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Yoh hurried into the house and to the kitchen. All the thinking about food had sure gotten him hungry.

"Hey Tamora!" Yoh called.

"Yoh!" Tamora said, surprised, "Well, since you're here, here's dinner!"

"Yay! Food!" Trey yelled, having heard Tamora's dinner announcement from down the hall.

Everybody else (with the exception of Anna, as she had fainted in her room) had heard Trey's dinner announcement, and therefore came to the kitchen.

"What was everybody doing in the living room?" Yoh asked.

"Training," Trey replied.

"I would hardly call what you were doing training," Len said.

"Why you-!"

"Boys, boys!" Pilica said. "Now you both know you were having fun, and it is a good way to anticipate upcoming attacks, so it could therefore be comsidered training. Don't make me regret having brought it,"

"Yea, well, Len used it too!" Trey tried to state his case.

"Only once, and it was because you had run out of competitors!"

"Yea right! I saw you play against my sister when I went to get snacks!"

Len went red. Pilica did too, but tried to make a comeback, "Now, now. Don't turn another fun thing into an argument between you two. We have enough yelling around here as it is, and I don't want to have to throw it out,"

"It?" Yoh asked, still completely confused.

"A new game that Pilica brought with her," Rio said.

"Actually, Rio, it's not new. That version has been around for quite some time, and they've made updated versions of the same thing,"

"They've updated it?" Trey asked.

"Well sure! My dad's company manufactures them, I should know,"

"What is it?" Yoh tried.

"Then why didn't you bring it? I'm sure you could've gotten one for free!" Trey asked.

"It doesn't work like that, numbskull! You can't just get things for free, even if his dad makes them!" Len criticised.

"WHAT IS IT!" Yoh yelled, now clearly frustrated.

"Oh, the game? It's called Dance Dance Revolution," Faust said.

Yoh fell over. "You're making all that fuss about that game?"

"Well sure! It's awesome!" Trey said. "And I'm the best at it!"

"Well, I suppose now that you're the best at something," Len said.

Pilica hit him, "My brother's the best at a lot of things! He's the best at eating!"

"Yea!" Trey supported.

"And he's the best at fighting! Isn't that right Trey!"

"Yea!"

"Really?" Len asked, sounding mischevious, "Would you bet your life on it?"

"Sure!" Pilica said.

"Now wait a minute, Pilica-" Trey tried.

"You're on!" Len said.

"WHAT!" Trey said.

"We fight. I win, I get Pilica as a servant for the day, you win...ummm, you get all the food you can eat, my treat!"

"Hang on a sec-" Trey said.

"DEAL!" Pilica interrupted.

"HUH!" Trey said, utterly baffled.

"Alright, then. I'll be waiting. Anytime you want to go, we'll go," Len said, putting down his bowl of soup, and walking out the door.

"Fine then!" Pilica shouted at him.

Len left.

"Pilica! Why would you want to go do a thing like that!" Trey asked. "You promised him you'll be his servant for a day if I lose!"

"But you won't lose!" Pilica said.

"Any how are you so sure!" Trey asked.

"Because if you can't beat him, you can't become shaman king!... and I know you will,"

Trey was silent.

"Well, your brother's got his work cut out for him," Jun said. "My brother will be a tough opponent,"

Anna appeared in the doorway, hand on her head. Only Yoh noticed her come in.

"Anna? Are you alright?" Yoh asked, concerned.

"Yes. I'm fine," Anna said in her usual cold tone. She lowered her hand "However, I would be more fine if someone hadn't been shouting!"

"Sorry about that, Anna. You know Trey and Len,"

"Unfortunately, I do," Anna sat at the table. Tamora put some soup in front of her and Anna looked at it with distaste, but ate it anyway.

In a park at Dobe Village, an Ainu mountain boy stood with his sister. Both were glaring at the two pointy-haired chinese shamans across from them, some distance away. This staring contest had been proceeding for a while now, and the seven shaman on the side watching them were getting restless.

"Can we start the fight now?" Anna asked coldly.

"We don't have a mediator, Miss Anna," Rio said.

"And who cares? It's not like this is an official shaman battle or anything. And It's not like they would follow the rules anyway. We just need someone to say 'fight'." Anna said.

"Alright then! Who do we pick?" Yoh said. He started analyzing eyerone in the crowd. 'Hmmm...Tamora? Too quiet...Faust? No, he's too busy with Eliza...'

'Oh for goodness sake!' Anna thought, rolling her eyes at the thoughts inside her fiancee's head. She walked out.

"Alright you two! Enough staring. Let's get on with this!" Anna said. "FIGHT!"

Both boys stood staring at her for a second, then, realising she had told them to fight, performed giant spirit control.

Both seemed evenly matched. They dodged each other's first attacks. Both were hit slightly by the other's second.

In a little while, both were tired from the fighting, and were panting. They had both had enough of this, and decided to use their most powerful attacks. Yoh, who was on the sidelines, couldn't bear this.

"Bason! Ultimate Rapid Tempo Assault!"

"No!" said Yoh, as he ran onto the battlefield.

Len, realising Yoh had just ran in front of his attack, tried to redirect it. It still hit Yoh in the shoulder.

Anna cringed and clutched her shoulder. The pain was just bearable enough to escape from making any audible noise. She hoped no one noticed her cringe.

Yoh couldn't feel the effect the attack had. It was as if he hadn't been hit at all. But Yoh could clearly see that he had been hit. He decided to dwell on this later, as there were more pressing matters at hand.

"Would you two quit it!" Yoh shouted at the two shamans. "You're about to tear each other to pieces! Teammates don't act like this! And if I'm not mistaken last time I checked, you two were on the same shaman team, fighting in the same shaman tournament!"

Both Len and Trey looked somewhat guilty.

Anna's arm was throbbing. She had to go get something for it! An aspirin! Anything! She started to slowly tiptoe backwards, away from the scene. When she was far enough away, she broke into a run.

"And I believe we have put up with your fighting long enough! You two are friends, great friends! And you are both my friends. And as a friend, I can't bear to watch you tearing each other to pieces. I don't care if this is a stupid bet or anything! And right now, I don't care who loses the stupid bet, just stop fighting!"

Both released giant spirit control, meeting on the ground.

"Thank you!" Yoh turned back to the sidelines. Noticing someone gone, he asked, "Where's Anna?"

Anna ran through he forest path that led to the village. 'I hope everything turned out alright,' she thought.

'Everything's fine,' she got an answer.

'Whaa? Yoh?'

'Didn't forget I could hear your thought's did ya?'

'No,' she thought angrily. 'Now get out of my head!'

From up above Anna, a figure his through the trees. 'Yes, something is definately going on here,' Zeke thought as he watched Anna run out of the forest.

HAHAHAHAHA! TWO TODAY! i feel happy and accomplished. Yes, I do know that this one didn't really advance the plot at all, but it was so much fun to write! The little bits of LenxPilica and TreyxTamora!

I'm off to watch Descendant's of Darkness!

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