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Chapter 1:

Pyro looked up at the hill that her master was seated upon. Hao hadn't spoken for a long while. He was very silent these days. When he talked, it was always an order

and it seemed it was always something to do with Yoh. She knew the importance of Yoh, but she had never seen him and didn't think he was all that great.

The moon shone in the dark sky, lighting up the area around them. The group of Shaman that Hao had collected was gathered around the fire that Hao had prepared for

them.

"Is something on your mind, Py?" her shaman asked. The whole group was a collection of powerful Shamans. She was the most useless, so she helped Hao with

whatever he asked of her.

"Not really, Seraph. It's just-," she stopped. They had been through this before. Seraph looked at her. "You're thinking about that again? We went through this

already!"

"I know Seraph, don't remind me, it's just unfair." Pyro whispered. She walked away from the hill. She traveled into the surrounding forest with her shaman. Seraph

frowned. He tried to comfort his master.

"Listen Py, I know you're confused, but I don't know why I can't do unity either. The other attacks are working for us, though. We don't need to use the Spirit Form

Unity, we just need the other outwardly attacks, you know that's all I can do."

Py thought a moment and sighed. Her spirit companion and herself were unable to perform the simplest attack of Shamans or anything that involved Pyro becoming

possessed. If Seraph possessed her, he would disintegrate to nothing and Pyro would undergo an extremely painful transformation, putting her life in jeopardy. She had

attempted it once before, but Seraph began to disappear and had to immediately stop himself from possessing her. She passed put from the pain soon after. It was hard

to say why this was happening. It was very strange indeed.

Hao answered this question however, and promised to help her find ways around this in exchange for her loyalty. His theory was that Seraph was disintegrating because

he was becoming a part of Pyro. Pyro would undergo the change because of this merging.

Seraph was a strange Shaman anyhow. He died because of a genetic accident. A crazed man experimented on him by giving him the genes of a bird, with left him with

two ebony wings, figuring it would improve Seraph's fighting since Seraph was already a notorious assassin anyway. Seraph suffered and died from this experiment and

soon became Pyro's Shaman and soon best friend. Upon finding out about this big problem with Spirit Unity, though, Pyro couldn't fight very well.

This is where Hao came in. Hao had been friends with Pyro since she was a child. He left suddenly, and returned with many others, whom he said would help him in his

"Great Awakening of the World." Pyro had turned to him for help with this problem and he had helped her. She learned quickly and learned the five elements: fire,

water, earth, wind and the last point represented the spirit world. She learned of another attack, though, an attack that Hao could not master. Since Seraph had been

created out of darkness, Pyro had obtained this power. This made her extremely powerful, but there was a big issue in between that. If she lost her weapon in a fight,

then she had no way to win. Seraph could only use Spirit control and other similar attacks. If the weapon that he empowered was destroyed, he wouldn't be able to use

Unity and Pyro would face being killed. Otherwise, she was really powerful and was happy to serve Hao.

Of course, Hao knew about Pyro having the power of darkness, oh yes, he was well aware. He took great care in training her to be close to his power, since she was

the only other that had mastered all of the elements and then some, but not near enough so she could annihilate him. He also tested her loyalty multiple times, but he

figured there was no problem there. He had been friends with her almost all of this reincarnated life. He even renamed her to Pyro, which has to do with fire, when she

was young enough to forget her old name. This sealed her loyalty to him.

Pyro and Seraph hung out in the woods looking at the stars and talking about random things in the tournament. One of their biggest topics was Hao. Seraph loved to

tease Pyro about him. You see, Pyro had an obvious crush on her master, ever since they were kids. He was always so aloof and mature, which Pyro could never hope

to be. She had always looked up to him and he had been her best friend. When he left to gather these other Shaman, however, he came back a different person. He was

much more serious and didn't joke around, he no longer smiled, happily anyway. He was always smiling an evil kind of smile that just made Pyro feel worse. He came

back to find out about Pyro and Seraph's issue and made the deal with her. The thing that bothered Pyro the most was the fact that he no longer saw her as a person; he

would treat her like another associate and completely ignore their childhood. It was all about Yoh now.

Pyro began to despise this Yoh person; he had completely enveloped Hao's mind. She knew Hao needed Yoh for something really important but wasn't sure exactly

what.

Seraph was laughing at her. "I know what your thinking."

"Shut up."

"You're so hopeless, Py."

"Stop calling me Py,"

"Why? I always have. Why stop now?"

Pyro pulled back her sleeve. On her wrist was a bracelet, it was beaded with silvery-blue letters reading: Blueberry • Py. "I'm sure you've seen this right?" Pyro

asked Seraph.

"Yeah. What's it for?"

Pyro sighed. "I'm surprised at your stupidity. You're normally a smart spirit."

"Shut up. Hurry up and tell me already."

"I wouldn't want to bore you with my whole childhood again, but-,"

"This involves one of your Hao and my childhood happy memories, doesn't it?"

"Yup, and unless you want to hear the story then I suggest you shut up!"

"Okay, okay...Jeez."

"Well, you already know about Hao and I as kids. So you probably know that he was my best friend too," Seraph nodded. "Well, Hao would always call me Blueberry

Py. We'd eat blueberry pie in the summer together and Hao would smear it on my face when I'd take a bite. Besides, it's probably the only nickname that actually

makes sense. The family I boarded with would get so mad at us, come to think about it, Hao never had a family and he'd freeload, at least I think he did. This nickname

stuck because of both these reasons."

"Yeah? Well, sorry, but I'm still calling you Py. Pyro sounds unnatural."

"Gee, thanks." Pyro said sarcastically.

"By the way," Seraph started. "Where'd you get the name Pyro anyway? Why'd your parents' name you that?"

"My parents didn't name me that. Hao did."

"What! But-,"

"My parents died when I was young and my foster parents named me something but I don't remember. Since I looked up to Hao so much, he named me Pyro when I

was little and that's what I started to call myself."

"But what kind of name is Pyro?"

"I think it means 'of the flame' or something. Makes sense, Hao is after all a fire shaman."

"Yeah."

Just then, the two partners heard the sound of Hao's voice. "Pyro! Come here!"

Seraph looked up and smirked. "Hao is calling."

"Shut up!" Pyro raced back to the camp with Seraph following close behind her. Everyone was seated around the fireplace. Hao looked up at her. "Pyro, sit next to

me," he demanded, gesturing to the space next to him. His eyes were relaxed along with his voice and he just sat there. Pyro hesitated, and then took a seat next to him.

It felt strange to her that he was being nice all of the sudden.

"Pyro, what do you say to a mission?" Hao's voice echoed through her ears. Pyro looked up. "What kind of mission, Master Hao?"

Hao looked up as the rest of the group looked on. "Many of my associates have failed to dispose of Yoh's friends," It was about Yoh. Pyro sulked; it was always about

Yoh. "I was wandering if you could take care of them for me."

Pyro looked up at him. "Do you think I could really do that Master Hao?"

Hao nodded. "I trust you fully, and I know you can do this, just do not attack Yoh, like those other fools did."

"But...how will I know which one he is?"

"Believe me, you will know." Hao smiled, that same evil smile that Pyro resented. It meant that he wanted someone dead, and she knew it was Yoh's friends.

Pyro humbly accepted this offer and began to plan the ways she'd torture Yoh after Hao was done with him, of course. She would leave immediately after she ate.

Hao was approaching the final steps to Shaman tournament. Pyro had been a very loyal friend to him. Very loyal and very kind and obedient. She was the only thing that

stood in his way however; and he figured he would have to face her sooner or later in the tournament. And that wasn't good, seeing that she was the only other shaman

who mastered all elements and more. This meant that he would have to kill her, but he wouldn't be doing the killing, nope, he was leaving that to Yoh and his friends.

Then nothing would stand in Hao's way from reaching his ultimate goal.

Hao watched in silence as Pyro traveled the hills, in the direction he had told her. Soon, all would be complete.

And as Pyro looked back, all she could see was the familiar smirk upon Hao's face.

End Chapter 1

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