The White Chronicle

Chapter 14 - One of the Seven Dogon

Jasmine stands at the top level of the watchtower. She gazes on the battlefield and smiles. So far, they are winning. Gil stopped most of the fire cats from climbing the walls and those who manage to get it are dealt with; Tsunade's men are fighting as hard as they can. Tala and Amihan are in the sky and still busy with another horde of floating heads and umbrella. The huge skeletons start to crumble down; the charm that Kislap put on each of their foreheads started to work wonderfully against the undead giant. Atlas seems to be busy; he will need to deal with more Ikuchi. They manage to ride the river stream upwards toward their location. Kulog and Juan's frog manage to keep the oni and other yokai at bay.

Tsunade shouts at her snail shamans to kill any yokai they find. When a yokai manages to slip past their defenses and enter the village, their traps will slow them down and Tsunade's men will rain arrows on them. The strategy works so far – those yokai are easily defeated.

Jasmine continues to support her guardians as more and more new yokai arrived; the yokai reinforcement has arrived. Jasmine and the other noticed that Orochimaru's singing turned from a solemn tone to a dreadful and ominous one; once he changed his tune, the reinforcement came. Jasmine deduced that Orochimaru is excited and shifted his tune to a more serious one.

But Leshin, hears the singing thru the frog on his shoulder, thinks otherwise. He knows this song and the more Orochimaru sings, the more he becomes disturbed. Leshin and Amihan's crewmen are almost done to repair the ship. With Leshin's wood magic, he can just make the tree around them give themself for the ship. He can form and bend them into the shape that the crewmen need to repair the ship faster. As he was fixing the ship, he felt something is wrong. He felt a disturbance from the earth. He cannot explain why he felt it or what is coming this way but it made his hair on his arms stand up.

Leshin instructs the crewmen to finish the remaining repairs up and leaves them to it. "I will be back later. I just need to check something." He says to the crew as he picked up his spear and walks away. He enters the castle grounds and sees a lot of the villagers there. Women and children mostly while their men stayed behind and helped to fend off the yokai in their village. Women praying, children crying and some of the warriors who stayed behinds are ever vigilant as they patrol the area.

Leshin continues to walk until he finds Kento instructing the men on their patrols. "Kento, a moment please." Kento leaves the group and approached him. Leshin asked Kento to prepare his men as a yokai is coming right towards them. Kento didn't believe him and replied "Guardian Leshin, I understand that you are a powerful being but there is no reason to be irrational. The main fight is still being held there at the village and no yokai are detected by our men." He puts his hand on his chest and he proudly smiles "Leshi, I assure you that we will detect a yokai once it nears the castle grounds."

Leshin shakes his head and rebuts "Kento, are you trained by Juan with his illusion magic and frog shaman ways?" Kento says but he was exclusively trained under the art of frog shaman. He then points to his shoulder and there Leshin sees a red frog resting on his shoulder. Kento informs Leshin that the majority of the warriors the Tsunade left at the castles are trained with snail and frog shaman ways. They are using their shaman magic to see with the frog and snail's eyes located around the trees and forest the surrounds the castle.

"I see, you are looking at the sky and in the forest, that is good but I implore you that I am sensing something is approaching us. I need you and some of your best men to help me; we will meet the incoming threat and take care of it before the civilians are drag into the fray." Leshin asked once again and Kento declines. He cannot just leave the civilians alone with some hunch. Kento asked Leshin to leave them but then Leshin's frog speaks in Juan's voice "Damn it Kento! Listen to Leshin. He is a guardian like me and he is an earth magic-user. I heard that all the way from here and . . ."