"Will you stop that!" Sanzo whirled around to glare at the girl who kept reaching out hands to stroke his hair and brush his face gently.
"Sanzo! You don't have to be so mean." Goku defended her, tugging the girl back against the seat.
"Well then keep her back there." Sanzo replied curtly before turning away.
"He's a real charmer, isn't he." Gojyo muttered.
"It's okay." Goku said amiably to the girl as she turned luminous green eyes in his direction. "He's not really the mean. He's just a little irritated right now so you should probably just leave him alone. What's your name anyway?"
She blinked at him then just settled for a light smile.
Goku sighed nervously. "Ah yea. You probably don't know right? Since you've been asleep and all. Well that guy called you Amunisis so I'll just use Isis okay?"
Gojyo scoffed. "Will you quit babbling at her Goku? She doesn't understand a word you're saying." He rested his elbow on the side of the car "Her head's empty as a flower pot."
"It is not!" Goku defended.
"So how exactly do you propose to get the sutra from her?" Hakkai questioned Sanzo.
Sanzo crossed his arms. "I hadn't...thought that far ahead yet."
Gojyo sighed. "Great." He sat back, lighting a cigarette. "It wouldn't be so bad if it was me she was obsessed with." Taking a long drag of the cigarette and blowing smoke into the air.
Amunisis blinked and her eyes watered a bit and then she coughed. Goku sat up to pat her back and glared at Goyjo. "Hey. Cut that out. It's making her sick."
"What! I'm not putting out-"
"Put it out." Sanzo growled. "I don't feel like hearing her hacking in my ear."
Goyjo mumbled a string of curse but snuffed out the cigarette and Goku smiled and patted Amunisis' arm. "See. Everything will be fine." She smiled brightly and reached out a hand to touch Sanzo's hair again. Goku yelped and caught her wrist. "Ah...That's still a bad idea." She must have understood because she pulled back her hand, sighed gently, then sat back, folding her hands in her lap.
"The village is coming into view." Hakkai said as the thatched roves of the village houses began to rise over the sand.
"Woo-hoo!" Goku cheered. "Finally. Food. I bet you're hungry too huh?" Goku smiled at Amunisis as the drove the arch in the wall that secluded the village from the desert.
"Guess you strangers gave up wandering in the dessert just like the others." Chuckled an old voice and the party turned to look at the aged man who had sent them to the temple.
"You mean others have come searching for the sutra?" Hakkai asked, stepping out of the jeep after they had stopped it, turning his attention towards the old man who sat outside of the restaurant.
"Sure enough did. Everyone of them went out there found nothing but sand, sand, and more sand." He chuckled.
"You mean you sent up out there on a wild goose chase?" Sanzo sat up, his tone irritable.
Hakkai knew that tone and laid a hand on Sanzo's shoulder restraining. "Now Sanzo."
"Isis!"
They all turned at Goku's shout to look at where he was going over to the girl where she had climbed out of the jeep and was kneeling infront of a young boy leaned against the old stone of a broken, burned down house. The boy was blinking but it was obvious his was blind because his eyes were milky white, added to that his leg was twisted and deformed.
Amunisis smiled and reached a hand out to touch the boy's dirty cheek then danced fingers over his eyelids when he lowered them. His eyes opened again and she drew her hand back and her fingers started to glow gentle lavender and suddenly the whiteness started to drain out of the boy's eyes like milk out of a cup. He gasped and scrambled back, staring her with now, soft brown eyes.
She didn't stop however, but moved her hand down to lay on his leg and gold light flowered from her fingers like a waterfall, spreading over his limb till it was engulfed as if it were suddenly encased in molten gold. And then the light faded and the leg was whole and right again. Paler then the other but whole all the same.
Goku walked over to kneel beside her. "Wow! That's amazing!"
She looked up and smiled at him but then her eyes traveled past him and she gasped in fear. Goku turned curiously and blinked in surprise to see a small gathering of villagers surrounding them in a half circle, staring as if they'd seen the dead rise. A sudden soft whisper or witch and demoness started to travel through the mod.
"Witch?" Goku questioned quietly and glanced at Amunisis and then the boy who as rubbing his leg in shock. Why do they think she's a witch? She just healed that boy.
One of the villagers stepped forward, the old man who had given them directions. "Why did you bring that thing to us! Do you want us all dead!?"
"What do you mean?" Hakkai asked from where he Gojyo and Sanzo still stood near the jeep.
"That demon woman! You saw what she did? She's that beast from the temple!"
"What do you mean beast!?" Goku asked standing. "She just saved that boy."
"We heard what happened to the last village that harbored that evil creature. We don't want any of her black magic here."
"What!?"
He didn't know who threw the first rock but the stone caught Amunisis in the cheek, slicing a cut across her skin and blood slipped down her chin. Another rock followed the first, striking her in the arm then another hitting her leg.
"Hey! Cut it out!" Goku screamed and was rewarded with a stone flung at him as well. The growing courage and rage of the mob was shattered when a gunshot pierced the mayhem like a shot and everything broke of.
"Get in the car." Sanzo growled at the pair before aiming the gun at the crowd in warning. They mumbled but did nothing as Goku went over to help Amunisis up and they walked to the car.
"We don't want no trouble." The old man said. "We just don't want her here. Keep her far from here."
Sanzo said nothing as he tucked the gun away then climbed into the jeep again after Hakkai and Gojyo and they stared the car up again and drove from the village without looking back.
