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The World of Songwinds Bishounen and Bishoujo:

Demoonica's Story: Home

by

Lady Demoonica Darkmoon

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Kagome drew her bow and let fly with another arrow, hitting the bullseye painted on the far away tree. "Seems everyone is finally settling in."

Beside Kagome, Raine nodded. "Indeed they are. We've been due for some much needed down time."

"I thought that was what Demoonica's leave was for." Kagome laughed. "But we should have known, as long as Demoonica is out in the world travling, we aren't really going to get any rest."

"No." Raine shook her head. "We are not." She lifted her staff. "Light! Photon!" Several streaks of light shot out of her staff, circling around the target and hitting it at random. Raine frowned. "Never works as well on non-living targets."

Kagome knocked another arrow into her bow with a nod. "I know the feeling, would be nice if the target was moving." As Kagome took aim at the tree again something shimmered into existance several feet behind it. She lowered her bow. "Hey, isn't that one of the Monster-things Demoonica has spawning around while she's out?"

"I believe it is. It'll make a markably better target than the tree."

Kagome grinned. "I think so too. C'mon let's go set it off!"

As soon as they were in range, the portal released it's monster. Kagome hit it with an arrow, the sound a nice solid 'thwunk'. Raine moved in closer and smacked it with her staff, it didn't look strong enough to require a spell, causing it to disinagrate infront of their eyes and leave a glowing coin shaped object floating before their eyes. "Well, that was rather anticlimatic. Also, what do we do with this? They're useless to us without Demoonica's Gear to scan it and recieve the prize."

Kagome frowned. "That's true. Just leave it, maybe Demoonica will come this way and collect them."

"And wonder what in the world is going on?"

Kagome laughed. "Yes, that too!"

Raine joined in on the laughter and headed towards the next portal. "Let's see if we can leave her a treaure hoard to find."

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Riku yelped as once again his hind-end was hit with the Fire spell. He patted the singed spot on his jeans and glared at his sparing partner. "Dang it Leon, useing magic is unfair!"

"Not my fault I have the range advantage." Leon replied.

"Spells AND bullets..." Riku crossed his arms.

"It is a GUN-blade-"

"But I told you, I haven't learnt any magic. I hardly have shadows."

Leon sighed. He hated dealing with kids. "How about I teach you Fire magic?" Under his breath Leon mumbled the rest to himself. "With no depth perception teaching him this is going to take forever."

Riku thought it over. With a flick of his wrist his Soul Eater Keyblade disappeared. "Alright."

Leon walked over to the younger fighter one hand reaching up to Riku's face, just before it touched Leon said, "Try not to flinch."

"What-Ow!" Riku rubbed his temple. "What did you do to my head?"

"Unlocked your ability to use magic, I'm no court-mage though."

"I can use magic now?"

Leon nodded. "In a mannor. The ability is there, but not the understanding. This-OW!" Leon jumped back from the point-blank Fire spell.

Riku smirked. "Keh, payback."

A smile spread across Leon's face as he formed a fully charged Fire spell. He gave Riku one warnning. "Run."

All color drained from Riku's face when he realized Leon wasn't joking and he almost didn't move fast enough to dodge the incoming fireball. The resulting chase-battle was enertaining to watch, as long as you could dodge random Fireballs, bullets and once in a while Riku's Keyblade that had gone flying, half the time when he wasn't aiming for it to.

Before anyone realy noticed, others had joined in, notably Wolfram who's own use of a sword and mainly fire-magic kept him on even footing against Leon. Of course, there were no sides and the free-for-all environment of the training saw several aliances formed and broken during the morning. Everyone involved had fun on top of getting in practice, even if several people came away lightly (or severly) charred.

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Edward had retreated into the house as soon as the first bit of fire-magic had appeared outside. He'd slammed the door shut, leaning heavely against it and panting in terror. So far it had been no use trying to get over his fear, one overly sadistic Roy Mustang had seen to that, Ed simply couldn't bring himself to stay near fire-users... at least not when they were useing said fire abilities. He'd done his best during the tournament, dealing with Raine or Wolfram's fire-spells by holding back and staying out of the way, closing his eyes if he could aford too during a battle. The feel of the heat, the crackle of flame, the smell of the burning monster flesh... Ed heaved at the memory. He wasn't sure how he'd done it, made it through the tournament without breaking down horrably. Even now, rememebring the tounament was reminding him of the attack on his remaining family, when it had aleady been just him and his big brother.

Ed slid down the door until he was sitting on the hard wood floor. There were voices drifting out of several rooms, the living room, the kitchen and the voices from outside mixed in, too. He couldn't make any of it out clearly, so his mind simply filtered it into the background. He pulled his legs up, curling in on himself while in a sitting posision, and hugged his knees to his chest. He wasn't aware of the tears running down his face or the footsteps of someone coming down the stairs a little while later.

The first thing Ed noticed when he became aware of the world around him again were a pair of big violet eyes almost too close to him to actually focus on. Someone had placed Damia on his lap, her back propped up against his legs. The baby was tugging on his braid, but otherwise not paying any attention to him. There was a hand gently brushing through his bangs and another hand simply pressed to his shoulder.

"Welcome back kiddo, flashback?" Inuyasha's voice came from Ed's left, and the hand on his shoulder gave him a pat, but the one running through his bangs disappeared. Edward looked over into Inuyasha's concerend face. Inuyasha lifted his other hand to his face, rubbing his nose. "Feh, ya'aint much older than my own kid remember?" The dog-demon tried to brush off his concern, but the hand on Ed's shoulder didn't disappear.

Slowly Ed nodded. On Edwards other side was Zander, sitting quietly. He'd been the one to find the unresponsive boy sitting against the front door, but had no idea how to help the younger teen. Only by chance had Inuyasha been moments behind him, at the top of the stairs while Zander was at the bottom of them. "Let's... I don't know, do you want to lay down?" Zander asked.

Ed turned to him for a moment, then a tug on his braid brought his attention to Damia. "How'd I get the baby?"

"Oh... actually she started crying and quieted right down when I did... so..." Zander shrugged.

"Babies are good at catching onto emotions. Well, that's what Kagome told me anyway." Inuyasha offered. "I think rest would be good." He patted Edward's shoulder again, then stood up. "Hand up." He said, reaching out for the baby.

Ed's movements were slow. "I've never held a baby before," he said, just as Inuyasha took Damia from him.

"It's nerve wracking at first, but you get better." Zander offered as he also stood up. He grabbed Ed's metal arm and pulled him up. In Inuyasha's arms Damia had switched her attention to the loose flowing hair belonging to the half-dog demon.

"At least it's not your ears?" Zander offered when Damia pulled on Inuyasha's hair hard enough to cause a wince.

Inuyasha frowned. "Only because she can't reach them yet."

Zander chuckled. A minute later, after a short protest from Ed, Zander and Inuyasha had him lain out in Zander and Demoonica's bed. "You're not going to hurt anything and this way we can keep an eye on you-" Edward started to interupt at this point, but Zander continued, "I know, I know. Really though, your room is too far in that... other space."

Ed sighed. "Alright." He rolled over to face the window, curling up on his side. The sound of a chair being pulled over indicated either Zander or Inuyasha weren't going anywhere soon. After a few minutes of silence Ed spoke back up. "Talking... helps, right?"

Zander replied. "So I've been told."

"Sure kid, you need to let it out." The location of Inuyasha's voice sounded like he was sitting in the floor.

With a deap breath Edward launched into the story of the events leading up to him being cared for by his older brother, the untimely deaths of their parents. Eventually he got around to the events leading to the day everything fell apart, the attack by a couple of purest on Ed and his brother, involving a Roy Mustang. It was a horable story. "... and... and..." Ed hiccoughed, then started coughing and had to take deep breaths to get himself back on track and breathing properly. "All because some people were convinced my hair color being different was a sign I was mixed!" He broke down again at that point, face burried in one or the other pillows.

"That's not even posable with the way Bishi DNA works." Zander said, more to himself than the others in the room.

Ed heard him though. "It- it isn't?"

Zander shook his head, even though Ed was turned away and wouldn't be able to see. "Well, no. You are an Edward Elric, you father has to be an Edward Elric... as long as your mother was a Bishoujo."

"My mom was a Whinry."

"Then..." Zander paused. "You are an Edward Elric, Demoonica's BishiGear even says so."

Ed chuckled at the explanation. Of all the dumb ways to prove something. "Then what?" Ed said as he sat up, more energetic than he'd been in over an hour.

"Well... these things are Demoonica's ideas, I don't know where she comes up with them." Zander couldn't hold back a laugh. "I think she lays awake at night thinking things up."

Ed's cheeks turned pink. He figited with the edge of the cover he'd messed up. "Wouldn't you know? You do... sleep..."

"Actually, sleeping is all, Ed. I'm not about to have this conversation guys, that's all you need to know." Zander paused and after a moment Ed nodded. Inuyasha nodded too, but his was in understanding for the siduation. "Back to the topic of Demoonica's odd ideas. Ever hear her get started on the part of the world that is programing? She swears they have put in all sorts of little varients so that Bishi end up with individual personalities and traits... all sorts of stuff. If she could see the codes for the world, she'd... well I'd be afraid she'd mess something up..." They all laughed. "I mean, sorry, I mean it! Sure she's talked to you about it, right Ed?"

"I remember her going on about... shiny-things and what the chances are in several thousands... I didn't really understand what she was meaning though." Ed said. Slowly the topic changed and everyone relaxed as Ed began to get back to normal.

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TBC...

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Note: The chances are 1 in 8192 for a Shiny. What the guys are recalling is Demoonica talking about the chance of a Pokemon Game randomly generation a 'shiny' Pokemon sprite. She's sugesting that because the BishiWorld takes a lot from the whole Pokemon idea, that perhaps this was also programed into it. It's her own explanation for why some Bishounen end up with different coloration than in canon, like Demoonica's platinum-blond Heero Yuy.

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