Coming to a close, coming to a close. Heh. When this story is finished I'm going to give a clip of the sequel and a whole bunch of thanks to everybody who helped and commented on this story. And also a survey for you guys...I really want you to fill out the survey. This chapter is going to suck a bit because fighting scenes are not my thing, but I'm going to do my best!

Disclaimer: I don't own any part of YuYu Hakusho: no characters, no places, etc...


Chapter Sixteen

"I'll go first," Hiei smirks, unsheathing his katana.

Jaelyn pulls back a bit, "You wish to prolong your fate? Fine. I'll play with you each one at a time, until the walls are painted with a fresh coat of red. Come, Hiei! What do you plan on doing?"

"Shut up," he growls, jumping to slash at her. His blade connects with her shoulder, and a gash appears. "Your voice annoys me."

Jaelyn gives a shriek, and several demons come from various hiding places in the room, armed to the teeth. Whips, chains, swords--there is no end to the list of weapons that these creatures wield. The Destinies stiffen, but relax as their instincts take over. Small smiles grace their lips as they prepare to begin. Olivia nudges Meagan and nods over to Yusuke. Meagan goes red in the face again, shaking her head no. Nissi frowns at her friend's stubborness.

"You know that there won't be much you can do unless you break the seal," she informs.

"And we don't know how long it will take the seal to break," Vanessa reminds, as a demon comes closer.

"FINE!" Meagan shouts, turning around to face Yusuke. "I love you very, very, very much Yusuke. You're the first boy I've really liked in five years and you should feel very proud of yourself." She kisses him.

Yusuke is shocked, to say the least, but soon relaxes into the kiss, only to be pushed away a moment later. On his face is a puzzled, but very happy, look. Meagan taps her foot impatiently, waiting for some sign that her powers are free. Vanessa gasps suddenly.

"Meagan...your body..."

Meagan looks down at her hands in surprise. All along her arms, hands, legs, neck, face, and the rest of her body, black and red lines begin to appear. They steadily become more solid as the seconds tick by. The demons stop their advance and stare at Meagan, confused about what they should do. Meagan's skin starts to hiss, and slowly the lines begin to dissapear. The demons, now understanding the situation, begin walking again.

"It's not going to disappear in time!" Olivia shouts, punching a demon in the gut. "You're just going to have to avoid any attacks until it does!"

Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Botan run off to kill any amount of demons possible before having to move on to Jaelyn. Hiei, already working on her, lands many successful punches before she smiles and begins throwing balls of electricity. Kurama swings his rose whip, deflecting one of those balls to a lesser demon right below Hiei. Distracted by the demon's final scream, Hiei looks down, and Jaelyn sends yet another ball towards him. This one hits, sending Hiei flying to the ground. CRUNCH. The sound of breaking bones echoes through the room.

"Hiei!" Yusuke moves to defend him, but is stopped by a group of demons. "Dang it, get out of my way! Hiei!"

He shoots off one of his Spirit Guns, blowing some of the demons into oblivion. The others crowd around him, trying to tie him up with rope. "GET AWAY FROM ME!"

Meagan runs quickly to the koorime, "Not like I have anything to do at the moment..."

A blue-skinned demon wielding a whip turns to her, smirking, "Do you think you can protect him, mortal?"

He flicks the whip and it slashes Meagan's cheek, leaving a cut. Blood drips down from it and onto the stone floor. Hiei squirms, forcing himself up off the ground. Meagan turns around to see him and is rewarded with another slash--this time across her back. She shivers, feeling the warm liquid run down her shirt. But it's nothing she can't handle.

"Onna...move," Hiei gasps, gripping his katana tightly.

"Gladly," Meagan moves away as Hiei slices the demon in two. She looks down at her skin. The seal is halfway done dissolving. But at this rate I'm going to get myself killed before it's done.

Nissi, at the moment, is fighting next to Kurama. He stares at her, trying hard to concentrate on the demon that he is fighting. But he is failing miserably as he sees Nissi's energy draining. The demon he is fighting switches opponents suddenly, holding his sword up to Nissi's throat. She gasps and steps back, expecting to feel the coldness of the wall behind her. But she feels nothing. She closes her eyes and takes another step backwards, the most curious sensation running through her body. She opens her eyes, only to find herself in an empty room.

"I...I WENT THROUGH THE WALL!" she shrieks in sudden realization. "Oh, I should get Meagan in here before something happens to her!"

Nissi runs to the wooden door, trying to open it. To her ultimate horror, she finds it to be stuck. I'll have to go back through the wall...but can I do it?

"Of course I can do it!" she tells herself harshly. "Here I go!"

She runs, closing her eyes as she moves closer to the wall. Half of her expects her to go straight through, the other half expects her to be trapped in this room forever as she won't be able to go through. Pushing all negative thoughts away Nissi moves through the solid wall, once again feeling the curious sensation, and rams into someone on the other side.

"Ouch, Nissi!"

Olivia rubs the back of her head, pulling herself quickly off the ground and bringing her shield up as two demons charge at her and Nissi. Shouting an apology, Nissi runs out of the shield and back over to Kurama, who smiles at her in relief that she is okay. Back on the other side of the room, Olivia picks up seven demons at one time and propels them into the wall several times before their necks break and they are paralyzed.

"Least amount of blood possible..." she mumbles, looking for Vanessa.

Vanessa is nowhere to be seen, causing Olivia to panic. But as she probes the minds of everyone in the room, she finds that Vanessa is in disguise as one of the demons they are fighting. Don't worry, Vanessa communicates, the others know which one I am. Slyly, Vanessa swings her scythe at the two demons in front of her, taking hteir heads off with ease. Olivia turns away, sickened. But Vanessa keeps going, "accidently" slaughtering the demon about to kill Meagan and "accidently" slaughtering the demon that was going to kill Nissi.

Jaelyn sits in mid-air enjoying the view until she hears the words "Spirit Gun!" and sees a flash of blue light headed towards her. Knowing her relaxing time is over, she sends a ball of electricity flying straight at Yusuke, who dodges and jumps into the air for a punch. Jaelyn sighs, shaking her head at the hopeless detective, grabbing his hand and sending several fatal bolts of electricity jolting through him. His eyes widen.

"Thought...you were an ice-witch..." he growls.

"I've aquired many talents over the years."

She laughs, stoping abruptly as Kuwabara swings his spirit sword at her. He lands back on the ground, frowning. "You got lucky witch. It won't happen again."

Jaelyn opens her mouth to reply, but the room goes eerily silent. She looks down and raises her eyebrows, as only ten or so of her demons are left. Ah, the part of the battle where everyone just sits around and stares at each other until someone is bold enough to make a move. Wonder who the brave dog will be this time? Vanessa turns back into a human, startling some, but doesn't venture to make a move.As it turns out, the "brave dog" is Hiei, who swings his katana to meet the sword of another demon. The two clash, and soon the others are fighting again too. But one demon isn't fighting. One demon is sneaking up on Hiei, who is still fighting the demon with the sword. One demon pulls out his own sword, ready to stick it into Hiei's gut.

Nissi turns to see how everyone is doing, and spots this one demon. "Olivia! Meagan! Vanessa! Look at Hiei!"

The Destinies turn to see the demon coming closer, preparing to strike. Their eyes widen, and thousands of thoughts jumble in their heads. But only one thought forms on their lips, and they scream it out as loud as they can.

"HIEI! SIT!"

THWACK! The force of all four Destinies screaming the command sends Hiei twenty feet into the stone floor. He growls as he realizes what they have done--they've saved him. Now he is in their debt, and that is not a place he wants to be. The two demons, confused where Hiei went, continue with their attacks, and end up stabbing each other in the gut, much to the Destinies pleasure.

"You still have me to deal with, mortal," a demon slides silently behind Olivia, slicing her neck. Kurama jumps behind it and cuts through it with his whip, worried for Olivia. She is bleeding profusely, but she only shoves Kurama away when he tries to look at it and tells him she'll be fine. Now the demons are gone and only one remains--Jaelyn.

"My, my, my!" Jaelyn gasps in genuine surprise. "You defeated all of them, and not one of you has died!"

Botan, who had spent the last half of the battle whacking demons to the ground with her bat, glares at Jaelyn. Panting, she goes to stand with the rest of her friends. She looks at Meagan, "How's the seal coming?"

"Done."

Jaelyn gasps, diving from her place in the air and to Nissi, Olivia, and Vanessa. In her hand she forms the largest ball of electricity ever seen, preparing to shoot it at the three. Meagan's eyes widen as she realizes that they can't dodge it and are about to die. Tears well up in her eyes as she realizes she won't be able to save them.

No, she tells herself firmly. Your powers are free. DO SOMETHING!

A light flashes and Meagan moves faster than she ever has in her life, right in front of her friends. Closing her eyes, she focuses very hard on their secret spot, praying to God that her idea works. Jaelyn comes in faster, the ball in her hand getting bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter until...all is quiet save the sound of the ocean lapping against the rocks. The Destinies open their eyes slowly, only to find themselves near the ocean.

"We're at the Spot..." Meagan whispers. "I did it!"

"Wha--how did you do that?" Olivia asks her, afraid.

"I teleported us here! That's my power!"

"Or one of them, anyways...look at your hand," Vanessa commands, grinning widely. "Look at all our hands!"

And that is what they do. They look at each others hands, only to find that they can form different types of balls in their palms as well as Jaelyn can. Nissi's ball is full of fire, Vanessa's is full of ice, Meagan's full of twisting air, and Olivia's is full of a looming darkness. The four friends grin at each other.

"I say we go finish this witch off once and for all. Anyone with me?" Vanessa shouts, grabbing Meagan. "Take us back!"

"Heh. With pleasure..." Meagan closes her eyes and teleports them back to Jaelyn's castle.

"THERE THEY ARE!" Yusuke shouts, pointing at the Destinies.

The four are sitting on Olivia's black cloud, positively grinning. Jaelyn, sitting in the middle of a large crater formed by her attack, looks up. "How..."

The Destinies only raise their hands, balls beginning to form in the middle again.

"Good-bye Jaelyn," Nissi says quietly.

"NO!" Jaelyn screams, desperately trying to claw her way out of the crater, not even thinking of trying to float her way out.

"You may have gotten our mothers," Vanessa growls.

"But you won't get us..." Meagan and Olivia finish solemnly.

Kurama drags Yusuke and the others out of the room and down the hallway, knowing that if they were in the room when the attack hit they would not live. The Destinies throw their balls, all together, at Jaelyn, before Meagan transports them a safe distance away from the castle. All is quiet for a moment, and Kurama and the others come running out of the castle just as the castle explodes into a million pieces. The Destinies from their place in the sky see Jaelyn's body, twisted and bended, flying off into the distance. They nod at each other in satisfaction.

Olivia expands her cloud to accompany the rest of their friends and together, the nine fly back to Genkai's mansion with the satisfaction of a mission well done.


Like I said, that was terrible. Heh. I really do need to work on my battle scenes. Well, only one or two more chapters until the story is finished here people! AND I CAN'T WAIT! (singsong voice) I'm almost to the end, I'm almost to the end, I'm almost to the end! Yay! I have a nice moment for each of us Destinies ready to go for next chapter. Heheheheh, Vanessa is going to kill me, but it was Meagan's idea...okay I'm rambling. See you next chapter! Oh, and thanks to Nissi for Meagan's power. Ja ne!