Free day Friday (Night)

Starlight put the groceries in the car with Xander helping her while Kurama and Hiei got in the car. Kurama wanted to help but Starlight didn't let him. So here he was with Hiei, waiting to go back to the house. I mean he loved being with Hiei alone but he wanted at least help Starlight. Xander decided to settle it by helping Starlight. After all the groceries were put into the car, Starlight and Xander got in. Hiei was falling asleep in Kurama's arms when Starlight looked back.

She started the car and drove back to the house. The ride was just like before, quiet, but this time, comfortable. Starlight made sure she didn't wake Hiei up; she didn't want to find out what he would be like if she did. Starlight watched kept her eyes on the road, Xander is listening to his mp3 with his eyes closed, and Kurama held onto Hiei.

It was about five O'clock when they reached the house. Starlight parked her car and got out. Xander put his mp3 away and began helping Starlight again. Kurama waited for Starlight and Xander to get almost all of the groceries into the house before getting out himself. He also waited to see if Hiei would wake up with Starlight and Xander moving the bags around, but Hiei stayed asleep. After all the bags are put inside the home, Kurama got out while holding Hiei.

Starlight closed the car doors and locked them. She looked at Kurama with a smile. He blushed a bit; he was holding Hiei bridal style. "There is no need to blush Kurama; I think the two of you make a cute couple." Hiei wrapped his arms around Kurama's neck, snuggling against his neck. Starlight went back into the house. She waited for Kurama, so she can close the door behind him.

Kurama headed into the entertainment room, with Hiei still in his arms, where the others were talking and watching TV. Hiei is used to the noise of the others so he didn't wake when Kurama sat on a chair with them making noise. Kurama was still careful with Hiei and positioned him so he wouldn't get uncomfortable. Yusuke and Kuwabara didn't notice Hiei in Kurama's arms but the girls and Genkai did. Starlight took a peek in the room before headed to Fenrir.

Fenrir was lying down under the dining table; he was bored out of his mind. Starlight knelt down beside the table, "Father, you okay?" Fenrir lifted his head to look at her, "I'm bored." Starlight laughed, "Why don't we train in a little bit? I think you still need to show me some new techniques." Fenrir laughed, "I think it's about time I do show you new ones." Xander walked in as Fenrir said his words.

"HE TALKS!" Starlight bit her lip, "Uh oh, looks like the cat is out of the bag or should I say wolf." Fenrir came out from under the table, "This is no time for jokes." Starlight put a serious face on and nodded. She stood up, looking at Xander who was against the wall. "Miss…your dog talked." Starlight put both of her hands up, "Now Xander, calm down. There is no reason to panic." Xander looked at her once…before fainting.

Starlight put her hands down slowly, "Well," She looked at Fenrir, "that could have gone better." Fenrir walked to Xander on the floor, "I didn't think he would ever faint, guess I was wrong." Starlight walked over to him and Xander, "I better get him to his bed." Starlight put her hands under him, more like under him back and under his knees. Daylight came from the kitchen, "What happened? I heard something…" Daylight looked at Starlight who is holding Xander, "…fall?" Starlight took in a deep breath before speaking to Daylight, "He fainted when he heard Father speak." Daylight stayed still, just for a few seconds before laughing. "Who would ever think that he of all people would faint over Father speaking?" "Daylight, can you help me open the door to my room?" Daylight settled down to giggles.

Starlight went upstairs with Daylight following while she still giggled. Daylight pulled the rope, there was a click and the door released. Starlight took Xander up; she placed him on his bed. Fenrir came up to Starlight's side. "I'll watch over him while he's out. Go ahead and help Daylight with the groceries." Starlight petted him, "Thanks father. When he wakes up, try to speak to him without freaking him out again, or you can have me explain it to him." "I'll think about it. Now go help Daylight." Starlight petted him again, "Okay, I'm going."

Starlight closed the door once she was down in the second floor hallway. She then followed Daylight back to the kitchen. "So do you want Xander to know about Father and everything else? He already knows about our friends." Once inside the kitchen, Starlight started taking the food out of the bags and put the stuff away. "Might as well. He is a strange kid but I like him." Daylight took a quick look at Starlight, "You know he thinks of you as his second mother, right?" Starlight put a can away in a cabinet before pausing at Daylight's question, "Yes, I know he does."

Daylight looked back at what she was doing, "Is that why he's acting up? I've noticed the tense energy he's give off even though it's very faint." Starlight continued put food away, "Yes and no, it's about his mom. She has a new boyfriend and Xander hates him." Starlight gathered the empty bags, "He's also acting up because, like you said, I'm his second mother and he thinks that I'm leaving him, and he also thinks that I won't think about him while I'm gone."

Daylight and Starlight stayed quiet as they finished putting the food away. The kitchen door opened, "Miss, what happed to me?" Starlight looked towards the door, "You fainted." She smiled at Xander who seems really confused. "Why did I faint?" Fenrir went passed him to Starlight's side. Starlight sighed, "It was because you heard Fenrir talk." Xander laughed, "Miss, I thought I was dreaming or something." Starlight shook her head; she then looked at Daylight, signaling her to help Xander if he faints again.

"No Xander, you weren't dreaming when you heard me talk." Fenrir sat down next to Starlight, looking directly at him. Xander was slipping down but Daylight grabbed him to hold him up. He looked at Starlight, "Miss, can you explain this to me?" Starlight ran her hand through her bangs, "It's about time I tell you everything Xander." Xander got ahold of himself when he heard Starlight's voice, she sounded older and very calm. "Are you willing to listen?" Xander looked at Daylight, letting her know that he was okay. Daylight nodded and let him go. "Yes Miss. I'm listening."

Starlight pulled out a stool for Xander to sit on. He walked over and sat on it. Starlight move to be across from him by the counters. She looked down at Fenrir, he nodded his head. She looked back up at Xander, "I don't call Fenrir by his name. I call him Father. He took care of me and Daylight when we were younger and that was about two thousand years ago." Xander took this all in without showing it. Starlight continued, "I am the Monster Keeper and Fenrir, here," she petted Fenrir on his head where he liked it, "is my first monster. He talks because I let others hear him but I didn't want you to but as you can see, you hear him just as you're hearing me."

Xander looked at Fenrir then looked up at Starlight, "If you didn't want me to hear him then how can I hear him?" Starlight smiled, "You're different. You like strange things, monsters, ghosts, even legends from all over the world. You are the only one that can hear him without me letting you." Xander looked down, "So…I'm not going crazy?" Starlight smiled, "No you're not. But I'll tell you something, nobody else can hear him talk so try not to talk to loud in public because all they hear from him is normal dog sounds, even though he's a wolf."

Xander smiled, "Okay, I'll keep it a secret. I like things like this but I didn't expect it before, that's probably why I fainted." Starlight gave him a smile of her own. Daylight was putting the frozen food product into the freezer when she noticed the other ice cream buckets. "Starlight," Starlight turned to Daylight, "Yes?" "How many ice cream buckets did you get?" Xander looked at Starlight with worried look on his face. "I got one for Xander, two for you and the others, and…seventeen for Hiei."

Daylight's eyes widened, "Seventeen? You got seventeen for Hiei?" Starlight looked at her calmly, "What? Hiei really loves ice cream and the look on his face when he couldn't decide on which one to take, made me feel bad." Daylight looked at the freezer, "But seventeen?" "You have a problem with that?" All three, four if you including Fenrir, looked towards the voice. "Hiei, are you sure you can eat all of them before we leave in two weeks?"

Hiei looked at her, "What do you think?" Kurama wrapped his arms around him, "Hiei be nice. At least they let you get all those ice cream buckets." Hiei looked up at him then back at Daylight, she looked at the freezer again. "I really doubt the freezer will hold all of them." "Well what are you going to do with my sweet snow if it won't fit in the freezer?"

Daylight looked at him funny, 'Sweet snow? Is he referring to the ice cream? Hmm, that's a very interesting name for it.' She then looked at the freezer again, drawing a blank. 'What do I do now?' Starlight walked next to her, "Why do we take them to the other freezer? That way the others won't get to it." Daylight looked at her with a smile, "Great idea, but I'll be needing help." Starlight nodded, "Sure thing." Starlight and Daylight grabbed some of the buckets. Starlight went out of the kitchen, Daylight looked at Hiei, "These are your 'sweet snow' so if you don't want the others to get to them, I suggest you help."

Hiei looked up at Kurama again; he leaned down and kissed Hiei. They both grabbed some of the buckets and followed Daylight. Xander and Fenrir were left in the kitchen but Xander decided to help. "I'll help them since I don't want to be left alone." Fenrir snorted up at him, "What am I, chopped liver?" Xander smiled with a laugh, "I'm sorry Fenrir. I didn't mean it that way." Fenrir stood up from his sitting position. "It's fine. Hurry up and help them if you don't want to be left behind." Xander nodded, grabbed a couple of the buckets and went after them.

Starlight put the buckets down in front of a door near the backdoor. She pulled out a key from her small side bag and unlocked the door. She placed the key back in her bag. Daylight opened the door while she put one of the buckets on the ground. Starlight and Daylight picked them back up and waited for Hiei and Kurama to catch up. When they did, Starlight opened the door more and went down the stairs. Daylight let Hiei and Kurama to follow Starlight. She was going to right behind them but she stopped when she heard Xander, "Can I help?" he smiled with a bucket of ice cream in each hand.

Daylight smiled at him, she made a gesture that said that he should go first, "Come on." Xander went down the stairs and she went after him. Starlight had gotten to the bottom of the stairs, turned around and looked up at the others. When she made sure that they were following, she turned around and walked ahead again.

Kurama and Hiei noticed that the basement was something they didn't expect at all. There is a large pool on their right and to what looked like more rooms to their left and there was still a lot more than they can see from where they're standing. It was also brightly lit, just like if it was another floor above the ground and not a basement. Starlight stopped at another door, she put one bucket down but it wasn't locked. She turned the handle and opened it. She then picked up the bucket and walked in. Xander stopped next to Hiei and Kurama and looked around, "Who ever thought that they would have something like this down here?"

They both looked at him. Daylight walked past all three, "Come on, you can go site seeing when all of Hiei's ice cream is in a freezer or do you want they to melt?" They joined her just as she went into the room. Starlight opened a big rectangular box; she place the ice cream buckets inside, Daylight did the same. Xander came closer to have a better look, "Miss, is this like a big freezer?" Starlight looked at him and smile, "Yes, this is used when we don't have enough room in the refrigerator." Xander put the ice cream he was holding into the box. Once he was out of the way Kurama and Hiei did the same. "Now we have to go back for the rest."

Starlight was put ahead again but this time, Xander was with her, "Miss, how did you make your basement like this? Or should I say why did you make it like this?" Starlight took a quick look at him; she looked up the stairs as they went up. "The answer to your first question is that Daylight and I did the basement with careful planning, just in case if we had more guests than the rooms available on the second floor. And the answer to your second question is for security." Starlight looked down at Daylight, "Was that right?" Daylight laughed, "Almost, you forgot that we also did some of the rooms for fun and the others to hide things so we can store some items and things away within them. That's why we built the basement with no windows so nobody can get in. We don't trust very many people."

Starlight and Xander stopped at the top of the stairs; Starlight looked up at the ceiling, "How did I forget all that?" Daylight laughed again, "You're probably not much into jewelry and precious gems." Xander looked at them both, "Are you thieves?" Daylight looked at Xander, while Starlight covered her mouth with her hand to keep from laughing. Kurama and Hiei looked at each other. "What? Have you lost your marbles, kid?" Starlight burst out laughing when she looked at Xander's face which held an expression of shock. But now he had a confused look with Daylight's words.

Daylight walked into the kitchen with all four behind her, "Starlight and I are not thieves, we got the stuff from people at the time when we were younger and collected them from their previous owners." "How did you get them?" Daylight looked at Xander, "We had to do a favor or favors, for them and then they would give us whatever they want to give us for doing that favor or favors. Well, that was until we were able to come back here." Starlight grabbed two more ice cream buckets, "Anyway that is not really important."

Starlight headed to the basement stairs again with a smile. Daylight handed Xander a bucket while she took two, and Kurama and Hiei each took one. Xander caught up to Starlight, "Miss, why do you have a pool in the basement?" Daylight laughed, she headed for the basement stairs, "That boy sure does ask a lot of questions when he wants to learn something." Kurama and Hiei followed her down. Kurama smiled, he used to be exactly like Xander when he was young. "Is that a bad thing Daylight?" She looked at him when she was at the bottom of the stairs again, "No, I actually like that he asks questions. But he mostly asks about ghosts and dead things, and who knows what else."

Starlight smiled at Xander again, "So, you what to know about the pool, huh?" Xander looked away from her, "Well…I just what to…nevermind." Starlight went into the room with Xander behind her, "I put a pool in the basement because Daylight always wanted a private pool without be disturbed by anyone, including me." Starlight put the buckets in the box. "But I saw you have a key, so that means Daylight has one too?" Xander put the bucket in the box. "Yes, and I annoy the hell out of her when she want to be alone."

Starlight and Xander shared a smile, "What was that I heard?" Starlight looked up at Daylight, "Uh oh." "'Uh oh' is right. Now, what were you saying?" Starlight moved away from the freezer, "I was saying that you get annoyed when I bother you when you want to be alone." Daylight put the buckets in the freezer, "This is about the pool?" "Yes." Daylight looked from Starlight to Xander, she smiled, "Are you done asking questions?" Xander didn't like the smile. He walked over to Starlight, or more like behind her. "Yes, I'm done." "Good, now you can all relax while I make dinner."

Daylight turned and walked out of the room. Kurama and Hiei put the last two ice cream buckets in the box. Xander put his hands into his pockets, "I hope she doesn't make pigs in blanket." Starlight looked at him, "Why not?" He looked up at her while all of them walked out of the room, "I have to feel in the mood to eat them, otherwise I'll get sick." Starlight closed the door and began heading for the stairs, "You remind me of someone who does that with chicken." Hiei slowed down to a stop, making Kurama look back at him, "What's wrong?" Hiei looked up at him, looking liked an innocent child, "What's a pig in blanket? I keep seeing a pig wrapped in a blanket." Kurama smiled, "I don't really know but why don't we ask Starlight?"

Hiei became pink, "Don't! It's too embarrassing to ask her." Kurama smiled sweetly at him, "She won't do anything or say anything weird." Hiei was still unsure, "Let's go before they lock us down here." Kurama pulled Hiei with him. Starlight and Xander waited by the door for them, Starlight had a smile on her face, "Site seeing?" Kurama looked down at Hiei then looked back at her, "No, we were talking?"

Starlight shut the door but didn't lock it, "I thought you two were looking around but I'm wrong, so don't mind me." She started heading for the kitchen but Kurama stopped her, "Starlight, what exactly is a pig in blanket?" Starlight turned around, "I don't know how to explain but it probably would sound funny coming from me, but I can show you a picture of it." Kurama smiled at her, "Okay." Starlight headed for the kitchen again, Xander walked beside her, "Miss, is it okay if I go to the entertainment room?" "Sure, but you'll have to explain to the others why your presents is here since they don't know you are here." "Alright Miss." Xander went into the entertainment room.

Starlight then went into the kitchen with Hiei and Kurama. Daylight was seasoning some hamburger meat when they came into the kitchen. She looked up at them, "Any reason why you're in here?" Starlight smiled, "I wanted to show them what a pig in blanket looks like because I don't know how to explain it." Starlight pulled out a cook book on top of the refrigerator. "Hey, be careful with that! I don't want you to ruin it." Starlight held the book close to her, "I'll be careful." Starlight set it down on the counter and opened it to a page that shows a picture. Starlight turned it to Kurama and Hiei, "This is a pig in blanket….make with a hot dog and a croissant."

They took a closer look at the picture, is show a hot dog wrapped in a croissant. Hiei looked up at Starlight, "It looks like the…croissant is eating the hot dog." Starlight smiled and Daylight burst out laughing, "It does look that way." Kurama sat down, bring Hiei to sit on his lap, "May I look at your cook book, Daylight?" "Sure and if you want me to read what it says, I'd be glad to." Kurama smiled, "Thank you." Kurama went to the beginning of the book and looked at the first recipe.

Starlight walked out of the kitchen. She was looking for Fenrir when she spotted him under the table again. She knelt down to him, "Father, are you ready to train?" Fenrir lifted up his head, "I thought you forgot about it." Starlight shook her head, "No, how can I forget to spend time with you. I always will remember to spend time with you, even if you don't think so. Besides, you're my father and I will always want you to be on my side like I'm on your side because I love you as my father. You are my Father." Fenrir came out from under the table and sat down next to Starlight, "Okay, that's enough or you're going to make me cry."

Starlight smiled and hugged him, "You always will be my father." Fenrir put his snout over her shoulder and brought her closer to him, "And you and Daylight will always be my only daughters." They stayed like that for a minute or two before move away from each other. Starlight petted him, "Are we ready to train?" Fenrir nodded his head, "It's time to teach you some new tricks and fighting techniques." Starlight nodded, "I'm ready for my lessons."

Xander explain everything about him staying for the two weeks with them, their reaction….surprise and shock, well, all expect Genkai. She knew there was something up with the kid and now she has a chance to watch him closely. Xander looked at the TV and it didn't interest him. He then decided to go looking for Starlight. So he went out of the entertainment room to look for her in the kitchen, only to be told she was not there. 'Where could mo- there I go again, thinking she's my mom. I need to get over it.' He stopped in the hallway and he began used a little bit of his energy to look for Starlight. He found out that she was outside with Fenrir. He headed for the back door.

Starlight jumped out of the way of a shadow's blade. Fenrir showed her how to jump out of the way when she was on her hands and the balls of her feet from an enemy that managed to get her on the ground. The shadow hit her again for the fifth time and now she jumped like Fenrir taught her because the enemy may be too close and she may not have enough time to do something else.

When she got it nailed down, Fenrir went next to her as she kneeled down. "Okay, you got that one. Now, let's try something more complex." Fenrir went in front of her, "I want you to do a combo of your most violent hits against one of my shadows and then knock it up into the air, hit it a few times while it's in the air and then hit it into the ground. Did you get all that?" "Yes Father." "Good, now get ready." Fenrir walked back where he was sitting before.

He created a shadow that looked somewhat of a median sized boxer. Starlight stayed where she was as she stood up. The shadow approached her with incredible speed, but Starlight watched it closely and went down. She gave it an uppercut right in the chin, it lifted off the ground a few inches and Starlight through another punch to the midsection. It almost went flying if she had not gone behind it and gave it a real good kick that could break anyone's back. Starlight then gave it another kick that made it go up into the air. She jumped up to it; she gave it a few hits to make it go up in the air higher.

She came down but jumped right back up again. She gave it damaging hits. She then kicked it down to the ground. It hit the ground and disappeared into black smoke. She crouched down after she was on the ground so she wouldn't hurt herself when she landed. Fenrir came to her again, "You did well but you could have done that a little better." "What did I do wrong?" "When you came down and went back up again, you had given your opponent a chance to recover and attack you." Starlight nodded, "I'll do better next time I try that."

"Okay, let's try another." Starlight stood up looking at Fenrir, "This one I want you to try to get as many shadows as you can before they take you out and you can use whatever you want." Starlight nodded and Fenrir walked back once again, "Get ready." Starlight brought up her fists in front of her. Fenrir created twenty shadows of different sizes and structure. Some of them have swords, daggers, and a spear, and others had nothing.

Two of the twenty shadows ran at Starlight with swords in each hand. She took them out by stepping right between them then down and let them cut each other's heads off. Four more came at her. She jumped back from the shadow with the spear as it swung at her. Instead of striking her, it went into a shadow next to it. It disappeared in black smoke as the blade of the spear struck it. The same shadow with the spear came at her again. Starlight grabbed the spear near the blade and yanked it away from its wielder. She then spun it in front of her to deflect the attacks of the other shadows.

They backed away from her. She then stood sideways with the spear behind her, pointing the blade down to the ground. The now spear less wielder came at her once again with fury. She took it out by slicing its throat with its own spear, black blood spread out of the wound but like Starlight's earlier training, it disappeared. The shadow staggered a bit before falling. However, it didn't hit the ground; it disappeared before ever touching it. Starlight smiled, "Who want to be next?" The shadows all roared in anger.

One by one they went down and disappeared. Starlight used the spear to defeat the remaining shadows with no problem. She took her stance with the spear behind her after she defeated all of them. Fenrir created twenty more shadows, they were somewhat the same as the ones she defeated but there is now some with wings. One of them flew high into the sky and came at her from above.

She rolled out of the way but was surrounded by the other wingless shadows. Two of them landed a punch and a kick, knocking her out of the circle. She jumped back on her feet, just as one of the shadows ran at her with its scythe raised into the air. She stopped it from coming down at her with the blade of the spear, she then noticed a second scythe in its other hand. She stopped this with the end of the spear; she spun the spear real hard to make the shadow spin in the air. Two more shadows came at her from each side with swords raised, she jumped up to avoid them, but only to get hit by a winged shadow.

Starlight would have hit the ground hard if she didn't drop on her hands and the balls of her feet. She saw one of them going to kick her but she just learned how to get away from an enemy in her state. The shadow missed and slipped on the ground. Starlight stood up after jumping away from it and watched as it fell. She smiled; it got back up, looking at her with hate in its eyes. "What, too slow or is it that I'm too fast for you?" The shadow cried out in anger.

Fenrir grinned at Starlight's words. He also told her to taunt her enemies to get them away from others or the injured. He wanted her to practice taunting enemies just in case of emergencies if one of the team members got seriously hurt and need a distraction to get away. So there Starlight was, practicing taunting Fenrir's shadows before going against real enemies. Starlight also remembered the warning he gave her, 'Don't taunt the enemy too much or you'll find yourself in real trouble.'

Starlight took down the big shadow that tried to kick her by throwing the spear into its head. More of the shadows came at her, she then moved to the disappearing shadow to get the spear before it disappeared too. Grabbing hold of the spear, it solidified to her touch. It hit the ground, making Starlight use it as a pole vault to jump over the coming shadows. Starlight was actually was getting tired of the spear so once she was away from the swarm of shadows, she throw the spear up to one of the winged shadows. It hit dead on; the creature came down, releasing a sword from its hands. It disintegrated in front of Starlight, blocking the view for the ground shadows. She made her move, catching the swords and ran into the group. Shadow after shadow went down to the group.

Xander was sitting down at the entrance of the backdoor, watching the entire training session. 'Wow, Miss is actually cooler than I thought her to be. But now I wonder what Miss is going to do with that lady, Nevaeh.' Xander changed his sitting position, 'I mean, she was the reason Ms. Daylight didn't have a boyfriend and one of the people to get both of them into the races. I've seen them both anger but Miss is really a person you don't want to get anger.' A hand was put on his shoulder that made him finch in surprise; he didn't hear the person coming behind him or the door opening.

He looked up to see Daylight above him, smiling. "It's time to eat." Xander got up, "How long has it been since I was out here?" "It's been about two hours." "Two hours?" Xander looked towards Starlight, "Should we tell Miss to eat too?" hoping Starlight would join them for dinner. Daylight looked at the training session, "I don't think we should. She needs to train." Xander looked down with disappointment, "Don't worry Xander, she'll come in when she's done training or gets hungry. Besides, she wouldn't be happy with me if you stay out here and not eat." Xander gave in, "Okay…can I have some ice cream when I'm done?" Daylight smiled, "Sure, we all will."

Starlight got hit in the back with an arm of the shadows, making her kneel. She turned around, swinging the sword in its direction. The blade sliced it in half; the two halves fell apart from each other and disintegrated. She stood up, facing the remaining shadows. Some of them growled at her and other roared, "What? You guys are not turning chicken on me now, are you?" They all roared and came at her all at once. Starlight smiled, "Now that's what I like."

Starlight cut and destroyed the shadows within minutes. She knelt down with Fenrir coming up to her, "Are you okay?" "I'm fine Father. I'm just catching my breath." Fenrir sat down in front of her. "Are you sure? It seems to be more than catching your breath." Starlight sighed, "I guess there is no use to hide it. The pain is back and it is worse than it was before." "What do you mean? Did I hit you in the wrong place?" Starlight put her hand over her chest, "No, this is…!" Starlight felt a cold shard go into her heart and then her whole body went cold.

She felt this for a few seconds then her body returned to its normal warmth. Fenrir looked at her with concerned eyes but stayed quiet, waiting for her to say something, "….." "Shit, what was that?" "What happened?" Starlight rubbed the spot her hand rested, "I feel like an ice shard went into my heart and I felt as if I died but I didn't. I can't really explain it but it felt like something died and I was feeling its pain."

Fenrir got up from his sitting position, "Do you want to stop training?" Starlight shook her head, "No, I want to train so that I can become stronger and make sure nothing happens to my teammates and to stay alive against other monsters. That pain was some kind of warning and I got a bad feeling about it." Fenrir turned but looked back at Starlight, "You know you can't stop any from happening to them and you are on your own when it comes to monsters." "I know but I want to protect them to make sure anything won't happen or at least prevent it. The monster I can handle but I'm worried about them getting hurt." Starlight stood up with her fists balled up, with a dangerous look in her eyes. Fenrir grinned, "Now that is the fighting spirit I like out of you. Shall we continue?" Starlight nodded her head, "Bring everything you got Father."

Fenrir sat in his spot again, and began creating more shadows. Starlight picked up the sword and began creating a white ball of energy into her free hand. Fenrir didn't create his usual twenty, but created fifty shadows, "Are you ready?" "I'm ready." Fenrir released them at her. Starlight threw the sword and it got two shadows together in one shot. The other shadows weren't fazed by her attack and continued charging at her. She released her energy ball which was similar to Yusuke's spirit shotgun but hers is more like a wall. Most of the shadows disintegrated on the impact of the shot, while others stopped just before hitting it. As soon as Starlight took her shot, the shadows came at her with their weapons and energy. She jumped over them, giving herself time to create another energy ball.

Some winged shadows saw her jump over the ground shadows and turned to where she landed. She was done creating the energy ball and began targeting the shadows she wanted to get rid of. After she finished choosing her targets, she released it. Many shots were fired from it, hitting their directed targets. It also gave off a bright white light that blinded the shadows closest to her. She went after them while they were still blinded by the light. Fenrir began creating more shadows. Starlight backed away from the new shadows, knelt down on one knee to stay in a calm state. She then summoned her bow into her left hand while summoning three arrows in her right.

She then brought all three arrows to the bow and set them. The creatures were drawing closer with each second. She pulled the string back with the arrows and then waited to the right time. Three of the shadow creatures ran towards her, she released the arrows striking each of them in the head. They fell to the ground with more creatures moving towards her. Starlight summoned three more arrows, lifted the bow and took her aim. Three large creatures came forward, taking their chance against Starlight. She released the arrows, aiming for their hearts. Two of them went down while the third one knelt down. It looked at her and grinned, standing back up; 'he' broke the arrow in half.

Starlight stood up from her kneeling position. She walked sideways away from it and the others, summoning three more arrows while doing so. The creature started laughing as he stepped closer to her. Starlight pulled the string back, took aim at the creature's lungs and heart, but this time she put energy into the arrows, making the blades of the arrows glow white. The shadow stopped in 'his' tracks, Starlight smiled at it. "Scared by a little light?" The creature was about to hightail it out of the area but Starlight released her arrows hitting their marks. It disappeared not a second later.

Starlight grabbed ahold of the string to her bow while looking at the group of remaining shadows. "Who want to be next?" All of them roar and came charging, she sighed. Starlight raised the bow like a staff and used it to hit the oncoming creatures. Earlier, she changed into her normal warrior clothes with a slit on each side of her skirt with some type of shorts underneath; she had a blade hidden between the skirt and shorts. She grabbed it while she stopped a sword coming down on her with her bow. She sliced it in half after pulling it free from its sheath.

Xander sat at the dining table, barely finishing up his dinner. He ate extremely slowly which took an hour just to finish one plate. He listened while the others at the table talked amongst each other. Xander said a few words here and there but kept mostly quiet. Daylight noticed Xander being so quiet and slowly eating his food, whatever he had left, "Xander, are okay? You don't seem really hungry." He looked at her, "I'm okay, just bored." Daylight looked towards the kitchen, "Okay but when you're ready for your ice cream; you can go ahead and help yourself."

Xander smiled, "Thanks Ms. Daylight." Daylight chuckled, "You can call me by my name without the 'Ms.' in front of it." Xander put the last small piece of food into his mouth and chewed. He looked up at her again to respond, "It just seems disrespectful to me to call an adult by their first name, especially when they are not family members." Daylight smiled, "In any case, I still would like you to call me Daylight. The 'Ms.' is getting old or should I say this Ms.," Daylight pointed to herself, "is getting old." Xander smiled and began to laugh. Daylight's smile widened, 'I made him laugh. It's rare to he him do so.' Xander kept laughing until he couldn't any more. "Feeling better?" Xander nodded, rubbing his eyes of tears.

Starlight continued to attack the shadow creatures. With the little anger she had remaining disappeared ever so slowly with each creature she destroyed. Fenrir stopped creating shadows and got up from his sitting position, moving around to see Starlight's movements and if she was executing them right.

A median sized winged creature tried to aim for her head with its weapon. She ducked down and cut it directly up from its groin, if it had any, up to its head, splitting in half. Another came from behind her, its weapon aiming for her spine. She stopped it with her bow and stabbed through its knee. It roared out in pain, but the roar was cut short with Starlight cutting its windpipe. The remaining creatures jumped at her all at once. She made her bow disappear into a white light and shot three waves of light into all of them. The first wave disintegrated their skin, the second took away the muscles and organs, the third dissolved their bones. Starlight stayed where she was with her open palm in the direction of the once were shadows.

She turned to Fenrir as he approached, "How did I do this time?" Fenrir looked up at her, "You did better than I'd expected. You controlled that anger of yours and used it correctly as you were supposed to. Your training with me is now complete. Congratulations." Starlight smiled, "Father, you still haven't said 'Simon says'." Fenrir grinned, "Very good, I thought you wouldn't catch on." "I've learned from the best." Fenrir snarled, and his eyes turned green with little bits of yellow in them. They glowed with the moonlight, "Ready for your final test, child?" "Bring it!" Fenrir howled up to the sky before jumping at her.

Xander heard the howl and shivered; he definitely knew it was Fenrir. He can tell the difference between a normal wolf's howl and Fenrir's. It sounded deadly from just hearing it. Everyone else heard it too, "What was that?" Daylight put down her cup she was drinking from, "That is Father giving Starlight her final test. He warned me about it before I freaked out." Yusuke turned to her, "Do you think you should have given us some warning?" Daylight looked at him sheepishly, "My bad."

Thirty minutes later, Starlight and Fenrir came into the house. They both looked tired, Starlight leaned against a wall and slid down while Fenrir just plopped on the floor. Daylight walked over to them. She bended down, smiling, "So, how did it go?" Starlight looked at her, smiled and laughed, "Stupid question to ask Daylight." "Hey, there is no such thing as a stupid question." Starlight nodded her head, "Fair enough. I've passed with pain everywhere." Fenrir got up, "You're not the only one. You did a good job on landing those hits on me." Starlight looked at him, "I feared that I hurt you bad." Fenrir chuckled, "Are you kidding? I couldn't die from hits like those but it would probably make me sore for a while." Starlight laughed, "I guess you right. I just don't want to overdo it on you, Father." "You did better with the hits though; they were much stronger than the last time."

Starlight stood up with Daylight's help, "I'll remember that, thanks." Daylight turned to Fenrir, "Dad, there is some food and drink for you in the kitchen." Fenrir looked up at her, "Thanks, I hope it's what its smells like." Daylight smiled, "It is." "Good." Fenrir went into the kitchen. Daylight then turned to Starlight, "Are you going to eat?" Starlight shook her head, "No, I'm going to take a shower. Maybe later, K?" Daylight nodded, "I'll save you some." Starlight nodded and went upstairs.

Xander watched Daylight come back to the table, "Is Miss going to eat…Daylight?" Daylight smiled, "She'll eat later. Eat your ice cream before it melts in your bowl." Xander looked down at his bowl and took a scoop of it then placed it into his mouth, smiling. Hiei and Kurama are in the living room with one of Hiei's ice cream buckets, sharing it but Hiei was eating it with big spoonful of it with a spoon that seemed wasn't big enough. Kurama chuckled as he watched Hiei eating it. Every so often, Kurama couldn't resist licking the ice cream from the corners of Hiei's mouth, only to get growls in return. Daylight looked back at them, "Are you guys sure that Hiei can finish all those ice cream buckets?" Yusuke looked at her from his own ice cream, "Believe us, he can finish a whole bathtub of it before the day is out, if he had a chance, without even getting a brain freeze." Daylight looked back at him, "If you say so."

At least an hour later, the gang went to bed. Starlight came down to have a bite to eat and saw Xander playing with one of the rubix cubes. "Xander, shouldn't you go to bed? You have a performance tomorrow." Xander looked over the cube at her, "I was waiting for you. And I also wanted to keep Daylight company." Starlight smiled at him, "Alright, do you want something sweet before going to bed?" Xander stopped messing with the rubix cube, remembering Daylight's words, 'If you don't go to bed soon, she is going to give you sweets that will make you sick for three days straight. So if I were you, I'd get to bed when that question pops up. "No, Miss. I think I should go to bed now. I'll see you in the morning." Xander got up from his seat and headed up the stairs, "Goodnight, Miss." Starlight smiled, "Goodnight Xander."

Starlight headed into the kitchen with Daylight sitting on a stool with a cup of orange juice. She turned to Starlight as she came in, "I'm assuming Xander went to bed?" "Yes. He needs his rest for tomorrow." Starlight took a seat next to her, "Did Xander say another reason why he came?" Daylight nodded her head while putting a plate in front of Starlight. "He said that his mom and her boyfriend went on a 'private' date and they didn't want him around. That is why he wanted to be away from his mom, trying to give her a message that he doesn't like the guy." Starlight listened, "By the looks of it, his mom doesn't understand?" Daylight took a drink before answering, "Nope." "Poor boy, I wish I can do something else for him."

Daylight looked at her, "All you can do is keep in contact with him and let him know your there for him." "I will." Starlight began to eat her late dinner. Daylight stayed with her until she was finished eat and waited with her food went down enough to go to bed. They said goodnight to each other and went into their rooms. Starlight went up the stairs to her room and shut the door quietly to not disturb Xander. Fenrir was lying on Starlight's bed. He went up with Xander to keep him company until he fell asleep. Starlight settled herself on her bed, getting comfortable. She lightly grabbed Fenrir's tail and brought it around her. She snuggled it like it was a small teddy bear, just like she didn't ever since she was five, it just became a habit and in made her relax while she was asleep.

Fenrir stirred and looked at her. She looked back at him apologetically, "I'm sorry Father. I didn't mean to wake you." Fenrir rubbed his cheek against hers, "Don't worry about it. Besides, I was wondering when you were coming to bed." Starlight smiled, "I here now so can we get some sleep?" Fenrir laughed gently and resettled himself to get comfortable. "Goodnight Starlight." "Goodnight Father." Starlight put her head gently on Fenrir and in seconds she was out. Fenrir waited until she fell asleep before him he put his own head down and fell to sleep.

That's it for this chapter. Tell me how I did or if you like it. Next chapter will be out soon. Later.