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The Unchosen Path II
Chapter 2: As if Things Could Get Worse
Firestar: I didn't think we'd ever make it THIS far!
WindEmpress: Well we did, and if you don't cut the act then-
Firestar: "Nothin' but cowboy boots/ Sexual spirit free!"
WindEmpress: You're going to die REALLY young!
Firestar: Oh, now you're a fortune teller?
WindEmpress: . . .
Firestar: There was supposed to be a point behind that . . .
"You cannot take them!" Aris said with surprise.
"And why can't we?" Kuwabara asked.
Ken'oshi jumped up. "Because they're our property!"
"EWWWWW!" Alexia said. "I AM NOT!"
Everyone's eyes went wide when they heard her speak. Angel moved five feet from her and didn't dare look at her.
"Are you sure we got the right people?" Yusuke asked as he watched the two.
Botan (Firestar: When did she show up?) flipped through her notes. "They look like the right people . . ."
"They look like the right people?" Hiei asked turning to her with irritation.
"Yeah, 'cause she's all wrong," Kuwabara said.
"I heard that!" Alexia called to him. She moved over to Angel and shrunk behind her back.
"Get away from me you pervert!" Angel said pushing away Alexia and moving back away from her.
"Why do you want them anyway?" Aris asked turning back to the first conversation.
"They are unclassified demons that could become a threat," Botan answered.
"What those two?" Inuyasha asked indicating in Angel and Alexia's direction.
"Yes, those two."
"Is that the only reason?" Aris asked.
"Well . . . Yes . . ."
"First off, both of them are as harmless as a puppy."
"I heard that!" Angel called to her.
"Second, you mean to tell me that you came all this way to find what class they are?"
"Not exactly . . ."
"Then what?"
"Would you stop changing your mind?" Alexia and Angel said at the same time.
"QUIT THAT!" Angel said pointing to Alexia.
"I didn't do anything!"
Angel turned back away from Alexia and kept silent.
"We want to be sure that they don't have anything catastrophic within their power."
Hiei rolled his eyes. "She also wants to know if you'd let us take them for training."
Aris was taken aback. "We'll think it over and get back to you on it. As for the class, I'd have to say the lowest."
"WHAT!" Angel and Alexia said at the same time.
Aris turned to them. "It's not like you have anything of special power."
"I do have something special . . . Never mind," Angel said.
"EWWW!" Alexia said, "THAT'S JUST DISTURBING, ANGEL!"
Angel growled and moved back to Alexia. She hit her in the head as hard as she could. "You pervert! You're already scaring everyone away!"
"I'm not," Alexia said as if nothing had happened.
A sweat drop appeared on the back of Angel's head.
"As you can see . . ." Aris said with her eyes closed.
"They're just like humans!" Botan said.
Aris sighed. "Yes, there's a long story behind that."
"We've got the time . . ." Hiei said.
Aris jumped. These people wouldn't let up! "Well . . . Um . . . I don't think you want me to go into detail. I'll just say that-"
"The house was haunted!" Sifa piped.
"Thanks . . ."
"You're welcome!"
"The house?" Yusuke said.
"Yes, the house you rock brained rat!" Ken'oshi said. "They lived in a house, everyone DIED, we saved them, trained them, then you showed up. There's yer darn story!"
Tsuki smiled. Kagome was trying to hold back a bit of laughter in the background.
Aris rolled her eyes and looked back at the others. "Like I said; we'll consider your offering, but I can't promise anything."
"Well then, get back to us on the offering asap," Yusuke said.
"Right . . ."
The group walked away to leave Angel and Alexia lost in confusion. The entire mess was still lingering in their mind from the beginning. As they left, the rest of the group went back to what they had been doing previously.
"Aris . . . I'm confussied . . ." Angel said.
"Confussied?"
"It's confused and frustrated at the same time," Alexia said for Angel.
"Then wouldn't it be confrusted?"
"This is Angel we're talkin' about."
"I always thought that you were the mental one."
"She is, but I'm the one who makes up all the weird words," Angel said happily.
"Angel Language!" Alexia said. She meant it in a bad way . . . And Angel took it that way.
"Shut up, kitty."
"Silence, bitch puppy."
"What. Did. You. Just. Call. Me?"
"I'm gonna die! Wait . . . Why can't I call you a bitch puppy? You are a female . . . Wolf and you're still young."
"I . . . You . . . That's . . . I'll deal with you later!" Angel said turning away.
Aris shook her head and walked away. Angel was preoccupied with Rin again and Alexia was bothering a frog, who leaped into the air to scare Alexia.
"Angel . . . why did you go hunt them down?" Alexia asked as she followed the frog.
"It could have been a danger, and I was bored." She noticed Alexia following the frog. "Would you leave the poor frog alone! I'm gonna start chasin' you around and see how you like it!"
Alexia sat down, looked at Angel, and gasped. "You wouldn't!"
"I would!"
"You're on!" Alexia said leaping up from the ground. As soon as the words had come out of her mouth, the white wolf was already chasing her. Rin was laughing as Alexia, in her tiger form, ran away from the wolf into a tree.
Alexia hissed, Angel hissed back. Alexia growled, Angel growled back. Alexia meowed, Angel barked, causing Alexia to flinch and nearly fall out of the tree. "Quit cheatin'!"
"I'm not; you're just being stupid again."
Alexia took in another long gasp. "That hurt you know!"
"That was the point," Angel said sitting down. "As long as you're up there, I might as well go to sleep to wait for you to come down, but I won't. Instead, I'll do this!" A flame lit up the branch in which Alexia sat on. The flame grew and turned the spot it burned into ashes; down Alexia fell down and hit the ground.
"CHEATER!"
"You have you're abilities!"
"I . . . I do?"
Angel rolled her eyes. "Duh . . ."
Alexia transformed back to her human form and looked at her hands. "I do . . . MY TURN!" A bunch of water hit Angel in the face, blinding her.
"Unfair advantage!"
"Looks fair to me!" Alexia said charging.
Angel's ear flicked in her direction and leaped into the air as Alexia was about to attack her. Being blind, she fell back down to Earth and landed on Alexia with "oof."
"This is a nice position . . . GET OFF ME!" Alexia said.
"Stop being a pervert!"
"It's my nature!"
Angel got the water out of her eyes and found that everyone was looking at them. "That explains why it suddenly got so quiet . . ."
"What are you mumbling about now? GET OFF OF ME!"
"Flatten your fur and shut up!" Angel said moving off Alexia, but kicked her head as she did, intentionally, of course.
"'Flatten my fur'? What kind of a quote is that?"
"Mine," Tsuki said as she leaned against the tree with her eyes closed.
"Oh yeah . . . In that second chapter . . . Ha ha . . . Funny, funny."
"You just quoted Ken'oshi?" Angel asked.
"That's funny!"
Both of them kept silent for two minutes. Angel started pacing again, like she had two weeks ago when she was in desperate need of destroying. She was usually like that when she was cooped up for too long, thinking deeply, or bored to death. Alexia decided to go tree exploring in the tree she'd been burned out of.
Tsuki noticed Angel's behavior and walked towards her. "Ready for some training?"
Angel's ears pricked up and Alexia dropped down from the tree. Amazing that they love to learn new moves so much. Tsuki thought.
"Can we do something more . . . Offensive then defensive? I'm sick of learning how to block," Angel said.
"AHH! Big confusing words hurt my head," Alexia said putting her paws on top of her head.
Tsuki smiled. "Alright . . . How about offensive and defensive?"
Alexia and Angel both blinked.
"How's that?" Angel asked.
Tsuki changed to her black wolf flesh and sat down in front of them. "There will be times when you'll be attacked. You'll have to be able to defend yourself while attacking. Alexia, you want to try first?"
Alexia went stiff and moved back fifteen feet. "NO WAY! LAST TIME YOU NEARLY KILLED ME!"
"Would you stop yelling?" Angel said cocking her head to the left because her ears were hurting from the scream. "I'm sure the dead can even hear you!" She turned to Tsuki and stepped forward. "I'll go."
Tsuki nodded. Both moved to their attacking position and circled each other. Teeth bared and hackles up; they stared and moved around each other. Tsuki suddenly leaped at Angel with blinding speed. Angel only had two seconds to think of her move. She moved to the left and sank her teeth into Tsuki's scruff. But Tsuki had seen it coming, since it was a move Angel used a lot, and bumped her to the right knocking Angel to the ground; she lost.
"You've really got to stop using that move," Tsuki said sitting back down.
"It's the only move I know."
"Then here's a new one." She looked at Alexia, who leaped up.
"You're not using me!"
"I was making sure you were paying attention."
"Oh . . ."
She turned back to Angel. "Attack me."
Angel obeyed and attacked Tsuki. She let herself receive the blow of Angel's head-butt, but thrust Angel off with her back legs, then leaped at her. "That's one way."
"Could we have a mock battle instead?" Angel asked. I learn much better if I actually fight, not teach like this. Ahh! This confusses me!
(Firestar: Remember what happened in the last story, stupid? WindEmpress: She doesn't care, besides, they have a bit more experience.) Tsuki looked at Angel with concern. "Are you serious?"
"Yes, hit me with all you've got. I'll fight back with as much as I know."
"SUICIDE! ANGEL'S TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE!" Alexia yelled.
"Stop yelling! I swear my ears are bleeding because of your screaming," Angel said putting her paw on her ears.
"Hey, look, there is blood!" Alexia said.
"No there isn't!"
"Yes there is!"
Angel growled at Alexia's 'joke'. Just to be sure Alexia was telling the truth, she moved her front paw past her ear and found no blood.
"HA HA! Got ya'!"
"Alexia! I'm going to make you fight me if you keep it up," Tsuki said getting a bit annoyed with her.
"No body loves me . . ."
"I wouldn't say that around Miroku, Alexia," Angel whispered.
"Ewww . . . Good point . . ."
"Back to what we were trying to do," Tsuki said. She sat in front of Angel and stared into her eyes, one of her moves she used. Angel stared back and didn't move; she was waiting for something . . .
Tsuki stared and did not blink. She couldn't see any emotion in her opponent, something Ken'oshi had taught the two. All she saw was concentration and thought within the white wolf.
There, Angel thought. She felt her claws heating up and could feel heat circulating within her paws. She didn't take her eyes off Tsuki, she had a plan that was sure to surprise her.
Tsuki waited and still couldn't figure out what Angel was planning. Good, she learned to hide her emotions . . . Bad, I've no clue what's next.
Before Tsuki could think, Angel leaped at her, but Tsuki dodged it easily. Tsuki charged at Angel at full throttle. Angel leaped into the air and extended her talons.
"Pyro Claws!" she cried. She landed on Tsuki with her talons digging into her flesh.
Tsuki was taken by surprise and fell back onto the ground as Angel hit her. The burn from her talons had seared her pelt and blood began to trickle down her body. "Where did you learn to add your elements to your attacks?"
Angel gave her a wolf smile. "I kind of taught myself, but I've been watching you people fight and stuff like that."
Tsuki stood up and a little more blood fell from her burned wound. "Excellent, but I really don't remember using my attacks."
"You did last week. How could you forget? That was when you nearly killed Alexia."
"Oh, yeah. Damm'it, Ken'oshi's catnip plants are making me lose my mind!"
Alexia stood up. "I wanna fight Angel! Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE!"
"Okay, okay . . . Just stop with the whiny voice," Tsuki said flicking her ears.
"Ha, ha! You two have problems with your ears because their so sensitive!" Alexia said pointing to them with her paw and nearly fell over as a result.
"And you can barely stand on your own body frame," Angel said.
"Shut it!"
Tsuki shook her body and walked to a corner of the forest. She sat down and watched them. When neither of them made no move she asked, "Well . . . What are you waiting for?"
Angel looked at Alexia, who looked back at her. Angel lifted her paw and smiled; she hit Alexia with full force in her wolf form and jumped out of her way.
"What was that?" Alexia said rubbing her head with her paw.
Angel started laughing evilly. "Muwahahahahahaha! My evil tricks! You should have seen your face! It was hysterical! You're like 'OH MY GOD!' Ha ha ha ha ha! Whoa, that was funny!"
"Angel are you alright?" Tsuki asked.
"Oh, no . . . Did you have sugar or chocolate today, because you sound like you're on a sugar high . . ." Alexia said slowly backing up. "If you are, I'm doomed to lose this battle . . ."
Angel evilly laughed again. "Sugar is for cowards! I'm just hyper!" She laughed once more, jumped and looked at Alexia. "You're going down!" Angel charged at Alexia.
"Eep!" Angel scrambled to get up and raced away, stumbling. "I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! Bad Angel! No more training for you!"
Angel stopped running and sat down. She smiled as she said, "I'm done and I'm happy. Talk about hyperness, but you should have seen your face! It was hysterical!" Again with the sudden sleepiness as she shifted back to her human form. (WindEmpress: What the hell? Why are we always getting sleepy with no reason? Firestar: Do I want to know why? WindEmpress: EWWWW! Baka neko! Blah, blah, blah, BLAH! That's groudy! (Gag!)) "I'm tired, so I'm leaving." Angel turned away from Alexia and started away.
"Where ya goin'?" Alexia asked. "Gonna meet someone?"
(WindEmpress: Iie, iie, iie, IIE! BAKA NEKO! Why? Why do you have to put those things into my mind? WHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY? Firestar: Heh, heh . . .) Angel stopped and turned back to her. "NO! I'm going to go relax for a minute and you BETTER not follow or I'll KILL you!"
"See, she is going to go meet someone!"
"Oh . . . SHUT UP!" Angel turned away and Miroku was in front of her. Alexia stared and started laughing hysterically. "What the hell do you want?"
"I'd like to ask you to bear my children."
Angel became angry. She slapped him as hard as she could and pushed him out of the way, stunning Tsuki, Alexia, and Miroku. The others just blinked and watched. Angel walked away mumbling stuff to herself.
"Did I hear 'sex'?" Alexia piped.
"NO! You heard me say 'ass'!"
"That doesn't rhyme with sex and how did I get sex out of ass? . . . And why did you say ass?"
Angel stopped and turned around. "Because I'm going to KICK your ass!"
"I'm so evil," Alexia said as she turned away.
Angel walked into the forest. She wasn't angry, just annoyed that her cousin was the way she was. Why couldn't she ever be . . . Normal? Why not think of something else? "Ahh! Why the hell am I here? Why the hell does anyone need me? Why the hell-"
"Boo!" said a voice behind her.
Angel jumped and turned around and found the person who'd sent his sword into her. "And why the hell are you here? You scared the living crap out of me!"
"That was the intentional point," he said calmly.
"Well it wasn't funny!"
"It was in my intentional purpose . . ."
Angel rolled her eyes. "What do you want?"
"I was just bored and you were the only victim around."
"Victim . . . Victim! How dare you call me a victim!"
"Well you were."
"That isn't funny!" Angel said. Something rustled behind her and two hands grabbed her shoulders, causing her to jump. "What the-"
"'Sup?" Alexia said.
" . . . hell . . . You're goin' down!" Angel put her hands around Alexia's neck, but Alexia jumped out of the way.
"Evil child, evil child! Wahhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa!" Alexia turned and raced to the edge of where they stood and sat down in feeble position.
"What's with you two?"
"She's a pervert and I'm trying to break it from her," Angel said looking at Alexia.
"I am not!"
"Bed!"
"EEEEEWWWWWW!"
"See?"
"Angel said 'bed'! We're all gonna DIE!" Alexia went limp and didn't move.
"Thank the heavens above I hope you stay like that!" She turned back to Hiei and found he was gone. "Where did you go?" Something tapped her shoulder. She turned and found him right behind her, causing her to jump again. "Quit that!"
"You shouldn't be any problem scaring . . ." he said.
"Awww! Angel has a new boyfriend!" Alexia said.
"SICKO!" Angel moved to Alexia and kicked her in the side.
"OWW!"
"I see your point," Hiei said.
"Wait a minute, why aren't you with the other three?" Angel asked turning back to him.
Hiei shrugged. "That's classified."
"That's nice to know . . ." Angel finally relaxed and put her hands behind her head. "What's your name again?"
"Hiei."
"Ahh . . ."
"And yours?"
"Alexia!" Alexia said from the ground. Angel acted like she was going to kick her again and Alexia flinched and didn't move.
"I know your Alexia, but I missed her name," Hiei said to her.
"Not my fault."
"Everything is," Angel replied. "My name is Angel."
"Angel?"
"Yeah, Angel. Why, what's wrong with it?"
Hiei looked away for a minute. "You don't look like an Angel."
"Yeah she does! Don't you see the halo and the wings and the white robe? Wait . . . That's already there."
Angel rolled her eyes. "Name, stupid, name."
"I knew that!"
"Who are the other three? I competently missed their names," Angel said ignoring Alexia again.
"Did I die?"
"Well, the black haired one is Yusuke-"
"Hello?"
"The red head is Kurama-"
"Anyone home?"
"And the tallest is-"
"HELLO!"
"What!" Angel said.
" . . . . . . . hi . . . ."
Angel rolled her eyes. "Must you always be the center of attention?"
"Uh-huh."
Angel sighed. "What am I gonna do with you?"
EWWWWWWW!" Alexia yelled. Twenty birds flew out of the nearby trees into the sky trying to escape the noise.
Hiei plugged his ears. "Must you yell like that and why do you think of that stuff?"
"'Cause its fun to think about that stuff," she said. Alexia noticed, after a minute, that she wasn't talking to Angel. "Uhh . . . You're not Angel . . . Are you? Or are you an illusion just looking like her? Trying to be Angel so I will follow you to bad places?"
Hiei's eyes widened (WindEmpress: and pupils shrunk) as he heard her horrid comments. Well, not really all that horrid, but he hadn't heard it before in his life.
Angel walked back over to Alexia. "Okay, you're scaring him, go be quiet over there or go scare Miroku."
"I like that idea! Oh, Miroku!" Alexia called to the sky.
Angel ran behind Hiei and cowered in fear. "No, you idiot! Don't bring him over here!"
Hiei looked behind his back at her. "What's wrong with Miroku?"
"Don't ask . . ."
"He's perverted like I am. Perverted rocks!" Alexia said as if it were something good.
"He's not only perverted, he's also looking . . . I'm not even going to say it."
"Yeah, he's looking for sex; between Aris and you."
"Okay, enough. I don't want to hear anymore," Hiei said.
"Speaking of which," Alexia said, ignoring Hiei, "where's that red head that was with you earlier. I'd like to get a certain something from him."
Hiei and Angel dropped to the ground. Angel leaped up. "Why are you thinking these things! There are innocent CHILDREN here!"
"What, you mean Aris?"
"Yes-I mean . . . NO! I mean . . . JUST GET!"
"Gonna have fun with your new boyfriend?"
Hiei leaped up to attack her, but Angel stopped him.
"Owwhh, angry dark man. Really angry-I'm outta here!" Alexia said power-walking
"Not just yet!" Hiei broke from Angel's grasp and went to attack Alexia again.
"AHHHHH! I'm outta here! I'm shuddering, get away from me! AHHH! Get off!" Hiei came down on Alexia with full force.
"That's just WRONG!" someone said in front of Alexia.
All three of them stopped moving, and breathing, and looked up to find-
"Hi everyone!" Alexia said.
"That just looks really, really, REALLY nasty!" Sifa said.
"Oh-ph!" Aris said hitting her hand to her forehead.
Angel stood at the edge, trying to hide, embarrassed by her cousin.
Hiei had realized what had happened and flinched as he stood up. "It's not what you think!"
"Come on, you know it was good!" Alexia said.
Everyone's eyes went wide. Aris groaned, while Sifa and Ken'oshi looked away. Inuyasha and his friends, and of course his half-brother, just stared.
Angel leaped from the darkness in her white wolf form.
"AHHH! Rabid dog, rabid dog!"
"What did you call me!" Angel said as she landed in front of Alexia.
"Uhh . . . Nothing . . . Bye!" Alexia ran in the opposite direction of everyone as fast as she could.
"Get back here!" Angel said chasing after her.
"No way, you're going to kill me!" Alexia ran as fast and as far as she could until . . .
BANG!
"Oww . . . Stupid tree." She got up and went around the tree and . . . "OH, HOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY . . . . . CRACKERS ITS SPIDER DUDE!" In front of Alexia was Naraku. (WindEmpress: OH MY GOSH, IT'S A BUG! Firestar: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Prep: That's sooo last story. WindEmpress: Who invited her? Firestar: Not me. (silence) Both: MIROKU!)
"I'm gonna-OH MY GOSH!" Angel said as she came to the area. When she saw Naraku, she tried skidding to a stop. Angel slid right into Alexia knocking both of them to the ground as Naraku moved towards them. "If you would have kept you perverted comments to yourself, we wouldn't be in such a position!"
"But it's-"
"I don't care! RUN!"
Angel and Alexia, who transformed to her tiger form, turned and raced away, but Kagura was right in front of them to keep them from escaping.
"You won't be getting away this time."
Angel and Alexia blinked and smiled.
" . . . Of course not," Angel said.
"Are we there yet?" Alexia said.
Tsuki flinched as she felt pain within her heart. Her eyes went wide as she looked at the moon; the moon was beginning to become red.
Aris noticed Tsuki's gaze and looked up at the sky and felt the same fear that Tsuki was dreading. The curse is beginning!
Tsuki lost control and began shifting to her black wolf form as she howled to the moon. As the transformation finished, everyone left as quickly as they could (WindEmpress: Tsuki told them to run the next time she was under the curse) while Aris slowly moved towards her. She started whispering a counter-curse under her breath. If I can't get it to go away, I can't say I didn't try, Aris thought as she moved closer.
"I'm not leaving you behind, Tsuki. I'm going to help you even if you kill me."
Tsuki stared at Aris and growled, but suddenly stopped. She raced in the opposite direction of Aris into the forest.
"Tsuki!" Aris called.
She was about to run when she heard a voice behind her. "Wait . . ."
Aris turned around and found a girl dressed in all white and holding a mirror.
WindEmpress: Boo-ya! And that's the end for now.
Firestar: (takes a deep breath) I was holding my breath until the end. Suspenseful . . . .
WindEmpress: Oh, come you know what's going to happen next!
Firestar: But they don't! Ha, ha! Too bad for you. Find out next time on . . . . Uh . . . WindEmpress?
WindEmpress: Yes?
Firestar: What's this called again?
WindEmpress: (mumbles) Now I know not to trust you with anything again. Unchosen Path, dummy.
Firestar: Onnnn Unchosen Path
WindEmpress: . . . . . Two.
Firestar: Two! See ya next time folks!
Hiei: Please don't say that . . .
Firestar: Oh, come on, you know you like it!
Hiei: Not that again!
WindEmpress (smiles) We're gonna break now . . . .
Firestar: Uh . . . Guys . . . . Quit givin' me that look . . . OH MY GOSH! I'M GONNA DIE!
