Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ the Shadows that Bind (marina's finest work) ❯ Hiei Chapter: Mourning for her, myself and the world ( Chapter 25 )

Hello, my name is Rein, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but Marina is dead...

She killed herself...

She threw herself off the bridge over the train tracks...

The train.... just went right over her...

I was standing right there, it was so sudden....

She had given me a note which she had told me to read when I got home...

It is thus:

To Rein

I know you're probably too shocked for words right now, after seeing me die...

I have been planning this for a while now..

I got sick and tired of my stories being taken off, and my computer just wouldn't let me on mediaminer.org...

I got sick of everything...

With Cheetah dead... Gramps dead...

Finding out that everything I thought I knew was a lie...

I couldn't stand it any longer...

Please tell everyone on Fanfiction.Net why I'm not posting...

My final request to you is this, please continue my stories under my pen-name marinaaurora...

You know what my password is...

So until you join Cheetah and I up with our heavenly father, goodbye...

Marina

Everything that happened on here had a really nasty timing...

Right around the point when Random Hyper Sugary goodness, and Scars Across her cheeks were taken off...

She found out, when her Mom and Dad got drunk again, that she was an orphan...

Her real Mom is a prostitute in London...

Her father recently died in Iraq...

Her parents than beat her half to death and she ran from home to my place...

That was the day before The Scars Across her Cheeks was taken off...

On that day, I saw the crack forming, from her temporary room at my house, every so often I would hear a loud thud...

When I looked in, she was on the floor, I presumed she was asleep...

The next morning she took hours to wake up....

She had knocked herself out...

This slowly got progressively worse....

I think that the stuff on Fanfiction.Net was what did it really...

If it hadn't happened, she would probably still be here....

Yes I am upset, and yes if I could find the person who did this in Real life...

I would not hurt them, I would just like to show them the picture of her body after it was run over by the train...

I have a big burden upon my shoulders now, and I promised to continue her work...

So the next chapters may be a bit different, and I apologise, but there is nothing I can do...

Sorry once again for the inconvenience to you...

I hope you enjoyed my second chapter here...

The message at the beginning of the last Kurama chapter was her last typed message,

I apologise once again for the inconvenience...

So sorry.... but I just have to continue this for her....

Please don't take her last messages to the world off...

Thank you for reading this...

Sorry to bother you all....

Rein

PS this is now rated R for blood and guts and gore... enjoy! ^_^

Disclaimer: I own nothing at all, since the one who owns it is dead, but the rights of the ownership are now my responsibility... so if I find anyone has copied her work, I would find that insulting to her memory...

Maku?

But… But how did she know the rest of the chant?

How did she…?

Your thoughts stopped, as you saw the light from around her dissipate, and… you could sense she was gone… her soul had vanished from existence, and darkness devoured your vision…

Celena Flashback

"Celena, why am I different?" the little girl asked me, she had finally realised,

I turned to look to the small demon, her ears twitched, one blue with black stripes, the other black, with blue stripes… her eyes like pools of liquid mercury, and wings like Demon Slayers… she wore a black dress, she was so young…

"Maku… why do you ask that?" I felt slightly torn as I said this, Maku was like my daughter, I had taught her everything I knew, her blue and black hair than covered her eyes as she looked to the floor, her rich blonde hair staying where it was….

"I know who asked you to take care of me…" she whispered… my eyes widened…

"Maku…I-"

"YOU LIED TO ME!!! KOENMA JUST FORCED YOU TO TAKE CARE OF ME… HOW COULD YOU!?" Black tears streamed down her cheeks, and she ran from the room, I knew that I probably would never see her again… never…

Never…

You spaced back… and saw Maku's body lying lifeless in Kurama's arms, and you almost fell back, her features had changed… she was different, her skin had taken on a grey hue, and Kurama just couldn't stop shaking… his green eyes looking upon her peaceful features, she looked as if she was just sleeping…

But you knew this was a slumber that she would never wake from, she would never laugh with you again… she would never be there again…

Hiei embraced you, just as you tears began to form, you cried into his chest… your tears crystallised in his shirt, melding in with the fabric…

Hiei soberly looked to Maku's body, his right hand gently supporting your head,

Kuwabara blubbered a little, than began to bawl his eyes out, even with his mental capacity he understood the sorrow...

Yusuke looked away, biting his lip…

Botan looked shocked, and started to shudder, her tears slowly streamed down… not even the grim reaper would see her again, since Maku's soul, was gone for good….

You also knew Koenma could never bring her back…

So… she really was gone, dead… for ever and ever...

She had died instead of you… she had taken your price… but this had done nothing… you could sense the darkness, if anything, growing stronger…

Maku's life had gone to waste, and there was nothing anyone could do to bring her back…

Nothing at all…

Now it's just too late

And we can't go back I'm

Sorry

I can't be…

Perfect

And nothing's gonna change the

Things you said

And nothing's gonna make this

Right again

'Cause we lost it all

And we can't go back I'm

Sorry I can't be,

Perfect…

Now it's just too late

And we can't go back

I'm sorry

I can't be…

Perfect…

Memories of her kept running through your head… going on and on, showing no end…

How could you have been so blind as to not see there must have been some sort of price….

But this spell had backfired, miserably, the power of the shadowy realm was still at large, and you could sense they were coming for you...

You were the one putting everything in danger...

It was YOU...

Not anyone else, this was your fault, you released the Binders, and now they were out to get you...

They were out to kill you...

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to die...

At least you'd join Maku... right?

You forced yourself to look again upon her empty shell...

Kurama still shook, his eyes wide, he stroked his shaking hand across her delicate features... and one lone tear fell from his eye, it was like slow motion, it slowly dripped off his cheek, and fell onto her cheek...

You felt anger rise within you...

How dare the darkness poison holy ground...

How dare the darkness take a life that shouldn't leave..

How dare it...

Rage flowed through your veins and you felt the want to destroy everything the darkness had, took over... and you broke from Hiei's grip and ran out the doors....

"(your name)!"

'I will avenge your death Maku, even if it kills me...'

Your mind was now blinded by pure rage.

How dare he?

How DARE Plato, or Allen, or whatever that THING was do this, poison holy ground, and take your best friend into the world of the pure darkness, as the sacrifice.

Your eyes looked through the dark... there was nothing....

Nothing at all..... naught but the blackness...

Veins of purple throbbed in the walls....

You felt something move your feet for you, as if you were no longer in control of your actions....

Something else deeper than you could possibly imagine was.

Is the time right?

No, I don't think it is...

Than when shall she...

She will find out soon...

But...

No buts! We have decided, she will learn after what she does next....

Your feet guided you, past the doors of the hall.... and to....

Another set of those strange, untouched doors....

Your hand automatically went up and touched the door.... from your hand, light spread through the door, and it opened....

Revealing something so familiar....

Yet.... to far.... yes, it was too far out of your reach...

The room was very dark, but not like the darkness that had taken the corridor...

There was a window, high above you, and a single pilar of fine light came shining down upon the dusty floor.... on...

A strange feather.... and you picked it up, it was as pure as fresh falling snow...

'They're coming,'

'Come with us,'

'We're here,'

'open up,'

'darkness is everywhere,'

'come, now.....' many voices started inside your head, pouring out their evil seeds of darkness, you pushed them away, and dropped the feather....

The voices stopped....

The feather landed, and there was a small chiming noise, and the floor, rippled, like water....

And up from it, came...

The blood soaked table from the hall!

But how!?

There was no time to wonder and think, you had to act fast, you could hear their shrieks as they tried to burst through the door behind you...

You put your hands upon the table, allowing your fingers to run along the carved runes...

"<From the power of my Goddess of light, of the forge and fire.... I give up my blood in holy sacrifice to make the chains of light.... now, FORGE THE BINDING!>" You felt your blood pour from you, and the pounding at the door stopped, there were shrieks of horror, and terror... you couldn't move your hands from the sacrificial table, and blood kept pouring from you....

Your life was pouring down...

The door behind you opened,

"(your name)!!!!" you heard a Hiei scream, your hands allowed release, and your turned, and gave a weak smile to Hiei, who ran to you, catching you as you fell....

"No.... please.... don't..." tears came to his eyes

Tears slowly fell onto your face....

"Shhh....." you whispered, two tears fell from his eyes creating two perfect black pearls, you caught them, your energy slowly fading, "Don't cry for me, Hiei.... I......I l-l-love you.... and.... and please Hiei..." you took your last rattling breath.... "Don't..... forget me....." your head fell limp upon your shoulders, and you morphed back to your human self, your (insert hair colour here) hair tumbled across your face, obscuring you from view.

"No.... not.... not..... Not again.... she's... she's gone.... just like.... like Cevena.... why can't you please come back? Please, (your name)!" he screamed to the sky...

So... this was what it was like to be dead....

Not how you imagined it at all...

Weren't you meant to meet Koenma, to be placed in heaven or hell?

Or...

Or where you already placed?

No...

You would know...

Of course you would know...

The darkness was around you, but not the darkness in your dreams...

This darkness was hollow...

There was no movement...

It was a great expanse of nothingness...

Had the worlds already been over run?

Maybe...

Maybe you had been forgotten!

So many spirits to be placed, some must be totally forgotten, or lost...

You must be one of them....

Suspended in the barrier between the living and the dead...

Unable to be either...

That's when you heard them...

"I guess you won the bet Yuniku, she did die in my form..." that was Cevena's voice! Maybe they had come to help!

"Finally, now I get my own body! No need to have to suck up to that brat of a girl any longer!" That...... that was Yuniku....

They had.... a bet?

A bet on who would get your body!?

That's why they protected you...

Not so that you would be their vessel...

But so you could be their body when your spirit left!

Anger boiled up inside you...

How dare they trick you like this...

How dare they?

After you had let them user your body!

After all you had been through with them!

They had been there from the start of your life...

You could see now, how they had helped you through your life...

They made sure that you stayed intact for them to force their forms onto you...

You had never done anything to harm them...

Than.... you suddenly felt a hint of confusion within you....

If they had been there from the beginning.... than....

Wouldn't they have come into your body before it had acquired a proper soul...?

So...

Who, or what were you?

Had Koenma forgot to tell you something?

She understands! Now we should tell her!

Alright! Alright! We will!

"Who's there?" you whispered,

We are....

"Who's we?" you asked, new voices!

Wonderful!

Just what you needed!

More people to stab you in the back!

Who's we?

The voices laughed,

We are of light and darkness, we are the beginning and the end,

We are the guardians of the portal

We protected it from the ones who could open the darkness

We protected it from those who wished to abuse its powers

"Than where were you before!? Why weren't you there to stop Plato!?" so... these were the guardians who were at home at Kiakai,

Sadly... we are but your memories, (your name), we are of what has been

And of what is yet to come....

"Why are you here? And of what use are you to me?"

These voices did sound familiar...

You could sense no evil about them...

We are here to protect you, the last of us, from the keepers, and from the slayers of the portal...

Known to you as the shadow mistresses and the demon slayers

Who were always at war

The Demon slayers always wanted the dark powers within the shadows

While the Shadow Masters and mistresses wanted no more than world domination that they were planning...

There were two races to stop the evil plans of Demon slayers and Shadow masters, the Guardians, and the Sirens

But it is too hard to describe what really happened...

So, we'll make you see instead...

The darkness slowly morphed into Kiakai...

Yet it was different...

Lush grass was everywhere, and large oaks stood tall...

To your left, was a tower....

No! It was no ordinary tower, it was the tower that held the gate!

It was incredible...

Light was given off the tower....

Wonderful blue light...

It shimmered across this world like water!

The building was so beautiful...

It was made of purest white stone...

Carved with intricate yet simple patterns that showed the core of the stone...

A glowing blue...

You walked to the building, and put your hand on it...

How had this wonderful place become such a barren waste?

The guardians and Sirens lived happily here in 'Tiria est Aura Mal' or, 'The tower of water light'

The shadow Mistresses were in their own portion of Kiakai, separated from us by a barrier...

As were the Demon slayers...

We lived in peace....

Suddenly, demons appeared around you...

Demons just like Maku!

Hundreds and thousand of them!

The Sirens were our greatest allies...

As we were theirs...

You looked up to the sky, to see a sight you could not believe...

Beautiful angelic demons....

The sky was filled with them...

One landed next to you...

He had long golden hair, his skin was white as snow...

His eyes ice blue,

So this was a guardian...

He was fairly tall and slender in build, wearing pure white robes...

But under closer inspection, you realised that the whole of his robes were covered in wonderful, intricate patterns woven into the white in a light cream colour that was almost white...

How beautiful were these Guardians...

So beautiful...

So beautiful.... you almost... couldn't see...

But one terrible day...

Without warning...

Everything went dark...

You heard screams of terror...

Suddenly, fire was everywhere...

All around you...

And it illuminated what was happening...

Demon slayers clashed with Shadow Mistresses and Masters, the guardians fleeing into 'Tiria est Aura Mal', as were the Sirens...

Suddenly, you found yourself in the hall, with the gate...

You watched as a Guardian and a Siren walked to the stone table...

Both were women....

They were both so familiar...

So....familiar.....

Than you realised who the power was....

"Maku!" you gasped...

Maku and the Guardian put their hands on the stone table,

The others were using all their energy to stop the Shadow Mistresses and Demon Slayers from reaching the gate...

Than, pillars of white and blue light enveloped Maku and the Guardian, and they slowly vanished...

"Be safe... my daughters..." you heard a woman Guardian say...

"Be safe (your name)...." one Guardian said...

You gasped as you looked upon him...

He was the spitting image of Hiei!

Only without the third eye!

He had wings different to all the other Guardians, wings with black feathers...

The doors suddenly were thrown open...

And you saw Plato, Yuniku and Cevena instantly!

They were the leaders of this uprising...

From behind the trio the Demon Slayers and Shadow Masters and mistresses poured in...

Surrounding all the Sirens and Guardians....

Cevena looked to the demons now trapped by her army...

"Kill them....." there was no regret, remorse, nor pity in her eyes...

She smiled as she watched the demons screaming as their souls were ripped from their flesh and into the dark gems that marked the shadow people...

Yuniku laughed, and Plato just smiled sadistically...

You watched as the Demon Slayers ripped apart the flesh of the Guardians and Sirens...

You couldn't turn your eyes away, nor move as the blood ran down...

But than...

You realised where the blood was going...

To the table....

There was a huge rumbling noise....

And the army of Demon Slayers and Shadow Mistresses stopped....

And turned slowly...

You followed suit...

Only to see what you did not want to see...

The Army of Binders...

But...

These Binders... didn't give off the same aura of fear and malice...

They seemed, almost placid....

"What...are they?" Cevena whispered... taking lots of steps back,

Plato laughed hysterically...

"You two are fools! You fell into my trap! Now I have an inexhaustible supply of mercenaries loyal to my every command! With NO fear!"

The army of Shadow Mistresses and Masters looked fearfully to the binders...

And fled, as did Cevena...

"Now.... my pets.... have at all of the Demon Slayers!"

What came next...

Was horrible...

These binders were much worse than the ones before...

They did not devour their victims' bodies and powers...

Oh no...

They did something...

Much...

Much worse...

You watched as they went from Slayer to Slayer, taking a tight grip of the faces of the Slayers, and sucking their souls from their bodies...

But what made it much worse....

Was you could hear them scream as they felt the pain of their souls being devoured into the beasts...

Just as one was about to suck Yuniku's soul...

"Leave her!" The Binder stopped....

And looked to Plato....

And slowly backed off...

But it now gave off the aura of the binders you were so accustomed too...

Yuniku stepped back....

And than turned and ran, screaming her head off...

Screaming as one does when one has gone mad.....

The binders moved to go after her,

"Leave her.... we will hunt her down.... it will be much more enjoyable to give her a head start...." then, there was another rumbling noise, and Plato looked to the portal...

To see Alan...

He looked so much younger...

"I must congratulate you for freeing me..."

Plato bowed...

"Master, I would do anything for you to come back into power...."

Now you were confused...

Hadn't Plato just come to gain the army and rule the worlds?

Why was he calling Alan, Master?

"And this is your reward..." Alan pointed a finger at Plato, and white light zapped across Plato's body, he gasped... and fell to the floor...

He slowly got up...

"Thank you.... Master..." Plato smiled... what had that gift been?

"Alan.... you think I would just sit by and watch you destroy the worlds!?" a voice growled, you turned, to see Marco...

He was in silver armour, it glowed like the moon...

In his hand he held a blade...

A blade that had ruins carved into it, that just like the building, revealed blue stone, that glowed with the light of a thousand stars...

Everything was still, the binders had moved away so there was nothing in the way of the pairs' glare...

Before you could even register movement, the battle had begun, you could hear the clashing of steel upon steel...

See the sparks fly...

Yet you could not truly see the battle...

It was as if they weren't even moving...

For that was how powerful these two titans were...

Than, there was the sound of someone falling to the ground, Marco fell, holding at his side, silvery blood flowed from the deep wound...

"Chain him..." Plato whispered, chains came up from the floor

They bound Marco with a cloak, tying around it,

Everything froze...

Your heart beat with fear...

So.... now it all made sense...

Everything did...

Yuniku had gone on the run, and met Doku, who was the Guardian who looked like Hiei's reincarnation!

Than Yuniku must have realised that she would need her whole army, and that was why she cast the other spell...

The girl who had been made of shadows, it wasn't really Cevena, it was the body she had taken, she forced the soul of the real inhabitant to do her will, until the soul couldn't take it, and faded out...

Cevena, after she had destroyed the girl's soul, had been caught and sold into slavery, Hiei killed Plato, who needed Cevena to unlock the gate again!

But.... why did he need to unlock the gate again?

But of course!

One Shadow Mistress, or maybe Master, must have been able to reseal the gates!

But than got killed in the process...

Than why did Cevena have a child Maku in her care?

But of course!

That spell must have sent Maku and that other demon to be born again!

So.... no wonder Koenma sent her to Cevena...

No one had known that Sirens and Guardians were the Shadow Mistresses enemies!

No one but her knew they even existed....

So.... Cevena taught Maku all she knew so that she could send Maku to open the gate, so she, Cevena could control the army....

But how come Cevena died?

Maku had left her....

So... maybe she went to the wrong table, and did the wrong ritual!

But this still didn't answer your real question...

Who were you?

Than...

You understood...

You...

Were that Guardian...

Sent from Kiakai...

That was how that guardian knew your name...

This also meant, the Maku was your sister!

Talk about a light turning on inside!

But now...

You knew the truth...

You had been nothing but their pawn...

They had been planning this all along...

Now, you wanted them dead....

For what they did, for the crimes that where never punished....

You weren't going to stay in this dead zone....

You weren't going to allow them to win...

Anger and the built up inside you...

Who knew what they were doing with your body...

Revenge was all that was on your mind....

You were not going to stay here....

You were going to break out of your frozen state...

Spirit energy accumulated inside you...

Something was happening within you now....

A transformation...

But it wasn't really happening...

Why?

This energy was getting too much to hold in you....

You could do nothing.... nothing but let it loose...

You pushed this new found energy out...

And that's when it began....

Your rebirth began....

As you power ripped apart the barrier between life and death...

Bringing your rebirth to reality.....

Hiei's POV

Her body was already cold...

I understood how Kurama felt losing Maku....

It was like part of my soul was being ripped from my body....

"My dearest Hiei, why do you mourn for some Ningen?" her corpse said, my eyes widened,

"Wha!?" I gasped, dropping the possessed corpse.... it laughed at me as it got up, transforming into a Demon Slayer, it wasn't like (your name)'s Demon Slayer form.... the eyes.... the eyes were different, they were deep pools of black.....

"Why did you love (your name)? She was nothing compared to me, forget her....and be mine...." this demon walked to me, putting her arms around my neck, I pushed her hands off me.... looking at her in disgust...

"I will never forget her... I love her, there is no past tense, fool.... she lives as long as I remember her...." (An: so corny! >.<) I growled, this was not (your name)...

"Such a shame... I will have to kill you than...can't allow her memory to live on, for (your name) is no more, now there is only Yuniku!" she laughed like a maniac...

I could not contain my rage! I transformed into my demon state...

The eyes opened all over my body and I ripped off my shirt...

"Kill me? I think you must have mistaken me for someone else...." I smirked, this one is a fool, a fool like (your name)... but this person would die....

I unsheathed my Katana, and she summoned a black spirit sword...

She made no move to attack me.... through the whole time I lunged at her with my sword, she dodged them with such ease as if my attacks were slow....

I felt agitated....

I wanted to end this right now....

I was about to summon it, it being the dragon...

When she attacked....

With full on fury, her claws ripped into the flesh of my right arm, making me unable to do so, making me defenceless...

I threw her off me with my free arm...

I was dieing...

I could feel it, my life blood just kept flowing from my arm...

It wouldn't stop flowing....

My vision began to blur...

As I saw her blurred shape walking towards me, she was going to drain me of my blood...

"I'm....sorry..... (your name)..." I whispered.... I had failed her.... dieing at this person's hands.... this person who defiled her body.... "But I will join you soon..."

"What do you think your doing, Yuniku?" a voice..... so familiar.... but.... but it couldn't be...

"YOU! No! No! You...... you can't be! Your people are dead!" Yuniku suddenly sounded scared....

"Oh, but I am...." the voice of the dead said...

It sounded like her, yet it could never be her.... she was now dead, I had seen her die....

I had seen it...

"S....s.....STAY AWAY!" Yuniku screamed....

And I saw no more.....

Your POV

You slowly opened your eyes...

You had done it....

Your rebirth was at hand...

You laughed, your voice...

How long it had been since you had heard your own voice in reality....

You stood in the shadows... right near your dead body....

Well, it wasn't 'dead' so to speak.... since Yuniku had now taken it over...

She stood facing Hiei.....

She had a dark spirit sword in her hand...

Hiei held his katana....

You watched as she dodged his attacks...

Hiei was so slow.... so slow it wasn't funny....

He looked so agitated...

And paused...

That's when you felt sick...

It was like everything was in slow motion, her claws ripping into his arm...

Cutting the veins you could see the tendons of his arm...

His blood just wouldn't stop flowing....

Anger welled up inside you...

She was back where she had been before she had committed this atrocity...

Than she slowly walked to him.... you knew what she was going to do...

"I'm... sorry... (your name)..." Hiei whispered... "But... I will join you soon...."

That was when you snapped.... and stepped from the shadows...

"What do you think you're doing Yuniku?" you raised a brow.....

Hiei began to pale....

"You! No! No! You can't be! All your people are dead!" Yuniku sounded fearful...

"Oh....but I am..." you smirked, this revenge was so sweet....you stepped forwards...

"S....s.....STAY AWAY!" Yuniku screamed...

"No.... you need to pay for your crimes..." you put your hands forwards, pointing to her....

"Judgement Sphere!" you called your attack, and the white orb that came from your hands illuminated your new features...

You were wearing armour of pure silver, inlaid with the glowing stones of the past, you now had long blonde hair, skin as white as snow... ice blue orbs.... you were now much taller.... with white wings...

The wings came through slits in your armour...

Yuniku screamed as the sphere engulfed her and destroyed her very essence...

You turned from what was now nothing but a fading memory and knelt by Hiei....

He was getting so pale...

You put your hands to his body, and focused your mind on sending your energy through him...

Healing him...

Pulling his life blood back into him...

And suddenly his arms wrapped around you...

"Never..... do that.... again..." His deep voice whispered, his hands clutching tight at your sides, you looked to his eyes to find his own blood orbs glittering as they looked into yours....

"We'd better join the others.... or they might come find us...." you whispered, your breaths becoming deeper as your body clarified that there was nothing hindering you two from getting it on....

"If they do......." he put his head on your shoulder, you looked to him from the corners of your eyes, "I'll kill them..." his voice danced into your ear, his voice whispering seductively, you blushed, and realising that he knew.... that you were vulnerable to him... "Now I should do what I should have done in that cave..." he whispered, and kissed up your neck, over the mark he made.... hold it.... how had his mark gotten there?

He stopped and removed his lips from you...

His fingers slid across the mark...

"These....are my fang marks.... but...but how?" he raised a brow..."Ah well, it doesn't matter.... your still mine...." he added that last bit in a whisper.... right in your ear...

He got up, pulling you with him.... his fingers about to undo the buckles of your armor...

Then through the doors, Kuwabara walked....

"There you- wow! Who's this hot babe!" Kuwabara's eyes goggled at you,

You and Hiei looked to each other,

"Now, Kuwabara.... have you any idea just what relation (your name) is to me?" Hiei brushed your blonde hair away from your neck, exposing his mark for Kuwabara to see....

His jaw dropped,

"You can't be serious!? THAT'S (your name)!?" Kuwabara yelled, "She's way to good looking to be...." Kuwabara was on the ground, knocked out by your fist....

"OH MY GOSH! (your name)! Is that really YOU!?" Botan gasped, running over to you, poking at your wings, than your hair, than your armour, goggling at the stones that encrusted it...

"Botan! Please stop that!" Botan blushed

"Sorry....." Yusuke and Kurama entered, Kurama had finally let Maku out of his arms...

His eyes were tear stained, and pure sadness and.... almost empty...

"Wow, (your name) you're....wow...." Yusuke rubbed the back of his head, "How about I just say it's an improvement...OW!" you waked him over the head, his eyes throughout that sentence had been on your chest,

"Temper....temper....(your name).... I could have done that myself....." Hiei smirked...

Kuwabara got up,

"Look at all the pretty stars.... I can't believe that (your name) was marked by Hiei...." he fell back, everyone just stared at him, everyone except Kurama, than slowly their gazes fell upon you...

"Hiei.....WHAT!?" Botan's eyes widened... you blushed....

"Hiei, you dog! Never knew you had it in you!" Yusuke laughed, than whispered something in Hiei's ear....

Hiei's cheeks dusted pink, but only for a nano-second...

"Detective, why would I tell you even if we had?" he growled, his blood red eyes sparkled with a hint of malice.... you than knew what Yusuke had asked, and you wanted to punch his lights out....

"Wow! (Your name), I never thought that.... well..... gosh...."

"This is such a Kodak moment.... the grim reaper lost for words..." you laughed,

"Well, we won! We are the Champions! We are the champions and nothing can stop us 'cause we are the champions! 'Cause we are the champions of the world! There are no more binders!" Yusuke sang, you laughed as he danced around,

Yet something told you that there was still something that had to be done....

"Well....forgotten about me so soon?" a voice rang through your ears, a male voice, not Marco's, it was...

"Now, it's time for you to go to the grave where you belong Guardian...." You felt anger and fear pulse through your veins...

"(Your name), what's wrong?" Botan asked, you were totally rigged, you could hear his foot steps, you ran, out of the large stone doors, and from the footsteps, if there was something you couldn't do, it was beat this strange demon, the demon that had ruined your life, he was he fault you had to flee into the future...

"A hunt..... I haven't had to do this since I had to kill Yuniku..."

Your feet beat down upon the stone floor... you didn't know where you were going....

Yet you knew so well...

Your feet stopped as soon as you saw the doors...

Large stone doors engraved to reveal the glowing blue crystal....

The symbols seemed to come out at you...

Out of my darkness into my light

When you feel deserted you are in an army of millions

When you feel alone your have the world of friends

When your fears are great you have the most powerful force you can possibly imagine

Within my darkness, be my brightest of light

Within my light be my deepest of darkness....

The doors let off a blinding light...

And opened to you...

You covered your eyes...

And stepped forwards into the light...

You opened your eyes...

To see the barren waste land of your home land...

How many millions of years had it been since you were last here?

You smiled...

The sun light made your silvery armour glitter...

You turned, to look at 'Tiria est Aura Mal', the glow of the tower had been restored...

You smiled, how long your deepest recesses of your heart had yearned to see the white stone of your home....

The doors opened, and the light became dim, you could hardly see the demon that was your fear...

Your fear, Plato.... or was it Alan?

Not that it mattered....

"Well, I must say, I am impressed...." his voice whispered, "You really are her, the one who made me be chained for so long in the darkness of the gate....."

"I care not, I sent you there once, Alan..... and I will do it again...." You hissed, he laughed, you than unsheathed your sword, a sword with glowing runes, blue stone within the metal pulsed out power...

"You think that you are facing the same demon? No... I am now much more powerful than you can possibly imagine..." In his hands a dark blade appeared...

Just as you were about to attack, the detectives came out of the doors...

They started their own assault...

Your eyes widened, as Alan fended off Kurama's whip, Hiei's katana, Kuwabara's spirit sword and Yusuke's Reikai energy blasts, even Botan was trying to help....

"You are all weak!" Alan growled, "Darkness Consumer!" light vanished...

You could see nothing, but you heard the dieing screams of your friends...

The dieing scream of your love...

Sadness and anger built up in you....

The light returned.... and you saw what he had done...

On the ground...

Were the bodies of what had once been the detectives...

What had once been your friends...

What had once been your love...

"Now, do you still think you can beat me?" Alan laughed, kicking the bodies out of his way...

You snapped... and charged, without thinking,

So suddenly, he blocked it, and the clashing of your blades became a clash of energy,

"I do...." you threw him from you, "Judgement Sphere!" your blast of light engulfed him... and you smirked...

"Rest in peace, idiot..." you laughed, victory for you! The blast cleared away....

"I believe you have surely under estimated me...." Alan's voice came from his body, it was him, and he was alive...

Your most powerful attack had no effect...

Anger and frustration welled up inside...

You went to attack him with your blade again, before you even touched him, he cut into your arm, through the armor... cutting through your flesh, showing you how your arm worked, cutting through your veins, cutting through your bone...

You gasped with the stinging pain, as your blood poured onto the dead grass...

As your arm fell limply at your side, dangling by a mere thread, you felt ill...

"Now do you understand? I am much more powerful than you had ever been...." suddenly, he was in front of you, he took your hand, the one that could move.. "But, I can give you a chance at living.... join with me.... and be my queen..." he whispered, the dark aura that dripped of him tangled with your good aura, twisting and turning, offering you so much...

Offering you the world...

Your eyes moved from him, to what was over his shoulder...

Hiei's dead, mangled body...

"Never! You killed my heart along with Hiei, I will never join with you after what you did..." you used your mind to make your sword stab him, thank god for telekinesis....

"Very well than...you shall have to die just like your mate...." he spat, he ripped your sword from his body, and threw it aside....

It was hopeless...

He was an immortal...

How could you have even thought such a strange thought like you beating him?

He smiled, it was obvious your features must be giving away how helpless you felt...

"Now... you see how futile this is?" he cut through your other arm, showing you it's tendons too... showing you the way your blood pumped through your veins...

Blood poured from your wounds, and you collapsed to your knees...

You felt so tired.... so dizzy....

Alan knelt in front of you, and picked your arm up in his hands.... and started to drink your blood...

You felt yourself slowly slipping...

You didn't want to die again...

You had only just come back...

There was so much you had never got to do...

Was this where it was all to end?

You dieing, unable to save the worlds from destruction...

If only you had more power...

More time...

Alan, don't you think it was strange that she came back?

"Wha? Who's there?!" Alan looked around, there was no one...

Now.... how can someone come back from the dead unless the barrier is broken?

Alan's eyes widened...

"No! The barrier could never come down!"

Oh, but it has...

That was when you saw them... a huge army, of all who had died, every single person who had died....

All in their spiritual glory...

Everyone...

Hiei...

Yusuke...

Kuwabara...

Keiko...

Yuniku...

Youko...

Koenma...

Enma...

Botan....

Yukina...

Genkai....

Your mother...

Your father...

Everyone...

Everyone....

They pushed him from you...

"Get out of my way you apparitions!" Alan yelled, and went to run through them...

Only to be repelled by some force field...

"You shall not destroy the last of the living as long as we are here..." they said, in one voice

All united...

You stood up, feeling renewed within yourself...

Each person was holding the others, forming the barrier completely around you...

Tears fell from your cheeks...

"Thank you..... all of you..." you whispered,

They acted as though they had not heard you...

But you didn't care... this was the time you could attack...

You summoned all your power, because now, it was all or nothing....

You pictured all the evil things he had done, what would happen if you were to fail...

Your anger fuelled you, increasing your power....

"Final Flame!" you screamed as the energy released, every single drop you had in you released...

"This can't be happening! No! This was not what I was promised! GAH!!!" he screamed as his final moment came...

And passed...

All that was left of him...

Were some rusted chains...

The souls faded away...

All that had been of the world you knew...

Was gone...

Everyone was dead...

You were all that was left...

You were the world...

Everything you had ever known was gone...

They were all gone...

You walked to the chains...

Holding the warm metal in your hands...

That was when the cost of your attack set in...

You fell forwards...

And slipped into peaceful slumber...

A slumber with no nightmares...

No one would plague you again...

This is the longest chapter in the whole entire story! ^_^

So don't complain about how long it took...

OK!?

And it is NOT the end, there is ANOTHER chapter...

YES! ANOTHER chapter...