Chapter 9

Search for Dobi Village pt2

"AHH!" When the smoke settled again they found that they weren't hurt at all! "Care for another go?" Ren asked. "It's not fair!" Elly and Milly said together. "You haven't defeated us yet! We still have Spirit Control!" "The key word in that phrase was 'yet'." Mati pointed out. "What are we gonna do Sharonna?" Elly asked.

"Relax, this is exactly the reason I made a plan B." "Oh no, we're gonna do that?" Milly gasped. "They leave us no choice!" "You have another plan?" Ren asked. "Well bring it on!" Rio added. Sharonna grinned at them and suddenly the gang saw them running away! "Whoa!" Horo gaped. "Indeed!" Ren agreed. "Be careful of roses boys, they always have thorns." Rio warned.

"I like roses." Ren said. Mati giggled and Yoh laughed. "Ha, you guys should see yourselves." Mati said. "If I didn't know you better, I'd say you were a little smitten." Yoh added. Ren smiled slightly at Mati and she blushed. "Well five beautiful Shaman princesses will smite any man." Rio said. Later they were deciding on who was gong to be leader, well Ren was anyway.

"What? Why does she get to be our leader? No offence Mat, but are you nuts?" Horo yelled at Ren. "Because I said so, and those girls were organized and had a leader. We should have a leader to if we were to accomplish anything." "Yeah alright b-b-but why Mati?" Horo asked. "The reason is simple." Mati said. "Ren thinks that I am the best fitting because I am observant like Yoh, but I don't slack off."

"Hey, that hurts you know, coming from my Imoto." Yoh laughed. Later that night Rio wanted to see if he could call Billy back with Spirit Control. "There's no way this is gonna work again." Horo said. "All brothers of the road are connected cosmically, we always find on another, like so." Rio held up his 'giant thumb' and 5 seconds later Billy had pulled up beside them.

"Ah we meet again my favourite roaming companion." Billy gave him the thumbs up. Everyone gaped at Rio, but they got in the back anyway. When they were on the go once more, Yoh and Amidamaru sat on the roof. "I wonder, when we get to Dobi Village and the second round begins, what kind of fights do you think they'll be?" Amidamaru asked.

Yoh looked at the star filled sky "Hmm. Well, I don't really know, I guess we'll find out when we get there." "I'll tell you Rio, there's nothing light driving at night." Billy said. "Yes it is a little bit like life. You can only see as far as your headlights shine, but somehow you make an entire journey that way." Mati snuggled closer to Ren.

"You cold?" He asked "Kinda." She answered sheepishly. Ren undid his jacket and pulled her under it with him. "There is that better?" She nodded and yawned. "Night, Renny." Then she fell asleep. Ren smiled and continued to look at the stars. The next day the gang had arrived at another city, and they hoped that they would find something.

Rio said good-bye to Billy and they were off again. Horo turned to his friends. "So how are we gonna get to Dobi Village? Any ideas?" Yoh laughed. "Let's just call information." "Hey!" Rio yelled at the top of his lungs. "Dobi Village, anyone know where it is?" "That's not what he had in mind Rio!" Horo sweat dropped.

Ren started to walk away and Mati followed him. "Where do you think you 2 are going?" Horo asked. "To the one place in this back water burn that I can get access to an information nerve centre." "Now that sounds like a plan!" Yoh said. "What is he talking about?" Rio said confused. "Take a guess?" Mati said. Then Rio and Horo started talking about a video-game and Ren got irritated and punched them so hard that they flew into the sky and disappeared!

"You told us to take a guess!" Rio yelled back at him. Later the gang was at a library while Ren had asked a lady there to help him with the internet. "Ah, so this is what our short-tempered friend was talking about." Rio said. "The world wide web. Let us all hope that Dobi village is no more than a few clicks away." "Right now I'm cross-referencing the worlds far most geographic data bases." Ren explained.

"My Tao family connections allow me to access top-secret sites." "Wow, that's impressive!" Yoh complimented. "I'd be more impressed here if Ren could do his own typing." Horo complained and Kororo nodded, "I've spent all my free time in my fighting skills, not my office skills." Ren shot back. "Forget that, can you order me a pizza on that thing?" Rio asked.

Yoh, Horo and Mati sweat dropped. Ren put a hand on the woman's shoulder. "I'll take over now, only a Tao can enter the secret code." Mati rolled her eyes and pressed the enter key. "I hate it when you do that." She told him. The search engines looked for the village and when it stopped they were baffled.

"There were no results found on my search?" Ren said, stunned

"Oh no!" The boys behind Mati and Ren gasped. "Impossible, no directions, no maps, not even one mention of Dobi Village!" Mati said, frantic.