After Takumi rudely left Mochi with the bill she had to call on her friend, Yufumi, to come to help her with the bill. Yufumi walks in, sighs, pay for the bill, and grabs Mochi to leave.
"How did you even order more stuff than what you had? Like why in the world would you be drinking black coffee!?" Yufumi exclaims in distress.
"Well... I don't know, I just wanted to try it. Look can we just drop the conversation, that was really embarrassing for me ya know?" Says Mochi looking down at the ground.
"I guess, but I hope you know that you're paying me back!" Yufumi says.
"I know, I know." Says Mochi.
They started to walk for about three minutes in silence and Mochi began to speak again.
"Hey, do you know anything about Guardians?" Mochi said yearning for a yes.
"Guardians? Do you mean like our parents or teachers?" Yufumi said with a puzzled look on her face.
"She obviously wouldn't know about them, what the hell were you thinking? I just really need someone to talk to this about. I could probably trust her enough to keep a secret, she's my best friend." Mochi thought to herself.
"No, not those types of guardians. They're people who defend the world from monsters name-" Mochi said before she was bluntly cut off.
Before she could finish everything turned grey for a moment. A giant mystical begging dressed in several layers of different colored blue robes appeared in front of her. It was about 20 feet tall and had a wide muscular frame. You couldn't see its face but you see glowing white eyes through the darkness of its cloak.
Mochi quickly became alert and realized she wasn't where she was and saw the mystical being in front of her. She began to take a few steps back and she tripped falling on her butt.
"You must never speak of guardians or anything that happens in that plane to ANYONE." When it spoke you could feel the force behind its voice.
"I-I'm sorry but w-who are you?" Mochi began to say in fear.
"How dare you speak without permission you scum!" In anger, it quickly in anger reached down at her and uses its giant hands, and lifts her by her neck with two fingers to its level. Mochi began to choke and start to gasp for air.
"Only speak when told to! Just know as quickly as you have been appointed as a Guardian, you can be replaced just as quickly. Heed these words scum, I shall not say them again." It chucks her to the ground and a transparent pair of blue hands appear on her throat. In shock, Mochi slowly puts her hand up at the neck to feel what was out there.
"Think before you raise your tongue, or there will be consequences." After stating those final words he disappears and everything goes back to normal and she's back on her feet like nothing happened.
"Hello? Mochi are you going to finish what you were saying about those guardians?" Yufumi says oblivious to what just happened.
"What the HELL just happened to me?!" Mochi thinks to herself and she reaches for her throat again.
"I wonder what that thing did to me. I can kindly feel those hands around my neck still but not physically. It's like it is touching my soul. Let me try to see if it does anything" Mochi says in her head.
"Yeah, sorry I don't know what happened to me haha. But like I was staying guardians protect us from monsters name-" Before she could be finished her neck starts to feel like two hands are closing in on it and she starts to lose her breath. Yufumi looks over at her at the sound of her friend choking and starts to freak out.
"Hey, Mochi are you ok?! What's happening?!" Yufumi looks at her neck to see imprints of hands around her throat.
"What the hell is going on!? Mochi hold on I'm going to go get help!" Yufumi takes off quickly to the nearest store for help, they haven't made it far from the cafe.
"No... Yufumi... Help me..." Mochi soon loses consciousness and collapses to the ground.
- Location: Seeker Hub in the Void -
"So like I was saying, this human was this cutest thing I've ever seen. I bought her a drink and the next thing you know we were-" Boss stops mid-sentence due to vibration from his phone. He grabs it and sees a notification saying "Your Guardian Is Low Condition" on his phone.
"Hey! What gives dude you were getting to the good part!" Says a guardian named Tohi. He had tan skin, medium-length dark blue hair, white eyes, and a small scar across his right eye.
"Sorry dude seems like my guardian is out of commission I have to go get her," Tamaki said in a slightly annoyed tone.
"Oh, you finally got assigned a new guardian? What is she like? Is she cute?" Tohi said with a smirk on his face.
"I'll tell you about her late, I have to go. They said If I let another guardian die on my watch they'll turn me into one of those things." Tamaki said in a serious tone.
"Oh right... it's this like your fourth guardian? You're really bad at your job huh?" Tohi said in a snarky tone.
"Shut it! You don't even have a guardian so I don't even want to hear it from you. I'll talk to you later." Tamaki quickly teleported to the location given on his phone.
"I won't when father will finally allow me to get on the field, I really want a cute guardian to take care of!" Tohi says with a smirk on his face.
- Location: Shopping District -
Tamaki appears next to Mochi's body within seconds of her collapse.
"What the hell happened here?" Tamaki says as he reaches down and tries to shake Mochi.
"Hey! Wake up!" He quickly realized that she wasn't getting up and started to look around her body for any form of damage. He didn't see anything, which he found very strange.
"I wonder if it was something that happened to her soul and not her body." He pulls out a pair of shades that have blue glass on them. He does another scan of her body and sees the pair of hands still gripping her neck.
"What the... wait is this from the grandmaster? What would he have wanted with her? Wait...did I forget to mention to not tell anyone about what we spoke about?" He lets out a sigh.
"I would think that she wasn't that stupid. He probably did this to shut her up." He reached down into his pocket and pulled out some blue gloves and put them on. He then reached down to try and remove them from her neck. After a few attempts, he is only able to loosen them up enough to he can hear her breathe again.
"God, why are these so fucking tough! I can't get them off. I knew I should have just stayed longer to tell her the do's and the do not's, but I wanted to go home. Maybe this is why so many people die on me huh?" He lets out another sigh as he puts his gloves and glasses away.
"Let me take this to Tohi, he'll know how to undo his father's work." Tamaki reaches down and lifts Mochi over his shoulder and teleports them back to the Seekers Hub.
3 minutes later Yufumi comes back with several police officers but there is nothing or no one to be found.
"So... where is exactly is this give you we're talking about that was choking? You know you can get in trouble for wasting our time like that missy!" Said one of the cops.
"Wait what? She was right there I swear, you have to believe!" Yufumi says with tears starting to form I her eyes.
"Mochi... where did you go?" Yufumi thought to herself as she began to cry.
- Location: Seekers Hub -
Tamaki appears back in the room where he was before with Tohi and lays Mochi down on a nearby couch.
"Hey. So it seems like your dad came in contact with my guardian. Can you undo whatever he did to her?" Said Takumi in a stern tone.
"Yeah let me see." Tohi stands up and walks over to where she is laying. He closed his eyes for a second and reopens them and they began to glow. He looks down at her neck and sees the transparent hands on her neck.
"Yep, that's definitely daddy dearest's work alright. Let me see what I can do." He reaches down at her neck and grabs onto the hands on her neck.
"Your guardian is cute, I might have to steal her from you," Tohi says in a playful tone.
"Shut up and take them off of her please, they're keeping her from breathing," Tamaki says in an annoyed voice.
"Alright alright I will, I was just joking," Tohi says as he latches on to the hand and begins to pull.
- To be Continued -