We just arrived at some old ruin city. In this city existed the worst kind of people ever, people who rarely care about others around them, the pure evil… tourists.
I HATE tourists.
Those that I have met, which is pretty many, is always really rude.
But if you ignore that, the place seems cozy enough.
"This place is amazing!" I heard Ryu say while admiring the old city.
"Hmp, we finally get here and it's abandoned. We aren't going to get anything out of this."
It isn't just an old tourist city?
Cool then! I have never been to a ruin! Are all of them this big? I wonder if we are close to the Patch village now!
"I will go and look around!" The others didn't say anything and I ran into one of the ruin parts a bit away.
I like this place! The ruins give me shadow so that I don't get tired because of the warm weather and everything just looks so amazing. I mean, to think that this used to be a city or something feels kind of strange.
I closed my eyes for a few seconds and then I remembered something…
Damn it! I was supposed to send my parents at least one postcard every week! And it was almost a month since I left home! I forgot… Gah! I probably should start with the card… but I should also help the others find out things about the Patches…
Hm… I guess I will write a quick letter, then ask some of the tourists about the village… and if they have seen a mailbox. Besides, Yoh and the others have probably already found something out.
God I am totally useless at finding information fast!
… I just realized how absolutely stupid I will sound if I tell anyone that I have to send a postcard in the middle of the contest.
Okay, I will write the letter fast! But I should probably get a paper and a pencil first… Son of a damn it!
I walked out of the ruin house and looked around. I mean, this is a tourist spot so there should be some people selling stuff, right?
I looked everywhere but nothing! Nothing at all! What kind of tourist spot is this?
"Um, excuse me. Do you know if they sell postcards and pencils anywhere?" I asked a woman with a white skirt, blonde hair and a yellow shirt.
"No, I haven't seen anything." Was all she answered while continuing to walk.
"Okay, thanks anyway." Come on, there should be at least ONE person who knows…
I have been looking around for forever! Gah! Someone must really hate me…
I mean seriously, nothing! No one knows anything about the patches and no one sells stuff anywhere! Was there even a point with bringing money?
Well… I guess that even if I managed to send a card right now, I would still be in trouble.
I felt a guy bumping in to my shoulder and without saying sorry, he began to run screaming "Hurry, get out of here!"
"What the hell are they? Run!" some other tourists yelled.
What's going on? I didn't even know tourist could run! At home they always walk REALLY slow… especially in malls.
"What's happening?" I asked one who was about to run past me.
He screamed "It's some kind of monster fight! You better start running!" he didn't even stop.
Monster fight my ass. I haven't even seen what's going on yet and this already smells like shamans.
Wait… I'm about to miss stuff again! This is just like that time with Lilirara!
I started to run the way the tourist where running from, they all gave me a 'are you stupid' look while passing me, but I ignored it.
All the tourist stopped passing me, there wasn't anyone else the way I was running and that means I must be close to the 'danger'.
I stopped running and took some deep breaths and listened to all the sounds around me.
I did not want to run the wrong way.
After listening for a few seconds I could hear Ryu yell something and then it was time to run again, towards the sound.
I really should go out for a jog or something once I get home.
Now I could see them! I was really close. It seems like the opponent is some guy with wings.
I stopped running, deciding that it would be really stupid to just run in to a fight that I knew nothing about.
While waiting for the right moment, I decided to just listen.
"Master Hao, he gave us hope and the power of a shaman." Naw, I probably missed his story about why he was working for Hao… that sucks.
"We promised, we will serve master Hao forever. We will fight until the pathetic humans are extinct!"
Then some kind of thorns came out of his wings and pierced some tourists that were hiding behind a building. "Blood, give me more power!" Freak show!
Disgusting… the tourists… he took their blood? They were only skeletons, and barely that!
Are they… no they couldn't possibly have died, could they?
"The punishment of impalement. I made those pillars from the blood I took from the humans. And now you will be impaled by them. Of course I won't let you fight back, if you do the boy dies."
I looked over to Lyserg who held Yoh's sword towards his own throat. He also held Yoh so that he couldn't move. Something is definitely wrong. I could see that guy's spirit over Lyserg, he must be possessed. What should I do?
They will die. They can't move because that bastard have an hostage!
Doh! I need to do something!
I will at least be of some help. But how? I can't attack, cause then Lyserg will die, so I should probably steal Yoh's sword from Lyserg.. Or knock him out. Whatever is the easiest.
I will use my sneaking skills! And so I did. The hard part is actually that the vampire dude is looking Lyserg's way.
I would need to be some kind of ninja to get past that.
"You bastard!" I heard Ryu yell which caused the enemy to look his way. Now! I ran quietly, snatched the sword and ran like a little bitch! That's how I do!
The second I grabbed the sword, they all attacked before the guy knew what was happening.
I also noticed that the guy, who had clearly noticed me running, had sent one of his pillar things my way, and that pillar was now right in front of my face.
Thank God for everyone's attacks or that would definitely have hit me!
"You don't care about your friend? What are you doing?" he yelled when all the pillars where suddenly gone.
"You should already know, Lyserg isn't in danger anymore." He looked back to Lyserg who wasn't even possessed anymore, lying on the ground unconscious.
"Why did you leave the body?" he said angrily at his ghost.
Yoh and the others told him that while all the pillars where falling, Amidamaru had the time to talk some sense into the ghost, and since I took the sword they had all the time in the world.
"How can you even try that? The second you failed you would all die!"
"We would die even if we didn't try. That's why we try first and if something happens, we think of something else." Yoh said calmly with a smile.
"It's no surprise that you can't understand our actions. After you lost your home, you choose the path of destruction… while I choose to search for my happy place. I'm braver than you."
"Braver? What are you talking about!"
"I know that if you choose the path of destruction, you end up with nothing! No friends, no happy place…"
Suddenly a Ryu's snake/dragon oversoul became bigger and attacked the enemy. He pushed him up at a roof high up with a mountain behind it so you could hear a loud 'crash' when he landed.
"Idiot, if you would've looked for your happy place, we wouldn't have to kill you…" he said with tears in his eyes, then he fell down from his oversoul.
"Ryu!"
Before he landed on the ground, Lyserg woke up and were able to use his pendulum to make a net to catch Ryu with. I should give him a pet on the head later.
"Lyserg, you're conscious?" I asked confused.
"I was conscious the whole time, even when I was possessed by Blamuro. I just couldn't move." Blamuro? I guess that was the spirit…
"Huh? Where did he go by the way?" Horohoro asked looking around, Ren answered, "I guess he had no regrets about leaving this world."
I don't get it… did that jerk have to kill defenseless tourists?
"Remorselessly harm others for his own benefit… that's Hao's way." Lyserg looked sadly down at the ground and so did the others and I.
Yoh looked up and ran to the mountain next to the house where that blood guy had landed.
"Yoh? Where are you going?"
"I'm going to ask Boris about Hao. Besides, I want to see how he's doing."
"Don't be an idiot, Yoh! It's dangerous if he's still alive!"
"He's a minion of Hao! There's no point in questioning him!"
"Do you wish to die, lord Yoh!" even Bason yelled after him, I think I've never heard him speak before.
When Yoh reached the top he yelled down to us others, "Look, if we just leave him like that he will die. And then we're nothing better than common murders. And if he goes like that… Ryu's effort will have been for nothing." I barely heard that last part but I heard it.
How the heck is Yoh able to be so nice? Well, I guess that that's a thing to admire him by.
He took a step forward to Boris and then a big metal thing with a huge sword landed next to him, big enough for us who were still on the ground to see it.
I heard how it slashed the mountain, but I don't think that it was the mountain it really slashed…
" … Who could have…?" I said quietly. There was no need to kill the guy, Yoh was kind of right about that…
"His name is Micheal the Archangel." We all looked behind us where a man stood.
He had white clothes, blonde hair and glasses, he also had a gun. "He's my spirit ally. He wields the sword of punishment and condemns the wicked."
Punishment?
"Lord Yoh!" I heard Amidamaru yell and then there was a big light where Boris once had been. There was nothing left when the light disappeared except Yoh, Amidamaru and the spirit. "Boris!"
"The evil one perished when he faced our holy light." Six other persons with white clothes appeared next to the first one, "You're lucky. If the X-Laws hadn't arrived, his sword would've slayed you all."
X- Laws? I have a feeling I won't like them. They thought that Boris would still be able to slay us? Seriously, if they're so great, where the heck were they when the others actually fought him?"
Horohoro looked at all the members and screamed "Who the heck are those guys? And why are they dressed up like that?" he was right about that, they were dressed up, I should tell Akira about this later. Just to annoy him.
I looked over at Ren who looked more serious then he usually did, "I saw them… at the opening ceremony and the Patch Jet."
Lyserg looked excited, but that's probably cause of their uniforms… I mean, who doesn't think that people in uniforms are awesome? Except for this case then…
"Wow! That means that they're…!" Lyserg said in admiration.
"Exactly. Our organization is participating in the shaman fight for a single purpose." They all showed their oracle bells. "We are here to defeat Hao, the leader of evil."
Defeat Hao? Really?
Then why the heck did they not just ask Boris where he is, they're just stupid.
"You… you know Hao?" Lyserg's face changed from excited to surprise.
I would like to know that too. Maybe Hao has killed someone they cared about too then.
"Do I know Hao? He has appeared many times throughout history. According to our research, not only the Patch tribe, but also 80% of the shamans participating in the fight have some kind of connection to Hao. We came here because we received a report from our friends that five of Hao's minions were heading this way."
A little late, aren't they? Hm, five… I wonder where the others are then.
But more importantly, 80% has something to do with Hao? That's pretty strange. I am gonna guess that most of them had a friend or something that was killed by him. Cause that's just how horrible he is.
"So don't worry. I'm Marco, captain of team Angel. We're on your side." Bullshit!
He smiles nicely but that stopped working on me when I first met Hao. I really don't like that Marco… not only because he killed Boris, also because he talks like he were our hero or something, like we couldn't defeat Hao's minions by ourselves…
"You're on our side? Team Angel… never heard of you." Damn straight Ren!
Marco ignored the comment and continued, "You see, your attacker were a minion of Hao." Well no shit smarty pants. "We X-Laws are justice seekers dedicated to Hao's overthrow. We don't know why you were attacked, but those who interests Hao, interests us."
This guy disgusts me.
"We have also learned that others of Hao's people have entered the cave. They're powerful. You'll be no match for them by yourselves. So for your own good, you should continue on with us." Hell no! Yoh and the others defeated Boris by their own! I wish I could have helped but yeah… from now on I will do my best to always be ready to help them!
I owe them that since they are letting me travel with them.
But anyway, we don't need their help with anything! Not for all the money in the world!
-In the Cave-
How did this happen? I'm walking in the cave together with Yoh, Horohoro, Ryu, Lyserg, Ren and THEM! Why?
Why did the others think that this was a good idea? I didn't say anything, I didn't feel like I had the right to since I weren't there. I don't know how strong those guys are… damn it.
There was a complete silence until Marco said happily, "I understand your uneasiness. The truth is, most people are taken back by our white uniforms." Who the hell dresses like that when you are gonna fight? Not even Azami dresses up that much…
"But they're a sign of our solidarity. All of us X-Laws are victims of Hao in one way or another."
…. I don't know if I should feel sorry for them, there's just something about them... Just because they had a hard past doesn't give them the right to kill.
" Some of us lost loved ones, others were injured. We all have our own reasons, but we all share the same goal. To defeat Hao. He is an absolute evil that has to be defeated. And we will punish any of his followers that we find."
"Who the hell are these guys.. What happened while I was asleep?" Ryu asked quietly so that only we could hear. X-Laws walked a few steps in front of us.
"It's a long story, you explain it Horohoro."
"No way, I don't get it myself! Are we actually gonna go with them, Yoh?"
Yoh had been awfully quiet this whole time… I guess that the Boris thing made him a little depressed. He died before the nicest guy in the world's eyes. Yes, I think he is that nice.
"I don't know. I guess we are all heading the same way…"
"Hey, what's eating you?"
"Nothing I'm fine!" he gave a smile that looked pretty much false.
"Heh, are you upset because they killed Boris?" we all stopped and looked back at Lyserg who had stopped walking too.
"What's the problem? Boris was a criminal who killed lots of innocent people. Maybe you think that killing a criminal is making you as bad as the criminal? But the world is full of people like that, Yoh. Deadly and vicious. People who have no qualms about harming others are evil. There's nothing wrong with executing a murderer. Boris worked for Hao, who killed my parents." He smiled, what's gotten in to him?
He thinks this is okay? And it didn't seem like the X-Laws had any problem with killing Boris, isn't that wrong at all just because Boris killed before? I just can't see the difference between killing Boris and killing a regular human, don't know why.
"I get where you're coming from Lysie, but…"
"Ha ha ha they're amazing, don't you think! Those angels are brilliant!" …
I looked over to Ren who seemed to talk to Bason, I didn't hear anything but I heard Bason say something about that Ren's naughtiness is a delight. I wonder what they talked about.
"Hm, I see." We all looked up at a huge rock a bit next to us, on it stood some fat guy with a funny mustache and funny eyebrows. Next to him was a guy dressed in dessert clothes. It was he who talked.
"So many, they must have overwhelmed Boris by sheer numbers." Boris? I guess that these guys are Hao's followers too.
When I heard Horohoro and Ryu scream "You guys!" I was sure. They didn't really seem happy to see them so they couldn't be friends.
"Did you think that joining forces with these losers would help you get through, X-Laws?"
"They… know each other?" Ryu said quietly.
Marco gave a Hao smile, ANNOYING, and answered the dessert guy, "Heh, you don't seem to take us very seriously."
"You laugh? Maybe we will rip you to pieces right here and now!"
"One of you is missing. You wouldn't want to fight us without him."
Okay, so there were five of Hao's minions here, Boris is dead, two is here and now Marco says that one is missing. What about the fifth one? Nah, screw it! There is probably a good reason for the last person not to be here.
"I can handle the likes of you by myself. The missing one is busy at the moment."
When he finished the sentence, some weird big football guy with an awesome cape ran really fast together with lots of other football guys, I'm assuming it's his spirits work.
They were about to attack the X-Laws but when they turned around they had all summoned their 'angels' who destroyed the whole football team without neither a second thought or problem.
On the ground, only one guy hadn't disappeared. Probably the shaman. But he wasn't okay, it looked really bad. "Brilliant! They're beautiful!" God, Lyserg is really beginning to hit my nerves.
Marco walked towards the hurt man without any kind of pity in his eyes, "You would have suffered less if you hadn't resisted. Ah well, now I will end your suffe-"
"Don't kill him." Yoh held his sword in his hand with Amidamaru already in it. "Maybe he deserves it, but I don't like it."
All the X-Laws looked at Yoh except Marco who still had his eyes on Hao's minion.
The only thought that flew in my head was Please don't attack.
Even though I focused my mind to beg for them not to fight, I still held onto the sword around my waist, ready to assist Yoh if anything happened.
"I can't undo what happened to Boris… he's beyond saving. But it's not too late for this man. If you try to kill him…" He aimed his sword at Marco, "I will have to stop you."
That was a shock... Easy going Yoh actually challenges someone!
There was a silence for some seconds, then Marco answered without looking at Yoh, "I don't understand. He's a villian, a minion of Hao. You have seen our power. Why would you risk your life to save him?" He turned and looked at Yoh with big hatred in his eyes, "Could it be that you're on Hao's side too?"
This won't be pretty… I could see that Horohoro, Ren, Ryu, Lyserg and Hao's minions thought the same thing. But shouldn't they be kind of pissed off since Marco plans on killing their friend?
Still holding my sword, I also felt my necklace begin to shake, ready to appear the second I summoned Sakuya.
"I entered the shaman fight because I wanted to live an easy life. I'm not on anybody's side."
"Nobody's side? What a precarious position to be in. But wouldn't eliminating the evil make life easier? Evil strikes without warning and ruin people's lives. Those who bring death and destruction are evil. And those who preserve the peace are just. A neutral person like you could never be the shaman king."
"So what? Right or wrong, I'm going to stop you. What's more evil than killing?"
"What did you say?"
"It's your move."
Wow… if looks could kill… To be honest, from what I have heard about Hao,
X-Laws really remind me of him. Hihi God they would be angry is they heard that.
One day I will make sure to say that to that Marco's face.
"Hey, this is getting nasty Ren…" Horohoro half whispered.
"Hmph, are you gonna fight them, Yoh?" Ren gave an evil smile as to say that he didn't have anything against it.
"We'd better stop him. Yoh doesn't stand a chance." He has changed… in some way. What the hell is going on with Lyserg? He who was pretty sweet on our trip… until now at least.
"I will always back him up! It's the least I can do! Go, chief!" Tokagero gave him an 'is he stupid look' and said " You are so lame, Ryu."
He's right, but he's so lame that he's cool.
"Captain, they're trying to escape!" one of the X-Laws yelled. I looked up at Hao's minions and yes, they were planning on escaping. Leaving their friend behind.
"Don't talk." Marco said. Wow, maybe something good will leave his lips… "Kill them. Justice is on our side." You gotta be kidding me! That guy needs a girlfriend or something!
"No, I won't let you. If you kill people just for standing in your way, you're no better than Hao!" Holy hell, he had to piss them off!
I mean… I know that I planned on telling them that sometime but still! Now was not really the time was it?
Marco's 'angel' appeared and attacked Yoh. The air got filled with some kind of dust and we couldn't see what was happening. We all screamed his name but didn't get an answer.
I took my sword in hand but had yet to summon my guardian ghost.
Where are they? Is Yoh okay?
I am ashamed to say it, but the best thing I could do right now when I couldn't see a thing were to stand close the others so that we didn't lose track of each other and get in to different fights with these guys.
The dust slowly disappeared, revealing that Yoh was okay. But not his sword however.
Marco stood in front of him, looking down at him.
"You knew you couldn't win, yet you challenged me. Was it a matter of honor for you? You're very brave, so I will spare you." They begun to walk away, " The Patch village isn't far away, turn back if you want to live."
Jerks, jerks, jerks, I HATE THEM! "PISS OFF!" I screamed, I was lucky that they ignored me. Well, compared to the others, I'm pretty much just a useless person for now.
Yoh must feel totally broken…
"What, Harusame broke?" He's taking it good, what the hell! "Well at least it was just a sword. A sword can be repaired!"
That guy never fails to surprise me…
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you."
Five minutes ago the X-Laws had left, Yoh's sword broke and Amidamaru got upset over it.
Now what's wrong with the sentence? Yoh hasn't reacted to it yet and it's only Amidamaru who is sitting on the ground seeming upset. I would be crying rivers if my sword broke!
"But it's time you stopped moping over Harusame, Amidamaru." Yoh smiled.
"This is the second time you've broken Harusame, Master Yoh." Wow… Amidamaru is not happy.
"Hehe! Yeah! Well what's done is done." How is he able to be so calm?
"You are the one that should be moping. We are about to enter the Patch village and half your oversoul is busted." Horohoro was kind of right, what if we have to fight to get in… bad, bad and bad.
"That's a problem. What are you going to do, Ren?"
"Why are you asking me!" I couldn't help but give a small smile, the way Yoh always depended on others, especially Ren was so funny! And I don't mean depending in an annoying way, more like a 'we are friends so I need your help' way.
I even let out a small laugh when frustrated Bason joined in and said "Young master! It's poison for your body and soul to get so aggravated!"
Ren sighed, " I'm telling you one thing, I won't waste any more time. I'm not gonna go back to the city to get it repaired." Wait a minute, so you are able to repaire stuff in that city, but not buy a stupid paper? That's just really stupid. Maybe I was looking at the wrong place…
"Come on, Ren! We have plenty of time!" Ryu sat down on a rock and next to the rock Lyserg was already sitting on.
"I won't go back either." Woho, Mr. negative guy speaks. I don't know why but Lyserg really annoys me right now… But I have no right to complain, he's probably nervous about the whole shaman fight and seeing Hao almost every day.
"The Patch village may be close… but we don't know what trials awaits us before we get there. We might not have as much time as we think. I have come a long way to defeat Hao."
Hmm.. I wonder how he would react if I told him Hao kissed me… I should probably not try to find out… that would suck if he got all crazy and stuff...
I can't help but to wonder why he did that, stupid Hao who confuses me! You know what? That's probably it! He wanted me to become confused and drop my question to him!
… I still want to know though. Both how he could possibly know things about my life that I forgot years ago and what those things are.
No matter how much I want to say that he probably stalked me so long, I don't see how he could possibly have done that when he was just a little kid.
"On top of that… You lost your sword because you protected one of Hao's followers."
"Come on, are you still upset about that?" I asked, he need to let it go.
"I can't help it." he answered.
Yoh looked over to Horohoro who had summoned his spirit to use ice on the footboll guy's wound. "How's he doing, Horohoro?"
"Hmph, he's in bad shape. He's still unconscious but he's horribly burned. Even Kororo's cold breath can't keep him alive for long." The little spirit alley gave a low and sad sigh.
"Then what should we do?" I looked at Yoh who answered, "He needs a doctor…"
"But we don't have any way of transporting him back to town." Aw, I'm sure Ren cares a little! So cute. Or he just want to get going to the village… hm, he still gets a nice point.
"And even if we're fast, he might not make it…" Horohoro looked kind of worried too.
Everyone is so nice! I like this team so much!
If only Akira and Azami were her too this would be the best group that ever existed!
"What do you want to do, chief?" I always knew Ryu was nice, he was nice since the beginning! Just a little creepy, but that's all gone now! Mostly because you kind of get used to it and in the end he looks as nice as any other person.
"We have no choice. We'll have to take him with us."
Guess who was against the idea! Anyone? Well it was my little green haired friend!
"Wait a second Yoh! That's-!"
"The Patch village is close, right? Once we get there I'm sure they can help him. They've got traditional crafts and everything!"
"You're too optimistic." Lyserg sighed in the defeat.
"Is that okay with you Amidamaru? Once we get there, we'll summon Mosuke to repair Harusame." Amidamaru who still sat on the ground looked at Yoh with a sullen face and asked, "You mean it?"
"Yeah."
"Fine then." He tried to act cool but you could definitely tell that he was really overjoyed.
We are finally on our way, without the X-Laws, to the Patch village. I'm sure that we will be there soon! Azami, Akira, wait for me!
"By the way, did I miss something important while I was gone before?"
"Not that important stuff. But apparently I'm a decendent of Hao."
"… Say what now?"
FINISH LINE! Hello! This chapter actually took a while… but now it's done. And believe it or not, it was hard to do the Boris part… first I wanted Tsukiko in the fight from the beginning, but the whole Boris flashback got to complicated, I didn't know if I should keep it in or not so I kind of just made the chapter xD
Oh and for you who read this (It's rare for me to do it when I read a fanfic) I don't really HATE tourists and I know that they are able to run and all that. But all those tourists I see here in Sweden often annoys me a little so yeah… and everyone in malls walk really slow so yeah.
God I hate the X-Laws! Sorry if you are a fan of them, but I think that they talk like they are justice but are just as crual as Hao is in the anime. Yeah I prefer the manga but the anime is nice too.
I will now explain why Tsukiko is so annoyed at Lyserg without it being a spoiler… I got really annoyed at him XD
I was reading the manga a bit, I use some of the lines and sometimes any of them to create these chapters that are supposed to be a little like the manga but with Tsukiko, and then Lyserg really started to piss me off with his " X-LAWS ARE AWSOME! I LOVE THEM! THEY AREN'T JERKS :D" so yeah… sorry about that, especially if you are Lyserg fans ^^'
Oh! And in the manga in one of the chapters, Lyserg has a pokemon smile! He reminds me of an Jigglypuff for some reason… Well anyway.
Anyway, please review and let me know what you think, I need support so yeah! Bye, don't be a stranger and say hello to people… FROM ME! I'm scary I know, I was kidding. Bye.