Hao continued kissing Amat. Horo-Horo was full of tears, wishing to die on that exact moment. Seeing Amat being kissed by another, especially Hao, was making pain more than ever.
Yoh took his sword and he was ready to attack, but…
"Autch!" Hao said, releasing Amat. She had a big scythe on her hands. Hao's arm was bleeding a lot. Hao took two steps back with his hand holding his wounded arm. Amat pointed the scythe to him.
"How many times have got I to kill you… for you die?" Amat asked. Her expression was different. She was with an angry look, unknown by the group.
"Don't be like that!" Hao said. "We were made to be together."
"Maybe… we were made to be together… 500 years ago… Now we aren't!" Amat said. She rose her arm to the sky and a blue dragon shaped sword appeared on her hand. A blue tattoo appeared around her arm, neck and face. "I've killed you once… twice will not be harder. Seiryu!"
The blue dragon leaves the Great Spirits and over soul the sword and the scythe. Hao raised his healthy hand and the Spirit of Fire turned into a sword.
"Are they going to fight?" Chocolove asked.
"It's time to take you out of my life once and for all." Amat joins the scythe and the sword forming a new and bigger sword of light. "See the second grade of my over soul, Su Boshi!"
"You won't scare me with that!" Hao said and jumps to Amat, ready to stab her. Amat raised her sword and strong shield appeared. "What?"
"Do you really think that I wouldn't improve in 500 years?" Amat impulses Hao and he is tossed away, hitting the ground. "You're wrong! I knew you would try to come back, so I decided to get ready to destroy you once again." Amat's sword took the shape of a bow. "I'm far stronger that I was 500 years ago. AMI BOSHI!" Amat shot and hit Hao. Hao gets wounded.
"Fuck!" He said. "I'll not be defeated so easily!" Hao decided to put his Spirit back to his original form. "I know it was you the one who cut my soul in two." Amat continued still. "You met my and Yoh's mom 14 years ago and you made her had twins, otherwise, I'll be the only one born in that day."
"As you can see, I'm no longer a stupid teenager I was when we first met. I'm the Shaman Queen." Amat's over soul took the shape of a spear very similar to Len's. "I decided to spilt your soul in two so you wouldn't be so strong has before and, if you cannot get the other half of your soul, you'll never be able to reincarnate again, once your soul would be incomplete. Now, I need to explain somebody something very important. TOMO BOSHI!" Amat hit Hao violently. The shaman hits the ground and he's tossed away. "I haven't got time to play with you, Hao. After all, this time, you're the kid." Hao gets up, badly wounded.
"I cannot fight with you now. I've a tournament to win. I'll be the next Shaman King… and I'll have back the rest of my soul and have you as my Shaman Queen." Hao flames and disappears. Amat looked to the place he was and dissolved her over soul. The blue dragon takes the shape of a small and baby like dragon's head.
"Amat!" Yoh called. She looks to him. "You're the Shaman Queen?"
"I guess I couldn't hide it forever." Amat said. "Faust already knew it. Thank you for hiding it for me." Amat thanked.
"No problem, Highness." Faust said.
"I guess I have a lot to explain to you." Amat said. All get near her, except Horo-Horo, who continued kneeled on the ground. "I don't know where to begin."
"What about in the beginning?" Len said. Amat looked to him and then to rest of the group.
"Five hundred years ago, I was the oldest child of the Japanese Emperor, as so, like most people in the Japanese Imperial family, I possessed the power to speak with spirits. My father, the Emperor, hasn't got the shaman abilities. One day, my mother died giving birth to my brother… my father was happy with the birth of the new emperor… My… my father and my brother, with the past of the years, start to abuse of me… obligating me to do things I didn't want to..." Amat seemed very sad speaking about those things. Yoh remembered what she told him when they first met. "One day… I decided to run to one of the sanctuaries near Kyoto. There, Seiryu, one of the four Great Spirits of Japan, came before me and decided to become my spirit partner, so he could defend me against my father and my brother's attempts. One day, I was noticed that the Shaman Tournament was about to start. I decided to participate in the tournament and, as my wish… I decided to get rid of all the males in the world, once they only brought me suffering."
"That was a radical thought!" Ryou said.
"That was 500 years ago, how could you get to America?" Len asked.
"By the time, only the Portuguese and the Spanish travel trough the ocean to the New World, but they sent me a patch with who I travelled to America. That patch was Hao." Amat said.
"So… That was how you met." Anna said. Amat confirmed with her head.
"Hao was a patch about 30. I was sad when I noticed that they sent me a male, but I said nothing. Hao guided me across America to find the patch village… Hao was… different than the other men I had met… He was always gentle with me. I started to trust him and… we became friends. One day… I was having bath in a lake and five Indian soldiers tried to molest me. I was so scared, but Hao appeared and save me. In that moment, I started to see Hao in a different way… in way I never saw any man." Amat continued sad, speaking about her past with Hao. "I… We start to have something deeper than a friendship… we… we kissed and then… we made love…" Amat starts tearing. Horo-Horo, who was far from them, also starts crying. "I… I was happier than ever. One day, when we were close to the patch village, Hao told me that I needed to reach the village all by myself and then he said bye, telling me that he was certain that I would arrive safe. Then, when I reached the desert I found a young man a few younger than Hao, he was protected by five spirits of Qin soldiers." Amat looked to Len. "His name was Aung Len Suu Tao. He was a member of the Tao dynasty."
"One of mine ancestors?" Len asked. "So that was how you know I belonged to the Tao Dynasty."
"He was also there for the Tournament. We decided to reach the village together." Amat continued. "Suu was also very nice with me, but he was to shy to speak about his feelings. We plunged into the blue lake and we reached the patch village. When we reached there, Hao was already expecting me. He told me we decided to leave his family to stay with me. I was so lovely blind that I thought that was a very beautiful act. Hao also entered in the Tournament, thanks to the request I made to the former King. So, I, Suu and Hao made a team and we defeated all the others and we won the Shaman Fight. Once we were three, we needed to fight with each other until one of us was left. Hao told me to go first, hoping me to lose the fight against Suu. Unfortunately, I defeated Suu after a very long combat. My victory only meant one thing… I was going to battle Hao in the final, on the land of the Great Spirit. Hao was worry, but I knew, no matter who would win, we would stay together. But… I was wrong…" Amat looked to the Great Spirit behind her. "After 26 hours battling, I defeated Hao. The former King recognized me as the new Queen. I was so happy… but it was not for long. Hao had a reaction not I or Suu were expecting. He told me he hated me for destroying his dream of becoming the Shaman King and of creating a new world. He told me I was the worst thing that happened in his life and then he left… with saying a word." Amat looked to Len again and cleaned her tears. "Suu staid at my side and took care of me while I was crying and too sad to do anything."
"And your wish?" Chocolove asked.
"I… I went to Great Spirit's Land in the next day to make my wish. Suu was with me in case I'll need anything. I fainted in the way. Suu grabbed me and took me to a patch who knew about medicine. The patch told me something I was not ready to hear…" Amat starts crying a lot. Anna felt sorry for her friend and puts her arm around her shoulder and held her hand, comforting her.
"Amat… you don't need to tell us." Yoh said.
"I'll only feel good with myself if I told you everything." Amat cried. "The patch told me… the patch told me I was… pregnant…" All became open-mouthed. "I was waiting a child from Hao. I was so sad and so full of hate from Hao that I decided not to tell him about his child. Suu took me to the Great Spirit's Land and I was ready to make my wish. Once again, men teach me how to hate… I was about to ask the wish I had when I left Japan, but this time, I had met Suu and he was so nice with me… so gentle… so careful… I wished something else and I left the patch village. Suu offered to take care of me and my child, giving her his name and taking care of her as a father. I travelled with Suu to London, to live there with my new born baby… Morphine."
"Morphine's your daughter?" Ryou asked.
"So that's why she didn't attack you." Yoh said.
"Suu needed to go back to China once he was a general in the Chinese army, so I staid with Morphine in England. The years passed and Suu was more in love with me than ever… but he was shy he couldn't say anything more within to me. One day, Suu came to visit me and Morphine, after his visit I went to the port to say bye, but we heard an explosion. My house was in fire. Hao appeared and burns it, thinking Morphine was Suu's daughter. Hao was sorry for leaving me and he wanted to be my man again, but when he found out that I was with Suu, which I wasn't, he became mad and killed Morphine. I was so angry I told him Suu and I were nothing but friends and that Morphine as not Suu's daughter… but his. Hao panic and flee. I… I was so desperate that I ran to the flames and saved the soul of my daughter. Morphine always loved fairies, so I used my powers and turned her into one, so she could stay living and making others wishes come true, once I couldn't make mine. Suu decided to take me to live in China with him. I… I was in love with Suu a long before that, but Suu was always so shy that made any attempt of becoming closer futile. But, one day… I was tired of being alone and I went to Suu's bedroom and I took my clothes in front of him, wishing him to desire me and make me happy as a woman. Suu continued to shy, but his five spirits threw him at me and he made love. A little after that, we married. We were very happy and a year after that, we had a child."
"Wait!" Len asked. "Are you saying…?"
"But Hao appeared again and decided to kill Suu and our son. I was not in home and when I arrived I saw Suu's body… burned. I thought my child was also death, but luckily, the five Qin spirits saved the baby. That time, Hao had surpassed the limits. I grabbed my child and I travelled to America. When I reached the patch village, Hao was there, thinking I had come back to him. I decided to fight him and I killed him."
"You killed Hao?" Manta asked, surprised.
"It was the only way I could have peace. Hao died saying he was sorry… but my anger was even bigger than his remorse. I pick my baby and I left the patch village and pick my way to China. I raise mine and Suu's child to be a noble man and he became one of the strongest members of the Tao Dynasty. I decided to leave him when he became a man and he continued the Dynasty." Amat looked to Len. "I guess you already realized, don't you, Len?"
"You're my ancestor." Len said, surprised. He was in front of one of his ancestors. If it wasn't for Amat, he wouldn't be there. "You…" Amat smiled.
"I continued living my life… lonely… waiting for my wish to be fulfilled. The only hint I had was the dream the Great Spirits made me had. Every single night since I became Shaman Queen, I dreamed with a boy surfing trough the mountains. He grabbed my hand and took me with him. But I couldn't find him. I travelled everywhere… and I couldn't find him. 14 years ago, I sensed that Hao was about to reincarnate, so I decided to stop him. I went back to Japan and met Keiko Asakura." Amat turned to Yoh. "You're mother was in the beginning of her pregnancy. I used my powers to split the baby in two and I passed some of Hao's past life memories to the other baby… Yoh. Hao couldn't be as strong as before, once he hadn't the rest of his soul. The little Yoh had a normal life and now, we finally meet again."
"D. Yoh just exists because of Amat!" Ryou noticed. "I'm so thankful." Amat smiled.
"So as I." Anna said. Amat smiled.
"Sorry for making Seiryu attack you." Amat said to Yoh. "But, as you may imagine, you're very important to Hao. He wouldn't hurt anyone of us if he sensed you were in trouble."
"So the images I saw when Seiryu was binding me were…"
"From Hao's past life." Amat confirmed. "I would never hurt you, Yoh. You're very different from Hao even sharing the same soul as him." Yoh smiled.
"Then why?" a voice cried. All looked back. Horo-Horo got up, with his face full of tears and his eyes red from crying a lot. "Why did you decide to date me?" Amat looked seriously to him and then smiled. "You wanted to know how it was it, don't you." Horo-Horo seemed really mad. "You wanted to know how it tasted like to be the one deceiving another!" Amat starts walking to Horo-Horo. "You… why? Why have you lied to me? Why me? You're the Shaman Queen! Why did you want to play with me? Why have you played with my feelings? I'm an ordinary person… I feel, you know?"
Amat stopped in front of Horo-Horo. The Ainu was crying a lot.
"You played with me…" Horo-Horo cried. "You had children with Hao and with one of Len's ancestors… and now… what would a girl like you want with me…" Horo-Horo was heartbroken.
"When I made my wish, the Great Spirits told me – Search for the one who cries for his lost love. Search for him who seeks for joy. Search for the one who has no home. Search for your heir. Next to the half of the wizard of fire, you'll find the one who worship Chup-Kamui. He is the one you seek for." Amat told. "In the beginning it was not making sense to me. I wished for a boy who could love me and offer me more than my former consorts. Someone who could make me laugh. A person true to his feelings. Someone not made on purpose to me, but someone whose soul would mate mine."
"What? You decided to play with me a little until you find that someone?" Horo-Horo asked.
"Faust cries every day for his fallen Eliza." Amat said. "Chocolove wishes to save the world with happiness and joy. Ryou his searching for his Favorite place, once he has none. Len, as you heard, his my heir and Yoh has half of Hao's soul. And… if I'm not mistaken, Chup-Kamui is the main goddess of the Ainu. As for that, you are the one I seek." Amat revealed. Horo-Horo stops crying and looks to her, blushing a lot. "You are the boy I wait for since 500 years ago. You are the one who's going to make me happy… very very happy." Amat hugs Horo-Horo. "I've never played with your feelings, once they are precious to me." Amat caresses Horo-Horo hair and rubs her face on the Ainu's. "I love you, Horo-Horo." Horo-Horo becomes red. "All this years, you were the only company I had and now, I finally have you… I can finally be held by your arms." Amat looks to Horo-Horo. "You're the one who will take all the sorrow from my heart."
"I… I" Horo-Horo didn't know what to say. "I'm sorry for judging you without knowing…" Amat puts her fingers in front of Horo-Horo's lips.
"Don't say anything. Just kiss me!" Amat asked. Horo-Horo looks to her and gives Amat a big kiss.
"Now this was an exciting day!" Ryou said.
"And I was doubting from Amat, when she's my… I don't even know which grade it is." Len said. And the group continued seeing Amat and Horo-Horo kissing. Yoh putted his arm around Anna and lend his head on her.
"Amat pained all these years, waiting for her love to be responded and now, she finally found the one who's going to make her happy." Yoh said. "I'm just wondering…" Anna looks to Yoh. "How will Horo-Horo make her happier than the other consort made? I mean, Amat had children with them…" Yoh and Anna blushed. "Do you think…?"
"I guess we'll need to wait." Anna said. "After all, the Shaman Fight has just begun."
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Horo-Horo and Amat are finally together, but… how will Horo-Horo make her happier than she was with the others?
Will Hao give up or will come back to get his long lost love?
One thing is certain; the Shaman Fight will probably decide the destiny of our friends.
Stay tuned for the next chapter "Being Queen…"