Summary: A punk rocker yokai traps the Lotus Ninjas in a music-based illusion.


In the Crete Fortress, the three Lotus Ninjas sat on a couch inside the living room. Standing in front of them was a wall mounted changing room with white curved curtains.

"Oh, come on, Lee! Will you hurry up already? How long does it take to put on clothes?" Ella complained.

"Chill, Ella." Ellie said. "You know how Lee gets when it comes to fashion. It has to be perfect, so quit complaining."

"Alright, girls! I'm ready!" Lee called out.

Lee stepped out of the fitting room and posed in front of her sisters. She was wearing a green ombre dress that featured a sweetheart neckline, a pleated bodice, and a flowing chiffon shirt. She also wore a pair of dark green heels underneath her dress.

Ella, Donna, and Ellie gasped sharply with awestruck eyes.

"Wow! Lee, it's awesome!" Ellie grinned.

"Yeah, but it doesn't scream all eyes on mine sorta vibe." Donna said as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"I'm with Donna on this one." Ella said.

"Say no more. That's why I made three new outfits." Lee replied as she magically levitated more clothes. "That way we can vote to see which one is a winner."

Ella stood in front of her sisters as she was wearing an elegant magenta knee-length dress and a pair of matching high heels. Lee, Donna, and Ellie shook their heads in disagreement. They held a score card that read number four.

Donna stepped out wearing a yellow dress with a chain strap going up from her waist to the top of her dress and matching yellow knee-high boots. Lee, Ella, and Ellie lifted their okay-ish hand gestures. They held a score card that read number seven.

Ellie showed a one-shoulder, short sleeve aquamarine dress with a dark teal sash that swirls down her arm and pale turquoise open-toe wedges. Lee, Donna, and Ella applauded with smiles. They held a score card that read number ten.

"And we have a winner, ladies!" Lee cheered. She, Ella, and Donna held out thumbs-up in agreement. "It's perfect!"

Ellie applauded with a smile, but her smile quickly changed into a confused frown.

"Wait a minute." Ellie asked. She looked down at the dress she's wearing. "Wh-why are we dressing up anyway?"

"Now that you mention it, I'm not really sure." Lee answered with a shrug.

"Yeah, me neither." Ella agreed.

"Well, if I remember correctly, the school announced a very important event..." Donna said.


[Flashback]

Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie were taking out textbooks out of their lockers.

"Hey, Donna. Can I copy your chemistry homework?" Ellie asked.

"Stay up reading comic books again?" Donna inquired with a grin.

"Yeah." Ellie replied with a sheepish smile. "It's a new issue of Justice Force. I can't say no to that."

Lee and Ella rolled their eyes before shaking their heads.

"That's no surprise, but sure." Donna replied.

Then, Ella's phone vibrated. She opened it and turned back to her sisters with an excited grin.

"Ladies, tonight's gonna be a fun one." Ella announced. She held up four tickets to her sisters. "Check. It. Out! Four tickets to Arietta's concert!"

"Uh, who now?" Ellie asked.

"You girls never heard of Arietta? She's a total radical rock star!" Ella explained. "Her music is sky high in the music charts! Tonight, she's performing her concert at Carnegie Hall!"

"Why not? I'm down." Ellie beamed.

"Yeah, me two." Donna smiled.

"Me three." Lee grinned.

[Flashback Ends]


Ella looked at the ticket in her hands.

"That's right." Ella said. "I bought us tickets to see Arietta's concert."

"And then, after school, we were getting ready for it." Donna added.

"So, that means..." Ellie said, turning to Lee.

"I'm on it!" Lee grinned as she placed her hands on her hips.

Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie each strike different poses. Lee wore a black tank top with blue stars and ruffles on the bottom, a black skirt that has a navy-blue belt with chains attached to it, black leggings, and blue sneakers. Ella wore a red leather jacket over a black crop top with red skulls, black shorts with a burgundy belt that had chains attached to it, and red sneakers. Donna wore a black t-shirt under a cropped purple shirt with several rips, a black skirt that has a dark purple belt with chains attached to it, black leggings, and purple sneakers. Ellie wore a black shirt with an orange off-shoulder shirt layered on top, black shorts with a tangerine-colored belt that had chains attached to it, and orange sneakers.

"Alright, ladies. Picture time!" Ellie declared.

Ellie, Lee, Donna, and Ella gathered together for the picture on her phone, but Ellie then noticed something from her phone. She swiped to the most recent picture, where she and her three sisters were already wearing the same outfits they're wearing right now.

"What in the world?" Ellie said as she scrolled through the past photos. "This can't be right."

Ella, Lee, and Donna stared at the photos on Ellie's phones.

"Wait, what?" Ella asked in bewilderment.

"Are you telling us that we already took pictures at the concert?" Lee asked with confusion.

"But how?" Donna wondered.


[Flashback]

Donna, Lee, Ella, and Ellie gathered together with poses as a male teenager snapped a picture on Ellie's phone.

As soon as Ellie's camera flashed, the male teen handed Ellie's phone back to her. Donna, Lee, and Ella started grooving to a hard rock song. Ellie held her phone and started recording a video of the concert.

"Here we are, y'all!" Ellie grinned happily. "My sisters and I are grooving to Arietta's opening song!"

"Hell-o, New York!" Arietta yelled. "You ready to rock?"

The crowd screamed with excitement.

Arietta's eyes glowed bright light purple.

Suddenly, Lee stopped dancing. She clutched her head and groaned through clenched teeth. When she collapsed on her knees, her sisters quickly halted from dancing and crouched around their oldest sister.

"What's wrong, Lee?" Donna asked in worry.

"You three are not going to believe this." Lee said. "I'm sensing a lot of magical vibes in Arietta. A yokai vibe."

"Are you serious? Arietta's a yokai?" Ella asked, looking back at Arietta.

"Like Baku?" Ellie said. "But how was she able to disguise herself?"

"I don't know. But whatever it is, we're gonna take her down." Lee said determinedly.

[Flashback Ends]


The Lotus Ninjas exchanged extremely confused faces.

"Okay. So, we arrived at the concert and Arietta is a yokai thanks to my aura sense." Lee said as she sat down on the couch. "But the only thing I don't understand is how we ended here in our own home?"

"That's a good question." Ellie said.

"All I remember is that we marched onstage to fight Arietta." Ella said.

"But what happened when we were fighting her?" Donna pondered.


[Flashback]

Arietta unleashed a powerful teal-colored blast of sound energy from her mouth, knocking the screaming Lotus Ninjas away and sending them to land on the floor.

Lee, Ella, Donna, and Ellie recovered before charging forward with their magic. Donna sculpted a gigantic rock fist from the ground that clamped around Arietta. Lee rotated two streams of water around each other out of thin air and formed a tornado that blasted Arietta into the air with tremendous force. Ellie and Ella unleashed a simultaneous assault with several blades of wind and a large bullet-like stream of fire that drove Arietta to the stage.

Once the smoke cleared out, Arietta was nowhere in sight on the stage.

The Lotus Ninjas then huddled together in a circle.

"Be careful, girls." Lee said. "We don't know what trick Arietta got in that sleeve of hers."

Little do the Lotus Ninjas know is that Arietta was watching them from above in the presence of levitation. Arietta casually aimed her right hand and released a spiraling teal-colored beam of sound energy at full force. The Lotus Ninjas immediately looked up and screamed once the energy beam came blasting towards them.

[Flashback Ends]


Donna's eyes widened wide in realization.

"That's it!" Donna gasped. "Arietta trapped us in some kind of illusion."

"An illusion?" Ellie repeated.

Donna summoned a dark purple flash drive in her hand.

"Shōgyō kenkyū." Donna casted.

At Donna's spell command, a glowing white sphere came out from the USB plug of her flash drive. Ellie, Lee, and Ella gathered around Donna as they stared at the display screen.

The glowing white sphere projected a holographic image of Arietta's true form. Arietta has pale-white skin and green eyes with a curled and curved line around them.

"According to the info, Arietta is a Sonido." Donna explained. "Throughout centuries, Sonidos are known for controlling and manipulating ultrasonic frequencies from shattering steel to destroying multiple buildings at once."

"Okay. My favorite rock rebel happens to be a freaky yokai. She's. So, how do we get out of her sound illusion?" Ella questioned.

Ellie's eyes widened with an idea.

"With sound!" Ellie said. "Allow me."

Ellie walked to the center, catching her older sisters' attention.

"Uh, Ellie, what are you doing?" Lee asked.

"You'll see." Ellie answered. She jumped high in the air and outstretched her arms. "Sonikkubūmu!"

At Ellie's spell command, she spun around rapidly and unleashed powerful sound blasts from her hands. Lee, Donna, and Ella quickly covered their ears. Ellie's sound blast spell shot out large shock waves that instantly disrupted an invisible force field and returned the entire environment back to an empty restroom.

"Oh, yes!" Ellie cheered. "It worked! We're finally free!"

"Now, let's find Arietta." Lee said to Donna.

Donna nodded her head. She crouched down and pressed both hands on the floor. She closed her eyes and started concentrating on seismic vibrations throughout the entire room, leading her to detect a sound-wielding yokai located on the upper floor. Then, Donna opened her eyes and turned to her sisters.

"Got her." Donna said. "Hang on."

Donna summoned a large purple flower from the ground underneath the quartet. The giant flower then sucked the mystics into the hole at the center and sank itself down to the ground.


The large flower rose up from the floor and bloomed. The Lotus Ninjas hopped out and landed on the ground just in time to see Arietta strumming her electric guitar on the stage filled with cheering brainwashed audience.

Lee, Ella, and Ellie turned to Donna, who nodded her head. Donna stomped her right foot and summoned a long earth pillar that knocked Arietta high in the air. The screaming Arietta flew upside-down into the ceiling. The Lotus Ninjas stood onstage with bold faces.

"Hey, punk freak! Mind if we jam?" Ella shouted.

"Sorry, ladies." Arietta said. "But a girl group isn't really my style!"

Arietta pushed herself from the ceiling and fell down safely on the stage.

"Take her down!" Lee yelled.

The Lotus Ninjas charged towards Arietta. But Arietta charged her hands with teal-colored energy and threw them forward into two energy waves, hitting the Lotus Ninjas and sending them to fly into the air before crashing to the ground between some of the brainwashed audience.

Arietta swiftly unleashed numerous musical notes that emitted a loud screeching noise toward Lee, who lifted her arms and blocked the musical notes with a powerful shield out of solid water. Lee then fired rapid beams of water at Arietta, who easily evaded the water beams with swift speed and then slammed her hand on the ground that created transparent teal sound waves and knocked Lee away. Ellie swiftly released a thick whip of solid air and wrapped it around Arietta to restrain her. But Arietta broke free and fired off a set of teal fist-shaped explosives that instantly attacked Ellie all around. Donna jumped in the air and unleashed multiple glowing purple seeds straight towards Arietta at full speed. Arietta simply protected herself from the glowing seeds with a teal-colored force field of sound energy. She then formed large swirling teal sound waves around her whole body and released them to hit Donna, leaving her immobilized to the ground for a brief moment. Ella rapidly unleashed fireballs at Arietta, who swiftly evaded them across the stage. As Ella kept firing more fireballs, Arietta sprang high in the air and shot explosive teal-colored fists at her with faster speed.

The Lotus Ninjas struggled to stand up on their feet. Arietta charged her hands with teal-colored energy and aimed her arms forward, firing a long energy blast at the Lotus Ninjas. Ellie moved out of the way, but the energy blast impacted Ella, Donna, and Lee that trapped them inside a swirling, conical teal vortex.

"I love to keep fighting you mystic chums, but as you can see, I can't let my fans down." Arietta said.

Arietta walked up to the microphone and smiled as the cheering crowd kept pumping their fists in the air.

"Is this an awesome concert or what?" Arietta said, looking at the shocked Lotus Ninjas inside the vortex and putting her hands on her hips. "They just can't get enough of me. Soon, my voice will be televised all over the city and then the whole world! Now, on with the show!"

Arietta turned around and gripped the microphone with a wicked smile.

"She's gonna brainwash the whole world." Ella said to her sisters. "Any ideas, Donna?"

"If I could just come up with a spell to stop the crowd from chanting." Donna said. "Something strong that will break the spell like…"

Then, Ellie's eyes lit up.

"My spell from before." Ellie said. "Cover your ears."

Lee, Donna, and Ella immediately covered their ears.

"Sonikkubūmu!" Ellie chanted.

Ellie took a deep breath and released a powerful sound blast from her mouth, disrupting the vortex and the brainwashing effects from the audience and knocking Arietta to the ground while screaming in pain.

As the entire crowd began to lose their focus, Donna swiftly released a green shining powder from her palm straight throughout the audience, causing them to fall to the floor and go into instant sleep.

Ellie, Lee, and Ella gave Donna a thumbs-up.

"Sleeping powder." Donna smiled. "Something I've cooked up for just such an occasion."

Arietta stood up on her feet and turned her head to the sleeping crowd.

"No! My fans!" Arietta shouted. She turned to the Lotus Ninjas with an angry face. "What do you do?"

"I just gave your darling fans a little knockout." Donna said.

"Just like what I'm going to do with you." Ella grinned as she began cracking her knuckles.

Ella charged forward and delivered a swift roundhouse kick that sent Arietta flying across the room. Arietta landed on her back against the wall with a groan. But before she could move, Donna carried a green shining powder on her palm and Ellie exhaled a strong wind that propelled the shining powder all around Arietta, knocking her out into a deep sleep.

Donna and Ellie high-fived with victorious smiles.

"Nice job, girls." Lee said with a smile.

"So, what are we gonna do with the yokai?" Ella asked, looking at the sleeping Arietta.

"Leave her to me." Donna said.


Back in the Crete Fortress, Donna placed a lockable black metal box that contained a transparent green glass orb that contained the sleeping Arietta on the shelf in her laboratory.

"This should keep her secure without any chance of escape." Donna said.

"Great thinking, Donna." Lee smiled.

"I'm sorry your fun night at the concert was a bust." Ellie said, leaning her shoulder against Ella's shoulder.

"It's okay." Ella said. "How about a movie night?"

"I'm in." Donna agreed.

"Me too." Lee concurred.

"Same." Ellie nodded. She quickly ran out of the lab. "But I'm choosing the name this time."

Ella, Lee, and Donna sprinted after Ellie.

"Oh no, you don't!" Ella shouted.

"Yeah, we are not watching your superhero movie again!" Lee yelled.

"Don't you dare put that movie on!" Donna said.


Shōgyō kenkyū – Japanese for commerce research

Sonikkubūmu – Japanese for sonic boom

Sonido – an OC yokai race

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