Forbidden Love
Ep. III
"Shit! I guess it's a bad idea to use sweet foods as bait for demons then," Nao said over the line as the sound of windows shattering could be heard. "How many are there?" Mikoto said raving her Suzuki GSX650F and sped down the empty road. "A giant crab, an ogre, and a demon fox…At least I think it's a fox," Nao laughed before she let out a grunt of pain. "I'm on my way," Mikoto said over the line.
At night the school seemed eerily quiet, save for a few flashing light here and there due to Nao shooting her spiritual energy at the enemies. During daytime, the school looked nothing but normal but at night, it is a portal liking to the other side as demons, monsters, and ghost all jumped at the chance at roaming the human realm. There are plenty of areas with such effect as Fuuka Gakuen all over the world, and so there were selected people who possessed innate ability beyond human were trained and chosen amongst the elites to become guardian to protect mankind. But they are mainly known as Portal Keepers; Yuuki Nao was one of the few that were selected to protect Fuuka Gakuen as this one is the main portal that connected directly to Hell.
As soon as she made it there, something or someone fell from the sky right down at her just as she set foot inside the compound. Nao was sure that she was gonna die, but somehow it didn't come but rather someone caught her. Slowly opened her eyes, she peeked and saw a pair of amber orbs staring back down at her.
"O my knight in shinning black armor have come to save me at last," Nao said dramatically as Mikoto let her down. "Maybe I should leave you be to eaten by that ogre then," Mikoto said pointing to an enormous ogre shaking the ground with each step it took. "Whatever got my gloves? I forgot to grab it when I headed out of the house this morning," Nao said holding her hand out at Mikoto. Thanks to her short sleeves shirt, the ancient text on her right arm glowed in a teal glow. All Portal Keepers had some kind of marks on them, Nao just lucky to attaint the ancient text of the mark of the Hunter.
Mikoto said nothing as she handed Nao a pair of moss green gloves, the young teacher put it on and the text on her arm quickly disappeared and was replaced by a moss green gauntlet complete with extremely sharp claws acting as fingers. "I gotta get Shiho something for this sweet upgrade," Nao said while examining her right hand as her left hand quickly changed itself and looked exactly like her right hand.
"Nano-machine, activate the Dark Gauntlets." Mikoto said in a monotone voice and her motorcycle gloves morphed into two huge shinny black metallic gauntlets. "Man, how did you do that?" Nao asked bewildered by her friend's ability. "Save it for later, right now we got to vanquish these." Mikoto said as she pushed Nao out of the way as the ogre was about to stepped onto them. "You can now use that puppet technique of yours to slice your enemies up," Mikoto said as she leaped again as a pincher from the enormous crab aimed to crush her from behind. "Sweet, I'll take the crab then." Nao said shooting invisible strings at the crab just as Mikoto landed safely away from it. "I'll take the giant," the feral girl nodded as she pulled her right fist back and punched hard on the ogre's leg sending it tumbling down like a domino.
The sharp strings tied the crab up as Nao grabbed onto the amazingly thin metallic thread and cornered her enemy, with a tug the thing came tumbling down like a boulder. Pulling it harder, Nao caused her threads to cut through the thick armored shell of the demon slicing it up as dark green blood splattered all over. Extending her fingers, the strings retreated as fast as it appeared and Nao couldn't help but smiled gleefully at her new and improved weapons.
At the same time, Mikoto was having a bit of a tough time dealing with such a big demon with as many eyes as a spider. Got to take out the eyes… Mikoto grunted as the ogre smashed his tail on her. The thing have a head of an ox, eyes of spider, teeth of wolf, body of human, tail of lizard, and talons of a hawk. With good reflex, Mikoto used her hands to block the impact from the tail though it still sent her sliding back at least three yards.
"Activate Claws of Demon," Mikoto said as she raised her fists in front of her, and claws popping out from the knuckles of her gauntlets shimmering in a red aura. Leaning forward a bit to get some momentum, Mikoto leaped and disappeared even all those eyes from the ogre couldn't caught onto her moving speed. Before it saw a blur shadow of her, its tail was severed cleanly and she was gone again. Like a ninja, Mikoto moved quickly and silently determined to take all those eyes out so that she didn't have to use such a technique as it drain up her stamina very quickly. Marvelously, she done it and destroyed all the eyes while creating a lot of cuts on the ogre's face. Using her speed and incredibly sharp claws, Mikoto disposed of her opponent quickly and brutally by cutting and ripping it to pieces.
"Oh damn…" Nao said as her eyes looked over at the feral girl's way. Mikoto's was covered in purple stain (ogre's blood is purple) up past her elbows, drops of it dripping silently at the tip of her claws and her fingers. "You're so brutal," Nao whistled. "Like you should be saying that," Mikoto glared at her friend and comrade. "Oh shit! I forgot about the demon fox thingy…" she paused when as saw a glimpse of the nine-tails fox leaping by bound over the school's compound heading straight for the girl's dormitory. "After it," Mikoto said as she took off. "Hey! Wait for me you crazy cat," Nao called chasing after the other girl.
At the girl's dormitory, Mai was still up finishing her homework and do a little meditating. Unlike her friends, Mai got a secret that can't be revealed and each night (if she's not worn out) she had to do her meditation time to keep her power hidden. But tonight, her left eye had been twitching since morning, and the busty student wondered if it's an omen of some kind though she shrugged it off and meditated.
Then the sound of the windows shattered pulled her out of her meditation state immediately, someone or something invaded her room but it's hard to tell since she had the lights off. The light growling sound doesn't comfort her much, she had never faced something with such a strong stench of death before. Grabbing the nearest thing possible, Mai ended up with a night lamp in her hand to defend herself from the intruder. But the thing suddenly let out a painful cry, and its body got yanked back out of the windows. Mai quickly got out of bed and still in her pajamas putting on her sneakers run out of the dormitory chasing after the intruder with nothing but a flashlight (not something you should do).
"Damn fox…" Nao cursed yet again as she leaped out of the way when the fox shot needles at her with its tails and one of them grazed her left cheek drawing blood. Of course, who could blame the thing for trying to kill Nao when she was the one that used one of her nifty strings to yank it out from the room by its tail and severing the tail in the process. Shooting phantasm at Mikoto while aiming its tails at Nao, the fox demon was quite efficient with its aim but Mikoto managed to dodge it without much difficulty.
"You idiot!" Nao shouted just as Mai shone the flashlight right at the beastly looking fox demon with glowing red eyes. The light got its attention, opening its mouth and letting a beam of light shot out at Mai. The girl was in more shock than she had ever been, since she had never seen a demon of this caliber before that it immobilized her. She was snapped out of it when a familiar figure leaped in front of her to shield her from her death.