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-take 'em out
You gotta keep 'em separated
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Gotta Keep 'em Separated: The Offspring
Chapter 21 Cat/Dog fights
"That's right folks! Heading into the transporters right now are Lady Nar Ishtar and Ms.-er Mrs. Yumi! Two true independent women in a sea of battling demons will be pent together one on one and I'm pretty sure they intend to show these boys just how it's done!" Koto announced on the television in Desota's apartment.
Desota sat awkwardly in her normal female-looking form with the male clothes she brought on her bed, waiting for her half-brother's package to arrive for her. She had been able to watch the matches before hand on the screen in the safety of her room and was proud of Jin for his gutsy quick thinking…. Yet rolled her eyes at Hakkuto's show of arrogance when he put Toya to sleep then announced that he 'scratched'.
"Stupid" she snorted at the screen, "Am I right, Kyo?" she turned her chin down a bit so she could glance at the small zhorse- still adorning the golden bridal that kept him cloaked from his normal form. He raised his head from where he had lain it down while he was sprawled on the bed behind her, curved around her so he could snuggle her while they waited for Joey's package for her.
"Hai, HAI!" Kyo nodded in agreement.
Both of their ears perked when a knock came from the door, "Package for an 'Ishtar'?" an uncertain voice called through the door.
"Just a minute!" Desota called back and jumped up to race for the door, then hesitated before answering it, "Do you need a fee or anything?"
"No, no! No fee is needed- Lord Jaden asked to deliver this by order of Lord Joseph!" the voice called back.
"Oh, well then, could you just leave it then? I'll get it on my way out."
"Certainly, Ishtar" she waited until she heard the footsteps fade before she cracked open the door, spotted the package- snatched it and quickly slammed the door back closed.
She inspected the packaged bag that looked as if they had just gone to the mall to buy something, but there was no brand name or symbol to proclaim such a feat ever being done. She was slightly untrusting of the package, as the delivery person did say it was from Jaden…..
"Don't tell me Jaden knows too…." She groaned.
Of course he knew. He was Joey's right hand man! Joey would definitely spill the beans to his little 'click' of Nar, Ryoga, and Jaden! At the most, he'd exclude Ryoga since the youngest Kitsune would probably have protested anything Joey schemed with his cousin- Jaden.
She glared at the package she had set on the table top of the small table in the corner of the room next to the TV. It innocently sat with out crumbling to her death glare of distrust. She sighed in defeat.
"I promised…." She groaned wishing she could go back through time and 'un-promise'.
"Nanda?" Kyo tilted his head curiously. He slid off the bed and padded his way to the table then leaped up cat-like as always on the table top and sniffed at the bag, "Deso?" he looked at her as if to ask why she was acting so strange about the bag. He didn't see anything wrong with it.
"I know, I know." She grumbled at the small animal, lightly jerking the bag to her and digging out the contents. She held it up for inspection and growled in displeasure at what she saw, "He can't be serious…." A small parchment of paper fell from the outfit she held up. She set down the unwanted 'battle-gi' and picked up the paper Kyo was currently investigating then read it out loud, " 'Yes I am serious' Damn him" she cursed, then continued, " 'Since you seem to be a knight in shining armor to your adoring fans, I felt a bit of sexy irony was in favor. Don't forget to knock his eye sockets out when he see's you, lil'sis. Love, your big brother Joey! Hearts-X's and O's' Oh I'll show him a few X's and O's alright!" she grumbled the last part.
"Nani?" Kyo looked up at her confused.
"It's a letter thing" she brushed his curiosity aside.
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"You ready for this?" Yumi stretched as they walked out to the fighting ring the match was supposed to start up in on the island the transporter dropped them off in. they walked side by side in companionable ease as they made their way through the small path of the dense forest their arena was located in.
"As always." Nar smirked. Her red eyes looking over the wolf demoness tauntingly, "Just don't make me regret wiping the floor with your tail and this will all go smoothly."
"Excuse me? Who will be wiping what with who's tail?!" Yumi grinned competitively, "You're so going down."
"Bitch."
"Pussy"
They laughed at the mock "competitive smack" they tossed back and forth as they approached the arena and took their spots on opposite sides of the ring. The referee girl on the flying camera thing looked to both individually to check if they were set. She held up on right hand, "On my mark………" she slashed down her fist and her camera with wings under her took to flight to a safer distance, "BEGIN!"
Nar wasted no time, burning the area around the wolf demoness by sending a speedy fire-spin attack that engulfed Yumi, "Got ya!"
The fire parted suddenly with a strong whirling gust of wind, parting the fire safely away from the wolf's body and let it spread elsewhere in the greenery around them. Yumi's wind element powers were at work as black angelic wings grew from the back of her shoulder blades. The side effect of her wind powers, "Not quite" she smirked, twisting her body to whirl around as if she were going to round-house-kick Nar, even though it was a far distance away. Nar's eyes widened and braced herself as a piercing gust of wind followed the attack, making her ears ring as it blasted her. When the wind died down, Nar backed away quickly in time to miss an icy spear attack. Yumi was using the moisture in the air and her wind powers to make ice spears and sent them hurdling at Nar. The hell cat demon used her fire power to melt any spears that got too closer to her, but there were so many that they drove her back to defense.
Nar snarled at the wolf as Yumi continued to push her back into the forest, trying to pin her to a tree or some other hard surface so she could corner the cat. Nar saw this coming and after defending herself to a safe distance, Nar turned tail and ran to the forest. Yumi didn't think twice about following the cat demon. The fire Nar had released before spread wildly around them in angry, hungry flames.
"It looks as though Lady Nar has fled the icy onslaught Mrs. Yumi has dealt her! She escaped into the forest with the wolfdemoness hot on her tail! What is Nar thinking?!" Koto announced.
Nar looked behind her, seeing Yumi getting closer. The cat hissed back at the wolf and threw a few fire balls at Yumi. The wolf easily out-maneuvered out of the fire's path and grinned toothily, "You'll have to do better than that, Kitty!"
"That's right, Keep following me dog" Nar smirked to herself quietly as the led the wolf deeper and deeper into the dense forest. She stopped in an area that it was particularly too dense with foliage and turned to meet her opponent head on. She was met with a fiery fist to the face that she narrowly dodged.
"You wanted to play with fire, then let's play kitten!" Yumi barked, attacking in hand to hand combat moves with her fists and feet flaming with her power of fire. Her green eyes faded to a blazing bright color that matched her flames, yet another side-effect of her element powers. Her wings were gone since she wasn't using her wind powers any longer.
Nar answered Yumi's fire punches and kicks in kind by inflaming her own limbs and engaging just as head long in a close contact fight nearly tooth and claw since they attacked each other almost as brutally as a pair of wild cats angry at one another. Their fangs and claws extended and bore threateningly to the other as they slashed and snapped at one another, having no regards for any clothing they might tear.
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"Now this is what I'm talking about!" Yusuke smirked, watching the screen as intently as all the other males around and probably through out the entire coliseum were as the two attractive females tore at one another on the screen in the middle of a fiery blaze of the forest in wild abandon of the thrill in the fight.
"I actually agree with you!" Hakkuto nodded to Yusuke as they sat side by side and leaned forward as if this were the NFL in the human realm or something!
"You will stop ogling my mate this instant or I'll make sure you'll have nothing to 'rise' to attention any time you find something arousing." Hiei snarled dangerously calm with a sharp edge to his tone.
"I'm not ogling!" Yusuke protested.
"We're just admiring" Hakkuto corrected.
"DAMN YOU-!" Hiei snapped while Kurama quickly stood up to hold the fire demon back.
"Happy thoughts, Hiei. Happy thoughts!" Kurama gritted out in effort to hold him back.
"SCREW THAT!" Hiei hissed.
"Alright, then think of what Yumi will do if she catches wind that you gutted Yusuke who she has come to care for?" Kurama quickly tried another approach as he held the fire demon back.
Hiei seemed to deflate quickly, then got angry again, but made no move to act on it this time, "Feh, not worth my time"
"How nice of you to see it that way" Kurama sighed.
Yusuke rolled his eyes, "We know he's only jealous that so many other males get to see Yumi in her wild abandoned state while she's fighting with another sexy girl all out like this with fire and everything."
"Now all we need is the mud" Hakkuto sighed wistfully.
"Hakkuto, you're a genius!" Yusuke clasped the other demon's shoulder.
"So I've been told."
"Kurama, you might want to hold shorty back again" Joey sighed when he saw Hiei fire up again.
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Yumi snarled as she slammed Nar with her water power, her eyes glowing with a blue light as yet another side-effect of her power when she used different powers of the elements. Nar countered it with a powerful blast of hellish fire. When the two blasts collided, the after shock knocked both women back and into opposite trees that had been spared the scorching fire around them Nar's flames had caused. Both panted for breath. Their cloths barely covering themselves were torn and ripped to near shreds. Neither seemed to care though. Modesty be damned when one is in a fight this good!
"You-Ready--to-give-up-Yet?!" Yumi panted out.
"N-Never!" Nar panted back with a shit-eating grin.
"Go to hell!" Yumi grinned back.
"Fuck that, been there and back!" Nar chuckled standing up slowly and then she got into another fight stance, "You first!"
"Like hell!" Yumi pounced back to her feet and dodged an oncoming attack from Nar's fiery fists.
"Exactly!" Nar bit out, using her momentum to whirl around and kick Yumi in the gut.
The wolf stumbled back, momentarily winded. She clutched at her stomach and tried to at the very least stay out of Nar's fiery limbs way. She eventually had enough of a close up view with Nar and back flipped out of the way. Her pathway was cut away from Nar when the fire started to eat away stronger at the plants around them. The island its' self seemed to be burning with it.
"Face it, Yumi, you're becoming a terrified wolf caught up in a wild fire in a dense forest. You can't escape the fire" Nar offered Yumi a chance to surrender before the fire got too thick and actually did the wolf demoness some harm.
Yumi snorted, "Feh! I can control the fire too!" her eyes burned gold as her fur started to burst into flames along its tips, looking like a fire wolf. Her golden orbs darted around her as she called to the flames to bend to her, but they didn't obey. At her confused face, Nar chuckled.
"These are hell flames, Yumi. They are nothing like the natural flames you bend like the wind, water and earth around us. These flames have no consistent heat. Their temperature varies upon me, and right now, if you're burnt, it won't heal for a long time." She warned.
Yumi snarled, "They are still flames! And flames need oxygen to survive like us all!" her wings once again grew from her shoulder blades like a dark angel as the wind around them started to pick up in a wide whirlwind that increased speed at an alarming rate. The flames hissed as they started to fight to stay flammable, but the lack of oxygen made it difficult on them. Nar hissed as the wind also took its toll on her as well. She bent down and dug her claws into the earth deeply to keep from being whisked away in the powerful currents. She felt droplets of water sprinkle her face and looked around in horror to find that Yumi was mixing the whirlwind with water from the air. The height of the whirlwind was reaching the heavy clouds in the sky that were already full of rain water that had yet to be released. Thunder rolled as the natural wind started to react to Yumi's bending and the rain started to let loose. The whirlwind started to become an in-land hurricane almost!
"YUMI!" Nar called out as the pressure of the wind around her started to steal even HER breathing oxygen and pressed her down to the ground with its strength, "Yumi, Stop!"
"Not until you relent!" Yumi bit back with glowing blue-light eyes. Her wings beat powerfully to stir up the wind and her hand lazily twirled to direct it and the water.
"YUMI!" Nar hissed.
"RELENT!"
"YOU BITCH! DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'RE DOING?!" the cat hissed. Her black ears flattened to her skull to keep the wind and rain out of them. Her eyes squinted from the bite of the rain as she clutched to her spot on the ground with her tail wrapped around her.
"I can calm this anytime I want to" Yumi shouted back arrogantly.
"Idiot!" Nar snarled and ripped a good sized chunk of the earth with her claws to chuck it at Yumi as hard as she could. The muddy earth smacked Yumi in the head, jarring the wolf to stop her weather-influencing powers. The whirlwind died down, but the rain continued to pour, "Look what you did!"
"Just means I can use more of my water!" Yumi snickered back. She nearly choked when Nar threw a black disk at her and it passed through her neck. No harm was done- it was only a black shadow, but once it touched her neck, the shadow doubled back and fastened its self like a collar around the wolf's neck.
"The fuck is this!" Yumi bit out.
"It negates any elemental attack you try." Nar smirked, "That ought 'an even the playing field a bit seeing as my fire is useless in the RAIN!" she snarled now sopping wet in the down pour.
"Not my fault" Yumi mumbled, pulling at the shadow generated collar, "How do I get rid of this shit?"
"You can't. Only I can, and I refuse until you knock me out!" Nar smirked.
"Come here pussy and hold still so I can slug your ass into next week!" Yumi charged in the slippery mud.
"Bring it bitch!" Nar laughed back.
The two collided in a muddy mess of flailing teeth and claw that lashed out at one another.
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"Well, you said you wanted mud wrestling" Renku nudged Yusuke.
Yusuke cocked an eyebrow at Hakkuto suspiciously, "Did you know this would happen?"
"Hey, I'm not the one who predicts the future." Hakkuto sighed, "Regrettably at least. But it's a nice perk to see, no?"
"HELL YA!" Yusuke cheered.
Hiei glared at Joey, "You knew about this?"
Joey gritted his teeth, "I might have caught a …. Glimpse of something like this prior to the fight…"
"Why didn't you say anything! It's your mate out there becoming porno fantasy to other horny fucking demons too!" Hiei snarled angrily.
Joey actually had to hide a blush as he coughed and look away, "It was just too good to pass up…." He admitted.
"You are a poor excuse of a mate!"
"And you're a very anal one. What does Yumi do, shove a dildo up your little ass to appease your anal-ness during sex or something shorty?" Joey hissed back.
"Too much information about your own sex life, prince prick!" Hiei growled.
Both of them snarled lowly at one another in a glaring contest leaving Kurama to sweat drop in the back ground of the two.
"And I thought I was bad at times" he sighed.
"No, you're just worse." Jaden grinned.
"What are you doing here?" Kurama bit out.
"Recruiting you so you and I can actually fight."
Kurama raised a brow.
"If you hadn't noticed, Nar just lost." Jaden elaborated.
"WHAT?" Joey tore his glare away from Hiei and stared blankly in shock at the screen. There was his mate, practically half naked laying on her stomach in the mud, "What they hell happened! I looked away for like two seconds and she's DEAD!"
"Fainted." Hakkuto corrected.
"How?!" Joey demanded.
"Exhaustion apparently." Hakkuto shrugged, "Yumi looks like she's about had it as well. I suggest you be there for her to lean on when she returns at the transport dock." Hakkuto tilted his head in Hiei's direction.
The fire demon was gone with out a second word. This time, with a smug step in his gait as he strode for the ports.
"Amazing! Lady Nar actually ended the fight by fainting with exhaustion! Just when things seemed to be going good, the Neko demoness pronounced the favorite of the fight FAINTED! Giving way to Yumi the wolfdemoness of the four elements to pass on to the grand finals!" Koto announced over the play-by-play.
"Hakkuto," Joey urged as he too turned for the ports.
"I supposed I should get up and check her to make sure she's not sick…." Hakkuto sighed, standing up to follow the frantic Kitsune mate. Kurama and Jaden following closely, on their way to their own fight. Jaden still seemed too smug to Kurama's liking, even if that was the general way he saw the kit as. He seemed even too smug for the usual.
They found Nar slung over half-way on Yumi's shoulder as the wolf nearly dragged the cat out of the transporter. Hiei stood to the side, waiting for his mate to return to his side, but caught the uneasy look in Yumi's eye. Even Yumi was worried about Nar's abrupt collapse when Joey barged in, frantic as ever. The other three soon followed behind him.
"What happened?" Hakkuto asked calmly in his usual "doctor" voice as Yumi gently set her to the ground and backed away so the unicorn could examine the patient.
"I don't know, she just fainted."
"Yes we already know that. Did she act any different during the fight?"
"No" Yumi shook her head.
Hakkuto grimaced as he held his hands up over Nar's body. They glowed in a green light as they hovered over the cat demons eyes, "She's fine. She should wake up any time soo-,"
"OH GOD!" Nar sprang up and doubled over to twist to her side, promptly spilling her stomachs contents on the ground near Hakkuto.
The unicorn's eye twitched as he was practically puked on, "-Soon" he finished his sentence, looking down with slight narrowed eyes at the cat demoness as she heaved for breath. Joey hurried over to crouch beside her and tried to help comfort and calm her down.
"Did you get a good enough reading on her to know what's wrong?" Kurama asked, hesitating to follow Jaden to the transporters for Nar's sake.
"Ah yes. It's simple really." He turned to Joey and smile, "Congratulations, you're going to be a father."
Joey froze, "A… A WHAT?" he went very pale as Nar slowly started to calm down.
"A daddy" Hakkuto rephrased.
"Excuse me?" Nar breathed.
"A momma and poppa, DAMN HOW MANY TIMES MUST I SAY IT FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND!" the unicorn burst out growling.
Kurama chuckled, "Congrats, Joseph. You'll make a fine father." He grinned at the helpless look Joey shot him as the doors to the transporter closed and took Jaden and Kurama to the fight ring.
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The two Kitsune males stared each other down once they approached opposite sides of the ring. Both barely holding the urge to tear into the other until the signal was given. Jaden sneered as both of their ready battle auras's flared and crackled as they collided the space between the two. He felt Yoko's influence just under Kurama's and snorted.
"Going to cheat with the 2 against 1 scenario, old man?" he taunted with a flick of his black tail.
"This is hardly considered cheating, kit prick" Kurama's eyes flashed gold as Yoko personally taunted the other Kitsune back. Kurama had to get a hold of him once more, telling the Kitsune that it was too early for his day-view yet.
Jaden chuckled, "It wouldn't matter if both of you came at me at once. I have no fear of you."
"Arrogant, aren't you." Kurama snorted, tensing as the referee girl mounted her flying camera and held up her hand.
"BEGIN!" she called as she took flight.
Jaden shot forward, "Only befitting to me all the more," he growled under his breath as he neared Kurama and drew a slim long sword from its sheath, using the withdrawal momentum to amplify the force of the swing, "Considering who my predecessor is!"
Kurama stopped the blade with his sword he summoned with his plant seeds just in time. The two different blades slid against one another, creating angry sparks until Kurama shoved Jaden back and took a swipe to push him further away. He was surprised mildly to have Jaden vanish in the shadow of the trees, literally. The younger Kitsune reappeared not far off, but a safe distance away that neither blade could touch the other.
"Don't insult me, kit" Kurama said coldly, "I'm still here and have no need for a successor."
"Yes, it would seem you've retired your position for a certain someone." Jaden smirked. He was gone again and reappeared in front of Kurama, giving him less than half a second to react to the blade that was coming down toward his head. Kurama braced his blade above him with both hands, but was still pressed down by the force of the other blade. Jaden leaned in with a smirk ever present, "Tell me, how is she?"
Kurama didn't answer, but his eyes bled gold as Yoko started to struggle to get out once more. Once again, for the sake of their strategy, Kurama held him subdued.
"Or is it that you don't even know what she's doing even now, right under your very nose?" Jaden taunted.
Kurama's eyes narrowed, "What are you going on about," he demanded. His influence on the plant life had the grass under Jaden spike up to fine points to dig into Jaden. The other Kitsune leapt away to the safety of the concrete topped arena where the fight had originally began like all the others before.
/Let me OUT!/ Yoko demanded in anger.
'Not yet you fool!' Kurama grunted as he tried to hold the other Kitsune back. He never remembered it being this hard before!
/He knows something about Desota!/
'He's baiting us!'
/Let me out now and I promise I'll find out if the bastards lying or not!/
'NOT-YET!'
Jaden noticed the way the red head's eyes flashed green and gold and smirked, "Troubles, Kurama?"
"None what-so-ever" Kurama bit out. His rose whip coiling from the seed in his red locks to meet his readied hand. The thorny vine wrapped itself around his arm gently to stay out of the way until Kurama snapped it to action at the kit.
"I bet Yoko's just dieing to come out now. Why don't you let him? Give the audience a bit of a flare to this fight. All we seem to be doing is standing about talking. Come at me!"
"I'd rather sit back and watch you make a fool out of yourself trying to 'take me down'." Kurama taunted with cold golden eyes as he smirked an entirely Yoko smirk.
Jaden had had enough, "This is fuck'n pissing me off with your soul switching you keep doing!" Kurama stilled almost uncertain as the shadows around them began to stir and circle Jaden.
Jaden held up his hand and the shadows became smaller and circled his wrists. In all but 5 seconds, the shadows returned back to normal, but a familiar collar now coiled around Jaden's wrist. It looked much like the one Nar used on Yumi previously to hold back her powers!
"Going to contain me now so you can have a better chance at winning like Nar did?" Kurama flung some leaves falling from the trees around them at Jaden. The Kitsune didn't move as the small razor leaves cut into his skin, leaving cuts on his neck, arms and the tip of one of his black ears. Jaden didn't flinch.
"So you remember what it is, but if you think Nar and my attacks are the same, than you have no right to the title of Desota Ishtar's mate status." Jaden's silver eyes glared at him. The shadows around Kurama leapt out at him, but Kurama twisted out of their way. He quickly escaped the reach of the shadows and to the small area where the sun light shown on the platform. However, it was getting to be a smaller and smaller area since the sun wasn't going to last much longer.
"Smart, aren't you." Jaden drawled as he too stepped up to the plat form.
Kurama didn't let him get close enough. He lashed out with his rose whip, the long thorn vine snapped to action, cutting and lashing at Jaden who cautiously defended himself with his sleek sword blocking most of the attacks of the whip. He was unable to defend himself from the other attacks Kurama dealt to him. Kurama danced around him wielding the whip until he got close enough that he kicked the younger Kitsune back into the shadows and off the platform. A mistake on his part, he'd later learn.
He didn't even notice, nor see it coming. Just like the collar had on Nar, the black shadow launched like a Frisbee at Kurama's neck, passing through it with out any pain felt, then settling and bounding itself to him tightly and snugly.
"Idiot" Jaden laughed, "Did you not realize that my power intensifies in the shadow? Your only saving grace was to keep me in the light!"
Kurama was ready to launch another attack, but a sharp pain went through him. He clutched his heart and struggled to keep standing. His wide eyes flashed green to gold rapidly. His hair faded silver to red just as fast. He swiped angrily at Jaden when the younger Kitsune approached close enough with his rose whip, but the vine only reached half way and then retracted into a seed in Kurama's palm.
The pain faded and Kurama's body felt lighter and cooler than it had when the pains heat surged through him. he panted for breath, trying to regain the feeling in his limbs quickly was possible so he could kick Jaden's ass- he didn't need his powers if that was what Jaden took from him.
"What the hell was that?!" Yoko snarled.
Kurama was startled to hear it with his ears and not inside his head and soul. He looked surprised to his side at the same time Yoko looked at him just as surprised. Yoko wasn't transparent like he should have been when Kurama could see him sometimes before when they argued and Yoko got too passionate about his view point, but he was solid and breathing right in front of him- completely separated!
Jaden couldn't help but laugh at them when he saw their surprised looks. Green and gold eyes shot up toward him in confused anger.
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST DO YOU MORON!" Kurama snapped.
Yoko felt a bit of pride that his other half actually cursed!
"Separated you" Jaden answered as if it were obvious.
"Why?!" Kurama demanded, "You're at a disadvantage now!"
"Now see that's where you're wrong." Jaden held up a finger.
"You're trying to tell me you think you take us both on at the same time?" Yoko leered.
"Why don't you come at me and find out old man." Jaden shrugged, "I'll even stand still so you don't strain anything trying to catch me."
"Let's go!" Yoko snarled to his counter part.
Kurama nodded.
Both red and silver shot up from where they were hunched over from the separation. The bolted at top speed at Jaden who, like he promised, didn't move. However, when they both readied an attack, both fell to the ground as if they had tripped.
"What the hell!" Yoko snapped, trying to get up, but an unseen force pulled him down.
"I – cant – get – up!" Kurama grunted.
"Always Mr. obvious!" Yoko snapped in frustration as he too couldn't get up. A pulse of power radiated off the black collars strapped to their necks, "Subjugation collars! That's what these are?!"
"No, yet in a way, yes" Jaden chuckled, enjoying the new power he had over the two that combined into his nemesis, "The collar had more than one effect I put into it. Unlike Nar, I am the creator of the collars, so I can change their purpose and their side-effects on a whim. Yours separated you and made it to where you can't attack at the same time with power or with out. If you come at me, both will fall. If one comes at me to create an opening for the other, you still both fall. The restrain of the fall doesn't let up until your heart rate calms to normal. So I'd practice my calm-breathing techniques. The best part is that you can't use your power to defend yourself."
"I call first dibs!" Yoko shot up. He drew his whip and lashed at Jaden, but no whip came. He stopped nearly at mid run and glared back at his counter part, "KURAMA! CUT IT OUT!"
"Look out!" Kurama called.
Yoko ducked in time to escape Jaden's shadows lunging at Yoko. The silver Kitsune quickly made his way back to Kurama a safe distance away.
"We can't read each others thoughts, how are we supposed to know when the other attacks?"
"And they can't be overlapping" Kurama snarled.
"Well, he never said it works for physical attacks!"
Both once again charged, intending on delivering a two-man punch to Jaden in the chest, but both fell to the ground once again with a flash of the collars about their necks.
"This is getting old, fast" Yoko bit out as he spat dirt from his mouth, quickly using his power before Kurama could think to try, he sent the vines around Jaden to lash out at him.
"We only have to knock him out, then the collars should break off like they did on Yumi" Kurama said.
"Alright, we'll go at him one at a time. I'll go first, when I leap away, you follow through, but make sure I land before you do, or we'll both be eating dirt more often than not!" Yoko stood to attack again.
Kurama sighed, praying that this didn't take much longer.
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A knock came to the door of Desota's room. She had just finished changing and tied the long black cloak and hood that came with it about her neck. The hood pulled over her head to hide her face and the long cloak wrapped around her to conceal her form.
"Who is it?" she called.
"You need to proceed down to the coliseum grounds, Desota. Your fight is up next, unless you forfeit?" a demon called through the door. It backed up a bit as the door opened and the cloaked figure stepped out. He seemed smaller than the demon remembered.
"That won't be necessary. I'll fight" the voice said.
At least the voice was the same deep-feminine sounding….
"Are you bringing your steed?" the demon questioned.
"Kyo will meet me there soon enough. Don't meddle in my affairs" the young fighter warned.
The demon gulped and straightened, "Certainly, sir. Shall I lead the way?"
"I can find my own way. Retire to your previous duty." Desota replied as she walked off. She stopped a minute then turned, "Lady Nar…. What happened to her during the fight?"
"It was said that she fainted because she is with Lord Joseph's child, sir. They are in the infirmary now, but I can guess Lord Joseph will return the transport platform when it is time."
"Can you…. will you take me to the infirmary?" Desota asked more respectfully.
She seemed to flatter the oblivious demon. He bowed to the cloaked Desota, "Certainly sir, this way"
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Jaden could feel something was wrong. He was winning against two Kitsune that he personally hated, yet something didn't feel right. He felt his reaction time slow and his body felt a bit heavier than it should.
"Tired?" Yoko smirked, using bare claws to cut at him.
Jaden's silver eyes narrowed as he leaned his body away from the close range onslaught the silver Kitsune attempted. He leaned a second too late and was grazed with 3 of the 5 claws on Yoko's hand across his abdomen. Jaden grunted at the sharp pain and put a hand to his stomach to try and ease its bite, but he had to keep moving since Yoko did not relent his attack. Kurama waited patiently with out using their power not far off, waiting for Yoko to back off so he could take up his spot.
Jaden used his shadows to knock Yoko away. He made sure to add a bit of a burning affect to the shadows so the Kitsune backed off from simply running head long at him again soon as the shadow retreated back to himself.
"Just getting warmed up!" Jaden hissed stubbornly as he slightly bent his knees.
This time, Kurama came after him. Once again he wasn't fast enough to keep the red head out of close contact range and was quickly caught up in a flurry of well placed martial arts attacks the green eyed man delivered with out the taunts Yoko so loved to spout or the barbs the silver Kitsune fancied to lash verbally at Jaden.
Kurama hit a particularly weak spot when he round housed kicked Jaden in the abdomen, sending Jaden off balance and into a tree. Kurama stood still while Yoko waited up in the branches, hand readily against the bark. Soon as Jaden's back slammed against the tree and his knees buckled under him to rest against the tree trunk, Yoko influenced the ivy vines that curled the ancient tree to wrap around Jaden, holding him tightly to the rough bark.
Jaden's sight blurred in and out of focus and rocked slightly as if he were on a boat deck. Kurama was merely a red and white blob while Yoko was a taller white blob in his vision. Jaden could barely keep his chin up to 'glare' at them as they stood over him, catching their own breath. It irked him that they adapted to his spell so quickly, but he should have expected no less from one of his own breed.
"Do you forfeit?" Yoko asked, ready for another go, but Kurama seemed relaxed as if they had just won.
"Go fuck a tree, tree hugger." Jaden spat out with a bit of an exhausted slur.
Yoko saw red, "Would you rather I MAKE you forfeit?!" he stepped forward threateningly, cracking his wrist and lengthening his claws.
"Easy Yoko" Kurama said.
"Did you not just hear him? He called me a hippy!" Yoko barked back to the other.
"He won't be awake for much longer no matter what you do." Kurama said coolly.
"And why is that? Exhaustion? …. No, he didn't fight hard enough to be exhausted that easily." Yoko looked down at the pitiful form of the hunched, tied and drugged-looking younger redheaded Kit, "Unless of course he really is that pathetic and out of shape. I knew he was all talk."
"Says…. The one…. Who works with….. humans" Jaden rasped out tiredly.
Yoko's tail bristled, "You do know Desota, the one you claim to love is part human right?!" he snarled.
"Still…. Part….. demon" Jaden insisted. Now he couldn't see them.
Kurama sighed, putting a calming hand on his counterpart's shoulder to ease his hot temper, "She'd never love you with that kind of attitude." He said softly.
"Not that she ever would or will regardless." Yoko insisted smartly.
"It doesn't matter…. You…. you poisoned me… earlier…… She'd never have the …. Chance…. If I'm…. dead…" Jaden's hearing started to clear and fade.
"You're not dieing" Kurama said.
Jaden held his breath.
"The poison merely knocks you out as if you were dead. It will not kill you, but you'll be out for a while." The gentle voice said.
Jaden smiled softly, letting himself succumb to the welcoming darkness, "You should…. Have….killed me…" with that he was out like a light.
Yoko waited a moment. Then his tail flicked back and forth agitatedly, "What of the spell? He's knocked unconscious now, so we should be back to normal!"
"He said it can change on his own whim. No surprise that the anti-spell or is different as well." Kurama influenced the vines to let go of Jaden and pulled one of the Kitsunes' arms over his shoulders, "Help me get him out to the open so we can announce our win."
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"Demons and monsters, I proudly announce the winner-… winner-S of the match! Yoko AND Kurama! It has come to my attention that during the fight in the dense forest where out camera was unable to reach, Jaden unleashed a subjugation spell on the mighty Kurama to split his two counterparts to separate bodies! Since both Yoko and Kurama are one of the same, the victory shall be announced as the victor being YokoKurama!" Koto announced.
"Well, this could either be a blessing, or a curse." Yusuke mumbled up at the small screen in the infirmary where most of the gang had gathered to see how Nar was doing. 4 were aloud in the room at a time, so Hakkuto, Yusuke, Joey and Yumi stood there next to Nar's bed while Nar rested propped up on many pillows Joey ordered to be given to her for comfort of her and his pup she now carried inside her. Even Hiei was there, but he more or less forced his way in, unwilling to leave his slightly-injured mate's side regardless of what the staff said. Ryoga's bed was on the other side of the room, resting, but awake, and healing from the injuries he had received from Jin's gutsy move.
"We'll have to see." Joey smiled, "Won't Dessy be surprised?" he grinned knowingly to his mate.
"Yes, I can imagine she have kittens when she finds out her mate is two people now." Nar chuckled tiredly.
"Or another Kit." Hakkuto said unknowing of what they really implied.
"Good thing she's not here then. She's not a very nice pregnant woman when angered." Yusuke spoke, remembering how she more or less chased him out of Kurama's mothers' apartment when he remarked about how 'rounded' her pregnancy had made her.
"Now, on we go to our next exciting pair, Joseph Ishtar and Desota the knight in shinning armor! Will both warriors please make their way to the transporting area at this time!" Koto called.
Joey stood from the chair he had pulled up close to the head of the bed near Nar, "Well, it would seem I am needed else where, Yusuke," He looked to the dark haired boy, "Will you watch over my family while I leave them unattended for a moment?"
"Yeah, sure" Yusuke nodded.
"We won't leave her side" Yumi offered as well.
"There you go making promises again, wolf" Hiei grumped, "We have our own family to worry about"
"The boys can wait a little longer, Hiei. Grandpa Koenma, I'm sure, is having a blast right now. Besides, Botan's with them as well."
"That's what I'm worried about." Hiei glared at her.
She ignored him.
Joey chuckled at the amusing pair as he walked pass them. He stepped out into the hall in time to see the flicker of a black cloak tail whisk behind the curve of the corner. He smiled knowingly.
"See you there, little sister" he whispered, following after it to the transporter.