Cindy Asakura : Thanks for always reading it so fast!
Ely-chan: I like your nick! Ely! Hehehe! Another new person to read! How I love you guys!
wingweaver22: Didn't I'll make more kissing scene but just not now, hehehe! Cuz I don't want to story to be based on kisses! (Although I love them) You've managed to vanish? That's great! The best time that I "vanished" was that I felt on the ground... And no one noticed... (Second time review for the same chap...): Yup, Ely, instead of drying, she made the tree exposed. Dangerous, isn't it? Don't die waiting! Go out! I've a lot of homework to do! (4 drawings, two quizzes, one Physic lab, 10 page of Chemistry, etc---Not yet counting the one that I'll have for the week...)
winner-loser: Ok, I'll be waiting for you ar. But please don't tell me like too late... And I want to a bit action in it, the story is not really moving.
Helena-Jeanne-Chibi: Yes, I design Elwynn's clothes. Designing long dresses is my hobby. I draw computer paper doll with different long dresses for a doll. I love it! (Oh, and I think that Hao is a sad character too...
Michi: First thing first, is your real name Evee? Just curious. You are soooooooooooooo lucky to have the manga! (my sister wouldn't buy it for me) I soooooooooooo envy you!Ponytail...Hao? Kawaii! Must see!I'll try to update at high speed! I always update before my fanfic falls into the second page, so... It should be quick, right? For da pic, I'll try my best, and hopefully, it won't be a disaster!
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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!
"..." Talking
Blablabla: narration
Blablabla: (Italic) thinking
(...): my notes
...---Chapter 8---...
Start! Shaman Fight!
Hao was sitting on the top of a mountain and was looking up in the sky. Then, a person, or rather said a thing that looked like a shadow, came to him and murmured something in his ears.
"Is that right?"
Hao smiled, and that thing disappeared. Various other hooded people appeared behind him and bowed to him.
"You are all here?"
"Yes master." A tall gentleman replied.
"Let's go."
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At the airport, Yoh saw a glimpse of Elwynn although he wasn't sure if it was she or not. He neglected it and went to his friends.
"Sorry I'm late. Anna was..."
"I was what?"
"Nothing... I'm just late, that's all..."
"I just hope that this time, there won't be any accident." HoroHoro said.
"Who will just for accidence, stupid?" Ren replied.
"You want to fight?"
"Bring it on!"
"You guys are really friendly together!"
"..."
"Let's just hop on my 33th airplane."
"Wasn't it broken?"
"My 33 repairs fixed it."
"Why is it always 33 with you?"
"..."
"HoroHoro, it's bad to look into other people's private business."
"I am not!"
"Then don't ask."
They were laughing and chatting. That was the only thing Elwynn could see from them. They showed no sign of anxiety or fear. She didn't have her white long dress since it will be uncomfortable when she had to fight. It was a short purple dress with a large belt which had a star in the middle. It had some kind of cloth right below her belt. Her right side's cloth was longer than the left one although it was the same cloth. Her sleeves were still as long as always, and her boots were in unequal length too. (I'll draw her new clothes... Can't really describe it.) Her long pink hair was attached to two buns and had two front strands that she didn't attach them. (I'll draw a full body picture of Elwynn with her new costume, cuz it's too hard to describe)
She didn't understand why Yoh wasn't flying to Patch. Instead, he was riding a plane. Maybe it was because he wanted to be with his friends and didn't want to abandon them. That sounded so like him. However, it also meant that if his friends didn't level up, he'll wait for them to level up too. This was just too troublesome. She might as well as use most of her furyoku to level up all his friends now... She took out her star mirror, and her spirit automatically came out. They disappeared and reappeared in form of star where the centre was Yoh's friends (even Anna).
"You all, whose time is under my control, acknowledge the nature that surrounds you."
The same light surrounded them and hit them. Yoh's first reaction was to find Elwynn. Knowing that she won't be here after doing that, he went to his friends.
"Kisama."
"What happened?"
"I feel like a new power surging in me..."
They all looked at Yoh.
"Hum... I think that Elwynn levelled your understand in the nature and spirits. That's what she did to me."
"Elwynn? Since when is she here?"
"Just a small while. I thought I saw her, but I guess that it was really she."
"You should have told us! What if she wanted to sneak attack?"
"I don't think a person who can see spirits can be a bad person."
They all silenced, and Anna hit him.
"She's not normal. Your grandfather told me that she was a person from 1000 years ago. She was under a seal until these late days. She didn't die and reincarnate like Hao. She is just not normal. But I doubt that my Yoh will have any trouble unless it is one of you who bring him down with you..."
"Why can't he be the one who is bringing us down?"
"Yoh won't."
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When Yoh and the gang arrived to Patch, they realized that there weren't a lot of people who were there. Out of them, the most remarkable was... Elwynn? They never saw her in this costume and hairstyle before. It seemed that she was preparing for battle anytime. She didn't have her usual happy smiley face. Instead, she looked determined and sure of herself. Suddenly, she turned her head to them and gave them the warm smile that they used to know. In the time of a flash, she was in front of them.
"You are all not very quick to arrive to Patch considering that you all knew its position. Was the travel harsh on you?"
"The plane is fine..." Yoh answered politely.
"Plane? I would expect you to fly over here."
"Fly? But why?"
"It does not matter anymore. I thought you might like to try out your levelled up furyoku. I did not perform that short version ritual for nothing."
"So it was really you at the airport!"
"Yes, it is I."
"Elwynn, why are talking like before?"
"No specific reason. I shall take my leave for I have other matters to take care of."
"Oh, ok."
She flew away in her shiny form, and the others all just looked at Yoh.
"How do you know how she talks before?" Anna asked.
"I talked with her a lot of... Ouch..."
Anna pinched his ear.
"Don't go talk to her anymore."
"Still as cheerful as always, how pathetic."
It came from a voice almost too familiar not to remember... Hao's! Everyone had their spirit control, but he appeared to them.
"That's not a very great way to greet. Maybe you should relearn your manners."
"Kisama!"
Ren wasn't the only to strike, HoroHoro, Chocolatelove, Faust, and Ryu went as well. Hao didn't even bother to move and stood there, but few hooded people appeared and took the attacks.
"I only came here for some information. Why all the ruckus?"
"What do you want?" Anna was in her usual cold tone.
"Why is Ely?"
"Didn't you know all?"
"You dare to talk to me in this tone? You are definitely bride of the Asakura family."
"Of course I am."
"Where is Ely?"
"Can't you track her yourself?"
"For once I can't."
They all stared at Hao with a weird look, did Hao, the one who always claim to be the STRONGEST just admit that he couldn't do something?
"But I've a way to find out real quick... Spirit of fire!"
His spirit came out and started to attack on the gang. Of course, they tried to guard it. Even with their higher furyoku, they couldn't hold it. Just the moment they were about to be blown away, Elwynn came out of nowhere and stopped them from being gusted away.
"For what reason did you do that?"
"Isn't that obvious?"
"No."
"I just want to find you."
"And by attacking others you will find me?"
"You came, right?"
"..."
"You look really cute in these clothes."
"Thank you."
She didn't brush or anything like she would normally. She just had her normal smile on her. Even though that she was THIS calm, the others weren't.
Did Hao just use the word 'cute'? And it was for a girl? Is the sun going to come out from west?
"Hao, you had your warning before, and now, prepare to be gone."
She had her bow out and prepared to strike. Unlike the previous time, she was hard stoned and actually shot the arrow right at Hao. His followers couldn't stop it in time, but he did at last minute when it was a centimetre from him.
"That's not very nice, and I just commented you."
"Does it matter?"
"Yes, it does. You just broke my heart." He joked with a smile that would make girls faint.
(I fainted too... The end of story...Just joking.)
"I told you. I will kill you."
"Will? Why not now?"
"If you want my answer, then answer this: why aren't you going to kill me now?"
"I do what I want anytime I want."
"So do I. Why did you want to find me?"
"What did you do to yourself?" Hao asked in a serious tone.
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing."
He, then, vanished in the air along with his followers. Just as she wanted to do the same, the ten priests (they found two substitutes) came into sight.
"Am I this popular today?"
"Elwynn Eleanor, surrender to us."
"I have too much important matters to care for what you are about to do."
"We will seal you again."
"Still the same old sentence. Let me tell you something, I am the High Priestess. There is no possible way you can seal me."
"What did you just say?"
"I am the High Priestess of one thousand years ago. I still haven't die, so my powers were still not yet pass down to the ones who succeeded me. Hadn't you noticed that their life length doesn't excess one of human? High Priest or High Priestess has a maximum of 300 years of life."
"That's not possible! The Great Spirit never..."
"The will of the Great Spirit passes directly not to Gorudoba, but to me."
"They never mentioned to us before..."
"Of course they won't. They didn't know about it. Shall you seal me? Or kill me to regain the power of begin a High Priest or High Priestess?"
"..." What kind of monster is she? Didn't she die and is only a spirit and not human?
"I am neither monster nor spirit. I am I; that's just it."
"!?! You can read minds?"
"It's only natural that I know it. It is the basic for being High Priestess."
BeepBeep! A noise came from someone's oracle bell. It seemed to come from... Elwynn? She lifted her sleeves and revealed an oracle bell...
"Tomorrow, ten in the night in the middle of the lake, Team Salkerye vs team Hoshi?"
They all stoned. She was participating to the Shaman fight and was going to fight Hao? How was that possible?
"From who did you get the oracle bell? Since when are you in the Shaman Fight? You shouldn't be able to, you just broke the seal few days ago..."
"This is my own oracle bell. And I've being in the Shaman Fight for 1000 years. I'm just continuing the Fight that I am supposed to complete."
"How can a High Priestess be..."
"In the Fight? That's not of your concern. I follow the will of the Great Spirit, and that's all you need to know."
"We can't trust you. That's all we know."
"If you wish to be this stubborn, I can't stop you. As a participant of the Shaman Fight and you as the Ten Priests, you have the obligation to tell me who are the member Team Hoshi."
Please... Don't let it be...
"We don't have to tell you."
Hoshi... Star... Hao... That's so like you...
"But if you really want to know..."
Anyone but you... I can act cold; I can act cold hearted, but...
"Team Hoshi is..."
I don't know is I can hold on to this cold mask if he smiles at me...
"...Hao's team."
Elwynn didn't say anything or had any emotion. Although they all tried to notice any change that she made, they could see that small and fast-moving string of emotion that flew in her eyes.
"Hao, is it? I will kill him."
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"Hao-sama, we have a match tomorrow."
"This shouldn't take much energy."
"It's team Salkerye. No one seems to know about it."
"That mysterious?"
"That is not the most surprising thing..."
"Oh? More mystery?"
"One of the member's Furyoku..."
"Hum?"
"...Is not written in the Oracle Bell."
"Then this is not mystery anymore. Our next opponent is Ely. I wonder how will it be?"
End of chapter 8
Forgot the action again... Oh well, at least there is some drama. I didn't want to put Elwynn to fight with Hao just yet, but I mean who could fit best to be Ely's opponents for her first time real battle (in front of us)? So Hao just fits! Hahaha! FIGHT! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh my God! This person (me) has gone nuts! Let's call the mental hospital