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Blooded Kin
Chapter 5: Bad Vibes

WindEmpress: Can't talk, got to write.
Firestar: o.O

"Are you sure about this?" Hiei asked as Leanna put her long hair into a pony tail where she'd been when she'd woken up from her vision. She had changed to a black pair of pants, where parts of her legs were showing though open marks shaped like diamonds and outlined in iridescent blue tied at the top and bottom of each diamond. Her shirt was an equally blue tank top that she had gotten on her shopping trip with Keladay.

She turned to him and nodded, "I'm sure . . . I'm sorry I screamed when I first woke up."

"Stop saying you're sorry," Kurama said, "there's no reason for it."

"You should see her when she says something wrong, she'll apologize until you think you're head will blow off," Keladay remarked as she looked at Leanna, who could simply smile.

"Where is this place anyway?" Yusuke asked walking into the room with his arms behind his back. Keladay, wearing the same outfit but had pink instead of blue, came up and poked his belly; Yusuke glared at her.

"Its near the forest where we first came out of the well. I'm sure of it; I could smell everything around me to know where it was at." I just hope that what I saw wasn't true . . .

Keladay moved over to her cousin, "Don't worry, I'm sure what you saw was just a dream or something. Come on; let's go before we can't see the hands in front of our faces." Keladay was right, it was around five in the afternoon and the sun was already setting. Leanna nodded and started out the door but stopped as a girl with a familiar scent ran past.

"Keladay! Come on! Its that girl!" she raced away before Keladay could think. The others were stunned and followed.

"Leanna! Wait up!" Keladay called after her as the guys raced passed her.

Leanna ignored them and raced after the girl at a fast sprint; I'm not going to get anywhere in this form! She leapt into the air and shifted her wolf form; the scent of the girl becoming stronger and Leanna's ability to run face became much easier, almost too easy. She was had the girl in her sight in seconds and pounced onto her back, but was flung backwards onto the ground as a bolt of lightening hit her. She got up again and charged forward at full throttle and something flew passed her to leap at the girl: the girl was down. As she approached and slowed, she found a white tiger holding down the girl: Keladay. The girl was struggling to get up as Leanna shifted back to her human form, "Stop, we don't want to hurt you. Keladay, let her up," she said to the tiger, which obeyed and stood. The girl was still on the ground but she began to stand, slowly as though she were afraid of what might happen. "Its alright," Leanna said kindly, "I promise to you that I won't hurt you."

The girl's head quickly turned towards; Leanna jumped back at the look of this girl. She had Keladay's blue eyes, Leanna's body, and both their hair color, it was like staring at the reflection in the mirror. The girl had the same reaction and jumped back, Keladay followed shortly after.

"Leanna?" Keladay whispered.

"Yeah?"

"Who is this? Its like I'm looking at a younger . . . us."

Leanna moved towards the girl, who was sitting on her knees, and looked at her, "What is your name?" she asked the girl.

"I don't know," she said at first but thought better of it, "Star, call me Star."

"That's a pretty name," Leanna said, "I'm called Leanna and that person over there is Keladay. Where did you learn to send a bolt of lightening like that?"

"She what? I thought we were the only ones who could do that!" Keladay said.

Star shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know; it just happens whenever I'm scared. Did I hurt you?" she asked in a worried voice.

Leanna smiled, "No, I'm alright. Do you know where you came from?"

She shook her head, "I don't remember anything, I just remember running away." She dusted off her light blue dress when the rest of the group came; she hid behind Leanna.

"Are you two okay?" Yusuke asked.

They both nodded.

"Its alright," Leanna said to the scared girl, "These are my friends, they won't hurt you." Star peeked around Leanna's shoulder and crawled away from her to stand up; she moved much like a cat. The group was taken by surprise much like Keladay and Leanna had done.

"She looks . . . Just like you both," Kurama said.

Star ignored him and turned back to Leanna and Keladay, "Can I come with you? I have no where else to go and I'm afraid and alone." There were tears welling up in her eyes. "Please, I'm so afraid!"

Leanna looked to Keladay for help. Keladay sighed, "Sure, why not, that is, until we find your family, okay?"

The girl nodded and hugged the both of them, taking both Leann and Keladay by surprise. "I promise I won't be a burden, I promise I won't cause any trouble and if I do-"

Leanna silenced her, "If you do, we'll just reprimand you," she smiled happily, "I'm sure you'll be have though." She patted the girl on the head and stood up, her knees protesting, and stiffening up, causing her to fall back to the ground: everyone laughed. She was happy to cause a bit of laughter for everyone; Leanna followed in their laughter but stopped as she caught the scent and froze in place, Keladay followed shortly after, catching the scent of the approaching strangers. Before either of them could react, something hit them on the side of the head, knocking all of them out.

Keladay woke to find herself in a clearing surrounded by trees and the sky as black as . . . well, night. The moon was glaring off the surface of something only a foot in front of her. Keladay reached for it and found it was had a smooth surface and felt of glass; it was an orb with moving clouds in it. Out of nowhere a serpent-like dragon (those Japanese dragons that you see) moved through the clouds within the orb, the dragon was black with red eyes. Another dragon orb was found only five inches from the other, blue dragon; another with a frosty blue and white; another with electric yellow . . . these were elemental dragon orbs, she realized as she began to pick up two more to place them in a silk bag. Leanna and the others were no where to be seen, Keladay sighed and placed the bag in her pocket.

Hiei woke up with a roaring headache and the sense that someone had control over his body when he tried to move and found himself immobile; he couldn't move his legs or his arms and found Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara but the other three were missing. He heard movement coming towards him, something large and . . . hissing? He looked up and found a black dragon crawling towards him on powerful legs.

"What the hell have you done with Leanna and her cousin?" he asked the creature.

"Oh, is that her name?" the dragon asked. He seemed rather serious sounding, as though he wanted to know her name. A large phoenix flew from behind him and landed next to the dragon. "Have you found them?" the dragon asked.

The fiery bird shook its head, "I cannot find either of them," he looked towards Hiei, the only one who had woken up. "How sweet, it seems that their little friend is worried about them."

The dragon glared at him along with Hiei; the phoenix shrank back a little. The dragon began to walk away, with the phoenix following behind him when Hiei tried to speak but found that everything was going black again.

Keladay began walking in the forest, following the faint scent of Leanna, towards the deeper part. She found Leanna sitting at the edge of the tree, knees drawn up as though she were in deep thinking. Keladay walked up to her, "Hey, Leanna, what's up?"

Leanna looked at her, "What's up with you? You're cheery when we're in a part of the forest, all by ourselves, with two other insane demons bent on killing us. What do you think is up?"

"You sound a little . . . erratic, what caused other than the demons?"

Leanna looked at her, "Since when did you learn to speak like that? Wait . . . don't answer that." She pointed towards another clearing, but this one was rather small. Keladay went forward, towards the place where Leanna had indicated, and found a gruesome sight: bodies torn apart with missing limbs or heads, blood illuminating in the moonlight, and weapons bent and broken. "They are the ones who called for help; they were demon fighters." Leanna's approach had been silent, causing Keladay to jump as she has spoken.

"Don't do that!"

"You're as jumpy as a newborn kitten!"

"Well, yeah! I am a tiger demon!"

Suddenly, the ground began to rumble as something approached; Leanna and Keladay looked at each other, "Uh, oh . . ." But before they could see what it was, the rumbling stopped and two people stepped out of the forest; one was shorter than the other, she shorter one had spiked black hair, while the other had blonde hair, and the shorter one seemed a bit more acute. Something seemed rather familiar about them.

Keladay looked to Leanna and found her staring at the shorter one. She took a step towards them, then two, and then stopped. Her voice was shaky as though she were uncertain, "Matt? Derek?" Keladay looked from the shorter one to the taller one. The shorter one looked a lot like Matt and the taller one looked exactly like Derek. No, she was wrong and Leanna was right, this was their missing relatives!

"Leanna, I thought they were dead!" Keladay called to her, Leanna only nodded.

"Dead, you thought us dead! We barely managed to stay alive! That home we lived in was possessed by the devil himself!" Matt, the shorter one, said fiercely.

"I'm sorry!" Leanna cried, "You were missing and everything was going wrong! If had known you were alive I would have searched for you! But we were forced from the house!" Leanna had been approaching her brother and her cousin as she had spoken; she was now in front of Matt, who was now five inches taller than her. She embraced him saying she was sorry as she did so; the boy was frozen, as though she had placed him under a curse.

"Attack her, you idiot!" Derek hissed to his cousin in the most sadistic way.

At first, he had seemed to looked bewildered as he tried to move but found himself immobile. "Wench! She's placed me under a spell!" But he knew he was wrong, he knew she hadn't learned all that she was capable of within a few days.

Derek transformed again and went at Leanna and Matt, but Keladay intercepted, "You'll have to get through me first!" But before Keladay could stop him, he attacked Leanna, sending her to the ground almost taking her brother with her if he hadn't seen it coming. Keladay moved to Leanna and helped her up, finding blood falling down her back once more.

"But why?" Leanna asked as Keladay helped her, "You are my brother and will always remain so." Her voice had the deepest hurt in it. Keladay looked from Matt to Leanna and back again, sure, there had been some petty fights when they were younger (and even after) but this was ridiculous! She had known that Derek would just love to start a fight with all three of them, but to get Matt to go against them? It was insanity!

"Sister?" Matt spat as though it were a cuss word, "I never had a sister and I never shall!" He went towards Leanna, talons outstretched to kill. Leanna took a step back as something darted in front of her and threw her brother aside. There stood none other than Hiei.

"Thought you could hold me down with your useless paralysis spells?" Hiei asked as the boy began to stand. Leanna went to go towards him, but Hiei stopped her before she could get any closer.

"Please, let me to him!" Leanna pleaded, "He is my brother, and I cannot let him be harmed!"

Hiei spun to face her, "And what good would you be to him if you were dead?"

There was a gentle chuckle from the two boys in front of them. Derek spoke with a seething voice, "They would do us much good dead. Always taking the glory when we should have been the better."

Matt took over, "Kept together even before the madness came, always . . . together . . . never alone."

"What the hell are you rambling on about?" Hiei asked.

"We have always been together," Leanna said, "You, me, Keladay, and Derek; weren't we always together?" Matt seemed to be listening again; Leanna continued, "I can remember all the days you would talk of flying away on a dragon's wing, away from all the trouble's of home and school, daily life, and anything else that seemed to bother you."

Matt could tell that she was speaking from the bottom of her hear. Could it be that she may just be his sister? He shook his head, "You are a liar and a demon living solely to destroy all that you once knew!"

"No!" Leanna cried, her voice becoming angrier as she continued to speak, "I never wanted to destroy anything or anyone! You are the one who wishes it destroyed! You were the one who killed all the innocent people, you were the one who tried to kill my friends, and it was you who tried to kill me and your cousin!"

"Ignore her diminutive lies!" Derek called to him as Matt began to realize all that he had done. "She is trying to mess with your head!"

"As if we haven't heard that before!" Keladay called. Hiei had moved to stand behind Leanna, who had no clue that he had moved from his place in front of her.

"Shut up!" Derek said with a bored tone of voice. He placed his hands on the back of his head; he was getting messy with this. Keladay took advantage of this, transforming into her tiger form, to leap at him and land with full force; the force of her attack knocked him out cold.

"Leanna! Let's get this over with!" Keladay called as she began to drag her cousin's body towards the trees. Suddenly, Derek transformed into his demon form and began attacking Keladay mercilessly. Leanna broke away from her brother and raced to Keladay to find that Matt too was going to fight her. He chuckled and transformed into a colossal black dragon. "Leanna?"

"Yeah?"

"I've got a bad feeling about this."