Cindy Asakura: Hehehe! Tks for reviewing! And thanks (from Michi) for helping her. Oh! What is the pic that you want me to draw?
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Wingweaver22: Sorry... I forgot about Hao's real character... Hao is mean, well isn't he? He's just trying to help Ely... Please don't hate him for it!!! I'll try to look out for Hao's real character. And may I please ask what did you want to mean by "better than the other ones"? Is there anything I should change? I can't "diss" French. I've still a life to live here (If I diss it, I don't think that I can find a job here...). Besides, I still have my French courses to study for. If you stop reviewing.... That'll be .... Be too SAD!!! (For me) Anyways, I'm honored that your longest review ever is for me! Hehehe!
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Chuchu: I'm glad that you liked this chapter. After all, it is because of you that I wrote it. (cuz you wanted some fun things, right?) However, I'll get back to the tense things... Besides, Hao is too OOC... I'll try to make more sweet things... But I hope that I can do it!!!
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New picture!
There only one because I am not satisfied with the others that I drew... (Not that I am satisfied with this one...)
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 19---...
Release
When are you going to release me?
"I promised Ely not to."
You are going to listen to a pathetic girl who stands in the side of those humans?
"I'll kill you f you say one more bad word about Ely."
I see... But for how long will she live?
"She'll continue to live."
This should be entertaining.
"I will ensure that she'll live."
I'll love to see you try.
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Elwynn was getting weaker by the days she lived. She was only awake for few moments in one day and got too tired to stay awake. She could barely move. Most of her time was reserved for sleeping. She didn't want to but had no choice. Hao stood by her side and saw her soon-to-come end. He tried every possibility he could think of to save her, yet nothing worked. The only thing he could do was to see her time fading away.
He didn't turn to "That" because he promised Elwynn not to. Having no one else to turn to, he brought Elwynn to the Great Spirit in hope that it will restore her back to normal.
"This is pathetic." Lillian said. "Why bother trying to defy her already planned out fate?"
"Shut up."
"No one can save her."
"I said shut up."
"Hehe."
Hao forced into the path of the stars, but the Great Spirit didn't let him in. He used his Spirit of Fire to destroy that barrier that kept him from going in. just as he was about to go in, Elwynn woke up and stopped him.
"Can we just go back? It'll not help me..." Elwynn said in a weak voice.
"I'll force him to."
"I don't want you to get hurt...Cough..."
"Hurt? Who? Me?"
"Cough... I don't want to lose anymore time I've with you... Cough... I rather spend the rest of my days with you...Cough... then live my life trying to repay the debt I own to the Great Spirit. Will you be willing to be the one who will share with me my last days of happiness? Cough...Cough...I just want to be in you heart forever and ever.""
"You will always be."
"Everyone is bounded to die one day, even us, the Shamans. Mine just came sooner. I've waited 1000 years to meet you, and now I did, I will not ask for more."
"If you don't ask for more, I will! I will NOT let you die."
"Do we need eternity to prove what we feel to each other?"
"No..."
Lillian approached them.
"Wait."
"What do you want?"
"My stone."
"Stone? What stone?" He smiled evilly.
"MY stone!"
"Hao, please, give it back to her."
He threw it back to her. As soon as she had the stone, she chanted some kind of spell in another language.
"Withdraw!"
Suddenly, something seemed to pull away Elwynn's life power! Lillian was absorbing her Shaman power! In the time of a flash, both her furyoku and Shaman power were gone. Now, she was nothing but a human, the kind of 'creature' Hao detested. Without her furyoku, 'It' started to nourish on her life energy. Her body was colder and colder; paler and paler; and weaker and weaker.
"What did you do to her?"
"I'm just withdrawing the power that the Great Spirit so kindly offered to her."
"YOU!"
He wanted to attack, but Elwynn was holding his clothes tightly. Now wasn't the time to fight! He must save Elwynn! He flew away with her. During the flight, he constantly gave her his furyoku and hoped that 'It' won't drain her energy.
"Don't... Cough...Waste your... power...Cough... on me...Cough..."
"Shh, don't talk. I'll heal you."
"Please... Cough... Before I go...Cough..."
"TOY WILL NOT DIE!"
"But...Cough..."
"Just stay still."
"Promise...me...Cough... three... ..."
"I'll do anything for you, even if it means my life."
"First...Cough... Do not kill anymore people...Cough..."
"..."
"I...Cough... beg you...Cough"
"I will never kill again. Just don't talk, ok?"
"Second...I don't want... Cough... you...to die...Cough...Please... For me...Cough..."
"..."
"I...Cough..."
"I won't die."
"Third...Cough, Cough, Cough...I...Cough..."
"If you are asking me to forget you, I won't."
"No... What...I want....is.... let me die... Cough... Do...not...Cough... search for... Cough a way.... to save me. Cough, cough, cough."
"Never! I won't stop until... Wait. Are you saying that there is a way of saving you?"
"No..."
"Tell me, Ely, if you know."
"There is no other way... Cough, cough, cough... Let me die...Cough..."
"I WON'T!"
He refused to listen to her anymore. Using her remaining strength, she took out her star mirror.
"If my voice is reaching to you, please, come to me."
Yuki, Loki, and Christopher came out.
"I cannot see...Cough... you three, but... I know that you are here...Cough Cough... Take care, Cough, of Hao... for me...Cough..."
"Bree..."
"Brooum..."
"Wynn-Wynn..."
"And I am sorry...Cough...My selfishness caused you...Cough...nothing but trouble..."
Elwynn's POV
I know my time has come. This is my end. To be truth, I really do not wish to go... But the Spirit of Time will appear... "It" will devour me... This is my fate... At least I changed the fact that Hao will become "That"... My selfishness and pain did pay off... I just hope that he won't be controlled by "That"... How I wish to stay? How I long to be with him... I... Why can't "It" give me more time? I... I... My tears come out of my eyes. Hao's heartbeat was very fast. He seems to be in sorrow... I can't stand him to be like this...
I feel more tiresome by seconds... My eyes are so tired... I'll just close them for a while... Just a small while...
"Ely! Don't you dare to close your eyes!"
"I...want...to...sleep..."
"Ely!"
"I'm... sleeping...Don't...disturb me..."
I won't forget you, Hao...
I don't regret of my doing...
If I have the choice once more, it will still be the same...
I... I want to hear you say that you love me...
I... I...I love you...
Hao, can you hear my voice?
Can you hear me?
I love you...
End of Elwynn's POV
She closed her eyes and didn't open them anymore. She was smiling so sweetly.
"Hao, let WynnWynn go."
"I take orders from no one."
"BUT!"
Hao moved in quick speed and seized Christopher's throat. His eyes were full of cruelty.
"Your voice is too loud. You are going to wake Ely up."
"SHE IS DEAD!"
"She's not! She is just asleep! She told me so!" He turned to Elwynn. "Didn't you say that you are just sleeping? Wake up and tell him that he is wrong! Ely?"
She did neither move nor respond.
"Ely? Answer me..."
"She's dead, you idiot." Lillian's annoying voice appeared. "Just like I said."
"Don't you dare to curse Ely!"
"Or what? Kill me?"
"YES!"
"Didn't you promise her not to?"
"..."
"You are so weak, just like that stupid girl. Now, it's time for the coming of the Spirit of Time!"
A bright light surrounded Elwynn, and she transformed into the Spirit of Time. Lillian chanted another spell to restore Elwynn's furyoku.
"This is the end."
"..."
"Spirit of Time, destroy him."
"Why should I, a Spirit God, listen to a pathetic being like you?"
"Because the Great Spirit gave me this!"
She lifted the stone that Hao gave her back.
"Arg..."
"Now, do as I wish!"
"You will pay someday..."
"GO!"
The Spirit of Time attacked Hao with her bow and arrows. Still lost in the lost of his love, Hao remained there. It was Christopher, Yuki, and Loki who borrowed his furyoku to save him.
"You idiot! You promised to WynnWynn that you won't die! Don't you dare to break her promise!"
Christopher's words shocked him. Yes, he couldn't die. He promised to Ely... Immediately, he fought back with his Spirit of Fire. It wasn't enough. He was strong, the strongest Shaman in the world. Still, he couldn't easily defeat an opponent that had almost-reach-to-infinity of furyoku. And... That was Elwynn's body... He couldn't think of harming him...
"I'll drain all your furyoku before killing you. That way, it'll be the end once and for all."
"Humph."
SLASH!
An arrow hit Hao's left arm. The place where he got hurt become black and was kind of deteriorating.
"Be careful! That is an arrow of time! All those touched by it will have its time accelerates at a high-speed."
"Isn't that obvious?"
Hao transformed his Spirit of Fire to a sword and slashed in the mid air.
"Where are you aiming?"
"Something."
Continuously, he did that in different places. The Spirit of Time did not know why but thought that this was a good moment to attack. As soon as "It" approached him, a star shaped thing appeared in the air, on the earth, on the surface of water, on his sword, and on his gloves.
"Five elements of the world,
Air, earth, water, fire, and metal,
Seal away the exceeding element,
Time!"
"Do you think that I am stupid enough to fall into that? Luckily, I've come prepared."
"It" lifted the arm where "It" wore the bracelet of seals and unseals.
"May all continue to flow like now.
May Time forever rule over the remaining elements.
Hear me, obey me,
Bracelet of continuity,
Let all remain as it is!"
All five stars disappeared. A voice appeared in Hao's head.
Are you desperate?
Why would I be?
You cannot beat 'It' without my help...
I am Hao. I am invincible.
And yet you fail to win against Yoh and Elwynneria.
Let me be alone.
If you release me...
I won't.
I will save your precious Ely.
That's not possible! She's dead!
Not if I want her to live.
I won't. I will not break my promise to her.
If you die here, you will still break that promise. She will understand if you did that for her...
Are you sure?
Yes...
That voice faded away, and Hao was more than determined of releasing 'That'.
"You will never beat me. Not when I've my Spirit of Fire." Hao provoked 'It'.
"Not if I seal it first."
Without thinking, 'It' summoned all the other Spirits. Together, they formed a five point star. The Spirit of Fire was immediately drawn to it.
"Now what do you have to say?" Lillian said as she was proud of the doing of the Spirit of Time.
"I'll have your blood."
He aimed his attacks at that girl. Her blood came out, and dropped on the earth. He took out the mirror that Elwynn had and called out loud.
"RELEASE!"
A dark haired shadowy thing came out of there.
"At last, fresh air..."
It was "That".
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