The Black Raven Chapter 1, a shaman king fanfic

This story is being written by Momo-chan. I just type it out and submit it to Fanfiction. Her Author Notes will be italicized and underlines like this: Hi this is Momo-chan's Author note format. Mine are in bold. Get the picture? Lovely. That said, let's go.

Everyone's ages have been upped to 15. (Exception Ryu who was 17 originally. I still find that hard to believe. He looks older than that.)

Disclaimer:Jai Akari and I do not own Shaman King. I own the OC characters. Jai Akari does not.

The Black Raven Chapter 1

It was an ordinary day at the Asakura household. Horohoro and Ren were fighting, Anna was torturing Yoh, Ryu was cleaning, and Tamao and Manta were cooking dinner. After the hard afternoon, Yoh, Ren, Horohoro and Manta were walking through the park when two daggers came right in between them (only Manta is short and the daggers were about three feet over his head).

"Good gravy! What the heck! Some knives almost hit us!" yelled Horohoro.

"Really, no kidding." Said Ren, engaging his Oversoul. Everyone was waiting for something. Manta was terrified.

All of a sudden, a voice came from the shadows like an echo. "No fair! You moved! But I'll get you in the end."

"Who's there?" Yelled Yoh.

In the shadows at the opposite side of them, there was the figure of a person in a dark cloak. "All you need to know right now is that I am the Raven."

"Raven?" Ren said in total shock.

"Ren, do you know him?" Yoh asked.

Before Ren could give Yoh an answer, the one who called himself Raven lunged himself at the Tao. They fought quite violently while the others watched in shell shock. Ren swung his kwan dao at the Raven snagging and tearing the Raven's sleeve.

The Raven's two long swords disappeared and in their place, a long spear appeared. It was like a kwan dao, only instead of the usual blade, it was a long sword-like blade. The spear was silver with a white tassel at the base of the blade. Ren jumped into the air before the spear came down on him, then he counter attacked and sent the Raven flying.

The Raven hit the ground, but soon got up. "You're a lot better than I was told you were." The Raven said.

"Huh?" Ren was confused. Why was the Raven attacking him and why was the Raven here at all? All of a sudden, Raven hit him from behind. Ren quickly recovered and grabbed the Raven's weapon.

They were each struggling so hard to get the spear out of the others grasp that they could not move. Then Yoh and Horohoro came to their friend's rescue.

Raven kicked Ren back and shadows surrounded him and he disappeared.

"What the heck was that?" Horohoro asked totally confused about the events that just happened. "Who was that guy and what's Raven?"

"Raven is a cold-blooded assassin. I thought that it was just an old Chinese legend, but I guess its true." Said Ren.

"Why would he be attacking you?" asked Manta.

"I don't know, but there is a lot more to the legend. Also, that was no guy." Ren said.

"What?" asked Horohoro, totally lost at this point. "Why would a girl be attacking you?"

"You Baka-Ainu, I already said I don't know."

'Well, is this Raven girl Chinese or Japanese?"

"Chinese."

"Oh, well how could you tell she was a girl? She was wearing a mask and a long dark cloak."

"When her sleeve got ripped, it exposed her arm, so when we both had a hold of her weapon I noticed that her arm is small: not at all like a guy's. Besides, her blade was weighted to fit someone of her size and the hilt was smaller than normal."

"Well, let's hope that she does not attack again." Said Yoh.

They walked back to Yoh's place and all the time, Ren knew that he would be attacked again and when that time came, he would be ready. When they got to Funbari Inn, Anna, Ryu and everyone else was wondering why Ren was all scratched up. After an explanation, everyone wanted to know the Legend of the Raven.

"Raven is an assassin from a long line of assassins. They are shamans and are very powerful. Nobody knows who the family is or what their spirit ally is. It's said that Raven is another name for the spirit, or the Master of Shadows. That's why when she left, shadows came around her. It's not much of a legend, but people had to blame these killings on someone or something. It never has really been known that wither or not someone like that actually existed 'till now."

"But why attack you?" asked Horohoro.

"Dang you Baka Ainu! I haven't got the faintest idea why! For the 3rd time!"

OOO

A few days passed and everything was pretty much the same. Ren went back to the park to ponder what Raven would want with him. Ren was not really hoping, but yet he was hoping that Raven would attack again so he could get an explanation. That, or just to see this Raven's spirit and what she looked like.

Somehow, our little Renny has to be lucky in this story.

Ren felt a presence and engaged his Oversoul. He said aloud, "I know that you're here. Come out and fight." Then Raven appeared out of the shadows saying, "I have a feeling that you wanted me to attack you. Why?"

Ren did not say anything right off the bat. He finally said, "If you had the feeling that I was going to be here, don't you have a feeling about what I am going to say?"

"Hmm, your right. You probably want to know why I'm here." Ren said nothing. "All I have to say is that it's not my idea to kill you. If it was my idea, you'd be dead by now."

Ren was confused by this comment. "Why? Are you forced to kill?"

"In some ways." Raven answered.

"Then why are you taking your dear sweet old time doing it?"

"Because I don't want to go home. Not like I have a home."

"Who do you work for?"

"Wouldn't you like to know."

Ren was getting really irritated by all this talking and the fact that he was not getting anywhere. However, Raven was enjoying the obnoxious conversation with him; mostly because she liked watching him get mad.

"If you want to kill me, go ahead and do it!" yelled Ren.

"Fine then." Said Raven. She swooped down and engaged her Oversoul. Her Oversoul was black as the shadows and her spirit went into her two swords. It looked like the wings of a black raven. Ren leaped forward and Raven did the same. They began a vicious battle, each using their powers until they stood there facing each other, tired from fighting. Not wanting to be shown up, Raven took a final swing at Ren. Ren, being tired himself, decided that instead of parrying her attack, he would dodge her blow.

Our little Renny is very fast; he ended up behind her and knocked her down to the ground. Ren, holding her down, wanted to know what the legendary Raven looked like. He took off her mask and hood revealing her face. She had long white hair, down to her hips, and bluish-white eyes. Ren was dumbfounded. All he could do was stare. Raven was in shock that she had been beaten like this. "Dang, these Tao's are good." Ren asked how she knew him.

Well, in that situation, being beaten by a Tao, and having a blade over you, Raven decided to choose her words wisely. "I know about the Tao's, but I wasn't told that you are a family of the most powerful shaman in China."

"How could you have not known that, your family being as old as mine?

"Well, as I guess you can tell I don't get out much Tao. I guess I was not told that because they wanted me dead."

"What?" Ren is so confused.

Man, everyone in here is confused in some way.

Just chuck it…they can think for themselves.

Ooook… oO?

FYI readers: the line seperator thing is not working so I will be using OOO until further notice in both this story and mine.