Ch 7: Argindras The Annihilator Part 2 (again, SHUT UP bout the horrible chapter name)

Chris woke up the next morning at 9:30 to Setsuka's smiling face from his door, "Chris! Glad your up, Patty's made us a great breakfast! You wouldn't believe what they stock in these fridges!"

"Great, I'll be right up." He replied, as she closed the door behind her. He got dressed, walked out his door and was greeted by the smell of eggs and the sound of sizzling sausages.

"Morning Chris, sleep well?" Kurama asked from behind a newspaper and a mug of coffee.

"Yea, the bed is really comfy, much nicer than my old bed." He replied

"Heh, yea Chris's only got a stinky little single bed, very uncomfortable too, how do you survive on that? It's like sleeping on a bed of nails." Setsuka joked

"I've got calluses all up my back and down my butt okay?" he replied also joking

"Ok, well passing over your butt. Are you ready for breakfast?" Patty asked

"Um… sure yea…" Chris said quietly looking embarrassed. They ate for a while talking.

"… So I was looking all over for it when my friend told me that it was on my head!" Setsuka finished

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" everyone laughed, "Nice Setsuka, I had no idea how clueless you could get," Chris said happily, "hey, speaking of clueless, I forgot, we never found anything out about this Argindras character."

"Yea I know, so last night I did some research before bed, it seems like he has been spotted wearing a burly human body, African, a red hoodie, and a pair of khakis, so he sort of stands out… we also got some spirit world data on him, apparently he regenerates, so we have to get him in this special containment field and destroy him completely," Kurama said while holding up what looked like a clear dome with a screws in it. "He's pure muscle, so he's very strong, his skin is like steel and his grip is like a vice, so we're going to use what he doesn't have against him, spirit energy."

"He's been seen about 1 and a half hours north of here; we'll be taking a special limo that Koenma arranged for us. It's faster than normal, so we'll be there in about an hour instead. We'll be leaving in fifteen minutes, so get your gear and we'll go." Patty said. They got their stuff, Setsuka; her racket and balls, Patty; her white rose, and Kurama; his rose. And they got into the limo.

"Wow! What a luxurious limo, it's so roomy and very comfy!" Setsuka said happily crawling in.

"Yea I agree, I could fall asleep in here easily!" Chris said, coming in and laying down at the far end of the seat.

"Heh, just like a kid," Kurama said coming in and sitting down with Patty next to him. They took off, the journey was so smooth that Chris fell asleep almost immediately drooling lightly onto the cushion.

"Awww, that's so cute!" Setsuka said watching him.

"Yea, cute…" Patty said, slightly repulsed, "well I guess you would think it's cute,"

"What does that mean? What do you mean I would think it's cute? It is! He looks just like a little kid!" she replied

"What do you think it means? Listen to your heart, what is it telling you?" patty said with a sly smile,

"Well… it's… I'm…" she stuttered

"Don't worry he's asleep and your secret is safe with us, what do you feel about him?"

"Well, you probably already know I really like him; he's so nice, and funny. He's always putting his life on the line for me, I know he cares about me, but does he like me? I don't know what to think, my heart is telling me to go on but my mind is telling me that he's just going to hurt me, like all my previous crushes have. A few weeks or so ago, I broke one of my biggest rules by kissing him, I think I'm falling in love with him, but, I don't want to be hurt, so I usually closed myself off... I don't know what to do!"

"Well Setsuka, kids can be cruel at times and I understand you not wanting to open up to anyone like that, but sometime, someone special is going to wriggle his way past your defenses, and is going to make you fall in love all over again, I know, it happened to me, and now I'm married to him. So, I would say, go, open up to him, if he loves you like you love him, he'll stand with you for a very, very long time." Patty said reassuringly. Chris stirred five minutes later and they kept the short conversation quiet for the rest of the trip, in which Chris discovered a much more sentimental Setsuka and a smirking Patty looking at them. They arrived at their destination, the limo dropping them off at a random street corner.

"Ok, so... where do we start?" Chris asked after looking around

"Let's go… this way." Kurama replied they walked for about fifteen minutes, asking around for a very muscular man, they got no leads until…

"Yea, I saw him, he looked huge and really scary so you can't miss him, he went into there." A man said pointing at an apartment building.

"Thanks, ok guys lets go" Patty said to the man. They walked into the apartment building, asked at the desk about the man, and went up to the floor the bellhop had told them. They knocked on the door, and braced for the worst.

"GO AWAY!" a deep voice said from behind the door.

"Spirit detective! Open up!" Patty said.

"Aha, so Koenma finally sent someone to find me eh? Took him long enough. Can't say that he was very wise for it, well… I'm in a good mood. I'll give you the chance to run away from here, and not return." The voice they identified as Argindras replied.

"Ooh, he's infuriating!" Kurama said angrily "let's break down the door!"

"Haha! That's what I'm talking about!" Chris said happily and got ready to storm the apartment,

"Allow me," Setsuka said, holding out her racket which was glowing red "HYYYAH!" she yelled, smashing the door down.

"niiice." Chris said.

"What have you done… TO MY DOOR!" A huge black man yelled from beyond the wreckage of the door.

"We gave you an option to turn yourself in peacefully, but since you didn't oblige, we had to break your door down. So come with us now, or we'll just take you by force." Kurama said to the man, not daunted by the gargantuan form before them.

"Holy Happy-Harpies-on-a-stick! He's huge! He looks like he's been taking steroids with a side of elephant hormones and more 'roids!" Chris exclaimed

"He's certainly been eating his Wheaties©©©®©©®®©®©®©®©®©®©®© ®©®©®©®©®©®©®©®©®©®©®" Patty said

"Yea, umm….. I got nothing, can we just get to the fighting!" Setsuka said impatiently (author's note: I'm in a weird mood today so just bare with me eh?)

"I am going to rip you all apart limb from limb and feed your carcasses to my HOUNDS!" Argindras yelled "YAGALAGALAGALAAAAAG!" the demon screamed at them and rushed like a thousand barreling freight trains.

"Whoa heads up!" Patty yelled and jumped out of the way like everyone else. Argindras missed but demolished the wall across the way from his door.

"Buh?" the man in the bathtub behind the wall simply said, ignoring the entire thing.

"Okay?" Chris said to the others, finishing up a plan.

"Right." The rest said, and commenced the plan. First of all Chris caught Argindras's attention by throwing a molten firebolt at him. Once Argindras snarled at that Kurama and Patty took their roses and simultaneously transformed them into whips the fragrant scent filling up the small hallway. They whipped at Argindras relentlessly, whose steel-like skin only received cuts and bruises, but the force of their attack drove him back into the apartment nonetheless. When he was back in his apartment, Chris joined in the assault, hurling all he had at Argindras who was still being assailed by Patty and Kurama, when he had been sufficiently pushed back Setsuka commenced with her turn in the plan, he was placed correctly so she ran up, powered up her racket and smashed the huge form through the window and on to the crowded street below, now maybe in New York the appearance of some giant guy flying out of a window followed by four people, two with roses, one with a racket, and one holding a lot of fire might be a normal sight but in Osaka, it was very unusual. So you would think that lots of people would start screaming and running and hoarding around the subway stations and driving far, far away. And that is exactly what they did. As Argindras plummeted, the people on the street started running away, and screaming, and hoarding around the subway stations, and driving far, far away, leaving the street empty as Simon Cowell's heart. (Yea still in a weird mood…) so. MOVING ON.

Argindras hit the pavement below hard, so hard in fact, that it cracked and pieces flew everywhere. Patty, Setsuka, Kurama, and Chris jumped out after him, ignoring the drop and landing nimbly next to Argindras.

"HAHAHAHAHHAHAA! You think you hurt me with that! That was bugs and wind, followed by a gentle fall off a 30 story building!" Argindras laughed at them,

"What? That didn't even faze him! No wonder he is a class SS demon. I think it's time for a change of plan, hold this for me honey, you can do better with two roses than I can with one." Patty said handing Kurama her Rose Whip, and taking off her earrings.

"What are those going to do?" Chris asked

"Just watch. She knows what she's doing" Kurama said. The earrings suddenly grew thirty times bigger and turned into a… "A spear…" Setsuka said in awe.

"Yes, a spear, you see these earrings aren't normal earrings they morph into whatever weapon I want. Special from Koenma, it works only for me, so… yea just watch" she said back and took the spear and threw it straight at Argindras,

"AH! That one pierced the skin! Smart little girl knows how to hurt" he said and tried to pull the spear out "wha? Oh great, this is imbued with Spirit Energy isn't it?"

"Yep! And that means that you can't pull it out like that, only I can pull it out, so give it here" she replied and yanked the spear out, transforming it into a heavy battleaxe. "Here we go, now I can really deal some damage, are you guys going to help me or not!" patty yelled at them. They snapped out of their reverie and started attacking Argindras in their own ways respectively. Argindras didn't take this laying down though, because he had stood up while Patty was transforming her spear. He wasn't going to take this either, he dodged a would-be critical smash from Patty's axe and caught Kurama's whips, wrapping them around his hands, he pulled Kurama in and punched him hard on the face, Kurama was knocked out almost instantly,

"KURAMA!" Patty yelled in distress,

"Oh I'm sorry miss, did I hit a soft spot?" Argindras asked in mock concern, then grabbed the whips again and smashed Kurama's limp body into Setsuka and Chris who were still pelting him. They too were knocked out instantly and Argindras threw their bodies with Kurama's against a nearby wall.

"I'm going to make you pay for that, I won't let you leave alive!" she yelled and brought the battleaxe down hard on Argindras's arm, which severed under the blow instantly.

"Whoa? I wasn't expecting that kind of force, oh well time to do what I do best." He said in surprise. He stood in ready, grabbed the arm lying on the ground, absorbed it into his hand and it sprouted back out of his arm,

"Wha? Oh yea, he regenerates, oh well, just got to try harder." She said to herself. She started lobbing away at Argindras who just dodged around her strikes, and when he did get hurt he just regenerated what he had lost.

"I'm getting tired of this, girl. Time to put it into high gear." He said, punching at the oncoming axe, smashing it out of her grip.

"Ah!" Patty yelled her arm stinging from her axe being smashed out of her hands. She tried to make a break for the axe, which had lodged itself into a streetlight which was currently malfunctioning, turning blue with purple spots, but halted when Argindras jumped in front of her. He commenced in attacking her, each punch feeling like a truck hitting her. She soon found that she could not block forever, one particularly vicious blow knocking her off balance, which he took advantage of, and smashed her into a wall. She crumpled upon impact, so he walked over picked her up by the neck, and threw her into Chris, Setsuka, and Kurama.

"agh." She said weakly.

"Patty, are you okay?" Kurama whispered

"Kurama!"

"Shh! Just listen, use, the arrow okay? I'll get him into the containment field. You get ready to shoot it okay? That should destroy him,"

"Right."

"What's this! Talking to yourself? I must say, you have more fortitude than the others, but I promise, I'll try to make it hurt as much as possible. WAHAHAHAHA" Argindras said then picked her up and threw her into the barrels that I just made appear for necessity, the barrels making a loud crash, so loud in fact that Argindras didn't notice a certain demon fox sneaking into the nearest building.

"What's this? Getting tired already? Well I guess I've been having too much fun, I'll finish you now!" he said as she was standing in a certain stance, a stance that countless demons could tell Argindras meant doom. And she smiled to herself knowing that he would be very, VERY sorry about taunting her, her friends, and her husband like that.

"Fine, if you won't talk I'll just throw you over with your little friends! Both of them! Wait a second… one, two… WHERE'S THE FRUITY ONE!"

"Fruity? Excuse me! I am not gay!" Kurama yelled from above him on the second story of the building he had walked into. Kurama jumped and fell down onto Argindras and trapped him into the containment field. When this had happened he jumped away and left the stage to patty, who held back her hand which was glowing pure white.

"TAKE THIS! SPIRIT ARROW!" Patty yelled and unleashed the bolt of pure spirit energy, demon energy, and chakra onto the lumbering demon, who literally vaporized, no trace was left behind, he just disappeared completely.

"Good work honey!" Kurama exclaimed, ran over, and kissed Patty.

"Thanks, he really deserved that didn't he?" she replied kissing him back

"Yes I can say he honestly did."

"Now, where are the kids?"

"I left them over there while I snuck away" he said pointing to Setsuka and Chris, Setsuka's head laid on Chris's lap both of them gently snoozing.

"Awww, that's so cute, come on kids, wake up," she said shaking Chris and Setsuka.

"Whadwemiss?" Chris slurred out.

"Just the entire fight, now come on we have to make sure Argindras is dead." She replied. They spent the rest of the day, cleaning Argindras's ashes up by burning them, (burning ashes? Logical? I dunno shutup.) They finished, and went home to sleep but they missed the one small piece hanging into the sewers the one small piece that would soon start pulsing and regenerating back into Argindras except for Chris, who found the piece and destroyed it on sight. But not even Chris found the piece in the sliding door next to the battle sight, no Chris didn't find that one, Setsuka did, and she brought it to Chris who burned it. They went to sleep and boarded the train the next day.

On the train they found their compartment and closed the door.

"Ah, that was a tough fight." Chris said sighing.

"You didn't even do anything!" Setsuka said

"Neither did you!" Chris retorted

"Hold that thought!" Setsuka said and ran to the bathroom.

"Okay, well now that she's gone we need to talk to you" Patty said,

"About what"

"About the girl that just ran for the Lu'"

"You want to talk about Setsuka? Why? (Wow. He's really hardheaded eh?)

"We want to talk about your heart, Chris, what do you feel about her?"

"I, I feel warm inside when I see her. When she's happy I'm always happy, I wouldn't let anyone hurt her. Ever. Why do you ask?"

"I thought so. You love her don't you?"

"Umm… I'm not really sure…" (What! HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET?)

"Its an easy question, what does your heart say?"

"Yes, my heart is telling me that I want to be with her forever I do love her."

"And what would you do if someone prettier came along?"

"There's no such person, she is the most beautiful person I have ever seen, and what are you saying? I would NEVER cheat on her, but I don't know if she likes me back… I don't want to make a move if I'm going to be rejected…"

"Oh I don't think you need worry about that, call it woman's instinct. But I think she shares the same feeling towards you as you do towards her, so go for it."

"Are you sure?" (What are you talking about? She only kissed you! Doesn't that give you a clue!)

"Yes I'm sure and speak of the devil" Patty concluded as Setsuka came walking in.

"Hey guys what were you talking about?" she said cheerily as she walked in.

"Just talking." Patty said. And they continued 'just talking' until the train stopped in the station, where Setsuka and Chris bade Patty and Kurama goodbye, and started walking home, but not before Patty told Setsuka "you're clear, he feels the same about you." On the way back home, Chris could notice Setsuka being very, very joyful to Chris, and he was starting to think that Patty was right. (DUH!) So he started devising a plan to ask her out. He left her (disappointed I might add) at her house, and thought about it for a long time after he got home and got into bed (It's not like It's a marriage proposal ya know?)

END OF CHAPTER 7 (sorry about the weirdness and the weird subtitles in the chapter, I was in a really weird mood today, so I'm ready to go back to being serious,) next chapter, you see the hardest case that the kids will take on (until the next case) this! Is why Setsuka was in critical condition when the story came in, so TUNE IN!