DDL: Well, I got stuck in my other stories but writing this one cleared my head. YAY!

Lor: who cares? Anyway...let's see Hiei can play the drums, I'll play bass, Kurama's got the guitar, and Lishers can sing. Hiei can be back up vocals. Sweet...

DDL: What about me? -whins-

Lor: hmmmm...you can be our manger who we kill later cause you're annoying.

DDL: That's coo --- WHAT!?

Kurama: Calm down. She was only kidding.

Hiei: -rolls eyes- Right...

DDL: Now I can't believe I forgot last time but not this time. Here are my thanks to the reviewers:

Angelkitsune-Naomi: One day Andy might have that store. I'm the worst speller in the world besides the one idiot. Thanks friend.

Valinor's Twilight: I'm gald you enjoy it. Thanks

Anne Jaganshi: My ever fateful reveiwer. I thank you for your time and enjoy the reviews you send me. By the way he was forced to learn. Hiei's got a box full of surprises.

Lishers: Enjoy this speacil early update!

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- Hospital Back Home -

Lor led the way through the Hospital with Hiei and Kurama trailing behind her. Hiei glared at Kurama the whole way because he got to carry Lishers. As they kept moving through the hospital, they saw fewer and fewer people. Lor stopped abruptly and looked around. Seeing that no one was around she pushed a block in the wall and a door swung open. The boys walked into the room without questions and Kurama placed Lishers on the bed inside. Hiei noticed that the room was a pale green with no windows. The room itself was quite small but there was enough room for them to fit and still move around. Hiei also took notice that there was a Nintendo DS on the stand next to the bed.

Lor closed the door and went over to check Lishers temperature. Her forehead was burning and she was sweating like crazy. Lor jumped up and left the room. The boys stood there in silence as they waited for Lor to come back. Lor came back in wearing a long white coat and pulling a bottle of something out of one of the pockets. She gave Lishers four pills and forced it down with water.

"Why is there a room here?" Kurama asked knowing he sounded stupid.

"This is an old part of the hospital that we don't use anymore. People come by sometimes but not usually. I installed a special door here and painted the walls for Lishers. When she was done with a gig and I was still at work she'd come here and wait for me to get off."

"Gig?" Hiei asked.

"Oh, that's right you guys don't know." Lor bent down and pulled a box out from under the bed. She opened it up and pulled out a magazine. On the cover was a girl that looked like Lishers except she had caramel hair and her name was Reina Silver. "This is Lishers one or two years ago."

"WHAT!?" Hiei and Kurama said in unison.

"Shhhh...Geez. Listen after Lishers got out of the hospital she wanted to get a job. Well, she went into acting without me knowing. After a while she couldn't remember lines so she went into singing and after that she had to quit 'cause she'd write a song and forget it. During this whole thing everyone called her Reina Silver. We left Yellow Springs to get away from the reporters and stuff. Lishers dyed her hair blonde and went back to being Lishers and now we're here." Lor put the magazine away and shoved the box back in its place. Everyone looked at the floor till Kurama broke the silence.

"Do you know what's wrong with her?"

"Not really. At this point it's too hard to tell." Lor took at deep breath and looked at the two boys. "Who's Koenma? Lishers said something about him before she passed out completely. Maybe he knows something."

"What did Lishers say?" Hiei asked staring into Lor's eyes.

"Tell me who he is first." Lor stared right back.

"He's the prince of Reikai." Kurama answered.

"Where's Reikai?" Lor asked.

"Idiot. That's where you go when you die." Hiei scorned.

"Like heaven and hell."

"What the hell do they teach you in America?"

"Shut up!"

"What did Lishers say about him?"

"Oh yeah...something like damn you Koenma."

"That's it?"

"That's it."

"I'm going to go see Koenma."

"By yourself?" Kurama asked.

Hiei looked away saying "Hn." but meaning 'hell no you can't go'.

"I'm going with you." Lor proclaimed.

"No."

"Why not?" Lor whined.

"You have to watch Lishers."

"Kurama can do that."

- Hours of Arguing Later Lor Won and Now they are in Koenma's Office -

A little chunky kid sat in a seat behind a desk sucking on a pacifier. "Hiei and Lor, I presume, what do I own this visit to. I'm a very busy man, so make it has quick as humanly, or in your case demonly, possible alright?"

"Something is wrong with Lishers." Hiei stared into Koenma eyes.

"WHAT!? George get me Lishers' file now!" A big blue ogre ran over to Koenma with huge file. Koenma yanked it out of George's hand and quickly opened it. He flipped to the last page and as he read farther into the paper his eyes grew wider. "Lor leave the room. I need to talk to Hiei...one on one."

- Back at the Hospital -

Kurama dunked a folded washcloth into a pan of cold water and placed it on Lishers forehead. "They've been gone for a day now...Lishers condition isn't getting any better and I'm afraid my plants aren't helping any..." Kurama's thoughts were interrupted when there was something like an explosion inside Lishers left arm causing her to scream in pain. Kurama checked to see what caused the bleeding but he couldn't figure it out so he quickly ripped his purple uniform sleeve and wrapped it around bleeding wound. "What's going on?"

- Inside Lisher's head -

Lishers laid in never ending blackness. Her body felt heavy and she couldn't remember a thing.She shut her eyes and tired to think of how she got there but nothing was clicking. When she opened her eyes a faded image of herself stood above her. "Get up." came the girl's voice inside her mind.

Lishers slowly lifted herself up with some difficultly. "Who are you?"

"I'm a recording that you made some years ago. I was created to fill you in on some things when the time was right."

"Why should I believe a word you say?"

"You have nothing to lose, right? You are like an empty shell that has no part in the human world anymore. You have two days and your time is up."

"So if I made you what is the point of you being here?"

"Most likely you haven't noticed any of the worm-like things crawling around in your body. Whatever you do don't..." Lishers eyes widened as she saw one squirming behind her fade image recording. She instantly pulled back her fist and launched it into the worms head. "YOU IDIOT!" the worm exploded and Lishers left arm started bleeding.

"Listen to me. You kill these worms and you die. You're lucky that one was connected to your left arm. They're connected to different parts of your body holding onto your memories you fool."

Lishers blinked twice as a memory took over her mind.

- The Memory -

Lishers memory self sat in the town park on a bench reading a book called The Revenge of the Shadow King while her real self watched her memory self from the park gate. Every once and a while her memory self would look up from the book and look at a tree. In the tree was a person laying on a branch and watching. A few hours later she left but the person in the tree stayed.

A few days pass the same until one day her memory self did not sit on the bench. She walked over to the tree and sat by the trunk. She opened the book she had been reading the first time to the first chapter and began to read aloud. "Avalon, Minnesota, was a perfectly boring town. That is, it was both perfect and boring all at the same time. Every yard was beautifully manicured, and each garden was overgrown with flowers worthy of a blue ribbon at the country fair..." She continued to read even though people were staring at her. Some kids even came over to listen to the story. The person in the tree listened as well. A few hours later she stopped reading and left.

This pattern went on for days till one day rain covered the town. Lishers was sure this time her memory self would not show up to read but she was wrong. She held an umbrella and the same book. She looked up into the tree to see that the person in the tree was still there. Her memory self stood beside the trunk and started reading where she left off. "As it turned out, the plan was simple. All the Grey Griffins had to do was steal Titania's Jewel before Morgan and Blackstone got to it, figure out what to do with it, close the portals, and save the world – all without being caught, or worse...killed. Simple? Maybe. Easy? Not even close."

The person in the trees jumped down at looked at her. "Hey idiot. You'll catch a cold out here."

"What about you?" she asked closing the book.

"...it's none of your business. Go home."

"Alright." she grabbed his hand and started dragging him to the exit.

"What are you doing?" the person tried to break free.

"We're going home. I know you've been living in that tree so I'll take care of you till you can get a job. You can be like a pet or something or a little kid that I get to read stories to."

"Aren't you worried that I'd kill you in the middle of the night or rob you blind or something?"

"I have a feeling that if you killed me you'd get into big trouble. You also have no house and probably don't understand the money system. I have no worries. I trust you. Besides I always follow my gut. It's the only reason I'm where I am today."

"By living in a constant haze of stupidity?"

"Jerk."

- Back in Lishers Head -

Lishers whole body jolted forward as the memory faded away. "That...person...who..."

"Stop thinking about the past. I have to tell you what you wanted me to tell you."

"Alright geez. What?"

"I was created so you can go to the spot you want to die at."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes now listen first don't kill any more worms understand."

"Yes master."

"You get worse every time. Anyways, second: tomorrow you will wake up so here's the plan..."

- Outside Koenma's Office -

Hiei walked out of Koenma's office with his normal non-read-able face. "We have to go see Santa."

"Santa? He exist – wait why him?" Lor asked trying to figure out what the hell Santa Claus had to do with this.

"We have to get the antidote from him."

"What's wrong with Lishers?"

Koenma walked out of his office and looked up at Lor. "I messed up and gave Lishers the wrong potion. A mixed it up with my Christmas present from the demon Santa Claus."

"You gave Lishers a potion — wait Santa's a what? A demon? No way; you serious?"

"How do you think he gets around the world so fast? Because Santa exists with all his goodness several bad demons exist to keep balance in the world. What does the human world teach you? You're a demon too you know."

"Shut up shrimp."

"Come on. Let's get going we don't have much time left." Hiei said walking away from them.

- Santa's Work Shop -

"Ho ho ho ho ho! Hiei you naughty little boy I'll have the antidote ready sometime tomorrow. The Elves will show you to the dorms. Ho ho ho ho ho!"

The Elves took them straight to the dorms which were actually bigger than expected. They stayed in a two bedroom dorm. Late at night while they lay to sleep Lor finally remembered what Koenma said. "Hiei, why did Koenma give Lishers a potion?"

The room stayed silent long enough for Lor to think Hiei was actually asleep but then he answered. "To erase painful memories."

"Then what's happening to her?"

"The potion he gave her put these worm like things in her body. They eat her memories like sweet snow till there are none left or the worms get too big. When they get too big they explode and when there are no more or not enough they eat the brain and heart."

"Why would Santa create something like that?"

"Koenma needed something new to bring pain to those sent to hell. It's a more painful experience if you can't die."

"Hiei...you said your not from this world. If you came here, is there a reason and...are you and Kurama able to stay or do we remind you of people back home?"

Hiei rolled over and refused to answer.

- The Next Day -

Santa patted Hiei on the head and handed him the antidote. "Be good now and hurry along. Ho ho ho ho ho!"

Hiei and Lor took off through a portal "I hate that fat freak." Hiei thought to himself.

Upon reaching the secret place in the hospital they found Lishers and Kurama missing. "Where could they have gone!" Lor shouted looking around the room.

Hiei closed his eyes and opened a mind link to Kurama. "Kurama where the hell are you and Lishers I don't have time for this."

Hiei had to wait about five minutes for Kurama to answer back I lost Lishers.

"You WHAT!?"

She woke up and asked for something to eat. When I got back with food she was gone. I can't find her.

"Where are you?"

At the house. I thought she might have went home.

Hiei cut the metal link. "Lor, go to the house and help Kurama search. I'll look around town." Lor nodded her head and left. Hiei pulled his bandana off and opened his jagan eye. "I'll use this to find her. Time is running out..."

- The Park -

The rain hit hard as Lishers finally made it to the park gate. "I...made it." she held her left arm as she walked over to the tree in her memory. She slid down the trunk and closed her eyes. The worms were getting closer to exploding. She opened her eyes to get one last look at the park drowning in water. Three figures stood at the gate as she screamed in pain from the worms exploding her legs.

"Alcina!" A man yelled running towards her.

"You're...that person...Hiei."

Hiei popped the lid off the antidote and quickly gave it to her. He held her in his arms and waited to see if it worked. An hour passed and Lishers just laid there with her eyes closed. Kurama and Lor walked over to them. Lor's first thought since she was a doctor was to check her pulse but then she remembered that demons don't have pulses.

A women flying on a wooden ore came down from the sky and landed near the group. She wore a pink kimono and had her sky blue hair tied back into a ponytail. "Hello. I'm Botan or your planet would call me the Grim Reaper. I'm here on business."

Lor looked at Kurama. "You were serious?"

Kurama looked away and scratched his cheek. "Of — that's not important right now."

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Lishers: AHHHHH! There're worms in me. Gross.

Lor: I thought Hiei sent me home why am I at the gate?

Kurama: I wanted to go see Santa.

Hiei: Hn...

DDL: Shut up! Get over it. By the way The Revenge of the Shadow King is a real book by Derek Benz & J.S. Lewis. I hope you enjoyed. I'll hopely be writing the next chapter soon so check my profile to see.

Santa: Ho ho ho ho ho!

DDL: Get out of here already!