Winter: Hello and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness. I want to apologize for the crappy chapter before this and the long wait. Forgive me?
I've just been so freaking busy.
The disclaimer stands the same as the last chapter. I also don't own Capoon.
Please note that Lioness and Harmony are in Flash and Autumn's bodies.
Chapter Nineteen: When Dream Takes Over my Chapter:
The next morning Lioness was the second one awake. As she sat up and stretched she looked around at her surroundings. Everyone was still asleep.
"You're up early," said Hiei from the tree she was under.
"It's hard to sleep here," answered Lioness.
"So wake everyone up and lets get going," answered Hiei.
Lioness nodded. She walked around and tapped everyone with her foot to wake them up. Once everyone was up and awake they started walking again. After about two hours of walking they found their way out of the forest their eyes were welcomed to by strong light.
"The sun!" squealed Hinote and started running around in circles.
"Man, it felt like that forest would never end," said Yusuke.
"I know how you feel," said Kuwabara.
"Hey where are we anyway?" Yusuke turned to Lioness.
"We're in the southeast corner of Maki," answered Lioness.
"And where do we have to go?" Kurama questioned.
"North, on the other side of that mountain range over there," was the answer.
"WHAT?!" asked Hinote, Kuwabara and Hinote in union.
"But that's…"
"So…."
"FAR!" finished Kuwabara.
Lioness started walking. "Hey I didn't pick the location. Besides. There's a small fishing village about half a days walk from here if we'd get going."
The boys grumbled and followed the group.
So they were walking and all of the sudden a "giant" beetle came out of the ground. Autumn stared at the "giant" beetle.
"Hay! A "giant" beetle!" said Autumn pointing.
"Hay, a crazy girl!" said the "giant" beetle.
"Hay! A "giant" beetle!" said Autumn pointing.
"Hay, a crazy girl!" said the "giant" beetle.
"Hay! A "giant" beetle!" said Autumn pointing.
"Hay, a crazy girl!" said the "giant" beetle.
"Hay! A "giant" beetle!" said Autumn pointing.
"Hay, a crazy girl!" said the "giant" beetle.
Then all of the sudden they stared at each other blankly. Then without warning the "giant" beetle engulfed Autumn and all of her crazy friends through osmosis.
Meanwhile:
A girl dressed in all black with a hamster on her shirt sat in a high school graphic design room all the way in the back corner against the wall at Mac number 4. As she was typing a smirk came across her face.
Suddenly Winter dressed in black walked into the classroom. Spotting her friend at her computer she called out.
"What are you doing, Dream?"
Dream looked over and eepeed before jumping to the next computer and acting like she didn't do anything wrong.
Winter slowly walked over to her computer and scrolled up in word to see what her insane friend did to her computer. Once she finished reading the short little excerpt about the "giant" beetle she slowly turned in her chair to glare at her friend.
"What?" asked Dream.
Anyway:
After a few hours of walking it was finally getting dark. Yusuke looked over to see the sun setting.
"How much longer," he asked after groaning.
"Not much," answered Lioness. "We're coming up to a fishing village. We can rest there for a while then make our way to the river crossing."
"We're not stopping?" asked Kuwabara.
"That wouldn't be smart," answered Kurama. "You see, if we stayed in one spot too long there is a chance that someone will try to rob us and we will all be found out."
"The Kitsune is right," said Hiei. "Though I do dare any demon to try to pick a right with me."
Lioness glared at Hiei's back with her arms crossed before her chest. "For someone so small you do have a big ego."
Hiei quickly spun around meaning to have his katana pointed at her throat but instead the sound of metal against metal was made. After blinking a few times he saw Lioness's blade blocking his.
"Now guys come on friends shouldn't fight," began Kurama.
"My Kurama speech senses a tingling!" said Hinote.
"Quick Robin! To the bat cave!" chirped Autumn taking back control for that one second.
Even a hatred for each other so strong, Hiei and Lioness quickly put away their weapons and began speed walking towards the fishing village with everyone else besides Kurama hurrying behind them.
Kurama stood there for a moment trying to come with terms of what just happened.
The fishing village was naturally small with only a few houses and shops to fit basic needs along with one large tavern that was in the center of everything. As the group walked through the village Yusuke's stomach growled, followed by everyone else's.
"Maybe we should stop to eat?" asked Harmony.
"I suppose it won't hurt if we eat fast," said Lioness giving in to her own hunger.
Everyone cheered and rushed off into the tavern and found a table in the back that was able to seat all of them.
The tavern itself was big in size. The common room was able to fit what seemed like the whole village and maybe even more. In the common room there was a huge bar with stools and a bunch of tables. Along the back wall was a large fireplace and mantel. In front of the fireplace a bard played his harp as he told stories to little kids that sat close to him in awe.
After a few minutes of waiting a low class demon dressed in tattered skirts came over to them and asked what they would like to have to eat.
"We'll each have the meal," Kurama answered for everyone. "Thank you."
The tavern wench smiled and walked off. As they waited for their food everyone talked quietly among each other. Lioness and Hiei refused to look at each other what so ever, even if one of them was talking to the group.
Once the food came everyone quickly ate while Autumn picked through it to make sure that she was able to eat anything. Some things she had to guess what it was and didn't even want to try to eat it fearing what it really was.
Once they finished eating Yusuke dug into his pocket and looked at the yen in his hands.
"You think they take yen?" he asked.
Kurama, Hiei, Harmony and Lioness stared at him.
"Guess not."
"Here, let's just leave this gold piece," said Kurama placing it on the table.
Everyone got up and shuffled out the door and back down the street to exit the village. After about ten more minutes of walking the River Stynx came into site.
"Hey look, there's the crossing port!" shouted Hinote pointing.
Once they got closer they noticed an old looking raft tied to an even older looking dock. Two torches on a stick were held in the ground on either side. End one of the torches there was a toad demon in muddy brown clothes sleeping in a chair.
Yusuke walked over and knocked on the demon's head causing him to startle out of his sleep and flailing his arms as he stumbled out of his chair. Holding his head he glared up at Yusuke and the others.
"Whadd'ya want?" he asked angrily.
"How much to cross?" asked Lioness.
The toad demon rolled over on the ground. "You couldn't afford it."
"Try me," said Lioness.
"Ten gold pieces," the Toad demon demanded out flatly.
"What? You got to be kidding me!"
"That's my price, don't like it? Have a nice swim," yawned the toad then closed his eyes to go back to sleep.
Lioness stomped over to the toad demon and picked him up by the back of his shirt. Since he was practically shorter than her she had no problem lifting him up despite his chubby appearance.
"Listen here wart face," she growled.
"Uh, Lio-Flash," stumbled Kurama not wanting this to turn out into a classic piss off Lioness episode.
But Lioness ignored him. "We need to get across to the other side, now you either be so kind and take us across free of charge for the hassle you are causing us, or you're gonna go for a swim."
"I…I'll prep the raft!" stammered the toad.
"Very good," she said dropping him.
The toad demon stumbled back up to his feet and ran onto the dock to prepare the raft.
"You could've been a little nicer," sighed Kurama.
Lioness rolled her eyes at the redhead.
"I agree with the fox," said a voice. "You should be nicer, you're a real a bitch."
Everyone spun around to see who that came from to see a familiar figure.
"Great, you again. Don't you know when to crawl into a pothole and die?" asked Lioness.
End Chapter:
Winter: Super sorry for the extremely long wait and the somewhat shitty-ness of this chapter, I'm going to attempt to do my weekly update thing again, but I have to see how my schedule works out.
I have to go through the whole apply to 6804684568 colleges process.
Please review.
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