DarkTaoAngel: Thanks again to all of my reviewers! I don't own Shaman King, I hope you like this chapter, and I will only have 10 chapters, so this is almost the end! I'm just as excited as you are, because I haven't written it down yet!

As Horo looked over at the body laying only a few feet away from him, he recognized it immediately, and was shock by which it was.

Mei had taken the attack from Hao, instead of letting Horo get hit. She truly had loved him as she said she did, and she knew she had done the right thing. She wasn't moving, and there was a pool of blood surrounding her, she was ghostly white, and didn't look as though she was breathing.

Tears started to well up inside of Horo's eyes. He was sad that Mei was gone only because of him, and he wished that he had been the one to receive the blow. As Horo turned around he saw that he and Pirika weren't the only ones crying anymore. Hao was kneeling beside Mei's body, a stricken look on his face. He was just as shocked as everyone else was that Mei had killed herself for Horo.

"How dare you! You killed her! You killed the only person that I loved, the only person who was ever kind to me! She needn't have died; I meant not to kill her, only you! She deserves me, not you, and I can bring her back somehow! I can insure that you two never cross paths again!"

Hao was aggrieved by his loss, apparently he was the only person that supported him, and now that she was gone he had no one, he was alone in this world, so naturally he wanted her back, but even he knew it was hopeless, she could never come back.

Hao instead of attacking Horo again, did something that no one expected, Hao himself was probably surprised that he didn't kill Horo when he had perfect opportunity to do so. He snatched up Mei's body from the ground, mounted himself on the Spirit of Fire's shoulder once again, and disappeared from the forest as quickly as he had come. Before left, though, he shouted one more thing; "I'll hunt you down and kill you one of these days Horohoro Usui! You can't win, I'll bring Mei back and we'll kill you together!" then he made his exit into the sky once more.

Horo and Pirika were left alone, knowing perfectly well that they would see Hao again, but Mei would not be with him. Horo was still sad about Mei's death, but now he had Pirika and his friends again, and he knew that Mei genuinely loved him, as he did her. But there was still one last question on his mind, what happened to Ren, and what have his friends done when he was gone?

"Pirika? I wanted to ask you—" but he was cut off be Pirika, who was crying on his shoulder, as she was able to utter two words before her voice went raspy all over again; "He's gone."

"What do you mean Pirika? You don't mean that what Hao said about Ren was true, do you?" Pirika merely nodded in answer, sobbing more uncontrollably now.

Horo was shocked more now by his sister's answer. So it was true? Ren did die because of me. And I made Pirika cry because I wasn't there for her. But I'm here now, and I won't leave her ever again. I want her to be happy, and I hope she can be happier now that I am here again, even if Ren isn't. Hao won't get away with it again, and as for Mei alerting him to me and Ren, its Hao we're talking about, he wouldn't let her refuse him. But I wonder if he really loved her, it certainly seemed like it.

It was then that Horo realized it. Hao has feelings to. Horo had to stop feeling like he was the only one who was hurting. He looked over at Pirika who was staring at him with a worried expression on her face, as though he could leave her at any moment.

Horo smiled, which greatly surprised Pirika, and said, "It's all over, it's going to be alright now. I know you are sad, and I am too, but your crying won't help bring any of them back. From now on I'll be there for you, so that you won't have anything to cry about anymore." and together they walked back to town were they would get a ride back to the Inn and tell everyone what Horo had just told Pirika.

DarkTaoAngel: Hi, again! I hope this chapter makes you think a lot, because that is what it was intended to do. This might be my last chapter, or I might make an epilogue, it depends on if I can think of anything to write!