Lightning-Dono: 5th chap--
Anna: Yet again making me look weak?
Lightning-Dono: But you're my favorite character! That makes up for it, right? And besides...No one is perfect and completely strong.
Anna: ...
Lightning-Dono: I forgot how Anna's chant went, so I'm going to have to write it from memory. Sorry if it's incorrect! If you do know it, review this chapter and type it down! ; Ah, and if anyone remembers any attacks that Yoh did other than Celestial Slash, then feel free to tell me. ^^; Also, this chapter has a LOT of dialouge. =\
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Hao turned and smiled dangerously.
"So, brother, we meet again."
"I wouldn't call this a meeting. I would call it..." Amidamaru rose from the tablet threatenlingly. "A battle."
Hao closed his eyes as though praying.
"Battling already? I thought I could come and...sort a few things out with you."
Yoh shook his head.
"Nii-sama, don't you see? This isn't going to work out."
"No, I don't see! I came here to sort things out, hoping you would -generously- serve me a cup of tea. Not yell at me and engage in battle!"
"I don't believe you!" Yoh leapt into the air towards Hao.
"AMIDAMARU! INTO THE SWORD!"
These words revived Anna. Those 4 words that Yoh said every training session. The ability that she had coached him on for months.
"Yoh...?" She asked weakly, getting up slowly.
"Anna, run!"
"No," she replied stubbornly, staying put.
"Anna, please!"
Anna's beads rattled as she took them from her neck.
"Tamao, I need you for this." Anna's voice was strangely calm.
Tamao looked at Anna unblinkingly.
"..."
"Tamao, get up."
Tamao stood up nervously.
Anna proceeded to walk between Yoh and Hao, rattling her beads with her eyes half open.
"1 I place for my mother." Anna rattled the beads once.
"2 I place for my father." Anna rattled the beads twice. Tamao's eyes widened.
"3 I place for my brothers back at home." Anna rattled the beads three times.
"I offer my flesh to bring back the spirit of Eliza! INTERGRATE!"
Anna shook the beads furiously at Tamao and everyone watched in mute horror as Eliza, Faust VIII's true love, intergrated with Tamao.
"Don't fail me, Tamao-chan," Anna whispered.
Immediatly, Tamao grabbed the broom leaning on the wall of the Inn that Manta had used for cleaning eariler that day.
Hao looked puzzled as to what was happening, but he caught on very soon when Yoh bellowed,
"CELESTIAL SLASH!"
"Aiiiieeee!" Tamao jumped up and whacked Hao's hair, screeching all the while.
Hao was swept off his feet.
Hao got up, breathing heavily.
"Just give up, will you, Hao?" Anna said coldly.
"'Give up' isn't in my vocabulary, Anna. And neither is 'lose' when it's referring to me! GET OUT OF MY WAY!" His cloak fanned up at the bottom and everything within 3 feet of him was blown away. That included Tamao.
"Tamao-chan! NO!" Manta, despite the fact that he'd probably be crushed by Tamao, ran out to try and catch her.
"Get out of my way," came Tamao's voice with a hint of Eliza's. "I must fight!"
Nevertheless, Manta attempted the catch, but missed by a foot. Tamao was skidding on her back for about 6 feet when Silva appeared from the woods with his friend.
Yoh looked slightly confused and Hao stopped fighting.
"Er...I'll just go and grab a soda," Yoh said aloud and started to run into the Inn. Anna grabbed him by the collar of the new battle suit she had made for him and a little rip appeared.
"Darn it..." Anna let go. "What's so scary about him, anyways?"
"I don't want to get in trouble for unauthorized fighting."
"Of course you don't. But yet, you always are. With Ren and everything. Shouting at each other, pretending to punch eachother..." Anna unraveled her hair ribbon and tied it loosely around her neck.
"Hao! What are you doing here?"
"Just challenging an old friend."
At this, Silva's eyebrows disappeared above his hairline.
"Don't worry. Everything is going to be f-fine-,"
"CELESTIAL SLASH!"
"Block," Hao said simply. A wall of flames appeared before him and part of Yoh's arm was blackened.
"Face the facts, my poor brother. You can't beat me."
Yoh was licking his burnt arm. Anna looked away with a pained look on her face as he did this.
"Just because you're a thousand years or so older doesn't mean I can't beat you!"
"Even if I was just 13, I'd still beat you. I've been monitering your training by sending my guardian spirit to spy on you. You're not very dedicated. You only do it to impress Anna, don't you?"
At this, Anna looked up, surprised.
"No..." Yoh stopped licking his arm. "I do it because I want to make her happy by becoming Shaman King and because I want to get stronger." Yoh grinned. "And because she'll let me eat dinner afterwards." Yoh glanced at Anna's highly unimpressed face and grinned. She forced a smile to come onto her face.
"See? You do it because you're weak."
"Why? Can't a guy enjoy himself while trying to become a great fighter and Shaman King?"
Hao paused at this and frowned at the ground, suddenly in deep thought.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because while you're enjoying yourself, other shamans that have more potential and ambition are surpassing your abilities minute by minute! There's no time to take a break without the high competition!" Hao knelt down for a second to pick up a stick. "Yoh! I challenge you with this stick! I will put all of my furyoku into it and you do the same with your sword. And the winner..." Hao rubbed his chin thoughtfully, as though thinking of a worthy prize. "The winner claims the other's soul."
Anna gaped soundlessly at Hao.
Tamao subconsciously heard this through Eliza's control and gasped.
Yoh, on the other hand, seemed to find this a very pleasant thing.
"Lucky for you, I don't extract people's souls and suck them up like food," Yoh said, as if this was all a simple joke.
"Yoh, this isn't funny!" Anna suddenly shouted from the sidelines, the hand holding her beads shaking tremendously. "You could get hurt! And I can't bear to lose you again, Yoh!" A tear found it's way from her eye onto her cheek.
"Don't worry Anna," Yoh said quietly, looking directly into her shining eyes. He turned towards Hao dramatically as though he were in a movie. "I promise to defeat him once and for all!"
"Arigatou, Yoh."
The stick Hao was holding started to glow, like it was made of fire. Yoh's sword glowed brighter than before.
"Let's get to it," Hao said, grinning menacingly in Yoh's direction. "I can't promise you any more than your loss and demise!"
"I promise to everyone that I won't lose to the likes of you again!" Yoh leaped towards Hao and started to hack away at Hao's stick. Hao looked unconcernedly at his thick, which was now chipped away to half of it's orginal width.
"It can't be this easy!"
"It won't be..."
Yoh slashed at the stick one last time and a geyser of fire spurted from the center of the stick.
"Wh-what?" Yoh stared at it in disbelief, crouching down to avoid the great geyser of flames.
"That is the true form of my furyoku..."
"What do you mean 'the true form of your furyoku'? Furyoku doesn't have a form!" Yoh shouted incredelously.
"Sometimes there's so much you don't know...You thought of furyoku as how long you can control your spirit and how powerful it is. You power as a shaman. But did you -also- know that furyoku can take a certain form?" Hao said this all in a mere whisper, but it seemed as though the sound vibrations were being carried off into the wind and echoing. Yoh gasped.
"Do you see -now-, my young brother?"
Yoh backed away from Hao, who was stepping closer, to him. Yoh was still crouching on the ground, covering his face with one hand.
"Do you now see that power is more than just some inner force? It can now take forms...And I am powerful enough for that to happen!"
In a split second, the Inn exploded in a cloud of smoke and threatening flames.
Anna: Yet again making me look weak?
Lightning-Dono: But you're my favorite character! That makes up for it, right? And besides...No one is perfect and completely strong.
Anna: ...
Lightning-Dono: I forgot how Anna's chant went, so I'm going to have to write it from memory. Sorry if it's incorrect! If you do know it, review this chapter and type it down! ; Ah, and if anyone remembers any attacks that Yoh did other than Celestial Slash, then feel free to tell me. ^^; Also, this chapter has a LOT of dialouge. =\
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Hao turned and smiled dangerously.
"So, brother, we meet again."
"I wouldn't call this a meeting. I would call it..." Amidamaru rose from the tablet threatenlingly. "A battle."
Hao closed his eyes as though praying.
"Battling already? I thought I could come and...sort a few things out with you."
Yoh shook his head.
"Nii-sama, don't you see? This isn't going to work out."
"No, I don't see! I came here to sort things out, hoping you would -generously- serve me a cup of tea. Not yell at me and engage in battle!"
"I don't believe you!" Yoh leapt into the air towards Hao.
"AMIDAMARU! INTO THE SWORD!"
These words revived Anna. Those 4 words that Yoh said every training session. The ability that she had coached him on for months.
"Yoh...?" She asked weakly, getting up slowly.
"Anna, run!"
"No," she replied stubbornly, staying put.
"Anna, please!"
Anna's beads rattled as she took them from her neck.
"Tamao, I need you for this." Anna's voice was strangely calm.
Tamao looked at Anna unblinkingly.
"..."
"Tamao, get up."
Tamao stood up nervously.
Anna proceeded to walk between Yoh and Hao, rattling her beads with her eyes half open.
"1 I place for my mother." Anna rattled the beads once.
"2 I place for my father." Anna rattled the beads twice. Tamao's eyes widened.
"3 I place for my brothers back at home." Anna rattled the beads three times.
"I offer my flesh to bring back the spirit of Eliza! INTERGRATE!"
Anna shook the beads furiously at Tamao and everyone watched in mute horror as Eliza, Faust VIII's true love, intergrated with Tamao.
"Don't fail me, Tamao-chan," Anna whispered.
Immediatly, Tamao grabbed the broom leaning on the wall of the Inn that Manta had used for cleaning eariler that day.
Hao looked puzzled as to what was happening, but he caught on very soon when Yoh bellowed,
"CELESTIAL SLASH!"
"Aiiiieeee!" Tamao jumped up and whacked Hao's hair, screeching all the while.
Hao was swept off his feet.
Hao got up, breathing heavily.
"Just give up, will you, Hao?" Anna said coldly.
"'Give up' isn't in my vocabulary, Anna. And neither is 'lose' when it's referring to me! GET OUT OF MY WAY!" His cloak fanned up at the bottom and everything within 3 feet of him was blown away. That included Tamao.
"Tamao-chan! NO!" Manta, despite the fact that he'd probably be crushed by Tamao, ran out to try and catch her.
"Get out of my way," came Tamao's voice with a hint of Eliza's. "I must fight!"
Nevertheless, Manta attempted the catch, but missed by a foot. Tamao was skidding on her back for about 6 feet when Silva appeared from the woods with his friend.
Yoh looked slightly confused and Hao stopped fighting.
"Er...I'll just go and grab a soda," Yoh said aloud and started to run into the Inn. Anna grabbed him by the collar of the new battle suit she had made for him and a little rip appeared.
"Darn it..." Anna let go. "What's so scary about him, anyways?"
"I don't want to get in trouble for unauthorized fighting."
"Of course you don't. But yet, you always are. With Ren and everything. Shouting at each other, pretending to punch eachother..." Anna unraveled her hair ribbon and tied it loosely around her neck.
"Hao! What are you doing here?"
"Just challenging an old friend."
At this, Silva's eyebrows disappeared above his hairline.
"Don't worry. Everything is going to be f-fine-,"
"CELESTIAL SLASH!"
"Block," Hao said simply. A wall of flames appeared before him and part of Yoh's arm was blackened.
"Face the facts, my poor brother. You can't beat me."
Yoh was licking his burnt arm. Anna looked away with a pained look on her face as he did this.
"Just because you're a thousand years or so older doesn't mean I can't beat you!"
"Even if I was just 13, I'd still beat you. I've been monitering your training by sending my guardian spirit to spy on you. You're not very dedicated. You only do it to impress Anna, don't you?"
At this, Anna looked up, surprised.
"No..." Yoh stopped licking his arm. "I do it because I want to make her happy by becoming Shaman King and because I want to get stronger." Yoh grinned. "And because she'll let me eat dinner afterwards." Yoh glanced at Anna's highly unimpressed face and grinned. She forced a smile to come onto her face.
"See? You do it because you're weak."
"Why? Can't a guy enjoy himself while trying to become a great fighter and Shaman King?"
Hao paused at this and frowned at the ground, suddenly in deep thought.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because while you're enjoying yourself, other shamans that have more potential and ambition are surpassing your abilities minute by minute! There's no time to take a break without the high competition!" Hao knelt down for a second to pick up a stick. "Yoh! I challenge you with this stick! I will put all of my furyoku into it and you do the same with your sword. And the winner..." Hao rubbed his chin thoughtfully, as though thinking of a worthy prize. "The winner claims the other's soul."
Anna gaped soundlessly at Hao.
Tamao subconsciously heard this through Eliza's control and gasped.
Yoh, on the other hand, seemed to find this a very pleasant thing.
"Lucky for you, I don't extract people's souls and suck them up like food," Yoh said, as if this was all a simple joke.
"Yoh, this isn't funny!" Anna suddenly shouted from the sidelines, the hand holding her beads shaking tremendously. "You could get hurt! And I can't bear to lose you again, Yoh!" A tear found it's way from her eye onto her cheek.
"Don't worry Anna," Yoh said quietly, looking directly into her shining eyes. He turned towards Hao dramatically as though he were in a movie. "I promise to defeat him once and for all!"
"Arigatou, Yoh."
The stick Hao was holding started to glow, like it was made of fire. Yoh's sword glowed brighter than before.
"Let's get to it," Hao said, grinning menacingly in Yoh's direction. "I can't promise you any more than your loss and demise!"
"I promise to everyone that I won't lose to the likes of you again!" Yoh leaped towards Hao and started to hack away at Hao's stick. Hao looked unconcernedly at his thick, which was now chipped away to half of it's orginal width.
"It can't be this easy!"
"It won't be..."
Yoh slashed at the stick one last time and a geyser of fire spurted from the center of the stick.
"Wh-what?" Yoh stared at it in disbelief, crouching down to avoid the great geyser of flames.
"That is the true form of my furyoku..."
"What do you mean 'the true form of your furyoku'? Furyoku doesn't have a form!" Yoh shouted incredelously.
"Sometimes there's so much you don't know...You thought of furyoku as how long you can control your spirit and how powerful it is. You power as a shaman. But did you -also- know that furyoku can take a certain form?" Hao said this all in a mere whisper, but it seemed as though the sound vibrations were being carried off into the wind and echoing. Yoh gasped.
"Do you see -now-, my young brother?"
Yoh backed away from Hao, who was stepping closer, to him. Yoh was still crouching on the ground, covering his face with one hand.
"Do you now see that power is more than just some inner force? It can now take forms...And I am powerful enough for that to happen!"
In a split second, the Inn exploded in a cloud of smoke and threatening flames.