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Temple Grounds
chapter 4: Barrier
::telepathy:: "speech" //thoughts// /lyrics/
"The temple?! You mean to tell me you let the whole place burn to the ground?!" The cat looked like the end of world had happened and she hadn't been told until now.. Her wings fluttered as she leveled off to the hieght of Maru's head. "Not my fault! The blasted Keeper sent me to kill these guys! I can't know what's going on nearly 90 miles away!!" Maru yelled right back.. Her eyes caught the firelight and the gem on her glove glowed...
"You're the guardian! Do you have any idea what were in those vaults! Do you Maru?!"
"Alright already!" Yusuke yelled at the two argueing females.. Maru was still glowing with an eerie red color while the cat creature was glaring daggers at the girl..
"She started it." They both spat at the same time. Maru tried to get up and push the fur ball away but only managed to get a new set of pain jolts from her shoulder and just about every where else..
"What's all of this about a temple?" Kuwabara managed to edge in a sentence in between the insult drops going on between the two.
Maru looked like she'd just swallowed ice.. Her eyes widened and she just stared blankly at the four.. "You.. You don't even know what the Anago Temple is?! Why in the world are you even in the forest then?!" She looked like she was about to burst into a million sparks from the fact.
Yusuke sweatdropped. Maru seemed like the type to loose her temper no matter what the circumstance.. And there was that strange energy signiture.. It was enough to make him wonder if Ko-Enma even had a file on her. "We were tracking after a small group of thieves and they came here."
Maru and the cat froze and gawked at the smae time with the same look on their faces.. "You were following..." Maru ran the words through her mind again.. Her eyes reflected that she was thinking over them and trying to 'fit' what had happened together.. And with a blink she got an answer. "That means the temple being distroyed is my fault after all... If I had stayed instead of going after a random group.. Then Suna could have been able to..." She paused and flopped backwards with her hands on her eyes. "This is so freakin' stupid! I swear! 15 blasted years in this place and I just sealed myself is this darn forest even longer!!" Maru was yelling at herself more harshly in her head and failed to even notice the looks passing from everyone else..
The cat sighed and took the time to explain a few things.. Mostly over the temple while Maru sat up and looked around, still trying to get everything in somewhat basic order. However one question caught her attention. "Why is Maru the only guardian?" Red-gold eyes blinked.. But that was probably the only question even Maru didn't have the answer to.. Why was she all alone? The Keeper hadn't said anything about her past or anything.. Just that she had been placed here.. But why? When? And by whom? ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````
"HE WHAT?!" Maru yelped, red-gold orbs flaming and pulsing... Yusuke winced, if there was one thing he had learned all those times with Kieko, it was that hell hath no fury like an angry girl or woman.. Though Maru seemed to fit 'under' both names...
"He wants you to go to Reikai to talk." Kuwabara said, not realy understanding what was bothering the fuming guardian so much..
"Well that's just peachy. But I hat to remind his royal shortness that I'm sealed here. I can't leave the forest and portals won't work on these grounds." Maru said, the whole time recieting from one of the texts she had read multiple times before. She was sitting on the ground, legs and arms crossed.
"Sealed?" Hiei asked, a tone of resentment in his voice, he was standing nearby though only close enough to hear..
Maru sighed, clenched her teeth for a few moments, then answered, " 'Thee who guards the place of power and death must not flee from the land that binds thee, Powers held by thee the keeper bind thy powers and thy body to the land itself.' In other words only a keeper can release me. There are stone markers set up, ten feet apart in a circle exactly a hundred miles wide.. Those are the 'binds that hold thee'." Maru fell silent, still resembling a tiger rather then a 5ft. tall girl.
Yusuke blinked then started to say something.. Then must of thought better of it.. But Kuwabara wasn't quite that smart.. "Well why don't you do that teleport thing.. With the sparks."
Red-gold eyes narrowed. "Do you think I'm stupid enough to NOT TRY THAT AFTER 15 YEARS?!" She was standing in the blink of eye.. Hands became fists and she stood there.. But the only factor that probably saved Kuwabara from certain death was the cat-like creature..
"Yeah Maru, and the old text also says 'One Keeper, one Guardian, One entrance, One Exit. These laws to follow and keep.' That means that with out a Keeper the power binding you here STOPS." The coal black eyes glittered as the cat perched on Maru's head and crossed her forearms.. Though how was beond thought at the moment. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````````````````
"Okay, this is exactly 100 miles from the temple.." Maru said in a flat and plain voice.. She scanned the area.. Then her eyes began looking along the ground..
Kuwabara loked at her, confused.. "What are you looking for?" "The barrier's stayed in place for hundreds of years.. So it's burned a small 'line'.. I'm trying to find it..." Maru answered taking a few steps foreward..
The cat however wasn't paying a flip to Maru's movements and zoomed off the guardain's head... And then after a few feet smacked face first into clear surface.. "I.... Think... I ..Found.. It..."
Maru rolled her eyes. "Allight, you four go on through.. Then I'll try to figure out something.."
Yusuke only shrugged and walked through the 'solid' object.. But nothing happened.. The same went for the other three.. But Maru and the cat stood there... Black eyes looking slightly ruffled.. And red-gold ones looking stumped and all around angry..
"It would figure.. That of all the times the blasted thing worked on me I... Uh.. Maru what are you doing?" The cat had been talking in mid-air while facing the clear wall.. But now her eyes were on Maru who was backing up.. Eyes narrowed and looking along the wall itself.. "Hellllooooohoooo!" The winged cat flew toward's the girl, almond shaped eyes looking confused.. Maru however ignored her.. Instead her gaze went to the earth at her feet.. Then to a tree to her left..
"Hey Guardian?! What's wr.." "The barrier.. It repells life.." Maru said with a rather crooked smile.. Then they all saw what she was talking about.. No plants or anything else for the matter grew within a full ten feet of the clear looking wall.. But Maru didn't dwell on this fact long at all.
"What's that got to do with anything?!" "I know how to pass it. This wall knows us through our forms.. The Guardain, and the messenger." Maru stood about 10 feet away from the wall and her smile grew. "Yeah, so what are you going to do?" Yusuke asked, eyes going over the scene from Maru, to where the barrier was, then back to Maru.
"Well what-ever it is.. Hayaka!(1)" The cat yelled, loud and clear. Maru rolled her eyes and muttered, "Bakayara.(2)" Then she let the smile vanish and she focused with her eyes narrowed.. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ``````````````````` 1)-Hurry up 2)-Jerk/the fool ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````````````````
Whew... A bit lonher then usual and one of my favs.. A CLIFFHANGER!! WHAHAHAHA!! But i'll be nice and update asap, since of course i'm sure I'll get atleast four reviews.. (hint hint)
Anywho B_Y_E_!_! _
Temple Grounds
chapter 4: Barrier
::telepathy:: "speech" //thoughts// /lyrics/
"The temple?! You mean to tell me you let the whole place burn to the ground?!" The cat looked like the end of world had happened and she hadn't been told until now.. Her wings fluttered as she leveled off to the hieght of Maru's head. "Not my fault! The blasted Keeper sent me to kill these guys! I can't know what's going on nearly 90 miles away!!" Maru yelled right back.. Her eyes caught the firelight and the gem on her glove glowed...
"You're the guardian! Do you have any idea what were in those vaults! Do you Maru?!"
"Alright already!" Yusuke yelled at the two argueing females.. Maru was still glowing with an eerie red color while the cat creature was glaring daggers at the girl..
"She started it." They both spat at the same time. Maru tried to get up and push the fur ball away but only managed to get a new set of pain jolts from her shoulder and just about every where else..
"What's all of this about a temple?" Kuwabara managed to edge in a sentence in between the insult drops going on between the two.
Maru looked like she'd just swallowed ice.. Her eyes widened and she just stared blankly at the four.. "You.. You don't even know what the Anago Temple is?! Why in the world are you even in the forest then?!" She looked like she was about to burst into a million sparks from the fact.
Yusuke sweatdropped. Maru seemed like the type to loose her temper no matter what the circumstance.. And there was that strange energy signiture.. It was enough to make him wonder if Ko-Enma even had a file on her. "We were tracking after a small group of thieves and they came here."
Maru and the cat froze and gawked at the smae time with the same look on their faces.. "You were following..." Maru ran the words through her mind again.. Her eyes reflected that she was thinking over them and trying to 'fit' what had happened together.. And with a blink she got an answer. "That means the temple being distroyed is my fault after all... If I had stayed instead of going after a random group.. Then Suna could have been able to..." She paused and flopped backwards with her hands on her eyes. "This is so freakin' stupid! I swear! 15 blasted years in this place and I just sealed myself is this darn forest even longer!!" Maru was yelling at herself more harshly in her head and failed to even notice the looks passing from everyone else..
The cat sighed and took the time to explain a few things.. Mostly over the temple while Maru sat up and looked around, still trying to get everything in somewhat basic order. However one question caught her attention. "Why is Maru the only guardian?" Red-gold eyes blinked.. But that was probably the only question even Maru didn't have the answer to.. Why was she all alone? The Keeper hadn't said anything about her past or anything.. Just that she had been placed here.. But why? When? And by whom? ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````
"HE WHAT?!" Maru yelped, red-gold orbs flaming and pulsing... Yusuke winced, if there was one thing he had learned all those times with Kieko, it was that hell hath no fury like an angry girl or woman.. Though Maru seemed to fit 'under' both names...
"He wants you to go to Reikai to talk." Kuwabara said, not realy understanding what was bothering the fuming guardian so much..
"Well that's just peachy. But I hat to remind his royal shortness that I'm sealed here. I can't leave the forest and portals won't work on these grounds." Maru said, the whole time recieting from one of the texts she had read multiple times before. She was sitting on the ground, legs and arms crossed.
"Sealed?" Hiei asked, a tone of resentment in his voice, he was standing nearby though only close enough to hear..
Maru sighed, clenched her teeth for a few moments, then answered, " 'Thee who guards the place of power and death must not flee from the land that binds thee, Powers held by thee the keeper bind thy powers and thy body to the land itself.' In other words only a keeper can release me. There are stone markers set up, ten feet apart in a circle exactly a hundred miles wide.. Those are the 'binds that hold thee'." Maru fell silent, still resembling a tiger rather then a 5ft. tall girl.
Yusuke blinked then started to say something.. Then must of thought better of it.. But Kuwabara wasn't quite that smart.. "Well why don't you do that teleport thing.. With the sparks."
Red-gold eyes narrowed. "Do you think I'm stupid enough to NOT TRY THAT AFTER 15 YEARS?!" She was standing in the blink of eye.. Hands became fists and she stood there.. But the only factor that probably saved Kuwabara from certain death was the cat-like creature..
"Yeah Maru, and the old text also says 'One Keeper, one Guardian, One entrance, One Exit. These laws to follow and keep.' That means that with out a Keeper the power binding you here STOPS." The coal black eyes glittered as the cat perched on Maru's head and crossed her forearms.. Though how was beond thought at the moment. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````````````````
"Okay, this is exactly 100 miles from the temple.." Maru said in a flat and plain voice.. She scanned the area.. Then her eyes began looking along the ground..
Kuwabara loked at her, confused.. "What are you looking for?" "The barrier's stayed in place for hundreds of years.. So it's burned a small 'line'.. I'm trying to find it..." Maru answered taking a few steps foreward..
The cat however wasn't paying a flip to Maru's movements and zoomed off the guardain's head... And then after a few feet smacked face first into clear surface.. "I.... Think... I ..Found.. It..."
Maru rolled her eyes. "Allight, you four go on through.. Then I'll try to figure out something.."
Yusuke only shrugged and walked through the 'solid' object.. But nothing happened.. The same went for the other three.. But Maru and the cat stood there... Black eyes looking slightly ruffled.. And red-gold ones looking stumped and all around angry..
"It would figure.. That of all the times the blasted thing worked on me I... Uh.. Maru what are you doing?" The cat had been talking in mid-air while facing the clear wall.. But now her eyes were on Maru who was backing up.. Eyes narrowed and looking along the wall itself.. "Hellllooooohoooo!" The winged cat flew toward's the girl, almond shaped eyes looking confused.. Maru however ignored her.. Instead her gaze went to the earth at her feet.. Then to a tree to her left..
"Hey Guardian?! What's wr.." "The barrier.. It repells life.." Maru said with a rather crooked smile.. Then they all saw what she was talking about.. No plants or anything else for the matter grew within a full ten feet of the clear looking wall.. But Maru didn't dwell on this fact long at all.
"What's that got to do with anything?!" "I know how to pass it. This wall knows us through our forms.. The Guardain, and the messenger." Maru stood about 10 feet away from the wall and her smile grew. "Yeah, so what are you going to do?" Yusuke asked, eyes going over the scene from Maru, to where the barrier was, then back to Maru.
"Well what-ever it is.. Hayaka!(1)" The cat yelled, loud and clear. Maru rolled her eyes and muttered, "Bakayara.(2)" Then she let the smile vanish and she focused with her eyes narrowed.. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ``````````````````` 1)-Hurry up 2)-Jerk/the fool ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````````````````
Whew... A bit lonher then usual and one of my favs.. A CLIFFHANGER!! WHAHAHAHA!! But i'll be nice and update asap, since of course i'm sure I'll get atleast four reviews.. (hint hint)
Anywho B_Y_E_!_! _
