Chapter 4: An old enemy returns
Disclaimer: I don't won anyone here, just the plot.
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Tamao shook him.
"Lyserg! Lyserg! What happened?"
"Something bad. I don't know yet" he said. "Let's go home"
"Wait…do you have visions?"
"No. I developed some sort of a sixth sense, like feeling things without the help of Morphin and my pendulum"
"And what was it this time?" she asked
"A lot of anger and hatred, and a thirst for revenge"
"What?!"
"A criminal. I must investigate" he said
They started running across the streets; soon they reached the gate and started running across the alley to the door, when something blocked the way.
"Spirit of Fire?! How?" Lyserg shouted
"My, my, look who we have here…Lyserg…and Tamao" the cold and calm voice said.
"Hao?! But-but how? Aren't you supposed to be dead?!"
"Supposed to, yes, and I was dead until a few hours ago"
"How did you escape? That spell was meant to keep you there forever!"
"Only someone who loves you and is capable to endure pain beyond imagination, willing to sacrifice herself for you shall set your spirit free and give you your life back. Yes, I remember. You thought I couldn't do it? I found the girl, Diethel. She's the one that set me free" Hao answered, pointing at Tamao.
"The dream…the forest…it was you?" Tamao whispered
"Yes, it was me. You see, it was impossible to find someone to love me like this. The X-laws and the others exterminated my old team after you left. Opacho didn't escape either. He had nothing to do with this, he was just an innocent child and they killed him just because he was on my team…"
"Yes, we now that he was good" Lyserg said, bored.
"Anyway, I decided to use the advantage that I looked like Yoh. I couldn't make Anna do it, her mind is too strong for me and she can't be easily fooled. So, that left Tamao. She had lived Yoh forever and the fool never knew it. I entered her already tormented mind, created a dream, and, voila! Here I am!"
"But she doesn't love you! And why did you come here anyway?"
"For revenge. I don't have much more to live. I'll kill you and the X-laws and then I'll take Yoh's soul from him. Prepare to die, Lyserg!"
"No!" Tamao shouted and jumped in front of Lyserg.
"What do you think you are doing?!" Hao shouted at her
"I won't let you hurt him!" she snapped at him, pulling Lyserg close
"Step away" Hao said perfectly calm.
"No!"
Hao stopped his attack. He seemed to have thought of something.
"Fine. Have it your way, then"
His spirit grabbed Tamao and disappeared in a fireball.
"Tamao! TAMAO!" Lyserg shouted.
Nothing happened. She was gone for good.
There was another condition to the spell. Tamao wasn't allowed to die. And Hao couldn't fool the spell for too long. Lyserg was right. Tamao didn't love him, she loved Yoh; and not as strongly as she loved him in the beginning. To stay alive, Hao needed her to love him.
Lyserg ran inside the house and woke everyone up.
"YOH! REN! HORO!" he shouted along the corridor.
"What is it?" the others asked leaving their rooms rubbing the eyes.
"Hao was released"
"WHAT?!"
"He says Tamao did it" Lyserg continued
"WHAT?!"
"But she doesn't love him" Anna said. "And she didn't go at that fountain; she was with us all the time. Where is she?"
"He took her"
"He…what?!"
"Hao wanted to kill me, but he changed his mind. He wants Yoh's soul too"
"He needs her to stay alive" Ren said. "She doesn't love him"
"Wait! Tamao didn't know about this spell?" Yoh asked
"I never told her. I thought we could keep him locked this time" Anna said with a low voice. "We underestimated his mental powers. But nobody ever managed to escape the Fountain of Doom before"
"She thought she was saving Yoh" Ren said
"Yes, Hao said something like this…" Lyserg added. "We have to save her"
"Yes, we don't know what he could to her. We have to find him and destroy him once and for all"
"I'll get my pendulum to locate her"
"We didn't bring our weapons with us"
"It doesn't matter, I'll find something. There are weapons in the dungeons"
