Yo-kai Watch 2: The Yo-kai War (Book 2 of the Rewrite Series)

Chapter 23: The Trials

A/N: Hey, everyone. Sorry for the super-late update. Don't worry, I haven't lost interest in writing this series. I just had a really bad case of writer's burnout while working on this chapter and I have been working on some other projects to help get my creative juices flowing again.

One of the projects I have been working on is called 'The Yo-kai Tactician's Retirement', which can be read on Archive of Our Own. (https://archiveofourown.org/works/17826341/chapters/42060143)

Oh, plus Yo-kai Watch: The Rewrite Series officially has a TV Tropes page now! You can view it at this link if you wish to check it out. (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/YokaiWatchTheRewriteSeries) With that said, please enjoy this chapter.

Sixty years in the past, the Wicked's lair...

Not for the first time since his existence and especially during this latest scheme of trying to destroy the Yo-kai Watch, Unfairy wondered if he was being affected by his own powers as he walked into his room, his latest assignment tucked under his arm.

While he certainly didn't mind the easy assignment of just spying on the group of kids and Yo-kai trying to stop Dame Dedtime's plans and delaying any important progress they were making, he certainly didn't like the implication that it was because the trio of Yo-kai that did originally took care of that, and failed repeatedly once Unfairy really thought about it, had been given a more important assignment rather than letting him take a break from spreading his own discord among the Bonies and Fleshies, which would have nearly made him pass out from exhaustion on multiple occasions if he didn't have enough snacks on hand.

Speaking of which, he pulled out a box of Fruit Drops from his pockets, scowling when he opened it and saw the few candies left inside. He sighed in annoyance before popping one of the candies into his mouth, closing the box, and pocketing it again. He had planned to go to Galleria Boulevard to pick up more snacks through the not-so-legal manner of sneaking into the closed candy shop and swiping a few treats that probably wouldn't have been missed from the storage area when he had been called back to the lair to take care of this assignment.

Of course, now the shop was probably open by now with people keeping an eye on the products being sold, not to mention that he didn't want to risk making Dame Dedtime mad by shirking his duties, even if it would've only for a minute or so.

If it hadn't been for the fact that he didn't want it to be super obvious to the Bonies and Fleshies that he was responsible for spreading some of the discord among them, he would've been more than glad to use his Drain Attribute powers on them to keep himself from falling into total exhaustion.

Unfairy then proceeded to suck on the singular candy as he left the lair, hoping that luck would be on his side and he wouldn't have to keep an eye on them for too long. After all, there was still a war, no matter how dumb the reason for it was, that the Wickeds planned to take advantage of.

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Same time period, Harrisville...

The kids waited at the secret base for Nathaniel and Kenny to return from setting up something that was supposed to help them with getting ready to take down the Wicked Yo-kai.

Nate and Katie nervously fiddled with their Yo-kai Watches, now officially at A rank after a quick stop at Timer's and More in their time period, while Lucas once again made sure that they had enough supplies so that they didn't need to possibly ditch this time period to pick up more stuff, along with the information they would need to think up and plan with Nathaniel and Kenny to keep the Wickeds from taking advantage of the war between the Bonies and Fleshies.

Their Yo-kai companions were hoping that they could pull this off and be able to get home to their time period safely, especially Whisper and Jibanyan. They had left Buchinyan with Shogunyan at present day Shoten Temple so that there wasn't any risk of him getting lost or captured during all of this and while they were aware that this was the best decision, they missed him terribly.