It is only a matter of time
I'M BACK! And I have a prezzi for ya! Yep it's chapter 14! And there's a new twist in here too. Btw this fic is totally writing itself, I have absolutely no plan for it what-so-ever! So let's see where my demented mind takes us all shall we?
Read on!
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-14, It just got Uglier!
The compound was over run by Ainu children, who had been captured from all over the world. Faust wondered just how many Ainu tribes still existed to produce that many kids. But as he took a closer look, he noticed that many of the kids were now teenagers, or adults. This enraged him even more, but Ryu stopped him from acting irrationally, by placing a friendly hand on his shoulder.
"Don't be angry, be happy for them, they're free now." He said before following the crowds and escaping the torture hell.
Ren dragged HoroHoro deeper into the cave and slowly realised that he was going no where fast. He glanced down at HoroHoro who was sleeping in a fitful sleep again. He was having yet another nightmare, and this one looked bad.
Ren had been pulling HoroHoro for the good part of 3 hrs now and he'd had to stop almost 7 times because HoroHoro had thrown himself off the stretcher in a fit of struggles against whatever demons plagued his dreams. In the last fit, Ren and found some more rope and secured HoroHoro to the stretcher to prevent him from falling off again, but now he just wished he'd never let the Baka go on the delivery errand in the first place.
'Why didn't you tell me about them? Why didn't you warn us, or say anything? We could've avoided all this mess!' he inwardly fumed at the sleeping Ainu. He looked at the gaping chasm before him and the thin rock bridge that joined the ledge he was stood on to the other side of the deep abyss below.
'I'm gonna have to wake him up for this. There's no way I can drag him across that.' He thought grimly to himself, and then looked back down at the sweating boy, struggling against the rope that kept him safe. Begrudgingly he bent down to wake HoroHoro.
"Horo…" he whispered, whilst shaking the boy's shoulder. HoroHoro muttered something in his own language, before struggling against his bonds again.
"HoroHoro!" Ren said with a little more force, but HoroHoro remained caught in his demonic dreams. Ren sighed, it never was easy to wake HoroHoro, but now it's ten times worse!
"HoroHoro, please. Wake up!" Ren said loudly shaking the boy back to reality. HoroHoro suddenly bolted up right, breaking the thin ropes holding him to the stretcher, in a blind panic. Ren was thrown backwards slightly but only by an inch. He quickly saw that HoroHoro was in a panic and not quite awake yet, so he pulled him into his embrace tightly and tried to get him to calm down but HoroHoro was hallucinating right now and was having none of it. He struggled intensely against Ren, yelling out in his native tongue.
"HoroHoro! It's ok! You're safe! I'm here, nobody's gonna hurt you." Ren said soothingly. Quieting his voice as HoroHoro calmed down, finally realising who was with him, and that he was no longer in danger.
"Ren?" he whispered asking just to confirm he was dreaming. Ren hugged him tighter for confirmation. HoroHoro sank into his embrace, visibly exhausted, both mentally and physically. Ren cringed inwardly; HoroHoro was shaking, delusional, and didn't know what was real or not real, not to mention feverish, and sore all over, with a few broken bones here or there…how was he supposed to get him across the bridge?
"Where are we?" HoroHoro croaked, "How did I get here?" he asked clearly still out of it. Ren tried to hold back the anger and tears that attacked him from within and tried to steady his trembling hands. He was so angry at the Pheonex Corporation for doing this to his Ainu!
"We're in a cave, and we have to cross a very thin bridge to get home…can you do that?" Ren asked knowing it would be a very difficult endeavour.
"Home…" HoroHoro whispered, trying to remember what that was.
"Yes Horo home, where Pilika is waiting for you. She misses you terribly and is very worried about you." Ren said trying to get him to remember at least his sister, but in his state, HoroHoro was lucky enough to remember who was holding him let alone who these strange names were. But Ren knew that this memory loss was due to the hallucinations and fever and it pained him to see his friend have to suffer after seeing him suffer for so long as it was.
It just wasn't fair!
"Yes!" Yoh cheered as he watched the children disperse into the open ice caps, but a new problem arose. They started huddling around each other, lost in the snow, not sure where to go. "Uh oh." He sighed as he watched all the kids start to shiver.
Just then Faust and Ryu came up the stairs with a frown on their brows. 'We need a plan' Yoh thought, and then he snapped his fingers and cheered;
"Ha! I have the answer!" he grinned, pleased with himself. "Faust, you and Ryu will take these children to Horo's village and we can arrange for travel there, me and manta will go and find Ren and Horo." He said but manta gave a small eep at that sentence.
"Can I not go with you Yoh...I just don't...like…the snow…" he trailed off feeling very stupid and shy.
"Ofcourse manta, you can go with Ryu and Faust can come with me." Yoh said grinning. Manta squealed with delight and hugged Yoh's knees to the point where Yoh toppled over on to his butt.
Ryu looked out of the window where the children were shivering in the cold.
"We'll need some clothes for them. They'll never make it dressed in those." He said after studying them and the map.
"Good point…well; they must've worn something when they were caught so those clothes must be here somewhere." Yoh mused while glancing around the office they had congregated in. Then he spotted something on the desk. It was a map to the building with labels on it. After studying it, he came up with another plan of action (A/N poor Yoh…all this thinking must hurt! Lol!)
"Ok, this room here is where all the clothes are, so me and Faust will go retrieve them while manta hooks up the speaker thingy again and you Ryu can tell them all to form a line and we'll meet them outside the gates." He said as he began to move toward the door. He left the two to begin their 'hooking up' while he and Faust searched for the storage room. He followed the map directly and found himself outside a large volt with a few iron bolts locking it shut. The bolts were easy to remove but the heavy door was slightly more difficult. Slowly they got the door open, and the first thing Yoh saw was…
"Horo's bandana…" he whispered. Images flashed before is eyes as he remembered that night when he'd vowed never to leave HoroHoro alone.
Flashback!
Yoh woke up in the night, by a sudden scream in the room next to his. Seeing that no one else was yet awake, he decided to investigate and crept out of his room. It was then that he realised it was the new boy who was screaming. He slid the door open and moved inside and found the boy kicking and screaming in his sleep.
He wondered offhandedly what a happy, optimistic boy such as HoroHoro would have night mares about. He moved to try and wake HoroHoro before the Ainu woke the entire inn. He sat down next to his matt but HoroHoro shot up and grabbed onto Yoh's night shirt. Yoh nervously put his arms around the quaking boy, trying to soothe him, calm him down.
"Don't leave me Yoh." HoroHoro pleaded, "I'm tired of being alone."
"What's wrong Horo?" Yoh asked trying to see the boys face but HoroHoro clutched his night shirt tighter.
"Please! Promise me you won't leave me alone!" HoroHoro said louder with a little urgency behind his voice.
"Ok I promise!" Yoh said quickly sensing that the boy needed to hear those words in order to remain calm.
"Thank you." HoroHoro said as he held on tightly to Yoh and began to cry. A few hrs later Yoh noticed that HoroHoro was now sleeping in his arms so he laid him back into his bed and watched him for a while, making sure there were no more nightmares plaguing his new friends dreams. When all was quiet he moved over the door, and then looked back once more.
'What was all that about?' he wondered, 'I'll ask him tomorrow.' he thought and closed the door before returning to his own bed.
Present moment
"I promised him I wouldn't leave him alone." Yoh whispered as he watched Faust dug out HoroHoro's other clothing and put them to one side for safe keeping.
Then with more determination than ever, Yoh joined him in sorting through the clothes and getting those kids back to where they belonged…home.
Pilika was sleeping soundly now, it had taken a while to get her to go to sleep but now she was and Anna could finally relax for a bit. She sat down on a chair and got comfortable, while leaning her head back and resting her eyes.
Shuffle…BANG!
"What the!" she yelped as she jumped out of her seat, suddenly alert and waiting for the enemy to attack. She never felt the club the back of her head, and she never heard Pilika scream in her room. She didn't even know she was unconscious until she was.
A gruff voice broke the silence;
"And then there were none…"
"Come on Horo. You can do it." Ren urged as Horo took another slow fevered step across the fatal bridge. He was supported by Ren who was on his left but soon the bridge became too narrow to stand next to each other.
Taking Horo's hand Ren moved in front and began to lead HoroHoro across to safety. That was the theory anyways and theories never worked out the way you wanted them too.
Ren was on the thinnest part of the rocky bridge when HoroHoro began to sway dangerously.
"Horo…don't you dare! Move it or you'll fall." Ren warned trying to keep his friend awake long enough to cross the bridge. But it was too late; HoroHoro fell to the left and off the side of the bridge. Ren clutched HoroHoro's hand but lost his footing and also fell into the dark abyss below.
A/N; ok that was only 4 pages I'm afraid but it's all I got time for at the mo, I'm supposed to be doing my essay! Anyways, more reviews equals more chapters posted sooner!
Mimi
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