SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 30 out, this is Chapter 31 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Pairings: Tao Ren/Fem!OC, Yoh/Anna

Disclaimers: I own absolutely nothing, except this plot and pairing.

Chapter 31: Hui Ling's Plan Activates!

"Damn it." Ryu cursed as the group hurried through the forest. "No matte how far we run, we aren't getting any closer to the Great Spirits."

"Don't tell we won't get there in time." Chocolove voiced.

"Of course not." Ren snapped. "We will definitely catch up with Yoh."

"Gentlemen, and I use the term loosely." Hui Ling drawled. "Less yapping, more running. The Furyoku draining spell I attached on Hao will activate at full capacity in under fifteen minutes and I really don't want to miss seeing Yoh kick the bastard's ass."

"If you put it that way..." Horo Horo grinned.

In front of the Great Spirits...

"Opacho, stand back." Hao cautioned, hearing Yoh's footsteps.

"Yoh." Manta beamed.

"You're pretty fast." Yoh remarked. "You came all the way here?"

"He's been keeping an eye on me." Hao interjected. "I guess this is what you call friendship?"

"That's right." Yoh answered.

"Although it's totally useless." Hao shrugged.

"That's not true." Yoh argued. "Leave the rest of me." he told Manta.

"What are you planning to do?" Hao cast a look at his twin.

"Show me your souls." the Guardians demanded, appearing before Ren's group.

"I remember hearing this voice before." Ryu noted.

"It's the Great Spirits." Horo Horo confirmed.

"Get out my way!" Ren produced the Bâo-Lèi Sword. "If you try to interfere, I won't hold back."

Men... Hui Ling shook her head. Why do they always have to be so hard-headed?

"Hurry up and draw your katana." Hao told Yoh. "You came to defeat me, right? You came to defeat me, right?"

"Why a world with only Shamans?" Yoh questioned. "I don't understand at all why you want to annihilate mankind."

"It for the future of this planet." Hao replied.

"The future is something that you create from now on, isn't it?" Yoh reasoned.

"For the first time, we agree on something." Hao chuckled. "That's correct. I will create it from this point on. I am the Future King, Hao."

"I've had enough." Yoh was ready to battle.

"You guys are no match for me." Hao bragged and summoned the Spirit of Fire. "Come and get me." he then materialized his Guardian Spirit into a fiery blade similar to the Spirit of Sword. "Now you're talking." he grinned as both siblings clashed.

"Hui, what are you..." Ren blinked, seeing the sole female of the group walk calmly towards the Guardians.

"They won't do anything if we don't attack." Hui Ling stated plainly. "Right?" she turned to the Guardians. "We're only going after Hao; this may be the final chance for us to seal him and prevent him from reincarnating again. Then, I'm going ahead." she ran past the Guardians.

The boys looked at each other.

"Why is it the females who always think of the most unthought-of answers?" Ren wondered.

"Well, she is your female." Horo Horo jibbed.

"You understand, don't you?" Hao inquired. "There's too much of a difference between our strengths. Even so, you still think it will all work out, right?"

"You have something against that?" Yoh winced.

"Yeah," Hao sneered. "It makes me sick." parrying Yoh off to the ground, he poised the tip of his energy sword at his younger brother. "That's once. I wonder how many times you'll die?"

"Hadō #90: Kurohitsugi!" Hui Ling cast her Hadō spell, causing black energy sheets to rise around Hao before enclosing the transmigrated onmyōji into a black coffin.

"Hao-sama!" Opacho exclaimed, seeing the black spears pierce the energy box and Hao suffered from gushing wounds after the energy box faded away.

"That did hurt." Hao admitted, slapping his sword hand over his shoulder and licking the blood off his fingers. "But it doesn't matter... what is this?" he demanded, seeing a pair of golden energy rings manifest around his wrists.

"It's finally activated at its full power." Hui Ling stated. "The Furyoku draining Kido I implanted at the Gate of Babylon."

"You bitch..." Hao roared, incensed. "Do you know what you've done?"

"Of course I do." Hui Ling answered. "What, you didn't think you won't suffer any repercussions for breaking two of the fundamental rules of the Kami-class Pact?"

"I am God!" Hao declared. "I am above all rules! Every Shaman should just submit to me!"

"Wow, and I thought he couldn't get anymore egoistic." Horo Horo joked, the rest of the group arriving.

"You boys mind wearing him down?" Hui Ling requested. "Anna, I'm going to need your help to put an end to this."

"Right." said itako nodded and the two girls stepped back to let the guys take the stage.

SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.