Psychicfiredemoness: Haha, I was right.
Alex; Ah the human element, how it has yet to beat you.
Psychic: Yep, and you get to stay a virgin a bit longer.
Alex: Wha?
Hiei: Damn. (Sarcasm)
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Chapter 24 Seals
"I'm bored," Kayori grunted from the living room floor.
"Told you not to drink all that soda," Alex said playing her DS from the couch.
"And what can we do, the guys are all asleep," Sapphire stated with a sigh.
"We could all go for an oh-so fun walk," Allyson stated sarcastically.
"Hm, good idea, let's ago!" Alex declared as quietly as possible.
"You aren't Mario, we've told you this before Jagan-girl," Sapphire sweat dropped.
"Ya, she's too evil," Kayori agreed.
"But I'm a hero look!" Alex pulled down a large chart that showed the poorly sketched faces of everyone in this story, "See, here I am next to Yusuke and you lot. Under HERO, Hiei's under villain…What the hell? Chris is undecided and who the hell is this guy?" She pointed to Taki.
They all shrugged and she let go of the chart and it disappeared.
"That was weird," Allyson sweat dropped.
"This is Alex we're talking about," Kayori sighed.
"Yep, insane to the soul," the Jaganshi declared proudly.
"Don't go gloating about that," she replied.
"Well I'm gonna go for that walk now," Alex glared at the hanyou and stood stretching.
"Let's go then," Sapphire nodded.
The girls all left the compound and entered the semi-moonlit forest.
"It's cold I'm gone," Alex stated about halfway into the woods and turned, "Hey…which way did we come?"
"Dunno," Allyson blinked looking around.
"We're lost!" Kayori whined looking around frantically.
"No, we're misplaced," Sapphire and Alex stated grinning.
"This is like Doom, or some other sci-fi flick, we're alone in the dark and something could be lurking close by and we dare not cal for help and chance our lives being taken by some horrid thing that is closing in, circling and watching our every movement, just waiting for its chance-" Alex was cut off by Sapphire's hand.
Kayori was already freaking out at the scenario Alex had put into effect.
'It's coming Kay!' Alex stated through telepathy.
"Ah!" Kayori ran off screaming into the heart of the forest.
"Kay!" they all ran after her ending up in a small clearing.
"Alex don't ever do that again!" Kayori shouted.
"I didn't think I'd scare you that bad," she rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, "Sorry Kay."
The birds flew from a nearby tree.
"I thought you were gonna stop?" Allyson questioned.
"This isn't me…" she droned off looking around.
"Then who the hell is it?" Sapphire asked.
"Guess," they all turned to the familiar voice, nothing was there.
"Please tell me I'm not hearing things again," Alex growled.
"Not at all," Sapphire sighed and put up her defenses.
"Where are they?" Allyson summoned her spirit weapon.
A leaf fell from the tree in between them.
"There!" Kayori yelped and they jumped away from one another, each ramming into a demon.
Temple; 12:15 am
"Yusuke! Yusuke!" Botan ran down the hall to find the detective waking and stumbling into the hallway.
"What is it Botan?" he questioned rubbing his eyes.
"Big problem!" she stated.
"What?" he yawned.
"They're gone! The girls are gone!" she nearly screamed.
"What!" he yelled awakening completely.
"They've been abducted again! And they're already carrying out their plan! They aren't stalling anymore!" she yelped, "We have to wake the others."
Russian mountain
"Go on," Ryote commanded shoving Allyson lightly.
Each of the girls was handcuffed and given a large winter coat for the weather.
"Hell no!" she growled back.
The shadow demon took use of the cloudy night and appeared directly before her. She stumbled back several feet in surprise and green tendrils of energy climbed up her legs and arms. She yelled in either anger or pain and slumped to the ground onto what seemed to be an ancient, circular slab of white rock with intricate runic lettering all around its edge.
A few moments passed and the tendrils faded and she shot up from the force of being able to stand once more.
"What the hell was that?" she asked almost drunkenly as Ryote hoisted her into his arms.
"What next?" Chris asked.
"Light," Temi smirked and glanced at Kayori.
She swallowed hard.
Temple; 12:30 am
"What's going on exactly?" Yusuke asked; everyone had been gathered to the living room.
"Temi is anxious to break the seals now. He's already unlocked the Seal of Spirit, Allyson's," Koenma stated gravely.
"How do we know this?" Kurama asked.
"Look at the sky," the prince stated.
The boys walked onto the porch to see the sky covered in clouds.
"So it's cloudy who cares?" Yusuke asked.
"The sky will be covered, the seas will foam, the moon shall bleed and then the Human World will die," Yukina said quietly, "It's what Miss Rui told me would happen if a Makai prophecy were to come true."
"Damnit!" Yusuke growled walking back inside.
"What did you mean the Human World will die?" Hiei asked.
"The ancient prophecy. No one ever took it seriously in Spirit World but that is where the girls have always come in. If they successfully release the seals the barrier between Human and Demon World will become more then thin, it will cease to exist," Koenma sighed and rubbed his temples, "If we can't stop them I'm not sure we'll be able to save the Human Worlds, or the humans."
"Where are they then?" Hiei questioned.
"That's just it," Botan sighed, "They're moving too fast and we can't find them. It's odd."
Everglades
"Where is it?" Kayori asked the other girls quietly.
"Dunno, if we see it we'll distract them and you run, if even one of us gets away then we have a chance," Alex stated in a whisper as the group trudged along in the murky water.
Their only light was one Temi had created.
"Keep moving," Kugatsu ordered prodding Sapphire in the back with the dull end of his maul, AGAIN!
Kayori tripped onto something and disappeared under the murk.
"Kay!" her friends screamed.
Golden tendrils appeared and illuminated her under the surface of the water. This process lasted longer then Allyson's had and after almost a minute she broke the surface gasping for air. The runes glowed now; just as those of the Spirit Seal had.
"Ai!" she yelped and danced to get out of the water.
"Hell it burns!" Chris said picking her up from the water protectively.
Temi chuckled low in his throat, "The process has begun here as well, perfect only two more."
"I so hate you," Alex growled twitching, the foaming, heated water not affecting her because of heritage.
Temple; 1:00 am
"What can we do!" Botan yelled yanking on her hair.
"We can't do anything," Genkai sipped some tea.
"There has to be! We're the good guys! We're the ones that have to beat them!" Yusuke declared pacing the kitchen.
"We have to stay calm Yusuke, Koenma's using every resource he has to find them before the third and forth seals are broken," Kurama stated.
"There's no use in getting upset when we can't do anything," Hiei spat from a corner of the room, fists clenched.
"There has to be something shorty! Don't you even care!" Kuwabara yelled.
"Don't say I don't care fool," Hiei growled out, "You aren't nearly as affected."
Sahara Desert
"Run Kayori run!" Alex screamed tripping Temi with her own body.
Kayori was running as fast as she could in the sand and fell down a dune, tumbling and still trying to run so she could at least have a chance at getting the others, even if she had no idea where to go.
"Leave her," Temi stated, "She won't get far. Unlock the next seal."
Kugatsu nodded and poked Sapphire. She refused to move so her had to shove her onto the cracked slab. Icy blue energy wrapped around her limbs and drained her of her energy, this process took less then thirty seconds and she feel to the ground, panting.
"That took a lot from her," Kugatsu sighed and lifted her.
The clouds separated above them and red light shone from the sky.
Temple; 1:15 am
"One more!" Yusuke yelled.
"We have them!" Koenma screamed through Botan's suitcase, "They're headed to an island in the Pacific! I'm sending a portal! This is going to be close everyone!"
A mass of swirling greens appeared and they leapt in without a second thought.
The group tumbled out in a jungle of some sort.
"Got a lock on um!" Kuwabara told the others and they made a beeline for the signatures.
Girls
"Don't be difficult," Temi growled.
Alex glared at him not moving. She was the last key and would be damned if she were about to doom the entire world, or more to the point, do what Temi wanted.
"But it's how she is," Sapphire muttered being supported by Kugatsu.
"Move it!" the fire demon growled refusing to shove the small girl.
"…" her expression stayed the same.
"Fine, bring," Temi ordered and Ryote and Kugatsu brought 'their' women forward and held them by the hair.
"What are you waiting for?" Temi asked the lighting demon.
"I don't wanna," Chris hugged to Kayori.
Temi glared and pushed him aside, gripping her by the hair. The girls we're perfectly lined up and he drew his blade holding it to their necks.
"Go on, you won't betray your friends," he had a twisted smirk to his features.
"They're no use to you dead," she stated feeling a flicker of something familiar far off somewhere, about a mile or two.
'Are they here?' she thought.
"They're no use alive either," he stated wickedly pressing the blade down a bit.
"How do you know they even mean anything?" she mentally slapped herself for this. The others were drained and couldn't fight back but she had to stall.
"You wouldn't be trying to protect them," he snarled.
She twitched slightly.
"They're here," Kugatsu looked around, "Not far."
'Damn!' her inner voice screamed.
"Tsk, tsk. Sorry to this to you dear but…" Temi ran up in a flash and shoved her away and onto the slab; she landed on her back as the red energy crept up on her.
"Damnit!" she screamed loudly.
Guys
"There!" Yusuke yelled and saw the light show even in the red glare of the moonlight.
The group ran towards the light and it faded rather quickly. A tremor shook the earth under them.
"It's done," Hiei stated trying to keep his balance.
"No! We have to do something!" Kuwabara yelled and summoned his weapon.
"Let's go!" Yusuke yelled charging his own.
The four ran out and saw the group. The girls looked like hell and Alex was lying on the slab twitching just slightly.
"Sorry but we can't stay," Temi cackled and in a flash of smoke the others were gone.
"Damnit!" Yusuke said for the third time that morning.
"They've gone to activate the entrance, the one who does it…will gain control," Koenma stepped out from the shadows.
"Where are they?" Hiei growled.
"The entrance between the worlds is said to be in the rainforest somewhere, it's possible that it's already been destroyed," he referred to the deforestation, "The sky has already changed."
They saw the red sky and black clouds forming. A new portal opened and the five jumped in as Botan closed it after them.
Others
"There it is," Temi grinned widely seeing the group of four stones forming a circle.
Each glowed a different color with a different runic symbol adorning them. A large slab of the white stone was at the center without anything written on it. Temi stepped forward hading his fiancé to Chris and brought out a piece of what looked like chalk and scribbled energetically upon it the four names in Makai dialect. The lettering illuminated the clearing and bathed them all in a black glow darker then the night around them thanks to the reddened sky.
The light faded and the earth shook once again. A large orb or crackling black and red energy formed above the stone and Temi stepped back as the object grew in size and the first of the demons came out.
End story
Psychic: Yep that's it, this story is done, finished, completed, over.
Alex: You suck Psychic!
Psychic: Hey! Life ain't fair! And if anyone wants a happy ending, send a review saying so, that way I can finally write something with scary teenage angst or whatnot? So if I haven't caused anyone to hate me yet, want the last installment of this? Please review.
