It is only a matter of time
Ok here's the next chappi that I have worked quickly on just so that you guys can get a rough idea of what a Homo Magi is, but just so you know there's a more detailed explanation on my home site
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Now for the reviews
Rena; thanks, I live to please…I'm glad you're liking it, anyways here's the next chappi for ya, hope it satisfy you
Nekoian; I hope this has explained what you wanted to know but of you are still confused let me know and I'll do my bet to explain it better later.
Chuck the evil gender confused
beaver of doomy doom doom; oO… er love the name…oo;; anyways I thought so too but then it is K+ (for 9yrs or over), so its up to the reader…plus I don't think it's that bad…is it?
Miss-K; yeah sorry about that but updating is gonna take a while for me sometimes because I have my A Levels coming up soon so you'll just have to bear with me for a bit, but I promise I will finish this fic!
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MeeLee; that's ok, welcome to the group…if you want that is, anyways…I will be updating but it will be few and far between for the above reasons… glad you're enjoying ma fic though and thanks for the review btw.
Now 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-16, What just happened?
Ren slowly woke up to several strange faces gawking at him.
"Yah!" he shrieked as he suddenly shot up and stood in a defending stance.
"Who the hell are you!" he yelled out ready to attack if he needed to.
"He scares me Turima." A small voice quivered in a foreign language as a small child huddled behind an older woman. Ren knew he was scaring the child but he was having none of it, especially when he noticed that a certain Ainu was missing.
"Where's HoroHoro?" he demanded as he glared at the strangers watching him curiously. He could tell they didn't understand a word he was saying and moved to go and find HoroHoro but a rather large shadow moved in front of the door way, blocking his exit.
The large shadow was followed by an even larger man who looked down on him intimidatingly.
"No! He has been accepted by Father, he is to remain protected!" a strong female voice warned making the large man tense. Slowly the man moved away to reveal a young teenager about the same age as HoroHoro, little younger than himself…then he remembered why he was in such a rage.
"Where is my friend!" he asked hotly and in a rude enough manner to let the girl know that he was not happy. The girl cocked her head slightly as though trying to understand the Chinese but she just couldn't.
Ren was just about to barge past her when another more familiar voice caught his attention. And he ran to the window immediately to confirm his suspicions. To say he was shocked was an understatement.
"Ha! Can't catch me!" a hyper happy HoroHoro called out with a certain carefree attitude. Ren watched speechless as the Ainu began dodging several snowballs being thrown at him by 6 or 7 younger kids. Then one hit him in the chest and he feigned his 'death'.
Waiting for no one, Ren ran outside and stood a few meters away from the heap the kids had created by climbing on top of HoroHoro. Then all of a sudden HoroHoro gave a playful roar and rose from the pile scaring a few children away while the others clung to his new top, laughing and giggling their heads off.
"Horo?" Ren asked watching as the Ainu turned to him. Horo's face lit up and he waved animatedly.
"Hey Ren! How ya doin- oof" he tried but a child had climbed on top of his head and clamped her hands over his mouth, HoroHoro fell back into the soft snow and playfully tried to get away from the little hands that tried to tickle him.
"But…how?" he asked aloud watching the miracle before him.
"He seems better, yes?" another female voice asked from behind him. Ren jumped and turned to face his attacker. Then he realised what she had said. He lowered his defence and turned back to watch HoroHoro run away and pretend to fall over.
"Yes. He does. But in theory he should be dead by now…not out here playing…" Ren said, revealing that his hopes had not been as high as he'd let on. "He could barely utter a sound, or move a muscle...how is this possible?"
"Through the eyes of wisdom lies the path of miracles and the unexpected," the girl said. This confused Ren to no end. He turned to tell her this but when he looked back, she was gone. He looked further in that direction a second longer, wondering where she went then sighed and turned back to HoroHoro but jumped at least 3 ft in the air. The girl was stood infront of him,staring at him strangely.
"How…but…when…you…huh?" he stammered trying to find out how his Shaman abilities had failed him. The girls face was mere inches away from his and she held an observant stare in her eyes. She frowned then turned and said "you are a most strange species."
"I'm strange! How the hell did you do that! And what did you do to Horo!" Ren burst out glancing at the carefree boy. The Ainu looked up at Ren's angered voice and quickly told the children to go play around the corner, before walking over to Ren and the girl.
"Ren? What's wrong?" he asked, with a worried expression on his face
"What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong! I travel half way across Arctica looking for your sorry ass, then I have to drag you most of the way back because your laying there dying on a stretcher, then we are caved in by an avalanche, and when we finally stop all the action I find myself waking up in a strange room with foreign people looking at me weirdly as though I'm some freak show and you're as healthy as a…as a…whatever you get my point!" Ren fumed.
"Ren, I'm sorry you feel that way about me, I didn't ask for you to come and rescue me, as much as I appreciate it, and these people just saved my life and yours too," HoroHoro said crossing his arms and turning away, "and by the way, we are strange to them because they have never seen anyone outside this village before now. The Homo Magi rules forbid it, only a few are allowed entrance to this sacred city of theirs." He said before walking off. Ren winced at HoroHoro's harsh tone he'd used and ran after him.
"Horo! Wait…I didn't mean what I said, I'm just really confused right now so would you care to explain to me what a Homo Magi is and how the hell you were healed?" Ren apologised whilst trying to catch up with the ice Ainu which was difficult for Ren seeing as HoroHoro had had more practice than him and was walking quite fast. HoroHoro sighed and stopped by a frozen fountain to sit down.
"Right where do you want me to start?" he asked as he watched the children play another snowball fight. Ren sat and took a deep breath.
"From the beginning; how did they heal you so quickly?" Ren asked as he watched the balls of snow fly through the air.
"Well they used their Magick." HoroHoro said simply. Ren recoiled.
"What?" he asked looking very lost indeed.
"Calm down and let me explain," HoroHoro said while smiling at Ren's confused look. "See, Shamans aren't he only different species out there. There are mythical creatures, witches, sorcerers, and even vampires and werewolves, but they were all nearly wiped out in the dark ages, and so only a minor few exist today. And some don't even exist anymore; the sorcerers are all gone because their bloodline was mixed with that of mortal people and now any descendant of a sorcerer has only about 3 percentof its blood in him/her." HoroHoro paused as Ren took in this new information.
"Ok, strange as that seems I can understand that, but how does that relate to these people?" Ren asked. HoroHoro smiled proudly at how Ren called them people and not things as he had expected him to.
"Well, the Homo Magi are a dying species who use Magick and spells to manipulate anything to their will, they are close to nature and worship everything about nature. They have 8 Gods and Goddess's; 2 for each element and an overall Ethereal spirit who creates these elements and keeps them in balance. Then there's Mother Earth and Father Skye who go about the earth keeping everything peaceful." HoroHoro took a breath and continued,
"These people healed me with a spell, and healed you with a reversing spell." He said stretching his arm above is head revelling in the fact that he hadn't been able to do that in what felt like ages.
"Healed me? Reversing spell?" Ren repeated before turning his golden eyes to the Ainu once more in confusion. "What happened to me?" he asked more annoyed now than scared.
"Well remember the girl with green hair and freckles on her nose?" HoroHoro said, Ren nodded remembering the first female he'd come across, the one who'd stopped the large man from hitting him.
"Yes?" Ren said slowly
"Well she's the one who found us in the cave, she got scared when you shouted at her and she cast a sleeping spell on you so you wouldn't harm her, but it went bit wrong… see she accidentally cast a wipe your memory spell, so she erased your memory," Ren looked very pale and HoroHoro gave him a friendly smile. "It was funny seeing you with no idea of who you were and for a few days you were nice and the people loved you here,once we got passed the language barrier,especially the kids, but then Niandra, the one you were talking to just now, found the reversing spell and gave you back your memories up until you were found in the cave." He continued.
"Oh, so how long have we been here?" Ren asked,
"About 3 days" HoroHoro replied before 3 kids came and begged for him to come and play with them. For some reason 3 days didn't seem so bad.
"Come play! Come!" a small girl screeched pulling at HoroHoro's new jacket.
"Ok! I'm coming…so run!" HoroHoro replied before standing to join them in their games.
"Wait! How can you understand them?" Ren asked as two kids made their way over to him.
"Easy, they're speaking Ainu!" HoroHoro replied before rolling a snowball in his bare hands and throwing one at Ren.
Ren stood shocked at what HoroHoro had just done. He was going to pay for that, but before he could continue his threat he felt a small pair of hands on his arms pulling him to the snowball fight, while their voices urged him forward. He got the hint; they wanted him to play with them.
'In that case, revenge is gonna be sweet!'
Ren picked up a huge handful of snow and rounded it off before lobbing it at the Ainu who cringed as the cold snow fell down his back, and grinned mischievously. He turned and threw another snowball at Ren. The fight had begun.
Yoh and Faust had been searching for 3 days now and not a single trace of the two boys had been found, they'd finally agreed to go back to HoroHoro's village and see if the proper authorities could be contacted yet.
Upon arriving they were greeted by Manta's worried look.
"Manta. Where are Anna and Pilika?" Yoh asked as he stepped into the Ainus house and removed his thermal.
"Yoh, there's no easy way to say this…they've been taken." Manta replied handing Yoh a scrawled message.
Bring the boy to the Galaxy Inn or you'll never see the blonde again. Don't expect the bluenette to be there, she's already been shipped off.
"Oh no…"
A/N; well that was a short one with not much action but it'll have to do…I had to fit it in somewhere!