Chapter 8

We walk down the road next to one of the abandon slum buildings. Yusuke and Kurama walk behind us. Kuwabara was behind them. Nails walks a little in front of me, her void gaze looking around every building. Yusuke sighs.

"Are you sure she knows what she's doing?" Kurama hits the back of his head and shakes his head.

"Ice can feel Ice Yusuke. And she can kick your ass, so shut up." Yusuke looks at him a little taken back.

"Damn, didn't you sleep well last night?"

"No one did," I say, "Other than you. The whole city could feel it. I'd just say you were used to the feeling." Nails stops walking and reaches for her sword. She stops before her fingers touch it and lets her arm fall back to where it was. Her void look had gotten a little life to it. "Where?"

"Up." I mentally look up on the roof and smirk.

"They're hiding like cowards," I say the smirk playing in my voice.

"Hence why I didn't get it out." I nod and look at Yusuke.

"They're on the roof." He looks at me a little lost and Kurama rolls his eyes before jumping up on the roof. Yusuke looks up after him and Nails disappears after him. I jump up too and Yusuke and Kuwabara head into the building. By the time I got up there, Kurama was well into reacquainting with the two boys. I stands next to Nails, letting the cloak fall over my shoulder hiding my sword. She does the same, except her hood was pulled up.

"Sorry," The guy with red hair and a small horn in the front of his head says in an accented voice, "We just kept getting bad vibes. You know?" Kurama nods.

"I can understand, and I know why too." He looks at us and I smirk. "Jin, Touya, meet Kidkivan and Nails. The Saints of Nightmare and Ice." Nails tenses next to me and my smirk broadens to a complete sneer. Jin looks us over.

"Yep! That it!" I laughs a little.

"Aww, you scared of little old us."

"Saints," Touya laughs, "Little? I don't believe your talking about Spirit energy anymore."

"Who said I was to begin with?" Jin laughs and Touya glares at me.

"I like her." Touya rolls his eyes.

"You would like Hiei if her was trying to kill us." Jin shrugs.

"Maybe, if he made it fun." I smirk again and Nails laughs a little lightening up. Yusuke and Kuwabara burst through the door and look at Jin and Touya.

"Good, you're still alive." Jin looks at him weird.

"What the hell are you talkin' about Urameshi?" Yusuke shakes his head and Nails growls. I look at her.

"What wrong with you," I ask a little louder than I meant to. The others look at her too and her head twitches. "Nails?" She closes her eyes and falls to her knees. "Tell me something!"

"Elie-" She clutches her throat and squeezes her eyes shut. I look at the sky and let the Nightmare go. Several Dark serpents were on the trees around the building. The Nightmare attack them and Nails coughs like something had let go of her throat.

"Can't believe it," I mumble and look around. Sitting on a tree behind where Jin and Touya were standing looking pretty damn confused was the largest Dark serpent. "Hey, behind you. On the tree." Touya turns around slowly and looks at the serpent. Jin turns too and Kurama just looks at it. "Think you can kill it?"

"What is it," He asks a little bit of disgust in his voice.

"A Dark Serpent. Creations of the Saint of Darkness. Can you kill it?" He shrugs.

"Never tried before."

"Just do it." He nods and I could see the air around him get colder. It reaches out and covers the serpent in ice too. It slowly freezes. I look at it and Nails stands up. "Well, you stopped it if nothing else." I look around to where the Nightmare was hanging around in the trees still feeding off of the serpents. "The rest of them are dead." I walk over to the serpent and grab its head. It doesn't struggle or even fight. I pull it off the tree and let it hang around my feet still looking through the trees. Something wasn't right, Nails could feel it too.

"Ok, now I'm getting paranoid," she says and I shake my head.

"No she's here." Nails closes her eyes for a second and looks around.

"Who exactly are we lookin' for?"

"Elieria." Something flies out of the trees and heads straight for me. I close my eyes and drops the serpent. But before I can get to my sword. Four vines reach up from the ground and grab her waist, arms, and foot. They pull her to the ground and two more jump up and grab her other foot and throat. We all run over to the side where it had fallen and I look at Nails while everyone else look sat Kurama.

"It wasn't me," He says and Nails nods looking at him.

"We know." I jump over the edge of the building and land on the ground near the mess of cape. I walk over to it and pull back the hood that had fallen over the head. A mess of black hair greeted me and I look at he vine tight around the frantic throat.

"Don't kill her Ami." The vine loosens and fades back into the ground as Aminamari walks over from under the tree. She smiles and I look back at Elieria.

"Just leave her," Ami says walking over to me and smiling. She pulls back her hood and I look her straight in the emerald eyes that seemed to always be smiling.

"Where's Gwen?" She looks down the slum road and smiles again.

"Right there." I look down the street and smile at the sight of Gwen walking down the street with Alexis over her shoulder. I laugh. "She said she'd take care of her." I fall off balance and onto my back. Nails looks to where I was looking and laughs too. She jumps down from the roof and runs to where Gwen was walking as she drops Alexis and hugs her.

"Hey sis," I hear Gwen says her smile ringing in her voice. Yusuke and the others jump off the roof and walk over to where I was laying next to Ami. She smiles at them and I sit up. "What the hell did you do to her," Nails yells as she looks over Alexis. Gwen laughs and answers quickly. "What," Nails yells again a minute later. I look at Yusuke and smirk.

"Confused yet?" He glares at me and nods.

"Very!" Ami laughs a little.

"We have a tendency to do that don't we," Ami asks and I nod.

"Yep," I look at Yusuke and smirk. "This is Aminamari, Saint of Earth." I look at Gwen. "And the one with Nails is Gwen, the Saint of Wind." They look at Gwen and some look confused.

"Why does she look so much like the other one," Jin asks stupidly.

"They don't really. The Saint changes our appearances," Ami says, "And they're sisters." Jin looks at her and nods.

"Makes sense… kinda." Touya shakes his head and I stand up looking at Elieria.

"So you think we should just leaves them here," I say to Ami. She nods.

"They can't be killed, it would be pointless. Just leave them." She looks at Gwen and Nails. "Come on you two!" The look at us and start over.

"Can you really do that," Nails says to Gwen as they walk. Gwen nods.

"Wanna see?" Nails looks at her and shakes her head.

"No." Gwen laughs and Ami shakes her head this time.

"I hope you have a plan Kid, cause you have you're worriers now." I look at her and smirk.

"Stay alive and you'll see." She nods and I start down the road again.