Chapter 10
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Italic stands for thought / dreams
'Italic with single quote stands telepathic voice'
[Stands for voice from the past]
-Stands for telephone-
Underline stands for letter
"Quote stands for dialogue"
Bold stands for emphasis
Bold italic stands for a dangerous tone
Revelation
"Woah! We are really teleported!" Manta exclaimed in surprise but then shivered from the cold air, his teeth clattering immediately, "How, how come you . . . don't even shivering?" he asked in a low voice.
Shouyo laughed, "Well, I'm used to this kind of weather." she said in carefree way, then she looked around, "Now, we have to find the cave Luna mentioned, but first I have to make you not get too cold." she muttered quietly and inhaled softly, "Mighty Air Around Me, Listen to My Voice." she felt the wind responded and imagine the wind to move in circle around them but with some space to make the blizzard not touch them.
"You are great, Yo-san." Manta said in awe as he not felt cold anymore, it's looked as if the snow and wind avoiding them, but the truth is Shouyo moved the wind to make some kind of dome to protect them.
"Let's get going, they must be waiting for us now." Shouyo said calmly but with determination.
"So, Luna, you said Yo-chan will come soon?" Horo Horo asked in excitement.
"Yes." Luna answered cheerfully, she can't help but feel the same excitement like Horo Horo, Shouyo has become their important friend after all.
"Who is this Yo-chan?" Lyserg asked curiously, he is new so he hasn't met with Shouyo yet.
"She is our friend." Anna said calmly, her constant scowl disappeared right after she heard her best friend will come, "Her name is Shouyo, she is an easy-going type of person who can brighten the room simply by being there." A rare smile appeared on her face as she remembered the carefree girl.
"Hm, Oh!" Lyserg's pendulum shaking, "There's someone outside." he said as his pendulum pointing towards the entrance.
"Oh! It must be her!" Horo Horo exclaimed and run to the entrance immediately, followed by the others who as excited as him to meet their friend.
Lyserg and the rest gasped, in front of them is a girl with brown hair and onyx eyes with a face that terrifyingly similar to Hao, like a female version of Hao, but her hair is only passed her shoulder blade. Beside her is a small boy, really small that can get mistaken as a 5 years old child, but what makes them shock is the fact that the blizzard avoiding them just like when they see Hao before.
"Yo-chan, how come the blizzard's avoiding you?" Ryu asked with a pair of big eyes like fish eyes.
The girl laughed cheerfully, "I'm simply use a simple Magic to make the wind form a dome around us, I can't let Manta freezing to death, can I?" she grinned happily as she make her way to them.
"Shouyo!" Anna yelled as the girl arrived at the entrance of the cave, "Why the hell you didn't give us any news?! We are worried sick, you know?!" she glared at the girl.
Shouyo smiled apologetically, "Let's get inside first." she said softly.
Anna sighed and went inside, followed by the rest of them. When they got to their previous spot and their two new friends sat with them, Anna glare at her again, "So, why didn't you contact us?" Ren asked calmly.
"Because I didn't know how to contact you, I didn't have Luna's number until I remembered that my mother know it." Shouyo answered, "And I'm sorry that I gone for too long, after I finished the problem I told to solved before, mother told me to do something else and it needed so many times to do." she smiled lazily at them, "Then after I finished, I gone straight to Japan, when I entered the inn, the phone rang and Yohmei wanted me to help him give something to Anna".
"What is it?" Anna asked sharply, "Don't tell me a letter that tell me to go back?" her eyes narrowed.
"Well, I don't know, he said you will know what to do about it." Shouyo answered absent-mindedly as she rummaged her backpack, she found what se want and handed it to Anna, "Here, it's a book of Shaman's techniques called Chou Senji Ryakketsu".
"Oh!" Keiko gasped, then scowling, "Father want her to mastering the techniques and use them to kill Hao." she said gravely, "How ironic that the techniques were written by Hao himself in the past".
Hao? Isn't it the name Zenki and Kouki said before? Shouyo blinked, "Who is this Hao?" she asked curiously, "Why does he want you to kill him?" she stare at Keiko with an innocent expression.
Keiko sighed and told her everything, about her twin sons, about how Hao is the reincarnation of the Asakura family's founder and that Hao wanted to eradicate all humans, "And what worse is I found out that Yohmei wanted my second son to be the one to kill his brother, since he is Hao's twin, he might had the power to do so." Keiko finished.
"What the hell?!" Shouyo gasped, finally, she understand why in the world Mai want her as Asakura Yoh to stay hidden, her grandfather want her to kill her twin?! She can't believe it, it's so cruel, and from the story she heard, every time Hao get killed in the past, he always get even angrier and stronger, what is the good of killing Hao? Shouyo frowned, "I will help with stopping Hao, but I won't kill him".
"What do you mean?" Lyserg asked in confusion.
"Oh, who are you?" Shouyo asked in surprise, "I'm sorry I didn't notice you before".
Lyserg smiled, "I'm Lyserg Diethel." he said in friendly tone, "Who are you? And what do you mean by you won't kill him?".
Shouyo looked at Luna who nodded and smiled reassuringly, she sighed softly, "Everyone know that my name is Shouyo, but it's my second name, the name I got after an accident 8 years ago which causing me to lost my memories and reduced my Shamanic abilities to the lowest level." Anna's eyes widened, maybe she already figured it out, "My name before I lost my memories is . . . Asakura Yoh".
Silence fall after her declaration, then all of them, well, except for Anna and Luna, jaw-dropped and stared at her in disbelief, "What?!" they exclaimed in shock.
"I said, I'm Asakura Yoh." Shouyo repeated.
"You, you are a boy then?" Ryu stuttered with shocked expression.
Shouyo nodded, "My adopted mother told me that if the Asakura find out that Asakura Yoh is still alive, they would forced me to do something bad, now I understand that what she mean by that is to kill my own brother." she explained, "She told me that the best way to hide my identity as Asakura Yoh is to cross-dressing, she said they will know that it's me right away if I just use different name, I didn't know before but it's obvious now that it's because of my face seeing that I have a twin an all".
"That make sense, no wonder you look like the female version of Hao, you are actually his twin brother." Lyserg commented, "And if Hao's enemy know that you as his twin lost your Shamanic ability, they will attack you for sure".
Shouyo nodded, "Then, you don't mind cross-dressing?" Ren asked her, she shook her head.
"I'm used to, since I wear girl clothes since I was 5." Shouyo shrugged, "But I want you to keep this a secret though, I don't want the rest of the Asakura to find out".
Anna nodded, "You are right, Yohmei and Mikihisa will forced you to obey them for sure, and if Hao knows, he will get mad because you lost your Shamanic ability and maybe kill you by himself." she said nonchalantly, "So, is that the reason why you refuse to take a bath with the rest? Because you didn't want us to find out that you are a boy?".
Shouyo nodded, "Because I didn't know the reason back there, now that I know, I can tell you all who I really am." She explained casually, then she yawn, "Uh, do you mind if I sleep, I didn't get sleep much the last little while".
They all nodded, so she search for a comfortable place and lie down, she drifted to the dream world immediately.
A week later, they arrived in a small town to replace their food supplies. But right after they stepped into the town, they came face to face with a group of strange people wearing all white, and to Shouyo's annoyance, they attacked them.
"Who are they?!" Shouyo asked when she and the rest run from the strange group.
"They are X-Laws!" Lyserg explained, he already looked exhausted from the long run, "They are a group of Shamans who hate Hao and want to kill Hao and anyone that have connection with him!".
"And they are using Angel-like Oversouls! They are strong so we don't have any choice but to run now!" Horo Horo added.
"Oh no!" They gasped when they met with dead end, "All of you! Take Keiko-san and Shouyo to flee! I will try to stopped them!" Anna ordered as she makes her big Oversoul of Oh Oni.
"I will help her, let's go, Bason!" Ren also formed his Oversoul, he get into fighting stance.
"Asakura Keiko." One of the X-Laws talked, "You are Hao's mother, you have to join us and help us to kill Hao, or else, we will kill them all".
"You insane." Shouyo grumbled softly as she shot them a dead glare, "Tell me why you want to kill Hao!" She yelled to the man.
"Because Hao is the Evil One, we are under Iron Maiden Jeanne-sama, the girl who blessed by the god. Hao had killed so many people, so we will bring justice and kill him as a punishment for him." The man with blond hair and glasses hiding his eyes talked, "If you refuse, we will take that you all siding with Hao and kill you too".
To be continued . . .
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