Disclaimers:
This story is
the product of an interactive RPG, where the audience can take up
characters in the story and make decisions for them.
This is, at the same time, a fanfiction and a continuity to the Shaman King anime. I don't own Shaman King the manga nor the anime, and I'd like to sincerely thank Mr. Hiroyuki TAKEI for producing the wonderful SK characters.
All who are interested in joining the RPG please read respective page in MESSWORLD's forum. The website is messworld. suddenlaunch. com. (Please remove the spaces in between.) The corresponding board is "Shaman King" of "The Matrix" section.
Current players:1. AsakuraYoh as ASAKURA Yoh
2. skfan76 as KYOUYAMA Anna
Game moderator: 262501 (the editor)
Script done by: Windera (aka AKIDA Yamakusa)
Key:
RPrpRP: Responses from players
Chapter 3 -- The Unexpected Request
"I'm speaking from within the G.S." Although it's only voice, the two got the idea that the speaker was smirking.
"Yes Yoh had killed me," smirked HAO, "but he had not demolished my soul, and I've been staying inside the Great Spirit since then."
Anna regained her calmness, and signalled Yoh, who's obviously shocked by HAO's reminder that he IS the murderer of his own twin brother.
Yoh stuttered, oblivious to Anna's signalling, "I... didn't mean it... I... "
HAO cut in before Yoh finished his sentence, "Yes you didn't mean it. Those people who you think have sent in the Furyoku to you meant it. So I was killed. It's not your responsibility."
Anna smiled, "I didn't expect this to come from your mouth, you know? I have been explaining this to Yoh since we returned from the Patch Village, but Yoh didn't seem to accept it well. It's nice for you to speak those words."
"Yoh, listen to me. You know what Furyoku is, don't you? Furyoku is not something tangible. It's like intelligence. And you know what determines the strength of one's Furyoku -- the strength of one's heart, which comes from the will, hopes & dreams, and values. Therefore although the absolute strength of Furyoku can be quantified into a single value, the quality of "Furyoku" is different, " lectured HAO.
"And therefore what those white shining birds did was NOT transmitting Furyoku to you but joining up the hearts of all the people in the vicinity of the G.S. and together they use YOU as the medium to create a powerful O.S. and killed me, because that's what THEY want!" HAO shouted desperately from the other side of the Bell.
While Yoh was taking in what HAO had said, Anna suddenly smirked and said, "Well, I suppose you haven't gone into all the trouble to speak into the Orcale Bell System just to explain the whole thing again to Yoh. Judging from your conceited character, it must be because that you've run into some great trouble."
"Uhm... you surely know everything, my sweetie, " said HAO, who refused to speak in the polite form one would expect someone coming for help would adopt.
Anna frowned and tightened her fist.
HAO continued, knowing he's safe from Anna's attack, "Well, the fact is, I don't like my life in the G.S. Yoh's Spirit of Sword has got a purification power on souls, and I now can no longer go to the Hells anymore, nor can I go to the Heavens, because I'm not... exactly pure... and I cannot live in normal regions because I am no normal soul -- I am like a giant in the normal regions because I carry memories of 3 lives instead of one, and therefore is an outcast everywhere..."
Anna felt slightly amazed to discover the unmistakable sadness in HAO's voice. She took a look at Yoh, and was glad to see that Yoh seemed to have taken in HAO's explanation very well, and was looking much better than the past months.
"I... really don't like solitude anymore. And I don't want to reincarnate now. I wonder if you can take me out from the G.S."
RPrpRP---
Yoh hesitated a bit, looked at Anna from encouragement, before raising his observant question, "Why can't you leave yourself?"
Anna waited untill Yoh finished his line and added, "And what would you do if we brought you out?" while frowning at the possibilities.
(To be continued)
Copyrighted AKIDA Yamakusa MESSWORLD 2004-2005Shaman King and its characters are owned by TAKEI Hiroyuki, Shueisha. 1998-2004