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Chapter 6

Come Back to Me

"Darn it!" Silva said, "How can we get back Anna?"

Hao kept attacking Yoh who was defending himself, making sure not to attack Hao, "There's no way to bring her back! She is mine!"

"Anna! Come on! It's me Yoh! Don't you recognize me?" Yoh tried calling out to Anna, but Hao just grinned evilly.

"How many times do I have to tell you Yoh, that she can't hear you!" Hao slashed his blade forward, hitting Yoh's arm. Hao was about to pierce his sword through Yoh's heart, just like what he did to Anna, but Tao Ren immediately jumped in front of him and block the attack.

"What are you doing? Get out of here!" Ren pushed his weapon forward, giving Yoh and himself enough time to jump aside. "If you don't want to fight him, at least try defending yourself!"

"Yoh snap out of it! Do something!" shouted Manta.

"You're right; I have to do something, but what? What can I do to save Anna?" Yoh pounded his fist to the ground and suddenly rolled aside when Hao tried to do a diving attack.

"Move aside Yoh!" Lyserg pushed Yoh and himself away from Hao's attack, "Homing Pendulum!" Lyserg's pendulum aimed for Hao's sword, but Hao just dodged it easily.

Horohoro and Ren decided to do a combo attack on Hao which would somehow stun him for a bit, but Hao evaded the attacks and push away Horohoro and Ren.

Horohoro sat up after being tossed by Hao, "Aww man, I got sand in my eyes, can't see!" Horohoro rubbed the sand of his eyes.

Ren also stood up, but dropped on the ground again, "I can't feel my legs anymore; I must have used up too much of my furyoku…"

"Huh? What did you say Ren! I can't hear you dude!" Horohoro kept shouting out until Ren got so irritated that he hit Horohoro's head on the sides. "Oh, now I can hear…thanks a lot Ren!"

Yoh tried thinking of ways to try to get Anna out of spirit unity, "Hmm…Hao said he blocked all of Anna's five senses using his furyoku. So if I use my own furyoku to pierce through Hao's furyoku barrier, then I can probably reach Anna. But it's going to be tough, but I know it'll work out."

Yoh sat down on the ground and closed his eyes, concentrating on his furyoku while the others including Hao just looked at him.

"I do not know what you're planning to do Yoh, but I'm not going to let you do it!" Hao ran towards Yoh, but was blocked by Silva.

"Everyone! Protect Yoh! I have a feeling he has something planned!" Silva and everyone else went around Yoh in a defensive position.

Yoh just sat there, silently thanking his friends, "I just need to gather enough furyoku to break the barrier of Hao. Don't worry Anna, I'm coming!"

Anna was still inside Hao, she just floated about, not doing or not even trying to do anything. She couldn't hear, see, nor feel anything, 'Now I probably now how Yoh feels when he went inside the tunnel of Tartarus.' She was surrounded by nothing but darkness according to her. 'Hao's probably using his furyoku to block out all my five senses.'

"An...na…" a voice called out her name, but it seems a bit unclear.

"A voice? But how?" Anna thought for a moment, it was supposed to be impossible for her to hear. The only possible explanation why she can hear this voice is if someone is trying to break through Hao's barrier.

"Hey Anna! Can you hear me?" the voice said more clearly.

"Yoh? Is that you?"

Hao stopped his movement for awhile and looked at his brother, "I see what you're trying to do! Well it won't work for long! I've got a lot more furyoku than you!"

Hao began to rebuild his furyoku barrier again, and this time he tried to attack Yoh, but Ren stopped him and they both locked weapons, "Got a lot of furyoku huh? We'll just drain you of your furyoku then!"

Yoh quickly opened his eyes, "Hao rebuilt the barrier again!"

"No problem! You'll just have to do it again!" Horohoro said. "You're the one who always says 'relax, everything will work out'. So break that barrier again!"

"He's right Yoh, I'll be here with you, we'll break the barrier and rescue Anna!" Amidamaru said.

Yoh smiled at everyone, "Thanks guys! I'll do my very best!" Yoh closed his eyes and began concentrating on his furyoku again while the others tried to keep Hao away from Yoh.

Hao had to admit to himself that it was difficult trying to fight Yoh's friends and get through them while trying to maintain the barrier that Yoh was trying to break. "This fight will be rather interesting…"

"I just heard Yoh's voice awhile ago, but it broke up suddenly…" Anna said as she floated in the darkness. "There's a battle going on out there, so Hao's probably having a hard time trying to maintain this barrier."

"Anna…" Yoh's voice kept fading in and out every time he was able to reach her. "Hey can…you hear me?"

She realized that Yoh was slowly breaking the barrier that Hao made, "It must be very difficult trying to break through his barrier…But I believe you can do it Yoh…"

In the battlefield, everyone including Yoh was struggling to keep their furyoku.

"If you're going to defeat me, you're going to have to do better than that if you want to rescue Anna…" Hao said calmly.

"Okay, this is going to be harder than I thought…" Yoh sighed, "He keeps rebuilding the barrier…might take awhile before I break it, but I'm not leaving till I get Anna's spirit back!"

"I'm impressed with you Yoh, but like I said, I won't be giving her too you anytime soon…" Hao was interrupted when he felt a slight headache. "Huh? I can feel the barrier being destroyed again…"

Hao looked at Yoh, but he just answered, "Huh? Me? I'm not doing anything at the moment…"

"I see, Anna's smarter than I thought…" Hao rebuilt his barrier again. "Better destroy all of you before you drain my furyoku…seriously, you guys are a real pain…"

"Just what did he mean by that?" Rio asked. "Although I did get the last part"

"Yoh! Keep trying to break his barrier" Silva said. "You have a better chance this time because Anna is also trying to break the barrier from inside"

Yoh smiled, "Alright! Let's do it one more time! Let's give it our best Amidamaru!"

From within Hao, there is another force trying to break the barrier that keeps being rebuilt by Hao. "This will be tougher than I thought, but I won't give up that easily!" Anna was using her own powers to try to break the barrier.

"Anna…can you hear me?" a figure of Yoh suddenly appeared in front of her; the barrier has finally been broken. "Finally…we were able to break the barrier"

"Yes, I'm glad we did. But we better hurry, Hao could rebuild this barrier again!" said Anna.

"You're right Anna! Grab my hand!" Yoh reached out his hand, and Anna did the same thing.

"What's this?" Hao stopped his movement for awhile, giving the exhausted Shamans some time to breathe and regain some of their energy. Yoh just sat there with his eyes closed in the middle of his friends. He was glowing in a color of alternating blue and red.

"Way to go Yoh! You broke his barrier!" Horohoro used his snowboard for support while he was trying to stand up.

"All we have to do is keep Hao busy, just long enough for Yoh to get Anna out of there!" Faust said, trying to maintain spirit control.

Hao stood up with a slightly angry expression on his face, "I should have done this a long time ago!" A red aura started surrounding Hao, and Yoh was just knocked back by this action.

"Come on…what the?" the glow that was surrounding Yoh and Anna suddenly disappeared. Yoh suddenly found himself being pulled away from Anna, and Anna found herself being pulled deeper into Hao. "ANNA!"

"Yoh! Help…!" Her voice faded as she was pulled further into the darkness within Hao. Yoh was suddenly pulled out of Hao, and when he opened his eyes, he was back in the field knocked down on the ground, surrounded by his worn out friends.

"Dude what happened?" Horohoro and the rest looked at Yoh.

"Hao! What did you do?" Yoh asked with anger written all over his face.

"Simple little brother…" Hao explained, "I pulled her deeper into me, into an abyss where she has a very slight chance of getting out!"

"What's happening to her?" Pirika and Tamao stared at Anna's body which was suddenly surrounded by a black electric force. Tamao tried to get hold of Anna, but when she touched Anna, Tamao immediately pulled back after being shocked.

"What can we do? If this keeps up, Anna might not even have a body to return to!" Tamao rubbed her hand which was shocked.

"We can't do anything! We can only wait and hope that the boys were able to defeat Hao…" Pirika rubbed her eyes when a tear started streaming down her cheeks.

"What do we do now Amidamaru!" Yoh asked his guardian ghost.

"I don't know, but I think the only way of trying to save Anna is by going into Hao!" Amidamaru explained. "But it's way too risky, and he just said there's only a slight chance that Anna can get out!"

"I don't care! That's a chance that I'm willing to take! We can't just leave her there! I can't just leave her there, so I'm going to rescue her no matter what! Even if I exchange my life for hers, I will have no regrets!"

"I understand Yoh, and I believe in you. So how are we going to get you inside Hao?"

"Don't worry Amidamaru, I got that thing covered; just stand back and tell the others to guard my body well. Or else I won't have a body to return to!" Yoh smiled at his guardian ghost.

Yoh charged towards Hao and tried to attack him, but he just jumped up. When Hao was in the air, he chanted another spell, and his sword grew even longer again. "NOW AMIDAMARU!" Amidamaru left spirit control, and Hao thrusted his sword into Yoh's heart.

"Yoh, when will you ever learn?" Hao smiled as he began taking Yoh's spirit which is being channeled into the sword. "This was the same technique I used in order to take Anna's spirit, and I can't believe you fell for it too!"

"YOH!" Everyone watched in shock as they watched Hao take Yoh's spirit. When he was done, he took his sword out of Yoh's body, and Yoh collapsed on the ground unconscious.

"First Anna, then Yoh…" Manta and almost everyone else dropped to the ground panting. Hao was there laughing in front of Yoh's unconscious body.

"Don't lose hope everyone!" Amidamaru said in confidence. "Yoh's spirit is still here, it's not gone forever! Let's defend Yoh's body and wait until he come out of Hao!"

Ren charged towards Hao who just jumped aside; Hao was about to do the same thing to Ren, but Ren grabbed Yoh's body and used it as a shield. "I'm really sorry Yoh!" Hao's sword can only damage and suck out a body's spirit, and it was ineffective against Yoh because he only had his physical body.

Ren ran towards the others carrying Yoh's body; he put it down gently on the ground, and everyone else surrounded Yoh.

"Anna? Anna! Where are you!" Yoh called out her name while making his way deeper into Hao. When he went deeper, he finally saw a figure of Anna not that far away from himself. "Anna!"

Yoh started approaching Anna, and found her surrounded by a black electrical force; he tried to grab Anna, but he was backed away when he was suddenly shocked. "Anna, wake up! Please, just hang on!"

Anna slowly opened her eyes, "Yoh? Help me…it's so painful…"

"Don't worry; I'm here to get you out…" Yoh tried to reach her again, but he was electrocuted this time when he held on too long, causing him to let go again.

"Just leave me here Yoh! I'm causing you too much pain already!" Anna said, not trying to break free after seeing how much Yoh was in pain just trying to rescue her.

"That's not true! You're not causing me pain, you give me strength" Yoh held on to Anna, ignoring the pain he received. "You're the one who always believes in me, and you're the one who always trusts me. Now, I want you to believe and trust me that I'll get you out of this pain."

"But why Yoh…?"

"I love you Anna…and I'll do anything for you just to see you satisfied, just to see you happy, just to see you smile. It is because of you that I was able to achieve all the things that I couldn't normally reach. Even if you didn't show it to me directly, I know that you still loved me; because you trusted and believed in me…"

"Yoh…" Anna held Yoh back, also ignoring the pain that she received.

"Let's get out of here…" Yoh and Anna were suddenly engulfed in a white light, and when they opened their eyes, they found themselves in the desert with everyone below them.

"Yoh! Anna! Thank god you made it out alive!" Lyserg and the rest of the boys were happy to see their two friends out of Hao's body.

"Pirika! The black electric force disappeared!" Tamao said happily.

"Thank goodness, they're all right!" Pirika said happily, making sure that she doesn't cry again. "Let's try to clean some of her wounds while she's still not here"

"I wonder if they were able to beat Hao…" Tamao handed Pirika some more bandages.

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Yey! They finally got Anna's spirit back! Sorry for the long wait, I kinda got a bit of writers block, but I quickly recovered after watching a few episodes of Shaman King. I'll try to update as soon as I can, thanks for reading and reviewing guys!