Kaida Okami – The Prophesy
Chapter Thirteen
Separation
Hiei gaped as Kaida's glowing form rose steadily into the air.
She was enveloped in a bright white light.
Suddenly, the light began to pull apart at the middle, separating itself in half.
One half changed color to an almost white, electric blue. Hiei could almost sense peace
shining from it.
The other half, however, burned a vivid poison green that continually shifted to colors
Hiei had no name for. Opposite of the other light source, this one radiated hate and anger.
With one more bright flash of light from each of them, forms began to emerge and the
light began to wane.
Hiei blinked in astonishment.
Both women who had emerged from the lights, though differently dressed, both looked
exactly alike.
Behind him, the Shadow Man had begun to laugh. Hiei turned around and glared at him.
"You." He said vehemently. "What the hell is going on? Where's Kaida?!"
The Shadow Man sneered at him.
"Look in front of you, there's your little friend, in all her glory."
Hiei looked back to the two girls in front of him, confused.
Slowly, they stood up, as if testing their feet.
The girl who had materialized from the blue light was dressed in an outfit similar to that
of Yoko Kurama's, a white tunic and pants looking outfit with a hole in the back so her
fluffy wolfs tail could poke out. Two triangular ears poked through her snow white hair
that fell in an untidy mess around her face, making her vivid blue eyes even more
prominent.
The other girl was dressed in what looked like it might be leather, but closer inspection
would reveal that it was really dragon hide.
Her pants where held up by a vicious looking chain and her tan top was covered by a
black jacket. She had on black biking gloves with silver inlaid on the knuckles. Her boots
where the same color as her outfit, black, with silver buckles. Her hair was coal black and
arranged in a similar messy fashion as that of the other girls, framing her face and evil,
poison green eyes.
She had large scaly black and green wings protruding from her shoulders, marking her as
a dragon demoness.
Both of the girls noticed each other at the same time.
The wolf girl blinked in bewilderment.
"I- I don't understand...." She said.
Hiei recognized Kaida's voice.
"What happened?" she asked, turning to the Shadow Man.
The Shadow Man grinned.
"It's quite easy my dear," he said, walking forward.
The wolf girl bristled.
"You, Kaida, are a very special demoness." He continued, ignoring her raised
hackles. "Being a half demon, your blood was divided. Your morals only served to divide
it even more. The treasures each have magical properties. When the reflection from the
full moon hit them, then bounced off and hit you, it caused your blood and the entity of
what you really are to split into two different people. The wolf you," he nodded at the
wolf girl. "and the dragon you." He motioned to the dragoness.
Realization dawned on Hiei.
Both girls where Kaida, her bloodline split and personified.
The Shadow man grinned and approached the dragoness.
"Might I ask your name, milady?" he asked nobly.
She smirked down at him.
"Ryuko." She said boredly.
The Shadow Man bowed respectfully.
"Milady, Ryuko. The Prophesy foretold your coming. That you would come and
with your help, I could gain the throne of King Enma."
Ryuko flicked her wings disinterestedly.
"You want me to help you conquer Enma?" she asked.
The Shadow Man nodded.
"Then please allow me to briefly test my abilities." She smirked.
Kaida, the wolf Kaida, tensed, as did Hiei.
The Shadow Man stepped back with an evil look at them.
Ryuko stood with her legs spread for balance and one arm stretched forward, palm out
and facing Kaida and Hiei.
With little concentration, Ryuko focused her spirit energy into her palm in a small ball of
blood red light.
When the light filled her palm, she released the energy at them.
Seconds before it hit them, thought, she gestured and the energy turned in mid air,
changing course to head directly at the Shadow Man.
He barely had enough time to scream before the energy hit him.
When the smoke cleared, all that was left of Kaida's captor was a black smudge on the
floor and the lingering smell of burnt skin and death.
Kaida stared openly at her dragon self.
Ryuko blew the smoke away from her palm, very much like a cowboy blowing smoke off
the muzzle of his pistol.
She noticed Kaida's stare.
"He was not needed. He was disposable, so I disposed of him."
"And what do you plan to do now?" Kaida asked.
Ryuko smirked.
"I shall pay this Enma a small visit, don't you think?"
Kaida's face hardened.
"You know I cant let you do that." She said.
Ryuko laughed.
"Don't tell me you have any feelings beside hatred for Enma!" she said. "I know
you. I am you."
Kaida shook her head.
"Frankly, I don't give a damn about Enma, but to many innocents could and
would get hurt in your take over. Besides that," She added.
"I have been directed by Artemis to stop you. Do you realize that if you do this,
Discord will feed off of every minute of it?! By the time its over you would be queen of a
wasteland!! Think of all the people that would die!!!"
Ryuko smirked.
"I could care less about infidels that get in my way." She said coldly.
Kaida glared at her and lunged.
Ryuko laughed and dogged her easily, taking off to hover in the air, her wings blowing
Kaida's hair into her eyes.
"Well, this has certainly been fun," Ryuko said "But I have a kingdom to conquer.
Ja ne."
With that, Ryuko blasted a hole in the roof and took off, disappearing into the night sky.
Kaida swore as she watched Ryuko vanish, then turned to take off after her.
She didn't get far before she collapsed.
Hiei ran over to her and noticed that, although she had transformed, Kaida's wounds from
her imprisonment had remained.
She was covered from head to foot in bruises and long cuts.
She tried to get up but only collapsed again, making her swear even more.
Hiei sighed and picked her up.
She glared at him.
"Put me down, I can do it myself."
"No you cant." He said bluntly, and continued walking out the door.
Kaida was about to say something when, amazingly, and idea struck her.
"Hiei, wait!!" she said.
He stopped dead.
"Now what?" he asked irritably.
"The treasures!! Go get them." He growled in annoyance and carried her over to
the treasures.
She scooped them up and working quickly, hooked the ring to her medallion and fastened
the sword her belt.
She looked up at Hiei.
"I bet that the power of the treasures can send Ryuko back to where ever the hell
she's from."
Hiei frowned.
"But Ryuko is you. If you kill her, what will happen to your body?"
Kaida looked thoughtful for a moment, then her face fell in exhaustion.
"I don't know, Hiei." She told him. "But even if it kills me, Ryuko will not take
over."
He looked at her.
"You shouldn't say that." He told her.
Her chin jutted out dangerously.
"I don't care." She replied, stubborn as ever. "Put me down."
"No."
"NOW!!"
"No."
Hiei continued walking out of the compound to where Yusuke and the others where.
Kaida looked around at the carnage and wrinkled her nose.
"This place stinks." She said.
Hiei ignored her and walked over to where the group sat, exhausted.
He set Kaida down on the ground and looked around.
"What happened?" Kurama asked.
Hiei turned to him and plunged into the entire story.
When he was finished, Yusuke groaned.
"Great. Now we have to go stop another complete psycho from destroying the
world."
Kaida tried to focus in on the conversation, but she couldn't. The stress and exhaustion
had set in.
She closed her eyes slowly and leaned against the wall.
She felt someone pick her up and she struggled to wake up.
"Put me down, dammit...." She muttered blearily.
"Shut up, Kaida." Said Hiei.
Kaida closed her eyes again and rested her head against his shoulder.
Just before falling asleep, she thought to herself,
-I'm never going to hear the end of this....-
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