*Looks around expectantly* Hello? Aaaaaabbbyyy? Where in hell is my co-
author? Oh well, I guess I'll have to go on without her. It's taken me a
while to finally get started on this chapter, and I feel as though I need
to make up for lost time, so I'm just gonna start this chapter without Abby-
-whether she likes it or not!!!
But I still wonder where she is...*Looks under a rock* Nope, not there.
*Kurama sweatdrops* You actually thought she would fit under a rock?
*Glances at kitsune and sticks out tongue* Nnnnnn!!! It's a possibility!!! ...In this fic at least.
*Sesshomaru, Kurama, and Duo roll their eyes* Raging maniac!!!
That's cold. Venus is the maniac, not me. I'm just strange and currrently hyper for no apparent reason.
~*~
Venus walked quickly through the trees, looking around with narrowed eyes. Duo had told her what had happened to Sesshomaru and she had taken the Frying Pan of Doom to his cranium for it. She just couldn't believe he had actually left the dog demon behind. 'How much of an idiot can he be?' Venus asked herself. A sound to her left caught her attention. Her eyes went big and tears of sympathy began to form.
"Oh, Sesshomaru, you poor person! What happened!?"
The proud Lord of the Western Lands was bound and gagged and leaned up against an old oak tree. Foliage, soil, and twigs were entanled in his hair and his boa was nowhere to be found. His clothes were ripped and dirty and tiny scratches were all over his face, arms, and hands. His right eye was twitching in a way that suggested torture or fear. Venus walked over to him and quickly removed the gag, which was made out of thick vines, and untied the vine ropes that were wrapped around the rest of his body. When he was free of the ropes he gave a small shudder and looked anxiously up into the tree branches.
"Squirrells."
Venus tilted her head and leaned closer to him. "What did you say? Who did that to you? Was it Duo?"
"... Squirrells... I hate squirrells."
The teenager sat back on her feet and raised an eyebrow. "Are you okay? You don't look so good."
Sesshomaru looked at her pleadingly. "Can we please leave this place. I don't care where we go next, I just want to leave."
Venus helped him up and pulled the much taller person into a gentle hug, all the while thinking, 'I wonder if those healing potions CotA sent with that last package can heal mental damage as well. Let's hope so.' "C'mon, Fluffy, let's find the others so we can leave this world. I never intended to send us here in the first place anyway." Sesshomaru just nodded silently and let her lead him away.
As they were leaving, an army of squirrells popped up all over the place and began to grin in their insane little squirrelly ways.
Later!
When the two of them arrived at the remains of the mansion where the rest of the captives and Awst were waiting, Duo was still unconscious and Sanosuke was idly poking a whelp on the Gundam pilot's head with a stick. At the sight of Sesshomaru's state, Kurama winced.
"Oh dear, is he alright? The last time he looked anywhere near that bad, Hiei had attacked him with bubblegum balls."
Hiei grinned at the memory as Venus helped Sesshomaru to sit down. He never saw the rock fly from out of nowhere to collide with the side of his head. "Fuck! Who threw that one!?"
The group, minus Sesshomaru and Duo, looked around curiously but found no one to blame. They just shrugged and said in unison, "Guess you're cursed."
"Damn."
"Well you deserve it, asshole!" Venus snapped at the fire demon. "It was bad enough the first time something like this happened to him." No one noticed a squirrell hop down from the trees in front of Sesshomaru, from which he suddenly backed away from. "At least he recovered from the last incident." Several more squirrells landed in front of the demon lord and he backed away further, finding himself beneath the branches of a large tree. "I don't think he'll ever be the same after this. And I still don't know what those squirrells did to him. Sesshomaru, why did you mo--Uh oh...erm, people, we've got a problem. Awst, remember the time those squirrells attacked you at the park?"
(A/N Heeeeeerrrrrrreeees Abby! Wahh she started w/o me ...o well!)
"Huh...umm yes,I do sadly." Awst bowed her head sadly. The vision filled her head. Little, cute, innocent, big-eyed squirrels dropping down from branches and then when they surround...WHAM! They attack.
"Well, be ready to relive your nightmare with Fluffy and the rest of us. Hey, get off of him, you furry little freaks!!!" And Venus got the Frying Pan of Doom out of nowhere and began to beat away at the cute little monsters.
Awst was wide-eyed and curled into a ball. She laid on the ground in her ball form as Koga ripped apart the itty-bitty squirrels that were on the rampage.
"How many are there?!" He whined.
Duo, who had woken up just as the attack had began, looked down from his perch at the top of a tree and tried a headcount, but quickly gave up. "Not only are the little bastards movin' too fast, but there's more of them than you can throw a stick at. I say you guys are doomed. As for me, I'm takin' Death Scythe and I'm gonna suggest to Heero and the other guys that we torch these woods. These trees are homes to little demons. Hey, don't bite the hair!" And he used his gun to exterminate a rather large squirrell.
As soon as Duo had lept off the tree, he made a mad dash for his Gundam, planning on a nice trip home. But Venus had other plans. She whipped out the chain seeds and sent two of them flying through the air, one hitting Duo and the other exploding on the Death Scythe. 'I'm behind in catching captives,' Venus thought with a grin as she kicked away another squirrel and batted one away with the Frying Pan of Doom. 'And besides, Duo's so adorable!' She snickered quietly and watched for a moment as Sesshomaru, Kurama, and Sanosuke rushed over to the wreckage of the mansion.
"What are we doing over here?" Sano asked as he practically peeled a squirrell from his leg and tossed it into the trees.
Kurama studied the right side of the stairs leading up to the mansion doors and pressed a button. In an instant, the mansion was back to its original state and he stuffed it into his pocket. "It wouldn't do to leave this behind. It's too useful."
"But half of it's nothing but shrapnel now!" Sanosuke retorted. "How is it useful?"
Kurama shrugged. "Repairs can be made." A few sounds to his left caught his attention. "And it seems as though Sesshomaru has faced his fears."
Sesshomaru was busy hacking away at the squirrells with the fake Tetsusiega in one hand and the Tokijin in the other.
Awst was dodging the squirrels and crying out for help from anyone as they stormed her."NOT AGAIN!! DEAR GOD!! WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME SO!!!"
Hiei heard her cries and relunctantly grabbed her from the pit of raging squirrels."Get us outta here you stupid wench!"
"Well,well, Mr. Joto!" Awst muttered.Then continued,"Where shall we go?" (A/N joto is spanish for fagget! Hee hee!)
"Away! To my dimension!" Hiei demanded.
"Pooey!" Awst whined.
She opened a portal hurriedly and had Miroku clear a pathway to it for the others. Hiei tossed her through and jumped in last.
~~
Awst rubbed her hind-end and whined."Why'd ya toss me so hard!"
Hiei glared at her and withdrew his sword."I told you my dimension!"
Awst jumped to her feet and asked anyone to help but they were distracted by something in a tree."Okay don't help! But listen Hiei don't be angry I was in such a rush to get away I didn't pay attention to where I was go-" She was cut off by Hiei seizing her by the neck since he had had the last straw.
He brought his sword to her throat threateningly. "Either you send me back to my world right now, or I'm gutting you like a damn fish."
"DEMON KILLIN' TIME!"
Hiei froze and looked at the tree where the voice rang out just in time to see a black haired man with a white blotch in his hair jump towards him from his branch unsheathing a long sword.
The rest of the group, who had been distracted by the prescence of the same person, watched with raised eyebrows as he tried to hack Hiei to pieces. As they fought, Venus couldn't help but grimace.
"You guys, we've got a problem. That person Hiei's fighting is the world's biggest demon killer--Rath of the Dragon Tribe. He's a Dragon Knight, and if we don't do something, it's highly likely that he will slaughter Hiei."
"STOP!PLEASE DON'T KILL HIM!" Awst yelled out to Rath.
He paused questioningly,"Why would you want me to do that?"
"Because I know Hiei won't really hurt me..he likes me too much!"
"I despise you!" Hiei yelled out angerily.
"You also talk in your sleep." Awst hinted how she came upon her information,"I was watching you several days back and heard ya talking. So,could ya' spare him even though he is a demon? PLEASE!"
He tilted his head in thought,"Well, I wanna kill a demon sooo whatta 'bout him,eh?" He pointed at Koga.
"No, he's even fonder of me! I'll tell ya what I can get ya LOTS of demons to kill."
"Hmm, well I'm not in the mood to go back to Draqueen. Okay I'll do it me and Cesia aren't talking anyway so she won't keep tabs on me!"
"Awesome!" Awst smiled.She then whispered to Venus,"We have to have his trust to keep him from killing us all so lets find a bunch of demons for him to kill."
"Well, where can we go for a bunch of worthless demons that we don't have to worry about dying?" Venus asked in a mutter. "We'll need to go to another world for that, won't we? Is that your plan to catch Rath and save our bishies at the same time?"
"Yeah.Where can we go?" she thought for a while.
"We could always go to Vampire Hunter D's world. There's lots of demons and we could annoy the hell out of D and Left Hand."
"Hmm, yep we can go there!" She stopped her whispering and called to Rath who was eagerly waiting."Okay,if you go there won't only be demons but vampires and monsters and all kind of bull shit. But you gotta go through this portal to a completely different place."
Rath didn't even give it a second thought. "Okay, okay, whatever--where's the portal and the demons and whatnot?"
"Right over here," she waved for Venus to open the portal.
Venus was about to do just that when something distracted her from the chore. "Awst, you're about to get your authority questioned. Here's the other two-thirds of the Dragon Knights."
Rune and Thatz ran up. Miroku grinned very nicely to Rune until he realized that the long haired elegant blonde that was rather attractive was actually a man a very feminine man but a man.
Rath looked and grinned,"Hey,how'd ya find me?"
"Easily, we followed the trail of demon corpses you left behind you. Now did you ask permission to leave the castle?" Rune already knew the answer.
"Of course not. Do you think Lykouleon would let me out to kill demons?"
"Hmph, he won't let me out to gamble and he won't let me gamble in there so I know how ya feel but c'mon whats with you!" Thatz sighed.
Rath shrugged and moved toward the portal that Venus had finished opening. "Oh well, it's just gonna be a short vacation anyway, and I'll come right back. Don't worry!"
Rune grabbed Rath by the back of his neck and started to chew him out and trying to make him feel guilty. But it wasn't working very well. In fact, it wasn't working period, so he turned to choking Rath instead.
Meanwhile, Venus looked around and wondered, 'Hmm, where are Koga, Hiei, Kurama, and Sesshomaru? Guess Rath scared them. Speaking of Rath--' "Hey, Awst, I think Rune's gonna kill your crush."
"Ahh! No, bad, Rune, bad!" she knocked Rune away from Rath. In the process she got on Rune's bad side.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!! I'M THE ONLY RESPONSIBLE ONE HERE! WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?"
"Uhh, Awst."she grinned slightly.
"Hey calm your jets, Rune!" Thatz patted Runes shoulder and smiled.
'His scars make him look tougher than he really is.' Awst thought about Thatz and then turned to Rath."Feel sorry for you,being stuck with a thief and a strict prick like that."
"Ahh,they're not that bad now lets go before they stop arguing."
They side-stepped until they reached the portal."Wait where is everyone?" Awst whispered.
Venus shrugged and poked her head through the portal. She pulled her head back out and pointed into the portal. "I found them. They're already loungin' around in D's world. Let's go before those two notice what's happened, kay?"
Awst grabbed Rath's arm and lead him through the portal, followed closely by Venus, Duo, Sano, and a disappointed Miroku.
When she reached the other side she seen how nervous the demons were."Hey whats with you all?"
Hiei shook his head and inched away from the rest of the group. "How could you bring that," and he pointed at Rath. "With us. If you don't watch him he'll kill us all, you half-wit!"
Awst frowned and defended her new bishie,"That isn't nice! And I made a deal with him. I don't think he'll go back on it unless I say its off!" She turned to Rath, "Right?"
"Umm,sure, unless they attack me or something." Rath smiled sweetly.
The rest of the demons just took a step back from Rath and continued to laze around from there.
Later....
Killing, killing, killing, and more killing was being done and all the demons were getting somewhat relaxed. "So how much can he kill?" Koga asked.
"I don't know,but atleast we got a good place for lots of monsters that aren't needed."Awst replied as Rath slit the throat of a rather large one.
Venus, who was sunbathing contentedly, suddenly thought of something. She brooded over it a bit more before sitting up. "Hey, me and my captives are gonna go on a walk. Could you work on cooking some food while we're gone?"
"Sure, I guess but where you going 'cause on the rate he's killing there won't be any monsters left and he'll want more."
Venus took a glance at the gleeful Rath and agreed instantly. "Yeah, I guess you're right, unless of course he finds something that isn't as easy to kill. Like say a vampire? It would take him a little longer to kill one of those. But anyhoo, I'm off to capture everyone's favorite Dunpeal. Later!" And she walked off with Duo, Sesshomaru, and Kurama in tow.
"Buh-bye!" Awst waved. She turned to Koga, Hiei, Miroku, and Sano. "Well, can one of you go get some wood while I find a vampire?"
"What do you mean go finda VAMPIRE?" Hiei asked her with a look on his face that called her a moron.
"Well, I don't know how but I'll find one and run like hell. I'll call you or Koga or someone to get me outta there fast. But we gotta lead it back here somehow."
Hiei rolled his eyes. "Like that's a hard thing to figure out. If the vampire's hungry then it'll just follow you here and then Rath will kill it before it can bite you."
Awst clapped her hands and smiled,"Well, I guess you just volunteered to bring me back!"
"No I didn't!" Hiei refused but it didn't matter.
"Yes, yes you did! I'll call when your needed and if you don't come I'll leave you in the Barney dimension!"
"The whaa?" Hiei asked and Awst tapped his head and a Barney episode started playing. Hiei grabbed his head and dropped to his knees,"GET IT OUT, GET IT OUT!!!"
Even Rath stopped killing momentarilly to watch with wide eyes as Hiei set about trying to kill Awst again. That continued for about ten minutes before Sano finally whacked Hiei over his head and scooped up Awst in his arms. The teenager was gasping for air and clutching her throat with fearful eyes.
"Okay then I'll never do that again." she finally whispered. Rath continued to kill and the number of monsters dwindled. Awst walked away quickly to fetch a vampire.
Meanwhile! (That's a word we use often in this ficcie, isn't it?)
Venus and her captives trudged along through the heat of the desert. What were they looking for? Tracks. The tracks of a cyborg horse. They're official mission? To find and torture the hell out of D. Of course not everyone in the group was aware of what they were up to.
"What are we looking for?" Duo asked.
"We're looking for a vampire hunting Dunpeal." Venus answered as she scoured the ground for hoofprints.
"What the hell is a Dunpeal?"
"It's half vampire and half human. Anymore questions?"
"Actually--"
Venus whirled around and glared at Duo. He pointed behind her and moved to hide behind Kurama. The kitsune just stared past Venus with interest. "Is that your Dunpeal?"
She turned back around and witnessed D riding across the desert, quite a ways off, chasing after something that was running on foot. She raised and eyebrow curiously. "What the?"
~~~
Awst trudged along wearily in the sun. "You'd think I would of found one by now." She said to herself. She seen a tree in the distance and immediately headed towards it for the shade. "Woohoo!" she exclaimed and flopped down in the sand. She shut her eyes happily and when she opened them she seen a sinister looking guy sitting on a branch above her smiling evily. The person was pale-skinned, with crimson eyes and light blonde hair. The fact that he hadn't burst into flames and that he had the fangs of a vampire marked him as a Dunpeal. Awst simply waved at him and jumped up to run hoping he'd chase her so she would have a reason to scream. His arms went around her waist and pulled her into the tree with him covering her mouth preventing her from crying out. The wind stirred and her footprints were erased. The warm air blowing sand everywhere she barely made out the sounds of hoofs beating the ground. The wind ceased and she seen a man dressed in black on a horse made of metal. She recognized him as D on his cyborg horse. She tried to make a noise only to gently be squeezed tighter by the dunpeal to keep her silent.
D glanced left then right. He looked at the horizon then turned his head back. When he looked down Venus popped out of nowhere and tackled him right off his horse. He gave short struggle as the teenager whipped out Sesshomaru's fur boa (a new boa that CotA had sent him) and a chain seed. Within seconds the Vampire Hunter was wrapped tight and a panting Venus was sitting on top of him with an evil grin. "Heheheh, no one can escape the ultimate captor! Huh, who's up in the tree? Awst? What the hell?"
She struggeled out of the surpised dunpeal's arms, rather like a worm, and plopped onto the ground. "I got captured...by a hottie...thats odd isn't it. Its usually vis-versa." (a/n is that how ya spell it?)
Venus nodded and looked up at the dunpeal. She raised an eyebrow and he repeated the gesture. "You know, it isn't a good idea to stay in that tree."
"Why is that, girlie?" The dunpeal asked as he adjusted his weight on the branch to a more comfortable position.
"Well, you're about to fall prey to our little group of captives. Good night!" And Kurama and Duo appeared out of nowhere to whap the unsuspecting dunpeal over the back of his head. He slumped over and fell onto Awst heavily.
Awst lay with swirleys in her eyes. Venus shook her head and Sesshomaru jumped out of the tree and bagged up the rogue dunpeal. He nudged Awst a foot and hoisted her over his shoulder. Duo and Kurama picked up D, who was eyeing the group with increasing nervousness, and followed Venus as she trotted back to the rest of the group.
Awst rode on Sesshomaru's shoulders once she gained consciousness much to his protest. She sat and sang happily, "Felis Navidad," while Sesshomaru was tortured the mysterious dunpeal began to squirm around in the bag. He didn't really want to deal with him awake, so he took the bag and swung it hard over his shoulder and into the ground. With an audible thud and a groan, the dunpeal stopped moving. The dog demon grinned.
"Much better."
"How could you, you EVIL DEMON!!" Awst wailed on whapped him over the head. Within seconds Rath arrived with his sword withdrawn.
"Demon? Evil Demon...kill, kill, kill!" Rath had hearts in his eyes.
Sesshomaru blanched and drug the dunpeal out of the bag by the back of his shirt. "Here's your damn demon, you insane idiot!" And he threw the dunpeal at Rath, much to Awst's horror.
"NOOO!" Awst jumped onto the humming Rath so he couldn't ignore her. "You can't! Please, don't hes too cute!"
Rath looked at her, "What? Why would I not kill a demon.. I've allready let a lot of them go because of our deal."
"B-b-but...PLEASE!" She gave him a puppy dog face and made her eyes water.
Rath looked from the still unconscious dunpeal, to the watery-eyed Awst, and back to the dunpeal. His own eyes went large and he sheathed his sword. "Fine, I won't kill him. Damn it."
"Yea!!" Awst glomped Rath and kissed his cheek happily as the other captives arrived.
Sano raised an eyebrow. "Did that thing actually do something good? Me and the monk had to go off and hide Koga to keep that killing machine from gettin' to him. I hope you don't plan to keep him for long, missie."
"How could I not keep him hes sooo kawaii!" Awst's eyes gleamed as she stroked the pouting Rath's head.
"What!" Koga and Hiei whined while Miroku and Sano whined about not being called cute.
Awst read the monk's and the fighter's face, "Your all kawaii, too, actually Hiei and Rath look a lot alike... except for the highth and the hair is a lil' different."
Hiei scowled. "I do not look like that crazed idiot. Now shut up you moron."
"Actually, you do look a lot alike, Hiei, you're just being a stubborn ass." Venus said as she played with D's hair, once again sitting on top of him. He was waiting for just the right moment to bite at her fingers.
"SHUT UP!"
"You know as much as I hate it, we do..damn it I look like that stubborn youkai." Rath muttered through his moping. Rath then realized that they were talking about keeping him. "Wait a minute, I new something was up but just what is up?"
"Uhh... well, me and Venus go around capturing people from different animes or mangas..we call them diemensions. I just looooooove you so I caught you!"Awstia smiled sweetly.
Rath blinked, "I won't have to go to Draqueen again will I?"
"Not if all goes to plan."
"Then allrighty! I'll go and I promise not to kill your other captives." Rath said and he swooped Awst into his arms happily. Awst giggled and smiled at Venus.
"This is the best reaction so far!"
Venus agreed with a nodd. "Yep, the rest of them have fought us like all hell, well, except for Sano. He wanted to go until he found out where we were going. And this one don't much like us either. Hey, stop trying to get me with that damn dagger!" Venus snatched a dagger that D's Left Hand had been wriggling free of a small sheath from within the fur and chains. Left Hand swore loudly while D clenched his clawed fist tight as punishment for getting caught. Venus slapped Left Hand. "Bad!"
Awst jumped out of Rath's arms and walked over to the twitching dunpeal they had also captured. "Is he all right?"
Hiei looked over at him and shrugged. "If he didn't suffer any damage to his brain, then he should live. He's got a very large bump on the back of his head that slightly worries me, though."
" You've got a point there. What should we do hes too kawaii to just leave here?"
Venus hopped off of D and got out a healing potion that CotA had sent them. "Here, try putting some of this down his throat. It should help...unless of course a Dunpeal's anatonmy is that much different from ours. What do you think, D?"
Silence and a very angry stare.
"Okay, I guess we go with trial and error. You feed the guy, Awst!" and Venus shoved the bottle to her friend.
Awst frowned and sat down on the dunpeals chest. " If this medicinal liquid begins to disrupt any chemical imbalances within his body... ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!" She turned and poured it down his throat slowly. He coughed and sputtered and began to twitch even more. "AHH! We've condemed him to death!" She held up his head and begin to dash around him doing different things to him. She tilted the dunpeal's head one last time and he coughed and turned the correct color. "I saved him! WOO HOO!"
Of course, the rest of the group hadn't really noticed her actions, only her words. Koga stared at Venus with wide eyes. "Since when is she smart enough to know those words? I thought she was just a really tricky blonde?"
Hiei nodded his head and so did the others."I thought she was just an air head blonde."
Venus shook her head and wrapped her arms around their shoulders. "Boys, if she was completely stupid, then how did she catch you? I don't think that was by chance."
"Well, it seems so unlikely that she is smart!" Miroku said as he popped up behind Venus.
"Very unlikely," Sano replied.
"I think she's smart." Everyone froze and gapped at Rath.
"How do you get that idea?" Koga questioned.
"Well, she knew exactly how to get all of us and shes still alive. Plus I just watched what she did."
Awst was heard gagging over their chat. They all turned towards her and found her being hugged to death by the dunpeal.
"Aaaahahaaaa! I thought I was going to croak! Thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Awst was being pulled to and fro but grinning happily.
They all facefaulted and she stopped grining, "Whats wrong with you all?"
Venus popped back up with the mother of all boulders held above her. "You idiot! We were just talking about how smart you are and you're acting stupid again. Die!!!"
Lots of swirly eyes and head injuries.
Awst laid sprawled out on the ground with knots covering her head. She was muttering something and everyone leaned over her and listened.
"....The square root of 289 is 17. 29,567 times 1,287,956 equals 38,080,995,052.... "
"WHAT THE!!" Kurama fell over, "How'd she know that! I can't even do that in my head."
Hiei raised an eyebrow, "Is she right?" He looked at Venus then sweatdropped, "Are you all right?"
Venus's eyebrow twitched. "Damn, I think she might be smarter than even I thought. This is pretty damn freaky."
Awst awoke and hoped up, "Howdy buddies! Whats wrong with you peoples?"
"It seems that your subconscious self is a genius mathematician." Duo muttered as he poked D's Left Hand.
Awst raised an eyebrow, "I'm always good at math, though." She thought for a moment. "Actually, I would have straight A's in all my classes if I wasn't so lazy and if I wasn't kicked out of school."
Kurama asked a question," Why were you kicked out?"
Awst and Venus froze and looked at each other, "Well we were both kicked out...they sure did give us a lot of chances, though." Venus nodded her agreement. "I think we had 10 pages full of offenses."
Awst rubbed her head then began to name off offenses, "Destruction of school property, cutting class, beating up second graders, robbing second graders, traumatizing kindegarteners...and a whole lot more!"
Venus shook her head. "We were bad kids--and we still are! We are proud to be bad!"
"Totally!!" Awst stopped then slapped her forhead, "Ahhhh!! I had church today and LAST week and many Sundays before that!!" Awst clapped her hands together and began to pray while everyone else blanched.
The other teen reached down and patted her friend's head. "It's okay, I don't think you'll go to hell."
Awst jumped up, "I know that, but you can never be too sure... anyway look at monk boy over there. He's a super pervert and he's still religious!"
Miroku looked up from what he was doing and sighed, "I think we're of different religion."
"Yeah but lets change subjects! Venus, are we taking the dunpeals with us?"
Venus tilted her head and thought for a moment. "Well, D practices self restraint when it comes to his bloodlust, but that other one could be considered a major health hazard. If you want to though, go ahead. Just make sure to wear the protection ring CotA sent you." And she tossed the ring to her partner. "Heheheh, I kept on forgetting to give it to you after the whole Gundam thing."
"Yeah, that ring would've helped me out a lot... Anyway the 'health hazard' is cute, and if he misbehaves we can sick Rath on him!" When those words left Awst's mouth Rath appeared beside her happily chanting, 'Demon killin' time!' Over and over.
All the demon's twitched a little out of habit. However brave they were they didn't like the way Rath found it sooooo amusing to kill demons.
"All right its settled the health hazard comes too!" Awst paused, "Whats your name?"
The dunpeal who had been silent spoke up with a hint of confusion in his voice, "Uh, Datrios."
"Okay then, we are gone!" Venus opened up the little portal thingie. "Next stop--well, I dunno."
"Uhh, I gots an idea!" Awst said with a grin.
"Oooohhh, I think you might have read my mind!"
And the two shouted in unison: " .HACK!!!"
~*~
Author's Note: Datrios, for those of you who didn't guess, is an OC. He is totally made up, but we thought he would be a cool character. We might just let Rath have him though. ^.^ Anyway, sorry it took so long to update. We really weren't much into writing recently, and we know this chapter isn't very good, but we'll make up for it next chapter. That one will come much quicker. Anything to say, Abby?
Yeah, I finally got Rath...^.^ yay,yay,yay! Ohh, if u read Manga get Full Metal Panic (its on dvd, too!)
By the way, I got .hack//infection with my Christmas money, and I reccomend that game to any RPG player. It rocks! But it's really confusing, too.
Its waaaaaay confusing..~.~' I recommened Prince of Persia! buh bye sori it took sooo friggen long to update!
But I still wonder where she is...*Looks under a rock* Nope, not there.
*Kurama sweatdrops* You actually thought she would fit under a rock?
*Glances at kitsune and sticks out tongue* Nnnnnn!!! It's a possibility!!! ...In this fic at least.
*Sesshomaru, Kurama, and Duo roll their eyes* Raging maniac!!!
That's cold. Venus is the maniac, not me. I'm just strange and currrently hyper for no apparent reason.
~*~
Venus walked quickly through the trees, looking around with narrowed eyes. Duo had told her what had happened to Sesshomaru and she had taken the Frying Pan of Doom to his cranium for it. She just couldn't believe he had actually left the dog demon behind. 'How much of an idiot can he be?' Venus asked herself. A sound to her left caught her attention. Her eyes went big and tears of sympathy began to form.
"Oh, Sesshomaru, you poor person! What happened!?"
The proud Lord of the Western Lands was bound and gagged and leaned up against an old oak tree. Foliage, soil, and twigs were entanled in his hair and his boa was nowhere to be found. His clothes were ripped and dirty and tiny scratches were all over his face, arms, and hands. His right eye was twitching in a way that suggested torture or fear. Venus walked over to him and quickly removed the gag, which was made out of thick vines, and untied the vine ropes that were wrapped around the rest of his body. When he was free of the ropes he gave a small shudder and looked anxiously up into the tree branches.
"Squirrells."
Venus tilted her head and leaned closer to him. "What did you say? Who did that to you? Was it Duo?"
"... Squirrells... I hate squirrells."
The teenager sat back on her feet and raised an eyebrow. "Are you okay? You don't look so good."
Sesshomaru looked at her pleadingly. "Can we please leave this place. I don't care where we go next, I just want to leave."
Venus helped him up and pulled the much taller person into a gentle hug, all the while thinking, 'I wonder if those healing potions CotA sent with that last package can heal mental damage as well. Let's hope so.' "C'mon, Fluffy, let's find the others so we can leave this world. I never intended to send us here in the first place anyway." Sesshomaru just nodded silently and let her lead him away.
As they were leaving, an army of squirrells popped up all over the place and began to grin in their insane little squirrelly ways.
Later!
When the two of them arrived at the remains of the mansion where the rest of the captives and Awst were waiting, Duo was still unconscious and Sanosuke was idly poking a whelp on the Gundam pilot's head with a stick. At the sight of Sesshomaru's state, Kurama winced.
"Oh dear, is he alright? The last time he looked anywhere near that bad, Hiei had attacked him with bubblegum balls."
Hiei grinned at the memory as Venus helped Sesshomaru to sit down. He never saw the rock fly from out of nowhere to collide with the side of his head. "Fuck! Who threw that one!?"
The group, minus Sesshomaru and Duo, looked around curiously but found no one to blame. They just shrugged and said in unison, "Guess you're cursed."
"Damn."
"Well you deserve it, asshole!" Venus snapped at the fire demon. "It was bad enough the first time something like this happened to him." No one noticed a squirrell hop down from the trees in front of Sesshomaru, from which he suddenly backed away from. "At least he recovered from the last incident." Several more squirrells landed in front of the demon lord and he backed away further, finding himself beneath the branches of a large tree. "I don't think he'll ever be the same after this. And I still don't know what those squirrells did to him. Sesshomaru, why did you mo--Uh oh...erm, people, we've got a problem. Awst, remember the time those squirrells attacked you at the park?"
(A/N Heeeeeerrrrrrreeees Abby! Wahh she started w/o me ...o well!)
"Huh...umm yes,I do sadly." Awst bowed her head sadly. The vision filled her head. Little, cute, innocent, big-eyed squirrels dropping down from branches and then when they surround...WHAM! They attack.
"Well, be ready to relive your nightmare with Fluffy and the rest of us. Hey, get off of him, you furry little freaks!!!" And Venus got the Frying Pan of Doom out of nowhere and began to beat away at the cute little monsters.
Awst was wide-eyed and curled into a ball. She laid on the ground in her ball form as Koga ripped apart the itty-bitty squirrels that were on the rampage.
"How many are there?!" He whined.
Duo, who had woken up just as the attack had began, looked down from his perch at the top of a tree and tried a headcount, but quickly gave up. "Not only are the little bastards movin' too fast, but there's more of them than you can throw a stick at. I say you guys are doomed. As for me, I'm takin' Death Scythe and I'm gonna suggest to Heero and the other guys that we torch these woods. These trees are homes to little demons. Hey, don't bite the hair!" And he used his gun to exterminate a rather large squirrell.
As soon as Duo had lept off the tree, he made a mad dash for his Gundam, planning on a nice trip home. But Venus had other plans. She whipped out the chain seeds and sent two of them flying through the air, one hitting Duo and the other exploding on the Death Scythe. 'I'm behind in catching captives,' Venus thought with a grin as she kicked away another squirrel and batted one away with the Frying Pan of Doom. 'And besides, Duo's so adorable!' She snickered quietly and watched for a moment as Sesshomaru, Kurama, and Sanosuke rushed over to the wreckage of the mansion.
"What are we doing over here?" Sano asked as he practically peeled a squirrell from his leg and tossed it into the trees.
Kurama studied the right side of the stairs leading up to the mansion doors and pressed a button. In an instant, the mansion was back to its original state and he stuffed it into his pocket. "It wouldn't do to leave this behind. It's too useful."
"But half of it's nothing but shrapnel now!" Sanosuke retorted. "How is it useful?"
Kurama shrugged. "Repairs can be made." A few sounds to his left caught his attention. "And it seems as though Sesshomaru has faced his fears."
Sesshomaru was busy hacking away at the squirrells with the fake Tetsusiega in one hand and the Tokijin in the other.
Awst was dodging the squirrels and crying out for help from anyone as they stormed her."NOT AGAIN!! DEAR GOD!! WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME SO!!!"
Hiei heard her cries and relunctantly grabbed her from the pit of raging squirrels."Get us outta here you stupid wench!"
"Well,well, Mr. Joto!" Awst muttered.Then continued,"Where shall we go?" (A/N joto is spanish for fagget! Hee hee!)
"Away! To my dimension!" Hiei demanded.
"Pooey!" Awst whined.
She opened a portal hurriedly and had Miroku clear a pathway to it for the others. Hiei tossed her through and jumped in last.
~~
Awst rubbed her hind-end and whined."Why'd ya toss me so hard!"
Hiei glared at her and withdrew his sword."I told you my dimension!"
Awst jumped to her feet and asked anyone to help but they were distracted by something in a tree."Okay don't help! But listen Hiei don't be angry I was in such a rush to get away I didn't pay attention to where I was go-" She was cut off by Hiei seizing her by the neck since he had had the last straw.
He brought his sword to her throat threateningly. "Either you send me back to my world right now, or I'm gutting you like a damn fish."
"DEMON KILLIN' TIME!"
Hiei froze and looked at the tree where the voice rang out just in time to see a black haired man with a white blotch in his hair jump towards him from his branch unsheathing a long sword.
The rest of the group, who had been distracted by the prescence of the same person, watched with raised eyebrows as he tried to hack Hiei to pieces. As they fought, Venus couldn't help but grimace.
"You guys, we've got a problem. That person Hiei's fighting is the world's biggest demon killer--Rath of the Dragon Tribe. He's a Dragon Knight, and if we don't do something, it's highly likely that he will slaughter Hiei."
"STOP!PLEASE DON'T KILL HIM!" Awst yelled out to Rath.
He paused questioningly,"Why would you want me to do that?"
"Because I know Hiei won't really hurt me..he likes me too much!"
"I despise you!" Hiei yelled out angerily.
"You also talk in your sleep." Awst hinted how she came upon her information,"I was watching you several days back and heard ya talking. So,could ya' spare him even though he is a demon? PLEASE!"
He tilted his head in thought,"Well, I wanna kill a demon sooo whatta 'bout him,eh?" He pointed at Koga.
"No, he's even fonder of me! I'll tell ya what I can get ya LOTS of demons to kill."
"Hmm, well I'm not in the mood to go back to Draqueen. Okay I'll do it me and Cesia aren't talking anyway so she won't keep tabs on me!"
"Awesome!" Awst smiled.She then whispered to Venus,"We have to have his trust to keep him from killing us all so lets find a bunch of demons for him to kill."
"Well, where can we go for a bunch of worthless demons that we don't have to worry about dying?" Venus asked in a mutter. "We'll need to go to another world for that, won't we? Is that your plan to catch Rath and save our bishies at the same time?"
"Yeah.Where can we go?" she thought for a while.
"We could always go to Vampire Hunter D's world. There's lots of demons and we could annoy the hell out of D and Left Hand."
"Hmm, yep we can go there!" She stopped her whispering and called to Rath who was eagerly waiting."Okay,if you go there won't only be demons but vampires and monsters and all kind of bull shit. But you gotta go through this portal to a completely different place."
Rath didn't even give it a second thought. "Okay, okay, whatever--where's the portal and the demons and whatnot?"
"Right over here," she waved for Venus to open the portal.
Venus was about to do just that when something distracted her from the chore. "Awst, you're about to get your authority questioned. Here's the other two-thirds of the Dragon Knights."
Rune and Thatz ran up. Miroku grinned very nicely to Rune until he realized that the long haired elegant blonde that was rather attractive was actually a man a very feminine man but a man.
Rath looked and grinned,"Hey,how'd ya find me?"
"Easily, we followed the trail of demon corpses you left behind you. Now did you ask permission to leave the castle?" Rune already knew the answer.
"Of course not. Do you think Lykouleon would let me out to kill demons?"
"Hmph, he won't let me out to gamble and he won't let me gamble in there so I know how ya feel but c'mon whats with you!" Thatz sighed.
Rath shrugged and moved toward the portal that Venus had finished opening. "Oh well, it's just gonna be a short vacation anyway, and I'll come right back. Don't worry!"
Rune grabbed Rath by the back of his neck and started to chew him out and trying to make him feel guilty. But it wasn't working very well. In fact, it wasn't working period, so he turned to choking Rath instead.
Meanwhile, Venus looked around and wondered, 'Hmm, where are Koga, Hiei, Kurama, and Sesshomaru? Guess Rath scared them. Speaking of Rath--' "Hey, Awst, I think Rune's gonna kill your crush."
"Ahh! No, bad, Rune, bad!" she knocked Rune away from Rath. In the process she got on Rune's bad side.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!! I'M THE ONLY RESPONSIBLE ONE HERE! WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?"
"Uhh, Awst."she grinned slightly.
"Hey calm your jets, Rune!" Thatz patted Runes shoulder and smiled.
'His scars make him look tougher than he really is.' Awst thought about Thatz and then turned to Rath."Feel sorry for you,being stuck with a thief and a strict prick like that."
"Ahh,they're not that bad now lets go before they stop arguing."
They side-stepped until they reached the portal."Wait where is everyone?" Awst whispered.
Venus shrugged and poked her head through the portal. She pulled her head back out and pointed into the portal. "I found them. They're already loungin' around in D's world. Let's go before those two notice what's happened, kay?"
Awst grabbed Rath's arm and lead him through the portal, followed closely by Venus, Duo, Sano, and a disappointed Miroku.
When she reached the other side she seen how nervous the demons were."Hey whats with you all?"
Hiei shook his head and inched away from the rest of the group. "How could you bring that," and he pointed at Rath. "With us. If you don't watch him he'll kill us all, you half-wit!"
Awst frowned and defended her new bishie,"That isn't nice! And I made a deal with him. I don't think he'll go back on it unless I say its off!" She turned to Rath, "Right?"
"Umm,sure, unless they attack me or something." Rath smiled sweetly.
The rest of the demons just took a step back from Rath and continued to laze around from there.
Later....
Killing, killing, killing, and more killing was being done and all the demons were getting somewhat relaxed. "So how much can he kill?" Koga asked.
"I don't know,but atleast we got a good place for lots of monsters that aren't needed."Awst replied as Rath slit the throat of a rather large one.
Venus, who was sunbathing contentedly, suddenly thought of something. She brooded over it a bit more before sitting up. "Hey, me and my captives are gonna go on a walk. Could you work on cooking some food while we're gone?"
"Sure, I guess but where you going 'cause on the rate he's killing there won't be any monsters left and he'll want more."
Venus took a glance at the gleeful Rath and agreed instantly. "Yeah, I guess you're right, unless of course he finds something that isn't as easy to kill. Like say a vampire? It would take him a little longer to kill one of those. But anyhoo, I'm off to capture everyone's favorite Dunpeal. Later!" And she walked off with Duo, Sesshomaru, and Kurama in tow.
"Buh-bye!" Awst waved. She turned to Koga, Hiei, Miroku, and Sano. "Well, can one of you go get some wood while I find a vampire?"
"What do you mean go finda VAMPIRE?" Hiei asked her with a look on his face that called her a moron.
"Well, I don't know how but I'll find one and run like hell. I'll call you or Koga or someone to get me outta there fast. But we gotta lead it back here somehow."
Hiei rolled his eyes. "Like that's a hard thing to figure out. If the vampire's hungry then it'll just follow you here and then Rath will kill it before it can bite you."
Awst clapped her hands and smiled,"Well, I guess you just volunteered to bring me back!"
"No I didn't!" Hiei refused but it didn't matter.
"Yes, yes you did! I'll call when your needed and if you don't come I'll leave you in the Barney dimension!"
"The whaa?" Hiei asked and Awst tapped his head and a Barney episode started playing. Hiei grabbed his head and dropped to his knees,"GET IT OUT, GET IT OUT!!!"
Even Rath stopped killing momentarilly to watch with wide eyes as Hiei set about trying to kill Awst again. That continued for about ten minutes before Sano finally whacked Hiei over his head and scooped up Awst in his arms. The teenager was gasping for air and clutching her throat with fearful eyes.
"Okay then I'll never do that again." she finally whispered. Rath continued to kill and the number of monsters dwindled. Awst walked away quickly to fetch a vampire.
Meanwhile! (That's a word we use often in this ficcie, isn't it?)
Venus and her captives trudged along through the heat of the desert. What were they looking for? Tracks. The tracks of a cyborg horse. They're official mission? To find and torture the hell out of D. Of course not everyone in the group was aware of what they were up to.
"What are we looking for?" Duo asked.
"We're looking for a vampire hunting Dunpeal." Venus answered as she scoured the ground for hoofprints.
"What the hell is a Dunpeal?"
"It's half vampire and half human. Anymore questions?"
"Actually--"
Venus whirled around and glared at Duo. He pointed behind her and moved to hide behind Kurama. The kitsune just stared past Venus with interest. "Is that your Dunpeal?"
She turned back around and witnessed D riding across the desert, quite a ways off, chasing after something that was running on foot. She raised and eyebrow curiously. "What the?"
~~~
Awst trudged along wearily in the sun. "You'd think I would of found one by now." She said to herself. She seen a tree in the distance and immediately headed towards it for the shade. "Woohoo!" she exclaimed and flopped down in the sand. She shut her eyes happily and when she opened them she seen a sinister looking guy sitting on a branch above her smiling evily. The person was pale-skinned, with crimson eyes and light blonde hair. The fact that he hadn't burst into flames and that he had the fangs of a vampire marked him as a Dunpeal. Awst simply waved at him and jumped up to run hoping he'd chase her so she would have a reason to scream. His arms went around her waist and pulled her into the tree with him covering her mouth preventing her from crying out. The wind stirred and her footprints were erased. The warm air blowing sand everywhere she barely made out the sounds of hoofs beating the ground. The wind ceased and she seen a man dressed in black on a horse made of metal. She recognized him as D on his cyborg horse. She tried to make a noise only to gently be squeezed tighter by the dunpeal to keep her silent.
D glanced left then right. He looked at the horizon then turned his head back. When he looked down Venus popped out of nowhere and tackled him right off his horse. He gave short struggle as the teenager whipped out Sesshomaru's fur boa (a new boa that CotA had sent him) and a chain seed. Within seconds the Vampire Hunter was wrapped tight and a panting Venus was sitting on top of him with an evil grin. "Heheheh, no one can escape the ultimate captor! Huh, who's up in the tree? Awst? What the hell?"
She struggeled out of the surpised dunpeal's arms, rather like a worm, and plopped onto the ground. "I got captured...by a hottie...thats odd isn't it. Its usually vis-versa." (a/n is that how ya spell it?)
Venus nodded and looked up at the dunpeal. She raised an eyebrow and he repeated the gesture. "You know, it isn't a good idea to stay in that tree."
"Why is that, girlie?" The dunpeal asked as he adjusted his weight on the branch to a more comfortable position.
"Well, you're about to fall prey to our little group of captives. Good night!" And Kurama and Duo appeared out of nowhere to whap the unsuspecting dunpeal over the back of his head. He slumped over and fell onto Awst heavily.
Awst lay with swirleys in her eyes. Venus shook her head and Sesshomaru jumped out of the tree and bagged up the rogue dunpeal. He nudged Awst a foot and hoisted her over his shoulder. Duo and Kurama picked up D, who was eyeing the group with increasing nervousness, and followed Venus as she trotted back to the rest of the group.
Awst rode on Sesshomaru's shoulders once she gained consciousness much to his protest. She sat and sang happily, "Felis Navidad," while Sesshomaru was tortured the mysterious dunpeal began to squirm around in the bag. He didn't really want to deal with him awake, so he took the bag and swung it hard over his shoulder and into the ground. With an audible thud and a groan, the dunpeal stopped moving. The dog demon grinned.
"Much better."
"How could you, you EVIL DEMON!!" Awst wailed on whapped him over the head. Within seconds Rath arrived with his sword withdrawn.
"Demon? Evil Demon...kill, kill, kill!" Rath had hearts in his eyes.
Sesshomaru blanched and drug the dunpeal out of the bag by the back of his shirt. "Here's your damn demon, you insane idiot!" And he threw the dunpeal at Rath, much to Awst's horror.
"NOOO!" Awst jumped onto the humming Rath so he couldn't ignore her. "You can't! Please, don't hes too cute!"
Rath looked at her, "What? Why would I not kill a demon.. I've allready let a lot of them go because of our deal."
"B-b-but...PLEASE!" She gave him a puppy dog face and made her eyes water.
Rath looked from the still unconscious dunpeal, to the watery-eyed Awst, and back to the dunpeal. His own eyes went large and he sheathed his sword. "Fine, I won't kill him. Damn it."
"Yea!!" Awst glomped Rath and kissed his cheek happily as the other captives arrived.
Sano raised an eyebrow. "Did that thing actually do something good? Me and the monk had to go off and hide Koga to keep that killing machine from gettin' to him. I hope you don't plan to keep him for long, missie."
"How could I not keep him hes sooo kawaii!" Awst's eyes gleamed as she stroked the pouting Rath's head.
"What!" Koga and Hiei whined while Miroku and Sano whined about not being called cute.
Awst read the monk's and the fighter's face, "Your all kawaii, too, actually Hiei and Rath look a lot alike... except for the highth and the hair is a lil' different."
Hiei scowled. "I do not look like that crazed idiot. Now shut up you moron."
"Actually, you do look a lot alike, Hiei, you're just being a stubborn ass." Venus said as she played with D's hair, once again sitting on top of him. He was waiting for just the right moment to bite at her fingers.
"SHUT UP!"
"You know as much as I hate it, we do..damn it I look like that stubborn youkai." Rath muttered through his moping. Rath then realized that they were talking about keeping him. "Wait a minute, I new something was up but just what is up?"
"Uhh... well, me and Venus go around capturing people from different animes or mangas..we call them diemensions. I just looooooove you so I caught you!"Awstia smiled sweetly.
Rath blinked, "I won't have to go to Draqueen again will I?"
"Not if all goes to plan."
"Then allrighty! I'll go and I promise not to kill your other captives." Rath said and he swooped Awst into his arms happily. Awst giggled and smiled at Venus.
"This is the best reaction so far!"
Venus agreed with a nodd. "Yep, the rest of them have fought us like all hell, well, except for Sano. He wanted to go until he found out where we were going. And this one don't much like us either. Hey, stop trying to get me with that damn dagger!" Venus snatched a dagger that D's Left Hand had been wriggling free of a small sheath from within the fur and chains. Left Hand swore loudly while D clenched his clawed fist tight as punishment for getting caught. Venus slapped Left Hand. "Bad!"
Awst jumped out of Rath's arms and walked over to the twitching dunpeal they had also captured. "Is he all right?"
Hiei looked over at him and shrugged. "If he didn't suffer any damage to his brain, then he should live. He's got a very large bump on the back of his head that slightly worries me, though."
" You've got a point there. What should we do hes too kawaii to just leave here?"
Venus hopped off of D and got out a healing potion that CotA had sent them. "Here, try putting some of this down his throat. It should help...unless of course a Dunpeal's anatonmy is that much different from ours. What do you think, D?"
Silence and a very angry stare.
"Okay, I guess we go with trial and error. You feed the guy, Awst!" and Venus shoved the bottle to her friend.
Awst frowned and sat down on the dunpeals chest. " If this medicinal liquid begins to disrupt any chemical imbalances within his body... ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!" She turned and poured it down his throat slowly. He coughed and sputtered and began to twitch even more. "AHH! We've condemed him to death!" She held up his head and begin to dash around him doing different things to him. She tilted the dunpeal's head one last time and he coughed and turned the correct color. "I saved him! WOO HOO!"
Of course, the rest of the group hadn't really noticed her actions, only her words. Koga stared at Venus with wide eyes. "Since when is she smart enough to know those words? I thought she was just a really tricky blonde?"
Hiei nodded his head and so did the others."I thought she was just an air head blonde."
Venus shook her head and wrapped her arms around their shoulders. "Boys, if she was completely stupid, then how did she catch you? I don't think that was by chance."
"Well, it seems so unlikely that she is smart!" Miroku said as he popped up behind Venus.
"Very unlikely," Sano replied.
"I think she's smart." Everyone froze and gapped at Rath.
"How do you get that idea?" Koga questioned.
"Well, she knew exactly how to get all of us and shes still alive. Plus I just watched what she did."
Awst was heard gagging over their chat. They all turned towards her and found her being hugged to death by the dunpeal.
"Aaaahahaaaa! I thought I was going to croak! Thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Awst was being pulled to and fro but grinning happily.
They all facefaulted and she stopped grining, "Whats wrong with you all?"
Venus popped back up with the mother of all boulders held above her. "You idiot! We were just talking about how smart you are and you're acting stupid again. Die!!!"
Lots of swirly eyes and head injuries.
Awst laid sprawled out on the ground with knots covering her head. She was muttering something and everyone leaned over her and listened.
"....The square root of 289 is 17. 29,567 times 1,287,956 equals 38,080,995,052.... "
"WHAT THE!!" Kurama fell over, "How'd she know that! I can't even do that in my head."
Hiei raised an eyebrow, "Is she right?" He looked at Venus then sweatdropped, "Are you all right?"
Venus's eyebrow twitched. "Damn, I think she might be smarter than even I thought. This is pretty damn freaky."
Awst awoke and hoped up, "Howdy buddies! Whats wrong with you peoples?"
"It seems that your subconscious self is a genius mathematician." Duo muttered as he poked D's Left Hand.
Awst raised an eyebrow, "I'm always good at math, though." She thought for a moment. "Actually, I would have straight A's in all my classes if I wasn't so lazy and if I wasn't kicked out of school."
Kurama asked a question," Why were you kicked out?"
Awst and Venus froze and looked at each other, "Well we were both kicked out...they sure did give us a lot of chances, though." Venus nodded her agreement. "I think we had 10 pages full of offenses."
Awst rubbed her head then began to name off offenses, "Destruction of school property, cutting class, beating up second graders, robbing second graders, traumatizing kindegarteners...and a whole lot more!"
Venus shook her head. "We were bad kids--and we still are! We are proud to be bad!"
"Totally!!" Awst stopped then slapped her forhead, "Ahhhh!! I had church today and LAST week and many Sundays before that!!" Awst clapped her hands together and began to pray while everyone else blanched.
The other teen reached down and patted her friend's head. "It's okay, I don't think you'll go to hell."
Awst jumped up, "I know that, but you can never be too sure... anyway look at monk boy over there. He's a super pervert and he's still religious!"
Miroku looked up from what he was doing and sighed, "I think we're of different religion."
"Yeah but lets change subjects! Venus, are we taking the dunpeals with us?"
Venus tilted her head and thought for a moment. "Well, D practices self restraint when it comes to his bloodlust, but that other one could be considered a major health hazard. If you want to though, go ahead. Just make sure to wear the protection ring CotA sent you." And she tossed the ring to her partner. "Heheheh, I kept on forgetting to give it to you after the whole Gundam thing."
"Yeah, that ring would've helped me out a lot... Anyway the 'health hazard' is cute, and if he misbehaves we can sick Rath on him!" When those words left Awst's mouth Rath appeared beside her happily chanting, 'Demon killin' time!' Over and over.
All the demon's twitched a little out of habit. However brave they were they didn't like the way Rath found it sooooo amusing to kill demons.
"All right its settled the health hazard comes too!" Awst paused, "Whats your name?"
The dunpeal who had been silent spoke up with a hint of confusion in his voice, "Uh, Datrios."
"Okay then, we are gone!" Venus opened up the little portal thingie. "Next stop--well, I dunno."
"Uhh, I gots an idea!" Awst said with a grin.
"Oooohhh, I think you might have read my mind!"
And the two shouted in unison: " .HACK!!!"
~*~
Author's Note: Datrios, for those of you who didn't guess, is an OC. He is totally made up, but we thought he would be a cool character. We might just let Rath have him though. ^.^ Anyway, sorry it took so long to update. We really weren't much into writing recently, and we know this chapter isn't very good, but we'll make up for it next chapter. That one will come much quicker. Anything to say, Abby?
Yeah, I finally got Rath...^.^ yay,yay,yay! Ohh, if u read Manga get Full Metal Panic (its on dvd, too!)
By the way, I got .hack//infection with my Christmas money, and I reccomend that game to any RPG player. It rocks! But it's really confusing, too.
Its waaaaaay confusing..~.~' I recommened Prince of Persia! buh bye sori it took sooo friggen long to update!
