I'm sorry that this one is really long, but it's VERY INTERESTING! In case you didn't know-
I OWN: Glandur, Lydia, Giligan Prowd, Demtrie, Trish, Aftan, Lilla, Danika Falls, Sierra, golge demons, Lydia's parents, the dark assassins, Takashi, 3 Princes, and the area known as Sprite Trees.
I DO NOT OWN: Yu Yu Hakusho, Legend of the Seeker, gars, Agaden Reach, Shota, Samuel, Midlands, wizards, basilisks and etc...
I apologize that I improvised Jin's accent and Shota's appearance, and Samuel's appearance.
Review! Thank you so much for the review Mary S. Jane, as you see, I don't get many. Thanks to kuramacherry to! I greatly appreciate it :D
"How did you know of all this?"
"Lydia, you should be able to answer that question." Lydia nodded and addressed the group without looking up.
"Shota is a powerful witch woman, and a psychic. She can see into the future, but only at what the outcome will be at a particular time. The future always changes, but she knows the gist of everything." Lydia finally looked up at her friends. "Shota, let them go," she said vehemently.
"Hold your tongue," the witch replied in the same manner. The vines and roots that held them to the ground lifted away and returned to their natural places. The snakes and spiders still wiggled and crawled around. Lydia glared at Shota.
"Would you really have me let down my defenses when you so graciously held yours high in the faces of those who called you 'friend'?" Shota gestured to Lydia's white garment. Lydia rubbed her arms under the chastisement.
"I'm sorry, Mistress." The entire valley seemed to fall still.
"Mistress?" Jin asked incredulously.
"Lydia, did you work for this woman?" Genkai inquired a little taken aback but not showing it.
"Yes," the girl complied softly. "She taught me many things about my power," she chuckled, "all the things that Demetrie didn't. He feared the Thryne."
"Darling," Shota suddenly spoke lovingly, "you can not keep up with this self blaming pity. It's gotten you into this mess," she waved over the unmoving group still under the weight of poisonous snakes. Kuwabara was crying by this time. Before Shota could continue, there was a loud screech.
Shota's head snapped up to the coming creatures. There were five flying, green, hairy beasts diving into the valley from over the mountains to which the grand place was hidden. Even at the distance, the Spirit Detective's gang and their two demon companions could tell that they were large predators with long razor sharp talons and cut throat fangs in a row of equally sharp teeth. Shota lifted the snake and spider curse from the group so they could fend for themselves. After all, leaving them there as statues to be broken was too cruel, how would they then save the worlds?
"Danika!" Lydia cried and covered her friend's body with her own.
"Do something!" Shota commanded at the others when the first beast of prey reached her.
Genkai shoved Touya onto the ground before one came up behind him and hooked the back of his neck in its ugly grasp. Touya stared, shocked at what nearly happened and shouted to Jin to be careful. The wind master gathered his tornado fists together around his wrists and ran into one of the ten foot structures. The beast was knocked several yards back, but not in the least finished.
Kuwabara battled one of the beasts with his spirit sword in hard core combat.
Kurama kept his distance, using his whip to who ever needed it the most at the given time, usually Touya because his ice had as good an effect as Hiei's sword did to the basilisk.
"Ice'll do no good, Touya!" Jin picked Touya up and used the air to propel them to off to the side, "betta stay hea," he smiled warmly before speeding off with a tornado fist to finish his opponent.
Kuwabara finally succeeded in slicing up his nasty antagonist. The stench of the boiling green blood was too much for him and he passed out.
Genkai and Kurama finished off one of the beasts in a gruesome attack that ending in the creature basically exploding and Kurama and Genkai were left without a single scratch.
Lydia shot lighting at one that came close to her and Danika. "Ah!" she screamed with terror. Boton and Yukina came out of no where and huddled beside the two Confessors.
"I'll try to help her," Yukina reasoned, reaching for Danika. Lydia backed off a minute and studied the brave ice maiden who clearly displayed her horror and determination in the matter at hand.
Boton screamed and threw her hands up whenever a creature came within 12 feet and Lydia would throw it back with orange lightning.
"Come on, Danika," she whispered desperately, kissing the said woman's forehead.
Two creatures flew up and dove down upon the group at once. Shota threw her hands out in two directions. A silver lighting wire hit both creatures and cooked them before they just evaporated into the surprisingly still fresh air.
"Ya! That'll teach ye!" Jin shouted enthusiastically to the beast he'd hit for the fifth time with his tornado fist. He was about to go in for another one when-
"SPIRIT GUN!"
- A blue blast passed just in front of his face and he stumbled back very stunned and wide eyed. The beast was cast into oblivion, still screeching deafeningly in rage and pain. Jin recovered after a moment. "Oi, Urameshi I 'ad that one."
"Ha, your welcome pal," Yusuke put his hands on his hips.
Shota looked at Yusuke. "I'm impressed, Yusuke."
"Well, thanks. You're not so bad yourself," he found himself saying, much to his dismay. His brows furrowed and he tried to think of a way to take back his comment and shoot a rude one. Shota gave an amused smile and turned back to Lydia.
Yukina's hands were emitting a blue light over the deeply sleeping Danika.
"Child, you'll never wake her that way," Shota walked over to her. The rest of the gang, alert, moved over to the five women. Touya coming up and sitting beside them. Shota placed a hand on Danika's head. "This way will take a while so do not move my hand," she started, "What is your name?"
"Mine?" Yukina asked, surprised and nervous.
"Yes," Shota smiled wonderfully at her, showing straight, white teeth in line with her beautiful face.
"Yukina…"
"You are a strong girl, I'm proud of you for coming over here to help Danika. I know the Mother Confessor will be greatly pleased when she wakes up."
"I thought Lydia was the Mother Confessor?" Kuwabara said, pinching his nose and appearing groggy from his little unexpected nap.
"Now," Shota nodded to Lydia, being friendly but giving an order. Lydia took a deep breath.
"The Mother Confessor is the most powerful Confessor of her generation. She is the most looked up to, most needed, and most feared by her people."
"Which is everyone," everyone stayed silent and paid full attention to the now waking Mother Confessor, Danika Falls. "There are male Confessors, but they are not to be kept alive because they will turn evil, no questions asked, no exceptions."
The group didn't quite understand this, except for Kurama, who eyed Lydia curiously. Lydia didn't show anything, only said for clarification,
"A male confessor would earn the happenings of all of Chapter Black."
Many of the boys gasped. Shota looked slightly confused, Lydia waved her hand over it.
"Chapter Black is a tape of all the worst humanity has ever committed on itself."
Shota nodded grimly.
"There'd be another Holocaust?" Kuwabara asked, concerned and horror struck.
"That is what I'm afraid of," Lydia finally touched her stomach.
"What?" Yusuke raised his eyebrows.
"I am not the Mother Confessor because I am not a Confessor," this didn't help Yusuke at all.
"Lydia is an image of a Confessor, Yusuke. Remember? She's part Confessor, Fire Demon, Wizard, and whatever the last fourth of her make up is," Kurama notified.
"Danika is the Mother Confessor, because she was born of Confessor family," Lydia smiled at her first best friend.
"Lydia is still a Confessor, only not just a Confessor. It is a little trying to understand," Shota agreed, standing up again. "Lydia is called a Mother Confessor due to the great power she possesses. She needs just as much protection as our natural Mother Confessor."
Just then, a loud screech made them all jump with surprise. What Yusuke thought was out of character was that Shota jumped in front of them all to shield them from the sixth beast's attack.
"I thought there were only five!" Kuwabara complained loudly and disappeared behind the other boys' backs but in front of the girls to keep his honor and some of his dignity.
Before any defense attacks were made, a black shape circled around the group. It was too fast for anyone to comprehend what it was. The beast stood stock still for a moment, frozen in its tracks. Little streams of blood stared trickling down its skin. In a few places, blood began to spit out and spatter the group. Abruptly, the whole body fell apart into a fifty piece, bloody massacre mess. Hiei was left standing nonchalantly and bored behind the heap.
"That was as easy as that obsessive idiot in the forest of dead things," he rolled his eyes.
"My, Samuel?" Shota challenged.
"Um, Hiei," Lydia made an extremely poor attempt to distract the new born issue.
"You killed my pet," Shota stated murderously.
"Hiei," Lydia said again calmly, placing a gently hand on his black clothed shoulder. He shrugged it off.
"What?"
"Where did you put them?" As Hiei turned around in a huff to bring out his discovery, Lydia begged Shota not to kill him. "They don't know anything about this place except that you are not to be messed with. We need him," she whispered fiercely. "And you didn't tell me gars were this close to the midlands!" she said, referring to the creatures.
"It's worse than that," Danika replied, "Those were the last of the long tailed gars."
"Are there short tailed gars?" Yusuke asked.
"Oh, yes," Lydia exhaled knowingly.
"They are the fastest, more murderous, and now they are the only ones left," Danika raised her eyebrows and voice. Lydia groaned. Shota didn't say anything.
"You mean these?" Hiei asked tauntingly, bringing out two frightened women and one angry woman with her hands and legs tied up and a gag in her mouth.
"Danika!" the two women with the liberty to speak cried out. Danika held her arms out. They looked to the tough and intimidating Hiei before shrugging to each other and running over to the Mother Confessor.
"I told you I'd find you," she laughed to them.
"I think it's time for an introduction," Shota suggested with another special amused smirk. The gagged woman made a noise and Hiei growled at her.
Kurama nodded. "Right. I'm Kurama, this is Yusuke, Kuwabara, Genkai, and over there, as you've met, is Hiei."
"Ello, I'm Jin!"
"Danika, of course."
"No need to restate the obvious," Shota passed on.
"I'm Boton, and this pretty thing is Yukina!"
"Um, thanks Boton," Yukina smiled sweetly.
"Oh, you're so beautiful," Kuwabara went over and took Yukina's hand. They blushed furiously.
"I'm Lydia," Lydia stood away from the group, smiled and gave a small wave.
"My name is Touya," he moved over and stood beside Lydia, wrapping an arm around her. "You two must be two of the five Confessors we request help from."
The girls looked up to Danika. Danika seemed to be the tallest of the Confessors.
"My name is Aftan," the one with a blonde pony tail and adorable brown eyes spoke up first.
"Mine is Sierra," she held her hand out to shake Lydia's. Her ocean blue eyes smiled happily at them all. Her hair was short and auburn. She looked at Kurama and smiled sheepishly. "I've never met another red head before," she told them quietly. They all laughed.
"Then it's a pleasure to be the first," he smiled and took her hand and shook it like a gentleman.
"Great, we have three of the five," said Genkai.
"Four," spat the woman whom Hiei had kindly gagged with a cloth from her too long gray dress fashioned after Shota's but not nearly as attractive. Her mousy dirty blonde hair looked like a mop around her head. "And I'm not going to help you," she smirked evilly.
"Now hold up, why not?" Lydia asked, annoyed with the demeanor of this confessor.
"I serve my Mistress. I don't help anyone, and I don't leave."
"Now why would Shota take in any one as dependent and self absorbed as you?"
"You dare speak her name!" the girl shouted angrily. Hiei looked to both women, deciding whether or not he should shut up this Trish.
"Your Mistress and I go father back than you think. At least we're on a first name basis."
Trish clamped her mouth shut into a thin, agitated line. It was crystal clear that she would not help them unless forced and she highly disliked Lydia. "You left my Mistress."
"She was never under my instruction, Trish. Calm yourself," Shota finally spoke to the frazzled confessor who blinked at her.
"Mistress," the girl complained, "this stupid boy tied me up. Will you release me?" Shota waved a hand over her dress first to magically clean off the blood from the creature, then waved in the direction of Trish. Trish's bindings came clear.
Lydia studied Trish carefully, eyes never leaving the woman's suddenly kind appearing face.
"Thank you," she smiled at Shota and swayed. Then before anyone could blink, except for the Confessors, Trish held Hiei by the throat.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Shota warned quickly when Hiei reached to his scabbard. He looked at them, then to the girl who, embarrassing enough, held him hostage.
"Let him go, Trish," Lydia commanded, sauntering over to the two. No one else moved, they didn't know what was going to happen.
"Step any closer and I'll confess him," the girl smirked, holding Hiei still in her gaze. No one saw it, Trish didn't sense it, but Lydia was suddenly behind her.
"Confess him and I'll confess you," Lydia's voice was dark and suddenly close to Trish. Trish glanced out of the corner of her eye to see Lydia's hand ready to snatch her throat if she so much let out a breath. "The things I'll have you do for me, Trish," Lydia drawled, taunting dangerously.
Trish was flirting with fate. She glared back at Hiei.
"He will not harm me."
"Hiei, will stay still," Lydia ordered in respect of the two opposite lives involved in this argument. Trish threw Hiei onto the ground and Lydia grabbed Trish's neck anyway.
"Lydia," Shota addressed her.
"I don't see why you would put up with such a slimy servant," Lydia turned Trish's head to the side, "that's all you are really, a confessor given up on her duties."
"We captured the other confessors so there would be no rivalry between worlds to create bitches like you," Trish smiled, gleefully. Lydia turned her head back to face her. Trish's eyes widened and she stumbled back at the force of Lydia's hand when Lydia slapped her across the face. Trish looked back slightly fearful.
"Don't worry, you will not be coming with us." Lydia turned on her heel, took Hiei's hand, and led him back to the group.
"Mistress!" Trish called, "We must take our prisoners back! And what's a few more servants," she gestured cruelly to the rest.
"Can it, Trish." Trish looked stunned at her Mistress. Her hands fell to her sides.
"Wh- excuse me?"
"These Confessors were never my prisoners, they were yours. I would not have treated them so but I could not know where you kept them because those assassin men from the portal came and asked me. I had to play it as safe as I could," she'd then turned back to Lydia and Danika.
"I could not directly help the Confessors," she pulled Sierra and Aftan to her in a brief hug, "If I knew where they were hidden, we'd all be dead right now. Though Trish could have been more original with the hiding place," she scolded. Trish stared, mouth agape.
"You USED me?"
"Servant," Lydia reminded uncaringly.
"Why, you-" Trish started toward Lydia who braced herself to kill the twit. Shota snapped her fingers at the girl and Trish found she couldn't move or, to everyone's pleasure… couldn't speak.
"I only took you because Samuel needed a wrangler."
Sierra giggled. "He was a little rowdy, wasn't he sis?" Aftan smirked in response and put an arm around Sierra. Yukina walked up to them.
"Would you like me to heal your scratches?" The two in question looked down on their smudged with dirt skin and cuts. They nodded.
"So you two are sisters?" Yukina struck up a short conversation. Aftan began chatting with the teal haired Yukina. Sierra looked around.
"Where's Lilla?"
"Lilla's dead…" Danika said sadly, picking at her long sleeved white apparel. "I was at her funeral, heart hounds got her out in the Sprite Trees."
Lydia looked to Danika, "I'm so sorry."
"Not as sorry as I am," the Mother Confessor turned to the unnatural Mother Confessor with tears in her eyes, "Now we're two people short on saving trillions." Danika started to shake, crying softly.
The three appropriate Confessors comforted her lovingly.
"Numbers is all you have now," Shota gathered her elegant gray dress and walked over to a bird bath. She looked into the water for a moment.
"Lydia come walk with me." Lydia left the others to do as they pleased and converse with one another. Finding a common ground would help them to fight together more effectively.
They walked through the exquisite forest in awe. Shota lived there all the time and she never got over its natural beauty.
"I suppose you'd like to know if you're pregnant?" she stated, more than asked, to start the conversation. Lydia took in the environment around her, wondering if she'd survive to see something like it again.
"I am worried… this place hasn't changed a bit," she was pleased to admit.
The two continued slowly, quietly, blissfully.
"The things they did to you… I really am sorry," Shota admitted, looking at the made Mother Confessor.
She just nodded solemnly, "I know," she gave a weak smile. Shota put an arm around the woman's shoulders.
"You are not pregnant." Lydia let out a sigh of relief. She closed her eyes so her nose could pick up the earthy smell easier.
"There is something inside of you though."
"The resistance," Lydia's unemotional voice confirmed.
"I've never seen anything like it in my years."
"That's a lot," Lydia exhaled, eyes still closed but raising her eyebrows.
"It isn't something you'll ever get rid of," Lydia thought about this a long time, "You were born with this symbiote of darkness." Lydia stopped.
"Symbiote?"
"Yes. I expect it to be something sensitive to light."
"I wouldn't know, I have no idea what you mean honestly." Shota thought for a moment, watching Lydia. She looked her up and down, noticing the girl was nervous again.
"Ask your friend Kurama," Lydia looked up, "I have a strong feeling he knows."
"I think I must be sick."
"What dear? I think you're fine."
"No," Lydia struggled to breath, "I feel…h-hot and…" Shota slowly turned to face the girl. Her face was twisted in pain and confusion. Shota spotted a wriggling something under Lydia's clothes.
"Not snakes or spiders," the witch noted. She quickly caught Lydia who had begun to fall and carried her back to the group.
The congregation looked at her suspicious and startled.
"Get out of here, Lydia needs to get out of here. She needs help."
"What kind of help?" Yusuke took the nearly unconscious patient.
"I'm not sure," Shota smoothed out her dress. "Trish, go with them."
"I don't think so!"
"Now!" Shota bellowed before turning and running off into a tunnel opening. Yusuke ran after her and led the group out into Agaden Reach again.
"Continue down this path, hurry, because the portal has just let out more killers and Lydia doesn't have time!" Shota paused to stroke Lydia's sweaty forehead.
"Yusuke…" she struggled.
"Don't talk, Lydia," Yusuke looked around the others frantically.
"Yusuke…"
"What?" he looked back to her, concerned.
"You're hurting my… b-back!" she gasped and tried to leap out of his arms. He fought to keep hold of her.
"Let her go, she'll confess you in this state. She's unstable, protect her by any means, but don't touch her!" The forest filled with sounds from animals unseen being alerted to presences also unseen. "Trish, take them to the fields before the moon's shine appears. Heart hounds are hungry this time of year." Shota left them in a rush and they darted through the woods.
Trish ran through the trees, leading them to their new destination. She brought them to a cliff side. There was a river and lots of greenery below, as well as scary looking rocks. She looked across to the other side where the wildlife started up again because the Reach could not drain the life from something it couldn't reach.
"How do we get across to the fields?" Yusuke asked. Lydia was wavering, looking down at the torrential river.
Trish looked around, most of the group was on the other side.
"You don't," she said and pushed Lydia over the side of the cliff.
"Lydia!" Yusuke shouted and took a dive after her.
"YUSUKE!" several voices called as he tumbled down in a rock slide before hitting the bank. He didn't rest a moment before picking his battered body back up and chasing Lydia's body downstream.
Danika gave Trish a murderous glare while most everyone else took off down the rocks after Yusuke and Lydia. Hiei and Genkai stayed behind with Danika.
"How could you be such an ass?" Genkai asked of the confessor. Trish smiled at Danika and blew her a kiss. Hiei took out his katana and made a swing at her. Trish threw neon green lightning at him. The shock made him drop his weapon and singed his hand. He snarled up at her. She laughed and backed away.
"Better go after them before something else does."
"Let the gars eat your soul," Genkai reasoned and took off.
"Lydia, right?" Trish asked in regard to Danika's unwavering glare. "She's probably drowned by now, look at those rushing currents!" she giggled joyfully.
Her shrill laughter stopped when the sound of howling reached her ears. She looked up to the sky and her smile began to fail.
"The sun is setting," Danika informed her, Hiei leapt off into the trees. Trish whirled around, eyes popping with terror. "Now the dogs can have you," Danika smirked. With that, the Mother Confessor turned at left the confessor to her much deserved fate.
"Please!" Trish called down to her. "AHHH!" they all heard her blood curdling scream. Kurama, Genkai, Danika, Jin, and Aftan even saw the hounds tear her apart, limb from limb, flesh from bones.
Danika just shrugged to those around her and ran down after Yusuke. The tragedy now over with, they all snapped back into common sense and followed like wise.
Lydia heard the last of Trish's screams.
She couldn't keep her eyes open because the water was lapping over her. She kept her legs out apart in front of her, something she'd learned on basic survival from her father when she was little and went on fishing trips. She couldn't even laugh at his knack for dangerous fishing. She was too busy breathing when she could, relishing in the cooling water, and enjoying the absence of pressure paining her back.
Being blind, she didn't see the sharp rock ahead of her. Her right leg slammed into it. She was somehow sent up over the rock and head first into the rushing, violent water. She was tossed this way and that, held under water mercilessly for periods of time gasping every time her head finally broke the waves.
Her right leg felt numb and she couldn't do much of anything but beg that it would all be over soon. Just when she'd all but given up, she saw a thick vine growing in the side of the opposing cliff from where she once stood. She grasped it and with great difficulty pulled herself up onto a large rocky surface two feet above the crashing water.
She laid there, barely breathing and soaking wet for about five minutes when someone suddenly appeared by her.
She heard the sound of ice cracking and giving way as the water pushed it down stream where she was glad not to have been dragged. Touya knelt beside her, scared for her life.
"Lydia," he kept saying.
She looked over to him, "I'm here," she choked.
"Oh, thank God!" he breathed. He spared her an exhausted smile which she returned with a pained one. He went to touch her forehead.
"AH!" she screamed. He jerked his hand away.
"What? What is it?"
"You're going to freeze my body if you touch me," she lightly chuckled, telling him wearily, disappointedly. He sighed and looked into her pale green eyes. 'They used to be so soft and kind,' he remembered. Hiei jumped down from an unknown location.
"Lydia, can you breathe?"
"Yes."
"Hurt anywhere?"
"All over," she complained. He nodded and picked her up.
If she had truly been hurt, she'd have given a specific spot. He caught site of her badly bruised leg and made a mental note to get Yukina to fix it. Hiei and Touya stood.
Touya cut down excess plant life with Hiei's katana so they could get to the cave Hiei mentioned they could all spend the night in.
Hiei clutched Lydia's wet, slippery body to him. She had long given up staying awake and he kept her warm as the coming night air grew very cold. He watched Touya swing his sword.
"Couldn't you have used your own of ice?" he complained.