Winter: Hello and welcome to the ninth revised chapter of Lioness! Huzzah. I'll put all announcements at the end so no one forgets about anything.
Wisdom: Hiei, disclaimer?
Hiei: Winter doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho in any way. Autumn a.k.a Phantom Harmony belongs to Dreamchasereternity and Hinote a.k.a Vladimir belongs to EternalBlackNight. Everything else belongs to Winter unless other wise stated.
Chapter Nine: A Second Chance:
The next morning Flash was woken up by the sound of her cell door opening. Slowly she opened her eyes and propped her self on her elbow to see a guard opening to the door.
"Let's go," he said. "Your hearing is in a few minutes."
"Sounds trilling," said Flash sarcastically getting up and stretching.
The guard led her to the elevator and dragged her in. When the bell went off and the doors opened they continued down a hallway into a large room. It had a long table that five spirits sat behind. In the middle of them was Koenma with a judge's mallet in his hand.
The guard led Flash to a chair that sat in front of the table then stood behind her and off to the side. Behind Flash were some benches that ogres, other spirits, Yusuke and the gang sat on.
Once Flash was seated Koenma hit the mallet three times on the table.
"Lioness you are under arrest under five accounts," said Koenma. "Will the council please read them?"
An old female spirit cleared her voice and put on her reading glasses. "Crossing the barrier, traveling and staying in human world without a permit, taking form of a human and socializing with humans."
"How do you plea?" asked Koenma.
"Innocent to one," answered Lioness. "If you lug heads knew anything about half demons, you'd know that at times throughout the year they turn into humans for a certain amount of time. I just simply took my human form, I did not create or posses anyone or anything."
The spirits and Koenma looked dumbfounded and murmured amongst themselves while the crowd muttered.
Harmony smirked. "That's Lioness for 'ya."
Koenma hit his mallet against the table. "Quiet! All right then, but that still leaves the other four."
"The right amount of jail time is 500 years," said one of the spirits.
"Very well then," said Koenma. "Lioness you are here by sentenced to 500 year in prison. Guard you can take her away now."
The guard helped Lioness up and brought her back down to the dungeons. The council spirits and Koenma left while the crowd remained standing until they left. When Yusuke left the room he headed straight for Koenma's office.
"Yusuke where are you going?" called Kurama.
"To knock some sense into that stupid baby!" shouted Yusuke angrily.
"Oh dear," said Kurama. "Why is he so angry?"
"I'm not sure why," said Autumn. "But the voice inside my head says Lioness had an important reason for coming here. She wouldn't come here just to be found out."
"I guess you're right," said Kurama. "Hiei what do you think?"
Hiei hned and glared at the two. "Why should I care?"
"We need to find out," said Kurama. "Autumn, you and Harmony go talk to her; maybe you can find something out."
Autumn saluted. "Yes ma'am Kura-Kura-Chan!"
Kurama sighed and rubbed his head as he watched Autumn happily walk away.
When Yusuke barged into Koenma's office the little ruler was sitting at his desk stamping papers.
"Be reborn to become a famous stripper? Sure why not? World domination? Fine with me. Would like to be reborn as a hermaphrodite? Okay I don't care."
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ABOUT?!" screamed Yusuke.
Koenma looked up. "There was nothing I can do. The council has the power."
"But you're the prince of spirit world!"
"It's hard to explain, the least I can do is try to bring down the years of her sentence."
"What about working for you?"
"Yusuke the woman disowned herself from her family and later disappeared. If I do that and she runs it will make me and you look bad."
"But what if she doesn't?" asked Yusuke.
"That is no promise, Yusuke," replied Koenma sadly.
Yusuke sighed and excused himself.
Meanwhile:
Autumn stopped in front of Flash's cell as her eyes rolled to the back of her head then back and saw Flash's sitting on her cot staring at the wall.
"Hi," said Harmony.
Flash looked over and put out her cigarette against the well. "Hey."
"I saw the trial," said Harmony. "It's kind of stupid of you to get caught. The old Lioness would've have been."
Flash's eyes rolled to the back of her head then back. "Harmony?"
"It's about time," said Harmony. "I think you're starting to get senile with your old age."
"Quiet mutt," growled Lioness glaring at her.
"Kitty," taunted Harmony.
"Flea attraction," said Lioness.
"Litter box user!"
"Where'd you get that haircut? The pet shop?"
The insults continued for a while before either of them showed any sign of struggling to keep up with the insults. When both of them finally broke they hugged through the cell bars.
"I missed you," they said in union.
The friends let go of each other and stood back a bit.
Harmony narrowed her eyes slightly as she looked at Lioness. "Why did you go to human world?"
"It's Kira," answered Lioness. "Something happened to her. I came here to find something that could save her but I have no idea what."
Harmony stared at Lioness in shock. "What happened? How much more time does she have?"
"I don't know," answered Lioness. "She could be gone by now for all I know."
Harmony didn't say anything as thoughts raced through her mind. "Maybe the Crystal of Healing can help. But isn't the crystal just a myth?"
"It is said to be," said Lioness. "But I have this strong feeling that it does exist, and it's in human world. I feel like I've held it in my hands before."
Harmony raised her brow. "What exactly happened the day you disappeared?"
Lioness looked away. "I don't remember."
"What do you mean you don't remember?"
"I can only remember bits and pieces of my past," answered Lioness. "I remember fighting Crone two times and some other little things. But when I crossed the barrier my memory was erased."
"But how?" questioned the Kitsune.
Lioness shrugged. "I don't know…but I think it has something to do with my stone…"
"You're stone?" Harmony looked alarmed.
"I remember trading it for something back during the tournament," answered Lioness.
"But your Thunder Stone is a portion of your heart! How are you living?!" shrieked Harmony.
"Again I don't know," answered Lioness. "But enough about me. It's Kira who needs the attention. I need to get that damn crystal before its too late…that is if it isn't already."
Harmony put her finger to her lips as she thought. "There has to be a way to get you out…"
"Well breaking out doesn't seem to be the answer," said Lioness. "Guards are watching me like when Youko watches porn."
Harmony gave a low growl at the thought of Youko; her mate's idiocy.
"What if I talked to Koenma?" asked Harmony. "I'm sure he owes me for something that I did for him."
"What can he do?" asked Lioness.
"Well I remember Kurama and Hiei got rid of their charges for becoming part of Yusuke's team," informed Harmony.
"I am not working for some idiotic baby," said Lioness.
Harmony began to think again. "Well what if you try to get the permit to stay in human world?"
"That could work," said Lioness. "If I wasn't in prison!"
"I'm trying to help here!" said Harmony defensively.
"Sorry," sighed Lioness as she went to lean against the wall and slid down to sit on the floor. "I guess I'm screwed and Kira is as good as dead."
"Don't worry about it," said Harmony. "I'll think of something."
With that said Harmony took off down the hall. Her new destination: Koenma's office.
When Harmony opened the doors to the small ruler's office he was going through a couple of files while the four spirit detectives stood there rather bored.
"Now what did I do with that file?" muttered the toddler to himself. "I know it's around here somewhere."
Harmony quickly walked over to his desk and slammed her hands down on it. Every looked at her in shock.
"Autumn?" asked Kurama.
Harmony glared at Koenma. Koenma gave a little shriek and jumped.
"Harmony! What a pleasant surprise!" he said nervously. "Can I help you with something?"
"I want you to release Lioness," the fox demanded.
Though still fearing for releasing the fox's wrath he had no choice but to say no.
"And why not?" growled Harmony.
"She's a criminal," answered Koenma simply.
"What if she goes for the permit to stay in human world?" asked Harmony.
"Even if the council would let me there's no one that I can assign her to," answered Koenma.
"I'll do it!" said Yusuke.
"Yusuke, you can't," said Koenma. "You have school work and I need you to be concentrating on your cases."
Yusuke groaned in disappointment.
"Why are you so picky about Lioness being free anyway?' Koenma questioned.
"Well there's three reasons," said Harmony straightening and putting one hand on her hip and held out her other hand to count on. "One, she's my best friend. Two, she needs something that is said to be in human world in order to help someone. And my favorite is three."
"What's three?" asked Kuwabara.
"Three is," began Harmony. "That if you keep her here word of her trial will be all over spirit world, which means it, will travel to demon. And who lives in the demon world? Demons. And what is Lioness? A demon! And where is Lioness from? A demon kingdom. If her father finds out his daughter is alive he will want her back. Knowing the council they won't give her to them because she is a criminal. This will make her father along with the rest of the kingdom very angry. Knowing how lions get aggressive over what is theirs' he will challenge you to war and ambush your castle slaughtering anything that gets in his way. Lioness learned everything about war from her father. You heard all the stories about Lioness at war. Do you really want to go against the man who taught them to her?"
"Whoa, sounds like she is like daddy's little girl," said Yusuke,
Botan turned to Koenma. "You know she's right sir. The Sky Lion Tribe is not something you want to anger."
"You're right Botan," said Koenma as he pushed a button.
A moment later an ogre dressed as a guard came into the room. "Yes sire?"
"Bring Lioness here," ordered Koenma.
"Yes sire," said the guard and left.
Moments later Flash and the guard walked into the room. Koenma had ordered the guard to wait outside.
"What's going on?" asked Flash rather sleepily. "I was sleeping."
"Lioness….Flash…who ever you are come here please," said Koenma.
Flash glanced at Autumn who was now back in control of her body. Autumn gave her a wink and a thumb up. Flash stopped in front of Koenma's desk with her arms hanging at her side.
"Due to the current situation I am facing right now," began the ruler. "I am dropping your charges as long as you promise to work them off by doing various work and helping Yusuke with his cases. You may live in human world getting hours for a permit to live there."
"Are you serious?' asked Flash.
"Yes, quiet serious," answered Koenma. "The only thing is that along with this you need to stay on top of your school work or else you will have to come back here."
"Sure, no problem," said Flash still shocked she was getting off so easily.
"Oh and one more thing," said Koenma. "You need a guardian that I can trust. Since Autumn lives in America and Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama have school work and my work for them, I have come to the decision that Hiei will be your guardian."
Flash and Hiei groaned in union. "Can't you pick someone else?"
The turned and glare at each other for saying the same thing at the same time.
"Stop copying what I say!"
"Shut up!"
"No you shut up!"
"Screw you!"
"No screw you!"
"ARRRGH!"
Both Hiei and Flash turned their backs to each other crossing their arms mental wishing many unpleasant things to happen to each other.
Kurama sighed. "This is going to be a long six months. I think I should call my therapist."
"Aw poor Kura-Kura-Chan!" shouted Autumn as she glomped the poor red head causing both of them to fall to the floor.
End Chapter:
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