AN: Well, finally an update! I decided to give this story a slow pace so I don't get too stressed, so that means the chapters will usually be 1500 - 3000 words long, hope you don't mind.
Now, on with the show!
"Shit-Fuck-Shit-Fuck-Shit-Fuck-Fuck"
Nathan was running through the forest as quickly as he could, not fully comprehending the situation. Looking back at his time with the two sisters, he could now understand why they asked he never leave their home.
Early morning, he got up from the tree he slept on, and felt strange. His injuries from last night prevented him from noticing a few things in the area he was now in, but now that he was fully recovered, he began to sense a few abnormalities in this place; the first being his unusually fast recovery. True his recovery rate was faster than regular humans, given his bloodline, but to recover from the wounds he had received last night, in two days no less, even with the treatment he was given, that was still unusual.
The thing Nathan could attribute this to was the unnatural strength of nature in the air. He was always stronger around nature, being able to draw strength from it, so that naturally made it better for him to work around it. However, the amount he could feel around him was staggering; this was the kind of energy you could only grasp around ancient forestation, but even that did not hold a candle to this place.
It's feel was younger, more vibrant, as though every single aspect of nature that was, was expounded on, or made brighter. The earth was healthier, the wind sweet and fresh, the water was bluer and purer, and the trees were strong and sturdy. To Nathan, this place wasn't just good nature, it was supernatural.
Of course, he could make a little sense of it; after all, the sisters were not human, so many of the other residents in here could be; it would explain the vast amount of power flowing around here. It could be that this place was simply such a powerful source of nature that spirits and supernatural creatures had flocked to it, and their presence preserved this place's vitality, or could have even increased it exponentially.
But Nathan did not consider exactly how big the number of supernatural creatures that had flocked here were.
And so, Nathan found himself on the run from two creatures, resembling what could be the Japanese Kamaitachi, a weasel shaped youkai with the power to create razor winds, which cut down nearby objects. He had simply gone to survey the area some more when these two attacked him. Considering the hungry look in their eyes, it didn't take much to guess what they wanted.
"Fuck" cursed Nathan again as the slash of one of the Kamaitachi missed him by inches, taking down a tree instead.
Currently he was at a disadvantage, because, for Nathan, this was the first time he had encountered a legend that was not native to his own country. He knew, of course, that to some extent the myths and legends told at other countries where real, however. However, he had no idea that he would be taking refuge in another country for prolonged periods of time, so he didn't bother to research on how to combat them.
The next problem was his lack of tools. Among the people in his line of work, he was particularly powerful, referring to both his unnatural talents and his physique. This was because that, although his father had shunned the supernatural out of fear, it was a given that he was still part of a long and powerful lineage. So like it or not, that power would be passed to his sons, much to his chagrin. Not to mention his mother was the physical representation of the Taal Volcano, sadly, that was a fact his father found out only after they were married. The reaction of his father was priceless.
A lot of his father's relatives had gotten a kick out of that.
But at any rate, despite his lineage, his powers were primarily tool based, meaning his use of regular was versatile, and their powers could range from mundane, to downright catastrophically powerful, but without them, the best he could do in a fight was stalemate a bear in a one-on-one melee. It was a mostly impressive feat, but not much use to him in his current situation.
Fortunately for Nathan, luck seemed to smile on him today; the Kamaitachi annoyed at not being able to kill him immediately, began swinging wildly at him in their impatience for a quick snack. Their wild swings missed him, but inadvertently hit other targets. Namely; namely, the trees surrounding them.
Suddenly a sharp cry came from behind Nathan.
Turning sharply, Nathan was surprised to see a raven haired girl looking at him from above. The girl was literally floating a few feet above him, with a pair of wings on her back, not the leathery bat wings he usually gets, but feathery black wings. The girl was pointing at the scene of destruction, in front of her.
The girl was pointing at the scene, namely the toppled trees and the two buried underneath them, and Nathan. The girl suddenly swooped down in front of Nathan, startling him and the Kamaitachi. Taking out a pen, the girl started blasting off in high-speed Japanese. Too stunned for a moment to answer, Nathan took a moment to recover before taking the usual measures.
"Sorry, I don't speak in Japanese" he said, hopeful that she would be able to understand him and he would have a way to make sense of the situation.
Sadly he was disappointed once again as the girl tilted her head in confusion, trying to make sense of the foreign language.
"Japan has literacy percentage rate of ninety-nine" Nathan said sarcastically "Damn travel papers always lie ..."
The girl suddenly grinned, looking at Nathan as if she had struck oil. Nodding at herself contently, the girl sped of behind him to question the again startled Kamaitachi, who were debating on whether or not to attack Nathan, who seemed to have captured the interest of a Tengu, the de facto rulers of Yokai mountain (barring of course, the two goddess who lived at the top of it).
As the two Kamaitachi struggled with the Tengu, Nathan decided to take advantage of the current chaos to slip away. Moving quietly into the shades of the tree's Nathan moved as far as he could still hear them until breaking into a full sprint.
As the foreigner slipped away, Aya smirked in victory, well victory in a kind for her anyway.
She had heard the conversation between Yukari and Reimu, although she wasn't sure if the Border Mistress let her hear it on purpose, and it immediately sparked her interest, after all, if Yukari were to take notice someone, it always ended in an incident, especially if it was an outsider, the most recent example being Sanae Kochiya and her goddesses.
Letting the boy get away now would certainly create similar effects, and Aya would be there to record every inch of it.
Over at the Aki shrine, the two sisters frantically searched for their foreign guest. Having nothing to do until the harvest season, the two sisters had been content to simply sleep until the afternoon and did not notice the disappearance of their guest until then.
"Onee-chan! I don't think he's anywhere near the shrine, I think we should search for him somewhere else!" cried Minoriko.
"Damn it! I told him not to go, but he went and did it anyway, whats wrong with him!" said the older sister gnashing her teeth in frustration.
"Onee-chan, what do we do about this? If Hakurei-san figures out about this..."
Shizuha grimaced at that. If the outsider was eaten on their account, Reimu would definitely give them a beating regardless of the fact that outsiders get eaten quite often anyway. The resident shrine maiden was annoying like that. She wouldn't kill them, but the last time they had an encounter with the crazy shrine maiden they had nearly been too injured to attend to the Autumn season, although admittedly that was their fault, they were not eager to go through it again, more so when since they couldn't help it this time.
"Ah, damn it again!" she exclaimed "Alright, Minoriko, you go look for him around the woods, I'll go check to see if any of the Tengu found him"
Nodding in response the younger sister flew off towards the forest, watching her sister until she was out of sight, the older Aki sister sighed before flying off to the home of the Tengu.
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