Chapter 17: Working As a Team (Part 2)
Norrisville High...Lunchroom.
Mizuwani charged at the Bighorner Oni with his trident pointing towards the Oni, the Bighorner Oni laughed and prepared itself to parry the trident, Mizuwani smiled and quickly strafed to the right of the Bighorner Oni and then swung his trident at one of the Bighorner's hoofs, causing the Oni to be sweped off the ground and then landing on the ground on it's back, it roared loudly as it quickly got up, Mizuwani then stabbed the clumsy but intimidating Bighorner Oni right in the right forearm, two of the prongs piercing the diseased flesh of the Bighorner Oni, Mizuwani growled loudly as he pulled out the trident causing the wounds to start bleeding a lot more than it was before.
The Bighorner Oni roared loudly as it swung its massive warhammer, unlike Shirokuma who was fully decked in armor, Mizuwani had very little so he was able to doged several of the Oni's hammer swings, Mizuwani jumped back to avoid an overhead hammer slam, then all of the sudden, Mizuwani's trident started to glow an aura of black, the Bighorner Oni was rather perplexed by this sudden aura of energy.
"Riptide...Slice!" Mizuwani shouted as he threw the energy aura hued trident at the Bighorner Oni with all the might he could muster, the Oni quickly blocked the trident with the end of it's warhammer, effectively blocking the trident...If the warhammer didn't shatter once the trident made contact with it.
"What!?" The Bighorner Oni exclaimed and then screamed in pain as the trident pierce the Oni's plagued flesh as the whole entire trident was stuck in the Bighorner's body, the pronged end completely going through its body and popping out of its back.
"Impossible!" the Bighorner Oni roared loudly as Mizuwani only glared in response, before the Bighorner Oni could try to pull the trident out of its body, Mizuwani ran up to the Oni with a noticeably loud growl and with a blue aura engulfing Mizuwani's right foot, before Mizuwani ended the Bighorner Oni's life, Mizuwani spoke to the Oni with a very honest and incredibly cold tone, greatly contrasting his usual voice and attitude.
"This is what happens...when you hurt...My Family!" Before the Bighorner could even react to the Blue Alligator Oni's words, Mizuwani roundhouse kick the trident causing the streams of watery-blue energy to connect to the trident, the Bighorner screeched in pain as the humanoid beast fell to the ground on its back, Mizuwani quickly moved away from the Oni and after several seconds, the Bighorner Oni exploded in an explosion of blue and white, after the smoke dissipated, the remains of the Bighorner was notihing but ash and Mizuwani's trident, Mizuwani scoffed loudly as he seemed to calm down.
As Mizuwani picked up his trident he quickly turned to Randy struggling to fight the Rattlesnake Oni.
'Are you alright Mizuwani?' Theresa asked in Purgatory, Mizuwani sighed loudly and nodded quietly.
"Is Kazeryu okay?" Mizuwani asked, wanting to know if the Purple Dragon Oni was okay after being attacked by both the Rattlesnake Oni and the Bighorner Oni.
'He's Recovering...Don't Worry Mizu..." Pichigaru said with a reassuring tone, Mizuwani was silent for a moment, its quite clear that he's bothered by Kazeryu's damaged well-being and Shirokuma's as well.
"Are you sure?" Mizuwani said, his mood and voice being clearly different than it was beforehand.
'Don't worry Mizu...He's okay...He's being treated by Pichigaru...And you know how well she is when it comes to healing...' Shirokuma reassured
"Hey!" Mizuwani shouted to the Rattlesnake Oni who was entangling and coiling Randy with its tail, the Rattlesnake Oni turned its head to the Blue Alligator Oni and hissed loudly in a rather intimidating manner.
"Don't come any closer! Or the Ninja and these two Lovelies will feel the sweet embrace of death!" the Rattlesnake Oni as it pointed its sword at the two blonde twins who were cowering in fear, Mizuwani glared and growled as he stood his ground.
"Put down your weapon Traitor and I will let the one of the lovelies leave with their lives intact!" The Rattlesnake Oni said as it inched it's blade closer to the blonde bandgeeks, Mizuwani was silent for a moment, before anyone in Purgatory could give their say on what to do, Mizuwani dropped his trident on the ground, the trident making a noticeably loud clang sound as it hit the floor.
"Thank you..." The Rattlesnake Oni said rather kindly right before spinning around and then uncoiling Randy causing Randy to be essentially thrown in Mizuwani's way, Mizuwani quickly caught Randy who was unconscious agaig, Mizuwani dropped him on the ground right before grabbing his trident off the ground and charging to the Rattlesnake Oni, the Rattlesnake shot a long stream of venom at Mizuwani, Miuzwani quickly tipped his conical hat down, causing the hat to block the stream of neon green venom but inadvertently destroying the front of Mizuwani's conical hat.
Mizuwani jumped up and prepared to do a overhead strike but was quickly slammed down to the floor by the tail of the Rattlesnake Oni, Mizuwani spat out blood due to the pure force of the tail slamming onto him and then by the impact of the floor, his chest armor is now cracked and broken and now his hat is barely covering his face, the Rattlesnake Oni laughed before redirecting its attention to Lyra and Cassie.
"You two are next!" The Rattlesnake Oni, Cassie and Lyra screamed in terror in response, the Rattlesnake Oni roared loudly as it prepared to swing its sword down to Cassie in particular to permanently end her.
"NO!" Mizuwani yelled, the others in Purgatory had similar reactions, Cassie's necklace started to glow an aura of green, Lyra's necklace also started to glow an aura but it was red just like the color of a ruby and it was bit more faint, neither Lyra or Cassie notice the sudden glow of the necklaces but it was the lying and pained Mizuwani that notice this illumination.
Cassie's body was instantly covered in a aura of green, Lyra noticed this real quick, the Rattlesnake Oni swung its sword to Cassie, before Cassie could get slashed by the Rattlesnake Oni's sword, a green flash of light occurred, causing the Rattlesnake Oni to be dazed by the sudden flash and thus completely missing its sword swing, after the flash of light dissipated, what appeared instead of Cassie was a surprising sight to see especially to her twin sister Lyra.
It was an Oni or at least Mizuwani thinks it was an Oni, it was about six feet tall and its physique was similar to Mizuwani being akin to a young athlete's form rather Shirokuma's ogre-like physical form, its skin is pitch-black like Miuzwani or Shirokuma and in some cases Kazeryu, its head wore a mask of a traditional but demonic Japanese Kabuki mask, half of the mask being green and the other half being red and more menacing looking, all with a black base to compliment its skin, the Oni had horns as well, having a large red horn on the red side of its mask and having a smaller green one of the green of its mask, it wore green large boots with red bangles on the boots ankles, it wore green metal gantlets with red outlines and patterns, it wore a gold shoulder pad with a large spike on top on its right shoulder and another gold shoulder pad on his left shoulder, this shoulder pad lacks the red spike but supplements it with a small yellow spike instead.
It wore a green chest plate that had red outlines and a large collar, it wore a tasset that had green metal plates, covering the sides of its thighs and loin with green armor, covering the tasset however was a red with gold outlines sash, and to top it all off, the Oni had two sheathed and holstered green maces strapped to its back.
The Oni was silent for a moment, the Rattlesnake and the Blue Alligator Oni was also silent, Cassie was also silent and the others in Purgatory were rather silent as well, the Oni blinked for a moment before he popped his neck with his thumb and then spoke with a noticeably very reserved and calm tone, his voice greatly contrasting his appearance.
'''Let me say this to start...I must protect my new master at all costs...''' The Oni said as Rattlesnake Oni roared loudly in response to the appearance of the Oni, Cassie was a bit taken aback by the fact that her sister was basically replaced by this monster, her jaw dropped and her eyes widen.
'''For I am Deneb...Oni of the beautiful art of Kabuki...''' The Red and Green Oni now known as Deneb said with a noticeably loud scoff and then all of the sudden, Japanese-style fans appeared in his hands in puffs of smoke followed by the ironic sudden sound of a rattlesnake tail rattle, something that confused the Rattlesnake Oni but nevertheless spoke to the Red and Green Oni
"A Lovelies turning into an Oni? How quaint!" the Rattlesnake Oni hissed as it point its sword at the Red and Green Oni, the Red and Green Oni only responded by getting into a battle stance, more specifically a stance of that of a powerful martial artist as he placed the random fans behind the sash that was covering Deneb's green tasset, the Green and Red Oni didn't even bother to unsheathe his pair of maces to battle the Rattlesnake assailant.
The Rattlesnake hissed loudly as it swung its scimitar to Deneb, Deneb quickly dodged the sword and in response kicked the Rattlesnake away from Cassie and Mizuwani, before the Rattlesnake could spit out some venom it was quickly struck by an uppercut from Deneb, the Rattlesnake Oni was struck by another kick and then a palm strike from the poised and calm Deneb.
'''Aren't you going to help me...Vega?''' Deneb asked as he turned around to look at Lyra, Lyra's necklace glowed even more so than before, the ruby being hued in an aura of red, a red flash of light occurred, Lyra screamed in response as she was taken to Purgatory, after the flash dissipated, an Oni appeared instead of Lyra.
This Oni was different when your comparing to Deneb or Mizuwani, it was seven feet tall, its skin was black but it was sort of hard to tell when the Oni was completely covered in bronze armor and chainmail, it wore large bronze boots and gantlets with protruding spikes, it wore large knight-like shoulderpads with one large spike protruding out of the armor, its chest armor is akin to a knight as well, it had a heavily-plated tasset that covered its leg, its helmet was akin to a bronze gladiator helm with three horns protruding out of the helm, and to top it all off, it had a bronze seven-stringed lyre strapped to its back and large scorpion-like claws on its gantlets.
The Oni known as Vega was silent for a moment as the Rattlesnake Oni screeched loudly due to the fact that now it has to deal with another traitor Oni, Vega cracked his knuckles before he spoke with a somber voice.
"-Don't worry Deneb...Being the Oni of music...I'm always a couple steps ahead...-" Vega said as he glanced at the lying and defeated Mizuwani.
"Alright...Theresa...Can you please tag in for me?...I really need Pichigaru's magic touch..." Mizuwani said with his usual smug but nevertheless honest tone.
'Your okay now? You don't want to go on a rampage or anything like that?' Theresa asked with the same smug but honest tone, Mizuwani laughed in response, going back to his usual self instead of what he was when the Bighorner Oni was still alive.
"Yeah...The Ram Oni is dead... Kazeryu is avenged...I'm bleeding internally, and it hurts like hell to laugh..." Mizuwani said as he disappeared in a puff of blue smoke, Theresa then appeared Mizuwani's spot in a puff of smoke/
The two good Oni quickly charged to the Rattlesnake Oni, the Rattlesnake Oni was quickly overwhelmed by the violent scorpion claws of Vega and the punches and kicks of Deneb, Deneb quickly unsheathed his two maces revealing that the head of his maces are made of pure jade, he quickly struck the Rattlesnake Oni away from him and Vega, Deneb's maces quickly glowed an aura of black as he prepared his final attack.
"No! Thats the same thing that killed my comrade!" The Rattlesnake Oni said, Deneb and Vega only nodded in response, Deneb quickly ran up to the Rattlesnake Oni and before the Oni could scream, Deneb quickly swung both of his maces at the same time causing the Rattlesnake Oni to scream in pain as the green cudgels made contact with the Oni's chest, causing the Rattlesnake Oni to go flying back and into the lunchroom wall causing the Rattlesnake Oni to explode in an explosion of green and red.
'''That...Was refreshing...''' Deneb said after the smoke and fire dissipated, the remains of the Rattlesnake Oni being nothing but smoke and ash.