Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Fushigi Yuugi, but Tara is my character.

Author's Note: I would just like to say thank you to everyone who reviews this story, I really appreciate it, and it's what inspires me to continue this fanfiction.

Seiryuu's Advantage

"Go puppet, destroy them all!" Tomo yelled as Tara began to charge at her former allies. Her face looked paler than usual, and her eyes were vacant, showing no signs of her being there. She continued to charge at the Suzaku warriors without a second thought, she would kill them if they didn't do something; her mind was set to destroy them. The Suzaku warriors all jumped in different directions to avoid her. She skidded to a halt and started chanting something quietly. Her body began to glow slightly as she continued to chant, the closer to finishing the chant, the louder her got.

"I summon you great spirit!" She yelled, the glow that was around her body shot up into the air, forming a spirit of a woman with long flowing blue hair, she wore a blue shirt with long, silver sleeves and a long flowing blue dress that went down to her knees, at the edge of the dress and shirt, icicles were embroidered, symbolizing she was a ice spirit. The spirit formed many icicles shaped like daggers and threw them at the warriors who were gathered in one spot. Tasuki grabbed his tessen and readied it.

"REKKA SHIN'EN!" He shouted, flames shooting out of the tessen, melting the daggers and hitting the spirit. The spirit screeched and disappeared into little icicles that stuck in the ground. Tara winced in pain as her arm surged with pain. When the spirits get hurt, it damaged her too.

"Fine, I'll use another spirit then, and this time it will destroy you!" She said, pointing at the warriors. Miaka had finally regained consciousness and could only watch as Tomo laughed at the warriors.

"You won't defeat her; you all seem to be having enough trouble getting near her." Tomo said in-between laughter. Miaka looked over at Tara, as she was calling another spirit. This spirit had short emerald green hair to her chin, and wings made of leaves and a long dress that covered her body, her ears were pointed at the tip and she had emerald green eyes that matched her hair, she was the earth and forest spirit. The spirit shot out vines at the warriors, tangling Chiriko and Mitsukake within them. The vines had thorns attached to them, causing them to cry out in pain as they began to bleed. Tara shot a glance over at Miaka and grinned.

"Spirit, let them go, attack that girl!" The spirit obeyed and let Chiriko and Mitsukake go. The spirit then shot vines over in Miaka's direction, but something got in the way. When the vines stopped, they were tangled around Tamahome, he had come back from falling off of the cliff, and with him were two older people. Miaka looked at Tamahome and rubbed her eyes, it was really him, and he hadn't been killed!

"Well, if it isn't Tamahome." Tomo said, with a small smile on his painted face.

"I missed…" Tara said, snapping her fingers. The spirit released Tamahome from the vines, and then the spirit disappeared, leaving a flower behind to fall to the ground. Tomo was too busy laughing to see Suboshi behind him, and Suboshi shot his weapon right through him. Tomo stopped laughing, and fell to the ground, a hole in his back. Suboshi noticed his brother over near Miaka and jogged over to him while Tara continued to fight the other warriors. She tried to punch Chichiri but he moved out of the way and hit her in the back with his staff. Having lived with the bandits for a few years, Tara had learned at least the basics of fist fighting, but nothing fancy. She kicked Chichiri in stomach and he stumbled backwards having lost his breath. Tasuki looked at her, not wanting to attack her as she punched him in the face. He spat out a bit of blood onto the ground and shook his head.

"Well, you certainly got better at fighting when I left, but you still can't beat me!" He taunted and laughed. Tara growled, and tried to punch him, but he grabbed her leg and flung her in the other direction, she smashed into a rock behind him and slid to the ground. She coughed and stood back up, staggering a little as she did so. There was blood trickling down her arm where she had been burned before. Chichiri got up, having gotten his breath back, and was ready to attack at anytime if he had to.

"Tasuki, we have to make sure we don't kill her, she's still one of us, no da."

"I have no intentions of killing her, don't worry." Tasuki said, taking a fighter's stance. Chichiri started chanting a spell. Tara started to run at them, swaying a little as she ran. Tasuki timed his punch perfectly to knock her out, but she grabbed his arm and threw him like he had done to her before. The side of his face smacked into a nearby rock wall. He slowly turned to face her, blood all over the side of his face, he tried to get up, but he fell to the ground and fainted. Tamahome was still bleeding from the vine's thorns, as were Chiriko and Mitsukake. Miaka was sitting beside Tamahome as the battle continued. Chiriko was almost in tears seeing Tasuki faint and Mitsukake was talking to Tamahome to figure out who he would cure.

"Let's see what happens to Chichiri before we think of that, he might get beaten up even worse than Tasuki did. The two older people who had shown up with Tamahome hadn't said anything yet, waiting until they had everyone's attention so they didn't have to explain it more than once.

"You can't win Chichiri, I've got the advantage." Tara said, stand there, ready to attack if he tried anything. Chichiri sighed.

"I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this… I'm sorry Tara." Chichiri said, while releasing one of his spells, sending a huge gust of wind at her. Tara went flying into the air and grabbed onto a nearby rock wall, the one that she had thrown Tasuki into minutes before.

"I believe it's me who has the advantage now Tara, no da." He noticed that she had begun chanting as she clung to the rock, and the forest spirit came back again, catching her and putting her safely on the ground.

"If we're using spells, then I can use my summons." Tara said, sending the forest spirit at the blue haired man. He braced himself for the attack when the spirit disappeared into another flower.

"Wha…What have I done?" Tara said, sitting down on the ground. She had temporarily gotten control back…or so they had thought, Tara used this time to have the spirit show up again and smack Chichiri in the side of the head.

"What a fool, to think you thought that I wouldn't attack you." Tara said, walking slowly over to the now unconscious Chichiri.

"I win this round." Tara said, looking over in the others' direction. She then jumped off the cliff and headed to where Nakago and the other Seiryuu warriors were.

"Well, now what, we're not fit to fight at the moment…" Tamahome said, looking at Tasuki and Chichiri. Miaka looked over at Mitsukake and Chiriko who were heading over to them, limping or holding onto an arm.

"We'll just have to hope that we get there in time to stop the summoning of Seiryuu for the moment." Said Mitsukake who had sat down near the others. The Suzaku seven sure had taken a beating… and to think it was mostly because of one of their own.

Alright! This chapter is finally done, and I thought I wouldn't be updating anytime soon… anyway, I hope everyone liked this chapter. I'm going to be going on vacation soon so I won't be updating for at least 2 weeks just to warn you all.