"Whoa! What the world is THAT?!" Lavainth said, staring at a portal in front of the trio. The Toguro brothers threw her in the portal and walked after her. On the other side of the portal was their world. Japan. "What the…. GAH!!!!" Lavainth screamed and hid behind younger Toguro when she saw a giant man with horns on his head. "We've got the girl… do you have the money?" Elder Toguro asked. The horned man produced a brief case full of money and hung the handle on Elder Toguro's outstretched fingers. The horned male grabbed Lavainth's arm and dragged her away, all the while she was screaming, tears streamed down her face and her eyes started to glow a dark red, the air around her became heated as the demon's palm began to burn, but he paid no attention, the heat causing the sidewalk to melt a little.
"We're going to get her back tonight…" Younger Toguro said, holding her guitar in one hand. "Yes Brother. We shall…"
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That's what happened last time; let's see what's been going on!
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The dark of night provided the perfect cover; there were many demons out, hunting for someone. These hunting demons were hissing at one another, some sort of code, then moved on, looking again. In the tree branches that they had just been under, sat a young girl with brilliant red hair, and glowing red eyes. She was dressed in black jeans and a black long-sleeved shirt, to hide in the shadows better. Wherever she was, it had a lot of volcanic energy that was way too easily accessible. She moved swiftly from one branch to the next, soundless as she crept through the foliage. The small girl, only 8 years old, dropped silently to the ground, landing in a crouched position to keep from making too much sound when she landed. She had been an expert at sneaking around in the orphanage, and now she had to hunt down those two men who had adopted her, they still had her guitar, and she wanted it back.
She darted throught the trees, a twig snapped somewhere ahead of her and she froze and kneeled down to the ground, watching the path and the bushes and trees around it carefully.
Snap
it was off to her left now…
snap, snap
the right…
CRACK!
The girl looked up and jumped out of the way as an old branch broke and fell from the tree, if she hadn't moved she would have been squashed. She ran again, hearing voiced coming from behind her, but something warm slipped around her small neck and tightened, her hands tried to pull it away, she couldn't breath, and the more she struggled the less air she had, until she passed out, hearing only a rustle of leaves before losing consciousness completely.
When Lavainth opened her eyes, she realized she was in a room, and propped up right in her line of sight was her guitar, red and black with a feather on the body of the instrument. She slowly sat up, and went to her guitar, picked it up and sat on the floor, holding it gently. As she started to play, Younger Toguro peeked in the room to check on the girl. She made a notebook appear and flipped through the warn pages, she set the notebook down, still open, and started to play the guitar, singing softly to herself.
"…so the flames are cold tonight on the self and the winds have turned to ice,
a lone little girl sits beside herself; her spirit and her mind…
a broken child, a hopeless dream, to see the sights unseen,
to find a love to help her fly, and caw to her with kindness.
The shadows are warm in her mind, and the breezes are cool as ice,
The earth covered in the rainforests' mist for the fire-child lost this night…"
Lavainth had a lovely singing voice, for an 8 year old, but would not sing without a guitar being played. Her guitar was well taken care of, polished, tuned, and restrung when the wires got too old to play. As she sung, her eyes drifted closed, listening to the guitar. Her voice trailed off and it was just her guitar making sounds. Off in the depths on her mind she could hear wild Hawk calls, the great birds circling in the sky of her imagination for a while. Elder Toguro came up beside his brother, getting annoyed with the child's instrument playing. He swiftly entered the room and snatched the guitar away from her, when she rebelled he started swinging her own guitar at the girl, even though she tried to avoid getting hit, she ended up tripping and getting beaten down.
When Elder Toguro finally stopped the girl was in a bloody heap on the floor, crying. Blood trickled down her face from a head-wound; her wrist was bleeding as well, having been cut by an edge of the guitar. Her arm was broken and her shoulder had popped out of socket from sheer force. Both Toguro left, then Elder Toguro returned and dropped her guitar right on her head, Lavainth promptly shut up, not wanting to get beaten again. The Toguro left again, and Lavainth made no move to check her injuries or her guitar.
Black dots danced across the girl's vision, and one final Hawk cried softly in her mind, in her imagination, before she passed out again.
-- two weeks later --
Lavainth woke to find herself in a hospital bed. Her wounds had been taken care of, her arm was healed and she had clean bandages. But she wasn't in a hospital at all. She was in a room. She could hear running water, somewhere, and smell fresh food too. She sat up, slowly, wary that she wasn't clear of danger yet from her head wound. She looked around, she was still in the same room, her blood stained the floor, there was a bowl of fruit and stuff beside her and soon the water stopped, Younger Toguro came in with a bowl of water and a washcloth. Against his brother's wishes, he was helping Lavainth out a little. He had brought in a healing mage for her two weeks ago, but the mage had done such a bad job that Lavainth was just wakening now, two weeks after her attack. She said nothing as Younger Toguro came and went, not once talking to the girl, except to tell her she was leavening soon.
This continued until she was 12 ears old, 4 years after being adopted. She'd be sold, run away for her lack of guitar, get caught by the Toguro's, end up crying in a bloody pile on the floor with injuries sustained from her guitar in Elder Toguro's hands, then slowly hear only to have the cycle repeat itself. The newest place she had been sold to was run by a young woman. When Lavainth had been sold to the woman, she was talking to a bat-winged male that seemed oddly familiar to the young girl, and the bat had recognized her as well, but he hadn't voiced it. Once the others had left, the woman reveled herself, a young dragon furry by the name of Kem Aldara.
"Lavainth… Listen to me… you have to go to Makai, you'll be safer there. The Toguro's will kill you this time if you don't… listen, you're a demon, you control Lava and flames, you could be a very powerful demon, too, with the right training. But there is something else you need to know… you were created to be a killer in a demon lab, along with your brothers and sisters, the min portion of your DNA comes from a very powerful, very dangerous demon, along with several other demons…" as Kem explained how and why the child had come to be, Lavainth just shook her head and covered her ears, she didn't want to believe this, she couldn't be a demon, she just couldn't!… could she…? There was a bang at the door and Kem created a portal and shoved the girl trough it, closing it just as several shots of guns rang through the air. Kem Aldara, the girl's only source of truth, had fell with a severe injury, the portal had closed for the last time as Kem was beaten to death with all manners of things, bricks, the head of guns, baseball bats, anything that could be found, Lavainth had tried to go back to help Kem, but the portal closed and left the girl, leaning against a tree. Crying silently, Kem was the only one who had helped her in a long time, now she was trapped in this strange place… what ad Kem called it…? Makai? It didn't matter. Lavainth wandered aimlessly, seeing all kinds of demons over a period of a few days, contenting herself to steal what little food she knew wouldn't kill her from villages, even at times stealing items to speed her get-away. She had a lot to learn, and a little time to learn it in, if she wanted to survive to see Storm, Psy, Dejen and Sizori ever again…
--a year later--
the silence of Makai was broken by a rage of Yokai cries of anger. Racing away from the village was the hot-headed girl, carrying a bag of food, doing flips and tricks while running from the Yokai, sending off bombs of Lava whenever she got a chance, "oh I eat fried rice and I run all day, Saying there's gotta be a way outta here, but I know something that they don't, and it's something that they fear!" she disappeared into a portal that closed quickly, the Yokai lost her scent where the portal had been, searching for this strange girl who had stolen food from them. They muttered, continuing looking for the girl.
Meanwhile, in her realm, Lavainth was enjoying the first food she'd had in three weeks, the makings of a house stood at the base of a dormant volcano, the grassy field that stretched for about a mile slowly gave way to forests, thick and full. Small woodland creatures stayed in the denser areas, while her home-made creatures slithered, crawled and hopped around. Snakes of fire-reds and gold mostly stayed near the volcano, feeding off of what they could, it wasn't the best realm for living creatures, but it wasn't the worst either. After eating her fill, Lavainth got out a small wooden flute ad began to play, she hadn't been able to resist playing an instrument of some kind of instrument, and since the guitar had become a symbol of pain, she had taken up a smaller, less painful instrument… she noticed, today, that the walls of her realm shifted as another passed by.
"What the…. What's going on?" she asked, watching another pass, and another. She ran after the ripples, following them around her realm, curious. She jumped throught the portal wall and found herself sitting outside her realm, floating in free space. "Whoa, talk about bubble-utopia…" she looked around; every realm looked, from the outside, like a bubble. She watched currents of energy fly past, the energy causing the ripple effects on other realm walls. Beams of light jumped from one world to another as beings moved from one realm to another in a matter of seconds.
"So this is the universe in all it's glory…" she said, lightly pushing off her realm, sinking through the walls of another realm, she landed on a tree branch, and immediately was confronted by a giant yellow bug type thing. "WHAAA!!" she fell off the branch, landing on the ground near a purple mouse. "Ratata!" the mouse yelled, scurrying off into the tall grasses. "Whoa… this is strange…." she jumped back into the tree and throught the wall of the realm again, slipping back into bubble land. "Okay…. That was creepy… let's see what's in bubble number two!" she pushed off the realm wall again and floated over to another bubble, this time she just poked her head in, seeing a giant orange lizard talking to a boy.
"Aw C'mon, Ty! I can't eat anymore!" the lizard said, only to have the human, 'Ty', shove more food in the lizard's mouth.
"You're the only one who can Digivolve! You gotta be prepared!" the boy said, shoving all manners of snacks into the poor lizard's mouth. Lavainth pulled her head back out and blinked. "…that… was weird…" she said, looking around again. There were thousands upon thousands of realms here. She just shook her head again, and then slipped back into her realm, landing lightly on the ground near the volcano. "Creepy… just… creepy…" she murmured, sitting on the ground, staring up at the volcano. The sunlight was filtered out by clouds as rain started coming down. Lavainth tilted her head towards the sky with her eye closed, just letting the rain calm her. She thought back on the last time she had seen her siblings, and wondered vaugly how they were doing with their new lives. They HAD to be doing better then her, running from Yokai, Nekoyasha, and Kitsune. No doubt she had made some powerful enemies in the strange realm Kem had pushed her into… and she' heard many strange stories of the Tantei, Hiei Jagonshi, Kurama, Yusuke Yurameshi and Kuwabara. She'd also heard of Yoko Kurama and Tigrashi, Kitsune thieves whom had disappeared long ago. She shivered at the thought of getting hunted down by the Tantei, that'd be almost worse then being hounded by the Yokai. "Well, only time will tell what's going on… Storm should be flaring soon… that should be one hell of a lightshow… wonder if she's still getting into trouble with Kasu…" she yawned and got up, walking to the small home and stepping inside.
The inside of the house was painted with flames reaching towards a painted sky were falcons, hawks, eagles, all kinds of predatory birds soared on the warm air currents. It only had three rooms. A living room, a bedroom, and a guitar room, then of course a bathroom. The home had come together nicely, though it was smaller then she would have liked it to be, this was all she could build with the supplies she had stolen from the demon villages. Once inside she lost her human appearance in a fiery glow, switching to her true form, her demon form. A small fawn with flame-colored wings, specks of gold on the left and speck of silver on the right wing. Her pelt was of course, light brown and covered in tan spots, like a normal earth-fawn would be, except she had wings. Thought her wings had been clipped in zigzag patterns so not only couldn't she fly, but it would take forever to grow out the feathers to be even, unless she clipped them further. Also, the small feathery hairs further up on her wings hand been shaved in the same design. The downy fluff would grow back a lot quicker then her feathers would even out, but it would still take a long time. The fawn sighed and was lost within the same fiery glow, and Lavainth took her human form once again.
"I hate my life…"the girl sighed, running a hand through her red hair. Her red eyes glowing in the darkness from the storm outside and having no lights or candles inside the home. She just plopped down on her bed and fell asleep, leaving the room in complete darkness aside from the lightning flashes outside. An hour after falling asleep, the nightmares set in…
back in the Toguro's care, being beaten with her guitar, though Elder Toguro's shape quickly shifted to a younger, stronger man with black hair that shone even in the darkness, his eyes hidden by sunglasses. That shape shifted to a younger boy, not much older then her with brown hair and blue eyes. The person doing the beating kept changing to every shape a man could look like, leaving Lavainth with a deep routed fear or any male with a guitar in hand.
Lavainth sat bolt-upright with a scream, she calmed down enough to realize that something was terribly wrong. Her room was light by about 50 candles in various shades of red. She looked around carefully, the walls were glowing with heat, warm air rose in barely visible waves from the candle flames, making it extremely warm in the room, but Lavainth didn't even sweat. This wasn't warm to her, just odd. She got up out of her bed and carefully made her way through her home. All the walls were glowing with heat, Candles littered the floors and any flat surface in the home. She came to the one door that she hadn't opened since first closing it. As she reached for the handle, it glowed an iced blue. She lightly touched the handle and had to pull her hand back quickly. It was covered in frost… something very unusual in her volcanic realm. As she turned the handle, ice-cold winds swept past her, faster he more the door opened. Inside, the walls were glowing blue. The room filled with blue and white candles, the flames were cold rather then warm. The candles were surrounding the few guitars in the room. Lavainth wiped a few tears from her eyes, refusing to cry from the memories that guitars had for her. She stepped further into the room, and slowly the door closed on its own, without a sound, behind her. Sitting in the corner was a bat demon with white hair pulled back in a ponytail, feral yellow eyes watching the 12 year old girl. He was dressed in a stained, tattered lab coat, his wings, just as torn as his coat, were folded against his back, and in his hand rested a needle filled with some kind of substance that resembled violet smoke. The bat moved swiftly behind the girl and wrapped one arm across her midriff and jabbing the steel into the back of Lavainth's neck, injecting the violet smoke. Lavainth hadn't had time to react before the needle had entered her skin and the substance forced into her bloodstream. She became limp as the bat pulled the now empty needle from her skin and let her fall to the floor, unconscious…