It is only a matter of time
OK I'm back! And I have a lovely long chapter for you but first a few replies to some recent reviews!
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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-13, A New Era
In a dark room, a muscled man was told of what Ethan had been doing.
"An Ainu! In the family!" he bellowed, "get him on the phone immediately." The servant dialled up the memorised number and handed the phone to the Overall Master of The Phoenix Corporation.
"Ethan!" he yelled down the phone. "What is this I hear about you helping a wretched Ainu?"
"Master I can explain" Ethan stammered on the other end of the line. He was clearly shocked at the timing of the Master.
"I don't want excuses! You're fired!" The Master yelled hanging up the phone then ordered for another number to be ringed.
Derrick pulled out his cell phone as it rang through the icy wilderness; he fumbled for the answer button before it caused another avalanche.
"Yes?" he answered watching the snow caps for a slight movement. Then the voice caught his full attention. "N...now sir?" he asked making sure he was hearing correctly. "Yes sir!" he saluted unconsciously as he hung up.
"Ethan Günter! I have a warrant for your death." He yelled and drew his Knife.
"What? But you can't kill me! I am your leader!" Ethan shrieked hysterically, but Derrick wasn't listening. The other shamans held Ethan down as he struggled to escape. Derrick wielded Russian Knife high in to the air, and with finality he brought it down on the quivering man. His aim was true, as it always had been, and struck the very heart of the crooked man, ending his life, and his hold over HoroHoro.
Yoh watched as the girl was poked with sticks then left for dead. This was slaughter. It was slowly wiping the Ainu culture out. Its heritage was being stripped from the earth.
"This is wrong!" he said as his emotions got the better of him. He stood to find the being behind all this but manta caught his arm.
"Yoh, if you gonna do what I think you're gonna do then at least free the children first, they are the top priority now. They're lives are in your hands." He said releasing his sleeve. Yoh sighed and sat back down defeated,
"You're right Manta, let's do this!" he said as he watched Manta work frivolously. 'I just hope Ren found HoroHoro.' He thought to himself.
HoroHoro suddenly jolted in his sleep, as if his mind had just snapped back in to place, making Ren jump half a mile in the air and grip the boy tighter. HoroHoro let out a soft moan before waking up in Ren's arms; his groggy eyes took in the sight before him; Ren hovered in and out of his focus.
"Ren?" he asked, "What happened? When did you get here?" he asked as he began to sit but found him self in too much pain.
"HoroHoro? You remember me?" Ren asked startled that HoroHoro suddenly had his memory back. HoroHoro looked at him confused,
"Why wouldn't I?" he asked as Ren helped him sit up. He swayed slightly before crash diving to the left. Ren caught him before the Ainu's battered body took on another viscous beating.
"Maybe you should lie down for a bit." Ren suggested. HoroHoro just nodded and lay down to wait for the room to stop spinning.
"Where are we?" he asked after a while, realising he was no longer in the awful place.
"In a cave; don't you remember anything of the past few hours?" Ren asked still showing his protective side over the Ainu boy.
"The last thing I remember was when cough that man…he held my face to his… and all of a sudden I was in so cough-sputter much pain…it was unbearable, then there was nothing, until cough now." HoroHoro explained. His body began to ache all over, especially his chest and ribs. Then all of a sudden he was caught in a coughing fit that wracked his whole body and shook his skeleton inside him.
Ren was up and by his side immediately rubbing his back as the boy rolled over on to his side coughing and wheezing.
Finally the coughing subsided and HoroHoro laid there silently catching his breath, his head resting in Ren's lap, wondering why he was so ill.
"God, what happened to me?" he asked in a hoarse whisper. Ren looked at the boy who he'd risked life and limb for. HoroHoro was curled up on the floor in front of him, resting his head in his own lap, the Ainu's eyes were closed and he was sweating profusely but also shivering with fever and illness.
"You had your memory wiped clean Horo, but you were good." Ren paused, remembering how impressed he was with HoroHoro on that topic, and secretly vowed to take HoroHoro's judgement of people more seriously. "You knew something was wrong and ran away from the man who claimed to be your father." He paused again thinking HoroHoro had fallen asleep again, but the boy opened his eyes for a second,
"Then what?" he asked quietly, obviously trying to soothe his sore throat. Ren reached into his sack and found a small canteen of water and helped HoroHoro drink some of the refreshing liquid before continuing with his story.
"Then you almost fell off a cliff. And by the looks of it, you also fell into a frozen pond too because you were all wet and shivering like you are now." Ren recalled as he pulled the blanket out and wrapped HoroHoro in it. He held the shivering boy close giving him his own body heat.
"My lucky day." HoroHoro muttered through gritted teeth. Ren had to laugh at that, 'Oh yeah, Horo's back' he thought to him self, 'But how?' he wondered offhandedly. Not that he wasn't pleased that HoroHoro was himself again but it still nagged him in the back of his head.
HoroHoro was sleeping again, which worried Ren even more. No body falls asleep that quickly especially after news like that. Ren felt HoroHoro's forehead and his brow creased in frustration; HoroHoro was on fire which could kill him if it wasn't dealt with soon. Being an ice user, heat could be very lethal to HoroHoro and inthe weakened state that he was in he didn't have a hope in hell unless he got professional help soon.
'I have to get him out of here!' Ren yelled in his head, he looked around for an exit but the way in had been blocked, and by the time he'd have dug his way out it'd be too late for HoroHoro. His only option was to go further into the cave and hope that it led to civilisation.
'It's my only choice,' he sighed, 'but that means waking HoroHoro up again and he really needs his sleep now.' He cast another cursory glance around the dimly lit cave and spotted something in the back. 'A small tree.' he mused, 'why is a small tree growing in a cave like this?' he wondered, he then looked to the blocked entrance. 'Oh I see! There would have been light here if there was no snow, and it's warmer in the cave.' He randomly thought as he pulled his gaze back down to HoroHoro who looked exhausted.
Ren had made up his mind. He carefully placed HoroHoro's head down on the floor and moved over to the small tree. There were a few strong branches he could use to make a crude stretcher. Digging around in his rucksack he found a coil of rope and he began formulating a plan. Quietly he set to work, using his Kwon Doe blade to cut the branches. He was not giving up yet, not while he had breath in his lungs and the will power to go on.
He was taking HoroHoro home, and nothing was gonna get in his way.
"There!" manta said triumphantly. Yoh stood and walked over to where manta was madly tapping away at his laptop.
"I'm into the mainframe, all I gotta do now is click this here…" he clicked at a random programme,
"Then re-route the electric switchboard to here…" he typed in a few commands on the MS DOS programme and clicked a few more buttons.
"And Voila!" he said triumphantly. "Your turn!" he said to Yoh indicating the Mic.
It was a normal day in the dungeons or so the guards thought at least until a voice came over the PA system;
"All guards are to go to the office immediately!" it said. They looked atone another confused,
"NOW!" the voice yelled, the guards jumped into action and began to run to the main office.
Yoh smiled, now he had to lock them in the office and then the escape could finally begin. He ran to the office undetected and silently closed the door, turning the key until a delightful click sounded.
"Phase two complete, begin phase three!" he said to himself as he ran back to the control room. He found Manta typing on the laptop,
"What are you doing now?" he asked as manta finished typing on the laptop.
"Take a look." Manta said returning his attention to his laptop. Yoh looked up to the screens and found all the doors open. He smiled in satisfaction and went to the Mic again.
"You're on!" Manta said.
Faust looked over at the door which swung open slowly. Ryu slowly and cautiously crept over to see if anyone was outside…
The coast was clear. He signalled to Faust who stood and followed Ryu's lead.
"Ladies and Gentlemen you mat exit the building via the open doors, you are free to go home. Just follow the exit signs, have a nice day." Came a very familiar voice over the PA system. Faust and Ryu smiled, that could've only be one person; Yoh!
The escape had begun!
All over the compound, doors opened, and children looked up wondering what was going on. Upon hearing the notice over the PA system everyone moved at once, cheering, smiling and yelling as their freedom had finally been granted.
They were going home!
Ren had managed to tie the branches together forming a makeshift stretcher, with a few more branches in the middle to hold HoroHoro's fragile form. He then cushioned it with a spare blanket. It was ready.
Carefully, so as not to wake him, Ren manoeuvred HoroHoro's thinning body on the crude stretcher. HoroHoro groaned in response and slowly woke up due to the movement.
"What, are you cough doing?" he asked as Ren wrapped him up in the last blanket.
"Taking you home." Ren said as he moved to the head of the stretcher, grabbing his bag on the way and shoving it on his shoulder.
"Oh…" HoroHoro said but the rest of his sentence was lost as his body succumbed to sleep again. Ren was really worried about him now; that had to be the second time he'd fallen asleep too quickly.
'I have to get him home or he'll die out here.' He thought to himself, 'but can I get him there in time?' and all of a sudden, The Great Tao Ren found himself scared of losing someone close.
'Hang in there HoroHoro.'
A/N; well that was 5 pages in word so I deem it longer than the others hence previous promise fulfilled, but now I've hit writers block! Any inspirations then tell me in the form of a review pls!