Yeah last chapter wasn't too great I hope everyone enjoys this one more, it's odd I really haven't mention Lyserg and getting flames about him huh? The formatting is wierd... or at least NOT the way I typed it before uploading it... ah well still readable.
Even though Blake wasn't able to do much after the fight he and Christine did decide they would celebrate the win by doing nothing but sitting around watching TV, though that was pretty much what they had been doing before the fight this didn't seem to matter much.
Blake woke up at around 2 AM he looked around the room in a daze he was still tired he went to pull the sheet closer to himself when he noticed something wet. He suddenly remembered the soda he had, he looked for the glass which had spilled on the floor, he looked on the table where Christine's was and found that her soda was the culprit. Blake shook his head and went over to Christine's bed to see if there were extra covers and noticed Christine wasn't actully on the bed, she was more like half-off the bed. He pulled her back on the bed and realized she didn't have any extra covers, and sleeping on the floor without anything under hi would be a bad idea with all the bits of chips paper and popcorn it would be like sleeping in bug bait.
Christine started to stir a bit; Blake really was tired so he said "Christine, you up? Would it be alright if I slept on the foot of your bed tonight your soda kind of wet mine and I swear I won't try anything."
"Blake if you're going to get soda at this hour bring me some candy or something back." Christine said in her sleep
"Christine?" Blake said
Christine turned a little more; Blake really didn't like waking her up too well. "Hey Blake." She said
"H-Hey Christine." Blake laughed nervously
"Do we have to go somewhere?"
"No. I, I was just wandering if I could sleep on he foot of your bed, because your soda like tipped all over where I was sleeping."
"Yeah sure."
"You, you don't mind or anything?"
"Why should I Blake? You ARE my friend and I think I can trust you."
Blake laughed a small bit; before he knew it he was asleep again.
He slept pretty late into the next day about noon, when he woke up Christine was still wearing a T-shirt and pajama pants eating breakfast. "Good after morning?" he said
"I just woke up not long ago; I slept like a rock last night." Christine said.
"Same here."
"So anyway we need to go do some laundry sometime today I figured closer to the evening because it's just way too hot right now, and maybe look for a bigger hotel room or an apartment I figure I might get kicked out of this one after a while."
"How come?" Blake asked
"Well I never get to stay too long somewhere before people start wandering and rumors go around about ghosts and stuff and I've been here a while so I figure I don't have much longer and I should go get something better while I've got the chance."
"Oh."
"And with you around I can get a roommate discount at some places."
Later that day the two went out and went around looking for another place to go, Christine had to admit it was actually fun for once she saw a few places she didn't mind too much and made plans to go for once if and when they were kicked out. Blake even managed to get some free ice-cream; they did have a fairly good time.
They got back to the hotel right before dark the first thing Christine did when she walked in the room was trip over the loveseat which she didn't remember putting that close to the door.
"Christine, I knew we were not the cleanest people but seriously... we misplaced a couch." Blake said helping her up and moving his hand around on the wall looking for the light switch.
When Blake managed to get the light on he and Christine saw that the room was trashed.
"Well this sucks I think we just got robbed." Christine said
"Why what's missing?" Blake asked
"Nothing I can tell but the room's trashed."
"Probably just someone's sick prank, they left batteries on the floor."
"Guess so."
"You know I've never really gotten why they say not to throw batteries away, I mean what else can we do with them?" Christine said
"Well I've heard you like take them to places that can dispose of them right or something like that." Blake said
"Well these are going in the trash." Christine started to toss the batteries in the trash but all the sudden someone grabbed her arm
"NOT IN THE TRASH!"
Christine nearly jumped out of her skin and felt like she had been shocked by electricity a bit. She looked up at the boy who had grabbed her, he had bright yellow hair that was spiked and just an over all punk-trying-too-hard look.
"You set batteries on fire."
"And YOU can get your ass arrested for trashing OUR hotel room!" Blake said throwing a punch at the stranger.
"OW! What the hell you shocked me!" Blake yelled
"Well of course, I am a shaman my element of choice is electricity. My name is Charger Chester, legally changed mind you, and I like to... ROCK N' ROLL!" He pulled the guitar he had strapped to his back off and started to play it making the hotel rumble.
"Well, Christine and I just so happen to be shamans as well." He oversouled Skya into his knife and Christine decided to oversould Manny into a nearby chair.
Charger Chester laughed "That's just fine but you'll find that anytime you touch me you get zapped." He reached over at Christine to touch her face, of course Christine jumped back and Blake jumped at Charger only to get a good shock.
"I put AC and DC in that one just for you." Charger smirked
"Why don't we take this outside?" Blake said making a dash for the door and jumping from the rail of the two story baloney. He wasn't too worried about the landing because it really wasn't that high and the ground below was padded with the soft turf. Charger started to follow but turned back right after Blake made the jump Christine went outside to try to do the same but to her it was a very far jump.
"Come on Christine! It's not that high and the landing's not that bad, if I have to I'll catch you but you need to jump already!"
Christine knew what she had to she let herself go but just as soon as she did she was pulled right back on the baloney by Charger.
"Sorry sweetie but this is a fight for men!" Charger's touch gave Christine a shock that sent her back into the hotel room Charger closed the door and started an electrical fire right by the frame.
"You mother fucker!" Blake said
"Now you better get up there or she'll fry." Charger snickered
Blake made a run for the stair because he couldn't figure any other way to get up there any faster meanwhile Christine was doing anything she could to keep the fire out, she tried putting a bunch of wet towels around the door frame and tried breaking the window but none of these worked and the fire was slowly getting inside, She had unoversouled because she didn't see how wasting Furyoku would help anything.
"What the hell do you want any way?" Blake asked Charger once he got back to the second floor.
"Well I just want to borrow your stuff without your permission and with not intentions of giving it back."
"That's stealing." Blake said "Stealing is a sin!"
"It's only LIKE stealing, but like I said I'm borrowing with no intentions of returning it."
"You freaking dumbass that IS stealing!"
"Wait just a minute, it's not DUMB ass, its SMART ass." Charger said
"Well whatever it is I think you should just leave!" Blake kicked the hotel room door open but the flames had started to spread too far around it which made getting out without being burned impossible. "CHRISTINE! You're going to either have to make a mad dash out of the door way or find a way to break the window and jump and you'll HAVE to stick that landing." Blake said
"I'm not leaving until I get what I want." Charger said
Blake managed to push Charger off the side of the terrace getting shocked but not severely. He started to stab the window with his oversoul and managed to get a few holes in but nothing good enough. Blake knew the only way he could get the window away was to melt the plexi glass so he'd have to set it on fire. Meanwhile Christine quickly grabbed the cloak and barricaded herself in the bathroom with the sink and tub running in hopes that when they over filled they would keep a lot of the fire out of the bathroom. This worked ok for the fire but not as well for the smoke which still seeped through.
"CHRISTINE! If you stay in there there's no way you'll live, he fire's not spreading really badly yet you have to try running through the door get a towel wet put it over your head and run through the door frame. You have to trust me or you'll die from the smoke!" Blake yelled to her
Christine opened the bathroom door clutching the cloak which was wet "We-we didn't have any towels in there."
"Well, at least you got the right idea now come on."
"B-Blake I-I don't know if I can do this I-"
"Christine, I know your parents were killed in a fire and you only escaped by luck, but you have to admit you have good luck and if nothing can help you your luck will, but you've got to take the risk, if you go now you shouldn't have a problem but if you keep waiting you won't be able to get out, don't make me run in there to get you and make the fire sway any. I really need your help out here, I'm not sure if I can take this guy on by myself."
Christine somehow managed to get herself to do it and got out with no problem. "That wasn't so bad now was it?" Blake laughed
"Blake, if you can't even start to be able to take him, there's no way I'll be able to do anything, we really need backup." Christine said making a good point
"Why can't Silva be here when you need him?" Blake scoffed this was ironic because just then Silva appeared.
"Silva!" Christine cheered
Silva put out the fire before dragging Christine Blake and Charger into the slightly burned hotel room
"There's only one thing we can do,"
"What's that Silva?" Christine asked
"Are we in any trouble?" Blake added
"Discuss this over tea!" Silva said happily "Now, where do you keep the tea bag at and cookies would be great too!"
"SLIVA!" Blake yelled
"... But I never owned tea bags, Blake and I ate all the cookies last night-" Christine was interrupted by Blake
"AND THE HOTEL ROOM IS BURNED AND POLICE WILL BE COMMING SOON AND WHO DO YOU THINK THEERE'RE GOING TO BLAME!"
"That's right, Oh Silva I'm too young to die!" Christine said
"No one would die but we would end up in jail." Blake explained
"Juts both of you get quiet now!" Silva said Blake and Christine nodded and sat down.
"Ok no Charger let's hear your side of the story first."
"Ok well here's what happened, I was just innocently breaking in and trying to steal some stuff from these two but they had to get an attitude about it."
"Christine, really he was only stealing, I never thought you'd get so worked up about-" Silva caught himself "WAIT... STEALING!"
"Why don't you get to the part where you tried to kill Christine?" Blake snapped
"I'M GETTING THERE!" Charger yelled
"Continue." Silva said
"Well anyway I steal things so I can sell it for money and help myself become shaman king and kill Silva!"
"Yeah I so agree with your causes I really hate Silva and-" Silva didn't completely realize what he was saying
"uhh Silva..." Blake tried to break in but Silva didn't pay any attention
"He really should just die you know what if you become Shaman king I'll help you kill him-"
"SILVA!" Blake and Christine yelled
"Has the Japanese summer gotten into you head... you ARE Silva!" Blake was starting get frustrated before anyone knew it Charger had taken off with Silva running after him
"Ok so what do we do about the hotel room?" Christine sighed
"I guess explain to the owner what happened... or some of what happened anyway." Blake said, luckily for the two the fire looked like the cause of bad electric work in the room causing the hotel to be shut down for the better part of a month for inspecting when no problems were found everyone just figured it was a one time thing or that the fire really wasn't accidental lucky for Blake and Christine they were long gone by that time.
"So this means we have to move right?" Blake asked
"Guess so, you know I was really hoping this would have happened during the day." Christine said sounding disappointed "But the next room we get is going to be on the bottom floor." she quickly added
After they had moved Blake spend a long time training, sometimes Christine would even join in, the two had gotten considerably stronger particularly Blake who had even trained himself to fight without a team and without relying on other to watch his back for him. Little did Blake know nothing was going to prepare hi properly for his next shaman fight.
Opponent: Makei Hickaru
time: Saturday 7PM
Place: East Park
"Looks like Blake's going to be fighting a girl!" Koncho laughed which earned him glares from Skya, Christine and Elizabeth
"And just what's that supposed to mean?" Elizabeth snapped
"N-Nothing." Koncho quickly said
It was time for the fight and Blake and Christine nearly missed it getting there with 5 minutes to spare, just in time to get a good luck and the rather young girl Blake would be taking on.
"Y-You're HOW old?" Blake said in shock
"I am 8-years old; I'll be 9 in three months." The girl smiled her Black pigtails swaying a bit in the breeze she seemed way to carefree to seem like she was about to have a shaman fight that could determine if she stayed in the tournament or was knocked out, but then again she was only 8.
"Ok well while we seem to have the need for introductions... My name's Blake Onterrie this is my good friend Christine Weathers."
"I am Makei Hickaru, I want to win the shaman fight, b-b-because umm, mommy why do I want to win again?" The girl asked an older woman standing next to her who whispered something into her ear
"I want to win the fight because I want to get world peace." she said this in a cutesy way which started to worry Blake more and more about fighting her he really started to wonder if he should forfeit because he didn't ant to end up hurting her.
"She's only eight but that's pretty awesome for an 8-year-old." Christine said to Drotoro
"You know, while it would truly be great for children to be thinking of something like that, I'm not so sure those are her words." he said
"Yeah got to go with you on this one, seems more like her parents idea than hers." Elizabeth said
"But why would any parents send in kid into battle like that seems like their shamans to." Christine said looking over at Makei's parents who had ghosts all around them along with weapons.
"Maybe because they know hardly anyone will want to fight her and forfeit allowing her to get easy wins." Manny said making a pretty good point
"Just look at Blake, he seems all ready to back out." Koncho said
Before anyone knew it Silva was there and the fight had started "Umm go Blake wins! BUT DON'T HURT THE KID!" Christine said
"You honestly don't have to worry about Makei; she's not as weak as she looks." Makei's mother said
"You see, Makei is a child prodigy she's already studying middle school lever subjects and making 100s in them, at this rate she will be graduating high school within the next two years or so."
"She's not old smart but she can fight circles around the average shaman, she still has work to do to improve though but compared to her I'm pathetic." her father said
Christine wondered if she could possibly be too much for Blake to handle as she watched Makei attack and Blake mealy dodge all her attacks, it seemed she didn't have the best aim with the bow she used as an over soul but Blake not attacking and only dodging wouldn't help much either.
"But do you realize what kind of danger you're putting her into?" Christine asked
"Well when you think about it, most shaman don't even want to fight anyone this young so they forfeit Blake's her first fight but not opponent, the last opponent she had some guy by the name Charger Chester or something along those lines forfeited the official almost gave her her oracle bell too."
Christine never though Charger would have cared how young the kid may have been, she figured he would just take advantage of that. It was odd but she now thought Charger may have not been as bad a person as he seemed, but he was at least annoying if not anything.
"What about Asakura Hao, you have heard of him right?" Christine asked
"Well see, yes but we're hoping someone will take him down before Makei has the chance to have to fight him." Makei's dad replied.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that, he's got a pretty bad reputation of being a tuff one to beat and has killed a lot of people." Christine made a point here but Makei's parents didn't seem to pay much attention to this as Makei had screamed, it seemed Blake finally worked up the courage to put a weak hit in on her.
It hadn't even been enough to nock her off her feet which Christine knew Blake was more than capable of doing. The fight lasted a long time mostly with Makei attacking and Blake hardly doing anything but dodging until she was worn out and out of Furyoku.
"Winner Blake!" Silva called
Blake walked up to Makei to see if she was ok "I, I'm sorry but I really couldn't just let myself lose and I couldn't bring myself to hurt you either."
"It's alright, I still have one more fight and they'll probably forfeit but this just shows me I have to get a better aim, I'll do better next time. And next time we fight please, please don't hold anything back, it got pretty boring to do nothing but attack." she said sweetly before following her parents away from the park.
"Well Blake, good job I suppose." Koncho said the three left to go back to the hotel room, Blake seemed a bit bummed out even though he had won.
"Silva said you'd still have a third fight, why?" Christine asked
"He says they still need someone else to fight and every shaman has to at least survive 3 fights even if they win two, but even so if it's no one I want to fight I'll just forfeit so long as they seem like good shaman king material that is."
Blake went back to keeping his training regular or as regular as training at midnight could possibly be, in spite of thinking of forfeiting the next fight which he didn't really need to win to advance anyway, he still knew there would be other fights, he actually hoped to have another stab at Charger in the future as well as Hao and Marco whom he still held a grudge for getting him kicked out of the x-laws.
"If only Meene could see me now, she'd know she made a huge difference." Blake said to himself, though he enjoyed the company and freedom he had with Christine he did miss the x-laws particularly Meene whom was like a big sister to him. He really did hope he could have the chance to one day explain things to her.
He slipped back into the hotel room late that night having to do what he did almost every night which was to push Christine back on the bed so she didn't fall and break her neck in the middle of the night. No matter how much he wished he could go back to the x-laws he found himself becoming more and more continent with living with Christine, she was the first person he had known that was close to his age in a very long time, and she did say he was her first real friend, or first friend to be a real friend that is. It seemed like some crazy force had pulled the two tougher, and try as he might to hate Hao with every bit of his soul, he couldn't help but want to than Hao for allowing them to meet, he may have not liked Hao but he did realize he was very happy with where he was now. A part of him wanted to stay like this forever, a part of him wanted to quit the shaman fight and just live like this. Blake knew that wouldn't be possible and if anything he needed to win now more than ever, Christine's money couldn't possibly support the two forever.
He wondered why he was thinking about her money supporting them forever, how did he know they were going to be 'friends' forever, and just why was the only way he could imagine his feature living with her, he had a strange feeling about Christine which he hadn't ever had about anyone else.
"When I win the shaman fight, I'm going to repay you Christine." he said quietly, this was odd because it was Christine who thought she was repaying Blake for him saving her all this time, Blake wondered when he ever felt as if it was Christine doing a favor for him.
He really was confused about his feelings, and about everything.
Yay SO close to ending the first round you'll notice I tried to make Christine more scared to do stuff in this chapter, basically… she is a wus and this chapter really does show that anyway please leave a review I'm already working on chapter 10 too.