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Chapter 11: Two Problems, One Answer

Now that at least half of the stones are in possession of the shamans, he concluded that his brother and his friends would probably gather in the soul mata cemetery approximately an hour before the stroke of midnight. The only problem is, the gang does not know that Hao was planning a grand finale.

The shaman, or rather, the necromancer that catches Hao's attention next was none other than Hao and his wife Eliza. It looks like the patient is ready to visit the doctor, but the patient is the doctor himself.

Faust VIII stood behind Eliza, giving her his Furyoku for battle. Faust commanded Eliza to perform "Guillotine Chop" to slice the opponent. She succeeded in carrying out the attack, cutting off the arms of a headless horseman.

The arms fell to the ground and shattered into white lights, but its body was still intact. If Faust wanted to defeat it, he will have to do more than slashing off body parts. He was now getting really annoyed, he was spending too much time on the headless horseman and he still hasn't found a single stone, much to his own disappointment. With a snap of his fingers, bones from beneath the soil of a local cemetery grabbed hold of the limbs of the headless rider's horse and at the same time got grabbed in the legs by skeletons. This made the rider and its horse very vulnerable. Eliza took the opportunity to attack her opponent, leaving the opponent lifeless and now, formless.

It was unfortunate that they weren't able to find a stone in this monster, it was still nine o' clock, but they had to hurry. All the shamans searching for the stones noticed that the monsters got stronger and more vicious the closer it got to midnight. This worried them a lot; Faust signaled to Eliza that is was time to move.

"…" the black figure stood still and quiet like a predator in search of its prey. The only thing that seemed to move was his crimson red eyes which were seemingly hungry for blood and full of death.

"…" Hao also sat quietly on the roof top of a building. He liked his two companions; Spirit of Fire remained loyal to him, but the other seemed to be only following Hao because it had an obligation to fulfill, or perhaps for something else. It seemed to have an aura as sinister as Hao's; and by just looking at it, you can tell that this creature means business. "I noticed that you do not address me as 'master' unlike the other monsters or my followers."

The creature did not bother to even look at Hao. "I am not a servant, I am your ally"

Its answer was straight to the point and emotionless. Hao was impressed with this creature unlike the other monsters.

"Here comes another one, are you ready my dear Eliza?" Faust asked her. Eliza nodded silently and readied herself for another battle. In a matter of minutes, they were able to defeat the dragon skeleton with ease. "Still no stone Eliza?"

She shook her head sideways while looking down. Faust smiled softly at her which seemed to lift her spirit.

It has been hours since they left the inn, and they were being rained on by monsters non stop, like all the other shamans. Speaking of non stop, here comes another monster.

"Now that's new…" Faust said. The monster that they saw was a super deformed robot monster, a metal fire breathing robot monster which looked like a mutated hamster. It was only as big as a lamp post, but it looked dangerous. "Okay, Eliza, time to take this monster out too!"

Eliza charged towards the robot with the sickle in her hand. She tried to chop the robot's leg, but the tough metal was too hard to break. The attack merely scratched the flawless metal. Faust made a face, but he was still determined to defeat the monster. He transferred more Furyoku into Eliza and made her attack the monster some more, but the metal was really strong.

It was as if the robot only felt an insect biting it. Eliza jumped up and aimed for the head, but the robot merely tossed her aside. She landed on a brick wall and fell down. Faust was starting to burn in the inside, but not fully yet. Ever since he sided with Yoh, he learned that he had to calm down once in a while, but when it comes to Eliza, things would just be slightly different due to his over protective attitude towards her.

"Eliza, we can't give up now, let's show this monster what happens when he messes with you and me!" Faust said and Eliza immediately stood up. It was time to take things very seriously now. "Eliza! Feint Guillotine Slash!" She dashed to the robot; the robot readied itself for the attack, but just when she was a few meters before it, she disappeared. The robot was puzzled, and it made beeping and buzzing sounds, trying to find Eliza with its high tech enemy seeking device.

Nowhere, where was she. The robot suddenly sensed something above it, and it was right. Eliza was just about to stab it downwards, so the robot fired seeker missiles upwards. Then again, she disappeared before the seeker missiles could hit her; the missiles hit each other instead. She immediately reappeared behind the robot and hit it at the back; before the robot could attack her back, she successfully hit it and jumped away.

The attack's force caused major damage to the robot and the impact was so strong that a compartment in the robot accidentally opened. To Faust and Eliza's surprise, there lied a stone which they were looking for. A grayish stone with a word they can't clearly see from where they were standing right now.

The robot closed the compartment and readied itself; now it too was playing seriously, so now the real battle begins. Faust grinned and called forth a few skeletons; they grabbed on to the robot, making its movement go down greatly. Being unable to move, the robot had no choice but to block all the incoming attacks. Eliza's attacks were powerful unfortunately for it. The numerous attacks were starting to get to it. Finding out that a stone was in the robot made them more determined.

The robot now quickly thought of an idea. There is no way they are getting the stone no matter what, so it decided to go to suicide mode. Faust's eyes widened when he realized what the robot was doing. Different colored lights suddenly started blinking all over the robots body and before they knew it, there was a certain small field above the robot, it was blurry, but it seemed to be drawing in wind.

"Eliza, get out of there now!" Faust yelled out. The robot was able to create an artificial black hole, anything that goes in it will be destroyed. "ELIZA!" the force was pulling Eliza in, so she grabbed on to a lamp post, but it was being uprooted from the ground.

The robot fired grappling hooks and fastened them to a nearby building. The skeletons holding its feet lost their grips and got sucked into the black hole. Faust realized that both Eliza and the robot were loosing its grip; he too was being pulled towards the black hole, but the force was not as powerful since bothe Eliza and the robot were nearer. He had time to save either one, but he had to choose; the stone which will save the world, or the love of his life which which he treasured so very much.

Time was running out and both were loosing their grips. It's either the stone or Eliza, it was now or never. The decision was very hard to make for both of the two were important to him, but…which one? Which one was more important that he had the will to sacrifice the other?

The lamppost was almost uprooted from the ground and the robot was hanging on to only one grappling hook. It was time to make a decision. He quickly decided and ran to the two.

They were now flying into the air, so which one was he going to rescue.

Faust grabbed on to the building and reached out his hand, and with luck he was able to grab the one which was more important.

"He chose her over the world?" the figure in shadows said. "What was he thinking?"

"It may be because Eliza means more than the world to him, or its probably because he figured out the nothing can break the stone once it has transformed" Hao said.

The black hole ceased and everything was now still, the remaining debris that weren't sucked in the black hole fell down on the ground. "Eliza, are you okay?" Faust had Eliza in his arms and she had just woken up.

"Why did you sacrifice the stone for me?" she asked while Faust helped her and himself up.

"Well, I wanted to save the one which was most important to me, and that was you Eliza" Faust answered with his usual sweet smile. "You are very important to me and I can't sacrifice you for any thing. You were the reason why I was determined to get stronger."

"Thank you Faust" Eliza smiled at him. "…but the stone, it's gone. We can't stop Hao without all eighteen stones…"

"You're correct my dear Eliza, but as you can see there..." Faust pointed to where the black hole previously was, and a stone which was now white was floating towards them. Faust grabbed it and read "fraudulent" and it transformed into "devotion."

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I'm really sorry if this chapter was super short, because I had no idea what to write about them, believe me, I tried my best to make this story as exciting as possible. I'm running a little late on the chapter uploads, today was actually supposed to be the date when I upload Anna's chapter. I'll fix my upload schedule and try to make it get back on track.

I'm not sure if Eliza can talk or not, but I made her talk anyway, but she only has a few lines.

By the way, I hope the character's aren't too OOC, if they are, I'm really sorry; perhaps I have to get to know more about this couple. By the way, I made a mistake on the couples thingy, and it seems we have five instead of four.