((nah, it's cool. I'm studying for midterms tomorrow so this is a nice break in between))

"My pleasure," Kurama replied to her thanks. "The human world is very different from any of the other worlds, but you will get used to it, with time. I myself had a hard time adjusting at first."

He didn't quite roll his eyes at Yusuke, but he did look at the five people before them. He didn't recognize any of them, but they did look different from the demons outside. The crystal between them was gathering energy, and he could tell there was much stored inside it already.

"Uh, they don't look very happy to see us," Kuwabara muttered. "What are they doing, anyway?" He was behind Yue and Kurama, looking at the five in the room and the crystal. He didn't have a clue what was going on.

"Nothing good," Aleron said, for once completely devoid of any kind of humor. "If I had to guess, I'd bet that crystal has enough energy to blast through the barrier between worlds. If I had to guess, I'd say that this world had been shut off from the others, and now they're reversing that." She frowned. The one thing she couldn't figure out was why the energy felt tainted.

A rumble made her look up to see that the ceiling didn't cover the entire room; there was another room above, or a half-room, really. She could see something moving up there, and the energy coming off it felt even more twisted and tainted than the energy in the crystal. She winced at the feeling but didn't backed off. So that being was helping to feed energy into the crystal, but what for? Surely not just the release of this world? There had to be something else going on here...