Shockwave

Chapter 4: Bars and Pubs

Flight 218 to New York did not go well at all. Along with a whole host of other complains of Hiei's behavior on the plane he got a little too rowdy and ended up getting a restriction from a United States Air Marshal, however that only managed to push him of the edge to the point were they had to teaser him to get him to calm down. And when they got to New York the entire waiting period he spent in an airport security out put and it was agreed that Hiei could take flight 505 to Dublin, Ireland provided that he be accompanied by two Federal Agents, which meant the entire time he was handcuffed to one of the agents. During the middle of the flight he got agitated again which resulted in him being treasured to the point were he was knocked out. When he awoke he had to pay a large fine for his inappropriate actions aboard a U.S. aircraft and was sent on his way. "Well you caused enough trouble for all of us." said Yusuke.

"Yeah you nearly got us all sent back to Japan." Kuwabara observed.

"Stop it!" Botan commanded yet again. "Now that we are out of that office we can get to our hotel."

"By the way. Which hotel are we exactly staying a?" Yusuke wondered.

"No dought the cheapest one in the city if he got us one at all." Hiei said.

"Actuality he got us a room in the Stratosphere." Botan answered with a confused look o her face.

"The what?" they said.

"The Stratosphere," Botan confirmed. "I don't know why but Koenma really wanted us to sta0 in this hotel."

"Well you fools instead of standing here fantasizing about it let us go there and find our room." yelled Hiei.

"But we have to get our lugged." Botan said.

"Huhhhh." Hiei was very annoyed after all he went through his first experience on a plane was not the best one, and he was itching to get out of the airport. They gathered with all the other passengers along the bagged wheel which is just a ramp that came down from the plane into the airport. I took around seventeen minutes to locate all the Botan's stuff.

After all that they stole a dolly from a large family and used it to carry about half of their bags. When they wheeled it all out side they found another problem. "How in hell are we going to get this to the hotel?" Yusuke said.

"It is quite obvious that all of this and us will not fit in a cab." Kurama starred at Yusuke.

"Well how else are we going to get there? We can't walk we don't know were it is God damn it! And it is not like we'd be able to carry all this there either." The detective began to get desperate. Kuwabara looked around. The cabs could not obviously handle this much bagged so how can it be done? He then saw a large silver van with the woks Silver Service Shuttle emblazed along the side.

"Hey what about that," he said pointing at the shuttle?

"A shuttle," Yusuke said?

"Why not," Kurama pointed out?

"It's not like there is anything else." Hiei said bluntly. They slowly made there way over to the shuttle. The driver was dressed in light brown pants with a brown leather jacket. He was leaning against the shuttle having a smoke when they walked up.

"Ello, ello, ello. How are we doing ere lads and lassy. Welcome the Silver Service Shuttle. We will get you any where in Ireland provided that I enough gas. You boys seem to be lugging a nice loud cargo aren't ya. It looks a wee bit to large in bulk to fit into my car doesn't eh? No matta we'll get it all in at no extra charge provided that your boys there give me a hand. I shalln't be able to plunge it in myself eh." With that he grabbed a suitcase and put it into the back. Yusuke Botan Kuwabara Kurama and Hiei just starred at him for a second like he was from a different world or something. "If you lads just stand there it will take forever ere now help out boyos." With that they all awoke and began helping. "Alright boys lets haul a little ass. Yhahah." He screamed as they forced the last of the lugged into the back of the van. "Now help me get this bloody thing shut before it all collapses." They opened the sliding door and took a seat in the van. "So were the lot of ya headed?"

"To the Stratosphere, please." Botan answered.

"The Stratosphere. Well that's a classy hotel. Very nice, very big, and pretty expensive too. Well you mates are not the first lot I taken to that hotel. A lot of big execs of whatever stay there. A lot of foreign joes too. It's a bloody nice place. Good for balls and formal weddins. So where you mates hail from eh?"

"Uhh we come from Japan." said Yusuke still in a sort of sock.

"Japan eh well that's a long boat ride away. Even though you guys flew through ere still must have taken at least a day in a half. Am I right? Well I myself have never gone farther than Belfast. In Northern Ireland, I never travel there really. Partly because it is so damn hard to get through the bleeding English border. I hate the English don't ya? After all this time they still think the can come into here and give us orders. To hell with that. The Irish have been conquered by the God forsaken British for over eight hundred years. Until we finally got our freedom and yet they still act like to own us. You know in the 1800's they took a whole bloody mess of us to Australia as slave labor." He stopped when he heard bagpipe music and saw the players on the street. "Aww, have you ever heard more terrible racket in your life?" He then leaned his head out the window and began screaming, "Shut off the bloody racket you bastard! Can you believe it? Does he have any decency? So lads are you boys looking to court some lovely girls?" All of them blushed to a bright red. Botan giggled when she looked at their expressions. "Well I know for one thing. That tonight I'm looking forward to getting into bed with a hot woman and watching the game." They all began to glow bright red. They stopped at a red light and the driver turned and looked at Kurama. "You mate. I know plenty of collies who would court you." All Kurama could and smile. "Well here we are ladies. The Stratosphere own of the largest hotels in Dublin." They pulled over and the valet greeted them. "You boys go get the lugged the lady and I will do the legal business." And they all went to it. Hiei opened the back only to have a mountain of Botan's stuff burry him. Kurama Yusuke Kuwabara and the valet had to dig him out. Botan was on the driver's side of the shuttle. The driver whose name was Charles was leaning out through an opened window. "Well lets see, that will be fifty Euros." Botan paid him, "Thanks love." He said and pecked her a kiss on the check. He started to drive away when leaned out the window once again and yelled, "Ohh, do have a good time with your mates."

She ran up to join with the others. A few bellhops had taken all their bagged as they went to the front desk. The lobby was huge, decorated with many fantastic marble designs. Groups of couches lined the floor. Paintings of famous places in the world filled the walls. Before the front desk was a huge marble arch in the gothic style. Hiei looked around to see many of the people were dressed very formally. The clerk at the desk looked from his computer and starred at them with disgust. "Checking in?" He asked.

"Yes." Yusuke said.

"Your name please."

"Urameshi."

"Urameshi, yes here we are room 601,and 602 on the thirtieth floor. Here is your keycards." He handed them each one card.

"Well let us get going. I'm tired." Said Yusuke. The hotel became even more stunning as the journeyed towards the elevator. The entire building seemed to be made of marble. When they looked up the ceiling was decorated with colorful Celtic designs forming interconnected pattern throughout the hallway. Their room was green with Celtic designs not any shamrocks pots of gold but with detailed lines and geometric designs.

"Well I have to say this place sure is pretty." Kuwabara said.

"I have never seen such designs. They're beautiful." Kurama said staring at the patterns on the walls.

Room 601 was a large one. When you pass through the door you enter a family area with a large couch chair and a television. In the corner to the right was a desk. To the left was a door which led to a room which had four one man beds. Room 602 was a one person room had a smaller family area and the bed room only had one queen sized bed.

"So what are the sleeping arrangements?" Yusuke asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" Botan explained, "I will take room 602 and you boys get 601. I am sure that you boys will be able to work out who will sleep on the couch." She said as she closed the door.

"I'll take the couch." Hiei said who was already half asleep on it.

"I don't know about you guys but the jet lag is getting to me." Kurama said as he entered the bedroom. They were tired it was about ten at night here and they had been on a plane for over a day. They all fell asleep quickly.

Hiei rolled over onto his back and stretched his arms out along the couch. It wasn't that early but he felt as if it was three in the morning. He laid back and yawned thought about how long a day it would be. He sat up and took a sip of a glass of water he had gotten in the middle of the night. He couldn't stop thinking of the dreams he had last night. Those were he was in Dublin wandering the streets, but the city was deserted but he had a strong feeling that something was stoking him. When he turned corners he swore he saw a shadow moving in the dark. These dreams although not frightening but disturbing. He had been in the city two days now and ever since he first entered the hotel lobby. He was about to get up and get dressed when he heard the phone ring.

Yusuke groaned as he made his way across the bed to the nightstand. He picked up the phone but said nothing. "Yusuke, get up, it is nine already. We need to get another early start this morning." It was Botan.

"Well I think I just blew that idea." He sat up and scratched his head. "Why is it always some damn hard to find these places?" He hung up.

Hiei had gotten into the shower. Which he often got in to first so he could have some hot water. He leaned against the side of the shower wall and thought of these feelings he had be having. He then surrendered it to Yusuke, and went to get dressed.

30 minutes later

They all finally made to the lobby. Botan was annoyed at their tardiness again. "There you all are. Why do you guys waste so much time sleeping? We could be out doing our job by now."

"I still haven't gotten over the jet lag." said Yusuke.

"Let's get some breakfast at the bakery next door." Botan ordered while starring at Yusuke, who just grinned. Hiei turned his head sharply towards the

Reading area but again saw nothing wrong.

"Is there something wrong Hiei?" Kurama asked.

"No. I just heard something strange."

At the bakery Botan was explaining their progress. "Now based on the suggestions Charles gave us these are the most popular pubs in Dublin: Old Jackie's, the Bronx, Sports Time, the Dutchman of Wales." Most likely these are the ones we are looking for."

"You mean bars right?" Yusuke said.

"Whatever. Anyway Yusuke, you and I will check out the Bronx, Kuwabara check out the Dutchman of Wales, Kurama find out as much as possible about Sports Time, and Hiei you check out Old Jackie's."

"Whoever finds the demon bar will have a lot of trouble taking it alone so just do recon." Kurama explained.

They all broke of to their assignments at around 10:27am. Kurama and Kuwabara took cabs to their bars. Yusuke and Botan where given a lift by Charles. Hiei decided to walk to his bar. Throughout the stroll he got the feeling often more than usual. Before it was just an ire feeling but now it seemed to be stronger. He was sure that he was being followed. Whoever it was was good at keeping himself not seen or heard, but he was not that skilled at keeping his spirit energy low. Hiei walked down an alley between two were houses. There was no dought someone was following him. Even and human to sense it. He felt a hard spike of energy. The hunter was very close. Hiei fingered his katana. He stopped and looked around nothing was in sight. He looked up at one of the smoke stacks. He starred at it for a minute then looked away. He then drew his katana and faced the smoke stack. "GOT YOU!" He then launched himself at the stack raising the sword for an attack.

This is incredibly sort compared to what I am doing with the Alliance and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I am not to sure what I was thinking at the time so excuse what ever errors and quirks you may find conflict with the mood I have created with my other stories. Please review and Happy holidays. –Stonehenge.

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