CHAPTER 14
Minoly ran forward and knelt beside Hiei's body. "Hiei! Hiei!" she exclaimed grabbing his shoulders and shaking him. "Wake up! Please wake up!"
"So the wench has returned after all," said a voice above her.
The girl looked up. Noda stood over her holding that huge scythe. "Noda!" she gasped, putting a hand over her mouth.
He grinned at her.
She stood. "You better not have killed him!" she snapped.
"So what if I did?" he challenged. "What is he to you?"
Mioly looked down at Hiei. "He is...," she thought a moment then looked back. "He is a very important person to me!"
"How can you say that?" he demanded folding his arms. "You barely know him!"
Minoly saw her book lying on the ground and picked it up. He kept it? she thought looking down at it. I thought he did not like me. Why did he keep my book?
Noda's laughter made her look up. She saw he was smiling at her once again. "He kept that little rabbit's tale," he said. "He was going to give it back to you." He laughed again. "Imagine that!"
"He?" she looked back down at Hiei's bloody face. "Was..."
"Yes," the shadow demon replied. "But now he can't. Unless he comes back from Hell to do it."
"Murderer!" Minoly screamed glaring at him hatefully. "How could you be so crule? How can you kill someone and just smile about it!"
Noda's face went serious as he looked at her. "He was nothing but dirt," he tried to justify himself. "He deserved to die!"
"No, he did not!" she protested. The wind picked up, blowing her black hair. She closed her eyes. "He doesn't deserve anything like that! Hasn't he suffered enough?" Her eyes opened. "He is..."
Noda saw her puples were glowing. What the? The wind blew stronger. The smell of dandelions filled the air. That smell again... is it from...her?
Minoly put her hands up and rested the book on her chest over the other thing she held there. "He is... he is a very important person to this world!" she burst out. "He has a right to live!" the light in her eyes grew brighter. "But you don't!"
The light spread over her whole body. Noda saw the girl's clothes and hair color change. Her outfit changed from her school uniform to a snow white kimono. Her hair turned purple taking over the raven black. The shadow demon saw her book transform into a white bladed fan.
When the light faded the girl looked at herself in surprise. "What the?" she said staring at her clothes and hair. "I... what happened to me?"
Noda ground his teeth. "Tanpopo youkai!" he growled. (A/N here: Tanpopo means dandelion in japanese)
She looked at him. "Dandelion...?"
"You're a flower demon!" he shouted.
"Flower demon?" she was totally confused.
"Yes, you're a flower demon!" Noda replied. He looked at the dandelion petals than back at her glowing puples. "And part light demon as well..."
She stared at herself. "A demon?" she asked disbelieve in her voice. "I'm a demon..?"
"Whose flower petals have the ability to heal!" he roared watching the petals. He brandished his scythe. "A cute little flower/light demon who heals," he muttered. "Also one who is about to die!" He came at her.
Out of instinct Minoly put up her fan to protect her face. The movement caused dandelion petals to blow everywhere. They swirled around the shadow demon's head and blocked his vision but not enough. He knocked them aside not realizing they were all slowly falling like snowflakes around Hiei's fallen body. He didn't notice they were glowing either.
The newly discovered flower/light demon saw him swing at her with that scythe. She ducked the blow and shoved her fan up. The small blades embeded themselves in the shadow demon's neck.
Noda's puples shrunk and a gurgled sound escaped his throat.
Gasping at what she had just done Minoly pulled out the blade. Blood splattered all over her face and clothing. "I...I," she stammered staring at him in horror. "I'm sorry.."
Noda grabbed his neck and glared at her. "You witch!" he yelled swinging at her with his weapon.
The healing power of those dandelion petals stopped at soon as their master was hurt. They were only able to heal Hiei enough to close a few minor wounds as well as bring him back to conciousness. When their purpose was done the flower petals faded and vanished as if they were never there...
The fire/ice demon came to just as Minoly's scream split the air. He sat up surprised.
He saw Minoly standing in front of Noda. She was wearing a white kimono and holding a white fan. He even noticed her hair was purple. What? She looks exacly like she did in that weird dream I had...
Noda's scythe cut into her body. Hiei saw blood on the girl and on the shadow demon especially his neck. Suddenly the girl's clothes and hair changed back. The fan turned into her book and dropped out of her right hand.
"No!" he gasped.
Minoy fell backwards. Hiei got up and ran to her. He caught her in his arms before she fell onto the ground.
"Minoly?" he said looking at her concerned.
The girl's face was bleeding. She opened her eyes. The light in them seemed faded. "Hiei?" she asked.
"Minoly, what are you doing here?" he asked.
"I sensed you were in trouble," she said, touching the area where his heart was. "I felt it here. I had to help you."
"Minoly..." Her hand dropped and she closed her eyes. "Minoly?"
"Pathetic."
Hiei looked up. "Noda," he growled.
"I thought you didn't have time for love," Noda said mockingly. "Why do you care about her so much? And why.. are you still alive!"
Hiei didn't feel like telling the stupid shadow demon anything. Baka! Damn baka! Laying Minoly gently on the ground he stood straight up. "That's none of your concern, Noda!" he snapped. His right arm crackled with electricity. "The thing you should be concerned about is the thing you forgot I had!"
Noda's mocking look froze. "What?" he demanded suddenly enraged.
Hiei began to slowly unwrap the bandage around his right arm. "When you were doing your research on me you forgot one minor thing." Hiei held up his arm. It crackled again. "This!"
Noda's eyes got bigger when he spotted the black dragon tattoo on Hiei's arm. Some how he knew what is was and his expression changed to that of fear and fascination. "The dragon," he said in a lustful voice.
Hiei smiled. "Right," he said. More sparks. "Too bad you won't be around long enough to research it!" He came at the shadow demon. "Dragon Of The Darkness Flame!"
The huge black dragon came out of Hiei's arm and barreled toward Noda like a run away bullet train. Noda didn't even bother moving. His face held a strange expression as the dragon came toward him. The second before the dragon reached him he gave Hiei a strange triumphant look. When he disappeared he was smiling.
The dragon, having served it's purpose, vanished as well.
Hiei stood there panting for a few seconds then sighed. Noda was gone but he felt no better. Something about the shadow demon's face disturbed him greatly. He died smiling... Smiling? Who would die smiling..? Did.. did he know.. something... about... the dragon.. after all..?
Hiei pushed it out of his mind. He'd worry about it later. Right now he had other things to worry about. He turned back to Minoly who was lying on the ground covered in blood. He knelt down beside her and rested her head on his arm. "Minoly?"
She opened her eyes again. Yes, he'd been right. The glow had indeed faded.. a lot. "Hiei?" she said weakly.
"Don't talk," he ordered. "Save your energy. It will be all right."
She smiled at him. "So you have... some.. good.. in you.. after all," she said her faded glowing eyes reflecting his image. "I knew.. you did..."
"Minoly..."
She closed her eyes. "I'm glad I got to see it," she said. "Even if it's the last thing I will ever see..."
"Don't say that!" he exploded. He felt tears coming to his eyes but held them back. "Never say that! You're stronger than that! Minoly, you can't die! I won't let you!"
She just smiled.
Hiei looked up. Through the trees he spotted what looked like a shrine. How could I have missed that before?
He remembered something he'd been told once. If you prayed to the gods in the shrine your prayer would be answered. He didn't believe in that kind of stuff but it was worth a try.
He picked Minoly up. It had to work.
He walked toward the shrine.
A/N
Umm sorry. I am very bad at this stuff. I made up the part about the shrine and the gods. I know very little about japanese traditions. Don't kill me! Okay one of you people asked me how the purple haired girl in Hiei's dream could have been Minoly and now you know. When she goes into her demon form her hair color changes. Kinda liked the Tokyo Mew Mews, Inuyasha (new moon), and Danny Phantom. I hope you liked this chapter. When I created Minoly as a demon I wanted her to be able to fight, just a little bit, and have healing power. In One Piece there was a guy who believed cherry blossoms could heal sick people. I figured since that can happen any flower can heal. :D :sweatdrop: Why else would people bring flowers to people in hospitals..? Umm that's about it. If I made Hiei OOC I am sorry. I am also sorry if there are any spelling or grammer errors I try my best to not have any of them but sometimes it happens. One more thing. Thank you for the reviews I've gotten so far on this fic. Without them I would never finish this. :D