The First Ones
"Should we go back?" you ask after you reach the stoop that has to have at least eighty stairs.
"How? Why? What good would it do?"
"Good point."
You start inside, holding your fist closed around a dagger that you brought, and you look around, trying to mask your fear. Someone drops in front of you, a humanoid rooster, you think. He (or she) is four feet tall, has wings and chicken feet, but stands upright and has a feathered human head.
"I'm insulted," you say aloud, looking at him/her and crossing your arms. "Hiei, you wanna take care of this, or shall I?"
Hiei steps forward, but when he does, something picks him up into the air and holds him there, stiff as a board. You recognize that- you can do that, too (in fact, it's your favorite way to shut Ender up, 'cos you can beat him into a wall like that.)
"Oh, dammit," you murmur. You step forward, and you feel its energy wrap around you, too, but you don't need to move to control your energy. You freeze as it begins to squeeze you. You throw yours at him, attempting to slug him, but it steps back and slams Hiei into a wall, but before he can do it again, you've got him ramming his own head against the ceiling over and over again, until it fights your grip on him and you fight off his grip on yourself and Hiei, using his distraction to your advantage.
It makes a very odd squawking sound and lets go, then runs at you and hits you with its talons. You manage to catch the talons on your arm and you grab its leg and throw it into the ground and stab your dagger into its back. You stand over it, grinning. "There you go," you say, looking at Hiei. "Powers like mine are not to be messed with, even if I have no element." ((Let's just say that one day, you two got into... a "discussion" about how useless your powers to pick things up and move them are.))
He gets up and glares a little at you, then you both start back down the hall. You have to punch your way through vegetable people. They're easy to take down, but you begin to detect that your energy is starting to lower, and there is nothing but more.
You have no choice but to keep cutting through them like weeds, whacking away at the walls and walls walking towards you, until you meet another one. The Horse. This is, almost certainly, a woman, unless it is a guy with a hormone problem. She is a centaur-looking demon, and almost everything about her is a different shade of green. You figure she has a thing for earth or plants, depending.
"Why are you here, detectives?"
You stand with your arms at your sides, preparing to fight. Hiei steps forward, though, so you stand back and cross your arms.
Plants grow out of the wall and reach out to seize the oni, but he cuts them away and lunges at her. She doesn't move until the last second, when she rears up onto her back legs and kicks him very firmly in the face. He staggers back, holding his mouth and nose, then looks at her with a face of rage, then suddenly vanishes. The centaur looks around, wide-eyed. "Where'd he go? Where did he go!?" she demands.
Hiei is actually clinging to some of the vines on the wall from where she'd sent them after him, but then he drops down. She catches him with the vines and drags him back to the wall and they start to cut his air off. His blade drops, and he struggles to get the bitch to let him the fuck go. You focus pretty hard on the plants holding him, then another set of vines drags you to the wall and keeps your back turned, so you can't see.
"You can't use your energy if you can't see where you should use it," she says in a singsong voice. You growl and start trying to drag yourself off the wall, breaking the vines around your neck. Hiei makes a strangled sound, probably not meaning to. You drag yourself off the wall some more and rotate your head until you can see Hiei at least out of the corner of your eye, and you start helping Hiei drag the vines off him. He falls down off the wall and hits the ground, then vanishes. You suspect that he's slashing her into several peices, because all you hear is the sound of a blade through flesh. You lose track of how many times he cut her, but it doesn't really matter, 'cos she's dead. He cuts you down, and you know it doesn't matter, but you ask anyway.
"How many times, Hiei? I only counted twelve, but my ears were having trouble picking apart the single sounds."
"Twenty-one," he answers, smirking slightly. You both start forward again, but you pause, punching random veggie people in the faces and chests, knocking them down.
"Where are we going?"
"To find the rest," he says.