Hao holds Horo-Horo shirt and points his flaming hand to him. Horo-Horo woke up with the heat. He took a time to realize what was happening.
"HAO!" Horo-Horo screamed. Hao makes an evil smile. Horo-Horo put his hand on his pocket, searching for his amulet, but it was not there.
"I wanna see what 'you' are going to do now!" Hao shot Horo-Horo. The Ainu was thrown through the window and hit the floor. Horo-Horo felt a huge pain on his back. Kororo appeared near him, worried. Horo-Horo looks up and sees Hao emerging within a storm of flames. Hao floats near Horo-Horo. The Ainu didn't know what to do. Hao seemed determinate to kill him at any coast. Ryou, Chocolove, Amat, Yoh and Len woke up with the noise.
"What was that?" Amat asked.
"That's Hao." Len said. Amat looked to him. "He's a very powerful shaman who holds the Spirit of Fire. Hao's goal is to win the Shaman tournament and destroy all the humans."
"We need to help Horo-Horo!" Yoh looked to Amat. "Stay here. You unknown Hao's powers." All ran near Horo-Horo. Hao looked to them.
"Nothing will stop me now. Not even you!" Hao grabs Horo-Horo with his hand on fire. Horo-Horo felt his skin burning.
"Bushin!" Len send his attack to Hao, but the shaman, with just a look, stopped the attack and fireback Len. Len hits the ground, unconscious.
"Len!" Amat ran to him. Len looked awful. Yoh looks to Len and then send an angry look to Hao.
"You'll pay for this!" Yoh spitted. "Amidamaru!" The samurai spirit appeared. Yoh was about to do his possession when he felt something binding him.
"Master Yoh, what's wrong?" asks Amidamaru. Yoh puts his hand on the neck. Some blue lights appeared around him. They looked like a bend from Heaven, full of stars. The light concentrated and formed what appeared to be a huge blue snake. Yoh couldn't breath. Chocolove and Ryou didn't know were to turn. Would they help Horo-Horo, who was about to have a painful dead in Hao's hands, or Yoh, who suddenly was attacked by a nowhere serpent?
"Yoh!" Chocolove came near Yoh, trying to release him from the serpent, but it was useless. Yoh was trying to breath, but no air entered in his body. Amat put her hand on her mouth, shocked with the incidents. Hao was looking worried to Yoh; perhaps he didn't want to see him dead. Yoh stops struggling against the serpent. His eyes lost the bright. Yoh's hands fell and he faints. Hao drops Horo-Horo and makes an unfriendly face. The serpent didn't release Yoh and continues avoid him to breath. Hao was even angrier.
"You can stay with your puppet, but I had not given up the idea of having you again." Hao flames and disappears. The blue serpent releases Yoh and he falls on the ground. Ryou caught him, trying to reanimate his friend.
"D.Yoh!" Yoh was unconscious. Horo-Horo got up and run to him.
"Yoh! Say something!" Horo-Horo shacked Yoh, but he continued fainted.
Len woke up and sees Amat with tears on her face. Len blushed. Amat smiles to him.
"I'm happy you had wakened." Amat says. Len looks to her and gets up. The Chinese sees Yoh and became worried. "A blue serpent appeared and struggled him." Len runs to Yoh.
"Yoh!" Len grabs his friend. "Talk to me!" Yoh starts coughing. All smiled. Yoh opens his eyes and looks to them peacefully, suddenly, he remembers something.
"And Hao?" Yoh looks aside and sees Horo-Horo safe and sound. "Why did he want to kill you?"
"I don't know! I've just waked up and saw him ready to hit me!" Horo-Horo explained.
"You didn't you strike back?" Len asked.
"I…" Horo-Horo remembered he lost his amulet. Amat remembered that Horo-Horo forgot something on her bedroom. She puts her hand on the pocket and takes the wooden pattern stick. Horo-Horo was trying to find an excuse to give to his friend when Amat appears near him.
"I guess…" Amat blushed. "This belongs to you. You may let it fell when you were on my bedroom." Horo-Horo blushed a lot. Chocolove and Ryou send him a bad look. "You use that to do your possession, don't you?" Horo-Horo didn't answer. He still thinking Amat was finding a big jerk.
"The next time, try to be more careful, you were getting all of us killed." Len warned. Horo-Horo looks to him, sad with himself. Amat smiles to him. Horo-Horo felt better.
"Well, let's sleep and hope Hao not to come again." Yoh said. All went to their beds.
Somewhere in the middle of the desert, Hao appeared, angry with himself. Hao seemed sorry for something. He released a sad sigh.
"I was so stupid!" Hao screamed. Hao looked to the shiny moon. "Why have you done that?"
The next day, Yoh and his partners left the inn and put the foot on the road. Ryou was always trying to impress Amat, telling her the deeds he preformed when he was in Japan. Amat was paying a lot of attention, thing noticed by Chocolove, who decided to tell her some stupid jokes. Surprise of the surprises, Amat found them funny. Yoh was felling a lot better about Amat. He decided to forget what had happened the last night and think in Anna every time he saw Amat's big breasts. Horo-Horo continued very hesitating about speaking with Amat. Len seemed to be the only one who continued to act normal, but the Chinese also felt something strange about their new comrade.
"And you, Miss Amat?" Ryou asked. Amat was laughing from one of Chocolove's jokes. "There's something fun from your life that you wanna join with us?" Amat makes a sad face, but with a smile. Yoh remembered what she told him.
"My life… let's say the best part of it is yet to come." Amat looks to them and then to Horo-Horo, who avoid any eye contact with the girl.
"Pity…" Ryou said. "In that case, let's try to make some good memorable moments!" Amat looks to him.
"AH!" Chocolove screamed. All looked to him.
"What's wrong?" Horo-Horo asked. They look forward and see a band of people dressed in white with X drawn on their clothes. The X-Laws. Yoh, Ryou, Len and Horo-Horo send a bad look to Lyserg.
"What do you want now?" Yoh asked. Marco looks to him.
"We know that Hao tried to kill one of you this night." He said. Horo-Horo looked to them. How could they know that? "We'll ask you for the last time. Join us and fight at our maiden's side."
"I'll not!" Yoh said. Marco became mad.
"As you wish. You may know that now you're our target, such as Hao." Marco looked better to the group and sees Amat. "If I was you, I'll leave Yoh's side." Amat found that question strange. "Lyserg, why don't you show them our power?" Lyserg step forward, avoiding looking directly into Yoh or other of his former comrades. Lyserg points his pendulum to Yoh and Morphine appears. Lyserg shots and the pendulum was about to hit Yoh but turns to Amat. She was about to get hit but Horo-Horo puts his snowboarder in front of her. But the attack didn't hit it. Morphine stopped. The pink fairy got out of the pendulum. Lyserg was caught by surprise.
"Morphine? What're you doing Morphine? Attack her!" Lyserg ordered. Morphine flies near Amat and looks to her a little blushed. Amat blushed too. Morphine starts tearing, such as Amat. The fairy flies and hugs Amat. The girl hugged her carefully but with a lot of care. None was catching what was going on.
"You know Morphine?" Chocolove asked. Amat caresses Morphine's hair.
"Let's say I met her long ago…" Amat cried. Morphine gives Amat a kiss in her face.
"Morphine!" Lyserg called. Morphine looked worried to Lyserg and then to Amat.
"Go to him. It's better!" Amat said. Morphine gave her another kiss and flew back to Lyserg. The British was worried with his spirit. Why did Morphine stop the attack? Marco looked to Lyserg and then to Amat. Horo-Horo was looking to Amat, worried with her.
"I guess our warn was already heard. Let's go!" Marco and Lyserg left. Yoh saw then leave and then looked to Amat.
"Why did Lyserg attack you?" Yoh asked. Amat looked to him.
"I don't know." She answered. Horo-Horo had his breathing a little speedy. Amat noticed that. She smiles. "Thank you for protecting me." Horo-Horo blushed a little.
"It… I… that was nothing…" Horo-Horo said, with some fear about what Amat could think of him. Amat got closer to him.
"It was very brave."
"Oh… I… I mean…" Horo-Horo was so embarrassed he didn't know what to say. "It was just… I…" Amat gave Horo-Horo a kiss in the face. Horo-Horo stopped speaking and blushed a lot. Chocolove and Ryou got very jealous. "You kissed me!" Horo-Horo said. Amat looked to him.
"Why? You didn't like it?" Amat asked.
"Yeah… Ah! I mean…" Horo-Horo had the impression he was doing a very stupid act.
"Let's go. The tournament doesn't wait." Len said, walking through them. Horo-Horo sent a shy look to Amat. She smiled and followed Len. The group continued their journey.
At night, the group stopped in a forest nearby and decided to go to sleep. Yoh lied near a tree and yawns.
"D. Yoh, do you think it stills missing a lot of time to reach the Patch village?" Ryou asked. Yoh looked to the stars above him.
"That's the wonderfulness part of it. We don't know! Let's sleep!" Yoh turns his head aside and tries to sleep and then he sees Horo-Horo looking to Amat, who was already in the dreaming land. Yoh realized in that moment that Horo-Horo had a crush on Amat. The Japanese just wished that Amat could feel the same as Horo-Horo; otherwise, he would suffer a lot.
Hours later, they still were sleeping. Horo-Horo woke up. He yawns and looks aside, watching Amat sleeping. The Ainu crawls to her. She was sleeping like a lamb. Horo-Horo starts breathing quicker. He put his hands on Amat's face and gets closer to her. Horo-Horo blushed a lot. He lowers his head and focus in Amat's mouth. She looked so beautiful sleeping. Horo-Horo was about to kiss her but she starts speaking in Chinese. Horo-Horo looked puzzled at her. Amat starts crying while asleep. Horo-Horo cleans her tears.
"Why is she crying?" Horo-Horo asked. "I wish I could see what's worrying her."
Amat was on her dream. She was in old England. A very big mansion in front of her was burning a lot. She wanted to get inside, but someone stopped. A man dressed like a Chinese warlord was avoiding her to do any madness.
"Let me in!" Amat screamed. The Chinese man continued holding her. "Morphine! My Morphine! Suu! Let me go!"
"Don't be stupid! You'll die!" the man said.
Horo-Horo heard a familiar voice. The Ainu looks aside and sees Len, also speaking in Chinese. Horo-Horo was finding that very strange. If both Len and Amat were sleeping, how could they dialog with each other?
Back to Amat's dream, she was trying to enter in the burning house. She and the Chinese heard someone laughing. They turn aside and see a patch who looked a lot like Silva and Hao at the same time.
"Why am I not surprised?" the Chinese said. Amat continued looking to the burning house, crying a lot. The patch looks to them.
"Now your happiness disappeared. I killed your daughter." The patch said and the Spirit of Fire appears behind him. Amat send him a mad look. "See Suu, how it pains to have someone you loved taken away." The Chinese looks to him and then to Amat.
"Let's go, unfortunately there's nothing we can do about Morphine."
"Morphine… was not Suu's daughter…" Amat whispers, looking for the patch with her angry blue eyes. The patch stops laughing and makes a serious face then a panic one. They hear a noise and see a spirit who looked like the Spirit of Fire but yellow and with different patterns. The Spirit of Air screamed and then disappeared. Amat starts crying a lot, hugging Suu and grabbing his clothes. Outside her dream, she was hugging Horo-Horo's clothes, crying and screaming a lot, waking up everybody. "Morphine!"
"Amaterasu!" Len screamed and woke up. Yoh looks to him.
"I don't know you were Shintoist?" Yoh asked. Len looked to him.
"No… it's just that…" Len looked to Amat, who stilled asleep. Amat was pulling Horo-Horo's clothes.
"Morphine! My Morphine!" Amat was struggling a lot.
"Calm down! You're fine! Wake up" Horo-Horo hugged Amat. She woke up. Amat relaxed a lot when she felt the warm of Horo-Horo's body. "You have nothing to fear. I'll protect you." Horo-Horo said. Amat was scared, but in Horo-Horo's arms, she felt like nothing could go wrong. Yoh and the rest of the group decided not to ask her about what happened to spare her for any bad feelings. Amat seemed fine after a while. Yoh looks to her.
"I guess we can all go back to sleep. Will you be fine?" Yoh asked. Amat says yes. Yoh got back to his tree, such as everybody. Horo-Horo was getting up, but Amat pulled him. The Ainu looked to her.
"Stay with me. Please." She asked. Horo-Horo looked to her and lied with Amat. She leans her head on Horo-Horo's shoulder, looking to his eyes. Amat blushed looking to Horo-Horo's mouth. Horo-Horo also blushed a lot. He was looking to Amat's mouth with a big will of kissing it. Horo-Horo stayed like that for a while. Amat smiled thinking 'He's being so romantic, taking all that time to kiss me. Oh! He's so adorable.' Amat starts closing her eyes. Horo-Horo was thinking 'God… I don't know how to kiss her right! I cannot fail; otherwise, she'll think I'm not Horo-Horo but Boroboro. (Boroboro means jerk.) Well, let's do this.' Horo-Horo takes a deep breath and kisses Amat's lips. The two were enjoying that moment a lot, under the starish sky and the tree's leaves.
Hao and Opacho were in the middle of the desert. Opacho was crying a lot. Hao was looking to the emptiness of the desert.
"That, Opacho, was the second and last mistake I made in all my lives." Hao said. Opacho looked to him.
"That's so sad, Mr Hao." Opacho cried. Hao makes an angry and frustrated face and starts screaming. A very strong wind rises near him pulling everything up. All in a block around Hao starts burning. Hao stops screaming but the flames continued burning. Hao was looking up while his hair was floating with the wind.
"I'll have you again, even if for that I need to let Yoh die…" Hao said. "Losing half of my soul is nothing comparing to the loss I had when I lost you." Hao continued burning and destroying everything around him.
Amat woke up and saw Horo-Horo sleeping and snoring, hugging her. Amat smiled and kissed Horo-Horo lips.
"If you are Ainu… then… Who's the one who cries for his lost love?"
Inside a big airplane, Marco, Lyserg and the rest of the X-Laws kneeled down near an iron sarcophagus.
"My maiden, we've found who you were searching for." Marco said. A voice came out the sarcophagus.
"Good job." The voice said. "Hao's death is near and I'll find out the answer…" The girl inside the sarcophagus looks to a name written in the inner part of the iron jail. It spelt 'Amaterasu Tao'. The iron maiden closes her eyes. "Of my past and why Hao burned my home."
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