Chapter 15

The Assault on Karasumori

I walked down the empty hall of the school; the second day back since the Guardian incident. Christeenala, Linzang, and Leo are staying with us at the Sumimura household. I turned into the classroom. The old man's class, Mr. Hesuke Matsudo. He's been too depressed about Ms. Kagami's bad condition to teach, so we just sit around during his class.

I sat next to Yoshimori and rested my head on his shoulder. Gen walked in and sat in the seat behind us. He rested his cast on a pillow on the desk and proceeded to fall asleep. Suddenly, I heard the dread words.

"Go Away, Fags!" A boy shouted from behind us. And with that, there was a sudden chill in the air.

"Hmm, fags… it's not permitted to have cigars in the school vicinity. Come with me." I turned to the doorway and saw Christeenala standing in the doorway. She had become the new PE teacher, to replace Kaguro. Everyone fears her even more than they did Kaguro. They all say that she's a demon because wherever she goes, the area suddenly become insanely cold. If only they knew the truth.

"Hello," Princess walked into the room with Aihi and Shion.

"Hello Ms. Princess." The class announced in their normal unenthusiastic way.

"It is against to rules to bully other students as you know. "She said calmly. "But, if the reason you bully is because of a hate crime, such as bullying because of a person's race or sexuality," That was emphasized "will result in immediate suspension, expulsion if it is a second offense." She smiled and walked out of the room to go to the nest classroom and convey the same message. It's fun having your mom as the principal, as long as she doesn't act motherly in public.

Linzang and Leo walked past the hall and Leo rushed in and handed some papers to Mr. Matsudo. He slowly took it and they rushed out of the room. I sighed as Linzang and Leo waved at us. They became the office workers of the school… and when they act like themselves, they're the most flamboyant people in the world. Linzang walks, and acts, like a girl while Leo…. He's not as bad, but still. You could tell from a mile away…

I looked at Yoshimori. "How about we sneak off?" I said. Yoshimori blushed and nodded and we simply stood and walked out of the room. He pulled me up onto the roof and pinned me against the wall. He started nipping at my neck and my cat ears and tail popped out of hiding. My tail flapped around wildly as I let out a moan. I felt Yoshimori's hands trail down and squeeze my ass.

I yelped a little and smirked at him. I stole his lips in a kiss, which he quickly took over. Suddenly, I felt something and broke our kiss. I looked into the distance, ignoring the confused look Yoshimori was giving me. My eyes widened. A huge purple portal was opening in the forest. They're attacking now! In the middle of the day! I grabbed Yoshimori's arm and ran down the stairs.

"You sensed it as well…" I turned and saw Christeenala standing at the highest point of academy looking out towards the forest. She turned and looked at me and I nodded.

"What do we do? I don't know how to fight ayakashi in the middle of the day, there's too many people around." Yoshimori said. Christeenala jumped down to the ground, several stories down, and started walking towards the forest.

"We'll cut them off before they exit the forest. It's the best way to do it inconspicuously." She said. I grabbed onto Yoshimori and he lifted me up and jumped down to the ground below via kekkai. We landed on the ground and ran over to Christeenala.

"Shouldn't we have the school evacuated?" Yoshimori asked.

"Princess and the other teachers are all already evacuating the school under the guise of early dismissal." She said. She looked into the tress.

"Linzang, Leo, stop making out in the tree and come with us." She said and kept walking. Linzang and Leo popped out of the tree and started walking after Christeenala, hand in hand, complaining about how she always senses them.

"How? I didn't even sense them..." I said. Yoshimori shrugged and we walked after them.

I looked ahead at Christeenala. She's still tense…

-Flashback-

Christeenala collapsed to the ground before Xorin's Claymore. She said that if the weapon appears here, it means that its wielder has passed away. That means that Xorin's gone. After all that work to save him, Xorin's gone. He was the only one of them to have never been a ghost….. Maybe….he could become one now?

I heard a heart wrenching sob from Christeenala as Xorin's frozen corpse appeared floating before her. The ice is the only thing keeping his corpse from fading away. She deserted her puppet body and floated up to the frozen corpse. The ice slowly faded away, the body vanishing with it. I saw her tears float away in the wind, before they turned into crystal and faded away.

-End Flashback-

She walked ahead of us and looked back. I could see the dried tear stains on her face before she looked away. She stomped towards the forest, but she suddenly froze.

"The weapons… their gone…" Christeenala said solemnly. I cocked my head to the side.

"Is that a bad thing?" I asked, still latching onto Yoshimori. She nodded and suddenly the forest became extremely bright around us. Lightning bolted around us in a circle, trapping us in the forest. Suddenly, weird mannequin ayakashi started charging at us. Christeenala shuddered.

"Do you know what these things are?" I asked, looking around. They're surrounding us. We're did all this lightning come from?

Christeenala kicked a mannequin away and snapped another's neck with her hand. She tossed the corpse aside at another of the mannequins. The bodies faded away the same way the others had. I slit ones throat and kicked it into a group of the others, who were destroyed by a kekkai.

Linzang spun his staff around expertly slicing the nearby mannequins into pieces while working in perfect sync with Leo. Leo dashed around at extreme speeds, slicing through the mannequins with claws similar to mine, just shorter and more dangerous. Suddenly, a lightning bolt shot out of the lightning perimeter at me. A kekkai shot up around me and the lightning bolt reflected off and crashed into a tree, setting it ablaze.

"Looks like I get a second chance," I looked into the trees outside the lightning perimeter. That voice is familiar…

"I'm so sorry Lady Christeenala…" Another familiar voice.

"I'm back bitches!" Crap…. I definitely know who that is….

Three cloaked figures stepped through the lightning field and looked at us. They removed their green tinted hoods.

"How?" Leo asked from behind us.

"Zinzin, Gingross, Tsurosa…" I gasped… I thought they were dead…

"It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this is the guardian of spirits doing." Christeenala said monotone.

"Lisnoir brought us back, and Lilium took control." Gingross explained. He stepped forward and confronted Christeenala.

"I'm very sorry Christeenala, I cannot control my body." He said, sadly. He lunged forward with his poison drenched sword in hand and cut straight throw Christeenala's puppet. Christeenala floated out of the destroyed puppet and looked at Gingross, her gaze freezing the man in his tracks.

I looked at them and Yoshimori created a kekkai around us. They look the same, except that their eyes are completely green and their complexion is green tinted. They're definitely under the influence of one of Lilium's plants. Lilium is a plant expert, paired with Gingross's poison expertise; there's bound to be a trap they've set for us….

"Escape!" Christeenala shouted at us, her ghostly form easily over powering the three revived Guardians. I backed up, ready to refuse, but Yoshimori grabbed me and we escaped through a kekkai with Linzang and Leo. We ran out of the academy, just to witness it be sucked into a dark portal.

Suddenly, Lisnoir appeared before us, still holding Tokine. He tossed her at our feet.

"We don't need the girl anymore. We no longer need your assistance in our plans. With Xorin gone, and Christeenala soon to follow. Victory is assured." Lisnoir said.

Lilium appeared out of a green portal next to him. "Your one to talk, my plants are the ones that did all the work. All you had to do was get a piece of their DNA and my plants revived the dead person."

Lisnoir looked at her, "the DNA wasn't the easiest thing to get my hands on. Obtaining DNA from the many deceased warriors isn't an easy task. Such as that Kaguro fellow, his DNA wasn't easy to obtain, but it brought great results." Lilium scoffed.

"I suppose, Sakon and Gagin have proved very useful." She said, she looked over at us. "So have many other of the people we revived. Would you like to know some of them?" She asked, a sadistic smile over her face.

"There's your father, little Sen," She said, her sadistic smile growing. I shook my head, he can't be back… Mother killed him. He offered me to Terratina… Is she back too?

"Then there's the ever famous Tokimori Hazama. That would be interesting, won't it." She said, stifling a laugh, "And, for the poor girl, we brought her father back, Tokio Yuki…" She stopped…

I looked up at her and her head and been taken off by a… green tinted kekkai. I looked and saw a panting Tokine standing on her feet. She repeated barraged Lilium with arrow kekkai over and over, but Lilium recovered from each blast. She regenerated her head, and smiled.

"The little girl still has fight in her; she'd love to reunite with her father." Lilium turned and smiled. "Where's my boy toy, hmm? I was sure he'd be here, or did he run off to his boyfriend for protection, like you do so very often." She said, talking to me. I hissed at her and she laughed.

"I upset the kitty, how pitiful." She turned back to Lisnoir and snapped her finger. Suddenly, a large amount of ayakashi/people appeared from portals, accompanied by an almost endless hoard of mannequin ayakashi.

"You remember the ranks of the Guardians." She said with her smile. Tokine went to attack her again, but one of her vines quick grabbed a body and held it in front of her.

"Tokio Yukimura, you couldn't possibly attack your father could you?" She asked, her evil smile growing. Tokine stopped and Lilium smiled. She turned and vanished with Lisnoir and a majority of the army, leaving only Tokio and Cognizine standing before us.

Cognizine looked at us, "Now whose been using my shield?"

Hope you enjoyed! I just thought it'd be great to have the emotional impact of deceased loved ones being returned to life, along with the frustration of the dead being revived… It's a mystery even to me what happens next ;3