Chapter 17: Why Am I Three People?

"What in the seven hells happened," Jo said as she sat up slowly, still carrying a killer headache.

Two other beings sat up as well, both of them groaning. When Jo and the other two looked at each other, all hell broke lose.

"Who the hell are you two and why do you look like me," Jo asked looking at the two girls, one all in white and the other all in black. (A/N: If you haven't figured it out yet, then...well, you will.)

"Whoa, you must be Neutral," Light said, looking at Jo.

"Neutral? What does that mean?"

Dark rolled her eyes, "I'm the dark side of you, the freak in white is the light side of you, and you're the neutral. Does that make any sense to your little brain?"

Jo nodded, "Yes it does, but I'm not that stupid."

"Uh-huh, sure it doesn't."

"Dark, would you just leave her alone, she's never had this happen, she remembers what we did, but she wasn't there."

"Fine, let Neutral sit there like an idiot."

"She's not an idiot, she's confused a bit."

"Heh, you wish that's all that was wrong with her."

"Dark, I'm serious, shut up."

Dark turned and faced Light, ready to attack. Light's power began to build up as well.

"Would you two just stop," Jo asked with no emotion.

Light and Dark both looked over at Jo.

"We're sorry," they said in unison.

"Good to see all three of you are still alive and not killing each other," Kurama said walking into the room.

'Stupid asshole,' the three thought in unison.

"Well, there seems to be some tension going on in here."

Yet again in unison, "No, ya think."

Out in the hallway, Yusuke's voice could be heard, "Kurama, can we come in yet?"

"Sure Yusuke, just remember there are three of them."

"Yeah, yeah, like three of my sister could be that bad," Yusuke said as he walked into the room only to take back his comment.

Light and Neutral(Jo) looked up at Yusuke, but Dark on the other hand was off in her own world. Her attention seemed to be on something in the corner of the room, away from everyone else.

Light nudged Neutral, "What's up with her, she seems to be all spacey? What is she looking at?"

Without turned her head or blinking, Neutral answer Lights question.

"She's just fixated with at little shadow in the corner," Neutral then turned and walked towards the center of the room where she sat down.

Light was still confused, "A shadow? What does that mean?"

Neutral never looked back, "The shadow is Hiei."

Light finally got it and made and "O" with her mouth, then went to join everyone else, leaving Dark to stare in the corner and Neutral to sit in the middle of the room.

"So what makes you bring all of us out," Light asked the group.

Kurama was the one to speak up, "Well, we need you're help, not Jo's, but all of yours. Have any of you been sensing anything...more unusual that normal? Any power surges or any new powers that just suddenly appeared?"

"Well,...,"

"Light, don't you even open your mouth," Dark said, interupting Light.

Neutral sighed, 'Here we go again.'

Dark and Light were again at each other's throats and Neutral just sat there.

Kurama, Yusuke, and the others seemed to be growing impatient with the three.

Neutral sighed again and got up to join the others.

"They're a pain, aren't they? Just think about having them in your head, now that's pain times three."

The others still stared at her.

"Well, it is true. Light's so naiive at times and Dark, well, she's too high strung."

This caught Yusuke's attention, "What about the third one, or my sister for that matter."

Neutral sighed again, "I'm Neutral and Jo in one, Neutral never had a true body. Which makes me and Jo one person, love the kid, she must have good role models to look up to, especially a older brother."

Neutral knew she had caught something there. No one ever thought Jo thought looked up to them, they just thought Jo went on her way without even thinking about them.

Before anyone could say anything else, a comotion, cause by Light and Dark broke the train of thought.

"Why are you so negative?"

"Why are you so peppy?"

"I am not peppy, I'm just...light hearted."

"And I'm what, a cold hearted bitch?"

Light shrugged.

"What was that you...WHOA," Dark stopped mid-sentence.

At the same time, Light and Neutral stopped as well.

A tremor went through the floor causing the floor to crack.

Everyone except Neutral backed away from the cracking floor. When water began to seep threw the cracks in the floor, Neutral took one step back, but that one step didn't help.

The floor sunk in and blew out sending cement, drink, and water flying through the air. When Neutral looked up, something that resembled a huge water creature hovered over her.

Neutral began to back up, but her boots for some reason, wouldn't grip the pavement of the room. So as a last resort, Neutral turned and got to her feet, ready to run, only to have the water creature wrap a tentacle-like thing (A/N: I know, pitiful...I can't even think of a name for it...yeah.) around Neutral's ankle and pulled her back down to the pavement. When she made contact, the left side of her face made contact with the floor with a wet smack, sending blood to pour out of her nose and mouth.

The creature, still holding on to Neutral, pulled the unconcious girl into the depths of the water.

Just as it started, it had stopped. The floor was now whole and there was no water in sight. All Light, Dark, and the others could do was stare as Neutral, the link they needed, was gone.

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE, yep, after almost two weeks, I finally updated. I apologize for this too. It's just been really hard on me. I've had to write almost three articles for the newpaper I write for, I'm have really BAD stress problems and I just couldn't bring myself to write, but as you can probably tell now, I'm fine and a bit better than earlier and mid last week.

Ooh, here's a good "quiz question" for all of you. Okay, the part in this chapter where Neutral (Jo) gets a tentacle wrapped around her ankle and pulled down causing her face to hit the pavement and blood to come out of her nose and mouth. Then being dragged into the water...what horror movie did I get the idea for that?

Clue #1: The movie features Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, and Famke Jansen.

Clue #2: Aliens!

Clue #3(and most important): WATER! LOTS AND LOTS OF WATER!

Those of you who get it right...will get an update quicker than this sad one. HAHAHAHA! Seriously, I will update quicker if someone can give me the movie title...so go for it.

As always,

-Jen