Heavenly Retribution.

[Frisk E. Coyote]

Horyo furrowed his brows at the board, naming the pieces they captured one by one after the powerful opponents they defeated in a sequence. Finally, the Champion, Ignus himself was the only one left, it all played over again in his head, their battles, their victories both complete and just barely. After all that... they still had the king left to capture.

He lifted his gaze up at Infini, his suspicious eyes slanting into a glare. Slowly, he tilted his head toward the beads wrapped around his right foreleg, clamped a fang around it and jerked his head sharply, causing the string of beads to snap, and the many beads to scatter, the round beads rolling on the floor, arranging themselves around him in a circle, the magatama shaped beads fell in a smaller circle around him, and the biggest bead, a clear one with a tomoe inside it, hovered just in front of his chest. The beads floated off the ground and hovered around the dog, circling him, one type clockwise, the other type counter clockwise. The got off his haunches and lowered himself onto an attacking stance, ear pointed back, muzzle curled up in a snarl, tail swaying left and right.

"Very well. If its a game you want, its a game you'll get!" He snarled, the brown patches of fur on his body turned white, and his whole body emitted a soft blur of light that seeped through his bright red and gold armor.