A.C.: hmm... since I'm following the Japanese language thing type thing 'Run' would actually be pronounced as roon, or rune. Just in case anyone decided to imprint permanently in their mind that 'Run' was pronounced... well run.
Oh yeah, only few chapters left, I might make it in time for Christmas –Grins widely-
Warnings: Character deaths, oocness, slashy-themes, various english mistakes, kinda sorta not really spoilers, random implications that don't mean a thing and oh, Hao. -runs
Possession: Chapter 9- Pillars
Yoh chops the vegetables like a dutiful servant rhythmically dicing the plants in order to prepare them into food, and that the tempo sooths him somehow... at the back of his shackled mind.
A billowing cape and the pace break after trying to weave around the interruption. In its stead the large butcher knife is thrown still flecked with small bits of carrots and onions and the cucumbers from half an hour ago. Hao dodges easily, you'd have to when you have Ren as your bed partner.
"Weak as always eh Yoh?" Yoh stares vacantly with his chocolate colored eyes, conversation wasn't something programmed into him when his mind had been sealed by Anna. Hao smiles inwardly at the blonde's handy work. "She did a quite a number on you not that you realize of course..." he grinned maliciously at his younger twin before adding, "was she good in bed? Was she better than Run?" Yoh does not recognize the taunting and he stands still, his eyes rolling back and forth to show their whites. "Pathetic." Hao finally spits out, "Perhaps you'll show more reaction when I go after that precious blonde of yours."
"Do not harm Anna-sama..." Yoh manages to choke out, but Hao is gone but Yoh knows where he and she is. Yoh hastily runs towards the cemetery where everything all happened.
Where he befriended Manta
Where he met Amidamaru
Where he defeated Ryu
Where he saw...
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Anna prays or rather she meditates. It calms her when her emotions get too much, when her thoughts become tangled, when some things that shouldn't happen do.
Or perhaps she was just waiting for them to happen.
She had known, from the painful moments of her birth, who she was and what she was born to be. She had known behind her deceptive hazel eyes what she must do. She knew about Run, Ren and Hao... and everything else that had led to her reincarnation. She just hadn't taken Yoh in to equation. Or had she while staring dreamily into the orange fires some centuries before?
She had tried, really tried this time, because there was a part of her that was still the innocent and carefree girl that used to collect herbs on the mountain side. The small big part that is still scared of bugs and rats, the one that cares so much yet has never been recognized. The one that chips away with time but still retains some hold.
But...
She meditated with her white ropes slipping off her shoulders as the winds grew dangerously stronger, and perhaps for the first time in her thousand years of existence, she prayed.
Hao...
"Do you remember?" The caped figure seemed to shudder at the impact of those words. A glimmer of red aura flared behind him into glorious flames that began clawing up at the waning crescent.
"It's funny..." Hao laughs slightly looking away, "I should be asking you the same thing eh?" Anna pins him with glares before shifting her hands into a seal, or more accurately, a key.
"You lied... you were supposed to make me your 'beloved' wife." her hands part then clap together. A ghastly blue aura seeps from her body and drains on to the ground. Immediately deads from long before rise to meet their maker,
"But how can I have lied? I never promised in the first place?"
First fight,
Hao- 1
Anna- 0
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"So where are we going again?" whined Ryu as they ran up the concrete road leading to Yoh's house.
"I told you!" Horohoro screamed as he resisted the urge to do so, oh wait he just did.
"Something's wrong with Yoh, and we're going to find out what." Chocolove frowned,
"But Horohoro, we don't even know if something is wrong with him! Maybe Anna's been a little harsh on him this week..."
A cold laughter rang from behind them, clear and sarcastic.
"Not really, it's just that Yoh's been possessed in the finest form of possession..."
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"So the whore and her bitch has returned..." smirked Anna all-knowingly as she peered at the four past Hao's shoulders.
"Ugh... I don't feel so good..." groaned Ryu collapsing on his knees.
"Let go of your oversoul, it'll make you feel better." Said Horohoro calmly,
"How do you know that?" grunted Ryu as the oversoul disappeared. Instantly he felt better though he couldn't exactly explain why he did,
"I feel like I've been in this situation before." An eerie light crept up on the Ainu as he seemingly began to flare under the moonlight.
"So we're all here..." said Hao softly, "your move Anna."
And as he said the final syllable, the spirits gathered around Anna's moon white form attacked...
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"I see two pillars…" Came the sweet voice of Jeanne, "One has crumbled down to ashes but the other still stands..." and Lyserg awoke from his revere staring out the window of the limousine as Marco cleaned his glasses over and over again.
"Lady Jeanne?" asked Lyserg sleepily as the silver tressed maiden smiled expectantly at him.
"It'll be easier if you didn't meddle in their affairs, it has nothing to do with you." Said Marco in a bored voice, but added, "If you must, do it another time..."
Jeanne smiled contently closing her mystifying pink eyes.
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Yoh came up at them faster than they had thought; they leapt away but without an oversoul there was so much they could do to inflict damage on the rampaging Japanese shaman. A jet of black flames were thrown into Yoh's face as a distraction as Horohoro, seemingly testing out a new brand of power grabbed Yoh's left arm. It was frozen solid in mere moments as he landed neatly behind Chocolove.
Chocolove in turn struck Yoh out of the air and into the ground with a feline grace that anyone could have been jealous of. The American shaman did not quite understand what was going on but was happy to provide service until Yoh got knocked back into the right state of mind.
Ryu was about to poke Yoh into the land of living until Hao came down from his lofty perch over a headstone. He grabbed Yoh by the front of his shirt sneering cruelly as the flames erupted behind him for an additional effect. He threw a casual look back at the expressionless itako before facing his hazy eyed twin.
"Well, well, well, isn't this a familiar scene..."
Ren's eyes were cast in the shadows, Horohoro looked slightly uncomfortable. Chocolove and Ryu looked flat out mortified, Hao threw his head back and laughed as the fires began licking at the feet of Yoh.
Ren's hand was shaking, Horohoro held his hands out preventing the others from reaching out. Then Hao did the unexpected, instead of eliciting the soul from the body and consuming it, the semi-immortal shaman gave his twin a full French kiss.
But the effects soon became apparent as Yoh's body began melting together into
Hao's to create one powerful whole...
Hao looked up as an odd mixture of Yoh in happiness and contentment. What he failed to notice was the prayer beads still hanging around his neck.
Anna smirked, the blonde itako made a sign with her hands. Hao gripped his chest in reaction, the Japanese shaman's eyes widened before looking disbelievingly at his ex-fiance.
Anna- 1
Hao- 1
(Edit): Yeah I'm still fixing things