Shade- Hiya! Thank you for the reviews, I'm glad you like the story thus
far. I hope you don't get bored of it like I have done with other stories
I have read. And to everyone who says "the story is cool" and "great work"
or "please update" could specify if there was a particular part? Cuz then,
I could know what you guys like and know what to write more of so could
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Chapter 4: off to see the slave driver
"Are you guys okay?" Yusuke sat up and stared at his surroundings. All the others did the same as they took in the sights of Hades. Dark surrounded dark. Even the light used to guide a way as dark as night. The four stood up and listening to the yells of slave drivers order their slaves around.
"I think that's where we need to go." Kuwabara was still breathing hard with the vision of that black figure in his mind. He didn't know that everyone one else was thinking the same thing.
The boys walked in silence because they were watching everything that made a sudden movement. Hades was not a place to take lightly. If it was anything that the boys had heard of in rumors, they should be dead.
"Does anyone know where we're going? Ah!" Kuwabara whirled around at a noise he heard behind him and Yusuke attacked it. He looked at what it was.
"Kuwabara! It was just the wind! Stop freaking us out like that!"
"Hey!"
The boys spun around and saw a large pig like demon. At first glance, he seemed to be three times the height of Kuwabara and ten times the uglier.
"Who are you?" His Scottish accent boomed in their ears and his after snort plopped in their stomachs.
Before any could answer, the pig took them all by the collar and lifted them off the ground.
"Doesn't matter. Weaklings like you can be traded to be slaves. Come on now." The pig put them under his sweaty armpits and walked off to the center of Hades.
'I could kill this boar in two swipes.' Hiei sat under the demons left arm trying his hardest to not smell the protruding scents from his underarm.
'Remember Hiei, we are here to rescue Serena, we can't fight back.' Kurama entered Hiei's head in an effort to stop his future antics.
The rest of the walk was kept in silence, excluding the large booms the pig demons hooves were making.
"We'll be in Thorn Ivy soon. Don't make a fuss or no one will buy you." The pig dropped them to the black and brown ground.
"Thorn Ivy? What's that?" Kuwabara stood still looking skittish from every thing that moved in the hounding wind.
"Slave sellin' grounds. You also buy food. That is... if you don't like the work your slave is doing." He looked down towards them all with an evil smile plastered on his face, hinting to them that they would eat their workers.
"Come on now, stand up straight, how do you expect anyone to buy you looking like that? And you," he pointed towards Hiei as he bent down to his face, "Can you lift heavy things? You won't sell on your size alone." Hiei then got pissed and unsheathed his sword and slashed at the pig, but his skin was to strong, the sword broke and the pig laughed.
"Hehehe, those little weapons won't hurt me. Me skin's to strong to be penetrated by a sword like yours. Probably the only thing that can split me up is the master's weapons." The boar turned around with the rest following him as they walked closer into the center of Hades, also known as Thorn Ivy.
"Who is the master?" Kurama was the closest one to the pig and sorry that he had to be standing down wind from him.
"Oh, no one knows who the master is, he's always clouded by a black mist that serves him as a coat. Though we know he's got red eyes, eyes that'll see into your soul and tear anything you love and care for apart. He can make the bravest of soldiers turn white with fear and experience the visions of his family dying by his own hand, which is rare, usually he sends others to do his dirty work for 'em. He picks special occasions to kill someone himself. In fact, he's only killed several people by himself in the past century, and every time is a celebration fer us down here in Hades. It's always an honor if he picks you to kill a selected target, and if you don't fulfill his desires in your mission, he'll make your dreams turn into your nightmares." Just then, all of the boys remembered their dreams when coming into Hades. Their dreams, had become their nightmares.
"Carry on then! Let's go!" The pig left the four with scared written all over their faces. They slowly followed.
"What's that smell?" Kuwabara covered his mouth with his hands and began coughing.
*Sniff* "Ah, I love the smell of slave sweat in the mornin'." The pig took the four in through the gates that were covered in black ivy, they looked at the plant in fear it would jump at them, for some odd reason.
"Oh my God!" Yusuke looked out in front of him, and thousands upon thousands of slaves were breaking their backs as they continued their long line of pain and defeat. He could hear the yells of slave drivers shouting commands and whips slapping on the backs of dying souls as they kept looking at the ground before them so they wouldn't look their commanders in the eye. Most were skinny as bone, and decomposing even while still alive. Others just chose to die right there, as they couldn't take it anymore. Any had the choice to die when ever they wanted, but the fear of the master haunting them in their forever dreams scared them to the brink of death... literally.
"Here, put these on." The pig threw four burlap sacks at the boys as they had noticed everyone else had them on too.
"Go over there and wait fer someone to buy your sorry skins." He pushed them to the side to sit with a group of skittish people who feared anyone not in a sack as they were. Their eyes protruded from their heads as fear of the whips danced in their minds. The boys could tell that they were scared, so they chose not to speak to them.
"I can't believe this place." Yusuke began removing his clothes to put the itchy sack on as he glared at the incredibly large black building in the center of Thorn Ivy. It seemed to be slightly stormy, since it had dark clouds around it. It just truly felt like an evil place that Yusuke didn't feel like visiting any time soon.
"It scares the hell out of me." Kuwabara began to take his clothes off as the other slaves began to stir.
"Hell! Hell! We're in Hell! Take me back! Let me live! Hell! Hell!" They all ran around like caged animals that had been caught by poachers and facing the barrel of a gun while hearing heavy breathing inside of their heads.
"Whoa hey guys, calm down." Kuwabara tried to calm them when a rich looking demon and his son walked by.
"I won't waste my time with worthless slaves such as them father. I want them." The boy spoke with his southern accent and pointed to the guys.
"You want us? What, are we some kind of pets to you?" Yusuke stood up, scratching his side from the itchy burlap.
The adult demon walked over and looked him down.
"More like mutts." He smelled him.
"You're human aren't you?" He stepped back to look at the others.
"Yeah, I am." Yusuke stared at him as if he was going squeeze him to see if he was ripe or not.
"The two humans should be fine. Where is that confounded slave clerk?!"
"Right here sir! I was in the back packing away something's into storage." Another demon came into view. He was bald with pointy ears and his skin was a pale blue.
"Fine, yes, I'll take the two humans." He turned around to go back to his snooty son.
"Where'd you all come from?" The clerk put his arms on his side and raised an eyebrow at the new "products" he had been brought.
"A boar the size of Makai itself brought us here." Hiei sat with his crimson eyes closed and his itchy sack on ignoring the tendency to itch.
"Oh, well great! Who do you want?" The clerk turned to the man and his boy for an answer and a sale.
"The two humans, and throw in the two there also." The demon took out a bag filled with black coins with red writing on them.
"Forty-eight devlings please." The demon took out the desired amount of money and gave it to the clerk.
"Come slaves, you have much work to do. 27 percent of my work load has been freed because 27 of my slaves died." He walked past the group with his smiley little son.
"Where are we going?" Kuwabara started to walk in their direction wondering what had happened back there.
"I think we got sold Kuwabara." Kurama whispered to him, hoping his new slave driver wouldn't overhear.
"This sucks! First we get too up close and personal with the pig, then we get these sacks on our asses and now we work for some over pretentious demon who kills innocent people everyday!" Yusuke threw his arms in the air unaware that what he had said was heard by all around.
"Over pretentious? Well, well, well, it seems that we have a rebel in our hands. Maybe I should have left you back there with the mentals. Boy, you slicked the whip today right?"
"Yes'm father."
"Break that out when we get home. Do any of you know how to use a whip?"
"Um, I do." Kurama was cautious when answering.
"Hm, stay away from him boy. He might be a rebel too." The demon turned around and continued his walk.
"Dude Urameshi, I can't believe you called him that." Kuwabara whispered into Yusuke's ear.
"I can't believe that you used the word pretentious right." Hiei stood to the right of Kurama with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face.
"Shut up Hiei."
"We are home, and it smells like my dearest has cooked a well deserving dinner for me."
"Sweet dinner!" Kuwabara just about leapt from where he stood towards the house until he felt a sharp, piercing pain in his back. He fell to the ground.
"That dinner is for my family and me. New slaves don't get dinner." The demon stood with a black whip in his hand looking at the group of newly bought slaves, as he saw it.
Kuwabara was still lying on the ground in pain from the whip, he couldn't get up just yet. He waited for the demon and his son to leave. When they did, he finally cried out in pain.
"OW! That hurt!"
"What made you think our slave driver was going to feed us a hearty dinner?" Hiei looked down at him and felt no pity for him. He could only hear laughter in his head.
"We should probably get some sleep. Or the demon might hear you and come back with the whip." Yusuke said that just to freak out Kuwabara and make him shut up.
"Slaves!" Everyone could hear the man's hoarse voice from inside.
"You start your working tomorrow, be sure to rest up. You don't want to die out there."
"Jeez, that's gonna suck." Yusuke sat down in his official "bed" to begin his sleep before his first day as a slave.
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Shade- please review!
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Chapter 4: off to see the slave driver
"Are you guys okay?" Yusuke sat up and stared at his surroundings. All the others did the same as they took in the sights of Hades. Dark surrounded dark. Even the light used to guide a way as dark as night. The four stood up and listening to the yells of slave drivers order their slaves around.
"I think that's where we need to go." Kuwabara was still breathing hard with the vision of that black figure in his mind. He didn't know that everyone one else was thinking the same thing.
The boys walked in silence because they were watching everything that made a sudden movement. Hades was not a place to take lightly. If it was anything that the boys had heard of in rumors, they should be dead.
"Does anyone know where we're going? Ah!" Kuwabara whirled around at a noise he heard behind him and Yusuke attacked it. He looked at what it was.
"Kuwabara! It was just the wind! Stop freaking us out like that!"
"Hey!"
The boys spun around and saw a large pig like demon. At first glance, he seemed to be three times the height of Kuwabara and ten times the uglier.
"Who are you?" His Scottish accent boomed in their ears and his after snort plopped in their stomachs.
Before any could answer, the pig took them all by the collar and lifted them off the ground.
"Doesn't matter. Weaklings like you can be traded to be slaves. Come on now." The pig put them under his sweaty armpits and walked off to the center of Hades.
'I could kill this boar in two swipes.' Hiei sat under the demons left arm trying his hardest to not smell the protruding scents from his underarm.
'Remember Hiei, we are here to rescue Serena, we can't fight back.' Kurama entered Hiei's head in an effort to stop his future antics.
The rest of the walk was kept in silence, excluding the large booms the pig demons hooves were making.
"We'll be in Thorn Ivy soon. Don't make a fuss or no one will buy you." The pig dropped them to the black and brown ground.
"Thorn Ivy? What's that?" Kuwabara stood still looking skittish from every thing that moved in the hounding wind.
"Slave sellin' grounds. You also buy food. That is... if you don't like the work your slave is doing." He looked down towards them all with an evil smile plastered on his face, hinting to them that they would eat their workers.
"Come on now, stand up straight, how do you expect anyone to buy you looking like that? And you," he pointed towards Hiei as he bent down to his face, "Can you lift heavy things? You won't sell on your size alone." Hiei then got pissed and unsheathed his sword and slashed at the pig, but his skin was to strong, the sword broke and the pig laughed.
"Hehehe, those little weapons won't hurt me. Me skin's to strong to be penetrated by a sword like yours. Probably the only thing that can split me up is the master's weapons." The boar turned around with the rest following him as they walked closer into the center of Hades, also known as Thorn Ivy.
"Who is the master?" Kurama was the closest one to the pig and sorry that he had to be standing down wind from him.
"Oh, no one knows who the master is, he's always clouded by a black mist that serves him as a coat. Though we know he's got red eyes, eyes that'll see into your soul and tear anything you love and care for apart. He can make the bravest of soldiers turn white with fear and experience the visions of his family dying by his own hand, which is rare, usually he sends others to do his dirty work for 'em. He picks special occasions to kill someone himself. In fact, he's only killed several people by himself in the past century, and every time is a celebration fer us down here in Hades. It's always an honor if he picks you to kill a selected target, and if you don't fulfill his desires in your mission, he'll make your dreams turn into your nightmares." Just then, all of the boys remembered their dreams when coming into Hades. Their dreams, had become their nightmares.
"Carry on then! Let's go!" The pig left the four with scared written all over their faces. They slowly followed.
"What's that smell?" Kuwabara covered his mouth with his hands and began coughing.
*Sniff* "Ah, I love the smell of slave sweat in the mornin'." The pig took the four in through the gates that were covered in black ivy, they looked at the plant in fear it would jump at them, for some odd reason.
"Oh my God!" Yusuke looked out in front of him, and thousands upon thousands of slaves were breaking their backs as they continued their long line of pain and defeat. He could hear the yells of slave drivers shouting commands and whips slapping on the backs of dying souls as they kept looking at the ground before them so they wouldn't look their commanders in the eye. Most were skinny as bone, and decomposing even while still alive. Others just chose to die right there, as they couldn't take it anymore. Any had the choice to die when ever they wanted, but the fear of the master haunting them in their forever dreams scared them to the brink of death... literally.
"Here, put these on." The pig threw four burlap sacks at the boys as they had noticed everyone else had them on too.
"Go over there and wait fer someone to buy your sorry skins." He pushed them to the side to sit with a group of skittish people who feared anyone not in a sack as they were. Their eyes protruded from their heads as fear of the whips danced in their minds. The boys could tell that they were scared, so they chose not to speak to them.
"I can't believe this place." Yusuke began removing his clothes to put the itchy sack on as he glared at the incredibly large black building in the center of Thorn Ivy. It seemed to be slightly stormy, since it had dark clouds around it. It just truly felt like an evil place that Yusuke didn't feel like visiting any time soon.
"It scares the hell out of me." Kuwabara began to take his clothes off as the other slaves began to stir.
"Hell! Hell! We're in Hell! Take me back! Let me live! Hell! Hell!" They all ran around like caged animals that had been caught by poachers and facing the barrel of a gun while hearing heavy breathing inside of their heads.
"Whoa hey guys, calm down." Kuwabara tried to calm them when a rich looking demon and his son walked by.
"I won't waste my time with worthless slaves such as them father. I want them." The boy spoke with his southern accent and pointed to the guys.
"You want us? What, are we some kind of pets to you?" Yusuke stood up, scratching his side from the itchy burlap.
The adult demon walked over and looked him down.
"More like mutts." He smelled him.
"You're human aren't you?" He stepped back to look at the others.
"Yeah, I am." Yusuke stared at him as if he was going squeeze him to see if he was ripe or not.
"The two humans should be fine. Where is that confounded slave clerk?!"
"Right here sir! I was in the back packing away something's into storage." Another demon came into view. He was bald with pointy ears and his skin was a pale blue.
"Fine, yes, I'll take the two humans." He turned around to go back to his snooty son.
"Where'd you all come from?" The clerk put his arms on his side and raised an eyebrow at the new "products" he had been brought.
"A boar the size of Makai itself brought us here." Hiei sat with his crimson eyes closed and his itchy sack on ignoring the tendency to itch.
"Oh, well great! Who do you want?" The clerk turned to the man and his boy for an answer and a sale.
"The two humans, and throw in the two there also." The demon took out a bag filled with black coins with red writing on them.
"Forty-eight devlings please." The demon took out the desired amount of money and gave it to the clerk.
"Come slaves, you have much work to do. 27 percent of my work load has been freed because 27 of my slaves died." He walked past the group with his smiley little son.
"Where are we going?" Kuwabara started to walk in their direction wondering what had happened back there.
"I think we got sold Kuwabara." Kurama whispered to him, hoping his new slave driver wouldn't overhear.
"This sucks! First we get too up close and personal with the pig, then we get these sacks on our asses and now we work for some over pretentious demon who kills innocent people everyday!" Yusuke threw his arms in the air unaware that what he had said was heard by all around.
"Over pretentious? Well, well, well, it seems that we have a rebel in our hands. Maybe I should have left you back there with the mentals. Boy, you slicked the whip today right?"
"Yes'm father."
"Break that out when we get home. Do any of you know how to use a whip?"
"Um, I do." Kurama was cautious when answering.
"Hm, stay away from him boy. He might be a rebel too." The demon turned around and continued his walk.
"Dude Urameshi, I can't believe you called him that." Kuwabara whispered into Yusuke's ear.
"I can't believe that you used the word pretentious right." Hiei stood to the right of Kurama with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face.
"Shut up Hiei."
"We are home, and it smells like my dearest has cooked a well deserving dinner for me."
"Sweet dinner!" Kuwabara just about leapt from where he stood towards the house until he felt a sharp, piercing pain in his back. He fell to the ground.
"That dinner is for my family and me. New slaves don't get dinner." The demon stood with a black whip in his hand looking at the group of newly bought slaves, as he saw it.
Kuwabara was still lying on the ground in pain from the whip, he couldn't get up just yet. He waited for the demon and his son to leave. When they did, he finally cried out in pain.
"OW! That hurt!"
"What made you think our slave driver was going to feed us a hearty dinner?" Hiei looked down at him and felt no pity for him. He could only hear laughter in his head.
"We should probably get some sleep. Or the demon might hear you and come back with the whip." Yusuke said that just to freak out Kuwabara and make him shut up.
"Slaves!" Everyone could hear the man's hoarse voice from inside.
"You start your working tomorrow, be sure to rest up. You don't want to die out there."
"Jeez, that's gonna suck." Yusuke sat down in his official "bed" to begin his sleep before his first day as a slave.
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Shade- please review!