Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Yu Yu Hakusho characters, even though I'd like to... ^.^ I own Faie, her mother, and her father. That's it…yeah…

Note from WaterFarie72: This chapter was written by my friend Erin. All the Faie parts were written by her and belong to her. I own all the Lenia parts. Both of us do NOT own any of the YYH characters.

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*~Chapter 2~*

Faie spun around as the fire leapt around her. Her eyes burned the tears off her skin as they flowed down her cheeks. "MOTHER! FATHER! Where ARE YOU?!" She dodged the burning fireballs of debris from the building crumbling around her. Her torn silk-blue dress was scorched up to her thighs. She screamed out her mother and father's names in terror trying to find them in the rubble. The young girl screamed out in horror as she looked to her left around the next corner. There her mother and father were lying, bleeding on the ground. Her father trying to harness enough of his energy to protect him and his wife from the falling boulders of old buildings. She ran to their side. Her father was holding her mother in his arms. He was crying as she called out to them, "Father!! WHAT happened to Mother?!" As her father looked up to her he started to chant something she could not hear. She cried out again "FATHER! I can't hear you!!" He closed his eyes as the force field enveloped her. Her father called to her as she fell to the ground with the force field pushing into her body. "FAIE!! DON'T FORGET THE FAITH! KEEP YOKO IN YOUR MIND AND SOUL!! WE LOVE YOU AND KEEP ALIVE THE TRIBE!"

As she tried to call back to him a large boulder fell off the last building smashing the place where her parents were. She could not see them as she screamed and bawled. "NOO!! FATHER!!!!" The force field was gone from her and she suddenly felt dizzy. As she fell to the ground her eyes flashed as she saw another marble cylinder slowly fall directly over her. Suddenly she saw a streak of silver as she was flying through the air. She tried to smile as the tears streamed down her face. She softly whispered as she reached up and touched her rescuers' face, "Thank . . . you. . Yoko . . . " and with that she went into a limp, unconscious state.

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A few days later Faie is sitting on a hill staring at the moon. She sighs as she looks down at her hands that lie in her lap. She picks at the scorched ends of her dress as tears brim in her eyes. She shudders as the wind blows softly. She closes her eyes as she lifts her face to the light feeling the breeze. She whispers softly to the tall figure behind her.

"Youko. . why did my parents leave the Earth? Why them? Why OUR tribe?" She turns to face him as he slowly strides up to where she is seated. He looks to the moon and sighs. "It's not my choice. I apologize for it was nothing I could do. Fate is cruel and unusual."

She looks back to the moon then gets up. As she puts a hand on her hip she feels the outline of something sharp in her pocket. She reaches in, and as soon as she touches the stone she smiles. She pulls a shard of jade out of her robe and holds it up to the light.

Suddenly she is looking at a large jade statue of her savior. She looks up the large form and spots a little girl the size of three sitting on his shoulder crawling up to his head. As the little one reaches up, she grasps the right ear. Her face turns pale and her eyes grow large in fear as a small crack echoes through the temple. The jade shard lies now in the little girls hand as she looks up at the head of the statue where the ear had once been. Two men come rushing into the temple. She turned to look at them as she suddenly lost balance. Faie cried out as she watched her three- year-old self, fall. The two men rush forward to catch her but find not the girl in either of their arms. They look up and the little girl to see her cradled in the giant's arms, tears of fear rolling down the little ones face as she pulls closer to the statue in terror of what her consequences of breaking the statue will be. The statue had miraculously moved to catch the little girl.

Faie shakes her head and comes back to reality. With a sigh she puts the jade back in the folds of her dress. As the wind swirls around her the memories fade as the sounds of the men yelling at her, drift off. She whispers to the wind softly knowing that he is walking around but will still hear her.

"You were speaking to me, Yoko; it was you who told me to climb the statue. You who told me to set you free. Who told me to just trust in you . . . . And I did . . . . . I did. And from that day on you helped me, you taught me how to survive, how to live life, how to breathe. . . you saved me" The wind softly blew, as her hair swayed, the long branches of the old willow tree upon the hill, swayed rhythmically along in the breeze. The moon glowed on its silver leaves as they turned to the light.

* * * Days later, Faie was sitting at the edge of a small pool of water. As she stared at her reflection she glared and angrily smacked the water. "UUGH! Why won't it work?" She got up and walked to the patch of dirt where the grass was worn away from so many lessons before. She closed her eyes and sighed. As she exhaled, the wind swirled around her. The dirt blew up into a cyclone, covering her from head to toe as she sighed.

She dropped her arms and the wind died down and the dirt resettled. The air filled with electricity and the sky grew dark. As she opened her eyes and looked up watching the blue sky as it closed up into the clouds. She closed her eyes and lifted her hands up. Trying to concentrate as she pulled the rain from the clouds, her brows furrowed. The thunder cracked and soon after a flash of light struck the ground a few miles away from the source. She clenched her teeth trying to over ride the thousands of other commands swirling in her head, making the storm, to bring out the thought "no thunder, just lightning, no noise." The rain seemed to pull back a tad but she soon lost the thought to her own chaos in her mind.

Behind her rolling steadily over the hill, came a think white fog. As it came closer her thoughts be came more muddled finally she gave up. She dropped her arms and just a s suddenly the sky dissolved her clouds and became another bright sunny afternoon.

"Ugh… I thought I had left more of an impression." She muttered in disgust with her creation. She turned to the fog slowly wrapping around her legs. Giggling she managed to whisper out, "Oh Youko, cut it out.." but the fog seemed to pull her away from where she was. Stumbling with the fog she got down low as callings came from the forest. "What's going on?" Thankful that she was well camouflaged with her surroundings, her muddy appearance was usual. Her once blue dress was now auburn from age and dirt. Her hair hung long to her back, earth collected in her locks where a silver clip hung, barely holding half her hair. She dropped down as a large flying demon swooped overhead. She dropped her head facing the ground trembling. The fog slowly moved them both to the top of the hill beneath the tree. She tilted her head gently as not to attract the eye of the seeker.

"Are we in danger?" She spoke to the form now holding her closely.

"Not you. I." He responded to her watching the sky with squinting eyes. She looked as his stern face. Remembering his once joyous eyes shining in the sun, or his soft cheerful laughter that filled the air long ago. "I must leave you."

"WHAT?!" She screamed then slapped a hand over her mouth.

His harsh eyes cut into her as he said solemnly," I understand what you are feeling right now, this is great pressure, now, knowing you shall be alone forever. But please be silent while I speak" She trembled as she nodded. She still in shock, just stared up at him as his eyes watered. "I don't know how they found me but my presence will only endanger your life. Therefore, no matter how hard this is I must leave you. For your own well- being." And with that the fog rolled out from under her, down the hill and into the forest.

By then the demon was gone but Faie didn't notice the only thing screaming in her mind was "No! Don't let him leave! He can't!" she ran down the hill calling after him "No wait! You can't leave me! I… I need you! Youko!"

By the time she reached the bottom of the hill she was chasing after the edge of the fog calling out after it "Come back!!" but it soon streamed before her. Leaving her far in it's own wake. She had soon lost trace of it ever being there. His face lingered in her mind, but dying like an ember. The sweat ran down her face but she still ran. Dodging the vines, low branches, and tree stumps, she slowed down little by little. Tired she finally dropped into the damp earth. As her chest heaved up and down and she closed her eyes. A tear trickled down on her cheek. His words whispered into her ears over and over "…no matter how hard this is I must leave you." She sighed to herself his last words he spoke "For your own well-being." She sat up on her knees and covered her face with soil-covered hands and sobbed. Her hair fell out down covering her face and saved the last of her dignity from being lost. The clip fell into the decomposing mass of leaves beside her.

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The jade dimmed as the wind slowly turned and the trees swayed over her head. And the moonlight flickered upon the scene around her, as the branches overhead blocked the last quarter moon. In one night the world fell on her shoulders until she dropped all pity for others. All her love for everyone in the world. All the life in her eyes, in her heart, dropped. She vowed never to forgive him or any man she ever met from that day forward. She trained every waking moment of the rest of her life and became stronger than most men on Earth and some off.