Still feeling hyper XD But I can write as much as I want! After all, I'm on summer break! Yey! Finally! No more homework! XD You guys know where to find the disclaimer for the whole chapter, if you don't know where it is, I pity you. On with the next chapter!

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Chapter 3: Comatose

After the incident during the reunion, Anna hasn't woken up since then. Yoh has called Faust VIII after Anna didn't wake up for two days. His friends would come over and visit often, but she never woke up. Horohoro and Pirika were helping out around the house while Yoh sat beside Anna waiting for her to wake up, unfortunately, she didn't.

Faust finally arrived in the Asakura residence a day after being called. Faust works in a hospital somewhere in funbari, and he would drop by in the onsen during weekends.

"So what happened to her?" Faust asked as he entered the room where Anna and Yoh were in. Yoh explained everything that has happened from the time Hao returned and from the time Anna became unconscious. "I see, so he's back again. Don't worry, I'll try to examine her and see what's wrong, in the meantime, why don't you get a drink or have a bite to eat. You look like you haven't eaten anything since this morning."

Yoh's stomach rumbled loudly, "Yeah you're right, I'm starving" Yoh said as he headed towards the kitchen to leave Faust alone. Yoh sat down on the chair beside Horohoro and Ren who were drinking a cup of tea.

"She still awake yet dude?" Horohoro was concerned about Yoh because he wasn't acting like himself lately, but Yoh didn't answer. Horohoro sighed and took a snow cone out of the freezer and put it in front of Yoh. "Here, have something to eat, I'm not done with lunch yet…" before Horohoro could finish his sentence, Yoh gulped down the whole snow cone due to hunger.

"Aaaaahhhhhhh! Brain Freeze! Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold!" Yoh kept holding his head and banging it on the table. Realizing that it didn't help and made it worse, he ran around in circles until his head started warming up a bit while Horohoro sweat dropped and laughed.

"You imbecile! Should know better not to swallow a snow cone whole" Ren sighed poured Yoh a cup of hot tea, and then Yoh gulped it down.

"Phew, thanks Ren, you're a life saver…" Yoh put down the empty glass. "When do you think she'll probably wake up?"

"We don't know yet, we'll just have to wait for Faust" said Tamao who just entered the room.

"Let's just hope it's not too serious…" Pirika said as she mixed the stew. While waiting for Faust to finish, everybody had lunch, and then all of them played cards afterwards, trying to make Yoh a bit calmer.

"We're almost there, we just need to get to the airport, then to the location wherePatch village was located" Hao walked towards the airport holding a red orb in the palm if his hand. "Really now, if you just surrendered yourself to me, then it won't be too much of a problem for you and Yoh."

"Yeah! I won again!" Pirika said raising her hand, revealing the winning cards.

"Um, I think I won too…" Tamao showed her hand to everyone else.

"Well, anymore winners? In that case, good luck with the dishes boys!" Pirika and Tamao sat down drinking tea while the boys sweat dropped and looked at the pile of dishes.

"Who the heck made this bet anyways!" Manta asked.

"The blue haired idiot who's sitting beside me" Ren pointed towards Horohoro.

"Me? Why me? I had good cards!" Horohoro asked as he looked at his cards.

"Well Horo…the ace is higher than two, not the other way around…" Yoh said as he sweat dropped and headed towards the sink.

"Ace? I thought that was a one! No wonder!" Horohoro said before Ren pummeled his fist on Horohoro's head. "This is a conspariky! I demand a rematch!"

"It's c-o-n-s-p-i-r-a-c-y Horohoro, and you're the one who said no rematches…" Manta sighed as he started wiping the dishes dry. When the boys started washing the dishes, Faust entered the room.

"Well Faust, how he she?" Yoh asked immediately, but Faust just shook his head sideways slowly.

"It seems that Anna is in a coma…" everyone gasped when Faust revealed what has happened to her.

"But why?" Yoh asked worriedly while Faust sat down on an empty chair.

"Anna's not injured, however, Hao must have stolen her soul, just like what he did to you in your previous fight with him in Patch Village. The only way to wake her up is to get back her mind and soul. You told me that Hao wants to awaken Spirit of Fire using her abilities as an itako, right? So if my guess is correct, he should be heading towards the place where Patch village used to be located, the place where he lost the spirit of fire" Faust explained to everyone in the room.

"So what you're saying is that if we take back Anna's soul from Hao and return it to her body, then she'll wake up?" Yoh asked with hope in his eyes.

"Yes" Faust said.

"Alright then! We're going to Patch Village!" Horohoro dropped his apron and headed towards the door.

"Hold on a sec Horohoro!" Pirika grabbed Horohoro by the ear and pulled him back in. "You're not finished with the dishes! And besides, how are we supposed to go to Patch Village?"

"Um…good question!" Horohoro held his red ear trying to ease the pain. "Why don't we go there riding a plane?"

"A plane going to Patch village? I could handle that part if my family weren't using all the jets" Ren said. While they were thinking of something to do, they suddenly heard a knock at the door.

"Now who could that be?" Yoh went out of the kitchen to open the door. "Silva?"

"Hello Yoh, how are you doing?" Silva went in the house in his usual outfit and long hair. He had his five spirits with him in form of rings.

"We're fine Silva, but what are you doing here?" Yoh asked as he led Silva in the house, surprising everybody.

"I'm here to warn you about Hao" Silva said as he took a seat on the table. "It seems that he isn't finished yet, he wants to summon the spirit of fire using Anna's abilities as an itako…"

"Yeah Silva, we already know. Hao took Anna's soul and travel to Patch village. Anna's in a coma right now, so we're all going to Patch village to take back what Hao took from Anna" Yoh explained to Silva.

Silva banged his fist on the table, "Darn, if I had come sooner, none of this would have happened!"

"Don't blame yourself Silva, at least you tried. But now the only thing we can do right now is go to Patch village" Yoh said smiling.

"Yes I agree, allow me to assist you in your travel to Patch Village" said Silva. "We can use my spirit plane, I'll meet you all at the airport and I'll have it prepared tomorrow, is that ok?"

"It's ok!" Yoh smiled. "Thanks for your help Silva, we really appreciate it. Okay guys we're leaving tomorrow for Patch village!"

Hao held the red orb he had in his hand and spoke to it, "Huh? Why don't you stop trying to escape and enjoy the ride Anna?"

"Even if you take me to Dobie Village, I'm not summoning Spirit of Fire for you!" Anna glared at Hao, but could not do anything to help herself. "What ever you planning Hao, I won't cooperate!"

Hao smiled evilly and looked out the window of the spirit plane, "To bad, I'll just have to force you then. But do you know that if you refuse to help me, you might never see Yoh again!"

"…" Anna wished that she could do something, but she couldn't. A soul and mind is useless without a body for it to operate…all she could do is blame herself for not being alert enough to avoid Hao's attack. 'It's already night time; I wonder what Yoh's doing…'

It was already night time in the Asakura residence. Faust was in a room fast asleep. Horohoro and Pirika were already asleep, and so was Anna of course. Only Yoh was awake, he was beside Anna and just looking at her.

"Don't worry Anna, we'll get back what Hao took from you, I promise…" Yoh removed a strand of hair that was on Anna's face. "You may think I'm enjoying three days without training, but I kinda miss your nagging and all."

"Can't sleep yet Yoh?" Amidamaru appeared in front of Yoh with a worried face.

"Yeah, I guess I can't stop thinking about what happened the other night" Yoh said. "If only I could have pushed her aside instead of watching Hao transform his sword, then she wouldn't have been in this mess."

"I understand what you're going through Yoh, but we cannot change what has happened in the past, we can only change what will happen in the future only if we take action in the present"

"Yeah you're right Amidamaru; we'll make sure Anna wakes up as soon as possible…"

"Don't worry Yoh, we'll get back her spirit and mind, just try to get a good night sleep. I have a feeling that we'll have a long day ahead of us tomorrow… " Amidamaru looks at Anna once more before disappearing once again.

Yoh leaned on the wall and sat beside Anna. He looked outside the window one more time and immediately fell asleep.

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