Shaman King: Dawn of a New Generation
Chapter 4: Goodbyes and a Partner
The following day I woke up and went downstairs where my parents reminded me to pack. Oh yeah, I thought, tomorrow I leave. Just the very thought of it made me sad. I tried to cheer myself up by thinking how many adventures I'll have and that I could be like a god. All I kept thinking about was that I might die, if what the man said was true. Karl saw my sad face and tried to cheer me up, "Hey, the Master Geist I know isn't some sad depressed kid." "Yeah whatever." I mumbled as I left the house.
After yesterday Luke kept treating me weirdly and I wanted to explain everything to him and hope he believes me. He probably thinks I'm crazy and what he saw was just a mirage because of how scared he was. I walked down the block until I heard a girl scream. I ran as fast as I could and managed to find a guy holding a girl to wall in a dark alley. "Shush sweety, everything's gonna be fine." The man said. I yelled, "Stop you dumb bastard!" The man turned to me with a wicked grin, "What'd you just say little punk?" He pulled out a knife. "I said stop! Are you deaf?" "Alright punk now I'm gonna kill you. I can't have you trashing me or telling on me for trying to have fun." At this he licked the girl and charged me. The girl screamed and ran away. I said the words, "Karl, INTEGRATE!" Karl changed into a small blue ball and I grabbed him and shoved the ball into my chest. "Big mistake." Karl and I said as I ducked under his thrust and grabbed a pole in a trashcan. I slid my leg, tripping him and thrust the pole into his stomach. He lost all his breath and I hit him in the face knocking him out.
Karl left my body and I called 911. I waited there and told them what happened. They asked how the man came to be unconscious. I told them he tripped on a pole and hit his head on the ground. They believed me.
After that incident I just wanted to rest so I decided to go to the graveyard. I had to pass this park on the way there where I heard a voice yell, "He's not insane! He can see ghosts!" I realized the voice to be my brother's quarreling with an older boy. " I can see ghosts too!" My brother said. "Oh so you're a family of crazies then." The boy said. The boy who seemed to be the boss wore a red sweatshirt and was surrounded by two black boys. I realized they were the quarterback and his two receivers in the grade above me.
As soon as I walked up they saw me. "Oh look who it is. Ghost boy." At this my brother ran up to him and punched him square in the nose. His nose was bleeding like hell. "You broke my nose, you stupid 5th grader! Kill'em guys." The two others boy ran up to my brother. They both kicked him in the stomach and he crumpled to the ground. "Get away from him." I said as I got between them. I picked up two sticks on the ground (yeah lots of random sticks) and was about to integrate when my brother said, "No we got this." At that all the boys started laughing and one of them said, "Hahaha he has a ghost friend, HAHAHA!" Just then I saw a giant ninja rise out of the ground. " No way, where did he come from?" I said. "He's my guardian ghost. I'm coming with you." " You believed me." " Yep. I trust you. I wanted to come with you and help you like you've helped me all these years. I went to the graveyard and found him. His name is Lee. He has no memories of how he got here and is a Japanese ninja." "Yeah I can see that." "Wow you guys really are crazy." The boss said. All of them stopped laughing and started to walk toward us. " Lee spirit ball mode!" my brother said and Lee transformed into a bright green ball, "INTEGRATE!" The two of them became one and my brother ran up to the first lackey. Lackey 1 threw a punch and Luke dodged it and kicked him in the chin, knocking him out. He then ran up to Lackey 2 and kneed him in the stomach and punched him in the face. The boss ran up to Luke and tried to punch him but when Luke was dodging he tried to knee him the balls. Luke jumped into the air, did a back flip and did the coolest karate kick I've ever seen.
We then left. I asked my brother what he was doing and he said, "I heard them making fun of you so I stopped them." "Well um okay but your not going with me. I'm not going to endanger you. You don't owe me anything you're my brother." "Exactly. You're my brother, so I want to help you. No arguments, lets go home." I tried to argue with him but he wouldn't respond and neither would his ghost. I tried to ask him how he convinced the ninja, Lee to be his spirit partner and all he said was," He wanted excitement."
We went home and both packed up our bags. My parents asked Luke why he was packing and Luke just told them he had been invited too and they could ask the man when he arrived.
At about 8 o'clock the man arrived. The doorbell ringed and I opened the door to see the Native American man. I brought him outside and Luke followed. Luke told the man about what he wanted and showed him his ghost. At this the man smirked and said, " The more, the merrier." We went inside and the man explained everything about Luke to my parents and said they forgot to send a letter for Luke. My parents believed the man and we all said our goodbyes. By the end of it I was sobbing with my parents while Luke stood there with tears in his eyes. We then left.
On our way to his car I asked him to questions, "Where is the tournament? And where will we train?" "It's in New York City and you will train at a select area of land in Oklahoma." "Also what's your name? I forgot to ask when I was in jail. Also why did you fix my problems?" At this my brother got this confused look on his face. "My name is Bronza. I fixed your problems because I want you to win the Shaman Tournament for me and make me the leader of the Patch." I then got confused myself and he would not answer any of my questions like "Why me and why leader?" after I got tired of asking questions he explained to us the specifics of the tournament and the last thing he told us was, "Also I am one of the Ten Patch Officiates. In the first round I will test you to see if you can enter the tournament." We were silent the rest of trip. Eventually we arrived at a small town in Oklahoma called Winchester at two the next day. Bronza then said, "Let your training begin!"
End Of Three Days Arc
Next Chapter is start of the Training Arc
Next Chapter: Training and 100% Integration
Notes: End of my first arc. Plz keep reading and reviewing! New character introduced in two chapters.