Hello there. I don't own Shaman King...wait, I told you that I wasn't going to do that anymore, didn't I? Oops...oh well. You get the idea. Some of the characters may be a bit OOC. Sorry. Please R&R. Enjoy the story!!!

Why...
Willow EarthFlame

Chapter 4

"This way," Jun said, more clearheaded now. "If they took Ren anywhere in this forsakenly large house, it would probably be his room."

Jes nodded as she silently followed the older woman. Suddenly, they heard a clattering from downstairs and the faint sound of voices, which steadily got louder.

"Great Yoh. Just perfect. Alert everyone that we're here, why don't you!"

"Shut up, HoroHoro! You're the one that's doing all the alerting!"

"Shut up, both of you, or your going to both do three hundred laps. Understand?"

"Yes, Anna."

"Should we go down to them?" Jes asked, looking around for signs of anyone else.

"Yes, we probably should," Jun nodded as she made way down the stairs, "lest they make any more noise and alert the imposters to their whereabouts."

Jes giggled and followed Jun down the steps, where moments later, they met up with Anna, Yoh, HoroHoro, and Faust.

"Jes!" HoroHoro and Yoh shouted in unison as they ran to give her a hug.

"Shush you numbskulls!" Jes half hissed, half laughed as she hugged them back. Looking over at Anna, she asked, "Do you already know..."

"Yes," Anna cut in, "I saw it in a dream. We need to get moving as quickly as possible. Jun, where are Pai Long and Bason?"

"We think the imposters have them," Jun replied as she led the way back up the stairs. "Now let's go!"

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Disc slowly walked down one of the numerous halls in the Tao mansion, nursing one of the many bumps and bruises Jes had given him. Hearing the sound of a whip, and mad laughter, Disc assumed "Jun" was in the room up ahead (where the sounds were coming from), so in he went.

Bad Idea.

The room was mostly dark, with the only light coming from black lights and a strobe light. Dark pieces of cloth were everywhere, flung up and about. A leather massage table/chair dominated the middle of the creepy room, where a balding, white man was strapped to it. Standing directly behind the man was another man holding a whip. Tall, large, and blonde, Travis was dressed as his profession called...as a dominatrix, mad sadistic grin included. The whip snapped menacingly.

"Hold on," he said, whipping the strapped man again, "I just have to finish with this client. CONFORM, WORM!" he shouted at the man, giggled madly.

Disc slowly backed out of the room. "Oh no you don't!" Travis said, snapping the whip at Disc. "You're next!"

Disc turned around and ran for his life.

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"Hmmm... Almost bled, and most definitely unconscious," Hel purred, pulling off her "Jun" glamour, along with the "Saber" glamour that was on the spell- controlled Bason (who had walked in after Disc's butt had been kicked by Jes). Giggling, she walked up to the stoic spirit and ran a finger down his ghostly face.

"I bet your 'master' is just going to love you NOW," she laughed. Bason didn't respond, 'cause the spell wouldn't allow him to.

"Oh, you no fun," Hel pouted as she walked over to Ren's bleeding, comatose body, which had been pulled down a few minutes earlier by the two spell- controlled spirits, Bason and Pai Long.

"Time for you to finally go!" she sang gleefully as she pulled out her dagger once again.

"I don't think so, you half-dead cow!" Jes shouted across the room as she burst through the bedroom door, Yoh, Amidamaru, HoroHoro, Kory, Faust, and Anna trailing in quickly behind her.

Hel whirled around, and stopped HoroHoro, Yoh, and Jess in their tracks. The left side of her face and body was healthy, alive, and devastatingly beautiful while the right side was dead and decaying (except for her hair), and her clothes were tattered and a bit dirty.

"Somebody ate a huge chunk of the ugly fruit today, didn't she?" HoroHoro said to Jes, who added, doubled over laughing, "Forget a piece...I think she downed the whole dang tree!" (Poor Tree.{A/N...inside joke between me and Jes})

Hel stuck her tongue out then quickly turned back around, throwing a shiny, fiery red orb behind her in the process, which created a barrier between her and the shaman fighters.

Giggling madly (yet again), Hel took her dagger and was just about to sink it in Ren's heart (it was an inch away), when Anna burst through the barrier (Jes at her heels) and they both landed high kicks on the half-dead woman.

"That wasn't very nice!" Hel pouted, now deprived of dagger and flat on her A$$.

"Life isn't always nice, Hel," Faust said calmly, walking through the crowd surrounding the woman. "Now if you would be so kind as to give me your shock orbs and any other weapons you may have on your living or dead person at this time, we shall go for a walk."

Faust's steady glare offered no room for argument, and even as Hel bit her lip uncertainly, she handed over her orbs and weapons (hidden beneath her dress), took Faust's proffered hand, and left the room.

"Krammit!" Jes shouted once Faust and Hel had cleared the room. "I wanted to kick her butt for what she and Disc did to me and Jun and Ren!"

"Calm down Jes," Anna said, pulling the binding-spells off of Bason and Pi Long, who immediately went to their shaman partners.

"Master Ren!" Bason shouted running (er...or...um...gliding?) over to his shaman partner. "What happened? Who did this? What's going on?"

Jes looked at Bason, sadness and hurt for him and Ren in her eyes, as she answered his questions in order.

"Ren was severely beaten and stabbed, with help from you and Pi Long (you were under spell-control), Hel and Disc did this, and we're still trying to figure out the last part."

Bason gaped at Jes. He had done this, or helped do this, to HIS shaman partner?

"Bason, whatever you are feeling at the moment must be put on hold," Anna said, the familiar note of authority in her voice. "Right now, what's important is getting Ren out of this house and to a hospital."

Travis: Willow...I don't think Disc wanted to conform. (::insert insane laughter here::)

Willow: I think your right.

Jes: He's goning to eventually anyway.

Willow: Yeah. Don't worry Travis...you have him afraid......very afraid.

Travis (mad giggle) Yay!!!

Willow: Readers...I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Stay tuned for the next one! I think there is even some fighting in it! Yay-ness!!!

Jes: I don't get to fight.....(pouts)

Willow: You fought earlier and won, you know.

Jes: Oh yeah! But Disc was a wuss. It wasn't hard to flatten him.

Willow: (laughs) Anyway, read on, my friends! R&R...and ENJOY!!!

Jes, Travis, & Willow: Ja ne!!!