The True World
Chapter 10.
The Beginning of the Last...
Part 2
By: ShadowsOfTheHeart
As the mist engulfed the teens, Koenma stood at the bas of the temple with a distant look in his eyes.
Koenma father King Emna told his son everything that night. Everything that his father has built, everything the Hogo's tried to protect was on the verge of becoming undone, and the worlds will once again be thrown into carouse.
Koenma looked up into the darken say as a heave weigh was just placed upon his heart. 'Please save the World, for our lives here depend on it.'
The detectives traveled though space and time until there ware placed upon the barren land of the True World.
"This is where we came from?" Yusuke commented as he took at the land space.
The land was of creators, and the once green grass was in peaches of yellow decay, fields that where once full of life, where now dastard waist lands. The smell of blood and death still hung in the air after 4 billion years.
"It looks like dark parts of the Makai" Hiei added taking in all he could.
"This world was once a place of great beauty, peace and serenity" Botan stated with sadness to her voice.
"It's kind of hard to believe" Kuwabara comment also looking at the dead land.
"It's even harder to believe that humans, demons, sprits and other magical creators use to live here." Keiko stated also with sadness in her voice as her eyes swept over the barren yellow land.
Kumara was not surprised by what he saw, true it was more destroyed then he though but, from what Emily and others have told them, what ever planted evil in the hearts of the humans must have been powerful.
"Where is this King of yours you told us about?" Kurama finally said as he readjusted Emily on he back.
"In the hidden castle" Botan answered turning around to face the detectives.
"Oh great so he have to find this 'Hidden Castle' why can't anything be easy?" Yusuke rambled on as the rest of the team just shook their heads.
"Yusuke you complain to much" A weak voice said from Kurama's back.
"HEY YOU.. Waite you're awake" Yusuke stated with a sudden changed in voice levels, getting anime falls form the rest of the gang.
"I would have been asleep longer if not for you loud mouth" Emily hissed back in her weak voice as she slowly lifted her head off of Kurama's shoulder.
Her once happy eyes, were dull from lack of energy, here eyes where half closed as she looked around the place she once called home.
"It looks worst now then when we left" Emily muttered, string to keep her eyes open and her head up.
"My, aren't you cheerful?" Came a kind voice from the air around them.
Emily turned her head as everyone got on guard, will all for Botan and Keiko who where giggling.
"Who's there?" Yusuke stressed at the same time giving a strange look at Botan and Keiko. "And what are to you laughing at?" he added still in a fighting stance.
"Nothing" they both said as the air changed and a man that looked to be in his mid 30's appeared. He wore a gold crown, a white tunic and pants, a sword at his right hip. His eyes where green as the grass, his hair as black as the night.
Before Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke or Kuwabara could get a single world out Botan and Keiko where on there knee and head bowed in front of the hansom man.
"Your Majesty" They said at the same time.
The gang just gaped at them, stunned by their actions. "Majesty?' Yusuke asked starring at his girlfriend.
"Yes, he is the king of this world, or what's left of it" Emily muttered sliding off Kurama's back.
"Are you sure you are alright?" Kurama asked her with concern.
Emily feet touched the ground as she said "F- aine" she stumbled back, but was caught by Kurama before she could hit the ground.
"Are you sure?" Kurama asked again with uncertainty in his voice.
Emily got her footing and pushed Kurama away and said "fine" she then walked over to her king and bowed her head.
"Still stubborn as ever." The King said with amused a cheerful voice.
"Still cheery as ever" Emily mumbled standing up straight and looking at her king straight in the eyes.
The king smiled at her, then looked passed her at the detectives. "I see you have brought friends" he said with a bright smile.
Emily turned to them with the little strength she had and said "Yes these boys here are the Sprits Detectives of the Human world. They have been appointed by King Emna and Prince Koenma, your son, and grandson."
The Sprits detectives took this as there que to introduce them selves. But before they could the King spoke.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all; I am King Yuma of this world." He said with a bow of his head.
Kurama was the first to speak. "The pleasure is all ours, your masjty." He finished with a bow of his head. "Let me introduce my team members." He added truing to the gang.
"The boy to my right is Yusuke Urameshi; he is half demon and the current Sprit Detective." Yusuke bowed his head he really didn't know what to say. If this guy was King Emna father he must be powerful. "Next to Yusuke is Kuwabara, he has very high spiritual awareness." Kuwabara also bowed his head and said "Nice to meet ya."
"Next to Kuwabara is Hiei, a fire demon form the Makai." Hiei crossed his arms and said "hn"
Kurama and the others sweat dropped.
"And I am Kurama, fox demon." He finished with a smile.
"I'm guessing that you are here to help my Hogo's in the fight to come." The king asked turning around, his cheery voice gone serious.
"Yes they are" Emily answered trying not to pass-out.
"Under who's orders?" The king asked still in his serious voice.
"Me, and my orders are final" Emily answered swaying a little.
"Then I trust your decision Sousui. (1)" He answered as a great light formed around him, and engulfed everyone around him.
When the light faded everyone was in side a great room, that looked to be a ball room or a thorn room.
"Wow, that wasn't fun" Yusuke said as he wavered around a bit.
"NO it wasn't" Emily agreed as she fell back to the floor, but again was caught by Kurama. "Are you alright" he asked but got no response.
"Emily?" he asked looking at her face to see that she has fallen into a deep sleep. Kurama sighed and picked her up bridal stile.
The king watched this exchanged, as long as he has known the Sousui Hogo, she has never let a guy closer to her. But this boy was different.
"You must be all tried from your trip, Botan, Keiko" he stated sitting down on his thorn.
"Yes my King" they said at the same time.
"Take your friends to the guest rooms, your rooms are the same as you left them" he stated with a sad smile, as an old heart breaking memory flash in his mind.
"Yes My King" they again said at the same time. They then did a quick bow and waved for the sprit detectives to follow them.
When they where out of ear shot of the king Yusuke spoke up "He has so much power, I don't thin he needs our help"
"Don't be so foolish Yusuke" Keiko stated truing a corner. "True he has great power, but it is power that he can not use." She added stopping at a reddish black door.
"Why not" Kuwabara asked looking at the door.
"We don't know. He just said that it is not time to use it, and that it isn't a weapon of war." Botan answered as she reached for Emily sword.
"Not a weapon of war." Yusuke thought as Botan held up Emily sword to the door "What are you doing?" he added eyeing her.
"Unlocking her door" Botan simply answered, as a red light came from the jewel on the sword.
It soon faded and Botan replaced the sword on Emily's back, while Keiko opened the door. "Just put her on the bed" she said as the door was fully opened to a dark room.
"Okay" Kurama said as he walked into the room, that lit up as he entered. He looked up then back at Keiko. "The light reacts to Emily's power" she said answering his unspoken question.
"How interesting" Kurama commented as he walked to Emily's four post queen size bed, with ocean blue sheets.
Kurama gently laid Emily on the bed; he then went to the other side and pulled down the covers. He walked back to Emily and put her under the covers, and tucked her in. The gang was watching this whole scene with questions in there eyes.
Kurama gave her one last look then walked out of the room with the rest of the gang.
Keiko shut the door and started to walk again.
"What was that all about?" Yusuke asked Kurama as they made another turn.
"I just put her in her bed." Kurama answered with a bit on confusing.
"It was different" Kuwabara butted in.
"How so?" Kurama asked looking at carrot top.
"I though you where smart fox" Hiei added in his cold voice.
"What?" Kurama asked as the girls stopped and said "Hiei's room to the left, across from him is Yusuke, next to Yusuke is Kuwabara, and across from Kuwabara is Kurama. There are clean clothes in there, showers, everything that you need. Supper is at 18:00 got it." They both gave a smile. Then in a flash they where gone.
"Wow, did you get all of that?" Yusuke as Kurama with his eyes wide.
"Yes Yusuke, your room" he pointed to the door to the right "Kuwabara is next to you, mine and Hiei's room are across the hall for yours and Kuwabara's." Kurama restated for him.
"Okay" Yusuke said as he went to his door, just as he was going to open it he stopped and said "what is 18:00?"
-Anime fall-
"6:00pm you Baka" Hiei stated in a cold voice as he went into his room.
"Oh.. hehe, I knew that" Yusuke said with a toothy grin, as he walked into his room.
Kurama sighed as he went to his room, as a chill went down his spin. 'Something is coming' he though as he opened his doors 'a great and powerful evil.'
At quarter to 6 a knock came on Kurama's door, "Come In" he called as he turned from the grand window that over looked the barren land.
The door opened, and reviled Botan. Kurama was surprised by what she was wearing. Botan was dressed in a silk silver dress that clung to her like a natural blanket. Her hair was down, and on her forehead was a silver band, she looked like a princess.
"Hello Kurama, those robes really suite you" She said with a magical smile.
If this was last month, Kurama would have blushed and stumbled over his words. But not now, he gave her a smiled and said "Thank you. You also look very lovely"
Botan blushed, but she knew something was up.
'Kurama is acting different around me. He has been like this for the passed week. I fist noticed it when we first had the meeting about the Emeian. He was distant.' Botan said to Keiko as he put on her silk dress.
"I have notice it to" Keiko said brushing out her mid back hair.
"What happened all of a sudden for Kurama to act like I'm just a normal person?" Botan asked looking out the window.
"Well you two never really said that you two loved each other, and maybe, just maybe, Kurama has found someone else." Keiko answered putting a hand on the grim reaper and Sprit world Hogo's shoulder.
"If that's true, what am I going to do?' Botan asked her sister.
"Tell him how you feel, and see how he answers. And if what I said is true, then your just going to have to move on." Keiko answered in a kind voice.
"Is anything wrong Botan?" Kurama asked walking over to her.
Botan snapped out of her thoughts and looked at the red head in the eyes. "Yes and No" Botan answered getting a confused look from Kurama.
"Can we talk for a minute" Botan asked Kurama as she stepped inside the room and closed the door behind her.
"Sure Botan, is anything wrong?" He asked leading her to the bed.
"Well, how can I say this" she mumbled with a light blush on her cheeks.
Kurama knew where this was going, he was no fool. And he knew what he was going to say, true at one point Kurama did have feelings or Botan, but now he knows that it was just a crush, and nothing more. Someone else has occupied his mind this passed week.
"Listen Botan I know what you are going to say and I have to be honest with you." Kurama started as a hopeful light came in Botan's eyes. "I know how you feel for me, but I can not return those feelings" he added looking her in the eyes.
He felt no guilt for what he just done, it would have been much worst on her if he did not tell her what he really felt.
Botan heart shattered at his words, as she chocked back tears, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked into Kurama green eyes as he spoke. "Don't cry over me, you will find someone that will love you more then you ever dreamed." He said in a soft voice.
A smile came to Botan pretty face as she stood up and walked out of the room, but before she walked through the lard wooden doors she stopped and said in a strong voice. "I'm sure the girl that you have fallen for will be very happy" and then she was gone.
Kurama sat on his bed and sighed 'I don't know what my feeling are for her yet' he though as another knock came on the door.
Kurama got off his bed and walked to the door, he opened it and there stood Keiko, she was also dressed in a silk dressed that fitted her like a natural blanked, but the color was sapphire blue, her hair was the same as Botan, and she also wore a gold band around her forehead.
"You look beautiful Keiko" Kurama said stepping out into the hallway.
"Thank you Kurama and those robes look good on you" She said with a kind smile.
Kurama was dressed in a long dark red rode, a black sash around his waist, and across his chest to his left shoulder.
"Thank you" he said "Time for dinner I presume" he added with a smile.
"Yes, Yusuke and the others are already there." She asked as she walked towards the dinning hall.
"What took you so long?" Yusuke asked, he was dressed in a similar rode as Kurama except the color was yellow, the sash color did not change. Kuwabara robe was blue, sash was also black. Hiei's rode was black but his sash was white.
Keiko bowed her head then walked to the front and sat down across from an empty seat, Botan sat to her left Yusuke was on her right. Across from Yusuke was an empty sat, next to that seat was Hiei, and across for him was Kuwabara. At the head of the Table was the King.
Kurama bowed his head and took the empty seat next to Hiei. Everyone was there except for Emily. Kurama looked at two empty seats next to him. He knew one was for Emily, but who was the other for?
The dinner went well, and it was very good considering the land was barren.
Now the table was cleared and a serious tone was in the air.
"In two weeks the shadows well be here once again, it will try and finish what they could not in the past." The King said in a serious manner as he waved his hand a screen appeared.
"Wow" Yusuke said as he looked at the screen.
"This technology is so advanced" Kurama said amazed with the screen.
"Yes, our people where very knowledgeable, and after 20 billion years of living they advanced very well, the humans actually created this." The king said with pride. "But that is beside the point" he added his tone changing back to being serious as the screen flickered and a beautiful green was shown.
"When I rule my people this valley had no name, but was very well known by the people. Parents took there families there, demons used to spar there. The magical creatures use it as a training ground." He said in a peaceful voice.
"And what's that got to do with anything?" Yusuke asked crossing his arms. –SLAP- "Yusuke have respect" Keiko hissed, as Yusuke rubbed his sore head.
"Yusuke this valley has everything to do with it." The kind said in an amused voice, he could tell that he littlest Hogo was very found of this boy. "Because this Valley was so widely used by all the creatures in this world, it attract an evil shadow form the dearest parts of the universe." He added changing the screen to a starry sky.
"So the Shadow came, and killed everyone?" Kuwabara asked looking at the screen.
"No" the kind said "It planted evil in the heart of the humans, and told them lies. This caused the humans to band together and go after the demons and other magical creatures.
War broke out in that field and was soon called the Valley of Death." The screen changed to a bloody valley bodies very where. "I sent my Hogo's in to stop the war, but it was to far gone to stop. So my Sousui had no choice to separate the creatures into three worlds." The kind finished turning off the screen.
"If your people are gone, why does it matter if the shadow comes here or not?" Hiei asked in his cold voice.
"Because if this world is destroyed then your worlds will also be destroyed, they were born from here, this is where your worlds get there live energy from." The king said in a serious voice.
"So how do we kill it?" Yusuke asked putting his hands behind his head.
"You can't kill it in the form it is in now; it must first possess a living creature in order to be destroyed." He answered folding his hands together on the table.
"I don't understand" Yusuke said looking at the king. "There is no one here, only us… wait are you saying that it going to posses one of us?" Yusuke stated anger in his voice.
The king looked up at him and said "No, it already corrupted a demon from the Makai, and he well be here in two weeks."
"How can that be, Koenma has a battier around the gate way, and the SDF force is guarding it." Kurama said looking at the king.
"He will get though" The kind said with a dreadful tone to his voice.
All around the room the gang looked shocked, this demon can get though, that would mean that Koenma was in danger and that would also mean that this demon was going to be a hard bastard to kill.
1: -> Sousui means leader or commander in Japanese