Yokai's Lillian Grace

by Solunars

We all know life isn't the same when a yokai enters your life, that's true for a few. However, what if yokai were always a part of your life, making things strange as you went? This is the tale of one of someone like that, whom finds out more about not only the specters he could always see, but himself as well.

18. Chapter 7, Part 1

Chapter 7: Lillian Grace

After a long, chaotic day yesterday, it was nice for things to start out peaceful, if not rather harmonious. It seemed like the adventure would have ended here, but this was not the case. It was less an adventure's end and more of a calm before the storm.

Though thankfully, things were starting fairly normally. Lucas had made arrangements to meet with Lord Enma in a fairly high end place, the Yokai World Restaurant located a single elevator trip down from the sacred tree.

"A part of me feels like I should be wearing something nicer," Lucas commented, walking down the path leading to the restaurant. Something still felt a bit off, like nothing was exactly right.

"I'm pretty sure you should be alright, Lucas," Venoct responded. "We are affiliated with the Enma family after all, so the reception shouldn't mind too much."

"Oh yeah, aren't Kiara and Princess Kaga supposed to be coming as well?" Lucas asked his loyal serpent partner.

"Yes, though while I think Princess Kaga is on time, Kiara ended up being held at her job since schedules are...sporadic," Venoct answered Lucas' question. "You never know when there's a random crime break out..."

"True, I suppose I can get an understanding from her perspective..." Lucas said, before stopping rather dead in his tracks.

Something, or rather someone was giving off such an eerie aura.

"I'm afraid you may be a little...late to your meeting," A familiar, shady voice said, ending with a laugh. Standing behind Lucas and Venoct was none other than the shady tribe yokai, Yagyo.

"H-how did you find us!?" Lucas gasped, shaken by the return of the magenta haired oni.

"Simple really, plenty of people were making a fuss how Lord Enma was going to come here, and to my surprise you were tagging along as well," Yagyo began. "I may as well dispose of you before I get to Enma himself, eh?"

"We won't let you even think about doing that!" Venoct snapped back at Yagyo, lunging at the other yokai quite angrily, even managing to land a punch on them.

"Lucas, you need to run, now!" Venoct yelled, trying to keep Yagyo occupied. "Get Enma if you have to, don't worry about me."

"Venoct...are you sure you're going to be okay?" Lucas asked, his fear showing through for the well-being of his most trusted yokai companion.

"I said don't worry about me! Now run before you get hurt!" Venoct yelled, trying not to sound too harsh about the situation, but came off as a bit harsh in the process.

Lucas had no other choice, if he didn't want to get hurt again, he had to book it and book it fast to avoid getting hurt in the brawl between both yokai.

"We are sorry to inform you that the Yokai World Restaurant is rented out for a private event for only those invited by Lord Enma himself," The yokai at the front podium said to Lucas, seeming to not care that the child pretty much rushed in with all kinds of fear in his eyes.

There was a pause of awkward silence, the muffled sounds of Yagyo and Venoct fighting outside could be heard if you listened close enough. The muffled fighting from outside was enough for the lord of the yokai world to not only sit up, but stand up and walk over to Lucas.

"Lucas, what is going on here?" Enma asked, keeping his cool.

"Well...Yagyo's outside and-" Lucas answered, only for Enma to get a look that made Lucas stop what he was saying mid sentence.

"...I'll take care of it, stand back," Enma said, striding out rather casually to outside the restaurant, Lucas keeping a safe distance but couldn't help but watch as well.

The fighting between the slippery and shady yokai was halted by the presence of Enma himself.

"Enma!?" Venoct yelped, catching Yagyo's attention instantly. Noticing the regal prescense nearby, Yagyo was able to throw Venoct off to the side, wanting this confrontation to just the oni and the two children of the Enma family.

"If this isn't perfect timing or what..." Yagyo laughed, their single visible eye setting right on Enma. "If I couldn't get that first kid, I can just go straight for you instead!"

"I would calm down if I were you," Lucas asked, stepping in before anything could brew up again. "But first, let's take things a bit more peacefully. Namely, why are you so dead-set on trying to hurt me and Enma?"

"Simple really, children who don't know anything should not be left in charge of the entire Yokai World," Yagyo answered in a snarky tone. "Which is why I'm set on making everything right again by my own hand! I should know, I was on the council long before you dared to inherit the throne!"

"I'm not a kid, I can take whatever burdens are thrown on me!" Enma shouted back, getting out his blade and attempted to slice the oni right where they stood.

It seemed to work at first with an attempt at going for the neck. But, Enma quickly learned that Yagyo's head was detachable, avoiding the entire slice outright. This was quickly followed up by the oni kicking the young lord in the gut, kicking him down.

"I've had enough of listening to you brats talk. I should have ended this long ago..." Yagyo snarled, unsheathing their blade, ready to cut both Enma and Lucas into ribbons.

Seconds before the blade impacted the both of them, an aura dragon stopped the blade, gripping with a great might.

"You will not hurt either of them!" Venoct yelled, completely fed up with Yagyo. "I never got to punish you proper for what you did to Lucas!"

Through sheer anger, Venoct was able to fling Yagyo back, with quite the impact as well. The oni's blade was also thrown quite a bit out of reach, leaving Yagyo completely unarmed. This gave time for Enma to get back up, pretty angered at the shady oni yokai.

"You...You've committed so many crimes, from hurting a child, to attempted regicide, I can't allow this," Enma spoke, a flaming aura starting to form around him. "Which is why I'm sending you to the Infinite Inferno!"

Below Yagyo's feet a circle of fire began to form, before creating a hole that dropped Yagyo right into the inferno itself, without any sense of escape.

"I'd like to see you make it to Wii-ha in one piece, foolish children!" Yagyo yelled shortly before descending down into the inferno

Lucas, watching all this, stood quite a bit ways back, rather terrified of the actions Enma had just done. Did he really just do that? That was...completely frightening to say the least.

"...I'll admit I've never done that before..." Enma admitted, quickly taking note of Lucas being horrified. "Sorry if I spooked you, Lucas."

"It's okay just...don't do that again..." Lucas responded, caught a bit off guard by a sudden, yet sweet hug. In response, Lucas hugged Enma back as well.

"I won't, unless someone harms us directly again," Enma reassured.

"Oh right, didn't Yagyo say something about Wii-ha?" Lucas asked, slightly confused. "Where is that exactly?"

"It's a bit far off in the Yokai World, but I know where it is." Enma answered. "But we should wait for that summoner to get here before we head out. The more the merrier, after all."

"Right, let's head inside, then!" Lucas stated, leading Enma and Venoct back into the restaurant in waiting for Kiara to come back.

Years before the ongoing events happened, a young yokai summoner stood on in front of the gates to the Yokai World. Kiara, while just an energetic fifth grader, had bonded strongly with her friends in the Yokai World. Now, it was up to her and her friends to take on their greatest foe from taking over both worlds. The young summoner had been guided to the pathway to the lord's gate from her classmate, Serena, who could see yokai with her eyes, no need for a yokai watch.

"You're pretty powerful...I shouldn't have underestimated you..." A nine tailed fox yokai with golden and violet fur commented. Standing by Kiara's side were various yokai friends of hers.

"Well, we took care of that fight. Natural, considering my fighting ability," Sheen stated, as Kiara's other two brave yokai nodded.

"Yeah, that fox was a piece of cake!" Momotaronyan cheered. Kiara stepped her foot down, posing with a pointed finger.

"Besides, there's only room for one handsome yokai here," Casanuva chimed in. "And that would be me."

"Alright fox face, we took you down!" Kiara confronted the nine tailed yokai as she stepped forth to confront the fox herself. "Does that mean you're gonna really help us big time now?"

"First of all, my name is Kyubi. Second of all, I believe there are some things I need to explain before you go on ahead..." Kyubi responded to the summoner's confrontation.

"Please, do go on," Serena said, almost seeming to apologize for her friend's aggressive nature.

"You see, before all this chaos with McKraken ensued, I'm pretty sure you've heard about King Enma from the yokai coming up here, correct?" Kyubi asked.

"Yeah, he used to rule the Yokai World peacefully, but sadly he passed away due to old age, leaving the throne empty," Kiara answered, Kyubi nodding in response.

"Indeed you are quite observant, but he had several daughters before he passed on," Kyubi explained further. "One of those princesses being you, Serena."

"What!?" Serena gasped a loud. "But...I never knew this! Why didn't I know about this sooner!?"

"Simply put, even though you were a daughter of Enma, we had to hide you in the human world, erasing your memories for extra measure," Kyubi explained, brushing his tails a little.

Serena looked shocked, freezing into place. This was a lot for a fifth grade student to even process. Kiara put a reassuring hand on her classmate's shoulder.

"Human or yokai, you're still my friend, Serena!" Kiara reassured, while energetic, meant very well. "If yokai like Sheen, Momotaronyan, Casanuva, Dinoshi, and now Kyubi of all people can see me as a friend despite being different, I can do the same with you."

"I see, thank you for being my friend, Kiara," Serena thanked. "Even if I have to leave you to restore the yokai world after we win...I'll never forget you."

"No problem about being a friend! Don't worry about the future, I'm sure we are gonna meet up again one day!" Kiara responded, before cracking her knuckles. "Now, let's focus on kicking McKraken's butt now, yeah!?"

"Are you okay Kiara? It looked like you zoned out for a second there," Celestnyan asked, as Kiara snapped right back to reality.

The dynamic duo were making their ways to the ancient sacred tree to go to the Yokai World Restaurant located through the elevator there. They would of course be meeting up with the others to discuss the plans to hopefully take down Yagyo and Snee and get to the bottom of this once and for all. But naturally due to how she was a member of a hero team, the summoner's schedule was the most unpredictable thing. Though, hopefully she wasn't too far behind the agreed meeting time.

"Ah it's nothing, just walking down this part of town and seeing this big old tree kinda sparked up my memories again," Kiara responded casually. "Fighting that squid was pretty dang awesome, I need to catch up with some of the yokai I befriended back then. It's been a long while."

As the two were walking with one another, Kiara couldn't shake the feeling something was off-putting, unsettling even. Even Celestnyan picked up the diabolical presence.

"Kiara, look out!" Celestnyan yelped, tackling Kiara out of the way of something. That something being a cut from a cursed blade they just both barely managed to avoid.

"That...was incredibly close..." Kiara said, a bit shaken and trying to get up alongside Celestnyan.

"Next time, I'll be certain you won't get out of my way so easily..." An intimidating voice creeped through the woods, but Kiara knew the voice quite well.

"Snee was it? I know you and your crazy blade." Kiara called out, as the cursed swordsman yokai appeared before the usually hyperactive summoner.

"You're good at recognizing your yokai." Snee said in response to the summoner. "Though, I may not be familiar with your feline, didn't know you traded two for one."

"Getting a better look at you, I can't help shake that feeling of familiarity somehow..." Kiara thought in deep thought, getting a better look at Snee. "Something about your style, the look in your eyes...Wait..."

"Wait on what, exactly? I don't like being stalled for too long," Snee asked, as Kiara came to a conclusion.

"Shortly after I defeated McKraken ages ago, I lost my medal for Sheen and could never find it...and given your look and the way you use your sword...You wouldn't happen to know what happened to that medal, now would you?" Kiara asked, expecting no answer but to her amazement, actually got one.

"Of course I know what happened to your medal," Snee answered. "I should know, I used to be that Sheen you befriended. But, my fair lady, someone I deeply cared about, died but resurrected and gave me the blade I have now. I only have one mission, to cut through anything that moves for revenge."

"So you gave up a life of protecting the innocent and became someone who mindlessly slashes through anything that moves because of some dang sword somebody gave you!?" Kiara yelled, almost enraged. "I'd never think in a million years you would never do anything as absurd like that!"

"What does that all even mean for you and me, exactly?" Snee answered to the summoner. "I have a reason to be doing what I'm doing, and you don't. I vaguely remember only wanting to help people because of watching too much of those shows..."

"I don't need a tragic reason to help people, and even if my reason is I was sparked by watching tokusatsu shows, then so be it!" Kiara snapped back, sounding livid in her tone. "And what this means for the both of us...as someone who fights and protects the innocent, I'll have to stop you myself!"

"Do you really think you can do that?" Snee taunted at the summoner. Kiara responded by giving possibly the most serious look she could conjure up, fixing her brows and gritting her teeth for that extra measure.

"Even if time has long since passed, feeling Mysterious and Slippery through my hands, I'm still one with a Brave heart. My ways may be Mysterious, almost Eerie to some but I'm not too Shady. I'm Tough as nails, and even though I'm a Legend in the making, I won't hold too much on my past. That's because I'm here to make the future bright, shining brighter than the stars!" Kiara yelled, cleverly working in just about every yokai she had being summoned with her speech. First was Snow Rabby, followed by D-Rex, Hanzo, Bunny Mint, Origin, Dr. Kagemura, Skyshariman and finally Kirakoma. To top it all off, she had worked in her transformation into her alter ego, Pegasus Shine as well. She was as pumped as ever for this showdown.

"Things might have changed as yokai come and go but one thing is never changing, that being I never stand in the face of injustice alone!" Kiara, know under her alias of Pegasus Shine, yelled with all her heart.

"Alright, I have a plan. Heroes, Kirakoma! Go find members of Tempest Pride and Kaga respectively. Rabby, Kagemura, stay guard here. Celestnyan, follow me!" Pegasus Shine planned out, everyone heading in their own directions or staying put if they were instructed.

Pegasus Shine quickly inserted the medals for Dr. Kagemura, Snow Rabby, and Celestnyan into the Celest Dream Wand, holding down a button on the front of the wand.

"Mysterious Sun, Shady Moon, Charging Mode!" The voice from the Celest Dream Wand stated, charging Celestnyan up with an energy aura.

"What do you expect, to finish me in a foolish manner?" Snee asked, rather unamused with what the costumed summoner was doing.

"Oh you'll see, and you won't even see it coming!" Pegasus Shine answered with a loud yell, ready to take him down.

"I don't have time for this." Snee sneered at the heroine's words before disappearing with a puff of purple smoke.

The summoner and her feline companion were left in awkward silence, unsure where to go. That is, until a voice piped up.

"I can take you to where Snee went, I can still feel his presence," A purple mirror yokai said, catching Pegasus Shine's attention.

"Ah Mirapo, it's been awhile since I've seen one of y'all." Pegasus Shine greeted the mirror yokai. Celestnyan was rather confused.

"How do we exactly use your expertise?" Celestnyan asked, as the summoner grabbed the feline's little paw.

"Simple, all we gotta do is jump right through! Like so!" Pegasus Shine yelled, jumping through the mirror yokai with Celestnyan in hand and instantly being warped.

Their location now was in Downtown Springdale, a peaceful downtown area and where it seemed like nothing was wrong. At least, to the normal folks in the city.

Hopefully none of them would mind a crazy costumed hero trying to chase down a murderous swordsman through the streets.

"I won't let you get away!" Pegasus Shine yelled, trying not to lose her breath as she chased down Snee in the city streets.

"Is a new tokusatsu shot here?" One pedestrian asked, noticing Pegasus Shine rushing by.

"I don't recognize that costume...It must be unannounced!" Another responded.

"Okay...I think I might have overshot about how fast I can go..." Pegasus Shine remarked, stopping to catch her breath.

"We don't have time to stand around, we have a murderous swordsman on the loose!" Celestnyan tried to encourage the summoner to get moving.

"I think I might have a better chance if I caught a bus or a train..." Pegasus Shine responded. "I forgot about the trail of where Snee was headed."

"...Is it me or is the ground shaking a bit more?" Pegasus Shine asked aloud.

"I dunno, I can't feel anything." Celestnyan, clearly floating in midair, responded with casually, only for the duo to be greeted by Kiara's long time dinosaur friend.

"D-Rex! Are you on the trail of Snee?" Pegasus Shine asked with a wave.

"Yes I am, he went into the direction of the Everymart down here!" D-Rex responded quite proudly. "I'll pound that guy into nothin' once I find him!"

"Well buddy, if we're on the way to the same place, mind if I hitch a ride?" Pegasus Shine asked, as the T-Rex yokai nodded.

"No problem, I just have another passenger along for the ride, so you should still have room," D-Rex responded, lowering his head to let the summoner and her feline companion hitch a ride.

"Who's the other rider with us to-Oh." Pegasus Shine questioned at first, only to be greeted with the rookie member of Tempest Pride, Bad Boya.

"Yo," Bad Boya greeted simply, not really caring like the delinquent in the making he was.

The team was hot on the trail of Snee, leading the pegasus themed summoner to prompt a question.

"Bad Boya, can I borrow your medal really quick?" Pegasus Shine asked, pulling out her medal case to grab a light blue dream medal.

"Sure why not, what's the worst that could happen?" Bad Boya said, handing the summoner his medal without any care. As with the summoner's norm, she quickly inserted D-Rex and Bad Boya's medals into the sides of the Celest Dream Wand, holding down the button on the front.

"Slippery Sun! Charming Moon! Charging Mode!" The wand's programed voice said, giving yet another charge to Celestnyan.

Of course, the audio cue combined with a giant T-rex yokai going through the streets was enough for Snee to flee at the mere sight.

"Darn, he got away!" Celestnyan scowled.

"At least we didn't destroy any buildings on our way here," Pegasus Shine responded, getting off of D-Rex, thanking the dinosaur before running into the Everymart. Celestnyan naturally followed suit.

To not make a scene of the peaceful convenience store, the summoner and her feline companion quickly darted to the bathroom, where a Mirapo was peacefully waiting there. Perhaps without asking they would be back on track of Snee.

This lead the dynamic duo out into the sandy shorelines the port town of San Fantastico. Though while there wasn't any murderous swordsmen from the looks of it but there were two members of the hero teams maxing and relaxing.

"Uhh Origin, The Shark, what are you doing just...standing here on the shore?" Celestnyan prompted.

"Well we found each other, we were just waiting for Snee I believe it was," Origin responded to the cat's question.

"At the very least, can I borrow your medal really fast shark boy?" Pegasus Shine asked.

"Sure, just don't ever call me that again, yeesh." The Shark replied to the summoner, hastily handing over his medal.

As per usual with this routine, the yokai summoner inserted the medals of the two strong heroes, one on each side of her wand.

"Eerie Sun! Tough Moon! Charging mode!" The voice chimed, charging up Celestnyan to a third level of power.

"Alright now we gotta get moving before Snee hurts somebody or something worse," Pegasus Shine said, before darting off across the beach with Celestnyan, finding a Mirapo just conveniently sunbathing. Hopefully they wouldn't mind if the energized summoner jumped right on in.

The next location the two were sent to was a landscape shift, now in the shaded woods behind Mt. Wildwood. The summoner has really been all over the place lately it seems...

"Alright, now where is Snee...I don't like the feeling of being this deep in the woods," Pegasus Shine remarked.

"Anything can jump at us at any moment, given how much the shadows creep up out here," Celestnyan added in as well. "So it's best we be careful."

The two kept on walking, trying to keep their best pace and not to get into any danger or disturb anything suddenly. Yet, they had to keep a quick pace to not get too lost in the thicket of trees.

Everything was going just fine, until a rather loud "Ack!" from Celestnyan filled the air, being nabbed by someone invisible or at the very least hidden.

"Celestnyan!" Pegasus Shine yelled, looking for her partner in justice.

"You know of all the ways to get the attention of the summoner, that's the last one I expected," The voice of Tempest Pride's scientist, Professor Zero, remarked.

"That's the exact way of the ninja, doing the least expected," Hanzo responded. "And you better..."

"Don't say it," Professor Zero attempted to stop the Merican ninja from saying.

"...Believe it," Hanzo finished, as a loud, audible groan could be heard from the shady skeleton yokai.

"...Mind if I can loan your medal, Zero?" Celestnyan awkwardly asked after the beat of silence. "It's a long story, I just need it for very important reasons."

"I suppose, if it's for science," Professor Zero responded, handing the small feline his medal. Of course, Celestnyan's response was to throw it.

"Summoner, catch this!" Celestnyan said while throwing the medal, catching Pegasus Shine's attention.

"Got it!" Pegasus Shine yelled back, catching the medal. Going through her usual motions, she swiftly inserted the medals followed by the button of the wand being held down.

"Brave Sun! Shady Moon! Charging Mode!" The voice cued, charging up Celestnyan further with plenty of energy.

"Alright, ready to go, but where's Mirapo?" Celestnyan asked, an aura around the cat being more and more clear. Hanzo pointed in the direction.

"There's one over there, hopefully they know the trail Snee was going down." Hanzo informed, as the celestial cat and the pegasus ranger waved goodbye before teleporting through the ghost mirror once more.

Contrasting with it all, the summoner found herself on top of a train, having just left the station and out in the brisk air. From the looks of it, it seemed to be on the way to the Excellence Tower, a tall, quite popular observatory tower.

But most importantly, she found her target.

"Tsk, wasn't expecting you to catch up," Snee commented at the presence of the summoner before him.

"I'm always on the trail of scoundrels like you, and whoever the heck you work for!" Pegasus Shine yelled, trying to keep her balance on the rather fast moving train.

"That would be Mistress Damona," Snee answered, even going as far to attempt to slice the summoner rather low. Thankfully, Pegasus Shine took note and quickly jumped.

"Why did you jump on a moving train!?" Celestnyan asked, as Pegasus Shine got back in place and stood proudly.

"This is my climax, and if I gotta jump, I'll jump!" Pegasus Shine informed. "As in, this is my greatest fight yet, and if I gotta give it my all, I most certainly will!"

"I'll give you something, you're quite dedicated to a fruitless goal," Snee remarked, approaching Pegasus Shine, blade ready to slice. "I don't understand why you're so energized about meaningless things."

Before the cursed swordsman even got his blade five inches to the summoner, somebody threw a playing card between the two. Who the heck...

The answer came shortly after as getting out of a window on the train car Pegasus Shine and Snee were squaring off on and on top to join the summoner was the cute spy yokai Bunny Mint.

"Apologies for my less than elegant introduction, you two were making quite the fuss, and I figured one of you was Snee."

"Bunny Mint, good timing as always! Did you find Speedy W?" Celestnyan said.

"I found him and he's following us just not...as you'd expect," Bunny Mint responded, as Pegasus Shine just noticed the speedy yokai keeping up with the train.

"Hey hey! We should make quick work of this guy yeah?" Speedy W yelled, running by the train at incredible speed. Before Pegasus Shine could really process it, the speedy yokai's medal was thrown to her and in her hand.

As usual, Pegasus Shine did the same routine of inserting the side medals and holding down the button.

"Mysterious Sun! Heartful Moon! Charging Mode!" The programed voice called once more, leaving Celestnyan charged up further and Snee even more unamused.

"Psh, I'll see if you can catch me where I go next," Snee commented at the rather ridiculous situation, before disappearing again.

"Where did he even go?" Bunny Mint asked.

"He went to the top of Excellence Tower!" Speedy W answered rather quickly.

"How did you get there so fast?" Pegasus Shine questioned, not even noticing Speedy W disappearing at all.

"Speedy is in my name. Anyways, Summoner, you gotta go fast!" Speedy W responded, the train stopping at the stop for Excellence Tower.

"We made it, but we don't have time for any lines or elevators!" Pegasus Shine yelled, jumping off the roof of the train and running to find the nearest Mirapo, Celestnyan following the summoner as usual. Hopefully a few passing by pedstrians from the train wouldn't mind her prescense

"I swear, there is some unannounced tokusatsu show being shot here in Springdale!" One of the same pedestrians from downtown remarked, pointing to the running pegasus ranger.

"Did you see a film crew?" Another remarked, getting off the train.

"No, but it must be recorded kind of invisible recording technology!" The same downtown pedestrian commented dramatically.

Thankfully, the duo found their mirror yokai and with a dramatic dive, the Mirapo was able to teleport Pegasus Shine and Celestnyan right where they needed to be: the roof of Excellent Tower. It was high up, really high up. Buildings that rose many stories into the air looked like small bricks from where they were. It almost made the summoner kind of sick, never being this high up before, let alone without any kind of guard or rails.

Despite how nervous the summoner felt, she had to keep going, she had to fight this cursed swordsman no matter what.

"I'm no hound but I never lose the trail of those who are unjust!" Pegasus Shine gave her cue, avoiding using explosions on the roof of a public structure.

There was silence. Well this was embarrassing...this left the summoner to look around for the swordsman, stepping further and further away from the secure middle and more towards the edge where she could easily fall several thousand feet. Such height made that one cliff back in St. Peanutsburg look like a joke compared to this.

As the summoner moved more and more to the edge of the roof, the uneasiness within her only got stronger and stronger. The high altitude winds were absolutely chilling, only making things worse and worse.

Just when she was least expecting it, the summoner was nearly sliced in half by the cursed blade. Having to take quite a bit step backwards made Pegasus Shine realize just how close she was to plummeting down to over a good thousand feet and likely not surviving the fall.

"Usually you're a lot more chatty than this," Snee remarked, before drawing his blade closer to the summoner. "Are you frightened perhaps?"

It took a while for the summoner to respond, but she eventually got herself together.

"Would somebody who's too scared to move do this!?" Pegasus Shine yelled in response, jumping a bit and kicking Snee in the face kangaroo style. For a normal human, it was rather powerful to the yokai and rather unexpected.

However, it all came at the price of the summoner losing all her balance and falling off the second observation deck roof, slowly but very surely plummeting to her demise.

"Summoner!" Celestnyan yelled, trying to grab for the pegasus summoner, only to be stopped by Snee.

Was this it? Was this how the summoner was going to go out? What would happen if she wasn't there to finish her job?

All these questions raced through the summoner's mind as she kept falling...

...only to feel she was going upwards...? Was she flying? Pegasus Shine looked around to see one of her yokai friends.

"Yo!? Skyshariman!?" Pegasus Shine yelled rather joyously.

"Of course, did you think I was going to let you plummet to your demise?" Skyshariman responded to the summoner.

"I'm here too, just figured I'd let you know," The bat hero yokai, Saki-chan added in, flying by the side of the sushi loving hero. She quickly threw the white clad summoner a small purple object. "Figured you could also use that as well."

"Well isn't that convenient, if only Celestnyan was down..." Pegasus Shine remarked, being set on the ground, looking for her celestial feline. She quickly noticed that the feline was in the arms of Saki-chan, being set down as well with the summoner. "...here."

"You got the hero medals, you should know the drill by now," Celestnyan said, as Kiara nodded, already having the Celest Dream Wand out.

"Of course I do, it's basically second nature at this point," Pegasus Shine reassured, inserting the two given medals to the side slots to power Celestnyan even more.

"Tough Sun! Eerie Moon! Charging Mode!" The voice in the wand said, giving yet another level of power to Celestnyan.

"So that's why your feline is glowing...interesting," Saki-chan observed, noticing the aura around Celestnyan only getting more and more powerful.

"Yep, by the way, any of ya'll know where Snee went, by any chance?" Pegasus Shine asked.

"If I were to assume, he would head to the Yokai World Resturant, given how there's a meeting hosted by Lord Enma himself there." Skyshariman informed.

"And given how he and Yagyo have some kind of beef against Enma, I wouldn't be surprised to see that crazy sword guy," Saki-chan added in, as the Pegasus Ranger nodded.

"Thank you both very much! I was needing to head there anyways, so it's all productive," Pegasus Shine responded. "Meet me in the entrance, bring any other members of your teams you find on your way as well if you can."

With that, the summoner was quickly on her way once more, going through one last Mirapo to hopefully her final stop.

One swift warp later, Pegasus Shine and her faithful partner Celestnyan had arrived in front of the Yokai World Restaurant, both of them doing a quick pose to reintroduce themselves to the dark swordsman.

"Halt! We shall not let you cross into this establishment!" Pegasus Shine yelled, Celestnyan quickly going into the restaurant to look for somebody.

"What do you mean by we?" Snee asked. "Even I can see that you're standing alone."

As if knowing the cue and doing it pretty quickly, all of Kiara's yokai, minus Celestnyan and Kirakoma, all came flowing out of the elevator nearby. It was a bit much, and Snee even got a bit trampled as the squad all formed together at last.

"Wow, that was really fast," Pegasus Shine said, starting a pose with all the yokai she had befriended. Also with good timing, came Celestnyan, Kirakoma, and Princess Kaga all to stand side by side with the summoner. "Anyways, you can clearly see now that I'm not one who stands alone."

"Did you plan this?" Princess Kaga asked, confused about the rally of yokai.

"Not at all, but it's cool." Pegasus Shine answered.

"Well, make things shine brighter than the stars!" Kirakoma commented, urging Kaga to let Kiara borrow her medal once again.

"I don't understand why you oppose me like this...you have so much energy for something you don't have a bitter reason to..." Snee tried to counter state with the summoner.

"We stand united since we all link our dreams of protecting others for the greater good in the name of love and justice!" Kiara yelled back, inserting Kirakoma and Princess Kaga's medals swiftly into the Celest Dream Wand, charging it for hopefully the final time. "Our methods may be different, but we all have the same goal in our hearts!"

"Legendarily Mysterious Sun! Regal Heartful Moon! Finale Charge!" The wand announced, giving Celestnyan an almighty surge of power, glowing in a rainbow of colors. Celestnyan took hold of the wand, the glow around the feline becoming stronger and brighter.

The celestial feline did some poses with the wand, seeming much more dramatic than before.

"Silver Moon, Golden Sun..." Celestnyan began, starting to spin around in the air a little.

"Celestial Sparkling, Grandeur Heroic Finale!" Celestnyan finished, stopping as the wand was held high up in the air. Being released was a mighty aura of sparkling, colorful energy of celestial power and proportion, having combined with help from all the yokai standing in front with not only Pegasus Shine, but Celestnyan as well. Truly, a sight to behold, let alone to be the power from within a celestial themed cat.

After the grand light show, all that remained of Snee was his blade, being drained of the cursed energy. Pegasus Shine approached the sword, holding it.

"I think it might be best to dispose of this before it gets into the wrong hands again," Pegasus Shine commented while observing the sword, before shortly throwing it into the nearby waters. "I'll think of a better solution once I get the accesses to much more powerful explosives. Or possibly an entire volcano."

"Oh yes, Pegasus Shine, did you find out anything from Snee?" Princess Kaga asked the summoner.

"Yep, I figure we can discuss things inside," Pegasus Shine answered. "A lot happened, and given how Lucas and Enma are, they probably found out something as well."

"Ah yes, it's best if we all meet right now," Princess Kaga nodded.

"Well lead the way, I'm more than willing to give my answers," Pegasus Shine responded, ready to finally be getting to the end of the rope of this long, wild mystery.