The King carefully picked up Ru-rock and asked Chiyoko to follow him with Yusei-rock.
He carefully placed Ru-rock in the middle of the circled pentagram and told Chiyoko to do the same.
He examined the inked symbol on the rocks. "Really clever," he muttered, "but not helpful for this..."
He snapped his fingers.
Soap-soaked brushes rubbed and scrubbed the ink off of the rocks as he looked up at Chiyoko. "Do you still have the Pebble of Time?"
Chiyoko fiddled with the hem of her sleeve. She took out the Pebble and gave it to the King.
He signed the humans to leave the circled pentagram.
"It's best to not get caught up in this magic," he said.
The King placed the Pebble between both rocks.
When the brushes stopped scrubbing, he carefully inspected their work. "That will do it," he murmured and snapped his fingers.
The brushes vanished as quickly as they had shown up.
The King held up his arms. He hesitated for a moment. "You didn't make a detour when getting here, now did you?" he asked Chiyoko.
"I went straight to this time and place. No detours."
"Good," The King said, "Then this will bring them back to their time."
The King waved his arms in the air drawing a scarlet ruby shaped shield all around him.
When it glistened as much as his head in the late afternoon sun trickling into the study, the King started to dance around the rocks while singing:
"Do you remember the time
where you were before?
Do you remember the time
where you come from?
Do you remember the time
where you were before?
Do you remember the time?
Remember that time!"
He threw his hips to the right and snapped his fingers.
A white light flowed out of the Pebble of Time and slowly filled up the circled pentagram. It became dazzling, blinding, shining brighter than the sun, and dissappeared in an instance.
The King lowered his shield. "That will do it," he said as he nodded pleased with himself at the empty center of the pentagram.
The King remained silent as it hit him. "It might have been a bit too powerful, though. It seems that I sent your altar with them to their time. I hope you don't mind."
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Reverend Sei paced up and down the Library of the Yokai as new memories filled her head. Some of them clashed with already existing ones about Chiyoko and the 1 000 problems child, others seemed to harmoniously live beside them. They merged, divided, reformatted and overwrote her memories until both time lines became one and reverend Sei only slightly had a notion and gut feeling of what had happened and why she was in the Library.
A dazzling bright light appeared behind her. As it faded, Ruri and Yusei sat on the wooden floor surrounded by a feather-, sea shell-, twig- and candle-like yokai. They all looked questioning at each other and their surroundings.
Yusei and Ruri exclaimed: "You're no longer a rock!"
They wrapped their arms around each other, laughing and crying as new memories unfolded in their minds, clashing, overwriting and harmonizing with their already existing ones about Chiyoko and the King.
A vague Why were we a rock? washed over them and an even vaguer Where are Chiyoko and the King? and What happened to the human known as him?.
Reina leaned against the door frame and looked into the Library.
A smirk crossed her lips when she observed all the confusion. "Good," she said, "The team effort payed off and I even got myself some new students."
She strode through the Courtroom, pushed open the door hidden behind the Origin of the Yokai and click clacked into a high marbled hallway.
"Welcome back, Your Majesty," she said as she greeted the King. "It looks like Time has finally caught up."
Reina signed the footmen to lift the King higher. They obeyed immediately and as she got close enough, the King slightly towered over her. He did like to be the tallest, after all.
She took the King by the arm and guided him - carried by his footmen - through the hallway.
"Reina, my love," the King said, "Tell me, what juicy gossips did I miss?"
They admired the beauty of the Everlasting Garden through the high hallway windows as Reina told the King all about the kitchen maid and the lady in waiting.
A few gasps echoed through the hallway and then he roared: "I love weddings!"
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Chiyoko: The 1 000 Generations Child
FantastiqueChiyoko, daughter of the Royal Yokai family, spends her days pranking people. But when a prank goes wrong and harms the powerful Kami Community, the 1 000 generations child gets sentenced to 1 000 acts of kindness. Will she succeed at doing 1 000 a...
