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Authors: M.C Queen
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give a small speech about how all animals are our friends, but I
could finally see what lay behind them. The raccoon began to gnaw
on something pink beside it. At first my naive brain thought it
must have been a peach, but I soon realized the raccoon was chewing
on a human arm.
“
WHY IS THAT RACCOON EATING SOMEONE!” I screamed.
“
Oh crap,” Taisei turned his attention back to the raccoon,
but it was already too late. The raccoon began to shake like it was
going to throw up, but instead it began to grow larger.
“
Nina now!” He yelled.
“
Roger!” Nina grabbed an arrow from the pack on her back and
loaded it into the bow. She aimed downward and shot, but her arm
wavered and the arrow missed and implanted itself into the ground
beside the monster.
“
Shit!” Swore Taisei. “Everyone back now! Itsuki prepare a
charm! Kiyori cover Itsuki! Mana take care of this guy!” He said
while pointing at me.
Mana on the other hand wasn't too happy about becoming my
personal bodyguard.
“What! Why me? You never let me
fight the Obake!” She yelled.
“
Mana, get back there now!” He snapped.
Mana dashed to my aid and held her pole out before us as a shield.
Her brow was narrowed in anger, but when she turned back to glance
at me her mouth broke out into a smile. “Don't worry you'll be
safe,” she said gently.
Happiness
swelled within my chest. The girl I liked was prepared to protect
me from a terrifying man-eating monster. I wanted to say that I was
dying of happiness, until I realized I was currently facing
death on four furry legs.
“
I almost forgot,” Taisei quickly dashed over to Mana and I.
“I have something to give you.”
into his pocket and I assumed he was going to pull out a weapon I
could use to protect myself, but instead it was his cell
phone.
“
If you don't mind, do you think you could get some shots of
me fighting this thing?” He asked.
“
I suppose,” I muttered hesitantly. I wasn't sure if it was an
appropriate situation for taking pictures.
“
Thanks,” he said with a wave before turning his attention
back to the monster.
The Obake had grown to the size of a person. It still
resembled a raccoon, except its teeth and claws were ten times
larger and it was foaming at the mouth. I wanted to appear brave
and manly in front of Mana, but I was
soon clinging to her shoulder on
the verge of tears. I may have also been screaming
“
Save me, its going to eat us
all!”
Unlike everyone else who had jumped back and scattered, Nina
reloaded her bow.
She looked like she was going to take another shot but her
fingers were shaking.
“
Nina, get back!” Yelled Taisei.
“
It's OK, I can handle it,” she said.
get the chance to shoot because the giant raccoon lunged at her.
She screamed and fell back before any of us had the chance to do
anything. I could no longer see her behind the monster, so I
assumed she must have been a goner. It was the first time I'd ever
seen someone die, so I froze in shock and found myself unable to
move or do anything.
“
Nina!” Yelled a frantic Taisei.
her aid, but before he'd even taken a step, there was a large thud,
and an ax was suddenly sticking out of the monster's back. I assume
it was thrown by Kiyori since he was the only one with any ax
skills.
The raccoon
in return wasn't pleased at being stabbed in the back, but at least
it wasn't done by his trusted teacher. The monster spun around,
glared at us, stood on its hind legs and howled at the sky in rage.
I trembled in fear and began wishing that the others would get
their act together and defeat the monster before it ate us
all.
I couldn't
help noticing that its eyes were red, and crimson blood (most
probably Nina's) dripped from the monster's mouth.
"What is that
thing?" I said in terror and awe. It was probably a bad idea to
make any noise, and to my horror it jerked its head and locked eyes
with mine. I took a step backwards in shock, and the monster took
the momentary lapse in my guard as an invitation to come hurling
towards Mana and I!
All I could
see was the giant monster encroaching closer and closer towards us.
Instead of helping Mana, I screamed, hit the ground, and placed my
hands over my head in an attempt to shield myself.
I'm sorry Mana,
I thought.
Maybe we can be together in the
afterlife.
be munched up in a matter of moments, but as scared as I was, I
could hear nothing but yelling and the thud of wood against flesh.
I hesitantly looked up to fine Taisei fending off our approaching
death with his wooden stick.
“
Itsuki can you hurry up already,” he groaned.
“
He's still working on it!” Yelled Kiyori.
area for Itsuki. He was standing off to the side with a piece of
paper between his fingers, and his eyes were closed in
concentration. Itsuki's mouth was moving at rapid speed, so he was
either chanting or talking to himself.
Souta on the
other hand hadn't participated much in the epic battle of high
schoolers vs raccoon. He mostly hung back and looked as though he
was unsure of what to do. Every now and again he'd rush forward as
though to attack, only to quickly catch himself and go back to
doing nothing. I later found out that everyone thought Souta was
pretty useless when it came to fighting Obake.
To my relief
I finally caught sight of Nina as well. I expected her to be mauled
to pieces and scattered across the field, but she appeared unhurt
except for the blood gashing profusely from her leg.
Kurumi dashed
towards her and I assumed she was running to help her friend, but
instead Kurumi ripped the bow and arrow straight from Nina's hands
and took aim at the giant monster. Her aim was dead on, and she
managed to land a hit directly through the head. I thought this
would be enough to kill it (It looked like enough to kill
anything), but the raccoon continued to thrash at Taisei despite
having an ax in its back and an arrow sticking out of its
skull.
“
I don't get it, why isn't it dead yet?” I asked
Mana.
“
Obake are a lot stronger than regular animals and can heal
faster,” she said without taking her eyes off the battle. “If
they were easy to kill there would be no need for us
exorcists.”
“
Oh,” I said. That seemed to make sense.
amazement and fear I angled the cell phone and took some shots of
Taisei battling the monster. As hard as I tried I could never
understand the guy's obsession with taking photos, and I pray he
didn't meet his end by trying to get a snapshot with the fox
monster.
Itsuki began
to chant louder to the point where he was almost yelling. The strip
of paper in his hand began to glow, then flash, and all of a sudden
a giant ball of lightning began to emerge from the paper. It
crackled, flashed, and I was certain he was going to electrocute
himself.
“
Move it Taisei!” Yelled Kurumi. “It's coming!”
dropped back and left a direct path between Itsuki and the
monster.
The giant
electric ball finally separated itself from the paper and shot
straight towards the Obake like a magnet. It hit the monster dead
on and engulfed it in a ball of light. The whole field around us
lit up and began the flash.
“
Wow!” I muttered as I stared at the raccoon withering in pain
amongst the blinding light. Black, white, black, white. A small
glance was enough to hurt my eyes and I had to use my sleeve as a
shield. But even when I wasn't looking I could hear the monster's
screams over the crackles of lightning.
screaming ended and I looked up once more and blinked as red spots
clouded my vision. After a few moments my eyesight cleared and I
could see that the rabid raccoon monster had been reduced to
nothing more than a smoldering pile of ashes. This terrifying
experience should have been enough for me to realize the dangers
associated with exorcism, but all I could say back then was-
“Amazing! Mana did you see that?”
“
As expected of Itsuki,” she sighed and collapsed to the
ground. “Thank goodness it's over, that was so
stressful.”
“
Itsuki!” I exclaimed. It wasn't like he was the only guy
doing anything. Taisei, Kurumi and Kiyori had done most of the
work. I was about to tell Mana all my personal observations of
Itsuki doing nothing, until I noticed her staring at him in
admiration as he poked the smoking raccoon carcass.
“
Tsk,”
I hissed before looking away. I
didn't think he was
that
special.
The bloody scene was enough to make me nauseous, but that
didn't effect Kiyori who had already pulled out a bag of potato
chips and was happily munching away. Souta on the other-hand had
finally put himself to good use by patching Nina up. She was
covered in scratches, but she looked mostly fine except for the
blood gashing from her leg and upper arm.
“
Hey Nina do you think you'll be OK?” Asked Souta while
wrapping her leg in a bandage.
“
I'm sure it's just a scratch?” She said despite her face
being screwed up in pain.
“
You really shouldn't push yourself so hard, if you think it's
too much you should just pull back,” said Souta.
“
I'll try,” she muttered.
awe as I noticed the resemblance between Nina and my sister. Her
face was identical with the same small nose and large eyes. She had
even tied her hair up in a ponytail the same way. Nina stared at
the bandages, poked the wound hesitantly, and winced at the pain.
Up until now I'd only seen glances of her around school, so I
decided that it was time to finally walk over and introduce
myself.
“
Are you OK?” I asked. I didn't know her back then, but her
resemblance to Sis was enough to make me feel concerned.
“
Yes, I'm fine,” she said with a hint of annoyance. Nina must
have assumed I was one of the others, because she looked up and
appeared shocked to see me staring back at her.
“
You're that guy the others were talking about right? Daisuke
Matsumoto? Kiyori told me th-”
to hear what she said next because Taisei suddenly yanked me away
by the shirt collar.
“
You!” Said Taisei. He held me up so that we were face to
face. “Should not be here.”
cold and serious, and I was certain that I had escaped death by
raccoon only to face my end at the hands of Taisei Shinya. “But you
took the photo's right?” He asked.
“
Yes,” I wheezed through his death grip.“Yes, I
did.”
the phone and he dropped me instantly and was by Kiyori's side in a
fraction of a second. Taisei's hand was sliding across the screen
at the speed of light and it was like I didn't exist anymore.
“
Check out this one Kiyori! This is definitely one for the
wall,” he said.
appear like anything could distract him, and the only time Taisei
took a break was to throw his pole over the Mana and order her to
begin cleaning up.
I rubbed my
neck and felt relieved that I had escaped another brush with death.
I must have developed a strange addiction to near death experiences
because I was soon to get myself into a lot of them.
Mana had
begun dismantling the weapons and placing them back into a large
duffel bag. It looked like a lot of work, so I decided helping her
was the least I could do for defending my life.
Little did I
know that I was just making another terrible mistake.
“
Hey Mana!” I called out.
“
Daisuke, you shouldn't have come here, you could have gotten
hurt,” she said without looking up from the weapons she was
packing.
right, but all I felt back then was joy that a girl was concerned
for me. “Hey, I'm sorry, but you did a great job protecting me. Let
me help you with that.”
I picked up a
rod and attempted to dismantle it before I realized I didn't know
what I was doing, so I handed it back to Mana. I peered into the
duffel bag to see what else was there. My second reason for helping
out was because I wanted to check out there exorcist gear. I was
hoping they kept all their mystical weapons in the bag for special
occasions, but it was packed full of arrows and strips of paper no
bigger than a envelope.
“
Do you use this stuff for exorcisms?” I asked.
“
Sort of,” she said while brushing her hair behind her ear.
“These are paper charms that we use for fighting the
Obake.”
decorated with different calligraphy which I couldn't understand. I
picked up a charm and brought it closer to my face for better look.
I squinted and attempted to decipher the characters, but before I
knew it the charm suddenly caught fire. I quickly threw it away in
shock like a kid playing with matches for the first time, but I
soon picked up another and squinted, only to watch as it burned
from top to bottom. I thought it was a magic trick worth showing
Hikaru.