Winter: Hello everyone and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness. I just posted chapter 19 so I figured I should just start the next chapter.

Anyway, I'm sorry if the chapters seem lacking. But I haven't been in the mood to write for a while.

The disclaimer stands the same.

Chapter Twenty: Capoon:

A dark shadowy figure that stood about 6'4" held his katana in his hands with a fighting stance.

"You're the guy from the museum!" yelled Kuwabara.

"Indeed," said the figure.

Hiei got into stance with his hand hovering over his katana.

"My fight isn't with you, fire apparition. It's with her," the figure pointed at Lioness. "You have something that belongs to me."

"Perhaps," said Lioness walking over to him and summoning her blade from her ring.

Though no one could see it, the figure smirked. "That's a fancy trick, but you might want to hold onto the blade with both hands, it looks mighty heavy for you."

"You shouldn't worry about me," said Lioness summoning her shield now. "I'll get you this time."

The toad demon ran over frightened. "Please! I don't want any trouble."

"Don't worry, it won't take long," the figure shouted to the toad. "I just came to get my crystal."

"It's best if you stand out of the way," said Kurama gently pulling him over.

"Last time I checked it didn't have your name on it," said Lioness.

The figure growled and charged at Lioness. Lioness lifted her sword to block the katana pushing back up against it as her enemy pushed down.

"This can't be good," said Hinote. "She's a dwarf compared to him, he'll over power her."

"Especially in that body," Harmony muttered to herself.

Damn it, Lioness thought to herself. If I had my body this would be so much easier.

Lioness was able to flip away, that is when the fighting commenced even more. It seemed like hours, long hard hours for Lioness once the figure realized he could easily over power her with his height if she blocked with her sword a certain way.

Yusuke blinked. "Do you hear something?"

"Hear what?" asked Hinote.

"It kinda sounds like-"

Before Yusuke could finish his sentence Botan flew directly into him 'causing both of them to topple over.

"Botan?" asked Kurama. "What are you doing here."

"Oh no! Am I too late?" she exclaimed jumping up and leaving Yusuke in the tattered mess with her oar.

"Too late for what?" asked Harmony.

"Capoon! He didn't get here yet did he?"

"Who's Capoon?" asked Kuwabara.

Botan turned around and saw the fighting. "NO! Stop! Stop fighting!"

"What's going on?" asked Kurama.

"Capoon! I command you to stop right now!" yelled Botan running over.

The figure; Capoon had Lioness in a sword lock and was putting all the pressure he could onto her making her legs shake as she tried to support the weight and herself.

"Botan?" said Capoon shocked.

"What?" exclaimed Lioness falling to her knees.

If it wasn't for Hiei's speed Lioness would've been cut in two as Capoon's sword struck down by accident since he was distracted. Hiei "reappeared" a few feet away from Capoon and Botan holding Flash bridle style.

"You can put me down now," growled Lioness.

"My pleasure," smirked Hiei as he let go of Lioness letting her drop to the ground with a thud and walked away.

"Bastard!" shouted Lioness as she got up and walked over to pick up her sword.

Everyone was now surrounding Capoon and Botan.

"Wait, hold the phone," demanded Hinote. "You two know each other?"

Botan sighed. "No one is supposed to know about this but, Capoon works for Koenma. He's a servant to one of the artifacts; the Crystal of Healing."

"Wait, so you work for Koenma?" asked Lioness.

"That doesn't make any sense!" exclaimed Kuwabara. "You attacked us!"

"Because you have my crystal!" said Capoon.

"You what?" asked Botan.

Capoon pointed at Lioness. "She stole the crystal."

"Is this true Flash?"

Flash managed to take back control of her body. "Yes it is! But it wasn't me! It was that insane lion in my head! She took over my body and made me do it! I really didn't want to! It was against my will, ow! My head hurts!"

Everyone sighed. Kurama turned to Botan and Capoon.

"An old friend of Lioness and Harmony is very ill, so they took the crystal in hopes of healing her," Kurama explained. "They had no idea this was going to happen."

"Is this true?" Botan questioned the two girls.

They both nodded. Botan thought for a moment, then she pulled out her communicator and called Koenma.

A picture of the toddler showed up on the screen. "Is something the matter Botan?"

"We have a bit of a problem," she said. "It was Flash who stole the crystal."

"What?!" asked Koenma. "Is she with you?

"Yes but-"

"I want to speak with her!"

Botan handed Lioness the communicator since she was back in control. "Yeah?"

Koenma started screaming and yelling at her telling how irresponsible it was for her to commit such an act after all he did for her. Since Lioness couldn't stand being yelled at and she was just tired of hearing Koenma scream she closed the communicator closing the connection and handed it back to Botan.

Botan took it back with a few sweat drops. "I should call him back." She walked a few feet away to talk to the ruler. Everyone else stood there in silence staring at each other.

A few moments later Botan closed the communicator and walked back over to everyone. "Well, I have orders."

"Flash, you and the others are allowed to take the crystal to heal your friend. But Capoon has to accompany you since he is the artifact guardian and all. Once you finish your business you are to return to the palace where Koenma will figure out what to do with you."

Lioness and Harmony gave a sigh of relief. Capoon turned to Botan.

"You got to be joking," he said.

"Sorry," said Botan taking her oar from Yusuke. "Well I must be going now, take care."

"Well I guess introductions are in order now," said Kurama. "I'm Kurama, that's Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hinote, Hiei, Autumn and you already know Flash."

"Uh, Capoon," said Capoon.

"Uhm, pardon me," said the toad demon. "But I can take you across the river now."

Everyone turned to him and nodded and followed him onto the dock and loaded onto the large raft.

End Chapter:

Winter: Two chapters posted in one day. Is that good enough? I hope so, I'll try to update as soon as I can. But right now I want to work on some sketches and finish putting my fanfics binder together.

Yeah there's so much stuff to this line of fanfics I had to make a notebook for it.

Please review!

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