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Arrow of amity

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The day continued into what seemed to be forever but Botan was not going to give up on her friends when they needed her. So she kept walking through the Makai in search of her mother and she had a feeling that a little acting was in order. But then if her suspicions were right then the mother she had met was not real and her real mother was killed. How could that monster play with someone's emotions? I lost my friends because of her...it...whatever it is.

Botan came to a stop at a familiar spot, the entrance to the ice world, the palace where Hiei was born. This just angered Botan to tears, she had found something incredible and it was all her fault for believing her "mother" over the one she loved. Love was so malicious at times with its tests of the heart. Well Botan would conquer it for she was tired of things coming between her and the demon she loved.

"Hiei, I will save you, and you will be free. Then wait for me to join you in death." She said since she had turned into a Demon once more and that would let her die with ease. She would join them after the hardest battle of her life...death...whatever.

Botan came to a stop at the house she was searching for a smirk spilled across her face. "This is what you wanted MOTHER." Botan said as her dark aura surrounded her. Time for an act.

Botan stumbled through the trees and walked up the stoop to her mother's house, she had to bide her time and find out the truth, what was that monster after? Botan knocked on the door, her charm bracelet ringing as each charm clashed with the next. Her friends were with her, each one had a special charm and she would not be lost.

The door opened with a pleading squeak, "Hello dear." Botan's mother said

"I heard about your friends, and I am so very sorry. You know what works for me?" She asked

"What is it mother?" Botan asked innocently

"Write them a letter and tie it to a balloon, they will get the message." She said and handed Botan a blue pen and white paper. "Here you go. I'll give you some time." She said and went into her house.

"A letter, like that will help since they are in your mind." Botan said "but I guess it couldn't hurt. So Botan started to write one letter to each of them. It was not easy to tell them goodbye and she wasn't ready for it. But after a few hours Botan had finished her letter. Botan folded it and put it into a small envelope, tied it to a balloon and let her thoughts fly to the heavens where she knew her friends wouldn't get it.

Botan entered the house only after seeing the balloon swallowed by the neon sky. Her mother was waiting patiently at the dinner table as Botan crossed the room.

"Dear, how are you feeling? Better?" Botan nodded fakely. "Are you ready to show me what you have learned?"

"Learned?"

"From Genkai of course." Her mother said

"But how did you know..."

"I can see all child." She said, "You and I are alike. And I can see that you know who I am. I know that you want to kill me and that is why I allowed you to say your goodbyes. But then how will your little friends get that lovely letter of yours? Rest assured, I will let their souls go. I only used them to get you here." She said but her voice get dark and sent shivers down Botan's spine.

"So you want to use their powers against mine? Well if they are so powerful then why let them go just to keep me if I am so weak?"

"Oh please, daughter..." The demon transformed into Hiei only her voice did not change. "I don't need their powers for yours are stronger."

"You change back, so me your true form. Besides you put Hiei to shame." Botan grew angry and drew he black bow and pointed an arrow at the demon.

"A little girl such as yourself could never handle my true form." The demon turn scaly and green with a putrid smell. Teeth, claws, and hair covered every thing.

"You are an ugly one." Botan said

"Aww, you hurt my feelings." It smiled and drew a golden Bow

"And you hurt my soul. That can never be fixed."

"So it comes to this, bow to bow." The demon pulled back as the arrow made a clicking sound as it found home on the shaft. "You know I should have killed you when you were a baby. But now I have become attached to you as a real daughter.

"Shut up and let my friends go!" she ordered,

"Stupid girl." The demon laughed and let her arrow fly. It flew agonizingly slow in Botan's eyes, she was too lat to save them. All she could do was watch as the arrow flew at her. Botan shut her eyes and waited for the arrow to Pearce her heart. She opened her eyes when she heard the familiar clang of the charms on her bracelet. The bracelet began to glow with every color of the rainbow each color represented a friend. But one color was missing.

"What's this?" the demon asked "that should have killed you.

Botan held tight to her bow as it absorbed the colors of her friends. Yusuke's blue spirit gun, Kuwabara's orange sword, Kurama's Red Rose petals, the girls' powers of friendship, but something was still missing.

Botan held the bow and arrow in place as she brought her hand up to the tear gem around her neck. "Please Hiei, help me." She said as his dark purple energy flowed through her and to the arrow at the end. "Now it is over." Botan said as she pulled back the multicolored arrow.

"Let go of all the souls you took, my mother, my friends, and whoever else is in there." Botan let go and the arrow flew.

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Is not this the point were the show would end???