The parting of the Sanzo's
Hatsuka stood, surrounded by Youkai, their faces contorted with anger and she was beginning to feel desperate.
"COME HELP THE CRIPPLE YOU HEARTLESS PEOPLE!" she called waving her hands in the air. One Youkai took this chance to attack and Hatsuka brought her arms down quickly and plunging a small blade into the Youkai's eye. Blood poured from the wound, and ran warm against her flesh. She pushed the dead Youkai's body backwards and span, locking knives with claws as a Youkai attempted to strike her from behind.
"YAH!" Aya's cry was the only warning she had before the Youkai in front of her collapsed in a heap and bits of splintered wood stuck out the back of his head. Aya stood there, a crazed grin on her face while holding the remainders of the chairs legs.
"Who says I'm heartless?" she beamed happily and struck an on coming Youkai over the head, not taking her eyes from Hatsuka.
"I did?" Hatsuka spun a blade in her hand and plunged it backwards into a Youkai's gut.
Aya's face fell and no less than four Youkai tackled her to the floor at once.
"Need some help?" Hatsuka asked as she delivered a kick to the side of a passing Youkai.
"Nah, I'm good" called back Aya from under the mass of bodies that suddenly went flying in all directions as Aya threw them bodily from her. "HA HA! Take that!" she yelled, her hangover immediately forgotten through all the excitement.
Turning away from the mass slaughter being carried out by a very mad Aya and two sharpened chair legs Hatsuka surveyed the 'battled field'.
Kiyoko was standing behind Itsuko who was taking on two Youkai at once and dealing her fair share of damage.
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Hakkai was still smiling as he threw a hand full of Chi at a Youkai, the body was suspended in mid-air for a second before disintegrating. Hakkai spun round as he leapt away from a weapon of some kind. It embedded into the ground but was wrenched out almost immediately by a 6 foot 6 Youkai. Hakkai's smile wavered and he hesitated. The Youkai rushed him and he only just managed to dodge, the blade ripping his sleeve and nicking his skin. Hakkai blasted him to pieces, catching his breath. He turned to the next Youkai and began the dance again.
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Gojyo sent his blade threw Youkai after Youkai and seemingly enjoying the sound of their screams, his crimson hair flying about his face as he moved, turning his upper body but keeping his feet squarely on one spot, refusing to surrender any ground to the Youkai who were slowly depleting in number.
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Goku slammed into a Youkai's back with his nyoi-bou, grumbling about being interrupted while eating and was showing no obvious mercy to those who thought it smart to fight him. He smacked a Youkai around the face and the demon's teeth went flying.
The only one standing away from the violence was Sanzo and his attention was focused on something else entirely. Some Youkai were standing away from the bloody massacre which was unfolding before them. He watched them carefully and came to the conclusion that they were after something.
Sure enough they had been slowly moving around so as to be at Kiyoko's back who was too engrossed in her cries of, "Violence is wrong" to pay any notice to those sneaking up on her flanks. Pulling his gun from his sleeve, Sanzo took aim and fired three shots into the Youkai's heads. They exploded in a shower of blood and brains. Kiyoko screamed.
"GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" she began to flap at her hair but no one paid her much attention, each focusing on their current problems.
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After a good half an hour of slicing and dicing, Youkai bodies littered the once clean streets and villagers had begun to venture out of their homes to survey the damage the Youkai and crazy travellers had afflicted upon their town.
"That was fun," said Aya bouncing up to Kiyoko with a wide grin on her face, the bloody chair legs still gripped lightly in her hands.
"Sure was a great work out after breakfast" yawned Hatsuka stretching her arms above her head.
"Did someone say breakfast?" called Goku, tripping over a dead body as he rushed towards them.
"They were after the sutra's," stated Sanzo bluntly. Everyone looked at him and Kiyoko stopped flapping around long enough to consider his proposal.
"I do believe you may be right Genjyo Sanzo," she said calmly, pulling a piece of flesh from her blood-coated hair. " I need a shower"
"I miss this kind of action, we should hang around more often" stated Aya, her face turning suddenly serious.
"Aya!" said Kiyoko calmly and Aya turned to her. She finally let the chair legs drop to the ground with a soft thump.
"Yeah yeah, Sanzo, I got it. I'll go get the packs"
"Thank you, Hatsuka go help her and make sure she doesn't steal anything." Aya sent Kiyoko a mean glare before storming back into the inn, villagers tripping over themselves to get out of her way. Hatsuka sighed and followed her, grumbling angrily about, crazy teapots.
"Well, Sha Gojyo, Son Goku, Cho Hakkai and Genjyo Sanzo, we must be leaving once more, we have somewhere we must be by tomorrow night and if we leave now we may just make it in time. It was a pleasure meeting you" Kiyoko and Itsuko bowed deeply just as Aya and Hatsuka strolled out of the inn. Aya carried on walking but through Itsuko's bag and Kiyoko's at them as she passed. Hatsuka following close behind.
"Still cranky?" Hatsuka asked Aya sweetly.
"Oh yeah" snarled Aya, the hangover she had forgotten rushing back at full speed with added turbo power.
"Thank you Genjyo Sanzo, it was a pleasure meeting you again" Kiyoko picked up her pack from where Aya had thrown it and began to walk at a quick pace through the village, delicately stepping over dead bodies and offering apologies to those who did not run screaming in fear at their approach.
The men all stood following the disappearing backs of the four women. Gojyo sighed.
"Such a nice-"
"Don't even dare" snarled Sanzo, his fan magically appearing in his hands.
"Right" nodded Gojyo but he continued to watch wistfully as the women turned the corner and vanished from view.
"You know that's the second time they have walked away from us and left us very confused" commented Hakkai. "Only this time they left us to pay for the damage that most of them caused"
"Do I hear Hakkai complaining?" mentioned Sanzo, tapping his fan against his shoulder.
"Of course not, after all, you are the one with the credit card" Hakkai smiled sweetly.
"Hmmmm" Sanzo fingered his Sutra thoughtfully and his mind began to unravel the message Kiyoko had left behind.
It was a pleasure meeting you again
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CD: A chapter that I didn't write! YAY!
JT: My god that was bad, don't kill me, it was my first try at a fight scene so I'm willing to accept criticism, but a compliment here and there is appreciated :D
CD: Yes I'm very proud of you … smart ass
JT: I TRY!
FS: What are you guys doing?
CD & JT: Nothing …
