Chaoter: 4
Game: Catch Me If You Can
Searching
"Are you ready yet?"
Anna was getting annoyed, all she had was a small wrapped bag in a stick, and yet these boys were packing as if they were leaving forever. Well, at least it seemed like they were, it was more as if they were stalling. That was when a small dark skinned girl came running in, she was carrying a box in her hand.
"Master Hao!" she giggled out with delight. "I got it, I managed to get it!" she giggled again and handed the box to Hao who smiled at her and patted her on the head.
"Thank you Opacho" The girl looked placed that she had pleased her master. She was rescued by Hao not long ago when she was only two, as a malnourished child. Now she was a prominent eight years old and completely attached to Hao as if he were her, not only best friend, but father as well. Therefore, they knew she was going to respect Yoh once she met him, since anything important to Hao was important to her. She was sneaky and only worked for Hao.
"What is that?" Horo asked, his curiosity being spoken, while everyone else silently wondered what was inside of the box.
"That is for me to know" Hao said "And for you to never find out" He hid the box into his bag and then grinned "Shall we go?" Everyone was silent. Anna sighed and pushed off the wall.
"It's about time," She snapped. Hao shook his head and then snapped his fingers, teleporting himself and his friends along with him. The first destination that they had chosen had been Patch Village, they wanted to pay Silva a visit and have him cover some ground for if when they left, and Yoh stopped by, by any chance, there would be someone to notify them and help them be aware.
"Yoh!"
Chocolove was about ready to step in for the shorter boy, but to his amazement Yoh's sword glowed white and cut off the hand of the man who was about to punch him, a clean and straight cut through the flesh and bone. Yoh had great reflexes, and great attack tactics. The man gasped, blood spewing out of his wounded arm, and he nearly yelled in pain but stopped himself as he bit into his lower lip. Watching in horror as his hand fell limp to the ground with blood pooling around it "Why you" He growled "I really am going to make you wish you were never born!" The man yelled, his mouth wide opened and a tornado of swirling wind enveloping them all.
"Master Yoh!" Admidamaru said as he came to stand beside him and help him hold his ground, Chocolove managed to hold his own as he struggled towards Yoh.
"You have guts" He said.
"Thanks" Yoh said, a small smile playing on his lips then he got serious "Now, let's finish him!" Chocolove nodded, both he and Yoh powered up. Yoh's knife glowing a brilliant bright white, and Admidamaru beside him, had the same, a replica of his master, down to the core. Chocolove grew fangs and even larger claws and both jumped into the storm of the screaming man that was about to die.
The leader of all gangs here.
'This is the moment' thought Chocolove, all three, a driving force against their opponent, whom when they hit, exploded into gaseous winds that threatened all of Fairytale land. "This isn't good you guys" Chocolove said as the winds persisted. It was bellowing wind that threatened to choke the whole town.
"It will subside, it has to" Admidamaru said, and just as he said, the winds started to calm down, a black hole left behind where the dark boss had been at. It swirled, a deep black and purple, until it was nothing but a hard gem.
"A curse" Chocolove said his eyes wide as he stared at it.
"A curse?" Yoh asked, the gem looked beautiful and at the same time dangerous, but one touch could ruin a life "So, what are we going to do with it?" he asked. They all looked at each other, that is when they started to notice how quiet the town was, and how suddenly millions of people were surrounding them by the dozens. "Ah" Yoh mumbled.
"What do we do now?"
Hao was quick.
The travel had been quick and had led them to the front steps of Silva's doors. They walked over to it and knocked it, only to get it unanswered. Getting impatient, Hao kicked the door down with a loud boom, making everyone except Anna sweat drop at his actions "What the hell do you think you are doing Hao!" She started nagging instead "Don't you have any respect for people's property"
"Blah, blah" Hao said "Stop talking to me as if I were a disrespectful child, it's just Silva, and there is nothing special about him" Anna glared at him while everyone else shook their head.
"Oh, Hao" Horo said, "You really don't know what you are talking about" Hao looked around, but there was no sign of their cousin. That was when a thought crossed him.
"What time of the year is this?" He asked, just to make sure.
"It's spring going into summer, why?"
"Silva leaves to the Bahamas during the summer," Hao stated and that, made Anna recall it and shake her head, who else was here that they could talk to? She had to think, it was her job to know all about Yoh, but right at the moment she could hardly even come up with a solution. She had no idea where the younger twin prince could be, and she doubted anyone else around her had even the slightest idea of where he could have gone.
"Lady Anna" Ryu called "are you sure there have not been other places that Master Yoh has traveled to" She huffed, crossed her arms, closed her eyes, and looked away.
"I am sure, Yoh has been nowhere else, and anywhere else he might end up in is like a coincidence" She was getting aggravated, as well as getting everyone else on edge. Hao sighed, and then he smiled and walked out of the house.
"Well, let's just not stand there; let's go before he heads even further" Everyone nodded at Hao and followed him outside, as he snapped his fingers and tried to think of a new place to lead them. He had no idea what kind of game his little brother was playing, but he did have a feeling that it was: Hide and Seek.
"They are mad" Chocolove swallowed hard.
"Joco" Yoh turned to him "What would happen if we were to smash up that crystallized black cursed charm?" Chocolove shook his head, a look of disdain upon his face.
"I am afraid we can't or it will forever vanish Fairy tale, but there Is something different working here" Yoh looked to the gem and knew that everyone here was not under it's control, but something else. That much became clear to him; even if he was, slow on the update. He closed his eyes, letting his minds eye to locate where the black power flow was coming from.
"Joco" He called once more "What creates a black Gem like this one, I know killing who ever that was did nothing, but,"
"Now that you mention it, only a wizard of the dark sorcery could have done that" Chocolove shook in his skin, "there is only such one in Fairy tale and he usually lives in the cemetery with his long dead fiancée, Eliza." Chocolove pulled himself a little more together before he said the name that haunted many people's nightmares. "Faust VII," Yoh made a face.
"Faust?" he asked, and then they heard a low chuckling surround the area. A tall blonde-haired person with darkened bags under his eyes made them shiver. He had piercings all over his body, a long trench leather coat that reached five inches past his knees, tight black leathered pants, with high-topped boots buckled at the top. His white shirt, as well as his white pale sickened skin was the things that stood apart from him.
"Well, well, don't we have some trouble makers, right Eliza" He regarded someone, a woman soon stepped up. She was wearing a nurse's outfit, her hair a fair blond, her skin a sick white color like his, and her neck, she had her head sowed on or something. As Yoh observed, she looked almost like a living doll, she was potently beautiful and delicate at the same time, and that made her scary.
"Oh no" Chocolove said, and he dropped to his knees, "He left the cemetery" Yoh shrugged at Chocolove and turned towards the blonde-haired people. He smiled at them as he waved at them; the two jumped off and walked over to them.
"Haya there" Yoh said "Are you the once who created that darkened sphere"
"Why yes" The man smiled "Eliza, can you please get it back go me" she nodded and walked over to it, grabbing the black gem and slipping it somewhere in between her breasts. She walked over to him, an empty look on her face. "I haven't seen you around here before" the man said after a while "Are you new?"
"Yeah, kind of" Yoh said and pointed to Admidamaru drawing attention to his silent pet "me and my brother are just passing through the land, we thought about getting out for a while" Faust smiled at him and nodded his head.
"I have been thinking of doing the same with Eliza, we can travel together, no?" He asked, "I did just save you from that terrible tornado as it is" Yoh nodded his head without thinking. They were so nice, why wouldn't he want them to travel with them. Faust was still smiling. Pleased with Yoh when the dark skinned boy got up and grasped Yoh by the shoulder did he noticed something different about Yoh and his brother.
This could not be….
"Are you crazy Yoh? They are psychotic; they might want to eat our brains!" Chocolove cried shaking Yoh back and forth "Get some sense into your head on who you invite with you in your travels, are you listening" Yoh laughed.
"You sound just like Anna" He sighed "there is nothing bad about them" Chocolove made a face of disbelief. "I like them" When that came out of his mouth, Faust dropped to his knees before Yoh and grasped his hand, kissing the back of it.
"Thank you, my prince" that caused shocked looks to go through everyone except Eliza who bowed her head and looked respectably at Yoh, as if he were in a higher position. Yoh and Admidamaru where shocked that they might have figured out who they were.
"Ah, please stand, I don't know what you are doing" Yoh laughed.
"My prince" Faust said, "You should be in your palace, not out here"
There was no doubt that he had found it out.
"Why is he calling you prince" and Chocolove still did not get the idea.
"Ah no…hehehe"
Hao finally chose somewhere to stop, and that was in the Amazons.
"Why are we here?" Ren huffed.
"Simple," Hao said, I decided to cover every area in between here" he said, and brought out the map "I would have left one of you back in Guadalupe but I doubt that Yoh would be going near there, he might expect us to be there"
"What do you mean he will expect us to be there?" Anna asked.
"Don't underestimate my dear brother" Hao said to Anna and pointed around, "I would call it here, the ending point"
"The ending point?" Horo asked.
"Yes now stop interrupting" Hao hissed "See, the ending point is here because I doubt that Yoh will travel any further from here, he must be located somewhere in between, the best leads are Northern Lights City, Tokyo, Fairy tale, Hialdo, and London"
"That's a pretty narrow selection" Ren commented.
"I know" Hao said, "So, I thought of disposing you one by one in each to search for him" Hao grinned "Horo get's to stay here"
"What! Why!"
"Hao, this plan is absurd," Anna hissed, she was getting a headache.
"Hey, who's the twin here?" Yes, all of them were crazy, she decided. She could not wait to find Yoh and punish him!
"You...You've got it all wrong!" Yoh said, pulling his hand away from Faust who smirked, and raised to his feet, bowing his head in a respectful way. "Anyway, we can start travelling now, I guess, but Joco was going to show us around the magic charms and around Fairy tale" Faust nodded his head, snapping his fingers for the whole town to un-freeze from his spell and making everyone else go as they wished to be. He never knew he had such a kind prince.
Though it was obvious, the modest prince did not want anyone to know that it was he. "As you wish," He said, curious about the boy. "Eliza" He said, offering his hand to her and she took it, a smile on her face.
"Ugh" Yoh said. Faust turned back to him and smiled.
"She is a little pale and a little sick, but she'll be fine as soon as we go to Northern lights City, so if we can please go there right after?" Yoh nodded his head with a slight smile. They started walking once more.
"Master Yoh" Admidamaru said with worry, in a low whisper, his hand on Yoh's shoulder. Yoh nodded his head.
"So, what kind of charms would you like to take from Fairy tale Yoh?" Chocolove asked as he walked beside him, keeping a wary eye out for Faust. He did not trust him yet and was a little perplexed that Yoh did not even consider him a threat. They just saw how capable he was to making everyone his zombie slave, and yet, here was Yoh with a carefree expression on his face, and like he had all the time in the world.
"I'm not sure" Yoh tilted his head in thought "Is there anything special about Fairy tale town?" He asked Chocolove seemed to think about it, he had only been here for two years, so he rarely saw anything out of different, unless it was Faust.
"It is a place of vast betty and Imagination" Faust spoke suddenly "it was founded officially in the 624AF. Kings and Queens lived here and loved it, but soon it became over crowded by many different types of people that it would not uphold for a kingdom here and it was nearly destroyed. Even though the land of Izumo rules over this place now, people don't really acknowledge it and it comfortable that way"
"Oh" Yoh said.
"Of course just about anything drastic can happen here, and always end up in a happily ever after, there is no real suspense for the ending of someone's life" Faust added, his hand gripping on his girlfriend/Fiancé. She was supposed to be dead, the torture she had endure just to be with him, the pain he had suffered, but at the end even if she was hurt she ended with him with a happily ever after clichéd. Still, he was angry that she was hurt, and wanted to make sure that she was all right. That is why they were going to the Northern Lights City, the city of dreams.
Everyone was silent then, in their own thoughts. Yoh as well, he was unsure of what was going to happen next, he barely even knew this land and he was being told that he was going to rule this land, back in Izumo. Sighing, he decided, it'd all work out somehow.
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