Geh geh sorry for the lack of chapter's I've been busy! kk then! Enjoy!

"Goldva."

"Hmmm? What brings you here Mikihia?"

Mkihisa had just appeared outside the spirit meeting room in Patch village. Its were Goldva had been living for a while. He's been waiting to hear from the Great Spirit ever since Hao had disappeared, to determine what will happen with the tournament or who will be Shaman King.

"It must be something important if you had to travel all the way to America." He said looking away from the oracle monitor to Mikihisa.

"Don't act like you don't know what's going on, it's pretty obvious that Hao has returned, I'm sure the Great Spirit has informed you about that." He said walking forward.

"Hmmm… yes It said that one of Hell's occupants have escaped so I could only guess who it could have been…How did you know?"

"Well, my son is missing, his friends are in the hospital, his house has collapsed into itself, and it reeks of Hao's furyoko."

Goldva just stared at thim then turned his attention to the oracle monitor again.

"You knew?" said Mikihisa.

"Yes…"

"Any idea why he spared them all? Not that it's a bad thing or anyway."

"Your sense of humor is sick." said Goldva. He let out a sigh, "We think he's going to use them to cheat death…"

"H-how's that possible?" said a shocked Mikihisa, which was a rare thing.

"He's somehow escaped Hell which is an amazing feat, I'm sure he found a way to cheat death into letting him live again."

Just then the oracle monitor screen turned on and it started to flash along with a bunch of beeping. A paper came out of a slot under it.

Goldva started scanning it.

"What does it say?" asked Mikihisa trying to peer over his shoulder.

"It seems….the Great Spirit is going to send a death angel…."

Everyone was packed into the tiny hospital room. (Faust was too weak to even take care of himself) They were crowding around Ren's bed, who still hasn't woken up. Out of all of them he was injured the most. Loss of blood, stab wound, burns, and inhaling carbon dioxide for too long. He had an oxygen mask that hooked him to a bunch of machines that made him look so small. Manta, Ryu, and Anna just had some minor 3rd degree burns. Faust and Horo had a couple of broken ribs. They all sat in silence staring at Ren, lost in their own thoughts.

Why did Hao spare them? Why did he take Yoh? Were is he?

Finally Manta broke the silence. "What should we do?..." he asked looking at the others.

"At the moment there's nothing nothing to do, but wait for Ren to wake up and the spirits to come back. Hopefully they found out something about Yoh…" Horo said the last part very silently. He was sitting next to Anna and he knew that she was going through tougher times then them.

"That's if he wakes up." said Faust.

"Don't say that!" Horo yelled at him "He will and then we'll find Yoh and kick Hao's ass!"

"Face it Horo the doctor said he could be in a comma and if we did encounter Hao again he would only thrash us… he's seems to have gotten stronger not weaker." He said looking down.

There was an awkward silence. All of a sudden Anna said "we'll find him… we'll get him back and get rid of Hao for good." Everyone looked intently at her.

"We need Yoh, I need to apologize to him…I …I don't want him to die, with his last memory of me slapping him!" she started to sob into her hands. Everyone turned away. This was uncomfortable, Anna never cried in public before.

"D-don't worry boss Anna everything will be alright." Said Ryu.

Suddenly then Ren stirred in his bed and slowly opened his eyes half way. He tried to talk to see who was there but he just coughed a lot instead. Everyone rushed to his side.

"Don't move!" yelled Manta.

Ren was relieved that his friends were there. He was afraid he was dead again for a moment.

"Were so glad your awake my pointy haired friend!" said Ryu.

Ren tried to sit up, but Horo found a button that made the bed do that for him. Ren looked around and from everyone's condition he could tell Hao got away.

He took off his oxygen mask, he could breath fine by himself he thought.

"You shouldn't do that-" Faust tried to explain but was interrupted.

"Where….Where's Yoh!"

At the moment Yoh found himself tied up in some weird dungeon type room. He just woke up after a couple hours after the incident. The last thing he could remember was Anna's terrified face. He tried to shake that bad memory out of his head when he realized he could move again. He scooted across the room and stood up with help from the wall and started to look for an exit. There was only one window so it was hard to see but he found a door except it wouldn't budge when he tried to kick it. Suddenly the handle started to turn. Yoh knew who it was so he started to panic. He hid behind the door as soon as it opened. Light flooded the room. He dare not move.

"I wonder were my brother could be….." said Hao's snide voice.

He then took the door and slammed it in Yoh's face.

"OW!" he screamed as he fell to the floor.

"Your not that bright, were else could you be in a room like this?"

Yoh stared at him with livid eyes as he tried to rub his throbbing face against the cold wall.

"What do you want?" he finally asked.

"Huh?" replied Hao.

"You could of killed me a bunch of times by now but you didn't, so what do you want with me?"

"HehYour not as dumb as you look!" Hao laughed. What I want is you to join my team…"

Silence.

"I'd never do that!" Yoh screamed at him.

"Why it would be fun"

"No it wouldn't! You're a murderer, you kill for fun and I know you'll kill my friends behind my back if I do."

"On the contrary. They're the only thing keeping you alive."

"Huh?" Yoh starred at him with fearful eyes.

"Think about it, if I killed them then you would probably do the same to yourself and I need you for my upcoming plan."

"W-wh-whats that?"

Hao chuckled "It's a surprise."

"How about this, you join me and I will kill only one of your friends-"

"NO!"

Hao then stared at him coldly and grab him by the neck and chucked him across the room as he hit the wall.

"Dont interupt me!"

He then continuously kept kicking and punching him. Yoh couldnt do anything but take it, he was still tied up.

"Wanna join now? I might stop...maybe."

Yoh coughed "...no..." he laid motionlessly.

Then light flooded the room and Opacho appeared. Hao stopped and turned.

"Good news Hao-sama! Opacho found survivors!" He said with a pleased expression on his face and looked around at Yoh and continued "Sorry if Opacho interuppted anything..."

"No it's ok, I'm actually in a better mood now...thanks." Hao said fixing his hair and gave her a smile. Opacho blushed. He turned back to Yoh.

"Since your too stupid tonotcave in, I'll make another offer." He said to Yoh, who still wasnt moving much.

"If you don't join then I'll kill all ofyour friendsand you can wander around in your own self-pity knowing it was your fault." He smiled at the last part and he knew what the answer would be. Yoh could live with one less friend but not with any.

Yoh couldn't believe it. There was no way out of this. He couldn't stand the thought of losing any of the guys. If he did take his own life, then Hao would just kill them all afterwards. Yoh felt tears in his eyes.

"Why do you have to?..." he whispered.

"To show you I'm serious…this plan has to go off without a hitch." Opacho gave a sad expression at the thought of this.

Yoh sighed and a tear rolled down his cheek. Maybe if he never saw them again he wouldn't have to grieve over the person that was lost. But that would make him more worried….. 'Dammit!' he thought to himself. 'I can't think that way its not right!'

"You know, I was even going to let you choose who I was going to eliminate…"

"Neh?-" Yoh suddenly felt himself being thrown across the room again, excapt higher and harder. He landed near the ceiling and fell down but someone caught him by the neck. He was getting sick of this.

"Lets see…"

Yoh then felt Hao hand on his back which dissolved into his body. He could feel him go through his bones and innards and he stopped as soon as his fingertips reached his heart. It hurt so much….

"Geh" was all Yoh could manage to say.

"Lets see who you dislike the most." Smiled Hao.

He then went through his heart. Yoh screamed. Hao started to read all his feelings.

"Lets see…You seem to be fond of Ren and Manta…the others are ok…Oh what's this? You seem to hate someone….Oh, well of course you would hate her the way she always treats you…and if I may recall you have to marry her and she doesn't even trust you…"

Hao's hand slid out of Yoh's back and he slid to the floor.

"Well that settles it! We'll kill her in a couple of weeks! Until then I'm going to break you in, how fun! And to think I wanted that bitch to be my wife! I can't wait!" He then walked out of the room. Yoh laid on the floor crying, it seems he was now part of Hao's group and he helped him kill one of his own friends.

"Come." Hao said to Opacho, they dissapeared through the door. "Oh wait a minute..."

Hao then returned and threw something on top of Yoh.

"You'll need this now." He said

It was a black poncho.

"Hao-sama how come you didnt just tell him about his friends before?" asked Opacho

Hao smiled some more "You know me, i like to drag things out."

Mwhahahaha! wazz gonna happen? only i know! >: )