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“No flipping way! We've just received word that Styve's grandma has turned into a demon! This can't be happening! Does this mean Styve is a demon also? Anyone who turns my favorite grandma and Styve into demons will be punished!”

Silent Warrior

Episode 30

Styve's grandmother is on the roof of one of the buildings at the Masaki Shrine, enjoying the clear night.

“Nights like this are best with a hard drink and some snacks,” she says to herself.

As she is gazing at the full moon, a shadow appears in front of it.

“What is that?” she wonders.

The shadow then becomes a little clearer, and Des Demona can be seen.

“It's you!” Grandma yells out. “What do you want on this sacred ground?”

“Old woman, you have something I need,” Des Demona replies. “Kurozuishou, release and dispel this Nijizuishou Shard carrier and bring forth this Shadow Warrior: Jijii!”

Des Demona whips out the Black Crystal and immediately starts to turn Grandma into one of the demons. As the crystal is affecting her, a blue shard can be seen in her chest.

“I won't let you influence your evil ways on me, Des Demona!” Grandma yells out.

She then lets out a powerful burst of chi energy, which knocks Des Demona back.

“I shouldn't have under estimated the keeper of his shrine,” Des Demona comments. “Try this on for size old woman!”

Des Demona sends back a powerful wave, knocking Grandma off the roof. Styve is outside walking around, when he feels the energy output from Des Demona.

“Tauros, Deimos, find out what that was,” he tells his two crows.

The birds fly up to Des Demona and start attacking her.

“Stop it, I'm not a pile of garbage,” she screams. “I'll be back old woman!”

Des Demona leaves just as Styve arrives on the scene.

“What happened?” he asks, rushing up to his grandma.

Before she can answer, an average height woman with long brown hair, light brown skin, and honey brown eyes, walks up the shrine steps. She spots Styve and immediately falls in love. She then sees grandma.

“My name is Nicole Haggins,” she says, bowing down before both of them. “Please maiden of this shrine, make me your apprentice.”

Back at her base, Des Demona is watching grandma.

“You put up quite a resistance to me,” she's saying. “I couldn't expect anything less from the keeper of one of our temples. However, your body is beginning to react to the Kurozuishou, and it won't be long before that shard belongs to me.”

Tauro Demos and the Shrine of the Youkai Demon Knighthood

The next afternoon, TJ and the others are gathered outside Manchester Farms.

“Grandma's been acting a little strange today,” Styve says to them.

“What do you mean?” TJ asks.

“You'll see.”

They walk up the stairs to the Masaki Shrine, to see grandma in a tree with a towel draped around her neck like a cape. She then leaps from the tree to a rope hanging from another tree. She continues to swing from rope to rope until she gets to the last one, where she dismounts, does a perfect back flip, and lands gracefully in front of the shrine stairs.

“It's your turn now Nicole,” she yells out.

“Do I really have to do this?” she mutters to herself. “Ok, here goes nothing.”

Nicole jumps for the first rope, but as she's swinging on it, it breaks and she comes tumbling down in front of Grandma.

“Is this really how I should be spending my youth?” she asks, struggling to her feet.

“Are you alright?” Styve asks, running up to Nicole.

“Who is that?” Tyrese asks.

“Oh, that's Nicole Haggins. She came here to become an apprentice of Grandma's.”

After getting a bucket of water splashed on her by Grandma, she gets up.

“You even look nice in that school uniform,” she says.

“Did you hit your head or something?” Styve asks. “Grandma, how could you do this to her?”

“Quiet!” Grandma roars. “Training to become a shrine maiden is hard work, especially for this temple. You can't become good with a soft attitude. You need a strong will and an even stronger mind.”

Grandma then gets quiet and starts crying. The guys are shocked by her sudden mood swing.

“There will be no one but you to guard this temple once I'm gone, and you have your own destiny decided by fate,” she says to Styve. “I'm so alone…”

“This is what I'm talking about guys,” Styve says, turning around. “She's become emotionally unstable lately, es raro.”

“No, it's not weird,” Nicole says, getting up. “I understand that I must do everything I can to become the perfect apprentice.”

She then walks over to the nearby prayer rope.

“Please, gods that are praised by this shrine, allow me to become what she needs me to be.”

When Nicole shakes the rope to conclude her prayer, one of the bells opens up and dumps water on her. Grandma immediately stops crying and begins laughing hysterically.

“I can't believe you fell for that!” she laughs.

“That was a really good one,” TJ says, laughing along.

“So you understand my jokes? I knew there was something special about you, young man.”

“I think that's enough,” Styve says to her. “These jokes aren't funny.”

“Excuse me, Styve, if you're worried about me…” Nicole starts.

“Quiet Nikki.”

“But Stevyn…”

“Silencio! Grandma, if you keep doing these stupid things, the reputation of our miracle working shrine will be tarnished.”

“Styve, you shouldn't stress so much,” TJ interjects. “You have to have fun every now and then.”

Grandma agrees with TJ, and Styve gets annoyed.

“Look, Te Jote, this is our shrine's problem, so stay out of it!” Styve barks.

He then pushes TJ down to the grown and gives him a menacing glare. Grandma is excited to see TJ with his legs up in the air, and Nicole looks the other way.

“What the fuck is wrong with you Styve?” TJ yells, still on the ground.

“TJ don't cuss, this is a temple,” Damon says.

“Styve you didn't need to push him, he's your friend,” Tyrese adds.

“I don't need him egging on Grandma,” Styve defends. “He needs to keep that goddamn boca shut, and speak when spoken to.”

“If you're going to be such a little bitch about the whole thing, I don't need it. I'm better off studying at cram school.”

Tyrese grabs Prometheus and they both leave.

“I think I'll head over to my training class,” Damon says, leaving as well.

“Those perdedores, they couldn't even listen or find solutions to the problem I'm having,” Styve scoffs.

“Um, Styve,” starts Nicole.

“I thought I told you to keep it quiet!”

* * *

A little later, Nicole finds Styve by some trees on the far side of the land.

“You wanted to speak with me?” Styve asks.

“It's about the master…” Nicole begins.

“Please, she's no maestro, not with that attitude.”

“Autumn is rolling in. One's mind and body tend to become disturbed easier.”

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“When the weather settles down, she should return to normal. For the time, let's just watch carefully.”

Styve looks at her and smiles.

“You may be more reliable than you look, chica,” he says. “Your boys are no good. They say they'll be there for you, but when you need them, they don't really give a damn.”

Behind a nearby tree, TJ is watching them with Prometheus.

“He looks like he's doing a good job over there,” TJ says. “Time for TJ to play matchmaker!”

“TJ, if you butt into this affair, Styve will do more than just push you on the ground,” Prometheus tells him.

“Are you serious Promeeth? This is a great chance to patch things up between us.”

“As usual, you're caught up in your world.”

TJ then gets a twinkle in his eye, and holds his left fist up.

“TJ no, the disguise power isn't for these types of things!” Prometheus proclaims.

“Disguise power, change me into an Asian fortune Teller!”

TJ emerges from the light as a Chinese fortune teller, dawned with a table around his neck, little sunglasses, and a jar of sticks. Prometheus complains that he never listens as TJ walks up to Styve and Nicole.

“Excuse me young people,” TJ says in a fake accent. “I am travelling fortune teller. I do fortune for you.”

Styve and Nicole are both caught off guard by his sudden approach. TJ grabs the sticks out of his jar and starts mumbling gibberish to them. Prometheus, who is watching from behind the tree still, closes his eyes. TJ then gets a look in his eyes, and his sunglasses flash. TJ then throws the sticks in the air, and as they land, catches only two of them, which he crosses in front of his face.

“What does it all mean, fortune teller?” Nicole asks.

“The stick speak of true love first kiss,” TJ answers. “They say, if girl kiss boy, good fortune happen for love.”

Nicole turns bright red, and Styve rolls his eyes. Prometheus falls on the floor in shame and embarrassment.

“Come on Nikki, let's get out of here,” he says.

They turn around and start walking off, and TJ gets sad. Styve suddenly comes back up to him, by himself.

“Mr. Davis, what kind of tonto do you take me for?” he yells at him.

“You knew all along?” TJ asks.

“Are you as stupid as you are lazy? Of course I knew pendejo!. Did you forget that I'm currently dating Ashley? After pulling a bullshit stunt like this, I don't even want to talk to you anymore. Don't let me ever catch you on my property again!”

Styve walks off and Prometheus walks up to TJ.

“I told you so,” he says.

* * *

Later that afternoon, TJ is in his room with Prometheus, upset about what happened with Styve.

“TJ, you brought this all on yourself,” Prometheus is saying. “No one told you to pull such a weird stunt.”

“He told me stay off his property,” TJ complains. “Where am I supposed to hold the meetings now for Brothers?”

“Styve was just saying those things out of anger TJ. I'm sure by tomorrow he'll be cool with you again.”

“It's not even about that Promeeth. You don't say shit like that to people you call your boys.”

“Everyone says things when they're mad. Give it time to cool off.”

TJ ignores him and lies down on the bed. Feeling sorry for him, Prometheus notices the mail on the night stand. He goes over to it and starts looking through it.

“TJ look, that magazine you like, Marvel Stars, has a new issue,” he points out.

“I'm not in the mood for it,” TJ responds, rolling over.

“They've even got an article in here about you…”

TJ turns over and picks up the magazine. He skips the article about him and starts looking at the comics. In a few moments he's rolled off the bed, laughing hysterically.

“I didn't see anything funny about your article,” Prometheus says.

“It's these comics!” TJ laughs. “You know, Styve likes Marvel Stars as much as I do, maybe I should take this over to him so he can read it.”

“Are you sure that's such a good idea? You should let Styve calm down before going back there.”

“Promeeth, you worry too much.”

TJ grabs the magazine and his backpack and walks out the room.

“That boy is so thick headed…” Prometheus sighs.

* * *

That night, Nicole is continuing to do the training that Grandma wants. Her determination to win Styve's heart keeps her going, even though she keeps messing up pretty badly. Styve is not too far away, enjoying the natural hot springs.

“Tauros, Deimos, do you think it's the change of the seasons that's really making Grandma act so loco?” he asks his birds.

In the main shrine, Grandma is doing a fire reading, when she senses an evil presence.

“So you've returned, Des Demona,” she says, turning around.

“I see age hasn't stopped your senses,” Des Demona says, teleporting in behind her.

“I won't allow you to endanger this temple to your clan!”

“Ha ha, it's not the temple I'm after, dear caretaker, it's you!”

Grandma uses her chi energy again to blast Des Demona, but she puts up her own energy to cancel the attack. Back in the hot springs, Styve can sense the power.

“A sentimiento maligno!” he says. “No, this aura feels familiar…”

Back at the shrine, Des Demona has knocked Grandma outside.

“This time the crystal shard will be mine!” she roars.

She then uses her fire embers to suspend Grandma in the air and pull out the crystal. As she is about to grab it, the trademark card appears and knocks it onto the ground.

“You're Yellow LightStar!” Des Demona exclaims, looking up to see her standing on a senkai.

“I've come for that crystal, Des Demona,” Yellow LightStar explains.

“Jijii, come out and play with this little girl!”

Grandma changes into Jijii, and Des Demona crabs the shard.

“You shall fall at the hands of this Shadow,” Des Demona taunts.

“Des Demona, you coward, fight me for real!” Yellow LightStar yells.

Des Demona jumps away, and Yellow LightStar follows, ignoring the attacking Jijii. Yellow LightStar chases her all the way into the woods, but loses sight of her.

“Damn it, I think she got away,” she says to herself.

“Looks like I win this time, Blondie!” Des Demona's voice cackles off the trees.

Meanwhile, Nicole is walking around, when she spots the monster. The monster spots her too and begins to chase her. Nicole manages to get away and runs to Styve's quarters. Without waiting, she runs into his room, where he is standing there naked.

“Nicole what are you doing?” Styve yells, covering up.

“Sorry but it's important,” she replies. “There's a monster running around outside.”

“That's impossible, there's no monsters!”

Jijii then appears and starts to chase them both.

“All I had time to do was throw my underwear on!” Styve complains.

“That doesn't matter, just run as fast as you can!” Nicole pants.

Jijii starts to blast them with shockwaves. One of them hits Nicole and she goes flying into a wall.

“Nicole you've got to get out of here,” Styve yells.

“No way,“ she says, standing in front of him. “I'll make sure I protect you with everything I have!”

“Nicole…”

Nicole then tries to head butt the monster, but it tosses her aside, knocking her out. Styve takes the opportunity to run to the fire pit and put the fire between him and the monster.

“Rin, Pyo, Tou, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen!”

Styve enrages the fire to reveal the monster's true intentions. The fire shows him an image of Grandma.

“Aye mi Dios! The monster is Grandma, which means she had a shard in her!” Styve concludes.

The monster then lunges at him, and he goes running out of the shrine hut. Jijii is quicker than him, and jumps over him to get in front of him. Styve tries to turn around, but realizes he's got a wall behind him. Jijii then grabs his throat.

“This is usually where I can plead for help and a part of Grandma will falter and give me time to knock her back and transform,” Styve says.

He then gives her his sad eyes, which only enrages Jijii even more.

“I guess this isn't a typical situation!” Styve cries.

Jijii pulls back to strike, when it gets hit in the face with a backpack.

“I won't forgive you for putting my friend Styve in danger. Phoenix Transform!”

“Thanks, you saved me,” Styve says, coming over to him.

“Don't mention it,” Silent Warrior responds. “By the way, you've got to read this month's issue of Marvel Stars. There's this one comic where…”

“You idiot, this is no time to be talking about comics!” Prometheus yells.

“Right, sorry about that. This hand of mine is…”

“Wait, that's Grandma!” Styve says, grabbing Silent Warrior's wrist.

“Are you serious?”

“That would explain the sudden mood swings,” Prometheus explains. “Des Demona must have used that crystal on her, and this was the effect.”

Jijii gets bored and starts to chase the three of them since they're just standing there in front of her.

“Styve do something, this is your temple!” Silent Warrior cries out.

“What am I supposed to do?” Styve asks. “I don't want to attack and hurt her.”

Jijii continues to chase them, until they pass a statue. For some reason, the statue causes Jijii to stop and stare.

“Why did it stop at that scary bull with wings statue?” Silent Warrior asks.

Styve turns to look at what has its attention, and then comes to a realization.

“A distant memory that'll bring back your humanity,” Styve mumbles. “Silent Warrior, there's something I need to do in order for us to bring Grandma back, but I don't want you to be scared.”

“What are you talking about?” Silent Warrior asks.

“There are 8 statues on the grounds of the Masaki Shrine. What we tell people who come here is that they are protectors, like gargoyles on a building. In actuality, we are the ones protecting them.”

“I don't understand still. What do statues have to do with anything?”

“Allow me to show you what I mean. Demon Rightus!”

Styve holds out his hand above his head, and an enchanted circle appears around his feet. A circle of fire then appears above his hand, and begins to spread down his body. As it does so, his appearance changes from human, to something else. When the fire reaches the circle on the ground, an explosion occurs, and as that fades, a creature stands before Silent Warrior.

“What are you?” Silent Warrior asks, backing away.

What he sees is a bull looking demon. It has horns, a nose ring, and is dressed in a suit of silver and gold armor.

“I am Tauro Demos, youngest hatchling of the Youkai Demon Knights!”

“So you're the enemy then?” Prometheus asks. “But how is that possible, you had the symbol of a Brother Soldier.”

“Stevyn Carmona is the host body for the demon known as Tauro Demos. We are two entirely different entities. Master Stevyn's family has protected us for generations, and in return we bless them with great powers to revolutionize the world.”

Noticing Tauro Demos speaking with Silent Warrior, Jijii gets frustrated and starts running towards them.

“Calling forth the powers of the Black Magician, I summon the staff of demonic power. Come forth my demon staff!”

A bright light flies from the sky and comes to Tauro Demos, changing into a golden staff with two points on the end like devil horns.

“Halt in your place foolish demon, for I am Tauro Demos, one of your master!”

Tauro Demos points the staff at Jijii, and it immediately stops.

“Silent Warrior, I suggest you heal it now before I decide to kill it,” Tauro Demos bellows.

“This fist of mine is flaming white! White Flame Cleansing!”

Silent Warrior attacks and turns it back into Grandma. She then wakes up and sees the demon standing before her.

“So you're finally awake,” she says to him. “I guess it took Des Demona to bring you to light.”

“You said you're one of the Youkai Demon Knights,” Silent Warrior starts. “What does that mean though? Are you going to join them and fight against us?”

“No, Silent Warrior,” Tauro Demos answers. “Something is manipulating my brethren into attacking this planet. That was not our mission in life. We have our own duties to him that were to be fulfilled.”

“Silent Warrior, please save them,” Grandma says to him. “Those demons have been related to this family for millennia.”

“I will always be here, Silent one, but to appear like this risks them finding me and using me to destroy you. Until it is deemed necessary, I will remain hidden inside of Stevyn.”

He then changes back into Styve, and Grandma goes up to hug him.

* * *

Outside the shrine, Tyrese is going for a night walk, when he bumps into Damon.

“What are you doing here so late?” Tyrese asks.

“I thought I would talk to Styve about the fight with TJ,” Damon answers.

“Yeah, that's why I came here too. It's not worth it for us to fight like that.”

Upstairs, TJ, Styve, Grandma, and Nicole are all sitting on the steps of a shrine hut.

“What happened to that monster?” Nicole asks.

“What monster?” Grandma asks.

“You mean you don't remember?” TJ says, annoyed.

Styve quickly covers his mouth and assures Nicole she must have hit her head too hard during training.

“Well I guess it doesn't matter,” Nicole laughs.

“You know Nikki, you come off as an idiot, but deep down you're a brave person aren't you?” Styve says.

He then gives her a kiss on the cheek, and Grandma and TJ are shocked. Nicole starts blabbering about enjoying the love of youth, and Styve turns red.

“You've fallen for her haven't you?” TJ butts in.

“No, I just thought it was a good consolation since she's been training so hard…”

“I won't allow you to marry the likes of her!” Grandma butts in.

“Teenage marriage…” TJ starts.

“Don't say such stupid things TJ,” Styve yells.

“Marriage? Me and Styve?” Nicole says.

Grandma and Styve both yell at her to knock it off. Tyrese and Damon then happen to walk up the stairs to see everyone arguing. Styve is chasing TJ and Grandma is chasing Nicole with a broom.

“I guess everything is back to normal,” Damon says.