Midnight's Requiem

Rating: As of now I'm just going to put the rating at T to be safe.

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Chapter 4: A new start and a few bruises

Once everyone left me alone to my thoughts, I plopped back down on the bed and closed my eyes. There was way too much to think and I was still feeling tired. A nap would have done me some good, provided I could have actually fallen asleep again. Sadly my mind wouldn't slow down long enough for that to happen, so I just lied there staring up at the ceiling.

There was a small ache pulsing in my chest where that person had stabbed me. I avoided putting my hand there; hoping that just by wishing I was in my own body it would make it true.

I didn't think I would ever get used to the fact that I was now a boy. I also didn't things could get any worse at that point. That is until something awful happened... I suddenly needed to go to the bathroom.

'Of all of the bodies they could have put me into why in the world did it have to be a guy?'

I figured that I could put off the awkwardness of a stop off at the rest room for a little while longer by going to see what exactly I had gotten myself into. Hopefully Koenma would tell me that I wouldn't be trapped in this god-forsaken body longer then a day or two. I didn't even want to think about what I as going to do when it came time to take a shower.

I walked out the door and was greeted by a strange colored oni. He was just standing there, obviously waiting to show me to the others.

"Follow me. Lord Koenma is expecting you."

I didn't say anything to him. I wasn't really in to mood for conversation right now. Unfortunately it wasn't going to be long before the Q and A would and I was going to have no choice but to say something.

As we approached the doors I realized that the show, even though they did look large, didn't even compare to their actual size. The doors were enormous. I'm talking strain your neck to look up to the top kind of huge.

But I guess that you aren't really interested in that. You're probably thinking why the hell won't she hurry up and get to the meeting. Well give me a second and I'll get to it.

I walked into the room and it was exactly how I expected it to be. Everything was exactly like the show; I could barely contain my amazement as I made my way over to everyone.

"Well, I said, maybe now you can explain exactly what's happened to me and just how you plan to fix it."

"Well Crystal you were brought here because there, to put it simply, is someone who is trying to obtain a power called Dark Light and he needs you to get it."

"Dark Light? I think that was the same thing that lady mentioned just before… just before I..."

Koenma nodded his head as soon as I finished talking.

"Yes that was Botan. I had her contact you in hopes of being able to avoid any confrontation with the evil apparition that is looking for you. Things might have gone better if we had been sooner… I'm sorry for everything you've had to go through because of it."

"Well, Koenma continued speaking, I guess now would be a good time to try to explain what Dark Light is. You might want to sit down because what I'm about to tell you well be a bit of a shock. It's vital to both this reality and yours that you understand the importance of your roll in everything."

I wanted this to get moving so I decided not to say anything else for the moment. If I knew Yu Yu Hakusho, and pretty much anything related to it, there was probably going to be some uber powerful bad guy that we were going to just barely beat in time to avoid the on coming Apocalypse.

He waited for me to sit down (which I might add was awkward as hell in the new body of mine) before continuing.

"Before I can explain to you why you are being hunted by the evil spirit there's something you need to understand about Dark Light. It is an ancient power source of one the worlds first forms of magic. It first started in a long since dead civilization and some how managed to survive through out the generations."

"So what is this power exactly?"

"I'm getting to that point right now…. It was said that who ever can obtain the power would be able to control a force so great no one would be able to stand against it. If some one with an evil heart were to find it then all life as we know it would be destroyed. It happened nearly once before, but a small group of the ancient ones were able to seal off the path to that power".

"How?"

"Nobody really knows. Most of the information from that time period is all but gone. But what we do know is a battle was fought that lasted for days. Many of the people who guarded the source of power had fallen in battle. The remaining ancient ones banded together and used up what little strength they had left to use the Five Points of Sealing spell. After that they were killed and anything that could have been useful to use went with them to their graves."

"So basically what you're saying is we're screwed… What I really want to know is what are you going to do about getting me back into my own body?"

"There's nothing we can do at the moment. For now were going to have to wait until the wounds heal before we can even think about doing a transfer. This is a delicate process and it can't be rushed. Not to mention your soul still has to get over the shock of a forced transfer into the body it's currently residing in. If things go according to plan you should be back to normal in about a week."

At the mention of the work 'week' I felt my heart drop somewhere around my knees. This dream trip to another dimension was turning into a real nightmare.

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