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Marie smiled as Joseph came to her side. The two boys behind her where trembling in fear, anger, concern, and above all else pain. The two in front of her, ready to attack at any cause. were also trembling in aggression, and their own type of pain. Marie knew they saw the blood stained pieces of clothes take from Jun and Anna, she also knew that the two had found the fingers, but there was one thing she was sure they didn't know.
The true reason behind all that she had done.
Ren was ready with Bason, same with Amidamaru and Yoh. "Ah Joseph..." Marie sighed, "This has been an interesting assignment..." She smiled and he looked at her worried, "Miss Marie...are you..." His ghostly hand came to touch her shoulder, and she smiled, "Just about JOSEPH. Just about...get ready old friend." To everyone but Manta this was all garble to them, for Marie and Joseph were talking in English.
Upon hearing this conversation his mind tried to make since of the conversation. It sounded like
something was wrong with Marie. Manta's thoughts were interrupted as Marie joined with Joseph.
"Oh my...God..." Horohoro gasped next to Manta's ear. The girl's power had flared up even higher
than through possible. Her whole form was possessed and she was no longer Marie, she was Joseph.
"She's letting the ghost have complete control..." Ren whispered nervously next to Yoh. "Why?
Aren't you supposed to try and coexist?" Ren nodded at Yoh's question, "Either she is lazy...or
she's planning something." They both went quiet as Marie pulled out a sword that was set in the
tree behind her. The eye's of Joseph and Marie as one, were upon them, starring and analyzing
the two. Joseph saluted them, and with his voice, not Marie's, said, "I hope to battle you with
honor."
Yoh and Amidamaru growled, "YOU KNOW NOTHING OF HONOR!" As they attacked Yoh was surprised and horrified to find Joseph blocked everyone with ease. "Joseph you seem like a good person why do you serve someone like Marie?" Amidamaru asked as a slash of red appeared on Yoh's arm. Yoh held his arm, blood seeping through his fingers and Joseph answered, with the sword in front of him, "You do not know Marie, so you are not allowed to judge her. Until you go through her mind, see all that she has seen, know all that she knows you can't judge her."
"Are you saying what is inside her head, is so much better than the human lives she's trying to take!" Ren cried raising his Kwan-Dao for a fatal blow. Joseph clicked his tongue and out of the other end of the sword and another blade appeared, Ren just barely able to dodge the thing. "I am not forced to stay here, and no wrong doing is worth a human life...but you should learn everything before you can judge Marie."
As Ren and Yoh fought with all they could, Joseph somehow overpowering them, Horohoro, and Manta struggled against their bindings. "Manta...they're going to die..." Manta panted, "No, you can save them." Horohoro paused in his struggles, "You can save them too..." Manta and Horohoro met eyes, and Manta whispered, "Look at me...I am not a shaman...these binds are...are hurting me...draining me faster than you...I know...you can actually escape your just waiting for me to hurry up..." HoroHoro took in Manta's pale face, and sickly shaking form. He was right...Manta was doing far worse than he was.
"Manta...I..."
"Please HoroHoro...please..."
"I..."
"Please...I am about to die...and I need you to save Yoh-kun...and Ren. Please HoroHoro..." Manta
was becoming very white, and HoroHoro could feel his own body get weaker and weaker. "Make sure
Yoh Knows...I've loved him...loved him since he and Amidamaru beat up Ryu for what he'd done to
me." Manta gasped harshly, "Please!" Horohoro turned his back on Manta, and escaped with a sharp
gasp at his ear.
Now free, but still crippled from pain and weariness, he watched as Joseph knocked Yoh away.
Joseph stood over Ren who was kneeling, cut up and bleeding on the ground. Joseph left Marie's
body, and the American sighed looking at Ren. "I don't feel like dulling my sword within you."
She pulled out four tiny blades and jumping back, threw them at Ren.
"NO!" HoroHoro slammed into Ren, falling against him. They fell into the grass, and Ren growled as Horohoro lay limply on him. "Horohoro! HOROHORO!" Ren shouted pulling the blue haired teen in his arms, "What is your problem! Hey answer...me..." Ren went quiet seeing all four daggers in him, they were coated with a strange powder. Horohoro looked up at Ren, while his shaky hands tried to pull the things from his body. Ren swiftly, and as painlessly as he could, pulled them out, all the while starring at Horohoro.
"You...love me?" Horohoro asked panting as Yoh came to his side. Ren's cheeks darkened, "You have a problem with that?" Horohoro laughed, but stopped to arch from a sharp pain traveling through him. "No...no problem...Yoh...Manta...loved you...so long..." Horohoro began to cry, and Yoh turned to where Manta was. What had been binding the two were gone, and all that was left was a milk white tiny boy laying limply on the grass.
Ren felt his throat close as Yoh made a strange sound, and with tears streaming down his face rushed to Manta. Cool hands turned Ren's face, and then pulled him down to meet loving lips. The kiss between Horohoro and Ren only ended, when the blue haired boy turned his head away to start spitting blood. Horohoro moaned as his body seized up, and twitch. Blinking rapidly he whispered, "Love...you..." He pointed at himself gasping for air, and then his now cold hand fell on Ren's chest. "I love you too..." Ren told him, pulling Horohoro to him, rubbing his cold arms."Do-don't you die!"HoroHoro said nothing, ane when Ren pulled the boy away, he openly sobbed to find the teen puddy in his arms.
Yoh had rushed scooping up the small boy. The small frail boy...he'd held this tiny wonderful thing many times. He felt so frail...so terribly terribly frail. "Manta...Manta..." He whispered kissing the boy's forehead over and over, "Don't you be dead...don't you be dead and gone." Yoh began to sob, he wasn't like Ren, able to keep it all in, and quiet his sobs. Yoh wore his feeling on his sleeves, and write now his was the most miserable sight you could ever see. "If you had known this was going to happen would you have told them a lot sooner?" Marie asked. The two rose to stare at her, weapons out, "What?" She looked at them, "Would you?" They said nothing, but she looked at their wet faces and nodded.
"Don't worry Marie they would!"
Yoh and Ren froze, they knew that sharp endearing voice. The spun and both fell to their knees in shock and confusion. Anna, missing her bandanna, and Jun, with a hole in her dress stood there looking at Yoh and Ren. "What...What the..." Marie came over to them, Jun and Anna giving her a small bagful of money, and a bag of pretzels. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?" Ren demanded. Marie paid them no mind, and Joseph apologized as she began to dance in circles holding the bag of pretzels with glee.
Jun and Anna had dropped down Horohoro's and Manta's side, and Jun held up HoroHoro's hands, "Notice how he has both of his little fingers?" Anna nodded, "Same here Yoh." Ren and Yoh just starred at them, and only responded when Jun and Anna revived the two boys, looking just as confused. Jun sighed as the lovers embraced each other, "Marie I think you better explain!" Marie was hugging her pretzels, and when Anna took them away she finally agreed to explain, as long as she got the pretzels back.
"I'm a friend of Jun's, hell I used to live in China-but my family moves a lot." She smiled at Jun and Anna, "I got a call from these two telling me they needed me to put you four together." She pointed at them all, and all of them went red. "The way I bring people together is harsh, cruel, painful-"
"But effective." Anna added, Marie nodded.
Marie turned serious. "Your all Shamans...Someone would try something like this sooner or later...maybe you would have told one another, maybe not-I Don't do maybes." She smiled, "So we set all this up to bring you together-I gave Jun and Anna some ointment for the injuries." Ren, Yoh, Manta, and Horohoro starred at her, "Why the Hell...what the...GAHH!" HoroHoro whined, leaning against Ren, who put his arm around Horohoro, looking at Marie with dislike. He starred blankly at her when she offered him a pretzel. Yoh had a death grip on Manta, but the small boy managed to ask, "Whose finger's were those?" Marie shrugged, "Got 'em from a morgue."
Anna and Jun looked at her, "Fingers?" She smiled, "Part of my plan-" She laughed, "Ah this was a great last mission." The four boy's looked at her, "What?" She smiled and completely ignoring them, hugged Jun and Anna good-bye. Five feet away from the others she called out to the boys, "I HAVE A TERMINAL DISEASE! THIS GIG GOT ME OUT OF THE HOSPITAL-AND GOT YOU TWO TOGETHER! IT'S A WIN-WIN SITUATION!"
The group watched her go, and the new couples held onto each other as they watched her form disappear. "She's a freak." Horohoro finally said laughing, Manta joining in. Ren grabbed HoroHoro's face, kissing him passionately, causing the blue haired boy to go scarlet. Yoh was already sharing a kiss with Manta, and when both kisses ended, they simply sat with each other. Manta's hand in Yoh's, and HoroHoro's hand in Ren's.
They held hands even tighter when the next day, at Yoh's home, it was announced that Marie had died before the plane ride home had even touched the ground
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