This fanfiction is almost done- there are about maybe five more chapters I had in mind- if you think I've forgotten something or want to add anything, here's your chance! haha, enjoy as you see fit!
Gilgian backed up several feet, face frozen in fear. Genkai motioned for the boys to be careful. Jin looked doubtfully at his ice friend, the ice friend likewise. They exchanged a glance of worry for what was to come.
Yusuke and Kuwabara stood alert, Hiei much the same with the katana loose and itching to swing. Kurama's hand moved slowly behind his head, searching for the rose to which he would manipulate into his great weapon. A large spider, the size of a common household cat, black, with a bright red hourglass painted onto its back, a fearsome black widow, scurried over to Yusuke's leg.
"Gah!" he screamed and kicked it into the depths of the wood. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kurama's rose whip lash out and constricted a suspicious looking hawk with shining yellow eyes.
"Stop it, kids!" Kurama glanced at the old woman, "something feels off…" her voice rasped, her eyes swiveling madly, searching every organism for a sign.
"Hn."
"No, you feel it too, Hiei…" Kurama told his old friend. They watched around, waiting for movement unlike the two human based boys.
"DIE YOU BASTARD!" Yusuke was screaming again at the spider. Two more came and he was dancing around them.
"Don't move Kuwabara!" Kurama shouted urgently. Kuwabara was spinning in circles with a horrified look. Snakes were gathering down at his feet. They'd appeared from everywhere and no where. The ground slithered and wiggled with them, but only near Kuwabara.
Genkai shot energy at the snakes. They continued as if nothing hit them, one even turned around to hiss furiously at her, unharmed.
"Don't waste energy, it'll do us no good to use it," she informed them, backing up against the others.
"Gah! I don't care! SPIRIT GUN!" a large blue blast hurled through the woods. A total path of destruction lay before them.
"Jeez, Yusuke! Wotch tha naturals eh?"
"Well, sooorry," he commented to the wind master.
"Yusuke, that was very stupid," Genkai moved in front of them all, her voice detached. She had her back turned to them, but her muscles were tense and she stood rigged.
"Oh, great, now what?" Kuwabara asked.
"Relax, we're gonna find out soon," Yusuke's sarcasm laced his calm bluff. He stood to the right of his master and focused on what was ahead of them.
The wind rustled the scrawny limbs of the trees. That was the only sound.
Not a twig snapped, not a breath heard, not an animal seen, not a thing else moved.
"What are we supposed to be looking at?" Hiei wondered impatiently.
"There appears to be nothing there," Kurama acknowledged, looking ahead. He turned his head to watch behind them, a frustrated sigh escaped his frustrated expression's mouth. "But there is something… it's watching us, undetected."
Muscles tense, minds rolling, eyes searching, violence restrained… they waited. The ground quaked all of a sudden.
"There it is!" Genkai shouted.
"THERE WHAT IS? I DON'T SEE A DAMN THING!" Yusuke had had enough surprises and invisible attackers. He'd already had enough of this new planet or whatever he was on.
"You guys do know it's underground, don't you?"
"WHAT?!" they all yelled at Kuwabara.
Twenty feet away, a great whole opened up and a long, giant monster snaked out of it, hissing and blood thirsty. The gang stared up at it. Jin took to the air to study it. Touya looked for the feet that never came.
"You should have told us a huge ass snake was traveling under our feet to eat us up! We don't have the same Spirit Awareness! Remember? Remember Kuwabara!" Yusuke kept smacking the other teenager around.
"SHUT IT, YUSUKE!" Genkai bellowed before being forced to jump out of the way of the giant, slimy, scaly tale that swung at her.
"SPIRIT-"
"No, Yusuke!"
"How can you be calm like this? I know you're Kurama, but still!"
"Yusuke, please listen!" Yusuke never tore his eyes from the beast. Hiei's weapon barely left a scratch, the skin was too thick. Jin couldn't sway it with the wind, it stayed firmly on the wet ground. Every time Touya went to freeze anything it caught him in its mouth or whipped him with its tail. Either way, Genkai always ended up catching him before he fell hard and shouting back at Kuwabara to conjure his dimension sword.
A spirit wave issued from Genkai's outstretched hands. A loud cry erupted behind the blast to ease the pain of power loss with a shout. The monstrous snake flew back and was severely damaged… or so they thought.
"There's no stopping that thing," Touya confirmed, coolly. The beast turned to look at them.
"HEY! YOU GUYS! DON'T LOOK IN HIS EYES! IF YOU HAVE ALREADY… WELL I DON'T KNOW! BUT DON'T LOOK-" the beast cut Kuwabara off sharply and shortly. It picked him up with its enormous, venom filled tooth by the shirt, strangling him in mid air while slithered fast toward its enemies. It flicked its head and sent Kuwabara flying over the peoples' heads. There was a horrible thud behind them.
The beast roared in their faces and went to dive in for the immediate, inevitable kill.
"Now, now, boys, play nicely," the beast suddenly stopped and snapped its head over to the owner. The figure that had been lying in the shadows finally stepped out.
Giligan peeked out from under Kuwabara's body.
"Ugh! Get off you large brute!" he heaved and threw the unconscious body off of him.
"Giligan," the entrancing woman's voice soothed, "You should have stayed hidden," she chastised him in an even voice.
His eyes widened, he turned to the group and opened his mouth to say something. The beautiful woman snapped her fingers and Gilgian disappeared.
"Woah! What did you do with Giligan?" Yusuke demanded, Spirit Detective side kicking in.
'Yusuke' Genkai thought, 'now isn't the time for your heroics. You have no idea what that thing was or who this is- play it smart, you dimwit.'
"I am impressed," she folded her slender arms, "I saw you look into the basilisk's eye, how are you still alive?"
"We should be dead?" Kurama questioned, "I thought as much."
"Kurama, what are you talking about?" Yusuke asked quietly. The woman turned her gaze directly to the red haired young man.
"If you look into the basilisk's eyes, it's instant death. Only a shield or kind of mirage can stop that."
"Even so, you and your friends should be paralyzed," she warned them. She took a step forward, her brilliant gray dress swished around her legs. She stopped and smiled. "How?" she lifted her arms up casually in question.
Yusuke raised his eyebrows.
"This," Kurama's voice answered. In Kurama's hand, he held a seed.
"May I see this seed?" Kurama, seeing no danger at the time, handed it to her.
"Don't get too close to it," Hiei sneered rudely.
"I won't tolerate boyish behaviors," she shot at him indifferently. She examined the seed for less than a minute.
"This isn't from around here. Neither are you, not that I'm surprised," she gestured to them.
"It was a shield, Kurama created a shield to protect our eyes," Touya explained for anyone who still needed help.
"Tha was quick thinkin," Jin winked at the rival red head.
"And to whom do we owe this pleasure?" Hiei smirked.
"Shota." They all turned to Genkai. "She's a witch of some kind." They looked back at the perfect being. Shota smiled warmly.
"I'm so glad you noticed."
And I do not own Shota! Or the basilisk :/ though I love them both.