Hi everyone, sorry if this chapter seems rushed I've been having one heck of a life lately.
Anyway here goes another chapter.

A few nights had passed Christine and Blake were getting along fine, Christine had always had the ghosts there to talk to but for some reason now she knew without Blake being around she might actually feel lonely, even though she didn't know much about being lonely, it was something she never experienced. As a child she didn't have many friends but she always had her family or someone, now that she knew what having a friend was like she hoped she would have to do without one every again.

It was looking like it was going to be a quiet boring Sunday, it was one of those days that Christine just wanted to curl up and sleep through, and she would have.

Blake's oracle bell started beeping like mad.
"Turn it off!" Koncho hissed
"Don't you think I would have had I known how?" Blake asked fiddling with the oracle bell
"Press the right arrow key." Skya said
"Hey works for me." Blake pressed the button with no success
"Try enter." Koncho said this didn't work either
"You know what!" Blake was getting frustrated so he took it upon himself to press every button possible to press, something he pressed must have worked right because the beeping stopped and words flashed on the screen.

Opponent: Faust VIII
When: Monday
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Keio Plaza Tokyo

"Is that what I think it is?" Christine asked
"That's your first fight of the shaman tournament!" Skya said happily
"Yay I get to make an idiot out of myself." Blake said in a bit of a sarcastic manner
"You'll do fine, besides I'm placing bets so you better win or I'm out a lot of money." Christine said
"Bets, with who?" Blake asked
"Drotoro." Christine asked
"But how he has no money?"
"He doesn't pay me back with money; if I win he has to moon another shaman, somehow. If he wins then he gets money." Christine said
"So I would probably be the shaman right?" Blake asked
"More than likely." Christine said

When time for the fight came closer Blake seemed more eager about it.
"I wonder who this Faust guy is anyway." he said
"me too." Christine said
"I just hope he's easy to beat." Skya said
"The flight's going to start soon I wonder where he is." Blake said
"Maybe he'll forfeit and you automatically win." Christine said

"I wouldn't count on that" Koncho said Christine was about to ask Koncho why he wouldn't count on it but when she looked over at Koncho she saw a man walking towards them. She nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw him, it looked as if he had replaced parts of his body with things that just did seem to be things that should be on a body Christine had never seen anything quite like that. She honestly wondered if the man was mad. She began poking Blake on the back to get his attention, she didn't know whey she couldn't just say 'hey Blake look'.
"What is it Christine?" Blake asked without looking back, Christine just kept poking not not noticing that he had asked her something.
"Christine." Blake said starting to sound annoyed, again Christine didn't notice this.
"JESUS CHRIST! Christine, what is it!" Blake said as he looked over and realized just why Christine seemed to want his attention. Blake was much less timid that Christine so he asked the man his name

"I am Faust the VIII, You wouldn't go by the name Blake Onterrie by any chance now would you?"
"Yeah that's me, you're here for the fight right?"
"Yes, why else, I hope you didn't get you hopes up that I would decide to forfeit. If you did than you honestly don't have any idea of how big the causes I'm fighting for are."
"Everyone's fighting for something aren't they." Blake said
"But some causes are much better than others, like say putting a stop to death."

"umm okay, not like I'm making fun of you or anything but that's crazy, if no one died then what would make life worth living, and how could you fit that many people on the planet?"
Faust laughed "I would eventually find a way to work it all out, besides not everyone has to live. Anyway enough about me, who's that young lady with you?" Christine didn't say anything because she wasn't sure if it was proper for Blake to introduce her or for her to introduce herself, this may have possibly been a deranged looking shaman but she didn't want to look like a brat.
Blake broke the silence and said "This is Christine Weathers, she's my friend and sometimes I think, part-time mute."
"Oh just friends?" Faust asked as if somehow let down "Well I suppose it's a bit young for kinder of your age to be getting love interests, you both remind me of my darling wife and I as kids."
Christine was feeling awkward and worried she might start blushing if talk like that kept up so she tried to change the subject a bit. "So, umm y-your wife will we be able to m-meet her?" Christine couldn't help but studder a bit.

"Why, I'm so very glad you asked. She's right here." Faust said, he reached into the long lab-coat he was wearing and started to pull something out. Christine saw what looked like chains, and bone, she stepped back a bit fear getting the better of her as Faust pulled out a skeleton. She managed to keep her self from screaming but did jump back a bit. Blake placed his arm over her shoulder worrying she might make a wrong move, he didn't know what Faust was up to and didn't really wish to find out.

"I don't know what you're doing, but are you saying that's your wife?"
"Why yes, isn't she just wondrous, though she did look better in her living years I must say."
"You kept you kept your dead wife's bones?" Blake asked he noticed Christine wasn't moving so he pulled her closer to him, now worrying what this guy was planning. Christine really wished she hadn't asked to see his wife now.
"Well yes, I need to have some form of remains so I can bring her back to me one day when I become Shaman King."
"Wow, umm I don't know if you realize it but, she's gone and you should put her in a grave and just let her go." Koncho said, this was probably not the greatest thing for him to say.
"When you truly love someone, as I did, you never let go sometimes even after death."

Blake looked at his oracle bell hoping the fight would just start soon so he could get this over with, an official wasn't even around yet, but one would be coming soon as he had less than a minute left until the fight. He still made sure Christine was close by he really didn't trust this guy at all.
"Well, the flight's to start soon, good luck, as if it will help you." Faust smirked
"S-silva!" Christine said, Blake looked over to see Silva standing near by he was glad to see this the fight was going to start any second now.
Christine separated herself from Blake and backed off a good bit, Skya floated next to Blake ready to be oversouled.
The oracle bell let out a beep and the fight began, Christine finally got to see Faust' oversoul was the bones of his wife, she wasn't very surprised by this, though it did make her think it might be easier for Blake to win. "Go Blake Go Blake!" her spirits chirped she soon joined in with the chorus.
Faust made the first hit doing a fair amount of damage to Blake.

Christine was now a little less sure about Blake winning the fight. Blake could tell this by how she got quiet.
"Don't worry Christine it's just a little scratch and I've got a battle plan that never failed in the x-laws."
"What's that?" Christine asked

"Well, you just have to, CHARGE STRIGHT FOR THE ENEMY AND BLAST THEM WITH AS MUCH FURYOKU AS YOU'VE GOT NO LOOKING BACK!" Blake said this as he charged for Faust used over half his Furyoku , and Faust deflected most of the attack leaving Faust at 3/4s of his power and Blake at half, but Blake was also unlucky because he wouldn't be able to make anymore strong attacks now that he had wasted so much, Faust still had about half of his Furyoku left. Blake wasn't so good without a team to back him up such as the x-laws.

"So much for a battle plan." Elizabeth sighed leaving the other ghosts to a cheer of "go Blake" which was a good bit less enthusiastic than the first set of cheers.
Blake had managed to get in a good bit of hits on Faust each of which not doing much damage but just enough to get him and Faust to the same energy level.
After a while of trading hits it was all down to one last hit, Blake knew what he had to do but he knew if he pulled it off he would end up passing out but it was his only chance. He and Faust both went for each other the one last time with a surge of Furyoku and a could of dust the battle was over.

Christine stood waiting for the cloud to pass and see the outcome of the battle. There was Blake on the ground Faust standing over him with a smirk on his face. "That was pretty easy." he said
"Not quite," Silva said "Your oversoul is out."
"Yes but so is his and we all know it went out first." Faust said
"Actually if you'll take a good look." Silva said looking down at Blake's knife with just the tiniest bit of oversoul flame in it which flickered out shortly after."
"Even though he's knocked out, the winner is Onterrie Blake." Silva said afterwards when Christine looked back he wasn't there.

"Leave it to Silva to run off and leave you to take him somewhere all by yourself." Dotoro said grumpily.
Christine looked back over at Faust who was on the ground sobbing, she really didn't know if she should just take Blake and go of see if Faust was wok.
"It was my only hope." Faust sobbed
"You still have 2 more fights you know." Skya said
Faust' head popped up "that's right, I have two more fights, I have to win them at all costs, even if it means I have to shed more than blood. Tell the boy I said he was a good fight, but if ever we fight again he maybe more than just knocked out." With that Faust walked away.

Christine couldn't take Blake anywhere and she couldn't leave him so she just waited around until he woke up so the could get back to the hotel, make a quick stop on the way to buy bandages for the 'so called' scratches Blake got from the battle
Little did anyone know that the pep-talk that was given to Faust led to him being so determined to win that he killed his next opponent and nearly killed the one after that.
While Blake was glad he had won he knew he was lucky and knew he was going to have to find another way of fighting or there was no way he'd be able to win his next two fights.

Ok I just got a laptop (No Internet on it and all I can work with so far is word pad but it helps) so I might be able to update a bit faster now, maybe. Anyway the part with Faust, Seeing as I didn't hear anything about how many fights he had had (besides Yoh and the other person he killed) I didn't see any problem with making Faust fight Blake no story line interruption which is really what's I'm aiming for here is not adversely affecting the cannon.