A/N: Another Shaman King Fanfic. I won't stop till I finished one! This one may be out-of-this-world (well, mostly of SK's theme is not in our world… if you belong…) and this states that nothing hinders love? Dunno! Just read along till you find it naturally good. Hint: this is a fantasy… but don't worry I'll simply include shamanic powers, but of course.
Disclaimer: I never owned Shaman King. Everybody knows it belongs to Hiroyuki Takei. But I hope everybody knows this fic is mine.
The Shamanic Fantasy: A legend Through Time
Chapter One: The Historical Events wherefrom it started:
The Asakuras
Amidst the darkness of the night, a man in a white robe ran out from a monastery-like building. Many men followed him and they all shouted out at him.
And on this man's hands were some sort of ancient scroll that contains paraphrases by other important powerful shamans from long time ago. The notes are in different writing. Only he could understand it.
"Hao! You couldn't do this!" yelled one "that is a clan secret concealed in the monastery to keep it from hurting! Those notes must not be used!"
"Hah! Now I can diminish the whole mankind!!!!" he shouted back loudly "soon I'll make this whole land edible for all shamans alone!"
"You can't do that Hao Asakura!" one bravely faced him. And in an instant, the fire consumed the man.
"HUMANS! They all are a big misfit into this world! The weaklings must not live! In the world I'm gonna create, no weakling shall live!"
He laughed at his words triumphantly. Then he had some minions and formed a group of shaman priests that will create a new world, using the destructive, powerful dogmas released in time.
At that time every human is killed, bloodily and forcefully. Hao was once the best shaman priest located at Japan, and now he is greedily claiming the whole world as his, and only his using the secret notes to own the great spirits that rule fate and destiny… he is discontented of only having the title as the most powerful creature, thus, planning all of this.
"We must stop him," said the head of the shamanic priests that time.
"We mustn't consider all of his abrupt selfishness. We need to disperse him quick, or it will be too late… though it's hard for us… he must be subdued."
A lady overheard the conversation, and ran away to find Hao. She is an itako of the Asakura courts. Her family has been faithful to their clan ever since, and she needs to pay all their kindness to them by working for them. But most certainly is her unconditional love for Hao Asakura… the original Hao she met, years ago…
/a flashback/
"Good morning, sir. This is Chiemi, our daughter. We've trained her to work here, and I know that she can do housework now."
"Very well then, Chiemi must work at the monastery with her mother," the head of the Asakuras said.
Passing by the garden, she spotted a lad concentrating hard on his furyoku, and trains himself silently in meditation. The first time he saw a young shaman priest at the monastery.
She eyed him carefully with glee and watched his manly moves using his oversoul technique using fire. Impressed by the lad, Chiemi found her afraid of the fire the oversoul emits.
She decided to go away then. Suddenly the lad came up to conversing with her.
"Why leave?" he asked "Spirit of fire is not that scary…" then he hold Chiemi's hand and let her touch the oversoul. The fire didn't burn her out. It is just warm. She merely smiled at the touch… the warmth she never felt before. Then the lad smiled at her.
"New?"
"Hai…" she began "I came from Kanagawa."
"What's your name?"
"Chiemi…"
They became friends until they loved each other…
/end of flashback/
Chiemi loved Hao and he also loved Chiemi. Arriving at the place where Hao is studying the secret notes, he welcomed her with a smile.
"Chiemi! Time will come and we'll own the whole world! I can give you everything you want!" he replied and looked at the girl, whose eyes are watering.
"The Asakuras… they will subdue you…" she said softly enough for him to hear.
"As long as I have this," he began…
"Stop it!" Chiemi cried "it all began when you became different!"
"Chiemi! All I want is…"
"And what do you want, Hao Asakura?" the priests and his relatives are there.
Chiemi can't help but sob. Then the events become quick as the shamanic battle began. Hao alone, fighting with the few knowledge he learned and from his own. Until the powerful force made by Hao's enemies… Chiemi protected him… and that was likely to be called a 'suicide'.
"Hao… I know you only want things for our good…" she began weakly "but please, if I die…"
"No! You won't!!!" he shouted "I'll give you some of my furyoku and…"
"But I don't have the will to…" she said "this… is… enough… if thousands of lives will be lost… I saved you to…"
She fainted and died. The Asakuras think Chiemi is as silly as some of Hao's minions. They didn't know their affair. Chiemi didn't even finish her words.
This made Hao angrier at the same time guilty of himself. He hated them all. The Asakuras, priests… everyone! He stood up and said:
"You can't subdue me now… but no matter what happens to me right now…"
He began "I am going to return exactly 500 years from now. You can only subdue me if you can fulfill the legend… I shall cast out agony and fear when that time comes… and own the great spirits as well…" he ended up melancholically.
And then he disappeared like the wind… and a cold breeze was left…
And so, the legend was researched by the shamans and the court priests. They found out that the legend therefore appears on 175 years after.
The Asakuras became a royal family that time already. And the problem is: the legend won't come up together at Hao's said time. The legend and Hao won't meet.
After some time, a new hope was formed. Though the legend appears to be related to the twin babies of the royal family of Asakuras… still, there is some way, the twins are destined to break the curse of the past Hao Asakura.
It had never been that easy for Princess Keiko and Prince Mikihisa to let go of their sons' and their fate… and its fatal conditions, though it hurt them. Someday and as long as their princes have the heart to do the assigned will, it will be better.
More of the circumstances this past Hao Asakura made was his plan to return after 500 years.. But they are not born near the exact year, and it won't happen yet.
The Asakuras must protect their princes. In order to ensure that they'll reach 500 years, they need to be apart: from the royal family , to be sent at the future before the said 500 years. But one will follow them, and will guide them when the time is near.
The boys will have to live normal lives first as kids. They have nothing to do to guide them, though they are blood related, because of the legend… no one must tell them the bare truth… only to train them.
But what fears them is what would happen to them at the future? Who will take care of them? Still they need to watch them from their time to the time the boys will go. And this is how the legend of the Shamanic Fantasy began…
… To be continued