Author's note: Well, here's the next chapter in my Hao story, now a lot of Alyssa's TRUE story and the facts that will clear up some unanswered questions will be answered! Please R&R!

Chapter eighteen

Alyssa's true story

1

"Earlier, I did lie, our parents and grandparents were both Shamans, but the reason they left, was for us to get stronger. I did leave you, because I thought I'd kill you," Alyssa explained, looking at Anna, whom was sitting beside her on the bed.

"Tell me the story from the beginning!" Anna ordered, and Alyssa obliged.

2

(Flashback)

"Well, I guess I'll be staying with you for now on," Alyssa smiled at Hao.

"Guess so!" Hao smiled back, at the other 4-year old.

3

"So, you'we Yoh?" Anna questioned.

"Yes, and who awe you?" Yoh asked the light, brown-haired girl.

"Yoh, this is Anna, she's going to be staying with us for a little while," Mikihisa explained.

"OKAY! Now, I have someone to play with!" Yoh exclaimed.

"Yoh, I'm going to show Anna where her room is now, okay? She'll be back in her in a minute," Mikihisa said.

"Awight," Yoh agreed, "Can I come with you?"

"Yes," Mikihisa answered, smiling at his young son, as Yoh and Anna followed him across the hall, into a room, with white carpet, a cherry wood, queen-sized bed, with plain white walls, with a picture of an angel holding a white kitten.

"WOW! This woom is BIG!" Anna exclaimed, looking around at everything.

"I'm glad you like it, and for now on, this is your room," Mikihisa said, leaving the two kids alone in Anna's room, and going back downstairs.

4

"I know you were lying back there to my pawents. I have a feeling your pawents didn't leave you, and are Shamans!" Hao accused.

"Why do you think dat?" Alyssa asked, innocently.

"Because, you didn't seem dat sad, and…because I knew you once before 500 years ago," Hao said, creepily.

"Huh?" Alyssa asked, looking really confused.

"…500 years ago, you and I were Shamans, and my guawdian ghowst was da, 'Spiwit of Fywe,' while yews was a Samawai ghowst, name Amisha," Hao explained, "I also know your pawents awe pathetic, weak Shamans!"

"Why should I believe you?" How do you know my pawents awe actually Shamans?" Alyssa asked.

"I know a lot of things about you, Alyssa!" Hao smirked, scaring the young girl.

"How?" Alyssa asked!

"Look back into the dawk depths of your mind, and tell me what you see!" Hao demanded, so Alyssa did so.

5

(Alyssa's memories from 500 years ago)

"HA! HA! HA!" Those pathetic Shamans, actually think they can beat us?" a tall girl, probably in her late teens, early twenties said, with dark, brown hair and brown eyes laughed.

"Now, now, Alyssa, these Shamans will be dead soon," a man in his late teens, early twenties, known as Hao said.

"Yeah, you're right," Alyssa agreed.

6

"AMISHA, SWORD SLASH!" she yelled, as her guardian ghost, attacked a Shaman boy.

"…Spirit of Fire, attack the woman and man, whom are watching us from behind the mountains!" Hao ordered, and Alyssa turned around to see the people, her fiancée was about to kill, and to see the look of fear on their faces.

"NO, WAIT!" Alyssa yelled, trying to stop the Spirit of Fire, but it was too late.

"What's wrong, Alyssa?" Hao asked, when he saw Alyssa fall to her knees, and tears streaming down her face.

"I didn't mean for them to die!" Alyssa cried, when Hao knelt down next to her.

"Who?" Hao questioned, as he embraced his girlfriend.

"My parents, you…you just killed them!" Alyssa sobbed harder on Hao's chest.

"I'm sorry, Alyssa-chan," Hao apologized, "I didn't know."

"It's okay," Alyssa said, freeing herself from the hug, and crawling backwards, until she was a little bit away from Hao.

"I want to sit by myself for a while," she said, as Hao stood up.

"Alright," he said, and turned around, when he heard a gasp from behind him.

"ALYSSA!" he yelled, watching in horror, as she fell to the ground face forward.

"I'm so sorry, Alyssa, please forgive me, I know you'll come back in the future, as will I and your parents. Though, I hope you choose another path," an old woman, the whom stabbed Alyssa in the back said.

"You killed her!" Hao growled, as he kneeled next to the girl again.

"Yes, I had to, it was for her own good, and hopefully in her next life, she won't meet you, or someone as evil as you. For I, her grandmother, will make sure of it," the old lady said, when all of a sudden Hao killed her, and felt someone stab him hard in the back.

"Die, HAO!" another Shaman exclaimed.

"And…may you never come back…" he trailed off, since Hao used some of his strength that he had left, to kill the man.

"Alyssa, I'll be joining you soon, and will see you in our next life, once we have been reborn 500 from now, this I will promise you, and you'll be my Shaman Queen, and I your king," Hao said, with the last of his strength, before dying beside his fiancée, and love of his life.

7

(End of Alyssa's memories from 500 years ago)

"I remember now, and your promise that you'd see and be with me again…" 4-year old, Alyssa said, looking at Hao, her past lover.

"Yes, now I just have to become the Shaman King, and make you my queen, den both pwomises, will be completed," Hao said, now sitting on his bed, beside Alyssa.

"Do your pawents know all dis?" Alyssa asked.

"No, but dey're figuring it out," Hao said, an evil smirk forming on his face.

8

"Yoh, what awe you doing?" Anna curiously asked the boy, whom was messing with his CD player.

"I'm putting in my Bob Love CD," Yoh explained, sitting on the floor.

"…" Anna sighed, choosing to sit on Yoh's bed.

9

"Keiko, when are you going to start Hao and Alyssa's training?" Yohmei asked.

"Tomorrow morning," Keiko answered.

"You do realize who Alyssa is, don't you?" Mikihisa asked.

"Yes, I know, she was Hao's fiancée 500 years ago and 1,000 years ago before that, but 500 years ago, is when she had the worse death, killed by her own grandmother," Keiko said, sadly, "She wasn't supposed to meet Hao this time."

"At least her body was hung and caught on fire, like Hao's was, all those years ago," Yohmei said.

"I guess you're right," Kino agreed, "But Alyssa wasn't that bad, before she met Hao!"

"When are you going to train Anna?" Keiko asked, changing the subject.

"Tomorrow morning, same as you," Kino answered, about ready to go upstairs.

"Goodnight," they all said, and the same time, and left to their own rooms, Kino with Yohmei, and Mikihisa with Keiko.

10

"Goodnight, Hao-chan!" Alyssa said, quickly kissing him on the cheek, and running back to her room, before he could say anything.

"Goodnight," he smiled to himself.

11

"Hao-Chan, Alyssa-chan, wake up!" Keiko called into each of the two little Shamans' rooms.

"But it's 6 'o' clock in da morning!" Alyssa complained, pulling her purple comforter over her head.

"Who cawes, get up, so we ca twain and get stwonger," Hao said opening up Alyssa's door, and pulling the cover away from her.

"Mom, Alyssa won't get up!" Hao called down to Keiko.

"Alright, I'm coming," said Keiko, walking into Alyssa's room.

"I'm coming, but Hao-Chan has to get out, so I can dwessed!" Alyssa said, sitting up, and snatching the cover from Hao's little hands.

"Hao-chan, let's go, so Alyssa-Chan can get dressed," Keiko said, pulling Hao out of Alyssa's room.

12

"Alright, now that you two are dressed and ready to train, let's get started," Keiko said.

"Okay!" the two chibis agreed in unison.

"Hao-chan, I want you to put some furyoko (SP?) into those leaves, while I test Alyssa-Chan's Itako skills!" Keiko ordered.

"'Kay," Hao agreed.

"Alyssa-Chan, what can you summon?" Keiko asked.

"I can summon spiwits who have already been sent over to the other side," Alyssa answered.

"Do you have a spirit of your own?" Keiko asked.

"Yes, she's a samawai spiwit named Amisha," Alyssa explained.

"…"Keiko gasped.

"So, have you figured out who I am yet?" Alyssa asked, as Hao walked over.

Author's note:

This is the longest chapter yet, I'm so happy, and I get lots of wonderful reviews for this story, thanks everyone, this was one of my favorite chapters, and also the saddest. Anyway, please read and review, and I'll update as soon, as possible. Sorry, it took so long, but my birthday was December 29, and I'm FINALLY 14, and I got a whole lot of money, and xmas was here too, so…yeah. Well, the next chapter will probably still be in a flashback throughout the chapter, or at least half way through it, I love Chibi Hao, he's so CUTE! Date written: December 30, 2004, Date posted: December 31, 2004!