Kitsune: Holy crud, I had this one saved, then my computer screwed up and I have to type it all over again! And I forgot what it was about! #$&$#$&&&&&&$&!
Sahara and Sora: O.o -backs away from the still swearing Kitsune-
Kitsune: And $&#$ and #$$ and #$& $&#! -kicks computer- OW! -hopping around on one foot while clutching the one she used to kick the computer with- -video camera breaks-
Sahara: Erm...uh...go read the story before she has a heart attack. Calm down, Kitsune. Kitsune? What are you doing! Put the chainsaw down! -CRASH!- No, what's that for? -BASH!- Put down the gun! -BANG BANG BANG!- -CRASH WHACK THUMP BANG BANG CRASH!- -Sad little tinkle sound...- ...You idiot...
Chain Letter
Chapter 9: Enduring the Wind Scar
"HOLY SHITAKI MUSHROOMS!"
The boys whirled around quickly. "What was that?" Kuwabara asked.
"The girls are in trouble!" Hiei ran down the tunnel first, followed by Kurama and Kaonashi, and then Yusuke and Kuwabara. "Wait, stop, look there!"
They rest of the boys stopped behind Hiei.
"What is it?" Yusuke asked. They peered into the darkness for about nine seconds before they saw a sunken, decaying face. Kuwabara repelled at the sight.
"Another zombie?"
"Let's go, we have to save the girls." Yusuke said, charging into the undead gathering around.
OO
Kitsune, Sahara, and Sora had gotten up and tried to fend off the zombies on their own.
"FOX FIRE! FOX FIRE FOX FIRE!" The blue flames danced around her, then flung themselves at the zombies, turning them to ashes. But more came in their place.
"FOX FIRE!"
Nothing.
"Wha! Fox fire, come on!"
Still nothing. Kitsune turned back to the girls. "My fox fire's burned out."
"Well, that's not good." Sora said. Sahara finally came up with an idea.
"Use TetYokai!"
"TetYokai? What, my sword? What good'll that do? The only thing it can do is produce a replica of any weapon." Kitsune said.
"We don't have time. Remember your half-brother, Inuyasha?"
"What about him?"
"He has the Tetsusaiga, right?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Use TetYokai! Make a copy of Tetsusaiga!"
Kitsune thought for only a fraction of a second before responding. "That's brilliant!" She turned towards the zombies again, grabbing the hilt of TetYokai, her demon sword. "TETYOKAI! COPY, TETSUSAIGA!" As she unsheathed the sword, it erupted in a flash and became a huge sword with fur at the top of the hilt.
"BLACK FLAMES!" Sahara called out as dark fire shot out of her palms. It swirled around the zombies, burning them. Still more came in their place.
"Ban-Ryu Fire STRIKE!" Sora screeched, as her weapon was engulfed in white fire and she slammed it into the ground. She, Sahara and Kitsune all jumped and at that moment, fire coursed through the ground all around the cave, crippling many of the undead.
"Can you see the Demon Wind surrounding them, Kits?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, I see it," the fox demon replied. And indeed, a black wind was swirling around the zombies, however, no one but Kitsune could see it, for it was very faint. She swiped her sword in the air, creating a countering wind. The Demon Wind grew ten times stronger and both winds slammed into each other at full force. 'Where the two swirling winds collide, that's the Wind Scar. If I attack that spot, the Wind Scar can be released...' Kitsune thought.
"It's worth a shot," she muttered, and prepared her sword. Jumping at the wind, she brought the sword down, and shouted, "WIND SCAR!" The slash collided with the wind, causing a massive explosion to rocket through the catacombs (I absolutely love that word!). All of the zombies had fallen.
OO
"What's that?"
A rush suddenly came back through the tunnels and something was coming towards the boys. Kaonashi's eyes widened.
"Duck, it's the Wind Scar!" he called out. The boys scrambled behind a large rock, bracing themselves for the attack. A giant wind swept past them, nearly catching them and taking them with it, but they clung to the rock.
"Grrr...It's so powerful!" Yusuke yelled.
"What is this!" Hiei called out.
"This is the Wind Scar, an attack that can only be brought about by the demon sword Tetsusaiga, owned previously by Inutaisho, and passed down to Inuyasha, Kitsune's half-brother. Kitsune had ordered another sword to be crafted, giving a demonic swordsmith one of her own fangs, and he crafted it into the TetYokai, a demon sword able to copy any other weapon the user wants." Kaonashi explained, over the roar of the wind. "I didn't think she'd be able to copy the Tetsusaiga, and I certainly doubted she'd be able to use the Wind Scar. But she's not only achieved the impossible by using the attack...she's...perfected it! If we don't get out of here, things will get bad, FAST!"
"Why!"
"Because the wind doesn't know where to go, it's trapped within the catacombs. If it doesn't find a way to get out, it'll bring down the roof of the cave and kill us!" Kaonashi said, again.
"WHAT!"
"Somebody has to make a hole in the roof, quickly before the ceiling collapses!"
"I'll do it!" Hiei called out, summoning his ki. The dragon tattoo appeared again.
"Hiei, grab my whip!" Kurama called out, wrapping the thornless end around Hiei's right arm. "Anchor it to the ceiling. You're too weak right now to channel the dragon just through your body, you need a conductor!"
The thorny part of Kurama's whip had wrapped around a rock jutting out from the ceiling. "DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!" The black and red flames traveled up the whip, crashing through the ceiling, taking the wind along with it. In the sky, the dragon burst into a billion little sparks.
OO
The girls heard the rumble through the cave. They turned to the sound of the noise. "That was Hiei's Dragon attack!" Sahara said. She turned to Kitsune, kneeling on the ground and sheathing the Tetsusaiga. Kitsune was staring in shock at nothing. She looked at her hands.
"I...I did it..."
"Did what? Nearly kill us again? Yep, you nearly accomplished our death, congrats." Sahara said.
"No, baka, I copyed the Tetsusaiga with TetYokai...and I perfected the Wind Scar. You do know what this means, don't you?"
Sora and Sahara shook their heads.
"It means I get to gloat and brag about it to Inuyasha and seriously piss him off!"
"COOL!" the other girls said, and they all laughed, standing up. Sora winced as she walked. "Ouch!"
"What happened, what, what!" Sahara and Kitsune asked, turning around and drawing their weapons, looking around in shock, expecting something to be digging it's nails deep into Sora's throat.
"No, put those away. My leg hurts," Sora said.
"Which leg?" Kitsune asked. Sora sat down on the ground, stretching her left left.
"Left."
Kitsune rubbed her leg. "Anything? Pain?"
"No."
Kitsune squeezed lower, "Hurt?"
"No,"
Kitsune squeezed again, making Sora wince. "Aha, found it!"
"Found what?" Sora asked.
"Where you leg hurts, now hold still." Kitsune felt around Sora's ankle and felt a familiar wetness. She rubbed her fingers together, rubbing the liquidy substance around. She summoned another ball of blue fire to float beside her hand. A red liquid stained her fingers. The ball floated lower, towards Sora's leg, and illuminated a deep gash in her ankle. Blood spurted and oozed out of the wound.
"Blood." Kitsune concluded. She turned to Sahara. "Can you heal wounds?"
Sahara shook her head, staring blankly at Kitsune.
"I thought not."
She got thumped on the head by her friend. "What's that supposed to mean!"
"Nevermind." Kitsune turned back to Sora's leg. "There's only one thing we can do to help her." She looked back and Sahara, who gave an 'I-know-what-your-thinking-because-I'm-thinking-it-too' look. Both nodded, tilted their heads to the sky and shrieked, "KAONASHI!"
OO
"KAONASHI!" came a duet of voices. The boys turned the corner to see small balls of blue light surrounding a standing Sahara and a kneeling Kitsune by a sitting Sora.
"What's wrong? Are you okay? What the hell happened here?"
"Sora's wounded, we're fine, and we got attacked by zombies." Kitsune said, answering each of Kaonashi's questions in order.
"Let me take a look-see." and Kaonashi kneeled down on the opposite side of Sora, examining her leg.
"Is it broken?" Sahara asked.
"No, but the wound is way too deep. I need gauze, adhesive tape, and healing herbs." Kaonashi said.
"Uh..." Kitsune dug around in her pockets. She showed some random objects in her hand. "I have a piece of gum, dental floss, some lint and forty-two cents. Can that help?"
"No."
"Oh."
"Uh...I saw some plants down the tunnel, Kurama and Kitsune, can you get those? Sahara, I need you to find two good rocks and a stout stick and bring them back to me. And, Kuwabara, I'm going to need those bandages around your waist. You aren't injured too, are you?"
"No," Kuwabara replied, untying the bandages around his waist (but keeping his pants on, thank Inari) and giving them to Kaonashi, "I just thought they'd look cool."
"Thank you."
Kurama and Kitsune came back with the plants, gave them to Kaonashi, who thanked them. Sahara also came back with two stones and a stout stick. "Kitsune, I need you to make a grinding tablet out of these."
"Sure thing." She took them and breathed flames on them, to soften them, then, using the stick, hollowed a deep path in the larger rock. She let it cool and sculpted a wheel in the other rock, putting the stick in the hole. She was handed the proper herbs by Kaonashi and began grinding them.
"Oh, yeah, spit in it, Sahara."
"What?"
"Spit into the concoction. It'll make it stronger."
"I don't want Sahara's spit on my leg!"
"Would you rather have Kuwabara's?"
"No."
"Hey..."
"Nothing personal, Kuwabara..."
"Right..."
Sahara spit into the concoction, then Kaonashi ordered Kitsune to do so, so she did, and then Kaonashi finally spit in it. The grinding wheel with the herb paste was handed back to Kaonashi. He dug a hole and ordered Kitsune to place a fire ball inside. He then took a couple of sticks, placed it over the hole and laid the grinding wheel on top, warming the paste. When it was ready, he warned Sora.
"This will sting...a lot...but it'll help the wound heal." He cleaned the wound and began to put on some paste. Sora cried out from pain, but bit her lip, to try to stop. Sahara and Kitsune were on either side of her, rubbing her hands with their own, gently, and whispering soothing things. Soon, Kaonashi wrapped the wound in half of the bandages Kuwabara had, because there were too many and he could use some later.
"Alright. Can you walk?"
"Mmph, yeah. It still stings, though." Sora responded.
"Sora's one tough cookie."
"She's not a cookie, Sahara, she's a panda demon. You confuse me, so much."
"It's an expression Kits."
"Oh...I hate expressions."
Pretty soon, they came to a door. The door was very large and made of a strange metal, and had strange markings on it. "What's it say?" Hiei asked.
"It's the riddle. At this point, we need to solve it." Sahara said.
"Okay...Dark and dank...water in a well...blood on the walls...The scent of death hangs in the air...A mother who loves a child wouldn't give her up, would she? But what if your father gave you up...to death..." Kitsune recited the riddle.
"Wow...let's play Name That Death Site..." Hiei grumbled.
"Death site...wait, that's it! That's it that's it that's it!" Yusuke danced happily around.
"What's it? What, what!"
"The riddle! She's talking about her death!"
"Wait, say this again?"
"I know what Yusuke's talking about!" Kurama exclaimed.
Everyone turned to him. "You do?"
"Yes...sort of...dark and dank, water in a well. The death site is a well. Blood on the walls, that's obvious. The sceant of death hangs in the air, cluing in to her dying in the well. A mother who loves a child wouldn't give her child up, it's only natural. 'But what if your father gave you up to death'...her father killed her." Kurama explained.
"Well, that makes sense, we already knew that, though!"
"We're going in circles!" Kitsune said, sitting down.
"I think...I think the well is beyond these doors. This well could be the resting place of her spirit."
"What are you saying?"
"Soemthing's down in the well, and we have to get to it. That's going to help us get rid of her curse and get out of here!"
Suddenly, the mighty doors swung open to reveal...pitch blackness.
"Kitsune, illumination, please?"
"Fox fire," Kitsune whispered. More balls of light danced around their heads, floating into the room. They began to walk into the room, but the girls stayed behind. The boys turned around. "What's wrong?"
"My instincts are telling me that we shouldn't be here. We're doing something wrong." Kitsune said, looking around, warily. Sora and Sahara nodded.
"It's okay. We've come this far, we can't go back."
The balls of light illuminated the room more. That's when they saw it. A small cylinder of old stones piled together, jutting out from the ground. A wooden circle sat on top of it, sealing the entrance. They company walked into the room even further, standing in front of the well. A giant star inside a giant circle was apparently burned into the wood, as a marking.
"What is it?"
"I don't like the look of it."
"I still say we should get out of here."
"It's the emblem of evil. Look, there's crosses all over here." Kaonashi pointed out several crosses strewn around the well.
"Well, whoever these people were, they were either Catholic or Satanic."
"The crosses acted as seals, I guess."
Suddenly, it hit them. That's when they sensed another presence in the room. That's when they knew they weren't alone...
Kitsune: Yay, the camera's back up! We fixed it!
Sora: No, we just bought another while you were busy being bound in a straight-jacket.
Kitsune: I don't like being bound!
Sahara: We know you don't. That's why we did it.
Kitsune: You guys are mean.
Sahara: Yep.
Kitsune: Alright, at elast you admit to it. Here's the spoiler!
The gang comes face-to-intangible-face with a power much weaker than Chelsey's spirit, but much stronger than their own. And someone disappears within the confines of the well! Who is it who must do battle with Chelsey's enraged soul? Find out next time on...
All: Yu-Yu-Hakusho: Chain Letter!