Frozen Heart
"You think she's gonna wake up soon?"
"Dunno, lets just hope she's not dead…"
"Dead! Onii-chan, don't say such awful things…"
Keia slowly opened her eyes. She had heard people talking, but her vision was still very blurry.
"Onii-chan, she's waking up!" a girl's voice cheered.
"W-where am I?" Keia slowly got up rubbing her head.
She saw a boy and girl around her age sitting in front of her. The boy had spiky blue hair that was held up by a head-band and the girl had straight long blue hair. They were both dressed in the traditional clothes of the Ainu people.
"Well you're here and here is in the north." The boy smiled widely at her.
"Oh, I'm Horohoro by the way and she's my little sister Pirika. What's your name?"
"I'm Keia and have you seen a white tiger somewhere?" she asked looking around for Mystic.
"Oh, oh, she means the one that came asking us for help onii-chan!" Pirika chirped. "Uh, Mystic right?"
Keia nodded.
"She's outside. Not very into talking, eh? Your spirit." Horohoro continued.
"She doesn't talk to strangers…but I guess with you saving me we're kind of…friends?" Keia thought about what she had said and started blushing.
"Keiaaa! You're up!" Mystic floated into the tent, she was in her spirit form that wasn't much more then her head.
"Onii-chan, you think Keia is training for the tournament?" Pirika whispered to her brother.
"Dunno, maybe, but who would train in those clothes in the north! That's crazy!" he tried to whisper back, but wasn't quiet enough.
"I…I don't train for the shaman king tournament if you mean that…it's forbidden to compete in it where I come from." Keia looked away sad as she remembered that now she didn't came from anywhere.
"But what are you doing here then? And where do you come from?" Pirika looked curious at her.
"I think I'm the last descendant of the Floral Clan…" she answered.
Both Pirika's and Horohoro's eyes widened. "The Floral Clan? You mean the village that exists out of shamans and shamans only? The Clan that had lived restricted for so long?" Horo barely managed to bring out.
'Everyone seems to know my Clan, but I don't know anything of the outside world…I'll never survive like this…' the small Keia thought desperate.
"But why are you here then?" Pirika interrupted her thoughts.
Keia told them the whole story about the boy and his strong fire spirit and how he destroyed her village and killed everyone she knew. She told them how Mystic had saved her.
"…and after that I don't know what happened nor do I know how I exactly came here. I mean, the Floral Clan was located more…southern if I remember right." Keia finished and looked at Mystic.
"I guess I'll have to tell further huh? Okay…" Mystic sighed and started to tell.
Flashback:
I noticed Keia had fallen asleep on my back. I didn't know what way I had to go and there weren't any towns or villages nearby. So, I just kept on walking the direction I already was going.
And as a spirit I don't actually feel when it gets colder or warmer, so I didn't know we were going to the north…
"Keia, which way do you want to go now?" I asked, but she didn't answer me. So I figured out that she was probably still sleeping.
But when I tried to wake her up she didn't respond and I started to get worried. Luckily I found a nearby cave and hide in it.
When I let her slip of my back I saw she was starting to turn blue! Her lips were already blue and her face was white.
That's when I kind of panicked and ran out of the cave to find her some help. I searched for hours and hours when I finally found you two…
End short flashback
"Wow, I can't imagine that all of that happened…" Pirika said shocked.
"Neither can I…but what's happened has happened nor is there anything I can do about it now. The only thing that matters now is that I find this 'fire shaman' and fight him for what he has done!" Keia's eyes were completely black as she said those words.
'What else can I do? It is my fault everyone's dead…I brought him there; I led him to my village.'
"But what are you two kids doing here anyway?" Mystic was curious that two people were staying in the middle of nowhere.
"OH, my big brother is training for the shaman fights. He's gonna be the Shaman King and then he's going to create a whole field of butterbur leafs!" Pirika was clinging on her brother's arm.
"So, you're training? How cool, I whish I could participate in it." Keia sighed.
"You can! I mean, you're not in your village anymore and with no rules…no one's gonna say you broke them!" Horohoro smiled and at the same time tried to get Pirika off his arm.
Keia thought for a moment. It was true what he said; with no rules to break it wouldn't be a problem to compete in the tournament. And that fire kid would probably also be there. Keia grinned evilly for a moment, but quickly turned back to her normal sweet face.
"You're right! I can compete and I can try to become shaman king…ehm queen I mean." She sweat dropped and chuckled.
"Cool, if you want you can come to our village and live there for awhile. You don't have anywhere to go now, do you?" Horo laughed.
"Yea, we wouldn't mind. You're nice and you could train with us!" Pirika chirped as she pushed away her brother and now clung on Keia arm.
Keia looked over to Mystic who looked like she was saying 'what harm would it be?' So, she decided to take the offer.
Next morning the group left and started their journey back to their village. It wasn't that far away from where they had spent the night, but you could feel the temperature dropping. Keia had borrowed a warm coat from Pirika, but she still had a hard time.
"It's just a little further. I think maybe an hour walking!" Horo yelled through the snowstorm.
They walked further in silence. They couldn't hear a word anyway. The snow was making it unable to see and Keia wondered how the two Ainu still knew the way, even without seeing it.
After an hour they arrived in a small village. Just like in Keia's village there was one main street with on both sides' wooden houses. Only this street ended at a small field of butterbur leafs. And Keia just noticed small spirits were freely floating around the town, each of them holding their own butterbur leaf.
"Pirika-chan, what are those small spirits?" Keia asked unsure.
"Those are the town's holy spirits, the Koropokkur. They live under the butterbur leafs, we Ainu have lived together with them for ages now. But the butterbur leafs are disappearing and so are the Koropokkur. That's why my brother is going to be shaman king!" Pirika cheered.
"That's right I haven't introduced ya to my spirit ally. This is Kororo." Horo clapped his head and sweat dropped.
A small spirit appeared next to him. She was, just like all the others, holding a butterbur leaf.
"Wow, what a cutie. Hi, Kororo, I'm Keia." She shook the tiny hand of the Koropokkur.
They walked a little further until they reached one of the last houses. It stood very close to the butterbur field and was just like the other houses made out of wood. Horo knocked on the door once, but nobody answered. The second time still no one opened it.
"I guess they're not home…" Pirika sighed after the third knock and sat down on the ground.
"Grr, why always when I come home!" Horo started to get irritated and was now banging on the door with both of his fists.
Keia and Pirika only sweat dropped and tried to ignore it.
"Who are we actually waiting for Pirika?" Keia asked through the loud banging.
"Our mom and dad. If you are going to stay here they should at least know." Pirika joked.
Horo finally gave up and sat down next to them. They waited for what seemed ages and by the time their parents arrived they were all sleeping.
Later that night they all sat inside the wooden house and were waiting for a response from Pirika's and Horohoro's parents.
"So, you're from the Floral Clan." The woman said. She looked just like Pirika only with Horohoro's black eyes.
Keia nodded shyly.
"And our children saved you?" the man asked. He looked just like Horohoro, but had the blue eyes of Pirika.
Again Keia nodded.
There was an unpleasant silence. "Hmm, you can stay, but you have to promise not to interfere with our son's training and you have to help on the land." They smiled and nodded to her.
"T-thanks, I won't stand in the way I promise!" Keia was smiling broadly, but deep down inside she was also very sad. Her heart had frozen and she would never forgive that fire shaman…and she would never forgive herself.
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Me; I don't have anything to say…stupid computer doesn't show me the reviews :( sigh, well I hope you liked it.
I kinda forgot the disclaimer so here: I don't own Shaman King! I do own my OCs ;D
Anyway please review! JA NE!
