I don't own Shaman King, do own Disc, Hel, Lann, and Saber. Jes is my best friend. I bet your getting tired of me saying that, aren't you? Well, from now on..I won't. If you've read this far, you get it by now, don't you? I hope so. Please R&R!!! Love and Peace!!! (oops...had a Trigun moment there....soz). Enjoy!!!

Why...
Willow EarthFlame

Chapter 3

"Wake up now, Ren," Jun hissed coldly from somewhere behind Ren, who was strapped upright in a chair.

Ren, groggy with blood loss and sleep, looked up and around the room through hazy vision, wondering where Jun was.

"Why?" he asked weakly, barely able to keep his eyes open or his head up.

"Yours is not to ask why," Jun chanted in a singsong voice as she sauntered into view, "yours is just to be tortured and die!"

Ren gaped at his sister. How could she say such things? She was the one who had defended him so valiantly against their uncle, who took care of him when he was sick and comforted him when he felt alone in the world. Why, then?

"Don't worry, dear Ren," Jun laughed sadistically as she pulled a wicked looking dagger from behind her tapered back, "it'll all be over soon. One slice from this beautiful knife and your life will be mine!"

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Anna sat up, gasping for air. That dream was not a dream, as it seemed to be. She knew it because she could hear Lann yelling in pain on the other side of the house.

"Just hold on," she muttered as she got up and quickly left her room.

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"Holy Crap!" Yoh exclaimed, jumping up from his seat beside Lann. "Dude, you're bleeding!"

"Thanks for stating the obvious," Lann said through gritted teeth as he pushed a hand over the knife wound in his upper right arm. "Now can you please get me something to stop this bleeding?"

"No need," Anna said as she walked through the living room doorway with bandages in hand.

"What's happening?" Lann asked as Anna proceeded to quickly bandage his wound and the wounds that were appearing all over the rest of his body.

"Someone has reconnected the twin-link between you and Ren," Anna said, sighing. "Your sister (who I am having some serious suspicions about, right now) was attacking him."

"How do you know this?" Lann asked between gasps of pain.

"She had a prophetic dream, I think," Yoh said as he bent down to help. Anna nodded and continued working.

"I'm going to need to put you in a spirit bubble for the time being," she said, tying the last bandage into place. "It will put your twin-link on a hold, so you will not be able to be hurt, but you WILL be confined to the house."

Lann nodded in understanding then passed out.

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Jes stood over a now unconscious Disc, who was sprawled out on the floor in front of her.

"Told you so," she laughed.

Quickly searching his pockets for anything useful (his dagger, some shock orbs, and a key ring full of keys to the Tao household), she left the dungeons in search of Ren.

Ten minutes later...............

Jes started in shock. There was moaning coming from the closet under the stairway in the main hall! She quickly but quietly moved to it and turned the handle. Locked. Pulling out the key ring, she selected the skeleton key (conveniently shaped like a skeleton) and opened the door, only to find the REAL Jun slumped in the bottom, hands tied behind her back and blood running down her face from a gash above her eye.

"Jun!" Jes said, helping her friend up. "How did you get here? What's going on?"

"I could ask you the same thing, Jes," Jun said a bit groggily as she rubbed her wrists where the rope had bitten her.

"Erck..." Jes said, helping Jun out of the closet, "Um...well, we need to find your brother..."

"Which one?"

"Ren, before anything else happens to him. We also need to find the imposter Jun, 'cause she's probably still hurting him."

"Anything else?" Jun said, wide eyed. "Imposter...Jun? What's going on Jes?"

"I'll explain later. Right now, we've got to find Ren!"

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"Mmm, taaaasty," Jun purred, looking over at Ren, who was hanging from the ceiling and wall by hooks in his back, arms, and legs.

Giggling madly, she sipped delicately at the goblet of Ren's blood that she held in her hands.

Ren was breathing very shallowly, and he could see his sister, through cracked eyes, giggling insanely at his predicament (which SHE put him in). Suddenly a shock orb appeared on her fingertips, and her sharp gaze landed on him.

"Something to keep your mind busy," was all she said as she juiced up the shock orb with more energy and threw it at him.

Ren had been hit with shock orbs before, but this was pain beyond all reckoning, and the fact that he was attached to the wall and ceiling by strong copper hooks didn't help the matter any. Before he could stop himself, Ren let out a bloodcurdling scream, one so soul-wrenching it would've made the devil himself turn-tail and run.

Jun laughed again as she held her hand directly out to the side, casually collecting drops of Ren's blood from the almost steady downpour from his body.

"Yuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm..." she giggled madly.

Jes: That sounded painful, Wil.

Willow: I know. Great, isn't it?

Jes: (laughs) Yeah, guess you're right.

Jun: You two are really messed up.

Willow and Jes: Thanx.

Jun: (shakes head) We ARE gonna get my dear brother out of this predicament, aren't we?

Willow: Of course Jun! What do you take us for? Heathens? (wait, don't answer that...I AM a heathen!!! LMAO)

Jes: You'll just have to read the next chapter...then the next...and so on. It'll all turn out ok...don't worry.

Willow: Hey! That was MY line.

Jes: Heh. Sorry.

Willow: Anyway...hope you enjoyed this chapter, hope you enjoy the next! R&R!!! Ja ne!