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

Chapter 7: Dangers After Dark

Nate and Katie met up in Triangle Park later that night after doing their 'sneaking out of the house to deal with Yo-kai related manners' routine and summoned their bikes to make it easier and faster to get to Whatta Find, which was in Flower Road. After getting the Koma Brothers to settle on the handlebars and telling them to hold on tightly, not having enough room in her basket for both of them and not really wanting to waste time picking which one would go into the basket, they rode off towards Flower Road.

"Nyate? Have you considered getting a basket installed on your bike? Just so this kind of thing doesn't happen again?"

"Truthfully, I've considered it, it's just that baskets are traditionally for girl bikes and while I wouldn't mind having a basket on my bike, I don't know if Opal Bike Shop has bike baskets just laying around."

"And that's it? Nothing else?"

"If you think that I'm afraid of people judging me for having a basket on my bike, I'm not. Even if I'm not carrying a Yo-kai in there, it would be helpful to have a basket for other things."

"At least it'll be faster to bike to Flower Road then to walk there, assuming that Terror Time doesn't start."

"Don't worry, Whisper. I have a plan for when we get the screwdriver. After we pick it up, we'll go through the shortcut into the shopping area, go north, and take the walkway over the road back to Blossom Heights. Then it's just a matter of rushing to Timer's and More."

"What if it activates while we're heading to the school or heading back home, Nate?"

"Whisper, we have a Mirapo at Timer's and More and inside the school and when we're done investigating the school, we'll take Mirapo back home with our parents none the wiser."

"I hate to admit it, but you put a lot of thought into this plan."

"Well, as long as nothing goes wrong with the plan, we'll be okay."

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After putting their bikes back into the charms, they walked into Whatta Find and asked the shopkeeper for the screwdriver.

"Here. Tell him him to be more careful with his tools next time."

Nate pocketed the screwdriver and they left the shop. They saw two adults blocking Nate's intended pathway and while they could just ask them to move, they were afarid that they might run into them in the future while they were with their parents or something and they really wanted to keep the contact they have with adults at night to a minimum.

"Okay, we'll just go the other way. We can still get to the walkway from here."

They opened the gate and as they walked past it, they saw the fog rolling in.

"Oh, no..."

Terror Time had started as everything turned into a sadly familiar gray monochrome, they saw smaller Onis, which weren't Leadoni and Suspicioni, starting to patrol the area, and they heard the familiar, spine-tingling voice of Gargaros.

"Gargaros! Garga, Garga!"

Despite his attitude with them back in the Yo-kai Realm, they knew that Terror Time was when he meant business. They did what they did the first time and kept hidden as they moved around looking for the door out of there. Thankfully, they saw the door and quickly rushed to it, not caring that the smaller Onis that alerted him and that he was hot on their trail.

"We're almost there! We can make it!"

"Keep running!"

They opened the door and quickly jumped through just as Gargaros smacked down his spiked hammer.