Chapter 3: The Rescue
The rest of them ran over to Crystal and Silver. Kuwabara used his spirit sword to cut the vines and release the girls. Having lost so much blood, they fell onto the floor, unconscious.
"Let's take them back to Genkai's, they need time to heal." Kurama
said holding Silver bridal-style. Yusuke held Crystal in the same way, and they called Koenma for another portal.
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"It's good to see you're awake." Kurama said in a cheery but serious
voice. He was wearing a red jump suit and matching pants.
She sighed and said nothing. Then Silver noticed Crystal, who was still unconscious on the bed next to her. She was exhausted, but tried her hardest not to go to sleep.
"You must get some rest. We'll explain everything once you're
ready." Silver nodded and closed her eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
A few minutes after she fell asleep Crystal woke up. She sat up and
winced at the pain but ignored it. She blinked; there in front of
her was a short man that was staring down at her. He was wearing all
black. Black pants, shoes, muscle shirt, and cloak. Crystal just
looked away and didn't look back at him for awhile until he said, "You
need to get some rest and regain your energy." Crystal looked at him
confused.
'Why is he caring for me? Does he like me or something?'
She though. She blushed a light red and looked over to where Silver was laying.
"She's sleeping and I think you should do the same." The demon in front of her said. She had to agree with him because she was very tried from the battle of trying to stay awake. And with that she let the blanket of slumber take over her body. It did so quickly.
Three hours later, Silver woke up silently and got up out of bed. Crystal was still sleeping next to her. Silver shook her lightly.
"Crystal, hey, wake up."
Crystal opened her eyes slowly to adjust to the light. Then she noticed that there wasn't any. She sat up immediately as though she had had a nightmare.
"You okay?" Silver asked her quietly.
"Fine. Where are we? The last place I seem to recall is the tree that
we were sleeping in." Crystal had her confused look on again.
"I don't know looks like a temple to me. And it looks like we're in
Ningenkai." She stuck her head out the window to see where exactly
she was. Crystal sighed and said, "Let's go we have no business being here."
Silver nodded her head in agreement. Crystal opened the window
and the two of them slipped out unnoticed; or so they thought. In the
tree above them, a dark figure with crimson red eyes stared down at
them. The creature followed them into the woods.
"Alright, come out. I know your there." Silver said annoyed. A short man came out of the tree and walked slowly towards Silver and Crystal.
"What are you two doing?" his cold voice was chilling and merciless.
"Going home. What else? We have no intention of staying here." Crystal said harshly.
"Hn. Well since you two seem well, I have to take you to Koenma. I
think he'll be surprised to see that you're up already."
"I've heard of him. He is the Prince of Rekai. What does he want with
us?" Silver wanted so much to attack him but she restrained herself
so she could find out what was going on.
"You'll find out if you follow me. And try to keep up." In a flash he
was gone.
A growl escaped Silver's mouth.
Crystal and her ran as fast as they could, creating a dust cloud behind them.
Once the pair was at full speed, it was easy to catch up to the fire demon they were following. They almost past him once but decided to slow down so he could lead.
He tried to go faster but when he did, he found that he and used up too much energy and couldn't, so, he slowed down.
After about two minutes of running, they approached Genkai's temple.
"You'd better have a darn good reason why we have to stay, or else the next thing you're gonna see is the devil's face." Crystal was
aggravated at the little fire youkai on front of her. Hiei only
smirked and walked through the double doors that led into the house.
He led them through a long dark hallway, and came to the living
room.
Silver looked at the fire youkai in confusion, but he said nothing. He
walked over to one of the armchairs and sat down.
"I take it you don't trust us very much seeing as you don't know who we are." The boy with the red hair looked at the two wolf demons with emerald green eyes as though he was welcoming them. Crystal and Silver nodded at his remark.
"Okay," he began "I'm Kurama, that's Yusuke, the guy you met is Hiei, that's.... hey where'd he go?"
Sure enough, Kuwabara was right in front of the two wolf demons holding Silvers hands.
"Hello, I'm Kuzama Kuwabara here to protect you from evil demons and the shrimp over there."
That got Hiei's attention and he gave him a death glare; though it didn't reach Kuwabara's eyes.
Silver thought it was time for a little mental chat with Crystal. For a
moment it seemed like time had stopped for them so the could have the conversation.
So, what are we going to with that dimwit?
Silver asked her sister, using the telepathy.
I'm thinking we either we punch him or bite him, or disappear and reappear on the wall over there. If one doesn't work we'll use another. First, we try the disappearing trick, if it doesn't work than our claws. Then if none of that works, which is highly unlikely, we punch him out.
Crystal replied.
Silver nodded in approval.Time slowly came back to its original speed.
Kuwabara was just about to make another 'I love you speech' when both of the wolf demons in front of him, disappeared.
This trick got everybody's attention, and they all looked around the room, trying to see where the pair had gone. Then the both of them reappeared in a corner on the other side of the room. Silver made a face at the fact that everybody was still looking around for them.
WILL YOU GIVE IT UP!?!" Silver shouted. She was really mad at Kuwabara now, for instead of looking around for the two of them, he was on the floor fake sobbing for them to come back. Every one else was looking at him as if he had three heads. So, to relieve herself of her stress, Silver went over to Kuwabara, and lifted his hand and brought it up to her mouth and bit down. Hard. He screamed like a girl and Silver let go, leaving bloodstained teeth marks in his hand (Silver and Crystal do have fangs by the way, if you have forgotten). Silver now had blood on her fangs, and she licked it off, swallowing the salty red blood. Yusuke was on the floor laughing maniacally, Kurama was trying but failing to hold his laughter, and if you look close enough, you could see Hiei smirking.
"That's not funny guys, she bit me!" Kuwabara protested rubbing his hand, but making more blood come out.
"So, how hard did you bite down?" Crystal asked her sister. She was looked confused as to why Silver had bitten down so lightly.
"Well, in our opinion not hard at all," Silver answered "But in his case, pretty hard."
Silver chuckled and began for the door. Crystal followed close behind.
"Hey, I can tell go have great strength by just looking at you. Would
you like to join the team?" Koenma wondered aloud. It didn't even faze the girls that they were going to join a group who fought demons and save others lives and such. Silver and Crystal looked at each other than back at Koenma. They both nodded and joined the rest of the group again.
Yusuke was still snickering a little at the fact that Kuwabara had a couple of tears on his cheeks. Hiei and Kurama had stopped and were staring at the two idiots on the floor.
"Well since those two can't stop, I'll say it for them," Kurama said. "Welcome to the team." Kurama had a lot of enthusiasm in his voice. Too much enthusiasm actually. Silver nodded, and looked at Crystal who had her eyes closed. She nudged her and she opened her eyes to see Kurama in front of them with his hand out.
She shook it and smiled.
Both girls exited and went into the other room.
"Alright, spill it, what's going on?" Silver said, stopping her sister. She had an eyebrow raised and a confused look on her face.
"Well the reason I closed my eyes is because I sensed something
inside Kurama's mind and, I was interested so I looked into it. And
you wouldn't believe what I saw."
"Well, spill it already I'm not psychic here, well actually I am, but
that's not the point. Just say it already!" She was eager to hear
the news.
"Okay, Kurama loves you." Silver was completely taken aback by the news that she backed away from Crystal in disbelief. She was silent for a moment more
"HE WHAT!" Silver shouted back at her sister. Though She hated to admit it, he was kind of cute. She grimaced mentally for what she had just thought.
"I have an idea," Silver said "I'll go into Hiei's mind tonight while he's asleep. We'll see what he is thinking. He'll never know."
Crystal nodded at the idea and then left for her room.
This should be interesting Silver thought to herself as she followed her sister down the hall.