A little AU I thought f, now a number of factors need to be considered for this to make any sense, One the crank-a-kai is random and luck based, so Nate was never guaranteed whisper, two, freeing a yokai from the crank-a-kai, means they are indebted to you even after you die, different yokai would take this in different ways, a butler yokai like whisper would offer his services, a warrior like Washogun would become a personal guard, and so on, third, whisper was in there by mistake, but that by no means that some yokai in there didn't deserve what they got, the way I see it is the crank-a-kai, functions a lot like a genies' lamp, a powerful spirit is imprisoned in it for some kind of crime, then forced to work off the debt by serving whoever finds it, Nate was more on the nose than anyone thought. So what if a little change of fate would cause Nate to obtain a different yokai, with different ideas of how their debt would be served, well, this!

Chapter one: yokai are real.

"I'll show them whose average," Nate said as he jumped over a barrier clearly telling him not to proceed, "I just gotta go deeper into the woods!"

He was about 11 years old, Had chocolate brown hair and eyes, fair skin, and wore a red t-shirt, grey jeans, and blue boots. He had been out bug hunting with his friends Bear, Eddie, and Katie, until Katie had said in response to the stag beetle he found, "it's just like you, it's just so average."

Nate HATED that word with the furry of a thousand suns, in all honesty, that was his greatest fear, people writing him off as just another face in the crowd, nothing special. Because of this, he was constantly trying to prove them wrong, to find something he was amazing at, to find something that he wasn't so average about. That was why when the girl he had had a crush on for years called him it, he immediately went berzerk.

He proceeded on until he saw a glowing stag beetle, he immediately tried to catch it with his net, but the bug was just to fast, he continued to follow it, "come here you stupid bug."

The beetle led him to a clearing, with a single tree in the middle, in front of that tree was a Gacha prize ball machine.

"What the heck is this place?" Nate asked himself aloud.

"Feed me, feed me," he heard a voice say quietly.

"What?" he said looking around to see if he was being messed with.

"Feed me, feed me," the voice said more again, this time he was sure he'd heard it, then again, this time more of a chant, "Feed Me, Feed Me!"

Nate looked at the prize ball machine, the chant was definitely coming from it, "Feed Me, Feed Me!"

"What do you mean, feed you?" he yelled at it, feeling like a moron just for talking to it.

"Feed Me, Feed Me! I'm so Hungry I need to Eat!" the chant said a final time before Nate admitted defeat, "FINE!"

He took out a coin and put it in the slot. He began to turn the dial, meanwhile, inside the machine, a grey prize ball was about to fall through, but was pushed out of the way by a golden one. The golden ball fell out of the machine, Nate picked it up, and tried to open it, when he did a burst of pink runes began to spiral out, they all began to move in a circle as something began to form in the middle of them.

"What the…" Nate began as a feminine cackle filled the air. In the middle of the runes, a figure appeared, it resembled a girl, she opened her wide, violet eyes as she continued cackling when the runes faded, Nate got a good look at her, she had long, dark purple hair in a ponytail, held by a dark indigo, crystal tiara, pale white skin making her eyes pop, she was about Nate's height, maybe slightly shorter, and she was wearing a pitch black kimono, with some speckles of white here and there, and held together with a purple obi.

The girl then yelled, "Free, I'm finally free!"

"What the heck is going on?" Nate yelled.

The girl looked at him, "well, well, well. I take it you're the one I have to thank for my freedom?"

"What are you talking about?" Nate asked frantically.

"Name's Damona," the Girl said.

Damona: S rank

Charming

"And you are…" Damona smirked, "A very lucky boy."

"Seriously, what is happening," Nate demanded.

"You freed me from the Crank-a-kai, so by ancient yokai law I am indebted to you for the rest of eternity," Damona said while reaching into her kimono.

"Wait… Do I get three wishes?" Nate asked excitedly.

"Do I look like a Genie to you?" Damona scoffed, "no, but you get this."

She took a small silver coin out of her kimono.

"A coin?" Nate asked.

"No a medal, do you except it?" the floating girl asked.

"Considering that's a buck I'll never get back, yes," Nate sighed.

"Good," Damona said with a giggle, she then flipped the coin over to him and he caught it. Nate took a closer look at it, it had a picture of a heart on one side, and Damona on the other.

"What are you anyway, why were you hiding in a Prize ball machine," Nate demanded.

Damona flew up to him, "for your ladder question, I wasn't hiding in there, I was trapped in there by some self-righteous monk, the former, have you ever heard of the Yokai?"

"No, whats a yokai?" the boy eyed her.

"Yokai is a universal term for anything in the supernatural," Damona started, "Ghost, demons, Jinns, gods…"

"And you?" Nate asked, "are you some kind of ghost?"

"Eh, so so, My mother was a Yuki-onna or snow spirit," the yokai replied, "my Father, on the other hand, was an Oni, or a demon, I myself have never graced the earth in a human body, to put it simply, I was born dead."

"Born dead?" Nate repeated, "you're making less and less sense, but… if ghosts and whatnot are real, how come no one's ever seen them?"

"Simple, yokai directly translates to hidden monster, while there are exceptions, like the boogie man, aka Snartle, most of us are completely hidden to humans," Damona said.

"Are you one of those exceptions?" Nate pressed.

"When I want to be," the girl giggled.

"What's that mean!?" Nate yelled.

"Most of the time no, but in this scenario, it's in my best interest you see me, how am I to serve a debt if the one I'm indebted to can't even see me?" Damona said, "however, you'd be able to see me anyway, you're the only living being that I truly can't hide from."

Nate just stared at her, then said, "that's it, I'm out!"

The boy began to walk away but noticed Damona following him. He slowly increased speed, then again, until he was at full on running pace, Damona still followed. Around the foot of mt. wildwood, he was completely out of breath.

"You are very… huff, determined," Nate sighed, "Look, you're free now, right? Why do you want to spend that new freedom with me!?"

"under normal circumstances, I wouldn't, however, there is a condition to my freedom," Damona started.

"Which is?" Nate asked.

"My soul belongs to whoever freed me in the first place," Damona said, "so we're stuck with each other honey."

"Honey?" Nate questioned her wording.

"What, not ready for pet-names yet?" Damona questioned with a blank expression.

"Why would you use pet names?" Nate demanded this whole ordeal was wreaking havoc on his sanity.

"Cause we're engaged," she replied bluntly.

You could practically hear the record scratch there. Nate took a deep breath, then yelled one thing, so loud, the inmates of the Infinite Inferno heard it, "WWWHHHAAAATTTTT!?"