It All Started with a Yellowtail Burger

Chapter 4: The Oath of Justice

"Eido! Watch out!" Hyde gave a wind push and shoved Eido out of the way and forcing himself back at the same time.

"That was close." Eido looked back at the distant girl on the cloud. "Where's-?"

"Over here, losers!" The creature was flying back at them with added force from the opposing direction.

"JIKIRGA!" Eido called on his second spell to at least counter the attack.

The laser of wind formed between Hyde's hands and shot at the pink spiraling mass approaching them. The two similar attacks collided with enough force to make a hurricane jealous, or even a tornado! Eido took one last look at the distant woman on the pink cloud, following at a safe distance, but still keeping up. When he returned his gaze to the clash of the spells he saw the pink monster was drilling into his wind blast and building speed.

"Say goodbye!"

"Klemena…" Hyde seemed to give up and let himself get knocked out of the sky.

"Hyde!" Eido swooped down to catch him and noticed he was still consious, and not that badly hurt. "Hyde…"

"You stupid girl! You held back!" The cloud riding woman yelled angrily.

"Shut up! Do you want to die human!" The bird creature yelled. "Just cast another spell!" She flapped her wings to stay aloft but continued soaring in the same direction as the plane.

"Whatever." The woman flipped some pages. "JIKIRUGO!" The feathers on the creature seemed to sharpen to blades and pink armor covered her legs into talons, then more feather-spikes sprouted from her back and she began flying faster than before.

"Hyde…" Eido tried to snap his mamodo out of whatever trance he was in.

"Eido…I can't fight her like this…" Hyde scowled as his weakness in such a dire moment.

"What! Why not!" Eido released Hyde from his rescue grip and was now holding him by the shoulders demandingly.

"Are they ignoring us!" The monster asked her book-wielder.

"Seems so…" She replied with a sweat drop.

"Big mistake!"

"That mamodo…she can use the same spells as me because we have a very close relation…I just can't fight her like this…" Hyde explained.

"Snap out of it man!" Eido hit him across the face. Hyde looked back at Eido wide eyed. "Wind mamodo or no, she's cursed by that man you call 'king'! The only way to break the curse is to burn her book and send her home!"

"But…"

"Darn it Hyde! This isn't like you! Do you want to save this girl or not! If you do, then fight! If not, then let us both die, see if I care. This is your battle now. You're the only one really struggling here." Eido turned back to the pink wind duo and was scowling.

Hyde took maybe two or three more seconds to let what Eido said sink in. Then whatever his emotions were before, turned into rage and determination. "I refuse to call that monster a king any longer! Goren's rule is over! Now mine will begin! Someone who does this to my friend…" He yelled as he looked directly at Klemena. "No…to my kin, never deserved to be king in the first place! I will be a king for justice!" The book began glowing very brightly and Eido took a quick glance at the pages.

"Now we're talkin'! Time to finish this!" Eido took a deep breath.

"JIKIRGA!" The woman yelled and the monster charged at them again at super speed.

"UIRUGU!" Eido's shout gave Hyde new strength and he summoned forth a giant cyclone of his magic wind generated from his hands. This wind not only pulled the bird creature out of her strait line of attack, but also changed the weather around them into a hurricane-like storm. The tornado touched the water and sucked it into the attack.

"AAAAAGGHHHHHHHHH!" The creature could do little more than scream as her human watched in complete horror.

"So this is the third spell…" Eido mused as his hair blew in random directions and Hyde flew up to the woman with the book.

"NOW!"

"Right! JIKIR!" Eido cast the first spell and created a point blank blast of wind that knocked the book out of the woman's hands and the strong tornado winds sucked it up. The severity tore the pages and the book apart causing it to burn immediately.

"No! I failed you master!" The woman yelled before her eyes flashed red for a split second and she lost consciousness.

Eido flew over and caught the woman before she fell into Pacific ocean below them. "We did it Hyde!"

Klemena…you were like a little sister to me back home...I can only hope that you'll be your old self again when I come back…as the mamodo king. Hyde clenched his fists and the cyclone dispelled. The sky cleared and Eido flew back into the plane the way they left, the slightly busted door.

"The whole plane was probably depressurized…good thing the pilots started flying lower to compensate. We probably should have closed the door sooner." Eido pointed out as he shut the door behind his mamodo.

Hyde forced it to stay shut, being that it was slightly bent. "It'll do."

Eido carried the sleeping woman into the cockpit to…well mostly dump her off, but also inform the captain that the plane is no longer being hijacked. He opened the door and the pilot pointed a gun right at his face. "Drop the weapon or I'll…" He noticed the hijacker out cold, leaning on this boy's shoulder.

"Hey! Sorry! I didn't do anything!" Eido blurted without thinking.

"You…stopped the hijacker! You saved us all!" The pilot dropped his weapon. "Attention passengers!" The pilot shouted into his headset as he ran back to his chair. "The hijacker has been subdued, thanks to a young man." He turned around and covered the mouthpiece "What's your name kid?"

"Kobozuka Eita, but everyone calls me Eido, and that's Hyde." He pointed at his partner, who just shrugged with his hands in his pockets.

"A young man by the name of Eido. We will be arriving shortly now, so please sit tight for the last thirty minutes of our flight." He turned back to them. "You may return to your seats if you wish."

Eido had finished tying up the hijacker and gave a mock salute. "Thank you captain! I don't mind if I do."

As soon as he left the cockpit and re-entered the passenger section, everyone in the room began clapping for some reason, some even cheered. "Eido! You're a true hero!" or "You saved us!" and some little girl shouted something along the lines of "Please sign my teddy!"

"You know what Hyde?"

"Hm?"

"This actually feels kinda good." Eido said with a smile.

"I think I know what you mean." Hyde admitted, although it was hard to distinguish if it was sarcasm or not.

"Yeah, maybe…maybe we should play hero more often." Eido sat back down in his seat and relaxed.

"Will it make me a just king?" Hyde sat down next to him.

"Definitely! That's what a hero is!"

"Sure…" Hyde put his headphones back in his ears and resumed his Megumi song that the mamodo girl had so unexpectedly interrupted.

…And so with his new goal burning fiercely in his mide, Hyde had awakened his third spell, but what unexpected adventures await our newly dubbed heroes on a tropical island? Find out next time on Zatch Bell…I mean…in this fanfic! (I've always wanted to do that!)

To my loyal and devoted readers, consider this slightly longer than normal chapter a dedication to your patience and hard work at nagging me to get my but moving. I owe you a lot because I really do like writing this fic, I just didn't know what to do... now if only I could clear up some of the other fics I'm writing...oh well. They aren't important right now anyway. Oh, and this chapter could very easily be considered Hyde's Kalulu moment, or his sudden reason to win and be king. I hope I didn't make him act too out of character, but I just wanted it to seem like he could be a really good guy when he wants to be. Now that he's not fighting any more wind mamodo from his past he wont get all mushy and stuff, but he may show some friendliness to Eido.

Later!