Youkai Quest: The Continuing Adventures!

[Kasu]

> Look around for Eye-Rose Girl.
> Assuming we don't find her, settle back in.
> "I wonder if Ponga turned into a Youkai..."

[Kips McKipzerson]

>"Ahhh.."
>Just kick back and relax. If something happens, You're more then ready to handle it. Till then, Just relax....
>Go to sleep and Momma Ran will tear you a new one, so dont!

[Berzul]

>"Who..... are you...?" Try to not wake up everyone saying this...

>Note to punish Wriggle another day, since she left us without a choice, even that most of his bugs would... be actually useful at night as sentries...

>Fly on a tall tree, to have a better look at Gensokyou.. for a while, then go back, curl up and sleep.... Night...... Chen.... sweet... dreams....

[Hanzo K.]

> Look around for Eye-Rose Girl.
> Assuming we don't find her, settle back in.
> "I wonder if Ponga turned into a Youkai..."

>"Who..... are you...?" Try to not wake up everyone saying this...
>Note to punish Wriggle another day, since she left us without a choice, even that most of his bugs would... be actually useful at night as sentries...
>Fly on a tall tree, to have a better look at Gensokyou.. for a while, then go back, curl up and sleep.... Night...... Chen.... sweet... dreams....

>You decide to head after her, in an effort to find out who she is.
>But after a short search, you don't find anything. So you just perch atop a tree for a little bit and wonder aloud just who she was, and if Ponga became a Youkai too.
>You'd get back at Wriggle somehow, but then you realize that you were probably the most awake person there, which makes it all the harder to find fault in it.
>After looking around from atop the tree for a bit, you head back to the campsite to resume keeping watch.

>"Ahhh.."
>Just kick back and relax. If something happens, You're more then ready to handle it. Till then, Just relax....
>Go to sleep and Momma Ran will tear you a new one, so don't!

>You decide to just kick back and relax, but trying hard to not fall asleep
>If anything does happen, you'll be ready for it...

[Kips McKipzerson]

>Is anything going to happen soon? Because you know you can only relax for so lo-
>LOOK AT THE STARS It kills time.
>nothing yet? How long has it been I wanna go to sleeeeep ;_;

[Kyo Tanaka]

>Dream about Ponga.

[Berzul]

>Look at this.. Hibatchi.. this is Gensoykou.. Nya... Hibatchi loves Gensoykou no?

>At least we got some view.. at thing night...

>Find a place to roll up anyway.. Chen's a loner, just like a normal cat, Nya?

>No that it matters that we need to do it now.. Wriggle can wait...

>Also make sure everyone is sleeping, and safe... and everything is all right, Nya?

[Hanzo K.]

>Is anything going to happen soon? Because you know you can only relax for so lo-
>LOOK AT THE STARS It kills time.
>nothing yet? How long has it been I wanna go to sleeeeep ;_;

>Is anything gonna happen? It's starting to get pretty boring....But you guess that's a good thing.
>You decide to look back up at the stars, but they're looking as normal as ever.
>Nothing, just like the last time you wondered. Getting a bit tired though...

>After a while though, Mokou stirs and stretches some, looks like she was asleep. "Heya kiddo, looks like I get next watch."
>Can't argue with logic like that! She's probably had years of practice at sleeping while looking awake...Maybe she could teach you...?

>Look at this.. Hibatchi.. this is Gensoykou.. Nya... Hibatchi loves Gensoykou no?
>At least we got some view.. at thing night...
>Find a place to roll up anyway.. Chen's a loner, just like a normal cat, Nya?
>No that it matters that we need to do it now.. Wriggle can wait...
>Also make sure everyone is sleeping, and safe... and everything is all right, Nya?

>Dream about Ponga.

>You look around a few more times before finding a place to snooze...This is a pretty nice place. If you didn't already live at Mayohiga, you'd probably want to live here.
>You look around for a place to curl up, and settle for sleeping under the cart in cat form. Damn, that's a clever idea! You feel pretty pleased with yourself for having that idea.
>Everything else can wait for now, you've got sleeping to do!
>Mokou's already got things covered, so you can sleep easy now. Chen seems to have fallen asleep on the roof of the cart, and you're under the cart....It's just like bunk beds!

>After a while, you feel yourself slip away from the world and fall asleep....


>Eventually, you find yourself in an unfamiliar place...there's all this grey fog around the ground...and where's the sky...?
>...Hey, you were asleep in cat form, why are you in normal form here?!

[Berzul]

>Move forward.

[Kips McKipzerson]

>Bust out some sweet beats, and some smooth moves.
>Hope something important happens, if not, Look around.

[Hanzo K.]

>Bust out some sweet beats, and some smooth moves.
>Hope something important happens, if not, Look around.

>Move forward.

>You decide to bust out a dance, and it worked! Definitely a dream. Too bad nothing happened.
>So you decide to move on in search of anything that might do anything.

>After what feels like forever, you see a strange cat sitting on a rock.
>..Hey, that looks like that cat you saw on the mountain that one day! Now that you've got a closer look at it, there's a reddish tint to it's fur too, and there's...two tails?!
>But it seems kinda strange...There's these weird wisp things floating around it..But they look a lot different from the wisps you saw in Hakugyoukurou..
>They're almost blue in color, and they look kinda like....Skulls?!

[Kips McKipzerson]

>"Wah who are you what are you doing here whyareyoustalkingmeinmyowndreamsGETOUTTTTT"
>flip the freaky flip flops out.

[Berzul]

>"I am.... not scared of you, Nya!"

[Kasu]

> Eye the cat warily.

[Kyo Tanaka]

>...Give the cat our ball of yarn.

>If we don't have a ball of yarn, ask the cat if it wanna dance with us!
>Ifit makes a rude remark after the above, prepare for a wild catfight!

>Alternatively, dream up a ball of yarn if the above fails.

[Hanzo K.]

>"Wah who are you what are you doing here whyareyoustalkingmeinmyowndreamsGETOUTTTTT"
>flip the freaky flip flops out.

>"I am.... not scared of you, Nya!"

> Eye the cat warily.

>...Give the cat our ball of yarn.
>If we don't have a ball of yarn, ask the cat if it wanna dance with us!
>If it makes a rude remark after the above, prepare for a wild catfight!
>Alternatively, dream up a ball of yarn if the above fails.

>You stare at the cat cautiously, and it just stares back in an overall amused way, like it thinks it's stronger. What a strange cat!
>You don't have a ball of yarn, so you try to dream up one!
>...But something hard falls on your head instead! ...Yup, it's a washtub alright.
>Of course, the cat seems to find this amusing. In fact, you could swear it just grinned at you!
>You ask it if it wants to dance, and there's that grin again! ...Looks like it's lookin' for a fight!
>But then you hear a voice... "So, you're lookin' to dance, huh sis? I'll make this one a dance to remember!"
>...Did the cat just talk? There's no way it could've talked, could it?!
>This makes you flip out like crazy! ...Which only serves to amuse the cat further.
>The cat then jumps off the rock and lands in front of you.....Was the rock really that far away? Because it's pretty big...You'd say it probably comes up to the tips of your ears in terms of height. "Well sis? I'm right here, Let's make this a fun one."
>Okay, this is seriously getting to be too much for you, now you're just flipping the freaky freak out like that one character in that one webcomic you took to reading while you were learning how to fly. What was it called again, Puzzle Gumshoe? That was a good one, especially Headgod Eggplant Tester. He was your favorite part. Always staring at architecture that guy, Sometimes crabs too, but mostly buildings!

[Berzul]

>"You don't look like Chen, Nya, more alike Kasha."

>"Attacking a Nekomata, like Nya, is like attacking your own kind, and... happen you know anyone else with two tails?"

>"Let's not fight, let's be friends, Nya."

[Kips McKipzerson]

>WHAT IS GOING ON CATS GO NOT TALK NEKOMATAS DO EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS A LIEEE
>Proceed to have a mental breakdown...
>...Then realize that you're a big girl, and you can handle even the most logic-defying things there is! You got close to beating Chen-shama that one time, You can damn well beat up a cat
>PUTCHER GUNS ONDUKES UP!

[Hanzo K.]

>WHAT IS GOING ON CATS GO NOT TALK NEKOMATAS DO EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS A LIEEE
>Proceed to have a mental breakdown...
>...Then realize that you're a big girl, and you can handle even the most logic-defying things there is! You got close to beating Chen-shama that one time, You can damn well beat up a cat
>PUTCHER GUNS ONDUKES UP!

>"You don't look like Chen, Nya, more alike Kasha."
>"Attacking a Nekomata, like Nya, is like attacking your own kind, and... happen you know anyone else with two tails?"
>"Let's not fight, let's be friends, Nya."

>Can't be eloquent when you're freaking out!
>Of course, before you can regain your composure, the large cat before you becomes a blur!

>You feel a heavy impact...
>...Ow! Who brought the roof so low...?
>You look around, and find yourself back under Mystia's cart, you must've hit your head on the cart's base...was it all just a dream...?
>You can hear a few scattered voices, sounds like Hebichi and Mokou.

[Kips McKipzerson]

>Wake u--
>Ohhhh that hurts. That hurts bad. Rub our heads and see if this headache goes away. Owwie.
>Get out from under that cart, You dont wanna get hurt again.
>"Ungh... Hey guys. What's going on he- owwie my head"

[Berzul]

>Screech around, Nyaaaaaaaa

>"Ke.... Nyaaa~?"

>"I mean... what's going on?"

[Kyo Tanaka]

>From the voice of the cat's, do we know who it was?

>Did we ever got a chance to feel her presence? If so, was it similar to the fakers, the real deal, or just a dream?

>...Did Chen ever mention another nekomata?

[Hanzo K.]

>Screech around, Nyaaaaaaaa
>"Ke.... Nyaaa~?"
>"I mean... what's going on?"

>Wake u--
>Ohhhh that hurts. That hurts bad. Rub our heads and see if this headache goes away. Owwie.
>Get out from under that cart, You dont wanna get hurt again.
>"Ungh... Hey guys. What's going on he- owwie my head"

>You stretch around a bit and crawl out from under the cart.
>But when you try to stand up, you fall back down...hey, you're still in cat form!
>You rub your head as best you can with your paws, hitting your head hurts a lot more as a cat than it does normally.
>You ask what's going on, and when Mokou looks over, she practically flares up in surprise! "What the #$@%?!" Looks like she wasn't expecting a talking cat.
>Meanwhile, Hebichi's half-in, half-out of a nearby bush. Rumia and Wriggle are nowhere to be seen though, they might be out at the iceberg already, or searching for Ponga.
>From the sounds of things, you'd say that Mystia's sitting in one of the surrounding trees, singing some kind of song. Though you can't tell what song she's singing, she seems to change it mid-song every so often.
>Chen might still be on the cart's roof, but you're not sure.

>From the voice of the cat's, do we know who it was?
>Did we ever got a chance to feel her presence? If so, was it similar to the fakers, the real deal, or just a dream?
>...Did Chen ever mention another nekomata?

>The voice didn't really seem that familiar, so it's highly unlikely that you know whoever it was.
>You couldn't really get a bead on the exact details, but there was a faint scent of...something...Decay? Decay...and fire?
>Chen never mentioned any other Nekomata specifically, but Suwako did mention a Kasha being with Chen when you were KO'd back at the Moriya Shrine.
>Though it wouldn't be surprising if there were other Nekomata out there.

[Berzul]

>"Looks like you wasn't excepting a cat, Nya..."

>Is Chen around? Search..

>"Sho... where is everyone?"

[Kips McKipzerson]

>Maybe she was a Kasha?
>But can they come into our dreams...?

[Hanzo K.]

>"Looks like you wasn't excepting a cat, Nya..."
>Is Chen around? Search..
>"Sho... where is everyone?"

>You remark that it looks like she wasn't expecting a cat, and Mokou just stares. "Damn right I wasn't expecting one! I mean look at you! You're all...furry and stuff."
>As she says the last part, she makes this weird gesture with her hands. You recognize this one, Suwako used it a lot! Sanae often referred to it as 'The Squigglyhands'.
>You look around for Chen and...hey! You can fly in cat form too! There she is! Snoozing contentedly on the cart's roof.
>You ask where everyone is, and Mokou shrugs. "Blondie left to find something to eat in the middle of the night, on her turn to watch no less. So I had to cover for her #@$."
>Mokou then shrugs. "As for the bug, I have no clue where she got to."
>Well, that's not much help. And it looks like Hebichi's outta commission until she gets over that monster of a hangover she has.

>Maybe she was a Kasha?
>But can they come into our dreams...?

>She could've been, but you've never met one, so you're not sure how they're supposed to smell..
>You wouldn't really know if they can do that. worst-case scenario, Yukari was just messing with your dreams. She's done that more than a few times in the past.

[Kasu]

> Shift back to human-form.
> "So I take it we'll be heading back out when everyone gets here nya?"

[Berzul]

>Find food.

>Maybe we should take care of Hebichi first...? She's seem to be.. somehow holding on her own though... or being responsible herself...

[Hanzo K.]

> Shift back to human-form.
> "So I take it we'll be heading back out when everyone gets here nya?"

>You shift back to normal form, which causes Mokou to let out a cluster of profanities. Looks like she's not used to this.
>You comment that you take it that everyone will be heading out when they get back, and Mokou nods. "Yeah, that's the plan."

>Find food.
>Maybe we should take care of Hebichi first...? She's seem to be.. somehow holding on her own though... or being responsible herself...

>You look around for some food, and find the leftovers of last night's beef bowl! It's been out all night, but it looks and smells just fine.
>You look over to Hebichi to see if she's okay, and Hebichi sticks an arm out of the bush she's in and gives a thumbs-up. Looks like she's got it all in hand for the most part.




~BGM: Meanwhile...~
>Meanwhile, at the Bamboo Forest. A woman with a blue dress, blue-and-white hair, and an almost pagoda-ish hat, is standing where the cart used to be. She seems annoyed.
> "Oooh...That Mokou! I told her time and again that we were supposed to meet here today for lunch. And what's more, the cart isn't even here. Where could it have gone?"

[Kips McKipzerson]

wait we're a kid in terms of human years yet we dont know who keine is? WE MUST FIX THAT.
Though erm do we play as keine for this one bit or does it not even really matter at this point. :V
>"Are you sure everyones got time? I... er, dont really want to intterupt on any part of your days."