Hakusho Reaver
Chapter 5- A Battle With the Great Yuromeshi
"Let's see." I said, trying to figure my way out of this cave full of dead bodies. "I came through that tunnel, and came in here. It's pretty much a dead end here, so. Uh. DAMN IT! Perhaps I got to get out of this place entirely, and."
"For someone who fights as well as you do," A familiar voice echoed, "You really have no idea what you're doing."
I looked behind me and saw her once again. This mysterious four foot high woman who just wouldn't leave me alone!
"Looks like you need my help once again." She commented. "See that wall over there?"
"Yeah yeah, I see it." I said with a sigh.
"Take the reaver, and make a door."
"And how, pray tell, do I make a door with a reaver?"
"How do you think, stupid? YOU CUT IT OUT OF THE WALL!"
She floated upward, and faded out of existence.
Well why not, I thought. Can't be any worse than waching Botan shed her skin.
I called forth the reaver, and buried it into the wall. I made a very wide diagonal incision through the wall, then another, then one more. Chunks of wall fell apart, leaving a doorway into another tunnel! I had a feeling I'd find something down here, so I decided to give it a look over. The only other thing on my mind now was that strange woman. Why was she helping me, and why was she being such a bitch about it?
As I walked down the tunnel, using the reaver as a flashlight once again, I could see that this tunnel didn't have anything in it. No dead bodies, no cultivated humans, NOTHING! That was good. It gave my battered and bruised body time to heal. Botan wasn't really much of a challenge, but Kuwabara. Man, I still ached from our encounter.
"I wonder who could be down here?" I asked myself.
No sooner did I ask that did I feel the presence of something behind me! But when I turned around, no one was there!
"Strange." I thought.
Just then, I felt that presence show up behind me again! And just like last time, I turned around, and there was nothing there.
"Whoever's down here," I shouted as I went into a battle stance, "SHOW YOURSELF!"
Nothing.
"Cowards." I said after about a minute of waiting. I proceeded down the tunnel in hopes of finding something at the end. So far, things weren't looking very good. Worst of all, I still felt the presence of something behind me.
After what felt like hours (even though it was probably minutes), I arrived in what would appear to be another cave. Much like the one I met Botan in, but this one had more of a blue light to it. Not only that, but the light wasn't bright enough. The reaver still had to be used as a flashlight.
The weirdest thing of all was that there was a cocoon hanging on the ceiling! There were also some pretty small cocoons on the floor too. They were about the size of the four foot woman, give or take an extra inch on some of them.
"I sure hope there aren't any dead bodies in these cocoons." I said.
Ironically, the instant I said that was the instant a couple of them started to shake! I backed up a few steps, and watched in amazement as the cocoons began to split open! One by one, each cocoon opened, revealing a demon inside.
In this dark light, they were pitch black with red eyes. Some of the taller ones (which wasn't really saying much) had wings, but they all had little six inch long claws. Their faces had the characteristics of a bat, and each one seemed to shriek just like a bat would.
(NOCTEREIN- A demon with incredible speed, agility, and an amazingly fast recovery rate. Unfortunately, they aren't very strong, and are vulnerable at daylight. Therefore, they attack at night, or in really dark areas such as caves.)
"Strange," I commented, "I could've sworn bats didn't live in cocoons."
With that, the leading creature let out a high pitched shriek that echoed through the entire cave! The others accompanied him in a matter of seconds. With that, the leader lunged at me! The others accompanied him one by one.
Some mutants, I just cut up. I avoided some, and others, I stole the rather dark blue souls of. I had hacked more than I stole souls from, but either way, I felt much stronger afterward.
But my battle was only beginning. For some of the creatures, I had only left cuts on, and others, I had chopped into pieces. Somehow, the creatures with gashes stood up, and made me witness their amazing healing powers. Their cuts quickly healed, and they returned to normal! The ones that were hacked into pieces began to glow. Their chunks floated upward and began to increase in size, and remold themselves. When the glow had faded, there were new creatures; one creature per chunk!
"Let round 2 begin!" I shouted as they started to lunge at me.
"HOLD EVERYTHING!" A familiar voice shouted.
The creatures froze dead in their tracks, looked at the cocoon hanging from the ceiling, and bowed for some bizarre reason. Just then, it split open, and a familiar figure fell from it. It looked like he would land head first, but a quick flip would prove me wrong. After a perfect three point landing, the creature stood up, and revealed himself.
He looked like his fellow creatures, except he was more my size, and wore green sweat pants and a green headband. He had no hair what so ever, and had wings much bigger than those of his comrades.
"Who dares to disturb the slumber of the great Yuromeshi?!" He demanded.
"Ah, Yusuke." I greeted. "I see male pattern baldness claimed another victom."
"Hey Kurama, you're still alive. I figured you'd stay dead after Taujecht bitch slapped you silly, but I guess that's what I get for thinking."
I had a feeling Yusuke would be one of the harder opponents. Kuwabara only knew of the spirit sword, and Botan didn't seem to have much of an attack capability. But Yusuke was a different story. He had quite a few different attacks he could use . And he probably learned more over the past two millenniums; not to mention improving the ones he already knew.
"Guys," Yusuke ordered, "Take five. I'll handle him." One gave him a series of shrieks. "Don't tell me how to fight you little bitch, JUST GET LOST!"
The creatures instantly disappeared. Whether they vanished, or just moved really quickly, I wasn't sure. But one thing was for sure, it was now just Yusuke and myself now.
"Yusuke old friend," I said, letting the reaver fade for now, "We can do this two ways. You can tell me where to find Taujecht, and I'll leave. Or I can just beat the answer out of you!"
"It's a shame you woke me up." Yusuke said, lunging forward. "Sleep depravation makes me a real JERK!"
I ducked the punch, avoided another one, but couldn't avoid the third. I then received a five punch combo that threw me against the wall of the cave after the last punch. But somehow, I quickly stood up, and seemed unaffected! I didn't know how that was possible (though I had a theory), but right now, I was more concerned with the battle.
I called forth my symbiotic weapon, and lunged at Yusuke. BAD IDEA! For he pointed his index finger at me, powered up, and with a loud "SPIRIT GUN," he launched a beam of blue light, and knocked me right back to where I ended up last time.
"Two thousand years doesn't seem to do wonders for the memory, does it?" he laughed. "My most basic attack that once took everything I had out of me is now child's play compared to the abilities I've mastered over the years. And allow me to show another one."
He rose his hand upward, and a mass of blue light began to form around it. At first it was shaped like his hand, but it quickly morphed into a basketball sized sphere. I recognized this attack from one of our previous adventures, but Yusuke wasn't the one who used it!
"Prepare to die once again my friend." Yusuke laughed. "PRISOM OF TORMENT!"
He threw the sphere at me, but I avoided it. I had to run as fast as I could, for this attack could reflect off walls, and follow me till the second coming of Christ. Until it hit it's target, it would still exist. But then, I had an idea. I stopped, prepared the reaver, and once the prisom got close enough, I struck it! It exploded in a huge burst of blue light, and eventually faded away. Not the result I was looking for, but it could've been worse.
"You can handle one, it would seem," Yusuke laughed, preparing not one, but two more prisoms in his hands. "But can you handle two?"
He flung both of them at me instantly. I destroyed the first one easily, but the second one hit me in the side! It disappeared on contact, but from there, I felt like I was being electrocuted from the inside out! And as I stood there, shouting in pain, unable to move, I could see him pointing all of his fingers at me.
"SHOTGUN!" He shouted.
Instantly, a beam of light twice the size and power of the spirit gun fired from his hand, and added on to the pain I was feeling. I was forced against the wall, barely able to move, and aching all over. Yusuke simply laughed as he spread his arms and wings out as wide as he could. I could see him starting to glow blue with his own spirit energy, which really wasn't a good sign.
"What's the matter Kurama?" He laughed. "Not used to fighting someone stronger than you? Don't worry. I'll end your miserable life quickly!"
He pointed all of his fingers on both hands at me as the glow that surrounded him began to increase around his hands, and fade from the rest of him. With a loud "GATLING GUN", beam after beam of spirit energy shot from his hands. A few missed me, but every other beam hit me right on target!
Once he had exhausted himself from this attack, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sighed.
"That attack always takes a lot out of me." He commented. "But I bet it took a lot more out of. WHAT THE?!"
He backed away in horror as I stood up, and got ready to fight. I don't know how, but somehow, I was able to heal my wounds quickly! I couldn't explain it, but At the moment, all I could think of was pummeling Yusuke into the wall.
"Very well." I said. "If you'd prefer we do this the hard way.!"
"GET BACK ON THE GROUND! That attack was too powerful for you to be standing!"
I lunged at him at a much faster rate than usual, but he moved out of the way. From there, we exchanged various punches. This went on until I swung with my blade like arm, and hacked off his arm! He shouted in pain, backed away from me before I could jam the blade into his chest, and clutched the nub that was the remainder of his arm.
"There!" I said. "Now then, if you tell me where Taujecht is, I'll spare you the agony of having to lose more than."
"You just don't get it, do you?" He laughed, letting go of the nub.
I watched instantly as a new arm shot forth, and replaced it's severed counterpart. Instantly, the severed arm began to glow a bright blue as it molded itself into a copy of Yusuke. When the glow faded, I now had to deal with TWO OF THEM!
"You can sever my limbs, chop me into pieces, do what you like!" Yusuke laughed.
"But everytime you do that," his twin added, "Another one of us shows up!"
"In other words, severing limbs only gives YOU the advantage." I said. "Thought I'd never hear those words in the same sentence."
At this point, I forgot which was the original, and which was the copy. But I figured if I killed them both, it wouldn't matter. I lunged at one of them, ready to impale them seeing as how cutting them wouldn't really work, but the other jumped in, punched me in the face, and fired his spirit gun at me! I was on the ground for only a second before getting up. At that moment, I saw both of them prepairing for not two, but four prisoms of torment.
"If you thought one was bad." one said.
"Then just imagine what four will be like!" The other added.
With that, they threw the prisoms. I Destroyed one, but the other three made contact, and began to fry me from the inside. This time, it felt three times as bad!
"That's right." The first one said. "Die slowly, and painfully. Those have always been the entertaining ways to die."
"It was a good thing we learned when we did." The second added. "It's so much fun to watch you struggle, and try to fight."
I could feel myself starting to slip. The prisoms were starting to take there effect, and it didn't look like either of them would show mercy for me.
"Tell you what." The first laughed. "Since you came all this way, I think I'll tell you where Taujecht is anyway."
"You were on the right track." The second added. "There's another tunnel around here. That tunnel leads to the Junghai chamber. Taujecht has been down there for centuries, commanding his hords of demons without having to so much as move a finger."
"Not like this info's of any use to you."
"Yeah. You'll be dead in a matter of."
Finally, I could take no more. Their voices, for some reason, were exceptionally annoying at this time. I felt the rage in me building as the pain from the three prisoms started to become my own power! Both Yusukes fell silent and watched as I began to glow the color of my reaver.
"What in the hell?!" the first one shouted.
"But that's impossible!" The second shouted.
I held my hand upward, and instantly, a prisom of torment formed in my own hand! I wasn't sure how I did it, or if I myself actually did it for that matter. But I had the perfect opportunity, and I wasn't going to let it go to waste. I flung the prisom, and watched as Both Yusukes avoided it.
But neither could run forever. The prisom eventually hit one of them, grounded him, and slowly began to electricute him from the inside.At that moment, I leaped upward, aimed the tip of my blade at his heart, and let gravity assist me in driving the reaver through his chest. I withdrew it from the dead body, and withdrew the bright turquoise soul. For some reason, it took the reaver longer to devour it, but not INCREDIBLY long. The remaining Yusuke watched in horror as his comrade's soul was devoured by the reaver, and disappearing from existence for all eternity.
"It appears that blade of yours does more than just cut people to bits." He laughed. "Unfortunately, you didn't count on this."
He rose his hand upward, and instantly, the dead body began to glow light blue. It lost its shape as it molded into a blob of blue light, and jumped into Yusuke's hand. Like the reaver, his hand seemed to devour the light blue energy, and fuel him for the rest of the battle.
"Now then," He said, "I shall use the last of his spirit energy combined with my own to finish you!"
He rose both hands upward, and placed his palms together. They began to glow light blue as a sphere began to form over his head. Frankly, I had never seen such an attack before, and something told me this one was going to be a blockbuster finish. Once he had gathered enough energy, he lowered his hands in my direction; still keeping them together as he did so.
"This attack is so hard to master, the one person who created it never named it." He said. "However, I like to call this little baby the Armageddon ball. Why? You'll see. Armageddon ball, TAKE FLIGHT!"
The ball freed itself from his hands, and floated upward. At first, it did nothing. Then suddenly, it began to launch beam after beam of spirit energy every which way; each beam exploding after making contact with something.
"It may very well destroy both of us," Yusuke shouted, "But if I'm dying, I'm taking you with me!"
He then lunged at me, and tried to knock me out. But I avoided the punch, let the reaver fade (seeing as how cutting him would do no good), and a simple fist fight began. Just then, however, one of the many beams that fired from his little Armageddon ball struck him down! Almost as if on cue, the ball slowly quit firing, and eventually faded.
I looked over him as I called forth my symbiotic weapon.
"Kuwabara was no help." I commented. "And Botan seemed more concerned with her appearance then where her master was. But you, my friend, provided me with the information I needed. Unfortunately, you're no longer useful. This'll hurt me a lot more than it'll hurt you!"
"You really shouldn't talk." He said weakly. "It makes you sound stupid."
Even with those bitter and cruel words hitting me, it still hurt me more to kill him than it hurt him to receive a blade through the heart. As I watched the reaver devour yet another soul, I could only imagine what awaited me next. Hiei was the only one left. But if I took that tunnel, maybe I wouldn't have to encounter him. Though it was a shame to have to kill a warrior with as much capability as Yusuke, though it was a shame that killing Botan was the only way to let her rest in peace after hiding under other people's skin for so long, and though. Well okay, Kuwabara's death I could live with, but Hiei was a true friend; even though he was kind of a jerk at the same time. If it weren't for him, I would never have gained the forlorn hope.
I started down the tunnel Yusuke had pointed out to me. I had a feeling this wasn't going to be an easy quest. I hoped I wouldn't have to slaughter another of my dear friends just to get at the one I hated the most. However, if Hiei decided to do battle with me, I would have to do what I would have to do.
Chapter 5- A Battle With the Great Yuromeshi
"Let's see." I said, trying to figure my way out of this cave full of dead bodies. "I came through that tunnel, and came in here. It's pretty much a dead end here, so. Uh. DAMN IT! Perhaps I got to get out of this place entirely, and."
"For someone who fights as well as you do," A familiar voice echoed, "You really have no idea what you're doing."
I looked behind me and saw her once again. This mysterious four foot high woman who just wouldn't leave me alone!
"Looks like you need my help once again." She commented. "See that wall over there?"
"Yeah yeah, I see it." I said with a sigh.
"Take the reaver, and make a door."
"And how, pray tell, do I make a door with a reaver?"
"How do you think, stupid? YOU CUT IT OUT OF THE WALL!"
She floated upward, and faded out of existence.
Well why not, I thought. Can't be any worse than waching Botan shed her skin.
I called forth the reaver, and buried it into the wall. I made a very wide diagonal incision through the wall, then another, then one more. Chunks of wall fell apart, leaving a doorway into another tunnel! I had a feeling I'd find something down here, so I decided to give it a look over. The only other thing on my mind now was that strange woman. Why was she helping me, and why was she being such a bitch about it?
As I walked down the tunnel, using the reaver as a flashlight once again, I could see that this tunnel didn't have anything in it. No dead bodies, no cultivated humans, NOTHING! That was good. It gave my battered and bruised body time to heal. Botan wasn't really much of a challenge, but Kuwabara. Man, I still ached from our encounter.
"I wonder who could be down here?" I asked myself.
No sooner did I ask that did I feel the presence of something behind me! But when I turned around, no one was there!
"Strange." I thought.
Just then, I felt that presence show up behind me again! And just like last time, I turned around, and there was nothing there.
"Whoever's down here," I shouted as I went into a battle stance, "SHOW YOURSELF!"
Nothing.
"Cowards." I said after about a minute of waiting. I proceeded down the tunnel in hopes of finding something at the end. So far, things weren't looking very good. Worst of all, I still felt the presence of something behind me.
After what felt like hours (even though it was probably minutes), I arrived in what would appear to be another cave. Much like the one I met Botan in, but this one had more of a blue light to it. Not only that, but the light wasn't bright enough. The reaver still had to be used as a flashlight.
The weirdest thing of all was that there was a cocoon hanging on the ceiling! There were also some pretty small cocoons on the floor too. They were about the size of the four foot woman, give or take an extra inch on some of them.
"I sure hope there aren't any dead bodies in these cocoons." I said.
Ironically, the instant I said that was the instant a couple of them started to shake! I backed up a few steps, and watched in amazement as the cocoons began to split open! One by one, each cocoon opened, revealing a demon inside.
In this dark light, they were pitch black with red eyes. Some of the taller ones (which wasn't really saying much) had wings, but they all had little six inch long claws. Their faces had the characteristics of a bat, and each one seemed to shriek just like a bat would.
(NOCTEREIN- A demon with incredible speed, agility, and an amazingly fast recovery rate. Unfortunately, they aren't very strong, and are vulnerable at daylight. Therefore, they attack at night, or in really dark areas such as caves.)
"Strange," I commented, "I could've sworn bats didn't live in cocoons."
With that, the leading creature let out a high pitched shriek that echoed through the entire cave! The others accompanied him in a matter of seconds. With that, the leader lunged at me! The others accompanied him one by one.
Some mutants, I just cut up. I avoided some, and others, I stole the rather dark blue souls of. I had hacked more than I stole souls from, but either way, I felt much stronger afterward.
But my battle was only beginning. For some of the creatures, I had only left cuts on, and others, I had chopped into pieces. Somehow, the creatures with gashes stood up, and made me witness their amazing healing powers. Their cuts quickly healed, and they returned to normal! The ones that were hacked into pieces began to glow. Their chunks floated upward and began to increase in size, and remold themselves. When the glow had faded, there were new creatures; one creature per chunk!
"Let round 2 begin!" I shouted as they started to lunge at me.
"HOLD EVERYTHING!" A familiar voice shouted.
The creatures froze dead in their tracks, looked at the cocoon hanging from the ceiling, and bowed for some bizarre reason. Just then, it split open, and a familiar figure fell from it. It looked like he would land head first, but a quick flip would prove me wrong. After a perfect three point landing, the creature stood up, and revealed himself.
He looked like his fellow creatures, except he was more my size, and wore green sweat pants and a green headband. He had no hair what so ever, and had wings much bigger than those of his comrades.
"Who dares to disturb the slumber of the great Yuromeshi?!" He demanded.
"Ah, Yusuke." I greeted. "I see male pattern baldness claimed another victom."
"Hey Kurama, you're still alive. I figured you'd stay dead after Taujecht bitch slapped you silly, but I guess that's what I get for thinking."
I had a feeling Yusuke would be one of the harder opponents. Kuwabara only knew of the spirit sword, and Botan didn't seem to have much of an attack capability. But Yusuke was a different story. He had quite a few different attacks he could use . And he probably learned more over the past two millenniums; not to mention improving the ones he already knew.
"Guys," Yusuke ordered, "Take five. I'll handle him." One gave him a series of shrieks. "Don't tell me how to fight you little bitch, JUST GET LOST!"
The creatures instantly disappeared. Whether they vanished, or just moved really quickly, I wasn't sure. But one thing was for sure, it was now just Yusuke and myself now.
"Yusuke old friend," I said, letting the reaver fade for now, "We can do this two ways. You can tell me where to find Taujecht, and I'll leave. Or I can just beat the answer out of you!"
"It's a shame you woke me up." Yusuke said, lunging forward. "Sleep depravation makes me a real JERK!"
I ducked the punch, avoided another one, but couldn't avoid the third. I then received a five punch combo that threw me against the wall of the cave after the last punch. But somehow, I quickly stood up, and seemed unaffected! I didn't know how that was possible (though I had a theory), but right now, I was more concerned with the battle.
I called forth my symbiotic weapon, and lunged at Yusuke. BAD IDEA! For he pointed his index finger at me, powered up, and with a loud "SPIRIT GUN," he launched a beam of blue light, and knocked me right back to where I ended up last time.
"Two thousand years doesn't seem to do wonders for the memory, does it?" he laughed. "My most basic attack that once took everything I had out of me is now child's play compared to the abilities I've mastered over the years. And allow me to show another one."
He rose his hand upward, and a mass of blue light began to form around it. At first it was shaped like his hand, but it quickly morphed into a basketball sized sphere. I recognized this attack from one of our previous adventures, but Yusuke wasn't the one who used it!
"Prepare to die once again my friend." Yusuke laughed. "PRISOM OF TORMENT!"
He threw the sphere at me, but I avoided it. I had to run as fast as I could, for this attack could reflect off walls, and follow me till the second coming of Christ. Until it hit it's target, it would still exist. But then, I had an idea. I stopped, prepared the reaver, and once the prisom got close enough, I struck it! It exploded in a huge burst of blue light, and eventually faded away. Not the result I was looking for, but it could've been worse.
"You can handle one, it would seem," Yusuke laughed, preparing not one, but two more prisoms in his hands. "But can you handle two?"
He flung both of them at me instantly. I destroyed the first one easily, but the second one hit me in the side! It disappeared on contact, but from there, I felt like I was being electrocuted from the inside out! And as I stood there, shouting in pain, unable to move, I could see him pointing all of his fingers at me.
"SHOTGUN!" He shouted.
Instantly, a beam of light twice the size and power of the spirit gun fired from his hand, and added on to the pain I was feeling. I was forced against the wall, barely able to move, and aching all over. Yusuke simply laughed as he spread his arms and wings out as wide as he could. I could see him starting to glow blue with his own spirit energy, which really wasn't a good sign.
"What's the matter Kurama?" He laughed. "Not used to fighting someone stronger than you? Don't worry. I'll end your miserable life quickly!"
He pointed all of his fingers on both hands at me as the glow that surrounded him began to increase around his hands, and fade from the rest of him. With a loud "GATLING GUN", beam after beam of spirit energy shot from his hands. A few missed me, but every other beam hit me right on target!
Once he had exhausted himself from this attack, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sighed.
"That attack always takes a lot out of me." He commented. "But I bet it took a lot more out of. WHAT THE?!"
He backed away in horror as I stood up, and got ready to fight. I don't know how, but somehow, I was able to heal my wounds quickly! I couldn't explain it, but At the moment, all I could think of was pummeling Yusuke into the wall.
"Very well." I said. "If you'd prefer we do this the hard way.!"
"GET BACK ON THE GROUND! That attack was too powerful for you to be standing!"
I lunged at him at a much faster rate than usual, but he moved out of the way. From there, we exchanged various punches. This went on until I swung with my blade like arm, and hacked off his arm! He shouted in pain, backed away from me before I could jam the blade into his chest, and clutched the nub that was the remainder of his arm.
"There!" I said. "Now then, if you tell me where Taujecht is, I'll spare you the agony of having to lose more than."
"You just don't get it, do you?" He laughed, letting go of the nub.
I watched instantly as a new arm shot forth, and replaced it's severed counterpart. Instantly, the severed arm began to glow a bright blue as it molded itself into a copy of Yusuke. When the glow faded, I now had to deal with TWO OF THEM!
"You can sever my limbs, chop me into pieces, do what you like!" Yusuke laughed.
"But everytime you do that," his twin added, "Another one of us shows up!"
"In other words, severing limbs only gives YOU the advantage." I said. "Thought I'd never hear those words in the same sentence."
At this point, I forgot which was the original, and which was the copy. But I figured if I killed them both, it wouldn't matter. I lunged at one of them, ready to impale them seeing as how cutting them wouldn't really work, but the other jumped in, punched me in the face, and fired his spirit gun at me! I was on the ground for only a second before getting up. At that moment, I saw both of them prepairing for not two, but four prisoms of torment.
"If you thought one was bad." one said.
"Then just imagine what four will be like!" The other added.
With that, they threw the prisoms. I Destroyed one, but the other three made contact, and began to fry me from the inside. This time, it felt three times as bad!
"That's right." The first one said. "Die slowly, and painfully. Those have always been the entertaining ways to die."
"It was a good thing we learned when we did." The second added. "It's so much fun to watch you struggle, and try to fight."
I could feel myself starting to slip. The prisoms were starting to take there effect, and it didn't look like either of them would show mercy for me.
"Tell you what." The first laughed. "Since you came all this way, I think I'll tell you where Taujecht is anyway."
"You were on the right track." The second added. "There's another tunnel around here. That tunnel leads to the Junghai chamber. Taujecht has been down there for centuries, commanding his hords of demons without having to so much as move a finger."
"Not like this info's of any use to you."
"Yeah. You'll be dead in a matter of."
Finally, I could take no more. Their voices, for some reason, were exceptionally annoying at this time. I felt the rage in me building as the pain from the three prisoms started to become my own power! Both Yusukes fell silent and watched as I began to glow the color of my reaver.
"What in the hell?!" the first one shouted.
"But that's impossible!" The second shouted.
I held my hand upward, and instantly, a prisom of torment formed in my own hand! I wasn't sure how I did it, or if I myself actually did it for that matter. But I had the perfect opportunity, and I wasn't going to let it go to waste. I flung the prisom, and watched as Both Yusukes avoided it.
But neither could run forever. The prisom eventually hit one of them, grounded him, and slowly began to electricute him from the inside.At that moment, I leaped upward, aimed the tip of my blade at his heart, and let gravity assist me in driving the reaver through his chest. I withdrew it from the dead body, and withdrew the bright turquoise soul. For some reason, it took the reaver longer to devour it, but not INCREDIBLY long. The remaining Yusuke watched in horror as his comrade's soul was devoured by the reaver, and disappearing from existence for all eternity.
"It appears that blade of yours does more than just cut people to bits." He laughed. "Unfortunately, you didn't count on this."
He rose his hand upward, and instantly, the dead body began to glow light blue. It lost its shape as it molded into a blob of blue light, and jumped into Yusuke's hand. Like the reaver, his hand seemed to devour the light blue energy, and fuel him for the rest of the battle.
"Now then," He said, "I shall use the last of his spirit energy combined with my own to finish you!"
He rose both hands upward, and placed his palms together. They began to glow light blue as a sphere began to form over his head. Frankly, I had never seen such an attack before, and something told me this one was going to be a blockbuster finish. Once he had gathered enough energy, he lowered his hands in my direction; still keeping them together as he did so.
"This attack is so hard to master, the one person who created it never named it." He said. "However, I like to call this little baby the Armageddon ball. Why? You'll see. Armageddon ball, TAKE FLIGHT!"
The ball freed itself from his hands, and floated upward. At first, it did nothing. Then suddenly, it began to launch beam after beam of spirit energy every which way; each beam exploding after making contact with something.
"It may very well destroy both of us," Yusuke shouted, "But if I'm dying, I'm taking you with me!"
He then lunged at me, and tried to knock me out. But I avoided the punch, let the reaver fade (seeing as how cutting him would do no good), and a simple fist fight began. Just then, however, one of the many beams that fired from his little Armageddon ball struck him down! Almost as if on cue, the ball slowly quit firing, and eventually faded.
I looked over him as I called forth my symbiotic weapon.
"Kuwabara was no help." I commented. "And Botan seemed more concerned with her appearance then where her master was. But you, my friend, provided me with the information I needed. Unfortunately, you're no longer useful. This'll hurt me a lot more than it'll hurt you!"
"You really shouldn't talk." He said weakly. "It makes you sound stupid."
Even with those bitter and cruel words hitting me, it still hurt me more to kill him than it hurt him to receive a blade through the heart. As I watched the reaver devour yet another soul, I could only imagine what awaited me next. Hiei was the only one left. But if I took that tunnel, maybe I wouldn't have to encounter him. Though it was a shame to have to kill a warrior with as much capability as Yusuke, though it was a shame that killing Botan was the only way to let her rest in peace after hiding under other people's skin for so long, and though. Well okay, Kuwabara's death I could live with, but Hiei was a true friend; even though he was kind of a jerk at the same time. If it weren't for him, I would never have gained the forlorn hope.
I started down the tunnel Yusuke had pointed out to me. I had a feeling this wasn't going to be an easy quest. I hoped I wouldn't have to slaughter another of my dear friends just to get at the one I hated the most. However, if Hiei decided to do battle with me, I would have to do what I would have to do.