More OC's will be introduced in this chapter, along with the return of a few. All OC's, as the name suggests, belong to me and I will castrate anyone who even attempts to steal them, I'm violent like that! Anyway, there will be a total of 12 OC's that appear as the ayakashi known as the Guardians, and I own them all (maniacal laughing). Also, one of the OC's makes constant, actually there's only three, references to games/movies through her quotes, I don't own the quotes. Wonder who can identify them, and the right place they come from.
The POV is confusing, but it is told from Sen's POV. When Sen is not present, the POV is 3rd person.
Enjoy, Anonymous Anime Fan
PS: This chapter is pretty long to make up for how long it's been since I've updated. I know it wasn't super long, but compared to how quickly I normally update it is.
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Chapter 8
The Guardians Themselves
"Get him! He has Tokine!" Yoshimori shouted as he led the pack chasing after the floating man. The man stopped once we had chased him. He turned and looked at us as he levitated above the center of the circular room. I ran up to Yoshimori, who was the only one standing on the suspicious platform. Gen and Hiba followed.
"Calm down Yoshi, think logically." I told him as he shouted profanities at the man while trying to get up to him.
"Let go of me Sen! I need to save her!" Yoshimori shouted as he tried to break free of my hold.
Suddenly I felt a something extremely quick whisk by, leaving a large gust of wind. Suddenly there was extreme pain in my back.
"Sen, are you alright?" Gen asked me, running up to me. I looked up… Yoshimori doesn't seem to care.
The floating man vanished with Tokine, leaving Yoshimori to have a temper tantrum. I reached and touched the stinging part of my back and my hand came back red. Suddenly I heard a shout and saw that Masamori had also been cut across the back.
I stood up and saw the splash of blood across the floor. It's more serious than I thought, it barely feels like a paper cut. It can't be bleeding that much.
"Sen, sit back down while I dress your wound." Hiba commanded and I did such. It let out a yelp when he disinfected it and turned at him.
"Warn me when you spray that stuff next time! It stings like fuck!" I shout at Hiba and turn around again. Gen helped me stand once my wound was dress, while Yoshimori was pacing around pulling at his hair and scolding himself. He truly does care for Tokine more than me, would he go through all this trouble if it was me who was kidnapped?
I stood and turned away from Yoshimori. "Masamori, are we ready to continue?" I shouted at Masamori, who was just finishing dressing his wound. He looked at me and shook his head.
"Everyone take a break! I have to speak with Yoshimori and Sen." He shouted and everyone immediately started up conversation with their friends. Masamori called Yoshimori over, who begrudgingly did whilst complaining that they shouldn't be taking a break and that they have to save Tokine.
"I disapprove of your relationship with Sen, it is wrong." Masamori cut right to the point, surprising me and angering Yoshimori.
"You have no right to dictate who I can and cannot be with!" Yoshimori shouted and ran off, ending the discussion. I looked at Masamori and quickly apologized for Yoshimori before running after him.
"Yoshi! Yoshi! Stop!" I shouted. Yoshimori stopped and waited for me. I reached him and looked him into the eyes before saying what was bothering me.
"Yoshimori, am I just a replacement for Tokine?" I ask. Yoshimori showed no emotion, like I thought he would. He'd either be awkward or angry, or both.
"No."
I sighed at the indifferent response. "Then am I just a way to rebel against our brother and grandfather?"
"No."
"Than what am I to you?" I shouted at him, surprising him. I turned and sat down in the corner of the small room we secluded ourselves in. I was crying, I rarely ever cried.
"You're my boyfriend Sen, I- I- I love you." He said behind me, and I looked up, tear stains on my face.
"Y-you really love me?" I ask, standing up. My drooping tail tripped me and I fell, but Yoshimori caught me.
"I do love you." Yoshimori said with a genuine, gorgeous smile.
"You're lying; no one's ever loved me. Not even my own parents." I said back at him, looking away from him as he carried me bridal style. He seems to do that quite a lot.
"Well, I love you. Screw them." Yoshimori said. He set me down a stole my lips in a quick kiss. I blushed and looked away.
"I guess you do love me, so you say, but you'll have to do better than that to prove it." I said, smirking. I don't know what came over me. That tiny bit of doubt and jealousy I had just suddenly exploded and overcame me. Yoshimori smiled and gently grabbed my chin and tilted it up so I was facing him. I hate that he's taller than me, if only by a little.
We kissed, and it was the best kiss I've ever had with him and we've shared quite a lot.
"Aww, to bad, my little plan failed." We broke away from our kiss and look up to see another one of the guardians standing at the top of a tall staircase. She jumped down, ditching her light pink cloak with the number 7 on the way down. She landed, creating a large shock wave that spread out and nearly pushed me over.
She looked over and I realized that she was the one who'd cut Masamori and I, because of the large golden claws she wears on her hands. The claws seem almost as if they're living, the claw fitting over her hands like gloves while the claw itself appears as if it's trying to get away from her.
"The two love birds that killed Cereza-Torina. How dare you, she was the only tolerable member is this fucking organization. All the other members are insane, emotionless, or stuck-up fuckers!" She shouted. This woman is rather, foul mouthed. She flipped her mauve hair behind her shoulder and vanished.
"You two are absolutely pathetic; I'm not even the fastest Guardian. Zinzin was, but you did manage to kill the bastard, of course Christeenala did finish him off. So I'm not gonna give you bitches that one!" She shouted from behind us and Yoshimori grabbed me and jumped forward. We faced her and saw her standing there nonchalantly.
"By the way, for your information. I'm Tsurosa." (Pronounced Sue-Ro-sa) Tsurosa announces proudly before posing with the claws in display. "And these are the Raburesu (Rah- boo- res- oo), got it memorized?" She jumped up and made a dive for us. Yoshimori put a kekkai around us but she cleaved through it wan we were forced to dodge the attack.
"These aren't just claws; one strike can manipulate your emotion, usually making you fearlessly express hidden emotions. As you'd expect from the freaking guardian of emotions. I tried it one Blondie and the tall fucker earlier, but it didn't work out as planned." She said. Gen and Hiba rushed up at the sound of the fight.
"Where are the rest of the troops?" Yoshimori shouted.
"They all left, following the chief, he's really angry at you guys for some reason." Gen explained, changing his hands into claw as he saw Tsurosa.
She smirked at his claws, "Ooo, you've got claws too, this could be interesting." She said before jumping in the air, "Now it's a celebration, bitches!"
Tsurosa landed on the wall and stood on it, defying gravity. "On the other hand, it is 4 against 1, not particularly fair. Now 1 or 2 bitches at a time is more my style, humph, I'll be back." With that, she ran up the wall and vanished.
"She got away." Yoshimori groaned. "And we didn't get to make her bring us to Tokine." Now he's whining, great.
"At least we didn't lose anybody; she failed her mission it seems." Gen commented, returning his hands to normal.
"Actually, she did succeed. By making the chief angry, she separated the group into 2 smaller groups." Hiba explained.
"Who cares about that guy?" Yoshimori shouted stubbornly, "We can save Tokine by ourselves."
I leaned in a kissed Yoshimori again. "Thank you for forgiving me for my… little outburst." I said, resting my hands on his chest. He smiled at me and I flicked my tail happily. I let out a yelp and glared at Yoshimori.
"This is hardly the place for you to be squeezing my ass Yoshimori." I scolded him and he blushed.
"Sen," I turned to Hiba, "Could you use your tracking abilities to locate Tokine's capture? I really don't like being on enemy territory." I nodded and got on my knees to focus.
I began seeing the figures of the powerful guardian ayakashi around the castle and I started reporting them to the others. "There's a powerful ayakashi sitting in a throne room to the south. The Latin woman from earlier, Christeenala, is at a broken bridge to the west and the night troops are near her. There's another ayakashi on the rooftop garden with many other weaker ayakashi. The ayakashi we captured, Cognizine, is in a laboratory directly below us and another ayakashi in a lab to the north. The ayakashi who kidnapped Tokine is far ahead, near the end of this long hall. There's also a familiar ayakashi approaching with Tsurosa…" I looked up and saw vines flying towards me.
I couldn't react fast enough and the vines grabbed me. I noticed they grabbed Gen as well. Hiba tried grabbed us with his vine arm, but another vine from the ground hit him away. I struggled to get out of the vines, but my arms were restrained and I could cut them with my claws.
"I missed my sweet boy toys so much, did you miss me?" A voice said from the shadows. I looked over and saw a woman in a green cloak walk out of the shadows with Tsurosa. I gasped in recognition of the voice and cloak.
"Lilium!" I heard Yoshimori gasp from behind me. The vines returned to Lilium and held Gen and I above her.
"You poor bastards, falling head over heels for such weaklings." Tsurosa remarks. Lilium and Tsurosa start laughing maniacally. I saw Yoshimori and Hiba flare up in anger when they insulted Gen and I.
"Do you want to save your pitiful boyfriends?" Tsurosa mocked.
"'Cum' and get them!" Lilium mocked. "Since the spies say both of you've gone that far, you're boy toys are rather vocal." Yoshimori and Hiba got angrier at that remark, they were about to explode. I struggled so more, but I still couldn't break out. I suddenly realized what she was talking about and blushed deeply.
Yoshimori and Hiba dashed angrily towards us, but before they could reach us Tsurosa dashed ahead and carved a hole in the ground. Yoshimori and Hiba fell in.
Yoshimori catches them on a squishy kekkai and they bounce onto their feet. Lilium's vines seal the hole up before they could jump back up.
They look around and see the black room, except for the scientist and his creation in the center. The man turns around and looks at them curiously.
"The young kekkaishi and ayakashi majiri, so you followed me here." The man said.
"Cognizine…" Hiba said. Cognizine smirked and turned back to his mechanical creation.
"This would be a great time to test my new battle mech, the Octopus. Let's see if it can destroy its designated target, kekkaishi." He said proudly. A switch suddenly materialized in his hand and he pressed it, activated the robot. The mech sputtered and creaked as its glowing red eyes opened and it stretched its 8 mechanical tentacles.
"Your machine can't protect you from both of us." Yoshimori remarked, getting into the kekkaishi battle position. Cognizine smirked and summoned his weapon, a shield with a spiral galaxy on its front. Yoshimori laughed.
"A shield? That's a crappy weapon." Yoshimori remarked.
"It may be for an inexperienced fighter, but for a man who's lived over 400 years, it's easy to use with the perfect strategy." Cognizine explained as he began floating in the air. "And being the guardian of space, it's easy to create, spikes you would call them, from the shield making it much more…. Effective."
"Yoshimori, destroy the shield and I'll grab him." Hiba whispered to Yoshimori and Yoshimori nodded.
"Oh, that will be difficult I assure you, simple kekkai won't kill any of the Guardians easily." Cognizine said. "But I'll wager you a bet, if you can manage to incapacitate me, I will tell you information on the other Guardians." Cognizine smirked at them and the octopus mech charged.
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"Chief Masamori! The bridge ahead is broken." A member of the night troops announced. Masamori nodded and began walking towards the bridge.
"I'll create a kekkai and we will all cross two at a time." Masamori announced and created the kekkai. Just as he was about to step on it, it exploded.
Masamori looked around and found the problem. Christeenala standing on a high pillar looking down at him and the night troops; her arm extended to catch her spear as it returned to her telepathically. She looked at them with an icy stare.
"Leave." Christeenala demanded. "Your presence conflicts with the superior's plans."
"Who is your superior?" Masamori inquired.
"Leave. I will not repeat it again." Christeenala demanded.
"And I was hoping we could make an ally of you." Masamori joked. He suddenly turned serious and spoke again. "However, we will not leave until we've rescued Tokine."
"The girl… she is dead. Leave now." Christeenala said, emotionlessly. Masamori and the troops gasped.
"Who killed her?" Masamori questioned angrily.
Christeenala looked at him curiously, but it faded and she turned away and jumped down to the other side of the broken staircase. She turned, her icy blue hair flying around her graceful and looked at Masamori but didn't say a word. Masamori created a kekkai and ran across it at almost light speed and stood directly in front of Christeenala.
"Who Killed Her?" He shouted.
"I did." Christeenala said nonchalantly. That put Masamori over the edge and he burst in anger, a very out-of-character thing for him to do. He quickly created a zekkai and charged at Christeenala. She stood and stared at him. She lifted her hand up in front of herself to block the zekkai.
Masamori crashed into her, producing a large shockwave and smoke. The smoke slowly cleared in the silence. Masamori waved the smoke away from his face and dispelled his zekkai. He smirked as the smoke faded from where Christeenala was showed a lack of her presence.
Suddenly a hand thrust out of the smoke and pushed Masamori. Masamori flew back before be caught by the troops on the other side of the broken bridge. Christeenala walked out of the remaining smoke and flip her hair.
"That zekkai was stronger than I anticipated; it managed to push me back. But just like the others, it couldn't even starch me." Christeenala remarked. She summoned her spear and held it above her head, pointed at the group of night troops.
"May god's heavenly rays look on you and give you mercy, as I will not." Christeenala preached before her spear flew out of her hand without her moving a muscle and crashed into the troop members, freezing them. Christeenala jumped over to the other side of the bridge and examined the frozen Masamori.
"Looks like they aren't frozen solid, but it would be of no use to kill them. I'll return them to their precious Karasumori." Christeenala spoke as the frozen soldiers slowly fell into portals back to Karasumori.
"Master Christeenala!" An ayakashi said as it approached Christeenala, "The hole they entered here from has been filled and they can no longer access or escape the castle without a portal."
Christeenala nodded to him. "Good job, you may leave." The ayakashi vanished just as it appeared, instantaneously.
Christeenala sighed and began jumping over the castle to the east wing. "It seems that the other Guardians are disobeying my orders and attacking our visitors. Sen Kagemiya, Gen Shishio, Kyoichi Hiba, and Yoshimori Sumimura are not to be killed."
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I struggled to cut Lilium's vines with my claws as she walked with Tsurosa. The vines squeezed tighter as I tried to free my restrained arm and I let out a yelp. I flicked my tail in anger and sighed. If Gen can't get out there's no way I can get out; his claws are stronger than mine.
I looked over at Gen who was still trying to break free despite how tight Lilium had the vines around him. I looked down at Lilium and Tsurosa, who were walking contently down the wide, white hall. I started entertaining myself by waging my tail back and forth until they started talking.
"So Lisnoir has the stupid girl?" Tsurosa asked as they walked down the hall.
"Yeah he does, but with these two we won't need her to lure the Sumimura boy to us." Lilium said, smiling evilly.
"I honestly don't know what those two see in these two boys. Their stupid, skinny, that blonde one especially, and they have the weirdest eyes. They don't have fucking irises!" Tsurosa said. She suddenly looked at me.
"Hey, Blondie! How do you fucking see without irises?" Tsurosa shouted at me.
"Oh, leave the boys alone. I'm sure their daydreaming of their boyfriends to rush in and be their knights in shining armor." Lilium said.
"I guess so, but their fucking dreaming if they think some little punks are gonna come save them!" Tsurosa shouted. Lilium shook her head and turned away to look forward again.
"I know how Lisnoir (Liz-Nor) plans to kill the superior, but how is he gonna kill Christeenala? She's practically immortal." Tsurosa asked.
"I don't know if he's figured it out yet. She has to have some sort of weakness." Lilium said calmly.
"I don't know, is it true that even Tokimori Hazama couldn't hurt her?" Tsurosa asked again. My eyes widened and I paid more attention to their conversation.
An ayakashi not even Tokimori Hazama, creator of Karasumori, could hurt. Whoever would have thought something like that existed.
Before Lilium could answer, an ayakashi in the guardian cloak stumbled into them from a blind corner. He ran into Tsurosa and fell to the ground. Tsurosa looked down at him and sneered.
"Watch where your fucking going Linzang! You almost spilled some of your freaking water on my skirt!" (Lin-Zang) Tsurosa shouted at the man. The man stood up and I noticed his number, 9. He grabbed his hood and pulled it down. I felt my mouth drop at the sight of the man. He's gorgeous.
Hidden under his hood was porcelain skin with delicate features. He's got soft sea foam green eyes and a kind aura, lacking in a normal ayakashi's sinister vibe. He's got soft looking dark blue hair that falls gently over his eyes. He smiled kindly and looked at us.
"Why do you have children captive?" He asked.
Lilium shrugged, "'cuz we felt like it. Why do you smell like…" Lilium took a quick sniff of the air. "Cat pheromone?" Linzang sighed.
"A cat ayakashi sprayed me while I was tending to my fish. I see that the cat ayakashi majiri smells it to, he was checking me out." Linzang gave me a look and I blushed.
I shook my head. "I love Yoshimori!"
"You have no need to worry boy," Lilium explained, "He's already got a boy."
Linzang bristled, "I do, and he'd be here with me right now if it weren't for you and Tsurosa." You could practically see the anger radiating off Linzang.
Lilium giggled. "It's your own fault. The superior doesn't approve of relationships between…. Co-workers. I only told him so you wouldn't receive a worse punishment later. It's not my fault Leo took the fall for you. Maybe for just too, weak to do anything by yourself. You miss your poor Leo don't you?" She taunted. Linzang got angrier and Lilium was enjoying it. I shook in my restraints to distract her, hoping that this encounter with Linzang would serve as a good escape opportunity.
Lilium turned to look at me and tightened the vines. Just as she did, Linzang pulled a staff out of nowhere that looked like an over elaborate version of the kekkaishi staff used for Tenketsu. He swung it quickly and Tusrosa ducked out of the way and the blade atop the staff cleaved through Lilium's neck.
Lilium's head regenerated immediately and she turned back around at looked at Linzang angrily. "Such a short temper you have." She said.
"Don't you have somewhere to be? You were in such a rush earlier; going to clean the cat piss away?" Tsurosa commented.
Linzang let out an exasperated sigh. "I'm going to go take a shower and 'clean the cat piss away' and then I have to meet with number 6 on the Karasumori site. We have to eliminate a demon that the superior has an unnecessary deal with."
"Refer to the other members by their titles or their names, the numbering system in this organization is fucked up and I don't wanna here anyone talk about it." Tusrosa complained.
"Fine then number 7, I have to meet with Gingross, the Toxic Fencer. Happy?" Linzang said. I have to compliment him on his courage, taking on two, high-ranked members of the Guardian's by himself. Can't say he isn't brave.
"Bastard." Tsurosa mumbled under her breath.
"Well, goodbye." Linzang said. He walked off past Lilium, not without decapitating her again.
"Stop that! Just because it grows back doesn't mean it doesn't hurt!" Lilium shouted at him over her back.
"You deserve it, bitch!" Linzang shouted and I chuckled a little. That guy's just, unique. He doesn't seem like he's doing this because he wants to. Maybe we could make an ally of him.
Suddenly I heard the vines break from behind me and I saw Gen jumping towards me and slashing the vines off of me. I landed on the ground and looked at Tsurosa and Lilium. Gen landed in front of me and shooed me away.
"I want to help!" I shouted at him. He shook his head.
"You'll just be in the way. I'm going to transform." He said boldly. I stood my ground for a moment, but then he waved me off again, this time with his claw, and I sighed and turned to run. Before I could get anywhere, Tsurosa jumped in front of me. Gen slammed her out of the way before she could cut me with her giant golden claws.
Tsurosa flew and crashed into the wall. I looked at Gen, now in his wolf-man form. I gulped, he's intimidated. I jumped past him and ran as fast as I could back to where we were separated from Yoshimori and Hiba.
(Switch to Gen's POV)
"You're not getting away!" Lilium shouted and sent vines flying after Sen. I speed towards them and shredded them with my claws. I turned back to Lilium and glared at her. She glared back at me and smiled. Vines encased her body and then scattered and she was gone. I looked around and saw Tsurosa pulling herself out of the rubble of the wall, her chest healing with the plant-like muscle quickly, the same way Lilium heals.
"I thought only Lilium was able to heal with plants?" I questioned her and she smiled.
"Lilium put one of her special lilies in me, it lets me heal like she does but to a lesser extent." Tsurosa gasped. It's obvious she doesn't heal as quickly as Lilium, she's still recovering from that hit. Suddenly I felt the vines accumulating at my feet and I felt Lilium's hands pop out of the mass and grab my legs. I jumped out of the mess cut off her hands.
She rose out of the vines, her hands healing rapidly and glared at me. She looked over at Tsurosa and barked orders. "What are you waiting for? Go after the catboy!"
Tusrosa immediately perked up and nodded and dashed down the hall towards Sen. I turned and ran after her, but one of Lilium's vines grabbed my leg and I tripped. I looked back at Lilium and cut the vine off. I jumped onto my feet and avoided a large vine as it flew at me.
I ran around Lilium at a rapid pace, avoiding the vines and plants she'd launch out of her palms at me. I ran in a slashed her back and then I'd circle her again and slash her chest. I repeated the effective strategy, which was obviously beginning to annoy Lilium. She growled angrily and her whip appeared.
Acrobatically she spun around rapidly, the whip spinning around her in a blur. Soon it was moving faster than I was and I jumped to avoid the spinning weapon. It suddenly changed direction and the bristled whip hit me into the ground, breaking my arm.
I pushed the rubble off myself with my one working arm and I stood. I couldn't stand for long. I collapsed again; my left leg is broken along with my right arm. I looked up at Lilium and she looked down at me with an evil smirk.
She struck me again with the whip on my neck and I flew into the rubble again. I lay there, slowly slipping into unconsciousness. The last thing I saw before I passed out was her silhouette staring down at me.
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I ran down the hall and found the hole in the floor blocked off by Lilium's vines. I looked at the vines. They're definitely too strong for me to cut through. I looked around and saw a staircase going down to the floor below. I ran down the stairs at a breakneck pace and almost ran into the steel wall dead end. I kicked the wall but it didn't even dent.
Suddenly, a giant mechanical tentacle crashed through the wall, nearly hitting me, destroying this part of the castle's second floor. I pushed the rubble off myself and walked back up to the top of the stairs. I saw the giant robot and immediately hid behind part of the remaining wall and watched so I wouldn't get in the way or be kidnapped again.
Yoshimori ran forward towards Cognizine, the man floating around with the shield. He jumped back and Hiba swung his arms past Yoshimori. Cognizine smashed the tentacles away from himself with his shield and flung a large energy ball at Yoshimori and teleported to a different location.
Yoshimori put a kekkai over himself and reflected the ball, sending it swirling back at Cognizine. Cognizine reflected the ball with his shield and Yoshimori reflected it again with his kekkai. They continued their game of dead-man's volley until Cognizine barely reflected it back.
Yoshimori smirked and reflected back at him again, this time faster with a soft kekkai. Cognizine gasped and reflected the energy ball again, but towards Hiba. Hiba jumped away and the ball crashed into the ground, leaving a large crater in the dirt that was below the concrete. Hiba whipped his tentacles and grabbed one of the octopus's tentacles and tore it off. He swung his tentacles around like a lasso with the tentacle at the end until flinging the large hunk of metal at Cognizine.
Cognizine stopped it in midair with telepathy and crunched into a ball before flinging it at Hiba. Yoshimori put a kekkai over Hiba, blacking the metal. The metal ball crashed into the kekkai and fell to the ground. Cognizine recreated a tentacle for the mechanical octopus and the octopus immediately swung another tentacle at Hiba and Yoshimori.
Yoshimori focused on maintaining the kekkai protecting Hiba and himself as the octopus repeated struck it over and over again, each time with more force. The kekkai cracked and I gasped. I jumped out of my hiding spot and slashed an unsuspecting Cognizine across the back. Cognizine gasped and lost focus and the octopus stopped moving.
Yoshimori quickly made a kekkai around the giant octopus and destroyed it, leaving only Cognizine. Cognizine floated weakly in the air, glaring at us, especially me. Yoshimori creates a kekkai around Cognizine and manages to capture him in it. Cognizine teleports out easily and flashes away to a different spot every time Yoshimori tries to put a kekkai around him.
Yoshimori grumbles in frustration and focuses. He quickly created a kekkai that I only every saw Tokine do, the arrow kekkai. It hit Cognizine along his face and sent him swirling ungracefully towards the ground. Hiba immediately extended his tentacles a held Cognizine down.
"Don't even think about teleporting. My tentacles excrete a chemical that weakens ayakashi abilities. " Hiba said to Cognizine, who sneered in reply.
"I suppose that you've succeeded. I'm a man of my word, I'll tell you anything you'd like to know about the other members of the Guardians." Cognizine said. Before I could ask him my question, Yoshimori tackled me and pulled me into a heated kiss, which I gladly obliged.
I heard Cognizine start laughing at our public display of affection.
"Emotions are a waste of time, if you block them all out you can become one truly devoted to your cause."Cognizine explained. Yoshimori and I glared at him.
"What exactly is your cause?" Hiba asked.
"The cause of the Guardians is to assist Ayakashi in their struggles. We believe if we helped Ayakashi reach their goal that they wouldn't be destroyed by Kekkaishi as they'd have no reason to leave their home in one of the many ayakashi dimensions." Cognizine explained. "Essentially, you can see use as trying to educate the ayakashi so they won't repeat mistakes and be killed by the kekkaishi or Night Troops."
"Then why are you giving ayakashi a bad name and committing acts even worse than theirs?" Hiba questioned.
"I've done nothing of the sort, I'm just a spy. But many of the other members have killed many of the night troops and the like. Lilium especially, I've seen her fight against them. She's brutal and ruthless." Cognizine said. I poked Yoshimori to get him to let me go, he loves to pull my tail.
"What about that woman, Christeenala. What's her weakness?" I asked. Just as he was about to explain a ghostly beam shout out of nowhere and hit him. He shriveled up, but was still alive. Suddenly, Tsurosa jumped down a slashed Hiba along his back with her claws, making him crush Cognizine. Tsurosa jumped back up and landed next to a man.
They looked down at us, since we're standing on the 1st floor under the giant who in the second floor, from their spot. I looked closer and noticed, the man is the one who kidnapped Tokine; he's carrying her now.
"Yoshimori, he's got Tokine." I told Yoshimori and Yoshimori immediately turned his attention to the man.
"I applaud you on killing Cognizine, with a little help that is." The man spoke while clapping slowly. "Let me introduce myself. I am Lisnoir, the Guardian of Spirits, the rank 8, known as the Shadowy Chancellor."
"Lisnoir, you're the leader of the Guardian coup d'état!" I shouted at them and he bowed.
"I'm glad I'm so well known." He said proudly. "Anyway, I have a deal for you runts." He held up Tokine, still unconscious, "If you kill the rank 1 and 2 members of the Guardians I give you the girl back."
"Deal!" Yoshimori agreed without hesitation and I nodded in agreement. We've already killed 3 Guardians, to more can't be all that hard.
"Who is responsible for the damage to my castle?" An outraged voice shouted from the other side of the hole. I turned and looked over there and saw Christeenala standing there, waiting for an answer. No one answered and she glared at everyone.
"It must have been you Lisnoir." Christeenala said, crossing her arms. Lisnoir smirked at her.
"You always assume the worst in me, I assure you rank 2, it wasn't me." Lisnoir said.
I saw Yoshimori perk up in the corner of my eye. Rank 2 is one of the targets… but I'm not sure we can hurt her, let alone kill her. I never got to ask Cognizine my question. Did she really fight Tokimori Hazama?
Without thinking, Yoshimori created a kekkai around the woman and collapsed it, but she remained standing there. It didn't even look like she'd felt it in the slightest bit.
"Now, now Sumimura. I'll give you attention once I'm done with these fools here." Christeenala said. I could sense she was doing something. I looked at her and then I noticed. She invaded my mind. I immediately pushed her out, which, by the looked on her face, surprised her. She nodded at me and looked back at Lisnoir.
"According to what's happened here. I dub you two traitors. I want you to leave my castle immediately. If you do not, I will have to kill you." Christeenala said to Lisnoir and Tsurosa. Lisnoir gave her a look and Tsurosa laughed.
Lisnoir shook his head. "I don't believe we'll b e leaving." Suddenly, Lisnoir's figure became smoky, except his purple hair and eyes, which remained solid. He reappeared behind Christeenala and drew a scythe and swung for her neck.
As it made contact with her there was a loud screeching sound. I looked up at the scene. The scythe broke. It broke when it came in contact with her skin. That scythe would have cut through a Zekkai. With the scythe broken, Lisnoir returned to solid form. Christeenala grabbed his cloaked and chucked him clear across the giant hole. Tsurosa caught him and dropped him onto the ground.
He stood up and dusted himself off, pushed his bangs out of his face, and adjusted his arm warmers, those leg warmers on his arms. He glared at Christeenala and picked up Tokine from the floor. He turned and began walking away with Tsurosa close behind. The broken scythe began floating and went after Lisnoir.
I looked over at Yoshimori, who looked exasperated. It is kind of frustrating that we close to saving her and then she gets pulled farther away.
"Why didn't you save her? You obviously have the power too!" Yoshimori shouted at Christeenala.
She looked at him and answered simply, "I don't care what happened to her."
The answer angered Yoshimori and I rushed over to him and wrapped my arms over his shoulders and pulled him into a kiss.
"Mrs. Christeenala, where is Gen?" Hiba demanded, in a respectful way, from the woman. She looked at him, her indifferent expression changing to worry.
"He is not with you? This is definitely a problem. All of you need to be present to convince Xorin (Soar- in) of his mistakes…." Christeenala said, muttering to herself.
"Xorin of his mistakes?" Yoshimori asked after breaking our kiss.
"No, Yoshi… We were separated." I whined, flicking my ears and tail. He shook his head sadly and mouthed " later". I shook my head.
"I wanna kiss you now." I whined again. I decided to use my secret weapon. It always works on Yoshi.
"Just ignore him Yoshimori! He got scratched by Tsurosa and he's feeling the effects." Hiba shouted. Yoshimori looked at me, using all his will power to not jump me. I put my hands up like cat paws and gave him puppy eyes.
"Mrrreow…" I meowed at him and he started blushing. He turned and looked at Hiba.
"Sorry Hiba, I can't help it. You're on your own." Yoshimori said. Hiba sweatdropped as Yoshimori grabbed me and pinned me against the wall. He kissed me feverishly and I felt his hands go up my shirt. I felt him flick my nipple and I moaned into Yoshimori's mouth. I flicked my tail wildly around, and I rub it against Yoshimori's…. bulge every once in a while.
Christeenala stared at us, uninterested. She returned her gaze to Hiba, how had gone from sweatdrop to facepalm. "Will you at least listen and tell them later?" Hiba nodded.
"Alright, the reason I need you four alive, well, and together, is to convince Xorin- the Superior that he's gone too far. He wanted to convince the world that ayakashi can be trained, and that they don't have to be killed on sight." Christeenala says. She looks down and lets out a quiet sob.
"He's gone corrupt with eliminating anything that stops the progress of getting rights for ayakashi. Anyone that opposes him he usually sends Lilium or Lisnoir to kill. I want him to go back to the man he was… the man I fell in love with." She took in a deep breath but coughed a little when I let out a loud moan.
"Would you two stop for just 5 minutes!" She shouted. I ignored her and continued moaning as Yoshimori's tongue explored my mouth. I suddenly felt as if I was thrown in a cold shower.
"Part from each other or it'll get colder!" Christeenala shouted. We pulled apart begrudgingly. She stood up and I saw a spider web wrap around her. She broke out of the web easily and turned and looked back.
"More intruders? When did you invade my castle?" She asked the mysterious invaders. Yoshimori pulled me back close to him while Christeenala was distracted. Our lips met again and he immediately returned to exploring my mouth with his tongue. His hand slide into my pants and I let out another loud moan.
"Kitty-chan! Where is Kitty-chan!" I blushed and pulled away from Yoshimori, who looked at me with confusion. Suddenly, I felt a large tail wrap around my waist and another around my chest. It pulled me away and I landed face first in breasts.
"Kitty-chan there you are! Are you OK? No one hurt you? The back of your leg is bleeding! Who did it? I'll tear them apart!" She shouted.
"Calm down mother." I groaned. "I'm fine it's just a cut. I'd like to return to my boyfriend… You kind have interrupted something." I said, a blush creeping up on me about having to say that to my mother. "What are you doing here anyway? I'm guessing that web came from Ms. Shion."
" Yes it was! Ms. Shion and Ms. Aihi came with me to save you! And don't do it without protection. And please find a bedroom first." Princess said, her happiness at finding me evident.
"Mother…" I grumbled. She released me from her bone crushing hug and followed me back to the rest of the group. She ran over to Ms. Aihi and Ms. Shion, who were standing in a battle position in front of Christeenala.
"Don't hurt her mother, she's an ally." I explained, but Princess didn't look convinced. She swung one of her tails and struck Christeenala into the wall. She scoffed.
"I don't trust this woman. She seems like she's just using you." Princess said, putting her hands on her hips.
"Don't anger her, we really want to keep her as an ally." I said to Princess. Christeenala stood up from the rubble and walked over to us. There wasn't a scratch on her.
"Why did you do such a thing?" Christeenala asked. "I did nothing but save your son from peril."
"Is that true?" Princess asked me. I nodded and took this chance to ask my question.
"Did you really battle Tokimori Hazama?" I asked Christeenala.
"Yes, and for a famous Kekkaishi, he was rather weak. Not even the godly shinkai could hurt me." Christeenala said, as if it was normal not to be hurt by such a strong attack.
'Your skin really is as hard as they say." I commented and turned around. I ran over to Yoshimori and he grabbed me and lifted me into his arms.
"Where were we?" I asked him. He smiled at me and we kissed again.