Chapter XIII

Good Luck

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*music free chapter! but only this time :3

She ran like nothing could stop her. The wind was pushing her forward, as she was constantly willing to reach the nearest portal and get out of here.

She couldn't stand him, not anymore, not in this place. What was wrong with him? When they were meeting every evening, training together…Well he still acted a bit cocky, but it was fun. It was fun to learn a few moves and then, after her getting exhausted, they would just sit at a campfire or watch the stars. They would discuss about the Shaman Tournament, hell, she was even hoping for them to be in the same team, but of course she never mentioned that.

There was no tension, like it is now. It wasn't psychically consumptive for her every time they'll talk, but now…Was it all because she found out his dark side? But still, Hao himself would act a bit different when he was around her. Constant ping-pong of biting words, and the normal talks would last now less than five minutes.

Everything changed, since that night. She clearly noticed a strange change of light in his eyes…but not when he revealed his plans, but only when she firmly stared at him after that slap…Did he change his perception about her?

Even so, she wanted those moments back. In some way, she had to do something. But not here, not now…

Miyako appeared out of nowhere, going with the same speed as her. But, apart from her running, she was actually…

"Floating?! How can you do that?" Rilury asked surprised as she was graciously sliding on pure air and her skirt was slightly lifted by the wind.

"It's simple. I have enough furyoku to do that. But we must hurry, because I have to introduce you to your new teammate."

"Huh?" Rilury said as she was suddenly carried by the wind. In a matter of seconds they entered the portal which was a few kilometers away. There was a flash of light. The next thing she knew was standing on a field with a bunch of shamans who just got out, seeming as confused as she was.

"Ri-lu-ryyy!" her mother angrily approached her, and the girl became even more flustered.

"What have you done?! Because of you, now nearly all the shamans passed this probe! Not only you revealed all the portal locations, but the light they made also scarred the wild animals away! So all I did was for nothing!" her mother complained.

Still, she was also surprised, as she didn't know her daughter has that much power. She wanted to lecture her more and even put a few questions, but was shortly interrupted by that latino-lover guy…what was his name again? Alejandro?

"Mistress! You finally arrived! I was so worried!" he cried as he knelt in front of Miyako, who didn't seem to be slightly impressed.

"Who is this guy?" Rilury asked in confusion.

"Rilury, meet my slave. He has a weird name, but I call him Alex."

"Oh, miss, your words are hurtful to me!" he cried, but then looked at Rilury. "I like to consider myself her faithful assistant, and one day I will become worthy for my master to fully pronounce my name! Pleasured to meet you!" he declared proudly, as he kissed her hand.

"Don't touch my daughter!" Akira shouted after she kicked him with her foot.

"So embarrassing…." Rilury said to herself, but then her eyes shortly went on the boy that just exited another portal near them.

"My, my, it seems that because of you I'm late. All of my people already arrived before me." Hao said arrogantly, while looking at her.

A heavy aura of anger shortly surrounded Rilury. "You-…."

"Hao-sama!" Opacho ran towards him and hugged his leg." Opacho and Luchist waited for Hao-sama for five hours! Opacho was worried" she cried.

"There's no need to cry now, Opacho." He said on a mild tone while patting her head.

Such a strong contrast… Rilury thought to herself, after being calmed down by that little girl's presence.

A few more shamans arrived shortly and then Akira declared the ending for the last preliminary round.

"All right, all shamans, head to the stadium now, the tournament panel will be out shortly… Tsk, because of my daughter, I didn't even reduce the number of the participants to half…"

"Wait, mom, what happened to the ones that couldn't pass this test?" she asked with a worried voice.

"Well, even if I would have enjoyed if they would have been killed by those animals…"

"Mom!"

"Ah, I still deported them back to America safely, maybe with a few scratches…but on the whole, safe and sound…" Akira said in disappointment.

Rilury warmly smiled. She knew that her mother wasn't a bad person as she wanted to seem.

"Rilury! I'm glad you also passed! Do you want to come with us?"

A few meters away was Yoh, smiling as always. She waved back at him, but before heading towards them, Miyako said with an expressionless face:

"See you later, Rilury."

She nodded in agreement.

"What?! My first battle is starting in one hour!? But I haven't even fully rested!" Rilury complained as she has seen the first battle on the panel.

"Black Pearl"…It was a suitable name for the team she was in. After all, Miyako mentioned something about the name…

"And the team you're battling is Hana-gumi (Team Flower). Those witches that are following Hao…Good luck with that." Ren said with an indifferent tone.

"Don't worry, Rilury, you will work it out somehow." Yoh encouraged her, thing which rose up her moral a bit.

"Yeah, me and Chocolove will be encouraging you from the backstage!" Horo Horo proudly declared.

"I haven't even met her properly…" Chocolove whispered but his neck was even more fastened by the blue haired boy's arm.

"We'll be there!" the Ainu shaman said even louder.

"Me too!" Lyserg came out of nowhere and smiled at her.

"Oh, then I'll come with my precious Lyserg and cheer you up, beautiful lady!" Ryu said, but shortly knocked down by both Horohoro and Chocolove.

"Ren, are you coming too?" Yoh asked.

"No. I am going to rest and recover properly. You should do that too." He said plainly and Rilury felt those words like a rock of disappointment on her head.

"Ah, so we're fighting already." Miyako's unmoved voice came from the back, thing which made everyone's heads turn over. She was with her slave-…*coughs* I mean faithful assistant nearby. "Rilury, I am also eager to see you in action." She added, but on the same plain tone, before she left.

Everybody remained silent.

"This dark furyoku pressure…I haven't felt that since we first met Hao…" Horohoro said.

"Wait, you're teammates with her?" asked Lyserg in surprise.

"He-he, it's not like I've had any other option…Plus, she doesn't seem to be a bad person…" Rilury explained flustered.

"Hmph." Ren smirked, thing which made everyone look at him surprised. "On second thoughts, maybe I will also come to see the fight."

The Stadium was full and shortly bored by Radim's speech. The public wanted to see a shaman fight, and they wanted it now. That's why loudly cheers burst when the Hana-Gumi team entered on the stage, as the team's reputation was known from the previous Tournament. And their faces remained afterwards in a confusing disgrace when, after their opinion, they saw a lame-ass blonde latino-lover, a goth girl with daddy issues holding a strange octopuss toy in her hands and some sort of a rough girl who didn't get enough sleep and looked like a monster with those huge black eyebags. (*INSERT PICTURE HERE)

"What is this, some sort of a joke?" Kanna asked ironically when she saw their opponents.

"Oh, you'll laugh a lot when my foot is going to be stuck in your lame asses!" Rilury shouted, and this reply seemed to have consumed her a lot of energy, as she felt dizzy afterwards.

"You can't even stand on your two feet and yet you're acting so tough. I don't even need to bother myself. "

"Kanna-san, just let me take care of her." Macchi said with her eyes thirsty for blood.

She got up on the stage, where Rilury was, but after she shouted at them she was kind of tossing from side to side because of her tiredness.

Macchi made an oversoul with Jack the Ripper.

"I hope you enjoyed that time spent with Hao-sama, some precious time that you aren't even worthy of it!" she said before attacking her quickly with Jack's knives.

"Whoah, whoah, calm yourself crazy witch! I haven't even formed my oversoul yet!" Rilury said while dodging the attack with a jump."Gah, why did you make me do that? Now I'm physically even more wasted!" She yawns while pulling out the wolfram sword."And no, I did not enjoyed my time with that bastard!"

She dodged another attack, but this time it was a bullet coming from Mari's oversoul.

"She called you a witch, and also insulted Hao-sama. I will not hold myself in this battle." She said to Macchi who remained a bit surprised.

"Damn, I should have made my oversoul quicker…" Rilury said to herself. "All I did was uselessly...make...physical effort." she said while swaying around.

"Shut up dirty wretch! How dare you to treat this battle with such an attitude!" Mari with Chuck's gun pointed at Rilury.

"Let's just finish her with one hit" Macchi smirked and Mari nodded as she jumped at the other side of the stage.

But Rilury didn't seem to hear what they were planning. While Macchi was preparing her Trick or Treat move, her concentration was on Mari who was walking towards her with Chuck, to have a better range. She tried to bind a few words:

"You *yawns*…how could you call me…a…*yawns*"

The sound of her voice was covered by the shotgun and the powerful blast that Jack made attacking the victim. The powerful collision and the gun powder made everything covered in smoke. After everything became clear again, Rilury was lying on the ground.

The public was cut out of breath by seeing that powerful attack.

"What? She already collapsed?!" Manta said in shock.

"Is she dead?" the thought came from most of the people, including Opacho who was standing on the railing to see the match. A slightly amused smile came upon her master's lips.

"That girl…She's really interesting." Hao said amused.

"Manta…" Yoh said bringing the little boy who remained with a shocked expression. "Look closely. I think she's just asleep" he said with a smile.

Indeed, Rilury was breathing with her mouth open.

"Whaaat?! She took a nap during a battle? But how the attack did not affect her?!"

"It's simple" he explained. "Just like in my battle with the Icemen, her furyoku so high that it helps her instinctively defend herself."

Macchi and Mari were shocked. How disrespectful…Macchi came close to her and lifted her foot.

"You bastard. Wake up!"

But she didn't have the chance to hit her because of the shield she instinctively created when Rilury suddenly woke up.

"What the hell!" she shouted. "Oh wait…it was just a nightmare." She said while looking around. "Wait, this battle isn't over yet?"

"How dare you to underestimate us!" both girls shouted while preparing another double attack. "This will use almost all our furyoku and will instantly kill you!" Macchi said with a bit of madness in her eyes.

"Gah but I'm still sleepy! But I guess I have no choice" she said while pulling out the wolfram sword. After it shone with electric spikes, she split it in two.

"You know, I dreamed something about my power...And I found out, it's mostly based on atom fusion. So yeah, what will attack you would be some simple gamma rays, that's all." She said with a smirk, while rotating the two lightning blades she had in her hands. They've reproduced the strange forms of two atoms, which headed each in the directions of the two girls.

The ring splintered yellow. After that, both Mari and Macchi were lying off the stage.

"You're lucky I can control this radiation only to dissolve your oversouls." She said and then yawned again. "Now it's your turn, Kanna! But after I take another nap…."

"Rilury, what you did is enough, thank you. Plus that if you oversleep again, you will break your oversoul and loose." Miyako's voice was heard from behind.

"Well, sleeping is my number one priority, so…" Rilury said while getting off the stage and put her head on a pillow specially brought by Alejandro. That guy was a good servant and had everything his master needed for her comfort.

"Hmm, so I guess you think you have the chances to defeat me, little girl?" Kanna asked with jeer. She was also surprised by Rilury's attack, but she knew that she wouldn't be able to fight in that condition.

"Actually, I will not bother myself in this easy fight. My servant, Alex, will deal with you"

"Miss, you called me a servant!" Alejandro cried with joy.

"Hmph, so after I defeat this pitiful guy, you'll come and dirty your princess fingers?"

"As her faithful assistant, I don't allow you to taunt my master. I demand that you kneel and apologize right before her."

"Shut up, dirty ass wiper." Kanna said and Ashcroft hit him with his spear. It plunged direct in his waist.

"Just as I thought. Another weakling who got in the Tournament just by obeying like a slave to the other shamans." Kanna said in disgust, while plunging the spear deeper in Alejandro's body.

"Wait a second, miss. I didn't negate that I'm a faithful servant, but who said I'm weak?"

Kanna's eyes looked shocked as the red scarf tied around his waist turned into a ferocious creature that he was riding. That was his oversoul in disguise.

"A bull?" she said shocked.

"Not just a bull. Look closer at its horns." The spear was made into pieces by them. But there wasn't only metal pieces, but also all sorts of old red cloth ripped off and hanging on the huge horns. "This is the magnificent creature that survived not less than 89 spanish bullfighting, sliced 56 matadors before being shot to death because of its threat."

The bull butt at Ashcroft and completely destroyed its armor.

"Consider yourself lucky, miss. Indeed, my mistress let me join the Shaman Fight and it is I who pleaded her for my own life in the initiation round. But I am a man with honor and I respect the promise I made to her that day. But I suppose you too know, what loyalty means, don't you miss?"

"Stop giving me that bullshit politeness! My name is Kanna Bismarch. And the battle isn't over yet!" she said, obviously been angered by his last remark.

On the arena rose a dense smoke. It was Ashcroft's medium. In the dense smoke, spears were heading toward Alejandro. He pulled out the red scarf.

"Torro! If you want to domesticate such a creature, you must have the necessary torero master skills." He said while appearing to dodge the attacks easily.

"You call yourself a man, but all you do is avoid my attacks!" Ashcroft's voice was heard from the dense smoke. "I'm going to get a forward attack, and you can't avoid my spear from slicing your head anymore!"

He appeared from the smoke with a his spear pointed at him. Not only that the loss of the armor made him even faster, but the furyoku was condensed only in his weapon.

"Oh, but who said I was avoiding your spears?"

Ashcroft watched in shock as the bull appeared behind the red cloth and torn the weapon into pieces with his horns.

" I was just directing my bull's attacks towards your spear. You see, those animals are attracted by the red color, which angers them easily. That's what tauromachia means " He said, then she put the scarf on Ashcroft's head, who was still shocked."Ole!"

The bull butt against him sliced the spirit, therefore breaking Kanna's oversoul.

"My work here is done. It was a pleasure fighting with you, miss Bismarch." He said while taking Kanna's hand in his palms. She was still shocked by the scene, but before he could kiss her hand she slapped him.

"I don't like formal addressing." She said with a normal and firm tone, walking away, thing which gave Alejandro a a mysterious smile on his lips.

"That's some sparkle over there." Anna said indifferently while drinking her refreshing soda, thing which made Yoh smile.

"All right, now I'm ready to fight you-….What?! Where the hell is everybody?!" Rilury said astonished when she saw the whole stage emptied.

"They left and nobody could bother you from your profound sleep." Hao appeared in front of her with a smirk.

"Wait, you saw the match? Hah, did you see how I've beaten up your cheerleaders? That's what you are going to get if you'll get on my nerves again!" she said proudly.

"I doubt it". He responded indifferently.

"Now, I'll also head home because I still didn't get enough sleep." She said walking away.

"Where?" he asked with a smug.

"That's none of your-…Wait! I don't know either where is my room!"

"All the hotel rooms are already occupied. It took you long enough to realize that."

"Why do I always have this bad luck? I have to eat! And sleep more!" she complained.

" You could come over to my camp." He said on a superior and luring tone.

"And meet those witches again? Not a chance."

"We won't be bothered by anyone." He put a finger on her lips and glanced in her eyes with an even bigger smirk.

She blushed a bit and took his hand off.

"Hell no!". Her stomach started growling. "Um, just for curiosity…do you have any food?"

"Well, it's about dinner time and Luchist always prepares the finest dishes, especially on special occasions like the beginning of the tournament." He said maintaining his composure.

"Hmph. Maybe I will just come to evaluate his cooking…and rest myself a bit…but only until I figure out a room for myself!" she added categorically.

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