Disclaimer: All Anime Characters and concepts are the property of their
respective creators. The same is true of any references that might be
applied in this fanfiction. This is strictly a work of fanfiction and is
by no means meant to be taken literally.
Spoiler Warning: This fanfiction will definately include spoilers of events and characters that appear later on in these Anime Titles. Technically these characters have already appeared, they just haven't appeared in the English version of the series.
Author's Note: This is an Anime Multiverse fanfiction, meaning that any number of Anime Titles could appear during the course of the series. The primary Anime Titles that will be involved are Inu-Yasha, Ranma 1/2 and Tenchi Muyo. Another Anime Title that will hold some ground on this series is Digimon Adventure, although none of the actual characters will be involved, there will be events and monsters that do relate to the series. When other titles will become involved, there will be an author's note announcing it at the beginning of the chapter that it will be involved in.
Author's Note2: While this will be the second season of The Dragon Tamer series, it does not directly follow what has happened so far. The reason for this is simply that I wanted to add in a few things that I had not planned on in the beginning and now was the ideal time to put them into place. It works almost like an alternate universe, in the sense that everything that did happen happened, it just probably ended up happening in a different, less silly way. First time readers should be able to follow the events that happen now without reading the first series.
------Original Characters------
Crystal Mizuka is your not-so-typical, 16-year-old, half-human, martial artist, magician and high school student. As our story begins, Crystal has been rid of the Dragon's Curse for about two months and she is back in school again, strongly believing that with the curse gone she has become a normal human. If this were true, there wouldn't be much purpose to the series. The character of Crystal is a creation of my own insane mind.
Shiva is your not-so-typical martial artist and free-loading houseguest. He is noted for being part human, part Jurain and part Divine all in one. He has frequently invited himself to live in Crystal's apartment, which for the most part remains empty. One of his most famous moments was the time when Crystal hurled a refridgerator at him, which he dodged, leading to the door to the apartment being permenantly removed and the refridgerator being lodged in the hallway wall. Shiva repaired the refridgerator and it has since remained in the hallway. Remarkably, the other people in the apartment complex stay as far away from the area as possible. Beyond this, Shiva's noted traits are that he is always hungry, unless being fed or having just eaten, eating vast quantities of food in a short amount of time and his sub-space picnic basket. The character of Shiva belongs to Shiva.
------The Key------
"......" -speaking ~......~ -thinking **......** -exagerated noises/actions {......} -telepathy [......] -author's notes
------Midnight Dragon Burst------
It was a typical morning at the Tendo Dojo. Ranma had been training with his father, who was now a panda in the backyard and now it was time for breakfast. The only reason Ranma was still at the house was because Akane wasn't the one who made breakfast, although there was still the small matter of lunch. Ranma would deal with that problem later.
The usual morning routine followed as always. Ranma and Panda-san started randomly snatching food from each others plates, and everyone elses for that matter which resulted in a great deal of shouting around the table and a glass of water spilling on Ranma.
"Gah!" exclaimed Ranma-chan as she felt the cold water land on her. This was not a good way to start the first day of school, yet again.
[Due to the miracle of anime and cartoons in general, no one seems to have aged in the least.]
*-*-*-*
A short time later, more of the usual events were still happening. Ranma- kun was running along the usual fence, with Akane running on the path bellow him. Obviously, both of them were attempting to make it to school on time.
As they arrived at Furinkan, Tatewaki "Blue Thunder" Kuno was at the front gates to greet them. It was more along the lines of waiting to challenge Ranma for Akane and the Pigtailed Girl, but he promptly got booted in small orbit over the school building. Ranma and Akane hurried off to class before Kuno had a chance to recover, or worse, it started raining.
*-*-*-*
As Ranma and Akane finally made it to the safety of their homeroom class, regardless of the fact that it was also the class of Hinako-sensei, Ranma was greeted by a familiar voice.
"Hiya Ran-chan," called Ukyo from the other side of the room.
Crystal happened to be with Ukyo. She was dressed in her typical black pants and black tanktop, complete with the hilt of her sword [Dragon Blade] poking over her left shoulder. Her long, dirty blond hair was tied back in a ponytail. Obviously it had gotten longer while she was away, and she appeared to be making a mental note to get it cut back to normal.
"Yo Ucchan," replied Ranma, making his way across the room to meet with his childhood friend. He ignored the crimson aura that was starting to form around Akane, who in turn chose to ignore him completely and went off to join her friends.
Around the room, friends were explaining the events of their summers in great detail. Most of them were exagerating what had happened of course, but they told the stories and their friends listened anyway.
Ukyo handed Ranma a take-out box of okonomiyaki, having assumed Akane would do something like make lunch on the first day back to school. Ranma looked happy about this, accepting the okonomiyaki and tossing the so-called "food" that Akane had made him across the room into the trash can.
**CRACK**
A split second later, a certain mallet in the hands of a very pissed off Akane slammed over Ranma's head. Ranma hit the floor with swirls for eyes and a lump forming on the back of his head in the typical Ranma pose, twitching. The mallet left Akane's hands and she returned to chatting with her friends as though nothing had happened.
School began and it seemed like a relatively normal day, if not a little more peaceful than usual.
*-*-*-*
At the end of school, that peacefulness still lingered. Ranma, Akane, Ukyo and Crystal were all leaving the school together, headed in the general direction of Ucchan's Okonomiyaki. That was until a strong gust of wind came from the distance and Crystal was suddenly knocked to the ground as Shiva glomped her.
"What in the?! Shiva?!" exclaimed Crystal.
Crystal regained her grounds on the situation, after having been winded by the sudden combination of gravity pulling her downward and the added weight of Shiva glomping her. Wait a second, he was glomping her?
**WHAM**
A large phonebook crashed over Shiva's head as Crystal shouted, "Get off of me!"
Shiva was not harmed by the phonebook, but he obeyed Crystal's demand to be released from his glomp. Once he was up, he offered her a hand. She accepted it, although she was glaring daggers at him.
Shiva asked, "Why didn't you tell me you were back in town?"
Crystal's glare was replaced by a look of confusion and surprise, "First of all you weren't at my apartment last night when I got home or this morning for that matter, so I couldn't have told you if I had wanted to."
"You didn't want me to know?" pouted Shiva.
Crystal continued, choosing to ignore Shiva's interuption, "Secondly, I figured you'd know I'd come back as soon as school started."
"I guess that makes sense," replied Shiva with a nod.
Ukyo was edging away from the scene, not wanting Shiva's eating habits to put her out of business. Ranma noticed this and glanced to Crystal. Crystal nodded.
Shiva seemed to catch onto this, "You're going to get a bite to eat at Ucchan's? I'll come with you!"
Crystal grabbed Shiva by the arm and started dragging him in another direction, towards the Neko-Hanten, "I could go for some ramen, why don't you come with me and let you in on what I've been doing for the last two months?"
"You don't mind?" asked Shiva.
Crystal replied, "Not at all. I might even agree to a sparring match later."
"Really?!" exclaimed Shiva, his mood brightening.
"Maybe," replied Crystal.
Shiva chose to take that as a yes and made a loud cheering noise that couldn't quite be put into human words. At least he didn't notice the fact that Ranma, Ukyo and Akane were leaving while he wasn't looking. Ranma mouthed something along the lines of 'I owe ya one' to Crystal as they slipped out of sight.
Shiva was dragging Crystal by this point, "Let's go!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Inuyasha and Kagome were sitting at a table inside of the Neko-Hanten. There were quite a few bowls of ramen in front of Inuyasha and it appeared that he kept ordering more before he actually finished any.
Shiva dragged Crystal inside and to the usual table. He didn't bother asking for anything, Shampoo saw him and headed off to report that Shiva was in the building.
"Would you control yourself?" asked Crystal.
Shiva blinked at her, "Why should I do that?"
"People were staring!" exclaimed Crystal.
"So?" asked Shiva.
Crystal sighed, "Nevermind."
Shampoo returned with several bowls of ramen, "Here you go."
~How is my budget ever going to survive Shiva's company?~ Crystal wondered.
Shampoo left to serve other customers. Shiva totally ignored the ramen that had been placed on the table in front of him and lunged at the table that happened to be next to him and Crystal, heading right for Inuyasha's assortment of ramen bowls.
**WHAM**
A stack of phonebooks crashed down on Shiva, knocking him down to the floor.
"Your ramen is on this table," said Crystal indicating the ramen that Shampoo had just set down.
Shiva pouted, "But I want that ramen."
"It isn't yours," said Crystal.
Kagome blinked, "That girl looks familiar."
"Smells familiar too," said Inuyasha after another mouthful of ramen. "I'll kill her companion if he goes after my ramen again."
On cue, Shiva recovered from the pile of phonebooks that had landed on him and made another dive for the ramen.
**CRASH**
This time an entire phonebooth crashed down on Shiva. Crystal was on her feet, glaring at Shiva.
~That must be her version of "sit"~ thought Inuyasha wincing.
"Sorry about my friend here, he's a little impulsive when it comes to food," said Crystal.
Kagome said, "He isn't the only one."
"What is that supposed to mean?!" demanded Inuyasha.
Kagome ignored him, "Where did that phonebooth come from?"
"Beats me," replied Crystal.
"What is a phonebooth?" asked Inuyasha.
Kagome pointed at the thing that had fallen on Shiva, "That."
Inuyasha blinked. The phonebooth along with the assortment of phonebooks vanished into thin air and Shiva rose to his feet, giving Crystal a pitiful, hurt look that would have made a normal girl melt, but it had no such effect on Crystal. She simply glared at him.
"Why can't I have the ramen?" asked Shiva.
Crystal continued to glare at him, "That isn't your ramen! Your ramen is there!" She pointed to the other table again.
Shiva sat down and started eating.
"Seriously," muttered Crystal about to take her seat again.
"You're that dragon-girl that beat the blue phoenix demon!" exclaimed Inuyasha suddenly. "I knew I recognized that scent...but what happened to the dragon part?"
"Long story," replied Crystal.
Kagome blinked as recognition dawned on her, "I knew it was you!"
"The name is Crystal actually," noted Crystal.
"That's right, we didn't get to introduce ourselves the last time we met. I'm Kagome," said Kagome. "And the dog-boy is Inuyasha."
Inuyasha shrugged and returned to eating his ramen.
Shiva finished his ramen, "Say Crystal, when are we going to have our sparring match?"
"I guess now is good...we can have it at the vacant lot," replied Crystal.
Inuyasha stopped eating and asked, "What's a sparring match?"
"It's a sort of fake fight that martial artists have," answered Kagome.
"What is a martial artist?" asked Inuyasha.
"An unnaturally strong mortal," replied Kagome.
Inuyasha asked, "Can we watch?"
Shiva replied, "If you want to, although I imagine it will be boring since Crystal can't become a dragon anymore."
Crystal growled, "Just cause I don't transform doesn't mean I can't fight properly! I've been training, you know!"
"So that's what you were doing?" asked Shiva.
Crystal nodded, "Well, if I was going to be a normal human I decided I'd probably have to train to bring my strength back up to where it had been before that whole Skull-Dragon incident."
~She definately doesn't smell like a normal human~ thought Inuyasha. ~This could be interesting.~
*-*-*-*
About a half hour later, the odd group arrived at the vacant lot.
"We don't usually have an audience when we spar, but that shouldn't make it any different," said Crystal.
Shiva grinned, "It should make it more memorable though."
Inuyasha jumped up onto the wall and sat down with his arms crossed in front of him. Kagome stood at the entrance to the vacant lot, not wanting to get too close to the sparring match.
The match opened with a standard fist fight. It was standard in every sense, except that Crystal and Shiva never landed a punch or kick that wasn't blocked by the other. It was also different in the sense that both Crystal and Shiva were moving at Amaguriken speed which made them rather difficult for Kagome to watch, although Inuyasha could see the whole thing clearly.
"Just as fast as ever I see," said Shiva. "So are we going to fight for real or do I have force those new special attacks out of you?"
Crystal dodged several more punches, "If I don't have to use my special attacks, then I avoid using them."
Shiva grinned, "I was hoping you would say that."
The exchange of blows stopped abruptly as Crystal and Shiva stood on opposite sides of the vacant lot, still reasonably close to the center.
"I developed this one just for you," said Shiva.
Crystal shrugged as she watched Shiva cup his hands. He was radiating a heavy energy pattern while also radiating an insanely confident one, which reminded Crystal of the Mokou Takabisha and the Shishi Houkoudan, but they were being radiated at the same time.
At the same time, Crystal was preparing a counter-blast. An electric blue aura surrounded her arm.
Inuyasha continued to watch the "sparring match" with growing interest. Both of these so-called humans fought like demons as far as he was concerned. Perhaps martial artist was just the name of some kind of demon. It didn't matter, the both of them were putting on an interesting show.
Shiva shouted the attack, "Shishi Takabisha Houkou-dan!" and unleashed two blasts, one filled with sadness and the other filled with confidence. The two blasts combined into one huge blast that was headed for Crystal.
[Pride of the Lion's Roar Projectile]
Crystal thrust the fist of her glowing arm forward causing a blast in the form of a serpentine blue dragon, surrounded by electricity to rush from her arm, "Gozen Reiji Ryuurensha!"
[Midnight Dragon Burst]
The dragon blast rushed forward and intercepted Shiva's blast by crashing into it. There was a massive explosion of light and smoke as the two blasts collided, creating a shockwave across the battlefield. Crystal and Shiva were thrown into opposite walls by this shockwave.
When the smoke cleared, both warriors looked a bit roughed up, but they didn't appear to be injured.
"I think that's enough," said Crystal.
Shiva shrugged, "It was a good work-out I guess."
Kagome raised an eyebrow, "He calls that a work-out?"
"He used to call nearly being ripped to shreads by my dragon form a sparring match," replied Crystal.
Inuyasha fell down from the wall at that statement.
Shiva blinked, "What?"
Inuyasha said, "When she attacked that blue phoenix demon as a dragon, there was nothing left in the end! There is no way a human could survive that!"
"It was fun really," said Shiva.
Inuyasha facevaulted.
Crystal shrugged, "I might not become a dragon anymore, but I can still fight."
"That was almost as good as a match against your old dragon form, but I guess it was a bit safer than I would have liked," said Shiva.
Crystal sighed, "You'll never change."
"Is that a bad thing?" asked Shiva.
Crystal shrugged, "It all depends on if it gets your killed or not."
"Does this mean I can still stay in your apartment?" asked Shiva.
"If I can find it," replied Crystal.
Kagome asked, "Find it?"
"It has a way of eluding me when I'm trying to find it," replied Crystal.
*-*-*-*
Crystal and Shiva finally arrived back at the apartment in the middle of the night.
"What I can't understand is why I couldn't find it either," said Shiva as they stumbled through the doorless doorway.
Crystal asked, "How do you usually find it?"
"I trace your aura to it..." Shiva trailed off.
"I thought as much," said Crystal.
Shiva sprawled out on the couch, "Can't talk now...sleeping..."
Crystal sweatdropped before heading down the hallway to her bedroom, "It has been a long day..."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
To Be Continued...
Spoiler Warning: This fanfiction will definately include spoilers of events and characters that appear later on in these Anime Titles. Technically these characters have already appeared, they just haven't appeared in the English version of the series.
Author's Note: This is an Anime Multiverse fanfiction, meaning that any number of Anime Titles could appear during the course of the series. The primary Anime Titles that will be involved are Inu-Yasha, Ranma 1/2 and Tenchi Muyo. Another Anime Title that will hold some ground on this series is Digimon Adventure, although none of the actual characters will be involved, there will be events and monsters that do relate to the series. When other titles will become involved, there will be an author's note announcing it at the beginning of the chapter that it will be involved in.
Author's Note2: While this will be the second season of The Dragon Tamer series, it does not directly follow what has happened so far. The reason for this is simply that I wanted to add in a few things that I had not planned on in the beginning and now was the ideal time to put them into place. It works almost like an alternate universe, in the sense that everything that did happen happened, it just probably ended up happening in a different, less silly way. First time readers should be able to follow the events that happen now without reading the first series.
------Original Characters------
Crystal Mizuka is your not-so-typical, 16-year-old, half-human, martial artist, magician and high school student. As our story begins, Crystal has been rid of the Dragon's Curse for about two months and she is back in school again, strongly believing that with the curse gone she has become a normal human. If this were true, there wouldn't be much purpose to the series. The character of Crystal is a creation of my own insane mind.
Shiva is your not-so-typical martial artist and free-loading houseguest. He is noted for being part human, part Jurain and part Divine all in one. He has frequently invited himself to live in Crystal's apartment, which for the most part remains empty. One of his most famous moments was the time when Crystal hurled a refridgerator at him, which he dodged, leading to the door to the apartment being permenantly removed and the refridgerator being lodged in the hallway wall. Shiva repaired the refridgerator and it has since remained in the hallway. Remarkably, the other people in the apartment complex stay as far away from the area as possible. Beyond this, Shiva's noted traits are that he is always hungry, unless being fed or having just eaten, eating vast quantities of food in a short amount of time and his sub-space picnic basket. The character of Shiva belongs to Shiva.
------The Key------
"......" -speaking ~......~ -thinking **......** -exagerated noises/actions {......} -telepathy [......] -author's notes
------Midnight Dragon Burst------
It was a typical morning at the Tendo Dojo. Ranma had been training with his father, who was now a panda in the backyard and now it was time for breakfast. The only reason Ranma was still at the house was because Akane wasn't the one who made breakfast, although there was still the small matter of lunch. Ranma would deal with that problem later.
The usual morning routine followed as always. Ranma and Panda-san started randomly snatching food from each others plates, and everyone elses for that matter which resulted in a great deal of shouting around the table and a glass of water spilling on Ranma.
"Gah!" exclaimed Ranma-chan as she felt the cold water land on her. This was not a good way to start the first day of school, yet again.
[Due to the miracle of anime and cartoons in general, no one seems to have aged in the least.]
*-*-*-*
A short time later, more of the usual events were still happening. Ranma- kun was running along the usual fence, with Akane running on the path bellow him. Obviously, both of them were attempting to make it to school on time.
As they arrived at Furinkan, Tatewaki "Blue Thunder" Kuno was at the front gates to greet them. It was more along the lines of waiting to challenge Ranma for Akane and the Pigtailed Girl, but he promptly got booted in small orbit over the school building. Ranma and Akane hurried off to class before Kuno had a chance to recover, or worse, it started raining.
*-*-*-*
As Ranma and Akane finally made it to the safety of their homeroom class, regardless of the fact that it was also the class of Hinako-sensei, Ranma was greeted by a familiar voice.
"Hiya Ran-chan," called Ukyo from the other side of the room.
Crystal happened to be with Ukyo. She was dressed in her typical black pants and black tanktop, complete with the hilt of her sword [Dragon Blade] poking over her left shoulder. Her long, dirty blond hair was tied back in a ponytail. Obviously it had gotten longer while she was away, and she appeared to be making a mental note to get it cut back to normal.
"Yo Ucchan," replied Ranma, making his way across the room to meet with his childhood friend. He ignored the crimson aura that was starting to form around Akane, who in turn chose to ignore him completely and went off to join her friends.
Around the room, friends were explaining the events of their summers in great detail. Most of them were exagerating what had happened of course, but they told the stories and their friends listened anyway.
Ukyo handed Ranma a take-out box of okonomiyaki, having assumed Akane would do something like make lunch on the first day back to school. Ranma looked happy about this, accepting the okonomiyaki and tossing the so-called "food" that Akane had made him across the room into the trash can.
**CRACK**
A split second later, a certain mallet in the hands of a very pissed off Akane slammed over Ranma's head. Ranma hit the floor with swirls for eyes and a lump forming on the back of his head in the typical Ranma pose, twitching. The mallet left Akane's hands and she returned to chatting with her friends as though nothing had happened.
School began and it seemed like a relatively normal day, if not a little more peaceful than usual.
*-*-*-*
At the end of school, that peacefulness still lingered. Ranma, Akane, Ukyo and Crystal were all leaving the school together, headed in the general direction of Ucchan's Okonomiyaki. That was until a strong gust of wind came from the distance and Crystal was suddenly knocked to the ground as Shiva glomped her.
"What in the?! Shiva?!" exclaimed Crystal.
Crystal regained her grounds on the situation, after having been winded by the sudden combination of gravity pulling her downward and the added weight of Shiva glomping her. Wait a second, he was glomping her?
**WHAM**
A large phonebook crashed over Shiva's head as Crystal shouted, "Get off of me!"
Shiva was not harmed by the phonebook, but he obeyed Crystal's demand to be released from his glomp. Once he was up, he offered her a hand. She accepted it, although she was glaring daggers at him.
Shiva asked, "Why didn't you tell me you were back in town?"
Crystal's glare was replaced by a look of confusion and surprise, "First of all you weren't at my apartment last night when I got home or this morning for that matter, so I couldn't have told you if I had wanted to."
"You didn't want me to know?" pouted Shiva.
Crystal continued, choosing to ignore Shiva's interuption, "Secondly, I figured you'd know I'd come back as soon as school started."
"I guess that makes sense," replied Shiva with a nod.
Ukyo was edging away from the scene, not wanting Shiva's eating habits to put her out of business. Ranma noticed this and glanced to Crystal. Crystal nodded.
Shiva seemed to catch onto this, "You're going to get a bite to eat at Ucchan's? I'll come with you!"
Crystal grabbed Shiva by the arm and started dragging him in another direction, towards the Neko-Hanten, "I could go for some ramen, why don't you come with me and let you in on what I've been doing for the last two months?"
"You don't mind?" asked Shiva.
Crystal replied, "Not at all. I might even agree to a sparring match later."
"Really?!" exclaimed Shiva, his mood brightening.
"Maybe," replied Crystal.
Shiva chose to take that as a yes and made a loud cheering noise that couldn't quite be put into human words. At least he didn't notice the fact that Ranma, Ukyo and Akane were leaving while he wasn't looking. Ranma mouthed something along the lines of 'I owe ya one' to Crystal as they slipped out of sight.
Shiva was dragging Crystal by this point, "Let's go!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Inuyasha and Kagome were sitting at a table inside of the Neko-Hanten. There were quite a few bowls of ramen in front of Inuyasha and it appeared that he kept ordering more before he actually finished any.
Shiva dragged Crystal inside and to the usual table. He didn't bother asking for anything, Shampoo saw him and headed off to report that Shiva was in the building.
"Would you control yourself?" asked Crystal.
Shiva blinked at her, "Why should I do that?"
"People were staring!" exclaimed Crystal.
"So?" asked Shiva.
Crystal sighed, "Nevermind."
Shampoo returned with several bowls of ramen, "Here you go."
~How is my budget ever going to survive Shiva's company?~ Crystal wondered.
Shampoo left to serve other customers. Shiva totally ignored the ramen that had been placed on the table in front of him and lunged at the table that happened to be next to him and Crystal, heading right for Inuyasha's assortment of ramen bowls.
**WHAM**
A stack of phonebooks crashed down on Shiva, knocking him down to the floor.
"Your ramen is on this table," said Crystal indicating the ramen that Shampoo had just set down.
Shiva pouted, "But I want that ramen."
"It isn't yours," said Crystal.
Kagome blinked, "That girl looks familiar."
"Smells familiar too," said Inuyasha after another mouthful of ramen. "I'll kill her companion if he goes after my ramen again."
On cue, Shiva recovered from the pile of phonebooks that had landed on him and made another dive for the ramen.
**CRASH**
This time an entire phonebooth crashed down on Shiva. Crystal was on her feet, glaring at Shiva.
~That must be her version of "sit"~ thought Inuyasha wincing.
"Sorry about my friend here, he's a little impulsive when it comes to food," said Crystal.
Kagome said, "He isn't the only one."
"What is that supposed to mean?!" demanded Inuyasha.
Kagome ignored him, "Where did that phonebooth come from?"
"Beats me," replied Crystal.
"What is a phonebooth?" asked Inuyasha.
Kagome pointed at the thing that had fallen on Shiva, "That."
Inuyasha blinked. The phonebooth along with the assortment of phonebooks vanished into thin air and Shiva rose to his feet, giving Crystal a pitiful, hurt look that would have made a normal girl melt, but it had no such effect on Crystal. She simply glared at him.
"Why can't I have the ramen?" asked Shiva.
Crystal continued to glare at him, "That isn't your ramen! Your ramen is there!" She pointed to the other table again.
Shiva sat down and started eating.
"Seriously," muttered Crystal about to take her seat again.
"You're that dragon-girl that beat the blue phoenix demon!" exclaimed Inuyasha suddenly. "I knew I recognized that scent...but what happened to the dragon part?"
"Long story," replied Crystal.
Kagome blinked as recognition dawned on her, "I knew it was you!"
"The name is Crystal actually," noted Crystal.
"That's right, we didn't get to introduce ourselves the last time we met. I'm Kagome," said Kagome. "And the dog-boy is Inuyasha."
Inuyasha shrugged and returned to eating his ramen.
Shiva finished his ramen, "Say Crystal, when are we going to have our sparring match?"
"I guess now is good...we can have it at the vacant lot," replied Crystal.
Inuyasha stopped eating and asked, "What's a sparring match?"
"It's a sort of fake fight that martial artists have," answered Kagome.
"What is a martial artist?" asked Inuyasha.
"An unnaturally strong mortal," replied Kagome.
Inuyasha asked, "Can we watch?"
Shiva replied, "If you want to, although I imagine it will be boring since Crystal can't become a dragon anymore."
Crystal growled, "Just cause I don't transform doesn't mean I can't fight properly! I've been training, you know!"
"So that's what you were doing?" asked Shiva.
Crystal nodded, "Well, if I was going to be a normal human I decided I'd probably have to train to bring my strength back up to where it had been before that whole Skull-Dragon incident."
~She definately doesn't smell like a normal human~ thought Inuyasha. ~This could be interesting.~
*-*-*-*
About a half hour later, the odd group arrived at the vacant lot.
"We don't usually have an audience when we spar, but that shouldn't make it any different," said Crystal.
Shiva grinned, "It should make it more memorable though."
Inuyasha jumped up onto the wall and sat down with his arms crossed in front of him. Kagome stood at the entrance to the vacant lot, not wanting to get too close to the sparring match.
The match opened with a standard fist fight. It was standard in every sense, except that Crystal and Shiva never landed a punch or kick that wasn't blocked by the other. It was also different in the sense that both Crystal and Shiva were moving at Amaguriken speed which made them rather difficult for Kagome to watch, although Inuyasha could see the whole thing clearly.
"Just as fast as ever I see," said Shiva. "So are we going to fight for real or do I have force those new special attacks out of you?"
Crystal dodged several more punches, "If I don't have to use my special attacks, then I avoid using them."
Shiva grinned, "I was hoping you would say that."
The exchange of blows stopped abruptly as Crystal and Shiva stood on opposite sides of the vacant lot, still reasonably close to the center.
"I developed this one just for you," said Shiva.
Crystal shrugged as she watched Shiva cup his hands. He was radiating a heavy energy pattern while also radiating an insanely confident one, which reminded Crystal of the Mokou Takabisha and the Shishi Houkoudan, but they were being radiated at the same time.
At the same time, Crystal was preparing a counter-blast. An electric blue aura surrounded her arm.
Inuyasha continued to watch the "sparring match" with growing interest. Both of these so-called humans fought like demons as far as he was concerned. Perhaps martial artist was just the name of some kind of demon. It didn't matter, the both of them were putting on an interesting show.
Shiva shouted the attack, "Shishi Takabisha Houkou-dan!" and unleashed two blasts, one filled with sadness and the other filled with confidence. The two blasts combined into one huge blast that was headed for Crystal.
[Pride of the Lion's Roar Projectile]
Crystal thrust the fist of her glowing arm forward causing a blast in the form of a serpentine blue dragon, surrounded by electricity to rush from her arm, "Gozen Reiji Ryuurensha!"
[Midnight Dragon Burst]
The dragon blast rushed forward and intercepted Shiva's blast by crashing into it. There was a massive explosion of light and smoke as the two blasts collided, creating a shockwave across the battlefield. Crystal and Shiva were thrown into opposite walls by this shockwave.
When the smoke cleared, both warriors looked a bit roughed up, but they didn't appear to be injured.
"I think that's enough," said Crystal.
Shiva shrugged, "It was a good work-out I guess."
Kagome raised an eyebrow, "He calls that a work-out?"
"He used to call nearly being ripped to shreads by my dragon form a sparring match," replied Crystal.
Inuyasha fell down from the wall at that statement.
Shiva blinked, "What?"
Inuyasha said, "When she attacked that blue phoenix demon as a dragon, there was nothing left in the end! There is no way a human could survive that!"
"It was fun really," said Shiva.
Inuyasha facevaulted.
Crystal shrugged, "I might not become a dragon anymore, but I can still fight."
"That was almost as good as a match against your old dragon form, but I guess it was a bit safer than I would have liked," said Shiva.
Crystal sighed, "You'll never change."
"Is that a bad thing?" asked Shiva.
Crystal shrugged, "It all depends on if it gets your killed or not."
"Does this mean I can still stay in your apartment?" asked Shiva.
"If I can find it," replied Crystal.
Kagome asked, "Find it?"
"It has a way of eluding me when I'm trying to find it," replied Crystal.
*-*-*-*
Crystal and Shiva finally arrived back at the apartment in the middle of the night.
"What I can't understand is why I couldn't find it either," said Shiva as they stumbled through the doorless doorway.
Crystal asked, "How do you usually find it?"
"I trace your aura to it..." Shiva trailed off.
"I thought as much," said Crystal.
Shiva sprawled out on the couch, "Can't talk now...sleeping..."
Crystal sweatdropped before heading down the hallway to her bedroom, "It has been a long day..."
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To Be Continued...