It is only a matter of time
I'm back, and I'd like to thank my two first reviewers for reviewing, so let's hear it for Silver Mirror and Lady girl! Thanks guys. And thank you Lady girl for the correct spelling of Ryu, see it's right now!!!! beams proudly any way on with the story!!!!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of shaman king I'm just borrowing them for a bit of twisted fun.
Summary/Blurb: What if HoroHoro and Pilika had a tougher past than Ren? And what if that past came back so soon?
Warning: This is my first fan-fic on shaman king so excuse all the ooc-ness…oh and there's a few bad words…not much else really so I'll leave ya to it. Enjoy!
Ch-2, Broken promises
"Yes!" the word echoed across the frozen field and reverberated through the trees where a group of 6 men were crouched waiting for their leader's signal. Upon hearing their leader's voice they jumped into action.
They each held a gun in their hands and, as if they were moving as one body, they all brought their guns up to their eyes, aiming at the three kids behind the pathetic Ainu.
BANG!
BANG! The sound alone broke HoroHoro's will to live.
"Yah!"
"Umph!"
"Wah!"
The cries of his friends echoed through HoroHoro's mind. Never ending…
…still crying out
…unwavering
Until he realised that they weren't in his mind at all but real!
'They're alive? But how?' he spun round and found Ren, Yoh and Ryu trapped underneath a combat net struggling to find an exit. He went to try and help them but Yoh suddenly yelled out trying to warn him:
"Horo! Behind you!" but it was too late. HoroHoro slumped to his knees, wavering for a split second, eyes closing. Then he fell forward unconscious.
"Move out. We're already late." the enemy said in an emotionless voice, rolling HoroHoro over none too gently, making sure he was unconscious, before continuing to tie the Ainu's wrists and ankles together.
Yoh, Ren and Ryu watched in dismay as their friend was unceremoniously flung over the enemy's shoulder and carried off into the white oblivion. Stolen away from them without even an explanation.
Yoh was not standing for this.
'I promised him I wouldn't leave and I will fulfil that promise!' he thought determinedly, as he struggled with the net holding him prisoner.
"Horo!" he yelled in desperation as they moved further and further out of sight, "leave him alone!!! Horo!!!!" but it was no use. He was gone…taken…from him and Yoh was still entrapped in this damned net! He was just about to give up and settle for staring in the direction the enemy had retreated in, when something caught his eye.
His Harusame!
He stretched his hand through the net hoping to grab it but it was just out of reach. Still he pushed his arm further and further through the restricting netting and prayed with all his might that he'd reach it in time.
Suddenly his cold and frozen fingers wrapped themselves around the familiar handle of his Harusame and he let out a triumphant;
"Yes!"
Within seconds he'd cut him, Ren and Ryu free from the offensive net, and had started heading the way those men had carried HoroHoro off in. But the men were nowhere to be found and neither was HoroHoro.
"Yoh, they're gone." Ren said feeling a strange sadness creep around him and for the first time found himself missing the annoying Baka.
"We have to go back, we'll freeze out here." Ryu reasoned, "Plus I don't think my hair gel is meant for cold temperatures." He added shivering exaggeratedly.
"NO! I won't leave him alone!" Yoh yelled clearly agitated, wishing he'd let their spirits come with them.
"Yoh. We can't help him if we turn into human popsicles!" Ren reasoned shaking Yoh's shoulders.
"I can't leave him Ren," Yoh cried out, sinking to his knees, ignoring the cold compacted snow melting into his clothes, "I promised him, Ren." He sighed through the sobs that overtook him. Ren lightly pulled Yoh to his feet and silently guided him back towards HoroHoro's house. The Delivery would have to wait.
Pilika sat in the lounge watching a sappy film, waiting restlessly for her brother to come back. Her parents had gone to Germany before she and the others had arrived here, but they're flight had been delayed. Now they have to wait for the weather to clear which didn't seem to want to.
Just then a loud bang sounded from the kitchen, and a second later Anna's voice cursed;
"Damn!-(pause)-Yoh!" she called out. Pilika stood up and went into to the kitchen only to find Anna perched on a wobbling ladder trying to stop another biscuit barrel from toppling off the top shelf.
"He's not here remember?" she said as she steadied the ladder and grabbed the biscuit barrel that had fallen on the floor and moved it to one side, saying something about getting Ryu to do it later seeing as he was the tallest.
"He should've been back by now the lazy, good for nothing-" Anna cursed. Then as if on cue, three bodies tumbled in through the door, one guiding another while the third struggled to close the door against the blizzard winds outside.
Pilika ran into the hall way, with Anna slowly following behind, hoping to find her brother, but he wasn't with them.
"Yoh where's Oniichan?" she asked hoping he was ok.
"Pilika…" Ren started, 'God!I can't do this!' "I'm sorry but he…" again he couldn't finish. But he knew she had a right to know. "He was kidnapped by some men." He forced it out. Tears ran freely from Pilika's eyes as she, too, forced herself to listen.
"B...By whom?" she asked frantically.
"I don't know." Ren admitted finding a strange feeling of loss in some way. 'Why do I care if that Baka has been taken? Was I not wishing for this very same thing a few months before?' The thought of him wanting HoroHoro gone scared him now, as he tried to envision life without him but failed in doing so. Life seemed sort of...fun...with him around, even if it was in an annoying way.
Pilika was quiet for a minute, then she lifted her watery gaze to Ren's and asked slowly with fearful eyes;
"D…did they have ….phoenix symbol on them?"
Slightly surprised, Ren found himself nodding.
"Why? Do you know who they are?" Yoh suddenly asked snapping out of his shock.
"NO! They have him again!" She cried out as a bout of sobs escaped her. She ran up the stairs and in to her room, just as Manta and Faust entered the hallway. This outburst also bought curious spirits out from their hiding places, including Koloro who wondered where her Shaman friend was.
"What's with her?" Manta asked as they neared the hall way.
"Why we are all congregating in the hall way?" Faust asked as he helped Yoh to stand.
"Where's HoroHoro?" Manta asked.
"It would seem we're getting the third degree from our friends here." Ryu said as he led the way to the lounge. Every one, except Ren, (A/N; When does he ever sit down?) sat down to hear Yoh repeat the story of the earlier events.
A/N: What will happen to HoroHoro? What is Pilika hiding? Where are Chocolove and Lyserg? What's with all these questions? Find out next time in "Whispered nothings."