Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Siren's Song ❯ Chapter 12
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By: MexicanJew 
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.07.2004 | Pages: 1 | Words: 4.3K | Visits: 362 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.07.2004 | Pages: 1 | Words: 4.3K | Visits: 362 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH
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<Mika> (Ok I'm tired of writing P.O.V. and I think your smart enough to notice if its a P.O.V. or not so w/e)
I awoke to be held against something warm and soft and moving. I snuggled closer before it hit me, warm and soft and moving!? I tried to sit upright but found I was in someones arms, this freaked me out more, and I looked up, my eyes meeting beautiful green ones. Then it hit me, the bar, meetings Koenma's detectives, fighting, and killing Arata. How I ended up here I have no idea, and as comfortable as I was, I was still wary of being in some strange guys arms, no matter if he had saved me or not. I tried getting out of his arms but he shook his head. "Your too weak to walk right now, it's faster this way" I sighed, I knew he was right, there was no way I could walk after that fight. I grinned to myself, remembering my spear going through Arata, almost perfect revenge, in my opinion he didn't suffer near enough, but at least it was me that got to kill him, and not someone else. During the entire trip I was painfully aware of Kurama's arms holding me, and the warm solid mass that was his chest that I leaned against (Bridal style carrying here) as much as I wanted to be loved, any hope of it had pretty much died when my mom did and I saw what it did to my dad. I was scared that the same thing would happen to me, and the thought of being an empty shell scared me. I also knew the theifs reputation, but I had also heard rumors of how being in a human body had changed him, and his one weakness was his kindness.
I also had decided to travel with Nyx, she was all the family that I had left, and things defintly weren't dull around her. We soon reached a portal and the others walked threw first. "Thank you for..well saving my life" I paused and looked up here to see if I was right and he was the one that cut down Nanashi and when he nodded I continued "and for carrying me, your probably one of like 3 decent demons to ever go into that bar" I looked away after that comment, it seems more then just Nyx's singing talents rubbed off on me through our blood, I caught her running-of-the-mouth disease as well. He chuckled and I looked up again. "I wasn't always like that, before I was shot and raised by a human women, I doubt I would've acted much different then the other demons at the bar." I looked up startled. He must have seen my alarm, I had a feeling those eyes didn't miss much, and he quickly continued "but I'm not like that anymore" I sighed, if what he said wasn't true, then I would already have found out, and he had done nothing to cause me to be afraid of him or doubt his words. We went through the portal and the feeling of being pulled in every direction at once overwhelmed me. I clutched tighter onto Kurama. Finally it was over and we were in front of this office-looking place. We went in before I could really look around, but by the sound of it there were definetly a lot of beings running around in it.
We went in and he set me down in a chair, before taking a seat in one himself. We sat in silence watching the other two fight over a chair, despite the fact that there were other chairs to sit in. (pretend, eh?) Kurama suddenly turned to me and was about to say something when an ogre burst into the room carrying a...baby? I shrugged it off, seeing that the others weren't freaking out. The ogre set the baby on a desk, he turned to me "So you must be the siren demon, you don't look like anything we thought, aren't voliant siren demons fair-skinned?..." I ignored the comment about my skin color, a lot of people are ignorant, but I cleared my throat to stop him from his mushings. "No.." "Then why are you here?" I glared at him and continued, "Because I'm not the siren demon, I'm her sister" This statement had the effect I expected. Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at me with their jaws open, Kurama had a puzzled look on his face and Koenma just looked downright stumped. "Then how are you not a siren demon?" Koenma pointed out, I smirked at his naiveness. I explained about blood-sisters and they all just stared for a few seconds. "If your blood mixes what kind of effect would that have?" Kurama finally got out. I thought of this for a moment, "Yes, my voice has become slightly more musical...I'm not sure if anything about her has changed yet." Koenma, I noticed, had taken out a notepad and began making notes as I was talking about mixing blood.
He looked up and asked "How did you find out about this custom?" I felt a blush rising to my cheeks, "Well its a tradition that people in my clan had back where I came from, it was a way to bond families without marriage, and close friends began doing it (go with me here) and well I no longer have any family and I don't think Nyx does either..." I trailed off, I didn't really know what happened to Nyx's family but I knew that hers was out of her life, I just didn't know if they were dead or not. Yusuke looked confused, "Nyx? Who's that?" Koenma sighed and threw a book at him. "Yusuke, you blockhead! Who else would we be talking about but the siren demon!" Yusuke couldn't respond due to the fact he was passed out on the floor with swirly eyes. "Are there any side effects?" Kurama questioned with...worry on his face? I stopped to think, "Well in the past there were some problems with blending blood this way, but strangely it was only on demons who tried to do the blending for bad purposes, such as trying to conquor(sp?) the clan, I don't think it will work if not done for almost pure purposes (cheesy but o well, it happens) They were silent for a few seconds before Koenma had to go. "Well I have other matters to attend to, I will be back shortly" And with that him and the ogre left the room.
"What does he want with Nyx?" This was all so weird, from what I had managed to get from Nyx, she had been on her own for quite awhile, and this sudden interest in her made me suspscious. "Well, we thought all the Voliant Siren Demons were extinct, and the Finned Ones refused to talk about it, then Nyx's spirit energy suddenly showed up and dissappeared just as fast, he doesn't want to lose a race."
<Kurama>
After I brought her in and reluctently(sp?) set her down, I was about to ask her how she had come by working at that bar, for some reason it bugged me that she worked in a place like that. Then Koenma interrupted. She revealed that her and the Siren Demon, Nyx I think her name was, had mixed blood. This set me thinking, how was it possible? I heard Youko in my head sarcastically telling me how you just cut your fingers and press them together, was it that hard to fathom? I told him to shut up, I knew how I just didn't know how neither was dead from mixing blood, they weren't the same type of demon, wouldn't there be bad side effects? But she went on to explain that it was kinda a karma thing and that slightly puzzled me, karma? How does that makes sense? (Ah how I love illogical logic) but I decided for once, to let something go. I was about to ask my question again when Hiei walked in, soon followed by Nyx. Mika was facing away from the door so she didn't see them enter, but turned when she saw my gaze on something behind her. She didn't notice the look of fear on Nyx's face, but I caught it. She covered it quickly and walked over and sat on Mika's other side. Mika leaned in and said something, and Nyx blushed. I didn't understand the language, but it sounded like the fluid tongue one of the continents, Africa I think, we didn't study it in too much deepth in school (haha Swahili, the language of Mika's clan, I thought it would be a nice touch if they want to talk in secret while others are around) Just then Koenma came in.
<Nyx>
I had dreaded coming here this whole trip, I knew that coming here would make me have to relive memories that I had long tried to forget, so I decided to only give the shorthand version of things.(Haha and I bet you thought that you were getting the whole mysterious history now) Mika snidely asked me in her language what took so long. She taught me her language, and of course I had learned fast, I had a brief memory at how amazed she'd been at how fast I picked it up and returned to the present. Just then Koenma came back, but he was in his teen form. I cleared my expression and readied myself for the inevitable, even telling the shorthand would bring up all the painful memories. Mika was silent, and sensing my mood, put a reassuring hand on my arm. I jumped slightly at her touch but forced myself to relax. It helped to know that I was not alone. He sat down behind his desk, and the two humans finally seemed to catch on. The one in green, Yusuke I think his name was, had a cocky smile on his face "Well toddler, we brought her here and got rid of that bar, so can we go now?"
Koenma glared at him, and I almost smiled, but then it hit me again why I was there.
"No, I have a feeling that you will have a mission very soon indeed, and if you stay it will save me a lot of questions, but while you wait, try to find some manners in some far corner of an empty space you call a brain" Yusuke mumbled under his breath, but amazingly sat down, the other one following suit. Then Koenma shifted his gaze to me, I saw the confusion in his eyes as he took in my tan skin, dark hair, and eyes. I sighed, this was going to be a long day for me. "Are you the Voliant Siren Demon?" I don't know what I was expecting, but the question in that blunt form was not it. I sighed again and met his gaze.
"Yes"
Before he could speak again, Yusuke inturrpted "Hold the phone, you said the Voliant Siren Demons were the source of angel myths, well then why do all the pictures and writings describe them as fair-skinned and blonde hair, with usually green or blue eyes?" The others didn't move, but I could tell they were all listening intently, even Mika. The orange-haired one looked slightly confused, but was fighting it. I looked up and met Koenma's gaze, and took a breath.
(Prepare the crackers! The cheesyness begins now!)
"Well that is true, Voliant Sirens are fair-complected.."
Koenma interrupte at this point "Then your not one?!" He turned to Yusuke "You idiot! You got the wrong girl!" I sweat-dropped "No I am the Voliant Siren" That shut them up, "But your hair..." I cut him off with a glare. "What do you know of the Finned Siren Demons?" My question startled them.
"Well, next to nothing, all we know is that they hate war and will do anything to stop it, also they have a portal somewhere in the bottom of the ocean, that is how humans learned of them, and also some other deep sea 'mysteries' like giant squid, but humans right it off as myth and just nature, why?" I ignored the question. "What do you know about the Voliant Sirens?" They all looked complex, and I was forcing myself to reflect on this like it was the weather, I couldn't have an emotional break down now. Koenma looked perplexed but continued
"Well, nothing besides the fact that they are fair-skinned, and have light hair and blue or green eyes. Which you do not!" I flinched, that one hit home. That fact is what had caused me misery(sp?) for the time I had lived with my clan, before the incident.
"Do you know what the Finned Sirens looked like?" He looked annoyed at my questions, and lack of answers but answered anyway. "Well they keep to themselves, but myths tell of them with tails of fish and dark hair.." He broke off there and looked at me slightly. I was aware of all the eyes in the room on me, and I resigned myself to the telling.
"So far your information has been surprisingly accurate. Most Siren Demons, Voliant or Finned, like to stay to themselves. While its true that the Finned Sirens hate conflict of most kind, the Voliant Sirens don't like violence, but they get bored easily in times of peace, they grow restless and create mischief. The Finned ones don't agree with this, which is why they tend to avoid eachother, and the Finned Sirens, well you know the extent of what they go to to avoid wars. So they lured the Voliant ones to the sea...and..." By now my eyes were starting to well with tears, I should have been with them, I should have been there to do something, or at least trapped with them, the ultimate suffering for a Voliant Siren is not being able to fly, or be in the sun. Even though I traveled the worlds, I was still in the sun and able to use my wings every now and then. But they were trapped, locked in some dark dungeon at the bottom of the ocean. "..They captured them, and took them to the bottom of the ocean, to lock them away...forever.."
My voice almost failed me there, but I coughed to keep it limber. Koenma was the first to react. "How does this all connect to you then? Why aren't you trapped?" I looked up and met his eyes, and forced myself to tell, at least my heritage if nothing else.
"Well my mother was the daughter of the leader of the Voliant Sirens, and she was, to say the least, one of the more rebellious of our clan, and she had this weird fascination with the ocean.." I was cut off once again by Yusuke "How is that weird?" I sighed, and reminded myself that humans didn't know of the stories, not really. "Because if one of them were to fall in, it would be very unlikely that they would ever get out, once wet, wings are basically useless, don't interrupt again" I glared to get my point across and it seemed to be made.
"Anyway, one day she was flying over the beach when she saw what she thought was a wounded dolphin, she swooped down and found it to be one of the Finned ones, she knew full well of the tension between the two clans, but she just couldn't leave him to die. She nursed him back to health, at first he was wary and mean to her, but grew used to it when she didn't attack him. She fell in love with him, and him with her. When he got better they kept their romance a secret, and one day my mom found she was pregnant." I saw a question coming and I answered before it could be asked "Yes, I know that Finned Sirens have tails like fish, but they also have a more human form with legs and everything, in case they ever need to get something off of land" Koenma nodded to show he understood and I continued. "After that it became much harder to keep the secret, and well it wasn't long before the clan found out who the father was, and they were furious, one of them, the 'Princess' no less, had become pregnant by their 'enemies'! They wanted to kill the baby, but my mom persuaded them, 'Basic anatomy shows that a child is more 3/4s the mother and 1/4 the father (just pretend ok?) and in the end they relented, but told her she would pay for it later.
"She was forbidden to go to the ocean and spent most of her days off in a forest alone, when I was born she was so happy that I had wings, that she didn't care that I was dark-complected. The clan tolorated me, but I was an outsider, obviously. One night I heard argueing when I was about 5, and it turned out to be my mom and her father, he said she was 'unpure' and to be able to lead the clan one day, she would have to havea pure blood Voliant Siren, she refused but against her knowledge he 'assigned' one to follow her, wait till she was caught unawares. This happened not too long after...and..." It was getting harder to speak of this, I had didn't want to be telling this, and it helped to pretend that it was someone else's life, not mine. "he...raped her. She became pregnant, but no longer sang or flew, after that she moved us in to a cave farther away from that others, and kept to herself. (they lived in cliffs, think grand canyon) My sister was born in secret, and we only ever came in contact with that others if we had to. My mother's father (heh that sounds funny) tried everything to get my mother back, or sing at least. She had one of the best voices, but she refused and told him he had erased the song of her soul by betraying her and not accepting her daughters.
"My little sister didn't really understand what was going on, and not being around the others, didn't realize how different I was. Dispite our age differences, we were close, all three of us. Then one day my mom had a dream, about my father in trouble. She told us to stay and flew off. She was the one who trained us, and gave me my blades, she said they were a gift from my father. While she was gone her father came and took my sister away, and had left me for dead in the back of the cave, she was a 'pureblood' and since my mother refused, he decided that she would lead our clan one day.
He was furious that mother had left, after she was forbidden, and stupidly decided it was time to end this all once and for all, he called all the Voliant Sirens that could fight, and took them to the ocean. A horrible battle issued, since apparently my father had been going through the same stuff, minus the rape and having a child. They captured them, and somehow came onto land and captured the rest of them. When I came too, they were all gone and I was left alone. I lived there for awhile, before it became too painful and that began my travels."
There was silence for a few minutes after this, as everyone was going over it. I knew that they sensed that more had gone on then I let on, but it was none of their business of what I had been through, and I would tell when or if I was ready, if that ever came. "Can we see your wings?" The orange-haired one, Kuwabara I think, spoke finally, I had almost forgotten he was there, since he hadn't spoken before. I looked down and let my hair spill around my face, too embarassed to answer. I knew the others wanted to see them too, only Mika knew why I was acting this way. She glared at them and in a low voice laced with venom "No, and don't ask again" I thought it was kinda unnecessary to be THAT impertive about it, but if it got the point across.... The others sweatdropped and Koenma finally asked "Why?" Mika turned her eyes on him and he drew back a bit, "Because" was all she said before she turned back to me, and put an arm around my shoulders. I stayed silent and silence filled the room. It was so loud it pounded on my eardrums (Does anyone else have this problem? seriously I can't be in silence b/c it hurts my ears and makes them pound...) Finally Koenma voiced the thought I had been playing with for some time now, ever since my clan was taken.
"Well then I guess well just have to get them back." I looked up finally and he had a determined look on his face. "Obvoiusly you'll have to be the one to do it, and Yusuke and the others will help you, and I'm guessing Mika will be coming too?" He looked at her when he said that and she nodded. That caught my attention, I wasn't expecting help, but knowing I wouldn't have to do it alone gave me courage. "How soon will you be ready?" I had to think about that, I couldn't go until my wings were healed and I had no idea how long that would take, I knew they weren't healing quickly, and I also knew it was because of my emotional distress. "I don't know, but I think it will be awhile" I quietly whispered. "Then you will be staying at Genkai's, to recover, and if your story is true to train, now if you excuse me I have to..." I didn't hear him, my mind was reeling.
I was releived that I wouldn't have to face what had happened to my clan just yet, but disappointed at the same time. Koenma left and we sat in silence for a little bit, and I knew the others were thinking over my story. Finally Kuwabara jumped up and declared "I'm hungry, lets go to Genkai's and maybe my lovely Yukina will have some food" He got all starry-eyed at either the thought of food or this Yukina, but I didn't care, as long as we left the room that heard the telling, this was one of the times I hated my unusual voice, whenever I told something important, everytime I came back to that spot I would have a flashback, good or bad. I didn't mind that good, but the bad...well you can guess. me got up and followed everyone else out, and ignored the shooting glances they kept giving me. Not even the free-falling experience that reminded me so much of flying could lift my spirits, I knew the only think that would lessen this was singing, and I didn't feel like doing that with all these people around, I knew it would affect their moods and I didn't want anyone else going through what I went though, this eternal war against my mind. (kinda weird and not-light but I'm in one of those moods)
When we arrived to Genkai's place, Yusuke and Kuwabara groaned at the sight of this staircase that looked like it had jumped out of a fat-kids hell (Sry, couldn't resist) the remote location and scenery was a painful reminder that I couldn't use my wings, so I resigned to walk up like the others. Once we reached the top my legs were slightly numb, but my breathing was fine. Mika looked out of breathe, as did Yusuke and Kuwabara, who had raced up the stairs, but one tripped and tripped up the other, which ended that situation. We reached the top, but I was slowly slipping into the wave of memories that had consumed me, and I don't remember anything up the point where I was showed a room by a short girl with greenish hair and large red eyes that looked familiar. I sighed and laid down, almost immediatly asleep.
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Holy SchaMOLY that took a long time to write, sorry! My stupid ideas, I don't have the block, but my head jumped ahead to ideas in the future, but first I had to do this chapter to get there and it's just frustrating! ok till next time *MexicanJew*
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<Mika> (Ok I'm tired of writing P.O.V. and I think your smart enough to notice if its a P.O.V. or not so w/e)
I awoke to be held against something warm and soft and moving. I snuggled closer before it hit me, warm and soft and moving!? I tried to sit upright but found I was in someones arms, this freaked me out more, and I looked up, my eyes meeting beautiful green ones. Then it hit me, the bar, meetings Koenma's detectives, fighting, and killing Arata. How I ended up here I have no idea, and as comfortable as I was, I was still wary of being in some strange guys arms, no matter if he had saved me or not. I tried getting out of his arms but he shook his head. "Your too weak to walk right now, it's faster this way" I sighed, I knew he was right, there was no way I could walk after that fight. I grinned to myself, remembering my spear going through Arata, almost perfect revenge, in my opinion he didn't suffer near enough, but at least it was me that got to kill him, and not someone else. During the entire trip I was painfully aware of Kurama's arms holding me, and the warm solid mass that was his chest that I leaned against (Bridal style carrying here) as much as I wanted to be loved, any hope of it had pretty much died when my mom did and I saw what it did to my dad. I was scared that the same thing would happen to me, and the thought of being an empty shell scared me. I also knew the theifs reputation, but I had also heard rumors of how being in a human body had changed him, and his one weakness was his kindness.
I also had decided to travel with Nyx, she was all the family that I had left, and things defintly weren't dull around her. We soon reached a portal and the others walked threw first. "Thank you for..well saving my life" I paused and looked up here to see if I was right and he was the one that cut down Nanashi and when he nodded I continued "and for carrying me, your probably one of like 3 decent demons to ever go into that bar" I looked away after that comment, it seems more then just Nyx's singing talents rubbed off on me through our blood, I caught her running-of-the-mouth disease as well. He chuckled and I looked up again. "I wasn't always like that, before I was shot and raised by a human women, I doubt I would've acted much different then the other demons at the bar." I looked up startled. He must have seen my alarm, I had a feeling those eyes didn't miss much, and he quickly continued "but I'm not like that anymore" I sighed, if what he said wasn't true, then I would already have found out, and he had done nothing to cause me to be afraid of him or doubt his words. We went through the portal and the feeling of being pulled in every direction at once overwhelmed me. I clutched tighter onto Kurama. Finally it was over and we were in front of this office-looking place. We went in before I could really look around, but by the sound of it there were definetly a lot of beings running around in it.
We went in and he set me down in a chair, before taking a seat in one himself. We sat in silence watching the other two fight over a chair, despite the fact that there were other chairs to sit in. (pretend, eh?) Kurama suddenly turned to me and was about to say something when an ogre burst into the room carrying a...baby? I shrugged it off, seeing that the others weren't freaking out. The ogre set the baby on a desk, he turned to me "So you must be the siren demon, you don't look like anything we thought, aren't voliant siren demons fair-skinned?..." I ignored the comment about my skin color, a lot of people are ignorant, but I cleared my throat to stop him from his mushings. "No.." "Then why are you here?" I glared at him and continued, "Because I'm not the siren demon, I'm her sister" This statement had the effect I expected. Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at me with their jaws open, Kurama had a puzzled look on his face and Koenma just looked downright stumped. "Then how are you not a siren demon?" Koenma pointed out, I smirked at his naiveness. I explained about blood-sisters and they all just stared for a few seconds. "If your blood mixes what kind of effect would that have?" Kurama finally got out. I thought of this for a moment, "Yes, my voice has become slightly more musical...I'm not sure if anything about her has changed yet." Koenma, I noticed, had taken out a notepad and began making notes as I was talking about mixing blood.
He looked up and asked "How did you find out about this custom?" I felt a blush rising to my cheeks, "Well its a tradition that people in my clan had back where I came from, it was a way to bond families without marriage, and close friends began doing it (go with me here) and well I no longer have any family and I don't think Nyx does either..." I trailed off, I didn't really know what happened to Nyx's family but I knew that hers was out of her life, I just didn't know if they were dead or not. Yusuke looked confused, "Nyx? Who's that?" Koenma sighed and threw a book at him. "Yusuke, you blockhead! Who else would we be talking about but the siren demon!" Yusuke couldn't respond due to the fact he was passed out on the floor with swirly eyes. "Are there any side effects?" Kurama questioned with...worry on his face? I stopped to think, "Well in the past there were some problems with blending blood this way, but strangely it was only on demons who tried to do the blending for bad purposes, such as trying to conquor(sp?) the clan, I don't think it will work if not done for almost pure purposes (cheesy but o well, it happens) They were silent for a few seconds before Koenma had to go. "Well I have other matters to attend to, I will be back shortly" And with that him and the ogre left the room.
"What does he want with Nyx?" This was all so weird, from what I had managed to get from Nyx, she had been on her own for quite awhile, and this sudden interest in her made me suspscious. "Well, we thought all the Voliant Siren Demons were extinct, and the Finned Ones refused to talk about it, then Nyx's spirit energy suddenly showed up and dissappeared just as fast, he doesn't want to lose a race."
<Kurama>
After I brought her in and reluctently(sp?) set her down, I was about to ask her how she had come by working at that bar, for some reason it bugged me that she worked in a place like that. Then Koenma interrupted. She revealed that her and the Siren Demon, Nyx I think her name was, had mixed blood. This set me thinking, how was it possible? I heard Youko in my head sarcastically telling me how you just cut your fingers and press them together, was it that hard to fathom? I told him to shut up, I knew how I just didn't know how neither was dead from mixing blood, they weren't the same type of demon, wouldn't there be bad side effects? But she went on to explain that it was kinda a karma thing and that slightly puzzled me, karma? How does that makes sense? (Ah how I love illogical logic) but I decided for once, to let something go. I was about to ask my question again when Hiei walked in, soon followed by Nyx. Mika was facing away from the door so she didn't see them enter, but turned when she saw my gaze on something behind her. She didn't notice the look of fear on Nyx's face, but I caught it. She covered it quickly and walked over and sat on Mika's other side. Mika leaned in and said something, and Nyx blushed. I didn't understand the language, but it sounded like the fluid tongue one of the continents, Africa I think, we didn't study it in too much deepth in school (haha Swahili, the language of Mika's clan, I thought it would be a nice touch if they want to talk in secret while others are around) Just then Koenma came in.
<Nyx>
I had dreaded coming here this whole trip, I knew that coming here would make me have to relive memories that I had long tried to forget, so I decided to only give the shorthand version of things.(Haha and I bet you thought that you were getting the whole mysterious history now) Mika snidely asked me in her language what took so long. She taught me her language, and of course I had learned fast, I had a brief memory at how amazed she'd been at how fast I picked it up and returned to the present. Just then Koenma came back, but he was in his teen form. I cleared my expression and readied myself for the inevitable, even telling the shorthand would bring up all the painful memories. Mika was silent, and sensing my mood, put a reassuring hand on my arm. I jumped slightly at her touch but forced myself to relax. It helped to know that I was not alone. He sat down behind his desk, and the two humans finally seemed to catch on. The one in green, Yusuke I think his name was, had a cocky smile on his face "Well toddler, we brought her here and got rid of that bar, so can we go now?"
Koenma glared at him, and I almost smiled, but then it hit me again why I was there.
"No, I have a feeling that you will have a mission very soon indeed, and if you stay it will save me a lot of questions, but while you wait, try to find some manners in some far corner of an empty space you call a brain" Yusuke mumbled under his breath, but amazingly sat down, the other one following suit. Then Koenma shifted his gaze to me, I saw the confusion in his eyes as he took in my tan skin, dark hair, and eyes. I sighed, this was going to be a long day for me. "Are you the Voliant Siren Demon?" I don't know what I was expecting, but the question in that blunt form was not it. I sighed again and met his gaze.
"Yes"
Before he could speak again, Yusuke inturrpted "Hold the phone, you said the Voliant Siren Demons were the source of angel myths, well then why do all the pictures and writings describe them as fair-skinned and blonde hair, with usually green or blue eyes?" The others didn't move, but I could tell they were all listening intently, even Mika. The orange-haired one looked slightly confused, but was fighting it. I looked up and met Koenma's gaze, and took a breath.
(Prepare the crackers! The cheesyness begins now!)
"Well that is true, Voliant Sirens are fair-complected.."
Koenma interrupte at this point "Then your not one?!" He turned to Yusuke "You idiot! You got the wrong girl!" I sweat-dropped "No I am the Voliant Siren" That shut them up, "But your hair..." I cut him off with a glare. "What do you know of the Finned Siren Demons?" My question startled them.
"Well, next to nothing, all we know is that they hate war and will do anything to stop it, also they have a portal somewhere in the bottom of the ocean, that is how humans learned of them, and also some other deep sea 'mysteries' like giant squid, but humans right it off as myth and just nature, why?" I ignored the question. "What do you know about the Voliant Sirens?" They all looked complex, and I was forcing myself to reflect on this like it was the weather, I couldn't have an emotional break down now. Koenma looked perplexed but continued
"Well, nothing besides the fact that they are fair-skinned, and have light hair and blue or green eyes. Which you do not!" I flinched, that one hit home. That fact is what had caused me misery(sp?) for the time I had lived with my clan, before the incident.
"Do you know what the Finned Sirens looked like?" He looked annoyed at my questions, and lack of answers but answered anyway. "Well they keep to themselves, but myths tell of them with tails of fish and dark hair.." He broke off there and looked at me slightly. I was aware of all the eyes in the room on me, and I resigned myself to the telling.
"So far your information has been surprisingly accurate. Most Siren Demons, Voliant or Finned, like to stay to themselves. While its true that the Finned Sirens hate conflict of most kind, the Voliant Sirens don't like violence, but they get bored easily in times of peace, they grow restless and create mischief. The Finned ones don't agree with this, which is why they tend to avoid eachother, and the Finned Sirens, well you know the extent of what they go to to avoid wars. So they lured the Voliant ones to the sea...and..." By now my eyes were starting to well with tears, I should have been with them, I should have been there to do something, or at least trapped with them, the ultimate suffering for a Voliant Siren is not being able to fly, or be in the sun. Even though I traveled the worlds, I was still in the sun and able to use my wings every now and then. But they were trapped, locked in some dark dungeon at the bottom of the ocean. "..They captured them, and took them to the bottom of the ocean, to lock them away...forever.."
My voice almost failed me there, but I coughed to keep it limber. Koenma was the first to react. "How does this all connect to you then? Why aren't you trapped?" I looked up and met his eyes, and forced myself to tell, at least my heritage if nothing else.
"Well my mother was the daughter of the leader of the Voliant Sirens, and she was, to say the least, one of the more rebellious of our clan, and she had this weird fascination with the ocean.." I was cut off once again by Yusuke "How is that weird?" I sighed, and reminded myself that humans didn't know of the stories, not really. "Because if one of them were to fall in, it would be very unlikely that they would ever get out, once wet, wings are basically useless, don't interrupt again" I glared to get my point across and it seemed to be made.
"Anyway, one day she was flying over the beach when she saw what she thought was a wounded dolphin, she swooped down and found it to be one of the Finned ones, she knew full well of the tension between the two clans, but she just couldn't leave him to die. She nursed him back to health, at first he was wary and mean to her, but grew used to it when she didn't attack him. She fell in love with him, and him with her. When he got better they kept their romance a secret, and one day my mom found she was pregnant." I saw a question coming and I answered before it could be asked "Yes, I know that Finned Sirens have tails like fish, but they also have a more human form with legs and everything, in case they ever need to get something off of land" Koenma nodded to show he understood and I continued. "After that it became much harder to keep the secret, and well it wasn't long before the clan found out who the father was, and they were furious, one of them, the 'Princess' no less, had become pregnant by their 'enemies'! They wanted to kill the baby, but my mom persuaded them, 'Basic anatomy shows that a child is more 3/4s the mother and 1/4 the father (just pretend ok?) and in the end they relented, but told her she would pay for it later.
"She was forbidden to go to the ocean and spent most of her days off in a forest alone, when I was born she was so happy that I had wings, that she didn't care that I was dark-complected. The clan tolorated me, but I was an outsider, obviously. One night I heard argueing when I was about 5, and it turned out to be my mom and her father, he said she was 'unpure' and to be able to lead the clan one day, she would have to havea pure blood Voliant Siren, she refused but against her knowledge he 'assigned' one to follow her, wait till she was caught unawares. This happened not too long after...and..." It was getting harder to speak of this, I had didn't want to be telling this, and it helped to pretend that it was someone else's life, not mine. "he...raped her. She became pregnant, but no longer sang or flew, after that she moved us in to a cave farther away from that others, and kept to herself. (they lived in cliffs, think grand canyon) My sister was born in secret, and we only ever came in contact with that others if we had to. My mother's father (heh that sounds funny) tried everything to get my mother back, or sing at least. She had one of the best voices, but she refused and told him he had erased the song of her soul by betraying her and not accepting her daughters.
"My little sister didn't really understand what was going on, and not being around the others, didn't realize how different I was. Dispite our age differences, we were close, all three of us. Then one day my mom had a dream, about my father in trouble. She told us to stay and flew off. She was the one who trained us, and gave me my blades, she said they were a gift from my father. While she was gone her father came and took my sister away, and had left me for dead in the back of the cave, she was a 'pureblood' and since my mother refused, he decided that she would lead our clan one day.
He was furious that mother had left, after she was forbidden, and stupidly decided it was time to end this all once and for all, he called all the Voliant Sirens that could fight, and took them to the ocean. A horrible battle issued, since apparently my father had been going through the same stuff, minus the rape and having a child. They captured them, and somehow came onto land and captured the rest of them. When I came too, they were all gone and I was left alone. I lived there for awhile, before it became too painful and that began my travels."
There was silence for a few minutes after this, as everyone was going over it. I knew that they sensed that more had gone on then I let on, but it was none of their business of what I had been through, and I would tell when or if I was ready, if that ever came. "Can we see your wings?" The orange-haired one, Kuwabara I think, spoke finally, I had almost forgotten he was there, since he hadn't spoken before. I looked down and let my hair spill around my face, too embarassed to answer. I knew the others wanted to see them too, only Mika knew why I was acting this way. She glared at them and in a low voice laced with venom "No, and don't ask again" I thought it was kinda unnecessary to be THAT impertive about it, but if it got the point across.... The others sweatdropped and Koenma finally asked "Why?" Mika turned her eyes on him and he drew back a bit, "Because" was all she said before she turned back to me, and put an arm around my shoulders. I stayed silent and silence filled the room. It was so loud it pounded on my eardrums (Does anyone else have this problem? seriously I can't be in silence b/c it hurts my ears and makes them pound...) Finally Koenma voiced the thought I had been playing with for some time now, ever since my clan was taken.
"Well then I guess well just have to get them back." I looked up finally and he had a determined look on his face. "Obvoiusly you'll have to be the one to do it, and Yusuke and the others will help you, and I'm guessing Mika will be coming too?" He looked at her when he said that and she nodded. That caught my attention, I wasn't expecting help, but knowing I wouldn't have to do it alone gave me courage. "How soon will you be ready?" I had to think about that, I couldn't go until my wings were healed and I had no idea how long that would take, I knew they weren't healing quickly, and I also knew it was because of my emotional distress. "I don't know, but I think it will be awhile" I quietly whispered. "Then you will be staying at Genkai's, to recover, and if your story is true to train, now if you excuse me I have to..." I didn't hear him, my mind was reeling.
I was releived that I wouldn't have to face what had happened to my clan just yet, but disappointed at the same time. Koenma left and we sat in silence for a little bit, and I knew the others were thinking over my story. Finally Kuwabara jumped up and declared "I'm hungry, lets go to Genkai's and maybe my lovely Yukina will have some food" He got all starry-eyed at either the thought of food or this Yukina, but I didn't care, as long as we left the room that heard the telling, this was one of the times I hated my unusual voice, whenever I told something important, everytime I came back to that spot I would have a flashback, good or bad. I didn't mind that good, but the bad...well you can guess. me got up and followed everyone else out, and ignored the shooting glances they kept giving me. Not even the free-falling experience that reminded me so much of flying could lift my spirits, I knew the only think that would lessen this was singing, and I didn't feel like doing that with all these people around, I knew it would affect their moods and I didn't want anyone else going through what I went though, this eternal war against my mind. (kinda weird and not-light but I'm in one of those moods)
When we arrived to Genkai's place, Yusuke and Kuwabara groaned at the sight of this staircase that looked like it had jumped out of a fat-kids hell (Sry, couldn't resist) the remote location and scenery was a painful reminder that I couldn't use my wings, so I resigned to walk up like the others. Once we reached the top my legs were slightly numb, but my breathing was fine. Mika looked out of breathe, as did Yusuke and Kuwabara, who had raced up the stairs, but one tripped and tripped up the other, which ended that situation. We reached the top, but I was slowly slipping into the wave of memories that had consumed me, and I don't remember anything up the point where I was showed a room by a short girl with greenish hair and large red eyes that looked familiar. I sighed and laid down, almost immediatly asleep.
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Holy SchaMOLY that took a long time to write, sorry! My stupid ideas, I don't have the block, but my head jumped ahead to ideas in the future, but first I had to do this chapter to get there and it's just frustrating! ok till next time *MexicanJew*