Winter: Hello and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness. I really want to apologize for the wait, but I was in NC for a week and when I came back home I found out my rabbit died only a day or so after I left. He was old and I was half expecting it.
And others things just brought me down to the extent of not being able to write. But now I guess I'll okay and I feel bad for not updating as soon as I got home.
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 Eighteen: Maki:
"Damn it," said Flash. "Where are they?"
"They'll be here any minute now," said Autumn not opening her eyes.
Flash growled as she tried to light another cigarette. Her and Autumn were waiting in the woods of the park. Autumn was sitting on the ground leaning against a tree while Flash stood by her impatiently. Each girl had a backpack of stuff they needed. Freckles quietly ate grass next to Autumn.
Autumn was wearing a pair of jean Capri's with a blue T-shirt and hiking boots while Flash wore a pair of tight jeans that were ripped at the knees with a black tank top and a pair of low top converse.
"Fuck!" she shouted. "It won't light."
"Maybe that's a good thing," said Autumn opening one eye and looking up at her friend. "Aren't you supposed to be quitting anyway?"
Flash turned around a glared at Autumn. Autumn just sighed and closed her eye. After a few more moments of attempts Flash was finally able to light her cigarette. As she exhaled she sighed.
Autumn got up and placed Freckles back in her bag. She placed the backpack on her back so it fitted nicely then stretched. "They're here."
Flash turned her head to look with her cigarette hanging limply from her mouth to see Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hinote and Hiei come from behind some trees.
All the boys but Hiei were dressed in a plain T-shirt and a pair of jean pants and good shoes from hiking in. Hiei however was wrapped in his black cloak.
"I thought you said it was only going to be Yusuke and Kuwabara," said Autumn.
"Well, when we heard what was going on Hiei, Hinote and I decided to come as well," answered Kurama. "Besides, I need to look after you."
"And someone has to come along to carry your dead body," Hiei said to Flash.
Flash glared at him and raised her middle finger at him before flicking her cigarette and him and walking off into the woods. Everyone else rolled his or her eyes thinking the same thing, this trip is going to take forever.
At every tree here and there Flash would stop and run her hands over it.
"What are you looking for?" Kuwabara asked,
"The portal," answered Flash knocking the trunk to another tree. "It's one of these tress. But I can't seem to remember which one it is."
"Well that's just lovely," sighed Yusuke.
After another five minutes of searching Flash went to knock on a trunk to another tree but instead of her hand making contact with the bark her hand slipped through.
"Found it," she said.
Without saying anything else Flash quietly slipped through. Autumn followed her, then Kurama, Hiei, Kuwabara, Hinote and Yusuke.
Once everyone was through the portal a twig snapped and a cloaked figure stepped out from behind some trees.
Since Yusuke was the last one through the portal he say everyone looking at his or her surroundings when he got through. The forest was very thick and dense. The trees' trunks were a pale white color while the leaves were pitch black.
Kuwabara hugged himself and shivered. "Man this place is creepy."
Flash turned and looked at everyone, her eyes were piercing gold, indicating that Lioness had control. "That's because this forest is dead."
"What do you mean?" asked Kurama.
"I don't remember much," said Lioness. "All I know is that we should get out of here as soon as possible…if we value our lives."
"Then what are we waiting for?" asked Hinote. "Let us go!"
Lioness slowly walked her way in front of everyone. "Follow me, and try not to make a lot of noise."
Everyone nodded and followed Lioness into the dense forest.
'I don't understand,' said Youko. 'Lioness is so much different than what I remember of her.'
It's mostly likely from when she crossed into Ningenkai, most demons can lose their memory when crossing the boarder.
Well I think it is all a lie.
Hiei?
Hn.
Kurama quickly glanced at Hiei to see the fire demon walking with his eyes closed.
Why do you think that?
That hanyou is hiding something. I just know it. I think I might just turn her into Koenma.
Kurama found it useless to argue with his stubborn friend and decided not to even bother trying.
"Shouldn't we start making camp?" Kurama suggested.
Lioness shook her head. "It's not safe to do that here."
"Ow!" said Hinote who just stubbed his foot on a tree root. "But walking at night isn't a better choice either."
"He does have a point," Harmony told Lioness.
Lioness bit her lip trying to think. "Very well, we'll make what camp we can."
The boys sighed in relief when hearing this. Sitting down on the ground and taking off their packs and leaded against tree trunks.
"Try to make the best of it," said Lioness settling on the ground. "It will be an uneasy sleep for you."
"You're not gonna sleep?" asked Kuwabara.
"No, I'll stand guard," answered Lioness.
Everyone settled down on the ground using his or her backpacks from pillow and rolled over.
Meanwhile the cloaked figure wasn't too far behind them. He placed his hand on his katana figuring that this would be a good time to strike when they were all tired. But an ominous wind had changed his mind.
Instead, he hugged his legs to his chest and held his weapon close to him.
End Chapter:
Winter: Yes, I know. This chapters equals shit but I'm fighting a case of writers block and the fact I'm obsessed with Juuni Kokki, an anime Dream introduced me to.
To sum it up, it equals to Flash's Godly-ness. And if I'm comparing something to Flash, it's gotta be good, no?
Well you can watch it on Youtube. Just search for Juuni Kokki / The Twelve Kingdoms.
And please review!
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