If any of you have two little brothers, I pity you. :) I have one and he is bugging me right now. AH! I forgot the disclaimer again. (whacks head) Bad Calismo! Bad Calismo! (whacks head harder) I shan't foret the disclaimer anymore! Yeah right...Sorry that the last chapter was so short. Bleah, to much sap for me. Heh.

Disclaimer: (guards dragging me) Say it!

Me: NOOOO! I don't want to say it!

(guards pull out a stun gun) Say it.

Me: Okay! I don't own YuYu Hakusho! Please don't zap me!


Chapter Fourteen

Hiei comes back up to the group, blood splattered on his cheek. Olivia wipes it away, grimacing. "Where's the guy?"

"Hn." Hiei looks away, guilty.

"You killed him?" Vanessa asks, bending over to see his face.

"Got carried away..."

Nissi, coming back with her fingers intertwined with Kurama, makes a face. "Ew."

"Hello Nissi," Olivia says sweetly. Then inside Nissi's head, she adds, Did you enjoy your kiss?

You were watching that!

No. Olivia smirks. Your thoughts came running straight through my head.

Great...

Heh. Don't worry, I won't tell...for now.

Thanks Olivia.

Hiei keeps his eyes down, "He said that he was working for an ice-witch named Jaelyn, who was working for some revenge of some kind. He also said that...your parents are...dead."

The Destinies stare at him, not understanding.

"He said that the ones you have been living with for the past year...have been working for Jaelyn. He said that she had taken your parents away when you had been on some trip with your school...and killed them."

Meagan grips Yusuke's arm again, but this time he doesn't complain. Instead he grinds his teeth. Vanessa drops to the ground, eyes blank. Nissi turns to Kurama, and Olivia can only hang her head sadly. Hiei sighs.

"Anything else, Hiei?" Kurama whispers.

"Yes, anything else indeed?" A loud voice asks from the trees.

The group is back on alert. The voice laughs, and from the forest steps another figure. It is Jaelyn. Her hair waves in the wind, and her lips are curved in an evil smile. The boys, for the thousandth time in this story, slip into fighting positions. Jaelyn laughs, cold and heartless.

"Really boys, that won't be necessary. I just came to pick up the girls and be on my way."

"Pick them up my ass!" Yusuke shouts, lunging at her. (a/n: Ooh, I didn't want to make Yusuke swear but it's what he would have done!)

Jaelyn simply moves to the side, dodging his attack as if it wasn't really an attack at all. She whistles, low and throaty, and from the sky several bat-like creatures swoop in, trying to catch the girls between their claws. Several more come in, to distract Yusuke and his team. Olivia brings up her shield to protect her and Meagan, ripping several trees from their places and smaking the bats into the sky.

"Nice hit!" Meagan encourages. "Let me out of the shield though. It's draining you to keep it around us both."

"Y-you sure?"

"Yeah."

Concentrating, Olivia shrinks the shield, allowing Meagan to slip through. Vanessa morphs into a hawk, trying to attack from the sky. Nissi jumps from place to place gracefully, landing several good punches to the evil bats. But soon she lands too close to Jaelyn, who grabs her wrist and disappears into the night. The Destinies run after her. "NISSI!"

"Don'!" Hiei shouts, slashing through two bats. "You're dropping your guard! You're going to get cau--"

Hiei is stopped in mid-sentence as a bat flies past him, striking him sharply in the head, before catching Olivia up between his claws and flying away. She struggles.

"Let go of me you putrid bat!" she screams, twisting.

Vanessa falls from the sky, now in her human form, and into the claws of two bats, one holding up each hand. Meagan soon suffers the same fate, being dragged into the air by a bat. She gives one of her ear-splitting shrieks but the bats are unaffected. In fact, they rather seem to like it. Yusuke and his team stop fighting as the remaining bats fly off into the sky, their mission accomplished. Their faces are streaked in blood from the bats claws, and their clothes are a dirty mess. Silently they drop to their knees, gasping for breath.

"We...have to...find them..." Yusuke pants, getting up.

"And where do you suggest we start?" Hiei asks, annoyed at his loss.

"Not now, Hiei," Kurama warns him seriously.

"Kuwabara, can you sense Jaelyn?" Yusuke questions, helping his friend to his feet.

"Nuh-uh. Her energy just vanished when she took Nissi..."

"Well let's go. We won't get anywhere standing around here."

"Where are we going?"

"To get Botan."

With The Destinies

"You just wait until Kurama finds you. You're going to die!" Nissi snaps, struggling against her captor's steel grip.

"Ha! That traitor? Kill me? You amuse me, little one," Jaelyn laughs, landing in front of a dilapitated old castle. "You and your friends will be residing in the dungeoun until I choose which way to torture you to death...just like your parents."

"Why you little witch! Put me down! Put me down right now!"

"Fine." Jaelyn drops Nissi down a flight of stairs, where she rolls until she hits the stone wall. "Enjoy your stay."

"Do we get complimentary gift baskets?" Nissi growls, rubbing her head.

"Heh. Like I said, you amuse me. Nissi is it?"

"Maybe."

"Answer me."

"No."

Jaelyn opens her mouth to reply, but the sound of three other girls arriving, also kicking and screaming as Nissi was. The bats let them go at the top of the stairs and like Nissi the other Destinies roll down the stairs, aquiring several bumps and bruises along the way. Nissi catches them all before they hit the wall. Jaelyn closes the door and locks it.

"Nissi, are you okay?" Olivia scrambles up, looking at her friend.

"Aside from being dirtier than I ever have in my life, yes, I am fine."

"Well I'm not," Meagan says from her place on the ground. "That last step left a nice big gash in the back of my head."

"Are you serious?" Vanessa looks at Meagan. "Nope, you're not. Crap. Anybody have some cloth?"

RIP. Olivia wrips the cloth from her red shirt, "I hate this shirt anyways."

She gives it to Nissi, who wraps it around Meagan's head. After it is securely tied and the bleeding begins to stop, the four girls sit against the wall and think of what to do in this predicament. Nissi rests her head in her hands, trying hard not to cry. In fact, all of the girls are trying hard not to cry. Their parents are dead, they've been living with imposters for a year, they had just had the week of their lives with Yusuke and his friends, and now they sit in the dungeoun of some ice-witch who wants revenge on them. Yes, it's kind of hard not to cry at a time like this, but the Destinies manage to pull it off.

"Hey, Olivia?" Nissi looks at her friend.

"Yeah?"

"Can't you try to speak to one of them? In their minds?"

"Well...I can try."

Hiei...Hiei are you there? It's me, Olivia.

Jumping through tree branches with Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara, Hiei's eyes open wide as he signals for the others to stop. Onna where are you?

Um...in a castle.

Is that all you can tell me! That you're in a freaking castle? Onna, this is Makai! There are tons of castles here in Makai!

Well sorry that I wasn't paying attention as I was being dragged through the sky, trying not to fall!

Aah, look--I'm sorry. Didn't mean to yell. How are the others?

Good. The castle...it looks really nice from the sky. But once you get closer, it gets old and dilapitated looking. Does that help?

...Yeah. Bye.

Bye.

Olivia opens her eyes, frowning, "Well, I got through, but now it will be up to them reaching the castle on time."

"Better than nothing..." Meagan yawns. "Can you believe that I'm actually tired right now?"

The Destinies nod, "We're tired too. Guess a few minutes can't hurt anything can it?"

"No..." Nissi says. "Hey. Remember the time we spent the night at Olivia's, and I had a leg cramp so you guys pushed me back to her house in a shopping cart?"

"Oh, yeah. That was cool," Olivia remembers. "And then we watched Utena...and the part with the cow?"
"Time to eat!" Vanessa imitates. Everyone shivers. "Scary. And then when we went to the New Sanno and talked about killing Jaken from Inuyasha!"
"Yes, I remember that time! And remember when we did recycling that one day in PALS, and we wrote all over Mr. DeWalt's board?"

The Destinies laugh, remembering all the times they shared together from when they first met to when they first showed Olivia the Spot, and so on. And in that dungeoun, the Destinies sit very close together and remember the happiest times in their friendship. And that is their sanctuary for the time being, while they wait for Yusuke and their friends to come rescue them.


(Sniff) How sweet! And all those memories mentioned above--yes, my friends and I actually did do all of those things. Heh. We're a weird group. In the sequel, we're going to introduce another of the Destiny Scout, and one of my closest friends: (insert name here). You'll just have to wait to see her name. And for Meagan, Nissi, and Vanessa, don't put it in your comments if you read this part! Whew! I have been on a writing spree! Ja ne!