Hello again! I actually found time to update this during the week! That is a miracle in itself. Laziness didn't interfere this time either. I guess caffeine is good for me after all! And here people are telling me that soda is bad.
Kyle: It is bad for you.
DT: Be quite you! Wait, what are you doing here anyway?
Kyle: I'm not really here. I'm just a figment of your imagination.
DT: You are? Rubs eyes Oh no, I'm loosing it. I'm having a conversation with my made up character! I think I need to go lay down...
Kyle: Well, while DT is sorting out her mental problems I'll finish things up for her. She would have liked to tell Happosai-sama that the review nearly gave her a heart attack, but she's glad you're liking the story. And again, she owns nothing in this story except the plot, Risa, Yumi, Rei, and me. Hehe, we like to give her a hard time about that. Now go read and please review, but no flames!
"Speaking."
'Thoughts'
Ch 13 Rescuing Spirit Detective Kyle Pt. 2
"Ya know what Mousse? I take back what I said earlier. This was the dumbest thing you have said to me."
"How was I suppose to know it wouldn't work!"
"Genkai told us that Shadow was a reflection of Kyle so you shoulda known it was asleep too!"
"If you're so smart then why didn't you say anything from the beginning!"
"Stop blaming Ran-chan! It's not his fault!" Ukyo screamed at Mousse.
The Nerima Wrecking Crew was sitting in Kyle and Shampoo's room. While they had bandaged their wounds they attempted to wake up Shadow, but no matter what they had done it still wouldn't wake up. They yelled, shook, and Mousse even attempted to throw it out the window, but Akane stopped him. Still the spirit beast slept though it all. Cologne opened the door and walked into the room.
"Any progress?"
"It no good Great-Grandmother. Shadow no wake up."
"AAHHHH!" Ranma said as he held his head in his hands. "What are we suppose to do? Just hope that one of them comes back to town and then follow them to their hideout?"
Just after Ranma spoke they looked out the window to see a girl with orange hair hopping from roof to roof. They looked at each other for a moment before they took off after the girl. They didn't notice Ryoga run off in a different direction. Risa ran with a bundle of first aid supplies in her arms. The fight Kyo and Yumi had left them rather banged up, especially Kyo. So she was forced to return to town to get first aid supplies to bandage up her friends. That's when she noticed that she was being followed. Risa didn't worry to much, after all they were human. There was no way they could keep up for too long. After she had reached the outskirts of town, she realized that they were still going strong. Risa frowned. This was a slight miscalculation, but she still didn't worry too much. She would still loose them before getting to the hideout. Using her demon speed, she ran into the woods. She jumped into the trees and jumped from branch to branch in a zig zag motion.
The Nerima Wrecking Crew reached the forest and stopped. They looked around for signs of the girl, but found nothing. There were no signs of her running on the ground. Ranma punched a nearby tree.
"Damn it! We lost her!"
"That's not all we lost." Ukyo added.
"Huh?" Ranma looked around noticed that something was indeed missing. "Great, Ryoga is missing."
"Should we look for him?" Akane asked a little worried.
"We don't have time. Beside, Ryoga can take care of himself." Ranma said. "Right now we have to figure out what to do next."
"I suggest we go towards the mountain. If they have a hideout anywhere it might be there. The mountain has some caves. It would be the perfect place to hide." Cologne said as she pointed at the mountains.
Ranma shrugged his shoulders. "It's not like we have much of a choice, so lets get going."
They once again started their quest. Meanwhile somewhere else in the forest. A certain bandanna wearing boy looked at the sky.
"WHERE THE HELL AM I NOW!"
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"Did you hear that?" Ray asked Yumi. She was sitting on a rock by the entrance of the cave. It was located at the base of the mountain. Their backpacks where sitting near Yumi along with their sleeping bags.
"Huh?"
"Man, what is wrong with you?"
Yumi shook her head. "Nothing."
"Right. Keep telling yourself that."
Yumi was about to say something when they heard the rustling of leaves. Risa jumped out of a tree and walked towards their hideout.
"Hi guys! Sorry it took so long, but those human friends of Kyle were following me."
"Did you loose them?" Ray asked a little concerned.
"Of course. Now lets get Yumi and Kyo fixed up. We still have work to do."
Rei nodded and helped Risa with the stuff in her arms. Risa grabbed some bandages, cotton balls, and alcohol. She tossed some to Ray and grabbed some for herself. She walked towards Yumi, while Ray took care of Kyo. Kyo was sitting on the floor. He was leaning on a rock for support. Risa was about to start bandaging Yumi up when Yumi got up.
"I'm fine. Take care of Kyo."
Risa put her hands on her hips. "Whatever Yumi. Your boyfriend did a number on you and you have to take care of those wounds."
Yumi blushed. "He is not my boyfriend!"
"Fine, fine, ex-boyfriend. What does it matter?"
"Owww! Watch what your doing!" Kyo yelled at Ray. He then looked at Yumi. "She's got a point. It doesn't matter now. Owww! Damn it Ray!"
"Quite being a baby. Besides, you're only agreeing with Risa because your jeal….." Ray didn't finish because Kyo's fist was in his face. Risa just shook her head. She put the supplies down since Yumi wasn't going to give in. She glanced over at Kyle. They had placed him near the back of the cave. He still slept peacefully. Risa walked towards him and kept staring at him.
"You know, I can see why you fell for him. He is kinda cute."
"Don't even think about it Risa." Ray said with a glare. Yumi also glared at her. Risa put her hands up defensively.
"Okay, okay, no need to bite my head off, geez. How am I ever suppose to find a boyfriend if you disapprove of every boy I like?"
"It's my job as your brother to make sure you don't make a big mistake." Ray answered firmly.
Ray finished with Kyo and went to put the rest of the supplies in his backpack. Kyo glared at Kyle's sleeping form.
"Hmph. I don't know what you saw in him."
Yumi knew that comment was directed at her, but said nothing. Instead she sat down again. Risa walked away from Kyle and sat near her brother. They sat in silence for a bit. They were each thinking of what was ahead. Kyo broke the silence.
"We have him, so now what?"
"We have to find out who has that collar. Meanwhile, we will keep Kyle in the state he is in until we've achieved our goal. That way we can use him as bait to lure out the 'Master'." Yumi answered.
"But how do we get the 'Masters' attention if we don't know who he is? I mean we don't have much to go on. All we know is that the 'Master' has the collar and that Kyle is his weapon." Ray analyzed.
"We can always return to Makai and try to dig up some info." Kyo suggested.
"That's actually not a bad idea. Not many demons are aware that the Prince of the Western Lands is even alive. Heh, actually no one knows he's alive. It will cause a frenzy and the 'Master' is sure to turn up." Yumi said.
Risa smiled at Kyo. "Wow, you actually came up with a good idea."
Kyo simply glared at her. Risa then thought of something. "But didn't you say that there were collars made for each member of his family?"
Ray realized where Risa was going with this. "Then that means there's more than one. Right?"
Yumi rested her head in her hand. "Well……"
She didn't finish. A slight tremor went through the cave. The rocks in the cave shifted and some dirt fell from the ceiling. The tremor got worse and bigger chunks of the cave began to fall.
"Grab Kyo and Kyle and get out!" Yumi ordered them. Ray grabbed his and Kyo's backpack and helped Kyo out of the cave. Yumi grabbed her backpack and so did Risa. They then grabbed Kyle and ran out of the cave. Smoked kicked up and they waited until it cleared. Their hideout was now buried under a pile of rocks.
"WHERE THE HELL AM I!"
The demons stared at the figure that stood on top of the rubble. Ryoga looked at the people staring at him. They just stared at each other for a moment before they realized who they were.
"It's one of Kyle's friends!" Kyo exclaimed.
"You're the guys that kidnapped Kyle!" Ryoga said as he pointed an accusing finger at them.
Ray set Kyo down and wasted no time in charging at Ryoga. Realizing he was out numbered, Ryoga shot his perfect Shi Shi Hokodon into the air. He hoped that was enough of a signal to lead Ranma and the others in the right direction.
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Ranma was about to set the entire forest on fire in the hopes of smoking out Kyle's kidnappers. However, that wasn't going to be necessary.
"Look! It's Ryoga!" Mousse exclaimed as he pointed west of their direction.
"He must have located them." Cologne stated simply.
"Then what are we waiting for!" Ranma picked up Akane and took off in Ryoga's direction. The others followed close behind him.
Don't worry Kyle. We'll save ya! Ranma though as he ran.
Shampoo looked worried. It bothered her that the girl who took Kyle seemed to know him well. At least that's what she could tell from what Ranma told them. What did she want with her husband? She mentally slapped herself. No! Fang-boy is friend. He not husband. Then why did she feel this ping of jealousy? She shook her head. Those questions could be answered once they got Kyle back.
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Ray picked himself off the floor. It puzzled him that his opponent was not affected by the falling ki. That attack had flattened him, but somehow his opponent still stood. He growled and picked up a giant boulder. He hurled it at Ryoga.
"Bakusai Tenkentsu!" Ryoga smashed the rock into pieces. Ray was taken by surprise.
"Don't go easy on these humans! They're not normal!" Kyo shouted at his companion.
"Fine then. Risa, my weapon!"
Risa looked through Ray's backpack and brought out a chain with a claw attached to the end. She threw it to her brother. Rei caught his weapon and twirled the end with the claw. Ryoga gathered his spirit energy in his hand.
"Take this! Spirit Disks!"
Ray didn't move from his spot. He twirled the chain in front of him. As he did so, it gained an orange glow. The disks hit the makeshift shield. Ray turned to his companions.
"Leave! His friends are bound to show up soon. I'll catch up later."
The three looked skeptically at each other, but nodded their head. They turned to leave when the ground in front of them exploded.
"Sorry, but your not going anywhere." Ranma walked through the dust with his friends. "Give us back our friend."
Yumi wasn't sure what to do. She didn't account for this. She was too weak from fighting Kyle and Kyo was injured. Ray was busy with his own opponent and that left Risa to fight Kyle's friends.
"No. You'll have to take him from us." she got into a fighting stance. They had worked to hard to give up now. Risa and Kyo followed her lead.
"Remember, you asked for it." Ranma summoned his flames. He was going to go after Yumi when Shampoo stopped him.
"She mine." Ranma nodded in response. Shampoo charged at Yumi with her spirit claws. Risa was going to help Yumi, but was cut off by Mousse. Ranma busied himself with an injured Kyo. Ryoga stopped throwing his disks at Ray since it wasn't doing him any good. Ray stopped twirling the chain. When he did the claw glowed orange. Ray threw it towards Ryoga. He easily jumped out of it's way, but suddenly it changed directions and came at him again.
That's not good. He thought as he ran from the claw. Ray made the claw fly by Ryoga's feet, causing him to trip. The claw then came behind Ryoga and imbedded himself in his back. Ryoga screamed in pain. The chain wrapped itself around Ryoga's neck and lifted him up.
"Like my attack?" Ray asked as he came closer. "I can make it follow you by simply tracking your energy."
Ryoga would have growled had the chain not been suffocating him. The chain tightened around his neck.
"Say good-bye human!"
Ukyo appeared out of nowhere and cut the chain with her spatula. Ryoga fell to the ground gasping for air.
Ray summoned his claw back to him. Ukyo helped Ryoga up.
"You okay sugar?"
"I will be once we beat that guy."
Ukyo nodded. They charged at the Ray, who threw his claw at Ukyo. Ryoga picked up a small boulder and threw it in front of the claws path. It got stuck. Ukyo then used her spatula to throw it back to Ray. He ducked, but didn't get a chance to do anything else. Ryoga was already on him. Ryoga kicked Ray's stomach and then punched him into the ground. Before Ray could get up, Ryoga used the chain to tie him up. Ukyo and Ryoga dragged him towards the others.
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Shampoo was having a rather easy time with Yumi. Since Yumi had already fought, she was rather worn out. Yumi's movements weren't as fast and rather clumsy. Shampoo blocked a kick from Yumi and delivered her own. Yumi was kicked into a tree. She slumped to the ground. There just wasn't enough energy for her to attack. Her Miko attack were very effective against demons, but she was fighting a human. She had run out of arrows and her injuries where not helping her situation. Yumi suddenly found Shampoo's spirit claws near her neck.
"Stand." Yumi growled, but complied. She wasn't in any position to retaliate.
Mousse was having a bit of difficulty with Risa. She could create a force field that would send his attacks back at him. It took him a couple times finally realize that his Spirit Daggers weren't going to work. Instead he jumped into the air and threw out knifes from his sleeves. Risa put down her shield and dodged. Knifes, swords, chains, spears and more sharp objects came flying at her. It seemed like the barrage was never ending.
Where does he keep all those weapons? She swore she also saw a kitchen sink thrown at her. "Okay that's it! Sonic Scream!" She let out a horrible screech that created sonic waves. Mousse covered his ears.
"Ahhhhhhh! The horror!"
Risa took this opportunity to attack. She picked up the sink Mousse had thrown and smashed it over his head. Mousse laid on the ground with swirls in his eyes. Risa walked over to him with a smirk on her face.
"Well, that was ea……"
Suddenly Kyo was sent crashing into her. She laid on the ground with an unconscious Kyo on top of her.
"Oww."
Ranma went over to Mousse and helped him up. "Do you have any chains on you?"
Mousse moaned and handed Ranma the chains. Ranma tied Risa and Kyo back to back. They met by Kyle. Cologne and Akane were trying to wake him up. Ryoga, Ukyo, and Shampoo joined them with their prisoners. Yumi was tied up too and placed next to her friends. Ryoga and Mousse kept a careful eye on them. Cologne shook her head at them.
"I'm afraid we cannot release Kyle from this spell."
"Why?" Ranma asked.
Cologne pointed to the arrow. "This seems to be keeping him from waking up and keeps him attached to the log."
"So how are we going to release him?" Akane asked.
Cologne hopped over to Yumi. "You are the one who did this, yes?" Yumi nodded. "Then you can release him, correct?" Again Yumi nodded. "Will you release him?" This time she shook her head. "I thought so."
"Why you not release Fang-boy?" Shampoo asked Yumi.
"Who?"
Shampoo pointed to Kyle. Ranma was trying to pull the arrow out. However he fell back when he lost his grip. "Oh….I have my reasons and it's safer if he is sealed. No one can release him. Besides why do you care?"
Shampoo just glared at Yumi, who in return glared at her. Cologne sighed. "It's best that we return to town and figure out what to do next. At least we have retrieved Kyle."
Ranma looked at the demons. "You will give us answers once we get to the Neko Hanten. One way or another you will help us."
Ryoga picked up Rei, Risa and Kyo, while Shampoo took Yumi. Ranma and Mousse carried Kyle back to town. They hoped they could get the answers they wanted from their prisoners. By the time they had returned to town, it was already dark. Inside they placed Kyle by a wall near the stairs. Ryoga sat their prisoners on in a row in front of Kyle. They each took a seat near their sleeping friend. Ranma sat down and looked at Yumi.
"Before we ask you to release Kyle again, I want to know how you know him and more importantly: who is Kyle?" he asked.
Risa, Ray, and Kyo looked at Yumi. She looked at the ground. "I will answer your questions, but I'm not guaranteeing his release."
Ranma nodded. "Are you sure about this Ran-chan?" Ukyo said a little worried.
"Yeah, this has been bothering me since Yumi told her little story to Kyle. I need to know what's going on."
The others nodded, now curious about what was going on. Yumi took this as her signal to begin.
"Fine then. I will tell you. My name is Yumi. I'm Kyle's ex-girlfriend."
Everyone's eyes widened. They shifted their gaze to Shampoo who had an unreadable expression. This was going to be a long night.
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Kyle: I'm not getting paid enough for this...wait I'm not even getting paid! Get out here DT and do your job!
Kyle drags DT out of her room.
DT: Okay, okay, let go already! I would like apologize ahead of time for any grammar/ spelling errors. I got rushed to finish it at the end cause it was getting late. So hope you enjoyed it and remember to review. Oh and if you have any question feel free to ask and I will answer them in the next chapter. Later!