I had to put it as a lopsided trilogy for my sanity- no real explanation.

Disclaimer- I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, Legend of the Seeker, Confessors, or gars or grippers or basilisk. I own about ten OCs, the plot and... I think that's it.

The air buzzed with screaming demons and battle cries. The earth thundered under their massive feet.

There were not many demons, about twenty and five rouge hunter demons in the trees as Lydia had promised.

Unfortunately for the fighting team of eleven, these demons were much larger than the previous. The seemed dumb in their size and stumbled around, but that was just from their fury. They were powerful A class demons, a fairly easy match if there were just five of them. As much as Lydia was a concern, one life couldn't be the only focus so everyone sped off.

"Touya," Lydia called out in pain. He looked at her, uncertainly. "Go."

He nodded after a moment and followed with the new battle. Danika was the only one by Lydia's side.

"Damn them!" she cursed and lifted Lydia into her arms. She ran and deposited Lydia a few yards into the woods. She looked around suddenly.

"Don't worry about them, I have enough energy for that," Lydia's eyes rolled a little. Danika hated to leave her, but saw no other choice. As soon as the Mother Confessor ran out into the battle field, Kurama appeared by Lydia again. He put his rose whip down beside him. She watched it change back into the elegant red rose.

"Eat this, it'll help to ease the pain," he offered her a seed. She shook her head. "Lydia," his tone cut flatly.

"I don't want to swallow anything else and for a good reason."

"Understood."

"I thank you for the offer though."

"It's not an offer." It took her some time to look up at him.

He was glaring at her intensely, green eyes rather intimidating. She rolled her eyes ineffectively.

"Fine," she took it and swallowed it. She smiled at him for effect; she knew the seed wouldn't help her at all. He probably knew it too, but didn't say anything. He left suddenly, back into the fight.

Lydia saw her friends battling left and right. No one ever stayed in the same place for too long. The demons were consistent with their attacks. She looked wearily over to the horizontal rip. She eyed it for a minute. They were going to get worn out before the princes came and then there'd be trouble.

She held her face in her hands. She took deep breaths. She had to get in there eventually. Sitting there didn't help anybody and it didn't help her conscious. She didn't care if she was the greatest casualty; it seemed her destiny to die in this fight. That way, she couldn't hurt anyone else… The noise seemed to grow louder in her head. She winced in pain.

"Owww," she moaned. A twig snapped to her left. She didn't look to see who it was, just thrust out her palm and electrocuted them. Good thing she did, it was one of the hunter demons.

Her head pounded. Her back was breaking under the invisible weight of fire coming from within her body. She was burning up.

"Don't any of you guys die on me," she whispered threateningly. She curled up on her side below the tree, clutching her sides, and closed her eyes.

Hiei had finally succeeded in cutting down two of the large nuisances. Yusuke and Kuwabara had decided to team up and work together. A pink portal appeared in the middle of all of the mess. No one payed attention to it, luckily.

A blue attired Yukina emerged from the glowing whole. She looked around and spotted Lydia. As fast as she could muster, she sprinted over to her. All the while, the fight raged on around her. She covered her head as rocks went flying from someone's blow.

One demon did catch site of her.

"No!" Hiei screamed and rushed ahead. He was too late and the demon tried to hit Yukina who had frozen in terror.

When the demon brought down his giant, hairy fist, a shield appeared and knocked him backwards into Hiei. Hiei had to cut the body mass in order to get out from under him. He looked over to Yukina who had again taken to running over to Lydia. He then remembered something Demetrie had told him.

"I conducted a ward around her. As long as she is fighting with Lydia, she is absolutely safe."

"Lydia!" she shouted. She made it to the fetal positioned girl.

"Lydia, come on," the young ice maiden pleaded, tears began to well in her eyes.

"Don't cry, Yukina. I'm not dead yet." Red eyes praised the pale green ones that looked back at her.

"I will be strong for you, Lydia. You're my friend, you're not going to die." She helped Lydia lie down flat on her stomach. "Your back right?" to make sure.

"Y-Yesss," came the shaky reply. The light emanated from Yukina's small hands and shined down on Lydia's back. Slowly, the pain seemed to ebb away, the burning finally cooling. Lydia let out an exasperated sigh and a laugh at once.

"Thank you."

Yukina only nodded, focused entirely on her work. 'If I just keep the light shining, that thing inside her, resistance they call it, will leave her alone.' The ice maiden also began to wonder if the resistance leaving Lydia was a good thing. In the long run, it was meant to help the made Mother Confessor.

The sky turned darker. The two glanced ahead at Hiei, to the far side of the deadly fracas.

He had torn off his bandages in frustration. His small, well toned body was surrounded by a black aura. His eyes burned into the beady eyes of his enemy. Both demons smirked at each other.

"DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!" he bellowed and the air swirled violently. The dragon leapt from his arm. As soon as the legendary creature came to life, Lydia shrieked in agony. Yukina screamed and fell back.

Something had smacked her, and it wasn't Lydia. She watched in horror as Lydia's body crawled with invisible things. She saw the wiggling of a snake under the folds of her white Confessor dress.

Genkai came over, battered and slightly bruised. She tore open Lydia's dress. "It's a good thing Lydia would never where this without having alternate clothes hidden under it." She tossed the white dress aside.

Lydia's hooked fingers were clawing at the ground around her.

Hiei's dragon roared and slammed into the demon that baited Hiei into using it. Lydia howled in the same raging scream. Genkai yanked up Lydia's black tank top and stared at the black shadow that was moving under her skin. Yukina shined her light on it and it disappeared.

"The resistance," Genkai looked over to the frightened Yukina. Neither really knew what to do.

The dragon of the darkness flame had just about over taken its enemy.

"Pleaaaase," Lydia begged, crying. "Make it stop!" she gasped and sat up suddenly.

She held her palm out to Genkai, it glowed with power. Her eyes, however, were looking past the master. Genkai ducked just in time for Lydia to kill another hunter demon with white fire.

"I've had enough," she growled at the dead body, clutching her stomach. She stood up, legs trembling horribly. She ignored the protests of Yukina. She walked out from the edge of the forest, black tank top with her hand under it, squeezing the skin to pinch away the dark abyss of pain welling inside her small frame.

She wore purple short shorts, had a light blue scarf tied around her ankle, bright orange socks, and her famous jazz shoes, untied. Her dark hair was mostly pulled back, but a lot of it hung around her face.

She expression was completely murderous. She glared at the demon who was all but finished by the dragon. Her voice snarled low on the first word.

"Cut- it- OUT!" she threw an orange and white ball of power at Hiei's opponent.

Hiei cut his own murderous eyes to her and stared in surprise.

Her body seemed broken and unstable, but she still stood tall and was able to use her energy to kill.

The dragon didn't like the interference. It turned on her in jealous fury and started after her.

"NO!" Hiei yelled, pulling it back.

"Really?" Lydia's eyebrows shot up at the dragon.

She lifted her hand again. The brilliant blue light that Kuwabara had met so many days ago appeared again. Hiei watched curiously. The dragon stopped and hovered over Lydia, seemingly studying this new technique. She brought her hand back then pushed it out into the dragon. It howled, covered in blue flames that sparked dangerously. After a moment the dragon disappeared. Hiei stared wide eyed at the woman who had defeated his toughest attack.

"No way!" he couldn't believe it. Lydia's mahogany nails glinted in the brief light. She turned slowly away from Hiei to the rip.

Three of the four from yesterday had walked out again. The man with the long black hair and dark purple clothing clapped. The black haired prince, Hayato, the eldest, stepped forward.

He held his arm out, almost to shake Lydia's hand from a distance. She glared at him, eyes narrowed, and glowing with hate.

She smiled to him and bowed. He acted accordingly. She laughed melodically and sighed. His orange eyes never left hers. They both raised their hands once more.

A violet stream of fire raced from his finger tips over to her. He lifted her off the ground. Hiei tried to cut down the wires that held her, but to no avail. It was like cutting through smoke, it always came back together again.

'Don't you dare go after him.' Lydia's voice sounded in his head. He looked up at her.

'Don't you dare expect me to stand here' he retorted in his usual cold sarcasm. He turned away to fight another demon.

While he was cutting through the brute, he reveled in how much pain she was in. He felt it all there in her head. In about three minutes, he knew, her body would give out.

Lydia focused on the power deep inside her. She tried to remember what Takashi had told her about fire demon nature.

She used her lighting confession energy along with the wizard's fire, coated the power inside her in a protective, electrical layer. She would need all the power in her body to get this man. Hayato was not the merciful brother, if he lived, she would not.

He was waiting for her to do something, while he squeezed the air from her lungs and applied pressure to her frail, human bones. Even her skin was starting to break open and bleed under his untouchable grip. She zeroed in on her power.

"Oh, Lydia?" a man's voice sang out. She opened her eyes. She looked over to Hayato. He pointed delicately over to Hiroshi who held Danika by his side.

"No!" Lydia gasped.

"Danika! Get away from him."

"Oh, believe me, she would if she could," Hayato laughed with a smile. His voice floated on the air, sending calming notions to his prisoner. Danika looked at her with a look of shame.

"Danika?"

The latter refused to say anything, only looked away.

"She's been with us for a while, Lydia," Hiroshi taunted. "She's helped us," his tone was creepy and his skeletal fingers stroked Danika's hair. He kept a bone crushing grasp on her left bicep.

"Lydia, I wanted to tell you!"

"Shut up!" Hiroshi slapped her hard across the face. Dark green bruises appeared where his fingers rapped her cheek bone.

"Tell me what?" Lydia urged in frantic panic.

"She told us where you were going to be."

"It's not true!"

"She doesn't want to tell her only friend that she betrayed her," Hayato frowned in mock sadness.

"Lydia's not Danika's only friend!" a girly voice trilled into the conversation very brusque.

"Ah, Sierra Mosely and Aftan Cartigan," Hayato spoke fondly. Aftan scrutinized him. "I know things, dear," he told her, tapping his temple with his other hand.

The girls' bows hung in their hands to the side.

"Please," Danika begged to them, shaking her head, telling them to leave the situation.

"It's too late for that," Takashi confirmed, nodding to Hayato.

Hiroshi smirked as Hayato threw with impossible speed, a long dagger into Aftan's ribs. Sierra screamed and fell, to her knees beside the confessor. Aftan coughed up blood and soon stilled. Sierra's tears fell fast, she got her bow and glared up at the men through tears.

"Do you want out of this game to?" Hayato asked, concerned. He snapped his fingers and Sierra vanished from sight.

Danika muffled her scream with her hand.

Lydia screamed loudly, "What have you done with her?"

"That's not your concern right now," Hayato turned his uncaring eyes and face back to her.

"You son a-"

"Lydia, we took Danika."

She snapped up to Takashi.

"No."

"Lydia, they did, I'm sorry. They put a tracking device on me. I didn't know until they got here and dissolved in my blood from where they put it."

"Years ago when you were seven," Takashi finished, grinning broadly. Lydia stared agape in shock.

Hiroshi took Danika's arms and held them behind her back, pulling her toward the rip.

"Lydia! I'm so sorry!"

"It was your blood they fed me," Lydia's tearful green eyes watched her friend, mouth quivering.

"I didn't want to tell you," Danika spoke, in much the same state, "I'm so sorry they've done this."

Lydia's mouth worked, her brows furrowed in disgust. "I should be apologizing to you! They took you from your home after they took me. No one else should have had to suffer anything the amount I did. They used the needles on you!" Lydia exclaimed.

Danika finally shed her tears, remembering the pain.

"Scars that will never leave her body," Takashi finished again in a bored tone. He waved a hand to Hiroshi who smiled horridly, placing a hand on Danika's waist to pull her closer.

"NOW!" Lydia screeched.

Danika spun around and confessed a wide eyed in surprise dirty blonde Hiroshi.

Takashi was at her side in an instant, crushing her throat in his large hand. The two glared hatefully at each other. She slowly raised her hand to his throat, her eyes filling over with the color red. Her body trembled. Takashi raised his eyebrows.

"If only Lydia learned this trick," he murmured to the now a severe threat Danika. "And if only you could stop me otherwise."

He transmitted his power into Danika's body. She gasped, veins icing over. Her concussive waves came out one by one, thunder clap after thunder clap. She'd worked hard to control the blasts of the confessions, so they wouldn't destroy everything in their wake. It was a miracle that she had held on to that much restraint while the color was slowly leaving her body.

At the same moment that Danika had grasped Hiroshi, Akio plunged from the woods into Hayato and Lydia finally released her power into the black haired prince's chest. The blast blew his heart out of his back, leaving a large, bloodied whole in his chest. He fell, lifeless while Akio beat him senselessly.

Danika uttered one last scream. A blinding red light filled the clearing and sky. Danika's eyes glossed over white and her pale body fell lifeless onto the ground.

"MY LOVE!" Akio cried and ran over to her fallen body.

Before he'd reached down to her a claw like hand dug into his stomach. Takashi ripped a large fleshy chunk of Akio's body from its frame and threw him down.

"DANIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Lydia screamed endlessly, her heart broken voice echoing everywhere. Everyone had stopped to see this moment happen.

Demons cheered. Friend's cried and hung their heads.

The last five A Class demons were blown apart by Yusuke's enraged spirit gun, Jin's furious tornado fist, Genkai's killer wave, and cut by Touya and Hiei's blood thirsty swords.

Kurama walked up to Lydia, who was on her knees, crying. Her body shook horribly, and tears cascaded down her face.

"NOOOOO!" she screamed. He fell to his knees and grabbed her too him. He held her while she screamed, hit him, and cried into his shoulder. He rocked them back and fourth, wishing with all his heart he could erase all that had happened just moments ago.

"AHHHHHHHH!" everyone else swarmed at Takashi at once.

The demon took his stance, happy to be part of this grand sport.

Anybody expect this?