This Is A Shaman King Fanfiction Only.
Other Franchises Will Be Included.
AN: This was a story request my Beta reader asked for his birthday.
The two friends finally return from their latest mission and find the halls already decorated in All Hallow's Eve decorations that honestly Hiro was freaking loving since most of them were orange in color, but Hector was still weirded out by these decorations, it was not the most pleasant or enjoyable feeling that was running through his mind at the moment, a sense of dread and anger was screaming in the very depths of his soul, almost like a beast was roaring and it tried to rip out of the cage that held it.
The walk to Hiro felt like any other day, to Hector, it felt like the long green carpeted hall that leads towards his execution. He could not figure out why but something about this made him feel this way almost like he was going to be sent to one of the worlds where Hiro was giddy and Hector would not shed a single tear if it didn't exist anymore. The thing is that he saw all the people putting up the decorations but something was making the entire atmosphere of the place seem gloomy almost more like a funeral than a party.
As they finally reached the doors to the office Hiro hit Hector in the guts and told him yes everyone was gloomy and not enjoying the party and it was all his freaking fault walking through the place like he was a freaking dead man walking. No reason to be such a freaking party killer, Hector had enough as he entered the office and glared at his friend, "Look, I don't know why but I can tell something is going to happen that the brown stuff didn't hit the fan it got buried in it, something tells me we are going to a crappy place, have to deal with a crappy deal, and face a freaking enemy that makes all the previous we fought to look like a freaking joke. Does that explain to you why I am not in the most festive mood?"
As he said this they both heard the goddess begin to laugh, and as her seat turned around she was wearing a witch costume, Hiro loved the detail on her costume, and Hector was more interested in where they were going and why. "Leave it to my husband to figure out things before most other people could. Yes, this mission will be different than most because unlike most merged dimensions the changes are caused by adding new things that never would have existed in any of the individual realms they ever visited or knew of. This technically is not a merged dimension mission, but it is, you see apparently someone really loved the anime this dimension is based on, but apparently hated the fact that games were not considered canon materials somewhere, so this dimension adds every single material or thing made about this particular series, and yes my love it is Shaman King."
As Hector heard this, he could not help but feel the utter despair of the situation than anything he would face in that world, knowing it was basically yet another Shomin Battle anime world, Hector only told her he expected extra loving and care from her since he knew she was somehow going to go to that world too. She looked absolutely indignant when he said this and told him that of course, she is going, there is no fucking way she was letting some whore take her husband away from her if he had to be in the harem no matter the dimension or reality he was in and be in a fucking harem then she would always be the official main wife.
Hiro just hearing this made him realize that is why Nico Robin shows up so many times in their missions, and the goddess began to laugh and tells him she did enter as her, and sometimes as other women, all to keep Hector for herself, she may share but Hector was her husband and nobody will take him away from her. "Honestly Hector I don't know whether to congratulate you that you have someone willing to do this much to remain in a relationship with you or pity you because she is essentially treating you like she is Gollum and you are the one ring." Hector hit him hard in the shoulder and told Hiro he didn't need that image in his mind.
As they disappeared Hector found himself born as a young medical researcher and doctor by the name of Jonathan Faust the Eighth, apparently, the Faust in legends has children that made the Faust family name continue for several centuries, which explained why his family was practitioners of an ancient and much-vilified form of magic. The ability came about from the knowledge and wisdom gained from making a literal deal with a devil so there is no fucking way that this ability or form of magic would ever be seen as anything other than vile. His entire family line were necromancers, they could resurrect and or control the dead bodies of others. To many, this was seen as a violation of the body of the deceased and an insult to the god of various religions and faiths.
His family was so persecuted that this caused him to come and end up living in Japan when his original family homeland was Northern Europe, the zealots that hated Necromancy were so much in favor of killing him and his entire family they chased the Faust family through three continents, and the only reason he was alive or his family was alive is simple, the isolationist policies of the Japanese empire, meaning they kept the zealots away from Faust and his family, by not allowing them to come into the nation for a few centuries.
In truth Faust and his relatives rarely used those abilities in malicious or harmful ways, in fact, many times the dead person would be happy that he was allowed to be of help to Faust and his relatives, however, the stigma made them want to keep their activities as actual necromancers secret from the general public and to do that and have access to as many dead bodies as they could get because they needed to practice their magic on the dead bodies of people and animals, the family became heavily involved in the pursuit of medical knowledge, the knowledge his ancestor gained from that deal with a devil was quite extensive, and even to the current time, the Faust family had been trying to get people to listen to some of the things they knew to be true.
The fact is that even after Jonathan Faust tried to tell them things, the deep envy and greed that came from pharmaceutical companies, who wanted to develop medicines for profits rather than cure people was pretty obvious, Elisa his one true love and beloved wife was deadly sick, and it would not be long before he would have to do the unthinkable of either letting the love of his life die, or having to watch her pass on and leave him behind. He could resurrect her that is true, but at present, she would never again be able to work with him as a nurse, or ever think of having children with him, something Elisa wished with her whole heart, to be able to bear and have a child with the man she loved so much.
Jonathan became a rather respected doctor and was very skilled in conducting autopsies, especially in finding out the actual cause of death and even pointing towards who the person who killed the victim was, necromancy for police work is something not one of the cops or detective that knew him would think about. After two decades he found the cure for his wife's illness and she recovered, but someone came into their clinic in the middle of the night and killed Elisa, he kept her body preserved and so he called for the spirit of his beloved to tell him what happened.
He was furious, one of the cops whom he had worked with for the past five years, killed her and all because he wanted to sell the cure to a drug company. He could have easily taken the files on the drug from the file cabinet and Jonathan would not give three shits about it, but the fact Elisa was killed when there was no need, simply to hide the theft was enough reason to want to hunt the man down.
Faust had become long-time friends with the Asakura family, and they eventually liked Jonathan so much that they considered him their family's primary doctor. It was thanks to this long-time friendship they found something shocking to both them and to Faust and Elisa, much like the ancestor whom they feared, it was thanks to this that Faust found out he was the reincarnation of the first Faust who made the deal with the devil, and this was the reason of his mastery over his necromancy, he kept reincarnating after each death into the next generation of the Faust family and somehow this kept going without realizing that at times two versions of the same person lived at the same family.
The thing was these reincarnations sometimes went against what most people understood as time and space. It was thanks to the help of the Asakura family that he was able to summon the spirit of his wife and have her become a major part of his life once again, the patriarch of the family was a rather strict teacher as he began to teach Faust about being a shaman, and as his training progressed he found out the difference between the energy between shaman and spirits. It was fascinating to Jonathan since he still had the memories and skills of all those previous lifetimes, and he was learning something quite fun.
Elisa teased her husband that he always gets giddy when learning new things or when he gains some knowledge he did not have before. His daughter actually was pregnant with twins and they feared the worst, it was foretold that in this particular birth, there could be a chance for an old ancestor to be reborn again, and this person was a fiend that the family feared beyond what most would think possible. They could not understand that the real threat that they would have to face was much worse than anything they could imagine, Faust did everything he could to gain knowledge, skills, and abilities to face this danger.
The fact is that if this threat actually was allowed to succeed and those that would be their enemies win, there would be no one left in the entire world, they would cause the death of everything and everyone on the entire planet and what is worse, the villains that would do this would consider their actions justified and pretend their goals are noble. The fact is these people wanted power and they didn't care who or what they had to sacrifice to get it, and so if they had to destroy all life in a world to obtain godhood, they would do so without even a hit of guilt or remorse.
The main concern he had for this family was that both a major threat to the world and the one that could save it were inside the same lady, they were twin brothers and the mother was kind of shocked when she found out she was having two sons rather than one. Jonathan and Elisa however were prepared having taken two pieces of their souls before they were sent to this universe by the goddess they both serve. She could not send the new spirits she made from the pieces of soul she took, because it took her a long time and effort to complete the creation of these spirits.
One was a spirit of darkness, but the strangest one was when the piece of the soul of her husband split in half and became two spirits one of fire and one of light, she had to work on this day and night for months if not a year, but at present as Jonathan and Elisa saw the happy smiles of the young woman pregnant with the twins, she held him close and whispered to her husband that the souls would be ready by the time the young mother was ready to deliver her two sons.
All medical exams and tests said this particular birth was going to be more difficult than they initially thought possible, because several people in the family were worried if that evil ancestor of theirs would be reborn or if would they have to kill both children to prevent someone who was the worst person possible becoming Shaman King, since the tournament to determine the next one was getting closer and closer.
So as time went by Faust kept training in the Shaman ways and kept an eye on the young mother as he was her attending physician, when he was not present Elisa would be there to take care of all her needs, and for some reason, Faust found it particularly strange that they seem to get along so well, and both of them were in such good mood after they talked to each other. If Jonathan was even slightly paranoid, he would have thought that Elisa and this expecting young mother were plotting something and it was more than likely about Elisa having a child of her own.
While it is true that Jonathan and Elisa were actually married and have lived as such for several years, the main focus of Jonathan was trying to find a cure to the horrible disease that was slowly killing his wife, it wouldn't matter if they tried to conceive a child if she would not live long enough to have a healthy baby. He knew his beloved wife did like many other married women wish to have a child with the man she loved, but when they finally got the cure, she was savagely killed.
Jonathan did his very best to preserve the body and thanks to the help from the Asakura family, he was able to call for the soul of his wife and reinsert it back into her body. For all instants and purposes, this resurrection was something others would have called a miracle. So in all truth, the problem was that according to what he knew so far, his wife's body was still very much dead, like one of the dead bodies the Tao Family controls using talismans and seals. So there was no guarantee that Elisa could ever manage to conceive a child, even less that she could have that child grow within her womb to eventually give birth, the concept was ridiculous, a child conceived and grew within what essentially was still very much a corpse.
That is when he started to get serious about his studies in the Shaman ways from the patriarch of the Asakura family, the more he learned the more he came to realize that essentially using their power shaman could create anything they could imagine and the only actual limitation is the amount of Furyoku the shaman possessed. He started to look into how to increase how much of that energy he could have and even make it stronger. This way of doing this means a skilled enough shaman could create anything he could imagine or even turn the very rules of reality upside down if it served his purposes. This means that much like when he needed to find the cure for her illness, he would now focus as much as possible on learning the shaman's ways with as much intensity and dedication as when he was looking for the cure for her illness.
This had both a positive and negative effect on the Asakura family, they were amazed at how almost obsessed Faust was about both learning and perfecting his knowledge of how to be a shaman, and he was in the orders of the old man, the best student he ever had the privilege in teaching. Most students complained about the exercises and training they had to do to learn, Jonathan was like a sponge, no matter how much he was taught it was never enough to satisfy his curiosity, and he kept pushing himself and his knowledge more and more each day. Little did he know that the two women were actually talking about how they met each other and to what extent he was willing to go to make sure she was happy, it was a topic that made both women appreciate how lucky they were to have married the men in their lives.
It was until the day that she told her doctor and nurse that her water broke, that things would never again be the same again for the family. The grandfather of the child immediately as one was born began to use his shikigami to try to eliminate the baby, but the most unexpected this happened the newborn began to levitate off the bed and it was quite clear that the child had once again been the reincarnation of the evil being they were expecting, and much to their shock he had all the knowledge and skills of his previous lives. The most shocking thing is that even with all that they were not expecting him to already have his fire spirit partner appear as the old man attacked. "After five hundred years you have been reborn again, the one we feared would bring ruin to our world. Asaha Doji, what will take you to stop your insane attempt to take over and rule our world!"
The baby began to float in the air and looked at the old man with a look of utter disdain clearly visible on the newborn's face. "Listen I did not attack you, instead you attacked me, but no matter, my goal and cause are things that as a Shaman you should be both grateful and willing to aid me to achieve my goal. People have forgotten the way this world actually is supposed to be, in hundreds of years I have seen how they are slowly changing into something that would not only poison the world but destroy it, they ignore the wisdom of the shaman and think they know everything. I wish to become the Shaman King so that once again society is ruled by the Shaman and as their King, I can make certain those shaman do not abuse their power and become greedy fools. As for my name, I couldn't care less, I did hear the name of Asakura Hao or Asakura Zeke being mentioned, your choice does not matter to me in the end, attack me again and I shall retaliate. This is not a threat but an actual promise."
As he said this and attacked the family, the doctor blocked the attack from the kid's spirit like it was nothing and the nurse near his mother was taking care of the woman who was still in labor. "Look brat, I don't have time or patience to deal with this bullshit, you attack my patient and her family again and I am going to put the fear of god into you, I am not going to take any shit from you!" Two spirits flank him on either side of him, one that was a light spirit, and the one that blocked the attack was a much more powerful fire spirit than even Hao or Zeke thought was possible.
The brat actually began to glare at the doctor demanding that he introduce himself. The doctor was absolutely glaring at the insulting brat, "Doctor Jonathan Faust the Eighth, and this lady over here is the love of my life Elisa, my loving wife, so knock it the hell off, and if you endanger my patient's life anymore, I will grab you and tan your hide, and you don't want to see what my loving wife will do to you!"
Hao begins to laugh like an absolute maniac thinking that Jonathan is nothing that major and that he is a mere mortal, "I am not going to be manhandled by some stupid brat putting on airs pretending to be strong when he blocked a pathetically weak attack on my worthless backstabbing family, I was just born today and they already decided to murder me, and they don't seem to care that this would kill both my mother and my twin who is still inside her, I have been reborn twice, my strength is not something that you should worry more about yourself than them, cause now you are my main foe, and I will not be as merciful to you as I was going to be with them."
Faust tries to warn the brat, but clearly, he thinks he is so mighty that his little spirit is all he needs to do as he wants. He has no idea of who he is messing with, and just as he attacks him, Faust blocks it and punches him hard enough to come crashing down on the floor shocking the grandparents and father who was watching this. He had not expected Jonathan to take this attack as seriously as he did, but many times Elisa told them that her husband was dead serious about protecting the lives of his patients. Faust had blocked that attack like he was a seasoned and experienced fighter, something that nobody would believe if they saw how friendly and meek he appeared most of the time.
"So you think you are all that, let's see how you deal with this, you who have passed hear by call and follow my voice, Asanoha I call upon you to correct the actions of your son, here my words and appear before me!" As spirit energy began to build up and continued to form the appearance of a beautiful long blonde haired woman she looked at the brat that was still on the ground unable to move since Faust was literally pinning him down with his foot. She looked at Faust with a stern look and nodded her hand, Faust raised his hand and called for her to enter spirit form, and when the woman became a ball of light he slammed it into his chest screaming for unity.
That is when Faust now under the control of the spirit of Asanoha, looked at her child with a cold glare that even made Hao afraid, "It seems you have not learned manners or have a proper attitude, it seems I must correct that." Immediately she grabbed the spirit of light and turned it into a rather scaring-looking paddle, and as soon as she did she sent the other spirit into it causing the top of the paddle to burst into flames as it covered the flat portion of the paddle. She picked up her son and without mercy or kindness placed him on her knee and began to spank the living hell of of him with the paddle as he kept lecturing how much a bitter disappointment he was a son and the many ways he had done wrong things, things that she knew because even after her own death, she had been keeping an eye on him.
To the Asakura family that could see this, this was hilarious, the very person who had inspired so much fear and panic that they actually thought they needed to kill the twins when they were born getting the spanking of several lifetimes, and he was crying like a little baby making every excuse that a little punk would make when getting this sort of punishment. The only thing is his mother knew better so she was not going to listen to these crappy excuses, and she would not stop until her son knew how wrong he was and how much he deserved this.
"Ok, fine, I will not fucking kill all mortals, I was doing this to return the Shaman to their rightful position of leaders of this world, but fine, I will not fucking kill mortals." Asanoha was about to say something when the woman who was still trying to give birth to her other son glared at Hao with a glare even Asanoha could respect, she told Asanoha to tan his ass some more, he clearly has not learned his lesson, neither of them would accept for their child to be this foul mouth brat, right? This made the two mothers nod in agreement and Hao knew he messed up.