Had a VERY hard time getting this chapter up... the document manager would for someone reason only let me upload txt so I had to paste the actual chapter on to the priview thing and the formatting for REALLY messed up.

anyway thank you Crista for help with names :3

"That doesn't mean anything, we were bound to see him again just because I talked about him doesn't mean he'll come it's just a coincidence!" Blake argued
"Still you got to remember small brains have big ears." Koncho said
"Like Christine?" Blake asked
"Exactly!" Drotoro chirped

"HEY SHE'S STANDING RIGHT OVER HERE!" Christine yelled "Besides Blake, I haven't seen you become Mr. Know it all yet for all you knew I could've been right… for once!"
Blake and Christine had seemed to almost forget Charger being around "Uhh yo' kiddies, you still got company, kinda rude to argue in front of company." Hilda reminded them
"Oh yeah, sorry dude you're pretty hard to remember." Blake said
"So you must be Cheesy Cucker." Hilda said yet again confusing Charger's name
"No, I'm Charger Chester, so what's a girl like you doing hanging around squares like these two?" Charger asked

"Dude, I'm not going to let you do that, all you men are the same you just say what you think the girl wants to hear to try and get her on your side." Hilda said a bit stuck up "I'd believe you if I was a bit taller my chest was bigger and my waist was smaller and my face was more of that of goddess's, and less than its normal average state."
"Hey I was just wandering cause you seem like a rocker type, I can tell by the way you look you like taking life in the fast lane. I could help you do that… after all I'm a hard rockin electro-" Charger was cut off by Hilda
"Ever occur to you I don't give a crap? Just because you can make you hair look punked and pull some strings on a guitar doesn't make you a hardcore rocker, the only real hardcore rockers are the legends, we're just wannabes." Hilda said Christine had really realized Hilda was pretty mature even for her age
"But babe if you run off with me…"
"Would you shut-up if I did?" Hilda asked sarcastically
"Oh yes I'd do anything for… THAT WASN'T EVEN FUNNY MY PRIDE IS BRUSED!" Charger said after finally sensing Hilda's sarcastic tone"Charger I thought you'd be used to getting turned down." Blake laughed
"THIS DOSEN'T INVOLVE YOU!" Charger yelled
"Charger you honestly didn't just come here to beg Hilda to go out with you did you?" Blake asked

"Well no, I didn't intend on seeing you until you made it to Patch village… seems I got to see you early, good because I was worried you might not make it." Charger smirked
"Really? And all this time I worried about you not getting there." Blake laughed
"Well, you think you're up for a quick fight today, I was just wandering if you had gotten any stronger?" Charger asked
"Well I like to think I picked up a thing or two." Blake said
"But why not raise the stakes, have the girls join in, after all girls fight like girls after all."
"Oh really?" Hilda said before throwing a few rocks at Charger
"HEY! That's not fair cut that out what'd I ever do to you? It's not fair I can't stop rocks with my electricity powers… love really does hurt…" Charger said before running off

"Blake you sure you weren't just a little tried or something when you fought him those times?"
"No he's just going easy on you." Blake said
"Jerk!" Christine said giving Blake an angry look
"Yeah I know he's a jerk we established that a long time ago." Blake said, he really did think Christine was talking about Charger
"Uhh Blake I think she was talking to you." Hilda said giving Blake a duh type look
"C-Christine I didn't mean it like that earlier I was just kidding!" Blake said

Of course Christine was mad at Blake for quite a while she eventually got over it after a few miles of walking and the seldom ride here and there and the two were back to normal, or whatever normal was for them.
A few days more have passed still no sign of Patch Village, or anyone for that matter the closest thing to another living thing they had seen was the occasional bug or vulture.

"I'm tried." Blake complained
"I'm bored." Hilda said
"Christine it's your turn too complain about something." Blake said after about two minutes of silence
"Oh yeah ummm… I want a pizza." Christine said
"A pizza?" Hilda asked "Okay Christine has officially run out of things to complain about"
"Yeah I thought you said you wanted watermelon earlier." Blake said
"Changed my mind."

All of the sudden almost out of nowhere someone yelled "Please I am in desperate need of assistance!
Christine looked back to see something walking up a hill before she knew it Blake and Hilda had started running towards it and Christine ran after them.

It was a boy he didn't look to be much younger than Blake, he had Blue hair that was a bit messy and his clothes had a few rips here and there he looked like he had been involved in a pretty bad fight and was supporting a girl who was a bit younger with pink hair and in just about the same shape. They were accompanied by two spirits one male and one female both were wearing oraclebells.

"Please, please help Aaralyn, we're not from here and I don't have a clue where we are or where a nearby town is. She's lost a good bit of blood I've tried to slow it down best I can and it has worked she'll be fine so long as she gets the wound stitched. I don't know you and I've gotten my self and her in a lot of trouble by saying this before, but if you help her I will be forever indebted to you." The boy said.

"You're in luck, we're not from around here either, well besides Hilda but even she's clueless as to where we are, Christine's spirit Manny just so happens to have medical experience." Blake said

"Really you'll help me?"
"It'll be no problem, I think there's enough stuff around here to rig a butterfly stitch at the very least." Manny said
Blake looked over as Christine and remembered she was almost scared of everything including blood.
"I'll do the honors unless of course Blake or Christine wants to." Hilda said knowing very well both Blake and Christine would be more than happy to let her do so.
Hilda intergraded with Manny and set right to work using a sewing kit she had brought and the few bandages the group had.

"She'll be fine for now the stitch should hold for a few days, we'll still need to get her to a doctor somewhere but this way we've bought time." Manny explained
"Thank you all so much, I don't know what I would have done had I not found you, and thank you for not trying to kill off more competition if there's anyway I can pay you back just name it."
"Well, you could start off by tell us who you are and what exactly happened." Blake said

"Well it's a long story but if you insist. My name, or at least what everyone calls me is Remington, ok so that's not true there's really not that much of an everyone and they actually call me Remy but I suppose that is beside the point. As for the last name it's Quennell I am 14 years old, I travel with my guardian spirit Lester, and Aaralyn Ali and her guardian spirit Angeni. I guess this whole situation was all started with us both wanting to join the shaman fight. We were both raised in an orphanage, I was brought there at the age of two the only thing anyone knew for sure about me was the last name of my parents, so I pretty much was given the name Remington by the care takers. When I was three an infant who's father had abandoned the teenage mother, and the mother delivered the child but died before the night had passed only leaving her child a name. The mother was astringed and the other members of the family wished nothing to do with the child named Aralyn, left her in the care of the orphanage."

"Keep going." Christine said

"Well her and I were pretty much as close as we were to any of the others growing up, or at least we weren't so close until I had turned five and Aaralyn three, each of us was seeing spirits and one of the care takers, Marina, a young lady in her early twenties, had noticed… before we knew it we had been tested to see if we were shamans of course the only person in the orphanage with any knowledge of this was Marina and the friends of hers she had brought us to see about being shaman. Of course we were indeed proved to be shamans. Through the years Marina had us trained by members of her family who were also shamans, she had mentioned the shaman tournament but we didn't really grasp it being as young as we were. Of course having something like that in common Aralyn and I had become very close friends. No one had wanted to adopt either of us for one reason or the other but it was all for the better.
Marina was also a shaman herself, her powers were very limited though, but she had said what she wanted to do with her power was pretty much find younger shamans who would have a good chance in the tournament, to carry out something she wanted to accomplish. Pretty much an end to orphan children, so kids without families could have what we had had, unlike most orphans Aaralyn and I were given a very happy childhood compared to the kids living on the streets and bouncing from foster home to foster home, Marina's wish was to end that and have a peaceful world for all."

"Dang it… mission world peace is going to really out do me." Blake said slightly joking

"Aaralyn and I received our guardian spirits before the tournament, Lester is my guardian spirit, a skilled gunman from the 70s and Angeni is a very special spirit of a shaman from 500 years ago who fought in the shaman tournament but failed to win, Angeni having fought in the last shaman tournament made it to patch Village so…"

"You mean… Angeni knows where Patch village is?" Christine asked

"Not just that, she was also a native American shaman fighter, from the Navajo Indian tribe, so she's very familiar with the landscape of America beyond our small town, at the very least, not with the roads having been built there are places that have been a bit harder to navigate but we've had the general idea this whole time, and would have already reached the village if it weren't for…"

"Weren't for what?" Blake asked

"If it weren't for me, Aaralyn and I were running low on money, money which Marina had been saving up just for the tournament she and her family knew it would only get us so far but Aaralyn and I had been taught a few tricks to raise money along the way, Aaralyn was taught how to dance and do flips and such, we always managed to pick up a few bucks with every town we passed through. I suppose we chose the wrong town to make a money stop at and ended up in a shaman fight with a few of the local shamans, they weren't much of a match for us, but I suppose we ticked the wrong people off when we didn't leave right after that.
The next day we came across a man named Dareh, he had thanked us for teaching the punks a lesson and offered us a place to stay for a while, and we were already well ahead on our trip so we agreed… or at least I convinced Aaralyn to agree… the first night we had stayed in his hotel we found ourselves locked in a room by a and seal of some type and our spirits gone. Dareh happened to be with the punks from earlier apparently a leader of some type. Dareh also happened to be a shaman, he wasn't a weak shaman like his friends either and we quickly figured that out. He had told us he was trying to get rid of competition and that if we didn't want to be the first he took out we would help him.
Up until yesterday we, had been forced to kill many people on their way to Patch village, most of them were very weak shamans that barley got through the first round and didn't stand a chance to Aaralyn and I who both, I don't mean to brag but we both won all the of our shaman matches with out much effort, I suppose Marina's family's training all those years has paid off.
Yesterday, Aaralyn and I both were sent after another shaman with Dareh coming along, His name was Asakura Hao, but before we got to him Aaralyn and I attacked Dareh who was off guard… it wasn't an easy fight and both of us almost lost our lives but somehow managed to kill Dareh and so that's pretty much it we had been walking all night I suppose Aaralyn's wounds weren't too bad but I tend to panic when anything happens to her and over react. I do think that without you all she wouldn't have made it though, and because of that I will follow you all to the ends of the earth, and do anything you ask me unless it's like what Dareh would have asked."

"THAT IDIOT SENT YOU AFTER HAO!" Christine said who was shocked anyone would think of doing anything like that
"Yeah." Remington answeared "What about him?"

"That guy is one of the most powerful shaman in the whole word if you had actually fought him you wouldn't have made it, sure you seem like you're both pretty skilled but Hao is something else too. He's extreamly dangerous noone has beat him in a one on one shaman fight, his guardian ghost is the Spirit of fire, it's huge." Blake said pretty much saying what he knew Christine would
"I've heard of a fire master, but I didn't know he was Hao. So anyway, how excatly can I make this all up to you all?" Remington asked

"Well if you and Aaralyn wouldn't mind and of course if it's alright with Angeni, you lead us to the location of Patch village and we'll call it even." Blake said
"Of course we will." Remington agreed
"Oh and one more thing…" Blake said his voice sounding very serious
"Anything,"
"Is it cool if I call you Remy…? I mean it's a lot shorter." Blake voice had went back to its normal tone
"Sure." Remington said

Hilda almost fell out of shock from hearing Blake sound all serious just to ask a thing like that, she had thought for sure the question would have been something besides about the name.
"Just so you all know Aaralyn's not much of a talker usually, but once she knows you all more she'll probably speak a bit more often."

The group stayed put for the night and Blake, Christine and Hilda told Remington and Aaralyn about their reasons for Blake being in the shaman fight and Christine and Hilda pretty much going to the fight, Aaralyn was pretty quiet but before the group all fell asleep that night she and Remington had fit right in. It was be about a few more days' worth of traveling to get to Patch Village but they all knew they'd get there with about a week to spare now so a lot of pressure was gone now.
Christine had felt like she had gotten a lot stronger since the start of the tournament, there was still Hao who was still a huge threat, and of course Jenna running around but with Blake, Hilda, Aaralyn and Remington all on the same side who knew maybe the group really did have a chance and they were about to get a chance to test out their skills as a team very soon.
It was two days after the group had met Remington and Aaralyn, Aaralyn had to have the stitches redone by a doctor at a town they all stopped by and both she and Remington picked up new clothes and everyone picked up extra food and such.

Hilda and Christine had walked into a small clothes shop to look around Aaralyn would have went with them but she just didn't like to go anywhere without Remington who was with Blake drooling over food.
"Hey, you by any chance Christine Weathers?" the woman at the front desk asked Christine
"Uhhh yeah she's me." Christine said
"I was told to give this to you, I don't have the name of who paid me he left before I could get it, but I figure you probably know who it was." She handed Christine a small box which Christine didn't waste any time opening there was a note neatly folded up in the box with a bracelet under it.

Hello again Christine,
I do hope you like this, Blue does seem
to be your color after all. Good to see
that you are once again in good company
I just thought I would send you this to
let you know I'm watching, and it's pretty
hard to get most people to give a letter
to any random person, and I couldn't
entrust one of your friends to because
they are your friends after all and I
don't want my cover blown just yet.
Besides, I knew you couldn't resist
coming into a store like this.
Sincerely,
A Friend.

"You think it's real?" Christine asked Hilda lifting the bracelet out of the box
"Well he did give me 300 bucks for giving it to you so I guess it could be." The woman at the desk said
"Eh, aren't you a bit worried?" Hilda asked Christine after they left the shop
"Worried about what?" Christine asked
"I mean this guy, or whoever, they know a whole lot about you and you don't even know who they are, how do you know for sure you can trust them?"
Christine had never really thought of it that way before, there always was a chance that 'a friend' could have been an enemy "I don't, but so far only good's come out of it and I can only hope only good does come out of it, I have no real way of knowing who they are and from the looks of things if they wanted to cause any harm they already could have."
"Guess so, it's just weird is all." Hilda said

"There you two are." Aaralyn said to Christine and Hilda while looking down at the ground over towards Blake and Remington who were staring at anything and everything to do with food.
"I guess it's lunch time." Christine said looking at Hilda who only shook her head in a Why are men always hungry? way.

After the group had lunch they set off to go straight to Patch Village, no more stops would be needed now. It was about 4 pm and the group was deciding if they should stop for the night or not."Well I say we go at least for another hour worth of walking, as long as everyone thinks they can handle it." Hilda said

"Well if you all want to stop here I'll be glad to start a show." Everyone looked over to see who Blake, Christine and Hilda recognized as the one and only Charger Chester
"Not you again." Blake said
"See you got some new pals… oh well the more the more shocking." Charger said
"Is that a challenge?" Remington asked
"Remy I…" Aaralyn said
"It'll be alright." He reassured her
"Of course this is a challenge… all of you against me." Charger smirked
"If you say so." Blake said

One by one they all oversouled, Hilda oversouled Drotoro into her bass guitar, Blake put Skya in his knife like always, Christine decided to oversould Koncho into Elizabeth's sward Remington oversouled Lester into his handgun and Aaralyn put Angeni into her ribbon.
They all took a turn trying to hit Charger but instead hitting his electric shield so he wasn't effected.

"Wait… remember when Hilda threw rocks at him?" Blake asked
"Umm yeah and?" Christine said
"Electricity can't possible harm rocks, so all we have to do is break his force field…"
"And after that his furyoku will be about gone and he'll only have enough for maybe one attack or two." Hilda finished for Blake who had already thrown a few rocks at charger they hit him but his shield didn't break open for long without closing back up.
"Wait, rocks might be able to penetrate it but they can't break it because they don't have spiritual energy attached to them. Blake throw another rock… but I'll shoot right when the force field opens and that should be enough to break it." Remington made a good point

Trying that worked and did break the force field but charger laughed
"I guess it's time I should start doing more than standing here." He said before starting to play his guitar, Hilda tried to counter him by playing her bass guitar
"Don't you know lead guitar always outdoes Base… I've gotten a lot stronger I hope you all know." Charger laughed

Charger managed to break Hilda's oversoul first and she didn't have enough furyoku to reengage an oversoul, Blake made a foolish move and used a very powerful attack which did a good bit of damage to charger but exhausted him furyoku using it which left Christine Remington and Aaralyn, Aaralyn who was the next to go because she had miscalculated an attack and was already low on furyoku before she knew it she had taken and hit and was down.

"You did not just…" Remington said giving Charger a glare
"What are you going to do about it?" Charger asked "This is a song you might recognize… or at least relate to." Charger laughed before he started rapidly hitting his guitar and yelling
"ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST… YEAH YEAH NOTHER ONE DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN ANOTHER ONE EATING DIRT!" the ground started shaking Charger really had gotten stronger Christine looked over to see Remington has passed out on the ground trying to block the song out of his head and had wasted his energy.

"Crap I'm the only one left." Christine said, she knew she had to do something, she couldn't let Charger beat them all he kept singing, but for some reason the noise seemed to get quitter
"THAT'S IT!" Hilda said "It's his ego Christine the more it goes up the more furyoku he loses!"

Christine used this break she had, she started concentrating her furyoku and added a little more slowly into her oversoul, before she knew it she was pretty high off the ground. This was slightly cool because she was using a big oversoul like what the x-laws used but on the bad part she didn't like heights.

"IT'LL BE COOL JUST DON'T LOOK AT HOW FAR YOU ARE FROM THE GROUND!" Hilda yelled up to Christine
"T-thanks Hilda…" Christine said
"What the FUCK!" Charger said "HOW THE HELL DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT YOU BASTARD!"

"I don't know don't blame me." Christine said "Ok Koncho let's see what we can do…" She sent a Blast straight for Charger it hit, he managed to get back up but had used so much furyoku earlier his oversoul only flickered and he tried one last attack which didn't even make it up to where Christine was.
"DAMN YOU!" Charger cursed.
"D-dose this mean we won?" Christine asked Hilda
"Yes it means we won." Hilda said
"Good but… I don't know how to get down."
"Just disengage your oversoul that should work" Blake said "Least, that's what the x-laws always did."

Christine tried it and before she even realized it she was on the ground
"That was scary." Was all she could manage to say once she was on solid ground.
"DAMN IT!" Charger cussed again
"Geze Charger chill, so you got beat, we wouldn't have been able to do it alone…well after we all learn to use the big oversouls we will." Blake said
"We'll be able to do even more than that." Remington smirked
"So I suggest you stop trying to pick fights with us." Hilda laughed
Charger sighed "Fine, you all won this time but I'm going to learn to use that oversoul type and then you'll see." He walked off yet again

"Christine that was awesome!" Aaralyn said
"No it was scary…" Christine said
"What exactly did you do?" Remington asked
"Uhh I just sorta' focused my furyoku into my oversoul and ended up like that."
"WAIT!" Blake said
"What is it?" Hilda asked
"I remember this, I was going to learn how to do it before I got kicked out of the x-laws, I guess I forgot about it after I left, but I bet I'm strong enough to do it now."
"Good thing someone around here knows what they're doing." Christine said joking

It wasn't long before everyone in the group could use the big oversouls they knew Patch Village couldn't be much further and if they did everything right maybe less than a day or two.

I'll be putting bios in for Hilda AND Charger in the chapters they came into the story in once the document editor is no longer wierd.

Name: Remington Quennell aka Remy
age: 14
Spirit: Lester: gunman
Weapon: Hand-gun
Looks: Usually well-kept blue hair, Blue eyes average hieght and weight.
Persona: Well mannered most of the time, very pretective of Aaralyn whom he has always had a bit of a crush on, if he thinks he owes someone something he will go to the ends of the earth to repay them.

Name: Aaralyn Ali
Age: 12
Spirit: Angeni: shaman fighter, from the Navajo Indian tribe
Weapon: Ribbon when oversouled becomes like wire
Looks: Long Pink hair and Pink eyes average height, slightly skinny for her age
Persona: Very shy, even around close friends she's not much of a talker unless she needs to be for the situation, usually has good sence but also tends to not want to try anything that could be slightly risky fearing the outcome. (Really like "Remy" and has since they were both very young but is too afraid to say anything to him)