Chapter Twenty-Five: Which Side?
Syn glanced behind them, her eyes observant.
"What it is?" Trent asked.
Vincent stopped. "We're being followed."
Syn jumped next to them. "Come on out." She didn't have to guess. "Hiei. Kurama."
"Should I be interested?" Vincent's crimson eyes were dangerously narrow. The relationship between the fox and the vampire lord was a rocky one.
"Not really." Hiei commented back.
Kurama growled in frustration. "Are you headed toward those demons?"
"Demons?" Vince rose a brow. "Have we forgotten what we were?"
"I don't have time for this."
"You seem to never have have time for things like this Suichi." Vincent was taunting.
Her eyes were shut as she held tight to her apparent new friend. She yelped again as another weapon was thrown from behind.
Angel jerked to the right then back again. Some how they were gaining on them with great speed. "I want you to do something for me Skylee." Ana nodded as Angel moved to avoid another thrown weapon. "When we stop, if we have to, I want you to continue running in the direction we're going understand?" She nodded again. "Good. I should be right behind you but if I'm not you'll run into a large building. I want you to go inside and find Lord Urameshi. Tell him who you are and he'll take it from there."
"B-but what about..."
Angel shook her head. "Don't worry about it. I'll take care of them." She jumped over a small reveign, topping over when they got to the other side. Angel held Ana close to her as they rolled. It took a moment for Ana to regain her senses.
"Hey." Ana shook her. "Are you alright?" A wolf jumped over them causing her to scream and shake Angel harder.
"Well, well, well. They weren't kidding when they said there was a human roaming about."
An arrow flew threw the air, penatrating the wolf's skin. "Sorry you lame excuse for a youkai, that human belongs with us humans."
"Not today boys," Angel commented but her voice was different. "She's not going with either of you."
Ana noticed the eye change. They were gold with an ice-blue outline around the irises.
Syn stepped between them. "Hear that?"
"Smell that?" Trent counterquestioned.
"The screams of a girl and the horrid scent of those Lycans and Condrikes." Vincent looked back to Kurama and Hiei. "I bet I know who has an idea as to what's going on, hm?"
Kurama pressed passed them and broke out in a full run. Hiei hurried behind.
"I always enjoyed mid-day chases."
Syn placed a hand on his shoulder. "There's a storm coming Vin, it gets dangerous around here when it pours."
Her eyes narrowed as she stared out one of the windows in Yusuke's throne room. "A raging storm is going on down there." She whispered to herself. "This could get worse."
"What could get worse Reiko?" Yusuke walked up next to her.
She turned around, taken off guard to her surprise. So she switched it to him. "Do you have a medical staff on hand?"
"I have some qualified men." He leaned on the windowsil, eyes closed. "Why?"
She glanced back to the horizon, words slightly above a whisper. "They may need them."
They got the upper hand of the enemy again and were back on the run. After a while Ana risked seeing what color her friend's eyes were.
"It's Angel, by the way."
"Huh?"
"My name. It is Angel."
Ana thought about it until a drop of dark red liquid fell onto her palm. She gasped. "Angel."
"What is it?"
"Your bleeding."
Angel stopped. Her breathing was heavy. Why hadn't she reconized the wound before? It must have been from that passing weapon earlier when she lost her footing after the ravine.
"Is it bad?" Ana asked full of concern. "It's not my fault is it?"
She knelt, giving a reassuring smile. Her ears picked up subtle noises surrounding them. /This isn't good./ "Ah! Come here." She pulled Ana close her her. Weapons of all kinds flew threw the air.
Ana yelped in surprise as two large objects covered them.
The three vampire lords along with Hiei and Kurama stopped.
"What...what kind of energy was that?" Kurama questioned.
"Trent we have to find Angel." Syn pulled out her sword.
Hiei's eyes narrowed. "We're surrounded, but we're not the priority."
"We have to hurry." Trent's speed increased two-fold.
Rune sniffed the ground. He was on the right track, but the blood, that worried him.
Ana slowly opened her eyes. A dark gray feather floated down into her open hand. "An...Angel?"
Strans of silver hair mixed with black. Fox ears were placed on the head. She stood.
Ana glanced about. A barrier was stopping anything from getting to them. She noticed that the eyes from before were back.
"What are you staring at?"
Ana crawled back away from her. She gasped when she was stopped by the barrier also.
"Huh? Oh no!" Syn commented as they got closer. "Look. It's a barrier."
Kurama stopped.
Hiei landed next to him. "What is it fox?"
He bent down and picked up shedded fur. "There were demons and humans here."
"Nani?"
"Hm." Vincent sneared. "That thing has more power then I thought."
"Don't say that. Angel isn't a 'thing'."
"Trent's right Vin."
He lifted his hands and grabbed the two swords that lay in their sheaths on his back. "Still, if she transforms...I'll have no choice but to kill her."
The roar of a wolf sounded from their left. Rune jumped from the risen ground and resorted to his human like demon form before he touched the barrier.
"Fool." She said of him.
"Angel." Ana stood. "What's going on? You're scaring me now."
She looked at the girl with surprise and that distraction was enough to weaken the barrier and permit Rune in. Her eyes narrowed at him.
His tail whipped anxiously. This was getting bad; her transformation into the other demon form. For now it seemed that both forms were battling it out within her. "Hey." He called to Ana. "Get behind me. This isn't going to go over well with her."
Nodded she did as she was bid. What more could she do?
He lowered his head, pulling out a strange looking weapon that resembled a gun. He went for a capsule of liquid in his jacket pocket. "Forgive me, Angel."
"I don't understand." Kurama continued. "How could so many bodies deminish like this?" He and Hiei looked up at as the barrier light got brighter. A voice screamed in agony.