Chapter 25
Birthday Nightmares
Almost a month later the gang had found their way into a village that was all shaman and was getting ready to settle in. Just before they had got there, they had met up with a Shaman named Chocolove and his spirit leopard Mic. They had also met Yoh and Mati's father Mikiheisa. He had told them the story of the triplets birth and Choco had doubts.
But then the X-laws, along with Lyserg, who had joined them after getting tired of wasting time, had come to see if they were going to either join Hao or them. What had happened before all of this, Anna had come by along with Faust, a necromancer who's spirit guardian was his dead wife, Morty and Ren's sister, Jun.
She had made Yoh and the others go into the Tomb of the Shaman where Hao's powers were kept. Mati had gone along not trying to absorb any power but Link and the others had absorbed enough to undergo changes. So now Amidamaru had evolved and so did the others but Link was still going through changes.
The gang was sitting in a diner pondering why the Shamans weren't fighting each other when they had first entered the village. "Hah hah hah hah!" The gang looked to where the laughter came from and saw a man sitting in the booth next to them. "And who are you?" Ren asked. "I'd tell you but then we'd have to, how did you say it? 'Duke it out'?"
"Why you...!" Mati stood up. "Miss Mati, I don't think that would be a good idea." Bason said, trying to calm her down. Mati sighed and sat back down. "If I were you I'd listen to him, the Shaman here are the best of the best. Some of them are immortal class." Mati snorted. "What was that for girl? You shouldn't be doing things like that, you'd be beaten to a pulp in no time."
Mati shook her head. "Sorry, but I sensed everybody's Furyoku, some of them are stronger than most I'll admit. But you should be the one watching what you are saying, you are strong but not as strong as me."
"Watch it Mati, you're not ready yet." Ren said, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Well look what we have here, lovers." Mati had enough. "I may not have my main spirit but I have three others!" The goddesses appeared by her side and glared at the man with her. "Hmph, three spirits, nice." But watch that temper or you'll..." He didn't get to finish as Mati brought out her Longshot and pinned the man to the wall.
"You better watch what you say, or I'll let him have you." "Mati!" Ren and the others gasped. "Who's 'him'?" "Someone that will destroy you with one blow, but if you're lucky enough I'll let him give you a warning first." Mati unhooked him from the wall and stormed out. Ren, Horo, Choco and Morty soon followed her.
When they were outside Mati had been standing in the middle of the square looking as though she had seen a ghost. "Mati!" Ren yelled, running up to her. "Are you alright? What happened." "He came..." Before Ren or the others could ask what she meant a woman came out of no where and trapped Choco in a cage of water.
"Oh that's it! I've had it with this town!" "Mati no!" Ren grabbed her arm. "Let me go!" Ren didn't listen and he wrapped an arm around her waist pulling her closer to his body. "I don't want to lose you, Link is not ready and the goddesses can't do much because of it." Mati stopped struggling and just hung in Ren's arms.
Soon the rest of the gang arrived and the same guy that had pissed Mati off had come back to stop the fight. Then before they could do anything a gang had gathered around another part of the small village and they saw that it was the Zen brothers. "We have captured Hao's followers and plan on using them as bait to lure him out!"
They saw that three guys that looked like they came from Egypt because of the masks that they were wearing and saw the Zen brothers tied up by their feet. "You have no chance in defeating him." Mati said. "We are immortal class Shaman, it is out destiny to defeat Hao!" Then they saw the Iron Maiden Jean come through the crowd with Marco and Lyserg behind her.
"You, you dare show your faces to me?" Mati hissed. "We don't have time to deal with lesser shaman." Marco said to the Egyptian Shaman. "The Iron Maiden Jean wants to speak with you Mistress Mati." "I have nothing to say to her." Mati said, turning away. "Please listen Mati!" Lyserg begged. "Hey X-laws!"
Marco and Lyserg straitened. "Who do you think you are? Disrespecting the power of the Nile..." "I'll say it again Yoh." Marco said, ignoring the Shaman behind him. "Don't ignore us! We challenge you and that rolling tin can to a fight right now, or unless you're too much of a cowered to face us!"
Marco growled. "Marco." The Iron Maiden said, catching the blond's attention. "We must make an example of that disrespectful one. Accept his challenge." "Yes." Later the crowd gathered in another location to watch the fight. "If there are 15 Shaman spectators present, then the fight becomes official!"
The leader of the Nile Shaman explained. "Then let it be recorded as such." The Iron Maiden said, officially starting the match. Mati watched in silence as her former best friend went first to fight. "Are you trying to mock the pride of the Nile's?" The jackal-masked Shaman said. "Having one kid fight the 3 of us?"
"Lyserg." The Iron Maiden said to the boy. "Demonstrate our power and show them the glory of our justice." Lyserg shot out his Pendulum where it wrapped around the mediums that the two Nile Shaman had put out. "I'm going to have to destroy your mediums now, I'm sorry." Then with the flick of his wrist the two mediums became dust in the sky.
The leader was just about to attack when Lyserg wrapped his wire around him. Then the mask that he was wearing broke in two as he showed his true face. "You are not immortal class shaman! You're nothing but a funny looking fraud trying to hid your bad looks behind a make-shift mask!" "I'll have you know...!"
"Now while I have your attention let me tell you something about the X-laws, we do not like to fight and we do not want to hurt you or anyone else. We have a sacred mission, we must destroy the evil one at any cost. Allowing you to publicly mocking our leader and belittle us will cause us to lose our standing and thus lessen our power. This we cannot allow, there is simply too much at steak. So you have two choices, surrender and move on or fight back, in which case you will be destroyed!"