A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF YU GI OH 5DS OR PRINCESS MONONOKE! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS! THE ONLY THING I OWN ARE MY OCS!
Chapter 14: To The Battle
Jack and the others woke up to see the wolves and Yusei gone. They hurried out and looked around. They noticed one of the wolves, Haru, watching them from beyond the trees. They hurried up to him.
"What's going on?" Jack asked. "Where's Yusei?"
"Yusei is with our mother. Watching as the boars prepare their assault and as the humans prepare theirs," Haru explained. "You'd best stay in the cave until this is over. Or until you are needed. And if you are, Tsukiko will come get you. Yusei would not want you in this danger." He then took off, too fast for the humans to even hope of catching up or keeping track of where he went.
They looked around the area, thinking the Kodama might help them. But the entire forest was silent. It felt strange.
"I wonder where the Kodama went," Leo commented.
"I'm guessing Eboshi and her friends are scaring even them today," Crow suggested.
"Which is bad because even Yusei and Moro said they were the fearless spirits," Jack commented.
They then began to smell it. "Do you smell smoke, too?" Akiza asked. "Eboshi must be burning the Forest."
"Why, though?" Luna asked.
"Anger the boars," Crow realized. "It'll make them basically blind."
"I hope Yusei will be alright," Leo commented.
"If things go wrong, Tsukiko will come get us," Akiza assured. "But I'm afraid we won't make it in time."
. . .
Yusei arrived by his mother side with a spear in hand, hiding behind some trees that was on a ledge which overlooked the battleground. Some people were sending strange smoke into the air.
Yusei covered his nose a bit. "It stinks. And it burns my eyes."
"That's what they want," Moro told him. "They're trying to kill our sense of smell."
Yusei looked to see Eboshi walking up on the main cliff. "It's Eboshi." The woman looked in their direction. "She knows we're out here."
"It's a trap," Moro told him. "And a stupid one."
Yusei looked at his mother, a bit surprised. "What?"
"They're trying to lure the boars out of the forest," Moro explained. Yusei tensed in a bit of worry. "The humans are planning something."
"Then we have to find Okkoto while there's still time to stop him," Yusei told his mother. "Or else they'll all be killed!"
"Okkoto's too stubborn. He won't listen. None of them will," Moro responded. "They may even know it's a trap. The boars are a proud race. The last one left alive will still be charging blindly forward."
Yusei then noticed the trees getting chopped down. "Are they chopping the trees down to make the boars angry?"
"Yes. It makes them stupid," Moro replied.
Yusei planted his spear in the ground for a second. Yusei held Moro's head for a moment. "Mother, I have to go. Okkoto's blind. I have to be his eyes. You understand?"
"Do as you must," Moro permitted. "You know, Akiza wanted to share her life with you."
"It doesn't matter," Yusei told his mother. "I can be okay friends with a few, but I still hate all humans."
Haru came up and explained that Yusei's friends were at the caves until they are needed. Moro told them to stay with Yusei while she went to the Forest Spirit.
"We understand, Mother," Yusei told her while his wolf siblings nodded. He grabbed his spear and boarded Haru. "Let's go!"
They hurried off and joined the running horde of boars. They came next to a boar. Yusei called to it, "The Moro Tribe has come to fight with can I find Lord Okkoto?" It told him the location. "Thanks. Good luck, my friends."
The wolves then hurried off to get to Okkoto and kill Eboshi.