Infinitum Crystals - The Snow Phoenix [2]

Chapter 2.27 - White - The Colossal Skeleton

Yumiko had jumped into The Rift of Time, leaving me and Ethereal with The Chaos Beast that Kitsuneki has successfully summoned. This gigantic skeleton was as tall as 2 two-storey houses being placed on top of each other. It's eyes were hollow, it's bones were rattling and it seems that the skeleton were drooling with some kind of poisonous saliva.

"Is it always drooling like that?" I asked Ethereal whether she knows about it.

She then answered, "That thing is The Gashadokuro, right? Well it might be because of its name. Its name literally translates to Starving Skeleton. And that thing...feeds on humans."

"Just like most other creatures in this world, is it? Why is it always like that?"

"Don't ask me that. How should I know?" Ethereal was annoyed by my question.

"I was just asking..."

"I know...but still..." Ethereal took a second look at me and said, "What happened to your eye, White?"

"Oh, you mean this?" I pointed toward my draconic eye and said, "Let's just say, it's a part of my unique ability."

"How many ability do you have?"

"I don't know, Ethereal. This guy keeps surprising me every day." I patted my tummy to signify that I was talking about the dragon inside of me.

I did that but Ethereal probably understood it differently since I didn't told her about the dragon that resides within me. Worse than that, she also doesn't even know about what's inside her little sister. There's still so much mystery about these dragons that died and transformed itself into an Infinitum Crystal. But at the time, we were only focusing on what's in front of us and that was The Gashadokuro.

"You know..." Ethereal suddenly asked me, "What should we do about the Yokai that is all over the place, right now?"

"I honestly don't really know." I nonchalantly answered to her.

She sighed and puts her hand on her forehead. Just as the two of us were sighing, a pigeon flies above me and landed near us.

"What's a pigeon doing here?" asked Ethereal.

I looked carefully at the bird and said, "There's a piece of paper tied to its leg." I caught the bird and untied the knot on the paper.

"What is it?"

"It's a message from...Lin."

"Lin?" Ethereal had already forgotten about her for some reason.

I replied, "The Kunoichi. It says here that they are coming to us in just a few seconds after I open this message."

"Oh I see..." Ethereal casually nodded. Until she realizes and said, "Wait, what?"

I was also as confused as Ethereal was until I saw one of Lin's cards was embroiled into the paper. Then, all of a sudden, the pigeon starting to act up as it makes weird noises.

"What the heck is going on, White?"

"I don't know as well but the skeleton doesn't look very happy about it." I said that as I saw the giant undead hand falling toward our position on the roof.

And just as we were about to be crushed by the skeleton, its hand was stopped by the sudden appearances of Lin. From my understanding, she probably used some sort of card that enables her to transform into a pigeon and now that she finally found us, she can definitely give us a hand or two.

"Lin!" I called for her as she was blocking the skeleton's hand with her short sword.

Lin the responded, "Do you think this is a good time for you to be talking to me?"