Michi: I will, don't worry. I'll try to update each two-four days depending on my works. But during mid-terms and finals, it'll vary a lot. And I read your 'cross my heart', I posted a review there. Hehehe. (I'll read 'remember me' next, I think) Oh, I am from Canada like you.
Aznlite: Glad that you think that it's funny!
winner-loser: It doesn't matter if it is short or long, I'm just happy that someone read it!
Cindy Asakura: Thanks for reading it! You are first time here, right? Welcome!
pinkdreamer122: Your story has issues? What kind? And too late, Elwynn is already changing a bit... Sorry... Cuz I can't make cold characters for that long...
Disclaimer: I do not own SK characters, the only things I own is my story and my original characters.
This story happens few months after the end of SK anime. I have no clue what the manga is about so.... Please stick with the anime story line!
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Blablabla: narration
Blablabla: (Italic) thinking
(...): my notes
...---Chapter 3---...
We meet again
"Beware. This is the only word I can say for I am not allowed to reveal the future."
"Elwynn... You are talking in a weird way again." said Yoh. "It's hard enough to listen to someone talking, but to think about what it means too? You are asking the impossible."
"Oh, I am sorry, if my way of speaking troubled you. I shall talk no more."
"Here you go again."
"Sorry. I'm used to talk in that manner. Is this any better?"
"Yeah."
"Where's Anna?"
"She went to somewhere for a day or two."
"Then do you have free time?"
"Free?" He looked at her with watery eyes. "It's impossible."
He pointed at the spirits of the mansion.
"They are watching me for Anna..."
"That's no problem."
Elwynn took out a hexagon star mirror that was the size of her hand. The borders of the stars had some kind of ancient scripture. The corners of the mirror had five elemental characters (wind, fire, water, earth, and metal) written in the oldest form of Japanese. The last corner had another word, 'time'. She held it toward the spirits and said,
"You, who surrender to the flow of time, fall into your dormant state."
As she finished saying it, all of the spirits felt asleep.
"How did you do that? You have to teach me!"
"Am I hearing this right? Asakura Yoh actually wants to learn something?"
"If I learn it, I will not have to train under Anna anymore!"
"Oh, but you cannot use this power yet. It requires a lot of training and furyoku. And, you have to require a spirit of the five elements."
"Too many jobs to do..."
"It is a lot of work. Shall we go?"
"Go where?"
"A small secret training."
"TRAINING? But..."
"It's not that hard, and it'll not take much time."
"Do I really have to?"
"Please."
"Alright..."
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When they went out, Ren and Ryu were walking to there. However, Yoh and Elwynn did not see them. Elwynn took a feather out of the mirror, turned it bigger, mounted up with Yoh, and flew away.
"Master Yoh! Don't abandon me!" Ryu cried out.
"Shut up. Bason."
Ren called his spirit and tended to follow him. On his way, Bason 'accidentally' stepped on a blue 'thing'.
"Why you!" It was HoroHoro. "Ren! How can you order Bason to step on me? Kororo, over soul!"
They began to fight with their oversouls. Ryu tried to stop them but couldn't.
"Hey!" Chocolove came. "Oh wow! Great fight! It's even better than..."
Bang! Chocolove was hit by Ren and HoroHoro.
"I didn't even say anything yet!"
"You will after!"
"Oh no! I forgot to follow Yoh!" said Ren.
"Follow Yoh? What for?"
"None of your business."
"Ryu, Ren, HoroHoro, I heard that Lyserg is already at Patch with Jeanne and Marco, and Faust went to the desert to collect medicine before going there! And since I'm here to meet up with you guys, we can all go to Patch!"
"Not yet. Yoh just went away with a girl."
"He eloped?"
"Who did you say eloped?" Anna's voice came.
"No ONE!" They all said together.
"Really? Where is Yoh?"
"He went away..."
"...To the grocery store..."
"...To prepare you a nice and good dinner."
"Oh yeah? This better be good."
(Voices of the characters: "YohCome back soon! Don't let us be alone with that monster!)
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Yoh and Elwynn arrived to a deserted place. There were no vegetation, earth, and water. The only things it had were a bright shiny sun and sand.
"Yoh, it's here... Yoh?"
She saw him lying on the ground like a dead person. He was murmuring the word: 'Hot'. She smiled and used her mirror to create a temporary shelter for Yoh. She, then, splashed water, providing by her mirror, on his face.
"Hun? I was so nicely asleep but a stream of water attacked me..."
"I'm the one who puts water on you."
"Oh..."
"Shall we begin this training? It's quite simple. You've to survive 10 minutes inside my mirror."
"That's it?"
"Yes, inside, everything can exist, at the same time, there can be nothing. It depends on each person. My five spirits are inside. They will decide to train you and they might kill you too. Be careful."
"It'll be alright at the end."
"If not, then you'll never be strong."
"Can I go now? Because I don't want to be late for supper when Anna comes back."
"Aren't you scared that it's a trap?"
"Is it?"
"No."
"Then it's fine."
Elwynn transformed the hexagon mirror into a gate. She let Yoh enter it. After just two seconds, he came out.
"You can only last two seconds? Are you this weak?"
"Daijoubou."
"I hope so."
He reentered, and didn't come up for a while. Just as Elwynn decided to relax, someone came behind her. She was shocked although she didn't turn around. She knew this sense just too well, a little bit too well.
"Don't you say hello to your old 'friend', Ely?"
A boy smiled at her.
"Hao..."
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It was a very beautiful place. It wasn't anything Yoh went the first time. The first time was a fireball blasting him outside. There was a lake whose water seemed too pure to be true. He walked to there and lied on the soft green grass. A soft wind blew on him, as he felt asleep. Then, he heard a small voice.
"Bree"
A soft fluffy white animal pushed him with its small nose. It looked like a puppy, but only with a pair of long ears and a pair of small wings. The point of the ears, the fur of its neck and head, and its paws were in light blue.
"Bree"
"Hello."
"BreeBree"
"Why are you here?"
"Bree"
"Brooum"
Another creature came out. It was very similar to that last one except that it didn't had wings, had a fluffy tail, didn't have the fur on its head, had three pairs of ears, and was light yellow. The points of the ears are in golden color, and the golden fur on its neck was rather long.
"It there anymore of you around here?"
"Bree"
"Brooum."
"Loki, Yuki, do not go and trouble our guest." A girl said.
She had medium-length red hair. Her red eyes were shinier than ruby. Her warrior clothes were also red.
"Come back to me."
They both jumped to her and licked her.
"I am Hailey. They are Loki (She pointed at the white one) and Yuki (The yellow one). Welcome to Salkerye, the insider of the star mirror."
"So can I go back to sleep?"
"No."
"Hailey, please do not be this mean to this young boy."
Two more people came out. The boy was green haired, and the girl was blue haired. Their eyes were the same color as their hair. Their clothes were in the same type of Hailey's.
"Eward, Reithia! He has to become more powerful fast! Every minutes here wasted her furyoku, and that's..."
"HAILEY." Edward warned her.
"Sorry, pardon me."
"Yoh-sama," Reithia said, "has you yet read the Tchou-Senjirayketsu?"
"Yes, I read it."
"This should ease up the job. All you have to do now is fight five minutes with us. We have to test your understanding in the nature."
"How can I fight with spirits?"
"Everything is possible here. Just try to do what you can. Are you ready?"
"Yeah. I'm ready."
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Elwynn's POV
It's so silent... He hasn't said a word. I can't turn to see him yet for my emotions have not yet been controlled. But... I want to see him; I want to hold him... Can I? No, I can't, at least not in this state. But he will force me to do so anyways. It will be better if I just turn around... Yeah... It'll be better... I hold on to my tears of happiness deep inside of me and give the warmest smile I can possibly offer. I turn to him, and he is smiling at me. Hao... How I long to see you... I shrink back a little when he grasps my arm. His hand is covered by fire, but yet I won't say a word. I endure the pain until the moment he let go of my arm. Then, he holds me, and my arms instinctively surround him. My tears fall on his cape, and he doesn't seem to mind. He kindly sweeps away the tears I have and gives me another smile.
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Yoh didn't really understand how his five minutes of fight ended. It was rather awkward. They all attacked him and stopped at the most crucial moment. They seemed to want to fight him and, at the same time, not hurt him. Hailey was the fire element, Reithia was water, Edward was earth, Loki was wind, and Yuki was metal. Their attacks were rather strong, but he knew they weren't at their full force.
"Ok, your power of understanding the nature is low. Have you ever train in understanding nature and spirits?"
"If you don't count the time that I've been running away from grandpa's training, no, I haven't."
"I see. Then we'll perform a ritual to raise that power."
"Ritual? We can do that? It means that I don't have to train, right?"
"Yes... But I rather to have you train than in this way."
"Why"
"No reason. We shall begin this right after your last test."
"It is all up to him to decide whether we will perform this ritual or not. Oh, here he is."
Yoh looked at the way Hailey pointed. It was then he saw a boy at his age appearing. He had blue hair and green eyes. His hair was rather long, but not as long as Hao's. His costume was not anything like the others. If he had to associate it with something, it would be Patch's ten priest's clothing.
"I am Christopher Ivarice. I expect you to be Yoh, the one who temporary defeated Hao."
"Master Christopher! We are not allowed to tell this to any people!"
"Stand aside, Reithia. He has the right to know. After all, we are counting on him to kill Hao."
"Wait... If I understand this well, Hao is alive, and I'm the one that has to kill him?"
"Yes."
"Can't anyone of you do it? It's too troublesome..."
"We are spirits. We cannot kill with only our power. We need Elwynn."
"Then why can't you ask her to kill him?"
"..."
Christopher remained silent for a while. Then, suddenly, he shouted,
"Hao's here! Hao's with Elwynn NOW!"
End of chapter 3
Oups... I totally forgot that this is a Hao x OC fanfic... I bla and bla about Yoh and forgot about Hao! OUPS! (I'll write more of Hao... Next time...) Oh well... Let's turn it to Hao x OC x Yoh, what do you guys think about it? Tell me (in reviews) if you think that'll be better. Hehehe! Thank you ar!