Shaman King: Echo's

Okay, this is set after the series once Hao has been defeated and the Shaman Tournament has resumed. Some Ren x OC later on

Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King or any of its characters, I do own Krystal and Shadow though. I wish I did own Ren and Horohoro .

Chapter 1: What to do?

Since Patch Village had returned to the human plane of existence there had been a great deal of talk about the tournament and what was going to happen next with the council. Although most of the shaman fighters had returned to the village, a council member had yet to inform anyone of what was actually going to happen. In fact most of the council member had most decidedly vanished. Many shaman were enjoying being back in Patch Village and being surrounded by other shaman, including Yoh and the gang who were all sitting in the main square by the fountain.

'So Yoh what do you think has happened to the council.' Ren said calmly. Yoh stretched his arms above his head slowly. This was a nice break from training.

'I really don't know.' He replied after a while. 'Even Silva seems to have disappeared, and he was our link to the council. We won't know anything until someone from the council returns.' Behind him Anna could be heard barking orders at Manta, who she had decided to train in Yoh's place since he was still relatively new at being a shaman.

'I want 200 push-ups shorty and then go get me some ice-cream.' Yoh grinned lazily, he was glad that Anna was preoccupied, that meant that she would leave him alone for a while.

'What are we going to do until then dudes?' Horohoro asked everyone as he watched Kororo play with the water in the fountain, freezing some of the water and giggling along with Morphin as it splashed into the main bowl of the fountain.

'All we can do is wait for now.' Lyserg muttered. He didn't like to spend long periods of time waiting. He smiled as Morphin handed him a beautiful ice sculpture of his crystal pendulum and flew back to Kororo.

'Waiting is boring my young friends.' Ryu said quickly. 'Why don't we find some lovies who wish to become our shaman queens?'

'Hey where did the little man go?' Tokagerho questioned, staring at the TV screen. 'Hey Ryu! The little man has disappeared!'

'Do not worry Tokagerho. He was never really there in the first place.' Ryo answered.

'I already have my shaman queen.' Faust smiled. He was still fawning over Eliza, who seemed to be gaining some colour in her cheeks.

'And I've got Anna.' Yoh said coolly. 'She may be harsh but I know that she wouldn't do anything to hurt me.'

'Except drive you to exhaustion.' Horohoro muttered to Chocolove who promptly opened his mouth to speak but Ren shoved the end of his new Kwan-dao towards his face which shut him up.

'Why don't we go see how some of the others are?' Amidamaru suggested, trying to avoid the blob circling around him which was Tokagerho who was now bored with the TV since the "little man" had gone. Tokagerho had become an avid watcher of Dr. Who for some unknown reason but still had yet to grasp the idea that he wasn't always in the TV.

'Sounds like a great idea Amidamaru.' Yoh grinned. He stood up and Chocolove stood next to him, trying to run away from Ren. 'Shall we find the Lilly Five?'

'You know it's funny that …' Chocolove started.

'It's better that you don't even go there.' Ren grumbled. 'Or you may find yourself in several pieces.' Bason appeared over Ren's left shoulder and watched Ren begin an argument with Chocolove about his jokes again. By this point, Manta was halfway through his required number of push ups when Anna came back over to the rest of the group.

'I hope your not going to sit around all day Yoh, or I may have to restart your training.' Anna hissed lovingly. Manta was good at the theory behind shaman skills but his furyoku was somewhat pathetic. Sure he could transfer Mosuke between his laptop and hammer but not for very long. Behind her Manta struggled to his feet having not completed his push-ups. 'You'd better not be stopping Manta. Or you'll do another 200.' Manta collapsed and continued his set task.

'Well then shall we go?' Yoh asked. Everyone seemed to be taking their time about finding the Lilly Five. Not that he minded. 'Wait where's Tamao? I thought she was with us.'

'She's been trying to locate the council all day Yoh.' Anna answered, not bothered that Tamao had been left with Jun. Yoh span around to look back at the building where they were staying and sighed. He felt bad about leaving Tamao behind. But if Anna had told her to stay behind then no one would argue with her.

'Hey wait isn't that Tamao?' Yoh asked startled. She was in fact running full speed towards them waving her hands.

'Hey Anna!' Tamao cried. 'I think I found something!' She stopped in front of Anna and gasped for breath. 'Not that I'm really all that sure…' Anna glared at her. 'But I think I found someone.' Everyone stood around Tamao and waited for her to tell them where this person was. Tamao stood up straight and took a deep breath. 'There's someone right here. They're extremely close!' Immediately everyone started to scan the surroundings for anyone from the council or out of the ordinary.

'Hey who is that?' Ryu asked quietly. Everyone followed Ryu's gaze across the square to a girl who was sitting on top of one of the shops. 'I've never seen anyone like her before.'

'Well she's not a council member so she doesn't matter to us.' Anna spat.

'But what's she doing up there?' Horohoro pondered.

'Let's find out.' Yoh said. He waved up at her. 'Hey you up there!' She spotted him and swung down from the roof.

'Oh God Yoh we don't need yet another useless person to follow us about.' Ren groaned.

'Oh I bet she's a great person.' Yoh grinned. As the girl got closer, they saw that she wore dark blue jeans with a pastel blue lose button up shirt with a silver dragon stitched on the shoulder, which crept down the back. She had midnight blue hair and eyes of a similar colour.

'Hi. You…um…waved at me.' She said breathing heavily.

'Hi. I'm Yoh. This is Anna, Manta, Ryu, Ren, Horohoro, Lyserg, Faust, Tamao and Chocolove.' Yoh said introducing everyone in the group to her.

'I'm Krystal. Have you been here in Patch Village long?' She smiled. 'I only arrived here today and am getting a little lost.'

'You've never been here before?' Ren asked coldly. Krystal nodded.

'Well why don't you stick around with us. We'll show you around until one of the council members show up.' Chocolove said kindly, trying to make up for Ren's attitude.

'That would be great.' Krystal smiled. 'Thank you.'

'So are you a shaman?' Anna asked.

'Yeah, my father tried to teach me quite a lot before I came here but it's really hard to remember everything.' Krystal grinned half heartedly. 'Oh, Shadow. Come and meet these nice people.' Over her shoulder appeared a small grey spirit with a human face. 'This is Shadow, my guardian ghost. My father gave him to me to protect me.'

'Hello everyone.' Shadow said hurriedly. 'He is coming we should get away from here quickly Krystal.' Krystal looked at him with a worried look on her face.

'Someone's chasing you?' Horohoro asked. 'Who?'

'It doesn't matter. I just have to get out of here.' Krystal muttered.

'We'll help you.' Yoh said. Ren and Anna sighed simultaneously. Yoh had a habit of doing this.

Wow, first chappy done

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