Yemi's Strange Behaviour
In the darkness of the night Yemi and Akuma were hiding in the woods, Yemi seemed really distracted and Akuma was not comfortable with it. She was sitting by a tree drawing pictures in the dirt with her finger dreamily; he'd never seen her like this.
"What's wrong Yemi?" he asked at last.
"Nothing," she sighed stopping.
"Yemi, I know you better than that, something's bothering you, is it Len?" he asked again.
"Partly, I'm trying to think whether we can trust him, I know Yoh and Trey and Ryu are good people, Morty too, if they have found a friendship with him, maybe we can too," she replied.
"I know I can't trust Len, even though he can't challenge you flames of revenge burn in his heart, he may be stronger now and could hurt you severally," replied Akuma, "but I will always protect you."
"Maybe Faust will too?" sighed Yemi.
"I don't trust him either!" snapped Akuma startling her.
"Why not!" she cried.
"I just don't, it's hard to say, something about him, I just don't like," replied Akuma.
"I like him," Yemi said quietly. Akuma turned abruptly away as if he didn't want to hear that.
"What's with you? I've never seen you act so jealous," said Yemi bravely.
"Jealous! Why do you think I'm jealous!" yelled Akuma returning to her.
"You didn't like how he spoke to me, you told Morty you don't trust him, I only had to say I liked him and you go cold! There's nothing wrong with Faust!" snapped Yemi. Akuma was startled, they had never argued like this, he loved Yemi dearly and in truth hated Faust because Yemi liked him, he couldn't deal with her thinking about him.
When morning arrived Yoh and I started out to look for them, we looked all over the village with no luck so we tried the woods, there we found Akuma alone.
"Akuma?" I said looking around for Yemi, "Where's Yemi?"
"She's disappeared, we had a big argument last night and when I awoke this morning she was gone, it's not like her, she knows how dangerous it is going off alone and I can't find her," replied Akuma worried.
"You two had a fight, but you two love each other so much," I gasped.
"That Morty, is a fact I wonder about these days, I told you before, Yemi longs for human attachment but is scared of being used like how Len used her, I've tried to fill that void with my love but now, I believe another has sparked her interest," replied Akuma getting angry again.
"We have to find her, Akuma I'm afraid there are some very strong and dangerous Shaman around here and if they find Yemi and discover her secret we could lose her," explained Yoh.
"I've tried but she's disabled our link so I can't find her life force, it's like she's really tried to ditch me," replied Akuma.
"Do not worry my friend, we will find her and this will all be cleared up as a misunderstanding, I am sure of it," said Amedamaru appearing.
"Let's hurry," said Yoh and we continued our search.
Yemi meanwhile was in the village wandering around under a robe, she was looking for something but in the heat she decided to rest by a fountain.
"This is silly, I'm running around like a schoolgirl, this is pointless, maybe I should just let Akuma find me," she sighed disheartedly.
"There you are, I've been looking for you," came Faust's voice from behind her. She took off the hood of the robe and smiled at him as he came to sit beside her.
"You were looking for me? I was looking for you," she said blushing.
"We didn't get much of a chance to talk last night, so I thought I'd come find you," he replied.
"Wow cosmic, I thought the same thing," she said.
"You're really shy aren't you, such a pretty thing and really sweet but so shy," smiled Faust and Yemi giggled.
"Thank you," she said after a while.
"So where's that demon guardian of yours?" he asked and Yemi was a little taken aback.
"You, you know, I'm a?" she stuttered.
"Yes, but do not worry, I'm not interested in challenging you, I'm just interested, in you," he smiled.
"Really," smiled Yemi happily.
"Yes of course, I can tell we're going to be great friends," he chuckled and Yemi giggled back.
"Faust, you found her!" I cried seeing them at last.
"Oh no," sighed Yemi.
"Hi everyone," waved Faust before being picked up by Akuma and thrown into the fountain.
"You get away from her!" he yelled.
"Faust! Are you ok?" cried Yemi.
"Yes, just fine," he spluttered on the water.
"Akuma what do you think you're doing!" cried Yemi.
"Yemi you had me worried sick, it's not like you to run off, especially here, what if some Shaman had challenged you, I couldn't be there to protect you and now with these really powerful Shaman around, Yemi what were you thinking?" worried Akuma.
"She was safe with me!" said Faust standing up to him.
"You shut up and stay away from Yemi!" yelled Akuma.
"What strong Shaman?" asked Yemi.
"Yemi if you stay here you'll be in grave danger. A group of Shaman called The X-Laws and an evil and powerful Shaman called Zeek are here in this village, the X-Laws ultimate goal is to destroy Zeek but if either found out about you your life would be worse than it was with Len, I beg you to leave now while you can and don't give these others even the smallest chance of discovering there's a Demon Caller around here," explained Yoh.
"No one will know, or find out about me, if we stay hidden under our robes and don't cause a stir we'll be fine," defied Yemi, she seemed like she was trying to delay going no matter the danger.
"Yemi what's with you lately, this isn't like you at all, I can't let you take this risk, I was powerless to stop the torture you suffered from Len, will you put me through those feelings again?" pleaded Akuma.
"Yoh don't you think Yemi would be safe if she stayed with us, we can protect her from both Zeek and The X-Laws," explained Faust.
"I agree, if these people are as powerful as you say I may need your help," replied Yemi.
"What do you say Yoh?" I asked.
"Ok, that's sounds like a plan," he smiled.
"But what about Len and him," Akuma glared at Faust.
"Len, Trey and Jaco are staying in another place because they're a different group, Faust is with me, don't worry, he's trustworthy," replied Yoh.
"Yemi I advise against this, we should just go, that would be safest of all," said Akuma but Yemi shook her head.
"No Akuma, Yoh I'm happy to stay with you and your friends, lead the way," she told us and that's what we did.
"So you think Yemi will be safe if she stays with us, and where are we going to put her? What with Tamara we have barely any room for ourselves," said Ana when we got back.
"See, we should just go," said Akuma again.
"Ana come on, I know this little house isn't big but Ryu, Morty and I share one room, you and Tamara share another and Faust has one of his own, there's room in all three rooms," replied Yoh.
"She could sleep in my room," piped up Faust.
"Why that little," growled Akuma.
"Akuma hush," whispered Yemi, "that would be fine. You see Ana if there are these powerful Shaman about it would be nice for me to be close to friends, for friendship as well as protection."
"As far as I care if you want protection go find yourself a master but as for friendship," said Ana turning back into the house, "I guess you can stay."
"Yeah! Thanks Ana!" I cheered.
"See I told you it was a good idea," smiled Faust to Yemi, Yemi smiled and nodded but Akuma just glared at him.
"Shall I show you to your room Yemi," smiled Faust taking Yemi's hand and leading her away. I watched them go and realised Akuma had stayed behind.
"Are you alright Akuma?" I asked.
"One day, I'll have that Faust's head," he growled scarily. I didn't understand but I guessed it was Faust causing the rift between my two friends though I couldn't believe for one moment Yemi loved Faust and then there was Eliza, like Faust would forsake her for Yemi, I wanted to tell Akuma to calm down but when I turned back he'd vanished so I went inside with Yoh.
"This is the room, there's a bed over there, I'll sleep on the floor," said Faust.
"You don't have to, I know this is your bed," smiled Yemi.
"It's ok really, I'll be comfortable anywhere. That demon of yours is really strong, does he usually have such an attitude problem?" joked Faust, Yemi just laughed.
"No, Akuma's been acting really weird lately, I think, I know it sounds stupid, but I think he's jealous of you," she explained sitting on the bed.
"And why's that? We're both human or does he want you to only be friends with demons?" asked Faust sitting beside her.
"I don't know, he's fine with Morty," replied Yemi sadly before yawning, she was falling asleep against Faust's shoulder so he decided to tuck her into the bed instead.
"Thank you Faust," she said sleepily.
"Don't worry about Zeek or the X-Laws, I'm here," he said as she fell asleep. As he stepped back Eliza appeared Faust hugged her happily then showed her the child in his bed.
"What do you think my beloved? This is the girl who could help bring you back from the dead," he said to her standing beside the bed. Eliza looked at him and nodded.
"You approve! I'm so glad, we really should thank Len, he gave me the idea in the first place," smiled Faust, "I guess there's more than one way to skin a cat, or in this case, get a Demon Caller." Eliza smiled happily and even looked like she was giggling and Faust decided to go to sleep also. Then Akuma appeared in the room he saw Yemi was asleep all ready and so he had missed his chance to talk to her. He looked to Faust sleeping on the floor and wished he were dead, he could do it but that could cause just the stir needed to alert these strong Shaman to Yemi's whereabouts and he wasn't about to put her in such danger. So he stayed there beside her sleeping form hoping perhaps that Faust would awaken first and he could warn him off his beloved Caller or else warn Yemi off of Faust.
As day broke Akuma got his wish, Faust awakened and sat up almost immediately. He tilted his head to the side and looked behind him to where Akuma sat.
"Good morning, and why have you come?" he asked politely.
"I am Yemi's Guardian Demon, and I love her. I'm warning you to keep yourself to yourself, Yemi is mine," he said sternly.
"Don't you think Yemi should decide if that is such the case?" asked Faust standing, "I don't mean to cause a stir but she seems very lonely, I just want to be friends, surly you can understand that?"
"I don't trust you, humans are known for ulterior motives, their hearts are never true," replied Akuma and Faust seemed a little angered.
"Believe me my demon friend, my heart is very true," he glared leaving just as Yemi began to wake up.
"Akuma," she smiled happily.
"Good morning, you ok Yemi?" asked Akuma caringly coming to her side. She hugged him warmly possibly an apology for her strange behaviour yesterday and sat up. She looked around and saw Faust was gone.
"I know you're going to hate me asking, but, where's Faust? Am I really that late awakening that everyone's gone?" she asked looking away.
"No my love, you're fine, day is barely come, he was gone by the time I came," he lied.
"Oh, I thought he was going to sleep here with me," she sounded disappointed.
"You don't need him, I'm always here," smiled Akuma.
"I guess you're right, come on let's go find some breakfast," smiled Yemi and they went downstairs.
Despite the earliness we were all sitting down eating already, Ryu had cooked of course and we were all enjoying a nice meal.
"Good morning Yemi, did you sleep well?" I asked her.
"Yes, thank you Morty," she smiled then she looked round and noticed Faust, he looked back to her and winked smiling.
"There are two more places for you and Akuma Yemi," invited Yoh, one of these places was beside Faust, it was like he'd cleverly placed himself there.
"Thank you Yoh," said Yemi sitting beside Faust with Akuma on the other side.
"Did you sleep well?" whispered Faust, Yemi turned and nodded yes, since her mouth was full.
"Master Yoh, have we received any news on the Shaman fights today?" asked Ryu.
"I think it's Len's team today, I haven't heard anything," replied Yoh.
"Why don't I go over to Len's and find out?" said Faust.
"Good idea and while you're out get something for dinner," ordered Ana. Faust got up and went to leave but then Yemi followed.
"Faust, can I come with you?" she asked.
"But I'm going to Len's?" he asked surprised.
"I'd feel safer if I was with you, besides maybe it's time I let our feud come to rest," replied Yemi.
"Then sure, come on," he smiled taking Yemi with him. I'd watched this with Akuma he seemed really angry but I couldn't believe she wanted to see Len so soon.
"Should we follow them Akuma?" I asked.
"I'm going, I won't leave her in his care, especially near that Len," he said leaving.
"Hay wait for me!" I cried following.
We followed them and it seemed Faust was taking the long way.
"Where's Akuma?" he asked after a while Yemi looked round and realised her demon was not with her.
"I, I don't know, oh dear," worried Yemi, "what if Len doesn't quite want to forgive me?"
"Hay it's ok, I won't let him hurt you, I'll protect you since Akuma's not around," smiled Faust.
"You will, really?" she swooned happily and he nodded, on some kind of happy impulse Yemi then hugged Faust laughing happily and when he let her go they continued.
"You see Morty, that is what I mean about him," growled Akuma as we hid behind a wall.
"He's just being friendly?" I said I couldn't see the harm of a hug.
"Yemi really likes him Morty, he's going to use that against her," he continued.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"He's going to challenge her, only Yemi won't fight to her full because she likes him so much, she'll practically hand him the victory or worse become his Caller willingly!" worried Akuma. I couldn't believe Faust could be planning this, sure he was creepy and of course I'd had my own serious run in with him but he'd said it himself, he had Eliza, why did he need her?
"I have to stop this Morty, I won't see her working for another Shaman, with Len I came too close to losing her, I won't go through it all again," he said to me, "Will you help me Morty?" I didn't know what to say, Faust was my friend and so was Yemi, they really looked happy but I didn't get a chance to reply.
"Opacho, tell me, who is that vision walking around with Yoh's friend?" asked Zeek watching from a rooftop.
"I don't know Master Zeek, maybe she's a new member of their group?" replied Opacho.
"Hmm, she seems more, I think we should watch them for a while, just to see what they're up to," decided Zeek and as Faust and Yemi walked on the two hopped over the rooftops to keep them in their sights. Meanwhile in the camp of the X-Laws the Iron Maiden Jean had some distressing news.
"My X-Laws, an evil force is loose throughout Dobi Village, it is not Zeek but is just as deadly, it must be eliminated," worried her scared solemn voice.
"My lady tell us who it is and we shall carry out your request," said Marco.
"The black heart of the Third Realm has emerged into this world, a Demon Caller walks among the normal Shaman, she must be destroyed before she can bring chaos to the world with the dark power stored inside her. Go into Dobi Village, search for the one called Yemi, she is the Caller, go now my X-Laws, may justice prevail," replied Jean.
"As you wish my lady," said Marco bowing his head, then he turned to Lyzerg, "this is an important mission, time for you to show us what you're made of Lyzerg. Everyone follow me, we will find this Demon Caller and rid the world of her existence."
Finally we made it to Len's place, Trey answered the door and Akuma and I stayed hidden.
"Hi Faust what are you doing here? And Yemi?" asked Trey.
"Hi Trey…" Yemi trailed off.
"Yemi! Oh so nice to see you back again! It's also nice to see your front too! Get it? Back and front!" laughed Jaco before being pounded by Len arriving at the door.
"Shut up Jaco," he said throwing his now unconscious comrade aside. Yemi stopped laughing as she saw Len, his eyes still seemed to show traces of that monster who had severally whipped her almost taking her life but she bravely stood before him no matter how scared she was.
"Oh it's you? What do you want?" he asked.
"Yoh wants to know if your team is fighting today?" asked Faust.
"Well as a matter of fact we are, anything else?" he said again.
"What's wrong Len?" came Jun's voice coming to the door also. She smiled when she saw Yemi.
"Yemi, it's so good to see you, how have you been?" Jun asked greatly embarrassing her brother.
"Jun!" he cried but Yemi smiled, maybe Yoh was right, Jun was defiantly nicer than before, maybe Len was just hiding it.
"I've been fine, I came to see how you two were faring, when I left I felt I'd put an end to Len's Shaman career," smiled Yemi.
"Well I'll have you know it takes more than a little set of vines to hold me back these days," he huffed, Yemi giggled, she could tell now he was hiding a softer side and that made her happy.
"Listen, we're sorry for hurting you so bad before," said Jun.
"It's ok, I think I got my payback last time, if you can be friends with Yoh then I guess you're not all bad after all," replied Yemi. Jun smiled it felt good to finally reconciliate with the girl they'd hurt more than any.
"We'll see you at the fight then, bye," waved Faust beginning to leave but as they started down the road Lyzerg and the X-Laws appeared.
"We seek the Demon Caller Yemi! Hand her over to us and you will not be harmed!" commanded Marco firmly.
"Oh no the X-Laws!" I cried.
"Those are the X-Laws, then Yemi needs me," said Akuma vanishing.
"Who are you!" squeaked Yemi frightened.
"We are the X-Laws and you are to be destroyed," replied Lyzerg.
"I will not let you hurt her!" shouted Faust.
"You'll have to get by us too!" came Len's voice as he, Trey and Jaco appeared ready to fight Jun saw me as she left.
"Morty, go get Yoh!" she cried and I ran off to do as she said.
"Friends of Yoh, we do not wish to quarrel with you, this being is full of evil like Zeek and our leader Jean has ordered her immediate destruction!" replied Marco.
"Yemi I'm here," said Akuma appearing.
"Good Akuma, seems these Shaman want to destroy me, we won't let that happen will we?" said Yemi beginning to revert to her true form.
"Certainly not, let's do this," replied Akuma.
"Right," said Yemi and the sky grew dark.
"What's happening!" cried Faust battered by winds caused by the force of her power.
"Just watch, Yemi's going to pulverise these creeps," called Len.
"I'm scared," cried Jaco cowering.
"Demonic Darkness!" cried Yemi. Yemi was instantly transformed into her powerful demon form with a force that scattered the X-Laws.
"Chloe go!" cried Lyzerg letting his crystal pendulum fly but Yemi grabbed it stopping it in it's tracks.
"I heard you were powerful but this toy seems to contradict those rumours," she said lifting Lyzerg off the floor with the wire.
"Hay put me down!" cried Lyzerg.
"Dark Bind!" commanded Yemi and Lyzerg was trapped in her powerful vines as she let go of the pendulum.
"This is incredible," gasped Faust.
"Not putting you off is she," joked Len.
"Do you still wish to fight me? Or shall I let him go?" asked Yemi that evil glint in her eyes.
"We will destroy you in the name of Jean!" cried one of the X-Laws.
"Very well, Akuma Demon Strike!" cried Yemi. Lyzerg cried out for help but as Akuma struck Lyzerg was protected by Marco's Arch Spirit and released at the same time.
"What is that!" cried Yemi hiding her eyes from the intense light.
"The power of goodness and light which can destroy any evil," replied Marco.
"This doesn't look good," worried Jaco.
"Don't worry, Yemi's hardly warmed up," said Jun confidently from behind him.
"Akuma lets stamp out this light!" cried Yemi.
"Demons of the Third Realm arise for battle!" commanded Akuma and their demon minions began to seep out of everything around them.
"Surround that thing in Darkness, Dark Assault!" cried Yemi.
"Defend yourself!" cried Marco. The demons were batted away but kept coming until they finally engulfed the Arch Spirit in the mass of black.
Yemi's Amulet began to glow wildly; she was devouring every drop of power that the demons could suck out of the Arch Spirit as it disintegrated away.
"Light can break through Darkness but only Darkness remains when the Light is engulfed, remember that. Vines of Darkness, Bind them before me!" cried Yemi. The X-Laws seemed utterly powerless as they were all trapped in vines and had their furyoku drained. Instead of finishing them Yemi let them go after a while and returned to human form leaving a scattering of X-Laws in her wake.
"I am not evil X-Laws, though my power is that of the Third Realm my heart is pure, still I have the power to leave not only you but any of my challengers in the Spirit World, tell your leader that if she let's me be then all will be well, if she is foolish enough to challenge me her life as well as all yours will be ended," warned Yemi as her power finally diminished. Marco, Lyzerg and the others staggered away defeated as Yemi returned to the others and Yoh, Ryu and I arrived on the scene, we couldn't believe our eyes.
"What, what happened here, Morty told us the X-Laws were attacking?" asked Yoh.
"They did but Yemi, as she well should, thwarted their power," smiled Len.
"It was amazing, there were these things that came from the ground and then, swish smack, zip! The X-Laws were defeated!" cried Jaco overexcited.
"Yemi, you defeated the X-Laws?" I gasped.
"Oh my poor Lyzerg, is he ok!" worried Ryu.
"You mean the kid with green hair, yes he'll be fine, why? Friend of yours?" asked Yemi.
"Oh my little prodigy if only he had not gone with those cursed X-Laws," sighed Ryu.
"Hay boss get a grip will you," said Tocagaro embarrassed.
"What did they want? Yemi's services?" asked Yoh.
"No, they wanted to destroy me, but they were hardly a threat, I realise who I'm complimenting when I say Len was a much tougher fight," said Yemi.
"Jean thinks Yemi's evil and wants her destroyed," explained Trey.
"But that won't happen," said Akuma and Faust together.
"How many times must I tell you to lay off her!" shouted Akuma.
"How many times must I tell you she's safe with me!" shouted Faust.
"You want her as your Caller don't you!" shouted Akuma.
"That's preposterous! I would never think of challenging her!" shouted Faust.
"What's wrong Faust, chicken?" teased Len.
"You stay out of this!" shouted the two rivals. Suddenly they heard a thud and looked to where Yemi had stood, now she lay.
"Yemi!" they said.
"Are you ok?" asked Faust but she still lay, "come on wake up."
"Stop that, Yemi is fine, she absorbed a lot of power from those X-Laws and now her body is trying to cope with the influx of all that power, she'll be asleep for quite a while," explained Akuma picking her up.
"I'm glad the X-Laws couldn't beat her, we should get her back to the house, she can rest there," I said and we walked off.
"Master Zeek, what do you think?" asked Opacho excitedly.
"I think that when she awakens I should pay her a little visit, anyone able to vanquish the X-Laws so easily truly deserves to be in my Shaman Kingdom, and as a Demon Caller, having her on my side will only increase my power and make it even easier for me to win the Shaman Tournament," Zeek replied evilly before laughing with Opacho.