Hi! Sorry for the delay again. been to so many places for a long time, my teacher is preparing me for high school, and Len is killing me so I needed to take a few days off…
Disclaimer: This is going to be the last time I'm saying this: I DON'T OWN SHAMAN KING OKAY! I ONLY OWN DRAKIEL, ARIDAS AND IANNA!
Same Ground Ch. 4: Wanted by Patch, the X-Laws and the Awakening
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Suddenly a large beam hit Draikiel but he was still standing. Looks like Ianna-dono taught you well, Aridas commented. Right on cue Ianna threw Draikiel's sword to him. Draikiel quickly took off the bandanna, only to reveal that his eyes turned from a soft gold to cold amber. "Whoever or whatever hit him with that ray of light made Draikiel really mad…" Yoh said in his mind. "Aridas! Into the sword! Lightsaber (you read right) mode!" Aridas entered the sword and instead of becoming the same size as the sword, it became a huge orange-colored Lightsaber (the handle is silver and at the middle is an orange ring with two grey triangles coming out of it). "D-Double medium?" the boys said in wonder. "Didn't you guys know? The Sword of Unity are two swords combined into one. One sword is the light and the other one is the dark. That's why it's that big." Ianna explained. "Oh…" the guys chorused. "Yoh, step away from that shaman!" called out a voice. It was Silva. "Did you hear me Yoh? I said get away from him! He killed almost all the people in Izumo last year during the shaman tournament!" He said. Yoh looked at Draikiel, whose eyes were now covered by his hair. "… Is this true?" Yoh asked. "Of course it's true. That's why I was following him," Hao said. "But I want an answer from Draikiel, not you." Yoh said firmly. "Now is it or is it not true that you killed almost all of the people in Izumo?" Yoh repeated. Draikiel lowered his sword, making Aridas come out and his swords split in two: the Sword of Light and the Sword of Darkness. Then something round fell onto the ground. "……… Yes, it's true. Although I don't know what happened. Aridas knows though." Draikiel answered, back turned from Ianna and the gang. Hao, though, teleported in front of Draikiel and pulled him from the shirt. "How can you not know what you did?" Hao asked. "Unless you want to act like a mindless puppet, I suggest you let go of me." Draikiel said, trying his best not to lock eyes with the long-haired brunette. He hesitated for a while and let him go. "Aridas, you don't mind telling them while I'm gone, would you?" Draikiel asked. Of course not, Draikus-dono. Aridas answered. Aridas then sensed something. Draikus-dono, look out!
BAM!
Another beam hit Draikiel, this time making him crash into a tree. "The X-Laws…" Draikiel muttered. Indeed it was the X-Laws. "Must we have another reunion? This is going to be so promising…" Hao said in a mocking way. "Draikiel…and Hao…two more people to obliterate from the face of the earth…" Marco said with Lyserg at his side and the Iron Maiden at the back. "Ugh, not the gay guy again…looks like Broccoli Tops is still here…" Draikiel said in his mind as he took the circular thing that came from his sword from the ground. Hao gave a little cough to show that he read his mind—and was laughing. "Whatever, I'm leaving," Draikiel said and, amazingly, not in the tree but behind the Iron Maiden. "Sorry for my rudeness, but if I stay here longer I might kill someone, including you, Asakura." He said as if nothing happened in the world. "Which Asakura?" both of them said but he ignored them. And to Anna's surprise, Ianna was with him. "Too bad, the little runt ran away," Marco said. He turned to Hao. "Oh well, you'll do just fine." BIG mistake. The next thing Marco saw was Draikiel's cold, amber eyes. "Did you just call me a little runt? You just made yourself a one-way ride to Death Road…" he said coldly.
(Yoh's pov) Even though he stayed with us for a day or so, I knew this wasn't the cheery Draikiel we kinda knew. Even in battles he was happy but I've never seen him this mad. I looked at Aridas. He looked worried. I then looked at Ianna. She didn't look worried but I felt that she was. Then my eyes turned to my brother whom I just started to know and I could tell- he was changing his ways. He did not look worried but instead he was scared. But what was Draikiel going to do? I soon found out. Draikiel slashed Marco with both his swords. Lyserg and the X-Laws tried to attack him he just dodged it and continued his assault. When he was about to give the final blow something stopped him. It was Ianna. She stood right in front of Marco. "Kindly get out of the way, Arianna." He said though it sounded like someone else was talking through him because I learned from Aridas that if you call Ianna by her real name she would be sending us straight to the spirit world. "Draikiel, if you love me, stop this assault." Ianna said. I thought she would act like Anna but I guess I was wrong. She acted the total opposite. Draikiel seemed to hesitate but he put his swords down. Marco barely stood up. "I guess we underestimated you. We will continue this some other time." Marco said as he, the X-Laws and Jeanne left the scene. Silva just turned and left. Draikiel said nothing and left as well. Sigh, now will be a perfect time to tell you about Draikus-dono. Aridas said as we went back into the Onsen and sat down in the living room.
(Normal pov) Hao, you must help this one with this, for this one only remembers so much, Aridas said. Hao nodded. Draikus-dono was this one's master ever since his birth. This one agreed to his parents to stay with him till the end. He came from the west so we met many people on our way here. Our reason to come here was of course for the shaman tournament. Even though this one was with him from the start, there was one thing that this one did not know. "He had an alter-ego, didn't he?" Hao asked. Yes, Aniki, he had one. That was the reason he was thrown out of the shaman tournament. Aridas replied. "In other words…" Hao trailed off. Yes, Aniki, the alter-ego who once called himself Kage Tsukishiro seems to be coming back again. Aridas said. "Hold on. When you mean "coming back again," you mean this happened before, right?" Horo asked. "Of course you baka! Why else would he say that!" Len said angrily. "Remember Silva said he killed almost all the people in Izumo? Draikiel didn't do that; Kage did. He did that for revenge because of what the Patch did." Hao explained. That is absolutely correct. But when the shaman king was chosen, he disappeared. This one's guess is that he disappeared so that he could find more spirits to do his bidding for his plan. Now that he is back he found more spirits. Aridas said. "What is his plan?" Yoh asked. "Well, now he wants the same thing as I want- a shaman only world." Hao said. Again you are right. Since the training Ianna-dono gave paid off, his full power might awaken and this one will go to the spirit world because the reason Draikus-dono is alive is because he is only the host to Kage. Aridas said. "Is there a way to banish him?" Hao asked. "Yeah, its a prophecy in Patch Village." Ianna said. "What does the prophecy say?" Morty asked.
"A great Shadow ascends. None can stand against it: the greatest evil." She broke off. Anna took up her words: she heard about it before.
"Then two brothers of light and dark come. One lived a life of peace; the other a life of betrayal. Both lived, in the end, a life of a great destiny." Her gaze fell upon the two Asakura brothers. "Us?" They said. She nodded but turned away and went back up the stairs into her room; she didn't want to continue. "What's wrong with her? Is there something wrong?" Morty asked. No my friend. It's the prophecy. Aridas said. "…What happens to me and Hao?" Yoh asked in a low voice. Silence was all everybody could hear. "What happens to the two brothers in the prophecy?" Both the brothers had a terrible feeling that they already knew. 'The two brothers,' quoted Aridas. 'Gives their heart's blood.. And the Shadow is crushed.' Their heart's blood. In the kitchen, the water in the faucet dripped softly into the sink.
Drip, drip, drip.
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Author's notes: Finally done…I'll put a profile on Kage and etcetera on the next chapter as he will be there instead of Draikiel. Oh, yeah, I fixed some stuff on the previous chapters so check them out and R&R please!
-LazyShamaness