Yume: NOW WE GET TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS! ONWARD!
Yuki: Hold your horses, Yume you idiot! ::turns to reviewers:: I know you are all -oh- so eager to see what happened, but you have to listen to this first! ::starts to sing the Doom song::
Everyone else: NO!!! NOT THAT! ANYTHING BUT THAT!!
Yuki: ::pout:: Fine. Onward to chapter three, Yume's Insidious Plot!
Disclaimer: First chapter.
RECAP!
Scratched and bleeding, it groped around until it found a tree root protruding from the ground, and used it to pull itself up. Once two arms, a head, and a torso were no longer hidden by the bushes, the almost lifeless body looked up at the two boys. The face of their friend was bloody and bruised. The clothes were torn, revealing deep gashes where some demon must have lashed out at her. She eventually rolled out of the bushes, revealing her legs and feet which were as scraped and bruised and mangled as the rest of her. She opened her mouth to speak, yet no noise came out. She tried again and once more failed. The third time she lifted her head, the only word that came out of her mouth was "Help." her voice was dry and raspy and a faint moan came from her before she collapsed on the ground.
"HIKARI!" Yuusuke ran to her, but before he got within three feet of her, a voice to his right in a tree shouted, "NOW!"
A bright light shined over the bushes, seemingly coming from a tree ahead. Yuusuke and Kuwabara were blinded, and they couldn't move if they couldn't see.
"Orb of Darkness!!" shouted a voice from the top of the tree. Two giant orbs of jet black spirit energy shot straight towards the two frightened teenage boys. They screamed like little girls as they turned on their heels and ran. They were stopped short by two figures, shrouded in darkness. The silhouettes looked like... their own shadows. They looked down, where their shadows should be, but they were missing. Shadow Kazuma created a Spirit Sword of black energy, as Shadow Yuusuke powered up a black Shot Gun. Once again, the boys yelped and turned only to be met by a shower of sparks, flashing lights, and strangely familiar clicking sounds. The boys were boxed in. With huge trees on either side of them, the sparks and lights in front of them and their own shadows approaching menacingly from behind, the only way to go was up.
"Urameshi, we're screwed!"
"You idiot!" Yuusuke yelled, his voice quavering. "Use your friggin' Spirit Sword and slice the trees!"
Kuwabara tried, but they would not fall. Panicking, they dared not run into the shower of sparks, and they could not fight their own shadows. They finally looked up. Their bodies met tar, and the lights dissipated. Their shadows returned to their rightful places under them, and suddenly everything stopped. No yelling, no lights, nothing. Just the sound of the trees, and the birds that had returned from their hasty flight away from the commotion. They tried to run away, but the tar held them to the ground. They could not move. It was then a soft, somewhat amused voice that was uncomfortably familiar spoke behind them, where they could not see.
"Get them."
Yuki, Azumi, Hikari (who was still cut, scratched, and dead-looking), Kurama, and Hiei walked out from behind trees and bushes with buckets of God-knows-what. They smiled contentedly for a few seconds before tackling the immobile friends and covering them... with feathers.
"There, now your looks match your personality. Chickens." Yuki said. Hikari, Azumi, and Hiei laughed.
Yuusuke and Kuwabara were in shock. Yuusuke snapped out of it when he heard their laughter and completely freaked out. "AHH! KUWABARA'S A GIANT CHICKEN! Wait..." the others laughed harder. "HEY!" Yuusuke yelled. "WHAT'S ALL GOING ON?!? WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT TO US FOR YOU JACKASSES?!!??!"
The boys tried to move but found they could not. They looked down once more and found the tar that held their feet to the forest floor had stuck them to every tiny blade of grass, leaf, and bug they had touched.
"How did you come up with all of this?" Kazuma asked in awe.
"Well..." Hikari started, "Hiei and Yuki were in fact in the tree you had placed cameras in."
"And I knew it, too. You know how? 'Cause I was settin' up my own." Yume said. Hiei and Yuki face faulted.
"SAY WHAT?!!?"
"Hush up, I was joking. Now, Yuki's the artist, so we got scissors, katchup, watercolors, old clothes, and Hikari's dog. We gave Hikari's old shoes to Jack so he could chew them up real good for us to use them." Yume grinned. "We let Yuki loose on Hikari's old clothes with the scissors and Hikari's arms, legs, and hair with the katchup and watercolors."
"Sure paid off, too!" Yuki said, eating a french fry that had been dipped in Hikari's katchup-blood.
"HEY!" Hikari snarled.
"What about the lights and the explosions and the clicking and the trees and the shadows and the black Spirit orbs??" Yuusuke asked in one breath.
"Slow down. Don't hyperventilate." Azumi said. "The shadows and the Spirit Orbs were me. I'm a shadow demon... duh. I can manipulate shadows and turn them against their owner. Cool, huh?"
"Yeah, neat, so long as it isn't being used on you...."
Azumi laughed.
"The explosions were cheap lighting. They were just supposed to shine in your eyes so you wouldn't be able to see Yuki with the camera. That's why there were flash--"
"CAMERA??!!?" the answer was yes. "YOU MEAN YOU GOT PICTURES OF US SCREAMING LIKE LITTLE SCHOOL GIRLS?!" the answer was yes. "LIKE TOHRU HONDA FROM FRUITS BASKET?!" the answer was yes. "I hate you people."
"Anydangway," Yuki continued. "The other lights were being operated by Azumi. Since she was in the tree firing her Darkness Orbs at y'all, y'all being you two... yeah...."
"And what about the trees?" Kazuma asked, turning his head to look at the trees he had tried to cut that were, surprisingly, still standing.
"That was my doing." Kurama said. "Yume instructed us all to not let you escape for this to go correctly. I kept the trees standing."
So... Azumui was in the tree, Kurama was behind this tree here," Yuusuke touched the tree that Kurama had come out from behind. "Hikari was dead on the ground, Yuki was in front of us with the Pretty Silver Camera of Doom (a/n: Which is good for blackmailing people! ), so where were Hiei and you, Yume?"
The two of Fire and Kitsune whistled innocently.
"Yume," Yuusuke said warningly.
"Fine... we... were... erm... inthetreesfilmingyourcowardlyness." she said hesitantly.
"WHAT?!?" Yuusuke groaned. "I hate you people...."
"Well... Kurama also had a camera."
"I really hate you people."
Guess what? It's a page break!!
Three hours have passed since the tar-and-feather blackmail incident. Yuusuke and Kazuma had been cleaned up and everyone was back in the mansion game room. Azumi and Yuki were shooting pool, Hiei and Kurama were in a head to head DDR battle to the pass-out. (a/n: You know how people'll be in battles to the death? This is to the pass-out.) Yuusuke, Kaze, Yume, and Hikari were playing Melee on Yuki's G-Cube. Everyone else was doing other stuff that you either don't care about or I'm too lazy to type out. Probably both. It was then that Azumi shot the 8 ball over the table and right into the center of the tv set, killing the Melee game.
"Damn it, Azumi! I was right when I said for you not to challenge me!" Yuki said, disappointed.
The sun began to set outside. Yuusuke looked out and said,
"Well, we've got the cash, let's just go out and buy another tv?"
"Yeah, you're right. We'll steal Jin." Yume said.
"Wha?"
"You know, he can be out personal transporter."
"Whatever... but you know he's gonna leave us stranded in front of Fry's with a 38" plasma screen tv.... We'd better just take the Shimuckna robot."¹
Yuki noticed.
The others agreed and left out the oak doors of the mansion towards Fry's. As Yuki looked out the window, she saw the two trees in the forest finally fall.
¹ Taken from Tsuki Takes Over by Psychos-Anonymous with permission!
Yuki: I kinda hate to use a good fan fiction ending for the end of the third chapter, but I thought it was good.
Hikari: Hope you liked it. Yuki-chan'll try to get chapter four up as soon as she can.
Yume: The next thing she's making me post for her is her romance fiction, "A Reason to Live." -.-
Yuki: Checka my bio for information.
Kaze: R&R, people!