Chapter four really kinda long! Now we get the first taste of action (since we already got some romance) so enjoy and plz leave reviews! Oh! P.S I'm not gunna be able to write for a while cause this is exam week, so It'll be delayed,

Ch 4. Case the first, Anini and the Scythe of Chaos.

Chris awoke the next morning, assuming it was all a dream, because well would you believe all that happened in the previous night, he thought about it for a few minutes, and dismissed it, and that it was entirely just a whim of his imagination, I mean, would Setsuka really want to kiss him? No, it was too good to be true. He thought a few minutes in his bed when a voice downstairs awoke him from his reverie,

"Chris, you have a guest!" his mother called from downstairs. Chris assumed it was Setsuka again, and stood up, threw on some clothes, and went down. When he got to the bottom of the stairs he was shocked and thrilled to find Botan sitting in his living room.

"Botan? What are you doing here?"

"Didn't I tell you yesterday? Ah I get it, you thought it was a dream didn't you? Well as you can see its not. And I have your first case here. I checked in with Setsuka, and she's still sleeping. So why don't you get yourself something to eat. I'll wait here, and when your done we can get her. Ok?"

"Yea, ok here's the remote to the TV." He said grabbing the remote and giving it to her. "I'll be in the kitchen"

"Ok," she said as he walked off. When Chris was in the kitchen his mom asked scrutinizing him "Who is she? You're not cheating on Setsuka are you?"

"What? No! And besides we're not even together!" he said affronted.

"Ok, well I'm watching you; I don't want you to hurt that sweet little girl."

He grabbed some cereal brought it to the table and ate it quickly. When he went back into the living room Botan was watching the news, without even looking she asked "did you know that cloning could be used to help save endangered species?"

"Um… no, no I didn't."

"Well nevertheless, I trust you had a good breakfast? Good, now let's head over to Setsuka's house." She said leading the way out of the door. When they arrived at Setsuka's house her mom let Chris in without question but hesitated when it came to Botan. "Who are you?" she asked suspiciously,

"Oh Mrs. Mishiyiru, this is Botan, she's new at school, she's a good friend of mine and Setsuka's," he explained quickly.

"Oh… ok" she said suspiciously but let her in nonetheless.

"Oh Chris! Botan! How are both of you?" Setsuka said happily coming down stairs in her bedclothes.

"Hey Setsuka! I see you slept in late, as usual." Chris said jokingly

"Hi Setsuka, I have your assignment right here." Botan said pointing to an envelope she conjured out of thin air.

"Great let me get ready, I'll be right down." She said running back upstairs, Botan and Chris waited 10 minutes until Setsuka ran back downstairs in jeans and a blue t-shirt and a sweater.

"Ok Botan, what's our first case?" Chris asked while they were walking towards the local park.

"I was planning on giving you easy cases generally getting harder, but the severity of the situation at hand prevents me from doing that, you see a vicious demon named Anini, has stolen a Scythe from the spirit world museum of artifacts, the Scythe of Chaos is a powerful artifact from ancient Egypt, it has the power to drain the spiritual life force from a human in just a few seconds, combined with Anini's ability to drain the physical strength, he has the potential to completely obliterate humans, so you see how important it is that we stop him. I also have this equipment for you, standard spirit detective gear, first this," she said while handing them watches

"Watches?" Chris asked staring at the wristwatch.

"not just watches, demon seeking watches. They hone in on the demon's signature aura." Botan explained "they draw from your spirit energy, if your spirit energy is high, the range is high, go on try it out."

"Ok, lets see, I just press this button here right? Ah there it is, it says that there's a demon five miles east of here, do you think its Anini, Botan?" Setsuka asked.

"hmm, let me see, yes I think it is, the signal seems strong, I guess we better get going, I'm coming with you just in case." She answered.

"Ok, well let's go." Chris said, leading the way. They walked for a little over a half-hour when they finally came to the origin of the signal, a factory.

"This place is creepy" Setsuka commented, walking towards the entrance.

"Yea… the lights are on inside, there might be workers in here." Chris said. They walked cautiously inside, and beheld a gruesome sight; white coats lied everywhere, a trail leading up to two figures, one was flailing around screaming, while the other was holding the first up, a scythe in his hand, glowing bright. They watched in horror, as the scythe grew bright and the figure, literally crumbled into dust and fell to the floor, leaving his clothes behind…

"Ah! That feels good, this scythe is amazing, I can't kill someone just by taking their strength… no I would have to attack them and get all bloody, and then there's the fact that I need to find a place to put the body, but this scythe can take the life force, while I take the strength, leaving… NOTHING! But you already knew that didn't you Botan. Who are these two whelps, new lackeys? You know they can't beat me, I mean, Yusuke only won by chance, how do you think these new recruits can fare against me! I'll give them… 15 seconds, HAHAHA!" Anini said, particularly drawling out the laugh at the end.

"Ok. Chris, Setsuka, everyone is counting on you to take this guy down, be careful, just because that scythe can steal life force, doesn't mean it cant cut you in two, so avoid it at all costs."

"Got it." Chris said simply, getting ready for a really tough fight.

Without warning, Anini charged. Before Chris knew it, the butt of the scythe smashed into his chest, knocking the wind out of him. Chris caught his breath, and then retaliated by rushing Anini, summoning the wind to remove the scythe from Anini's possession, it worked, but not without consequence, "argh! I had no idea it would take that much energy to do something as simple as disarming him," Chris said panting,

"I told you Chris! You need to be conservative until you improve your energy! Just remember that it's harder to do something 30 feet away than it is to do it point blank!"

"Ok, will do Botan," Chris said still panting, "ugh! I'm going to need to recover a little before I continue, but how will I distract him? Now let's see… Setsuka! What are you doing!" he said aghast when she went rushing with a tennis racket and ball in her hand.

"I'm spirit detective too! I can't let you have all the fun, and besides, don't worry about me, I can take care of myself." Setsuka yelled confidently back to him.

"Be careful…" Chris said quietly. She ran up and powered up a shot, it glowing a bright red before she shot it into Anini's face, his eyes flashing in surprise right before it hit him. He bend backwards as he tried to reduce the amount of damage it did to him, Setsuka thought she had really done some damage to him until… "Ha…haha…HAHAHA!" he laughed as she watched in horror, "you actually think you can hurt me with a wimpy shot like that! Not a chance! To me that felt like a slight breeze hitting me! Your stupid little tennis ball can't hurt me!"

"Damn," Setsuka said to herself, "I could have sworn that would have done the trick," she was still scolding herself so harshly, that she didn't see the looming shadow of Anini hovering over her. "AH!" she screamed as his right fist caught her face, knocking him into a pile of crates, but he didn't stop there, he walked slowly up to the crates, with an insane grin on his face and started pummeling her mercilessly when suddenly a bright blast of fire hit him off guard from the left, "hey, did you forget about me?" Chris said, "that's gunna cost you, now that I'm closer, I'm not holding back," and with that, he inflicted an endless barrage of lightning, fire, and white bolts that appeared to be pure light.

"ah… ow… enough… stop… I SAID ENOUGH!" Anini roared, " I would have NEVER thought that two little insignificant insects, would cause me to reveal my true form. I was going to kill you swiftly then sap your life and strength from your bodies. But now… I'm going to draw it out as long as possible, making you endure such excruciating agony that you will BEG for me to kill you." Without thinking Chris stepped in front of Setsuka. "aha, now I see, I think ill torture one of you to the brink of death, forcing the other to watch, yes… that'll be nice… Now, you've called down the thunder now you shall reap the whirlwind." He raged at them. And then, his body started to change, the human skin melted away, the worker's uniform disintegrated. And then emerged a whole new horror. His hair was like eerie flame, the bright green strands dancing upon his head, his skin was a horrible blood red. His eyes burned with an insane desire for bloodshed, but no matter how bad the head was, the body was 10 times worse, from his back emerged four liquid like tentacles, two of which whipped out to retrieve the scythe, the other two seemingly sniffing at the air, his body was a grotesque mess, scars and blood stained his entire lower body.

"Haha… its been a while since I shed that skin," he said flexing his arms and tentacles.

"Chris! Setsuka! Watch out! With a human disguise on those tentacles cant reach his victims, they drain spirit energy, good lord, you have a really tough fight on your hands." Botan yelled.

"Gotcha. Wait a sec. doesn't the scythe steal spirit energy though?" Chris asked.

"No! The scythe steals life energy, the tentacles steal spirit energy, there's a difference.

"Ok, ok well Setsuka, you thinking of a double team?"

"Sure, lets go, on three, one, two, NOW!" She yelled

"Huh?" Anini said stupidly, apparently having forgotten completely about Chris, Setsuka, and Botan, absorbed in making sure every part of him was working right. "ahg!" he yelled as a new salvo of glowing tennis balls, fire, and lightning assaulted him. Apparently this new wave was doing the trick, he was slowly but surely recoiling in pain, no, something was wrong, it wasn't pain, it was just… surprise. "no… it won't be enough, I should have known, its not enough, they aren't powerful enough." Botan said in horror.

"Wait, wait hold up Setsuka, I'm getting really tired, this is taking up all my energy." Chris said,

"Not me, but then again I have more latent energy than you. Do you think it did anything to him?"

"Well, hah, I'm not ,hah, really sure, hah, he seems really strong, hah," Chris said panting hard.

"The child isn't so stupid after all; he realizes when he's been beat." Anini said gutturally out of his new mouth.

"Beat? No not beat, just set back a little, rest assured, we will find a way to take you down." Chris said assertively.

"what!" Anini said clearly stunned. "how dare you… I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS" he yelled as he rushed scythe tentacles and all straight at them.

END OF CHAPTER FOUR. Will they make it out? Who knows, BESIDES ME! HA! You'll just have to wait until the end of the week, (exams ya know? Gotta study)