#lord mckraken???

[jinmenkennel]

no joke I am bitter about how Level-5 has been handling Yokai Watch and honestly... a good number of their other beloved IPs so McKraken getting a crumb of appreciation in a gacha game like Yokai Watch Puni Puni is just surreal. like.

when the biggest thing for the 10th anniversary of the release of the first game of the series... is this. it's a bit sad.

but c'mon it's squid man in a cool fit. he got the drip. he really is the most stylish yokai in the entire Yokai World!

[light8227]

I just wanna say, this alternate Yo-kai Watch universe only being a short event in Puni sucks so bad

This idea is so gold, especially as a "bad ending" to Yo-kai Watch 1 if McKraken succeeded and years later Assassin Enma transformed into Cross Enma to defeat the now Lord McKraken.

[aura-bug]

WAIT HOLD ON NEVERMIND THIS FUCKS

she gera gera on my po till i- WAIT POST CANCELLED WHAT HUH WH

YALL??????????????????

[analog-smiles]

Could i hear the headcanon you were talking about related to the little white flecks you put on mckrakens skin? (I got curious + love your yapping 🙏 ^▽^)

oh boy you are opening a Can Of Worms [ this is a good thing, i like to yap, this is just me thinking way too hard about something that was probably just meant to look really cool ]

ok so in ykw1, the presence of mckraken [ and maybe white yokai in general ] had this really weird effect on the world around them, right? like the yokai world faded to white as you encountered more white yokai and approached lord's gate, and mount wildwood experienced the same when mckraken was up there

but there was never really any explanation of why that happened, and it all just sort of Went Away and never happened again

on a similar note, it's never really explained Why the white yokai are white, other than it being an obvious indicator of mckraken's more dedicated supporters. and they also just Go Away after ykw1 and we never see them again [ except for in blasters i guess but i hesitate to consider any part of blasters canon, other than the fact that the blasters teams Do exist ]

for a while i thought that maybe the faded patches in the world were connected to why white yokai were that color, like spending too long in a faded area would start to cause the colors of a yokai to fade, and that's why the yokai who hang around mckraken so much look Like That. but mckraken kind of threw a wrench into that concept because he doesn't exactly follow the color scheme of his henchmen - he Wears a lot of white, and some parts of his body match, but overall he's not Completely White like the others, despite residing in the area of the yokai world that's most affected by the fading. plus that theory kind of didn't answer the question of Why the world was fading in the first place. my original thought on that was that maybe mckraken was marking his turf splatoon-style, but then i remembered that he has normal black ink until he transforms in the human world lol.

so then i messed around a little with the idea of it being the other way around, with white yokai causing the world around them to fade out

as a quick recap/clarification of my personal headcanons/lore, a 'white yokai' is a yokai that has abandoned their medal, and by extension a fragment of their soul. this process is sometimes referred to by other yokai as 'going blank', and the name for yokai who do such a thing alternate between 'white' and 'blank' depending on preference

now, a blank yokai doesn't ditch their medal somewhere and immediately turn white. it's a gradual process, and how long it takes tends to vary depending on the overall power of the yokai in question. for a rank-E yokai, it might only take a few hours, but for rank-A yokai [ like most of mckraken's followers. i think there's one exception who's rank-B ], it could be a few days or even a couple weeks

eventually, this weird affliction starts to spread from the yokai themself to their surroundings - they sort of just radiate this feeling of something being Wrong, because something is Very Wrong. affected land isn't dangerous to yokai, and it returns to normal after a little while once the yokai causing it leaves, but it's considered a sort of bad omen whenever it's seen, and most yokai won't go anywhere near it to avoid potentially encountering white yokai.

and now we get to the part of this whole speculation/yap session that actually pertains to mckraken himself

not only is he a high-ranking yokai, he's also a boss yokai - pretty much the strongest there is at the time of ykw1, with the exception of the inferno dwellers. it takes a Long Time for him to actually fade out like his followers on account of that - his tentacles and a few patches of skin are the only parts that have actually turned white thus far. which is pretty impressive, considering he was one of the first to actually 'go blank'

but the little flecks and patches on his skin are the signs of that slowly going on over time. in theory, they would spread and cover more area over time until he more closely resembled other white yokai [ or until something somehow convinced him to reclaim his medal. in that case, some of the fading would reverse, leaving a few markings and faded areas - this is what i imagine happened to most of the white yokai after mckraken was assumed dead at the end of ykw1 :-) ]

[ferelbasta]

Here we have another (kinda) familiar face, Minister Squisker! I created this design for him years ago since Level5 has only ever shown off him as a redesign of Mckrakens monster form, and that never felt right to me, so I decided to give him an actual design :3 as well as a size chart. Now for a bit about him ->

Minister Squisker; as his name suggests, is a very important yokai in the royal court, he was also very close friends with the late Ancient Lord Enma, as well as his family being close with the Enma tribe in general. Squisker is a rather stern and rough sounding yokai but only ever is hard on others to try and bring the best out of them ( Mckraken being a good example), this has given him a reputation with outsiders as seemingly being a bit of a hard ass. Squisker has always been very supportive of his younger sister; Marina, especially when she decided to marry a yokai not of high society, he only cares for her and his extended families happiness.

Squisker does enjoy some down time surprisingly to most, when not hard at work he enjoys taking strolls around the palace, hanging out with either Ancient Enma ( usually involving drinks ) or being with Marina, Octavious and young Mckraken at their humble farmhouse a few town away. Squisker; while being a very supposedly open yokai, hates humans with a burning passion, no one, not even Marina or Ancient Enma, knows why the large squid has such a hatred for humans. The only soul who knows the reasoning is Squisker himself, which he had long forgotten until he was reminded one fateful night, one that he wishes he could forget.

[burnsopale]

Judin’s January recs, day 04

It’s time for space shenanigans!

Wander over yonder stands shoulder to shoulder with Gravity Falls, Avatar, Steven Universe and Adventure Time, but has been sadly overlooked compared to these other greats. And you’d better believe me when I say this show is good; it was created by Craig McKraken and Lauren Faust, of Powerpuff Girls and My Little Pony fame.

We follow best friends Wander and Sylvia as they travel through the galaxy helping folks in need, and stopping the evil Lord Hater from taking over their planets.

I cannot begin to tell you how delightful this show is. The animation and the voice acting is comedy gold, with Lord Hater, voiced by Keith Ferguson, being the funniest character. Check out the amount of reaction gifs you could get out of him in this clip alone:

So hop on over to Hulu, get yourself a 30-day free trial, and watch Wander over Yonder right now! Or buy it on Amazon Prime ... or go to Kisscartoon and click through the ads the way I do. I wish I could tell you to buy the DVD, but none seems to exist because Disney is butt.

[he-knows-all]

Hino fell silent, his gaze moving away from McKraken. He tried to think over how he could explain this...

When he finally did speak, his words sounded as pained as he looked.

"...I already said what was important. I have to handle everything myself. Even and especially my own feelings. What about that is so hard to understand?"

Aki began to quietly weep, but also felt a bit frustrated. He fetched a piece of paper and a pencil, and began to draw the best he could.

The spirit first drew a six armed figure. Hinozall himself. Aki then drew a bunch of other, featureless figures, aside from two being more detailed than before: one seemed to represent Lord Enma, and the other being Zazel.

...Aki, then, quite agressively, crossed them all out. Leaving only the one who represented Hinozall uncrossed. And for the Hinozall figure, Aki added little specks to represent tears.

Rather shakily, Aki continued... with writing words. Almost illegibly, but thankfully just almost.

NO ONE WILL HELP.

McKraken’s eyes widened a bit, before giving what had to be the most confusing answer Hino could possibly receive muttered under his breath.

“Huh, guess there was... “

He shook his head to get himself back on the subject.

“Fendin’ for yourself also means food and sleep. Just what’s so important you damn near worked yourself to death? Do you know how hard that probably is to even DO that to a God?”

Yep. He was still laser-focused on the severe case of self-neglect. The God revelation was kind of taking a backseat right now.

[hikikomori-route]

Lord Enma: McKraken has 19 bottles of bleach and he gives Maddiman- Nate: WAIT. Why does McKraken have so many bottles? McKraken, drinking bleach: MIND YO BUSINESS, HUMAN.

[libraryofrewrita]

Chapter 25: Farewell, Yo-kai!

The group started at Mckraken, who was lazily sitting on the throne, looking at them like he was expecting someone else to walk in.

“Huh…not what I expected.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?!”

“When I heard that two kids were going to try to stop me, I expected you to be in either junior high or high school, not elementary school.”

Of course, Mckraken was lying. Having read the report Maddiman gave him, he did know how old the two kids were. He just wanted to rile them up a little, although he was admittedly worried.

Maybe trying to rile them up is a bad idea…if these two managed to defeat Maddiman and get here to fight me, then…no, Squiddilius. Don’t get distracted. You’ve put too much work into getting to the top and you’re not going to let some kids take that away from you!

Mckraken gave the group a malicious smile as he attempted to repress his negative thoughts.

“I must say, I’m surprised to see any human children making it this far. I would say you have guts, but honestly? I think you just wasted your time if you think you can defeat me.”

“And what makes you so certain, Squiddilius? Do you feel threatened by two human children that have bonded with Yo-kai?”

Venoct’s voice carried a tone that sounded like a combination of being threatening and teasing.

“N-no! Yo-kai are far more superior to the humans! We should be ruling over them!”

Venoct didn’t buy it. He knew that Mckraken was terrified of his plans falling apart, plans that he had spent years putting together. The only thing keeping him from letting the invasion to the Human Realm start right that second was the fact that he was facing what could be his plan’s demise and he couldn’t think straight.

“Humans and Yo-kai should never be friendly with each other! I’m restoring the pride that was lost when some of these Yo-kai actually decided to be friends with the humans and act like their little pets!”

Nate and Katie didn’t have to look at their Yo-kai companions to know that they felt insulted by Mckraken’s words, saying they had no pride by befriending humans and Nate and Katie saw Whisper’s face turn cold, which they had rarely, if never, seen. Yes, they had seen him mad and annoyed a few times in the short while they had known him, but the expression on his face was that of someone who has had enough.

“Excuse me, but just because some Yo-kai believe that we can get along with humans doesn’t mean we have no pride. If you can’t even see that truth, you’re not fit to even rule a goldfish bowl, let alone the Yo-kai Realm, you shellfish Yo-kai.”

Whisper broke his cold facade to snicker at his unintentional pun and Nate and Katie took the moment to speak up for their friendship with their Yo-kai companions.

“That’s right! We just want to live together in peace!”

Mckraken laughed, obviously not taking them seriously, even with Whisper snapping back to his cold facade.

“Squeeheehee! You gotta be squidding me! It’s never going to happen once I take over!”

“We’ll see about that! Mckraken, we challange you to a battle!”

Mckraken looked confused for a moment as he looked at the Yo-kai currently with them.

Let’s see, the only strong one they have seems to be Venoct and I’ve seen the kid fight. Other than him, I can easily wipe out the other Yo-kai they brought. I mean, it’s just a nekomata, two komainus, and whatever the white Yo-kai that doesn’t work for me is supposed to be. This will do nicely.

“Very well, I’ll agree to your battle.”

Mckraken got up from his throne and walked down the stairs to the group, stopping just a few feet away. To his surprise, Nate and Katie summoned two more Yo-kai, Frostina and Tattletell and sent them up with Venoct, the nekomata, and the two komainus.

“Wait a minute! Why isn’t he battling?”

Mckraken gestured to Whisper, who was already hanging near Nate and Katie with his Yo-kai Pad in hand.

“Oh, I’m not a battler. I’m a butler.”

Of course, Nate and Katie, along with Jibanyan and the Koma Brothers, knew that Whisper was a decent battler due to the Nocturne Hospital thing, but they all agreed that Whisper didn’t have to battle until he felt he was ready to battle once again.

“Besides, Squiddilius, they never told you which Yo-kai were going to battle you.”

*****

As the battle began, Mckraken had to rethink his battle plan slightly since Whisper wasn’t battling him and there were now six Yo-kai battling him instead of five.

Look Squiddilius, it’s just a cat, two lion dogs, a grandma, a little girl, and a teenager…all of which have elemental powers and are dead. What am I saying? These kids managed to defeat Maddiman and get here to me with most of these Yo-kai here and if Venoct is here, these kids must have impressed him enough to be willing to work in a group, considering that he’s usually alone…

Mckraken was snapped out of his thoughts by Jibanyan scratching him multiple times.

Gah! Focus, Squiddilius!

The Koma Brothers then lauched their elemental attacks at the same time, creating a ball of electricity and fire that hit Mckraken straight in the chest, which made him stumble, but considering how strong he was, it wasn’t enough. Still, that didn’t stop the front party from putting their all into their attacks until they were switched out to heal.

Great, now I have to deal with the more human-like Yo-kai. I better not be defeated by them, otherwise this will be very embarrassing.

Unfornately for Mckraken, having the younger sister of a powerful Blizzaria, a small grandma that can heal her allies and inspirt you to reveal your weakness, and the former servant of the late Great Lord Enma battling you wasn’t exactly a bundle of joy, especially if said Yo-kai were friends with humans trying to help the former servant restore peace to both realms.

I’ll let them fight me for a while, then I’ll unleash my secret weapon!

Mckraken did put up a fight, draining health from one Yo-kai, stealing some energy from their Soultimate Moves, attacking them with whatever elemental ball he could summon, and occasionally smacking them with the tentacles hanging around in the background, although the other Yo-kai still kept fighting as well, throwing their own elemental attacks at him, hoping to stop him from stealing their health and energy.

Okay, time to stop playing around!

Mckraken started to create a large, light blue and white ball of energy as the tentacles blocked off the Yo-kai from disrupting Mckraken’s progress.

“He’s preparing his Soultimate Move! We have to stop him right now!”

Venoct unleashed his Soultimate Move to remove one the tentacles protecting Mckraken and the other Yo-kai followed suit with their Soultimate Moves until there was nothing left to protect Mckraken. Mckraken fell to his knees out of shock, leaving him in a vulnerable position as Venoct’s dragon scarf dealt the final blow, defeating Mckraken once and for all.

*****

“H-how?! How could I be defeated?! Why did you have to get involved?!”

Whisper crossed his arms and said,

“Don’t blame us. You’re the one who couldn’t leave the Human Realm to the humans. These realms don’t belong to one single entity and if they did, it would certainly not be you! It wouldn’t be good for the reputation of the Yo-kai that want peace between the two realms if you were in charge!”

Mckraken gave out a weak laugh as he said,

“You may have beaten me here, but I’ll be coming back! Both realms will be wrapped around my tentacles and they will be mine! Just you wait!”

With that said, Mckraken disappeared into a large puff of purple smoke and the group stared in silence, feeling both happy because they had defeated Mckraken and worried because they had a feeling that it was far from over.

“Let’s get out of here and meet up with Lucas. I just hope he’s okay.”

“Don’t worry, he is. He’s at the school right now.”

“Well, let’s get going then!”

As they left the throne room, there was a Mirapo who looked extremely happy to see them.

“It’s about time someone put Mckraken in his place! As my way of thanking you, I’ll transport you to the Yo-kai Elevator so you don’t have to walk all the way back!”

They stepped through Mirapo and true to his word, they were at the elevator. They stepped onto the platform and headed back to the Human Realm.

*****

“Hey, Lucas!”

Nate and Katie saw Lucas waiting at the statue where they had first encountered Slimamander and met Venoct for the first time. Mr. Barton was also there waiting for them as they walked up and explained what had happened. Mr. Barton looked out into the distance as he said,

“I have a feeling that it’s far from over.”

Before they could ask Mr. Barton what he meant, they saw the statue glow purple and Slimamander appeared before the group.

“Oh no…”

“Masssster Mckraken has freed me from my imprisssonment and the first thing I’ll do is-!”

Venoct sent his dragon scarf at Slimamander before he could finish his sentence and Slimamander disappeared in a puff of smoke.

“But we fixed the seals and locked him away! How did he get out?!”

As if on cue, Kyubi came up to the group.

“Bad news! Mckraken’s goons have invaded the Human Realm!”

“What?! I thought he would hold off the invasion if he was defeated!”

Kyubi glared in the direction he had just come from.

“So did I, but apparently Mckraken has decided to have one more go at total realm domination.”

“This is terrible! What do we do?!”

Whisper was silent as he knew of one way that could work, but he wasn’t sure how Nate and Katie would react. He glanced at Venoct, who seemed to know what he was thinking about. Venoct nodded at Whisper and Whisper sighed as he said,

“There is a way to stop Mckraken for good. We need to make some stronger seals to keep him from getting to Springdale and after we do that…we have to seal the elevator, which will break the connection between our realms.”

It only took a second for Nate and Katie to realize what he was saying.

“If we seal the elevator…you’ll never be able to come back to the Human Realm?”

Whisper nodded solemnly and Nate and Katie started to think to themselves.

Can we really do this? We’ll never see our Yo-kai friends again if we seal the elevator, but if we don’t…Mckraken and his followers will overrun the Human Realm and cause more trouble.

Nate and Katie sighed softly as they came to their final desicion.

“Alright, how can we make some stronger seals?”

Kyubi summoned a bag with a picure of a sakura flower and handed it to Katie and handed a map with three locations circled on it to Nate.

“You have to sprinkle this stuff on the cherry blossom trees to make them bloom. By making them bloom, they’ll make the seals stronger.”

“Nate, Katie, you go work on making the cherry blossoms bloom while Kyubi and I deal with Mckraken’s followers. Lucas, you stay with Mr. Barton until I come to get you, okay?”

Lucas nodded as Venoct and Kyubi left to battle Mckraken’s followers and Nate looked at the map and pointed to one of the circles that was just a few feet away from where they were standing.

“Come on, there’s a tree we can make bloom over here!”

They rushed to the tree and saw Wazzat in the middle of battling a large wall-like Yo-kai.

“I won’t let you let you hurt my friends and their realm, Impass!”

Wazzat angrily bit down on Impass’s head and they watched him become very confused.

“Wait…where am I? What was I doing again?”

Wazzat turned to see Nate and Katie standing there and gave them a smile.

“Hiya! This Yo-kai threatened to make things difficult for you so I turned the tables on him!”

Katie sprinkled the powder on the tree and to their amazement, the famous pink petals of the cherry blossoms appeared.

“Woah!”

“This area is now safely sealed! Let’s get to the next seal!”

Nate looked at the map again and after some careful thought, they headed down towards the riverbank to find Walkappa giving his all against  yet another one of Mckraken’s followers.

“There’s no way I’m going to let someone like you take over, Rollen!”

“Look at how you struggle. The die has been cast and resistance shall only make it worse.”

Whether or not Rollen was just saying that to mess with Walkappa, they didn’t know, but they did help fight with Walkappa until Rollen was defeated. With him gone, they were free to make the cherry blossoms in the area bloom.

“Okay, I’ll stay here and make sure no one messes with the cherry blossoms here! You guys go and make the rest of the cherry blossoms bloom!”

They went to the final area, which was actually close to their homes and saw Rattelle casually blocking the Yo-kai’s bat swings with her parasol and attacking him with her parasol.

“Glad to see you two here! I have a bit of a problem as you can see here. I have been fighting this Bruff for a while and he refuses to give up so I was wondering if you two could give a lady a hand with this?”

After managing to fight off Bruff, they threw the powder onto the trees and saw the cherry blossoms blooming once again.

“You guys go on ahead! I have to protect this beautiful seal you just made from those evil Yo-kai!”

As they walked away, Whisper said,

“We did it! Now we just have to get to the Yo-kai Elevator and seal it off once and for all!”

In the chaos, they had almost forgotten what that meant for their Yo-kai friends, but they couldn’t worry about that right now. They had to get to Mount Wildwood and make sure Mckraken didn’t make it to the elevator.

*****

Meanwhile…

Mr. Barton had finished making the final call to the Yo-kai that were disguised as humans living in Springdale, making sure that they had made the preperations for what was to come.

I’ll really miss it here, but after the elevator is sealed, we won’t be here anymore. Of course, maybe in the future, a way for us to come back will be found, but we’ll have to wait and see.

*****

As they walked up the steps towards the Yo-kai Elevator, they saw the surrounding area had turned white. Worried, they rushed forward to find some of their Yo-kai friends there and Mckraken being held back by streams of energy.

“So you made some new seals and managed to drive away my followers…big whoop. That’s not going to stop me!”

Mckraken broke through the energy streams holding him back and tranformed into a new form that none of them expected to see.

“Squeeheeheehee! Time for me to show you what real power is!”

“Give us your best shot, Mckraken! The bottom line is, you’re not taking over anything!”

“That’s right! You may as well just give up and go home right now!”

“Nyobody wants you here anyway!”

“Yo-kai agreeing with Yo-kai against me?! I’m inkredulous, you traitors!”

Mckraken seemed to thinking something over for a second before saying,

“I’ll make you a deal. Join me, and you can rule this realm. How’s that?”

Whisper just gave Mckraken an annoyed look and said,

“A: you can’t bargin with something you don’t have.

B: you can’t bargin with something no one else here has any interest in.

C: I don’t make deals with anyone that  calls me a traitor just for being friends with humans. You really are quite an awful negotiator, you know that?”

“Yeah! They’re actively choosing to live and coexist with us out of their own free will!”

“I’m nyot gonna let a bully like you threaten Amy’s realm! I’ll protect Amy, Nyate, and Katie, nyo matter what the cost!”

Komasan, despite his timid nature managed to speak up,

“Y-yeah…it’s bad to do…bad things!”

“You all lost your pride as Yo-kai! No matter! I have nothing else to discuss with you. This realm is going to be mine!”

*****

The moment that the Yo-kai Nate and Katie selected to go into battle stepped towards Mckraken, they all felt a sudden burst of energy inside them as they started to fight Mckraken. Even the Yo-kai that were just hanging around started to help in whatever way they could, whether it be shouting words of encouragement, healing the battlers in any way that they could, or telling them where to hit Mckraken to deal more damage. As they witnessed the battle happening before their eyes, Nate and Katie only had one thought on their minds.

Is our friendship with them the reason their attacks are more powerful? They would risk everything to make sure that nothing happens to us or our realm. The least we can do is help them through this battle!

“Keep going, guys!”

“We believe in you!”

Even as Mckraken’s new form changed into a strange palatte of colors and he used new attacks on the battlers, they never gave up on their Yo-kai friends and they never gave up on Nate and Katie until eventually, the battle came to an end as Mckraken once again fell to his knees.

*****

“I don’t believe it…how could I possquidly lose? What a calamarity!”

“Are you quite through yet? Let’s all experience your defeat a bit of self-respect. As a butler, I’m quite proud of all of us! Our cooperation was stellar!”

“I don’t regret a thing nyow!”

“I feel kind of…actually…I feel more confident, zura!”

“So do I, Komasan!”

“It’s like Lord Enma always said: ‘The Human Realm needs our friendship, not our control. To witness the strength of friendship between humans and Yo-kai is both inspiring and humbling.’”

Nate and Katie both wiped away a tear that had formed after hearing Whisper say that.

“Whisper, that’s beautiful.”

Whisper smiled at the two kids before  turning back to Mckraken, who was now disapppearing into a very large puff of smoke and when he disappeared, everything was back to normal.

“So, I guess this is it, huh?”

Whisper nodded.

“I’m afraid so. It’s time to close the Yo-kai Elevator.”

They both knew this was coming, but they couldn’t help but cry.

“W-whisper…I know we have to make sure our realms are safe from Mckraken…but it feels like it’s too soon for us to part ways and there’s still so much we don’t know about Yo-kai.”

Whisper looked at them with sadness in his eyes and said,

“I know, but every meeting leads to a parting. It’s the circle of life. Our goodbyes were fated since the moment we met at this very tree.”

“We know, but we’re not ready to leave you guys…”

Whisper dried their tears as he tried to stay strong for them.

“Allow me to perform my final duty as your butler.”

Whisper softly mumbled something as he summoned a talisman.

“This talisman is what we need to take care of the elevator!”

Whisper flew up to the elevator doors and slapped the talisman onto the doors.

“We’re now…closed for business!”

A bright light shot out and Nate and Katie covered their eyes to avoid being blinded by the light. When they uncovered them, they saw the area was glowing softly and so were the Yo-kai in the area.

“My time as your butler…has sadly come to an end. We must now go back to our own realm.”

As he said that, some of the Yo-kai started to disappear one by one, clearly either trying to hide that they were crying, trying not to cry, or just giving up and letting their tears flow.

“However, you must not worry. This is not a moment of sadness.”

Jibanyan gave the kids a small and sad smile as he waved goodbye to them.

“Bye-bye nyow…”

“I’m sure we’ll meet again someday.”

Nate and Katie saw their Yo-kai Watches disappear into a small ball of light and looked at Whisper, the only Yo-kai remaining.

“And with that, I shall take my leave. Goodbye…for now.”

Whisper gave them a gentle smile as he disappeared, much like the other Yo-kai had.

“Whisper!”

There was yet another burst of light and when they looked up, there was nothing at the foot of the tree. No Crank-a-kai, no elevator doors, nothing out of the ordinary.

“T-this is really it, huh?”

“Yep…”

They sighed sadly and mumbled,

“Whisper…”

They walked out of the area with the Crank-a-kai and as they walked, they saw the light pink cherry blossom petals falling and they grabbed each others hands and rushed forward, happily laughing as they reached the stairs and overlooked the town.

“Thank you, Whisper.”

They smiled and stared into the distance, remembering the journey and fun they had with him and their Yo-kai friends.

“Thank you, my Yo-kai friends.”

Previous Chapter: https://libraryofrewrita.tumblr.com/post/168438768539/chapter-24-the-three-gates Next Chapter: https://libraryofrewrita.tumblr.com/post/169168805494/chapter-26-back-to-normal

[battaswing-blog]

NOTGHOST. hey, folks, today we’re talkin’ important headcanons! before you read, i’m going to clarify that most of what i’m saying here has no strong basis in canon, it’s just what me and my main keita discussed to make more sense of the world the yokai inhabit. it’s important to read this in order to grasp proxy’s character better, so please do so if you can. ready~? here we go!

firstly, yokai watch users are separated by region. depending on the size of one’s country, there may be only one user or SEVERAL to keep track of its yokai population. proxy’s region is the northeastern united states; she is based in westchester county, new york. she has the ability to move all over the world, thanks to the network of mirapo ( teleporter yokai ) established-- as well as the ability to jump timelines, thanks to an upgrade given to her watch by mr. goodsight. she’s extremely mobile-- the only thing restricting her from going wherever whenever is timezones and her own life.

proxy’s version of the story is one where keita ( nate, in the english localizations ) has the watch. however, it is also the version where the main games take place in japan. therefore, proxy does not meet keita until two years after she first obtains the watch, and four years after he does. by the time this blog takes place, they are each other’s closest friend and confidant. fitting, considering they’re the ones who bear the biggest burden as leaders of the watch users.

proxy receives the watch when she is 11, just as all users do. she updates it to its full potential, but she doesn’t get a replacement for YEARS. this is a pretty impressive feat, because most watch users snag upgraded models as soon as they can get them. proxy, however, found she never really needed such powerful things for what she did. in her mind, summoning s-ranks was enough. however, during an extremely dire event which involved her assisting keita with freeing the king of all yokai, her watch was upgraded. she now has the yokai watch dream, although the roulette feature on hers is somehow broken.

FINALLY: proxy is incredibly susceptible to inspiriting and possession. however, most yokai don’t bother, as her vital spirit is very strong despite the duress she endures. this means she generally stays true to herself, partially negating the inspirit. however, there are three main types of yokai that can inspirit her without a hitch. these are as follows:

- yokai she trusts with her life ( romeo, dallas, governor frostail. )

- extremely powerful and/or ruling class yokai ( lord enma, nuharinyon, mckraken, maybe more. )

- wicked yokai. ( all of them. )

that’s all for now! have fun with your days.

[kaialone]

Yokai Watch 3 Sukiyaki Translation

(Masterpost for my Yokai Watch translations can be found here)

This will contain spoilers for a sidequest from Sukiyaki and version 2.0 of the other Yokai Watch 3 games, so proceed with caution.

This will be a translation of optional dialouge about Ikakamone (McKraken) and the Yōkai World, that you can see after the “ENMA NOTE” sidequests.

After you’ve finished both ENMA NOTE quests you can return to Enma’s place and talk to the various people that are there. Talk to Inumaro and he will tell you a bit about the Yōkai World and Ikakamone’s takeover of the protagonist’s hometown.

There is some interesting stuff in here that explains how the world works a little better, but its a bit hard to explain because of some stuff in the English localization, so bear with me and please read my translation notes.

Also, you may recall me posting an inclomplete version of this before. Since it’s optional dialouge I’ve been having trouble finding it, but finally I saw that twitter user noshibeya seemed to have screencapped all of it, so I can finally translate this bit.

I hope this is all of it, but I don’t know for certain.

Bolded is original Japanese; for reference and in case someone who is better at Japanese than I reads this, and feels like correcting something.

Bolded and italicized is my translation.

(Number) Indicates I got a specific comment to make on that part in the translation notes.

Please keep in mind that I’m a beginner when it comes to Japanese, so it’s possible that I make mistakes, too.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

Inumaro: おまえは たしか桜町… いや さくらニュータウンに 住んでおったな。 If I'm not mistaken, you live in Sakura-machi... no, Sakura New Town. (1)

Inumaro: かつて イカカモネという妖怪が 人間を支配する事件を起こした場所か…。 The place where that yōkai called Ikakamone once caused an incident by trying to rule humans, huh...? (2)

Inumaro: エンマさまは その事件をきっかけに あの街を 気にかけるようになったのだ。 As a result of that incident, Lord Enma began to care about that town. ()

(I'm assuming a text box along the lines of "Do you want me to tell this story?", like with the other stories, would go here, but wasn't photographed.)

Inumaro: うむ… まずは この妖怪ワールドについて 話をせねばな。 Hmm... First, I should tell you about this Yōkai World. (3)

Inumaro: 妖怪ワールドは 果てしなく広い。 そこには 数多の 「妖魔界」 が存在する。 The Yōkai World is endlessly vast. Within it, numerous "Yōmakai" exist. (3)

Inumaro: そして今のエンマさまは まだまだお若い。 その力がおよばない妖魔界もあったんだ。 And the current Lord Enma is still young. There are Yōmakai which his power cannot reach, too.

Inumaro: 中には エンマさまに従いもせず 身勝手に 各地の妖魔界を 支配するものもいた。 Within them, there are also individuals that selfishly rule over various Yōmakai around the world, without obeying Lord Enma. (4)

Inumaro: さくらニュータウンから通じていた妖魔界も そのうちの ひとつだったのだ。 The Yōmakai that Sakura New Town leads to used to be one of those, too.

Inumaro: イカカモネは その妖魔界を「魔界」 と呼び 魔界の支配者 「魔界議長」 を名乗った。 Ikakamone called this Yōmakai "Makai", and named himself its ruler, "Makai Chairman". (5)

Inumaro: だが さくらニュータウンに古くから住む 妖怪たちが 行動をおこしてな… But, I heard that yōkai, who have lived in Sakura New Town since long ago, took action...

Inumaro: 街を 支配から解き放ったと聞いておる。 「妖怪と人間の絆」をつなぐ者と共に…な。 ...freeing the town from his control. Together with someone who connects "the bonds between humans and yōkai"... yeah.

Inumaro: その後 イカカモネはとらえられ 重い罰を 与えられることになった。 Afterwards, Ikakamone was captured, and given a severe punishment.

Inumaro: エンマさまが 事件を知ったのは すべてが終わったあとのことだった…。 Lord Enma learned of the incident after everything was over...

Inumaro: だが エンマさまは あの街にあふれる 「妖怪と人間の絆」にお気づきになられた。 But, Lord Enma noticed the "bonds between yōkai and humans" that were overflowing in that town.

Inumaro: あの街は 閻魔一族と親交の深かった妖怪も 人間のまざって 暮らしていたからな。 Because in that town, there are also yōkai who are close friends of the Enma Clan, living and associating with humans. (6)

Inumaro: 彼らの生き方を 知ったあとだろう。 エンマさまの想いが より強くなったのは。 I assume it happened after learning of their way of life. The fact that Lord Enma's feelings grew stronger. (7)

Inumaro: 「人間と妖怪が仲良く暮らす世界」への… かつての先代と 同じ想いがな。 Aiming for a "wold where humans and yōkai live together in peace"... The same feelings his predecessor had long ago.

Notes:

1. Sakura New Town is called Springdale in English.

Sakura-machi is what Sakura New Town was called in the past, in the Japanese version. In the English version however, Springdale did not have a differen’t name in the past, and when travelling to the past in YKW2, it’s simply called “Old Springdale”.

2. Ikakamone is called McKraken in English.

3.The phrase I translated as “to care” here is 気にかける/ki ni kakeru which means something like “to care”, but also “to have it on your mind“, and the like.

3. The 妖怪ワールド/Yōkai World that Inumaro mentions here is technically not the same as the place as the one that was called Yo-kai World in the English versions of YKW1 and YKW2. More on that in the next note.

4. The term 妖魔界/Yōmakai is what the place that is called Yo-kai World, in the English versions of YKW1 and YKW2, is called in the original Japanese version. It doesn’t seem to be a term exclusive to Yokai Watch and has appeared in some other stuff, but not that often from what I can tell.

It is made up of these kanji:

妖/Yō (the same “yō” as in “yōkai”, depending on the context it can mean something like “mysterious” or “bewitching”, among other things),

魔/Ma (in general meaning something like “demonic” and/or “magical”),

and 界/Kai (meaning “world”; it’s not the same “kai” as in “yōkai”, by the way.)

Furthermore, 妖魔/yōma is a word that can mean “demon”, “ghost”, or “monster” and can be considered somewhat synomynous to “yōkai”. And 魔界/Makai is a word that is often translated as “spirit world” or “hell”

(Note that the word used for the Infinite Inferno’s Japanese name, Infinite Hell, is a different word from this one).

Previously, it was thought that 妖魔界/Yōmakai referred to the world the yōkai live in as whole, but with what Inumaro says here, YKW3 has now revealed that it’s just a term that refers to different smaller parts of it, and  妖怪ワールド/Yōkai World is the term that refers to the world as a whole.

Adding to that, the place that got called Yo-kai World in the English versions of YKW1 and YKW2 has been revealed to simply be the 妖魔界/Yōmakai that is connected to Sakura New Town (Springdale), in other words, just a small part of the ACTUAL 妖怪ワールド/Yōkai World.

However, be aware that the term 妖魔界/Yōmakai is still often used to refer to the Yōkai World as a whole, which I know is even more confusing, but the reason for that is likely the fact that in Japanese there is no direct plural or singular with words.

Thus, 妖魔界/Yōmakai as a term can refer to more than one Yōmakai, so it can be used to essentially refer to all of them at once.

I hope this explanation is understandable.

5. Like I mentioned above, 魔界/Makai is a word that is often translated as “spirit world” or “hell”,  made up of the kanji 魔/Ma, and 界/Kai.

I think the idea here might be that he changed it from a word that could easily be translated as “World of Yōma” (again, “yōma” being somewhat synomynous to “yōkai”) to a word that ca come across as more sinister?

6. Because there is no true plural in Japanese, this could technically either refer to multiple, or just a single yōkai being friends with the Enma Clan.

For me, Orochi (Venoct) is a yōkai that comes to mind with this, but, after translating this quest, I feel like it’s also a possibility that this line also refers to the people that Enma meets up with during it.

Therefore I went with plural in this translation.

7. The word I translated as “feelings” here is 想い/omoi  which can also mean emotions, thoughts, or sentiments, among other things.

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[jinmenkennel]

custom yokai watch icons/emoji

here’s some I’ve drawn that I’ve been meaning to share but haven’t got around it? might as well upload them here if nothing else. as a note they’re nowhere near exhaustive and I mostly just made some emoji based on favourite yokai (mostly boss yokai) for a server of mine and my friends (...it focuses on boss yokai, haha). I’ve wanted to make more emoji based on, for instance, the Wicked Executives but that hasn’t happened.

if you’d like to use any of these, feel free to use them on your servers and as your icons online or other kinds of customization, please credit me and/or link to this post where you’re able to.

Jibanyan

Komasan

Komajiro

Nate Adams

Katie Forester

Hailey Anne. more under a cut!

Lucas

Lord Enma

Spoilerina

Directator

Dr. Maddiman

Chairman McKraken

Dame Dedtime

Dame Deartime

Moso Monmon/Hoaxy Coaxy (head)

Moso Monmon hand (left)

Moso Monmon hand (right)

Yamerunja-sensei/Slackerjack

Kaminarasu Goro/Rongo Swirll

Injaneno/Agent X

Ma-Injaneno/The Executor

Warubo/No-bot

Gogogo Godfather/The Ghoulfather

chibi Nosir 

Nosir head

Dr. Nogut

also, I’d share the original size images but they’d get resized if I try to upload them on tumblr directly anyway so meh :| maybe later.

[the-firebird69]

Pegasus

The ucav will beat kraken aka mckraken JFK carrier

Did beat cronus

It's Black Baeuty my Horse, the horse of Lord Sauron

Is very special.

Is a very special ship,

Zues

[analog-smiles]

Fall of a King, Rise of a Kraken

ok we're back on the theory/rewrite/whatever grind covering a few major events in this one, primarily based around squisker and the events that led up to mckraken getting the role of chairman along with some Extra Stuff that is exclusive to my lore, wow !

so as mentioned previously, there was a huge surge of yokai abandoning their medals and becoming 'white yokai' some time before the events of the first game, around the time when word was starting to get out that lord enma might not last much longer and for so many yokai to suddenly jump to something so drastic, someone must be leading them on, right?

well. nobody knew it at the time - surprisingly well-kept secret - but the culprit was a certain yokai whose relations with humans were...less than stellar, to put it shortly. and he just so happened to be dipping his tentacle into politics, to see if he could make the most of the unrest caused by the upcoming power vacuum. admittedly, he wasn't expecting to get as far as he did legitimately, but he rounded up a decent following quite quickly some were desperate for a leader to turn to, with enma supposedly getting worse by the day and his only potential heir rushed off to the human realm in case of trouble others were similarly bitter toward humankind, on account of Certain Incidents that had occurred in the past with the few humans who could sense them the motives didn't really matter that much to mckraken. what was important was that he was being listened to, and he might just get the opportunity of a lifetime.

and then it happened. lord enma was officially announced to be dead. gone peacefully in his sleep, and didn't even leave a trace.

the immediate reaction, amidst the general grief and mourning, was to scramble to find someone to fill his position and lead the yokai and given his following [ despite the odd 'coincidence' of a majority of them being white yokai ], mckraken was a popular candidate. things were looking pretty good. but of course, he wasn't quite lucky enough to have everything go without a hitch.

the trouble was that mckraken had a rather close relative, who had been in politics for some time he was liked well enough, another popular name in discussion of enma's successor, but that wasn't the real problem, despite his considerably softer attitude toward humans it was more of a personal issue. squisker hadn't seen mckraken since the white yokai started to show up. intentional on mckraken's part, given the fact that he knew squisker would catch onto the issue quickly if he saw him like this but by chance, the two of them met a while after enma's death and it went about as well as you would expect. a conversation became a fight, which became a terrible misunderstanding squisker was accused of attempting to murder mckraken. not at all the case, and it's surprising that the accusation was even made. he wasn't the violent type, and nobody assumed him to be which is why mckraken didn't step in to defend him. he assumed it would be fine.

unfortunately, there was a particular piece of news which had failed to reach either of them at the time. and attempted assassination, bordering on regicide, wasn't easily glossed over by the simple fact that "he wouldn't". the sentence was the worst you could get, short of outright execution. and some would argue that it was worse than that.

on the plus side, that was the first and last time someone attempted to pry into the new chairman's best-kept secret. although after a while, rumors did begin to drift about regarding an unwinnable prize in the old crank machine on mount wildwood.

[analog-smiles]

on this topic, a list of characters i really wish we saw mckraken interact with at literally any point:

Dr. Maddiman - these two apparently know each other, despite maddiman spending most of his time hidden away in nocturne hospital and mckraken only coming up to the human realm to try and destroy/seize it. if they ever interacted or even just existed in the same room, i think it would make maddiman mentioning mckraken in ykw1 seem a lot less sudden and unnatural.

The Ghoulfather - mckraken would HATE this guy, i guarantee it. there's no way this mob boss bozo was going around trying to reshape the yokai realm into one big mafia gang of conspiracy theorists and mckraken was just cool with that. level5 are cowards for having mckraken and dame deartime just conveniently not be around during the endgame of ykw3 and i will stand by that

Lord Enma - honestly these two wouldn't even have to speak to each other, i just want to know how mckraken feels about the guy. like we know that they have polar opposite views on humanity, but because they never interact, we never see how that impacts their opinions of each other as people. i doubt mckraken cares much for enma, given his [ admittedly super optimistic ] opinion that all humans and yokai can get along just fine, but based on how he's mostly been minding his own business since returning to the yokai realm, i guess he at least has some respect for his position as lord of all yokai, or whatever 50 million other titles enma probably has.

Hailey - i don't have any sort of story-related reason for this one, i just think it would be really funny. every fucked up old man in the yokai watch universe should meet hailey at least once in their life

Squisker - level5 dropped the most ridiculous lore for this guy and then just acted like he never existed, it's crazy. adding the infinite inferno to ykw3 would totally just have been more work to put more content into an already massive game, but i wish we got some reason why. i'm just saying, if we're meant to understand that mckraken's trying to not be totally batshit insane anymore, it would make a lot of sense for him to go down there with some sort of jailbreak plan for the guy who's only stuck there in the first place because of his stupid schemes. i mean i guess that's sort of insane given how dangerous the inferno is, but it's for a good cause, and he could probably handle it

i do wish that mckraken and dame dedtime/deartime canonically interacted more. like they have a shared boss mission in blasters, and then they interact for like 2 minutes at the end of the sukiyaki quest in ykw3, but that's kind of all they get

and i think that's a shame because they could have had a really interesting dynamic

by the events of ykw3, deartime's let go of the past and all that, but it seems like mckraken's still holding some sort of grudge and i think she would have been able to help with that

idk. honestly there are lots of characters i wish mckraken interacted with in canon, since he kind of never interacts with anyone but the player character, but those two specifically were on my mind today

[libraryofrewrita]

Chapter 24: The Three Gates

Nate, Katie, and their Yo-kai companions looked towards the path and after composing themselves, they walked forward to the red gate up ahead.

“Hey, Whisper? What’s so special about these gates?”

“They’re guarded by the Onis of Terror Time, Gargaros, Ogralus, and Orcanos.”

The group stopped in their tracks, shocked.

“Wait, what?! The same onis that hunt for kids sneaking around after dark guard the gates?!”

Whisper nervously chuckled.

“Well, we were only caught in Terror Time once and considering the circumstances right now, I don’t think they’ll hold it against you.”

Nate and Katie sighed as they and the rest of the group continued onward. As they walked, they saw some Yo-kai in the area. Some were too scared to even acknowledge the group walking by, a few were curious, but didn’t say or do anything, and the rest just waved to the group with a smile. To pass the time until they got to the red gate, Whisper explained that there were areas below the bridge that sometimes had Yo-kai roaming around.

“There’s three areas that I know of down there…hold on…”

Whisper pulled out his Yo-kai Pad and typed in something before nodding.

“The three areas are Hungry Pass, Liar Mountain, and Hooligan Road. To access them, you either need to fail the tests that the Onis give you or fall through specific holes that are in the fences along the bridge.”

“What? There’s no rope to get back up with?”

“There is, but I’m pretty sure that it would take you back to the gate that you had passed through to get to that area. You could always climb down the rope if you want to see the area before walking down the bridge.”

On one hand, we can fight some Yo-kai and get stronger while seeing some new areas, but on the other hand, we don’t want to waste a lot of time and there’s a chance of us getting lost down there if we’re not careful.

As they juggled with the thought of visiting the areas, they heard Whisper say,

“We’re almost there, guys.”

True to Whisper’s words, they were closing in on the red gate and in front of it was Gargaros.

After we pass his trail, we’ll just keep walking on the bridge and see what happens and if we don’t see those areas, we don’t see those areas. Besides, it’s not like we won’t come back and visit this place again…right?

They composed themselves and walked forward, stopping in front of him. To their surprise, Gargaros looked to be rather calm, unlike the first time they encountered him.

“We would like to pass through the gate, please.”

“To pass through this gate, you must have a good heart. Have you helped those in need?”

“Yes, we have.”

Gargaros stared at them for a few moments, then he disappeared and they heard an echoing voice say to them,

“You two do have good hearts. The energy from those you have helped is enough to convince me. You are free to pass by the red gate.”

The group walked through the red gate and they continued onward, seeing a blue gate in the distance, which was their next destination.

*****

Meanwhile, in the throne room…

Mckraken was looking over a few papers with a scowl on his face.

Great…one of the threats to my leadership got away and is under the protection of some traitorous Yo-kai and if the report I got from Maddiman is true, there’s two human kids that can see us and they’re on their way to defeat me! It took me years to finally get the throne to myself and I’m not going to let some human kids take that away from me!

Mckraken tossed the papers to the side, which made them disappear in a puff of smoke, and he sighed with annoyance, but then an idea formed in his head.

I know! I’ll make the kids fall into the area below the bridge! Sure, it’ll just delay them, but if I can keep them away long enough, the invasion can still be launched!

*****

Back with the group, they were almost to the blue gate when they felt the bridge shaking. They held on to the rails to steady themselves before they could walk forward to a safer area, but the rails suddenly broke and even though Whisper and the other Yo-kai grabbed the kids to keep them from falling, it was in vain as the shaking got worse and the kids lost their balance, which made the whole group fall downwards. Thankfully, they landed safely on what looked like a giant cake and after looking around, they realized that this must be Hungry Pass, if the cake theme didn’t already give it away.

“Okay, all we have to do is find the rope and we’ll be back at the red gate, which unfortunately means that we have to walk all the way back to where we were before the bridge started shaking.”

As they walked around, looking for the rope, the kids asked if the shaking was normal in the Yo-kai Realm. Whisper shook his head and said,

“This must have been a dirty trick created by Mckraken to delay us! We have to keep going forward and stop him if we want to keep our realms safe!”

The group walked through the cakey area, occasionally fighting some Yo-kai to be ready for battling Mckraken, until they found the rope. They climbed up the rope and found themselves at the red gate. They quickly rushed down to the blue gate, where Ogralus was waiting.

“We need to pass through the gate.”

He looked at them and said,

“I cannot let children pass, so tell me the truth. Are you children?”

“We are children, but we need to pass through the gate, sir.”

“I admire your honesty. In truth, I was only going to let you pass if you told the truth.”

“You mean…?”

Ogralus nodded as he disappeared.

“You’re free to pass through the blue gate.”

As the group was about to cross through the blue gate, they felt the bridge shake slightly and looked towards the rope that would take them to the next area below the bridge.

Better safe than sorry.

They climbed down the rope and as their feet touched the rocky ground of the area that Whisper identified as Liar Mountain, they saw the rope shake violently. Nate and Katie took their hands off the rope and hoped that the rope didn’t break off the bridge and leave them stranded on Liar Mountain. Whisper noticed their distress and reassured them that the rope wouldn’t break. Nate and Katie sat down and looked over the area they were in while they waited for a sign that told them it was safe to go back up. They didn’t really know what they had been expecting when they got there. Liar Mountain was just a mountain-like area that was dark due to being under a bridge. If it wasn’t for the blue lights floating around, Nate and Katie doubted that they would’ve been able to see anything. There were Yo-kai hanging around, as expected, but there were also a few Yo-kai that looked odd. These Yo-kai looked like some of the Yo-kai that were hanging around Liar Mountain, except that they were completely white.

“Wait a minute…didn’t we see Yo-kai like that in Draggie’s crystal ball?”

“Yeah. They were in the same room as Mckraken when we saw him, which means that they have to be his followers! We’re getting close to him if we’re seeing his followers!”

None of them knew if they should be happy or scared that they were on the right track. On one hand, they were getting closer to hopefully delaying the invasion. On the other hand, these Yo-kai and Mckraken have been running their operation for a while and were probably as strong as the group, if not stronger.

It must be terrible for any Yo-kai that happen to be the same color as Mckraken’s followers. If it wasn’t for the fact that his followers appear to have glowing red eyes, Yo-kai like Whisper and Komasan would probably never be trusted unless they could prove that they were against Mckraken’s ideals.

Nate and Katie looked at their Yo-kai companions, who were practicing fighting and Whisper was making sure that they didn’t damage themselves too much and end up wasting their healing items before the big battle.

We haven’t been with these guys for long, but to imagine not having them around feels strange. They’ve already made themselves a huge part of our lives…

“Ready to head back up?”

They were snapped out of their thoughts by Whisper, who was now gesturing towards the rope. They nodded, climbed back up to the blue gate, and started walking forward to the gate guarded by Orcanos.

*****

Meanwhile, with Mckraken…

Mckraken sent some of his followers to the part of the bridge that connected the gate that Orcanos guarded to the Lord’s Gate.

If those kids expect to get to me, they’ll have to go through my followers first!

Mckraken had a malicious smile on his face as he sat on the throne and patiently waited, either for his followers to defeat and capture the kids and the traitorous Yo-kai accompanying them or for the group to walk into the throne room themselves, allowing him to be the last thing that they’ll ever face.

Once they’re defeated, by my hand or otherwise, there’ll be nothing to stop me from taking over these realms!

*****

The group walked up to Orcanos, the final gate guardian. He was very intimidating to the group, but not enough to scare them from their task. They patiently waited as he looked the group over.

“You have fought well to make it this far. The Lord’s Gate is just beyond this gate, but be warned. Mckraken and his followers are not to be taken lightly.”

Orcanos disappeared from the gate and the group went down the rope to Hooligan Road before the bridge could shake and mess up their balance. When their feet touched the ground, they released the rope and decided to look around at Hooligan Road and the first thing that hit them was how hot it was. The heat was very uncomfortable and the fact that there was lava or magma below the rocky paths made it clear that this was a volcano area. The Yo-kai in the area, both normal and Mckraken’s followers, seemed to be used to the heat, but to Nate and Katie, this was unbearable and they were pretty sure that the Yo-kai Watch was the only thing keeping them from feeling the full effects of Hooligan Road’s temperature.

“Can someone check and see if it’s safe to climb back up? The heat’s so unbearable down here.”

Whisper mumbled,

“This is nothing. There’s a much hotter place than Hooligan Road and if we ever find it, than you’ll be wishing that you were back here…or maybe at home.”

The kids considered asking Whisper what he was talking about, but then they realized that the rope hadn’t been shaking since they got down here.

That’s odd…the bridge would normally be shaking by now…did Mckraken give up already? No…from what we’ve heard about him, he’s not going to give up just like that. He must have developed a better idea than just trying to throw us off balance so we would be delayed.

After Whisper went up to make sure that the bridge wasn’t shaking and that it was safe to climb back up, the rest of the group climbed back up the rope and they passed through the black gate. They looked around as they noticed that the bridge was turning white as they walked towards the Lord’s Gate. They saw more of Mckraken’s followers as they walked, knowing that his followers were looking to pick a fight with them.

Well, if they want to fight us so badly, they can, but with the bonds between us and our Yo-kai, it’ll be hard to defeat us.

*****

After fighting a few of Mckraken’s followers, they found themselves at the Lord’s Gate. There was an Eyepo, so they healed their Yo-kai, switched out Blandon for Venoct, and after he was summoned to the Lord’s Gate with them, he said,

“This is it. We’re going to face Mckraken, either stop or delay the invasion, and bring peace back to both realms.”

“Is Lucas safe?”

“Yes, he’s with Mr. Barton at the school. He’s going to wait there until we come back.”

The group braced themselves as they walked through the Lord’s Gate and saw Mckraken sitting on the throne, waiting for them.

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