The white mononoke reeled from the impact of the water. Too late he had noticed the pillar of water bearing down on him and in the split second before he too had been engulfed, he had as watched the child and the other shinshou were swept away. He hadnt given any thought to the other shinshou. They had all seen worse. The problem was the child. He was a human, and humans had different limits.
If for nothing else, Seimei would be most distraught if anything happened to him. Narachika might be a little angry, but he would get over it. But Seimei,it would break his heart to lose his grandson.
After some frantic pawing and twisting, his small black claws finally gained purchase on the muddy bottom, and he propelled himself forward, homing in on the powerful aura of the monster, a strange prickling sensation that was as clear in water as it was in air. He found the boy with the monster near the middle of the bay. The boy that was entangled in the thick black tendrils that issued from the monsters was limp and blue. He wasn't breathing.
The dark waters of the bay lit up as crimson light surrounded the small body of the white mononoke, and the shinshou known as Touda took this true form. The dark tendrils fell away with a slice of his taloned hands, as the boy's boy drifted free of the monster's grasp.
"Heh..... where the hell did you come from ?" Touda sneered as he faced the monster. Enshrouded in searing flames, Touda had never been one for mercy; now he solemnly raised his right hand at the monster his flames coalescing in his outstretched hand.
Gou Ookami merely glanced at him and laughed, a strange gravelly chuckle. "Plan to use your flames under water? Hilarious."
He shifted a little to pull himself to his full height, a dark shaggy behemoth that towered over Touda.
"and what do you plan to do with that little silver light of yours.....hmmmm? "
Touda gritted his teeth, his flames where not to be underestimated, and he'll be more than glad to demostr...........
Wait.......... did he say "silver light?"
What silver light?
To his knowledge, the seal that Seimei had bestowed, the seal that bound him, was gold. Reflexively, Touda reached up to touch the seal, running his fingers across the golden ring at his forehead to feel a slight engraved pattern across the surface.
Strange, he hadn't remembered the engraving. In fact, he was sure it had been smooth.
Touda's pause did not escape Gou Ookami, for he was one who preyed upon the hearts of men. With a smile, he crouched, his eyes lighting up as he summoned his aura, pulling strength from thousands of victims to surround Touda.
Touda's hands stilled on his seal as he noticed too late the prickling sensation that seemed to snake around is body. The pressure of the monster's aura felt like pins and needles, burrowing into his skin and entwining his heart like a wreath of thorny vines. The power to burrow into the deepest recesses of the heart. That was the power of Gou Ookami. Touda's eyes widen as he doubled over in pain, feeling the spines forcing their way into his frantically beating heart. His vision began to blur as aura constricted his heart, forcing itself into the deepest recesses of his mind. Doubled over in pain, his body spasmed and trembled, but he took no notice. Touda was far away, his slitted yellow eyes were dilated and unseeing as the contents of his mind tumbled chaotically like the churning waters of the bay. Memories galloped through his mind, tumbling over ideas, concepts, time seemed to run backwards, and then fragmented with out reason until the concept of time itself seemed to cease to exist.
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