Oct 2: Well That Sucked

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 10:04 am

John's eyes opened and he looked around in confusion before realizing he was in the infirmary.

How...

Memories slowly took shape; the kidnapping, the fight, the victory. The last thing he remembered clearly was Will telling him that Mizuki was safe. Then, disjointed and half-remembered images from drifting in and out of consciousness.

"It's over," he mumbled with a sigh of relief, "Thank God."

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 12:38 pm

"It certainly is!" a cheerful voice comes from... the lamp on his nightstand? It even swings it's head in his direction before realizing it's shining light directly in his face, at which the lamp swings down again.

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 1:52 pm

He sat up quickly and looked at the lamp. He hoped he was just dreaming.

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 1:59 pm

"What? Don't you recognize your good friend Taiki? For shame!" The lamp melodramatically flops over until it's mostly hanging over the side of the nightstand.

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 2:03 pm

"Taiki is a paper lantern."

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 2:34 pm

"Taiki is an obake, brush up on the culture of your ancestors. Wait why am I talking in the third person now? Point is, it's me and right now I'm a Desk Lantern, thank you very much."

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 2:52 pm

"Ugh... I don't have enough caffeine in my system for this..." he groaned.

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 3:01 pm

"Fine, then I won't congratulate you on defeating the Spider-Lady and banishing her back to her realm of moldy bones. See if I care." the lamp says haughtily.

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 3:29 pm

"Thanks. and sorry... you just weren't the voice I wanted to wake up to. No offense."

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 6:23 pm

"Always the sidekick, never the bride." the desk-lamp bemoans it's fate.

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 6:55 pm

"Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for your help in all this. If you hadn't defied Benji and warned me yourself... She might well have succeeded."

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 7:01 pm

"See? I provide an important service. And also light." he says, perking up and shining his light around the room, making a point to avoid John this time. "I bet there's some deeper meaning to that irony."

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 7:08 pm

"So... what now? Will She be back again?"

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 8:02 pm

"She's a powerful yokai. Unless you went into their world you can only banish her back to her realm. It will be a long time before she is strong enough to try and force her way into this world again."

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 8:05 pm

"How long?"

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 8:14 pm

"That's really hard to tell. If enough dead spirits are send her way it could be sooner. The last time she slept for a while. A couple hundred years is a while for you humans, right?"

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 8:45 pm

"Right. So my job now is to ensure that my future relatives can handle her?"

by **Narrator** » Tue May 19, 2015 8:52 pm

"Probably! I mean, you should remain vigilant just in case. But you'll know when it's time. Onihasaiki will wake again when she does."

by **John Hino** » Tue May 19, 2015 8:58 pm

"Wake?"

by **Narrator** » Wed May 20, 2015 2:38 pm

"Yes. It's essence is still bound to the demon's realm, it's power wanes with hers."

by **John Hino** » Wed May 20, 2015 2:56 pm

"But it didn't exactly call to me."

by **Narrator** » Wed May 20, 2015 3:48 pm

"You could lift, it, couldn't you?" the lamp says, as if that obviously explained everything.

by **John Hino** » Wed May 20, 2015 3:56 pm

"You're saying now I can't?"

by **Narrator** » Wed May 20, 2015 6:28 pm

"I don't know. You look pretty strong. When you're not in a hospital gown anyway. But that would probably be a bad idea. It's full of demon ju-ju."

by **John Hino** » Wed May 20, 2015 7:01 pm

"It hasn't effected me so far," he said a little defensively.

"And where is it anyway?"

by **Narrator** » Wed May 20, 2015 7:33 pm

"You dragged it into the van with you and now it's the world's oldest car anchor. Car's have anchors, right?"

by **John Hino** » Wed May 20, 2015 7:55 pm

"Not at all."

"On second thought... is going into Yomi after her actually doable?"

by **Narrator** » Wed May 20, 2015 7:58 pm

"I suppose that depends on how suicidal you are. I mean, technically it's not impossible. Just like it's not impossible to count all the grains of sand on a beach. The question is do you really want to try."

by **John Hino** » Wed May 20, 2015 8:10 pm

"Forget it then," he sighed, "I just hate letting Her get away."

by **Narrator** » Wed May 20, 2015 8:15 pm

"If it makes you feel any better, going by a human perspective she is absolutely 100% dead. Deceased, taken behind the shed, croaked, terminated. It's just that spirits and demons are better at coming back from that sort of thing."

by **John Hino** » Wed May 20, 2015 8:32 pm

"It really doesn't."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sun May 24, 2015 5:57 pm

A few minutes later, an unexpected visitor would walk in.

"You doing alright then, Hino?"

by **John Hino** » Sun May 24, 2015 6:53 pm

"Well I'm conscious. That's always good."

by **Roland Sackville** » Sun May 24, 2015 9:24 pm

"Gave out as good as you got, did you?"

by **John Hino** » Mon May 25, 2015 9:17 am

"I'm still in one piece and the demon isn't," he smirked.

by **Roland Sackville** » Mon May 25, 2015 1:32 pm

"There you go. I knew you were getting better."

by **John Hino** » Mon May 25, 2015 1:52 pm

"Better fighting or better health?""

by **Roland Sackville** » Mon May 25, 2015 4:19 pm

"The former, really. That's what we've been practicing, isn't it?"

by **John Hino** » Mon May 25, 2015 6:56 pm

"It is, and thanks to your training I was able to come out alive. Though I imagine Weaver or Victoria helped with the not dying from magical venom."

by **Roland Sackville** » Mon May 25, 2015 7:27 pm

"Eh, if Weaver really wanted to help, she should have told you what was going to happen and prevent it from happening in the first place."

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