Chapter 2
"If you wanna fight Lady, you got one!" Yusuke shouted charging her ready for the fight of his life. She glanced at him and side stepped swiftly before vanishing. Kuwabara fell to the ground unconscious within a second and she faced her remaining three opponents.
"Humans are pathetic creatures. Hanyous aren't much better, but this is a new time. If you're still alive then you must be worth some kind of fight." She ran at Yusuke shocking him with her speed but still managed to barely block all of her punches. He was giving ground much to quickly and found himself flat on his back staring up into the sky blue eyes of his opponent.
"Who are you?" Yusuke choked out as she slowly closed off his windpipe with her foot.
She flashed her fangs. "Tell King Enma if the Spirit World Okibi Dokuja, is pissed and wants to talk." She knelt down to his ear, "Let's keep that between you and me though shall we?" Yusuke didn't have the chance to reply before she had knocked him out. She was knocked off her feet before she could straighten to her full height. She hit the dirt hard, rolling onto her feet easily and faced her opponent.
"Kurama, take care of Yusuke." Hiei ordered holding his blade ready. Ki laughed quietly drawing the pair of swords strapped to her back in an 'x' shape. Her sky blue eyes locked onto his crimson ones before they shot at each other at blinding speeds.
The demons watching could only see the sparks of their blades when the cold metal clashed violently. Ki quickly realized Hiei's physical strength easily surpassed hers, but he lacked her ability to read sword movements and skill and the experience that came with it. She locked her blade with his purposely, catching him off guard. Hiei started to lean his weight on the sword meaning to push Ki back. She let her arm fall suddenly, Hiei falling with it, off balance. Her second sword flashed as it was brought up in a smooth arc across Hiei's chest. He fell back bleeding heavily from the fresh wound.
She felt a pang in her chest, sharp and painful as she watched Hiei's pain grow when he stood in attempt to keep fighting. Her swords seamed to sheath themselves and she knelt in the dirt placing her hands before her watching him carefully.
"Tell me, do you believe in shape shifters?" Ki asked a cruel smile tugging at her lips.
"They are extinct." Hiei spat watching every move she made, unable to understand why she was asking him this.
"Well, then consider me a blast from the past." Ki said, her voice turning into a low growl as her body started to take on another form. It swelled and grew, tail, wings, and horns formed. Her neck and spine stretched to seemingly impossible lengths. With a purr of satisfaction she faced Hiei, trails of smoke drifting from her nostrils.
Hiei's expression shifted to one of awe as he stared at the blue dragon in front of him. Upon further examination he found that her scales were actually many different colors that changed rapidly, and blue being the most often appeared to be the color of her scales.
"This feels good. After so long, being able to change is a blessing." Ki purred in her mind, sending the thought to Hiei as well. "Come Fire youkai, let us finish this." Hiei straightened a determined gleam in his eye.
Kurama quickly called Koenma for a portal and dragged Yusuke and Kuwabara through it before the demon's on the hill caught onto him. Koenma raced to meet him at the infirmary where everyone was being checked out.
"Well!" Koenma blurted shaking as he stared at Kurama's face expectantly.
"I don't know, our attacker was a female. She knocked Kuwa and Yusuke our far to quickly to obtain any real information. She spoke to Yusuke though and he seamed to be unnerved by it. Hiei is covering our escape. " Kurama explained hastily, "We need to go back and get Hiei, I fear she might be too much for him."
Koenma nodded and opened a portal for Kurama, the pair left through quickly, in attempt to rush to their friends aid. Koenma nearly passed out at the site in front of him. A large blue dragon had Hiei pinned beneath its claws, helpless. The dragon roared it's victory and shrank, changing back into the form of a woman. She nelt next to Hiei's head and brushed his cheek almost lovingly before moving her hand down his neck.
"Stop!" Kurama shouted getting her attention at the same time her band of demons rode up behind her.
"Lady Kiriai wants us back." The demons said handing her a horse. The gleam in her eye that came from victory vanished and her face cooled over like it was chiseled from ice. She mounted her horse and took a quick glance at Hiei before leading her demons away at a thundering pace.
"Hiei!" Koenma called as the fire youkai struggled to re gain consciousness.
"Where did she-? Why am I not dead?" Hiei demanded as Kurama helped him up.
Koenma lead them through a portal asking Hiei questions, "Did you wan tot die?"
"NO you fool! I should be dead, but she spared me obviously. I thought I had the battle won until, she changed on me. I thought shape shifters were extinct."
"Did you get a name?" Koenma asked and the room fell dead silent.
"H-hai." A voice croaked weakly. Everyone faced Yusuke shocked and wanting the answer. "She told me to tell King Enma that Okibi Dokuja is pissed and wants to talk. I think she was referring to herself."
Koenma's face turned sheet white he staggered backwards away from Yusuke, "No she's been dead for thousands of years! BOTON!"
The blue hared ferry girl popped up next to him instantly, "Yes?"
"Bring up every file you can on Okibi Dokuja, also known as Shien. Every single damn scrap of paper. Don't leave anything out. And have George bring me files on recent energy spikes in the makai." Koenma ordered and he faced his detectives, "We had better hope she was lying. Excuse me." He fled the room toward hi office.
"Okibi Dokuja?" Yusuke asked confused and rubbing his throbbing head. "Why is she so important?"
"I don't know Yusuke." Kurama muttered.
Kiriai back handed Ki hard enough to send her to the floor, her face flushed with anger. She toward over Ki, kicking her in the side as she tried to get up. "No one told you to shift into your dragon form! I thought I told you not to do that! You could have just given your self away! Damn it I have to rethink everything." She glared at Ki hard her mind spinning, going through every option she had.
"My Lady, maybe we can use this to our advantage. The Spirit world is already about to crack under our forces. If we call a banner of truce and present their options; while telling them about Okibi-san they might crack." Kiriai thought over the option carefully a slow smile spreading across her lips as she faced her second in command.
"That kind of thinking will keep you alive longer," she said and faced Ki who had stood up again and was watching Kiriai with anger blazing behind her eyes. "Well maybe you aren't such a screw up after all aneki-chan."
Ki bared her teeth, "When I find a way to break these bonds you put on me, I swear I'll rip you apart."
"But Dragons can't kill their own kin, you'd die yourself along with me." Kiriai hissed.
"I have never found my soul mate, my dream was destroyed long ago so that I no longer have one. I no longer fear death for I have died once before," Her icy gaze pierced Kiriai's soul. "Besides I'm the last of my kind. I no longer have a place in this world."
"S-surely you fear what Satan could do to you!" Kiriai's second in command shouted taking a step back.
Ki smiled evily watching him from the corner of her eyes, turning her face just enough so he could see her smile. "I have no reason to fear my own father?"