Well...this is it. The final chapter of my long epilogue. So here's the final chapter to our story...

OH! BUT! One least thing, I have one final chapter, the extra. So after this you can stop reading here, or you could go on...once I get my next chapter up and you finish reading ...

Chapter 11

"What do mean the Hanagumi? We were all dead!" Macchi yelled back. Hao threw another stone out on the water.

"When you three died, I absorbed your power." Hao said scornfully. He slammed his fist into the rock. "I was terribly selfish. I could have revived you, but I then met Tamao." Hao said. Macchi began to recall what all thathad happened.

"So I was in your body with Kanna and Mari for a…year!" Macchi said shocked. The simple thought alone made her shiver.Being THAT close to Mari was scary enough.

"Yes, and then the night you were revived, I was asleep. Somehow, you three got out of me. I quickly gave chase. When I found you three…it was the most speculator sight." Hao said in awe. Macchi could imagine Kanna had set up a water balloon and Mari had a whoopee cushion ready to break Hao's fall. "Mari and Kanna…they gave used up all their power to make you a body and your soul entered it. I tried to stop them, but they persisted. They said they wanted you to live a happy life and they took away all your memories. All the bad ones at least. They wanted you to live a guilt-free life. I tried to tell them I was engaged, but it was too late." Hao said. Macchi began to cry quietly. She didn't want Hao to know that she was a bit of a crybaby at times.

"Those jerks. Here they go reviving me and I don't get to say goodbye." Macchi cried. A smile broke through the tears. Hao got up and sat by Macchi.

"And I can only guess what you'll say next." Hao predicted. Macchi squeezed Hao. She continued cry in his arms.

"Hao, I love you. I really, really do." Macchi cried. Hao pushed Macchi back to look into her eyes.

"I know you do. I loved you ever since I met you." Hao said. When he said that Macchi got up andpointed right in his face.

"A-ha! You forgot your promise!" Macchi caught him. Hao was confused as well as shocked. "Don't you remember…when I was six?" Macchi said as she began to sit down again.

"Oh yeah…I remember it perfectly…" Hao said.

Little Macchi continued to lean against the wall in the old torn blanket. Mommy and daddy were dead. They were in the other room lying on the floor, blood spilled all over the place. Macchi began to cry once again as she gripped her torn doll. A dark figure appeared before her. It began to walk toward her. Macchi huddled tighter in her blanket, afraid it was here to take her away. The figure turned out to be a boy, no older than her. He bent down and smiled.

"Why hello there. Are you alone?" The boy asked. His long brown hair was touching the floor. Even her hair wasn't that long. Little Macchi looked up with puppy-dog eyes and nodded. Hao offered out his hand. "Why don't you come with me?" The boy proposed. The girl turned away from him gripping her doll. She had her eyes closed and cried even harder.

"I can't…I don't want to live." Macchi said, yetHao only got closer to the little girl.

"Why don't you want to live? I could make you happy." The boy tried to persuade her, butMacchi didn't budge. "Do you know about the Shaman King?" The boy asked. The little girl nodded. "Well, does a King need a queen?" The boy asked next to her. The girl looked at the boy. "Would youwant to be my queen?" The boy asked, offered out his hand once more. Macchi took his hand and he pulled her up. "You must have a beautiful name since you will be my queen. What is your name?" The boy asked her. Macchi giggled.

"Matilda, but you can call me Mati." The little girl beamed.

"I am Hao, Asakura Hao." Hao introduced himself. He kissed her hand. "You have such a beautiful name for such a beautiful queen." Hao continued to praise. The little girl hit in the gut just for fun. Hao braced from the impact. He could feel the pain soared through his body. This little girl wasn't any girly princess by any means.

"Stop it. You don't need to call me your queen." Macchi said...

Hao blushed and was sweating. "Um…well what you know. I guess I did promise you." Hao said frightened.

"See, I told you." Macchi taunted him. Hao threw another stone into the lake with that previous emotion erased.

"Macchi, I can't keep that promise. I didn't become the King, I let you down." Hao said. Macchi put her arms around him, just like the first night she was revived.

"Hao, I don't care about that anymore. I want to be with you." Macchi said. She began to squeezed tighter and tighter. "I only wanted to be with you. I didn't care if you became King. Well…ok I did care, but it didn't matter to me as much." Macchi said. Hao put his hand on hers. It was covering his heart again. He could feel her sorrow and pain.

"I'm sorry, but I can't." Hao said. He got up and shook off her arms. Macchi got up quickly after him.

"But why?" Macchi whined. Hao looked back at Macchi. When he turned he was only an inch for her face.

"I'm sorry. People changed, I changed. I fell in love with Tamao." Hao whispered. Macchi pouted again.

"But you can break up with her! You are only engaged. You haven't made your vows and got hitched yet!" Macchi complained. Hao put his hands on her shoulders. Macchi got a strange feeling inside of her.

"Macchi, I don't want you to take this wrong way, but there is nothing I can do. I have choose my path." Hao whispered. "But there was something I've always wanted to do." Hao met her lips in a kiss. Macchi was a bit shock at first, seeing that her dream was really a vision, but something wasn't right. It didn't feel the same, there was no fire, no real passion. It was a wet kiss. Hao backed away and relieved. "I'm sorry, but it has to be this way." Hao said. He glided his fingers through her hair one last time and left her. Macchi grabbed his arm.

"Hao, I don't it to be this way…" Macchi said. When Macchi saw his face, she gaped. Hao was crying. Tears poured down his face and he was trying to hold in his anguish.

"I'm sorry." Hao continued to cry. He quickly broke away from Macchi's grip. 'It had to be this way.' Hao thought. 'There was no other way.'

Lyserg walked through the dark forest. He liked it much more when there was moonlight, and a lot of it. He was afraid a shadow would pop out and grab him, pulling him into the darkness. He passed the scarred rock, a marker that meant Lyserg just had to go straight from there. Lyserg had to feel the rest of the way through the forest.

Hao had left five minutes before Lyserg had even entered the forest, so a confrontation with him would be out of the question. When he reached the lake he was quite surprised how much moonlight covered the lake, but then again what was he to expect from a hollowed out area in a forest.

He looked around to see if anyone was there. He was expecting Hao and Macchi to be in the lake, making out and being doing something he didn't want to envision, but no one was there. He stepped closer to the shoreline and walked its perimeter. He looked both ways to see if anyone was there. He reached that same spot he went to fume one day. He sat down on that same rock and skipped a stone.

He thought he heard someone crying, but it could have been the wind. Lyserg threw another skipped another stone into the lake, thinking of what he would say to Macchi. This time he heard a whimpered 'why'. Lyserg got up to investigate the sound.

He looked down at the ground, hoping he could find some footprints. The ground was dry, but there where some footprints that continued to head pass the rock, ones he didn't make. He followed the trail of where he thought this mysterious person be. He heard the crying once again, it sounded like a girl was crying. He was quite sure it was Macchi. He began to look around the trees because she was clearly not on the shoreline. He finally found her behind an old ash tree. She was huddled in a ball, her face buried into her arms. She continued to cry, Lyserg could hear her sniffling and pouting. He sat right next to her.

"Hey, is everything ok?" Lyserg asked. Macchi continued to cry until she answered.

"No…" Macchi mumbled. She continued to cry after answering. Lyserg thought he knew the reason, but just be to safe he would ask.

"So I guess Hao said 'no'." Lyserg said. He looked at Macchi hoping she would pull out of this depressive. She nodded slightly and went back to crying. Lyserg put his arm around hoping it would do something and it did.

Macchi quickly wrapped her arms around his chest and squeezed so tight Lyserg thought he could die from the pressure. She continued to cry, her tears running down and falling on his tux shirt. Lyserg blushed uncontrollably once again. He feared he would never be used to women. Macchi's crying began to stop. She squeezed tighter once and loosened her grip. She laid her head on Lyserg's lap.

Lyserg tried to think of what to do. All he knew was he had to help her through like she did for him. His hands fretted as he reached down. He didn't want to ruin this jewel that lay in his lap. His hand finally jolted against his will and brought her head closer to him.

Macchi eye's brimmed with tears.

She was changed, a side that no one had seen besides her mother when she was young. Macchi hated to cry, it made her feel weak, it made feel inferior to everyone else. She wanted to be strong, she wanted to show everyone what she could be, but she had to accept her faults. She then went into full tears once again. Lyserg moved her head so she could cry on his plaid over shirt. He didn't mind it, he hadanother five in stock and it was just water.

"Lyserg…" Macchi said, her voice was shaking and scarred. Scarred of change of what would happen next. "I love you…" She meek. "I really, really, really, really do." She continued to cry. She gripped his shirt and tugged on it. "But you hate me and I know it!" She cried.

Lyserg opened his mouth, but nothing came out or could. "I've killed your friends, I've killed others, I tried to kill you! How could love me? I'm a monster!" She screamed with sobs inbetween. Lyserg knew he had to say something. Maybe this was what she meant by over-flowing. "Leave me…I don't deserve to even live." She said. "I want to die. I want to die! I have to!" She screamed. Lyserg began to shake Macchi.

"Macchi! Get a hold of yourself! How do you know this?" Lyserg asked. Macchi threw herself the other way, away from Lyserg.

"I made myself remember. I made myself remember killing the X-laws, I remember trying to kill Tamao, and I remember just death! Death surrounds me. You have to kill me." Macchi cried. Lyserg tried to hold her hand, but she sealed it away from him. "I don't deserve to live. I don't deserve to live…" And Macchi continued to repeat that phrase. Lyserg grabbed her and turned her around.

"Macchi, stop it!" Lyserg yelled in her face. She continued to whimper after he yelled. After he realized what he did his grip loosened. "Macchi I'm sorry…" Lyserg said, but Macchi escaped and scurried away. Macchi was frightened. She wasn't the Macchi we all know. It was her inner self, her conscience speaking out, the purest essence of all her bottled up feelings coming out like a geyser.

"See, you hate me. I don't care what do with me. You can tie my up and have me drown. Or you can bind me and rape me. Or you could just shoot me, please just kill me." Macchi cried. Lyserg was shocked, completely. She had done off the deep end and he didn't know what to do. He remembered his storms about Hao. A normal storm could have last an hour or up to a week. Macchi's could probably go on for the rest of her life, or of what could remained of it.

Lyserg only knew one solution, and killing her was out of the question.

"Macchi I want to tell you something." Lyserg pleaded. Macchi continued to press against the adjacent tree.

"Go ahead. Tell me you hate me. I know you do. Tell me how you resent me! Let it all out before I die. Tell me…" Macchi cried, but her last sentence was cut short. Lyserg's gun lay on the ground. Lyserg had kissed Macchi. Macchi was confused and pushed him away. "D-don't that! I am monster. No, I'm a demon and you have to kill demons!" Macchi made an excuse. Lyserg shook his head.

"You're not a monster and you're defiantly not a demon. You are a woman, a very beautiful one. One that I wouldwant to spend the rest of my life with." Lyserg said. Macchi continued to move away from him, waiting for the moment she would escape. "Macchi…I love you." Lyserg said. A few tears trickled down his face. Macchi shook her head.

"Impossible! You can't love me!" Macchi continued to defend her views. Lyserg felt like this would go on till morning. He was going to try something. Something he may regret later.

"Ok, I will kill you, but on one condition. If you think I don't love you, I'll kill you." Lyserg proposed. Macchi nodded and approached him. Lyserg hid his gun in the tree's trunk, hoping he wouldn't need it. Macchi was at his knees.

"Ok I don't love you, so kill me." Macchi said without missing a beat. Lyserg shook his head.

"It won't be that easy. You have to go through my tests. Only then will I kill you." Lyserg explained, having a large amount of doubt riding on his heart. This allowed him to make the tests as long as he wanted. He just hoped she come through by the end. Macchi nodded in agreement to the rules.

"So what is the first test?" Macchi eagerly asked, eagerly to kill herself. Lyserg acted like he was thinking. The first test be easy for her.

"Kissing." Lyserg said. Macchi gave him a quick kiss and raced away.

"Ok, we passed that." Macchi said quite quickly.

"No not like that, let me show you." Lyserg. He closed his eyes hoping he do everything right. He continued to slowly move forward while Macchi remained perfectly still.

It seemed like eternity until finally Lyserg felt her lips. They weren't closed. They were slightly opened. Lyserg continued to press forward and put his hand behind her head, not allowing her to escape. Ever since he first kissed Macchi he would first get this butterfly feeling in his stomach. Then it would move upward into his chest and then finally his mouth. From there it turned into sugar and went back down and continued to cycle like that. However, he knew he wasn't tasting sugar and it didn't even taste like sugar, but it sweet and so kind. He could feel Macchi in every moment. He moved away after what he thought was a minute. He opened his eyes to see Macchi's response. She looked surprised, shocked that she could feel such emotions.

"So that's it, now it your tur…" Lyserg said, but before he finished Macchi was already in a deadlock kiss. Lyserg was shocked as her momentum pressed him against the tree. Lyserg timed the kissed, shocked on how long it was lasting. Macchi was trying to put her tongue in his mouth, but Lyserg was still grossed out by such a thought. Two minutes had passed and Macchi still hadn't gave up. Then she pressed him onto the ground. Now Lyserg was worried about his plaid over shirt. He knew dirt didn't come out very well.

"Now let me test you." Macchi said, still in a meek voice, but it wasn't like before. She first began to unbutton his shirt. Once removed Macchi glided her hand across his chest. She then laid on him and began to untie his bow tie and loosen that plaid over shirt. Lyserg knew he was once again blushing, plus he was sweating. Stanfing up on her knees and took off her pink tee and removed her scrunchy letting her hair hang down freely. She glissaded her finger across his chin. "Sex…" Macchi whispered. Lyserg knew he was now regretting his choice.

'Man, now I've caused her over-flow the other way!' Lyserg screamed in his mind. He sighed to himself. 'Well, I'll do this for Macchi…for her…' He thought before the final moment were all virginty would be no doubt lost.

"PSYCH!" Macchi blurted out. She rolled over laughing. "Oh…oh that was soooooo good. You should have seen the look on your face. You really thought I sleep with you. Oh that's good." Macchi laughed. Lyserg got up and fasten his bow tie.

"Macchi! Have you been playing this game the whole time?" Lyserg asked. Macchi tried to stop her laughing, but there was still a light chuckle in her voice.

"No, until you kissed, I was totally serious. You don't know how unwanted I felt." Macchi said. "I thought no one loved me, not even Hao after he broke the news. I got a bloody wicked plan for revenge!" Macchi smiled. "So you really love me?" Macchi asked pressing herself more toward Lyserg. Lyserg's anger quickly turned back into butterflies and worries.

"Well…yeah." Lyserg answered. Macchi's smiled beamed even more.

"So we both love each other. Wanna go out on a date later?" Macchi asked.

"Sure." Lyserg quickly answered. He got up and brushed off the dirt. "So where you want to go?" He asked. Macchi pulled him back down to the ground.

"Right here." She said. Lyserg got the willies again. "No one is here…so…do you want to…" Macchi and then began to giggled. "This bra is sooo tight." Macchi over exaggerated, "It be so nice if I could just…take it off." Macchi said. She began to remove her back strap. Lyserg bit his lip and would move onto his new non-virgin state. Macchi showed both back straps. Lyserg prepared for the best time in his life, or maybe even the worst. She slowly began to lift up. Lyserg could see the skin in what he considered a forbidden area for his eyes. Macchi threw the black bra off revealing a white one underneath.

"Double psych!" Macchi laughed again.

"Macchi quit doing this! You causing me to…" Lyserg said scornfully, but a finger closed his mouth.

"I'm sorry about that." Macchi apologized. She leaned on Lyserg's chest. "I just want to be with you." She said. Lyserg smiled and brought her in closer. "Oh…just for F.Y.I., I have no panties on." Macchi giggled. Lyserg backed away digested.

"Macchi! I didn't need to know that." Lyserg said. Macchi continued to chuckle.

"Well…if you wanna, I'm always ready." Macchi said as she put back on her pink tee. She positioned her head back on his chest. "I just want to be with you, forever." Macchi said. Lyserg smiled back and rubbed her hair.

"And I promise I'll always there for you, Matilda." Lyserg said. They sat the rest of the night, talking about things. They talked about pointless things, meaningful things, interests, and hatreds and then again...mainly pointless things. They stayed there and spent the entirenight there.

Hao walked back into the mansion and went to his room. Tamao was already in bed waiting.

"I guess we had to break it to them both." Tamao sighed. Hao nodded. He slipped in with his sweet.

"Yeah…I guess we both did." Hao sighed as well. Tamao grasped her arm and kissed him lightly on the cheek. Hao returned the kiss on her lips. "But I have no regrets…do you?" Hao asked. Tamao shook her head. Hao nodded and went to sleep. 'Maybe it was for the best, but I'll always to true to you Tamao.' Hao thought as he went to sleep.

The morning sun burned Lyserg's eyes. He awoke to find Macchi no where to be found, and the pink tee was on the ground, as well as the white bra. He looked around to see her bathing in the lake. All he saw was her back, but for reasons he acted like he still had his eyes closed. He opened his eyes back up when Macchi yelled at him.

"Hey sleepy-head. How ar u?" Macchi said in baby talk. Lyserg shook his head and smiled.

"I'm fine." Lyserg answered. Macchi had put the tee back on and the jeans.

"So did you peek?" Macchi asked him, her tone was still happy.

"Yeah, I did." Lyserg answered. Macchi giggled.

"Oh you did, so did you have seconds thoughts about…"

"No! I'm not like that!"

"Come on! You had too!"

"Nope, none."

"Oh, you're no fun." Macchi pushed him aside. Both laughed for a while, they didn't know why. Macchi leaned back on Lyserg's shoulder. "I thought about something last night." Macchi said.

"What?" Lyserg curiously asked.

"Matilda Diethel…I think it has a nice ring." Macchi said. Lyserg looked at curiously.

"You really thing so?" He asked. Macchi nodded.

"Sure. I thought Derrick be a good name too. That or Stephanie." Macchi continued.

"Derrick? Stephanie? Were not even married and your already thinking about kids?" Lyserg said surprised. Macchi shrugged and smiled.

"Sure. I had nothing better to do." She beamed.

"So anyway, want to do something?" Lyserg asked.

"No…I'll think of something later." Macchi smiled. "But let's head back." Macchi said. They both walked back to the mention to continue on from the choices they made. Macchi locked hands with Lyserg as they walked. She knew Lyserg would freak, but he actually he didn't. He had become completely use to her. Macchi smiled.

'Lyserg…I love you, and I know that for a fact.'