Above Kousuke's head were two people: a boy and a man. The boy looked like Hikari.
" Who are you two?" Kousuke more angry than afraid of the two men who made a hole in his ceiling. " If you don't go now I'm calling the cops! There's one watching you right now so scat!"
" Is that so?" The tall one said. " Did you hear that, Osrhie? He's going to call the cops on us."
" Yes, I hear it too, Rin-shin," the small boy said with a snide attitude. " Is he anything like the police officer watching your house?"
" What? How did you know there was a police officer outside?"
" Let's just say the three of us had a little chat" the boy smirked. " I asked him if we may please have keys to the house-the one where a Mamodo was hiding. It's too bad. He should've said yes. Now I had to do something bad to him."
" What did you do to him? Answer me!"
" I asked my partner to open the book and please read our favorite spell. When that happened...we disembowelled his head from his body."
Kousuke trembled in fear. The words that passed through the young boys lips were senile and heartless. He sounded to be a boy without a conscious. Kousuke clenched his fists, gritted his teeth.
" BASTARD! How could you do that?"
" Because it's fun. It's fun to play a game where people die. Wouldn't you agree, Rin-shin?"
" Indeed I do, Osrhie. It's fun when their blood gushes out of their body. It's like something in a movie."
" This isn't a damn movie! That was a human life! You can't just kill people because you feel like it!"
" Why can't I? He was pathetic anyways. When he was still alive he stupidly took out a nightstick trying to whack us. When we had him he kept shouting " Captain, Captain, Captain please save me" then when he died he said " Aaaaaaaaaaaa..." Hahahaha!"
" The bestiality. These two are both insane! I have to get Hikari and get out of here before they nab us next. "
But when Kousuke looked at his bed he saw that Hikari was gone. Not only was she gone but the book Kousuke was reading also was missing. Kousuke ditched Hikari to save herself. Why she needed that book Kousuke hadn't the slightest idea, but he noticed the tall, handsome man carrying a book just like her; his was purple.
" Ready, Rin-shin."
" Ready, Orshie." Rin-shin the tall, muscular man opened the book and skimmed through it until he reached one page, stopped. " Kabosaka!"
Orshie opened his mouth up wide. Out of his mouth a giant buzz saw came out. Kousuke couldn't move. He was too frightened from the saw blade to move. If he didn't move soon he was going to be sliced in half.
Just when it looked like Kousuke was going to be sliced in half by the giant buzz saw, he was pushed to the ground by something he could only imagine to be a train.
" Who pushed me?"
When Kousuke looked back he thought he would see Hikari coming back to help him, but what he found instead was a prodigious looking boy. The same green haired boy with the cape and the fur pelts pushed him out of the way. Kousuke was too confused at everything happening to him it felt like he was going to pass out.
Kousuke fell with his back hitting the ground. The boy was staring down at him. His face was foreshadowed from the light and he was crying. Kousuke felt in synch with the boy as his sad weary face caused him to leak out like a faucet.
" Why aren't you moving? You could've died" the boy cried on top of the saddened Kousuke.
" I'm so scared," Kousuke cried back to the boy.
" I'm scared too, but that's no reason to die. You have to keep moving. You have to never stop. If you keep going something good is going to come out of it."
" Something good..."
" Yes. Doesn't anything matter to you? Don't you want something? You have to keep moving to get that."
" An interesting theory," the smug boy Osrhie laughed. " I can't believe they let someone as soft-hearted and weak like you enter the tournament."
" T-Tournament?" Kousuke stuttered.
" But then again I guess you can't be too picky when there's over twice as many Mamodo then from the last tournament. The question is though...who is going to be the king?"
" King? Mamodo? W-What?"
" Kabosaka!"
Another giant buzz saw was fired out of the small boys' mouth and headed towards Kousuke and the small green-haired boy. Kousuke however found newfound strength after listening to what the boy said. Kousuke ran away, boy in hands, and ran out the door from his room to the hall.
" I want to live!"
Kousuke was near the stairs on the other end of the hall. However, behind him the sound of a buzz saw was heard. It sounded almost like a flying saucer. Kousuke jumped to the right and crashed through the door of one room.
" He's in there, Rin-shin," Osrhie's voice was heard on the other side of the door.
" Well let's get him. Kabosaka!"
Kousuke fell to the ground with the boy in his hands as a giant buzz saw flew right through the wall. The buzz saw went through the wall behind Kousuke. It created a tear space large enough for Kousuke to crawl through. But if he fell he might break his legs, or even worse...
" Rin-shin, I think I got him!"
" Well let's just double. check. Kabosaka! Kabosaka! Kabosaka! KABOSAKA!"
" This is suicide!"
Kousuke ran to the hole created from the last buzz saw and jumped out with the boy and book in his hands. It was so dark out that Kousuke couldn't even see the ground. In his last moments he pried the green book from the young boys arms, he didn't know why, and shouted as loud as he could the only word he could read:
" REONTREE!"
From the green-haired boys mouth a small bulb came out. The bulb sprouted into a bush, and then grew into a giant tree. The tree was the first thing to touch the ground. Kousuke slid down the tree. Soon he landed safely on the ground.
" What was that? First there's this boy that fires buzz saws and now there's kids that fire trees out of their mouths. This has got to be a dream. Nothing but a realistic dream-"
A giant buzz saw was fired out of nowhere nearly hitting Kousuke. The light outside however was so dim that he couldn't make a clear shot.
" Did I get him?" Orshie shouted on the top of the house.
" No. But we won't miss him this time!" Rin-shin shouted.
" Time to go!"
Kousuke ran as fast as he could away from his house into the streets. The light there was much dimmer than the light around Kousuke's house. So dim that Rin-shin and Orshie couldn't get a clear target.
" Do you know what, Orshie."
" What, Rin-shin?"
" This has got to be our very first battle against a Mamodo together. And do you know what, Orshie."
" What, Rin-shin."
" I'm enjoying every minute of it. This is the rush I've been looking for. So let's find this little boy and sever the bonds between him and his Mamodo and for all."
XXX
Kousuke was running through the forest with a boy clinging to his back. Kousuke was exhausted. Any moment it felt like his lungs were going to explode. Kousuke never was an athlete at school. He dropped the boy off at a rock. Kousuke tried catching his breath, rubbed two fingers on the side of his neck and breathed checking his blood pressure.
" Great. I'm alone in the middle of the woods. It's dark. I'm being chased by two cynical crazy people who can fire giant saw blades. And there's a ninety-nine percent chance I'm going to die. How can this get any worse?"
" Daddy..." the green haired boy moaned. " Daddy."
" What's with this kid? Where did he even show up in the first place? Someone please wake me up. This has got to be a dream."
Kousuke heard footsteps running behind him. Kousuke thought of whatever chasing him to be a dangerous beast. He grabbed the boy, raised him above his head and carried him up the tree with the boy clinging to his back. Kousuke felt like a sloth climbing up a tree trying to get it's leaves. Kousuke climbed up a branch and hugged his arms around it.
No sooner did Kousuke reach the branch did a pair of two people showed up.
" Great, more weirdoes. Who are these two anyways?"
" Are you sure we're going to be safe here, Sadao?" The young boy asked the bald man. " Those guys that were chasing us...they aren't going to find us here, are they?"
" Don't worry. This is the safest place I could find, Fuin," the bald man said to the boy.
" I don't know. I feel like there's another Mamomo around here. I think as a liability we should keep moving."
" I'm through with running. If these Mamodo's do show up here I want to fight them."
" This guy is some kind of muscle head and the boy is some kind of worrywart. They don't really seem that dangerous. Maybe I should climb down and ask them if they can help us-"
" Yes, I thought I smelled the flesh of a Mamodo around here, Rin-Shin. And there they are."
" Yes. There they are, Orshie. All ready for us to defeat."
From the darkness the duo of crazy Mamodo and human Orshie and Rin-Shin showed up. Rin-Shin's book glowed. Rin-Shin took a deep breath from his mouth, screamed.
" Kabosaka!"
A giant buzz saw was fired from Orshie's mouth. The buzz saw zoomed towards the bald haired man and the boy. The bald man Sadao's book glowed bright beige. Sadao took one deep breath of air from his mouth and prepared to scream.
" Zeruk!"
The innocent looking boy Fuin underwent a strange transformation. His hair became wild, his eyes turned the color bright red, and his clothes teared away as nothing but his underwear were left. Fuin also grew a pair of savage and lethal claws. Fuin slashed his claws at the buzz saw ripping it in half.
" Yes!" Fuin laughed wickedly after slicing the buzz saw in half. " Sadao, keep reading the spell."
" With pleasure. Zeruk!"
A strong aura glowed out of Fuin's body. His claws extended further out. Fuin charged towards Rin-Shin and Orshie spinning his body around. Rin- Shin and Orshie both jumped out of the way before the buzz saw could cut them in half. The buzz saw went right through a tree and cut it in half. The tree fell down crashing to the ground. The book in Sadao's hands kept glowing while he kept shouting the same spell.
" Zeruk! Zeruk! Zeruk!"
Every time he shouted the spell Fuin's claws extended further and further out. Fuin seemed like a wild animal. If Sadao kept saying his spell then Fuin would become nothing but a vicious wild animal. Rin- Shin and Orshie both got up. Rin-Shin's book glowed bright inside the pages.
" Kabryuki!"
Orshie opened his mouth again. This time what seemed like a caged fence was fired from his mouth. The cage was fired behind Fuin's back and wrapped around him. Fuin tried slicing the cage away but his claws were constricted with his hands. Both Rin-Shin and Orshie mocked Fuin by laughing at the trapped Mamodo. Both of them then turned around and walked to Sadao.
" You've got no one to protect you now, baldy," Orshie laughed. " Me and my associate are going to slice you in half. Rin-Shin, read the spell!"
"Kabosa-!"
" No!" Kousuke jumped from the tree branch. He kicked Rin-Shin under his chin before he could finish his sentence. Sadao was surprised, for it was the first time anyone ever did something like that for him. " This battle is between you and me! Fight me!"