CHAPTER EIGHT- THE FREAKY DREAMS

It was dark outside when Peggi ran out of the house she woke up in, and she looked around frantically for Shun. She knew that he wouldn't leave her alone unless he was fighting, so she was worried. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw him outside, simply talking with Shiryu's master, Roshi (me: I THINK that's his name?)

"Peggi, I thought you were asleep. . ." Shun said in a tone that made her narrow her eyes in suspicion

"What happened?"

"Nothing important." Shun lied, but she approached him and twirled his hair between her fingers, her way of saying 'lie and you'll pay dearly' "We were attacked. By someone from sanctuary. His name was Yujiro, and he was sent by Aries to kill you. Aries didn't really tell him why he wanted you dead, but we're pretty sure it's because of something that happened while you were in feudal Japan. Roshi said that he has a cabin further in the hills that no one knows about, and no one goes anywhere near."

"If you want, the two of you can hide there until the danger is gone."

"Cabin? In the hills? Is it near a lake?" Peggi asked, suddenly very interested

"Yes. It's right next to a lake, actually.

"YAY!!!!! Let's go there, Shun! I want to!!!"

he giggled and then nodded. "We'll go in the morning. Right now it's too late to go anywhere. It's close to nine."

"The two of you should really get some rest. Especially you, Shun."

"Right."

They all three walked inside to go to sleep; the next day they would have a lot of walking to do.

Aries growled in frustration as Naraku smirked and did a mental happy-dance; he had just won yet another staring contest against Aries.

"I'm sure I could beat you at arm-wrestling as well. . ." Naraku challenged, indirectly.

"Shall we make a bet on that?" Aries asked.

"Yes."

They began an arm-wrestling contest that lasted for merely moments, before Naraku won, smirking as usual.

"I have an idea."

"It doesn't matter who suggests the competition, I'm simply better at this than you. You will loose no matter what we do."

"No, not a competition. I have an idea about how to get the girl back. I'm almost positive that this will work."

"Oh? Do tell."

Since I'm sure none of you are interested in the plan, we will move on to our main characters. Tenshi and Shiryu were laying on the floor, still giggling and trying to catch their breath after their nearly-an-hour-long pillow fight.

"Sorry to kill all the fun, but we should really get some sleep." Shiryu said, helping her to her feet.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." She replied.

"If you're not awake by 9, I'll wake you up. We'll probably begin trying to train you around 10, if that's okay."

"Sounds great."

"Okay. Good night, sleep well." Shiryu said, walking towards the couch.

"G'night." Tenshi smiled, climbing into the really comfy bed.

Yujiro limped into the room where Aries and Naraku were, and looked strangely at Naraku.

"What's with the clothes? Where's his kimono?"

"We're trying. . .a new plan." Aries explained. "So, did things go well with killing Peggi?"

". . .she had the andromeda saint with her. I. . .wasn't able to so much as touch her. They were asleep, and I was able to shoot her with the limiter, but while I approached them, the saint woke up and fought me. I was lucky to get out of there alive."

"You would have done better to let yourself die than to come back here without any good news, Yujiro. You know that now you must be punished." Aries warned.

"Please, do not punish me. I may not have killed the girl, but I was told to deliver a message to you from the andromeda saint."

"Oh? Do tell."

"The andromeda saint said that if you want to fight, fight them, not any humans. And he also said that even though he isn't a violent person, he will kill the next person you send to kill the girl."

"I see that he injured you." Aries motioned to the large gash in Yujiro's side.

"Only before he let me go." Yujiro smirked. "But I wasn't the only one to be dealt some damage. I was able to wound him. I doubt that he would be able to fight anyone you send out. If you give me another chance, I will return in the early morning to finish him off as well as kill the girl."

"That will not be necessary. I have seen the extents of your strength, and I don't believe that your services will be required any longer." Aries snapped his fingers and two saints walked in.

"What?! NO PLEASE, POPE ARIES DON'T DO THIS!!! PLEASE!!!" Yujiro screamed as he was dragged out of the room to a fate that I won't get descriptive of, after all, this fic is only rated PG-13, and the tortures and pain he will go through would have to drag this rating up to an R, and I'm much to lazy to do that.

"It's pathetic when they plead for their life. Especially when it will do them no good."

Aries nodded in agreement with Naraku and they continued working on their plan and Naraku's clothes.

Tenshi had just drifted off into sleep when her dreams began. She was in a really dark room and suddenly she saw a light flashing in front of her, and in place of the flash was a girl. She was a bit shorter than her, had long black hair with baby blue highlights, and was holding a ball of fire in her hand. Suddenly, the girl threw it at her, and suddenly, Tenshi realized that she was in a type of astral projection. She saw her body, and saw that instead of dodging the fireball, she smirked.

'what's going on?' she asked herself.

Suddenly, the dream Tenshi created a wind barrier that blocked the fire, and suddenly, she realized that she was creating a strange wall of water around herself. Suddenly, the wall of water flew at the girl in front of her, knocking her down. The girl rolled a few feet and then jumped back up with a lighting rod in her hand and then threw the bolt at Tenshi. She jumped out of the way and swung her body around to catch the rod and turned around in a circle, letting go when she was facing the girl again.

The lightning rod hit the girl, and she fell to the floor. She shook her head as she got up, trying to get the ringing in her ears to stop. Dream Tenshi looked down at her hand, shaking it for a few seconds, and Tenshi realized that the lighting bolt had cut her hand, a nifty zigzag shape from her palm to just below her wrist.

"Owie. . ."

"Ready for the ice?"

the girl nodded, and Tenshi saw herself walking towards this strange (me: in more ways than one lolz) girl. They put their hands up in front of them as if in a sign of surrender, and then touched their hands lightly to each other. After a few seconds there was a glow being emitted from their hands. Tenshi stared in awe as they slowly backed away from each other, causing the glow to turn into a gigantic blue-tinted-glowing ball, and then suddenly, the ball shot up into the air and snow began to fall. The girls began giggling as the snow fell harder, and after a few seconds there was enough snow on the ground, so the strange girl picked some of it up and threw it at Tenshi, who was too busy trying to catch it in her mouth to notice.

Tenshi realized that they must have been friends. Suddenly, she was sitting at a computer, typing something, and she heard a random boy telling her that it was late and he wanted to go to bed. She turned to him and blinked a few times.

"Who are you?" she asked him.

"C'mon! stop being weird and turn off the computer!" he whined

there was a bright flash and she was in another room. This time, she was in a room with an elderly lady. Another girl with long black hair and brown eyes walked in.

"Lady Kaede, InuYasha said that Sesshoumaru and Naraku are really pissed and want the jewel shard back now!"

"Thank you Kagome." The girl left the room and the older lady turned to Tenshi "I will have to make sure that InuYasha doesn't get into any more trouble, will you be okay here by yourself?"

Tenshi was about to say that she didn't know where she was (a/n: remember, in dreams you don't necessarily know that you're dreaming), but she heard her voice say something else.

"Yes. I'm pretty sure I can handle myself." Tenshi turned around to see herself again.

Then she was in another room. There was a man sitting across from her. She couldn't really see him, but she focused on his eyes. They were cold, crimson colored eyes, and he was smirking at her.

"I will kill you later. Right now it's time to wake up. HELLO?! TENSHI? EARTH TO TENSHI!!!"

Tenshi sat up quickly, realizing that Shiryu had been calling her for quite some time.

"Hey, you going to get up now? I've been trying to wake you up for half an hour. Are you okay?" Shiryu asked, sitting on the bed next to her.

"I'm fine. Not a morning person, I guess."

"Oh. Okay. Well, the gang will be here at about 10:30, so you have an hour to get ready."

"Sounds great." Tenshi pulled herself out of bed and walked into the bathroom.

'Was all of that just a dream?' she thought

as she removed the sleep-shirt she was in, she noticed something interesting on her wrist. It was the same zigzag shape the lightning bolt had created.

'maybe it wasn't all a dream. . .'

END CHAPTER EIGHT

Peggi-So many cliffhangers in this chapter. . .I'm sorry it took me so long to update, but for those of you who actually read my bio, you'll know why. Well, please review.