Declaimer/Authors Notes: Ok, so to go over this junk once more: Samurai Sirius and myself, The Crimson Ninja, don't own anything from Yu Yu Hakusho and Danny Phantom. BUT we DO own the obviously OC characters developed for this fic. And Trioxin 2-4-5 belongs is a creation of Orion Pictures movie Return Of The Living Dead. Now as to why I'm mentioning this, well, you'll see why (Diabolical laughter). And to get more reviews (and to outdo Samurai Sirius), anyone who does get. A free Bazooka! Now on to the show….chapter….thing.
Sam stood over Kurama and Botan, both with looks of surprise on their face, "What do you guys know about Danny," Sam asked her hands on her hips.
Botan jumped up and laughed uneasily, and rather loudly, "Well, which Danny are you talking about, I mean I hear that Danny is quite a popular name…"
Sam glared at her, "Danny Fenton."
"Oh nuts."
Kurama looked up at Sam, un-phased, "How do you know Danny Fenton?"
"We went to Casper High School together back in Amity. Now who is after him and how do you know about him being Danny Phantom?" Sam asked. She figured Danny couldn't have been in Japan for more than a few days, was it possible for someone to have discovered him so quickly. This worried her a bit.
"There was an attack upon him last night along with a friend of his and the rest of our group," Kurama said with a sigh.
Sam blinked, she knew Danny had transferred to Japan but Tucker, "Tucker's here too?"
Kurama smiled, "Not at this school but yes they're in Japan. Which isn't a good thing as there seems to be some entity after us for some reason."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "After all of you? Who'd…?"
Before Sam could get the next question out a blur rushed past and grabbed her then ran past Kurama and Botan.
Kurama jumped up, "What was that."
The blur came to a sudden stop and turned around revealing another student in the Meiou High School uniform. He had short brown hair and grayish blue eyes that reflected the lift from his fancy looking silver watch. He held Sam tightly in a chokehold with his left arm wrapped around her neck. The male student smirked at Kurama, "Hello Kurama, we meet again."
Kurama's eyes widened a fraction, how did this boy know his demon name? "Do I know you," Kurama asked in a low, calm voice.
The mysterious boy shook his head with a laugh, "I suppose you wouldn't remember me fox. But I'm sure you will once you try to get back your woman."
"My/His Woman," Sam and Kurama both exclaimed with a blush at the same time.
The boy tightened his hold on Sam and she cried out, "If you want to see her again then come to the Green Valley Cemetery near the Industrial park. We'll be waiting in the mausoleum of Yoshihiro Togashi. Goodbye for now!" The boy pulled an object from his pocket and threw it at the ground, it exploded and a giant smoke screen giving him the opportunity to escape.
Botan stared aghast at the spot where Sam and the mysterious boy had stood, "Who…who was that guy!"
Kurama looked worried as well, "I don't know…perhaps he is another henchman of Kuroko's leading us into a trap." He sighed and turned to Botan, "We had better contact the others."
As they discussed how they would break the news to Danny a red eyed Raven was watching them and after a few moments launched into the sky, taking flight on dark wings.
((Later That Night))
The group was gathered at a bus stop standing under a single street lamp and waiting for Tucker and Kuwabara. The streets were relatively quite and free of most traffic. Yusuke rolled his eyes as the light flickered and a soft wind picked up.
"Ok, so why are we out here again," Yusuke grumbled.
Danny glanced at Yusuke, sometimes he really wondered if this guy was a hero or not, "We're going to rescue my best friend Sam." Danny paused, "She must have decided to transfer to Japan last minute and would contact Tucker and me later."
Yusuke smirked, "What is she your girlfriend or something?"
His smile broadened as Danny's face turned a nice shade of red. "What! No, no, no there's NOTHING going on between us, we're just REALLY good friends," Danny stuttered to answer, feeling rather awkward.
Yusuke rolled his eyes, "Right…," he chuckled.
At that moment Tucker and Kuwabara ran up to them, Tucker carrying a large black duffle bag, "Hey Danny! I brought that ghost catching stuff of you parents that you asked me to grab."
Tucker set the bag down and the group gathered around to see what was in it. Tucker began to dig through it, "Let's see…we have The Fenton Thermos, The Fenton Net Launcher, The Fenton Tazer, The Fenton Ecto-Launcher, The…"
"Goddamn, do your folks have to put their name on EVERYTHING," Yusuke asked, giving Danny a flabbergasted look.
Danny sighed, "Actually it's just my dad…he has some…self esteem issues."
"I bet."
Hiei scowled at the bag. In his opinion it was all worthless junk made by some crazy human. He prodded the bag with his foot, "This junk couldn't catch a fly…let alone a ghost."
"You'd be surprised how many times this 'junk' has saved us," Danny said with a smile.
Yusuke rolled his eyes, he was with Hiei on this one, that looked like a bunch of worthless crap. He could hardly see ANY spirits or demons taking that stuff seriously, "Enough about that." Yusuke turned to Kurama, "Did Botan get any information about our kidnapper and if Kuroko may be connected?"
Kurama shook his head, his crimson hair falling into his face, "Not yet, but she went to Spirit World to try and get information and discuss things with Koenma."
"That OR she's too scared to go after Kuroko since her attack from last time," Yusuke mumbled.
"That's no surprise," Kuwabara said clutching his fist in anger, "And if I ever see that witch Kaitouai again...well female or not ANYONE who threatens MY Yukina gets a taste of my spirit sword shoved down their throat."
"I'm impressed Kuwabara…it's not often you make an exception to your honor code," Yusuke said smugly.
Hiei secretly agreed with the idiot on this point, a very rare occasion indeed. After what Kaitouai did to his sister he would certainly make the succubus pay dearly for her crimes. Although Kuwabara didn't need to know this, but Hiei would take care of her long before the idiot got around to it.
"Here comes the bus," Tucker interjected, noticing a pair of headlights coming towards them.
The bus pulled to a stop and the driver opened the door. The group boarded the bus and found it nearly empty except for a hobo sleeping on one of the seats in the back. They paid for their fare and took seats, well Kurama paid for Hiei, but still.
The driver glanced back at the small group in his mirror, "Hey, you kids sure you want to go to Green Valley? It's the last stop of the night so you could be stuck there."
Yusuke, who had been staring out the window, gave the driver a cold glance, "Save it ya' geezer."
The driver frowned, "Yeah, I know what you punks will be doing out there, vandalizing graves and doing drugs, but you know what…you don't respect the dead and they won't respect you."
The hobo turned over, waking a bit and muttered, "I wish the bus driver would shut up."
Hiei gave a small smile, "I can arrange that," he muttered just loud enough for the others to hear.
"Last stop," the driver called out.
Everyone got off the bus, including the hobo. However before the doors shut the hobo started to sneak back on.
"Uhm…what are you doing," Kuwabara asked.
The hobo turned to the boys, "I ain't spending the night in a graveyard! I may be drunk, but I ain't stupid. All sorts of weird stuff have been happening here, disappearances, murder, and the works. Hope you kiddos get to see tomorrow," he said as the doors shut on him and the bus drove off into the night.
Tucker shivered, "Well now, THIS is going to be one FUN evening."
They walked in silence past many abandoned factories and warehouses. The air was silent and thick with foreboding. They entered the graveyard and walked past the numerous neglected graves.
Kuwabara shivered slightly, "Guys I'm getting a very bad feeling in my gut…"
Tucker laughed uneasily, "Maybe it was that pepperoni, squid, mushroom pizza you had before we came here."
Kuwabara stopped, "Yeah it could be that…or…"
"Or you're all going to meet an ending so gruesome it would make John Carpenter puke?" a mysterious voice said from nearby.
They all looked for the source of the voice and found none other than Nightshade standing atop a gravestone with perfect balance. Next to him rested a strange green barrel.
"You!" Hiei growled.
Nightshade smiled maliciously, "Yes, it's good ole' loveable me. And by the way, thanks for the wound last night, katana right through the shin, quite painful if I do say so myself."
"Release Sam now," Kurama demanded.
"Sorry fox face, she's being held over yonder in that mausoleum," Nightshade pointed to a mausoleum at the end of the cemetery, "but right now Mistress Kuroko asks me to test you all. No number two pencils required. Which is probably a benefit to the two baboons over there," he added, looking pointedly at Kuwabara and Yusuke.
Kuwabara and Yusuke glared at him in anger, "Shut up dammit," they shouted together.
"Besides what would you know about our grades anyway?" Kuwabara added.
Nightshade smirked, "Well, for starters you, Danny, and Yusuke's grade average is anywhere between a 'D' and a 'B,' at best. Kurama...well he's got straight A's so I can't really come up with insults for him in this genre except for calling him either a smart ass or a smarty pants. Take your pick."
Danny's eyes widened and he moaned, "Oh God, he's stalking us."
"No actually I'm stalking Sarah Michelle Gellar…oops…I let that one slip," Nightshade muttered casually. He chuckled to himself, "Let's just say that Buffy can "slay" me all night long!"
Danny cringed, "That is REALLY perverted!"
"Well, he's the evil spawn of a tome of eternal darkness. What can you expect?" Yusuke muttered. He then shook his head and extended his finger towards the monster, "So let's put this pervert out of his misery."
The others readied their weapons as well. Kurama pulled out a rose, poised, calm, and ready. Kuwabara held out his fist and allowed his glowing spirit sword to come into existence. Tucker strapped on various Fenton bits of Fenton gear. Hiei calmly unsheathed his sword. Danny powered up into Ghost mode, floating slightly above the ground of the deceased.
Nightshade sighed, "Admittedly this would have been one hell of a fight but the mistress commands that I use THIS." He inclined his head towards the large green barrel beside him. The label on the barrel read TRIOXIN 2-4-5 PROPERTY OF UNITED STATES MILITARY. "I'll give you a hint as to what it is, it's in this barrel and it's NOT a toaster," Nightshade said with a grin.
Blank stares were his reply.
"Ok, answer is that this good ole' creation of United States Military genius is Trioxin 2-4-5."
"Yeah we can read dumbass," Danny said sarcastically.
Tucker blinked, "Wait, I've heard about this somewhere…"
Kuwabara turned to Tucker, "What about it?"
"From some websites on the net, I heard that this stuff was part of some kind of Government conspiracy or experiment that resurrected corpses into zombies," Tucker explained.
Nightshade smiled, "Right you are smarty geek! Too bad you won't live long enough to get a degree for being a smart ass. Trioxin was originally made to stop nasty Marijuana from being grown, but it had the unfortunate side effect of making mobs of invincible zombies. And lucky me, an old friend of mine from the black market had a barrel just lying around!"
"I think I see where this is going…." Danny groaned.
"I'm pretty sure you are," Nightshade's smile broadened, "And be sure to not breathe the fumes because it WILL kill you," he added. Nightshade then raised his foot and was about to kick the barrel over.
"STOP!" Kurama shouted.
They all ran back as Nightshade kicked the barrel over and the gas spewed forth
"Ah…smells like a good old-fashioned massacre. A little advice before I leave kids, 'When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.' I rather like that…from some movie or another…well bye I'd love to stay for the party but duty calls," Nightshade said disappearing in the cloud of Trioxin.
"That son of a bitch," Yusuke growled as the gas began to fade.
"The gas seems to have dissipated," Kurama said.
Danny sank to the ground, transforming back into human form, "Huh. I guess he was bluffing after..."
"Braiiiiiiins….."
The group all slowly turned around. They are met faced to face with a horrific, entirely rotten away corpse wiggling out of the barrel. It was also covered in a slimy tar like substance. The Zombie notices the entire group upon standing upright. Danny gulps and transforms back into ghost mode instantly.
The Tar zombie as it is called blinked and cocked it's head to the side, "More braiiins…"
Yusuke growled, "That does it!" Yusuke powered up his spirit gun and fired it at the Tar, blowing its head apart. The body, however, continued to move, and started coming for them. Everyone stared at it blankly.
"Uhm…I don't that that worked," Danny said dryly.
"WELL WE'LL JUST HAVE TO BLAST IT AGAIN," Yusuke shouted.
"I'm not sure that would be wise Yusuke," Kurama said.
The Tar then broke into an all out run coming towards them. Kuwabara smirked, "I've got this," he said and swung his spirit sword at the Tar's legs, looping them off, "HA! That was way too…"
Suddenly one of the Tar's legs kicked him. "Ow! Why you rotted bone bag!"
Kurama sighed, "I said that wasn't going to work."
"We'll have to incinerate it until there's nothing left!"
Danny groaned, "Anyone have a match?
"I don't need a match," Hiei said with a smirk.
Kuwabara pulled the Tar's limbs off of himself, "At least let me pull this thing off before you incinerate me too you little pyro."
Kuwabara stumbled away from the body parts and Hiei powered up his Fist of the Mortal Flame and flambéed the Tar zombie.
"Remind me to never tick you off," Tucker said in a weak voice.
"We had better stay alert; the Trioxin may have already started to take effect on the graveyard," Kurama said warily.
Just as he says this shifting sounds are heard as the ground beings to churn beneath them; rotting, skeleton like corpses rise from numerous graves, dirt falling from their bones, "BRAINSSS!"
The group exchanged glances and Tucker shouted, "RUN AWAY!"
They all ran for a nearby trailer, except for Hiei who was dragged there against his will shouting that he could take them. The trailer was the grave keeper's office and lucky for the group he was currently out.
Yusuke blocked the door, using his body to keep it shut as zombies began to pound upon the door, "Great, JUST great! What the hell are we supposed to do now?"
Kuwabara stood next to Yusuke, helping him to keep the door closed, "I don't know just think of something fast!"
Hiei peered out a small window at the hoard of zombies, "Pathetic..."
"What happened to those matches of yours Yusuke," Danny asked, his ghostly pale skin a few shades paler upon catching a glimpse outside the window. The zombie crowd had doubled in size.
"You think I got enough to burn them all?" Yusuke asked.
The zombies' pounding grew louder and suddenly the door splintered, a large crack forming down the middle. Tucker looked up from his fetal position in the center of the floor, "Can we just get rid of those things before they break through the…"
The door cracked more and some of the zombie hands popped through it, "GIVE US YOUR BRAINNNNNNSS!"
Kuwabara jumped away from the door, "EEP!"
Yusuke spun around, "THAT TEARS IT! SHOTGUN!" Yusuke unleashed the barrage on the group of zombies, ripping many to shreds.
Danny winced, "Ew."
"There's no way we can hold up here much longer, we have to get out of here and fight as a group," Kurama said.
"You sure that's a good idea?" Yusuke asked.
"It's better than being canned dinner," Danny quipped.
They nodded and then rushed out, punching away as many zombies as possible. "Eat this you damn zombies," Kuwabara exclaimed as he slashed through the masses with his sword.
The group spread out, everyone beginning to fan out and fight on their own. Hiei found himself standing alone as a large gang of rotting zombies descended on him, "Step right up you rotting bastards!"
Hiei unsheathed his katana and with ultra fast speed and precision chopped them all to literal pieces on the ground, guts splattered everywhere. Hiei looked at his sword, "I've got to remember to get this thing stainless."
Meanwhile, Tucker stepped back as the ghouls approached and raised one of the Fenton Weapons, "Prepare to be…whatever this thing does!" Tucker fired a large amount of ectoplasm from the Fenton Ghost Sticker Gun
Yusuke lit a match and threw it into the now stuck group of undead, "And as a coup' de grace…" The zombies were ignited in flames and howled in agony.
Danny was with Kuwabara and Kurama who were slashing the zombies to pieces while he would finish them off with ghost blasts. Kuwabara backed up against a tombstone, "These things are getting way too close for comfort!"
Danny fired more and more blasts at the undead, "I got it!" He exclaimed. Until one grabbed his leg, "Whoa!" and threw him to the ground.
"BRAINS!"
Kuwabara and Kurama were too preoccupied with the other zombies to make it to him, "Danny," Kurama cried.
"I gotta do something…" Danny muttered. He put both of his hands up and a large amount of ectoplasm began to form, it lengthened out and took the shape of a boa-staff. "Well there's something new, but good."
"Need brains…"
Danny raised the staff and used it to knock the zombie's head clean off, "This is like playing golf with Dad again," he muttered.
Kuwabara blinked, "Whoa…he was able to form a weapon out of his ghost energy!"
The group continued to punch, kick, slash, and burn their way through the ghoul but there was still a considerable amount left. And the group was starting to exhaust.
"Hiei," Yusuke panted, "I think its time for you to bring out your ace in the hole."
"Good idea detective but if you want it to work than we're going to have to gather them all in the same spot so that it's not all wasted," Hiei said.
Tucker turned to the two spirit detectives, "What are you guys talking about?"
"You'll see," Kuwabara said, then added, "But you may want to shield your eyes…"
Danny smirked, "Let's makes some noise: Hey you decrepit old body bags, live brain buffet right here!" He shouted pointing at his own head. The others joined in, yelling to get the zombie's attention.
"Braaains….braaaains"
"NOW!"
"Get out of the way!" Yusuke shouted. They all jumped out of the way of Hiei who charged up his Dragon of the Darkness Flame. "ATTACK," Hiei shouted. Hiei launched the Dragon of Darkness at the entire group of living dead, incinerating them all into dust along with all the zombie limbs that were running about.
Yusuke leaned against a tall gravestone, "Whew….well THAT was fun."
"And now that we got that settled, let's get to that mausoleum and save Sam!" Danny exclaimed.
They all began to run to the mausoleum, not noticing an old foe on the rooftop with a recording camera. "All right, an entire half an hour of them fighting, using everything to survive the encounter. I oughta' sell this footage to George Romero….well, after I give it to mistress Kuroko I suppose. And I better tell her about our new 'friend'…" And with that Nightshade disappeared again in a cloud of smoke.
((The Mausoleum))
The group entered the mausoleum and spied Sam tied up and gagged to the side and the mysterious boy was sitting against the wall, facing the group.
"I don't care who you are but give us back Sam!" Danny shouted. He tried to go forward but was stopped by an invisible force, "What the…"
"Sorry Halfa, but my fight is with your red haired friend here. And if he wants his woman back then he'll have to fight me," the mysterious boy said standing up.
Kurama, Sam, and Danny blushed while everyone else just stared.
Kurama recovered, "What is it you want? How is it that you know me?"
"I've come to finish what we started. So to do this I shall show you my true form," he said as he threw another smoke bomb to the floor, blinding everyone, and bringing back an old memory…
Crimson Ninja: CLIFF HANGER! Well, you're going to have to wait 'till Sirius gets the next chapter up. So sit back, relax and review so you can get a free Dead Man Hand Cheesecake. As to what it's made of, review to find out! And be sure to check out some of Sirius' other fics and review those too!