Struggle for the Future
Well here's my attempt at a Shaman King Fanfic. It's set well into the future after the series ends.
Prologue
Why am I here, why am I in this cave, why am I enduring all this pain, why am I in such fear for something that happened so long ago. It was supposed to be over, I was supposed to have a normal life.
It's been 500 years since the last shaman tournament. Everyone thought that we would just have a normal fight to become Shaman King. That isn't the case anymore, not with his soul re-incarnated. My ancestors should have seen to his utter demise, that he be gone from this world for eternity. But something went wrong, Hao has come back and the daunting task of killing him has fallen upon us. Only… this time it isn't a him. Hao must have made a mistake finally after all this time, Hao must have panicked to some extent to make such a horrid mistake. Hao was no longer a he in this life, Hao had become a female. No one can explain why this happen, but I must not let this cloud my judgment, Hao is Hao, penis or no penis. So he must be stopped. Or so my parents repeated to me time after time.
I guess I should explain why I'm in a cave. This time Hao must be quite determined to be Shaman King, she has failed the past 1,500 years, so I guess she believes its long due coming that she wins this time. Yes the she thing will fall into normalcy soon enough. As I was saying, Hao isn't taking any chances, she has gathered an extraordinary amount of followers and is wiping out any obstacle in her way. That includes the Asakura family.
How did we find out that Hao was determined to eliminate any obstacle that stood in her merry way, that she would do anything to acquire the powers of Shaman King? Simple enough, she murdered my family right in front of me. It was a quiet night, everything seemed normal, I was arguing that I didn't want to go into the bath, my mother was badgering my dad to help her get me in the bath, and of course, he was ignoring us completely.
That's when it happen, a blast of fire through the porch. My mother ran out to find out what had happen when I heard it, the terrifying scream of my mother being burned alive. My dad quickly summoned his two shikigami that had been passed down from generation to generation and headed towards the door. That's when I saw her for the first time, her gaze cold as she took the spirit of fire into her arm and formed a blade, the blade that impaled my father.
Once Hao had finished killing my father, she made towards me, as a last dying attempt my father threw the family heirloom at me, the Futsu-no-Mitama no Tsurugi at me. I quickly pocketed the blade and ran away from the scene, towards a closet, I know it was naïve but I was young back then, I didn't know any better. I heard Hao outside, she gave a shrill laugh. I moved further into the closet when I felt something warm in my pocket. I pulled it out, it was the Futsu-no-Mitama no Tsurugi that my dad had given to me with the last of his life force. It was giving off a darkish blue glow and with that I lost consciousness.
After I regained consciousness, I was already at the cave, hidden from the world from beyond, safe guarded till they would consider it time for me to be allowed out. I have yet to be told how I survived Hao's onslaught but I know it had something to do with the Futsu-no-Mitama no Tsurugi's glow that night. I know that this blade had something to do with it, it was the key to my survival.
That's enough of an introduction I guess, lastly, my name is Xian Yoh, named after my ancestor who lastly defeated Hao and some other something or other that my mother was fond of. For the sake of simplicity, I'm Yoh. I'm only 16 years old, and I just found my guardian spirit, the swordsman Reikuru from over 1,700 years ago. It is said that he might have founded swordsman ship but then again, he's full of himself.
By the way, the beginning of all these events were also premeditated, Hao had decided to set her plans forward before the shaman fight really got under way, I was only 10 when Hao attacked, so it's been a miserable six years that I've been hidden within the depths of this cave.
Well please give me thoughts and comments. Flame all you want, I won't really care, compliment as well, those I will actually care for.