Disclaimer I don't own yyh, only Lily. Lily: Good thing too, you torture us. Me: Yep.

Last time The sisters had been in a similar situation it had turned out to be fatal, this time Lily and Botan were determined to at least put up a fight, besides, Hiei was here to help them.

That didn't mean that zit wasn't terrifying to see the demon who had given them such suffering, approach them with nearly the same expression he had worn the night that Jenna had died. Lily was especially terrified, she'd been trapped and tortured by him for 900 years, but all three managed to stand ground.

The demon attacked first. He let out a wave of energy that looked similar to the spirit gun. Botan summoned her oar to use as a shield and found herself being sucked in to a vortex. Hiei and Lily thought that she was lost to them, but the ferry girl managed to get in a hit that at least distracted him while Hiei moved in and struck with his sword. Hiei didn't do much damage but did cause a pinprick of pain that sent Botan flying away from her killer.

Lily ran to her sister as fast as she could but even as a ghost, her layers of petticoats got in the way. Botan woke up when Lily tripped into her. She checked her injuries and found that she'd been lucky enough to lad from a harsh throw with only her left arm broken.

She ignored the injury and helped her sister strip down her layers of petticoats until all that was left was simply the skirt on top. === ======= ============== ============== =========== ======= ==== Flash back 3 year old Lily cried out loud after her father had beaten both girls after coming home quite drunk. She found herself longing for her sister but of course Jenna never got out as easily as she did. She ripped her skirts down to simply the threads in a nervous habit, and by the time Jenna got through the little girls was quite tangled. === ---- --------------------- ---------------------------- --------------- ------- -------------------- Lily Giggled at the memory of haw often after that she and Jenna would play by tangling each other or some one else in the threads. She told Botan her idea that perhaps they could Tangle the demon. Botan agreed, but she reminded Lily that they had to be careful not to catch Hiei, who was still fighting to fast for them to see.

After a while of only managing pinprick the battle mood wore of the flame koorime=e enough to have him worry about the ferry girl. He'd seen her go flying and then had pretty much allowed battle fury to take over. Hiei had to look for the girls while fighting so it took him quite awhile to find them and by then, the sisters had managed to get enough thread and were starting to tangle the demon up in them. Hiei barely managed to avoid getting tangled.

And He and Botan were thrown out of the amulet, and back into the cave, which was starting to collapse thanks to a spirit gun fired at the ceiling in frustration. The others were quite relieved to see their friends get out and they started to run, the amulet clutched tightly in Botan's uninjured arm.