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Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King; I don't even own Ramius who's somewhat like the devil…

Chapter Four: First Kills; the Capture

Yoh woke up to the sound of a gunshot and a scream. His eyes snapped open as he saw the body of Manta covered in blood, a bullet in the shape of a small sword that seemed to pierce his shoulder. He looked at his hand and saw that he held a gun that was smoking, teaming with furyoku. Had this meant that he had killed Manta? Yoh heard the sudden sound of shifting. He looked at Manta as he saw him backing away from him. Yoh put the gun to his side as Amidamaru suddenly came out.

"Yoh-dono, why did you disengage the oversoul? The shaman is still alive!" he yelled. So that was what Ramius did to Amidamaru: he made him into a killer samurai ghost who wants the same thing I want, Yoh thought.

"Why…why are you doing this Yoh-kun?" Manta asked, breathing fast. Yoh sighed and aimed the gun at Manta, oversouling Amidamaru into it.

"I'm doing this for Anna, Manta. Please understand," He closed his eyes and looked away before pulling the trigger.

From afar, Hao heard a gunshot and a scream. He looked beyond the sun that was slowly rising. Suddenly a shadow appeared behind him.

"Hao-sama…do you think he knows what he's doing?" the shadow asked.

"Go away; I wish to be alone," he replied coldly. The shadow bowed as it disappeared. Hao stood up and suddenly smashed the rock wall beside him, making it break into tiny pieces. He ignored the blood on his fist and looked at the sky.

"Yoh you baka!" he yelled out in anger.

Yoh slung his backpack onto his shoulder, holding the gun in the other hand, and walked down the street. He had taken Manta's heart and put it in a jar where he put it inside his backpack, along with a couple of empty jars. He didn't worry about the gun, though. He had received a letter from Ramius saying that the gun was actually the mortuary tablet in which he kept Amidamaru. He could change the tablet into a gun when he wanted to kill someone. He quickly broke into a sprint, heading to the graveyard.

He approached Ramius' mausoleum and saw another door that was completely made of bones. Yoh looked at Amidamaru who nodded and turned knob of the skull door and opened it, revealing a dark room. He calmly entered, knowing who was there. He closed the door and slowly took the jar with Manta's heart that was surprisingly still beating from his pack. He carefully took the heart out of the jar.

"Here is the first heart, Ramius!" he said, his voice echoing. Yoh heard a low hiss, easily recognizing it. He smirked as a black snake he knew as Ramius slithered out from the darkness.

Good, Asssakura, very good. You took the heart ssso easssily… he said before taking the heart and pulling it to the darkness. Ramius also disappeared into the darkness, Yoh knowing he should stay where he was. After a few minutes of the sounds of a creature devouring something Ramius came out of the dark again, blood dripping from his mouth.

For that, Asssakura, you should be awarded, he said, a small bright flame appearing beside the snake.

"What's that beside you, Ramius?" Yoh questioned.

Thisss…isss the furyoku of the ssshaman you killed. The bigger the flame, the more furyoku the ssshaman hasss, he replied.

'I can imagine Hao's flame now…' Yoh thought. The flame entered Yoh, he himself feeling more furyoku stored inside him. Ramius thanked him again before dismissing him.

Silva sighed. He was to meet Yoh at an alley at three o' clock sharp. He sensed something wrong would happen so he told Karim and another patch guardian to follow him. He was near the alley when he heard a crashing noise to his left. He looked there and saw a shadow that seemed to hold a gun. The shadow seemed to look at Silva as it ran to the alley where Silva was to meet Yoh. He quickly ran after the shadow, fearing that he would kill Yoh. As he turned to the left the next thing Silva saw was the gun pointed at him.

"Move a step and you die," the one holding the gun said. Silva directed his eyes at the face of this person and saw that it was Yoh.

"Yoh? What is the meaning of this? I thought…" Silva began.

"I was going to speak to you for something important? Indeed we are, Silva. The thing we will talk about is how they will do your funeral!" Yoh said pulling the trigger. In time Karim and the other patch guardian jumped from below and managed to pin down Yoh, the small sword-like bullet only going through Silva's arm. Karim hit Yoh on the head hard enough to knock him out but not so hard that he cracked his skull. He took him and put him over his shoulder holding the gun in his other hand as the other guardian took the unconscious Silva and teleported to Patch Village.

Karim threw Yoh in front of Goldva. Yoh was handcuffed, chained and looked like he was tortured.

"Karim, please state why our shaman king is before me in chains," Goldva said.

"Goldva, I have witnessed him trying to kill Silva." Karim said firmly. The shamans in court whispered to each other in disbelief. Others seemed enraged by this statement, saying that what Karim said was a lie. Goldva was irritated by the noise and banged the mallet on the plank.

"Order, order in the court!" that silenced everyone in the court.

"Asakura Yoh, how do you plead?" Goldva questioned. He stayed silent.

"Answer Asakura!" Karim hollered. Yoh smirked.

"Guilty. What Karim said is true; I did try to kill Silva," he said. Gasps came from the mouths of the shamans. Goldva, again irritated, silenced them.

"Karim, where is the weapon Asakura used?" Goldva questioned. Karim took something from his poncho and threw it in front of Yoh. It was a mortuary tablet.

"He tried to kill Silva with a mortuary tablet? Ha, even a snail could think of a better way of killing him off!" Goldva laughed, the others followed suit. Karim frowned before kicking Yoh in the gut, everyone gasping. He doubled over, giving Karim a lethal glare. The mortuary tablet suddenly changed into a gun. The expression on Goldva's changed.

"I see…a weapon in disguise…throw him in Patch prison until I can think of an execution…case closed." Goldva decided, hammering the mallet for the last time. Karim sighed in joy and called for two Patch guardians. They quickly came and dragged Yoh out of the court.

Yoh looked out the window. So far he was the only one in what Goldva called 'Patch prison.' He had to get Anna back so he had to kill a thousand shamans. He was nowhere near the number at this point but he could think of a way to bring at least a hundred to him but after every shaman hearing him admit he killed Silva he was now on the crime list. As he tried to figure a way on how to get out and kill Silva he heard the sound of footsteps. This was his chance. He quickly leaned on the wall and put his head down, making him look like he was asleep. Two guards walked in front of his door, talking about him and Silva.

"Looks like he'll be in for a surprise when he wakes up…if he can, of course…"

"Hmph, Asakura will get what he deserved. Trying to kill one of the ten Patch guardians…yup, he definitely deserves the execution of garrote,"

"Say, what happened to Silva?"

"They say they're currently healing him in some hut a few blocks down this prison,"

"And what of the young shaman's so-called 'weapon?'"

"I think the mistress kept it after court,"

Yoh was definitely lucky today. Now was his chance to get out. He quietly got up and slowly crept nearer to the cell door as the guards chatted pleasantly. Yoh slowly reached for the Utsu no Metameno Tsurugi and quietly put Amidamaru into it. With one Shinkuu-Buttagiri he killed the two guards. He took the keys from one of the guards and unlocked the door to leave in a hurry, not forgetting to get their hearts.

Goldva walked downstairs to the chambers that were the prison cells. She had decided to take Yoh to the execution area and kill him there. The sooner the execution, the better and safer it was for everyone anyway. Goldva was suddenly pushed down on the floor. When she looked up she saw that Yoh had done it.

"But how did you…" she began as Yoh put the oversouled Utsu no Metameno Tsurugi at Goldva's throat. Goldva looked behind Yoh and saw that the two guards were dead, their throats slit.

"Give me the gun…or you die. And no funny business; I mean it," he threatened, the last part added with a layer of venom. She quickly reached into her poncho.

"You will gain nothing if you do this, Asakura. You will be caught again," she said throwing the gun at Yoh who caught it with precise precision. He let go of the oversoul, Goldva sighing. He then oversouled Amidamaru into the gun, pointing it at the old cornered woman.

"I will gain something from this; I will get Anna back and your petty warnings won't stop me from doing so," Yoh spat out, pulling the trigger.

After a while, Hao stood up and walked to the edge of a cliff.

"Opacho, please stay here," Hao said.

"But where is Hao-sama going?" Opacho asked. Hao turned around and knelt down to Opacho's height.

"I'll be visiting a few places but don't worry," he said getting up and jumped off the cliff, the Spirit of Fire catching him as he fell.

"I'll come back," he continued as he flew away from the cliff.

Karim held Silva's hand tight. The healers said that Silva was okay and would wake up in a few hours or so.

"Be strong, my friend…I must go now but I will come back," Karim said letting go of his hand and leaving the hut Silva was in. An hour after Karim had left Yoh entered the hut. He quickly ran to Silva and shook him.

"Silva, Silva, wake up!" he whispered. Silva blinked hard before jumping a few feet into the air when he saw Yoh.

"Don't kill me!" he shouted.

"Don't kill you? Why would I? Silva, I think you were dreaming," Yoh said. It took him a few minutes to calm Silva down. When he finally calmed down, Yoh explained why he was in the hut and how he got the wound in a different way, of course. After a while, Silva stood up.

"I think I'm ready to go out now…though I might need a bit of help," Silva decided.

"Okay, I'll help you!" Yoh said cheerfully. He carefully let Silva out of the hut.

"I thank you, Yoh," Silva said. Yoh nodded and gave a smile.

"Then perhaps you can do me a favor," he said.

"And what favor would that be?" Silva asked. Yoh smiled as he quickly pulled out his oversouled gun and pointed it at Silva's surprised face.

"You can die now," he said pulling the trigger.

Hao jumped off the Spirit of Fire and eventually found his way to Patch Village. When he got there, the whole place was a lot like a ghost town. The next thing he saw were bloodied corpses that littered the ground. He did not like the way this was going. He then heard a scream that even sent the chills up his spine. Hao quickly ran to the direction where he heard the scream and saw Silva with a pained face. He then saw why. Yoh had put is hand into Silva's body. Yoh quickly took his hand out of his body, holding Silva's beating heart as the body fell down lifelessly. Yoh noticed Hao and pointed the gun at him.

"Hao…we meet again…as you predicted," he panted.

"Did you kill everyone in this village?" Hao asked.

"Every single one. Even the children," Yoh said a maniacal look on his face. He then remembered that he was supposed to kill his brother last because, after all, he was the one who killed Anna. He put down the gun and walked past his brother, stopping in front of a teleporting device.

"I shall come back for you later when I have taken more hearts," he said before teleporting. Hao's face had a sad expression on it; as much as he wanted his brother's power he still cared deeply for him.

"Ah, my brother…you will soon learn that what you have done was wrong…but by the time you realize that, you'll be gone…" Hao said to himself before jumping onto the Spirit of Fire, flying out of the corpse-littered village.

Author's notes: Was this a bit too gory? Well at least it was longer…a bit…Please R&R!

-LazyShamaness