Under Light of Four Stars
Ixi: Okay Lark, 3, 2 . . . 1
Lark: Ixi is this necessary? I mean the whole newscaster and newsroom set up for disclaimers?
Ixi: Uh, probably not, but who's in charge here?
*Black bunny scuttles across newsroom set*
Ixi: O_O Please tell me I didn't just see that.
Lark: Nope, sorry Ixi that was him. I'm sure of it.
Ixi: Okay then, HOUDINI GET YOUR BLACK BUNNY BUTT OVER HERE!
Houdini: Heh, make me!
Ixi: *whispered to Lark* maybe if we ignore him, he'll go away.
Lark: *whispers back* Yeah maybe
Houdini: NOPE!
Ixi: Darn, well then let me introduce you to Houdini, my darker muse. He helps me write gory stuff and other stuff that is scary and dark, angst etc. . . He is a black bunny with a white belly and white nose, a black body and a gray cross/star shape on his forehead. He is wearing a black spiked collar and has an obsession with sharp pointy things. And if you look closely he has little black horns by his ears.
Lark: Hey how come you never described us?
Ixi: Uh, eh, well. I'll just do that now. Elmer is a brown horse with a white blaze on his nose. And if you are going by the one by my computer desk he has angel wings. (Elmer is actually a horsy icon, very famous in the horsy world. He is just about everything including statues/figurines; uh there is a plushy, lot of other stuff. And I officially made him my muse. ^_^) Lark is a sparrow O_O yes a sparrow. She has her feathers on her head in a ponytail, some rings and other jewelry on her wings and feet. I drew a pic, but alas no scanner V_V Okay to the story.
Lark: Hey aren't you going to tell them what seeing Houdini means?
Ixi: Uh sure, when he appears something major will happen in the story. Devastating major. Now on to the story.
Lark: Wait, no disclaimers. *Looks at Ixi who is already at the couch for the story* Fine I'll just do it myself. Stop inflating Ixi's head, she does NOT own Yu Yu Hakusho. Lex and Mika are Pikabloo12's characters. And Skye if he even comes up in this chapter is Black Pawn's. Others are Ixi's.
Chapter 12 Team Torn Apart
Yukina slowly opened her eyes. "Where am I?" She said as she sat up looking around the bleak cell. "More importantly, who am I?" (Lark: Is that it, is that all Houdini does? Ixi: Shhhhhh! *Throws popcorn at Lark* Lark: Hey I thought you hated popcorn. Ixi: Why do you think I'm throwing it at you?) An evil snicker came from the shadows. Yukina backed up in fear. A cloaked figure emerged from the shadows and from behind the hood, Yukina saw a pair of eyes glaring at her. He left without a word back into the shadows, and a new pair of eyes appeared. They emerged from the shadows as well, but these belonged to a small black cat. (Ixi: Normal house cat) "Hey kitty." Yukina whispered holding a hand out for the cat. "Meooooooooow." It cried, coming closer. Yukina picked it up and placed it into her lap. Stroking it gently as it purred she tried to remember who she was.
~ * With the Gang * ~
The group watched as Ixi, Lex and Nerru silently discussed something in the corner. Millenia and Keyou were also speaking in private. Hiei watched them, but he was preoccupied. Someone had tried to contact him through his Jagan. Who, or how was what Hiei was trying to figure out. It wasn't Aris; she already contacted him through other means so there would be no point to contact him through the Jagan. It wasn't Kitsume either; she too knew how to contact him without the Jagan. So the question now, who? Kitsume looked across the room over to Hiei. He wasn't just silent, he was preoccupied. She got up, despite curious glances from the other gang members. She sat down near him and watched him to get his attention. "Hiei?" She timidly asked him. "Hn." Yusuke and Keiko glanced at each other. Sure Hiei Hn'd to everybody else, but they had never seen him do it to Kitsume.
Kitsume's eyes widened in surprise. "Hiei, something is wrong. What's wrong?" "Nothing." Kitsume folded her arms, "You know, that I know when you're lying. Tell me!" Hiei gave her a death glare. "NO!" He used his quick speed to vanish before Kitsume's eyes. Kitsume got a hurt look on her face and in her new rage she vanished in her puff of smoke. Hiei had gone out the door and shut it again before anyone noticed it opening. He ran down the hall at high speeds so nobody would see him. 'Who tried to contact me? And why?' Hiei asked himself. Before he realized how far he'd went, Hiei was outside the palace gates. He stopped for only a brief second of rest before taking off again.
~* With the gang again *~
Ixi cleared her throat for the remaining groups attention. "Okay, some of you do, some of you don't know what's going on. I'll try and give you the best explanation I can. You have traveled through the space-time- continual from Nigenkai/Earth to here, Theca. Here in Theca, there has been a legend, older than time. The legend is about four powerful Elemental Creatures and an evil incarnate demon. Since we don't have a lot of time I'll give you the 101 basics on it. There were three Elementals during the time of darkness. Cato the Unicorn of Earth is supposedly the oldest. As legend states, Cato found a dying bird of fire. Since Cato was full of compassion, he healed the bird who later became the Phoenix. The phoenix's name was Ambrose Phoenix of Fire or at least that's what it was after he met Cato. In some mysterious way, the Unicorn's immorality became the phoenixes as well. Ambrose felt indebted and followed Cato through his journey. Eventually they found Enoch the Gryphon of Air. Ambrose saved his life and Enoch joined the group they had going.
Peace became known in the land and we entered the birth of 'light' or so it states. Darkness and Light were time periods in our culture, much like dynasties and that type of thing for your world. Well during 'Light' an evil neko demon appeared by the name Aris. She had grown extremely powerful from an unstated dark force and she wanted to rule Theca. You know self-empowerment and all that. Well she challenged the three. It was a titanic battle and Aris was defeated, not killed though. Theca returned to peace no longer under her constant attacks. A while later, the fourth Elemental comes into the picture. He was named Darren, Dragon of Water. Well he was power hungry, and Aris had reappeared, mostly as rumors and hints of dark deeds. He some how found his way to Aris and signed a contract for power, and to save someone's life.
Soon Aris was very powerful again and she once again threatened the peace and 'light' of Theca. The three once again rose against her. Some way or another, Aris's promise to Darren became hollow and her turned against her, and helped fight with the Elementals. This battle though just as titanic, ended with disaster. The four fell in this order, Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix, Gryphon." Ixi paused to take a breath. "Hey I thought you said the Elementals were immortal!" Exclaimed Yusuke. Ixi solemnly nodded her head before continuing. "Immortal, not invulnerable. Which means they can die but only under certain pretenses." Ixi paused again, "Once they were dead, it is said that the spirits of the four rose to the sky and formed constellations. Each constellation was of that particular beast, and it is also said that the souls became heart stars for the constellations. A heart star is a star of a different color than the normal whitish stars, in the constellations they are found where the heart of what would be the creature would be. Here." Ixi handed over the paper she had been looking over.
It was a star map; there were several stars and constellations on the map. The dots representing the stars moved with the movements of the real things. There were four constellations that stood out. "Show outlines." Ixi said, and lines began forming on the paper symbolizing the basic forms of the objects in the sky. "Here are the four." Ixi said pointing to a blocking in the corner of the map. And there they were, a serpentine dragon, soaring phoenix, running unicorn and gliding gryphon. "See here, no green star for the Unicorn, which is the color of his heart star." Ixi pointed near the unicorn's chest. All the group could see were white stars. "See the Cerberus over here." Ixi said pointing to the other corner of the map. "Here is his heart star." She pointed to a silver dot near where a heart would be.
"So what does it mean?" Kurama asked. Ixi pointed to his chest. "It explains that." Kurama looked down and saw a green glowing object around his neck. "And those two." Ixi pointed at Kuwabara's chest and Yusuke's chest. Yusuke's was glowing red, and Kuwabara's glowing white. "Kurama, you have Cato, Unicorn of Earth. Yusuke you have Ambrose, Phoenix of Fire. Kuwabara you have Enoch, Gryphon of Air." Keiko looked to all of them. "Hey the elements sound familiar." She thought out loud. 'Yes they would, your ancients believed them to be the first elements. And as for the fourth wielder, Hiei should be discovering the blue medallion of Darren, Dragon of Water." (Lark: Hey isn't Hiei a FIRE apparition? Ixi: Yes, why? Lark: Then why does he have water elemental? Ixi: Uh, it had to do with the plot of my story and other things that happened in the actual anime series. Lark: Oh, so you really don't have a clue, it just sort of happened? Ixi: Basically yeah.)
~* With Hiei *~
"Aris! Show yourself! Where is my sister!?" Hiei yelled into the cavernous, lavish room. Only cruel, sadistic laughter met his ears. "Answer me!" He yelled again, getting his katana ready to attack. "Tsk, tsk Dragon, rash actions lead only to dire results." The laughter continued. "Hnnnnnnn, I followed your sick rules, where is my sister?" "Well technically you have yet to rescue her so all my demands were not met. Get past my defenses deep within the castle and find your sister if you dare. But my offer will stand, join me and immense power can be yours, fight against me and you will die like the other fool Dragon. Begin you may." Aris's voice slowly faded from the room and the huge doors facing Hiei began to open. Hiei readied himself for the battle and as soon as the doors opened he took off into the castle to find his sister. 'I'm coming for you imohto, please hold on.'
Ixi: Well there it is, chapter uh . . .
Lark: 12?
Ixi: Right 12!
Lark: *sigh* Why am I your muse again? All we do is fight?
Ixi: Because, creativity comes from a clash of ideas.
Lark: There is no way you came up with that yourself
Ixi: You are absolutely right, I have good lines like that in Me and the Penguin Army (my newest story ^-^ read it, it's a YYH story)
Lark: Where did you find that saying then?
Ixi: My mom's Readers Digest
Lark: Thought so.
*Black bunny scuttles across set*
Ixi & Lark: *Sigh* that's not good
Ixi: Review responses below
To Rachael: I'm glad you liked it. I hope I enlightened you on the problem with the Jagan. More than likely that will come up later and explain itself better. Hope you keep reading.
To Kairi032: That's good that you liked my story especially the Hiei and Yukina parts (Ixi: I try really hard on them. Lark: No you don't! Ixi: *runs away laughing* Elmer: Too much sugar Lark: Yep). If you tell me what you are totally lost on I will try and clarify it better for you. Glad you still liked it though. Please keep reading.
Ixi: Okay Lark, 3, 2 . . . 1
Lark: Ixi is this necessary? I mean the whole newscaster and newsroom set up for disclaimers?
Ixi: Uh, probably not, but who's in charge here?
*Black bunny scuttles across newsroom set*
Ixi: O_O Please tell me I didn't just see that.
Lark: Nope, sorry Ixi that was him. I'm sure of it.
Ixi: Okay then, HOUDINI GET YOUR BLACK BUNNY BUTT OVER HERE!
Houdini: Heh, make me!
Ixi: *whispered to Lark* maybe if we ignore him, he'll go away.
Lark: *whispers back* Yeah maybe
Houdini: NOPE!
Ixi: Darn, well then let me introduce you to Houdini, my darker muse. He helps me write gory stuff and other stuff that is scary and dark, angst etc. . . He is a black bunny with a white belly and white nose, a black body and a gray cross/star shape on his forehead. He is wearing a black spiked collar and has an obsession with sharp pointy things. And if you look closely he has little black horns by his ears.
Lark: Hey how come you never described us?
Ixi: Uh, eh, well. I'll just do that now. Elmer is a brown horse with a white blaze on his nose. And if you are going by the one by my computer desk he has angel wings. (Elmer is actually a horsy icon, very famous in the horsy world. He is just about everything including statues/figurines; uh there is a plushy, lot of other stuff. And I officially made him my muse. ^_^) Lark is a sparrow O_O yes a sparrow. She has her feathers on her head in a ponytail, some rings and other jewelry on her wings and feet. I drew a pic, but alas no scanner V_V Okay to the story.
Lark: Hey aren't you going to tell them what seeing Houdini means?
Ixi: Uh sure, when he appears something major will happen in the story. Devastating major. Now on to the story.
Lark: Wait, no disclaimers. *Looks at Ixi who is already at the couch for the story* Fine I'll just do it myself. Stop inflating Ixi's head, she does NOT own Yu Yu Hakusho. Lex and Mika are Pikabloo12's characters. And Skye if he even comes up in this chapter is Black Pawn's. Others are Ixi's.
Chapter 12 Team Torn Apart
Yukina slowly opened her eyes. "Where am I?" She said as she sat up looking around the bleak cell. "More importantly, who am I?" (Lark: Is that it, is that all Houdini does? Ixi: Shhhhhh! *Throws popcorn at Lark* Lark: Hey I thought you hated popcorn. Ixi: Why do you think I'm throwing it at you?) An evil snicker came from the shadows. Yukina backed up in fear. A cloaked figure emerged from the shadows and from behind the hood, Yukina saw a pair of eyes glaring at her. He left without a word back into the shadows, and a new pair of eyes appeared. They emerged from the shadows as well, but these belonged to a small black cat. (Ixi: Normal house cat) "Hey kitty." Yukina whispered holding a hand out for the cat. "Meooooooooow." It cried, coming closer. Yukina picked it up and placed it into her lap. Stroking it gently as it purred she tried to remember who she was.
~ * With the Gang * ~
The group watched as Ixi, Lex and Nerru silently discussed something in the corner. Millenia and Keyou were also speaking in private. Hiei watched them, but he was preoccupied. Someone had tried to contact him through his Jagan. Who, or how was what Hiei was trying to figure out. It wasn't Aris; she already contacted him through other means so there would be no point to contact him through the Jagan. It wasn't Kitsume either; she too knew how to contact him without the Jagan. So the question now, who? Kitsume looked across the room over to Hiei. He wasn't just silent, he was preoccupied. She got up, despite curious glances from the other gang members. She sat down near him and watched him to get his attention. "Hiei?" She timidly asked him. "Hn." Yusuke and Keiko glanced at each other. Sure Hiei Hn'd to everybody else, but they had never seen him do it to Kitsume.
Kitsume's eyes widened in surprise. "Hiei, something is wrong. What's wrong?" "Nothing." Kitsume folded her arms, "You know, that I know when you're lying. Tell me!" Hiei gave her a death glare. "NO!" He used his quick speed to vanish before Kitsume's eyes. Kitsume got a hurt look on her face and in her new rage she vanished in her puff of smoke. Hiei had gone out the door and shut it again before anyone noticed it opening. He ran down the hall at high speeds so nobody would see him. 'Who tried to contact me? And why?' Hiei asked himself. Before he realized how far he'd went, Hiei was outside the palace gates. He stopped for only a brief second of rest before taking off again.
~* With the gang again *~
Ixi cleared her throat for the remaining groups attention. "Okay, some of you do, some of you don't know what's going on. I'll try and give you the best explanation I can. You have traveled through the space-time- continual from Nigenkai/Earth to here, Theca. Here in Theca, there has been a legend, older than time. The legend is about four powerful Elemental Creatures and an evil incarnate demon. Since we don't have a lot of time I'll give you the 101 basics on it. There were three Elementals during the time of darkness. Cato the Unicorn of Earth is supposedly the oldest. As legend states, Cato found a dying bird of fire. Since Cato was full of compassion, he healed the bird who later became the Phoenix. The phoenix's name was Ambrose Phoenix of Fire or at least that's what it was after he met Cato. In some mysterious way, the Unicorn's immorality became the phoenixes as well. Ambrose felt indebted and followed Cato through his journey. Eventually they found Enoch the Gryphon of Air. Ambrose saved his life and Enoch joined the group they had going.
Peace became known in the land and we entered the birth of 'light' or so it states. Darkness and Light were time periods in our culture, much like dynasties and that type of thing for your world. Well during 'Light' an evil neko demon appeared by the name Aris. She had grown extremely powerful from an unstated dark force and she wanted to rule Theca. You know self-empowerment and all that. Well she challenged the three. It was a titanic battle and Aris was defeated, not killed though. Theca returned to peace no longer under her constant attacks. A while later, the fourth Elemental comes into the picture. He was named Darren, Dragon of Water. Well he was power hungry, and Aris had reappeared, mostly as rumors and hints of dark deeds. He some how found his way to Aris and signed a contract for power, and to save someone's life.
Soon Aris was very powerful again and she once again threatened the peace and 'light' of Theca. The three once again rose against her. Some way or another, Aris's promise to Darren became hollow and her turned against her, and helped fight with the Elementals. This battle though just as titanic, ended with disaster. The four fell in this order, Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix, Gryphon." Ixi paused to take a breath. "Hey I thought you said the Elementals were immortal!" Exclaimed Yusuke. Ixi solemnly nodded her head before continuing. "Immortal, not invulnerable. Which means they can die but only under certain pretenses." Ixi paused again, "Once they were dead, it is said that the spirits of the four rose to the sky and formed constellations. Each constellation was of that particular beast, and it is also said that the souls became heart stars for the constellations. A heart star is a star of a different color than the normal whitish stars, in the constellations they are found where the heart of what would be the creature would be. Here." Ixi handed over the paper she had been looking over.
It was a star map; there were several stars and constellations on the map. The dots representing the stars moved with the movements of the real things. There were four constellations that stood out. "Show outlines." Ixi said, and lines began forming on the paper symbolizing the basic forms of the objects in the sky. "Here are the four." Ixi said pointing to a blocking in the corner of the map. And there they were, a serpentine dragon, soaring phoenix, running unicorn and gliding gryphon. "See here, no green star for the Unicorn, which is the color of his heart star." Ixi pointed near the unicorn's chest. All the group could see were white stars. "See the Cerberus over here." Ixi said pointing to the other corner of the map. "Here is his heart star." She pointed to a silver dot near where a heart would be.
"So what does it mean?" Kurama asked. Ixi pointed to his chest. "It explains that." Kurama looked down and saw a green glowing object around his neck. "And those two." Ixi pointed at Kuwabara's chest and Yusuke's chest. Yusuke's was glowing red, and Kuwabara's glowing white. "Kurama, you have Cato, Unicorn of Earth. Yusuke you have Ambrose, Phoenix of Fire. Kuwabara you have Enoch, Gryphon of Air." Keiko looked to all of them. "Hey the elements sound familiar." She thought out loud. 'Yes they would, your ancients believed them to be the first elements. And as for the fourth wielder, Hiei should be discovering the blue medallion of Darren, Dragon of Water." (Lark: Hey isn't Hiei a FIRE apparition? Ixi: Yes, why? Lark: Then why does he have water elemental? Ixi: Uh, it had to do with the plot of my story and other things that happened in the actual anime series. Lark: Oh, so you really don't have a clue, it just sort of happened? Ixi: Basically yeah.)
~* With Hiei *~
"Aris! Show yourself! Where is my sister!?" Hiei yelled into the cavernous, lavish room. Only cruel, sadistic laughter met his ears. "Answer me!" He yelled again, getting his katana ready to attack. "Tsk, tsk Dragon, rash actions lead only to dire results." The laughter continued. "Hnnnnnnn, I followed your sick rules, where is my sister?" "Well technically you have yet to rescue her so all my demands were not met. Get past my defenses deep within the castle and find your sister if you dare. But my offer will stand, join me and immense power can be yours, fight against me and you will die like the other fool Dragon. Begin you may." Aris's voice slowly faded from the room and the huge doors facing Hiei began to open. Hiei readied himself for the battle and as soon as the doors opened he took off into the castle to find his sister. 'I'm coming for you imohto, please hold on.'
Ixi: Well there it is, chapter uh . . .
Lark: 12?
Ixi: Right 12!
Lark: *sigh* Why am I your muse again? All we do is fight?
Ixi: Because, creativity comes from a clash of ideas.
Lark: There is no way you came up with that yourself
Ixi: You are absolutely right, I have good lines like that in Me and the Penguin Army (my newest story ^-^ read it, it's a YYH story)
Lark: Where did you find that saying then?
Ixi: My mom's Readers Digest
Lark: Thought so.
*Black bunny scuttles across set*
Ixi & Lark: *Sigh* that's not good
Ixi: Review responses below
To Rachael: I'm glad you liked it. I hope I enlightened you on the problem with the Jagan. More than likely that will come up later and explain itself better. Hope you keep reading.
To Kairi032: That's good that you liked my story especially the Hiei and Yukina parts (Ixi: I try really hard on them. Lark: No you don't! Ixi: *runs away laughing* Elmer: Too much sugar Lark: Yep). If you tell me what you are totally lost on I will try and clarify it better for you. Glad you still liked it though. Please keep reading.