The One They Couldn't Beat



A\N: Okay, once again I set off to make a fool of myself again!!! Wheeee! I like this show called Phantom Investagors and I thought it was worth a Fanfic or a dozen or so! I love it! But I firured really, they've tackled so many EASY cases, what if there was one they couldn't beat!? Then, once again, all four of muses went into overdrive! Here I go!

A lone figure stood in the darkness of the corner, his keen red eyes looking over the life this dimension possessed. He smiled wickedly. 'Perfect.', he thought. 'This will be the perfect place to begin.'. With a wave of his hand, a nearby bush burst into flames.

"Jericho? Hey, you awake? Wake up we've got work to do."Said a slighty ruffled voice into his ear. "Mmmm...what?"He groaned. A girl around his height with red hair shook the rain water out of it. "Why'd you wake me up Daemona?" He asked angrily, still half asleep, he wasn't aware of her. The red head only glared at her soaked coat and book bag. "Stupid rain..."Came another voice. A slighty younger looking boy but still as old as they others walked into the room of the odd looking HQ, Daemona's bedroom. He wiped his glasses devoid of cold water and sneezed. "Hey guys."He grinned. "Hey Casey."Mumbled Jericho, still annoyed at being awakened. Throwing his bag down he sat next to Jericho, his curly brown hair matted to his forhead. "You could've waited for me Daemona."Came a last voice, Kira. Smirking, the other girl only shook out her hair once more. As soon as they had sat down, the phone began to ring. As always, Daemona answered it.

"Phantom Investagors."

"Help! Please you have to help me!"

"What's the matter?"

"There's a fire! A huge one!"

'A fire? In the rain?' She thought.

"I think your looking for they Fire Department sir."

"There's this big black thing hovering over it! Please hurry!"

"Where is the fire located?"

"It's at the corner of Block and Mill! Hurry Please!"

"We're on our way!"

Daemona hung up the phone to look at the others. "Theres a fire at the corner of Block and Mill. And the caller said that there was a black object over it. I think we'd better check it out."She announced. She pulled on her attire, and the others armed with raincoats and umbrellas hurred out.

The Phantom Investagators had seen many fires, but nothing like this. Despite the frigid rain about them, the fire raged on and outward, licking at trees, bushes, cars, any thing. The flames snickerd at the grey sky and soaken ground. And as told, a large black being was hovering over the chaos, sniggering. "This isn't normal."Kira fianally voiced. "You think? Casey's gonna wet his pants!"Jericho muttered back. True to his word, the other boy's face was vivid in his fear. He hated fire, he hated the water, he hated lightning he hated thunder....God, this list went on forever! "Let's go guys. Something's happened to the fire fighters and we'd better figure out what."Daemona said, gesturing to the two dozen or so fire fighters sprawled out on the wet grass. Walking slowly to the fire, it caught of the black being to the attention of the 12 year olds. 'Fall. May you feel such pain as never before.'He commanded silently. Down below, Kira suddenly collapsed, screaming in pain. She instincivly hunched up, holding her midsection in agony. "Kira!"Daemona cried out, falling to her knees by her friends side. She had never seen a being like this before, and it worried her. None of them had ever caused pain like this before to one of them.

'Fly. Into that tree.' He commanded silently again. Casey suddenly found himself one moment, standing by Kira's side, and the next, flying backwards through the air. To stunned to Shapeshift into anything, he hit the tree back first, and let out a cry like of a wounded puppy. He collapsed in a heap on the wet grass, his glasses cracked and the back of his shirt torn. "Casey!"Jericho cried, sprinting to his friends side. "Don't move him! He might have hurt his back!" Daemona yelled as she helped a groaning Kira to stand. Jericho let his telekenis take over, lifting an unconsious Casey off the ground. "We'll be back!"Daemona cried. The black being chuckled, and with a wave of his hand, the fire dissapeared, leaving everything untouched. "It... was an illiusion..."Kira grunted, the pain radiating from her gut was retching. Casey was still suspened in the air, complements of Jericho. Daemona knew he couldn't keep that up very long. She saw sweat beading on his forehead, despite the cold air about him. "Come on!"She urged. They began the slow painful way back to The Phantom Investagator Base.

"Hurry, get him in here! Jericho's gonna collapse!"Daemona urged. Jerico had managed to levitate Casey's body all the way---a good seven blocks---back to the house. Kira, who was at the moment feeling much better now, ushered Jericho in, and at the last moment lost his concentration and fell to his knees, just as Kira grabbed Casey. "Where am I?"Came a groggy voice. "You got hurt Casey."Kira explained as she placed him on the table on his stomache. "Don't move at all Case. You might have hurt something when you hit that tree."Daemona commanded as she gave Jericho a glass of water. He eagearly accepted the tasteless liquid and began to gulp it down. Kira returned, her stomace still throbbing with slight, slight pain, but nothing more. In her hands was a first aid kit. "I'm gonna need to lift up the back of your shirt okay? Don't shape shift into anything or you'll hurt yourself."Kira commanded firmly. He only nodded, he was getting sleepy, and the pain from his back didn't help. "Go to sleep Casey, this might hurt."Kira sighed. He nodded again. Once she was sure he was asleep, Kira set to peeling up his shirt. "So what do you guys think that was anyway?"Jericho voiced after he regained the abilty to speak once more. "Isn't it obvious?" Daemona goaned. "No. Other than it looks like my history teacher."Kira smirked from rubbing peroxide. "Ha ha, very funny. From what it looks like, probally a really distructive poltergiest.". Kira only rolled her eyes and sighed. Placing a few more bandages on Casey's back, she grimaced at the crimson that was staining her hands. "She pulled his shirt back down and went to wash off her hands. "Is it over?"Came Casey's sleep groggy voice once more. Daemona nodded, and righted him to his feet. "Let's go home. We'll tackle this tomorrow after school." she sighed. She hated abandoning a case like this, but Casey and Kira needed time to rest, they'd been hurt pretty bad. "Hey Casey, you want someone to walk you home?"She asked. Casey lived in the Mission section of town, and a rough neighborhood. There were bullies there and Casey was too hurt to much to Shape Shift to any type of moving object. Goggily, he nodded. Kira lived to far, and Jerico didn't have the strength to walk that far, that and he'd get beaten up for living in the Hippie Part of town, so it was up to her. "Come on, let's go home."

TBC