AN: Yusuke Urameshi and his team have ventured to The Demon Badlands to combat the Seven Deadly Warriors, a group of men who want to take over the earth. William, Kurama, Kuwabara, Hiei, Yusuke and Michael have defeated 6 of the 7 Deadly Warriors. Only the leader remains. But in retaliation for the death of his men, the leader has turned his hoard of monsters on Alex Russo, the girl that David cares about most. Can David save her in time?

Chapter Ten: Zetsumei, Leader of the Seven Deadly Warriors

Koenma sat in his chair, and took a deep sigh of relief. Man, Michael was a handful, and Miley, who was now back to normal after being slapped silly by Melody, was going to be lucky when the two of them get hitched down the road. Well, getting back on track, there was only one warrior left, and David was going to take him on. But the Prince of Hell knew that was going to be a challenge for David, especially since he knew that Zetsumei was planning something right now, just as he was sitting there.

"LORD KOENMA!" Botan shrieked as she literally flew into the room, knocking over Melody, Miley, Oliver, Lilly, and Jackson in the process.

"For Pete's sake, what!" Koenma screamed back.

"I just received word that the infected people are in a large quantity moving towards one city in the United States." Botan said.

"Well, where are they going?" Koenma asked his ferry girl.

"New York City." Botan answered. The minute the blue haired grim reaper said that, almost everyone knew what that meant.

"Alex." Koenma whispered.

"Wait, why would he be after her?" Melody asked, breaking the deadly silence.

"Simple." Koenma explained. "Desperate men do desperate things. Zetsumei knows that he is going to be fighting David, and he needs to do something that will get into his head."

"Making David worry about Alex will do that, won't it?" Miley asked.

"Exactly. And if something happens to Alex while he is on this mission from me, boy is David going to flip out at me..." Koenma muttered.

"So what happens now?" Melody asked him.

"We wait, and pray that David and crew can finish off Zetsumei before anything happens to Alex." Koenma said, turning his eyes back towards the big screen behind him and the company that he was keeping.

Michael finally opened his eyes, and looked around. He noticed that he was still in the stadium where he fought Akuji. He sat up, still feeling tired. That's when William noticed that he was awoke, finally.

"Hey! He's up!" William called to the rest of their teammates. Yusuke and David walked over, and stood over their friend.

"Well, what's going on?" Michael asked.

" We have been waiting for you to get up so we can move on." William said with a smile.

"Wait, how long was I out for?" Michael asked.

"About 4 hours." Kurama called from a few feat away. Michael tiredly got to his feet, and looked around.

"Well, I guess it is time for us to get going." Michael said.

"Are you okay to move?" Yusuke asked.

"Of course. Let's go." Michael said with a timeworn grin. Yusuke gave a smile, and with that, the team moved on towards their final challenge.

David, leading the group up a spiral staircase, was suddenly hit with a really bad feeling. Something was frightfully wrong here, but he didn't know what it was. He was standing at the top of the steps, not moving an inch when Yusuke and the rest caught up with him. Yusuke saw what he was doing, and went to check on the wolf demon.

"Yo, what's wrong?" Yusuke asked him.

"Something...something is wrong back home." David said. Michael stood next to his friend, and saw that the color was slowly draining from David's face.

"Dude, what's wrong?" Michael asked David.

"Nothing, let's keep going." David lied, continuing to run. Yusuke and Michael turned to each other, and shrugged their shoulders. Then they continued after their friend.

Alex, I hope with all of my heart that you are all right. David thought to himself as he kept running, knowing that something might have happened to his love.

Alex looked up at the sky, and saw the orange sunset spread across the sky above her. David had told her earlier that Koenma wanted him to do something for him, and he literally HAD to do it, which sucked, because she literally couldn't stand being away from him for any amount of time. She really did love him.

She sighed, stuck her hands into her jean pockets, and kept on walking towards her home. She just wanted to get into her room, and try to contact him. The more she walked, the more she was getting to be depressed.

As she was nearing the street that belonged to her, she heard footsteps following her. Alex turned around, and saw nothing. Shrugging her shoulders, she walked closer to her home.

Just as she rounded the corner, she ran into a man in a black suit, walking home himself.

"Sorry." Alex said to the man. She looked into his face, and realized that he was not any normal man. He looked like he was literally zombified. He reached out, and tried to grab her, and she got out of the way, just in time. Alex turn to run up the street. When she did, she saw that the street was littered with the same type of zombified people. They spotted Alex, and began to march right after her. Alex looked around, and saw that she was getting cornered.

Not knowing what to do, Alex turned around, and ran, praying that she was going to run into help soon...

Yusuke pulled out his mirror, and flipped it open.

"Yeah, Botan?" Yusuke answered.

"Yusuke, we have a big problem. Put David on." Botan stated in a nervous tone. Yusuke handed the compact to David, and Botan took a deep breath.

"David... we can't find her." Botan said nervously.

"WHAT! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU CAN'T FIND HER!" David screamed, shaking the compact violently.

"Koenma found her briefly, but the minute that she was cornered by the controlled humans, we lost contact." Botan whispered.

"Damn. DAMN IT!" David screamed again.

"She is still alive, we just don't know where she is or if she is unharmed." Botan stated. Yusuke was holding the mirror, because David was visually rattled.

"Alright, keep us informed." Yusuke said slamming the compact shut.

"Look, I am sure that she is alright." William said, trying to comfort his friend. David snatched his shoulder away, and turned his attention towards the window overlooking the entire area.

"There." David stated, pointing towards the tower that was overlooking the entire area. "Zetsumei is in there, waiting on me. Get me in there."

"Well, emotional wolf is finally talking." Kuwabara said. William smacked him in the head, signaling for him to shut up.

Before anyone could speak, Michael made some hand movements, and the patch of concrete that he was standing on lifted off of the ground, and moved towards the location of the tower. David hopped in the window, and took off towards the place where Zetsumei was waiting.

"So, he doesn't even say goodbye?" Kuwabara joked.

"That's not our biggest problem right now, look." Kurama said, pointing towards the open door area, and the remaining six members of the team were greeted with another surprise from Zetsumei.

David literally barged right into Zetsumei's lair, and saw that there was a chair sitting right in front of a big screen. David could feel Zetsumei's energy in this room. So could Zetsumei, apparently, because Zetsumei turned around, and faced the wolf demon.

"Well, nice to meet you face to face, David Falcone." Zetsumei said calmly. "I take it that you are having a good time with my soldiers, who were easily dispatched apparently."

"Get out of your seat so I can end your life." David said coldly.

"Not so fast. Don't you want to know how your precious little girlfriend is doing?" Zetsumei said tauntingly.

"How is she? Is she alright?" David asked, almost in a begging tone of voice.

"If you want me to reveal that to you, you better make me." Zetsumei said.

"No problem." David sneered, charging at Zetsumei.

AN: Michael: Well, things have gone from calm to downright frantic. We now know that Alex is being hunted back in New York City, and with David being here not able to protect her, he had to do what he can to protect her from here. Zetsumei isn't going to make that easy, because he knows that Alex is David weakness, and that son of a bitch is going to capitalize on that. What's going to happen next?