And the world was pain.
W-who-
Sounds (what were sounds?) infiltrating, beating a needleprick path through the red haze of agony.
Red.
Fire was red…
Spirit-no. It's gone…
It's all gone.
(what is fire what who too many questions I can't answer)
He was
I am
fire water spirit flesh
He began to remember, but memory failed partway.
(divided. the line of pure cold heat all the way through it's not possible but i feel it it's real and the spirit of flame a dying blaze in the back of my mind if i'm dead how can i feel such pain puzzlement fury--)
vision: the wall of water, extinguishing, and a pair of furious dark eyes. like his, and not
what…what are these…NO! there's too much I don't KNOW ANYMORE!
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She finds him awake, on the third day after the earth shook and the lesser spirits fled. He is perched at the entrance of the covered wagon, staring out at the sparse, night-shaded countryside as it rolls by.
He knows she is there, and greets her quietly. She would tell him that it is not wise to sit there – who knows what accidents could spring? But he halts her with a query.
"What's my name?" he asks, tucking long strands of brown hair behind his ear.
She is puzzled by the seriousness of the question. "I don't know. What is it?"
His smile is sweet and confused and devoid of any guile. "I don't know either."
Outside, a leaf flutters by, borne on the playful desert breeze.
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A/N: *twitches* I'm in this major mood for turning out 5-minute one shots that are very, very, VERYVERYVERY strange.
Any errors are due to the fact that I have not watched a single episode of Shaman King in my entire life. *blinks back tears* someone tell me if it still shows in the Philippines! All I did for this was watch an SK music video (In the End…I forgot the website ^^; but it's REALLY GOOD) and read a summary of the last episode. This just came out. I couldn't help it. Bleh…
The 'she' in the second part is a random person. Since I have no intention of continuing this, 'she' has not chance of becoming anything more than a filler character. Oh – some background – she finds Hao…somewhere…after his final fight. I don't know why he isn't dead.
Read, review, onegai? Tell me everything I did wrong. Or right. Whatever… v^o^v