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Disclaimer: We SERIOUSLY own nothing. Niyali doesn't even own her candy anymore. Sugar-depravation is NOT good for an author...nor is it good for the author's best friend! AAAAAH! NIYALI, CALM DOWN!!!
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Chapter Six: The Flying Twerp
From now on, most things take place on Death Isle. If something doesn't, we'll let you know.
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"Here we are!" Botan exclaimed, "Death Isle--Home of the Ohsukah Tournament!"
"Death Isle--it sounds creepy," Keiko said, shivering, "I don't like it." The four girls--Keiko, Botan, Shizuru, and Yukina--had finally found their way to the tournament. Less than a few hours ago, they hadn't even known the boys were fighting in another tournament--but Botan had gotten the information from Koenma and the four of them had come to watch.
"You're sure this is where they're fighting?" Yukina asked, worridly. Botan nodded.
"I can't believe that Koenma," Shizuru said, "Sending our boys to another one of these tournaments without even telling us about it."
"I must admit, Koenma's gone too far this time--not even helping them find the remainder of their team!" Botan said.
"That must be the stadium up ahead," Keiko said, pointing, "I wonder if it's too late for us to get seats?"
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Inside the Stadium
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Arashi's sudden entrance seemed to have surprised and confused everyone. Faye stood dumbly for a moment, microphone limp in her hand, before recovering.
"Well, it looks like we'll have Arashi fighting for Team Urameshi! Fighters, on your mark, get set---BEGIN!"
"I may as well go first," Kitsune announced, and pulled from her sleeve a fan. Twirling it once, she held it level and charged Arashi.
"Too simple," Arashi muttered, and summoned her ki. As Kitsune came closer, and brought the razor-sharp fan down, Arashi jumped and went much higher than it seemed her legs should allow, going up, and up, and up. The now airborne girl did a backflip in midair and came to a halt, looked down at her opponent and grinned madly.
"WOW! It seems that Arashi can fly!" Faye exclaimed, "This probably won't go too well for Kitsune!"
Kurama, waking up at that exact moment, heard the last remark.
:So it was a draw,: he thought, standing up, :Why can't I remember what happened?:
"WOAH!" Kuwabara exclaimed, as he and the rest of Team Urameshi entered the stadium, "She can FLY!"
"She can FLY!" Kozu mimicked, "She can FLY!"
"Be quiet," Yusuke told her, "Hey, KURAMA!" Kurama turned, saw them, and came over to them.
"You're late," he told them.
"Sorry," Yusuke said, putting a hand behind his head and rubbing it sheepishly, "Slept in."
"That's all right," Kurama reassured him.
"At least we got here," Hiei muttered. Kurama chose to ignore him and turned to Niyali.
"What happened to--is that my whip?" Niyali nodded tiredly. She was leaning against Kozu, her arm still bleeding. The blood loss was beginning to affect her. Kurama quickly got down to her height and began uncoiling the whip from her arm.
"What--how did that happen?" he asked, as he worked, "The last thing I remember was you running into Hin."
"Han took hold of your brain," Niyali told him, "Controlled you and had you attack me."
"Oh. How badly did I hurt you?"
"Not too bad," Niyali assured him, "Just my arm, and I won't be seeing out of my eye for a while, BUT--" here she grinned, "I'll be getting back at you for that."
"I'll be sure to be careful."
"He'd better be," Niyali muttered to Kozu, "When we get The Plan underway-oh! I can't wait."
"Me neither," Kozu said, grinning herself, "Me neither."
"Hey, Arashi!" Yusuke yelled, "Are you all right up there?"
"Don't worry about me!" came the cocky response, "I'm just having a wonderful time flying up in the air!"
"She reminds me of that Jin guy," Kuwabara commented, "He could fly too."
"Arashi, like Jin?" Kozu and Niyali stared at him before bursting into laughter, "That's a good one!" Kuwabara looked blank.
"What'd I do?"
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"HAHA!" Arashi called down to Kitsune, "Can't reach me up here, can you?"
"HEY YOU LITTLE TWERP!" Arashi looked into the stands to see Inuyasha leaning over the wall and yelling at her, "GET DOWN INTO THE RING AND FIGHT LIKE A DEMON!" Arashi cocked her head and shot over to him, stopping and hovering right in front of his face.
"And you would be?" she asked pleasantly.
"Inuyasha and that's MY GIRLFRIEND you're battling!"
"Inuyasha...dog demon? Oh, EARS!" Arashi began tweaking Inuyasha's ears happily, chanting hyperly, "Tweak tweak tweak tweak tweak..." as she did so. Kitsune's face turned a bright red with anger, and she threw her fan through the air towards Arashi, who was still happily tweaking.
"ARASHI LOOK OUT!" Yusuke yelled. Arashi turned and saw the fan coming straight towards her. In front of her eyes, the fan shimmered and changed into a whirling blade of boomerang, which caught Arashi across the chest. Arashi gave a scream of pain and fell to the ground, clutching her stomach. The boomerang returned to Kitsune, who caught it, a smile on her face.
"Wow peoples!" Faye said, excitedly, "It looks like Kitsune's fan is really some sort of shape-changing weapon that can morph into whatever the user wants it to!"
"Dang right," Kitsune said, "Pretty hard to beat that, isn't it?" Arashi struggled to her feet, her arm protectively around her stomach.
"Hey, there's something I don't get," Kuwabara asked, "If Arashi can control the air, why couldn't she just make a wall of air so the weapon couldn't reach her, kind of like what Jin did with Urameshi's Spirit Gun?"
"Because, you baka," Hiei said, "Arashi can't exactly control the air."
"What? But she can fly!" Yusuke said, "Isn't that controlling the air?"
"It's just an added perk," Kozu said, "She can't do it for very long, of course, but she can!"
"Oh, she's out of the ring! I forgot," Faye said, "One! Two!" Arashi smiled through her pain.
"Don't worry," she gasped, "I'm not out yet." She jumped back into the ring, not to risk flying again. That had taken a lot of energy--but still, she hadn't been able to resist showing off just a little bit.
"And she's back!" Faye said, "The fight continues!"
"My turn!" Arashi exclaimed. She closed her eyes to better concentrate what power she had left. Thunderclouds gathered overhead. Lightning flashed, and one fork came directly into the ring, landing right in front of Kitsune, frying the edge of her kimono. She leapt back with a yell.
"I have my own powers," Arashi said, smugly. With a little release of energy, the clouds released all they were holding, which happened to be not rain, but hail.
"OW!" Faye exclaimed, as she got hit by a hailstone, "Those things are HUGE! Those of you who aren't sitting under a cover, I suggest you move or else get serious bruises! Ow!" Team Rose hurried to just inside their entrance, where they could watch without getting stoned to death. Hiei, who was used to Arashi's hailstorms, put up a shield around Team Urameshi, careful to exclude Kuwabara and he WOULD have excluded Niyali, had the now-unconscious girl not been laying half in Kozu's lap.
Arashi laughed.
"You can't find me in all this hail, can you?" she called tauntingly, "You can't find me, you can't find me, you can't find me---"
"FOUND YOU!" Kitsune came hurtling through the hail, hand extended, claws at the ready. Arashi leapt backwards, but the claws grazed her arm, and she bit back a cry of pain. The hail ceased.
"Poison Sakura Slash," Kitsune said, looking at her claws proudly, "Now let's see, you're a...demon, correct? Yes, well, then I guess you've got about ten minutes to live. Actually, more like nine and a half now." Arashi growled.
"Arashi?" Kozu called, hesitantly, "Are you all right?" Arashi didn't answer, she was, for once, too busy thinking.
:Ok, ten minutes to beat her. Actually, probably less, because I need to find a cure. I don't want to die! What am I going to do?:
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Arashi: HEY! NIYALI! How could you just leave off at a cliffie like that? I don't want to die!
Niyali: *small voice* Candy.
Arashi: Hey, I've sensed a pattern here...both you and me, in our battles, had the same troubles as to what to do with our opponents!
Niyali: *smaller, tear-filled voice* candy.
Arashi: Is that all you wrote?
Niyali: *whispers* candy.
Arashi: *sighs* Fine. *pops Jolly Rancher into Niyali's mouth*
Niyali: CANDY! *sucks happily*
Arashi: NOW will you finish the chapter?
Niyali: Ok! *moves over to computer, looks thoughtful for a moment, starts typing like crazy*
Arashi: Back to the chapter, here you go!
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Kitsune was laughing, her fan held to her chest as she shook with laughter at Arashi's state. Arashi's eyes narrowed.
:That's it!: In a blur, she had raced over to Kitsune, grabbed the fan, and back to her original position. Kitsune blinked.
"Hey...gimme that back!"
"You said it becomes whatever the user wants it to?" Arashi said, and thought. The fan became a sword. "COOL!"
"GIVE THAT BACK!"
"No!" Arashi took to the air, watching the fan switch weapons. Sword, bow, boomerang, katana, dagger, axe, mace, and finally, a large rubber hammer.
"AWESOME! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED ONE OF THESE!" Arashi zoomed down and whacked Kitsune on the head with it.
"OW!!"
"Oh, wait, it probably shouldn't be rubber," Arashi said, and the hammer became wood. "That's better." She whacked Kitsune again, and the hanyou fell to the ground, out like a light.
"WOW! What an amazing comeback! I'll take a ten count! One!" Arashi came back to the ground, looking at the mallet in her hands.
"Wow," she muttered, "I feel...I don't know..."
"Five! Six!"
"I feel...like I need...to..."
"Eight! Nine! Ten! And Arashi is the winner!"
"WHACK SOMEONE!" Arashi turned to Faye and promptly hit her over the head with the hammer. Faye was knocked unconscious and fell down next to Kitsune.
"Ok," Arashi said, tossing the mallet (which became a fan again) on top of Kitsune, "Impulse gone." There was a silence.
"ARASHI!" Kozu yelled, "IN CASE YOU'VE FORGOTTEN, YOU'VE ONLY GOT ABOUT THREE MINUTES LEFT TO LIVE!" Arashi screamed and leapt out of the ring, running around in circles.
"AAAAAAAAAAH! I'M GOING TO DIE I'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNADIEI'MGONNA-hey!" As she ran by, Kurama had seized her arm and pushed a seed into the open wound on her arm.
"Death seed," he told her, "It will suck out the poison, and in turn the poison will kill the plant. You'll be good as new." Arashi's eyes widened.
"This feels...really weird..." she said, slowly, "I've got a plant inside me..."
"Now you know how I feel," Niyali muttered, "Every single day. Did 'ja win?"
"Only by a whole lot!" Arashi exclaimed, "It was great! She slashed me and I was all poisoned and everything and then she had a weapon that could become any type of weapon and then--" Arashi babbled on about her fight to Niyali, who was watching her intently and hanging on her every word. Hiei smirked and muttered something unintelligible.
"What was that?" Kurama asked him.
"Nothing, kitsune."
"Uh, guys," Kuwabara said, "We've got another problem...who's going to fight next?"
"Hn. I'll fight," Hiei said, and walked forwards.
"Go HIEI!" Arashi cheered, "You're the BEST!"
"Hn. I know I am. Now shut up."
"Ok."
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Team Rose
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"HOW COULD WE LOSE AGAIN!?" Aries roared, "THIS ISN'T HAPPENING!"
"If you're so confident," Inumiko told her, "Then why don't you go fight?" Aries stared at her for a moment before smiling coldly.
"Why not?" she said, softly, "We may actually start winning." Turning, she herself headed for the ring, where Hiei was already waiting. The third battle was ready to begin---except for one thing.
Faye was still out cold on the ground.
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Well, there you go! Chapter Six! If Niyali gets some candy, you'll get Chapter Seven!