A Life of Adventure …Not!
By: Michiru Lee
Disclaimer:
Snowfire Fox: We do not own Saiyuki.Michiru: We don't even own the meat buns.
Goku: Meat buns? Where?
Snowfire Fox: No we don't… 0.-
Werecat Rei: Yes I updated and here is the new chapter just for you. –laughs- I'm going to take my files home before summer vacation so I can write from home as well. That way you don't have to wait 3 months for an update.
Chapter 10: The Surprise Visit
It has been six days since the Sanzo Party left the last town behind them. Now they were traveling though a forest, which was a good change of not seeing the desert all the time. It was dark now and they stopped to make camp for the night. Lucky for them that Goku didn't eat all the food yet. The fire in the middle of the clearing was flickering in the night and the group was relaxing around it.
"Man… It is so calm tonight," Snowfire Fox commented. She was laying on her sleeping bag looking up at the stars.
"I agree. I love looking at the stars," Goku replied, he was laying right next to her on his own sleeping bag.
"Sleepy…" Michiru murmured. She was stretched out on her sleeping bag and looking at Sanzo who was smoking a smoke and staring out into space. Nina and Hakkai were closer to the fire and were cleaning the dishes from their dinner earlier. Gojyo disappeared into a tree and hasn't been seen since dinner. Sanzo got up from where he sat and went towards his sleeping bag on the edge of the clearing away from everyone else. From the glare he was giving everyone you could tell that he didn't want to be waken up.
"Why do they leave us to do the dishes?" Nina muttered, an vein throbbed on her head as she wipe the plate she was holding clean.
"Leave them be… Even Goku is being quiet tonight which is unusual," Hakkai replied smiling. "It feels calm for once."
"Too calm if you ask me. Something is going to happen tonight," Nina said in a calm tone.
"So you felt the presence as well?" Hakkai asked.
"For the last hour I felt it. I wonder if the others did yet?" Nina wondered. She glanced at Michiru who was dozing by the edge of the clearing in her sleeping bag. She rolled out of the sleeping bag and into the forest and they heard a scream cried out.
"You baka! Go away!" Michiru yelled from a distant. Nina, Hakkai, Snowfire Fox, and Goku rushed into the forest where Michiru disappeared to and found her facing a small dark figure. The dark figure was hitting Michiru over the head with a staff.
"Don't talk to me that way baka! Do you know how hard it was to climb out of that tree after the fall?" the figure said. Nina and Snowfire Fox busted out laughing as they recognized the figure.
"Granny Silverfayt!" Snowfire Fox cried.
"Who the Hell woke me up?" Sanzo yelled as he appeared in the middle of the commotion.
"It seems that this is the maker of that interesting hourglass that the girls have," Hakkai mused.
"What is with this old Honey here?" Gojyo asked as he jumped out of a tree. Granny Silverfayt took her staff and threw it at Gojyo's head knocking him to the ground.
"Respect your elders Kappa!" she ordered.
"Cockroach got beaten by a Grandma!" Goku snickered. He fell to the ground laughing his head off as Gojyo lay on the ground holding his head.
"Why did you do that Grandma!" Gojyo yelled at her.
"Because you have no respect for your elders ya stupid Kappa," replied Granny Silverfayt in her crack voice. She picked up her staff from the ground, which happens to be four feet taller than her. So you can tell how she looks compare to the rest of the group.
"Go away! I don't want you here!" Michiru yelled at Granny.
"Well I'm here so listen up! Shelia is being controlled by Nero," Granny Silverfayt said after hitting Michiru lightly on the head.
"You mean Michiru's dark-self?" Snowfire Fox asked.
"I don't know any other Nero…" Michiru grumbled, "I knew it! I knew that was the reason the old hag came!"
"Ya stupid baka! Is that how you treat someone who trained you since you were 3 years old?" Granny yelled at her.
"Ya stupid old hag!"
"Baka!"
"Old hag!"
-Bang-
"Will you two shut the Hell up!" Sanzo yelled at he fired at the two fighting cats. They glared at each other and then turned away. Nina sighed and placed her hand on her forehead. Snowfire Fox just giggled with amusement at the two fighting.
"And I thought Goku and Gojyo were bad," Hakkai sighed while watching the scene, "Are they always like this?"
"Yep… They are always like this, but they do care about one another. Something must be wrong if Granny Silverfayt is here," Snowfire Fox said.
"What do you think is wrong?" Goku asked.
"The Dark-Saiyuki World…" Michiru muttered out loud.
"Dark-Saiyuki World?" Gojyo repeated.
"This is the light side of your world. The other side is a mirror of this world where everyone has a counter part. That is why the hourglass has two sides. Silver is for traveling to other light worlds and the black sand is for traveling to the Dark version of the current world you're in or to escape a world that is dying. For the people of the worlds themselves they have counter-parts with different personalities, or just different views on the world itself," Nina explained.
"I wonder if there is a dark version of the Merciful Goddess…" Sanzo wondered trying to imagine a nice Merciful Goddess.
"Most likely there is," Granny Silverfayt said, "But that isn't the reason I'm here. I'm here because Nero is in the Dark-Saiyuki World and has brainwashed Shelia into trying to destroy this world before it's time."
"Arrggg…. Why can't he just leave me alone? He is so lucky I can't kill him!" Michiru growled while punching the ground.
"Why can't you kill him?" Goku asked.
"Because Nero is her Dark self. Unlike the rest of us who have the same gender Dark selves the Silverfayts have the opposite gender for their Dark selves. Lucky for me though my Dark self died long ago," Snowfire Fox said.
"Yes it is because I need you to take these nice gentleman to stop Nero in the Dark-Saiyuki World. Michiru can't go because of Nero, and Nina needs to be here to watch her," Granny said.
"I can take care of myself!" Michiru yelled.
"The last time you almost burnt the house to the ground," Nina said.
"It wasn't my fault the cake was baking too slow…" Michiru replied. Sanzo took all the information in and suddenly realized the request.
"No… No… No! We are not going to any other place except West!" Sanzo yelled.
"You can't go West if there is no West," Snowfire Fox said.
"What do you mean?" Gojyo asked.
"What she is saying that if this world is destroyed then you can't finish your trip West," Michiru said.
"Make your choice by Sunrise tomorrow then Sanzo. I'll still be here to hear it," Granny said making a place for herself on the hard ground. Michiru sighed and went back to her sleeping bag. So there journey is on halt for an ever greater journey…
Note: Well that was fast for me. Looks like Michiru can't continue with the Sanzo Party for a while but Snowfire Fox can! In the next chapter… The Decision! Review please!
