Who: I'm done finally phew, that took a lot more work then I expected but I'm done.
Kurama: (looks satisfied) Torrin is out of the picture.
Hiei: It could have used more bloodshed on the part of that second-rate demon.
Who: (giggles) I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho and if you would like to stay tuned for one more chapter you can catch so extras from the story you know things that were edited out.
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(A/N. Yes this is the last real chapter after this it will just be deleted and hypnotic scenes and a few plot holes, maybe some commentary you know bonus stuff that has no real merit besides the fact that it's funny read to, if you like. Now it's time for action. I hope you like. Sorry for out of characterness and suckiness.)
Death of a bat demon
"I must express my compliments to you Princess." Torrin said with a devious smirk "Typically I try to stay ahead of everyone." Torrin indicated to himself as he spoke. "But, you got a leg up on me. That's no small feat, I assure you." Torrin than gave a small sigh. "I enjoyed the position I held over you for quite some time. But, now I must ask, how does it feel … to be on top? Do you prefer a standing of dominance, rather than submission?" said Torrin speaking in a casual manner, not sounding surprised as he congratulated Kurama, with a double-entendre.
Hiei gave a slight growl in agitation. Torrin was stalling. "You're about to die, act like it" the curt fire demon grunted drawing Torrin's attention.
"Oh do you not want me to tell you how to stop the machine then? Because, I needn't say a word."
"Hn. If it would mean your death…" stated Hiei before giving a soft nod, calling Torrin's bluff.
"Hmm, apathy." Torrin droned in a reproachful manner. "In that case, there is a slot on the back of the machine put the key into it to initiate the shut down process."
A sudden silence wafted into the room, it seemed almost deafening. The silence was strange because the alarm, though not particularly loud had been blearing without cease since the four spirit detectives had entered the room that held Torrin had stopped going off. Being that the sudden halt of the sounding alarm was unexpected it quickly gained the attention of Yusuke and the others. Each one of them looked over their shoulders except Torrin who could already see just what caused the alarm's sudden silence.
The four spirit detectives had expected to see a large bulky, and very ugly demon, but their eye were acquainted with instead, the form of a lovely scantily clad young woman. Sora entered the room with a rather captivating flare.
"A disturbance, just what I needed" said Torrin sarcastically; the wry disappointment was easy to spot on his face. "I'd be quite disappointed if the four of you were to make it this far only to die."
"Yeah, like that's gonna happen." said Yusuke sounding arrogant as always.
Sora smiled as she looked at the faces of the spirit detectives. There was a slight hint of surprise in her eyes, but it was to be expected; the spirit detectives, after all were suppose to be dead. "Humph. Never send a grunt to do a master's work." Said Sora looking toward Torrin.
"So. The infamous spirit detectives. I've heard from many sources that you were impressive. Though I wasn't expecting this. You four did not seem as if you were going to be so much trouble." Sora sauntered into the room until she was about five yards from the spirit detectives.
"I thought that Gladamus was suppose to be a big ugly demon" said Kuwabara. "But you're a girl."
Torrin rolled his eyes from in his glass prison. "Forgive him he's a bit slow."
Sora laughed, then shook her head. "I'm not Gladamus. But don't let this… female form fool you." Sora gestured to herself with a florish. "I'm every bit as powerful." The girl gave a dark smile.
"No way I got a code." Kuwabara turned his back, while folding his arms over his chest. "I don't fight girls" Kuwabara reinforced his statement by shaking his head.
"You needn't worry about that. " said Sora; as she spoke a large form appeared in the room behind her. The spirit detectives craned their heads upward to see a large demon, with a low sloping forehead, a massive stony looking body, and a most hideous visage. The detectives could not forget that face, it was the one demon they had waited for Gladamus.
"Oh, but there's more." said Sora drawing back attention to herself. Sora let her arms hang at her sides, and balled them up into tight fists. Energy, orange in color, shot out about the girl like a flame. Before anyone could even fathom what the girl was doing her form seemed to grow in size, features distorting themselves. Within seconds there were two demons that looked exactly alike sharing Gladamus's features.
The jaws of the spirit detectives practically dropped to the floor when they saw what had happened. Defeating one demon impervious to all attacks, with only one tiny weakness was just nearly conceivable. But two, well that was a different concept all together. Survival at the moment did not seem fully conceivable.
"And here I thought that everything seemed a bit too easy." stated Yusuke in a dry manner.
"Just so you four know there are only about seven" said Torrin looking at the machine then he shook his head "make that six minutes before this things is set to power up I suggest you turn it off now. I really don't want to be torn apart in here."
Hiei was first to make a move for Gladamus. He had intentions of slicing into the demon's leg, and weakening him at the least of course there was the question of which Gladamus was the real one. It didn't matter if they were both the same with identical strengths and weaknesses. Hiei was surprised however when he went to slash his katana into Gladamus's ankle only to see sparks as his weapon practically bounced off of Gladamus.
Gladamus kicked Hiei away, sending the fire demon skiding across the floor of the large room. Then Gladamus laughed callously. "I'm no fool I took precautions in cause my weakness was ever found out." Gladamus displayed his ankle proudly.
"A metal-plated ankle? Damnit." Finding another obstacle in their plan of attack the detectives were forced to come up with a new plan of action for their attack.
Torrin watched as Gladamus and the transformed Sora exchanged blows with the spirit detectives. Actually he silently watched as Sora and Gladamus basically stomped on the four detectives. "This really is pathetic." Said Torrin to himself then he sighed when he saw Yusuke pretty much being thrown across the room, after he shoot a blast from his spirit gun that did not phase Gladamus in the least. "I may actually die here. How disappointing."
The two demons smiled quite happy that they seemed so formidable a force. Especially now since the machine was powering up, drawing in from its energy source, which was still lounged within Torrin. To make matters worse for the already overwhelmed spirit detectives Torrin after giving out a cry of pain passed out. Which led to two new problems. Defeating the demons before them, and then shutting the machine down in enough time to save the world.
Gladamus and the transformed Sora looked at one another then their enemy. "This match seems a bit uneven." said the transformed Sora.
"I am feeling benevolent instead of fighting two of us. I'll make it so that there is only one." said Gladamus. The spirit detectives were unsure of Gladamus's intentions, but they were certain that it would not help them out.
As yet another surprised reviled itself to the spirit detectives looked upon the new and improved Gladamus. Through some strange power the transformed Sora and Gladamus were able to merge into one. Gladumus had grown and now looked even more so frightful and powerful than he had before. The spirit detectives looked at the new Gladamus, aghast. Time was running out and an impossible situation had just turned into a completely hopeless one.
The sound of the Gladamus Sora hybrid's laughter echoed in the ears of the now hopeless spirit detectives. Yusuke perhaps out of sheer desperation, fired off a large spirit gun blast at Gladamus. The large demon stumbled backward a bit, looking as if he were in pain, and completely stunned. Smoke rose from the point on Gladamus's chest where he had been hit, and the demon looked down to see he'd been singed a bit.
"What?" Gladamus questioned out loud wondering why it was that Yusuke's attack had affected him. He hadn't expected to feel such an attack. Yusuke did a double take surprised that his hit actually made an impact, as well. In fact everyone was just a little bit uncertain of what had just happened.
"I though his was invisible." "Invincible." Kurama corrected Kuwabara quickly. "I don't understand how it is that Yusuke's attack was able to make an impact on Gladamus either but, I believe it is best we use it to our advantage."
Gladumus became very fearful now. The demon had not expected there to be a flaw of this magnitude in his plans, and he had no intentions of losing, he would fight to his last breath to insure his plans went just as he wanted.
Perceiving Yusuke to be the greatest threat, Gladamus thought to attack the boy first, and take care of the others later. Gladamus bounded forward toward Yusuke. "I won't lose to the likes of you." Gladamus was just nearly upon Yusuke now and he had a most triumphant look on his face.
Yusuke shot off another spirit gun blast, and now looked rather drained. The attack however missed the large demon.
"Urameshi he was right there how could you miss him" were the words of a surprised Kuwabara, as he watched Yusuke miss his target in disbelief. Gladamus laughed thinking he had finally defeated the spirit detective. "You die now." Gladamus said happily as he prepared to do his attack. However the demon noticed Yusuke's attention was focused on a point above him. Gladamus was able to look upward just in time to see a large collection of rocks hurtling toward him. Gladamus tried his best to protect his head with his short arms, as the rocks crashed down, eventually covering him under a pile of rubble.
Yusuke wilted a bit, feeling drained from the battle. He was not the only one, with Gladamus out of the way the only thing left to do was shut off the machine.
Without any form of warning the ceiling seemed to began cracking causing large chunks of debris fall to the floor, which was now shaking.
"Geez Urameshi what the hell did you do?" Inquired Kuwabara covering his head, as he ran forward to convene with everyone near the machine.
"It's an earthquake dumbass." Yusuke retorted sounding most angry.
"I believe the machine is ready to fulfill its destructive purpose. We should hurry and disable it."
Following the instructions given to them by the now incapacitated Torrin; the detectives put the key in its respective spot. A small keyboard, and a screen rolled out of the machine, asking for a password. Four disillusioned faces stared at the screen for the moment.
"It needs a password? As that asshole didn't tell us what it was. Wonderful the one time we need that creep to talk, and he can't!"
"Why don't we type in Torrin the Magnificent?" Inquired Kuwabara "That might be his password."
Kurama shook his head. "Knowing what we know of Torrin he probably wouldn't be so obvious."
"Well we need to put something and soon."
"What do you think Fox?" Hiei asked as he noticed the pensive look on the red head's face, after he turned away from Kuwabara and Yusuke who were freaking out over code would stop the machine.
"Are you saying that the second rate demon didn't have a way to shut off this insane machine."
"No, not that. Just that it wouldn't be obvious. We won't be able to figure out the password in time, not without Torrin. We'll have to find a way to work around it" said Kurama insightfully. In an effort to get around the trouble of a password the detectives opened up the machine to check out it's circuitry.
"What the hell are we supposed to do now? Huh" Yusuke inquired looking the at the complicated circuitry.
"Duh, Urameshi we cut the red wire" said Kuwabara happy that his movie trivia was finally paying off.
"Yeah which one dumbass" retorted Yusuke as he showed Kuwabara a mass of tangled coils. "Ugh" was the only sound that came out of Kuwabara's mouth. "That's what I thought." Yusuke retorted in a cold manner.
The earth to rumbled even more violently as the machine finished powering up. Quickly Kurama pushed his way in between Kuwabara and Yusuke, he began to violently tear at the wires of the machine, while his companions looked at him in abject horror. For some odd reason they thought the machine would explode if Kurama pulled the wrong wire, must have been the movie trivia again. Everyone in the room seemed to be holding their breath as time quickly ran out. Finally, Kurama seemed to pause for a moment his hands latching on to a thick black wire he tugged at it and after a few precious seconds the machine stopped, and so did the quacking.
"Is it…" Kuwabara looked around then at the machine. "Is it broken. Did you stop it?"
"What do you think baka" came Hiei's voice. "Obviously. We're alive."
From in his glass prison Torrin moaned, and rubbed his head. The bat demon looked around letting his eyes adjust to the lighting of the room. When he realized he had survived, Torrin smiled. "Marvelous I'm not dead, I had feared the worse. But you four pulled through. Tough that was cutting it a bit close don't you think." Said Torrin's voice, as he awoke. Irritating as Torrin's voice was to the detectives, Torrin being alive meant everything was okay.
"Did you want us to lose, why the hell didn't you tell us the password?" The inquiry of a cranky, and surprised Yusuke was heard.
"Oh the password, well it's not matter now is it. You never asked in any case, and I was not obligated to tell you."
"You should be dead right now." Yusuke Grumbled angrily.
"If I were you Warden, I'd be a tad more grateful that I am alive. Now if you do not mind." Torrin tapped on the glass wall of his prison. "I would like to be released, I'm uncomfortably cramped in here. And you know how I feel about closed spaces." Yusuke eyes narrowed.
"Like hell mind, if I do let you out expect me to kick…"
"Yusuke" Said Kurama his tone was soft but a bit reproachful.
"I didn't go through all this for him to not die." Yusuke was on the verge of shouting as he angrily pointed to Torrin.
"I know Yusuke but there is still the matter of the orb, and we do need to keep it safe. And as it is in Torrin…"
"Kurama are you saying…"
"The orb is best left in it's confines where no on can get to it. We'll inform Koenma of the whereabouts of the true orb, and he can do with it as he sees fit. Though, it is probably best that we not disturb it." Smiles grew on the face's of the spirit detectives as Kurama spoke. While Torrin listened his eyes growing ever wider as he rationalized what the red head was saying.
"What are you saying Princess" Torrin asked in a concerned manner.
Yusuke yawned and blinked a few times giving the impression of weariness, as his devious smile waned. "The orb should be safe here right? I mean we don't need to tell Koenma today do we, because I'd like to get some rest maybe we could tell him next week."
"Warden" Said Torrin with faint surprise as his head snapped toward Yusuke's direction.
"Or how about next month?"
"I should have expected as much from the Oaf."
"How about never" said Hiei shooting a glare at Torrin, who looked mournful, sick, hurt, and surprised at same time.
"Oh now really" Said Torrin in an almost disbelieving manner.
"Agreed." Torrin blanched when he heard Kurama's voice. "The orb would find a good home here. It will be safe lost within the rubble."
"Et tu Princess, I thought we had something special. You don't actually intend to leave me here to rot, do you?" Torrin's question was posed to the backsides of the spirit detectives. "Alright this has gone far enough. You've got to let me out" Said Torrin sounding almost desperate as he looked at the detectives outside his glass prison. "Be reasonable. Warden. Oaf. Porcupine. Princess. You aren't truly going to abandon me like this?" Torrin's voice drifted off into silence, as none of the detectives were there to hear him. "I guess you are."
Torrin stood trapped in his glass prison looking at the deserted room around him. The dust from the near cave-in was still settling. A look of slight annoyance crossed the bat demon's face, as he leaned his back against the glass. Torrin then heaved a heavy sigh. "How disappointing."
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Torrin: (Still imprisoned in glass cell) That is a most disappointing end Virgin. You can't let my story close like that. At least consider releasing me now. This joke has lost it's humor. (sigh) This is quite a disappointment.