A/N: Well here's chapter # 2. Enjoy!

On The Flip Side By:Gen-chan

"Miaka!?"

As if on cue a shrill shriek sounded from the distance. The three seishi quickly sprinted towards their miko, praying for her to still be in one peace when they got there.

"Tamahome! Nuriko! Tasuki! Get me outta here!" The brunette cried once she saw her three seishi's approach.

The sight ahead of them would have been comical if the situation wasn't so grave. A giant pink blob sat in the middle of the clearing surrounded by more un-dead corpses`. The young miko was currently strung up by her ankles hanging directly over the blob crying loudly.

"Were comin` fer ya Miaka, just hang on." Tasuki shouted readying his tessen.

"Hang on to WHAT?!" Miaka screamed through her tears.

The three warriors raced forward towards the pink blob and it's guards, intent on freeing their miko. The corpses` rushed at them swords held at the ready and their stench overwhelming. Each seishi took on three corpses, dispersing of them in their own ways. Tasuki made quick work of his three opponents blasting all three with a raging inferno all at once. Tamahome also quickly got rid of his three, his quick fists stopping them in their tracks. Nuriko displayed his in-human strength as he picked up a VERY large boulder and proceeded to dump it right on to the three corpses` confronting him.

"Damn! That was fun. Heh." Tasuki laughed.

"Ya! Those guys aren't so tough." Tamahome agreed.

"Ummm guys?" A sweet, feminine voice spoke up from behind them.

"Huh?" Both Tasuki and Tamahome said in unison as all three of them turned around to face the voice.

"Aren't you guys FORGETTING SOMEONE???!??!?!?!" The still upside-down miko shouted.

"Oh.oops." The two hyper seishi mumbled.

The exasperated miko sighed as her three seishi clamored over to her, weary of the giant pink blob.

"Watch it there Tasuki. I wouldn't get to close to that thing if I were you." Nuriko warned.

"Yah, yah, I hear ya." Tasuki grumbled.

"Tasuki, hearing and listening are two separate things for you."

"Tamahome.why I oughta."

"Ummm guys?" Miaka spoke up from her new position upon Nuriko's back. "Why is that thing glowing?" She finished, pointing at the blob on the ground in front of her and Nuriko.

A brilliant flash of color filled the clearing, efficiently blinding the three seishi and their miko. The greens, purples, blues, and reds flashed and danced around the four young people, leaving them speechless. The lights ended abruptly leaving the four standing in the now deserted clearing. Though the clearing was not quite as they remembered. The trees were no longer lush and green. They were now a sickly brown and dying. There was no longer any more soft, springy grass under foot, only dirt and dead leaves.

"Shit." Tasuki whispered, once he found his voice.

"You can say that again." Nuriko said in awe.

"Shit" Tasuki repeated. His three companions promptly sweat-dropped.

"What was that all about, Tamahome-chan?" Miaka asked.

Tamahome only shrugged, "Your guess is as good as mine."

"Come on you three, lets go find the others. Something's not right here." Nuriko spoke up already walking in the direction they came from.

"Yah this place suddenly gives me the creeps." Tasuki said, shivering.

They quickly walked/sprinted back to the clearing that the others were at earlier, though it was now deserted.

"Where'd they go" Tamahome asked to no one in particular.

"Maybe they went back to the palace. Come on." Nuriko spoke up, taking charge.

The four walked through the dying garden cautiously, well at least three of them did. Tasuki didn't seem to think the situation very important.

"Chichiri! Hotohori-sama! Mitsukake! Chiriko!? The hyperactive redhead shouted as he continued to hack through the undergrowth with his tessen.

"Tasuki!" Nuriko snapped, "Get your sorry ass back here and be quiet."

"Geese Nuriko." Tasuki started as he turned around and started walking backwards. "Don't `cha wanna get back ter the.ummm, guys?" Tasuki trailed off as identical looks of shock and horror appeared on his friend's faces. Tasuki quickly turned around to face the royal palace, or at least what was left of it. Where the once majestic Konan palace sat now was the resting- place for a large pile of rubble and debris. The market place beyond was none the better, from what they could see.

"Oh Suzaku help us." Nuriko moaned as silent tears began to form in his eyes.

A/N: Well R&R please. I'll continue if y`all like it k? Ja.