Chapter Twenty Four

The group were pleased to have finally found rest, after leaving the forest and everything demon behind they found that it was quite late into the night and they had been moving a total of about a week since the city and about a month in the demons forest as time there is slower than in other worlds, Karla and Tatsuya went to sleep as quickly as they stepped foot onto the boat, Ryoko was not as tired so she stayed on deck and simply watched the water as the ship went by, she took the time to think about everything that had been going on the past few months and imagined who her parents might be, what if it was Miss Talia or even Hazuki it could even be Haru, come to think of it Haru had been very quiet lately she had forgotten about her, she left them at one of their battles and joined them on the ship where she had already been, she was confused at this point and decided to not think any further and turn in for the night.

"what was that?"

The morning had started on a not so interesting note, the ship was being attacked but not by any person in particular but a bunch of spirits whose lives were lost in this very river.

"oi what now these stupid spirits" Viper said grumpily coming up to deck and met face to face with one of the spirits

"get out of my face you freak of the undead" she said swiping it away, the others laughed

"well that wasn't a particularly beautiful looking one" Ryoko said smiling

"how do you smile in every situation even the most uncomfortable situations" Viper asked looking very irritated having been woken up

"why so irritated" Haru asked coming out too

"Haru where did you go, you disappeared before we met our first demon" Ryoko said

"I had some unfinished business with an old friend" she said passing through a spirit

"don't act like we aren't here you insolent humans"

"you once were humans" Tatsuya said, he seemed to be getting as annoyed as Viper, that was a big achievement or maybe it ran in the family

"warriors, we were people who survived the reign of you beastly-" the spirit was cut of by a strong punch making it disappear

"Tatsuya?" they looked up to see his spirit floating out of his body

"what the-"

"'yeri' ability to exist outside your body" Viper said following suit

"oh wow can I do it?" Ryoko asked smiling widely at Tatsuya who liked the attention

"you need years of training to be able to get this without completely separating yourself from exsistence and reality itself dummy" she smiled at this and made it a goal to learn it

"'yeri' huh?"

"so should we get rid of these things or what" Tatsuya asked getting ready to fight

"well since you're the only ones who can do so" Haru said waving her hands as a sign to go ahead and they didn't wait to be told again, they attacked the spirits destroying every one they came past.

After the spirit attack Viper decided to go back to sleep and everyone was ready to leave her alone seeing as she was ready to kill anybody who irritated her any more than she already was.

"watch out!" everybody ran out to deck to see what happened and were shocked or uninterested in what was happening especially Ryoko who had gotten quite tired of everything and just let it be

"wait a second you aren't actually gonna ignore these are you?" Elena asked her

"what? There isn't anything really interesting, it's just a bunch of water people with literal knives as teeth and blood lust for miles, nothing to worry about" she said going to her room below deck

"get your lazy butt up here and help us with these things" Viper shouted as she was tackled by one of them

"fine butt one thing is for sure" she said coming out with a smile

"we can't hesitate in killing them or we're dead meat" she said

"how the hell do you say that with a smile" Viper shouted as she sent one back into the sea

"lets do this" she lunged at a lot of them taking them by their arms before tying them by their arms and easily throwing them in the water, with their arms broken and tied, they would sink to the deep and easily taken as prey for other sea creatures. The others handled them quite easily but it got a bit tougher as they got more ravenous with their decreasing number.

"okay I'm tired of these freaks we've gotta get rid of them faster" Karla said

"ahhhh!!"

"Ryoko!"

They ran to the edge as she had been pulled in with all the creatures. She was sinking deep as she was held back by the creatures who did not give her a choice of swimming, she struggling a while before stopping a moment. After a while she opened her mouth and took in a deep, deep breath before letting it out

"heeeeeeeelp!!!!" the went still after that, then the water began to ripple

"finally"

"that idiot just had to stay close to the edge didn't she" Viper shouted as they watched the water for any movement

"let me go after her" Haru said

"no need" they turned to see Ryoko in the air held up by the water

"Ryoko!" Karla and Tatsuya shouted

"yeah" the water formed a lion a silvery blue colour with ruby eyes like Ryoko"

"meet 'mizu no seirei'"