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"Ok then, I guess I should summon him here then." said Koenma.

"Wait Koenma, remember what happened when you just summoned me?" said Yuskue now shivering.

"We don't have a choice." said Botan, "Time is not on our side right now, not at all."

Koenma snapped his fingers and there appeared Kuwabara. In his right hand was a Barbie doll, and in his left, was its clothes. Kuwabara looked up and shouted,

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL DOING IN MY BATHROOM?!?" Yelled Kuwabara.

Koenma raised his eyebrow, Kurama blinked, Yusuke erupted into fits of hysterical laughter before collapsing to the floor, and Koate covered his eyes with his little hands at the nakedness of the plastic figure.

"Its not what it looks like I swear!" he screamed franticly in his own defense.

"Unless you would like to explain then I suggest we get back on track." said Hiei, very honestly not wishing to know what was going on.

As soon as Yuskue was able to stand up from laughing, Kuwabara was not informed to the situation. With a more serious face on he now said,

"So now we need to find her spirit energy, the only one who can see it is mini Kurama here, and the demons are after the same thing and thus after us?"

"We've been in more hopeless cases," said Yuskue, raising what surprisingly seemed to be a very valid point to the conversation.

Yes," stated Hiei. " Remember the dark tournament, it was just one problem after another, but we seemed to have come out ok."

"Yea!" Said Koate, wanting a say in all of this, "Like remember when Kuwabara got his head stuck in the toilet and then we had to pull on him, and then he started crying, and then Yuskue flushed the…"

"OK!" Yelled Kuwabara, not wanted this conversation to continue downhill any further. "I get the point!" he yelled.

"Very well then," said Koenma, "That settles it, you all set off tomorrow. You will all stay here tonight in the planning room and you may hire 2 mercenaries for the case, Yuskue, since you are the spirit detective here, I will leave you in charge of appointing the two additions. Good Luck."

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A young girl, asleep in her bed, was now dreaming of her friend from long ago. They were all in a very interesting field, filled with dead trees. Her and her two companions stood, their backs to each other, everyone of them armed.

One girl, with very long dark blond hair with red and black highlights looked around. Her large blue eyes surveyed the grim landscape as two tiny red dots clicked on, the sights now moving in synchrony with her own eyes.

"Where the hell are you?" she asked, under her breath into the silent dark abyss. Two loud clicks broke the silence as she cocked back two massive looking pistols, one in each of her small delicate hands.

"Talking to them didn't work. Remember Nikki?" said the girl to her left.

This girl had long brown hair, tied back into two pig tails. She had green eyes and thin, fine eyebrows. Her hands were firmly grasping the handle of her Katana, she was somewhat close to the height of Nikki, only somewhat taller. She had a beautiful curved figure about her and was wearing a blue shirt, and a tan skirt. Two more smaller knives were held in their holsters on the side of her combat boots as well as a key blade slung across her back. Out of the three of them she was undoubtedly the most armed.

The last girl stood unusually calm, a very glassy look to her eyes. She was armed with a large sword, which was double bladed and appeared as if it could slice anything, even bone, clear in half.

Her brown hair was short and just reached to bottom of her ear lobes. It had a haphazard look to it, yet it stayed in place. Tucked behind her right ear…was a red rose.

Gun shots broke the very un-nerving silence. There were screams of "Duck!" and "GET DOWN!" and there was yet again, more silence. Then a shot rang out , one single shot from a sniper riffle. Its morbid heart stopping sound echoed through the barren landscape. And as the three looked up finally after the noise had died, one fell. There was again more silence.

"no…" said the blond headed girl. " NOOOOOOOOOO!" she cried out her eyes swelled with tears, and her soul exploded with rage.

::Click::click::

The gunshots that erupted from her guns did not end for what seemed like eternity. She left nothing alive fore more then 100 yards in any direction.

Behind the now dead soldiers stood two large black spiders, big enough to ride on. Nikki looked up into her worst fears. Her two eyes stared into the nightmarish figures own eight.

"OH MY GOD!" she screamed, alerting Christi who was still crouched over her fallen teammate.

Nikki had bent down, curled up and was prepared to finally accept her gruesome fate. I never though it could end like this. She thought.

Just then something happened, mouthing came from Christi that was never seen before, rage, hate, anger, and revenge.

She ran towards Nikki as fast as she could and screamed,

"YOU WONT TAKE HER ALIVE YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!"

She grabbed Nikki's mammoth pistols from off the ground and erupted two full clips directly into the spiders now smoking head. It fell to the ground with a loud screech. She turned to finish the other one but it was gone.

"WHERE ARE YOU!" she screamed, her eyes full of tears, now beginning to stream down her cheeks. Sweat, tears and blood had all poured from her at the same time. But for one she didn't care. She didn't care what happened to her and she didn't care about what the outcome of this battle was going to be. All she knew was that her life long friend was lying cold and dead on the hard earth and if she was going down then she was going to take as many people and demons down with her as she possibly could. Perhaps that was the reason for what happened next. Her eyes began to glow a fiery electric green, and her hair scattered in all directions. Rage was the key that unlocked her deepest power, her demon form.