The Three Demons

Chapter 2

Planning and Action

"Do any of you use telepathy," Hiei asked to the group.

"I can, and my range is five miles," Hibiki said stepping forward.

Hiei smirked and said, "fifteen," which made the blonde just sink into the floor with depression.

"Did you just ask so you could glote," Gray asked in irritation.

"No, I asked because that is a key point in the plan, and so we will divide into five teams," he started before taking a second glance and nodding to himself in confirmation. "First team will be Gray, Lyon, and Sherry, your job will be to scour the woods within twenty miles until you find a member of the Oracion Seis. When you find them, you can form any plan you wish in the effort to take them down. I had originally had Natsu work with you, but i can't trust that you won't do something stupid."

"How ironic, a demon talking about trust," Lyon commented with a sneer.

"Enough, we need his help, and we can't have his help if you two don't put your differences aside," Erza said in a commanding tone.

"As I was saying, team two will consist of Erza, Wendy, and the cats, and your job will be support. The cats will fly you two where any support is needed, while Wendy heals, Erza will protect, any questions," Hiei stated.

"Why can't I go with Natsu," Happy, the blue cat, asked.

"I just said that team two has two members, to conserve their power you two are to fly them, you are simply needed elsewhere," he answered back.

"Now that you mentioned me, where will I be," Natsu asked with a grin full of hope for a fight.

"Be patient, first is team three, and that will be Lucy, Hibiki, Eve, and Ren. Your job will be the same as team one, scour the woods within twenty miles until you find a member of the Oracion Seis. However, you all will also have the added bonus as being the command center, so you three will have to protect Hibiki," Hiei ordered them next.

"So, team one is search and destroy, team two is support, and team three is command center," Jura surmised.

"Yes, but for this to work, I assume that we can't kill them like we do on my world, so we need a containment team. That will consist of Jura and Ichiya, and they will stay at a specified location that is easily defend-able. When you defeat an enemy is when you meet up with them and contain him," he ordered.

"That just leaves you and Natsu, what will you be doing while we search and destroy," Sherry asked.

"I will be tracking it with my third eye, don't ask all of it's capabilities, you don't need to know. While I tack it, Natsu will be watching my back and making sure nobody is going to sneak attack while my back is turned. I don't trust any of you, but since he is the only thing close to me, I will trust him at the moment," Hiei commented.

"That makes sense, we destroy the enemy and keep their focus on us so you two can search," Erza commented.

"That is a good plan, gives us an edge in the battles to come, any other notes in the plan Hiei," Jura asked.

"Yes, when team two is not on a support run, they should stay with the containment team. At that location is where we will be relocating since we have already been compromised at this location. From there team one will go twenty miles out and work their way in while searching for any of the enemy. Team three will go fifteen miles out while keeping an eye out for the enemy as well, any further questions," Hiei asked them.

"That just about covers it with me, anybody have anything to add," Jura asked rhetorically.

"Good, now let's move out before they find us and attack just so they can pick us all off with their team work, because I doubt that you all have any experience in that," he commented as they all made their way to the exit.

"What makes you say that we don't have good teamwork," Lucy asked, a little offended and the remark.

"Think about it Lucy, we are an alliance that never worked together before, the Oracion Seis has probably had experience fighting as a unit," Erza informed her as they walked through the woods.

The walk through the woods went on until the came to a rock formation where they could easily defend from. It was closed on all sides except one and had a space that someone could take cover from anything above them.

Turning to face them, Hiei said, "this will be containment area from now one, all teams are to move out now and go in different directions."

They all ran through the woods in different directions and kept their eyes peeled while Hiei and Natsu slowly walked through the woods until they came to a cliff-side. Natsu noticed that they had moved far enough away decided to speak, "I don't know why you did that, or who you are, but I didn't want them to know."

Hiei looked back over his shoulder to see the dragon slayer with a blank look before saying, "so you knew you were a demon, why hide with these pathetic humans."

"They hide my demonic aura from all the time I have spent with them over the years, and I didn't want to do what I was bread for and decided to hide," Natsu said plainly.

"Since you do seem to have experience, do you know of a way to get home," he asked.

"No, but I do know of someone that might, though I don't know what's in it for me," he replied deviously.

"That power that you hide is actually quite impressive, so I can't scare you with my power. I can however, offer you a deal to mess with the memories of everyone that knows your secret," Hiei offered with a smirk.

"I guess that is one of the powers of that jagan eye of yours, so yeah, if you can deliver, I will get her to do some research," Natsu said with a demonic grin.

"Good, but now let's continue with the search for this Nirvana," he said as he jumped down, quickly followed by Natsu.

"That reminds me, Nirvana is actually a machine that switches darkness and light between the two. Demons are not affected due to us not having magic, or being able to switch that with demon energy, but that means that everyone else might turn on us," he warned.

"This is supposed to be an ancient device of some kind, but you seem to know far more than that blonde simpleton with his archive," Hiei said as he rose a stoic eyebrow.

"You don't need to know everything, but technically I am over four hundred years old, and I was there when they sealed the thing," Natsu confirmed.

"So you know where the thing is, why am I wasting the energy searching for it," he stoically asked with a little irritation in his voice.

"I know where, but we need to make sure the enemy doesn't find out, so we will circle the area around it until the rest take the Seis down," he replied calmly.

"Nice plan, you might actually be the only person of that group that I can stand," Hiei said with a smirk as they did what Natsu suggested walked around the area of Nirvana.

That is until they heard something through the telepathy, "Angel, Racer, and Hot Eye have all been beaten and contained. Wendy however has been taken by Brain and Erza has been bitten by Cobra's snake, we need help in retrieving Wendy to heal her," Hibiki told them in panic.