Keitaro's arms and legs swing wildly as he stumbles though the dark regions
of the spirit world. His soul sleeps.
"Damn I am way out of shape." The demon sighs as his new body went tumbling once again of the unforgiving ground. "Shit! Cain! You come back here you bastard!" Lying on the cold bedrock, the demon let the child's body recover from its recent scraps. He glimpses a light approaching from his left. "That weird, I haven't seen beings of light this far down before..." His eyes widen, as the spot of light became a burning ball of divine magic.
"I see you!!!" The fury smirked as she watched the fireball smash home. Hopping effortlessly down from faded outcrops the being of wraith's eyes narrowed as she sees a woman appearing from the smoky aftermath. "Why do you interfere with my work?"
"It's the duty of all Shimeryu to save those in need." The woman replied. Then they both lock their blades in one swift clash. "That was kind of obvious."
Looking down the Fury spotted her prey cowering behind the sword woman. "You are in my way. Move, or die."
"I am taking Keikun home, spirit of rightful vengeance." Tsuruko replies calmly. She holds her sword close, while she draws her kunai. "You shouldn't have targeted a innocent. It was a mistake from my sister that summons you to this task. I now release you from your duty." With one hand she dart the spirit's sword arm. Taking advantage of its momentary distraction the Kendo adept withdrew. Sweat bead on her pure white forehead as she grimace from the after shock from the titanic impact.
"I can't let the boy go." The fury glares at the shivering boy. It charges up its blade until it glows with a faint but eerie blue. "I can't suffer evil to live!"
"Why?" Tsuruko moves into fighting stance, only to be knock of balance by the fury's double hand bash. "Keitaro have done nothing to deserve your wrath."
"I live to slay evil, and in that boy evil lives. I must kill him, I must!"
"What!" Tsuruko riposte the Fury's blade and sends her flying back with a boulder splitting strike. "Keitaro is innocent, and all innocents deserve life!" She counter attacks with a vacuum pulse and slice the fury in two. "Your will to do justice is tainted by hate."
"I am will not be blind by your words so easily, my duty is to give death the evil that now have take possession of the boy. I will be banish the demon to the outer darkness, and I will not desist till it is done." A large number of arms appeared on the fury's body as it regenerates its body parts. "I can crush you with barely an effort, woman of the sword, but for your part in the crusade against the unholy you have been spared so far. Now be gone, and let me destroy that demon!" Advancing slowly the fury parries Tsuruko's attacks like it was child's play.
Forced back gradually Tsuruko yells. "Keitaro run!" Fury took her brief distraction and lung in. Tsuruko barely block the critical hit, but still took a bone crushing palm strike to her gut. Fortunately her body was trained to take similar impacts, so she was still able to decapitate her smirking foe. Her victory was temporary. As she retreats the spirit regenerates, all the while looking from its detached head straight into Keitaro.
Shortly the two combatants once more face each other.
"Why should I?" Keitaro's deject voice grinds the atmosphere. The Fury looks unresponsive and renew her siege to Tsuruko's shrinking defensive circle. "The scary lady said that I should die, then I will die, it didn't matter its now or a few year down the line. Every thing would just turn out the same. Naru-chan, Mochan, and Muchan would go their separate ways. Leaving me all alone in the world, no one would care that I am gone. Every one would just forgets me eventually."
Tsuruko felt desperation well up from within. "Keitaro, no! Run! I will keep her away form you." She bash the fury with twelve thunder blade and launch it away on a tornado, then snatch up Keitaro. "Keitaro!" Tsuruko wraps her arm around Keitaro's limp body. "What is wrong! Why aren't you running away?" She shook the boy but Keitaro just stares back at her with lightless eyes, repeating a mantra.
A fiery hand clasps around Tsuruko's shoulder. "His grip on his soul is slipping. The demon's possession shall soon consume all his sanity and turn him into its creature. It would be merciful if you let me kill him right now. Tsuruko broke away from the spirit abruptly, cradling Keitaro in her arms.
Narrowing her eyes Tsuruko challenges the fury. "Its not the way of the righteous to kill innocents. Can't you see that your way is simple murder?"
The fury snarls at the swordswoman. "My summoning had been invoked, I not free as you would have me, and my justice is not a thing that I throw away for the softness of the human heart. You must give him to me now!"
*Way to go Motoko!* Tsuruko grinned. "I guess we have a standoff, because I am not about to let go of him."
Back at Hinata Inn
Motoko's hands shook as she finish redrawing the spell she evoked. "I hope this will do. Big sister, please come back soon." "Mochan?" Naru's head pokes into Motoko's room. Motoko leaps up into the air, tips over the saucer of ink she used to draw the spell. "Is..." "No!" Motoko watched helplessly as the black droplets keeps falling, down toward her newly revised spell. "The spell!"
In the spirit realm
The fury gasps sharply. It's light brightens, and dims abruptly.
Tsuruko's blade flickers into view in the lightless dark. With one hand held onto Keitaro, she began to retreat from the fury.
"There need for alarm." The fury turns toward Tsuruko. "But rather wasting it on me, I think there are more pressing matters." It glares down on Keitaro. "Though I am unable to destroy the demon personally, I would advise you to destroy the demon host immediately."
"You must be mad to try convincing me to kill an innocent..."
Light from the fury's eyes transfixes Tsuruko. "Ignorant human! You think I would glory in the destruction of the unfortunate child. Look into the aura of the child and you will see your emotion's misguidance. The demon is growing stronger as we speak!"
Reluctantly Tsuruko focus her senses on Keitaro. "I..." She saw deep into Keitaro's battered form, beyond the bruise on his skin, beyond the mind numbing mantra that echo in the surface of his mind, into the depth of the boy's soul, where she saw Keitaro's spirit flickering in the clutch of a dark hurricane. A cage make of green fire appears over the fury as it charges in for the kill. An unearthly scream rang in the abyss as the spirit of light felt the burning on its soul.
"I see my jig is up." Keitaro smiled calmly. "You have protect me well, beautiful one, would you like to serve me forever." A spherical shield forms, separating Keitaro from his surroundings, but he offers his hands still toward the battered swords woman. "I had always wanted an older sister." Shadows crawled out from cracks of rock and reaches toward the three.
Tsuruko's aura blast away the surrounding shadows "Demon, I will give you one chance to leave Keitaro of your own will." Tsuruko's chilly voice lashes out with the force of her ki. "Or I will ensure whatever hell that spirit gives to you when she is done, I will multiply a thousand times."
"God is not cruel. That is why he made humans into resilient creatures with his lavish gifts of strength and intelligence. However for this boy, his strength failed, and whatever intelligence he possesses will not be a match for the cunning of an ancient demon." A boyish grin appeared on Keitaro's pale face. "Would you wish that he suffered the hell you offered me? I assure you he will live along time, under your tender mercies. His pain and anguish shall feed me like the grand feasts of apostasy before the flood." Seeing Tsuruko's rosebud lips trembling he smiled. "Or would you prefer a bargain, after all I am a generous provider of many things, and is always willing to give..."
With a snap of her wrist Tsuruko launches a tornado blast that shatters the demonic shield and sends the boy wheeling into the ground. "Not yet! There is still hope." Her word rolls out heavily on her tongue. "I will exorcise you, demon." She then growls to the confused fury. "And you can have it's blacken soul, but Kei-kun is coming home with me!" She sets the dazed boy against a large boulder. "Don't worry this won't hurt one bit." Whispers comforting words Tsuruko drew back from the boy. She turns and growls at the bemused fury. "I would stand back if I were you."
"Foolish girl! I am an immortal. Whatever you do will have very little effect on me." Nevertheless the demon attempts to shrank into the block of granite, along with Keitaro's body.
"We will see!" Tsuruko turns toward Keitaro. "Now Evil Cutting Sword!" A burst of energy pulverized the boulder on which Tsuruko placed the boy. "That should do it."
The fury walks into the cloud of dust and out immediately. It sticks its tongue into its cheek. "A lot of good that did. All you did was blowing up that cursed rock!" It then points the sprinting form of Keitaro. "I don't think the demon in that kid will sit idly by while you blast it out of it's new home." Tsuruko face-faults. "Why didn't you tell me!"
"Not my faults you can't hit a moving target." The fury replies. "Personally I am surprise that you learned such a difficult...Hey where are you going!"
"I got to catch Keitaro you dumb ass." Tsuruko yelled back as she chase after the runner, and yelped when she saw the Fury popped out right in her path.
"You human geniuses need to hear things out a bit more. Don't you know that spirits are not constrained by the laws of matters?"
Steam rush out of Tsuruko's head. "Quit blabbing, and catch him you overgrown light bulb!"
The fury grins. "Your wish is my command." It vanishes.
"Oh shit!" Tsuruko's eyes bulged out of her skulls. "Don't hurt him!"
"Too late can't hear you." The whispering sound was barely audible in Tsuruko's ears as she rushes after Keitaro. "Demon! Taste the divine wrath of the righteous. And you girl, just watch and learn."
Tsuruko sweat dropped. "If you can't hear me then why are you still answering me?"
"Ummm...rats...this is a figure of your imagination?"
The spirit realm shook with the combine impact of Keitaro, Tsuruko, and any unfortunate demons within hearing range.
*Thou shall not bear false witness!* A lightning bolt struck the fury, then on the side note clips Keitaro on the head. Now give the boy to her.
"Yesss bosss!" The smoking avatar of righteous anger grabs the freshly knocked out Keitaro and teleports back before a grimacing Tsuruko. "Hereeessss your little friend." With a long wheeze it falls on the ground twitching. "Argh! Whoever summoned me is going to have a lot of explaining to do."
Tsuruko wedges Keitaro between two large boulders, just then he wakes. "Where am I?"
"Don't worry Keitaro this won't hurt a bit." Tsuruko brandish her sword. "Evil..." "Wha..." Keitaro's eyes widen as the gleaming blade leveled to his face. "...Cutting..." The boulder began to shook violently. "...Sword!"
Keitaro's world went white.
The cloud of dust clears to reveal Keitaro's bloody form half buried in the rubbles. "Wow! That's a piece of work." The recharged fury examines the injuries, as Tsuruko gave frantic effort to revive Keitaro. "The Spanish Inquision look like a first rate spa, comparing to this piece of work." It pats Tsuruko on the back. "You would make a fine fury someday, you seem to have a natural talent for metering the punishment to the unholy."
Tsuruko wraps one of her hand around the fury's neck and drew its face down. Between her clench teeth hissed; "In God's name shut you trap!"
Shrugging the fury went down beside the unconscious boy. "He will live..."
Tsuruko gave a sigh of relieve.
"But what you did was not enough." Heaving her sword, the fury readies its sword for one final swing. "One more hit should do it." A hammer came down on top of the fury's head. A crater forms where it kissed the ground. "We're not trying to kill him you dumb ass." Tsuruko shoulders her hammer.
"Ouch! I am not bloodthirsty! You attack unhinged the demon's hold on the boy, but it's just knocked out, not gone." Wordless Tsuruko unsheathes her sword once more. The fury scrambled away just in time to see Keitaro enveloped in a spectacular blast of Ki. "Watch it!"
"Check again." Tsuruko said blandly.
"Hey! Clean up after your own mess." But a glare from Tsuruko later; "Why in the hell am I taking orders from this freaky woman." The fury stared at Keitaro's unconscious form. "Funny I thought the brat would have been flattened by that brutish technique." It focuses its Ki and probed. Inside of Keitaro's body, the fury scans for signs of evil, and saw nothing. "Funny?" It went deeper. "Yo does this attack of yours clear out your target's mind?"
"No. But it by extracting the demon it generally knocks the host into a state of deep sleep." Leaning on her sword Tsuruko scans the darkness.
"Oh!" The fury pushed deeper and felt something give away. A door opens and the fury was before the demon. "I see you." Drawing out its weapon the fury charged and gave the fallen spirit a swift decapitation. "And you die."
"I am sorry to say that isn't possible." The demon's head spoke. "What the?!" The fury bisects the head. "Hey! Stop that." The demon looks the fury in the eye.
"Why won't you die?" Furious the spirit of light continue to hit the demon until a twitching mass of shadow with a pair of eyes was all that was left.
Staring at the flustered fury the demon replied. "Damn if I had known girls in heaven is such a looker I would have repented long time ago. And check out that skirt, I could look right un..."
"Die you degenerate beast!" The red face fury kicks the demon head.
The demon's body regenerates its lost head and said in a weary voice. "Damn it! I can't be banished, you dumb chick! This is as far as you can go."
The fury points at the immobile demon. "Then why are you still in the brat's body."
"Think about this." The demon suggests. "You are back against a wall with a firing squad in front of you. Are you going to die?"
"Uh! Yea?"
"And what if there is a crack behind you? A place where the bullets can no longer reach your vital areas."
"Ahahaha..." The fury for some reason blushed furiously and began to back away fro the demon. "I will go now."
"Yea about time. Owwwwwwwwww!" The demon dematerialized. "That was the second most painful experience in my life. But damn that was worth it." The dark corridors of Keitaro's mind began to lighten as consciousness returns. "Guess Cain will have to be on his own for a little while."
"Owies!" Keitaro winced. He gets up gingerly. "Hey! My healing skill is first rate." A familiar voice enters Keitaro's ears. He sat up abruptly. "He is awake!" Two beautiful girls sat by his side, one he recognize as Motoko's sister, the other in nurse's uniform looks familiar.
The one dressed in nurse's uniform smiles benevolently down on Keitaro. "How's it going kiddo!" Keitaro remembered.
He screamed.
"I thought I was going to have a heart attack!" The fury gasps. "That's physically impossible for you." /* But its a near death experience for me */ Tsuruko hugs the shivering Keitaro close. "I know." Both girls' hair sticks out in all directions like the spikes. The fury continues. "You sure have a great pair of lungs kiddo." The fury commented. Keitaro shrank away form her tentative hand. "Not really. This is the first time he is usually very soft spoken." Tsuruko pats Keitaro on the back gently. "Then may be he is saving up for later." Moving closer the fury clasp her hand on top of Tsuruko's. "Hey!" Tsuruko turns red. I am not a lesbian. "Don't worry I am perfectly straight too." "Then why..." "You want to get home?" "Of course." "Then just hang on to my hand." The fury pulls Tsuruko up and began to walk. "Wha... can't you just teleport us back." "Can't do that. This place is not that easy to get out of. We need to walk in order to get you two home." As they walk the monotonous veil of darkness began to warp around them as if it is drawn by the presence of life. "And I can tell you this, the path of spirits is hard for dead, but for the living..." A sharp grin appears on the fury's face. "Just say it." Tsuruko's voice sends shocks down Keitaro's spine. "It can be worst than hell."
Naru and Motoko both were splattered with black spots as the quickly put the intact spell form out to dry.
"That was close." Motoko smiles to Naru, a tremor shook her voice. "I wouldn't know what to do if that ink splattered..."
Naru suddenly stares Motoko straight in the eye with a very determined expression on her face. "Was that the spell that send Kei-kun to wherever he is?" The wind picks up in the room as Motoko did a double take.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Motoko replied timidly.
Naru took a deep breath and said evenly. "Don't lie mo-chan, or you won't be my friend anymore." She then keeps staring at Motoko with her pair of big watery eyes.
Motoko keels over. "Na-chan! It's my entire fault! I was just trying to do something to help my sister in hunting demons and when I thought I could use spellcraft... and..." Her voice fades as Naru covers her face with her hand. "Na-chan...I ...am... sorry I promise I will get him back! I really really promise." She plies away Naru's hand to see her friend smiling despite her tearstains.
Naru's fingers pinch Motoko's flushed cheek. "You promise? Mochan?"
"Yes." And so Motoko went hook, line and sinker. Naru gave her a hug to ease the humiliation.
In the realm down under
Our threesome shivers. "What was that?" Keitaro asked. "A premonition of doom." The fury and Tsuruko answered simultaneously.
Afterwards:
After being sent to hell (literally) by the spell of a three year old, the fury, the genius, and the soon to be punching bag must take the spirit path to get back to the mortal plane. There will be laughs and cries of -------- ? ( A giant fan hit's the author on the head) "Okay I won't go there, Tsuruko, but it will be an interesting ride for you three." Mean while back in the Hinata inn, Motoko and Naru are cooking up their recipy to rescue their love ones, but will they succeed or damn the three to eternality of -------? (Dodge a flying hammer.) "Hey fury's don't get access to hammer space! It would be too cheap, and no you can't borrow Tsuruko's." Anyways, the only way to find out is to read more and review! Flames will be recycled for later distribution.
"Damn I am way out of shape." The demon sighs as his new body went tumbling once again of the unforgiving ground. "Shit! Cain! You come back here you bastard!" Lying on the cold bedrock, the demon let the child's body recover from its recent scraps. He glimpses a light approaching from his left. "That weird, I haven't seen beings of light this far down before..." His eyes widen, as the spot of light became a burning ball of divine magic.
"I see you!!!" The fury smirked as she watched the fireball smash home. Hopping effortlessly down from faded outcrops the being of wraith's eyes narrowed as she sees a woman appearing from the smoky aftermath. "Why do you interfere with my work?"
"It's the duty of all Shimeryu to save those in need." The woman replied. Then they both lock their blades in one swift clash. "That was kind of obvious."
Looking down the Fury spotted her prey cowering behind the sword woman. "You are in my way. Move, or die."
"I am taking Keikun home, spirit of rightful vengeance." Tsuruko replies calmly. She holds her sword close, while she draws her kunai. "You shouldn't have targeted a innocent. It was a mistake from my sister that summons you to this task. I now release you from your duty." With one hand she dart the spirit's sword arm. Taking advantage of its momentary distraction the Kendo adept withdrew. Sweat bead on her pure white forehead as she grimace from the after shock from the titanic impact.
"I can't let the boy go." The fury glares at the shivering boy. It charges up its blade until it glows with a faint but eerie blue. "I can't suffer evil to live!"
"Why?" Tsuruko moves into fighting stance, only to be knock of balance by the fury's double hand bash. "Keitaro have done nothing to deserve your wrath."
"I live to slay evil, and in that boy evil lives. I must kill him, I must!"
"What!" Tsuruko riposte the Fury's blade and sends her flying back with a boulder splitting strike. "Keitaro is innocent, and all innocents deserve life!" She counter attacks with a vacuum pulse and slice the fury in two. "Your will to do justice is tainted by hate."
"I am will not be blind by your words so easily, my duty is to give death the evil that now have take possession of the boy. I will be banish the demon to the outer darkness, and I will not desist till it is done." A large number of arms appeared on the fury's body as it regenerates its body parts. "I can crush you with barely an effort, woman of the sword, but for your part in the crusade against the unholy you have been spared so far. Now be gone, and let me destroy that demon!" Advancing slowly the fury parries Tsuruko's attacks like it was child's play.
Forced back gradually Tsuruko yells. "Keitaro run!" Fury took her brief distraction and lung in. Tsuruko barely block the critical hit, but still took a bone crushing palm strike to her gut. Fortunately her body was trained to take similar impacts, so she was still able to decapitate her smirking foe. Her victory was temporary. As she retreats the spirit regenerates, all the while looking from its detached head straight into Keitaro.
Shortly the two combatants once more face each other.
"Why should I?" Keitaro's deject voice grinds the atmosphere. The Fury looks unresponsive and renew her siege to Tsuruko's shrinking defensive circle. "The scary lady said that I should die, then I will die, it didn't matter its now or a few year down the line. Every thing would just turn out the same. Naru-chan, Mochan, and Muchan would go their separate ways. Leaving me all alone in the world, no one would care that I am gone. Every one would just forgets me eventually."
Tsuruko felt desperation well up from within. "Keitaro, no! Run! I will keep her away form you." She bash the fury with twelve thunder blade and launch it away on a tornado, then snatch up Keitaro. "Keitaro!" Tsuruko wraps her arm around Keitaro's limp body. "What is wrong! Why aren't you running away?" She shook the boy but Keitaro just stares back at her with lightless eyes, repeating a mantra.
A fiery hand clasps around Tsuruko's shoulder. "His grip on his soul is slipping. The demon's possession shall soon consume all his sanity and turn him into its creature. It would be merciful if you let me kill him right now. Tsuruko broke away from the spirit abruptly, cradling Keitaro in her arms.
Narrowing her eyes Tsuruko challenges the fury. "Its not the way of the righteous to kill innocents. Can't you see that your way is simple murder?"
The fury snarls at the swordswoman. "My summoning had been invoked, I not free as you would have me, and my justice is not a thing that I throw away for the softness of the human heart. You must give him to me now!"
*Way to go Motoko!* Tsuruko grinned. "I guess we have a standoff, because I am not about to let go of him."
Back at Hinata Inn
Motoko's hands shook as she finish redrawing the spell she evoked. "I hope this will do. Big sister, please come back soon." "Mochan?" Naru's head pokes into Motoko's room. Motoko leaps up into the air, tips over the saucer of ink she used to draw the spell. "Is..." "No!" Motoko watched helplessly as the black droplets keeps falling, down toward her newly revised spell. "The spell!"
In the spirit realm
The fury gasps sharply. It's light brightens, and dims abruptly.
Tsuruko's blade flickers into view in the lightless dark. With one hand held onto Keitaro, she began to retreat from the fury.
"There need for alarm." The fury turns toward Tsuruko. "But rather wasting it on me, I think there are more pressing matters." It glares down on Keitaro. "Though I am unable to destroy the demon personally, I would advise you to destroy the demon host immediately."
"You must be mad to try convincing me to kill an innocent..."
Light from the fury's eyes transfixes Tsuruko. "Ignorant human! You think I would glory in the destruction of the unfortunate child. Look into the aura of the child and you will see your emotion's misguidance. The demon is growing stronger as we speak!"
Reluctantly Tsuruko focus her senses on Keitaro. "I..." She saw deep into Keitaro's battered form, beyond the bruise on his skin, beyond the mind numbing mantra that echo in the surface of his mind, into the depth of the boy's soul, where she saw Keitaro's spirit flickering in the clutch of a dark hurricane. A cage make of green fire appears over the fury as it charges in for the kill. An unearthly scream rang in the abyss as the spirit of light felt the burning on its soul.
"I see my jig is up." Keitaro smiled calmly. "You have protect me well, beautiful one, would you like to serve me forever." A spherical shield forms, separating Keitaro from his surroundings, but he offers his hands still toward the battered swords woman. "I had always wanted an older sister." Shadows crawled out from cracks of rock and reaches toward the three.
Tsuruko's aura blast away the surrounding shadows "Demon, I will give you one chance to leave Keitaro of your own will." Tsuruko's chilly voice lashes out with the force of her ki. "Or I will ensure whatever hell that spirit gives to you when she is done, I will multiply a thousand times."
"God is not cruel. That is why he made humans into resilient creatures with his lavish gifts of strength and intelligence. However for this boy, his strength failed, and whatever intelligence he possesses will not be a match for the cunning of an ancient demon." A boyish grin appeared on Keitaro's pale face. "Would you wish that he suffered the hell you offered me? I assure you he will live along time, under your tender mercies. His pain and anguish shall feed me like the grand feasts of apostasy before the flood." Seeing Tsuruko's rosebud lips trembling he smiled. "Or would you prefer a bargain, after all I am a generous provider of many things, and is always willing to give..."
With a snap of her wrist Tsuruko launches a tornado blast that shatters the demonic shield and sends the boy wheeling into the ground. "Not yet! There is still hope." Her word rolls out heavily on her tongue. "I will exorcise you, demon." She then growls to the confused fury. "And you can have it's blacken soul, but Kei-kun is coming home with me!" She sets the dazed boy against a large boulder. "Don't worry this won't hurt one bit." Whispers comforting words Tsuruko drew back from the boy. She turns and growls at the bemused fury. "I would stand back if I were you."
"Foolish girl! I am an immortal. Whatever you do will have very little effect on me." Nevertheless the demon attempts to shrank into the block of granite, along with Keitaro's body.
"We will see!" Tsuruko turns toward Keitaro. "Now Evil Cutting Sword!" A burst of energy pulverized the boulder on which Tsuruko placed the boy. "That should do it."
The fury walks into the cloud of dust and out immediately. It sticks its tongue into its cheek. "A lot of good that did. All you did was blowing up that cursed rock!" It then points the sprinting form of Keitaro. "I don't think the demon in that kid will sit idly by while you blast it out of it's new home." Tsuruko face-faults. "Why didn't you tell me!"
"Not my faults you can't hit a moving target." The fury replies. "Personally I am surprise that you learned such a difficult...Hey where are you going!"
"I got to catch Keitaro you dumb ass." Tsuruko yelled back as she chase after the runner, and yelped when she saw the Fury popped out right in her path.
"You human geniuses need to hear things out a bit more. Don't you know that spirits are not constrained by the laws of matters?"
Steam rush out of Tsuruko's head. "Quit blabbing, and catch him you overgrown light bulb!"
The fury grins. "Your wish is my command." It vanishes.
"Oh shit!" Tsuruko's eyes bulged out of her skulls. "Don't hurt him!"
"Too late can't hear you." The whispering sound was barely audible in Tsuruko's ears as she rushes after Keitaro. "Demon! Taste the divine wrath of the righteous. And you girl, just watch and learn."
Tsuruko sweat dropped. "If you can't hear me then why are you still answering me?"
"Ummm...rats...this is a figure of your imagination?"
The spirit realm shook with the combine impact of Keitaro, Tsuruko, and any unfortunate demons within hearing range.
*Thou shall not bear false witness!* A lightning bolt struck the fury, then on the side note clips Keitaro on the head. Now give the boy to her.
"Yesss bosss!" The smoking avatar of righteous anger grabs the freshly knocked out Keitaro and teleports back before a grimacing Tsuruko. "Hereeessss your little friend." With a long wheeze it falls on the ground twitching. "Argh! Whoever summoned me is going to have a lot of explaining to do."
Tsuruko wedges Keitaro between two large boulders, just then he wakes. "Where am I?"
"Don't worry Keitaro this won't hurt a bit." Tsuruko brandish her sword. "Evil..." "Wha..." Keitaro's eyes widen as the gleaming blade leveled to his face. "...Cutting..." The boulder began to shook violently. "...Sword!"
Keitaro's world went white.
The cloud of dust clears to reveal Keitaro's bloody form half buried in the rubbles. "Wow! That's a piece of work." The recharged fury examines the injuries, as Tsuruko gave frantic effort to revive Keitaro. "The Spanish Inquision look like a first rate spa, comparing to this piece of work." It pats Tsuruko on the back. "You would make a fine fury someday, you seem to have a natural talent for metering the punishment to the unholy."
Tsuruko wraps one of her hand around the fury's neck and drew its face down. Between her clench teeth hissed; "In God's name shut you trap!"
Shrugging the fury went down beside the unconscious boy. "He will live..."
Tsuruko gave a sigh of relieve.
"But what you did was not enough." Heaving her sword, the fury readies its sword for one final swing. "One more hit should do it." A hammer came down on top of the fury's head. A crater forms where it kissed the ground. "We're not trying to kill him you dumb ass." Tsuruko shoulders her hammer.
"Ouch! I am not bloodthirsty! You attack unhinged the demon's hold on the boy, but it's just knocked out, not gone." Wordless Tsuruko unsheathes her sword once more. The fury scrambled away just in time to see Keitaro enveloped in a spectacular blast of Ki. "Watch it!"
"Check again." Tsuruko said blandly.
"Hey! Clean up after your own mess." But a glare from Tsuruko later; "Why in the hell am I taking orders from this freaky woman." The fury stared at Keitaro's unconscious form. "Funny I thought the brat would have been flattened by that brutish technique." It focuses its Ki and probed. Inside of Keitaro's body, the fury scans for signs of evil, and saw nothing. "Funny?" It went deeper. "Yo does this attack of yours clear out your target's mind?"
"No. But it by extracting the demon it generally knocks the host into a state of deep sleep." Leaning on her sword Tsuruko scans the darkness.
"Oh!" The fury pushed deeper and felt something give away. A door opens and the fury was before the demon. "I see you." Drawing out its weapon the fury charged and gave the fallen spirit a swift decapitation. "And you die."
"I am sorry to say that isn't possible." The demon's head spoke. "What the?!" The fury bisects the head. "Hey! Stop that." The demon looks the fury in the eye.
"Why won't you die?" Furious the spirit of light continue to hit the demon until a twitching mass of shadow with a pair of eyes was all that was left.
Staring at the flustered fury the demon replied. "Damn if I had known girls in heaven is such a looker I would have repented long time ago. And check out that skirt, I could look right un..."
"Die you degenerate beast!" The red face fury kicks the demon head.
The demon's body regenerates its lost head and said in a weary voice. "Damn it! I can't be banished, you dumb chick! This is as far as you can go."
The fury points at the immobile demon. "Then why are you still in the brat's body."
"Think about this." The demon suggests. "You are back against a wall with a firing squad in front of you. Are you going to die?"
"Uh! Yea?"
"And what if there is a crack behind you? A place where the bullets can no longer reach your vital areas."
"Ahahaha..." The fury for some reason blushed furiously and began to back away fro the demon. "I will go now."
"Yea about time. Owwwwwwwwww!" The demon dematerialized. "That was the second most painful experience in my life. But damn that was worth it." The dark corridors of Keitaro's mind began to lighten as consciousness returns. "Guess Cain will have to be on his own for a little while."
"Owies!" Keitaro winced. He gets up gingerly. "Hey! My healing skill is first rate." A familiar voice enters Keitaro's ears. He sat up abruptly. "He is awake!" Two beautiful girls sat by his side, one he recognize as Motoko's sister, the other in nurse's uniform looks familiar.
The one dressed in nurse's uniform smiles benevolently down on Keitaro. "How's it going kiddo!" Keitaro remembered.
He screamed.
"I thought I was going to have a heart attack!" The fury gasps. "That's physically impossible for you." /* But its a near death experience for me */ Tsuruko hugs the shivering Keitaro close. "I know." Both girls' hair sticks out in all directions like the spikes. The fury continues. "You sure have a great pair of lungs kiddo." The fury commented. Keitaro shrank away form her tentative hand. "Not really. This is the first time he is usually very soft spoken." Tsuruko pats Keitaro on the back gently. "Then may be he is saving up for later." Moving closer the fury clasp her hand on top of Tsuruko's. "Hey!" Tsuruko turns red. I am not a lesbian. "Don't worry I am perfectly straight too." "Then why..." "You want to get home?" "Of course." "Then just hang on to my hand." The fury pulls Tsuruko up and began to walk. "Wha... can't you just teleport us back." "Can't do that. This place is not that easy to get out of. We need to walk in order to get you two home." As they walk the monotonous veil of darkness began to warp around them as if it is drawn by the presence of life. "And I can tell you this, the path of spirits is hard for dead, but for the living..." A sharp grin appears on the fury's face. "Just say it." Tsuruko's voice sends shocks down Keitaro's spine. "It can be worst than hell."
Naru and Motoko both were splattered with black spots as the quickly put the intact spell form out to dry.
"That was close." Motoko smiles to Naru, a tremor shook her voice. "I wouldn't know what to do if that ink splattered..."
Naru suddenly stares Motoko straight in the eye with a very determined expression on her face. "Was that the spell that send Kei-kun to wherever he is?" The wind picks up in the room as Motoko did a double take.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Motoko replied timidly.
Naru took a deep breath and said evenly. "Don't lie mo-chan, or you won't be my friend anymore." She then keeps staring at Motoko with her pair of big watery eyes.
Motoko keels over. "Na-chan! It's my entire fault! I was just trying to do something to help my sister in hunting demons and when I thought I could use spellcraft... and..." Her voice fades as Naru covers her face with her hand. "Na-chan...I ...am... sorry I promise I will get him back! I really really promise." She plies away Naru's hand to see her friend smiling despite her tearstains.
Naru's fingers pinch Motoko's flushed cheek. "You promise? Mochan?"
"Yes." And so Motoko went hook, line and sinker. Naru gave her a hug to ease the humiliation.
In the realm down under
Our threesome shivers. "What was that?" Keitaro asked. "A premonition of doom." The fury and Tsuruko answered simultaneously.
Afterwards:
After being sent to hell (literally) by the spell of a three year old, the fury, the genius, and the soon to be punching bag must take the spirit path to get back to the mortal plane. There will be laughs and cries of -------- ? ( A giant fan hit's the author on the head) "Okay I won't go there, Tsuruko, but it will be an interesting ride for you three." Mean while back in the Hinata inn, Motoko and Naru are cooking up their recipy to rescue their love ones, but will they succeed or damn the three to eternality of -------? (Dodge a flying hammer.) "Hey fury's don't get access to hammer space! It would be too cheap, and no you can't borrow Tsuruko's." Anyways, the only way to find out is to read more and review! Flames will be recycled for later distribution.