I own Nothing.
Mai p.o.v.
Noll and Yasu watched the feeds the whole night and saw the figure leave three hours later after going into the barn. As soon as the sun was up Naru went and woke everyone else up. Everyone but Yasu headed to the barn. Yasu covered the base. Watching them go inside of the barn. What we found shocked everyone. The bones of a horse and four sets of chicken bones.
"We're defiantly dealing with a demon," Naru stated. "I don't know the only thing I can sense is a very strong spirit. I think we should take a walk in the woods." I suggested. "Unfortunately I agreed," Lin stated. "Fine everyone stays together in a group," Naru told us and he received nods from the group in response. We headed outside and as we approached the woods I pulled out a ball of twine and tied it around a tree. "What's the twine for?" John asked. "In case we get separated or too deep in the woods to find our way out."
"Koujo and I can follow our shikis but everyone else can't. This thread can't be cut by anyone but a mortal being." I stated. "So a ghost or demon can't cut it?" Monk asked. "Exactly," I answered. "How is that possible?" Ayako asked. "It has one of my father's spell on it. He used to hunt demons." I replied. "Wow, your dad was a demon hunter?" Monk questioned. "Yep," I replied.
In a single file line with me in front. Letting my senses and some tracks I found halfway past a pine tree guide me and the group to where the being might be hiding. Lin was behind me. Not wanting to take his eyes off of me for a minute. Our shikis had surrounded the group to give everyone some protection should it try to attack from behind.
Everyone was on pins and needles. They walked for about an hour. Then saw a huge den made out of twigs moss and leaves. I pulled out a camera got two photos of the den. I said to the others in no more than a whisper, "In there. That's its home. Look at the bone pile." The others saw it was all human skeletons. "We need to go now!" I whispered to everyone with doe eyes.
So everyone turned around and walked calmly back till they were out of the woods. They went into the house.
"Well, Mai what did you sense?" Naru asked me. "He's like Vlad. He eats whatever comes his way. I think when he was alive he was a survivalist. Just living off the land. Then he turned into a scavenger. I don't know why but this thing will eat anyone that it comes across. I'm going to make a blood barrier to protect us. This is getting worse after every kill and it's getting stronger each night." I said to the others. I started putting up the barrier while the others stayed inside except for John and Claude who stayed with me. Once inside base everyone crowded around the monitors to watched me make the barrier. "Our shiki could senses that it craves humans and wants more," Lin told them.
"That's why Mai said we needed to go now?" Monk asked. "Yes, if I wouldn't have masked our scent. It would have attacked and kill us. If the shiki where even a nanosecond late in reacting." Lin said plugged in the camera that Mai used to snap the photos of the den and skeleton pile. The pictures were perfect. You could even see a few spirit orbs in them. "Naru we need to tell the homeowner," Ayako said looking over Lin's shoulder at the photos.
I came back into the base with blood on my hands. "Barriers up," I told them while walking into the kitchen. "Naru and Lin went to talk to the farmer and tell him what they had found," Monk told me as I came back into the base. "Well, what do you think this farmer will decide?" I asked the others. Ayako stated, "If it were me, I would burn the woods down." "That's what I was thinking," Monk said as he watching the monitors.
"Guys that thing is headed for the barrier!" Ayako, John, Yasu and I hovered around Monk. The creature couldn't see the barrier so it walked right into it. It was shocked with lightning that sent it flying back. "Monk go tell Naru that it's at the barrier," I told him. Monk went running to Naru and Lin in the living room.
Lin and Naru headed to base with Noka and his daughter Yumi. Noka was scared of the creature he saw on the screen. Noka turned to the Yumi. "Honey is that what you saw?" "Yes, dad." She answered him. "Is there anything that can kill that thing?" Noka asked Naru. Lin answered the man. "There might be were going to have to search for information on this being."
"But for now don't leave the house," Naru told Noka. Noka and Yumi went out off base and started packing their stuff. In case they needed to leave and fast. When Yumi was done she stayed in bases and playing with John.
Lin, and I we're searching through my father's ledgers. Lin saw a few spell's he thought would work. "If we said the spell together on this thing. It would be pulled into the realm of demons for good." "I found one too that would destroy the creature." Koujo showed me the ledgers. So I could read the one he found. While he read the one I found. We both came to an agreement.
We would use the one I found. Lin told Naru what we decided. I looked at the monitor and saw the creature stalking around the barrier. Trying to find a break in it. "Well, he's a persistent thing," Yasu said to me. "Yeah but it's about to be a dead persistent thing," I replied. Naru and Lin approached us.
"Alright, the both of you should start to prepare yourselves," Naru said to Lin and I. We nodded and left the base to go cleanse ourselves.
General p.o.v.
Mai and Lin had moved the barrier out more so they could work on the three ringed circle that would hold him in place for the spell. Since Mai would need to drop the barrier. So she wouldn't use too much power. John, Monk, and Ayako were in the yard dress and ready to purify the spirits of the campers.
Mai looked to the others. "Guys you need to wait inside, we want it to come at us. So it will go into the circle were standing in." Monk asked. "But what about the house?" "The sutras will keep him out of the house." "If he resists us. Our shiki will force him in if they have to." Lin stated. "Now everyone inside," Lin said flatly. Monk, John, and Ayako went back to base so they could watch Lin and Mai do the spell.
The barrier dropped and the creature rushed at Lin and Mai. Fangs and claws ready to strike at them. But missing the two of them by an inch as they stepped out of the circle and it passed into it. With both of them safely out of the circle, they started the spell. Chanting in unison. The creature started to scream and within two minutes it burst into flames and was gone. With one final chant, it's soul was sent to the netherworld. Lin and Mai smudged the rings of circles up to cut the power flowing to it.
Lin pulled Mai to him and held her while the other came out of the house. Ayako smiled at the couple and said. "Nice work you two. The only thing left is to purify the remaining spirits that are reliving what happened to them." "I can do that," Ayako said with a smirk. But the little Yumi stepped forward and stretched out her senses to the spirits.
As she reached out one by one the spirits were purified all by her touching them with her senses. It was an awesome site. But when they were gone the little girl blacked out. Lin rushed over and grabbed her before she hit the ground. He carried her into the house and laid her in her bed.
As he was about to leave he heard the girl's small voice. "Are they all free now?" "Yes, they are. Now sleep little one." She smiled and nodded to him as he walked out the door.
Mai was in the hallway smiling at him. "She really likes you," Mai said to him. "I like her too. Mai if we have kids would you be upset if they were like us?" Koujo asked. "I would love them with or without abilities. It would just be another adventure either way." Mai stated. He smiled down at her. "I feel the same," I told her while holding her in my arms.