10.03.24 : Here it is !
Thoughts are in italic, I hope it's clear enough ?
07.03.24:Hello !
Thank you for reading my fic. here a few things you need to know:
This story is based on everything "Takei universe" Shaman king (completed), Flowers, Mappa Douji, Zero, Marcos, A garden. I am going to incorporate as much as the original material as I can but as the story is still being written it might contradict my fic. Please support the original work and buy the volumes !
The main Character is my OC, name reveal in the next chapter, it's pretty obvious though.
If you have feedback I would love to hear it ! It's been a while since I published any fic and I am quite rusty. I hope everything is clear. I aim to post one chapter per week, the next one will be at the end of the weekend I need time to correct it.
CHAPTER 3: BIAFINE
The three Asakura clones became like a flower catching fire. The first one made herself slightly larger and protected the two copies with her arms. Then the second melted into the center one, and the furyoku from that one was being used to heal the wounds as they reached the core. Hao had seen hundreds of people burn alive in the five hundred years he had been using his guardian spirit. But this newly appeared gruesome to him, furthermore because this mysterious Asakura started smiling.
"It feel so good to have your warmth again" she said, tears running down her cheeks
" I knew you would be his guardian spirit but I missed you so much little star" and she wrapped her arms around the lapping flames. Those rematerialised into a small form of S.o.F, that looked like a salamander. The spirit had large eyes that were staring into hers. And Hao could see the universe in them, reflected from the burning Asakura's. He felt a warmth inside his body and soul. She hadn't burned really, some of her flesh was charred but most had healed. Her furyoku was significantly depleted. Had Hao won ? she should have been dead, yet he's glad she was still here. The future Asakura hadn't fought back except for the healing spells. The amounts of which she shouldn't have had been able to cast with her furyoku reserve.
Hao Asakura casted his dimension away, the outer dimension had also disappeared and they are now back in the camp. His team jumps when the veil falls back and finally they can see their boss. Hao's followers are scared but after taking in the state of the assailant, burned, and their boss, unscathed, they all feel relief. Hana-gumi were red eyed , ZangChing had been remorseful and still felt guilty, Luchist was doing his best keeping his cool but his mind was full of questions, even more than the rest of the group.
They weren't gone for long, but during this time the remaining onis had continued to attack the campers and some of them had even gone after the tents and kitchenware. The distraction that the return of the Asakuras had made was short lived, the rampage starts again as the little goblins's purpose is to create negative feelings they can feed on. Brocken sends his little mice lego soldiers after the demons, and when he can corner them Jack or Chuck attacks. Similar tactics are used by Peyote and Mohamed, Hao's shamans were holding their own and destroying the little oversouls one by one, even though they really wanted to pay attention to their master and the newcomer.
Whoever she was, she was naked with red flesh and a screeching spirit in her arms. Folded on herself, she looked so vulnerable now, like a child. The onmyoji didn't even know S.O.F could make these noises, happy little chirps like a crackling fire. The girl obviously hadn't shown her all she had, because his furyoku was plenty. He graciously decided to heal the scathed girl, and gives an order:
"Kana, bring some clothes that could fit her"
Even if she objects in her mind, she obeys and dives into a tent then comes back with a white dress and dark coat in her arms. The blue haired girl walks cautiously in their direction.
Their naked assailant was too entranced by the salamander to notice anything, and the spirit acted like a pet. Hao and Kana could only wait. Finally when she glances up she sees the demons causing havoc.
"Be gone !" The Asakura says loudly.
Spirit of Fire glares at the little onis and they scamper away. Now everyone can turn to the the mysterious shaman. Hao takes the dress from the German shaman and hands it to the naked one.
" What is your name, Asakura ?" the great onmyo asks once again.
She blushs. After she pulled the garment on her she answers. "Asahana"
He's surprised. "That shouldn't…"
"Don't give me that you're the one who named me !" she shouts, flustered and upset.
"Again with the mood swings." Hao says to himself.
Everyone seems to be thinking something alike.
Asahana halts, and forces her face to sooth."I am unstable because I was just compressed back into this human state"
The millennial shaman is stunned by her name, anything else could be thrown in at this point ; however his followers' minds flare with even more worry.
Asahana looks remorseful and adds: "I apologize for scaring you all. I didn't expect there would be so much animosity towards me. It makes my demons come out." Asahana hugged the salamander closer. " I feel better now that Sof is with me"
At those words the shaman surrounding them finally understands that it's not the salamander holding down the auburn haired teen. This mysterious woman is hugging their boss's nature spirit !
"Spirit of Fire is my guardian spirit." the future King corrects.
" I missed them, you don't even know them like I do." she retorted with a scowl.
Before the boss can get mad again a baby starts crying.
Luchist is holding a little child who has dark skin and fluffy afro hair, about two years old. Hao went to her.
" There was a baby here !" Asahana exclaimed. "I could have hurt her! I'm so careless !" she reprimands herself.
"Yes but she's alright, she's a tough one" Luchist reassures. He's happy the hostility has settled down. The priest could tell two very powerful shamans were here and he did not want to be caught in the middle.
The little girl grabbed the dark haired millennial teen's finger and calmed instantly. The auburn haired girl stared, then she jumped to her feet and B-lined for the child. Hao and a few others moved protectively, Spirit of Fire stopped Kana from approaching. The last Asakura gets uncomfortably close again, but as he feels no ill, Hao lowers the arm he had raised in front of the baby girl.
And again it happens, The young woman and the kid stare into each other's eyes as if a whole world is being created into their gaze.
"Opacho ? That's grandma Opacho ?" Asahana ask quietly. The baby girl let out a gleeful laugh "Opacho ma !" she cooed.
" I'm so sorry I could've hurt you ! I didn't realize you would be here as a baby !"
In Opacho's thought, Hao could see memories of Asahana, how she viewed Opacho as a white haired grandma, or as a powerful horned spirit. This could be decades or centuries away.
The surprise he felt until now transform into annoyance and he says with a stern voice:"You've come ill prepared, now explain yourself to me"
All Asahana wanted was to hold little Opacho in her arm. But she could tell Hao was truly annoyed, "I've never seen him annoyed with me".
As her mind soothes, it is easier for the onmyoji to discern through Opacho's reishi what this Asakura girl was thinking. but the baby's reishi is only as strong as her spirit is, she couldn't read much of his mind yet.
Opacho pinched Hao's finger.
"Ah, she picked my intention."
The little mind reader did not like her godfather using reishi, it confused her. So he winks to his protégée and asks in thought " Help me read this person's thoughts".
"Explain" the onmyoji then repeats to the teen girl.
The group had surrounded the four of them and were listening intently. Nervous, she spoke in a loud voice to ease herself: " I am Asahana Asakura, Last of the Asakura's. I will be, actually I was, the 10th Shaman Ruler, after you and your brother Yoh. I've managed to create a time spell, so that after my time as Shaman Queen I've decided to go back in time and help you in your Shaman Kingdom."
The future king takes a deep breath in order to stay focused. He senses only honesty, his accomplice isn't picking up anything suspicious either.
"So I've separated myself from the Great Spirit, I lost most of my memories and power, so that I could be allowed to travel in time to meet you." She marks a long pause and stares into her husband's eyes. Opacho was shaking Hao's finger with excitement, all the while he's thinking why would he need help if she already knows he is the winner.
"Because winning isn't enough, you need to change the world" she answers. In that moment he sense anger rise and quickly vanish.
"She can read my mind, why can't I hers ? what was that just before.."
"The reason why your reishi doesn't work on me is probably because you placed a protective spell on me so you couldn't."
"I ? Myself ? My future Self ?"
" You said yourself you couldn't be trusted"
Opacho started being fussy again. The couple Asakura are thinking really loudly so that she can make out words she doesn't even understand yet. "BAANOYINGPAINFU" she shouts in her mind to get their attention.
_"What did I miss up so bad I would send an Asakura back in time to fix.."
_"You are a very stubborn and righteous king, you are going to place a curse on the entire Asakura line, me included."
_"A curse? How ? She's reading my mind very clearly"
and Asahana answers: "I'm going through Opacho just as you are. I trust you, so I shouldn't be able to use reishi with you in the material world"
Hao's team is listening intently. They don't understand most of what the teen that attacked them is rambling about, and so their thoughts are angsty with questions.
The little african girl groans, flails and stretches out of Luchist hold, who himself looks very uncomfortable.
"I'm going to take her away now…" The priest says and does.
The couple Asakura stare into each other's eyes as their means to read each other's thoughts goes away. Hao is troubled, but he also feels comforted by her presence somehow. He is intrigued to say the least. His counterpart feels stressed, but blushes, as she is watched. The tension in the camp is palpable, everyone is ogling them.
"Another Asakura?" Confusion.
"From the future ? Are we suppose to believe that crap?" Anger.
"She looks gross. she was naked" Disgust.
"Why is she starring in Lord Hao's eyes? how can she be so close to him ?" Jealousy.
The little onis are rising from the ground again.
"They're coming back. Is she going to attack again?" Fear
"Clean up and prepare the food." The boss orders.
Kana stays a few seconds too long and he glances at her. When she walks away Spirit of Fire returns to Asahana's side. All three of them feel a warmth, the same one at the end of their match. The girl in a white dress closes her eyes. As she calms down the demons go away.
They stay there until the sun sets. They both slumped to the ground. Questions are still running wild outside of the little bubble of peace Asahana and Hao maintain, it's a distant whisper to them. The time traveling girl is doing what she can to settle her rattling mind, her most faithful ally was sitting in front of her, she had closed her eyes but she could feel him examining her. she didn't want the distraction of his human appearance to spawn more questions and thoughts. The girl breathes solely, gathering her strength back, ignoring all that is around her, except the powerful furyoku that could comfort her. Opposite her,the onmyoji is replaying all the events over and over again, trying to decipher the mysteries she had brought forth. A Shaman Queen that traveled into the past ? To meet him a year before the eighth tournament ? There must be some things she didn't tell him. Her presence implied the timeline would be gravely altered, could that work to his advantage ? Or halter his own plans for the future? According to her timeline, he would win the next tournament, not surprising. what is surprising is that his twin brother, whom he had thought he would absorb back into himself before his own coronation, will be the next in line and after that, the auburn hair in front of him. So… according to what she said,they had spent at least five hundred years together in the great spirit. She had also briefly thought of him as her husband..
The future queen falls purposefully into his lap, resting her head there. He felt alright about it.
"Can you protect me ? This body is harder to maintain than I thought it would, and the demons keep appearing …"
The millennial teen understood well, after spending nearly five hundred years in the great spirit, coming back to a physical form was strenuous.
"I can do that" he simply answered.
Right now part of her body was disappearing, like open wounds being formed but no bleeding, and as she had said demons were poking out of the grass. In her hair he noticed a blue frayed ribbon, he knew it from way too long ago. So he placed a hand on her and started casting the resurrection spell he had taken from Enma. His followers observed from afar but resumed setting the tables. Just before the pasta dish was served in plates he carried her sleeping body to a tent and covered her with a blanket. Spirit of Fire would keep the demons away from her.
He chased the ones still causing mischief, and the cats came back.
The future King went to sleep with Opacho next to him, knowing his wife was in a nearby tent.