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Disclaimer: I do not own ANYTHING!! Oh yeah, I do own Hyacinth and Sapphire (who makes her appearance in this chapter)


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Chapter Eight-Alone Again, Against Sapphire




As Hiei and I stepped out of the forest, I was momentarily blinded by the light after being in the forest for so long.


As I squinted through the glare and saw what was up ahead, I let out a big gulp.


In front of us was a huge black marble castle that seemed to reach to the heavens.


"This is...is..." I stuttered, not able to finish my sentence.


"Sapphire's castle." Hiei finished for me.


As we started down the hill, I started thinking (I've been doing this a lot lately), and was really nervous.


I mean, Sapphire was a master sorceress and what was I? A dorky schoolgirl who learned telekinesis less than a week ago. The odds were pretty rough. That's why I was glad Hiei was helping me.


"You can still back out of this." He said.


I glared at him angrily. "I will not back out." I growled.


As we approached the front gate, it was clear that more guards were up ahead.


"Mind if I take these?" Hiei smirked, pulling out his sword.


"Be my guest."


He launched toward them and within milliseconds, they were in pieces.


I think I blinked, because I didn't see anything. It was truly amazing how fast he was. "That was good." I said calmly.


I strolled into the cobblestone entrance, but after walking about 10 feet, I couldn't hear Hiei's footsteps anymore.


Turning around to see what happened, I started giggling as I saw that he was struggling to pull his cloak off a branch.


I started walking back to help him when a loud rumbling sound filled the air. A thick metal gate came crashing down, hitting the floor between us with an ear-shattering thud.


Hiei, finally succeeding in getting his cloak off the branch, came running up to the gate. He tried to find a way that he could get through it, but there was no place large enough.


"Go alone." He whispered urgently. "I will try to find another way in." Before I could say anything, he had sprinted out the opening and around the corner.


And I was alone. AGAIN. Against Sapphire.


This is just perfect.


I slowly started to make my way down the dark tunnel.


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Gosh, does this passage ever end?


I had been walking for the past half-hour. The way had eventually grown pitch-black and I was feeling my way by using the wall as a guide.


I finally felt the wall leave my hands and start to bend, and I knew that I had entered a room.


Leaving the safety of the rock wall, I started walking out into the unknown, struggling to see anything.


Suddenly, one by one, overhead lights began to flash on, causing me to fall over from the sudden brightness.


"So you've finally arrived." A voice said, coming from the shadows of the now lit room.


"What are you talking about?" I asked, struggling to see the face who spoke.


She strolled out into the light, and I could tell immediately that this was Sapphire. She had long shiny red hair and hot red eyes. She wore a sharp self-clinging cranberry colored dress. But what I noticed most was a strange large black diamond around her neck.


"I know a lot about you. Your name is Hyacinth, you have come to save your dear friend Kurama, and have acquired telepathic powers to do so. Sorry to rain on your parade dear, but that will not be happening. He is key to my plan."


"Where is he?" I demanded angrily, folding my arms.


Sapphire just stared at me for a moment, and sighed heavily.


"You will not like what you see." She said, and picked up a small remote control, pushing a small red button.


A large metal barrier I hadn't noticed started to rise.


I felt, more than anything else, relived. But one thought was eating away at me.


What did she mean by "You will not like what you see?" ...


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Chapter Nine: To save the boy she loves, Hyacinth will have to do the toughest thing she's ever attempted.


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