Fushigi Yuugi: The Next Generation – Part

Fushigi Yuugi: The Next Generation – Part 38

Disclaimer: Yuu Watase owns Fushigi Yuugi. I'm borrowing. This story and the new characters are mine.

Author's Note: Wow. This is long. I hope I haven't lost any of you. Well, this is an epic. LOL. I told you I had something up my sleeve. Anyone out there figured out that Suzaku may have been with them the entire time? Anyway, I would like to say I'm sorry for any of the errors you guys find. It's been awhile because the beta reader hasn't had a chance to correct the errors, and I had tests in school. I was inspired by Ayashi no Ceres. That's Yuu Watase's other work. Of course, Suzaku hasn't done a lot of interference. That's a reference to Ayashi no Ceres for those of you who haven't seen the anime or read the manga yet. Didn't anyone think it was strange that some of the Suzaku seishi's powers didn't surface until Mariko came? Or that some of their kanji didn't show up until Mariko came. The seishi from the other groups already had their powers for the most part.

Odayaka was holding Mariko in his arms. She had a fever. This was strange.

"I don't know if I can heal her. I don't know what's wrong with her," said Odayaka as he felt her forehead again.

"I think it's strange that she's got no injuries on her body. Not a single scratch. Those spirit balls should have killed her," said Shiro. He looked at Sei's body. 'Those spirit balls killed Sei, and he was a seishi. Mariko's just the miko. She's got no powers,' he thought.

Hono'o was crying because Sei was dead. The rest of the seishi didn't know what to do.

"How are we suppose to summon the gods now? Look how many seishi are dead?! Half of them!" cried Yoko. She was with her dead seishi.

"Zai Rei didn't show up until we burned the scrolls," said Amai in an emotionless voice. She was numb because of all the pain she was feeling. Her eyes were glazed over. Inochi was holding her left hand, while Neko was holding her right. She looked like she was going to fall over at any moment.

"What are we going to do? Even if we could summon our gods, Mariko's out. Without Suzaku, this is all for nothing," said Miwa. Ryu was semi-conscious, but Hoseki kept his sedate with her powers. She went out to the other seishi who were just injured. She went out to the other groups to help. There was blood and death all around them. This was a lost battle.

"I think Mariko's fever is getting worse," stated Odayaka with concern. She was perfectly still.

"What's going to happen now? WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS ALL FOR?! IT'S NOT FAIR!!!" cried Hono'o. She thought that she was the one who was going to die not Sei, Taki, and Shitsu. She was sobbing so hard that she could barely breath, and she was shaking. The torch was destroyed during the battle. The altar was cold and quiet.

Odayaka could feel nothing. He was numb. He had never killed anyone before in his life. He couldn't cry he was too sad to cry. He had Mariko in his lap. His sword lay down next to her. He placed his hand on her forehead again.

"She's getting hotter. I didn't think it was possible for a fever to raise this quickly," murmured Odayaka.

There was definitely strange happening. Odayaka suddenly gasped. There were red kanji glowing all over her body. Actually, in her upper torso. There was a kanji on her forehead. Seijitsu. A kanji on her right wrist point. Odayaka. Another one on her neck just behind her right ear. Hono'o. A kanji on her upper back left shoulder. Shitsu. A kanji on her left palm. Kawa. Another kanji her right bicep. Taki. And finally, a kanji on her right lateral side that glowed through the fabric of her dress. Shiro.

The kanji was glowing on all the seishi, including Sei, Shitsu, and Taki. It was impossible.

"This is impossible. How is this possible? This only happens when the god is summoned," whispered Odayaka.

Mariko's body seized up. The heat from her body intensified. Suddenly, there was a small ball of fire that came out of her chest. The ball of fire flew away from Mariko. It began to spin around and around. The fireball became bigger and bigger with each rotation it took. There were a pair of red wings that formed as the fireball grew larger. Finally, the spinning had stopped.

Suzaku the God of Fire and Love stood before them in all his divine glory. All the seishi were speechless. Shiro, Hono'o, and Kawa, who were standing, were now kneeling and bowing to him. Odayaka looked at the god with wide eyes. Suzaku looked at the dead seishi. He turned his attention to the other mikos.

"Summon your gods," commanded Suzaku.

Miwa, Amai, and Yoko stood up and walked to the center of the altar. They held each other's hands. They didn't know exactly what to say to summon the gods. The word came to their lips. They said it in unison:

"KAI-JIN!"

The kanji from their seishi glowed on their bodies, finally there were only kanji on their four heads. Three bright beams of light descended from the sky. The bright blue light went down to Miwa. A bright green light went down to Yoko. A bright white light came down upon Amai. There came the sound of a roaring tiger from the west. The ground shook from the north because of a gigantic turtle with a snake attached to it was approaching. There was a gust of wind and thunder and lighting that came from the eastern sky. There was a blue, huge dragon above the Seiryuu group.

The tiger began to change into a man. He was right in front of Amai. Amai curtsied for him, and the Byakko group bowed after her.

The turtle with the snake changed into a man. Yoko attempted to give a graceful curtsey like Amai, but she lost her footing and tripped. Genbu caught her. The Genbu seishi either smacked their foreheads or shook their heads. Genbu smiled at Yoko as he gently set her back on her feet.

The dragon continued flying above his miko and seishi. Suzaku shook his head at this aerial display. Finally, the dragon stopped and changed into a human form. He stood before Miwa. The Seiyuu group bowed and kneel before Seiryuu in unison.

"Shall we begin?" asked Suzaku.

"It's been seventeen years since we saw you last, Suzaku," said Seiryuu.

"We've been wondering where you've been hiding yourself," said Byakko with a slight purr in his voice.

"Now we know where you've been," said Genbu as he looked passed Suzaku to look at Mariko.

The four gods walked to the center of the altar. They stood in their respective directions. They touched palms. They began in unison:

"BY OUR DIVINE POWERS. BY THE POWER OF THE FOUR QUADRANTS. LET THERE BE LIFE."

"BY THE POWER OF THE NORTH I, GENBU, COMMAND IT!"

"BY THE POWER OF THE WEST I, BYAKKO, COMMAND IT!"

"BY THE POWER OF THE EAST I, SEIRYUU, COMMAND IT!"

"BY THE POWER OF THE SOUTH I, SUZAKU, COMMAND IT!"

"LET THERE BE RESTORATION!"

There came four waves of bright light that swept out into four directions. A bright green light went through the Genbu group as it went north. The light touched everyone in Hokkan. A bright white light swept through the Byakko group, and went west touching everyone in Sailo. The bright blue light went through the Seiryuu group, and went east to Kutou. The bright red light from Suzaku went through his group, and went south to go through the people of Konan. The waves of energy warmed everything it touched. Everything was now stabilized.

"What's going on?" mumbled a sleepy voice.

"Sei…you're alive!" exclaimed Odayaka. Taki and Shitsu were also alive.

The gods resurrected all the dead seishi when the waves of energy were released. They were now getting up. The seishi who were injured during the battle against Zai Rei had no more injuries on their bodies. The only person who was still out cold was Mariko. Odayaka noticed that her skin was cold to the touch.

"You mikos get three wishes. It is part of your reward," said Seiryuu to the three conscious mikos. Yoko, Amai, and Miwa looked at each other.

"Is there any way we can say no to the wishes?" asked Amai.

"We didn't know that about them when we started. We haven't thought of anything to wish for," intoned Miwa.

"Are we still going to go home without having to wish it?" asked Yoko.

The three gods nodded.

"I got everything I wanted. There's no need for me to wish for it. I got everything that counts," said Miwa as she looked at her seishi who were now alive and well.

"Why ruin a good thing when you've already got it?" asked Yoko with a smile.

"All the wishes in the both worlds couldn't make me as happy as I am right now," said Amai with a sweet smile.

The three gods smiled. The mikos were very wise not to make wishes. The mikos wouldn't have been devoured, the gods had no intentions of doing that, but they proved that they loved the world just as much as any one of the natives.

"I thought that none of you would ever come. You do have a flair for the dramatic. I'll give you that," said a little old woman with a bulldog face. This surprised a good number of seishi. Odayaka smiled just like Chichiri would.

"It's Taiitsukun!" exclaimed Ryu. He thought that he was going to have a heart attack. She always scared him.

"You're the controller of the world. Where were you?" asked Amai.

"I was attacked when I was in a human form. I was very vulnerable," said Taiitsukun.

"Why in would you be in a human form?" asked Hono'o. This was really strange. She knew that Chichiri knew learned how to do his illusion magic from Taiitsukun. Chichiri passed that on to Odayaka.

There was a puff of smoke. In Taiitsukun place was another elderly lady except taller and more statuesque in form. Nobody but Hono'o knew who the woman was.

"MISS ZHANG?! " exclaimed Hono'o. Hono'o's shock quickly passed to anger. "I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! I'VE BEEN TRICKED FOR THE PAST FREAKIN' FIVE YEARS!!! FIVE YEARS!!!!" Hono'o started ranting. She was stopped when Miss Zhang/Taiitsukun rapped Hono'o's head with her walking stick. She fell over superdeformed with swirls in her eyes.

"I suppose that makes two people who have been trained extensively by Taiitsukun," commented Odayaka with a smile.

There were numerous floating balls hovering around them. The bubbles popped to reveal small, cute girls.

"We're back. The Nyan Nyans are back," exclaimed all of them in unison. Taiitsukun had changed back to her normal form, and was as annoyed as ever with the Nyan Nyans. They flew from group to group to see if there were any injuries when they found none they were sort of disappointed.

"We can't fix anything here!" exclaimed a Nyan Nyan.

"I know let's fix their clothes!" suggested another Nyan Nyan.

"All right!" agreed the Nyan Nyans in unison. The mikos and seishi didn't know what hit them. There was a round of swearing from the Genbu group.

"Hey! Don't touch that!" shouted Kokoro to one of the Nyan Nyans. Yoko just laughed. She was glad that he was alive.

"There's something wrong with this one," commented one of the Nyan Nyans when she looked at Mariko.

"She's just sleeping," said Odayaka.

"OH!" declared the Nyan Nyan.

Ryu looked at Mariko with concern. He didn't know if he should leave his fellow seishi and miko to make sure that Mariko was all right.

"I order you to go with the Suzaku group. Make sure that the Suzaku no Miko is all right. I know that you wouldn't mind," said Miwa as if she had read his thoughts. She gave him a smile of encouragement. Ryu smiled and started to walk over there. He stopped right behind Suzaku.

"I want everyone to go back to Konan. You all will be guests at my palace," said Odayaka. The other groups looked at each other. They had respect for the very powerful Suzaku seishi. Odayaka most of all. They considered him to be the most powerful of all the seishi.

"Sure—sure. No problem," said Kokoro nervously.

"Yeah! We don't mind," said Yogensha with a slight sweatdrop.

The Nyan Nyans laughed at their nervousness. Odayaka had no idea why the other seishi were so nervous.

The sky opened up again and there were flashes of light. When everything cleared again, Byakko, Seiryuu, and Genbu were gone. The only god left was Suzaku. Ryu noticed that his sister was still unconscious. He looked worried, so he walked up to Suzaku. He didn't know exactly how to approach the god that his father, mother, and sister served.

"What is that you want, Seiryuu seishi?" asked the god.

"Um…is my sister going to be alright?" asked Ryu timidly.

Suzaku smiled at Ryu. He began to spin again until he was a small fireball. "I have been with her all her life. I shall stay with her until she recovers," said the voice of Suzaku. The fireball went back into Mariko's chest. Her skin warmed up again. She stirred slightly, but didn't open her eyes.

"I'll carry her," said Ryu. Odayaka nodded. Ryu picked up Mariko. Sei was standing up without any trouble.

"Thank you," said Sei to the Nyan Nyan that fixed his clothes.

"Are you sure that you're all right?" Ryu asked Sei. Sei nodded. "Good," said Ryu with some relief. Sei gave him a smile.

"I will send you back to Konan first," said Taiitsukun to the Suzaku group, including Ryu. They nodded.

Taiitsukun closed her eyes and teleported the Suzaku group and Ryu back to Konan.

~*ClareBear's Omake*~

Tamahome: What a relief! I'm glad everything is alright now!

Miaka: I'm sure that Yui and Tetsuya are so happy. So is Soki and Keisuke. I know I'm happy that Sei is alright. Mariko would be so sad if something happened to him.

Nuriko: I can't believe all the dirty tricks that have been played on us. Let's see that Miss Zhang was Taiitsukun and Suzaku was inside Mariko's body the whole time!

Chiriko: It was strange that ClareBear had a title with Miss Zhang's name on it. Now that I think about it.

Hotohori: I just had a thought. I wonder how Tasuki and Chichiri will react when they meet Ryu? He looks a lot like you, Tamahome.

Tamahome: I'm getting a front row seat for this. I wouldn't miss it for all the money in the world. Tasuki is going to freak out.

Tamahome is superdeformed rubbing his hands together with an evil grin on his face. The others are sweatdropped.