It is only a matter of time
Ok! Only one more chapter to go! But first here's this one! Hope ya like…it was my first attempt at a battle fic and I think it went horribly wrong… :S
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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-19; love is lost but once
Ren and Lorena both rushed out side, and watched as boys no older than 13 or 14, marched into the sacred village.
"Damn! How'd they get here?" Ren swore as he wielded his kwon doe ready for battle.
"I don't know but let's show em where the exit is!" Lorena said with venom in her voice as she called on her ancient power.
"With pleasure!" Ren said just as peeved. Then he noticed something out of the corner of his eye; the whole city had come to fight for they're sacred home. He suddenly felt a feeling unknown to him, well up inside him, it was a mixture of pride but not of himself, and of belonging…he felt as though he was home.
He watched as the enemy stopped, he heard them cry to oversoul, and did the same;
"Bason! Oversoul in to kwon doe!" he cried and felt the familiar presence enter the atmosphere, and he knew Bason was on his way.
"Master Ren!" Bason declared, everyone turned to the spirit," he has called for me! I must leave!"
"Not with out us you don't!" Yoh said as he stood, "we're coming too."
"But how? We'll never get there in time, we don't eve know where he is!" Manta began
"There's a way." Yoh said concentrating real hard (A/N ouch!) and focussed on Ren and HoroHoro's energy pattern. He found Ren's but no HoroHoro, there was a small glitch in between them and Ren and he figured that was Koloro. "Hold hands every one." He informed, every one grabbed a hand and formed a circle. "Now oversoul your spirits if you have one." He instructed and waited for them to comply. Each shaman oversouled and waited patiently, trusting their shaman king totally.
Yoh took a deep breath and channelled his and Amidamaru's power through the circle and focussed on Ren's energy pattern
"Bason in the middle." Yoh said Bason complied.
Crack!
They were gone.
Ren stood facing the enemy in a battle ready stance, fully aware that this could be his last battle, and that he didn't have to fight it but that didn't stop him, no, these people had brought out the best in him, and helped him realise his true feelings for his truest friend ever; HoroHoro.
He'd been taught that it was ok to love another, and he did, he loved HoroHoro but not in the way he was scared of; it was a platonic brotherly love he held for the Ainu…now Niandra on the other hand…
Ren found himself blushing at this thought, but was brought back to the present world when a loud Crack sounded and echoed through out the whole canyon.
When Ren next looked up, he saw Yoh, Faust, Ryu and Manta standing in oversoul with his trusty spirit beside them.
'Where the hell did they come from?' he thought to himself as the group looked around wildly, before spotting Ren. They immediately backed out of the battlefield and joined Ren's team, all bar Bason who oversoul into Ren's kwon doe.
"Hey Ren, thought you could use a little help." Yoh said, as he took out his Harusame and took up a fighting stance.
"How'd you do that?" Ren asked, he couldn't help it, he was curious.
"Heh, I guess being shaman king has its perks." Yoh replied, "What's going on?"
"Well they're the bastards that took HoroHoro, and now they want him back because they think he's the cause of all their trouble, which he is just not directly. So now they're gonna tear up this place to get him and there's no way I'm letting them tear down this sacred place!" Ren said becoming more and more angered as he ranted.
"Ok, well why are we just standing here like idiots?" Ryu asked wielding his weapon.
"Yeah! Charge!" Yoh cried and ran out into the field as hundreds of homo magi followed him, Ren, Ryu and Faust to what could possibly be their last action in this world.
Anna was hauled up to her feet and dragged out of the hidden cave in the side of the cliff side; she was then pushed down the worn paths that lead to a small city. As she was forced closer, she noticed that something wasn't right.
There was smoke and loud bangs emanating from the small city, and she somehow knew a war was being waged within its land. She was finally stopped on a balcony over looking the battlefield and felt her heart wrench.
Yoh was down there, fighting like mad, using his kingly powers but the enemy; the Shamanic Army, was protected from it. An unknown sorcerer must be shielding the young warriors, and they were thrashing Yoh's team.
Then just as she thought she could bear no more, she saw a small boy jump high behind Yoh and prepared to bring his curved sword blade down on his neck.
"Yoh! Look out!" she cried but all this did was paralyse him as he turned and saw her trapped up on the balcony. She watched in slow motion as the blade came ever closer…looming over Yoh's exposed back and neck….moving nearer…until…
Clang!
Ren's kwon doe stopped it in its tracks. The Chinese boy threw the smaller boy backwards and knock the kid unconscious. Yoh thanked him and joined the fight once more. But this time he made his way to Anna, with the aims of releasing her and finding Pilika.
Idly he realised that he and Ren's loyalties had swapped some where along this journey, he was now responsible for finding Pilika and Ren was responsible for HoroHoro.
Yoh found himself at the bottom of the building that Anna was forced into. He ran up the stairs and found Anna on the 3rd floor.
"Anna!" he called out gaining her attention d the attention of the 3 guards that had brought her here.
"King of shamans." A cold voice boomed from behind him, Yoh spun round but saw no one.
"Who are you?" Yoh called, "where is Pilika?"
"For those answers you will pay dearly, I challenge you to a duel, if you win, you and all your friends walk free, if you lose, you will give up your position as Shaman King and pledge your allegiance to me." the bodiless voice said.
"Does that include Pilika's and Horo's freedom too?" Yoh asked closing his eyes and focussing on the energies in the room.
"Indeed. Do we have a deal?" the voice asked. Yoh concentrated and suddenly felt the strange presence behind him.
"Yes" he said, and swung low behind him, he caught a glimpse of blonde and red as the body fell back. His eyes widened as he saw just who he'd struck down;
"Anna!"
The battle had come down to five Shamanic Warriors, and 3 homo magi including Ren who had not yet been defeated but was close to his collapsing point.
They stood opposite each other, keeping eye contact, not daring to breathe. It was like that for several seconds until one screamed out and led the last five of his troops to either victory or defeat.
Ren called up his furyoki and battled 2 boys who thought they could win. One swiped his sword at his head but Ren ducked only to fall into the second boys attack, low swipe with his long shi'nagle (a/n a long stick that is commonly mistaken for a hiking stick) and caught Ren's ankles, sending him to the ground. He saw from his position that Niandra and Lorena were also down and the shaman boys were now overpowering the large man that Ren still hadn't discovered the name of.
A few seconds later, he was also down and pinned to the floor. The battle was lost; all their hopes were with Yoh now, where ever he was.
A/N so only one more chappi to go…u want it? Then R&R or I won't post it! Mwahahaha (jkin)