Hey! Guess who? Yup! It's me, the OC lover! Well here's another OC story for all those who like OC stories! And here's a little secret…I like to pretend I'm the OC…okay I'm weird, but I dare you to deny that you do too!
Main Pairing: Ren x OC x Hao
Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King and I don't own any songs I will use, but I do own my OC and her ghost.
The Singing Soul
Chapter One:
The New Band-Mate
Ren groaned as the older twin of the Asakura reminded him of his current situation.
"Okay Ren, pick already," Hao said, waving a list in the Tao's face, "who will it be? Horo? Chocolove? Or Ryu? Who will be your band-mate?"
But before Ren can stop himself from punching the daylights out of the fire shaman, their math teacher, Ms Mackenzie, coughed dryly. "Alright class, settle down."
And like any other classes, that never works. But I can tell you what did work, a loud boom from the front of the class. When everyone looked up, the wooden desk Ms Mackenzie uses has…another dent on it with her fist on top. "Okay, glad we silenced," she said causally, sitting down on her seat as the students took out their textbooks. Suddenly, the ghost of a young boy, no more than 5, appeared next to the teacher. "Mommy, she's outside," he said, tugging at Ms Mackenzie's sleeve.
As you can probably tell already, this is not your average everyday school. I mean, a maniac for a teacher who has a ghost son? Hello? If this is normal for you, you must apply for this school because you were meant to come to Shamanic High, where all the students, teacher, and staff are shamans, ghosts, or someone who can see ghosts. Anyway, back to the story.
"Thanks, Honey. Sit down," Ms Mackenzie said sweetly, as any mother will with their kids. "Class, there's a new student today," she said, standing up and walked towards the door.
Whispers and gossips swept across the class like a wave crashing onto shore. "You know what?" Hao said suddenly, "I dare you," he points to Ren, "to pick the new kid for your band-mate if he can play!"
But Ren merely shrugged and put on a mocking smile. "No way am I, the great Ren Tao, heir to the Tao fortune and name, going to team up with a random kid," he said coolly but then saw the smirk on his friends' faces.
"Is little Ren too scared to take a simple dare?" Horo teased, knowing it will hit the spot, and it did. Immediately, Ren straightened his tilted chair. "Fine! I'll show you. I can team up with anyone and still win the contest!"
But his friends' smirks didn't leave. In fact, the smirks grew after they looked at the front of the room. Uh-oh, Ren's stomach told his as he turned away from his friends and looked forward.
Ms Mackenzie had taken her seat on her chair and in the front of the room was a girl. No, it wasn't the fact that the new kid was a girl that scared Ren. It was the way she was dressed, she looks like…well only two words can describe her: scary, yet fashionable…in a scary way.
The new girl had short silver hair. Her piercing gold eyes stood out from her pale face. She was 100 piercing free, but she did have a lot of accessories. Colors from the rainbow found their way to her hair in forms of clips. Black and red hair-ties held up 4 miniature ponytails here and there, showing hints of either randomness or messiness. On her neck was a tattooed choker with plain triangles. Perched on her shoulder was an elegant gold bird, its feathers glowed an elegant yellow.
Since the school didn't have school uniforms, the new girl chose to wear a black T-shirt that was almost totally covered by colorful cloths of different patterns and textures. On her arms were so many types of different bracelets and wristbands, that if we were to list them all, this chapter will so too long, so just use your imagination to fill up the space from her wrist to her elbow. Each of her fingers had 2 rings, ranging from plastic to silver, from black and white to rainbow.
A light blue skirt went up to her knee and it was probably the only simple/normal thing in her entire outfit. She had black boots that went up to her knees and it looks like it's been an enemy of a dog for quite a while. To top the outfit off, she was wearing a pink shoulder bag with colorful pins covering the strap and the outer layer of the bag.
Ms Mackenzie could only stare at the child in awe, as the new kid's face didn't even flinch when everyone's gazes have been on her for almost 5 minutes now. "Ahem," the teacher faked a cough, trying the take eyes off the new girl, with avail. "Aerie, would you like to introduce yourself?" she said referring to the girl.
The girl nodded to the teacher then turned to the class with a slight smile. "Hi, the name's Ayri (pronounce EYE-ree), not aerie. This is Phoebe," she pointed to the gold bird, "she's my guardian ghost and she's a phoenix that specializes in wind." Her introduction was short and brought out with a sweet, yet cold tone.
Ayri turned to Ms Mackenzie and took off her smile. "Where's my seat?" she asked in a colder tone. The teacher only stared at the emotional control while pointing to an empty seat behind Ren. The entire SK gang could've swore she was related to Anna somehow.
Step by step, Ayri walked noiselessly towards her seat next to the window. Horo's jaw dropped. Yoh snapped out of dream world. Anna smacked in on the head. Hao whistled, earning a glare from Ayri. Ren simply couldn't believe he has to team up with her…she's so…weird.
"Ahem," Ms Mackenzie gave another dry cough. Class started and many were drifting to sleep. After an hour of angles of triangles, the ring of the bell everyone up. "Yeah! Break!" Horo shouted from the right side of the room and jumped up. Heading towards his friends, he sat down on the now empty seat next to Hao.
Hao, being a 'gentleman', offered to give Ayri a tour of the school. Lyserg, over hearing this, demanded to be taken with them, mumbling something like Hao doesn't need more 'minion' then he already has.
"Excuse me while I introduce our music department to our new friend," Hao whispered so only Yoh and them can hear him, "Just checking if she can play anything," he said, hinting that Ren still has to take the dare.
Ren rolled his eyes. Most shamans would only focus on training of tournament, who will, asides from them, also take music? He soon found himself in a conversation about the contest. It was the biggest music contest of the century. Everyone with talent will be there and the Tao will win, despite whom he teams up with. By the end of break, Horo had joined Ren's team because everyone agreed that Horo was way easier to handle than Ryu or Chocolove.
Just when the bell rang, the trio consisting Hao, Ayri and Lyserg walked through the door. "Haha, you're hilarious, Hao-kun," Aryi laughed as she walked back to her seat.
"Whoa, who'd ever thought the Anna-lookalike could laugh," Horo whispered on his way back to his seat. Anna would've smacked him but Music Class has declared itself in session. The class made their way to the band room, and everyone grabbed an instrument.
Yoh, Horo and Chocolove took the bass guitars, while the mikes were taken by Anna and Jeanne. Hao and Ren managed to get the 2 best guitars and Lyserg was stuck was a really off key one. Horo was able to get to the complete set of drums before any other drummer did. Ayri just stood there as chaos roamed the room as everyone wanted the best-conditioned instruments. Ren smirked. I thought so, she doesn't know how to play anything! Hao probably saw the smirk because he nudged Ren to follow him and they walked towards the newbie.
"Ayri, what's wrong?" Hao said in an angel sweet tone with an angel sweet smile to go with it. Ren rolled his eyes. Only a blind person can't see that he's faking it, but Ayri either didn't know that or didn't care. She only smiled a confused smile when she replied, "I don't know…"
Ren sighed. He was doomed. He was teamed up with, no only the annoying Ainu, but a girl who doesn't even know how to play!
"Attention please," a man in a black suit said. It was their music teacher, Mr. Moore. He read over the sheet in front of him and cleared his throat. "Ah, I see have a new student. Where is she?" Ayri raised her hand. "Ah, say, how would you like to perform for the class?"
Ayri tried to refuse but Hao nudged her to go. The teacher agreed for Ayri to bring two people with her on stage. She chose Hao. "I bet Ren will be more than honoured to go with you," he said before going on stage to prepare.
Ren shot him a death glare but Hao was born to immobilize them. Dragging him literally, Ren got on stage against his will. Hao got to the drums and Ren took over the bass guitar.
"Ayri, take the guitar and mike," he said, somewhat demanding. Ayri tried to refuse again but Ren stared at her with his death glare, as if testing if his glares still worked. And it did. Immediately, she swung the strap over her head and adjusted the mike.
Tapping it twice, she turned to her temporary teammates to see them waiting for her. She nodded and started strumming the guitar. Hao created a beat and Ren followed their lead. ((I know, Ren's very OCC, sorry!)) And as if it was a magic trick, Ayri's gold eyes flashed and came to life. Her voice flowed through the mike and into the speakers located throughout the room.
Some days I start off draggin' my feet
Some days I want to fly
Some days it all makes sense to me
Some days I just don't want to know why
Hey, hey – I'm not giving up, No
Gonna stand up and shout it, oh
No way – I'm not slackin' off or backin' out or crakin' up with doubt
I'm working it out
Sometimes I'm just surrounded by friends
Sometimes we've never met
Sometimes I pray for something I need
But hey, you never know what you're gonna get
Hey, hey – I'm not giving up, No
Gonna stand up and shout it, oh
No way – I'm not slackin' off or backin' out or crakin' up with doubt
I'm working it out
(spoken)
It's hard enough to be what you are
Harder to be what you're not
It's hard to know hat you need to get
Harder to know what you've got
Hey, hey – I'm not giving up, No
Gonna stand up and shout it, oh
No way – I'm not slackin' off or backin' out or crakin' up with doubt
I'm working it out
Hey, hey – I'm not giving up, No
Gonna stand up and shout it, oh
No way – I'm not slackin' off or backin' out or crakin' up with doubt
I'm working it out
The room burst into cheers as Ayri gave a bow. Hao joined the crowd and cheered as Ren's jaws dropped to the floor. "What did I tell you, if you're not adding her to your group, I'll take her," Hao said between cheers.
Ren took a look at the girl. With the guitar around her neck, she's not so bad looking. Feeling his gaze on her, she turned a deep crimson as their gold eyes locked. From Yoh's view, it seemed like the guitar strings suddenly became very interesting to Ren.
When Ayri got off the stage, Horo ran up to her. "Whoa! That was amazing! Where'd you learn to play like that?" he asked dragging to sit with him. She followed and spent quite a while talking with the Ainu.
"Hao, is the dare still on? Because if it's not, I'm sure you could use someone like her on your group. You're still missing someone aren't you?
Hao nodded. His only teammate was Jun Tao, yes, Ren's sister. She only agreed to join his team because the grand prize was a 1000-dollar gift certificate at a local music shop. But Jun misunderstood and thought it was just 1000 dollars. Earlier this morning he was still going to ask Pirika, but now, Ayri is defiantly the one to ask.
Ren saw something flicker in Hao's eyes and know that's bad news. But before he can get Hao away from his future band-mate, Mr. Moore called the entire class together.
"Class, as you all know, there's a contest coming up. So far, only 2 groups joined and that's Yoh's group and Kanna's group." He turned to Yoh, "Yoh, I asked Mr. Lee for you and he said it's okay if you want to team up with Tamao from his class."
"I expect to see more people sign up for the contest and it's available until the end of the month, so you still have 2 weeks. Alright, resume to playing," he said, retreating to his office.
Ayri's golden eye's lit up again. "There's going to be a contest?" she asked, enthusiasm filling her voice.
"Yeah, there's taking in entries already, but many of us are still missing a member," Horo said, and then a light bulb 'pinged', "I know! Why don't you join my group? Ren and I are still missing a member!"
Ren erased all regret for adding Horo to his group at that moment. With Ayri in their group, they will win for sure. Everyone stared expectantly at Ayri's face, as if hoping for her to say no to Horo's offer (expect Ren & Horo). To their disappointment (expect Ren & Horo), she nodded violently. "I'd love to join your group Horo-kun!" Horo jumped up and signed their group up for the contest and Hao swore to seek revenge, even though it was all his idea in the first place.
The bell rang, which means it's now lunch, after going to their lockers, the SK gang gathered in the fields and settled down at a table under a tree.
"Excuse me for a sec," Hao said, standing up. He walked to the other side of the school and checked his watch. She should be here by now, he thought. But his thought was quickly answered when a shout was heard behind him.
"Hey Hao, what do you need me for?"
AH! Cliffie…but you can't kill me because this chapter is already longer than usual…hopefully you liked it and please let me know if you have any suggestions for the plot…I'm sorry I started another story when I have so many already but…just don't kill me & review! please!