Note: Do! Not! Ask! Whatever you do! I have no idea what got me to
make this, but know this, it's a slasher!!! Don't like, don't read!!!!
It's a Manta/Yoh, Yeno/Kaki-Ri, maybe a moment of Amid/Yoh???? x.x I..I
still ain't sure!!!! x.x oh well!!! Rated R for the fifth (maybe even
more?) chapter(s?).
The Dark Side: Ancient Encantations
Manta walked alongside Yoh as always, staring up at the Shaman boy,
glancing at the ground as Yoh glanced at him.
"Hm?" Yoh blinked before shrugging and putting his arms back behind his
head, using them for pillows and staring up at the sky again.
As Yoh turned his head away, Manta looked back up at him and hid a
blush again.
Yoh blinked, then turned his head back to face his shorter friend just
as Manta turned his head away a second time. This had been going on
for a while now. "Huh?"
"Yoh?" Manta asked.
"Yeah, Manta?" came Yoh's reply.
"I wanted to, ask, you something-"
"What a waste of tree." Yoh said, interrupting his friend, as he leaned
down and picked up an old, folded, brown piece of paper.
"What is it?" Manta inquired as his nerve fell.
"I don't know." Yoh answered. "It's old, whatever it is."
"Let me see it."
Yoh gave the piece of paper to Manta and sat down on the grass as Manta
took it.
"What the-" Manta blinked and said. "I can't read this! It's not in
English or Japanese!"
"I know."
"How will we find out what it says?"
"Maybe some of the spirits around here will know what it says. I
recognize the language from a book I've read before about cultures.
But I'm not really sure."
"Oh."
A few moments of silence passed.
"Yoh?"
"Yeah?"
"I was wondering if, that is, I wondered if you've-"
Yoh closed his eyes. "Move aside or you'll get run through." he told
Manta.
"What?"
Yoh didn't have time to answer. Amidamaru raced past them just as
Yeno, Yoh's most recently partnered ghost, went through Manta, holding
up a rat's spirit by the tail, chasing AMidamaru with the rat's spirit.
'Lord Yoh! Get it away!' Amidamaru yelled as he ran past him again,
arms outstretched. 'Get that foul rodent away from me please!'
Manta's jaw fell to the ground. "Amidamaru's afraid of rats?! The
legendary samurai's afraid of rats?!"
"Yes." Yoh said, grinning.
'Come back here, Bambi!' Yeno yelled as he continued to chase Amidamaru
around with the dead rat's spirit. (Bambi=Amidamaru's nickname, inside
joke.)
'Lord Yoh!' Amidamaru shrieked.
Manta sighed. It looked like he would never be able to ask Yoh what he
wanted to ask.
"I'm coming." Yoh said as he stood back up, stretching slightly.
Manta watched as the skin covering Yoh's exposed chest stretched and
his stomach expanded the slightest bit as he stretched and a smile
extended across his face.
Manta hated it when Yoh did that in front of him. It was like he was
trying to taunt him. But, at the same time, he loved the mere sight of
it. Taunting him or not.
'Lord Yoh!' Amidamaru continued to yell. 'Come on!'
Chuckling, Yoh stepped into Yeno's path, stopping the spectre in his
tracks.
Amidamaru sighed in relief as he went over to Manta, closing his eyes.
'Thank you, Lord Yoh.' Amidamaru said, smiling slightly.
Yoh smiled and nodded. "No problem. Hey, Amidamaru?"
'Hrm?'
"Do you know what this says?" Yoh asked, holding the paper up for the
ghostly samurai to see.
'I would like to answer, but after 600 years, my eyes, spirit or not,
are not what they used to be.'
"Oh, sorry, you can use me to see if you want."
'Alright then, Lord Yoh.'
Moments later, Yoh was seated on the ground with his legs crossed
indian style, his hair spiked slightly.
Amidamaru stared through Yoh's eyes at the paper that he held, Yeno
floating back over Yoh's shoulder as he read, or tried to read, what
was on the piece of paper.
Yoh looked sideways at Manta from the corner of his eyes. 'Huh?' came
Amidamaru's voice from Yoh's body.
Manta shook his head. He would never get used to the way Yoh had of
taking on slight characteristics of the spirit possessing him.
'Hrmm? Lord Manta? May I help you?' Yoh blinked.
Manta was still staring.
Amidamaru quirked one of Yoh's eyebrows at Manta. 'Are you enjoying
staring at Lord Yoh, or does Lord Yoh have a problem which would grab
your attention so much?'
Manta shook his head again. "I'm sorry! I'm just, not, used to how,
alike you two become, when you possess him."
Yeno rolled his eyes as Yoh gave a soft smile towards Manta. 'I don't
find that fully believable.' he said as he stood and put the piece of
paper back in Manta's hand, purposely giving it a small squeeze.
Manta turned bright red as he, too, rose from the ground to his feet.
"Yoh, I wanted to ask if-"
'As I thought, Lord Manta. You have taking a liking to Lord Yoh.'
Yoh shook his head as he regained control over his body again. "What
did it read, Amidamaru?"
'I could not tell. It was as good as Greek to me.' Amidamaru replied.
'I am sorry.'
"It's alright. You tried. Yeno, could you understand any of it?"
Yeno shook his head slowly to prevent his neck from flopping away from
his head and the ribbon around his neck from blowing away. 'I couldn't
read it either. I know one who might be able to though. This looks to
me like Egyptian. In which case, Kaki-Ri may understand it.'
"Kaki-Ri?" Manta asked.
Amidamaru nodded, resting his sword over his shoulder.
'Kaki-Ri. Yeno's old partner in crime when they were alive. As I
remember, it is Kaki-Ri's fault that Yeno was killed.'
'Oh, please, do tell my whole life's history. Won't you?' Yeno asked
Amidamaru sarcastically.
"Where's Kaki-Ri hang out at?" Yoh asked.
'Where else but in the cemetary?' Yeno mused in reply.
Manta glanced off towards the cemetary. "I never saw anyone there who
looked Egyptian when I was there."
"Maybe we weren't looking enough." Yoh put in.
'Sure enough.'
Amidamaru nodded. 'It is very likely you weren't. There are many
spirits there that wish to remain unseen unless being looked for.'
"That settles it then." Yoh stated with a smile. "We're going to the
graveyard."
Only minutes later, Yoh, Manta, Amidamaru, and Yeno stood by the
gravestone Yoh had been sitting on the night he and Manta had first
met.
Putting his hands around his mouth, Yoh took a deep breath. "Come out,
come out, guys! I need your help!" he called.
Almost instantly, the cemetary was filled with ghosts and other things
of the likeness.
Yoh looked to all of the spirits there and smiled. "Do any of you,
other than Yeno and Amidamaru, know a man by the name of Kaki-Ri?"
From in one of the trees, another spirit materialized into sight,
wearing an old cloak of warm, fine silk around his shoulders with a
hood covering his well-tanned skin, black bangs covering his eyes.
'I know him. He is secretive.' the spirit called to Yoh. 'He wishes
to be left to rest in peace. Don't continue to search for him. He
would not see you if you found him, anyway.'
"I must apologize, but, that does sound like a threat." Yoh replied.
'Threat? No. Just fact. His death took his eyes. He, thusly, could
not see you if you found him.'
Yeno went towards the spirit with a slight suspicious look on his
face. 'I have never seen you here before. Who are you?' he asked.
'Ah, Yeno, so you are well in the infamous afterlife.'
The figure went down to Yeno from the tree, extending one hand and
placing it on Yeno's cheek, sliding it downwords to Yeno's neck. 'I
can tell you did not escape as you said you would from the axeman's
blade?' the spirit mused. 'You have the ribbon on your neck. What
would happen if I just, untied it, like so-'
Yeno backed away. 'Don't touch the ribbon.' Yeno muttered as his own
hand reached up and came to rest upon the ribbon's tie. 'It won't be
undone.'
Amidamaru looked towards Yeno, a slight quirk at his eyebrow. 'What is
the obsession with the ribbon, anyway?' he asked.
'It, is a secret.' Yeno responded quietly. 'But, spirit, I know who
you are. You know too much about me and the ribbon to be one I don't
know. There is only one person you might be. Kaki-Ri!'
The hooded spirit smiled and looked up to Yeno, removing his hood.
'Indeed I am, my dear Yeno.'
All of the graveyard silenced as the man's hood came off, revealing
raven-black hair and gold-like lipstick, one big triangular gold
earring on each ear.
'You are correct. I am Kaki-Ri. My Yeno. What I wouldn't give to see
your face, the look you must have on it now, surprise, I would give
anything. However.' Kaki-Ri hissed as he turned to face Yoh. 'This
is the reason I cannot see you, Shaman boy.'
Yeno glanced towards Kaki-Ri silently. 'They took your eyes to kill
you, and then they, gave them to the ruler who overthrew your father.'
he said as he watched Kaki-Ri standing before him.
'Indeed. That they did, my old friendly love.'
Manta watched the whole scene quietlky as Kaki-Ri turned towards him.
'I need no vision to sense, howeverl, all of the mortal presences here.
I know there are two human boys. One of which, I can tell you,'
Kaki-Ri said as he smirked at Manta and then looked over at Yoh, 'has a
secret they're ashamed of, and the other whom has one similar for a
samurai here in this cemetary tonight.'
Manta and Yoh blinked, both of the boys blushing brightly just under
the eyes.
Yeno went towards Kaki-Ri and put his hand to Kaki-Ri's cheek softly.
'Don't embarass the two so, Kaki-Ri.' he mouthed, though no words
escaped as his hand went past Kaki-Ri's cheek and he frowned.
'We can't touch any longer, it was our curse.' Kaki-Ri sighed and said
as he felt Yeno's hand go through his cheek. 'But, Yeno, tell me. Why
do you and your friends search for me?'
Yeno sighed. 'We need your help.'
Kaki-Ri smiled. 'How may I help you my dear?'
"We have something we think is in your culture's language, and we need
you to read it off to us." Yoh said. "But you have no eyes to see it
with, you you'll have to use my body to do it if you will."
'Shaman, I have heard of you from many others here that have seen me in
my disguise. They say you help them in exchange for helping you. I
will help you.' Kaki-Ri said, 'In exchange for a last request I never
got in life.'
"You have a deal!" Yoh exclaimed.
A mere minute later, Yoh stood with his arm around Yeno and held the
paper in his other hand, reading it. His bangs covered his blanked out
eyes and his usually Sonic-like spiked hair was now down over his ears.
'Can you tell what it is?' Yeno asked as he put his head on Yoh's
shoulder.
Yoh shifted his slightly-slanted eyes towards Yeno and smiled slightly.
'Yes. It's a spell.'
Amidamaru and Manta looked at each other before they turned their gaze
back at Yoh and Yeno for another minute.
'Where did you find this?'
Amidamaru glanced at Manta as the shorter boy stood and walked to the
two. "We found it on the ground on our way from school. What does it
say, Kaki-Ri?
'It's some type of mock spell. It's from my time as heir to the
throne. The one who overthrew my father believed in one called Sasi Do
Akovara, or, the Lord of Destruction.' Kaki-Ri informed them through
Yoh. 'I never believed in the Sasi that Jeniq-Da did.'
'That is all very interesting, Lord Kaki-Ri, but, Lord Manta asked what
it said.' Amidamaru said.
Yeno chuckled at the samurai's impatience.
'It says:
The night for you to rise has come,
As the night's dwellers praise your name in a dull hum,
Sasi Do Akovara rise,
Let your destruction fill the night's skies,
Bring forth your avengeful wrath,
Destroy all in your path.'
Yeno shivered and stepped away from Yoh as the spell was said, avoiding
his blank, yet concerned, eyes.
Manta blinked, and he, too, shivered as he noticed that the other
spirits in the cemetary, even Amidamaru himself, had turned faintly
paler than usual, Amidamaru and Yeno's eyes locked to the ground, all
of the spirits and such avoiding any eye contact with Yoh.
"Amidamaru? What's wrong?" Manta inquired.
'I, I am not at all 100 percent sure, Lord Manta.' Amidamaru said in
response. 'I, just feel like something is wrong, I am not sure what,
though.'
'I second that.' Yeno said as he once again shivered.
Yoh put his arms around Yeno's waist and hugged him. 'It is just a
feeling, dear Yeno.' Kaki-Ri said reassuringly.
'If you are sure.'
'I am.'
'Kaki-Ri,' Amidamaru asked, 'How sure are you that this Sasi Do Akovara
is not real?'
'100 percent sure.' Yoh responded as he turned to face Amidamaru. 'He
is a mere legend made up by Jeniq-Da to mock my culture's equivalents;
Seth and Anubis mixed together.'
'Very well, then.'
'Yeno, my dear, I must let Yoh have his body back. Our curse is broken
thanks to the young Shaman. We can touch without his aid.' Yoh said.
Yeno nodded. 'If I had tears I would cry in joy.' Yeno said.
Yoh leaned forward and smiled as he kissed Yeno gently. 'I would as
well. I will see you in a moment.'
As Kaki-Ri left Yoh's body, Yeno and Amidamaru shivered even more
violently.
'Lord Yoh,' Amidamaru said, 'I am not sure why, but, it is feeling as
though it is getting colder.'
Yoh blinked as he, too, shivered. "You're right. It does seem to be
colder than usual around you guys." Yoh stated as he put his hand up
in front of Amidamaru a few inches away, watching as his arm got
goosebumps from how cold it felt.
Yoh pulled his shirt off as he backed away from Amidamaru. "Meanwhile,
from one etreme to the other, I'm burning up!"
Kaki-Ri shivered as he held Yeno closely. 'Then share your heat with
the rest of us.' he stammered as his teeth chattered.
"I wish I could." Yoh panted.
Manta rolled his eyes as he went to Yoh's side. +What a drama king.+
he thought to himself. +He can't be that hot when the ghosts are so
cold and I feel perfectly normal.+
"Let me check your temperature, Yoh." Manta said as Yoh bent down
slowly, his eyes closing.
+There's no way he can be as hot as he says he--+
"AIIE!" Manta yelled as he jerked his arm back from Yoh's head. "He's
burning up!"
Amidamaru and Yeno looked at each other in worry. What was going on?
All the present ghosts in the cemetary were now cold as ice, instead of
their usual temperatures and Yoh was burning hot with fever!
++Speaking of Yoh--++
"Yoh!" Mana yelled as his taller friend fell forward and hit the
ground on his knees before twisting slightly and landing on his side on
the ground, one arm out from his side and the other across his side
with his hand over his stomach and sweat trickling from his face.
Amidamaru gasped and quickly went over to Yoh's side, followed by
Kaki-Ri and Yeno. Picking Yoh up in his arms, Amidamaru examined Yoh
over, checking for any reason he would pass out. 'Lord Yoh!' he
yelled as he sat Yoh down on the ground against a headstone and shook
him. 'Lord Yoh! Wake up!'
Yoh gave no response as Amidamaru moved him to a bench and shook him by
the shoulders, though, and when the samurai stopped shaking him, his
head dropped to touch his chest with his chin.
Manta jumped and ran towards the gates of the cemetary. "I'm going for
help! Amidamaru, stay with Yoh! Kaki-Ri, come with me! Yeno, keep
Amidamaru company in making sure Yoh's okay until I get here with
help!" he yelled.
'Yes, Lord Manta!' Amidamaru said.
Kaki-Ri kissed Yeno on the cheek and followed quickly as Manta ran
towards the hospital.
'Hurry back!' Amidamaru called.
Yeno nodded, then yelled in addition, 'It has been 780 years since I
heard of fevers, but I do remember that humans start dying at 105
degrees!'
'And I don't think Lord Yoh can last to that....'
make this, but know this, it's a slasher!!! Don't like, don't read!!!!
It's a Manta/Yoh, Yeno/Kaki-Ri, maybe a moment of Amid/Yoh???? x.x I..I
still ain't sure!!!! x.x oh well!!! Rated R for the fifth (maybe even
more?) chapter(s?).
The Dark Side: Ancient Encantations
Manta walked alongside Yoh as always, staring up at the Shaman boy,
glancing at the ground as Yoh glanced at him.
"Hm?" Yoh blinked before shrugging and putting his arms back behind his
head, using them for pillows and staring up at the sky again.
As Yoh turned his head away, Manta looked back up at him and hid a
blush again.
Yoh blinked, then turned his head back to face his shorter friend just
as Manta turned his head away a second time. This had been going on
for a while now. "Huh?"
"Yoh?" Manta asked.
"Yeah, Manta?" came Yoh's reply.
"I wanted to, ask, you something-"
"What a waste of tree." Yoh said, interrupting his friend, as he leaned
down and picked up an old, folded, brown piece of paper.
"What is it?" Manta inquired as his nerve fell.
"I don't know." Yoh answered. "It's old, whatever it is."
"Let me see it."
Yoh gave the piece of paper to Manta and sat down on the grass as Manta
took it.
"What the-" Manta blinked and said. "I can't read this! It's not in
English or Japanese!"
"I know."
"How will we find out what it says?"
"Maybe some of the spirits around here will know what it says. I
recognize the language from a book I've read before about cultures.
But I'm not really sure."
"Oh."
A few moments of silence passed.
"Yoh?"
"Yeah?"
"I was wondering if, that is, I wondered if you've-"
Yoh closed his eyes. "Move aside or you'll get run through." he told
Manta.
"What?"
Yoh didn't have time to answer. Amidamaru raced past them just as
Yeno, Yoh's most recently partnered ghost, went through Manta, holding
up a rat's spirit by the tail, chasing AMidamaru with the rat's spirit.
'Lord Yoh! Get it away!' Amidamaru yelled as he ran past him again,
arms outstretched. 'Get that foul rodent away from me please!'
Manta's jaw fell to the ground. "Amidamaru's afraid of rats?! The
legendary samurai's afraid of rats?!"
"Yes." Yoh said, grinning.
'Come back here, Bambi!' Yeno yelled as he continued to chase Amidamaru
around with the dead rat's spirit. (Bambi=Amidamaru's nickname, inside
joke.)
'Lord Yoh!' Amidamaru shrieked.
Manta sighed. It looked like he would never be able to ask Yoh what he
wanted to ask.
"I'm coming." Yoh said as he stood back up, stretching slightly.
Manta watched as the skin covering Yoh's exposed chest stretched and
his stomach expanded the slightest bit as he stretched and a smile
extended across his face.
Manta hated it when Yoh did that in front of him. It was like he was
trying to taunt him. But, at the same time, he loved the mere sight of
it. Taunting him or not.
'Lord Yoh!' Amidamaru continued to yell. 'Come on!'
Chuckling, Yoh stepped into Yeno's path, stopping the spectre in his
tracks.
Amidamaru sighed in relief as he went over to Manta, closing his eyes.
'Thank you, Lord Yoh.' Amidamaru said, smiling slightly.
Yoh smiled and nodded. "No problem. Hey, Amidamaru?"
'Hrm?'
"Do you know what this says?" Yoh asked, holding the paper up for the
ghostly samurai to see.
'I would like to answer, but after 600 years, my eyes, spirit or not,
are not what they used to be.'
"Oh, sorry, you can use me to see if you want."
'Alright then, Lord Yoh.'
Moments later, Yoh was seated on the ground with his legs crossed
indian style, his hair spiked slightly.
Amidamaru stared through Yoh's eyes at the paper that he held, Yeno
floating back over Yoh's shoulder as he read, or tried to read, what
was on the piece of paper.
Yoh looked sideways at Manta from the corner of his eyes. 'Huh?' came
Amidamaru's voice from Yoh's body.
Manta shook his head. He would never get used to the way Yoh had of
taking on slight characteristics of the spirit possessing him.
'Hrmm? Lord Manta? May I help you?' Yoh blinked.
Manta was still staring.
Amidamaru quirked one of Yoh's eyebrows at Manta. 'Are you enjoying
staring at Lord Yoh, or does Lord Yoh have a problem which would grab
your attention so much?'
Manta shook his head again. "I'm sorry! I'm just, not, used to how,
alike you two become, when you possess him."
Yeno rolled his eyes as Yoh gave a soft smile towards Manta. 'I don't
find that fully believable.' he said as he stood and put the piece of
paper back in Manta's hand, purposely giving it a small squeeze.
Manta turned bright red as he, too, rose from the ground to his feet.
"Yoh, I wanted to ask if-"
'As I thought, Lord Manta. You have taking a liking to Lord Yoh.'
Yoh shook his head as he regained control over his body again. "What
did it read, Amidamaru?"
'I could not tell. It was as good as Greek to me.' Amidamaru replied.
'I am sorry.'
"It's alright. You tried. Yeno, could you understand any of it?"
Yeno shook his head slowly to prevent his neck from flopping away from
his head and the ribbon around his neck from blowing away. 'I couldn't
read it either. I know one who might be able to though. This looks to
me like Egyptian. In which case, Kaki-Ri may understand it.'
"Kaki-Ri?" Manta asked.
Amidamaru nodded, resting his sword over his shoulder.
'Kaki-Ri. Yeno's old partner in crime when they were alive. As I
remember, it is Kaki-Ri's fault that Yeno was killed.'
'Oh, please, do tell my whole life's history. Won't you?' Yeno asked
Amidamaru sarcastically.
"Where's Kaki-Ri hang out at?" Yoh asked.
'Where else but in the cemetary?' Yeno mused in reply.
Manta glanced off towards the cemetary. "I never saw anyone there who
looked Egyptian when I was there."
"Maybe we weren't looking enough." Yoh put in.
'Sure enough.'
Amidamaru nodded. 'It is very likely you weren't. There are many
spirits there that wish to remain unseen unless being looked for.'
"That settles it then." Yoh stated with a smile. "We're going to the
graveyard."
Only minutes later, Yoh, Manta, Amidamaru, and Yeno stood by the
gravestone Yoh had been sitting on the night he and Manta had first
met.
Putting his hands around his mouth, Yoh took a deep breath. "Come out,
come out, guys! I need your help!" he called.
Almost instantly, the cemetary was filled with ghosts and other things
of the likeness.
Yoh looked to all of the spirits there and smiled. "Do any of you,
other than Yeno and Amidamaru, know a man by the name of Kaki-Ri?"
From in one of the trees, another spirit materialized into sight,
wearing an old cloak of warm, fine silk around his shoulders with a
hood covering his well-tanned skin, black bangs covering his eyes.
'I know him. He is secretive.' the spirit called to Yoh. 'He wishes
to be left to rest in peace. Don't continue to search for him. He
would not see you if you found him, anyway.'
"I must apologize, but, that does sound like a threat." Yoh replied.
'Threat? No. Just fact. His death took his eyes. He, thusly, could
not see you if you found him.'
Yeno went towards the spirit with a slight suspicious look on his
face. 'I have never seen you here before. Who are you?' he asked.
'Ah, Yeno, so you are well in the infamous afterlife.'
The figure went down to Yeno from the tree, extending one hand and
placing it on Yeno's cheek, sliding it downwords to Yeno's neck. 'I
can tell you did not escape as you said you would from the axeman's
blade?' the spirit mused. 'You have the ribbon on your neck. What
would happen if I just, untied it, like so-'
Yeno backed away. 'Don't touch the ribbon.' Yeno muttered as his own
hand reached up and came to rest upon the ribbon's tie. 'It won't be
undone.'
Amidamaru looked towards Yeno, a slight quirk at his eyebrow. 'What is
the obsession with the ribbon, anyway?' he asked.
'It, is a secret.' Yeno responded quietly. 'But, spirit, I know who
you are. You know too much about me and the ribbon to be one I don't
know. There is only one person you might be. Kaki-Ri!'
The hooded spirit smiled and looked up to Yeno, removing his hood.
'Indeed I am, my dear Yeno.'
All of the graveyard silenced as the man's hood came off, revealing
raven-black hair and gold-like lipstick, one big triangular gold
earring on each ear.
'You are correct. I am Kaki-Ri. My Yeno. What I wouldn't give to see
your face, the look you must have on it now, surprise, I would give
anything. However.' Kaki-Ri hissed as he turned to face Yoh. 'This
is the reason I cannot see you, Shaman boy.'
Yeno glanced towards Kaki-Ri silently. 'They took your eyes to kill
you, and then they, gave them to the ruler who overthrew your father.'
he said as he watched Kaki-Ri standing before him.
'Indeed. That they did, my old friendly love.'
Manta watched the whole scene quietlky as Kaki-Ri turned towards him.
'I need no vision to sense, howeverl, all of the mortal presences here.
I know there are two human boys. One of which, I can tell you,'
Kaki-Ri said as he smirked at Manta and then looked over at Yoh, 'has a
secret they're ashamed of, and the other whom has one similar for a
samurai here in this cemetary tonight.'
Manta and Yoh blinked, both of the boys blushing brightly just under
the eyes.
Yeno went towards Kaki-Ri and put his hand to Kaki-Ri's cheek softly.
'Don't embarass the two so, Kaki-Ri.' he mouthed, though no words
escaped as his hand went past Kaki-Ri's cheek and he frowned.
'We can't touch any longer, it was our curse.' Kaki-Ri sighed and said
as he felt Yeno's hand go through his cheek. 'But, Yeno, tell me. Why
do you and your friends search for me?'
Yeno sighed. 'We need your help.'
Kaki-Ri smiled. 'How may I help you my dear?'
"We have something we think is in your culture's language, and we need
you to read it off to us." Yoh said. "But you have no eyes to see it
with, you you'll have to use my body to do it if you will."
'Shaman, I have heard of you from many others here that have seen me in
my disguise. They say you help them in exchange for helping you. I
will help you.' Kaki-Ri said, 'In exchange for a last request I never
got in life.'
"You have a deal!" Yoh exclaimed.
A mere minute later, Yoh stood with his arm around Yeno and held the
paper in his other hand, reading it. His bangs covered his blanked out
eyes and his usually Sonic-like spiked hair was now down over his ears.
'Can you tell what it is?' Yeno asked as he put his head on Yoh's
shoulder.
Yoh shifted his slightly-slanted eyes towards Yeno and smiled slightly.
'Yes. It's a spell.'
Amidamaru and Manta looked at each other before they turned their gaze
back at Yoh and Yeno for another minute.
'Where did you find this?'
Amidamaru glanced at Manta as the shorter boy stood and walked to the
two. "We found it on the ground on our way from school. What does it
say, Kaki-Ri?
'It's some type of mock spell. It's from my time as heir to the
throne. The one who overthrew my father believed in one called Sasi Do
Akovara, or, the Lord of Destruction.' Kaki-Ri informed them through
Yoh. 'I never believed in the Sasi that Jeniq-Da did.'
'That is all very interesting, Lord Kaki-Ri, but, Lord Manta asked what
it said.' Amidamaru said.
Yeno chuckled at the samurai's impatience.
'It says:
The night for you to rise has come,
As the night's dwellers praise your name in a dull hum,
Sasi Do Akovara rise,
Let your destruction fill the night's skies,
Bring forth your avengeful wrath,
Destroy all in your path.'
Yeno shivered and stepped away from Yoh as the spell was said, avoiding
his blank, yet concerned, eyes.
Manta blinked, and he, too, shivered as he noticed that the other
spirits in the cemetary, even Amidamaru himself, had turned faintly
paler than usual, Amidamaru and Yeno's eyes locked to the ground, all
of the spirits and such avoiding any eye contact with Yoh.
"Amidamaru? What's wrong?" Manta inquired.
'I, I am not at all 100 percent sure, Lord Manta.' Amidamaru said in
response. 'I, just feel like something is wrong, I am not sure what,
though.'
'I second that.' Yeno said as he once again shivered.
Yoh put his arms around Yeno's waist and hugged him. 'It is just a
feeling, dear Yeno.' Kaki-Ri said reassuringly.
'If you are sure.'
'I am.'
'Kaki-Ri,' Amidamaru asked, 'How sure are you that this Sasi Do Akovara
is not real?'
'100 percent sure.' Yoh responded as he turned to face Amidamaru. 'He
is a mere legend made up by Jeniq-Da to mock my culture's equivalents;
Seth and Anubis mixed together.'
'Very well, then.'
'Yeno, my dear, I must let Yoh have his body back. Our curse is broken
thanks to the young Shaman. We can touch without his aid.' Yoh said.
Yeno nodded. 'If I had tears I would cry in joy.' Yeno said.
Yoh leaned forward and smiled as he kissed Yeno gently. 'I would as
well. I will see you in a moment.'
As Kaki-Ri left Yoh's body, Yeno and Amidamaru shivered even more
violently.
'Lord Yoh,' Amidamaru said, 'I am not sure why, but, it is feeling as
though it is getting colder.'
Yoh blinked as he, too, shivered. "You're right. It does seem to be
colder than usual around you guys." Yoh stated as he put his hand up
in front of Amidamaru a few inches away, watching as his arm got
goosebumps from how cold it felt.
Yoh pulled his shirt off as he backed away from Amidamaru. "Meanwhile,
from one etreme to the other, I'm burning up!"
Kaki-Ri shivered as he held Yeno closely. 'Then share your heat with
the rest of us.' he stammered as his teeth chattered.
"I wish I could." Yoh panted.
Manta rolled his eyes as he went to Yoh's side. +What a drama king.+
he thought to himself. +He can't be that hot when the ghosts are so
cold and I feel perfectly normal.+
"Let me check your temperature, Yoh." Manta said as Yoh bent down
slowly, his eyes closing.
+There's no way he can be as hot as he says he--+
"AIIE!" Manta yelled as he jerked his arm back from Yoh's head. "He's
burning up!"
Amidamaru and Yeno looked at each other in worry. What was going on?
All the present ghosts in the cemetary were now cold as ice, instead of
their usual temperatures and Yoh was burning hot with fever!
++Speaking of Yoh--++
"Yoh!" Mana yelled as his taller friend fell forward and hit the
ground on his knees before twisting slightly and landing on his side on
the ground, one arm out from his side and the other across his side
with his hand over his stomach and sweat trickling from his face.
Amidamaru gasped and quickly went over to Yoh's side, followed by
Kaki-Ri and Yeno. Picking Yoh up in his arms, Amidamaru examined Yoh
over, checking for any reason he would pass out. 'Lord Yoh!' he
yelled as he sat Yoh down on the ground against a headstone and shook
him. 'Lord Yoh! Wake up!'
Yoh gave no response as Amidamaru moved him to a bench and shook him by
the shoulders, though, and when the samurai stopped shaking him, his
head dropped to touch his chest with his chin.
Manta jumped and ran towards the gates of the cemetary. "I'm going for
help! Amidamaru, stay with Yoh! Kaki-Ri, come with me! Yeno, keep
Amidamaru company in making sure Yoh's okay until I get here with
help!" he yelled.
'Yes, Lord Manta!' Amidamaru said.
Kaki-Ri kissed Yeno on the cheek and followed quickly as Manta ran
towards the hospital.
'Hurry back!' Amidamaru called.
Yeno nodded, then yelled in addition, 'It has been 780 years since I
heard of fevers, but I do remember that humans start dying at 105
degrees!'
'And I don't think Lord Yoh can last to that....'