Teen Titans – New Gen Presents - Tokyo Knights
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Chapter 12: Dog Eat Dog World - Wide Network – Not Like That!
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To describe a bit better; the chapter is on the new false AI that is taking over by way of her powers in this setting, and how the rest of Raku's interaction with his new professor in Philosophy is...going. To the rest, please comment and ask as you need to if it gets harder to read. I appreciate the questions! Keeps me humble.
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Raku was surely taking his time packing up after his class had left the hall. The professor, the red head and he had parted to not bring suspicion to the staff's eyes. It was just a car ride, yet his hairs stood tall at his nape and Raku had no idea how to calm the unwanted feeling. He was just not comfortable around women since Lilith had traumatized the teen for so long in to the present. To be her carpooling buddy was…awkward for Raku.
"I'm sorry about this morning." The woman came up to him as she openly apologized. "Will anything help to show my sincerity at all? I'll even buy you lun –
"It's not presentable here." Raku moved slowly away, nearly hopping with his laptop out of the way. She was poison, he could sense it and this part of himself was NOT trying to be harmful. It was keeping him safe. "I'm sorry?"
"I, have to go." Raku moved from the room as her eyes didn't stray until he was from the door to the hall.
He was out of breath. She smiled and seeped in a delicious tasting aura of a former power sourced child. "Ah, you still taste like wisdom and honor, my lord…mind if I return the favor?"
She grinned and pulled out her hairpiece as cascades of auburn fluttered as wings to her sides. "Lady Jorogumo needs you. You owe us, little king. So, we shall take what is to be received, very soon." She pulled at a hair as it was bound to have some way of taking to him clothing from the car trip. "You cannot run, little puppet. Not while your strings are in my hand." She tugged, and a few steps back, Raku tripped over his own feet going backwards.
She laughed and made sure he got up before a tread moved at the base of his spine. Invisible, it kept him leashed as Ignito watched and knew that his power could not break the cord. Not while the boy was human enough to dull his magic. ~Raku, get out of that college and go to John this instant –
"Ign –
Raku held his hands to his skull, and went to his knees. Howling in pain, a professor dove over to see to his state. "Something isn't right. Get him to …. -
The noises. The pain. And yet no explanation as Lady Ageha triumphed over bringing the red lord into her throws. Her control to offer up to the great Jorogumo – sama.
"He's perfect, is he not? Tell your mistress," She whispered to a spider on a web through the speak, "That the king's child will be our greatest weapon in remoulding this hour of glory to all Youkai in the world…"
So, it leaped off and took to a current into nothing. Raku was still on a gurney, and John was contacted as the boy's legal guardian for a time.
He didn't hold the cards. Her creatures would be sure he never made it from that door to the next street corner. "Larvae, children? I have a job." She moved as lace to a window's view, nearly transparent thanks to her wings of a swallowtail. "Go after the elder magi, and make sure he cannot be by the boy's side when he is taken by our queen."
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Ignito heard it and tried to pull out, yet the cocooned thread was tight and bound him from finding John in his study. ~ Damned moth woman…. I have not a chance to do…. but….I can spell trouble from afar…. ~ Ignito sat and he let his mind enter another's thoughts. Someone deeply connected to Raku, and safe at his university dorm in Tokyo.
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Aiden sat up. What was that gust? He saw a window one of his roomates had probably left open while he'd power napped.
~ Aiden! You must come –
"Whao!" Aiden toppled off of his bedding and to the floor, sideways. "I know that voice. Ig… Ignito??"
~There is danger. Warn the titans and anyone who knows of a moth and a spider. Do so, quickly! ~
"Shoji…. Ami. This is supernatural, right?" Aiden mind spoke back partly to the voice in his head. "Where? Where are you? Still with John?"
~John, is also unguarded from the evil of the devils of olden. Demon, not gods. ~ Ignito cursed the words right from his unopened lips. ~ You must come to London. Raku is in danger and John is also targeted by this strange power. The one from the train. She's come to take his power. To harm us –
~ That one?? ~
Aiden gulped. "I'm calling Shoji. You, stay there. Watch over him, and I'll…see what I can do."
~Hurry, boy. There is not much time. ~ Ignito sounded gravely as he let the twenty year old go. "Shit." Aiden swiped his blonde locks out of his eyes and dragged out his arm to find his cell by his pillow. "Come, on…. pick up…. shit…." Aiden got on his coat and proper clothing to travel in as it rang. "Yumi?? I need you, Shoji –
~ Aiden – what is happening? Are you alright? ~
"No." Aiden shook his head and locked up the window. "We're under attack. Raku and John, are targets of a demon spider. I need you to get Shoji…. Raku is terrified. He still isn't over his trauma with Lilith!"
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Gods, demons. The dog in black took to his smokes and headed after Kaede. He saw her getting chatty with her sister as they stayed apart. "Tokyo is so different from the school. We still get Wi-Fi, but I wonder…."
Ami was going on about something as a car pulled up to the train station. Badge wearers? (This is important.)
Oh, Ami was waving.
To….
" Hiiii!!"
The dog hid around a corner, then turned into a regular dog to blend in. She ran to him as he stood still while her aura kept him from fleeing as he normally would. Why…was…. this?
He saw a face behind her and the reason was…
He growled and snapped at Iyori who pulled away thanks to a human guise wearing Aya – chan. "Stay back, Iyori – sama!"
No, not her. The other one!
Jinni. Daemon .
He woofed at Saturday, who was clueless on purpose . Did they not see it yet??
"This dog is weird. Is pocchi, ok?" Haru frowned and kept her ears hidden as a human teen. She had brown hair and it wasn't' as dyed looking as her sibling's. she was short and wore a more harajuku style preppy white skirt and her tail stayed as a prop. Ami had protested this, yet they had no choice since Haru was too nervous to keep it in. Let alone her ears. She'd lost a lot of her prowess after the recovery process in Kyoto had sewn her back. Good as new. Inari as Kazuya bounded up with Hisao and Sun Woo. "Wait up! We…can't go that fast –
"Get to the gym more often. You're slacking." Hisao groaned and saw the dog. He wondered why it was acting the same. Strange…
"Anyway, we have a few things to go over at the station. The dog has to stay here –
"Why not call the catcher? They can make sure he gets a loving home." Sun Woo got to his knees and made baby sounds as he spoke. Damned ANIMAL. Frustrated enough, the dog looked at Kaede. "Does he…. like her?" Ami's mouth curved as a cat's might by the window cill on a hot day. Kaede made a funny face as she rejected the pup's advances.
~ Get me out of this, Kaede. I'm only here to protect you –
~ You did enough. If you didn't kill anyone, prove it –
A strange phenomenon started as soon as she had mind spoken that. The cells and the tech around them of every type began to go haywire. "What the –
"Inugami?" Hisao asked the cop's informant. Kazuya sensed nothing yet. He then turned to the dog. "You have a true form." He then turned to Kaede. "You'll tell us the rest once we find a place that is private. To see his true face, and your reason for keeping secrets." His last stare went to Ami. "You know something –
"Why didn't you say anything earlier!! Now this is happening! Hey!" Kaede snapped at the kitsune God. "I'm not going to be interrogated by the dog that hurt my –
"This isn't about you." Shot the fox male. "Come. This will be a dangerous place very soon."
A train stopped, then another, jutting and starting like a glitch in some amusement park system. "Reboot it? Shut it down, idiot!" The conductors were up in arms. The cell in Kazuya's pocket went off as he saw an image of two tied up individuals. Shoji and Ayane had become a part of the new problem.
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Shoji had been off to help Aiden, yet he sensed trouble and let Verra off his leash with clear instructions to aspect of darkness. "Go after Raku in London and do not get captured. This is an attack on whoever is pulling our strings.
~ Got it…. what about blonde boy? Aiden? ~
~ He can't go. Too much power to send you both. I'll –
"Mr. Takahara! Hurry! There is a message you must see…"
One of the other staff in his company was standing in for Ayane. She had gone missing for less than twenty-four hours. He ran over as Verra said farewell and into the portal he leaped. No mortal could see the hybrid dog as the staff woman was prompt, yet nervous….
"Hope it's not too late. Who's behind the possible virus in our systems?" He pulled out the question quickly.
"It is not that…" Her voice shook as she opened up the tablet screen in her hands and there, was the staff that had laughed at the prominent techie. Shun's critics. (Not Shu, Shun, I apologize.)
Dead and floating in the fluid filled tubes that had held Desu – kon.
"Oh boy…. …. don't look behind you." Shoji pulled her back as the claws of a shadow on the wall reached out to sink miasma and blood remains into the floorboards.
" Inugami…" He hissed as the dog took on its form. Blood in black seeped from its jaws like smoke. White fur covered it as the shadow was bigger than a traditional wolf of old feudal Japan. Shoji held up his psychic walls as the beast grinned at its kill.
~ You should have gone through with the plan, Project Daylight. Thankfully, it has a sister component that erases the potential that you wanted done your way by THOSE buffoons. I give to you…. Countermeasure…. Blood Moon! ~
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In his messy apartment downtown, Shun had a cleaver out and was making lunch. "Would you like boxed lunches for us or omu – rice for today?" He hummed and finished the plate of finger sandwiches while smiling off to the living room – there, tied to a chair was Ayane in mystic binds. She had a gag in her mouth and her eyes had not shut once. "You…don't? Well, we can get along to the punishment then –
Ayane squealed beneath the magic rope as shun put a hand to his ear, straining to hear her words of defeat. "I can't quite understand…. try again? I'll get the knives ready."
She started shouting past the gag as he left her, not before stopping to turn on the news on his smaller flat screen. "Our boss never paid me enough to buy something bigger. You're not that appalled at my living space, are you? A messy genius is what you'll find in me if you ever wanted –
She glared at him as he sneered back, his eyes looking quite green.
"I almost thought that sucking up to that dog WOULD make you into his bitch …. guess you did need training –
Ayane let her body fall as the bonds stayed tightly round Lori's own body of a former ally. "This is wrong. You will be devoured by the demon. Once it is done with you," She said through the speak, "Lad, you had best pray as long as ye may. I'd do my best to find a skilled exorcist –
"BE QUIET !!" The angry techie chucked the tv remote at the window as it cracked the glass there. He was possessed by revenge so deep, that only a demon could have done something so dastardly to those deserving of its touch. "I….am a brilliant MIIIND! And YOU ALLL ……" He cackled, pointing with a crooked hand at the V.P. "YOU…...Will recognize it…even if I send the sky to fall on Shoji's fat head !" His hair contained a dozen fly –. aways, his face was sweating from the guilt. A pot of water boiled over as he ignored it in the kitchen. The light at the system shut-off, dually a way to avoid a fire here.
"You're not well."
"Ah, but I am…. hehe……I….am freed from all the proper protocol and your scathing remarks about my genius being just as…. fake!" He sounded drunk, yet she saw a gaping bite in his chest that he was too mortal to have seen through the connection. Mood swings. She couldn't hold it as more obvious. "It made a contract. Let us seal it –
"You can't!" The man laughed and fell to his knees, eyes going glossy. "You…can't stop….my desu – kon……" He whined, trailing off.
"Desu??" She gasped as Ayane, the binds biting as her connection to Lori was broken.
"You won't leave though." The techie breathed with a hot angst in his growl. "I'll keep you here. No one will find us; I'll kill you and immortalize myself if they try to take my work for themselves. It's my genius and YOU need us !!"
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So, Shun was possessed and corrupted by Desu – kon AKA Ryoka the Inugami. An underling and supporter of Lady Jorogumo's plan, Desu – kon is just a pseudo name so they cannot stop her. As a wish granting type of contract youkai, she came to Shun to find he felt underappreciated for wanting to use his "gift" to help society in a rather…controversial way as changing brain patterns through programs to create geniuses and stop the world from devolving in his own sense. Yet Shoji knows the law of any world is never control to such an extreme a denounced Project Daylight which is very important for later – instead, they are going with the override to the shutdown that Shun had installed known as Countermeasure Blood moon. The tech is bewitched and the exorcists are on the move, yet what about Shoji's dog going to London in time? Will Aiden sit around and do nothing or keep his promised contract with Raku even after they've been away for so long. Not a slash! Ami and the others are busted by Kazuya's foresight and they will have to fight back very soon once Eiji tells them about how he knows Kaede from their past together.
Dick is still nervous and Slade with Anna being more skeptical around him than earlier is a red flag to jump in to save his kid. Will he? Will she let him?
John has to watch out, the house of mystery is a powerful tool yet…. if a demon from the east can attack a demi – God, what can John hope to counter while Raku's mini djinn aspect is still with the man. Ignito is trapped inside and can only briefly call out to prevent whatever is attacking Raku psychically, from taking full control. Recall, Raku isn't like Roku so he's not willing to get violent enough to fight the same way. He creates, so without Haku, the deconstructor, Raku the creator cannot work as he is. He can only create and form in place of using force like before, unless he breaks his code and then should be dismissed as a future Guardian in the making.
Even if Athena is a goddess of war, Raku holds more to Thoth's teachings of the owl of wisdom. The gods of war and division as well as the afterlife are up to Haku, who is not present at this time. Find out! Why did Saturday get the stink eye from Eiji? All will be revealed.
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