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Lian remembered her parting shot of how she was normal and wished it was so. She shook her head, "I had asked for power and I got it so there was to be no complaining from my corner. Actually I hadn't asked for it, I had just invited it." She snorted at the memory about how it had all come about. One day she decided she wanted to believe in something, you know like a God or something like that. Going through many religions, not a one seemed right for her and she soon realized why. Each of those religions said they had a powerful god or goddess but never said where they got the power from. Sure there was all this 'it comes from within and stuff like that but hey, even that power has to come from somewhere. That point is when her life took a huge about face."
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Time Is Running Out…
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Lian crossed her room over to her bed flung up the covers and then promptly buried herself in them. Giving a mental snort Lian thought "normal? Oh yeah it's normal to be able to make things appear out of thin air. It was 'Normal' to be able to have a semi coherent conversation with the power of everything living! It was bleeding NORMAL to suddenly have demon's chasing you and the people from one of your favorite animes to come help rescue you!"
Lian winced as her mental shouting began to get a little loud even for her mind. She found it was a good thing that her mental ranting had shut itself off or she wouldn't have heard the door to her hospital room opening and a minute or so later, closing.
Feeling the presence of the officers from earlier in her room along with Allen, Lian just grabbed the top of the blankets at her head and then proceeded to roll up into a little ball just like a pill bug, potato bug… whatever those little ugly gray bugs that rolled into a ball when touched were called.
She heard Allen's muffled steps come closer and when she felt him poke her in the side the young woman somehow found a way to curl up even tighter.
The slightly mystified voice of Yusuke managed to reach Lian's ears as she heard him say "how in the world can she get that small?"
Seconds later she heard Allen snort as he replied "I could care less about how she curled up so well, I'm more worried about if she can actually breathe in the middle of all that."
Four pairs of eyes focused on the tightly wound ball of blankets as a muffled sarcastic voice said "of course I can breathe, you think I want to give those jerks who are after me a hand?"
As Yusuke was about to give a sarcastic remark back a loud clap of thunder rumbled overhead and a brilliant flash of light lit up the room brighter than before. All the men in the room jumped at the clamor, and then they jumped again when the mass of blankets flew into the air as Lian leaped out of bed towards her window. The three officers watched as Allen got a nervous look on his face while the grin on Lian's face got wider.
"Lian" Allen began to say with a warning note "we just went through this a day or two ago…"
At the sound of the young man's voice Lian's head drooped a bit as if in defeat "Yeah, I guess your right Allen."
While Yusuke's and Kuwabara's focus was settled on Allen, Shuichi's was centered on Lian so he saw the gleam in her eye as she slowly walked past Allen towards her bed. Shuichi raised one eyebrow skeptically at Lian's subdued behavior and began to wonder what the little vixen was up to. Shuichi's curious side got to the better of him so he decided to distract Allen long enough to find out just what was going on.
"If I may ask, just what happened a while ago?"
Allen turned to the red-haired man to answer and in that moment that was all Lian needed. In time with the next lightning flash, Lian blazed by Allen and out the door. As she passed by Shuichi she gave a quick grin and a saucy wink.
With a quick shout of "Lian!" and a number of expletives after it Allen tore by the officers hot on Lian's tracks. Shuichi didn't know why but he felt his blood began to heat up as he thought of giving chase to the two.
"It's like a game of tag or something" he thought "besides she was their case and he had to make sure nothing happened to her, right?" With a quick grin very unlike himself Shuichi ran after Allen. In seconds Yusuke and Kuwabara followed behind them all.
Much to the officer's surprise they soon caught up with the other two even though the other two had had a good running start.
"Che, nothing is starting to make sense anymore" Yusuke thought as he soon realized his new speed. "As soon as Kuwabara and I took this case to Koenma, things have started to go a little strange."
Looking over to his taller companion Yusuke saw bewilderment in Kuwabara's eyes as well. "Even brick boy over there knows something is up."
Suddenly everyone stopped as they saw Lian's way blocked by five nurses at the other end of the hallway, with Kaoru in the lead. There was a moment of silence as all watched to see what Lian would do.
Staring silently at the nurses before her, Lian gave a belligerent toss of her head while swiping one foot on the floor in such a manner that it reminded Shuichi of a wild mare showing her defiance.
Keeping that analogy in mind Shuichi spread his arms a bit as he slowly walked towards Lian saying "Ms. Leviathan…" he began.
Lian's focus quickly turned from the white uniform brigade in front of her to Shuichi's slowly moving form behind her. Lian gave another toss of her hair and looked to the slightly open window behind her. Shuichi stared into her forest green eyes that he now saw were flecked with bits of silver. Lian gave the window a look and a shudder while wrapping one arm around her injured ribs.
"Ms. Leviathan…" Shuichi began again until Lian interrupted him with a rude snort.
"My name is Lian. Every time you say Ms. Leviathan I want to look for my mother."
Still slowly inching his way towards the young woman Shuichi smiled at her quip then began to speak yet again "very well Lian, what is it you're going to do that seems to have everyone in such an uproar?"
Lian hung her head but Shuichi was not fooled into thinking that she was unaware of them. Sure enough when Yusuke began to walk forward with impatience Lian tensed up and edged a bit more towards the window.
Just as Shuichi was about to yell at his idiot partner, Kuwabara surprisingly beat him to the punch "Yusuke what the hell do you think you're doing!?"
Yusuke just gave them all a withering glare and turned once again towards Lian "all right move it."
While everyone gave him a bewildering look Yusuke actually stomped by Lian and made a hole in the wall of nurses. Yusuke watched silently as understanding dawned in Lian's eyes and he continued his silent appraisal as the young woman swept by him leaving the sent of a dense forest behind. The glare Yusuke then gave everyone who began protesting his actions immediately shut them up.
"If all of you hadn't been so busy to try and restrain her you would've noticed that Lian was more willing to jump out that window than be caught at this moment. Now before anyone has anything else to say why don't we all go see what she's up to?"
With that little speech said, Yusuke proceeded to go down the same hall that Lian had just vacated seconds before, with all the nurses trailing behind him.
Allen was about to follow when he saw Shuichi and Kuwabara standing in the hall as if they had been hit with one of the lightning bolts that were flashing outside.
With puzzlement in his eyes Allen said "is there something wrong gentlemen?"
Kuwabara turned to him saying "Yusuke was observant and he made sense…"
Tilting his head with confusion Allen replied "so?"
Kuwabara shook his head as if waking from a dream, or maybe a nightmare, "you don't understand, Yusuke never makes logical sense."
Allen was about to say something to that when he saw Shuichi nodding in agreement with what Kuwabara had said. Allen stood there for a moment more before shrugging and then thinking nothing more of it as he followed down the hallway to where Lian was.
Soon enough Shuichi shrugged his bit of confusion away as well and was about to follow Allen when Kuwabara's hand on his shoulder stopped him from moving. He turned his questioning gaze to Kuwabara and found his partner staring thoughtfully down the hall where everyone had gone.
"I know you all tease me slightly about the hunches that I get at times but you always follow them because they are right. I'll tell you this now, if we continue on this case we won't be able to step back from this anytime soon."
Shuichi turned and really looked at Kuwabara and seeing the haunted look in his eyes Shuichi's teasing comment died on his lips, instead he could only murmur "what do you mean?"
Kuwabara stared at him for a moment before saying "you can't tell me you don't feel something different around us, about us, now that we've all met her."
Shuichi was about to scoff at his partner and long time friend when Something inside him stirred. It was as if some part, buried deep within was beginning to wake up. Shuichi pulled away from Kuwabara and threw his arms around himself as if to contain whatever was within. In seconds the darkness settled itself and Shuichi looked up to see understanding in Kuwabara's eyes.
Shuichi quickly averted his eyes and stalked away saying "let's just go."
Kuwabara said nothing as he followed the long haired man down the now empty hallway hoping that maybe they would get answers soon… before it was too late.
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I know this chapter seemed a little short but I'm already working on the next one and it's on 5 pages already… Next time in "Reality As We Know It" things get stranger as suddenly there's an attack at the hospital, We get to see just who is the martial arts instructor for the police department is, and just what is Allen. Yes, you read right, just What is Allen? Thanks for reading and I hope to keep you with me!
Lian remembered her parting shot of how she was normal and wished it was so. She shook her head, "I had asked for power and I got it so there was to be no complaining from my corner. Actually I hadn't asked for it, I had just invited it." She snorted at the memory about how it had all come about. One day she decided she wanted to believe in something, you know like a God or something like that. Going through many religions, not a one seemed right for her and she soon realized why. Each of those religions said they had a powerful god or goddess but never said where they got the power from. Sure there was all this 'it comes from within and stuff like that but hey, even that power has to come from somewhere. That point is when her life took a huge about face."
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Time Is Running Out…
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Lian crossed her room over to her bed flung up the covers and then promptly buried herself in them. Giving a mental snort Lian thought "normal? Oh yeah it's normal to be able to make things appear out of thin air. It was 'Normal' to be able to have a semi coherent conversation with the power of everything living! It was bleeding NORMAL to suddenly have demon's chasing you and the people from one of your favorite animes to come help rescue you!"
Lian winced as her mental shouting began to get a little loud even for her mind. She found it was a good thing that her mental ranting had shut itself off or she wouldn't have heard the door to her hospital room opening and a minute or so later, closing.
Feeling the presence of the officers from earlier in her room along with Allen, Lian just grabbed the top of the blankets at her head and then proceeded to roll up into a little ball just like a pill bug, potato bug… whatever those little ugly gray bugs that rolled into a ball when touched were called.
She heard Allen's muffled steps come closer and when she felt him poke her in the side the young woman somehow found a way to curl up even tighter.
The slightly mystified voice of Yusuke managed to reach Lian's ears as she heard him say "how in the world can she get that small?"
Seconds later she heard Allen snort as he replied "I could care less about how she curled up so well, I'm more worried about if she can actually breathe in the middle of all that."
Four pairs of eyes focused on the tightly wound ball of blankets as a muffled sarcastic voice said "of course I can breathe, you think I want to give those jerks who are after me a hand?"
As Yusuke was about to give a sarcastic remark back a loud clap of thunder rumbled overhead and a brilliant flash of light lit up the room brighter than before. All the men in the room jumped at the clamor, and then they jumped again when the mass of blankets flew into the air as Lian leaped out of bed towards her window. The three officers watched as Allen got a nervous look on his face while the grin on Lian's face got wider.
"Lian" Allen began to say with a warning note "we just went through this a day or two ago…"
At the sound of the young man's voice Lian's head drooped a bit as if in defeat "Yeah, I guess your right Allen."
While Yusuke's and Kuwabara's focus was settled on Allen, Shuichi's was centered on Lian so he saw the gleam in her eye as she slowly walked past Allen towards her bed. Shuichi raised one eyebrow skeptically at Lian's subdued behavior and began to wonder what the little vixen was up to. Shuichi's curious side got to the better of him so he decided to distract Allen long enough to find out just what was going on.
"If I may ask, just what happened a while ago?"
Allen turned to the red-haired man to answer and in that moment that was all Lian needed. In time with the next lightning flash, Lian blazed by Allen and out the door. As she passed by Shuichi she gave a quick grin and a saucy wink.
With a quick shout of "Lian!" and a number of expletives after it Allen tore by the officers hot on Lian's tracks. Shuichi didn't know why but he felt his blood began to heat up as he thought of giving chase to the two.
"It's like a game of tag or something" he thought "besides she was their case and he had to make sure nothing happened to her, right?" With a quick grin very unlike himself Shuichi ran after Allen. In seconds Yusuke and Kuwabara followed behind them all.
Much to the officer's surprise they soon caught up with the other two even though the other two had had a good running start.
"Che, nothing is starting to make sense anymore" Yusuke thought as he soon realized his new speed. "As soon as Kuwabara and I took this case to Koenma, things have started to go a little strange."
Looking over to his taller companion Yusuke saw bewilderment in Kuwabara's eyes as well. "Even brick boy over there knows something is up."
Suddenly everyone stopped as they saw Lian's way blocked by five nurses at the other end of the hallway, with Kaoru in the lead. There was a moment of silence as all watched to see what Lian would do.
Staring silently at the nurses before her, Lian gave a belligerent toss of her head while swiping one foot on the floor in such a manner that it reminded Shuichi of a wild mare showing her defiance.
Keeping that analogy in mind Shuichi spread his arms a bit as he slowly walked towards Lian saying "Ms. Leviathan…" he began.
Lian's focus quickly turned from the white uniform brigade in front of her to Shuichi's slowly moving form behind her. Lian gave another toss of her hair and looked to the slightly open window behind her. Shuichi stared into her forest green eyes that he now saw were flecked with bits of silver. Lian gave the window a look and a shudder while wrapping one arm around her injured ribs.
"Ms. Leviathan…" Shuichi began again until Lian interrupted him with a rude snort.
"My name is Lian. Every time you say Ms. Leviathan I want to look for my mother."
Still slowly inching his way towards the young woman Shuichi smiled at her quip then began to speak yet again "very well Lian, what is it you're going to do that seems to have everyone in such an uproar?"
Lian hung her head but Shuichi was not fooled into thinking that she was unaware of them. Sure enough when Yusuke began to walk forward with impatience Lian tensed up and edged a bit more towards the window.
Just as Shuichi was about to yell at his idiot partner, Kuwabara surprisingly beat him to the punch "Yusuke what the hell do you think you're doing!?"
Yusuke just gave them all a withering glare and turned once again towards Lian "all right move it."
While everyone gave him a bewildering look Yusuke actually stomped by Lian and made a hole in the wall of nurses. Yusuke watched silently as understanding dawned in Lian's eyes and he continued his silent appraisal as the young woman swept by him leaving the sent of a dense forest behind. The glare Yusuke then gave everyone who began protesting his actions immediately shut them up.
"If all of you hadn't been so busy to try and restrain her you would've noticed that Lian was more willing to jump out that window than be caught at this moment. Now before anyone has anything else to say why don't we all go see what she's up to?"
With that little speech said, Yusuke proceeded to go down the same hall that Lian had just vacated seconds before, with all the nurses trailing behind him.
Allen was about to follow when he saw Shuichi and Kuwabara standing in the hall as if they had been hit with one of the lightning bolts that were flashing outside.
With puzzlement in his eyes Allen said "is there something wrong gentlemen?"
Kuwabara turned to him saying "Yusuke was observant and he made sense…"
Tilting his head with confusion Allen replied "so?"
Kuwabara shook his head as if waking from a dream, or maybe a nightmare, "you don't understand, Yusuke never makes logical sense."
Allen was about to say something to that when he saw Shuichi nodding in agreement with what Kuwabara had said. Allen stood there for a moment more before shrugging and then thinking nothing more of it as he followed down the hallway to where Lian was.
Soon enough Shuichi shrugged his bit of confusion away as well and was about to follow Allen when Kuwabara's hand on his shoulder stopped him from moving. He turned his questioning gaze to Kuwabara and found his partner staring thoughtfully down the hall where everyone had gone.
"I know you all tease me slightly about the hunches that I get at times but you always follow them because they are right. I'll tell you this now, if we continue on this case we won't be able to step back from this anytime soon."
Shuichi turned and really looked at Kuwabara and seeing the haunted look in his eyes Shuichi's teasing comment died on his lips, instead he could only murmur "what do you mean?"
Kuwabara stared at him for a moment before saying "you can't tell me you don't feel something different around us, about us, now that we've all met her."
Shuichi was about to scoff at his partner and long time friend when Something inside him stirred. It was as if some part, buried deep within was beginning to wake up. Shuichi pulled away from Kuwabara and threw his arms around himself as if to contain whatever was within. In seconds the darkness settled itself and Shuichi looked up to see understanding in Kuwabara's eyes.
Shuichi quickly averted his eyes and stalked away saying "let's just go."
Kuwabara said nothing as he followed the long haired man down the now empty hallway hoping that maybe they would get answers soon… before it was too late.
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I know this chapter seemed a little short but I'm already working on the next one and it's on 5 pages already… Next time in "Reality As We Know It" things get stranger as suddenly there's an attack at the hospital, We get to see just who is the martial arts instructor for the police department is, and just what is Allen. Yes, you read right, just What is Allen? Thanks for reading and I hope to keep you with me!