This chapter is long because it has many things from the manga, I just had to add it for this chapter
enjoy!
Chapter 6: All evil will be punished by the justice of light
MARIANA´S POV
"He´s the one who never learned
how to live like everyone else"
I sing softly, barely audible, lost in thoughts
"When there´s any kind of get-together
it´s his opinion that causes disorder
That´s him, he does it his way
Walking apart from the world´s road,
wherever should he go,
being associated with society
is not what does it for him"
"What are you singing?" Lyserg asks gently. I come back to the present. We are approaching where the Pache village is supposed to be. We´re travelling in the back of a bus, Lyser on my right, Ren on my left next to the window.
"Nothing, just a song I´m working on" I answer simply.
"Oh, I didn't know you could sing" Lyserg comments impressed "Or composed for that matter"
"Yeah, I´m not bad" I smile.
"Sing us something you wrote!" Horohoro shouts cheerfully from the other window.
"No way. I need a guitar for that"
"You also play the guitar?" Yoh asks curiously "That´s awesome"
"Oh, please sing something for us!" Ryu pleads.
"No, not now, we are busy looking for the Pache village" I say calmly "Maybe when we get there"
"Oh, okay" Ryu sounds disappointed.
"Did you listen that, Ren?" Yoh says excitedly "Mariana sings and plays the guitar"
"Yes, I know" He responds distractedly, looking at the road.
"What?! You sang to him and you´re not gonna let us hear ya?!" Horohoro complained.
"I said I´ll do it when get there" I tell him tranquilly "And Ren has been my friend for much longer than you guys. It´s only natural that he knew about it"
With an offended hmph! Horohoro looks away to talk to Yoh.
"Hey!" Ren speaks up suddenly, calling everyone´s attention "I think we´re here"
We all hurry to the left windows to look outside. We clearly see the ruins Lilirara mentioned. Ren makes space for me to watch better and immediately shoves Horohoro away, focing him to go to another window. I have to swallow the giggles at this.
"An ancient civilization" Ren observes seriously "The treasures of the past never cease to amaze me" There´s a fervent glint in his eyes. God, I´ve never seen someone so cultured and interested in history that´s not a nerd. It´s kind of cute, makes me smile.
In no time, we get off the buss and run fast to the ruins. Unfortunately, we immediately notice the place is full of tourists.
"Fuck tourism" Ren growls with a deep scowl "This is so irritating"
"Totally agree" I mutter a bit annoyed myself.
"Hey, guys!" We suddenly hear Yoh "Look at this, it says keep out" He points to a part of the ruins that indeed has a poster that reads keep out´.
"Ok, then. Let´s go in" Ren replies, a frown still in his face. I crack up laughing at this statement. That was sooo him.
"Eh?!" Horohoro looks at him disbelievingly. Yoh sweatdrops.
"What?" Ren snaps, already heading to the keep out place.
"Nothing" I follow him, still sniggering.
"Stop!" We turn around to look at the strange voice. Five weirdoes are standing there. One who appears to be Arabian is the one speaking "If you really want to go, will you join us?"
"Cool!" Yoh grins "They seem like nice people"
"Those are no tourists" Ren walks forward slowly, smirk in his face "Look closer. We´ve seen them before" I turn to look at the strangers and notice he´s right they do look familiar.
"It´s Hao´s men!" Ryu shouts anxiously.
"What do you want from us?" Yoh frowns, which honestly looks odd in him.
"The resemblance is uncanny" The Arabian states "You look just like your great ancestor, our lord Hao" Silence falls around us for a couple of seconds.
"No way!" I say loudly, even though I can see now that it does make sense, they look alike and Hao existed 500 years ago. That would explain Hao´s interest in Yoh.
"But how…" Yoh murmurs. The guys are all shocked.
"I can´t say more" The Arabian guy goes on "We have a mission here. We´re here to exterminate Yoh´s companions and give him some information" He finishes conversationally.
One of them that looks like a vampire advances quickly and attacks Lyserg. We can´t see what he does to poor Lyserg but it doesn't sound good, ´cause he screams.
"Bastard!" Ryu yells and runs to the vampire guy "Leave Lyserg alone!" Ryu´s about to hit him, but all of a sudden, the guy disappears and reappears behind Ryu.
"Fuck!" I curse loudly "How did he do that?" The guy strikes Ryu in the back, covers himself with his cape and disappears once again.
Yoh runs to Lyserg "Are you ok?" He crouches next to Lyserg. But he´s passed out.
"You´ll be lucky if he wakes up" The vampire block leers
"Shut up!" I shout and oversoul quickly, ready to attack. I throw one of my boomerangs perfectly aimed at him and this time we can all see unmistakably, his cape transforms in vampire wings, cover him and he disappears yet again.
"Such simple assaults wont work against a vampire" He declares haughtily. Swiftly, his wings spread and he levitates slowly.
"He´s flying!" Yoh shouts anxiously. Ryu attacks him once more.
"Ok we´ve seen enough" The Arabian man says "Lets go report" He turns to Yoh, who´s still is next to Lyserg "Master Yoh, if you defeat that guy, this road" He indicates the keep out´ area "will take you to the Pache village" After that, the four guys we´re not fighting go that way.
"So that´s where the Patch village is" I say quietly.
"We´re almost there" I hear Horohoro at my right.
"This is exciting" Ren hisses, there´s that Ren-smirk on his face. His expression is of total eagerness, his eyes with that particular spark, he wants to get there badly "The only thing we have to do is defeat this idiot" The Ren-smirk intensifies.
"You are no vampire" Ryu states "You´re just a shaman, like us. I know your secret, your cape is made of blood and you´re using it to oversoul. That´s how you´re doing all those tricks"
"Mhph, that explains everything" Ren frowns "By turning blood into fog he can teleport around easily" Ok, if he says so, must be right.
Using all his furyoku, Ryu strikes one last time, finally defeating the guy. Yoh hurries to the guy to ask him about Hao, when, unexpectedly, a angel shaped spirit makes it´s appearance and with a sword kills the vampire guy instantly.
"What´s this?!" Horohoro yells, as freaked out as I feel.
Nearby, a blond man with glasses and a white uniform comes into view and says "He´s Michael the Angel, he carries the sword that will punish evil. All evil will be punished by the justice of light. If we X-laws hadn't shown up you would´ve been killed" And a group of shamans in the same uniform appear behind him.
"Eh?! X-laws?" Man, this is too bizarre "Who the fuck are you?"
"I remember them" Ren tells me "They were in the plane" I look at him in amazement. How on earth does he remember that?
"Our organization has only one goal" The blondie goes on "To destroy Hao, the root of all evil. So, worry not, we are a friend to you all"
"……A friend?" Horohoro asks with a raised eyebrow. The X-laws start heading towards the inside of the ruins, to the Patch village. Damn them! I don't like them, we´d alredy defeated that weirdo, there was no need to kill him
"Yoh, are we going to follow them?" Horohoro says.
"I guess, since we´re going to the same place" He replies frowning and walks to the place.
"Are you angry because they killed that guy?" Lyserg speaks up, as we all follow Yoh "They had no choice, he had killed many innocents. Like Hao killed my parents. It´s not a crime to kill them"
"Yes, I understand what you´re feeling" Yoh says softly
"What has me most intrigued is their spirits" Ren comments "They seem to be spirits of nature, like Lyserg and Horohoro´s spirits. Whatever they are, they´ll become great opponents"
"So you consider them enemies?" Bason questions curiously, I hear attentively as well.
"As I do with everyone here" He smirks "But I´m sure they think that even more than me" I snort, he´s probably right. He turns to Yoh "This situation is funny, I like to see you hesitating in your choices"
"This is your idea of fun" I look at him disbelievingly "Jeez, sometimes you´re so sad" He glares at me, but makes no comment.
Suddenly, Hao´s men come back and the X-laws attack them without second thought. They aim at a guy that looks like a football player and injure him seriously. When they´re about to kill him, Yoh throws himself in front of the football player with a significant look.
"Ok, I´ve already decided" He states "I don't like you and I wont let you kill him" Yes, God, someone with some sense.
"…What?!" Horohoro looks nervous.
"Yes! The man has spoken" I ran fast next to Yoh "Right next to you, Yoh. I was waiting for you to react" I give him smile twisted. I am so enjoying this.
"Don't tell me you are on Hao´s side!" The blondie glowers at us.
"No way!" I respond heatedly.
"We are neither on your side nor Hao´s" Yoh says simply.
"You´re not picking a side? If you desire good life then evil must be erased, what don't you understand of that? A good for nothing like you will never be the Shaman King"
"We´ll see. If you are capable of killing, then you must be evil too" Yoh tells him matter of factly. At this, I turn to give him a quick glance and then turn back to the situation at hand.
"Heh. This is getting even better" The Ren-smirk´s on place again "You really want to fight them?"
"Huh? How is this funny?!" Horohoro demands.
"This is very simple" Yoh states "If you kill those who disturb you, then you´re like Hao!" I look at Yoh in alarm. This fucking idiot went a bit too far! They are gonna slaughter us!!!
"You dare insult us?!" The blondie yells and advances towards us. Fuck! Shit! He´s coming!!! I close my eyes in fear. I can hear the guys shouting Yoh!´, Mariana!´. And get even more terrified.
But the blow never comes. I open my eyes and see all the X-laws far from us. They just broke Yoh´s sword "I´ll let you live this time. But you should know you are no match for us" The blondie and all the rest leave.
I breath again "ARE YOU INSANE??!!!!!" I scream and grab Yoh by his shirt "They almost killed us!!" I can feel my heart hammering against my ribs.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to drag you in" He sweatdrops.
"Oh, yeah, because, otherwise I have no problem with you dying!! You are such an idiot!!!" I keep screaming. Something inside me tells me I´m a bit hysterical but I just ignore it.
I see the guys approaching "Mariana" Ren comes to my side "Are you ok?"
"Do I look ok to you?!" I´m actually trembling now "This fucker almost got us killed!!"
"Calm down" He grabs my hand "No one died, you´re all ok. Calm down" I look at him and his beautiful golden eyes, twinkling with some concern for me, manage to appease me. I breathe slowly "I know he´s and idiot, but you´ll have to forgive him, he can´t help it, it´s in his nature" He smirks. Jesus, I am so gonna marry this guy! …………..Great, now I´m falling even deeper for him.
"Yes, I´m better now, thanks" I whisper, squeezing the offered hand. Realizing it´s still there, he quickly pulls it to himself and looks away. Yeah, like he´s ever going to marry anyone at this pace.