Shaman King

Wake me up when I die

Chapter 1

The Venom of Fire.

The sky was blue and beautiful. The black haired boy sighed deeply and lay back against the soft wavy green grass, his hands behind his head, loud music was coming from his orange headphones and his eyes were glued to the beautiful summer's sky. The birds chirped loudly on the tree and the wind blew gently.

Yoh Asakura, the boy who had the talent to become Shaman King, the boy with skill and the boy who had his own Spirit Ghost, Amidamaru.

He was as usual lazing around at his favorite place, the cemetery.

Another boy sat against the tree bark, his eyes glued to the laptop screen. He was short and had rough blond hair.

"Aren't you supposed to be somewhere right now?" Manta said suddenly but, obviously, Yoh didn't hear him.

Manta sighed, loudly and pulled Yoh's headphones off his ears, earning a loud annoying yell from him.

"What do you want Manta? Don't you know I am busy?" Yoh snapped and then sighed when Manta raised his eye brows.

"Busy? How can you be busy?" Manta asked, slowly.

"Get to the point,"

Manta cleared his throat and looked at his wrist watch.

"It's four," he said

"So?"

"Aren't you suppose to be somewhere at four?" Manta asked.

"No,"

Manta sighed again.

"THE MEETING YOH!" he yelled.

Yoh blinked, clueless and then suddenly smirked. He closed his eyes and shook his head, slightly before grabbing the headphones from Manta.

"The meeting was supposed to be on Sunday," he said.

"Today is Sunday,"

Yoh froze and then gulped loudly before scrambling to his feet. He looked around frantically and then grabbed his sword before running down the stairs.

"Grandpa is going to KILL me!" he shouted.

Manta sighed again as he got up slowly and followed Yoh down the stairs.

Yoh panted, heavily and straighten his shirt as he stared at the door of his grandfather's dojo. Sighing slowly, he opened the door as quietly as possible and sneaked in. He felt the eyes of his friends on him as his tip toed towards the empty space on the floor next to the boy with purple hair.

"YOU ARE LATE!"

Yoh jumped, violently and looked at his old angry grandfather. He grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back oh his neck.

"I can explain," he said

"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU, NOT TO BE LATE? IT'S RUDE TO BE LATE! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES. HOW CAN YOU BECOME SHAMAN KING IF YOU ARE LATE! WERE YOU ALWAYS LATE IN PATCH VILLAGE FOR MATCHES!? I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD EXPLANATION FOR BEING LATE, YOUNG MAN!" Yohmei Asakura shouted, angrily at his careless grandson.

"Well… actually, I umm… got lost, yeah, I got lost," Yoh said and then grinned. His friends sniggered.

"YOU GOT LOST!? HOW CAN YOU GET LOST!? I LIVE ONLY THREE HOUSES AWAY FROM YOURS!!!!" Yohmei shouted again.

Yoh looked at his sandals.

"That's not all, I had a fight with some weirdo shaman and he wanted Amidamaru from me. So while fighting he knocked me out and when I woke up, I was lost," he said, quickly.

Yohmei raised his eye brows.

"And this ALL happened in fifteen minutes?"

A loud sigh was heard from the doorway and Manta walked in, shaking his head.

"He forgot," he said before slumping down on the wooden floor where his friends were sitting, sniggering.

"I DID NOT!" Yoh shouted, defensively.

Yohmei sighed in defeat and banged his wooden staff on the floor, impatiently.

"Sit down you lazy bum, I will deal with you later," he said as he walked towards the bookshelf and pulled down a book.

Yoh walked towards the purple haired guy and slumped down next to him.

"So Yoh, I am really interested to know who that certain shaman was who knocked you out," Ren said his voice full of amusement.

"Shut up," Yoh muttered as he watched his grandfather flip the book. He looked around and saw his closest friends in the room. There was Ren Tao, sitting next to him. Behind him was another of his friend, Horo Horo, his guardian ghost sitting on his shoulder, happily. There was Manta and then a small timid green haired boy, Lyserg who was lost in his own thoughts. He sighed loudly and looked at the girl sitting by the window in a chair, her eyes fixed at the summer sky.

"Why is Anna here?" Yoh asked Ren.

"Your grandfather invited her. I don't know why we all are here! Lyserg had to come all the way from his city only to be here! Yohmei only said that he wanted to share something 'urgent'! But why with US! What about Ryu? And Faust? I don't get it," Ren burst, his voice of full of annoyance and anger.

"I hope we will soon find out," Yoh said as he looked at his grandfather who was looking at the pages of the old book.

Yohmei at last turned and sat down on the floor, facing the boys. Anna looked away from the window and fixed her eyes towards the old man.

"We are today gathered here to discuss a very important matter. It involves with all of your spirit ghosts and your furyoku." Yohmei said and paused, looking at the young boys who looked confused.

Yohmei opened the book in front of them and put a page on the floor. Everyone looked at it and saw six differently colored rays on the page.

"These six rays stand for the legendry spirits that once ruled the world. The spirits that controlled the elements of Fire, Light, Air, Earth, Water and Nature,"

"When the Earth was made, these six spirits ruled the Earth in peace and harmony until the day of destruction came. Six spirits from within the universe came to Earth to destroy it and its guardians. But the spirit of light fought to keep their places and they were so evenly matched that the fight continued for thousands of years."

"In the end, the 12 spirits were sealed deep into the Earth's crust, each of them in different places. A seer made a prophecy that one day, the seal would be broken and the spirits would come out, choosing their own owners and the fight will continue until there would be a winner."

"You four are the chosen ones to control the spirits of lighted. Horo Horo will control the spirit of Water, Ren would control the spirit of Earth, Lyserg will control the spirit of Nature and Yoh will control the spirit of Air,"

Yohmei stopped waiting for the information to sink in. He opened another page of the diary where an envelop was stuck. He took the envelop, opened it and took out a small sheet with a black sign on it.

The sign was dark and was made from charcoal. There was a big outer circle and in the middle was the sign of a demon, the letters, 666, scribbled around. And in the middle was the mouth of the snake, his fangs showing menacingly.

"I received this letter last month from the leader of Demons Slayers. This sign represent the Demon Slayers it self. This group consists of six people who are chosen to go search for the dark spirits."

Yohmei looked at the faces of the young boys. He was glad most of them understood.

"What about the other two elements, fire and light?" Horo asked, slowly as Kororo shifted on his head, uncomfortably.

"I do have a slight idea who the controller of light and fire are. Though I am not sure of light but I am certain about fire,"

"And who is that?" Anna asked from her spot.

"Hao Asakura,"

Yoh choked on his saliva.

"WHAT!? HE IS DEAD!" he shouted.

"No he is not, he disappeared, and he is not dead. Till the day he has the spirit of fire, he wont die or be killed unless he was killed by his dark spirit of course," Yohmei replied.

"I don't understand," Manta said.

Yohmei sighed, loudly.

"The thing is you four need to find the other spirits and let them conquer your old ones. This will increase the furyoku of your old ones; make them powerful and immortal against normal spirits. This is quite the reason why no one can defeat Hao, he already had found the spirit of fire and he let it conquered his old spirit."

"So he is not dead?" Ren asked

"No, he is alive and while you are on your mission I hope you find him and tell him that its time,"

"Mission?" Yoh asked, slowly.

"The mission to go look for the spirits of Water, Nature, Air and Earth,"

Lyserg jerked his head and pressed his lips.

"I don't want any kind of spirits to conquer Chloe!" he said.

"I agree with him," Horo said.

"Yeah, we like our spirits as they already are," Yoh said and Ren nodded in agreement.

Yohmei shook his head, smiling.

"Your spirits won't change any forms or they won't change at all. The only change they will have that they would be more powerful and would have incredible furyoku," Yohmei said.

"And why are we here?" Anna said, annoyed as she got up and stretched her arms.

"You and Manta are going to help of course," Yohmei said as he got up too and placed the book into its original place.

There was a minute silence.

"This is so cool! We are the chosen ones and we are going to win against the dark spirited Demon slayers!" Yoh shouted, excitedly.

Everyone sighed and shook their heads at Yoh's childish behavior.

"Yoh, this is not a game. One mistake and you will be killed," Yohmei snapped at him.

Yoh made a face but nodded.

"So what about the controller of light?" Lyserg asked as he got up too and looked at the old man with his green attentive eyes.

Yohmei pressed his lips, getting lost in his thoughts again.

"I do have an idea who it can be but I am not sure. I have no contact of her and I don't even know that she is dead or alive," Yohmei said.

"She?" Ren asked.

Yohmei ignored him and looked at Anna.

"Do you remember your friend named Berry?" he asked from Anna who slowly nodded.

"Yeah I remember her," Anna replied.

"That's great then, track her down and bring her here. I think that she is the one who can control the element of light because she was, herself, very pure and deep. Including the fact that she a shaman and had a light phoenix as her guardian ghost," Yohmei replied and stretched his muscles before making his way towards the door.

"But I haven't heard from her for years," Anna protested.

"Take help from Tamao, she knows how to find anything," the old man replied as he disappeared out of sight.

"This is so fast and weird," Lyserg said.

Yoh looked at Anna who seemed lost in thought.

"So how do you know this Berry?" he asked her.

"We met three years ago, when I was ten… she came to the dojo to train but after a few months, she went away. She had natural talent but was a klutz herself… I expected her to come to the shaman king tournament but I never spotted her," Anna said as she lifted up the phone and dialed someone's number.

"Well good luck finding her," Horo said.

Anna frowned to herself.

"I wish that I would be lucky to find her…" she thought…

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