Winter: Hello everyone and welcome to the second; revised chapter of Lioness. Since I don't have anything to say we will just have Wisdom do the disclaimer and get on with the story. Wisdom?
Wisdom: Hiei?
Hiei: …Winter doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho. Autumn a.k.a Phantom Harmony belongs to Dreamchasereternity and Hinote a.k.a Vladimir belongs to EternalBlackNight.
Chapter Two: Mission:
Yusuke and Kuwabara stood in front of two giant doors that seemed to be hiding some kind of royalty behind it. They both pushed one open and walked in. Behind the doors was a bunch of ogres pushing papers with large brooms, yelling, screaming and trying to get their work done. Once they entered the room the doors automatically shut themselves. It was a relatively small room styled to be some kind of office, normally the room would be empty but with only a few chairs, desk and office chair but at the current moment the room was not only filled with that but many stacks of papers.
"Oh good! You're here!" said a blue ogre in an animal print loincloth running over to them. "Koenma and the others are waiting for you! Come on!"
The blue ogre scampered off with Yusuke and Kuwabara in tow behind. They reached a second set of large doors. The ogre seemed nervous as he opened them for the boys to walk inside.
"Oh hello Yusuke, Kuwabara," said a boy sitting on a bunch of papers that were stacked into forming a chair. He had long red hair and green eyes. He was dressed in tan khaki dress pants with black dress shoes. He had on a light pink blouse with sleeves rolled up to his elbows and a dark pink tie.
"Hey Kurama," said Yusuke. He turned to a guy who seemed to be around the same height as Flash. He had black hair with a white starburst in the middle that seemed to defy gravity and crimson eyes. A black cloak with a white shawl covered his body. "Hiei…"
The one known as Hiei gave a gruff "hn" before looking away.
"Nice to see you two," retorted Yusuke.
"You must forgive Hiei," said Kurama. "He is not his normal self today."
"Gee, I couldn't tell," said Kuwabara.
Hiei turned and glared at Kuwabara about to threaten him when a stack of papers that was sitting on the desk was pushed off to the side. There in the giant office chair was a toddler. He was dressed in tan pants and black shoes. He had on a blue long sleeved shirt with a red sash tied around his waist. On his head rested a tall blue hat with a red circle in the middle. In the circle was the family symbol stitched in black. The rim of the hat was pink with Jr. stitched in black.
"Good you're here," he said calmly. He spoke clearly for someone who had a baby blue pacifier in his mouth. "Please take a seat."
Yusuke and Kuwabara pushed some papers together to make a seat for themselves. Once they were settled they turned to the toddler waiting for him to start.
The toddler pushed a button on his desk and a screen slowly descended from the ceiling. Once the screen was all the way down a picture appeared of a female half demon. She had golden-layered hair that reached past her shoulders, her eyes were a piercing gold. Resting on her back were large tan angelic wings. She wore a semi low cut tan shirt that ended a few inches below the breast line. Where her heart would be was a scar in the shape as a sunburst. Her skirt was the same color as her shirt and ended above the knee. For shoes she wore Greek styled light brown sandals that traveled all the way up to below her knee.
"This is Lioness of the Sky Lion Tribe," said Koenma as folders appeared in front of the four boys.
They took the folders out of mid air and started to flip through the copied files as Koenma spoke.
"Lioness is…or was the heir to the throne of the Sky Lion Tribe until she disowned herself from the royal family and took the role of the Captain of the tribe's army."
"Wait," said Kuwabara. "Why did she disown herself from ruling?"
"Yeah that does seem kinda weird," agreed Yusuke.
"Lioness disowned herself from the royal family because she wanted to be loved for who she was not the power she held," answered Koenma. "Lions are very noble creatures, the higher the rank in power the more authority you have, which means everyone will do things for you to like them…."
"And she didn't want that," finished Kurama. "That is noble."
Koenma nodded. "Yes. But everyone loved her; even if she is half human her tribe treated her as if she was of their full blood."
"It says that she was missing for over three hundred years," said Hiei. "Why are we looking for her now?"
Koenma folded his arms and sat back in his chair. "Lioness originally went missing during the tournament fight against Crone years ago, Hiei and Kurama I'm sure you already know of this."
The two nodded.
Koenma sighed and continued. "After that we lost track of her and she never returned to her home as you can read in the files. But a few nights ago we got word that a demon crossed the barrier, though it didn't feel like a powerful demon it was indeed Lioness."
"But Lioness is a powerful demon," said Kurama. "How can it be Lioness?"
"One of our spies found out how Lioness was able to pull the disappearing act during the finals of the tournament with Crone. But you have to swear on your word not to repeat this."
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama all exchanged looks before turning back to Koenma.
Koenma thought for a few seconds before going on. "Sometime before her disappearance, she went to see a witch. In exchange for a blink potion and protection charms, she gave up her Thunder Stone. Now a Thunder Stone is like a portion of their heart; it holds their powers. Without it they loose most to all of their powers or worse, die."
"And the charms?" asked Kurama looking up from the folder.
"Some sources say that Lioness knew she and her team wouldn't be able to win, so as part of the exchange she got four protection charms for her team. Why not her as well, I do not know. Perhaps she wanted to disappear," answered Koenma.
"What's a blink potion then?" asked Yusuke.
"Well you see Yusuke," said Kurama. "Like in human lore witches can cast spells and make potions to do the same thing as a spell. Blink is a spell used for fast escape; the only thing is you don't get to choice where you end up. It is randomly picked by the spell or in this case potion in a thirty foot radius."
"Oh," said Yusuke. "So what you are saying is that for all she new is that she could've randomly shown up behind the guy she was fighting instead of being in front?"
"That is correct Yusuke," said Koenma. "She took a great risk in the whole matter."
"But why did she drink the potion?" asked Kuwabara. "It says here that she's beaten him before."
"To be honest Kuwabara, no one knows," answered Koenma. "Not even the demons that were on her team."
"It says here Phantom Harmony was on the team," said Hiei.
"Isn't that the fox in Autumn's head?" asked Yusuke.
"Yes it is," said Koenma. "And since the others on that list are hard to find and/or track down you will be going to America to get Autumn's help in this case. Have fun."
And before the four boys could say anything else Koenma sent them off the Long Island, New York to meet an old friend with the flick of his hand.
Suddenly the phone rang; the blue ogre named George picked it up. "Hello? Oh right away my lord."
He handed the phone out to Koenma. "It's your father sire."
The tiny ruler sighed and took the phone and put it to his ear. "Yes father? ---It's being taken care of sir. ---Yes, I have Urameshi and his team on the case. He will also be keeping an eye out on the expecting girl in human world. ---Very good then my Lord, good bye."
With that Koenma hung up the phone as a girl in a pink kimono and blue hair tied up in a horsetail walked into the room.
"Ah Botan," said Koenma as she bowed.
"Lord Koenma," she said. "He's here to see you now."
"Very good," said Koenma. "Send him in."
End Chapter:
Winter: GASP! You could this 'he' be?! Only I know and I'm sure of those who either read this or read the old chapters will find out . Anyway please review! I'll make Hiei give you a cookie.
Hiei: I'll do no such thing!
Winter: Liar.
Wisdom: So anyway, please review!
Winter: Bye for now!
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