Yu Yu Hakusho
And what else
"Reana! Reana wake up!" a voice said. Reana could feel a painful sensation in
her right shoulder; she had only just regained consciousness.
"Wake up! Please!" said the voice again. She was in pain and didn't want to wake up.
Just then a sharp tingling pain pricked her face and there was small tug on her hair.
She finally forced her eyes open. At first she couldn't see anything; it was jet black.
She blinked a few times and things began to come into focus. She could see that she
was about 10ft off the ground. Some sort of vine or rope was suspending her. The vine
was twisted around her waist and ankles; it was also twisted lightly around her wrists.
There were also some vines twisted aimlessly around her torso. She looked up and
saw Kurama hanging across from her in a similar fashion. His eyes were open and
looking at her. She looked slightly to the side and saw Kurama's rose tangled in her
hair. She realized that Kurama had been calling her and had freed one hand and
thrown his rose hat her to wake her up.
"Kurama? Where are we?" she asked slightly groggily.
"I am not sure. We are somewhere in the demon world but that's all I know. I only
just woke up a short while ago. Yusuke, Hiei, and Kuwabara aren't here. I M not sure
where the are." Said Kurama, "I believe we should try to escape before those demons
come back for your blood again."
"My blood?" asked Reana confused.
"Yes," said Kurama "look at your shoulder." She turned and saw a large wound in her
shoulder. It seemed fresh and the blood was still dripping from it.
"They just took more blood, and I thought that with the pain, this would be the only
time I could wake you up." Said Kurama.
"OK, so how do we escape?" asked Reana.
"I'm not sure, something about this vine wont let me use my spirit energy." Said
Kurama.
"Ok. So how did you get your arm loose to throw your rose?"
"It was difficult, I had to jerk enough so that I could slip my hand out, but when you
move the vines tighten."
"If I can use my spirit energy I should be able to hold the vines so you can escape."
Reana held up 2 fingers on her right hand. She concentrated on the vines surrounding
Kurama. Her fingers began to glow faintly with a bluish light as her spirit energy was
projected.
"Ok Kurama, now try to pull out." Said Reana. He pulled and moved around, but he
couldn't escape.
"Darn," said Reana" I didn't want to have to do this, but." She concentrated harder,
and the glow became brighter and brighter. The vines around Kurama began to glow
too, with the energy aura. Reana smiled grimly as she said simply
"Overload." And the vines disintegrated with the overload of spirit energy. Kurama
fell and landed on her feet.
"Can you free yourself, or do you need help?" asked Kurama.
"No, I need help. It would be dangerous to try and overload the vines around me."
Said Reana.
"Ok then. I need my rose, then I can cut you free." Said Kurama. Reana shook her
head to try to get the rose out of her hair. Unfortunately the rose was stuck in her
hair. She tilted her head enough so that she could hold the end of the steam gently in
her teeth, and tugged slightly. The rose slipped out of her hair and she dropped it.
Kurama caught the rose and transformed it into his rose whip.
"Are you ready?" Asked Kurama. Reana nodded and Kurama swung his whip. Reana
closed her eyes as she felt the whip cut the vines around her body. She opened her
eyes after a moment, and once the last vine was cut she began to fall. Kurama could
tell she was disoriented and he moved under her caught her as she fell. She stood up
and pulled the pieces of cut vines off her arms and body.
"Are you alright?" Asked Kurama.
"Yes I believe so." Said Reana. She steadied herself and placed 2 fingers on her
wounded shoulder. Her fingers and the wound glowed and the bleeding stopped and
the wound partially healed.
"Which way should we go?" asked Reana, once her wound had stopped bleeding.
"The demons went out that door, I think we should follow." Said Kurama pointing to
a large door at the other end of the room.
"Right." Said Reana and they ran quickly out the door. They found themselves in a
long, slightly dim hallway. There didn't seem to be anything or anyone around. They
continued to walk down the hall; as they walked they noticed that there were no doors
and the farther they went down the hallway, the more battle scared it was.
'There must have been a big battle here at some time' thought Reana. There were
many cut marks in the stone pillars and the walls, some which were clear sword
strikes, others looked more like claws and some were just blast marks. Reana began to
notice some newer looking marks on the wall. Suddenly she stopped at one mark that
looked like something had been slammed into it. She slid her fingers over the broken
pieces of rock. They were still sharp.
"What's up Reana, did you find something?" asked Kurama.
"Yeah, but I don't know if its anything important. She said, and then pointed to the
marks on the wall.
"This one is new, the rocks are still sharp. Something must have done this recently."
Kurama looked at the marks and nodded.
"I wonder if maybe the others had a battle with something here." Said Kurama. Reana
looked closer and say something that looked like a small mark of paint or ink. She
figured that tit must have been made during or after the dent in the wall was made.
They continued walking down the hall. Suddenly they heard footsteps and voices;
they instantly flattened themselves in the shadows, out of sight. Soon the voices
became clear enough to distinguish. It sounded like two demons that were walking
fairly quickly. Soon they were loud enough to understand.
"I still wonder how they escaped. Well I suppose that it won't matter, after the boy is
dead and the girl is in our control." Said one voice. Both voices laughed. Kurama and
Reana stayed dead still as the two demons passed by, going in the opposite direction.
When their voices faded away, Kurama and Reana continued down the hall. At the
end of a hall was a pair of large doors. Both could sense spirit energy behind the doors.
Reana looked to Kurama and he nodded and they opened the doors.
"You know, this place reminds me of maze castle, or some sort of demon castle." Said
Kurama as they opened the doors. The room was poorly lit. There were a few torches
and no windows. They could at first, sense no energy n the room. Once they had
stepped through the doors the doors slammed shut and locked them in. Reana simply
raised an eyebrow at the doors. Doors that suddenly shut no longer surprised her. As
soon as they were locked in, an energy appeared on the other side of the room in the
dark. Suddenly they room brightened slightly, and they could see Kuwabara holding
his spirit sword. Reana and Kurama just stared as Kuwabara charged them for an
attack. Kurama and Reana easily dodged to ether side. Kuwabara turned and tried to
attack Reana but she dodged every swing, and eventually jumped over his head, and
in mid air, she kicked him in the back of the head knocking him unconscious. She
landed easily behind the now unconscious Kuwabara. Kurama came and stood next to
her and looked at Kuwabara.
"I wonder why he would attack us like that." Said Kurama
"I think I have an idea why." Said Reana. She walked up to Kuwabara and rolled him
until he was face up, then with her foot she turned his head and on his right side of
his head was, what looked like a demon seal.
"I thought so. " said Reana.
"What is that seal?" asked Kurama, and he came next to her to get a better look at it.
"Can't you feel it? The seal is giving off a physic energy." Said Reana," in other
words its controlling him." Kurama bent over and touched the seal, but he quickly
retracted his hand when the seal shocked and burned his fingers. She glanced at him
as he rubbed his injured fingers.
"Here." She said offering her hand palm up. Kurama placed his fingers in the center
of her palm and she generated a small amount of energy and quickly healed the small
burns on his hand.
"The thing I don't get," said Reana "Is how the are getting enough energy into the
seals to be able to control them rather then just paralyzing them."
' I wonder if this is what happened to the others, and if there is a way to remove the
seals." Said Kurama.
"There are only 4 ways to get the seals off. One, the victim to overcome the spell,
two, the control to remove the seals, three, enough energy be used to remove the seal,
or four, the ink to be disengaged. Obviously one and two aren't going to happen, and I
don't know how though disengage the ink. And i don't have enough energy to
override the seal. But I hit him fairly hard, so he should be out for a while." Said
Reana.
"Then I guess we should try to find a way out and come back for."Kurama suddenly
cut off, as another, very strong energy appeared on the other side of the room. They
both turned to see Yusuke standing on the other side of the room with his spirit gun
charging.
"Don't kill him, he is being controlled too!" Reana managed to say before and Kurama
were forced to dodge the shot from Yusuke's spirit gun. Yusuke seemed to be going
for Kurama and was attacking so fast that Kurama couldn't even counter. Reana
turned to help Kurama but was knocked to the ground by something. She jumped up
rubbing her jaw where she had been hit. She looked for what had hit her, and her eyes
widened slightly as she saw that it had been Hiei.
'Oh shit.' She thought.
And what else
"Reana! Reana wake up!" a voice said. Reana could feel a painful sensation in
her right shoulder; she had only just regained consciousness.
"Wake up! Please!" said the voice again. She was in pain and didn't want to wake up.
Just then a sharp tingling pain pricked her face and there was small tug on her hair.
She finally forced her eyes open. At first she couldn't see anything; it was jet black.
She blinked a few times and things began to come into focus. She could see that she
was about 10ft off the ground. Some sort of vine or rope was suspending her. The vine
was twisted around her waist and ankles; it was also twisted lightly around her wrists.
There were also some vines twisted aimlessly around her torso. She looked up and
saw Kurama hanging across from her in a similar fashion. His eyes were open and
looking at her. She looked slightly to the side and saw Kurama's rose tangled in her
hair. She realized that Kurama had been calling her and had freed one hand and
thrown his rose hat her to wake her up.
"Kurama? Where are we?" she asked slightly groggily.
"I am not sure. We are somewhere in the demon world but that's all I know. I only
just woke up a short while ago. Yusuke, Hiei, and Kuwabara aren't here. I M not sure
where the are." Said Kurama, "I believe we should try to escape before those demons
come back for your blood again."
"My blood?" asked Reana confused.
"Yes," said Kurama "look at your shoulder." She turned and saw a large wound in her
shoulder. It seemed fresh and the blood was still dripping from it.
"They just took more blood, and I thought that with the pain, this would be the only
time I could wake you up." Said Kurama.
"OK, so how do we escape?" asked Reana.
"I'm not sure, something about this vine wont let me use my spirit energy." Said
Kurama.
"Ok. So how did you get your arm loose to throw your rose?"
"It was difficult, I had to jerk enough so that I could slip my hand out, but when you
move the vines tighten."
"If I can use my spirit energy I should be able to hold the vines so you can escape."
Reana held up 2 fingers on her right hand. She concentrated on the vines surrounding
Kurama. Her fingers began to glow faintly with a bluish light as her spirit energy was
projected.
"Ok Kurama, now try to pull out." Said Reana. He pulled and moved around, but he
couldn't escape.
"Darn," said Reana" I didn't want to have to do this, but." She concentrated harder,
and the glow became brighter and brighter. The vines around Kurama began to glow
too, with the energy aura. Reana smiled grimly as she said simply
"Overload." And the vines disintegrated with the overload of spirit energy. Kurama
fell and landed on her feet.
"Can you free yourself, or do you need help?" asked Kurama.
"No, I need help. It would be dangerous to try and overload the vines around me."
Said Reana.
"Ok then. I need my rose, then I can cut you free." Said Kurama. Reana shook her
head to try to get the rose out of her hair. Unfortunately the rose was stuck in her
hair. She tilted her head enough so that she could hold the end of the steam gently in
her teeth, and tugged slightly. The rose slipped out of her hair and she dropped it.
Kurama caught the rose and transformed it into his rose whip.
"Are you ready?" Asked Kurama. Reana nodded and Kurama swung his whip. Reana
closed her eyes as she felt the whip cut the vines around her body. She opened her
eyes after a moment, and once the last vine was cut she began to fall. Kurama could
tell she was disoriented and he moved under her caught her as she fell. She stood up
and pulled the pieces of cut vines off her arms and body.
"Are you alright?" Asked Kurama.
"Yes I believe so." Said Reana. She steadied herself and placed 2 fingers on her
wounded shoulder. Her fingers and the wound glowed and the bleeding stopped and
the wound partially healed.
"Which way should we go?" asked Reana, once her wound had stopped bleeding.
"The demons went out that door, I think we should follow." Said Kurama pointing to
a large door at the other end of the room.
"Right." Said Reana and they ran quickly out the door. They found themselves in a
long, slightly dim hallway. There didn't seem to be anything or anyone around. They
continued to walk down the hall; as they walked they noticed that there were no doors
and the farther they went down the hallway, the more battle scared it was.
'There must have been a big battle here at some time' thought Reana. There were
many cut marks in the stone pillars and the walls, some which were clear sword
strikes, others looked more like claws and some were just blast marks. Reana began to
notice some newer looking marks on the wall. Suddenly she stopped at one mark that
looked like something had been slammed into it. She slid her fingers over the broken
pieces of rock. They were still sharp.
"What's up Reana, did you find something?" asked Kurama.
"Yeah, but I don't know if its anything important. She said, and then pointed to the
marks on the wall.
"This one is new, the rocks are still sharp. Something must have done this recently."
Kurama looked at the marks and nodded.
"I wonder if maybe the others had a battle with something here." Said Kurama. Reana
looked closer and say something that looked like a small mark of paint or ink. She
figured that tit must have been made during or after the dent in the wall was made.
They continued walking down the hall. Suddenly they heard footsteps and voices;
they instantly flattened themselves in the shadows, out of sight. Soon the voices
became clear enough to distinguish. It sounded like two demons that were walking
fairly quickly. Soon they were loud enough to understand.
"I still wonder how they escaped. Well I suppose that it won't matter, after the boy is
dead and the girl is in our control." Said one voice. Both voices laughed. Kurama and
Reana stayed dead still as the two demons passed by, going in the opposite direction.
When their voices faded away, Kurama and Reana continued down the hall. At the
end of a hall was a pair of large doors. Both could sense spirit energy behind the doors.
Reana looked to Kurama and he nodded and they opened the doors.
"You know, this place reminds me of maze castle, or some sort of demon castle." Said
Kurama as they opened the doors. The room was poorly lit. There were a few torches
and no windows. They could at first, sense no energy n the room. Once they had
stepped through the doors the doors slammed shut and locked them in. Reana simply
raised an eyebrow at the doors. Doors that suddenly shut no longer surprised her. As
soon as they were locked in, an energy appeared on the other side of the room in the
dark. Suddenly they room brightened slightly, and they could see Kuwabara holding
his spirit sword. Reana and Kurama just stared as Kuwabara charged them for an
attack. Kurama and Reana easily dodged to ether side. Kuwabara turned and tried to
attack Reana but she dodged every swing, and eventually jumped over his head, and
in mid air, she kicked him in the back of the head knocking him unconscious. She
landed easily behind the now unconscious Kuwabara. Kurama came and stood next to
her and looked at Kuwabara.
"I wonder why he would attack us like that." Said Kurama
"I think I have an idea why." Said Reana. She walked up to Kuwabara and rolled him
until he was face up, then with her foot she turned his head and on his right side of
his head was, what looked like a demon seal.
"I thought so. " said Reana.
"What is that seal?" asked Kurama, and he came next to her to get a better look at it.
"Can't you feel it? The seal is giving off a physic energy." Said Reana," in other
words its controlling him." Kurama bent over and touched the seal, but he quickly
retracted his hand when the seal shocked and burned his fingers. She glanced at him
as he rubbed his injured fingers.
"Here." She said offering her hand palm up. Kurama placed his fingers in the center
of her palm and she generated a small amount of energy and quickly healed the small
burns on his hand.
"The thing I don't get," said Reana "Is how the are getting enough energy into the
seals to be able to control them rather then just paralyzing them."
' I wonder if this is what happened to the others, and if there is a way to remove the
seals." Said Kurama.
"There are only 4 ways to get the seals off. One, the victim to overcome the spell,
two, the control to remove the seals, three, enough energy be used to remove the seal,
or four, the ink to be disengaged. Obviously one and two aren't going to happen, and I
don't know how though disengage the ink. And i don't have enough energy to
override the seal. But I hit him fairly hard, so he should be out for a while." Said
Reana.
"Then I guess we should try to find a way out and come back for."Kurama suddenly
cut off, as another, very strong energy appeared on the other side of the room. They
both turned to see Yusuke standing on the other side of the room with his spirit gun
charging.
"Don't kill him, he is being controlled too!" Reana managed to say before and Kurama
were forced to dodge the shot from Yusuke's spirit gun. Yusuke seemed to be going
for Kurama and was attacking so fast that Kurama couldn't even counter. Reana
turned to help Kurama but was knocked to the ground by something. She jumped up
rubbing her jaw where she had been hit. She looked for what had hit her, and her eyes
widened slightly as she saw that it had been Hiei.
'Oh shit.' She thought.