Joy: Now you are probably wondering where the hell I have been. Sorry about the HUGE delay in this chapter, everyone. I have a VERY good reason that I will explain at the end of the chapter. First I will tell you this is not going to be a long chapter, but I am going to post two at once, so I think it is allowable this once. Review responses and then the chapter!
DMoS13: (laughs) That Voodoo stuff makes me laugh every time.
Silver Moon Phoenix: (laughs) Luna's going to get her fifteen minutes of fame in this chapter, by the way. :o)
Dark Angel: Yep, he sure is gonna get it! :o) But you already know that.
Midnights: Here comes the next chapter, ready for your reading pleasure.
BabyGatomon: I want to email you tomorrow. Lots of stuff has happened.
pinkdreamer122: Yeah, evil cliffy! :o)
Okay, enough of that. Read on, my patient readers.
Interruptions
Sakura armed herself with the Crossbow. "He's here, isn't he?" she asked. Moon Shadow nodded. "Where?"
Just then a gust of wind raced through the room. Moon Shadow's eyes widened. "Look out!" she cried. She pushed Sakura out of the way just as a blast of energy came at her. Unfortunately, it succeeded in hitting Moon Shadow instead. She sank to the ground unconscious.
Sakura looked over at Moon Shadow's form and gasped. "Moon Shadow!"
Laughter filled the air, and then in a flash, Vargon was standing in front of her. "Now I shall deal with you, girl!" He sent a blast right at her, but it didn't hit her, because before it reached her, it disintegrated. Sakura had managed to form a temporary shield using the powers of her Millennium Crossbow.
Sakura smirked. "Finished? Because now it's my turn, baka!" She closed her eyes and chanted. The Crossbow glowed. Sakura readied her bow and arrow and fired. The glowing arrow wrapped itself around Vargon, turning into a golden rope and trapping Vargon, pinning his arms to his sides.
While Vargon struggled, Sakura rushed over to Moon Shadow. Moon Shadow seemed different…taller. Sakura blinked. "Luna?" Luna nodded and rose to her feet.
And instant later, Sakura sank to her knees, panting. Luna put her hand on Sakura's shoulder. "Are you all right, Sakura?"
Sakura nodded slowly. "But I can't…hold him…anymore…" Just then the arrow unwound itself from around Vargon, freeing him completely. He let out a laugh and fired another blast at the girls. Luckily Luna was quick to pull them both to safety before the blast hit them.
Luna's eyes narrowed. She quickly created an energy blast of her own, hitting the evil sorcerer directly in the chest. While he was stunned, she turned to Sakura. "We must hold him back until the spell is completed. I know a powerful wall spell that can hold him back, but it will take a lot of power to do so. I know you have such power when you merge with your dark sides. Now it is necessary for us to draw from all our power."
"All right, but after it happens I am going to be unable to do much of anything should this not hold for long."
"Do not worry. It will hold for as long as needed. When I start the chant, you go into your change, okay?" Sakura nodded. Moon Shadow started her chant. Sakura closed her eyes and allowed herself to merge completely with both her dark sides at once.
Sakura's hair turned silver and gold and black streaks grew from it. When she opened her eyes, they were blood red. She also grew angel-like wings of white. The look in her eyes showed that the transformation was very painful. Nonetheless, with the added power from the combination of their bodies, they would be able to hold the wall up for a longer period of time.
Luna finished her chant. "Now Sakura. Focus your powers into the creation of the wall. Feel the wall around us. Focus your energies into the wall." The combination of their powers erected a huge crystalline barrier around the entire group.
Vargon growled furiously and fired several blasts at the wall. But they never made it past the barrier. It was just too powerful for him to get past with the energy he was using.
Meanwhile, Sorcerer was completing the chant for the spell.
Yami and Bakura, who were spirits of the Items themselves, were going through excruciating pain from the drain of energy. It felt as though their souls were being ripped apart by the entire process. Finally it was too much and they sank to the ground. Yami held his stomach in pain, unable to bear the sensation of having his spirit pulled. Bakura was going through the same thing. It was more pain then either of them had felt in over five thousand years.
The spell was long and in Egyptian, but Joy did hear the last verse of the spell quite clearly.
Now what was separate
Will be joined
Create a fusion
A soul in one
Will be the host
To infinite power
I summon to this realm
The power
To one will wield all.
Now choose the soul.
The Items flashed brightly. Katilli and Sorcerer fell to their knees, completely exhausted. "The energy transfer…is done…" Sorcerer panted out. "The host will now…be chosen."
There was another flash from the Items, then a stream of pure white light shot from each of them, combining into a stream and heading right for the chosen target. The host…was Joy Houyoku.
Oh, Ra…Joy is the host…What is going to happen? Katilli could only watch as Joy was engulfed entirely in a white light. It lifted her off the ground and she started to change.
A streak of white appeared in her hair and her hair grew at least two feet. Her eyes turned black and almost soulless. Her feet touched the ground lightly, her eyes the only things moving, taking in the scene around her. She said nothing, and she did not seem to recognize anyone in the room, even Katilli got a confused stare from her hikari.
By now the wall had lost its power. Sakura fell to the ground, spent of all her strength. She had transformed back, separating her soul from those of her dark sides. She was completely unconscious and her clothes tattered. Luna had changed back with Moon Shadow, who was now sitting on the ground, awake but exhausted.
Joy, seemingly in some sort of trance, stared at Vargon. It was time to see if the spell had been successful.
Joy: Okay, the host is Joy, and now it falls on her to get rid of Vargon once and for all.
My excuse for not updating. My computer bombed. It was entirely my fault. Luckily my father is a computer whiz and was able to get it up and running. But he had to wipe out the hard drive to do it. In fact, I just got internet back today. So now I can finally update. I got a few more one-shots to upload, and I will post the next chapter like, REALLY soon. All I gotta do it type it up. Expect it soon.
Next chapter is called 'The Host' Till then, review and see you later!