The Tragic Resurgence

Prologue

After the shaman fight over, nobody knows Hao's fate. Even nobody knows where's him. Where is Hao? Will Hao join the next shaman fight, 500 years later? Has the tragedy of the Asakuras been over? Have all of the tragic stories behind the shaman fight…..the identity of Patch ethnic……and behind the Asakuras history…… vanished? The answers are in Hao…But, where is Hao? Where's the key keeper? Where is HAO?

Missing forewords

You might think that what kind of boy that survives in the underground cave? The boy that had joined the shaman fight, couples years ago. The boy that has been cursed by everyone. The boy, that even since his birth, everyone wanted to kill him. The boy that has been known well as a cruel killer, the mistake of the Asakuras, the son of a bitch destroyer of the world, that no one hopes him exists in this world. The boy that has killed many people for some untouchable reason. The boy that always feels alone, nobody is really in his side. The boy that thinks that the only way he got friends to share problems is by the power. The boy that we could say him as…..a poor boy?

Chapter one : Hao vanished.

Walked through the darkness, saw everything with sharp eyes, scary eyes…..Hao…. After being beaten in the final shaman fight, Hao got sick. Very sick…Not just the whole body, but whole feelings. Everyone was glad to accept his passing. Everyone celebrated it. In fact, if you were Hao, how would your feeling be? How can be like that? 'Was I that bad, until that unwanted by the world? No one loves me….No one was sad because of my passing. Even the fact is, they got party after I vanished. Where's the love for me? No one prays for the goodness to me. No one cares about me. I need someone in my life. Every one in the world has someone to love and someone loves him, but me? Everyone prays for my death. Where's the love for me? Where's the justice for me!' that's the only thing that Hao could think about.

He was the legend, in the shaman fight, couples of years ago. Everyone knew Hao, the king of great power, and also the king of cruelness. Hao sat on the big rock. Felt so tired and powerless. He had to wait until he gets all his power again, and he will feel strong enough to get out from this dark cave, to saw the world again….The step on the earth again. And it will take years. 'Even Opacho left me. That innocent kid, she didn't understand anything. She was not guilty. But she left me….Everyone left me…..' Hao talked to himself again. And then, he saw the spirit of fire.

Hao understands what his spirit says, even that nobody understands but him. 'Don't be too sad, Master. I'll always be with you, and you'll always be loved by me. We'll face the destiny together, no matter how bad is that, how dark is the destiny 'til we cannot see anything. But, the good news is… We're still together, right? And we'll always be together,' that's what spirit of fire told his master. Hao looked at his big spirit. He felt sorry for that loyal spirit. 'That spirit now looks at a weak spirit because of he has a weak master,' he taught himself. It's scary enough, that could scare Hao.

How could be a master of shaman fight, the boy that called the legend, and the boy that thought would be the master of the world, suddenly, after few hours, down….became the looser. Became the looser that should hide in the underground, to collect his power again, until he's strong enough to face the destiny, until he's able to show himself on the earth again. Hao knew that one of the reasons of his defeat was because the entire world was against him, and sent his final rival and also his twin brother the gigantic power to beat him. Hao knew, if the world didn't support Yoh, he knew surely that beating Yoh would be very easy. As easy as moving your fingers. But the fact happened different that what he thought. The entire world also prayed for his death. That fact could strike Hao very well, slap his face, and ate his pride very well until nothing left.

Hao spent his days in the underground cave in not very special way. He ate everything. Everything he met. The spiders, the mole, and the others underground animals or plants. Fortunately, the fire from Spirit of Fire helped him very much to survive there. He grew as a very thin boy, a sad boy, didn't know the name of days he spent, didn't remember what month is it now, et cetera. All the he knew is to collect his power again, to go to the earth again, and to wake up from this nightmare.

One day, "Spirit of Fire, are you still there?" he asked his spirit. The red-flaming wave came and stood next to Hao. Hao turned his head, looked at his loyal spirit, "Thanks God, I thought you would leave me too, like the others…"Hao said with smile on her lips. 'You got messy, Master. And look so dirty too. Why don't you clean your self up?' Spirit of Fire asked his master with the language that Hao understood well. Hao smiled again. "Not now. The water of underground river now is so cold. I'm gonna be frozen there," Hao answered. What he meant with underground river is the river that exist in the underground cave, from the rest of absorbed rain.

For a while, there's only the silence. Silence and echo were the king and the queen there. "Spirit of Fire…."Hao called his spirit's name again. 'Yes my Lord?' the spirit replied. "I'm thinking about Opacho now. She left me when she was still innocent. Not because she found out that I was powerless, but because she was scared of me. She was different from the others. She wasn't guilty. Do you know her condition now?" Hao asked Spirit of Fire. 'No,' Spirit of Fire answered his master. 'But I can find out about that. Should I go to find it out?' he offered himself for that job. Hao shook his head. "No…don't leave me alone here…." He said. "I don't wanna be alone anymore," he continued.

The night came….Hao almost couldn't see the difference between the day and the night. Spirit of Fire told him, and another symptoms is when the night came, there's no light in the upside anymore, even just a little light. After had dinner with Spirit of Fire's help, Hao prepared to sleep. The fire in the simple fireplace warmed him. Hao lay down on the cold stone. A group of bats came out from this cave, searched for food. In the day, sometimes Hao should share his place with other creatures. But, he had no problem with that. He spent his day just being quiet, or talking with Spirit of Fire, or thinking about his fate. So, he didn't make many sounds or moves. The only important moves that he made maybe just walking around the cave.

That boy just almost fell in sleep. His eyelid felt so heavy that couldn't be opened anymore. "Hua…." He yawned. "Good night, Spirit of Fire, have a sweet dream," he said to Spirit of Fire. Spirit of Fire replied 'Good night, Sir,' too. Even Spirit of Fire knew that he didn't need any sleep, but just to be polite to his master. Actually, Hao hadn't lost his mind 'til thought that Spirit of Fire needed sleep too. He just felt so happy to have that loyal spirit. Since they had lived together, both of them got closer then before. Hao turned into more attentive and warmer to his spirit. Hao couldn't hold it anymore. He closed his eyes and slept just in few seconds.

"Look at him, I think he is the reincarnation of the legendary evil of the Asakuras, I think he is Hao. Don't you think he is Hao too?" a voice said like that. Another person came, and looked at him with unhappy way. "I think so. What should we do?" he said. "Why he has to come now? Why now? What's our fault until Keiko had delivered Hao to this world? "a voice of old guy said like that. Everyone in that room looked at the little baby. The little baby looked at them, thought that they liked him, the little baby smiled, and laughed. The baby was still innocent. "We should kill him," a voice decided. "Yes, I think so. We couldn't let Hao destroys this world once again. However, this is not Keiko's fault, neither is ours. It's Hao's own fault," a voice talked again. The innocent baby still smiled. Smiled to all of them. Smiled to the guys that wanted to kill him.

"Okay, I agreed. We will kill him. I will do that. He is still a baby, it would be easy to kill him," a man's voice said. The baby, didn't know anything, started to feel uncomfortable. Even a baby had a feeling when some people disliked him. "What a curse for Asakuras," another voice grumbled. "I can handle this. Don't worry…" a man said that, and came over the baby with a sharp sword. "After few seconds, all of these will be over, forever…..At least not in this generation," the man came and get ready to kill the baby. To make that new life disappear. And, when the sword had been ready to slash the child, suddenly, incredible event happened.

Suddenly, the baby now was on a burning red spirit's arms. That's the little Spirit of Fire. He wasn't as big as now, still short, the height was like the ordinary people. Just right before the sword cut the bed of the baby, that child was rescued by his faithful spirit. "You….You….The Spirit of Fire!" Mikihasa shouted, he jumped up and threw his sword because of shock. Then, Spirit of Fire sprayed fire to them, hampered them to chase the perfect duo. He took the baby, and rescued him, left the curses and bad words from The Asakuras behind. He took the baby that would shock the world in his future. The baby named Asakura Hao. The baby that his life was unwanted by the entire world. The baby that many people wish him to be defeated and destroyed. The baby, which fated that his life's gonna be hard and not easy to face. The boy that would change the world with his huge power. And the baby, that his death would be celebrated by all people…..The baby with sad and dark future….

Suddenly, Hao woke up from his dream. His face was full of sweat…..cold sweat. He swept the sweat on his face. Looked around, and found out that he's safe in that place. Hao saw Spirit of Fire, watched over him from the top of the cave. Watched for his safety. Hao still looked around, tried to tranquilize himself. For a moment, he was choked by the nightmare, choked by the past he had. Then, he tried to stop his gasping breath. After made sure that no one else there, Hao lay down again. Tried to continue his sleep, ignored the nightmare. He closed his eyes. From the distance, Spirit of Fire could see inside his master's heart. The tears came out from the eyes of Hao. The silver color, twinkled in the dark, describe his master terrible feeling. The night still went on…

Epilogue for chapter one:

The child that grew up with sad moments. He was unwanted, everyone prayed for his death, everyone wished him to be defeated, everyone celebrated his defeat, everyone blamed him for every world's confusions, everyone tried to beat him for revenge, everyone said him wrong, everyone hated him before knowing the real awful past of him, and everyone made a party after he had gone. What kind of boy that could live with that terrible condition? The answer is Hao. The boy that survived from the wild wave of world, the boy that tried to escape from the destiny beasts, the boy that tried to stay alive and keep with his best spirit, Spirit of Fire, the boy that tried to ignore the fact that he's known well as the cruel guy, cold blood killer, the mistake of the Asakuras, and the curse that would bring the Armageddon to the world. The boy that felt lonely and wanted to have friends. The boy that tried to be stronger, to hide his weak feeling. The boy named Hao….

Chapter one ended……