Witchy Things Happen

Chapter 7 Fights, pain and Healing.

Hello everyone! waves happily! Here is the seventh chapter to "Witchy Things Happen" :) I hope that you enjoy it :) I will be working on chapter eight today/tonight, hopefully I can get it done by tonight/tomrrow morning, but I make no promises and guartee's ;) :D Until chapter eight comes out I hope you enjoy this one and check out my newest one-shot titled "I Need You, By My Side, Always" it's a Yu Yu Hakusho one-shot, you'll have to check it out to see who is paired up with who ;) :D Well later! Have fun with this chapter ! Bye waves happily:)

Hoshi didn't know what to do. Demaness had captured Quatre and was holding him by the throat, dangling there. Hoshi didn't know what to do, if she made a move her adopted brother might get hurt, she didn't want that, that was the last thing she wanted.

"Lets let big brother sit here while we continue our little fight." Demaness said. She snapped her fingers and Quatre reappeared sitting against a big pillar all chained up.

"Quatre!" Hoshi screamed as she reached her hand out to him, even though he was far from her hand. "No...I won't let you get away with this Demaness." Hosh said as she shook and then looked up to meet Demaness eyes and you could see tears streaming down her face, but this look now was full of rage and anger. She would not let her big brother get hurt.

Hoshi started out in a sprint and then jumped up into the air and landed in front of Demaness, she got ready to block Hoshi's attack but she was surprised when Hoshi dropped down to the ground swiftly and quickly grab her glaive and then back flipped away as Demaness let a bunch of ice shards come forth from her opened palm. A couple of the shards hit their target, but they were minor compared to the cuts Hoshi had received from Demaness sai's.

Hoshi thought, If I can get in front of Quatre I can use my shield to protect him and then I could motion the guys and they could get him...better than nothing. Okay! Lets do this Hoshi!

Hoshi made another run at Demaness and when she jumped up Demaness was expecting her to try and land an attack, in stead she did a flip and landed right in front of Quatre.

Hoshi thought Score!Demaness laughed and started to launch her attack of ice shards. Hoshi was quick though with her shield "Light of hope, shadows of doubt, I ask you to protect this person behind me."As Hoshi finished chatting her shield spell. A light blue light shielded Hoshi and Quatre from the front.

"Demaness laughed "Very good, I see they taught you a upper level spell. They normally don't do that but I guess your were a special case, weren't you."

Hoshi looked over at Duo and nodded her head back to Quatre.

Duo titled his head at her and then it came to him! She was shielding Quatre so they could come around the back and get him out of there! Duo motioned for the other four to follow him.

Duo smiled and whispered as they made their way over to the back of the shield, hiding in the shadows and behind pillars "Smart thinking Hoshiko"

As they made it to Quatre, Trowa looked up and saw that Hoshi's hand, that she was using to hold up the shield and keep the spell up, was starting to shake a bit.

Trowa thought I wonder excally what this spell does to her if she leaves this shield up too long? His thoughts were ended as they got Quatre out of those chains, thank Heero for always carring a mini blow torch with him.

Before they left though Quatre stopped and grabbed Hoshi's shoulder and said "Come on Hoshi, lets get out of here."

Hoshi turned her head back to smile at her big brother and shook her head and said "I can't go until I beat her to a pulp. You guys go. I'll hold her off while you get out of here. Go Now! I can't hold this shield up much longer!"

Duo came up behind Quatre and tried to argue with Hoshi "But you just can't..." Hoshi took the hand she had free and punched him on the side of his face. He fell, stunned that she just did that, to him! Quatre blinked and saw that she tried to smile and that she also looked sorry for hitting Duo but it was all she could do to convince them to get their butts out of there.

As Heero helped Duo off the floor Quatre walked up to the group and said "Lets go." and he started to run for the front door. The others followed.

Hoshi was glad they were going to get out of there safe and sound.

Just as they reached the door and Trowa reached out for the handle Demaness laughed loudly and evilly and spreaded her arms out in front of her and said "Their not going anywhere except maybe to their deaths!" Just as Demaness said this a large piece of a pillar started to fall and straight for Duo and Quatre!

Hoshi knew she wouldn't be able to reach it in time but as the chunk of pillar got closer Trowa leaped in front of the two and pushed them away. The pillar ended up pinning just his legs under it. But now they were stuck, with Trowa immobile they wouldn't be able to get out of there.

Hoshi, now bleeding and weak from using her shield spell, wasn't sure what else she could to help her friends/family. She had to think fast, or else Demaness would kill them, like her family, and she didn't think she could take that, that again.

"Hoshi, why don't you give up and join my side, it's soo much better to be evil and destroy things and people lives, you feel soo much better." Demaness said as she closed her eyes and raised her head to the ceiling, as if enjoying talking about that sort of thing.

Hoshi got mad and gritted her teeth and yelled to Demaness "No! I will never join your side, I could never destroy a life or a place that people live. It would be soo wrong and it would break my heart and my soul would be forever broken." Hoshi lowered her head and she started to shake and she said in a lower weaker voice "No...I just couldn't do that, not after all the good me and Sky have done, I can't go and.." She brought her head up with such determination and said "No! I won't!" Hosh leaped to her feet and readied her glaive to attack Demaness.

Demaness smiled and blocked Hoshi's attack and she said "Well...it looks like your becoming weaker and weaker. I can block your attacks easier now. And I get bored with weak people. I think I'll take my leave." As demaness said this she started to rise from the ground and toward the ceiling.

She then said as she stopped in mid air "But I'll leave you with a sweet present, knowing you couldn't save your friends, hahahaha!!" With that Demaness created a ball of strong energy and flung it at the g-boys.

Hoshi's eye's widen! She was soo weak, she didnn't think she could make it in time! Her friends would die because of...Young Guardian, you have the power and the strength to save your friends, believe in your power and your love for them, that is your greatest strength, your love for them. You can do it.

There was a voice in Hoshi's head and she had no idea where it was coming from. But she knew she had to trust and believe in the words that the voice had said to her. She can save her friends, she just had to believe and use her love to power her up.

"I can do this." Hoshi whispered to herself, and started to float and then she took off, her feet inches off the ground, at a high speed toward her friends.

The ball of strong energy was flying faster and faster to wards them! Hoshi's heart was beating faster and faster, she could make it, but she had this little bit of fear that she wouldn't, but she had to... she just had to.

As the ball reached a mere foot from the men, Hoshi cried out with all her heart and soul "Noooo!" and she stopped right in front of them just as the ball of energy hit her, placing her hands in front of her, palms facing the ball of energy. She looked back as far as she could without letting the ball of energy pass and said to Sky, who was in Quatre's tux pocket, "Sky! transform! I need your other forms strength, you gotta lift that piece of marble off of Trowa...Hurry! I don't know how much longer I can hold this much energy off...grrrr!!" Hoshi gritted her teeth, she had to hold on a bit longer...just a bit longer..."Sky! hurry!" just as she said this Sky had just finished transforming into his bigger from and was lifting the piece of marble off of Trowa. Just as he flung it to the side, Hoshi let go of the ball of energy as the g-boys quickly dashed to the side and took cover from the explosion.

As the boys rose to their feet they looked to where Hoshi was but she wasn't there, standing anyways. The saw her sitting almost laying down on the ground, she was on all fours and it seemed like she was breathing very heavily. Sky rushed over to her, still in his larger form.

He bent down with his head and rubbed it against her head, "Sk...Sky...are they...are they okay?" She breathed heavily, as if she had just got done running a marathon.

Sky replied with a sad "Yes, they are all fine. Though the quiet one might need a couple of days of recuperation, that marble was heavy." Sky said as he lifted his head up, and Hoshi struggled to stand on her legs, which were weak and wobbly.

The boys approached Hoshi and Duo and Quatre came up on each side of her and helped support her, to make sure she wouldn't fall from her legs buckling on her.

Duo looked down at Hoshi and tried his best to smile and said with as much positive attitude as he could muster "You did great Hoshiko, that was soo awesome."

Hoshi looked up at the man that she loved and smiled and said "Thankx Duo, that really makes me feel better, I haven't used that much energy in quiet a while, well neither of us have, me or Sky. It's... a while since we faced someone that strong. To be honest I didn't think I was going to make it in... time to stop that ball of energy, but I did. And I'm happy..." She was getting tired and didn't know how much longer she would be able to stay conscious "...I...was...able...to..." Duo was looking at her worriedly, and so was Quatre, even Wufei seamed worried and the most shocking, Heero had a bit of a worried look on his face as well.

Trowa just frowned and looked to the side, he knew that Duo loved Hoshi and if anything would to happen to her well he didn't know what Duo would do. Hoshi finally finished her sentence with the last bit of energy she had left "...save you guys." the last bit was said in a hush tone and very tiredly and she let her head fall limp in the two men's arms. Duo looked at her and asked "Hoshi! are you okay. Hey!" he shook her gently, his eyes were wide with worry.

Sky approached the group and walked up to Duo and Quatre and said in a calm and collect manner "She'll be fine, she just used too much energy for one fight. She just needs some rest. Why don't you ride on my back and hold onto her to make sure she doesn't fall off on our flight back to the mansion." Sky said as he motion for Duo to hop on his back, which he did, and held onto Hoshi with great care and gentleness. Quatre smiled at Sky and said "Fly safely, we'll meet you back at the mansion in a few." Sky nodded his head before he took off toward the hole in the glass ceiling and made his way to the Winner mansion.

The light, it was soo bright, and it hurt her eyes. She opened her eyes half way and just stared at the ceiling. She couldn't remember anything at the moment, she had just woke up, or was she dead and she just forgot? She was afraid of opening her eyes all the way. She couldn't be dead, and the guys, she could barely remember saving them from that ball of energy. Was that all a dream and she was dead now? Was she unable to save the people she loved, again? She took a chance and opened her eyes all the way and looked to the side of her and then to the other side to find Duo fast asleep on her bed, his body sitting in a chair and his arms and head laying on her bed, next to her hand, and she squeezed her hand to find that he had both of his hands holding her one hand, in a firm grip, but not too firm. She smiled and wanted to cry, she would have to leave, but she didn't want to leave this kind and funny man, that she had come to love soo much in such a short period of time. But that is love for you. So unexpected and so quick to come up on you, like a bolt of lighting your not expecting to strike you but it does and with such force that you are blinded and knocked off of your feet and out of breath. She would not let her friends and this man she loved so much come to any more danger, that she could make sure of. She was still weak but if she spread out the number of times she used her protection spell it wouldn't affect her bodies energy as much, though it was risky, considering she was still weak from that fight with Demanesses, but she could risk it, she didn't know the next time that evil women would threaten her friends and Duo again. She turned onto her side, and winched as it hurt to move but did so anyways, she curled up, bringing her legs up to her chest and took her other hand and held it over Duo's hand, she placed her forehead on her hand that was on top of his and closed her eyes so that she could concentrate on the spell. She took a deep breath and as she did so Duo stirred in his sleep and was starting to wake up. He squeezed her hand, to make sure she was still there, but he was still half asleep.

Hoshi smiled and then went back to her concentration state and started to whisper the spell "This person whom I care for, danger might come for them. Take my power and give it to this person, a shield of protection from all evil."

She smiled as she finished the spell and as she did Duo was fully awake and looking at her, with his head still on the bed, she just giggled and hugged his head to her chest, to feel his warmth and love flow into her soul and heart.

They fell back to sleep, like that, with his head hugged into her chest, they were both warmed by each other's presence.

She would have to place that same spell on the rest of the guys at different times of the day today.

It was late afternoon by the time the two love dovey's woke up, but they woke up to a knock on the door, which Duo wished hadn't happened. He groaned and cuddled against Hoshi's chest some more, and hugged her body closer to him...wait! Since when was he laying on her bed and holding her whole body to him! Duo's eye's snapped open and he looked down. At some point of the night he had climbed from the chair he was sitting on and onto her bed and she at some point had cuddled up against him. He calmed down and just settled back down into the warmth that was Hoshiko, a girl he loved with all his heart.

Knock! Knock!...There it was again! Couldn't anyone let them sleep in peace for once! Duo sat up mumbling something about how they should be able to have their privacy til they decided they wanted company. Hoshi sat up and winced a bit, still soar from the fight. Duo looked at her before he opened the door and she just shook her head, and smiled, letting him know she would be fine.

When Duo opened the door Quatre and Heero stood there, hand in hand. Duo had to smile, he was glad that his two friends were happy and were able to convey their feelings for each other, after all, isn't that what love is about, loving that person no matter what? Or at least that is what he had heard Hoshi say or someone told him she had said that at one time.

Quatre smiled and looked past Duo to see Hoshi Struggling to get off the bed. Quatre looked up at Heero, squeezed his hand and after Heero smiled down at him and nodded Quatre went over to help Hoshi off the bed. Heero took Duo out in the hall way to talk to him in private.

Hoshi saw this and knew that this was a perfect time to place the spell on Quatre. Quatre helped her to her feet and gently swung an arm over his shoulders and he let her lean on him as he made his way to the bathroom so he could check on her injuries.

On the way to the bathroom though Hoshi had said to Quatre "Quatre, could we stop, I'm getting a little winded."

Quatre smiled, nodded his head, stopped walking towards the bathroom and gave Hoshi some time to rest, or at least that is what he thought he was doing. He was actually giving her some time to cast her protection spell on him. She leanded in closer to his body and placed her cheek on his arm.

Quatre looked down in worry and asked "Are you okay?"

Hoshi just smiled and nodded her head. She started to concentrate on the words and her love for this man that was like a big brother to her. She smiled and then took a deep breath and whispered "This person whom I care for, danger might come for them. Take my power and give to this person, a shield of protection from all evil." After she was done she got a little winded and was panting a bit. Performing this spell twice took a bit more than she thought out of her, if she wasn't careful she could pass out.

Quatre looked down, she was panting, when did she start doing that??

She looked up and said to Quatre "Okay...lets continue." They made their way to the bathroom and he checked her injuries and added new bandages where they were needed.

Heero stared at Duo and then said "We have to place guards around here, encase that crazy women comes back, Hoshi isn't healed enough to fight a second time." Duo just looked down at the ground and then back up and his eyes looked to the side as he said "I know...we have to protect her. She protected us at the ball, now it's our turn to protect her." Heero nodded his head in agreement. Heero then said "I'll talk to Quatre, see if we can get some guards on the outside." Duo nodded and that is when the door to Hoshi's room opened. Hoshi and Quatre came out, with Quatre giving her support. Heero looked at Hoshi and quirked his eyebrows as if saying 'what are you doing out of bed when you should be resting' look.

Hoshi just smiled up at him and said as she gave him this annoyed look "If I stay in that room any longer i will go nuts. And let me tell you, nuts and me don't really go well together." She smiled wide.

Heero just shook his head and said "Lets go."

Hoshi blinked and asked "where?"

Heero simply said "Food for you."

Hoshi just smiled. Heero may be one of two of the men that at times he was a man of few words, but that was Heero, but all in all he was a good and kind man, he just had his own way of showing his kindness and gentle side. For example, you would rarely see Heero Yuy, the perfect ex solider smile but when it came to Quatre Winner he could smile all day long, but would never let anyone else see that smile, for it was only for his love, Quatre.

Hoshi was seated at the kitchen table. Hoshi Had her head in her arms but all in all she was fine, except for minor pains she would get here and there, if she moved the wrong way, or what her body thought was the wrong way, she would get a shooting pain, but the medicine that Quatre had used to apply to her injuries would be kicking in any minuet now. She just sighed and looked over at Heero making lunch and Quatre helping out. She smiled, she was so very glad her friends were happy, she would be sad if they weren't. Duo had got up to get a glass of water and sat right back down next to her. He gently took one of his hands and started to rub her back. She sighed in complete happiness and her body turned into jello. About that time is when Sky came lazily in the kitchen and flew lazily over to where Hoshi and Duo were sitting.

Sky landed with a sigh as he landed on Hoshi's head and he curled up on her head in a little ball of blue fur. He moaned and then said "Hungry. Need food."

Hoshi just giggled and Duo just laughed. Sky just sighed again and somehow fell back to sleep on top of Hoshi's head.

Hoshi blinked when she heard the sound of snoring and looked up without moving her head and noticed that the snoring was coming from Sky. Hoshi giggled and Duo got up close to Sky and just stared at the little ball of fur that was snoring on top of Hoshi's head, his whole body rose and fell with each breath he took. It was the most cutest and funniest sight one could have witnessed.

Heero looked over at the two watching Sky snoring and just slightly smiled. Yes, this girl was something to watch and certainly pay attention to, her ways of doing things and her sense of honor and the way she thought of the right and wrongs, it was as if she was part of the family here. Yes, he couldn't lie and say he would never think of her as family, for after she stood up for him and Quatre in the park, that had defiantly changed things between him and Hoshi. Yes, she was like a sister to him and he noticed as she continuously was around Quatre that Quatre himself thought of her as a sister as well.

"Lunch is ready." Heero said from across the kitchen.

Hoshi smiled tiredly and nudged Sky with her forefinger to wake him up "Come on Sky, the food is ready."

As everyone looked on curiously they could see two wolf ears perk up at the mention of the word food. And he stretched and yawned then said "Hmmm...I'm soo hungry."

Heero brought over the food with help from his love Quatre. "Hoshi." he said as he placed a plate with a sandwich and some chips and a bowl of fruit in front of her.

He set a sandwich that was similar except that the bowl of fruit was different from Hoshi's.

Quatre sat down a mini plate with a mini sandwich and a mini bowl with little chunks of fruit in it.

Quatre helped serve the rest of the food and then he and Heero brought over the drinks for everyone.

It was late afternoon and Quatre was in the living room looking at the paper and had the radio on and the song "Eighth World Wonder" was on. Heero was there, leaning against Quatre's arm, his back against Quatre's arm, Heero was also reading but it was a gun magazine.

Hoshi entered the living room and saw what the both of them were reading. When she saw what kind of material Heero was reading she just shook her head and smiled, some people just don't change. Hoshi made her way over to the two young men, limping as she went and she knew when she stopped Heero would have something to say about her being out of bed so early. And what do you know, she was right.

Heero looked up from his magazine and gave her that death stare that said 'If you don't get your butt back in bed I'll carry you there myself' look. Hoshi just giggled a bit and smiled, knowing that Heero would give her that kind of attitude, he was such a big brother, he had the OBBS which stood for Overprotective Big Brother Syndrome. Heero kept on giving her that stare and she kept on smiling, finally Quatre put down his paper, he was looking over it at the two looking at each other.

Quatre sighed and looked up at Hoshi with smile and said "Do you need something Hoshi, and you know you shouldn't be out of bed, you have to give your injuries some time to heal before you go walking around and making them worse." Hoshi smiled and then pouted and thoughtCorrection, now I have to big brothers with OBBS. Boy if they knew I was using a protection spell on them the would really flip, exspecually if they knew how much energy it took. Better not get caught by Quatre and defiantly not by Heero. By this point she was thinking to herself to the point that both the boys were giving her a look like she should go back to bed that she was getting a bit out of it in the head, but she was just thinking to herself.

Heero sighed and stood up "What is it you want, spill it and then head straight back to bed."

Hoshi smiled wide, she didn't know how to get that spell placed on him without him hearing and without him noticing something was up. How to do this. She thought as she looked down at the floor to think of something and something quick, they would think something was really up if she took too long to come up with something to get her and her big brother a lone. She had gotten the spell placed on Quatre and Duo, now all that there were left were Wufei, Trowa, Heero and one big spell on the house and the rest of the people in it. But the one big spell would have to wait about a day or two, after these small ones's she would need time to get some rest and boy would she sleep too!

She thought to herselfWhat the hell can I do to...oh I know! Heero is pretty good at fixing things, err at least I hope he is. I can say that my door in my bathroom is broken or something like that. Hope Quatre doesn't come along. Okay, bathroom door broken...I'm going in!

Hoshi got a little wobbly on her legs and Heero walked over to help her balance her self out. He swung an arm over his shoulders and stared at her some more, she really didn't like when he didn't that, it made her feel guilty and she just wanted to tell him what she was really doing, but she couldn't!

She sighed and said with tiredness in her voice "My door handle on my bathroom door broke and is very lose, could you come up and fix it. Please! I feel a lot better knowing my handled worked and I could lock it. Don't want anyone walking in on me." She smiled up at him, giving him her best puppy dog face. She thought as he stared at her and Quatre smiled and giggled a bit Please say you'll fix it or at least try..please!

Heero sighed and said as he looked to the wall "Alright, when you put it like that. Come on, let's head up there. Quatre, I'll be back. Just wait here for me, kay."

Quatre smiled and said "Take your time Heero, I'll right here when you get back." and he leaned up and gave Heero a peck on the cheek, at which Heero blushed a little and cleared his throat and then He and Hoshi were on their way up the stairs to her room. Hoshi was using Heero as a walking stick, sort of, she still had her arm slung across his neck and he was helping her to her room.

They entered her room and headed over to the bathroom door. Before they had gotten to her room, she used a tiny spell to loosen the handle. When they got in there, he took out a screw driver and another tool Hoshi didn't know what it was and started to get to work on her handle.

After he was done he walked over to her and looked down at her and said "All fixed, anything else?"

Hoshi smiled up at her big brother and shook her head no and said "Nope, that is all." She lightly jumped and hugged him for fixing her handle and threw her arms around his neck, and closes her eyes and chanted in a very low whisper that she hoped Heero wouldn't hear ""This person whom I care for, danger might come for them. Take my power and give to this person, a shield of protection from all evil."

After she finished her chant she slid a bit in her hug that he was returning to his little sister.

Heero got worried and caught her before she fell to the ground and said with wider eyes "Hoshi, you okay??!" She looked up at him, her eye's half way closed and said slowly and tiredly "Yeah, I'll be fine, just need to make it to the bed and get some rest is all. Still a little weak." Granted Guardians did heal faster than normal humans but they still needed rest to heal their injuries, and Hoshi had been getting little of that, she was beginning to weaken with each spell. She thought to herself after Heero laid her down on the bed and walked out of the room.

As she turned over on her side and stared at the wind rustling the curtains she thought I'll finish the last two spells on Wufei and Trowa tomorrow, it would be suicide to place the spells on Trowa and Wufei at this point, I'm soo exhausted that I can barely...stay...awake...to...th...think...zzzzzzzzzzzz. By this point Hoshi had fallen asleep from using too much magic in such a short period of time.

Hoshi slept soundly from that late afternoon to late that night. She may have slept soundly but her dreams were anything but sweet and good. She was dreaming of that women, that demon! Why wouldn't that women just leave her alone! Hoshi could feel a nightmare coming on but she coudn't stop it, she let it run it's course, though she didn't like this particular dream.

The next morning, she would remember every single detail of the dream and that is one thing she didn't want to remember.

The end of chapter 7

Well that is it for Chapter 7. Oh and the song "Eighth World Wonder" does not belong to me, it belongs to it's respectful owner :) I was listening to it at the time I was finishing up this chapter and so I just decided to use it in the story :D Stay tuned for Chapter eight coming...well I'm not sure when that chapter will come out but be on the look out for it :D I've already started to write it down on paper soo I just need to make it as long as i can or to the point where I can find a good spot to stop :D Soo coming to a computer near you...chapter 8 "Nightmares, Time with loved one's" title might change depending what else will go into chapter eight, just a heads up though :D Later ! Hope you have enjoyed this chapter :D Bye! wave's then runs off to type up what she has of chapter eight :D