A/N: Alright, we are back for another exiting chapter of Two Sides! I hope you have enjoyed the ride so far… Actually people seem to like this a lot more then I though they would. I'm so glad though. Alright, now to the chapter!
Chapter two: Return to the Old Tao Palace
Dark grabbed his head and fell to his knees with yell. A dark voice rang through his mind, causing torrent of pain to surge through him. The voices laughed at his pain, and cause more and more pain to torment the boy.
"Do you give up yet? Will you not give in and do what I ask?"
"Never," the youth growled.
"Worthless fool."
More pain surged through Dark casuing him to start rolling around on the ground. The evil laughed again. "You can not stop it. Once I am at full power again, everything you care about will be destroyed. Nothing can stop it."
"I will," Dark said, standing up. He stood, swaying slightly on weak legs and glared. "You won't hurt anyone else."
"You won't save her."
The voice and the pain vanished as Pirika opened the door, just to see the dark part of Ren's soul stumble forward and fall to his knees. She was still a little angry about what he did to Ren but at the moment was too full of concern to care about that. She ran over and knelt down beside him. "Dark, are you alright?"
"Yeah," he said after taking a few breaths, "fine."
"You saw the Hunter again, didn't you?"
Dark turned to look at her, some of his raven locks falling over one eye. "Yes. He was here, but that doesn't matter at the moment. What's up?"
"I had another vision. We're going back to the old Tao Palace."
"What?"
Pirika stood up and nodded. "That's right. Alexandria, the one giving me these visions, told me to go back. She said, 'Find the Crystal Monument-'"
"That's underground-"
"'And find the spring-'"
"That's great Pirika," Dark said as he got up also. "Now we have something to go on! It won't be long!"
Pirika blinked in surprise at the sudden changed in her friend but nodded. "I already got my stuff packed, and you and Haiiro don't have much to pack so we can leave quickly."
"You better go and tell Haiiro then, he might want to know."
"Oh, your right, be right back!" Then Pirika ran out of the room. Dark shook his head and sighed.
"It's almost time then…" He smirked slightly and ran a hand through his hair. "Everything will be restored to normal and soon I won't have to worry about her anymore. Damn these emotions."
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"Shh… keep it quiet."
"I'm trying to! It's Mr. Prissy here that's making all the noise."
"Grr…"
"Haiiro, please keep it down!"
"I can't as long as he is around."
"You're still upset about that?"
"Of course!"
"You'll two just keep it down or Anna'll-"
"Anna will what?"
The trio turned around just to see the one that they feared, Anna, standing not to far away. Pirika sighed; she knew it couldn't be that easy.
"Leaving," Anna asked coolly,
"I got another vision. I didn't want to wake you and-"
Pirika's sentence was interrupted by Anna's surprise hug. Never in her life had she seen Anna hug anyone, not even Yoh, and here she was getting hugged by here. The median let go of the Aniu girl and told her quietly, so the boy's couldn't hear her, "Watch out for Dark, something is important about him. Also, be careful around Haiiro, he feels unstable."
"Don't worry, I'll be careful. You have no reason to worry."
"Good luck then. And beware of the black Crystal Lake."
With that said, Anna turned around and walked back into the inn, leaving Pirika confused. She shook her head, and walked back to the boys.
"What was she saying," Haiiro asked.
"Just asking if we're going back to China and wishing us good luck," Pirika lied.
"Oh."
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"Okay, we're back here. Now what," Haiiro asked.
"We head back to the Old Tao Palace," Dark said firmly, gaining a glare from the other Ren.
"Stop it, Haiiro; what Dark said is the truth. We got to go under the palace and find the spring!" Pirika said all this is a determined voice, and smiled brightly. "So hurry up you two! Same way as last time," she looked at Dark.
"I don't see why not-"
"Then hurry!" She grabbed Dark's hand and pulled him along, still smiling. She couldn't wait to see the end of their journey, and see Ren restored. To bad it wouldn't be that easy of a road.
A/N: The end of chapter two, so what did ya think? Actually to tell the truth, I got most of the rest of the chapters done already. With this left unfinished, I can't work on my Fantasy novel Tenma Ketsueki… I really hope you enjoyed this chapter!
Preview for the next chapter: The Chase begins
"Interesting…" Dark said as he sat down again. "I wonder which one of Ren's souls is like Yin."
Pirika wondered if she should tell him what Anna had said about Haiiro. He did have the right to know, but how would he handle it? She deiced that she wouldn't tell him just yet.
"I think it's me."
