Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or it's characters. I do own Angela, Star, and the twins. I own the Darkness, the shadow creatures, the zombie queen, and the Crimson Force. I also own Kaen. Though I'm not going to go into details about her.

WARNING: It gets bloody

Legend:

-Thought-

-Telepathy-

/Flashbacks/

/Dream/Visions/

Noise

Empathy/feelings

Chapter Seventeen

Seir started to circle Angela, quietly saying "Come, my love. Let's dance the dance suited for opposites, woman to man, young to old, light to dark, life to death and good to evil." As he talked he grew large black energy balls in his hands. Angela, caught in the spell of his words, did not notice until it was too late.

She screamed as pain ripped through her back as the two energy balls colided with her. She whirled around, intent to not let the pain get to her and not to be caught in his deceptive hypnotic voice again. She gathered her own energy balls and blasted them at him. Seir smirked as he easily dodged them. He turned his back to the balls and faced a smirking Angela. "I wouldn't dismiss those balls so lightly. I've learned a few tricks during my time as a human," she said cooly. Seir turned his head just in time to feel the energy balls explode into his back.

Angela didn't give Seir time to recover before she was blasting him with her fire balls. Then she powered up for one of her super fire balls, only to have Seir fly behind her to blast her with another of his energy balls. She clenched her teeth against the pain as she fell. She quickly spread her wings to lift back into the air. She closed her eyes, feeling the hate and rage she had towards Seir build inside of her. When she opened them Seir was coming straight at her. She smirked, silver eyes blazing. Seir slowed slightly at the look on her face. Then he noticed the tempeture rising. Angela threw back her head and screamed. Dead silence reigned in the wake of the scream. Suddenly the ground beneath them, Angela had managed to lure Seir away from the frozen army, errupted, showering Seir and Angela in blazing hot magma.

When the erruption subsided Angela was still floating in the air, a silver shield of light enveloping her. She looked around, searching for anything that remained of Seir. A shiver ran up her spine as she felt someone behind her.

"Tsk tsk," Seir said softly as he ran his hand through her hair. "Did you not think that I might also have a shield? Poor poor judgement. Never underestimate your enemy."

Angela smiled inside. -You should heed your own words,- she thought to herself. She concentrated, the air around them becoming electric.

Seir sighed as he yanked her hair backwards, forcing her to see him upside down. "My love, you wouldn't dare to use that attack. It would mean the end of you and I will still be here."

Angela just smiled and ground out. "I'll die for these worlds, and I'll bring you down with me." Suddenly there was a crackling sound and Seir looked up to find a large bolt of lightening split the air as it headed down towards him.

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Once the after image died, the only one left in the air was Angela, smiling and unhurt. -He didn't even think that maybe I was imune to my attacks,- she thought smugly. She looked to the area where the rest of the army of good was. She took in a sharp breath. They were still petrified.

Evil laughter rose up from the ground below her. She looked down to find Seir standing in a ring of scorch marks, the scars the lightening had left on the cool lava crust. "My, what a lovely lightening show. Always thrills me when I'm apart of it." With a violent thrust of his wings he was face to face with Angela. "Now, my turn."

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He hobbled onwards. Always onwards. He didn't know where he was going, only that he was needed. Power was calling to him. A power that felt oddly familiar. He looked ahead of him, the landscape fuzzy as his vision blurred off and on. He had left the green landscape some time ago. He didn't remember how long it had been since he changed scenery, his only concern was for the power that was calling to him.

His left leg became cramped. He looked down at it, visible under the shredded cloth of his pants. What color did they used to be? He couldn't remember. All he knew was that red was not their color. The red was blood. Blood from his wounds and blood from others. Who were the 'others'? He didn't remember. He started to hobble forward again only to be reminded that his leg had cramped up. He looked down to see the bloody burned flesh, the shattered ankle, and dislocated knee. He wondered briefly why he felt no pain. A distant memory recalled that yes, he had felt pain once upon a time. But that was in the far past. It didn't matter. Only the call mattered. He reached down and jiggled his leg automatically, then stood back up and began to hobble again.

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Angela dodged the energy ball just barely. The edge of her wing that hadn't quite cleared it was instantly charred. She screamed. She quickly recovered, pushing the sense of pain to the back of her mind to be contemplated over later, and threw some of her notorious tracking balls. Seir quickly dodged them, giving himself time to shield against their next attack. "Dammit!" Angela cursed. She looked down to see her friends standing like statues. With her gift of Empathy she could sense their dispair and pain as the petrification spell slowly took the life out of them.

A sizzling sound warned her of an incoming energy ball and she dived down, her powerful wings taking her out of harm's away at a speed that Jin and Soketsu would be jealous of. Angels were the fastest flyers when they had been alive, having learned how to fly at a young age. -How can I fight him? He dodges almost everything I throw at him!- She searched her mind, going over her repertoire of offensive abilities. -There's got to be something!- She scanned the land around her. A light came to her eyes as she spotted the left over wreakage of the stadium. -Just maybe...-

Seir watched the fleeing queen zip through the rubble of the stadium that hadn't been blown to bits upon their landing. His eyes narrowed, wondering what the little queen could be thinking. Suddenly the ground exploded, sharp earth spires forming, flinging the rubble out and off of the ground towards him. He dodged left and right, all the while his lidless eyes searching for the silver haired woman. His eyes glowed brightly when he spotted her. He quickly gathered power into his palm, shooting at the crumbled wall close to Angela, exploding it and sending stoney shrapnel flying everywhere. Seir smiled at the pained scream.

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He felt a sharp pain in his side. Not his pain. He didn't feel his pain. No. It was pain from somewhere else. Someone else maybe? Maybe. He felt that power waver slightly. Something was happening. But what? The power was closer now. How long had he hobbled? He didn't remember. In fact, he didn't remember where he had come from, or why he was so heavily injured. He only knew that he had to reach the power before it disappeared. Why would it disappear? He didn't know, he didn't even know why he knew it might disappear. He just knew he had to get to it.

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Angela flew high, clutching her side. She looked down to see she was bleeding heavily. -I can't take another hit like that! That was too close! I have to protect my baby!- She was lucky that Seir had only been attacking her from the back. Speaking of Seir, where was he? She looked around frantically, searching for the bloody excuse of an Angel.

"Here, my love," he whispered into her ear. Angela whirled around kicking. "Oomph!" he grunted as she cracked a rib. He flew away, tearing off the useless bone. He pulled it up to his red eyes. "Hmm, I guess I forgot to mention that I, unlike my lackeys, do not feel pain so easily." He threw the bone away, shrugging. "I guess only a killing blow will give me any sense of pain. In fact, I might enjoy it, seeing as how much I get a thrill out of seeing others in pain. Someday I might even want to experience the euphoria that I see in their eyes when death claims them." He grinned a lipless grin. "But not now my love."

Angela gritted her teeth. "I thought I had told you to stop calling me that!" she ground out as she powered up a super fire ball. He smiled, readying his wings to dodge. His smile disappeared when Angela blurred out of existence. "Here bastard," she whispered into his ear. He didn't even have time to register it before he was thrown downwards by the force of the explosion.

Angela didn't wait to see if he came out unscathed or was actually injured before she summoned upon her earth energy to manipulate the seeds she had spread over the ground from the seed bag from Kurama that she had stuffed into her pocket. Up sprouted several varieties of demonic plants that latched onto the leader of the Crimson Force. Angela smiled as a plant with several mouths swallowed Seir. Angela sighed. -It's over.-

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He paused as a wave of relief came over him, again not his own. He tried to puzzle this feeling. He dimly recalled what it was called, but it had been so long that he had felt any other feeling other than the need and determination to reach the power. As he puzzled this emotion, a wave of despair and panic washed over him. He felt the power dim slightly. Another feeling consumed him, this time his own. Urgency. Urgency to get there as fast as he could. He started to hobble at a faster pace.

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Panic and despair overwhelmed Angela as she looked down at her friends to see them still petrified. -Why doesn't he die!- she thought, terrified that she might not be able to beat him in time to save her friends. She looked every where, searching the voracious plants, trying to find where Seir was in the green belly of the plants. Suddenly the many mouthed plant screamed as Seir blurst out of it, leaving a gaping hole in it's belly.

He flew as fast as her lightening and in a split second he was floating inches from her face. She about retched at the decaying smell of him. Dried blood, rotten meat and spoiled organs. He grinned, his blood stained teeth grating against each other. "Did you miss me my love. As I said, I won't be easily killed like my comrades. Which means our dance will continue, it may even last as long as the dance of your coming of age ceremony. That dance went down as the longest dance in history. Do you remember? I didn't dance with you then, but now I can make up for that." He reached for her, but with a swift flap of her wings she was well out of his reach. He snarled and threw a dark energy ball at her.

Angela gasped, just barely turning and putting up a barrier. When she recovered she took off, racking her brain for some type of attack that would at least injure him. She went over all of the techniques she had learned from her friends, plant manipulation, flying, ice and water manipulation...that's it! She flew fast, there was a lake nearby. She had a new trick in mind.

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As he hobbled, the panic faded. In it's place was something odd, like a light had come on. He didn't pause however, he had to get there. Had to. He hobbled faster and with every step towards his goal, the power became more familiar. He knew this power. What was it?

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Angela hovered over the lake, concentrating on her elemental mastery over wind, water and ice. Seir paused, wanting to see what this new trick was. He doubted anything that the child threw at him would hurt. Suddenly a strong wind rose up, twisting around the ex-queen like a tornado. Soon the water of the lake rose up to join with the tornado. As the wind reached and whipped across Seir, he actually felt pain. Ice shards ripped across him, tearing burned and melted skin off, and shredding exposed muscle.

As he experienced the pain, he saw the shadow of the queen from inside the center of the ice twister. He snarled, eyes glowing to near blinding red light. He gather so much dark energy in his hand that it became as big as a beach ball. When he was satisfied that it would grieviously injure the queen he blasted it at her.

Angela saw the energy ball too late. She only had time to turn and protect her stomach. Her scream ripped through the gale of ice. As she fell to the ground, her wings burned beyond repair, her control over the storm broke. The miniture ice hurricane subsided as fast as it started. Angela just had enough energy and control of her powers to control her fall with her wind power. She landed lightly on the ground and colapsed.

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He stopped abruptly. The energy had weakened greatly. He was needed desperately. He was so close. He quickened his pace, quickening it repeatedly until he was running. He was almost there. As he neared his goal, he began to regain active thought. -Hang on! I'm coming! Hang on!-

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Seir smiled, it had worked. He only wanted her near death. If she had died so abruptly, she wouldn't have gotten to feel the excruitiating pain that he had felt mentaly when she rejected him. He would have been cheated out of revenge. And that would not make him happy in the least.

He landed a few yards in front of her, a safe zone from her in case she might have enough power to retaliate at the spell he was about to cast. "My love, look at me. I want to see those emerald eyes one last time. I want to see the horror and pain in them that I am about to inflict upon the woman I love." Angela, caught once again in the spell of his voice, looked up. As her energy had disappeared the silver glow had gone from her eyes, leaving them tired green. Seir smiled as he bowed mockingly to the queen. "Now, listen closely to what I say. It will make me all the more happy to see the look in your eyes."

He put his hands in front of him, palms towards her. He gave her a pervertedly pleased stare as he started to chant. Angela tried to scream through a silent throat as she realized what he was doing and she could do nothing to stop it! In seconds she felt pain rip through her, starting from her stomach. She bent double as she regained her voice to tear out a bone chilling scream that seemed to last forever. Blood started to pour from her mouth and nose. Her pants became wet with the blood that poured from between her legs. The tears streaming from her eyes became red as they turned to blood, not just because of the pain but because of what Seir was doing.

"DRAGON! OF! THE DARKNESS! FLAME!" a voice boomed. Seir screeched as a dark dragon of flame engulfed him. The familiar voice boomed again, "DRAGON! OF! THE DARKNESS! FLAME!" Seir's screaming stopped as he was destroyed by the second attack.

The pain that had been coursing through Angela stopped. She looked through bleary eyes at a dark figure running awkwardly towards her. She nearly cried as she recognized him as he bent down to her.

"Angela!" Hiei gasped, horrified at the injuries the woman he loved had sustained from the bloody bastard.

Angela grabbed his hand, holding her stomach, she knew that something was wrong and that she should rest, but she needed to do one last thing. "Hiei, please, help me up," she begged him. Hiei nodded and helped her stand, both leaning on each other for support.

Angela looked at the ashes of Seir. "I have one last thing to do before I die." She let go of Hiei and took the knife out of it's sheath again and sliced her hands, though she hardly needed to do that, she had spilled so much blood already. She raised her hands to the sky. "By the power of the Stars, the Star Sanctuary and the Star Key line, Bleeding Spirit be Cleaned with Angelic Light. Live in Fire twelve Turns and no more. With the sins purged, to the Stars you shall take Flight and with brethren your heart shall soar," she chanted, her voice clear and ringing as she became enveloped in bright silver light.

A small orb of red light rose from Seir's ashes. Soon it was joined by eleven others. As the last echoes of Angela's voice died, the orbs slowly changed into bright silver orbs. Angela clapped her hands and the orbs flew high into the sky and disappeared.

She turned to Hiei, her vision becoming dark. "I'm sorry...I love you..." she whispered as she colapsed, pitched into a familiar black space.

Hiei held his wife, feeling the warmth leave her. "No!" he cried through a hoarse voice, long unused. "Angela! Come back to me! Don't leave me! Please!" He had experienced this before, merely seven months earlier, and he wasn't about to lose her just like he didn't lose her last time. He looked around. No one was near. They were so far away from the others and his energy was weak. He had used all of his energy in his attack. He looked down at the woman that had stolen his heart. "Angela!" he cried, shaking her slightly. She was his life. She had helped him from the hell the Crimson Force had thrown him into. She had been his guiding star. Now she was leaving. He held her tightly, crying into her dim hair. "Angela!"