"Master Rikuo, wait!" Kurotabo yelled as he tried to reach Rikuo.
"What?" Rikuo asked but didn't slow down.
"I'm just asking, but do you really believe, what that woman said to you?" Kurotabo asked, and everyone else behind them looked at Rikuo. Rikuo thought for a second, but when he remembered that woman's voice and how nostalgic it sounded, he answered all of them with confidence.
"Yes, I do believe", he just said and anyone didn't ask anything else.
"Besides even if it´s not true, we had a reason to go lecture him about missing the meeting", Rikuo said.
"Atshuu!" Zen sneezed.
"Are you alright master Zen?" One of Zen´s subordinates asked.
"Yes I'm fine, someone just must be badmouthing about me", Zen said and looked out of the window. He saw a shadow moving there and stood up.
"What is it, master?" The subordinate asked and looked to the same direction.
"I thought I saw something", Zen said. The youkai went to the window and looked outside.
"I don't see anything", the youkai said and turned his back to the window. And immediately after that the window and the wall was blown away by a big explosion.
Zen and youkai both flew to the other wall. After that four figures came in from the hole in the wall. They were all women. Zen tried to get up and see who they were.
"I hope this is the right place", one of them said.
"It has to be", the other said.
"It is, look!" the third said and pointed her finger at Zen. Zen was startled, when all four of them looked at him.
"Oh, I see", one of them said and started to walk towards him, the woman had pitch black hair. Then she lifted Zen up with both of her hands.
"I´m sorry the leader of the Yakishi clan Zen, but you have to die", the woman said and a giant ice stick started to form in her hand. Zen looked at it with terrified eyes.
Then the woman lifted the ice stick up and held in front of his face.
"Any last words?" The woman asked and laughed.
"She is going to kill me!" Zen thought in his mind.
"Stop it, Sere" the woman with bark blue hair said.
"Why?" The woman called Sere asked.
"It's not our job to kill him", the woman said. And then Sere seemed to remember and a cruel smile formed to her face, when she looked at the woman which had stayed as far away as possible.
"It is your job, right?" Sere said very pleased and threw Zen to her legs. Zen lifted his head and looked at the woman. She wasn't very tall shorter than Night Rikuo and she was wearing a cape and a hood was covering her face. The woman took the hood of very slowly. Zen had to hold his breath, by the beauty of that woman. She had pale skin, but very red lips. Her eyes were like gold with a pitch black iris. Her hair was light blue and it had black highlights.
"She looks so familiar, where have I seen her before?" Zaen thought and utter a laugher at himself.
"That woman is going to kill me, and I'm just startled by her beauty." Then the woman suddenly bowed down so that she looked straight to Zen´s eyes.
"I'm so sorry Zen. I didn't want to kill you", she whispered, so quietly that only Zen could hear her.
"I wish he would have made it", the woman whispered.
"Who…" Zen asked, but suddenly the woman vanished from his sight.
"Are you alright Zen?" Zen looked up very surprised. And his eyes widened as he realized who it was.
"Ri-Rikuo!" Zen said. Rikuo and everyone else had arrived.
"Are you alright?" Rikuo asked as he held out his arm.
"Yeah, but it was a close call", Zen said as Rikuo helped him up. Then Rikuo looked at those four.
"Who are you? And why do you wanna kill Zen?" Rikuo asked.
"It doesn't concern you boy, just go back home to your mommy!" The woman with the black hair yelled.
"No, that isn't just any boy", the woman with the dark blue hair said.
"What do you mean, Icy?" The woman with the white hair asked.
"He is the next leader of the Nura clan, the next supreme commander of the youkais: Nura Rikuo", the woman Icy said. Then the other two looked at Rikuo with a very surprised looks. Then suddenly the woman with the black hair started to laugh.
"This is great! we get to kill two clan leaders in a one night!" The woman yelled and held out her hand, then suddenly a blade started to form in her hand. Everyone looked at her very surprised.
"My name is Sere, and I'm one of the Ice triplets", the woman introduced herself.
"My name is Shire, also one of the Ice triplets" the woman with the white hair said.
"My name is Icy, I'm the oldest of the Ice triplets", the woman with the dark blue hair said.
After that everyone got ready for a battle. All three women attacked Rikuo and the others. The women were strong they took easily down most of the Rikuo´s night parade. After a while only Rikuo, Kurotabo, Kubinashi and Aotabo were left. The fourth woman didn't participate in the battle and neither did Rikuo. Rikuo just stared at the woman, who tried no to look at Rikuo. Rikuo found the woman really familiar looking, and when he was just about to remember, on of the women attacked Rikuo.
"Where are you looking at?" Sere yelled as their blades crashed together. Sere was very strong physically, but Rikuo was also strong. Soon he had defeated that woman and pointed his blade at her throat.
"So? Are you now willing to answer my question? Why did you attack Zen? Who are you working for?" Rikuo asked.
"You sure ask a lot, boy", Sere said and kicked Rikuo down. When Rikuo tried to get up, he realized he had been frozen to the ground.
"Shit!" Rikuo said and looked at Sere.
"Haha! There you have it you arrogant little kid!" Sere yelled and got ready to kill Rikuo. And just she was about to strike him down the fourth woman got in the battle. She kicked Sere away from Rikuo and released him. Then she carried him further away from her. Icy and Shire rushed to Sere and helped her up. Kurotabo and the others rushed to Rikuo´s side.
"Are you okay, Master Rikuo?" Kubinashi asked and looked at Rikuo.
"Yeah, I was just careless", Rikuo said and got up, still looking at the woman who stood before him, and protecting him.
"What is the meaning of this?" Icy yelled at the woman. The woman didn't even a muscle and looked at them with cold eyes.
"I was ordered to attack and kill Zen, but I wasn't ordered to kill anyone else", the woman said with soft and high voice. Which Rikuo recognised very well.
"It was her…" he whispered.
"You bitch! Are you going to go against us?" Sere yelled at her.
"If you'll insist on attacking Rikuo and his night parade, then I have no choice but to put you down", the woman said with a very threatening voice. Then the air in the room got very cold and the power from that woman got very high. And then there weren't any second guesses, that who was the most powerful of all four of them. The three women looked at her with fear in their eyes and backed up. Rikuo looked at woman very surprised.
"Why is she protecting us? Aren't they together? But stil…I´m sure that she´s the one who warned us about Zen´s upcoming attack", Rikuo thought to himself as he looked at her.
"Well ain´t this surprising", a vey clear voice suddenly said. Everyone in the room turned their faces to look the voice´s way. A Very beautiful woman came in from the hole in the wall. The woman had completely white hair and red eyes. She was wearing light blue kimono, which had white camellia flowers. The Ice Triplets bowed to her, but the fourth woman looked at her with hate in her eyes.
"Oh my! What a mess you four have caused, I just sent you to kill the leader of the Yakishi clan Zen. And look who you have brought out, the next supreme commander of all youkais Rikuo Nura. What a surprise!" The woman said very excited and clapped her hands. Rikuo looked at her very with very careful expression.
"Oh right! I haven´t introduced myself yet", the woman said and bowed to Rikuo.
"My name is Isana Easly the leader of the north, and the conquer of the north", the woman introduced herself politely, and then she looked at the woman, who was standing before Rikuo.
"I heard that you refuse to follow my orders?" Isana said and that woman looked at him with empty eyes.
"Are you ignoring me?" Isana asked with very sweet voice. The woman looked away.
"Look at me!" Isana yelled and all sweetness disappeared from her voice. The woman almost fell to her knees and turned to look at Isana, this time the woman looked at Isana with eyes full of rage.
"That´s better. Now about my orders, I heard that you don´t want to follow them, I would like to hear why", Isana asked and looked at the woman. The woman bit her teeth together, and it was clear that she hated her.
"My order weren´t to kill Nura Rikuo or his subordinates", the woman answered.
"Ooh I see…" Isana said and seemed to turn away, but then suddenly turned at her again and kicked her face, the woman flew to the wall.
"You bitch!" Isana yelled. The Ice triplets just laughed. Rikuo rushed to her.
"Are you alright?" Rikuo asked and looked at her, she looked very familiar to him.
"Ye-yes" the woman said very reluctantly and looked to the ground very ashamed.
"Ooh I see!" isana said and the woman raised her head to look at Isana.
"It´s because of that boy, isn´t? It´s all about him, isn´t it?" Isana said and looked at them. The woman´s face got very terrified and she looked at Rikuo very worried, then she got up and walked in front of Rikuo to protect him.
"He has nothing to do with this!" The woman yelled to Isana.
"Yeah, that´s right", Isana said.
"Then, let´s see you kill him", Isana said. The woman looked very terrified and at the same time very begging.
"Maybe, you need little couraging to kill your old master", Isana said and laughed.
"Old master?" Rikuo asked and looked at the woman in front of her. The woman´s eyes were again filled with rage and she attacked Isana. She put her hand to her throat and lifted her up.
"Let me go!" Isana yelled, but the woman didn´t move.
"That´s an order!" Isana yelled again. Then the woman started to loosen her touch.
"Now!" Isana yelled again. Then a weird mark started to glow in the woman´s arm. The woman fell to the ground screaming from pain. Isana just looked very pleased as she suffered at the floor. Rikuo wanted to run to her and order Isana to stop, but before he could do anything Isana turned to look at him.
"Now, I order you to kill him!" Isana said and pointed at Rikuo. The woman on the floor stood up and turned to look at Rikuo. She was obviously suffering greatly. Then Kubinashi and the others ran to protect him, but Rikuo knew that anyone of them couldn´t stop her. If she would have wanted they all would be dead right now. That´s how much power Rikuo sensed from her.
"Stop right there Isana!" A loud voice yelled and everyone turned to look at there where the voice came. There were standing Nurarihyon and Crow, and his sons. Isana looked at him with a dull expression.
"Nurarihyon…" she said with a quiet voise.
"It has been a while…Isana", Nurarihyo said and looked at her with same dull expression. Isana looked at him then Rikuo and the again him.
"I see…he really is your grandson", Isana said and smiled.
"Why are you doing this?" Nurarihyon asked.
"Doing what?" Isana asked and looked away.
"Don´t act stupid!" Nurarihyon yelled. Then Isana looked at him with fierce expression.
"How does it feel to know that you can´t do anything to stop me! You know you don´t have enough power to stop the slayer of the 1000 youkais!" Isana yelled to him.
"You know that that power died almost six hundred years ago" Nurarihyo said. Isana started to laugh very loudly.
"You old fool! You know nothing, great power has been in front of you all this time, and you haven´t noticed it!" Isana yelled and then looked at the fourth woman. Everyone´s faces turned to look at her.
"You wouldn´t have…" Nurarihyo said and looked at Isana.
"Yes I would! I brought out the slayer of 1000 youkais!" Isana yelled. Everyone looked terrified at the fourth woman who had empty look in her eyes.
"This is the slayer of 1000 youkais…" Rikuo thought and looked at her.
"I suppose, because the Supreme Commander has arrived we should do a strategic retreat", Isana said and the Ice triplets nodded. Then all four of them disappeared the woman in front of Rikuo stayed behind and looked at Rikuo with sad eyes, but disappeared then also.
"Wait!" Nurarihyo yelled after them. Rikuo could only stare the place where that woman had stood.
"Who is she?"