~Chapter 4~
"Heh, that's a long story Hiei."
"Well, we have time."
"No! No we don't Hiei!" Yusuke yelled at Hiei.
"Why not Yusuke?" Botan asked.
"We have a case! Remember?!"
"I do remember, but they might be able to help us out."
"Gah! Fine! We'll listen to the stupid story!" Yusuke yelled, leaning up against the side of the castle with his arms crossed over his chest, and looking up at the sky full of shadows.
Arisa turns and looks at Cloud. "You wanna start out? Tell them what happened to you guys first?"
DragonCloud looked at Arisa and blinked. "Sure…I guess. It all started like this…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey! Cloud, where's Arisa?" Nova asked DragonCloud.
"Hmm?" DragonCloud turned around to face Nova and she blinked as she did so. "I don't know, I haven't seen her all day. I thought you had seen her today."
"No, I haven't. Last time I saw her was last night before we went to bed. When I got up this morning she was gone."
"Hmmm. That'd odd. There wasn't a note or anything?"
"No, none what so ever. No trace of her leaving either."
"That's odd. We need to find her."
"Yeah, after all, she is the best fighter among us."
"Yeah, you do have a point there Nova. Where should we start?"
"Umm, how about….ummm… I have no idea."
A sweatdrop appeared on the side of Cloud's head as she glared at Nova.
"Sorry!"
"Gah, its okay…we'll just start from scratch looking for her. We'll start in the forest of lost souls. She might be there, knowing she likes her depression places the best."
"Yeah, I guess that's a good place to start." Nova looked at DragonCloud, "But I could never understand why she is always depressed."
"Heh, neither did I. But I think I might have figured it out," Cloud told Nova.
"Really? What do you think it is?" Nova asked with impertinence.
"I'm not going to say, I wanna know for a fact that it's true before I tell you."
"Why?!" Nova asked in a whiny tone.
"Oh god, because if you tell her that I told you and its wrong, she'll be mad at me! And I don't want her mad at me, thank you very much."
"Gah! I won't say a word about it! I swear! Just please tell me Cloud."
DragonCloud shook her head. "No! Now stop asking, we're at the Forest of Lost Souls."
"Oh fine!" Nova pouted as she crossed her arms over her chest and walked out of the dirigible.
From there they walked into the Forest of Lost Souls, DragonCloud kept her guard up as so did Nova. Novagrabbed the pendeant from around her neck and chanted a few words. The pendent glowed a bright blue color as a staff appeared. She held it at her side as she continued to follow Cloud
"Gah! I hate this forest…" Nova finally shouted out after a few moments.
DragonCloud turned around and glared at her. "Be quiet. We don't want the dude that lives here finding out that we're here! Jeeze, he'll try to take out souls…again!"
"Ack! Sorry! I forgot!" Nova said really apologetically.
"Its okay, just stay more quiet…because if he finds us… I'm giving him you!"
"Jerk!"
They finally got the whole forest checked out and were running back to the dirigible being chased by 3 packs of wolves.
"AHHHHHHH! HOW DID I EVER LET YOU TALK ME INTO COMING HERE CLOUD?!"
"WE CAME TO FIND ARISA REMEMBER?"
"BUT WHY HERE?! SHE WASN'T EVEN HERE!"
"THIS WAS JUST THE FIRST STOP ON OUR JORNEY!!!"
"OH! JUST GREAT!!! HOW COME EVERYTIME WE COME HERE WE ARE ALWAYS CHASED OUT?!"
"I DUNNO!!!!!!!!"
Nova and DragonCloud got into the dirigible safe and sound without a scratch on them.
"That was close."
"No kidding…WE ARE NEVER GOING BACK IN THERE WITHOUT ARISA!!!!!"
"Heh, yep. I agree to that."
They took off again searching every place they thought Arisa might have gone to.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End Of Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"So, that's how we ended up here pretty much. Just checking out places we thought Arisa might be."
"But why is Arisa here?" Kuwabara asked.
"Well, that's my story." She looked down at the ground as she closed her ice blue eyes thinking.
"You gonna tell us or not Arisa?" Kurama asked coming up behind her.
She blinked and looked up at Kurama. " I dunno."
Kurama sighed and hugged her. "Its okay not to tell us, if you don't want to."
Arisa sighed as she pulled away from Kurama and looked at the rest of them.
"The reason why I'm here is because…this was my old house; from when I was very little, that's how I knew about it. But it was so long ago that I forgot my way around. I decided to try and find something I've been looking for, for a very long time. I thought it might be here, but I guess I was wrong. It wasn't here, I never sensed its energy or got a weird feeling." She sighed some as she leaned her back up against the outside wall of the castle.
"So, you're not going to tell us the story?"
Arisa glanced at Yusuke and blinked. "No, I'm not. Have a problem with that?"
"Yes I do, actually. You kept me from getting a lot of things done with this case."
"What exactly are you looking for?"
"A sword that has great powers. The sword is legend to have a red blade and unknown writing on it and the hilt of the sword is suppose to be black with blue and red gems on it."
"Heh, well sorry to break it to yah but, you won't get that sword."
"And why would that be?"
"Because, that's my sword, and I'm searching for it now. You get in my way and I'll kill you. No questions asked. Be careful, I've warned you. So watch what you do and say."
"Heh, this should be interesting."
"Yes it should, it should also be interesting to see you try and find the sword. I'm the only one who can find it and pick it up. You can't touch it, so, you're screwed."