Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Yu Yu Hakusho Re-Written: The Dark Tournament ❯ Chapter two - Three Ways To Kill a Demon ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two-

Three Ways to Kill a Demon.

They had made it just in time to hear the rules and were sadly disappointed. They could have slept through the whole arrangement and not missed anything vital. the moment the Guest team was brought up the whole group perked up. Kat wanted to see if there were other humans in the tournament as did all of her team except Juu who was more interested in judging how their blood would taste. When their faces popped up on the board Kat paled. Paturiku’s soda was soon sent soaring out of his nose. "That’s.. That’s," "Yuusuke and Kuwabara. I know." Kat said as they introduced the rest of the team. She recognized the face that popped up next. Hiei, the spiky haired, red eyed fire demon that in retrospect Kat should have been scared shitless of. Kat couldn’t wait to see what Juu would say when he saw how short Hiei was. If he thought ten and eleven year old kids were short he’d get more than a giggle out of Hiei’s height. She recognized the next picture too. This was Kurama, the black haired, lavender eyed pretty boy of the group. She’d gotten along with him over all, even if she was sleep deprived when she first met him. She raised an eyebrow at the next picture. A person, presumably human, with their face wrapped with white cloth. "Whoa.. It’s a mummy." Paturiku said with a grin on his face.

"So the idiots are here?" Kat said in referral to The black haired, brown eyed Yuusuke and the carrot topped Kuwabara. Paturiku looked at her with an odd look on his face, deciding it best for him to not reply. With that the opening ceremonies ended. The bouncy, fox eared referee told them to go back to their rooms and to cause lots of blood shed come the following morning.

Kat knew they would. Juu loved to drink blood and she had a passion for dodging it. Paturiku’s sword would freeze weaker opponents and Ayaka was a torturer. She liked to make people bleed for her own pleasure. Mashiki was the only one that wouldn’t be likely to kill anyone.

To Kat, Mashiki was not only annoying, but worthless to boot. Then again, Mashiki felt the same about her. They hadn’t gotten along at all back in Samosa’s dojo and they were less likely to get along here. In truth, the team was split right down the middle. Juu and Kat on one side of the spectrum, Ayaka and Mashiki on the other side. Paturiku preferred to remain neutral if at all possible.

"I’d watch out if I were you." The oddly lovable polar bear said, snapping Kat out of her thoughts just in time for her to move out of the way from ramming into a wall. "See, told you." Paturiku said with a smile. "You think way too much." Kat laughed. "Or perhaps you think too little." "At least I don’t run into walls." He pointed out.

Kat was about to say something when she realized Juu had ran off. "Where’s our creeping shadow?" Kat asked. Paturiku shrugged. "He just walked off." "Great." Kat said as they continued back to their rooms. "He’s probably off finding someone to kill. Cant he wait just one more day?" Kat knew the odds were he wasn’t interested in killing the night before, she just didn’t really want to think of any other reason he’d disappear. Kat sighed and walked ahead of the group in order to get back to the hotel first.

The shadows in the forest moved at a swift pace. They were scattered in all the wrong places, Light where a Tree’s shadow should be, shadows rested where light should be streaming through rustling leaves. Juu was playing around as his thoughts drifted to the faces on the screen. Kurama and Hiei, He’d seen them before. He had also blocked them from his memory like everything else from before he went to Samosa’s dojo. He felt no need to put himself through the pain of delving for the memories of those two demons. He’d let them remind him. After they showed up. He’d ‘extracted’ some information from a higher up that the last boat was the boat in which the guest team would arrive. The last boat arrived later that night.

He couldn’t wait.

Several hours had passed and nightfall had come. Bringing sounds of arguments and brawls with it. Paturiku hadn’t seen Juu since he left the group earlier that day. Kat seemed worried ever since and her worry spread to him.

Whilst Kat paced the room in the clutches of worry, he played a handheld game. Ayaka and Mashiki had long since retired for the evening. Since they had, Kat spouted various scenarios that lacked any sort of sense. Most of which involved Mashiki and Ayaka sending Juu on a wild goose chase or telling him the bar served flavored water. Paturiku had pointed out that for any of those ideas to be true, Juu would have to be an idiot. Kat knew full well that Juu was no fool.

At that point in time the door swung open, Kat instinctively charged the person in the doorway and soon found herself smelling like coffee. Kat sneezed at the strong smell and looked at the person she was now on top of with her arm pressed to his throat, ready to force all of her weight upon the man’s neck. It was simply a man in a tuxedo. He had grey hair that was short and receding visibly. She looked at the man’s tired brown eyes and got off of him, seeing no intent to harm them. She quickly apologized and helped the man pick up the mugs. "It was just reflexes, I’m so sorry." She said with a deep, polite bow. The man stood up after picking up the last cup. "It is okay miss. In some rooms I’m lucky to escape with my life. I will bring you more coffee. I shall knock next time." He said before leaving the room. Kat closed the door softly and sneezed again. She loved Coffee but this was very strongly scented.

Kat Sat down on the floor, determined to wait for the man and apologize once more. When the man returned she apologized again. On his way out the man looked at her. "By the way. A fighter named Juu said he’d come back here later. He had something to do." Kat thanked him and went to take a shower. No use waiting on Juu. He’d be out for a while if he actually bothered to leave a note.

the next morning started much as that one had. Only they were dressed to fight now. Kat in a Victorian inspired shirt with a mint green color and cuffed sleeves. Her pants were a navy blue set of jeans the gave her along of movement whilst her shoes were actually knee-length boots that were made to give support to her ankles as she fought.

Paturiku was in a blue sweatshirt and black pants that were accented by orange sneakers. Ayaka was in a tank top, tap pants and ankle boots, all in a lavender color. Kat shook her head at the impracticality of it all. An emergency bandage couldn’t be made out of such a small amount of fabric and the boots practically broke ankles before they were put on. The only less practical outfit she could have worn was high heels and her birthday suit. Mashiki on the other hand, wore light armor in a Camisole and short shorts manner with arm bands made of cloth in order to be used as bandages. Kat wondered how the chain mail didn’t pinch the fox’s bare skin.

Only Juu wasn’t present, though she figured they’d meet him near the arena.

Ten minutes walking time later and they were in the stadium waiting for their turn the fight. They were the third fight that day. They’d missed the fist one due to Ayaka fretting over her hair. The second fight of the day ended in an explosion, the winner was a woman with forest green hair to her rump. This woman wore a Dark blue robe and carried a lantern which was lit by a trapped soul. She’d been sent to defeat the opposing team by herself and had done so without lifting a finger.

The woman walked to the opening in the stadium opposite from the one Kat was in. Then their opponents names were called. It was a team of primarily lizard Youkai with a single spider. the lizards all looked alike with the exception of height which varied among them. The shortest in the group being Kat’s height and the tallest being eight feet. The Spider however was primarily humanoid. Only fangs and three extra arms on each side betrayed that this silver-haired, wrinkled old creature was a demon. Kat looked to Ayaka. "The spider is yours." Ayaka nodded slowly. Wondering why Kat would give her that opponent to fight.

Then came a voice that relived her greatly. "Yo!" Kat turned around to see Juu with a grin on his face. "Sorry I’m late. I fell asleep in the forest and had to get breakfast." Kat laughed at him. That pretty much meant that either a low ranking demon or forest creature lost it’s head as well as all of the blood in it’s veins.

"And to my right is team Youri!" The voice of the bubbly fox announcer proclaimed. That was their cue. They walked out into the arena. Mixed cheers and boos followed the team. It was apparent that most of the demon’s thought Kat to be a sacrificial lamb among a pack of hungry lions. The announcer smiled and called forth Kat and the spider. The hairs on the back of Kat’s neck stood up. Why did the spider have to be the leader? The spider, whose name she had learned to be Riourin, looked her up and down. "A human. Scum. I demand an all out battle, five on five." Kat laughed. "Right, and I say we go for a one on one." The spider smirked. "Coward." Inwardly a part of Kat sighed with exasperation as Kat’s pride got the better of her once again. "Fine. Five on five it is then." With that Kat walked away from the spider and to the edge of the arena.

Koto, the announcer, informed the crowd of the five on five battle. Kat’s team got in the ring as did Riourin’s team. Paturiku gave Kat a dirty look to which her only reply was a nervous laugh. With that Koto announced their fight as having began. Paturiku rushed forward first, freezing the shortest of the demons in place with an opening of his mouth and a puff of icy breath. He then formed his swords to help fight off any of the others that attempted to free their comrade. Paturiku was in no mood to kill his prey at the moment. He hated lizards.

Whilst he did that Juu Decapitated the tallest of the lizards and ran through the second tallest. Ayaka ran for the spider, remembering what Kat had told her. As if to speak of the devil Kat was attacking the only lizard left with Mashiki. This one had hard scales that sent Kat’s Summoned scythe back at her.

Mashiki was the first thrown out of bounds. Kat would have followed were it not for the lizard opening it’s mouth wide in a battle cry, allowing the red head access to tender flesh and an invite to rip the youkai’s brain right out of his head with the weapon. Blood spattered everywhere. Not even the overly nimble Juu could dodge it. Not as if he had tried, his attention having been torn to Paturiku who was thrown out of bounds and secured to the ground by spider webs.

Kat smelt the scent of burning flesh. The first words out of her mouth were ‘Oh shit.’ as the acidic blood on her face started to sizzle in reaction to the natural oils secreted by the human body. She closed her eyes tight as she felt a sticky substance surround her. Moments later she couldn’t breathe, hear or see anything. Luckily the webs had absorbed the acid but now she was in an even worse position. Unaware of what her team was doing.

She understood the spider’s plan now. The lizards were there as shields whilst he disabled the opponents. Kat knew what she had to do in order to escape, cringing at the idea.

The ring was soon enveloped in strong, high-reaching flames that were far hotter than most fires should be. The fox referee Koto had long since taken cover out of the ring. "Folks, this looks like we might have a completely disintegrated team on both sides of the ring. Wait! I see a shadow in the fire as it dies down!" With that a gust of wind blew the now weak fires out. A charred spider, a slightly burnt ice demon a shadow and a badly burnt red head were all that remained in the ring.

The shadow formed into Juu and ran towards Kat who was in a fetal position on the ground. Kat thanked her lucky stars that she had a magical resistance to fire and had learned to use her aura as a shield against most things for a short period of time. It had failed as the flames were dieing down. Just as she’d thought it would. "Burn, freeze and squish, the top ways to kill a spider. Maybe I should say it’s three ways to kill a demon." Juu picked Kat up, knowing her skin would be sensitive to touch. "You’re delirious." Kat laughed. "No, I’m too sober for my own good."

Koto jumped into the ring. "Winners, team Youri!" With that declaration Kat fell to sleep. The last thoughts on her mind were what went throughout her mind as she cast the wide-spread fire spell. ‘Webs are flammable, you can’t burn a shadow and Ayaka is resistant to fire.’

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Its been established, Im bad with chapter names.