“With the utmost respect, I’m a living demon vessel, not a fairy god mother- Do you think rune weapons would work?”
“And who do you think I am? Marry Poppins??” Aku snarled.
“I never said obtaining such a weapon would be easy. My point was that only Light has the power to vanquish Darkness. I have not seen your rune weapons but if they are not crafted with divine power, they are most likely to be useless.”
Azura was there on the bed, being half asleep after panicking the whole night through from the thought that Gaster’s gonna be there to get her like death itself. So when Aku peered inside with his ominous and dark form, Azura’s eyes caught his shape by the door and she froze in her bed. Out of fear? Or out of paranoia? It was hard to say.
Then she caught the smell of campfire filling the room and she dared to turn around and take a peek. It was her boss!
Wait.
It was her boss??
“Mr. Aku! How on earth- how did you get in here?”
There she was, alive and awake! In a streak of fluid darkness, the demon leaped from the doorway to the edge of her bed where he seated himself promptly.
“Through the front door. How else?” He raised his claws in a big shrug and smiled excitedly. “But who cares? YOU’RE ALIVE!”
“I’m invested sir… What exactly did you have in mind?”
“You will need a magical weapon imbued with divine powers of purity and righteousness. This weapon must be crafted by a true being of the Light or by the gods themselves, and it must be wielded by an individual who is pure of heart.”
Had Sixer been human and beaten Cipher the first time around, he might have put on a tougher, braver face.
But he was a kitsune who had been beaten Cipher on his second go-around and now tended to wear his heart on his sleeve a little bit more than his counterparts.
So while he managed to keep himself from trembling at the sight of a being of pure evil, that didn’t stop his tails from exploding into six giant puff balls at the sight of the imposing figure.
I’m lucky I asked about who might be coming before he got here.
“You might want to – uh – come down from that size a bit,” Sixer said. “The house doesn’t have ceilings tall enough for beings your size.”
Trashy had said that Aku could shape shift, right?
“She’s upstairs on the second floor – second bedroom on the left. Thoth came by last night and completely healed her of her injuries.”
Thankfully, for everyone involved, the kitsune possessed some measure of intelligence and didn’t make an obstacle of himself out of some stupid sense of pride or honor. Aku could appreciate that. He shrunk himself down a bit and stooped as he entered the shack. Once inside, he stood tall enough that his horns nearly touched the ceiling of the shack. He looked like Gandalf in a hobbit house (except much eviler, of course.)
At hearing what Thoth had done for Azura, The demon’s eyes widened briefly in surprise. “He did?” …But his expression darkened again shortly thereafter.
“Hmph. At least that pitiful polygon isn’t completely useless.” As far as he knew, the traitorous fool was still BFFs with Gaster, which Aku found to be completely unacceptable. His disdain for gods aside, it pleased him to hear that Azura was at least in good physical condition.
His attention turned then to the kitsune host. “And who are you? You hold no ‘special feelings’ for that hideous doctor, do you?” Aku waited for an answer from Sixer with a glare that promised to melt faces should he answer incorrectly.
The Shogun of Sorrow 