As Rivu Aiasan began to move again, Kei-Kei stabbed Mochi through one of its scales, securing himself. Keyati, Okami, and Shintawa were flung in the air. Kei-Kei looked back at them before looking in front of him, his eyes widening as the water was right in his face.
Kei-Kei: "Ac-"
Kei-Kei felt the water on his face as he went beneath the waves of the Crescent Lake, holding onto the back of Rivu Aiasan. The giant Yo-Kai twirled around under the water, its head passing by where Kei-Kei was gripping onto its body. The glowing yellow eyes locking onto Kei-Kei.
In his head, Kei-Kei only thought, "Ah shit..." and quickly Rivu Aiasan moved to bite at Kei-Kei. Kei-Kei quickly kicked out of the way to just barely evade the bite, causing the serpentine sea dweller to bite itself, roaring in reaction. Kei-Kei kept trying to move along Rivu Aiasan's body.
However, his progress was interrupted as Rivu Aiasan's snout rammed into Kei-Kei, the boy being on the center of Rivu's face. The spiritual monster lept out of the water, jerking its head to fling Kei-Kei up into the sky. Lightning jolted at the tip of Rive Aiasan's horn, and the clouds above Kei-Kei roared with thunder.
Okami had managed to climb up Rivu Aiasan quickly after it resurfaced, leaving Shintawa and Keyati swimming and watching on, waiting for their own moment to strike. Okami took a seal on Dasizai's chest and unseals a different Yo-Kai, Okami herself entering a dormant state. Dasizai's hair turned into pure electricity of an orange color, a horn of lightning also sprouted from Dasizai's head, his eyes then became blue. A deep and booming voice overwriting Okami's feminine voice and overlapping with Dasizai's voice. This unsealed power belonged to the Disaster Class Yo-Kai, the Lightning Steed, Kirin.
Kirin looked around as he gained his senses after being awoken. Sensing lightning being channeled, he appeared above Kei-Kei in a bolt of lightning and took the lightning strike meant for Kei-Kei. Kirin absorbed the lightning and redirected it, hitting Rivu Aiasan in the face.
Rivu Aiasan roared, the lightning agitating it. Kirin grabbed Kei-Kei by the hood of his sweatshirt and zipped around in the sky, grabbing Keyati who in turn also grabbed Shintawa. Kirin then flung the three on top of Rivu Aiasan's head. Rivu Aiasan was about to dive again, however Kirin stood in the way.
Kirin: "No you don't."
Rivu Aiasan roared, lightning bolts crashing down towards Kirin in mass numbers, easily being reflected back by Kirin. Kei-Kei dug Mochi into Rivu Aiasan's scales again, managing to actually pierce into the Reiryoku running through the Yo-Kai. Shintawa looked at Kei-Kei.
Shintawa: "What the hell are you doing?"
Kei-Kei: "I'm trying to charge up Mochi! You and Keyati break off its horn!"
Shintawa nodded and tapped Keyati's shoulder, signaling for the horn. Shintawa lept up, crashing into the horn with a Heaven Purger and Keyati threw an explosive at the base of the horn. Kirin was charging up a large blast of lightning, Kei-Kei was charging Mochi, and Shintawa with Keyati's help was going to destroy Rivu's horn.
It was all going well, however, Rivu channeled lightning strikes directly onto its horn, hitting Shintawa due to his proximity. Keyati caught him and cursed under her breath at the interruption. The explosive went off, however it had no major effect on the horn.
Kirin held out his palms and let loose a massive blast of lightning, knocking Rivu Aiasan back as it roared. This knocked Shintawa and Keyati off of its head, Kei-Kei too losing balance and his grip on Mochi slipping. However, he dug his left hand into the scales of Rivu's head. Using the leverage his thrust himself up and pulled Mochi from its head.
Kei-Kei: "Fully charged..."
Kei-Kei took a deep breath and raised the glowing gold blade, swinging it and making contact with Rivu Aiasan, causing a massive explosion of Kami no Chikara directly in the face of the Yo-Kai. It fell into the water, crashing down and causing a massive wave, sending Keyati and Shintawa onto the shore after the landed in the water.
Kirin caught Kei-Kei and takes him to shore, dropping him off before entering his dormant state, Dasizai regaining control as his features returned to normal. Dasizai looked up and noticed that Rivu Aiasan had fled out of the Crescent Lake, the weather still downpouring but not as severe as before.
Kei-Kei: "Did we exorcise it?"
Dasizai: "No. It's ran off into the ocean surrounding Han'ei."
Shintawa: "You mean we got tossed around for nothing!?"
Dasizai: "Not nothin-"
Keyati: "Sounds like nothing."
Dasizai: "No because this gave us information on how strong relatively these three God Class Yo-Kai are. That's good stuff to have considering the goal is to deal with all three of em."
Kei-Kei fell back, feeling the ground on his back, much preferring the solid ground over the wet waves. Shintawa groaned, not pleased he had to get thrown around for no gain at all. But the information was enough to keep him from going insane. Keyati stood up, stretching and cleaning the water out of her stuff.
A few hours later, the four were resting at an inn within the Village of the Crescent Lake. Kei-Kei and Keyati were sharing a room. Kei-Kei was wearing a robe, having just showered in water that wasn't followed with a titanic monster. Keyati was smoking and watching a TV program.
Kei-Kei: "Watcha watching?"
Keyati: "Hm? It's called Jin's Weapon Smith. It's about making and testing weapons."
Kei-Kei: "Cool! Can I watch!?"
Keyati raised an eyebrow and shrugged, letting Kei-Kei join her in watching. His eyes sparkled with enthusiasm at watching this new program, she had to admit...the sparks in his eyes were cute.
Keyati: "You never seen a weapons show before?"
Kei-Kei: "No. At the orphanage I grew up at, they only let us watch informative videos. Ones that told us how to behave and all that."
Keyati: "Can't say I was much different...being an anomaly I was left on the street when I was discovered to lack Kami no Chikara. Only shows I watched were from display screens."
Kei-Kei tilted his head. She looked at Kei-Kei, for some reason a smile tugged at her lips when looking at the guy.
Keyati: "Guess our childhoods sucked ass."
Kei-Kei: "But that doesn't matter. All that matters is achieving the dreams we have!"
Keyati: "Your optimistic outlooks can be soothing annoying..."
She took a drag, blowing smoke from her mouth and looked back down at Kei-Kei, the enthusiasm and optimism still plastered on his face.
Keyati: "Yet also endearing..."