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Hao's new destiny. Part 13.

At the Moonflow…

Yoh smiled, as he looked out over the Moonflow, feeling, if possible, more relaxed then ever. Even Anna wasn't her usual bossy self, and was spending some time sat next to her husband, watching over the setting sun. Manta was doing some exploring. Horo-Horo was trying to look for a place where he could… well… mud board would be the best way to put it really. Ren was just sat away from the others, as though stuck in his own thoughts, whilst his sister Jun sat next to him with her Shaman spirit Li Pailong. Tamao and Pirika were sat by the waterside, chatting without a care in the world. Chocolove was telling rather un-funny jokes to any one who passed by. Faust and Eliza were stood further down the path, with their arms around each other in comfort. Ryo was also sat by the waterside, thinking whether the Moonflow was his happy place. Lyserg and Jenn-Chan were walking along the pathway, not disturbing anyone, chatting about themselves and their past, and every now and then, exchanging kisses.

The Moonflow really was a wondrous place to be.

"Don't think this means that you'll be slacking off more then usual." Anna suddenly piped up calmly. Yoh tried not to whinge, because he knew if he did, he'd receive the famous 'Anna slap'. And he didn't want that.

"But…" Anna continued. "Just for this one day… you can rest. But you know that tomorrow that means you're cooking lunch!"

Yoh grinned sheepishly at the thought of everyone complaining about how he still hadn't improved on his cooking, but he had to admit, for Anna, this was pretty fair!

Meanwhile… on the Thunder plains…

"YEARGH!" Tidus screamed as a huge lightning bolt struck him hard and sent him flying onto his stomach. Hao was about to laugh, but decided not to. After all, within the past 10 minutes, he'd been shocked about 12 times now. Tidus had only just got shocked, thanks to his quick agility.

If anyone was most scared by the lightning, it was Rikku. Every time there was a slight rumble, Rikku would scream, duck to the floor in fright and stay like that for about 5 seconds. The result was that the group were hardly getting anywhere.

"Come on Rikku!" Hao eventually snapped. "If you keep ducking and screaming, the longer we'll be out here!" He yelled this just as they got near to an inn. As soon as Hao had yelled this, the biggest lightning strike so far struck the closest tower to them. Rikku yelped and ducked to the floor again, but instead of staying still, like a lizard, she crawled across the muddy wet floor towards the rest of the group, and grabbed Tidus's leg for comfort. Tidus snapped, "Get off!" And started shaking his leg as the some cartoon dog was attached to it, not some little Al Bhed girl who had an obvious fear for lightning.

"Please, can we stop at the inn over there?" She begged, her swirly eyes blurred with tears. Hao felt rather sorry for Rikku, who obviously would of done anything not to get caught up in the lightning ever again.

Auron just rolled his eyes. "If we stop to rest, we'll only be stuck here longer."

Rikku whimpered, then cried, "Can we just stay there until the storm calms down?"

Auron was starting to look impatient. "This storm never stops. You can stay if you want, but we'll be going ahead."

Sarah didn't say anything. She was a little burnt from where she'd been struck a couple of times by lightning. Deep down, she was yearning for some rest too. Eventually, she called out, "But won't rest do us some good? If we try to continue fighting the fiends here without any rest, chances are we might get seriously injured. Also, we need to by more potions and stuff. We're running short."

Auron usually kept his cool, but now that a Sorceress was going against him, he was starting to grow cold. He snapped, "Fine! But only because I'm tired too."

Sarah beamed happily, though her smile didn't quite reach her eyes, which had remained still and emotionless. "Thank you." She replied, with a quick bow, before quickly running towards the inn, with Rikku taking the lead, and she was happily screaming, "THANK YOU!" Before almost throwing herself into the inn head first.

When they all got indoors, Tidus and Hao both noticed that Yuna was staying quiet and was isolating herself from the others. Sarah was doing no better. She was already on her way up to get a room for a hopefully long nap, before setting foot into the Thunder Plains.

Even though they were now indoors, Rikku was still shaking like a leaf, and whimpering every time lightning clashed into the towers outside. She nervously explained her fear. Her fear had been brought along from one of her childhood memories. When she'd been out swimming and had been attacked by a water fiend. In an attempt to protect her, someone had tried to get rid of the fiend with a Thunder spell. But it had missed, and hit Rikku instead.

Hao was rather touched that even happy, hyper people like Rikku had their fears. Hao had a funny suspicion that Tidus wasn't very fond of ghosts, from the fact that he seemed rather nervous about entering the Farplane.

Tidus suddenly nudged Hao and whispered; "I think there's something wrong with Yuna. Ever since that sending of Jyscal, she's been like some kind of mouse."

Hao had a sneaky suspicion that it had something to do with that sphere he'd seen her hold back in Guadosalam. "Let's go and ask her what's wrong. She might need some comfort."

Something odd happened though on the way to Yuna's room. Hao went dizzy in the head, and got a strange image in his head, that he felt he should have been angry about, but he didn't know why. It was a very quick flash of him walking towards Sarah's room back in Guadosalam. He was about to turn the corner into Sarah's room until…

"Hao, snap out of it, you're about to…" Tidus yelped, but it was to late. Hao had walked head first into the wall opposite Yuna's room. "… Walk into a wall." Tidus finished lamely, before slowly leaning against the door, trying to see if he could here anything. He could, a voice, but it certainly wasn't Yuna. The voice was a man's voice.

Hao grumbled and stood up, after falling to the floor in confusion from banging his head. Tidus seemed to busy trying to listen to the voices on the other side of Yuna's door.

Hao was unsure what to do. He knew this image meant something. He didn't think it was a flash of what was going to happen, and it certainly wasn't from the Present time, as they were no longer in Guadosalam. He decided eventually to go and ask Sarah, wondering if she'd have any ideas.

But when he got to her room, she wasn't there…

Meanwhile, in Yuna's room…

"Woah!" Tidus yelped as he did a forward roll into Yuna's room, by accident obviously. There was a gasp and a scream. Tidus frowned when he saw both Yuna and Sarah staring at him in shock. "PERVERT!" Sarah screamed, whacking Tidus over the head with the strange book she carried around. 'What the heck is that book anyway?' Tidus thought in confusion.

"What's going on?" Hao asked, running into the room. He sighed with relief when he saw that Sarah was there. He'd been worried for a moment that Sarah had been kidnapped or something.

"And what is that?" Tidus added, pointing to the sphere that was on a small table. Yuna noticed it was still playing, and as quickly as possible, switched it off. Sarah nervously started fiddling with her fingers, and quickly ran out of the room. Hao ran after her, still determined to ask about his strange vision. Yuna had look on her face that said, 'Thanks a lot Sarah, now I've got to lie without any support!'

Sarah quickly went back into her room and lay down on her bed. "What is it Hao?"

Hao quickly explained about his vision and how he was unsure what to think of it. Sarah seemed silent, also dead for a few minutes, until she piped up, "It's sounds like you got struck with some type of memory spell. They're very hard to learnt, and advanced black or white mage's are usually the ones who master that skill. But it looks like this one was only temporary, seeing as you're already having flashbacks of what could have happened. That explains why you couldn't remember a thing this morning. Only thing left to solve is… who cast the spell, and why?"

Hao had his suspicions, but he wasn't going to tell Sarah them. He knew he'd just get another telling off… but he had this horrible feeling in the back of his mind that he was right…

The next morning…

Hao was up and early, in hope that being wide-awake would bring back the rest of his missing memory. He dreamt a little more about his missing memory. This time, he'd been able to turn around the corner. He'd spotted Sarah lying asleep in her bed, with someone crouched down in front of her. But in the dream, the room had been so dark that he couldn't tell who it was…

"Hao! Snap out of your daydream! Everybody else has left you know!" Tidus bellowed through the door. Hao quickly shook his head in shock and yelped, "Oh… darn it!" Before running through the door… and forgetting that he was in the Thunder Plain's, meaning he was an easy target to the lightning…

"BAKA!" Sarah snapped loudly from the top of the hill. Hao just grumbled and went red that he was making a fool of himself. Why was he so bothered about this? If this had happened in front of people like Rikku, he wouldn't be bothered. He would of laughed along.

Crossing the rest of the Thunder Plains wasn't as hard as they'd anticipated. They cross it quicker because they knew the warning signs of when lightning was going to strike, and Rikku was trying her best not to freeze up at odd moments.

But as they travelled, getting closer to Macalania, Hao felt a horrible sense of foreboding about what was soon to happen…

In the Moonflow…

"KISAMA!" Ren roared in anger, banging his head anime style against Horo-Horo's.

"Er… guys, calm down, everybody's staring." Yoh mumbled weakly from the sidelines of another one of Ren and Horo-Horo's slanging matches.

"HE STARTED IT!" Horo-Horo claimed angrily. "He called Boro-Boro again! And on purpose!"

"Will you two calm down?" Jenn-Chan called softly. She was sat on the ground making what could only be described as a Moon lily chain. "I feel that we must save our energy for something big."

Ren just grumbled as the spike on his head shrunk down to its normal size and he stalked off to sit by the lakeside. Horo-Horo just smirked that Ren had given up and happily sat down next to Ryo.

Lyserg laughed. "Jenn-Chan, you should have been a pacifist! You'd be able to calm down a fight between a pair of chipmunks you would!" Jenn-Chan just sighed. "I didn't say that just to stop them from fighting. I really mean it. I feel we need to build up our energy."

Lyserg looked confused. "How can we? We no longer can fight along with our Shaman spirit's, and we don't have any proper weapons."

Jenn-Chan smiled almost to brightly. "That's what you think! We still have our Furyoku levels, don't we? They're just back at grade one, but we can easily re-build them up here! And then… hopefully, if we work together, we can break the barrier that stops our Shaman Spirit's from coming into this world."

Lyserg looked shocked. "But I thought Sarah said it was impossible!"

Jenn-Chan smiled, and cuddled Lyserg. "Well, Sarah isn't a Shaman. She doesn't quite understand our strength. However… she did tell me that to break the barrier would require a lot of Furyoku. And faith…"

Lyserg smiled and finished off with, "And we have plenty of that. Considering we use to be in the X-laws."

Jenn-Chan stood up, and said firmly. "Weapons, or no weapons, we still have our fists! As hard as it may seem, we're gonna have to train each other to build up our Furyoku again!"

"Training?" Yoh suddenly cried, looking terrified. Anna on the other hand, looked gleeful.

Look's like she was already planning how long they were gonna be training for…

Phew… I'm afraid updates have been slow because my witch of a history teacher gave my class the BIGGEST amount of coursework ever! I was only just about able to finish this before school started again! Anyway… hope you enjoy! Please review!

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