DarkTaoAngel: I will try to make each chapter quicker from now on, but this one is late only because I was busy writing other stories! Please review this one, and I will make the other chapters quicker!
Yoh was losing the fight against Hao severely, unable to sustain the balance of furyoku that he had at the moment for much longer. Hao, however, was not tired in the least, his furyoku having not been slashed at even once, and his energy remained stable throughout the entire fight. He laughed at various intervals, each time sending shivers up Pirika's spine as Hao fought with the anticipation of a cruel and unusual maniac, giving Pirika creeps the even more.
Pirika thought about the words Yoh had just said. 'It will all work out….' He had always said this whenever anyone was in doubt, but even Pirika's doubt could not be solved so simply, and it appeared that Yoh had sensed this, as he had not said anything to further the situation. Pirika knew that Ren would be fine, he would never give up on what he wanted if it was that worth while, but Pirika wondered whether Ren really thought that his own life was that worth while.
He had always been so unemotional, and she had never really stopped to consider that he did not have any feelings, but now, when he had just told her that he loved her, was he really serious, or was it just some act that he put on to impress her? He had also never really cared about anything, so why would Pirika be any different from everyone else? But yet, he had said that he loved her, and he truly seemed like he had meant it.
There was a look in his eyes, one that no one had ever seen in them before, it looked like a kind of pleading look, as though he really needed her help. she had never seen Ren plead before, so naturally it came as a bit of a shock, but she could not help but feel kind of sorry for him at that moment, and even now, though it seemed impossible for anyone to pity Ren, no one else had seen that look. There was pure, raw emotion in his eyes; desperate, begging, aggrieved eyes that could make even the strongest person in the world feel pain. She could see all of his pain, all that he had had to suffer through on his way to this point in time, and now she could tell somehow that he regretted so much of his life. maybe that was why Pirika thought that he had not thought his own life was worth while, his eyes, so much like a doorway to his soul, and his innermost thought, his most personal life, and all of his never ending pain.
It was at this time that Pirika realized finally the full effect of all that was happening around her at that time, not just with Ren. Yoh was losing to Hao, who was fully ready to take over the role of the Shaman King, Ren was gone, possibly forever or longer, and she was to go down with him, due to Hao, who was already prepared to finish her off if Yoh had not saved her earlier.
"Ren…. Ren! I'm coming back for you! I'll never give up on you as long as I live and longer!" Pirika shouted to nothing in particular as she snatched up the ever so important necklace of his and ran out of the room, out of the Inn in particular, leaving Yoh fighting alone, and her less of a target by Hao, but that was not the only reason that she had left.
"Pirika…." Yoh said, his voice just barely audible, little more than that of a whisper. He knew that she was fighting a never ending battle, one which she was doomed from the start to lose. He also knew almost exactly where she was going, to where she could finally talk to Ren, not in person, but it was almost as though he could hear her, no matter were he was at the time.
Pirika sprinted off into the distance, trying hard not to have to stop, even though she knew it was a long way to go to get to where she was going. She would get to speak to him, and tell his nonexistent soul about all of her troubles, just so that she could be with him, at the place where she had seen him last, what seemed like a millennium ago to her. She clung to his necklace, the only thing of his that she had to remember him by, and her only treasure. She had kept it safe ever since the accident, as though it was the only thing that could help him, and bring him back, as though she knew that it was a sort of magical necklace, though she had no idea whatsoever that it was.
Try as she might to suppress the ever threatening tears from coming out of her eyes, the flow seemed to have never truly stopped, and her eyes had red lining them, her clothes stained with the scalene substance once again, as though it had never left, though she had changed many times. Her bright blue hair fluttered and clung to her face from the moisture that was forever laid upon it, her soft, orb like eyes blurring and fading with each passing day, growing sadder, losing their youthful perk that was once so lively, now dull and rather dead looking.
She was unsure of what was to become of Yoh, where Ren was right now, and where she, Pirika, was going to be in the days to pass, when Hao finally caught her. All cheerful thoughts had left her mind, only to be replaced by tragic, dark thoughts that, a month ago, would have frightened everyone, including herself, but in this Dark Age, no happy thoughts were ever possible, and what was more, Pirika knew that it was all her fault.
DarkTaoAngel: I hope this chapter meets your reading needs, and that it receives some reviews! By the way, the age of the characters in all of my stories is as follows: Ren-15, Pirika-14, and all others-15. Hope that clears some things up for you all, and again, review!