I HAVE RETURNED! Blaze and her sisters are meeting and discussing the battle. The boyz are heading back to their headquarters. LETS JOIN THEM!
I don't own anything but my OCs and the plot.
-Blossom's P.O.V.-
I flew and landed behind Blaze, who was looking regretfully at an unconscious Brandon. I put my hand on her shoulder comfortingly and Bliss carried Brandon into an alley.
"You did it because he was evil. Don't worry." I said.
"...Yea..." Blaze smiled half-heartedly at the ground, then nodded. She looked up at me and smiled a little. "Yea. I guess you're right."
"You know I'm right. Let's meet the others."
"M'kay." We flew up to the girls, Bliss right behind us.
"They got new members." Buttercup said.
"Yep! It was fun to play with Bear." Bunny giggled. We all knew what "play" means.
"Boomer was pretty easy to beat..." Bubbles said, trailing off.
"Same with Brick, but we all got beaten up. We need to get home and rest up. Blaze, Bunny, Bubbles, do you think you can heal us?" I said.
"Um, I need to heal myself first. I might be the most injured of all of us." Blaze pointed out, and it was true.
"Go ahead. Bunny, Bubbles, can you handle it?"
"Yea, probably. I'll need a nap." Bunny said, thinking.
"Yes." Bubbles nodded.
"Meanwhile, I'll work on figuring out who they are and their weaknesses." I said.
"I know who they are."Bliss mind-messaged me.
"I knew you would. My room. Library."I sent back. Bliss nodded and the girls and I headed back home.
-Brandon's P.O.V.-
I was floating. It was entirely dark, all around me was blackness. I felt like I was underwater, but I could breathe. I was in peaceful, silent bliss. Heh. Like my counterpart. But I don't want to think. Just...float.
"Hey. Hey dude. Dude?" Someone was shaking my shoulder. I didn't want to wake up from my calming sleep.
"WAKE UP OR I'LL POUND YOU!" Butch's voice resonated through my head and my eyes shot open. I was lying in an alley, my brothers kneeling above me. I sat up slowly and rubbed my neck.
"Ow!" I winced as my fingers touched the burn Blaze gave me. I looked at my brothers to find I was the least injured of all of them.
Brick's wrist was twisted at an awkward angle, and he was trying not to move it. Butch had dried blood on his head, probably a cracked skull. Boomer was continually sneezing and shivering, soaking wet. Bear looked dazed, as if he couldn't quite figure out what just happened, not to mention he was really bruised and his uniform was all torn and ripped in places. They were all extremely bloody in random places and really bruised. And Burn...
Wait. Where's Burn?
"Is Burn?..." I trailed off, thinking of his opponent, who had knocked me out with one swing, and feared the worst.
"We haven't found him yet. You have any ideas?" Brick said, wincing as he stood.
"I think... Blaze said something... about this alley?" I stood too. I looked a little further into the alley and found a box that was bigger than the others. I walked over to it.
It was a normal cardboard box. Faded writing was on it. Someone wrote with water. I could just barely make out "Burn". I opened the box, and inside was my brother, beaten, bloody, bruised, burned, and unconscious. I called the others over and pulled him out. As they tried to wake him, I examined the box. I touched the water and tasted it. It was...salty? Was...Blaze...crying?
"Dude, he's not waking up!" Bear called to me and I hurried over, ripping my attention from the strange box.
"Let's just let him rest. Hopefully he'll wake up soon." Brick said.
"Does he?.." I trailed off.
"He has a pulse, not to worry. Let's go home, guys."
"Go on ahead, I'll catch up." I looked back at the box.
"Okay. Be quick." Brick flew off with the others.
I walked back to the box, ripped the part with "Burn" on it off of the box, and flew off to join my brothers. I put the cardboard in my pocket.
'Something is weird about that girl and her teammates. And I'm going to figure it out.'
-Blaze's P.O.V.-
I had just finished healing myself. I walked into my special room, the one I had Professor build for me. It was my fire room. Yep. The entire room was on fire. Small coals scattered the floor. A pathway led to the center of the room, where the one and only fire tree stood. Yea, I know, it sounds cheesy. But bear with me here.
This tree is, quite obviously, on fire. But the leaves will never brown, the trunk will never reduce to ashes. It will still lose its leaves in the winter, blossom in the spring, and produce its special kind of fruit in the summer, all along flaming. "True arsonists", like me, have heard of it. I found it when I was little, the seeds of the mythical tree scattered among the ashes of my burned down house.
The room is completely black, white in places from the ashes. My pet will o' the wisp lives in here. No one knows I have it. Well, no one knows that Pepper, my dog, is actually a hell hound either. I have a lot of secrets. Anyway, as I said before, the floor is on fire. There's a small path that's not flaming leading to the center of the room where the tree stands. I use it to predict the future, to see different outcomes if I do different things.
Once I step inside, my will o' the wisp, Ash, comes charging up to me. I hug it as it tries to tackle me. Fire doesn't hurt me, at least, not my fire.
"Hey Ash. Yes, its good to see you too. Come on, get off, get off." I said, laughing. I pushed Ash off after a while and made my way to the tree. It was autumn, so the tree was beginning to lose its leaves.
"What shall happen to the boys I fought today if I do not intervene?" I asked the tree. A leaf fluttered down into my palm. It read:
The people surround shall spark a fight,
what may have been love before.
One of their flames shall lose its burn,
and go out while the parties rage war.
I read the leaf then dropped it. I bowed my head to the tree. "Thank you for your wisdom." I left the room after saying goodbye to Ash, knowing what I had to do.
Kyoko was heading down the stairs when I slipped out of my room. I locked the door and took a deep breath.
"Um, Kyoko?" I asked
She looked at me.
"Could you, um, follow the RRB to their hideout? I wanna, eto... launch a surprise attack." I asked, nervous.
She looked at me like,'I know what you're planning, you silly goose.'. She smiled a little, and after shaking her head a little, said,"Sure, but I have to miss my dojo time."
"Sorry..."
"It's okay. Leave them alone a little though, 'kay?"
"Okay, thanks sis."
"Sayonara." She waved, walking down the stairs.
"Bye."
I sighed. Kyoko knew what I was gonna do, and she was okay with it. I might want to keep it a secret from that others, at least for the time being. They don't need to know quite yet...
-Kyoko's P.O.V.-
I sighed once I got out of the house. Geez, Mio, why do you always feel so bad? I shook my head and transformed. I told her I would help her out, and I always keep my word. I flew to the alley I left Brandon in. He flew out right before I arrived and I had to be quick to hide in time.
Luckily, he seemed distracted, so he didn't notice me. I tried what Blaze told me to do to hide better, which was dim my "inner light" or something. She said that I'd know when I got it, because I would feel a bit tired and "invisible". I gave up after a while and used my normal tactics.
I followed Brandon for a while, weaving in and out of side streets. He stopped at a house, looked at the number, and went inside. This house didn't seem right, so I stayed for a while. Sure enough, he came out a minute later. I continued to follow him. He went into multiple houses before stopping and untransforming into Kenshin. I already knew that.
He walked to a house and put his hand against the post. It opened that gate and he walked in. I flew over the fence quietly, trying to see if there were any lasers or security systems on it. None.
I flew home and told Mio the house number. She looked so excited.
"Thanks Kyoko!" She gave me a hug.
"No problem." I looked over her shoulder and saw a little blue fire peeking out of that one room she never lets us in. It looked like it had little black dots for eyes. "Um, what's that?" I said, pointing at it.
She looked over her shoulder and her eyes widened. "Nothing! Nothing at all! Well gotta go bye!" She pushed me out and closed the door. I heard her inside.
"Ash! What are you doing?! I love you but I've gotta keep you a secret! My sisters would freak!"
"About what?" I opened the door and found Blaze talking to the little blue fire. It had a little body, arms, legs, and it was rather...cute. I kinda want to follow it wherever it would take me. I ignored the urge.
The little flame creature smiled at me and Mio sighed. "Kyoko, close the door." I did so. "You can't tell ANYONE about this unless I tell you it's okay. Got it?"
I nodded. "Got it. I promise."
She sighed again. "Kyoko, this is Ash, my will o' the wisp. Ash, this is Kyoko, my sister." I crouched down and Ash flew over to me. I stuck out my finger and it shook it with both of its little arms. It was cute. Somehow the fire didn't burn me.
"Wisps don't have enough power to burn people, but they're very cute. They usually stay in really warm places or near the ground, or some other heat source." Mio explained.
"So that's why you have one. You have the power of fire..."
"'True arsonist'"
"What?" I asked, looking up from the little creature.
"That's what we're called. Those with fire power. 'True arsonists', not to be confused with a criminal arsonist. There were a lot more of us in the Renaissance. Most were drowned as makers of witchcraft. They tried to burn them to death, but true arsonists are immune to all kinds of mundane fire. Only other t.a.'s fire can hurt us." She explained.
"Then when your house burned down and your eye..." I said, trailing off
"It was another arsonist. I haven't found them yet."
"Hm." I said, thinking.
"You can't tell ANYONE about Ash, okay? Well, maybe Blossom, but only if she'll be okay with it. Would she? Because I don't know if she'd like a little fire creature that was said to lure unsuspecting and curious men lost in swamps to their dooms in her house." Ash looked offended. "Not you personally, of course, but some of your...less mature cousins." Mio amended. Ash nodded.
"I won't tell. I gotta go upstairs, see you later?" I said, standing. I can talk a lot, but I only talk that much in front of my sisters.
"Maybe. Bye." Mio waved, opening the door to her secret room and ushering Ash inside.
I walked up the steps, shaking my head. I just learned a ton of information I didn't know about my own sister! I bet she has plenty of other secrets she's not saying, but I won't push her. Geez, I have such a strange family.
-Mio's P.O.V.-
God, that was nerve wracking. Kyoko took it pretty well. I mean, she talked a lot, and she showed more emotion, which means she's confused and a tiniest bit scared. I learned to read Kyoko's emotions okay, but Momoko is best at it.
Man, I hope she doesn't tell Momo. Momoko would either freak out and be really scared, think Ash is cute and harmless, or do both and have an internal battle with herself. It might be really bad, or it might be really good. Either way, I'm not taking that chance.
I look at the clock. 11:30. I had fallen asleep worrying. Oh well. I stood up and stretched, then transformed. I locked the door to my floor so no one would come in to check on me or something like that. Then I said goodbye to Ash and Pepper and flew off into the night. It felt nice to be in the cool night air.
'Don't get distracted. You have a job to do and only a few hours to do it.'I scolded myself. I flew to the address Bliss gave me and went into the house through an open window. 'Wow, this place is bigger than I expected it to be.'I peeked in a few rooms until I found it. The bedroom.
All of the boys were still transformed, sleeping soundly. I took a deep breath, cracking my knuckles. Time to get to work.
-Kaoru's P.O.V.-
"Hey, any idea where Mio is? I haven't seen her since after school." I asked, playing my video games.
"No. I think she's in her room though." Momoko said.
"She skipped dinner." Usagi called from the kitchen.
"Probably asleep." Kyoko shrugged, reading her book.
"I'm gonna go check on her." Miyako headed upstairs. She came down 5 minutes later. "The door to her floor was locked." She said
"I dunno." I shrugged. I really didn't care anymore.
"Asleep." Kyoko said again.
TA DA! I DID IT AGAIN!
Why is Mio at the boys' house? Is she gonna kill them? Will Kyoko tell Momoko? Will Kyoko tell the others what she discovered?
BTW, if you like the mystery, plz read my other story, 'Fixing the past', the mystery is more interesting then this one's!
That's for me to know and you to find out. K THX BAI!