My phone began to buzz in my pocket. Maemi had fallen back asleep, so I quickly left the room, answering the phone as soon as I was on the street again.

"Yes?"

"Kyri, I need you to pick up the report from Kurama. Get it to me without it getting destroyed and I'll let Hyph out. They should be finishing up with Calomnus soon."

I glanced at my watch. That was fast.

Koenma seemed to expect the question. "He was attacking when Kurama went to investigate the neighborhood."

"Okay. Where are they?"

Koenma rattled off the directions to the neighborhood and I hung up, running through the streets, knowing the sooner I got there, the sooner I would be off the hook and Hyph would be out of jail.

And really, the less time that boy spent in a jail cell, the better.

Unfortunately, Kurama and the gang were NOT as finished with Calomnus as he'd expected. I ducked behind the broken wall of a house, pulling out the gun I'd brought with me just in case, surveying the situation. Kuwabara was getting as many humans to safety as possible, getting them away from the already dead bodies of their neighbors and families. Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke were currently locked in combat with Calomnus, trying to drive him away from the humans, and into the less populated (and more destroyed) area of the neighborhood—the area he'd already torn through. And Tala was about to launch an attack at him from the side.

What the HELL was Tala doing here?


…I kind of wrote the gun in during the last chapter and forgot about it when I went to write this chapter. Oops. It IS there, though. See, I mentioned it.

Heh.

I'm really REALLY sorry this took a year and a half. But I have good news. I'm posting this now, and later today I'll be posting the next one. Tomorrow I'll post the next one, and the day after that, I'll post the last one.

That's right, we have THREE chapters left. This story will be FINISHED on Wednesday. I can guarantee this because I sat down and wrote the rest of it tonight.

I really am sorry this took so long. I hope you guys liked it, though!