Demons and Fairies

Chapter 4

What the Hell

The Winx Club were sitting around Stella's room waiting for Bloom to come over and explain her plan. They had all heard the outburst from this morning and new that they were going to be finding her husband with classes over for spring break. Not to mention that they will be watching a possible blood bath in a literal sense so everyone was nervous.

Bloom came through the door at that moment with a look of worry on her face and said, "I know this is a lot to ask of you, going and watching people get killed isn't really how I wanted to spend my break either."

"Don't worry Bloom, we know that you'd do the same for us so it's only fair," Stella chirped with a hug.

"Thanks girls, but now let's use the locator spell that I placed with the enchantment in his ring. I connects to mine so that I can always find him if we get separated for some reason," she said as they all formed a circle around the ring Bloom put on the table.

"What once was here, let be found, send the find through the great divide and let it be known through time. Let us know where you are, show us where you are from here to the end of time," they all chanted. When the chant was done, a hologram of the earth was shown and a dot on a island was the location of where they needed to go.

"Tecna, you got that location," Bloom asked as everyone let go and turned to said girl who nod her head. "Let's go, I need to find my husband and beat the hell out of him so he knows not to do this again."

"I'll open the portal," Stella said as she used her magic and created a rectangle portal and the group filed into it.

Hanging Neck Island

The Winx came out of the portal on the other side and saw they were on an island that looked quite strange to the girls. They also just happen to have arrived in front of an arena of sorts that was quite substantially big.

"Alright Winx, let's see if we can find a ticket to buy so we can get in there," Bloom said as they others nodded and moved to find a ticket booth.

They got all of twelve steps before they found a lizard man selling scalped tickets for a few good seats. "Get your tickets here, wonderful seats where you can clearly see all of the blood guts and gore," the lizard offered to anybody who came near him.

"We would like to buy five if you have them," Bloom said as the Winx came and stood in front of him.

"No offence ladies, but this isn't your kind of thing, I suggest you leave before you vomit your guts out from the amount of blood," he said in a not so kind way.

That didn't sit well with the girls at all and instantly caused Flora to bind him in her vines as Musa snatched up all his tickets. Tecna encased his head in an electro sphere and Stella burned his irises. "How's that for not being our thing you weak fool," Bloom said as they left the beaten form of the scalper.

They handed the gatekeeper the tickets and headed straight inside and found that they were just about to start the second match with Kurama going against Roto. The Winx got a look at Kurama and saw that instead of a purple colored suit, he wore a white martial arts outfit.

They quickly found their seats, that just so happen to be behind where Keiko, Shizuru, and Botan were suppose to have been sitting. "I wonder why they haven't started to fight yet," Stella wondered.

"They will be shortly, we just have to be patient for the ref to start the match," Bloom said as she spotted Hiei and used magic to tried to pick up on the conversation he was having with what he called the fool.

"We will deal with the rest of their team, you relax," Hiei told the fool.

"Hey, I'm not out of this yet, if Yusuke doesn't wake up I'll take the last guy," Kuwabara said.

"We'll pray that doesn't happen," he commented smartly.

Just then a woman in blue hair ran to them in a orange flowery kimono, "alright boys I'm here, now let's whip this team into shape."

"Hey how'd you get here," the oaf asked.

"Leave, before you hurt yourself," Hiei told her not really caring.

"Well that's a jolly thing to say to the person who's going to help you win, don't you think," Botan replied.

"eh, you mean your like the replacement fighter for Urameshi," Kuwabara asked stupidly.

"No silly, ta da," she replied before taking off her kimono and revealing a pair of brown pants, yellow button up shirt, and red overalls. "In addition to detective's assistant and pilot of the river Styx, I'm also a licensed trainer." With the fool's dumb look, she elaborated, "I'll be looking after you all and making sure you stay at tip top shape for fighting."

The fool started unbuttoning his shirt while saying, "oh that's great, maybe you can help me nurse this wound here see I've," and that's as far as he got before Botan left to check on Yusuke.

Only for her to slap him while saying, "Spirit world to Yusuke, wake up, come on now."

"None of that will work, the boy is determined," Hiei pointed out.

"Well at least let me get him out of the way," Botan said before grabbing his feet and pulling him close to the wall and away from the ring.

The air now got thick as it was clear that the ref was about to start the match and see who would wind up on top in this fight. "You know that rose whip he's got must be ten feet long, where's he stash it. Only way I can think of is quite painful," Kuwabara asked and mentioned stupidly.

"Kurama simply caries a normal rose, by manipulating it with his spirit energy it's transformed into a whip, even weeds can turn into a deadly weapon for Kurama," Hiei informed him.

"Second fight, Roto vs Kurama, begin," the ref announced.

For a moment, neither moved before Roto began talking, "I know you've been spending years in the human world. We all do what we must, I just hope you didn't say, get attached to one of them, for example be mournful of death."

"That no good cheat, he's planning on using Kurama's mother as blackmail," Bloom informed the girls.

"Wouldn't that take away the victory and cause them to be disqualified," Flora asked.

"This tournament is for demons, the rules are basically just show in this kill or be killed environment," she said.

Roto turned his middle finger into a blade before Kurama calmly asked, "what is your point?" Already knowing the answer, Roto charged at the fox, but Kurama was easily able to dodge every strike, with a smile, with his eyes closed.

"He's clearly no match for Kurama, what a joke of a round, it's a pity you couldn't have taken and let Kurama deal with deal with the little child and his yoyos," Hiei commented.

"Hey, you watch it shrimpy, I just got cheated is all," Kuwabara defended.

With one final try, Roto made another strike, only for Kurama to dodge and come behind him and say, "your power wasn't enough for this tournament, say your last words."

Before the fox could strike with his hand, his opponent got a dark look and said, "I have your human mother Kurama, or should I say, Shuichi." With that, Kurama hesitated and left Roto time to attack and lay a scratch on Kurama's cheek before he leap back a safe distance.

"What happened, he's bleeding, you said no match," Kuwabara said clearly shocked at what happened.

Roto chuckled a bit before holding a trigger and said, "allow me to introduce my little button, and when I press it, a signal will be sent to my demon brother. He's been tracking your mother for some time you see, and he's been very anxious to bite her head off."

This news obviously made Kurama upset and forced him to put his arms down, knowing what the demon wanted from him.

The demon chuckled again, "so you understand," he said before leaping and punching Kurama in the face repeatedly without relenting. Until Kurama flicked a pebble to his face and caused him to stop his assault for a moment to look at the fox funny. "Oh honestly, do you think throwing a pebble at my face is the best thing to do in this situation. You've been warned and with a push of this button your mother will meat her death in a very unsightly manner. Now fold your arms behind your back and let me hit you as I please," Roto ordered and Kurama had no choice but to obey his command. "Oh that is much better, I love the posture of force submission, why train to be the best when you can hold onto one of these."

"Mysterious, Kurama has become completely obedient to his opponent," the ref announced.

"What's wrong Kurama let him have it," Kuwabara yelled as he was clearly oblivious.

"Quiet," Hiei ordered as he looked on with what seemed to be a stoic face, but he was actually thinking about what he would do if it were his Bloom on the other end of that button.

All around Hiei and the Winx they heard the demons cheering on the cheater and not at all caring that he was doing a bad thing.

Roto chuckled again as he walked up and stood in front of Kurama with his hands in his pockets before saying, "you want to try, I can see it in your pretty eyes. I know what your thinking, 'what if I can quickly cut off that left arm of his,' but what if the severed finger still presses the button."

"Kurama remains absolutely motionless, what is the cause, has he lost his willingness to fight," the ref announced to clearly get the crowd roaring.

"Why don't you answer her," Roto asked before kicking Kurama in the gut. "Tell the crowd the truth, that you refuse to fight for the sake of a human tramp," the demon said as he continually beat the motionless Kurama.

"It's brutal, it's violent, it's wonderful, Roto is punching him like a slab of meat and there's no retaliation," the ref announced to get the fans screaming for more.

Roto kept punching him, all the while Kurama had the same look of impassiveness on his face. Roto saw this and stopped punching him as he turned his right middle finger into a blade again and pointed it at his cheek. "I hate that look, despite all that I've done you still have that look like your superior to me," the demon made another cut on Kurama's cheek making an 'X.' "Stop that look," Roto exclaimed before he finished the cut with a large swipe of his bladed finger.

When Kurama straightened up, he still had the look in his eyes, and acted as if there wasn't anything wrong.

"It doesn't matter anyways, because I'm the one that has the power now," Roto said before lifting his foot up. "I would like you to lick the scum off my boot, I just can't seem to keep it clean, and after you wipe the whole thing clean, I will decapitate you and spare your nasty mother's life. Since you care for her Shuichi, it's your only choice," he said with glee.

"I will not, go ahead press it now if you wish," Kurama emotionlessly said as he dusted himself off and got a quiet gasp of shock from the Winx.

"And the true character emerges, your nothing special, nothing with class, just a selfish demon like all the rest of us here. Look at me like I'm dirt, but in the end it's a lie, you think of only yourself," Roto laughed as if he had won.

"Push it," the fox said as the demon began to try and push the button, but stopped because he could no longer move. Kurama walked over and knocked the button out of his hands before saying, "fighting on the strength of one threat is a very risky gamble. What if I truly didn't care, or what if I could just make you immobile?"

"It's hard to tell what's happening now, but it's clear that Kurama has control," the ref announced for the audience.

Kurama got into a stance and explained, "I've sowed the seed of the death plant in your body, and it's had plenty of time to take root."

That was when the girls and Roto realized the pebble that Kurama shot at the demon, it was to hide the seed.

"I feed it with my spirit energy, I have but to will it, and it will instantly bloom, and I'm afraid there won't be anything left of you evil life after that," Kurama said before walking away.

"Wait Kurama, you don't have to do this, I never would have actually pushed the button I swear it. I'm just a low class, I don't know anything, come on you believe in mercy don't you," Roto asked as if begging.

Kurama stopped before looking at him over his shoulder and said, "no," and the seed of the death plant sprang in full bloom. The man died instantly and from his corps sprang out flowers, and this did not go unnoticed by Kurama. "What irony, such beauty sprung from such ugly soil," with that he finished his walk to the rest of his team.

"Now that one's definitely over, the score is tied at one," the ref announced to them all.

"What a fool, so intent on proving himself he couldn't notice your moves. Don't worry about his demon friend, he vanished the moment Roto died," Hiei assured Kurama stoically.

"Then you knew," Kurama stated more than asked.

The girls couldn't believe it, this was the dark tournament, this was the fights that they had to go through just to live. "Your husband is going against similar things isn't he," Musa asked.

"More than likely, but I don't want him to, but I also know that he will have to in order to live," Bloom said with a shocked face.

"Will the next fighters please come forward," the ref announced with enthusiasm. Neither team moved a muscle, so she announced again, "next fighters forward. Again nobody moved and she was getting frustrated, "hello, what's a girl gotta do to get some new blood."

Just then, Zeru jumped up to the ring and walked to the center trying to look intimidating. "What, their team leader is fighting now," Kurama commented clearly a little disturbed by this development.

"But he should go last, maybe there's a mistake," Kuwabara said as he too was disturbed.

"No, Zeru is definitely the strongest of the four remaining, he's fighting angry, and it's obvious he's not taking this seriously enough," Hiei said with an almost smile.

"Yes and we're just the picture of professionalism," Botan commented as Yusuke continued to sleep.

"Urameshi team, can we get on with it here," the ref asked as she was clearly getting impatient.

"I'll go, this ones been irritating me ever since last night," Hiei said as he threw his blue scarf off of him and jumped in the ring.

"Team Rokuyokai's Zeru, team Urameshi's Hiei," the ref announced to the fans.

The two stared each other down until Hiei spoke up, "I know a great deal about your technique. You harnessed heat energy with such great precision that it resembled a knife cut, but one of the edges were sloppily melted. You have your flaws."

"As do you, I don't think I need advice from someone who has to use a fake eye," Zeru insulted.

"Fight," the announcer ordered, and just as she said it, Zeru ignited into flames and forced her back and out of the ring.

Hiei just stood there passively as Zeru said, "not intimidated yet," before cranking up the heat and sending even more flames from his body.

The flames reached all the way to the girls and, minus Bloom, had to keep it from burning them with their magic.

Hiei just chuckled at his opponents attempt, "I wouldn't laugh just yet," Zeru said as he brought forth fire from his hands and shot it towards him. Hiei was able to easily dodge and jump up to avoid getting blasted into dust and ash.

The ref came back into the ring and announced, "unfortunately Hiei was not chard by the fire, but there is more coming his way."

Indeed there was more coming his way, but he was easily able to leap, sidestep, and overall avoid getting hit. On blast hit the roof and fell into the crowd, and Shizuru commented, "these are some good seats," as they didn't get hit with anything. The Winx that were sitting behind them all nodded their heads without saying anything.

Hiei landed in the ring and looked rather board to be honest, while Zeru lightly chuckled. "Zeru's blows were fantastic, and Hiei was running for his life, along with a good deal of the fan-base," the ref announced.

"You've gotten so quiet, to frightened to notice any more of my supposed flaws," Zeru asked as he charged up another flame attack.

"Actually I'm board," Hiei said.

"Actually you're dead," as he unleashed a massive wave of fire into the air and made a massive cloud of fire. He concentrated while bringing his hands together with his left fist into his right palm.

The fire was being sucked back into his body directly and made the ref ask, "what's this," just as Zeru's skin and body began to change into a dark red hue. "His skin is changing and he seems to be engulfed in heat," she said as he was standing there covered in a red aura.

Instantly, Zeru shot forward and impaled his hand into Hiei's gut and out his back. He ignited into flames and was sent flying back as time seamed to slow down for the girls. "I'm not finished yet," the fire demon said before sending a concentrated blast of fire and seemingly disintegrating Hiei.

Bloom looked completely distraught, she didn't here anything as she just stared at where Hiei was. She looked back at all of their memorize, their love and how it came to this. She couldn't hold back her tears, but no noise came from her, or the Winx as they just witnessed a friend seemingly get killed.

She was only brought out of her daze when she heard Hiei bone chilling voice, "yes, he's so talented that I'm reluctant to make the kill." There he was from a torrent of flames, alive, burned all over, but alive and well, with a smirk on his face.

Everyone else was shocked, especially his opponent and the ref, "oh my, Hiei survived, he's on his feat, he's smoldering," she announced.

Zeru looked back and saw that he was standing there smirking, "you survived it all, but how could you?"

Just then a black flame burned the band from his forehead to reveal his Jagan eye. "I believe we've covered that, so my Jagan eye may not be natural, but it does give me exactly what I need. Dragon of the Darkness Flame!" He power up, and the whole arena got bright with the force of the power he was about to unleash.

"No wonder you two are a match, you both have the power of dragons at your disposal," Stella commented.

"I didn't know he could do that, he must have wanted it to be a surprise for when he returned form the tournament," Bloom said as she couldn't stop the tears and had to continually wipe them.

"Those are from the deepest pits of spirit world," Zeru said as he began to show true fear.

The sky darkened as Hiei unleashed black flames from his hands and black pillars of energy shot forth from the sea and into the sky all around the island. "You know it's impossible to control it completely, once I release it I have no say," Hiei said as his hand shook from the power of the flames. Black lightning seemed to crackle and unleash everywhere around them as everything went ominous, "I have the power to pull you into oblivion, I assume just my right arm will do."

Now Zeru was really scared and in the truest pits of despair as he stood motionless before the power Hiei possessed.

"You should never have insulted the Jagan eye, because you see, in a way it has it's own mind and loaths disrespect. Resisting it is something I would not do," Hiei said just as ominously as Zeru let out a muffled scream from fright.

"I realize that I'm suppose to stay, but in light of this situation we have here, retreat," the ref declared as she hid behind the ring.

"Dragon," Hiei started as his shirt was forcibly removed from his body from the power and gave Bloom a good show. "Of The Darkness Flame," a good sized dragon made from black flames and had a sense of death shot forth from his hand and headed for Zeru.

Zeru had no time to dodge or move as the flame engulfed him in sent his ashes to the side wall of the arena. The rest of the arena shook violently as the dragon erupted in power and gave everyone a sense of death and fear.

When it was done, the only thing left of the leader of team Rokuyokai was a outline of his form. The ref, back in the ring, asked, "where's Zeru," before spotting the impact point of the dragon and said, "there's his outline at least."

"Well he's definitely out of the ring," she said, clearly not realizing what happened.

"Believe me, he's not coming back, that sender's all that's left," Hiei said as he studied his burned hand.

"Yes then I suppose counting to ten would be a little ridiculous, let's give it up for Hiei," the ref announced.

"Yeah, we're punching our way to the top, Hiei can beat anybody with that move," Kuwabara said before deflating, "Hiei can beat anybody with that move. Am I listening to myself, what if he decides to be a bad guy again, what if he decides to shoot us with the dragon?"

Hiei came up to them and said, "don't worry fool, we've entered into an alliance and I'm not the type to break it. Of course after we win the tournament I can't guarantee a thing," and with that he walked off of the ring.

The rest of the fight seemed to go by in a blur with Urameshi waking and taking on a drunk who was the alternate, but what seemed to be it's most powerful member. The fight was interesting, but the knife edge death match was just brutal to the Winx.

Finally the match was over and Yusuke won the match, and Bloom thought up the perfect way to get back at Hiei for leaving her at home instead of taking her with him. She leap from her seat and sprinted down where the team was and leap straight over the wall. She ran and yelled out, "Hiei," before using her dragon's fire and drop kicking him in his face and knocking him into the ring.

"What the hell bitch," Yusuke screamed as he lifted his arms for a fight, Kuwabara went on guard while the masked fighter looked calm.

"Oh sorry, I didn't see you there, I just had to punish him for leaving me while I was in bed, with nothing but a note I might add," Bloom added brightly.

The collective thought throughout the arena was, 'what the hell,' as they watched him get beat by this woman none of them but a few people knew.

When the dust cleared, Hiei was looking fine and didn't have much of a scratch on him, except for his right arm of course. "Did you have to introduce yourself this way to my team, or was it for your own fun," Hiei asked.

"My own fun, I know how humiliating it can be for you to seem weak at any given time, this was punishment," Bloom said cheerfully.

"Can someone tell me what the hell is going on here, and why did she come down and drop kick you and you being okay with that," Yusuke all but yelled.

Bloom smirked as she gave Hiei a look that said, 'sucks to be you,' making said demon go as pale as a ghost. She tilted her head cutely and asked, "why wouldn't I punish my husband for leaving me in the middle of the night."

That shocked everyone that wasn't a fairy, Kurama or Hiei themselves to the point of being on the verge of passing out. "You make it sound like I left you after a one night stand. I just didn't want you to endanger yourself by a stray blast so I hoped you wouldn't be able to track me."

"I planned for that, not going to say how, but I did and your in the doghouse now mister," Bloom told him sternly. "Now, let me see you arm, or do you want me to get Tecna to be your nurse again," she asked with a demonic grin.

That seemed to turn his attitude into a complete 180 as he just brought up his right arm for her to examine. "I am sorry, and I know that you know why I did it, but next time something like this happens, try not to make a scene," he said.

"Only if you promise to take me with you," Bloom asked.

"Fine, now let's go somewhere else without making a scene," Hiei told her as they began walking. However they stopped when they realized that nobody else in the entire arena was moving.

"I think that everyone done what Kurama did when he first found out," Musa guessed as nobody moved.

"Kurama was a demon, while most of these people are demons, I don't think the humans would have done that," tecna surmised.

Just then they heard a sound like glass shattering and looked in the direction and noticed that Toguro passed out and fell out of the window he was watching from. The announcer slammed into the ring as she was out cold at how someone could actually be married to the demon. Yusuke, Kuwabara, the masked fighter, and Botan all fell backwards and passed out as well. They looked up in the crowd and found that all of the demons had passed out as well, as well as the toddler they saw the first time Kurama came by.

"Let's go before more people pass out and blame it on us," Hiei said before taking his wife by her hands. "Before we go, Kurama, you should know that Bloom's pregnant," he lied to the fox for him to pass out as well, it worked. Before Bloom could question why he did that, "I'll tell you why when we get to the hotel."

By the time everyone regained consciousness, it was past sundown and everyone felt like they were waking from a bad dream. "Did anybody else have the dream where Hiei was married to some red haired chick," Yusuke asked.

"I had that one too, but then I had one after that dream where he was a dad as well," Kuwabara mentioned.

"What you had was no dream, except for that last part, Hiei is indeed a husband and living with her at her college," Kurama mentioned as he was leaned against a wall.

"How did you know, and why didn't you tell us," Yusuke all but yelled, actually he did yell.

"It wasn't your business to know, and Hiei threatened to terminate our friendship so I was more inclined to keep his secret," he replied calmly.

"I want to meet her, she seemed so nice and I bet that Yukina doesn't even know, the grouch," Botan guessed.

"Let's head to the hotel and see if they headed there," Yusuke suggested.

So they headed to the hotel and up to their hotel room looking rather ticked off and upset. What's even worse is that when they got there, four girls were in their room relaxing instead of their own room.

"Okay girls, who are you and why are you in our room," Yusuke demanded.

"Calm down Yusuke, these are the Winx Club, Flora, Stella, Musa, and Tecna. Winx, this is team Urameshi plus Botan, Yusuke and Kuwabara," Kurama introduced.

"Hi, so how long have you known Hiei," Stella asked brightly trying to disable any hostilities.

"Since he kidnapped my childhood friend," Yusuke informed dryly, "where is that little bastard anyway."

"Him and Bloom are there," Tecna pointed to inside the only actual bedroom in the place.

"They put a silencing spell on the room so we can't hear anything that goes on inside though," Musa informed.

"But if you ask nicely I could bring it down to gain a peak at what their discussing," Stella said slyly.

"Now that is my language, please do that," Yusuke yelled with a dangerous glint in his eyes.

"Let's do it then," she said as she concentrated, but was only to pull it open a small whole in the barrier.

"OH HOLY FUCKING SHIT, POUND MY PUSSY, YES, YES, FUCK ME, FUCK ME HARDER! MAKE ME YOUR BITCH, GIVE ME THAT GLORIOUS COCK AND MAKE ME YOUR BITCH!"

That ended the listening in on the conversation right then and there, and started a huge round of blushes from everyone in the room. By this, I mean everyone in the room: Botan, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, Flora, Stella, Musa, and Tecna.

On the other side of the door Hiei and Botan were both snickering to themselves, that would teach their friends not to try and eavesdrop.