Thank you to my reviewers: Ryushi Nigami, LoneHowl, KamiKaze no Kage, and ParallaxRider!
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The World of Songwinds Bishounen and Bishoujo:
Demoonica's Story
by
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
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-January 2003-
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After finishing the letter, Demoonica saved it, and tapped on a BishiBall. Katan appeared. He gave a shallow bow before speaking. "Yes, Miss Darkmoon?"
"Katan, could you do some investigating for me?"
"Of course, when, where?" The cherub Bishounen asked. This was one of his strong points, Megami-sama had always told him. Demoonica explained the message she had gotten from Kagome. Katan knew the area written about in the letter. "Dayniar. That's very, very far from here. It's a human town near the border of the Earthian area."
Demoonica nodded. "We'll always be in contact, and the Bond Serum lets me know where you are and how you are."
Katan agreed. "But I'll be so near the human town." He frowned. He only knew of one way to keep a BishiBall from working on a Bishounen. "I will require my Ball from you though, it's a little known function of them, but they shield a Bishounen from being stolen away from his or her trainer as long as they are worn." -AN1-
Demoonica wasn't so sure, Katan had kept secrets from her before, but he had also declined from being set free when she had offered. If he had wished to be free he could have said so then and no trickery would need to be involved. She decided that she trusted Katan's words and un-clipped his Ball from her belt. He stuffed the inch wide sphere into a pocket before unfurling his wings, with a few strong wing beats he rose into the air, leaving a few stray white feathers in his wake.
Katan motioned for Demoonica to put her ear-piece in. "Better to check that they're working before I go." He told her through the ear-piece.
Demoonica adjusted her microphone. "Mine's working."
"Good." Came his reply and Katan rose higher into the air, before heading off. Demoonica watched until he was little more than a dark speck in the sky, then headed into the forest. The Baki River was two miles away at the most and she had been planing to have lunch at the waterfall, but with this small delay... well technically she could still make it, she'd just have to not take any breaks. Forrest trails were a pain most of the time, cutting the distance she would normally be able to cover in the same amount of time greatly.
Demoonica looked up at the sun, it was right above her in the sky. "I'd say that would make it exactly noon, wouldn't you guys?"
"Yeah." Rei replied as he pulled a bucket of clear cold water from the river. "Demoonica, hot lunch or cold lunch?"
Demoonica scratched the side of her head as she thought. "Better make it a cold lunch day, I really want to do some hunting."
Rei looked at her. "Really? You don't normally hunt for Bishounen. Any reason?"
Demoonica laughed. "Yeah, Tyson and some of the others from your town followed us out here."
Rei sweat dropped. "They're so stupid. I swear my friends in that town are so stupid." He shook his head. "I'll have sandwiches and chilled cucumbers ready when you get back."
Demoonica nodded. "I'll take Kamui and Bakura with me, I haven't had any time to get to know either of them very well." She said as she called out all of her other Bishounen. "I'll be back later guys, okay? Marou, don't cause any trouble." She said as she headed off into the forest going back the way she had just came. Behind her back Marou made a rude gesture.
A few minutes later the river was out of sight and Demoonica tapped on one of the two Bishiballs she had with her. "Bakura." The spirit of the ring appeared.
"I see that we are alone!" He said as he pulled Demoonica to him. "I knew it was only a matter of time that you fell for my charms and came willingly to me, trainer of mine." He made to kiss her.
Demoonica swiftly stomped on his foot. "Not. Ever. Got it?"
"Shit! I've got to walk with this foot, woman!" Bakura shouted.
"Shh!" Demoonica put a finger to her lips. "Yell at me quietly!" She paused. "I didn't actually hurt you, did I?"
"No, I'll live." Bakura looked around. "Where are we?"
"It's called a forest." Before Bakura could make a rude comment Demoonica continued. "I noticed we were being followed about an hour ago, but now..." Demoonica looked around. "I think they may have grown tired and gone back home."
"Shows how dull human senses are, I believe there is a large cluster near the river, I take it that those would be our companions?" Demoonica nodded. "And there are two in that direction." He waved off to the right side of the path they were on.
"Two? Well I guess a lot of them did go back, didn't they. Let's go see-"
-THUWUNK!-
Bakura's dagger firmly sat in the large oak tree twenty feet away. There was a crashing sound as a small blond blur fell out of the tree. They had obviously been startled by the dagger and Bakura's knowledge of their location. Demoonica smiled and rushed over to the tree, an empty Bishiball in her hand.
"Oww, where did the bus come from?" Max Tate, the known to be hyper blond of the Bladebreakers, said as he rubbed his backside. He stood and looked up at Demoonica. "Meanie!"
Demoonica stopped. "Chibi?"
The Chibi Max's eyes widened. "I-"
Demoonica sighed and lowered the ball in her hand. "You shouldn't go following a trainer around, I just about caught you." She ruffled his messy blond hair. "Get back to the city."
The Chibi Max nodded and took off past her using the path to make his retreat. Demoonica laughed.
"Very commendable." Came Bakura's voice. "Many a trainer would be hard pressed to resist the urge to catch a Chibi."
"You knew." Demoonica said. "You knew it was a Chibi when you threw the dagger."
Bakura crossed his arms. "And if I did?"
"Well I passed your little test... I hope you're happy, I think he wet his pants in fear. Poor Maxie." Demoonica chuckled. "Get your dagger, Yami no Baka, and tell me if the other Bishi is still near here."
"That's Yani no Bakura, not baka. And yes one is still out here, heading closer to the river right now... who ever it is seems to have missed out on our little adventure." Bakura worked his dagger out of the tree. "This thing really stuck in here good. Okay, ready. Let's go." The dagger disappeared into Bakura's trench coat.
"Didn't see us?"
"No, he's headed towards our camp."
"Then let's just get back to camp and we'll find out who it is later."
"Any luck?" Allen asked when they arrived back at the rivers edge.
"I had to send a Chibi back home, but there's still at least one other Bishi following us."
"Chibi who?" Rei asked.
"A Max."
"I'm surprised Tyson didn't follow us out here."
"Or Sellema and the twins." Kai added as he handed a paper plate to Bakura.
"I can just see your brothers begging your mother to be allowed to come with us."
"They probably did."
As they continued to talk Demoonica tapped on a Bishiball, letting Kamui out. "Lunch, then I think we should take your bandages off."
Demoonica's ear-piece sounded of static, then Katan's voice sounded in her ear. "I just passed the distance limit, did you feel it?"
Demoonica had felt an almost unnoticeably slight pull in her mind a moment before. "I barely felt it, is that the way the Bond Serum should work?"
"Yes, if everything is well you should not notice very much change. Remember though, that if you wish to find me all you must do is focus your thoughts and you will know how far away I am and in what direction."
"Ah! So you can never hide from me then." Demoonica laughed. She heard Katan laugh too, over the ear-piece.
They were just finished with lunch, every Bishi was back in ball, and Demoonica was ready to leave for areas farther north when a gigantic white furred wolf sprang from the trees and came right at her. "Whaa!" She barely dodged.
The wolf turned and paced around the clearing at the edge of the river. Behind her Demoonica could hear a spinning sound, she was sure she knew it from somewhere.
"Choose a fighter!" Came a voice, followed by a red haired Bishounen appearing from behind a tree. "If not, I'm sure my Wolborg would love to play with... you."
'A Tala?' Demoonica thought. 'But that Wolborg isn't just an image created by his beyblade, how's he doing that?' Demoonica grabbed a Bishiball, calling forth its occupant. "You ready to lose? C'mon Kamui! It's time to battle!"
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"Kamui!"
"I'm on it-" A sudden burst of energized air slammed into Tala, knocking him backwards. His concentration was broke and the large wolf he had been using during most of the fight disappeared back into his beyblade.
"Wolborg!" Tala coughed as he watched his summoned bitbeast disappear. "No good, I don't have the energy to summon him back." His beyblade wavered in response, then spun out, coming to a rest at his knee.
"I win." Kamui announced when Tala made no other move than to just continue to kneel on the grass.
Demoonica pulled an empty Bishiball from her belt and tossed the ball at Tala. "Nyet!" -AN: No!- Tala yelled as he saw the ball headed at him. It was too late to move though, the ball hit and Tala disappeared into it in a flash of red energy. The ball fell to the ground, shaking a few times before it halted and sounded it's closing.
Demoonica listened to her BishiGear rattle off Tala's info, then walked over to the ball and picked it up, letting Tala out. "Tala-baby!" Demoonica said, giving the redhead a hug as soon as he appeared out of the ball.
"Watch the hair!"
She let him go. "Huh?"
Tala plopped down on the grass, drained from his battle, he was mildly miffed, trying to fix his ruffled red hair. Demoonica looked at him. "It's not that messed up." She told him.
"I'll decide when my hair is back to where it belongs, thank you." He said, paying her no mind.
"So how did you do that?"
"Do what?" He snapped at her.
"Make your bitbeast solid."
Tala stopped running his fingers through his hair and pulled out his beyblade. "It just takes training and a lot of energy, but it can really surprise someone."
"Tell me about it." Kamui spoke up. "It's not fun dodging spears of ice."
Tala smirked. "You think? Now tell me, girl, you are the trainer who was in town this morning, correct? Because if you weren't, I'd feel much more dumb than I already do."
"Your fault for picking a battle, so don't blame me, and yes, that trainer in town was me. If you wanted to see Kai or Rei, following me wasn't the best way to do it, neither was challenging me."
Tala shrugged. "I don't know your Kai or Rei, I was just wanting to see how strong a Bishounen who travels with a human really is."
"Impressed?"
Tala put his beyblade back into his jacket. "Not really, you didn't use a Bishounen from here, I still don't know how strong a Beyblade Bishounen is after having trained with a human."
"Sorry to disappoint you." Demoonica said sarcastically.
Tala shrugged. "Does my hair look right now?" He suddenly asked.
Demoonica sweat dropped.
Her Bishigear beeped. "Monster Battle upgrade downloaded."
"Monster Battle?" She questioned as she flipped open her Bishigear to read the message. She was halfway finished reading when Demoonica felt an unsettling feeling in the pit of her stomach. "Oh shit. Into your balls!" She grabbed Kamui and Tala's 'PD' Spheres and called them back. A moment after her outburst the ground began to shift under her feet and the surrounding area became hazy.
When the Bishiworld finished rearranging itself Demoonica could tell she had been dropped right in the middle of a different area, but what one? The forest was thin and she was in a sunken down area, most likely a dry river bed. The haze hadn't left, but it was swirling around the trees about ten foot away from where she was standing. The haze swirled quickly and suddenly separated as someone came running out of the forest and down the dry river bank towards Demoonica.
Silver hair, aqua colored eyes...
Riku grabbed Demoonica by the wrist and pulled her into the protective bubble surrounding him. "Are you crazy!? You're running around unprotected in an area that has Miasma pockets!"
Demoonica watched as a purple mist sprung from the trees surrounding them and filled the clearing. "Miasma?"
Riku looked at the confused trainer girl. "A poisonous gas in this area. What are you doing here? It's dangerous." Of course the girl had probably figured out that much by now. He pointed to the chalice he had set down on the ground. "The gem on that keeps a protective barrier up with the power of a liquid called Myrth. The Miasma isn't gong to disperse any time soon. I'll get you to Tipa, it's the closest town, but first I need to get the Myrth from near here."
"Hey! Look out!" Demoonica pointed to an ugly reddish-brown thing that had been trying to sneak up behind Riku.
Riku spun around, drawing his sword as he did, and cut the monster down. In it's place all that was left was a floating gold coin. "A goblin... you must have turned on the Monster Battle equipped in your BishiNavi-"
"What's a BishiNavi?"
Riku startled. He looked back over his shoulder at Demoonica. "Nothing... it's called a Bishi-?" He motioned for her to fill in the end of the word.
"Oh! I have a BishiGear, I guess that's something newer then?"
"... No... I just mis-spoke is all." He grabbed the floating coin from the air, handing it to Demoonica. "Spoils of battle. Here, I don't need it. It's gold from this area, register it into your Gear and it'll add it to your trainers bank account." Demoonica registered the coins. The BishiGear told her that 80 gold had been added to her account. "And carry this." He handed her the chalice. "This way I can fight better, if we come across any more monsters stay close with that, but stay out of my way."
"I..."
"That or the Miasma. Your choice." Riku gave her a smirk.
"I'll help, but what makes you think I won't throw a ball at you when your defenses are down?"
He shrugged. "Maybe you will."
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Riku made short work of the Giant Crab that awaited them before getting to the Myrth Tree, even though Demoonica tried to stay out of his way the monster had other ideas and seemed to keep targeting her. The trip to the nearest city, Tipa, Riku called it, was uneventful other than more small goblins that fell with a single hit from Riku's sword. She found out she had ended up deep within Final Fantasy: The Crystal Chronicles area.
This Riku wasn't the brash young man Demoonica knew from the Kingdom Hearts games, he looked a few years older, near his mid-twenties and had an old scar that started above his eyebrow, crossed over his left eye, ending just at the top of his cheek. Demoonica couldn't help but ask if he'd been 'training' with Final Fantasy 8's Squall and Seifer. He was quiet for a moment, then answered.
"I got it protecting my trainer."
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"Here we are, Tipa!" Riku waved to the village. "There'll be a party tonight. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to bring the Myrth Chalice to the Elders."
"Thank you, Riku."
"I would have done the same for anyone. By the way, what's your name?"
"Demoonica."
"Well, Demoonica, I expect to see you and your Bishounen tonight." With that said, he left.
Demoonica tapped on a ball, summoning Heero. "You got to the town late, were there problems?" The platinum blond Bishounen asked. Demoonica did look sort of ruffed up and Heero was on alert for any more danger. "You okay?"
"I did run into a snag, but everything is fine. We've been invited to some party. I'll explain later, let's set up the Communications Spheres."
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"So, did you like the ceremony? It only happens once a year, just so you know." Riku asked as he sat by Demoonica, watching the party take place around in the town.
"I haven't been to a party like this since I was back home."
"Really. Well, your Bishounen are having fun, like a bunch of little kids if you were to ask me. Drink?" Riku held out the bottle, but Demoonica refused. Riku shrugged and sat his drink down between them. "You never were one to drink."
"Huh?"
Riku shook his head. "Nothing."
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-A week later, late into the night-
"So, D-chan, where are we now? This place looks different from the Final Fantasy X area a few miles back. Did we pass into a new area?" Duo asked as he and Demoonica followed the moon lit path cutting through the seeming sea of grasslands.
"My BishiGear says we're in the Tales of Symphonia area, I guess we've left the Final Fantasy areas when we took the north road. All the areas around here are video game areas right now."
Duo nodded and walked on, his hands folded behind his head, thigh length braid swinging left and right in a dramatic way. "Hey what's this?" He asked after he nearly fell over an object right in his path. Demoonica, who was about five feet away, walked over to take a look.
"It's a treasure chest, the Monster Battle makes them appear at times too."
"Hey, treasure chest! Cool!" Duo flipped open the chest. "Huh? What's this? It's just a glowing coin." He held it out to Demoonica. She took it, instantly registering it to her BishiGear.
"Hmm, a thousand Gald? Did they misspell gold?" Demoonica checked. "Nope, the Tales of Symphonia area's form of currency is Gald with an "A", weird."
"So, what's the exchange rate?"
"No clue, but with this new Monster Battle installation in my BishiGear, I plan on collecting plenty before we make it to a town."
Duo smirked and drew his handgun from... once again Demoonica was left wondering just where those things appeared from.
"Shake that thing and tell it to make something appear then, I'm board-" Just then a light shimmered about twenty feet away from where they were standing, when it faded a small clothed rat stood upright on its back legs and raised a spear. "Never mind." He fired his gun.
-Several hours later-
"Glad the enemies aren't resistant to bullets, but if we're going to continue hunting, I'd like Heero as back up."
He and Demoonica had worked their way to the nearest town, a small human town called Noipmahc, and they had been circling around the town to make the Monster Battle work quicker. By now the sun was starting to rise.
"Sure thing, eh Heero." Demoonica tapped on a ball, calling out Heero. He appeared, blinking sleepily.
"Time?" The blond asked.
"About six-thirty, g'morning." Duo chirped.
"Duo's way to chipper to have just gotten woken up. You've been up all night, haven't you? Both of you."
"Yeah." Demoonica answered. "But I didn't wake up until after noon yesterday."
"Yeah, we've been searching the area for goodies and I've killed off plenty of low level monsters, but they're getting stronger, so you're going to back me up right?"
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"A total of about five-thousand Gald, lot's of food items, silver and quarts gems..."
"And this cool bracelet-"
"That you're wearing without knowing it's properties."
"C'mon, Heero, y'know you're only saying that because I got it."
Heero sighed. "Demoonica, how about we break for breakfast?"
"Yeah, D-chan, I'm famished!"
Demoonica yawned. "Sure thing guys, I can use some of the stuff we picked up after the battles."
Heero nodded in agreement. "It was a good idea on the programers part to include food items with the list of drop items the monsters give out. It's very helpful if your trainer doesn't do many battles with other trainers."
Duo looked at her, "Some of the others should be awake now. See if you can get Rei to help you cook."
"Then you should get some sleep, we're right outside of town and a they always have at least one hotel." Heero added.
Demoonica laughed. "Who's the trainer here, again?"
Both boys blushed and Duo rubbed the back of his head while giving a small laugh. This made Demoonica sigh. She called out Rei, who was in the middle of brushing his teeth.
"Early." He mumbled around his toothbrush.
"For me, but sorry, I'd guessed you were up already." Demoonica said, setting up the 'PD' Sphere. Rei finished up and a few minutes later was helping Demoonica fix breakfast. Luckily a year in the BishiWorld had improved her cooking skills. By this time most of the others were up and out of ball.
"Where did we get eggs?" Zero wondered out loud. "We finished them off two days ago, didn't we?" He asked Heero.
"Spoils of battle." Heero answered.
"Eww, they're spoiled?" Zero made a face.
"No, it's just an expression."
"Uh, so..."
"Don't strain your brain, Enna." Hiead added in.
"SHUT UP HIEAD!"
Allen shook his head, Zero and Hiead could never speak nicely to one another. Rei frowned as Tala sat down beside Kai and he two began talking in Russian, but none the less he continued to watch the rice so it wouldn't boil over. Marou, an ever present rain cloud within the group lounged in a tree above them all, a discontent look on his face. He'd been in a bad mood from the time Katan had left, but instead of lashing out at another of the group, he had became strangely quiet. Duo pulled Zero away from yet another fight with Hiead before it came to blows and got him into a doubles Yu-Gi-Oh! card battle with Heero and Bakura. Kamui who had yet to find his place with in the group sat off to the side.
Demoonica sighed as she helped Rei with breakfast, this was really the first time she'd noticed how different things were with Kagome, Inuyasha, Junia, and Inu-chan staying at the Bishi World Safety Department. But Kagome had wanted to stay for the good of the two Chibi's education, something that had been sorely overlooked during Demoonica's travels.
It was the first time she had the experience that most trainers dealt with from the beginning of their travels, she was the only girl in the group and some part in the back of her brain was still wired for her to be on her guard, because these were guys and-
"BAKURA!" Smack! "I swear you were raised by a Miroku!" Demoonica humphed and pointed the metal egg turner she'd smacked Bakura's roaming hand with to a spot far from her. "Sit over there! You guys!" She looked at the snickering Bishounen. "I had hoped you'd keep him in line when my back is turned!"
Now with her feeling of unease gone, and breakfast ready, Demoonica could eat in peace. If peace consisted of bickering over who got what, who was eating more that their fair share, and complaints over the food fixed or how it was fixed. She would never trade these days for her former life back on Earth.
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-February 2003-
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"Thanks, traitor." Edward said with a glare right before his world went black.
"Now what do we do?" Asked the first Alchemist.
"Just leave them, with wounds like that, we don't even have to bloody our hands with killing them outright." Answered the second.
"Right, boss."
Demoonica came across the scene an hour later, the elder of the Bishounen dead, bled out upon the forest floor, a smaller form leaned limply against the first. He was breathing, but just barely, his blood dripping slowly onto the already soaked forest floor. Both were covered in bloody mud, having both stab wounds and burn marks.
A injected Potion and several stitches on the Chibi Edward Elric later, they decided that he would pull through from his near death.
"Hey. Hey, Elric-san." A cool, wet cloth was placed on Ed's face. he pushed away the hand and removed the cloth that fell from said hand and onto his face. "I thought you were lost..." A female voice cut through Ed's hazy thoughts. He opened his eyes, coming face to face with a brown eyed Bishoujo.
"Eh... who?"
"I'm Kagome... you've been unconscious for awhile, are you going to be okay?"
"I'm alive, ain't I? Uh, where are you from... and, um... where's my big brother?" Ed asked.
Kagome looked away. "I..." She felt horrible about having to tell him that his brother was being buried outside. "I'm Kagome Higirashi from the Inuyasha area. Your brother... I'm so sorry-"
"He didn't make it. Damn those bastards!" The child shouted.
"You shouldn't talk like that." Kagome retrieved the washcloth from Ed's hand, and wiped the boy's face again. "Demoonica found you... both, but she's far too upset by what she's seen. Inuyasha and Allan are... they dug the..."
Ed wobbled as he got to his feet, only then noticing he wasn't in the forest any more, but a bedroom. "Just where are we?"
"This is a pocket dimension room." Kagome told him, it was better to not frighten the boy with the knowledge that he was inside of a Bishiball.
"Oh." Ed had no clue what that was, but he wasn't about to say so. "Where are your friends?"
"Outside, but I don't think-" The young alchemist was out the door, not giving Kagome time to finish.
Left. Right. Right again. Ed followed the sounds of a shovel until he made it to a well lit clearing. A pair of solemn Bishounen stood over the freshly filled in grave. "No." Ed whimpered. "No." He half stumbled, half ran to the grave, falling to his hands and knees once he was there, then moving to lay flat. His face was buried in the dark soil, one hand pounding the ground as the other fisted in the dirt. Tears dripped from his face. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you! Hate you!" With each repetition of the line Ed hit the ground with his fist. He repeated it until his voice gave out on him. He cried himself dry. Ed lay there, staring blankly at his auto-mail hand that refused to be moved. Again, he started to sob, wet but tearless puffy red rimmed eyes squeezed shut.
Inuyasha and Allan watched silently as the boy broke down. When Ed finally stopped whimpering and just lay on his brothers grave, Inuyasha moved in and scooped him up. The boy just whimpered at being moved, and choked back another sob. It pulled at Inuyasha's heart. "This boy..." He said to Allan. "...is only a little older than the one Kagome adopted. He was close to being gutted... who would do that to a child?"
Allan placed a hand on Ed's dirt and blood caked hair. Ed whimpered again, attempting to curl into Inuyasha's Fire Rat Robe. "I do not know, but they are men of the lowest kind. Had not m'lady came upon him when she did..."
"I don't think my stomach is strong enough for you to voice that possibility, Allan."
Allan nodded in understanding. He, too, knew he would not have been able to dig a child's grave. "We should take him back to Lady Kagome."
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Ed woke the next morning because his stomach was itching like crazy. He tried to scratch it, but there were bandages in his way. A shift on the bed and a pull at the covers alerted him to the fact he wasn't alone. Ed's amber colored gaze fell on the black and the blue-silver topped heads of two younger boys.
Ed tried to scratch his stomach again. He cursed the bandages, then noticed the Bishoujo asleep in the chair beside the bed. Another girl, one he hadn't seen the day before, was sleeping on a bean bag chair on the other side of the bed. They must have watched over him most of the night. He could see that the door in the wall, the wall that the end of the bad faced, led into a bathroom.
He made his way to the bathroom sink, not awake enough for his mind to register how things seemed more confined or that the t-shirt he was wearing hardly covered the curve of his hips. He turned the water on, letting it run until it turned cold as he washed his hands and his face. He let the brown and reds streaks mix and discolor the sink basin. Dirt. Dirt and blood. His blood. His brothers blood. He didn't know who's, but it was most probably a mixture of the both.
Ed leaned down to rest his forehead against the edge of the cold porcelain sink and let out a whimper. He must have made himself sick. He sounded odd, even to his own ears. He should wash all this... 'stuff'... he needed to think of it as 'stuff'... off the rest of him and out of his hair-
Ed blinked. When had he thought things out so clearly? And when had he ever needed to lean -down- to reach a sink? He turned off the water, staring at the changes in his reflection. "Wha?" He touched the mirror with his auto-mail hand, suddenly angry, he clenched his hand and punched, shattering the glass. "Why? Why couldn't this have happened a week ago? A day? I could have saved my brother's life. Why do I become a San when I no longer have anyone I need to protect? Damn those bastards! My blood's pure! I'm no different than their own sons, just because... just because-"
Ed shrugged off the t-shirt and stepped into the shower, wanting to wash the blood off as soon as he could, he didn't need a reminder of what he had caused, he would always remember.
As Ed stepped out of the shower he caught his reflection in the broken shards of the mirror, it was hard to miss the difference. He pulled his loose wet hair over his shoulder and looked down at it, it wasn't blond. Instead it was a mixture of chestnut, cherry blond, and honey... really pretty, but it marked him as different. He was called a Half-Bishi by a lot of the city's residence, and when his parents were gone they thought to be rid of him and his brother, even though his brother was completely normal, but he knew that he couldn't be a Half-Bishi, his mother was a Winnry, his father an Edward, there as no other way for it to be. He couldn't be a Half-Bishi. Why did he have to be born different?
A beeping came from the other room. Ed leaned against the door and listened as there was a fumbling, the beeping stopped, then the sound of a girls voice filtered through the door.
"Mnnn... what? ...Oh, Katan... hi. Have you found out anything about that ginger haired woman?... And?..." There was a long pause. "I see. So she and that man are the people who kidnaped me... Kagome? No, she's with me. I have all of them with me... Yes, I thought it was better with what's been happening. Of course I'm being careful... Is that why you called?" There was another long pause. "Oh, you ran into those people yourself. Yes. Yes, I will keep at least one of them out with me at all times... Yes, good-bye."
Ed dried himself quickly, dressed, and opened the door quietly, stepping into the next room.
"I see you are okay to move around now-" Demoonica stopped. "Uh-uh-uh... oh my!" She stared at the newly evolved bishounen. The Chibi she had seen last night was little more than three and a half feet tall, but as a San Ed was taller than her, and that shirt was not covering nearly enough. -AN: They may do a lot of short jokes on Full Metal Alchemist, but Ed's height is given as 5'5 in the manga. Kind of short for a guy, but not all the odd.-
"I'm sorry." She almost didn't hear Edward when he spoke.
"Sorry? For what?"
"I shouldn't be alive now." Ed said as he sunk to his knees on the floor. "I should be the one who's dead and not my brother, I'm better off not causing any more people to get hurt... or killed. Look at me! I'm some kind of freak of nature! You should go find that Colonel Bastard and have him finish his job!" Ed was yelling and sobbing at the same time. "I don't want any one else hurt because of me, you're a human right?" He looked up at Demoonica. "Like a trainer?" Demoonica nodded. "Good. Then you should stuff me into one of those ball things and let the world forget that I exist."
"Elric-san?" Kagome, who was now awake, moved over to kneel beside the hysterical Bishounen. "You shouldn't talk that way." She put a hand on Ed's shoulder.
Ed jerked away. "Why not, It's not like it'd matter."
"Of course it would matter, idiot!" Kagome hugged him. "You're not a freak!"
"I am too!" Ed sobbed into his knees. "I didn't get it when I was a kid, why my parents were so carful to keep my hair the same color as my dads and my brothers, but it's because I'm messed up! I'm weird! Please then, if you won't do that, then take me away, I'm already dead to every person who ever knew me."
Demoonica looked at Edward, then at Kagome. Kagome nodded, she believed it was a good idea to keep the boy with them. Demoonica un-clipped a 'PD' Sphere from her belt and walked over to Edward. "Here then, touch this." She held out the ball to him.
Ed grabbed a hold of the ball, he was surrounded by a red energy, and it pulled him inside. Still in Demoonica's hand the ball gave a shake then gave the sound signaling it's closing. Demoonica walked out of the 'PD' Sphere room they were in as her BishiGear told her Ed's information. It ended with: "Give a nickname to Bishounen?"
"No nickname. Hey, Ed!" She tossed Ed's BishiBall into the air, it opened and Edward Elric, newly evolved and newly caught, appeared out of the same red energy that had pulled him into the ball. He stood there as Demoonica caught the ball as it fell back down into her hands.
"I thought that would be more frightening somehow." He said when Demoonica clipped the ball back onto her belt. "I want to leave now."
Demoonica shook her head. "I have to go to Central City." At Ed's frightened look, she knew he was about to start accusing her of taking him back to the one place he never wanted to see again. "You can stay in your ball while I'm there and no one will ever find out, okay?" Apparently it was the right thing to say and he visibly relaxed, a moment later he returned to his Bishiball.
"Are you sure it's wise to go there right now, Demoonica?" Kagome asked from the doorway to her 'PD' room.
Demoonica brushed her hair back out of her face. "No one will know he's there, I'm more worried about how to explain having Junia with me."
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"...A week and a half, tops. Well that's what Prof. Steve and Washu-chan told me anyway." Zander said to Demoonica in one of their rare video-phone calls.
"Then you'll be back to stay? Promise?" Demoonica looked hopeful.
"Yeah, I'll be there to put all your Bishounen to shame, I never knew just how bad I was at working with my powers. But, you'll see." Zander smirked.
"It's not been the same..."
"Yeah, I know... ten days, Dee, ten."
"See you in ten days then. Bye."
"Bye."
The screen in the BishiCenter waiting room went blank. Demoonica stretched, cracking her back over the back of the chair. She looked over to the attendant at the counter to see if the doctor had finished the check up of her Bishi. No luck, the Bishoujo, a Sakura from the Naruto anime, was silently typing away at her computer.
"Is it going to be much longer?" Demoonica asked.
The Sakura looked up from the screen. "This is a small town and we only have the one doctor, it'll be a few hours to do full check ups for all of your Bishi. I can have those who are already finished join you if you want to spend the time else where."
"Uh, yeah... if you would. I don't like doctors offices and hospitals."
The Sakura pushed a button and asked for the Bishi belonging to the trainer Demoonica Darkmoon who's exams were finished to return to the waiting room. A few minutes later Kagome with both Chibi's, Inu-chan and Junia, along with Allen and Kamui came out from the back.
Demoonica looked at the two Chibi's and sighed. She couldn't keep going into human cities with them in tow, it was dangerous. Going into Bishi Cities was a little better, because then she only had to worry about being arrested, instead of being arrested and having trainers trying to catch one or both of them. Demoonica sat back down, then stood back up. She walked over to Inu-chan and picked him up, he'd grown so much from the time he had been born, he would easily pass for a seven-year-old child back on Earth. Junia could have been eleven or twelve now, surely nearing the end of his Chibihood.
"Let's go shopping."
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TBC...
Okay, the thing about Heero and Edwards hair color... any pure-blooded bishi has a 1 in 8 thousand chance to be born with noticeably different coloration, be it their hair, eyes, skin, or even a combination of these, it's genetic. They are seen as 'bad luck' by many older Bishounen and are often mistaken for being half-bishi or mixed-anime bishi.
-AN1- True, this was somewhat spoken of in 'The Girl Who Would be Bishi: Damia's Story'. In that Kai was wearing his like a necklace if you remember. In the future, unless they are with her, all of Demoonica's Bishi keep their own BishiBall with them as protection. Remember the Bond Serum allows Demoonica's Bishi to break the distance and time restrictions.
LDD: Yay, over half a year without an update, but here one finally is! Click the button, leave a review why don't you?