Chapter 9-
"Anyways, seeing as that is done and over with and we've had our entertainment, shall we continue on?" Nova asked casually with a slight cough at the end.
"Hai, I do think we shall, but can we have some tea and crumpets before we move on?" Cloud asked with in a British way.
Everyone else just looked at the two oddly, a sweatdrop appearing on the sides of their head. Arisa coughed a bit and then shook her head, as she laughed a bit.
"Why did you attack Arisa in the first place Hiei?" Kurama asked, forgetting that the others didn't know it was Hiei who Arisa was fighting.
"WHAT?!" Nova and Cloud yelled out at the same time after hearing it.
"Hiei, you attacked Arisa?! But why?!" Vash questioned in a over dramatic voice.
A sweatdrop appeared on the side of Hiei's head as he muttered a bit. He shook it off and looked at everyone, who was staring at him. He blinked, feeling somewhat uncomfortable. "When I first attacked her I thought she might've been a demon," he sighed, starting to explain things for them. "But, when I found out she wasn't a demon to any danger of me I couldn't stop fighting her." He stopped there and blinked, everyone watching him and having a confused look on their faces.
"I understand what Hiei is saying. I knew when I went into the fight that it was Hiei but I never got a chance to tell him who I was. But it was odd, when he first attacked me a sudden black mist appeared around our fighting area and I couldn't stop myself from attacking back," Arisa tried to explain a bit better, but noticed she didn't do very well.
"So, you're saying something in that black mist made you two continue to fight on another?" Makenshi asked.
"That's exactly what we're saying Makenshi," Arisa answered.
"Hmm, I can understand that seeing as there is mist around for everything these days," he sighed.
"You would know something about mists now, wouldn't you Makenshi? Seeing as you do happen to need it sometimes… or was that Madoushi who…. Err.. whoops.." came Cloud's voice as she stopped suddenly, looking up at Makenshi.
Makenshi smiled down at her, "It's okay Cloud, you don't have to worry when you bring his name up about what I'll say or how I'll feel," he told her.
"Madoushi… wait! Who is he?" Nova asked, rather lost.
"Yeah, no kidding.." Vash blinked, standing behind Nova.
"Madoushi was Makenshi's brother, but he died in a fight to try and save their world from the chaos…" Arisa spoke up quickly.
"Ehh…"
Arisa blinked, a sweatdrop appearing on the side of her head as she looked at everyone. "Here… the important thing to know is that, Madoushi was Makenshi's brother and Madoushi is dead," Arisa spoke slowly for them.
"Oooooooooh," was Nova and Vash's response.
"But who would wanna continue to make you two fight? What would they have to gain from it all?" Kurama asked suddenly, looking at Arisa and Hiei.
Arisa blinked and looked at Hiei and then back to Kurama. "I'd have no idea," she spoke up quietly, going off into thought.
"Most likely someone who doesn't want you to get the sword," Hiei spoke softly, looking at her. "Because, for some reason you got distracted during the fight, allowing me to hurt you," he reminded her.
"Hai, the smell of blood from Cloud's wound," Arisa told him, looking at cloud and then Hiei.
"NANI!?" Nova yelled out, looking at Cloud. "When did you get hurt!? HOW?!" she yelled out, confused.
Vash laughed lightly as he placed his hands on Nova's shoulders. "You would've known if you would've woken up last night when I tried to wake you up," Vash told her.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?" Nova shouted out.
"I tried to wake you; I tried yelling in your ear and shaking you, but none of it worked," he explained to her with a slight, nervous, laugh.
Nova huffed a bit, crossing her arms and muttering as everyone watching her laughed a bit.
"But Hiei, why would you say someone would do some something like that, just to keep me from my sword?" Arisa asked, sighing a bit as she tried to understand what Hiei was explaining.
"Because, the reason I attacked you in the first place was because I thought you were a demon, and because I thought you were a demon means that there were other demons around the area," he tried his best to explain.
"Yes, he is right Arisa, there were other demons around there; that's how Cloud was hurt in the first place. You remember the cut she had, right? Well, we fought the demons outside of that black mist to keep them from getting in your way," Kurama told her, backing Hiei up.
"Yes, there were plenty of them too… damn demons ganging up on me.." Cloud pointed out and then growled a bit, muttering under her breath lightly.
Makenshi sighed, looking at the ground. "I should've been there as well, then maybe Cloud wouldn't have gotten hurt, or you Arisa."
Arisa and Cloud looked over at Makenshi and smiled. "It's not your fault Makenshi," Arisa started out.
"I left you asleep, you needed your rest. Arisa and myself are use to these types of missions, seeing as we use to go on them all the time. We always came back wounded, and even Nova did, when we could drag her out of bed in the middle of the night…" Cloud sweatdropped, sighing heavily.
Nova laughed a bit as a sweatdrop appeared on the side of her head. She then blinked and looked over at Arisa's sword, noticing a green glow coming from the blade.
"Uhh… Arisa….!" Nova spoke out and pointed towards her sword.
Arisa blinked and turned around quickly and growled, placing her ears flat against the top of her head. She ran over and grabbed the sword from the sheath, glaring at the green glow. She pulled her cloak off her back and opened her dark blue angelic wings, running over to the door.
She pulled it open quickly and her eyes went wide as she saw something terrible. She stumbled back into the room a few steps and turned around, slamming the door shut and locking it. Everyone looked at her and blinked slightly, wondering what was going on.
Arisa looked at them, a scared look in her eyes as she gulped a bit. "Uhh… I personally don't think you wanna go out there," she spoke quietly and nervously as she stepped away fromt eh door, just as the pounding on the door began.
"What there Arisa?" Hiei asked quickly, his katana pulled out from its sheath and held in front of him. He looked as though he was ready to fight.
"Umm, something you don't want to fight Hiei, trust me, this is worse than a dragon," she sighed as she ran into the room and over to the window. She opened it up and stepped out, looking down at the ground.
She went back inside the room and glanced over at Nova. "Nova, you know how to make others float, ne?" she asked, in a serious tone.
Nova nodded as she pulled the pendent off her neck and held it out in front of herself, chanting a few words. She closed her eyes and then opened her hand as the pendent was engulfed in a blue and green light. It grew to about her height and she grabbed the staff, setting it at her side.
"Good, then get everyone out of here, including yourself Nova, got me?" Arisa questioned, her tone getting more serious by the moment.
"But Arisa.." Nova started to protest but Arisa cut her off before another word came out.
"No buts Nova! No arguments from any of you!" Arisa glared at them all and they just nodded.
Nova closed her eyes and chanted a few more words, the top of the staff glowing a white color as a circle appeared below each of them, except for Arisa, she stood by a wall watching to make sure Nova didn't leave one of them. A white orb appeared around all of them and they vanished.
Nova opened her eyes, having taken everyone outside of the hotel and into the dirigible. She sighed and looked out the door towards the area of the hotel. She blinked suddenly as she noticed two figures run past her and down the streets towards the hotel. She looked back at everyone else, who seemed just as surprised at her. She found out who the two were that ran out, back to the hotel.
She shook her head and sighed as she looked back in the direction of the hotel.
DragonCloud came up along side of her and smiled slightly, shaking her own head at the two. "They'll never learn, will they Nova?" Cloud asked, looking up at Nova.
"No, I don't think they will. But then again, will any of us learn when to listen to Arisa?" Nova asked, smirking a bit as she took off out of the dirigible and towards the hotel.
"That we won't," Cloud laughed and followed Nova out of the dirigible and towards the hotel as well, following the other three who first disobeyed Arisa's orders.
Arisa should know better, Cloud thought, we've been like this all our lives; if one goes out and tells the other two to stay behind, we follow anyways. That's how it will always be, and she should've known that those two would go for her, even though she told all of use to stay put once we got out. Cloud shook her head as she continued onto the hotel.
Arisa! I'm gunna kick your ass! Nova thought as she ran as fast as she could. You know that ever since we were kids and went off on our missions it was always the three of us! And it will always be the three of us, nothing will stop that, I'll make sure of it too!