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The Crimson Lantern Festival | Chinese and Japanese Influenced Roleplay | Closed
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Ryuusei put down the bowl, letting out a big sigh - the breakfast was wonderful, better than anything he's ever had in his whole life.
Having finished eating, he turned his attention back to where he'd last seen the officers, wondering what was going on and who was the new guest.
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The newcomer came into the dining room and opened her hood, revealing a long blonde haired girl with dark blue eyes. Her face was quite adorable and doll-like for a person whose lifespan surpassed that of many ancient structures. The rest of her body was covered with the cloak but if anyone was to guess, it would probably have been a judge’s uniform and perhaps with the same shade as her cloak.
”Greetings visitors, I am the seventh judge, Taishan, pleasure to make your acquaintance” she greeted with a small bow.
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Koki gasped and waved. "Hello, miss! I'm Koki Popoli, it's nice to meet you, ma'am!" She bounced in her seat. She's so pretty! And she looks smart, I can't believe I'm going to be working with her! What even am I going to do? I still need to find a library…
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The seventh judge turned to Koki and smiled back.
”You are… the person who I’m going to be accompanying, right?” she asked, not that anyone was gonna answer as she already knew that.
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Koki smiled wider in response and nodded, giving a thumbs up. "Yes, ma'am! I'm ready to do whatever we're going to do!" She pushed up her glasses when they started to fall down, kinda ruining her 'I'm super ready to work and I'm definitely serious' look.
Ryuusei had given a small polite bow to the lady when she came in, not getting the chance to say anything due to Koki's cherrful introduction - not that he was eager to talk anyway.
He remained quiet in his seat, watching the two females' word exchange
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The new female judge gave Koki a thumbs up and she turned to the officers.
”I can take her to my court now, right?” she asked. The officers nodded and the seventh judge gave them a smile with her teeth showing.
”Well, what are we waiting for then?” she extended her hand to Koki, wanting her to take it.
”In that case—“ the eighth judge stood up ”—we should be going as well” he mentioned as the sixth judge nodded and followed his actions.
”Ryuu-kun, let’s go” Dushi said with absolutely no shame or hesitation but when the sixth judge heard that, he turned to him.
”You call him ‘Ryuu-kun’?”
”Why? Is that wrong?”
”No, no… it’s just that I didn’t expect you of all people to refer to someone in that manner”
”Get used to it light nerd” the sixth and the eighth judge had quite an exchange as Kaito giggled just silently on his own.
”Anyways, thank you Tanaka” the sixth judge brought up before he and Kaito headed for the door. The eighth judge soon followed.
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Koki took the hand, trying not to pay attention to her own blood-soaked looking hand. "It's nice to meet you Miss Taishah!" She said, standing up from her seat with another bounce. To anyone watching, it looked like she had drunken three cups of straight caffeine.
The boy felt a bit of warmth in his cheeks when he heard the two judges' word exchange. It felt kinda nice to be called that way. "Ryuu-kun".
It made him feel a little like home, among familiar people, who didn't look down on others as much as the people in his old life did. It was just so pleasant to be part of all this.
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As the sixth judge sighed and was the first to head for the door, he stopped at the handle.
”Any of you hear that…?” he asked.
There was actually an eerie noise coming from outside the doors. It sounded like groaning and cursing but to a creepy level it went.
The eighth judge nodded as he walked towards his colleague.
If anything they were worried about the fact that whatever was behind the doors could hurt their visitors.
”On three…?” Dushi asked the sixth judge softly as he nodded.
”One… Two…” they started to turn the handle on their respective side ”—Three” both of the doors flew open and—
A scythe demon was standing in front of the mansion doors, waiting to prey on someone and with that sight, the sixth judge immediately summoned his fan and blew the demon a tad bit away from them.
”You two—“ the eighth judge turned to Kaito and Ryuusei ”—time to show what you’ve learned so far” he stated with a confident smile as he followed the sixth judge.
The seventh judge; Taishan, while holding onto Koki’s hand, looked down to her.
”Perhaps we should go there…” she closed her eyes ”…as soon as possible” when she opened her eyes, it gave out a bright blue color…
The seventh judge and Koki would soon see themselves in what appeared to be an ice rink.
”We’re here” the seventh judge said.
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Koki fell against the wall once they were teleported, she almost looked to be shaking. "Are they going to be alright miss? Kaito was just hurt and I'm worried about both of them!"
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”Dushi and Diancheng can deal with the demon… though they don’t like to show their ‘real’ powers as… you know, it can be quite destructive if they decided to show it” the seventh judge stated as the plain ice rink started to show forms, creating several ice animals which could move. Cats, dogs, foxes, wolves, hamsters, birds, and so on. They moved around as if they were real animals. The ice were raised to form a crystalline garden with a swing and a bench.
”Please, have a seat” the judge invited as she set herself on the bench.
As soon as the judge's words rung in the air, Ryuusei had stood up, alert and with adrenaline starting to flood his system.
He shot Kaito a glance to make sure the other was in good shape to fight the thing. One of his hands reached for the crescent moon object he'd gotten from the Frozen Mountains, in case he had to use it - even though he wasn't told to carry it, he considered it would be wise to have it on him just in case.
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Kaito gave a confident smile as he rushed after the sixth judge. He’s got… something in his hand.
”What the hell did Kurt give you?!” the sixth judge asked, maneuvering around the demon and confusing it along with Dushi.
”Something very nice!” Kaito answered as he jumped up and threw the item in front of him whilst mid-air. The item looked like a silvery metallic cane but as it travelled through the air, it transformed and turned into a medium-sized battle axe which was slammed into the demon’s boney head.
The judges turned to Kaito in confusion as the axe broke the demon’s head.
Kai, though, smiled at this and jumped up from the demon, leaving his axe attached to the demon’s head. He opened his hand in mid-air and the axe started to shake, in the end traveling towards him with the demon attached to it.
”Ryuu! Catch!” he spun around and sent the broken demon towards Ryuusei while holding on tightly to his axe, not letting go of it.
Receiving the other's confirmation, the boy too rushed to the other's aid. He carefully observed Kaito's actions, preparing for what might come next
When the man sent the demon flying in his direction, he threw his golden crescent moon into the air, allowing it to return to its full lance form as it fell back towards him.
As the wounded creature was fast approaching him, his lance began moving on its own, spinning around in the air with a high vibrating noise. Just when the flying body was less than a few meters away from him, the spinning weapon dashed in front of him, impaling the demon almost all the way, the spikes on the curved crescent moon shredding the creature's insides as it continued to spin away back towards the judges
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The scythe demon was sent upwards again by the spear collision and was met with the sixth and eighth judge, each with their fists clenched and each with burning flames of different hues; the sixth a white flame, and the eighth a purple.
Both of them gave a slightly sadistic grin when they sent the demon down onto the ground. They then gracefully landed like the high tiered men they were.
The demon laid motionless on the ground without any signs of life left inside it.
The judges turned to their respective visitor.
The eighth judge looked down as he approached Ryuusei. Upon looking up, he gave his apprentice a proud grin with a pat to the back.
”You’re a fast learner you know?”
Ryuusei was still a little energized from the whole encounter, so when the judge spoke to him, he was momentarily speechless.
"Ah, thank you, my lord." he responded shyly, as the other pat him as a congratulation. He was still not used to beaing treated so, and thus he was still a little unsure of what to do.
The sound of high metallic vibrations soon announced the return of the lance, spinning rapidly in the air towards them. It dashed around them several times in order to reduce its speed, before its spinning slowed down, leaving the weapon floating mid air. Once it completely stopped, the shining magic parts of the lance dissolved from the handle towards the blade, leaving only the gold crescent moon that Ryuusei caught as it fell towards the ground.
"I, um, had a bit of help" he added, gesturing towards the object with a small smile
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After a bit of silence, the sixth judge turned back to the eighth judge.
”So… I heard you’ve became a Grand Judge?” the sixth judge asked with both of his hands in his pockets.
”Yeah? Why?” the eighth asked with raised eyebrows.
”Nothing important, congrats I guess” the sixth said before he and the eighth went silent.
They both turned towards the river where the second judge had mentioned child spirits to be near. Both of the judges did not hesitate to run towards the river. Seeing this, Kaito followed them. Perhaps explanation could come later.
The boy was still paying attention to his gold crescent moon while the two judges exchanged words. He raised his head once silence settled in, looking at the two, wondering what kind of emotions was the sixth judge experiencing. Was it envy? Awkwardness? Sadness? Or was he genuinely alright with it?
Seeing the others run away towards the shore where the child spirits were located, Ryuusei followed, holding on to his item - if another fight was to break out, it was for the best to have his weapon ready
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Arriving at the shore, the sight was… terrifying. Two figures stood in the middle of all the chaos that had happened. The children were laid motionless in the coursing river which had turned crimson due to the blood that went into it. The two figures both had sets of teeth that took up a majority of their face, they did not have noses, eyes, or any other facial features. What they had though, were their ears and their horrifying sets of teeth which were bloodstained.
The sixth judge’s reaction was not much to be talked about as he just clenched his fist and had quite an angry expression… but the eighth’s was very much worth mentioning.
Dushi had smoke coming out of his mouth when he closed it, his eyes had turned bloodshot red with only glimpses of purple remaining which was accompanied by the tears that were flowing down his cheeks, his veins were denser than usual and were shown through his skin.
Ryuusei had followed behind the judges, coming to a stop when he saw the others cease their running.
Upon seeing the scene in front of them, he felt a little sick to his stomach - not because of what he was seeing, but because of the realization of the children's fate. He felt bad for them, very bad; not only were they already in a bad situation for having passed at a very early age, but now they'd been mercilessly torn apart by these demons. Despicable.
He turned to look at the judges, seeking any sign or command in their eyes, but was met with Dushi's steaming enraged expression.
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The sixth judge turned to the eighth, trying to calm him down silently.
Dushi met his eyes and started to calm down, he couldn’t have emotions block his logical side now could he? Trying to find a way to attack the demons without them knowing, moving silently is possibly the best move.
”We can’t sneak attack them for sure… but it’s best if we could confuse them with a lot of noises” Dushi suggested quietly as he tried to think of a way to create a lot of noises coming from and moving to different places.
”Circling the demons might work…” Diancheng kept his tone low when he stated the following. Dushi seemed to agree.
He turned to Ryuu and Kai to see their response to the ‘plan’.
Kaito almost immediately nodded, this was going to be quite fun for him if he doesn’t get hurt that is.
Ryuusei had no plan of his own to suggest, so he nodded alongside Kaito. Surround the demons, got it.
Perhaps his magical flying lance could help a little, though he was still unexperinced with it.
"Are me and Kaito gonna distract them?"
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”Exactly… we can do the executing ourselves” the sixth judge stated. With that though, another soft voice came from near them only barely loud enough for the entire group to hear.
It sounded like a person… it was coming from the shore. Looking in that direction, the group would spot a sliced man with everything from his waist down gone. What was left was his bleeding chest line, his nearly gone voice, and the remains of his sanity.
The boy initially nodded approvingly, ready to put their plan in action, when he too heard the voice.
"Wh- what is that?" he questioned, distracted from the demons and looking into the direction of the man; he wasn't horrified or disgusted, more like cautious and worried. If this turned out to be another kind of evil spirit, he had a lot on his hands. On the other hand, if that was an injured person, it meant something very sinister had happened that brought him in that awful state
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”That’s just a wounded spirit… I guess I can risk it…” the sixth judge stated, summoning his fan and wafting once softly at the man as his body’s bottom half started to regrow. The spirit was then able to stand up. He thanked the judge…
”Thank you my lord!! I don’t how I could ever repay you!!” the figure shouted aloud which of course, distracted the two demonic figures. They started to jump towards the group at quite the speed.
Even though he was relieved to know the injured spirit was not malevolent, yet felt chilling spikes in his back when the other began shouting their way. He had all the right to be thankful - the judge had just healed him - yet none of them expected the spirit to expose their group when the monsters were so close nearby.
Dumb move on the spirit's part, but what was done was done, no point thinking about it. Now, they had to find a new plan to fight the demons, without the advantage of a surprise attack.
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”Dushi and Diancheng can deal with the demon… though they don’t like to show their ‘real’ powers as… you know, it can be quite destructive if they decided to show it” the seventh judge stated as the plain ice rink started to show forms, creating several ice animals which could move. Cats, dogs, foxes, wolves, hamsters, birds, and so on. They moved around as if they were real animals. The ice was raised to form a crystalline garden with a swing and a bench.
” Please, have a seat” the judge invited as she set herself on the bench.
Koki sat down, reassured at the seventh judge's words. Her gaze moved to the animals, opening in amazement. "Wow! You're doing that? That's so cool ma'am!" Koki was talking with her hands, pointing at the ice animals on the rink.
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(I’M. BACKKKKKKKKK)
The eighth judge’s eyes went up in purple flames as a purple and golden armor as he jumped in front of the group, protecting them with a hemisphere with the same hue as his armor.
”Dian!” the eighth judge shouted as the sixth judge jumped up above the figures.
”On it!!” the sixth judge replied as his body was covered with a white smog. The judge came down at the two demonic figures and an explosion occurred, blocking the views of everyone within the hemisphere.
”They are my pets and my officers” the seventh judge stated with a sad grin.
One of the animals, the wolf, paced towards the indoor garden and eyed Koki before sitting in front of her and giving her a small human-like smile.
”He seems to like you”