Chapter 6: Crime in the City! Unify the Heroes to the Extreme!
It was a peaceful morning in the Yokai World, everyone in Lucas' company had been asked to visit Lord Enma in one of the biggest cities of the Yokai World, New Yoma City. The yokai city was a pretty big, almost daunting place, but thankfully the yokai lord had a rather quiet private villa to all meet in. Vacation homes are plenty for the king after all.
"I think we should be good, Nurai hasn't exactly been here much all day so I think we should be good to have you all over," Lord Enma said, leading everyone into the villa to discuss.
"It was certainly a trip getting here," Dragon Lord commented. "Even more so since I couldn't sleep by where I usually do, I had to go to the living room floor."
"I'll agree, it's going to take some time getting used to how different, yet how same you are, Dragon Lord," Lucas remarked. "Same with Kyryn...Last time I was out was really odd, a lot happened at once."
"That was certainly a lot to process the other day," Lord Enma said. "Even then, I was debating on revealing my true identity now, but things ended up being sooner. I couldn't just beat around the bush, after all."
"Good point, speaking of which, care to clear up some confusion?" Venoct asked. "Ever since you revealed yourself, I had to hold back from lashing out since I swore Lucas was the only son of the previous Enma, correct?"
"That is true, Lucas is the only son of Enma," Camellia explained. "But, the current Enma here is the grandson of the previous Enma, and is a bit older, thus awakened to his powers much sooner."
"And Venoct didn't know about this because...?" Dragon Lord asked curiously.
"Well, Enma's mother and my sister, only let a very few select people know of her son at first before formally announcing it," Camellia clarified, drinking some of the offered tea. "But chaos ensued when shortly after Lucas came along. Many argued over who should inherit the throne, some getting rather violent."
"Plus me and Venoct were busy in the human world at the time, we barely knew what was going on in the yokai world, let alone who were to inherit the throne," Kyryn added. "We were asked to stay in the human world, and we kept that absolute promise for as long as we could, making sure that Lucas was safe.."
"You two made a promise to Enma's mom?" Inunyan woofed, trying to get onto the table for any scrapings of treats.
"Yes, that was to protect Lucas in the human world, no matter what," Kyryn answered. "As I knew to her, the bonds of humans and yokai were extremely important, and even saw Lucas as a son rather than a very young brother."
"All this talk about mom...Nobody really wants to tell me what happened to her." Lord Enma solemnly added in. "That is, if I even had a mom."
"Of course you did, I remember her, but only vaguely. I am the third youngest of the family, after all," Camellia tried to reassure. "But...nobody knows exactly what happened to her, and the last two people to have ever seen her have well, disappeared. And looking for answers ended up getting me well, turned into a cat of all things."
"If that's the case then-" Lord Enma tried to ask, until something happened.
In the middle of the civil conversation between family members, there was a flurry explosion sounds, followed by several loud screeches. It wasn't too far off, either. Looking outside, there were several yokai whom looked very...soulless. This was a frightening sight.
"...Lucas, everyone else, run," Lord Enma stated, taking up a stance. "This may get less than pleasant, and I think this may give a clue what was holding up Nurai."
Lucas and the others did as instructed, they ran out, trying to avoid the weird soulless looking yokai. Despite things seeming fine at first, they quickly got worse and worse.
"Have no fear, innocents of the city!" A voice called out, as shortly thereafter, a figure riding on a stylishly decked out motorcycle as explosives went off behind her appeared among the soulless yokai ready to attack whatever they saw. She quickly got off the motorcycle, giving Lucas and company a better look.
This strange hero wore a pearl white suit highlighted with gold and pink. Her motif consisted of a pegasus themed helmet with a scarf that resembled wings, and stars on the cuffs of their gloves and boots. She wore a chest plate with a large golden "V" on it, and her belt seemed to have...a yokai watch strapped to it? Or possibly something that merely resembled the watch. Nobody in the party was quite as savvy with spandexed heroes, after all.
"When all seems lost, in the darkest of times, there will always be a shining star of love and justice among the chaos!" The mystery hero said, doing a stylish pose for her entrance. "For I am none other than the one and only shining hero, Pegasus Shine!"
As Pegasus Shine finished her introduction speech with another pose, another set of explosives went off, knocking over the darkened yokai with a large explosive to cap off the introduction.
"Wow, I already won the fight before it even started..." Pegasus Shine remarked, confused that she had already won. "Kinda lame, but ah well, guess they weren't so tough after all."
"Just who are you?" Lucas asked. "Aside from the fact your name is Pegasus Shine."
The powerful ranger noticed the group asking them that question, catching her attention quite quickly. "Oh uhh, get on my bike kid, I'll explain back at base."
Pegasus Shine brought over her stylish ride, urging whoever could fit on to get on and all who couldn't to just case after as fast as possible. The ride was rather quick, but short, leading the group into a nearby sushi place.
"Do you really do operations from a public space like this?" Venoct asked, as Pegasus Shine merely looked back a little as she headed towards a supply closet towards the back of the shop. Before her was a keypad.
"Not everything is what they seem, now keep down," Pegasus Shine responded back. "We're happy it's not rush hour and that I brought an entire crowd with me."
Keeping things a bit more quietly, Pegasus Shine quickly punched in the numbers "78744" into the keypad, prompting open an elevator. It was roomy enough for everyone to get inside, and still have a bit of breathing room.
Once everyone had reached their destination, it was, well, much more decked out. Computer monitors, glass cases of weapons, a snazzy meeting table. Though, it was rather barren, aside from a small pastel yellow furred feline with a strong celestial theme.
"Alright I figured I can trust all of you with not only being in here, but my true identity," Pegasus Shine said thoroughly to the group, removing her helmet. With a sparkling shine, the helmet changed into a small, yokai medal-like object and now standing was no longer a costumed hero. Standing before everyone was a young woman with fluffy, light brown hair, slate blue eyes, and pretty plain yet rugged clothing, including a shirt with some pirate team emblem, normal hot pink pants, combat boots, and a regular length silver coat with white and gold trims. Around her neck was a scarf similar to the one she wore as Pegasus shine, but white and much smaller, still having the compact clipped to it.
"Name's Katherine Noha, but just call me "Kiara", it's a whole lot easier to remember and doesn't open up a can of worms when you misspell my name," the revealed identity of Pegasus Shine, Kiara, introduced herself.
"Kiara Noha!" Inunyan happily woofed at the summoner's introduction. "It's been so long! I've missed you so much!"
The entire room was absolutely speechless.
"Wait, you know this woman?" Lucas asked.
"And you never said anything until now?" Dragon Lord added in.
"Well, I kinda forgot for a long time," Inunyan responded a bit hastily. "Time can go by kinda fast and I forget stuff in that time. Especially over ten years. Lots can happen in that time!"
"Yeah, same goes for Momotaronyan and the other companions of his. We had similar goals in mind so we thought teaming up would be a good idea," Kiara responded. "I've been yokai summoning for about ten years, still looking for my next big claim to fame since I haven't lived up to my biggest fame ten years ago. Been kinda a struggle."
"Really? What was that claim exactly?" Kyryn asked. "I might have missed it due to being in the human world at that time."
"You see I had to rag tag a team of yokai together, but me, Inunyan and his friends, and a few other yokai all decided to take down the tyrannical Chairman McKraken after I found out one of my classmates was actually a missing yokai princess and the yokai world was kinda in shambles," Kiara explained, sounding proud of herself. "I have a few medals from way back then, but some of them got lost when moving, then literally days ago I was in St. Peanutsburg to investigate yokai activity, but that my friends is pretty much whole other story. All that matters is that somehow we're all here now to try and stop the crisis."
"Hmm, well I do vaguely recall hearing about a human teaming up with several yokai to rebel against McKraken's utter tyranny..." Venoct brought up. "But it was so long ago, and a lot happened at the time, I almost completely forgot about that part of yokai history."
"But why did you appear in such odd attire? Why did things explode when you posed?" Camellia asked, as Kiara laughed a little.
"Ohohoho, now that, that is going to have to be explained in one way: flashback!" Kiara made a stylish segue into well, the aforementioned flashback.
A few days ago, the yokai summoner, Kiara Noha, had made her way home from the town of St. Peanutsburg, after having quite the long adventure. Then shortly after her arrival back home, Christmas had arrived and was suddenly scrambling around the human and yokai worlds with her new team. After all, someone at the Yokai Council thought it was an excellent idea to put an entire hero team and a newly joined "6th ranger" of the team in charge of Santa duty this year.
But Kiara was mostly focused on wanting to relax after a lot of wild shenanigans these past few weeks. Her partner in justice, Celestnyan, was relaxing on a nearby bookshelf, making sure not to knock over any of the summoner's tokusatsu memorabilia.
"Geez, I got up only a few hours ago and expecting to relax after Christmas, who's banging at my window?!" Kiara yelped, crawling out of bed, groggy as she was about ready to drop off to sleep before someone was banging at her bedroom window.
Opening up the window, a brown feline with red samurai armor came in, sword in hand. Once the samurai cat was in her room, the summoner nearly froze up.
"Woah! The Merican Legendary of the Brave tribe, Last Bushinyan!?" Kiara yelped, as the brown cat gave the summoner a look.
"Geez, didn't know you knew me, don't you know to let a yokai introduce themselves!?" Last Bushinyan responded to the summoner.
"S-Sorry, got a bit excited," Kiara responded in apology. "I wasn't expecting a legendary yokai like yourself to even show up!"
"Well miss, that's because I got an important delivery and mission for you," Last Bushinyan responded. "Especially since one of my pals is lookin' for ya, given how you not only wield the Silver Crystal Star apparently, but also managed to get that no nonsense Skyshariman to partner up with ya. Now that's impressive given the amount of nonsense you spew."
"Actually, it's me who has the Silver Crystal Star," Celestnyan yawned, resting on top of a bookshelf. "Though, Kiara is my partner and can use the Celeste Dream Wand, but I'm the true possessor at the end of the day. But close enough, close enough."
"So what's this mission, oh great Last Bushinyan of the incredible legendary yokai?" Kiara asked curiously. "I'm always willing to help yokai in need!"
"No need to get so darn fancy lady. Alrighty, so my pal Kirakoma, he wanted to give you this thing he swears was a result from someone getting the shiny Silver Crystal Star. He even wrapped it up all nice and neat, so think of it as a belated Christmas gift," Last Bushinyan explained to the summoner, handing her a small but elegantly wrapped box. It was a deep royal blue with several glittering golden stars across the wrapping paper, tied up with shiny yellow ribbon. Upon removing the wrapping paper and opening up the rather plain looking box, there was...a yokai medal?
It had a pearl white frame, lacking a tribe symbol. The image depicted was of the Pegasus Constellation, and when tilted in the right light, showed the winged horse of the constellation's namesake. The label where the name of the yokai would go was blank, leaving the summoner confused. Was this bootlegged?
"What is this medal exactly for?" Kiara asked. "I mean, you positive this isn't some shady bootleg Kirakoma got a flea market or something?"
"I'm positive, girly. Kirakoma even said it was part of something involving some kind of princess and said princess gave Kira the medal to give to you or something like that. It honestly sounds beyond unreal," Last Bushinyan responded. "Though, Kirakoma was going to send it over to you, but before he could even mail it out to you, a big ol' nasty yokai snagged him and I think that princess he was lookin' after as well. He threw me the box at me and said to give it to you."
"Oh dear, a kidnapping of a legendary yokai and possibly a princess too!?" Kiara yelped. "That sounds awful, any idea where such a horrible yokai might have gone!? I'll be sure to kick their butts even if they are a tricky for to take down!"
Even in the midsts of taking a catnap, Celestnyan couldn't help but make a "snrk" sound at the word "butt" being said by the summoner. Truly she was a fusion of the solar and lunar cats.
"I ain't so sure, but I think it's somewhere in New Yoma City," Last Bushinyan added in, trying to think deeply. "Rumor say somethin' about as big as the Bonies vs. Fleshies conflict is brewing up there, so who knows how bad it may get if ain't anybody is there to stop it. You're our greatest hope, summoner!"
"Got it, leave it to me to use this weird medal and to save Kirakoma from Bonies vs. Fleshies 2: electric boogaloo!" Kiara proudly said, ready to take on the threat headfirst.
"I wish ya all the luck lady, I got things to be doin', but I'm pretty sure you got this," Last Bushinyan responded to the summoner's enthusiasm. "Though, if you don't bring Kirakoma back in one piece, things may not exactly look very pretty for ya I can be sure of that."
"So you're saying you were given a medal after assembling an artifact, and said ancient artifact awakened to your partner in crime or rather justice, Celestnyan?" Camellia asked as the summoner nodded.
"Yep, it allows me to become my extraordinary alter ego, Pegasus Shine!" Kiara remarked. "I don't get any special powers or anything, it's more of concealing my identity because hey, humans running around in the yokai world are kinda easy targets sometimes, especially if they're with a bunch of heroes. That and raises a few eyebrows, so may as well disguise myself stylishly."
"But does that explain your excessive use of explosives?" Venoct questioned the summoner's odd tactics.
"Well, those, the explosives I used are motion activated by certain motions I do. I pretty much throw a small explosive packet near an enemy, pose stylishly, and boom, explosion," Kiara tried to explain. "It's great for introductions and combat, even if I pretty much had my entire team pitch in to make them a reality since the tech is pretty complex."
"You're on a team?" Lucas piped up, looking around. "Where is everyone, then?"
Kiara quickly looked at one of many large computer monitors, several points being showing up throughout city. There were a few profiles on the side of different yokai, complete with photos and short descriptions. All of them had a "Busy, mission in progress" status under their "current status" tab.
"Well, seems everyone is preoccupied, especially given how the rival team, Tempest Pride, has been causing a lot of trouble lately," Kiara remarked, looking over the monitor. "I think it may be our best bet if we all get to the bottom of this without interfering with any of the member's busy work."
"Why do you say that?"" Kyryn asked the summoner.
"Because if Skyshariman's gonna pick a fight with Saki-chan, Origin fight's...uhh...Wrestlemania Shark Man, Hanzo dukes it out with..Uhh..the ghost of an evil robot building mad scientist from a retro game series, Bunny Mint fights...Gotta go fast, and that leaves D-Rex to fight...I think a Baby with Anger Issues, it won't be too productive if we focus all of our time to get them to stop fighting," Kiara explained, waving her finger.
"...I'm pretty sure most of those aren't the actual names of the Tempest Pride members..." Venoct responded to the summoner.
"Either way, it's in our best bet to make our own temporary team and try to find Kirakoma. Hopefully by then the heroes would have stop their overly destructive hissyfit," Kiara responded with swiftly. "So, you wanna be on a team or something? I got yokai, you got yokai, we got a mission in front of us, let's do it yeah?"
Kiara held out her hand for a handshake out to Lucas, beaming with excitement and energy. While initially quite startling with her amount of energy, the young boy knew that working with the summoner was his best option right now. Who knows what could have happened to Enma!
"I think we can work together well, despite the fact I don't have your err...enthusiastic spirit..." Lucas piped up, as Kiara posed dramatically.
"Alright! Let's get around to this, to find Kirakoma and save him from who knows what unspeakable evils in the world!" Kiara stated boldly, before posing once more. "But there's one important step I must accomplish before we depart!"
"That would be...?" Dragon Lord asked curiously, as Kiara held out the pearly white medal she described in her flashback.
"By the shining stars, I need to become a powerful hero to protect my friends, Shine Henshin Medal, Set On!" Kiara yelled with all her heart, inserting her medal into her belt clipped watch. With a few flashes of light and stylish sounds, Kiara Noha had once again transformed into the allegedly almighty Pegasus Shine. She may have not done her transformation poses yet, those had to be saved for the right time and place.
"Now, let's go on forth, clear this mission without any continues!" Kiara, now known as Pegasus Shine, yelled once more.
"...What? This is no game," Venoct questioned somewhat.
"It's a cool quote from a show I've been watching recently. I'm just trying to sound really cool." Pegasus Shine filled in for the serpentine yokai.
Soon enough, everyone was out and about, having exited out stylishly. It was up to them to find Kirakoma for Kiara, and Enma for Lucas, everyone had to come together to accomplish this!
Following the instincts of Celestnyan, the group were hopefully on the trail of Kirakoma. New Yoma City was a huge place, so it was easy for Kirakoma to be literally anywhere, and that's excluding the rest of the deep and vast yokai world too!
"Through the stars...I can feel Kirakoma's presence somewhere very close to here..." Celestnyan commented, before stopping in front of a building. "And I think we've finally found it."
Standing before them was probably many dangers up ahead, a foreboding sight before all of them. The evils strong enough to capture a legendary yokai were behind these very doors, and this place of legendary imprisonment was...
"...An kindergarten?" Lucas asked confused. Indeed everyone was standing in front of the local kindergarten of New Yoma City, attended by young yokai throughout the day. This was an...odd place to keep a legendary yokai captive to say the least. At least isn't as obvious as an evil lair or a warehouse of dubious morality.
"Well, is this where you're certain Kirakoma is being held captive, Celestnyan?" Pegasus Shine asked her partner in serving justice.
"I am certain, his presence is certainly within these walls!" Celestnyan responded, quite certain about the legendary yokai's presence.
"Let's try getting in, then!" Pegasus Shine stated, rubbing her hands as she tried to open the front doors.
They wouldn't budge in the slightest.
"Well darn, I think it's locked. Anyone want to try busting it open?" Pegasus Shine asked, as Inunyan stepped up to the costumed summoner's side.
"I will!" Inunyan barked, trying to open the doors with his little paws.
It didn't work, as Inunyan howled in regretful choices.
"Perhaps if it's being stubborn, I'll take a shot at it," Venoct said, approaching the doors. "Everyone, stand back."
Everyone did as instructed, standing a good distance from Venoct so he could do his attempt. It was loud and clear as Venoct yelled "Octo Snake!" as the eight dragon heads from his scarf attacked the set of front doors.
Not even that was enough.
"I-I-Impossible!" Venoct responded to the sight before him, shocked, horrified even. Who knew that an elite yokai could be foiled by a kindergarten of all things!?
Before the gang could ponder any longer about the issue with the doors, someone approached them. This was new for Lucas' group, but not so much for Celestnyan and Pegasus Shine.
"Oh hello, Sophie, I wasn't expecting to see you here," Celestnyan greeted the tiny bat girl yokai.
"Me neither, and you brought a lot of friends too it seems!" Sophie happily greeted. Pegasus Shine stepped back.
"I'll make introductions quick and painless. Lucas, Venoct, all ya'll, this is Sophie, she's my boss' daughter and the sweetest dang gal I know. Sophie, this is my pal Lucas and his yokai friends," Pegasus Shine introduced both sides.
"Is there a reason you're here at this hour?" Venoct asked. "Children should not be wandering alone, especially after school hours."
"I just left my bag in the classroom, that's all," Sophie responded to the serpentine yokai rather casually as she approached the doors. "I'll be quick since I know where I left it!"
"Wait, be careful the doors are..." Camellia tried to say, as Sophie opened the doors easily. Sure one of the doors seemed a bit unhinged after the child opened them, but at least they all had a way in. "...Locked..."
"Either way we should follow inside, since not only do we have Kirakoma to find but also a child as well!" Kyryn added in. "Whatever capture Kirakoma must be mighty dangerous!"
"Right, let's try and hurry!" Pegasus Shine said, leading the way into the educational facility with a bold dash inwards.
The inside was well, very quiet. Sure the afternoon sun was still shining strongly, but most Kindergarten children were let out earlier, at least at this particular location.
"Do you still sense Kirakoma's aura?" Lucas asked, as Celestnyan nodded in response.
"Yes, I feel the presence getting stronger and stronger," Celestnyan responded, focusing on trying to find Kirakoma.
"You could say we're getting warmer and warmer to him," Dragon Lord commented, sniffing around a bit. "And quite literally too."
"Well, you are right about the fire part, look out!" Pegasus Shine warned, getting everyone to duck out of the way of a fireball. Thankfully, it was just in time.
"W-What was that?" Lucas asked, looking around the hallway. Standing before them was a humanoid, bird like yokai with reddish-brown hair and mint green feathers. He looked quite angry, having the same darkened aura as the yokai who were cursed in the city before Pegasus Shine showed up and the same one Shuten Doji had as well.
"Defiers of justice, you stand before I, the almighty Karura of the Charming Tribe?" The yokai, Karura introduced himself. "I'll let you know one thing, I really, really do not like cursed serpents in my domain!"
"I think that's our cue to go ahead and start running," Dragon Lord whispered to Venoct.
"Me and Celestnyan, we'll catch up with you after we find Kirakoma, so for now keep this bird distracted!" Pegasus Shine planned out, running from Karura with Celestnyan. She and her feline companion didn't hesitate to open every door in sight, either.
"Well what should we do?" Venoct whispered to Dragon Lord.
"There's always the no fail plan of dressing in-" Dragon Lord responded, being shushed pretty quickly by his fellow slippery yokai.
"No! I refuse to comply with the hula method, it's to embarrassing," Venoct responded, one of his dragon heads casually taking care of one of Karura's fireballs.
Meanwhile with Pegasus Shine and Celestnyan, it seemed their searching had finally come to an end.
"Kirakoma is undoubtedly in here!" Celestnyan started, as the two of them frantically searched the room for the legendary yokai.
"I think I hear...muffled screaming," Pegasus Shine remarked as she leaned to a supply closet. Without much hesitation, Kiara opened it. In the closet, aside from typical supplies for a kindergartner classroom, was a white koma inu yokai with yellow flames and an overall star motif to him. Alas for the poor dog, he was tied up. But, that was quickly taken care of by the summoner in her costumed alias.
"I knew you'd eventually come and save me, I made that henshin medal with a bit of help, after all," The dog yokai introduced himself "But I shouldn't be so rude, I'm none other than Kirakoma of the Mysterious Tribe, and one of the Merican Legends!"
"I'll be darned, I'd never think we'd meet!" Pegasus Shine responded excitedly.
"You mentioned a princess and getting some help with the henshin medal, could you fill us in on that?" Celestnyan asked, as Kirakoma was more than ready to fill things in for the duo.
"Well you see, I'm pals with Princess Kaga, the original wielder of the Silver Crystal Star, and I think some other kind of magical thing as well," Kirakoma explained. "She was sensing plenty of danger to the point she split up the Silver Crystal Star in hopes someone with a strong sense of justice could find and use it's power for good."
"Huh...Princess Kaga, that name sounds really familiar..." Pegasus Shine pondered in deep thought. "My memory's a bit rusty, but did she ever run around as a human named Serena, who was my classmate ten years ago? I never got to see her yokai form, plus it's been years."
"I'm not so certain, though your watch...henshin belt...whatever reminds me of something Kaga said to have had at one point..." Kirakoma remarked. "Anyways, we collaborated to make that henshin medal you use, since we both knew something really fishy was going on, and we could use more transforming heroes."
"I'm glad great minds think alike," Pegasus Shine responded, as Celestnyan got things back on track.
"Do you know where Princess Kaga is now?" Celestnyan asked the sparkling yokai.
"She was going to ask for the help of the leaders of the Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls factions, Arachnus and Toadal Dude, for help in trying to bust this evil as well as check on them since she got word they were quite ill. But, they turned into horrifying monsters and I tried to save her but Karura took me. Thankfully, Last Bushinyan was able to deliver the medal to you safely," Kirakoma explained.
"So what you're sayin' is that there are extra nasty versions of the classic yokai Toadal Dude and Arachnus running around because they got sick with some crazy illness?" Pegasus Shine asked, looking deep into thought. "Sounds a whole lot like a show I've been watching recently. I may lack medical skill of any kind outside of really basic first aid but I know my video games well and got a spiffy belt, so I'm qualified for the job."
"Yep, that's what I'm gettin' at," Kirakoma nodded, as Pegasus Shine looked at the two yokai before her.
"Well what are we doing just standing around!? We should, I don't know, tell my pal Lucas that info and maybe get my team to stop picking a fight for once!? We got a princess to save on the line!" Pegasus Shine yelled, getting up ready to go before Kirakoma stopped her briefly as there was the sound of fighting and potential explosives outside.
"Before you go out and tell your friends that info, I believe we should take care of this together," Kirakoma said, handing the summoner a golden framed medal with an image of Kirakoma on it. Pegasus Shine looked absolutely shocked at what was handed to her.
"Woah! A legendary medal?!" Pegasus Shine just about screamed at the top of her lungs as she held the medal absolutely floored.
"Yep, now as you said, we should be going to help your friends now, should we?" Kirakoma responded, as Pegasus Shine nodded, standing proudly.
"Yeah, now let's go!" Pegasus Shine finished, leading the charge.
Meanwhile, things took outside in the playground with Lucas and company, and the outcome wasn't looking as good.
"Fools, you keep defying the word of justice like this?" Karura shouted with an aggressive tone, trying to look proud and intimidating on top of a slide. "I will not rest until every single one of you vile serpents have been burned to nothing but ashes! That is the way with the flames of justice!"
"Is this what you call justice? What kind of phony off brand version of justice are you even serving!?" A bold, yet familiar voice said.
"Is that...?" Lucas pondered, trying to tend to his rather charred yokai friends.
"Who are you?!" Karura asked, not noticing a small packet had been thrown on his back while it was turned. "And what makes you think you can throw such insults!?"
"Shining like the stars in the bleak night sky, I will serve justice even on the darkest of times!" The voice shouted, revealing to be none other than Pegasus Shine, standing proudly on the roof of the main building. She quickly got down from the building, first attempting to jump before taking the far less painful option of just using a nearby ladder.
"The Shining Hero! Pegasus Shine!" Pegasus Shine finished her introduction, giving one stylish pose, causing the explosive packet to do as intended, explode. Not only did it provide a cool pyrotechnic effect for the summoner's role call, but it was enough to at least throw Karura off guard and off of the slide he was standing on.
"W-What the!?" Karura yelled, shocked that he fell that fast and hard. "How could you defend such evil!?"
"Because let's be real, what did those guys ever do to you that was harmful? You shot first!" Pegasus Shine stated, quickly diving over to Lucas' side. She held the dream link item given to her by Celstnyan when they first met, the Celest Dream Wand. She quickly attached her dream watch core to the central base of it.
"Lucas, do you got a medal I can borrow really quickly?" Pegasus Shine asked, as Lucas dug around for some medals he could lend to the costumed summoner.
"Yes, I believe Camellia is around here somewhere, she should work well with...whatever that is," Lucas said, handing the medal of the mentioned yokai.
"You sure this is gonna work?" Pegasus Shine asked her feline partner with a bit of concern as she fumbled around her medals.
"I'm sure, you can use non dream medals...but it won't be as powerful, sadly," Celestnyan told Pegasus Shine.
"Either way, we're going to have to try with this!" Pegasus Shine yelled dramatically, getting Camellia to stand with her other two yokai.
Pegasus Shine inserted the medals into the three slots on the dream wand, a sound playing to confirm each.
"Brave Sun! Charming Moon! Unify together now for the sparkling celestial power!" The voice from the wand said, as power from both Celestnyan and Camellia charged to Kirakoma.
Power surged through Kirakoma, as he began to pose before the angered bird like yokai.
"Sparkling Sparkling Komastar, Celestic!" Kirakoma yelled, summoning forth a massive star storm of well, several glittering golden stars that all pelted Karura quite stylishly.
After the dazzling star show, the evil dark aura faded from Karura as he slowly got back up after being pelted with who knows how many stars.
"...What am I even doing?" Karura asked, rather dazed. "I could have seriously hurt someone had I not been more careful..."
"I'm not sure what got to your head, but we took care of it, don't worry," Camellia reassured.
"Well, I should probably clean up this mess before classes start tomorrow, thank you for helping me out," Karura thanked. "I apologize if I said harsh things, I wasn't even sure what I was doing out here, or why it feels like I've had something explode in front of me and been pelted with something. Ah well."
Both sides made it out of the Kindergarten front doors, having waved their goodbyes to Karura and wishing him the best.
"You're back, what did you need to do back there? It sounded like a lot was going on," Sophie pipped up, exiting out with everyone else. She had gotten done finding her book bag so everything was fine on her end, she didn't even have a single scratch on her.
"Ermm...a lot of things." Lucas shyly answered to the child's question.
"Did everything go okay?" Sophie asked once again.
"Yeah, no worries, now we can all head on back without any fear when fighting powerful-" Pegasus Shine explained, or at least tried to. Her speech was quickly cut off by her receiving a communication call. She quickly answered to it on a wrist mounted communicator.
"Hello? Ah geez, it's gotten that bad? Well, I'll be on my way to help sort things out as soon as possible," Pegasus Shine communicated, breaks in between her words so she could get info from the other end. She quickly regained my stance.
"Who was that?" Inunyan asked.
"Well, that was my boss, saying I need to get to downtown as soon as possible since a fight between them and the rival team has gone absolutely south," Pegasus Shine explained.
"We shouldn't stick around here much longer, plenty of danger is ahead, and if we have to go full force, we will," Celestnyan added in, trying to get everyone together.
Danger was ahead, but could it be the aforementioned Toadal Dude and Arachus? Would both sides even be able to take such danger head on? Only fate would unveil on this one for both parties involved!