Finally back from the dead…I thank the people who reviewed and I'm just asking: does anybody reading this want a sequel? Yeah…here it is…

Same Ground Ch. 12

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The gang was running for what seemed like days until they finally caught up with Hao, who was apparently looking at something above.

What is it, Aniki? What are you looking at? Aridas asked.

"I remember now…what happened after 500 years…" Hao trembled. Hao looked at Aridas with a serious look.

"I didn't kill you. Kage was the one who killed you," Hao said.

What? How did you find out? Aridas said quite surprised.

"Look up, Otouto," Hao sighed. Aridas looked up and saw a plateau.

You mean this is where… Aridas trailed off.

"Yes, this is where you fell." Hao said.

"But how can you be sure?" Len asked.

"He's sure all right. I smell blood around this place and it's definitely Aridas' blood. And, from the smell, the blood's about a few hundred years old. At least five hundred years, I think," Goku said sniffing the ground.

"How can you know that!" Horo asked. Sanzo appeared in front of Horo, scaring him.

"Because, blue boy, Goku here is a demon and demons have highly sensitive senses," Sanzo explained.

"But Sanzo…I'm not even a demon! I'm…you know… SeiTai!" Goku shouted. Aridas whispered something to Griffyn and must've agreed to whatever he was saying because he was nodding shortly. Owen appeared out of the blue and merged with Griffyn, becoming the four-winged two tailed dragon again.

"WTF are you doing?" Goku yelled. Griffyn lowered his head so that he and Goku were looking at each other in the eye.

Getting us up, of course. I told you, you should've listened to him when he foretold of a shadow, Griffyn said, making a long, coughing growl and curled his lip, showing his teeth. Goku was glaring at him but then turned red as he realized he was laughing. He shook his head and jumped onto Griffyn's head, with Aridas helping him up.

"What are you standing around for? Are we going to help Yoh or not?" Goku asked. The gang quickly got on Griffyn as he, without using his wings, jumped up into the air and landed on a grassy plain, where the gang saw Yoh, who was unfortunately unconscious, and Kage, who was apparently doing something to Yoh as his hand was on his forehead and was glowing. After a few moments his hand stopped glowing and he turned to them.

"I see you've made it. Now we can start the last battle!" he said cheerfully.

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Ianna stood up. She had finished drawing five pentacles around Anna. She walked to one of the pentacles and started chanting something. As she chanted, the pentacles around Anna, including the one Ianna was in, glowed brightly. Then, four figures appeared in the four other pentacles. The figures looked at Anna with amusement and looked at each other for judgment. They then looked at Ianna and nodded at her. Ianna nodded back as the four figures merged together, creating a small ball of light. The pentacles stopped glowing as the glowing ball floated in front of where Anna lay.

"What's th—" Morty began.

"Pipe down, pipsqueak!" Ianna hissed. The glowing ball entered Anna, making her jolt up.

"What…What's…going…on..?" Anna said between pants like something drained her of her energy. She looked at Ianna and grabbed her.

"Where…Where is…Yoh a…and…Aridas..?" she asked.

"They and the rest went off to Yoh who went after Kage," Ianna replied.

"Then it's too late then…" Anna trailed off letting go of her twin sister.

"Too late for what, Anna?" Ianna asked, concerned. Anna reluctantly told Ianna and Morty.

"Y-you m-mean t-to t-tell m-me th-that th-that was the WRONG PROPHECY!" Morty screamed. Ianna glared at Morty, making him shut up.

"No, it was connected. The prophecy the three of us told was about five hundred years ago. There is another prophecy; another prophecy that is similar to the prophecy we told," Anna said.

"Then what's the prophecy now?" Morty asked. The two sisters looked at each other and agreed and told him the prophecy (1). When they finished, Morty was trembling with fear.

"Aaaaa…WHAT THE HELL? YOU MEAN THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!" Morty shouted. The two sisters nodded.

"The only thing we can do now is to wait." Ianna said, looking up at the mountain. The sun had just set and stars now took over the sky.

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"Dammit!" Len cursed pulling back. He and the rest were not having any good luck with Kage. They tried every move to hit Kage but he sidestepped, dodged or counterattacked it.

"We have to try something else!" Goku said putting his hand out.

"Gojyo, Hyoi Gattai!" Gojyo appeared and then changed into a small red-to-pink orb that went to Goku's hand. Goku integrated with it and summoned Gojyo's Shakujou (sp?).

"Now why'd you go and integrate with me, saru?" Gojyo asked.

"Shut up and start moving you ero kappa!" Goku and Sanzo said at the same time. Gojyo sighed and, using Goku's body, threw the half moon blade to Kage. Kage saw this coming and quickly sidestepped. The SoF tried to punch Kage but he saw that coming too and jumped up and landed on the SoF's arm and, at the same time, kicked the SoF's head, sending it and Hao to a rock wall. Kage was about to land when the half moon blade looped around and headed for Kage again. This time Kage took the blade and threw it to Choco, nearly missing his neck by a hair.

"Shoot, I missed!" Gojyo and Goku mumbled.

"It's a good thing you did or else I would've been decapitated!" Choco said trembling.

"And for the love of all that is good you should have been decapitated!" Len shouted using his giant oversoul to punch Kage but he stopped the attack with his punch sending him to Horo's giant oversoul.

"That guy's not human I tell you!" Horo yelled.

"Of course he's not human. He's a shaman," Hao said getting up.

"Ch. That's lame, you know…Gojyo, disintegrate! Sanzo, out of the Shoureiju (sp?) and Hyoi Gattai!" Gojyo came out of Goku's body, the Shakujou disappeared without a trace. Sanzo came out of the Shoureiju and integrated with Goku.

"Finally…" Sanzo said raising something high in the air. Gojyo shuddered; Sanzo was using Goku's voice! Hearing something cold like that from Goku was very disturbing, not to mention strange.

He then brought the thing down on……………………………... Gojyo's head. A large sound of a thwack was heard.

"Itai! What did you do that for, kono bakasaru!" Gojyo yelled, rubbing his head.

THWACK!

"OWWWW!" Gojyo yelled, now rubbing two lumps on his head.
THWACK!

"DON'T CALL ME A MONKEY! YOU'VE GOT SOME NERVE CALLING ME, A SANZO, A MONKEY YOU DEMON NAVIGATOR! And stop yelling, for Kami's sake, you're going to start an avalanche…" Sanzo said putting the Harisen on his shoulder as Gojyo's 'antennae' moved around like satellites searching for information.

As Sanzo and Gojyo were arguing, everybody watched them. Yes, even Kage and Arget watched them fumble and fight.

"Oi, Hakkai, do these three do this all the time, even before they died?" Hao asked the…err…sophisticated youkai ghost.

"Hai, they always did that, even during fights against our former enemies," Hakkai said sweatdropping.

"I can understand that, but how can that fan hit a ghost?" Horo wondered aloud.

"I guess the Harisen has some power to hit ghosts," Hakkai said hypothetically.

Yeah, hitting annoying cockroach ghosts… Aridas mumbled.

"I HEARD THAT, ARIDAS! YOU STAY OUTTA THIS YOU WOLF BOY!" Gojyo yelled trying to stop the 'monkey' from making him a permanent part of the soil.

Gomen, gomen, I really didn't mean that… Aridas called out then jumped to the side as Kage started to attack. Horo attacked Kage from behind but Shruikan appeared towering Horo's giant oversoul by more than 10 feet, blocking the attack. Shruikan thrust his claws at Horo's giant oversoul but Choco's giant oversoul bit the thing's hand, making Shruikan flinch a bit. Shruikan was annoyed by this action and tried to shake the little pest off of his hand. Meanwhile Hao and Aridas were busy fighting Kage and was having a hard time. They pulled back after a huge thunder wall almost hit them.

Is it okay for me to do this? Aridas asked Griffyn.

Under these circumstances, yes, you may do that and as fast as possible. Griffyn replied.

Domo arigato gosaimasu! Hakkai, Hyoi Gattai! Aridas called out. Hakkai quickly integrated with Aridas. Kage quickly spotted this and went for Aridas, sword in attacking stance. Hakkai sensed this and made Aridas sidestep involuntarily. He also made him go through a series of moves that involved either blocking or dodging Kage's quick attacks.

Hakkai, if this is supposed to make me feel my bones and muscles again, then you can stop because I can feel them now, Aridas thought-spoke to Hakkai.

'There's a difference between being idle and helping your peers. What you're doing right now is being idle and not helping. I suggest you start helping or you can say goodbye to this body,' Hakkai thought cheerfully.

There's also a difference between shutting your mouth while fighting and talking while your big fat ass is on Satan's territory. We are fighting but Hao is temporarily putting his ass on Satan's territory, looking at our fight, so you can tell him your lesson, 'sensei', Aridas thought trying to keep his venomous thoughts where no one can get through.

'I heard that, Otouto, I'm—I quote—"Getting my ass off Satan's territory" and helping you now…' Hao thought-spoke in Aridas' mind. Aridas cursed thoughts as he and Hakkai blocked Kage's attack. Hakkai and Hao chuckled a bit because of this. Aridas then started attacking Kage.

A few 10 minutes later Aridas was caught off-guard by Kage. Kage quickly oversouled Shruikan into his sword and went into quick attacking stance.

"This is it for you, Kairudo!" Kage said quickly dashing forward to Aridas.

"ARIDAS!" they yelled. With that, Kage strikes with his sword, blood spurting everywhere. This caught everyone off-guard because the blood spurting everywhere wasn't Aridas' but…

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Author's notes: I.Am.So.Evil. I left ya guys hanging here Hahaha. I know some people want to know what happens after this but then again, I think most of the people who READ AND REVIEW this (especially OtakuNekoGirl) know what happened…just asking… (OtakuNekoGirl) what do you find funny; the fact the Saiyuki gang is here or the parol joke? Anyway, I put a one-shot humor read it if you're sane enough…R&R peeps!

(1) I can't tell you the prophecy or Aridas' past because……………I didn't make one up yet…

-LazyShamaness