Rea: In this one I used Morphea as well as Morphine. Just like the Len and Ren changes. I hope it's not bothering anyone! Please enjoy the chapter!

Chapter Three: The Dowser Known

"Ladies, please line up." Jun instructed. All the girls immediately obeyed her. "This list is of everyone who's academic record has been reviewed and declined. If your name is called, please leave at once." Jun said. Some of the girls groaned. "Sara Yun. Tifanny Ikko..."

Girls began to leave the hall, some crying, some screaming, some seeming to not care...more or less. Lyseg stood almost perfectly still, knowing that his name wouldn't be called even if his academics had been lower than Horo's, which they weren't. In fact they were much higher. And Jun would protect him. She cared about Len.

It was the third day of testing, and so far, Jun had conducted physicals (Just talking quietly with Lyserg for about twenty minutes while everyone else thought she was checking health) and Furioku testing. Her mother had conducted academic training the day before, and this day she was about to check the Ryoku of the spirits and fighting skills of the Shaman girls.

Though Lyserg considered himself quite weak, while competing with a load of girls not even skilled enough to try to pass the Shaman fight, he was in the higher numbers. He only hoped none of Ren's family had seen him fight except Jun. He may be recognized. Morphea was, of course, a perfectly capable spirit. He didn't have to worry about her amount of Ryoku. He smiled at her, and she beamed back. "I'm glad you're here, Morphine." He said. She snuggled against his neck.

"Now your fighting skills will be tested against each other." Ren's mother was announcing. "Should you pass, Jun will test your skills tomorrow."

"'Should you pass?'" Tsuno asked angrily from next to Lyserg. "Of course I'll pass!"

"Fight one will be Tsuno and May."

"Good! I get to show my skills right away!" Tsuno stood with May, who was shivering at her ferocious manner, to one side.

"The second match is between Carolyn and Shung."

Carolyn went towards Shung. "I hope your power is fairly strong." she challenged.

"Far above yours." Shung promised.

Lyserg cast the two teams a look that spelled "R-E-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S" After all, the he hadn't seen any of these women in the Shaman fight, though this Manny girl could have well been in the Illy 5 better than the name 'Sherona.'

"Manny will be fighting Yuna. Sen will fight Teradan in the fourth match." Jun instructed. "And Lyserg will be fighting Nami. Please get in your groups. This should bring down the fighting to at least 5 of you. The winner will fight me. The winners of that will be judged by beauty in two rounds." Please let father see Lyserg as pretty! Jun begged in her head. "And now, please begin the first match."Lyserg had just stood next to his opponent when the first match began, and they had to clear the way.

May's spirit looked positively weak. Not only was she human, but she looked much like Eliza's build and Anna's hair color combined. Unless she also had Anna's will, she would be almost useless to May. Lyserg shook his head, trying to clear it of such thoughts. Those words had been planted by Marco. Yoh and Ren both had human spirts, and were both very powerful. I need to think less about these things- next thing you know I'll be abondoning my own spirit for an angel! Wouldn't be the first time... Lyserg concentrated on the battle. Tsuno's spirit was male. He looked like an African warrior of some sort, and had some interesting tools with him. Tsuno's medium appeared to be a type of blow dart. May's medium wasn't visible.

"Please begin." Jun said, as soon as they were facing off like a Shaman fight in the middle of the a clear area in the courtyard.

Tsuno was certainly faster. She Hyo Gatied in a second and put the dart to her lips. However, May was clearly a smarter fighter. Tsuno's darts went right through everything, though they were big. Tsuno had Hyo Gatie, but May had done an oversoul with a small knife as her medium. The darts exploded after passing through the oversoul. A few people gasped at what Lyserg had viewed as obvious to begin with.

"Well of COURSE they're not average darts, but that was still a bad decision." Jun's mother said, holding her fan up to her face as she usually did. "What a fool! We tested Furioku, of course we want to fight with oversoul."

Jun smiled. "It will be easier to fight Pailong with oversoul as well." She commented, writing a bad mark next to Tsuno's name. "That was very foolish."

"Oh, I see!" Tsuno said angrily. She reversed her Hyo Gattie and used oversoul. "This is much better anyways."

"Uh, DUH!" Shouted Carolyn from the audience. Lyserg, Jun's mother and Yuna giggled at this. Manny put her head in one hand to express her displeasure with idiots.

The real fighting began immediately after oversoul was employed. Tsuno's oversoul seemed much stronger than May's, and she was faster. May was hit twice by exploding darts now that Tsuno was firing it like a gun, and she rolled back. "Damn!" Tsuno yelled. "Why don't you just die!"

Jun marked that comment down in Ren's column so he would review it later. Such a statement would surely remind him of his past self, or even Hao. Lyserg seemed to find it distasteful as well, and glared at Tsuno from above.

As soon as May began to slice at Tsuno from close up, the girl lost her long range and stopped firing. She tried running back, but May only chased her, hitting her from behind as she tried to find a suitable range. Clearly this was just like the Shaman Fight- you never knew who could win, despite numbers.

All of the sudden a window opened loudly from above. "WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THAT NOISE ABOUT?!" Ren peeked his head out, then looked down, where Jun was waiving at him with a clipboard in one hand and a sweet smile on her face. He blushed a bit.

"We're holding a Shaman match with oversoul to see who wins the right to stand before you." His mother explained smoothly. "You should watch, Ren."

"I trust your judgement." Ren lied testily.

"Ren-Sama!" several of the girls chimed in, including Tsuno and May, who waved oversouls at him. Lyserg blushed, unsure of if he should call attention to himself or not.

Jun did it for him. "Aren't they beautiful?" She asked Ren, pointing in the general direction Lyserg was standing in. Lyserg and the girls blushed.

"Some of them are." Ren said, and it wasn't all a lie. There was no logical way the one with green hair could be Lyserg, seeing as they all got physicals, but she did look like him. Ren stared dreamily at Lyserg. "Just remember to remind father I don't like big...well, you know...he'll know what you're talking about...." Ren blushed and shut the window promptly.

All the girls looked down at their breasts, and Lyerg looked down too, in imitation of them. Most of them groaned. "NO WAY!!!" at this. Two of them asked Jun if she thought they were too big.

"Worry about this test!" Said Ren's grandfather, entering and calling attention to Tsuno and May, who had begun to fight again. "And don't pause fights! I don't care if Ren's in here or not! You don't just stop!"

May nodded at the instructions as she resumed her fight. Tsuno began firing without paying any heed to Ren's grandfather.

It was all over in minutes. Neither oversoul was large, but Tsuno's constant firing won out when she got at a distance far enough.

May groaned, rubbing her head. "Just like a Shaman Match," Jun said, loud enough for them to hear her. "You loose when you loose oversoul. Tsuno is the winner. Please leave the arena now. May, you will leave. Tsuno, follow Pailong around the other side. Your match with me is tomorrow."

Tsuno nodded and walked away. May was carried out by Kionshis because she was crying so hard. Ren opened a window to yell that crying was a weakness too great for him, to Bason's embarrassment and disapproval.

"Fight two! Take your positions!" It progressed just as a Shaman Fight match might be held.

The next two fights had much more impressive oversouls, but the fourth was questionable. Sen won by very little, and Manny tied with Yuna. Carolyn won the other. It was dark by the time Lyserg was set up against Nami. Ren peeked out his window.

"Still not done? How ridiculous!"

"Ren-Sama!" A bunch of the remaining girls waved, but not Lyserg, Manny or Nami. Manny even giggled a little at them. Seeda, her spirit, looked ready to scold her.

"Ren, get back inside! How do you expect these girls to do with you hanging out the window!?" Ren's grandfather yelled at him.

"Don't tell me what to do, old man! If they can't fight they just can't fight! My watching this shouldn't effect thier performance!"

"Don't judge! That's my job, boy!"

"Shut your trap! You want to fight!?"

"I'll blow your head off!" He aimed at Ren. Most of the women gasped. Manny grinned. Lyserg sighed. Ren had warned him about this craziness.

Ren stuck his spear out the window with half his body. "Try it!"

"Len...please go inside..." Jun called up to the window. He disappeared and slammed the blinds shut. Jun sighed. "Begin fight." She said as if very tired.

The match began quickly because of Lyserg's dowsing. He thrust Morphine and the cystal forward and easily knocked the circlular weapon out of Nami's hand. She gasped and fell back. He gave her no time to start again, but wrapped the wire around the weapon and brought it to him with Morphea's help. It was over in seconds. Ren stared out of his window at the commotion and gasping, expecting to see an amazing fighter, and finally saw it.

"L-Lyserg?" He whispered. It wasn't possible, but he was there all the same. And that was Morphea next to him, just coming out of oversoul. They were both smiling. And naturally, only someone with such experience fighting in the Shaman fight could win an unproffessional match so soon and suddenly.

"I know no other who works with such things..." Bason said to Ren, refering to Lyserg's crystal dowsing weapon.

Ren flung out his window again. "YOU'RE A DOWSER?!" He yelled. Everyone stared. "I saw one in the Shaman fight." he explained. "I'm shocked such a skill was brought to my house."

"You covered nicely, Bacchumus." Bason whispered.

"Of course." Ren scolded quietly "I planned to say this all along."

"She obviously has more skill than the other girls." Ren's mother went on. "But perhaps this is because they weren't working to their full advantage."

"There's only 6 girls left, Ren!" Jun said happily.

"Well, narrow it down already!" Len snapped.

"We are, little brother!"

"Don't call me little!"

"Tomorrow's fight against Pailong should get it down!" Jun replied.

"We still have housekeeping skills to test! Then we'll have your father choose beauty." Said his mother "Those are the easiest ones!"

"If they're alive after Pailong, I'm sure it is." Len roled his eyes and shut his window. He leaned against his wall, facing his room. He tensed and tried to slow his breathing. It simply couldn't be..."How did he pass?" He whispered. "Who did the physicals, Bason?"

"Mistress Jun." Bason replied.

"Jun...could she somehow...know?"

Rea: Thank you for reading. Please review, ecspecially if you liked this chapter. I really need reviews to know I'm doing alright or what I can change.