As she dashed off into the woods, Hiei stopped. She was out of sight, and it was impossible for him to keep up with her by now as she had too much of a head start. "Dammit," he muttered under his breath. Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama ran to catch up with Hiei.
"I can still sense her," Kuwabara said. "Follow me." The three ran after Kuwabara, who took several turns through a dense and gloomy part of the forest which none of them had seen before. It was an eerie feeling, deep in that forest, that would make the hair on the back of anyone's neck crawl. As they wandered deeper into the mysterious dwelling, a faint path was made clear as they followed it now, tracing on Krystina's energy.
"Oh great, what now?" Yusuke muttered as they came to a fork in the road. It was obiously too late to turn back now, and they had to choose one of these two paths which none of them knew where it lead. Kuwabara paused, musing to himself as he shut his eyes, trying to sense out her energy.
When he was about to speak, the angelic voice rang throught he treetops in a loud scream. "She's in trouble!" Kurama said.
"She's down the right path!" Kuwabara said, and the four headed down the right path. In the few moments it took them to run down this path, loud thrashes sounded through the dense trees. A yelp from some demonic creature followed half of these noises as a yelp from the girl soon came.
"No! Stop! Put me down!" She shrieked, her voice pathetic and desperate as it was easy to tell she was crying. The four entered a small clearing. Eight torches lit it in a circle, with the girl's throat held tightly in a grasp by a large, ogre like demon that carried a club. Four smaller ones were around it, with no less than thirty dead carcasses of the orge-like demons in the dimly lit circle.
"Not until you give us the emblem!" The ogre snarled. She frowned, unhappy to see the four new arrivals which she thoguth were pitted against her already.
"What are you talking about?" She coughed, now in desperate lack of air. Her eyes were logning to be let go, and filled with sadness and rage at the same time, burning with a simmering fresh fallen snow shade in them, her deep silk hair draping over her back and the ogre's arms, and shining with the beauty of a thousand sunsets by the dimly lit torches in it's brilliant radiance.
"Put her down!" Yusuke called out to the ogre. It snarled, now looking at Yusuke and he threw Krystina aside. She gasped, and pressed her hand to the ground, pushed off and landed on her feet as her raven hair flew gracefully down to her side for a perfect landing as she gazed out to watch.
"You want a piece of me?" The ogre snapped. Yusuke grinned.
"Maybe I do," he said. He glanced at the other four, and they nodded. Kuwabara brandished his spirit sword, Hiei pulled out his katana, Kurama summoned his rosewhip and Yusuke held up his hand and pointed his index finger. The four ogres jumped in front of their leader and grinned as they brandished their clubs.
Kuwabara was the first to charge, swinging his sword at the ogre farthest to the left. Hiei sliced the ogre farthest to the right in a split second, Kurama the second one to the left and Yusuke shooting a small blast of energy at the second one on the right. The four of them fell dead, and the ogre stepped back.
"Fools!" it snarled. "You will pay!" Krystina stood up and frowned as she pointed at the ogre acusingly.
"Not if I can help it!" She held her left hand open as she held it to her side and pinched her right fingers together. In a split second, a bow materialized itself in her left hand and an arrow in her right hand. She aimed it at the ogre the moment after, and pulled back on the bow as her eyes narrowed into an intense and dangerous glare. "Sayonara," she said as her eyes narrowed even more.
"Heaven's Light!" She called out, her angelic voice carrying the foretelling of the doom of the ogre which she was about to pierce directly in the heart and kill instantly. But, this wasn't enough, for the arrow was charged with the purest magic in the world, the magic of love and all that is good, that would conquer all evil.
And, the tip of the arrow glowed with a shocking gleam as beautiful as a sea of stars. Krystina let go of the arrow and it glided swiftly to the heart of the ogre, like predicted.
"Good shot," Hiei added. Kurama nodded to agree as the ogre fell, dead. Krystina turned to look at them, her eyes now curious and friendly. They glowed with her true innocence and sweetness which could melt the hearts of thousands.
"The light emitted powerful energy," Kurama stated. "Pure light, wich can only come fromt he purest of hearts." Krystina blushed, her rosy cheeks a beautiful shade of misty rose.
"I... I guess so.." she said, her angelic heart melting the cold feeling in the air and adding warmth to the torches lit all around. "But, you know, I could have saved myself."
"I guess," Yusuke said. "But everyone needs help now and then." Krystina looked adened as she glanced at the ground, a finger wrapping around her beloved pendant. "What is your name?" She kept her beautiful gaze down, her silk ebony hair rippeling like water in the cool wind that passed them by. She bit her lip (which of course did not break it, for her lips were always perfect and smooth), not knowing what to say, and gave them a glimpse of her award winning smile.
"I...it's.. Kryistina Jump," she said. Kuwabara raised an eyebrow at her, as he did not believe her.
"That's an odd name," Kurama added.
"Oh, well, that's because I'm a transfer student from England," Kryistina said, stroking her pendant and looking up as she peeked out of her gorgeous dark locks. "See, my aunt, who I lived with passed away, and I had to be sent to live with my last living relative, my grandfather. He owns this huge mansion, and is sending me to school here soon. Meiou High, I think it was..." Kurama smiled.
"That is the school I attend," Kurama said. Kryistina smiled serenely.
"I heard it was supposed to be a smart school... but I don't think I'm smart enough.. I'll probably flunk out." She sighed, holding her beautifully manicured hands at the side of her face gracefully in thoguht. "Well, why don't you all come over my place?" She asked. Kuwabara grinned.
"Yeah, sounds fun!" Kuwabara said. Krystina giggled.
"I sure hope so!" She added. "It would be an honor to have you all come."