Repreview: Two of the Saint Beasts are now dead. Will the other four be killed or will our team lose a few members? Kitty takes on Sora, the goddess of water in this chapter of Yu Yu Hakusho Revised!
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" Are you sure we're going the right way?" Alaira said as they climbed the steps of the castle tower. " We haven't run into any traps yet. I'm just wondering."
" Well, I really don't have a detailed map of the castle so I'm not sure if we're going the right way or in the total opposite direction." Yusuke said turning around and looking at Alaira.
" Hey! It looks like the stairs end up a bit." Kitty said running up the stairs.
" Wait up! You don't know what's up there!" Hiei said chasing after her.
Alaira, Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara heard Hiei yell and they ran up the stairs to see what was the matter.
" Hiei! Are you okay?!" Alaira yelled as they reached top of the stairs.
" I'm fine . . . but I can't see Kitty!" Hiei said motioning the others over to the door.
" Oh . . . hell." Yusuke said looking out the door.
He saw a room filled with water, like a small pond or lake. The water was crystal clear and sparkling under the sunlight. It had stepping stones leading across its surface.
" Hi guys! I fell in this water hole. The water's a bit cold though." a voice yelled up from below them. ( The door was about 20 feet above the water and it was a straight drop down)
" Well that's nice. I wonder what a room full of water is doing in the middle of a castle?" Alaira said looking down at Kitty who was swimming over to the other side of the room.
" Welcome. This is my lair. The Room of Typhoons." a soft voice said from somewhere in the room.
" The Room of Typhoons? It doesn't look like a typhoon." Kitty said looking around for a body to go with the voice.
" It may not look like a typhoon now, but I assure you it can." the voice said again.
" Will you show yourself? I hate it when I only hear a voice and no body to go with it." Kitty said getting out of the water on the low platform at the other side of the room.
" Fine, look below you." the voice said again.
Kitty looked below her and screamed. There were two glowing eyes looking at her from underneath the water.
" What are you?!" Kitty screamed again moving back away from the edge of the water.
" I am Sora. Goddess of Water." the voice said again as Sora got out of the water. She had a mermaid tail fin. Her hair was a long light blue and her eyes were red. Her skin was the weirdest part though, it was a light purple and she had webbed fingers which each ended in a wickedly hooked black nail.
" Get away from me!" Kitty said scrambling to get away from Sora.
" You must get past me to go on ahead in your mission." Sora said laughing.
" Fine . . . I'll fight you just let me past you." Kitty said crawling over toward
the edge of the platform.
" Go. I'll give you a head start before I kill you." Sora said, laughing again.
Kitty jumped off the platform and onto a stepping stone. She started jumping across on the stepping stones toward her friends.
" Kitty! Hurry, that thing's coming!" Alaira yelled.
" I'm trying but I can't run as fast . . . she's cast some kind of spell on me!" Kitty yelled as she tripped and fell into the water.
" KITTY!" Hiei yelled. He about jumped in but Kurama grabbed his arm.
" Kitty doesn't need you down there. It will only distract her. She lied when she said that she had gotten all of her power back. She only got about one fourth back. She needs every bit of that energy to get her out of this." Kurama said as he pulled Hiei back.
" She what?!" Hiei exclaimed watching to see if Kitty had come up. " She wouldn't have lied about her strength returning. She could get killed that way."
" I know . . . but Kitty is stubborn, and plus I think that she's the only one here who can actually swim very well." Kurama said looking at Kitty who had come up sputtering.
" You bitch. Of all the cheap tricks, this is the lowest one. You can move the stones around as you wish! That's how you can keep your victim in your territory at all times!" Kitty yelled at Sora.
" I see you've figured out my strategy. Very good. But it's too late now!" Sora said swimming over to where Kitty was floating in the water.
" Not this time. I'm gonna make sushi out of you!" Kitty said taking a deep breath and ducking underneath the water to confront Sora with her sharp claws.
The water became clouded with blood and then two heads popped up above the water.
" YOU!! How did you block my attack?! People are usually defenseless against my underwater attacks!" Sora screamed throwing up her arms, one of which was cut clean off and blood was dripping from the socket.
" Easy. You blinked and your moves are sooo predictable!" Kitty said retracting her claws, smiling.
" I'll show you predictable!" Sora screamed again " TYPHOON ARISE!!"
All of a sudden the water started boiling and a water spout came bursting out of the surface of the water. It began twisting and turning and the water started swirling around and the water level rose almost 15 feet.
" Now you see why this is called the Room of Typhoons?" Sora laughed. " Now for the bait. I see a black-haired boy up there that seems worried about you . . . is he of some importance in your heart?"
" What . . . " Kitty said looking up at the gang which stood in the doorway. Hiei was standing at the very front of them. " No . . . not him . . . leave him out of this, Sora. He has nothing to do with our battle. Don't harm him."
" Really? So you do care about him. He'll be perfect bait." Sora said looking at the water spout and then pointing with her good arm at Hiei. " Erovistrewtop Iquarity Porvastier"
" What? She's saying some sort of spell in the ancient sea people language . . . but that died out 4.5 million years ago . . . " Kitty said to herself.
The water spout shot out an 'arm' of water and grabbed Hiei and flung him into the heart of the water spout.
" NO!!" Kitty screamed swimming over to the water spout.
" I don't think so, my pretty. You'll soon be joining your friend in death." Sora laughed.
" You . . . no one hurts Hiei . . . you understand me?" Kitty said bone chillingly calm.
" Oh . . . and what are you going to do about it?" Sora said laughing again.
" Oh . . . you'll see . . . " Kitty said her eyes started glowing yellow as she stood up on a stepping stone.
" Are you mad? I'm sorry . . . , did I hurt someone you cared about?" Sora asked in a sickly sweet voice.
" You'll soon be in hell, you son of a bitch." Kitty said as black fur began growing all over her. Her tail grew longer and turned into the same black as the fur on her body. Her ears moved up the sides of her head and turned into panther ears, the same black as her body. Fangs grew out of her mouth, they were about three inches in length and her claws grew about 4 inches in length.
" Yusuke I was wondering did you see this form when Kitty transformed or another one?" Kurama turned and asked Yusuke as Kitty was transforming.
" I saw her with tan fur with black spots. This form is just scary . . . like she's turned into another person or something. What is happening to her?" Yusuke asked Kurama with a gulp.
" I thought so. She can only reach this form when she has reached a breaking point in her anger. This is the Kitty that was Sheena in her demon life." Kurama said watching Kitty, " She cares a lot for Hiei and when Sora threw him into the water Kitty lost it because water can kill a fire apparition and Kitty loves Hiei so much and she felt so much anger that the combined power of those two strong emotions awoke her most powerful demon form."
" I see . . . I hope Kitty never gets that mad at me." Yusuke said hiding behind Kurama in case Kitty decided to turn on her friends.
" Sora! Prepare to go to HELL!" Kitty yelled as she released a tremendous blast of icy wind at Sora.
" NOO!!!" Sora screamed as the ice hit her and froze her through. Kitty summoned her weapon, a double-ended-double-bladed trident like sword and then she used one of her special attacks " Twin Blades." she said as she moved her sword in two different directions at lightning speed.
Sora's frozen body flew into a million pieces and the typhoon that held Hiei prisoner faded away. Kitty's hair went from black to light brown and her eyes turned back hazel from the gold. The black fur that covered her body retreated to reveal her pale white skin. Her fangs and claws returned to normal size.
" Hiei . . . " Kitty said looking over at the body that was laying on a rock where the water spout used to be. " Hiei . . . don't be dead . . . "
Kitty jumped over to Hiei on the stepping stones. She sat down and pulled him into her lap. " Hiei . . . please wake up . . . I can't lose you now . . . not now . . . " Kitty said crying. Her tears turned into jewels which she let fall into the water and sink to the bottom.
The others quietly stepped down onto the stepping stone closest to the door.
" Kurama . . . why do Kitty's tears turn into jewels?" Kuwabara asked as he fell into the water, missing the stepping stone completely.
" She's an ice demon . . . I don't know why but their tears always turn into valuable jewels. It's just what ice demons do." Kurama said helping Kuwabara up onto the stepping stone.
" Hiei . . . don't die . . . don't die . . . " Kitty was crying oblivious to the people that were walking up behind her. " Please wake up . . . please . . . "
" Kitty, he's gone . . . just leave him be." Alaira said walking up and putting her hand on Kitty's shoulder.
" He's not gone . . . he's still here . . . I can feel it. He's alive." Kitty said hugging Hiei close to her.
" Give it up . . . you're just imagining it . . . you can't feel if he's alive. No one can. It's just your imagination." Alaira said trying to pull Kitty away from Hiei's body.
" Alaira, Hiei is alive. If he was dead, he wouldn't be breathing." Kitty said looking Alaira in the eye.
" Kitty you're still imagining it. He's not breathing. Just leave him and let's go." Alaira said pulling on Kitty's arm.
"No . . . I'm not leaving, but you can. Go on . . . I'll stay here. We'll catch up later." Kitty said waving them on.
" Fine. Let's go and let Kitty here mope around because she let Hiei die." Alaira said walking off up the ramp that lead out of the room.
" Kitty, there's nothing you can do for him . . . come on and leave him here. We'll come back for his body later." Yusuke said touching Kitty on the shoulder.
Kitty just jerked her shoulder from Yusuke's touch. " Hiei's alive. Go away. Besides I wouldn't leave him anyway. He wouldn't leave me and I won't leave him." she said pulling away from Yusuke. Two jewels fell into the water.
" Fine. We'll be up ahead once you come to your senses." Kuwabara said walking off behind Yusuke and the others.
" Hiei, you're not dead. I can feel you. You're still here. Please don't leave me . . . I don't want to be alone." Kitty said closing her eyes.
" Kitty . . . " Hiei said in a weak voice.
" Hiei . . . ?" Kitty said opening her eyes and looking at him.
" Kitty . . . is that you?" Hiei said spitting up water.
"It's me. Don't worry." Kitty said smiling through her teary eyes.
Hiei sat up in Kitty's lap still coughing up water. " Where did the others go?" he asked looking at Kitty.
" They left. They believed that you were dead. I wouldn't leave." Kitty said wiping the tears from her eyes.
" Thank you Kitty. Thanks for not leaving me." Hiei said wiping a tear off her cheek that she had missed.
" I'm glad you're not dead." Kitty said resting her head on his shoulder.
" Me, too. I'd miss you too much, Kitten." Hiei said standing up.
Kitty just smiled and kissed him on the cheek. " Let's go. The others are going to be surprised to see you alive. They think that you're as dead as a doornail." she said laughing.
" Well, I guess they will be surprised to see me come back from the dead. They'll think that I'm a ghost." Hiei said picking a soaking wet Kitty up and carrying her up the ramp and out of the room.
5 MINUTES LATER
" Hiei, I think that I hear the others up ahead. It sounds like Kuwabara's fighting." Kitty said looking ahead of where she and Hiei were.
" Yes . . . I can hear it now. It sounds like that oaf has gotten himself into a fight that Yusuke thinks he can't win." Hiei said putting on more speed.
They came upon Yusuke, Kurama, and Alaira who were standing at one end of a bridge spanning across a wide abyss.
" Hey Alaira! What's up?" Kitty said jumping out of Hiei's arms.
" Wha . . . Where did he come from! He's a ghost!" Alaira said jumping behind Kurama away from Hiei.
" Well it seems that Kitty was right. You weren't dead." Yusuke said slapping Hiei on the back.
" What made you think that I was dead?" Hiei said directing his question at Alaira.
" You weren't moving and it didn't look like you were breathing." Alaira said meekly.
" Don't be fooled by what you see." Hiei said putting his arm around Kitty's shoulder.
Kitty just put her hand on the hand that was laying on her shoulder.
" What's Kuwabara doing?" Kitty asked watching Kuwabara getting his butt kicked by a big white tiger in a loin cloth. " That tiger really needs to get some more clothes on."
" That tiger's name is Bayako. He is a master of fire." Kurama explained as Kuwabara got punched in the face.
" Fire? . . . hehehe . . . " Kitty laughed nervously. She tightened her grip on Hiei's hand.
" It's okay, Kitty. If any fire comes near you, I'll get you out of the way." Hiei whispered in Kitty's ear.
Kitty just nodded her head and put her head underneath Hiei's chin.
" Kuwabara! Let me fight him! You'll never beat him!" Yusuke was yelling at Kuwabara.
" NO URAMESHI! I CAN TAKE CARE OF THIS MYSELF!" Kuwabara yelled as he was thrown across the floor.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Preview: Kitty has beaten Sora, the goddess of water. Kuwabara is in a fight for his life against the giant tiger, Bayako. Who will win? Who will lose? To find out read the next chapter of:
YU YU HAKUSHO REVISED