Kaida Okami – Control
Chapter One
Unleashed
Kaida glared around her at the demons that circled her. She as slightly torn, a little bloody, and very angry.
The group of uprising demons Koenma had sent her, Kurama, and Hiei to control where smarter that she had originally given them credit for, but looking at them now, Kaida was forced to rethink her original conclusion.
These demons where either smarter than most lower/middle class, or their ring leader was giving them orders from the shadows.
Kaida snarled in defiance as one of the demons in question came a little to close for comfort. He jumped back at the sound of her feral growl and Kaida smirked.
Hiei and Kurama where in a similar state, all three of them having been separated and surrounded by their own group.
Kurama was doing better than the others, but not by any great stretch. His rose whip provided useful for clearing away opponents without having to get near them, and he could take out several adversaries with one swing.
Hiei was only slightly worse off, his glare and sword holding off the demons that surrounded him.
Kaida was the worse off of the three. Her fighting style demanded close range, now that she had run out of throwing daggers. The demons where more cocky with her, underestimating her, therefore giving her a slight advantage.
Fortunately for them, she was loathe to get any closer than she had to. Unfortunately for them, she was getting really pissed off.
One demon, a lithe cobra looking man, jumped at her, slashing at her with a vicious curved blade.
She jumped back, but not quickly enough.
The blade ripped into her stomach. The wound was shallow, but blood poured out of it regardless.
Kaida snarled again, and held a hand over the wound.
His eyes on her, the cobra demon bent to pick up a small glittering object off the ground.
Kaida saw it and her hand flew to her neck, where a small jewel had been hung on a necklace The same necklace that her cobra opponent held.
Kaida snarled.
"Give it back." She demanded, her voice low and menacing.
The cobra just smirked.
"I could sssell thisss for a niccce profit. After I'm done with you, of courccce." He said, stringing out the 's' sound in his sentence as in the manner of his people.
Kaida glared viciously.
"That was a gift you overgrown newt." She spat out. "and your going to give it back, or I'm going to rip out your heart and feed it to you through your nose before ending your pitiful excuse for a life."
She took a step forward and the cobra stepped back nervously. All the stories of the legendary Toorima flashing through his head in an instant.
He looked at her again and suddenly smirked.
Kaida halted her advance, surprised. Why had he stopped?
"You wont do it." He said confidently. "you would rather ssscare me and have me run away than actually kill me."
Kaida's eyes widened.
"Wassss thisss a gift from your lover?" He mocked.
Kaida blushed and her eyes narrowed in anger.
"One of them perhapssse?" he asked, gesturing over to where Kurama and Hiei fought.
Kaida's blush deepened.
"Ahh, I thought sssso." He said knowingly, viciously. "But which one could it be? Perhapssse if I killed him firssst, then you would be the one to run away."
Kaida's eyes contracted and her face became a stony mask.
"Hmmm…." He said, spinning the necklace idly. "maybe I should jussst kill both of them….?"
By now, the entire circle of demons was laughing. Mocking her.
Her head filled with images that weren't her own making. Hiei dead. Kurama dead. Herself, dead. She knew instantly that she was reading the cobras mind, without her telling her body to do so.
Suddenly, a small voice appeared in the back of Kaida's mind, its will and volume growing with every gruff laugh from the demons around her.
Kaida's eyes flashed red.
kill-
No…I can't….
Kill!-
No….don't…
KILL!-
Kaida snarled viciously as her eyes turned from midnight blue, to blood red. The iris color bleeding into the whites of her eyes, turning her vision pink.
Her eyes locked on the cobra.
Enemy. Fight. BLOOD-
Her mind screamed the orders and recognitions. Kaida obeyed.
She leapt at the demon with strength she had not possessed before.
The other demons to his right and left fled, but the cobra stood his ground.
"Stupid." She chuckled evilly, her voice turned to poisoned honey.
She landed on the demons chest, knocking him backwards. She leapt off him and spun, ready to jump him again.
She did, this time aiming for his throat.
BLOOD. KILL!-
Her jaws locked on the demons long neck, her fangs finding the great vein beneath his skin. Her canines pierced the vein and it burst, sending sweet, metallic blood flowing past her jaws, staining her clothes.
The cobra could feel his life ebbing away quickly.
He clawed at the demoness latched onto his neck but couldn't loosen her hold.
She in, return, clawed back, opening new wounds that he could hardly feel now.
Kaida released him and he dropped to the ground, staining the dirt around him red and turning it to mud.
Kaida's smile was evil and full of malice as she stared remorselessly at the dead body on the ground. True to her word she clawed open the cobras chest cavity and ripped out his stilled heart, throwing it into is face.
She turned around to her circle of demons, and smiled.
Her face and front where stained with blood and they fled from her.
She turned away and looked to Kurama and Hiei's fight.
With a happy growl, she jumped up from her crouched position and leapt again into the fray.
Her teeth and claws flew right and left, laying low anything that got in her path.
Suddenly she came face to face with Hiei.
Kill.-
Said the voice.
NO.
Came Kaida's voice, louder.
Why?-
it questioned.
Pack. Part of the pack! Hiei!
Kaida shook her head and her vision started to clear. She saw Hiei still staring at her, eyes wide with shock, mouth agape.
Suddenly, Kaida realized what had happened. How she must look.
Her own eyes widened and she turned tail and fled, eyes shut against tears of fear and anger and shame.