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CHAPTER 8: AS IT WAS...

1,000 years ago; Eleezyienne

"Gods or no Gods, it's all the same. People will live in this world, grow in this world, suffer in this world, die in this world and no matter how they deny it, heaven will just be a dream. People' will just rot below and it changes nothing but people themselves..."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

It was a fine day and as usual and the gods had nothing to do. Being a god is so boring and nobody can take away the fact that gods aren't that holy after all. If being a god means boring your ass off, then any good-for-nothing filthy bastard can kiss their sorry mothers and go straight to heaven.

The hill, green and lovely as it was, looked so distant from the palace of the gods. The wind caressed everything it passed. The meadow below was a paradise filled with the most beautiful flowers one can ever imagine, the birds soared so high that it seemed they will never tire of flying, and the trees stood brilliantly shading short grasses that sprouted right beside its roots and all together, the place was breathtaking. On top of the hill...

"You have no right to comment that way, Vah." A man with striking violet eyes and long black ebony hair turned to look at his constant companion. He gave her a sharp look and sighed. She in turn, nudged him and patted his head. She gave him a funny look and imitated him comically, "You have no right to comment that way, Vah." She giggled and patted his head again. He shove her hands off and shrugged, "What are you doing here?"

"Lady Rei's calling you again."

He twitched his face and turned away. How vexing, how vexing indeed. That woman will never be satisfied. When will she stop pestering him and giving troubles enough to last his entire existence? Isn't it enough that she had given him such an annoying little brat for a constant companion for eternity?

"Am I stuck with you forever, vah?"

"Unfortunately, yes."

He glared at her and warned, "Stop that."

She giggled again and looked at him innocently, "Stop what?"

"Reading my mind."

She chuckled and put her hands behind her neck, "You know, Blair. You need help." He raised an eyebrow. She shook her head and continued, "Why don't you just do what other gods do?"

"What? Make an ass out of myself?"

She rolled her eyes and replied sarcastically, "Haha, no. You know, take care of people and stuff like those. Come on, Blair. It's--"

He snapped, "God, you're supposed to call me god. I am the Spirit God."

"Blair--"

"God!" He looked at her sharply and turned away.

She sighed and picked a blade of grass, "You know what, Blai--- I mean, my god? I'm honestly so sick and tired of your passiveness. Why don't you just ,for once, enjoy what you have? You're never contented of anything. That's what's wrong with you."

He sighed and sat down, "You are in no state to tell me what's wrong or not. You're just a Vah."

She looked at him and sighed again. This is pointless. Blair will never change. Look at that face. So empty. She sat beside him, "You want to talk about it?"

Blair didn't open his mouth for such a long time until they both felt like they'd go insane of the deafening silence that surrounded them. She was right. He was never contented of anything. And he'll probably never be.

Just as she was about to loose her mind of the silence and just kick his ass and make a run for it, she heard him clearing his voice. She smiled to herself. That means he's talking and that's good. He cleared his throat again. She frowned. That means he'll have a sermon and that's bad. As he began, she slumped and gave out a long sigh.

"You know why heaven is called Eleezyienne?"

She shook her head and looked at him. Yup, the sermon has officially started. As he paused, she wondered how long she will have to listen. Last time, it was five hours of pure hell. He kept on talking about the imperfections of humans and their stupidity and even though she didn't understand a thing he said, she still stayed with him until her butt went numb and she had to let her sister massage it. The pain...

"Stop thinking about your ass going numb. I'll cut it off."

Yikes. She gulped and blurted, "So what about Eleezyienne?"

"Eleezyienne and its name right? Ah. Have you ever been to the Forbidden Forest?"

She rolled her eyes, "It's FOR-BID-DEN."

"Right. Well, the forest is infested with nasty violet colored roses and poisonous berries. The roses are called Eleeiohn and the berries, Zyiennalush. If ever these two are combined, they can make a very mysterious potion called 'Eleezyienne'."

"That's just stupid. Why would they name heaven that?"

"Exactly. It just proves that great as we are, we're no better than those stupid humans below us. But in a sense, you could even say that humans are greater than us."

It was her time to raise an eyebrow.

"Instead of doing nothing with their doomed lives, they try to make it better by doing something. It doesn't matter whether it's useless or not, at least they're doing something. And that changes everything around them. Gods may think that people are weak and helpless and dirty, well sometimes they are, but they refuse to think that they have far greater power than us. They have the freewill, and we are imprisoned in our own thoughts. And that changes everything as it is."

She suddenly went serious. She doesn't like the way this conversation is going, "You're not to leave Eleezyienne, my god. I will stop you at any cause."

He looked at her.

"How stupid, Vah. I can always escape you and you know that."

"I'll try."

"Trying is useless."

"Still."

They looked at each other, their faces showing zero emotions. Suddenly the atmosphere was filled with laughter. They looked at its source and both rolled their eyes when they saw who it was: Spade, the god of fire.

Spade is the Fire God. He's admired by most people because of his charms and his ability in combat strategy. The girls go gaga by just looking at his flaming red hair and radiant purple eyes. The boys burn with jealousy but they can do nothing because he's a god and they're not, and that makes him laugh like there was no tomorrow. But in Eleezyienne, he's branded as a complete idiot, a fool, a dumb-ass, a jerk. You get what I mean?

"Ooh. And I thought you'll do the nasty stuff then and there! Man, you guys are hot!"

She looked at Blair confusingly and asked, "Nasty stuff?"

Blair shook his head and called out, "Go away Jerk."

Spade twitched his face and pretended that he was hurt, "Oh now, I'm a jerk?"

"Why are you here?"

"Rei called us an hour ago. We sent the vah to look for you and bring you back but, " He looked at her and smiled, "Apparently, she got destructed."

She lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry." She bowed so low that her forehead was already touching the ground, and that sight just made Blair so disgusted that he snapped and dragged her as he followed Spade with quick angry strides. The fire god was rather amused.

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"Where have you been?" Zhehn boomed just as Blair entered the room. All the other four gods were already there. Obviously, they were quite annoyed and not only one rolled his eyes in disgust as Blair entered the room.

Zhehn was seated right at the middle. Beside him was an empty chair where Blair's supposed to sit. Facing these two were four smaller chairs. At the far right was Thene, the god of Earth. After him was Sarah. the goddess of water. Next to her was Rei, the goddess of wind. The last chair was for Spade, the Fire god. The room was big and spacious, not to mention, very well decorated with its silky blue curtains and blue marbled wall. There was a table engraved with delicate ancient inscription in sapphire between the the two gods and the four. All together the room was like a big sapphire gem.

But the room didn't look inviting with Zhehn's murderous look. Blair wasn't afraid, though. They can never touch him. He looked directly at Zhehn's icy violet eyes and answered in a low voice, "The hill."

Zhehn nodded slightly and looked at the vah as if dismissing her. But Blair stopped her holding her hand tightly just as she was taking her first step away. She looked at him searchingly.

"Stay here."

"Zhehn's angry enough. I'm not invited."

"You're invited. I'm a god, too."

"My god, Zhehn's fuming mad. I'll just wait in the other room beside the door. If you need something, I'll jus---"

"I want you here with me, vah."

Blair said, "She's staying with me." Sarah stood up and looked at him angrily, "That's enough, Blair." She turned to the vah and snapped, "Go away or else." The vah looked at Blair and bowed low. She stepped back and began to disappear.

"Thanks anyway."

Blair sighed.

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Zhehn looked at his siblings and closed his eyes. There was a long silence and each was all ears. He then started, "He's here." He opened his eyes and continued, "Darkness's here. He destroyed the thirteenth chamber together with Halai and the others. One mercenary spotted him in the forbiddem forest. He has the third eye and he's not too happy about his imprisonment. He's coming, here...in Eleezyienne."

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"What now?" Sanzo asked lighting a cigarette. He hoped it won't be another problem. There's enough to last him a lifetime.

Kamatayan grinned, "Problem."

"Kuso."

"The thirteenth chamber was opened yesterday. Darkness escaped. The legend is about to start, Sanzo."

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Eli sighed in relief after her lengthy pooping. She wiped her sweat with the back of her sleeves. Then she noticed the three gawking to the window beside them. She looked at them confusingly, "What's up?"

Gojyo replied still looking at the window, "Sanzo is talking to the tree." Goku chuckled a bit and asked, "Should...Should we report this to a lunatic asylum? I mean, he's practically...disturbed."

Gojyo grinned, "Poor Sanzo. Maybe he had too much cigarettes. Oy Hakkai, Will too much cigarettes turn you into a..."

Hakkai smiled cutting him, "No, Gojyo. It'll just make you really sick."

Eli sat beside Goku and looked. Her eyes grew bigger, "He ain't talking to the tree. He's talking to--someone very familiar, a woman with long ebony." Then she stopped, "Kamtayan?!"

Gojyo and Goku looked at each other confusingly, "eh?"