Chapter 7: Showdown in the Ice World

"This is getting ridiculous!" Kuwabara yelled as he and Yusuke were still slaughtering the demons. "There's gotta be some way to keep them from coming back!"

"That's a good idea, if we knew who the hell was controlling them!" Yusuke replied.

"Why don't you humans give up and I promise you'll die a slow death." said a strange, dark voice.

"Who said that!" yelled the orange-haired teen.

"I believe it was him." Yusuke replied as he pointed to a being in the distance.

"I'm surprised that you two were able to defeat my master's ice demons," Liron began as he came into focus, "but I won't be that easy to defeat."

"Oh great, first ugly ice demons and now a ninja; you know this whole sending diversions to stall us thing is getting pretty lame." Yusuke said to Kuwabara.

"Yeah I know; let's hurry up and defeat this guy so we can go help the shrimp and Kurama."

"We shall see who gets defeated my ugly young friend."

"Why I outta…" Kuwabara said as he charged for Liron with his spirit sword.

"You dope! Don't go charging at him when you don't even know what he's capable of; that's my thing!" the black-haired teen yelled back at Kuwabara but he was still charging for the demon.

As Kuwabara was in attack range of the ninja, Liron quickly vanished out of sight. Then Kuwabara stopped dead in his tracks. "Where did that freak go!"

"Kuwabara," Yusuke yelled to his partner. "heads up!"

The orange-haired teed looked up to see ice daggers heading towards him. He dodged the first two daggers with ease, but the third dagger slit his arm causing blood to trickle down his arm to the white snow.

"Kuwabara!" Yusuke yelled as he ran to his friend. "You ok?"

"Don't sweat it Urameshi, it's just a scratch." Kuwabara replied with his hand covering his wound.

"You humans are pathetic." Liron began as was floating in midair, "there's no way you can defeat me."

"I'll call ya on that one, after I blow your head off!" Yusuke yelled to the demon as his pointed his index finger at Liron. As he yelled "SPIRIT GUN!" a huge ray of blue energy fired like a gun from his right index finger.

"Let's see him try to dodge that."

"Yeah, there's no way he can survive that blast." the orange-haired teen replied.

'Ignorant fools, do they think it's that easy to defeat me?' Then Liron eyes began to glow a blue-violet color causing an icy aura to form around Yusuke's spirit attack. Then the ray turned from spirit energy to crystallized ice which caused it to stop in midair. Finally using his bare fist, he punched the ice ball, shattering it into thousands of little shards.

Yusuke and Kuwabara looked on in complete silence with their mouths gaped wide open. "Give me a break!" the black-haired teen yelled in rage, "How the hell could he have done that!

"He froze your spirit gun and then shattered it like glass!" Kuwabara replied.

"I told you humans that I wasn't that easy to comprehend. You'll have to do better than that if you wish to help your demon comrades." the ice ninja said as he landed swiftly to the ground.

"This is hopeless; no matter what we throw at this guy, he's always one step ahead, Urameshi."

"I don't care what he's got up his sleeve, " Yusuke began "there's no way in hell were gonna give up! We just need to think of a plan to defeat him." 'I just hope that Hiei has that demon taken care of before it's too late for Kurama.'

Back at the castle, the fight between Hiei and Reikazu is raging. The fire koorime was forced to the wall by Reikazu's ice blast.

"This is too easy; I thought you'd put up a better fight than this. But don't you fret, I'll take really good care of the youko when you die." said the ice lord to the fallen warrior breaking out in a boastful laughter.

But his laughter subsided when he noticed Hiei emerge from the rubble. The koorime's arms and face had cuts on them and his v-neck top became even more tattered than before. "I see you just don't know when to quit; so I guess I have to knock you back down." the ice lord said with an evil smirk.

"I'm not that easy to beat you incompetent and I'm going to show you why." Hiei informed. Then Hiei took of his white headband to reveal his Jagan eye. As soon as it opened up, the koorime began to remove the bandages from his right arm to reveal an image of a dragon wrapped around his arm. Then Hiei's body became enshrouded in a black purplish flame.

"What's the meaning of this!" Reikazu demanded.

"What you are about to witness my friend, is an attack you may have heard of." the fire demon replied as the flaming energy was transferred to his arm.

"That mark on his arm can only mean one thing, he's about to use the…!"

"DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!" Hiei yelled as a black purplish yet powerful flame which was the form of a dragon fired from his arm to his target. When the attack was in his direction, Reikazu tried to deflect it using a barrier, but the dragon broke through causing his body to be engulfed in the dark flames.

On the battlefield, Yusuke and Kuwabara sensed something from the castle.

"Urameshi, did you feel that?"

"Yeah, Hiei must have used his darkness flame attack."

Sensing his master's presence dissipating, he yelled, "That's impossible; there's no way that weakling could've defeated my great lord!"

"Obviously you're so called great lord, doesn't know who he's dealing with." Yusuke replied.

"Now that your master is gone, we can kick your little rear." Kuwabara said to the ninja.

"I would like to see you try, human." said Liron as he fired an ice beam from his palm.

"You ready?" Kuwabara said silently to Yusuke. "Yeah, let's finish this." the black-haired teen replied.

Then Kuwabara ran towards the demon as he said "SWORD, GET LONGER!" causing his spirit sword to expand to the length of a track volt. As Kuwabara's sword got in range of the blast, it started to freeze up. Witnessing this, Liron broke into a dark chuckle.

"My beam will freeze you sword and all!"

'We'll see about that.' "Now Urameshi!" he said aloud.

Then Yusuke jumped out from behind his partner and fired his spirit gun. The blast was so swift that Liron didn't have enough time to maneuver the attack. Once the blast hit Liron, he was weakened by the blast's power. "Master, I failed you. I'll be joining you in the spirit world." were the ninja's final words before he was obliterated.

"Thank God that's over; I'm totally wiped out." Kuwabara said once the blast subsided.

"No time to rest now," Yusuke began "we've got to get in that castle and help Hiei and Kurama."

"What are you worrying about Urameshi? Didn't you feel that dragon's power; Hiei has probably turned that demon into ashes by now."

"It's not the demon I'm worrying about. I'm worried about Kurama and how he's holding up." Yusuke replied.

"I almost forgot about that, I hope that shrimp has found someway to get Kurama's energy back."

"We'll soon find out, come on!" Yusuke said as he and Kuwabara raced towards the castle.

To Be Continued…