The Welder of BlackFire:
Thorn's New Life-The Legend Lives
Chapter Three: Living Again
"Koenma! Its so nice to see you again!" Rose said, her tone the perfect sound of utter excitment. They were in America, a place where it looked as if Koenma had never been. They were in the girl's room, which was the picture of innocents: a wild horse boarder, light pink walls with light green curtains, a rug with mustangs on it in the center of the hard-wood floor and pictures of horses decorating the walls tastefully. The only sign of her eccentricity was the tons of horse show ribbons draping on string along the length of the horse boarder, giving the room a bright gleam of colors.
'I'm glad I was going to hold off on painting my room dark blue and silver until the week I got back, or Koenma might get the wrong impression,' Rose had thought as she looked at her body that lay on her bed. Her mother had been in her room, holding her hand and crying. Rose had come in the woman's dreams to tell her that she was coming back, reminding her of Yusuke and his adventures in other people's dreams and of what would be needed for her soul to return to her body.
People stood outside the room, the house packed with her family and schoolmates. Although most were not friends but for maybe one or two, it gave Koenma the impression that this girl was wanted back in this life. When Rose's mother left the room, Koenma set to work, bright golden waves flowing over her body. He went over the rules of her getting back into her body. Someone who wanted her back would have to kiss her to give the needed life energy and she would instantly be returned to life.
"Thank you so much Koenma," she had said, her words almost heart-felt.
"Now just remember the rules. By noon you'll be glowing gold, and then you have until midnight to get the needed life energy," he said seriously.
"I wont forget," she said with a smile, giving the toddler a tight hug and giggling. The young ruler grinned and blushed.
Hours passed before the girls body began to glow at noon. By two, most of the people in the house had left and her mother came into the room once again, her face red and tear-streaked. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw the scene in her dream being played before her eyes. She walked up slowly to the body as the three souls above her held their breath. With a fresh burst of tears, the woman hugged her daughter and gave her a soft kiss.
"Stay handsome, Koenma, I'm sure I'll see everyone again in the future," Rose said before her soul was again sucked into her body.
With a groggy moan, the girl began to sit up in her bed, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Suddenly, she bolted upright in the bed, making the springs creak and groan. Her mother had wrapped her arms around her in a tight embrace, tears falling faster than ever before. Rose returned the hug with a small smile to herself. She looked up to the ceiling of her room, where she knew that Botan and Koenma sat on the air. She grinned at them, for the first time, a genuine smile of thanks, giving them a thumbs-up sign behind her mother's back that she knew they saw.
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"Its only a matter of time before they look and see that you're gone," the newly-revived Rose said to the sword.
After returning to the human world, she had asked Botan for a moment alone to watch her friends and family. The grim-reaper had complied happily, and flew off for a few hours back to the Spirit World. Rose had felt the sword begin to vibrate in strain from keeping its size so small, and it was steadily growing larger, no matter how hard it seemed to try to stop. Quickly, Rose had placed it under a small waterfall that flowed in her small stream that ran to a large creek. Under the waterfall was a small, innoticable cave where she hid the weapon. She bid it to hide itself best it could, so that no one could feel its energy. It said in its mind speach it would try its best.
When Rose returned to her house, she watched her family and schoolmates as they grieved over her. She felt like scoffing them, but just then Botan returned, Koenma by her side, making her put a sorrowful look on her face before they saw her sneering expression.
After coming back to life, Rose had gone down to the site where she had stashed the sword. She looked at it now, contemplating what she was suppose to do with it. It seemed to have had a spell on it that had stopped it from communicating in the room in the castle had worn off, and now it spoke to her freely.
'Don't worry about it, they will not think to look at you. From what I have seen, and what you have told me, they think of you as nothing but the picture of innocents. The fools,' came the swords vibrant voice in her mind. She smiled and shook her head.
"Now, the question is, where to put you," she said. "I can't just leave you here, and its not like I can hide you in my closet, or you'll be discovered, and I can't exactly carry you around with me."
'But you can. Put me on your back, and I'll use my magic to make ties to hold me there,'
"Listen, this isn't hundreds of years ago when people used to carry around swords all the time. Now you can be thrown in jail for carrying around a weapon, and frankly, I don't want to draw attention to myself so soon after coming back from the dead." Rose felt weird, talking to a sword, but sounding as if she was talking to herself.
'I can make myself invisable for long periods of time with short breaks in between. But I agree about not drawing attention to us.'
"Us?"
'Yes, we are one now. If you choose to keep me, then we will forever be together, for I have chosen you to be my welder,' came the reply. 'And, if we stay together, I will bestow upon you my awsome and limitless power.'
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Authoress' Note: Okay! Chapter three! It took me a couple days to put it up, but here it is! Yay!
Yusuke: How come none of the important characters are in this chapter? -pout-
J: -twitch- because this was more of an information chapter! Notice I skipped a lot of details conserning her coming back to life? Geez, gimme a break. The next chapter will be full of action, I promise.
Yusuke: -grumble- okay. Fine. Kuwabara! Will you stop with the pouting?! Its driving me insane! -holds head-
Kuwabara: -muttering- kitty. Kitty. kitty. I wanna kitty cat.
All: -_-' dork.
J: listen Kuwabara! Pilgrim is my pet! And I don't want him to start freaking out because of you and your stupid obsession! It gets you and your friends into enough trouble in a later chapter.
All: Really?
J: -nods- its true
All: Damn you Kuwabara! -welds mallets and starts to mutalate him-
J: Reviews are greatly appreciated! -watches brutality- okay you guys, that's enough, I do have the smallest of parts for him next chapter, when he gets his ass kicked, so try to be a little nice.
All: awww!
J: yes I know you want to beat him to a bloody pulp, just not today, okay?
All: -pout--nod-
J: okay! Well then, I'll be updating soon, maybe I'll post another chapter tonight!
Random Person: YAY!
All: -stare- where did they come from?
J: just a person I just created -shrug- okay Kuwabara! Because you refuse to leave my cat alone without pain, you must do the disclaimer! BWAHAHAHA!
All but Kuwabara: -evil snicker-
Kuwabara: NOOO!!!!
J: yes, and I made a simple, easy-to-read disclaimer this time. -hands him papers-
Kuwabara: -sigh- okay. -looks at papers, each has one word on it- J. does. Not. Own. Anyone. But. Rose. And. BlackFire. And. Her. Cat. Pilgrim. Which. Kuwabara. Cannot. Have.
J: -claps- good job!
Kuwabara: -pout- I wanna kitty.
Yusuke: you have a cat! That one I rescued from that freak when I came back to life!
Kuwabara: oh yeah
All: -sigh- baka.
J: kk! That's all for now! New chappy coming soon! Please review!