SailorStar9: Wow, and another chapter goes up. This is Chapter 37. Read and review.
Disclaimers: YYH, Magic Knight Rayearth and Sailor Moon aren't mine.
Chapter Summary: With no thought to their own safety, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei charge deep into the tunnel in an effort to rid all worlds of Sensui forever. Meanwhile, King Yama's soldiers arrive to take Yusuke's body away to ensure he is never revived. As Koenma does his best to stop them, help arrives on the horizon in a very different form.
Chapter 37: Waking the Lost
Back in the human world, Keiko noticed that Puu was not moving.
"Wake up Puu!" she shouted, trying to shake the Spirit Beast awake.
"Shizuru…" Keiko gasped.
Then, Puu started emitting a bright light that forced the two girls shield their eyes.
In a flash, Puu had taken off into the night sky in a burst of light.
Back in the cave, Koenma knelt beside Yusuke's body and frowned.
"That's strange, why isn't Yusuke's spirit emerging? His heart has definitely stopped beating." he remarked.
"Could it be that he isn't dead?" Mitarai pointed out.
"No, he's already dead." Koenma objected.
His attention was turned when Koenma noticed something.
"Now what?" Mitarai asked.
"The Spirit World's Special Forces." Koenma gasped.
Turning to three of his team, Captain Otake ordered three of them to close the tunnel entrance; other three were to patrol the barrier so no demons came through.
Otake then turned to Koenma, wanting him to go back to Reikai; those are Enma-daiou's orders.
Koenma refused.
Otake suggested that Koenma would see things he would not want to see if he stayed on, to which Koenma demanded an explanation.
Otake remembered Enma's instructions "I'll have to take harsh measures to maintain the peace. Terminate Yusuke Urameshi immediately!"
Otake protested, since Urameshi had always honored his job as a Reikai Tantei, but King Enma said that through Yusuke's veins ranthe blood of the Demon Clan.
Koenma argued that Yusuke could be an Demon Clan descendant since his parents were humans.
Otake agreed, adding that Yusuke's grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents were humans as well.
Koenma abruptly understood what Otake meant and gasped in shock: "Demon Clan from a remote era!"
Otake nodded "Only the A or higher-class demons are capable of performing such mating."
It was later explained that Atavism was a phenomenon that occurs when genes from a person were not passed to the immediate descendant, but to a remote one (to a grandchild instead of the son or daughter, for example). When it came to genes from a very powerful demon, the genes can be 'dormant' for many generations; that means that if an A or S-class demon conceived with a human, this child would not have an 'active' demonic gene, but a distant descendant would. It was later noted that, "This kind of mating can be done deliberately."
Otake went on "When Yusuke died the first time, he wasn't prepared to be reborn as an Demon being yet. On that occasion, his origins weren't revealed. When we resurrected him as a Reikai Tantei, we were contributing to this new change."
Enma-daiou had found out about Urameshi's origins during the events that preceded the opening of the tunnel to Makai.
Now the King of Reikai feared that Yusuke would become a threat as dangerous as Sensui.
"Forty-four generations ago, when there was no barrier between the worlds, the Demon Clan implanted a terrifying force in mankind," Otake revealed. "This force resides inside Yusuke's body!"
Mitarai tried to defend Yusuke, saying he fought hard for Reikai and Ningenkai; if he's dead he deserved a dignified funeral; if he's not, executing him would be a barbaric act. One of the Boueitai hit him with a ki charge to silence him.
Mitarai passed out.
Koenma argued that Reikai was responsible for Yusuke's transformation into Tantei, hence into whatever he would become now; he also reminded Otake that Yusuke's friends were fighting Sensui on that very moment.
Apologizing for his rudeness, Otake hits Koenma with a ki charge; the Prince of Reikai did not faint, but he was too weak to stand now.
All of a sudden, Yusuke's body as surrounded by a coral-colored light and started to levitate; he was about to wake up.
All the six Boueitai in the cave aimed their ki charges against Urameshi, in order to kill him before he awoke.
However, a giant bird came swooping down from a hole on the top of the cave and protected Yusuke with its body. A grown-up Puu is in the house.
The Boueitai fired, to Koenma's despair.
They kept firing, but the soldiers soon lost their strength.
Meanwhile, Icy's star seed hovered over her body.
It's time. Kekkai told his fellow dragons.
The other seven azure ice dragons nodded and all eight of them emerged into one single dragon which swallowed the star seed.
The dragon then entered Icy's chest and she started levitating like Yusuke did. She was alter encased in a cocoon of feathers and Icy began her final evolution inside.
Back with Otake, Puu had opened its wings and revealed a very alive Yusuke who stroked his Spirit Beast and said, "Thanks, Puu, I'm okay now."
Otake was horrified; his worst fear had become true.
At the same time, Yusuke turned into a demon.
Puu, who contained part of Yusuke's soul, grew into that huge phoenix-like demonic creature.
Urameshi commented that he woke up during Koenma and Otake's argument, so he knew he was an Evil Demon descendant.
The Boueitai trembled before Urameshi's amazing new energy.
Yusuke threatened the soldiers, showing his new fangs, saying he now belonged to the Demon World and gave a wild diabolic laughter.
"Stop grinning, Yusuke." a scolding voice sounded behind him.
Yusuke turned to see a regal-looking Icy in a helter-necked dress.
"And what happened to you?" he asked.
Icy smirked, "Neo-Queen Selece at your service."
"And why should I stop grinning?" he pressed.
"Your demonic teeth are showing." she shrugged.
He asked Koenma if his three friends went to Makai after Sensui; Koenma confirmed it.
Yusuke noted "Then let's go there at once, because it's a heavy task for them. Sensui is too strong."
Otake tried to stop him.
Yusuke, with a fake scowl replied "Don't try my patience or I'll devour you, incompetent!
"Yusuke, don't make threats you don't intend to carry out." Neo-Queen Selece chided.
"Yes mother." Yusuke mumbled sarcastically.
At Otake's insistence, Yusuke stated proudly: "I'm the one and only Yusuke Urameshi, and for me it doesn't matter what I am or how I resurrected; it doesn't matter if I belong to the Makai or to the nobility; my main goal is to finish Sensui once for all."
Koenma laughed happily, "Yusuke, I'm coming with you."
Otake tried to stop the Prince, but Yusuke held the commander back by pressing his shoeless foot against Otake's face.
The commander passed out.
"You can tell King Daddy that, and that he can disown me, fire me, or put me up for adoption." Koenma retorted.
With Neo-Queen Selece and Koenma on Puu, Yusuke climbed onto his Spirit Beast.
"Hold on people. Let's go Puu!" Yusuke shouted.
Koenma was worried about the hypothesis of not being able to go back, but Yusuke replied that they would think about that after getting Sensui.
Koenma smirked "You know what? It's not a bad idea!"
Next to the broken barrier, three Boueitai wondered why no demon tried to invade Ningenkai until now.
One of them suggested that the demons did not come, fearing the presence of the Tokubetsu Boueitai; another disdained the boastful assumption.
The third soldier, a girl, shushed them and warns about the powerful source of demonic energy that she was sensing coming from Ningenkai.
Puu flew through the barrier carrying Yusuke, Icy in her Neo-Queen form and Koenma, not even giving a second glance at the flabbergasted soldiers.
In Makai, Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei were completely beaten, while Sensui stood unharmed, apologizing for the suffering he had been inflicting on them.
Hiei snorted, sitting tiredly on the ground "Why don't you just kill us and get done with this?"
Kurama, lying on the ground, made an effort to raise his head and faced Sensui "We admit your strength outdo ours."
Kuwabara lied on his back, unable to move; he silently begged forgiveness to Yusuke for not being strong enough to avenge him.
Sensui prepared the final blow, but was stopped in mid-motion when he sensed an enormous energy coming from the tunnel to Ningenkai.
Soon Puu appeared flying through the Makai red skies, bringing Koenma, a worried-looking Neo-Queen Selece and a grinning Yusuke who quipped "I'm sorry, I got delayed, pal. Traffic was a bitch. Let's continue our fight!"
SailorStar9: Icy and Yusuke are revived. What will happen next? Stay tuned and find out.
