Why...
Willow EarthFlame
Chapter 6
Disc didn't get out of the way in time, and the full force of Yoh's attack hit him in the chest. The blow sent him into the opposing wall, but not before he released a couple of shock orbs, aimed directly at Anna and Jes. Anna caught two of the powerful shock orbs and threw them back at Disc. Pai Long caught two more, and did the same. The last one, however, slammed into Jes, knocking her over Ren and out for the count, though her breathing stayed mostly the same.
"Jes!" HoroHoro shouted, really angry now. "You're FINISHED, Disc!"
"Oh yeah?" he taunted, aiming a shock orb (the size of a large beach ball) at HoroHoro.
"Yeah," HoroHoro said, trying to keep Disc distracted and praying that Yoh would hurry before Disc let that thing go.
Out of nowhere, Disc heard "Celestial Slash!" and the shock orb in his arms burst, knocking him unconscious.
"Finally!" HoroHoro and Yoh exclaimed, exchanging high fives.
"Let's go home," Bason said, picking Jess up off the floor as HoroHoro and Yoh once again lifted Ren, and Amidamaru and Pai Long fetched Disc.
"Yes, let's go home," Anna agreed as she firmly closed the front door of the Tao mansion behind her, Shamus bound at her side by her spirit beads.
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3 days later...
Ren opened his eyes slowly and stared up at the ceiling. Odd and random thoughts swam around in his mind as he tried to fully wake himself up.
"You're awake...thank god!" he heard a voice say from the left side of his bed. Ren looked over to see HoroHoro sitting there holding his hand, tears running down his face.
"Quit crying Snow bunny, someone'll see you," Ren muttered, but grinned. He was touched by HoroHoro's deep concern and genuine worry about him.
"I love you, Ren," HoroHoro said as he gave his fiancé a hug.
"I love you too, HoroHoro," Ren replied, flinching at the pain in his back and chest. "Now get up here. I need a teddy bear."
HoroHoro laughed as he climbed into the hospital bed behind Ren. Together, they snuggled up next to one another, one of Horo's arms secured firmly around Ren's waist.
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Jes walked into Ren's hospital room with fresh tiger lilies in one hand and a box of Ren's personal green tea in the other. Carefully, she put the vase of flowers and the tea on the bedside table and sat down next to the bed, occupied by Ren and HoroHoro. HoroHoro had come in here three hours earlier (according to the nurses), and now she knew why he didn't come out.
Jes sighed. Sometimes she envied HoroHoro. He had Ren, and Ren had him. No matter that Ren loved her too. She was just afraid that her daughters, her and Ren's daughters, would grow up without their father, and they would be, essentially, alone in the world. She was so young, and already a mother, fighting the world to make way for her children, the next generation of life. Just then, Ren awoke.
"Hey Jes, zup?" he said, half-asleep as he motioned for her to walk over to him. "Gimme a hug, O Great Defender."
Jes laughed and gave Ren the demanded hug, pushing her other thoughts to the back of her mind.
"How are you doing?" she asked, her gaze grazing his bandages with a glance of concern.
"Hmm," Ren said, grinning at Jes as he elbowed HoroHoro out of the bed and onto the floor, "Well, my back still feels like Jell-O, but other than that and some electrically charred insides, I'm feeling fine."
"What'd ya do that for?" HoroHoro whined, still half asleep as he picked himself up off the floor.
"You snore," Ren said as HoroHoro plopped down in Jes' chair, "and you farted about twenty minutes ago and nearly killed me completely."
Jes laughed again. HoroHoro's farts could make the dead turn over in their graves. It was a known fact.
"So sue me," HoroHoro muttered, prompting more laughter.
Suddenly there was a lot of noise outside Ren's room. Yoh burst through the door with a huge bottle of bubbly (ginger ale) in one hand, a noisemaker in the other, a party hat on his head (positioned so that it looked like a unicorn's horn), and a powdered doughnut hanging from his mouth.
"What's this all about?" Ren asked, grinning as Jes took a hat from Morty and jammed it on his head.
"Party!" Yoh and HoroHoro cheered. "Surprise!"
Ren grinned. It was great to have friends as great as this even though he hadn't really asked for their help OR a party...oh well. Anna, Jun, and Rio walked in carrying a cake and various delicious foodstuffs (all made by Rio...YAY!). Jes left the room for a moment, but then called from the hall,
"Close your eyes Ren, I've got a surprise for you!"
Ren complied with a grin.
"No peaking!" HoroHoro laughed as he helped drag Disc, tied up and dressed like a clown, into the room.
"Surprise!" Jes and everyone else shouted, which made Ren open his eyes to the sight of Disc, which made him start laughing REALLY hard.
Jes shoved Disc into one of the chairs situated around the table that held the food. Hiding the cake from view, she placed five candles on it and lit them.
"This is for YOU, Disc," she said, moving out of the way so that he could see that the candles spelled out the word 'LOSER'. Everyone started laughing.
"Blow them out!" she said as she started to lead everyone else in a rounding rendition of, "There was a farmer who had a dog, and DISCO was his name-o: D-I-S-C-O, D-I-S-C-O, D-I-S-C-O, and DISCO was his name-o..."
Disc turned beet red under the clown makeup. They'd had him trussed up like this for three days, just to humiliate him. And Shamus was still bound in one of the rooms at the Asakura residence. Damnit! I WILL get free! he swore to himself as Jes finished her ridiculous song and started to cut the cake.
Anna walked up to Disc and pulled a knife through the ropes that held his hands. Placing a finger on his forehead, she said, "I free you, but bind you to this room and from hurting anybody."
Disc got up and stuck his tongue out. 'She is STILL a snotty little cow,' he thought
"I heard that," Anna said as she went around the table to get some food.
Disc grinned. Her bindings were no match for him...
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Ren lay back, laughing. This was one of the best parties anyone had ever thrown for him. Lann and Jun and Jes and HoroHoro were here, and the spirits were all here too. It's a good thing they explained to him what had happened earlier, otherwise he would have freaked out.
HoroHoro was sitting on the edge of the bed, holding something in his hands.
"What's that?" Ren asked, curious. HoroHoro grinned. He handed a small box to Ren and told him to open it. Ren did, and laughed wholeheartedly. There were three wooden key chains inside. One was of him (HoroHoro), another was of Kory, and the last one was of Bason! Ha-ha-ha!
"Thank you, HoroHoro," Ren said as he kissed his fiancé on the mouth (Scaring the SHIT out of Morty and Rio in the process!!!).
Disc was standing in a corner, brooding. They had been "throwing" this stupid party for the past hour and a half. It was boring. (But at least they let him change out of the costume, into his own clothes, and wash the makeup off). Suddenly Jes and HoroHoro turned to him.
"We've got one more surprise for you, Disc," they said as Jes went to open the hospital room door. Travis the Dominatrix walked in singing "You are the Dancing Queen."
Disc nearly melted on the spot, because Travis was headed strait for him with that weird microphone/whip thingy in one hand and furry pink handcuffs in the other. Travis paused in the song.
"Told you that you were next...WORM!" he giggled madly.
The room erupted in horrified screams and hysterical laughter.
THE END
Willow: So there is my story...er..I mean...the story I wrote. What'd you think of it, readers?
Jes: I thought it was great!
Willow: Jes, you nut...you can't be a "reader"...you're a part of the story.
Jes: I know...that's why I thought it was great! It rocked!
Ren: Yes. I loved the part where Travis the Dominatrix came for Disc.
Willow: Oh yeah, readers...you now know Ren and Jes' secret. Happy now?
Ren: Yes, are you happy now, you nosy little beasts?
Jes: REN!!! Be nice, shark-bait...or I'll sick Travis on YOU!
Ren: (runs away...) I don't think so!
Jes: (laughs) Anyway....
Both: We're glad you enjoyed the story...or didn't. Whatever. Please R&R. We will love you forever and ever and ever and eve..............
Jes: (laughs again) Yep...Willow is insane.
Willow: (bows) Thank you, thank you.....Goodbye for now!
Both: Ja ne!