Presented to us, lying in a black box, were four masks; a red one, a black one, a white one and a golden one. Each one perfectly created out of clay that had been in a kiln and then painted with upmost care. Mine was a golden waka-onna Noh mask. The boys had Ju-Ruko masks.
"You all know the plan?" Yaman said, watching as we placed the masks over our faces to hide our true identities. Each of us nodded, lifting the hoods to our robes and placing them onto our heads. The plan had been being driven into our skulls for the last three weeks; there was nothing that could go wrong.
We smiled and bowed to Yaman and then walked towards our horses. Nodding to each other, we mounted them and set off into our separate directions, our individual orders in our minds.
The mare's hooves hit the ground as she ran, I could feel her strong muscles working beneath me as I leaned down, allowing my hood to slip back until I reached my destination. My long blonde hair flowed behind me; the only sound was the heaving breathing of the horse and her hooves hitting the ground with force.
An hour passed at that same speed, the horse getting energy from the same place that I was. As we reached the gate, I slowed her down and pulled my hood back up. Stopping her completely, I slid off her back and headed under the gates, smirking at all the headstones before me.
The skirt of my robes slid along the ground as I stepped under the supposed barrier from bad things and the dead. I was getting in just fine, thank you.
"Wake up, my children." I say quietly, raising my hands up as a golden light seems to seep from the tips of my fingers, a shard of light dancing over each of the spots where the dead were buried. I walked slowly down the main aisle, the light dancing over each of them, until I got to the older graves.
They would be a waste of time.
Under ground, I could feel the shifting as those that were buried forced themselves up through the ground, a few of them reaching the top faster.
"You have work to do." I whisper, as some of them go to the top, crawling out of their graves. They followed me as I mounted my horse, and headed into the nearby town.
It was a perfect little town for our first attack. There was fewer than one thousand, not including the re-animated dead. They were cut off from the rest of the world, and they didn't have a strong police force. Maybe twenty guns at the most, not that it would hurt us any.
They were silent as they followed me, except for their feet shuffling along the ground. Ahead of me, I could hear people fighting, without the doubt it was Ki getting his mood shifting on. A few dead bodies were on the ground, some of them were as thin as poles, and others had giant holes in their bodies from a disease.
Upon seeing these dead people, a few members of my undead army dropped to the ground and started eating these dead. But the majority of them continued to follow me into the city, and moved towards the people that were in deep fights.
Blood was everywhere, and soon I was joined by the others. Each of us sat on our horses, looking at the chaos unfolding in front of us. An explosion happened somewhere a distance away from us, and we just laughed.
"It's a nice day." I commented, a chuckle coming from Ki as we watched a man with a sludge hammer going at one of the dead. Within a second he was being overtaken by them. "I wonder how they'll explain this in the news."
"They'll probably claim that a disease is happening and people lost their damn minds, killing each other and digging up the dead." Yaddo said with a laugh, tilting his head back as he spoke.
"It's beautiful." Ki said, for once he genuinely sounded at ease. I felt as though I should have been nervous, but ever since I was given the necklace, I was content with all this.
"Hey!" The familiar voice hit me like a brick, as I quickly turned my head. A distance behind us was the exact people that I dreaded.
Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara stood behind us, looking as though they were prepared to kick our asses. My heart felt as though it was going to come popping out of my mouth as I saw Kurama standing there. At least they didn't know who I was.
"Catch us if you can." Ki said, letting out a hardy laugh as he kicked his stallion into a full run, the rest of us taking off after him. Hiei was fast, but he wasn't as fast as we were. That didn't seem to bother any of them, as they took off after us, killing a few of the undead as they followed.
Turning my head, I saw Yusuke pause, his fingers in that position of him about to use his spirit gun. When it went off, it was an unbelievable burst of light, bigger than his usual. I raised my hand and deflected the spirit blast, as we disappeared into the night, leaving the Spirit Detective in the city.
"How did they fucking know!" Ki yelled inside of the mansion, looking as though he was about to break everything in the room. Each one of us was sitting in large chairs, drinking some fine wine as we celebrated our win. Even if it did end up with a big flaw at the end.
"Without a doubt, someone in this room either used their strengths outside of the group, or they told someone about it." Yaman said, looking around the room as he waited for one of us to admit it.
It could've easily been me, I knew about all of them, I had been friends with one since childhood. But it wasn't me, and I hadn't used a single ability given to me by Yaman without the rest of the group. We were detectable then, it was just one of us instead of four. We worked as a group, not as individuals, we couldn't.
"No one?" He asked, sounding disappointed that one of us was lying. But none the less, we celebrated.
Author's note:
Two in one day!
I guess I'm kind of awesome, rn.
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