Repreview: The gang has passed the first test of Maze Castle. The Saint Beasts have yet to show their selves. Alaira gets ancy and takes on the first one. Yanurit, the wind demon shows herself in this chapter of Yu Yu Hakusho Revised!
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" Hey guys....did you feel that?" Kitty said stopping in her tracks and looking around.
" Feel what? I didn't feel anything." Yusuke said looking around also.
" I felt a breeze. Too strong to be natural in a closed space. It felt like it came from the room up ahead." Kitty said pointing to a door at the end of the hall.
" You're freaking me out, Kitty. I don't know anything about unnatural winds but I know that you're going crazy on us." Kuwabara said hiding behind Alaira to escape Kitty's glare.
" Let's go and Kuwabara for saying that you get to go in the room first." Kitty said grabbing Kuwabara's shoulder and pushing him up in front of the group.
" Uh...okay. This way then!" Kuwabara said turning around to go back the way they had just come.
He turned around to meet Kitty's sharp claws an inch from his throat. " Go on. Forward this time. Or you lose your head." she growled.
" I...I...umm....okay." Kuwabara gulped out as Kitty's claws pressed closer on his jugular vein in his neck.
" Fine...go now and don't stop until you're through the door." Kitty said removing her claws from his throat and then retracted them.
" Kitty, what was that about?" Kurama said lagging behind with Kitty and Hiei as the others moved on.
" Kuwabara needs to learn to not be such a coward and not to insult people stronger than him, especially a moody ice/wind demon. He called me loopy and said I was crazy. He had no right saying that when I knew full well that I was right. He needs to learn some manners." Kitty said grabbing Hiei's hand and running to catch up with the others who were halfway down the hallway.
" That girl...I'll never understand her. Her mood swings make her unpredictable. She can be as sweet as a kitten one minute and the next wanting to slice your throat open. Kuwabara learned the hard way not to get on her nerves. Hiei just stays off them. Alaira jokes her way out of it. And Kitty never gets mad at Yusuke for real. I don't know what to think of that girl..." Kurama said to himself running to catch up with the rest of the gang.
" Okay...here goes...I'm opening the door." Kuwabara said putting his hand on the door and pushing it open.
" Welcome." a soft voice said from across the room.
" Who are you?" Alaira yelled out stepping to the front of the group.
" I am Yanurit. The wind goddess." the voice said again. This time a young woman stepped out of the shadows. The woman was dressed in a flowing aqua blue dress and had a diamond crown on her head. She had long dusty blonde hair which flew around the woman as she walked.
" I am Yanurit. Who are you?" the woman said again, as she walked half way across the room toward the gang.
" I'm Alaira." Alaira said as she walked towards Yanurit. " I've come to fight."
" Well, I am one of the Saint Beasts of Maze Castle. But I will not consider myself a beast." Yanurit said again.
" I can see that. I have come to fight. I will fight you first." Alaira said putting her hand up into the air and summoning the Staff of Dark Magic.
" I see....this is how it will be." Yanurit said and she then called forth her wind power and a tornado of great magnitude grew in the middle of the room.
" A tornado? I can match that." Alaira said smiling. " Tornado of Hell's Fire!"
A great tornado of fire grew down from the ceiling and stood just twisting in one place. Kitty saw the fire and jumped up into Hiei's arms, because she doesn't like fire.
" I see....you will not be able to hold up under this attack, magician." Yanurit said half laughing.
" What can she be planning?" Alaira asked herself.
" I can tell you care a lot for the red headed boy over there. He will be a perfect subject in my plan." Yanurit said again laughing.
" What! You mean Kurama?!" Alaira said looking back at her friends. " You wouldn't dare."
" Oh...yes I would." Yanurit said as a blue ribbon flew from her wrist and wrapped itself around Kurama.
" Leave him out of this!" Alaira said as Yanurit grabbed hold of the end of the ribbon that held Kurama prisoner.
" Why? We are not fighting by rules. I can manipulate your feelings if I want." Yanurit said twisting the ribbon down to the ground.
Kurama slammed into the ground with a sickening crunch.
" KURAMA!" Alaira screamed as Yanurit jerked the ribbon upwards and Kurama slammed upwards into the ceiling.
" Have you had enough pain yet Alaira? Or shall your friend have another meeting with the ground?" Yanurit said laughing.
" You'll never get away with this! Kitty, can you throw some of your ice power into my staff?" Alaira yelled back to Kitty.
" Yea. I guess..." Kitty said holding her hand up even with Alaira's raised staff. She unleashed a stream of ice into the staff. " Is that enough?"
" That's more than enough. Thanks Kitty." Alaira called back. The tornado of fire got bigger and Kitty jumped right back up into Hiei's arms and buried her face into his cloak. She didn't want to see the fire or Kurama getting pounded into the ground.
" Hiei... I don't like this...." Kitty said looking up into Hiei's red eyes.
" Kitty, I don't either....I don't know what to think about it...What do you think that Alaira's going to do with your ice energy?" Hiei said looking down into Kitty's big hazel eyes.
" She's going to try and attempt the Staff of Dark Magic's ultimate attack, Black Angel Scream. It attacks with the powers of Ice, Lightning, and Fire. It's devastating, but only if you can control it. It's a dangerous attack if you don't know how to use it..." Kitty trailed off burying her face back into Hiei's cloak because Kurama had been sent crashing into the ceiling once more.
" Yanurit, prepare to die." Alaira said pointing her staff at her.
" Die of what? It looks like your friend Kurama's going to be joining Lucifer in Hell before this fight is over." Yanurit said laughing again.
" You're really starting to piss me off with that annoying laughter of yours and your damn assumptions about me." Alaira said grabbing the ribbon as it came past her and she ripped it in half. Kurama fell to the ground and Kitty jumped out of Hiei's arms and ran to him. She pulled him back to where Hiei and the others were standing and started healing him with her powers.
" I told you to leave Kurama out of this and now you've really pissed me off..." Alaira said as her eyes started glowing red and a huge amount a Spirit Energy spiraled from her body.
" What's this?" Yanurit said a stepping back a bit.
" Your worst nightmare..." Alaira said as her hair grew to the lightest silver and then grew down to the ground and her eyes turned into the purest blue imaginable. She grew nine silver wolf tails and her skin grew to the color of alabaster. Her ears moved up the side of her head and turned into silver wolf ears.
" Wha...what are you?!" Yanurit screamed retreating from Alaira's new appearance.
" I am Alaira. Reincarnation of Lisheka, Queen of the Lost World. I have returned." Alaira said laughing menacingly.
" Spare me! Spare me, Please! I didn't mean any harm. I was only joking when I hurt your friend...I'm sorry!" Yanurit said falling to her knees in fear.
" You shall not be forgiven...Now DIE!!" Alaira screamed, " BLACK ANGEL SCREAM!!!"
Three streams, each of fire, ice, and lightning, shot out of the end of the staff and enveloped Yanurit. When the blast faded away all that was left of Yanurit was her crown of diamonds.
" Kitty, give it a rest. Your powers are almost exhausted. Let me take over healing Kurama for now." Alaira said walking up to the gang, still in her demon form.
" Right..." Kitty said trying to stand up. She was so weak from giving almost all of her energy into healing Kurama that she just fell backwards into Hiei's arms.
" Kitty, are you okay?" Hiei said picking her up.
" Yea...I'm just a little weak from using up all my power. I'm fine." Kitty said before she fainted in Hiei's arms.
" She'll be out for a while. I'll carry her." Hiei said to Yusuke and Kuwabara.
" That's fine. If anyone else was carrying her when she woke up she'd kill us. You're the only one she trusts besides Kurama and Alaira." Yusuke said watching Alaira heal Kurama.
" She trusts you too Yusuke. Even though she won't admit it." Hiei replied still holding Kitty in his arms. " Alaira, is Kurama almost healed?"
" Yes. He is healed. He should be waking up about right now." Alaira replied standing up and returning to human form. Her hair turned from silver to dark brown and her eyes turned back to emerald green.
Kurama stirred from his unconscious state and sat up. " Oww...I feel like I've been slammed between two slabs of rock and then drug through a field of briers." he said rubbing his head.
" You're okay. That's good. We should keep moving." Alaira said walking across the room and through the door.
" Let's go then." Kuwabara said following Alaira.
Hiei and Kurama fell behind Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Alaira so they could talk with out being over heard.
" Hiei, what happened to Kitty?" Kurama asked.
" She used up almost all of her energy healing you. She'll be out for a while, like she was last time she did any big time healing." Hiei said looking down at Kitty's sleeping face on his shoulder.
" She looks so innocent asleep. How can someone with so many mood swings look so innocent while she's asleep really puzzles me. I don't understand it." Kurama said half laughing.
" She does have mood swings doesn't she? The way she reacted to the stupid oaf's imprudence came as a shock to me." Hiei said as he and Kurama passed through the door.
" Yes...I know... I really didn't expect for her to threaten him like that...it was a surprise. She usually doesn't usually care if someone turns heel on someone. I don't understand it." Kurama said just as he ran into Kuwabara, who was standing still in the middle of the hallway. " What are you doing? Go on!"
" I can't Alaira said to stay in one place while she checked out this thing up ahead." Kuwabara said as he tried to stand in one place.
" You know Kuwabara...if Kitty was awake she'd be saying that you're a stupid son of a bitch and should go on." Hiei said.
"Well she's not awake and I don't have to listen to her big mouth." Kuwabara said looking down at Kitty and reaching his hand out to thump her in the nose.
Hiei grabbed his hand and twisted it around. " Don't lay a hand on her. Next time you even lay a finger on her I'll kill you." Hiei said letting go of Kuwabara's arm.
" Oww...that hurt. Why'd you do that?!" he said massaging his arm where Hiei had grabbed it.
" You were about to touch Kitty...that's something that I don't want anyone else besides her close friends doing." Hiei growled back.
" Okay...don't get so mad about it shorty." Kuwabara said walking away.
" I don't know why that stupid toddler made me go on a mission with that idiot. This oaf doesn't know the difference between a demon and a mud puddle." Hiei thought to himself as he readjusted Kitty in his arms. She mumbled something underneath her breath and then moved her head underneath his chin.
" Kitty...." Hiei said to himself as he ran to keep up with Kurama and Kuwabara who had walked off to find Alaira and Yusuke.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Preview: We have found out a piece to Alaria's mysterious past. What Saint Beast will appear next? And will Kuwabara and Hiei ever get along? To find out read the next chapter of"
YU YU HAKUSHO REVISED