Michi: My nick is Eve, so that's why I asked. It's not much of an abbreviation for my real name... Oh well. I still have a lot to study (two big exams...) so your pic will have to wait a little while (I'll do it during breaks or something like that). Oh! I drew that picture during my break cuz I had the idea of how the dress really going to be! So it's up! I think that I'll slow down a bit... I'm updating too fast... (Mainly cuz I don't have enough time...) I'll see...
LadyDragonfly23: Thanks! You know, it's great to hear that the story is getting better! I love Ely and Hao together too! Hao has more special reaction when he's with her! Hehehe!
Cindy Asakura : I've a lot of work to do... So updates will not be this soon...
Kausi: Welcome! I'll try to update faster... But I've too much work to do...
winner-loser : I don't think that I want Ely or Hao die... I love them! And I'll get killed if I kill them now... Oh well. The mental hospital brought me in! and I didn't see you there! So you are fine!
wingweaver22: I will make more drawings when I'll be less busy (So many homework and exams). The ones I drew are like "I'm so bored in class" drawings. My priority picture is Michi's request, like I promised that I'll give to her. (Kissing pic or holding pic) Maybe after the picture that I've to draw to Michi... Oh well, I still don't know how to draw Hao as in really looks like Hao yet... I'll try (always this sentence...)
Helena-Jeanne-Chibi : I just love complicated stuffs. Ely has even more complicated things to come. (She's my own character so I get torture her without getting killed!) But isn't it great that two of the best Shamans fight together? Hehehe! (I forgot about the fight until last chapter... HeheheSo it's only normal that you forgot about it too)
PICTURE 3 and 4 up! Grab them!
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 9---...
Beginning of the fight
Elwynn was nowhere to be found. She disappeared in someplace that even the Gorudoba couldn't find out. Yoh and his crew were all worried. Okay, they did not really trust her but didn't want her to die! Hao will kill her even though it seemed to have much more to the relation they had than two people who knew each other. They wanted to find her to warn her how dangerous Hao was. However, they just couldn't find her. Ren, being part of the search party, thought that she might have gone to the place where the two teams would be fighting and went there.
It was a very quiet place. He could hear the birds' chipping, and the water dropping from the trees to the lake. He started to search for Elwynn. She wasn't there, but a hexagonal mirror was lying on the ground. He tried to touch it, but it repelled him. He looked carefully and realized that it was Elwynn's. A small light emitted from it, and he was sucked into the mirror.
(Sorry in advance if Ren's OOC... I forgot how he's really like...)
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In there, everything was dark except the small shinning star in the sky. It was so dark that was impossible to see who was there and who wasn't. He wandered a while but still seemed not to have moved at all. Then, he saw something approached him. It was Elwynn. She was in her white dress like the first time he saw her. She looked vulnerable than usual unlike this morning.
"Why are you here? I thought that I cast a repel spell."
"That's what I want to know."
"I'll bring you back outside."
"Wait, why are you in a mirror?"
"I like to be here."
"In darkness?"
"Yes."
"Hao is too strong for you. Don't fight him."
"Warning coming from a hot tempered person may not be good at all."
"What did you just say?"
"You are a hot tempered person."
"Kisama."
"You see, you are so easily madden. I thank you for your caring, even though you only don't wish for more death. I will fight Hao tomorrow because it is the will of the Great Spirit."
"You are going to listen to it and neglect the fact that you will die?"
"Yes."
"You are crazy."
"Maybe I am, but not as such as you are."
"Kisama!"
His pointy hair rose again. She laughed at him and looked up in the sky. She didn't look at him and said,
"I'll bring you back outside now."
Without waiting for his respond, she just used a spell and brought him outside. At the moment he was about to be thrown out, Christopher caught him and secretly brought him to a place that Elwynn couldn't see them.
"I am Christopher. You are Tao Ren, am I right?"
"What do you want?"
"I am the one who let you in. I have a favour to ask you."
"No."
"No what?"
"I won't help you."
"Then can you ask Yoh?"
"Yoh wants no part of this either."
"I just need someone to keep Hao away from Wynn Wynn. I can't go out of the mirror unless she wants me to. I can't keep an eye on her."
"What are you scared of?"
"Hao will not kill Wynn Wynn, at least he doesn't plan to yet. But... She will die because of him."
"Still not interested."
"Before you decide on anything, I'll show you something..."
He lit the light of the place where they were. Everytwhere was filled with skeletons or dead people. The wet floor was actually... blood? Ren instantly lifted his feet, and he flowed in the air.
"Why..."
"She's just punishing herself. She can't live without one day of punishment."
"Isn't she like that Jeanne?"
"No. Jeanne gains furyoku by doing so while Wynn Wynn is just for repenting. She feels guilty for the lives of all the people here."
"Did she kill them?"
"No, it is because of her."
"Because of her?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"And I thought that you are the less curious out of your group."
Ren's face slightly went red."
"Just say it."
"It's..."
"Chris, I don't remember giving you permission to tell others about my past. Tell him to go out."
Ren carefully looked at Elwynn. Her right arm seemed to be transparent. Her white dress was covered by blood. Her face was all white, and her eyes showed constant fatigue.
"Wynn Wynn! Did you just fall asleep again?"
"Sorry..."
"What did you just dream?"
"Nothing that you don't know."
"Why did you fall asleep again? I thought I told you NEVER to sleep."
"I forgot."
"Forgot? You? Impossible. It is because of the fight tomorrow, right? It is either your death or Hao's. You are trying to avoid thinking about it, and the only way to escape it is to sleep. Am I right?"
"What if it is true? Does it matter? It is my own business, my own suffering, and my own grief."
"It does matter! Everything you do matters to me!"
He kneeled, kissed her hand, and looked at her passionately.
"You are my light, my will to life, and my source of strength. I will serve no one other than you."
"Sorry..."
She took back her hand and avoided to look at him.
"Don't be. I'll ask nothing in return except the sadness you can't bear." Christopher said.
Ren was tomato red. How could someone say something like this... this... in front of others? They both didn't seem to mind that he was there to listen. Then, Elwynn took Ren out, and she also went out. As soon as she was out, she looked normal unlike how she was in the mirror.
"Ren, whatever Chris asked you to do, just neglect it and don't do it."
"I never intended to do it."
"That's good. But I have a favour to ask you."
"..." What's with all the favours today?
"I need you to keep this for me."
She performed a seal on the mirror and handed it to him.
"Please, no matter what situation I'm in tomorrow, don't give this back to me. Give me only after the fight, if I live to it."
"..." Why me...
"Please?"
She gave him a smile that looked so like his sister's. He nodded, and she gave him an even brighter smile. Being stubborn, Ren just turned his face to avoid looking at her.
"Thank you. You don't know how much this means to me."
"Can you give me the answer to a question, as a return of this favour?"
"I guess it is fair."
"Who is Hao to you, and who is you to Hao?"
"That's two questions. (Ren's pointy hair rose) But I guess I can tell you. Just please, don't tell it to others."
"Umph."
"To me, Hao is the only one I ever love and will ever love. To him, I'm... just a person who betrayed him."
"!?!?!?"
"In case I die tomorrow, please take care of my spirits."
"Die? Didn't you say that you wouldn't die?"
"I don't know anymore. Thank you Ren, I'll give you something."
She took out a purple star shaped stone and handed it to him.
"It is a stone that I've stored my furyoku to heal others. It should heal any kind of injuries. I hope that this will be useful to you."
She walked away from Ren's sight.
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When Ren returned, the others were waiting for him.
"Where have you been gone?" Yoh asked kindly.
"Somewhere."
"Do you know that we have been searching for you, stupid?!?" HoroHoro shouted.
"Kisama! Who's stupid?"
"YOU! Disappearing for a whole day is not good at all! In an hour, Hao's fight will begin!"
"!?!?!"
An hour? But he was only gone for... Maximum two hours, right?
"What are you joking about? Tomorrow is the fight."
"TODAY! You must have amnesia! Faust, go check him out!"
"I DON'T! KISAMA!"
"Ano..." Yoh said. "Did you find Elwynn?"
"Yeah..."
"Did you convince her?"
"We are talking about Ren here. Of course he didn't! if he's able to convince anyone with other things that battle, he won't be Ren!"
"Kisama!"
"Why are you guys always arguing?" Elwynn said.
She didn't waste any time and went to Anna.
"Anna, are you the last one to have ever touched the 1080?"
"What do you want?"
"Are you?"
"Yes."
"Thank you."
She held out both of hands and chanted a spell. Amazingly, Anna let her do whatever she had to do. In a small instant, the 1080 appeared in normal state! Elwynn took it and disappeared again.
"Hun? What is she doing?"
"Bringing the 1080 back."
"How can she do that?"
"Time, she changed back to the time when it was not yet broken."
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Tonight was colder than the others, especially at the lake. There were a full moon and a lot of stars. Elwynn looked at the place where either Hao or she will die. It was a vague lake and, in the middle, had earth to stand on. The water looked so clear that she could see herself in it.
It was ten o'clock, her heart told her. She looked around and saw Gorudoba and the ten Priests approaching here. Other teams came too. Yoh and companies were the one closest to her. She didn't seem to have any other member to fight with her, at least that was what they thought. Two people, from the sky, flew down and kneeled to her. One of them was in black and the other in white; even their hair's colour was like that.
"Yin, Yue, you came."
"We will never abandon you, master, even it is against Hao-dono."
"Thank you. But just try to get Hao's other two members. Don't get into my fight with him."
"Yes, master."
Since it was time, those three people went toward the lake. Yin and Yue went there by flying while Elwynn just walked on the water as if she was sliding. The moment she arrived there, Hao appeared with two hooked figures.
"Ely, you brought your two servants. Did you think that they'd have a chance against me?"
"No, of course not. I am your opponent."
"Chicchee na."
"We'll see."
Gorudoba declared the start, and the fight began. Both sides were moving at incredible speed. It seemed that it was pure fighting: Hao didn't summon his spirit of fire, and Elwynn didn't summon any spirits too. It was almost impossible to detect whether they were fighting in the sky or on the earth. Luckily, the water told them the movements of the two fighters. The remaining four on the ground stared at each other. It seemed that both side had no will to fight.
Suddenly, something fell from the sky in high speed onto the ground! It was Hao! Elwynn was up in the sky and seemed to be exhausted. They weren't just fighting. They were using YinYang jutsu. At the moment Hao reached to the floor, spirit of fire caught him. He rose up with his spirit in all his glory.
"Ely, you have become strong in the past years. It'll be more fun this way..."
"It won't be for you."
She took out the 1080 and began a chanting.
"This again? Doesn't it get old? I already told you that this wouldn't work..." (Actually... It was to Anna...)
"Repel!"
The 1080 went around them and repelled the other four people from there.
"So you don't want anyone to get hurt this time?"
"Isn't this obvious?"
"What are you going to do now? Use your star mirror?"
"No."
She flowed down onto the ground and used a weird form of seal. A pentagon star appeared.
"Legendary beast,
Please let all of this be ceased.
Beast of light
Beast of dark
Appear in all your might
And stop this pathetic lark.
Although this is a road I cannot walk through,
I dare not summon you.
For this fight, I do not wish to flee
So please, lend your power to me.
Beast of prohibited light
Beast of tabooed darkness
The future I foresight
Still remains so heartless.
Concede yourself to me.
Relinquish all for me.
Power concealed for once
But shall make its grievance.
Now that it has outgrew,
I hereby summon you.
Born from the Great Spirit,
Shaloringillic!"
By her words, a beautiful shining white spirit came to her. It was a very strange creature. It turned black when they looked closer. Its wings were in a weird shape as if it was a technology armour. It flew to Elwynn, and she jumped on it.
"Meet Shaly, my most powerful spirit."
"Shaly? You still like to give nicknames to others."
"Doesn't it really matter? The only thing you need to know is that it'll defeat you."
"This 'thing' defeats me? Or my spirit of fire?"
"Yes. It is especially made to defeat you, given by the Great Spirit 'Itself'."
"Ha, we'll see."
End of chapter9