Me again with the ever wonderful Chapter 6! Sometimes I wonder if
there is a point in writing this, but then I get a review saying that
someone, somewhere, likes what I write, so I continue. Even if it's only
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Disclaimer: I am boring, I have no life, there for it would be impossible for me to own Inu-Yasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. In my dreams I might, in the future, I may very well own them, but not today sadly! I can only wish that I did.
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"Now what?" I asked the others. I was ready to continue now that I had eaten. All three of them stared at me like I was asking something I shouldn't be. I looked at them quizzically. "What? Do I have something on my face or something?" Yusuke was the first to respond. "But. but. you were just covered in your own blood not a half hour ago!" He yelled angrily. I shrugged. "I heal really fast. Now can we go? I would like to find my Dad if it's not to much trouble." I heard Hiei mumble something about 'females always being trouble' but I ignored him.
When it looked like they wouldn't be going for a while, I got up off the floor and started to explore the cavern. T tried to pay attention to what was on them, but my mind kept coming back to the dream, or whatever the hell it was. 'Why didn't I wake up? How could I tell that it was a dream? How do I stop it from happening again? Well, I guess I just will have to find Dad and get out of here really quick. Or just not sleep at all.' I grinned half way at myself. 'That's gonna take a lot of work.'
I peered more intently at the carvings scattered across the walls. They were like the first cavern, except that they just had groups of people in different places. The only thing that was the same in all of them was that one of the people lay horizontal. Some had the other figures help the sleeping one out of the cave, and the others just depicted the ones that were standing leaving their comrade where they lay. But these had a slight difference from the one where the figure awoke. While they appeared to be able to leave the cave, the others, the ones who didn't help at all, became trapped inside the cave figure. The next carving showed the figures that hadn't helped, fall down as well.
'Hmm. so one will fall into that dream thing, and if the companions wake that person up, they can leave, if they don't try to help at all, they become trapped in the dream. Hmmm. Makes sense. I guess I'm lucky that at least one of them cares enough about me to not leave me behind. It probably saved them.' I smiled again, this time in happiness. 'Someone cares about me.'
'Ok. There should be a way out of here if what the carvings say are true.' (A/N: I'm making all the wall carvings hints to escape! Deal!) I spent the next hour searching for the way out of this blasted place. "What are you doing?" a soft yet deep voice asked. I looked at Kurama. "I'm trying to find a way out of here. It gives me the creeps!" I told him. 'Plus I'm keeping my mind off of that dream. it was way too real!' I shuddered in remembrance. Kurama must have noticed my shudder because he wrapped warm arms around me. "Are you sure you're ok? Those injuries looked like more than mere surface wounds. I should know" he added softly. It seemed like he was having trouble with what he was trying to say next. So I made a wild guess that he was the one who used my stiletto on me. And me being as blunt as I sometimes am, I voiced the question, but softly do he knew that I wasn't mad anymore. "You were the one who used the stiletto on me weren't you?" "Yes" he answered softly after a minute. "I'm sorry" he continued. I turned my head so that I could look him in the eyes. "Don't be sorry!" I told him, my voice stern this time. "I should be thanking you for that! I don't like the feeling of not being in control of my own dreams like I was in that one. It was horrid." I added softly while turning back around to face the wall. He tightened his grip around me, and somehow I felt content just standing there, being held. The he let go and started to walk beck to Yusuke and Hiei. He whispered "You're welcome" back to me before joining them. I smiled at him, but I felt cold, not just physically, but in my heart. I felt lonely.
It took me another hour to find the exit, and I only found it because of the pattern of the few columns that looked like they were scattered all about. Five of them were in an almost perfect line. There was only one column out of place. That one drew my attention to it. There was absolutely nothing on it. No carving, no nicks, no dents, nothing. So I studied it for a few minutes and decided to do things Grandpa's way. I smashed my fist into it and the entire thing crumbled into dust. I heard Yusuke jump of and start cursing. I looked over at them and noticed that all three were on their feet looking at me in surprise. I grinned, 'I startled them all! What Fun!' As the dust settled, I looked at the hole that I had uncovered from smashing the column. I waved my hand in front of me to try and clear some of the dust faster, but it only swirled faster. So, I walked a few steps back and sat down to wait for the dust to settle.
'This time, I'm not going to just jump into that hole! I don't think I could stand a repeat of last time!' And again I shuddered. I didn't really want to go further into the underworld, but I had to rescue Dad, after all, he always helped me out of all the scrapes I got into, and he never told mom about when I snuck into Uncle Fluffy's house a few years ago! I owed him, and besides, he's family, Uncle Fluffy too! I could not back out now. I was not a coward.
When the dust settled, the four of us stood around the edge of the hole I had made earlier. Hiei, with the attitude that he has blurted out "Not going to jump in recklessly this time?" I glared at him. "I learned my lesson last time half pint!" (A/N: Ooh.low blow! That's my girl!) He just glared back at me. "Alright you two" Yusuke said, almost laughing, "Quit it now! We need to figure out if we should jump, or stay here and eventually starve. All in favor raise your hand." He raised his own hand. No one else did. "Alright, now who's for staying?" And again, no one raised their hand. "By democratic vote, we jump into the dark hole to no one knows where!" He jumped into the gaping hole followed quickly by Hiei. Kurama looked at me. "Well, let go. Someone has to watch them so they don't mess up too much." I grinned at him. Even though I didn't really want to jump, I did anyway. I didn't want to be left alone anyway. Guys just don't have any sense. 'Like I do anyway' I told myself as I jumped after them all.
I landed on my feet, and peered intently around me. I was shocked to see my surroundings. It looked almost like Demon City. There was molten lava in large pools scattered across the vast expanse of this cavern. It was HUGE! At least 50 miles one way and we were stuck on a mountain in the middle. About 3 miles away was a city. I shuddered to think how similar it was to Demon City. "Umm. Hey guys?" I asked. They turned their heads to look at me. "Are we sure that I'm still not dreaming? This looks awfully like the scenery in that blasted Dream!" Kurama and Yusuke looked at each other blankly. Hiei simply stated "Yes. You are awake." I sighed in relief. Hiei started walking down to the city followed closely by Yusuke. Kurama walked up to my side. "This is what you saw while you were asleep?" he asked slightly horrified. I nodded slowly. "Almost exactly. Except that this is way bigger." I stood almost paralyzed to the spot. Kurama gently tugged on my arm to get me to follow him down. I took one last look at the city that lay before me and sighed as I followed behind Kurama.
We entered the city in about an hour. There were no demons in sight. In fact, there was no one in sight. It looked deserted. There were cobwebs hanging every where. It was eerily quiet. The only sound that I heard with my sensitive hearing was our breath. There was not even the moaning sigh of the wind. It was almost like a ghost town. 'This is the Underworld. Maybe this IS a ghost town!' Shaking my head at the very notion, I followed Yusuke, Hiei and Kurama down another alleyway. Nothing but more cobwebs.
It took us some time, but we managed to get to the center of the city with in three hours with all the dead ends, and 'shortcuts.' The city center had the most cobwebs and they were denser than anywhere else that we came upon. Here there were some lumps in the massive webbing. It looked almost strong enough top bear our weight, but I don't think any of us wanted to touch it. I know I didn't! We were looking for a clear route out of the city when I heard a slight sound. It was a stretching sound or a creaking. "I don't think we're alone here guys" I whispered. They stared at me in disbelief. "I don't see anything!" Yusuke stated loudly. "Shh." I told him. "I heard something move just a few seconds ago." They froze in place. Listening for something.
When none of us heard anything for 5 minutes straight, Hiei relaxed saying "You're jumping at nothing. Now let's leave." He started to a nearby passage way that was mostly clear of the webbing. Yusuke followed Kurama walked after him. Reluctantly, I followed them parting some of the sticky webs. 'Wait? Are cobwebs supposed to be sticky? I thought that spider webs were the only webs that were sticky' I shrugged. I might have been mistaken. I didn't really pay any attention in school so maybe I got them mixed up. 'But gods, how I hated spiders.' I thought in disgust. 'I just hope that I WAS mistaken, and that these really are cobwebs and not spider webs' I wished fervently. But it didn't fit in my mind. The stretching noise, the sticky webs that were everywhere, and no inhabitants, they were all signs that predators lived here. And the only one that I knew that moved on webs were spiders.
I began to listen even more intently than before. Determined to not let them got the drop on us. I knew that after my earlier warning, the others were a little more cautious, but id I said anything more, they might just think that I'm crazy, or that my previous injuries had caused some brain damage, even though I couldn't see how, I wasn't hurt anywhere around the head. 'Guys! The only same one among the lot of you is Kurama! At least he is paying more attention to the surrounding area!' I was slightly grumpy as I thought this. A slight hiss brought me out of my angry thoughts. I looked around frantically, seeing nothing, then I looked up. There was the biggest spider that I had ever prayed would not ever exist. It looked to be about 3 feet in diameter with hungry looking mandibles clicking in anticipation of a meal. "Umm. guys? If this place is deserted, then why is there a 3 foot spider hanging in the air a few feet away from us?" They looked up. And I almost swore I heard one of them gasp in fright. At least I wasn't the only one with a dislike of spiders.
Some of the webbing started to lower itself to make a cage around us. 'Great! Just Great! I'm stuck in a webbed enclosure with the biggest damn spider that ever existed! Great! Just Great! I love my life!' I backed up a few more feet, and backed into Kurama. We all were backing up until Yusuke hit the webbing. "Aww.Crap! This stuff is disgusting! It's sticky!'" He announced. "I'll cut through it," Hiei said while telling Kurama and myself to "Keep it busy." I growled softly at the nerve of the short guy! As if we had to be told! Kurama pulled out his whip as I was pulling out my stilettos. I was freaked out by the sheer size of this thing, but I would not let my fear rule me. Kurama used his whip to grab the thing around it's hairy neck, and when I was sure that it could not move it's head and poison me, (A/N: I'm not sure which spiders are actually poisonous, but since they're in the underworld, all things that could be poisonous, are!) I jumped in and stabbed it in-between the eyes, towards the brain. The thing reeled; trying to throw me off it's back as I stabbed it again. It slowed and stilled finally. By then Yusuke was free of the webs, and Hiei was almost finished cutting through the webs.
I sat back, slightly tired and looked up at the top of the cavern. There were even more webs coming down on us, like a clamp lowering to crush a car in the junkyards. I could barely make out the silhouettes of more of the spiders. "Crap!" I shouted. "Hiei! Get that web cut NOW!" Kurama and Yusuke looked up and saw what I saw. "Hiei! Get out of the way! NOW!" Yusuke shouted. "SPIRIT GUN!" he yelled as the bright blue ball of energy left his out pointed finger and blew the webs out of the way. "Why the hell didn't you do that in the first place?" I yelled at him. He grinned back at me and said nothing. 'Men.I don't like them.they always do things the hard way.'
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And here is where I leave you for today! I'll try and have another out by the weekend. No promises, but I'll try. Buh Bye! And don't forget to REVIEW! Thanks!
Signing out ~DevilWench~
Disclaimer: I am boring, I have no life, there for it would be impossible for me to own Inu-Yasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. In my dreams I might, in the future, I may very well own them, but not today sadly! I can only wish that I did.
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"Now what?" I asked the others. I was ready to continue now that I had eaten. All three of them stared at me like I was asking something I shouldn't be. I looked at them quizzically. "What? Do I have something on my face or something?" Yusuke was the first to respond. "But. but. you were just covered in your own blood not a half hour ago!" He yelled angrily. I shrugged. "I heal really fast. Now can we go? I would like to find my Dad if it's not to much trouble." I heard Hiei mumble something about 'females always being trouble' but I ignored him.
When it looked like they wouldn't be going for a while, I got up off the floor and started to explore the cavern. T tried to pay attention to what was on them, but my mind kept coming back to the dream, or whatever the hell it was. 'Why didn't I wake up? How could I tell that it was a dream? How do I stop it from happening again? Well, I guess I just will have to find Dad and get out of here really quick. Or just not sleep at all.' I grinned half way at myself. 'That's gonna take a lot of work.'
I peered more intently at the carvings scattered across the walls. They were like the first cavern, except that they just had groups of people in different places. The only thing that was the same in all of them was that one of the people lay horizontal. Some had the other figures help the sleeping one out of the cave, and the others just depicted the ones that were standing leaving their comrade where they lay. But these had a slight difference from the one where the figure awoke. While they appeared to be able to leave the cave, the others, the ones who didn't help at all, became trapped inside the cave figure. The next carving showed the figures that hadn't helped, fall down as well.
'Hmm. so one will fall into that dream thing, and if the companions wake that person up, they can leave, if they don't try to help at all, they become trapped in the dream. Hmmm. Makes sense. I guess I'm lucky that at least one of them cares enough about me to not leave me behind. It probably saved them.' I smiled again, this time in happiness. 'Someone cares about me.'
'Ok. There should be a way out of here if what the carvings say are true.' (A/N: I'm making all the wall carvings hints to escape! Deal!) I spent the next hour searching for the way out of this blasted place. "What are you doing?" a soft yet deep voice asked. I looked at Kurama. "I'm trying to find a way out of here. It gives me the creeps!" I told him. 'Plus I'm keeping my mind off of that dream. it was way too real!' I shuddered in remembrance. Kurama must have noticed my shudder because he wrapped warm arms around me. "Are you sure you're ok? Those injuries looked like more than mere surface wounds. I should know" he added softly. It seemed like he was having trouble with what he was trying to say next. So I made a wild guess that he was the one who used my stiletto on me. And me being as blunt as I sometimes am, I voiced the question, but softly do he knew that I wasn't mad anymore. "You were the one who used the stiletto on me weren't you?" "Yes" he answered softly after a minute. "I'm sorry" he continued. I turned my head so that I could look him in the eyes. "Don't be sorry!" I told him, my voice stern this time. "I should be thanking you for that! I don't like the feeling of not being in control of my own dreams like I was in that one. It was horrid." I added softly while turning back around to face the wall. He tightened his grip around me, and somehow I felt content just standing there, being held. The he let go and started to walk beck to Yusuke and Hiei. He whispered "You're welcome" back to me before joining them. I smiled at him, but I felt cold, not just physically, but in my heart. I felt lonely.
It took me another hour to find the exit, and I only found it because of the pattern of the few columns that looked like they were scattered all about. Five of them were in an almost perfect line. There was only one column out of place. That one drew my attention to it. There was absolutely nothing on it. No carving, no nicks, no dents, nothing. So I studied it for a few minutes and decided to do things Grandpa's way. I smashed my fist into it and the entire thing crumbled into dust. I heard Yusuke jump of and start cursing. I looked over at them and noticed that all three were on their feet looking at me in surprise. I grinned, 'I startled them all! What Fun!' As the dust settled, I looked at the hole that I had uncovered from smashing the column. I waved my hand in front of me to try and clear some of the dust faster, but it only swirled faster. So, I walked a few steps back and sat down to wait for the dust to settle.
'This time, I'm not going to just jump into that hole! I don't think I could stand a repeat of last time!' And again I shuddered. I didn't really want to go further into the underworld, but I had to rescue Dad, after all, he always helped me out of all the scrapes I got into, and he never told mom about when I snuck into Uncle Fluffy's house a few years ago! I owed him, and besides, he's family, Uncle Fluffy too! I could not back out now. I was not a coward.
When the dust settled, the four of us stood around the edge of the hole I had made earlier. Hiei, with the attitude that he has blurted out "Not going to jump in recklessly this time?" I glared at him. "I learned my lesson last time half pint!" (A/N: Ooh.low blow! That's my girl!) He just glared back at me. "Alright you two" Yusuke said, almost laughing, "Quit it now! We need to figure out if we should jump, or stay here and eventually starve. All in favor raise your hand." He raised his own hand. No one else did. "Alright, now who's for staying?" And again, no one raised their hand. "By democratic vote, we jump into the dark hole to no one knows where!" He jumped into the gaping hole followed quickly by Hiei. Kurama looked at me. "Well, let go. Someone has to watch them so they don't mess up too much." I grinned at him. Even though I didn't really want to jump, I did anyway. I didn't want to be left alone anyway. Guys just don't have any sense. 'Like I do anyway' I told myself as I jumped after them all.
I landed on my feet, and peered intently around me. I was shocked to see my surroundings. It looked almost like Demon City. There was molten lava in large pools scattered across the vast expanse of this cavern. It was HUGE! At least 50 miles one way and we were stuck on a mountain in the middle. About 3 miles away was a city. I shuddered to think how similar it was to Demon City. "Umm. Hey guys?" I asked. They turned their heads to look at me. "Are we sure that I'm still not dreaming? This looks awfully like the scenery in that blasted Dream!" Kurama and Yusuke looked at each other blankly. Hiei simply stated "Yes. You are awake." I sighed in relief. Hiei started walking down to the city followed closely by Yusuke. Kurama walked up to my side. "This is what you saw while you were asleep?" he asked slightly horrified. I nodded slowly. "Almost exactly. Except that this is way bigger." I stood almost paralyzed to the spot. Kurama gently tugged on my arm to get me to follow him down. I took one last look at the city that lay before me and sighed as I followed behind Kurama.
We entered the city in about an hour. There were no demons in sight. In fact, there was no one in sight. It looked deserted. There were cobwebs hanging every where. It was eerily quiet. The only sound that I heard with my sensitive hearing was our breath. There was not even the moaning sigh of the wind. It was almost like a ghost town. 'This is the Underworld. Maybe this IS a ghost town!' Shaking my head at the very notion, I followed Yusuke, Hiei and Kurama down another alleyway. Nothing but more cobwebs.
It took us some time, but we managed to get to the center of the city with in three hours with all the dead ends, and 'shortcuts.' The city center had the most cobwebs and they were denser than anywhere else that we came upon. Here there were some lumps in the massive webbing. It looked almost strong enough top bear our weight, but I don't think any of us wanted to touch it. I know I didn't! We were looking for a clear route out of the city when I heard a slight sound. It was a stretching sound or a creaking. "I don't think we're alone here guys" I whispered. They stared at me in disbelief. "I don't see anything!" Yusuke stated loudly. "Shh." I told him. "I heard something move just a few seconds ago." They froze in place. Listening for something.
When none of us heard anything for 5 minutes straight, Hiei relaxed saying "You're jumping at nothing. Now let's leave." He started to a nearby passage way that was mostly clear of the webbing. Yusuke followed Kurama walked after him. Reluctantly, I followed them parting some of the sticky webs. 'Wait? Are cobwebs supposed to be sticky? I thought that spider webs were the only webs that were sticky' I shrugged. I might have been mistaken. I didn't really pay any attention in school so maybe I got them mixed up. 'But gods, how I hated spiders.' I thought in disgust. 'I just hope that I WAS mistaken, and that these really are cobwebs and not spider webs' I wished fervently. But it didn't fit in my mind. The stretching noise, the sticky webs that were everywhere, and no inhabitants, they were all signs that predators lived here. And the only one that I knew that moved on webs were spiders.
I began to listen even more intently than before. Determined to not let them got the drop on us. I knew that after my earlier warning, the others were a little more cautious, but id I said anything more, they might just think that I'm crazy, or that my previous injuries had caused some brain damage, even though I couldn't see how, I wasn't hurt anywhere around the head. 'Guys! The only same one among the lot of you is Kurama! At least he is paying more attention to the surrounding area!' I was slightly grumpy as I thought this. A slight hiss brought me out of my angry thoughts. I looked around frantically, seeing nothing, then I looked up. There was the biggest spider that I had ever prayed would not ever exist. It looked to be about 3 feet in diameter with hungry looking mandibles clicking in anticipation of a meal. "Umm. guys? If this place is deserted, then why is there a 3 foot spider hanging in the air a few feet away from us?" They looked up. And I almost swore I heard one of them gasp in fright. At least I wasn't the only one with a dislike of spiders.
Some of the webbing started to lower itself to make a cage around us. 'Great! Just Great! I'm stuck in a webbed enclosure with the biggest damn spider that ever existed! Great! Just Great! I love my life!' I backed up a few more feet, and backed into Kurama. We all were backing up until Yusuke hit the webbing. "Aww.Crap! This stuff is disgusting! It's sticky!'" He announced. "I'll cut through it," Hiei said while telling Kurama and myself to "Keep it busy." I growled softly at the nerve of the short guy! As if we had to be told! Kurama pulled out his whip as I was pulling out my stilettos. I was freaked out by the sheer size of this thing, but I would not let my fear rule me. Kurama used his whip to grab the thing around it's hairy neck, and when I was sure that it could not move it's head and poison me, (A/N: I'm not sure which spiders are actually poisonous, but since they're in the underworld, all things that could be poisonous, are!) I jumped in and stabbed it in-between the eyes, towards the brain. The thing reeled; trying to throw me off it's back as I stabbed it again. It slowed and stilled finally. By then Yusuke was free of the webs, and Hiei was almost finished cutting through the webs.
I sat back, slightly tired and looked up at the top of the cavern. There were even more webs coming down on us, like a clamp lowering to crush a car in the junkyards. I could barely make out the silhouettes of more of the spiders. "Crap!" I shouted. "Hiei! Get that web cut NOW!" Kurama and Yusuke looked up and saw what I saw. "Hiei! Get out of the way! NOW!" Yusuke shouted. "SPIRIT GUN!" he yelled as the bright blue ball of energy left his out pointed finger and blew the webs out of the way. "Why the hell didn't you do that in the first place?" I yelled at him. He grinned back at me and said nothing. 'Men.I don't like them.they always do things the hard way.'
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And here is where I leave you for today! I'll try and have another out by the weekend. No promises, but I'll try. Buh Bye! And don't forget to REVIEW! Thanks!
Signing out ~DevilWench~