Do I really have to spell it out? I-D-O-N-T-O-W-N-Y-U-Y-U-H-A-K-U-S-H-O
Ch.6
By the time they got to the park it was very late. It was still very humid even though the sky was so clear. It almost felt like you were swimming rather than walking. It only took a minuet for the group to figure out that they weren't alone.
"Yami," Jamie yelled as she ran over to the other girl and hugged her. "What are you doing here?"
After being released, and regaining the ability to breath, Yami answered. "We're all here," and so they were. Behind her stood Elizabeth, Aryn, Travis, Jordan, and Mike, along with Yami's boyfriend Seth and a girl named Cristian. Seth was a rather tall, lanky boy with a mop of brown hair and bright, kind grey eyes. Cristian on the other hand had midnight dark skin and matching dark eyes and hair, which currently hung in a bunch of braids down her back. Despite looks she was a friendly girl, a bit crazy at times, with a spiritual look at life.
"Everyone except Jordan was handing out at Mike's house and we decided to go for a walk, obviously we met Jordan on the way here," Yami put in before Jamie had a chance to ask. "Who are those other people with you?"
Jamie looked back at the group she had come with for a minuet before realizing the problem. "Oh, right you've never met them. I've told you about my friends from Karate, right? Well this is Erika, Stephanie, Jessica, and Sam," she explained as she pointed to each one individually.
"Great! The more the merrier!" Mike shouted not startling anyone because they all expected it. All except the Karate group that is.
"After awhile of get-to-know-each-other conversation, the group decided to just walk around the field. They walked until they hit the baseball field, then Sam just suddenly stopped.
"Sam what's a matter?" Stephanie asked worriedly. The whole group stopped to look at the girl.
"Maybe we should just go around." Sam suggested. "This place doesn't feel right. At that point Jessica bounded over to help out.
"There's nothing wrong it's just a field, come on." At that she grabbed the other girls arm and pulled her towards the rest of the group.
"So, how much you wanna bet they pull something tonight." Yusuke whispered even though it was pointless sense the humans couldn't here any of them in their ghost forms.
"There is a strong energy hanging about this field, they are planning to attack. I suggest that we return to our physical forms," Kurama suggested. There was a group 'abides' and they all landed safely behind a bush about a hundred feet away from their targets.
"Is this field muddy or is it just me?" Mike yelled as they walked across the field. For some reason every time he put his foot down, it stuck, making him have to forcefully pull it up. This of course made him look very peculiar.
"It's hot as hell out here, it can't be muddy. But I'm having trouble walking too." Travis called back. Actually the entire group was having the same problem. Suddenly the entire field started to glow with an eerie purple light, so bright that everyone had to shut their eyes. Once the glowing stopped, and everyone could see, no one was able to move their legs at all. Before anyone had time to react to this, a group of about twenty demons or so appeared in front of the kids.
"Shot Gun!" someone called. There was another blinding flash of light but when this one subsided all that was left of the demons was a smoldering pile of ash.
"What the hell!" Travis shouted.
"Oh my god," Stephanie yelled as she pointed accost the field. Everyone looked to see the Reiki Tantei running towards them. When they got there Kurama was the first to speak.
"Are you all ok?"
"Oh, yeah, there's just that tinny problem that I can't move my legs!" Arynretorted her voice came out a little harsher than she meant, but everyone knew she meant well.
"Oh, yes that might be a problem," the fox responded calmly. He looked at the small fire demon standing next to him. "Hiei?"
"My Jagan was meant to make curses, not break them." He replied curtly. However he untied his headband and, opening his Jagan eye, started working on breaking the curse that held them.
"So, you're probably all wondering what the hell is going on. Right?" Yusuke addressed the group.
"Of course we are. You're the Spirit Detective…people, but why are you here?" Mike, who was the closet one to the newcomers, asked.
"They're called the Reiki Tantei, Mike," Jamie responded. She was standing next to Mike.
"Of course you would know," he shot at her, although the remark was friendly. "You're like completely obsessed with the show." Then to Jamie's horror he continued. "Hey Kurama, you and Jamie here should hook up some time, 'cause she…aaaagh!" At that point Jamie had slapped her hands over his mouth and successfully managed to slam his head into the ground, even with her legs stuck as they were.
Before anyone could say anything else, the ground started to shake. Several large cracks appeared in the ground and wave after wave of minor demons stampeded out of them, completely flooding the field. They were gnarled little creatures, looking similar to the Fugaki, but the worst was the smell. They smelled like rotting flesh and blood. Like the fleeting sense of a nightmare right before you wake up.
"Hiei, are those kids free yet," Kurama called. Hiei's response was barely audible above the noise.
"No, somehow this barrier seems to be resisting my eye. I can't get through it." However this soon became the least of their problems as several large beams of light shot down from the sky.
Appearing out of the light came several enormous demons. They weren't very powerful but they were big. As tall as trees and limbs as round as tree trunks, they could easily hold a couple of humans in each hand. And it looked like that just might be their very purpose.
"The army of demons was completely surrounding both the humans and the Reiki Tantei, and was quickly moving to try and separate the two groups. The demons themselves were not hard to kill, even Botan could smack them around with her oar, but with so many it would take a long time to cut through them all. And time was not something they had a lot of. The demons were successfully cutting the Reiki Tantei off from the humans and, with the vast numbers, there was not a thing they could do about it. They tried there best to get back to the kids but they couldn't turn their backs to the larger demons that were waiting to strike.
Kuwabara swung his sword through a line of demons that were trying to cut him off from the others. "This is just like the veggie heads at maze castle!"
"And the Fugaki," Yusuke called back to him. "No matter how many you cut down they just keep coming!"
The large demons walked around the edge of the mayhem to where the humans were trapped. Two of them picked up a couple of children in each hand and started to head back to the beams of light.
Kurama, who had just managed to cut a small pass through the army of invading demons, rushed to try and stop them. He sent a spurt of energy through the ground, missing the first one but impaling the second with dozens of razor sharp bamboo shoots. However the demon he missed managed to get to a nearby beam and instantly disappeared, taking the humans with him. But Kurama didn't have time t worry about this. The remaining demons scurried to pick up the humans that their fallen comrade had dropped. Kurama was determined to save the remaining humans, but unfortunately the horde of demons by now had realized that he had escaped their clutches and quickly moved to correct the problem by putting themselves between him and the humans. As Kurama fought his way through them he watched as one by one the humans were dragged into the light and disappeared.
By the time he managed to get through the annoying demons there was only one girl left. She was just a foot away from the beam, so close to disappearing. He managed to reach her and grabbed onto her hand. She looked up at him and when he met her eyes he froze.
What's wrong with me, he thought, I'm in the middle of an all out war and I'm just standing here like as idiot starring at her. He was transfixed. So much so that he didn't notice the minor demon sneaking up behind her until it was too late. The demon pounced and Kurama knew that he couldn't react in time to stop it. To his utter shock, the girl swung around and kicked it in the head, decapitating it, and killing it instantly.
"Wow," was all he could manage to say before he brought his whip down on more attacking demons. She was clinging onto his hand for dear life but, while his attention was drawn away to the attackers, a larger demon grabbed her and dragged her into the light. Kurama tried to hold onto her but she disappeared between his fingers.
As soon as all the humans were through, the demons fled back into the cracks in the ground, which instantly sealed back up, leaving no trace of the previous events. Even the bodies of the dead demons had disappeared. The group ran over to Kurama who was kneeling in front of where the light used to be.
"Kurama!" Yusuke called. "What happened?" There was a long silence as they waited for Kurama to respond.
"They're gone," he finally said. "They took all of them, I failed to stop them." No one needed to ask what he meant by that, but they also didn't know what to say. Hiei walked over to where the beam of light used to be and put his hand on the ground, Jagan wide open and glowing.
"Hiei?" Botan asked curious.
"There are still remnants of a portal here," came his swift reply.
"Can you trace it?" they all asked hopefully. There was a long suspenseful silence as, Hiei concentrated, where everyone held their breath, and Kurama stood up, waiting for Hiei's answer.
"Yes," the whole group let out a breath, "And their in a nasty part of Demon World."
"Well then, let's go to demon world" Yusuke yelled, slightly more cheerful now. "All is not lost; we can still get them back."
"If they're still alive that is" Kuwabara put in. Everyone except the two demons stiffened in horror.
"Don't be stupid, they wouldn't kill them." Hiei corrected him, and everyone relaxed. "After going through so muck trouble to kidnap them do you really think they would just kill them? No, they wouldn't." There was another long silence as no one knew what to do next.
"I think we need to contact Koenma," Botan stated as she clicked open her communication mirror.
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