Thank you to my reviewers: Ryushi Nagami, LoneHowl, KamiKaze no Kage, and Spatial!
Chapter Notes : This is written mostly as a -flashback- type chapter, that will explain Demoonica's actions in the past few chapters, and why I skipped an entire month back in chapter 19.
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The World of Songwinds Bishounen and Bishoujo:
Demoonica's Story
by
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
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The Saisori burst though the clouds. Heero was greeted with the sight of the Bishi World Safety Department's flying headquarters. "We've made visual contact."
"No need to be technical, just say we're almost there."
Heero smiled. "Okay... we're almost there."
The two trainer girls laughed. "Wow... this place is huge..." Spatial looked out at the floating island from the front window.
"Yeah... it really is. Like I said earlier, you shouldn't get into any trouble as long as you truthfully wondered into the area by mistake. Right, Heero?"
"Hmm." He nodded. "And if there's a Wufei waiting for us when we land, it's best to keep quiet."
"True, very true. Megami-sama's Wufei finds teenaged girls pests or maybe it's just me he finds to be a pest."
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"Demoonica! You haven't even called since you left over two weeks ago!" Kagome hugged the girl. "What happened to make you leave so fast? Uh, are you okay?"
Flashback... one month earlier...
"So what'd that woman have to say?"
"Yamashira? I thought you went with Sterling to the Caf."
Yamashira shrugged. "I was curious."
"Well, Megami-sama didn't have anything to say that would help. I wish I had been able to find anything out from those people."
"You didn't find out anything at all?" He asked as they walked down the hall.
"Not anything that was very useful."
"Hey-hey Demoonica!"
Demoonica and Yamashira looked up at the guy who had called out at her. Zander. Before she knew it, the chestnut haired half-Bishi had scooped her up, twirled around with her in his arms, and set her back on her feet. He leaned down to kiss her. Demoonica turned her face, letting his lips meet with her cheek. She watch the floor for a few moments before realizing that Zander was now speaking.
"... great to see you." He hugged her to him, not noticing how she stiffened up a little. "Hey, uh... who's this guy?"
End Flashback
"Demoonica?"
"Huh? Oh, Kagome."
"Demoonica, you've been off in your own little world for a few minutes. Heero's already taken that girl inside. Are you sure you're feeling alright?"
"I'm fine, Kagome. Sorry to worry you."
A few hours later Demoonica and Spatial met up outside the office of Megami-sama. Spatial gave her a thumbs up as she closed the door behind her. "They had this little girl called Cindy Klein, I'm guessing she's some kind of psychic, ask me a bunch of questions. I got off of any charges."
"You're lucky you didn't have to work with an angry Yami."
Spatial smiled. "I guess I can thank you now."
"Sure."
"Now that I'm no longer in trouble, where are we going?"
"I'm headed to the gym for a run. My Bishi will probably all still be there, after all, it's only been a few hours from the time we arrived."
"A run?"
Demoonica nodded.
Flashback
She was still running, all these hours later. Demoonica had eaten very little at dinner and had excused herself from her company as soon as she could without seeming rude. She had came here, to the gym, so she could think... and run.
'Stupid...' She thought. 'Stupid me... Zander... damn Hiead! Why does he make me question my feelings? Why did he have to go and do something so out of his character as kissing me! Gods, what was I thinking by letting something like that happen. I knew it was only a matter of time before I made Hiead have an outburst, but -that- wasn't the reaction I planned on, violence on the other hand I was ready for.' Demoonica could feel her tears welling up in her eyes, threatening to spill out over her lashes and run down her cheeks. She wiped them away before they got the chance. 'It wasn't like I asked for that to happen, but I don't feel like some victim, and that's because I'm not. Far from it, I wanted it to last longer, I want it to happen again! It would hurt Zander so much if he ever knew it, even if it only happened that once.' Demoonica shook her head and stopped running. 'I feel so guilty, but I can't let him know what happened. Even if he understood, how could I tell him? "Oh of course I love you! But if you want to know a secret, then I can't get the feeling of Hiead's lips moving against mine out of my mind." Yeah, I really see myself saying that!'
Demoonica didn't think that running was making her feel any better, not when what she really wanted to do was run away from the whole mess, get lost in Bishi World, and stay that way. When had she turned into such a coward?
End Flashback
"Would you like to meet Shugo and Rena?"
Demoonica blinked, Spatial obviously hadn't noticed her lack of attention. Thankfully Demoonica's feet had kept them walking to their destination, even with her mind somewhere else. "We're almost to the gym I told them to go to, my Bishi, that is. If you want I could meet your Bishi then and we could train together, have a practice match, ya'know."
Spatial nodded. "So like I was saying, have you been to the dot hack areas? There are some really cool characters there."
"No I haven't. I did see it before coming to the BishiWorld though, I thought Balmung was the cutest guy in the show...er shows, and the games, too. Aren't your Bishi from like 'The Legend of the Twilight Bracelet'?"
"Yeah!"
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At that very moment, in the gym...
"... and she's been acting weird lately, right up until the time we made it to the Yu-Gi-Oh! area's city, then she was starting to get back to her old self." Heero stated, matter of factually, to a very interested Kagome and a barely listening Inuyasha.
"Maybe something happened that we don't know about."
"WELL -I- THINK you should just stay out of it, Kagome. Ever think she'd say something if she wanted us to know?"
"Inuyasha! Girls normally keep their feeling bottled up inside."
"Yeah, I know... then they yell at you when you have no idea why they're still upset." Inuyasha mumbled.
"Is she upset?" Kagome asked Heero, who nodded and gave her a look that said, 'Can't you feel it, too?' "You right," She said. "I noticed it, too. I guess I just had to ask."
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A few nights later... -December 23, 2003-
Demoonica tried to fall asleep. Really, she did. She turned onto her right side, then onto her left. She even placed her pillow over her head, but she couldn't fall asleep no matter what she did. With a sigh she pushed back the top half of her covers and got up. It was really late into the night, probably nearing three o'clock.
She rubbed her eyes, letting them adjust to the dim light, then put on her glasses. Still dressed in her pj's, she walked out into the hallway and down to one of the large observation room windows. She hummed to herself as the moon above came out from the clouds, covering the floating island with a soft silver glow. It reminded her of Hiead's hair. She stopped, when had she started doing that, she had just compared her surroundings to... well to Hiead!
She was still completely hopeless. Marou just had to have been eavesdropping the other night when she had thought she had left her company asleep. She had mumbled her thoughts out-loud, yet to herself, sadly he had been listening. He just had to suggest that she take them both as lovers... saying that humans were stupid to think that faithfulness was important. Why did she even let that suggestion start sounding like a perfectly good idea? Hell, it had came from Marou! He was just trying to make things worse for her. So why wasn't she sickened by the thought of betraying Zander? Wait. Why was she even worried that she would ever have to choose? It wasn't like Hiead was confessing his love for her, it was just the opposite. Hiead hadn't spoken about his actions, hadn't started acting any different around her, other than he was fiercely avoiding being left alone with her, but that in itself wasn't out of character for him.
A shadow passed over the moon, falling on her, before quickly disappearing. Demoonica looked up, but the sky around the moon was still clear. She seated herself on a bench, listening to the chirping of the crickets, grasshoppers, and cicadas outside. She wondered if the Flying Island had moved over a warmer part of the BishiWorld, she didn't think the bugs could survive in the snowy winter area she had been in. Demoonica shook her head, she shouldn't worry so much about things and the sounds of the night made her relax. Her eyes closed and she found herself in a dream.
A pair of bright red-violet eyes watched her for a moment from behind silvery-white hair. A small hand reached out towards Demoonica's face. Poke! "Mama!" Poke!
Slowly Demoonica opened her eyes. A little boy, no older than three, crawled up onto the bed next to her. "Bad dream, Zion?" She heard herself say. The little boy nodded and pulled the covers up around himself. She wrapped her arms around the child. "It's okay baby, mama's here. I'll keep the monsters away while you sleep." Demoonica closed her eyes, once again drifting off to sleep, with her son in her arms.
"Hey! Demoonica!" A voice, calling her, waking her from her slumber.
"Don't want to get up, Mum." Demoonica mumbled.
"D-chan! Wake up! Mama and Papa and every one else are looking for you!" Demoonica was poked in the cheek. Why did that seem so familiar? "Up!"
"Inu-chan, stop." Demoonica caught the Chibi's hand. "I'm up... oi the sun's up too, isn't it? I fell asleep out here."
"It's dangerous to wonder off alone." Inu-chan copied his mother's tone of voice.
"You sound like Kagome." She ruffled the Chibi's black hair as all thoughts of her dream faded away.
"Feh. Me no girl." Inu-chan crossed his arms, looking very much like his father.
"Oh-ho! Sorry there little man. So let me guess, you think girl's have cooties!"
Inu-chan's eyes grew big. "You mean that it's true!" He squeaked. Demoonica could only laugh.
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TBC...
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