SailorStar9: This is Chapter 9 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, will it kill you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny and the pairings.

Chapter 9: Fight

"Man, what's up with these stairs?" Gojyo muttered, the pair climbing up the long staircase. "How many hours have we been climbing already? How far do we gotta go before we see the en…"

"This fog ain't natural, that's for sure." Tokusa remarked.

"No kidding." Gojyo agreed. "And it's creepy too. It makes it hard to even tell if we're going up or down. Man, and I'm hungry, too." He sat down for a smoke. Could this fog have a hallucinatory effect? He wondered, having slapped off the illusionary image of his stepmother.

"Vine Crush!"

"That attack's kinda of… kinky." Gojyo joked, as a dozen thick vines came out from the ground around his stepmother, ensnaring her and slowly crushing her, turning the demoness into a shower of prayer beads.

"Just don't let Hakkai hear that." Tokusa teased.

"Damn it!" Gojyo cursed, the pair ascending the endless staircase. "This fog's definitely made of something weird. I'm beginning to feel weak now."

"Welcome to my castle, red-colored mister, nature-loving missus." God greeted the two. "The thing you just came through is the Fog Maze. Did you have fun?"

"Sure did." Gojyo snorted. "So much fun, it almost made me puke. I don't care if you're a god or what. I'm gonna kill you, you cosplaying bastard."

"Really?" God wondered. "That's fine, but mister, why are you so mad?"

Gojyo remained silent, charging straight in, only to have God dodge his punches.

"Say," God landed on a pillar. "Why don't you use your weapon?"

"You'd just turn it into prayer beads with your magic anyway." Gojyo reasoned. "Besides, I won't be satisfied until I've beaten you with my own two hands."

"Then, a game of tag it is." God chuckled. "If you can touch me, you win."

"That's just prefect." Gojyo accepted.

"Don't you get all sassy on us!" Tokusa snapped." Quake Punch!" she slammed her powered-up fist into the pillar God was standing on.

"Wow, what a muscle-head; so unladylike." God mocked, jumping off the pillar to dodge. "Come on, you are not even close." He taunted, backed against the main door, having dodged Gojyo's fists. "You've got bad manners, mister." He scolded, the momentum of Gojyo's fists causing him to open the door. "You have to properly say hello when entering someone's house."

"Quit just running and fight!" Gojyo demanded.

"Are you sure?" God asked. "You'll die, you know." And sent his strings of prayer beads straight into Gojyo and Tokusa's bodies.

He's fast. Gojyo winced. We can't dodge him.

"Oh dear, I told you so." God chided, flailing his prayers beads and slamming the pair into a wall. "Are you broken already?" he squatted beside them.

"Quake Punch!" this time, Tokusa punched the ground with all her might, and the concrete in front of her was pushed up by an unseen wave, which headed straight for their opponent.

"You're tough." God chuckled, dodging the energy wave. "This is fun."

"I've got no interest in what you are." Gojyo sat up. "But I just can't forgive what you did to those brats."

"Oh, those children." God shrugged. "I wanted new toys, so I was having them gather more for me. But they belonged to me, so I was free to do whatever I wanted with them, right?"

"Son of a…" Gojyo hissed.

"Nature's Fury!" in a blink, a man-sized rock appeared in front of Tokusa, and she punched it with all her might. The rock shattered, and the shards all shot at the two protruding prayer beads, along with an energy beam.

The strands of beads avoided the attack and caught hold of their necks. "Why don't you become my toys, too?" God beamed. "You're tough and fun, so I'm sure you'll become one of my prized possessions."

Just then, a shot rang out, Sanzo having fired his gun and freeing the two.

"This is pathetic, you stinking water sprite." Sanzo chided.

"Why are you…" Gojyo gaped. "Wait a minute…" he complained, the trio stomping on his head. "Hey, stop… what the hell is this? Why are you doing this all of a sudden?"

"Oh, I don't know." Hakkai replied. "Probably punishment for using an empty can as an ashtray."

"I told you." Tokusa grinned.

"Sorry," Sanzo stepped forward. "But we're the ones who get to kill this idiot. Will you let us take it from here?"

"I refuse." God retorted. "Because they're my new toys."

"Just so you know," Tokusa deathpanned. "I'm taken."

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