A shadowy figure watched as the two couples meet and talked.
"Horo Horo your clothes are torn."
"We had a big fall."
"Oh. You came to join us?"
"Yeah."
"Your arm…"
"I'll go get the blades. I mean the skates."
"Okay." Yoh said.
He returned shortly with them. After he handed them out, they all began to glide across the ice. Anna was still a little tired, but she was still able to keep her balance. Then she noticed a glowing red circle around her. The ice melted so she fell through.
She let out a scream as she plummeted into the water. Her friends saw it all take place. Yoh was frozen in shock and wasn't able to move and so was Tamao. Horo Horo acted fast and raced down the ice. He saw her outline beneath the ice. He passed her quickly. Sliding to a stop Horo Horo slammed his arm through the thick ice creating a hole. As he felt her hand come into contact with his, he pulled her up. She was out of breath and shivering all over. Yoh came running over.
"Are you okay?" he asked with worry in his voice.
"Yes…I'll be fine. I just need to change my wet clothes."
Horo Horo threw his large coat over her small frame.
"Yoh take her back to her room. I have to find the thing that did this."
He ran off towards the group of trees. When he reached them, he quickly grabbed the dark figure hiding in the shadows. Pulling it out he realized that it was Jeanne. Something didn't seem right so he dragged her out into the light. He stared deep into her eyes.
"Horo Horo what are you doing? That's Jeanne." Tamao yelled at him from across the lake.
"This isn't the same Jeanne you and I know."
"What do you mean? It has to be her if she looks exactly like that."
"Never judge a book by its cover." He coldly stated, as he tightened his grip around its throat.
Little lightning bolts started to form around her. He felt the shock and tried stopping it by smashing her through the trees. Which worked for most of the time until her skin began to peel off revealing a machine robot shaped as a human. It began throwing him around. Horo Horo pulled out his snow board that he had used about 2 months ago, but this one was bigger than it. Then he ran towards the robot. Jumping up, he increased his altitude every second. Next he descended and slammed his snow board into the ground causing a wave of ground to crush it.
Meanwhile with Yoh and Anna-
Anna changed her clothes quickly and met Yoh outside her room.
"Let's go see if Horo Horo was able to catch the one who did that to you."
"Okay, but thank you for what you did for me. You know, back at the lake. Oh, and thanks for teaching me to skate."
They hugged and embraced each other in a kiss. Soon she broke it and walked with him back to the lake.
Meanwhile Tamao stared at him as he came down with, the massive power of the sword, on the machine. It left a crater. He sheathed the mighty board and walked calmly toward her when all of a sudden a horde of machine rampaged towards them. He put his arm around her and sprouted his wings again to take flight. By this time Yoh and Anna had gotten to the site.
"Anna, I'll call Amidamaru and get Tamao to safety." Yoh instructed.
"No! I will stay by your side." Anna firmly said.
"Me too." said Anna's pink haired friend.
"Don't bother arguing with them Yoh. Once they make up their minds, they stick to it."
Tamao hung onto to Horo Horo's neck while he was in the air, and Yoh was on the ground with Anna. The battle on one by the dropped, but when one fell two took its place. Finally they were able to decrease the number. Yoh had been holding back his sword for this moment. He nodded at Horo Horo. He nodded back. He dropped Tamao near Anna was. Horo Horo let out his 'Ice blaze', and Yoh let loose his 'Celestial Slash' 'Ice blaze' broke apart the ice causing the machine to fall in. 'Celestial Slash' blew one of them up causing a chain reaction. Therefore the entire machine in front of them exploded. Both boys heard a scream from Anna come from behind them. They turned only to see her withdraw her magnums a blow the 'brains' out of a couple machines that had seized her.
"You two leave with Yoh!"
"We won't leave you!"
"Go! I don't want to loose the two of you again."
A little puzzled they finally nodded and left the protection of Horo Horo, and into the protection of Yoh and the cloud of smoke created by the machine's guns hitting Horo Horo's board. All three teenagers ran back to the lodge and collapsed on the floor huffing and puffing. Anna just laid there in the arms of Yoh. Tamao headed straight to her room.
"Excuse me Yoh. I have a friend in need of comfort." Anna said leaving him and following her friend.
In the Girls' Room-
"Tamao what is wrong?"
"What did he mean when he said that he didn't want to loose us again?"
"I really don't know."
They both heard a tapping at there mountain-view window. As they opened the curtain they saw Horo Horo sitting there on the porch. He motioned for them to come out so the did.
"I bet you would like to hear why I said?" He said as they entered and sat down.
"How did you know that?"
"You two are easy to read." He said with a chuckle.
He handed them a cup of hot chocolate. They noticed a couple of thing his shredded shirt hid from their sight.
"What happened to you other than the obvious?"
"Well I got this scar from," He showed them the huge scar that covered his entire chest. "The time I saved you Tamao from a mother bear. She took most of my skin off my chest, but I was able to get you to safety."
"Oh." She gasped feeling guilty.
"Please, don't feel guilt. I learned soon after that you went to go get help, but you saw them, told them, and then you tripped and hit your head and lost your memory. We were thirteen when that happened."
"That's why Tamao's head hurts when she tries to remember that day?"
"As for you Anna, there are a lot of things that happened between us. Firstly this was caused by a blast in a large building." He revealed his left arm. It was a robotic arm, heavily armored practically made of 100 metals. "I used this arm to push you at of the way. Then it was repaired by the very company."
"What company?"
"The…" he was cut short because had been hit with a petrifaction attack. Bit by bit he began to turn to stone. "Tamao."
"Yes?"
"Take this quickly."
She took the box from his hand. Suddenly a ship came out of nowhere. She rapidly opened the box to expose a necklace with a dragon claw holding a black gem that had a something that looked like fire. She looked closer and realized that there was indeed a fire that seemed to move constantly.
"Take that with you…" were his last words before he was a statue before them.
Ropes descended from the hovercraft and attached to them were men. The girls' mouths were covered with a cloth and everything went black. The men climbed back up the ropes and left in a hurry. 2 minutes later the scar on his chest began to glow. Then golden lights climbed all around the statue and broke. There stood Horo Horo trying to catch his breath. He acted quickly and ran throughout the lodge to find Yoh. Then he found him sitting near the fireplace in the lounge.
"Yoh we got a problem."
"What is it?"
"Someone took Anna and Tamao."
"What…When…Where?"
"A few minutes ago…On the balcony…To the north. I'm sorry…I let down my guard for one second."
"Well let's go."
"What do you want to take? Car, Air, Heavy Artillery Tank, or snowmobile?"
"I'm going by myself!"
"No you're not!"
"Why?"
"Because we are dealing with an old foe."
They went outside and look to the north. There was the ship barely able to see on the horizon. Horo Horo took flight with his board while Yoh flew the YF-12C plane. Horo Horo told how to use the headphone and shut down.
"Where are you going Horo Horo?"
"Going to get your friends from someone I hated ever since I saw him, and you can't come Pilica."
"Why not? I have as much a reason to go as you do." she said with puppy-dog eyes.
"No it's my fault that this happened. Don't bother Pilica. That has never worked on me before, and it won't now."
"Oh, I see…please go get them and come back. I'll stall them for as long as I can."
"Thank you Pilica." He gave her a hug and lifted off.
Both boys picked up speed. Amazingly Horo Horo was able to keep up Yoh.
"How fast are we going Yoh?"
"About 200mph...Why?"
"It's a new record." He smiled. "Do you see them on your radar?"
"Yes. We should reach them tonight at Midnight."
"Great."
"What?"
"Nothing. Focus…If you don't focus you will lose control."
They headed on for hours. Finally they got there. Yoh and Horo Horo landed quietly and hide behind some boxes.
"Take them inside!" said a rough voice.
"Horo Horo, there are 50 guards."
"I'll take them while you go inside and get the girls."
"Roger!"
