Boom! New chapter after...let's ignore the exact length! Ehehehe...Anyway, I decided to come back and update this fic. I am trying to update my fics (and reboot two of them) so of course I was going to work on this fic! I know that it has a lot of fans! ^^
Now, I apologize for that small spoiler in the last chapter, but it was to help readers offer suggestions for his harem so it was necessary (at least for me). Also about Lincoln's height, he will grow taller, he is only 16 after all, but at the moment, he will remain short. Just don't expect him to shoot up to 6'. I do not do that as it is not necessary.
I do not own Loud House, just any original characters that appear in the fic!

Chapter 2: Training

"Ah!" Lincoln shouted as he shot up in his bed with sweat pouring down his face. Breathing hard, Lincoln looked back and forth while his heart beat hard against his chest. Realizing that he was in the safety of his bedroom, he calmed down lightly before noticing that his window was wide open and there were small scratches on it. Narrowing his eyes, he stood up and walked over to inspect the scratches. Memories of the night before were rushing through his mind as he looked at them. "Were these left by whoever brought me home?"

As he tried to decipher what could of left these marks, he ran a hand through his hair in frustration. "Really, they not only neglected me on my birthday, but they left me behind to go somewhere!" Growling angrily, Lincoln turned to stomp out of his bedroom, but felt himself come to a pause at the door. It didn't matter anymore. He knew that. He was a stranger in a house of people who wanted him out. He should have come terms with this by now.

"~Lincoln, honey, it will be okay~" a voice suddenly popped up in his head causing him to yelp and jump in the air. A giggle erupted in his mind along with a chorus of masculine laughter behind it before the voice spoke back up, "~I am sorry, it is my fault for not warning you that we would be able to contact you like this. It is us~"

Lincoln felt his face fall into a deadpan. He should have expected something like this. He was their champion now...and they were gods. This should not be that hard to do for them. Sighing, he went ahead and changed into a fresh pair of clothes so he could start his day.

"Lincoln! You do realize that you need to start gaining a grasp of your new powers right? Who knows when the threats could arrive?...Well we know, but you don't so you should probably train," Susanoo loudly brought up in his head which nearly caused him to have a headache. The resulting slapping sound, obviously a product of Amaterasu hitting Susanoo in the back of the head, did not help.

Running a hand through his hair, he looked up at the ceiling. "I know that I need to train, Susanoo-sama, but I need to eat breakfast before I head out to find a suitable place to train. Also I was going to bring a Japanese mythology book with me so I can make sure that I train with the powers of any youkai that I am unaware of," LIncoln explained while making sure to add the suffix. He might not be Japanese, but these were Japanese gods that he was speaking with. It was only appropriate.

Reaching over for his phone, he made sure to grab the book in question as well before leaving his bedroom and walking down the stairs to the kitchen. As he began to search for something quick to eat, his mind began to wander over the idea of using real superpowers today! And not just any run of the mill superpowers, but the powers of youkai! Like from anime and manga! Almost immediately, a kitsune flashed into his mind. Smiling brightly for the first time in years, Lincoln sped ate a bowl of cereal and rushed out of the house.

Pulling out his phone, he texted Clyde and asked if he knew any deserted places in town. As he sat on a bench at a bus stop, he waited for Clyde to text back with an answer to his question.

"So Lincoln-san...what yokai will you choose to give yourself the powers of first?" Lincoln heard who he could only guess was Tsukuyomi ask. The immediate response was the image of a kitsune flashing into his mind which earned a light chuckle from the god of the moon. "I should have known. Just make sure not to neglect the other yokai in your arsenal."

Lincoln nodded back before hearing his phone's ringtone go off. Looking down at the screen, he smiled as he saw Clyde's suggestion. "Heh of course, that should have been obvious. Why didn't I think of that?" Lincoln muttered under his breath before shoving his phone back into his pocket. When the bus pulled up, he stepped on. paid the fee, and went to sit in the back.

As he sat down, he noticed a red haired girl, a couple of years older than him, staring at him. Looking back and forth, he looked back down at the floor. The woman's gaze stayed firmly locked on him. It was...unsettling to say the least. Glancing up slightly, he could have sworn that he saw a smirk stretch across her face as she leaned over and rested her head on her hand.

Gulping, Lincoln looked at the window and tried to pay attention to the scenery so that he could ignore the girl...sadly it did not go as well as he hoped. Especially when she moved to sit next to him. Turning to look at her, he looked down for a moment before finally finding the will to speak. The girl beat him to the punch though.

"Well well, look at what we have here. A halfling. I did not expect a yokai to be this far out. Especially, one so young," the girl whispered so no one else in the bus could hear, but to Lincoln it sounded as loud as one of Luna's jam sessions. She knew he had youkai powers.

Looking over at her, he was about to say something only for the girl to smirk as the pupils in her eyes turned to slits and cat-like whiskers popped out in the open. He's seen this before in anime! She's a...a... "Bakeneko!" he yelled out in a low tone which made her smirk before the cat features disappeared.

"So you are aware of yokai. That's good. What are you? I know you are half human, but I can sense yokai energy emanating from your body. You mind letting me know~" she asked him with a wink at the end. Gulping, Lincoln looked away as he thought about it. Another youkai that he could speak to! However, should he be telling people that he's the chosen champion of the Japanese gods?

Seeing the hesitation in the young man's eyes, the girl laughed as she patted his head. "I can see you aren't quite certain about letting someone in on your secret. I respect that. I'll be leaving for now, but the next time we meet, I hope you have made up your mind," she stated as she stood up to her feet. Lincoln continued looking at her before reaching out.

"Wait! Wha-what's your name?!" Lincoln asked her with an almost desperate tone. He could not let this chance escape him. Looking back at him, she smirked again before turning her head away.

"Call me Koyuki, bye Lincoln," Koyuki gave him a small wave before vanishing in front of his eyes. Shooting up, Lincoln began looking around in shock. There was a youkai in town that he now knew...and she just vanished in front of him. Was this a power that bakenekos possessed.

Sitting back in his seat, Lincoln decided to ponder over the powers that he had seen them wield in the various animes that he watched. They ranged from shapeshifting, fire wielding, sharp claws, emorional manipulation, possession, etc. Did they have them in real life as well. She seems to be able to wield illusions or at the very least teleport.

"~Lincoln-kun, do you not tell her about your position. She is up to something, I can feel it. Bakenekos...should be regarded as suspicious usually. You need to keep your powers secret no matter what happens. It is not safe. Just pretend to be part kitsune if you run into other yokai,~" Amaterasu informed Lincoln who nodded in return. He knew that it would be way too risky to tell Koyuki about his new role, but he did not know how to get out of the whole 'part youkai' thing.

Leaning back into his seat, he closed his eyes and allowed himself to rest until the bus reached its destination.

Junkyard

Lincoln stepped into the junkyard and began to look around at the large piles of trash. He felt his teeth clench for a moment before his nerves calmed down. Memories of rummaging through all this trash years ago to find pieces of furniture that his family had thrown out instead of selling came flowing back, but he forced them down. He was here to train, not to angrily yell and throw trash around...

"I could do both," Lincoln muttered under his breath, but he decided against it. He did not want to give the people who took care of the junkyard any extra work. Taking a deep breath, he slowly released any remaining stress from his body before walking to the middle of the area.

"Alright, Amaterasu-sama, how do I activate my powers?" Lincoln asked the goddess who did not respond at first. Confused, Lincoln was about to ask again, but found himself cut off as she gave him her answer.

"~I honestly do not know~"

Lincoln paused as he felt his face fall. "Wait what?"

"~Well, we combined our powers to make the orb that gave you your powers, but we did not come up with a specific activation command. The only thing we made sure to do was implant the time limit in there. Um...try feeling it!~" Amaterasu shouted in encouragement; although, Lincoln felt himself pretty do an anime face palm...oh what the heck? *Slap!*

"Really?! That's the best you got onee-chan?! Please, that's pathetic! Then again what do you expect?!"Susanoo replied in a mocking tone causing Lincoln to look up in confusion. Did Susanoo hate Amaterasu?

"Well brother, do you have any suggestions?" Tsukuyomi replied in his sister's stead which earned them nothing but silence, "That's what I thought. Lincoln-san, imagine the yokai you want to become in your head and then think of it merging with you. Focus intensely on that image and see if that can work."

Sighing in relief, Lincoln sat down and did as Tsukuyomi instructed. As expected, a kyuubi no kitsune popped into his mind. He knew they were the strongest forms of kitsunes so he wished to be able to use that power for himself. As he began imagining the kitsune combining with himself, he felt something weird in his chest. It was a slight pain before an intense heat bloomed to the surface. Slowly, but surely it began spreading to the rest of his body before Lincoln began to physically feel the changes.

HIs nails sharpened into fox claws, fox whiskers blossomed onto his cheeks, his neatly combed white hair sprouted out in a wild mess while two white fox ears grew out of his head (much to his pain), his pupils turned to slits like Koyuki's had, his teeth grew sharper, and finally a white fox tail bursted free from behind him which earned a pained growl. "Ow! That hurt!"

Rubbing his head and lower back, he finally took in his new appearance in a nearby slightly broken mirror. His eyes began to shine with wonder and excitement. "I'm a kitsune! Yes! Oh...I should probably keep my voice down ehehe," he laughed awkwardly before looking back in the mirror. He pouted lightly when he noticed that he only had one tail instead of nine. "Awwww, why aren't I a Kyuubi no Kitsune?"

"~Because Lincoln-kun, kitsunes only become kyuubi no kitsunes through hard work and years of wisdom. You are still new to this, and you're young. It will be years before you reach that level~" Amaterasu chipped which caused a small whine to escape Lincoln's lips before he finally shrugged.

He was not going to complain. He still got the chance to be a kitsune even if it wasn't the strongest version of one. Plus, he could turn into any youkai that he wanted! Well...time limit provided. Looking down at his hand, he felt a small smile form on his face as the various powers of a kitsune flashed through his mind.

Turning to an old pile of junk, he reached up and concentrated on forming a small ball of fox fire. "Come on, come on..." he muttered as he gritted his teeth and stared hard at his palm. After a moment of focusing, flames bursted to life in his hand. Smiling brightly, he looked up and tossed the flames at the pile which set them ablaze. Holding another hand out, he slowly began to curl fingers which caused the flames to die down until Lincoln shot his fingers back out into an open palm which strengthened the flames.

"Awesome!" Lincoln shouted in joy while his tail wagged back and forth. All of a sudden, his nostrils flared as the smell of rotting trash increased. Looking back up, his eyes widened as he realized the fire had began to get out of hand. Bringing both hands up, he closed both into fists while concentrating on his connection to the flames. Slowly, but surely they died down until there was no sight of the fire left.

Wiping his forehead in relief, he began going over other powers that kitsunes possessed. The memory of Koyuki disappearing floated to the forefront of his mind. "That's right! Kitsunes can also use illusions!" Lincoln happily exclaimed.

"Just forewarning you Lincoln-san, illusions are quite tricky for newborn kitsunes...which you would technically count as," Tsukuyomi quickly interjected much to Lincoln's chagrin. Groaning, he shook his head to clear himself of any doubt.

"I can do this...I can do this," Lincoln muttered to himself. After years of failing at different things, he refused to let himself fail at something so important. Not now, not ever. Looking forward, he brought his hand up as brought two fingers together to make it look like he was holding a pencil. "Let's see how this goes."

He slowly began to trace the silhouette of a small fox. As soon as he finished that, he started filling out the details in the middle of the outline with his imaginary pencil. After finishing the small touches, he began to act like he was filling in everything with color. Closing his eyes, he let out a deep breath before opening them to see a small white fox sitting in front of him.

"Yip!" the fox yipped out as it walked over to him and rubbed up against his leg. However, Lincoln did not feel anything actually touching his leg. Tears sprouted in his eyes as a large smile formed on his face. "I did it!" Lincoln shouted in excitement before his vision began to fade. Collapsing to his knees, he felt all the power that coursed through his body just moments ago leave him. "It used up all my power to make that illusion. Dang it. I still had five minutes left."

The fox illusion disappeared while his own kitsune features slowly receded back into his body. Falling to the ground, he felt the intense pain from having new body parts rip themselves out and back in fully hit him without any kind of power to lessen the pain.

He was going to take a long nap when he went back, but first...a small nap here shouldn't hurt...right?

And end of the new chapter! So Lincoln now knows how to activate his powers. Sadly, his body is not ready just yet to handle extra body parts ripping out and back into it. So Lincoln will have to train his regular human body to help with that. And we get to see the gods...who aren't the best teachers. Well Tsukuyomi is quite helpful, but the other two...
Also, I'm sure some of you will notice that whenever Lincoln thinks or says youkai, it spelt like that, but when anyone relating to Japanese mythology says it, it's spelled yokai. I did that to show that since they are actually 'Japanese' they know how to correctly pronounce and spell the word unlike Lincoln whose main connection to the word is through English translated anime and manga. He'll eventually start pronouncing it correctly.
I know many of you probably want more Loud House characters to appear. They will, next chapter. I just wanted to do a training chapter.
Plus! We have our first Yokai OC! Her name is Koyuki and she is a Bakeneko. What side is she on...I don't know. I have plans for either side, so we'll find out later!

Now his harem! There was quite a few girls who were asked by pretty much everyone. So for those girls, they are 100% in.

Lincoln's Harem So far: Stella, Girl Jordan, Haiku,

Keep suggesting and I'll tell you all when the harem is finished ^^