Yay! Third Chapter! Thanks so much to the guys who reviewed! You guys are da bestest! (( That's a compliment... I Heart Grammar. And that sure isn't the best I've seen... :P ))
So... I really want to get on with the story, which I debated whether or not to put it in the last chappie, but I decided against it! Lucky you guys! n.n
Oh yeah, Shoot is about... Five foot three... Kinda short, kinda not. Depends on how you think about it. That's sort of tall for Saggi, seeing as she is only four foot eight. Poor... poor short Saggi... -Wingy is five foor seven herself- n.n; -sweatdrop-
I don't own YYH... if I did... -ponders mysteriously-
This has been my longest chapter yet! Ever! For ANYTHING! 1864 wordas before editing! -gasp- ...And for those of you who don't know, that's a good thing for me. :)
My name's Saggi. I was one curious cat backslash fire demon. Luckily, since I figured no one was around, I gave up on running and started springing, up and down, at pretty big heights. I saw nothing, at least I thought so, near the fountain. Even that weirdo kid Shoot had cleared off. I landed for once at the side of the fountain, and started running towards the sun, hoping to find some reason the city was devoid of all life. But where...?
I stopped, near some stores; I think a butcher's and some convenience store, I dunno. That really wasn't important at the moment. I stood on the sidewalk, staring into the sun when they appeared.
I know, sounds strange, but really, they just got there somehow. I didn't see them, smell them, or hear them. They were just... there.
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Two men, no boys really, stood between Saggi and the sunset, their shadows stretching out into the sidewalk behind her, joining with Saggi's own shadow.
One Saggi recognized.
"Shoot?" She asked, dumfounded.
What was the kid doing here? And who was that tall guy with him? And what was that strange marking on his face? It wasn't there earlier...
"Yes." His voice was the same, the same as it was when she had spoken with him the other day. She stared closer at the mark and saw it was a tattoo of some sort, weaving its way up his left cheek, and stopping at the bridge of hair on his forehead. It was silver, and it looked complicated despite its simple design.
After quickly looking at the tattoo on Shoot's face, she looked at the taller guy. The taller boy, taller than Shoot by at least one foot, saying nothing, staring at her. His eyes were a blazing red and orange, they held nothing, no emotion, no spirit, nothing but anger. Saggi saw another tattoo on his face. Only his was smaller, it covered his bottom right cheek, and it looked like a small flame, and Saggi could have sworn she had seen it flicker. This guy looked seventeen eighteen or so.
His hair was also red, with streaks of orange and yellow, like a blazing fire of rage. He wore a black tank top, stretched across his muscled chest. He also had on a leather black jacket that bounced off the light, and reached down to his knees. Skin-tight blue jeans reached down to his feet, covering most of his black shoes. He wore different belts across his waist, some brown and some brown with studs.
He had his hands inside his jackets' pockets, saying nothing and only staring at Saggi.
Saggi shook her head. She had nothing to do with them. No business of any sort.
"Move. I am not in the mood to talk to chumps like you two right now." Saggi clenched her fists, straining to control herself from knocking these two out and continuing on her way. But that'd be rude. One more chance for these human chumps.
"Sorry Saggi. We can't let you get away, we're still waiting for someone." Shoot's eyes glimmered with something she hadn't seen before. Malice...? And who was that 'someone' they were talking about...?
But they're just human chumps. They had no idea who she was or what she was, for that matter. She should knock them out right now, but something inside her told to don't do it yet. Don't do it... yet.
'Where did that come from...?' Saggi wondered, her tail swishing irritably, making a soft swishing sound in the breeze.
She furrowed her eyebrows, glaring into the sunset, seemingly seeing nothing. Then something flickered, something strange and dark in the bright light of the sun.
A shadow flickered, on and off, next to the tall boy, and he grinned as the shadow materialized.
It was another guy; only this one was different, cold and distant. He looked around seventeen or so, in human years. He had long, deep black hair, reaching to his knees, and his skin was a pale colour, looking sickly and different. It was even paler than Saggi's own personal fur/skin colour.
His eyes were cold and dark, and some of his long wavy hair floated and wavered in front of his face. Saggi tried to avoid his intense eyes by looking at the rest of his outfit.
He wore a black tank top also over top him. His muscled arms had black, or maybe dark brown, leather straps pulled against his arms, pulled together in an X shape. Two to an X. This continued, weaving and intricate pattern to the ends of his wrists. He also wore skin-tight pants, only these were black. Man, this guy had a thing for that colour. His pants covered most of his shoes, which Saggi could only presume were black as well.
The new guy pushed back the hair from his face with his hand, and Saggi saw this guy had a tattoo on his face too. It was on the right side of his face as well, and it looked like a bird of some sort, with its wings out-stretched one wing spreading to his ear, and the other wing just stopping short near the corner of his mouth.
Who were these weird guys...? Saggi wondered. Weirdos, that's for sure.
"What took you so long?!" The red headed boy raged.
"I had... business." The raven coloured guy spoke.
"Well, couldn't it wait?! We have more important matters to take care of! Be here next time!" Red Head exclaimed again.
"I'll try to remember that." Raven spoke coolly.
Red Head took his hands out of his pockets, both clenched in restrained anger.
"Will both of you shut up?! Are we going to do this or not?" Shoot shouted, clearly irritated at the both of them.
All three were silent, and stared at each other, and looked as though they were conversing, though that was impossible, seeing as none of them were saying a word. They turned, and stared at Saggi.
Saggi tensed, she could easily take down these gits. She couldn't sense a scrap of Spirit Energy. They were just regular humans. Although...
"You must be wondering who we are, aren't you Saggi?" Red Head spoke, rather quietly.
Saggi twitched her ears; that was strange. How did he know her name?
"Sure. Why not?" Saggi responded dryly.
"I am Torch." Red Head said.
"You know me, Shoot." Shoot spoke nastily.
"...Ebony." The dark haired one spoke coolly.
"Fascinating. Now let me through." Saggi responded irritably.
"Sorry, Saggi, we can't do that right now—" Torch began.
"And how the heck do you know my name?! Unless Shoot told you or you're some sorta crazy stalker guy..." Saggi glared at him, her tail swishing faster now.
"Ahhh yes. That. Well you don't have to get so worked up over it. Your tail can stop airing out the wind now." Torch grinned.
Saggi's mouth went dry. 'How...? She thought to herself. Simple, Saggi. We want you.
"What? What did you say?!" Saggi exclaimed to the three boys standing, silent.
"We didn't say a thing. Verbally that is." Shoot grinned nastily, and Saggi's stomach did uneasy flip-flops.
Relax Saggi, and let us take you with you. Simple, yes? Now don't try to resist... things won't be pretty. I hate fighting anyway. So please, won't you come play with us?
Saggi felt the familiar pain of her arm being twisted behind her back, and she gasped in pain and awe. What was happening?! She didn't feel anyone behind her, or even touching her!
"Argh... What...?!" Saggi exclaimed as the pain doubled, her ears lowered and her tail limp as she tried to escape.
She shot a look towards the three—no TWO boys. Where had what's-his-name, Ebony gone? The shadows of Shoot and Torch strode out long behind her, and she shot a look behind her, seeing nothing.
"Take a closer looksie behind you Saggi." Torch gestured, pointing with his finger.
Saggi glared suspiciously at Torch, but, seeing as she really had no choice, she turned to look behind her, and gasped. "What the-"
Her shadow looked exactly like her current position, arm twisted behind back tail swishing and ears perking, only there was something there holding her arm behind her.
"No..." She murmured, and gasped in agony as the pain intensified.
"You see Saggi, that is one of Ebony's tricks. Shadow traveling. Quite useful actually. It renders whomever he is attacking rather helpless, holding them into whatever shape he wishes. He also can transport the victim to the shadows, and take them anywhere he wishes." Shoot spoke, in a rather playful voice.
"You... jerks..." Saggi began thrashing side to side, her eyes desperate and full of tears from the pain.
"There's no escaping it. Just come easily to us, and you won't be harmed any longer. At least... for now." Torch grinned, a maniacal smile that made Saggi even uneasier.
Trying to concentrate of the stupid jerk hanging onto her shadow, Saggi summoned her fire demon heritage and allowed flames to consume her body, and grinned rather mischievously when she heard a cry of pain coming from behind her.
She fell forward and landed on her hands, scuffing them slightly, and breathed heavily, trying to get her composure back. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Ebony reappear next to his friends, and they stood, silent. Again, they seemed they were conversing, but it was impossible to hear them if they were speaking anything.
Shoot nodded suddenly and grinned as he faced Saggi.
"I hope you like my technique Saggi, because I deeply enjoyed creating it." Shoot took his goggles and put them over his eyes, and clenched his fist around something.
"Spores of Incapacitation!" Shoot shouted, and threw the small puffy ball he had been holding into the air.
It exploded, sending tiny yellow blossoms, yellow and pink, all around the air drifting down upon Saggi, whom had gotten up in the time being.
She sniffed the air with her pink catlike nose, and immediately regretted that action. She started coughing, holding her hand against her mouth, her eyes watering from the strange numbness inside her.
"What... Urgh!" Sagggi coughed heavily, then continued.
"What is this?!" She hacked, and tried to concentrate on standing up, wavering slightly in the process.
"This is my power. I have the ability to communicate and control plants, similar to your friend Kurama, correct?" Shoot shrugged, nonchalantly despite the situation.
"Argh..." Saggi collapsed to her knees for the second time that day, her eyes watering and a numbness spreading itself through her body, her tail and legs already limp from the spores.
Saggi hacked again, and a small trickle of blood found its way sliding down her mouth.
"This... hurts..." her eyes were half-closed, barely aware that the three were closing in closer to her, like wolves waiting for their prey to fall.
"Yes, it does, doesn't it? Sort of like a half-pain, isn't it? Like the pitiful human doctors and their anesthetics before they give the patient a shot."
Saggi narrowed her eyes, and focused the last of her energy into exploding the spores around her, turning them into small, floating firey blossoms, their former colourful beauty now the passionate colours of crimson, orange, and yellow. Shoot's eyes widened in shock, and he quickly covered his mouth and nose, Torch simply stood there and Ebony dissappeared into the shadows to hide.
Saggi then grinned, knowing she had scared them, if anything, and she collasped, falling forward onto her belly, eyes closed, her last thoughts, 'I've failed... all of them...' Images of Botan, Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei flashed through her mind...
She was unconscious before she hit the ground.
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Torch smirked. "We got her."
He picked her up by the back of her shirt and walked over to Ebony, and clung to his right shoulder, the other occupied by Shoot, who had put his goggles back upon his head and was breathing heavily before straightening up and nodded to Torch.
Saggi had transformed to her most basic state as a cat demon, a small white cat with three, now currently limp, tails, each tail representing a stripe on her usual long and floofy tail.
She was being held by the scruff of her neck, and had no idea where she was going and why she had been taken.
Torch nodded curtly to Ebony. "Let's go"
The long haired man nodded and the group swiftly turned into shadow and raced along into the sunset.
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-gasp- R&R.
Note: 'Floofy' is a word I created that sounds like fluffy and basically means fluffy but is spelled differently. :)
ALL CREDIT OF THE CREATION OF TORCH'S NAME GOES TO MY BFF APRILKISSES WHOM I HAVE ALWAYS CONSIDERED A GENIUS AND I FEEL HORRIBLE NOT PUTTING THIS IN EARLIER! SORRY STEPH! ;-;