Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon of Fire and Ice ❯ Chapter 3 ¡V Midnight Visitor x The Group¡¦s Fight x We are losing? ( Chapter 3 )

Dragon of Fire and Ice

By Gozilla

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"crap" - conversation

*crap* - thoughts

(crap) - author's note

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Chapter 3 - Midnight Visitor x The Group's Fight x We are losing?

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~Two hours later, around midnight in Ningenkai~

~Outside Genkai's temple~

Yukina was walking around the temple, making final checks on the doors and windows before going to bed. Suddenly she noticed a small figure curled on the ground near a tree.

*What's that?* thought the koorime, *Perhaps it is an injured animal. I'd better check it out.* as she walked cautiously towards the figure.

With the help of the moonlight, she was able to see clearly of the figure lying on the ground. She inhaled deeply, hands covered her mouth, "Oh, no! Blackie!"

The bloodied body of the dragon was covered by wounds and bruises. It was panting heavily and the flame on its back was almost gone.

Yukina quickly brought the dragon inside the temple. She attempted to heal the dragon's wounds with her healing power but failed. *How come I can't heal its wounds?* she thought and then hard-hit by the next thought, *It's Oniisan! Blackie is hurt because Oniisan is hurt! That's why I can't heal the wounds! Oniisan, where are you?*

Yukina rushed to call Kuwabara and asked him to come over to help. Kuwabara in turn called Yusuke and Kurama for help. Yusuke slammed the phone and started running at top speed towards the temple. But Kuwabara couldn't find Kurama as Kurama's mother told him that Kurama has left the apartment just 5 minutes ago...

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~10 minutes ago~

~Inside Kurama's room~

It was almost midnight. Kurama had almost finished his year-end project. He was reviewing the report he had prepared for the project when he heard a light tug at his window.

"Hiei, is that you? The window is unlocked." Kurama raised his head from the report and looked at the window, smiling, "I didn't know you have finally adopted the human customs of knocking before entering."

No response.

*Something's wrong.* Kurama frowned as he cautiously opened the window and looked out, "Hiei, is that you?"

Kurama was horrified to see a small bloodied figure hanging outside of the window with one hand holding the edge of the windowsill.

Kurama quickly pulled the fire demon into his room and placed him on his bed. He noticed how severely his best friend was injured, "What happened? Who did this to you?"

Hiei slowly opened his eyes, out-of-focus at first, and eventually met the eyes of the fox demon. "Go to Yukina." he said weakly, wincing in pain, "She is in great danger. A water demon called Akana is going after her for her tear gems. I need you to protect her."

"But I need to treat your wounds first." Kurama briefly checked through the fire demon, "You have already lost too much blood."

"No." the fire demon insisted, "We go now."

Kurama sighed, defeated by the determination of the koorime's protective brother. He put one of Hiei's arms around his shoulder, supporting the battered fire demon. He shouted towards the door of the room, "Mum, I am going out for a while. I will be back very soon." before lifting off the window, not wanting his mum to see the bloodied fire demon.

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~30 minutes later~

~Inside Genkai's temple~

Yukina used a clean cloth to wipe away the blood on the small black dragon lying on a cushion, "Blackie, please hang on." She turned to the window and looked at the full moon in the sky, "Oniisan, where are you? Please be safe."

"Yukina-san, where are you?" Kuwabara yelled at the door of the temple, who was accompanied by Yusuke.

"Kuwabara-san! Please come inside! Hurry!" the koorime replied.

Kuwabara and Yusuke rushed inside and looked at the koorime and the small dragon. Yusuke stepped closer to the heavy-panting dragon, "Oh no, what happened?" He remembered what happened back in the cave when he inherited the Reiki-ball from Genkai, and how Puu was affected by his body condition, "We got to find Hiei! He won't last long in this condition!"

Suddenly, Yusuke and Kuwabara sensed the approach of a powerful youkai and they rushed outside of the temple, just in time to meet their un-invited visitor.

A tall demon, with his right arm missing, stood at the gate of the temple, "You two better stay out of this. I am taking the koorime with me."

"Who do you think you are? I, the great Kuzama, will not allow you to lay a finger on my Yukina-san!" yelled the orange-hair youth, "Rei-kan!" as a spirit sword appeared from his hand.

"Who are you?" asked Yusuke, his body in fighting position, "Why do you want to take Yukina?"

"None of your business, ningens." said Akana, "Stay out or die!" He lunged towards the two youths, water arrows shot out from his fingertips in all directions.

Yusuke and Kuwabara dodged, barely avoiding most of the arrows. One of the arrows hit Kuwabara's left arm.

Yusuke turned and counter-attacked, "Reigun!" A bright blue ki-ball went straight towards Akana. The ki-ball hit the tall demon right on, leaving a hole in his stomach.

"Yes!" cheered Yusuke, little surprised by the easy victory.

"Watch out!" yelled a red-hair youth standing at the gate of the temple, carrying a small limped figure beside him.

"Nani?" said Yusuke before being hit directly by a water ki-ball. He yelled in pain and fell to the ground. "How come?" Yusuke struggled to open one of his eyes, un-believed, "My Reigun should have seriously injured him..." he said weakly, unable to stand up.

As if watching a movie, Akana stood, the hole in his stomach slowly covered by transparent liquid and the hole simply disappeared.

"His name is Akana and he is a water demon." said a deep but weak voice from the small figure hanged beside Kurama, slowly rising his head and looked at the tall demon, "Normal attacks can't hurt him as he can turn himself to water. The only way to defeat him is to evaporate his body."

"That's right, Hiei." said Akana coldly, "Unfortunately, you are too weak to do any damage on me anymore. Besides, even if you can launch your black fire thing now, you can't hurt me when I am full guarded."

"Enough of your bullshit!" yelled Kuwabara, holding his Reikan, "Leave or prepared to become a paddle of dirt-water!"

Kurama set the fire demon down beside a tree, "Hang on. Yukina needs you." The fire demon looked at his friend, determination in his eyes, "Don't worry, fox. I don't want to see that infant Koenma yet."

Kurama smiled and stood, held out a rose, "Rose whip!" The rose turned to a deadly thorn-whip while Kurama transformed to youko.

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~Meanwhile~

~Inside Genkai's temple~

Yukina held the battered dragon with her hands, watching Kurama set Hiei down beside a tree.

"Oniisan!" cried the koorime. She was about to rush to her twin brother when she felt that the dragon suddenly moved and flied away from her hands, straight towards the fire demon.

"Blackie!" Yukina ran after the dragon. Unexpected, she hit an invisible wall when she tried to leave the temple building. "Nani?" the koorime was shocked to find herself trapped inside the temple building area by an invisible barrier.

"Be wise and stay here." came an icy-cold voice from behind, "I have put wands on every pillar around the temple. The wands will keep you inside unless I release my power from them or if I die."

Yukina turned to see the once-innocent face of Kime, now looking dark and evil, confused, "Kime-san?"

"I am a member of Akana's gang." said the girl, who was transforming to an ugly demon, "I am an shape-changer demon. I can change shape and hide my youki to deceive my prey. That pathetic dragon was much smarter than you, it looked through my disguise from the very moment it saw me."

"That's why Blackie attacked you..." said the koorime, shivering, "It was trying to protect me. But I yelled at it and asked it to leave..." Tear gems started dropping from her eyes.

Kime picked up one of the tear gems, "That's right. Unfortunately, it's too late for you to realised this. You will be ours very soon and we will make big money by selling you to one of the richest jewellery traders in the world."

Yukina was shocked, memories of the torturous life with the previous jewellery trader flooded back to her mind. (A/N: Sorry, I forgot the name of that ugly jewellery trader. Well, who cares. You all know who I am talking about.) Terrified, she turned and leaned on the invisible barrier, looking at the fire demon from a distance, "Oniisan." she murmured.

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~Meanwhile~

~Outside Genkai's temple~

Kuwabara and Kurama were having a hard time fighting the water demon. No matter how many wounds they inflicted on the demon, the wounds recovered almost immediately. On the other hand, the wounds on their bodies were taking their toll on the youths.

Kuwabara had been hit by several water arrows and lost most of his speed and power. The youko was in no better condition than the ningen. He lost his rose whip during the battle and was hit by a water ki-ball. He was helping the ningen to avoid the water arrows shot from the tall demon.

"K'so" cursed Kuwabara, dodging another round of water arrows with the help of Kurama, "How can we defeat this monster?"

The youko replied, "As Hiei said, this demon can only be defeated by extreme heat, which must be hot enough to evaporate him. Do you see his missing right arm?" Kurama nodded towards the attacker, "It was evaporated by Hiei's Dragon of Black Flame. But, according to Hiei, it was done when Akana was off guarded."

"I have had enough of this child game." shouted Akana, seven large water ki-balls appeared and flowed around the water demon, "I am ending this right now!"

The water ki-balls rushed towards Kurama and Kuwabara from all directions. The two were hit and threw to the wall surrounded the temple.

"Weaklings." said Akana, walking towards the temple, "Kime, have you got the koorime? We have wasted too much time already. Our customers are waiting."

Akana froze when he felt a surge of youki rising behind him. He slowly turned and saw a flaming fire demon.

"One more step and you are dead." came a deep voice, "Don't even think about touching Yukina." The fire demon stood, his left hand on the tree, supporting his bloodied and battered body, with an equally battered black dragon whirled around it.

"Ha." teased Akana, "You can't even stand up by yourself properly. How are you going to stop me?"

"With this." Hiei raised his right arm, black flame burning around the black dragon tattoo on his right arm. He gathered the last of his youki, "Dragon of Black Flame!!" The black flame formed a black dragon and rushed towards its target.

"It is not going to work this time!" shouted Akana, gathering all his youki and formed a water shield in front of him. The black flame dragon hit the water shield, unable to move any further.

"K'so!" shouted Hiei in anger, *This is the last of my youki. I must destroy this demon. I won't let him take Yukina away from me. Not again!* he thought as he pumped every youki he had into the black flame dragon.

With a roar, the small black dragon on Hiei's left arm flied towards the black flame dragon. "What?" murmured the fire demon as he watched the small black dragon plunged into the black flame dragon.

The black flame dragon shivered. Suddenly, the dragon solidified, turning into a real dragon. As if it was an enlarged replica of the Reikai beast, the dragon was covered with shiny purple-black scales. The ruby-red eyes of the dragon looked straight through the water shield, right into Akana's eyes, sending a chilly feeling across Akana's spine.

The dragon charged with mighty power and crushed the water shield. The water shield scattered into thousands of pieces of crystal before returning into water when they hit the ground. The dragon roared and attacked the water demon with its gigantic mouth.

Akana held up his left hand and used all his youki to defend against the dragon. His defence was too strong for the dragon to evaporate him.

*K'so. Is it the end? Am I really not strong enough to protect Yukina?* Hiei thought as he felt exhaustion was overcoming him. The fire demon struggled to keep pumping his youki into the dragon. His vision began to blur and fell to his knees.

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End of Chapter 3

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