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Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King blah blah blah, but Elena and all of the characters that I make up all belong to me.

Elena sighed and stared up at the ceiling.

"It all started with the prophecies over 1,000 years ago." she began.

At that moment, the entire room went dead quiet as the word 'prophecies' was mentioned. Everyone's full attention was set upon the young girl that sat before them. Anna, Yoh, and Tamao have already heard the story before, but they paid attention anyways because every single time that it was told, a new and mysterious secret was revealed about Elena's past and future.

"As you are not aware of..." Elena began.

"There lived a great and most powerful shaman by the name of Hao Asakura."

Once the name 'Hao Asakura' was mentioned everyone's jaw including Yoh and Anna's dropped to the floor. Hao Asakura? They all thought.

Yoh was the first to break the silence.

"Hao Asakura?" Yoh asked.

Elena nodded still holding the small cup of tea in her hands. She looked back up at the ceiling and avoided eye contact with everyone in the room.

"He is one of your ancestors Yoh." she said. " As I was saying...over 1,000 years ago Hao Asakura was a strong shaman that mastered the five points of the unity star."

Just then Horo Horo interrupted.

"Unity Star? What the heck is that?" He asked.

Elena smirked. "I was getting to that you know. Each point of the unity star represents an element that a shaman can master if he or she has the strength and ability. The five points represent, earth, wind, fire, and water. And you're ancestor Yoh, Hao Asakura, was and is the only shaman that was able to master all five points."

Horo Horo looked on in amazement as the story was being told. He nudged Yoh who was also looking on in complete amazement.

"Whoa Yoh. You had a pretty awesome and powerful ancestor." He commented.

Elena over heard his conversation and responded.

"Yes he was very powerful, but far from awesome." she replied.

"What do you mean?" Ren asked.

"Well Yoh's ancestor was able to master such power, but his intentions were not good. He did not wish to use such powers for the good of this entire planet, but rather to destroy it."

"Destroy it?" Rio asked. "Why did he want to destroy it?"

"He believed that all humans that lived on this earth were not worthy enough to live on it's surface. With his granted powers he was able to see both the past, and the future. In his visions, he recalled seeing a future world corrupted by greed and evil. He saw massive buildings that tainted the skies above and evil that engulfed the surface below. He said that all humans were evil and all had to be destroyed. He dreamt of a world where only shaman existed. A world where both shaman and nature could become one together. But to do so he had to destroy all mortals first."

Everyone gasped at the thought of such a shaman that wished for the death of all humans. Elena continued.

"As he tried to explain his plan, his dream, to the other members of his family they were completely shocked and disgusted by such an idea. They believed that by destroying all humans, it would only create a world filled with even more evil. They knew that Hao would not listen to them and that he would try to follow through with his plan under all circumstances. So in order to stop his plan...they were only left with one option. They had to kill Hao Asakura."

"After a long and treacherous battle, they were indeed able to completely destroy Hao Asakura."

Horo Horo smiled.

"Hmph that showed him huh?" He joked.

Elena smirked once again and crossed her arms.

"Yes they were able to destroy him, but because he had mastered all five points of the unity star, he was able to come and go from this world as he pleased."

"What! You mean like reincarnation?" Ren asked.

"Exactly. Hao Asakura vowed to return again when the next Shaman Tournament would took place. And his vow was one that was fulfilled. He did indeed return 500 years ago, to witness and take part of the next Shaman Tournament. He tried to follow through with his plan once again, but this time an Asakura was waiting for him. One of his descendants, came forth and destroyed Hao once again. But as usual, Hao promised to return in time for the next Shaman Tournament."

"So you mean that Hao is here again? Like right now? He's alive somewhere around here?" Horo Horo asked frantically.

Elena nodded.

"Whoa that is so freaky." Horo Horo remarked. "But what does all of this have to do with you?" he asked.

"If you had let me finish I would have gotten to that part!" Elena screamed.

Horo Horo immediately pulled up a chair and sat down.

"Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry...continue." he apologized.

"Well as I was saying...after the first time that Hao was killed, there arose many prophecies from many fellow Shaman that knew Hao Asakura. They started to receive and envision many prophecies that all surrounded on theory. As the prophecies say...in the 3rd Shaman Tournament, when Hao returns once again if he is not already destroyed..there will be born a child...a girl with tremendous power and potential."

Pilika thought for a moment. Does that mean that Elena is the one that is spoken about in these prophecies? Maybe she is.

Elena continued.

"The girl will be born with a mark on her forehead. The mark of that of who she truly is." She continued. "I was a child born with that mark on my forehead." she told. "But when my parents saw the mark that was on my forehead, they became scared, and thought that I was some kind of demon or something. And so they abandoned me."

"Me a little defenseless child that had just been brought into the world...was already being abandoned. But all was not bad, when my parents gave me up, I was taken to a local orphanage in the village of Izumo...where Yoh, Anna, and Tamao lived at the time. But one day, when I was only 5 years old, I remember walking around outside and I accidentally bumped into a man causing the both of us to fall. When I looked up, I saw that the man had short black hair, a rugged and masculine look on his face. He wore a long blue kimono and he held a small book in his hands."

"He stared at me continuously as if he knew me or something. After a while, he suddenly gasped and he placed his arms on my small shoulders. You are the one. he remarked to me. You are the one...the girl...that was foretold by the prophecies. I had no clue as to what he was talking about. I just stared at him in confusion. But about a week later...I was adopted by that very same man and I was taken to live in a shrine that he owned in heart of the village of Izumo."

Rio wiped the tears that were coming out of his eyes. "What a sweet story." he complimented.

Anna then suddenly came up behind him and smacked him on the back of the head. "She's not done yet you numbskull!"

Elena chuckled, but proceeded to tell her story.

"After that day I was taken to live with the man in a small shrine that he owned. He was also shaman and he had spent most of his life researching the life of Hao Asakura and the prophecies. He told me that he was absolutely certain that I was the girl described in the prophecies. He sensed a large amount power coming from me that he knew was one that could only come from 'the child'. He read me the prophecies. The ones that I regret listening to as they show how my life would be like and how I would die."

"It said how you were going to die?" Horo Horo asked.

"Yes. As I recall this 'child' will posses a grand power that will be used at a time when the earth and it's people are at their worst and in the most danger. The child will then use her powers to save the world so that it may see the light of another day."

"What is so bad about that?" Ren asked.

"When the 'child' is done with this task, she will be so drained of her energy, so incapable of life, that she will be completely destroyed. For this childs life, is what shall ultimately cause her death." Elena explained.

"That's all I remember. Since then my master, Master Horoshi, had been training me and trying to uncover many of the unanswered mysteries that were deep inside of me. One of the questions that he wanted to answer, was why I was able to use powers that were identical to that of a shaman if I had no guardian ghost. He then suggested that I might have a guardian ghost, but that it just did not want to reveal itself. "

"Well anyways enough about that prophecy mumbo jumbo, now I will really start the story." Elena grinned.

"There's more?" Manta asked.

"Hmph more than you can imagine shorty." Elena chuckled.

"Hey!" Manta yelled.

"Calm down. Don't give yourself a heart attack." Elena said.

"Well anyways, where was I? Oh yeah. Well when I was about 6 years old, my master told me about all of the prophecies and explained it to me in English for once. When I heard about how I was going to die, I remember that I started to cry, and that I ran out of the shrine and into the woods that surrounded the shrine. I didn't want to believe that I was only born to help the world and then die. It wasn't how I wanted to live. So I ran as fast as I could and then stopped when I reached a small bridge above a pond that I always used to like to visit. There I cried for hours. I just didn't want to die the way that I was told.

Suddenly, an old man came and started to walk across the bridge, but stopped when he noticed me. When he turned over and looked at me his eyes suddenly widened and he grasped my arm. The man was really old. He had white hair, his eyes looked cross eyed, and he only seemed to be wearing rags. He looked as if he was a homeless old man. I became scared and started to tug my arm away but was unable to free myself."

Flashback

The old man continued to tug at Elena's arm and stare at her in confusion. Elena continued to try and pry her arms away from the crazy man.

"Ahhh let go of me!" Elena screamed.

The man only tightened his grip and continued to stare at her. After what seemed like a long time, the old man finally spoke.

"It's you. The girl...the one from the prophecies." he said.

Elena looked at the man wide eyed. "I don't know what you're talking about! You've got the wrong person, I'm just a normal little girl!" she pleaded.

"No you are not." The man then took Elena's other arm and turned her so that she could face him. "You...you are the only one that can use her power without her consent. She has chosen you to be her messenger and her portal."

Elena gasped at the man's crazy words. "Leave me alone. You don't know what you're talking about! Let me go or I'll kick you're ass!" she screamed.

The man pulled her close to him and he touched her forehead. Where there was supposed to be a mark. There was no mark. (A/N: The 'mark' only appears when Elena is really angry, or when she uses her powers).

"Show me." the man uttered.

"Huh? Show you what?" Elena asked.

"Show me her power. I want to see it." The man commanded. "Show me."

"No leave me alone!" Elena screamed.

"SHOW ME NOW!" The man tightened his grip on Elena so hard, that she could feel her arms getting numb.

At that point Elena had reached her breaking point. Her eyes started to glow red and the 'mark' appeared on her forehead. She then shoved the man off of her causing him to fall to the ground.

"I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE!" Elena then raised her left hand furyoku surrounding it. Elena concentrated and then a powerful surge of energy came out of her hand and struck the man and banged him against a tree near by. She could hear his bones crack with the impact.

She then stopped and fell to her knees. She was breathing heavily and her hands were trembling.

"What happened?" she asked herself. She looked up the man that she had hurt...he was dead.

"What did I do?" she asked. She immediately stood up and ran off. She ran even further into the woods. She didn't know where she was going, but she knew that she had to get out of Izumo, for it was a village that only brought her sorrow.

She ran through the dense and dark forest, she had to get away. She closed her eyes and continued to run as fast as she could. Suddenly, she heard and felt a loud thud and she fell to the ground. She slowly looked up and saw another young girl on the ground. They had both bumped into each other. It was a young girl. She wore a black dress and had blonde hair. On her head was a long red bandana and she wore a blue beaded necklace around her neck.

"Uhh sorry." Elena answered. The young girl slowly stood up and patted the dust off of her dress. "That's okay." The girl then looked up and saw tears pouring out of Elena's eyes.

"Why are you crying?" the girl asked.

Elena trembled as she lay on the ground and remembered what she had done. "I...I...I killed a man. On accident." she stuttered. She then stared down at the ground an continued to cry.

"Hmmm.That is a pretty good reason to be crying...But everyone makes mistakes." The young girl walked over to Elena and stretched out her hand. Elena looked up at the girl and took her hand.

"My name's Anna." the young girl said.

Author's Note:
Whoa that was a long chapter! And I'm not even done with Elena's past yet! It's longer than I expected it to be so I'm going to have to finish the rest in the next chapter. Sorry if you guys got bored with this chapter. I know that when there are flashbacks involved, it get's pretty boring. Well I hope that I described Hao's past well enough so that you could all understand. Tell me what you guys think okay? Thanx a lot.

Reviews from Chapter 4
Tsukikari: Aww you are so sweet! This is actually all thanks to you. Without you there supporting me, I might have just given up on this story. But I am so glad that you're always there for me, cheering me on! You're a really nice person and I am honored to have you as a friend! (HUGS!) P.S. Can't wait for you to update!

Soul of the Xcalibar: Yes! I finally spelled your name right! Thank you so much for being there for me to! You're really awesome! Nah Elena is just a character that I made up in my imaginative little brain. She's not really based on anyone. She just so happens to have my middle name, but that's all. She's a cool character don't ya think?

Itako no Shaman: Aw thanx so much for the review! Yeah Elena is Anna's partner. If they both combine their powers, then no one can stop them! (stops and thinks) Uhhh...oops I got a little carried away there. But thank you so much! You are the first new person to review this story and that makes me really grateful. Actually all of YOUR stories rock! And no one will stop ME from reading them! Keep rockin and never change!

Riversidejenny: Heh you do have a creative mind! I love your prediction! As for the answer though...well you'll just have to find out. I didn't really reveal anything that would answer your question did I? But I will in the next chappie. And don't worry. I plan on adding a battle scene if I can in the next chappie. I hope that you're looking forward to that. About Love at Last...I guess that I will update a little sooner.

Anna-Chan: Ha. I'm not a really patient person either. But here's the next chapter and I hope that you like it. As for Love at Last...don't worry I plan to update soon. Thanx a lot for the review!

Thanx again to all of the reviewers! You guys really brought up my spirits and I hope to hear from all of you again soon! Love you all! bye!