Author's Note Lov.: So, Here's the new chap. Death's minion messed me up a bit with the quiting! ahhhh! well, hope you like what you see. P.S. Everyone say hi to the newguy!
"I WANT MY MINION BACK!" cried Death tossing down her cards.
"Nope. Go fish" Sighed Red as she and Shadow cleaned up the cards that Death had knocked over.
"Are you even paying attention to me?"
"Yeah, but what do you want me to do about it? He quit, and as you well know we don't ask people back into our group after they leave."
"She's got a point there..."
"Shut up, Crow!" Death snarled, "I know that, but I need a minion! I'm death!"
"Then what do you want to do about it?" interrupted Shadow, "It's not like we have another person just lying around." Death eyed her up, "No way, I'm a spy, I can't be your replacement minion."
"And you can't have Crow. He belongs to me."
"HEY!"
"...and Black of course."
"But all that leaves is Jawbreaker! I can't have a little dragon as a minion..." the group eyed the little dragon who was sleeping on the new couch. "Or could I?"
"Well, technically he's my pet...but I'll lend him to you." grinned the wolf as she woke up her pet.
"And I think I have a spell to make him human, you'd like that, wouldn't you, JB?" Shadow crooned at the little dragon.
As the little dragon looked up into the faces of his demon friends he knew whatever was going on was not necessarily a good thing for him. They all had that slightly insane look in their eyes which did not bode well for him. Naturally, Jawbreaker took off, only to be grabbed by Crow before he got far enough off the couch to get away. "Kweep...?" the dragon chirped, sweat-dropping at the predicament he found himself in.
Later
"Right this way, Kurama, I keep the platinum violet in the back. You wanted one seedling right?" Barbra smiled as she disarmed and unlocked the door to the den. "Sounds like the others are here..."
As she and Kurama entered the den proper, they were struck by an odd site. Red, Crow, Shadow and Death were dancing around a bubbling caldron singing while the stereo blasted Indian music into the room. Before Kurama could say anything about the strange sight, Barbra quickly covered his mouth and motioned him not to distract the dancers. A few minutes later Jawbreaker erupted from the caldron, knocking it onto it's side.
"QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The dragon cried rolling on the floor as he started to change. "EPPPP AHHHHH! That HURT! HOT HOT HOT HOT!" before long the dragon had turned into a boy who was obviously not in a good mood.
"Awww quit your whining! Now you can change whenever you want you little runt." Giggled Red as she noticed the company, "Here, put this on, your kinda nakie."
"And who's fault is that?" Jawbreaker muttered.
"Wow, looks like the card game got a little out of hand. What I miss?" Barbra asked, running into the back for the flower.
Death shrugged,"Just creating my new minion, that's all."
"Hummm...ok, works for me! Here you go Kurama," Barbra handed him the pot, "Now away with you, we have to clean!"
"What a strange bunch" muttered Kurama as the door slammed in his face.
A few day's later
School had let out an hour ago for Christmas break, and the boys trudged through the snow towards Yuske's house from the bus stop. "Why the hell is you bus stop so far away Yurimishi?" whined Kuwabara.
"It's not like you never had to walk across a town to get home or anything before..." muttered Hiei, not quite focused on the conversation, since Chris was walking right next to him.
"Yeah, well, this is different! WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS you stupid runt!" the delinquent snarled in reply, waiting for Hiei's normally flippant remark. When it didn't come he lightly poked his friend, " What's with you man?"
"What do you mean? Nothing's with me..."
"Then why you acting all spacey?" leered Kuwabara, "Oh I bet I know why...!"
"Shut up you neanderthal!." Hiei growled as the group walked passed an abandoned farm.
"YOHO! Kurama dear, what do you think of my new dance moves?" called a voice from by the barn.
"Is that who I think it is?" growled Yuske getting ready to fight.
Racing ahead to confront the speaker Kuwabara stuttered, "It couldn't possibly...!How'd they know we were here!"
"HIA!"
"Hello..."
"Kajitsu!"
"Death!"
"Yo."
"Err...Hi?"
"This is not the time nor the place to confront them" Growled Hiei, pointing to Chris.
"Who's the newbie?"
"Yeah?"
"None of your business."
"Aww look at the love birds! So cute!"
"Oh man! It is them! What are we going to do? If we fight now we'll be late and my sister will kill me!"
"Relax will you? We'll be done with them in a matter of minutes..." Yuske laughed waving his hand at both Kuwabara and Hiei.
"Yeah, we would be...If we were here to fight." Crow sighed, shaking his head as he turned off the boom-box.
"Well I don't care if you're here to fight! We'll wipe the floor..."
Looking thoughtfully at the group, Kurama interrupted, "Wait, isn't that a new person?"
"Yeah, Death's Minion chickened out on us so we got a new one! Say hello Jawbreaker!" giggled Red as she hugged a tall boy with wild multi-colored hair in a white and black outfit. "We're practicing our new moves today!"
"So OBVIOUSLY, we're not going to fight you guys. Not on our day off. What are you, nuts?" sighed Shadow.
"HA" laughed Yusuki, sneering at Shadow, "You know what I think? I think you guys are too chicken to fight us!"
Black laughs, "Oh come now, you can be serious...after all, we much more powerful then you."
"HA! A likely story! You keep saying that, and yet every time we meet, you deliberately avoid a fight." Yuske snorts, "All these 'neutral' grounds and days..." Kurama carefully watched the demons, noticing that they weren't very upset by it all. They actually were giving off the air parents slightly annoyed by children. "And what's with the names, huh? Black fox, Red Wolf, Crow, Death, Shadow, Minion and... JAWBREAKER! What you couldn't be more original? Or was it that all the good names at 'Evils R Us' were taken?" Yuske continued, not noticing the change in the demons, who were not amused. "And Black, WHAT is with the outfit? Really, come on now, you look like a slut..."
"Um...Yuske," Kuwabara started as the others slowly backed away from Black. "Yuske, now might be a good time to shut it!"
"Why? Afraid the wussis are going to run away? Honestly, they're so pathetic..!"
"SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!" Kuwabara shouted as he dived for cover to avoid Black Fox as she charged the spirt detective.
"YOU FUCKER!" She screeched knocking him over, "How dare you! We cut you some slack cause you're nothing more then a nuisance, and this is how you repay us?" With that she started to punch him, "You wanna fight? You got a fight!"
Shaking her head, Shadow sighed, "Well, that wasn't very smart..."
"Yeah, I know, Yuske's an idiot." with a shrug, Red signals to the others, "Well, you heard the lady, have at it! And Jawbreaker, don't forget, you have hands now." She laughed as she waked over to watch Black fight.
Just before he and Death clashed with Kurama and Kuwabara, Crow noticed the lack of the wolf and shadow and shouted at them, "HEY! Why aren't you fighting?"
"Us?" Red asked innocently, "There's not enough people, of course. Now go fight Minion! You leader commands it!"
"STOP CALLING ME THAT!"
In a matter of moments it became obvious that the fight was one sided, with the sprit detectives on the losing side. Yuske himself was actually being effectively walloped by Black Fox, while her partner encouraged her and berated him alternately. Shadow for her part walked around providing encouragement for her side, while giving a running commentary. Hiei had his hands full trying to protect his new boyfriend while avoiding Jawbreaker's attacks. Chris for his part was a little torn on what to do, help Hiei, or help his old team, remembering that he quit, he decided to sit the fight out.
"I thought you were a little flying rat..."
"I'm a DRAGON!"
"You don't look it..."
"SHUT UP! This wasn't my idea!"
Crow had faced off with Kuwabara, and the two were engaged in a vicious sword fight. Though Kuwabara was just as skilled with a sword as Crow, he was at a disadvantage since Crow kept healing every time he got hit. Death herself was busy keeping Kurama on his toes while avoiding his whip. She had obviously learned from their last fight and kept him at bay with a whip of her own while still using her trusty bone Shakram.
It was a forgone conclusion how the fight was going to end until most of the group noticed that they had all been effectively surrounded by a very very large horde of demon ninjas. (A.N.L. Just go with me on this, k?) Quickly the fighting stopped, except for Black who was sitting on Yuske's chest and pummeling him into the ground while growling obscenities at him. Slowly as the ninja demons approached Crow made his way over to the boom-box, getting ready for what he knew what was to come.
"Typical, just when things were getting good..." muttered Shadow as she meandered over to the others.
Red Wolf suddenly noticed that Black Fox was totally oblivious to what was going on and tried to get her partners attention, "Hey, Black..."
"NOT NOW I'm BUSY!"
"Uh...I know, but Black, you really auta look up..."
"In a minute!"
Suddenly a ninja broke into a run and ran right for the distracted fox, "BLACK MOVE NOW!" Snarled Red. Startled, Black glanced up just in time to see the ninja lunge foward with a dagger, only to stop as a sword tip sprouted from his chest.
"Why should I when you got my back?" Sighed the fox dusting her legs off as she rose and mentally counted how many opponents there were.
"Because I get one free kill now."
"NO FAIR!"
"You owe me...do you really want to pay that dept later?"
"That's blackmail!"
"Can you two hurry it up?" Sighed the Shadow as the ninja's moved in, "I'd like to make it home to see my show today..."
"Oh fine then!" Growled Black, jabbing a finger at Red she continued, "I won't forget this!"
"I'm counting on it," Red grinned as the ninjas rushed the scattered group, "Crow, crank up the tunes, will you?"
"Aye Aye!" He laughed, flipping on the boom-box, "This'll be fun," he commented to Kuwabara as he spun to clash with the interlopers.
To say it was a slaughter would be an understatement. With Yuske out of commission, his friends went to guard him and Chris (he's still staying out of it), not really attempting to kill the demons. Not that it mattered, since the others were taking care of the problem just fine. As the music blared in a fast tempo song, the six demons went through the horde like a blender on purrae. As the ninjas fell before them, Black and Red started calling out how many they had killed.
"22!"
"25!"
"31! HA A DOUBLE TAKE THAT!"
As the song changed from Eye of the Tiger to the Mortal Combat and the group took the fight to a whole new level. The group spread itself out even more and immediately took on the classic mortal combat stance and started to...dance? 'I wonder of this is what they meant by 'practicing their moves?' mused Kurama as he and the others watched from the one area that wasn't over run by dead bodies. As the song came to an end, the group quickly dispatched the last few remaining opponents with various moves. With a giggle on Red's part the group quickly ran over to Yuske and the others and lined up facing the carnage. When Crow looked like he wasn't going to, Black punched him in the ribs till he complied. After a few seconds "DUNDA DA DA DA DA DUN DA DA!" blared out of the boom-box as the final fantasy victory theme started to play. Immediately the ecstatic group of demons swung their weapons around and posed in sync.
"Wow, I don't know what's scarier, that or how they fight..." muttered Kuwabara.
"That. Defiantly." Gasped Yuske as he slowly got to his feat.
"YAY! That was FUN!"
"HA! PIRATES ARE BETTER THEN NINJAS!" Death crowed as she kicked one of the dead bodies, "I KNEW IT! PIRATES KICK NINJA ASS!"
Crow just shook his head at his friends as he rubbed his ribs, "Don't tell Spicy that..."
Out of nowhere a gold light surrounded Jawbreaker, "HEY!" he cried, surprise, "Look guys!"
"See? Aren't you glad we turned you into a human now?"
"Wow! Way to go D.M! You leveled up!"
"That totally rocks!" Red cried, slapping him on the back, "Go you! Oh, Black how many did you get?"
"41, you?"
"40..."
"HA! I knew I'd win...!"
"Which bring my total to 1,576,891, with the free kill." grins the wolf.
"Wha? No that can't be right!" Black quickly did a tally, "Wait! That means you have one more kill then I do!"
"Yep," Red screamed, "I'm in 'da lead!"
"I demand a recount!"
"Why you'll Probably be in the lead after the next big fight..."
"Wait...that's how many demons they've killed...?"
"Well, only since 1950..." Interrupted Shadow, "They restart every 100 years."
Glancing down at her watch, Red sighed, "Well, I got to go...stuff to do, dragons to feed, you know how it is..."
"How can you feed me when I look like this!"
"Good point. Time to get another pet!"
"NOOOOO!"
"Yeah, I'm out of here too, Crow, need a ride?" Sighed Black as she headed off.
"Yeah..."
"Can we get a ride too?"
"Sure no problem!" Black laughed as she and the others raced off.
"HEY WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO!" screeched Yuske gesturing quite well for someone who just got beat up.
"Well duh, clean up the mess then go home!" Red's voice echoed as she disappeared.
Looking at the carnage Kuwabara muttered, "Great...how are we going to do that...?"
"Ummm...I don't know...but I just remembered, I got to go to!" Chris cried, before running off.
"Sorry we scared your boyfriend off..."
Looking both hurt and angry Hiei muttered, "I'll kill them for this..."
That night
"Com'on guys! How could you replace me like that?" cried Chris, still really hurt.
"You quit." shrugged Red.
"But I just quit a few days ago! And I didn't really mean it!"
Black shook her head, "Ahh, but you said you quit. And you haven't shown up for the meetings either."
"Come on! Death? Please? You understand, right?"
"Nope. Not taking you back, I like my new minion!"
"Shadow, you're on my side, right?"
"Hey, keep me out of this!"
Chris glared at the new youth, "Who are you anyway? How could you guys replace me with someone you don't even know?"
"I didn't ask for this you know..." Cried Jawbreaker, "I was happy being a small dragon; eat, sleep, annoy people, it was such a good life!" He sobbed, "This is your fault!"
"JAWBREAKER! Is that really you? But...how...?"
"Don't ask."
"Can I please have my job back?"
"Only if it's ok with JB..."
"YES!"
"And there will be some new rules."
"That's not fair!"
"You quit." Everyone said at the same time.
"Fine, what would I have to do?"
Death started the list, "First, spy on Hiei for us..."
"Isn't he doing that already?" Muttered Red.
"Yeah, but he doesn't know it."Whispered Shadow.
"And we'll let you keep dating him."
Black went next, "You're getting a pay cut. A big one."
"AND No protecting Hiei from any of us, that's cheating." Red growled, "You quit, so if you do that, YOU become the target, got it?"
"Yes'm!"
"Sign here," Death grinned, holding a new contract out, "In blood, don't forget."
"YAY! No I can have my pet back!"
"But don't I get to choose if I want to be your pet now that I'm human?" stammered Jawbreaker.
"Your right," nodded Black, "Ok, when you're human, you can be my 'pet', and when you're a dragon, you can be Red's, ok?"
"What kind of chose is that?"
"Not a real chose at all. After all, your not really a human." Red laughed.
"..."
"Hhhhmmmm, I think I'll call you Jeff when your human, that is ok with you?"
"Fine..." sighed the defeated dragon as both Black and Red glomped him.