Ok, requested by both Kiyuu-chan and a recent poster, I decided to make an alternate ending. I admit, this WAS the original ending, if everything went as it was planned. But as things moved on, I realized more and more that this ending would destroy everything I wanted to say. It would had ruined my message and so the original ending was made. Besides ! Macchi looks so much cuter with Lyserg . So here's the...

Alternate Ending

"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 has happened. "So I was in your body with Kanna and Mari for a…year!" Macchi said shocked. The simple thought alone made her shiver.
"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.
"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 and pointed 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 was crying. "I can't…I don't want to live." Macchi said. Hao 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. Macchi 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. The girl looked at the boy. "Would want to be my queen?" The boy asked. He 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. 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' need to call me your queen." Macchi said.

Hao stopped, literally stopped. "Did...did I really say that?" Hao said, almost speaking to himself. Macchi lightly grabbed his arm.
"See..." Macchi said in the softest voice she could use, "Now you why I've always loved you." She answered, squeezing even harder on his arm. Hao nearly fainted and fell to the ground.
"Wh...What have I done?" He asked himself, shocked. He couldn't believe he betrayed Macchi like that? "Macchi...what can I do now?" He asked himself. Macchi kneeled beside and held his hand.
"You'll...you'll have to break up with Tamao." Macchi sadly said, "Look I know its going to be hard...well...not really. You could just make help some weird mistake, like you have to go up to the mountains and you'll never see her or something that may work." She radically suggested.
"You're right..." Hao had said, and looked into Macchi's purple eyes. "I do...love you." And with those word that barely escaped his mouth, he had kissed Macchi.
Now, Macchi was shocked, no doubt. Everything in her dream was coming true. She felt that burning passion within her heart. She every part of that kiss, not wanting to let do. Sadly, as always, the parting was of sweet sorrow, but something was different. There was no absence in her heart; she still felt Hao's passion deep within her heart.
"Hao..." Macchi said breathless and locked kisses with Hao once more. Her heart wasn't lying. Sadly, Lyserg was not her true love, and never would be. She was destined for Hao, and nothing could stop either of them.

Lyserg came dashing into the forest. He had to tell Macchi that he loved her. He simply had to! He came upon the lake but Macchi was nowhere to be found. He frantically looked around for her. Nothing! And then Lyserg saw the footsteps back to the mansion.
But what Lyserg found intriguing was the footsteps where made by a pair. He sighed to himself, it was all over. Macchi had fallen in love with Hao. He began to walk back, but then he realized.
IF Hao did love Macchi, then Hao would have to cancel Tamao's marriage. He quickly sprinted back, only hoping he could make it in time.

"Hao, you don't have to do this." Macchi said holding his hand. They were a few feet away from the entrance. Hao gave one last sigh and entered the garden complex.

Tamao had been looking at the stars for quite some time. She was not perfect, but she swore the stars said good things were going to happen. Then, lightly, she heard footsteps. She got up from her relaxed position and smiled when she saw Hao coming back.
"Hello, Hao. So...how was your 'date'?" Tamao asked sweetly, but Hao's dour look alerted her to something. "Hao is...is something wrong?" She said, trying to hold his hand, but he retracted it away. Something was defiantly wrong now!
"Tamao...I..." Hao, stopping and looked into her eyes. "I...I love someone else." He said. Tamao was shocked, but who wouldn't be? She tried to get some sort of physical touch from him, but nothing worked.
"Why?" She asked him, demanding the reason, but Tamao's voice wasn't the type that could be demanding.
"Because...I found who I really love." Hao said, and began to walk away. "I'm sorry." Hao could hardly speak and went out of the mansion. Tamao stood their motionless. In just a mere second, she had lost the love of her life. She had lost everything. She wanted to say more, but she was too terrified to even speak out.
Hao made his choice, and she had to respect it, no matter how much she hated it. Only after he leave was she able to react.
The first thing she did was cry. She cried, and continued to cry. It started out as sniffs, sniffs that lead into small drips of tears, and then full-bloom crying. She was overcome with grief, a scar across her heart that could never be healed. She could no longer stand, and fell to the ground. She was hoping this was a nightmare, but it was real. Quite real.

Lyserg came running back was able to catch Macchi. He stopped right in front of her huffing. She turned around and looked down upon him.
"Macchi..." Lyserg huffed, "I...I need to tell you something..." He got to his feet, but remained his distance from her, in case she was in love with Hao, and the moment she held hands with Hao, he understood everything. "Never mind..." He said and ran into the mansion.
So it was true, Macchi had got Hao, just liked she planned from the beginning, but something didn't feel right about all this. He knew things could be better if this didn't happen, but how was he right?

Macchi grabbed Hao's arm and they both began to walk back to the sight she was first relived. They both sat down by the old campfire and Hao relit it. This time when Macchi leaned on his shoulder he accepted it, and rubbed her hair slowly.
"Hao...did what we do was right?" She asked him, looking up into his eyes, smiling. Hao looked down on her and brought her closer.
"What does your heart tell you?" He said, kissing her on the forehead. Macchi began to think and hugged closer to him.
"I think I did..." She answered, and kissed his on the lips. They both sat their looking at the fire, wondering where life would lead them next.

Tamao looked into the pond, but her vision was blurry from the tears. She wanted to kill herself. There was no point in living anymore. Tamao took long last breath. She just wanted everything to end, and jumped into the pond.
Tamao floated there, lifeless. She could feel her breath escaping her, her body began to numb, and her mind escaping her. At last, everything was going away. Then a hand pulled her out!
"Tamao!" Lyserg yelled as she pulled her out. She wasn't breathing, but she had a pulse at least. Lyserg knew what to do and gave Rescue-breathing. A few seconds later, Tamao had coughed up the water that she swallowed. She looked up at the face that saved her y. "Tamao! Are you ok!" Lyserg began to shake her.
"No...I'm not." She said, her muffled cries was all she could do, all her tears had left her. She slowly got up, but then she noticed that Lyserg was holding her hand lightly.
"You know I love you." He said and held her close and allowed her to cry on his shoulder. She squeezed his shirt and leaned on him. "Everything will be ok..." He assured her, rubbing her hair.
Lyserg was surprised how well he was handling all this. He hadn't stuttered once. "Thank you..." Tamao said in cries. She held him even closer than before. "Tamao...do you remember when you said you wondered if we were engaged?" He asked her. Tamao nodded slightly and looked up at Lyserg. "Do you...want to try?" He asked her. Tamao was so overcome; all she did was hug him tighter. Lyserg hugged back in response. It seemed like what both he and Macchi were doing to go did happen, and to make Tamao happy was the only thing that mattered to him now.

Macchi woke up the next morning. Hao was on that same blasted rock again. "What is it this time?" Macchi said to him. Hao turned around and smiled.
"I dunno, just thinking we go to next." Hao said. Macchi got up from her sleep and walked over to him.
"I always wanted to do back to London and raise..." And then Macchi stopped, "As long as we don't have any girly-girls...I can't stand them." She cringed. Hao smiled and brought her closer and rubbed her shoulder.
"Alright, London it is." Hao said and they both walked to the airport.

Macchi looked up in Hao's eyes and smiled. "Hao...I love you, and that's a fact."