Dream: *dancing* SNOW DAY! SNOW DAY! I LUV SNOW DAYS!

Zero: *tapping fingers on table* Just start the story...

Dream: But I wanna talk...

Zero: Too bad! Story now!

Dream: ...I have a woodchuck... *pulls a woodchuck out of thin air*

Zero: o.O so?

Dream: It's woodchucky and kawaii!

Woodchuck: Squeakity squee squeak squirker squeeeark. (You people are insane, I hate you, go away.)

Dream: *totally clueless* AWWWWW!!!!! THE WOODCHUCK LOVES US!!!!! *hugs woodchuck*

Zero: o.O;;;;;;;;;;; *knows what the woodchuck actually said*

Woodchuck: SQUIRKY SQEEARKITY SQUIRPISH SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (F****** A****** Get the F*** away from me!!!!!!!!)

Dream: Aw...such an adorable wittle woodchuck...

Zero: O_O;;;;;;;;;;;

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Mienai Mirai E (Towards the Unseen Future):

        Phantom, Arielle, and OkageHime were walking silently through the halls. Every so often Arielle would shoot Phantom a death glare for making them wear the uniforms. OkageHime was off in her own little world. Phantom was focusing on getting out of the castle. Her tail was twitching slightly.

        "Are we almost there?" OkageHime asked suddenly.

        Phantom looked over her shoulder at OkageHime. "Not even close."

        "Drats...the squirrels will pay for this..." OkageHime frowned.

        Phantom shook her head. "Baka ningen..."

        "I like Autumn better. Can you change back now?" OkageHime crossed her arms.

        "No."

        "Hey! Where are you three going?" A voice called out from behind them.

        They turned to see a male dog demon running towards them. He smiled, "Don't you know that today is rabbit stew day? If we don't hurry the others will eat it all before us!"

        "...err...you go ahead, we'll catch up..." Phantom tried to make her voice sound like the cat demon's.

        "You ok? You sound weird..." The dog demon blinked.

        "Yeah...umm...I'm just feeling a bit under the weather..." Phantom rubbed the back of her head nervously.

        The dog demon shrugged, "Oh, ok. Hope you feel better. See you at the cafeteria!"

        "Yeah, see ya." The three said as the dog demon left. (Well that was a pointless encounter...)

        Phantom turned around and started walking again. Arielle ran up and started walking next to her, "Are you sure you know where you're going?"

        "Haven't got a clue." Phantom laughed slightly.

        Arielle blinked, "Then how do you know that you aren't leading us in a giant circle?"

        "I would smell our scents if we were in a place that we had already been in. Plus I feel something pulling me down this hallway..." Phantom frowned slightly.

        Arielle shrugged, "Well as long as we don't end up locked back in the dungeon...or dead..."

        "Is anyone else bothered by the fact that we're wearing other peoples' clothes?" OkageHime asked.

        "I am! But I'm trying to ignore it because I want to get out of here." Arielle said.

        Phantom tuned out the humans as they started to talk. She focused on the hallway ahead of her. She could sense a strong aura coming from somewhere in the castle. The aura felt familiar and oddly enough it felt warm. Like it was someone she knew, someone she cared about. She picked up the pace as she had a strong and sudden urge to find the source of the aura. The humans looked at her then at each other and also started walking faster.

~*~Meanwhile:

        Kurama was leading the others quickly in the direction of Phantom's home. He was eager to find Jouka and ask the bird to lead them to Phantom and the others. Zero was walking right behind Kurama. He had been silent ever since the encounter with Yamihonoo.

        "KURAMA!!!! SLOW DOWN!!!!!" Yusuke whined. "I'm getting tired!!!"

        Kurama glared at Yusuke over his shoulder. "We can't slow down! We have to find them!"

        "Can't we take a short break???" Yusuke whined.

        "NO!" Kurama yelled.

        Yusuke started to whimper and fell on the ground. Kuwabara fell on top of him. Kurama stopped and glared at both of them. "Get up! We don't have..." He was cut off by a loud chirping screech as an orange ball of feathers dove out of the sky and landed sloppily in front of him. "Jouka???"

        The bird chirped and started making frantic gestures. She then started flying off into the forest. Kurama started following the bird and the others followed Kurama. They ran through the forest until they came up to a portal. Jouka flew through it followed closely by Kurama and the others. They then found themselves standing on an island in a sea of lava. Looming in front of them was a large Mountain with a castle carved into its side. The castle was dark looking and had dragons carved into the stone nearby. The sky was blood red with a few black clouds here and there. There were some flat topped rocks sticking out of the lava (think Byakko's lair) and steam rising from it. There were no other islands between them and the castle.

        "So...Now what do we do?" Yusuke asked.

        Kuwabara shivered, "This reminds me too much of when I fought that tiger guy..."

        "I know how we can get up to the castle..." Zero spoke sheepishly.

        Everyone turned to look at him. "How?" Kurama walked over to him.

        "Well...I could change into my other form..." Zero suggested.

        "Other form?" Hiei arched an eyebrow.

        Zero nodded and moved away from the others. He closed his eyes and hid himself behind his wings. He started to glow brightly. When the light disappeared there was a large silver dragon was hovering there above the ground. The dragon put its back feet on the ground and turned so that his back was facing the others. They quickly got on the dragon's back. He spread his wings and took off flying towards the castle.

~*~Meanwhile:

        Phantom stopped outside a door. The aura is definitely coming from here...

        "Hey, is something wrong?" OkageHime asked as she and Arielle walked over to Phantom.

        Phantom shook her head and pushed the door open. She motioned for the humans to stay outside before stepping into the room. Inside was practically all dark but from what she could see it appeared to be a weapons storage room. Phantom looked around and saw something move in a corner of the room. She walked over to it. It was a person that was bound and gagged. She took the gag out of the person's mouth.

        "Gah! You damn demons! You'll pay for keeping me tied up like this!" The person yelled at her.

        She recognized the voice, "Viern?"

        "Harmony?" Her cousin had stopped struggling and sat still as she untied him. "What are you doing here?"

        Phantom chuckled, "I'd like to ask you the same question..."

        "I was captured while I was at a tavern..."

        Phantom shook her head, "You really have to quit drinking..."

        Viern chuckled a bit. "And you? Why are you here?"

        "It's kind of a long story..." Phantom smiled and stood up. She grabbed a katana from the wall. She led him out of the room.

        Arielle and OkageHime blinked at the fox. He blinked at them and turned to his cousin, "Who are they?"

        "They are..." She paused to get the information from Autumn. "...Arielle and OkageHime. Humans, this is my cousin, Viern."

        "Hello." Viern waved slightly and smiled.

        "Hi." Arielle and OkageHime said at the same time.

        "Viern, do you have any idea where we are?" Phantom asked. She then took the dagger from Arielle and gave it to OkageHime. Phantom handed Arielle the katana which was quickly taken and hugged.

        Viern shook his head, "Not really...All I know is that we're on the first basement level...If we keep going that way we'll reach the main floor." He pointed down the hall in the direction they had been walking.

        "Well, let's get going then!" Arielle started leading the way. The other three followed. After a while of walking they reached the stairs.

        "Is it just me or is it getting really hot in here?" OkageHime asked.

        "It's not just you..." Phantom took off the long coat thing. "I suppose we don't need our disguises anymore..."

        "Yay!" Arielle and OkageHime yelled happily before throwing off the helmets and then taking off the rest of the uniform thingies...

        Once they were finished with that Phantom pulled one end of the wrap loose and immediately her tail fluffed up again. OkageHime reached out to pet the tail, "Fluffy..."

        Phantom pulled her tail away. "No touching the fluffy."

        "Aw..." OkageHime pouted.

       Viern chuckled and started leading the way up the stairs. The others followed him. After going up many steps they finally reached the main floor. There were guards running around through the hallways yelling things like 'The prisoners have escaped!' and 'Find that damned kitsune and those humans!'

        "Wow...news travels fast around here..." Arielle commented.

        Phantom pointed at the katana that she had given Arielle. "You ready to put that thing to good use?"

        "Hell yeah!" Arielle smiled widely.

        Phantom pointed at the guards. "Take on whatever guards you come across. We'll be aiming to make it to the end of the hallway. Ready?"

        Everyone nodded. "Go!" Phantom yelled as she and the others started running down the hallway. Phantom was using her claws to knock the demons out. Arielle was slashing at the demons and killing them. Viern was also using his claws and OkageHime was using her dagger. By the time they made it to the end of the hallway there were no demons left standing.

        Phantom sighed and changed back to Autumn. Autumn wobbled a bit but was caught by Viern. She smiled at him.

        "Yeah! That was so great! I got to kick some demon ass!!!!!!!!" Arielle yelled happily and gave a victory sign.

~*~Meanwhile:

        Zero had flown them to the castle and changed back to his original form. They were all now running through the halls trying to find the girls. They had run into some guards and had quickly taken care of them.

        As they were entering the main hall they heard the sounds of a fight taking place in a nearby hallway and then they heard a familiar voice.

        "Yeah! That was so great! I got to kick some demon ass!!!!!!!!"

        They quickly started running to the hallway. Kurama smiled when he saw Autumn. "Autumn!!!" he yelled as he started running faster.

        She turned around, "Kurama!!!" She then ran to him and hugged him tightly. He hugged back.

        "Aw...such a cute couple..." Yusuke smirked. Arielle whacked him over the head with her now sheathed katana.

        "Don't ruin the moment, baka!"

        "AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO GAVE YOU A SWORD???" Yusuke yelled and jumped away from her.

        Arielle pointed at Autumn, "The fox did. Look! I kicked demon ass!" She pointed down the hall.

        "Did you four do all this?" Kumo asked.

        "Yes and we had better leave soon. Some of those demons are still alive." Autumn pointed out.

        Kurama looked at Viern suspiciously. "Who are you?"

        "I'm Viern, Harmony's cousin. You must be Youko Kurama in human form. Dariken was telling me about you. You'll have to excuse him, he isn't very open-minded." Viern extended his hand to Kurama.

        Kurama shook his hand. "It's nice to meet you."

        "Well isn't this touching? The whole gang's been reunited. It's too bad that none of you will leave this castle alive."  Yamihonoo said as he walked out of another hallway.

        "You! But you're supposed to be dead!" Autumn pointed as Kurama held her tighter.

        "His spirit was trapped in the amulet. Once you destroyed it he was brought back to life..." Zero said as he walked over to them.

        "Ah." Autumn nodded in understanding.

        Yamihonoo smirked. "I will kill you all!"

        "No. You won't." Kumo said. She turned to the others. "Get out of here. I can beat him."

        "Are you sure?" Autumn asked.

        Kumo smiled, "Yes. Now shoo!" She pushed them towards the exit.

        Zero opened a portal once they were outside. Yusuke blinked, "You can open portals???"

        "Yes."

        "Then how come you didn't do that before???"

        Zero shrugged and walked through the portal. The others followed soon after. They were standing outside the tavern from before. They heard off key singing and walked inside to see Jin and Chuu standing on a table singing. They were both wearing bright red hooker's dresses and waving bottles in the air. Touya and Rinku were off to the side trying to ignore them. Yusuke ran over and grabbed a bottle which he quickly downed.

        "No! Yusuke!" Kurama yelled but it was too late. Yusuke was well on his way to getting drunk. Soon there was stuff flying around.

        Another random drunk demon walked over to Kurama. "Hey, babe. You single or is he your boyfriend?" The demon pointed at Kuwabara.

        "HE'S A GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHY DID YOU HAVE TO ASK IF KUWABARA WAS HIS BOYFRIEND??? WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD GO OUT WITH THAT???" Autumn pointed at Kuwabara.

        "Are you sure that's a guy?" The demon asked causing everyone to burst out laughing at Kurama.

        "Oh, come on! He doesn't look that much like a girl! Does he...?" Autumn turned to look at Kurama.

        The demon walked away and everyone was still laughing. Arielle suddenly remembered something and hit Autumn on the head, "That's for putting my life in danger!"

        Autumn fell on the floor unconscious. Kurama poked her, "Autumn?"

        "Cheese monkeys..." Autumn mumbled.

        "I can fix this!" OkageHime smiled. "Oh, Autumn...Kurama got drunk and he's strip dancing..."

        Autumn immediately sat up and looked around eagerly, "WHERE??? WHERE'S THE HOT STRIPPING REDHEAD???"

        Everyone started laughing. Kurama blushed. Autumn looked at him and also started to blush. After spending some time at the tavern everyone started to leave. Yusuke turned to Zero.

        "I still have to arrest you..."

        Arielle hit Yusuke over the head with her sheath and Autumn hit him over the head with a rubber chicken. "NO YOU DON'T!" they yelled. Yusuke fell on the floor unconscious.

        Zero blinked and rubbed the back of his head. "Err...thanks...I guess..."

        "Bye, Zero! Do me a favor and visit Thorn! You two have a lot of catching up to do!" Autumn yelled as he started walking away. He waved over his shoulder at her.

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Dream: Well, that's all folks!

Zero: 'til next time!

Dream: There's probably only going to be a couple more chapters...

Zero: yay! Then I'll be freeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

Dream: Next chapter is going to be with the YYH marathon!!! ^_^

Zero: o.O yyh marathon?

Dream: Yup! You'll see what I mean soon enough!