Mai: Hey here's chapter 2. This one just sort of wrote itself. I honestly think that so far this is the best fic I've ever written. I had a pretty crappy day today. So it was nice to just kick back and write down what was on my mind. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King or Canada but my time will come! One day I will own them both! And I will force them to make another season in which Ren gets a girlfriend! cough cough Umi or Yuki cough cough and the rest of the gang meets my fabulous ocs Terra and Mirelle. But until then I'm stuck just writing fanfictions about it. On the bright side I do own the first 9 volumes of the Fushigi Yugi manga. I love Fushigi Yugi! But why did Nuriko have to die? He was my favorite character! I dedicate this to Nuriko's memory! Now I think I've rambled on long enough with my disclaimer. On with the show!

Chapter 2: Darkness

When I was younger I used to envy my twin sister. Although she was a few minutes younger than me she always seemed to grasp one thing better than I did: social interaction.

She had so many friends and admirers. Everyone seemed to like her. I had a few good trustworthy friends but no one admired me. Well except the non-popular flunkouts. But they didn't count because they only liked my grades nothing more.

Then it happened. I always thought that day was like fate was testing us to see who would hold up. We were both attacked and we both lost the friends we were with at the time.

She failed the test miserably. She became a loner and an outcast. She seemed to hate everyone in the world because she was so lonely. My attempts to help her went unnoticed. Then she ran off with some crazy lady to China and straightened herself out. I like to think of it as fate's retest. Although I'm not sure if she passed this time or if she just received better tools for her anger.

I guess I had a bit of an advantage. The friend that was killed when I was attacked happened to be a shaman who could explain everything to me. I also didn't give the police some crazy story because my friend's family was able to make it look like a car accident.

I also had less to lose. She had a bunch of friends and when they all turned on her it definitely left a mark. Even if I had lost my friends it wouldn't have been such a big deal because I knew how to handle being alone.

Of course the attack was not without it's side effects. The attack left me in the dark. In other words I was now blind. The friend who had passed away, Ami stayed behind in this world as a ghost and she helped me a lot. So did my other friends but I guess I never really got used to the darkness.

My only hope was a tournament coming up where I could win the chance to restore my eyesight. I started to train like a maniac obsessed with nothing but making sure I won. What I didn't tell anyone though, not even Ami, was that I also secretly hoped to help my sister too. Her anger was destructive and god only knew what it could do.

Two years after the accident the tournament started. The first round was surprisingly easy. You'd be surprised how many people let their guard down when they see a that their opponent is a fifteen year old blind girl, even if said blind girl has a powerful ghost like Ayano.

Ayano had been Ami's guardian ghost before she was killed so now both Ami and Ayano were my guardian ghosts. Ayano did most of the power work like oversouls and fighting while Ami oversouled into a pair of earings I always wore and acted as my eyes.

It was when I left for Arizona and the second round that my real journey began. That was also when I realized that I hadn't done so well on fate's test after all.