Me: here it is chapter 28! Enjoy it ;D

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Mission…Accomplished? (Or not?)

Fifth try…

Sixth try…

God dammit, when is it gonna happen!

I was still counting Yoh's tries to hit Hao, but it was taking them very long. In the sketchbook stood that they had to try and hit each other at the same time, but it never said that it took them THIS long!

"Tory-sama, your furyoku…it's dropping very fast. At this rate you'll be out for the count before they even think of the final blow." Emerald spoke from the beads.

"Yes, I know, but we have to hold on just a little longer. If we can do that everything will be okay." I wasn't sure of the situation, but I did know that this time my plan was going to work…no matter what.

Yet another try… sigh, when is it going to stop? When can I stop it?

"Tory! Look!" suddenly Destiny's voice woke me up out of my thoughts.

"What's wrong?"

"LOOK UP, DAMMIT!" she yelled.

Slowly I looked up and saw that Hao and Yoh were standing, better said floating, away from each other. I heard Hao yell something and suddenly both of them were flew with an immense speed towards each other.

"AAHH, HOLY SHIT! Beads grab Hao, QUICK!" the moment I had yelled my command the beads shot out of my hand towards Hao.

I only didn't counted so much on Yoh's friends. The moment I had launched the beads, Ren also had gotten up and now I had a sword at the side of my neck waiting for a good excuse to cut it.

Oh no, this isn't good…come on beads quicker.

My right hand was burning from the speed of my beads, the cold metal of Ren's sword was slowly coming closer to my neck and my furyoku was getting lesser with every second passing by.

"You can't stop Yoh, Tory, we won't let you." Ren said pressing the sword even closer.

"I'm keeping myself to my promise…I WILL change the end no matter what. NOW!"

I heard the cradles and suddenly there was a loud explosion and Yoh stood behind it. My beads that were the size of the two millions and dropped out of the sky.

"W-what happened?" I barely managed to ask. Ren removed his sword from my neck and walked away.

"I guess it's over." He said before he joined the rest.

It can't be over; there has to be a white flash and stuff before it's really over. The Spirit of Fire exploded, but where is Hao? Is he…no…please no!

"Tory, I think we were too late…" Destiny broke the integration and floated next to me.

"No…I h-had enough Furyoku left, i-it should have b-been enough…" my voice was only a soft whisper. I stood at the edge of the platform and stared to the giant pillar of spirits.

"Hao…" I dropped to my knees and started crying.

All different types of questions were going through my head. How could this happen? What went wrong? What did I do wrong? Was I too weak? Why, why, why, WHY?

The beads slipped out of my hands and dropped over the edge of the platform, but it didn't matter. Everything turned out to be for absolutely nothing. I wasn't sure if I could go home and here I didn't had a home; not after what I've done… it was all over; I failed…

"Are you coming?" Yoh, who was back on the platform, asked.

"Why should I come with you, Yoh? Do you think I've nowhere else to go? Do you think I don't have a life!" I snapped.

"No, but I don't think you can return to your world. So, if you need a place to stay you're welcome." He smiled and started to walk away.

Why is he doing this? Shouldn't he be mad after what I've done?

"Tory-chan, maybe you should go with them. He's right we don't know how to get you back…" Destiny nervously said.

"Maybe, by the way, where's Emerald? Don't tell me those nitwits took her back." I sighed as I stood up.

I walked around the platform looking for my spirit, but she was nowhere to be found and I started to get worried. If the Priests would have taken her they would've told me. It was then that I realized it…

"Destiny…I think I kinda let Emerald fall over the edge with my beads…" I sweat dropped and smiled nervous thinking that after all of this I also had to lose another spirit.

"BAKA…ARG, ya sure are stupid sometimes! What do we do now? Climb over the edge?" Destiny was back to one of her usual sarcastic moods and was now cursing me to the size of an ant.

The thought of going down there alone already was horrible, but Emerald still was oversouled into my beads and I wasn't sure if the new beads would let out a spirit without a shaman.

"Just my luck. Okay, I'll go; wish me luck." Once again I slowly approached the edge and looked down.

It was so deep that you couldn't even see the bottom of it and I started to doubt if it even had a bottom.

"Ehm…maybe it's better if I oversoul you Destiny…" I started.

"Oversoul me in what? You don't have the beads, no beads, no giant oversoul. And don't even think of oversouling me into that necklace Hao gave you; because I know it's not gonna work!" Destiny raised an eyebrow at me.

"Well, you CAN oversoul in anything you want. I mean, Horo made a giant oversoul with that piece of wood Pirika gave him, didn't he? So, why can't we try it?" I whined.

Destiny sighed when she finally gave in. "Thanks Dessi! Okay, ahem…giant oversoul!"

Destiny's giant oversoul was a bigger version of herself. Only now she was wearing a white long dress with a leader black belt, on the belt was a long sword attached and she also had white wings.

"See, told ya it worked!" I yelled happily.

Destiny only mumbled something I couldn't hear. I jumped on her shoulder and she slowly floated down the platform.

"Gee, sure is dark down here…and were aint even near the bottom!" Destiny complained and I rolled my eyes at her.

She was right, though, it was dark and it would only get darker. Secretly I was hoping that my beads got stuck on something and didn't fell deeper. And as if someone heard…

"Tory, look there they are!" Destiny pointed to the mountain that had the platform on top of it. And there they where; handing on a thick branch.

"Emerald, are you still in there?"

"Tory-sama! OMG, I thought you'd never come!" Emerald exclaimed from the beads.

"Why didn't you broke the oversoul or didn't the new beads let ya out?" I asked still not sure of the Star/Moon Beads.

"If I go out of them, we'll fall."

"Whadda you mean 'we' fall…incase you haven't noticed I'm standing on Destiny." I answered a bit irritated.

I looked down and saw that it was still in the two million mode; I couldn't help wondering why Emerald hadn't changed that.

"Oh…Just get me up and you'll see!" Emerald said also getting quite irritated.

"Emerald I never thought such a serious spirit like you would ever started to talk in third person." Destiny teased her wile grabbing hold of the beads.

It only took her a few seconds to get back up to the platform.

"Okay, Emerald ya can get out now!" Destiny said; she was back in her usual form.

"No, you bakas get the beads up first!" she yelled.

"Wow, since when do you get attached to a necklace?" I teased wile pulling on the beads.

Damn, those things are heavy! Why couldn't they just make another pair of 1080's? This is unbelievably heavy!

"Ouch!"

"WHAT THE-!" both Destiny and I looked shocked at each other.

"Tory-chan…don't tell me that's…" she started.

I quickly pulled up the rest of the beads; they were wrapped around that stone monument thing on the platform. I quickly made a node in it and ran back to the edge. When I looked over it I was staring at a very pissed looking… HAO!

"Oh. My. God! Kyaaaaa, you're alive! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMFGOMGOMG!" I was over excited and forgot that he was still hanging, or better said the beads were wrapped around his upper body.

"Yea, tell me something I don't know…Tory, get me up!" he yelled.

"Na ah, not if you ask me nicely…"

"WHAT! You want me to ask you nicely at a time like this!"

I nodded stubbornly and just looked at him. "Or I can just leave you hanging there…now that I know you're alive."

"Grrr, okay could you please get me up?" it cost him all his self-control to say the word please.

"Sure." I cheered happily.

When he finally was on the platform, Emerald got out of the Beads and appeared next to me. I was thanking her all the time and was apologizing to her for my teasing.

"So, what happened? I saw the Spirit of Fire explode and I thought that you…" I stopped and looked at him.

"Well after all those 'near' impacts; my brother made me a bit angry and-." He started, but I cut him of.

"Yea, yea I know that! But what I mean is that I didn't saw my beads grabbing you…nor did I see you fall out the sky." I suspiciously raised an eyebrow.

"Just let me tell the story okay?" he sat down and started talking.

Flashback:

Like I said my brother made me angry and we were about to hit each other with all of our strength…

"I am right!" I yelled at him.

He was coming closer and closer, when suddenly something came to my mind.

'Please be careful, Hao.'

'I don't want you to get hurt…'

'The Final Battle will come soon…watch out, please.'

'Do you promise me to be really careful?'

It was your voice repeating all the time that I had to be careful.

"What the-? Tory?" I whispered to myself and noticed the Spirit of Fire had stopped the attack, but Yoh didn't.

I could jump off just in time, but I wouldn't get away quick enough from the coming explosion. That's when those beads of yours come in. I was hardly in midair when it wrapped itself around me and pulled me down.

And when you apparently let go of them Emerald and I fell down. Luckily emerald had enough control to throw the end of the beads over a branch.

"What the hell just happened!"

"Tory-sama just saved you; that's what happened. So be glad you're still alive!" Emerald was still in the beads.

"So…how long are we going to hang here?" I asked still trying to figure out what went wrong.

"I don't know! I only hope Tory doesn't forget…anyway did Yoh saw you jump of the SoF?" she wanted to know.

"Dunno, should I even care about my stupid little brother?"

"Whatever…Ah finally she's here."

Well and the rest you know.

End short Flashback

"PFFFT HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG, first you jump off the SoF and then you get pulled down by MY beads and then I let you fall… hmmm, but I'm so glad you're okay." I was glad he had listened to my warnings and took them serious.

"Yea, me too, but there's still one thing I don't understand." He started.

"And that is?" I sat down next to him on the ground and waited for his question.

"If all of this never happened in your world, what will happen next?" he looked at me suspiciously and finally I could give the answer I wanted to give for so long.

"I don't know…"

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Me: Wow, chapter 28 is done and finally not a cliffy ;D my hands are hurting from the typing ( had to hurry because I was up way too late) anyway chapter 29 will come soon and I think that 30 will be the last chapter :(

Okay, please review!

Ja Ne and arigato!