Shiro and Keith push forward through the wilderness, a total wilderness, and the only thing was the information that they got from Queen Astrid and her family was to find the Kitsune but all sources came out short, even if he doesn't know much about this world, Shiro knew that the territory was vast, and much of its features were hostile to life, let alone explorers and cartographers learn how to survive here.
It was no secret that this world was surrounded by Daemons who beings created by magic and guide humanity.
While some daemons do that, there were others who did not have the best attendance for humanity, in fact, they were after a crystal that was once inside Shiro's body but that wasn't there only Target, a group of daemons known the Galra empire. Wanted to conquer the planet and probably wanted the crystal to take over or possibly something else.
The canyons of sun-baked dirt and dunes combine the thick trees that blanket the valley beyond the bluff, where a blue alarm clock, on the ground. Tik-Tok Tik-Tok
"We have no idea where we going, do you?" Keith asks Shiro.
"Well according to queen Astrid, she said we have to find the Kitsune".
Suddenly the alarm starts ringing "Okay, three minutes are up" Shiro shouted, and immediately Keith slurps up a bowl of instant noodles ravenously.
"Tastes great! Shiro, this is really good!"
"Oh yeah? I'm glad"
Shiro brought several things from Earth, including instant noodles that Keith find splendid. "Aren't you having some?"
"Sure but I have been thinking"
"Thinking about what"
"If we find the samurai, are you going to train with them"
"What, I thought that you were going to train you"
"No, I haven't forgotten but train with them together"
"Please, only humans can work with samurai"
"What do I being a human have to do with be a samurai?" Shiro said, casts him an annoyed glare; irritably.
"Simple. Humans are better at causing problems than Daemons and Daemons are better at doing guidance and not fighting and stuff like that". Keith said.
"Isn't that right, Stats"
Stats pause who on Shiro's shoulder eating fishcakes
"And you believe that"
"It's just the natural order of things like this aftermath of a battle?"
Keith pointed out an old battlefield, surrounded by a field of skulls robots and crows in the background fleeing.
"Ok, but next time I'm picking the place to eat but seriously I think you do have the potential do something great, just like my commander said," Shiro said
"Commander, what that" Keith said, finally stops eating.
"Oh I never told you about my life on Earth"
"The place I come from called the Galaxy Garrison and they specialize in outer space".
"Outer space?"
"Yes. Humans went to outer space..." Shiro said, remembering his time where he witnessed the Garrison's first mission to Jupiter, it really got him into space travel, to begin with.
"Oh yeah, did you know, we even went to the moon! Close to Saturn"
"The moon? How?!"
"Using a rocket."
"A rocket? "
Shiro stretches out his arms far apart to show how huge it is while makes funny gestures on the ground and fire shoots out from the bottom curls up and kaboom! raises his hand wildly in the air.
"What was that"
"A rocket did I show the entire scene as I've described it, huge and all"
Not wanting to figure it out, Keith decides to continues eating, not listening anymore.
"Be interested in noodles rather than my space stories" Shiro said, folds his hands and sulks with annoyance.
Suddenly The sky turn darkens, similar to nighttime. "What?! It suddenly got dark" Shiro wondered.
"Well, whatever it is not good," Keith said, shoots up, throwing away his empty instant noodles.
A cyan vortex appears and twirls, closing in on them. It is almost four times bigger than them.
As it enlarges, it revealed several mini warriors clad in black Ninja kimonos descend from the swirl ambushing them.
The warriors quickly encircle Keith and Shiro and take them out.
Keith gets pulled back and knocked over. While Shiro is pulled by his arm. As he leans in to maintain his balance, someone pulls his jacket over his head and pulls him down.
Stats flies up from Shiro's shoulder, only to be quickly caught in a bag, only his head still protruding.
Falling down from this humiliating thing, they fell into the ground, bound and blindfolded, surrounded by the warriors.
"Shiro, can you tell us more that space stories"
After getting captured and blindfolded, they arrive at a small village that was made of wood and stone with steeply pitched thatched roofs. But each they have a projection of an enormous rune, the same as etched on the fire.
"Show yourselves, cowards!" Keith shouted, still blindfolded but upon getting unblindfolded. Shiro and Keith were greeted by the same image. It looms high above the great hall, the main building of the village along with the rest of the village.
Below its tapered point, rows of ninja troops with identities obscured with hoods and masks, flank either side of the village, let alone with a group of people looking closely down to them.
"On your knees" The smaller of the villagers ordered him to do. "I am Samson, the leader of this village.
The man is equally intimidating. In spite of his small stature "You three have some explaining to do and if you don't answer all our questions, we're taking you to the galra"
"Who are you? Where are the men who ambushed us?" Keith said, Aggressively.
"There are no men, well they are but we're the ones who truly ambushed you" Samson explain
"Wait for a second, are you serious" Keith who stares at them in disbelief with a 'what-the-hell' look to his right where Shiro stands as if he is looking for confirmation." seriously, there is no way that a bunch of tiny people took us down"
With gaps, the people fell dependent on Keith's comment, so much that the leader took Keith by his collar, all angrily and said "A bunch of tiny people, huh? The Galra have a field day with you"
Leans forward in his bonds. Shiro addresses them and the court, repeating, "No, don't hurt him! He didn't mean it"
"Allow me to introduce myself, I am Shiro and I came from another world. And this is Keith who didn't mean what he said" with that said the leader released Keith, but still stares at him in dismay.
"How do we know you're not spies? The Kitsune stayed out of the war so far. And we intend to keep it that way!"
"Wait, Kitsune" Shiro starts. Looking at their appearance now, they did have the description that Queen Astrid told them, fox ears and tails. The whole. thing.
"This place is home to the Kitsune?!, The same people that Queen Astrid told us about"
"Ha! How could you possibly know her?"
"That is because we met her three days ago and save her kingdom, from a crazy spell that she was under". Keith explained.
"I seriously doubt that because no way that is true"
"Do we look like we're lying, Queen Astrid, told us about you, tiny idiots?" Keith said out loud.
"Keith, that was very rude," Shiro tells him, but he can sense the tension of him like embers awaiting the smallest spark to ignite.
"A slip of the tongue belies one's true intentions," the leader says. "We do not care about your intentions, but if you are spies for your so-called Empire, then we will not hesitate to spill your blood as well as your accomplices'. Who else is with you?"
"No one, just us, look it's clear that you don't trust us but we are not spies or liars we came to your village is so we can look for something, something about the samurai" Shiro answers.
"The samurai, but they disappeared many deca phoebs ago, how can you be certain?".
"Because we're trying to find them so I can train to become one"
"I doubt that what is see was in your bag" Samson explain as two fox Ninja rummages through Shiro's backpack to look for something suspicious.
"Here it is! I found something" one of the ninjas said as he discovered something that might be extraordinary. The quintessence Crystal, this causes the villagers to be surprised.
"Huh?! Priestess!" Samson said as he and the rest of the villagers bow to Shiro before untying him.
"We are sorry, you were right" Samson explains apologizing to Shiro "we didn't know who you really are"
"That's okay but Please, please, rise. Thank you for letting us go but I am not a great being worthy of your worship. I'm only here to ask for your help and I was wondering if we can to know you as friends."
The Kitsune cheer and celebrate by hugging Shiro. But still, tie up Keith tries to leave but a Kitsune clings to him.
"I don't... usually hug strangers, but, uh... Man, you are cuddly." Keith said.
"Thank you." The Kitsune speaks in a contrastingly deep voice that shocked Keith.
Elsewhere on a plain, a battalion of warriors, Orange and white, face off. Battle cries are being sounded. Suddenly something appeared in the sky, where huge dark clouds appear and cover the sun. Soon the battalions are shrouded in semi-darkness. Thunder is heard in the background. The warriors of the red battalion lookup.
"Ready to hunt, Manten?" A good looking Galra who flies on wheels said
"Yes, Brother Hiten!" A Fat Galra said who was sits in a cloud.
Swings his pike, he shouted "Thunderbolt attack! Witness our power!" Long bolts shoot from his pike and annihilate the battalion.
"Restart battalion"
Listening to his commands, a group of men restarts the command. "Yes sir, restart simulation" suddenly the men reappeared, alive and well.
"They're all yours brother"
"You don't have to tell me twice," he said as opens his mouth and shoots out the fire...
Resulting the battalion was annihilated by Martens' fire attack. "End training sequence" Hiten order the men.
The simulation turns into a big white square.
"Boy, wasn't that fun, Manten?"
"Yes it was"
Coming out to greets them as the elevator doors slide open. A little girl who resembles her older brothers but has a hairstyle in two ponytails with a small cow-lick on her right side.
She is dressed very similarly to her two brothers. On her shoulders, she has two red shoulder plates. She wears a white and blue shirt, with blue pants. She has a yellow sash tied around her waist, and a matching pair of bracelets on each wrist. She also wears a red pair of shoes.
"looks like my new programming was accessing," she said looking on her clipboard.
"It sure was, sister Sōten".
"I have so much power left over. This new simulation was so refreshing, it must be so nice to have a smart sister like you"
"Well I cannot take all the credit, the upgrades that I got from the Galra empire can make the perfect simulation"
"That's true, after all, we are commanders" Manten compliment as he combing his three strands of hair.
"so what are you say, should we test it out on real people," Sōten said
"Yes, We'll look high and low until we find the right one to eliminate," Manten said as he caressing a fox pelt around his waist
The three chuckles evilly as their base echo in the light.
Back at the village, after being set free, Shiro and Keith were given the nicest room in the village, inside the Great Hall.
"Wow, these people really know how to treat someone! Said Shiro as he was looking at the room, the room had a queen-size bed. A medium-sized window and the door to the outside.
"Yeah whatever"
"Why you sound like you sound like you don't want to be here"
"I don't I just don't feel like being around annoying squirrels"
"They're not squirrels, They're foxes"
"Not to me, they very annoying that's all"
"Why do you, wait are you mad because they made you look like a fool"
"What no"
His stomach is a different story. It rumbles and quakes, complaining around its emptiness, and to signify m the point of jealous.
"Guess hunger wasn't a problem for you"
"Will you just shut up"
"Hello" He jumps when the door splits open, and a small fox enters. Dressed in a blue outfit and has a whitetail
"Hello, how are you"
"I'm Katara"
"Well, hello Katara, I'm Shiro and this is Keith"
"I know but it's nice to know you"
"I'm here to tell you, the bathhouse is ready so follow me
Without a word, she tosses Shiro and Keith towels, and start to follow out of the room.
She leads them to a river containing hot water. Although Shiro felt disappointed that it wasn't a shower. But nevertheless, he really needs it, he and Keith hadn't washed in days since they first left Arus, after all, they were the only place that has showers but it was still a place for cleaning so he wasn't bothered by it.
"We'll get breakfast started soon, in the meantime enjoy yourselves"
"Thank you"
"You're welcome," Katara said, before leaving the crew with their own devices.
Setting aside the towel on a short bench just outside before going into the River. Shiro doesn't spare a thought for when he removes his clothes off himself, but he does pause, however, when he doesn't see Keith about taking off his clothes.
"Hey. Are you going to get in"
"What no, I just don't feel comfortable, into strange places, especially places like this one"
"Oh really when was the last time you wash yourself
Upon hearing that, a blush creeps over Keith, he didn't want to admit again. Shiro was right once again, he hasn't washed for a few days straight.
"How's the water, Stats"
"Stats" he cheers as he enjoys the water.
"Okay, you got a point. Just give me a minute"
With that, Shiro continued to remove the rest of his clothes and to support Keith's privacy as he went to rock to change out
"Okay, you can do this, you're taking a bath with your ridiculously beautiful friend or user and hopefully get out of this place before you were hunted".
The flow of hot water starts the moment Shiro gets in, the massage of it, and the warm water was absolute heaven on his knotted muscles. He leans, pressing his mended shoulder into the cool stone, "this feels nice, the first time since my muscles begin to relax" he thought, ever since he lost his right arm to Mistress Centipeede, his muscles were incredible pain. Could the disease be coming out worse and worse than ever?
With a quick movement, Keith joins in, completely into the water. "Oh wow this is nice, this is really good," Keith said, joyful for the first time or at least to Shiro that is. "I know right as I told you a small village knows how to treat guests right with the lake situation".
"Sweet I have to say, you're right well parsley right"
"What you mean, do you actually still have a problem"
"Well kinda I just don't like talking about my past," said Keith
"Not like talking about your past," Shiro thought as he wondering that he has something to do with Allura again. He shouldn't be focusing on that, he should be focusing on the now.
"Hey, Keith," Shiro said, with a smile.
"Yes, Shiro"
"Come here"
"Ok, Why"
"Just come here"
"Mu, okay"
"Is this better"
"Closer"
"Okay I'm getting closer"
But soon as he got closer, Shiro splashes him with the water, "Hey, okay it's on" Keith said as he starts splashing water and soon they begin having fun and laughing.
After a quick fun time in the water, the next batch of heaven arrives with the Kitsune serve grill fish and White rice combined with sweet and sour chicken with a cup of lime tea. At their great Hall where the Kitsune sit inroads of long tables, small but hold a lot of great food of ramen, biscuits, and grill fish.
To Keith and Shiro's stomach, it felt like a spoiled kid's feast. During every single bite, when the sweetness hits the tongue right, it makes you give up on any pretense of restraint to gobbles the food down.
Washed, and fed to satisfaction, they could not remember the last time that his basic needs were met, meaning when was the last time he ate something like this, he's already got used to eating her. Since being safe within the Garrison, he figures a realization that comes with a long sigh as he looks upon the dishes that will give it to him.
Everything seemed so different in comparison, and the mess hall he sits in surrounds by the Kitsune, rather than the boisterous din of spirited conversations. There were no officers ribbing one another, no cadets bragging to one another about their latest records. It made him so homesick, he misses his friends, he missed the cadets that are inspired by him so much, and he misses Adam, Matt, and Sam.
He misses him so much, so much and so lost in thought that he didn't notice that Keith nudge him on the shoulders "hey, what did with the sad look on your face".
Shiro smiles "Oh nothing I was just thinking about my home, feel so long since I arrived here in this world"
"Worry about it, as soon as we get done eating and getting the information we are leaving"
Shiro pauses as he draws a sip from his half-finished tea. "What, you still want to leave."
"Yeah because why me when they start looking at me they're going to notice my eyes"
"Oh come on Keith, I don't think that no one's going to care about your eyes"
"Well they should I meant why do you still trust me if I am a dark daemon"
Shiro sets his teacup back down on the table. 'How could I not? Who stood up me against Mistress Centipeede when they hardly knew me? Who, just yesterday, said they trusted me, and no one else? Was that a lie?'
"No. No, it wasn't, why do you enjoy twisting words"
"Because a person isn't just a product of where they come from. It's also about what they do". He pulls out his sword from his bag, "and besides I knew I could trust you, you must believe that the trust goes both ways now, Keith I trust you as if you were part of my own body, that's why I'm starting to think there's more in you"
Silence hangs now hangs in the balance, between Shiro and Keith "wow you're sure something else, I.."
Certainly, before he can answer the rest, a figure appears, it was tall but hardly Kitsune or monstrous, Keith frowned inwardly as got out his dagger.
The figure looked very much like an old man with long hair and glasses. He was clad in a shabby cloak and loose robes hung with a few small straps, packs, and unrecognizable instruments. Shiro searched the human's wake but detected no evidence of a Kitsune, nor did the man appear threatened, actually, Shiro thought, he looked kind pleased even.
The man was impossible to tell the odd arrival's overlapping attire ended and his skin began, that aged visage blended into the dirt-stroked clothes and his beard appeared but an extension of the loose threads covering his upper chest.
Hints of extreme climates other than the forest, of ultimate cold and humidity, were etching into that seamed face, a questing beak of wrinkles and scars, the eyes bordering it were a liquid light Brown, the man smiled through sand dust and beard, squinting at the sight of the crumpled form lying quietly alongside the tables of Shiro and Keith facing them.
Convinced that to Keith had been some kind of enemy-completely ignored unnecessary caution to the wind, the fact remains that he had experimented it also and unlikely assured that this stranger meant to him is going to bring Shiro, Shiro shifted his position slightly, trying to obtain a better view.
The sound produced by a tiny pebble he dislodged was barely perceptible to his ears and sight but the man whirled as if shot. He stared straight as Shiro's alcove, still smiling gently.
"Hello there" he called in a deep but surprisingly cheerful voice as he removed his hood, finally showing the familiar face, "Sam," Shiro said, completely in shock but none the less, felt something forthright and reassuring was in that voice, the association of a familiar person was possible to remaining isolated in this world.
Leaving his seat, Shiro made his way over to where the man stood and enjoyable hug him, "I'm glad you're here Sam, I never see you again". The man's joyful body was overrun by tears as started he hugs the man so tightly. Whispers of concern came from within the Kitsune.
After a quick hug back, the old man let go of Shiro before explaining himself, "I think you got me confused with someone else" upon hearing that shortly, the unconscious Shiro has suddenly gone back to reality.
"You're not," Shiro told the man, looking at his appearance now again, his hair was long and shaped in a ponytail, and let's not forget his beard, it was a different counter from the Sam he knew.
As if to confirm this opinion, Shiro blinked, stared upward when he transforms to the same Kitsune that they encountered when they first arrived the village, Shiro blinked, stared upward uncomprehendingly, and muttered "you're the leader I thought that you were a friend of mine".
"That's okay, son" Samson instructed him as he sat back on his shoulders. "We Kitsune have the ability to change into humans". Explaining before transforming back into a human.
Shiro looked around, his gaze coming to rest on the elderly face that was once hovering his shoulder, Recognition did wonders never cease.
"Why did you transform into a human" a sudden remembrance made him look around face. "Well after everything does happen, I thought to make you feel comfortable". A sudden remembrance made look around embarrassing as the Kitsune was looking at them, slowly he got back to his seat.
Samson takes a seat across from him, leaning back. "Good. Now that we're all friends here, I imagine you have quite a story to share. I would like to hear it, Shiro."
"My story?"
"Yes. How you came to be here so far away from your home, and no less holding a very surprising object." He said, holding up the quintessence Crystal.
Shiro clears his throat. "Well, where to begin... Well it started with my boyfriend Adam who decided to go inside a building where go-lives"
He continues into his tales, started with that particular moment. Next, his first memory of mistress Centipeede, and when he first woke up Keith from his spell on the tree.
"Wait a minute," Samson said "saying you found this Daemon on a tree".
Shiro shakes his head "yeah I did, but I wasn't alone at that time, I met some friends Romelle, Stats, and Keith". He points over him who bridging out his dagger to an attack mode.
"Although Keith has been an attitude problem and can be can very untrustworthy at first, when you get to know him better, he can turn out to be a great friend"
Hearing every word that comes out from Shiro's voice was an amazement to Keith's eyes widen. he hasn't been called a friend in a very long time since he has been trapped in the tree.
Samson nods. "Very well. Continue."
Shiro goes on to give a cursory overview "and now I'm here looking for the samurai, I was hoping you could show me where they are".
An introspective frown did remarkable things to that sandblasted face. Samson appeared to ponder the man question, scratching absently at his scruffy beard.
"The samurai I haven't heard that name in a very long time"
"Did you know them"
"Well we Kitsune own the samurai our lives, a long time ago, a samurai saved our group from attack from wild animals and we promise if a samurai comes here, we would promise them shelter, but when I where I first heard the rumor of a reincarnated priestess, I could not believe it.".
Shiro hesitates. "I see."
"Do not misunderstand. I am humbled, Shiro. That is what I am trying to say. I am kind of the one to take things based on faith. However, I cannot deny how auspicious your presence is, as though the universe has given us an answer to our plight."
Keith blinks, taken aback. "If that was the case, then why were you so adverse from the start?"
"Sorry about that, we've been getting attacked by the galra, many of our people have been lost including Shippo's father, Those three go around killing who stand in their way"
"Those three?" Shiro Wondered
"The Thunder siblings"
"The Thunder siblings who?" Keith asks Samson.
"Hiten, Manten, and Sōten? They are unruly, terrifying Galra, they happened targeting these lands ever since what happened to our previous group of Ninja".
"I'm sorry about that" Shiro said.
With a smiley tune, Samson says, "don't blame yourself. They have been here for a very long time and if we have the samurai but last I do not know what happened to them"
"So what you're saying is we came all this way for nothing," Keith said, furiously
"Well no, the last time I heard about it they have been hidden them, they can only come when..."
"Samson," said a Kitsune.
"Yes what is it," Samson said as he transforms back into Kitsune.
Running off from the Great Hall, Samson and the others start going outside. While Shiro and Keith stay behind.
A dark storm cloud appeared in the sky, to the Kitsune it rather is something dangerous, it turns out it was as a certain figure arrived.
"Hello," Manten said as he was examining his reflection in a mirror "so who wants to play," he said, showing off his lightning power.
The Kitsune looked on in horror, they have seen his terrifying power, more times as they can count, it's so powerful in back none of their ninja were able to stand against it.
"No one, I wonder if it has something to do with my hair", he wonders as he looks at his hair strands "If only I had a little more hair. I'd be popular like Brother Hiten.?"
"All right" Looking at down at the people, almost forgetting about his mission. "So who wants to become the next 'visitor' to visit our base".
However unknowing to him, he didn't notice something rustling within the group, "I gave you another one, you took our last group a few days ago" Samson said as he appears.
"Y-You...! Hah! Don't make me laugh. You know the rules, for those who don't follow the rules, get skin" he said this, slaps the pelt will look like a fox.
"Very well, we will send you one group"
"Very good, only one of you are willing to apply" with that out of the way, Manten left the village in peace for now anyway. Upon hearing that request, the Kitsune ware weary by quite the panic.
"This is the fifth time they asked us to do this"
"My sons never return from us"
"My daughter is next"
"What are we going to do"
Shiro had a bad feeling about this. He and Keith had seen the scene through the mess hall, looking at Manten sent shivers down the spine as they felt like their troubles were beginning again.
Unlike Twyla who was already proven to be a dangerous enemy in the past. Manten had already proven to be an enemy of the state. Who knows what his siblings are like, those who witness them never returned. The Kitsune were proof of that, no wonder they didn't trust Shiro or Keith in the first place, they obviously witness loss at the hands of them. So what to do. What to do when.
Nighttime falls later, when everyone falls asleep, in spite of their uncertain, but Shiro's eyes stay wide awake as he was thinking about the day's events, he can't stop thinking the Kitsune as silence cleaning the room.
"Hey, Keith" Shiro whispers to the next side of the room, where Keith sleep, but no response, because of course there isn't, Keith is laying on the floor. Restless, he pulls himself out of bed and out of the room.
The mess hall is dark, idle, as silent as a mountain top, going outside he plops onto the dirt-stroked steps.
"Can't sleep?" A certain figure says, in his human form.
"Samson, yeah" He slumps back, settling down next to Samson, "I can't stop from thinking what happened in the day"
"Don't be, we made our choice to live like this, in war, we have to make hard choices"
Shiro scoffs that, "yeah I don't remind me". Rethinking about his situation back to Alderaan, when he was dealing with the possess Queen Astrid, he had a choice to finish her off but didn't, looking back to it, it was the right call but there comes a point where he has to take a life again. When he finished off Twyla with the help of Keith and Romelle.
"You know where I must be thinking, then we don't stand a chance perhaps maybe you're right"
"You don't know what I'm thinking, and besides you kind of remind me that person that I was talking about from the moment we met"
"Is this person, like very special to you"
"Yes very much, he was like a father to me and it's hard I might never see him again."
"I see"
"So how do we defeat them!" Keith said, appearing on the porch".
"Don't make me laugh! You wouldn't be able to take them on! You're just a half-daemon, aren't you? I can smell the human in you! Just a half-daemon, you should stay out of Daemon affairs!"
"Shippo... That wasn't a nice thing to"
"Oh please, just because I'm a half-daemon doesn't mean I can't help"
"Keith"
"Oh, I'm sorry, As long as you understand, In penance..." Shippo said as he reaches into his clothes and Surprisingly thumps a jizo statue on Keith's hand on the ground and sticks a charm on it. He somersaults in the air and lands.
"Hey you,!"
As long as the charm stays on, the jizo statue will not move! Shippo said, laughs.
"Shippo! You're partly to blame, too". Samson said.
"Hmph!"
"Keith, stop playing around!" Shiro said.
"Try telling that to him, I can't get it off!" Keith said as he was struggling to take his hand from under the jizo statue.
"Forgive me, Samson, I don't like better than you do, but I need you and your friend to sleep for a while!"
With that said, Shippo leaps up and hits the back of Shiro and Samson's necks in hopes of putting them to sleep, however, he was able to get Samson to sleep, seeing him transform back into his Kitsune. But Shiro was unexpectedly by it.
"That hurt!"
"Okay that was unexpected but think fast "he conjures a foxfire that pushes Shiro away before departure "I finally stop the Thunder siblings"
"Hey come back" Shiro shouted as he was going to his room to get his sword and chases Shippo.
"Shiro! Can you Peel off the charm firs?. Hey! Hey you, wake up!"
Later on in the night, on patrol duty, the huge Galra was looking at himself in a reflection in a pond as well as looking for ingredients. "This mixer is going to be perfect"
While he was looking for the right ingredients he was unnoticed the attack of shuriken.
"He's not coming after me or witness m,e" ascertain ninja thought as he looking back while running prove the grass.
However, he is proving wrong as Manten stamps in front of the scene, all mad like. "Hey are you the one who throws this at me"
"Hmm... What's this? If it ain't the son of that fox I killed!"
"Y-You...! Hah!" Shippo gasps as he notices the pelt on.
"Your father's fur is sooo warm!" Manten said as slaps the pelt.
"Why you...! How dare you do that to my father... Why...! WHY!!" Manten hits Shippo, which sends him flying off.
"Ooh"
Soon as he readies his attack. A rock suddenly pierces him in the nose.
"Hey, who throw that"
"I did," Shiro said, holding his sword, surprised.
"What? Hey, you!" Manten said as tries to grab Shippo who is escaping, behind Shiro's back.
"Don't move! Or else I'll cut your neck"
"Shiro"
"My nose hurts!"
"Don't move! Shippo, come here. Hurry!" Shiro said, branching out his sword to attack mode.
"Hey, I heard about you, you're the one who attacked the swamp base over on Balto, the samurai"
"Okay, that's enough talking" Shiro shouted as he releases his sword at Manten's head "Darn, I didn't hit him!"
Manten stops suddenly, whining.
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Nothing's wrong except Manten touches his head, he noticed two strands of hair fall off "My hair...!" tearing up "How dare you...?!" Shouted as lightning bolt flashes across the sky falls sparks emit from his mouth
"Watch out! Run!" Shippo said as he runs off with Shiro
"My father was killed by that!"
Manten releases his lightning attack at them resulting in Shiro and Shippo falling onto the ground, sliding a distance away from the rift that was formed on the ground. However, Shiro is unconscious.
"Did I strike them dead?"
"Shiro, wake up, Shiro"
Upon hearing his voice, Shiro wakes up as footsteps are heard behind him. He turns around to see Manten hovering over him.
"There you are you're still alive," Manten said, examines Shiro's face and instantly blushes, "you are so... pretty! you probably make all the girls straight up dead with your hair and body"
Hiding away in the tall grass, "man that was close" Shippo said as he became lucky but it wasn't a good one when Manten carries Shiro off on his cloud.
"Let go of me," Shiro said, attempting to let go of Manten.
"Shiro! You willing to help me, yet I abandoned you and ran away! Shippo said as he clenched his fist."
A few hours later, in the morning, Samson finally woke up, his head feels like he's been sleeping on bricks indicated that he was still on the porch with Keith who has the jizo statue in his hands.
"Hey you're finally awake, can you peel off the charm!"
"Ok"
With that Samson trying to peel off the charm off the jizo statue. "Ohh... It's not working! Keith, I can't peel this charm off, sorry".
"Curses, that punk fox! You all look like you know enjoying hunting whenever you feel like it"
"Hunting is that what you think about us," Samson said, surprisingly.
"Well no duh, I mean you willing to give up your own people to them.
"Just like the others, just like the others that I have seen who enjoy hunting down other half-breeds like me"
"I'm sorry that happened to you but we are not like them"
Just then, sanding back on the porch once again. Shippo appears standing in between Samson and Keith. , "Hey! I'm willing to help you. But you two must promise NOT to be mad with me".
"You alone? Where's Shiro?"
"Will you promise or not?!"
"Fine, we won't be mad at you"
"Very well," Shippo said as he peels off the charm from the jizo statue, which transforms into a mini statue.
"Now listen quietly"
"What!"
"I already told you, Shiro got taken off by Manten"
"This is really bad, if your friend gets to take to Zarkon there's no telling what will happen" Samson explain to Keith.
"Then we go hurry" Said Keith as he was going back to the mess hall.
"What were you thinking, going out to the Thunder Brothers all by yourself"
"I had to do something, our people have been suffering the hands of the Galra for too long"
Samson and Shippo lookup and finds Keith carrying Shiro's backpack over his shoulder.
"Now that you're both done talking, I need one of you to take me there"
"I will, I will accompany you and as for you, I need you to prepare for the villagers, it's time for a change"
"You mean"
"Yes, you were right you know, I have given up on my people, they have been suffering for far too long"
"Thank you," Shippo said, hugging Samson "need for the hugs but you're still getting punished after all this is over"
"Huh?"
Enshrouded by a dark gloomy sky inside the mountain lives the Galra base, Manten dropped another toppling stack of herbs to a purple potion in a pot.
"Thank you, sister" Manten said as he simultaneously scanned the material that gives it to him, putting in his pot. Stirring up the materials frantically. "Now, if you could please find Axle's forbidden spice--"
"Red spice," Sōten said in confusion.
"No, forbidden" corrected Manten, Still reading at a face clip, "it's an annual forbidden spice that came from Aolalx"
Misunderstanding, Sōten lifted up to one of the shelves to get the spice that he wanted.
"Found it" Grumbled Sōten.
Manten sighed, rubbed his eyes, and said, "The flesh and blood of pretty, young women or men promote healthy hair, in fact, this man appears this-, this-"
Manten searched for a word until Sōten helpfully guessed, "this guy you have tied up" pointing over Shiro who was tied up and mouth covered, on a table which behind him was a giant cleaver lies next to him.
"That's right, as soon I'm going to boil him down into a potion and apply to my head"
"Wh-what? I'd rather be eaten than put on your head!!" Shiro thought as he clenches his fist.
"While you're are doing that, I'm going to continue my experiments on the fox people," Sōten said, looking over screens containing the taken people from the valley, "the empire has been really focusing on human and Daemon relationships up till late"
"Well I heard that they been working on something, very powerful, something that could turn the tide of the war"
"Well that would have been swelling, as long as we keep the foxs in line, our hold on them will be excremental to the war"
"Yes, don't you think so," Manten said.
Yes, he could not believe it, being all tied up he is, Shiro felt so much rage in him. Being forced to be taken onto experiments, that's something he has experienced before in the short while at least, he got himself a monster arm and now he's trap into another situation that he might be killed.
Just in as the slide doors open and revealing Hiten, holding a vixen in his arms. "Yo, Manten! Sōten! I am home".
"Hello big brother"
"Brother Hiten!" Manten said, panicking
"Who's that?"
"He's my prey!" Manten said, stands in front of Shiro with outstretched arms.
"Don't worry, I won't lay claim on her. I've got a better woman right here!"
the vixen smiles "Hmm... You don't look alike at all!"
"He seems more human. Maybe he'll be more receptive".
Hey, Manten. Have you completed your patrol"
"Huh? Errr... That's right". Manten said as clasps his hand and looks into the distance happily.
Upon looking at him, Hiten walks to Manten, leaving the vixen at the doorway.
Manten rubs his head and bows "Sorry, Brother! I...I found something interesting on patrol, but...
"But what? Don't tell me that you were more interested in fixing your hair" Hiten said that, clenches his fist and swings it backward, "failed to make sure no enemies make toward our stronghold"
Light emits from Hiten's palm in the vixen's direction. Loud noises and sparks fly. The vixen, now charred, plops on the ground backward.
"Brother! Sorry!"
"You're so hopeless! If you weren't my kid brother, you wouldn't have enough lives to survive!"
"Who is he?! He's so frightening!"
A short while later, Samson changed into his human form while Keith carries Shiro's backpack over his shoulder, running onto a rock surface, then across a few pinnacles.
"We're getting close" Samson grinned. "We're this close of saving the people and your friend"
"Yep," said Keith, looking around. He and Samson were the only guys going into the base which was probably a good thing because the last time they need is another person getting taken.
"Hey, why are you doing this" Keith said, apparently having a lot on his mind. On Shiro of what he said to him before. Telling him that he has potential.
"Because of your friend, I once told him what we're doing and it probably made him think we're cowards"
"Well I don't think in you're all cowards I meant, Shippo was willing to stand up to them, even Shiro".
"Well I suppose you're right," Samson said, he studied his thoughts on the matter, "we're almost there, over those edges, the base is nearby"
Back at the base, an alarm set off on schedule.
"Hey dummies, we got incoming" Sōten said, looking over the screen to see figures, certain ones.
"What, the leader is coming here"
"What are we going to do, Hiten"
"What do you think!? We're going to deal with this mess ourselves, let's go"
"A chance to escape," Shiro thought, using the cleaver to free himself, Shiro removes his tape and think about a plan of his escape, get out, free the people, find Keith and think of a better plan because barging in is not a great plan, especially in times of war.
But just he starts crawling away, "Wait!" Manten shouted as he picks up the giant cleaver and swings it at.
But Shiro dodges "What're you doing?!" Shiro yells.
"What I'm I doing?! I'm gonna kill you so you can't escape! What else? I need you to make my hair potion!"
"Wait! If you kill me, you won't..." Shiro said, being completely thought.
"Won't what?" Sōten said.
"Well..." Shiro pauses "Won't be able to stop the armies of the samurai"
"What?!"
"I did it! I can handle the stupid one. The older brother and little sister may just go for it."
"Do you three know Keith? He's quite strong."
"Well actually no, is he the leader of the army" Sōten said
"Yes, in fact, he's strong! He defeated daemons from high and low and has most of Galra base and he's my apprentice"
"Really, he has"
"Good! They bit it!"
"But are you double sure, I meant from Sendak's reports, it claims that you so call leader is just a half-daemon?"
"Yeah, she's right. You'd better not be lying!" Hiten said, sits down next to Shiro.
"Well, Keith had a lot of potential as a leader and in fact, we're both samurai," Shiro said as he looks at Hiten sideways, in a conspiring but kind tone.
"Huh?"
"If you ask for an exchange, I'm sure he'll gladly exchange the quintessence Crystal for me!"
"Hiten, he's gotta be lying!" Manten said.
"I think I'll believe him".
"You man! Take us to this Keith" Hiten said as picks up Shiro by his collar.
"However... If you've been lying, your pretty face will end up black and charred." Explaining himself as holds up Shiro's face, forcing him to see the vixen.
"He means it... he's willing to go for it!" Shiro thought
'Repair the troops for battle" Hiten order.
With that out of the way, Shiro hopes that his bib was enough, meaning by telling the siblings to believes they have an army, a big one, that's crazy but then again it's will have to do. Meanwhile back at the outside, Samson and Keith have arrived at the base.
"Is this is it"
"Yes, I just hope your friend all right"
"Oh he is fine! he's got a tenacious streak in him".
"Well that kind of what worries me"
A lightning bolt suddenly strikes the pinnacle that they were standing on the pinnacle shatters into pieces.
Keith and Samson fall onto the ground and tumbles away, luckily Keith lands right and looks up. Another lightning bolt appears. Keith grabs Samson in his Kitsune form and runs off.
Keith kneels on the ground and shields Samson and himself with his hand as the bolt hits the ground they were on before.
The ground shatters into pieces. Keith let go Samson. They look up into the dark clouds.
"Humph, so you thwarted me! For someone yapping out loud in front of someone's front yard, you move fast. You must be the one...Keith the half-daemon". Hiten said. On top of the base with soldiers behind him.
"Keith, that's the older Thunder Brother, Hiten".
"So he's the boss. Hey you! Where's Shiro?!" Keith shouted
"Relax, we haven't anything to him yet. Manten!
Under his orders, Manten floats next to him on a cloud, holds up Shiro "Tadah!"
"Keith"
"Shiro" Keith shouted as he stands up suddenly and yells his name.
"he's still alive!"
By your expression, looks like the man spoke the truth. Hand over the quintessence Crystal! If you want to save the man, your master! lightning flashes across the sky
"My master?", Keith said nonplussed. "W-wait! Who said that he was my master?!
"Don't be embarrassed!" Shiro said before Manten grinds his fist onto Shiro's head, "so you were lying but no matter will get the crystal soon enough"
"Hand over the crystal, let me think no"
"What, You intend to abandon me?!"
"Abandon?! You make it sound like you and I are a weird item or ship!"
Which is more important?! Me or the quintessence Crystal?!" Shiro points out If you dare choose the Crystal, I'll rip your guts out!"
"Whatever! One thing seems true... You have the Crystal. I'm gonna kill you and take it" Hiten said, flies towards Keith
"You'll be the sorry one!" Keith said as he draws out his dagger.
"Thunderbolt attack!" Hiten points his pike at Keith with sparks flying.
"Hah! I wonder just how long can you hold out against my strikes?"
But Keith gathers his strength and pushes Hiten away with his sword.
"You've got brute strength, at least. This is gonna be fun!" Hiten said, flies further away from Keith and lightning flashes and thunder bellows in the background.
"Thunder Brothers, huh? I'm getting tired of you!"
"Hmm... You want me to make sport of you, huh? Well, it's gonna be fun!"
"Hah! Of all the fools who said the same thing, none are alive today!" Keith said.
"Should we attacked" a soldier Wondered.
"My brother has got it on his own"
"Yes he does" Sōten looking at her screen, but one by one the screen suddenly shows static, "what the", trying to figure out the problem Sōten gets up from her chair to confront whatever problems within the base.
"We are in," a mysterious figure said...
"Excellent" Shippo said, right after Samson had left with Keith, he had riled up the villagers and they plan an attack.
"The only thing that's left is to rescue Shiro"
"Keith"
"Go for it, Brother Hiten! I'll support you!" Manten said as started to create sparks, emit from his mouth.
"Two against one is cowardly!"
"Huh?! It doesn't matter to me, so be a good boy and watch the show"
Shiro eyes the battle up ahead and cannot wait for Hitan and Manten to finish off Keith so unfairly so much in fact he shoves Manten.
"Yeah I don't think so," he said that as he was getting his sword from Manten's grasp. Resulting him to tumble into the ground.
"I did it!"
However, his small victory as Manten's troops stars pointing out their guns at him.
"Shiro" Keith shouted as pauses at the sight.
"You can't afford to worry about him now!" Hitan said as he attacks Keith who blocks his attacks.
"Shiro! Hang on until I get there!"
But surrounded by soldiers isn't a good idea as they started to fire their guns since luckily, remembering his training back on Arus. Shiro twirled his sword to defend himself from the Galra troops' laser shots in a shower of sparks as he attacks the soldiers at high speed with impressive speed and agility with the sword.
So much in fact, that he doesn't need Keith to protect him. He can handle himself just fine. Jumping off the base Shiro landed on Manten in the hole and bounces off
"Hey a perfect touch down"
"You bastard" Manten shouted as he gets up
"He's alive!"
Shiro trips and falls resulting in him approach her, stomping.
"Fox magic! Spinning top!" Samson said as he releases the top, which lands and spins on Manten's head. It gets bigger and steam comes out as it digs into his head. Manten collapses on the ground.
"Shiro hurry over here!" Samson said as he arrived at the edge of the hole.
"Samson!" Shiro said, climbing out, "you know such great magic!"
"Well..." Samson closes his eyes as sweat appears on his face. "You can't let your guard down yet, Fox magic is actually trickery but useful for fighting"
"Trickery? Then what's that?" Shiro turns to look at Manten in the hole with the top still spinning on his head.
"Owweee!!"
"It's all an illusion". Shiro said.
The top becomes smaller till its original size and falls off Manten's head. He picks up the top and gets up.
"Damn! That foxs"
Suddenly, where the top spun was the spot was at Manten's last remaining strand of hair is. The strand quivers a little and falls off.
"Huh?!" Standing up.
"N-no!", rubs his head where the hair was "Gone! It's gone! My hair!"
Saddened by the loss, a ball of bolt starts gathering in his mouth as he looks to the sky "How dare you take my last strand of hair?!"
Manten releases blow after blow of bolt balls in various directions, which destroyed trees and shattered the ground. Shiro and Samson runoff. Small heaps of fire burn where the bolt hit.
Shiro hides behind a mound with Samson "It's as though we added fuel to the fire..."
"Where are you?! My hair potion candidate...and that old fox...!" Manten, stops near the mound where Shiro and Samson hides.
Where'd they go?!, Manten walks off
"What'll we do? If we're found, we'll be killed".
turns around and peeps at Manten, discovering black figures upon the rising.
"I know we had to do, Samson do you trust me"
"I do, what you need me to do"
Manten slows down and shoots another bolt ball at the mound which shatters, "Are you here?!"
walks over to the spot where the mound was an unconscious Shiro lying on the ground "You bitch! Did you think you could elude me?!" He said that as he picks up Shiro by his hair fluffy.
"Shut up, you skinhead!" Shiro said as he opens his eyes.
"Look, hair that you love!" As two bundles of Shiro's hair floats out and twirls around Manten's wrists as Another Shiro runs toward Manten.
"Two men?!"
I'm here to finish you!"
The Shiro who just appeared with his sword above Manten's nose. The hair of the Shiro that Manten is holding turns white.
"Why you're...a fox!"
"I'm gonna avenge my people suffering
"Samson, hold him down!"
"If I can cut his neck...", he thought in a resolute manner. "I can beat him!"
However, as he raises the sword, Manten blocks Shiro's attack which sends him to the ground and throws him down
"Why you...!"
Samson reverts to normal and he kicks him far away
"I'll choke you to death!" Manten shouted as grabs Shiro's neck
"Keith...!" Shiro said, weakly
"Shiro"
Before he could do anything, Hitan hits Keith on the shoulder with his pike
"What the heck! Are you looking away for"
Hitan drags his pike downwards forcefully, sending him to the ground, resulting in the dagger to falls out of Keith's hand. Sticking into the ground a distance away from him. Keith, wincing in pain, tries to get up but is stopped short by Hitan who points his pike in his face.
"Hah! You're not what they said about you. I expected more of a fight! Weakling! How about I kill you slowly, one limb at a time?"
"Shame of all these distractions, I have to take care of Shiro first." Keith thought, thinking about his injury
"Look, Manten...at this half-demon! He's given up!"
Manten is some distance away from Hitan and Keith. He's still strangling Shiro.
"I'm having fun here, too, Brother! Look a liar man on the verge of death is irresistible!"
"Cut it out!" Samson shouted
"Shut up!"
Manten swings and punches Samson away, while still grabbing Shiro with the other hand. Samson lands and rubs his scratched cheek while glaring at Manten.
"Ha, haha! Mortifying isn't it you Kitsune shit, just you want, after I kill this boy you'll be next"
"I'll fleece you. Just like I did your old friend. Showing off his pelt.
Samson stares at Manten with angry tears welling in his eyes "Maybe I'll turn you into a hood. I'll use foxs we captured until both their fur falls off!
"Unforgivable," a recognizable voice said. "How dare you use my father as a symbol of fear"
It was Shippo and several villagers from the valley.
"Shippo"
"Everyone attack" Shippo shouted, under his orders, the villagers' leaps and bites into Manten's thick body
"You fools! Manten shouted as he grabs everybody's head, trying to them pull out
"We won't let go even if it kills me!"
You Foxs... Release me! Or I'm gonna beat your head to a pulp!
Manten tries to repeatedly remove everybody but everyone comes back to bite him anyway.
Given an opportunity with Manten's grip loosen, Shiro, put out to his sword and stab him.
Manten yells in pain and collapses on the ground, releasing Shiro and surprising Hitan and Keith.
"Yes. He's killing him" Samson explained.
"He's what"
"Damn! I may not be the nicest guy around but you two are making me sick!" Keith stands and digs his fingers into his shoulder wound, "Daemon blood art, blades!!!"
Luckily Titan has taken aback but blocks the Blades of Blood with his pike handle.
"Fool! Where are you aiming?"
"Are you sure about that"
Keith runs and grabs his dagger, which he throws it at Hiten, who dodges but the dagger gets thrown to Shiro, with Keith's dagger in hand, Shiro sliced the daemon's neck.
"M-Manten!"
Catching his breath Shiro looked at the dagger, Keith's dagger, he must get it to him!
"Father..." Shippo said, holding onto the pelp
"Yes...I must get Shippo's father's body."
While he was getting it, Hitan zooms towards Shiro who is holding Keith's dagger, Shippo's father's body, and his own sword.
"Manten!"
"Shiro! Hurry and get away from there!" Keith yells anxiously
However sends a bolt at Shiro, sent them flying with the attack, Hiten lands near Manten! and holds up his brother's denigrating remains.
"Hey, are you alive?"
Sorry, Keith... I couldn't get your dagger.
"Is that what took you so long?"
"Sorry... After you rescued me".
"Fool! Don't worry about such a thing! Even with a sword, no way would I lose to that beast! And besides, I think you can handle yourself"
"Yeah I think you're right", Shiro said as reaches out his hand to Keith Manten, how cruel, my little brother is dead" Hitan shouted in tears. Hot tears.
"He's crying," Shiro said to Keith.
"I guess so"
"How pitiful" using his long nails, he digs through to the remains of Manten, getting through the heart, removing it.
"What"
"This is so you can stay with your family," Hitan said.
"He's eating the heart"
"No. Hiten is synthesizing his brother's magic into his own body. Shiro, Keith you must be very careful. He now has the power of tenfold now"
"Well that's comforting"
A huge light appears behind them. Keith picks up Shiro, Samson, and the pelt of Shippo's father and leaps out of the way. It was Hitan's mega-bolt attack at them, which created a hole in the ground they were on.
"You...dared...to kill my dear kid brother. I won't let you get away with it!"
"Lord Samson, are you all right," Shippo said coming up to the crater
"Don't worry about me I'm alright, our people"
"Don't worry The Ninja are protecting them, all the people that were taken"
"Wow, I guess I was wrong about you guys, I think that I owe you an apology"
"That's okay, we thought you were a half-wit"
"Shippo"
"The power of the thunderbolt staff is increasing! More magic combined into one is a formidable force!" Keith thought
"Shiro, take Shippo and the others and get as far as possible!"
"Keith no"
"Hurry! And besides these people need someone to protect them
"Okay!" Shiro said, taking Samson with him.
"I'll avenge my kid brother! Prepare yourself!" He said as he swings his pike which sends a huge orb of a lightning bolt at Keith who staring at the incoming orb "It's too powerful! I can't repel it!"
Keith leaps through the orb using his defense. He prepares to attack Hitan but he suddenly cringes and yells in pain. Hitan had attacked him in the spine from the back.
"Keith!"
"Father's fur..."
"Shippo, I'm sorry I should have done more".
"Don't be, Manten is destroyed, Sōten is who knows where, and Shiro and Keith help us. But now, his brother Hiten..."
"Stay here, Keith getting tired.
"His opponent can move through the air with ease."
"Hiten can hover... that's it, all I have to do hit the target," Shiro said, looking at Hiten's hover shoes.
"Everyone, I need you to stay here"
"Wait, take my father's skin"
"Are you sure, Shippo"
"I'm sure, it will protect you and I already pay my debts to my father"
"Ok" soon, Shiro was off, planning to attack Hiten and save Keith from his rampage.
"Oh man, I can feel the pain and it's crazy," Keith thought, as he grimaces in pain as Hitan plan the final attack.
"Die, you excuse of a warrior"
However, his left wheel is suddenly broken by Shiro's sword.
"I got him!"
Hitan pauses in midair as he gets suddenly punch by Shiro. Who gathered all his strength to finish up that move.
"He did it, now I can't finish him off"
"Are you stupid?!" Hitan said bolts from the pike surge at Shiro but Keith use his own sheathe to Dodge the attack
"Shiro, finish him off"
"There is no way you two are going to finish me off that easily"
Hitan shoots a burst of a bolt from his mouth at Shiro and Keith. A loud explosion is heard among the Kitsune and the air is filled with smoke with Shippo's father's body is tossed into the air.
"He can use Manten's power as well...!" Samson. "Both of you get out of there now"
But it was too late, Shiro and Keith are already consumed by it with Shiro lay unconscious amidst flames, with Keith at the witness and the survivor.
"Shiro, Shiro"
"Serves you right! It Looks like he is dead, the one they called the samurai.
"Why you...!" Keith said, stands up and pushes back him "Unforgivable!" yells and punches Hitan.
"Why you...!"
"You're just a half-demon! Yet he's fighting like a real demon!"
"I refuse to die until I kill you!"
"Has the blood going to your head since the samurai has been killed? Stop acting so stupid over some silly man! I'll teach you the pain and sorrow of one who has lost his only dear, little brother!"
Hitan runs and attacks with his pike, who blocks with his sheathe but a crack is Forming
"It's going to break!" Samson said as more cracking sounds.
"I've won!"
Keith struggles to hold back Hitan. Suddenly a throbbing sound is heard and his dagger flies towards them.
"The sheathe has summoned the weapon!"
Keith throws the sheathe away and raises the dagger and swing it downwards at Hiten violently. Hiten holds up his pike to block, but he and his pike are slashed into two by Keith, leaving him stares at Keith in shock, and falls on his knees.
"I've lost...! To a half-demon... Lost" Hitan thought as his body disintegrates.
"Damn... If only I had defeated Hiten earlier..."
"You did, you saved us"
A blue glow appears behind Keith.
"Keith..."
"Shiro..."
Shiro became engulfed in the blue light and look at Keith with serene and contented expressions.
"Keith... Thanks for everything and I know that you were going to be okay."
"Ohh... Those are the soul of Shiro is bid a final farewell."
"What?!" the glow suddenly blows upwards
"Wait! Don't go!" Keith shouted as he runs towards to grabs Shiro's hand
Shiro is shocked by Keith's gesture as he blue light zooms upwards and twirls into the shape of a fox, stares at the disappearing light, "Shiro! Huh?!"
Keith is still holding onto Shiro's hand, Shiro is normal again.
"Yes..."
"Huh?! You're alive?"
"Go where?"
The blue glow finally disappears into thin air.
"Looks like father is going into the Afterlife," Shippo said
"Yes he is"
Shiro notices Keith's hand on his, blushing "Umm..."
Keith scoffs and throws off Shiro's hand, embarrassed, "why'd you get so sappy on me?! If you're gonna die, die! If you're not, don't die! Just be clear!"
"Ok, where's Sōten? You guys have her, right?"
"No, she disappears right at the moment since her brothers died"
"Shiro, Keith our people are save that's all that matter"
Afterward, in a dark building, two soldiers were delivering Sōten to her fate. To the way a man, dress in a maroon armor accented with dark gray over a black space suit "Sir, I can explain"
"I don't want excuses! I want the samurai"
I found one, Lord Zarkon! I did! Hiding among the location that we were guarding.
"Get to the point!"
It got away... Wait. Lord Zarkon, forgive me, please. I will not fail you again.
"No one fails me twice, take her away.
"No, no, no, no, no"
"Bring me, Haggar"
In the daytime, The village was finally back to his normal state. The people were finally free and reunited with their loved ones, however, it wasn't a happy time for a certain person.
"Keith...What's the matter? Why are you so angry?"
"I think he's embarrassed that he misunderstood something in the heat of passion. That boy is still very naïve".
"Is that it"
"Well now everything is said and done I have something important to tell you, Shiro and Keith, you both have a difficult task ahead of you, as you all know our planet at war and the only way to stop this war is to defeat Zarkon"
"Okay so how do we do that"
"You must train in your magic"
"Don't worry we will but before we go" Keith said
"Yes, anything that you need"
"Can I hit Shippo?" Keith said
"What"
"Really you want to hit him oh come on Keith, he saved us"
"Yes, yes! I'm actually a very good kid"
You only act as a good kid when it's convenient. Shippo?! Keith said, pronouncing him in a deliberate manner
"Shiro, Samson he's being mean!"
"Keith, we need to talk about this"
"Still so young...! Still young indeed"
Young or not, Shiro and Keith have made new friends on their journey continues.