To ChibiLaryla: don't worry i haven't forgot that ;D you'll see what happened this chapter, heheh.
Me: don't own shaman king! Yadayadayada, I hate this… anyway enjoy the chapter! ;D (OMG 25 already!)
Celestial Imperia
Final Entry
HE KNOWS! HE KNOWS! HE KNOWS! HE KNOWS! How could I be so stupid! Yesterday he told me we were going to the Holy Grounds; I should have seen it then. All XLAWS are still alive he never fought them. I was too careless, too upset and still I had it with me when we left the lake…
"Hao, have you seen my sketchbook? Hao?" he was sitting on the bed with his back towards me. He didn't respond.
"If you're going to ignore me again, I swear…" I walked to him, still not knowing what he was doing, still unaware.
I looked over his shoulder and there it was… "M-my Sketchbook. Y-you read the notes!" my eyes were blank, just as his. For we were both looking at the final page, the page Jessica wrote not long before her death; it was a drawing of Hao with a red flash in the middle of his face and next to it another picture were the Spirit of Fire exploded.
'Tory I know you think it's useless to know, but this is what is going to happen to the boy you once knew as Asaha Douji. I also know you don't remember, but when you do…I think you will return to that world, I'm almost sure you will, they need you. The Lady that called herself Emerald came to me in a dream; she said that 'they want you back', I still don't understand, but time will tell. Asaha is Hao, Tory please try to remember and when you get back try to…follow your heart…
Your best friend forever, Jessica Valini.'
I never read that page's notes; I was too scared to read them. There were also little scratches on it that described the attacked Yoh used and some other little things. Hao was still staring at the notes and the drawings. I quickly grasped it out of his hands.
"How could you! I told you not to read it, didn't I, DIDN'T I!"
"I did NOT take it! It was on the floor; open at THAT page." He looked mad at me and I looked confused.
"It was in my bag, how can it be on the-! THOSE FREAKING BASTERDS!"
I knew they wouldn't make it easy for me. My job wasn't over yet; they still wanted me to make a choice. And that would be hard now that Hao knows what is going to happen. The Priests, I don't know if they're good or evil, but I'll show them, I'll show them there is no messing around with this lady! I decided to fight the XLAWS again and after that I'll make sure nothing goes wrong; I'll get it my way, one way or another!
This is my Final Entry in the Shaman World, I don't know if I will return to my world, but just incase. My time here was…fun so long it lasted…
She closed her diary and put it in her shoulder bag. She walked out of the tent; Hao and his followers were already standing by the Spirit of Fire.
"You can go ahead I -." He raised his hand for silence and spoke.
"The XLAWS want to fight us, so we will fight them and KILL them all." Hao said calm.
Tory looked to the ground and let out a small chuckle. "That's just fine with me! Yoh and the rest should be there as well, they probably used them as bait, huh?" she grinned insanely.
"T-Tory, are you okay?" Jessica asked concerned.
"Never been better Jessi! I'll KILL all XLAWS, everything has gone wrong since I fought them; THEY'LL PAY FOR IT!" She laughed at her spirit friend who looked shocked.
"Tory…oh no…"Jessica disappeared again. Tory walked over to Hao, but transported before she faced him.
She was now standing in the dessert; Yoh and his friends were already trapped inside the golden cage. A moment later Hao and his followers appeared next to her.
"TORY! Go back it's too dangerous!" Yoh and his friends yelled.
"Maybe it's better if you don't fight; you're still not completely healed." Hao whispered in her ear.
"I don't care. They have to pay for what they've done to me!" she mumbled back. Iron Maiden Jeanne was already standing outside her box. Tory walked away from the group to face the leader of the XLAWS. Her eyes only flashed one time to Yoh and his friends.
"We have some unfinished business to take care of…Jeanne." Tory said now standing right in front of her.
"We are doing this for peace…Hao must be destroyed!"
The angels were surrounding her and there was no way out of this. Tory grinned evilly and grasped her beads. "This time I won't have any mercy on you! You destroyed my only chance to get home! Destiny, Emerald, Jessica Oversoul into the Star beads! DEJ!" her giant oversoul was standing next to her waiting for orders.
"Yoh, what does she mean by 'destroyed her only way to get home'?" Horo asked.
"I don't know, but she looks serious…she really IS planning to kill them!" Yoh yelled.
"LYSERG-CHAN!"
"Shall we go on with the fight then?" Tory looked at the angels and waited. Jeanne stepped forward and there were now only two foot between then.
"SHAMASH!"
"XLAWS ATTACK!"
"DEJ, NOVA SHIELD!"
There was a bright light and a loud explosion. After the dust cloud vanished they were all still standing. Tory was surrounded by a shield of flames that came from DEJ. "Now, it's my turn! Azure Army, all of you go into the beads!" out of her bag she graphed a second pair of beads.
"Since when does she have two of them?" Ren wanted to know.
"Who cares? Lyserg-chan is down there!" Ryu exclaimed with tears streaming down his face.
"Look better these ones are different!" Faust pointed.
They looked down and the new beads were indeed different from the star beads. "I never told you guys, but I made these since I found out some useful abilities of the Azure Army. These I made myself and I call them the Moon Beads. The Azure Army falls under the protection of the moon and with these their abilities come out better." Tory explained.
Again she was surrounded by the spinning Azure colored beads. The angels fired their guns again, but it had no effect. "Last time I couldn't finish this attack, because of my little injury; but now…beads grow longer DEJ out of oversoul mode! Star and moon beads fusion, Two million beads!"
Everyone looked shocked; they were all surrounded by the beads, the whole field was surrounded by them. Spinning so fast that they could only see an azure flash.
"What are you planning to do?" Hao appeared next to her.
"I'm planning to kill them, what else!" she snapped.
"We are ALL standing in the circle…"
"Just watch Hao."
The XLAWS had regrouped their selves and fired their angels once more. Hao's followers decided to join the fight as well and stopped them. Tory just there staring at them in horror as two XLAWS got killed.
What's gotten into me? I can't kill them; everyone is just as real as me now. They're not some ink on paper anymore…what have I done!
She looked how Hao burned Jeanne and she was pulled back in the iron maiden to regenerate. She looked at the other XLAWS still fighting Hao's followers; this time trying to protect their leader. And then she looked at Yoh and his friends who tried to break out of the cage.
This has to stop! He smiled when he burned her; they were proud when they killed Ashil! I wanted to kill them… ARGH, when Jeanne comes out the Door to Babylon will open, the shaman fights end……..one more change and one last chance…
Yoh and his friends broke out of the cage and joined the fight. Hao and Yoh were fighting and the rest was still fighting Hao's followers.
"Stop it…please…STOOOOOOOOP!" Tory yelled and suddenly the beads stop spinning around; they were all looking at her now.
"DAMMIT you're real now and you still keep hurting each other…you still keep killing each other! It's wrong…IT'S WRONG YOU HEAR ME!" she raised both of her hands above her head. The beads were now floating above them and were even spinning faster then they did before.
"CELESTIAL IMPERIA! Hear the words of the Allure, take my offer to lend me your strength…" out of nowhere a shining dagger appeared in her hand. She cut her left upper arm with it and blood was dripping out of it on the ground.
Jeanne came out of the iron maiden and was also preparing to open the door to Babylon. A huge castle like building appeared above their heads; it was shining blue and had stars and moons all over it. Underneath it there also was a door that looked almost the same as the Door to Babylon.
"IMPERIA, TAKE OVER BABYLON!" Tory shouted just as Jeanne gave Shamash the order to open the door.
The huge castle floated under the door and got sucked in first. Tory smiled when the door kept sucking people in.
"Tory-sama, your furyoku…!" Emerald panicked.
"Yea, I'll probably won't see what the Imperia show them…" she smiled at her spirit and fainted before she got sucked in as well.
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"Where are we?"
"How should I know, baka…"
"This isn't what's supposed to happen in Babylon!"
Everyone stood in a bright empty space, surrounded by stars, cradles and moons. It was very beautiful.
"Welcome!"
"Who said that!" Marco graphed for his gun only to find out it was gone.
Everyone noticed their weapons were gone; only their spirits were floating next to them.
"Don't worry once you get out, you'll get your weapons back. Oh and it's me by the way, Tory." She snickered at their surprised faces.
"This is the Celestial Imperia. It is stronger then Babylon and it is a happy place; here stays my Azure Army when I don't call for them. Don't worry I let you out in a few moments, but first you have to listen. The shaman fights are over and you are all real; the priests told me that last one. I highly recommend the XLAWS to NOT fight against Hao anymore; you're gonna die if you do, at least metal face man, weird eyes man and Mina are. Uh, to Yoh and his friends think twice before you do something…and to Hao well, you know oh, and please take care of my body I kinda used my furyoku way over my limits heheh ahem. Well good journey back and see ya!" she laughed and the room became dark.
Several white flashes were seen outside and everyone landed on different places. Except for Hao and his followers; he somehow still managed to capture Shamash and the SoF was now eating him. (Me: heheh, I hated Jeanne's spirit even more then Marco, I don't know why though.)
"Hao-sama where's Tory-san?" Opacho was the first one who talked. He was looking all over the place, but couldn't see her anywhere. They looked for awhile, but still no Tory.
"Hao, Hao over here!" up in the sky a blue phoenix was flying. She landed right in front of him.
"Hao i-it's Tory she doesn't wake up we tried everything, but she doesn't wake up!" Jessica panicked flying circles above their heads.
"Where is she?" Hao wanted to know.
"Follow me!" Jessica flew ahead.
Not far away from where they first stood she landed. And there they found her; she was leaning against a rock. No blood, no cuts, nothing seemed to be wrong it just looked like she was asleep.
"Tory-san? Tory-san can wake up now; Hao-sama and Opacho are here." Opacho tried, but he got no respond.
"Tory, used up ALL her furyoku. The copy of the keeper of souls won't work anymore; those bastards took it back!" Emerald cursed at the priests for the first time.
"Why isn't she waking up then?" Hao bend over to her and touched her cheek that was as cold as ice.
"The powers she used…they weren't hers. The Priests gave them to her when she came here. That's the main reason for her passing out so many times or being so slow; she isn't a shaman, she can't even see ghosts were she comes from." Emerald explained.
"That's not true…" Jessica started.
"The first time we got here…the priests didn't do that! And there were so many times that I followed her after my death and she turned around and looked me right in the eye, smiling at me as if she knew. She made the Moon Beads with her own magic, just like the Star Beads. In the Celestial Imperia her soul talked to us, but were is it now; were are you, Tory!" Jessica cried.
There lasts me only one thing to do…Emerald thought.
"Hao Asakura, I Emerald Keeper of Souls hereby erase the memory of the sketchbook!"
Hao looked shocked at Tory's spirit and then there was a bright light. "HAO-SAMA!"
Opacho yelled unable to see anything in the light. When it was gone Hao just stood there looking at Tory.
"We have to move further to the Holy Grounds." He said as he picked up Tory and transported back to the rest of his followers.
"Opacho want to know what Emerald did to Hao-sama!" the little kid yelled.
Destiny laughed and answered the question. "Emerald is sick of being the Priests pet and helped Tory by erasing Hao memory of something he saw in the sketchbook. It'll make it easier for Tory when she wakes up…"
"IF she wakes up in time that is…" Jessica sighed.
"I'm sure she'll be alright." They were sitting on the Sprit of Fire and Hao was still holding Tory.
Were is your soul…Tory?
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Me: I'm going good :D yay summer vacation! I saw the episode were Chocolove joined them, it was so funny; to see Yoh get angry O.o (my comp doesn't downloads the episodes one by one. I got all future episodes that I need for my story but not the ones of before. Incase you wanted to know ;)
Anyway see you all next time and please review! ;D