Hey, yeah I finally got the next chapter up. I would like to thank Chaotic Angel of Elven Blood for your review, you gave me a great idea and it will be in the next chapter. Anyway here is a recap of what has happened already :The Gang had to find a new fighter for the winter tournament, after spending a month or so looking they were forced to interview May. Hiei being the person he is tried to get into her mind, which ended in him being blasted the power of the gorgons seal. The seal broke knocking every one out. After two days if reliving memories the gang woke up to find that May had been ordered onto the team by the king.: and that lead to the beginning of this chapter. Start.
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Hiei was the first out of the room, followed by Kuwabara and Yusuke. Kurama waited for May to rise. When she didn't, he sighed and went up to the chair, placing a hand on her shoulder. All at once he felt himself split and slammed back together in seconds. The room spun and Kurama landed on the floor, gasping for breath. As the room stood still he found that May was standing over him holding out a hand. He cautiously took the outstretched hand, flinching at the contact. May, to his astonishment, lifted him up as if he had been nothing more then a feather; and he stood again.
"What just happened?" May acted like she didn't hear him and continued gazing at him. After a minute or two Kurama couldn't take her unblinking stare any longer. He shifted on his feet and moved toward the door.
"You, graceful fair, do have two souls occupying one body. A fox demon and a human soul. Though neither is fully merged to the other." Kurama turn and looked at her, his mind racing.
"How did you know that?"
"That you had to souls?"
"Yes that, how did you know that?"
"Your body and soul emit two different energies, it's subtle but there. I just separated the two to see why that was so"
She… no she, but she… there's no possible way she could have pulled my soul apart.. Is there? Who has Koenma added to our team?
Kurama tried to see what lied behind her eyes, but he could see nothing. As if her mind was a black hole.
"Oh, well we should catch up with the others. My name's Kurama by the way"
" Kurama? As in Yoko Kurama?"
"Yes actually"
"Interesting, he was a great figure before the king lock me away" May said turning toward the door.
"You knew Yoko?" Kurama followed behind May as she exited the door, forgetting for a moment that he had just been ripped in two and put back together.
"I knew of him. I can't remember if we had meet. It's highly probable that we did at some point."
"You can't remember?" Kurama took the lead as they made their way down the hall.
"No things come and go, as an ocean tide upon the shore" Kurama remained silent as they came toward the door that separated the teams living areas from the rest of the Spirit World building.
They made their way down another hallway and turned some corners, right, left. This Kurama seem to know his way so May followed not really taking notice of which way they turned or down what hallway they walked. It all seem washed and all together the same. Kurama finally stopped at one last cream colored door. Yelling could be heard from the other side, the redhead seemed to sigh and shrug at the same time.
When he finally opened the door a pot or ceramic cup come flying out just missing his head. He turn around expecting to see a shattered mess on the floor except he seen May holding the cup. The cup she caught was rose colored and seemed to be used recently, she wondered why it had been thrown through the door way briefly before the yelling morphed into crashing sounds from within the room the door lead into. She handed the cup to Kurama and passed through the door.
Most would in the right state of mind walk back out of the room, then call what they had seen chaos in its purest form, but May observed the scene differently then most. It was a scene she was familiar with, teammates arguing over a plainly pointless point of view, which would end in one or both being knocked out. As much as she would normally have let them fight, Lord Koenma had told them that they should get to "know" her and she should get to "know" them. Which didn't seem like it would happen if two of the four males were attempting to bash each others brains out on the floor. May gazed around the room, it appeared to be the main space that these people lived, furniture, old but in fairly good condition, filled up most of the floor space. What looked like an armoire was the main focal point in the room as most of the seating faced it. This puzzled her as she couldn't think of why a person would willing sit a look at an armoire, though she shrugged it off.
In the process of surveying the room May pulled the two teens apart. It had been a while since she had done any thing that dealt with her eye so the pressure that was put on to the two wrestling males was slightly stronger then it should have been. She realest them suddenly after realizing they were barley breathing.
I raised an eyebrow at the two males struggling to take in breath, they were plainly weak physically. It appeared that the two had no fine body control at all and it seemed that this mortal weak point was not apparent to them. I was aware that the other two, Kurama, and the other one, the one who had the ability to enter my shadow space, were now looking at me. I paid no mind and continued to gazed about the room, books filled the wall behind the armoire, the end of a staircase protruded from a hallway to the side of Kurama; there was another door on the other side of the room with a window next to it. It peered out on to the human world. The human world. How long had it been since I was last in the human world? Since I stood in the sun? I was in the demon world when the king brought me to the spirit realm, and it had been raining. My chest ached with the memory; my feet tried to take me to the door, but I forced the sensation down. To move in any way toward the door would be taken as an escape attempt, especially after the two males nearly suffocated when I pulled them apart.
Anyway the dark clothed one was sitting in the window, staring at me staring pass him out through the glass. I stopped looking toward the window and back at the two other males. They were now breathing normally, and yelling again, but not at each other, at the dark one.
"What the hell do you think you were doing, shrimp? I almost had him this time."
"In your dreams, Kuwabara, no wait I would probably beat you there to."
"Shut it Urameshi, I wasn't talking to you"
"Kuwabara it wasn't Hiei that pulled you two apart, you have no need to get mad at him" Kurama's words put an end to the arguing for a time.
"Please May sit down, it was rude not to offer you a set before" I cocked my head at the redhead trying to decide if he was politely ordering me to sit or if him meant it the way he said it. It truly was hard to tell with him. His speech was as elegant as the way he walked and moved which made telling what his motives were hard.
Or I'm just out of the practice of reading people, either way I sat down curling my feet under me next to the chair Kurama had moved to stand behind.
This girl May chilled me to the bone and excited me in an obscure way. I hadn't felt this way since the dark tournament where I was Yoko again for a short while. She was a puzzle and one I didn't know how to solve or even how to begin to solve. When we first saw her she appeared weak physically and in terms of power. The injuries she had didn't fit to her look and she had the gorgons eye seal on her forehead. The seal was now gone, most of the injuries were as well, and she seemed unattached to what she was involved in; apathic really.
I sat down in to the chair next to her after she didn't sit in it. I went over the information I had on her so far. She is responsible for millions of deaths, she most likely has a jagan eye, which seemed all the more true after she pulled Kuwabara and Yusuke apart, and she was plausibly many years older then she looked. Then there was the matter of her being able to pull souls apart. Thinking back only two groups of demons have that ability, light demons and darkness demons, May displayed more light demon characteristics so she might be a type of light demon. She was SUCH a puzzle.
The boys settled down after May had kneeled on the floor next to Kurama's reading chair. Here they were with a new team mate and they knew nothing about her. Kuwabara was the first to break the slowly growing silence after no one else moved to speak.
"Hehe sooo umm we haven't told you who we are yet have we?" when May made no response he went on, "Well I'm Kuwabara, Kazuma, that's," he pointed to his right where Yusuke lounged, " Is Urameshi, Yusuke, the short guy in black back there," pointing at the window, " Is Hiei, and finally the guy next to you is Kurama." Kuwabara waited for a response from May but she didn't move at all or confirm that she even heard him. He was about to say their names all over again when Kurama spoke up.
" So are we to assume that May is your full name?" The others looked at him like he had grown a second head.
"Of course her names May why woul…." Yusuke began but didn't finish as Mays crisp voice cut through his.
"May is not my name….it's the abbreviation to my title, I have no name."
"What is it an abbreviation of then?" Kuwabara asked now looking confused.
"Mayhem"
"What?"
"She said mayhem you idiot"
"Mayhem, Mayhem, wait you can't mean Mistress Mayhem can you?"
"What?"
"Ha Urameshi, I'm not the only one confused here, you are two."
"Oh shut up"
"Yes I can mean and do mean Mistress Mayhem, that is my title. The king did not wish to call me that so he shortened it to May."
"What's the difference?" Yusuke asked looking at the girl scratching his face.
"In what?" May replied staring unblinkingly back.
"The title and name thing, what's the difference?"
"A name is giving with out any preexisting attachments, or conations to it. A title is earned, it has attachments to it, people already have a form of what it means in their head. That is the difference. In this manner a name can became a title but a title can never became a name, detective." May said studying her hands.
"I still don't fully get it, a names a name how….is it different?" Yusuke said , truly wishing to know.
"Yusuke I think could explai….." Kurama stared only to be interrupted by May.
"What do people do when they hear your name detective?"
"Ummm run?"
" Why do they do that?"
"Because their scared of it"
"Your name has become your title detective. It once had no outside meaning other then it being yours, then for what ever reason, your name earned the association with fear. People fear you, they fear your name. In that way your name became your title. But it can not go back to just being a name because it is now recognized with fear. Do you grasp the concept now detective?"
"Yeah I think I do" Yusuke muttered, surprised that he really did understand.
The detective was uninteresting, of all the things that he thought of questioning me about he choose my title. I will never understand the human mind, though I don't want to. They would lose their interesting aspect if I did know their minds workings. The only vague piece of useful information out of this conversation was the fact that people "fear" the detective. Still "fear" was another "emotion" I can not understand, though one used many times to describe what people thought of me. All I know about fear is that it makes people run from and act irrationally toward, the smallest things. Their conversation turned to other things, Urameshi, and Kuwabara doing most of the talking, with Kurama commenting every now and then, and Hiei never saying a word.
Somewhere in the demon world
A lone figure stood facing the setting dusk, his silver white wings glowing with the last rays of light. Two others landed a few feet behind the first, their wings appereing gray in the fading light.
"The king has released the abomination, commander sir" the first of the gray winged said. "Should we alert the triumvirate of this?" the second gray winged said.
"The high three need not be bothered with this, the king is with in the confines of the agreement. As long as the abomination is under control of the spirit world, the agreement holds" the silver winged one said turning toward the other two.
"Commander, do you wish us to keep watch of it?" the second gray winged asked, "in case the spirit world loses control"
"Yes, but take no action, the thing is more powerful then you would think" The silver winged ordered, putting his hands behind his back.
"Yes sir, but doesn't its release hinder the triumvirate's plans?" The first gray winged argued stepping forward.
"Soldier the plans of the high three are not of your concern, when and if it ever is, I will be the first to tell you. The abomination is at this point no hindrance to their plans, you and your team are to watch it and report back what you find out about it, if at that time the information says it has become a problem we will take it out of the picture. Until that time, your only job is to observe and make sure those working with it know what to expect. Got it?"
"Yes Sir!" both gray winged said saluting and taking off in to the dark sky.
"It is fools like them that will hinder the high three's plans." the silver winged looked toward the sky, " This is not a fight you will win sister, you will die this time, you will." and he took off as well. Up toward the starless sky.
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So that this Chapter, it looks like a new threat has showed up it turns out May is not Mays name. So how did you like it? Thanks you so much for reading and please review. Yes I know this was a long chapter. Anyway I look forward to hearing from you Oh so wonderful readers. (attempt to suck up for reviews) Bye.