YAY! FIGHTS! Dunno how long this fight will be, but yins get to see Kris'
attacks now! WOO! I apologize, but I suck at writing battle scenes. FORGIVE
ME!!!!!!!!!!!! *on hands and knees begging*
Ghost and Shadow 11: Shadow Blood Stem
The group looked towards where the arrow came from, and saw an abnormally large group of lower level demons. Each demon was equipped with a sword and shield, and each was ready to charge.
"And here I was thinking this trip was going to be boring," Yusuke said as he cracked his knuckles. Around him the others also were warming up. Kurama had his whip in hand, Hiei and Kris had their swords at the ready. Touya was warming up a batch of Shards of Winter, and Jin had a Tornado Fist going. "Let's go, don't want to be rude."
They charged at the demons just outside their barrier. 'Best get them before they get you,' thought Kurama, brandishing his whip at the nearest demon.
There were too many to count, so the group just attacked whomever they saw first. Hiei, because he was the fastest, was far ahead of the others and already hacking away with his katana. His tactic for this battle was to jump into a large group of demons and then have them attack his after image. While they tried to attack a him that wasn't there, he would run along the outside of their circle and chop off their heads. Before they all fell over, he was on to the next group. (A/N: a very effective method, no?)
Jin confused his group of demons by flying in circles around their heads. Then he'd just punch them quite a few times until they were unconscious. Touya's technique was very similar, except he didn't punch he threw shards of winter attacks.
Kurama lashed out at the first group of demons he saw with his whip. Very soon, no demons were around him, leaving Kurama to observe what the others were doing. 'Looks like Hiei and the others are almost done. Now, where'd Kris go?' He turned in a circle, surveying the scene for any sign of the other Youko. Kurama let his eyes pass over the area a few times until he realized what he was seeing.
Kris was near the edge of the forest, both katanas glinting in the light. There was a large pile of bodies around her, but there was a larger group of living ones in front of her. They advanced in on her in a single group, an overwhelming force for any average demon.
"Uh, Kurama?" Yusuke asked, walking over to his friend, almost tripping over some bodies in the process. "Should we help her?"
"No," Kurama smiled and shook his head. "If I know her, this'll be a piece of cake. Watch."
Kris looked up and saw the large grouping in front of her. She flashed them a charming smile which stopped the demons dead in their tracks. They didn't have time to react when a sword ripped through half their number, skewering them like a shish kabob. The other half were chopped into little bits by Kris' other blade. Kris chopped them right down a line, never ceasing movement. When she finally arrived at the last one, she reached down and grabbed her other sword and killed the final demon with two.
"Wow," Yusuke let out a low whistle as Kris approached them. She looked over at him and Yusuke gave her a small round of applause. "I've never seen anything quite like that. Not even from Hiei, and he's supposed to be a blade master."
"Hn," Despite Hiei's normal glare, Kurama could detect an air of respect around him.
"I see you haven't lost your touch." Kurama nodded in her direction, a sign of his acknowledgement.
"Heh. I told you I'd work at it. I keep my promises." Kris playfully gave Kurama a light slap on the face. "Besides, this fight isn't over yet."
"Hmm. There's a new smell in the air."
"Someone with an abnormally large amount of spirit energy," Yusuke observed. "This our guy?"
"No." Hiei spoke, startling everyone slightly. Yusuke more than the two Youkos. "This guy doesn't have nearly enough power to be capable of the amount of damage the spirit world has kept track of. But I think he's a subordinate to our guy."
"Hiei speaks." Kurama looked at Hiei and then off into the distance, past the field and over a small hill. "He's here."
A figure appeared over the crest of the hill. With the sunset in the background, it was a very dramatic scene indeed. From what their eyes could see, this figure had a large black cloak wrapped around it's body, and that was all that was discernable.
"Interesting. This is going to be very interesting," the two Youkos chorused, amused smiles on their faces.
"Well, I wouldn't doubt that." Jin said, hovering just above their heads. He had his eyes shielded against the sun, trying to make out more of the figure.
"Don't look into the sun, you'll go blind." Touya warned Jin, grabbing the wind master's leg and pulling him out of the air.
"Oof! Why do you always do that to me?!"
"Because it's funny to see you fall on you butt every so often. Boosts my self esteem." Touya said with a smirk, and then focused all his attention on the figure approaching them.
When the figure was about 50 yards away from them, it was realized that the figure was not a he, but a she. The woman was very tall, and that was all that could be distinguished. The cloak covered everything else on her body, head to foot. There was just a slit for eyes on the hood, but all they could see was a blackness beyond the slice.
"Are you the reception for me? How nice." The voice coming from the cloak had a slightly tinny quality to it. Her voice was emotionless and had no other qualities about it except for the tinny sound. "I am Zarkia, and my mission is to pass on a message and then annihilate the spirit detectives and allies."
"Oh, that's nice." Yusuke said sarcastically, "What's the message so we can get to the butt-kicking faster?"
"The message is for just one of you." Zarkia's voice suddenly turned into something more like a recording. " 'Long time, no see. You shall never beat me. The past is where the true enemy lies, and one or the other must die.' " Zarkia's voice returned to it's normal tone, if one could call it normal. "That is all. Now, I must kill you all."
"Wait, could you play that again?!" Yusuke asked. "You lost me after the first rhyme!"
"Yeah, me too," Jin was hanging upside-down in the air, scratching his head with a confused look on his face. "All I caught was something about the true enemy being in the past or something like that."
Kurama was the only one not pondering over the message. It had made perfect sense to him, because it had been directed at him. "So I must fight him, then," he whispered to himself. No one heard him because they were all talking amongst themselves. Then Kurama realized that Zarkia was pulling something out from under her robes. "Uh, guys? I think it's time to fight now."
"Wha-? Oh, ok." Yusuke powered up, same with Hiei, Touya and Jin. Kurama was already powered up, and Kris just grabbed her swords.
"I will complete my mission. Final segment begins now." Zarkia attacked, a large claymore swinging from her hands. It was only then that they all realized that Zarkia had thick gloves on. No skin was showing as she swung her hands with the claymore.
"Whoa!" Touya barely leapt out of the way as the large sword nearly chopped him in two.
"Do not run. It shall make you harder to kill."
"As if!" Yusuke shouted, pointing his spirit gun at her and firing. He clearly thought it was a direct hit, so what happened next shocked him.
Zarkia lifted up her left arm and blocked the spirit bullet. Blocked it completely, there was no sign of impact at all on her arm. The bullet ricocheted off her arm and hit Yusuke squarely in the chest. Yusuke had no idea that his spirit bullet packed such a punch, so the shock of the impact knocked him unconscious.
"One down. 5 to go." Zarkia's next lunge was directed at Touya again. This time, though, she moved so fast that he didn't see her until the last minute. Then it was too late. The sword jabbed through him, impaling him with a spray of blood. She yanked the sword out of him, and then kicked Touya away from her. Blood got on her cloak, but she didn't care.
"4 more."
"Hey, bitch! Have some of this!" Jin had whirled up a tornado fist and was flying fast at Zarkia.
"Pest. Why don't you give up?" Zarkia held up the claymore parallel to her body. Due to the width of the blade, Jin thought the attack would snap the blade in two and then go on to make contact with her body. But, apparently, that blade was made out of tougher stuff than he thought. His attack struck the blade and bounced back at him, knocking him out of the air. Zarkia took advantage of his brief daze and struck him with the broad side of the sword. Jin was flung backwards into a tree and was instantly knocked out. "3."
"How is she doing this?!" Hiei starred at his fallen comrades. He felt a rage build up in him like never before. Hiei normally kept all emotion in check, because when he let it get the best of him, all rational thought was lost. And that was what was happening to him now. Hiei let out a rather scary war cry and charged at Zarkia, using all his speed to get at her faster.
"They just keep coming like flies." Zarkia easily dodged Hiei, sending the Jaganshi flying 50 yards past her.
"Stay still!" he turned around and ran back at the woman, sending all his energy into his next assault.
"This isn't good." Kurama said, looking at Hiei with wide eyes. "He's using up all his energy just to get at Zarkia. He won't have enough left over to slash at her sufficiently with his sword."
"So you're basically saying he's screwed; can't win." Kris had he hands on her hips, her face an emotionless mask. Kurama also had a mask like that on, the only thing betraying his emotion were his eyes. "Looks like this fight's gonna be up to us. You team always have these issues with fighting together?"
"We haven't really ever fought with Jin and Touya before," Kurama stated, watching as Hiei slowed down in his assault little by little. Hiei was lasting longer than anyone else who tried. Yusuke was just waking up, but he wouldn't be moving anytime soon. "Yusuke and Hiei normally do their own thing. Well, that's how we're used to fighting; separately."
"Huh. Well, Hiei just lost." Indeed he had. Hiei had slowed down to the point where he didn't leave an after-image anymore. Zarkia noticed that and followed him with her eyes. When he got close enough, she punched him and then stabbed him in the shoulder with the sword. Kicking the injured Jaganshi aside, she pointed at Kurama and Kris.
"2 left."
Kris just sighed and turned to Kurama. "Together or separate?"
"Together. Odds of surviving higher." Kurama pulled a rose out of his hair and turned it into his trademark whip. "You still can't manipulate plants, can you?"
"Nope, but I have something that makes up for it," Kris unsheathed he swords and started at Zarkia. Then she turned and said, "You already know that."
"Yeah, I do." Kurama followed Kris, each one formulating where to move first so the other could have an opportunity to strike. "You go right, I go left."
"Got it." Kris ran quickly to the right side of Zarkia, while Kurama mirrored her actions.
"Double trouble. I'll kill you both in one strike." Zarkia lifted up her sword and muttered something under her breath. The blade of the sword burst into cool blue flame. It was now the only true light on the field because the sun had long since disappeared beyond the horizon. She pointed the blade away from her at the two Youkos and the flame burst out and shot right at them.
"Ugh! Looks like we got a fiery bitch," Kris screamed as she jumped to the side, barely dodging the blue fire-ball. It singed the hem of her dress.
"Ow!" Kurama had also narrowly dodged the fire-ball, but it hit his left ankle and knocked him to the ground.
"You ok?"
"Yeah," Kurama struggled to get up and stood on a shaky leg. "I think it's sprained, though."
"Little pest must be exterminated." Zarkia fired up another blue- flame attack, this time the attack was aimed directly at Kurama.
"Not good." Kurama attempted to limp away, but could barely take a step before crashing to the ground again. "Definitely not good."
"After you there shall be only one." Zarkia sent the flame right at Kurama, and it hit him head on. Kurama flew through the air and landed in a heap on the ground 15 feet away.
"Kurama! You alive?" Kris ran over to her fallen friend, and saw he was trying to get up. "I see you are alive."
"Really? Couldn't tell," Kurama managed to sit up after several failed attempts. "Ow, I'm going to feel this in the morning."
"Grr."
"Uh, Kris? I know that look. You're going to do something stupid, aren't you?"
Kurama couldn't get another word out of his mouth, and it any of his fallen comrades were trying to move, they would have suddenly found themselves unable. The air was brimming with a new energy, radiating from the Shadow Youko.
"What? I do not know what this is." Zarkia starred at the only one standing, puzzled.
"Ready to rock?" Kris held up her left arm and a deep purple light collected in her palm. When the orb of light got to the size of a basketball, she lowered her arm and pointed it at Zarkia. "Rose Blood Stem!"
Suddenly the whole field and the outskirts of the forest were bathed in a deep purple light.
Ok, that's enough. Please review, this battle isn't over yet. What else can Kris do? And exactly what is Zarkia? Remember, she still has that cloak on. Review, and the chappie shall come out sooner, and I apologized for this one taking so long.
Ghost and Shadow 11: Shadow Blood Stem
The group looked towards where the arrow came from, and saw an abnormally large group of lower level demons. Each demon was equipped with a sword and shield, and each was ready to charge.
"And here I was thinking this trip was going to be boring," Yusuke said as he cracked his knuckles. Around him the others also were warming up. Kurama had his whip in hand, Hiei and Kris had their swords at the ready. Touya was warming up a batch of Shards of Winter, and Jin had a Tornado Fist going. "Let's go, don't want to be rude."
They charged at the demons just outside their barrier. 'Best get them before they get you,' thought Kurama, brandishing his whip at the nearest demon.
There were too many to count, so the group just attacked whomever they saw first. Hiei, because he was the fastest, was far ahead of the others and already hacking away with his katana. His tactic for this battle was to jump into a large group of demons and then have them attack his after image. While they tried to attack a him that wasn't there, he would run along the outside of their circle and chop off their heads. Before they all fell over, he was on to the next group. (A/N: a very effective method, no?)
Jin confused his group of demons by flying in circles around their heads. Then he'd just punch them quite a few times until they were unconscious. Touya's technique was very similar, except he didn't punch he threw shards of winter attacks.
Kurama lashed out at the first group of demons he saw with his whip. Very soon, no demons were around him, leaving Kurama to observe what the others were doing. 'Looks like Hiei and the others are almost done. Now, where'd Kris go?' He turned in a circle, surveying the scene for any sign of the other Youko. Kurama let his eyes pass over the area a few times until he realized what he was seeing.
Kris was near the edge of the forest, both katanas glinting in the light. There was a large pile of bodies around her, but there was a larger group of living ones in front of her. They advanced in on her in a single group, an overwhelming force for any average demon.
"Uh, Kurama?" Yusuke asked, walking over to his friend, almost tripping over some bodies in the process. "Should we help her?"
"No," Kurama smiled and shook his head. "If I know her, this'll be a piece of cake. Watch."
Kris looked up and saw the large grouping in front of her. She flashed them a charming smile which stopped the demons dead in their tracks. They didn't have time to react when a sword ripped through half their number, skewering them like a shish kabob. The other half were chopped into little bits by Kris' other blade. Kris chopped them right down a line, never ceasing movement. When she finally arrived at the last one, she reached down and grabbed her other sword and killed the final demon with two.
"Wow," Yusuke let out a low whistle as Kris approached them. She looked over at him and Yusuke gave her a small round of applause. "I've never seen anything quite like that. Not even from Hiei, and he's supposed to be a blade master."
"Hn," Despite Hiei's normal glare, Kurama could detect an air of respect around him.
"I see you haven't lost your touch." Kurama nodded in her direction, a sign of his acknowledgement.
"Heh. I told you I'd work at it. I keep my promises." Kris playfully gave Kurama a light slap on the face. "Besides, this fight isn't over yet."
"Hmm. There's a new smell in the air."
"Someone with an abnormally large amount of spirit energy," Yusuke observed. "This our guy?"
"No." Hiei spoke, startling everyone slightly. Yusuke more than the two Youkos. "This guy doesn't have nearly enough power to be capable of the amount of damage the spirit world has kept track of. But I think he's a subordinate to our guy."
"Hiei speaks." Kurama looked at Hiei and then off into the distance, past the field and over a small hill. "He's here."
A figure appeared over the crest of the hill. With the sunset in the background, it was a very dramatic scene indeed. From what their eyes could see, this figure had a large black cloak wrapped around it's body, and that was all that was discernable.
"Interesting. This is going to be very interesting," the two Youkos chorused, amused smiles on their faces.
"Well, I wouldn't doubt that." Jin said, hovering just above their heads. He had his eyes shielded against the sun, trying to make out more of the figure.
"Don't look into the sun, you'll go blind." Touya warned Jin, grabbing the wind master's leg and pulling him out of the air.
"Oof! Why do you always do that to me?!"
"Because it's funny to see you fall on you butt every so often. Boosts my self esteem." Touya said with a smirk, and then focused all his attention on the figure approaching them.
When the figure was about 50 yards away from them, it was realized that the figure was not a he, but a she. The woman was very tall, and that was all that could be distinguished. The cloak covered everything else on her body, head to foot. There was just a slit for eyes on the hood, but all they could see was a blackness beyond the slice.
"Are you the reception for me? How nice." The voice coming from the cloak had a slightly tinny quality to it. Her voice was emotionless and had no other qualities about it except for the tinny sound. "I am Zarkia, and my mission is to pass on a message and then annihilate the spirit detectives and allies."
"Oh, that's nice." Yusuke said sarcastically, "What's the message so we can get to the butt-kicking faster?"
"The message is for just one of you." Zarkia's voice suddenly turned into something more like a recording. " 'Long time, no see. You shall never beat me. The past is where the true enemy lies, and one or the other must die.' " Zarkia's voice returned to it's normal tone, if one could call it normal. "That is all. Now, I must kill you all."
"Wait, could you play that again?!" Yusuke asked. "You lost me after the first rhyme!"
"Yeah, me too," Jin was hanging upside-down in the air, scratching his head with a confused look on his face. "All I caught was something about the true enemy being in the past or something like that."
Kurama was the only one not pondering over the message. It had made perfect sense to him, because it had been directed at him. "So I must fight him, then," he whispered to himself. No one heard him because they were all talking amongst themselves. Then Kurama realized that Zarkia was pulling something out from under her robes. "Uh, guys? I think it's time to fight now."
"Wha-? Oh, ok." Yusuke powered up, same with Hiei, Touya and Jin. Kurama was already powered up, and Kris just grabbed her swords.
"I will complete my mission. Final segment begins now." Zarkia attacked, a large claymore swinging from her hands. It was only then that they all realized that Zarkia had thick gloves on. No skin was showing as she swung her hands with the claymore.
"Whoa!" Touya barely leapt out of the way as the large sword nearly chopped him in two.
"Do not run. It shall make you harder to kill."
"As if!" Yusuke shouted, pointing his spirit gun at her and firing. He clearly thought it was a direct hit, so what happened next shocked him.
Zarkia lifted up her left arm and blocked the spirit bullet. Blocked it completely, there was no sign of impact at all on her arm. The bullet ricocheted off her arm and hit Yusuke squarely in the chest. Yusuke had no idea that his spirit bullet packed such a punch, so the shock of the impact knocked him unconscious.
"One down. 5 to go." Zarkia's next lunge was directed at Touya again. This time, though, she moved so fast that he didn't see her until the last minute. Then it was too late. The sword jabbed through him, impaling him with a spray of blood. She yanked the sword out of him, and then kicked Touya away from her. Blood got on her cloak, but she didn't care.
"4 more."
"Hey, bitch! Have some of this!" Jin had whirled up a tornado fist and was flying fast at Zarkia.
"Pest. Why don't you give up?" Zarkia held up the claymore parallel to her body. Due to the width of the blade, Jin thought the attack would snap the blade in two and then go on to make contact with her body. But, apparently, that blade was made out of tougher stuff than he thought. His attack struck the blade and bounced back at him, knocking him out of the air. Zarkia took advantage of his brief daze and struck him with the broad side of the sword. Jin was flung backwards into a tree and was instantly knocked out. "3."
"How is she doing this?!" Hiei starred at his fallen comrades. He felt a rage build up in him like never before. Hiei normally kept all emotion in check, because when he let it get the best of him, all rational thought was lost. And that was what was happening to him now. Hiei let out a rather scary war cry and charged at Zarkia, using all his speed to get at her faster.
"They just keep coming like flies." Zarkia easily dodged Hiei, sending the Jaganshi flying 50 yards past her.
"Stay still!" he turned around and ran back at the woman, sending all his energy into his next assault.
"This isn't good." Kurama said, looking at Hiei with wide eyes. "He's using up all his energy just to get at Zarkia. He won't have enough left over to slash at her sufficiently with his sword."
"So you're basically saying he's screwed; can't win." Kris had he hands on her hips, her face an emotionless mask. Kurama also had a mask like that on, the only thing betraying his emotion were his eyes. "Looks like this fight's gonna be up to us. You team always have these issues with fighting together?"
"We haven't really ever fought with Jin and Touya before," Kurama stated, watching as Hiei slowed down in his assault little by little. Hiei was lasting longer than anyone else who tried. Yusuke was just waking up, but he wouldn't be moving anytime soon. "Yusuke and Hiei normally do their own thing. Well, that's how we're used to fighting; separately."
"Huh. Well, Hiei just lost." Indeed he had. Hiei had slowed down to the point where he didn't leave an after-image anymore. Zarkia noticed that and followed him with her eyes. When he got close enough, she punched him and then stabbed him in the shoulder with the sword. Kicking the injured Jaganshi aside, she pointed at Kurama and Kris.
"2 left."
Kris just sighed and turned to Kurama. "Together or separate?"
"Together. Odds of surviving higher." Kurama pulled a rose out of his hair and turned it into his trademark whip. "You still can't manipulate plants, can you?"
"Nope, but I have something that makes up for it," Kris unsheathed he swords and started at Zarkia. Then she turned and said, "You already know that."
"Yeah, I do." Kurama followed Kris, each one formulating where to move first so the other could have an opportunity to strike. "You go right, I go left."
"Got it." Kris ran quickly to the right side of Zarkia, while Kurama mirrored her actions.
"Double trouble. I'll kill you both in one strike." Zarkia lifted up her sword and muttered something under her breath. The blade of the sword burst into cool blue flame. It was now the only true light on the field because the sun had long since disappeared beyond the horizon. She pointed the blade away from her at the two Youkos and the flame burst out and shot right at them.
"Ugh! Looks like we got a fiery bitch," Kris screamed as she jumped to the side, barely dodging the blue fire-ball. It singed the hem of her dress.
"Ow!" Kurama had also narrowly dodged the fire-ball, but it hit his left ankle and knocked him to the ground.
"You ok?"
"Yeah," Kurama struggled to get up and stood on a shaky leg. "I think it's sprained, though."
"Little pest must be exterminated." Zarkia fired up another blue- flame attack, this time the attack was aimed directly at Kurama.
"Not good." Kurama attempted to limp away, but could barely take a step before crashing to the ground again. "Definitely not good."
"After you there shall be only one." Zarkia sent the flame right at Kurama, and it hit him head on. Kurama flew through the air and landed in a heap on the ground 15 feet away.
"Kurama! You alive?" Kris ran over to her fallen friend, and saw he was trying to get up. "I see you are alive."
"Really? Couldn't tell," Kurama managed to sit up after several failed attempts. "Ow, I'm going to feel this in the morning."
"Grr."
"Uh, Kris? I know that look. You're going to do something stupid, aren't you?"
Kurama couldn't get another word out of his mouth, and it any of his fallen comrades were trying to move, they would have suddenly found themselves unable. The air was brimming with a new energy, radiating from the Shadow Youko.
"What? I do not know what this is." Zarkia starred at the only one standing, puzzled.
"Ready to rock?" Kris held up her left arm and a deep purple light collected in her palm. When the orb of light got to the size of a basketball, she lowered her arm and pointed it at Zarkia. "Rose Blood Stem!"
Suddenly the whole field and the outskirts of the forest were bathed in a deep purple light.
Ok, that's enough. Please review, this battle isn't over yet. What else can Kris do? And exactly what is Zarkia? Remember, she still has that cloak on. Review, and the chappie shall come out sooner, and I apologized for this one taking so long.