Winter: Hello and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness. Here I will be taking things a little differently like I did in the last chapter.
I'm sorry if this chapter and future ones are all OMG MY LIFE IS SO OVER ANGST! It's just that Bay's leg isn't any better and I'm worried about him, plus my bipolar-ness is kicking in. I'll try to avoid it though.
Wisdom: We are hoping to get Lioness done and over with before April. But that chance of that happening is slim since March is term paper month.
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. Everything else belongs to Winter.
Chapter Eight: Old Habits Die Hard:
Once Yusuke dragged Lioness through the portal she looked around to see that she was in Koenma's office. The toddler leapt onto his chair and spun around facing everyone else.
"Well what do you have to say for yourself Lioness?" he asked.
Lioness was silent. Yusuke who was holding her arms behind her back looked down in shame.
When no reply came from Lioness, Koenma sighed. "Fine, Yusuke bring her to the dungeons until she's ready to talk."
"But Koenma, Flash-"
"This is not the human you know as Flash, Yusuke," said Koenma. "What you see is just a shell, a disguise for a demon."
Yusuke bowed his head and brought Lioness out of Koenma's office. They walked through the room of the busy ogres, through the hall to the elevator. An ogre was standing in the elevator.
"Hello Master Yusuke!" he said. "Where shall I take you?"
"The dungeons please," said Yusuke quietly.
"Uh, yes sir," said the ogre and pressed at button.
When the doors opened two guard spirits dressed in armor greeted Yusuke.
"We'll take her from you now," said the first one.
"Very well," said Yusuke and passed Lioness over to the guards.
He stepped back into the elevator looking down right before the doors closed he looked up to see Lioness looking back at him with sorrowful eyes.
When Yusuke went back up to Koenma's office everyone else was gone but the tiny ruler who was sitting at his desk doing some paper work. When Koenma saw Yusuke standing in front of his desk with a mixed face of emotions the toddler sighed and put down his pen.
"Yusuke," he said. "Don't feel bad. Lioness broke the law. You had to arrest her."
"But she didn't hurt anyone," said Yusuke. "Why can't she just stay in human world?"
Koenma leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms. "Because there are already too many demons running around in human world. I don't want to have to worry about one more."
"I read through her file and she hasn't done anything to break the law," said Yusuke.
"Yusuke, you have to try and understand where I am coming from," said Koenma. "If Lioness had never left demon world I wouldn't have to arrest her. But since she did I had to. That is a big crime here, you know that."
"Is there anything you can do?" asked Yusuke. "Kurama and Hiei are allowed into human world."
"That is because they work for me," said Koenma.
"So offer her a job!" said Yusuke.
Koenma sighed and didn't say anything. Yusuke looked down at his feet and waked to the door.
"I'll be in my room," he said then walked out of Koenma's office.
That night Flash was lying down on the cot in her cell looking up at the ceiling. She had one leg stretched out while the other was bent at the knee and up. For a pillow she used her arms.
Well this is a fine mess you got us into, she thought to Lioness.
She felt a sort of vibration in her head. Lioness growled.
'Shut up. I never planned for Koenma to show up.'
Flash let a sigh. Man I could use a cigarette.
'You know that's bad for you,' said Lioness.
Well you're the one with the addiction. It just some how infects me. I was trying to quit until this whole thing happened.
Lioness was about to say something back to her human half but she sensed something. 'Someone's coming.'
When the person who had walked into the dungeon stopped in front of her cell she turned her head to see who it was. When she saw the person she looked back up at the ceiling.
"What do you want?' asked Flash coolly.
Hiei threw a pack of Newport's and a black lighter through the cell bars. The lighter made a clicking sound as it landed on the floor. Flash looked over onto the floor at sat up. She got up and reached for her returning addiction.
"They fell out of your pocket while we were fighting," said Hiei.
Flash put one of the cigarettes in her mouth and lit it. She took a drag before taking the cigarette out of her mouth and exhaling.
"Thanks," she said sitting back down on her cot and leaning against the stonewall.
Hiei watched her take a few more drags on the cigarette.
"I don't know much about humans or their world but I wouldn't doubt those are bad for you," he said watching her.
Flash exhaled the smoke from her lungs and picked her head up off the wall and looked at Hiei.
"You're right," she said giving a half-witted smile. "They are bad for anyone's health. But old habits die hard; though I'm sure you already knew that."
Hiei stared at her with cold crimson eyes for a moment. "Why did you go to human world?"
"You mean why did Lioness go to human world," corrected Flash. "Well she's looking for something, something to heal an old friend of her's. Exactly what I'm not too sure. You see, when we crossed the barrier there was an accident. She lost most of her memory and I am haunted by it."
Hiei didn't say anything for a long time. He stood there and watched Flash's cigarette die down to a bud. She squished it against the floor and lit up another one.
"Listen," said Flash sitting up on the cot holding her cigarette between her fingers exhaling smoke. "You've been standing there for over an hour hardly saying anything. You can either help me find a way out of here or leave. It's up to you, either way it works out for me."
Hiei glared at Flash before walking off. Flash sighed and went back to laying down how she was before except only one arm stayed behind her head. The other held her cigarette.
She stared at it as it smoldered down a half an inch to her fingertips before flicking it to the ground and rolling over to face the wall.
The cigarette lay on the floor of Flash's cell slowly burning out. When it was turned to ashes everything went dark.
End of Chapter:
Winter: Sorry for the shortness but I rather get this up 'cause I don't know when I'll have the time to update again. I know when some people write fanfics with OCs turn the OCs into themselves; I just want to say a few things.
I am not basing Flash off of myself thought she is like me. I gave her some of my interests such as coffee, style of clothes, drawing and so on. But I do not smoke, have black hair with silver bangs and I'm not 5'3". I am proudly long legged at the height of 5'7" and a half and have never smoked a cigarette in my whole life. Nor to I cut myself (you'll learn about this in other fics).
In my characters, for those who know me will see some kind of similarity we share but that happens with every author or authoress. And you can't say, "Oh that doesn't work with me". It does, if you truly made up the character it came from your mind which already makes it part of you.
As a heads up I abuse my characters. As much as I love them I give bad habits, hurtful past, and a lot of angst. I am an angst writer but I try to even things out but writing comedy along with it. The last fanfics I plan on writing for my Dance of the Lioness series you'll understand more of what I'm talking about.
So please review and have a good life and luck with your writing.
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