• “Master, the Shin girl is within our grasp…she will be completely under your control within the next week…” Donna smiled as she knealed before the large dark figure

    “Very good…Lust, now keep an eye on her so that they do not sway her away from us…remember the prophecy!” the Dark master started to speak in an ominous voice, what seemed to be a poem:

    “This prophecy was written long ago

    Of the battle between Good and Evil.

    Seven for Evil they have vowed,

    And seven for Good is what’s allowed.

    Animal forms will Demi-gods take

    To fight for dominance and the Earth’s sake.

    The fight for centuries, until seven reveal;

    Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, Thunder, Light, and Steel.

    Until an eighth, wrought of Darkness’ Womb

    And eight will seal the Dark Master’s Tomb.

    Good must triumph the Dark one’s mind

    Or she will destroy all of man-kind.”

    The dark master’s smile could be seen shining brightly through the dim lighting and the black cloak that he wore to obscure his face from his servants, he believed himself to be too powerful to let them look upon him

    “Yes master, I will…” Donna bowed again and vanished.

    Suichi, Kinoko, Leiko, Kouji, Yuki and Meicho met up the following day at school and stood at Leiko’s locker talking about what they had gathered from the crime scene

    “Nothing, the police wouldn’t even let us within ten feet…” Kouji frowned as he leaned against the lockers and watched a couple of cute girls walk past, Suichi was hiding behind all his friends so that no one would interrupt their conversation.

    “What if we ask Haku?” Yuki suggested as she pointed at the usually flamboyant and somewhat well dressed boy walk across the hallway to his locker, but he was lacking his usual flair and sense of style today

    “No…he won’t talk to anyone and he knows even less, all he told me was that some girl found his mom’s cell phone in the quad” Suichi nodded as he placed his hands in the pockets of his uniform

    “do you know which girl found it, maybe she knows something” Leiko suggested and Suichi nodded and pointed at a girl with dark brown hair that was combed into her face to hide it from others, her uniform was old and torn in some places and she carried her books to her chest as if someone was going to run up and steal them right from her hands.

    “Wait…that’s Akemi Kagamesh” Kinoko replied watching the frightened looking girl walk over to her locker and input her combination

    “Are you kidding me?! Miss Kagamesh’s daughter?!” Kouji exclaimed as he pushed Yuki out of the way so that he could get a better look, Meicho turned around to look too but kept silent, he liked it that way.

    “No…she’s actually Miss Kagamesh’s SISTER!” Kinoko smirked as she watched Kouji’s jaw hit the floor, Leiko closed Kouji’s mouth for him as the bell run

    “Lunch time…let’s go guys…I wonder what kind of experiment Lunch Lady Kida has pulled out of the ice age” Kouji frowned as they walked out and Koujis was the first in line to receive a tray of disgusting looking macaroni and cheese, but the cheese looked as if it had been grated, melted and then rubbed across the floor of the kitchen a few times; Lunch Lady Kida was a large woman with burly arms and a face that would scare a possum into committing Sepuku inside it’s own hovel

    “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!” Lunch Lady Kida screamed at Kouji who was staring at a large mole that reminded him of James Earl Jones

    “Nothing…” Kouji replied as he looked down at the mush that the horrible woman called food, Kouji sat down with the rest of them who had remembered to bring their lunches from home

    “This looks disgusting…” Kouji exclaimed as he poked the macaroni with a fork, half expecting it to get up take his fork from him and jab it into his eye;

    “Yuki…share your food with me…” Kouji whined as he stared at the large feist that Yuki’s parent’s chef had made for her, Yuki looked at him with disgust for a moment and watched as he tossed the macaroni over his shoulder aimlessly

    “Fine…” Yuki gave In and gave him a large portion of her food, which immediately made everyone even on portions.

    “So back to that Akemi girl…” Leiko started, everyone nodded and gathered around Kinoko to get the 4-1-1,

    “well, she’s Miss Kagamesh’s sister and she’s been living with her for a long while now, since their parents…miraculously disappeared…” Kinoko was interrupted by Yuki

    “a lot of people seem to magically disappear around the Kagamesh’s” Yuki retorted sarcastically as Kinoko glared at her

    “excuse me…I was talking” Kinoko replied as Yuki threw her hands up in the air signaling a sarcastic apology

    “Well…she’s a very shy girl, but she has a lot of Miss Kagamesh’s personality…last year a boy was picking on her and he stole her lunch, and he ended up in the hospital, she had gotten angry and beaten him half way to death…” Kinoko nodded, Leiko scoffed

    “impossible…she would have been suspended or thrown out…” Leiko pointed out and Kinoko nodded

    “yea, but they couldn’t pin it on her…no one saw it and the boy wouldn’t say…” Kinoko retorted as if she were telling a ghost story

    “poppycock…” Yuki retorted

    “not here Yuki…we can do that later…” Kouji snickered at his crude joke, Yuki rolled her eyes

    “No…I think your story is a lie…I think that half of us should talk to Akemi and then the rest try and get more information out of Haku…” Yuki said as she put her face into her hands and nodded at everyone.

    They agreed and Suichi, Leiko, and Kinoko set off to find Haku while Yuki, Kouji, and Meicho walked over to Akemi.

    Akemi looked up at the three of them standing in front of her

    “Move…you’re in my light” Akemi replied in a monotonous voice and returned to the large pad of paper that she was drawing on

    “Hey…can we talk to you?” Yuki asked in a singsong voice, Akemi looked up and the three of them saw that she too had violet eyes like her sister

    “No…” Akemi retorted and continued to draw, but Yuki was a persistent girl and sat next to Akemi

    “What are you drawing?” Yuki asked with a large toothy smile as she tried to win Akemi over

    “None of your business” Akemi said testily, Yuki shook her head

    “Aww come on…” Yuki continued, but Akemi stood up

    “if you don’t go away…I will destroy you…” Akemi replied as she moved over a seat and sat down to continue drawing, Yuki smirked and moved into the seat Akemi moved from to continue badgering her

    “I just want to ask a quick question…” Yuki sung, Akemi looked up and Yuki could see her eyes starting to become bloodshot, at the same time a light fog rolled in from the North and covered the school

    “where did this fog come from?” Kouji asked as he spun in circles to make sure the fog was really there, Akemi glared at Yuki as if she were scum but Yuki wouldn’t give up and glared back

    “Fine…what do you want?” Akemi gave in

    “If it makes you three stooges vanish, I’ll answer” Akemi sighed as she continued drawing her portrait

    “Well you found Haku’s mother’s cell phone right? Was there anything else suspicious about that night?” Yuki asked, Akemi immediately looked up into Yuki’s robin’s egg blue eyes

    “just fog…” Akemi replied as she stood up and bowed to them all, walking away from them and refusing to answer any more questions

    “Did you guys see that fog appear and disappear out of nowhere?” Yuki said as she stood up and put her hands on her hips staring after Akemi

    “there’s something strange about that girl, she’s so testy…” Yuki frowned narrowing her eyes in Akemi’s direction.

    Suichi, Leiko, and Kinoko had no luck with Haku, he wouldn’t answer anymore questions and finally they had badgered him to the point that he ran away crying

    “Well let’s hope that the others found out more interesting things than we did…” Leiko frowned and started to walk off with Suichi and Kinoko in tow

    “Well if you hadn’t been so pushy with him, he might have been more inclined to answer our questions…” Suichi pointed out with a frown, Leiko looked at the floor.

    The six of them headed for home sharing what they had learned as the sky slowly turned to black and Darkness overcame them but this time a thin fog rolled in and surrounded them

    “what’s going on?!” Leiko screamed grabbing her backpack and pulling out Biru

    “FINALLY…I’ve been cooped up in that ruddy bag all day!” Biru exclaimed as Leiko transformed him into her shuriken, Suichi whistled and Kiera came running, with one single leap into the air Suichi transformed her into his sword while the others pulled out their Spirit guides and transformed them into their various weapons

    “this fog…it’s…AKEMI!” Yuki screamed as she pointed at the girl standing amidst the fog with her hand wrapped around her sketch book in her hands, her eyes were no longer a violet color but a deep shade of red that reminded them of blood, and her hair was blown out of her face

    “I will destroy you for my master…” Akemi exclaimed as she tore a page out of her sketch book and threw it onto the ground

    “What’s going on?” Leiko asked as she watched as the page hit the floor and transformed into a large monster with a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, this monster was completely hairy and had four sets of horns on top of it’s green head and it’s eyes were completely black except for one red pupil a lot like Akemi’s.

    “She draw’s monsters?” Kinoko asked as she readied her bow and fired an arrow into the monster’s eye

    “bulls-eye!” Kinoko cheered, but the monster removed the arrow and what looked like black ink started to run form where the arrow had hit

    “Silly humans…you think that your weapons are a match for my sketches?” Akemi asked in a soft hushed voice that sounded like it was coming from a polite little girl

    “you may have defeated my monsters in the past…but never again, my skills have gotten better” Akemi retorted as she pointed at them, forcing the monster to charge Suichi and the others, they scattered

    “We’ve fought them before? Are you saying all those darkness monsters that we defeated were just your drawings?!” Kouji exclaimed as he knocked the monster in the face with the blunt end of his spear, knocking the monster back a few feet

    “of course…I am the master’s creator…” Akemi exclaimed, enraged that the monster had not eaten Kouji

    “so you’re not one of the stupid Deadly Sin pawns?” Leiko asked as she threw her Shuriken, slicing the monster into two halves; Akemi smirked and sketched on her pad and threw two sheets at the monster’s halves and immediately there were two of the monster

    “I am Anger of the Sin Soldiers! I create all of the master’s demons and create his army!” Akemi laughed as she glare at her monsters and sent them after Suichi and the others

    “Tidal sweep!” Suichi cried as he moved his sword in a sweeping motion as a tidal wave of water errupted from his sword and slammed into the monster, the monster seemed unaffected for a second then began to drip ink

    “Water is effective…they are just ink…” Suichi called to the rest, Akemi laughed as she threw another page from her sketch pad which turned into a chain around Suichi and a gag so that he could no longer move

    “SUICHI!” Leiko cried as the monster stepped between them and looked at Leiko as if she were a delicious snack

    “Well, we already know that cutting them in half doesn’t work” Kinoko pointed out

    “Raging WILDFIRE!” Leiko cried as a wildfire flew out of her palms and into the monster that stood before her and Kouji, but another page from Akemi’s sketch pad hit the wildfire first and transformed into a large wall of ink water and absorbed the fire then vanished

    “there is no defeating me…” Akemi exclaimed as she held up her sketchbook, Kinoko fired an arrow that barely missed the sketchbook

    “haha…It’s not going to be that easy…” Akemi announced as she drew another picture and threw it at her beasts, this time creating large shields and swords for them

    “aren’t they just amazing?” Akemi giggled as she looked fondly at her horrid monsters attacking them.

    Leiko turned around to see a third monster dragging Suichi away

    “I don’t think so!” Leiko exclaimed as she threw her shuriken at the monster and cried

    “Dynamoflame!” Leiko screamed as the shuriken hit the monster and exploded in a large wave of flames

    “SUICHI!” Leiko exclaimed as she ran over and cut Suichi with her shuriken that was lying next to him

    “oh Suichi, I’m sorry…I’ve burned you!” Leiko exclaimed as she placed a hand near the burns that had appeared on his side, his shirt was burning away causing him more pain, Suichi immediately jumped up and performed another Tidal attack to put himself out

    “this girl isn’t playing games” Suichi exclaimed angrily watching as Kinoko and Meicho struggled with one monster as Kouji and Yuki fought the other

    “I can’t do my Dynamoflame anymore…I don’t have much energy left” Leiko panted as she held herself up using Suichi’s shoulder

    “somehow we have to knock Akemi out…” Suichi exclaimed as he dashed after Akemi who giggled.

    Akemi held up a page and before Suichi could get close it turned into a large rubber ball that sent Suichi flying back a few feet

    “damn…” Suichi cried as he picked himself off the ground, Yuki and Kouji were getting frustrated

    “that’s it…ROLLING THUNDER!” Yuki screamed holding her shield to the sky as a stream of lightning almost four feet thick dropped from the sky onto the monster, burning it into a crisp.

    As Yuki collapsed, Kouji spun his spear in a large circle around his body and fired off a large tornado into the other monster, tearing it into shreds of paper

    “damn…” Kouji exclaimed as he too collapsed to his knees.

    Kinoko and Meicho looked over at Akemi who was laughing maniacally as an invisible Amaterasu appeared behind Kinoko

    “My dear, it’s time for me to give you my gift…Sunlight bless this child with my power!” Amaterasu called out, a large hole appeared in the darkness above her and a large beam of light hit Kinoko.

    Kinoko rose her bow and pulled back on the string with nothing loaded

    “SHINING MIST!” Kinoko cried as she let go of the string and a arrow of light flew at Akemi who threw up a page, but the arrow flew through the paper, burning it; the arrow slammed into the ground between Akemi’s feet and exploded in a wide array of the colors of the rainbow and when the bright colored light vanished Akemi lay on her back unconscious.

    “YES!” Kinoko cheered as something appeared next to Akemi’s body, it was Miss Kagamesh

    “Silly girl…” Taji said looking down on her unconscious sister, everyone stared wide eyed at their teacher standing next to their enemy; Kinoko immediately fired off another Shining Mist attack, but Taji mearly held up her hand and a large undead soldier in full metal armor appeared out of nowhere and took the brunt of the attack

    “next time children…when we meet next you won’t be so fortunate” Taji winked at them as she picked up her sister and vanished.

    Suichi, Kiera, Leiko, Biru, Kouji, Chip, Yuki, Alberic, Meicho, Aila, Kinoko and Bosatsu stood staring at the spot that their teacher had vanished from in a large display of dark energy, they couldn’t move because they were so awestricken

    “Does that make our teacher…Lust?” Kouji asked looking around at everyone with answers but no one knew.

    “YOU REVEALED YOURSELF?!” the dark figure screamed in his hoarse voice as Greed, and Anger sat kneeling on either side of Taji; who did not kneel

    “Apologies, but I had to save my sister…” Taji retorted as she kicked a little dirt into her sister’s side, Akemi was silently crying from her failure to kill the seven of them

    “Taji…do you understand out position…we cannot afford for them to find out about us until Shinshia is ours completely…” the hooded figure bellowed, Taji nodded

    “Master, let me take care of them…I can do a much better job” Greed nodded his head, Taji looked down on him angrily and reached to pull on what little hair he had left

    “listen to me Sho Hiro…don’t ever undermine me…I am your superior” Taji forced through clenched teeth as she slowly moved her hand towards her whip that was tied around her like a belt, the hooded figure laughed

    “good Taji…after saving your sister, I was thinking you had gone soft” he smirked, Taji turned to him and shook her head

    “No…but if It comes to it, I will kill the children myself…” Taji said as she held up a clenched fist

    “Well…we can’t send either of you back to the school…they will expect that, I think we should focus on Shin…and turn her over to our side” the figure laughed, the others joined him and then they vanished leaving the dark figure alone

    “I will free my master from his chains and he will recreate the world in his image…but this Shin girl is valuable…I need her power…” the dark figure smiled and too vanished.