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Fall of Okkoto

Chapter 5
Dreams

Hoping that the light would not temporarily blind them, she slowly opened her eyes. Instead of meeting a flash of bright light they were met only by more darkness. In fact it was so dark that it was hard for her to tell if she had really opened them at all. In slight desperation she tried to bring her hands to her eyes in an attempt to rid them of the darkness however some unknown force had stopped her hands from even reaching her face. She tugged and pulled her hands but they would not go far, she even tried to move her legs but they were stopped as well. She thought quickly for an escape root but couldn't find one. She was trapped, standing with her back to the wall and her arms and legs chained down she could do nothing but wait.

Her head snapped up sharply as she heard a door creak open on the opposite side of what she guessed was a small room. As soon as the door was fully opened a few lights on the outside walls were snapped into life. Forgetting that her hands were tied down she once again tried to move them up to her eyes in order to shield them from the oncoming light but like last time they were stopped short. When she finally looked up she could see a tall man standing at the door. He had electric blonde and messy hair, deep green eyes, a very well built body, and was wearing a simple white shirt cut into a v-neck and black pants with black boots to match. On his bare arms were tattoos of lightning bolts that seemed to glow in the light. As he stepped in the room farther she could see his hand was loosely holding a black whip that trailed on the ground lazily behind him.

"So we finally meet." His voice was full of knowledge and experience. This man she could tell was a fighter and probably a strong one.

"Who are you?" She meant for her voice to be stern and menacing as she glared at him but it came out as only a whisper filled with sleep. She inwardly snarled at herself, how could she be so weak in front of this demon? She knew she was trapped but she would not play nice at all.

"You are the assassin who has been killing my friends are you not?" He spoke to her calmly completely ignoring the hate filled look he was receiving from his victim.

"Demon's don't have friends." This time the words did not come out soft but very cold and angrily.

"You are smart, definitely not an amateur. Yes, I agree demon's don't have friends but it just so happens that I wasn't done using my allies. In fact I was going to kill them myself."

"Well then I guess we don't have a problem here do we."

"Yes we do. You see I was planning on having those demon's steal treasures for me that I myself couldn't retrieve. As payment you will get them and become my new assassin in the process."

"No." She wasn't going to give in not to a slimy bastard like him. She stood glaring at him as he lifted his hand that was holding the whip.

"Well then, I guess I'm going to have to do this the hard way." Without warning he brought the whip up into a ready position and struck her fiercely across her stomach leaving a deep red gash forming from her top right shoulder and ending at her bottom left hip.

She hissed venomously but didn't move. There was no way she was going to give him the satisfaction that he had hurt her. He struck again harder this time and hit her legs, then he hit both her arms, red gashes started to appear all over her body as he continued to strike at her. It hurt, she felt like she was being stabbed with a thousand knives coming at her from all angles. She didn't know how much more she could take of this.

He hit her again and again until finally she screamed and moaned in pain. However, he didn't stop here, this demon had mocked him and he wasn't going to let her get off that easy. He would make her bleed and cry until she couldn't anymore.

"WAKE UP!"

The blood pounded in her head as the black snake-like whip hit her harder and harder. She screamed in pain and started to shake, she couldn't take it anymore. Make it stop, please she moaned over and over inside her own head.

"WAKE UP BAKA!"

"STOP!" She cried out heavily as the world came rushing back to her. She was sitting on the grass in the small clearing drenched in cold sweat and trembling uncontrollably. She sighed to herself not yet noticing the others in the clearing. The dreams would never leave her alone, never stop coming. Every night she would go through this and every morning she would wake up the same.

"Oh, Sonna I was just about to wake you but I see Yusuke and Hiei already have." He chuckled silently pointing his thumb behind him as he crouched over her. Hiei and Yusuke were kicking Kuwabara who was still sound asleep on the opposite side of the clearing. Seeing the condition that she was in, his cheery voice turned to worry as he whispered so that only she could hear, "Are you alright?"

"I-I'm fine," she stuttered trying to forget the details of the memory she had just had.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes." This time she said it rather agitatedly. She didn't like to be questioned while she was feeling vulnerable. She just wanted to be left alone.

"Once they wake Kuwabara we're going to start heading off soon." He got up from his position and walked over to Yusuke and Hiei, who were still trying to wake the ningen up.

Looking past Kurama she stared uninterestedly at the scene behind him. Yusuke was bending down right above Kuwabara's ear and whispering something to the unconscious baka. All of sudden Kuwabara jumped up and started shouting.

"Yukina my love I'd never keep you waiting." Realizing he was still in the forest and this 'Yukina' wasn't anywhere to be seen he turned angrily to Yusuke who was rolling around on the ground laughing. "Uremeshi, I'll get you"

Standing up and trying to calm down he looked up at Kuwabara and grinned, "Yeah whatever."

Kuwabara glared at him even more while Kurama spoke up from behind them, "Come on we should get going, it's not smart to stay in the same place for too long."

All four of the Reikai Tentai, who were all standing next to each other, looked over at Sonna, who was still sitting on the ground were Kurama had left her. Realizing they were looking at her due to the fact that they did not know which way to go, she got up and walked to the edge of the clearing waiting for them to follow. Once they had, she led them through the trees towards they're next destination not knowing the danger that faced them in this unholy forest.

TBC

a/n- Thanks for all of the reviews I really aprieciate it even though im not getting many. (sniff sniff)

special thanks to slancaster113 for helping me and giving me ideas. I really like the steam idea so I think im going to try and find a place to put it. The dagger idea however won't work because Sonna already carries daggers on her belt so an ice dagger would make no difference.

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