Charmed and Dangerous: Judgment Day!
"What?" Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara said in unison. Hiei smirked, for he knew what Sapphire had in store for them.
"Follow me." Sapphire told them. She smirked evilly. 'This is going to be fun!' she thought. When she reached the sixth stall, she stopped. "This," she said, gesturing to the horse in the stall ",is Judgment Day." She grabbed a bridle and went into the stall.
Everyone looked after her and Kurama stood behind Crystal.
"He will judge your spirits." Sapphire explained, leading the horse into the training ring.
"Kurama? Why don't you go first?" Crystal smiled.
"Uh . . . um . . . okay . . ." The kitsune stammered.
"Are you scared of horses, Kurama?" Crystal said, giving him a slight nudge.
"Uh . . . well . . . he, um, has an intimidating name . . . is all." He said, wavering a bit under her gaze. Everyone gave him a strange look.
"Don't worry, Kurama! He'll only buck you off if you have an evil or stupid spirit. And you don't have either." Crystal smiled.
"She's right, Kurama. He'll only buck you across the room if you're hiding an evil spirit from us." Sapphire said, waving a dismissive hand.
"Even if you do get bucked off," Crystal said, then feeling Kurama's fear, she quickly added, ",which I'm sure you won't!- I'll have a first aid kit ready and waiting!" She smiled sweetly, and held up the first aid kit.
"You may want to save that for Kuwabara." Hiei smirked. Crystal looked back at him with a slight "Eh?"
"Perhaps you're right, Hiei!" Sapphire giggled. Then she added, "Do you want to ride your normal horse?"
"Spartan? Sure, I'll go get him." Hiei replied, moving to Spartan's stall and leading him out.
" 'Normal' horse? What the hell? Just how long have you two known each other?" Yusuke said, slightly annoyed that he hadn't known about Sapphire and Crystal sooner.
"Ugh! I said I'd explain during dinner! Does this LOOK like DINNER to you?!" Sapphire yelled.
"Sorry!" Yusuke yelped. She was scarier than an angry Keiko!
"Hiei, could you get out Blue-Eyed Devil for me?" Sapphire smiled sweetly at him.
"Why don't you just ride double with me?" Hiei asked hopefully, but not showing it. Crystal blinked at this emotion.
"No, just get out Devil for me, Hiei." Sapphire replied. Crystal could DEFINATLY feel Hiei's disappointment when he said, "Fine."
Sapphire led out Judgment Day and everyone else -excluding Hiei- followed.
Meanwhile, Hiei tied up Spartan so he could get out Devil. 'Damn! I knew I shouldn't have asked her.' He thought. He had made sure that she couldn't 'hear' him though. He walked into the stall and led out Devil. Leading the two large Arabians was NOT easy however. Spartan tried to charge ahead while Blue-Eyed Devil reared up. Hiei managed to choke out a mental and verbal "Help!" before the horses trampled him.
Sapphire looked at Kurama and said, "Okay. You're first."
She looked back at the others and said, "The rest of you stand in the middle. I'm going to explain how this works. Judgment Day lives up to his name by judging your soul. If you have a good soul, he will listen to your commands perfectly. But . . . if you have a soul tainted with evil . . . lets just say Crystal's first aid kit won't do you much good. You'll be in a living hell. If you have a stupid soul-" she looked pointedly at Kuwabara and smirked at this part, "Then Judgment will buck and rear and do anything he wants to."
'Help!' Hiei's voice yelled in her head.
'Hiei?' she answered.
'I'm having a little trouble-'
All of the sudden, Blue-Eyed Devil came charging out of the barn. She ran at the training fence and soared over it.
"Hold Judgment, Crys!" Sapphire yelled as she in the horse's path.
Crystal grabbed onto Judgment's reins and calmed the horse by stroking his nose.
As Devil ran past, to everyone's amazement, Sapphire grabbed onto her mane and pulled herself onto the horse and slowed him to a halt. She turned her back and cantered him towards the barn, knowing Hiei would probably need medical attention.
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"Calm down, whoa." Hiei said, trying to calm Spartan. Spartan could sense Hiei's distress however, and his eyes were wild with fear. 'All I can do is hold onto his reins and avoid his pounding hooves. I can't calm him like Sapph can.' He thought before a hoof went towards his head. But, it never came. He looked at the horse, which was frozen in mid-buck. He looked towards the door.
"Sapph?" Hiei asked confused. Sapphire hopped off of Devil and led her back into her stall. Then she walked over to Hiei, worried.
"Are you alright?" Hiei just stared at her.
"Stupid question. Step back, I'm going to unfreeze Spartan." Sapphire said. Hiei stepped back. With a flick of her hand, Spartan landed on the ground and looked around, confused.
Hiei stared at Sapphire, captivated by her beauty and power.
Sapphire hopped on Spartan. "Get on. Crys's first aid kit won't help you much, so I have something better." Hiei jumped on behind her on Spartan.
She clicked and the horse walked towards the ring. "I'll get you taken care of and then we'll start Judgment, okay?" She said.
"Sure." Hiei replied.
Sapphire trotted Spartan over to the middle of the ring.
"Crys. Give Kurama a leg up onto Judgment and show him how to hold the double reins. And Jason! Get your ass down here!"
She screamed the last part at the ceiling. Suddenly, a swarm of lights appeared and a man, about twenty years old, appeared.
"What the hell do you want now, bitch?!" Jason yelled.
Sapphire flicked her hand and Jason was blown into thousands of tiny blue orbs of light. She then turned to everyone, who were now standing in a straight line.
"That jerk is our white lighter, Jason." She said. She looked back at Hiei who was still on Spartan. He looked a little angry, gripping Spartans reins tightly, and the horse was throwing his head up and down in irritation. "He will heal your wounds, Hiei." She turned towards the swarm of blue lights and said over her shoulder to Hiei, "Loosen your grip on Spartan's reins or you'll end up even more hurt when he bucks you off." Hiei loosened his grip.
The lights reformed into a VERY pissed off white lighter. "What the hell was that for?!" he yelled. She blew him up again.
He reformed and exclaimed, "Stop that!"
"Not until you learn to use my real name like a proper white lighter should." She blew him up again.
"Bitch!" He yelled when he reformed for the third time.
"I could do this all day long." Sapphire said as she prepared to blow him up again. Then Jason growled, "Fine, Sapphire." He said.
"Thank you." she said with a smug look.
"Do they do this all of the time?" Kurama said, leaning down to Crystal's height.
"Yup. Only normally it takes him much longer to realize that he won't win this battle." Crystal laughed. Then everyone started to laugh, even Hiei, who was thinking about how beautiful Sapphire looked while using her powers. Crystal walked over to her sister's side.
"We need you to heal Hiei." Crystal said to Jason, pointing at the boy on the horse.
"I was getting to that!" Sapphire yelled.
"Oh, come now. We all know you would've blown Jason up again just for fun." Turning towards the others, she smiled cutely.
"Don't you agree?" The boys nodded and laughed.
Once Hiei was healed (he had to be frozen, courtesy of Sapphire) they were ready to begin Judgment Day.
"One . . . two . . . three . . ." Crystal counted. She then lifted Kurama up to Judgment's height, but accidentally lifted him too high and he went flying over Judgment's other side. He fell face first into the sand, his red hair now a dusty color.
"Oh! I'm so sorry, Kurama! Are you okay?" Crystal said worriedly.
"Yes, I'm fine, Crystal. You didn't hurt me." Crystal helped him up and the others tried not to laugh.
"Try again?" Kurama asked.
"Okay." Crystal said.
They got into position and Crystal got him onto Judgment, but the horse shifted his weight and Kurama fell off again, onto Crystal this time.
Kurama and Crystal blushed.
"Now I'm the one who's sorry!" Kurama said, helping the girl up. "Did I harm you?"
"No more then Sapphire usually does!" Crystal said laughing.
"Crys, just levitate him on! You're wasting time!" Sapphire hissed, getting annoyed.
"Why didn't I think of that?" She said. She walked over to Kurama and grabbed onto his arms. They floated into the air, and Crystal moved them over to Judgment. She flew them both above Judgment and she gently set him down on the horse. Kurama stayed on this time. Crystal flew herself onto the ground and smiled up at the kitsune.
"You gonna stay on this time?" She asked.
"Yes, I believe so." Kurama answered.
"Right. Turn him in to the rail. If you have a good soul, Judgment will obey your voice commands without question." Sapphire explained as Kurama walked Judgment around half of the training ring. "I'll tell you what to tell him and you'll repeat the command to Judgment, okay?"
"Alright." Kurama said, trying to get used to the horse's motion.
"Trot." Sapphire said.
"Trot." Kurama repeated. Judgment obeyed perfectly, smoothly. Judgment's pace was so smooth that it felt as if he was flying.
"Canter!" Sapphire said.
"Canter!" Kurama repeated. Judgment picked up his pace from a two beat gait to a rocking three beat gait.
He cantered two times around the ring. Crystal smiled. 'He looks so handsome on Judgment.' She smiled. Then she frowned and shook her head. 'I can't be falling for him! I just met him, for crying out loud! But . . . I do think I like him.'
Sapphire, who couldn't control her telepathy very well yet, heard her sister's thoughts. 'Come to think of it . . .' she thought herself ' . . . they would make a cute couple.' She knew Kurama felt the same way about Crystal, though maybe Youko Kurama liked her a bit more. 'All they need is a little PUSH.' She grinned evilly. She looked at Judgment's pace. 'Hmm . . . he must have a VERY good soul for Judgment's pace to be THAT smooth. I've only seen it that smooth twice.' She thought. Then she yelled out "Halt!"
Kurama repeated the command and was thrown slightly forward when the horse suddenly stopped.
"Bring him to the middle." Sapphire said. Kurama walked the horse to the center of the ring and got off.
"Okay, it's you turn, Kuwabak- I mean, Kuwabara." Sapphire said.
She heaved the orange-haired teenager onto the horse and laughed when Kuwabara screamed.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Judgment took off, bucking, ears pinned straight to his skull. Clearly, he did NOT like Kuwabara. Everyone laughed, but Kurama tried to hide it. Yusuke was laughing hysterically, and Hiei nearly fell off Spartan because he was laughing so hard. Sapphire had collapsed on the ground, tears in her eyes.
"Halt!" she yelled.
Judgment stopped, but not before giving one final buck that sent Kuwabaka flying across the ring.
"Hiei *laugh* get *laugh* Judgment *laugh*!" Sapphire said.
Hiei trotted Spartan over to Judgment and brought the horse back to the center. Yusuke's turn.
Judgment bucked a little at first, but then settled down into a flowing pace.
Afterwards, they took the horses back into their stalls.
Sapphire's and Crystal's stomachs growled in unison.
"Guess it's time for lunch!" Sapphire smiled.
"Yeah." They all agreed in unison.
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Author's Notes: I know that you're probably thinking that 'But if their mother is dead, then shouldn't the power of three be broken?'
. . .
About that . . .
Their mother had two powers, telepathy and empathy. When she died her powers were transferred into Sapphire and Crystal. Sapph got the telepathy and Crys got her empathy. So in essence they are 1 ½ people and when they vanquish demons and use the power of three, their mothers powers make up for the loss of the third person. By passing on her powers she has left them a piece of her in them so that the Power of Three can still exist.
"What?" Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara said in unison. Hiei smirked, for he knew what Sapphire had in store for them.
"Follow me." Sapphire told them. She smirked evilly. 'This is going to be fun!' she thought. When she reached the sixth stall, she stopped. "This," she said, gesturing to the horse in the stall ",is Judgment Day." She grabbed a bridle and went into the stall.
Everyone looked after her and Kurama stood behind Crystal.
"He will judge your spirits." Sapphire explained, leading the horse into the training ring.
"Kurama? Why don't you go first?" Crystal smiled.
"Uh . . . um . . . okay . . ." The kitsune stammered.
"Are you scared of horses, Kurama?" Crystal said, giving him a slight nudge.
"Uh . . . well . . . he, um, has an intimidating name . . . is all." He said, wavering a bit under her gaze. Everyone gave him a strange look.
"Don't worry, Kurama! He'll only buck you off if you have an evil or stupid spirit. And you don't have either." Crystal smiled.
"She's right, Kurama. He'll only buck you across the room if you're hiding an evil spirit from us." Sapphire said, waving a dismissive hand.
"Even if you do get bucked off," Crystal said, then feeling Kurama's fear, she quickly added, ",which I'm sure you won't!- I'll have a first aid kit ready and waiting!" She smiled sweetly, and held up the first aid kit.
"You may want to save that for Kuwabara." Hiei smirked. Crystal looked back at him with a slight "Eh?"
"Perhaps you're right, Hiei!" Sapphire giggled. Then she added, "Do you want to ride your normal horse?"
"Spartan? Sure, I'll go get him." Hiei replied, moving to Spartan's stall and leading him out.
" 'Normal' horse? What the hell? Just how long have you two known each other?" Yusuke said, slightly annoyed that he hadn't known about Sapphire and Crystal sooner.
"Ugh! I said I'd explain during dinner! Does this LOOK like DINNER to you?!" Sapphire yelled.
"Sorry!" Yusuke yelped. She was scarier than an angry Keiko!
"Hiei, could you get out Blue-Eyed Devil for me?" Sapphire smiled sweetly at him.
"Why don't you just ride double with me?" Hiei asked hopefully, but not showing it. Crystal blinked at this emotion.
"No, just get out Devil for me, Hiei." Sapphire replied. Crystal could DEFINATLY feel Hiei's disappointment when he said, "Fine."
Sapphire led out Judgment Day and everyone else -excluding Hiei- followed.
Meanwhile, Hiei tied up Spartan so he could get out Devil. 'Damn! I knew I shouldn't have asked her.' He thought. He had made sure that she couldn't 'hear' him though. He walked into the stall and led out Devil. Leading the two large Arabians was NOT easy however. Spartan tried to charge ahead while Blue-Eyed Devil reared up. Hiei managed to choke out a mental and verbal "Help!" before the horses trampled him.
Sapphire looked at Kurama and said, "Okay. You're first."
She looked back at the others and said, "The rest of you stand in the middle. I'm going to explain how this works. Judgment Day lives up to his name by judging your soul. If you have a good soul, he will listen to your commands perfectly. But . . . if you have a soul tainted with evil . . . lets just say Crystal's first aid kit won't do you much good. You'll be in a living hell. If you have a stupid soul-" she looked pointedly at Kuwabara and smirked at this part, "Then Judgment will buck and rear and do anything he wants to."
'Help!' Hiei's voice yelled in her head.
'Hiei?' she answered.
'I'm having a little trouble-'
All of the sudden, Blue-Eyed Devil came charging out of the barn. She ran at the training fence and soared over it.
"Hold Judgment, Crys!" Sapphire yelled as she in the horse's path.
Crystal grabbed onto Judgment's reins and calmed the horse by stroking his nose.
As Devil ran past, to everyone's amazement, Sapphire grabbed onto her mane and pulled herself onto the horse and slowed him to a halt. She turned her back and cantered him towards the barn, knowing Hiei would probably need medical attention.
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"Calm down, whoa." Hiei said, trying to calm Spartan. Spartan could sense Hiei's distress however, and his eyes were wild with fear. 'All I can do is hold onto his reins and avoid his pounding hooves. I can't calm him like Sapph can.' He thought before a hoof went towards his head. But, it never came. He looked at the horse, which was frozen in mid-buck. He looked towards the door.
"Sapph?" Hiei asked confused. Sapphire hopped off of Devil and led her back into her stall. Then she walked over to Hiei, worried.
"Are you alright?" Hiei just stared at her.
"Stupid question. Step back, I'm going to unfreeze Spartan." Sapphire said. Hiei stepped back. With a flick of her hand, Spartan landed on the ground and looked around, confused.
Hiei stared at Sapphire, captivated by her beauty and power.
Sapphire hopped on Spartan. "Get on. Crys's first aid kit won't help you much, so I have something better." Hiei jumped on behind her on Spartan.
She clicked and the horse walked towards the ring. "I'll get you taken care of and then we'll start Judgment, okay?" She said.
"Sure." Hiei replied.
Sapphire trotted Spartan over to the middle of the ring.
"Crys. Give Kurama a leg up onto Judgment and show him how to hold the double reins. And Jason! Get your ass down here!"
She screamed the last part at the ceiling. Suddenly, a swarm of lights appeared and a man, about twenty years old, appeared.
"What the hell do you want now, bitch?!" Jason yelled.
Sapphire flicked her hand and Jason was blown into thousands of tiny blue orbs of light. She then turned to everyone, who were now standing in a straight line.
"That jerk is our white lighter, Jason." She said. She looked back at Hiei who was still on Spartan. He looked a little angry, gripping Spartans reins tightly, and the horse was throwing his head up and down in irritation. "He will heal your wounds, Hiei." She turned towards the swarm of blue lights and said over her shoulder to Hiei, "Loosen your grip on Spartan's reins or you'll end up even more hurt when he bucks you off." Hiei loosened his grip.
The lights reformed into a VERY pissed off white lighter. "What the hell was that for?!" he yelled. She blew him up again.
He reformed and exclaimed, "Stop that!"
"Not until you learn to use my real name like a proper white lighter should." She blew him up again.
"Bitch!" He yelled when he reformed for the third time.
"I could do this all day long." Sapphire said as she prepared to blow him up again. Then Jason growled, "Fine, Sapphire." He said.
"Thank you." she said with a smug look.
"Do they do this all of the time?" Kurama said, leaning down to Crystal's height.
"Yup. Only normally it takes him much longer to realize that he won't win this battle." Crystal laughed. Then everyone started to laugh, even Hiei, who was thinking about how beautiful Sapphire looked while using her powers. Crystal walked over to her sister's side.
"We need you to heal Hiei." Crystal said to Jason, pointing at the boy on the horse.
"I was getting to that!" Sapphire yelled.
"Oh, come now. We all know you would've blown Jason up again just for fun." Turning towards the others, she smiled cutely.
"Don't you agree?" The boys nodded and laughed.
Once Hiei was healed (he had to be frozen, courtesy of Sapphire) they were ready to begin Judgment Day.
"One . . . two . . . three . . ." Crystal counted. She then lifted Kurama up to Judgment's height, but accidentally lifted him too high and he went flying over Judgment's other side. He fell face first into the sand, his red hair now a dusty color.
"Oh! I'm so sorry, Kurama! Are you okay?" Crystal said worriedly.
"Yes, I'm fine, Crystal. You didn't hurt me." Crystal helped him up and the others tried not to laugh.
"Try again?" Kurama asked.
"Okay." Crystal said.
They got into position and Crystal got him onto Judgment, but the horse shifted his weight and Kurama fell off again, onto Crystal this time.
Kurama and Crystal blushed.
"Now I'm the one who's sorry!" Kurama said, helping the girl up. "Did I harm you?"
"No more then Sapphire usually does!" Crystal said laughing.
"Crys, just levitate him on! You're wasting time!" Sapphire hissed, getting annoyed.
"Why didn't I think of that?" She said. She walked over to Kurama and grabbed onto his arms. They floated into the air, and Crystal moved them over to Judgment. She flew them both above Judgment and she gently set him down on the horse. Kurama stayed on this time. Crystal flew herself onto the ground and smiled up at the kitsune.
"You gonna stay on this time?" She asked.
"Yes, I believe so." Kurama answered.
"Right. Turn him in to the rail. If you have a good soul, Judgment will obey your voice commands without question." Sapphire explained as Kurama walked Judgment around half of the training ring. "I'll tell you what to tell him and you'll repeat the command to Judgment, okay?"
"Alright." Kurama said, trying to get used to the horse's motion.
"Trot." Sapphire said.
"Trot." Kurama repeated. Judgment obeyed perfectly, smoothly. Judgment's pace was so smooth that it felt as if he was flying.
"Canter!" Sapphire said.
"Canter!" Kurama repeated. Judgment picked up his pace from a two beat gait to a rocking three beat gait.
He cantered two times around the ring. Crystal smiled. 'He looks so handsome on Judgment.' She smiled. Then she frowned and shook her head. 'I can't be falling for him! I just met him, for crying out loud! But . . . I do think I like him.'
Sapphire, who couldn't control her telepathy very well yet, heard her sister's thoughts. 'Come to think of it . . .' she thought herself ' . . . they would make a cute couple.' She knew Kurama felt the same way about Crystal, though maybe Youko Kurama liked her a bit more. 'All they need is a little PUSH.' She grinned evilly. She looked at Judgment's pace. 'Hmm . . . he must have a VERY good soul for Judgment's pace to be THAT smooth. I've only seen it that smooth twice.' She thought. Then she yelled out "Halt!"
Kurama repeated the command and was thrown slightly forward when the horse suddenly stopped.
"Bring him to the middle." Sapphire said. Kurama walked the horse to the center of the ring and got off.
"Okay, it's you turn, Kuwabak- I mean, Kuwabara." Sapphire said.
She heaved the orange-haired teenager onto the horse and laughed when Kuwabara screamed.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Judgment took off, bucking, ears pinned straight to his skull. Clearly, he did NOT like Kuwabara. Everyone laughed, but Kurama tried to hide it. Yusuke was laughing hysterically, and Hiei nearly fell off Spartan because he was laughing so hard. Sapphire had collapsed on the ground, tears in her eyes.
"Halt!" she yelled.
Judgment stopped, but not before giving one final buck that sent Kuwabaka flying across the ring.
"Hiei *laugh* get *laugh* Judgment *laugh*!" Sapphire said.
Hiei trotted Spartan over to Judgment and brought the horse back to the center. Yusuke's turn.
Judgment bucked a little at first, but then settled down into a flowing pace.
Afterwards, they took the horses back into their stalls.
Sapphire's and Crystal's stomachs growled in unison.
"Guess it's time for lunch!" Sapphire smiled.
"Yeah." They all agreed in unison.
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Author's Notes: I know that you're probably thinking that 'But if their mother is dead, then shouldn't the power of three be broken?'
. . .
About that . . .
Their mother had two powers, telepathy and empathy. When she died her powers were transferred into Sapphire and Crystal. Sapph got the telepathy and Crys got her empathy. So in essence they are 1 ½ people and when they vanquish demons and use the power of three, their mothers powers make up for the loss of the third person. By passing on her powers she has left them a piece of her in them so that the Power of Three can still exist.