Hello one and all. Sorry for the updates being so far apart but yet Again my computer has decided to have a seisure and lose it's memory of every file I ever had on it... including all future chapters of my fanfic's. Anyway you probably don't want to hear any of this so let's just get the show on the road!

"They want to take you away. These things working for some unknown boss wants to take the only person who knows me and still cares for me away and you think I'll be fine just sitting here letting it happen? No, not now not ever."

With those words Allen took a leap at Azure… and changed.

Long out stretched fingers widened, sprouting fur and claws; honey blonde hair darkened and melded with amber fur now covering his body. In seconds what had been a furious young man leaping at Azure was now a very large screaming mountain cat.

Everyone's jaw dropped at seeing Allen change, well everyone except Lian who looked at everything going on and summed it all up nicely "ah hell!"

And so it Begins Again

Instead of lunging for Allen's tail like she wanted to (if only to hear him roar in indignant shock) Lian swung the one silver blade that she had kept in her hand just in time to block Ruby's claws aimed for her shoulder.

Giving a smirking grin Lian said "didn't your boss give you any stipulations about what condition I was supposed to show up in?"

Ruby grunted as he shoved against Lian's sword forcing them away from each other "all that we were told was to make sure you were coherent and breathing." Giving a mocking bow he continued "he said nothing about broken and bleeding."

Hearing Ruby threaten Lian while Allen and Azure were snarling at each other, finally made it hit home for the detectives that Yes this all this was really happening. Yusuke immediately drew his gun and aimed for Azure but gave up in moments when the two creatures crashed against one another clawing and biting. Kuwabara being himself just charged at Ruby swinging a fist for a wicked right hook, only to be thrown back as Ruby's fist connected with his midsection. Kurama darted forward to see the situation better hoping to get an opening to help either Lian or Allen.

Again Ruby charged Lian but this time the young woman was waiting for him with both hands hold a silver sword. Lian blocked the claws aimed for her shoulder but had to leap back to avoid Ruby's other arm coming up from under her guard as if to gut her. To Kurama's horror Lian landed wrong and giving a startled shout she slipped on the drenched ground beneath her, one sword being flung into the stormy night in the process.

As Lian scrambled to bring herself upright Ruby left out a roar and charged.

Kurama quickly darted towards Lian but saw that he would be too late. Furious at seeming helpless Kurama screamed "damn it! Will you trip or something!"

A quick flash of something went ripping through Kurama and then to everyone's shock a root snapped up from the ground entangling itself around Ruby's legs, effectively tripping the red demon. For a moment there was a pause of shock as people stared at Kurama, who in turn was wondering just what the hell he had done.

Then lightning flashes across the sky starling the combatants and reminding them that there was fighting to be had. Ruby roared as he snapped the roots around his feet to charge at Kurama, leaving Lian forgotten at the moment.

Another roar was heard as Azure bit deeply into Allen's shoulder causing the amber cat to scream in pain. Lian's gaze snapped from Ruby to Azure and back, a lone tear escaped from her eye to mix with the rain as she knew she had to help Kurama first. Allen still had tricks up his sleeve while Kurama was just a simple human, even though something had happened earlier, and she knew it had been Kurama, he still had no control.

In a blink of an eye Lian was up and charging at Ruby and soon passed him only to halt in front of Kurama with sword raised "forget something?"

Ruby snarled as he backed off a bit from the sword pointed directly at his heart.

Lian sighed as if so very tired saying "enough. Kurama if you could get the other three and head back towards the hospital."

Kurama got no further than saying "but" when Lian interrupted him.

"Please Kurama." Then with out looking back at him Lian gave a piercing howl that cut through all the noise around them. Allen's head snapped up and suddenly he wrenched away from Azure and ran to where Yusuke was checking over Kuwabara. Planting himself in front of the two detectives Allen let out a roar.

Still watching Lian, Kurama loped over to where his co-workers and the large golden cat stood. For one moment Kurama forgot Allen was in a different form and asked him "what is she up to?"

Kurama looked dismayed at what he had just done but before he could apologize Allen replied "she is going to do what they are hunting her for."

Sounding indignant Yusuke said "I thought you didn't know why they were after her?"

Allen snorted "I don't and neither do they, but I have know Lian for years and when she gets serious they best thing is to just do what she says."

Kurama went to Kuwabara's other side and helped Yusuke bring him to his feet "when did Lian say anything?"

Even though in the form of a large predator, Allen managed to give Kurama a scathing look "I may be a feline but that doesn't mean I couldn't understand the howl she sent." Snorting again Allen looked ahead saying "now just watch."

Four pairs of eyes watched the scene in front of them, Azure and Ruby were trying to circle Lian, but she always made sure to keep them both in front of her as she held the sword pointed towards them.

As he watched Yusuke saw that Lian wasn't keeping her steps the same, in fact it was almost as if she was moving to a rhythm that only she could hear. Kuwabara noticed Allen's ears twitching frantically first "hey fuzzy, what's with you?"

Blinking, Kurama and Yusuke first looked incredulously at Kuwabara and then turned their gaze to the feline in front of them.

Sounding almost puzzled Allen replied "I think I'm going nuts…" Shaking his head vigorously Allen took one step forward and paused as if listening "ok I'm not going crazy, I still hear it."

Seeing Ruby and Azure dart forward only to be forced back by a wicked slash of silver Kurama snapped "so what is going on? Just what is it you hear that is so fascinating?"

Sitting on his haunches Allen slowly shook his head saying "you won't believe me but I swear I hear the theme for the movie Mortal Kombat."

Just as the three detectives were about to start yelling at Allen for being so ridiculous a blast of sound washed over them and indeed it was the Mortal Kombat theme.

Before anyone could blink Lian was charging the demons and as she passed between the two she spun around slicing at Ruby and Azure. Both let out a roar and each clasped a hand to a stump to where their opposing arms used to be.

Swaying back and forth almost bouncing side to side Lian said "I didn't want to have to do this, I gave you both the chance to leave, but that is no longer an option" thus finished with what she was saying Lian charged again and as she reached the demons the words of the song blasted through the area and in time with the ending of the songs Lian quickly cut off their heads. Lian landed in a crouch and slowly stood as the two demons turned to blue and red smoke breezing past her to fade into the night chasing the leaving storm.

Eyes downcast Lian said "I warned them, I warned them if they didn't leave well enough alone the ending of the storm would be their death." Sighing Lian turned to face the four stunned men watching her, grinning sheepishly she said "umm I don't suppose we could just agree that this was all a figment of our imaginations and go home can we?"

Seeing the incredulous looks in their eyes Lian sighed "all right. Just let me fix a few things then we can go to my place and you can ask your questions."

Turning away Lian began to hum and then in a beautiful voice she sang "what was done, now undo. Return you to the form that's true!"

Before their eyes the earth ruffled a bit and clods of torn up earth settled back in place. The husk of the tree that had been uprooted, burned, and frozen, flew across the yard to land in the hole that its violent seizure had caused. Soon new bark covered the tree and leaves sprouted from the newly formed branches. After everything had settled Lian stopped humming and looked around at everything with a critical eye. Giving a satisfied nod Lian then seemed to pull a cell phone out of mid-air and began talking into it.

"Lareth? Yeah it's Lian, I need you to get the van to me. Hmm? Where am I? Err yeah I guess that would help." Giving a slightly nervous laugh Lian continued "well um you're not going to really believe this, but I'm at Sakura Hospital."

The four men watched in amusement as Lian said the last sentence in a rush and quickly pulled the phone away from her ear. Of course that still wasn't enough as the voice on the other side began screaming loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Hospital? What the hell can You be doing at a hospital? Oh my god, there were witnesses weren't there? That's why you're in one of those places! Lian if you don't start answering me I'm going to blister your ear later!"

Giving a sullen glare at the phone Lian muttered "as if you aren't doing that already?"

Reluctantly Lian put the phone back to her ear saying "please Lareth, just bring the van. It looks like I'll be staying home for quite a while now and since I have guests we'll need it to be able to haul everybody over at once." Lian gave a small smile "Yes, yes, all will be revealed once we get to the house and I get into some good clothing."

Closing the phone the young woman turned to the four avidly watching her "err.. why don't we go to the corner to wait for our ride?"

Quickly scrambling away Lian never saw the hardening look in Allen's eyes as he shot off after her "she's not escaping from this."

The other three quickly followed after the fleeing girl and pursuing were-cat.

Just at that moment Yusuke blinked and called out to Allen "Oi! How the hell did you get your clothes back?"

Everyone just stopped and even Lian, who was in the lead turned to stare at Yusuke.

Allen looked at Yusuke as if the ebon haired man wasn't all quite there "after everything you've seen tonight, out of all the fraggin questions that should be running through your mind you ask where the hell my clothes came from?"

Yusuke shrugged while walking past Allen and the others saying "well yeah." Stopping and pointing his thumb over his should towards Lian he said "I figure we aren't going to get any answers out of her until we get to wherever she wants to go so I might as well get some out of you."

Allen's mouth gaped while Lian hid a muffled snicker behind her hand, Kuwabara just stared blankly and Kurama said wonderingly "you know Yusuke half the time I can't tell if you're an idiot savant or just an idiot."

Well that comment did Lian in and she started laughing so hard she had to hold her sides while shaking, Allen just shook his head before giving a small chuckle himself, and Yusuke was about to ream Kurama when a dry voice inturupted.

"Well I'm glad some people seem to be having fun."

Lian gave a shout of "Lareth!" just before launching herself at a silver blond man behind her. Unknown to anyone else seeing Lian hugging the stranger made something within Kurama snarl "mine!" Jerking back at that unfamiliar feeling Kurama focused his eyes forward only to be met my green silver-shot eyes.

Placing her hand to his forehead Lian looked at him concerned "Kurama are you ok? You seem a little flushed."

Taking her hand from his face with a small smile Kurama replied "no I'm quite all right. I was just thinking of something."

Lian's eyes clouded over a bit with sadness as she gave a soft "oh" and began to turn to walk away.

'Moron!' a voice inside his head hissed 'make it better!'

Kurama blinked shaking his head and as he felt Lian's hand leaving his he suddenly clasped her hand tighter not letting her go "I'm sorry, I seem to have upset you."

Looking a little surprised at his words Lian smiled softly "it's ok." Then taking her hand out of his she turned to all of them saying "come, I'm sure you all have questions and would like to get into some dry clothing."

Without a word Lareth came forward and scooped Lian into his arms causing one blond and one red head to snarl silently, though in Allen's case the snarl was not so quiet.

Sighing softly Lareth looked down at the dozing woman in his arms giving a soft chuckle as he started to place her in the front seat of the van he muttered "now what have you picked up milady?"

Giving a silly smile and a tired laugh she said "well if everything is how I think it will be, I believe I've picked up a were-cat, a famous kitsune theif, a half-demon, a high level spiritual human" and taking a deep breath she suddenly warbbled off key "and a partridge in a pear tree!" before passing out.

Ok, I know it's a short chapter but I thought I'd leave this on a sort of funny note before things statred getting really serious . and believe me they do. Next up Lian tells the others about her abilities and why she's trying to seem like a simple human. The Spirit Detectives have to make the choice of staying who they are now or helping Lian and becoming people only heard about in fairie tales. So do they try to save humanity and possibly loose theirs in turn or do they turn their back on everything and risk loosing the world? Find out in the next chapter "As the balance tips"