Alpha, or rather Wolfie as she had nicknamed, walked along side Hiei. Where they were going she didn't know, but he seemed to. The two were about the same height, though Wolfie was slightly taller because of her wolf ears. It was only slight because Hiei's hair had the same effect. They hadn't spoken during their walk and it seemed to suit them both. Wolfie of course snuck glances at the red eyed demon wondering if he really was a demon.
Many had considered Alpha a demon. Mostly those who fell at her hand, both enemies and her own when they chose to ignore her rules. How she looked didn't matter though, it was her strict leadership and aggressive nature that got her to where she had been. Leader of the Crimson Wolves. Of course there was another, more definite reason why she was even accepted as the leader...
After the near hundredth glance at him, Hiei stopped and openly glared at Wolfie. "What are you looking at baka onna?"
"Are you a demon?" She bluntly asked as her left ear went off to the side in a confused manner.
"Of course I am, but you're not." Hiei responded pointing at her ears and tail. "Hn. Those are fake."
Wolfie crossed her arms and gave her own glare at him. "So, at least one of us looks like a demon." She responded childishly at him and stuck her tongue out.
"How did I manage to get partnered up with you?" He sneered and stomped away in his usual cold prance.
Alpha followed him with her eyes and for a moment they lit up with mischief. Looking up she saw the bright rays of sunlight filter in through the trees. They had walked further into the forest away from Genkai's shrine and towards a more rocky terrain. From what had been explained earlier they were looking for a rock demon named Genbu. Wolfie didn't know how a demon could be made out of rocks, but she didn't question it. After all, she could summon two hunks of keyblade metal whenever she wanted.
Holding up her hands she focused on a natural power she possessed. In her world, there were people who had elemental powers given to them at birth. They were derived from the four gods of old. There was the god of the moon, the god of sun, the god of the rising and setting sun and the god of darkness. The powers were broken into four categories. Solar, Lunar, Twilight/Dawn, and Eclipse. Alpha was given the powers of the sun. She could manipulate the sun's rays to a varying degree of heat. From the spring warmth to summer scorches to oven baking temperatures. All aimed at precise locations. If the light is from the natural sun she could even bend light to make herself disappear completely. Theoretically of course, she was still working on that trick.
With her hands in front of her she smirked and evil smirk. "You're too cold Hiei; they just wanted you to warm up." As she finished her sentence, Alpha directed a beam of sun light at Hiei's retreating figure. It was like a personal spotly from heaven the way it hit him from above. The temperature was enough to make a man sweat in moments before the natural occurrence of a sun burn began to take affect.
Hiei had stopped in his tracks when the spot light hit him. Thinking there was a further attack he turned at Wolfie with his hand on the hilt of his Katana. He quickly realized that there was no other attack and stood up straight with a haughty smirk on his face. The heat had absolutely no affect on the fire demon. Though his clothes spoke something different as they started to smoke.
Wolfie's smile faded as she noticed him not flinching to the extreme heat. Keeping her focus on the light she moved forward to get a better look at him. Trotting around him she looked closely. He was burning, not even breaking a sweat. Curiously she stuck her hand in the beam of light. Maybe she had lost her touch after a week in Ilusia. The sun seemed to be nonexistent. The town was always in a constant haze of twilight and darkness. Almost instantly she pulled her hand back and stuck her fingers in her mouth. It was definitely hot in there, so why did he look so...comfortable?
"What kind of demon are you exactly?" She asked glaring at him accusingly. As the smell of burning clothes reached her nose she dimmed the light slowly until it disappeared all together. His clothing still smoked and the ground was smoldering in leafy embers. Even his hair looked untouched by the heat. Letting curiosity get the better of her she reached out her hand to touch his hair.
She was nearly an inch away from touching the black locks when Hiei's hand came up and snatched her around the wrist. For a moment they stood still before the smell of burnt hair and burning flesh reached their nose. Alpha's ears twitched before she let out a scream. "Yeeeowwwwww!!!"
She snatched her arm back and out of his hand and she fell back on her bum proficiently landing on her tail. Her ears were pressed back against her skull as she nursed her angry red burn.
"Can't take the heat? Don't mess with a fire demon, Mutt." Hiei laughed.
Wolfie growled and dove at Hiei but was simply caught. She moved to yell but then her mouth was covered by his hand. She struggled but a shush came from Hiei as he looked around seriously. It was then they were surrounded by the familiar black heartless. There weren't many maybe thirty or so all together. Slowly moving out of Hiei's arms they stood back to back as the creatures came slowly closer.
Wolfie summoned her keyblades and it was then the heartless attacked. They jumped at the two and were swiftly taken down by either of their blades. The battle didn't last long for the two warriors cut down their enemy with great speed. Suddenly Wolfie was being carried through the forest at a speed faster then she could ever dream to manage. Soon enough they stopped in the shadows of a tree in front of a narrow opening in the mountain side. Hiei dropped her and she fell face down on the ground. She huffed and sat up. "You could warn a person." She muttered as he started towards the crack of the mountain.
Wolfie followed after looking around and listening to the sounds around them. The only sound she heard was the wind whipping around the rocks and past them. It was five minutes past when they reached the end of the path. It opened up into a circular arena like space. High rocky walls and rock hard ground. They made their way into the middle of the opening and waited.
It wasn't long before laughter filled their ears and a loud rumbling of falling rocks came from the distance. It sounded like the pathway was being blocked leaving them trapped. They two didn't speak as the rock demon appeared from a shadowed corner.
"It's about time you two showed up, I was beginning to think you didn't want to fight me." Genbu laughed out with his rumbling voice. "It's going to be different this time." Genbu stated and melted into the rock wall.
Wolfie looked over at Hiei from the corner of her eye. "You guys fought this thing before and killed it, how'd you do it last time?"
Wolfie looked around but Genbu wasn't anywhere to be seen. "We can't kill him if he's hiding in the rocks." Genbu's tail shot up from behind them. It whipped at the both of them unexpectedly and threw them into the walls.
The tail disappeared and the two looked at one another from across the cavern. "Well?" Wolfie asked looking around for any sign of Genbu. The two made their way to the center again.
"When Kurama fought him he noticed a red stone among the gray when he broke apart. That's what we need to get." Hiei whispered back to her.
"Right and how are we suppose to-" Hiei suddenly disappeared and a barrage of rocks rained over Alpha. She summoned her keyblades and knocked away a majority of the rocks. As they passed she stood with light scratches along her arms and face. Her pants torn in a few places. Hiei then chose that moment to reappear.
"Did you get it?" He asked with a haughty smirk on his face. Wolfie glared at him and swung a Wolf at his head. Hiei dodged the blade easily. The howl vibrated the walls around them and a few rocks rolled down the steep cliff.
Wolfie looked around and Genbu had disappeared into his surroundings again. "You won't get me this time. I won't allow it!" Genbu yelled and came at them from all sides in his broken form. Out of the rocks, Wolfie nor Hiei didn't see the red stone from before. Genbu disappeared again.
"You get it?" Wolfie breathed sarcastically with a few more scratches on her. Hiei looked at her and scowled with his own scratches. "Thought as much. Are you sure your memory isn't fuzzy?" This time Hiei swung and Alpha barely managed to dodge out of the way.
She rolled off to the side as Genbu appeared in front of the two. He had a possessed look in his eyes. "You will never defeat me!" Almost in slow motion he broke apart and surrounded the two. They hovered around the two for a split second before shooting down.
"There it is!" Hiei and Wolfie said in unison and dove after the red rock. It was high above them, much too high for either to take it by themselves. Wolfie grabbed a hold of Hiei's hand as they jumped and through the rain of rocks he threw her forward towards the rock. Wolfie took Fang and sliced at the rock. It broke and around them the rocks shined a bright yellow and burst into dust.
Wolfie landed next to Hiei and looked around. "That ended too fast."
Hiei smirked and shook his head. "Hn, so?"
"True enough. How do we get out of here?" Wolfie asked. The path had been blocked so that was out of the question. She looked over at Hiei and he was pointing up. "Great."
Through their injuries it took them two hours to climb up the rock wall. Once they made it to the top they looked for a way back down the mountain. By the time they made it to the cave it was nearing twilight. Already at the cave were Darryl and Kurama talking quietly to each other.
Wolfie was limping slightly from her injuries and Hiei looked like he had seen better days. Along the way the two had gotten into another scuffle that ended up with them in a shallow river, Wolfie's attempt to cool off Hiei rather than 'warming him up' like the first time. It was then Wolfie found out that Hiei was also part ice demon. It seemed she just wouldn't win, so she settled on glaring at the back of his the rest of the way to the cave. She sat down on the ground next to Darryl with her tail wrapped around her waist and her ears folded back against her head. Wolfie cradled her injured wrist and she refused to look or talk to anyone. She muttered about 'stupid fire ice demons' every so often while nursing the hand shaped burn on her wrist.
