Key of Light
Me: hiya all ;D MiStraLL here. Okay I've got nothing to say only that this is a new story, so have fun ;)
"blablabla" talk
'blablabla' think normal
"blablabla" memory talk (is always in the pov of the one who tells)
'blablabla' think in memory
Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King, but I do own my OCs
Keia
Far, far away in a deep dark forest there is an ancient village and in that village there is an ancient clan. It is one of the few that managed to survive the new era of technology. People live in peace among one another and they live happy in their small village. All except for one…
"Come one, hurry up! You two are sooooo, slow hahahah!" a small girl was running down the streets followed by two men in white suits.
"Miss. Please slow down!" one of them begged, but the girl didn't care about them. It was her intention to leave them behind. After they chased her for awhile they finally gave up, she would return to the palace eventually.
She ran straight into the forest and stopped near a beautiful lake in the centre of it. There she sat down on a rock and watched over the water.
"Mystic Blue I summon you!" she mused with her childish voice. Her hair was a little over shoulder length, blond with a few brown highlights on the ending it was lightly curled and her eyes were dark brown. She looked about seven years old and was wearing a long white dress that came to her ankles. On her wrists and ankles were blue and violet strings bound and she didn't wear any shoes.
"Mystic Blue I summon you…" she mused again.
This time a tiger as white as snow appeared above the water surface. It had sea blue eyes that looked like they almost gave light and the usual black markings were all azure blue with this one.
"Keia (a/n: speak as Kee-ya), I told you not to call me that. I have a name you know…" the tiger mumbled.
"I can't speak your name, it's too long and I like to call you Mystic!" Keia whined. "And besides, Mystic is cute. Oh and do you know what day it is?"
Mystic walked over the water towards Keia and sat next to her. "It's October 31, so…Halloween?" she teased.
"Ahw, you big bully, you know it's my 7th birthday today!" Keia leaned over to her friend pretending to be sad. Too bad Mystic didn't buy it.
"Heheh, of course I didn't forget, happy birthday girl! I found this a few days ago and thought you might like it." The tiger held something in her mouth and handed it over to Keia.
She gentle took it. It was a small piece of glass in the shape of a sickle moon; it fitted in the palm of her hand and had a gold piece in the middle.
"Wooow, thanks Mystic, it's beautiful." She cheered. But suddenly she looked very sad.
"What's wrong? You shouldn't cry on your birthday." Mystic now stood in front of Keia, making funny moves with her paws. Keia only smiled sadly and looked away.
"Today I also have to go through the Ritual of Spirits…my mom and dad will choose a spirit ally for me that they think is good, but I will never get a chance to really participate into a shaman fight. It is strictly against the rules to even participate in the tournament and it's only once in the 500 years! Everyone in the clan thinks this is the best way, but I want to fight in it so badly and I want to choose my own spirit ally." She sighed and kept staring at the lake.
"Maybe it's better this way. You never have to worry about anything…" Mystic tried.
"The people of the Floral Clan only use their Furyoku to help them with their work. We only have Doll Masters and Dao-shis! But I'm different; somehow I will find a way to participate in it." She stood up, but then sat down again.
Mystic understood perfectly well what Keia meant. The Floral Clan had started the village, but through the years it had forgot the ways of a shaman. The people only used their special abilities to help them with work. They had forgotten how to fight and use their power. Keia on the other hand secretly trained herself by using old village books and asking a lot about the outside world, as they would call it.
"I've to go Mystic the Ritual starts in an hour and I still have to prepare myself." Keia let out a long sigh before she stood up and started to walk away.
"Wait! Before you go could you please ask that darn kid over there to stop watching at me like that?" Mystic pointed with her paw to a rock on the other side of the lake.
Keia had to look real good to actually see someone sitting on it. From her point of few it looked like a girl with long brown hair and she was wearing a poncho.
"Oh, she's an Outsider! I wonder what she is doing here all by herself…" Keia slowly walked to the other side of the lake.
"Uh, Keia I think it's a b-. KEIAAA! Hey!" Mystic yelled after her.
"Hi, why are you sitting here?" she asked when she finally was on the other side.
"A human? Hmmm, I thought they didn't live here…"
Keia started to blush, because the kid wasn't a she, but a he. And he had totally ignored her question, so she tried again.
"Uhm, well there is a small village over there. You could stay for awhile if you're lost…uhm, what's your name?" she asked still blushing.
He didn't even bother to look at her instead he just continued to watch the water. Keia wasn't a person who would get angry easy, but this boy was really starting to annoy her.
"I ask you for your name, at least answer that question!" she forced herself to stay polite.
He looked at her from the corners of his eyes and sighed, but instead of saying his name…
"Spirit of Fire."
A huge red thing appeared behind him. Keia looked up in surprise and started to laugh. "Oh why didn't you say you were a shaman? You just have to come to my village it's filled with them! I bet you'll like it…uhm…yea."
Now she got his attention. "A village of shamans you say? Where." It sounded more like a demanding then like a question, but still Keia managed to smile and she wasn't scared at all of the huge red spirit standing behind the boy.
"Come I'll show you." She grabbed his had and pulled him off the large rock where he was sitting on and started to run back to her village.
In the mean time Mystic had looked very concerned towards them. There was something very strange about this unknown boy…
"We're here, welcome in Floral Village! The home of the Floral Clan." Keia announced proudly.
The village wasn't exactly big, but it wasn't small either. It had one long main street that ended at a large white mansion. On the sides of it were small shops or houses and people were screaming happily what they were selling to the other people that walked on the street. Children were playing with moving dolls or helping their parents. It was a very peaceful view.
"So this is where the Floral Clan lives…" the mysterious boy said.
"Oh look it's the princess!" someone yelled from across the street.
Keia looked like she had just received a slap in the face. She quickly grabbed the boy's hand and started running towards the white mansion.
"Princess, wait! Who's the outsider?"
"Please buy something!"
"Princess!"
"Princess!"
They made it just in time in the mansion, before everyone on the street came to chase them.
"I hate it when they do that…" Keia sighed as she leaned against the door.
Everything inside was white. The floor was made out of white marble; the walls were painted white and had paintings hanging on them. The roof was made out of glass and was going in a bow. The main hall had a light blue carpet on it that leaded to two silver colored doors.
"You're the princess of the Floral Clan. What a joke!" he rolled his eyes and wanted to leave again, but Keia stopped him. "You really don't know who I am, now do you?"
"Uhm, no you never told me your name and I wouldn't go outside if I were you… once they see an Outsider they will force you to send all your money. They even do that with me!" she warned.
"And how would 'they' know I am an 'Outsider'?" he asked calmly.
"Haven't you noticed? Everyone here has the same special features. For example; all inhabits have shades of blond hair and shades of green or blue eyes. Very weird if you ask me…I'm glad I'm different. So, are you now going to tell me your name?" She explained.
Again he rolled his eyes. "Fine it would come in handy one day…I'm Asakura Hao." Keia thought for a moment before saying. "Nope, never heard of you. Anyway, if you want you can stay here for awhile. I have to go now, the Ritual starts in only five minutes! So if you need anything, anything at all, just ask that formal looking man over there." She pointed towards one of the men that ran after earlier that day.
'That girl is weird and anything but strong. This whole village lacks real power! Too bad the Floral Clan used to be a powerful group of shamans, but these people almost have fallen to the level of normal humans. It really is a shame they could have become good followers…' Hao thought as he walked through the mansion.
Keia was running towards the Ritual room where her parents were waiting. She arrived just in time. The room was round and just like everything else white. The roof also was made out of glass, but this time it had a tint of blue in it. In the centre of the room seven people, priests, were waiting, all dressed in long light blue robes.
"I'm here, sorry if you had to wait." She apologized out of breath.
"Keia, you need to learn your priorities!" a woman's voice scowled through the room and it made Keia flinch.
Two people stepped forwards and removed their caps. One was a woman in her mid twenties with long white blond hair; she had dark green eyes and was looking very angry. The other was a man also around his mid twenties with dirty blond hair and blue eyes and he also wasn't looking very happy.
"Sorry, mommy and daddy, but I-." they cut her off.
"We will discuss that later! Now lets start the Ritual of Spirits." Keia's father, the king, spoke.
She obediently stepped inside the circle of people. It wasn't hard to tell that not only her parents were angry at her.
'It's not fair. I was on time and they still get angry at me.' she thought sad. They were about to begin when a loud explosion was heard. One of the guards came running in, he looked totally horrified.
"A-a boy, with a huge red spirit is burning down the village! And he's now coming this way!" he yelled.
Everyone in the room looked at each other in fear. Who would possibly do such a thing? That was the main question.
"Gather the other guards!" Keia's mother ordered.
"That won't be necessary, since they're all dead by now." Someone laughed through the room.
'Hao?' Keia thought looking around.
They quickly got their answer…the glass roof suddenly shattered t pieces falling down on everyone in the room. Luckily the robes protected the most of them, by using their spirit controls. A huge red spirit was now standing in the middle of it.
"Who are you!" the queen yelled.
"You all have become so small. Too bad you could've been great followers, but now you belong to the weak and the weak must die." Hao smirked as he ordered his spirit to attack.
Half off the priests got hit and weren't moving anymore. Keia's parents quickly summoned their furyoku. Her dad was a doll master and had a scary looking doll of some kind of fighter with a mask on. Her mom was a dao-shi and had summoned an army of corpses. The remaining priests had also summoned their power.
Keia just stood there watching them fight in horror. It just came to her that she had brought him to her village. It was all her fault…
The corpses were easily defeated as were the numerous dolls. Everyone in the room was lying on the ground, everyone except for Keia who still wasn't able to move a muscle.
"M-mommy, D-daddy?" she whispered.
Her parents weren't lying too far away from her and she could clearly see their burnings. They weren't moving, no one was moving.
"So, now it's your turn little princess." Hao smirked evilly as the red spirit approached Keia.
She still was too much in a shock to run or even move and the spirit was coming closer every second.
"K-Keia, run! Please, run!" her mother was lying on her stomach and had her hand stretched out towards Keia.
"M-mommy…" she snapped out of it and started running away. Tears were freely falling down her face, but she had to keep running.
The whole village was destroyed. Bodies of children and adults were lying on the street; houses were burned to ashes and some were still burning heavily. But Keia kept running straight into the forest, straight to the lake.
"M-Mystiiiiiic, Mystic HELP!" she fell down on her knees near the lake and the white tiger appeared in front of her.
"Keia, what's wrong kid?" she asked concerned.
"H-he killed them he killed them all!" Keia cried as her small arms were clinging on the tiger's neck.
"Who Keia?"
"Hao…"
A loud roar was heard and the trees cracking as a sign that something big was approaching them and it was coming very fast.
"Oh no, he's coming Mystic! He's coming to kill me!" she panicked.
Mystic didn't hesitate; she grabbed Keia's dress and threw Keia on her back. Just as she started running the red spirit appeared, pushing away the trees.
Keia had to hold on really tight to not fall off of Mystic. The white tiger had problems running in the forest, because unlike the red fire spirit she couldn't just crack some trees to make way.
Suddenly the red spirit stopped casing them. "It seems that you're the last one alive, Keia. I would say it was just luck, but as we all know no such thing exists. So, it probably means that you still have the power of the usual Floral inhabits…use that power well and maybe you will live to see he day the new 'Shaman only world' is created!" Hao laughed and disappeared with his huge spirit.
Keia stepped off Mystic and saw that they had reached the end of the forest. They were now standing in front of an open grass field that reached pretty far.
"Thank you for saving me, Mystic." Keia's voice was nothing more then a weak whisper.
"That's what friends do, kid. So where are we going?" Mystic asked.
Keia looked up in shock. "W-we? You're not returning to the lake?"
"Of course not! I can't leave you here unprotected! You don't have a spirit ally remember, so I'm offering to be one." The tiger said sitting next to Keia and making funny moves with her front paw.
"T-thank you…" she whispered again and hugged her new spirit ally.
"No problem, a child of your age shouldn't be left alone. Now then, I suggest to keep moving incase that maniac decides to return to finish the job."
"Next time we meet him I won't be weak anymore…" Keia sighed as she sat on Mystic's back.
The white tiger ran through the grass field with the little girl on her back, whose parents had died on her birthday…
Me: pfew a long first chappie ;D well I hope you like it. And for the reviewers of Stranded: I've decided to not make a sequel (Yet?) I still don't know for sure but if I do know…I'll let you know :D
This story will eventually be a HaoxOc story, eventually (evil grin) okay I'll update soon and please review! ;D
Chapter two: Frozen Heart (till then;D)
