Yay!!! I'm making cookies!!!! I'm really liking my new job selling glass because inbetween customers I can type, type, type!!!! Well I hope you like the chapter!! Oh, and by the way ShinjuJaganshi, she's been in there for four months and two weeks being tormented in many many different ways, later on when I feel like it I'll go into greater depth on how she was tortured but I don't feel like it at the moment.....so thank you for reviewing oh and by the way he's not the devil he just kind of looks like it....I know I haven't really characterized him.....hmmm...R&R!!!
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Chapter Four
(Sayo)
When the darkness had faded we found ourselves in a pitch-black room where I could hear water dripping from some unknown source. Breathing in deeply I let the damp musky air fill my lungs in order to try and calm myself down, but it wasn't working. Fire raced through my veins and all I wanted to do more than anything in the world was to sever the head off the slime that had done this.
"Where are we Chai?" Someone asked in a hushed tone somewhere off to my right, it didn't sound like any of my siblings so that meant it must be one of those detectives.
"We are in the lowest dungeon of the Palace of the Doomed," Chai's voice rang out somewhere to my left full of confidence and self-assurance.
"Right now the only question is where to begin," another voice stated behind me and I identified them as my twin Drake.
"Who are you?" A strong female voice whispered, "What are you doing in my cell?"
"We are here to help you, can you tell me your name? I am Oki." I heard a rustle of cloth. I almost smiled at that, no matter what Oki had to be in charge, right there up front, she was the youngest one in our family but she was the mother figure. She was the bossiest person you would ever meet in you lifetime.
"My name is Nishi," she said and I noticed how cultured and polished her speech was. "Did my husband send you?"
"Who is your husband?" Oki's voice was soothing as abruptly the room lit up from a ball of fire in Hiei's hand, which threw an eerie glow over everything.
"My husband is Toru," Nishi replied. I took in her appearance of malnutrition and all around mistreatment, I felt sorry for the poor cretins who had done this to her for I was positive that her hubby would rip them limb from limb. Toru was right up there with his brother Taro as the meanest person in the universe to the people who harmed those he loved.
"Yes, he has been searching for you relentlessly with his brother," Oki assured her and I could see Taro leaning up against a doorjamb watching out for others while Toru beat the crap out of some poor unfortunate. "Have you seen a woman named Akiko?"
"The future teller?" Nishi shoved her dark green hair out of her pale violet eyes. "She's in the part of the palace with the people who are needed for information and magic, I can help you find her if you get off these bracelets," she held out her wrists and we saw the bright silver bracelets that were about five inches long. "It is these hunks of metal that stop me from destroying all in this building."
"Let me look," Dundrogo came up to her and gently grasped her wrists examining the bracelets with a careful eye. "Hmm, they're very much like the bracelets that are used in the slave trade...." He turned her arms so her hands were palm up and he ran a finger down the middle of the band. "Sayo, what kind of metal is this?" He looked up at me and I sighed and walked over taking one her wrists in my hands.
"It's a special type of the Makai platinum iron ore," I told him. "I use this type of metal to make chains and manacles or something I don't want to break, the melting temperature is extremely high."
"Right..." Dun closed his eyes and began to softly hum a snatch of some song unknown to me. Slowly the metal bindings began to glow brighter and brighter until they shattered all together leaving only a pile of dust on the ground.
"You stay away from my shop, I'm never letting you in again." I muttered eyeing the pile imaging all of my life's work ending up like that if I made my younger brother mad.
"Thank you," Nishi whirled around and walked up to the door rubbing her wrists and I could tell she had something on her mind. "Extinguish your light!" Hiei closed his hand taking away the only light source we had. "Frank I'm thirsty! I need water!" I heard Nishi whine loudly her voice grated on my nerves.
"Shut up you wench!" A masculine voice shouted back, the one I presumed to be Frank and then banged on the door.
"But I'm dying of thirst!!" She then began to kibitz about how much her head hurt and how she needed water before the door was whipped open to reveal a short stocky man. I couldn't make out his features because his back was to the light that was coming into the pitch-black room.
Quickly Nishi punched him square in the face snarling, "Kiss my ass! I told you that I'd kill you if I got the chance you sorry excuse for a living being." She then placed her hand over his mouth; over the years one hears many stories of people you think you'll never meet. There were plenty of stories about Nishi, about how before she married Toru and settled down she had been a notorious pirate using her wind powers to take her anywhere. She had been a ruthless killer who had murder any who got in her way or dared insult her and now the part of her that had been forgotten was coming back to life in front if our eyes. Frank's body began to spasm as if he was a marionette on strings being played with by a deranged child. A sinister smirk graced her lips as she watched him as his chest cavity collapsed inward and go limp but still she didn't stop and I watched in horror and respect as his body began the opposite process and began to expand outward before exploding splattering everything and body in range with blood, guts and gore.
"Idiot," she spat and moved down the hall with us following behind, I was wondering if it had been safe to let her out of that cell or out of those bands.
"We are to free all the prisoners," Yusuke informed said out of no where I believe just to let her know what we were there for as we made our way through the dim stone hall.
"I would have accepted no less," she stated halting in front of a thick wooden door that had no window or grate in it. "Here's your next person." She drew a deep breath and lifted up her right arm so her palm was facing the door and forcefully expelled the air from her lungs as she blew the door clear off its hinges. It flew inward and slammed against the wall opposite it in the cell smashing into millions of shards as she stepped forward into the room.
"Who is it?" Someone, a girl questioned fearfully from the corner of the cell, "Nishi! What's going on?" Stepping into the room with Dun to help get the bindings off I started when I realized who it was huddled in the corner. It was Leiko, a mutual friend of the family and Drake's fiancée.
"We are leaving, let's go," Nishi grabbed her wrist and pulled her up. "Hey you, hummer!" Dun smiled and went over to her with me as well, he took her manacled wrists into his hands and it dawned on me he hadn't figured out who she was.
"Yes?" He looked down at Leiko's wrists and nodded, as he took in the fact that it was the same metal as before placing his hands on the restraints and humming the same tune of that song. The metal shattered and Leiko still stood there staring at Dun her expression unreadable. For a minute I thought she might be in shock or something.
"Dun-dundrogo?" Her voice cracked, "How's Drake? Is he ok? Please tell me he's all right! They told me they wouldn't hurt him as long as I didn't struggle and I didn't!"
"Leiko?" Dun asked in disbelief.
"Drake, is he ok?" Leiko was scared you could see it in her deep purple eyes.
"Yes he's fine," I reassured her stepping forward into her line of vision and enveloping her into a hug.
"Drake! It's Leiko!" Dundrogo yelled turning around and instantly my twin strode in his sunset eyes zeroing in on Leiko who was hugging me tightly, with one last squeeze I let go and stepped back.
"Leiko?" He stepped in front of her.
"Oh God, Drake!" Leiko burst into tears and collapsed into Drake's arms, "You're ok! You're alive!" Her white hair shimmered in the muted light a stark contrast to Drake's obsidian colored hair. He kept smoothing down her hair, rubbing her back and just holding her close hardly believing he had finally found her.
"Shh, it's ok, it's going to be ok," Drake murmured trying to pacify both her and assure himself.
"Can you hurry up?" One of the men, Hiei I think demanded but I can't be sure because I couldn't see them, "We don't have much time."
"I'm ok," Leiko drew in a deep breath and stood up swiping the tears off of her face with the heels of her hands as she drew deep steadying breaths. "Let's go free the others." She gave him a tremulous smile and allowed him to lead her out of the room that had been her prison.
"There are no other prisoners on this level," Nishi informed us and led us to a set of stairs that led us up to the second level, which was much better looking than the other level. There were three guards instead of the one that had been on the other level, decent lighting, and it didn't smell half as bad as the last one.
"Don't move," Nishi said in a low undertone as she lifted her arms up her gaze focused on the three guards who were sitting at a table playing poker. There was a loud sucking noise that resembled that of a vacuum and the three guards clutched at their throats struggling to breath but finding themselves unable to they fell out of their chairs, dead.
"Come on," I ran up to the first door and looked through the grimy metal grating in there was a small girl curled up in the corner six light blue wings wrapped around her. Reaching out I grabbed the handle and conjured heat and flames melting the knob into nothing and opened it with my hip.
"Hello Miss, may I see your wrists?" Dun questioned softly approaching her slowly so as to stay within her comfort zone; she raised her head to reveal big green eyes and purple hair.
"Who are you?" Her voice was barely a whisper and it stirred pity deep with in my heart..
"My name's Dundrogo," he answered, she nodded and held out her wrists uncovering her irons and light pink skin that was marred by bruises.
"My name is Wainani," she shook her hair back, "Please help me."
"That's what I'm here to do," he began to hum so I quietly left.
We freed thirteen others, eleven females, and two males; they were all in the same condition and that fueled my anger all the more. After we had freed them all we went around and collected names, they were Destin, Kaga, Gypsy, Faye, Malaya-Nura, Solenne, Inoa, Tsigana, Quinn, Blake, Concetta, Rekha and Perfecta.
"In order for us to move more swiftly, we're going to send you to the Spirit World headquarters," Orino said smiling gently. "Please get together."
"May we stay?" The girl Wainani asked leaning on the man next to her, the one named Destin, Orino looked at Chai waiting for his approval or disapproval.
"Fine," Chai agreed motioning to Orino to send the others away, which she did and then we moved on.
Did I mention I like to make up my own characters????? Well all but two of the new characters are mine....Drake and Dun are a friend of mines...she's letting me use them because you can't write the familt unit without those two.....Reiko's my fav....she was the first ever OC I made for this story.......
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