A banging sound echoed in the demon realm. Noiren opened one eye from his frozen meditative position on the ceiling of his realm and found annoyance instantly. However, he made no move as to inhibit the banging sound but rather returned to meditating. This is going to be too long of a day.... he thought to himself before raising a hand upwards... or rather downwards from the normal perspective of gravity. Below him, the ground shook and screamed as arms and limbs began to rip their way out from the ground. Come everlasting darkness bring the soldiers of Wrath..... Noiren thought to himself as the dark haired man looked down and saw the strange black-boned creatures ripping their way out of the ground.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" a sudden scream caused the Demon Lord to blink, and as his head turned, he found the face of the Air Lord, Aeirin as she went flying through the air as though she were running on a hard surface and flailing her arms. Noiren felt his eye twitch in irritation, and in half a second, he had appeared behind Aeirin and seized her shoulder and then her mouth. Aierin froze instantly before turning her head a fraction to stare back at the other demon lord. A sigh escaped Noiren for a moment before he finally released the girl's mouth and allowed her to step back.
"What are you 'no'ing about?" Noiren sighed staring darkly at the orange haired girl. Aeirin looked confused for a minute before it finally came back to her. The orange haired Demon Lord jumped up and used the air under her to keep herself suspended.
"I can't find Ryo...." she said suddenly puffing up. "Don't tell me he's training with Asa's son again!" Noiren's eyes narrowed causing Aieirin to stop.
"I have not seen Ryoen since he last trained with Ryuu," Noiren answered back crossing his arms in front of himself methodically. "When was the last time you saw him?"
"Uh...." Aeirin thought to herself slowly spinning in a circle as she thought. "A while ago.... kinda... I guess..." she answered back as if not even sure about the 'I guess' part. Noiren stared back as if unamused in the least.
"Vaporaii when was the last time you say Ryoen?" Noiren said aloud. In that half second, a pool of water appeared on the floor and Vaporaii puled herself up and out of it to sit rather like a mermaid at the edge of the pool.
"You seem worried, Lord Noiren," Vaporaii said with a strangely amused face. Noiren said nothing but reflected a glare causing the fish woman to suddenly look away. "I saw him leave a few hours ago," she answered back still not looking at Noiren. "At the time I believed him to be going to get Ryuu again."
"Why so worried?" a voice suddenly called causing the Demon Lords to turn their heads. Standing against a black pole, Ryoen smirked with his arms crossed. "I would never have guessed I'd be this missed if I was gone," he grinned a bit.
"Ryooooo!" Aeirin grinned suddenly flying forwards and tackling the red haired man clinging to him instantly. Ryoen retrieved the hug and sighed outwards now looking at Noiren and Vaporaii who still expected an explanation out of the red haired Demon Lord.
"What? I can't go out and party with the humans without you guys riding my butt?" Ryoen smirked a bit. Noiren sighede out as if satisfied in understanding this while Vaporaii simply rolled her eyes in irritation. "I brought everyone back a treat too..." Ryoen reached into what could only be described as his shirt and produced a gigantic bottle of ale. Aeirin's eyes grew, and a laugh broke in the air.
"Ryoen, you are disgusting," Vaporaii hissed rolling her eyes before finally forcing herself back into the water and closing the portal behind herself. A laugh escaped the Fire Demon Lord before he finally looked at Aeirin.
"None for today, though," he smirked a bit. "I'm going out to say hi to a few new friends..." Ryoen set Aeirin down and handed her the bottle that was nearly double the small orange haired girl's body.
"Friends?" Aeirin asked suddenly puffing up. "Ryuu?" she questioned.
"Nah," Ryoen answered back finding that Noiren's eyes had been piercing him caustically right then and there. "More like human drinkin' buddies," he lied with ease. "Now be a good Demon Lord and go bother Asa," Ryoen grinned a bit causing a sudden squeal to escape the child. Turning, Aeirin managed to pick up the giant bottle of ale and run off as if towards Asa.
"You love tormenting my son, don't you?" Noiren's voice caused a laugh to escape Ryoen.
"Hell he's fun to watch," Ryoen answered back. "So do you want to go out drinking with me?" Ryo's sharp eye looked at Noiren in a sideways glance. However, the dark Demon Lord shook his head.
"I have my own matters to attend to," he answered. "Don't get yourself into too much trouble, Ryoen." With that, Noiren was gone.
Ryoen let out a sigh and all but relaxed on the pole again. Jimmy Crickets he thought to himself. Such nosy spectators I have..... A half grin broke on Ryoen's face. Ah well... off to look into a few matters.... Disappearing, Ryoen faded and appeared back in the human world.
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Aiba stared down at the food in front of him. Ugh... what the heck is this stuff..... he thought to himself staring down at what would have been considered meat loaf had it not been burnt and looked more like rubber than anything else.
"Hah what's wrong Aiba? Lose your appetite?" Ohno asked as the red haired man across the table from the boy shoved another fork full of meat in his mouth. "It tastes pretty good."
"Shut up and eat," Ame commanded causing Ohno to silence again and continue eating.
Elle appeared to have the same face on the subject as Aiba. "It doesn't really look...." she tried to comment on it yet found it as impossible as Aiba had. Aiba sighed and was about to dig into the food when his entire body tensed. The rings on his fingers burned caustically making his hand numb. The fork dropped of its own accord to fit the laws of gravity.
What.. was that..... Aiba thought to himself looking over at Ame and Ohno who appeared not to notice anything different. I... felt like I was burning just now... what....
"You ok Aiba?" Ohno asked turning his head and seeing the sudden pale face of Aiba. The dark haired boy shook his head a bit as if unsure what to do. After a minute he picked up his tray and went to throw it away.
"The food tastes terrible," he commented aloud. "I'm.... gonna head back to Nino and Matsu's apartment... I can't really sleep here or anything..." The dark haired boy forced a smile as if unsure of anything else to do.
"You're gonna get lost. Take this with you," Ame commented aloud suddenly throwing what could only be described as a wilderness location device at Aiba. The dark haired boy was smacked in the face with the device and forced back a fraction before blinking.
"Uh... I'll go with ya, Aiba..." Elle said as she also in turn threw her trash away. Both walked out of the cafeteria, and suddenly Aiba broke into a run. That feeling... that hot feeling.... is... is it what I think it is? The dark haired boy questioned to himself. Is Ryoen close?
"Aiba wait up!" Elle called out causing Aiba to stop and turn again. "Why are you running?" she questioned.
"Because.... someone's here..." Aiba answered back unable to find the words to convey what he had just felt. Instead, the dark haired boy had started running again followed by Elle in tow. Out of the entire hospital and towards the school once more.
~*~
"Well, we're all alone now. How 'bout coming out, Mr. Demon Lord?" the girl asked. Ryoen sighed a fraction and appeared full with a grin on his face as always.
"Ah, so you're the girl with the gift of the gods?" Ryoen smirked a bit. It appears the shaman's information was right... interesting heh.... "I am Ryoen. You can call me Ryo if you want. Pet names tend to be Aeirin's thing though."
"What do you want?" the girl shot back suddenly causing Ryoen to stop and smirk.
"What do I want?" Ryoen smirked looking at the girl. "I want a lot of things.... heh... my other name is Greed." Ryoen grinned to himself a bit. "I want.... ice cream." Suddenly ice cream formed in Ryoen's hand. "I want... money." Suddenly the ice cream formed into money. "I want... oh well you get the picture." He grinned a bit to himself. "But I'm not here for what I want... I'm here for what you want." He smiled a bit suddenly sitting and crossing his legs in a chair. "I'm a genie in a lamp... or rather in a desk drawer as this may be considered."
"What... I want?" the girl asked narrowing her eyes a fraction.
"Yep...." Ryoen answered back. "Because you have links with the powers of the higher spirits... in old times... they were called 'gods', no?" he smirked a bit. "Now then... what do you want?" he grinned.
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I figured with the way things are set up on here, all the gods of the past and things from different religion are what are considered higher spirits. These spirits were probably originally nature spirits that took on a more demanding form or merged with human spirits. Anyways, they have more powers than regular spirits. Does this work?
Also, if you're confused on what Aiba has to do with this, Aiba is the vessel of Ryoen in which his body can sense when Ryoen is around. However, due to his immaturity, he lacks the full ability to shift directly into his vessel spirit and instead more or less is driven towards it without a full answer as to why.
Also, raise your hand if Ame sounds demanding xD. *is shot for raising hand*
KC
