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The mighty Bitch of the North paced back and forth in her mighty castle, eating a mighty fruit pie. "Hmm… I need a plan to release those creatures without having myself get involved…" She then looked at her Monkey.

Joey was still sweeping up the vase the witch had told him care for when he looked up at her and spoke brilliantly, "Waaah?"

"Uuugh. I don't see how something like that would be of any help at all."

"Grrr…" He eyed her.

"Hm. Well you have to be of SOME help…" The witch thought for a moment. She rubbed her chin thoughtfully and smeared some of the pie upon herself as well without noticing.

"/I know there has to be… hey/ …that's it!" The witch ran to her window. (Maybe she'll jump this time!)

"Yes! The weather is just perfect for my plan!" She turned away from the window (Darn.) and a grin crossed her face. "It's just the day to release them all!"

She started down a dark case of circling stairs to what I'm sure must be something brilliant and mighty. "Joey, come with me!"

"Ooo ooo." Joey followed after the witch, down the mighty staircase of mighty, to the mighty room of eerieness.

"Release the Ham-Hams to retrieve Seto Kaiba and bring him to my lair. But, I'm going to need YOUR help."

"…" Joey just stared at her with a small glare of worry.

The witch finally reached the door to the mighty dungeon of eerieness. Some strange unknown object of eerieness was banging the mighty door of eerieness. The witch slowly walked up to the mighty door of eerie things and carefully peeked in from a little slot built into the door.

"There they are. The Flying Ham-Ham's of Darkness…"

The eerily energetic ham-hams of darkness heard the witch's voice and began rapping at the mighty door of eerieness.

"Stand back, Joey. They sense our presence- Joey?" The witch searched for her mighty monkey of darkness and found him cowering in a corner.

"EEE! EEE! EEE!"

"Oh, come on, you!"

The darkened Ham-Ham's of darkness rapped upon the mighty door of eerieness once again and the witch yelped and cowered next to Joey. "Give me room. If anyone should be eaten by them, it should be you."

"GRRRRRR."

The witch watched the door until eventually went calm again. She stood up and watched the door. "Hmm. Those dark Ham-Hams are always causing mischief. They get so quiet-"

"RAAARAAARG!"

"AHH!" The witch hid back in the corner next to Joey. "Yeesh, they are unpredictable. What am I going to do? Hmm… I got it! I need… A distraction."

Joey was staring at the ceiling when the witch called his name. "Joey!"

"Huh?"

"I have a little task for you."

"oo;;;" Joey looked at her as if he knew something might happen.

"I want you to distract the Ham-Hams of darkness. You will lead them to my window and fly out and grab Seto Kaiba. /Maybe you some other things may happen/."

"Urrrrrrrrrrr…." Joey sat there, befuddled.

The witch glared at him for a second them smacked the back of his head. "Do it NOW!"

"EEE!" Joey ran to the gate and looked back at the witch. "Ooorr?"

"YES that door!" The witch crossed her arms and stomped the floor.

"Ooooooo…" Joey carefully began to push the big panel that kept the door. The Ham-Hams of Darkness began singing their eerie friendship song of darkness.

"WE ARE FRIENDS! GREAT FRIENDS FOR ALL TIME! WE EAT OUR MAGICAL SUNFLOWER SEEDS JUST TO MAKE THIS SENTENCE RHYME!"

"GAAAH! JOEY! HURRY UP AND CARRY ON ALREADY!"

"Raaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Joey continued to strain, trying to push the big slab of wood from the door.

"WE WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND! SO WE SING THIS SONG! WE LOVE OUR FRIENDLY FRIENDS! THIS SONG IS VERY LONG!"

"I SAID HURRY!" The witch threw a big rock at Joey's head. Which somehow gave him the strength enough to lift up the big slab of wood! Oh, actually. It just gave him a huge headache.

"HAHA! THAT JUST HAPPENED! YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT!"

"Hey, those ham's are pretty good… NOW, GO!" She finished moving the slab of oak-wood for him and pointed up the stairs. All of the Ham-Ham's of Darkness flew up through them singing their songs, Joey following after.

"WE LOVE TO SING OUR SONGS, AND KNOW HOW MUCH THEY DO TO YOU!"

The witch chased them through the window and watched them fly onward. She was very happy now. "Finally." She looked out the window one more time. "And don't forget to bring back Seto Kaiba! He's the one who gets all those fangirls! He's the one that I WANT!" She turned around and let Joey do his task.

The group walked quietly through the woods. Seto and Inu Yasha glared at each other once in a while, while Kagome latched herself to Inu Yasha's armed and smiled at him every once in a while. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo walked normally just focusing on the trail. Fro-Fro hopped about happily following them all making sure they stayed safe. The Penman quietly played with each of his pens and the Starecro gazed at his…"pretty"…surroundings.

Everyone came to a pause when they heard a small rustling.

Kagome gasped and shifted close to Inu Yasha. "What was that, Inu Yasha…?"

"I don't know… but stay on your guard…" He grasped the hilt of his Tetsusaiga.

Everyone remained quiet as the rustling began to ease and went quiet again.

Miroku looked about and sighed in relief. "I think it's go-"

"Hey, come out you coward!" Seto shoved Miroku aside and walked about.

Miroku hit the ground and grunted. "How rude…"

"Seto Kaiba, do you ALWAYS flip out when you hear a sound?" Sango shook her head.

Seto ignored and continued about. "I said come out!"

"Uh…" A bashful figure carefully walked out of some foliage. He grasped in his hand a long furry tail and patted it nervously.

Seto stared at him and then turned away. "Anyway…"

"DEMOOOOOON!"

"AAAAGH!"

Inu Yasha leapt toward him with his Tetsusaiga and frightened him to the ground. He paused suddenly and stared at him. He sniffed the air and paused again… then growled to himself. "You smell like one, anyway, but why do you look like a…"

"Not a one?" Shippo answered for him.

"Whatever." He sheathed back his sword and began to follow on with Seto.

The Starecro walked up to the cat-like figure and held up his hand. "Hello. You are very pretty… Would you like to be my friend?"

The cat-like boy moved his hands from his face and gazed up at the Starecro, who held a very friendly smile upon him.

The boy smiled in turn and took the Starecro's hand. "Okay…"

They all continued on normally and started to like… think it normal that more people were appearing in their group. (Heh.)

"What is your name?"

"Me?"

"Uh-huh." Starecro smiled again.

"I'm… I'm Ryou. The Meowardly Kitty." (LOL I couldn't resist. Or think of anything else.)

"Nice to meet you, Ryou. I'm Starecro. And he's Penman, and that's Fro-Fro, and this is-"

"I don't know why he bothers…"

"People like to make friends, Inu Yasha." Kagome tilted her head and smiled at Inu Yasha.

"And that's why we're walking on this trail of… um… I don't remember."

"Ohh…" Ryou inched closer to Starecro and shuddered. "It's dark out here."

"I know." Starecro nodded matter-of-factly.

Ryou flinched from a noise he heard randomly and stepped backwards, bumping into Inu Yasha.

"GAH! HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!"

"I-I-I'm sorry… I'm just a bit frightened is all…." Ryou patted his tail.

"Well, what's you're problem? You're a lion, you're supposed to be braver than this!"

"Actually, I'm a.. Kitty…"

"Same difference!"

"I know…"

"THEN, WHAT'S THE MATTER?!"

"W-well… I have a feeling that something is going to happen… Like maybe some strange witch's eerie Ham-Ham's of Darkness will come and take us all to her castle and keep us there so that she can become famous."

"Naaah, they're only going to take Seto… OOPS!" Penman covered his mouth.

Seto cringed. "WHAT!?"

"Inu Yasha, do you hear that?" Kagome latched back onto Inu Yasha's arm.

His ears twitched as he listened. "I hear something."

"What could it be?" Miroku stepped forward.

"It could be a… WILL YOU LET GO!" Inu Yasha pulled at his arm.

"…..Fling-flong we are here- you all will meet your fate…"

"It's getting closer." Sango stood aloof.

Ryou clasped to Starecro.

"You have pretty ears." Starecro rubbed Ryou's ears.

"Ahhhhh that feels nice." He flipped over and started rolling about.

"Kitty!" Starecro pet Ryou.

"Fling-flong, we want to take you! We've come for you to bring you back, and then we'll get our pay!"

"LOOK!" Penman pointed in a random direction..

"They're all tiny little creatures!" Shippo shouted.

"They should all be easy to take on." Inu Yasha prepared the Tetsusaiga. He lunged forward.

"We want to make you meet your fate and then you all will- whooooooop, oh, boy." They all rose higher from Inu Yasha's Tetsuaiga.

"GAH! What?!"

"Yes!" All the Ham-Ham's flew down toward Ryou.

Ryou continued to roll about and purr as Starecro continued to pet him.

"Uhh we're going to need this." All the Ham-Ham's scooped up Ryou and began to fly onward.

"Ahh it's like I'm floatiiiing." Ryou smiled happily.

"Fling-flong we have the fool and now we take him back!" The Ham-Ham's flew on as the group watched confusedly.

"Inu Yasha…. Th-they…."

"I know." Inu Yasha blinked.

Everybody watched in surprise at just how "skilled" those eerie thingies were.

Starecro walked in front of the gang and shielded his eyes. "…...They took Ryou."

"Naaaaaaaaw!" Seto threw his hands up.

"Inu Yasha, we can't just let them take him away, we have to save him!" Kagome once again latched onto his arm.

"Grrrrr fine. NOW, LET GO ALREADY!"

"Well, let's go, then, before it's too late." Miroku began walking forward as the group did the same.

"I found a flower. It's pretty." Starecro gazed at a single flower he had found.

"Way to go." Inu Yasha grabbed the scruff of Starecro's shirt and carried him along with them.

Starecro quickly picked the flower as he was being carried.


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