*Anemone's room...Anemone is sleeping on her homework, Kurama is
trying to gently wake her up, Hiei's got DoubleDrive on full blast*
Hiei: ...one step, I make an imprint...
Kurama: Anemone? Please wake up, Anemone...
Anemone: zzzzzzzzzz
Hiei: Kitsune, calm down...she's got the story all set up on the computer already...
Kurama: well...
Hiei: just upload it...*resumes singing, a few lines having been missed* draw my other leg up, and the pace is set...
Kurama: I suppose I could...
Anemone: zzzz'Ah! *brief pause, music continues as the boys stand silent* wait! I'm not done yet!
Kurama: ^_^ *as she rushes to computer* uncanny how she woke up just at this precise moment...
Hiei hn...*singing, having missed a few lines* you cut yourself from the cords of the wicked...gotta believe in what's real...
Anemone: *after typing one sentence* okay! Now it's...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Kurama: ^_^' I'll upload it for her *leans over Anemone, uploads the chapter, picks her up, and gently lays her on her bed.*
Hiei: get on with the enjoy crap, Kurama...
Kurama: Chapter 14...enjoy.
Chapter 14: HCl
The boys continued into the deep bowels of the Kyorgin Caves, Kuwabara having been smart enough to take hold to the torch that one demon had, now lighting their way.
"I'll take the next one," Hiei announced for the group to establish. "I sense a strong demon in the coming cavern."
"Very well," Kurama breathed softly. The fox cast his eyes towards his short friend, seeing pure rage and determination locked into the Koorime's scarlet eyes. Kurama drew back, focusing his fox-like sense of smell towards the next open cavern. 'I can't smell Botan's or Keiko's natural scent anywhere near here...but I can smell Yukina...and her Spirit Energy is still at its peak, so she's still alive, thankfully...Hiei probably knows she's being held captive around here.'
"I see you made it through the guard," a lusty, coo of a female's voice hissed. "No matter...he was weak."
The darkness of the vast, jagged cavern was broken with the torch Kuwabara clasped hard onto. A demonness, attractively tall and slender, stood in the dead center of the broad opening in the heart of the Kyorgin Caves. Her hair slicked long against her back, a glossy silver with flicks of ruby staining a few locks. Her eyes were sharply narrow, a deep shade of night blue. Her face was equally attractive as her figure, flawless and slender, making her a very lovely demonness. On one shoulder, a deep scar gashed deep into her flesh in the Japanese calligraphy symbol for "Murder".
"Is this like a cult, where every demon here hasta have a scar in Japanese writing?!" Yusuke wailed in annoyance. That's when he, and the others, noticed a certain mint-haired aperition chained tightly against the jagged stone wall. Whimpers escaped her delicate form, until her crimson eyes cast upward at Yusuke's remark, a hopeful shadow of a smile tinting her little face. "Kazuma!"
"Yukina!" Kuwabara wailed for his girlfriend. The red-headed punk was about to embrace her when a certain Katana lashed in front of his face, causing the boy to freeze.
"I wouldn't do that, moron..." Hiei glared dead ahead for the threatening demonness guarding his little sister. "Besides...I already called dibs."
Yukina pricked. 'Hiei? Why is he so intent on fighting for me? Maybe he only wants a chance to kill something...or, maybe he wants to save me...but what reason would he have for that?'
"You guard Yukina from her freedom...you will die." Hiei glared scarlet daggers at the demonness, who simply smirked. Yukina pricked tense. 'Why would he kill her for guarding me?!'
"Don't refer to me as 'you'...Call me by my name, Syaaka."
"Hn, whatever," Hiei grunted viciously. The Koorime clicked his wrist to one side, his Katana tightly gripped in his clutch. The blade sliced the air mercilessly, it's glossed glare shining silver to rival Syaaka's hair. "Prepare for death, Syaaka."
"Fair enough," Syaaka crouched in stance, clinking her wrists. Her hands sprawled apart, silver claws spiking each finger. "I must warn you...watch the hands, or you'll die..."
Hiei pricked just slightly. 'what?'
Suddenly, Syaaka pounced for the fire demon, her claws aiming straight for his throat. Hiei grunted hard, a smirk tinting his lips. His form melted into nothingness just as she was to dig into his neck with her vicious claws. But she found herself thrashing into the stone floor of the rugged, cool cavern.
She violently ripped her hands from the dense rock, kicking off for Hiei yet again. Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara scanned the scene, watching the two race through the air. Suddenly, Kurama pricked when a strang sound echoed in his sensitive ears. He jerked down to see...the stone Syaaka had dug her claws into...it was sizzling into itself, as it would if in contact with a lethal acid...hydrochloric, the strongest there is. Kurama jerked wide eyes at the dissolving stone, jerking up to stare at the fight yet again. 'he can't allow her to claw him...she's got an acid touch, I've seen it before...it will kill him.'
Hiei jumped gracefully from Syaaka's reach, but just barely, her claws nearly grazing his chin. The Koorime leapt into a blur yet again, but Syaaka's cunning was far more than her performance thus far had given her credit for. The demonness swept her leg viciously through the air, a good three yards off...but Hiei rammed dead straight into her foot, her heeled boot digging deeply into his stomach. Hiei snarled a hard wince, beads of saliva escaping his lip. Syaaka grinned deviously, her narrow navy eyes sharpening in ruthlessness as she dug her claws into the valley of Hiei's collarbone. The fire demon snarled, forcing a gnarled fist deep into the demonness's gut. She ripped apart from his collarbone, both flaying to a staggering landing. Hiei smirked darkly at Syaaka, until a deep, burning, sizzling pain struck his collarbone.
"AH!" Hiei snarled a quivering wince, clasping his corrosing wound tightly.
"Kurama, what happened?!" Yusuke wailed as Hiei collapsed to one knee in utter pain.
"She's got an acid touch!" Kurama breathed half-calmly. "Her claws issue out HCl, the strongest and most corrosive acid there is...it could kill him if he allows her to strike him again."
Syaaka landed lopsidedly, a devious smirk tinting her lusty lips. "Ha!" she laughed. "I warned you to watch the hands..."
Hiei growled viciously, clasping his collarbone tightly. "Bitch..."
"Oh!" she smirked. "Fiesty..."
"Hn!" Hiei flicked his wrist, his Katana striking the air briefly. The fire demon kicked off into a bolt run, leaping up into the air of the cool, damp cavern. His form jerked to normal speed high above the foe, his glossed blade ready to dig into her spine. Syaaka, well aware of where he was, whirled around with a speed to rival even Hiei's, thrusting her foot into his chin. Hiei flew off course, ramming hard against a jagged wall of stone upper-back first. Dust clouded his form on impact, the short Koorime falling limp to the stone floor.
"I think I've won," Syaaka jutted her hip outward slightly, smirking at her fallen foe.
"Not yet!" Hiei wailed, his form jerking into nothingness. Syaaka pricked in fear, until her neck was rammed against Hiei's vicious kick. Blood flew in tiny beads from her gaped mouth as she collapsed. The fire demon glared red daggers at the fallen Syaaka, gripping his Katana tight. "I think I'VE won..."
Syaaka whipped her hand for his ankle, but Hiei kicked from her reach, landing lightly a distance away.
"He's winning," Yusuke smiled.
"Perhaps," Kurama's stern eyes studied the battle intently. "Perhaps not..." Yusuke eyed Kurama in disbelief, jerking back to the fight.
Syaaka was back on her feet, kicking off for Hiei's direction. She lashed her claws for his chest, each strike missing the mighty Koorime. Hiei raised his Katana and prepared to swing the blade. "My turn for offense!" he wailed, his glossed blade streaking the air as it whipped in all directions for the demonness. Syaaka barely dodged each strike.
"Damn!" he groaned. Syaaka smirked darkly, kicking off again for the Koorime. She channeled her Spirit Energy into her forceful steps, making herself all the faster. Hiei just barely avoided each lethal swipe, a few grazes of acid scratches smearing his chest. The demon clasped his chest tightly, the pain of the scorching acid too much for him to bare. Syaaka's smirk deepened as she took this chance to dig in for his heart.
Yukina watched in utter horror as the fire demon stood in agony. 'it's my fault he's in such pain...' her thoughts whimpered. "Hiei!!" she wailed as Syaaka pounced to slice into his chest.
Hiei jerked angry, sharp eyes at the demonness, slicing his blade through the air just as Syaaka's claws pierced his skin. Both enemy hollored in utter pain...as blood spilled to the floor. Syaaka clasped her butchered limb, pinning the remainder of her arm tightly against her chest, guarding it viciously with her other, in-tact arm. Sharp, shrill wails screeched in heavy echoes through the vast cavern at mercy with her pain.
Hiei's eyes pinned wide in overwhelming agony. Syaaka's forearm was lodged into his chest. The fire demon snarled shrieks of pain, sweat lacing down his temple. Acid swam into his ribcage, a burning, sizzling feeling sparking through his chest. Hiei snarled sharp cries, ripping the arm viciously from it's clutch clawing into his ribs. Blood, tainted in acid, trickled down the crevices of his exposed abs, singeing pain burning and smoldering without mercy. The short Koorime gripped his wound tightly, his hands quivering as HCl swam greedily into his pierced bloodstream. Choking, quivering breaths escaped him under the massive pain as he staggered on his weight, kicking a leg under him for support, breathing hard through grit teeth as pain overwhelmed him.
"Oh no..." Kurama breathed softly.
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Anemone: hey there! what did you think? eh?
Hiei: hey! you made me weak!
Anemone: did not!
Hiei: but I lost to a GIRL!
Anemone: first off, you didn't lose...yet...and second, the hell's the problem with losing to a girl?!
Hiei: it's degrading!
Anemone: WHAT?!
Kurama: heh...er...right...anyway...moving on...Hiei, she didn't make you weak...
Hiei: *whining* yes she did!
Anemone: lookit! I didn't make you weak, okay?! I made Syaaka strong...
Hiei: hn...
Kurama: anywho, please review.
Anemone: yeah, please do...I need the confidence boost...
Kurama: heh...right...if you want to see what happens, please review...thank you.
Hiei: ...one step, I make an imprint...
Kurama: Anemone? Please wake up, Anemone...
Anemone: zzzzzzzzzz
Hiei: Kitsune, calm down...she's got the story all set up on the computer already...
Kurama: well...
Hiei: just upload it...*resumes singing, a few lines having been missed* draw my other leg up, and the pace is set...
Kurama: I suppose I could...
Anemone: zzzz'Ah! *brief pause, music continues as the boys stand silent* wait! I'm not done yet!
Kurama: ^_^ *as she rushes to computer* uncanny how she woke up just at this precise moment...
Hiei hn...*singing, having missed a few lines* you cut yourself from the cords of the wicked...gotta believe in what's real...
Anemone: *after typing one sentence* okay! Now it's...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Kurama: ^_^' I'll upload it for her *leans over Anemone, uploads the chapter, picks her up, and gently lays her on her bed.*
Hiei: get on with the enjoy crap, Kurama...
Kurama: Chapter 14...enjoy.
Chapter 14: HCl
The boys continued into the deep bowels of the Kyorgin Caves, Kuwabara having been smart enough to take hold to the torch that one demon had, now lighting their way.
"I'll take the next one," Hiei announced for the group to establish. "I sense a strong demon in the coming cavern."
"Very well," Kurama breathed softly. The fox cast his eyes towards his short friend, seeing pure rage and determination locked into the Koorime's scarlet eyes. Kurama drew back, focusing his fox-like sense of smell towards the next open cavern. 'I can't smell Botan's or Keiko's natural scent anywhere near here...but I can smell Yukina...and her Spirit Energy is still at its peak, so she's still alive, thankfully...Hiei probably knows she's being held captive around here.'
"I see you made it through the guard," a lusty, coo of a female's voice hissed. "No matter...he was weak."
The darkness of the vast, jagged cavern was broken with the torch Kuwabara clasped hard onto. A demonness, attractively tall and slender, stood in the dead center of the broad opening in the heart of the Kyorgin Caves. Her hair slicked long against her back, a glossy silver with flicks of ruby staining a few locks. Her eyes were sharply narrow, a deep shade of night blue. Her face was equally attractive as her figure, flawless and slender, making her a very lovely demonness. On one shoulder, a deep scar gashed deep into her flesh in the Japanese calligraphy symbol for "Murder".
"Is this like a cult, where every demon here hasta have a scar in Japanese writing?!" Yusuke wailed in annoyance. That's when he, and the others, noticed a certain mint-haired aperition chained tightly against the jagged stone wall. Whimpers escaped her delicate form, until her crimson eyes cast upward at Yusuke's remark, a hopeful shadow of a smile tinting her little face. "Kazuma!"
"Yukina!" Kuwabara wailed for his girlfriend. The red-headed punk was about to embrace her when a certain Katana lashed in front of his face, causing the boy to freeze.
"I wouldn't do that, moron..." Hiei glared dead ahead for the threatening demonness guarding his little sister. "Besides...I already called dibs."
Yukina pricked. 'Hiei? Why is he so intent on fighting for me? Maybe he only wants a chance to kill something...or, maybe he wants to save me...but what reason would he have for that?'
"You guard Yukina from her freedom...you will die." Hiei glared scarlet daggers at the demonness, who simply smirked. Yukina pricked tense. 'Why would he kill her for guarding me?!'
"Don't refer to me as 'you'...Call me by my name, Syaaka."
"Hn, whatever," Hiei grunted viciously. The Koorime clicked his wrist to one side, his Katana tightly gripped in his clutch. The blade sliced the air mercilessly, it's glossed glare shining silver to rival Syaaka's hair. "Prepare for death, Syaaka."
"Fair enough," Syaaka crouched in stance, clinking her wrists. Her hands sprawled apart, silver claws spiking each finger. "I must warn you...watch the hands, or you'll die..."
Hiei pricked just slightly. 'what?'
Suddenly, Syaaka pounced for the fire demon, her claws aiming straight for his throat. Hiei grunted hard, a smirk tinting his lips. His form melted into nothingness just as she was to dig into his neck with her vicious claws. But she found herself thrashing into the stone floor of the rugged, cool cavern.
She violently ripped her hands from the dense rock, kicking off for Hiei yet again. Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara scanned the scene, watching the two race through the air. Suddenly, Kurama pricked when a strang sound echoed in his sensitive ears. He jerked down to see...the stone Syaaka had dug her claws into...it was sizzling into itself, as it would if in contact with a lethal acid...hydrochloric, the strongest there is. Kurama jerked wide eyes at the dissolving stone, jerking up to stare at the fight yet again. 'he can't allow her to claw him...she's got an acid touch, I've seen it before...it will kill him.'
Hiei jumped gracefully from Syaaka's reach, but just barely, her claws nearly grazing his chin. The Koorime leapt into a blur yet again, but Syaaka's cunning was far more than her performance thus far had given her credit for. The demonness swept her leg viciously through the air, a good three yards off...but Hiei rammed dead straight into her foot, her heeled boot digging deeply into his stomach. Hiei snarled a hard wince, beads of saliva escaping his lip. Syaaka grinned deviously, her narrow navy eyes sharpening in ruthlessness as she dug her claws into the valley of Hiei's collarbone. The fire demon snarled, forcing a gnarled fist deep into the demonness's gut. She ripped apart from his collarbone, both flaying to a staggering landing. Hiei smirked darkly at Syaaka, until a deep, burning, sizzling pain struck his collarbone.
"AH!" Hiei snarled a quivering wince, clasping his corrosing wound tightly.
"Kurama, what happened?!" Yusuke wailed as Hiei collapsed to one knee in utter pain.
"She's got an acid touch!" Kurama breathed half-calmly. "Her claws issue out HCl, the strongest and most corrosive acid there is...it could kill him if he allows her to strike him again."
Syaaka landed lopsidedly, a devious smirk tinting her lusty lips. "Ha!" she laughed. "I warned you to watch the hands..."
Hiei growled viciously, clasping his collarbone tightly. "Bitch..."
"Oh!" she smirked. "Fiesty..."
"Hn!" Hiei flicked his wrist, his Katana striking the air briefly. The fire demon kicked off into a bolt run, leaping up into the air of the cool, damp cavern. His form jerked to normal speed high above the foe, his glossed blade ready to dig into her spine. Syaaka, well aware of where he was, whirled around with a speed to rival even Hiei's, thrusting her foot into his chin. Hiei flew off course, ramming hard against a jagged wall of stone upper-back first. Dust clouded his form on impact, the short Koorime falling limp to the stone floor.
"I think I've won," Syaaka jutted her hip outward slightly, smirking at her fallen foe.
"Not yet!" Hiei wailed, his form jerking into nothingness. Syaaka pricked in fear, until her neck was rammed against Hiei's vicious kick. Blood flew in tiny beads from her gaped mouth as she collapsed. The fire demon glared red daggers at the fallen Syaaka, gripping his Katana tight. "I think I'VE won..."
Syaaka whipped her hand for his ankle, but Hiei kicked from her reach, landing lightly a distance away.
"He's winning," Yusuke smiled.
"Perhaps," Kurama's stern eyes studied the battle intently. "Perhaps not..." Yusuke eyed Kurama in disbelief, jerking back to the fight.
Syaaka was back on her feet, kicking off for Hiei's direction. She lashed her claws for his chest, each strike missing the mighty Koorime. Hiei raised his Katana and prepared to swing the blade. "My turn for offense!" he wailed, his glossed blade streaking the air as it whipped in all directions for the demonness. Syaaka barely dodged each strike.
"Damn!" he groaned. Syaaka smirked darkly, kicking off again for the Koorime. She channeled her Spirit Energy into her forceful steps, making herself all the faster. Hiei just barely avoided each lethal swipe, a few grazes of acid scratches smearing his chest. The demon clasped his chest tightly, the pain of the scorching acid too much for him to bare. Syaaka's smirk deepened as she took this chance to dig in for his heart.
Yukina watched in utter horror as the fire demon stood in agony. 'it's my fault he's in such pain...' her thoughts whimpered. "Hiei!!" she wailed as Syaaka pounced to slice into his chest.
Hiei jerked angry, sharp eyes at the demonness, slicing his blade through the air just as Syaaka's claws pierced his skin. Both enemy hollored in utter pain...as blood spilled to the floor. Syaaka clasped her butchered limb, pinning the remainder of her arm tightly against her chest, guarding it viciously with her other, in-tact arm. Sharp, shrill wails screeched in heavy echoes through the vast cavern at mercy with her pain.
Hiei's eyes pinned wide in overwhelming agony. Syaaka's forearm was lodged into his chest. The fire demon snarled shrieks of pain, sweat lacing down his temple. Acid swam into his ribcage, a burning, sizzling feeling sparking through his chest. Hiei snarled sharp cries, ripping the arm viciously from it's clutch clawing into his ribs. Blood, tainted in acid, trickled down the crevices of his exposed abs, singeing pain burning and smoldering without mercy. The short Koorime gripped his wound tightly, his hands quivering as HCl swam greedily into his pierced bloodstream. Choking, quivering breaths escaped him under the massive pain as he staggered on his weight, kicking a leg under him for support, breathing hard through grit teeth as pain overwhelmed him.
"Oh no..." Kurama breathed softly.
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Anemone: hey there! what did you think? eh?
Hiei: hey! you made me weak!
Anemone: did not!
Hiei: but I lost to a GIRL!
Anemone: first off, you didn't lose...yet...and second, the hell's the problem with losing to a girl?!
Hiei: it's degrading!
Anemone: WHAT?!
Kurama: heh...er...right...anyway...moving on...Hiei, she didn't make you weak...
Hiei: *whining* yes she did!
Anemone: lookit! I didn't make you weak, okay?! I made Syaaka strong...
Hiei: hn...
Kurama: anywho, please review.
Anemone: yeah, please do...I need the confidence boost...
Kurama: heh...right...if you want to see what happens, please review...thank you.