Teen Titans New Gen – Tokyo Knights

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Chapter 15: Boy, I Wonder

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I was listening to the light behind your eyes and instantly thought – emo Raku gets a confidence boost because he isn't himself after he's miraculously let go. A week later? What is Jorogumo up to?...find out! Remember, Ageha used her power to control him from gaining his allies to help which is why Ignito and the mini djinn self cannot be summoned. So, Aiden is still connected and worried without realizing that Raku still like – likes him. Even though this is pseudo incest because he was adopted, Raku was still basically the reason Aide was born do…like his God father or grandfather – yikes! Aiden said no because he is not interested and is on a break with Lisa, see will happen to the half djinn's psyche without any off switches… see how he revels as a college kid with a flamboyant side what he really feels! Noted, Raku is gay, (he has a distrust and not attracted to women partly by his trauma but mostly because his first crush was Artius in the past) non-binary in dress and manner so somewhat feminine as a younger bishop enjoys (yet also from the autistic perspective on the spectrum due to not understanding certain cues and being a recluse.) Fellow aspie here knows the feeling! Find out, and his ptsd with Lilith will be brought in as well. He also doesn't understand love vs loving companionship and family and this us his detached nature from John though John has come to adore his pupil enough to get him out of a tight space. Find out!!

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There had been nothing from Raku or his keeper as John limped back to the house of mystery to find no pupil, no sign of his return at any time. The spiders had been vanquished and squashed flat back to wherever their master wanted them to tell of their travels. The puppeteer who had strung up John during their fight had cackled plainly in his ear, then had left him and the city untouched. Raku had gone through the abuse of a temptress which had harmed him to become a demon lord. Slade had been infected by that influence, even Grayson still wanted to know if Aiden's walls should be adjusted better. It was why no matter how his love of others grew, he still remained reserved and hurt deep down.

Raku was vulnerable to corrupt forces like this, and John wanted to be sure…

He walked by the precinct to put up flyers and hoped that if it had no issue, that Ignito would speak in his patchy wisdom. That the small Raku; the djinn chibi - child would come home to his teacher for a cuppaand a firm what for…

So, John was worried, more so than he had when the boy had been hurt by the strange entity that had attacked Ava's mind. (Previous arc.)

"If this is on me, the kid's new dad may make a formal protest. Aw, great shite – what are you doing here??"

Aiden was not supposed to know how to get into the house, let alone the psych pomp, Hakuro. Gathered in the hall of the home, John was leaning by a frame of the wall and cussing every second of their intervention.

"Raku isn't here."

Aiden pursed his lips and sensed nothing by his grounded magic; his attachment to the young jinn boy. "What happened –

"Spiders, and demons that only made matters worse for us both. There is another after your brother."

"I guessed that by how you're not exactly happy that it's me bothering you." Snorted the blonde. "Raku would have come home; he was in classes until when?"

"We think an abduction –

~Did you bother to search by your craft, witless magi?? ~ Sniffed the silver eyed ethereal. Hakuro had a responsibility by his bond with the half god. He could not allow the gods to take him away. It would be a curse most undeserved. "Oi' I didn't replace his pop. If you didn't tell from how I never hold his hand? He's an individual and this…"

"It's going to be fine, Haku." Aiden turned to a frustrated ethereal face glowering at the magi. "Raku isn't gone, but we can't sit here. We came because he's in trouble and if you want us –

"Ignito can't be summoned back, or the twat spirit of theirs…" Muttered the magi. "I've tried. He has to be in this hostage situation with his host. There is no place on earth or in spirit –

Aiden snapped his fingers. "I know who can talk to someone who might know. Right here, he smiled as if his father were right beside them, "After all, we used to be pretty close. Not until her secret agent job had us take a break."

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Re- introducing?

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Secret agent was a bit of a stretch. Inside the music industry building run by the top producer Andrea Grotto, Lisa Viscado knew the marketer's real face and why she was being called on her solo tour – after, since most streamed the content for a year during the virus that had affected half the globe. "Ah, there you are, darling!"

Aria was in her bluest sky dress with a silken scarf round her and sheer as a fae's wings. Lisa had upgraded her punk look yet still had the white star-studded jacket resized to fit her at age twenty. "Great to see you again, Aria." She immediately let the siren call to her and they sat. The siren, Aria of the Southern Isles was an endearing character. She flowed as a river Nile, yet her eyes were aquamarine with the power to see straight through to your deepest thoughts. "We parted on better there's than that, my dear. Come, there is something important to see to. There was a breach in the veil, and I believe you can catch up to the culprit to gather information. As Alyssa."

"I mean, I could…but who's involved this time besides me? I'm not going it all alone. You know Alicia is never there when you need her." Alicia was the ethereal spirit of Alice, the incarnated soul connected to time and its many safeguards in the firm of power sources. Raku was once one of them, yet he'd been willing to reject God hood not to vanish. Alice had perished because of her soul not being real, but Slade and Roku had kept her alive long enough to influence the Titans' actions.

"She's not really needing this to match her mood, that solar star inside of you is resting. There is danger on these streets and it calls need to action. I have scouted out the ones involved with the sect of my kindred and what I have learned is that the rift shut itself. It was not possible, yet that was the word. A field that did not wish to stay focused on a true take over. But !"

Aria leaned over her desk as her earrings of sea pearls jangle at each sparking lobe. "There was one signature aura. One that is rogue at the moment and is attending a college in London on the word of the gods."

"Wait…Raku?? Is he –

"The poor boy…he is determined to do as you do, and I cannot blame that enthusiasm." She turned her head, seeing otherwise. "I was told of the dangers surrounding that child's past. My word to you, he is on the way to turning if he dies not realize it. That thing from the field that took our world only hours before, is still at large as they say."

"No way, what about the other agents?? Kaien? Does he know?"

"Shoji also, sadly. I'm told he is being held in custody by a wily foe of our kind. A damned creature of ill trickery. An evolved nogitsune."

"A…. fox?"

"The wish granting kind. Yet as you and I know, wishes have drawbacks. Anyone that makes contact or is forced to hear her "kon kon" will be…."

" Conned out of their lives – why are you saying that to me?"

"Aiden is in this city, searching." Aria said in a deep hushed sound; almost as a wave lapping the shore by sundown. Her cerulean tresses masked her amusement. As for Lisa, her boyfriend was the least of those petty worries. "I would try to keep a distance though from our target. He's layered in cobwebs of some dusty ghoul." With an upturned nose, Aria waved away the image of the enemy that had traveled to her ear. "He right now won't fall for good, but you can pause the relationship with those responsible before we suffer the price of having done nothing."

"I…have to sing, in…." She blinked. "He's going to that event? The underground one??"

"The streets of this city enjoy the past to align towards a better future, so why not join in on some fun? Cause a stir to the cauldron of chaos?" Aria smiled and ushered to the doorway one more figure from it. "Wiz, Ardius?"

"I believe he has not tried to stay in contact, and that could be another's doing." Ardius had gone back to his soft red hair type and let it grow, yet his garb today was more vintage than historically themed of his present. He did however wear those small spectacles and carry a wand that would have the power to swap to his staff at any time. "I was called from the order's hands because of Hakuro making his way to London."

"Aiden must have let him follow. He's also connected to poor Raku…he's still trying to fight back. There is no way he'd upset Aiden and change –

"You would say that, yet you don't know this lad as I have. He's reluctant to repress, and when he does too often, it explodes in some way in unpredictable a fashion- justly changing who he is. And I believe this crafty witch that he's had come too close is in fact after the boy's book. His heart, in order to further something ominous. Recall; the book if manifesto is the lamp of jinn. His grounded part of this life, while his body is thought to be human, a magi even. He would not reject that unless someone fed him reason to let go."

"He won't." Lisa protested it. "Ardius, you trained him for a bit and Lilith stopped you. He knows you, he can't turn to…whatever this being is trying to pull. I know in my mind that –

"Aiden." Ardius grumbled. "Aiden was the reason fir his fall. Just as Rokuro was to Haku who lost sight of his forgotten lore. The same could become of that boy, if he should not learn to let go. His strings are very taught…. if he pulls them any tighter, we may not recognize what comes from within…"

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The place they'd be headed to John found was at an underground venue called 'the basement lot."

"Fitting for a spirit of darkness."

"Fitting fit someone lost in his past too." John nodded. "Are we headed inside, then?"

Aiden saw the man at the door and sheepishly rubbed his neck. "I came wkth my card but no cash. Sorry –

~ For heaven sakes! ~ Rolling his eyes, Hakuro vanished before appearing behind the bouncer. His magic made way as to overshadow the male, making him step aside to act like this was his job.

After all was done, Hakuro remained less corporeal and stayed by Aiden. It was until they saw the highlights poster for the bands playing tonight. Aiden's eyes wouldn't quit gawking.

"LISA IS HERE?? TONIGHT ??"

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BACK TO TAKAHARA AND AYANE:

"Let them go!" Ami fought by her craft as the crafty basted Shun was laughing while tied to his half-lived existence. "She ate you and expects you to do her bidding! How can you be so blindly-

~ I thought you were wise to not step into an unlocked cage, my dear. Your honor shows how tempting it must have been to find the man who competes with your father's company. ~

Ami looked at Iyori who was guiltily not trying to deny the critter's tall tale. "It was not fir him. He is a spirit, like you? Ami- chan knows him due to her connection with many. I wanted to be sure he was trustworthy for my Kohei."

"AWW!" Ami beamed from the side. "You came all this way –

"AND to see what sort of crimes he wasn't possibly able to commit."

Ami held in a breath. "Iyo –

"It's our sworn civic duty to Japan that if anyone breaks the sacred law at any given time, we will be there to subjugate and bring them in for questioning. Our role as future bearers of what we are cursed to hold will not keep us as allies in the future; there us a lot you do not understand-

"I do though!" Ami exclaimed poorly. "You…you lied to me, that you had no idea about my past, you just…. I never pried or –

~ She isn't much for business is she, hime – Sama? ~

"Shut it. You are just as guilty, spirit jokester!" Iyori retorted to Ryoka's witty face. "You have nearly almost all of the city's residents under some kind of spell, yet I might have anticipated that earlier on. The market was not by a dog, the pads that the officer's computer created had hybrid markings. I believed wolverine at first, then the paw padding, the claws combined lead me to think. A shape shifter. And you even framed a real Inugami to throw us in the opposite direction. While Ami was busy with the Foxes and finding out more about Eiji…I did my research. I rested as well to come to the conclusion- you are a form of Nogistune hybrid called… Kokkuri-san. In this form, you appear as a child, and this means you are ripped from another plane of existence."

The fox hybrid chirped a squeak from its intangible lips. ~ Look at you two! See? This is why she picked ya out of the many saplings. What a garden for our future Empress-

"ANSWER MY QUESTION." Iyori snapped loudly. "Why are you here. If you do not bother to react…. I will be forced exorcise the evil in your mind. Ami!"

"RIGHT!" The miko didn't waste time as she let her form change a bit with a set if two crafted fans in hand. "Whenever you're ready." She grinned mischievously to her dignified and very ticked off sempai.

"On my word of caution…. I seek the end of your alliance with evil forces and beyond the spirit divides – heed us now, and you may then be brought to the council of the gods for question. Release thine mortal and heed at my command…. for this, I summon –

The crawlspace idea to Ami came through as in a wisp of grass and leaves, Aya materialized with her armor intact. Ami was inclined to do the same, yet Kokurri – chan (She in this for now) waved a long kimono sleeve of a white death and the machines popped and whirred to life. ~Set the switch, my puppet! ~ She waved with a toothy expression to Shun, whom complied. Aya was not quick enough; his command was in the keys as the tubes holding Ayane and Shoji started to swell up in separate pods. "My…. children!! Awake !!" Shun laughed as a madness crept over him, miasma and all. Aya covered her nose while Iyori felt her body tingle at the response. Ami shoved the girl back and huffed, "I'll take it from here."

"You cannot! Without your familiars –

"I'll do what you did. It's easy, right?"

~ Mahō o mekanizumu ni musubitsukete chitsujo o motasemashou - megami no kamigami ga tachiagaranakereba narimasen! Sō narudeshou! ~

(Bind the magic to the mechanism and bring it to order - the gods of the goddess must arise! So be it shall!)

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The machines had been stalled as a buffer on the screen made Shun shout and stomp his undead feet. " RRAH ! How dare you interrupt my invention's conclusion! Koku –

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An ear pricked up as Haru met Kaede's gaze, the older fox worried that the cops couldn't handle the fighting figures on their own. Yet, that wasn't a problem as a gust of air had the teen foxes duck their heads.

"Somebody called for a cleanup crew?" Anna was holding her spear tipped staff as a blaster with Rose, Slade in back to let the red head talk her way to the forefront. "A –

Sunwoo was told off by Hisao's eye. "Who are you?" He demanded to know. "This is unsolicited –

"That's my sister fighting for her life." Snorted Anna. "How are you gonna live down a demon gobbling up two fifteen-year-old students, sir?"

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Slade looked to his back as another shadow backed him, back-to-back with Hisao too busy as Anna distracted them both. "To think that we were hired by him originally…. fun start to my day. Any ways to end it?"

Eiji as a black dog shadow shrugged. ~ I dunno. Should I jump into make life easier for ya? My old girlfriend is begging to see how I've handled my loose jaw all this time. ~ Snickered the dog.

"Former killer?" Slade tried to keep a quiet mind as Kaede was being summoned elsewhere. Haru, however was unable to go.

~ Gotta jet, oji –

"Hey!"

Anna saw as through the vile vortex; two foxes were not present but a fox and a black dog were.

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Ami groaned as she was backed into a corner while Aya's summoning made her feel a whole lot more in control against a lesser spirit - youkai.

~Gah! You are all over the place, little rabbit! Hold…. still! ~

Ami went after Kokkuri, while Iyori tried to stall Shun's idiot idea from forming – he was trying to make a mountain of those AI tampered bots to send out into the world. Like an egg sack waiting to burst, that man's sanity had broken free. Kokkuri was just using him to help whatever had helped her to break free of her chains, yet the question of why or what could wait in a few…

"Don't let them get outside!"

The things were almost mutating via the screen, showing a reproductive rate that was nothing as the tech of this time line. This, was a demon's gift as Ryoka went for Ami's minor fans. The miko pushed her back as the creature transformed to spook the girl with a demon's mask. ~How do you like being so helpless, little one?? We'll release these devils and make you seem even more of a flop than your cowering accomplices!! HAHAHAAA!!~

Shun pressed a button on the dash as Iyori had Aya kick him in the neck. The man went down, but he wasn't alive. He rose and went after Iyori with an infamous bloodlust as she had Aya pin the man to the dash. The sparks that came from the device made Shoji wriggle in his chamber while Ayane was not conscious at all. "She's not –

" AGN ~"

"Iyori!! Aya!!"

Ami growled at the strange fox, just as a doorway into space time shifted from behind her. In a black blur, Eiji flung himself at Ryoka's furry neck. ~Drop the fairy godmother act and stand down!~

~Why?? You needed to find them, so that's what I did. I set -

"Eiji?" Kaede was in her miko – fox eared form as she overheard. "What's she talking about, you –

"Enough!" The man at the dash slammed down a palm as Iyori pushed Aya to spear him in the dead gut even harder, black tar blood dripping from his lips and eye sockets. "You…. touch that, I have a reason to send you to the underworld….with your friend."

~He was the one who let me stay as long as I did…but a butterfly on my right shoulder…. ~ Grinned Ryoka as mist coated the floor to mask her puppet and the girls. ~That winged creature set us on a new path that I intend to follow….say goodbye to your alchemy – Veravakumu!!!~

She cackled and vanished with "Project Blood Moon" now activated. A parting gift by an old friend, Ami ran to Shoji and broke the glass with Kaede's help. "Are they ok??"

Shoji coughed as Eiji untied him, Kaede dragging the other dog far away.

"You, can't make wishes, so…. who got you to our world??"

The dog lowered its shadowy ears, and before it could talk a swarming cloud of the AI bots multiples to swim through the lab skies as bats to the rafters. "Seal off all exits. They can't get out. She just…. ugh…"

They'd get suffocated by more if the project code was not input. Slade had Anna open a doorway and teleportation to him to face the worn-out and wet guardian. "You didn't say why we were hired –

"To shut it down." Anna huffed to her partner. "You used a fake fucking alias to get someone you trusted to stop the attack, right?"

"True, all of it." Shoji nodded reluctantly. "I knew that –

"No time." Iyori was by the keys as Slade moved in to spook her a bit to step out of the way.

"Don't worry."

Ami was relieved and Ayane was by her arm. The squeaking creations levitated towards the exits that were all blocked. Parts flew everywhere or they went into full on suicide mode. Aya went after the source of the madness and tried to prevent it as she made them follow her like a bird formation. "Stay high. This will be over soon."

Anna nodded, frowning at Shoji. "Hit it." She told her boss as he started inputting the "Project Protocol and Reversal method. Project Daylight, as the dolls fell, Aya and Kaede facing their best as the toys deactivated. All either in parts or in full containment, the merc turned to the dog as the doors opened up to reveal Rose, Hisao, Sun Woo and Haru. "Ami!" Haru pointed with her ears drawn at the two figures as canine as they came. Both were biting and about to claw!

Eiji fazed off into a puff as if ashamed, for his mind was. He'd used them to stop his error. Something had lured not just he and Kokkuri's alternate face to this plane, but the threads remained to bind him.

He bounded off after the enemy, untrustworthy and with just as much to be blamed for as the trickster demon hybrid…that was still at large.

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It's getting long so I'm gonna bugger off and throw it into a second part here. Ah, srry, wrong usage but no worries! More to be done so don't run off and find out next – is Shoji not a fav or Iyori's circle? Eiji seems to have more than one motive; can Kaede unravel his truth? What is wrong with Raku and why is everyone being told to go to an underground club in London?? Find out!