Winter: Hello everyone and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness. I am proud to announce that my American History Regents is on Tuesday and I don't know anything! Yay!
Wisdom: Genius.
Winter: Shut up, fool.
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.
Winter: SO NO STEALING!
Chapter Twelve: Catching Up:
Both Autumn and Flash's eyes rolled to the back of their heads. When they back in their rightful places no one said anything.
(A.N.: The appearance is still Autumn and Flash. The demons just have control. It will be like this every time unless I note otherwise)
Lioness walked over to the desk and searched through it.
"What are you looking for?" asked Harmony taking a seat on the bed.
"The spare back of cigarettes," said Lioness. "Here we go."
The lion demon was successful and found a spare pack and lighter found among other things that one would find in a desk. After opening the pack and sticking one in her mouth she walked outside on her balcony and lit it and then inhaled.
Harmony walked over and leaned on the doorframe. As long as the wind didn't smack the smoke in her face she would be fine.
"What happened that day of tournament?" Harmony questioned after moments of silence.
Lioness leaned on the rail using her forearms to support her. Before she began speaking, she exhaled smoke from her lungs.
"I don't remember much of my past," she said. "Only bits and pieces…of course I remember you and Tenka and Kage, Tenshi, Skye…my father…and others…. but blank faces always enter my head and my memories skip from one thing to another."
Harmony stood silently waiting for her answer.
"I remember little of the day," she went on. "During our stay at the arena I heard talk of a witch who made valuable potions…" Flashes of cut memories blinked inside here head. Lioness closed her eyes trying to get rid of them. "Thinking something would go wrong on the day of the fights when we were to fight Crone…I found the witch the day before…."
A quick image of a hut with bottles all over and a shadowy robed figure appeared in her mind…but left just as quickly has it came.
Lioness held her head.
"You okay?" asked Harmony concerned.
"Yeah, fine," said Lioness inhaling more of the cigarette. "Anyway, she was willing to make me a potion of blinking…. but for a great price. She knew my kind and my blood. And she wanted power. She wanted my Thunder Stone."
(A.N.: A Thunder Stone is basically part of the heart for Lioness's breed. It is also the key to their powers. Without it they are either very week and need help with everything or die.)
Lioness stopped again to finish the cigarette trying not to picture Harmony's facial expression. "Anyway, I had to think about it before I made any kind of agreement. I knew that without my stone I would die either against Crone or before…. but I also had a feeling that even with my stone I wouldn't have been the victorious one that day.
So when I came up with my decision I knew I wanted to live a different life than I did then, so I gave up my stone knowing if I was able to stand and walk on my own I would be fine…you can figure out the rest of the story."
"Oh, I had no idea," said Harmony sounding a bit disappointed.
Lioness looked up at the sky. "Don't worry; the potion took me to the doorway for the seating. I didn't leave right away. I stood in the entrance hall where no one was and watched you defeat Crone and him get arrested by Koenma before I left."
"Oh," said Harmony.
"So how's Tenshi and Kage?" asked Lioness.
"I don't know," said Harmony. "After you left we went to look for you but when we were unable to find you we gave up and went different ways…it wasn't too long before that when Youko disappeared on one of his missions."
"Yeah I heard about that," said Lioness.
"So you're here because Kira was poisoned?" asked Harmony.
"Yes," said Lioness. "After I left the bandit tribe and was off on my own once more for good I was traveling in the woods and I came among a Teller's camp. She was a bloated toad demon that had much power."
More images flashed in Lioness's mind.
"She told me that she had been waiting for me…the rest is unclear but I remember me looking down at water and saw Kira lying on her death bed. The toad said that whatever I needed was here and it could save her life. But to make sure it wasn't a trick, I quickly flew there. It was true. So I'm here now."
"And you have no clue where the crystal could be," said Harmony.
"Exactly," said Lioness.
Harmony scratched her head. "Well I guess tomorrow we could wonder around and look in jewelry stores and museums…"
"All right then," said Lioness turning around and walking back inside her room.
Harmony stepped out of the way to let her inside. Lioness closed both of the doors and locked them.
The two crawled into the bed. Harmony rolled over to her side and faced Lioness.
"I'm glad you're back," she whispered.
"Yeah me too," said Lioness turning her head to look at her friend.
Harmony rolled over again to face away from Lioness in order to fall asleep. Lioness was lying on her back with her hands resting behind her head.
"Me too," whispered Lioness more to herself.
She rolled over to her side only to sleep a restless sleep.
End Chapter:
Winter: I know this was a short chapter but I want to try and keep the format of the old chapters with the new. So please review!
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