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[b][color=DarkOrange]Amaterasu: level 8[/color][/b] EXP: [color=DarkOrange]///////////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (30/80)
[b][color=DarkOrange]Location:[/color][/b] Fields of Gold
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 15 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](237/150)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP:  [color=Aqua]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](183/100)
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Miss Fortune's assumption that once they left the water that she’d have the advantage over the kids initially proved false, because once the water ran out they simply hopped the fence and started painting their own, leaving a trail of goop as they went.

What actually stopped them from keeping pace was a certain divine wolf being most displeased with them making a mess of the road she was trying to fix. Said wolf hopped off her cart ride and promptly barreled after them. Hypocrite that she was, she stopped them via drawing trees onto the road, which they both crashed into.

Kids had to be tough to have made it this far was her logic for not minding hurting them, and they promptly proved this in the resulting physical altercation, which only ended once the milkmaid and her passengers caught up, whereupon the kids were verbally admonished for their vandalism of the road by those who could use words. 

And then made to clean up their mess, which was a first. 

Fortunately a shoulder riding Dazzle made for a suitable standin for F.L.U.D.D. as his bubble beams scoured the road clean, which was then dried off with fireballs. 

Despite the ease, however, the pair of equally rotten eggs were sulking as they trudged into the little town and showed little enthusiasm for getting involved with the commotion like some of the others. 

Ammatarasu was naturally among those others, and her hackles raised as she beheld the Yokai for the first time, only to mentally admonish herself. These were not the demons that had plagued her on her travels back in her world, but instead entirely different beings with the same name.

Not that they were harmless in any sort of way, it seemed, but on the chart of immorality being a mindly destructive and very noisy nuisance was certainly a lot lower on the scale than spreading diseases or attacking travelers indiscriminately. Thus she stood back and let the others attempt to talk things out. When this failed, however, she stepped up beside them, unleashing a howling battle cry to the heavens, before shifting her equipment, bringing her Devout Beads to the fore, lashing them together to form a whip, while her disk shifted into place to be used defensively, and the sword was moved to the back, intended to be unused. 

They were not, she interpreted, trying to kill these beings, merely knock some sense into them, or to send them packing, so a light lashing was what she needed to deliver, not the cleaving blow of an executioner’s blade. 

She might as well have brought one out however, because the Yokai were certainly a bit frazzled by her presence, her divine aura causing them to be more wary than they otherwise might have been.

It didn’t stop them entirely however, and with a cry of “cheap counter-picker!” one of the green gremlins charged forwards, prompting a few more to join in with similar cries that made just as little sense to Amatarasu as their prior ranting.

They quickly came to regret this move.

The wolf made a minor flick of her snout that sent the chain of divine beads flicking out, striking swiftly but not at all softly, delivering a punishing lash of divine retribution that set the front runner running off while howling in pain. Then a half second later the beads flicked fourth again, slashing at a second, then a third, then a fourth, as the wolf directed her weapon with small movements, and backed away only a step or two as she turned aside the tide with her rapidly striking weapon.

It didn’t take much to convince the runts that they’d lost this fight, the stings of defeat she was inflicting clear for all to see even if her attacks where not, and in short order those who had worked up the courage had been turned aside, and the others thought better than to challenge her.

All except for two fighting fanatics.

“Cowards the lot of you!” barked a beetle shaped yokai in samurai armor known as a [url=https://i.imgur.com/A7ZVDBi.png]Rhinoggin[/url], as the green gremlins fled around him.

The goddess tilted her head to the side upon seeing this yokai stand against her, given that he was about the same sizes as the gremlins, especially when the little beetle declared boldly that “Looks like I’ll have to show you all what a real fighter looks like!”

The absurdity of the moment didn’t end there, as a [url=https://i.imgur.com/hK7ldDy.png]Beetler[/url] stomped over and yelled at the other bug Yokai “You couldn’t beat a casual scrub! Leave this one to me!” 

The Rhinoggin whirled around, and then laughed “You!? Don’t make me laugh! Run along like the greenies and leave this to a pro fighter!”

“You're nothing but hot air! All bark no bite!”

“I’d never stoop to biting like you, ankle biter!”

“We’re the same size rock for brains”

“Your horn’s are titchy!”

“No yours!”

“Noob!”

“Scrub!”

At this point the pair of beetles had locked horns and were yelling insults at each other’s faces while the divine being they had challenged looked on with bemusement. Clearly those who had issues to resolve, and so while they were busy with that, she promptly wandered off to go fight something else while their shouting match continued.

While the wolf wanted nothing to do with the two’s antics, Bowser Junior wasted no time in poking fun at them [color=SpringGreen]”Pfffff hahahahaha, look at those two idiots!”[/color] just loud enough for the pair to break their shouting match just enough to glance over is the prince’s general direction.

He and his sister had not gotten involved in the brawl, having little in the way of interest in enforcing civil obedience, and had instead sat themselves down on one of the wooden platforms to watch the show. Jr did have his paintbrush on hand, just in case someone needed urgent healing, but he was pretty sure they had this in the bag.

Unfortunately, when combined with his mockery, his tossing out of a [color=SpringGreen]”Cure”[/color] caused the beetles to switch targets.

“Stop interfering in those fights, cheater!”

“I call hacks!”

[color=SpringGreen]”Urrgh”[/color] Jr groaned as they two came running towards them (and the villagers who’s porch they were sitting on slammed shut the door behind them). Rather than fight himself, he half tilted his head to Rika to ask [color=SpringGreen]”could you?”[/color] only to go cross eyed as she reached a hand to his chest and plucked a pair of pokeballs from it using 3 oversized fingers

[color=Aqua]”Go, Mimi and Peeka!”[/color] she called out as she hurled the pair down into the street and summoned Jr’s two ghost pokemon to the field to square off with the two yokai.

[color=SpringGreen]”Huh?”[/color]

[color=Aqua]”I wanna practice”[/color] Rika said, before calling out for the pair of mon to [color=Aqua]”Electro Ball and psybeam the closest to you!”[/color] 

The pair were briefly confused by this change in dynamic before following the command when their trainer gave [color=SpringGreen]”fine fine”[/color] of agreement with this.

The opposing pair began to shout some more, but only the Rhinoggin got off his of “can’t even fight your own battles you wimps!” off as the earth typed yokai shrugged off the electrical attack, while the beetler stumbled and clutched his head as the psychic attack struck him.

“Ha, let me show you how it's done!” The Rhinoggin further taunted his fellow/rival as he leapt forwards, reeled back a fist, and then tried to deliver a full swing strike to Peeka, only for his blow to phase right through the ghost type pokemon.

[color=Aqua]”Knew it!”[/color] Rika said with delight as her strategy of using ghosts vs martial fighters paid off. Unfortunately, the beetler immediately adapted as he kicked up a random pebble, and then roundhouse kicked it towards Mimi, the earth attack landing just fine and busting her disguise.

“That’s how it's done, idiot!” The Beetler mocked Rhinoggin who was still flailing at Peeka who was busy blowing a raspberry at him.

“Shut it you!” he reported, only to cry out in pain as he got the blinding flash of a [color=Aqua]”Dazzling gleam!”[/color] to his face much to his rival bug yokai’s amusement.

Said amusement was put to an end as he got back stabbed by Mimi’s [color=Aqua]”Shadow sneak!”[/color]

“Alright that does it!” he yelled, flicking up three stones and then kicking them fourth in three spins. Following suit, even if he’d never admit it, Rhinoggin dug his horns into the ground and hurled up a chunk of earth that hardened and then came down like a rockfall on top of Peeka’s head.

[color=SpringGreen]”Mimi, copycat the red horn!”[/color] Jr suddenly interjected, prompting a [color=Aqua]”Hey!”[/color] from Rika, only for Jr to insist [color=SpringGreen]”It’ll be funny”[/color] and to then add [color=SpringGreen]”Peeka, confusion ray blue horn!”[/color]

The Beetler stumbled as the ray hit him, stumbling and missing his next pebble, which bonked him on the head, which Rika had to admit was kinda funny. That wasn’t the end of Jr’s gambit however as he then got Mimi to use Rhinoggin’s rockfall move on Beetler, and then yelled [color=SpringGreen]”Oh wow, red horn’s trying to take out blue horn! What a shocker!”[/color] at the confused Beetler.

“Trying to steal all the glory! I knew it!” the blue beetle roared, charging the red beetle and delivering a one two punch to the other yokai. Said yokai immediately turned on the other one, the two’s enmity meaning their Galeeming nature was barely a factor in the initiation of the subsequent brawl.

[color=Aqua]”I mean, it was kinda funny, but I did wanna win that one on my own”[/color] Rika complained as she called back Jr’s mon and handed them back to him.

[color=SpringGreen]”I mean, why don’t you catch the winner then? Then you can practice whenever”[/color] Jr suggested, right before the Rhinoggin smashed the confused Beetler’s face in with a punch.

Rather than bite the dust, however, the Beetler simply faded into a mostly translucent form and promptly picked himself back up to demand “get back in here so I can kick your butt without a broken controller!”

[color=SpringGreen]”Huh”[/color] Jr said with a head tilt, before yelling [color=SpringGreen]”Hey, goody two shoes, they don’t die when you kill em! Just poof into ghosts or something!”[/color] at the rest of the seekers.

A moment later Rika hucked Jr’s last regular pokeball at the victorious Rhinoggin, only for it to bonk off him and its front nub to blink red in error due to the Yokai not being a pokemon. She and the Yokai were both angry about this, and while the latter got the first laugh by crushing the pokeball, the former got the last as she swiftly took her frustration via just gunning him down. Rhinoggin was promptly banished back into the spirit realm, where he became embattled with Beetler, though the pair seemed to be only able to futilely tussle when they lacked a physical form.

Ammataratsu had glanced over upon hearing Jr’s yelled information, and upon seeing the evidence of this fact promptly switched her tactics. The punishing lashing beads were put away, and the executioner's blade was brought out.

She gripped the blade in her maw, charged up a strike, and then lunged forwards and delivered a powerful cleave that reaped a harvest of green gremlins, banishing a host of hooligans and leaving them capable of only heckling.

This blow was invisible to most onlookers, while the three inkblots she put into the blockhead lookalike [url=https://i.imgur.com/a8sAW9i.png]Noway[/url] where invisible to all, the wall shaped yokai simply cracking in 3 spots and being banished in a blink of an eye.

She howled again to intimidate the yokai, to let them see how she was no longer holding back, and then stormed forth to cut down any who didn’t flee from her glorious light.