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Final Battles
Lita wasn't quite sure what to do; the two of them were basically just pretending to fight. If they stopped, that woman would know Crystola wasn't on the evil side anymore. If the Kitsune understood right, Crystola was going to go back when the retreat was called and then hit the woman as hard as she could when she ended up next to the throne.
Lucky guess, Kitsune. A voice very much like Raye's went though her mind quietly. Stunned, she stopped mid attack looking to see if Raye had suddenly changed sides. No, she was over there with Kris, and boy did the two of them look creepy when they were smirking evilly.
"I'm over HERE kitsune!" Crystola yelled hitting Lita across the face with her whip.
Since when do YOU have psychic abilities? Lita thought attacking Crystola especially hard for that whip to the face.
You pick up on it after a few years in her head. Crystola replied concentrating too hard to block the whip hitting her across the arm. I'm just not too -OW- good at it. Raye always uses her power like it's nothing…
Speaking of the Baka Fire Apparition, is she going to feel ALL of your wounds when you're back in one body? Lita thought as Crystola attacked her.
We're not that well connected, so we never share pain. Not even Raye and I share pain… She often knows who's being hurt, but it's not the same as sharing the hurt. Crystola replied, managing to put up a very slow and weak block with her arms.
Good, I don't want her dead…Lita thought with a sigh. The two of them traded off pretend hits, and a couple of accidental real ones.
Yusuke dodged Kayrana's attacks with the daggers, and even managed to grab her wrists. Instead of throwing her back he held her there and asked, "Why the hell are you fighting me?"
She smirked despite being captured by the wrists, "I thought it would be… fun to fight someone so strong."
Yusuke let go of her and jumped away his heart pumping faster from the sound of her voice, "What did you just say?"
"I said it would be fun." Kayrana replied with a satisfied smile. Yusuke mentally hit himself for wanting to get closer to her… Keiko would kill him!
She let go of her daggers, both of them turning into black feathers before disappearing. "Seems you've got quite a bit of will power," Kayrana praised, "So I think I'll just play with you for a while."
Yusuke, unable to move, was promptly stabbed by the little flaming daggers Kayrana started throwing at him. The pain started to get him back to senses, to which the two of them started throwing (Y) Rekai blasts and (K) fire at each other.
Followers! Come to me! The evil woman's voice rang through the ballroom, both from everywhere and nowhere at once. Crystola nodded to Lita, running to the nearby doors and opening them as wide as she could. Raye and Kris immediately ran by her, the former giving Crystola a critical eye as she passed. Kayrana, nearly knocking into the brain dead Hiei when she dodged one of Yusuke's attacks, ran straight to the door. Since Yusuke was in the way, she used his head as a vault winking at him as she passed. With neither Cervas nor Angel following, Crystola closed the large double doors behind herself and Kayrana.
"You alright Kuwabara?" Yusuke called over while Lita started picking the lock that had automatically clicked into place with the door closing.
"No Worries, Urameshi! I'll be over there in no time flat!" replied the human, cutting down the barrier Cervas had made around himself. Shrugging, Yusuke ran through the newly unlocked door, right behind Lita.
"So you decided to follow them? Not a very wise decision." The villainess said with a smirk, "You seem to be out numbered."
"Pft, I've been outmatched and outnumber more than this when I was first training." Yusuke replied loudly and rudely.
"You have little manners, young one. Not only do you speak out of turn, but your words are crude and simple." She said pretending to scold him.
"Come say that to my face!" Yusuke growled taking a step forward.
Lita a held a hand in front of him looking the woman straight in the eye, "Where is Kurama?"
"I suppose you are blind in your anger toward me?" She replied smoothly, "He sits next to me, like a good little kit."
Sure enough, Yoko sat leaning against the woman his half lidded yellow eyes dull and unblinking. He didn't even seem aware of the villainess petting his ears, much less that his mate was in the same room as him. The room of course being the main ballroom, where the royalty could sit at their thrones and watch the ball proceed.
"Kurama, wake up!" Lita yelled running forward before being stopped by Kayrana.
"I doubt he can hear you, and in the mean time you're just hurting our ears." The fire apparition stated with a smirk.
"Get out of the way." Lita replied with a dangerous tone in her voice. Crystola shifted closer to the female on the throne, as if hoping she could say what was next.
"And if I don't feel like it?" Kayrana replied, putting her hands on her hips.
"I will make you move." Lita threatened, tightening her grip on her whip.
"And what would happen to Raye if you injured me, or possibly killed me?" Kayrana asked casually.
Lita smirked, "Nothing. You two aren't connected well enough to feel each others pain."
"Actually that's not true, Kitsune." Raye replied, Kayrana automatically moving out of her way, "See a certain Cervas connected us rather strongly, and now-"
"-we are almost like being the same exact person." Kayrana finished; She decided that watching from a distance was even more fun than taunting up front.
Lita raised an eyebrow at Raye, "You don't actually think you're like Kayrana, do you?"
Raye's eye twitched, looking almost exactly like a malfunctioning robot, "What?"
Lita almost laughed at her friend's reaction, feeling rather triumphant on confusing HER for a change, "Well you two are so different, you think the two of you can ACTUALLY be the same person?"
There was a long silence, in which other people who had watched the whole thing dared to glance at each other questioningly. Crystola took a calculating glance around the room and silently pulled out a pen from her blue jeans' pocket. However when she suddenly went to strike at the evil woman's neck, Kayrana quickly grabbed her wrist and punched her face. The combination of Crystola hitting the ground, knocked out, and the door opening wider with a loud bang, caused the whole room to spur forward into attacking.
Lita pushed Raye out of the way, heading straight for the evil woman still petting HER Kurama. She stopped short however, because Yoko had finally moved. In fact he had decided to stand directly in front of the woman who had power over him.
"Kurama, listen." Lita said sternly, "I know you can hear me, somewhere in there. Come out and help me defeat the woman who did this to you."
Yoko Kurama stared at her, not acknowledging her call or moving to attack. It was actually more disturbing to see the fox demon staring so emptily than it would be to see him cackling evilly. In fact, him acting a little mischievous would mean he was back to normal.
"It seems he can't hear you… Lita, I believe?" The woman still sitting behind Kurama said conversationally.
"You captured my mate, the Greatest (known) Thief in Makai, Yoko Kurama… And didn't bother to even know the name of his mate, Lita Kitsune, the Greatest unknown thief in Makai?" Lita questioned, amazed at how bizarrely this woman thought.
The woman didn't seem to notice Kurama's slight nod of recognition toward Lita, and replied with a simple, "Since you're not much competition, I decided to make him mine. Besides, he's the best looking out of the boys you girls hold close to you."
"Why thank you!" Yoko yelled with a grin turning around and kicking her out of the throne.
"Kurama!" Lita yelled happily, giving him heartwarming hug.
"Hey Lita-chan." He replied his soft smile turning to a smirk as he looked at the evil woman getting off the ground a couple feet away, "Shall we beat her down?"
Lita laughed, letting go of him while replying, "Thought you'd never ask."
As they ran toward the evil woman, both ready to attack, they completely ignored the red flash from the middle of the ballroom.
Raye and Kayrana had been fighting Hiei, while Kris challenged Yusuke with his sword covered in fire. However when Kayrana and Raye held hands to attack, since their powers were much stronger when physically close to each other, something odd happened. In the same moment that Raye shot a fireball out of her hand, there was a flash of both bright red and blood red at the same time. The result was a fairly tall older teen, with slightly wavy black hair that included dark brown highlights. Her red eyes overlooked her body, which was now covered with a small tight red shirt, black pants, and an odd cross between white tennis shoes and black boots. The young woman looked at Hiei questioningly, but then recognized him and glared at him.
"Um… Raye?" Kris asked, not being attacked due to how much the transformation startled the spirit detective.
The fire apparition shook her head, "I'm… Rayna."
Hiei twitched at her voice, it had that same annoying and attractive tone, "Well whoever you are, shut up and fight me."
"I'm Rayna!" she replied with the same disturbing evil laugh that had echoed through everyone's minds earlier.
Only this time it had that infuriating attracting tone underneath, "Will you SHUT UP?" Hiei yelled, charging toward the insane fire apparition.
"Hehehehe…" Rayna chortled summoning fire daggers and stating, "I will NEVER be quiet!"
"Man, your girlfriend is creepy." Yusuke stated her evil laugh still ringing in his head.
"She's not supposed to be able to do that." Kris replied in awe, "What the hell did Cervas do to her?"
Yusuke raised his eyebrow at Kris, "Not that I'm complaining, but weren't you suppose to be fighting me?"
Kris shook his head, "When she… transformed just now, it was because Cervas had just been killed. He doesn't have a hold on any of us now."
"So… Why is SHE still fighting?" Yusuke asked jerking his thumb at the mad cackling female fire apparition.
"She's insane." Kris replied nonchalantly.
When the room had suddenly jumped into action, someone had run from the side opposite the thrones, toward a certain small fairy. The little fairy flew away from the door as fast as she could, not noticing the figure charging at her, but instead escaping from one of Yusuke's blasts gone astray.
Thus it came as a great surprise to Tittina when she flew through some sort of ghostly figure, and stopped going forward from the cold chills running up her spine.
"Hello, Tittina." The ghostly image murmured, smiling evilly.
"Prin…cess?" the little fairy replied, slowly turning around in mid air.
"Yes, I'm here to haunt you while I can. Since you can't hurt me, I get to taunt you again. Won't this be fun?" Princess replied wickedly.
"No…" Tittina replied shaking her head, her small form glowing pink. She didn't need her wings to hold her in the air anymore.
"Ah, but it'll be fun for me!" Princess exclaimed, "You may want to be careful by the way, don't want your new friends to end up like the first ones, do you?"
Tittina didn't break down into tears like she usually did, which surprised Princess to no end. Instead her anger increased, along with her output of power.
"Why…" Tittina growled, energy concentrating thickly all around her, "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?"
As she cried this out, the small fairy released her energy upon the spirit. Princess' cry of anguish echoed through the large ballroom, and all that was left was a rather large hole in the ground. Many people in the room watched Tittina, expecting her to turn around and try hitting everyone else with that startling amount of power. Instead she merely fainted in mid air, avoiding hitting the ground only by Kris running fast enough to catch her.
"So that's her power source." The woman murmured quietly, not meaning to speak out loud. Being beaten rather soundly with many wounds, however, often affects ones ability to think clearly. This is especially true when one has two very angry kitsunes standing over them.
"Why are you so interested in Raye?" Lita demanded, towering over the woman's crumpled form.
She didn't seem to hear her, as she still mumbled to herself, "Perhaps I should try recruiting her. No, all of them. Such potential going to waste…"
"Answer when you are spoken to!" Yoko yelled at the woman, losing patience.
This seemed to snap the demoness back into the waking world, as she smirked at them, "Oh, I don't feel like talking right now. Not to someone who's already beaten me down, yet does not even know my name."
The demoness suddenly threw down a smoke bomb, which she had been pulling out when she was mumbling, "To make you feel better, I'll leave my name. Should be simple to remember… Thorn."
Clearing the smoke, Lita looked up to find the smallest of bats flying out of the top window. Coughing and cursing, she and her mate surveyed the rest of the rom.
Crystola was getting up slowly off the ground, grabbing her broken glasses that sat beside her. It looked like she had a bloody nose, but she'd probably be fine.
Yusuke and Hiei were trying to get some mad cackling girl to stop struggling, or at least make her shut up. Kris had tucked Tittina safely into his shirt pocket, and was holding said girl so her arms were behind her back. Strolling over to the figure, the kitsunes were shocked to see their friend was the cackling maniac.
"Raye?" The two of them asked in bewilderment.
She stopped cackling, finally, and looked at the kitsunes, "Rayna." She corrected, as if it was the most obvious answer there could be.
"What?" Lita replied blankly.
"Rayna?" Crystola asked, slightly stumbling as she approached the group.
The girl looked, "Yes?"
"You're not here, remember?" Crystola told her patiently, "You went to play with Tittina's bunnies."
"I did?" Rayna asked trustingly.
"Yes." She replied with a nod, "You made them very sad. You should go back, all you have to do is fall asleep."
"Sleep?" she asked. Crystola nodded, though the movement seemed to increase her headache.
"Kay!" Rayna replied cheerfully, closing her eyes. Immediately the girl faded back into Raye, Tittina and Crystola disappearing in the process.
"Um… What happened to Raye?" Angel asked, standing at the doorway with Kuronue beside her.
"Yeah, What'd we miss?" Kuwabara asked, already walking into the room. Someone sighed, or maybe they all sighed together; it was hard to tell the difference.
"You missed a lot." Kurama replied, shifting into his human self.
"Then tell us everything." Kuronue said. They all sat down around each other, talking of the weird, difficult, and annoying battle they'd just experienced.
I like re-reading my own fanfic, is this a good or bad thing? xD
Anyways, since I'm the almighty author that knows everything, I need YOU to tell me what you want to know. Some things will defiantly be explained, and some things will deliberately be left for the next two fan fictions I have planned. However if there's something you're afraid I'll forget to tell you, go ahead and say it.
However Thorn will be somewhat explained (though she may end up being a rather flat character).
In other words, review if you want the last chapter to be longer then 6 paragraphs!