"He… hello, it's good…" Hild cut off Serena by moving on.
"You must be Yusuke of the Urameshi team. I've heard much about you dear." Hild cuff Yusuke's face with her palm.
Yusuke was speechless while his teammates was snickering and smiling nonstop. Even Hiei couldn't resist a smirk.
She continues moving on with the other boy treating them like cute little children. Things were a bit different with Hiei, the moment Hild approach Hiei, he drew his katana and took a swipe at her. Hild saw this coming, so she quickly disappears out of the way and reappear mere inches from Hiei. She surprised everyone with her speed including Hiei. "I guess its true what they said, never judge a book by its cover. Such a cute face but such a menacing mind." She let him off with brushing his chin with her fingers.
"Well, what can I do for you lovely children?" Hild ask as she return to her throne.
"We were send here to retrieve two documents that were said to be in your possession." Kurama explained.
Oh right, how silly of me?" Hild held out her hand and a black lining trace around it. She closes her palm and opens it with three black pearl floating above it. The pearls morph into three wooden scrolls each with a red string tie. The scroll flung themselves at the Spirit Team.
Kurama, Kuro, and Hiei each caught one of the stroll in their hand without blinking. Everyone was slightly confuse so Kurama took charge and asked, "Forgive me but I thought we were only suppose to pick up two documents."
"True but two of those scrolls combine to become one. I won't tell you which though." She smiles ingenuous at the last part.
"Thank you for your hospitality. We will take our leave now." Kurama nod his head lightly and the team turn to leave when they were stop by Hild's power. She sends whirls of black winds to surround them. "Just to make sure you kids don't get lost, I'll give you a lift outside. Bye." With a wave, the winds completely encircle the team and whist them away.
Serena and Kurama suddenly found themselves falling out of the sky. "Release! Windy!" Serena summons her staff and a card to help the two of them land safely. The winds start to pick up and with the lead of Windy, winds in the air form a whirling column. "Thank you." Serena thanks her friend after the winds was disperse. They examine their surrounding and found themselves outside of the castle's territory, alone with their friends were nowhere to be found.
"I knew Hild's intension wasn't going to benefit us." Said Kurama, "Serena, Windy thank you."
Serena shook her head saying it was nothing. "How did you know Hild's intension wasn't good?"
"I could tell by the look in her eyes. It's one that I often have in my eyes." Answered Kurama. He saw that Serena was confuse by his word he told her to forget about it.
"Where is everyone else?"
"I don't know, they probably got teleported father away from the castle than we did." He guessed. "I think if we look around for a while, we'll be able to find them."
"Yeah." The two start their search in the opposite way of the castle.
Kurama was right about the others getting teleported father away then the castle than they did but he was wrong when he thought they were anywhere near there. Like Kurama and Serena, the quartet, Kuro, Yusuke, Kera, and Luna, pops out in the middle of the sky. They were also falling quickly downward, but fortunate for them, they fell right into a pond. Kera was able prevent herself from falling into the pond with her wings, the other not so lucky.
"Of all the place we could have fallen into, why does it have to be a pond?" Yusuke complain.
"Be thankful it's a pond that we fell into." Kuro counter.
"Where are we?" Ask Kera.
"I would say nowhere the portal or the castle." Luna answered. "I knew I shouldn't have come on this mission."
"Where is everyone else?" Kera asked looking around.
Leaving the quartet for a while, far away was the rest of the team once again falling out of the sky. Actually, it was just Kuwabarra that was falling. Kero and Soupy have wings and Hiei already have control of his fall.
"Ow. Ow. Ow." Kuwabarra was falling through a bunch of tree branches. Unfortunately, for him, he hit the ground head first with a ram. "Ow!"
Hiei land on the ground in front of Kuwabarra. "Baka."
"Shut up shrimp."
"You must really want to die don't you."
"Bring it on! Shortie."
"Stop! This isn't the time or the place." Soupy lectured.
"Where are we and where are the others?"
After standing around talking, both quartet decided that they would try to look for each other. Sadly, however, their search was to no avail.
"Ohh… we're never gonna find them." Serena complained.
"It's only been 2 hours. How about we take a rest." Kurama offered.
"Ok." They took a seat on two boulders facing each other.
"Serena, if I may ask. Why did you come on this mission?"
"To tell the truth I don't know."
Kurama had a you're-kidding-right face on.
"I know, I can't believe it either." She recognized the face. "I wasn't force on it or anything. I just knew that I had to go to find out something."
"Find what out?"
"Give me a good reason as to why I should tell you."
"I suppose I don't really have one."
"Yeah, I thought so." Serena smile brightly. "Also I think I figure out a way to contact Luna and the others." She releases her key and invokes the power of two cards named Converse and Find. Converse creates two microphones. Serena wore one of the microphone on her right ear and handed Find the other one. "Please find Kero and give the microphone to him. Be careful." Find flew off into the sky and start her search for the sun guardian.
"Find has the power to find people that she has met before and the microphone allows me to talk to Kero despite the distance between us. It will take awhile for her to find Kero though." Serena informs Kurama. She notices he was looking at her as if he was studying her. "Yes?"
"Who is Sakura?" As Kurama had predicted, the question had shock her.
"Uh… what?"
"Don't try to find an excuse. I heard you very clearly the first time you summoned your key."
"It's none of your concern, Kurama."
"Very well but just so you know that is a fairly lame excuse."
"I know, but it's true and better than lying." Before their conversation could continue, the microphone lit up and connects her with Kero. "Kero, are you there?"
"Yeah. Are you alright kiddo?" Kero's voice was loud enough to be heard by Kurama and Serena's was loud enough to be heard by the other people with Kero.
"I'm fine. The only one with me right now is Kurama. Do you have anyone with you?"
"Soupy, Orange Head, and Three Eyes." Kero answered, referring to Orange Head as Kuwabarra and Three Eyes as Hiei.
"We are missing four members of our teams then." Kurama pointed out.
Just then, Find return as she was told. Taking this opportunity, Serena touches her microphone and a duplicate was created. While hanging it to Find she said, "Please find Luna and take this to her. Be careful and thank you."
Within minutes, Luna was in communication with Serena and Kero. She has informed them that the rest of the members were with her.
"Now that that's done, Find I need your help with one more thing. Mirror! Release!" a young girl appear holding a mirror. Find jumped on top of the mirror and they both begin to glow.
"Must you leave me out of the loop." Kurama asked, almost sounding childish.
"Sorry." She gave a wink and stick out her tongue. She moves to sit beside Kurama and motion for him to look into the mirror. "This is the information of the landscape Find collected during her search for the others. The yellow dot on the mirror is us, red is Luna's group, purple is Kero's group, and the blue dot is the portal."
Looking into the mirror, rather that your reflection, it show four dots and the landscape surrounding the dots. The dots was signal coming from the microphone each group have and the energy gives off by the portal. According to the dots, the three groups form a triangle with the portal in the middle.
"Our position may work to our advantage." Kurama said thoughtfully after observing the mirror.
"How?" Serena asked since she was the only other person who knew what Kurama was talking about.
"Though we haven't seen any, there are high chances that demons will be coming after us for the scrolls. Hild had mention that two of the scrolls will not open unless they are together and since they all look alike. Demons after them would need to get all three and Hild just made it harder for them by separating us and the scrolls." Kurama explained. Everyone pretty much heard the explanation through the microphone.
"But wouldn't we be stronger together?" Serena asked.
"I suppose but I guess Hild didn't think of it that way." Kurama answered.
"So what's the plan?" Asked Yusuke through the microphone.
"Our three groups form a triangle with the portal in the middle so the best course to take right now would be for all the groups to head straight for the portal. There is no need for us to regroup." Kurama decided. "Everyone agree?"
Everyone answered with either a yeah, fine, uh-huh, or sure except for Hiei. You already know what he said.
Therefore, each group begins their own journey toward the portal with the microphone as their only connection. Of course, Lady Faith will not be so kind as to let them travel without interferences. As they travel, eyes of demons watch each group carefully while waiting for order from a higher order.