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Chapter 19: Rescues and Fireworks

“H-hey guys…”

“Oh! Hi, Lucas!”

The group was surprised at Lucas’s appearence. Sure, they’ve run into each other a lot recently, but this was the first time he had decided to follow them specifically.

“I-is it alright if I hang out with you?”

Nate and Katie were now kinda confused. Sure, they wouldn’t mind Lucas hanging out with them, but why now?

If we say no, he might get suspicious and keep following us, but if we say say yes, how do we explain to Bear and Eddie why he’s with us?

Truthfully, they wouldn’t mind a chance to get to know him better, but they also didn’t know how their friends would react to him tagging along on their adventure.

We can’t really ditch our friends if they’re going to be in a Yo-kai infested area and we can’t risk having Lucas getting inspirited if there’s any Yo-kai roaming around here.

“Alright, Lucas. But stay close to us.”

Lucas nodded and the group walked towards the school.

“Mind telling me why we’re going to the school this late at night?”

“Bear’s idea. He wants to get a better view of the fireworks from the roof.”

“Why is this not an option? It would save on crowded areas near Mount Wildwood and also save people a long trip to Mount Wildwood’s summit.”

Nate and Katie shrugged. Lucas seemed to be a smart kid. Timid, yes, but he does understand why they were doing this. Well, part of it, anyway.

*****

In the shadows of a tree, there was a Yo-kai that was watching the three kids as they went towards the school.

“Rats! They all have the same aura!”

The Yo-kai in question was wearing a pair of glasses with light blue tinted glass that allowed the wearer to see the auras of those with connections to Yo-kai, which he had trouble balancing because he only had one eye. Unfortunately, he didn’t know that the kid he had been stalking for a while was friends with two other kids with the same aura and the four Yo-kai hanging around them didn’t make things easier for him. For all he knew, the kid he was supposed to find was actually either the new boy or girl he had just came across.

Dang it! Now I have to tell my boss that there’s two more kids to worry about!

He sighed as he climbed down the tree, not an easy task when one of your hands was larger than the other and you’re about the size of a human toddler, and made his way back to Nocturne Hospital.

*****

Although they were surprised that Lucas was coming with them, Bear and Eddie didn’t mind him hanging around as the group walked in through the side door.

“Get the keys and we can get going.”

Nate and Katie went to the area where the keys were placed, but pretended to be looking for the right keys as they slipped the keys they had gotten from Mr. Barton into their hands.

“Okay, found the keys, guys! Let’s get going!”

“Wanna play?”

“Can you find your friends?”

The voice had changed into a creepy, sing-song tone, which scared them more.

“We have to find them! Don’t worry, they should be still be in the school!”

They rushed into the hallway and as they made their way to the front enterance, there were stacks of desks preventing them from continuing left. On the other side of the desks was Lucas. He was unconscious, but after shouting to him, he woke up a little confused.

“Nate? Katie? What happened? How did I get over here?”

“We don’t know, Lucas, but Bear and Eddie disappeared too. Can you wait here until we find them?”

Lucas nodded since it was clear that none of them could think of a way to get rid of the desk blockade that didn’t involve it crashing to the floor and the fact that they had to put the desks back into the right positions afterwards.

“Is this the work of that mysterious voice that people have been talking about recently?”

Nate and Katie had a bad feeling that it was and while they didn’t know the voice’s intentions yet, they feared the worse for their other friends.

“Lucas, we’re going to look for the others. If you get bored while waiting for us to come back, see if you can find another way around. Maybe we’ll run into each other or something.”

“Alright, just be careful.”

“You too, Lucas.”

Lucas turned around, probably going to find a way out and the group went back and saw an unactivated Mirapo. After activating Mirapo in case they needed him, Nate, Katie, and the four Yo-kai went up the stairs, which thankfully wasn’t blocked off, only to find that the next stairway was blocked.

“Dang it! Well, we’ll start searching for Bear and Eddie here.”

They walked around the floor they were on until they came across the science room, where Mr. Barton taught during the school year.

“It’s so weird to know that we were taught science by a Yo-kai this whole time.”

“Mr. Barton said so himself. Science wasn’t his first choice, but at least he was helping children grow.”

They walked into the science room and their Yo-kai Watches went off.

“Well, we better see what the issue is.”

They shined the lights from their Yo-kai Watches around the room until the lights hit the class skeleton, revealing…another skeleton. However, this skeleton was clearly a Yo-kai, judging by her yellow and cyan eyes and her fasion sense, which they could only assume was supposed to be gothic. As Whisper looked her up and told the group that she was called Rattelle, she stretched and looked at the group.

“Thank Lord Enma. Some kids that won’t invade my privacy.”

Okay, that means either Bear or Eddie has been here.

“We’re looking for some friends of ours and it sounds like you saw one of them. Do you know where he might be?”

The skeleton pointed her umbrella at a display case next to her and said,

“He’s right here, the scoundrel.”

Purple smoke rose from the case and they saw Bear, frozen in the case.

“Bear! What did he ever do to you?!”

“He stole my rib! That’s what he did to me!”

Rattelle crossed her arms as Whisper counted her ribs.

“One, two…ah, yes. She does appear to be one rib short.”

“The kid looked lost and I was going to point him to safety, but then he stole my rib and said something about going to his homeroom. When he came back to go through the other door, I captured him. I was going to release him after I got my rib back, but I have no clue where he put it.”

Nate and Katie had a good idea about where he might have taken it.

“Do you want us to get your rib back? We think we know where it is.”

“If you do, then please get it and bring it back to me. If you do, I release your friend and unlock the door to the other side.”

The group left the science room and walked down the hallways until they reached Room 5-2.

“This is our homeroom, so he probably stashed it in his desk.”

“Why would he do something like that? Sure, he didn’t know that the skeleton was actually a Yo-kai, but come on! Did he really think no one would notice?!”

“He was always a risk-taker.”

Nate and Katie went to Bear’s desk and found a small, bony, yet pretty rib there.

“Hehe, she has such tiny, little ribs!”

Whisper couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Yeah, but let’s just keep that observation to ourselves, okay?”

Before they left the room, Nate looked around.

“It’s so peaceful here at night. It’s easy to forget that it’s so noisy in here during the school year and summer mornings.”

When we have a free moment, we’ll have to come back here at night. Whether it be us telling our Yo-kai companions our school stories or just random activities, it’ll be a great place to hang out.

Nate chuckled at the thought. He never imagined that he would be looking forward to going to school during the summer and at night.

*****

They came back to the science room and Rattelle was still there, bored out of her mind.

“Please tell me you found my rib. I feel so imcomplete without it!”

“Mind describing it so that we know it’s your’s? Just ribbing you! Here you go!”

Nate handed the rib to Rattelle as it disappeared and they heard a satisifying clicking sound.

“I’m so happy to be complete again that I’m even ignoring that lame pun you made!”

Nate nervously chuckled as his eyes went to Bear, still in the display case.

“So…about releasing our friend…”

“Oh, right!”

Rattelle was about to set him free when she paused and said,

“You know, I get so lonely here at night. Sure, Mr. Barton does keep me company when he can, but I want more than that. At least when school is in session, I feel less lonely because there’s more people around.”

“Do you…want to be friends, Rattelle?”

Rattelle was surprised when she heard Katie ask her that.

“D-do you mean that?”

“Well, you can give us your medal and we can call you if we need help with something.”

Rattelle smiled as she tossed her medal to the group and released Bear as she promised before she disappeared.

“Bear? Are you alright?:

"Guys?! How did you get up here?!”

“We took the stairs. Do you remember how you got up here?”

“Well, I remember hearing that creepy voice I told you guys about and the next thing I know, I’m on the next floor. I wandered around for a little bit until I reached the science room and I found that the door to the other side was locked. I was waiting for someone to show up when I got bored and…wait, did the fireworks start yet?”

“Nope.”

Bear got up and saw to his surprise that the door was now unlocked and as he rushed out of the room, he yelled,

“If you see the others, tell them to meet me on the rooftop!”

*****

They continued their quest to find the others as they found a way to the next floor, hopefully where Eddie was.

“I really hope Bear doesn’t wonder why the rib isn’t in his desk the next time he’s at it.”

“I’m just hoping he wasn’t planning on telling anyone he stole a rib from the skeleton…or Rattelle, in this case.”

“He probably wanted a momento of this occasion.”

Whisper rolled his eyes at Nate’s suggestion.

“Ah, yes. Because a skeleton rib is the perfect momento for a festival.”

They made their way up to the next floor and started looking for either Eddie, a way to get to Lucas, or both.

“I really hope Eddie doesn’t end up like Bear, trapped by a Yo-kai because he did something to make them mad.”

Jibanyan’s ears twitched as he heard the faint plinking of piano keys in the distance.

“Guys? Do you happen to have a pianyo in this place?”

“Yeah, in the music room. Why?”

Jibanyan didn’t say anything as he walked down the hallway. Wanting to keep the number of lost group members to a low number, the group followed Jibanyan. As they followed him, they could now hear piano music playing.

“I-is a Yo-kai playing the piano right now, zura?”

“Either that or Eddie has suddenly taken a liking to playing the piano.”

They entered the music room and saw Cupistol half-heartly pressing piano keys and looking annoyed with each off-key note. They also saw Eddie, who was thankfully not in a display case, but he was inspirited. They walked up to him and shook him.

“Hey, Eddie. Are you okay?”

“Oh, I’m fine. For some reason, I found myself on this floor and as I was trying to find a way out, I heard piano music coming from this room.”

His face showed annoyance as he continued.

“I’m pretty sure there’s a machine of some sort in the piano that’s making it play by itself, but there’s no way it should be this bad.”

“Everyone’s a critic.”

Cuspistol had stopped playing the piano after saying that statement.

“I’m starting to regret inspiriting him so that I could pretend to preform for an audience of adoring fans, but now I’m stuck with a kid that doesn’t even know I exist and hates my music.”

He faceplanted on the piano keys, which made a terrible noise. After they all recovered from the sudden noise, Whisper asked,

“Can you uninspirit him?”

Cuspitol sighed.

“I would, but it won’t wear off until he compliments my music and for some reason, the other door is locked when it’s usually unlocked. I figured that playing the right music would get the door unlocked, but after going through all of the sheet music in here, nothing has worked. I hate to be a bother, but can you guys get me some new sheet music? Anything to get this critic off my case and hopefully unlock the door.”

Cupistol went back to playing off-key, although the group wasn’t sure if he was now doing that on purpose or not. They left Eddie, knowing that he wasn’t likely to go anywhere right now and went into multiple rooms on their current floor, hoping to find a stray music sheet, until they reached the library.

“This is hopeless! We’re never getting them out of here!”

“Nate, try to calm down. This is why you two went along with them, so that you could get them out of any Yo-kai hi-jinx that occurs tonight.”

“Yeah, but Lucas had nothing to do with this and he’s stuck too!”

“Technically, Lucas wasn’t inspirited when we saw him. There’s a good chance he’s still okay and waiting for us. Let’s just find a music sheet and get Eddie to the roof so that we can focus on getting Lucas out of here.”

They found a loose piece of paper jammed between some books and after retrieving it, they saw that it was a music sheet.

“Yes!”

*****

They gave the music sheet to Cupistol. He set it up, read the paper, and started to play the best music they had heard all night. When he finished, they all started clapping, even Eddie, who was now uninspirited.

“Wow! That was actually pretty good! I guess the machine fixed itself or something.”

Eddie went to the other door, which was unlocked, and left the room. The other hung around to talk to Cupistol.

“That was really great, Cupistol! Do you want to be friends?”

Cupistol seemed surprised, but he smiled as he handed his medal over to them.

“A token of our friendship. I apologize, but I must continue practicing. However, if you should call me into battle, I’ll be able to charm any one Yo-kai into joining you…most of the time. I’m still working on my ability. I know there are other Yo-kai with the same ability, but I try really hard!”

Cupistol bowed as he happily continued to play the piano and the group took that as their cue to leave. They met up with Eddie in the hallway.

“Hey, guys? Where’s Bear and Lucas?”

“Bear is heading to the rooftop and we’re still looking for Lucas.”

“Oh. Well, I’ll meet you guys on the rooftop. Good luck!”

Eddie went to find a way up while the others looked for a way down to the first floor to get Lucas.

*****

After a very annoying search, they managed to make their way down to the first floor, on the side Lucas was on.

“Lucas! We came to get you!”

They were unnerved by the silence as they exited the stairwell and found that Lucas was nowhere to be seen.

“We would’ve run into him if he came up the stairwell and there really isn’t that much down here…”

They saw an Eyepo where they had last seen Lucas and they realized that a huge battle had to be coming up.

“Okay, guys. There’s a good chance that we might have to battle. Do we have everything we need, just in case? Food? Medicine?”

“Yes and Yes.”

They exahled slowly as Nate peeked into the boy’s bathroom, hoping that they were wrong about battling. To his relief, he saw Lucas, but then the relief vanished when he realized that he had been inspirited. What really surprised Nate though was the fact that Lucas was struggling, like he knew what was happening to him and wanted it to stop.

“Lucas!”

Lucas turned to Nate, relief on his face as he attempted to walk to him.

“Nate! Thank goodness you’re here!”

Suddenly, Lucas has more purple smoke surround him and he disappeared. Nate looked up at the ceiling and saw the largest spider he had ever seen.

“Wanna play?”

The spider had the same chilling voice as the one they had heard earlier and it dawned on Nate that this spider had to be the reason for their separation.

“Whisper? Who is that?”

Nate and Katie entered the spider’s lair, both knowing that under normal circumstances, both of them being here would be considered weird, but there were always exceptions. Fighting a giant Yo-kai spider that kidnapped their friends is one of those exceptions.

“Whisper?”

Whisper had been trying to find the Yo-kai they were facing, only for his face to become even paler, if that was even possible.

“Guys…I can’t find any information on him.”

Fear filled the room. If Whisper couldn’t find the information, then they had to rely on instinct, hope, and observation to get through the battle.

*****

Frostina, Tattletale, and Blandon were the attacking party this time so that they could see the new Soultimate moves of both Blandon and Frostina and so they could have a chance to battle. They all looked at the spider on the ceiling that was mocking them with a smirk.

“Maybe we should knock him off the ceiling and wipe that smug smirk off his face.”

“Okay, then. Start attacking the feet and see if we can make him get fall damage or something.”

They decided to see how Frostina was at battling as she sent an icicle towards one of the spider’s feet. He flinched and shook that one foot before spewing out a ball of posion towards Frostina as revenge. She jumped out of the way in time, landing into Nate’s arms as he helped her back up.

“You okay, Frostina?”

She nodded as the attacking party continued to fight the spider until he fell to the ground, exposing his underside. They quickly had the attacking party use their Soultimates and switched the parties from Frostina, Blandon, and Tattletell to Jibanyan and the Koma Bros so that they could get a few hits in. Unfortunately, the spider Yo-kai managed to get back up to the ceiling and they had to defeat him if they wanted Lucas back.

“It’s nyot a problem, you guys! We can get him down and make things right, nya!”

After sending fireballs and balls of lightning towards the spider’s feet, he fell to the ground again and they unleashed their Soultimate Moves on him until he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

****

After they collected the fallen items and money as their reward, they found Lucas back where he was before he had disappeared.

“Guys?”

“Lucas? Are you okay?”

He nodded and they left the bathroom.

“When you guys left, I was about to look for a way up to the roof when I heard a voice calling me into the bathroom. I tried to ignore it, but it was like my body had a mind if it’s own. I only regained control for a moment when I saw you, Nate, but I don’t exactly remember what happened after that. All I can remember is a different voice saying that my friends would help me.”

Lucas smiled.

“Looks like that voice was right. I’ll meet you guys on the roof.”

He waved as he went up the stairs. When he was out of sight, Mr. Barton appeared in his Yo-kai form.

“So you dealt with the Yo-kai?”

They nodded and explained what had happened that night.

“No information, you say? Not even a name or location of origin?”

Whisper shook his head. He had double-checked, but still couldn’t find anything on the Yo-kai they had just fought.

“Well, for the time being, we’ll call the Yo-kai you just fought Tarantutor.”

Mr. Barton had written the information they had managed to collect from the battle down and said that he would try to see if more information could be found about Tarantutor.

“Thank you for helping me, you two.”

He left the area and the group went up to the roof, although something was on Whisper’s mind.

If I couldn’t find any information on this Yo-kai, things can’t be good. Along with everything else that’s happened, there has to be something big going on and we’re going to be caught in the middle of it, whether we like it or not.

*****

The group had made their way to the roof and Nate and Katie waved to their friends, safe and sound. They all sat on the bench on the rooftop and they all grabbed a ramune soda to drink as the fireworks started. The Yo-kai had their own ramune soda, Nate and Katie giving it to them before they went onto the roof, and they were drinking it along with the humans. Nate glanced at Katie’s strawberry flavored ramune soda and looked at his blueberry flavored ramune soda.

“I’ve never had strawberry ramune soda before. Any chance I can have a taste, Katie?”

“Depends. Can I have a taste of your blueberry ramune soda?”

Nate nodded and was about to give Katie his ramune soda bottle when he felt Katie kiss him. His eyes widened as he tasted the strawberry ramune soda on her lips mixing with his blueberry ramune soda, then he closed his eyes as he returned the kiss. They pulled away a moment later, only to notice their friends staring at them.

“I knew it. You two are a cute couple!”

Lucas was smiling and while Bear and Eddie were happy for them, they were still surprised.

“Well, that was unexpected, zura.”

Jibanyan nodded at the Koma Brothers’s words, being both surprised and envious of the two humans. He jumped when he felt Whisper tap his shoulder and turned to him?

“Nyeah?”

“Remember what you asked me earlier? About how I would react to you kissing me?”

Jibanyan blushed as he nodded. He didn’t expect to feel Whisper kiss him.

W-we’re kissing…Whisper and I are…

Jibanyan felt his tails wrap around Whisper’s arm and he almost didn’t notice him pull away or that his friends were staring at them with expressions that clearly read,

“About time you two got together.”

Whisper held Jibanyan’s hand as the fireworks kept lighting up the sky.

*****

Venoct watched the group happily laughing as the fireworks continued to light up the sky.

I made the right decision by trusting them. They will help us when the time comes.

*****

As the fireworks slowed to a stop, they all left the rooftop to make it down before anyone noticed that they had sneaked into the school. When they exited the school, they all parted ways and Nate and Katie went back to their homes for the night.

*****

“I’m home!”

Nate and Katie got into their pajamas and after filling out their books, they laid in bed and fell asleep. That night, Nate, Katie, Whisper, and Jibanyan all dreamed of their first kiss on the rooftop during the festival’s fireworks.

Previous Chapter: https://libraryofrewrita.tumblr.com/post/166568610209/chapter-18-the-festival-and-the-extreme-dare Next Chapter: https://libraryofrewrita.tumblr.com/post/167093753374/chapter-20-preparing-for-nocturne-hospital

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