Thanks for the reviews! It was because of those that I am still writing this Halloween story. I would've deleted this story days ago if it weren't for the reviews. So here's the new chapter, so sit back and enjoy.

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Chapter 10: My Fair Lady

"Okay, so where are the monsters?" Ryu has defeated over fifteen monsters already and still no stone; and now there were no monsters. A black cat was frightened away because of the noise. "Great, just when I was on a roll, all the monsters have to run away just like that!" he continued talking while Tokageroh floated beside him, as if he even had a choice to continue listening to Ryu talking non stop about the monsters.

"This looks worth the watching time" Hao diverted his attention from Lyserg to Ryu. He had no idea what was waiting for him. The cloaked figure just stood beside Hao and watched in silence.

"Okay, will you just…"

"Shhh…" Ryu put his finger over his mouth. "I can hear footsteps…"

They continued walking and walking. Ryu and Tokageroh got ready, he reached for his wooden sword, ready to strike.

They were now hiding behind a corner, ready to attack; for Tokageroh, he was ready to oversoul anytime. "Ready…"

Ryu jumped out with his wooden sword right above his head, only to find out that what he saw was not what he expected to see.

It was just a girl, looking very scared at the moment. Ryu stopped for a moment and looked at the girl from top to bottom. 'Wow, she's hot…' Ryu thought silently to himself. Tokageroh wanted to hit Ryu right now, but he couldn't help but feel and think the same way Ryu was thinking. The girl was dressed in dark green, she had brown eyes and red streaked hair.

"Eeekkk!" the girl used her purse and smacked Ryu right across the face. The poor man got tossed right in to the wall. "You tried to attack me!" the girl kept pounding Ryu with her almighty pink purse while he tried to shield himself. Tokageroh entered the shop through the window and pitifully watched Ryu be beat up by a teenager.

"Wait! Ow! Miss! Ouch! Stop! Oooff! I didn't mean to scare you! Yeow! Sorry! Yikes! I'm really sorry! Ah!" Ryu was expecting for another smack to come, but fortunately, it didn't.

"Oh, I'm sorry" the girl said. "I thought you were and monster or some kind of thug, so my instinct told me to hit you. Good thing I didn't bring out my pepper spray."

"Pepper Spray?" Ryu wiped his forehead. What's worse than being smacked on the head is being blinded by some sort of spray similar to that of tear gas.

"I'm really sorry mister"

"No problem, just glad we got things clear" Ryu stood up, wiped his forehead, and combed his almost ruin hairdo with his special high tech looking comb that he always carries around with him. "By the way, you can call me Ryu, and I'm single!"

"Right…and I'm Riza, way younger than you, single, and forever will be single" Riza said in a straight forward manner.

"Strike twenty nine" Tokageroh snickered quietly after another failed attempt of Ryu.

"Is that a ghost?" Riza pointed to Tokageroh, surprising both him and Ryu.

"Hey, you can see me?" Tokageroh asked.

"Of course I can, you're a green skinned man"

"Does that mean you're a shaman miss Riza?"

"Shaman? What is that?"

"Oh, so you can only see ghosts, but you can't actually be possessed by them" Ryu said and Riza nodded her head. 'So I guess she's kinda like Manta then.'

"Anyway, can you help me?" Riza asked. Immediately, Ryu was all ears. "I came here from Shibuya to visit my cousin. It's my first time here and I don't know where I'm going."

"Don't worry miss Riza. I'll be your guide; I know Funbari as if it were my own room. So where do you want to go?"

"1728 Polo St. Do you know where it is?"

'That's the street next to Master Yoh's school; and unit 1728 is…' Ryu thought to himself. "Yes I know where it is, but it's a little far from here. Do you mind?"

"No, not at all; besides, I just want to get off the streets. It's full of creepy monsters, is this how you guys celebrate Halloween?"

"Uh, no; it's only temporary. Well, let's go!" Ryu, Tokageroh, and Riza started moving northward to Polo St.; but a monster jumps down from a tree after a black cat fell down and scampered away. It hungrily approached Ryu with its rotting limbs. "Time for some action, stand back Riza!" She obeyed and observed Ryu and Tokageroh fight the corpse of a magician.

"Hao, when is the monster going to make a move on those people?" Hao's new companion asked. The shaman simply smiled at it and continued observing. "Doesn't your mouth get tired when you grin like that?"

"Not really, why?"

"Nothing, just a thought."

"You should try smiling more often you know" Hao said, not facing the monster.

"You should know me by now Hao, I never smile."

"Double cross slash!" Ryu slashed the monster and it broke up into tiny white lights.

"Wow, you're kinda amazing you know" Riza said cheerfully. "You were able to beat three monsters."

"I'm very flattered miss Riza" Ryu rubbed the back of his neck and continued walking. "If you didn't call my attention before the two previous monsters attacked, then you I would've been dead."

"No problem!" Riza walked a little ahead of Ryu.

"So Riza, what's that thing on your bag?" Ryu asked, he had kept his eyes on the keychain of Riza's purse.

"Oh this?" Riza held the keychain. "I brought this handmade key chain from a bazaar" it was a little goth girl doll, hand made, and a little cute. "Come on Ryu, I think we're almost there. I can't wait to get off these scary streets."

Ten minutes later, they were already in front of Yoh's school, just one and a half more streets to go before they reach their destination. It looked like a normal walk from a random person's point of view, but Ryu felt that something was wrong. Tokageroh sensed something too.

Ryu stopped in his tracks, Riza looked back at Ryu who seemed to be in deep thought. "Hey Ryu, is there something wrong?" Riza shivered when a cold wind blew by. "Ryu, I think there's another monster."

Ryu still didn't reply because he was in deep thought. Riza looked at him questioningly. "Riza, just how long do you plan on keeping up this act?"

"Huh? What are you talking about Ryu?" she asked him.

"You're not human; I sensed it from the very beginning."

"Ryu, I don't understand what you're saying. All I want is to go to my cousin's house; I thought you would go there with me?"

"I would accompany you there, but only if you admit the truth, monster!"

Riza had her head facing the ground by now, her bangs covering her eyes. Ryu and Tokageroh just looked at her. Riza finally lifted her head up and smiled. "You two are smarter than I thought." Riza pulled out a perfume vial and threw it to the ground, covering her in a thick green smoke. When she stepped out, her true appearance was revealed.

"A witch?" Ryu expected it her to be a monster, but never a witch; a very ugly one in fact. It was a traditional witch; black clothing, green skin, long nose with a big hairy wart on it, pointed hat, broom…definitely a traditional Halloween witch. "I tried to ask out a witch and I even called her hot! That is so unfair!"

"Cut the insults, I want to know how you figured out that I wasn't human at all" the witch asked in a high pitched and screechy voice.

"Simple. My first clue was the address you gave me; 1728 Polo Street exists, but the house is vacant. I also noticed that a black cat had been following us the whole time. My other clue was the key chain on your purse; Master Yoh and I stumbled upon a book on the legend of witch craft, and we saw the same doll that you had on your bag right now. There are only three of those dolls which exist and all of them are in museums. The last clue was the way you dressed, talk about fashion, you're colors are clashing."

"Hmp! Well I suppose you were able to figure that one out" Riza's black cat jumped from a tree and morphed into a black panther. "I won't allow you to live anyway. That was an order to us from Master Hao, to kill all of you humans!"

"Sorry to disappoint you, but humans do not die that easily, including me" Ryu said as he and his main spirit stood strong. "Tokageroh! Oversoul in to the wooden sword!"

"My panther, attack Ryu!" the black creature ran up to Ryu. He jumped over the panther before it slashed him into bits. When Ryu landed, he turned around without standing up and slashed the panther in half crosswise.

The witch was surprised, she was not expecting this in the first place. Her plan was foiled in an early stage, because her real plan was to lure Ryu to the abandoned house where she can use her witch craft at the fullest due to the influence of an old oak tree.

The witch could not find any good spells that might stop him and she was not good at close range combat.

"It looks like you lucked out" Ryu ran toward her, getting ready to deliver the final blow. The witch grabbed her broom and struck the ground, which sent thorns spouting out of the ground. Ryu anticipated the attack and jumped up. From mid air, he performed a vertical slash and finished off the witch.

"Glad that's over" Ryu landed on the ground and Tokageroh left the wooden sword. The both spotted a small object beneath the tiny white lights which was previously the body of a witch. Ryu picked it up and Tokageroh read the word on it, "Blind". The color of the stone changed from violet to purple and the word was now "Perceptive".

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Thank you for supporting my story and I hope you liked it. There's still a few more chapters to go before the two special "I didn't pick their names randomly out of the box" characters will have the spot light to themselves. So how many down? Nine. How many more to go? When will the chapter dedicated to the couples be uploaded? How is this story going to end? Just wait and see!