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Chapter 4

Veleda paced up and down in front of Koenma's desk pulling on the piece of hair that tied in front of her shoulder then stopped and fingered her prayer beads that were tied on her arm, the doors pushed open to Koenma's office.

"So what's this problem?" Yusuke asked as he walked in.

Veleda's cloud blue eyes caught his gaze and for a brief moment watched the recent pain in his life hit him hard, those few months in the past, she turned away.

"Veleda's had a vision and came to me in hopes to stop what would happen but it seems that my best attempts to keep everything calm weren't enough; it turns out that my guards failed." Koenma answered.

"Stop beating around the bush and tell us what the hell happened." Yusuke snapped.

Veleda turned to the boy and his friends as they wandered in. "A soul has been stolen from heaven by the poltergeist."

Kuwabara's jaw nearly hit the floor. "Is that even possible?"

"It seems that it is." Koenma answered.

"But how?!?"

"The poltergeist is a spirit as well; it's easy for it to transgress through the layers of any world easily. It's not hard to think that whoever has taken the object can tell the poltergeist where to go and what to get. My other concern is who's soul was taken and why. I've begun to think that this person isn't just some random guy that has interest in the object at hand but could possibly be a Necromancer."

"Why do you think that?" Shuichi answered.

"A Necromancer would need a soul of a person long past to not only raise the body but also use that body for anything. It's more than likely the soul that was taken was one of a strong person politically, physically or spiritually, which means that this Necromancer has use for one or more of those things. It's also a test for the Necromancer to prove his abilities are strong enough to raise the dead and control that soul to do what he wants it to do."

"Do we know what soul was taken?"

"Unfortunately we have no idea so far which one has been removed. There are a lot of them to go through but I hope soon we'll be able find out who is missing and that should give us a clue as to how to find the Necromancer." Koenma answered. "Veleda will be joining the group to help find the missing soul and/or Necromancer before it's too late to even save the soul of the person."

"You mean that if we don't find or stop him soon we can't save them?" Sophie piped in from where she stood beside Shuichi.

"No…" Veleda answered as she fingered her prayer beads again. "I've seen what becomes of the souls forced back into their bodies and made to remain here on Earth… They go insane. Mentally falling apart and turning into zombies and even if you're lucky enough to detach the soul from their body by that time there remains nothing of that person and the soul is corrupted and unsalvageable, we will not be able to take that person back to heaven… We will have to destroy it…"

"Sophie, I want you to go and see if you can find anything unusual in any of the graveyards around here." Koenma said, turning his attention to the purple-eyed girl.

"Of course Koenma." She answered and left.

"The rest of you will have to wait for any information from either Veleda or Sophie on where the Necromancer is heading to raise the body."

"How long do we have until the body is turned into a zombie…?" Kuwabara asked.

"It depends on the soul… anywhere from a few days to a month at most. I have never seen it go past a month." Veleda answered. With that she bowed and left, no longer able to handle the things she could see in their lives. The pain is so immense… Her mind whirled with images of a bright-eyed girl who was always smiling in their minds except for one. The red-eyed boy's mind spun on images of the same girl but showed a time of her crying.

Veleda entered the holy center of the shrine she lived at, sitting down before the ever burning fire and gazed back into the images of the girl they had all loved and lost wondering if this was what she saw in the foreboding future.

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"Hey!!" Sophie shouted as she jumped out of her chair startling the boys on the other side. "I think I got something!!"

"What is it?" Yusuke mumbled.

"Here." She pointed to a graveyard on her computer screen. "I'm getting a weird signature from that graveyard I think something's happening there."

"Let's go guys." Yusuke turned and headed out of the building. "Get your visuals up Sophie, find out who this guy is and who he's trying to raise from the dead. We have limited time before we lose this person for good."

Sophie nodded though she knew he had already left and set to work.

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As the gang reached the graveyard they spotted the Miko that had set them on this mission slowly making her way across the plaques marking the lost loved ones buried under her feet.

"How'd she get here before us?" Kuwabara asked as they approached her.

"She's a psychic. I'm sure she was doing her own version of surveillance and noticed something odd here." Shuichi answered.

Veleda's head shot up from where she was looking at a grave moments before she took off, vaulting over the older upright headstones.

"Come on!" Yusuke started. "She's on to something and I highly doubt she can defend herself from a physical attack."

The guys followed behind her and skidded around a large tree only to stop within inches of smashing into her.

"I'm too late…" She murmured as she looked at the ritual circle of blood and black candles. "He's raised the person…"

The group looked down at the goat that was still freshly bleeding.

"Just by a few seconds…" She continued tears filled her eyes. "A few seconds earlier and I could have saved this soul…"

Kuwabara noticed something out of the corner of his eye and turned his head just in time to see the fleeting image of a pink haired girl disappearing around the church.

It couldn't be… He told himself as he struggled with the image of what he had just seen. Could it…?