Disclaimer: I don't own YYH or any of it's characters. I do own Katrina, Lisa, Serena, Marissa, Alex, and Cassandra. And I own Garn Roak.
AN: Sorry, I kinda lost inspiration, and music wasn't even helping. I don't have an outline mapped for this one like I did for WA and BA, so it's kinda hard. Sorry. Here's another surprise for you...Okay, in case this chap offends anyone there is an AN at the end to explain a few things, so don't get pissed in the middle and not finish it, please. I would explain it here, but that'll give it away.
Funny Side Note: Wow, did you know that 'wether' is a castrated ram? I found that out while trying to check my spelling for 'whether'!
REVISED Note: Remember in Chapter Ten and Eleven I told you to watch out for small detail changes? If you didn't go back to reread then you might get confused.
REVISED AN: Ok ok...IU was rereading and found some spelling errors and other stuff so I reloaded the chapter, trivial stuff but I try to be a perfectionist when it comes to my writing. v.v;
Bewitching Ties
Legend
-Thought-
-Telepathy-
Noise
"Ghost speach"
'Ghost thought'
'Ghost Telepathy'
Part Two
Chapter Fifteen: Identity and Prophecy
Rrring
The students hastily gathered their things and started to exit the class. Katrina was about to follow one of her tentative friends Joi out the door but a tug on her elbow stopped her. She turned around to find Garn staring intently at her.
"Yes?" she asked, uneasy about his staring.
"I was wondering, would you like to go out around town with me now." For some reason, what he said didn't sound like a question.
Katrina paused, trying to collect her thoughts as his stare became intense. -This afternoon...didn't I have something planned this afternoon?...What was it...I feel dizzy...- Dumbly she nodded, trapped in his hypnotic stare.
Garn gave a predatorial smile as he took her arm.
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Kurama waited by a tree in front of the school. He didn't need to look up to know that Hiei was above him in the tree. His sensitive ears caught the small sounds of Hiei shifting anxiously; something was making him nervous. Kurama sympathized with the small apparition. He was also nervous. He had looked through his enormous shelf of books on a hunch, all the while he had prayed that this once he was wrong. Now was the time when he'd find out for sure if he was or wasn't.
He heard Hiei tense and growl quietly. Kurama's attention focused back on the front doors. Out came Garn and with him was Katrina, her arm trapped possesively in one of his. Kurama's eyes narrowed as he confidently and speedily intercepted the odd couple. "Garn Roak," he said steely.
The boy's indigo eyes sparked in annoyance. "Who are you?"
Kurama gave a small fox smile. "I think you already know that. If you didn't know that already when you came to this plane, then you stole it from Katrina's mind. Let her go."
Garn laughed. "And who's going to make me, a run down old fox?"
Kurama gave his own bark of laughter. "Why, this 'run down old fox' still has tricks. And it won't be me alone."
A shadow appeared behind Garn and growled menacingly, placing a hidden katana against the boy's back.
Garn just smirked, saying, "You have no idea who you're messing with." However, he let Katrina go.
She walked a few steps away, still staring dumbly into space. In an instance Hiei had scooped her up and flitted a fair distance away, far enough from the weird boy to break the spell he had on Katrina and just close enough for Hiei to still be able to run to Kurama's aid in a second.
Kurama frowned at the brown haired boy. "I think I know." All was quiet during the pause before he spoke again. "In the old days I happened to stumble upon an ancient prophecy about a certain being," Garn's eyes narrowed, the smirk gone. "I had ignored it, thinking it only a myth, just like everyone else. However, once I turned into a ningen, I studied ancient ningen civilizations, their gods, and their myths. I had purchased several books pertaining to Greek, Roman, Egyption, Mesopatamian and..." he paused again, "Norse mythologies. In the Norse mythologies I read something that caught my interest. It was a Norse belief that followed the ancient Makai prophecy I had heard." Again he paused, watching the expressions flowing on Garn's face. "It dealt with the end of the world, an event known as Ragnarok."
Garn stood there in silence for a second, then burst out in an evil laughter. Hiei hissed, he too had heard the prophecy but had brushed it off.
Kurama waited for the laughter to die before he confronted the boy. "I did some rearranging of your name and came up with Ragnarok. You came through that portal the storm youkai had opened. You're Ragnarok."
Garn, Ragnarok, laughed again. This time his laughter became deep and throaty as his body matured to that of an early thirty year old, large and muscular. His school clothes disappeared and black and burnt-red armor replaced them. The air around him dimmed and became charged with crackling dark purple energy. "A very intuitive old fox you are Kurama, you figured it out. Yes, I am. I am the destroyer of worlds, and now I have come for yours."
Hiei growled, shoving the quivering Katrina behind him. Kurama stood his ground. "I would call it more along the lines of wisdom and smarts that come with old age. Yet I haven't figured it all out. If you're here to destroy the world, then why are you trying to seduce Katrina?"
Ragnarok smirked. "Because, with her power I will have access to the world of souls and spirits and then I will have the power to destroy Reikai."
Hiei's eyes widened. "You mean she's the Sacrificial Gate?"
Ragnarok nodded. "Yes, she is. Now, let her come to me," he commanded, his voice weaving a spell upon the two boys and girl
Hiei started to move stiffly to the side as Katrina started to dazedly walk forward.
"I don't think so!" yelled a voice. In a flash, the prince of Reikai was standing in the way of Katrina. He pushed her away and turned to Ragnarok, right hand out. "I won't allow you to take this girl!" Power started to gather in his palm.
Ragnarok hissed. "I shall have her. Mark my words princeling, I shall soon be powerful enough to overcome you! Then I shall have the girl and these three worlds shall be mine!" With a loud roar he burst into flames and disappeared.
The three apparitions sighed as they were released from his spell. Kurama and Hiei sagged from the effort they had used to fight the spell. Katrina outright colapsed. Hiei caught her before she hit the ground. Her sight and hearing dimmed as she fell into unconciousness.
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"What!"
Katrina woke abruptly at the loud exclamation. She looked around. She was once again in Genkai's shrine.
"Shut up Dimwit. You'll wake the girl," Genkai reprimanded Yusuke, who had been the one to shout.
"Too late," Katrina called weakly.
She barely heard the sounds of fast feet before she was quickly enveloped in a dark hug, a kiss planted on her forehead. As she heard other footsteps Hiei quickly retreated to a corner. In another instant Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Koenma, Botan and Genkai were in the room.
"Glad to see you awake kiddo," Genkai said, "Figured you'd sleep for at least a day. You fought that spell pretty hard. You've got some stamina."
"Actually," Botan started, "Um, I let Cassandra go and help her. She took the brunt of the spell. That's why she's not here at the moment."
"Yeah, speaking of the spell," Yusuke started, "What exactly happened? All you told us was that you were attacked." He had just arrived only ten minutes before and hadn't been told anything besides Katrina having been bespelled. Kuwabara and Genkai both nodded. The only other person that knew what had happened besides the four that had been there was Botan, yet she knew only as much as the fact that Garn was Ragnarok, she knew nothing else.
Kurama sighed, studying Katrina. He glanced at Hiei. -Does she need to hear this? Is she ready?- he asked the fire apparition, who had turned his eyes back upon the young seirei tsuin, concern filling his gaze where emotions were normally hidden, a testament to how strong his emotions had become towards this girl.
It was a long moment before he replied, hesitant with his answer. -I don't think we have a choice. Ragnarok is gaining in power as we speak and we're short on time to prepare for the battle. She needs to know now, whether or not she's ready.-
Kurama nodded then sat beside Katrina, who had been watching them the whole time, knowing that they were in a mental conversation. She couldn't listen in since their shields were so strong. "Okay," Kurama started, looking up at the rest in invitation to sit down with them. As the settled Kurama took a breath and a moment to collect his thoughts. "I'll start with what has happened recently. Remember the storm youkai and the portal they had opened?" Everyone nodded. "We didn't know what had come out of there for the longest time."
"But now you do," Kuwabara stated intuitively, disproving Hiei's usual opinion about him being a dunce.
Kurama nodded, "Yes."
"Who?" Yusuke asked.
Kurama didn't answer him immediately. When he did, it wasn't a direct answer. "The storm youkai caused Meiou to close for a day and gave Katrina a cold. When Katrina went back to school on Friday,she met a new boy that showed up on Tuesday, the day after the storm..." He paused, looking at everyone. "His name was Garn Roak."
"I remember..." Yusuke said. "I over heard some girls at the park giggling about a new student named Garn."
"He's the one isn't he," again Kuwabara showed his intellect. Kurama nodded. "What gave him away?"
"His name," Kurama said. "And the way Katrina was acting around him. Hiei had informed me of her unusual behavior about the boy." He looked to Hiei to elaborate.
Hiei shifted, never taking his eyes off of Katrina. "She's normally ditzy, so someone wouldn't have noticed if they weren't close to her," he ignored the indignant sound from Katrina, "But I guess due to the binding I was able to tell that it was more than the normal infatuation. She talked and thought non stop about him. Yet when ever I asked to know more about him all she could say was that he drew in class, his name, and where he came from. I noticed several times when ever she talked about him that her eyes would go dull, as if in a daze or trance. I talked to Kurama to investigate since I was never able to intercept him to find out who or what he was."
Kurama took up the telling again. "At first I didn't think much of it but trusted Hiei's instincts and thought about it. The main facts about him that struck a nerve in me were his origins and name." He held up a hand, "Before you ask, he came from Norway."
He paused again. After awhile he spoke. "The day we found out the truth about Katrina and the portal the storm youkai had created I had a sort of brain flash, if you will. I started to connect certain facts, both from present and my past life. Mainly the fact that the portal was not connected to Makai rang an alarm. I immediately went home to do some of my own investigation."
"What do you mean about certain facts from the present and your past life?" Yusuke asked.
Kurama sighed, "There's an ancient prophecy in Makai that I had run across once, long ago. Some of the things it talked about was oddly and eerily similar to what had been happening..." he paused.
"What's the prophecy?" Katrina asked.
Kurama glanced again at Hiei. Hiei gave an imperceptable nod. Kurama took in a breath then spoke in a soft haunting tone. "In the six hundreth and sixty sixth year of his birth, the child of destruction will come in a demon spawned storm. Born to bring fire and death to the worlds, the child shall not have the power to destroy souls. Only through the Sacrificial Gate of one entwined with the Spirits shall the Destroyer gain the power. Only through the greatest power of the living, shall the Destroyer be destroyed. Great sorrow and pain shall be in the wake of his destruction, yet hope shall again grace the worlds."
Silenced reigned in the wake of the prophecy, each thinking hard about the meaning of the ancient prophecy. Finally Katrina asked the question on everyone's mind. "When did you first hear this prophecy?"
"Close to six hundred and sixty-six years ago."
"I had heard of the prophecy. Like you, the storm youkai's portal rang alarms in my head. Once I left you I had everyone in the palace searching in the archives for a book that had the prophecy in it," Koenma said, speaking for the first time.
"But how did you know it was Garn?" Yusuke asked.
"His name," Kurama replied. "Do some scrabble with his full name and you get Ragnarok."
"Wait," Kuwabara said. "How did you know the Destroyer was named Ragnarok?"
"Because fool," Hiei said, "There is a myth closely like it in the ningen civilization. The Norse had called the event of the end of the world as Ragnarok. Since the Destroyer is also known as 'the end of the world', he was titled as Ragnarok."
Katrina, having been thinking of the prophecy and reviewing what had happened at the school, remembered something crucial. She gave Kurama and Hiei a hard look as she asked the question that they didn't want her to ask. "When Garn revealed himself as Ragnarok he had said something about me and you had mentioned the Sacrificial Gate. What is the Sacrificial Gate and what does it have to do with me?"
Kurama turned his eyes down and sighed. "The Sacrificial Gate is a person closely tied with the power of Spirit, a person with strong ties and either with great power or the potential of great power. To activate the Sacrificial Gate, the person must be sacrificed in a ritual to open a portal between Ningenkai and Reikai. Yes," he said to Yusuke's coming comment, "There are already portals to Reikai, yet like the kekkai barrier that had been between Ningenkai and Makai, there is a special shield between Reikai and the other worlds to prevent Ragnarok from entering. Just like the kekkai, they specified the target to strengthen the sheild instead of strecthing it's power to prevent any evil force from invading, which is why it couldn't stop the Mekai. Yet with the Sacrificial Gate, the sheild will be dissolved, allowing Ragnarok to invade Reikai and destroy it. The ultimate and finishing blow to destroy the worlds."
Hiei took up after Kurama paused. "Even if Ragnarok destroyed Makai and Ningenkai, if Reikai still stands then there is hope to undo the damage and rebuild the worlds, just like when Mekai invaded. Rekai was still intact and still had power, only that it was locked due to the actions of Mekai. Once we stopped them the spell cast by the Mekai dissipated in Reikai and the power of Reikai was released to restore the destruction, bringing life back to those that had been killed and totally erasing any trace of the invasion."
"However," Koenma said, "If Reikai is destroyed, then the three worlds will be utterly annihilated and Ragnarok will gain the power to move on to different worlds and planes."
"Why does he think I'm the Sacrificial Gate?" Katrina asked.
"Because," Genkai answered, having listened to everything, she had managed to grasp the situation and was able to find out the answer to the girl's question. "You are a seirei tsuin. That alone gives you strong ties to the world of spirits. The fact that your twin is now a spirit amplifies your ties. Technically, if I'm not mistaken, a seirei tsuin is a single apparition with two seperate entities, twins. Normaly they are both on the same plane, yet in your case, the seirei tsuin is in both planes, the mortal plane and the plane of spirits."
Kurama nodded, "Yes, and that being the case, your ties to the world of spirits is magnified even more by ten fold. Already you're like a gate. You're the reason your sister is able to travel through the two worlds without using a portal or without the aid of someone like Botan."
"You have great power within you," Koenma said. "That's why you need to be trained quickly, not only to fight Ragnarok..."
Hiei said the thing that no one wanted to say, "But also to be able to keep yourself or your sister from being used as the Sacrificial Gate should the worst happen."
Katrina didn't want to ask, but she knew she had to. "What's that?"
Hiei looked away. "To obliterate your souls. Even if you don't have a body, your soul can still be used."
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AN: Alright, I don't know alot about Norse mythology, I wanted a big baddie, someone who had been predicted to destroy the world. I have a small book about Greek, Roman, and Norse mythologies and their gods. There weren't any myths about the end of the world in Greek or Roman, however I found one in Norse mythology. I know Ragnarok is an event yet I decided to make it into a person. The fact that it is a Norse mythology is why Garn said he was from Norway. Mainly what I used was the name.