Chapter 7b The aftermath of the pillow fight

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"That Hao had used me to bet and get money from my brother and his friends. The money that everyone gave to Hao have been turned to ashes. Serves him right," murmured Pipika, whose thoughts were running wild on what happened five minutes ago.

Meanwhile, Hao went to the boys' room and ordered the boys to pay the money. Hao knew that Pipika would do that and just before the "show" had started, he gave the boys each a fake five dollars note and asked them to give it to him when he asked for it. They had a rehearsal before the actual show started and everyone was ready for the real one.

It was a secret between the boys.

Everyone gave the money to Hao. Hao told them that it was to buy a present for Pipika as she did not have any weapon to do her oversoul. So Hao was thinking of giving one to her.

Flash back

After Anna had summoned Shamon to earth, Hao asked Shamon "What weapon weapon did you used? I need to know that as I am giving you to a girl call Pipika to be her guardian spirit and so that I can go and buy it and give it to her."

"Rod." A very simple answer from the master's mouth.

"Ok, I will go and get it." came the answer from Hao.

End of Flash back

"Tomorrow is my brother's fight, I must turn in early so that I will have energy to watch him battle."

Pipika strolled to her room to sleep. As she walked passed the boys' room, she heard them say that it was a plot that was put in front of her. She was so angry and fuming that she rushed in without knocking the door.

"You! You are too much! I am teaching you a lesson that you will not forget..."

Slapping Hao's face she continued talking,

"How dare you take my brother's and his friends' money. I will not forgive you!"

"Wait, Pipika, you should have made things clear before scolding people and slapping them. I think you have misunderstood something," Faust immediately said after Pipika had slapped Hao.

"What did I misunderstand then?" asked Pipika, who was fuming on her top.

"I am actually buying you a staff for Shamon and so that you can do the oversoul with it," explained Hao who was rubbing his checks to massage them as the assaulted area was red.

"Ok, now, I understand. I am very sorry and remorseful that I had caused so much trouble. Good night, everyone I am going to sleep now." Giving a yawn she walked out to the door opened and closed tenderly.

"That Pipika, I think she is really a simple girl. Her mood swings so fast. How amazing like turning a page in the book," Hao commented, shaking his head and sighing.

"Stop worrying, brother, she is still a child. I think she is kind of cute through," said Yoh.

"Everyone of you go and sleep or tomorrow you will be dozing off when Hao and me are having a battle in the battle ring," said Horo Horo.

When everyone heard what Horo Horo said, everyone knocked Horo Horo's back before they returned to their cozy beds and after ten minutes, everybody was snoring away peacefully as they had a tired night putting up th show just for Pipika.

End of Chapter 7b

Chapter 8a

The announcement of a shaman fight in the neighborhood

Early in the next morning, Pipika woke the boys up with a big gong

"Gong... Gong..." went the gong. They woke up slowly with their eyes still closed, stretching their hands and bodies before they opened their eyes, got up their beds and walked to the corridor.

"What the heck. What are you doing, Pipika," bellowed everybody mightily.

"To wake you, guys up, don't forget that I am over-anxious for Hao and my brother's match. Now you guys, go and brush your teeth, breakfast will be ready in ten mintues," Pipika told everyone before masquerading to the kitchen.

The boys were still not awake and did not hear what Pipika had delivered to them and they continued to sleep. When Pipika went to the bathroom and saw no one there, she quickly went to the boys' room and saw everyone sleeping but they were all not in their own bed. She was seething, and gave each of the boys a smack on the buttocks and screamed at the top of her voice,

"Wake up, you lazy bones, raise and shine! If you are not waking up I will use water and ice to wake you up."

There was no response. No one woke up. Pipika came prepared. She splashed hot water on their faces and bodies and then put several cubes of ice in a bag and placed them on their bodies.

Everyone woke up screaming and shouting as their bodies were in pain from the hot and cold torture.

"Now go and brush your teeth. Now!" ordered Pipika, pointing at the door telling them to get out of the bedroom.

"Ok, after breakfast, go to the field, we will start the match there. Tell all the people in the house and neighborhood who want to see the match that we are having a match at the field," Hao said.

"Yes, sir," said all the boys who rushed to entrance, ready for the announcement.

The match was to start, the public, the whole neighborhood surrounded the field area, as most of them did know there was such a thing and so they watched with their curios mind. Therefore there were outpouring of people crowding, watching and most of them staring to see what was to happen next.

Hao thought that this was the best time to let people know that there was this thing that called Shaman and wanted more people to join in the Shaman fight(A/N: just like in pokemon, every one know that there was sush a monster called Pokemon and they catch them to have it.)

The announcer had to be Choco Love. He of course did forget to crack a few unfunny jokes before entering into the topic, notifying that the participants were Hao and Horo Horo and their spirits Spirit of Fire and Kororu and explained on how the match was going to be so that the viewers were clear about it before passing the baton to them to get ready for battle.

Hao and Horo Horo entered the battle ring. Both of them bowed to each other before they started their match when they called for their spirits. Ice against fire.

Ice will melt under the burning flames of fire. When ice melts, ice changes its form to water. But under a scrounging hot fire, water will evaporate. So who will win? Read on you will know.

End of Chapter 8a

Chapter 8b

The fight between Hao and Horo Horo

"You have to defeat Hao, big brother. I sure that you can do it." shouted loud and clear and everyone's attention turned to her and then glued their eyes to the battle aftering seeing Horo Horo giving a smile to his sister.

The people watching the match were getting more and more excited. To stop the people from getting excited before the match had started, Choco Love once again started cracking several jokes that were unwitting that led to throwing things at him.

Kororu froze the entire ground with ten inches of ice. Spirit of fire melted the ice doubtlessly without thinking. The ten inches of ice quickly changed its form to water and the grass field quickly changed into a water city.

The people who came and watched the match were all horrified by that scene and quickly climbed to a higher ground as their instincts asked them to do so. Horo Horo immediately asked Kororu to freeze the water and the water at once solidified to its solid form once again. The people at the higher grounds were relived once again.

This was the thrilling part of the shaman fight and although everyone was frightened that they would be washed away by the water and therefore they held up in their spots and refused to come down.

Seeing that the viewers of the match did not want to come down, Choco Love comforted them and tried his best to put their minds at ease and after a while of persuasion, some of them did come down and there were still many people hanging high in their original positions on the pompous trees.

The match went on and this time round, the temperature went higher than just now and the water quickly changed into its liquid form and then changed to mist and soon there was lots of fluffy white clouds hanging high above the sky as there was lots of vapour reaching the blue sky.

For those people who refused to come down just now, slided down the trees to the ground and sat down onto the field. They were all open-mouthed mouthed by this act and their eyeballs came out of their eyelids staring at the sky for that divertissement.

Soon the skies were covered by very grey clouds and it started pouringing. In a flurry of panic, everyone at the field began to run about to seek shelter as the rain beat down on the ground hard and soon there were hurdles of water everywhere on the ground.

The match between Hao and Horo Horo ended due to a heavy downpour, as there was no one watching except for the "shaman friends." who were still there.Pipika was not happy for the match, she wanted to scream out her disappointment but was stopped by Yoh who splashed the rain water at her face and they starting playing about in the rain.When the villagers saw the children enjoying the fun in rain, they joined in too. As it was a hot summer without rain for two weeks, and was a unusual ending for this match.

Everybody danced in the rain forgetting that they were all here to watch a shaman fight.

End of Chapter 8b

A/N: Hope you like it... for the battle part, I have been thinking about it for several days and did not have any idea on how to write... so I went asking around for ideas... my two cousins gave me the idea of fire melting ice, water extinguishing fire and fire melting and evaporating... So I put their ideas into the story... Thanks for them that I was able to continue the story...

Thanks for reading once again... hoped that you like my story... and please review...

For the next story I think I will write something about the training for Manta... I think most of you read the story because Manta was in the Shaman fight... so the next chapter will be all his... :)