Ren couldn't believe what he was seeing; first there Lee Pailong lying unconscious on top of the front door which seemed to have blown off its hinges by some kind of explosion and then he walks into the kitchen and sees some guy sitting on top of his sister pinning her to the floor and looking as though he was about to rape her. Ren responded in the only way he knew how; with anger.
He ran at the figure sitting on top of his sister and hit him in the head with the blunt side of his Kwan-do with such force that the figure broke through two walls before finally coming to a stop outside.
Ren glanced quickly at his sister and noticed that she looked dazed, but other than that seemed all right and headed outside after his opponent.
"Master are you alright?" asked Weiss.
"Uhhh...I think so, why didn't you warn me that there were others coming?"
"My apologies master I let my guard down."
"Yeah well don't make a habit of it." said the boy rising unsteadily to his feet, he took a deep breath while observing his surroundings and saw that he was standing in front of a group kids who seemed to be slightly younger than he was, he then noticed that several of them appeared to have a ghost hovering nearby. 'So they're shaman' the boy thought to himself, 'this could complicate matters.'
"Um excuse but who are you and why did you just come flying through that wall?' one of the kids asked. He had brown hair, which didn't quite reach down to his shoulders and was wearing a pair of orange headphones around his neck.
Before the newcomer could answer Ren stepped through the newly made doorway with a scowl on his face saying,
"He's a piece of scum Asakura and the reason he came flying through the wall is because I found him trying to force himself on my sister."
The other shaman instantly oversouled with their spirits and were getting ready to attack.
"Dude that is so not cool." said a kid with spiky blue hair.
"Yeah I think Tokageroh and I should teach you some manners." said a guy with the biggest quaff the newcomer had ever seen.
'This doesn't look good,' thought the boy as he calculated his odds of beating six armed shaman without any kind of weapon. "Any ideas Weiss?"
"Try and talk your way out there's no way you can't fight them without your weapon." said the spirit while trying to keep his eyes on all the shaman at once. "If that Fails, try and get one of the shaman into a one on one fight and try and steal their weapon or retrieve your own."
"Okay we'll try the diplomatic approach first." answered the shaman.
He got up and raised his hands saying:
"Look this all just a big misunderstanding if you give me a chance to explain-"
But Ren would have none it. "Misunderstanding my foot I know what I saw and I'm going to make you pay for it." the other kids started closing in on the newcomer who stood his ground while staring at Ren.
"I don't want to fight you." he told Ren.
"Too bad, you haven't got a choice." said Ren advancing on the newcomer.
'Oh well time for plan B,' he thought "What? Are all six of you going to gang up on me? " he said to them, they slowed down but didn't stop.
"What's the matter is an unarmed opponent to much for you to handle?" he said directing his question at Ren with a sneer on his face.
"You guys stay out of this, he's mine!" cried Ren taking the bait and jumping forward with his Kwan-do, aiming a vertical slash at the newcomer's chest but missed as his opponent dived to his right and rolled onto his feet to face the next attack.
Ren scowled and yelled "Bason! Into the Kwan-do, Golden Chuuka-Zanmai!!"
Ren shot forward his arms a blur as he struck out at his opponent with inhuman speed, tearing his shirt and cutting his arms and legs. Ren finished the attack by swinging his Kwan-do two-handedly with earth shattering force which sent his opponent flying through the air until he crashed into a tree. Amazing the newcomer regained his feet and started taunting Ren.
"Come on is that the best you got, I've had worse scratches from kittens."
Ren blinded by rage lunged for his opponents stomach as though trying to spear him but the newcomer simply side stepped and Ren▓s momentum caused his Kwan-do to get stuck in the tree that his opponent had been knocked into.
While Ren wrestled with his Kwan-do, the newcomer turned and ran back towards the house but was cut off by the other Shaman.
"Where do you think you're going?" the blue haired kid asked.
"Inside." muttered the lone shaman; he didn't stop running but just before he ran into the other shaman he seemed to freeze in place then disappear.
"Huh? Where'd he go?" Horo asked the others.
"I don't know, he was right in front of us a second ago!" said Rio confused.
"Oh, he's behind us." said Yoh calmly. The whole gang turned round and sure enough the newcomer was behind them and had run into the house.
"Hey Yoh if you knew where he was why did you let get him past us?" asked Manta surprised by Yoh's actions.
"Well I thought he had a right to defend himself." said Yoh in his usual care free manner.
"What! Yoh are you thinking straight?" yelled Horo.
"He didn't seem like a bad person to me," replied Yoh, "he didn't want to fight us and Ren didn't give a chance to explain what he was doing, I just don't see why we should attack him when we don't know the whole story."
"Yoh did you hear what he was he doing to Jun." said Manta looking at Yoh as if he was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
"He didn't do anything to me." Jun had finally managed to get up and make her way over to the others. She seemed unnaturally calm and looked as though she wasn't completely aware of what was happening around her.
"Jun are you alright?!" Tamao squeaked.
"Yes I feel fine." answered Jun her voice still showing no sign of emotion. She turned and started making her way over to the unconscious Lee Pailong.
"See I told you!" said Yoh triumphantly "And I bet if we listened to his side of story everything will make perfect sense." Yoh beamed at the rest of the gang.
"Yoh how can be so sure that everything will turn out all right?" said Manta looking at his friend in a puzzled way.
"I just have a hunch." he told them.
"Well if you wish to listen to the strangers side of the story I suggest that we stop young Ren right now while he is preoccupied." Rio said to the group "Otherwise he may not be around to tell us."
Suddenly a shadow passed overhead and they all looked up to see the newcomer somersaulting over their heads and land in front of them with his back to the group and his eyes focused on Ren.
"Somehow Rio I don't think we're going to have to worry about that." said Yoh.
The newcomer was now dressed in a dark grey rain coat that covered most of his figure but a sheathed four-foot sword could be seen at his side with one hand resting on the end of the handle. From the shape of the sheath the sword appeared to be a strait blade iron sword. On the hilt at the base of the blade, and in-between the pommel bars was a circular gem.
Ren finally managed to free his Kwan-do from the tree and turned to face his opponent who was now armed. Ren sneered at the sheathed sword at his opponent's side and said ⌠Are you planning to use that or is it just for show?"
"You'll see." replied his opponent and he grasped the sword handle tightly and pulled it out of its scabbard.
Ren was trying hard not to laugh when he saw that all his opponent was holding was what looked to be an iron sword, but its blade looked to be made of blackened rust. "How are you going to fight with that? That hunk of junk looks to be about 100 years old and fall apart any minute." he asked his voice full of contempt.
In response his opponent shouted "Never underestimate your opponent, or you"ll look like an idiot. This sword isn't junk, it's a modified ZweihДnder." The stranger then held out the sword at a diagonal angle with his left hand resting the blade and his right gripping the handle.
"Weiss! Spirit Form! Into Eroberung." As he said this, he maneuvered the blade so that his left hand was on the base of the blade closest to the tip were the handle ended and the blade began, on the hilt the jewel glowed red. All of the shamans could then see a large crow-like beast fly up from behind the boy, spread it's large wings, then seem as though being sucked into the jewel. The jewel on the hilt of the sword flashed, a great otherworldly cawing was heard, and a black, white outlined light began to appear out of the jewel, swirling and spiraling around the blade as the newcomer traced with his hand the length of the sword's blade. The flowing miniature twister of light went all the way to the end. When the light dissipated, the blade was now a shining silver of steel. The hilt now had a crow head with multiple flowing spines coming out from the back of the head reaching all the way up to the boys head, the jewel lighting up the bird's eyes.
"Pflug Positur." Said the newcomer as he held the sword at his side and with his other hand gestured for Ren to attack.
"Arrogant fool!" snarled Ren "I'll teach you not to underestimate me, Golden Chuuka-Zanmai!" Ren Immediately launched forward attempting to skewer his opponent in a dozen places.
His opponent didn't move, just before Ren's first lunge reached him he brought his sword arm up and moved it in a blurring pattern that blocked each of Ren's attacks.
But just before they made contact, the boy said "Absetzen."
Ren jumped back, surprised that his attack had been dismissed so easily then he was completely shocked when he looked down to see his shirt in complete shreds. "How? When did-."
"Absetzen is an a defensive technique were one deflects a thrust or cut at the same time as stabbing or cutting. Be happy I didn't decide to use the stabbing technique." The stranger explained.
Ren's surprise was quickly replaced by anger and he charged his opponent again, holding his Kwan-do as if he were going to attempt a horizontal slash but changed at the last minute into another lunge. His opponent swiftly raised his sword and parried the attack, causing Ren to loose balance and stumble face first into his opponents elbow which sent sprawling across the ground.
"Just did it again. You need to calm down." the stranger told him "How do you expect to focus on your attacks when you allow your emotions to run rampant inside you?"
"You dare lecture me on how I should fight?" yelled Ren angrily he ran forwards and aimed an attack at the strangers head, but his opponent raised his sword to block the attack and locked their weapons so that they were face to face.
(Ren saw his opponent clearly for the first time. He looked to be only slightly older than himself; he had jet-black hair, which at the moment was covering the top half of his face and Ren could only just make out that he had bright blue eyes. He also notice from his features he appeared to be European. Ren guessed that was why he was using German words.)
"Well you obviously need the lesson." Replied his opponent. As they struggled against each other to try and gain an upper hand Ren's opponent suddenly lashed out with a kick that connected with Ren's midriff and forced back by about 10 feet.
⌠Teufel Abend!" the stranger yelled slashing at the air with his sword; which emitted multiple black-colored objects looking like feathers that streaked towards Ren in multiple directions, he was unable to evade all of them in time and got hit with the full force of the attack and was sent flying into a tree. He slid to the ground and lay there for a few seconds before he got up slowly, shaking his head while at the same time saying "Please tell me that's not the best you've- huh? Where'd you go?" he looked around frantically for his opponent and shouted, "I order you to show yourself!"
It was at that moment that the wind picked up and Ren was suddenly grabbed from behind, he tried to struggle but stopped when he felt a cold blade press against his throat┘
For the spines on Weiss's head and in over soul, imagine Blackheart from Marvel comics head spines.
Teufel Abend- German for 'Devil's evening'
Pflug Positur-Plough Stance
Absetzen-Set/setting aside