For the record, this was much better the first two times iI typed it. The power blinked off just enough to make me start from scratch. It took a whole new direction because I was tired of redoing it. Hope you like it anyway. I'm about to get into why Kairi has been traveling so much. (Remember what I said about new adventures?) She will eventually introduce the YYH boys to a villain without equal.

BTW: I've re-proofed most of my stories, so if you want to see them without so many typos, they should be about right now. I also put up a new fic, The Secrets Revealed. My first try at drama, but if I write it, you know there's humor involved. Yeah, 2 updates in one night again, and one of 'em was typed 3 times! I'm gettin' good LOL

Update: For those who want to know what Kai's daggers look like, there is now a link on my profile that leads to a photo of one. This isn't a drawing, it's an actual photo of one of my daggers. It's the one Kai's got based on.

I own nothing. Enjoy!

Kairi looked above her. She was surrounded by dozens, possibly hundreds, of red eyes. One particularly vexing set, was larger than the rest. She thought that the voice she'd heard came from the same direction as these.

Before Kairi could react, those eyes were gone. She felt a stinging in heer right thigh.

"Baldok smells fresh blood! This makes him hunger more!"

She whirled to see the largest bat she had ever laid eyes on, crouching down, getting ready for another swipe. He had to be at least 7 feet tall, maybe more, though in this position, she couldn't tell.

'He was already behind me before I knew he moved. He's too fast for me this way. This could require a little effort...'

"HAAAA!" The bat came at her. She dropped to the ground and rolled to her left, barely missing his claws. She noticed, as she fell, that his claws had been aimed where her throat should have been. If she'd tried to side-step him, she would be dead right now. Adrenaline began to rush through her. Adrenaline, and her father's blood...

"Human girl puts up a fight, she does! More than the other ones Baldok has tasted, but Baldok likes a chase! Baldok shall enjoy the game we plays!"

He sank back, ready to unleash another assault.

'I think I know how to handle this one...,' she thought. Unbeknownst to Baldok, the adrenaline rush had a way of stirring things inside of this girl. In the patch of sunlight she was standing in, he couldn't see the faint blue glow coming from her back either.

"Ready or not! Here he comes!"

He charged again, claws spread, but he missed his target. How did he do this? He found that his target was missing!

"What? Where does human girl go?"

He looked around frantically, trying to find some trace of his prey. This was starting to take on an all too familiar feeling. He backed up, in front of two trees, and waited for some sign of the girl; a twig snapping; a bush rustling; any sign would do. He remembered that human boy who had got away from him, but that boy had jumped. There was no way she could have stayed up that long. He continued to wait...

"AAAHHH!" he screamed as the searing pain shot through his wings. He tried to move, but that only hurt worse.

"Why can't Baldok move? He's stuck! What holds him?"

It was then that he checked his left wing. There was a blade sticking out of it! A dagger, with a curved blade, the top of which was lined with teeth, something like a saw blade, only they were much bigger, and like the blade, they were curved. He tried to pull again, tearing his wing even more. He saw that the end of the blade had been sunk into the tree behind him. The same was true for the other wing. If he tried to pull the dagger out, the curves would catch him. If he tried to pull his wings off of them, the teeth would shred him. He was trapped.

"How does he get free? What has that nasty human girl done to him?"

"If you call me a human one more time I'm gonna rip one of your wings off! Then you can fly around in circles!"

"What? Where is she?"

"Up here, jackass!"

"What? Human girls can't fly! How does she stay up there?"

"I told you to stop calling me that!"

Baldok could now see Kairi hovering right below the trees. She came a little gloser, and when she got out of the blinding sunlight, he saw two large wings on her back. They were royal blue, and feathery, not like his. They looked like they were from a bird or an angel...

The wings vanished, letting her fall to the ground. She landed on her feet, and stalked over to the struggling bat.

"My little one! They'll eat you if Baldok can't!"

"Wouldn't try it if I were you."

"Why not?"

"If you ever want those daggers out without ripping the skin off of those wings, you'll tell your pals to stay put."

"Baldok can get funny knives out without you!"

"Have fun. I'll be right here when the blood-loss starts getting to you."

The bat fought with all his might, but she was right. After a few minutes, the agony was too much. He stopped struggling.

"Now, if you think you can behave yourself, I might let you out of there."

"What does she speak of?"

"I think I've got a use for you."

The bat started to protest, but a twitch of his wing sent a jolt of pain to every nerve in his body.

"There's a compound in these mountains. They say it belongs to a psychic named Genkai. I need to get there. You've been here a while," she looked up at all the other bats in the trees, they were a silent testiment to her theory. "You should know where to find this place."

"NO! Baldok never goes near the old woman! Baldok has been hurt by her before!"

"You want to stay pinned up to that tree?"

"Baldok would rather die on the trees! The old woman hurts more, she does!"

"What if I told you that you weren't going to get hurt?"

"Baldok is already hurt! HUMPH!"

"And that I can make that pain go away?"

"Hmmmm?"

"I have healing powers. Cooperate with me and I'll let you go and heal your wings."

"She lies. She hurt Baldok. He can't trust her!"

"Baldok tried to eat her! And, worse than that, he called her a HUMAN!" she lashed out.

"Baldok never meant to eat her..."

"Whatever..."

"Baldok will help, if she promises him that he won't get hurt anymore."

"Deal."

With that, the daggers disappeared, leaving the bat to fall to his knees. Kairi used her song to heal his wings, just as she'd promised, and they set off toward Genkai's. Kairi's heart had a way of getting to her. She supposed that was her mother's blood. It was the part that made her stop on a trail to heal a butterfly that was lying injured in the dirt, or get a lost child to a safe haven. It was the part that hated to fight, and only did so as a last resort. Her father's blood, that was different. That was the part that took over after it was clear that a confrontation couldn't be avoided. The part she hated, yet, she knew that without it, she wouldn't have lived past the age of 8.

Baldok told her they were nearing Genkai's place. He had tried to back out on their deal. She had to put a belt around his neck, using it as a rigged leash, to keep him from turning tail. The other demons here were afraid of him. She could hear their whispers as they walked by. Some had even taken off running through the bushes, trying to get away. There were more demons in this part of the forest. She couldn't fight them all. She couldn't afford to have him turn-tail now.

It was also dark out. Kairi had decent night-vision, something she'd inherited from her father, but it was nowhere near as good as a bat's. Whether he liked it or not, he was going.

Just then, there was a rustling in the trees. Kairi looked up to see a redheaded boy, in his late teens or early twenties, sitting on a low branch. He dropped out of the tree. He stared the pair down with green eyes that looked cold enough to make Satan shiver.

"You should not have come here demons. You will get no sympathy from me."

Hmm... A redhead with green eyes... Now who could that be? This one is about to run in with A Little Misunderstanding head-on (it's already started if you noticed the part where Chu was holding the phone...) I'm about to get through showing Kai's personality and abilities and get her into some real stories.

Till then, REVIEW!