Andrew and I had never been this much terrified during our entire lives, okay except when we got stuck inside the stomach of a Mongolian Death Worm (that's another story) and the time where we almost became Vampire beverage (another story for another time) but this incident has a rank within the top ten, I can assure you that.

The two of us backed away from the back seat. The other passengers did the wise thing and stood up from their seats. Andrew ran back to his seat, threw my backpack at me and unfolded our weapons. Cleo leaped out of the bag, 'Watch it!'

I caught the bow and quiver that Andrew tossed at me, which was followed by a heavy cloak. He pulled out his samurai sword and drew it which glowed in a faint blue glow.

I looked around at the passengers who were gaping at us, especially the girls. The driver looked at his mirror and said, 'Hay! That's the ruckus?'

Before I could register anything Cleo shrieked with her tail standing on end and behind us, a glowing ghost dog materialized with a wisp of smoke.

He bowed his head, 'Konichiwa, Hime-sama.'

The clique of girls screamed.

I drew an arrow at the dog, even though I doubted arrows worked against them, even if the arrows were magical since the dog was well.... Japanese?

'What did he say?' asked Andrew who was holding his sword in front of him.

'Greetings, Princess,' I translated.

'Princess?'

'I know,' I said. 'It sounds really, off.'

Cleo shrieked from behind me.

'Get lost, cat,' growled the dog as it advanced forward. 'Taramen-sama sends his regards and wishes to the prince and princess to return once again to the kingdom.'

'What's he saying?'

'Bird-man wants us back.'

I really never realized that I could understand Japanese. Now that I think about it, that means I can watch Anime without subtitles and read Japanese Manga.

'If you return peacefully_'

Cleo hissed again.

I guess her petrifaction does not work on ghosts.

Four of the passengers in the bus stood up like synced robots. One of them included one of the girls. Her friends tried to desperately pull her down to her seat.

'Inugami,' said Andrew from behind me. 'They can possess people.'

Okay. That was bad. We could not shoot or slice people so we weren't left with many options.

I scooped up Cleo and ran out of the Bus following Andrew quickly stuffed Cleo into the backpack as the four possessed passengers leaped out of the bus. I guess they people they were sing weren't that fit for running since the ghost dogs immediately left them in the rain and followed us in their ghostly peter-panish way.

I almost stopped running, distracted by the floating/running dogs.

'AMETHYST!'

I snapped back to my senses and ran after him. And oh, how we ran. The rain made it worse since the road was slippery and there were vehicles all around us honking due to all the commotion. Have you ever raced against spirits? Trust me it's futile. The only luck you have is to have some spirit repellent in hand. And since there were so much honking and ghosts floating around, the traffic slowly started to move which made it worse focus to run without getting hurt. So I followed Andrew who sprinted in between cars like a pro. To by passers, we must have looked like Katniss Everdeen with a bad haircut and Ninja Assassin Junior.

Fortunately, I got used to running for my life months ago (it's a necessity if you are the queen of Sightless) but even running has its limits. Before long I felt my lungs shirk and my breath started to sound like a shrieking cat. It made things worse that I was dripping wet. Andrew looked over his shoulders to see if I were catching up.

'Amethyst!'

'Can't-weeessss-breath-weeesssssss.'

A wave of cars drove past us. Andrew jumped in front of a taxi.

'Hay! Are you crazy!'

'We need a ride.'

I looked above me, the dogs were gaining pretty fast.

'Come-weeessss-on-weeeessss-give-weeeesss-us-weeessss-a-weeessss-break-weeeesss.'

HONK. HOOT. MOVE IT.

The taxi driver slammed the steering wheel. 'Get in then!'

Andrew and I scramble into the taxi and slammed the door shut.

'Look_'

'JUST DRIVE!!!!!' Andrew and I yelled in unison.

The driver jumped and bit the accelerator, passing through a dog in front of us and sending a chill. I guess we went too fast for it to possess any of us. And lucky for us, the traffic was disintegrating.

'By the way,' said the Taxi Driver as he looked through the rear mirror. 'W-what are those wolves?'

'Japanese demon dog spirits,' said Andrew as he glues his face on the back window.

'I never knew there were evil dog spirits,' I said.

'What do you mean by that?' asked the driver.

I poked my head in between the two front seats. 'Just look forward and drive. You will receive full payment and even extra for all your troubles.'

In less than a minute, we were out of the bridge.

'Where must you go?' asked the driver. He kept on glancing at the side and rear mirrors.

'Just shake them off!'

'They're gaining,' said Andrew as he sank back to his seat.

'Can't we get rid of them?'

'Sure, if we were exorcists!'

I bit my lips and looked out of the window. They really were gaining. Four of them were now running on top of the road passing though cars and busses. I noticed that there was a driver in a mini cooper next to us who was trying to bump his car on to us. Then I noticed that his eyes were glowing red.

'What's his problem?' said the driver as he took a sharp turn.

'He's possessed,' I said.

'I can see that,' said Andrew.

THUMP!

'Damn it!'

The man in the mini cooper rolled down his shutters and yelled, 'You won't escape, Hime-sama.'

I yelled back in Japanese, 'Don't call me princess!'

The driver over took a large truck and sped away. The guy in the mini cooper was not giving up either. Wait, were those sirens?

'Great. The police. Why don't we just open a portal and get out of this place?'

'No way!' said Andrew.

I looked over the seat. There were police cars chasing after us along with giant floating dogs now.

'How come everyone can see them? Aren't invisibles supposed to be invisible?'

'Not all invisibles are invisible in the visible realm.'

'What on earth are you kids talking about?'

'JUST DRIVE!'

'Wait... those things are after you?'

'Er... of course not!'

'They are after you! Those monsters are after you!'

A sudden chill overtook the car.

'Is that_'

'That is_'

I looked up. A dog head was poking its head from the top of the car.

'JESUS!' cried the driver as he swung the car to the left. He was almost in tears.

I was starting to feel really bad for him.

'Found you.'

Andrew did the most stupid thing I think he had ever done in his puny twelve years. He struck his sword on the roof, and it actually went through. The dog was grinning at us for one second and then started to stare at us like we were the ghosts.

'Wha_'

He disintegrated into wisps of black smoke.

'Wha-what did you do?' said the driver looking back.

Andrew pulled down the sword which was stuck on the roof.

'No-nothing,' I said. Then I turned to Andrew and whispered, 'Is he gone or was that a retreat?'

He shrugged.

'Did you do something to my car?'

'Please. Drive.'

Well, there were still police men and possessed humans after us. Wait, what if the police were possessed?

'We need a way to get rid of them,' I said. 'Maybe a cross or holy water or_'

'Amethyst,' said Andrew. 'I don't thing Christian ways of exorcism works on Japanese Youkai.'

'Then what do you think we should do?'

'I don't know anything about Japanese exorcism methods!'

'But don't you read Manga?'

'Just Naruto and One Piece... and it has nothing to do with spirits!'

We both stared at each other.

I took out the phone, 'We could ask someone. Like Athena... If she had a phone, or Google something but I doubt there is Wi-fi nearby.'

'Give me that!'

The car drove over a bump.

'Hay,' said Cleo from inside the bag. 'Careful there.'

We all got thrown to the left of the car as the driver took a turn to the right. Andrew quickly dialed a number.

'Uh.... Whose number is that?'

'Zues.... Or Thor... I don't know. I mess up those two numbers.'

'Why do you have Zeus's and Thor's number?'

'They used to pick me up from elementary school.'

I guessed it must be at least four in the evening and I doubt there are any Council meetings at this time.

The taxi bumped into a car.

'Watch it! Hay! Wait!'

The sound of the sirens were getting closer, when I turned to my right I was that there was a ghost dog running alongside us. I was so startled that I yelped and the taxi accelerated.

'Hello? It's me, Andrew_'

Then all of a sudden, Thor's loud voice rang out from the phone. 'ANDREW MY BOY! Where on Earth are you?'

A motorcycle bumped onto us. I pulled Cleo out of the bag and help her face at the driver of the bike from the side window who was drinking a can of beer while driving with red eyes. The guy froze as the bike slowed down as flipped over once it got slow enough. Well, it took a while to realize that it was pure luck that the guy didn't get killed or severely hurt. I should be more careful when using Cleo.

'Thor, don't let anyone know_'

Then other voices rang out.

'It's the prince?'

'Where is he?'

'Silence!'

'On my!'

'If the queen there?'

Wait, a council meeting? At this hour!

Andrew looked at me with a paled face. I took the phone. 'Thor. Is Taramen there?'

'He's here.'

'Is that the queen?'

'Is this a negotiation?'

'Thor,' I said. 'Tell Taramen to call off his hunting dogs!'

'Give me that Thor!' said a snaky voice.

'It seems that her highness is well.'

Our driver honked and yelled multiple curses in French.

'Yeah. We are well,' I said.

'What does she want?' said Taramen's voice from afar.

'It seems they are having problem with dogs....'

'Dogs!' cried my mom. 'You sent dogs after them?'

'Inugami actually,' said Taramen. 'Demon spirits.'

'DEMON SPIRITS!'

'Calm down, sugar-pie.'

'Tell him to call them off!' I yelled into the phone.

'Sorry,' said Loki. 'It seems that he is unable to do so...'

'How do we stop them?'

'Well, in you want to deal with Japanese spirits, some holy ash, maybe salt or talismans can hold them off. Or maybe if you have a rosary, not the Catholic ones the Buddhist ones.'

'We are in the middle of London,' I said. 'How do you expect us to find those in London? Besides the salt...'

'A spirit blade will destroy them for sure.'

'Where on earth are we going to find a spirit blade? Whatever it is! Hay, is there a guy called Yamagato in the Council?'

'Give me the phone!' yelled Birdman. I heard the phone being shoved over and Birdman's annoying voice rang out. The taxi hit the brakes and we got thrown forward and the phone dropped to the floor. I think we hit something.

'It will be easier if you surrendered to them.'

'Listen up, Bird-man,' I yelled. 'You are dead if you call my mom sugar-pie again!'

Andrew picked up the phone. The driver got out from the car. The front wind shield was dripping with water as if we were under a water fall. Water dripped down from the cut Andrew made on the roof. When we got out of the car, there was water spraying all over from a fire hydrant. The whole pavement was in chaos with screaming pedestrians and policemen, and some creepy guys with red eyes.

Life is great.

'Come-on,' I said as I pulled Andrew to the nearest super market. Loki said salt will repel the dogs. I guess. I hoped it will work.

The driver, who pretty mad nowhere else to run followed us as well. I guess us storming in caused such a commotion that all of the customers simply stared at us as if we were from a traveling circus. Behind us, a police men, a salary man, an old lady and a delinquent stormed in yelling in Japanese, 'You won't escape us!'

I went to the nearest sales girl, shook her shoulders pretty hard and screamed, 'Salt! Where is the salt?'

'Er... hm.... On the shelf at the back....'

'Thank you. Andrew!'

By the time I found the salt, we were already surrounded. The police man hold out his gun pretty much the wrong way, 'This is how you hold these things, right?'

'I think maybe,' replied the delinquent.

They know how to drive not how to shoot with a gun?

'Ah,' said Andrew. 'You must hold it the other way.'

'Eh?' said the policeman as he turned his gun at us. 'Arigatou.'

'Why did you say that?'

'He is just a vessel, he will get shot.'

'Oh.'

The old granny held up her umbrella, 'Get them!'

I ripped open the packet of salt and shoved a fist full of salt at them. The four possessed humans simply stared before advancing at us.

Remind me to strangle Loki later in the future, if we survive.

Andrew drew his sword out of instinct. It was gleaming in bright electric blue now.

'Be careful,' said the granny. 'The lad has a spirit blade.'

I stared at Andrew's katana. So, that was a spirit blade.

'They backed off,' said Andrew.

'Cause it seems that your sword is a spirit blade,' I said. 'That's why there are only four of them. One of them got disintegrated.'

'Okay, but there are inside bodies now.'

'I'll drag the spirits out, you destroy them.'

'And how are you supposed to go that?'

I threw a bagful of flour at the old granny. She screamed and slipped falling on her backside. The Inugami immediately sprang out of her. While Andrew went off to destroy the Inugami, the delinquent came right at me with his fists. Guess bird-man does not care in what condition we are in. I used my bow and slammed his head and kicked his stomach, sending his sprawling along the tiles floor. The salaries man same at me with his suitcase, only to lose control of his momentum and strike the policeman who pulled the trigger of his gun.

There was a loud bang, a couple of screams and me sloshing milk all over at the place. The salary man gagged as milk entered his mouth and he threw a bag of gummy bears at me. When I looked around, I noticed that another Inugami wandering around and being chased by Andrew. I guess that impact of the sot from the gun did well to the policeman.

The delinquent came at me again and I kicked at his groin with a karate kick I had never done before. Yes, that was a moment of glory and was enough to drive the Inugami out. Then there was only the salaries man remaining. He pushed his spectacles up his nose and did some strange kung fu stance.

'AIII YAUUUUU EEEEEEEEEEEE!'

THONG!

All of a sudden, the poor guy fell on his knees and fell face first of the puddle of milk below him revealing Andrew behind him, who was carrying something which looked like a rolling pin.

He grinned at me.

I grinned back.

That's when the real police came in, 'FREEZE! PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPONS!'

I dropped a carton of eggs, splashing the contents all over.