Kyuu And The Seven War Demons
After last chapter's story where the gang took a little R & R at Lady Megumi's village, they're on the roll again as they resume their quest to find the remaining Oni and from there on they'll face the Makamou and its dreaded leader, the Orochi. It was rather intense after the village people,
in a panicking frenzy, were willing to sacrifice their own maiden just to save their skins but the village chief and Touki persuaded them to let the Oni do their thing, and the end result is the defeat of the 3rd member of the Four Trines.
Now Kyuu's quest takes a real beating as they get to meet the REAL enemy in the flesh.
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Another three months have passed after leaving Kanna Village, and the group remained steadfast as ever. More and more danger came in their way and they simply did what they had to do. Wicked samurais emerged seeing the three Oni traveling with the humans, and they decided to attack them for fun believing that killing Oni instead of Makamou would boost their image, but they all ended up running like scared dogs.
Another few hours later Makamou came and attempted to abduct Lady Megumi but Kyuu, although his legs aren't 100 percent healed, managed to fend them off until Kabuki and Touki defeated them. After that they went on their way making sure no one is following them. Ibuki noticed that Kyuu and Lady Megumi are holding hands while traveling and wondered if the two have indeed gotten closer at each other, while recalling the odd scent at her hut back at the village. He suspected that the two made love before Byakko came. He couldn't help but feel envious as he realized that his fiance, Princess Shizuko is there at the palace awaiting for his return, and so he hoped that their quest would end so he could return to the palace and marry her.
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At the shop back in Kyoto, Maro and Maru were watching something from the crystal ball and are giggling at the scene they are watching and this attracted Yuko Ichihara's attention after attending to a customer. She wondered what her two assistants are doing and peeked, surprised at what she just saw. She smiled wider at this as she feels that the show is getting more and more interesting.
"So…Kyuu has gotten laid, and it took from her to initiate it. Lucky boy. Now all is set and ready to go. I wonder what the Orochi would react once he finds out about this…hey you two…enough watching. Get back to work."
"NO!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!! I WANT TO WATCH THE LOVE SCENE!!"
"KNOCK IT OFF YOU TWO! NOW GIVE ME THAT CRYSTAL BALL BEFORE I SMASH IT ON YOUR HEADS!! NOW LET GO! I SAID LET GO!! NNGGGGHHHRRHHH!!"
"TUG-OF-WAR… TUG-OF-WAR… TUG-OF-WAR…SEE WHO WINS…SEE WHO WINS…WHOEVER WINS WILL WATCH THE LOVE SCENE…OHH…YUKO IS JEALOUS AND WANT TO BE WITH KYUU…"
KA-BLAG! KA-BLAG!
Yuko blushed deeply while hitting the two on their heads with a tray, knocking them down and the pair got a huge lump on their heads and the two little female assistants wobbly went to the kitchen to prepare the food. With the coast is clear, the shop owner then glances at the crystal ball and watches the next scene unfolding, excited to see what is about to commence.
Kyuu and the group were pausing by a rock right next to a village in 15th century Nagasaki, where a young boy saw the group and asked for their help informing them that a group of Makamou are about to invade their village. Realizing that they can't ignore this fact, Ryuki told Kyuu and lady Megumi to wait here while he, Kazumaki and Kabuki go inside the village to
intercept the attackers, but Kabuki "volunteered' to stay and watch over the "couple". Minutes later, Ryuki and Kazumaki went to the village and talked to the village chief there and informed him of their intention to help, and despite the cold welcome they received, the village chief nevertheless accepted their help, moved by the fact that they're willing to accept little food as reward.
At that moment, the leader of the Makamou, the Orochi, arrived and had just demolished a hut killing seven people, and the two Oni went into action, transforming to their Oni form of Ibuki and Touki. However, the Oni are still "short-handed" as they are only two of them and barely managed to hold on to their own until Lady Megumi came to see what was happening. Seeing his "sacrifice" in front of him, the Orochi encircled around her and is about to claim her when something odd happened.
The mark of the Orochi on her hand glowed and it reacted, causing the Orochi to screech in pain, and moved away, giving Touki the chance to use his ice powers while Ibuki uses his trumpet to produce sound waves, and made him fall back. But before departing, the Orochi made a parting comment.
"I don't know what is happening, but I sense something within you...someone has claimed your virginity, thus I cannot make you sire my offsprings...but as revenge, you will still become my sacrifice, as the mark will swell in your hand and you'll eventually feel weaker! And when I find out who took your virginity away, I will slay him!"
After that, the village of Nagasaki was saved, and the villagers there, half of them that is, were grateful while others were still cold at them. After that they were invited to stay for a while. There Kyuu asked the others what just happened and why Lady Megumi wasn't taken away and left despite the fact that they had a good chance but abandoned it..
"So…Orochi was planning to take Lady Megumi and will make her the mother of his babies…I won't let that happen. Why did he let her go when he had the chance? And what was the reason for him to fall back? I don't know what's going on, but I'm glad she wasn't taken."
At that point Kazumaki answered his question which somewhat relieved the couple after hearing his answer while everyone else listened to what the Buddhist priest/Oni had to say.
"It was you, Kyuu, who is the reason why Lady Megumi was spared from the Orochi's attempt to take her, and it is because you took her virginity away, but not just because of that. You pour your love and affection to her, and she reciprocated it. And because of that it somewhat caused a magical effect that prevented him from attempting to plant his "seed" into her, but then he decided to forgo his plans of sacrificing her and to put pressure on her the Orochi used his spell to increase the power of the mark, and we must act now before she succumbs to that curse. Village chief, we are humbly grateful for your hospitality, but we must be on our way to search for the remaining Oni in order to defeat the Orochi. Good day to you."
The group left the village amid the mixed reaction of praises and jeers and went to the other path as Mokona sensed an Oni's aura and they went to that direction. Kyuu glances at the direction where Orochi left, but Lady Megumi touched his hand, urging him that they should move on. He nodded and joined the others. Soon their travels took them to a rather desolated village, where a group of samurai bandits (totaling about 15 of them) killed off the surviving children. Prince Ryuki and Kazumaki challenged the bandits and a fight ensued. Despite not changing to their Oni forms, the two Oni narrowly defeated the bandits despite the odds against them.
They then checked on the villagers there and realized that they cannot be saved, so they buried the dead in a make-shift grave and left. Kazumaki said he'll catch up shortly as he makes some final parayers for the departed souls. Going further east, they found another Oni as Mokona was able to sense his aura, and after five minute they found their next Oni, and Kyuu fell to the ground (anime-style) upon seeing who he is. He resembles Yukata Saburumarou, and like his present-era counterpart, the 15th century Saburumarou, who introduced himself as Saburumarouki, is just as clumsy and rather useless at first glance, but Lady Megumi gave him a vote of confidence and urged the others to accept him. Kazumaki arrived and was rather surprised to see him, and the two had a moment of silence, which seemingly bothered the rest, but then he made a statement before accepting him and everyone went on to continue the search.
"Saburumarouki…Buddha told me to forgive and forget, so let's not dwell on the past. Let us move on and start over again…"
"Forgive me, Kazumaki…I was really pathetic but I'm now a changed person and will not run away again…here I'll prove it…"
"No need. You'll need it when the time comes…wait…did you say you're an Oni?"
"What about it?"
"I too am an Oni…"
"REALLY?? That's great…"
"But after this quest is over we must return to the temple to rejoin our brothers…"
"Aww…fine."
And the two patched up their past differences and went along with the others and went on with their journey. During the search, Kyuu was covering his ears at how boastful Saburumarouki is, brandishing his transformation device and told everyone his Oni name, Kirameki, in which he also showed his fishing equipments.
"…I was the best Oni in my village and the best fisherman there is…oh, my Oni name is Kirameki…and believe me…I shine as the shiniest gold in the land…"
"OH, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD…STOP BRAGGING ALREADY…!"
"Oh, so you're jealous because you're not an Oni?? Don't be…only few people get lucky to have a gift for a person who is as smart as…OOFF!!"
Saburumarouki tripped on something while not looking, but then the village priestess shrieked and hugged at Kyuu upon seeing what tripped their newest Oni recruit. It was a dismembered corpse of a three-year old girl. Looking around, they were taken by surprise to see more bandit samurais, totaling about 40 of them, emerging from the bushes, all wielding swords. At that moment, the three Oni decided to use brute force as they must protect Kyuu and Lady Megumi, thus they initiated their transformations.
"Oni-henshin…Touki!"
"Oni-henshin…Ibuki!"
"Oni-henshin…Kirameki!"
"Oni-henshin…Kabuki!"
All of them soon changed into their Oni forms, and Kirameki seemingly stole the show as his form is that of black armor, with gold-plated ornaments which brandishes a symbol of a carp and cymbals. Ibuki told Kirameki to stay and watch over the two teens while the rest fought the invading samurais.
But then the bandits decided to try a little deception as they used their numbers to their advantage and split up in four groups, and the three Oni were forced to take on a group separately, outnumbered by ten-to-one. Despite their vast abilities, they were surprised that the samurais were able to hold on their own, and they realized that they were given artificial magic devices which let them survive strong blows. Then they heard a scream as they saw the 10 samurais ganging up on Kyuu and lady Megumi. Kirameki, despite using his cymbals device to keep them away, his rather clumsy acts seemingly went in his way, which barely able to keep a few away, but the rest pinned him down as they are about to take her and Kyuu was also pinned down and about to be beheaded when someone came and struck them down with a pair of weapons that resembled a pair of taiko sticks.
It was Kyutu Renjorou, and he struck down the samurais with great effort and the two teens broke free and ran back, allowing the other Oni to regroup and then channel their weapons, producing a mass wave of pure sound that causes the 40 samurai to convulse in pain and slowly they "exploded", and the ground was spilled with blood and organs. After that Kyutu went to the group and asked them if they are alright. Mokona approached him and was surprised to sense his aura, as does Lady Megumi as her pendant glowed picking his aura.
"You…you're from that hut…but you said that your father…"
"My apologies, but I was the one you seek, but…the reason why I lied is because of a tragic past…my parents died when my Oni power first manifested, and they made me promise not to use it again. But after hearing from passerby that you were being hounded by the Makamou, I realized that if I don't do something and act, all will be lost, so now I'm willing to help you."
With that, another Oni has joined them and now they have three more to find them. Kyutu then told the rest his Oni name as Hibiki, and they went on their way to search for the others.
To Be Continued…
Now two Oni have joined them in one chapter. Heck, Kyutu, Kyuu's past counterpart, turns out to be the Oni they were looking for, and now they're down to three more before they complete their quest and finish the mission.
Preview:
The group encounters two more Oni and a little conflict during the meeting.