Chapter 3: Misunderstandings
Ren couldn't believe what he was seeing; first there Lee Pailong lying unconscious on top of the front doorwhich seemed to have blown off its hinges by some kind of explosion and then he walks into the kitchen and sees some guy sitting on top of his sister pinning her to the floor and looking as though he was about to rape her. Ren responded in the only way he knew how;with anger.
He ran at the figure sitting on top of his sister and hit him in the head with the blunt side of his Kwan-do with such force that the figure broke through two walls before finally coming to a stop outside.
Ren glanced quickly at his sister and noticed that she looked dazed, but other than that seemed all right and headed outside after his opponent.
"Master are you alright?" asked Zhou
"Uh I think so, why didn't you warn me that there were others coming?"
"My apologies master I let my guard down"
"Yeah well don't make a habit of it" said the boy rising unsteadily to his feet, he took a deep breath while observing his surroundings and saw that he was standing in front of a group kids who seemed to be slightly younger than he was, he then noticed that several of them appeared to have a ghost hovering nearby. So they're shaman the boy thought to himself, this could complicate matters.
"Um excuse but who are you and why did you just come flying through that wall" one of the kids asked. He had brown hair, which didn't quite reach down to his shoulders and was wearing a pair of orange headphones around his neck.
Before the newcomer could answer Ren stepped through the newly made doorway with a scowl on his face saying
"He's a piece of scum Asakura and the reason he came flying through the wall is because I found him trying to force himself on my sister"
The other shaman instantly oversouled with their spirits and were getting ready to attack.
"Dude that is so not cool" said a kid with spiky blue hair
"Yeah I think Tokageru and I should teach you some manners" said a guy with the biggest quiff the newcomer had ever seen.
This doesn't look good, thought the boy as he calculated his odds of beating six armed shaman without any kind of weapon. "Any ideas Zhou?"
"Try and talk your way out there's no way you can't fight them without your weapon" said the spirit while trying to keep his eyes on all the shaman at once. Failing that try and get one of the shaman into a one on one fight and try and steal their weapon or retrieve your own.
"Okay we'll try the diplomatic approach first" answered the shaman.
He got up and raised his hands saying:
"Look this all just a big misunderstanding if you give me a chance to explain…"
But Ren would have none it "misunderstanding my foot I know what I saw and I'm going to make you pay for it" the other kids started closing in on the newcomer who stood his ground while staring at Ren.
"I don't want to fight you" hetold Ren.
"Too bad, you haven't got a choice" said Ren advancing on the newcomer.
Oh well time for plan B, he thought "what are all six of you going to gang up on me?" he said to them, they slowed down but didn't stop.
"What's the matter is an unarmed opponent to much for you to handle?" he said directing his question at Ren with a sneer on his face
"You guys stay out of this, he's mine!" cried Ren taking the bait and jumping forward with his Kwan-do, aiming a vertical slash at the newcomer's chest but missed as his opponent dived to his right and rolled onto his feet to face the next attack.
Ren scowled and yelled "Bason! Into the Kwan-do, "Rapid Tempo Assault""
Ren shot forward his arms a blur as he repeatedly struck out at his opponent, tearing his shirt and cutting his arms and legs. Ren finished the attack by swinging his Kwan-do two-handedly with earth shattering force which sent his opponent flying through the air until he crashedinto a tree. Amazing the newcomerregained his feet and started taunting Ren "Come on is that the best you got, I've had worse scratches from kittens"
Ren blinded by rage lunged for his opponents stomach as though trying to spear him but the newcomer simply side stepped and Rens momentum caused his Kwan-do to get stuck in the tree that his opponent had been knocked into.
While Ren wrestled with his Kwan-do, the newcomer turned and ran back towards the house but was cut off by the other Shaman.
"Where do you think you're going?" the blue haired kid asked
"Inside" muttered the lone shaman; he didn't stop running but just before he ran into the other shaman he disappeared from sight and the SK gang felt a cold wind blow past them.
"Huh? Where'd he go?" Horo asked the others
"I don't know" said Rio confused
"He's behind us" said Yoh calmly. The whole gang turned round and sure enough the newcomer was behind them and had run into the house.
"Hey Yoh if you knew where he was why did you let get him past us?" asked Manta surprised by Yoh's actions.
"Well I thought he had a right to defend himself" said Yoh in his usual care free manner.
"What! Yoh are you thinking straight" yelled Horo
"He didn't seem like a bad person to me" replied Yoh, "he didn't want to fight us and Ren didn't give a chance to explain what he was doing, I just don't see why we should attack him when we don't know the whole story".
"Yoh did you hear what he was he doing to Jun" said Choco looking at Yoh as if he was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
"He didn't do anything to me" Jun had finally managed to get up and make her way over to the others. She seemed unnaturally calm and looked as though she wasn't completely aware of what was happening around her.
"Jun are you alright" Tamao squeaked
"Yes I feel fine" answered Jun her voice still showing no sign of emotion. She turned and started making her way over to the unconscious Lee Pailong.
"See I told you" said Yoh triumphantly "and I bet if we listened to his side of story everything will make perfect sense" Yoh beamed at the rest of the gang.
"Yoh how can be so sure that everything will turn out all right" said Manta looking at his friend in a puzzled way.
"I just have a hunch" he told them
"Well if you wish to listen to the strangers side of the story I suggest that we stop young Ren right now while he is preoccupied" Rio said to the group "Otherwise he may not be around to tell us"
Suddenly a shadow passed overhead and they all looked up to see the newcomer somersaulting over their heads and land in front of them with his back to the group and his eyes focused on Len.
"Somehow Rio I don't think we're going to have to worry about that" said Yoh, the newcomer was now dressed in a dark grey rain coat that covered most of his figure but a sheathed sword could be seen at his side with one hand resting on the hilt. The sword appeared to be similar to the katana that Yoh used but it looked slightly longer and hilt was decorated with the head of a dragon with what appeared to be opals set in the eyes.
Ren finally managed to free his Kwan-do from the tree and turned to face his opponent who was now armed. Ren sneered at the sheathed sword at his opponent's side and said "Are you planning to use that or is it just for show?"
"You'll see" replied his opponent and he grasped the hilt tightly and pulled it out of its scabbard.
Ren was hard put not to laugh when he saw that all his opponent was holding was the hilt of a sword; there was no blade. "How are you going to fight with that?" he asked his voice full of contempt.
In response his opponent shouted "Zhou into the Hilt! Aura Blade" as he said this the opals set in the dragons eyes on the hilt of the sword flashed and a dull green light began to appear as the newcomer traced with his hand the space where the swords blade should have been, the light got brighter and solidified itself into the shape of a blade with a glowing green edge.
The newcomer held the sword at his side leaving himself completely open to attack and with his other hand gestured for Ren to attack.
"Arrogant fool" snarled Ren "I'll teach you not to underestimate me, Rapid Tempo Assault" Ren Immediately launched forward attempting to skewer his opponent in a dozen places as he had done before.
His opponent didn't move, just before Rens firstlunge reached him hebrought his sword arm up and moved it in a blurring pattern that blocked each of Rens attacks.
Ren jumped back, surprised that his attack had been dismissed so easily, but his surprise was quickly replaced by anger and he charged his opponent again, holding his Kwan-do as if he were going to attempt a horizontal slash but changed at the last minute into another lunge. His opponent swiftly raised his sword and parried the attack, causing Ren to loose balance and stumble face first into his opponents elbow which sent sprawling across the ground"
"You need to calm down" the stranger told him "how do you expect to focus on your attacks when you allow your emotions to run rampant inside you?"
"You dare lecture me on how I should fight?" yelled Ren angrily he ran forwards and aimed an attack at the strangers head, but his opponent raised his sword to block the attack and locked their weapons so that they were face to face.
(Ren saw his opponent clearly for the first time. He looked to be only slightly older than himself; he had jet-black hair, which at the moment was covering the top half of his face and Ren could only just make out that he had blue eyes. His features didn't appear to be Japanese or Chinese; in fact he appeared to be European.)
"Well you obviously need the lesson" replied his opponent. As they struggled against each other to try and gain an upper hand Rens opponent suddenly lashed out with a kick that connected with Rens midriff and forced back by about 10 feet.
"Shadow Strike!" the stranger yelled slashing at the air with his sword; which emitted an arc of black light that hurtled towards Ren, who was unable to evade it in time and got hit with the full force of the attack full and was sent flying into a tree. He slid to the ground and lay there for a few seconds before he got up slowly, shaking his head while at the same time saying "Please tell me that's no the best you've… huh? Where'd you go?" he looked around frantically for his opponent and shouted, "I order you to show yourself"
It was at that moment that the wind picked up and Ren was suddenly grabbed from behind, he tried to struggle but stopped when he felt a cold blade press against his throat…
Author: wow another chapter done I'm starting to enjoy this. Don't worry if you think that my character is a little too powerful, at this stage in the story the SK gang are quite weak. Anyway he'll get his comeuppance when he meets Hao.
Anyway please Review i can see that a lot of people have reading this story but no one has reviewed yet and i would like to know what you think of it so far