Chapter 6: black feather rescuer
The boys stared on watching Serena fly away. They finally knew that she was alive and where she was... in that building.
in that building
Serena landed in through the black doors and ran down the long, tall hallway.
"Serena!" A large voice boomed out. She winced as she stopped just outside another pair of black doors before they suddenly opened up to let her in.
There was no one else but the two men that opened the door inside the room, although the same voice rang out again. It belonged to neither of the two men.
"Serena! What do you think you were doing?" It asked.
"The boy, he, he fell down and started to bleed. I tried to help him." Serena looked into what seemed to be a black hole with two red lights shining through and talking to it.
"You have known all your life that you are not to interfere with the slave drivers and their slaves." The voice said.
"Don't call them slaves! They're just poor demons whom you captured and stole their futures away from! They don't deserve that name. They're better than that!" Serena started to fume as Yusuke's face popped up in her head.
'Hm, he didn't look like a demon. He looked like a human!' Serena's serene blue eyes widened a bit.
'Why would humans want to save me?'
"Serena!" Serena shook her head a bit coming out of her thoughts.
"I don't want you interacting with the slaves. Your work is not with them, but with me." The man said.
"Then why do you send me to that perch everyday to gaze upon their pain when all I can do is watch. Or that's all you make me do." Serena looked at the black hole. She always was good with words.
"To show you what you could have been. Now don't talk back to me!" A black laser shot out from the back of the room and hit Serena in the shoulder. She fell to the ground in pain.
"Go ahead, cry." The voice told her.
"No," Serena squeezed her eyes together holding her left shoulder in pain, "I won't cry." She let out a sigh of pain and breathed hard opening her eyes and closing them again to not let her cry.
"Fine then. You know, you've been a good girl in not allowing yourself to cry. Even though I get you if you cry from emotional pain, not physical." He said.
"Yes, I know." Serena sat up using her wings, knowing that letting herself cry at all would weaken her and would make her her masters' finally.
"Please send Serena back to her perch and if she leaves again to treat another slave you have permission from me to whip her." The voice said as the two men picked Serena up and led her out of the room still holding her left shoulder.
'Why in the world would someone want to save me? How could they come here knowing how terrible this place is? Or... did they not know?' Serena walked down the same hall as before and went outside. The wind had picked up blowing her hair everywhere. She went up to her perch and stood looking for the four boys who promised her escape. She could not find them. Serena closed her eyes and imagined each of their faces. Then, her mind froze on Hiei's.
She thought of his piercing red eyes. They reminded her of the devil man's only... they seemed kinder, but still dark and in a way evil.
'But how? He said they were here to save me.' Serena opened her eyes and looked for them again. Still, no where.
She looked down and sighed finally giving up for the day. She looked back up looking completely ahead avoiding watching the slaves. She stood, letting the wind blow her hair to the side as the day wasted away into night.
night
Serena stood in the same position as when she started that day on her perch. In the night sky Serena looked like a maiden. Her face, so quaint and petite. He skin, creamy and mild. But her emotion, dead and gone. She lived with many scars on her soul and memories she just wanted to forget. She stepped down to return to her room. Looking back one more time at the empty land that once was inhabited by thousands of slaves, now bare and dank, she sighed knowing there was no way for her to be saved, even if those mysterious boys did make it that far. There was just no way.
Serena walked with her back to the slave city, also known as Thorn Ivy. She retreated back.
Serena's room
Serena was sitting in a large chair brushing her blond hair staring blankly at the mirror in front of her. She set the brush down and stood up letting the bottom of her long white dress fall to the ground covering over all her body accepted her hands and head. She walked to the foot of her bed. Then she closed her eyes and her wings began to shrink. Serena's wings were spread outward showing her 15 foot wing span (A/N too big?). Slowly, her wings disappeared into her back until they were gone completely. Serena slid into bed to sleep.
"Well. It looks like another night. Oh man, I hope this time I won't wake up screaming." Serena put her head to the pillow and fell straight asleep waiting for her nightmare.
middle of the night
Serena was stirring in her bed, mentally screaming. She finally woke up. Her eyes were wide and sweat dripped from her face to her blanket. Still, she tried her hardest not to cry. With not crying in general, crying otherwise was easy to avoid.
Serena decided to not sleep the rest of the night. Having two nightmares in one night would be too much for her. She stepped out of bed and walked to her balcony. She opened the doors and stepped outside into the cold night air. She walked to the edge and swung her legs over the side and sat on the railing. Looking out she sprouted her wings for comfort.
'It feels weird not having my wings while I'm awake.' She covered herself with her wings to keep her from the cold. Surprisingly enough, it got cold in Hades at night... go figure.
While moving her newly resprouted wings, one of the black feathers fell off and flew away in the wind. Serena followed its' movements till she could see it no longer in the black sky. She decided to sit there for the rest of the night till the sun rose.
far away
"So it's decided? When we find Serena we will tell her what's going on and if she doesn't believe us we knock her out and take her." Yusuke was walking through the forest in his normal clothes with the rest of the guys. They had left earlier to find Serena again and get her soon as possible.
"That doesn't sound right Yusuke. Serena's been traumatized by living here and you want to knock her out? I think we should find another approach rather than that." Kurama said.
"Fine, we'll think of something when we get there."
"Uh, guys? Where exactly are we?" Kuwabara looked around not fully knowing where they were. Everything still scared him still.
"I thought the whipping boy knew where we were going." Hiei said.
"Hey shut up Hiei! You don't know what it's like to be hit be a whip."
"Actually, I have. I did fight Kurama once you know."
"Yeah whatever, but still, we need to find her and where we are right now." Yusuke looked around trying to find something familiar.
"Jeez, how can we not know where that humungo building is? And we walked for a whole hour back. How is nothing familiar?" Yusuke stopped to look at everything a bit closer.
"Hey, what's that?" Yusuke walked a few feet forward and picked it up.
"It's a feather! A black one too." Everyone gathered around Yusuke and the feather.
"It must be Serena's!"
"It came from over there." Kuwabara pointed through the trees and that's just where the guys went.
The guys walked through the thick trees and coming out they saw the building with the funky mist.
"There it is! Is that Serena?" Yusuke looked out and saw the same white dot as he did before.
"It," Kuwabara squinted, "is!"
"What is she doing up at this hour?" Kurama asked himself out loud.
"Well it doesn't matter. We need to get her. This just makes it easier." Yusuke and everyone else went foreword and kept on walking with the feather in his hand.
with Serena
Serena sat with her head on her knee and her arms rapped around her leg. Her other leg was hanging in the free wind. She hadn't noticed the boys coming toward her. Serena started to get tired and closed her eyes. As the guys neared she could hear their foot steps through the crunchy twigs and sticks. She opened her eyes and looked down surprised to see the four mysterious boys from before.
"Hey, Serena." Yusuke said. Serena freaked out at the volume of his voice and jumped down from the rail to them. She landed easily and covered Yusuke's mouth.
"Be quiet! Master will hear you!"
"Master? You have a master?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yes! Why are you here? Your slave owner couldn't have allowed this." She looked at them all with her hand still around Yusuke's mouth.
"We left without permission to get you." Hiei looked at Serena the same way as when he first saw her which made Serena trust them just a bit less. (A/N come on! Hiei is a bit freaky at first glance even if he is small)
"Get me? And where will you take me?" Serena began to feel uncomfortable. She had never been able to trust anyone before. She let go of Yusuke as he tried to talk.
"Take you away from this place. Go back to Limbo." Serena stared at him in disbelief.
"You're- you're really here to take me back to Limbo?" Serena had faint memories of her first home. Though not many.
"We will take you back to your mother." Kurama said which made Serena freeze in a shock of awe with her mouth open. Of all her memories her mother was in each one.
"My mother?" Serena now didn't care. She wanted to see her mother another time.
"Serena!" Serena's head jerked around in fear of master seeing them.
"Master! You must go! Or he'll take you!" Serena flew up to the balcony and ran through the doors and closed them.
"But we're here to take you back!" Kuwabara yelled out as the others got ready to run away.
A dark light shone around the four boys though blinded them.
"Guards! Retrieve them!" A voice boomed out. Six guards ran out of the building at ground level and grabbed the guys.
Hiei got ready to take off their heads but Kurama mentally stopped him.
'No Hiei! We can't fight back! Hold yourself.'
Hiei listened and stopped struggling as hard and allowed the rank smelling guards carry him off. As the guys were taken away Serena watched in sadness and horror out her window as she saw her one chance for freedom be taken away by six large brutes. At that point, she knew they would die in Hades, and she would too.
Shade- Sup yo! How's my home doogies doin'? (I meant to say doogies) well there's another chapter for your viewing pleasure. Hope you enjoyed it! Again, please review!
The boys stared on watching Serena fly away. They finally knew that she was alive and where she was... in that building.
in that building
Serena landed in through the black doors and ran down the long, tall hallway.
"Serena!" A large voice boomed out. She winced as she stopped just outside another pair of black doors before they suddenly opened up to let her in.
There was no one else but the two men that opened the door inside the room, although the same voice rang out again. It belonged to neither of the two men.
"Serena! What do you think you were doing?" It asked.
"The boy, he, he fell down and started to bleed. I tried to help him." Serena looked into what seemed to be a black hole with two red lights shining through and talking to it.
"You have known all your life that you are not to interfere with the slave drivers and their slaves." The voice said.
"Don't call them slaves! They're just poor demons whom you captured and stole their futures away from! They don't deserve that name. They're better than that!" Serena started to fume as Yusuke's face popped up in her head.
'Hm, he didn't look like a demon. He looked like a human!' Serena's serene blue eyes widened a bit.
'Why would humans want to save me?'
"Serena!" Serena shook her head a bit coming out of her thoughts.
"I don't want you interacting with the slaves. Your work is not with them, but with me." The man said.
"Then why do you send me to that perch everyday to gaze upon their pain when all I can do is watch. Or that's all you make me do." Serena looked at the black hole. She always was good with words.
"To show you what you could have been. Now don't talk back to me!" A black laser shot out from the back of the room and hit Serena in the shoulder. She fell to the ground in pain.
"Go ahead, cry." The voice told her.
"No," Serena squeezed her eyes together holding her left shoulder in pain, "I won't cry." She let out a sigh of pain and breathed hard opening her eyes and closing them again to not let her cry.
"Fine then. You know, you've been a good girl in not allowing yourself to cry. Even though I get you if you cry from emotional pain, not physical." He said.
"Yes, I know." Serena sat up using her wings, knowing that letting herself cry at all would weaken her and would make her her masters' finally.
"Please send Serena back to her perch and if she leaves again to treat another slave you have permission from me to whip her." The voice said as the two men picked Serena up and led her out of the room still holding her left shoulder.
'Why in the world would someone want to save me? How could they come here knowing how terrible this place is? Or... did they not know?' Serena walked down the same hall as before and went outside. The wind had picked up blowing her hair everywhere. She went up to her perch and stood looking for the four boys who promised her escape. She could not find them. Serena closed her eyes and imagined each of their faces. Then, her mind froze on Hiei's.
She thought of his piercing red eyes. They reminded her of the devil man's only... they seemed kinder, but still dark and in a way evil.
'But how? He said they were here to save me.' Serena opened her eyes and looked for them again. Still, no where.
She looked down and sighed finally giving up for the day. She looked back up looking completely ahead avoiding watching the slaves. She stood, letting the wind blow her hair to the side as the day wasted away into night.
night
Serena stood in the same position as when she started that day on her perch. In the night sky Serena looked like a maiden. Her face, so quaint and petite. He skin, creamy and mild. But her emotion, dead and gone. She lived with many scars on her soul and memories she just wanted to forget. She stepped down to return to her room. Looking back one more time at the empty land that once was inhabited by thousands of slaves, now bare and dank, she sighed knowing there was no way for her to be saved, even if those mysterious boys did make it that far. There was just no way.
Serena walked with her back to the slave city, also known as Thorn Ivy. She retreated back.
Serena's room
Serena was sitting in a large chair brushing her blond hair staring blankly at the mirror in front of her. She set the brush down and stood up letting the bottom of her long white dress fall to the ground covering over all her body accepted her hands and head. She walked to the foot of her bed. Then she closed her eyes and her wings began to shrink. Serena's wings were spread outward showing her 15 foot wing span (A/N too big?). Slowly, her wings disappeared into her back until they were gone completely. Serena slid into bed to sleep.
"Well. It looks like another night. Oh man, I hope this time I won't wake up screaming." Serena put her head to the pillow and fell straight asleep waiting for her nightmare.
middle of the night
Serena was stirring in her bed, mentally screaming. She finally woke up. Her eyes were wide and sweat dripped from her face to her blanket. Still, she tried her hardest not to cry. With not crying in general, crying otherwise was easy to avoid.
Serena decided to not sleep the rest of the night. Having two nightmares in one night would be too much for her. She stepped out of bed and walked to her balcony. She opened the doors and stepped outside into the cold night air. She walked to the edge and swung her legs over the side and sat on the railing. Looking out she sprouted her wings for comfort.
'It feels weird not having my wings while I'm awake.' She covered herself with her wings to keep her from the cold. Surprisingly enough, it got cold in Hades at night... go figure.
While moving her newly resprouted wings, one of the black feathers fell off and flew away in the wind. Serena followed its' movements till she could see it no longer in the black sky. She decided to sit there for the rest of the night till the sun rose.
far away
"So it's decided? When we find Serena we will tell her what's going on and if she doesn't believe us we knock her out and take her." Yusuke was walking through the forest in his normal clothes with the rest of the guys. They had left earlier to find Serena again and get her soon as possible.
"That doesn't sound right Yusuke. Serena's been traumatized by living here and you want to knock her out? I think we should find another approach rather than that." Kurama said.
"Fine, we'll think of something when we get there."
"Uh, guys? Where exactly are we?" Kuwabara looked around not fully knowing where they were. Everything still scared him still.
"I thought the whipping boy knew where we were going." Hiei said.
"Hey shut up Hiei! You don't know what it's like to be hit be a whip."
"Actually, I have. I did fight Kurama once you know."
"Yeah whatever, but still, we need to find her and where we are right now." Yusuke looked around trying to find something familiar.
"Jeez, how can we not know where that humungo building is? And we walked for a whole hour back. How is nothing familiar?" Yusuke stopped to look at everything a bit closer.
"Hey, what's that?" Yusuke walked a few feet forward and picked it up.
"It's a feather! A black one too." Everyone gathered around Yusuke and the feather.
"It must be Serena's!"
"It came from over there." Kuwabara pointed through the trees and that's just where the guys went.
The guys walked through the thick trees and coming out they saw the building with the funky mist.
"There it is! Is that Serena?" Yusuke looked out and saw the same white dot as he did before.
"It," Kuwabara squinted, "is!"
"What is she doing up at this hour?" Kurama asked himself out loud.
"Well it doesn't matter. We need to get her. This just makes it easier." Yusuke and everyone else went foreword and kept on walking with the feather in his hand.
with Serena
Serena sat with her head on her knee and her arms rapped around her leg. Her other leg was hanging in the free wind. She hadn't noticed the boys coming toward her. Serena started to get tired and closed her eyes. As the guys neared she could hear their foot steps through the crunchy twigs and sticks. She opened her eyes and looked down surprised to see the four mysterious boys from before.
"Hey, Serena." Yusuke said. Serena freaked out at the volume of his voice and jumped down from the rail to them. She landed easily and covered Yusuke's mouth.
"Be quiet! Master will hear you!"
"Master? You have a master?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yes! Why are you here? Your slave owner couldn't have allowed this." She looked at them all with her hand still around Yusuke's mouth.
"We left without permission to get you." Hiei looked at Serena the same way as when he first saw her which made Serena trust them just a bit less. (A/N come on! Hiei is a bit freaky at first glance even if he is small)
"Get me? And where will you take me?" Serena began to feel uncomfortable. She had never been able to trust anyone before. She let go of Yusuke as he tried to talk.
"Take you away from this place. Go back to Limbo." Serena stared at him in disbelief.
"You're- you're really here to take me back to Limbo?" Serena had faint memories of her first home. Though not many.
"We will take you back to your mother." Kurama said which made Serena freeze in a shock of awe with her mouth open. Of all her memories her mother was in each one.
"My mother?" Serena now didn't care. She wanted to see her mother another time.
"Serena!" Serena's head jerked around in fear of master seeing them.
"Master! You must go! Or he'll take you!" Serena flew up to the balcony and ran through the doors and closed them.
"But we're here to take you back!" Kuwabara yelled out as the others got ready to run away.
A dark light shone around the four boys though blinded them.
"Guards! Retrieve them!" A voice boomed out. Six guards ran out of the building at ground level and grabbed the guys.
Hiei got ready to take off their heads but Kurama mentally stopped him.
'No Hiei! We can't fight back! Hold yourself.'
Hiei listened and stopped struggling as hard and allowed the rank smelling guards carry him off. As the guys were taken away Serena watched in sadness and horror out her window as she saw her one chance for freedom be taken away by six large brutes. At that point, she knew they would die in Hades, and she would too.
Shade- Sup yo! How's my home doogies doin'? (I meant to say doogies) well there's another chapter for your viewing pleasure. Hope you enjoyed it! Again, please review!