Imagining isn't half as fun as finding out what happens.
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Chapter 7 Candy Land
Kurama sat down on the porch and looked up at the stars. "Hi, mind if I join you?" Magujie came onto the porch and stood next to him.
"Sure. Pull up a brick. Can't sleep?"
"No. If they got Yuusuke that bad, what chance is there that we will ever go home?" She sat next to him, a blanket wrapped about her.
"We've faced worse."
"Yah, you have to win, you are the good guys." She nodded. He smiled at her, then shivered at the cool midnight air. "You should go get a jacket or something."
"I've got to keep watch."
"Hiei would sense something before you, and if I see anything I'll scream." She teased. He chuckled as he climbed to his feet. He left her alone. She sat and looked around at the shadowy trees. She could make some great stories about them. Night sounds surrounded her. She yawned sleepily. What's keeping him?
"Magujie..." She looked around curiously. "This way..." The voice was soft and faint. She spotted him. He was standing in the shadows in the far right of the yard. He beckoned her.
She stood and laid her blanket to the side. She walked out in the middle of the yard. "Kurama, what are you doing?" She called to him. She didn't say it to loudly.
"Come see what I found." He said over his shoulder as he walked deeper into the dark forest. She was careful to stay on the path. When she hesitated he urged her on. "Just a little farther."
"Can't this wait until morning? Why are you out here? You went to get a jacket." She frowned.
"It only happens at night. I remembered when I went inside and I thought you would like it. Come here." He stepped off the path.
"Yah, very funny, after that lecture? Not even. You are testing me, aren't you?" She wrapped her arms around her shoulders. "I'm cold."
"You passed the test. Your reward." He stepped forward and extended a rose.
"Nice, but still, what was it all about?"
"They are special, only blooming at night."
"Looks normal to me."
"Smell it."
She lifted the blossom to her nose. "Wow, I feel so dizzy. I must be more tired then I thought. That smell..." She smelled it once more. Then collapsed into Kurama's arms. He smiled evilly.
"Magujie?" Kurama stepped out onto the porch. He looked around. Her blanket was crumpled on the porch. He had taken a while to find his jacket, but she said she would wait. "Hello?"
"Kurama..." Her voice drifted up the yard from the edge of the woods. He could make out her profile in the shadows. "Kurama..."
"What are you doing?" He hopped off the porch and started toward her. "Magujie, I told you...Hey!"
Laughing, she ran away from him and into the forest. "Can't catch me!"
He ran after her, angrily. "What are you doing, come back here!?! It's dangerous."
"Are you chicken? I bet you can't find me." Her voice taunted.
Being a Youko soul, the challenge was too much for him. "I'll find you. Then I'm going to take you back. You are being obnoxious." He shifted into Youko form and sniffed the air. After a moment he pinpointed her. "Got you! Hum?" She wasn't there. He frowned.
"No, I've got you." A male voice said behind him. Then Kurama was unconscious.
Gurennu awoke with a start. It had felt very real. Who dreamed such total weirdness? He sat up and reached for his warded cloth. He stopped with a frown. He couldn't sense either Kurama or Magujie. :Hiei?: He called. :What?: He could sense him waking. :Kurama and Magujie, can you sense them?: There was a long pause. :No.: He was worried. :I think something has them. A strong Ki.: :You sure?: :No I'm not sure, that's why I woke you up!: Gurennu snapped. :We should check. Meet me in the hall.:
The two stood in the hall. Gurennu led Hiei to the back porch. There was the blanket. He winced. "Not good."
"We should wake Kuwabara and go look for them. Wait here."
"Oh no, that's what happened to Magujie! I'm coming with you." He followed close behind Hiei.
"Kuwabara, wake-up." Hiei shook the man's shoulder. "You must take watch."
"Why?" He asked as he got up.
"Kurama and Magujie are missing, Gurennu said they were taken by someone with a great Ki." Hiei explained as the three walked to the porch. "We will go in search of them."
"Keep an eye out for Kai-chan. You don't think it was her, do you?"
"No way, this was a very experienced person, and I think it was a guy." Gurennu shook his head. "Let's go." As they walked deep into the forest, Gurennu found it creepier and creepier. He was wondering why he was out in the dark instead of safe and asleep. He decided girls were more trouble then they were worth. Then he changed his mind, girls had some good qualities.
"Would you please give it a rest?!" Hiei turned on him.
"Aru? Oh, um, sure! Sorry about that, but I get weird when I'm tired." Gurennu laughed.
"Are you always tired?"
"Ha ha, not funny."
"I was perfectly serious." Hiei shrugged. He suddenly stopped, making Gurennu crash into him. He held up a hand to silence the other boy's complaining. "Listen." They stood and strained their senses…A faint giggle and some murmuring. They turned to the right and off the path. When they came upon the people making the noise, they stopped dumb founded.
Kai stood under a tree surrounded by men. Not normal men, but anime men none the less. Sephiroth, Heero, Quatre, and Hiei all stood around her in flawless animated glory, not just one or two, but about half a dozen each. There were others, but Gurennu didn't know them or chose to ignore them. S.D. miniatures hung off of her. "Ok, this is weird." Gurennu whispered. Hiei looked disturbed. "What should we do?"
"I'll destroy them all and..." At that moment Kai was saying, "Gee, I'm so in need of sugar! I haven't had any in a day!" Upon her saying that, chaos broke loose. The tree bark turned to chocolate, the leaves candied, the sand beneath their feet turned to sugar, the stream turned to blueberry minute made, and the bushes turned to cotton candy. Unfortunately for Hiei, he had been standing on a hunter's trap and when the wood turned to chocolate he went crashing through. He landed in the bottom of the hole with a squishy sound. The bottom was filled with vanilla pudding. Hiei, smothered in a thick glossy white, was mortified. The next second Gurennu landed on him. He held two fists ful of green licorice whips that had once been grass.
"Marushi!" Gurennu screamed. Fifty faces peered down at him. "Get us out of here!"
Kai was busy munching down on candies and cookies. "Yah, yah. Give me a minute." She took a long drink from the near by stream and chased that down with a hunk of chocolate. "Ahhh, a girl's best friend. Men can keep the dogs." She plunked down on a gummy rock and watched her visually pleasing creations pull the boys out of the hole.
"Marushi! You deranged, bloody, dirty little kid. That's pretty dirty dropping us into that stuff. What in the..oh dear God..." Gurennu was very angry. He stopped suddenly as about half a dozen replicas of himself appeared. Then he exploded again. "Aarrgghh! Stop it!!! Do you have a death wish? If you weren't out here being a ditz, Magujie and Kurama would be ok. It's all your fault! You have to come back with us."
"I don't wanna." She looked at him snottily. Gurennu started to rush her, planning on giving her a crud beating. "Boys, stop him." She said with a small smile.
"Blah, bunch of punks, let me go!" He bellowed from beneath a thick layer of faux men. "Punks don't make me hurt you!"
"Kukkukku!" She giggled.
"That's pretty dirty!" He wiggled in protest.
"Angh!" Hiei cried out as one of his clones dropped him. He jerked his right foot off the ground and yanked a shard or a candied leaf out of it. It had sliced through his boot and had sunk an inch into the soul of his foot. He squirted blood every where.
"That's not good, in fact that's very bad." Gurennu said in a muffled voice. Sephiroth was trying to gag him. "Marushi Kai, I'm sorry, now let me go!" He whined.
"Let him go." She waved them away as she went over and scooped up Hiei. It wasn't easy because he was slimy and tried to get away. "Poor Hiei-Sama!" She cradled him. The effect was that of a wet kid hugging a cat.
"Lemego!" He roared. "Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego! Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!"
"We must get you back to camp. And you can't very well walk there. Don't want you to get an infection or anything. And I don't have a clue about medicine. Therefore the men will carry you. I won't have to worry about you then. I think the Sephiroths should do nicely." She babbled, oblivious to his chanting.
"Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!" He kicked as the four clones scooped him up. "Help me!" He looked pleadingly at Gurennu.
"Sorry, she is dangerous, you are stuck." Gurennu tagged along behind them as the walked through the forest. He broke a few twigs off a tree and ate them as he followed. It was good chocolate. He was hungry. The combination was about the consumption of a whole tree. "Ah, me ful now." Suddenly large gumdrops began to pelt them, as it began to rain. As they had been walking, the landscape was changing to candy. Now they were forced to run. He sighed happily as they came upon the house. They entered the house and it turned to gingerbread and sugared pastries. Kuwabara, who had been standing on the porch, suddenly found himself beneath the floor.
"You know, I think I've had enough sugar. I feel a lot better." With that, the world was restored. Kuwabara was still in the floor, and began to complain about splinters. Kai sent some men to pull him free.
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Alright. Everyone is in a mess. Azusa Wariko Maxwell :)
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Chapter 7 Candy Land
Kurama sat down on the porch and looked up at the stars. "Hi, mind if I join you?" Magujie came onto the porch and stood next to him.
"Sure. Pull up a brick. Can't sleep?"
"No. If they got Yuusuke that bad, what chance is there that we will ever go home?" She sat next to him, a blanket wrapped about her.
"We've faced worse."
"Yah, you have to win, you are the good guys." She nodded. He smiled at her, then shivered at the cool midnight air. "You should go get a jacket or something."
"I've got to keep watch."
"Hiei would sense something before you, and if I see anything I'll scream." She teased. He chuckled as he climbed to his feet. He left her alone. She sat and looked around at the shadowy trees. She could make some great stories about them. Night sounds surrounded her. She yawned sleepily. What's keeping him?
"Magujie..." She looked around curiously. "This way..." The voice was soft and faint. She spotted him. He was standing in the shadows in the far right of the yard. He beckoned her.
She stood and laid her blanket to the side. She walked out in the middle of the yard. "Kurama, what are you doing?" She called to him. She didn't say it to loudly.
"Come see what I found." He said over his shoulder as he walked deeper into the dark forest. She was careful to stay on the path. When she hesitated he urged her on. "Just a little farther."
"Can't this wait until morning? Why are you out here? You went to get a jacket." She frowned.
"It only happens at night. I remembered when I went inside and I thought you would like it. Come here." He stepped off the path.
"Yah, very funny, after that lecture? Not even. You are testing me, aren't you?" She wrapped her arms around her shoulders. "I'm cold."
"You passed the test. Your reward." He stepped forward and extended a rose.
"Nice, but still, what was it all about?"
"They are special, only blooming at night."
"Looks normal to me."
"Smell it."
She lifted the blossom to her nose. "Wow, I feel so dizzy. I must be more tired then I thought. That smell..." She smelled it once more. Then collapsed into Kurama's arms. He smiled evilly.
"Magujie?" Kurama stepped out onto the porch. He looked around. Her blanket was crumpled on the porch. He had taken a while to find his jacket, but she said she would wait. "Hello?"
"Kurama..." Her voice drifted up the yard from the edge of the woods. He could make out her profile in the shadows. "Kurama..."
"What are you doing?" He hopped off the porch and started toward her. "Magujie, I told you...Hey!"
Laughing, she ran away from him and into the forest. "Can't catch me!"
He ran after her, angrily. "What are you doing, come back here!?! It's dangerous."
"Are you chicken? I bet you can't find me." Her voice taunted.
Being a Youko soul, the challenge was too much for him. "I'll find you. Then I'm going to take you back. You are being obnoxious." He shifted into Youko form and sniffed the air. After a moment he pinpointed her. "Got you! Hum?" She wasn't there. He frowned.
"No, I've got you." A male voice said behind him. Then Kurama was unconscious.
Gurennu awoke with a start. It had felt very real. Who dreamed such total weirdness? He sat up and reached for his warded cloth. He stopped with a frown. He couldn't sense either Kurama or Magujie. :Hiei?: He called. :What?: He could sense him waking. :Kurama and Magujie, can you sense them?: There was a long pause. :No.: He was worried. :I think something has them. A strong Ki.: :You sure?: :No I'm not sure, that's why I woke you up!: Gurennu snapped. :We should check. Meet me in the hall.:
The two stood in the hall. Gurennu led Hiei to the back porch. There was the blanket. He winced. "Not good."
"We should wake Kuwabara and go look for them. Wait here."
"Oh no, that's what happened to Magujie! I'm coming with you." He followed close behind Hiei.
"Kuwabara, wake-up." Hiei shook the man's shoulder. "You must take watch."
"Why?" He asked as he got up.
"Kurama and Magujie are missing, Gurennu said they were taken by someone with a great Ki." Hiei explained as the three walked to the porch. "We will go in search of them."
"Keep an eye out for Kai-chan. You don't think it was her, do you?"
"No way, this was a very experienced person, and I think it was a guy." Gurennu shook his head. "Let's go." As they walked deep into the forest, Gurennu found it creepier and creepier. He was wondering why he was out in the dark instead of safe and asleep. He decided girls were more trouble then they were worth. Then he changed his mind, girls had some good qualities.
"Would you please give it a rest?!" Hiei turned on him.
"Aru? Oh, um, sure! Sorry about that, but I get weird when I'm tired." Gurennu laughed.
"Are you always tired?"
"Ha ha, not funny."
"I was perfectly serious." Hiei shrugged. He suddenly stopped, making Gurennu crash into him. He held up a hand to silence the other boy's complaining. "Listen." They stood and strained their senses…A faint giggle and some murmuring. They turned to the right and off the path. When they came upon the people making the noise, they stopped dumb founded.
Kai stood under a tree surrounded by men. Not normal men, but anime men none the less. Sephiroth, Heero, Quatre, and Hiei all stood around her in flawless animated glory, not just one or two, but about half a dozen each. There were others, but Gurennu didn't know them or chose to ignore them. S.D. miniatures hung off of her. "Ok, this is weird." Gurennu whispered. Hiei looked disturbed. "What should we do?"
"I'll destroy them all and..." At that moment Kai was saying, "Gee, I'm so in need of sugar! I haven't had any in a day!" Upon her saying that, chaos broke loose. The tree bark turned to chocolate, the leaves candied, the sand beneath their feet turned to sugar, the stream turned to blueberry minute made, and the bushes turned to cotton candy. Unfortunately for Hiei, he had been standing on a hunter's trap and when the wood turned to chocolate he went crashing through. He landed in the bottom of the hole with a squishy sound. The bottom was filled with vanilla pudding. Hiei, smothered in a thick glossy white, was mortified. The next second Gurennu landed on him. He held two fists ful of green licorice whips that had once been grass.
"Marushi!" Gurennu screamed. Fifty faces peered down at him. "Get us out of here!"
Kai was busy munching down on candies and cookies. "Yah, yah. Give me a minute." She took a long drink from the near by stream and chased that down with a hunk of chocolate. "Ahhh, a girl's best friend. Men can keep the dogs." She plunked down on a gummy rock and watched her visually pleasing creations pull the boys out of the hole.
"Marushi! You deranged, bloody, dirty little kid. That's pretty dirty dropping us into that stuff. What in the..oh dear God..." Gurennu was very angry. He stopped suddenly as about half a dozen replicas of himself appeared. Then he exploded again. "Aarrgghh! Stop it!!! Do you have a death wish? If you weren't out here being a ditz, Magujie and Kurama would be ok. It's all your fault! You have to come back with us."
"I don't wanna." She looked at him snottily. Gurennu started to rush her, planning on giving her a crud beating. "Boys, stop him." She said with a small smile.
"Blah, bunch of punks, let me go!" He bellowed from beneath a thick layer of faux men. "Punks don't make me hurt you!"
"Kukkukku!" She giggled.
"That's pretty dirty!" He wiggled in protest.
"Angh!" Hiei cried out as one of his clones dropped him. He jerked his right foot off the ground and yanked a shard or a candied leaf out of it. It had sliced through his boot and had sunk an inch into the soul of his foot. He squirted blood every where.
"That's not good, in fact that's very bad." Gurennu said in a muffled voice. Sephiroth was trying to gag him. "Marushi Kai, I'm sorry, now let me go!" He whined.
"Let him go." She waved them away as she went over and scooped up Hiei. It wasn't easy because he was slimy and tried to get away. "Poor Hiei-Sama!" She cradled him. The effect was that of a wet kid hugging a cat.
"Lemego!" He roared. "Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego! Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!"
"We must get you back to camp. And you can't very well walk there. Don't want you to get an infection or anything. And I don't have a clue about medicine. Therefore the men will carry you. I won't have to worry about you then. I think the Sephiroths should do nicely." She babbled, oblivious to his chanting.
"Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!Lemego!" He kicked as the four clones scooped him up. "Help me!" He looked pleadingly at Gurennu.
"Sorry, she is dangerous, you are stuck." Gurennu tagged along behind them as the walked through the forest. He broke a few twigs off a tree and ate them as he followed. It was good chocolate. He was hungry. The combination was about the consumption of a whole tree. "Ah, me ful now." Suddenly large gumdrops began to pelt them, as it began to rain. As they had been walking, the landscape was changing to candy. Now they were forced to run. He sighed happily as they came upon the house. They entered the house and it turned to gingerbread and sugared pastries. Kuwabara, who had been standing on the porch, suddenly found himself beneath the floor.
"You know, I think I've had enough sugar. I feel a lot better." With that, the world was restored. Kuwabara was still in the floor, and began to complain about splinters. Kai sent some men to pull him free.
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Alright. Everyone is in a mess. Azusa Wariko Maxwell :)