Two days had passed and everyone had only just started to relax, Ren was already at Yoh's house, obviously he was taken over by joy but as usual he was hiding it. Everyone else was getting their way over to Yoh's house, Ryu should be arriving in the afternoon, HoroHoro in another 2 days along with his sister, Pillica, Faust is making his way so he should be at Yoh's house the next day, Lyserg was just getting his plane tickets the next day so he wouldn't arrive until two mornings later and finally Tamura would have been arriving in another 3 days time. It was a lot of havoc with everyone arriving at different times but Yoh and the gang could manage! When Ren arrived, he noticed that Chocolove wasn't there, so Manta checked his e-mail and it read that he would have been arriving at the same time as Lyserg was.
When everyone in the gang arrived at Yoh's house they had a massive get together party, and of course Ryu got really emotional towards everyone, he even tried kissing Yoh and hugging everyone especially Lyserg! All the girls had their own little gang whilst the boys went off and then they got together again, they were all being random in their own ways even Anna! Tamura was still attempting to show her love for Yoh, but she always fails and yet again she failed when Yoh goofed off with Ren. Everyone was having so much fun getting together with everyone, well everyone apart from little Manta, Manta was worrying that everything was going too smoothly and the atmosphere didn't seen right of what it was like 3 months ago when Hao was around. But Manta kept his feelings inside because he didn't want to be the party-pooper of the lot. They had a great night, the perfect way to spend with all your friends.
The next day after a peaceful night (when everyone was asleep of course), they were all ready refreshed to head out for the Shaman tournament which was back on track finally. Everyone that participated four months ago were allowed a second chance, even the people that were defeated as the shaman council thought that it would be suitable and plus with some new shamans to have their chance. The gang was going to set off in a week as the journey would have started for everyone. They all decided to travel as a gang this time instead of leaving the non-participants behind like they did in the last tournament.
It was the day, the day when everyone was about to set off for the shaman tournament. It was an easy trip as they already knew the location so they could slack off as much as they liked and the left on an early time. HoroHoro was hoping and telling everyone that he hoped that he'd have a good journey without all the "excitement" unlike the last time with all the trouble they had e.g. pranks, the "ly" 5, annoying shamans, etc. He just wanted a normal relaxing journey, but as if that would happen. Yoh laughed and said he actually enjoyed all the "trouble" they had.
Though, Yoh shouldn't have said those words. He didn't know what trouble he was into this time, "so your saying you want trouble, dear brother?" Hao said with the sound of vengeance in his tone, "you really think I'm gone? Well your sadly mistaken. I will get you, Yoh, for what you did." Rena was sitting beside Hao as usual and she was deeply worried about Yoh and the others, even though she had never met any of them. She really wanted to use her powers to warn everyone about Hao's return and that he was getting stronger with every passing second, she was even bringing herself down as she was the one who brought him back into a healthy shape. She was so ashamed of herself for letting herself do so. Now all she was capable of was waiting with Hao until Yoh, Ren, HoroHoro, Anna and the others got to Doby Village.