"Shhh," Kurama tried to soothe the ballistic woman in his arms. She kept saying "never". She suddenly fell out of Kurama's arms and writhed in pain.

"It's the poison," she panted.

"I don't think that's the only case."

He turned her to the side and lifted her shirt. On her back and slowly painting itself on her skin, was a long, winding black dragon. Kurama gasped at the sight. 'So my assumptions were correct!'

"Lydia, you possess the dragon of the darkness flame!"

"What?" she scoffed.

"That is the resistance you were born with… how strange…"

"She was born with the dragon?" Hiei appeared behind him.

"Look for yourself."

Hiei saw the dragon placing itself across Lydia's back. He looked at his own arm. The patterns were intricate and much the same, hers was longer though.

"How in the hell is someone born with that?" his harsh tone demanded to know.

"I have no earthly idea. It's marvelous really, and a curse it seems," Kurama commented on Lydia's behalf. She groaned in pain.

"I need to lean on something," she looked around. They let her crawl to a nearby rock. It was two feet away, and gave her a hard time making it there. She sat up against it and winced. "Ah!" she breathed, squeezing her eyes shut.

"Hiei, you're presence is killing me," she told him through gritted teeth, "get you and your dragon buddy away." She attempted to push him.

Kurama caught her, as the little contact between her and the other fire demon had teased her feebleness. "I'm surprised you can sit up, your body can not use power now can it?" She nodded her head once.

It took so much energy to move now that she had released all of her power on Hayato. Hiei traced the dragon on her back. She arched in pain for a moment then a curious look passed over her face. She looked at him.

"What?" he asked.

"That feels… good," she was confused.

"I guess the dragons sort of help each other," Kurama reasoned. Takashi's manic laugh reached their sensitive ears.

"No one can beat him," Lydia muttered.

"What?" Kurama leaned in closely to hear her better.

"You can't beat him," she repeated to her last green eyed friend. "He doesn't want to fight you anyway."

"You're certainly not going to fight him."

"Oh? And if I don't, how the hell are we going to win, Hiei?" He had nothing to say. "We can not lose this. Demetrie gave his life so we would be protected just a little longer before this broke loose," she waved a limp hand over the destroyed meadow where bodies lay haphazardly in many pieces and blood tinged the ground in a rusty brown and red mess. Yusuke ran up to the three.

"Hiroshi is battling Takashi," he panted, Touya and Kuwabara ran up behind him.

"Jin and Genkai are fighting with Hiroshi," Kuwabara informed them.

"Where's Yukina?" Hiei demanded to know, his red eyes bore into every pair of eyes that looked into him.

Kuwabara's face was serious when he said, "I got a portal from Koenma to take her back to Spirit World. This is no place for her to be."

Hiei looked away from Kuwabara, secretly glad that Yukina was not among the grotesque scene still in creation. They heard yells from the four fighting 45 yards away.

"Guys, I don't think we can beat this guy," Yusuke doubted, sounding defeated.

"I can."

"You can't be serious."

"Touya, you know it has to be me."

"Yes, I do," he knelt down beside her, "but you don't have any energy."

"I know… which is why you have to transfer to me." They looked at each other.

"Transfer our energy to you?" Kurama asked.

"How do we do that?"

"It's a rather simple concept, Kuwabara. A baby could do it."

"That may be so Hiei, but it can still be dangerous," Kurama reminded his friend.

"Hn," Hiei was uninterested in the facts.

"With Lydia as drained as she is, it's going to be hard on us all."

"Kurama? Hello? Yeah, how do we do this?"

"Haven't you ever seen Dragon Ball Z?" Lydia asked. They stared at her coldly through narrowed, unpleased eyes. "What? I'm sorry if I-"

"I have!" Kuwabara stated enthusiastically. He got the glares too. He shrugged and took a couple steps back.

"You just summon your energy like so," he began. He stooped down to Lydia.

"Do you have to say hocus pocus to?"

"Now's not the time for jokes Yusuke."

"Alakazam!" Yusuke pointed at the red head, clearly not in the mood for reprimands. Kuwabara touched Lydia's leg.

"You have to will her to have it," he explained, closing his eyes and humming.

Kurama raised his eyebrows. Hiei looked at Kuwabara like he was an idiot.

"What the hell?"

"Humming helps me concentrate Urameshi! Ummmm."

"Baka."

Kurama and Yusuke followed the other man's example. Touya held Lydia in his arms and transmitted it through her arms. She was glad to be able to rest her head on his shoulder. Hiei finally sighed and placed his hand on her knee. The power from him flowed into her intensely.

"Wow," she breathed.

All this energy was like warm water washing over her. It felt very good. She relaxed in Touya's arms. He buried his nose in her hair.

"I think we need to pull up now."

"Touya's right, at this rate our energy will be gone and we need enough for us to fend in case she falls," Kurama pulled away with the others.

"Hiei?"

"She's not strong enough yet."

"It's odd, your powers helped but Hiei's seem to help me a great deal more."

"Like species," Kurama nodded as if he expected it. Touya left with Yusuke and Kuwabara to go help the others. A dying yell had ushered from Hiroshi's lips as he fell dead to the ground.

"There goes Danika's last fan," Hiei sarcastically joked, "Uh…" he corrected when he saw Lydia's face twist again in heart break.

"Hiei you could be a little more conscientious."

"Hn," the shorty directed his attention back to Lydia's knee, where his hand laid on it glowing green. Kurama left to go aid the others after a moment passed.

"Hiei, you need to let go."

"You're not strong enough."

"You've already been surprised at my power." He looked up, confirming what she said. He shook his head.

"You could still use more energy."

"Hiei, I thank you very much, but if you put any more energy into my body you run the risk of dying."

He knew it was right, but he wasn't satisfied yet. He wouldn't waste energy on her to have it deplete in a few minutes and she be useless to everyone's survival again. The world was at stake to, and he cared this time around.

He gave a final push with his dragon arm and let go. She smiled up at him.

"I think I have just enough to take him down."

"Before the poison sets in again."

"Yes, Hiei."

He looked down, thinking this over. He looked back to the fight.

"Temporarily healthy is better than death," he decided with one eyebrow raised.

He helped her up. She stroked the dragon on his right arm a couple of times. Hiei felt his worry calm. She looked into his red eyes knowingly.

"Stop manipulating my dragon," he accused. She held her hands up.

"Okey dokey!" She turned and they walked over to the group.

Lydia gazed over Danika's body that had been kicked over to Aftan's. She looked around some more.

"… Where is it?" she started, panicking.

"Sierra disappeared," Hiei spoke softly.

"No… where's Hayato's body?"

Hiei furrowed his brows and looked around.

"Hiei, I blew his heart from his chest, where is his body?"

"Lydia, Lydia," he took her fisted hands and held them. "Cut it out, you're not helping anything. You said you killed him-"

"No body, not dead," she repeated over and over.

"Alright," Hiei was getting annoyed, "let's go," he pulled her along.

When they got closer, they heard the peculiar commotion going on with Takashi and their remaining group. They heard a very animal like cry. Genkai, Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Jin, and Touya were thrust out away from the group in a power ripple. That ripple succeeded in knocking Hiei off his feet and back several yards with everyone else. Lydia wasn't affected. She narrowed her eyes at Takashi.

"They keep hiding you!" he pointed angrily.

"So sorry to keep you waiting," she kicked a rock.

"Will you entertain me?"

"I've entertained you enough," she cut at him. He laughed.

"Those nights and mornings were quite satisfying," he rubbed his body.

Lydia scoffed, completely grossed out. "Nothing to be proud of," she gestured to his body.

"Plenty to break," he waved over her teasing. "Curious, you haven't seen my form."

She shook her head, 'Oh, no.' He laughed and nodded.

He suddenly grew much, much taller and very, very muscular. He was a lean man about six feet tall before, now he was a pro wrestler 16 feet tall. She backed off slightly. He sauntered forward, smiling the whole time. His nicely tan body was a yucky, murky yellow. His eyes bulged in his large head, his purple robes torn apart. 'Thank GOD for spandex' she noted at his navy blue shorts. His black hair stayed very much the same handsome style, but his face…

"Gawd, you're ugly," she grimaced up at him. His smile faded and he punched her. Her back cracked but she suddenly had the strength to push back.

"And your breath? Jeez, do you ever take care of that?" He shoved her away angrily.

She skid to a stop, expertly dodging anything that would have made her stumble.

"Well, you are what you eat," she shrugged and braced her self, "so I hear."

"DIE MY PET!" he grumbled and charged her. She disappeared.

"What?"

She jumped down from somewhere above and kicked him head long into the ground.

"You're speed is amazing," he allowed, picking himself off the ground. He licked at his busted fat lip. "As is your power." She looked at him, hand on hip, face definitely not amused.

"I knew you'd be the best."

"I failed."

"Yes… but you can do so much more than you think. When I take you back, we're going to have so much fun," his huge brown eyes shined evilly.

"Hn," she half smiled before shooting an electrical current his way. He caught it and sent it back. She jumped up for it to pass her. He caught her before she touched back down. She struggled in his grip as he brought her to his face.

"You taste so good, you know." She squirmed and watched him carefully. She would have tried biting him, but even in her present position she couldn't bring herself to touch the nasty boiled covered papery skin.

All of a sudden he let go of her. She turned from where she landed on her hip. His left foot was caught by a rose whip. She looked for Kurama.

"Get out of the way!" he yelled at her. She moved quickly. Takashi fell.

"NO!"

"AH!" she gasped out when his claws grabbed her right ankle, pulling her back to him. She tried to crawl away. He scooped her up and began tossing her in the air. He hit her back up with a flick of his finger. He took a claw and hooked her.

"UGH!" she gasped and screamed. She had suddenly stopped flying and was being ripped open.

"This is an old wound, correct?" Takashi threw her to the side. Blood gushed from her wound. She held her left hand over it and stumbled weakly up to the rising creature.

He reached his grubby hand out for her. She used Danika's dagger to slice him open. He howled at the hand of his that had started burning up.

"Where did you get that?" he hissed. She smirked, clutching the glowing weapon to her chest.

"Ah," he laughed, "that's my knife."

She looked in disbelief at his hand that had started re-growing and fixing itself.

"I made it, so naturally… I can expel its power. It's made of my own, you know."

He picked her up by her neck. She stared up at him for a long time, making a tough decision.

"Take me," she whispered.

Kurama and Yusuke gasped.

"I'm yours," she hung her head, defeated.

"No!" Touya shouted.

"Yer not thinkin righ'!"

"Jin stay put." Genkai watched Lydia.

She took in how every bit of her spoke surrender but how her stance was firm and her muscles tense. Although the tenseness could have been from the pain, the old woman felt there was more to it than that.

Takashi transformed back into his old form. He looked at those alive with victory. He shrugged, "I win." He snapped his fingers and electrical wires bound them all tightly. Every time some one moved every one payed for it.

"Yusuke, the more you struggle, the more your friends get hurt."

"I'm going to let these get in my way again!"

"This isn't like Suzaku's attack dear boy. Every time the wires cut you for moving, they cut everybody." The Spirit Detective and his friends exchanged angry, scared, and sad glances.

"We lost, he has the Confessor," Genkai said with great emotion.

"Well said," Takashi praised.

"Now my dear, come home with me?"

"Fine," she spat.

Takashi grabbed her hair and snapped her head up. The look she gave him startled him, but he didn't show it. He forcefully brought his lips on hers. He kissed her for a moment, not noticing what she was going to do but expecting it suspiciously. He stopped suddenly and smiled. She had her hand on his throat.

"You know, that won't work on me. Might as well try out your darkness flame, I've been dying to see it. I mean, who is ever born with such power!" he enthused. She closed her eyes and focused on the energy of the Confessors. She prayed the blast wouldn't destroy everything like it did the last time she'd used it.

She thought of the times her mother held her when she had nightmares, when her father would take her to town to see the magician. She thought of her happiness when Demetrie took her in, the friendships she'd found when these spirit detectives accepted her even after she nearly destroyed Kuwabara's life by making him her servant. She thought of the kiss Touya and she had shared, how long he had truly cared for her. She thought of Danika, how she had been tortured and still loved her for who she was even after all that had happened in the past.

She focused on everything these people had done for her, at the same time, realizing how much she'd needed it and enjoyed herself.

It was like Touya had said, a vacation from her fears, until the past few days at least.

"Lydia, I told you. You can't beat me with this love. That's why you don't scare me."

Her eyes snapped open, false green and blood shot. The wind had stopped in that brief moment and the worlds had gone silent.

"You should know not to lie to a Confessor."

Her voice rang out harshly and Takashi's eyes widened. He just barely lifted his arms in protest when his eyes filled over solid black and he fell to the ground before her. Lydia's eyes had turned black in that moment as well. The anti revolutionaries around her stared in horror, shock, and awe at the appearance change. Lydia's black dragon wriggled on her back. They could see its head turning over the top of her tank top on her back, fully awakened. Everything seemed to be sucked in towards Lydia. The trees leaned toward the Mother Confessor and her victim.

"Brace yourselves," Genkai commanded as one by one they were released from their bonds.

A spherical wrinkle in the air appeared as a ring around Lydia and Takashi, whose eyes had started going back to their original colors. The band of the ring grew in midair about two feet thick and a half foot tall.

"Holy shit," Yusuke stated.

"Be ready," Kurama warned.

"Be prepared to fly into oblivion," Hiei added.

"Maybe we should get out of here," Kuwabara suggested in a high voice, barely being able to move his feet.

The ring moved and then started expanding towards them. The silence was dense and everything stopped moving once more.

"GET READY!" Genkai yelled.

A deafening thunder clap rocked the ground, shook the air, and sounded above, around, and under them. Air rushed past them, trying to take them off their feet. No one could see it yet, but Kurama had the tree roots strap their feet to the ground and their bodies to trees so they pretty much stayed put. It was a huge concussion wave and their ears rang, popped, and buzzed when it was over. They looked at each other.

"CAN YOUGUYS HERE ME?" Kuwabara wondered.

They all screamed and covered their ears.

"Oh, sorry guys. Owwww!" Kuwabara apologized then held his pounding head in his large, clumsy hands.

Takashi fell to the ground in front of Lydia.

She looked back at them with a smile.

"I did it."

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