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Hey all! This is my very first story about Zatch Bell. I hope you like it. Please R&R!
Chapter 1: Hardships
In the Mamodo World…
"Mommy!" cried an orange haired Mamodo child. "Mommy! I gots a 'nuther spell!"
"That's great honey! What one is it this time?"
"I think I heard sumthin like Shudo, or was it Shedo…" mumbled the Mamodo child as he walked outside. Seconds later, a bright orange light appeared with a little burst of laughter and the child raced back inside yelling "Mommy! I got it! The new spell is Sheudo! It's just like your spell, the one where you don't get hurted!" The excited little child was completely out of breath and his face flushed with excitement. The child was wearing a pair of blue jeans with an orange sweatshirt. A pair of black shoes completed the ensemble. The child has the customary black markings underneath his eyes, just like his father and mostly all the other Mamodo. The boy's hair is an orangey reddish color, almost like auburn, but it was shinier.
Tia smiled as she cut a strange carrot-like vegetable on the counter of her home for the little boy's dinner. She knew there was going to be more new spells just like that one, a cross between one of her own fiery spells and one of her husband's lightning attacks. "That's great Zioch! Why don't you go show your father?"
"Humph! Like he'd even care…" mumbled the child with deep orange and yellow eyes.
"Zioch! You know he cares! It's just that lately there have been some very bad goings-on in the Mamodo World. You know he loves you very much…" Tia turned away and began to peel the caraato, as the carrot/tomato cross was called, a little faster. Tia's thoughts were elsewhere, on her husband Zatch's recent troubling news about the RiftWay between the Human World and the Mamodo World…
Tia's thoughts were interrupted as Zioch turned and shouted "SHEUDO!"
Meanwhile, in the Human World…
Wonen walked slowly along the garden path in his backyard to clear his head. He had just finished his almost daily argument with his mother, Li-en. It was getting harder and harder to talk to her. If only she knew… he thought. Wonen had never been very popular at school, and with yesterday's exposure of his freakish talents, the jeering and name calling would be even worse than before come Monday.
It's not that he wasn't good-looking, just that his looks weren't exactly normal. He wore blue, baggy jeans just like every other kid and had a blue and white striped polo shirt covered by a light brown jacket. His white shoes were in the latest style. His only distinguishing appearance was his shockingly white hair. It is medium length and spiky from gel, but his eyes were even worse than his hair. They were large and orb like with a pale purple color and a deep black irises.
After the event at school, he had run home to talk to his mother. She was even more scared of what she told him than the bully had been of his powers.
"NO!" she screamed, "THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE! NOT NOW! IT CAN'T BE NOW!"
Li-en had then proceeded to tell him he must never use those powers, ever. They would put him at risk for some unknown reason that she wouldn't tell him.
In return, Wonen had yelled back that he didn't even want them and proceeded to his room where he spent the rest of the day Friday and most of the morning Saturday. Now it was Saturday afternoon and he decided to leave the house for a while to cool his head. On the way out he passed his mother who had tried to stop him from leaving. She didn't want him to use his powers again. After the second heated argument, he had run outside.
Wonen sighed. I wish these powers would just go away! thought Wonen furiously. Thinking back to that same event that caused the arguments with his mother, Wonen was disgusted with himself. I had just left the school building and was in the parking lot, looking at the sky. I didn't see that stupid little pebble. If I had none of it would have happened… I tripped over that pebble and bumped into the school bully, Garry. Garry got all mad at nothing! I bumped him! That's IT! He punched me and started calling me names. I just go so mad…if I hadn't had such a bad day, maybe I wouldn't have punched back. As it was, all my anger was in that punch. That punch turned friggin green! That punch turned into punches. The punches sent him flying across the yard. He just got up and began to slowly walk toward me. Suddenly I was so scared that I just turned tail and ran. That green cloud or whatever went to my legs this time and not my fists. I was running really fast. Now that I think about it, I heard two words when those things happen. The first one was Ganzu Boren. The second one was Radoruk. Those punches looked furiously strong too and my legs didn't hurt after the almost four miles I ran either. I still can't believe that Garry just got up and walked after all those punches. They must have hurt really bad…
His thoughts were suddenly turned elsewhere when his twin sister Lirei came running up to him from out of the Greenhouse.
Lirei is Wonen's fraternal twin and so she looked nowhere near as weird as he does. Her hair was midnight black, just like her mother's. Although her eyes were the exact same as Wonen's, no one seemed to mind because her bangs covered her eyes most the time. She was at the exact opposite end of the popularity chain at school because of her looks. She was practically the hottest girl at their high school. Her favorite outfit was a pair of tight, pale blue jeans and a body hugging forest green t-shirt with a light pink star upon it. Her light brown shoes matched the suede vest she sometimes wore, as she was wearing now.
"Wonen! You'll never guess what just happened!" said Lirei excitedly and out of breath.
"What? Have you realized I'm a loser and come to disown me?" he asked, scuffing his new shoes on the gravel path.
"No…better! I'm just like you! I have powers too!"
At Zioch's House…
"SHEUDO!" shouted Zioch, just as a yellow lightning bolt came through the door and hit the orange dome of energy that shot out of the ground at Zioch's shout. The orange bubble deflected the lightning attack and shot it right back out the door where it hit the ground and diffused.
"Very good, son. You have already learned that shouting a spell in this world will increase its power. By deflecting the lightning into the ground, you dispersed the charge and ended the attack." said the King of the Mamodo World, Zatch Bell as he walked into the house. "That won't help you in the battle ahead I'm afraid…" he said with a sad face.
"Zatchey Dear, I thought we talked about this." said Tia with her old intimidating voice from the Last Battle. "I thought that it wasn't going to come to this."
"I know we talked, but there's just no other way!" said Zatch desperately, "Zikon's forces are getting stronger everyday in the Human World and so is his control over the RiftWay. I need all the assistance I can get from the Mamodo World!"
"What's all this talk about the Human World? What's going on? And who's Zikon?" asked Zioch. He paused, "Daddy, why is Mommy getting all sad?"
With a sigh, all her anger left in one breath. Tia looked tearfully at her only child and said, "Daddy has come to train you for the next Battle in the Human World, honey. You need to be prepared for what is about to happen."
"It is finally time for what I thought would never happen again," said Zatch. "The evil forces of Zikon have finally begun the war against the Human World."
I hope you enjoyed my attempt at riveting FanFiction. Again, please R&R !
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