~Chapter 7~
"Gah! When are we gonna get there?!" Nova yelled as she started to whine.
"Oh stop having a spaz attack Nova!" DragonCloud shouted at her.
"Just stop!" Arisa yelled at everyone. "I know its been a long trip, and that you hate being cooped up in here. But, we'll be landing somewhere sooner. So just hold on toll then. Please, or I'll just make up all sleep until we get there!"
Kurama stood up next to Arisa and nodded. "Yes. I'm sure you are all getting sick and tired of being cooped up in here with each other."
"Where are we going to land Miss Arisa?" Vash asked.
A sweatdrop appeared on the side of her head as she looked at Vash.
"We will be landing in a city known as Treno. Its known as a night city."
"Dude! What the-?!" Nova blurted out. "I know that city! There are drunken guards all around! And people gamble and pee in the background!"
Everyone looked oddly at Nova as a sweatdrop appeared on her head. She sat down and coughed a bit.
"NOVA! YOU'VE LOST IT!" DragonCloud shouted. "WHERE THE HELL DID ALL THAT STUFF COME FROM?!"
Everyone turned and looked at DragonCloud as she loomed over the sitting Nova. Nova coward as DragonCloud did this.
Makenshi stood up behind DragonCloud and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Calm down Cloud."
Arisa sighed as she placed her hands up in the air. Everyone looked at her as a big explosion was heard outside. Everyone looked out the window and then back at Arisa as she placed her hands back down at her side. She sighed once more as she looked at them.
"What was that?" Hiei asked, looking at her oddly.
"She's lost it!" Vash remarked.
"QUIET!" Arisa yelled at everyone.
After that everyone shut up and looked at her.
"You people need to just get along for a little bit longer! Soon we'll be in Treno and we can spilt up there for the night. In the morning we can meet back at the dirigible and see if we need more time away from one another. So until we get there, shut up and just get along! I do know that all of us have lost out last nerve for one another. I have as well, I do admit."
Arisa sat down and twitched her ears. Everyone was quiet.
When they reached Treno, everyone got off and went their own ways. Vash followed Nova while Makenshi followed DragonCloud. Arisa and Kurama went their own way. Hiei went off towards a non-crowded area so he could train. Nova and Vash found a place to eat and then found a place to sleep.
DragonCloud and Makenshi went to get some things to eat and drink. Then they found a place to stay and ate the food and drank the drinks then went to bed.
Kurama placed his hands in his pockets as she walked around the town watching people, and thinking.
Arisa was also walking around. She sighed a bit as her black neko ears twitched. People gave her odd looks as she walked by, but she paid them no mind. She walked out into an open area and sat down looking at the stars in the sky. She soon looked down at the ground shaking her head. She then looked up, spinning around and caught the blade of a sword. She growled a bit as she sent one of her feet up towards the hand holding the hilt. She knocked the hilt out of the person's hand and spun the sword around, grabbing the hilt and letting go of the blade. She stood up and held the tip of the blade at the person's neck. She could see enough to tell it was a man who had attacked her.
He stood the not moving as she stood there not moving the blade of the sword. Then, suddenly, he went down and brought out one of his feet towards her feet. As his foot knocked her feet out from under her she landed on her back.
She tried to get up but he pinned her down taking the sword from her. He held the sword at her neck smirking a bit.
She closed her eyes and then opened them again smiling somewhat as she unwrapped her black tail from around her waist and grabbed his foot. He blinked looking down at her tail, but he kept the sword at her neck. She then showed her wings to him unfolding them and knocking him off her and sending the sword into the air. As she stood up placing her wing behind her back and making them disappear and swinging her tail from side to side as the sword landed blade first in the ground. As he went for his sword she pulled her sword out of its black sheath. She held her sword out in front of herself quick enough to block his sword from touching herself.
As they went sword to sword a black mist appeared around them. They paid no attention to the black mist as they continued to fight.
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DragonCloud blinked as she got out of her bed and went to the window. She looked out of it and around the city, watching the people. She then glanced up from the city to the open area and saw the mist. Her eyes widened a bit as she grabbed her sword and placed it on her back. She then ran quickly, but quietly, out of the room wishing to not wake Makenshi.
She pulled her sword out of the sheath from her back as she reached the area of the black mist. She looked around making sure they were no more enemies around, she then placed her sword down at her side as she stared off into the black mist. She could hear the clash of the sword.
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Nova turned in her sleep. Vash stood by the window watching the mist. He narrowed his eyes a bit and then walked over to Nova. He shook her a little to try and wake her up but all she did was continue to sleep. He sighed and shook his head. He then yelled in her ears. But all she did was stir a little bit as she still continued to sleep. He shook his head some more as he reached for his Trigun. He grabbed it then holstered it as he walked out of the room.
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He reached the area and stood by DragonCloud. Dragon Cloud looked up at him and blinked. She then turned her attention back to the mist.
"Where's Nova?" she asked quietly.
"She's still asleep."
"Did you try waking her up?"
He nodded. "Yes, I even tried to yell in her ear to wake her up, had no effect."
A sweatdrop appeared on the side of DragonCloud's head as she stood there still watching the mist.
"Do you have any idea how long this has been going on?" came a voice from behind them.
Vash and DragonCloud turned around to see Kurama. Vash and DragonCloud shook their heads.
"Nope, have no idea. I was standing by my window watching the city, when I happened to glance up and see this."
"Why? Do you know who is fighting in there?"
Kurama nodded as he stood next to Vash and watched the mist.
"Who?!" DragonCloud asked, almost yelling.
"Arisa."
"ARISA?! WHO IS SHE FIGHTING?!"
"That, I do not know."
DragonCloud looked back at the mist with her sword still at her side. She was about to run out there when Kurama placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Kurama! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Arisa will be fine. We need to worry about the demons around us."
Vash held up his Trigun pulling the trigger. A dark figure fell down to the ground dead as he looked back at Kurama and DragonCloud. "Behind you guys."
Kurama pulled out his rose whip and sent it at the demon. It cut the demon I half as another demon appeared behind Kurama. DragonCloud ran at it and sent her sword at the shoulder. Her sword slide into the demon's shoulder and she then kicked it to the ground. The demon ran off wounded. DragonCloud was about to go after it when Kurama stopped her. "We can get the wounded later. Right now, we must stop them from interfering with the fight going on inside of the mist.
DragonCloud nodded as she let it go. Vash continued to shoot them down as Kurama and DragonCloud continued to slice 'em down.
It was going good for them until two demons attacked each of them. Vash and Kurama took them down no problem. But DragonCloud got a cut across her stomach before Vash shot the demon.
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"Huh?" Arisa's attention turned towards where she could smell blood. Her eyes narrowed as she continued to look out of the mist.
Just then the man came down at her with the sword. Arisa turned her attention back to the fight and dodged the attack. But she got a cut on her side. She flinched a bit as she sent her sword out at him. He blocked the attack as he sent Arisa off balance. She was knocked on to her back as he came down at her with his sword. She managed to get out of the way from getting badly wounded. But she did get stabbed in the shoulder.
She growled as she sent her foot towards his gut. She knocked him back and away from his sword. She sheathed her sword and grabbed the hilt of his sword pulling it out of her shoulder. She closed her eyes as she did so. She then stood up and started to run of the mist. He jumped and grabbed his sword and then landed in front of DP. He held his sword at her neck as she looked at him.
She narrowed her eyes a bit as she sent her foot out towards his gut once more. He staggered backwards a bit but enough for Arisa to jump over him and run out of the mist. She ran straight towards DragonCloud and kneeled down next to her and looked at her wound.
"Arisa!" DragonCloud and Vash yelled out at the same time.
She smiled as she pulled a bandage out of her backpack. She wrapped it around DragonCloud's wound and helped her to stand up.
Arisa smiled as she looked at them. "You guys should go back to bed. I didn't mean to have you guys come out her and worry about me."
"But…"
Arisa shook her head. "No. Go back to bed."
Vash and DragonCloud sighed a bit as they turned around placing their weapons back to where they had them before and walked back to where they were staying.
When Vash and DragonCloud were out of sight Arisa finally let out as she fell to her knees holding her side.
"Arisa!" Kurama said as he went over to her.
She smiled slightly as she looked up at him and then she fainted.
The black mist slowly disappeared as Hiei emerged from it. "Where did she go!?" he yelled a bit mad.
Kurama picked Arisa up in his arms and turned around to look at Hiei. "Who? Arisa?"
Hiei blinked as he looked at the wounds she had. "SHIT!" Hiei sheathed his sword as he shook his head walking off the other direction.
"So, you're not going to even she if she'll be fine? After all it was you who inflected these wounds on her, am I right?"
Hiei continued to walk off in the other direction as Kurama shook his head and walked back into the city. He went to his room and laid her down on the bed. He went and got some bandages, he then walked back over to her and bandaged up the wounds.
After he was done he sat in a chair next to the bed and watched her. DragonCloud and Makenshi walked into Kurama's room and saw Arisa laying there and then looked at Kurama.
DragonCloud narrowed her eyes at Kurama a bit. "Why didn't you tell me she was wounded?!" she yelled at him.
Kurama shook his head still looking down at her. "I didn't even know she was wounded until she collapsed. Then the mist disappeared and I saw whom she was fighting.
"Who was she fighting Kurama?" Makenshi asked concerned.
Kurama shook his head. "Just go and tell Nova and Vash that she's wounded. Botan as well, please."
"But…"DragonCloud started.
"Come on Cloud," Makenshi urged as he walked out of the room.
"Oh fine!" DragonCloud blurted out as she followed after Makenshi.
Kurama blinked and watched DragonCloud storm out. "Cloud, if she wakes up, I'll tell her that you came by."
DragonCloud blinked and looked over her shoulder, and then nodded. "Thanks Kurama."
Her and Makenshi then walked out and over to the room Nova and Vash were staying in.
"WHAT?!" Nova yelled out. "WHO HARMED HER?! I'LL KILL EM!"
"Nova calm down," DragonCloud said nervously as she tried to make Nova sit back down.
Vash just stood there shaking his head as Makenshi stood by the door watching, a bit scared of Nova now.
"Please just sit back down and calm down Nova," DragonCloud pleaded.
"NO!! WHO HARMED HER?! I'LL MAKE'EM PAY!!!!! WHO DID IT?!" Nova kept yelling.
Everyone just shook their heads as they let Nova continue to yell like that.
Finally when they got Nova calmed down they all went over to see how Arisa was doing.
"Hey you guys, what's up?" Arisa asked watching them entering.
"ARISA!!!!!" AWNO and DragonCloud yelled in unison.
They both ran over to her and basically tackled her down.
"GAH!" she shouted out as Makenshi, Kurama, and Vash laughed a bit.
Vash (being the person he is) ran over to the girls and jumped on top of them.