A/N: Alright, on to chapter two of this fiction, and things are continuing to get darker in my mind. To recap what happened, Ren and Pirika encountered a strange man who told Ren something in a strange language, and then the poor man had strange things happen to him. The strangeness only gets stranger as Tokyo begins to sink under the ground. In today's chapter, it only gets stranger. Thanks to those of you who have reviewed. To the chapter!

Chapter two: The Black Sunrise

Ren continued to star out towards the sinking city, and he couldn't help but wonder what was going on. He felt a wave of dread fall over him, and suddenly he fell forward pain.Tried his best to hide it, but Anna and Pirika both noticed right away. Pirika placed a hand on his back, but Ren pushed her way and told her roughly;

"I'm alright, I just twisted something wrong."

Anna just stared at him, as if she guessed that something else was wrong, but she didn't say anything. Just then, Yoh, Horohoro and Tammy walked into the room. Yoh had a worried expression on his face, but still looked pretty calm about things. Horo on the other hand was talking to Tammy, who looked down right horrified, about the sinking of the city and what it could mean. Ren took the moment of distraction and left the room, leaving out the side room that led to the living room.

The pain he had been experiencing before was still percent, but it had cool slightly, leaving a dull short of pain within him. He coughed and sat down on the couch. "What the hell is going on with me?"

'You seem a little upset,' said a voice, and when Ren turned towards the sound and to his horror he saw Yin standing there.

"What the hell? What are you doing here, Pirika killed you."

Yin laughed, and walked over to him. "I'm not going to be here for too long, but only to give you a warning.'

"Don't be so generous," Ren said, with a lot of spite in his voice. Yin shook his head.

"You know, things are going to change for you, for all of you actually. With in the ending of the week, you will fall into darkness.

"Considering it's coming from you, I don't believe it."

He laughed, a dark bitter laugh. "Well, maybe not completely into darkness. You will be tied to the darkness though."

Pain erupted inside of Ren and he doubled over in pain. "Just shut-shut the hell up."

Yin bent forward, to look Ren in the face. "I wonder what Pirika would think if she found out what's happening."

"Shut up," Ren went to punch the dark shaman, but he had already disappeared. In his anger, he grabbed a chair and threw it across the room. The chair hit the wall and broke into many pieces, but Ren took no notice of it as he left the house. He had to figure out what was going on, even though he didn't know where to begin.

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"Ren has been acting pretty strange lately," Yoh said, looking calm despite the slight worry in his dark brown eyes. The others nodded, all except Pirika who was still looking at the sinking Tokyo.

She was looking very worried, and sad, but she didn't know what to do. Of course, who would know what to do in a situation like this? Tokyo is sinking, and Ren is acting strange. She looked towards the door and then walked out. Horo turned to Anna.

"Do you think 'it' is starting?"

"I don't know," she replied calmly. Waving her hand toward the city, she shook her head. "The signs do show it though."

Yoh crossed his arms. "You don't mean…"

"I do. I think that the time has come."

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"Ren! Ren wait up!"

Ren stopped in his tracks as the cool voice of Pirika met his ears and he turned around towards her. She was the same emotionally as she when the Dark Shaman thing accrued, but she had changed. Her hair had grown back, and was wavy now. Normally she would hold her hair back in a pony tail but today it was lose and hung around her shoulders. She was beautiful, and Ren knew that very well. In fact, he couldn't stop thinking about it.

"What is it?" He spoke coolly, and calmly, but there was a slight hint of worry and fight in his voice. It made her even more concern.

"What's wrong, why are you leaving?"

He looked away, lowering his yes towards the ground and he didn't know what to say. He ran a hand through his now jet black hair and he looked at her again. "I want to figure things out. What's going on to the city and…what…"

"Is something going on?"

He tried to say something, but there was a loud rumble coming from far away that blocked out what Ren was saying and as they looked over towards the source of the sound, a wave of dust hit them, blinding them. When they could see again, they saw that an airplane had crashed into the ground a mile away. It had exploded, fire wrapping around it like a creature devouring a freshly killed meal.

"What the hell," Horo cried as he ran over to look closer at the downed plane. Yoh, Anna and Tamara had followed also, and each held a worried expression.

"The plan just fell," Pirika said with a large amount of worry dripping of her voice.

"This is worse then I thought," Anna said. "Look."

She pointed down towards the plane, and they saw that people were crawling out of the ruin plane. Although they were missing parts, they were still moving. Ren rubbed his eyes, muttering to himself. "Just like a freaking zombie movie."

Anna looked at Yoh and he nodded. "Let's get down there guys," he said. "We can't let them get to the city. What if there are still people there alive?"

Ren and Horo nodded. "Let's go," said the Aniu boy, he was smirking happily. Ren shook his head, but as Yoh and the boy ran off down the hill, he followed after them. Pirika watched, although she wasn't sure what was going on. Anna had turned to Tamara and was talking to her in a quiet voice.

"Anna, what's going on?"

Anna turned to Pirika and shook her head. "It is a little hard to explain, but you'll understand soon."

She looked nervously at her and then looked back at the boys, but she knew that she would have to ask Anna about it later.

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"Just don't slow me down," Ren called to Horo, who gave him a look.

"Hey, what's that suppose to mean?"

Ren just smirked and made his way towards the zombies. He knew this fight would at least be somewhat simple considering that he had seen enough zombie movies to fill up a house. Just get rid of the head, very simple.

He hoped it would be that easy.

Yoh didn't even bother with his oversoul, but just smashed through the Zombies with his katana with out much trouble. Horo had been favoring a new kind of weapon, an ice spear of shorts, given to him to by tribe up north. Of course, Ren fought with his kon dow and cut through the demons with a cruelty only befitting a member of the Tao family.

There was nothing special about the zombies, so they handled the treat quite well. Ren smirked after they were done, looking down at the dead bodies around him. "How were these dead reanimated? There weren't any Shaman around were there?"

Yoh bend down, looking at one of the zombies closely and shook his head. "These dead were brought back to life by something stronger then a shaman."

"Stronger then a Shaman!"

Horohoro looked over at Yoh, who nodded. "A spell caster like Faust, a necromancer but one who does not use shamanic power to cast his spells, so that makes him very dangerous."

"This is going to be great fun," Ren said, shacking his head. Suddenly he got another wave of pain, and he fell forward.

"Ren, what's wrong?"

"Xuat zexen'uma tarthe!" 1

Yoh was taken aback. "Ren!"

"Gi nau... ol's ho'tuc 'sohna..." 2

Horo looked back towards Pirika and shook his head, telling her that he didn't know what was going on either. He looked back towards Ren and knelled down beside him. "Honglath."3

He looked up at Horo, surprised. 'How does he know how to speak it?'

The Aniu boy stood back up, and looked at Yoh. "He should be fine now, if he has calmed down yet. There is no reason to worry."

He nodded, and helped his friend up off the ground. "Things have gotten really strange... Huh Ren?"

He nodded. "Yeah, they sure have. At least I am not speaking that off the wall language."

Yoh laughed. "Really odd…"

"Wait, Horo, how do you know it?"

Horo didn't turn back to look at him, but said; "We better hurry up, they're waiting for us."

He ran up the hill, leaving poor Ren confused and frustrated. Yoh ran up after his friend and Ren had to run to catch up. Sighing when he reached them finally, he stared at Anna.

"What the hell is going on, there must be something you know."

"I can't say anything," She said calmly. You'll have to figure that out yourself."

"Fuck, why can't you say anything!"

"Because of that."

It had been night when the air plane had fallen, so the sun was starting to come up. But something was very wrong with the way the sun looked. The sun was surrounded by what looked to be black-violet clouds that blocked out all the light. The only light that could escape bathed the landscape in a violet light. It gave the landscape a short of unearthly and creepy feel.

"What the hell, it that?"

"Our new foe, but this time we fight together."

Ren looked at it, and shook his head. "Vith… 4 This is great. How are we suppose to fight our own sun?"

Anna shook her head. "It's not the sun we will be fighting; it's the Beings that come from it."

He smirked. "This keeps on getting better and better."

Pirika grabbed Ren's hand and looked at him, her eyes pleading. "This is going to be hard, please let me help."

Ren looked at her, and then back at the sun. He wasn't sure. He couldn't help but smile slightly at her as he gave in under her stare. Those eyes are horrible. "Aright, you can help. But when things get bad, don't yell at me if I tie you up and throw you in a closet."

She nodded in agreement and then went back to staring at the corrupted sun. Who knew what this journey had in store for them. Anna began talking to Tamara in a quiet voice, and they walked away. Horo and Yoh joined them, leaving Ren and Pirika alone on the hill. She turned to look at him again, and then looked at his hat.

"Why are you still wearing that?"

"I didn't have a chance to take it off," he replied, smiling. He turned away from the cliff and began to walk towards the others. Pirika shrugged and followed him.

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"It is quiet funny, isn't it?"

"Yes my lord, quiet amusing."

"They have no idea that their greatest enemy is already among them."

"How long till he completes his awakening?"

"Not too long now. Only a few days left, and then the true fun can begin."

End of chapter two

A/N: Alright that is done. It took me a little while to finish it, but that was because I was playing kingdom hearts II. Anyone who has played that before knows just how addictive it can be. So, how do you like it so far? I'm hoping to see reviews from some of my older readers from part one of the quartet review, so I can know what they think of it so far. This may not be a pure Shaman king fan fiction, if I can't think of any other characters I could add, besides the ones I am using now. Sorry if they seem kind of OOC, that is because I have changed them to meet my likes. I like the results. Well, next time, the transformation that Ren is going through becomes clear to everyone he was trying to hide it from, and the first out of five villains they are going to have to fight makes his appearance. Till next time! R&R

1 "Xuat zexen'uma tarthe!"

"No, stay away!"

2 "Gi nau... ol's ho'tuc 'sohna..."

"Oh no.. it's happening again.."

3 "Honglath."

"Calm."

4 "Vith."

"Fuck."