Here's another update. I changed chapter 9, don't forget to read it.
Thank you all reviewers.
'Blah' thoughts
'Blah' is Kurama telepathic
'Blah' is Youko telepathic
'Blah' is Hiei telepathic
Here you go.
Chapter 10: Training
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In the house in the forest, everything was calm and quiet. The sun was just starting to show over the horizon, casting the dark colored house in bright hues of color and decorating the sky with color. The animal around in the trees were still asleep peacefully. The nocturnal animals were settling down for the day. In the house everything was equally as peaceful.
Standing by the stairs of the room floor was a figure dresses in dark grey sweat pants and a black shirt, that could have been mistaken as a bra because it was so short. The figure was looking at a clock on the wall above the stair and had, what looked like a remote, in her hand. Right as the clocks second hand reached six o'clock the figure pushed a button on the remote, causing loud music to blare all through out the house. The figure turned to face the rooms as most of the doors swept open and the sleepy occupants walked out holding there ears.
Once Meranii saw that everyone was out of their rooms she clicked the button causeing the music to shut off.
"What the hell!?" Yusuke yelled. "Are you trying to make us to lose our hearing? There are demons in here you know." Yusuke yelled. Meranii yawned and started cleaning her nails.
"If a little music hurt you than I have more work cut out for me than I thought." Meranii said. She turned her back and started heading down the stairs. "Breakfast is being served."
The group looked at each other. Kagome, Sango, Keiko, Yukina, Boton and Shippo all started heading downstairs. Yusuke and Kuwabara followed them. Them the other stubborn demons came down. Their breakfast consisted of eggs, bacon, waffles, sausage, pancakes, and oatmeal. Meranii sat at on head of the table. Everyone else was sat like this: (going down the right side then up the left.) Boton, Shippo, Kagome, Sango, Keiko, Yukina, across from Yukina and up the other side are Kuwabara, Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, Ryuun, Sesshoumaru, and then back to Meranii.
"Wow." Kagome said sitting back. "That was very filling." Everyone else nodded in agreement. Meranii stood.
"Now that you all are finished, we are going to begin our training." Meranii said. "Up in your rooms there is a dresser for each person in the room. In the top drawers there are cloths that you all can wear for training. You are to all get dressed and meet me in the entrance hall in ten minutes." Meranii said looking at everyone. She turned and
walked away. The group sat there for a second then they got up, some more reluctant than others, and went to change.
The first ones to come down were Kurama, Hiei, Ryuun and Sesshoumaru. They were wearing baggy pants and no shirts. Kurama's pants were silver, Hiei's, blood red, Ryuun's, black, and Sesshoumaru's, white.
"Why are these so revealing?" Sesshoumaru asked as Yusuke and Kuwabara came down the stairs in similar cloths. Yusuke's dark blue, Kuwabara's, light blue. Meranii smirked.
"I needed a distraction for the girls." Meranii said. The boys looked confused.
"Don't you not need a distraction?" Yusuke asked.
"No. I need one." She said looking at the stairs. "If there's a distraction present then I can teach them to ignore it." She said quietly as the girls all came down the stairs at once. The guys turned around and their jaws dropped at what they saw. Coming down the stairs were the girls in the same type of pants they had on but the girls had on sports bra's. Kagome, silver, Sango, blood red, Boton, white, Keiko, dark blue, and Yukina, sky blue. Meranii smirked at the boys and walked past them to the girls. "Like I said, distraction." She whispered to the boys. She walked to the girls. "Follow." She said. The group followed Meranii out the front door and around to the back. There they saw a huge building. Next to it was a large greenhouse. All around the rest of the yard there were multiple types of trees and bushes with multiple types of flowers growing on them.
"How did we miss that yesterday?" Sango asked Kagome. She shrugged. Meranii stopped and turned to the group.
"Just a reminder, that greenhouse is off limits to everyone besides myself. Let get down to business." She said looking over the group. When they all nodded in understanding, well most anyway, she went on. "Our schedule will be as followed. After breakfast you will get changed and meet in your assigned training area. From then on you will train with your spirit, element, and transformation attacks until lunch is served. After lunch you will have an half an hour break. After that break we will be working on hand-to-hand combat or weapons combat, depending on what your strong and weak point is, until dinner is served. After dinner we spar."
"We have to spar?" Keiko asked doubtfully. Meranii nodded.
"It's no good to do all this training if you have no one to practice it on." She said patting Keiko's shoulder reassuringly. "Don't worry, you can whip those boys any day." She whispered to Keiko. Keiko smile. Meranii started talking again.
"Since you are all on different levels you will be training in separate groups so that the ones that have already received training won't be held back." She looked around at the group. "And, since I will be training the newbies, and I won't be able to make sure you boys train," She said looking at Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Sesshoumaru and Ryuun. "I'm going to give you some supervision." With that said Meranii mad a clicking noise with her tongue. Instantly a bunch of little animals appeared around her. On her right was a small black cat with three tails and blood red strips on him. Next to the cat was a black fox with a silver nose, ear tips, and paws. On her right was a black wolf with dark blue nose and paws. Next to the wolf was a black ferret looking thing. It had sky blue ear tips and paws. On her right shoulder there was a pure black bird and on her left shoulder was a small, but long, black dragon with a bunch of white scales mixed all over its body. "These are my friends."
"Are those the demon auras that they scouts felt at the train station?" Ryuun asked. Meranii nodded.
"Your leave a bunch of puny animals to baby sit us?" Yusuke asked disbelieving. Meranii clicked her tongue again. The cat and the fox stepped forward. The cat was enveloped in fire. The fox was enveloped in a whirlwind of rose pettles and leaves. When it cleared there stood a much larger version of the animals previous selves.
"Yado, fire cat." Meranii said pointing to the cat. Kirara perked up at this. "Maka, earth fox." Meranii said pointing to the fox. She clicked her tongue again. The wolf and ferret stepped forward. The wolf was enveloped in water while the ferret was enveloped in a whirl wind. When they cleared there stood the larger versions. "Rado, water wolf." She said pointing to the wolf. "Maimai, wind ferrot." She said pointing to the ferret. She clicked her tongue for a third time and the bird and dragon both took flyt off her shoulders. The bird was enveloped in a black orb while the dragon was enveloped in a white orb. The orbs cleared to show them bigger. "Redika, dark bird." Meranii said pointing to the bird. "Suko, light dragon." She said pointing to the dragon. The group stood in shock. Meranii clicked her tongue again and the animals changed back to normal. Meranii turned to Yusuke with a smirk on her face.
"Oh…" was all Yusuke was able to get out.
"As I was saying," Meranii started, giving Yusuke an evil look. "They will be watching over you boys to make sure you do the assigned exercise." Meranii turned to the girls and Shippo. "I want you to all wait right here while I take the boys into the dojo and get them set up." With that Meranii walked toward the dojo, the boys behind her.
Once they got into the dojo Meranii kicked a basket toward the boys. The boys looked at it questioningly.
"You are to put all of your weapons into this basket so that you aren't tempted to use them." She said. None of the guys moved. Meranii rolled her eyes. "If you were listening before, this time is for spirit, element, and transformation attacks. Now we wouldn't want you to be tempted into using your weapons now would we?" She asked/said. The boys, though some were grumbling the whole time, put their weapons in the basket.
"We can just use our fists." Yusuke mumbled to no one in praticuliar. Meranii smirked.
"That's why I have them here." She said motioning to the animals that were all lined up across from the guys. Yusuke scoffed.
"What are they gunna do?" He asked, rolling his eyes.
"Hit me." Meranii said.
"What?!" Yusuke asked surprised.
"Hit…me." Meranii said slower. "Or are you afraid?" She asked. Yusuke growled and ran at Meranii with his fist up.
'What has she gotten herself into?' Ryuun asked himself as Yusuke disappeared with speed.
When they next saw Yusuke, Meranii was still standing and Yusuke was pinned to the floor by the wolf, Rado, breathing heavly.
"How did that happen?" Kuwabara asked.
"Lets re-cape, shall we." Meranii said closing her eyes. When she opened them again they were glowing white. The next thing they knew they were looking at themselves from a couple minutes ago. They saw Yusuke run at a slow humans pace toward Meranii. When he was about to strike the wolf shot from its spot and slammed Yusuke to the ground. Yusuke was surrounded with electricity. The group was thrown back into their selves. "That's what happened." Meranii said. "If you go to attack with anything but spirit, element, or transformation they will intervene and you will get zapped."
"Zapped?" Yusuke yelled getting up, the dog had finally let him go. "That was more than just some mere zap!" Meranii shrugged her shoulders.
"How did you do that?" Ryuun asked. Meranii stopped walking but didn't turn around.
"It's one of the many gifts I have…attained over the years." Meranii said. She opened the door and went to walk out. "Have fun with your training."
"What are we suppose to do?" Kurama asked. Meranii looked back at them. She had an evil look in her eyes.
"Oh…" She said, faking surprise. "Did I forget to tell you? Oh silly me." She said tapping herself on the head. She snapped her fingers. The room was suddenly filled with all sorts of demons. "Now, these may just be fakes," She said evilly. "but that doesn't mean they can't hurt you. You are to attack, and defeat, all of these using only your abilities. Every time one of these are attacked by a body part the amount doubles and all of their levels go up one notch. And also every time you attack with a body part, like Yusuke so kindly demonstrated, a little of your energy is zapped from you." Meranii went to walk out again but stopped. "By the way, to those of you that are so arrogantly thinking that my friends can't catch you….I'd watch my back if I were you." With that she walked out. The second the door closed the demons attacked.
-/- With the girls around the same time.-/-
"Why can't I go with them?" Sango asked no one in particular. "I've have training before!" Sango exclaimed. Next to Kagome's foot a little fire broke out.
"AHHH!" Kagome screamed in surprise. They all stomped the fire out.
"Were did that come from?" Boton asked, examining the little scorched circle.
"It came from some one not controlling her temper better." Meranii said from behind Sango. "I realize that you are skilled and well trained in fighting but do you have any idea of how to use your other powers?" Meranii asked Sango. She shook her head. "That is why you are over here and not there." Meranii looked at the rest of the girls. "We will be practicing outside so that any accidents won't end up destroying the dojo."
"So what are we gunna do first?" Shippo asked jumping up and down by Meranii's leg. Meranii smiled at Shippo.
"Well first off we have to discover everyone's strong points." She said. "Every one sits down like this." Meranii sat down and crossed her legs. The others followed her example. "Now put your hands like this." She placed her index-fingers and thumbs together. She faced the point made by her index-fingers downward and crisscrossed her other fingers. The others did the same.
"Why are we doing this?" Shippo asked as he tried to get his hands right. Meranii smiled and put Shippo's hands in the right position.
"This is an exercise to figure out what type of…powers you have." Meranii said after she thought about the word to use. She sat back into her position. "Now I want you all to close your eyes and look into your self." The group did. "Look at your center and see what color it is. Don't think of what color you want it to be. Look at what it is." The group concentrated. "Now, still thinking of that color, open your eyes and look at your hands." The group opened their eyes. In the middle of each of their hands were quarter sized orbs of color. Everyone looked to Meranii and she had a black orb in her hands with multiple colors going through it.
"What do these mean?" Boton asked. Even in her vast knowledge she hadn't heard of this exercise before.
"Well let's start with you then Boton." Meranii said. She pulled her hands apart and the orb disappeared. She walked to Boton and knelt by her hands. The orb in her hand was mostly a light purple color. There were strips of green and dark grey going through it. "Your orb is mostly light purple which meant that you have great healing powers. The green, for some odd reason, means wind, and the dark grey means lighting." Boton's eyes were as wide as saucers.
"I have wind and lighting?" Boton asked surprised. "I never knew that."
"Well now you do." Meranii said walking over to Yukina. "Lets see yours is mostly light blue, for ice. The strips of light purple indicate healing abilities and the indigo means you have to ability to talk with most animals." Yukina nodded her head.
"I knew about those, thank you." Yukina said kindly. Meranii nodded and walked over to Sango. Sango's orb was mostly red but there were stripes of white, silver, green, dark blue, and dark grey. "Lets see, the red means fire, the white, light, silver, again for some strange reason means earth, green, wind, dark blue, water, and dark grey is lighting."
"Wow." Sango said looking at her orb. "All those!?"
"Now Kagome." Meranii walked to Kagome. Hers was mostly silver with white, red, green, dark blue, and pink stripes going through it. "Silver is earth, white is light, red is fire, green is wind, dark blue is water, and pink is purification." Kagome looked at her orb in amassment. Meranii walked over to Keiko. Hers was mostly dark blue with white, silver, red, green, and light blue stripes. "Your dark blue is water, white is light, silver is earth, red is fire, green is wind, and light blue is ice."
"What does mine say!?" Shippo asked excitedly. Meranii walked aver to him. His was mostly yellow with red and indigo stripes through it.
"Yours is mostly yellow which means illusions and the red means fire and the indigo means you can speak to most animals." Shippo looked a little disappointed. "What's wrong?"
"I was hoping to have some hidden powers too." Shippo said sadly. Meranii patted him on the head and stood up.
"Right now we are going to practice." Meranii said walking toward a tall wooden pole that the girls hadn't noticed before. On top they could faintly see a metal box. "Inside that box is six coins. Using your abilities you are to get one coin from that box."
"That's easy." Shippo said as he transformed into his balloon form. Meranii went to say something but he had already gone. When he reached out to touch the box a barrier repelled him and sent him sailing back ward. Meranii jumped up and caught him before he hit the side of the house. She landed back by the girls.
"As I was saying," Meranii started again. "You have to use your abilities but you cannot attack or knock off the box. You have to learn to bend your element to do what you want it to do." The girls, and Shippo, nodded in understanding. "Good. Let's get a move on then."
-/- Kagome's POV-/-
Dear Diary,
It's been two long and hard weeks since we started this training. Everyday has basicly been the same. We'd get up, eat, train, eat, break, train, eat, and then spar over and over again. I'm not complaining or anything. I can actually use most of my powers now! Everything has gone pretty smoothly. There's been a couple of misshapes but not any serious damage. Except last week to the greenhouse. There's quiet an interesting story behind that.
-/- Flashback-/-
The girls were standing in the clearing waiting for Meranii to come back. Right now she was getting the guys started on their exercise. The girls were practicing with their elements.
"I'm not really good with my fire." Keiko said as she tried to form a fire ball in her hand. "I need more practice." She mumbled as she started concentrating on her fire.
"KEIKO!!" Kagome and Sango yelled behind Keiko, scaring her. This caused the fire ball the fly out Keiko's hands and hit the side of the green house, which then caught on fire. The girls ran forward and attempted to use the water abilities they learned to put it out.
"Fire!" Boton called toward the dojo, where Meranii and the boys were. The door flew open and a black blur came out and landed between the girls and the fire. Meranii was standing there and had her arms held out with one hade behind the other. Her eyes blazed dark blue as a huge wave of water came from over the trees and splashed on the fire. The fire was put out instantly and Meranii move her hands in a sweeping motion and the water went back through the tree's. The greenhouse walls were now scorched and a small circle of the roof was missing. Meranii walked toward the greenhouse.
"Meranii. We're very sorry." Kagome, Sango, and Keiko said at the same time. Meranii just nodded and kept walking. She stopped at the door.
"Continue your training." Meranii said coldly as she walking into the greenhouse door. Her tone made the girls flinch.
-/-End Flashback/ Kagome's POV again-/-
Meranii stayed in the greenhouse, and did repairs on it, I guess, for the rest of the day and all through the night because we didn't see her till the next morning when we were coming down for breakfast and she was just coming in and going up to the top floor. I guess she was still mad because she didn't say anything to us and it was Rora, the maid, that told us what we had to do that morning. Meranii is actually talking to us again, so that was a plus.
There was also that time that the boys thought it was a good idea to see what was in the off-limits greenhouse in the back yard.
-/-Flack back.-/-
"It feels like we never get breaks." Keiko complained as she sat on a lawn chair between Sango and Kagome.
"Mhmm." Kagome and Sango said distractedly. Keiko looked at them and saw that they were looking in the direction of where Kurama and Hiei were sparring. Kagome had a slight glazed look in her eyes and Sango was glaring. "Still mad over earlier, Sango?" Keiko asked, storing Kagome's look for later use. The earlier she was talking about was when Sango and Hiei were sparring and Hiei ended up pinning Sango to the ground, obviously ending the match and bringing Sango out as the not-so-winner. You could probably tell that Sango wasn't very happy about. Especially when she turned to glare at Keiko. Keiko laughed nervously and fanned the air, the temperature suddenly going up. Sango and Keiko looked back to the fight to see the guys stopping. They started walking back toward the house, but stopped and looking to ward the greenhouse. The girls looked as well to see Meranii come walking out, a basket in her one hand and a jar in the other. There was a cloth over the basket, making it so they couldn't see what was inside. Meranii didn't spare them a glance and walked off into the surrounding forest.
"You guys wonder what she keeps in there?" Yusuke asked, walking up to the greenhouse and trying to look inside. The glass was blurred to you couldn't see inside.
"I have been wondering that myself." Kurama stated.
"You know it's not a good idea to invoke Meranii's wrath." Boton said, coming out of the house with Sesshoumaru.
"She's gone." Yusuke said, going to the door. Kurama followed out of curiosity and Hiei followed just because he was told not to. Yusuke opened the door.
"You guys should listen to Boton." Kagome said.
"Just let them go." Sango said. "Maybe Meranii will get rid of the more annoying ones of the bunch." They three guys went into the greenhouse. The rest of the group, unable to calm their curiosity, stood by the door and looking in. It looked like any other greenhouse. Plants every which way you looked, watering can, and even plant food.
"This was a waist of time." Yusuke complained. "What's so special about a bunch of…Argh!" Yusuke didn't get to finish his sentence because he had been tipped upside down by one of the small trees. "What the hell is this?" Yusuke asked, trying to wiggle his way out of the tree's hold. The tree wrapped all around him. Looking over we find that Kurama and Hiei were having similar problems.
"Make them let go Fox." Hiei said agitatedly, trying to reach for his sword in vain.
"I've been trying." Kurama stated calmly, hanging upside down. "They refuse to listen. They state that I am not their master." Outside the door Kagome, Sango, Keiko, Boton, and Kuwabara were laughing their heads off. Sesshoumaru had an amused smirk on his face.
Hiei growled and strained to get his sword. There was a smashing sound toward the direction of the door causing the captured males to look in that direction. Meranii stood by the door, a broken jar at her feet. She had a shocked/angry look on her face.
Hiei ignored Meranii and continued to reach for his sword. He reached it and pulled it free of his sheath. He smirked in satisfaction and brought it above his head, and proceeded to bring it down. Instead of it hitting it's intended targets, the vines holding him, he felt it hit something soft and he smelt the sweet aroma of blood. Meranii was holding the blade of his sword, a panicked look leaving her face.
"Drop them." She said, taring Hiei's sword out of his hand and throwing it out the door. It passed very close to Kagome's head, went past her, and imbedded itself up to the hilt in the log the girls used for training. The plants dropped and retreated back to their pots. "You all have five seconds to tell me why are in here?" Meranii said, rubbing the cut on her hand.
"Master is hurt." The group heard a bunch of little voices say. "Hurt them back we must!" The little voices said. The plants started moving toward the guys again.
"No." Meranii said, pushing the guys out of the greenhouse. She closed the door and glared at the whole group.
"What are those?" Keiko asked.
"There are demon plants that I have found around in the forest." Meranii said. "This particular forest is know for having 'strange' things happen. That's why I built my house here. I find demon plants that have been either, bought illegally and abandoned, or somehow found their way here and aren't able to live on their own." Meranii said, glaring at the three boys. "They highly dislike anyone but me. That is why I told you to stay out of their. For your safety. And seeing as how you don't care about yourselves, you don't get any rest for the remainder of the week. Now get to practice." Meranii said to Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke.
-/- End Flashback.-/-
Anyways, right now we are all tucking in for the night. Yesterday me, Sango, and Keiko asked Meranii about how we came to be with our human parents. We found out that it was Meranii that took us too them. Apparently something bad happened in the place that the Phoenix people lived, we don't know what because Meranii wouldn't tell us, and that Meranii was forced to take us away. She didn't say much about our parents just that we all look like a mixture of them. She wouldn't explain further. She said something about not wanting to bring up the past. I respect that but I can't help but wonder what my parents were like. Since I was so young I don't remember them. Meranii said that Phoenix children never forget what their parents look like, even the infants. She said we just need time to remember. I hope in time Meranii will want to talk about it more though. Well I have to go, someone's coming. That's another good thing, I have heightened senses! Meranii said they will eventually even be better than most demons. I really have to go now so until next time.
-/- End Kagome's POV-/-
Kagome closed her diary and put it back into her drawer. She jumped under her covers. She curled up and pretended to be asleep. Her door slowly opened and someone walked in.
"You can get up Kagome, Sango, I know your both awake." Came Meranii's voice through the darkness. Sango and Kagome sat up in their beds.
"What's going on?" Sango asked. Meranii stood between their beds.
"I want to apologize for being so bitchy to you guys," Meranii said, though her voice was still emotionless. "so I decided to take you all clubbing."
"Really!!" Kagome exclaimed excitedly. Meranii nodded.
"Clubbing?" Sango asked. Kagome batted a hand at her.
"You'll see." Kagome said while she dashed out of bed and got into her closet. "It's really fun."
"Try to keep quiet." Meranii said walking to the door. "I don't want the guys awake."
"Their not coming?" Sango asked from her closet. Meranii nodded.
"It's going to be a girls night out." Meranii said. "Boton is already downstairs and I'm going to wake up the other two right now. So just get dress, quietly, and head down there, quietly." The girls nodded and Meranii went to wake up Yukina and Keiko.
When all the girls were downstairs Meranii lead them out the front door and into the moonlight. The girls finally got a good look at what each other were wearing.
Yukina was wearing a calf length, aqua colored, skirt and a one shouldered, aqua colored, shirt that showed some of her stomach. She had her hair up in two buns in the back of her head.
Keiko was wearing a short, black, shirt with a blue heart in on the center. She had a jean jacket over the shirt. She was wearing a pair of dark blue jeans. She had her hair down with a couple clips in it.
Boton was wearing a pink halter top, that showed off her stomach, and a pair of blue jeans with pink on the bottoms. Most of her hair was put up into a bun in the back of her head and the rest was just let down.
Kagome was wearing a silver tube top type thing with strings wrapping around her stomach and a couple around her neck. She had on a calf length silver skirt and her hair was let down with a couple clips.
Sango was wearing a red, short, shirt with a red jacket over it. Her pants were red and faded to black in some places. Her hair was mostly up in a pony tail, with the rest hanging down. She had a red flower clip in her hair as well.
Meranii was wearing a black tank top that showed off her stomach and a fishnet tank top over top of it. On her arms were fishnet gloves that went up to just below her shoulder. She had on a pair of black baggy pants. Her hair was up in pig-tails in the back of her head. She had a studded collar on.
"Let's go." Meranii said as she walked a little ways into the forest, the girls following behind. They came to a huge garage with a road leading away from it.
"Why is it so far away from your house?" Keiko asked as they went inside. Inside they found multiple types of cars. All of them were black. (A/N: Sorry everyone. Me and vehicles are like oil and water. We don't mix. So I'll just leave the types and models to your imagination.)
"The clearing I built my house in wasn't big enough for it so I had to find another on close by." Meranii said getting into one of the bigger cars. "Come on we don't have all night you know." The girls all got in. "Let's go clubbin." Meranii said as they pulled out of the garage and head down the road.
-/- A castle in Mankai. -/-
"They have left the company of the males, m'lord." A figure dressed in a dark blue haori and baggy black hakamas, with shoulder length hair, said. There was also a feminine figure dreesed in a black fighting kimono, and a male figure. He was dressed in black, human, pants and a red human shirt. A figure in a throne nodded.
"I am sending all of you this time." The figure in the throne said as Shinrin came out of the shadows. "Do not fail me." The figure said. "Do not return until you have accomplished your task."
"Yes m'lord." Shinrin and the other figures said. They all backed up into the shadows and disappeared.
"I'll let you play your little game of hide and seek for a little while longer, my dear." The figure in the throne said as he looked into an orb that appeared in his hand. Inside was a picture of Meranii driving and laughing a little at something one of the other girls said. "But soon you, your sisters, and your powers will be mine."
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There you guys go. I'm gunna try to get these out faster so don't hate me too bad. Review please.