From where things left off, things were growing quite suspicious as finally Lucas and company turned around.
Standing before them were the blatant culprits themselves. There was the blue scaled and ever so cynical Cynake and quite the angry centipede Firewig.
"So you two are the ones behind every single nyan being so enraged!" Sarunyan confronted. "Do you know how much property damage you've committed?!"
"The more the merrier with the enraged carnage, as Firewig would say." Cynake commented back. "In fact, from these ever so angry and upset kitties, we hope the damage they create helps us in our goal."
"Goal?" Lucas asked, both fearful and confused as to what these yokai were planning on doing.
"Quite simple really, strife and discord is something dating back to legends of old, like why the sun and moon are in separated into day and night. With such anger, we hope a very particular seal will finally break loose." Cynake responded, not giving much of a clue. Firewig gave an angry sigh.
"To put simply, this carnage and anger between all these dang cats is to accomplish a goal to get us vengeance or something like that. I dunno, didn't really have time to look over the paperwork. I know if we didn't comply we would be sent right into the inferno." Firewig sneered. "Any other words outta you kid and you're gonna be thrown right into the inferno of the damage."
"Could you please stop, then?" Draggie asked, just about as scared as Lucas in this situation.
"That is a question so bad I don't even want to deal with it!" Firewig sneered with a glare in his ever so angry eyes.
"Good thing we have someone who's fallen into our shady business." Cynnake said, as stepping forward between the two was what looked like a silhouette of a cape wearing cat.
"Hovernyan?" Sarunyan asked, seeming to recognize the feline. "Is that you?"
But Hovernyan this was not. The feline had fur as dark as the night, a dark blue cape, a golden belt, and matching glaring yellow eyes. He looked quite smug over the usual heroic look the hero cat is known to have.
"Hovernyan? I believe you mean Darknyan, the dark nya-ight." Darknyan introduced himself, causing some confusion.
"Darknyan, never heard of that one before..." Draggie said, confused as he tilted his head slightly.
"Something isn't quite right about him..." Claus brought up, rather calmly observing the situation.
"What do you mean by that?" Venoct asked, raising his eyebrow.
"Usually two negatives make a positive, but here I think that only applies to strength and power and not exactly to morales. I think those are worse..." Claus explained to the group. "It might have been caused by two negative inspirtments.
"I can feel that vibe vaguely too...I know some sort of negative aura is involved..." Lucas commented, feeling rather unsettled by the presence.
"I've had enough waiting around and listen to you go on and on about nonsense." Darknayn sneered, slowly hovering a bit closer to the quintet of boys and their yokai. "Let's cut the chit chat and settle this!"
Nobody needed to say a word for the black feline to start throwing punches and being more rough and aggressive. Sure everyone was a bit agile in dodging, but they could only keep it up for so long.
Draggie flailed his arms, casting a decently sized rock to be dropped onto Darknyan right from the thin air. The black feline let out a loud, audible hiss at the small dragon yokai. Darknyan was certainly not a pleased feline, slashing his claws at a nearby tree. From the sheer angered force of the feline's claws, the tree came crashing on down.
Or at least it was, As Venoct was quick to dive in to hold the tree with his surprising amount of upper body strength.
Darknyan, feeling as if his job was done, had his back turned. What little did he know is that as Venoct was holding the near fallen tree, Sarunyan raced up on it to stealthily attack the black cat from behind.
"Hey you, take this!" Sarunyan called out his attack blatantly, getting one scratch on Darknyan before his other fist was stopped by Darknyan. By grabbing the held fist, Darknyan still had quite a bit of guts and was able to throw Sarunyan right off of him.
"Tch." Darknyan said, Sarunyan falling to the wayside. "Monkeys, why did it have to be monkeys?"
Venoct gently placed down the tree, ready to fight this cat fist to fist himself. He would have simply hurled the tree at Darknyan, but even that wasn't in the cards for a powerful yokai like him. He kept going with his usual method of having the dragon scarf do most of the fighting for him rather than his actual fists.
Darknyan was quite agile against someone like Venoct, almost evenly matched from the looks of it. But Venoct was able to land a hit onto Darknyan. Darknyan was set back a little, but still had something up his sleeve to fight back with. Darknyan hovered up into the air a bit more, charging up something.
"Night Claw!" Darknyan yelled, performing a powerful X shaped slash onto the dragon scarf wielding yokai. To everyone's surprise, it caused Venoct to fall back into a tree.
"Venoct! Sarunyan!" Lucas yelled pretty horrified.
"Why you...you're supposed to be on the side of good, not do this kind of evil stuff!" Draggie said, trying his best to sound intimidating to the dark feline. Darknyan only sneered once more at the sight.
"I don't expect much from you kid, honestly." Darknyan said smugly. "In fact, I won't even move. I should be able to defeat you two just by staring if I was able to take care of that alleged Elite yokai single-handedly."
"You mr. bad cat! Take this! Draggie Stone!" Draggie said, taking up a stance. His little stubby dragon arms waved once more, this time causing the ground to shake. Being in the air, Darknyan didn't feel a single thing.
"As I said, I wasn't expecting mu-" Darknyan tried to respond to the dragon kid's attack, only for a smaller yet loose tree to hit him right on the head. This was the second time he had been hit in the head by a falling object.
Surprisingly, the small tree had a stronger impact than just a rock, causing Darknyan to spin a little and with a puff of black smoke, gone was Darknyan's dark color scheme and in was Hovernyan's blue fur and iconic red cape and transformation styled belt. He seemed a little dizzy still, however.
"...My head hurts...I was not expecting this today..." Hovernyan commented, being quite dazed.
"Are you alright?" Lucas asked, helping Hovernyan from getting out from the fallen tree.
"Yeah I'm mostly fine...But thanks kid, I dunno where I'd be without you..." Hovernyan thanked, trying to get back to hovering as normal. It took a bit of getting used to, being bumped on the head doesn't do so well sometimes.
"Do you have any idea what's going on, my fellow nya?" Sarunyan said, having finally been given the strength to get back up. Hovernyan paused, looking into deep thought.
"A little. Those two yokai, Cynake and Firewig want to use negative emotions to break a seal for something incredibly dangerous. What this is, I'm not sure..." Hovernyan commented, looking a bit distant. "But if they have the power to make me that enraged I become a completely new yokai, I don't want to know what else they have planned..."
"...Else? You mean they already have a plan?" Lucas asked. Hovernyan simply nodded.
"Yes, if I recall vaguely, they wish to go to the roof of Springdale Elementary and spread their anger and discord further!" Hovernyan explained, the stakes being set up higher now. "If we don't hurry, it could spread all across town, and maybe even into the yokai world as well!"
"Well if the stakes are that high, we should be getting a move on then, yeah?!" Sarunyan responded energetically. He went over to where Venoct was, who was face down into the ground. "Especially yokai like you!"
"I need...I need seafood to regain my strength again..." Venoct muttered with only slight movements, face first into the raw dirt.
"That can wait! We have way more important matters to be dealing with!" Sarunyan scolded at the slippery yokai. Draggie soon stepped by were Venoct was, grabbing one of the other's arms.
"I'll take him to get some seafood. It shouldn't be that far from here. Everyone else you all need to hurry!" Draggie said, getting on his way to drag his fellow slippery yokai to get some seafood.
"Do you think we can even take on this sort of thing?" Lucas asked, seeming very worried. "I mean, they are two pretty powerful yokai..."
"There isn't enough time to question whether or not something is dangerous, it's now or never." Hovernyan boldly stated, leading the way for Lucas and Sarunyan. "Now, we must make haste before things end in an enraged disaster!"
The gang raced up to where Springdale Elementary stood. There was already something pretty wrong brewing in the winter air, and it was best to try and stop it before it goes completely out of control and turns everyone into a mess of anger and rage.
Despite the stakes being set quite high, this wasn't the real issue at hand for the three of them.
"How are we going to get in?" Lucas asked, trying to open the door to the school. "We let out for Winter Break not that long ago...So the school is locked up."
"Do you have a key, then?" Hovernyan asked, looking at the door confused. There was a clearly chains around the door handles, kept together by a single lock. Sarunyan inspected the locks, getting an idea.
"I have an idea." Sarunyan said, approaching the lock. "You guys may want to step back, this may not get pretty."
Lucas and Hovernyan stood back a good distance from Sarunyan. Sarunyan looked at the locked door readying his monkey cat fists.
"Take this you dumb stupid good for nothing lock! Monkey Burst Paws!" Sarunyan yelled, using his paws to break the lock out of sheer spite and anger. Thankfully, this method worked like a complete charm, albeit with quite the amount of broken metal chains on the ground.
"Right, let's move forward! Onwards!" Hovernyan said, opening the doors and leading the way inside. Thankfully none of the alarms seemed to have went off.
Hovernyan and Sarunyan paused for a moment, as Lucas stood there for a while.
"I've...never been in here before. Could you perhaps lead the way?" Hovernyan gestured, confused about the navigation. Lucas shrugged somewhat.
"I suppose. I've never been here alone when things were closed..." Lucas commented, leading the way for him and the two felines up the many flights of stairs of the school. Thankfully, it was pretty straight forward despite everything. Nor were there any security alarms to go off. Not even any yokai were wondering about, then again it wasn't night nor did any yokai know that the school was closed for Winter Break.
Within no time, they had caught up to the two yokai with malicious plans up their nonexistent sleeves.
"Great, not only did you defeat Darknyan, somehow restoring him back to normal, but you found us as well." Cynnake commented. "How unfortunate."
"I can tell you have quite the malicious intents." Sarunyan said. "And I'm just a monkey cat, but I've beaten up an oni with my bare hands before!"
"Beating up onis bare handed, eh?" Firewig commented. "Reminds me of someone I know. But it ain't you, ya dang monkey."
"I'll show you two first to fist!" Sarunyan yelled, charging right in after the two yokai, his fists ready to fight.
Though in reality, Firewig and Cynake just had to aggressively turn around and Sarunyan be flung right off the roof.
"Ah there are only a few worthy of being on this roof." Cynake commented, fanning himself with his tail. "Let's end this quickly, I'm not one who likes the cold."
As Sarunyan was being flung off the roof, going quite the distance, he let out the most unholy blend of a cat and monkey screech anyone would have to bear hearing in their lives.
"Sarunyan's in danger." Momotaronyan said to himself, Inunyan and Kijinyan close by.
"Inunyan senses it as well." Inunyan added into Momotaronyan's comment, sniffing into the air.
"I'll go get him." Kijinyan stated, swiftly going in after Sarunyan. Thankfully Kijinyan was able to fly up just in time to catch Sarunyan in mid air, having him land to safety.
"Thanks guys...there's just some trouble going on at the roof of the school over there..." Sarunyan explained, the other three looking concerned for their nya in crime.
"Trouble? There's trouble abounds and you didn't tell us!?" Momotaronyan said dramatically, as Sarunyan nodded.
"We need to get every nya if whatever's going on is dangerous enough to fling you all the way here!" Momotaro yelled, raising his sword.
Soon the four nyans went their own directions across uptown.
Kijinyan had come across a familiar intersection in front of The Fish Place. The cat bird could pay less attention to the small dragon trying to grab a fish to revive a dragon scarf wearing yokai. What he was more concerned about was quite the angry feline.
"I'm so angry right nya-ow, I could punch a truck into the next county!" Jibanyan hissed angrily, waiting in the intersection for a truck to come on by and be thoroughly punched by this cat's paws of fury.
Before any vehicular damage could be done, Kijinyan flew on behind Jibanyan, giving him a thorough peck on the head.
Through the strength of the peck or similar, Jibanyan snapped out of his anger.
"...Why was I so angry?" Jibanyan asked himself quite confused. Kijinyan went by his fellow feline's side.
"That doesn't matter, we have places to go now!" Kijinyan said, grabbing the other feline best he could and attempting to fly off.
"Wait really I gotta loaf? Where are we going any-Waaaaah!?" Jibanyan screeched, being carried off by the bird cat into the direction of Springdale Elementary.
Over with Inunyan, he had come across Sailornyan and Nyanmajo. Sure the latter wasn't setting things on fire thankfully, but they were still bickering about.
"...And that is why I'm cooler than you'll ever be!" Nyanmajo explained, still pretty heated. Sailornyan huffed back.
"No matter how much you go on, I'm still better in every way!" Sailornyan responded quite aggressively.
Inunyan slowly approached to the disputing lady cats, pressing his tiny paws to their squabbling lips.
"I may not have the legendary hips only certain Mysterious tribe yokai, but ladies, no fighting." Inunyan said, the two felines snapping out of their dismay.
"You may not have the hips but you know what, I can't argue with a puppy cat." Sailornyan commented, settling her argument with Nyanmajo. At least temporarily.
"Now you two, you need to work together, there's some danger brewing!" Inunyan said, the two felines looking concerned.
"Oh dear, we were arguing this whole time and had no idea this was happening!?" Nyanmajo said in shock, quickly following Inunyan. "We can sort that arguing thing later, there's probably someone who needs a fine roasting."
Lastly Momotaronyan was with the nyan in shining armor, Nyanshiki. He was busy swinging his sword about, having gotten into a duel with none other than Momotaronyan himself. Things seemed to be more in favor of Nyanshiki, having a shield in addition to a sword. But Momotaronyan was rather swift, having some wit to his skill in fighting back.
"You! I will cut you down to size I swear by my blad-" Nyanshiki said, trying to cut Momotaronyan. However, the latter managed to hit the other on the helmeted head just right. Nyanshiki reconsidered his stance.
"...I feel a lot have asked this question today, but why was I fighting? Let alone without any sense of dignity or honor..." Nyanshiki questioned, wondering why he was even fighting so enraged in the first place. Momotaronyan let his paw out onto the other's shoulder.
"If you come with me, you will have a foe to fight with dignity and honor. After all, a knight like yourself should rise and defend when danger is afoot." Momotronyan explained to Nyanshiki. The knight cat tilted his head somewhat.
"Is there even danger afoot?" Nyanshiki asked the peach cat quite confused.
"Of course there is!" Momotaronyan said, leading Nyanshiki in the direction all the other nyans were taking. "And we don't got a lot of time to stammer around, either!"
Back on the rooftop, Lucas, Fuyunyan, Cynake, and Firewig were all still there, the latter two debating amongst one another.
"Listen you brutish fool, I should be the one to attack those two first. Plus I have much more cunning strategies!" Cynake went on, praising himself. "Unlike you, I'm actually on board as one of Slurpent's highest chairmen."
"If you could actually keep a sock in it, we may have actually gotten somewhere by this point!" Firewig snapped back at Cynake.
"It seems they got into their own argument..." Lucas commented in a hushed whisper to Hovernyan.
As the two slippery yokai kept on debating with one another, Sarunyan entered the scene.
"I'm finally here, to perform for you!" Sarunyan greeted, finally having made his way back up to the rooftop.
"What will you do, take us through a monkey rap, or should I say solo?" Firewig sneered, unamused by the monkey cat's return.
"Who said I was alone in this monkey rap?" Sarunyan responded, as behind Sarunyan came all the other nyans. Inunyan, Sailornyan, Momotaronyan, Nyanmajo, Kijinyan, Jibanyan, Nyanshiki, the whole gang was here. Now to join alongside Sarunyan and Hovernyan.
"Eh? You all broke out of your blind rage?" Cynake questioned at the hoard of cats.
"Of course we did, you can't keep a good cat's heart down." Hovernyan stated, leading the charge as the other nyans took their stances. "Now, it's go time!"
All the other feline lined up, before going into a mad charging blitzkrieg after the angry and cynical yokai duo.
"The Grand, Shining, Fi-nya-le!" The squad of cats yelled out, all unleashing varying attacks. Paws, blades, magic, whatever they had they used it to their full potential. The duo had either left or were completely obliterated by the sheer power of the spiritual felines grand power.
"I think that takes care of it." Hovernyan commented. All the other cats looked off rather happy, knowing that with their efforts combined, it would be brought to an eventual good.
"I'm sorry that all this happened, I'm not sure how things spread to how they did." Lucas apologized, the other felines looking at him.
"It isn't your fault at all." Sarunyan reassured. "Also don't tell that snake guy, but I've grown a liking to you. Take my medal."
"Wait you're straight up giving that child your medal?" Kijinyan asked.
"Yeah. Just come banging at this kid's door or window if the onis return or something." Sarunyan said to his teammates, handing Lucas his medal. "But, I'll still be with you guys. The medal is more of a 'call me' after all."
"Got it." Momotaronyan said, the monkey nyan rejoining with his squadron.
Sailornyan looked to where the duo was, noticing something shiny. She got a fairly good idea as she picked up the shiny object.
"Oh yes, you can have this too, kid. No need to feel bad for anything, yeah? We should be the ones thanking you for getting us out of this mess." Sailornyan said, revealing the shiny object she picked up to Lucas. What the pink cat had presented was looked like a glowing Daylily, but it seemed it was made out of something that resembled, glowing, sparkling frosted glass. It was an odd thing to describe.
"Thank you, I'm quite flattered..." Lucas thanked, reaching his hands out to the flower.
However, when his hands did as much as touch it, there was a shocking sensation that lead him to blackout. Before he completely passed out, he could hear many screams of the felines, all scrambling to get things together.
...
The time here was well over ten years ago, maybe twenty years ago. It took place in a world that looked an awful lot like ours, but had more unnatural elements. Green skies, eyes glaring from buildings, neon color schemes. But that was more set dressing in the background, the focus was on a much more peaceful looking garden type area.
Several smaller yokai followed after a much taller one. Though one of the smaller yokai in particular, one being a small girl with a blue hood, followed behind the taller woman.
"Miss Yami! Wait up!" The small girl said, trying to catch up to the older woman, Yami.
Yami stopped where she was, having the small girl catch up.
"No worries, Frostina sweetie." Yami responded sweetly, kneeling down to the child and patting her head.
The smaller girl, Frostina handed Yami over a flower. It was a lily flower, but it seemed to have been frosted over.
"I wanted to give this to you, but I ended up accidentally freezing it. I'm sorry..." Frostina quietly muttered, offering the flower. She seemed almost ready to cry.
"Don't cry dear, it's still lovely either way." Yami responded sweetly.
"Really?" Frostina asked, her verge of tears just about gone. Yami nodded sweetly.
...
When Lucas finally came to, he was back in his room laying in his bed. Draggie, Venoct, and Sarunyan were there, alongside Sailornyan and Hovernyan.
"...That was a weird dream...I've never seen anyone like them before..." Lucas muttered, still waking up. Everyone looked relieved.
"Thank goodness you're awake now." Venoct sighed in relief. "We were worried you were a goner when you passed out."
"And no, your dad doesn't know you passed out." Draggie commented. "He's still at work so we were able to get you here just fine."
"Nor do we have any idea where that black haired kid went...Claus was his name I think? You told me all this, right?" Hovernyan added in.
"Ah, I was worried he might say something." Lucas responded.
"No worries kid. I didn't know that shiny flower caused that sort of reaction, I just assumed it was of value so I gave it to you." Sailornyan apologized, but kept her head up high to reassure the kid.
Sarunyan stepped up, handing over Lucas the violet framed medal he snagged previously.
"Oh yeah, I should give you this for helping out." Sarunyan said, handing it over. "I know it isn't much, but I think it might mean something."
Once inspecting the medal further, it seemed there was vaguely some sort of symbol engraved into it now, but was still mostly covered in shadow.
What all this meant was going to have to be for another day. It was just simply too much for one eleven year old to process.