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Big Guy Bill led Hao up over a nearby hill. Yoh followed curiously, despite muttered threats from Anna, who followed them.
"Well, what happened was we found the little Iron Maiden girl, at least, we thought it was her." Bill explained nervously. Hao nodded, waiting for him to continue. "There were three humans with her, a boy and two girls. Naturally we thought to get rid of them, only...It didn't go as planned." By this point they had made it to the top of the hill. They stared down at the strange scene below.
Zang-Ching and Blocken were fighting four figures...and getting their asses handed to them. The one creature was a nine-foot tall, white, wolf-like creature that stood on powerful hind legs, wearing a pale green kilt and brandishing a white wood staff. The others looked relatively human. The one was wearing black armour that looked like a dragon and hitting as hard as they could, and there was a black haired boy that was directing the white, blue-striped tiger at his side to attack.
But it was the final person that drew their attention. Big Guy Bill was right, at first glance it looked like the Iron Maiden. But the Iron Maiden did not wear a bright crimson halter top that showed off a neat slab of pale stomach, or black jeans that clung to her slim, curvy form. And her weapon......
"That looks like Matamune's Ogre Slayer." Yoh gasped. A flicker of surprise flitted across Hao's face, but was gone almost as soon as it came, tucked behind his cocky smirk.
"So you left the fight?" Hao asked idly. Bill gulped.
"The others asked me to go find you so you could see this for yourself." He replied nervously. "I'm going back in." He raised a hand and his team of dead football players lined up. He launched himself at the wolf-creature.
Shereha/Katie's ears pricked and she turned to see Bill and over twenty football players barrelling down at her. She merely grinned in a feral way and raised her staff.
"FREEZE!"
A flash of light erupted from the staff and when it died away Bill and his football team were completely encased in ice. She looked at her staff. "Huh, that packs quite a wallop." She swayed slightly, a light wave of dizziness washing over her. "Probably don't want to do that more than once in a fight." She muttered as she watched her friends finish pummelling the others.
"I think they'll think twice before going after a bunch of helpless-looking humans." Jeanne said, the huge sword at her side vanishing and becoming Matamune.
"Matamune!" The four Crazies turned at the sound of the voice and looked at the younger, shorter Yoh barrelling down the hill. Anna followed him, grumbling, while Hao made his way down, taking his own sweet time.
"What are you doing here?" Yoh asked Matamune wide-eyed, skidding to a halt in front of the small cat spirit.
"And what are you doing with her?" The younger Hao demanded. Matamune merely flicked an ear nonchalantly.
"There's no need for finger pointing, Hao-sama." He said calmly. "It is a long and very interesting story as to why I am here."
"Yep, and all that jazz." Shereha/Katie commented distractedly, watching her ice melt from around Big Guy Bill and his football team. "Woof, that really did pack a wallop."
"Yup! Just remind me not to make you mad I don't want to be pulling icicles out of my hair for an hour." Meg said with a smile, she waved her hand, letting her dragon armor dissolve back into Cheko's small form. The shamans stared in surprise at the small but lean, pony-tailed, brown-haired, grey-blue eyed girl that now stood in front of them. Shereha/Katie grinned and then Katie appeared to step out of Shereha. Shereha vanished with a snort.
"She loves me." Katie said, skipping over to the other girls. The shamans stared at this strange-looking character. She had blue eyes like Meg, but her brown hair had been buzzed to about two centimeters long. Jeanne laughed.
"If that's love then I'm a hippopotamus." She teased. Katie and Meg grinned.
"I don't know Jeannie." Meg said, looking over the younger girl. "You have gained a little."
"Yeah, like here." Katie said, poking her in one of her boobs.
"Or here!" Meg giggled, pinching her bottom.
"EEKK! Stop that." Jeanne laughed swatting playfully at her hand.
"Is anyone going to tell us what's going on?" Anna demanded. Meg opened her mouth, but was interrupted by a frantic bark. Mokuba, Jeanne, Katie and Meg turned as one to regard their two dogs that had been tied to a tree. Bo was straining at his leash and Jaz was lying down, giving the puppy dog eyes and whimpering softly. Katie sighed.
"Better let them off the leashes." Jeanne and Mokuba nodded and walked over to the dogs. Katie spread her bare feet and locked her knees, bracing herself. Bo was let off his leash and bolted straight at her. She let out a whoof as Bo crashed into her, rearing up on his hind legs and attempting to lick her to death.
"Ok, ok, Bo. I get it, you're happy, now please, please get off you dopey dog." Bo sat down in front of her, tongue lolling and head cocked to the side. Meg had received an equally exuberant, although less slobbery, greeting from Jaz. Once the dogs were assured that their mistresses were ok, they set about checking out the shamans.
"You didn't answer the question." Hao snarled, starting to get annoyed. "Who are you?"
Again, the Crazies were about to answer, when the young Yoh let out a startled yelp.
Anna and Hao followed his gaze and their eyes widened in surprise.
The older Hao and Yoh were walking towards them from the opposite hillside. The two of them appeared to be arguing and as they watched, older Yoh shoved older Hao. Hao shoved back and it quickly escalated into actual blows.
"Boys." Jeanne sighed. The fight took an interesting turn as Yoh managed to throw Hao to the ground and sat on his chest. He then bitch-slapped him across the face, got up, and continued walking as though nothing had happened while the Crazies burst into hysterical laughter.
The older Yoh got to Meg. She stopped laughing as he stooped down to capture her lips in a deep kiss. Anna gasped in surprise at the move and the younger Yoh's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"Ah, l'amore." Katie intoned, looking at her best friends with a grin as Meg and Yoh both flipped her off at the same time. She turned then to see her Hao walking towards her. His eyes met hers and became soft, looking at her with the expression that always made her heart leap.
She stood still as he came up to her. He cupped one hand in the small of her back, pulling her close, before leaning down to kiss her passionately. With Hao every kiss was to be savored, lasting, as though he were afraid to let go of any moments, to let go of her.
When they parted, the younger Hao, Yoh, Anna and Hao's minions were staring at them.
"What, never seen a guy kiss his girlfriend before?" Hao asked. His voice was a little deeper than his younger counterpart, but recognizable nonetheless. Hao's minions looked back and forth to the younger and older versions of Hao.
"She must be his whore." Blocken said, unwilling to believe any version of Hao would
go out with a human, even one with Katie's power.
"Excuse me?" Older Hao's eyes blazed hot, and he glared at Blocken. All Hao's minions took a step back; they knew how dangerous Hao was when he was mad, and this older Hao looked absolutely livid.
"Hao, it's not worth it, don't bother with them onii-chan." Yoh stared at the familiar term used by his older counterpart. Older Hao turned to stare at his brother. The two of them didn't say a word, but their friends knew they were communicating.
It had been discovered that Hao and Yoh were connected to each other. Energy flowed between them, and allowed them to communicate with each other and tap into each others' power. This was what allowed the two of them to become co-Shaman Kings.
The connection was sustained by emotion, in particular, love. If one of the twins would stop caring about each other, or one of them died, the other's energy would run out and they would die. It was uncertain as to whether their younger counterparts shared this connection or not.
The younger twins watched in surprise as Yoh's communication with Hao calmed him down visibly. His shoulders relaxed, and his fists unclenched. Slowly he sighed and his face relaxed into a smile.
"You're right, it's not." He agreed. "Ignorance should not be punished, rather corrected." He regarded the shamans calmly. "Katie is my partner, we are equals in this relationship." He said firmly. "Any more comments about her virtue..." Katie snorted.
"And you'll have to deal with me." She finished. "I really don't care what people think, but persistence annoys me, so be warned." She said, idly playing with a couple of shadow balls she had conjured. Hao's minions backed off, fully aware of what she and her friends were capable of.
"Oh, so they can learn, good." Meg said, cracking her knuckles, "Lets just hope it sticks, or it might get very messy around here." The shadows circled her gently as she finished and grinned.
"All right Meg put your toys away now, your scaring the boys." Katie said with a chuckle.
"You still haven't told us who you are." Anna demanded.
"You already know who we are, what you really want to know is how we're here." Older Hao replied.
"Ok, then how did you get here?" Young Yoh asked.
"We're not exactly sure, but we're from a parallel universe that's about three years ahead of this one." Meg said.
"Impossible." Young Hao said.
"Nothings imposable when you put your heart in it, the impossibility isn't the job its self but the view of the job. Don't let your eyes deceive what your heart already knows." Meg said wiggling her finger, "Some of us learned that one the hard way." She jerked a thumb at the older twins standing behind there respected girlfriends.
"Also our definition of impossible has changed for us over the last three years as well." Older Yoh replied.
"If you're from another universe, why don't you go back?" Anna asked rudely. Older Hao sighed.
"We don't know how."
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