Thwump!

Shiryu slumps down unconscious seconds after being called out by Aki

“Back!” Rza conjures a strong gale pushing back the four siblings while Gza And Sza dart up yanking Shiryu’s body to their side 

Method Man and Rae-kwon then come to help the brutalized body of their emperor up

“What did you do to Shiryu?” Aki rushes back up

Gjjtzzzz!

Cappadona discharges a blot of lighting from her palm

“Stay back, this does not concern you,

We have all already come to the decision to release your former chief Shiki back to you,”

“When was that decision made?

I didn’t see any discussing happening just now,

Matter fact you were screaming about killing Shiryu a minute ago,

Now…”

“Guards escort these people to their man!” Cappadona shouts and at once the dishevelled room swarms with guardian warriors of the Wu Tang 

“ngghh!” Aki grits her teeth but holds back allowing the guards to escort her out, she gives Shiryu’s sleeping body a passing glance

…

“I don’t know what just happened.” Natsu mumbles

Neither of three siblings reply

They follow the escorts silently with magic and weapons rearing to be set off on the tiniest drop of water

Why was Kage here?

Why did he just faint randomly and so with it the Wu Tang members attitude instantly changed?

These thoughts were enough to make their minds explode in curiosity

Their discipline as warriors the only thing keeping them at bay 

…..

…..

****

“Granddad,

Granddad Shiki are you alright?” Bane rushes to the side of the old man chained to a plain bed

“Unlock his chains right now and then get out!” Aki barks threateningly at the guards who oblige leaving the group in small little bedroom on the lower floors of the castle

They had expected Shiki to be in the cells but surprisingly  he was left on a bed albeit chained…

“Flood, the town was flooded.” Shiki opens his eyes

“Where were you four?

Took a year to defeat a dragon did you?

Shameful

Shameful…

Aki you disappoint me and every chief before you excluding your useless father”

“My apologies granddad, I–”

“–Don’t call me your granddad.”

“…

My apologies old man Shiki, I hadn’t properly trained myself for the dragon,

It will never happen again.” Aki lowers her head 

“Good,

Now what of our people are they safe?”

“Yes but we don’t know the cause of the flooding,

The Wu Tang are playing dumb,

I expect we’ll have to go into a full war with them.”

“If that is what you decide as chief this old man has nothing to say,

But why did you exchange myself for your pet dragon?”

“Pardon?

You mean Shiryu?”

“I saw him just now before I woke up,”

“Before you woke up granddad?” Fuyu cuts in with intrigue

“I was in the thirty six Chambers.”

“….?”

“I didn’t tell you about that?

It is an old Wu Tang combination magic spell,

With at least six members they can use the technique on only one person at a time,

It seals their mind somewhere else–the thirty six Chambers, the Wu Tang members can also communicate with each other through the chambers, time does not pass so they can get months of planning done in an instant,

It’s what makes them so powerful,”

….

….

….

****

….

“Aki!?

Aki!?

Where did everything go?”

Surrounding Shiryu is nothing but solid sheets of white 

The moment Aki spoke to him it was all gone…

“Where am I in the requiem again?

Geedorah!

Geedorah is this you!?”

…

…

“Definitely not the requiem, it’s just me alone her…

Is that a person?” Shiryu spots a person sat in a meditative position amongst the great white

Rushing over to him

“Hey, hey!

Excuse me–old man Shiki?”

“hm?” the old man looks up

“It’s me Shiryu, the–old man?

Old man?”

Shiki suddenly vanishes

“What the hell is going on!?

Is this illusion magic?

No… 

Mind magic…..?

Hello!!

Wu Tang!!”

No matter how hard Shiryu yells no one comes 

Just himself, alone in the mind space that is the 36 chambers for the Wu Tang they use this as a space to train themselves through one of the many chambers that can be manifested here,

For anyone else it is an inescapable prison that detaches one’s mind from their body.

…

…

****

“He was much stronger than me,

Exponentially so, I couldn’t tell at first, but he could have levelled our entire city,” Emperor cash sits up, his true face now being shown to be that of  middle-aged oriental man with a sharp thin moustache above sly thins lips, a small curved nose bellow yellowish brown bloodshot eyes, that frown creating wrinkles on his dotted forehead and bald head

Shiryu’s limp body hangs above from chains in front of a sparkling jewelled throne, 

“What do we do with him emperor, kill it?” Rae-kwon at his side asks

“No, if we kill him like this we won’t obtain a requiem, he needs to be conscious,

I wonder other new breed of beasts exists out there….

Since we killed that Medusa I’ve had a feeling more of these rare breeds would show up…

This one could be exactly what we need to combat with our new enemies”

“We are still making preparations for that,” Rza also stood by the throne speaks up,

“I talked to the Queen of Soterra, she seems sceptical but I know she will join us,”

“What about those Bakufu savages?” Cappadona talks now

“We were supposed to force them into working under us by using their old man as leverage,

Now we just gave him back freely in order to save your ass from that monster,”

“Watch your mouth Dona, that thing would’ve done the same if not worse to all of you!

We will still use the Bakufu people, didn’t you see their chief is clearly familiar with the beast we still have leverage, on them

Now MM, on the topic of beasts Furlheim has recently rid their problem,

Is our business back up?”

“It’s getting there sir,” Method Man adjusts his monocle

“The past year our economy has stagnated a bit from the lack of new rare magic stones, we would’ve had to reoccupy the Soterra areas if it started slumping,

Now that Furlheim is free we will begin dealings once more, 

I am sure they are desperately in need of new supplies,”

“Does the warp ring work again now?”

“I have it here but I haven’t used it yet,” MM takes out a gem encrusted good box,

He opens it revealing a singular sparkling black gem magic ring

“We still haven’t picked who is going to us—”

*Twhick!*

A shadowy string suddenly flicks the ring our of the box pulling it away 

“Ay!

Get that ring it’s one of a kind!”

MM and the other clan members immediately rush at the objects whizzing away into the shadows

“It’s the human who was with the beast,” Cash warns

“He can hide in shadows!”

“Where’s the ring gone!?”

“It’s gone!”

“Find it!

Find him!”

…

“Heheh” Pinoki grins to himself sliding out of a window through the shadows,

“Sorry Shiryu,

I’ll come back for you,

But right now,

This smells like an adventure for me.”