Under Light of Four Stars
Disclaimer: Really, really think about this. DO I LOOK LIKE I OWN A HIT ANIME/MANGA? All other characters whose names are not Mika or Skye belong to me. Mika is Pikabloo12's and Skye is Black-Pawn.
Sorry Mika and Skye are not in this chapter.
Chapter 9. A Dragon lead astray; beginning of the Legends
Hiei walked down the stone corridor, looking at the ancient carvings. He came upon an intersection and two lemur-like creatures began to whisper furiously as he passed. He only gave them a curious look and they backed away, giving shifty, untrusting glances. Hiei gave them another look, this one more of confusion, but they turned down the opposite corridor and walked away, still throwing untrusting glances his way. Hiei simply walked on his way; he had enough to be confused about right now and didn't need anything else to cloud his mind. The symbols on the wall began to change from everyday images to more mysterious creations, focused around four animals. Then another intersection appeared and more whispering was heard as the eyes of the voices' owner glowed in the darkness.
By now Hiei was really confused, he had been able to hear bits and pieces of what they were saying and it was all the same stuff. 'That's the one who bears Dragon's mark. He'll betray us, as it is in the legend. He'll kill us all, just like the myths say.' All of the talk was of some Dragon, who was mentioned in a legend, and obviously was a betrayer to some great order, and killed a whole bunch of people. (Kinda sounds like Hiei huh? Well maybe not the legend part, but definitely dragon, and killer. But not a bad thing all the time.) Hiei looked at the surrounding symbols once again, this time the symbols had focused on one of the four animals, the Dragon.
Hiei stopped to examine on of the symbols. It seemed to depict a story of two dragons. The way the symbols were set up, there was a main picture, or a main idea, then the other symbols would fan out in a circular pattern, as lesser details of the story. The symbols seemed confusing if you didn't look at them closely, but if you did they looked like nothing more than a picture from a storybook. Hiei ran his hand over one of the symbols, and it began to glow. Hiei pulled back in surprise and the symbol soon became a vortex that threatened to pull Hiei in. As much as he fought it, the vortex won and Hiei was sucked in.
Hiei slowly stood up and looked around. He was in some kind of cave, but he didn't remember how he got there. On one of the wall of the cave a small blue dot was glowing. Hiei felt drawn to it as a moth is drawn to a flame. He reached out to touch the dot of blue light. As soon as his hand was within a few inches a glowing orb appeared. Before Hiei could react the entire room began to transform. It resembled an old Japanese market place. He looked around at the people hustling about their business; nobody seemed to notice him. Strangely enough that wasn't the weirdest thing, he saw himself, well sorta. It was sort of a younger version of him dressed in a blue ragged tunic like shirt and cargo pants. The younger Hiei was perched just above a market vendor selling jewelry. Hiei (normal version, this is just going to get more confusing so please bare with me) just watched in silence unsure of everything right now, surely he had never been here. The younger Hiei gave some sort of birdcall signal and an accomplice down on the street began to yell and scream about something. Hiei looked again and saw the accomplice was a younger Kitsume he had never seen.
The vendor watched as the girl had to be restrained by several people. Hiei looked back at himself and saw him picking and choosing what he wished. He whistled again and the younger Kitsume began screaming "ASSAULT! GUARDS ASSAULT! HELP ME!" The people who had attempted to restrain her so as not to hurt anyone let go surprised. The younger Kitsume quickly escaped the crowd and Hiei decided to follow her. Sure enough she led him straight to himself. "So Darren whatcha get this time?" "Not much Ena that guy only had junk." (Okay, yes the names. I have this cool book that has all these different names {Traditionally names} and where they originated and what they mean. Pretty cool huh? Well Darren is a Celtic name meaning "Small but mighty" that's pretty much Hiei in a nutshell just toss in a temper, over-protectiveness of a sister, no social skills whatsoever and several death-glares. Ena is a Gaelic name meaning "Fiery" out of all the names I looked for to equal Kitsume this was the coolest sounding one. So yay) Hiei looked shocked 'Darren? But he looks just like me. What is going on?' "You have many questions young Dragon. Watch and many may be answered." An old, wise female sounding voice rang out. Nobody but Hiei seemed to know either of them was there.
Hiei reached out a hand to touch "Ena" on the shoulder, but his hand passed right through it. 'A hologram? What?' "This is a simulation of things long ago. You need to be aware of your partner's heritage." 'My partner? What are you talking about?' "Watch." Hiei figured he wouldn't get any answers from the mysterious voice so he shrugged and watched on.
The 'memory' ended quickly and the room faded out before returning on another day. Ena was running through the crowds as fast as she could. An obvious botched burglary. Darren was nowhere to be seen. 'Great so my "partner" is a deserter? How nice.' "Do not judge him so quickly Hiei." 'Hey how does she know my name?' I know all about you, Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, Keiko, Shizuru, Botan and Yukina." 'Yukina?' "Yes, but be quiet and watch." Darren appeared on the side of one of the running guards. He looked forward and saw Ena running for her life and Darren did something stupid that would distract the guards. He rammed into the side of the guard, drawing the attention onto him. But because he had rammed the guard he was thrown off balance and fell to the ground. Ena looked back and was about to stop when Darren yelled, "Keep going!" Ena nodded and ran off.
Before Darren could get his bearings straight four guards had him in handcuffs. Darren struggled but was forced to his knees by the guards. "Hmm, Darren I should have known. Lucky I caught you. Whoa, what's this?" The guard yanked a chain from Darren's neck. "A souvenir of the palace? Tisk, tisk Darren, I'll have to see your receipt for this. Oh, don't have one do we? To bad!" The head guard kicked Darren's side and Darren was pushed to the ground by the force. Coughing up blood Darren gave the head guard a 'I will kill you with my bare hands look' and wiped a trickle of blood from his mouth with his shoulder.
The image faded out once again and reappeared as a dungeon setting. Darren was sitting behind the bars staring into space. His hands were still cuffed behind his back. Then a lavishly dressed Yukina walked down the alleyway along with another who, as soon as he got into the light turned out to be Yusuke. "Wow lady Almira, you almost never have prisoners in here." "Yes Ambrose, sadly. A jewel thief. I'm pretty sure he would be out of here by now but we found a Royal Gem on him, and he keeps claiming it's his. But that would be impossible, only royal bloodline people are able to produce them. Strangely enough the one we found on him was black and no one in the royal family was able to produce black, but testing proves it to be a Royal Gem." "Hmm, that is strange your highness." (Okay check up Almira = Yukina, Darren = Hiei, Ena = Kitsume, Ambrose = Yusuke. Confused much? Well sorry if you are it just gets more confusing.) "Yes, he has even refused to eat." Almira looked down in despair and Darren turned to look at her.
He had a slight sad look in his eyes before a strange look from Ambrose made him resume his death glare. (Oh yeah I forgot to tell you name meanings Almira is Arabic for Princess; the exalted one. And Ambrose is Latin for one who lives forever; immortal. More to be announced later.)
As the scene faded out, Hiei felt a strange feeling, an almost recollection of this scene and many others. "So it has begun, I thought as much." 'What are you talking about?' "When the pairing was preordained the Elementals had no choice in who would follow the same path as they, so they chose to stay separate from you, the same yet different." 'Okay, you have officially lost me lady.' "I thought as much, watch and you shall see." 'Again with the watching!' The voice gave out a slight chuckle.
The scene faded back in but now Darren was alone in the dungeon. A soft noise of gentle footsteps soon became audible. Almira (Yukina) was walking with a tray in hand, laden with food. A guard let her into the cell and she walked over to Darren. She knelt by him and undid the handcuffs from his wrists. Darren simply rubbed his wrists where the cuffs had been. (The guards think it's very funny for some reason to put the cuffs on tight *insert rolling of eyes here*) "Please eat something, you'll die if you don't." Almira gently pleaded. Darren ignored her but Hiei knew it was with great pains, he obviously didn't want to hurt her in anyway, like him with Yukina. "Please, please." "No." "Why not?" Darren simply stared out into space. Almira sighed and stood up, but she left the food and did not recuff Darren's hands.
She sighed again and walked out of the cell in dismay. Darren looked over at the tray of food and saw something sparkling. Darren picked up the silver chain and saw the black tear gem sparkling as the pendant. "She gave it back?" He muttered slowly, "But why?" Darren looked back to the tray and saw a note. In beautiful calligraphy it simply explained that since it was undetermined who created the gem he could keep it so as not to cause a diversion of resources to find out its creator and just keeper. So simply it said he could keep it 'cause they didn't know who produced it and it was more trouble than it was worth to go through all archived information on those who could produce them etc..etc....
Darren's smile was the last thing Hiei saw before the memory faded. This time the room stayed blackened, no new image appeared. "So young Dragon, did you learn anything?" Hiei could tell the voice was joking; this wasn't exactly something you watch for learning lessons. Hiei turned around the room still unable to tell where the voice came from. All of a sudden Hiei could hear a clicking sound and he turned in that direction. From within the darkness a yellow glow slowly appeared accompanied by a golden yellow fox.
This is not your average fox either; it stood on its two back legs, a natural stance for it so it looked like a human. It had a white fur ruff around its neck and a white belly. Its arms were covered by purple fingerless gloves, which went down to its three, white, paw-like fingers. Its legs were shaped slightly bent as if keeping an animal air about them; they were yellow until they reached the bend where they became white. Its long tail was yellow except for the tip, which was white. It also had feather like things on its shoulders. Its face was pointed like a fox' and it had black eyes with blue pupils. (Not in the sense of an injury but the black was where the white should be for our eyes. Okay if you're having problems picturing this and saw Digimon season 3 I think, it resembles Rennamon, Rica's digimon.) Under the eyes were sideways lightning bolt markings.
"Who the heck are you?" Hiei asked slightly unsure of the situation. "I am called many things but, you may call me Esme. (It's Anglo-Saxon for gracious protector.) The fox gave a curt bow before continuing. "I was given orders to protect all remnants of their past by the high Phoenix, Ambrose himself. And so I have until the four wielders have arrived." "Okay?" Hiei said, still confused, but confusion was a sign of weakness, something he did not want to show the fox. The fox simply smiled, "Do you wish to see more of Darren's past?" Hiei thought it over without seeming to go anywhere on a decision.
The fox gave him a slight chuckle as she began to walk back into the darkness. "Okay then, I will show you more............."
~ * With Ixi * ~
"You're back already?" Ixi said turning her head to acknowledge Millenia's presence. "Mew!" He cried while nodding his head. "So?" Millenia's eyes began to glow and a silver fire cocoon engulfed him. From out of the cocoon came the great fox like beast Taini. In a deep voice he reported all he had heard "Ixi, there has been several foreign arrivals." "Foreign how? Not through our gates?" "No, they arrived in a flash of light and elemental force. They are said to be very strong and Aris has taken an interest in one of them. She ordered Mika to capture on of them." "So it has begun." Ixi through her long traveling cloak over her and pulled up the neck of it to cover her nose from the biting winds. "We must act quickly, but carefully, understand?" "Yes my lady." "Go to Keyou and alert him to be on guard and to keep an extra tight grip on discipline." "At once." Taini opened hi angelic wings and took off en route to Crystal City. "May the winds give you swift travels." Ixi whispered as she watched him fly away. "Everything must be carefully done now my friend." Ixi walked off in pursuit of the cavernous city. She sensed someone she knew there, but who she was unsure of.
Haha cliffie, for the millionth time, unfortunately for you there are only more in store.
Thank you Pikabloo12 for the okay on Mika ^-^ Only more violence from her fortunately.
Thank you Madi for telling me I am Sorry in Japanese, and don't worry I can't spell things all the time ^_^;; Thank you for reviewing too. (I'm not sure if I spelled your name right so ^-^;; gomennisai if I didn't)
Disclaimer: Really, really think about this. DO I LOOK LIKE I OWN A HIT ANIME/MANGA? All other characters whose names are not Mika or Skye belong to me. Mika is Pikabloo12's and Skye is Black-Pawn.
Sorry Mika and Skye are not in this chapter.
Chapter 9. A Dragon lead astray; beginning of the Legends
Hiei walked down the stone corridor, looking at the ancient carvings. He came upon an intersection and two lemur-like creatures began to whisper furiously as he passed. He only gave them a curious look and they backed away, giving shifty, untrusting glances. Hiei gave them another look, this one more of confusion, but they turned down the opposite corridor and walked away, still throwing untrusting glances his way. Hiei simply walked on his way; he had enough to be confused about right now and didn't need anything else to cloud his mind. The symbols on the wall began to change from everyday images to more mysterious creations, focused around four animals. Then another intersection appeared and more whispering was heard as the eyes of the voices' owner glowed in the darkness.
By now Hiei was really confused, he had been able to hear bits and pieces of what they were saying and it was all the same stuff. 'That's the one who bears Dragon's mark. He'll betray us, as it is in the legend. He'll kill us all, just like the myths say.' All of the talk was of some Dragon, who was mentioned in a legend, and obviously was a betrayer to some great order, and killed a whole bunch of people. (Kinda sounds like Hiei huh? Well maybe not the legend part, but definitely dragon, and killer. But not a bad thing all the time.) Hiei looked at the surrounding symbols once again, this time the symbols had focused on one of the four animals, the Dragon.
Hiei stopped to examine on of the symbols. It seemed to depict a story of two dragons. The way the symbols were set up, there was a main picture, or a main idea, then the other symbols would fan out in a circular pattern, as lesser details of the story. The symbols seemed confusing if you didn't look at them closely, but if you did they looked like nothing more than a picture from a storybook. Hiei ran his hand over one of the symbols, and it began to glow. Hiei pulled back in surprise and the symbol soon became a vortex that threatened to pull Hiei in. As much as he fought it, the vortex won and Hiei was sucked in.
Hiei slowly stood up and looked around. He was in some kind of cave, but he didn't remember how he got there. On one of the wall of the cave a small blue dot was glowing. Hiei felt drawn to it as a moth is drawn to a flame. He reached out to touch the dot of blue light. As soon as his hand was within a few inches a glowing orb appeared. Before Hiei could react the entire room began to transform. It resembled an old Japanese market place. He looked around at the people hustling about their business; nobody seemed to notice him. Strangely enough that wasn't the weirdest thing, he saw himself, well sorta. It was sort of a younger version of him dressed in a blue ragged tunic like shirt and cargo pants. The younger Hiei was perched just above a market vendor selling jewelry. Hiei (normal version, this is just going to get more confusing so please bare with me) just watched in silence unsure of everything right now, surely he had never been here. The younger Hiei gave some sort of birdcall signal and an accomplice down on the street began to yell and scream about something. Hiei looked again and saw the accomplice was a younger Kitsume he had never seen.
The vendor watched as the girl had to be restrained by several people. Hiei looked back at himself and saw him picking and choosing what he wished. He whistled again and the younger Kitsume began screaming "ASSAULT! GUARDS ASSAULT! HELP ME!" The people who had attempted to restrain her so as not to hurt anyone let go surprised. The younger Kitsume quickly escaped the crowd and Hiei decided to follow her. Sure enough she led him straight to himself. "So Darren whatcha get this time?" "Not much Ena that guy only had junk." (Okay, yes the names. I have this cool book that has all these different names {Traditionally names} and where they originated and what they mean. Pretty cool huh? Well Darren is a Celtic name meaning "Small but mighty" that's pretty much Hiei in a nutshell just toss in a temper, over-protectiveness of a sister, no social skills whatsoever and several death-glares. Ena is a Gaelic name meaning "Fiery" out of all the names I looked for to equal Kitsume this was the coolest sounding one. So yay) Hiei looked shocked 'Darren? But he looks just like me. What is going on?' "You have many questions young Dragon. Watch and many may be answered." An old, wise female sounding voice rang out. Nobody but Hiei seemed to know either of them was there.
Hiei reached out a hand to touch "Ena" on the shoulder, but his hand passed right through it. 'A hologram? What?' "This is a simulation of things long ago. You need to be aware of your partner's heritage." 'My partner? What are you talking about?' "Watch." Hiei figured he wouldn't get any answers from the mysterious voice so he shrugged and watched on.
The 'memory' ended quickly and the room faded out before returning on another day. Ena was running through the crowds as fast as she could. An obvious botched burglary. Darren was nowhere to be seen. 'Great so my "partner" is a deserter? How nice.' "Do not judge him so quickly Hiei." 'Hey how does she know my name?' I know all about you, Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, Keiko, Shizuru, Botan and Yukina." 'Yukina?' "Yes, but be quiet and watch." Darren appeared on the side of one of the running guards. He looked forward and saw Ena running for her life and Darren did something stupid that would distract the guards. He rammed into the side of the guard, drawing the attention onto him. But because he had rammed the guard he was thrown off balance and fell to the ground. Ena looked back and was about to stop when Darren yelled, "Keep going!" Ena nodded and ran off.
Before Darren could get his bearings straight four guards had him in handcuffs. Darren struggled but was forced to his knees by the guards. "Hmm, Darren I should have known. Lucky I caught you. Whoa, what's this?" The guard yanked a chain from Darren's neck. "A souvenir of the palace? Tisk, tisk Darren, I'll have to see your receipt for this. Oh, don't have one do we? To bad!" The head guard kicked Darren's side and Darren was pushed to the ground by the force. Coughing up blood Darren gave the head guard a 'I will kill you with my bare hands look' and wiped a trickle of blood from his mouth with his shoulder.
The image faded out once again and reappeared as a dungeon setting. Darren was sitting behind the bars staring into space. His hands were still cuffed behind his back. Then a lavishly dressed Yukina walked down the alleyway along with another who, as soon as he got into the light turned out to be Yusuke. "Wow lady Almira, you almost never have prisoners in here." "Yes Ambrose, sadly. A jewel thief. I'm pretty sure he would be out of here by now but we found a Royal Gem on him, and he keeps claiming it's his. But that would be impossible, only royal bloodline people are able to produce them. Strangely enough the one we found on him was black and no one in the royal family was able to produce black, but testing proves it to be a Royal Gem." "Hmm, that is strange your highness." (Okay check up Almira = Yukina, Darren = Hiei, Ena = Kitsume, Ambrose = Yusuke. Confused much? Well sorry if you are it just gets more confusing.) "Yes, he has even refused to eat." Almira looked down in despair and Darren turned to look at her.
He had a slight sad look in his eyes before a strange look from Ambrose made him resume his death glare. (Oh yeah I forgot to tell you name meanings Almira is Arabic for Princess; the exalted one. And Ambrose is Latin for one who lives forever; immortal. More to be announced later.)
As the scene faded out, Hiei felt a strange feeling, an almost recollection of this scene and many others. "So it has begun, I thought as much." 'What are you talking about?' "When the pairing was preordained the Elementals had no choice in who would follow the same path as they, so they chose to stay separate from you, the same yet different." 'Okay, you have officially lost me lady.' "I thought as much, watch and you shall see." 'Again with the watching!' The voice gave out a slight chuckle.
The scene faded back in but now Darren was alone in the dungeon. A soft noise of gentle footsteps soon became audible. Almira (Yukina) was walking with a tray in hand, laden with food. A guard let her into the cell and she walked over to Darren. She knelt by him and undid the handcuffs from his wrists. Darren simply rubbed his wrists where the cuffs had been. (The guards think it's very funny for some reason to put the cuffs on tight *insert rolling of eyes here*) "Please eat something, you'll die if you don't." Almira gently pleaded. Darren ignored her but Hiei knew it was with great pains, he obviously didn't want to hurt her in anyway, like him with Yukina. "Please, please." "No." "Why not?" Darren simply stared out into space. Almira sighed and stood up, but she left the food and did not recuff Darren's hands.
She sighed again and walked out of the cell in dismay. Darren looked over at the tray of food and saw something sparkling. Darren picked up the silver chain and saw the black tear gem sparkling as the pendant. "She gave it back?" He muttered slowly, "But why?" Darren looked back to the tray and saw a note. In beautiful calligraphy it simply explained that since it was undetermined who created the gem he could keep it so as not to cause a diversion of resources to find out its creator and just keeper. So simply it said he could keep it 'cause they didn't know who produced it and it was more trouble than it was worth to go through all archived information on those who could produce them etc..etc....
Darren's smile was the last thing Hiei saw before the memory faded. This time the room stayed blackened, no new image appeared. "So young Dragon, did you learn anything?" Hiei could tell the voice was joking; this wasn't exactly something you watch for learning lessons. Hiei turned around the room still unable to tell where the voice came from. All of a sudden Hiei could hear a clicking sound and he turned in that direction. From within the darkness a yellow glow slowly appeared accompanied by a golden yellow fox.
This is not your average fox either; it stood on its two back legs, a natural stance for it so it looked like a human. It had a white fur ruff around its neck and a white belly. Its arms were covered by purple fingerless gloves, which went down to its three, white, paw-like fingers. Its legs were shaped slightly bent as if keeping an animal air about them; they were yellow until they reached the bend where they became white. Its long tail was yellow except for the tip, which was white. It also had feather like things on its shoulders. Its face was pointed like a fox' and it had black eyes with blue pupils. (Not in the sense of an injury but the black was where the white should be for our eyes. Okay if you're having problems picturing this and saw Digimon season 3 I think, it resembles Rennamon, Rica's digimon.) Under the eyes were sideways lightning bolt markings.
"Who the heck are you?" Hiei asked slightly unsure of the situation. "I am called many things but, you may call me Esme. (It's Anglo-Saxon for gracious protector.) The fox gave a curt bow before continuing. "I was given orders to protect all remnants of their past by the high Phoenix, Ambrose himself. And so I have until the four wielders have arrived." "Okay?" Hiei said, still confused, but confusion was a sign of weakness, something he did not want to show the fox. The fox simply smiled, "Do you wish to see more of Darren's past?" Hiei thought it over without seeming to go anywhere on a decision.
The fox gave him a slight chuckle as she began to walk back into the darkness. "Okay then, I will show you more............."
~ * With Ixi * ~
"You're back already?" Ixi said turning her head to acknowledge Millenia's presence. "Mew!" He cried while nodding his head. "So?" Millenia's eyes began to glow and a silver fire cocoon engulfed him. From out of the cocoon came the great fox like beast Taini. In a deep voice he reported all he had heard "Ixi, there has been several foreign arrivals." "Foreign how? Not through our gates?" "No, they arrived in a flash of light and elemental force. They are said to be very strong and Aris has taken an interest in one of them. She ordered Mika to capture on of them." "So it has begun." Ixi through her long traveling cloak over her and pulled up the neck of it to cover her nose from the biting winds. "We must act quickly, but carefully, understand?" "Yes my lady." "Go to Keyou and alert him to be on guard and to keep an extra tight grip on discipline." "At once." Taini opened hi angelic wings and took off en route to Crystal City. "May the winds give you swift travels." Ixi whispered as she watched him fly away. "Everything must be carefully done now my friend." Ixi walked off in pursuit of the cavernous city. She sensed someone she knew there, but who she was unsure of.
Haha cliffie, for the millionth time, unfortunately for you there are only more in store.
Thank you Pikabloo12 for the okay on Mika ^-^ Only more violence from her fortunately.
Thank you Madi for telling me I am Sorry in Japanese, and don't worry I can't spell things all the time ^_^;; Thank you for reviewing too. (I'm not sure if I spelled your name right so ^-^;; gomennisai if I didn't)