Yu Yu Hakusho!!! Spirits Amok! (A Spirit Detective RP!) Chapter 3: Genkai's Training.

[Fishtie]

Alex was still stunned as he looked over what had happened. He had been right behind the others as the spilled out into the alleyway, but he had been totally motionless for almost the entire fight. Frozen and useless.

After all, his brain could hardly make sense of what was going on. The thugs had turned into colored horned... things right before his eyes and now Damien wasn't the only one showing off pyrotechnics. Alex could only come to one horrific conclusions: This was real.

This whole thing wasn't some kind of show or trick. There were no mirrors or slight of hand used. SPIRIT, powers, special people; they were all real and Alex was right in the middle of the whole thing.

But this can't be true, right? He thought to himself one last time as the idea quickly melted away. This was real. All of it. Alex could hardly deny it anymore after looking at the other students gathered in thee alley.

Jason's words though snapped Alex out of his stunned state though. He blinked twice as his brain tried to catch up with the situation. Then he had a thought. A horrible thought.

There was no way he could do it, but looking around at the others he had to. It was a terrible idea, but it seemed like there wasn't much other choice. Nope, not much other choice.

Alex realized he was still holding his backpack in his hand, he had never set it down before rushing out. Quickly he picked the athletic tape off the top and tossed it lightly at Jason. As he did so he began to speak faster then he ever had before. Still not too fast, but fast for him. "Here, wrap some around her head. If anyone asks we can say she bumped her head." He paused only for a moment before he continued, though he was a bit more hesitant. "And I know a place we can go... It's close. And nobody else will be there."

He looked over the others for a moment though he didn't seem to meat anyone's eyes. "Um, tell me when you're all ready to go and I think I can probably carry her." He said nodding at Bleu.

With that Alex stepped over next to Sonny who seemed to worst off of everyone here, and no wonder after what he had been through. He barely looked like he could stay upright on his own. "Hey, Sonny. You alright? It's over now."

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Lina threw away her makeshift weapon, seeing as as the battle was pretty much over. Still, there was still a rush of adrenaline running throuhg her veins, a reminder of the energy that was still within her.

She still couldn't believe it had really happened. But here she was, standing with her classmates in an alleyway outside Starbucks having fought off two demons to save another one.

If it wasn't so surreal, she would have laughed.

Feeling the heady rush drain out of hr, she asked, "So, what now?"

 

[Sam G]

"Ah, yes. Wonderful, thank you." Sonny glanced over at the blue demon, who was leaning against the wall with his eyes closed. Dead? Yep. How awful. There again, he had been pretty awful too, so Sonny didn't feel too bad about it. "So, we won, did we? That's nice..." His need to remain active depleted, Sonny smiled faintly and collapsed into Alex's arms. All things considered, that had gone rather well... he was going to wake up to one hell of a headache, though.

Sonny blacked out.

 

[Fishtie]

Alex, who was standing right next to Sonny was able to reach out and support the collapsing kid just before he hit the pavement. He sighed to himself as he now held Sonny in his arms for the second time that day. This was not something he was hopping would become a regular occurrence.

Alex shifted a bit and lay Sonny down on the floor in a more comfortable way and checked started to check him over to see if there were any major damage. However, he did so very cautiously because... well... there was still the issue of those cloths. Alex wasn't going to judge, but it was still a little uncomfortable.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Angelo summarized his thoughts quickly. The girl with the Snake lower body outline did in fact have a snake lower body, one of the demons are dead, the other ran off, quite a lot of the group were badly hurt, and Angelo felt like someone threw a train at his chest.

He looked around. Sonny was being supported by Alex and being seen to, which was good since the Chuck seemed to have taken a liking with that fight. Angelo turned to Jason, trying to look after the new serpent-lady friend, but his shield was kind of in the way and making things awkward, and judging by the size of this tail, it was not a one person job.

"Here, let me help," Angelo offered, going to Jason's aid.

 

[All Hail Lelouch]

Jason nodded to Angelo and replied. "Thanks. Here, You grab her upper body and I'll grab her tail. One...two...three go!" Jason gave Angelo the cue to lift at the same time as he did. Together, they lifted Bleu off of the ground and into their arms. Jason's shield made it so that he had to hold his right arm sideways in order to prevent from impaling himself on the pointy end of the shield.

He looked over to Alex, who was now holding an unconscious Sonny, who looked like a train wreck at the moment. "Alright Alex, lets go. Lead on." Jason nodded to Alex. The sooner they get out of here, the better...

 

[Fishtie]

Alex looked around at the others. It looked like Jason and Angelo had the girl, which was good since Alex had his hands full with Sonny. He made one last check to make sure everyone looked ready to go.

With a quick breath Alex easily lifted Sonny up into his arms and started to carry him out of the alleyway. "Come on. Follow me." He said to the others.

Alex led them out onto a small side street and after checking to make sure no one was there started to walk at a pretty quick pace. Most of the people around seemed to have been scarred off by the thugs act in the shop. Alex could hear some sirens off in the distance, but he knew the police station was in the opposite direction from where they were going.

Alex walked for only one block before he turned and walked halfway down another street. He cut through an open field that was there. The space was mostly taken up with old brown grass and a few ditches, but paths warn down by the playing of children made walking easy. The few pieces of construction equipment that were still there were empty as the workers had gone home a while ago. A lose board at the far side of the field was easily opened to provide an exit.

Upon leaving the construction site the group was now in what seemed to be a sleepy residential street. Rows of modest suburban housing with small well tended front lawns extended up and down the road. It was only a few houses down when Alex suddenly turned and nudged open a short wooden fence with his foot and walked quickly up to the front door. He glanced up and down the street once more, glad that no one seemed to be out right then. Sure, they wouldn't suspect much of him; but it would be troublesome trying to explain.

Alex struggled for a minute to get something out of his pocket without dropping Sonny, but eventually he got out a small ring of keys and unlocked the door, opening it as well.

"Err... come on in." Alex said as he looked back at the others for a moment. Having said that, he walked in. He quickly passed through a small foyer ignoring the massive brown and black tabby cat that was curled up on a pile of mail snoozing in the afternoon sun. The cat, in response, didn't even bat an ear at anyone entering.

Walking onwards, Alex passed into the living room of the home. A trio of old well cared for couches were set around a glass coffee table across from a modest T.V. The table was covered in books, magazines, movies, papers, and more detritus of human life. The subjects of the material were varied, but seemed to have a few general patterns; sports, teen fashion, airplane and boat models. Across from all of that an old brick fireplace had quite a few pictures and knickknacks, a few of which seemed to include Alex.

Alex carefully deposited Sonny on one of the couches, laying him down very softly, before quickly leaving again by one of the several doorways.

"Make yourselves comfortable!" He could be heard calling back to the others. His voice had an echoing quality that suggested he had gone down some short hallway.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Lina glanced around. It was... rather small, compared to her own... but somehow more lived-in and homey.

Trying to distract herself from that line of thought, she sat down on one of the couches and glanced down at the magazines spread over the table, but there was nothing she thought was worth reading.

"So," she said after a moment, "What do you think those ogre things wanted with our snakey friend over there?"

 

[All Hail Lelouch]

Jason and Angelo set Bleu down on one of the couches around the coffee table. Jason saw that the bruise had formed a large lump on her right cheek from the swelling.

should I get her an Ice pack? But arent snakes cold blooded? But then again, she is half human...wait...Fuck! I don't know anymore!

He heard Lina's question and turned so he could look at her while he talked. "Judging from what I heard and the way those goons dressed, I believe that they were some sort of debt collectors and Bleu missed a payment. Poor girl, monster or not, she didn't deserve this." Jason said with pity for Bleu.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Angelo set the serpent-girl down on the couch as per requested. She was alot heavier than she should be. The tail must have added quite an amount of weight to herself.

"What do you think those ogre things wanted with our snakey friend over there?" Lina asked.

Curtis gave an answer based on their dress and what he heard. Either way, no-one deserves to be beaten and raped because they missed a payment on something. Although, it would be good to know what for, especially since she clearly isn't a normal Human being and those two weren't either. That much was clear as day.

"Whatever they wanted, one of them got what he deserved, and the other will be very afraid for a fair while. It's not an even punishment based on what they did and were going to do, but it's a start." Angelo replied coldly.

 

[Fishtie]

Alex returned to the room with the others and knelt down at one side of the table. He pushed a bit of stuff away on the table and set down a first aid kit that seemed more the size of a small chest. He the picked up a small piece of paper that caught his attention.

Hey Alex,

Gonna hang out with the archery club today.

Don't stay up too late old man,
Sam

Alex crumpled up the note and tossed it aside. He figured his sister would be out with someone or other, in fact he had been counting on it. But still, he sometimes wasn't too sure about some of the people she was with. He didn't even know that the middle school had an archery club when he had been there. Well, it was probably just another fad of hers.

Brushing those thoughts aside he opened the first aid kit and started to remove supplies from the sturdy plastic box. "Well I suppose we can know a bit more once she wakes up." He said in regards to the now clearly half snake girl. "Is anyone else hurt?" He asked as he staged medicine and bandages in a surprisingly professional way.

 

[Xero Scythe]

Damien took the two horns with a nod of his head and stuffed them into his baseball bag. Even detached from the original demon, the horns still seemed to be unnoticeable by normal humans. He followed Alex silently, wondering where they were going. When Damien finally saw, he whistled. "Nice place ya got 'ere. It's... Definitely a home." Damien cursed himself for sounding so foolish. But to him, there was a difference, having seen the seedier parts of California. Every abode was a house, but there was a certain feeling of warmth and safety that said, 'this house is a home.' He walked in, careful to wipe his feet when he walked in. He had barely gotten a few feet before hearing Lina's question. "Well, I heard the words 'payment, take you back, and 300 dollars short.' My guess is that this unlucky lady was smuggled here from... Where ever the 'ell she came from, and it took some serious money. Problem with that is, it's like a leech: once it's tasted blood, it ain't leavin'. If the boss doesn't get a constant flow o' cash, she'll be taken back and used as a prostitute or sumthin'. Happens all th' time to humans, so imagine what demons do."

Damien sighed. "So much for humans being the worst evil." He shook his head and spied a computer. Stalking towards it, Damien quickly googles 'Lamia' on the Internet and whistled at the results. "Well, this ain't the first time humans have met a Lamia- they go all th' way back t' Greece. Anyway, it seems she's warm blooded, like the dinosaurs, so give 'er an ice pack fer the swelling." When Damien heard Alex speak, he began to check himself for cuts. As he bent down to check his legs, he gasped for breath as pain, cold and unfeeling as ice, shot up to his brain. He removed his hoodie and lifted his shirt to check out his stomach. Right next to a massive scar on the left side of his chest, there was a cut running horizontally along his stomach. He hissed. Adrenaline had blocked out most of the pain, and it wasn't very deep, but dear God it was annoying. Be shook his head and motioned to Alex. "Yeah, mind throwin' me some hydrogen peroxide? No tellin' what was on that demon's claws."

 

[Fishtie]

Alex was almost finished putting on a pair of new gloves when he heard Jack speak up about his lack of involvement in the fight and the words suddenly made him freeze. It wasn't the words themselves though, in fact Alex thought it wasn't a bad reason that Jack had. However, the comment suddenly drew a very stark parallel with Alex's actions during the fight.

Alex also had not contributed any strength to the battle, but he had no such reasons; nothing at all. He had been trying not to think about it, but he couldn't run from the truth any more. He had simply frozen, no reason but simple cowardice, he hadn't been able to move an inch. Alex still couldn't say just what it was, but when the two... things had changed he had felt an almost primal fear for his life and it had paralyzed him. They were of another world, and they would have ripped Alex apart in a moment, there had been no doubt, and he had been unable to move for those thoughts.

The only one dishonored in that ally was Alex. He was the biggest of the group, oldest too; if it was anyone's duty to protect the others then it was his. Alex took a glance over at Sonny for a moment again. Even the little guy had jumped right in and what had Alex done? stood by and watched him get beaten up. Had that show of heroics in the bathroom this morning been just that? Another pointless show? So much sound and fury, Signifying nothing? Probably.

It all seemed so familiar, and why shouldn't it? It was always the same: big man around town, school hero, confident leader; all until something new came along and he would panic. Just like every time.

Suddenly another thought shot through Alex's mind. Everyone here had shown the powers Ms. Tanya had spoken of: Damien's explosives, Jason's shield, Lina had telekinesis and telepathy, Angelo's electricity, Sonny's glowing mop, even Jack had spoken about some power; everyone that is except Alex himself. Heh... another failure in the end, Alex wasn't even really surprised anymore. He was pretty useless then. What could he even hope to achieve?

It was then that Alex's eyes fell back to the first aid equipment that he had set out in front of him. Looking at the others he realized that he couldn't just abandon them though, there was just no way he could do that. Even if he was useless with magic, or lasers, or whatever there still had to be something he could do; and he had a place he could start right here. He would just do whatever he could with the skills he had, that was all there was too it. Even if he was next to useless, it would be better then not doing anything.

With a new sense of vigor Alex finished his preparations just as Damien started showing off his new war wound. Alex quickly went over to Damien and took a good look at the cut. "Hmm, looks like you were lucky there. Doesn't look to bad to me." He said in a calm manor. He noticed the scar that was also close but decided now wasn't a good time to bring it up.

"This may sting a bit." He said as he quickly ran a disinfectant over the cut and set some gauze over the wound as well. "There you go. I'd be a bit careful about it for a bit." Alex moved away for a bit as he prepared for his next possible patient.

"Well I don't know about this money thing. I haven't really heard of any major money sharks or anything around here." He thought for a moment, "Then again I don't suppose I've ever heard of one of these... what did you say? Lamia? either, much less finding one. Kind of makes you wonder what Ms. Tanya would have to say." He sighed hopelessly for a moment. "Probably something unhelpful like: I can't tell you much about it, because it would ruin the surprise." He ended with a not bad impression of her voice.

 

[All Hail Lelouch]

Bleu moaned and groaned as she stirred from her sleep. She opened her eyes and took a look around. This isn't Demon World...Where Am I? She looked to her sides and was shocked to see the kids from Starbucks were all gathered around her. Even more shocking was when she looked down. Her lower half was in its true form, visible for all to see. Oh no! These Humans know my secret!!! Now what am I going to do?

Bleu moved to reposition herself on the couch, writhing her tail so that she could sit upright, but in the process she knocked many things off the table and tripped up Jason as she got comfortable on the couch.

She looked to see who she had knocked down and saw that it was the boy she met right before Chuck and Lenny came to get her. "Jasssson!? What on earth are you doing here?" Bleu asked as she took a another look around. "and who are all of these people!?"

"Ugh, I'm here because we all saved you from those demon rapists. We killed one, but the other got away." Jason groaned a he got back to his feet. "We were hoping that you could answer a few questions about what the hell is going on. About what happened between you and those thugs and whatnot."

Bleu blushed as she thought about the humans saving her from those loan sharks. These humans saved me!? The last thing I saw before getting hit was the silhouette of some people standing next to the door...They could have saved me...Why not, I'll go with it. "Sssure, but would you guysss mind introdusssing yourssselvesss? I only know Jassson becaussse we talked before." Bleu asked the group politely.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Lina nodded. "Alright then. My name's Carolina, but just call me Lina. I'm glad to see yo're doing alright." She added, honestly relievd that the girl was fine... even if she was a nake-demon...

 

[Jack and Calumon]

"I'm Angelo," He said, replying to the creature, "I helped carry you over with Jason." She was okay, and that was good, but answers would still be appreciated from her about quite a lot of things that happened today.

 

[Fishtie]

"Alexander Higgins, and don't worry; you're safe now." Alex's trained politeness kicked in for a moment. Afterwords he made his way back over to where Sonny was lying and started to do a more thorough examination of the injuries that he had. He wasted little time in cleaning the small bits of blood and applying bandages and cold compress packs to some of the damaged areas.

 

[Xero Scythe]

Damien nodded politely, mindlessly turning one of Chuck's horns over and over in his hands. He sat down with a heartfelt sigh. "So... Tired." Damien shook his head as he muttered to himself. He had braced for it this time, but he did't realize how big a drain that super-bomb would be until the adrenaline wore off. "M' name's Damien Lier. I moved here from California during the winter break, so I'm a little confused as to what's going on here. If ya don't mind, could we 'ave some answers as t' who the hell those greasers were, and what they wanted with ya?"