Disclaimer: T.T :sniffle: not mine… I just gotta keep telling myself that…
Chapter 13: Down Town Melee
………note……..
I hope I didn't over do it ;
Daine halted her spell casting to see a tall young woman hovering over Mavrick. She had long ebony hair and piercing gold eyes and she was wearing a long form-fitting light-blue dress. Her skin was as pale as the moon and her crimson lips had a devilish smirk plastered across them. Daine hissed and turned her body toward her.
"Hey, who the hell are you, get away from him!" Daine yelled out at her. The woman chuckled and stepped closer to him.
Mavrick coughed and turned himself onto his back, suddenly, swift like a knife, a voice came to his mind, 'follow me…I am your mistress…listen to my voice…follow me…' Mavrick covered his ears, 'what is that…who are you?' he thought to the voice.
'I am your mistress…listen to my voice…become…mine,' (talk about lame commands, no?) Mavrick's eyes shot open, his head pounded and whirled with confusing thoughts and voices, causing him to break out in a cold sweat, and scream in agony.
His cries alerted Ayanna to his plight. "Ah shit… Mavrick!" Ayanna yelled. She ran to the other side of the room where he resided on the floor. She was about five feet away from him when she was stopped by an invisible barrier, a shield if you will.
Ayanna growled, "What the…what is this…?" she tried punching it but it absorbed the blows. Ayanna hit it again but nothing happened, suddenly without warning, the shield lashed out and shocked her.
Ayanna hit the floor with a groan. She held tight to her side where she had been hit the hardest. Looking up, she gasped, noticing the woman for the first time, standing next to Mavrick's flaccid form.
The woman's eyes searched the room unblinking, "Where is she…?" her voice was a deep and enchanting one of a young woman, just like a haunting spell.
As no one but Daine and Ayanna acknowledged her, her eyebrows knitted in the middle of her forehead and she growled low, "Where is she?" her voice rose above all, making all attention in the room fall on her, stopping all the fights in the span of her vision.
Ayanna pulled herself off the floor and stood firmly in front of the shield, "Who the hell are you supposed to be?" Ayanna glared at the woman, whose eyes held nothing but evil intentions. The woman smirked at the half neko and knelt next to Mavrick.
"I am your executioner...!" she said without looking up, then lifted her hand over him.
She took his face in her hand and harshly stared into his eyes. The voice once again entered his mind, 'Mine…you'll be mine… stay strong and foolish… and you'll be mine… now listen…to Kairi' she smiled as his face contorted with pain.
"No, stop it, leave him alone!" Ayanna growled and extended her claws and slashed vigorously at the barrier. She honestly didn't care about Mavrick, but she knew that Sade would never forgive her if she ignored this; what's more the little annoying voice in the back of her mind nagged her like a bitch.
Mavrick shut his eyes tightly to avoid the woman's spell, but her mental hold on him held strong. He held his head with both hands, the throbbing in his head was going to drive him mad, if the male-charmer didn't do that for him.
'You cannot resist my voice…kill them… kill them all for me…' Mavrick screamed and pushed her away. His eyes flashed a violent red and he jumped to his feet, turning to the woman. She smiled at her triumph, and then scowled, something was wrong.
Daine left Ranjitzu against the wall and walked up next to Ayanna, "Wha…what's happening to him?"
Maverick's demeanor was changing to an unmistakable power not even he could control; he could no longer handle the mixed feelings going through him, having someone messing with his head and not having Sade there reminded him too much of the past, when she had left him alone that haunting night.
Kairi stood and stepped away from him. "Now experience destruction by one of your own!" Ayanna's eyes narrowed to slits and Daine watched Mavrick closely, while Lauren -who had noticed Kairi before anyone, but was too busy to do anything- walked up behind Daine.
The wicked lady laughed as Mavrick attacked her, but she was gone, disappearing into a cloud of menacing dark smoke; the barrier disappearing with her.
The girls' eyes widened as they saw Mavrick growl in pain. He became engulfed in flames and burst through the wall of the building onto the street.
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Kurama ran a couple more blocks before he hit the dirt part of the city. He ran till he sensed Hiei again, this time he was closer, much closer…in fact he was across the street in the alley with…Sade?
He blinked at them, "Well what do you know…." he leaned against the wall a minute to catch his breath. Knowing that they were just so far from him made it easier for him to relax before he confronted them.
Hiei stared at Sade, unblinking, his eyes wandered to her soft lips and he turned away. "What kind of idiot do you take me for, I'm not falling for any stupid tricks of yours woman…"
Sade stood up straight and placed her hands on her hips, "No tricks… if you want it back, you have to take it," she just stood there, hands on hips, and grin on lips. (Yes I did that on purpose)
Hiei shook his head in disbelief and glared at her, "What are you talking about! All you have to do is give it to me, what's so hard about that!"
Sade laughed and wagged her finger at him, "Sorry shorty, it doesn't work that way…" Hiei's eyebrow twitched, her laugh was irritating him, it's not that it was a bad laugh; he was just getting sick of hearing it. And what was with her calling him short, she was even shorter than he was and here she was mocking his height.
Hiei looked her in the eyes trying to find the lie behind her scheme, there was no lie, so there was no scheme. 'Why do I have to take it? I didn't give my power to her, she took it on her own; there must be something behind it,' Hiei was determined to find the real reason; anything to avoid…he looked at her lips again and swallowed a lump in his throat.
Sade shook her head, "Poor pathetic little mitaddemonio (slightly altered half-demon)," Sade chuckled as Hiei Glared at her.
"What did you call me?" he seethed.
Sade loved to mess with him it was just too much fun. She laughed when he gave he his dirty looks, mainly because she was laughing at herself for being afraid of him, he was simply amusing.
Hiei remained quiet until Sade was silent.
Sade finally settled down, her laughter stopped, and her demeanor was back to its nearly depressing/slow/sarcastic/scheming self.
"Don't worry about it….listen hot stuff, you obviously don't like me too much…. and you want your power back, the only way to do so is to take it, I'm willing to give it, but you're in almost perfect condition, I am only able to give when you are nearly unable to take….I know it sounds funny and might not really make any sense, but…" Sade rubbed her arm absently "…that's how it works, if you don't believe me then that's your prerogative, but if you don't…" she paused again "…then you might as well turn around on those boots and leave…" she peered down at his small feet and smiled.
Hiei remained there, unblinking and motionless; say for the blank stare his red almond eyes carried.
After awhile, Sade became uneasy and alternated from one foot to the other awkwardly, uncomfortable with the silence, though her face remained unchanged, besides the fact that she was biting her lip again.
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Mavrick stumbled onto the street, vision tainted with malice and mind clouded from judgment. In the state he was in, not even Sade could talk to him. The flames that held around his form diminished and only his hands and eyes seemed fire engulfed.
Ayanna and Daine stared after him, mostly confused but also somewhat helplessly.
"What do you think he'll do?" Lauren murmured. Ayanna just stared after him as he stalked down the street, "I honestly don't know what he's capable of, but I know one thing…" Daine and Lauren blinked at her.
"….We have to keep him from doing something stupid," Ayanna took a few steps forward but Daine was way ahead of her, "I've been wanting to do this for a long time…" she chirped.
Ayanna just stood there blinking at her, then a thought came to mind and she gasped "DAINE! WAIT A MINUTE, YOU CAN'T KILL HIM!" Ayanna knew too well that Daine was one of those, 'I do what I want because I can' kind of demons, er hanyous.
Ayanna was about to run after her when she was jumped by a goon she had been fighting earlier. "Let. Me. GO!" Ayanna kicked him off and stared at Lauren who was already getting back into the fighting groove.
"Hey, I have to stop Daine form killing the flaming dick, can you handle these guys!" she yelled to her.
Lauren shot her a silly grin and a peace sign, and then tackled a guy.
Ayanna sweat dropped "Ok, I'll take that as a yes…be right back!" with that Ayanna turned and headed after Daine and Mavrick.
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Hiei was still standing there, Sade was amazed with his patience, but she didn't have a lot of time to waste admiring him, at least not now anyway.
Sade fisted her hands at her side, her nerves were shaking with uneasiness, "…………..DAMNIT, SAY SOMETHING!" Sade held her hands over her mouth.
Hiei smirked and raised an eyebrow, "Hn….what's the matter ningen? Does the silence bother you?" Hiei blinked finally and crossed his arms.
Sade scowled, "That's just wrong…" she murmured.
Hiei chuckled, "When the tables turn, you seem to lose your edge, in a way you put it…how amusing…"
Sade stood there, no words came to her, she couldn't think of anything to retort with. In these cases, she found it easier to react with action instead of words, but she knew of nothing, she had already used the kiss on him, it would be pointless, and her flirting ways were more of a mood thing, and Hiei having the upper hand in this case kicked that choice out the window.
What could she…Sade blinked; she knew exactly what to do.
Hiei watched her step to him and lean in close to him, she went past his face and put her lips close to his ear, "…you win…" with that said, she walked away, making her way down the alley.
Hiei blinked at her back, bewildered as ever. "I win? What kind of….where do you think you're going!" he grabbed for her shoulder and she shrugged it off, well let it pass through it anyway.
"You win….I have nothing further to say to you and you don't want your power back as much as I thought you did, so I'm walking away," she walked to the alley's mouth and looked both ways on the sidewalk for people. 'No one, good.'
Hiei flitted in front of her before she could take another step. "I said, where do you think you're going?" he pushed her back into the alley.
Sade smirked and grabbed his sleeve, bringing him with her. She lost her balance and fell back, causing him to land on top. Hiei stared down at her, the situation they were in didn't seem to affect him too much, he lay there on top of her, again unblinkingly. Sade expected him to fall on her, but she didn't expect the look he gave her.
She stared dumbly at him and then tried to move her arms; they were trapped under him and caught in his cloak. Hiei smirked and lifted up slightly to allow her hands freedom. Sade hesitantly removed her hands from under his body and moved them to her chest. She slowly moved one of her fingers to the collar of her shirt, feeling for the string of her charm on her collar bone, never taking her eyes off of him.
Hiei grabbed her hand and pulled it from her chest, letting the charm that was entwined in her fingers fall out of her hand and over her shirt. He took both of her hands and held them out next to her head, though the position was controversial, it still didn't seem to faze him. He held tight to her wrists as he did before, but as soon as he looked down at her chest, the charm started to glow.
It sparked and fizzed as before but this time it seemed more threatening than alluring. Sade closed her eyes as a bright light exploded and a strong power unleashed itself.
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Mavrick ran into the middle of a cross section a couple of blocks away from the building Lauren was still fighting in. He looked around in a circle, confused beyond his own belief and then started to destroy stuff. He destroyed the street, buildings, plants, even the occasional car that went by.
There wasn't really that many people out at that time, but the few who were, ran for their lives. Mavrick was once again engulfed in heat; his real form was hidden beneath the flames.
Daine had caught up with him a minute later, it wasn't hard to find him too, the sound of explosions and people screaming pretty much left a first rate clue that said 'I'm ova here, yea here, right here!'.
She flew a few feet above his head, waiting for the right moment to pounce. She watched the people run and hide and scowled at Mavrick. When there was no one within 40 feet of them she fired a blast of energy at him, causing him to scream out.
She went closer to him, not landing but her feet were floating just above the ground. Her wingspan kept Mavrick in her sights so he couldn't bolt away.
Mavrick's temper rose and so did his energy; he brought his hands together and formed a huge fireball, about the width of his arm-span. He planted his feet firmly and fired it at her.
Daine smirked and caught the ball, knowing it couldn't harm her. Mavrick growled and smacked his hands together, causing the ball to explode in Daine's hands. She was blown back into a drycleaners/tailors store window.
Daine rubbed her head and stood only to find that she had landed in a basket of pins and sewing needles. She groaned and dusted the needles off along with some shards of glass, pulling out the embedded ones. A couple of needles and a small shard of glass had embedded themselves pretty deep into her hand so she yanked them out letting her blood drip out to form a blade of diamond. (Yeeesss diamond)
Daine licked the visible wounds on her arms, making them close instantly.
Mavrick charged again, his hands once again flaming. He fired a stream of fire balls straight at her, Daine prepared to block, but found herself shielding her eyes when a sudden flash of light emanated from them. When she looked up Mavrick had disappeared in the flames, Daine stared at the remnants of the fire in mid air and thought to herself, 'Neat trick, I'm warm…I'm never warm!' she squeaked in surprise. (XD isn't that cute…. she's completely hopeless ¬¬;;)
Mavrick appeared behind her and grabbed for her long blonde hair, taking it in both hands and yanking her from the ground.
He swung her hard into a wall behind him and her form broke through it, landing through a class case filled with china dishes, shattering everything.
Daine groaned and looked down at her dress; "this is getting ridiculous…" she jumped out of the glass and brushed off the shards as best she could before looking up and getting kicked in the stomach, causing her form to go through the window of that store and land out on the street.
Mavrick jumped through the window and landed on the sidewalk watching Daine as she growled with frustration at the shards of glass now once again imbedded in her body
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Ayanna caught up to them the moment Daine got knocked out into the street. She watched the display with curiosity and surprise. She leapt up high to get a better view.
She stood above them on the roof tops of one of the buildings they had nearly totaled.
'What a mess, how are we gonna explain this one…?' She sighed and watched as Daine dusted herself off and jumped into the air. Mavrick stood in the middle of the street again and started to conjure up more flames. Ayanna stood back a step, the heat was intense, and seemed to be rising.
Mavrick summoned enough fire to melt the tar in the street. There was so much heat that it melted the street into a pit of tar, except for a patch he was standing on.
Daine took that moment of her frustration and fired several deadly blasts of energy at him.
Pillars of fire and tar rose from the street and blocked Daine's blast, making her hiss with even more frustration.
Mavrick conjured up more fire and surrounded himself with it. The fire swirled and mingled with his form until it merged together on his back forming large flaming wings.
One swift flap and he was parallel to Daine in the air. Daine stared at him with disdain and shot another blast at him, she got his arm and the skin nearly melted off his bicep. He paid no mind to his arm as he grabbed Daine out of the sky with it and pushed her, head first, into one of the fiery pillars coming up from the street below.
Ayanna stepped back from the immense heat and peeked through her eyelashes at the scene. Her eyes widened as she witnessed Mavrick's assault.
He held Daine against the pillar as she struggled and he began to ruthlessly bunch her back until he heard bone cracking, meaning her spine was giving way to his beating.
She watched Mavrick's ruthless display and winced when his blows became bloody. Daine grunted and growled with frustration as her back was assaulted over and over again, her cold blood spilled over his fist, freezing it solid.
Mavrick continued to punch his frozen fist into Daine until she broke away. She flew above him to get away and to allow her now massive injuries to mend. Mavrick didn't give her that chance, however; he came up to her and struck her to the ground.
Daine sat up, her eyes and hair gone completely black, the ground started to freeze beneath her with her rapidly spilling blood. "Fine then…. fight…..a dragon…" Daine stood, planting her feet sternly with a glint in her eyes that would mean certain death for Mavrick, her dragon like wings grew larger as did her body.
It changed; her skin became coarsely hideous and scaly rough. Mavrick hovered, unflinching. His eyes had gone piercing white, staring Daine in the eye as though she wasn't a threat, black meeting white. It was like a fight between a confused good and half evil.
Daine grabbed Mavrick from the air and swung him into a store window, the people previously hiding there, ran for their lives. An unfortunate man ran in Mavrick's path as he stood and the man was thrown to the side with a ruthless punch from Mavrick.
Ayanna watched his display and knew she couldn't let them continue any longer. She hopped onto the overhang of the store below her and stood back from the flames that flew round from Mavrick's previous actions. "If I'm not careful I'm gonna be a crispy kitty" she sweat dropped and shook her head, "….man that was corny…" she watched the battle a little longer then ducked as her position up there was becoming hazardous.
Ayanna hopped down to the sidewalk and dodged to the left to avoid an air born slab of concrete. 'Damn them… they're making it really hard to take a fricken step!' Ayanna glared at the skirmish taking place.
She finally made it to the street unscathed and watched as Daine made a wide swap at him, pummeling him into the tar beneath her.
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Hiei jumped back from Sade as the power intensified. He peered slightly through his lashes and watched as Sade was lifted from the ground by her necklace, struggling somewhat violently to gain control of her power.
"Stop it, why won't you listen…." Sade murmured in a chocked voice, her hands holding tightly to the charm.
Hiei watched her face closely, noticing that she didn't have a look of determination anymore; she had a look of fear and confusion.
"What the hell…?" an even brighter light jumped from the charm and this time, took form, the form of a blue-green serpent, not unlike Hiei's black dragon, or the one Sade had conjured earlier, but different, very different. It was bigger than the one she created earlier, but smaller than Hiei's dragon. It encircled itself around her, its face came to hers, their eyes dead onto one another.
Hiei watched with blatant fascination and confusion. At first he thought it was a copy of his dragon, but it couldn't be, this had a weaker aura, and its coloring was different, not to mention its form was not the exact of his, not at all. Hiei watched glared on with blatant frustration and slight interest. What was going on?
Its head was long and slender and on it were four horns, two smaller ones above its solid white eyes and two larger ones that curled back into spirals around its ears which seemed to look like a water dragon's ears, flat and webbed, and were a jade green. Its body was definitely what made it different though, because it was very smooth it was almost like the body of an eel, but it was too smooth, flawless even. As though it was made of water.
The Black dragon of the darkness flame was just that, a black dragon of flames, this one was a mix of blue and jade, say for the row of black spines along its back, which seemed somehow out of place, not to mention it was made of an element basically the complete opposite of that of his. This was definitely something to see.
Sade struggled against its hold but somehow knew that such movement was futile. 'Now what have I done wrong?' Sade asked herself, her eyes wide yet focused; she didn't speak a word out loud, in fact she didn't even seem like she was breathing, it was almost like she was drowning and was staring blankly at what was drowning her.
Hiei glared at the beast and drew his sword, though he stayed where he did, not really knowing if he could harm the thing. Suddenly he heard something, it was the serpent. It was speaking, but not out loud.
The serpent eyed Sade closely, its bluish-green body rapped tightly around her, while it's piercing white eyes stared her down Yes, what have you done? More than you realize apparently… Sade blinked at it.
You're too weak; the power I possess is too great for such a weakling like you to carry, how could you let such a thing happen? Sade strangled a gasp at its wordsyour sister was more capable than you could ever be and you see what's happened to her… you're so irresponsible, running away from problems, causing trouble where it's not needed, and playing silly games while there's something you should be doing… Sade's eyes widened even more, and then she closed them with a scowl, not wanting it to see her surprise. It seemed to know more about her than she did, Now I'm stuck with you, I should kill you and free myself, but it goes against my nature… and my purpose Sade opened her eyes, the shock had gone but her eyes were still wide with confusion.
Hiei didn't give it another thought; he grunted and lunged at the serpent, katana first. He successfully struck, making a wide gash in its neck, or what he assumed was its neck. Hiei smirked with the contact but was soon jilted ( ;;) when a long green tail made its way around his body, trapping him along with Sade.
And this… a demon… the gash lit up and disappeared as though it had never been, Hiei's eyes widened slightly and then they narrowed. …a demon you have chosen as your lover, how like your mother you are… it mocked.
Hiei's eyes widened even more slightly and he glanced at Sade from the corner of his eyes, she didn't meet his glance however. "Who and what in hell are you?" Hiei seethed.
The serpent had no facial expressions, but it almost seemed to smirk. It brought its head to meet Hiei face to face, you, demon… questioning me? It inquired indignantly; suddenly it twitched, catching Sade off guard.
Hiei did not flinch with the slight motion but instead stared into its eyes with the same cruelty as he did any other demon or foe who dared to meet him face to face. "What are you def as well as ugly or are you always this stupid?" Sade barely felt the tremble caused by the serpent but it had caused the serpent to tighten its grip around them, causing her to breathe in sharply and Hiei to grunt uncomfortably.
She looked over and stared at Hiei with awareness, soon smirking at his bravery and sharp words, either that or his ignorance.
The Serpent's eyes widened with shock such a mouth for such a small demon… it scorned, then it twitched again, but this time his grip didn't falter or increase.
Hiei's eyes narrowed, he'd been called short and one too many times that night, and he began to kick and holler, "If you weren't holding onto me like a coward then you'd know what this small demon is capable of!"
A coward am I? If you're so fearless and strong then why haven't you broken my hold, instead of screaming and complaining like a child? It questioned with amusement in its eyes.
Hiei growled and continued to wriggle and kick. Suddenly there was a slight vibration in the serpents body, Hiei stopped kicking for a minute to brace himself for the serpent's convulses but the vibration continued. He looked up at the Serpent who of which was tightening inwardly with its eyes closed as though it too was bracing for something. Suddenly it opened its eyes, seemingly as confused as Hiei and together they turned their heads blinking.
They turned to notice Sade laughing, she was laughing at them. There was silence among the two and they looked from each other to Sade. She smiled at them as tears formed in her eyes from laughing so hard, "A child, he looks like a child…. But you're both acting like children…" Sade grinned at them as she relaxed and focused her mind enough to phase through the Serpent's body, which felt a lot like a surge of water when you dive into a lake.
What! It gasped in surprise. "I remember now… I know you…" Sade hopped onto the fire escape closest to its head. "…your name……Drigales…I remember your name is Drigales…" she said pointing to him.
The Serpent stayed quiet, then after a minute he dropped Hiei. It seemed to almost curse itself before it looked up to face Sade, So… you think you're smart now because you figured it out huh?… Sade nodded at him, "I remember a picture of you, and the name, because that name is our name… is it not?" she smiled again and looked down at Hiei, "are you alright?" she said with strange sincerity.
Hiei got up from the ground and dusted himself off, glaring up at her from the corner of his eyes, "……Hn…"
Sade took that as a yes and shook her head, not expecting anything more from him. She faced the Serpent again as he coiled the rest of his body around himself; You're very much like your mother… and that… you should have some pride in, if not anything, but I still believe you truly aren't the one to handle me, though I don't have much of a choice in the matter anyway the serpent's persona changed slightly from a threatening beast to a more familiar creature, though he still seemed very much disdained.
Sade could scarcely remember a serpent like him before, but the one she remembers was red, with orange spikes, and he looked so much more different in features, though still generally the same. His picture was in a book her mother kept in a locked box under her bed. Sade vaguely remembered finding the key to that treasure box and searching through its contents, which were many assorted photos and notes of ancestors and helpful creatures and demons such as Shanna.
"So let me guess… you're the result of what I've done to myself…" she smirked as he blinked. don't pull that mind reading game with me, I AM you! He growled impertinently.
Sade laughed again, "Wrong snake, that's the very reason I know you, that and the fact that your tail is green and the rest of you is blue, which I can assume…" she played with another braid from her hair again and looked at the blue streaks, "Is a result of my hair accident…" she smiled down at Hiei.
Drigales nodded reluctantly and without warning jerked again, this time even more violently. Sade stared at him puzzled, "What the hell is that? What's wrong with you?" Sade glared at Drigales uneasily.
Drigales trembled and then went into a series and spasms, jerking left and right until he hit the brick wall of the building across from the fire escape Sade stood on. He fell to the ground and twitched once again before lying still.
Sade looked down on him in pity and for the first time noticed the row of black spikes, glowing on his back. "Wait… those are…" Sade jumped down from the fire escape and ran to Drigales' side.
Hiei strolled up behind her and peered at the spikes again. Sade looked down at her arm, noticing the bluish black dragon mark was no longer there, she reached out with the same arm to touch one of the unusual black spikes.
As quick as Hiei could grab her and jump back, Drigales was off the ground and thrashing again. Sade watched with worried eyes as he threw himself to and fro.
She finally met Hiei's eyes and, for once, the cold crimson did not glare back with hate, but had maybe a hint of empathy. She smiled inwardly, though she would not have preferred his sympathy, she was somewhat glad to receive an emotion from him other than anger and hate, even if she was the one who caused him to feel those toward her in the first place.
Hiei looked away and glared at the thrashing beast adjacent to them. He watched as the black spines on its back began to glow and flame, very much like the dark fire of the makai.
Hiei's eyes opened ever so slightly with realization and he glanced down at Sade in his arms, who of which hadn't seemed to have taken her eyes off of him the entire time. He blushed a bit and turned his gaze from her to Drigales again. "He has the Koku ryu ha en satsu inside of him…" Hiei stated matter-of-factly. (Umm, I think I might have written that wrong, if so…tips are very useful ;)
Sade nodded knowingly, "what are you going to do? He's no longer in my body, so I can't give it back to you my way…" she bit her lip nervously, not having Drigales in her was like having an out-of-body experience, and without her body, she was no more than a floating thought, at least… that's how she felt anyway, it was a very disconcerting.
"Hiei, I'm sorry I didn't give it back sooner, but… but I…" "Shut up, stop apologizing already, it's not like it's going to help, get your ass in gear, that thing is part of you and has something of mine inside it, so spare me your babble and start thinking for once," Sade blinked at him 'For once? Look who's telling who to think…' she thought wryly.
"Wow, something of yours inside of a part of me… I like the way that sounds," she mused to herself. The next thing she knew she was nursing a bump on the back of her head with Hiei clenching a fist with one eyebrow twitching next to her, "get your mind back on track damn it!"
Sade glared at him with a sweat drop, "you didn't have to hit me…" she pouted.
Hiei turned his glare from her to Drigales and once again him and Sade found themselves dodging a continuously wriggling serpent. Drigales' seizures were even worse now and he was in more distress than Sade would have counted on.
She peered down at him from her place next to Hiei on the roof of the building above Drigales.
"I can't take this…. I have to help him," Sade knelt down slightly to jump back down but Hiei grasped the hood of her sweater tightly, preventing her from going anywhere.
"What are you doing? Let go!" Hiei glared at her with a look that said he wasn't letting go any time soon "I said let go…" "Why, so you can get yourself killed by your own power embodiment?" Sade glared at him for his interruption but her gaze softened with his slight hint of concern. She smirked at him and batted his hand away from her shirt and stood up straight "I don't know why you're concerning yourself with me, YOU have to help too; this is partially your fault" she chuckled before she leapt to the ground with Hiei on her heels.
"What are you talking about, how is any of this my fault?" he yelled to her as he jumped to one side avoiding the beast's tail.
"I'd spell it out for you…" she jumped to the left avoiding his tail as well, "…but I think we're a bit busy…" she leapt onto the broken fire escape and lunged at Drigales' neck, "don't you agreeee?" she squeaked out as she was thrashed around like a rag doll.
Hiei watched her as she climbed to the serpent's head and soon followed by jumping up his tail and then the black spines, which sparkled with his all too familiar energy. "I'm seriously getting tired of having to catch you woman!"
Sade climbed to the top of the serpent's head and looked down at Hiei "Then stop! I can catch myself anyway!" she grunted and reached forward almost slipping off when she lost her footing.
She grabbed hold of one of the smaller horns situated over his eyes and pulled herself up, reaching forward and touching the symbol on Drigales' forehead.
Sade closed her eyes and concentrated, whispering the words written on the back of her charm. "Endecha dormida, traiga adelante su function, y ahora cure la bestia ese energía de yo (t)" Sade clutched to one of Drigales' large horns when he let out a strange gurgling sound and fell to the ground still twitch ever so slightly.
Sade flew off of him and onto the ground right in front of Hiei who was just standing there with his hands in his pockets, smirking down at her.
Sade lifted herself off the ground and dusted off the dirt, "Thanks for catching me, I appreciate it, really, your good deeds have overwhelmed me tonight" she rubbed her right shoulder and finally looked up at him, scowling no doubt.
Hiei chuckled and smirked at her again. "Why? I thought you were perfectly capable of catching yourself…"
Sade scowled at him, "I didn't say it like that…." She muttered under her breath.
She turned to look at Drigales who had stopped moving all together. She began to walk toward him when Hiei stopped her again; she looked over her shoulder and glared at him "what's with you and grabbing me tonight?"
Hiei blinked at her words and pulled back, placing his hand back in his pocket and looking away.
Sade scowled at him again and squatted next to Drigales' head, touching his nose softly. "What are we going to do about your… umm… dragon?" she looked up at Hiei.
He grimaced, "I'd give you my suggestion but I doubt you'd take it," Sade sweat dropped and took his word for it.
Drigales lifted his head then and looked towards Hiei, but his eyes had gone from solid white to menacing red, with a fierce look pointed straight at Hiei. His body had also under gone a change as his light blue and slightly dark blue water scales had turned to navy blue and almost blackish blue and the part of him that was a jade green was now dark green and forest green.
With an uneasy 'umph' Sade fell back from her squatting position as Drigales slowly slithered his way toward Hiei.
Hiei drew his sword again and stood defensively. Drigales picked up the speed as Hiei backed up, then before Hiei knew it, Drigales had cornered him in the back of the alley. Hiei looked at his surroundings and then at his pursuer. He opened his mouth to speak when all of a sudden Drigales took water form and dove into his mouth.
Sade watched with slight horror as Drigales' entire body entered Hiei's. She held her hand over her mouth and watched as Hiei slumped to the ground, dropping his sword and clutching his stomach. He looked up at Sade and she gasped as she witnessed his eyes roll back into complete white, signally that Drigales had taken over him.
Sade warily made her way to him as he stood. Hiei, or Drigales rather, looked down at his right arm, once again adorned with the Koku ryu ha en satsu. He smirked and looked back up at Sade "don't be so skeptical, I'm not keeping his body, I was just getting sick of that stupid dragon trying to take over mine," cam the disembodied voice of Hiei and Drigales combined. He strolled up to Sade and pushed back the long bangs on the left side of her face, tucking them behind her ear. Never having felt such a gesture before, Sade blushed furiously, her face turning a lovely shade of pink.
Drigales, now being in the body of a creature that's capable of facial expressions (but just refuses to use them), smiled, his solid eyes shining in the moon light. Sade had never seen this look on Hiei and it furthered her blush to an awesome red. Drigales peered at her observantly.
"You know, I lied to you… maybe you do deserve to keep me… and judging by the way this demon's locked up emotions are filtering out inside of him… I'd say you have a way with people," he smirked again at her blush and leaned into her, whispering softly onto her lips "you should really learn to be more careful about who you kiss, just keep me closer to you than anyone and we'll get along fine…" with that said, he kissed her confidently, Sade could feel his power rushing from Hiei's body back into hers, the surge was so exhilarating that she threw her arms around Hiei's neck and returned the kiss.
When she felt whole again she pulled back from Hiei and looked up into his eyes. No longer did the white eyes of Drigales meet her own but the confused and dazed glare of Hiei instead. Sade blushed and pulled away, folding her arms behind her back.
Hiei watched her stroll away with utter bewilderment, then rushed after her, soon after, for questioning.
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(t) (Lay asleep, bring forth thy role, and heal the beast that I now control)
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Mavrick grabbed Daine's tail and swung her violently in a circle till she was dizzy. He paused suddenly then slammed her into the ground and stepped on her back. Daine growled with frustration and pure hate for Mavrick, she stretched her tail out and managed to get it rapped around Mavrick's hands, proceeding to squeeze to make him let go.
In response to Daine's tail, Mavrick gripped it in two places and pushed down on her back with his foot till there was a loud snap and a shrill scream from Daine. The sound of her tail snapping wasn't the sound she needed to hear, or the pain she needed to feel with her face down on the cold street.
Before Daine could lift herself and break Mavrick's limbs as she had intended, she was lifted from the ground by her tail again and soon made contact with a bricks of the building across the street. Daine jumped away from the wall and shook off the rubble, starting to heal her wounds. Mavrick growled incoherently at her and ignited his hands once again disappearing in the fire.
The half demon stared on into the streets where nothing but destruction and rubble met her wondering eyes, "where'd that bastard go!" Daine glared out into nothing then licked a wound on her wrist; before she knew it, she was on the ground again, with her head thrown back and her hair yanked back in the hands of a crazed flaming Mavrick standing on her back.
Daine was getting frustrated with Mavrick's constant attempts to prevent her from healing and she wasn't going to take his shit anymore. She flapped her wings swiftly, making a gust of wind throw Mavrick off of her.
Ayanna watched closely, every hit, every bash, every slice and flame made her flinch. She didn't trust Daine as far as she can deeply scratch her and leave a scar. Daine's distaste for Mavrick made Ayanna even more uneasy with their battle. She stayed far from their battle ground but stayed close enough to be able to jump in incase Daine decided on using her own measures.
Daine stood and raised her hands to the sky, a bolt of lightning hit her and she caught it in her palms. With a determined grunt she held the bolt in her hands and placed them in front of her, whispering a spell under her breath, she channeled her energy into it; it began to grow in her grasp.
Mavrick's eyes glowed in the light of the growing electricity in front of him and charged at the provoking illumination.
Daine pushed her hands out further, straightening her arms and pushing her palms forward and flat. As Mavrick attacked, Daine shoved her palms forward again and pushed them into his chest, causing the lightning to jolt into his body.
Mavrick jerked back as the lightning coursed furiously through his system. He screamed out with a wail that could very well have shattered glass, but didn't get the chance as he hit the ground with a grouse thud, with Daine on his chest, her knees in his ribs.
"Damn you, I'm not allowed to kill you, so relax before I'm forced to do something Sade'll make me regret." She bore down on his chest with her knees, restrained his legs with her broken tail, and fast held his shoulders with her hands, with the added weight of her wings as aid.
Mavrick strained to breathe but his struggling was unrelenting. Daine was almost thrown off until she did the unthinkable and stabbed him in the stomach with her diamond blade.
He cried out again and she got off of him, staring almost apologetically down at the, pinned down, growling Mavrick. He squirmed persistently and pulled at the blade.
"Damn you, why couldn't you just listen!" she gritted out.
"What have you done?" came a voice from behind her; Daine whirled around and glared at its source. Ayanna stepped into the light of a broken street lamp. "What the hell have you done!" Ayanna's eyes were wide and slit with disbelief.
Daine stared at her, and then at Mavrick's completely blood soaked middle. Her eyes widened with realization as Mavrick's struggling became less and less and he slowly became still. Daine dropped to her knees by his side, the only motion left in him was the steadily decreasing rise and fall of his chest and his confused eyes darting around, trying to find something to focus on.
Tears formed in Daine's eyes as the realization of what she did weighed heavily on her thoughts, "He….he….he….no… I didn't… he was… it was his…" she muttered remorsefully.
Mavrick's eyes finally rested upon her face as his breathing came to a steady stop and his eyes slid closed. Daine's eyes froze on his face and she became frantic. She looked up at Ayanna who held her hands over her mouth then looked back at his body and placed her hands on his shoulders, shaking him forcefully.
"God damn you, wake up, you're not dead, you're not dead, wake up you bastard!" she tried placing her hand over his chest and reviving him with her energy but she was too put out from the fight and only managed a small dose. He didn't move. "You bastard! Wake up! You were supposed to be stronger than this, Sade said so!" she screamed at him to vindicate herself. "Sade would never forgive me!" she shut her eyes, almost consumed with regret.
Ayanna stepped forward to offer her word but as soon as she got within a foot of Daine there was swift gasp and the sight of Mavrick's hatefully confused eyes met Ayanna's violet orbs.
His eyes glared black and his hands once again found the hilt of Daine's weapon and resumed their tugging at the blade through his gut.
Daine jumped back, shocked, relieved, and over all pissed. He scared the living good and evil out of her, and for that, she would give him no mercy.
Mavrick growled with frustration and finally grabbed the weapon by the blade. Heating his hands; he managed to set the blade aflame and suddenly it broke. He through the top part to the side and slide his body off of the blade.
Daine gaped at him, "That's not possible! How the hell…" she was cut off when a foot made contact with her stomach and she flew into another window. She landed on a pile of tiles that shattered under her weight.
Healing wounds created from broken glass was starting to irk her, and deeper wounds from tile were even worse. Frankly, it was becoming a pain.
Daine brushed off the shatters; ready to strike back when unexpectedly "ACHOO!" she looked down at herself, feeling oddly sticky, and gasped. She was covered nearly head to toe with pink paint from a dented can near her foot.
She slumped to the floor, "gaahhh PINK!" she sobbed and sneezed. She sat there apparently unable to move. Ayanna blinked at Daine's frail form on the floor of the home decorating store and nearly laughed aloud.
She would have laughed if it wasn't for Mavrick's flaming form in the corner of her eye. She turned her head to him, staring uneasily at his hands, clenching and unclenching still with the desire to destroy under his confusion.
Ayanna turned her body to face him and got down into a defensive position incase he went for her next. He didn't move, instead, he just stood there, staring, flaming, and breathing unevenly with jagged, sharp, intakes of air.
After a moment she stood up straight, completely bewildered by his behavior. His form abruptly extinguished and became flaccid. He staggered slightly as he slowly shuffled over to her. Ayanna watched him pitifully and as his arms reached for her she took hold of them with a deep exasperated sigh, "I'm sorry about this…" she murmured and then took hold of his arm and swung him over her shoulder, slamming him into the cement, cracking it significantly.
Mavrick lye still as Ayanna knelt next to him, making sure he was still breathing. She rolled him over onto his back as a pool of blood began to form around him. She sneered at the metallic scent and peered at his face, now still and relaxed. She breathed out a sigh of relief because it was finally over.
Suddenly the air was knocked from her lungs and her onto her back, hitting her head harshly on the cement. She gasped for air but it did not come. She opened her eyes to see a once again flaming Mavrick with his blazing hands tightly wound around her neck.
Try as she might, she could not jar his grasp from her neck. She gasped for air again, her claws digging frantically into his hands. Mavrick straddled her on his knees, his hair, once shinning a silver-ish grey, was now matted with blood, both his and Daine's. He had his hands firmly rapped around her slender neck with her head lifted considerably off the ground.
Ayanna struggled with his hands but felt that his strength was waning; feeling his muscles waver was more disconcerting than his strength increasing.
Her breathe was slowly leaving her to unconsciousness, she could feel it slipping in and out. She reached out for him, her claws extending to make some sort of contact with his body. Her vision blurred and her sound grip with reality bent to the clicking of rapidly approaching footsteps and a disgruntled grunt from Mavrick.
As Ayanna looked up to the sky, stars slowly blinked out of her vision as everything looked black, a flash of blue light brought her sight back and the cold disfigured cement coming in swift contact with her head again brought her back to reality. Ayanna coughed and breathed in fast nourishing breathes of much needed oxygen. She opened her eyes to blurs and blinked a couple of times to bring back her focus. As the broken figures of the scene around her started to become more identifiable, the first thing she focused on completely was Mavrick's limp body, now entirely stilled.
Ayanna blinked a couple more times in confusion as Yusuke ran to her side and helped her sit up, "Hey, can you hear me? Hey!" he shook her slightly and she turned to look at him, only just feeling his presence.
"What…what happened?" she blinked again at him, then at the lump of Mavrick's body, "you tell me…" he murmured.
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At Genkai's temple…
While pondering the events that had happened earlier that day, Ramura and Genkai looked after the present company left in their care.
Shanna stayed by Ramura most of the time, knowing he was the only real altogether one; she didn't like being stuck on the side lines while everyone else was out doing dangerous things.
"Are you alright Shanna?" Catharine could tell the half-breed was worried; Shanna didn't usually follow anyone around unless she needed to keep herself occupied.
Shanna stopped in the middle of the room and looked around, her two-toned eyes resting on the young psychic. "I…I don't know…I have a bad feeling…" her ears twitched nervously.
Rikku had just entered the room carrying plates and bags of snacks in his arms for the people in the room that requested them, but since he was so engaged with his 'task,' he wasn't watching where he was going and ended up walking into Shanna.
Rikku fell on her and the snacks flew every-which-way. Shanna sat up. Pushing the fallen Rikku off and dusting off the mix of chips, cookies, cakes, and other assorted treats he was carrying.
Rikku sweat dropped and scratched the back of his head, "…s'rry Miss Shanna, ah din't mean ta knock ya down like tha'..." he said apologetically.
Shanna rubbed her back and stood, "I'm fine, how about you? You should really watch were you're going and not where your food will soon be going…" she knelt down to help him up.
She smiled at him and held out her hand, he gladly took it and they stood. Silence met them as a room of eyes, covered in assorted foods, was staring intently at them both.
Rikku sweat dropped, "Ehh... s'rry 'bou' that... guess ah goofed..." he bowed in apology once again.
Shanna sighed, she was much too antsy to do much of anything inside the temple, but she knelt down anyway to help him pick up the mess, that's when her eyes rose to the doorway and widened even further than anyone ever thought they could.
Standing there... were a very tired and slightly battle torn Hellen, Virin, and Simon.
Shanna blinked at their forms and Hellen smiled. Suddenly there was a loud squeal, Shanna looked over at Catharine who was in fits of happiness, her eyes lit up with sparkles and all, "Oh MY GOD! They're back, they're alright…!" Shanna leapt to her feet as Catharine ran to hug the excitable moon-fox.
Hellen smiled happily to see her friends.
Catharine let her go and stepped back, her joy radiated off of her in obvious leaps and bounds, and apparently psychic waves, Shanna stepped back and sweat dropped ;.
Shanna was as relieved as Catharine, but something bothered her…"Wait a minute, how did you escape? Genkai told us you were snatched up by those bastards mad quick…" Shanna put her hands on her hips, her very furry tail wagged slowly, side to side, with contemplation.
Hellen just smiled and giggled. "It was rather easy; those idiots didn't know what hit em'…" she grinned.
…………..NOTE………….
There, it's done damnit; it should be long enough to satisfy, no? I have not givin up on this damn story and I hope none of y'all did either…..how Hellen escaped…you'll find out next chapter, R&R pleeeeaaassseeee! ;; thanx