Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Resident Evil 4 Meets Yu Yu Hakusho ❯ A Demon and his Pet ( Chapter 6 )

The two men remained silent for a moment when the chief of the village went to his bedroom, only to have the silence break with an incoming call from Leon's radio. Jumping slightly from the sound, Yuske eyed the radio that Leon eventually pulled out, “Your form of communication to the outside world?”

 

“Yeah, it's just Hunnigan,” Leon assured, allowing the image of Hunnigan to pop up.

 

“I had a communicator but it looks like a woman's makeup mirror,” Yuske admitted with a scrunch of his nose.

 

Seeing the other male conversing with Leon, Hunnigan couldn't help but comment, “Is that Yuske Urameshi?”

 

Yuske cocked a brow at Hunnigan but said nothing as he tried to look at the woman that was aiding Leon as Botan used to aid him.

 

“Yes,” Leon answered, “that is him. He's harmless—which is not a good thing at the moment.”

 

“Something happen?” Hunnigan wondered aloud, situating her glasses on her nose.

 

“They took away my Spirit power,” Yuske answered almost pushing Leon on the floor so he could be seen by the woman clearly on the other line. “I cannot use it and it was the one thing that could have made this an easy ride.”

 

Leon growled a bit when Yuske shoved his palm on his cheek to push him aside for a moment before forcing the detective off of him so Leon could go back to Hunnigan, “So, now we are more or less in a difficult situation. Not that I cannot handle it.”

 

“Well, I have some information for the both of you that could be helpful,” Hunnigan remarked, bringing a piece of paper within sight so she could read what was written upon it.

 

“Fill us in,” Leon insisted with Yuske peeking over his shoulder.

 

“Apparently, there's a religious cult group involved. They're called the Los Illuminados.”

 

Leon and Yuske both couldn't help but look at one another and wonder in unison, “Los Illuminados?”

 

Laughing briefly to himself, Leon shook his russet hair, “That's a mouth full. Anyways, we both had an unexpected run in with the big cheese of this village. I am surprised he didn't just go ahead and kill us since we were both unable to stop him from doing so.”

 

Thinking back on the run-in with the village chief, Yuske couldn't help but ponder on something that he said about the two of them, “He said we carried the same blood. Do you know what that means?”

 

“Interesting,” Hunnigan replied almost in a daze. “I am afraid I don't know what it means exactly but you two need to hurry and find that church. Botan may very well be with Ashley, Yuske,” she felt a need to remind Yuske, “so please aid Leon on the way there. Your strength is needed.”

 

“So I am your back up?” Yuske wondered once Hunnigan stopped the call.

 

“Oh, I wouldn't say that,” Leon replied, putting away his radio before getting out his gun. “More like a sidekick.”

 

“Sidekick?!” Yuske retorted in a low, angered voice. He had never felt so insulted in all his life being that he was the main man back in the day when it came to the tournaments in Makai being held every three years. “Thanks, Batman.”

 

Raising his finger at Yuske to make him be quiet, Leon grabbed onto the doorknob of the door before them that was the chief's bedroom area. Looking over his shoulder at the angry detective, he raised his brow in question, “Are you ready?”

 

Nodding was all Yuske could afford to do at the moment as he tried to ready himself for whatever might be in there since the chief did just head to his bedchambers. Since the shotgun was more or less a hassle to attempt to wield, Yuske decided to go with the strength he still had.

 

Leon went ahead and opened the door, letting himself in to follow after the chief of the village only to get grabbed up by him once more by surprise. When the chief tried to reach for Yuske, the detective rolled out of the way before getting back to his feet to veer back his right fist and have it collide with Mendez's cheek. The force was so powerful that Mendez couldn't help but release Leon as his body was sent into the wall resting near his bed.

 

Turning to Leon, Yuske asked, “Are you alright?”

 

Coughing a bit since his throat wasn't used to being gripped that tightly, the American cop placed his hand on the slightly abused skin with a nod, “Yeah, thanks.”

 

Hefting himself up with a furious sounding growl, Mendez hurried towards the two quickly wanting to make them pay for that surprise attacked. The boys getting ready to fight back, Mendez stopped short of the two when two or three gunshots went off as the bullets released embedding themselves into the monster's left side.

 

Yuske and Leon immediately turned their attention over to the window in the current bedroom to see a woman just outside, firing at Mendez and saving the two. Yuske could only wonder who she was as Leon seemed a bit captivated by the woman in the obvious red dress but said not a word as she disappeared to escape the oncoming chief who crashed through the window to get her.

 

Looking to Leon with surprise, Yuske gradually got to his feet with his guard up as he headed over to the window before them that was now completely shattered thanks to the boss of the village going through it. “Who the hell was that?” Yuske wondered before turning to look at Leon once more who was getting to his feet as well, gun readied in hand. “I was aware that Sera is out there but I don't think he would be caught dead wearing something like that red dress. Did you bring friends?”

 

“No, none,” Leon answered honestly joining Yuske's side to look out the broken window with him. “But something about that woman—she reminds me of someone…”

 

Seeing the dreamy look in Leon's russet eyes, Yuske couldn't help but pat him on the back a moment, “Alright, Romeo, let's get a move on. We have a church to find, remember?”

 

“I know that,” Leon remarked with a bit of a scoff, “but that church area is closed off. How are we going to get in there?”

 

Watching as Leon headed back towards the door they had been running back and forth through, Yuske took one step to follow after only to stop at the feel of something beneath his foot. Lifting his foot and moving it to the other side, Yuske bent down to pick up the Insignia Key that Mendez most have dropped when he either punched him or when he went to attack the woman in red. “Well, well—looky what I have here,” Yuske seemed to say in a teasing tone to show off the key within his hand now. “Is this what you were looking for?”

 

Leon widened his eyes a moment as he came closer to look at the key that could very well unlock the church area. “Where did you find it?”

 

“On the floor,” Yuske answered before pocketed his find. “I guess I shook him lose with that punch and that key fell out of his pocket.”

 

Shaking his head with a bit of a smirk, Leon nodded towards the door, “Then let's head back to the village. We could use that key to get to Ashley and Botan.”

 

Nodding in agreement, Yuske followed behind Leon so they could head back to the main village area.

 

 

The man in the purple robes could only listen to the information being given to him by the demons he had converted over to his side with the Las Plagas. Sitting within his throne he had acquired, he let the hooded demon next to him remain faceless behind the hood he had up though he treated the demon like his second hand man. “So, we have another person here to cause problems?”

 

“A female with black hair and a red dress,” the transformed Shishi explained on one knee, hiding somewhat in the dark of the castle. “I saw her escape through the forest area around Mendez's home, heading this way along with the American officer and detective.”

 

“If you saw her,” the hooded demon next to the man in the chair began, “then why didn't you stop her?” His tone was angry and bitter thanks to the Plagas that overtook his mind though it was once full of compassion for his own friends.

 

Shishi couldn't help but raise his red colored eyes to look at the two before him, mostly growling inwardly at the demon beside their Lord. “They couldn't possibly make it with the dangers that lie ahead,” Shishi insisted with his palms turned upward as if to shrug. “I am sure if anything, my pet, El Lago, will stop them.”

 

“You don't know this, and we cannot afford to make anymore mistakes!” The hooded demon growled, threatening to come closer to tear apart at Shishi for his carelessness.

 

“Relax,” the man hiding under the purple robes insisted outstretching his arm to stop the demon closest to him from attacking Shishi.

 

“But my Lord, we have enough people conspiring behind our backs as it is,” the demon under the hood growled. “The American detective, the Spirit Detective, this new woman, Luis Sera, and let's not forget the ones that got away!”

 

Grinning slightly, the man looked up at the demon beside him to see his piercing red eyes staring back at him. “You worry too much, my friend. Remember that we took away Yuske's light attack so he is as defenseless as can be. As for the cop and Luis Sera, I dare them and that woman to try and attack us. The others running around about the castle matter little to me. Let them conspire for I will be ready if they dare try something.” Turning his attention back to Shishi in the dark, he kept his cool when responding, “Shishi, you may attempt to take care of these people as you desire. Take your pet and kill these two men for we cannot allow them to get to the church.”

 

“Yes, my Lord,” Shishi replied, disappearing from sight with his demonic speed.

 

With Shishiwakamaru gone from sight, the demon still in the castle turned to look back at their master. “What if he fails, my Lord?”

 

“So pessimistic,” the man couldn't help but laugh. “If he fails as you predict, I am sure he will pay with his life. But in all, it should prove interesting since Yuske cannot bring himself to kill his only friends.”

 

 

 

Back in the main village area, Leon opened his hand with a wave of his fingers towards Yuske, “Give me the key you found.”

 

Pulling out the key from his pants pocket, Yuske handed it over with the EMP gun he now acquired from the merchant they met on the way back to the Pueblo scooping the area just in case anyone was to pop back up. Leon was praying that something that was a bit smaller in size would be easier for Yuske to handle since he needed backup at the moment.

 

Inserting the key and turning it, Leon was relieved to hear the click of the door to indicate it was unlocked. “Alright, Yuske, come on. Let's go.”

 

Turning around, Yuske watched as Leon opened the door and headed on inside before following after him. Back inside of another room, Yuske cocked his brow a bit remembering that half the villagers entered through that door and he couldn't help but wonder, “How could all of those people fit in here and then vanish?”

 

“I bet there is more to it then that,” Leon answered keeping his shotgun at ready for the moment since he feared a large crowd attacking him. Stepping into the backroom, Leon headed into the very back to see a hatch on the floor that had been recently messed with. Peeping over his shoulder, Leon called the detective to his side before moving the hatch completely to reveal a bunch of stairs that lead into a dark, dank tunnel.

 

Looking at Leon when he passed a glance at him once more, Yuske cocked his brow at the officer with a bit of a smirk, “After you.”

 

Leon crawled down the ladder before hopping off at the third step with a grunt. The murky water beneath him splashed from his landing before Leon moved further down to check and see if it was safe before Yuske finally joined him from the rear. “Be careful. After those villagers piled in here, I am a bit on edge about one attacking us.”

 

“You don't have to tell me twice,” Yuske insisted as the two of them continued down the tunnel.

 

The tunnel continued for awhile before the darkness finally opened up to a bit of light and a graveyard standing before a church. Yuske was relieved to see such a sight but couldn't help but charge on ahead of Leon with one thing in mind and that was to save Botan. I am coming Botan!

 

“Yuske, wait!” Leon begged quietly fearing what was out there only to have the detective ignore his plea. Keeping his shotgun close to him, he hurried after the brash Yuske, firing at a nearby female villager that spotted Yuske and was about to attack him from behind.

 

Turning around just in time to see the woman get shot to death, Yuske could only watch as Leon shook his head disapprovingly.

 

“What's the matter with you? There is something called being stealthy and not drawing attention to ourselves! Do you want all the villagers to come down upon you?” Leon growled reloading his shotgun quickly since a male had heard the commotion.

 

Yuske frowned at the lecture he was receiving before turning towards the oncoming male villager. Holding the TMP he required at his hip, he began firing it off rapidly until the male had obviously consumed enough bullets to go down and stay there. Reloading his gun, he looked back over at Leon with the same glare he held before, “I think I've got it covered.”

 

Shaking his head, Leon followed up the rear this time since Yuske was so intent on getting to the church up ahead.

 

Yuske was the first to reach the entrance to the church and attempt to pull it open only to find it was locked. “Well that's just crap-tastic!” Yuske growled, trying to pull the door apart with his strength only to get the same response as before which was nothing.

 

Reaching for his radio, Leon contacted Hunnigan once more, “Hunnigan, it's Leon again and I am afraid Yuske and I cannot get in. The doors are locked.”

 

“Didn't they teach you to pick locks at the academy?” Hunnigan wondered sounding a good bit disappointed as well at these turn of events.

 

“There's some sort of indention,” Yuske announced from examining the door before him that he was tearing at in attempts to break it down. “It looks like we need to find another key to get inside.”

 

“Don't just stand around then,” Hunnigan insisted. “Find that key and get those two girls out of there.”

 

Putting away his radio, Leon nodded beyond the church with his shotgun still at ready. “Come on, Yuske. There is no point in just beating at the door. Let's look for that key.”

 

“But it doesn't make any sense,” Yuske growled, following after Leon feeling so close and yet so far. “I should have been able to break it down with my demonic strength!”

 

“They must have been expecting you and reinforced some of the doors,” Leon explained going around the wooden ledge up ahead to find more villagers about to attack them. “Just like they were expecting me…”

 

“Enforce doors strong enough to withhold an S class demon's strength?” Yuske asked a bit baffled, aiming beyond Leon's shoulder to knock down a villager just a ways beyond the male that Leon was trying to take down. “That is damn near impossible, my friend!”

 

“Maybe so,” Leon answered once their way was free for the time being of angry villagers, “but capturing strong demons and injecting them with this disease these people have seems just about as impossible to me as well.”

 

Leon was in a way right the more Yuske thought on it. How could this man capture his demonic friends and force them to do his bidding? Even if they were made stronger and psychotic, a demon would attempt to rise up and destroy a mere human no matter what was running through his veins or how strong he made them. But something was keeping them from attacking this guy Kurama labeled as `Saddler' in his diary and it made Yuske worry as he continued after Leon into the next area that would lead them into the deadly swamp.

 

 

 

The right hand demon to Saddler was looking out at the area about them from within the castle. He feared their plans falling apart and didn't want the American cop and Spirit Detective that he had befriended to make it any further than they had and something just didn't sit right with how things were progressing so far with those two.

 

Footsteps coming closer to the thinking demon, he turned to face the messengers he called upon without his leader's consent. Showing that they were listening, the two got to one knee and lowered their heads since they feared one wrong move would cost them their life at the hands of the much more powerful demon. “I want you to be prepared for Shishiwakamaru's death,” he bluntly replied. “If anything happens to him, I want you to get ready to unleash the other demon we have locked away in the quarry area.”

 

One of the villagers lifted his head boldly with a surprised look upon his features as he asked in the language that the demon had come to know as his own, “So soon? But the officer and detective have yet to make it to El Lago as it is.”

 

Walking forward, the hooded demon clawed at the face of the villager, tearing away at his flesh angrily at his order, “Don't you dare question me!”

 

The other villager brought up his arms to block the spilled blood from his partner when the demon tore away at him for his punishment. Four thorned whips sprouted out quickly from the back of the demon and embraced the villager's body that he attacked previously, turning to face the other that was in obvious fear.

 

“What are you waiting for? Go and prepare him for the fight that is about to ensue!” The coldhearted demon demanded with his teeth slightly bared.

 

The villager didn't have to be told twice as he hurried to his feet to get things prepared beyond the lake side.

 

 

 

 

Yuske and Leon were trying their hardest to get through the swamp area but found themselves literally flooded by oncoming attackers in the murky water they were fighting within. Leon was taking the on the ones before them that were blocking where they needed to go while Yuske took the ones that were coming from the rear.

 

“They are getting awfully persistent,” Yuske remarked over the growling of the villagers and the firing of their weapons. Seeing that the rear villagers didn't want to give up just yet and wanted to continue to come out of what felt like nowhere, Yuske nudged Leon from the back when he heard the cop stop firing. “Leon, I want you to go on ahead without me for now. I can handle these people and keep them off your back.”

 

“You're crazy, Yuske, I am not leaving you here alone!” Leon insisted about to drag Yuske off with him.

 

“Just leave me here for a minute, Leon!” Yuske begged, getting his arm back from Leon that he took to try and haul the detective. “I promise I will make it out just fine. If I don't have my Spirit Gun, I have the TMP and my demonic strength. And if by slim chance I don't make it, at least rescue Botan for me, eh?”

 

A part of Leon felt that Yuske would make it just fine and he knew that Yuske just wanted one of them to get ahead and spare the other's ammo. Nodding eventually, Leon hurried through the cloudy swamp water as fast as he could, jumping over the bodies he shot down to get to the next area. “You better make it, Yuske, or I will come back to shoot you myself!”

 

Yuske could only wave over his shoulder at Leon to let him know he heard the officer before going back to the villagers that were trying to swarm him and take him down.

 

Leon hurried east to the next trap that was laid out to catch him off guard which consisted of another tripwire bomb that the villagers had set up among the swamp. Spying a villager not too far away from the trap, Leon aimed his gun and shot the monster in the back to get his attention along with another that was hiding not too far away. Not too pleased with Leon's attack, the villagers were heading quickly towards him, forgetting all about the trap they had lied out for him. That's it, was all Leon could think at the moment as he stepped a bit back away from the wire he could see. Needless to say, the trap went off and blew up in the villager's faces making Leon scoff at their stupidly they sometimes would show.

 

Stepping over their bodies that had been engulfed by the explosion, Leon headed to the top of the rise that was before him once he ignored the path to his right and started ascending the slope. Getting to the very edge, Leon eventually ducked down spying another set of villagers out on the lake with one of the police officer's body that had accompanied him to the village to begin with. “What's this?” He wondered quietly, bringing out the binoculars he kept on him to get a closer look at what was going on.

 

Two of the villagers on a boat dumped the body overboard before quickly taking off to the other side of the lake. Watching a moment longer, a giant creature leapt out of the water to engulf the body in a single bite making the dead figure his meal.

 

Putting away his binoculars quickly, Leon couldn't help but slowly get to his feet, “Shit…”

 

The monster was obviously a lake dweller and to fight something that was underwater and as big if not bigger than a whale would be difficult. Heading back down to the other path he passed by, Leon made it out to the dock to see that a motorboat was there waiting for him to use and it held a few harpoons for him to employ for weapons if need be. Putting away his gun for the moment, he looked out at the vast lake seeing no sign of the water creature yet but a bit of him knew that once he got out there, he would be attacked. “I guess I have no choice in the matter, eh?” Leon mostly wondered aloud to himself.

 

Getting into the motorboat, Leon started it up and stirred it out on the lake. There was debris on the lagoon water that consisted of tree trucks of sorts and made Leon believe it wouldn't be a problem to maneuver around if that lake dweller ever tried to chase after him. But as he was continuing towards the other side without problems, an evil laughing sound caught his attention and the officer stopped the boat.

 

“You traveled out here alone, cop?” A demented tone cackled as if from all angles on the water. “What happened to Yuske? Did he not survive out there?”

 

Looking around the area, Leon tried to pinpoint the creature speaking to him eventually turning around quickly with his gun aimed behind him at the large island of tree debris in the center to find the horned demon standing atop it. His hair that reached his mid-back was a bit unkempt and colored lavender while the two horns sprouted from on top his skull was black. His nails were the same color and longer than he expected a demon's to be but they were drenched in blood as was the white top he wore indicating he had slaughter some of the villagers himself or possibly ate from them. “So, you must be Shishiwakamaru, eh?” Leon asked aloud. “This should be interesting.”

 

“It should prove so,” Shishi retorted back with a sneer, calling up the ghosts of the ones Leon and Yuske managed to kill as well as himself. The transparent beings moaned and howled in torment before swarming a bit around Leon in attempt to lose his edge while Shishi stayed planted where he stood, eyeing the performance in twisted glee as Leon tried to swat at the spirits about him. “Let's see you get by me, Mr. Kennedy.”