thenearshore | Something Wicked

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Something Wicked

Who: Romeo and Elfnein
When: 31st March
Where: The Near Shore, Tokyo
What: Another pet is lost on the streets of Tokyo! But it turns out that this problem has an underlying cause!

Since the day, more than two months ago, that Romeo and Elfnein had reunited Kaito with his owner they had had many prayers for missing pets. Cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters and even a tortoise or two! Every few days they would have a new prayer and go and search for the animals and reunite them with their worried owners!

So Romeo was not surprised when he collected the prayers and found one from a little boy who had lost his cat. But then the next one was a little boy who had lost a puppy and the third a little girl whose whole hutch of rabbits had ran away.

"Elfnein! We got lots of prayers!" He hurried into the library to find the map they had been using. It had been Elfnein who had first realised that all of the prayers were on the same few streets and she had come up with the map idea. Just like the markers they had left on the street she had shown Romeo how to find the places on the map and they put little dots where the pets had gone missing.

He spread the map out and sat, face full of concentration as he tried to find the streets on the new prayers they had gotten.

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They had been busy over the last few weeks with all the missing pet requests, not that Elfnein minded in fact she was very happy that people were depending on them for finding their beloved family members.

"Romeo do you have a list of the street names for the new requests?"

"Yes! I found one of them on the map already!" He looks proud of himself and he is! Maps are hard but Elfnein has been teaching him really well and now he is pretty good at reading them. He pointed out the street, it was in the midst of all the other dots. He pointed at the other two slips.

"They've got addresses on them too!"

"They're still in the same area as the others."

Elfnein knows there's something going on with the locations, but each time they go out to find a missing animal there's really nothing out of the norm.

"This isn't just a simple missing pet case, something else must be going on."

"It must be! We should go and find these ones and then look around really good and see what is happening."

Because nothing seems strange but pets don't run away from home that often, not when all their owners seem so happy to have them back!

Romeo went to grab the pet finding kit, it had all the essentials, some toys, various pet treats for different animals, a blanket and even a lead for getting animals home that were too big to pick up!

Elfnein nodded and grabbed her own set of notepads and other supplies along with the map.

"Alright, let's start by making sure the map is correct and adjust it when we get there."

"Right!" He skipped over her to look at the map, it wasn't too difficult to read now that Elfnein had shown him how. In a lot of ways it was much easier than the big maps of the whole world he had been looking at, even if it was more detailed and showed all the streets.

A map with all the streets in the whole world would be bigger than this whole library, Romeo thought.

Elfnein held out her hand so Romeo could take it and they could teleport out of the temple to the right location.

She was glad that making a map in the first place was useful, all the pieces were starting to fall into place now. It only made sense to track everything down and log it.

Romeo grinned at her and took her hand so they could teleport down and start searching for the missing pets!

They knew what they were doing now, the moment they appeared on the street Romeo rushed to grab some rocks to make a marker, then Elfnein could read the map and figure out what house the pet belonged to. Then they could go from there!

Looking at the map the house they were looking for was near the end of the street before an intersection.

"We need to be careful with the traffic near the next house."

She pointed at the spot on the map to show Romeo so they would be on the same page.

Romeo looked at the map and then around them before nodding. "Okay yes. We got to be careful! Cars are tricky!"

They go so fast! But at least they are loud so it's quite easy to hear them coming.

"It's this way then!" Looking at the map again to check he begins to lead the way.

Elfnein nods and starts walking at the same pace as Romeo.

"What other information did they give us?"

"There's a cat and a dog and three rabbits that ran away and they haven't seen them for two nights and the rabbits usually don't leave their hutch very much but they did and they are just small so she's really worri..."

A soft bark stopped him and he turned round to see a little dog in a alley, barking at them. It must be them because they were the only people on the street right now. Also...

"That's Kaito!" The first ever dog they had found! They had no prayer to say he was missing again but there he was, barking, clearly trying to get their attention.

"Kaito, why are you not near your house? Is there something wrong?"

Elfnein went up to him and gave him a pat on the head so he wouldn't try to run away or get scared.

"Is he on the prayer list again? I don't remember his owner making another request."

"No he's not on the list! What's wrong Kaito?" Romeo knelt down to stroke him as well, he whined at them and nudged Elfnein with his nose, towards the alley.

"I think he wants us to go with him!"

Kaito barked again.

"I don't see the harm in him tagging along with us, maybe he knows where all of the other animals are?"

Dogs are smart animals, maybe they could use Kaito to help track everything down via smell.

"He might do!" That was a very good idea! "Okay Kaito! Lead the way!" He let go of Kaito's collar and then ran after him as Kaito led them down the alley. He made sure Elfnein was keeping up as they twisted and turned.

They weren't too far away, in a small area about in the middle of all the streets they had been investigating when they came across what Kaito wanted them to see!

A huge fox shaped ayakashi towers over some terrified rabbits and kittens in the corner. A veritable army of other animals, dogs, cats, a tortoise and even six rats were standing around, making angry noises.]

She did her best to keep up with the two of them, but she was still a few seconds behind them and as soon as they stopped and saw the ayakashi Elfnein went into battle mode.

"This explains a lot of what was going on with the local pets in the area."

The central location, the types of pets and the amount of missing animals. It all fit together as soon as they saw the fox ayakashi.

"We need to save the animals from the fox"

It explained everything! Why they kept going missing! Why even though they had ran away they all seemed so happy to be found by Elfnein and Romeo!

"Borderline!" Romeo threw up a shield between the ayakashi and the rabbits and kittens so that the ayakashi couldn't hurt them!

Unable to get to it's pray the ayakashi turned around, seeing the other animals and Elfnein and Romeo!

"We gotta rend it!" Because now it was going after some dogs and a cat and Romeo can't put up borderlines around everywhere! He can only do one at a time!

"I have an idea"

Elfnein was putting herself between the borderlines and the animals, even if it wasn't much she didn't want them getting hurt.

"If you turn into your shinki form we can give these guys a boost and they can head someplace safe before we try and strike."

Romeo sticks with her, ready to do a borderline to protect her if the Fox ayakashi tried to hurt her!

He listened to her idea, Elfnein always had the best ideas and knew exactly what they had to do!

"Okay! I'm ready!"

He nods at her, ready for her to call his name and make him transform.

Elfnein gave a small thumbs up after Romeo nodded to give the ok.

"Ringoki!"

"Everyone, try and get away from here while we take care of the mean fox!"

She faced the animals and spoke with a concerned tone but also made sure to speak loud enough so they all heard her. Along with that she drew an arrow pointing away with her power so they had a visual as well.

A flash of light and Romeo disappeared, turning into a weasel and ran towards the animals so he could make them all feel stronger and braver and not so scared of the big bad fox!

With Elfnein's words the arrow and the surge of hope all the animals began running towards the alley way, sending encouraging yips and barks in their direction.

Okay! They are all counting on us Elfnien! We got to beat this bad fox!

"I don't want to let them down, if we give everything we got then this will end quickly."

Part of that pep talk was to calm herself down, Elfnein was scared about facing the big bad fox even if they had grown stronger lately.

"We can do this... we can do this."

Once all the animals were safely out of the way Romeo climbed back up onto Elfnein's head. His power helped her keep her spirits up too and he knew that she was a little bit scared! He was a bit scared too because the big bag fox was both very big and very bad but he knew that if they worked together they would be able to stop him and save all the animals!

"Yes! Just take a deep breath, say the spell and then I'll jump at them and you rend and it will be gone!"

And quickly, because the fox is angry now that his prey have all left and is running towards them, this ayakashi has many many more teeth than a normal fox does!

Elfnein tried to take a deep breath, there was still a bit of panic behind her breathing but she had to be strong in this situation. Romeo's power was helping and they could do this, it was just like any of the other enemies they've fought recently.

She gave a nod for Romeo to start his part of the plan and got ready to rend the fox.

Romeo focussed on making sure that Elfnein would be able to keep her spirits up! He knows she is brave and strong enough to rend this bad fox! "Okay ready! Do the spell now!"

He's ready to jump, ready with his borderline. It would take all of their skills combined in order to win this fight!

"Rend!"

She trusted Romeo's attack plan and stared down the fox as she did the spell. The bad fox wouldn't get away from them now.

The weasel leapt through the air, Romeo threw a borderline at the fox to help Elfnein's rend spell be even more powerful! As he landed he bit down at the fox, the spell hit and there was a shimmer before the ayakashi cracked and shattered, dissipating into nothing!

"You did it! You beat the big bad fox!" The weasel ran back to scramble back up onto Elfnein's shoulders, victorious.

"It really worked!"

She's still really surprised at being able to defeat monsters, it wasn't the first monster they've gotten but it still felt like it was.

"We really did it Romeo, the animals won't be in danger now"

"They can all go back home and won't got to run away anymore!" All their human friends would be so happy! And all the animals would be safe!

There was a bark and Kaito came running from the alley way, followed by the other animals. He ran up to Elfnein to lick her fingers.

Romeo made the weasel clamber onto Elfnein's head and he did a happy dance. See they are all so happy! You made them all safe again!

She gave a head pat to Kaito once he ran up to her, everyone was safe and no one got hurt. It was the best outcome that could happen.

"Let's get everyone home before anything else happens."

"Yes! Let's get them all home! We can use your map so we know where to take them!" He snuffed the air and looked around at all the animals.

"Why don't we start with Kaito and work from there? It's a good central location on the map."

"That's a good idea! He scrambled off Elfnein's head onto the floor and flicked his head at Kaito. Soon there was a parade of animals following the weasel, he and Elfnein would get them all home safely!

"Alright, everyone let's try and form an orderly line and get you all home!"

Since a full parade without order would be a mess in the streets and people would think something strange is going on.

The animals did as she said, Romeo nudging a few of them into line. Soon the line was neat and orderly and they went house by house, dropping all the animals off safely. It was good that they had the map! They could make sure everyone got back to where they belonged, all safe now that the big bad fox was gone!

Now that everyone was in order it was time to move out to Kaito's house and then go down the list. Since they had everything mapped out it didn't take long at all to get everyone home safe and sound. Each time they dropped one off you could hear their owners give a sigh of relief at their family member being returned safe and sound.

"I think that's everyone?"

It was a good thing to take them all home, to see all the humans happy and all the pets so glad to be home again safe! It had been a really good thing they had done!

"I think it is!"

He ran back up her leg to nestle in her hair again.

"We did a really good job! I'm glad they are all safe!"

"I feel the same, all of them being safe and sound and reunited gives me a warm feeling don't you agree?"

Romeo nodded, it did give him a warm feeling to know that all their new animal friends were back safe and their prayer was all finished!

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