"You got it," Suzaku said as he blew in a powerful gust of wind which drove Mephiles out of hiding, and in response, he reverted to his normal form in where he was hit by a pulsing blast of water as told by Keisuke. Mephiles soon glowed which was his way of manipulating time, where he set it back toward the beginning of the battle.
"Wait, what just happened?" Fumi wondered as things seem to have restarted before another group of shadows had approached the group and started to do their damage to the yokai.
"Everyone, I have an idea, aim your moves at a different spot before aiming for Mephiles," Keizou said as he thought this was a case of time being rewound for Mephiles to gain the advantage. This was due to remembering seeing something like this back when he and Keita were up against the Wicked. The yokai heard his suggestion before launching their attacks in all directions before trying to aim their attacks at Mephiles.
"Ayame and Tae, I have an idea," Akinori said as he whispered a plan to the two others.
"We understand," the two girls said before getting into a stance while readying a triple offensive magic blast that was bursting with light.
"Nice try, but that won't work," Mephiles said as all of the yokai had their attacks destroy the shadow clones creating multiple explosions as Mephiles charged up another energy sphere before seeing the light-based attack heading towards it.
"Looks like we caught you off guard," Ayame said as she, Akinori, and Tae all threw their charged-up offensive magic blast towards it, resulting in super effective damage.
"Now's your chance everyone," Keita said as all the yokai soon threw their attacks towards Mephiles without any hesitation for a constant bombardment of damage, to the point where it couldn't use the same trick of time manipulation to avoid this happening.
"Alright, time to seal you up," Natsume said as she held the scepter of darkness towards Mephiles as it started to seal him up in his basic form after being hit by all those attacks. Soon, Mephiles was completely sealed up in the scepter before a faint light pulsated. The group thought this was testing to see if Mephiles was fully sealed within the scepter and hoped for the best. The light pulsated a few more times before the scepter started to crack before fully breaking, as Mephiles managed to break free. "No way," Natsume said.
"You think I would lose that easy. I knew that you were going to find the rest of them anyway to reunite with your friends and soon return to your universe, but without all seven of them your miracle can't be granted, and as such it just gave you nothing but pointless busywork," Mephiles said before readying two attacks. One looked like a powerful laser beam and a dark energy sphere. Except, this energy sphere was much bigger than ever before. Before the group could even attempt to flee, Mephiles used the power of the last hidden chaos emerald he had to create a blinding light, which obstructed the group's vision and the two attacks soon hit them resulting in a huge explosion as the group was sent far back.
"That did sure pack a punch," Keita said as he soon got up from those attacks as the dust soon settled revealing everyone and the yokai still relatively fine despite having some bruises and injuries just like him. Before a gasp from Natsume was heard, ushering the group to see what was going on.
"Keisuke?! Are you alright?!" Natsume asked as she saw him out on the ground, being unresponsive. His face was battered, as well as his body was in a state much worse than anyone else. She soon held him to see if his heart was still beating or even a breath would be heard. Nothing was heard from him. The internal pain from his body had soon taken over his body, as well as those two last attacks dealing the final blow to him.
"It... Can't be," Fumi said with stutters in her voice as she and everyone else started to tear up.
"Why though?!" Natsume screamed as her eyes were now flooding with tears, as the rest of her family along with everyone else had their heads down upon fully realizing what just happened. Even if some didn't know Keisuke that well, they knew how everyone person in the group was important to them, before something else got their attention. Natsume was glowing in red light before a shockwave pushed everyone around her back, as Iblis was released from her body.
"How's that possible? We thought it was completely sealed up," Tae said as she and everyone soon got up from the shockwave.
"You probably didn't know that Iblis can become free if the one who's sealing him has any sort of negative emotions such as sadness, such as the time with Princess Elise back then," Mephiles said completely nonchalantly. "Now Iblis, come to me," he said as he revealed the last chaos emerald, being a clear colored one. "I knew that all of you were going to find the rest of these gemstones to reunite with your friends and to return to your universe, but without all seven, that miracle of yours won't come true. Therefore, all of that busywork was for nothing," he said as the rest of the chaos emeralds quickly appeared before him, as well as Iblis before a blinding light ensued.
"You monster!" Keita said enraged, but before he or anyone else could attack, the two beings soon combined into the ultimate form of Solaris.
"Solaris, it's you," Touma said before everything around them was blinded again by that same light as the entire group disappeared.
"Where are we now?" Shin wondered as everyone came to their senses.
"It seems like another different world. Hmm?" Ayame thought as what seemed like cracks formed in the space around them with a multicolored sky.
"This must be a break in space. In other words, space is getting distorted," Inaho said.
"In that case, Ayame's assumption is correct. But we need to figure out how to get out of here first," Touma said.
"Uh, sorry to interrupt your train of thought, but I don't think everyone's fully ready to begin thinking on how to get out of here," Tae said shyly, as the Amano and Kodama family were still in grief over Keisuke's death.
"Will you all be alright?" Akinori asked solemnly.
"We're here for you. We'll avenge him together," Inaho said before another silence occurred.
"You're right. We must bring him back," Keizou said a few moments later, recomposing himself.
"He's right, it's not over yet," Fumiaki said, which the two statements were enough to encourage everyone else before the group came together to discuss their next step.
"We just need to beat Solaris," Fumi said.
"But we can't simply do that. Now that Solaris is present, it's existing and has control over all periods of time," Akinori said.
"What about getting the seven chaos emeralds back? We can use our miracle to bring back Keisuke," Touma suggested.
"Touma's right. I remember getting a glimpse of the gemstones being out of Solaris's vicinity once his fusion was complete. This means, that those seven chaos emeralds are still out there," Natsume said.
"Natsume, if it's alright, I'll be staying here to keep an eye on any further threats to Keisuke here," Shadowside Whisper said.
"I feel the same as well Keita," Whisper said.
"Us too," both Jibanyans responded.
"I'll stay here as well if that's ok with you Fumi," Komasan said.
"Thank you, everyone," Natsume said as Fumi nodded in agreement with Komasan's request.
"So, that's going to be our plan then," Keita said before a huge crack appeared within the air.
To Be Continued...
