Shaman King
Wake me up when I die
Chapter 2
The Dead Light.
The young girl combed her hair quickly and tied her hair in a high pony tail; a few lose strands covering her ear and two purple bangs coming in front of her baby blue eyes. She bobbed her head silently at the loud music coming from her stereo as she applied some lip gloss on her lips. Grabbing her bag pack, she took a last look in the mirror and winked at her reflection before exiting the small but cozy room and going downstairs.
She pulled out her I pod and started to listen to some loud music as she walked downstairs and entered the kitchen, bobbing her head up and down and ignoring the annoyed shouts of her mother and siblings.
She opened the fridge and took out a carton of milk and then turned around to sit on the kitchen table.
Her little brother shouted something at her but she ignored which resulted her father taking away her I pod.
"Dad, come on give it back," the black haired girl whined loudly as her brother grinned mischievously.
"No Berry, have breakfast and then go to school… if you behave then I will give you back your music device,"
"But Dad…"
"Breakfast,"
Berry groaned as she poured some milk on top of cereal and started to eat it. She slowly looked out of the window, blanking out and when she suddenly saw it… a pink haired girl reading some kind of map and on top of her head was a flying pixie. Berry gulped and wiped some milk from her lips before getting up.
"Bye Mom and Dad! I might come home late… see you!" Berry said hurriedly as she picked up her school bag and ran towards the back door.
"See you honey! Stay out of trouble!" her mom yelled.
Berry slammed the door shut and tip toed across the back yard and jumped over the fence before walking casually on the foot path towards her school.
She felt some stares on her from the group at the other side of the road and she gulped silently. A part of her knew who they were and why were they here.
"As long as they don't know my name, I am safe…" Berry thought as she looked at the pale blue sky.
"HEY BERRY!!!"
"Busted…"
Berry looked over her shoulder and saw a boy running up to her, waving his hand happily at her. She forced a small smile at him even though a part of her wanted to punch the guy in his jaw for blowing her already weak cover. Her eyes drifted of to the group on the other side of the road who were now whispering to each other. The pink haired girl raised her finger and pointed straight at her. Berry gulped again when she saw her lips move… 'It's her' were the words…
Berry turned around and glared at the happy yelping boy in front of her before hurrying towards school.
"Ok then they know my name now… well as long as they don't know where I am going, I am safe,"
"HEY BERRY, CAN I WALK WITH YOU TO SCHOOL!!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY!!? I DON'T EVEN KNOW HIM (except for his name) AND HE IS CAUSING SO MUCH TROUBLE!!!!"
"Sure Alex," Berry muttered annoyed and started to walk towards her destination of doom.
Berry cursed under her breathe as she sat in her math period… she simply hated that subject. How can math be useful in daily life? I mean if a person is dying, would he solve a stupid problem to survive? And algebra, it sucked like hell! The teacher gives you a four pages huge question and after hours of torture in solving it you get a small freaking stupid number! That what math is!
Though the teacher said math depended on people's logic… but what did the teacher knew? He was insane himself!
Berry groaned loudly and looked out of the window again… a few boys whistled at her but she simply ignored them. The birds were singing loudly and the pond glistened in under the hot sun. Her eyes drifted towards a black raven near the pond which was taking a drink. Her eyes sparkled at it as it reminded of someone close…
"OH MY GOD! HOW CAN I THINK LIKE THAT!!! BAD ME! BAD ME!"
Berry turned her head away from the pond and looked at the teacher who was saying something. She tried to listen and was surprisingly successful.
"Hey Berry, want to go to the mall?" Lizzie said, excitedly as she hugged her books and walked out of the school.
Berry jerked her head from her thoughts and then looked around her to spot something 'unfamiliar' and when she couldn't spot anything, she shook her head.
"No I don't feel like shopping today, mom wanted me home early and anyway I am broke," Berry said as she pushed a chocolate peanut in her mouth.
Her friends looked at each other in disappointment and then they waved goodbye as they went in a different direction towards the mall and Berry headed towards a small coffee shop that wasn't far away from her school.
She knew it wasn't a good thing to lie but she couldn't just say that she didn't felt like hanging out at the mall with her close friends and talking about her crushes. She felt sick and had a huge headache for she couldn't forget what she had seen in the morning. She had seen one of her old friend and as she worked extra hard trying to forget her past, she just couldn't help but feel annoyed because of them.
Stretching her arms, she entered her favorite coffee shop alone and bought herself a large mug of cold coffee before sitting down on a huge empty table.
Berry took out her cell phone and almost wished that she should have gone to the mall with her friends… the headache was killing her. Suddenly the door of the coffee shop opened and a huge group of people entered talking, joking, arguing and laughing. One look at them and Berry shrank into her seat and wished she wasn't born.
"Hey Yoh, do you think they have cheese burgers here," the blue haired guy said, grinning.
"I hope so and if they don't then we are out of here," Yoh said grinning from ear to ear.
Berry crossed her fingers under the table and closed her eyes shut.
"Please don't have cheese burgers. Please leave this coffee shop and PLEASE DON'T LET THEM SEE ME!!!"
Berry opened her eyes and took a sip from her cold coffee, trying her best to ignore the noisy teens.
"Great they do have cheese burgers! Guess we are not leaving then!" Yoh shouted excitedly.
Berry sighed silently.
"Great, just perfectly great… now they are going to spot me and that blond girl is going to kill me with her necklace like she used to do when we were young!"
"Maybe I should stop thinking about this stuff and hope for the best,"
"We will take two dozen cheese burgers please and oh and send it to that table… thank you," A purple haired teen said as he pointed towards the table where Berry was sitting.
Berry shifted uneasily but didn't look up at the teens. She continued drinking…
"This place isn't half bad," Yoh said as he sat next to Berry, ignoring her like she didn't exist.
"Yeah I know and the weather is extremely sunny too," Anna said as she sat across from Yoh, her eyes fixed on the nervous black haired girl who glared at them all.
"I am starved," Horo muttered as his stomach growled noisily and everyone excluding Berry and Anna, who were having a glaring contest, laughed.
Berry finished her drink and was about to leave when she realized that she was glued to her seat by some furyoku. She scowled deeply and crossed her arms on her chest, glaring at everyone haughtily.
There was a minute silence as everyone glanced at Berry who was red in anger and was about to burst.
"Berry Alexandra Harrison, how are you?" Anna asked coolly and crossed her own arms on her chest.
Anna had done it… something that really ticked Berry off. Berry slapped her hands on top of ears and started to chant loudly, earning many weird looks from the other customers.
"I don't know you, I don't know you, I don't know you, I don't know you, let go, let go, let go, let go, I don't know you…" Berry chanted her eyes closed wishing she was somewhere else.
"Are you sure she is the one?" Lyserg asked as he stared at the chanting black haired girl.
"Sadly yes… I told you before, she is nuts so that's why she is acting like that," Anna replied.
"She is noisy," Yoh said as he covered his ears. Amidamaru appeared beside him and also covered his ears.
"BERRY! GET A HOLD OF YOUR SELF OR I AM GOING TO SEND YOU TO THE NEXT DIMENSION!!!" Anna yelled at the chanting girl who stopped at once and glared at the blond.
"I am sorry but who the HELL are you and why are you spying at me?" Berry said.
There was a minute silence.
"I think we got the wrong girl," Ren said.
"Tell me about it dude," Horo muttered under his breathe.
"But that's Berry Alexandra Harrison, I am not mistaken, she must have amnesia or something," Tamao said as she brushed some pink hair out of her eyes.
Anna glared at Berry.
"Quit lying,"
"I am not lying,"
"Do you want to die?"
"Do you?"
"Maybe yes,"
"Then I will gladly kill you,"
There was a minute silence as both of the girls glared at each other again.
"Then go ahead,"
Berry tried to get up but couldn't as the furyoku energy was still holding her still.
"Couldn't reach huh? Maybe you should remember your training and try to break the furyoku energy," Anna said, smirking.
Berry glared again.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Berry quit it out," Anna sighed loudly.
There was a minute silence as the waitress came to the table and put a huge tray of milkshakes and cheese burgers on it before returning back to the counter.
"Ok fine Anna, I can't escape you I guess… what do you want?" Berry asked straightforwardly.
Anna smiled and sipped her milkshake quietly.
"Yohmei wants you," she replied.
Berry raised an eyebrow.
"Me? Why?"
"Well there was once a prophecy that there are twelve powerful spirits sealed in the Earth's crust and we are the chosen ones to control them according to their elements. There will be a war and we have to find those spirits and defeat the evil spirits," Lyserg said.
Berry looked at everyone and they all nodded slowly.
"And as you have the ancient bird of light, Yohmei believes you are the one who will control the element of light and go with us on an endless journey to find the spirit ghost," Ren said in his perfect accent as he munched on his burger.
Berry looked at each other in surprise and then closed her eyes, sighing.
"I am sorry but I cannot help you," she said.
Everyone gasped at her and Yoh choked over his burger.
"WHAT!? But why? You are a shaman, Berry, you have to help us or the world will be destroyed," Anna said and for the first time her voice held plead.
"Correction: I was a shaman, I am not now," Berry said slowly as she looked around at the shocked faces.
"But, a person doesn't chose to be a shaman or not… he or she just have to be a shaman," Tamao said, her voice whimpering slightly.
Berry scoffed moodily.
"Look, I never wanted to be a shaman, it ruined my life… I had no family and no friends. That is the reason why I left Yohmei-sensei after a few months of training… I was sick of being a shaman; I wanted a normal ordinary life. And guess what? As soon as I convinced my self that shamans didn't exist, I went to an orphanage, I got adopted and here I live now… I have a wonderful family and wonderful friends and everything was going great until you all dimwits arrived… so I am not a shaman anymore," Berry said.
There was a minute silence.
"And what about Kiarna?" Anna asked slowly.
Berry sighed loudly and put her hand under her shirt and took out a small blue pendent attached to a necklace.
"What is that?" Horo asked.
"I sealed her… I didn't know what else to do with her," Berry said sadly as she took off the necklace and put it on the table so everyone could see it glisten in the light bulbs.
"Berry how could you do that to your own ghost?" Yoh asked bewildered.
"Kiarna wanted me to do it… I didn't force her," Berry whispered.
There was a minute silence.
"So umm can I go?" Berry asked as she pocketed the blue pendent and looked at everyone pleadingly.
"Berry you have to come with us and talk to Yohmei… and then it's your own will if you want to continue this life or go to the mission," Lyserg said quietly and wishing that he would grab the pendent and free the poor ghost. He would never to anything like this to Chloe…
"But he is going to force me," Berry whined.
"No he wont, you just talk to him… he would understand if you don't want to this mission," Ren said.
Berry looked at them and then slowly nodded.
"Ok I will talk to him, where is he anyway?" she asked.
"Grandpa is out of town, at Tokyo, its only two hours drive from here to there," Yoh said.
Berry nodded again.
"We will go tomorrow if you want," Tamao whispered.
Berry nodded again and got up, slowly and then realized that Anna had removed the furyoku energy around her thighs.
"I will see you guys at dawn, come to the park near the movie theatre… we will go then," Berry muttered and then walked out of the coffee shop towards her home.
Yoh and the others stared at her as she went away.
"You know, I don't really blame her for giving up being a shaman," Anna slowly said.
"Why do you say that?" Yoh asked.
"Shaman connects this world to the next, a shaman can see ghosts… people don't like it when we try to tell them that shamans and ghosts are real and all. There are not many people that make friends with them… we all our lucky to have friends that are like us, I guess," Anna said and sipped her milkshake again.
Everyone sighed and nodded at the truth in her words.
"Berry was almost alone all her life, its no wonder she wanted to give up everything she had before and start her life over," Anna assumed.
"I hope Yohmei would convince her to come with us… she wasn't half bad," Horo said.
"OOOOOH, somebody was checking her out," Ren teased as the whole table laughed.
Berry sighed loudly and slipped her hands into her pants pocket. She felt her blue pendent in her right pocket and put her hands around it protectively. Suddenly lightening strike and slowly the sky darkened and rain began to drop down in full speed.
Berry cursed under her breathes as she ran quickly towards her home before she could get too wet. She turned a corner and bumped hard into someone. She had bumped so hard in that person that her head went blank for a minute and she just sat on the wet muddy ground for a second.
"Oh I am so sorry, I couldn't see a thing in this rain… are you alright?" the person asked.
Berry jerked her head and looked at the teenage boy in front of her. He had long black-brown hair and warm black eyes. He was wearing a white poncho and looked only a year older than her.
Berry smiled lightly and grabbed his hand which he was offering and got up.
"No its ok, I was acting like a klutz," she said smiling.
The boy nodded.
"I am Hao Asakura by the way and you are?"
"Berry Harrison, nice to meet you Hao," Berry said and blushed lightly in the rain. She was now soaked to her skin and she knew it that she would catch a cold first thing in the morning.
Hao nodded and bent down to pick something up.
"Is this yours?" he asked, holding the blue pendent.
Berry felt her pocket hysterically and then mentally cursed herself again as she nodded and tried to snatch it away from Hao. But the black haired boy seemed interested in the piece of jewelry and he raised it up, away from Berry's reach.
"Hao, umm… that's mine," Berry said as she tried to grab it but couldn't do so as he was too tall for her.
Hao frowned as he looked at the blue pendent and then looked at the jumping black haired girl.
"Are you a shaman?" He asked, slowly.
Berry stopped jumping and looked at him and then nodded.
"Well I am kind of," she said as she pushed back her wet hair from her eyes.
"What do you mean by kind of?" Hao asked suspiciously.
"Well I mean that I was a shaman but I didn't like to be one so I sealed my spirit ghost and started a normal life… can you please give me back my pendent?" Berry said, annoyed.
Hao stared at her for a moment and then handed her the pendent. And then without warning he knocked painfully at Berry's forehead who blushed brightly.
"Er… what are you doing Hao," she managed to blurt out.
"I am seeing if something is in your head because you must be mental to give up being a shaman," Hao replied and then smirked.
"Well tell you the truth, being a shaman sucked," Berry said as she crossed her arms against her chest.
Hao raised an eye brow.
"How?" he asked.
"Well for a start people think you are weird and you don't have any friends at all," Berry said slowly.
"Who need friends?" Hao said and scoffed.
Berry stared at the boy in front of her in disbelief and shook her wet head slowly.
"Well if you excuse me I have to go," Berry slowly said and walked past him towards her home.
She couldn't help feeling his gaze on her as she disappeared out of his sight.
Hao smirked and then continued walking, enjoying the rain on his skin.
"She was the chosen… I will be seeing her around a lot then," he thought and then too disappeared into the darkness.
Whew! dont at last! I let Anna drag everyone out to find Berry which i made her a total idiot... LOL!
Anyway about the pairings, i have only decided about one YET ad that is HaoXBerry
if you want YohXAnna... i will gladly put it...
suggestions for the next chapters are welcome and pairing suggestions would be a great help! read and review! please and thankyou!