Chapter 6.

"Wow that was so awesome!" Abbey said as Alex walked off the platform and a couple of demons carried Cami off.

"I've seen better but that was cool," Sakura answered.

"Number 56 and number 678" the speaker called out.

"Yay, I get to fight again," Abbey smiled and walked down to the platform. At the same time a girl was walking to it as well. She was about 5'6 with waist length silver hair with black tips at the ends that were tied into a low ponytail with a red ribbon that had a black dragon on it. She was wearing a red Gi and a black hakama with a breastplate on the front also with a red dragon painted across it. On top of her head were what appeared to be fox ears, and she had a long silver fox tail that hung down past her knees and a log dog tail that was over her shoulder. "Ah cool. What type of demon are you?" Abbey asked as the girl stepped on to the platform.

"I am part dog, part fox, and part dragon demon. My name is Ashiko TashiWaki," the girl answered.

Ashiko tashiwatti?" Abbey asked confused.

"TashiWaki," the Ashiko corrected her.

"Yeah ok. My name is Abbey Webb. That's so cool that you're all those things. And your eyes, their like blue and red" Abbey smiled as she looked at her eyes. The left one was a blood red color while the right one was ice blue.

Ashiko smiled and held out her hand and shook abbeys when she took it, "thank you."

"It's time to begin the fight!" a guy yelled from the audience.

"BITE ME!" Abbey yelled back.

"Well I guess it is time to fight," Ashiko commented.

"Very well. May the best fighter win," Abbey nodded and took a fighting position.

"Don't worry, I will," Ashiko took her stance. The girls momentarily just stood there, measuring up the other person. Abbey broke the tedious moment by lunging forward striking at Ashiko but noticed that she was gone.

"What the hell?" Abbey looked around to see Ashiko standing right behind her smiling.

"Dang, I forgot your fast," Abbey smiled.

"You have been watching me fight? Interesting, I've been watching you too," Ashiko said as they started to circle each other.

"Yeah. Gives you an advantage if you watch the fights. You learn moves and skills and how the other people fight," Abbey said never taking her eyes off the other girl. Ashiko swiftly pounced at Abbey swiping at her and cutting her arm.

"Oww," Abbey whimpered as she put her hand on her now bleeding arm. Ashiko smiled and lunged forward again but Abbey ducked and kicked out tripping her and sent her tumbling across the platform. Abbey pounced on her punching her as Ashiko fought back by kicking and scratching and throwing in some punches when able.

"Wow, look at them fight!" Sakura said leaning over the rail watching the fighters.

"Oww poor Abbey. Those nails have to hurt. Oww poor Ashiko, I know that punch to the nose hurt," Kairi announced. Ashiko stood facing Abbey. Both of them breathing heavily and bleeding. Suddenly Ashiko smiled and raised her hand up pointing at Abbey.

"Uh.. Hello to you too," Abbey asked mistaking Ashiko. Ashiko muttered something under her breath and her arm started to glow as what looked like a fox came out of her hand.

"Fox spirit," she said simply as Abbey gawked at it. The fox jumped at Abbey going straight through her with out harming her. "What's it supposed to do?" Abbey questioned as she poked at the fox. "It steals your soul and drags it to the afterlife," ashiko answered. "Cool," Abbey smiled. The fox leapt at Abbey several times with no results. Finally it disappeared back into Ashiko's hand.

"Your heart is pure," Ashiko said looking at Abbey with a mixture of awe and irritation. She had never met a fighter with a good heart, let alone a pure one.

"Yeah that's what people tell me," Abbey smiled.

"Very well try this," Ashiko sneered and help up her hand again as she muttered, "dogs of the seven hells."

"What is that...? AHHH!" Abbey screamed as seven dogs emerged from Ashiko's hand made purely of fire and started chasing her around trying to burn her.

"This..OW...isn't..OWW..FAIR!" Abbey screamed as the dogs kept biting her burning her clothes and skin. Ashiko just stood there looking amused.

"Come on call them back or are you too scared to fight me by yourself?" Abbey yelled accusingly at her. Ashiko stopped smiling and summoned the dogs back.

"I am scared of no one."

"Oh yeah that's why you have to use some lame magic tricks to win. You're no fighter. A fighter is one that can fight with their strength and mind. And if you use a few magic skills that's ok but relying on it to make you win is just the easy way out," Abbey shot at her. Wrong thing to say as well. Ashiko looked thoroughly ticked now as her body began to shake. The wind picked up around the arena and a foreboding dark energy seemed to fill the air. She looked like she was in a tremendous amount of pain as the face of a dragon appeared in front of hers showing its razor sharp fangs. It slowly started to pull out of Ashiko's body and stand on the platform. It was about 12 feet high and was red, black, and gold colored.

"Whoa, big dragon, pretty dragon," Abbey smiled lightly backing away slowly.

"Dragon reaper," Hiei said watching from the side.

"Abbeys going to have a lot of trouble beating it," Kurama said quietly beside Hiei.

"She cant beat it. She doesn't have enough strength to match the dragon to force it back into Ashiko," Hiei shook his head.

"How do you know about this move?" Koenma asked on the other side of Kurama.

"I've seen it done before. Along time ago and I never wanted to see it again," Hiei said quietly.

"What does it do?" Koenma asked further.

"Attacks its victims and devours their soul. Then it rips their bodies apart and feasts on the flesh. It's almost impossible to beat," Hiei explained watching Abbey run around the platform trying to get away from the dragon. She was almost in tears from all the claw marks the dragon was giving her while trying to catch her. 'Ow this freaking hurts,' Abbey thought as she continued to run around. "Having fun?" Ashiko asked just standing there laughing. "Tons," Abbey answered back.

"I'm sure your friends will have fun with it too once I get to fight them. No one can beat me," Ashiko laughed. Abbey just stopped right where she was. Ashiko had hit her last nerve. No one messes with her friends and gets away with it, no one! Abbeys body suddenly started glowing a light blue color as her eyes stared at Ashiko.

"Oh now your going to fight. Get her!" Ashiko yelled at the dragon. The dragon stepped forward, licking its fangs like it could already taste abbeys pale skin in its mouth, her blood sliding down its throat. The dragon swiped at her, cutting deep into her shoulder but Abbey didn't even wince. She could feel a deep well of energy building up inside her as her body began to glow a darker blue color. Abbey couldn't explain what happened next. Her mind was blank as she raised her hands up crossing them at the wrist. All her energy draining into them powering up into a single, powerful energy ball. She aimed at the dragon hitting it square in the chest with a great force and sent it flying straight back and into Ashiko's body. Ashiko doubled over in pain. Tears springing to her eyes as the dragon disappeared into her body. Ashiko glared at Abbey evilly and started toward her and tried to punch her but Abbey blocked everything with out even trying. Finally Abbey struck out hitting Ashiko in the back of her head and kicked her out of the arena. Ashiko fell unconscious to the ground about 28 feet away from the platform.

"The winner is number 56!" the speaker yelled out. Abbey didn't smile, didn't even make a move to walk off the platform. The blue glow faded slowly from her body as she collapsed to the ground completely drained of energy.