Chapter 5: Katakai's Revenge
"Ready to go?" Crystal asked with worry. She answered the door with
her stuff in a bag and smiled, weakly.
"Let's go out your window, it's closer to the woods, we can cover
more ground that way."
They sneaked across the hallway to Crystal's room.
They could here the snoring Kuwabara and Yusuke. Though when passing Kurama's and Hiei's rooms, they couldn't hear a peep out of either one of them. Tears formed in both their eyes again as they passed their rooms but they knew that they had to keep going.
Making their way to Crystal's room, they crept inside and jumped out
the window landing in a tree nearby. Silently slipping out of the
tree, they made their way towards the forest. Even though they were
out of the temple, they still had to keep quiet because of Hiei and
Kurama's acute hearing.
Without a sound, they dashed toward the forest.
Using top speed, they were able to dodge trees and bushes and jump over lakes and rivers. They went like this for seven miles. They never said a word during that period of time, maybe a grunt or two went one of them got cut by a branch, but other wise, nothing.
"Let's stop here. And rest for a bit, and get our energy back so we can run again." Silver was the brains of the two and could easily tell what someone was felling whether it was tired or hyper. Crystal nodded her head in reply breathing heavily.
Both of them sat under a large oak tree overlooking a river that
glowed silver in the moon's light. (Sound familiar?). The wind played
around with your hair as if it were a toy in a child's hands. Crystal
closed her eyes to get some rest but Silver nudged her to stay awake. She moaned and opened her eyes.
Silver's eyes glowed when they mixed with the moon's light and created a pair of ghost-like eyes. It was the same thing for Crystal except hers glowed a pure white color.
Silver sniffed the cool air, it was starting to get warm and the fog seemed to disappear.
"We should get going, it's going to be sunrise in a couple of hours
and we can make a few more miles." Silver said.
"Alright, but then we get some rest." Crystal replied softly "I have an idea, while one of us rests, the other will stand guard. And then we switch. How about we sleep in the clouds? You're a wind demon so you can float up there and I can create a cloud with my fire abilities
that I can rest on."
"Sounds great, I've always wanted to sleep on a cloud. Maybe it will
be a great experience and we have a great view." Silver said, perking up slightly. Slowly the two of them got up and grabbed their stuff, making sure that they hadn't left anything behind. Quickly and steadily, both of them jumped over the river doing a flip and landing on their feet. Then, they started running off again.
At the temple:
Kurama and Hiei were first to wake up as usual and decided to go wake up the idiots in the other room.
"Yusuke, Yusuke, YUSUKE!" Kurama was shaking Yusuke hard now.
"Okay! I'm up, I'm up!" Yusuke opened his eyes to see Kurama standing over him.
"HOLY CRAP!" Yusuke yelled. He was startled to see Kurama just above him, he was so shocked that he jumped up in the air and just missed hitting the ceiling. Hiei smirked and Kurama chuckled at his early enthusiasm.
"Now I know how Silver felt when she was woken up by you."
Yusuke sighed and turned to Kuwabara.
"I know how to make this even more fun." Hiei darted over to the
freezer and got out a few ice cubes. Then he dashed back to
Kuwabara's room. "Kurama, hold Kuwabara up but don't wake him."
Kurama lifted up his upper body and Hiei put the ice cubes he had in
his hand, in Kuwabara's pants. Yusuke was already trying to hold in
his laughter so all that came out were giggles. Kurama laid Kuwabara
back down on his back and stepped back eagerly awaiting the result of Hiei's experiment.
"In 3, 2, 1." Hiei counted down as the information from Kuwabara's
nerves told the brain that the ice was COLD. After Hiei said 'one',
Kuwabara sprang up and jumped so high and so fast that he went
through the ceiling into the room above him; which unfortunately was
Genkai's; and fell back down onto the floor bellow him. (Stomach side
down that is.)
He suddenly sprang back and started dancing all around the room.
Leaping and twirling, hopping and shaking. Yusuke was cracking up at the sight of it. Rivers were rolling down his eyes. Kurama and Hiei
had their hands at their sides and laughing so hard the tears where
coming down their cheeks.
Finally after about ten minutes of dancing around the room, Kuwabara
got the ice cubes out of his pants.
"OKAY! WHO DID THAT!?!" Kuwabara was fuming when he saw the others laughing.
"It was Hiei's idea." Yusuke said between laughs.
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU SHORTY!" Hiei stopped laughing, slowly and looked at the fuming Kuwabara. Hiei only grinned and exited the room; before he left he gave Kurama an okay-it's-not-funny-anymore glare. Kurama stopped after that and nudged Yusuke to do the same. The two of them left the room chuckling and grinning.
"Meet you down stairs for breakfast Kuwabara!" Yusuke yelled from the hallway. Kuwabara started to get dressed into then sweat pants and a white T-shirt. Then he slipped on his socks and shoes and ran
downstairs for breakfast.
"Hey, has anybody seen Silver or Crystal?" Kuwabara looked around and saw that there were two empty seats to the right of him.
"It's like them to go off on their own, if they're not back by lunch,
we'll go look for them." Kurama reassured Kuwabara.
With the girls:
"How long have we been running?" Crystal asked, exhausted.
"About a couple of hours, maybe." Silver replied "Maybe we should take a break and rest in the clouds now. You can sleep first since you look more tired than I am. And besides, I'll stay wake longer without having to fall asleep while on guard."
"Oh, hahaha, very funny. Now let's go." Crystal could not fly, so Silver took into a levitate with her. She floated a little to get the feeling of flying again; for, she hadn't haven't flown in a long time.
She picked up Crystal, and brought her into the hover as well, and flew up towards the sky.
The trip was very smooth and it didn't take long to reach the clouds. Silver skipped the first few layers and headed for the top one. There they would have a beautiful view of the sky and sun and the land below them.
"Here we are, top floor your highness." Silver said, joking with her sister.
"Very funny, now let's get some rest for tonight. I don't want to
hear you complaining that you're tired after we just get started."
Silver rolled your eyes at the sound of her sister's lies. She didn't complain, though, and she knew it was she, who was complaining most of the time. Crystal was only trying to tease her.
Silver lay down on her stomach next to a clearing in the clouds where she could see right through all the way down to the ground. It was a
lovely sight seeing all the trees and fields and houses coming
together into one picture. Though she didn't see Genkai's temple. Silver sighed out loud and looked into the distance. She could just make out the outline of Genkai's temple in a clearing in the woods.
That made her think of Kurama. How disappointed he was when she had told him that you couldn't be with him anymore.
"That was a lie, I never wanted to break up with him, I should have never told him such a thing." Silver whispered.
"I know how you feel, we should have never told them that." Crystal said, turning over and looking over at her sister.
Later that day
"Silver! What's the matter? Crystal said shaking her sister awake.
Silver was.
"Was it that dream again?" Crystal asked her and she sat up
forgetting that she was on a cloud.
"Yeah, it's that same dream." Silver said, rubbing her head "I don't know why I keep dreaming about it but it just keeps coming back." She said, then thought.
"What time is it?"
Crystal could tell time by the position of the sun and what season it is.
"It's around 3:00. Do you think we should get going?" Crystal said and gazed at the cloudless sky above them.
"Yes, well move on the clouds, like playing hop scotch." Silver said.
"And if we need to pick up speed, I can always fly with you on my
back, not that you very light or anything." Silver said and looked in the direction of the sun. It was if was trying to run towards it but never touching it.
Slowly Silver stood up; her arms were still asleep even though
the rest of your body wasn't.
"Make sure we have everything. Ready to go." She said
"Yep, let's go." Crystal said picking up her things.
They set out towards the sun, trying to find a portal to Makai. If they found one Silver and Crystal would sense it and go back down earth. Otherwise, they would be better in the clouds so they wouldn't have to fight other demons to got there.
With the guys:
"Where are those girls?" Kuwabara asked.
"Probably planning to make you scream." Yusuke wanted to make a joke about what happened when they had first met the Crystal and Silver.
Noticing that nobody was laughing or taking it as a joke, he decided
to take walk outside. Kurama didn't care; he was worried about
Crystal and Silver because they hadn't shown up anywhere.
"Hiei." Kurama paused and looked at Hiei with concern in his eyes, to
his surprise; Hiei was feeling the same thing. "Let's go look for the
Crystal and Silver."
Hiei gave him a nodded they both went upstairs to check their rooms.
The found their room completely empty and their stuff, gone.
There wasn't a sign that Crystal and Silver had ever been in the room.
"Hiei, if your thinking what I'm thinking then I think that they might of run away. But why?" Kurama and Hiei paused and remembered the
night when they had a talk with Silver and Crystal.
Kurama's Flashback:
"Well. I know that you are not going to like this but I'm afraid that
we cannot be together anymore. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be
friends, but I just don't think that it is right to love you."
You looked down at your feet not wanting to see the sorrow in his
eyes. Kurama wanted to cry with all his tears that he had in his eyes
but didn't find the courage to. He knew that if he cried it would
hurt you even more.
"Kurama I-."
"JUST GO AWAY! YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH ALREADY!" Without another word you
slipped out of his room silently. Once you were out of his room, you
ran to your room crying in your bed knowing that you would never talk
to Kurama again.
End of Kurama's flashback
The images of the two of them raced through his mind; as well as
Hiei's.
Hiei's flashback
"What did you want to talk about?" Hiei was concerned now because she
wasn't looking at him like she usually did when talking to
him. "What's wrong?"
"I know this is going to be hard for me and it's going to be worse
for you. I- I don't know if I can love you anymore. It just. Doesn't
seem right to me. I'm sorry Hiei." Hiei got tears welling up in his
eyes but didn't cry. Crystal got up and touched Hiei's shoulder. He
just shook it off and sat on the windowsill and stared out into
space.
End of Flashbacks
"Kurama, they did run away. They probably were so sad that they ran
so we wouldn't have our hearts broken again." Kurama nodded at that statement and both of them rushed outside to find...Katakai?
"Hello again. Remember me?" A cold voice came from the trees. A
blinding white light surrounded the boys and they were gone without even a gasp. Instant transportation.
"Let the games... begin." Katakai chuckled and beam of light surrounded him and then he vanished, leaving not a trace that he had been there.
Back to Silver and Crystal
"You know, I don't think running away was such a good idea." Silver said to her sister. "And besides I do want to see Kurama again; even if we are just friends." She paused "Let's go back, they might be even more upset if they find us gone; I don't think you want to see Hiei betrayed, now, do you." Crystal looked down at the cloud she was standing on, she knew that Silver was right, even though she hated to admit it.
After a long pause Crystal just nodded and walked in the other direction; if there was anything that she wanted, it was to Hiei's face.
"If we fly like that we could be at Genkai's temple in less than an hour." Silver said.
Crystal still didn't look at her, she was very upset, and angry with herself.
"Look. I know your sad, but if we go now then we'll be there before
nightfall. And besides, crying isn't the answer. Come on, the sooner
we leave, the earlier we'll get there. Now hop on my back and I'll
carry you." Crystal didn't hesitate.
In a matter of seconds they were off, and heading back to Genkai's. It
wasn't long until they reached the temple to find only Yusuke and
Kuwabara there.
Silver and Crystal approached the temple and saw Yusuke leaning on a tree.
"Where in the seven hells are Kurama and Hiei!" Silver howled at
Yusuke.
"Hey, you finally showed up." Yusuke said sarcastically. "How should
I know, last time I saw them was when they were in the temple in the
den. What's gotten into you?"
Without another word both of them rushed into the house. They found the Shizuru, Yukina, Keiko, and Boton on the porch.
"Hey have any of you seen Kurama or Hiei lately?" Crystal questioned.
"No, why?" Boton replied with a cheery voice as usual.
"Okay, thanks." Crystal stopped in the middle of the hallway to see
if Silver had had any luck. "Anything?"
"None. I'll try sensing their spirit energy." Silver said, and her eyes started to glow a sky blue color again and pictures of Ningenkai flashed through her head.
When she was finished, the glow in her eyes vanished.
"I can't sense them, we need to talk to Koenma. But first we'll tell
Yusuke so he and the others won't get worried about us or Kurama and Hiei."
"There is need, I'm already here." A toddler came out of the hallway to their left.
"Where are Hiei and Kurama!?!" Silver hollered at him almost breaking his eardrums.
"To tell you the truth, I don't know. Maybe if you two hadn't run
away this wouldn't have happened!" Koenma protested. The two of them just sighed and left the room. Silver stopped in the middle of walking outside when she remembered hearing something that Katakai had said when he was defeated. Though she was unconscious, she could hear every word that was said.
Flashback:
"I'll get my revenge." Katakai wasn't completely dead though he was
at the edge of it. Although the others thought he was, since they
didn't notice him moving and his spirit energy was incredibly low.
End of flashback
"You'll never guess who took Hiei and Kurama." Silver said with
nervousness in her voice.
"You mean you know who did it?" Crystal asked.
Silver nodded and whispered one word in her sister's ear.
"Katakai."
Crystal's eyes widened terror as Silver explained that Katakai was alive.
Let's go tell Yusuke what happened. But he and the others can't come with us. Okay?"
Crystal nodded and ran towards where Yusuke was sitting.
"Yusuke!" Crystal screamed at him to get his attention. Yusuke looked over in the girls' direction.
"Hiei and Kurama have been kidnapped." That got Yusuke's attention.
"By who?"
"Katakai." Silver said calmly to Yusuke.
"We are going after to Katakai- ...."
"Then let's go." Yusuke stood up to face the girls. But they pushed
him back against the tree to make sure he didn't go running off.
"No Yusuke, we as in the both of us. We have to something to settle
with Katakai, and we have some other business to take care of as well." Silver said in a low dangerous voice.
"Tell the others not to worry; we'll be back as soon as possible."
Yusuke nodded in disappointment. He wanted to fight to but understood that it was something that Silver and Crystal had to do on their own.
Without another word, both of them ran back into the forest.
Stopping in a clearing, Silver tried to sense their spirit energy.
North-nope,
South- nope,
East- ah ha!
Signaling Crystal to go east, the two of them reached the sea.
"There must be a cavern or cave of some sort down there. I'll lead
the way but stick close to me."
Both of them hovered over the water scanning it to see exactly where the spirit energy was coming from.
"I found it." Crystal finally said. "All the way down at the bottom there must be a cavern or something. We have to go directly down."
Taking a deep breath, they dived down the bottom and were really
surprised that it wasn't a long way down.
Looking around, they found a small cavern to their left. They swam into the tunnel that took them into an air pocket.
"Crystal, you okay?" Silver asked calmly.
Crystal was gasping for breath.
"Yeah. I'm fine. Just a little out of breath that's all."
Silver walked carefully out of the water and onto the sand on the other side. Her eyes widened as she gazed upon two tunnels; both shrouded in darkness.
"Which one do we take?" Silver looked at Crystal with a puzzled look about her.
"Moe."
"What?" Now she was even more confused.
"Sure, Ieny, Meney, Miney, Moe."
(Silver did an anime fall.)
"Alright to put it simply, the one on the left." Crystal said, pointing down one of the tunnels
"I'll use my flames to light the way."
Regaining her composure, Silver nodded and walked through the tunnel without a sound.
Once they were out of the tunnel, they saw what they couldn't bare to see.
Hiei and Kurama were chained up to a wall unconscious.
They both looked like had been beaten pretty badly considering all
the cuts and bruises they had all over their bodies.
Hiei's Katana and Kurama's rose whip were on a table a few hundred feet away from them.
"I knew you would be here sooner or later."
A dark figure loomed over them. Silver's rage boosted at the sight of him. The wind around the two sisters began to spin and whip around like crazy, destroying columns and walls that held the cave together. The darkness had broken through its cage.
Crystal was absolutely furious. Fire was escaping from her body and onto the floor creating a large firewall around the room. Both of the demon sisters grew long pointed fangs and claws. Two purple stripes were on both their cheeks. One stripe on each side of both their hands as well.
Katakai just chuckled at the sight of the girls' anger and temptation
to kill him.
"What did you do to them!?!" Silver screamed making the wind around them stronger.
"Do not worry; they are not dead. Yet." Katakai said, smirking
"Now which one of you should I have the pleasure of killing first?"
Crystal had finally gone of the deep end. She leapt at him and clawed
at his face.
Katakai jumped gently to the side. When Crystal's claws
came in contact with the ground, it created a huge crater where
Katakai used to be standing.
Now it was Silvers turn to claw at him except that she was a little faster, but not quite fast enough.
When Silver launched her attack, he only got a tiny cut on the cheek.
"You're a lot quicker than I expected." Katakai mused
"Okay, fun's over." He said taking up a stance. "Let's begin."
Katakai charged at Crystal and threw a fireball at her.Using her control over fire, Crystal calmed the flame and pushed it to the side.
"Fire Tornado!" A column of fire swirled around Katakai. The twister
grew closer to him as through it was trying to swallow him up.
Suddenly a red light encircled the tornado and it vanished leaving
Katakai unharmed.
"I have a couple tricks up my sleeve. Though that one just weakened the rest of my energy, it still worked, as it should have. And I see it
took almost all of your energy to make that tornado, what a shame."
Katakai announced.
"At least I still have some energy left unlike you!" Silver retorted.
Katakai just smirked. Silver used her spirit energy to summon a sword into her hands.
Crystal was busy trying to get the guys free but was failing terribly.
"Stupid chains." Crystal mumbled and began to toy with them.
"I can't cut them, maybe I can melt them." Crystal raised her body
temperature and it seemed like it was working but the chains just
reformed. A low growl escaped her throat and went to go retrieve
Hiei's and Kurama's weapons.
Katakai was receiving little damage but he was still very weak from
the spell that he whipped up a moment ago. However Silver was badly beaten and she had cuts and bruises all over her body. There was a small pool of blood on the floor surrounding her.
She only had enough energy left to summon a weapon and use it for a short period of time; so she had to work fast.
'Maybe I can fake a punch and stab him in the heart. I don't have a
choice right now, I have to risk it.'
Charging at Katakai, Silver held out her fist like she was trying to punch. Katakai bought into her little trick like shed hoped he would. Bringing her fist halfway down, Silver used her other hand and drove the sword through his heart ending his life. Permanently.
"Silver, help me with these chains, I'm unable to break or melt them. Maybe your wind techniques could help."
"Stand back. Hurricane Storm!" wind surrounded the boys and light purple beams cut the chains holding them in place. Silver caught Kurama and Crystal caught Hiei.
Slowly, Kurama opened his eyes.
"Kurama, are you okay?" Silvers voice was just above a whisper but it
was calm and gentle.
Then Hiei woke up.
"Where... where are we?"
They gazed up and saw that you were holding them and they blushed lightly.
"You're with friends." Silver smiled at Kurama and he smiled back.
"How did we get here? How did you get here?" Hiei was amazed to find that they had found them even though their spirit energy was incredibly weak.
"You were kidnapped by Katakai, we found you by tracking your spirit
energy to the source which was here." Crystal informed them.
They both nodded and stood up. Crystal handed them their weapons. Then Hiei noticed that the both of them were bleeding.
"Crystal, Silver, you're bleeding." Hiei snapped.
Silver didn't realize that she was covered in so much blood and she wondered why it didn't hurt.
"Don't worry; it's you we should be worried about. Now let's get out
of here."
Silver and Crystal looked at each other and grinned. They found an exit the led to the beach.
About ten minutes later they came back to Genkai's temple.
As soon as they got there, they saw Yukina crying, hoping that her brother was all right. Yusuke was trying to explain to them what happened, that they were going to be alright.
"Let us know when you're done crying." Silver said sarcastically.
The others all looked up to Kurama leaning on your shoulder and Hiei leaning on Crystal's.
Boton was the first run to them.
"Come on let's take care of those wounds." Carefully Silver let Kurama into Boton's care and she helped him walk to the house. Yukina helped Hiei inside as well.
"What about your wounds." Yusuke asked in a shocked voice. Silver just chuckled and said, "They heal in time. We can tend to our own wounds."
She turned toward the temple and went inside. Crystal followed behind her as well as Shizuru and Keiko.
"Yusuke, you coming?" Keiko asked. Yusuke nodded and turned toward the door. 'Finally, things are back to normal.' He thought.
Three Days Later:
"Kurama, how are you feeling?" Silver asked as she entered his room.
"A lot better now." He said, smiling and sat up. He looked at Silver with sorrow in his eyes. "Listen, about what happened the other day. I just--"
"There's no need to apologize, I've already forgiven you. It was
our fault that this happened. I'm sorry." Silver looked down but Kurama just pulled her towards him and smiled.
"I would gladly be your friend. I'm just glad to see that you're
alright." He stroked Silver's hair, and soon she was asleep in his arms.
Kurama picked Silver up and carried her to her room and laid her on the bed gently so he didn't wake the sleeping wolf demon.
'Everything is back to normal.' Kurama thought.
In Hiei's Room:
"Hiei, are you okay?" Crystal walked into the room and sat next to
Hiei on his bed.
"Yes, thanks to you." He said. "I'm sorry about before, I don't know what came over me." Crystal only smiled and hugged him. His cuts and bruises were almost completely healed. "So," he asked her, "Friends?"
Crystal chuckled for a moment and said "Friends 'til the end." They
embraced each other once more. And Crystal drifted to sleep.
Hiei was shocked that she could fall asleep so quickly, but
never the less, he picked her up and placed her on his bed and left the room silently.
Hiei and Kurama met in the hallway on the way downstairs. Kurama
looked at Hiei and smiled the biggest grin that Hiei had ever seen.
Hiei returned the grin though not as widely; smiling wasn't his
thing.
"Finally things are normal again." They said in unison and they walked downstairs together, side by side.