Chapter 19: Beginning of the End

Dream

"Why do you run?"

That voice...

"You must become one."

It sounds so familiar.

Jo stood still in the darkness, just looking around.

"Who's there?"

"You must find theo ther two before it is too late."

Frustrated, Jo hung her head.

"How am I supposed to do that? I can't even leave that room."

Silence.

"Answer me, damn it."

Still silence.

"What the..."

End Dream

Jo was jerked away by someone shaking her. Then without clearly thinking, she swung.

(A/N: Heh, yep, I've done that before.)

Jo quickly opened her eyes to see what she had made contact with.

There was Shizuru, holding her jaw. Kuwabara, Hiei, Keiko, and Yukina were standing by her.

"Damn, that girls hits hard," comment Shizuru.

Jo sliently scratched her head.

Yukina approached the Neutral girl slowly.

"I'm not gonna attack you, if that's what you're thinking," Jo/Neutral said watching everyone.

Yukina stepped up to Jo and gingerly touched the bruise on the left side of Jo's face.

Jo winced, "Yeah, bastard banged me up pretty good. You don't need to heal it."

"But you're in pain."

"I.AM.FINE."

After hearing this, Hiei walked up to Jo and hovered his hand over the left side of Jo's face.

"What are you doing," Jo asked, never taking her eyes off Hiei's hand.

Slowly, Hiei brought his hand down and barely brushed the skin on Jo's cheek. Even that small of a touch caused Jo to jump back in pain.

Hiei smirked, "I think you should let her heal you."

Through gritted teeth Jo mumbled, "FINE!"

Yukina finally smiled in relief and began "healing" the Neutral's face, but there was one problem with that, nothing happened. Nothing healed.

"Why can't I heal you?"

Jo answered only with a sigh.

A silence crept over the group and Jo began to play with the hem of her shirt.

"I miss...my brother," Jo said under her breath, but of course Hiei had heard her.

Shizuru walked up to the depressed girl and began to pull Jo to the door by the arms.

It wasn't until Jo was near the door that she started freaking out.

"No, let me go," she screamed, "I can't leave this place."

Keiko walked up to the struggling Jo and just stood in front of her.

"Jo, is this absolutely necessary? You have things you need to do, don't you?"

At the exact moment Keiko ended her sentence, Jo stopped struggling and looked at Keiko through the hair in her face.

"I don't know what to do though, I feel so lost.."

Kuwabara knelt by Jo and put a hand on her shoulder, "Shorty, you think you're lost, but you have guides with you. We need you to br strong right now."

Jo sniffled and laughed, "You, Kuwabara, of all people telling me to be strong, I like that."

At that point, Hiei sweatdropped. What was that girl thinking?

Just as a calm settled over, it was broken by footsteps coming towards the room.

Jo panicked at that moment and ran to the black side of the room. The others watched as she frantically began to pushing on the walls.

"Jo, honey, what are you doing," Keikod asked.

Jo stopped and sighed, "A door Keiko, I made a door through magic and now I can't find the stupid bastard.

Even after the footsteps came and passed the room, Jo still looked for "the door".

Finally giving up, Jo leaned against the wall only to go through it.

She quickly stuck her head back through the wall, "Heh, I found the door. Now, come on."

Reluctantly, the others got up and went through the door. Only when they got to the other side, well, let's just say they weren't expecting to end up where they did.

Kuwabara looked up from the top of the pile...yes, they fell into a pile.

"Hey Urameshi."

Yusuke looked down at the other half of the group like they were crazy.

"Um, I know I saw Neutral fall out, now where is she?"

A hand popped out from the bottom of the pile and waved.

Dark walked up out of no where and started laughing..

"Don't laugh at her," Light said, choking back a laugh of her own.

A faint growl could be heard from the where Jo was.

"'M gma ite eepl 'n a inut." Jo mumbled.

As soon as the mumble came out, everyone got off her.

Jo still lay there, face down on the floor. So Yusuke went up to her and nudged her head with his foot...her left side...

"Damn it, you dumb ass," Jo screamed.

Yusuke looked at the others who were now glaring at him.

"What?"

Jo rolled over onto her back and kicked Yusuke in the shin to get his attention.

"Oh, wow," is what Yusuke said when he saw his sister's face.

"Yeah. It kinda hurts and you nudged it. How do you think that makes me feel. Nevermind, don't answer that," Jo stated, finally standing up.

Jo wipped her hands on her pants then proceeded to speak.

"So yeah, we need a spell."

Silence.

"It's the only way to put me and the other monotone sisters together."

More silence.

"I know this is me, but it's the only wasy to put us together...besides viciously killing each other."

...crickets chrip...

"Will someone say something!"

"Jo, they're gone," Kurama said, coming up behind her.

Jo looked around and saw no sign of Light OR Dark.

"So, they're gone?"

Kurama nodded.

Jo stood there, just looking around the room as if expecting Light and Dark to pop up out of no where to scare her. The never did.

Somehow, with the two of them gone, Jo felt an emptiness. She felt no one "Light" feeling and no one "Dark" feeling take over. She felt like a void. So empty, so dead.

Jo felt someone tuck her hair behind her ears...Kurama.

"What's wrong?"

She shook her head.

"I shouldn't be here anymore."

Everyone was dumbstruck. Why shouldn't she be here? What did she mean?

While ther thinking was going on, Jo started down the hallway.

Seeing this, Yusuke stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"Where are you going?"

Jo made eye contact with her brother.

"I have to pee, which I can do by myself, then I'm gonna rest for a while."

Yusuke let go of Jo's arm for what would be his last time.

Everyone watched in silence as Jo walked out of the bathroom and into her room without making a sound.

Last time? Yes, you can expect the worse for Jo, but her essence will not be gone...But what exactly is gonna happen next?

I'll never tell.

Halloween was Monday, HEHEHEHE, my hair was so messed up and colourful. I got called "Pinkie" and that only made me want to kill people for that. Plus, I was one of the few who actually dressed up, but oh well, Samhain is MY holiday, so all was good.

OOH, I might get suspended or something close to that matter 'cause this girl is pissing everyone off and well, we found out her boyfriend is 27...she's 16...can we say rape much, so yeah, we're sick of it 'cause we're sick of her bragging about it...it's disgusting. Fun stuff I go through, huh? You gotta love it though, we get amusment out of all this.

Yep, so I'm outie.

-Jen