Heys! Its day…dangit…:opens last chapter to see what day this one is:
KAY I GOT IT.
(Its after midnight now on march thirtieth. Hopefully ill have fifteen posted later today…as in this afternoon. SORRY GUYS but it looks like another day without chappie fifteen. My pologies. (yes no A in it)
Its now ten am and Im hopefully going to get at least half of this chapter done today. I got three fourths done but now it's the thirty first. I really want to get this done to make up for my huge HUGE HUGE HUGEHUGE gap from the last chapter.)
SORRY this is so late but I got chappie fifteen posted on April third. This should be posted around the tenth or twelfth. Im nearly done with it so it should be up on time unlike my HUGE-O gap I had between fourteen and fifteen.
I am proud to say I have a couple ideas but I still need more so don't abandon me now. Still Im not sure who Mara is going with but hopefully that'll end soon. Only TWO more chapters before this epic is over. Amazing huh? Yeah I know.
WOW I need some major ideas. I've been stuck for a while and its now August third. Im so sorry for the long wait but hopefully I can get this done soon, start on seventeen, the battle chapter and yeah. Wish me luck and PLEASE help Chippy and I with this! We're running on empty for ideas.
WEDNESDAY DAY TWELVE
ON TO THE EPIC STORY
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Dai woke up at eight the next morning feeling refreshed and smiled down at the sleeping blunette beside him. He lightly shook Satoshi's shoulder and kissed his cheek as a good morning hello.
"Hey Satoshi. Its morning."
He just sat there for half an hour as Satoshi woke up. "Morning sleeping beauty."
Satoshi smiled. "That's my line."
Dai smiled at him. "You want to know something I just thought of?"
"Sure." Satoshi sat up and wrapped an arm around Dai's waist.
"Yesterday, you told me I could feel your wings and I STILL didn't get to."
Satoshi laughed at that. He had expected something serious about the upcoming fights but not that.
"You surprised me with that one, Dai. I thought you would say something about Kei or our magic. You just keep surprising me."
"That's just one of my quirks."
Satoshi smiled and ruffled Dai's hair. "I guess its time we got up, ne?"
"Yeah, I guess."
They stood up and grabbed clothes to change into. Neither cared that the other was in the room as they changed.
"Should we wake everyone else up?" Dai asked as they stepped out into the living room area.
"Ill let you take Dark, Krad and Mara." Satoshi said smirking.
"Oh great I get the weird ones." Dai pouted.
"They're such a joy to wake though." Satoshi said smiling happily.
"Buuuuuut…"
"But what, Dai?"
Dai pouted. "When do I get to feel your wings?" He whined out.
Satoshi chuckled. "Later."
"When later?"
"When we have to summon them."
Dai sighed heavily, dramatically. "Fine."
"Now go wake THEM." He said smiling down at Dai then ruffled his hair. "I need to wake the bunnies and check on Mio."
"Yep. I definitely see the plus to waking Dark and Krad. No places I might accidentally see, no…"
Satoshi interrupted with wide eyes. "Im going to what?!"
"Oh nothing. No cranky females for having to do watch,…"
Satoshi interrupted again. "You implied they had sex again didn't you?"
"Well you said I wasn't allowed to say sex."
"You just love finding ways around it don't you?"
Dai spoke in a sing-song voice. "Its one of my quuuuiiirks."
"And I never got you back from the water incident. Now I have to add the whole tease with the lollipop scene, saying sex,…" Dai walked off as Satoshi rambled at how much he owed Dai.
"See ya later Satoshi." He said smiling, getting Satoshi's attention just as he started through the magic doorway to Dark and Krads new rooms.
Dai stepped quietly into the bedroom, seeing Mara sleeping against the wall almost like she was scared to turn her back to Dark. He shook her shoulder lightly and chuckled when she smacked it away.
"Morning…what did Satoshi call you…" He leaned away from Mara as he thought. "Ma-kun? No. Ma-dono? No. Ma-sama? No. Ma-san? No. AH! I remember…finally." He bent back down by Mara's ear. "Morning Ma-chan."
Mara opened an eye at Dai and snickered. "Took you long enough. Sheesh I could have fallen back asleep by the time you came up with it."
Dai glared slightly at her. "Should I leave you in the same room as Dark?"
She waved her hands in front of her. "No thanks. Id much prefer to keep my brain intact."
"That's what I thought." Dai smiled and bounced up. "Its time to wake them."
Dai skipped across the room to Dark and Krads bed then smiled when he saw them. He shushed Mara and ran out of the room to get Takeshi's camera and came running quietly back within a minute.
Mara quirked an eyebrow at him and he put a finger to his lips as he crept up beside the bed. He got into position and raised the camera.
FBRRRRRRRRRT (the kind of camera that pops the picture out..a…uh…kodak camera? Idk)
Neither Dark or Krad moved. Obviously they were deep sleepers if they didn't move though the noise.
Dai decided to take a chance and take another picture. He moved to the foot of the bed and raised the camera again.
FBRRRRRRRRRT
"Okay. Sheesh." Mara said from the other side of the room. "Wake em up already."
FBRRRRRRRRRT FBRRRRRRRRRT
Dai took two more pictures then went to wake the two 'angels'. He shook Krads shoulder, being the one on the closest edge of the bed.
Krads eyes opened slightly then completely when he realized he was being spooned and tightly at that. "Oh…my…holy crap…no."
Krad pulled away from Dark in a flurry of sheets but Darks arms tightened as he woke up to it. The blond pulled one more time and went tumbling into the floor in a shower of sheets and a blanket.
Dark looked over the edge of the bed at Krad. "Kraddy, everything okay?"
FBRRRRRRRRRRT
Krads head shot around to look at Dai. "Wha…YOU TOOK A PICTURE!?"
"Time to go." Dai said quickly. "See ya."
He was out running and was halfway to his room when it clicked in the threes heads what he had said. "Obviously…Even though you wont kill him, you still scare him." Mara said with a slight chuckle.
"Ill get him for that though." Krad growled as he got up off the floor.
"Aw, but it probably was a good picture."
"…er…" Mara said quietly.
"What?" Dark asked.
"He took more than one."
"WHAT?!" Krad yelled. "DAISUKE NIWA IM GOING TO GET YOU!"
The three of them vaguely heard a squeak. They knew Dai was in for something before the end of the day.
It took Dark nearly ten minutes to calm Krad down and by the time they walked into the living area of Dai and Satoshi's rooms it was nine. At the sight of Dai, Krad tried to make a grab for him.
Dark pinned Krads arms behind his back as Dai hid behind Satoshi with a squeak. Satoshi raised an eyebrow, trying to understand what was going on but none of them explained.
"Dai, whats going on?" He asked, pulling Dai out from behind him.
Dai handed him a picture…well five pictures…and hid behind him again. Satoshi looked through them and chuckled.
He looked up at Dark and Krad. "You two make a cute couple."
"Ooo. Let me see." Dark said, letting Krad go.
Bad idea. Very bad idea.
Once he was let go, Krad made a leap for Dai. Dai 'Eep'-ed and began running around the room with Krad on his tail.
"Help! Someone? Anyone?" Dai called as he hurdled a couch. "Come on!"
Everyone else was too into the pictures he took. They seemed unaware of Dai being chased by Krad.
A gust of wind came through the balcony and everyone stopped, Dai going into a defensive position. Mio walked through the door and looked at everyone confused.
"Whats up?"
"Why were you out there?"
"I was doing watch."
"Out there?"
"Yeah. It seemed easier to do it that way." She sat on a couch.
Everyone went back to what they were doing but Dai kept watching her even as Krad threw a punch at him. He didn't even look at Krad as he blocked the kicks and punches.
When the others were bored with the pictures, they turned their attention to Dai and Krad. Krad still hadn't landed a hit on Dai and was becoming winded.
"Oh come on, Krad-o. I've known martial arts since I was four. I have you beat on this." Krad growled almost like an animal.
"Dai," Dark warned. "I think he's reverting to his old self since he's mad."
"And that means?" Dai said as his eyes went to Dark.
"He's going to try to cheat."
"You just don't want me to win do you, Krad-o? Sheesh your such a sore loser."
"Dai Id recommend you stop fooling around." Dark said.
"What? I cant have fun?"
"Dai."
"Come on, Dark. You know I can handle myself."
"Not when he summons his magic." He tried to warn.
Like Dark said, Krad summoned his magic. To everyones amazement, before Krad could fully summon his feather, Dai went into the offensive.
He kicked out, landing a kick to Krads stomach. Another kick went in and hit Krads upper arm of his summoning hand.
Before long, Krad had to give up summoning and go into the defensive from the flurry of kicks Dai was sending at him. Dai soon began to really use his martial arts training and switched from hand to foot hits so fluidly Krad was left to just try to block.
Dai did a front flip and kicked Krad in the stomach and sent him flying a few feet back. When he landed, he stalked over to Krad, who was on the floor.
"Trust me Krad," Dai growled out. "I know martial arts better than you. That last kick, if I wanted to, could have crushed your breastbone and in turn crushed your heart. I recommend you don't try that again." He stuck a hand out to help Krad out.
Krad grabbed his hand and flipped him over his shoulder. Dai flipped over Krad then flipped himself back upright with his free left hand.
When Dai turned back around, Krad was standing too. Both crouched in defensive positions and waited for the other to move.
"Er…Anyone know Dai was so deadly?" Satoshi asked.
"No." Mara said softly.
"Hmph. No." Mio said, ignoring the fight.
"Dark?" Satoshi asked the stunned 'angel'.
Dark shook his head in wonder. "No. I never knew he knew half of this. I'm amazed he is keeping up with Krad. I could barely stay with him when he attacked me in his animal like stage. Dai's keeping up and surpassing him."
"Martial arts is like second nature to Dai like magic is to you and Krad." Satoshi said, patting his shoulder, then pulled him down when Krad went flying from a kick. "I recommend we move out of the way."
"I agree. They need to get this out of their systems anyway. If they don't, it'll just get in the way…" Dark ducked. "Like we are."
Soon it was a common sight to see Krad get hit somehow. The blond was getting beaten down and every time he tried to summon a feather Dai would kick him even harder to distract him.
It was nearing ten when Dai glared fully at Krad. "Stop summoning. You'll hurt yourself before long, Krad." He was serious.
Krad wouldn't listen. He tried to summon again.
Dai shot forward. "Nine pulse block."
He hit both Krads temples, the spot on either side of his neck where the pulse could be felt, then both upper arms, upper thighs, and finally above Krads heart. After that, Dai stood still.
"You cant summon your magic now, Krad." Dai said softly.
He was right. Krad tried to summon his feather and nothing happened.
It seemed that took away Krads angry animal like nature. He stood still and looked at Dai.
"What did you do?" He asked quietly.
"I used an ancient technique to block your magic channels. It wont allow you to summon any kind of magic. I would have to go back and do the nine pulse gate. The gate hits spots across your back and opens the 'gates' I blocked. Either that or wait twelve hours for it to wear off."
"Okay, raise your hand if you knew that existed." Mara said.
No hands went up. "That's because no one is supposed to know." Dai said. "Its to only be used in emergencies. If you kept trying to summon and I continued to block you, Krad, you know what would happen right?"
"It would slowly build up in that area and backfire, hurting or killing me."
"Now you see why I had to do it?" Krad nodded.
There was an awkward silence then Mara broke it. "Who wants food?"
Dark's face lightened up. "I thought you'd never ask."
"Ill get some food for everyone." Mara said. "Dark, stay away from the fridges."
"Aw man." Dark pouted then pulled Krad down beside him on the blue couch.
Satoshi, Dai, and Mara sat on the red couch while Mio Dark and Krad sat on the other to eat their lunches in silence. No one said anything, afraid it might start another fight, through out the whole brunch, having missed breakfast.
Dai turned to Satoshi a little later. "Where's Takeshi and Sekimoto?"
"I tried to wake the idiots but the retard decided to try to flash me so I left."
Dark was howling in laughter. "He tried to flash you?" Dai asked, thinking flash usually meant…you know…boobs.
"His lower extremities." He explained.
"That's Takeshi." Dai said chuckling. "Im glad he never did that to me."
"Daisuke," Krad said a bit nervously for attacking Dai. "I heard you say you had the birds coming every night. One didn't come yesterday, did it?"
"No." Dai said with a sigh.
"Dai?" Dark asked. "You know something we don't. What is it?"
"Satoshi and I think we might know who the spy is."
"Ooh. Who?" Mara said excitedly.
"We're not saying until we know." Satoshi said firmly.
"I wonder how I can get ahold of Kulrie." Dai said to himself.
"Kulrie?" Dark and Krad asked, confused.
"An eagle that only likes Dai." Satoshi explained. "I'd say ask Luncia, but we can figure out ourselves."
Dai ignored him. "Ive got it. You can speak Parivitei. You can call for him."
"I can speak what?"
Dark decided to explain, since Emiko was the one to teach Dai about it, so he knew it too. "An ancient bird language that all birds know. One thing." He turned to Dai. "Only birds can speak and not the bird watchers. Dai." He warned.
"It's a precaution, Dark." Dai said firmly.
Dark didn't look convinced. "Whatever. I trust you, little buddy."
Dai smiled cutely at him. "Thank you."
Satoshi knew what Dai wanted him to do so he went out on the banister and began calling for Kulrie. Dai began telling everyone something to do in preparation.
"Dark, Krad, would you two mind continuing to put the 'help' together?" He implied the bombs and things.
"Sure." Krad said as Dark nodded.
"Mio, Mara, I'd like for you two to scout some then in a few hours you can sleep, Mio. I want the two of you to find Luncia and Kunil. Bring the both of them to me. Ill talk to Takeshi and Sekimoto in a few minutes about what Id like for them to do today. Dark, when Satoshi's done calling for Kulrie, for right now I need him to just watch over everything because I might not be back for a while."
Dark nodded to Dai as he walked over to the counter where the complete bombs and things were packed in bags with foam to keep them from hitting. He picked up a few bags then headed for Takeshi and Sekimoto's room.
"Ill be back later. Its finally time to start setting up." He said sternly. "It seems the sea of events have lead up to this."
With that he started down the steps to the others room. Mio and Mara left a few minutes later.
Satoshi walked back into the room looking flushed. "That is one of the most embarrassing things ever in my life."
"Why?" Krad asked smoothly.
"I was standing out there for ten minutes cawing like I was completely insane. You try that and tell me you don't feel like a complete retard."
"No thanks." Krad said smirking at Satoshi. "Daisuke asked us to tell you that you're in charge of the fort until he returns."
"Okay. What did he say he was doing?"
"Heh. He said and I quote 'Its finally time to start setting up'. Oh man that kid is going to get a kick out of this fight, isn't he?"
"Kraddy, I think so. Dai always liked…"His eyes widened into what looked like dinner plates. "Oh. Dear. Mother. Of all things great and powerful."
He looked on the verge of fainting. "Whats got your knickers in a twist?" Krad asked.
"Dai always liked…And he has…And we're…And they are…There with…" He swallowed heavily. "Mommy."
"What are you saying, Dark?" Satoshi was getting a bit peeved at not understanding.
Dark took a deep breath. "Dai would watch movie and laugh at the explosions and…and he has bombs now. REAL bombs. If we're not killed by the bad guys…We're screwed."
That was when a loud explosion came from outside. Dai flew down a few seconds later, smiling manically.
"Oopsy. Sorry bout that. It just, you know, slipped and I had to stop it before it hit the ground. Well gotta go. Lots to do, you know?" With that he was gone.
Dark and Satoshi looked to one another. "We're screwed." They said together.
"Anyone else think that this is a very bad idea to let Dai put those things in place?" Satoshi asked a bit pale.
Krad laughed. "Oh, I like this Daisuke. He's funny." He fell into peals of laughter again.
"They're both insane." Dark said shaking his head.
"Just think," Satoshi said. "Dai's the one to stop Kei. I actually think I might feel sorry for Kei."
"I don't." Krad said as he finally stopped laughing. "Deserves every…whatever Daisuke does to him. Im just glad Im not him."
"Arent we all? Arent we all?" Satoshi shook his head.
By noon, Mio had returned and went to Takeshi and Sekimoto's rooms to sleep. When Mara returned, she looked a bit stressed and was alone.
She sat on one of the couches to wait for Dai's return when a bird and the two Nauthgil flew into the room. Kunil grabbed Luncia's arms before she could do anything then pinned her down and pushed her onto the couch.
His normally happy face was taut and cold. "I need someone to find the gray warrior. Now." He commanded.
Mara jumped up and ran for the door to get Dai. "Mara," Dark called, stopping her. "He's on the roof but be careful."
She was gone, running up the stairs for Dai. Dark turned to the Nauthgil and looked at both of them as Luncia twisted, trying to free herself.
Not five minutes later, Dai and Mara returned. He was covered in roofing and what looked like gun powder but had a collected face as he walked in.
"Kunil, Luncia." He nodded to each then took a seat across from Luncia on the red couch. "Why is that needed?" He pointed to Kunil holding Luncia down.
"Grazmash and Machmul had left to look at a different camp and left me took watch what we believed to be the main one. Ladies Mio and Mara had contacted me about two hours ago and as I watched for a couple more minutes I saw her," He shook Luncia slightly. "Walk freely into the camp. I sent Kulrie down to the top of the tent to listen. He came back and told me that she telling Him everything she knew about you."
Dai looked angrily at Luncia. "I gave you a chance to avenge your fallen comrades but no, you turn on whats left of your family."
"They were never my family." She spat out. "I came from a cousin branch and had the rare gene in me."
"Put her in the bedroom then guard the door. The window is too small for her to escape. Guard the window too, so she cant call a bird to her."
Mio had come up during the last thing Dai said. "Whats going on?"
Kunil gasped, remembering. "She spoke of her too."
Dai turned to him. "What?"
"Kulrie told me that she was a spy too."
"Im a what? How can I be a spy?"
"You want to know how?" Luncia spat out. "When I," Kunil covered her mouth at the bad word. "Cked you. When you fell asleep I put a chip on you."
"Put her in the room. Mara, Mio, Dark I need you to ward the window and door. I don't want her getting away."
After Luncia was put in the room everyone sat down and Dai began questioning Kunil. "We didn't receive a bird yesterday. What news?"
"From what we have heard, He plans an attack tomorrow in the glade about a mile in the woods. He's planning a scouting mission tonight. Four or so dozen artworks are to land at the same time on the roof and come down the stairs to your door." He frowned when Dai's face broke into a smile, a devious smile.
"Oh how good. Fireworks on the first fight." He chuckled in a really creepy evil sounding laugh.
Kunil looked confused while everyone backed up from Dai. "What is going on?"
"Don't worry about the scouting group. They'll be easily taken care of." Dai said smirking.
"How?"
"Lets just say Im prepared. Now what else have your heard?"
"He will come personally tomorrow with your family and classmates to try to keep you from fighting as long as he can. I used an ancient bird trick to keep Luncia from telling Him your real elements. He thought that your elements are different. Now he believes you," He pointed at Dark. "Are affiliated with the ground. You," He pointed at Satoshi. "Are the water. You," He pointed at Krad. "Are the darkness. I barely kept the trick up long enough for her to say it. It worked though."
Dai stood and walked to the corner and picked up the towa no shirube. "Towa."
Out popped a small looking girl in a maids outfit. "Yes Daisuke?" She asked in a squeaky high pitched voice. "How can I help?"
Dai chuckled evilly, making even Towa a bit nervous. "I have a mission for you Towa."
"What is it?"
"You and the," He shivered at the memory of the painting. "Shade weavers are companions, right?"
"Yeah."
"I need you to summon them and…Hmm…"
"Even though Im not sure what the Shade weavers are," Satoshi said. "Why not get her to summon those ant things. God those things are weird."
"Kiri satsubi?" Towa asked (I so made up that name yah.)
"Yeah." Dai said. "Summon them and the shade weavers and go to the clearing in the forest a mile into the woods. Set up an ambush spot. After a while Ill send some more work to help you and some," He pulled a bomb out of his pocket. "Inspiration."
Towa gulped. "Okay."
"Dai," Satoshi reached out. "Put the bomb down. Lightly."
Dai's shoulders slumped. "I cant have any fun."
Krad busted out laughing. "Oh, hah I like him."
"Wait a second." Everyone stopped. "The chip Mio."
She gulped. "Ill let you do whatever AFTER you put the bomb down."
"Party Pooper." Dai murmured. "Okay." He tossed the bomb to Krad, who fumbled but caught it. "Sit down and pull your hair out of the way."
Mio sat on the red couch and did as Dai told her. He immediately found the chip and began to slowly send his magic into it, overloading the data and in turn making it malfunction.
After a couple minutes, he pulled the chip off Mio's neck and tossed it out the window. "Your fine now."
Before Mio spoke, the forward team, Towa and them, flew out the window. Mio stood up and nodded to Dai.
"I think that thing was suppressing my emotions while Kei tried to force some other emotions on me."
Dai nodded. "That could happen. Now that we know who our spy is, we can plan even further."
"What else do you have planned, Dai?" Dark asked amazed at how far Dai had planned already.
"I need at least two of you to go up to the roof while Takeshi and Sekimoto set up and put a magic barrier on the roof to keep it from caving when our…fireworks go off. I hope none of you mind chunks in your fireworks."
Kunil still looked confused as Dai continued on. He didn't understand why Dai kept talking about fireworks.
"Ill go up." Krad said a bit trepidly.
"You cant Krad."
"Why?"
"You're going to buy a few more things for me."
"Ill go up." Dark said fast.
"Okay."
"Ill go." Mio said calmer.
"Good. That leaves Satoshi, Me, Kunil, Krad, and Mara. Krad you'll be going to the store, Satoshi and Mara I need you to keep making our help. Kunil I need you to go back out and scout with Kulrie. Tonight Ill need all three of you and Kulrie to be back here. I don't want to lose any of you. Call as many birds as you can. Get them to land in the trees nearby. I want as much help as I can."
"That we can do. I know a very…testy clan of vultures that want to help."
Dai smiled. "Good."
Everything became rushed as everyone went off to do as Dai said. By one, it had calmed down again and Dai was walking to the roof to check the progress.
When he opened the door, there was yelling. He chuckled as he stepped out on the area that wasn't covered in bombs yet.
"…Out of my way!" Takeshi yelled at Mio.
"I have to protect this roof or you'll be a pancake in the morning."
Dark was laughing at them while Sekimoto was in a different section of the roof still laying bombs. "Oh, Dai!" Sekimoto called. "I have a problem."
"Whats that?"
"We still have a third of the roof to do and we're running out of bombs."
"More bombs coming up."
Dai left and went into his and Satoshi's room. "Satoshi, Mara They need more bombs upstairs."
"Got it." Mara called.
"Dai, we're running low on canisters and all the ingredients for smoke screens."
Dai grabbed his paper to Krad and started to write him.
: Krad-o
: Since your still out I need you to pick up more canisters for bombs and two more pounds of each ingredient for smoke screens.
:
Dai looked up to Satoshi and Mara. "Anything else running low?"
"Nope."
: Daisuke
: I should be able to get them soon. I have the bows and arrows you asked for, the lighter fluid, lighters, perfume whats with that one, rope, nets, a lot of pepper, lots of super glue, fifty bottles of baby oil…anything else I forgot? I have a little bit of my back still intact.
:
Dai chuckled. He felt bad but he had to add more to the list.
: Sorry Krad but theres more.
I need you to get ten or so thick I mean it THICK sheets of metal about four feet wide and tall, two dozen or so thick pieces of PVC piping four feet long, nails soldering (say as: sŏdʹər) gun and solder, two padlocks and four heavy duty hinges. Ill send Dark out to help you get those.
Thanks.
:
Dai smiled the walked over to Satoshi. "Krad should be back with everything in a couple hours."
"Alright. Heres about what was it Mara? Eighteen?" She nodded. "Eighteen more bombs."
"Thanks." Dai took then lightly and headed up for the roof.
On the roof, Dark and Mio were don't putting the barrier up and were sitting against the stair well watching the other two put the bombs down. Dai chuckled lightly and stepped out.
"I have more bombs." He handed half to Takeshi and half to Sekimoto. "Dark I need you to go out and help Krad. Theres some heavier things I needed and I nominated you to help him. Mio, you can come back down. Ill probably need you to go help the forwards and set up out there. Before that Ill need your help putting something together but that's when Dark and Krad get back."
Dark summoned his wings and flew down to the sidewalk then began walking to where Krad was. Mio then followed Dai back down to the room where Satoshi and Mara were busy making more help.
"Until Dark and Krad get back, Mio and I'll help you two. When they do return we'll be down on the beach." The other two nodded.
Dai started to fill the needles up with the sleeping stuff while Mio made bombs that made an area dark and Satoshi and Mara continued on the lowered provisions to make the light bombs and the normal bombs.
It was nearing two thirty when Dark and Krad returned. Dai had written Krad telling him to leave the soldering gun, solder, hinges, padlocks, piping and sheet metal on the beach.
"Mio, time to go down to the beach." Dai said as he stood up. "Satoshi you might want to plug your ears. They'll be whining."
Satoshi just smiled at Dai and kissed his cheek. "Go on. Ill take care of the whiners."
Mara made an almost 'aww'-ing sound as she continued working. She loved how cute Dai and Satoshi were together.
Dai smiled at Satoshi then took off out of the balcony. He landed in the sand close to the forest to no be seen and waited for Mio.
"So, whats with with all this stuff?" Mio asked.
"We're going to make cages. We're going to solder three pieces as sides, one for each top and bottom, then the last side will be mad up of the piping close together. twelve pipes on each cage."
"Good plan."
"The side opposite the PVC will be the door. Heavy duty hinges and padlocks."
"So who will they be for?"
"Whoever we catch. And just in case they try to get out, the whole inside will be coated with baby oil, and the one rare artwork Im so grateful for will put up an anti-magic field. Hopefully we'll catch the most dangerous bad guys."
"Good planning."
From his and Satoshi's rooms, Dai could hear Dark whining about how heavy everything was. He snickered and began making everything.
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"I cant believe how much that stuff weighs!" Dark whined as he rubbed his sore back.
"Try carrying it as long as I did." Krad said darkly (urgh pun. I didn't mean pun)
"What does Dai want with half of this?" Dark asked confused as he dug through bags. "Lighters, lighter fluid, bows, perfume, arrows, nets, a ten pound bag of pepper, rope, fifty bottles of baby oil, nearly that much super glue…this is crazy. Im really getting the feeling that Dai is going to over do this and we wont get much fun out of it."
"We'll see." Krad said as he handed a fifty pound bag of gun powder and a holy crap load bunch of canisters to Satoshi. "I decided to get more powder. It was half off. Couldn't resist."
"This is going to be one crazy fight." Satoshi said. "Who ever gets passed all of this is going to be running with their tail between their legs."
"If they have a tail left." Krad said with a snicker. "I think Im going to enjoy this fight." He paused.
"Why didn't Dai ever help me like this preparation for when you were coming, Kraddy?"
"Easy." Satoshi said as he kept making the darkness makers.
"And whats the answer?"
"He didn't want to hurt us. Even though he didn't like us he didn't want us seriously injured. You and Krad and I may have me enemies but Dai wasn't really a part of it like I was. He saw no reason to hurt us severely."
"Oh." Dark said as he decided to help make the smoke screens.
Krad was making the bombs and Mara was making the light bombs. When they stopped to eat an hour later, Dai and Mio had returned after hiding the cages and making a few of the 'help'.
"Time for food!" Dark called happily.
"You aren't getting anywhere near the fridges." Mio said.
"Dangit." He pouted. "So Dai…You going to tell us whats all of this for?"
"Aw come on. Don't tell me you don't trust me?"
"That was a long time ago." Takeshi said in the doorway. "We finished prep-ing the roof for…fireworks."
Dai chuckled as Mio and Mara handed out food. "Good good. I cant wait."
"For what?" Krad asked.
"Anybody see how the powder had different colors in it?"
(That whole powder thing may not be right. Im not sure that's right at all but eh it my story. My story means I got at least a little bit of lienency, right? Hope so. Back to the story now)
"So?"
"We'll have colorful fireworks."
Satoshi understood. "That way people will think nothing is wrong and believe it IS fireworks and not bombs."
"Exactly."
"God, Dai, you think of everything." Dark said.
"Although Im flattered, Dark, Im not god."
Everyone laughed at that and ate their lunner (lunchy dinner). They talked through out the whole thing and joked around.
"Mio, when the meal is over, will you be well enough to fly out to the clearing with a few things?"
"I think so."
"Good. When your done, Mio, I need someone in the clearing to cover the six nets with the super glue then put a barrier on it so it wont dry then hide them to catch people."
Whats with the rope?"
"Trip ropes, triggering some of the bows and arrows, the arrows being tipped with the sleep stuff. Other trip ropes will drop the dark bombs and so they'll stumble into a pit I got Towa to make at the bottom of the pit, although its not too…would you like to say it Dark?"
"EPIC!!" Dark yelled, pumping his fists into the air.
"It wont be THAT. At the bottom of the pit will be the largest nails Krad found. When Kei first enters the clearing from any side, there will be a trip rope to drop nearly two dozen light bombs in each of the sixteen other smaller nets. The clearing is nearly two thousand feet wide and should be enough room for all of us to fight. Its clear enough in the middle for you Krad to use your element and dark enough at the edges for you Dark."
"What about you Dai?" Dark asked. "Your water."
"At this point, Towa should be making a small pond like thing for me but if that doesn't work I have my martial arts and all of my plans so don't worry about me."
"Any other plans we should know?" Satoshi asked lightly.
"Yeah."
"What?" Krad was amazed.
"The needles with the sleeping stuff will be in my pack and so Ill be shooting them at the enemy. There will also be a wall of logs dropped to block of Kei's most likely exit. Those logs will be soaked in lighter fluid. If I see him trying to make an escape Ill shoot a flaming arrow at it. Each of you will have lighters and arrows if it doesn't light right."
"And…the pepper and remaining baby oil?"
"If needed for a quick upper hand, each of us will have a couple pouches of pepper each. The wind should come through the clearing and blow it in our enemies eyes. The baby oil will cover the lower limbs of the trees to keep the enemy on the ground. The remaining bombs will be placed around the edge of the clearing to get as many enemies as we can before we have to fight. All of this is to keep us from fighting too much. Kei is the main target. If we fight too much, we will be too tired to fight him. Kunil, Machmul, and Grazmash should be back before nightfall with bird allies and they will be in the tree tops and fly down as needed with light bombs and darkness bombs."
"And the paintings you sent earlier?" Dark asked.
"Oh yeah. I forgot to explain them. The ants, as Satoshi called them, have large stingers that inject a type of poison to make you see your worst fear, even if you are a painting too, it works. The Shade weavers are a type of spider but they're about six times bigger than a tarantula. They create huge webs and if you run into them, you either get stuck or you make it through and your motor skills are pretty much shot. Now, aren't you glad that they're on our side?"
Everyone nodded with wide eyes. They didn't think anything could be that complex for a battle.
"Oh, I need to summon another painting."
"Why?"
"He's a painting of the greatest sword maker. He'll make us weapons."
Dai walked to a corner and called the makers name quietly. After a few second, a tiny asian man, only about four feet tall, appeared out of a rusted sword.
To everyones surprise the asian man bowed to Dai first (the first bow shows a sign of respect and superiority to the one you bow to) before Dai could even try bowing. After that, Dai bowed back to the man and led him to the others.
The little asian man bowed to everyone then crossed his legs and sat on the floor. "Hello young fighters. I see you are in need of me." His voice seemed worn and intelligent, holding knowledge of the ages.
"Yes, master." Dai said as he sat beside Satoshi.
"What weapon type is each of you needing, for I know this is a battle to defeat the strongest evil there has ever lived in centuries. There are few stronger but do not let this get to you or your head. Before you tell me your weapons, let me tell you a tale."
No one spoke as the man closed his eyes and took a breath. He seemed to almost fall asleep then spoke.
"Close your eyes and listen. Imagine the happenings. This tale is not a happy one. It is woeful and sad:
""Many century ago when the world was young, two brother were close. They shared everything, clothes, chore, food, bed. They were poor and their mother was very sick. They were the ones who worked the field, fed the animals, payed the debts. It was sure that they be strong sought after men when they grew up. One drizzly day a feudal lord came to their land and asked for food, water, and a warm bed for him and him daughter. Him daughter wasn't like other female the two had seen. The others wore big dresses and dressed nice. Him daughter wore boys clothes and had calluses on her hands. Her long black hair stayed tied back at the base of her neck as her father say she work for their food, water and bed.
They stay for two week and soon the two boys and her grew quite close. One day her father say they leave. The boys and her were sad. Each say they see one another again. The boys waved her off and soon forgot about her because they had work to do. One week pass and the elder boy found the girl body two mile from their home. He brought her home and found she still lived. Him and him brother tried to make her better but she passed three day later. Her last saying were 'he never want me' before pass.
The younger brother grew mad. He vowed to avenge her. Him brother knew that his anger bad. Tried to calm him but nothing worked. One day, three month later the younger left to go find her father. The elder boy cried at his loss and the next day the mother die. He had nothing to hold him back and he left for his brother to stop him.
Ten year later he found his younger brother. He had killed the feudal lord and taken his position. The elder was saddened that his younger brother became what he hated. He knew not what to do. He spoke to him younger brother and the younger yelled and became mad again. They fought and the elder was wounded.
The elder left and had a child, passing his righteous want to save him brother to him child. Since then the two brothers have tried to win, best each. The younger brothers last name became what is now called, Hiwatari. The elder passed on into nothingness but each generation his spirit is passed on to a different child. Some come in contact with the younger some don't.
I was last of the elders line. He became too weak to continue on. My weapons are so strong because the elder blesses them. He told me you are to defeat his younger brother and will bless your weapons greatly. It was never believed by the elder to pull innocents into the fight but now he knows all battles are fought with at least a few innocent ones. He blesses you with his last reserves of strength he has not given me.""
A silence ensued for ten minutes. Each one in the room felt like a cold hand was passed along their spine and felt a bit of magic seep into their bodies, knowing the masters story to be true.
"Please, master, tell the elder we say thank you." Satoshi said softly.
"The elder hears you child." The master said. "He apologizes for not giving you more but that is all he has besides what he will use to bless your weapons. Now, what is your preferred weapons? Childling?" He looked to Mara first.
"A double handed axe." She said softly with a bow.
He nodded to her. "And you, youngling?" He asked Dai.
"Short sword." He too bowed.
The master nodded to him. "And you, littleling?" He asked Mio.
She nibbled on her lip. "Throwing daggers." She said quickly then bowed.
"Useful weapons." He replied as he nodded to her then turned to Krad. "And you, quickling?"
"Katanas." Krad said, bowing.
"Ah, two. It has been long since I have seen one with double katanas."
(Katana: Traditional Japanese longsword curved, single edge, worn cutting edge up of the samurai. Used mainly for slashing.)
"And you, sneakling?" He asked Dark.
"Sakabato, master." Dark said bowing.
"Ah another rarity."
(Sakabato- reversed edge sword dull edge on the side the sharp should be)
"And you, babbling?" He asked Takeshi.
"Just a sword, sir."
"And you, smartling?" He asked Satoshi.
"Scimitars, Master." Satoshi said with an elegant bow.
"Ah, amazing weapons, scimitars. Beautiful and elegant as he who wields them. And you, calmling?" He asked Sekimoto.
"Sword, sir."
"By morning I shall have your weapons constructed. Fare thee well, children." With that he was dissolving into smoke.
Dai looked around at the group. They all seemed stunned that the man was making weapons for them.
"So…guys, its nearing four." Him speaking seemed to snap everyone back to reality. "Ill need Mio, Dark and Krad to take what we have so far to the clearing. Satoshi Mara and I are staying behind to make even more 'help'. Alright?"
Everyone nodded. No one, except Dai and Satoshi, seemed to really think for themselves at the moment but knew Dai was right.
Dark, Krad and Mio stood up and after a few minutes, had everything in bags and flew out the window. Satoshi, Dai, and Mara went to the counter to make 'help' and Takeshi and Sekimoto just sat there, not knowing what to do.
"Er…Dai?" Takeshi asked.
"Huh? Yeah?"
"What should we do?"
"Oh. Um…Can you two count how many paintings are actually human for me? While you do that can you separate them into human and nonhuman? Id appreciate it."
"Sure." Takeshi said as he and Sekimoto stood and went to the pile.
"Thank you."
"Its nothing, Dai."
Dai went back to making the smoke bombs while Satoshi worked on the light ones and Mara on the dark ones. He looked over at Satoshi and Mara and realized they had worry lines across their faces.
"Im sorry for pushing you two so much."
"Dai its not your fault." Mara said smiling softly at him. "Its Kei's fault."
Dai nodded. "Thanks Mara."
"Its nothing, youngling."
"Pft." Dai snorted. "You cant say anything, childling."
"Geh!" Mara snorted.
There was a minute of almost peaceful silence. Dai and Mara couldn't stand for that to happen while they were around, so they decided to yell…
"Truthling!" Mara and Dai yelled in Satoshi's ears.
"Iegh." Satoshi growled. "Be glad I didn't have a light bomb in my hand."
"Good thing he wasn't working on a normal bomb." Takeshi called.
"Shut up, babbling." Sekimoto called. "Man, I could get used to that nickname."
Dai and Satoshi chuckled as Takeshi stuck his tongue out at Sekimoto who grabbed it. Takeshi gabbled, making no sense, as Sekimoto pulled on his tongue.
"Eh e gu." Takeshi gabbled out.
"Whats that?" Sekimoto asked, lightly tugging on Takeshi's tongue.
"EH E GU!" Takeshi yelled.
Sekimoto waved a hand in front of his face. "Whew. You need a tic-tac(TM thingy goes here. W/e). Anybody have a tic-tac?" He looked around hopefully at the other three, who shrugged.
"Nope." Was the general reply.
"Hmm. I have the perfect thing to do."
"Uah?"
"What?"
Takeshi nodded vigorously. "Uah."
"Okay. Yeah, so…anyway. The perfect answer. Soap!"
"Mo!" Takeshi shook his head in a no.
"Oh, yes." Sekimoto said, chuckling and pulling Takeshi's tongue to make him go to the bathroom.
From where they were seated, Dai and Satoshi heard Takeshi half drowning in soap and water. All of a sudden a spout of water shot out of the bathroom and they heard Sekimoto stick a full bar of soap in Takeshi's mouth.
When they came out not much later, the full thing being less than five minutes, Sekimoto had Takeshi's lips pinned closed and he was laughing at the reporter. Satoshi and Dai looked confused and raised an eyebrow at Sekimoto.
"Soap." He pointed at Takeshi's mouth. "Bar soap."
"You made him keep it in?" Dai asked.
"He had a dirty mouth." He said like a small child, making Dai laugh.
"I think he's rubbing off on you."
"I think he is too but not the way I think your thinking that Im thinking that I know your thinking."
"Wait…" Dai held up a hand. "Um… what?" He looked at Mara.
"You got me. Maybe…no. How ab…no not that either." She frowned. "Er…was it English at least?"
"Beats me. That's why I looked to you." He shrugged to Mara and looked to the smart one of the group. "Satoshi? You got anything?"
"I hope he does." Mara said hopefully. "Come on, Sato-chan, say you know what they meant."
"Shut up Mara." He said to Mara then turned, with puppy dog eyes, to Satoshi. "Im confused, Satoshi."
Satoshi laughed. "Hes just trying to confuse you, which seems like he did."
Dai pouted at Satoshi and frowned. Satoshi smiled and pulled Dai into a hug.
"And that's another reason you're so innocent." He said to the top of Dai's head.
Takeshi made a 'hew'-ing sound instead of an 'aw', making Sekimoto laugh at him. Sekimoto's laugh nearly made him lose his tentative hold on Takeshi's lips.
With a smirk worthy of the old Krad, Sekimoto found a roll of duct tape below a counter and taped Takeshi's hands behind his back, then his mouth closed.
"There. No spitting the soap out now." He looked at Satoshi and Dai. "See?"
Dai chuckled and shook his head. "He'll have a very clean mouth after this."
"Yup." Sekimoto said smiling. "Now back to separating those paintings."
"Satoshi, how is it I made such odd friends?"
"You have to be odd to attract the odd ones."
"You're calling me odd?" Dai fake gasped. "Im crushed AND you still haven't let me feel your wings."
Satoshi shook his head good naturedly. "Later okay?"
Dai sighed. "Okay."
"Good."
"Fine."
"Yes!" Mara called, waving her hands around. "I had to add something. I was being neglected!"
"Now back to the bombs. We have enough ingredients to make four dozen more smoke bombs, five dozen light bombs and about six dozen more regular bombs since Krad bought that huge bag and we already finished half of them."
"Well then, we'd better get to work. We only have four hours until it gets dark. I'd like to get everything out to the others tonight and not have to wake up early to finish up."
"Same here, Dai." Satoshi said.
"I know!"
"What?"
"Sekimoto, how many human ones do you see right now?"
"I have six. There one with what looks like triplets, one with a man with only one arm, one with two guys fighting and one with a guy with half a leg and three arms."
Dai walked over to him. "I'm going to call the triplets."
Dai did just that and called le trios heures de intelligent (Literally meaning the three hours of intelligence…sumthing like that. Three years of French wasted). The triplets, two girls and a guy, appeared in front of Dai and bowed to him.
"What may we be of use to?" One of the girls, the one with raven colored hair, asked.
"I would like for two of you to help with Satoshi and Mara," He pointed at Satoshi and Mara. "While the other helps Sekimoto," He pointed at Sekimoto. "Separate the others."
"I will stay here and help Seckimorto." The elder looking girl with blond hair said.
Dai held back a chuckled and led the raven-haired girl and brunette boy to the other two. He was going to let Satoshi and Mara tell them how to make everything.
"Mara the painting is called intelligence. They only have to watch you and they'll understand." She was about to explain everything to them.
Finally Mara nodded and went back to making the smoke bombs while Satoshi made the light bombs. The brunette watched him closely then started to make the light bombs like Satoshi did, to the exact dot like Satoshi had done.
Dai sat down and began making the normal bomb and the raven watched him closely, watching his face his hands even how quickly it was done to how much time was put into each step. She picked up the things and began repeating everything Dai had done, trying to keep it to the exact time that Dai had done, to make him happy.
"You don't have to be as fast as us or anything. We just need to get these done."
The girl and boy nodded to him and went back to the work but as Dai watched them they had slowed down just enough to make sure they didn't mess up at all. Satoshi went on to make the darkness bombs while Dai walked over to the blond and Sekimoto to see how they were faring.
"Sekimoto, how's it coming along?"
"Found a few more humans. Most of them are animals. I found one of a shape shifter."
"What did it change into?"
"Human and a weird bird."
The girl rolled her eyes. "It was a bald eagle."
"Well Ive never seen one."
The girl shook her head a bit testily as Dai turned to her. "Can you summon other paintings?"
"A few."
"Can you summon the shape shifter and then send him to me?"
"Yes I can."
"Thank you."
"Its nothing. I am glad to help."
Sekimoto made a face behind her back then went back to separating the paintings, making it obvious how few were of humans that had been in the voice recognition vault. Dai walked back over to those at the counter and watched the two new comers, realizing that they were progressing quite well, to the mark of answering Satoshi's questions about themselves as they made the bombs.
Before long a figure was standing beside Dai and when Dai turned to it, it bowed to him in a graceful movement. Dai realized it was the shape-shifter and he bowed back to it when he got over seeing a half naked unknown man in front of him.
"The raven lady told me to come see you, sir."
"Yes I told her that. Might you be up for some flying?"
"Of course sir."
"Good. I need you to fly to the clearing about a mile into the woods and you'll see a few people there. They are allies. Ask them how much they have done, please."
"Of course sir."
"If your able, can you carry some of these supplies to them?"
"Of course sir."
"Then let me pack it into bags so you can grab them in your talons."
The shifter nodded to Dai and waited. Dai had four bags packed tightly with the 'help' and waited as the man changed into his eagle form, allowing the bird to fly slightly outside before holding the bags up then waved goodbye as the bird took the bags and flew off to where Dark, Krad, Mio, Towa, and the couple paintings were.
"Satoshi, how's it going?"
"We have sixteen smoke bombs left, twenty-four light bombs, and forty-eight regular bombs left to do."
"Good." He looked at the girl. "You are an amazing worker."
"Thank you, sir. The more we make the easier it becomes. Now we have little thought in it."
"It's a good thing you had your brothers help too. Yes I noticed him doing a lot of those too." She had blushed when Dai caught her. "Don't worry. We need to get these done so I don't mind."
"Yes, sir."
"Its…what time is it, Satoshi?"
"Five thirty."
"We only have three and a half hours. We should get all those done by then at this rate. Sekimoto, you think we can let Takeshi go, now?"
"Sure. I think the soaps completely dissolved now."
Dai walked over to Takeshi and pulled the duct tape off his mouth. "BLEGH! I will NEVER look at soap the same way AGAIN. NEVER EVER. UGH! I taste like soap!!"
Sekimoto chuckled as he continued to separate the other four dozen paintings with the three dozen already separated. He laughed even more when Dai slapped a new piece of duct tape on Takeshi's mouth and growled at how stupidly loud he could become without much thought process with it.
"Okay, Takeshi. If I take this off will you Shut. UP?" Takeshi nodded vigorously. "Okay. That's good." Dai smirked.
He grabbed the new tape and jerked it off Takeshi's face with a loud
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPP.
He fell into peals of laughter when Takeshi yelled at the pain.
"Yeoooowwww. OW OW OW OW OW OW!! HOLY…OW…MAN THAT HURT…" He moved his jaw. "OW. MAN THAT'S GOING TO LEAVE A MARK!"
"Or no mark." Dai said holding the tape up.
"MY FIRST MUSTACHE HAIR! YOU RIPPED IT OFF MAH FACE!!"
"More like out of your face." Sekimoto said snickering.
"MAH MUSTACHE HAIR! MY ONLY MUSTACHE HAIR! YOU. RIPPED. IT. OUT!"
In the background, Sekimoto, the triplets, Dai, Mara and Satoshi were snickering at his rant. He was ranting so loud he didn't realize no one was listening and had gone back to whatever they were doing.
"…ONLY MUSTACHE HAIR. I WAS GOING TO GET ALL THE ATTENTION! NOW ITS GONE! MY CLAIM TO FAME IS GONE! GONE!" He stomped his feet like a child throwing a tantrum. "ITS GONE ITS GONE ITS GONE!!"
Satoshi, Mara, the raven and brunette had gone back to making bombs while Sekimoto and the blond went back to separating the paintings. Dai just stood there laughing at Takeshi, who was growing red in the face from yelling so blasted much and taking like little to no breath while he ranted over his one mustache hair.
"YOU JUST HAD TO TAKE THE ONE HAIR. WHY NOT TAKE MY CHIN HAIR OR ONE FROM MY SCALP? I WOULD HAVE HAPPILY PARTED WITH THEM BUT NO!! YOU JUST TAKE MY MUSTACHE HAIR. MEN THIS SUCKS! (yes men) IM ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITHOUT MY MUSTACHE HAIR. NOTHING!! IM LOWER THAN THAT CREEP KRAD. ARGH! WHY MUST YOU TAKE MY HAIR!? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY? THE GODS HAVE DECIDED TO GO AGAINST ME HAVE THEY? I SHALL RUE THE DAY WHEN YOU TAKE MY ONLY MUSTACHE HAIR YOU BLASTED GODS!"
Mara turned to Satoshi. "Im so amazed he still has breath. Hes redder than…whatever is bright red. Sheesh shut him up, Dai."
Dai looked at Takeshi, who was catching his breath. Dai opened his mouth to speak.
"MY ONLY MUSTACHE HAIR!"
Dai gave up. He decided to let Takeshi just talk himself into unconsciousness.
Another five minutes passed with Takeshi whining then he just quit. He was conscious but he just stopped mid rant.
"OK! Im done."
Dai smiled while Mara clapped. "Nice rantage." Mara called.
"Don't provoke him!" Satoshi called. "Ah bliss. No ranting."
Dai grabbed the duct tape wrapped around Takeshi's wrists and ripped it off quickly with a loud and horrendous
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Takeshi squealed like a baby and yelled like he invented a crazy new language.
"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Mara, Sekimoto and Dai practically fell over in peals of laughter. Satoshi just shook his head in mirth.
"MY ARM HAIR. YOU WERENT HAPPY WITH MY ONLY MUSTACHE HAIR THAT YOU HAD TO TAKE MY PRECIOUS ARM HAIR TOO? NOW I LOOK LIKE A WOMAN. SHEESH. YOU COULD HAVE LEFT ME SOME KIND OF MANLY PRIDE BUY NOOOOOOO I LOOK LIKE A COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE CHIC. IM NEVER THANKING THE LORDS ABOVE AGAIN. MY ARM IS LIKE BABY BUTT SKIN! EW…BUT SOFT AT THE SAME TIME." He petted one of his arms. "Ooh soft. Mmm." He rubbed his soft forearm across his cheek. "Soft." He then snapped out of it. "BUT STILL…"
Mara looked at Sekimoto and begun snickering when she saw he was putting his fist in his mouth as an attempt to stifle his laughter. When he heard Mara start laughing again, Sekimoto busted into peals of laughter and fell to the floor.
(WOW holy crap ive already planned ahead for the next chapter and for a maybe sequel. OM jeez I have like eight ideas for a sequel! First I have to finish this chapter and the next two. Lol. Tell me if you want a sequel)
"…MY ARM LOOKS LIKE A WOMANS. ITS SKINNY…like a reporters should be…AND HAIRLESS! THIS IS SO NOT FAIR…even though its soft…I HAVE TO FIGHT LIKE THIS. ILL BE SO SELF CONSCIOUS THAT I WONT BE ABLE TO FIGHT. ILL BE LIKE 'WHOA LOOK AT MY HAIRLESS ARM' AND THE BAD GUY WILL BE LIKE 'YADA YADA KNOCK YOU OUT' AND ILL BE LIKE 'NONONONO BECAUSE MY ARM IS SOFT.' AND HE'LL BE LIKE 'OH YES YES YES BECAUSE YOUR LAME AND HAVE GIRLY ARMS'. WAAAAAAA! I DON'T WANNA DIE. I JUST WANT TO BE MANLY AGAIN. MY WHOLE MANLY EDGE IS GONE. THE MUSTACHE HAIR…"
"The one mustache hair." Sekimoto said softly.
"…AND NOW MY ARM HAIR. WHAT GOD DOESN'T WANT ME TO BE MANLY? HUH? WHAT'D I DO TO YOU THEN? HMMM? EXACTLY! NOTHING!"
Mara jumped up on the stool she was previously sitting on. Her, Satoshi, the raven and brunette had been working pretty quickly and had just finished with the bombs.
"AND SO AT A QUARTER AFTER SIX, WE HAVE FINISHED!!" She somehow bellowed over Takeshi's unmanly ranting.
Her yelling shutted Takeshi up. "Heh. Who knew babbling was the perfect nickname for him?" Sekimoto said chuckling.
Sekimoto had been laughing so hard at Takeshi that he had only separated three or so paintings so the blond had gotten them all separated. He chuckled at Takeshi's stunned expression then started to laugh at how Takeshi pouted at his arms.
"Sheesh Mara." Satoshi said, wiggling a finger in the ear that had been closest to her. "Im amazed I haven't gone deaf."
"You'll live. Oh look. The shifter is coming back." She pointed to the door and almost fell out of the twisty chair. "Dang that was…Eeep!"
Mara fell out of the chair and fell into Satoshi's lap. Dai ran over and growled at her, wrapping his arms around Satoshi's neck and speaking out in a teasing manner.
"Mine."
Both Mara and Satoshi laughed a bit at Dai as Mara slipped off of Satoshi's lap and fell two feet to the floor to land in a crumbled heap at Satoshi's feet. Dai laughed at her when she had trouble getting up and as she did, the little gust from the shifter hit her while she wasn't completely balanced only to knock her over again, landing- once again- in a heap at Satoshi's feet.
The shifter walked into the room with confusion written on his face but didn't ask, having changed while on the balcony. He walked up to Dai and bowed slightly to him before speaking to him.
"The others of your group thank you for the supplies and say they should be done by nightfall if you all send the rest of the supplies soon. They hope that you do send them over because they don't wish to wake up at the crack of dawn to finish setting up." He said in a mellow voice.
"We finish just a few minutes ago. If you don't mind, could you take these to them? You don't have to of course." Dai asked as he unlatched himself from Satoshi's neck with a slight smile to the blunette. "One of us can always take them over to the others if your too tired or just wish to stay here. I don't want you tired for tomorrow."
"I will be fine sir. I just need a moment to rest. Its nothing big, sir." He said with a nod to Dai's compassion.
"If you're sure you'll be fine. I don't want you to collapse tomorrow in a fight and be bested."
"That shall not happen sir. Do not worry. Im a good fighter and wont go down that easy. I should be caught back up by the time you have it all in bags, sir." He said with his voice mellow again.
"Only if you're sure." He nodded to Dai. "Alright. Ill start putting everything in bags for you to carry out there." Dai started to pack things away. "Can you tell the others to be back by sun set at latest? I really don't want them flying after that. They might be caught or ambushed or something like that."
"I will tell them, sir. Do not worry. They will listen to you and be back by then." He said, knowing how much the others believed in Dai and would follow him. "They know you are right and wont wrong you. I can see that and I have not been here in this situation very long. They believe in you, sir."
"Thank you." Dai said softly, feeling a bit calmer with the outsiders view. "That helped calm my nerves."
"Its nothing, sir." The shifter still had the mellow tone. "I would be proud to stand by you when the fight comes."
Dai nodded to him as he packed the last of the 'help'. He knew the eagle meant well by trusting him so much to say that.
"Tell them to leave about six of the regular bombs out, please." Dai said as he walked the ten bags out to the balcony. "Do you need someones help to carry it all out there?"
"No sir. Since its packed so tightly, Ill be fine. If it were any more than this then I would have a problem. I have big enough talons to carry it all. I will tell the others your warning ask plead. Do not worry. Eagles aren't very forgetful creatures." He gave Dai another bow before shifting into the form of the eagle.
"Thank you." Dai said as the eagle lifted into the air then clamped its feet onto the handles of the ten bags.
Dai sighed and walked back into the room and flopped down on a couch and seemed to deflate and collapse in on himself. He felt so much weight on his shoulders that it felt like his shoulders would break sometime soon, any time soon, and it frightened him slightly to have that much pressure on him, tiny little fragile Daisuke Niwa, former tamer of Dark Mousy.
Satoshi saw the deflated look on Dai's face and walked over, not sure what to do but knew he needed to be there for the little redhead, his love. He sat down by Dai's head and pulled the flaming head into his lap before starting to run his fingers through the beautiful soft strands to calm Dai down.
"You alright, Dai?" He asked softly, continuing to run his fingers through the boys hair to help him.
"Ill be alright now."
"Oh?"
"As long as I have you Ill be fine." Dai said before smiling upside down at Satoshi. "You said that the day we had our first kiss."
"And it's true." Satoshi said before bending down and kissing Dai lightly on the lips. "It'll always be true."
"Romanticist."
"Oh but you know you like it."
"Of course I do. That's what you are. Just a big romantic softie."
"Im more than just that. If that were true all those girls…and some guys…that threw themselves at me would have had me first. Mind you, they didn't. See? I am more than a romantic softie."
"Fine. A romantic that's soft even though no one knew it."
"Now that's just mean."
"Is not."
Takeshi, in the corner where he had wrapped his arms around Sekimoto shook his head. "They're so kawaii together. But we're better."
"Good." Sekimoto said before turning around and kissing Takeshi.
Dai almost giggled when Satoshi made a face at Takeshi and Sekimoto. He thought it was cute how Satoshi was acting childish after so many years.
"HEY GUYS!" Dai called, snapping Takeshi and Sekimoto apart. "No getting it on up here again. I am NOT cleaning up that again!"
"I said I was sorry." Takeshi whined.
"I still had to clean it up."
Takeshi threw his hands up in the air. "Theres no winning against you, is there?"
"You finally figured that out?" Satoshi said, smiling.
Mara, feeling neglected again, leapt over the couch and landed on Dai's stomach. She giggled when Dai 'gah!'-ed and tried to push her off of him.
"Am I heavy?" She cooed at him.
"Cant breathe!"
"You can too."
"Can not."
"Get off him, Ma-chan."
"Nope. Nuh-uh. You all neglected me so I came back and what happens? You get mad. Sheesh."
"Oh just get off him."
"Fine." She pouted then got off of Dai. "Happy?"
"I can breathe again!"
Satoshi chuckled and Eskimo kissed Dai. He then pulled Dai into a sitting position then pulled him into his lap.
"Is that better, Dai?" He asked softly, nuzzling Dai's neck.
Dai giggled and hugged Satoshi around the neck. "Stop it." He put his forehead to Satoshi's and looked in his crystalline blue eyes, getting lost in their depth. "You have amazing eyes."
Satoshi smiled, also lost in Dai's ruby-like eyes. He kissed Dai's nose, all the while his eyes stayed locked with Dai's.
"If mine are amazing, yours are breathtaking." Satoshi whispered to him.
"Oh, you three!" Mara said talking to the twins.
Dai's head shot up but still he looked in Satoshi's eyes. "Im sorry I forgot about you three. If you want, you can return to your artwork if you want, then Ill call you back tomorrow morning."
All three nodded simultaneously. "Then we will see you then." The raven said before all three disappeared into mist and went back to their painting.
"Anyone know what to do now?" Mara asked sweetly.
"Take a break?" Takeshi asked. "Im all for a break with Sekimoto in our room." He said, trying to smile seductively, ending up looking like a circus clown.
One painting that had been separated from the others began to glow slightly and a mans figure climbed out, fighting the painting every inch of the way. He fell to the floor in a heap when he got loose from the painting and looked up at the people in the room.
"Allo. Mon nom eat Greig." He was a well-built man with a sword strapped to his hip, long brown hair that fell over one eye, and a world weary look to his tanned featured
"Greig. I know that name." Satoshi said and Dai nodded. "Do you speak English, Greig?"
"Yes. I vas trapt enside ze painting long ago." Although he spoke French at first, his accent was definitely German. "Vone hundred years ago I vas send to ze painting because I deefied moy lord. He vas the grand- faater of ze man you vill be foighting."
Mara smiled at Greig. "Im sorry, Greig. Would you like to talk about it." He nodded and Mara helped him up before leading him to Dark and Krads room to talk privately.
Dai smirked and tucked his face into Satoshi's neck. The blunette smiled fondly down at the redhead and hugged him tighter.
"Well, We'll be taking our leave." Takeshi said as he and Sekimoto took their leave, quickly.
After Satoshi and Dai heard then leave, they heard Mara close the door to the other bedroom and felt the magic in the air as she put a silencing aura up. Dai lifted his head up and smiled at Satoshi, the stairs leading to the other boys room had a permenant silence aura on it.
Dai slightly Eskimo kissed Satoshi's nose lightly and snuggled deeper into his arms, feeling safe and warm. "'Toshi?"
Satoshi smiled even more fondly at the nickname. "Yeah, Dai?"
"C…C-can I kiss you?" His face was buried in Satoshi's neck but the blunette could feel the smaller boy blushing.
Satoshi lightly lifted Dai's face up. "Dai you never have to ask to kiss me."
Dai blushed even harder but leaned forward and lightly kissed Satoshi. They hadn't had a full moment to themselves in so long.
Before either knew it, Satoshi Had Dai straddling his hips then had stood up and walked them quickly to the bedroom. He knew they weren't ready for the Act but he wanted Dai to be comfortable.
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Dai's eyes shot open when he felt the bed below him and stiffened slightly. "Dai, don't worry. Neither of us are ready. I just want you comfortable."
With that, Dai had pulled Satoshi down to him and kissed him again. "You're my angel…my angel…you're my friend when Im in need…" Satoshi sang softly after they parted and he was unbuttoning Dai's shirt. (Its actually a real song Im listening to right now. . )
Dai giggled when Satoshi sang. "Toshi, you have a pretty singing voice. You should sing more often." He started to pant slightly when Satoshi kissed right below his ear and began to move down Dai's neck to stop at the junction of his shoulder and neck to recreate the love bite that had one been there.
It didn't take long to have the love bite back in place as Satoshi's claim to take care of Dai and be there for him. It was more than claiming the smaller teen, it was a promise to be there every moment of the day and be the strong one when Dai needed to cry, being the tough guy when the smaller was hurt.
Satoshi kissed his way to Dai's right nipple and pulled it into his mouth before sucking lightly on it and nipping at it. Dai groaned and arched off the bed before making a mewl-ing sound when Satoshi's hands found his hips and pushed him back down.
Satoshi then moved to Dai's left nipple and pulled it lightly into his mouth then swirled his tongue around the tuft of pink skin. The redhead was gripping the sheets in pleasure, mewl-ing over and over with a few spluttered 'Toshi' 's in there.
Dai moaned at the sight of Satoshi unbuttoning his own shirt. Before he really thought about it, Dai's hands were wandering across the blunettes chest, making the former ice-prince moan in lust.
Satoshi lightly pulled Dai's baggy but fashionable sweats down to his knees and moved his right to below Dai and before long Dai arched off the bed again when he had a finger intrude his private area. His leg went weak and if he had been standing he would have collapsed and he forgot all rational thoughts as the blunettes finger moved slowly in and out, finding his prostate, causing lustful moans and mewls.
Dai panted heavily as he pulled Satoshi's jeans down, then bit his lip in his insecurity of Satoshi's boxers. He then knew Satoshi wouldn't make him and he DID want to feel more skin on skin, and so he grabbed Satoshi's boxers and pulled then down too.
Satoshi panted lustfully when he felt Dai take his boxers off him and, knowing Dai wouldn't take it the wrong way, used his free left hand that had been playing with the teens nipples to pull the boxers off him too. They were both naked but it didn't bother either as Dai arched again when Satoshi pressed a second finger into the boy.
Before long, Satoshi was confident enough to lead Dai's own hand to behind him and pressed one of the redheads slender fingers inside of him. Just the feeling of the boy he loved's finger in him made him arch down and grind into Dai's penis.
Both teens moaned in pleasure and began to grind harder into each other even more. They created a rhythm; Two fingers in each of them, sliding them in and out simultaneously, hitting their prostates every time, and as the fingers slid out, grinded into each other hard.
It wasn't long before both came, calling the others names, then as he came down from his blissful high, Dai blushed. He had just pretty much dry humped each other with Satoshi.
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What confused him was that it sounded disgusting but he didn't feel bad about it. "Toshi?" He asked softly as Satoshi pulled his own fingers out of Dai, leaving Dai's in him for a bit longer.
"Yeah?" He asked, kissing Dai's forehead, his nose, his cheek and eventually his lips softly.
"I don't think Im afraid anymore."
"Of what, Dai?" He knew what Dai meant but he wanted Dai to admit it.
"I'm not afraid to be in love, to be nervous of tomorrow. Thank you."
Satoshi smiled at him. "How about you go take a shower then me?"
Dai blushed when he felt his fingers still inside Satoshi but slowly pulled them out. He kissed Satoshi's cheeks and smiled slightly seductively at him.
"Two birds, one stone."
"What?"
"Together." Dai stood up in his naked glory and pulled Satoshi with him to the shower. "Just…Please don't…do…"
"I wont touch you, Dai." They both climbed into the shower. "Mind if I washed your hair? Its just so soft."
Dai blushed and handed Satoshi the strawberry shampoo. When they got out of the shower twenty some odd minutes later, both teens had washed the others hair and were drying off and picking out clothes to put on.
It was about eight thirty when they walked back out to their living room where everyone else sat. Dai and Satoshi thanked what ever higher being that they had locked the door and put up a silence aura up.
Dark, Krad, Mio, Towa and all the others Dai had sent to the clearing along with the Krechlin (Nauthgil) returned at exactly eight fifty seven. They all found seats and looked to Dai for instruction.
"I want all the birds you got to follow our cause to be at the clearing by morning and if you wish not to stay here, you can stay in the trees nearby. We leave at latest seven for the clearing. If the scout party comes and it goes as planned we can leave a bit later, maybe eight at latest. I want guards taking shifts all night. It could be birds if you want. I want everyone to eat then go to bed, the trees or whatever. Be careful though. The scouts are supposed to come." That was when he heard Luncia yelling angrily. "SHUDDUP." He called chuckling. "Does she think that will bother us now?" He smiled at everyone. "Have a good night."
Just one hour later, everyone had eaten, the Nauthgil had gone back to the trees, commanding birds to do watch, and everyone else had gone to bed. That is everyone but Dai and Satoshi.
Satoshi sat crossed legged just inside the open balcony door and pulled Dai down to sit on his lap, also cross-legged. He then summoned his wings and wrapped them around both of them, shielding themselves from prying eyes.
The only things visible of the two were their heads and part of Dai's shoulder where Satoshi had rested his head. Before long, Dai had rested his head against Satoshi's as they both watched the skies determinedly.
Dai played lightly with the wings wrapped soothingly around him and he ran his fingers softly through them. He was amazed at the soft silken feel of his boyfriend's wings, it made it even better as his stomach fluttered when he mentally called Satoshi his boyfriend.(CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DRAW THIS FOR ME from to PLEASE?)
It neared midnight when they spotted black shapes flitting across the sky. It was amazing of how many there were but the more they took down the night before was better.
Right as it turned midnight, explosions ripped across the sky, lighting it up like it was midday. Krad and dark came running and both smiled at how enamored it seemed the younger teens were.
Dai and Satoshi stood together and they moved to the door, moving as if they were one being. They listened at the door, hearing the slightest sound of…
"Eight feet, Toshi? That what you hear?"
Satoshi nodded. "So four are left of dozens."
"We need to keep one alive." Dai said softly as to not warn the enemy. "Dark, Krad take one down each. Ill take the one Ill fight captive." The other two nodded.
Right as the creatures, for they didn't know what the scouts were, reached the door, Dai flung it open and a silent battle was waged. Not a minute later, there were three dead bodies carried to the roof where another nearly five dozen dead bodies were.
Krad discreetly set the bodies on fire then followed Dark back to the rooms, where Dai was beating information out of the remaining attacker. "So you turn against your true master to fight for someone less than sane?" He smacked the creature across the face, a Valkyrie. "Do you deem yourself above the unwritten law of Hikari portraits?"
The Valkyrie painting hissed eerily. "He is an adoptive Hikari. I did not break anything."
"Tell me this Valkyrie, how many fighters does your new master have?"
The creature glared but hissed out an answer. "Near four hundred."
"Dark, Krad take this to the same room as Mio. Thanks."
After the Valkyrie was locked in and couldn't get out either, all four headed for bed. Dai snuggled deep into Satoshi's embrace on Satoshi's bed, having had their encounter on Dai's bed.
"Toshi?" Dai said softly.
"Yeah, Dai?" He said just as softly as he ran his fingers through the red hair.
"I think I love you."
Satoshi kissed his forehead. "We'll live through tomorrow so we can find out if this is true love, which I believe with all my heart it is."
Dai smiled and kissed Satoshi. "Thank you."
Soon after the hotel, its guests and the following area fell into a deep nervous silence. The storm was brewing and about to break loose to only be noticed by a few.
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