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Chapter 4

MOSUKE IN SMITH'S HAMMER! OVERSOUL!

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It was the day after Manta and Yoh passed out. Faust was still doing his incredibly cruel and grueling schedule, while everybody was relaxing. Yoh suddenly stirred.

Yoh: Good morning...*yawn* What's going on? why am I so hungry?

Anna: I don't know. ask Faust.

Faust (while doing sit-ups): Well...remember that solution you drank the other day?

Yoh: Ummm...the one that Amidamaru warned my about? vaguely.

Faust: Well, in a nutshell, it made you very energetic because of overdose and you lost just about all your blood sugar, and passed out for 2 days.

Yoh: Oh...well, if I drank all your kiwi juice...

Faust: It wasn't kiwi juice... (A/N: Yes it was. ^_^)

Yoh: What happened to Manta?

Mosuke: He passed out from training too hard. but he can manage to have full hyoi gattai by tomorrow at this rate!

Amidamaru: It's true, Manta-dono seems strong enough, he just needs to concentrate more.



Manta suddenly got up and yawned, also wondering what happened.

Yoh: Manta, you're up!

Manta: Eh? what's going on?

Anna: You over-exerted yourself and passed out for a day.

Ryu: Yoh! Manta! I see you're finally up! I made everybody some lunch, you two must be hungry. Come on to the dining room.

Yoh: Yeah, I'm starved, let's eat!

Everybody went to the dining room, and Horo Horo, Yoh, and Manta ate almost all of the food on the table before anybody could get their hands on it. This made Ren especially mad.

Ren: KISSAMA! FIRST YOU BREAK MY KWAN-DOU...

Bason: You have 33 left bocchama...

Ren: IT DOESN'T MATTER BASON! AND THEN YOU EAT ALL THE FOOD! MAYBE SOME OF US WERE HUNGRY TOO!

Horo Horo: Too late now. hehehe...

Ren: KISSAMA!!!

Jun: Now, don't overreact Ren. It's just some food, Ryu can always cook more

Ryu: Yeah, I like making food for everybody anyway! I'll go make a fresh meal.

Anna: Yoh! Manta! Training! Yoh, help Manta with his hyoi gattai or I take away Harusame.

Yoh: Right after lunch?

Manta: I'll get a cramp!

Anna: Your enemy won't care if you get a cramp, Manta.

Manta: enemy? but the Shaman fight is...

Anna: GO!

Faust: Don't I get to eaaaaaat?

Anna: NO!

Yoh and Manta head outside to the training area. Lyserg then came in and spoke with Manta.

Manta: Lyserg, great seeing you again! Why did you come all the way from England to visit?

Lyserg: I heard that you were trying to become a Shaman and I wanted to help out a bit.

Manta: Oh? How's that?

Lyserg: Well, I'm going to stay here until you become a Shaman. Until then, I'm going to supply you with some equipment that will help.

Manta: great! What's first then?

Lyserg: Since you have a smith's spirit, I'm giving you a smith's hammer to help out.

Manta: thank you very much Lyserg.

Lyserg gives manta a hammer, and Manta gets to work on training.

Yoh: Show my your Hyoi Gattai, Manta.

Manta: of course. MOSUKE! SPIRIT BALL MODE, HYOI GATTAI!

Manta: How's this?

Yoh: PERFECT! That hammer brings your % up to 100!

Manta: Great! now what should we do to train?

Yoh: Manta, I'd like you to break that log over there.

Manta: No problem! KYAAAAA!

Manta lunged at the log and broke it into small pieces.

Yoh: Very impressive, Manta! At this rate you could do Oversoul NOW!

Manta: Can we then?

Yoh: I don't see why not since you have that hammer...Now then, give it a shot. you've oversouled twice before, right?

Manta: Well, yes, but...

Yoh: then give it just one try.

Manta: Well...if you say so...MOSUKE, IN SMITH'S HAMMER! OVERSOUL!

Nothing seemed to happen, but then Yoh noticed a tiny flame of furyoku on the hammer.

Yoh: Seems your furyoku could use some work...

Manta: How do you sustain this?!?

Yoh: And your endurance is lacking too...

Manta's oversoul suddenly breaks down, and Anna enters.

Anna: Well, I see you got him to oversoul. double training for both of you as punishment. And Manta, your schedule has been tripled before I doubled it.

Manta: WHAAAAAT?!? WHY???

Anna: Blame Yoh for it. He gave you too advanced training.

Yoh: I'm sorry!

Manta: It's alright, I'll manage somehow...

Anna: Rest up you two. you have a very long day tomorrow.

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What's this talk about an enemy?

Will Manta and Yoh EVER get relief?

And what of Ren and his oddly spiked hairdo?

All will be revealed later. But now it's FFXI time!

WHEEEEE! I FINALLY GET MY SUBJOB!!!

*YOU HAVE DIED!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA, YOU LEVEL DOWN TO LEVEL 0!!!*

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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