Chapter 2: Panic! At the Cat Fight!
In one of the many untouched buildings tucked in an alley, several felines were gathered to have what looked like a business meeting. But these felines weren't normal by any means, being much more magical and unnatural. They even had several plans and papers scattered about, alongside many candy bar wrappers.
"Listen nyaow, I should be declared the best nyan of them all!" A rather agitated feline with red fur piped up.
"Like you should." A sassy pink furred feline with cute sailor garb snapped back. "All you do is eat chocolate candy and gawk over idols. At least be like me to where you're actually somewhat recognized by the council, ugh!"
"We all consume those chocolate bars, except for myself." A blue feline with a heroic red cape added in. "Seafood is honestly the best."
"You come into our meeting, and you say those words." A cat in shining armor commented back. "At least I don't use things like witchcraft. I only use pure honor and honesty to fight."
"Hey, knock it off or I will learn a spell to specifically turn you into a frog!" A yellow furred cat with red with garb snapped at the knight cat. "Or a toad, and not the kind who are cool dudes!"
"Have you even seen anyone from the main council, nya?" The lazy red cat piped back.
"I've seen the chairman himself in all of his white haired, stoic faced glory...in a magazine...in a storefront window. Listen we all just meet in a cafe one of the gals runs." The sailor cat responded, before raising up her voice. "But I'm among the ranks of some of the most respected ladies in the yokai world! If you keep up that attitude I'm going to have one of my gals poison your next chocolate bar, bucko!"
"You certainly have a lot more emotion than that Damona lady, and are more warm hearted than Blizzaria..." The yellow witch cat added, before giving a glare. "However, for all my magical prowess, I am going to be selected by Master Nyanda himself!"
"You little witch! Why I aughta..." The pink sailor cat quipped, about ready to fight this witch.
Walking into the building was a quartet of felines, one being peach furred with a sword, one that resembled a shiba inu, another a monkey, and the last one looking like a pheasant. They were all carrying trays with cups of coffee in varying sizes and flavors.
"Hey guys, we're a bit late, only ten minutes or so, but we have-" The peach cat said, only to notice the barrage of fighting amongst the other cats.
"Do you think something odd is going on, woof?" The shiba inu cat asked, stepping a bit back from the fighting.
The peach cat placed the coffee on the floor carefully and stepped quite a bit aways from the ongoing fight with his animal themed partners in crime. Sure the four of them were ways away from their original meeting spot but it wasn't like anyone could see them out in an open street, resting on a table with an umbrella.
"Alright, Inunyan, Kijinyan, Sarunyan, there's clearly something going on that's not right." The peach cat huddled next to his companions. "None of us usually get into cat fights like this, and everything was fine yesterday...It could be the work of a yokai!"
"But Momotaronyan, we can't throw around that this is the work of a yokai." Kijinyan brought up.
"Yeah since we're kind of...you know...yokai..." Sarunyan added. "Can yokai even inspirit other yokai like this? Usually we choose humans since they're often unaware of our powers let alone our existence."
"Yes they can, actually, and malicious yokai are behind the sudden anger of your feline friends." A voice from behind the felines said, leaving them in shock.
"Malicious yokai?" Momotaronyan asked, raising his sword. "You mean like, The Wicked tribe? Onis? Wicked possessed onis!?"
"Who are you even, and how do you know this stuff, woof?" Inunyan asked, wanting to fight.
The voice that was behind the four cats, revealed himself with the four felines finally turning around. Complete with dark skin, spiky black hair, nice headphones and a long sleeved black shirt and shorts unsuitable for the colder weather, he gave a look on his face that was smug and confident.
"It's a hard thing to explain, since I just now noticed it." The young man said, kneeling down to the cats. "But there's been much more suspicious, supernatural activity about."
"Not to be too sassy but..." Sarunyan began. "But if you can see yokai like me and my friends here, then of course things are going to be a lot stranger once you strap on a watch or whatever."
"I already know that, but this is something far worse than just typical shenanigans." The boy kept going on. "We're talking about things not even I'm sure of. I've been able to see yokai naturally as well."
"Wait what?" Momotaronyan intervened. "You can just see us straight up? I thought you had a watch or something. That's what all the kids have these days, yeah?"
"Long story, but yes." The boy responded.
"Just who are you, exactly?" Kijinyan asked, quite suspicious.
"Well as the lion heart always says, not ye-" The boy tried to say, only to be cut off by Sarunyan who picked up something the boy dropped.
"I don't have time for mysterious anime boys!" Sarunyan stated, holding the mysterious dropped object. "Besides, who knows what kind of crazy destruction you will bring with this thing."
"Hey, stop! Can't you mind your own monkey business!?" The boy said, running after Sarunyan. Sarunyan was proven to be quite fast, who knew the kid was easily outran by a cat monkey?
Sarunyan kept on running with the mystery object in hand, going at fairly high speeds for a monkey cat. After all the running, Sarunyan came across another group to either leech off of or mess with. Nobody knew with this monkey, not even himself.
"Isn't it much of a hassle to carry that Y-pad around? I can probably look at info as you do all the fighting." Draggie asked, his fellow slippery yokai looking shocked.
"Listen child, that device is not only incredibly complex to operate in the midsts of an intense battle, but has incredibly classified information!" Venoct answered, clutching his Y pad with his hands.
"...I feel a mild disturbance." Lucas commented, interrupting the two slippery yokai's banter. "I think it could be a...yokai? Is that what you're called again?"
"If it isn't just the wind, I will fight." Venoct responded, looking around for any signs of trouble.
"Wow, I haven't even properly introduced myself and you're already throwing in the threats." Sarunyan commented from afar, catching the trio's attention.
"Who was that? Who are you?" Lucas asked, looking fearful.
"Allow me to more properly introduce myself." Sarunyan boldly said, making himself much more clear as he appeared in front of the three. "I am the one and only Sarunyan of the Charming tribe, and not only that, but one of Momotaronyan's loyal companions."
"I'm Lucas, and my friends here are Venoct and Draggie." Lucas introduced himself properly to the monkey cat.
"So what do you want to do with us?" Draggie asked. Sarunyan presented the three what he had nabbed.
"Oh none other than this!" Sarunyan said, presenting the three with what he had nabbed. It looked like a yokai medal, but was different in some regards. For one, it had a deep violet frame and instead of two squares to indicate the tribe and "this side up", there were only four diamond like shapes. No tribe symbol, nothing that said this side up, not even any images on the front and back.
"What kind of medal is this?" Lucas asked.
"I couldn't tell you, but I bet it's super powerful!" Sarunyan answered, seeming quite proud.
"Aren't legendary yokai's frames gold? Legendary yokai are the most powerful kinds of yokai, after all..." Draggie asked, tilting his head to the side.
"Yes but I feel this one is even more powerful! More powerful than most legendary yokai! But I mostly grabbed it since it looked really shiny." Sarunyan responded. "Who knows, there could be a yokai so powerful even legendary yokai step back, they probably need their own tribe!"
"That's nonsense." Venoct bluntly stated. "I know for a fact there's the Enma tribe, but there's a single heir, that being Lucas here. I refuse to believe that load of nonsense."
"Geez you don't have to be so aggressive." Sarunyan replied, a bit put off by Venoct's aggressive demeanor. "But I'll let you mess around with this medal for a really easy simple favor."
"I don't trust this mon-" Venoct tried to say, only to be interrupted.
"We...gladly accept your offer on all our behalfs. Now what is it you need?" Lucas shyly asked, Venoct looking off and grumbling to himself. Whatever his lord wanted, he had to roll with it.
"Simple really, you see all my friends except me, Momotaronyan, Kijinyan, and Inunyan have all been really super angry and at eachother's throats. Mostly because of a new theme park, Nyanby's Dream Land, it's pretty much complete, we're just selecting who's going to get the honor of opening the park from the Yokai Council. But for some reason today, everyone's been acting to angry, and I dunno why!" Sarunyan began to explain. "Also there was this other kid, he possessed that odd purple medal. I feel he may have something to do with all my friend's acting angry. He did know a lot that was going on and didn't want to tell us!"
"So there's someone behind an outrage of felines?" Lucas asked. "Maybe that's why there's been an alarming amount of reports of trucks getting into wrecks..."
"Yeah a lot of feline yokais have powers over all sorts of things. A desirable need to beat up trucks, deadly fire magic, hard hitting blades, love, moxie, and courage, that sort of thing." Sarunyan explained. "I just hope my friends won't fall under such a stride of anger."
"I'm only brooding, not angry." Venoct said, still unsure about working with Sarunyan. "But if this is what the young master wants, I suppose we will help you out."
"Yeah we'll solve the issue with the angry kitties." Draggie added in.
"I think they all might have split up due to the intensity of everyone's intense fighting. But I will know if something's up." Sarunyan commented, being quite the prideful cat monkey he was.
Soon enough, with Sarunyan in the party making his lead, they were on their way to stop the impending cat carnage, and maybe avoid getting into some monkey business along the way.
The group found themselves walking around uptown, everything seeming normal. Almost too normal, so normal you could make jokes about a protagonist about how normal everything was.
Except for the fact someone's poor car was smoldering and burning in an erupting inferno.
"My car!" Some poor citizen yelled in horror.
"My leg!" Another yelled, trying to run away from the burning automobile. Thankfully it wasn't moving. That would have been even worse.
"I think I see...some kind of cat on the roof?" Lucas said, adjusting his glasses. "Oh dear it's casting fire with a wand, this could end disastrously."
"If my analytics are right, that's Nyanmajo of the Mysterious Tribe. She is a feline known for her dazzling fire magic, often having an extra dosage of black magic to give it that kick. At least according to her." Venoct explained, putting away his Y pad.
"Confound those other cats!" Nyanmajo yelled to herself, being rather enraged.
"I hate Sailornyan!" Nyanmajo screamed, setting a trashcan on fire.
"I hate Jibanyan!" Nyanmajo yelled once more, this time setting a tree on fire.
"And I hate Sarunyan!" Nyanmajo finished, setting a light post on fire.
"Oh she has the nerve to say those kinds of things!" Sarunyan hissed, going from being pretty calm to full on savage monkey. He raced up to where Nyanmajo was, ready to confront her face to face.
"My, you decided to come here." Nyanmajo said, holding her wand by the side of her head.
"Well it's like Sailornyan says, if you had fifty billion boyfriends, maybe you wouldn't be such a salty jealous-" Sarunyan tried to say, only for Nyanmajo to explode even more with a rage so great she was practically steaming.
"You're a butt monkey, through and through! Now I will show you!" Nyanmajo screamed at the top of her feline lungs, going into an absolute blitzkrieg of anger, venting the only way she knew how: setting things on fire.
Through Nyanmajo's rage, she casted fire on yet another tree amongst many other things that weren't houses, thankfully. But this one in particular was close by to Lucas and company. Either by fate or the witch cat's pure salted rage, the tree crashed splitting Venoct on one side and Draggie and Lucas on the other. Such flames made it quite tricky to maneuver
"F-F-Fire!" Lucas yelped in fear. Draggie was busy trying to blow out the flames with just some breaths and waving his arms around, but it wasn't helping much.
More burning objects kept crashing down, a lamp post slowly teetering on it's last legs before crashing onto Lucas. Even Sarunyan was flicked off by Nyanmajo elsewhere.
"Look out!" A voice from behind said, grabbing Lucas by the arm away from the lamp post that nearly crashed and burned quite literally onto Lucas. Now, it just crashed and burned onto the streets.
Being forcibly grabbed to safety, things were thankfully not in a constant inferno. Conveniently, this is also where Sarunyan landed by the looks of it.
"Are you alright?" The mysterious arm grabber said, reveling to be the black haired cool kid Sarunyan and his friends had encountered earlier today.
"Yes...I wasn't expecting things to be on fire so suddenly for one thing..."Lucas huffed, trying to catch his breath.
He looked up at the other boy, there was some odd connection. Sure they both had the same black hair and brown eyes, the other's maybe being a bit lighter than Lucas', and the other's skin and style was a sharp contrast for certain.
"Who...are you exactly?" Lucas asked.
"Who am I? Well my name is Claus." The boy, Claus introduced himself.
"I see, I'm Lucas." Lucas introduced himself.
"For some reason we sound alike. Not sure why, I can not put my finger on it..." Claus responded, looking into deep thought. It seemed to have clicked with Lucas as well.
Before any more analyzing could take place, Sarunyan slowly made his way out of a bush he crash landed in.
"Lucas, kid, buddy!" Sarunyan said as he walked around quite dizzy, getting back his balance from being flung by Nyanmajo single handed. "I think I said something about strange mysterious anime kids you shouldn't trust!"
"Sarunyan, what are you trying to say?" Lucas asked.
Entering in on the scene was Venoct and Draggie, having found the others after escaping the barrage of infernos that seemed almost endless.
"We took care of Nyanmajo, the fire department is taking care of the rest." Draggie said, catching up. Venoct looked at the two boys and the monkey cat quite puzzled.
"Lucas, are you alright, what is going on here?" Venoct asked, raising his eyebrow.
"Venoct, you know how I was saying there was some mysterious kid I took not only that odd medal from, but also is probably behind this feline Armageddon of strife and discord? This is them! Right here!" Sarunyan said, pointing frantically at Claus.
"Is that so? If Lucas trusts you Sarunyan, I'll take your word for it." Venoct said coldly, about ready to go in for an attack on Claus.
However, as Venoct was lunging forward, fists ready to punch this kid into the ground, Claus stopped him. Right there, holding the slippery yokai's aggressive fist one handed. Venoct was paused right where he was, completely stunned at how he was even stopped.
"W-What!?" Venoct yelled, confused.
"Allow me to actually explain what's going on." Claus explained rather calmly, getting everyone to calm down. "I am not the one behind the nyans sudden outbreak of aggressive behavior. I just happened to witness it unfold."
"Do you know who's behind it, then?" Venoct asked.
"Yes I do, if my guesses are right, the ones behind this outbreak and fit of rage are none other than Cynake and Firewig. Why they've decided to do such things is beyond my belief. I was just wandering into the human world when it unfolded." Claus explained, the other yokai looking shocked.
"I know Firewig's a very angry guy, but Cynake? He's on the Slippery Kingdom's council, he wouldn't do such a thing, even if he is a bit cynical." Venoct said, getting more and more questioning of the other's motives. "You sure you aren't the one behind this incident?"
"You don't have to be so aggressive about it..." Claus responded, not being the biggest fan of Venoct's attitude.
"Wait, you said human world? Are you implying you aren't even human at all!?" Sarunyan added in, just about as aggressive.
"That's all for another day and besides the point." Claus said, being less than thrilled with the attitudes of the yokai. "Heck, I think the two of you have already gave you their inspirtments. Just hasn't quite kicked up yet."
"Do you even have anyway to fix them before they completely go insane?" Lucas asked, being quite concerned for his Yokai friends.
Claus simply snapped his fingers, Sarunyan and Venoct seeming to have gotten the effects.
"...Why was I so angry?" Sarunyan asked himself.
"I said I wasn't the one to get usually so enraged...what was even going on back there?" Venoct questioned as well.
"If you couldn't hear, yokai named Cynake and Firewig are behind the sudden enraging outbreaks...We do not know their motives, but I have a feeling they won't end well." Lucas briefly summed for the two yokai.
"Worry about questions no more, or where to even find us." A rather cynical voice hissed.
"Who said that?" Lucas asked, looking around.
"We'd cut to the chase, but my partner says to just let you know something about the dark nya-ight rises or something." A much more blunt, and angry voice said as well.
The voices, despite being kind of distant, felt a bit close. But without much other warning, something, more than one thing jumped out from behind with quite the loud rustling...