Yoh and his friends stood in front of a large mountian area, having safely made it more than half way to where Anna was. She was just beyond this large stretch of mountainous land, but Yoh had remembered the letter, and that it had told of tasks he had to complete before he reached her. He had not had to indure anything so far, so he knew that the worst was yet to come.

So there they all stood, Ren, Horo, Ryu, and Faust,having beenthe only people who could make it. Their 'trip' had been going smoothly, but it appeared that they had just met with thier first obsticle, the largest mountains in all of Tokyo. There was no beginning and no end; no entrance and no exit. It was impossible for them to climb over them, even if they used their shamanic powers, and they were too thick to simply blast away. This was going to pose as a major problem, especially if this was only the first of many things to come.

The shamans were silent for a moment, thinking about any possible ways to get around it, but it was also too wide for that. After a few minutes of hesitation, eventually they came up with the idea of splitting up and seperately searching the entire area. They all went their seperate ways, looking for some way to get past all of this.

Eventually, after searching for almost an hour, Faust was the one that found a way around, or acually through, the mountain. As it turned out, there was a hidden passageway in the middle of a small mountainous cliff near where they had started looking. No one would have seen it unless they looked very closely, and no one would have wanted to got through it unless they had to. In this case, it was there last choice.

Yoh was the first one to enter the extremely cramped, in other words small, area that turned out to be much longer than they had thought. The tunnel at times seemed as though it was getting smaller, but when they were about to turn back because of lack of oxygen, another passage seemed to open up all of a sudden. And before they knew it, they were ariving at a large, or at least larger than where they had just been, enclosure. There was a lake in the middle of a room-like space, and there was also only one exit, which was right across the room. It seemed easy enough, just get to the opposite side and leave.

They started for the exit, but were all caught off guard by seven men, all presumably from Hao's team, which was easy to tell, seeing as they had fought them all beforehand. Ren snarled at the Peyote skeleton (episodes 59 and 60, or book 17), and the other six were all familiar as well. The shamans would have been able to take them on any day, but they were hit quickly with a surprise attack, knocking them all into the lake below. They tried to get back to the surface, but it appeared as though the lake had been frozen over, when in fact it had been covered by a thick layer of steel and bolted shut. They were trapped, and the only exit was one feet above then, beyond the unbreakable steel sheet.

Hao's group of shaman did not leave the scene right away, on the contrary, they stayed by the lake for a few minutes, making sure that none of the shaman below was able to escape. When almostfour minutes had passed, and no motion from under the lake had been sensed, they left, more than likely to set the next deadly trap, should their enemies escape.

Meanwhile, from beneath the steel incasing, Yoh was frantic, Horo was going insane, Faust was trying dispite fearful odds to keep his faith in Elisa, and even Ren had lost his cool and was getting a bit jumpy. It had beenfive minutes, and even though they were shaman trained for this sort of thing, they were still human, and therefore had little life left in them.

They all knew it was hopeless to try, for they had tried everything they knew, and nothing had worked. Yoh knew in his heart that this had been his fault, and that they were all going to drown, were drowning, because of his stupid mistake. He almost forgot about Anna, they were looking for her, but in the process, they had all fallen into Hao's trap. They would never make it out of this one, and even if they had, more deadly traps awaited them.

It was all over, their adventures, their fights, battles, what they had all been working for, the Shaman Fight, and what they had aquired in the process, friendship. Now they all knew that it was time to let all of that go; what had they been trying to work for anyway? Only one could be the Shaman King, so what were they doing? They had come together during the tournament, but now it was all about something more. They had found what they were looking for, and now their lives were fullfilled. They did not even try their hardest when they were trying to get out of the steel trap; there was nothing left to fight for, and nothing left to live for.

Yoh turned to his friends, who nodded as though knowing what he was going to say before he had to say anything. It seemed too early, but they knew they had to say goodbye. Goodbye to all memories, everything. They were as ready as they could be, all except for Yoh; he still had one attatchment to this world.

He turned to his friends and, with one last gesture said: "I'm sorry everyone, this was all my fault..." although they could not hear him, they knew what he meant, and this was more than that, it was a way for him to get out what he had on his mind, "And I am sorry to you too, I failed you... Anna."