Lady Demoonica Darkmoon: Ohayo Mina-san! Oh and if you've read Songwinds 34th chapter then you will recognize a scene or two where our stories cross paths. Credit for those parts are hers, I just put them in Demoonica's Point of View.
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BETTER Disclaimer: I do not own any of the anime, game, or book characters found in this story. I do not own any TV show or movie who's title is in this story. I do not own 'Pinky and the Brain'. Do not sue me, I have nothing. I'm not making money from this story it is for fun only. The idea of Pocket Bishoujo belongs to Lady Silver Senshi (LSS) who maintains the Pocket Bishoujo Website at http://www.pocketbishoujo.com. The idea of Pocket Bishonen comes from Tokio, who maintains the Pocket Bishonen Website at http://www.pocket-bishonen.com. (Tokio's site is down at this time.) This Bishounen 'world' created by Songwind. I'm only a visitor. Original characters are mine, this story is mine, the word Demoonica is MINE!!! Sorry about that... enjoy the story.
The World of Songwinds' Bishounen and Bishoujo:
Demoonica's Story
by
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
"Demoonica! Better wake up!" Kagome shook Demoonica by the shoulder. Demoonica opened a single eye.
"It's barely light out Kagome!" She rolled over, putting her back to the bishoujo.
"Inu-chan will wake up hungry. I thought to give you time to make a bottle without being in a rush. Sleep if you want to."
Demoonica sighed and rolled out of bed. "I'm up." She yawned. "Just not awake yet." She poured the water into the coffee machine to heat. "So what was the measurement again for the formula?" She picked up the formula canister and started to read.
*****
"The second day of the tournament doesn't start till eleven. What do you want to do till then?" Hiromi asked Demoonica after they met up later that morning.
"That's what three hours? Why don't you go to the gym Hiromi? The guy is a pathetic trainer."
"Training isn't everything. But I'll go, I need to start getting gym wins if I ever want to be in a tournament later. Later Demoonica-chan."
"See you! Good luck!" Demoonica waved.
*****
Back at the dark computer room...
*knock knock knock*
"Enter." Said the dark haired woman who was still sitting behind the computer.
The door opened and the Wufei entered. "Katan has made contact with the onna trainer and her group."
"Has he entered their ranks?"
"He has. They do not suspect him of anything. He seems to have their trust, Ima-..."
"Good." She cut him off. "We don't need trainers looking for trouble. He should be able to handle the whims of one teen aged girl. You may go, Wufei."
"Yes, Megami-sama."
*****
"Are you sure we should have came back out here after last night? Alone?" Kagome asked Demoonica as they walked through the forest.
"We aren't alone Kagome." Zander said. He motioned to the other bishounen, all out of bishi-balls.
"And I wanted to." Demoonica said. They were walking along the well worn path to the first large clearing, the same one that they had been in the night before. "I was wondering, guys, what did trainers do when they found bishi cities? I'm not asking where they are or anything, just what happens?"
"Well, it depends on the trainer that finds a city. Most of the time they've wondered in on accident. So we just make sure they don't remember that they were there and 'port them out of the area. Usually to the closest human city. Why?"
"Okay, but that wasn't what I was wanting... what did the trainers that find bishi cities *do*? Their actions?"
"What did they do? Most of the time glomp! That or explain why they were where they shouldn't be."
"Auuuug...." Demoonica shook her head. She wasn't asking the right question. "Try this. What did trainers do before they had bishi-balls?" All her bishounen stopped walking. Most of them looked horrified or lost in painful memories. "Did I ask something wrong?"
"Why do you want to know about such things?" Katan asked.
Demoonica sighed and sat down on a fallen tree. "I had this dream.... I was a bishoujo and my home was being attacked by trainers. I was running, with my brother and the others.... It was so frightening, it was so real.... Is that what happened before the trainers had bishi-balls? They would raid your homes? Steal your loved ones? Burn the towns to keep you in the open?" Demoonica shivered, she could still feel the fire's heat on her skin.
"You dreamt this?" Katan asked. To Demoonica he sounded worried. 'Damn! I can't contact Megami-sama to see if there have been any reports!' He thought.
"Yes, last night."
"I wouldn't worry about the dream Demoonica." Kagome said. "Though it was about right for the way things were. The trainers haven't done anything like that for a very long time."
"I guess you're right Kagome. It just had me upset, that's all." Demoonica looked around. "Hey, isn't this the place from last night? Wow, Katan your fight did some damage didn't it?"
"Well, I was only distracting them so you could get away. I didn't stay and fight."
"That means they're still nearby doesn't it?" She started looking around with a little fear.
"I wouldn't think so, it's too close to the city." Kai said. "They've left if they're smart."
"And if they're not, then we'll beat them!" Rei, who was sitting beside her, made a fist in front of him. "No one messes with our trainer and gets away with it! Right, guys?"
"That is right, M'lady." (Allen)
"Of course." (Kai)
"Yeah, no one!" (Kagome)
"Humph..." (Marou)
"That goes for me also. No one, ever." (Zander)
"True. I will protect you." (Katan)
"Oh! Thank you all..." She hugged Rei who was closest to her. "...I never realized just how much you all really do mean to me. You won't ever leave me, would you?"
"We'll never leave your side Demoonica!" Said Kagome. The others agreed. "You're a friend, not just a trainer. I'm glad you caught me, not some one else, and proud to be your bishoujo."
"What about you Zander? Will you ever leave my side?"
He shook his head. "Never. Never ever."
"Thank you." Demoonica smiled at the group before her, nearly crying. "You know, when I was home I always felt so alone. I was too shy to make many friends, or too weird when someone did talk to me. I was the only person in my school that even knew what Anime was. My little sister, Exonia, I miss her. Mum and Dad. I wonder what they are doing. Though as much as I miss them, I know they are alright. Now, here in this world, I'm no longer alone. I don't feel lost in a crowd of faces I don't know. It's because of all of you." She looked at Marou. "Difficult to get along with as you may be." She looked at Zander. "I wish this would never have to come to an end."
"Sounds like you're wishing for immortality to me." Marou said.
"Maybe so, but I know all things end. We have a long time until then and I want a place to come back to, a place to call home here in the Bishi World."
"Then we will help you make your dreams come true Demoonica." Kagome said.
Demoonica nodded. "Always."
*****
"Easy win was right, Demoonica-chan. The battle between you and Merina looked so much better." Hiromi said as she held onto Duo's arm. He was blushing slightly. "I was so happy when Duo won the second match that I kissed his cheek." She smiled and watched her Duo turn full red across the face.
"See. I told you so. I wonder how he got the job really."
"If we're going to the second day of the tournament then we had better start walking." Kagome interrupted.
"Oh! Right!" Demoonica laughed.
"Hey you're in a better mood than this morning, what happened?"
"I just had a dream last night, that's all. It was nothing really." Demoonica waved a hand.
"Well... okay. If you want to talk, I be there to listen. Got it?"
"Yup." Demoonica looked up at the stadium. "Never will figure out how they set this place up so fast, will we?"
"Guess not. Come on guys, let's get some good seats for today. See ya!" Hiromi waved as she, Duo, and Kaiba went to find seats.
"Tell me what happens! I don't think I'll see much of it again." She pointed to the line of people waiting for her to open the T-shirt stand. "Now for my promotion!" Demoonica smiled then ran over to the center of the arena and grabbed the microphone away from LSS-sama once again. "Hi! Demoonica here! We're busy as ever working to make you, our customers happy with the Bishie T-shirt stands here! Come by during the day! We'll polish your Bishi-balls, sell you T-shirts, and offer you fast food!"
"Oh no she's at it again!" Zander looked over at Demoonica's bishounen. "Stay here guys. I'll go get her before she embarrass herself." He hurried over to her. Sweat dropping, he grabbed her and whispered, "Demoonica! Your lucky they don't throw you out! They will if you keep doing this!" He glanced nervously at the crowd. "Please, I don't like it out here!"
"What? But Zander-! Ooh, fine." She hung her head. "Back to you, LSS-sama!" With a smile Demoonica handed the microphone back to LSS-sama.
Zander grabbed her wrist. "I don't know what the hell you're thinking sometimes!" He dragged her off to the arena sidelines. "Baka!"
"First off, let's welcome ANYA to the tournament!" They heard LSS-sama say and the crowd cheered wildly.
It was then that a voice came over the speaker system. "Would the Auron belonging to Siren please report to the information desk. Your trainer is looking for you. Repeat the Auron who belongs to Siren please report to the information desk. Your trainer is looking for you."
Demoonica shook her head. It looked like someone had gotten separated from their bishounen in the crowd. "Hey! No pushing in the line! I'm opening already!" She said as she entered the side door to the T-shirt stand.
*****
Anya sat looking at the clock that hung on the back wall of the T-shirt stand, well it was more than that... They served fast food also. "Almost noon..."
Zander looked over at her. "A perfect time for lunch! Want a hot dog?" He asked.
"Actually, make that... Six."
"Six hot dogs, coming right up!"
"Make that seven!" Called a boy. After a minute of talking with the girl who had placed the order he yelled, "I NEED A SLUSHIE NOW!" The few other people who were there gave the boy an odd look.
'Humans...' Zander sweat dropped. "Okay, okay," he muttered. "Don't scare away the customers..." 'I'm starting to sound like Demoonica now.' He thought to himself as he fixed the slushie.
Demoonica came out of the back carrying the hotdogs. "Here're the seven hot dogs!" she said, dropping said food in front of Anya. "Anything else?"
"Um... ketchup, mustard, and fries with LOTS of salt would be nice," she said.
"Coming right up!" as she reentered the back she looked at Rei and Kai who were just standing there talking. "It's not that easy guys, she want's fries with that... come on the lunch time rush will be starting soon. Fix up a few extra turns and place them under the heat lamp."
"Didn't I say I wasn't selling hotdogs?" Kai asked as he dumped a turn of fries into the bubbling vegetable oil.
"You're not selling them! You're making them!" Demoonica said with a smile.
"I'm going to get you for this..."
"Aw come on Kai-kun, work never hurt anybody."
He jumped back as the oil bubbled and sent some splattering onto his apron. "Says you."
Demoonica laughed. "Just make the fries. Be back, I think we have another costumer." She walked back out and over to the people who were talking. "Hiyas! Want a T-shirt!" she asked.
"Uh, no thanks."
"Already got three."
"Oh, okay. Oh, if you want we'll polish your belt and Bish-balls for a very low price! We got a professional, ya know! How about it?"
The first girl, Anya, paused and considered that. "Well, I haven't really cleaned it..." She glanced down at her belt. "Sure, I'll do that." She took off her belt, only stopping to take off the occupied Bish-balls before offering the belt to Demoonica. "Please clean this up, would you?"
"Sure thing! Now where's Kagome...?" Demoonica wandered off, Anya's belt in hand. She walked past the kitchen area where Rei and Kai were now working. Rei had a basket of fries ready to take out. "Oh and she said extra salt!" She called and walked into the next room.
Allen and Kagome were there playing cards. Inu-chan was sitting on the inside corner of the couch, propped up, with his bottle in his mouth. "Kagome, thanks for suggesting the bishi-belt cleaning idea! Here is the first work order." She handed her the belt. "Allen, could you put on that..." She pointed to the black pants and red work shirt hanging on a changing screen. She, Rei, Kai and Zander had already changed into theirs. "...and an apron? We need some help in the kitchen. Oh and braid that hair! Kagome you will help him? Right?"
"Of course!"
"How did I end up with most of my bishonen having longer hair than me?" Demoonica sighed and walked back towards the front. Where she opened up a random manga from the shelves of the ones for sale. it was only about ten minutes until a girl walked up to her.
"Excuse me? When will my belt be done?"
"Um..." Demoonica looked up at the clock. "Soon, I imagine..."
Suddenly the two heard numerous screams from the back room, where Anya's belt was being taken care of.
Demoonica blinked and sighed. "Make that an hour or two."
"Okay, thanks. I'll be back for it."
"Wait, what's your name?"
"Anya."
"All right. When you come back show whoever's here your Dex so you can get it back."
"Sure thing." Anya walked back to her Bishonen. Soon as she was gone Demoonica jumped up and ran to see what had happened. She walked into the back room to find Allen looking in the mirror. His long hair was pulled back into a braid and his bangs had likewise been pulled back from the sides and put into a smaller braid that hung down on top the first. It looked very much like how a Relena did her hair. Demoonica giggled.
"Hey Demoonica? Who's bishi-belt is this?" Kagome asked holding up the belt. All the balls were setting on the table top.
"Umm... Anya's the girl. She fought first this morning."
"Anya? Hey isn't that one of the girls who came to the baby shower?"
"Oh my gosh! You're right, I didn't even recognize her from last week!" Demoonica hit her head. "I never even thought!"
*****
Later that evening...
"Did you see that! It was so cool, Anya was great!" Hiromi said. "And Kenshin fought so well!"
"I did get to see some of the match. You're right, Anya and Kenshin work really well together. Wasn't her Kenshin a chibi not too long ago?" She shrugged. "I hope she heard you cheering from the stand."
"I'm sure she did. So what are we doing tonight, Demoonica?"
"What we do every night Hiromi, try to take over the Bishi World! Mwahahah!" *BONK!* "Hey! Why'd you hit me?"
"For acting strange again, and stealing lines from little white lab mice!"
"I'm not acting! I'm just naturally odd." Demoonica gave a big goofy grin.
"I know and that's the scarey part." Hiromi said trying not to laugh. She giggled, Demoonica cracked up laughing, Hiromi did too. Kagome looked at them.
"Couple of odd ones aren't they?" She asked Inu-chan, he giggled at them. "Oh! Not you too!" Kagome giggled.
Zander just walked along with them, they were not dragging him down into fits of childish laughter. No they would not. "Are you finished acting the fool?" He asked as they rounded a street corner.
Demoonica was still giggling. "Well, for now I guess."
"Baka."
"Not again! Zander..."
He put an arm around her shoulders. "Baka, baka, baka..."
"You're being mean." She crossed her arms and pouted.
"I'm teasing you. Lighten up right now would you?"
"First I'm being a silly fool, now you want me to lighten up! You can't have it both ways."
"I want you to be yourself, not acting all bouncy. You are acting..."
"So what if I am trying to be more happy than I feel?!"
"You're upset, you can't hide that from me. Being more hyper than normal may fool everyone else, but not me."
"How do you always know?"
"I have my ways." Zander said with a smile.
"Uuhhggg. That line is as annoying as 'It's a secret!' In a way that's what you're saying, anyways." Demoonica made a wild gesture with her arms, flinging them in the air. "I give up, really I do! I'm never going to understand you!" She sped up her walking, soon catching up with Hiromi and Kagome that had gotten far ahead of her and Zander.
*****
Demoonica fell back onto her bed with a great sigh. 'Why did I start an argument with Zander? He was only being truthful. Well it is annoying having him read my emotions like that.' She sighed and rolled to lay on her side. 'I understand it though, I was trying to be more happy than I felt. That dream has me more upset than I thought. Why am I still thinking about it after this morning?' She rolled back onto her back and ran her hands through her bangs. She drew a big breath and puffed out her cheeks. "I blew it didn't I?" She finally asked out loud.
"Blew what?" Kagome asked. She was on the other bed, Inu-chan asleep beside her.
"I messed up with Zander, yelling at him like that."
"You two just are sometimes too much alike for your own good. Both of you are stubborn and keep important things to yourselves. No wonder you end up all lovey one second and fighting like cats the next!"
"That bad?"
"Worse..." Kagome giggled. "You two remind me of how Inuyasha and I were when we first met. All we could do was get on each others nerves. Then things kept pushing us together, getting us into situations that we had to work together, and feelings grew. I know you like him Demoonica and he likes you just as much. It takes time to work things out. Give it that time."
"It's just... we... *sigh* Oh I don't know! It's like he reads my emotions sometimes! And he tries to manipulate them to put me in a different mood!"
Kagome was now laughing very hard at her fuming trainer.
"WHAT!?"
"I'm sorry, but it is funny watching you be so clueless."
"Huh?"
"You're in *love* with him! And you are being so stubborn about it that you missed it! He's not reading your mind with 'strange powers' he watches you constantly, girl! Don't you even notice? And you can be so easy to read!" She was still laughing a bit as she continued to talk. "I'm sure he's sitting in his own room right now brooding about this just like you."
"L... l.. ll... loo..... Ai." Demoonica stuttered out. "He watches me constantly?"
"Gods girl, you're hopeless."
*****
In Zanders room...
"Idiot!" Zander hit the pillow with his fist. He was laying face down on his bed cursing himself. 'Why didn't I just leave her alone about it? I'm so stupid!!!' The pillow went flying across the room, hitting the wall softly and falling. Zander growled angrily, mentally beating himself up.
'You can be such a fool some times, Zander.' He told himself. Unknowingly his eyes were glowing brightly again. The cool dark energy finding a hold in him, grasped tight. 'She just wants everyone around her to be happy! So what if she was acting?' And the energy grew with his anger. Zander sat up. 'She probably hates me now.' His head hurt.
Zander started to raise a hand to his head, but before he could finish the motion blackness enveloped him. He slumped back on the bed, passing out. If anyone had been there to see it, they could have seen his eyes turn to pure violet orbs again as they fluttered shut.
There was a knock on the door. "Zander?" Demoonica asked. "Hey, are you still awake?" She waited for an answer, when none came she said. "I guess you either don't want to talk to me or you are asleep." She sounded down hearted. "Well, we're meeting Hiromi and Merina in a half hour to go out in the field. I'll see you there I guess, that is if you want to come with us. You don't have to..." Demoonica walked away, back to her own room.
Kagome heard the door to their room open, the slow steps as Demoonica entered, and the door slowly close. She knew it had been a bad visit. "So how did it go?" She asked, then turned to see Demoonica standing there watching the floor.
"He didn't answer the door. He may have been asleep." She walked to her room and again fell down onto her bed. "I just want to be left alone right now, okay Kagome? Tell me when the girls get here."
Kagome watched as her trainer left, all the happiness gone out of her. "Oh Demoonica..." She said sadly.
TBC...
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BETTER Disclaimer: I do not own any of the anime, game, or book characters found in this story. I do not own any TV show or movie who's title is in this story. I do not own 'Pinky and the Brain'. Do not sue me, I have nothing. I'm not making money from this story it is for fun only. The idea of Pocket Bishoujo belongs to Lady Silver Senshi (LSS) who maintains the Pocket Bishoujo Website at http://www.pocketbishoujo.com. The idea of Pocket Bishonen comes from Tokio, who maintains the Pocket Bishonen Website at http://www.pocket-bishonen.com. (Tokio's site is down at this time.) This Bishounen 'world' created by Songwind. I'm only a visitor. Original characters are mine, this story is mine, the word Demoonica is MINE!!! Sorry about that... enjoy the story.
The World of Songwinds' Bishounen and Bishoujo:
Demoonica's Story
by
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
"Demoonica! Better wake up!" Kagome shook Demoonica by the shoulder. Demoonica opened a single eye.
"It's barely light out Kagome!" She rolled over, putting her back to the bishoujo.
"Inu-chan will wake up hungry. I thought to give you time to make a bottle without being in a rush. Sleep if you want to."
Demoonica sighed and rolled out of bed. "I'm up." She yawned. "Just not awake yet." She poured the water into the coffee machine to heat. "So what was the measurement again for the formula?" She picked up the formula canister and started to read.
*****
"The second day of the tournament doesn't start till eleven. What do you want to do till then?" Hiromi asked Demoonica after they met up later that morning.
"That's what three hours? Why don't you go to the gym Hiromi? The guy is a pathetic trainer."
"Training isn't everything. But I'll go, I need to start getting gym wins if I ever want to be in a tournament later. Later Demoonica-chan."
"See you! Good luck!" Demoonica waved.
*****
Back at the dark computer room...
*knock knock knock*
"Enter." Said the dark haired woman who was still sitting behind the computer.
The door opened and the Wufei entered. "Katan has made contact with the onna trainer and her group."
"Has he entered their ranks?"
"He has. They do not suspect him of anything. He seems to have their trust, Ima-..."
"Good." She cut him off. "We don't need trainers looking for trouble. He should be able to handle the whims of one teen aged girl. You may go, Wufei."
"Yes, Megami-sama."
*****
"Are you sure we should have came back out here after last night? Alone?" Kagome asked Demoonica as they walked through the forest.
"We aren't alone Kagome." Zander said. He motioned to the other bishounen, all out of bishi-balls.
"And I wanted to." Demoonica said. They were walking along the well worn path to the first large clearing, the same one that they had been in the night before. "I was wondering, guys, what did trainers do when they found bishi cities? I'm not asking where they are or anything, just what happens?"
"Well, it depends on the trainer that finds a city. Most of the time they've wondered in on accident. So we just make sure they don't remember that they were there and 'port them out of the area. Usually to the closest human city. Why?"
"Okay, but that wasn't what I was wanting... what did the trainers that find bishi cities *do*? Their actions?"
"What did they do? Most of the time glomp! That or explain why they were where they shouldn't be."
"Auuuug...." Demoonica shook her head. She wasn't asking the right question. "Try this. What did trainers do before they had bishi-balls?" All her bishounen stopped walking. Most of them looked horrified or lost in painful memories. "Did I ask something wrong?"
"Why do you want to know about such things?" Katan asked.
Demoonica sighed and sat down on a fallen tree. "I had this dream.... I was a bishoujo and my home was being attacked by trainers. I was running, with my brother and the others.... It was so frightening, it was so real.... Is that what happened before the trainers had bishi-balls? They would raid your homes? Steal your loved ones? Burn the towns to keep you in the open?" Demoonica shivered, she could still feel the fire's heat on her skin.
"You dreamt this?" Katan asked. To Demoonica he sounded worried. 'Damn! I can't contact Megami-sama to see if there have been any reports!' He thought.
"Yes, last night."
"I wouldn't worry about the dream Demoonica." Kagome said. "Though it was about right for the way things were. The trainers haven't done anything like that for a very long time."
"I guess you're right Kagome. It just had me upset, that's all." Demoonica looked around. "Hey, isn't this the place from last night? Wow, Katan your fight did some damage didn't it?"
"Well, I was only distracting them so you could get away. I didn't stay and fight."
"That means they're still nearby doesn't it?" She started looking around with a little fear.
"I wouldn't think so, it's too close to the city." Kai said. "They've left if they're smart."
"And if they're not, then we'll beat them!" Rei, who was sitting beside her, made a fist in front of him. "No one messes with our trainer and gets away with it! Right, guys?"
"That is right, M'lady." (Allen)
"Of course." (Kai)
"Yeah, no one!" (Kagome)
"Humph..." (Marou)
"That goes for me also. No one, ever." (Zander)
"True. I will protect you." (Katan)
"Oh! Thank you all..." She hugged Rei who was closest to her. "...I never realized just how much you all really do mean to me. You won't ever leave me, would you?"
"We'll never leave your side Demoonica!" Said Kagome. The others agreed. "You're a friend, not just a trainer. I'm glad you caught me, not some one else, and proud to be your bishoujo."
"What about you Zander? Will you ever leave my side?"
He shook his head. "Never. Never ever."
"Thank you." Demoonica smiled at the group before her, nearly crying. "You know, when I was home I always felt so alone. I was too shy to make many friends, or too weird when someone did talk to me. I was the only person in my school that even knew what Anime was. My little sister, Exonia, I miss her. Mum and Dad. I wonder what they are doing. Though as much as I miss them, I know they are alright. Now, here in this world, I'm no longer alone. I don't feel lost in a crowd of faces I don't know. It's because of all of you." She looked at Marou. "Difficult to get along with as you may be." She looked at Zander. "I wish this would never have to come to an end."
"Sounds like you're wishing for immortality to me." Marou said.
"Maybe so, but I know all things end. We have a long time until then and I want a place to come back to, a place to call home here in the Bishi World."
"Then we will help you make your dreams come true Demoonica." Kagome said.
Demoonica nodded. "Always."
*****
"Easy win was right, Demoonica-chan. The battle between you and Merina looked so much better." Hiromi said as she held onto Duo's arm. He was blushing slightly. "I was so happy when Duo won the second match that I kissed his cheek." She smiled and watched her Duo turn full red across the face.
"See. I told you so. I wonder how he got the job really."
"If we're going to the second day of the tournament then we had better start walking." Kagome interrupted.
"Oh! Right!" Demoonica laughed.
"Hey you're in a better mood than this morning, what happened?"
"I just had a dream last night, that's all. It was nothing really." Demoonica waved a hand.
"Well... okay. If you want to talk, I be there to listen. Got it?"
"Yup." Demoonica looked up at the stadium. "Never will figure out how they set this place up so fast, will we?"
"Guess not. Come on guys, let's get some good seats for today. See ya!" Hiromi waved as she, Duo, and Kaiba went to find seats.
"Tell me what happens! I don't think I'll see much of it again." She pointed to the line of people waiting for her to open the T-shirt stand. "Now for my promotion!" Demoonica smiled then ran over to the center of the arena and grabbed the microphone away from LSS-sama once again. "Hi! Demoonica here! We're busy as ever working to make you, our customers happy with the Bishie T-shirt stands here! Come by during the day! We'll polish your Bishi-balls, sell you T-shirts, and offer you fast food!"
"Oh no she's at it again!" Zander looked over at Demoonica's bishounen. "Stay here guys. I'll go get her before she embarrass herself." He hurried over to her. Sweat dropping, he grabbed her and whispered, "Demoonica! Your lucky they don't throw you out! They will if you keep doing this!" He glanced nervously at the crowd. "Please, I don't like it out here!"
"What? But Zander-! Ooh, fine." She hung her head. "Back to you, LSS-sama!" With a smile Demoonica handed the microphone back to LSS-sama.
Zander grabbed her wrist. "I don't know what the hell you're thinking sometimes!" He dragged her off to the arena sidelines. "Baka!"
"First off, let's welcome ANYA to the tournament!" They heard LSS-sama say and the crowd cheered wildly.
It was then that a voice came over the speaker system. "Would the Auron belonging to Siren please report to the information desk. Your trainer is looking for you. Repeat the Auron who belongs to Siren please report to the information desk. Your trainer is looking for you."
Demoonica shook her head. It looked like someone had gotten separated from their bishounen in the crowd. "Hey! No pushing in the line! I'm opening already!" She said as she entered the side door to the T-shirt stand.
*****
Anya sat looking at the clock that hung on the back wall of the T-shirt stand, well it was more than that... They served fast food also. "Almost noon..."
Zander looked over at her. "A perfect time for lunch! Want a hot dog?" He asked.
"Actually, make that... Six."
"Six hot dogs, coming right up!"
"Make that seven!" Called a boy. After a minute of talking with the girl who had placed the order he yelled, "I NEED A SLUSHIE NOW!" The few other people who were there gave the boy an odd look.
'Humans...' Zander sweat dropped. "Okay, okay," he muttered. "Don't scare away the customers..." 'I'm starting to sound like Demoonica now.' He thought to himself as he fixed the slushie.
Demoonica came out of the back carrying the hotdogs. "Here're the seven hot dogs!" she said, dropping said food in front of Anya. "Anything else?"
"Um... ketchup, mustard, and fries with LOTS of salt would be nice," she said.
"Coming right up!" as she reentered the back she looked at Rei and Kai who were just standing there talking. "It's not that easy guys, she want's fries with that... come on the lunch time rush will be starting soon. Fix up a few extra turns and place them under the heat lamp."
"Didn't I say I wasn't selling hotdogs?" Kai asked as he dumped a turn of fries into the bubbling vegetable oil.
"You're not selling them! You're making them!" Demoonica said with a smile.
"I'm going to get you for this..."
"Aw come on Kai-kun, work never hurt anybody."
He jumped back as the oil bubbled and sent some splattering onto his apron. "Says you."
Demoonica laughed. "Just make the fries. Be back, I think we have another costumer." She walked back out and over to the people who were talking. "Hiyas! Want a T-shirt!" she asked.
"Uh, no thanks."
"Already got three."
"Oh, okay. Oh, if you want we'll polish your belt and Bish-balls for a very low price! We got a professional, ya know! How about it?"
The first girl, Anya, paused and considered that. "Well, I haven't really cleaned it..." She glanced down at her belt. "Sure, I'll do that." She took off her belt, only stopping to take off the occupied Bish-balls before offering the belt to Demoonica. "Please clean this up, would you?"
"Sure thing! Now where's Kagome...?" Demoonica wandered off, Anya's belt in hand. She walked past the kitchen area where Rei and Kai were now working. Rei had a basket of fries ready to take out. "Oh and she said extra salt!" She called and walked into the next room.
Allen and Kagome were there playing cards. Inu-chan was sitting on the inside corner of the couch, propped up, with his bottle in his mouth. "Kagome, thanks for suggesting the bishi-belt cleaning idea! Here is the first work order." She handed her the belt. "Allen, could you put on that..." She pointed to the black pants and red work shirt hanging on a changing screen. She, Rei, Kai and Zander had already changed into theirs. "...and an apron? We need some help in the kitchen. Oh and braid that hair! Kagome you will help him? Right?"
"Of course!"
"How did I end up with most of my bishonen having longer hair than me?" Demoonica sighed and walked back towards the front. Where she opened up a random manga from the shelves of the ones for sale. it was only about ten minutes until a girl walked up to her.
"Excuse me? When will my belt be done?"
"Um..." Demoonica looked up at the clock. "Soon, I imagine..."
Suddenly the two heard numerous screams from the back room, where Anya's belt was being taken care of.
Demoonica blinked and sighed. "Make that an hour or two."
"Okay, thanks. I'll be back for it."
"Wait, what's your name?"
"Anya."
"All right. When you come back show whoever's here your Dex so you can get it back."
"Sure thing." Anya walked back to her Bishonen. Soon as she was gone Demoonica jumped up and ran to see what had happened. She walked into the back room to find Allen looking in the mirror. His long hair was pulled back into a braid and his bangs had likewise been pulled back from the sides and put into a smaller braid that hung down on top the first. It looked very much like how a Relena did her hair. Demoonica giggled.
"Hey Demoonica? Who's bishi-belt is this?" Kagome asked holding up the belt. All the balls were setting on the table top.
"Umm... Anya's the girl. She fought first this morning."
"Anya? Hey isn't that one of the girls who came to the baby shower?"
"Oh my gosh! You're right, I didn't even recognize her from last week!" Demoonica hit her head. "I never even thought!"
*****
Later that evening...
"Did you see that! It was so cool, Anya was great!" Hiromi said. "And Kenshin fought so well!"
"I did get to see some of the match. You're right, Anya and Kenshin work really well together. Wasn't her Kenshin a chibi not too long ago?" She shrugged. "I hope she heard you cheering from the stand."
"I'm sure she did. So what are we doing tonight, Demoonica?"
"What we do every night Hiromi, try to take over the Bishi World! Mwahahah!" *BONK!* "Hey! Why'd you hit me?"
"For acting strange again, and stealing lines from little white lab mice!"
"I'm not acting! I'm just naturally odd." Demoonica gave a big goofy grin.
"I know and that's the scarey part." Hiromi said trying not to laugh. She giggled, Demoonica cracked up laughing, Hiromi did too. Kagome looked at them.
"Couple of odd ones aren't they?" She asked Inu-chan, he giggled at them. "Oh! Not you too!" Kagome giggled.
Zander just walked along with them, they were not dragging him down into fits of childish laughter. No they would not. "Are you finished acting the fool?" He asked as they rounded a street corner.
Demoonica was still giggling. "Well, for now I guess."
"Baka."
"Not again! Zander..."
He put an arm around her shoulders. "Baka, baka, baka..."
"You're being mean." She crossed her arms and pouted.
"I'm teasing you. Lighten up right now would you?"
"First I'm being a silly fool, now you want me to lighten up! You can't have it both ways."
"I want you to be yourself, not acting all bouncy. You are acting..."
"So what if I am trying to be more happy than I feel?!"
"You're upset, you can't hide that from me. Being more hyper than normal may fool everyone else, but not me."
"How do you always know?"
"I have my ways." Zander said with a smile.
"Uuhhggg. That line is as annoying as 'It's a secret!' In a way that's what you're saying, anyways." Demoonica made a wild gesture with her arms, flinging them in the air. "I give up, really I do! I'm never going to understand you!" She sped up her walking, soon catching up with Hiromi and Kagome that had gotten far ahead of her and Zander.
*****
Demoonica fell back onto her bed with a great sigh. 'Why did I start an argument with Zander? He was only being truthful. Well it is annoying having him read my emotions like that.' She sighed and rolled to lay on her side. 'I understand it though, I was trying to be more happy than I felt. That dream has me more upset than I thought. Why am I still thinking about it after this morning?' She rolled back onto her back and ran her hands through her bangs. She drew a big breath and puffed out her cheeks. "I blew it didn't I?" She finally asked out loud.
"Blew what?" Kagome asked. She was on the other bed, Inu-chan asleep beside her.
"I messed up with Zander, yelling at him like that."
"You two just are sometimes too much alike for your own good. Both of you are stubborn and keep important things to yourselves. No wonder you end up all lovey one second and fighting like cats the next!"
"That bad?"
"Worse..." Kagome giggled. "You two remind me of how Inuyasha and I were when we first met. All we could do was get on each others nerves. Then things kept pushing us together, getting us into situations that we had to work together, and feelings grew. I know you like him Demoonica and he likes you just as much. It takes time to work things out. Give it that time."
"It's just... we... *sigh* Oh I don't know! It's like he reads my emotions sometimes! And he tries to manipulate them to put me in a different mood!"
Kagome was now laughing very hard at her fuming trainer.
"WHAT!?"
"I'm sorry, but it is funny watching you be so clueless."
"Huh?"
"You're in *love* with him! And you are being so stubborn about it that you missed it! He's not reading your mind with 'strange powers' he watches you constantly, girl! Don't you even notice? And you can be so easy to read!" She was still laughing a bit as she continued to talk. "I'm sure he's sitting in his own room right now brooding about this just like you."
"L... l.. ll... loo..... Ai." Demoonica stuttered out. "He watches me constantly?"
"Gods girl, you're hopeless."
*****
In Zanders room...
"Idiot!" Zander hit the pillow with his fist. He was laying face down on his bed cursing himself. 'Why didn't I just leave her alone about it? I'm so stupid!!!' The pillow went flying across the room, hitting the wall softly and falling. Zander growled angrily, mentally beating himself up.
'You can be such a fool some times, Zander.' He told himself. Unknowingly his eyes were glowing brightly again. The cool dark energy finding a hold in him, grasped tight. 'She just wants everyone around her to be happy! So what if she was acting?' And the energy grew with his anger. Zander sat up. 'She probably hates me now.' His head hurt.
Zander started to raise a hand to his head, but before he could finish the motion blackness enveloped him. He slumped back on the bed, passing out. If anyone had been there to see it, they could have seen his eyes turn to pure violet orbs again as they fluttered shut.
There was a knock on the door. "Zander?" Demoonica asked. "Hey, are you still awake?" She waited for an answer, when none came she said. "I guess you either don't want to talk to me or you are asleep." She sounded down hearted. "Well, we're meeting Hiromi and Merina in a half hour to go out in the field. I'll see you there I guess, that is if you want to come with us. You don't have to..." Demoonica walked away, back to her own room.
Kagome heard the door to their room open, the slow steps as Demoonica entered, and the door slowly close. She knew it had been a bad visit. "So how did it go?" She asked, then turned to see Demoonica standing there watching the floor.
"He didn't answer the door. He may have been asleep." She walked to her room and again fell down onto her bed. "I just want to be left alone right now, okay Kagome? Tell me when the girls get here."
Kagome watched as her trainer left, all the happiness gone out of her. "Oh Demoonica..." She said sadly.
TBC...
LDD: Chapter twenty-two is done! Go me! V(^_^)V