Winter: Hello everyone and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness. I want to apologize for the long wait but it's been horse show after horse show and when it's not that, I'm working. But I finally got a day off so I figured I'd attempt to update.

Just to move things along I'll be doing the disclaimer. I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. Hinote a.k.a Vladimir belongs to EternalBlackNight and Autumn a.k.a Phantom Harmony belongs to Dreamchasereternity. I do however own everything else unless otherwise stated or something obvious, please use common sense.

Chapter Fifteen: The Guardian Part One:

When Flash got home she acted like she would any night. Ate dinner then went upstairs to her room. Only this time she didn't get ready for bed or any of the sorts. She paced around her room waiting for midnight so she could sneak out of the house to go steal the crystal at the museum.

After putting out her cigarette bud Flash sighed and got up off the floor that she was sitting on by the balcony doors. She picked up her ashtray, placed it on her desk then put on her shoes.

Once she was ready and had everything she needed she went onto her balcony and closed the doors. Slowly she was able to find a way down the house by jumping onto a branch of the tree and making her way down from there.

After she had walked a block away from her house she pulled out another cigarette and her lighter. Inhaling deeply calmed her nerves and mellowed the butterflies in her stomach.

'I don't know why you are so nervous.'

Because, if we fail it could all be over. For Kira and you. Flash told Lioness.

Flash was now coming up to the museum. She stopped to put out her finished cigarette.

'Don't bother with the front; go around to the back where the fire escape is.'

Flash did as Lioness had told her and walked through the small ally to the back of the large building. Once she saw the fire escape and how it went all the way up to the roof so let out a sigh of small relief.

'Don't get cocky; it was motion detectors on the stairs.'

How do you know?

'Let's just say it's something from my past…here, let me take over.'

Flash's eyes rolled to the back of her head, she stumbled a small bit but when her eyes rolled back she regained her balance.

Lioness looked at the hands she controlled and flexed her fingers. Getting used to the weight of the clothes Lioness swayed back and forth a bit. Once she felt all right she walked back as far as she could and stopped to breathe for a moment.

Once she was ready she opened her eyes and ran full speed at the fire escape and jumped onto the first side railing that was used to keep people from falling off.

It what would seem like one quick motion Lioness was able to use the human body to jump from railing-to-railing grasping each one and flipping up onto it.

Lioness stopped on the part of the fire escape that was equal to the floor with the crystal on it. Shifting her weight to stay balanced on the railing Lioness thought of a way to get in.

The fire escape door option was out since she could clearly see the alarm's little blinking red light. There were a few windows but they most likely had alarms attached to them as well.

As she starred at her options in thought and noticed something. One of the window's alarms was dislocated and was still slightly open. Carefully she climbed from the fire escape into the window.

She continued to walk around the exhibit not hearing anything besides the sound of Flash's shoes tapping along the floor.

Something isn't right she thought to herself looking around.

'Well of course there isn't.' Flash told her. 'Because if there wasn't something wrong the chapter would only be two pages and unhappy readers.'

True….wait…what?

'I mean…well of course there isn't 'cause of that tall dark shadowy figure thing standing in our way.' Flash remarked.

Lioness looked ahead of her to see what Flash was talking about and behold, there was a dark shadowy figure thing standing in their way. The only thing that Flash forgot to mention was it was standing in a fighting stance holding a rather large and sharp looking katana.

"So you must be the demon that's after my crystal," said the deep voice that came from the person. The tone told Lioness she was dealing with a male.

"So what if I am?" asked Lioness. "What are you going to do about it?"

'I know you're a lion and all and cats like tormenting their pray…but uh this guy is like six foot three and we're like .456576 inches so can you please refrain from being well you since I don't like being stepped on?' Flash sarcastically remarked.

"Well if you were," he answered. "I would have to stop you, even if that means killing you."

"A fight to the death huh?" said Lioness summoning her energy into left hand. The ring that Flash had put on earlier turned into a large sword. "I haven't had one of those in many, many years." Lioness was now holding her sword in her hand.

"The let's get on with it," said the man.

Both fighters began to circle each other twirling their blades in order to flex their wrists and the feeble tempt of frightening their opponent, which turned out to be futile.

Finally the blades stroked. Lioness's moves were upright and forceful like boulders. While the figure's movements were more relaxed and had more movement like water.

Even with the completely two different fighting techniques the only way one of them would win is if they tired out the other.

End Chapter:

Winter: Blah shortness I know! Winter is sorry. But I need to think of how I want this whole museum drama to play out. I kinda wanted the chapter to take a different turn but oh well.

At least I'm updating ne'?

So thanks for reading and please review.

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