DDL: Alright well...I found an idea...then I lost it...but then I found it again! Crazy things have been going on.
Lor: Crazy things in your head.
DDL: WHY!
Hiei: Enjoy or die.
Alcina: So blunt...
- Koenma's Office -
Koenma sat at his desk playing with his new rubix cube that he wished still had stickers so he could cheat. He completed one side into complete yellow but the rest was still in disarray. Angered by this he slammed it against the desk several times. When he stopped he still heard sounds of banging. Frightened by the rubix cube he threw it towards the wall as Yusuke and Kuwabara burst through his door.
"It seems you still have the manners of a caveman." Koenma glared at them.
"I've been knocking for over tens minutes!" in a fit of rage Kuwabara picked Koenma up by the shirt and was ready to pummel his face in. Yusuke stepped in the way.
"Put him down. We still need his help." Kuwabara put him down with a huff. "Hiei's missing, Alcina's going to flood the earth, and there is a red blinking light on your desk that says 'warning'." Koenma nods, then nods some more 'til eventually his eyes grew wide and he pushed the button.
A T.V. screen appeared and the following message was heard 'Someone is creating rain that will flood the world if not stopped. You now have thirteen hours before the first flood. Take action. Repeat, take action.'
"Thirteen hours! We don't have that kind of time! Hiei could be anywhere!" Kuwabara sank into panic.
"You two have to fix this problem and fast before my father gets back." Koenma's voice was filled with worry. "He'll kill her..."
"Do you have a tape of the night Hiei went missing?" Yusuke asked. Koenma nodded summoning his servant to go get it. "Kuwabara, contact Lor and tell her to try to stall for time."
- Home after Kuwabara's Phone Call -
Lor and Kurama sat at the kitchen table throwing all ideas flat out. Most involve death or near death to Alcina. Not the best options.
"I can make a pill from a plant that will put her in a coma." Kurama suggested.
Lor shook her head. "The rain still falls while she sleeps and then there is the question can we wake her up?" Kurama nodded in agreement. "I have an insane idea but it might just work."
"I'm all ears." Kurama said leaning in closer.
- Koenma's Office -
The three men watched and re-watched the scenario of Hiei's disappearance until there eyes were sore. All they saw was Hiei was there and then gone. An idea finally smacked Kuwabara across the face. "Let's watch it in slow motion."
"That's...not a bad idea." Koenma rewound the tape and put it on slow motion.
Now with slow motion Hiei seemed like a normal motion person. His eyes glanced at Alcina and Kurama on the stage several times before something caught his eyes. "Can we rotate the camera?" Yusuke jumped up closer to the screen. Hiei checked everyone's attention and got up. Koenma finally rotated the camera to where Hiei was now walking to. To there surprise Hiei began to talk to two chicks, Kay and Val. "We need data on them, NOW!"
Koenma dropped his head on his desk. "We've gathered all we could on them. All we know is that they're demon hunters and that Kay and Val aren't there real names."
"What kind of god are you!?" Kuwabara shouted.
"Now, now boys, calm down." said a girly voice from behind Koenma's chair. The person came out of hiding revealing that she was Botan. Koenma dove under his desk. "I've just received a message from Kay and Val."
"What's it say?" Yusuke demanded.
"Well, in short it says they don't know how we stopped the rain but if the rain doesn't start again in two days they're going to kill Hiei." Botan's face was dead serious.
Koenma popped up from behind his desk in his teen form. "On the bright side the flooding has stopped."
"But, on the bad side Hiei will die if we don't keep the flooding going." Kuwabara countered.
"On the plus side you have two days to find him." Botan added in her air-head way.
A light blob went off in Kuwabara's head. "Don't you have something we can send out to search the town? They should be somewhere in the area."
"Now that you mention it, there is a massive amount of land that has been hiding for years but that is the same base where Alcina and Hiei defeated their enemy before." Koenma answered.
"They could be there. No one looks in the same place twice. Let's go." Yusuke grabbed Kuwabara by the back of the shirt and dragged him out the room.
Botan placed her hand onto Koenma's shoulder while he placed his hand on hers. "They can do it. They always pull through." She nodded in agreement leaning her body against his.
- Alcina's/Lor's House -
Alcina sat by the window sinking in thought. Her new plan instead of waiting was that when the rain stopped she'd go looking for Hiei, but she had a feeling that the rain would never stop. The hole in her heart grew and even her inner voice person had stopped talking to her. The last words the inner voice told her was "Maybe the real reason you're sitting here waiting isn't just because he's your pet. He's a man that you care about and maybe even love, but you can't get over the past to move to the future."These words hurt, but she couldn't tell if they were true.
Love? What is love? Reading about it in books and experiencing it is two different things she began to realize. Eight out of ten times you don't even know you have deep feelings for someone or your heart knows but your mind doesn't. Her mind went racing out of control 'til she smelled something sweet and for the first time since Hiei left drifted off to sleep.
When she awoke by the window she blinked up at the sun. "What the..." she whispered becoming aware she had dozed off. She jumped off the sill and raced around the house to see if Hiei had returned. Disappointment hit her when she opened Hiei's door and no one was inside. Alcina closed the door slowly recalling a book she once read. 'When you love someone you worry about them, care deeply for them, act mean towards them, share with them, dream with them, and above all you can't stand to be apart.' Now the question was, was the book right and actually trying to help her, or was she just thinking to much on what her inner voice had said?
She decided to push it aside like everything else and make up her mind when she saw him again. Walking down the stairs seemed to take forever. She paused in the hallway as she watched the front door swing open. Her eyes widen as she saw Hiei shut the door. "You're late." was the only words that she could think of.
Hiei smiled warm heartedly. "I was caught up by the rain." In that moment when Hiei smiled she knew something was wrong, but she didn't get to think on it much as her body collapsed from exhaustion.
- Alcina's/Lor's House? -
By using a drug of sweet smelling stuff from one of Kurama's plants they put Alcina to sleep. When they were sure she was asleep they placed her on a cot. Lor placed a chair behind Alcina's head and another to one side. Lor sat down in the first chair and placed her hands to each side of Alcina's head. Kurama sat down in the side seat keeping a close eye on Lor.
Lor had decided that she would use her ability to invade and twist dreams to make Alcina think Hiei had returned. This though would only work if Alcina didn't know about it since once you realize you are under her control the connection can easily be broken. So to provide the best Hiei possible Kurama was assigned to be Hiei. Which Lor was also able to set that up with her powers.
In this mode Lor is able to hear the thoughts of the person or people she is controlling. When Alcina thought something was wrong with Hiei, she instantly made her exhausted. "Kurama, you're blowing it."
"I didn't think you could talk while controlling someone, but anyways it wasn't my fault. It would seem that not only have I got the power to control Hiei in the dream, but so does Yoko."
"I always wanted Hiei to smile at me. I thought she'd like it."
"If she was stupid..."
"Kurama!" Kurama's whole body shook in fear at Lor's tone.
"No...I-I was talking to Yoko...he was..." Kurama stumbled to find the right words while Yoko laughed and laughed and laughed some more.
- Yusuke and Kuwabara -
The two stood outside a rotting skyscraper building out in the middle of nowhere. If they had common sense they'd wonder how it got there and why it was falling apart, but they had none so they charged in. They traveled up forty flights of floors kicking every door in before getting the feeling that they could have been wrong and this whole thing was a waste of time. Time they didn't seem to have. They sat down to take a break. Even the dead get tired.
Wheels in Yusuke's head started to move in hope of some sort of help or at least direction. Thoughts of past battles soared through his mind. At the maze castle the leader was at the top where the pushovers used to tire you out or to buy time were all below. That was it! If they were here at all they were on the top floor.
- Koenma's Office -
Koenma sat on the edge of his seat along with Botan as they watched the big screen from the nice comfy office. George, the ogre, ran into the room waving a piece of paper. "Master Koenma! Master Koenma! We've just received a message from the kidnappers."
"Shut up, Ogre! Yusuke's brain just kicked in."
"But sir this is really important!"
"Not now ogre!"
"Botan, you're his wife make him listen."
"Shhhhh ogre."
- Alcina's Made Up Dream Land -
When Alcina awoke she was lying in her bed. She thought back to the last thing she could remember. She convinced herself that Hiei smiling was all in her head and that lack of sleep had her mind playing tricks on her. Yes indeed that was the answer, no it had to be the answer. Nothing else seemed to make sense.
There was a knock on the door. "Dinner is ready." Alcina touched her stomach. She now realized it had been grumbling this whole time. She leaped off her bed and scurried down the stairs into the kitchen. When she saw Hiei she stopped dead in her tracks. He was wearing a pink apron, setting food out on the table that for unknown reasons he had been cooking. He turned his head so she couldn't see his face. "Lor and Kurama left. I thought you'd be hungry." he walked off into the kitchen.
"Something is wronger than wrong. Hiei is the master of destroying food. Nothing he has ever cooked has come out of the kitchen even looking like food. This leaves two things...one Lor is messing with my dreams again and this whole thing is a dream or where ever Hiei had gone they really messed him up. I think I'll lean on the second one." Alcina nodded her head to herself sitting down and proceeding to poke the normal looking food with a fork.
- The Top Floor -
Yusuke broke down the last door at the end of the hall. The room was filled with weird machines and fast food? "These people are pigs." Kuwabara exclaimed kicking a bag of taco bell. "What if Hiei is buried in all this crap?"
"I don't think they could hold him there." Yusuke and Kuwabara began their search through the room. They stopped when they rounded a corner. On the wall was Hiei. It was hard to tell at first since he was bleeding badly from what seemed everywhere not even counting the fact that he was unconscious. Kuwabara drew his sword and sliced through the metal bars holding Hiei. Yusuke caught him slowly reminding himself that this was too easy. "Let's just get out of here."
They got into a running position ready to take off when they heard the door open. Chatting about fast food was heard on the other side. "Hiei!" a male voice called. "Guess what today is. It's the day you die." Two men showed up wearing the exact same thing that Kay and Val wear expect they weren't wearing masks. Shocked to see Yusuke and Kuwabara the two fumbled for their weapons that they weren't carrying.
"Kuwabara!" Yusuke shouted throwing Hiei to him. "Shot gun!" blasted of sprit energy shot out of Yusuke finger hitting there target and several other things creating a massive fire. The two dashed forward knocking over and stepping on the two men.
- Alcina's/Lor's House -
Kurama placed a hand on Lor's shoulder. "Are you alright?" the worry in his voice was intense. Lor was breathing hard and was sweating abnormally.
"I've never held a dream world for over six hours. Two days as drained a lot out of me. Yoko's messing with Hiei has also made her aware that something is wrong."
"Didn't you say she thought something happened to him while he was gone?"
"In this case, her mind is telling her this is a dream where her heart doesn't want to believe. The heart doesn't want to wake up to Hiei never returning." Lor flinched.
"Lor...Do you..." Kurama was cut off.
"They have one day. Contact Koenma." Kurama nodded heading to the phone reluctantly.
- Koenma's Office -
"The good guys prevail once again!" Botan shouted hugging Koenma.
"Will you listen to my message now?" Ogre inquired.
"Go on. What is it?" Koenma glared at him.
"Yusuke needs to bring Hiei here for medical treatment, Kurama called a few hours ago to say that we have one day left to bring Hiei back, and, sir, you have a huge stack of work to finish."
Koenma flinched. "Why me!?"
Yusuke: Why are guys wearing girl clothes?
Hiei: -pulls sword on Yoko- Die.
Yoko: Now...Hiei, it was just a bit of fun. -runs away-
DDL: ...Well, what's going to happen to Hiei? Can Lor hold on? Is Alcina really in love? Tune in for the next...-whacked in the back of the head with a frying pan-
Yusuke: Shut up already. -puts frying pan away-