Okay here's chapter 4! I've just thought of a better chapter name! Enjoy!J
//…// = Yami talking to Yugi
/…/ = Yugi talking to Yami
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Chapter 4: Amber Eyes No More
"So Hoshi, do you really have to leave?" asked Katana.
"Yeah, there's some problems back home. I'll come back soon! Bye! I hope you all will find a way home!" said Hoshi as she dashed off into the bushes. Not long after the 2-tail Koneko Spirit had vanished they heard a crash and they all turned around to see Zeero holding a bottle of SAKE and the bartender chasing after him. With a hit with a mallet the bartender got the SAKE away from the fox, whose eyes had turned into x's and had a huge bump growing out of his head.
"Darn that kitsune! That's the 100th time he's tried to steal that bottle!" grumbled the bartender as he strolled of with the SAKE. Zeero got up whining.
"Darn! No one knows how to share!" he winced.
"You're always getting into trouble Zeero!" said Shiro shaking his head.
It was getting dark when they were all heading back to the hotel they were staying at. On the way they met a fortune-teller, fortune-tellers in Sonraku are unlike the ones on Earth, they can actually look into the past, present, and the future. But some may be demons in disguise.
"Well my friends, I see you're looking for something. A gate to Earth by any chance?" asked the old woman. The hood of her cloak covered her face so they couldn't see her eyes (the way to tell demon, humans, and spirits apart are by the eyes in this world).
"Uh yeah, so grandma, can you tell us where the portal is?" asked Joey. The old woman grinned.
"Ah, but don't you what me to tell you something more useful?"
"Like what?" asked Shiro, his eyes narrowing. He didn't like this, something was very wrong here.
"I think you'll find this very interesting, especially you half-breed! The Kageneko Tribe is back and this time you shall not escape!" With that smoke exploded from the crystal ball. As the smoke rose no one noticed Shiro being pulled into the darkness.
Shiro managed to pull himself loose and turned around to face his captor. It was the cat-demon, Kuro, his half-brother.
"Well, it's been a while Shiro. Helping out humans again?" asked the demon smirking.
"Alright Kuro, why are you here?!"
"You out of all people should know, but I just wanted to show you how pathetic a human can be." The fortune-teller came out of the shadows behind Kuro. "What better way to show you then to turn you into one!" A beam of darkness shot out at Shiro and engulfed in it's shadows. "Don't worry, it'll only be for 24 hours." said Kuro as he and the fortune-teller faded away into the shadows.
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"Shiro! Where are you?!" called Katana. After the smoke had cleared they had notice he had vanished and had been searching for him for a few hours now.
"What?!" called Shiro's voice from the dark alleyway.
"There you are! Where were you?" asked Akio.
"None of your business…" said Shiro sounding as though he was very upset about something.
"Come on man, get out of there!" said Joey.
"You can forget it!"
"Come on." said Akio as he tried to drag Shiro out. To his surprise Shiro's power was a lot weaker than what he remembered so it didn't take long before he….
"Huh!?" screamed everyone in surprise. Shiro had defiantly changed. For one his hair had turned jet black and his ears and tail were gone!
"Shiro! What happened!? You're tail and ears are gone!" said Zeero as he ran around Shiro surveying his new look.
"You're lucky my demon-strength is gone too!" growled Shiro as he slammed Zeero onto the ground. Then he opened his eyes for the first time and…
"Shiro! You're eyes!" cried Katana. His eyes were no longer the mysterious amber color they once were. They were now dark brown, almost black!
"First you lose your powers and you ears and tail. Now your eyes have changed, but that means…" said Akio.
"You're 100% human!" cried the kitsune who had just got up. "Shiro, what's going on?!"
"It's nothing, just a little spell, it'll wear off in 24 hours…" he muttered.
"24 hours! Do you know how many demons will take advantage of this?! Not to mention you'll be a huge target for the Kagenekos!" screeched Zeero. "And if you don't have your demon powers how are you going to protect yourself!? Come to think of it who'll protect me?! ….AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! We're all going to die!" Zeero began to run around in circles as Shiro sat down on a crate as though nothing had happened.
"Shiro, aren't you at all worried about what's going to happen to you? You don't have any powers or weapons to defend yourself anymore!" screamed Akio, but Shiro continued sitting and looking calm. "You're hopeless!" Shiro looked up straight into Akio's eyes.
"Look, just because I'm 100% human doesn't mean I'm 100% helpless!" he snapped. "Besides, it'll wear off by midnight tomorrow!" As if this had been planned a bunch of shadow demons appeared.
"Aye! We're goners!" winced Zeero as he turned into his fox form and coward behind Yugi (this kitsune is afraid of everything isn't he). Shiro got off the crate and picked up a metal pole which happened to be nearby.
"You're not going to try to fight them are you?" asked Tea.
"Why not?" asked Shiro not taking his eyes off the demons.
"Are you crazy?" screamed Tristan.
"You don't have you're demon powers! You're going to get crushed!" screeched Joey.
/Yami, Shiro's going to get himself killed!/
//I don't think so, with a look like that in his eyes you can tell that he's more deadly then he seems…//
/I'm still not so sure./
Yami materialized besides Yugi as the shadows began to close in. Then the shadows jumped on them. Surprisingly Shiro managed to easily fend them off with the pole. It was very obvious who the shadows were after, but Shiro managed to keep them off him.
"Mind Crush!" yelled Yami as he destroyed a bunch of the shadow. Katana was shooting about 10 arrows per second now, Akio was trying to get a bunch of the shadows off him with his sword, and Zeero was running around trying to get a shadow demon of his tails (he's still in his demon form)!
"Shiro, behind you!" yelled Yugi, a shadow had creped up behind him. Shiro brought the pole up hitting the demon in the … (yes, not pretty, but it stopped the demon).
"Alright, I'm going to summon the Red Eyes Black Dragon!" yelled Joey as he pulled out the card, nothing happened. (sweat drop) "Hey! Oh yeah, we're not in Kaiba's video game."
"I can't take this any longer! Slashing Fury!" cried Zeero as he transformed out of his fox form. Slashing Fury was probably his best attack when he wasn't in his demon form. He managed to take out the rest of the demons by slicing them into many pieces, one would think he was a paper shredder (Yay Zeero J )!
Just when everything seemed to calm down a dark hand reached out and grabbed Shiro by the neck, ramming him into the wall.
"I'm very surprised you've managed to get this far… Well, this will soon stop!" said the demon whose hand was now chocking Shiro. Shiro growled as he tried to get the hand off of his neck, but it was no use, without his demon powers he couldn't get loose.
"Hey you! Let him go!" yelled Zeero as he tried to get to Shiro. The demon unleashed a powerful energy blast that sent the poor kitsune flying and he landed right on top of Akio.
"Excuse me…but would you mind…getting your fat carcass off me!?" yelled Akio. Suddenly a tornado came out of nowhere and covered up both Shiro and the other demon.
A wind demon, just my luck! thought Shiro as he squirmed around trying to get loose.
"Easy Kaze, we'll need this one alive." said an all-to-familiar voice. Shiro turned his head to see his half-brother standing behind Kaze, smirking. "Do you enjoy being human, Shiro?" Shiro's eyes narrowed as he tried to get Kaze's hand off him.
"But, Kuro, I was really hoping to get to kill something today!" objected Kaze.
"There's a bunch of humans out there from the planet Earth, you can destroy them!"
"Leave them out of this Kuro!" snarled Shiro as he was beginning to loose consciousness, this lack of oxygen was beginning to take its toll!
"What if I choose not to? You can't do anything about it. You can't even save yourself now, so what hope do you have of saving them!" said Kuro. Then an arrow came out of the outside of the tornado and sliced off Kaze's hand from the rest of his arm. Shiro fell to the ground into a heap. As the tornado died down Katana and the others came into view.
"They don't call me the best archer for nothing you know!" said Katana. Since Kaze was a demon he was able to grow out another arm.
"Winds of Steel!" he yelled as several blades made out of wind came at there way. That was very interesting to watch, Joey, Tristan, Akio, and Zeero were all hopping up and down like a bunch of Mexican Jumping Beans just to avoid the attacks!
"Slashing Fury!" yelled Zeero as he sliced at the blades. He managed to deflect some blades, but some managed to get through. One managed to do some serious damage to his right shoulder. He yelped in pain as he dropped to the ground, with his arm in this condition there is no way he could continue fighting. Akio was having a hard time too, the blades managed to slice him up real good, he dropped to the ground next to Zeero, unable to fight any longer. Yami managed to form a force field around them to block the remaining blades.
"Is this all you're made of? Well then you have no chance of defeating me!" laughed Kaze. He summoned more of those blades out at them.
"I don't know how much longer I can keep this up!" said Yami who was loosing a lot of energy by the minute. Shiro managed to stand up, but he was still a little groggy from the lack of air. He was still very vulnerable to any attack so Kaze decided that he'll just kill them all one by one for fun!
"Shiro! Look out!" yelled Yugi. Shiro looked up and saw a bunch of energy blades heading towards him. He would have dodged every one of them, except one managed to cut him at the stomach. The wound seemed to be very deep. Shiro covered the wound with his hand, but the blood seeped through and then his entire hand was covered in blood! He gritted his teeth in pain.
"Mind Crush!" yelled Yami. Yami managed to distracted Kaze for a moment as they all backed into an abandoned warehouse. Shiro fell into unconsciousness as they shut the doors. Akio quickly put a spell to prevent Kaze from getting in.
"I think these spells should keep them out for a few hours." he panted. Shiro was still unconscious, with a wound like that a human can easily die!
"Shiro, hang on…" whispered Katana. In the background Akio is beating up Zeero for making fun of him. Remember, he has a huge crush on Katana, but she doesn't really like him and he thinks there is something going on between Shiro and her (for all you other readers who don't know my anime Katana likes Shiro, but he doesn't feel the same to her). Zeero squirmed away and turned back into a fox, he was now cowering behind Joey. It was now 9:00 am, only 15 hours to go…
Everyone soon fell asleep, they had been chased by demons so many times that it was very hard to get a good night (or morning) rest. When they woke up it was only 10 more minutes to midnight (boy, they are hard core sleepers). Shiro began to stir.
"They're…coming from…the roof…" he muttered. Everyone was staring in surprise for a moment and then the roof began to crumble. Kaze had grown to the size of Cerberus and had torn the roof, not to mention the entire building, off its foundation! Before Zeero or Akio (their wounds have healed due to the demon or spiritual blood they had) could make a move Kaze had them tied up with chains.
"Ack! Katana do something!" squealed Zeero, it was very hard to breath since the chain was now chocking him and Akio. Katana had only move one inch when a chain wrapped itself around her neck.
"Alright Kaze, drop them."
It seems Shiro had recovered for he was now standing up looking as though he had never been hurt at all! Kaze dropped them, but then the chains wrapped themselves around Shiro! Then Kaze hoisted Shiro up so they could see eye to eye.
"Shiro, are you crazy?!" yelled Zeero (being a demon he recovers real fast).
"Looks like your out of tricks half-breed!" laughed Kaze.
"Heh, I suggest you look at the time…" chuckled Shiro. Out of moonlight a spiritual lion came out and flew straight at Shiro fusing with him, his slanted eyes exhibited an amber-glow before the light consumed him.
"It's midnight! But that means…" said Kaze.
"That's right, the spell has worn out. Are you ready to face me at full power!?" said Shiro. He broke out of the chains and was sort of floating in the air, kinda like what happens in those other anime shows. "Let's see you try to stop this attack! Chaotic Oblivion!" He shot a beam at Kaze, it was so powerful it even burned up the nearby buildings! Since Kaze had destroyed everyone in the village Shiro did not hold back his power. After the dust had settled Shiro was seen standing calmly as Kaze's figure was evaporating (I don't understand how he can stay that calm).
"Nice to have you back!" said Zeero.
Next Time on Heart of a Demon: Hi this is Zeero, next time we're going to set sail on a ship and bleah (threw up)! I can't stand the sea! Fox demons aren't known for their swimming abilities. Well everything would have gone okay if a Sea Serpent Demon hadn't shown up, attacking it physically won't do any good and magic isn't going to help either! Looks like it's time for me to show my best demon attack! Chapter 5: A Fox-Demon's Best Attack. See ya around!
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A.K- Yeah! I'm finally done!
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A.K- Okay!
Zen- When do I come in?
A.K- This is still part of the fanfic you know!
Zen- Darn!
Shiro- Please R&R!
Zeero- Watch me defeat the demon with my…(get hit on the head with a frying pan)
Katana- Don't give it away!
Akio- You're absolutely right Katana!
Hoshi- I'm still not back yet am I?
A.K- Nope, but you'll come back soon.
Zeero- Can I have some SAKE?
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