TT it's so sad. Nobody will review my story. Come on people I still need ideas for any future parings. So please review for me. Ooh I've forgotten my disclaimers for the previous chapters. I do not in any way, shape or form own shaman king and never will own it. If I did I wouldn't have to write these would I? Now without any further delay (for those of you who are still reading) the next chapter
Chapter 2
"Yoh darling. You know what day it is today don't you?" Anna called, one eyebrow raised and a smirk playing over her lips. Yoh looked up at her from his position at the table, a faint terror present in his eyes. "No Anna" he squeaked.
Anna sighed and rolled her eyes at her fiancés hopelessness. " Its marathon day Yoh. I got you some new weights, so now is a good time to try them out. And lets try to beat your last pitiful try shall we?" Sighing, Yoh finished off his lunch, and went off to put on the new weights.
Exiting the inn with Amidamaru, he found his friends grouped round the gate waiting for him. Frowning, he looked at them before asking "what's going on guys?"
"well" replied Ren "we couldn't leave you to brave this on your own now could we?"
" yeah dude. You're always complaining about these marathon things so we're goin' with you. Besides, you could use the company, right?"
"I guess so. But don't say I didn't warn you."
A lazy grin spread across Yohs face as he looked at his friends; Ren, Manta, Horo, Lyserg, and Ryu. Faust was staying behind at the house to do some research, and Jun was on a trip to the Tao estate along with Pailong. Bason, Mosuke, Kororo, Morphea and Tokagero were also there, most of which were in hitodama mode. So off the small group set, in high spirits.
Above them, a pair of grey eyes followed the small group until they were out of sight. Erisa smiled. She had found the people she was looking for, and it had been relatively easy to tweak their minds into all wanting to out together. After all, she was a fairly powerful psychic. She slipped out from her hiding place and began to run silently after them.
After a good two hours of running, the small group of shaman reached a clearing in the park. They all flopped down onto the cool grass, absolutely exhausted. "Dude" gasped Horo " I feel for you. I really do. And you have to do this once a week? How do you cope? How far have we run anyways?"
Amidamaru looked thoughtful for a few moments. "I believe that you have come about 30 miles," he announced to the horrified faces before him.
Yoh just shrugged and smiled lazily." You know" he exclaimed, " I'm so tired I don't think I could move from this spot."
"Well that will certainly make my job a lot easier" a voice rang across the clearing and a girl stepped into view. She was about medium height with iron-grey eyes and pale lavender hair that cascaded down her back. She wore a simple pair of black pants and a black t-shirt with a large, suspicious looking bag slung over one shoulder. Everyone stared at her in surprise until Manta broke the silence. "Who are you? And why are you here?" he said, asking the question everyone was dying to hear the answer to. With a smirk the girl replied "My name is Erisa. As to the reason why I am here in this god-forsaken town, I should have thought that would be obvious. I'm here to challenge you all to a fight." This little announcement was met by total silence for a few seconds. " Well?" said Erisa raising an eyebrow. Yoh looked around at everyone's expressions and nodding, took off the training weights. "We accept your challenge," he announced.
"Good. Yanagi" she called and immediately a spirit appeared next to her. The spirit was of a youngish woman, no more than 25 when she died. She was dressed in the traditional attire of a geisha or an o-maia. Immediately Ryus eyes changed into hearts, as did the shape of his hair. There were a lot of raised eyebrows regarding Yanagi, but they were dismissed as they realized that they didn't have any of their weapons with them to make their oversouls. Erisa sighed and unslung her bag throwing it at them. "I took the liberty of taking your weapons from the inn. I knew you wouldn't mind." Everyone glowered at her as they located their rightful weapons. Then everyone shouted the command for their guardians.
"Amidamaru, into the spirit sword!"
"Bason, into the Kwan Dao!"
"Mosuke, into the iron hammer"
"Kororo, into the snowboard!"
"Morphea, into the dowsing crystal!"
"Tokagero, into the wooden sword!"
Erisa smiled coldly at the glittering oversouls across from her.
"Nice. But not nice enough." She pulled something out from up her sleeve.
"Yanagi, into the fan!"
There was a flash of light and suddenly she was holding a large, iron fan that was about the length of her arm, and surrounded by a light red light that signified an oversoul. She looked at them, and to their surprise she looked almost apologetic. Then suddenly she charged forward with a cry. " Yanagi, Razor Edge Fan!" suddenly the edge of her fan became deadly sharp and she started to slash at them, taking a good chunk out of Ryus hair. "Bason, Golden Punch!" she whirled round shouting something incomprehensible, and the fan immediately grew to surround her entire form as both Ryu and Ren tried hit her. The moments their weapons collided with the steel shell, they cracked and snapped. The two shaman were thrown backwards, all spirit control lost. It was then that the others began to realize how formidable a foe they were up against. As she shrank the fan and leapt away, all in one fluid motion, Lyserg launched his homing crystal attack, but in mid air Erisa twisted round and sliced through the wire with the razor sharp edge of the fan. Landing perfectly on two feet, she turned around to face Horo who was charging towards her with the Nipopo Punch ready. With a smirk she shouted "Yanagi, Flying Razor attack!" and hurled her fan into the path of Horos attack. With a blinding flash of light the fan connected with the Nipopo Punch and Horos board was sliced cleanly in two, like a knife through butter. The fan flew back into her hand like a boomerang, and she turned her head slightly towards Manta and Mosuke. "Time to say goodbye little sword smith" she smirked raising the fan, when BOOM. A Halo Blade had gone off right behind her. She was thrown forward by the force of the attack and gasped, as her spirit control was broken. She got shakily to her feet, and re-instated the spirit control. With a growl she hurled her fan at Manta, who took a square hit and was knocked cold. Yoh looked at his defeated friends around him and glared at the newcomer. "Why are you doing this?" He shouted. " Are you like my brother? Do you enjoy watching innocent people suffer for your own sick amusement?" everyone stared at him. This wasn't the Yoh they knew. The Yoh they knew was calm, kind and hardly ever lost his temper. Even Erisa was taken aback, before smiling sadly at Yoh. "No I don't. I am doing this for my family" and with that enigmic response she suddenly lept backwards disappearing into the forest that surrounded them.
Yoh stared after her, wondering what she meant by her parting comment. And the look on her face too…
He turned away and looked towards his friends. "Hey Amidamaru." He called. " I think there's more to this story than meets the eye. Don't you?"
" I am inclined to agree with you Yoh-dono." Came the reply from the deceased samurai.
They rounded up the others, and set out for the Funbari inn, the setting sun transforming the sky from pale blue, to blood red.
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