Nightmare

Disowner: I don't own Shaman King or Hao.

Ok. Well I'm back, with the next chapter. And like last chapter don't expect the next one for at least a month. Sorry about the mistakes in the last chapter. I was stupid and didn't edit before putting it on the site.

Yoh thought he beat Zeke but Hao isn't dead. He has now found a new guardian ghost, a fire-fox named Fonix, and now with this new guardian ghost and a mask to hide who Yoh's guardian is he will protect his brother and defeat 'they'.

Now the story begins.

"We better start walking. We have a long way to go." Hao tolled the little fox sprit still sitting on the stump. "Where are we going?" asked Fonix. "To Izumo. For there we can find Yoh." Hao answered. "Izumo? Is it far? How long will it take to get there?" Fonix asked as he jumped off the stump. "You ask a lot of questions. But like I said we have a long way to go." Hao sighed. "Well then jump on!" Fonix shouted with glee Hao gave him a look like he was crazy. "It will be faster if you ride on my back." Fonix remarked. "I don't wont to hurt your feelings but, YOUR TINY!" Hao yelled. Then Fonix became bigger. He's back was on at the same level as Hao's waist, but still looked delicate. "Are you sure that you can carry me?" Hao asked a little shocked. "Now who's asking the questions?" Fonix teased. Hao got on Fonix's back, Fonix staggered a bit but cot his balance and they were off. Hao had poor balance after Fonix started to run. But he was able to hold on. But now that he thought about it his only expires with riding he had was in his first life and that was only once. "Have you never ridden before? Do you wont me to teach you? " Fonix asked. 'He asks a lot of question.' Hao thought, then answered "Once but that was 1000 years ago." Fonix then slowed down then stopped. Fonix turned his head enough to see Hao, then sighed looking at the boy unable to keep his balance on his back. "Alright try this. Move your body so that you're sitting in the middle of my back. Then take hold of the fur around my neck." Fonix told Hao not seeming to mind that he didn't know how to ride. Hao did as Fonix told him and was a bit embarrassed by having his guardian ghost tell him how to ride. But once his body was in the middle of Fonix's back and he had taken hold of the fur around Fonix's neck it was a lot easer to keep his balance. Fonix was now happy with the position of his master. But decided to walk for a bit. As Fonix walked along, 'He's doing this so I learn to balance on him, but if were going to beat them I'm going to need to know how to ride.' Hao thought. "I don't know much about you. Except what I hear." Fonix said breaking the silence that had fallen over them. "Well I know next to nothing about you. Except that I can trust you." Hao replied. "Well right now I wont you to concentrate on staying on my back so I guess we'll have to talk later. Also I'm going to change pace and style of running/ walking so you can get comfy with riding." Fonix tolled him. Hao realized that he wasn't sitting in the middle of Fonix's back, and moved. Hao and Fonix spent the rest of the day training Hao to stay on Fonix when he was moving in different ways. First Fonix had walk, once Hao could keep his balance easily Fonix moved faster like a jog, then a run, then Fonix started jumping over bushes and fallen logs, then they found a place to stop for the night. They stayed in a small clearing only big enough for Fonix, Hao and a fire.

Once they were settled Fonix jumped into Hao lap. "Well we said we would talk. So I'll start. You know that I'm a fire-fox sprit. But I'm not actually a fox. I was a born a shape changer but my real interest was in fire sorcery. Because shape changers are rare my parents could sell me for a huge price…" "So you were unwonted by your parents." Hao intruded. "I was the last of 12 children and because of me my mother was sick for the last 5 month of the pregnant. The cost of the medicine wasn't cheap and she told my father that she was going though and having me, when he tolled her to let him kill me. She died 2 weeks after bringing me into the world. All my older brothers and sisters and my father hated me for what I was going to do. Kill her. But my mother protected me from all of them. She was playing with me in front of the house. My father and all of my older brothers and sisters were watching. I saw a cat, and I changed into a cat. Because I was just a baby I couldn't stay like that for very long. But it was long enough to let all of my family know that I was a shape changer. My mother died 2 days later and my father and brothers and sisters sold me. So I guess I was unwonted." Fonix put his head on Hao's knee. "Who bought you?" Hao asked softly. "A kind noblemen from the far south. He saw though my father's act of 'I don't wonting to sell my child, but without my wife I didn't fell I could rise it'. I grow up in the south with him watching over me and when I was 5 or so I discovered an interest in fire sorcery. The noblemen that raised me got someone to teach me. So I was a shape changer and a fire sorcerer." Fonix tolled him. "Then why are you in a fox form?" Hao asked. "Well one day when I was 18 of years. A black sorcerer that didn't like shape changer, for some reason, challenged me to a duel to the death. By that time I had learned that I could combine my shape changing powers and my fire sorcery to make myself more powerful. Well I changed into a fire-fox and was put under a curse so that I had to stay in that form, and he killed me and the curse was never lifted. Anything else you would like to know about me?" Fonix asked looking up at him. Hao thought about that for a minute then said "No, I think that will do for now." Hao then closed his eyes and started to get ready to go to sleep. "So then what about you?" Fonix knew what Hao was doing he was trying to skip out on telling him about himself. Hao opened one eye to look at Fonix but closed it again. "It's late we can continue tomorrow night." Hao said sleepily then yond. "You're going to tell me about yourself tonight!" Fonix demanded. "If I stay up any later then I will never be able to ride tomorrow." Hao pointed out, and unfortunately for Fonix Hao was right. Fonix jumped out of Hao's lap and tossed a small fallen branch into the fire. "Fine but your telling me about yourself tomorrow. No If, And, or Buts. Get it?" "Got it" "Good." Fonix settled their little argument. (Very little argument.) Hao laid back, listening to the crackling of the fire and slowly relaxed a bit, then drifted into sleep.

Slowly the sound of the fire died and was replaced by the sound of a gentle breeze over long grass. Hao opened his eyes and looked around. He knew where he was, he was on the rock as always in his shaman only kingdom. Where the grass was green and there were trees and bushes that were also green. Pure, clean water and of cores the blue sky with its fluffy white clouds. He breathed in the fresh air, then closed his eyes again. He had this dream often and enjoyed laying here without a care. But something was different this time. There was a shout of pure terrier coming in a voice he knew. "AHHHHHHHHH! HAO, SOMEONE, ANYONE HELP! AHHHHHHHHH!" Hao sat bolt up fully awake now then whispered "Yoh" before leaping for the rock he had been sitting on and running top speed in the direction of the yell. He herd more screams and shouts, "THE'RE GOING TO DISTROY IT!", "THEY'RE TAKING HIM!", "WHERE IS HAO-SAMA!" Hao kept running then there was something that stopped him in his tracks. The Asakura shrine was crumbling. It looked like it was being hit by a tornado and an earth quack all at once. Two shadows then appeared out of the smoke of dust. The shadows were of a tall girl with short hair, and a huge muscled man. Hao then saw and heard something that made his blood ran cold. He saw a third shadow this one he realized that shadow was trying to get away from the muscled one, Hao heard "Hao-sama, aniki where are you?!" The two shadows leaped into the forest then were gone. Then someone noticed him "Hao-sama, they did all of this and then they toke Yoh. They said something about him being great to replace…well…you, but they also said that if he was to difficult they would kill him to get revenge for…well…you. Do you know who they are and what they were talking about? Hao-sama?" Hao looked at the boy, who he now realized was Len (A.K.A Ren. For you people that call him that.) He was also completely beat up and Hao could sense that he was completely out of fury-o-kow. (I have no idea how to spell that.) Hao gave Len a kiss on the forehead to let him know it was going to be all right, then tolled him "Get yourself and any other that are ignored treated." Then ran into the forest after them and his otouto. Right now he wished this didn't have to be so much of a dream. He had to give up his teleportation power and a bit of his telepath power too, because things were now very pure. But he was willing to give those powers up if it meant the earth was safe. (I'm getting off cores. So back to the real story.) Hao tried to sense where Yoh was but with no luck. That was weird he and Yoh could sense where the other one was no matter how far apart they were, but he could not sense him. Hao had to resort to good old-fashioned tracking. Hao looked for foot prints broken sticks or anything that would show that someone ran though here. Plus Yoh was smart enough to leave some sort of trail for Hao to follow, Hao hoped. Hao then saw it; it was a small piece of green cloth hanging on a branch. It was a piece of Yoh's jeans, Hao also figured out why he couldn't find a trail; he was looking for it on the ground when the people with Yoh were traveling in the trees. Hao now followed the clear trail in the trees. Then the trail ended, Hao looked in all the nearby trees for it, but then he realized something the tree that the trail had ended on, he reckoned that tree. "The Tree Of Shadows." Hao whispered to himself. Hao jumped down and in front of the tree, he knew what to do, he put his hand lightly on the trunk then sent some dark energy into the tree. The tree then became flexible Hao walked forwarded and the trunk move around his body. Hao was now in a stone walled place with chandelles, but they didn't have candles they were just fire hanging from the ceiling and there were three hallways, to the left, right, and straight ahead. Hao looked around quickly to make sure he wasn't seen. Hao could sense Yoh. It was coming from…what direction? Hao closed his eyes and concentrated he could sense Yoh from…not there. Hao's eyes shot open and he turned and ran down the left hallway. 'They brought him there already. I guess they mean business.' Hao though to himself. He knew exactly where to go, exactly where Yoh was. He made a left, a right, another right, and a left and then straight ahead there was a light. Hao ran to the end of the hall but did not go into the room, he hid in the shadows at the end of the hall looking in. What he saw made him happy and scared at the same time. He saw Yoh, his otouto was now out of the muscled mans grip and was now holding his sword in front of himself ready to defend himself. Yoh was no match for the three of them the woman had taken yoh's back and swiftly kicked him back into the muscled ones arms. "Now, now you must behave yourself, if you wish to serve us like your aniki did." Said the third one in a smooth tune. The third one was tall and muscled, but not overly like the other one. He toke the sword of light from Yoh and throw it across the room. Yoh gave the one holding him a good kick to the stomach. That made him let go of Yoh. Yoh then ran for his sword. But the woman kicked him so that he hit the wall close to where Hao was. Yoh was covered in blood, there was no way he could fight any more, but they were still coming for him. Hao jumped out to his otouto's side and was ready to protect him. He hugged Yoh to his chest and looked up at the three shadows that stood above them. They seemed to stay shadows even now when they were standing so close and with light right over them. "Your still alive. Why didn't you come back?" the third shadow asked in a smooth but slightly angry tone. They all reached down to grab him and Yoh. Hao just hugged Yoh even harder to his chest. "sama…hao…hao…HAO-SAMA!" Where was that voice coming from?

Hao woke with a start, he looked around quickly he was in the clearing with Fonix looking at him. "Are you ok?" Fonix asked him. "Yes just a nightmare. Also don't call me sama." "Good and I wont. Now it's morning are you well to travel?" "Of cores. Lets get going."

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