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:Alena P.O.V.:
I caught my balance slightly and looked up at Kurama. He was only about an inch or two taller than me, but I still had to look up slightly too actually meet his eyes. Yeah, okay. I really need to learn how to -not- get like this ever time I'm this close to him.
Putting on my typical, nonchalant face, I said "Did Koenma tell you you're stuck babysitting me on this mission?"
"No. But I figured as much. From what I've heard about the shape shifter's lands, there are constant disputes and it can be a very dangerous place." Kurama answered.
I leaned back against a tree. "And Koenma thinks I can't take care of myself." I stated flatly. I knew it was pretty true also. Then again, Koenma hadn't been here the last two weeks.
"It's true I haven't been here, but I have been keeping tabs. I just don't feel comfortable leaving to go on this mission on your own."
I yelped slightly in surprise, jumping about a foot in the air. "Koenma." I growled slightly. Kurama, who hadn't been affected by Koenma's sudden appearance in the least, barely glanced up.
"Kurama isn't babysitting, he's escorting you." Koenma said.
"Whatever you say Koenma." I muttered. I still consider it babysitting.
Koenma clear his throat. "Anyways, when you arrive you will be escorted around the palace by Danica and Zane. They are the rulers. Danica is an avian shape shifter and Zane is a serpentine shape shifter."
"I didn't think snakes and birds mixed well." I murmured. This conversation was really starting to bore me. Koenma began a long, well practiced, speech about the war between the two lands and a marriage of peace and so on. If I'd really needed to know this, I woulda asked Kurama. His answer would have at least not sounded like he's practiced saying it in front of a mirror.
"Well, Koenma. If I have anymore doubtlessly stupid questions with impossibly long answers, I'll call you. Right now, I have to find my gang." I said cutting Koenma's speech short. "Adios."
I half walked half skipped back to the temple. My friends were still sitting in the living room discussing something. "Band meeting." I called before disappearing down the hall. Those who needed to would know what I meant.
.:Normal P.O.V. outside w/ Kurama and Koenma.:.
"What do you think?" Koenma asked as he and Kurama watched Alena prance slightly back towards the temple.
"What do you mean?" Kurama asked. "if you're asking if she's ready for the mission, my answer is yes. Yuskue didn't have this much training and he still managed to defeat Hiei even if it was a stroke of good luck."
"What you're saying is she's physically ready to go on the mission." Koenma said. "My question here is if she's mentally ready. This mission isn't as easy as it may seem."
Kurama nodded slightly, the memory of what Alena had told him of her past still clear in his mind. "All of them have matured a lot since they arrived here. But even without training, I believe that this mission would be fine."
Koenma looked a the Kitsune, but didn't question him. Kurama was extremely intelligent and if he thought that Alena was ready for the hard ship that awaited her, then Koenma couldn't argue.
Koenma and Kurama re-entered the temple just in time to hear the first few cords on Laci's electric guitar before it blended with drums, bass guitar and piano music.
"What's that?" Koenma asked. He'd only watched the girls' training, so he didn't know about the band.
"That would be my twin and her friends." Phoenix said flatly. That was all the conversation that could be managed before Alena's voice filled the temple.
This endless darkness
I've been falling through
Without your love without your touch
Falling endlessly onto the dark
The beat of the song sped up slightly with the approaching chorus.
It fells like I'm drowning
in an ocean of loneliness
Slowly, slowly my life is fading
As is my memory of you
Sorrowful darkness I live in without your love
Knowing you're out there somewhere
But I've never really seen your face
It fells like I'm drowning
in an ocean of loneliness
Slowly, slowly my life is fading
As is my memory of you
Someday you'll caught me
You'll end my lonely fall
Someday you'll find me in my endless darkness
You'll end this eternity of fear
You'll light my way
The music stopped almost completely except for a soft melody on the piano.
It fells like I'm drowning
The music started again
in an ocean of loneliness
Slowly, slowly my life is fading
As is my memory of you
As is my memory of you… the music faded out as the song ended.
"Wow." Kuwabara said. "They're pretty good. Who wrote the song?"
"More than likely, Alena." Nikolas answered. Without warning, Alena and Laci toppled out into the hall, wrestling, scratching and biting in a playful manner, but still with a purpose.
"I can't believe you changed the lyrics to that song." Laci growled at Alena as she pinned the taller girl down by her shoulders.
"I can change it all I damn will please and you couldn't do a thing about it." Alena snapped at her friend as she shoved the girl off of her. "Anyhow, I only changed like two words."
"That's all?" Laci asked, stopping midway through a charge.
"Yeah." Alena said nodded. "But now I owe you big time for tackling me." With that the two were at it again.
"Those two will –never- grow up." Marissa murmured. Amanda nodded slightly in agreement.
"Oh… I can't decide which of them is going to win." Maggie said watching the two.
"Margaret Rose!" Amanda said. "You're just as bad as them."
"No I'm not." Maggie said pouting slightly. "I'd be as bad as them if I did this." Maggie side checked Nikolas and the vampire had Maggie pinned within seconds. Now Yuskue stepped in.
"C'mon. You have to put up a better fight than that!" he snapped at Maggie. The girl just glared at him as he began to shout off instructions. She began to actually listen and soon found herself freed from Nikolas' grip.
:Later:
Alena and Laci ended up having to be dragged apart before they fell down the front steps. Alena and Maggie were reading peacefully on the couch, while Yuskue and Kuwabara played video games. Kurama was conversing with Genkai, and Laci was arguing with Hiei about –Her- window sill. Yeah… arguing over a window sill.
"It. Is. My. Windowsill." She snapped at Hiei.
"Hn. Your name's not on it." Hiei responded.
"I can change that." Laci said. Hiei merely glared at her, unconcerned. Laci growled slightly and a small rock appeared in her hand. With it, she gently carved her full name into the window sill.
Laci Marie Rain.
"There. My name is now on my window sill now move!" The girl said in slight irritation.
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