Winter: Hey and welcome to the next revised chapter of Lioness.
Wisdom: Winter doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho. Autumn a.k.a Phantom Harmony, Freckles a.k.a Tenka belongs to Dreamchasereternity, Hinote a.k.a Vladimir belongs to EternalBlackNight and Capoon belongs to Winter's friend Todd.
Winter: Keep note that Lioness has control over Flash's body.
Chapter Twenty-Two: Vampire:
Everyone watched the bushes intensely as they shook. Finally, a creature that resembled a male lion only larger, slowly stalked out of the bushes. His eyes were narrowed at the group as he growled showing his teeth.
As Hiei and Capoon drew their weapons, another creature that resembled a female lion slowly came out of the bushes. As Lioness looked closer at the demons she noticed a cub with a ball of feathers that resembled the colors of fire.
The feathers started to move. Suddenly, it grew bird features. It was a small bird with tiny black eyes and feet. The bird took flight and swarmed around Autumn and Lioness's head as it chirped.
Autumn's eyes rolled to the back of her head, once they rolled back her eyes changed color into a piercing grayish blue.
"Will you shut up already?" growled Harmony.
The bird stopped chirping and softly landed on Harmony's shoulder.
When Lioness noticed that Hiei and Capoon had drawn their weapons she quickly slid in front of them with her back facing the creatures, she held her arms outward to her sides.
"Stop," she said. "They mean us no harm."
"And how do you know that?" asked Capoon.
Lioness dropped her arms to her sides. "I know them….I think."
Harmony walked over and placed a hand on Lioness's shoulder. "She's telling the truth," she told them as she turned her head to look everyone else in the eye.
The two adult creatures walked over and started rubbing their giant heads against Lioness. Since they were both a lot stronger than her, accidentally they knocked her over causing her to fall on her behind. Lioness started to laugh as they continued to rub their heads against her.
"I don't understand," said Yusuke walking over to stand next to Capoon.
"They are Leo and Thunder," answered Harmony. "And this is Jouka." Harmony indicated to her shoulder.
"Leo and I go way back," said Lioness getting up. "He was my royal guardian when I was little. Well besides the palace guards. But he never left my site. And this is Thunder his mate."
Capoon placed his sword back in its sheath and bowed to the creatures. "It's an honor to meet you."
Leo and Thunder kneeled and bowed their heads to Capoon in acknowledgement.
The cub ran over and jumped onto Thunder tail. She turned around and growled at her.
"Please forgive my daughter, Rakurai's rudeness," said Leo. "She still has a great deal to learn."
"Whoa! Wow did he say that?" asked Kuwabara staring in amazement and Leo.
"It's telepathy," answered Kurama. "Some demons are able to carry the gift when they are in their animal form and can't physically talk."
"Oh."
"Though, come to think of it," pondered Kurama. "I don't think I've ever seen a demon like them."
"I'll explain in a bit," said Lioness. "But first I think we should get walking before it gets too dark."
"I know a cave not far from here," said Capoon. "It's a little way off the path we are on, but it's most likely our best bet."
Everyone agreed that they should follow Capoon to the cave. Once again they marched. After about twenty minutes of walking off the trail an extremely large rock came into site.
"Here we are," said Capoon.
"Where's the cave?" asked Hinote.
"The cave's mouth is around on the other side," answered Capoon. "But be careful going in. It's extremely dark inside."
"It seems that you know these mountains well," said Lioness as everyone walked into the cave.
"Well I needed a lot of dark places to stay in until Koenma gave me a Sun Ring," answered Capoon.
"So you're a vampire then?" asked Kurama.
Capoon nodded slowly, not sure on how his new companions would act. Everyone seemed fine with it besides Kuwabara, Yusuke and Hinote.
"A WHAT?!" screamed Yusuke.
The three of them went off into screaming fits begging Capoon not to kill them and drink their blood and turn into Vampire Spawn.
Everyone's sweat dropped.
"Will you calm down already?" growled Hiei who was leaning against the cave wall. "He's not going to eat you, you morons."
The three of them stopped screaming. "Oh," they said in union.
Lioness thought for a moment. "We should get a fire going, there's plenty of fallen braches around the cave. I'll go get some." She turned on her heel and walked out of the cave with Rakurai trotting after her.
A few moments later Lioness came back carrying a bunch of branches in her arms while Rakurai happily carried one stick thinking that she helped a great deal. Both of them dropped the branches in a pile right at the mouth of the cave.
Lioness's snapped her fingers at Hiei. "Make a fire pyro boy."
Hiei growled and walked over to the pile of sticks and started a fire. Everyone moved close to it to stay warm as Lioness and Harmony passed around food to everyone, except for Capoon who thanked them but declined.
Leo and Thunder got up and grunted before they trotted out of the cave with Rakurai trotting behind them.
"Where are they going?" asked Hinote.
"Probably to go hunting," answered Harmony placing some seeds on the ground for Jouka to eat.
"So what kind of demon is Leo?" asked Kurama turning to Lioness.
Lioness finished chewing a mouth full of apple before she answered. "Him, Thunder and Rakurai are Kiahrie (Ki-ar-ie)."
Everyone but Harmony gave her a puzzling look.
"Kiahrie resemble a lot to Lions in Ningenkai, if you've noticed. The only difference is that the Kiahrie are a lot bigger, fly and have powers."
"That's so strange, I've never heard of them before," said Capoon.
"That's because they only live in one location. And to be technical it's not in Makai itself. I'm assuming you heard of all the Sky Kingdom? They are from there; the Sky Lion Tribe."
"How interesting," muttered Kurama.
About an hour or so later the Kiahrie return and tended to themselves as everyone else got ready to go to sleep since they needed to get an early start the next morning.
Everyone had seemed to fall asleep except Capoon and Lioness. Lioness sat in Indian style poking the burning wood with another stick while Capoon sat against the gave wall.
For the most part they stayed quiet not sure what to talk about. Finally Capoon turned to Lioness seeing her yawn.
"Go to sleep," he said. "I'll keep watch."
Lioness nodded and placed the stick in the fire before lying down on her side and closing her eyes.
End Chapter:
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