Demons and Fairies
Chapter 2
Forever and Always
While Bloom was looking for her imiko, Hiei was looking for his ember. In the two weeks since he awoke from the game he had used his jagan eye daily in order to try and narrow down the search for her. He was able to extend his sight as far as North America and that was it. Hiei told Koenma this and the toddler told him that might be a big help, along with a picture or description of who Hiei was looking for.
Koenma had narrowed the list of possible candidates to five people in the states, and that was it. Now Hiei had to convince Koenma to let him go to America to find his ember, or make a run for it and head to America without permission. Both options were bad, and the plan to run away may put ember in danger from crossfire between Hiei and his friends. He had to find her though, and if he couldn't be with her, he would at least like to know she was safe.
Currently Hiei was on his way to try and convince the toddler to let him go to America to search for the woman that he loves. As he walked into Koenma's office he spotted the toddler working on papers as usual, "I need to go to America to look for the person myself."
Koenma sighed, "I know, but you know that I can't let you go, or at least not without someone else with you."
Now it was Hiei's turn to sigh, "fine, I can take Yukina, and that should suffice correct."
"I wish it could Hiei, but I need to be sure that the person going with you can bring you back by force if necessary," he said.
Hiei knew exactly who the toddler meant, "No, Kurama can not come with me, I need to either do this with family or alone."
"That is the condition, it is either with him, or you are not going at all," Koenma said sternly. Hiei couldn't do anything, and he would rather not risk a chance for ember to be caught in a war between him and spirit world. He just nodded and turned to leave before Koenma said, "and you will need to tell him the reason you two are going to America, even if you won't tell me."
With that he just left in a very bad mood and made his way to earth to meet with Kurama to go to America. He hated that he might have to tell the fox about the fact he got married, or that he turned a little soft in the game for caring for a human. The fox would never let him hear the end of it if he knew anything of the sort.
As he got down to earth he went straight for the fox's home so he could ask that he accompany him to America so that he could find who he was looking for. "I need you to go with me to America so that I can find someone, we only need to make at least four stops," Hiei said as he appeared at Kurama's window.
"Hiei, I could go with you since it is still summer, but I have to take care of my mother," Kurama said.
"She will be fine, all you need to do is escort me for a week at most, she couldn't possibly be in such bad condition that she can't handle one week alone," he rationalized. "Besides with my speed and jagan we can get done in no time at all, and all you have to do is be there so Koenma can let me go."
"You know what you will have to do if you wish for me to go with you," the fox knowingly smiled.
Hiei had to think of something and fast if he didn't want the fox to know anything. He could tell him the truth or lie to him, but either way did not guarantee that Kurama would go anywhere. "Well I am waiting," the fox said, breaking Hiei from his thoughts.
He decided to go with a third option, "I will only tell you when we find this person, if you help me, then I will explain everything."
The fox actually looked like he was contemplating the offer, and the decision couldn't be seen on his face so there was no way of knowing what he was going to decide. When he finally spoke, Hiei wanted to actually smile, "I will accept those terms, but only if I have your word that you will explain why you are so set on finding whoever this person is."
"I will fox, just be ready to leave tomorrow morning, I don't want to wait long," and with that said Hiei sped away from the fox's house before anything could be said. He rushed past everything to tell Yukina that he might just find ember faster than what he thought.
Magix
Bloom had just told everyone about who she really was and that she wasn't a princess, but she didn't expect Stella to ask a question that plagued her mind. "Since we are telling secrets now, Bloom why don't you tell us why you asked your parents to alert you to someone being found. It sounded really urgent that the person was found," she asked.
"I don't know if I should tell you guys or not, and don't think it is because I don't trust you. It's just that I don't know how you will react," Bloom admitted to everyone.
"Bloom, you can trust us when we tell you that we would never under any circumstances judge you for anything," Flora told her.
"Fine I will tell you, how much do you know about how far earth has come in technology," she asked.
"We know they are primitive compared to everyone else in the magical dimension," Tecna answered.
"Well, Earth does have something that might make us less primitive, it is a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. There was one game that stood out above all others, it was called Sword Art Online, and you could actually fight and gain skill. The game however, had one flaw when it went online, a madman whose name I won't reveal had actually found a way to trap the players in the game. If you died in the game, you died in real life," Bloom said slowly with a depressed look on her face.
"You actually lived through a death game like that," Stella asked kinda mortified for her new friend.
"Yes, and a lot of people died, and I am not sure of the full body count, people are still being found from when they played and lived alone," she admitted.
"How does this relate to what you are hiding from us," Musa asked.
"I am getting to that, while I was in the game, I met this boy whose screen name was imiko. The game lasted for two full years, and so we decided to form a two person team at the beginning. It was actually fun, and at first he was cold and distant, but over time we fell for each other. Then we got married when the game was six months from being over with. We didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel though, so we didn't tell each other our real names because we didn't see a point. We just wanted to be together, but than someone actually beat the game, and everyone was freed," Bloom said as she was starting to get a little more depressed tone while rubbing the spot where her ring used to be.
"It is okay, we just have to help you find him, and we actually have good news for you," Tecna said.
"You do," she almost perked up a little.
"Yes, we had a debate that spanned the magical dimension when we had virtual reality, is a marriage in VR valid or is it void," Tecna stated.
"Do you know what the ruling on that debate was," Stella asked grinning.
"It means that you and your imiko are still married, since you are a fairy and all fairies are under magical law," Flora announced to the redhead.
"You mean that even though it was a game, we are still married and that we don't have to get married again," Bloom asked to which everyone nodded. She was so excited that she jumped off her bed and nearly on the floor if it weren't for her friends.
"Easy there, we still need you to tell us all about what he looks like so when he does come, we won't accidentally flirt with him," Stella said.
Once she said that, she wished she hadn't from the mad look in Bloom's eyes when she said, "don't even think of going there again. If you do I will torture you, and I will enjoy watching your face twist into agony and pain, and I will love to hear your screams as you whine and moan for me to stop. Do you understand what I am saying to you, because if you don't, I could always show you." What you can't expect her to fall for a demon and not pick something up.
Everyone let out a simultaneous, "yes ma'am," to that.
Almost like... magic she was back to normal and said, "good, so what do we tell Ms. Faragonda," Bloom asked.
"We tell her everything and then we can go from there," Musa said.
"Good, but can we tell her in the morning, I feel like I could do with a good night's sleep," Bloom asked. They all agreed and thought that a good nights rest is what they needed.
The next morning found Bloom and the other Winx in Faragonda's office with Bloom telling Faragonda about imiko and the fact that she was married to him. The look on the head mistress's face was priceless when she found out one of her students was married and that her husband was missing. "That is about all of my secrets for today Ms. Faragonda," Bloom told the old lady.
"Good, but as an administrator and a member of the company of light I have three questions to ask you," Faragonda said.
"What is the company of light," Stella asked.
"You will find out later, Stella, but for now are you ready Bloom," the older woman asked in a serious tone to which she nodded. "In order I want you to answer everything the best you can: 1. was the marriage consensual. 2. at any point during the relationship were either of you unfaithful. 3. did you consummate the marriage in the virtual world."
"Yes it was both consensual, no neither of us were ever unfaithful to the other, and yes we did consummate the marriage," Bloom answered with a blush on the last part.
"Good, now I don't know if he will agree to this, but since we are a college we do offer marriage housing," Faragonda announced with a smile.
"Wait, so when we find him, we get to live together again," she asked with hope in her eyes.
"Yes, but there are still rules that must be followed, and I would like to ask you about something you said before," the older woman asked.
"What is it, is it about the monsters that we had to fight," Bloom asked.
"No, it is about how you said you had given up hope that you would return to the real world. Why did you give up hope on that, but still continue to live inside the virtual one," Faragonda asked.
"It wasn't about which world I chose to live in, it was that after awhile of hanging around a place filled with death, you kind of start to lose hope quickly when friends start to die before your eyes," she said with sad tone.
"Tecna, can you upgrade Bloom's phone in case that her parents call with news about imiko," Faragonda asked.
"I was already about to do that after class today," Tecna said.
"Well, go on and get to class, tomorrow I have an announcement for everyone," the old fairy said as she ushered the younger girls out her door.
America (with Hiei and Kurama)
Hiei was tired, so was the fox, in the three days they had went to three of the five people that are possible matches for his love. He knew them in the game, but they weren't who he was looking for, and to make matters worse is that they knew who he was looking for. So he had to make sure they didn't tell the fox anything so that he would only find out when necessary.
They were on their way to the residence of a Bloom Peters, it was late at night and everything was going smooth until, "Hiei, are you sure that you can find who you are looking for."
"Yes Kurama I am, and all we have are two more stops at the most, one more if we are lucky," Hiei said with irritation as they were making their way to the Peters residence.
"When have we ever been lucky," Kurama asked rhetorically as they finally reached their fourth stop.
"Just be quiet and let me do all the talking fox," Hiei said before he knocked on the door.
Opening it up revealed there to be a woman with brown hair and brown eyes, "yes may I help you," she asked.
"Do you have a daughter that went by the name of ember in the game of Sword Art Online," Hiei asked.
"Yes, please tell me that you are imiko," the woman asked.
"Yes I am, and I would like very much to see my ember," he stated and ignored the gasp and more than likely look of surprise on Kurama's face.
"Good, come in and sit down while I call her," the woman said, "and by the way, my name is Vanessa," Vanessa said.
"Why it she not here," Hiei asked with more concern Kurama had ever seen him have, even in regard for Yukina.
"We discovered something and she had to go to college so that she could learn more about it," she said as she went into the kitchen to call Bloom and tell her the wonderful news.
Alfea
The Winx were currently trying to find Bloom who went missing before the ball to change her dress. Just as they were about to leave, Bloom's newly upgraded phone rang and Stella decided to pick it up, "hello Bloom's phone, this is Stella speaking."
"Stella, this is Vanessa, I know this is sudden, but where is Bloom I have someone here who really misses her," Bloom's mother said.
"We don't know, we had a ceremony here at Alfea, but she disappeared and now we can't find her," the sun fairy said with concern as everyone else looked worried.
The she heard a rustling sound on the other end and a voice said, "where is she, where is ember or Bloom."
"Like is said, I don't know at the moment we were looking for her when her phone rang," Stella said.
"Where is this Alfea, I need to go there now," the voice all but yelled at her.
"Listen I don't know who you are but if you are not magical than you can't get through the portal from where it will be opened inside the school," she said.
"Just open up this portal and let me worry about that," the voice said.
"Fine, you want to learn the hard way fine," Stella said as she opened up a portal to Bloom's home.
With Hiei
The portal opened up in the kitchen right in front of Hiei, and he was about to jump straight through it until, "Hiei, you need to think on what will happen if you jump without thinking."
Hiei ignored Kurama and jumped in anyway, with a sigh Kurama turned to Vanessa and said, "thank you for your time and I am sorry for the rush exit," and jumped into the portal after Hiei.
When Hiei came through the portal he saw four girls in fancy dresses looking at him like he grew a second head, "how did you get through the portal," a blonde asked him.
"No time for that," he said as he revealed his third eye and started to search for his ember. It took him all of two seconds before he found her about to fight three others. Not even informing the others he left the room through a window and not even acknowledging Kurama as he came through as well.
Hiei arrived to see Bloom transform for the first time against the Trix and decided to intervene since she was outnumbered. "Get away from my ember before I kill all of you," he announced to them as he appeared beside of Bloom.
"Imiko," she cried as she hugged him around his neck very tightly, and wouldn't let go until the white haired enemy spoke.
"Who is this your boyfriend come to save the day," she said with an evil smirk on her face.
"No, I am her husband and I came here to find her, and now to kill you," Hiei said as he unsheathed his sword to fight.
"A sword versus witches, how pathetic," the witch said as she shot ice shards from her hands. Hiei didn't even blink as he used his superior speed to slice the shards in mid air and than use his own element to send a torrent of flames towards the witches. The ice witch was stunned but regained her composure in enough time to form an ice shield that lasted long enough to allow her and the other two to flea from the area.
When the 'fight' was over he rushed to his ember and they both locked up in each others arms as they just wanted to embrace the other. They didn't say anything for a whole two minutes while in the embrace until Bloom had to ask, "imiko, how did you just do what you just did." It was at this time that the Winx and Kurama showed up just in time to hear the question.
Hiei knew this was coming, he hated to think what she would do once she knew what he was. He tried to think of all the scenarios, but he couldn't, and he finally thought that at least she was safe if she did reject him. With a deep sigh he said, "my real name is Hiei, and I am a demon," and with that said he could see her mind racing.
He didn't need his jagan to read her thought, and he knew what was probably coming, and so he decided to say something before she rejected him. "I didn't expect you to accept me, but I just wanted to at least make sure that you were safe before anything bad truly happened to you. I will leave now if that is what you wish," and with that said he turned to leave before he felt her grab his arm.
"I didn't say you could leave, you still owe me for not telling me you were a demon," she said in a sad tone.
"If I can, I will do whatever you wish," he said in a soft and caring tone.
"Three things, first stand still and do not move until I tell you to. Second, if you wish you can attack me after I am done, and third," Bloom didn't finish because she slammed her lips against his and basically shoved her tongue down his throat. She pushed so hard that they both fell down with Bloom being on top of Hiei while making out. When she pulled away she said, "you have to stay by my side forever and never leave me alone, and love me the same amount that I love you."
"You say that like I would ever want to leave you, don't worry I won't go anywhere if I can help it," Hiei said as they kissed again. When they were done with their make out session, Hiei helped her to stand up and said, "by the way, nice outfit miss cheerleader, you going to go for captain or grunt."
The other Winx didn't appreciate the comment but before they could say anything Bloom spoke with a chuckle, "yeah, I don't know how this was the chosen outfit for me, but i guess that I have to put up with it."
"Yeah, so are you going to introduce me to your friends or do I just introduce myself," he asked.
"Oh, I forgot about them, girls this is Hiei, formerly known as imiko. Hiei this is Flora, Stella, Musa, and Tecna," Bloom introduced.
"Hello, and this is Kurama my parole officer of sorts," Hiei said with a smirk as he saw their faces.
"Hiei, you shouldn't get them to think badly of you when you just met," his wife scolded him.
"I was only just having some fun, but fine," he said as he noticed that she was missing her ring, and so he played a game. "I do however want to know why you aren't wearing your wedding ring," he said and received a confused look.
"Hiei I thought you knew that what we get in the game can't effect the real world that much, so I don't have my wedding ring," Bloom said with a frown.
"That is true, but that is just because that I have it," Hiei said as he reached into his coat and pulled out a gold box. He bent down on his right knee and said the very lines he used in the game that he heard from a song. "I want you Forever, forever and always, through the good the bad and the ugly. We'll grow old together and always remember whether happy or sad or whatever. We'll still love each other, forever and always, so will you do me the honor of renewing our vows with each other."
"Do you even have to ask me that," she said as she took the ring and kissed her imiko, her demon, her Hiei.