Teen Titans Presents New Gen – Tokyo Knights
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Chapter 39: Showtime in Shinjuku – Preview Hour
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Shun broke out the worst of himself as Kokkuri laughed over the zombie's shoulder. Ayane was still unconscious as she sent her message loud and clear to Shoji. If he would not act, she would stall by Lori's powers.
She had not used them in a very long time, keeping up her image as a head VP of the company. Since being pushed out and abducted by Kohaku's goons, her first impression was to stay quiet and listen. To telepathically relay all she heard of this low level Kitsune wannabe hybrid.
Not Verra, Kokkuri , the other messy hybrid.
~ Our latest plan is to strip the humans of their will to power this device. Now that the boy rejects his post, we'll need that plan B after all if he fails to come crawling back. How is Project Blood Moon, my puppet?~
" Well, Kokkuri – san." Weakly grinned the twisted face of a dejected name to Takahara Corp. "Shoji knew I'd done everything he'd asked, yet he stole what was mine. I plan to use this to gain retribution fir MY unrivaled genius!" Cackled the man with eyes as green as his envy.
~ He took your seat, yet we showed him a what for. Kohaku is just a pet to our great Jorogumo – Sama. Once she has the realm in her web, there will be no stopping the return of our olden world. Minus, the few tweaks to keep our machine going, Shun – kun.~ She added sweetly with a pat on his head.
" Right away, mistress!" He was revved up on Lolita demon power, wonderful…
~ If the sacrifice resists, we take control. As for one of them
….~
Ayane shut her eyes and sent that SOS. This….
Was bad.
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In a bubble of magic within the new base, Anna was groggily coming to. Slade had wanted her to sit and stay, Rode was actually the good guy here…sort of…and her dad SYMPATHIZED with the merc that had caged his kid??
~ I'm going to need a shrink after this is over.~ Anna groaned via the speak, not realizing where she was able to do so.
~ Welcome, little fire – light.~
The spider queen…here??
~ How – I'm going to bury you, lady !~
~ Try, try. Yet your little djinn friend was unable to do so. As were my last escaped captives. They are maintained, for now. ~
Anna growled at those fangs, though cautious of the miasma surrounding them. It was thick, heavy, and growing dense enough to blind her. ~ I'm not what you're after, am I another hostage.~ She asked.
~ The younger one was cattier, my lady.~ Ageha fanned herself with a frown. ~ Perhaps this one is more human than she-
~ I can reset time if I explode.~ Anna grinned darkly. ~ Is that "human" to you?~
~ A bird of creation…oh.~ Ageha turned to Jorogumo whose powerful webs began to bundle the spot where Anna was trying not to cough herself into a coma. ~ Hey ! I'm not –
~ Quiet now, happy?~
~ Thank you forever more, my lady.~ Smiled back Ageha as Anna was levitated to a holding chamber within the spider's nest.
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Anna groaned and thought she would go look for Ichirou in the meantime. They were already at the planetarium, and Kaede had taken off class to 'skip" over as her old self showed. " Is Aya coming along with us?" She had never been close once with the Grasshopper spirit, yet Ami grinned devilishly as if this were a secret worth spreading.
" Ohh?? You got a hot date at the isekaya (typo?) joint from where we live, Kae- chan?"
" No!" Hissed the other defiantly. "I…she was upset that Iyori's been missing all this time. Now that she's out there, someplace, we have to be sure that Aya won't lose her way."
"You care about someone that couldn't care less about you." Huffed Ichirou as they took out a handheld game console for the trip. "We were allies and rivals, you should not need to know that. Why is he here?"
" Jackie is…gonna go back next week, so I want to spend time with everyone and she said it's fine." Ami frowned as the bus they were on jutted up a slope to the sky reaching hill that would house their next destination. "I heard this place is amazing. She's going to love it' it's hard to find these in the States anymore. Such is the education system under a dic –
( Trump. Uggy)
The bus jutted again as Kaede let her invisible tail swished in annoyance. "Cool it, puppy dog. We don't want to start a scene. Ami? She's gotta hold off on fighting speed bumps. How's the kid?"
Jackie looked to her younger girl friend as Ami blushed and pointed at Ichirou's moment of triumph. "Gotta beat this….yes!"
The bus goers turned their necks as Ichirou ducked theirs in utter embarrassment. "Gomenei!" They said in a boyish tone.
"They even act like a bad house guest on the bus, but they were too dainty all over at Yumi's place. I guess, it's like trauma and having two personalities." Jackie shrugged before sitting down to see if their cell reception was choppy or not.
Ichirou sighed and thought about the fact that they were like this to stay safe, not to make a statement. ~ Raku does a better job at staying ambiguous. They are slim, almost too feminine from my understanding yet they look so young…~
It was a djinn trait and Ami didn't need to relay that. Ichirou say back down and went over their "Miku- World Diva" installment with a pair of ear buds to block out any distractions.
Kaede couldn't be the only protector. She could for some reason, still feel Aya's presence so close by…like they truly were for each other.
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Slade was boxed by Rise and Duck stood by, not nudging as she yelled at both men. "Let me call your damned wife, Nightwing. You really didn't side with him, tell me you didn't-
"The immortal thing had….my hands tied, so I had to watch her through what we could do. I'm sor-
"SHUT UP." Rose groaned and kicked Slade into Anna's guest bed. "Call the guys in those tan trench coats, the detectives. Tell them a red haired woman was just abducted by a demon moth creature – I don't know what…" She sighed, leaning into the wall as she pulled out her cell, furious.
"I'm contacting whoever is on speed dial and then you two bozos are coming with whoever takes us to someplace where you both can be drilled properly."
"They all knew, Rose." Slade gurgles past a smashed in lip. "Autur was my liaison to that realm – it was for Anna. I, swear –
"Shut up. You too, Dick." She snarled at the grown men, knowing her beau" back in New Zealand would love to hear how her day was going all the way out in Tokyo.
"Yeah, we have…are…so, they ran…shit! I'm going to be there. Yeah, you too." She snapped her cell to black and growled at Slade, pointing a finger. "You. To Shoji's. We have another problem. Dick? Your other kids, got loose."
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Eiji was called in to do some snooping as to where the cop had gone. Turns out, he'd found something of interest regarding Ichirou's story.
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"THERE IS NO CASE???"
Rubbing his temples briefly, Detective Hisao had to block out Sun Woo to concentrate. "Yes, it doesn't show a record, but it also shows that the person is not what they appear. I feel as if I've seen them before, off as that sounds…"
"A scared biy that happens to get along all too well..."
The two blinked, grabbing their coats as by the cop car, a note was left on the outside of the dash. "A ticket…?"
"Ie, an invite." Hisao ripped open the envelope, only to pocket it and sit in the driver's seat, urging Sun Woo to not stand around all day. "We're being called on a case. A meeting through a friend of the police force."
"The fox, right."
"No, actually." They got in and off they rode. "A cry for help, and from someone we already have on our list of suspects to the disappearance of Miss. Iyori."
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Kazuya stayed in the room as Dick and Slade soon did join, as did Miss Kotori and Haru. "This is fun, isn't this fun?"
Shut up, please " Slade snorted at Dick's taunt. "Then give up dominion over my kids. You can go on your merry way."
"Grayson, behave."
As a plus, Constantine and Raku with no double suicide to Roko, as she was….well…in a way a good gal now!
"Why is she here, anyone fit to talk? Speak up?" Sniffed Slade.
"I'm on your side for good now. My stupid make counter needs to be dragged back as well, and I want to protect the Chosen. Gain a human soul on this plane if I can."
"You will." Raku smiled back at the aspect he'd once feared could harm his own chances at the same thing. The same bite sized redemption Roku never once sought after his blind turning.
"Are we to order, then?" Asked Kazuya as he entered from Beijing, fast as a white shift of smoke.
"You." Hisao and Sun Woo were dragged in as Sun Woo only saw a few beings. Slade, Grayson, Shoji as himself and Kazuya as himself besides Raku, and Haru. Roko was, still not tangible enough, so Raku touched her arm to make her visible for a bit. John was there and he allowed that, still keeping her in check while watching to see if his hunch was wrong. Had she decided this on her own, or by a past guilt that the enemy could snare?
"Huddle up, people." Shoji smirked to his allies. "It's partly two things we are after. Getting back to my headquarters to stop a doomsday device from ripping a hoke into the fabric of our reality, and the saving of a few kids that can save us from a foe not of this plane."
"Planes? Other worlds?"
Sun Woo looked as Hisao as he flicked the other's forehead so he could see what was really going on, temporarily unlocking his third eye until this was all over.
"Anna was taken, my partner-
"My daughter, no less." Dick interrupted. "It was by Ageha, the demon butterfly or moth woman youkai that is after something to do with Tokyo. It's her other partner, we know this is a long shot to meet so soon. What about –
"The girls are fine." Kazuya said. "That Shounen I told Hisao on the way, is actually Iyori - Chan on the run from such things as curses. She is the last to harbor a power granted by the half demon priest known as –
"Abe no Seimei. It was true." Shoji growled. "Kohaku was after s lot more than her subjugation….I had a feeling the last time we met he was bringing in dark energy to my halls. I had to hide out, but they got Ayane. I know where she us, he can't touch her while Lori's magic is still active."
"Clue us in on that part…" Sun Woo nervously added, barely chuckling.
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"A….nnnd, so….Iyori us Ichor, but hiding from the Spider lady youkai and the moth woman-
"Yes." Dick and the rest nodded.
" And the reason we can see, you can, is because you have all previously been in contact with this "spirit world. Yes?"
"To that extent. You're getting warmer." Kazuya smirked a little.
"And my PARNTER?? IS THE GRANDSON OF AN–
"ONMYOU." Hisao seethed, knowing that Raku was also bright in the face red. Roko had to hold back her laughter as John batted her wrists to quit being rude.
"Right, mate. You're in as deep as the rest of us lot. Slade knows Dick because he saved his life and the kids right now are divided elemental protectors because Raku used to be a daemon that was corrupted by a fallen goddess of that same realm if daemons. He's half Djinn, which means Ageha is after him as well for her queen spider." John cracked his neck, feeling a bit anxious to say too much, having to anyway.
"What about Eiji, the dog? And Shun??"
"Kokkuri devoured his soul, all of it up. He now serves her like a broken doll." Haru explained rather grimly. "Eiji is my sibling's old ally in the past. He has agreed through a small contract with Mr. Grayson to stay and protect the Chosen and Iyori with us. He will be loyal until his last days."
"Or until Grayson is wise enough not to go doing what we all did. Once upon a time." Slade huffed, crossing his arms and recalling the past quite well.
"You did it first, not me." Dick jabbed back.
"I knew the real Jorogumo sadly, and she's a reborn ancestor of Kohaku's family line dating back to ancient times." Raku expressed with his eyes on yelling what he could to the heavens instead of bottling everything inside. "Roko was aware that I'd found a way to gain the power of manifesting through my art, yet Jorogumo recalls my former body, Roku. I think she wants to use it or bring his power from me to reanimate her world. Her , Edo."
They all looked at his eyes as if that had to be a half-truth instead. "Can…turning back time is one thing, but the entire world becoming a feudal era-
"She has one set desire and it has to do with Abe no Seimei's last banishing curse." Kazuya said. "The curse would grant the child last of the line to hold a stronger magic of time and space within it. There in any event that the being went after Iyori's family to take it back later…"
Kohaku was sworn to uphold that his ancestors had been wronged by her mother's family." Sun Woo gasped. "A blood feud?? What about that poor girl's life?? Why is she becoming-
"SACRIFICE." Shoji cleared his throat. "According to sources through the sect that Kazuya runs, Seimei had to bind his very power of illusion to the child last born, which means her mother was killed and it kept on transferring."
"They've found how to stop the cycle then!" Haru shouted. "Ami is with her a whole lot! They could be in danger right now!"
"We had planned on waiting to tell you…" Dick coughed. "My super heroine daughter Ava is back in town. She'd never let a fly swat her sister. Trust me."
"Ava." Slade blinked. "And, who else??"
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So, plan B? And no mad psychological Rose. Where is she, you ask? Find out!