Hurrah! I was finally able to update, sorry if it took so long. I had a lot of schoolwork to do. Thanks for the review, reviews, and reviews guys!
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Chapter 9: Encounter
Ren had another car ready for them to go to the Funbari public park, the place where Hao was expecting them. Yoh had told Faust, Manta, and Jun to stay with Tamao and Pirika in the inn, just in case Hao attacks them again. Silva, Lyserg, Rio, Horohoro, Ren, and Yoh were going to the park in pursuit of Hao.
It was almost midnight, and the clouds were completely covering the sky. The seven of them left the car and stepped in the park; the wind was picking up, and thunder roared at the background.
"Hao! Where are you?" Yoh yelled out, everyone looked around to see if they could spot the evil shaman. "Show yourself!"
Thunder roared and lighting struck; the wind that blew was strong and freezing; the rain poured, and it became harder every minute. Yoh looked around, and he spotted a shadow, Hao's shadow. He was leaning back at a tree, but Anna's body was nowhere in sight.
"Hao!" Anna angrily yelled, "Where is my body?"
"You're body?" Hao laughed. "You must be mistaken Anna. I am afraid that your body is no longer yours…"
"What do you mean Hao?" Anna's question got answered when they saw another shadow, it showed itself to everyone. It was not any ordinary person; no, it was Anna's body, walking and alive! "What the heck is going on Hao?"
Hao laughed evilly, accompanied by a lightning strike, "Like I said Anna, your body is no longer yours, it now belongs to Spirit of Fire!"
Everyone gasped, the rain poured heavily, thunder and lighting would strike once every minute, and the winds blew so strongly that some of the trees were becoming bent.
Yoh stepped forward and pointed his sword towards his brother, "Give Anna back! Right now!"
"You want her back?" Hao asked. "Do you want to go back?" He asked the possessed body, which shook its head sideways in response. "That's your answer…"
"That is my body and I want it back!" Anna yelled angrily. "Yoh let's go!"
"Right! Spirit form, unity!" Yoh united with Anna's spirit. "Amidamaru, spirit form! Into the sword!"
Yoh has performed an over soul with Amidamaru, and so did the rest of his companions.
"I see that you won't be leaving with out Anna, am I correct?" Hao asked, but he was answered with very nasty glares. "Here we go again…but do know, things are going to be different! Sprit of Fire, go!"
Anna's body raised her beads and began chanting a spell; something unfamiliar to the boys, but something very very familiar to Anna. "Be careful everyone! He's summoning!"
"What?" Yoh looked at Anna's body summoning two giant guardians, but they were not ordinary guardians; they were Zenki and Kouki, the two shikigamis which were under Anna's control before. "That's not good…"
"Really now?" Hao said as the two shikigamis roared and stomped the ground taking defensive stance. "I'm not even done yet…Spirit of Fire!"
The Spirit of Fire used Anna's body once again to summon some more spirits to fight against Yoh and his friends.
"Spirits of Water, Earth, Metal, Wind, and Wood!" Anna's body raised the beads, and three figures appeared behind her, all of them looked like the Spirit of Fire. One was blue, the other was yellow, the next was silver, another was green, and the last was brown.
Yoh and company looked in shock as they saw three of the most powerful spirits standing against them. "Surprised?" Hao laughed evilly at his shocked opponents. "There's still more…"
Hao once again commanded Anna's body to summon more spirits. It Anna's body obeyed and she started chanting once again.
"Stop it Hao!" Anna yelled from within Yoh. "My body can't handle summoning too many spirits!"
"How many times do I have to tell you Anna?" Hao said. "It is no longer yours, so I may do as I please!"
Anna's body summoned more and more sprits, one of which was Faust I.
"Yoh, don't just stand there! Let's go!" Anna yelled; Yoh nodded quickly in response and charged towards Hao. They had to stop him before he summoned any more spirits.
Hao grinned evilly as his brother and his friends started running towards him, "Just can't wait for me to finish now can you?" Hao raised his hand, "Faust I, Spirit Form, Unity! Spirit of Water, Spirit form, into the sword!" Hao raised his free hand, and a massive army of skeletons started crawling out of the ground. "Spirit of Earth, Sprit form, into my left glove! Spirit of Wood, into my right glove! Spirit of Metal, Spirit form, into my cloak!"
Hao was ready for battle with his massive army of skeletons and spirits. "I'm not even half done yet, but we'll stop for now since all of you are so eager to meet your doom!"
"I'm going to make you eat those words Hao!" Yoh tried to hit Hao, but before he could even take a step closer, Anna's body blocked the way. Yoh stopped in his tracks before Anna's body hit him using her beads. "Ugh…" Yoh dropped to his knees when he got hit in the stomach.
"That's not fair Hao!" Horohoro said as he fought back the attacking skeletons.
"Who ever told you I played by the rules?" Hao punched down on the ground, causing an earthquake thanks to the Spirit of Earth. With Anna's body under Hao's control, he was almost invincible. "Do you see how much power you and I have when we're together Anna; both of us have the same power of reshi? I don't understand why you insist on staying with my brother, I can give you all the power you want, and I can give you an easy life. Isn't that what you want?"
"I don't need power Hao!" Anna said. "You can never give me what I truly need, because I already have him!"
Hao didn't need to ask her what she meant, "Very well, prepare to see Yoh die in front of your eyes then!" Ren tried to stab him, but Hao covered himself with his cloak. A loud "clang" was heard when Ren's kwan do hit the cloak, which was as hard as metal. Hao pushed back Ren, then he planted his sword to the ground, calling forth large geysers and a tidal wave.
"Horo!" Yoh called out, giving him a signal. Horohoro immediately understood what Yoh meant; he got up on his snowboard and told Kororo to freeze the water. Horohoro jumped up with his snowboard while the base of it froze the water until it was as hard as a rock.
"Bad move!" Hao jumped up and punched the massive ice tidal wave, breaking it into big and small but sharp ice glaciers. The glaciers started raining on the whole battle field; Hao landed beside Anna's body and covered her and himself with his cloak.
It was pretty unfortunate for Yoh and his team, because the field only had a few trees which were not strong enough to shield them from the glacier rain. They all had to improvise; Yoh used Amidamaru's shield, Horohoro used his snowboard as an umbrella shield, Silva used his shield; Lyserg, Ren, and Ryo used their weapons accurately hit every glacier that came their way.
"Is everyone alright?" Silva asked; everyone had a few scratches, but no major injuries.
The field was covered with glaciers and skeletons, which were not moving due to the fact that they couldn't shield themselves from the ice rain. Hao removed the cloak from himself and Anna, and then he summoned the skeletons back to life. "You know Horo, we can make a pretty good team, water and ice can make deadly combo attacks…"
"Shut up Hao, I'm not interested!" Horohoro got off the snowboard and equipped it to his right arm. "I'll never forgive you for what you did to Pirika and Tamao!"
"Still can't get over that?" Hao was interrupted when Lyserg tired to hit him from behind with the pendulum. He grabbed the pendulum and swung it across him, dragging Lyserg too; when he let go of the pendulum, Lyserg got swung across the field.
Ren and Ryo decided to do a combo attack on Hao, but he was able to dodge the attacks.
As soon as Hao landed, Yoh attacked him from behind. Hao saw the attack coming, so he used the power of the Spirit of Water to carry him to another location. "You guys don't get it do you? With all the element spirits by my side, I am unbeatable. I can have any spirit I want, thanks to Anna."
Anna flinched, with her power in the wrong hands, things can turn disastrous. Then it hit her, "Yoh! I want you to get the beads from my body! Without it, Spirit of Fire can't summon anymore spirits; and as soon as you get it, we'll use it to return the spirits back from where they came from!"
"Okay Anna, but what if I accidentally hurt your body?" Yoh asked.
"Yoh, I don't care what happens to it…" Anna answered. "Just make sure you get my beads. I don't want you to hold back, or else this will be the end of everybody and everything!"
"…but…" Yoh wanted to protest, but it was the only way to defeat him. "Alright, let's go!"
Yoh ran towards Anna's body; Hao realized their intentions, so he immediately told Zenki, Kouki, and random skeletons to protect her. The two shikigamis blocked Yoh's way; Yoh stopped dead in his tracks when he was about to be hit.
Yoh's team changed their target from Hao, to Anna's beads. Hao looked at them angrily and ran to Anna's body. "Spirit of Wind, spirit form, into my shoes!" Hao jumped up at a very high altitude and landed right beside Anna's body. "Let's see if you guys can get past my massive army!"
"Yoh, try to get to Anna!" Ren said. "We'll cover you! Our only goal is to take her beads!"
"Alright, are you ready guys?" Yoh asked; they all nodded in response and started charging towards Hao in a formation. Yoh was in the middle, behind him was Rio and Silva, and in front of him were Horohoro, Ren, and Lyserg. The skeletons and the two shikigamis charged towards the group, Hao stayed behind to watch the fight and make sure that Yoh doesn't get to Anna's body.
They started hacking and slashing their way through the massive army, but Hao kept summoning more skeletons each time they would get nearer. Yoh and the rest knew that they must not spend too much of their energy on these skeletons; but it was getting hard since they were outnumbered, hundreds and thousands.
"Having a hard time?" Hao asked mockingly. "Let me help you…have a harder time. Sprit of Fire!" Spirit of Fire nodded and started summoning more spirits.
"Chimi Moryos?" Horohoro cried out. "Man, this doesn't look good…"
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious stupid Ainu…" Ren said. "What now? There's too many of them, I haven't seen this big an army since you guys went to visit my place."
The skeletons were about to attack, but then another army of purple skeletons appeared in front of Yoh and the others. The purple ones faced the charging skeletons and opposed them. "What is going on here?" Hao asked.
"A thousand against six doesn't sound fair, why don't we even the odds?" Faust and Eliza walked towards them hand in hand. Jun, Pai Long, Manta, Tamao, Pirika, and someone else were following Faust. "We just couldn't sit around and wait for you to finish, we also want a piece of the action."
"Also, there was someone who came to visit. We told him the whole story, so that's why we're all here…" Jun said, stepping aside to reveal who their "guest" was.
"Chocolove, Mic!" Yoh said. "Glad you guys can come!"
Chocolove gave Yoh a thumbs up. "Glad I could come! I came here to go on vacation and tell you new jokes, but here I am fighting a massive army of skeletons…"
"We'll listen to your jokes and kill you later, right now we have a situation here…" Ren said pointing to Anna and Hao. The late arrivers couldn't believe what they saw, but they understood everything as Lyserg explained it to them. "Right now, we're at a disadvantage…we're still outnumbered…"
"No problem!" Faust summoned more purple skeletons. Jun snapped her fingers, and kyonshis started hopping towards the skeletons. "Now we're even!"
"Let's go guys!" Yoh commanded. "Pai Long and Chocolove, get into formation! The rest of you try to clear the skeleton path!" Anna ordered them.
"I won't forgive you for what you did to me and Pirika!" Tamao said; she oversouled Konchi into her weapon, and she performed spirit unity with Ponchi.
"Mosuke, are you here?" Manta asked. The laptop her was holding opened up suddenly, and it showed a picture of Mosuke. "What's up?"
"Let's help the others!" Manta said. Mosuke entered the hammer that Manta brought along with him.
"Now that we're all here Hao, the real battle will begin!" Yoh and Anna said in unison.
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Once again guys, I'm really sorry for not updating my fics. My schedule is full and I have a lot to do. If it's too short, I'm really sorry. I'll do my best to finish this story and the rest of my stories asap.
Q: What's reshi?
A: The ability to read the hearts and minds of others. It is a useful ability, but it's very hard to control. Hao and Anna have the same ability causing both of them to be anti social because they can feel the negative energy and emotions of others. Hao learnt of the Shaman fight, and he then sought to create a world only for Shamans because of his reshi. Anna also had the same ability, causing her to be abandoned by her parents. She began to hate others because of this, and this hatred manifested itself as an oni. Just a fact I read just in case you guys wanted to know about it. If you guys want to know more, just ask the source from me, then I'll either email it to you or post it in the next chapter.
If you guys have questions, post it while you're reviewing and I'll try to answer them when I update.