Chapter 20: KO!

Yoh falls onto the floor of the dark room with a thud. "Ow… Where am I?" Immediately, lights pour into the room and before him stands a gigantic wall covered with several punching gloves in front of it.

Foxy is sitting in a cockpit on top of the wall. "Hehehehe! This is the Gorilla Puncher No. 13! It brings even the largest Sea King to submission!"

"It doesn't look like a gorilla," says Yoh.

"Now that you said it, I just figured out it doesn't look like a gorilla too! Forget that! Take a look behind you!"

Yoh turns around and sees another Yoh behind him! "Oh, it's just a mirror. Wait… If there's a mirror here…"

"Noro Noro Beam!" Foxy fires a beam at the mirror, and the beam breaks into several pieces when it hits it. The shattered beam particles bounce around the room, hitting the mirror over and over and separating into even more particles. There is too many of them, and Yoh isn't able to dodge them, so he got hit.

"No…"

Foxy presses a button on the cockpit and the punching gloves launch forward and hits Yoh rapidly. After 30 seconds, Yoh bursts into flames and flies into the mirror wall, shattering a part of it. He falls to the ground with great pain, with some mirror shards embedded in his back. "Ugh…"

"I forgot to tell you! These gloves have heat in them, so their punches also burns!"

Yoh painfully gets back up. Another punching glove launches forward to hit him, but the red armor on his oversouled sword comes in between and blocks the blow. Still, the impact is very great and Yoh still gets pushes back by it.

"It's useless!" laughs Foxy. "You will lose your beloved crewmates to me! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Yoh gets up again and says, "I will… not… lose… here…" He takes out a small red knife-looking thing and slowly places it against his sword. "Amidamaru… Into the Antiquity!"

Immediately, his sword transforms into a gigantic beam sword with a large red hilt! Foxy gasps at the gigantic glowing sword and how Yoh is able to lift it up with only one hand. "You sure have amazing powers, but you won't get a chance to use it!" The Gorilla Puncher No. 13 punches again, pounding against the giant Antiquity Sword.

Sparks and flares fly everywhere as the gloves pound against the sword. Yoh swings the sword at the giant machine, cutting off one-third of the punching gloves! "WHAT!" gasp Foxy.

Yoh jumps up high and aims to hit Foxy, but he is immediately hit by the remaining punching gloves before he has the chance. "AAAACK!"

"Die! Die! Die!" chants Foxy over and over.

-

Outside, everyone is wondering what's going on. They can hear loud sounds coming from inside the ship, but they cannot see what's inside. "We cannot see the battle from here," says Tim. "But we know for sure there is a rough battle going on by hearing the sounds."

The shamans are very worried about Yoh's safety, especially Anna. "Is Yoh really going to win?" says Lyserg curiously.

"Of course he will! There's no way he can lose!" says Ryu.

"Judging by his furyoku, he can surely win," says Ren.

Suddenly, an explosion bursts up from the front deck of the ship. "An explosion! What's happening?" says Tim. "Wait, there's someone coming out of the smoke! Who can it be?" Everyone watches eagerly to see who the standing person is.

Foxy slowly walks out from the smoke, and he is holding a bloody and beaten up Yoh by the hair in his hand. "It's our boss! And he has an unconscious Yoh in his hand!" exclaims Tim. "It seems that our boss is the winner!"

The shamans are struck with shock. "WHAT! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" gasps Ryu.

"YOH LOST!" screams Horohoro.

Tamao gasps at the sight of the amount of blood that is all over Yoh's body.

Anna's eyes are widen and her mouth drops open wide. Tears even begin to form in the corner of her eyes. "Yoh… No…"

Foxy throws the unconscious shaman aside and rises up his hand and dances with joy. "YEAH! THAT'S OUR BOSS!" cheer the Foxy Pirates.

Yoh begins moving again, and he slowly stands back up. Everyone is shocked and surprised that he can still move after taking such beatings! "What's that! Yoh is standing back up!" exclaims Tim. "What great endurance he has!"

"I… will… not… lose… to you…" says Yoh slowly and painfully as blood drips out from his mouth.

Foxy fires a Noro Beam at him to slow him down in place, and then punches him rapidly over and over. After 30 seconds, a gush of blood spats out from Yoh's mouth and he flies straight into a mast.

"YOH!" scream his friends in unison.

But Yoh still stands back up. "I will… not lose… to you…"

Foxy is really angry now. "Why don't you just stay down!"

"Because… Because…" Yoh raises his head and yells out at the top of his voice, "I WILL NOT LET YOU TAKE ANY OF MY FRIENDS!"

The Foxy Pirates are touched. "This is so touching!" says Tim, who is beginning to cry. "He fights this hard just for the sake of his friends! What wonderful person he is!"

Then all the pirates start rooting for Yoh, chanting his name over and over. "YOH! YOH! YOH! YOH!"

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS ROOTING FOR HIM!" Foxy shouts at them, so they change to rooting for Foxy instead. Foxy turns to Yoh angrily. "If you won't stay down, then I'll punch until you're down!"

He charges forward and throws several quick punches at Yoh, who keeps on blocking the hits with his sword. When Yoh sees that Foxy is about to use Noro Noro Beam, Yoh reaches to his back and pulls out a mirror shard that's still embedded into skin, and places it against Foxy's boxing glove.

The beam comes out from Foxy's hand, but it hits the mirror and reflects back into him. "What happened?" the pirates ask themselves.

Foxy tries to move, but his movements are very slow. Quietly, Yoh oversouls Amidamaru into the Harusame, followed by into the Antiquity. The pirates are amazed by the giant sword he is holding afterwards.

"About 23 seconds left," says Ren.

Horohoro turns to him and asks, "What do you mean?"

"20," says Jun.

"19, 18, 17…" says Chocolove.

"What is the meaning of this?" asks Horo.

"Don't you know? They are beginning the countdown for the effects of that beam," Pirika tells him. "Anyway… 13, 12, 11…"

"Oh! I get it now! 10, 9, 8…"

Chocolove turns to the pirates and tells them to count along with them. The pirates, not knowing what exactly is going on, begin counting with them.

"7, 6, 5…"

Yoh raises the giant sword and hits Foxy with a horizontal slash, but Foxy remains there.

"4, 3, 2…"

Foxy slowly lifts up into the air.

Anna gives off the final countdown, "1… Zero…"

Immediately after saying this, Foxy shoots up in the sky. "AAAAAAAHHHH!"

The pirates are all shocked at seeing their boss flying into the sky. "Yeah! He did it!" says Manta with joy.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" screams Foxy as he plummets into the sea.

SPLASH!

The pirates are totally speechless, until Tim breaks the silence. "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! OUR BOSS LOST! YOH IS THE WINNER!"

The shamans got up from their seats and cheer and shout with joy. "HE DID IT!" shouts Horo. "HE WON!"

"I told you he would win," says Ren.

Ryu picks up Lyserg by the hand and swings him around. "YAY! YOU WON'T BE TAKEN BY THE PIRATES AGAIN!"

The pirates snap to their senses and say, "Boss doesn't know how to swim! We must rescue him quick!"

And then Yoh passes out on the deck…

-

Yoh slowly opens his eyes and sees his friends looking at him, and he gets up. "Uh? Where am I? Where's Foxy?" His body is wrapped with bandages, thanks to Genji's medical skills.

Anna kneels down next to him and says, "You won the fight already."

Hearing this made him happy. "That's great! Everything turned out fine after all!" Anna then wraps her arms around him without a warning, surprising him.

"I'm glad you made it through alive," says Anna as tears slowly flow down her eyes.

"Um… Anna…? Everybody's watching…"

Foxy and his pirates approach the shamans. The shamans get into offensive position, but Foxy shows them a thumb up. "You did well, kid."

Yoh looks at him for a while, and then smiles. "You're not half bad either!"

Foxy stretches out his hand to give him a shake, so Yoh walks over to accept it. When Foxy took hold of his hand, he lifts up Yoh and is about to slam him overhead when suddenly Kokhi and Zenki charges forward and punch Foxy away, rescuing Yoh.

"BOSS!" scream his crewmates.

Foxy gets up and glares at Yoh, "All right! Rules are rules! Pick whoever you want!"

"The captain of the Shaman Pirates will now choose a crewmember from ours!" says Tim. "Who will he pick? It's all up to his decision!"

"Must I really pick one?" asks Yoh.

"That's the point of this game! Now hurry up and pick!" says Foxy.

Yoh thought for a while, and then says, "I'll just take your flag."

"Uh!" gasp the pirates.

Ryu bends next to him and says, "You're not serious, are you? You don't want that sexy girl they have with them?"

"I'm serious, I just want the flag."

"How dare you take our pride just like that without sympathy!" says Foxy. "What is your reason for taking the flag?"

"Because I can tell that you don't want your crewmates to be taken," answers Yoh. "Friends are important in a group. People rely on friends to get through things. The more friends the better! But if one friend is gone, then the whole group will be struck with unimaginable grief. Just like how I don't want you to take my friends, I don't want to take your friends too!"

Foxy and his crewmates are touched by his speech. "You're so kind… Sniff…" says Foxy, who is crying. "You're the nicest person in the world! I feel so guilty myself!"

"And if you want to, I'll draw you a new flag!" adds Yoh.

So it is decided, the shamans took the pirate's flag and design them a new one. The pirates are, to say, very pleased with their new flag design. "You kids sure are great artists!" says one of the pirates.

Tim shouts into his megaphone again, "And thus marks the end of the Davy Back Fight!"

-

And so, the Foxy Pirates got onto their ship and sail off from the island. "Remember this, you!" shouts Foxy from the ship one last time.

The shamans go to Genji and Yoh throws the flag onto the ground. "We avenged for you, old man."

"So that was why you joined the game, Yoh," says Ren.

"Thanks a lot," says Genji. "You are the most unbelievable kids I've ever met! I really must thank you all! Come stay in my house for a night and I'll treat you with all you want!"

"YAY! Food at last!" exclaims Horohoro.

TO BE CONTINUED…

And thus the end of the Davy Back Fight! YAY! Yoh made it to the end without losing a friend, and without gaining any new ones…

Want to hear about my upcoming story that will be published when this one ends? It may sound weird, but it will be a Shaman King and Donkey Kong Country crossover! Don't judge a book by its title. It may end up good, you'll never know! And no, this story isn't coming to an end yet.