Demonic Monsters

Chapter 5

Back to Teenage Fools

It has now been one week since Hiei left with Botan for the Dark Tournament, and he was now returning from it as a champion without a prize. Other than his new Dragon of the Darkness Flame tattoo that he kept wrapped up on his arm, he didn't really get anything new. His only comfort was that the rest of the team didn't know about what Hiei was doing at this moment, or where he was going.

Hiei walked through the door to his current place of residence with the key he had been given. 'Amazing this thing didn't get destroyed in all those fights,' he thought as he walked in and saw that nobody was there to greet him. He walked into the kitchen and saw a note on the freezing box that kept the food and drinks cool.

He opened it up and read the contents, "Hiei, dad is on a business trip to Antarctica and won't be back for six months so we have the house to ourselves. I have been chosen as the vampire queen so I am going to Transylvania for my coronation and won't be back when you arrive. Be sure to go to school and be good, and don't worry, I kept your business your own and didn't say that you would be killing. Bloodgood is the only other person that knows about what went on at the tournament, love Draculaura."

"That explains why nobody is talking and being foolish," Hiei commented out loud. He put the note down and saw that he arrived thirty minutes before school began that day.

He walked out the door and left for school, and with all the fighting that he had to do, these next few days of school might actually be relaxing for a change. He speed down the road towards the school and got there in record time when compared to Draculaura's time. When he got there, he noticed that everyone was heading towards one room that was set up like a courtroom.

"Hey dude, glad you made it back," the voice of Clawd sounded from behind the demon, who turned and saw him, Deuce, and a fish-man he hasn't seen before.

"Obviously, what has been going on here since I have been gone," Hiei asked with his standard stoic and indifferent tone.

"First off, Draculaura isn't the vampire queen, she was being used as a figurehead to ensure vampire supremacy over all other monsters. Second is that her, Cleo, Clawdeen, Hoodude, and Robecca are trying to find the real vampire queen. Third and finally is that the debate over which dudes are better looking has gotten so out of hand that they made this thing they called cute court," the wolf replied back as they walked into the courtroom.

"All rise, the honorable judge Twyla is presiding," Many called out to everyone.

Twyla hit her gavel and Spectra came into the view of everyone and said, "cute court is now in session, each side will now make a case for their hunk."

"Your honor, Alucard's adorable face and great smile makes him clearly the cuter monster," Howleen defends first.

Toralei scoffs and says, "If you want purr-fect face, you just have to look at Edweird, pale skin, blue eyes."

"Objection, the boovie is black and white, you don't know the color," she yelled out in logic.

"And you wouldn't know cute if it bit you on the neck," the werecat argued back.

Then there was an uproar of various voices defending their hunk as Twyla banged on her gavel with disinterest because she knew the results. She looked up and noticed that Hiei was back and tried think out to him, 'this is getting to annoying. Can I just call you down so you can tell them why they are being foolish so I can leave already.'

'That may be the only way for us to finish this pathetic debate with a decent amount of brain cells,' he thought back as he gave a subtle nod for her to call him down.

"Order to the court," Twyla shouted out as everyone fell silent as a graveyard. The normal kind, not the one in monster high with the parties. "I call an unbiased opinion beyond my own, I call the little brother of Draculaura, Hiei Jaganshi to the table."

He calmly walked down the isles and stood in front of everyone as he began to talk, "after the boovie, I was able to get a look at the credits. During the cast portion of it, I saw the names of the two male lead roles on the screen. Do any of you know the names of the two actors who portrayed the two characters?"

"We aren't talking about the actors, we are talking about which is cuter," Toralei hissed out at the demon.

"You should pay attention to details such as those, because this debate is a mute point. There is not two actors who played them, there is only one actor and he played both the pathetic roles," Hiei pointed out with the same look of disinterest on his face.

"Impossible, why should we believe anything you have to say demon," she sneered out again.

"I don't care if you don't believe me, if you wish to know then ask the zombie about their faces and have her use her science," he stated bluntly.

Ghoulia did her science thing and typed on the computer as everyone waited with anticipation for the case to be solved. When she was done, she turned the computer around to reveal that they were indeed the same person.

"In the case of Alucard versus Edweird, I find that you can't judge a bat by its wings," Twyla announced, and with that put an end to this silly debate.

"That was the dumbest debate that I have ever helped put a stop to," Hiei commented as he walked over to the boogie monster and everyone filed out.

"So you helped to also stop dumb arguments as well," Twyla said as she came up behind him with the help of shadows.

"Not as dumb as this one where I think I lost some brain cells," he said as he overheard something about a Veronica Von Vamp and a Elisabat.

"I know what you are thinking, and yes it has something to do with your sister," the voice of the boogie monster said.

"If she got herself into the mess, then she can get herself out," Hiei said as he knew what she was thinking he thought.

"That is a little contradictory to what you said last week," Twyla commented.

"It Isn't, that was when two school imbeciles couldn't take a joke, and this is because I have been through enough this week," he said as the bell rung for his first class. "If I am not mistaken, this is the mad science lab Isn't it, I guess I don't need to leave."

They went through the rest of the day doing the same routine as they did the first day. "Hiei Jaganshi, please report to my office immediately," he heard the voice of Bloodgood on the loudspeaker call his name just as the last class ended.

He made his way to her office to see what it is that she needed, and so he just went right in without knocking when he arrived and asked, "what do you need?"

"First off, you should knock, even if I call you here, it is only polite to knock before entering anywhere. Second, I wanted to inform you that your sister has found the vampire queen and has asked that you and the rest of monster high be apart of the red carpet premiere. Would you like to attend the festivities," Bloodgood asked him plainly.

"You called me hear just to tell me that," Hiei asked her with a curious yet furious gaze.

"Yes, and to give you all of the homework and assignments that you missed out on because you were having too much fun killing," she said sarcastically. She brought out a large binder with all of his missed school work in it, and I mean huge, thick binder.

"Hn," was all he said as he took the binder, which was surprisingly heavy, and attempted to leave.

"You never answered the question about if you wanted to attend the premiere," Bloodgood mentioned as he was almost to the door.

"I have no use to attend such trivial things, I need to complete this school work anyway so I doubt I have the time," Hiei said as he left the office and made his way to the nearest exit so he could get home. Just as he was about to step outside, he realized something, he didn't know the answers to any questions on these papers.

"I can't just put anything down, not with that new rule that the toddler put in," he said to himself as he thought back to during the tournament.

Flashback

After the first day of the tournament was over and his team won it, Hiei decided to go for a walk and try to ease the pain in his right arm by any means necessary. He walked close to a cliff when he heard Koenma right behind him in his teenage form saying, "I hear you are going to Monster High for your mission."

Hiei turned back to the man and just looked at him with disinterest saying, "not by choice, but yes I am going to that dreadful school."

"Since you are going to a school, I think you need some extra motivation to do well there," Koenma said while crossing his arms.

"Trust me, I am plenty motivated to return to my home in demon world," he said as he looked out over the ocean, and trying to fight the pain in his arm.

"I thought you would say that, but I thought that you could have some extra in case you ever thought that returning home wasn't enough for you. If you can get at least a 3.5 grade point average, then I will hand you 'chapter black' myself," he said as he saw Hiei turn to him in utter shock.

"Spirit world wouldn't part with that just to ensure that I get a good education," Hiei pointed out as he scowled.

"As you have so eloquently put it, you are being used as a political pawn to help bridge a gap that has been up for too long between us and monsters. We in spirit world have decided that in order to ensure that the bridge is stable, any and all methods and arrangements must be made," Koenma said as he started to walk away from the demon.

Present

Hiei knew what he had to do in order to complete these assignments, and he hated to think that he would actually have to interact with anyone for this. He activated his Jagan and found who he was looking for at her locker about to head home and study herself.

He walked back inside and found her closing her locker and decided to just go ahead and ask through telepathy since he didn't have much choice. 'Twyla, are you able to provide assistance with the materials we covered in the classes that I missed?"

Said girl looked over to where Hiei was and saw how it really hurt his pride to ask for help, so she nodded yes.

'Good, would you prefer to work at my spot within the school, or do you wish to head to your home to do so,' he asked back.

'Head to your spot, I will get my textbooks and let my dad know that I am helping a friend with school,' Twyla thought to him as she opened her locker again.

Hiei said nothing as he walked to the designated place to meet in order to receive the assistance that was required to get a good grade on the homework. When he got there, he didn't have to wait long before she arrived and began to help him do the missed assignments in mad science, dead languages, and history.

When they were finally done with everything and Hiei got a good grasp of everything, Twyla asked him a question. "Why are you suddenly so interested in actually passing the class?"

Hiei thought about telling her it was none of her business, but he still needed some allies for various scenarios that he thought had good chances of coming to pass. "The leader of spirit world has offered me a deal if I succeed in this school, and I intend to win the prize at the end."

"Are you going to tell me, or are you going to tell me it is none of my business," she commented dryly.

"Actually, I will tell you, just so I can see your face when you learn about the prize and what it contains. The prize is a tape called 'chapter black', and on it is the entire outline of all of humanities darkness. Every dark act committed in all of humanities recorded history is on that tape," Hiei said with a smirk on his face. He was not disappointed with her face, she looked horrified that a tape like that actually existed, and then her face became blank.

"Why would you want something like that, an excuse to do whatever you like to humans and get away with it, right," Twyla asked thinking she already knew the answer.

"Actually that is not the case, I simply wish to posses it because I simply wish to actually know of all the dark acts that humans have committed," he said as he stood from his laying position.

"That seems like a waste to me, but I won't pry anymore than what I have on the subject," she said as she also stood. "Are you going to the premiere or are you going home, because if you aren't going, I missed dinner because of you."

"What are you babbling on about woman," Hiei asked looking over his shoulder to her.

"You are going to buy me dinner as payment for me helping you with your work," Twyla said with a smirk as she walked to the door.

"Fine, but after that the debt will be paid," he stated as he walked with her out the door and proceeded to walk to a place that sold food to pay his debt.

The place they found was a nice little no name restaurant for both humans and monsters that was stuck between a taxidermist and, ironically enough, a xxx book store.(A/N: if you were wondering, yes I got that from the How I Met Your Mother episode Best Burger in New York) They went in and ordered a burger each while Twyla asked Hiei, "what was it like to fight in the Dark Tournament?"

That kind of through him off guard because nobody ever asked him about those things, and certainly not during a dinner, and mainly because nobody could stomach the tales. So with nothing better to do with his time as he waited for the food to arrive, he sat there and told her about everything that happened in the tournament.

"So you just go through life looking for the next tough fight, that sounds like a fangtastic adventure," Twyla commented with wonder in her eyes.

"You actually like the fact that I have a blood-lust and like to fight for absolutely nothing but myself," he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It isn't that I like it, but it's the fact that even though I saw the memories of all the wars of humanity. I kind of developed this kind of hope that I could one day become a good fighter myself," she said in a much sadder tone.

"Why can't you become one, I developed my skills over time and training, why can't you," Hiei asked as their burgers finally came.

"I have the techniques for various combat styles and tactics down thanks to the memories and a little help from my powers. However, I need more training if I want to be a good fighter, and yes that means I have to find a teacher to learn from," Twyla said with a bit of determination.

"So you actually would have liked to go to the Dark Tournament if you had been given a ticket or invited to compete," he questioned as he took a bite from the burger and found that it was good.

"Yes I would have, except for the competing, I don't think I can defeat a demon at my level, or any level I can ever achieve," she said as she also started to eat.

"True," was all he said as he finished eating, as well as Twyla since they both were fighters and ate quickly. Hiei paid for their meals and left the restaurant and started to head to his house before he was stopped by a beeping sound from his pocket. Looking through it found his icoffin beeping with a picture of Draculaura and her number, remembering to press the green he did and regretted it.

"Where have you been, I've been worried sick because you weren't here when I got home not long ago and I thought you would be here as well. You were supposed to have been back from school by now and the premiere is over, where are you," she ranted on with actual worry.

Hiei thought about just hanging up, but figured he better just tell her to save the lecture that was coming. "I decided to stay at school to do my homework, which took longer than I thought it would, and after I decided to get food."

"And you couldn't have called to tell me this because," Draculaura left the question open so he could tell her.

"Because I don't know how to make calls on this device, you told me to press green when you number pops up so I did, but you never told me how to make calls," he said calmly.

"Sorry, forgot that demons don't use phones, well just be safe and get home soon, by brother," and with that said she hung up the phone.

Not hearing anything on the other end anymore, he just put it in his pocket and started to walk to his dwelling. Twyla was following him so he asked, "why are you following me?"

"I'm not, this is the route to my house as well, your house and mine are close to each others," she said as she looked ahead and kept walking.