Teen Titans New Gen Presents - Tokyo Knights –
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Chapter 13: Frightened Little Animals
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This part involves gore. Noted, only one or two deaths. So, the reason this post piece is not in italics and that Ami saw the two tied up on the screen is because Ryoka broadcasted Shun's daydream image onto the big digital blocks to preview what was going to happen and it has. When they see the two die live, imagine the uproar! Will they never be saved in tome? Find out!
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POST – MORNING EVENTS BEFORE ATTACK IN CITY
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Ayane wanted to call out yet the psychic barrier created by whomever was controlling this lunatic techie made the job less than plausible to intact. She was about to give in, had the shadow of a great beast not layered the ceiling to evaporate through it – with her boss in its jaws.
~ Shoji ! ~
She felt fear fir a first in a long time of it; Lori knew danger, yet Ayane had been sheltered due to her new name and face. Any magic she'd held previously was dulled to prevent anything from finding her a tasty morsel. As it was, a lot of elders in the spirit realm had believed Lorelei Ainsley to have been a power source, thus that was why spirits like Roku had been attacked to her and she'd been overtaken in the myth of the son of that dragon's legacy.
Yet in that past, Veravakumu had wanted nothing more than to protect Lori and her first child. He'd loathed what Roku had done by his conniving ways; manipulating her to his will in order to keep her from crying out. This Shoji, was that Veravakumu, and in a way fir his repentance, he was fighting for that same reason. For her reincarnation of life to thrive. Even if that meant, still having fallen in love with Lori's vessel. That's what she was, after all. A container as the dog stayed close only for that reason. She had magic because of the Queen of spirit world Scotland. She did feel love back in the same form. Though, she believed his magic. His caring was not due to the old princess's tale of heartbreak.
(Read previous arcs to know this.)
Shoiji was splayed in bloody clothes upon the floor of Shun's sloppily kempt apartment. Gasping behind her gag with eyes wide and her voice still wanting to call out, Shoji lay in a heap, barely alive. The dog's jaws had carried him here and with Lori's magic she should have been able to heal the massive bite.
The violent spirit morphed back as it didn't look evil per se. It looked like a pre teenaged child with white hair and a bandaged eye. White teeth were gnashing with red and black as Ayane's eyes stood still. She tried to fight her binds, yet the demon with blood- Shoji's blood on its lips and gums stopped her.
~ Ahhh…. His taste was so rotten. I know you'll have your answer in no time now, Shun – Sama… This coward took on a corrupted body to stay corporeal. ~ Ryoka wiped her lip and licked her fingers clean of the blood she'd saved for tormenting their living prey with. ~ He's lacking half of his soul, so? What do you want to do with the rest of these fodder? ~
"I have an interesting idea for my revenge." Shun grinned. "Tie him up and put the freak next to his assistant. In fact, this SHOULD be televised."
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Ami ran with the others to the police car Hisao had on hand for getting closer to a perp. He threw on the siren while the spirits used the rooftops to navigate the mess this demon was creating.
Money was flying out if ATM machines. Kids were getting attacked by arcade games as Haru and Aya went in to knock out the metal menaces. "What's going on??"
Ami saw how Iyori stayed very quiet, not asking questions. Ami though, had seen her uncle in peril. The first time he was subdued, it was by Roku. No one else.
"Someone please tell me –
"It won't change what is happening." Iyori finally broke character, yet she didn't know about how close Ami was to those to; they weren't just benefactors to the girl, she was family. Proud and aided by spirits on her journey to become a relic herself someday.
Iyori looked at the whimpering Ami Grayson Nd she didn't know how to coax the kid to stay bleeding her heart out before a serious battle.
"Ami – chan." A lilt from up front that was Kazuya in Inari's tone made her tears stall. "Shoji – kun is quite strong. He is not easily beaten by a demon like this one. Recall, he holds rank about spirits of the branch this one may be. Unless they had assistance, I believe this one is working independently, and therefore, we have time to save them. Right now, Shoji must be concentrating on healing."
"Who is Takahara, really." Iyori exclaimed. "Why is he this important to Ami – san."
"He is her benefactor and guardian. Not as you think." Kazuya hummed and that, annoyed Iyori while she said nothing else.
"He's not like other guardians. He and Ayane, they go away back!" Ami smiled with the first tears Iyori had seen of this child, truly showing like a summer sun shower. A goddesses damned magic had her entranced, yet she turned her head to the window and hid a soft blush from the little underling. "We're not going to his building. Where was that footage."
"I'm thinking…oh, so the clues were an apartment. Shoji's place was bare of the essence and the stack of files in the image were from Takahara Corp. An employee maybe?"
Kazuya's ears pricked up. "Do any of you recall an interview a few weeks ago regarding…. Project Daylight?" ( told you!!)
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Slade looked Anna right in the eye.
"I'm making perfect sense, and my dad was on the plane headed here. He's going to see you eventually, so why not just tell me now why we stuck around with that NOT being a coincidence –
"Anna."
"NO!" She gritted her fists. "You are after both; what you wanted, was me to control and I let that happen so I'd never lose my own head. The fact that he's here is proof that everywhere he us, you are literally stuck. It's not fate, is it? You…."
"He and I work on separate wavelengths. Let this go –
"And tell me that you're not trying to change his mind?? That you –
"ANNA!" Slade threw her a glare. "Grayson didn't come for either of us –
"YOU. TOLD HIM TO COME."
Anna sneered. "Even if it wasn't for me, you warned him ahead of time because you think you can promise him that you won't let us all die. Even my mother –
"Ann. This wasn't preordained. I did not warn your father of anything happening in this country."
"Oh yeah, then who did? A stupid spi –
She stopped. "Spider…."
She pointed to a haunting view on the wall as Slade shot at it in no time, seeing the miasma drag off into another reality.
"WHAT…. WAS THAT ??"
"A spy. And I have no clue how it managed to know to listen."
"Listen?? Like a bug – bug? A –
"No, it was a real creature. Dead now, but still." Slade felt his head ease a bit as Anna held herself. "I'm sorry, was that why?"
"If it was a demonic creature, fairly likely."
The door burst open as Rose came through. Panting. She was in her civilian gear and her eye was too wide to be natural. "Turn on your tv, now ! That CEO, Takahara Shoji was abducted!"
"Uncle Shoji??" Anna turned to Slade again. "How is he connected to project daylight? Why are we the ones going after it for our mystery buyer? Tell me that!" She demanded to a mentally aging merc and his daughter.
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" Project Daylight was the "new age" program. It was capable of overtaking the world by creating a sense of supremacy through thought as soon as the doll or idol for the program had been upgraded and given its identity or in this case, brain. Blood moon was a program created by the one against the project because if had been previously swiped from the mind of a rather brilliant employee who wanted a different project out to market that same month ago. The verdict was out and his idea to make the world smart enough to overcome ANYTHING, failed. Now? If project Blood moon is activated, the motherboard of the entire system can overtake the minds or forms of useless tech to make them nearly as smart as humans – thus erasing need for humanity to evolve. It's only goal is to wipe out inferior programs like any you've had the dogs of your company create FOR you. You took my genius idea and twisted it into…. into an idiot boxed plaything meant for child molesters and morons fresh out of junior high! Mental health?" Shun shouted as Shoji seemed to be getting smaller, the case of Verra not being there to protect him from falling apart. Ayane was horrified not by Shun, but by the demon as she fed off of his vengeful anger.
She was growing, and those jaws never looked so deadly in the time Ayane witnessed them opening over her host's head.
Ayane didn't get to scream as the white rogue pup, CHOMPED the head off of Shun's body. Crunching his skull along with the rest of his soul between her teeth in order to change forms. She became older, gained a pair of hips and was growing up. Growing strong with the scent of blood coating her white fangs. The rest of his body collapsed into the rug, the blood not stopping until he was truly a husk of a person.
~ He has outlived his purpose. Now, I can do what I set out to do before coming to this silly city. Ageha – sama promised I could have a front row seat to your demise, little princess. ~
Ayane didn't recall, but Ageha sounded like the moth or winged creature Ami had fought a few days before. A week, was it already. ~ You won't have time to remember this fave, not while I'm gobbling up your pretty mug between my –
~ Away from her…. now ! ~
The dog was pushed by Veravakumu as his firm changed. ~ I know what you are. You're a feral mutt and not just any, a false wish granted that was corrupted by the scent of another's suffering. You died of a disease spread by man, and swore to eradicate humans by changing what they were capable of. In taste, you feed off of fear like a true Inugami…but I sensed you're only part dog. You're a regular wolf in sheep's clothing, a corrupted addition…. of Kokkuri – San. ~
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The spirit was amazed and appalled by his deduction. "Shun didn't use magic to make you appear, this Ageha set you free. She's to blame for this as much as you are for using a mentally delusional worker to –
~ Am I? ~ Snorted the youkai. It's tail was more raccoon dog than fox.. The teeth were dog, the ears more so a fox.
~ You took care of making him insane, not me. I just put his suffering to better use. He wanted this world, so I gave it to him. ~
~His wish backfired! A real Inugami would have eaten the person if they went over and harmed the spirit – biting the hand they served. You didn't serve him, you fed off of his hate. You ended it yourself, which is exactly why you're no guardian dog. You're a fox, and the ugliest one to name. ~
~ Ah, you caught me. But really, Veravakumu…you don't recall meeting this face?? ~
~ I've met silver foxes, wolves with white fur that wanted to kill me. You're something I've never seen before, is that-
~No. I was seen, but this brat's vessel…that foreign girl who studied in my country, she is as fearful as you claim to being fearless! I don't think you do remember what I'm capable of!! Now that wishes are being granted by my magic having sway over those fodder humans, you can't tell what you did… she couldn't do the same??~
Shoji didn't, but Veravakumu thought back to the past. When Lori had traveled to gain her power by expanding it across the globe. In Japan, she had been fighting badly by Roku, but before that…. she had run after a fox in the wood.
~ I was a messenger, swayed by his words and you came to take her back. We had her! That would have been the end, yet she attacked! She sent me to suffer and you…. you just took your future bride and left. I never got out of that damned contract- it wasn't until the king was reborn as a brat that I got MY wish! ~
The demon was starting to sound and look androgynous as Veravakumu realized who that was. ~ You lost your physical form. You can't be that way again, not until…~
~ Until I have my revenge, and devour the ones that made me suffer all of those waking eras ago. I'll crush you both as I have my partner. He was just the appetizer to wake up my hunger. She's going to be the main course!! You'll, be saved for dessert…. dirty dog! ~
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Post arcs ago, Lori was a part of a society before her mother passed and she ended up traveling to spirit world Japan to strengthen her magic in all elements. She was with Takahara there to protect her yet was bewitched to walk off into a dark forest and Ryoka, (Kokkuri san) says the reason was because Roku at the time made a wish or contracted the evil fox to bring Lori to him since she was the power source he needed to recover his form and set the clock into motion regarding his son being born. In this case, they lure her into a cave and she is frightened near to death by the dragon's shadow. Veravakumu comes to her but she is traumatized for a very long time before returning to therapy plane. Years later, a prince with amnesia from another plane ( Roku after being tossed out because of A's intervention) comes to Lori and they end up marrying then, Roku takes over and impregnate her with Richard Rokuro Ainsley ( the Japanese name is because of his rank as the one of many demons to ever be at their full power in the forbidden myth and because he overtook the spirit world of Asian's guardian element to replace it with a dragon of fire instead if Bao Shi Lan who was of wood and wind. She got pushed out, controlled by the dragon and we only see her later in 'A new beginning arcs.')
(Also, Kokkuri san has no true gender because Foxes are shape shifters and they only took on the form of a child and a girl to Shun because she did so to entice the ones she's hoping to subject to her one wish. To keep humanity under her thumb and become real. Well. That's going to be tough on Ami if she can't get to the others in time.)
Next time, we are going to play on the myth of Raku, Nogitsune ( the other fox trickster) and Kokkuri san before they become corrupted by a single wish in the past. Find out!
