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YO-FEST

Chapter 5

Lee Squidly gets a special call by the headpriestess of Knifefish Shrine to take part in special preparations for one of the biggest holidays celebrated by Inkopolis’ ghostly neighbors, Yokai. Yo-Fest is only a week away and it’s up to Lee to make sure the fesitivies go off without a hitch.

He’s not alone though; joining him is his pals Guist, Juddinyan, and his many Yokai friends who are just a dial away via his Yokai Smartwatch.

Featuring the characters of @askvincent

Chapter 4 available here

Word Count: 5,438 words

With that beastly yokai having disappeared with Lyra in tow, Lee found himself completely at a loss. Leakina sat on the floor, motionless, staring into nothing while a frightened Guist and Juddinyan still shivering in fear. What were they going to do? What could they hope to do?

“Oh dear, Sister Lyra has been taken from us.”

A quiet, mysterious voice that shook the melancholic boy and the yokai. Lee spun around to find the source; an anemone girl standing in the entrance to the bathhouse. “Sister Kaitlyn?” She was one of Knifefish Shrine’s practicing priestesses.

Her hair tendrils bobbed as she nodded, silently confirming her identity. She brushed them out of her face as she stepped into the hot spring. Her voice was a rather quiet whisper, nearly deafened by the clacking of her wooden sandals on the stone floor. “That oni had such amazing power, and a scary face to match. Sister Lyra was scared for the rest of us but it seems she bit off more than she could chew trying to fight it on her own.” She exposited.

All Lee could think to reply was a stuttering, “Y-yeah,” as he was still dumbfounded by the situation. Suddenly, a realization dawned on him. “Wait a minute, could you actually see that yokai?”

That question raised the interest of the present poltergeists who, including Lee, all knew that the shrine maidens could feel the presence of spirits but not see them. She revealed, “Why yes I can. I don't have as much skill as Lyra but I can see and speak with them just fine.”

“That’s really great and all.” Lee began, knowing as interesting as that new development was there was a bigger problem at hand. “But we've got to figure out what that yokai did with Miss Lyra.”

Kaitlyn replied, “I'm not sure.” Her voice was rather peculiar to him. It was so reserved and monotone, it made him wonder if she felt any kind of emotion over Lyra's kidnapping? “I would think a yokai that powerful could go wherever they want but I'm gonna bet if they'd go anywhere it would be back to the Yokai Realm.”

Only in passing had he heard about the second world belonging to Yokai so Lee replied in bewilderment. “The Yokai Realm?”

Coming off of his fear, Guist chimed in with information. “You never heard of the Yokai Realm, Cus?” He zipped up into the air before Lee, thumbing at his tablet computer. “It’s like, this totally radical wonderland, y’know?” He continued to blather as he struggled to look for something. “It’s a happenin’ place where Yokai are born—and they live and—I never actually been there myself but--.” He groaned sadly, “Aww bummer dude my wireless went out and I was trying to find pictures of it.”

Juddinyan peaked out from between his paws, interrupting them to inform, “The only way to get to the Meowkai Realm is through a portal and I d’yon’t know where any are.”

“Ahh,” Kaitlyn interjected, “That’s a lot simpler than you think it is.”

They watched with earnest as she maneuvered through the bathhouse, stopping where the statue constructed by Lyra’s parents once stood. She moved behind one of the decorative rocks and appeared to pull some kind of lever that made an audible mechanical noise. Their attention then all shifted to the bath water; a bubble rose to the surface before the water began to spiral down into a drain. Eventually all of the spring was completely flushed away.

Why she did that was not clear at first but the steam that remained of the empty hot spring water mysteriously began to gravitate toward a rock formation that lined one of the walls of the bathhouse. Neither Lee nor the poltergeists had paid attention to the shape of the stones before but now they watched as the steam collected together within it. Soon, the vapor took the shape of a round disk, glowing with a mystical, ethereal light right before their eyes.

As captivating as it was to look at, Kaitlyn revealed, “There you go; one genuine portal between our Mortal World and the Yokai Realm.” Her gaze then shifted squarely upon Lee where she made a startling proclamation. “Well, whenever you're ready to save Sister Lyra just hop on through.”

“Wha'?! Buh-be-but-- M-Me?!” Lee returned with a stupefied stutter, questioningly pointing to himself.

Ever the energetic one, Guist spiraled through the air. “Well what are we waiting for? Let's boogey and save the shrine babe!” Hearing that made Juddinyan rise to his feet, and made Leakina clench her fists with a determined sneer on her face.

Before any of them could take another step toward the portal, Kaitlyn raised her hand to halt them. “I'm sorry but it takes a lot for a mortal to cross over; only one of you will be able to accompany him into the Yokai Realm.”

The question Lee should have asked was how did she know all of this? He was certain not even Lyra did but that wasn't what he said. “I-- mmm-- what makes you think I'm the one who can rescue Miss Lyra?”

The priestess exclained, “None of us have the training to fight an oni that powerful.” At first that didn't answer Lee's question since he didn’t have ANY of their training but she continued. “You however have your Yokai Watch so you won't have to face it alone. You'll have one of them.”

She gestured to Guist and Juddinyan, the furrier of the two indicating, “Mew should be the one to go with him.”

Guist replied, “Why do you think I should go. Juddin-dude?”

“N'your Y-pad has an app that can track me-ortals,” Juddinyan said.

“Wait? It does?” The pale squid spirit was baffled to hear that, and was left totally aghast once Juddinyan pawed at the screen of his handheld computer, finding the application in question for him. “Whoa-hoa, mondo cool!” He bellowed with genuine excitement over this discovery. “Check it Cus, I can totally see you!”

Kaitlyn continued. “Not to mention all the friends you have made who are just a dial away. If anyone can save Sister Lyra, it’s going to be you.” Lee hadn’t a word to say in response, he just stood there, prompting the maiden to say, “What's wrong? Are you scared?”

He questioned what gave that away? Was it how he clenched his teeth underneath his quivering lips? Was it how his knees jittered? Or was it how he tried to say something but all that came out in struggling whimpers? He still remained quiet but a rush of thoughts rocketed through his head, making him desperately wonder.

What do they want me to do?

What could he do? There wasn’t a Yokai he knew whom he believed had a chance to stand up against someone that menacing.

I don’t know what to do.

All he ever wanted was to see ghosts with his smartwatch, and here he was faced with yet another life or death situation. This seemed to be a common theme in his life, only this time he was to go to an entirely different dimension. How did this happen? What lead to this? Why did he have to go through this?

Don’t make me do this—there's nothing I can do. THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO!

In the blinding anxiety of the situation, he suddenly felt a peculiar tingling sensation encompassing around his hands. He came down from the heart racing tension to find Leakina standing before him, tightly clasping his hands in her own.

“Leeker,” she breathed, “I- I can't ask you for anything, I know that after everything I did.” Her voice was hushed as if she struggled to admit that to him. Nonetheless that did not stop her from lifting her head, looking the Inkling straight in the eye, and nearly pleading to him. “Just this once, please Leeker, save my Lyra.”

Save my Lyra. Those words echoed in his head again and again. The look on her face as he stared back at her said even more still. Desperation, helplessness, pleading, fear; she could be read like an open book.

Seeing it spurned something in Lee. His heart rate quickened, he straightened his back, and raised his head to show a furrowed brow and solemn stare. “I'll do it,” he said, standing tall, “I'll get her back.”

That sudden shift in bravado stupefied every occupant in the room until Guist congratulated, “Yah-hah, that’s the way to be, Cus!”

Equally disbelieving, Leakina babbled, “Y-You will?”

“I--I will, I p-promise I will!” There were still traces of uncertainty in Lee's voice but they were masked by an apparent overwhelming resolve.

That fiery energy gave an inspiring hope to Leakina. “Oh Leeker,” she whispered with a lighted smile, holding his hands even tighter than before. “Thank you.”

They had a common goal. For the first time since they met, their minds were in sync; Lee finally felt that he was beginning to understand Leakina and that there was much more to her that he wanted to know. It didn’t dawn on him until much later but she felt the same about him in that moment.

Suddenly, a blinding glow of light began to emit between their hands. Never did he think it would ever happen but once Leakina pulled her hands away, Lee stared in wide eyed disbelief at the treasure that was left in his flat open palms.

It was her Yokai card, the symbol of their friendship. Leakina instructed, “Once you find that guy that took Lyra call me and I'll come help.”

“Me too, meow.” Juddinyan added; showing his readiness by clenching his paws and hopping up and down.

That level of support brought a smile that wouldn’t leave Lee's face. Pocketing Leakina's Yokai card, he stepped toward the portal. “You ready to go, Guist?” He said.

Zipping right to his side, the squid spirit declared, “You know it Cousin! I got your back all the way!”

Just as they were moments from crossing the threshold between worlds, they were stopped by Kaitlyn. “Wait Lee,” she beckoned, her toneless voice as quiet as a whisper. “The Yokai Realm is unlike anything of this earth, you'll see things beyond your imagination that might be overwhelming for you.” The void of energy in her voice made that warning far more menacing than she probably intended.

Looking over his shoulder back at Juddinyan and Leakina, their encouraging smiles helped him retain his courage. “I'll be fine,” he replied.

Kaitlyn had one more thing for him. “Wait. You should know mortals might not be a common sight in the Yokai Realm. Wear this to keep from standing out.” She reached into the wide sleeve of her jacket and produced a dark colored blanket of some sort that she draped over him. He quietly accepted it, also accepting that there was still no clue of what he was getting into but alongside Guist, they made the cross over through the misty door.

His vision became momentarily impaired only to be returned shorter after where he would be greeted by the alien sights of the Yokai Realm. What came as a surprise most of all was finding a city, a metropolis even not so far removed from his home of Inkopolis.

Maybe it was his brain’s desire to associate something he knew with something new? It really did feel like home except for the oblong, seemingly impossible shapes of numerous buildings and structures. How were they able to stand without falling? He didn’t know, nor did he know how to process how some things, seemingly random things seemed to be—dismembered body parts? Eyes, Lips, Hands, Feet and more; they weren’t randomly placed without reason, they seemed to be integrated parts of the environment. Lee pinched his cheek, wondering if this whole thing was really a fabrication of his mind.

He was awake though, more awake now that he took in the colors of everything. From the sky above his head to the ground beneath his feet, everywhere he looked everything was so wild, vibrant, and actually quite garish. He had traveled with his mom to many faraway places but nothing could compare to this; even the smell and taste of the air was unlike anything he had ever experienced.

He stopped contemplating when he realized Guist had left him and was absorbing the surroundings in his own way.

“Guist!” Lee shouted, interrupting a selfie with a pair of Yokai. “What are you doing, we’re supposed to be looking for Miss Lyra.”

The two locals disappeared in a spontaneous puff of smoke, spooked by the strange yelling entity draped in black. This made the squid spirit shake his head and groan. “Don’t have a cow Cus, I already found the shrine babe.”

“What, you have?”

Turning around his tablet, Guist showed the open mortal tracking app which displayed a map with one dot close to the center and another far off in the distance. The Yokai said, “Peep this, the mortal tracker really works. In the meantime, let’s kick it and enjoy our first time here.” Considering the weight of their mission, Lee wasn’t nearly as interested in sightseeing as his companion. He took him by the arm and began walking while the spirit waved his tablet around, cheerfully taking videos and pictures.

They continued along through the topsy-turvy city, directed by Guist's tracker. It was a blessing to have it as the street signs read in seemingly nonsensical gibberish. Soon, they managed to reach what appeared to be a normal office complex—or as normal as a building that wiggled from side to side could be. The two entered with no one paying any mind to them and rode the elevator to the floor the tracker surprisingly managed to point them to.

Upon exiting the lift, Lee vigorously wiped his hand with a tissue paper, mortified by having to touch the buttons made of eyeballs. Guist beckoned, “She's in this door right here, Cus,” indicating one that Lee grimaced at because its handle was an actual hand. Sucking in a breath and averting his eyes, he grasped it, jolting slightly when he felt the handle grip him back. He opened the door to find—a relatively plain looking empty office.

Nothing about it really stood out at all except for a folded card on the desk that shockingly read in perfect Inklish, Back in 5 minutes.

“Hey Cus, she's in here!” Guist waved, indicating a door labeled PRIVATE. That didn’t stop the ready Inkling from steeling his nerve and opening the door; even though his shaky hand spoke volumes of his hesitation. His partner was equally unsure as he reflexively ducked behind his shoulder. The duo stepped into a room much larger than the dimensions the outer office would suggest.

There, at the opposite end they saw him, Goredinator, the yokai who captured Lyra. He sat, reclining in an office chair, his bare feet up on his desk, hands behind his head, and a satisfied smirk spread across his face. That smile quickly vanished when he saw the cloaked Lee and Guist in the open doorway.

“What's the meaning of this?” He then gave a guttural snarl, “MROOO, Scaretary!” He slammed one fist down upon his desk then roughly smashed his finger down on a button. “Get these two out of here, I’m not taking any more appointments for the rest of the day!” They heard his voice scream from an intercom in the outer room.

Not sparing a moment, Guist zipped out from behind Lee's back, hovering up to be eye to eye with Goredinator. Bravely, the small squid spirit demanded, “Where’s the shrine babe? Tell us what you did with her before I totally burn ya!”

Goredinator’s only response was to blow a puff of air out of his nostrils, a move powerful enough to send the little ghost careening through the air out of his face. Lee caught him just in time to hear the bull horned oni laugh. “BRAH HAH HAH, you must be talking about the priestess. She’s right here,” he said, pressing a button on his desk that caused a nearby wall to spin around.

Lee and Guist gasped at finally finding Lyra, who held her hands over her mouth when her eyes locked with theirs. She was thankfully unharmed but trapped in some sort of cage made of tusks.

That fact made the Yokai gloat. “Like they say; if you want something done right you’ve got to do it yourself. Those convicts couldn’t stop Yo-Fest from happening but I could.”

“Wait,” Lee finally spoke, “You’re the one who sent those yokai that attacked the shrine?”

“That’s right.” Goredinator freely admitted. “I underestimated a humble shrine priestess but I should’ve known better since she’s the one initiating this blasted holiday.”

Perplexed, Lee continued to question. “Who are you? What have you got against Yo-Fest?”

Riding off of his joy, the big brute was willing to oblige. “My name is Goredinator and I just hate Yo-Fest! I hate the whole Yo-Fest season!”

“But why dude?” Guist weakly wondered?

“Why?” Goredinator slammed his fist down on his desk at that question. “WHY?” He repeated, bashing his other fist on it again. “WHY?!” He crashed both of his hands through the thick wooden desk, managing to break clean through it with his terrifying strength. His tantrum continued with him spinning around and ripping away a piece of the wall behind him. He snarled and huffed angrily as a mountain of papers toppled out of the open wall. “THIS IS WHY!”

The two intruders stepped back as the flood papers spread all over the floor, neither understanding until Goredinator finally unveiled his plot.

“I approve who goes from the Yokai Realm to the Mortal World and at this time of year requests come in by the truck load. For millennia I’ve had to deal with it and I can’t stand it anymore! I’m going to make sure this holiday is ruined and so no one will want to go the Mortal World.”

Absorbing the whole story, Lee sought clarification because he couldn’t believe what he heard. “Wait, are you serious? You attacked us and kidnapped Miss Lyra just because you don’t want to do paperwork?”

Straight away Goredinator replied with the utmost sincerity. “That's right.”

His snorting, huffing laugh was pure mockery to the mortal creature. In that moment he thought back to being dogpiled by Boss Moley and his Moleymoreys, to being dried out by Dehydreaded, getting scared to death by Paranumbra, and finally Lyra’s kidnapping. All of this trouble, all of this fighting, and all of this turmoil— it made Lee freeze in place.

Whispering over the laughter of their foe, Guist asked, “So uh—how do you plan on talking this guy into not being such a hosehead?”

“We’re not talking,” Lee answered, much to his partner’s surprise. He muttered his explanation. “My mom says you should always try to talk things out—but sometimes some people reach a point that they don’t deserve that. And he’s so far past that point that he’s on the moon.” With that conclusion in mind, Lee took the black cloak that had been concealing him and peeled it off.

This development intrigued the villainous yokai who commented, “Say I remember you, you were there at the shrine.”

From her cage, Lyra interjected with a plea. “Ahh! Pay no attention to him, he’s just a kid, nothing more—he just—he just,” she then realized she couldn’t fathom an explanation as to how he got here.

“Well whatever,” Goredinator said unphased, “What could you hope to do alone?”

“I’m not alone.” Lee informed, standing firm he held up his arm to display his watch to the big bad poltergeist.

In response he snarled, “What in the--? A Yokai Watch?”

He didn’t back down. “That’s right,” he said, instantly taking responsibility for foiling all of Goredinator’s plans that week. “And I’ve got some friends who have a bone to pick with you.” Lee drew all the calling cards he had out of his cargo pocket and slammed them down upon the face of his smartwatch. “Come on out my friends! Calling—everyone!”

“Juddinyan!”

“Meow, it’s go time!” Juddinyan punched one of his paws against his other paw.

“Moley Morey!”

The mole yokai readied his shovel like a polearm. “That’s the shmuck that promised us freedom! And This is what he’s doing?”

“Tropicanna!”

Appearing in a fine mist, the flowery yokai held up her fists. “That priestess helped me and Daddy, let go of her now!”

“Kakkonyan!”

The loving cat yokai was anything but as he sneered, “If Lee thinks you’re a bad guy than you’re a really bad guy! Nyah,” he pulled out his pair of Tentamissile launchers, looking for a fight.

“Wanderzan!”

“Any enemy of muh homey is an enemy o’ mine!” The jellyfish yokai clacked his baseball bat against the floor.

“And Leakina!”

Biting her teeth, the lovestruck yokai practically lead the charge herself. “Now you got nowhere to run, you’re gonna give Lyra back!”

Even Guist joined their ranks; donning a bandana, a bandolier of ink cartridges, and grasping a Splattershot as he did earlier that week. He declared, “Time to rock n’ roll, dudes!”

From her cage, Lyra stood in absolute awe of what she saw; the seven yokai standing alongside Lee. She listened as the youngster pointed a finger, challenging the powerful Oni. He said, “Now give us back Miss Lyra and stop this already!”

As much as he hoped it would be, Goredinator seemed anything but intimidated. He started to breathe heavily, grunting furiously and pumping his shoulders with each exhale. “I will not be denied! Especially not by the likes of you!” He then made Lee and his band jump by grasping the shirt and coat of his suit and ripping it to pieces. Before any of them could process why he did that, a jet-black miasma spontaneously began to surround him. It obscured the malevolent yokai as he emitted a mighty roar that rocked the entire room.

The dark cloud dissipated and, in that moment, Goredinator had transformed right before their eyes. Lee recognized the creature he had become, it was a bull; a giant bull that dwarfed all of them in size. He scrapped one cloven hoof on the ground, huffing through his nose with the same anger as before, and his eyes blazing like fiery embers.

Seeking direction, Guist floated down to near Lee’s shoulder. “Umm-- what do we do Cus?” He asked, his shooter shaking as he clutched it.

Lee looked all around at the members of his entourage who had fallen silent in awe of the unanticipated transformation. The mortal boy was equally speechless and was sure they could feel the sheer might that radiated off the altered Goredinator just as he could. “We can do it,” he answered with a heavy gulp, “There’s eight of us and only one of him!” Driving down his own nervousness, Lee bravely proclaimed, “ATTACK!”

Together, the seven collected yokai and their mortal friend rushed into battle. With them by his side, Lee felt they could take on a yokai as frighteningly mighty as this. We can do this! WE CAN BEAT HIM! He shouted in his head, absolutely sure as sure could be—.

A few moments later

“AHHHHHH! WAHHHHH! AHHHHHH!” A chorus of cries and screams rang throughout the office as the transformed Goredinator decimated Lee and his allies. Leakina, Tropicanna, and even Wanderzan had been trampled into puddles beneath the his hooves. The rest weren’t fairing much better.

After getting impaled on the razor-sharp horns, Guist tried to splutter out a question. “So, umm—this ain’t workin’ out Cus, you got a Plan B?”

“Uhhh.” He hadn’t a clue. “I don’t have one.” The mortal Inkling boy breathed anxiously.

The pale squid seemed to take it okay, in fact he reassured his friend. “Oh, well that’s okay, I mean we’re yokai it’s not as if we can die or something.”

‘N’yes we can!” Juddinyan howled while underneath Gotedinator's hoof, struggling with all his might to hold it ip. “If you die as a meowkai n’you’re just plain dead!” Just as he spoke those words, he was stomped flat.

That revelation caused Guist to start screaming again and soon be joined by the rest of the entourage as it seemed like there was no hope in sight to win this one-sided battle.

“Excuse me Mr. Goredinator?” Unknown to Lee and his friends, the big bad boss’s secretary, Scaretary came waltzing into the arena, studiously scanning a clipboard. “I need you to sign these forms okaying—uhh—ohh.” She looked up, only to be met with the scene of the battle. Goredinator turned to her; with his snarling teeth and burning red eyes he simply let out a huff of air through his nostrils. Seemingly understanding that, Scaretary took a step back. “I didn’t know you were in a meeting,” she reasoned, “I’ll come back later.”

Suddenly she stopped and did a doubletake at one of the room’s occupants. “Wait a minute, is your name Guist?”

“Yeah, that’s me,” the pint-sized spirit answered casually.

Scaretary hovered over right away where she laughed, “Chaha, we have a package for you, Sweetie. We’ve had trouble trying to get a courier to take it to the Mortal World but since you’re here I can just give it to you.”

Despite his predicament of being skewered, Guist smiled gleefully. “That’s the bomb diggity!” He said as he signed a piece of paper she materialized out of black smoke, then accepted a brown cardboard box that she seemed to pull out from behind her back.

Curious, Lee asked, “Urrk what’s that?” He struggled to say over being crushed by Goredinator's horns.

“It's the package I ordered from Yomazon.” Guist replied much to Lee's surprise as he had forgotten he ordered that days ago. He ripped open the packaging. “And it's totally the One Inch Hammer I ordered!” In his tentacles he held a short, colorful looking wooden mallet.

“It's like, magic, it solves any problem that you tap it on!” Guist explained.

Wondering, Lee asked. “How does it—WHOA!” Fed up with their conversing in the middle of his tantrum, Goredinator bucked wildly and tossed him, Guist, Kakkonyan, and the Moleymorey to the side. Before any of them could even collect their wits, Lee blinked through hazy vision to find the beastly boss charging at them. He screeched in terror. “AHHH!!! Use it! Whatever it does just use it!” In this moment of certain death, he put every ounce of his faith in Guist and his perplexing internet purchase.

“You got is Cus!”

Ever willing to oblige, and not knowing any of what he was getting into, Guist rushed head long into the fray. “Gnarly!!!” He gave the mightiest battle cry, smacking the head of the hammer between Goredinator's eyes.

The rushing behemoth stopped in his tracks but it seemed to have no effect other than the hammer collapsing into pieces.

Suddenly, a blinding shaft of light blasted out of Goredinator's brow. Lee and his crew shielded their eyes from the light, even the ones who had been trampled by Goredinator regained their form just so they could block their vision from the intense, mysterious beam. Barely able to see, Lee could make something out through a tiny sliver between his fingers. It appeared to be a figure shrouded in shadow emerging from the light.

Moments later the light faded away and Lee was finally able to see the figure in their entirety. They were—an Inkling? Their ears, their tentacles, and their eyes had that distinctive appearance unique to his species but everything else? Their skin was a powerfully ruddy color that matched the strikingly red mantle they wore. With the gold and silver accents adorning the robe, it looked like something worn by royalty. The royal visage was completed with a strange cube shaped crown, and a rosary of wooden beads securing what appeared to be a golden mirror around their neck?

Before Lee could attempt to exam them more, he heard a collective hiss of gasps from everyone in the room. He snapped to look back at his friends, only to find all of them kneeling on the floor with their foreheads pressed to the ground. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Lyra in her prison had still did the same. Stranger still, Goredinator had reverted back to the oni form he had earlier, and he, along with the ghost lady that brought the package were kneeling as well.

The only one besides the baffled Lee who didn’t fall to the floor was Guist. He greeted the newcomer so casually. “Sup dude, are you the one who's gonna help us?”

In the blink of an eye both Leakina and Juddinyan shot up and grabbed Guist, shoving him down to the floor. “Acck. What the hey-hey dudes?” He cried out.

“What are you thinking?” Leakina barked.

Juddinyan gasped, “Don't you kn'yow who that is?”

The little ghost was clueless. “Am I supposed t'?”

“That's the big wave himself!”

“The top cat!”

“The judge AND jury.”

“The king of all meowkai!”

“Lord Inkma!” They both revealed in unison.

The king of all Yokai? Lee didn’t have time to contemplate this as the imposing monarch finally sounded off. “What is the meaning of this, where am I?” For someone with such a youthful looking visage they had such a thunderous, booming voice.

Goredinator was the first to rise and approach the yokai king. “Your highness! Your emminence!” In stark contrast to the poltergeist who tried to kill them, he suddenly shifted into nervously wringing his hands and mincing about as he hovered around the stoical monarch. “Welcome to our humble office, we grant yokai passage to and from the--”

“What the devil?” Inkma interrupted, bemusement filling him as he focused on Lee. “Is-- is that a mortal?” The youngster pointed to himself questioningly only to then hold up his hands in defense when the monarch practically roared. “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! WHAT IS A MORTAL DOING IN MY--,” he then caught sight of Lyra and lost his breath. “--Another one?! What is the meaning of this?”

Guist didn’t spare a moment in placing the blame where blame was due. “That cow dude totally kidnapped the shrine babe and took her here so we came to rescue her and he totally tried to 86 us!”

“That’s a lie,” Goredinator defended, “Don’t believe anything this little welp or any of these mortal fraternizers say!”

“I don’t know what a ‘fraternizer’ is.” Guist shook his little white tentacle. “But it’s totally true! I got everything you said on video.” Unbeknownst to Goredinator and even Lee, Guist had captured the big bad yokai’s entire confession on his tablet. Despite vehement protests and threats from Goredinator, he was held back by the will of Lord Inkma who viewed the video in its entirety.

After its completion, the lord of the realm was left absolutely aghast. “There are even criminals running loose in the mortal world? This is absolutely insane, nothing like this has ever happened under the Inkma family reign.” He paced about for a moment before clenching his fist. “It is my decree that all yokai shall be immediately recalled back to the Yokai Realm and all portals to the Mortal World will be closed and sealed until further notice!”

Gasps filled the room and eventhough he was trying to help, Guist’s heart sank. He darted through the air in front of King Inkma and pleaded to him. “Whoa whoa whoa, there’s no need to do that, let’s just chill, dude.”

“SILENCE!” Inkma screeched harshly. “I will make a judgement for the crimes against the realm, but as for these two...” He first pointed his finger to Lee, then aimed at Lyra. A bolt of energy fired from the tip of his finger, blasting away the priestess’s prison and finally freeing her.

“Lyra!” Elated to see her, Leakina soared through the air toward her. Nothing had ever made her fly faster in her entire life or made her so short of joyous, relieved breath.

SNAP

“...You must leave at once.” With a snap of his fingers, both Lee and Lyra vanished in a puff of dark smoke. Leakina was left to slide to a halt, reaching out for the woman she came to rescue who was gone— gone back to her world.

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