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Disclaimer: Me? Own Shaman King? Surely you jest. If I did, I would be able to afford a PS2 by now!! O_ _O

Chapter 5: The horror begins.

"Dudes….focus, dudes….duuuuudes…." It is morning at their current campsite and Rainbow Trout is standing over our beloved cast.

Yoh stared blearily into the sun. "zzzzzngh….huh? GAAAAH MY EYES!!!"

His shrill, piercing cry awoke the rest of the crew. Or maybe it was the smell of bacon.

"Oh good, you're awake!" RT grins.

"And BLIND!!" Yoh thoughtfully interjects.

"Little man, think of the pain as a road to healing."

"Um…no."

"Was that you screaming?" Manta glances over at Yoh, worried.

"It sounded like a cat was attacking a ham sandwich…" muses an intrigued Ren.

"But it sounded like it was screaming, 'My eye, my eye!'" Amidamaru states.

"Maybe it got some mustard in its eye."

"Oh, well that makes sense."

"Or maybe it was Yoh?" Manta suggests.

All three in unison: "Naaah…"

And so, over a breakfast of refried-refried-refried-refried-refried-refried beans and something that was almost entirely unlike coffee, RT breaks some pants-wettingly exciting news.

"Dudes….we're there yet."

"Huh??"

"We're in IDAHO!!"

"We're in…..You-da-ho?" Ren asks slowly, raising an eyebrow.

"No no no! It's the part of this oppressive, evil-corporate country in which THE MAN is always pushing us down and treating us like dogs, where a man is discriminated by the color of his skin and the clothes on his back—"

Yoh hastily interrupts, "Um…Rainbow Trout? You're getting just a little off track here."

"Oh, sorry dudes. What I'm trying to say is, we're about 10 kilometers, give or take a square meter, away from your 4Kids place filled with evil injustices!"

"NO-FREAKING-WAY!!"

"YES-FREAKING-WAY!!"

And there was much rejoicing on our heros' part. In fact, Anna was almost happy.

"I am almost happy," states Anna.

See? And so they rejoiced about this, and it was a merry time of happy trippy pot-filled splendor until about five minutes later, where they had to stop so they could leave.

About twenty or so minutes later, the van pulls into a huge faculty parking lot which is around a normal-enough looking building.

Manta glances around nervously, "We shouldn't be here…"

"Do you sense an evil prescene here, Lord Manta?" Amidamaru queries.

"No…it says 'employee parking only'…."

"FIGHT THE POWER!!"

-_-; "Its YOUR fault if we get arrested then."

"No….it's THE MAN's fault."

With that, our heros clamber out of the van—towards their destiny. (As I get my fingers chopped off for using such a cheesy line.)

Sorry the chapter was so short. I just need to think up some more material. ^_^; Anyways, keep reading and reviewing like you have been and I'll be inspired to keep writing! That's just the author-reader cycle that FF.net is founded on! Very clever, Lord of Flames88, coughnotreallycough . Happy Holidays, people! ^_^ ::passes out eggnog and fruitcake that's actually GOOD:: See ya!