Chapter3 -Full Moon Dangers and Surprises
"How'd you know she was my twin sister"? Hiei asked the kitsune suspiciously. Kurama shrugged and sat down in between Cassie's cot and Hiei. "It was pretty easy once you saw the temper and the scar on her right arm. "He replied coolly as Nick reentered the room. She sat down next to Hiei and said " long time ,no see brother ." He smirked and said, "I could say the same about you .Where have you been anyway? And why are you hanging out with this pathetic excuse for a human girl? "he asked motioning towards Cassie's cot Nick suddenly had Hiei by the throat and had an expression on her face that even caught Yoko by surprise "Don't you ever talk about Cassie that way in front of me again or else I will make sure you don't live to see tomorrow!" she growled. She suddenly released Hiei and turned to Kurama with a look of panic and fear. "Do you know what night of the lunar cycle it is tonight?" she asked in a panicked sort of voice. Kurama nodded and replied with a puzzled tone "Yes ,it's the full moon tonight .But I don't see what that's got to do with anything-" He was suddenly cut off by Nick bolting past him and making a run for the door ,only to stop with her hand on the knob. "Oh no! I can't go back for it anyway and the only other one who knows where I keep it is Cass." She sighed and walked over to Cassie's cot and gently shook her friend awake. "Cassie ? I need you to make a run for my house to get my black dragon pendant with the ruby eyes .Do you think you can manage?" Cassie nodded and sat up . The boys looked puzzled but when Hiei realized what Nick meant he nodded and said "No I'll go and get it. " Nick smiled half -heartedly and replied with a distinct strain on her voice "That'd be nice brother, but only a girl can carry the pendant ,much less touch it without getting their hand burned right off." Cassie nodded once again and stood ,under Kurama's warnings to stay in bed. "don't worry .I'll be fine .It'll only take me ten minutes tops to get it and bring it back here". "That or else you'll have a seven foot half dragon on your hands." Nick finished for her. Cassie propped a smile and took off for Nick's house.
"Gotta hurry ,Gotta Hurry." Cassie kept saying to herself as she ran down the deserted streets of their dreary home town of Graniteville Heights. She quickly rounded the corner to Nick's house and thanked the powers that be that no one was home. "It's a good thing I have this. Thanks Kiona" she thought as she pulled out her skelital key. In under 10 seconds ,she had picked the lock and found her way to Nick's room. Posters of dragons and various anime shows adorned the walls of her best friend's room .The posters covered a rather dreary paint job.. Cassie's eyes quickly scanned the room for Nick's prized necklace ."Aha ! Found you !" Cassie cried as she plucked said necklace off the bookshelf. She raced out the door, and back to Cassie's house .As she turned down a rather dark alley to take a shortcut ,she ran into one of the local gangs ,The Hillstreet stranglers. "Hey baby ,what're you doing out this late?" the leader asked ."It's none of your business so bug off and let me pass." Cassie snapped back He smirked and said "Don't you know that there's a toll to come through this alley ? You have to sleep with every member of the gang before you get to go through the alley." She gave out something between a snort and a laugh and said "There's no way in hell so I'll just go the other way" As she turned around to leave she found her way blocked by twenty gang members. "Oh I don't think you understand missy you're coming with us for some fun whether you like it or not ."Scott said and grabbed Cassie by the shirt. She pulled away and she heard a loud ripping noise .Her top had ripped ,exposing the black lace bra she had on underneath. "Oohh nice but you're gonna have to loose those pants to come on what do you say?" Cassie backed up until her back was pressed against the wall. "No chance in hell!!" she shouted
"Cassie? Let me take care of these bakas for you ok? You need to get that pendant to Nick."
"Alright .Thanks Kiona just hurry."
With that she swiftly changed into the fox demon known as Kiona . Kiona bared her fangs to the already trembling gang members. "You dare to harm my mistress ? Then you must suffer the consequences" she snarled as she raised her clawed hand over her head. In seconds the whole gang was dead and the dismembered body parts were strewn all over the ground .Kiona let out a smile and murmured "That's what you get for challenging someone close to the most ruthless fighter in the Makai." before she took off into the dark night on her way back to Cassie's house.
Meanwhile at Cassie's ,Kurama and Hiei were having their own problems. Cassie was twenty minutes late with the pendant .Because of this, Nick had begun her transformation into her seven foot form. In under two minutes, Nick had escaped through the back door and was now causing mass destruction throughout the city "Where the hell could Cassie be with the pendant?" Hiei growled under his breath. Kurama on the other hand was mentally slapping himself for letting Cassie go alone this late at night. Just then Cassie ran up with the pendant in her hand. "Here… ..it…..is.." She gasped out of breath .Kurama had noticed that Cassie's normally open jacket was now buttoned up tight. He was just about to question her on it when Cassie looked up at Nick and muttered under her breath "Kusho, looks like I'll have to transform to get the damn thing around her neck." Cassie stepped to the side and said "Uh you two may want to back up .As Renae I have a ten foot wingspan and I don't want to knock you two over." They obeyed and looked on in awe as a pair of fire wings blossomed from Cassie's back and her hair went from brown to red. Her black ensemble went to a red fighting gi with a black belt and a tortoiseshell comb in her hair. She stretched her wings to their full length and flew up to the rampaging dragons head. "This is for your own good Nick" she said as she slammed the black onyx dragon with the ruby eyes onto Nick's neck and flew off towards the boys. She landed next to Kurama and murmured to herself "In 3..2..1".Suddenly there was a glowing light around nick and she was back to normal. Nick stood and ran over to the de-transformed Cassie. "What the hell happened to you ?, You look terrible!" Nick helped Cassie to stand up and took her into the house. Cassie sat down in the big ,fluffy armchair and leaned back as far as she could. "Now that you mention it why do you have your jacket all buttoned up like that? You always leave it open." Nick asked looking at her friend with a worried look .Kurama looked at her ,genuinely concerned. "Please tell us .We 're your friends" .Cassie looked as if she wanted to cry .She took a deep breath and said 'On the way back from Nick's house I almost got raped by the leader of the Hillstreet stranglers." Everyone looked at her shocked. "I took the shortcut through the alley in Sayville Row ,hoping I'd get back here faster." "It just got me into trouble is all it did." She broke down crying "If …If it wasn't for Kiona's help…. I don't know what they'd have done to me!" Nick nodded and put an arm around Cassie ,trying to calm her down She dried her tears and continued, "The reason why my jacket is buttoned up is because when I tried to pull away they ripped my top off." Suddenly Kurama stood and went into the kitchen. Inside he was absolutely fuming. "Why'd I let her go alone? If it wasn't for Kiona then…" He was cut off by Cassie silently padding into the kitchen in her bare feet. "Kurama are you alright?" " I know .Stupid question. But tell me ,would you like to meet Kiona?" He turned and nodded with a smile. She smiled back and let a bluish fog fill the room .When the fog cleared there stood Cassie's savior Kiona .There was some of the blood from the earlier battle on her hands which she quickly wiped away on the black rag nearby. "Thank you for saving Cassie" Kurama said smiling genuinely at her .He was trying to ignore the catcalls that Yoko was shouting in his head that were meant for the beautiful kitsune girl before him . He smirked, knowing one way to shut the fox up . He turned to her and replied "And I think I know someone else who'd like to thank you too."
"Suichi? What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Shutting you up .what else?"
"but-"
Too late .Suichi had switched places with Yoko ,and the fox demon wasn't too happy about it. Kiona laughed at the boy's clever move. Cassie had done the same thing to her once. She advanced on the open mouthed kitsune laughing softly ."Close your mouth,. The fish look doesn't work for you ." He did as he was told ,but still found himself speechless Maybe it was because Kiona was a kitsune like himself and yet she still looked so innocent….or maybe that was just one of Cassie's traits reflecting on her. Who knows? But finally able to find his voice he took a step towards Kiona and said "thank you for saving Cassie .I don't know what I 'd have done if those bakas got to her." Kiona smirked and gave him a quick kiss and pulled back. "No problem ,I'd do anything for that girl anyways. Anyone threatens her and they deal with all three of us .Me ,Renae and Rikiu. " She stepped away and said "well t.t.f.n hope we meet again soon!" As if on cue lots of smoke filled the room and both transformed back to normal humans. Cassie walked back into the living room with Kurama close behind her. She sighed in annoyance when she saw Yusuke and Kuwabara sitting on the floor ,pigging out on HER Doritos! "JUST WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING???!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. "Just eatin was it look like?" Yusuke replied through a mouthful of chips " THOSE ARE MY DORITOS YOU MORON!! YOU'RE DEAD!!!!!!"
After Yusuke and the baka had the living daylights beaten out of them ,Cassie stretched and said "I'm sleepy .Why don't we sleep down here tonight and head for the mall tomorrow? It's Saturday!" Everyone agreed ,including Nick on the condition of that she didn't have to go anywhere NEAR Claire's Everyone agreed and went to sleep .Well so it seemed ,for Cassie and Hiei were already scheming for Nick' s downfall…
"Hiei?"
"What do you want now?"
"Any ideas for tomorrow to plot Nick's downfall?"
"I'll help with dragging her in but the rest is up to you once I knock her out".
"Thanks "Now we'd better close this off before she picks up on it"
"Ok but remember I want one of the pictures"
"Ok"
So everyone drifted off to sleep .Everyone except for Kurama anyway. He silently stole over to where Cassie was sleeping and laid down with her and put one arm around her waist. Feeling extremely comfy, he too drifted off to sleep wondering what tomorrow's day the mall was going to be like…
Me: Wow three pages! That's a lot! Next Chapter is called ,Mall of Horrors and Hello Kuroune! Please read and review!
Kurama: Yes please review her story. She's been working really hard on it and she's under LOTS of stress with school starting and all…
Me : Thank You Kurama you're so sweet !! Any way please review while I go and mellow out for a awhile.