Catse: Okay everyone, here's the next update! Yays! And again, all thanx goes to Dragon and Sword Master for his awesome help in Beta-ing this story. He makes sure my stupid little mistakes don't get out in the story, and makes it a more agreeable read to those that see and pick out the little details. Everybody clap for him!...Okay, with that out of the way, I've updated just a little early on this considering I made everyone wait so long last time, but if I am late, I'm terribly sorry. I have a bad memory, call it fish-like, so I tend to forget little things very often. sigh What I wouldn't do for a memory...Okay well, now that I've said all of that, on with the story!

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Seika was trapped. He wasn't sure why, but he was trapped. The Tipideaux's door lay at his back, and inside he felt there was something dear he needed to protect. Before him, Demons were attacking, and he had long past lost his staff somewhere, leaving him defenseless. What would he do? How would he protect the precious inside? He saw a flash of green fly by his eyes, and realized that some sort of plants had saved him, and upon second look, he found it to be rich green bamboo. However, just as soon as it came, it disappeared, and Gaia stood before him, her white skirts flowing about her.

"Have you come to help us again?" Seika inquired.

She merely smiled and pointed at Seika, or more importantly, at the house itself.

"Is it here? Is the puzzle piece here?" he asked, but the goddess had already disappeared, and he was left in a void of darkness much like the hole she had floated above when he first saw her.

He didn't even realize he was sitting up in his bed until he looked around. They were at the hotel, and it was still late in the night, so that the room was dark and very little light came through the window. Haku was sleeping, so Seika clambered out of bed quietly to keep from waking him, and went into the living room area. There was a large window decoration there, as they were on the side of the building, and he took a seat in a chair next to it. Quietly, almost confused, he viewed the moon overhead, and sighed.

"Something bad is going to happen very soon." He whispered, placing his chin delicately in his hand. "And I have no idea what to do."

His pet, Niko, whom had crawled into their hotel that night, clambered up to his lap and chirped, curling up to go to sleep.

"You know it too, don't you Niko." Seika whispered, and he received another chirp.

"I just hope whatever happens can be dealt with."

As he sat there, he suddenly received a heavy impression that something was wrong now, and not later, and it took him so out of key, that he had to run in a wake Haku.

"What are you doing?" Haku whispered, rubbing an eye. He sat up in his pajamas and as soon as he looked into Seika's eyes, he knew there was something up. "What's wrong?"

"I think something has happened to one of the French Detectives. I don't know what, but something just happened and I felt it."

Haku nodded and in an instant afterward was dressed with his glasses back on his nose, and had woken Katai and the girls.

"Come on everyone. We've got to check into something." They all dressed and headed straight over to the Tipideaux house, in which a late night taxi conveyed them. Once the taxi had left, they rapidly knocked on the door, and were answered by a very sleepy Donce, whom had accidentally fallen asleep on the couch while reading a book.

"What's up guys? Why are you here so late?"

"Where is everyone?" Seika mumbled as his breath caught to the freezy air. "I need to see everyone in the house."

Donce didn't waste time. In a matter of minutes they had a very grouchy Rick standing with them, and a rather tired Richard expressing his elegance to Katai once more. But someone was missing.

"Amelia!" Donce shouted, banging on her door. "Open up."

"What's up?" Katai shouted up at him, and Donce shook his head.

"She won't open the door. I don't know why, but she usually doesn't do this."

Rick sighed and clambered the steps. "Need in?" he asked, as he usually never offered to do anything. Then again, this was his sister they were talking about.

"Yes, please." Donce answered, knowing his brother's strengths.

Rick dug through his pocket to pull out a simple pick, and upon flipping it around the lock and using a little energy from his store, the door flew open to show an empty room, and a note, painted in blood, on her bed.

Donce picked it up, and nearly dropped it again after he read it.

"What does it say?" Richard inquired as Rick hid his pick in his pocket again.

"It says: 'Dear Frenchmen, because you have helped my mortal enemies, as punishment I have stolen something dear to you. If you wish to have her back, bring me the man that sees beyond the world, and she shall be returned. Ask my old servant where to go looking. She'll know. Signed, the Dark Lord.'"

It froze to the very hearts of the Japanese Detectives. To think, that just because they had help in their travel, they were being punished.

"We have to rescue her." Haku said after a moment, his hands balled into fists. "We can't let him do to her what he's already done to Kenya."

"You know of this man?" Donce inquired, handing the letter to Richard.

The group nodded.

"He's the main reason we're out here. He killed our leader, and we've been searching for the puzzle so as to bring him back, but he's been trying to stop us every step of the way."

"This 'man that sees beyond the world'? Who is it? Do you know him?"

They thought a moment, before Haku nodded grimly.

"Yes. He's our temporary leader. Seika."

"So what will we do?" Katai asked, sitting up straight for once. Seika was sitting next to the window, thinking to himself what would happen. The deal was simple. If he turned himself in, the young girl would live. If he didn't, she'd probably be in a glass bottle with Kenya, and he doubted they could bring both of them back to life with the puzzle. It only granted one wish.

"We've no real choice. We have to go over there and retrieve her. Does anyone know where Yoru is at the moment?"

"No, but I'm sure if we called up Hiei, he might know." Katai offered, and Satou, listening carefully to the conversation along with Tsuki, shook her head.

"No. Dad has a powerful Jagan, but we're too far away for him to use it to locate her." She said, sighing. "But I think I know where she's at."

"Where?" The group asked.

Satou glanced upwards. "Yoru, you can come out now!"

There was silence.

"Yoru! Stop fooling around!"

The silence continued until Tsuki began shouting too.

"Please come down! We need to talk to you!"

"Are you sure she's up there?" Donce inquired.

Both little girls nodded.

"Well then…we'd better—"

Donce was cut off when he noticed a very angry Haku stand up, stalk outside, and within minutes come walking back in with Yoru held by the scruff of the neck, her claws digging into his hand.

"Let me go you runt!" She shouted as Haku tossed her, rather roughly into a chair. The groups stared at him oddly, as it was unusual for a twelve year old to drag someone of Yoru's age and power, down from the top of the house and then inside by himself. His strength was not his own however, as his eyes were already giving off a silent and deadly silver pulse.

"Tell us what we need to know." He ordered, giving a Yoru a no-nonsense glare.

She apparently ignored it however for she folded her arms and turned her head away. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Um, Haku…" Donce started, but by now, the angry fox could not stop looking at her with his glare that said 'tell me now if you want to live'. He had made quite an easy friend with Amelia, and there was no way he would allow a friend of his to remain in trouble.

"Tell me!"

"Or what? You can't do anything anymore shrimp. I'm too powerful for you and if you plan on going Yoko on my ass, then you can just bet that'll serve well for the Dark Lord's plans. One of his major threats would be out of the way and his disobedient slave abolished, or have you forgotten?" Yoru growled, giving Haku a piercing red glare.

Suddenly, a spiked green thorn ripped through Haku's hand into Yoru's shoulder, proving that, right now, Haku didn't care.

Yoru tried to glare him off, but it wouldn't work. Haku was a little too far gone in his worry of his new friend, and she had to give in.

"Fine, you know that tower thing here in France, somewhere in Paris."

"You mean the Eiffel Tower? That's about a hundred and fifty miles North-West of here. Is that where Amelia is being kept?" Donce questioned, leaning forward.

"I would think so. The Dark Lord likes to play games, and land marks are his specialty. I wouldn't be surprised if the castle in Demon World he's staying at is a Land Mark itself. Are you happy now?"

"Are you certain she's there?" Haku asked, his silver eyes blazing.

"Yes! Yes! Now let me go!"

"Be serious." Haku ordered, and Yoru sighed again.

"If she's not there you can go ahead and cut my Jagan eye out okay! She's there, it's a guarantee!"

"I don't know…" Haku mumbled.

Yoru grunted. "If I didn't know then why would the Dark Lord point you to me for directions eh?"

"How do you know about that?"

"I know how he works! I was his servant for a while; remember? He doesn't like to give you the answer himself; he likes you to look for it. No doubt he'll have something similar for you at the tower."

Haku sighed, his silver eyes pulsing into blue once more as he calmed down.

"Alright, we'll have to get over there."

"The train should be able to take us." Donce agreed, standing up. "So who will accompany me?"

"I will." Haku answered immediately, running a hand through his red hair. "I have to help out."

"Me too." Rick grunted out. He was standing on the stairs, listening to their conversation, and was just as amazed as everyone else to how much fear Yoru held was for the kit. He knew that the Goth would never admit it in a million years, but Yoru was actually afraid of the boy. Why, he became curious to, and maybe on the trip he'd get to understand this Japanese team a little better, and determine if they were worthy of the thing he protected. If not, there would be no way they would get a hold of it.

"I believe I will stay. I will help the other detectives in finding the puzzle piece that they are looking for." Richard stated, giving Katai a tentative glance she almost certainly didn't notice. Seika noticed it however. "I'll stay. I have a strange feeling he's trying to get us all over there, like a trick. If some of us stay behind, then maybe he won't get what he wants."

"Fine. I'm stayin' too!" Katai acknowledged, slouching in a chair, in a very unladylike manner. "But good luck."

"We want to go!" Tsuki and Satou announced at once, but Donce shook his head.

"I'm afraid that you cannot come. This is not something simple, but a dangerous mission, and one that involves much more experience than what you have."

"Yeah, you both stay here. What the hell would I tell your mothers if you got hurt, huh?" Seika replied, standing up and patting both girls on the head. They looked disappointed, but gave no more acknowledgements to the decision. "But take Niko with you. If anything goes wrong he'll be able to slip out and tell me." The little cat creature clambered out from behind Seika, licked Donce's outstretched hand, and leapt to his shoulder with a chirp. It was already apparent that Niko liked the man, just as the rest of the group did. He was just, agreeable.

"Alright, then it's settled. Come on, I think we can catch the eight o'clock train." Donce, Haku, Rick, and Niko disappeared out the door with jackets, with only a stop and one last glance at the residence from Haku, before he too disappeared with the group, and was therefore gone.

"Now, let us go out and search for this person you are trying to locate." Richard said, extending a hand to help Katai up. Seika growled, but otherwise kept silent.

A few minutes later, Seika, Katai, Richard, Tsuki, and Satou left the house, heading toward the museum for a quick look around, and then around the malls and the streets.

When they returned, late that morning, Haku and the others had still not returned, so they could only sit and wait.

The train trip only lasted about an hour or two, and then stopped in Paris, where the group clambered out and raced towards the tower. Upon getting close to it, they found the entire tourist spot vacated, with a various assembly of cops on the outside, arms crossed.

"Excuse me sir, we need to get to the top." Donce said, and the cop he talked to gave him a glare.

"I'm sorry, but this area has been temporarily closed off."

"Why?" Rick huffed, giving off a good glare of his own.

The cop spat on the ground, and then returned his face to point skyward, almost arrogantly.

"Electrical problems." Was the reply that he gave, and no additional information could they collect.

They backed away from the land mark, and sat on a bench, a good distance away.

"That's strange. It's about the time the place is usually open, and electrical problems rarely happen to the tower." Donce commented.

Haku smirked. "Yoru gave us a clue after all. Remember, she said the Dark Lord likes to 'play games'. This is just one of them. He wants to see if we can figure out how to get into the tower without causing an uproar."

"Yeah, she did say that didn't she?" Donce returned, stretching. "How do we get up there, any clues?"

Haku stood up with him. "First. We need to make sure that this is the place. Our best bet is to send Niko up to take a glance at the top level, and see if Amelia is there. If so, then we can configure what to do."

Therefore, they sent Niko off, and a pair of electric wings carried him to the top of the tower.

He returned chirping, a quick alarm that Amelia was indeed at the top.

"So Yoru was correct for once. At least we can trust her word." Donce replied as he and Haku began to strategize.

"Yeah well, only sometimes. She has a habit of making things difficult."

"So, how will we get in?"

"Simple." Rick answered instead of Haku, but in Japanese so no one else could understand what he was saying. "It's easy to see that there are no electrical problems."

"How can you tell?" Donce asked, and Rick gave him a look that meant it was a stupid question.

"There would be sparks somewhere, or they would have tried turning on the place by now. The electric system is very efficient. Only a few light bulbs would go out at most, which wouldn't cause too much delay. Besides, what idiot would know to check on the electric system in broad daylight, when it would be difficult to see the lights themselves? They would do it early in the morning or evening, in which as of now, its ten o'clock, and the sun has fully risen."

"Good point." Donce replied as Haku nodded.

"Not only that, but" Haku continued for him, "they wouldn't need cops at the front gates, and even if they did, not so many. There is other violence in the city and they wouldn't even allow so many cops to stay here outside of the tower. There would only be two or three and several signs warning tourists away from the property."

"Which means those cops have their minds controlled some how, and if we find the source of that control, we can easily demolish that problem." Rick went on.

"But there is also the problem of traps that could possibly be set on the lift, which would make it an instant danger to try. This means we'll have to find either an airborne method that is very little noticed, or teleportation means for someone that has been there already."

"Damn you guys are good." Donce acknowledged after some time. "I'm just going to sit here and let the two of you complete the planning. My interference probably wouldn't help." In reality, Donce had always known Rick was smart, about as smart as Richard was cunning, but he had never realized how smart until he was put against the child genius of Haku. Sure, their sister was a genius, but Rick never really spent time around any of them, so no one could tell his intelligence that way. That, and Rick usually failed school which only meant that he was either only intelligent in scheming, or was just bored at school and refused to do the work. Either way, Rick was very intelligent.

"So, first we take care of the cops. They'll get in our way, and we don't need to harm the citizens and cause a war with France." Continued Haku.

Rick nodded. "I'll do that. Afterwards, you string up some vines in the back of the tower, in whatever direction seems the less populated."

"But what about being seen?" Haku inquired, as Rick already had an answer.

"Donce will take care of that. His main ability is invisibility."

"Alright." Donce agreed. "But I warn you; my abilities only last a short amount of time. We're going to have to climb quickly."

Haku nodded. "Yes, but our next problem is what happens if the Dark Lord himself is up there waiting, or one of his allies or servants. We can easily fall over."

To this Niko chirped.

"Oh, that's right." Haku commented. "Niko has the ability to change his size on will. He can easily catch us should one or all of us fall."

"Okay, the plan has been initiated. You all wait here as I take care of the cops."

The group nodded and watched as Rick ran out towards the Eiffel tower, dodging behind lamps and such, until he managed to sneak past the cops. There, he began a slow but quick assault on the backs of the men, sticking them only carefully from what Haku learned later were acupuncture needles, as Rick had also spent a small amount of time in China.

Once all of the cops had fallen and Rick pulled them out of plain view, Haku and Donce ran in, and Haku grew up the vines as planned. Donce set them invisible to the naked eye in a matter of moments and they quickly worked their way up the tower along the ladder of greenery.

Of course, as Donce stated before, his invisibility didn't last very long, so in a matter of moments, as they were around the upper half, it dissolved and they were visible once more.

"Oh well, at least we weren't noticed!" Donce shouted up as they continued to climb.

He received no answer as they soon made it to the top and Rick helped both Haku and Donce take up balance.

Instantly, all three noticed the blonde hair girl tied in the corner.

"Amelia!" Donce shouted, running towards her. He lifted her in his arms and looked her over. Apparently, she had put up a fight, for there were a few scratches on her fine soft cheek, and her hair was tousled, not well kempt and brushed as she always kept it.

"Amelia wake up!" Rick sat down next to her and began to shake her, lightly. "Come on!"

"Something isn't right." Haku mumbled, glancing around.

"What do you mean?" Donce inquired as Rick continued to shake his sister.

"I mean this was too simple. There should be something waiting for us up here, other than her."

"Quite right." Said a soft, young, feminine voice.

Rick suddenly backed up as Amelia stood up on her fine shiny black shoes. The rope that tied her together came loose, and her smile broadened, pretty blue eyes suddenly a clouded grey.

"Amelia?" Donce inquired.

"You fools." She said, her white teeth showing. "You fools actually showed up. I'm impressed."

"Amelia, what are you doing?" Rick asked, her teeth bore in anger. "This isn't like you!"

"Let her go." Haku mumbled, eyes very calm.

Amelia's smile broadened. "My my, let who go?"

"Amelia is still unconscious isn't she? Let her go! Stop showing us this silly illusion!"

"This is no illusion my dear boy." The girl said, her tongue slipping out like a snakes. "This is reality!" She leapt at him in an instant, in which Haku quickly stepped out of the way, as she collided with the railing, nearly toppling over.

"Stop trying to fool me." Haku replied, dusting off his shirt. "I know an illusion when I see one."

Amelia gave off a cackle and dove for him again. Just as she came down on him, Haku released a rose from his hand, and like a sword, it shot up and through Amelia's belly.

"No!" Donce and Rick cried, as the blonde girl looked down at the hole in her stomach, and then, promptly collapsed onto the tower, her breath no more.

"How could you?" Donce shouted, and he tried to run to his fallen sister, but Haku put his hand out.

"Stop, she's only acting."

"What!"

"This isn't her."

"What do you mean it isn't here?" Donce cried back. "It has to be."

Rick instantly caught onto what Haku was talking about. "No, that isn't her. Amelia doesn't wear her black slippers to bed."

"Hehehehehehe…" a low deep cackled erupted around them, as the sky suddenly took a turn from light blue to dark purple. The back of Amelia tore in two, and out of it came what looked like a wooden puppet, his face rather obscured with cuts and chips, as the rest of his body was. "Very smart of you." It said, his strings releasing Amelia's arms, legs, and head.

"Where's Amelia?" Haku asked, growling.

"You'll find out soon enough." The puppet laughed, pulling its head off its shoulders and replacing it with a crack. "You shouldn't worry about her. You should be worrying about your other friends."

"What's happening to them?" Rick shouted as Donce began to scoot away from the dead girl before him.

"As I said, you'll find out soon enough."

Catse: Whew! That was long! Hope you all enjoyed it! Remember, reviews are very welcome. And, just for a slight fit of boredom, you can review telling me which of all of the characters is your favorite, if by chance your favorite has changed by some circumstance or other. As for now, I've got to go and write on something. Oh, and for all of you Kingdom Hearts people out there, if you're bored, you might want to read the fic Kojika85 and me are composing together. It's called Anime Hearts, done by holyhellwhatarewedoing, so if you're bored and looking for something interesting, we'd love it if you went and checked it out. Well, that's all from me right now. Ja Ne!