Chapter 9: Partial Possession
Saturday: Norrisville: Fowler Residence.
Theresa woke up aching in pain, this was her first time like this so she was very surprised when she first woke up in this pain, at first she expected it was due to being possessed yesterday with the fight of the Shark-Demenator Oni, but she was possessed by Shirokuma and Kazeryu for longer fights and it didn't give her aching pain like this.
She stretched her upper body as she sat up from her bed, the soreness and pain actually softening after some stretching but the pain was still prominent, it wasn't until long until the three Oni's started to talk to her.
'Did you sleep well Onee-chan?' Kazeryu politely asked as if Theresa is Kazeryu's actual sister, his voice being surprisingly quieter than usual, causing Theresa to sigh in relief, she doesn't need a voice that's loud and bombastic right now.
"I did, except I strangely have this aching pain for some reason..." Theresa answered the Purple Dragon Oni.
'It seems most likely due to your unwillingness to exercise...' Shirokuma said quietly as well, Theresa was at least happy that Shirokuma was using an indoor voice during her mornings despite criticizing her.
'Onee-chan...Are you alright?' Kazeryu asked, his voice being very tinged with child-like worry, something that Theresa honestly felt happy for it seems like Kazeryu actual cares about.
'She literally just answered your first question and now your asking the same question...' Mizuwani said, he didn't even bother to lower his voice, his loud voice causing Theresa to jump in surprise.
'Lower your voice Mizuwani...Fowler needs some peace and quiet...Let her have some...' Shirokuma said as Mizuwani actually closed his mouth due to Shirokuma's words, earning a light scoff from Kazeryu.
'Anyway Fowler, go back to sleep, its not like you have anything to do today...' This is a statement that Theresa can agree as she quickly went back to lying down in her bed, her body underneath the bed's somewhat thick blankets, she sighed happily as she begun to go back to her slumbering state.
'Have a nice rest Onee-chan...' Was the last thing that Theresa heard as she went back to sleep.
After Theresa went back to sleeping the three Oni were now in a predicament, the three have no idea when Theresa is going to wake up and their literally leaning right next to Theresa's dresser with nothing to do.
'Well, this is riveting...Good Job Dragon Stew...' Mizuwani said with a loud and smug scoff.
'Shhh! Wani-baka! Onee-chan is trying to sleep.' Kazeryu said in response clearly angry over Mizuwani's smart remarks
'Kazeryu is right Mizu, everyone needs rest including us Oni...' Mizuwani folded his arms after hearing Shirokuma's words
'Bear Breath...Always agreeing with Dragon dung, how common of them...' Mizuwani said under his breath something that neither Oni could have heard the Blue Alligator Oni's words. After several moments, the Purple Dragon Oni and the Golden Samurai Oni were both sound asleep, something that Mizuwani simply wasn't he huffed loudly as he did not want to sleep, after many years of tranquility in a sanctum of water Mizuwani does no want to rest, like an alligator who just finished taking a nap, Mizuwani is hungry, figuratively and literally.
Yes, Oni's do apparently need to eat food, or either that or Mizuwani only wants to feel the pleasures of living instead of being stuck in his Trident and in purgatory, he wants to experience old pleasurees such as eating good food like fried red-snapper and shrimp tempura, drinking the best rice wine and rum available and calmly swimming in the most purest ponds this land has to offer, and being in this girlish bedroom inside of a trident that lacks everything that Mizuwani wants is not giving him any pleasure whatsoever.
Mizuwani scoffed loudly as he began to think intently on what to do, he began to walk around back and forth, making semi-quiet footsteps along the way, he placed an gloved hand on his hat-shadowed chin, he thought of an idea, a very deceitful and somewhat mean idea. Partial possession, basically possessing Theresa but not to the point that her physical form is replaced by the Blue Alligator and instead Mizuwani controls her own body, she doesn't enter Purgatory but Mizuwani gets out of Purgatory, so basically two minds in one body, One being Mizuwani with him controlling Theresa's body, and the other mind being Theresa who can only watch.
'Alright Ponytail, your rest will soon come to an end.' Mizuwani said as his hat shadowed his devious smile, in a puff of blue and watery smoke, Mizuwani disappeared, the other two Oni blissfully unaware as they rested as well.
'Going to hope this can work since she isn't holding the trident, but she was kind enough to make me the nearest to her...' Mizuwani said to himself to try to not have his sanity shredded due to the constant silence that Purgatory gives you.
Theresa woke up in loud yawn, the first thing she noticed is that she wasn't feeling any of the back pain she experienced the last time she woke up, she also noticed that she couldn't move her arms, nor her legs, in fact she couldn't more any body she has, she was starting to get worried.
'Why can't I move anything!?' She said, her voice already having the marks of the beginning of a panic attack, that was until the calm and soothing voice of the Blue Alligator Oni calmed her down.
"Don't worry Ponytail, I'm just 'Partially' possessing you." Mizuwani answered the girls worries, but it didn't really help at all if Mizuwani was being honest.
'Why are you doing this!? Can't you just let me sleep!?' Theresa said in response, her voice clearly being both angry and anxious at the same time, this got the Blue Alligator Oni laughing.
"Hey, this is what happens when an Oni hungers..." Mizuwani said coolly as he in Theresa's body quickly got up from her bed.
'Please Mizuwani, just go back to bed, please...' Theresa begged her voice being tinged in a tone of desperation, something that Mizuwani quickly noticed, with a loud sigh Mizuwani spoke.
"Alright then Ponytail, since you believe taking a nap is essential to your survival I'll tuck you back in your bed and let you sleep, right after I get myself something good to eat okay?" Mizuwani said as he looked at himself in the mirror.
Since he was partially possessing Theresa, he was Theresa wearing a white-shirt and blue shorts, for he was in Theresa's body, instead of his real and more importantly more powerful form, unlike Theresa and the usual dark pink highlight she has, since Mizuwani was partially possessing her, the highlight was replaced with a blue highlight instead, greatly contrasting her violet head of hair, in fact the blue highlight patch of hair actually grew longer than the rest of her hair contrasting her violet hair even more so, Theresa's eye color was cerulean blue rather than his real eye color and out of nowhere she gained a pair of black rimmed glasses
'Why do I look like this?' Theresa asked, clearly wanting some answers for she doesn't even own a pair of glasses.
"When an Oni partially possesses you, they usually alter your appearance, sometimes greatly like clothes, sometimes weakly like a change in eye color..." Mizuwani answered.
'Why didn't Shiro and Kazeryu partially possess like what you did?' Theresa asked, Mizuwani placed a dainty hand on his face, effectively making Theresa face palm.
"I'm assuming they didn't want to, or that they do it when your sleeping for it doesn't matter if your mind is active in order for an Oni to partially possess you." Mizuwani answered as he quickly opened several drawers of various clothes, looking for a good outfit instead of the one that Theresa wore yesterday.
"Since we legitimately take over your body, we used to do this in order to deceive humans by taking over your body but not really changing your body besides small differences and not to our real Oni forms so we can cause suspicion and chaos." Mizuwani continued.
"However, partial possession is called partial for a reason, it basically allows us to possess people without them needing to hold our objects but in exchange we can only have this form of the altered possessed one." Mizuwani said as he was going to grab a shirt but then realized something.
"Actually, what the hell am I doing? I don't need to pretty up since I'm leaving your body after I eat your breakfast, You do your tasks, I'll do the ones that you probably enjoy." Mizuwani said as he exited out of Theresa's bedroom, with a smug smile on his face.
He quickly went downstairs as Theresa's bedroom was on the second floor, he went into the kitchen.
"Alright Ponytail, if you want to sleep earlier tell me where the food is..." Mizuwani asked, his tone still being hued in a smug and arrogant attitude.
'Its in the fridge, big metal block that's literally right in front of you...' Theresa responded, her voice being filled with sarcasm, Mizuwani listened for she knows this house more than him, gripping the handle, he opened to fridge, it had many foods from leftovers of dinner to bags full of cilantro, sage an various other greens, despite these options, Mizuwani only eyed a very particular part of the fridge, there in the fridge he saw in complete awe is a collection of slices of fish of the Red Snapper variety in a tuber wear bin, something that honestly brought a tear in Theresa's Mizuwani-controlled eye.
"Where did you get such delectable slices of Red Snapper? Red Snapper isn't even native to Norrisville." Mizuwani almost exclaimed as he quickly grabbed the raw but clean slices of the fish that Mizuwani desires the most.
'My mom is very...Weird when it comes to cooking, she always pick weird ingredients like eel or durian, guess Red Snapper is weird enough for my mother...' Theresa answered somewhat nonchalantly.
"Ponytail, your mother isn't weird, she has good taste, a spring-water clear difference, if your willing to learn differences to begin with." Mizuwani said smugly as he opened the plastic container and grabbed the largest piece of the collection of Red Snapper meat with his bear hands
'Are you going to eat that raw?' Theresa asked, her voice being clearly tinged in disgust.
'Actually I should be asking you this, Are you going to make ME eat this raw!?' Theresa exclaimed, Mizuwani smugly scoffed as he gave Theresa an answer that she'll probably won't like at all.
"Doesn't seem to be any cooking oil so I can't fry this, so I might as well have it fresh then!" Mizuwani said with an arrogant laugh.
Theresa woke up the third time today, this time having back pain and stomach pain, most likely gained from not being able to stomach raw Red Snapper. Before she went back to sleep after getting some stomach pain medicine, she placed Mizuwani's trident the farthest away from her out of the three weapons, trusting the Golden Samurai that constantly criticizes her and the Childish, Upbeat Purple Dragon more so than the Calm and Snarky Blue Alligator who wants to possess her just so he can eat raw fish, not thinking about if her stomach can take it.
At least her mom cooks the food, and doesn't eat it completely raw, at least she has standards when it comes to eating.
Theresa sighed as she groggily got up from her bed, she went to her dresser which sported a mirror and was relieved that she was back to her usual self, lacking the blue long highlight she once had that replaced her usual pink highlight.
Theresa quickly got dressed, instead of her usual Baton-twirling uniform, she instead decided to wear a long sleeve green shirt, and coupled with a brown long skirt to top it off, she looked at herself in the mirror once more, happy with her choice of attire.
'You look great Onee-chan!' Kazeryu chimed in politely, causing Theresa to jump in surprise from the sudden childish voice that belonged to the Purple Dragon Oni.
"Thanks Kazeryu..." Theresa honestly said with a small blush appearing on her cheeks.
'Yes, it seems very modest, or at least modest for my tastes...' The stern Shirokuma said with a approving scoff.
'Bah, I seen better, your not winning any awards from me Ponytail.' Mizuwani said with the usual smug tone that really bothered Theresa.
"Who says I need your approval?" Theresa retorted to the Blue Alligator Oni, Mizuwani growled loudly in response but didn't spoke another word.
"So you three, where do you all want to go today?" Theresa with a small smile on her face asked the three Oni's as she grabbed their respective weapons and placed them in her usual guitar case that somehow managed to fit a whole trident in with only one of its tips popping out. They never received a question like this from Theresa yet. As expected from not being used to a question like this she was met with silence, except for Mizuwani's snarky and downright mean comment.
'Anywhere away from you Ponytail?' The other two Oni's quickly gulped in response to Mizuwani's mean comment, already knowing the consequences of Mizuwani's actions
Theresa without any warnings dropped the guitar case, causing the Blue Alligator to yelp loudly in surprise from the sudden drop, after she grabbed the guitar case, she was met with silence from the Blue Alligator Oni that seemed to stick for now.
"So, where do you guys want to go today?" Theresa asked the Two Compliant Oni as she back to her calm and somewhat chirper state.
'Can we go back to the Gamehole again Onee-chan? I really like how bright the thingies are!' Kazeryu suggested, after seconds of silence from Theresa she said this.
"Where do you want to go Shirokuma?" She asked, outright ignoring Kazeryu's question which admittedly she felt a little bit guilty about doing that.
'I want to go where Kazeryu wants to go...' Shirokuma said, somewhat fumbling his words as he was trying to keep Kazeryu happy. Theresa sighed loudly, knowing that Shirokuma and herself doesn't want to go to Greg's Gaming Hole again for very similar reasons, ironically the reasons are Kazeryu's reasons for wanting to go back there.
"Your just saying that so you can torture me more aren't you? We both know that we both hate that place!" Theresa accused the Golden Samurai Oni rather angrily, not caring about Kazeryu's opinions of the Gaming Hole, he scoffed in response, clearly disgusted by her accusations
'I'm saying this for I want Kazeryu to be happy, he sees you as his older sister, his Onee-chan, I suggest you act like one...' Shirokuma said as Theresa faintly heard Kazeryu crying...Which really did made Theresa a whole lot more guilty than before.
"Kazeryu..." Theresa, she heard Kazeryu sniff and snort loudly, but at least she stop the crying.
"You know something about partial possession right?" Theresa asked the sniffling Purple Dragon Oni, however it was Shirokuma that spoke.
'How do you know about partial possession?'
"Mizuwani partially possessed me so he can eat raw fish against my will earlier today." Theresa answered as she reminded herself to 'accidently' drop Mizuwani's trident in the dumpster.
Norrisville: Greg Gaming Hole
Theresa was busy playing one of the arcade games Greg's Gaming Hole has to offer, she was a little different than before, first of all, she was enjoying the arcade game despite three days she said she didn't like videogames for they were loud and annoying at best, and second of all, she was getting a high-score in that particular game for most of the high-scores were from her crush Randy Cunningham who considers himself quite the skilled-gamer when it comes to the arcade variety.
And Third of all she even looked different, her hair wasn't tied to a ponytail like usual, she actually let her hair run wild, making her look a lot more attractive with her long hair for her fits her a lot better than a random ponytail. Her eye color was purple and the pink highlight was removed entirely making her hair seem purely violet and nothing else, well, except for the violet-coloring more looking like just plain purple but that's only noticeable by the most observant of folk, and to top it all off, her voice even changed, being more lighter and almost childish in comparison to her normal voice.
"Hehe! This is to much fun Onee-chan! Thank you Onee-chan!" Kazeryu said as he was partially possessing Theresa as he went to another arcade machine and began to play that one with unbreakable childish enthusiasm. Theresa mentally smiled in response as she could not control her body, somewhat happy that she can at least make the Purple Dragon Oni happy.
'Fowler, Thank you for making Kazeryu-kun happy.' Shirokuma said knowing that Theresa could hear him and his surprisingly kind tone.
'Yeah, thank you for giving Dragon Baby a joy that is as annoying as a cicada.' Mizuwani said with a deadpan tone right before laughing in snarky glee.
As Kazeryu-controlled Theresa was busy playing his arcade, he felt someone tapping her shoulder, instinctively he turned around to see Randy Cunningham, something that made Theresa to gasp in response.
'Its him! its him!' Theresa exclaimed even though no one but Kazeryu could hear her.
"Hey Theresa, you look really bruce today...With the long hair and all." Randy said, he was almosy cutely stumbling with his words as he avoided eye contact with the Kazeryu-controlled girl.
'Don't screw this up Kazeryu! That's my crush and this is the first time he wanted to talk to me!' Theresa exclaimed, barely containing her excitement.
'Don't worry Onee-chan Your Kazeryu-kun got this!' Kazeryu said rather confidently.
"Really, I do?" Kazeryu answered as he innocently clasped his hands like a innocent school girl, the large guitar case on his back, an innocent school which Theresa is, if Kazeryu was being honest since he was his Onee-chan after all.
"Of course you do, its a lot better than before, no offense..." Randy said as a small blush appeared on his cheeks
"Oh! Thank you for noticing Randy-Sempai!" Kazeryu said as in Theresa's body he bowed to Randy politely. Something that Randy quickly reacted with a more pinker blush, despite not knowing what Sempai even means.
"I personally pretty myself like this so I ask you-sempai something..." Kazeryu said as he Randy a smile, Randy couldn't wait to hear the New Theresa's words despite her voice being lighter in pitch.
"Will you go on a date with me?" Kazeryu as Theresa, the answer was something that Theresa herself never thought would come out of Randy's mouth.
"Sure! Should we just meet here at three tomorrow?" Randy asked, surprisingly wanting a date from Theresa Fowler, the Oni-keeping Baton-twirling Violet-haired girl.
"Sounds wonderful Randy-Sempai, see you tomorrow!" Kazeryu said as he exit out of the arcade, when he did exit out of the arcade, he was met by silence by Theresa and the two Oni's
"Did I do good Onee-chan? Kuma-sama? Wani-san?" Kazeryu said wanting their approval as he went back to purgatory with a very faint puff of purple smoke, allowing Theresa to be herself again with her ponytail and pink highlight replacing her long highlight-less hair and in control of her body once again.
"You did amazing! Thank you Kazeryu-kun!" Theresa exclaimed happily as she spun around, happy that she finally got a date with her crush. Kazeryu giggled happily as this was the first time that his Onee-chan actually addressed like he would address her.
Authors Note: Alright, lets get to translating some names since you all may not know them and what the names mean.
First off Shirokuma = Polar Bear In Japanese, this is why Shirokuma has white fur on his armor and a bear paw as a belt buckle.
Kazeryu = a chopped version of Wind Dragon in Japanese, which explains his dragon motif and his electrical attacks but his childish nature is inspired by Taro the Dragon Boy.
Mizuwani = Water Gator in Japanese which explains Mizuwani's hunger for pleasure or for food.
And I'll just give you the name of the last of the Legendary Four Oni for kicks: Pīchigāru.
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