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Chapter 7

(Recap)

"Hi Jem, I'm Opacho" said the little guy on the side of my bed.

"Hi" I smiled.

"I am Macchi." The orange haired girl stood in front of my face.

The man pulled Macchi away, "Macchi, give her some room. I am Luca, by the way."

"I am Mari." The blond girl said from the background.

"The blue haired girl took the cigarette out of her mouth, dropped it on the floor, stepped on it and said, "I'm Kanna."

As they finished introducing themselves there was a gust of fire outside the window. Luca turned to me.

"Jem, there's someone you should meet."

Oh no, I don't want to meet anyone who appears in fire. I am scared of fire ever sense my parents died. Luca gently grabbed my arm and tried to help me scoot out of bed. I pulled back subconsciously. "Don't worry Jem; he's the one who said it was ok to bring you here." Luca reassured as he put his hand behind my back and took my other arm to pull me up.

I was just about to stand up when there was a white beam of light that shot past the window. That wasn't something you saw everyday.

"What was that?" Macchi asked very confused.

Kanna looked at Mari and Macchi, "Let's go. I have a bad felling about this."

They all ran outside and I attempted to stand up.

Luca turned around at the door, "Jem, stay here, you could get hurt."

"Get hurt by what? There's nothing out there." I protested. "Just stay here." He said sternly and ran out the door.

I sighed, "Do they even know I am a shaman?" I flopped back down on the bed.

I could here things happening outside, but the window wasn't close enough to see out of. There was a sudden burst of light and I could hear one of the girls scream.

"That's it! I'm going out!" I announced out loud.

I walked outside and couldn't believe what I saw. Mari, Macchi, and Kanna were in heaps on the floor. Luca was leaning up against a tree; trying to stay standing and Opacho was cowering behind Luca. Other people, like a guy dressed as a cactus, were lying around struggling to get up. I turned to see the X-Laws kick one more guy down. I gasped; I was so mad at my sister. She leads this group of people around that attack other shamans for no reason!

"Mirage!" I yelled. The X-Laws turned to me with shocked looks on their faces. They probably didn't expect to see me here.

Mirage appeared in front of me. She closed her eyes and sat down. The X-Laws looked confused and started to back up. Mirage shot open her eyes to reveal another set of eyes underneath her normal ones. Her four eyes were jet black.

Streams of black color poured out from behind her and started swimming for the X-Laws. They all backed up and got ready to attack.

I smirked, "You can't attack the dark."

The dark shadow of color rapped around Lyserg. He screamed as some of the shadow was sucked into his eyes. Soon all the X-Laws, except for Jeanne, had gotten attacked by the darkness. They were all on their knees on the floor staring at each other, looking scared at what would happen next.

Lyserg suddenly gasped and screamed as he grabbed his head. His team members looked at him in horror as he shook his head back and forth and screamed for mercy. The rest of them soon followed with non stop screaming and yelling hopelessly until they fainted.

I watched them fall with some satisfaction. I started to feel dizzy and realized I was still sick and I used a lot of furyoku in that attack. Luca, Mari, Macchi, Kanna, Opacho, and the rest of the team were staring at me in astonishment. I felt weak and my legs couldn't hold me up any more; soon the ground caught up with me. I heard people running for me and arms soon rapped around my waist. Everything went dark.

(FF )

I new I was in a bed, but I was extremely hot. For some reason I couldn't move. My hands were pressed against something and something was wrapped around my waist. I slowly opened my eyes to see what was keeping me from moving. Someone's bare chest! My head was cupped underneath this persons chin and their arms were around my waist! Very muscular arms I might add. I didn't know what to do; should I move, or pretend I'm sleeping, or-

He started shifting and pulled me closer. My arms rapped around his neck and now I could see his face. He was really cute, like an older version of Yoh with longer hair. Some wisps of hair fell in front of his face. I softly tucked them back and was hypnotized by his face.

He slowly started to open his eyes. I was still in a daze just looking at him. "Sleep well?"

I was knocked out of my trance. I realized I was still staring at him.

"Oh, a-a fine." I smiled trying to hide my chrisom cheeks.

"You fainted yesterday and had a fever, and then you got the chills. The only way to keep you alive was with body heat." He explained.

"Oh, that makes sense, then I guess I should thank you." This was a very awkward position to be in. Thankfully, at that moment, Macchi bursted through the door with a tray; who was followed by Mari.

"Ok love birds, time to eat!" She sang as she opened the blinds. The guy who was holding me groaned and went under the covers to avoid the blinding light.

I squinted my eyes and sat up. "So, room service is complimentary?" I asked sarcastically.

"No, Luca said you're too weak to get out of bed, so we're feeding you!" Macchi exclaimed still jumping around. There was a little voice that seemed to be coming from the floor. The sound was moving all around the room. It kept saying, "Hao-sama, Hao-sama, Hao-sama, Hao-sama, Hao-sama, Hao-sama, Hao-sama, Hao-sama, Hao-sama!" The guy from under the blankets kept saying, "what, What, WHAT, WHAT!" He screamed throwing the blankets off him. "Is she ok?" Opacho asked innocently climbing on the bed.

"Yes, Opacho, I'm fine." I answered trying to calm him down. He looked at me with big watery eyes. "Opacho was worried about Jem. Opacho couldn't sleep he so worried." He was so cute, even cuter than Manta. "Oh, Opacho, you don't have to be worried about me. Don't stress yourself sweetie." I had to hold back from picking him up and squeezing him.

Macchi sat at the end of my bed. "So, Jem, everyone wants to know how you fought off the X-Laws yesterday?" she asked anticipating my answer.

End Chapter 7

Sorry it's pretty short. I'll try to make the next one longer. Tell me what you think; please I need to know if it's getting better or worse! Please!

10/18/2005