Fire of the Phoenix
Sequel to: A Falcon's Spirit
Prologue
Hiei lunged through the forest, a feral grin of success stretched across his face.
An old demon slung across his back tapped on Hiei's shoulder.
"Why are you doing this?" he croaked.
Hiei thought of this memory now as he, and the other members of the gang, trudged through a very different forest.
When he had decided to rescue the people of that cell he'd found Astrid in, he hadn't been sure why he'd decided to do it.
Now, he knew perfectly well why.
When he'd thought that Astrid certainly was dead, Hiei realized that the imprisoned people no longer had anyone to count on to rescue them. Even if they didn't know it.
Hiei felt as though her disappearance was his fault and that it should be up to him now to go back in her place.
He knew how Astrid felt about them, and he knew how he felt about Astrid.
It was his final good deed until he had crossed paths with Urameshi.
A tall pyramid loomed before the team as they rapidly approached it.
"There it is!" Kurama called out, "The Pyramid of the Sun."