Chapter 1

The thing about going to a new place is the people, they are often so different from you. Being a Shaman I was used to moving, people found out that you could talk to the dead and tended to freak out. They would tease you, then you ask a ghost to help kick there butts then you have to high tail it out of town. That is what I was fine with, that was my life, training and training then moving because I lost my temper with some smart butt and had to move. Now I am some how here in a place called Death City looking at a I think person that calls himself Lord Death.

He seems friendly enough, that mask hides his face and I don't like it. It makes me edgy, he hides things from everyone. The people here are nice, I met a girl named Maka and her '' Partner" what ever that means named Soul. They took me here, Lord Death has asked them to leave the room I am now talking to the grim reaper myself with my guardian ghost Gorgon floating in spirit form beside me.

" Trisha, it is good to see you again. Last time I seen you why you were only this tall." He said in a happy voice holding out his large hand to about knee height. " You ,Kid, and Jak used to play together all the time. It was so cute."

I felt myself lean back, Jak I hadn't heard that name in a long time. My older brother it brought back painful memories from the night my family was attacked, only I lived thought the fire. I looked at Lord Death.

" Well you don't have to ask about my family Lord Death, there gone. They were murdered, even Jak." I said my voice was soft and hard as I looked at the ground now fighting back the tears.

" Really? I never knew that, his story was mutch different." He sounded like he was thinking out loud. I couldn't stop myself from asking .

" Who's story?" My voice sounded funny. There was something there I hadn't had in a long time, a glimmer of hope someone in my family survived that night.

" Well Jak Rider he was in here yesterday, he told me he thought he was the only one that lived though that night. Well I guess that I have proof that both of you were wrong." He made it sound so normal, I wanted to smack him for it. He somehow knew everything about me and my past and must have known about my family and how mutch I had missed them and he did even tell me! My anger was on over load.

" You mean this whole time you have known I've had family! You somehow know everything I have been doing in the past 16 years of my life! You must have known I was alone for much of it!" I yelled, I knew was acting like a little child by stomping my foot. I felt the tear sting my eyes and I stood still holding back thoughts tears.

" You found Len and Jun, they were your family. Yho and Trey became your friends. That is were I could make a change in you and Jak, he was consumed by hatred for most of his life when he found out about the truth of your parents. You were always the stronger one in that aspect Trish." Lord Death's voice had changed more like a fatherly voice then a happy more annoying one. The tears were coming, I held them back. Biting my bottom lip was one thing I did to hide pain and tears.

" Tell you what well you are here, and when your friends get here until I can send you home you can stay at Death manior, It's my house it's large and you can go to school and be more normal here. You might find that you already know some people in your class." He said his voice was still a fatherly one.

" Ok." My voice was creaking the tears of pain, sacredness, and anger were coming. " I don't know were it is though."

" I have someone here who you at least used to know, a childhood friend. Kid could you come in now?" His voice was back to the normal slef again at the end.

I looked at the door and seen a boy about my age walk in. His hair was black except for the three white stripes on his left side of his head. His eyes were two different colors a yellow on the outside and a more gold on the inside. He had on a suit the had 6 stripes on the shoulders and three going down the front, his tie was a skull that looked like Lord Death's mask. He had just plain black pants and shoes.

Walking on either side of him were two girls, one was tall and had long brown hair that went to her mid back. Her eyes were a bright blue. Her ear short shirt made her eyes come out. She had on boot cut jeans and cowboy boots. The girl on the other side had short blonde had and the same blue eyes she had the same shirt but had on puffy shorts and boots. They both had on a white tie and cowgirl hats.

" Hello, I am Death the Kid." The boy said he sounded like he was bored and that this happened all the time. " This is Liz." Holding out a hand to the taller one." and Patty." He pointed to the other one. " We are supposed to show you to Death Manor, lets go." With that he turned and started walking out the door.

" Sorry about kid right there, I don't know what is wrong with him." Lord Death said holding up his hands. I gulped and started after Kid.

" Sorry, Kid had been a little out of it lately. He is a really nice guy once you get to know him." Liz said, her voice was sweet. I smiled a little not really wanting to talk.

" Miss Trish, what is wrong?" Gorgon asked floating next to me. He was the one person that knew me the best. I looked at him, he was still a little green blob with eyes and a face guard that looked Spartan.

" I'm alright Gorgon." I said knowing he would get the message of I'll tell you later.

" I have something you ask you Trish." Patty said her voice was full of joy and she seemed hyper. I looked at her and waited for her to ask.

" What were in the middle of before you got here?" She asked, I felt Liz's life-force tense and I knew she wasn't suppose to be asking me things like that.

" Well I was training to be in a competition for the spot to be Shaman King or Queen in my case. One of the greatest things about being a Shaman. This competition only comes around every 500 years." I said not hiding the truth.

" That is cool! Is that why you have a battle axe on your back?" Patty asked I could feel the wind of Liz motioning for her to stop.

" It's alright Liz, I've gone though this before many times. I just hope that you don't think that I am a weirdo. " I said, Liz seemed to sweet drop.

" No nothing crazy about talking to ghosts." She said her voice was edgy Patty giggled.

" Big sis is scarred of ghosts."

I didn't want to tell her that Gorgon was next to her floating at her shoulder because he could see better from taller places. I sweat dropped.

" That's alright, I meet people like that a lot." Fat lie and I knew it. " but ya, I use my double bladed two sided battle axe to fight, I out Gorgon into in and I become stronger so does my attacks."

" Interesting, and you can become stronger by training? How do you do that?" It was Kid in front of us. I held back a yelp of surprise I didn't think he had heard what I had been saying.

" Well we try out new attacks and make my furoku bigger and having more of it so that I can battler longer and not get disqualified, once a shaman runs out of furoku then they lose that battle. It come back after a good sleep but that is what happened and why I train." I said this was one thing I have never talked about. Kid just looked ahead like nothing was different. He seemed deep in thought. The rest of the walk to death manor was hardly anything just Patty whistling some song I didn't know. I found that I was looking for the things that I always had on me making sure they were still there. My axe was across my back, that was there. My Ipod and ear buds were in my back packet. I felt my neck for my one thing my family I could save, my mother's emerald ring that she kept for something she would never tell us.

I looked at the huge house, it was black and just like something out of a dream. As we walked inside I had remember how to breath, I was used to the small houses and nothing more then that. As they lead me to my room I had a smile on my face. The room it's self was just the size my houses normally were, there was a bathroom and everything minus the kitchen to cook food. Everyone had left me so I walked in and seen the powder blue colored sheets, there was a white shirt on the edge folded nicely. I tossed it into a chair near by.

I set my axe on the wall near the door and went into the shower. The warm water was inviting to my warn and tired body. I hated to admit it it had been while since I had got the change to get a good shower, I washed my hair and walked out with a towel wrapped around me. With nothing else to put on I stuck on my dirty cloths from before I went to bed.

I stared and the desk in front of me, the events of the day were strange my fathers was keeping things from me again. Just like he had before, I was reading a book about Shamans yet this girl that clamed to be a shaman was nothing like what I was reading. She did have a spirit that did follow her around that was green a color that I had never seen before in a spirit usually a red for a Kishen egg or blue for a sound soul.

One thing that made me uneasy was that Shaman's didn't have that strong of a spirit that was why they could see the other spirits. They used the spirits so that they could have a whole one. That wasn't the only thing about her that bugged me as well.

" Liz is that you?" I asked as someone was walking by, Liz popped her head in after I asked.

" You need something Kid?" She asked.

" You still planning on going to the mall tomarrow?" I asked not looking away from my desk.

" Ya, I was even thinking of asking Maka and Tusbaki to come with us. Why?" She said.

" Good." I said, I stood up and handed her some money." Use this to get Trish a new outfit this one she has now is trash." I said, Liz sweat dropped.

" Kid, maybe her pants are supposed to be like that." She said with her ' kid your ocd is showing badly again.' voice and look.

" I don't care, plus she will stick out like a weed in a field of dirt." I said then sat back down.

" Ok what ever you say there Kid." Liz said rolling her eyes then she left.

I sighed and decided to take my reading to my room. That way Patty coun't bug me.