The Dark Signs

Yoko didn't know where he was only that he was sitting in a chair with his arms and legs strapped to it. He opened his eyes and lifted his head and blinked at the light in his face. He looked around and saw that he was in a dark room and the only light he saw was shinning right in his face.

Then he heard a voice behind him, "I know I told Hiei that I wouldn't start doing this until he came but why spoil the fun? Chances are he is going to pick Caralama to go with him when he comes here so why wait? Besides this might hurry him up a bit,"

"Hmm Shigure I like the way you think," came another voice that sounded like it was purring behind him, "but why don't we let the girl watch as well?" Yoko could tell that the voice that he heard was a females but it wasn't as pure as the Signs voices were.

"Because Kelsey we don't want her to ease his pain now do we? By what you told me and with the door exploding she seems to have power of her own."

"That is correct the pendant around her neck protects her from us or anyone from hurting her mentally, physically and sometime magically. But we can make her go to sleep like we did when she blasted the door. We tried to take the pendant away from her but as soon as we touched it the power in it sent us back against the wall. Well as long as she remains asleep and in her new cell she cant hurt or save anyone."

Then a girl came up in front of his face with a wicked smile on her face. Her hair went to her waist and was pitch black. Her eyes looked like they were black ice. Her skin was as white like the wool off of sheep. She was very slender and looked quite fragile but Yoko could since her power, it stank the air with the stench of evil making it hard for him to breath. Then the girl began to speak, "Oh if only you hadn't met Caralama and the other Signs we probably wouldn't have to be doing this. Oh but I'm sorry about the hitting you with the metal pipe. I guess I don't know my own strength." Her voice was beautiful but there was something about it. It didn't sound pure and it hurt his ears as he flattened them to his head, "Oh even the sound of my voice is hurting your ears. Well I guess that is what happens when you don't look out for your evil demons. How they do that I will never know. It's a shame they had to find you Yoko and turn you into good." the girl said as she caressed his cheek with the back of her hand. Yoko instantly pulled away as if she had burned him. The girl looked at him with disgust, "You were always my favourite Yoko. The most ruthless always killing with out mercy and then one day I find out that you have left us. I always had a dream you know. I dream that someday we would rule all of the worlds and we'd be known as Yoko and Kelsey Kurama the most merciless cutthroat gang in all of the worlds! But you decided to turn good and shattered my dream." Kelsey looked like she had been hurt by what had done but he felt nothing toward that.

So this is Kelsey the one that wanted to torture me in front of Caralama, how so sheik. Kelsey had heard what he had thought and smiled to herself but didn't day anything. She looked over to the scientist who was hidden in the shadows and was silent for a while. Yoko knew by the look in her eyes that she was talking to someone with her mind.

"That is indeed correct Yoko," Kelsey suddenly turned her head to him and saw the startlemeant in his eyes, "What? You thought only Caralama could get into your mind without you knowing? That not very smart of you Yoko, every kind of Sign dark or light can easily get into a mind with out anyone knowing."

Kelsey instantly saw anger on his face and in his eyes. She couldn't help but to laugh out loud at him as she turned around. Then she felt something wrap around her and it started to squeeze her and poke at her. She looked down and saw throned vines wrap around her legs, waist and arms trying to squeeze the life out of her. She looked back at Yoko and saw a smile on his face and wickedness in his eyes that she used to love so much as vines continued to grow from his wrists.

Kelsey gave a horrid shriek and suddenly Yoko's's vines were some how cut setting her free. A man appeared beside her. He had a long silver coat and black pants and shirt under it. His hair was short and blonde and his skin and eyes were the same colour as Kelsey's. Yoko also noticed that he had a scar and the right side of his nose. He also looked to be the same hieght as him. The man was also wearing gloves that had sharp metal plates at the knuckles.

"How dare you try to hurt my sister?!" the new man said with anger in his voice and he was instantly in front of him and before anyone could stop him he grabbed Yoko's robe at the neck and punched him in the face. The metal plates on his gloves cut deep into his skin and hurt like hell but Yoko didn't make a sound. He just looked at this man with anger and a show of retaliation on his face as blood dripped down from his cheek.

"Now look what you have done Seifer! I just needed to be freed you didn't have to hurt him!" Kelsey said as she tried to pull Seifer away from Yoko, "He didn't hurt me so why did you hurt him?"

"Fighting the Signs has made you soft Kelsey," Seifer began looking at his sister with anger in his eyes, "He might be your favourite sister but you will have to learn that you have to attack and show no mercy to those that uphold to you," and with that he turned around and did the same thing only this time Yoko's other cheek was bleeding but he still didn't cry out he just gave them an angry glare. "Oh you want to be tough huh? Well lets see how tough you really are!"

"Seifer!" Kelsey yelled but some unknown force held her back. Seifer looked at his hand and it became translucent. He looked at Yoko, "This is how the torture of a traitor begins," and with a wicked smile he plunged his hand into his head. Yoko gave a small cry of pain as he tightly closed his eyes as she clinched his teeth together breathing some what heavily.

"Just a small cry? Oh you are asking for it," Seifer then moved his hand down while it was still in Yoko's head. Yoko grunted and clenched his teeth but did not yell. Seifer kept on moving his hand down until it was in his throat then he moved his hand until it was in his chest. Seifer stopped there, "I know exactly what to do to you now," Seifer said as he made his hand a bit more solid while it was still in Yoko's chest. Yoko gasped in pain but he still held strong, "You will cry out in pain eventually. I just do this for fun and to see what would hurt you the most. When I done of that I do this all over again only the next time will be a lot more painful. This is what happens when you betray the Dark Signs and try to hurt them.

Caralama began to wake up this time she was in a different room but it was still made out of steel and there was no light. She didn't want to take the chance on blasting the door and the Dark Signs being on the other side of it. Caralama looked all around but couldn't find Yoko. Then she tried to search for him with her mind but there was some kind of barrier around the room so it she couldn't search for him with her mind. So she sat with her back against the wall she pulled her legs up to her chest and put her head down thinking on what she could do.

A few hours later the door opened and Yoko was pushed into the room unconscious and the door was closed with an evil laughter behind it. Caralama was instantly by his side. She couldn't believe the shape his body was in as she lifted his head onto her lap.

Yoko's arms were all scrapped and scorched in some places on his chest and his back and front looked like he had been whipped and his cheeks looked like he was punched in the face with hard plates on the knuckles. His stomach looked like someone had pressed a burning poker to it and now it was blackened and bleeding. There were so many injuries that Caralama couldn't bare to think what had happened. She lifted him up a bit and he made she moved his head away from her as he threw up blood and moaned in pain as he continued to sleep. She held Yoko close to her when he was done and began to sing the song of healing and her pendant began to glow blue.

Caralama also began to glow blue as she turned into light and went outside of her body and went into his and healed him from the inside. She couldn't believe what she saw when she went into his body. There was internal bleeding his organs were bruised. There was much damage done to Yoko. Outside of his body and inside as well. She instantly began to touch the wounds, bruises any thing that was injured.

Caralama began to feel him stir on her lap as she kept on singing and touching his wounds. Every time she touched one of his wounds they would heal and leave no scars. Yoko was awake when Caralama had healed the last of his wounds and was back inside her body. He looked at her as if he had seen a ghost, "Yoko what's wrong?" she asked looking at him with worry in her face as she cradled his head gently on her lap.

Yoko gently touched Caralama's face with one hand and asked, "Is that really you Caralama? You're not dead?"

Caralama looked at him with confusion, "No I'm not dead I'm right here with you alive and well," She touched Yoko's hand that was still on her cheek and she saw a tear fall from his eyes and a smile appeared on his face, but his smile soon disappeared.

"But I saw you get killed, they had killed you!" Yoko's voice sounded shaky and she held him close to her. Then she heard him say, "Not again don't put me through it again I know I couldn't save her don't put me through it again."

Caralama looked down at Yoko and saw some more tears fall silently from his closed eyes. Caralama felt tears in her eyes and began to stoke behind his ears like he had done to her, "Yoko I'm here look at me please I'm not dead please look at me," then Caralama thought of something and bent down to the ear she had been stroking and whispered, "I'm not dead I'm right hear beside you. Please look at me...father."

Yoko instantly opened his eyes and looked at her. There were tears in her eyes and when he touched her face again he noticed that it was warm and that it did feel real. Another tear fell down his face and he whispered, "I thought I had lost you. They kept on showing you dieing before me and I couldn't do anything about it. All I could do was watch you as you kept on dieing and reaching out to me calling for help."

After a few minutes of this Yoko's tears stopped and tried to sit up and found that he was sore and stiff all over, "I'm sorry that I couldn't do anything about the stiffness and the pain. I can only heal right now," Caralama looked like she was about to faint. There were still tears in her eyes and her skin was so pale it looked translucent that he began to worry about her.

With great effort and Caralama helping him Yoko was in a sitting position with his back against the wall, "As long as my wounds don't get infected and are healed and you are here safe and alive I will be quite happy," he said with a smile and a small tired chuckle with his eyes closed and his head tilted towards the ceiling. Caralama gave a small shy tired kind of smile but it was immediately gone. Then she took her pendant and began to mummer some words and then she had another one in her hands.

Yoko looked at it and then back at her with confusion on his face, "This will protect you from physical, mental and some magical attacks." Caralama said, "It has all the powers of the original and can never be destroyed or become apart of the original once again."

Caralama's fingers fumbled as she put the pendant around his neck. When it was around his neck Caralama laid her head and back against the wall as she pulled up her legs to her chest, "Now you might not like admitting to things like this but I'm so tired its not even funny," then she laid her head down onto her knees and closed her eyes. She wasn't asleep Yoko knew that because he was in her mind but she should have been with the amount of energy it took to heal his wounds and duplicate her pendant so that he could be alright. Why did she give this to me? He wondered as he touched the pendant that was around his neck, I could easily do some damage with this since I don't know how to use it and I might hurt her by accident.

"Then I guess you should go into my mind if you want to know more about it and learn what you can of the Dark Signs while your in there to. I should have told you told more about the Dark Signs or at least give you and Hiei the pendants."

Yoko looked at Caralama for a while and gently went into her mind. He saw that she had already set up what he needed to know about how to use the pendant and all about the Dark Signs. Yoko took a good look at Caralama. She looked like she was about ready to faint because she had barely any energy left. He also saw that Caralama was trying not to show that she was crying. With some effort he put his around her shoulders and pulled her close to him. She didn't resist in the slightest as she laid her head down on his shoulder. Yoko then put his head on top of hers and began to stroke her hair inviting her to sleep while he stayed awake as some tears fell down onto his shoulder.

"Why did they do that to you Yoko? Why did they hurt you and do things to you and show those horrible things to you"? Caralama gave the message to him with her mind as some more tears fell from her eyes and onto his shoulder.

Yoko kept on stroking her long hair trying to get her to sleep but he soon found out that she wouldn't go to sleep without him answering her questions "It seems I was a favourite of one of the Dark Signs," Yoko thought that speaking with his mind would sooth her a bit, "Her name is Kelsey the one that favoured me. She kept on saying that she had a dream that included me in it. A dream to be the most merciless couple in all the worlds. While her back was turned I sent my vines after her and they didn't even scratch her but she still screamed and her brother was there and he hit me," Yoko didn't tell anymore about how they had kept on torturing him because they had said that he had some what betrayed them and that they had let Caralama down.

"That's what they do to there favourites I guess," she said after hearing that thought, "It seems they like to torture their favourites because they had turned good. Why did I have to get bored and go to my uncle's house? This all happened because of me," Caralama snuggled closer to Yoko and began to wrap her arms around his waist, and a couple more tears left her eyes.

"Don't you dare to even think about that Caralama!" he said as he gave her an angry message to her for thinking such a thing, "I for one am quite happy that you became bored and decided to go to your uncle's house. I'm glad that we met you and believe it or not I'm happy that you threw that fireball at us," he held her closer in his arms and put a hand on top of her head as he laid his his cheek on her head not believing she actually was blaming herself for what happened.

"But Yoko think about it. If I hadn't gotten bored at trying to do my spell I wouldn't have gone over to my uncle's and you wouldn't have gone through what you have just did," Caralama had stopped crying but she was very close to start crying again. Yoko could hear the pain in her mind and held her even closer. Caralama felt like she would break into pieces if she started to cry again. He kept stroking her hair and then he started to hum something as he laid his head down on hers.

Caralama listened to him humming and laid her head against his chest. She slowly started to go to sleep as she listened to him hum and the beating of his heart.

Yoko felt her fall asleep against his chest with no tears shed. He still kept humming after awhile and then he stopped. Tired he looked at his arms, where there had been many scrapes and burns there were nothing. He then pressed a hand to his stomach where the huge burn had been. It still hurt but there was no burn there now. Then gently he moved his hand over to his pendant and rubbed it a few times and went to sleep beside her.