Ghost Sweeper Alpha
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Ghost Sweeper Alpha is an Anime National original crossover series.
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[edit] Arc One: The Sam Mori Saga
One hundred years before the start of the series, a 6-year-old Ghost Sweeper apparentance named Sam Mori learns he will be the next sweeper of the Mori clan. Fearful of the heavy responsibilities of being the next line of Ghost Sweepers, coupled with the coming separation from his friend Kim (to complete his training), Sam flees from home without his animal guide, a dog spirit called Appa. Caught by a fierce storm, they crash into the mountain, and Sam's protective spirit container freezes them in a state of suspended animation inside a spirit barrier. Right after his disappearance, The Mura clan launches a genocidal campaign on the Mori clan. The current Grandmother Madame Mura does this because, after blaming on Sam for killing Kim, who was native to the Ghost sweepers, and who was the demon before the Mikami clan, she realizes the next one will come from the next line of ghost sweepers according to the heritage cycle. This way he can ensure that the next ghost sweeper will not try to foil her plots for world domination just as the last one of his kind. Sam becomes unfrozen by a ghost sweeper in-training named Josh Mikami and his ghost sweeping apprentice, Chad Yokoshima after being in the spirit barrier for one hundred years. The three travel to the Raye Mikami's house so Sam and Josh can begin their training.
[edit] Arc Two: The Sweeper Exam Saga
After arriving at the Mikami House, Josh, Sam, and Chad finishes mastering Ghost Sweeping under the instruction of his sister Raye, who has mastered ghost sweeping faster than he has. Sam and friends travel to the spirit world to take the Ghost Sweeper Exam. Their initial plan is to take the test under Umi, the female official of the Ghost Sweeper Council, but they discover that dhe and Council have been invaded by the Mori and Umi is waiting for the right time to strike. After passing the Ghost Sweeper Exam, the group meets Emi, a seductive ghost sweeping prodigy who becomes Sam's second teacher and teaches him, amongst other things, her unique ability to use ghost sweeping to "see" ectoplasma with her charm. After discovering a hidden ancient library, the heroes discover information about an upcoming solar eclipse which would deprive the Mora Clan of their demon and open to invasion, giving Sam his chance to defeat Madame Mora. They struggle to reach the The Ghost Sweeper Council with this vital information, but are detoured by Okinu's kidnapping. Kim, who appeared to be a teenage android version of herself that was built by Dr. Chaos, her master Madame Mora and Maria chase the group as they struggle to reach back to the mortal world. By capturing and then impersonating Okinu, Android Kim engineers a plan to manipulate a secret group of demons called the Tai Beans to instigate a coup d'grace that allows the Mora Clan to take complete control over the mortals and deal a fatal defeat to the mortal and spirit world, and destroys any hope of the Ghost Sweepers staging a large-scale invasion of the Mura Clan. In a final confrontation, Android Kim eliminates Chad using demon power while Sam is in the spirit barrier. By a last minute arrival by his spirit dog demon, Maria is able to escape with Chad's body. Thinking that Chad is injured, the Ghost Sweeper Council begins to believe there is no hope left. In reality, Chad has been revived by Maria using alchemy she had received from her creator Dr. Chaos which contains special properties that amplify her natural spirit healing powers.
Sam deals with internal conflict as he and Kim defect from the Mura Clan after her master orders her to be terminated and disassembled for her failures, settle at the Mikami house, and disguise themselves as refugees and eventually end up opening an artifact called "The Jasmine Scroll" in the same cave Sam have once sealed himself. After a brief period of reformation, Kim again rejoins the Mura Clan when she helps Madame Mora defeat Sam and the rest of the Ghost Sweepers. As a reward, her exile is ended and she is allowed to return back to the Mura Clan as a recommissioned protocol teenage android.
In the season finale, while captured by mortal hunters sent by the Mura clan to return Sam to the past, Emi uses her ghost sweeping skills to "see" the particles of refined ectoplasma that make ghosts and becomes the world's first "ghost maker," a feat previously thought to be impossible.
[edit] Arc Three: The Mura Clan Saga
Both the Spirit and the Human World are in peril, and Chad is critically recovering. He awakes to find his group on a Fire Nation ship disguised in similar regalia.
Sokka has planned a small-scale invasion of the Fire Nation to simply capture the Fire Lord's palace and defeat Madame Mura, making use of their previous plan to take advantage of a soon-approaching solar eclipse which will render demon casting impossible for eight minutes. However, instead of the Earth Kingdom army and navy, the invasion will be staged by a ragtag group of benders and warriors who became allies of the Avatar along his journeys in Books 1 and 2. Aang and his group then infiltrate the Fire Nation and travel to the rendezvous point for the invasion force. Also, Aang starts to have nightmares about meeting the firelord.
The invasion proceeds as planned with the group defeating much of the defenses and capturing the area around the palace, but Aang finds that the palace had been evacuated beforehand and the fire nation had foreknowledge of the invasion; the royal family has taken refuge in a nearby bunker under a volcano and prepared an air fleet in a surprise counter-maneuver. Aang never finds Firelord Ozai, but Zuko does, and uses the eclipse as his chance to confront his father and proclaim his decision to join the Avatar. As the group realizes they have failed in their main objective, they abandon the captured Fire Nation capital and make a desperate effort to reach their ships to escape. However, the pursuing air fleet destroys the protagonist party's ships. Now, only Aang's sky bison Appa can provide a means of escape, and Aang retreats with the children aboard Appa while the adults stay behind and are taken captive.
Kim catches up with Sam at the Western Air Temple and offers to teach Sam both alchemy and demon , to complete his training as an Sweeper and master ghost sweeping. After a brief conflict, he is allowed to join the group. The two travel to unlock the firebending secrets of the original firebenders, the "Demon Warriors". He and Sokka also plan an infiltration of Boiling Rock, a prison surrounded by boiling water where high ranking prisoners of war are kept. They find Sokka's father and Suki, the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors and Sokka's former love interest, but Zuko is quickly discovered and Azula comes to question him, accompanied by Mai and Ty Lee. Both girls eventually aid Zuko and Sokka in escaping the prison, betraying Azula in the process. Enraged, Azula demands their imprisonment and begins to slip into paranoia and insanity at the loss of her most trusted confidants and the later misguiding of her own father, the Fire Lord.
After regrouping, Sokka tries to create a new battle plan to defeat the Fire Lord before he can make use of the approaching Sozin's comet to empower himself and his armies (the worst case scenario the avatar had been trying to prevent since Book 1), but peace-loving Aang refuses when they ask him to kill Firelord Ozai. In his confusion, he is drawn to a mysterious island and meditates on other ways to defeat Ozai by calling on the spirits of other past Avatars for advice. Each Avatar advises him to destroy Ozai, and Aang is reluctantly resigned to killing him until he discovers that the island is really an ancient, giant, wise "lion-turtle." Aang asks it for advice, and the Lion-Turtle teaches him the ancient art of Spiritbending as a way to avoid killing Ozai.
On the day of Sozin's Comet, Madame Mori, now the self-proclaimed "Demon Queen" harnesses the demon's power to start a genocidal campaign to finally annihilate the Ghost Sweepers. Princess Azula( Ozai's daughter and Zuko's sister) has come up with a plan to use the airship fleet to destroy the hope of the Ghost Sweeper Council, thus ending it. Aang's friends (Aang is still missing from his trip to the mysterious island) set off to face him, Azula (soon to be crowned the new Fire Lord), and the entire Fire Nation army. Zuko and Katara go to face Azula just moments before her coronation, so that he can usurp the throne in her stead; Sokka, Suki and Toph sabotage the air fleet; and the Order of the White Lotus fights to reclaim Ba Sing Se from the Fire Nation. Aang returns just in time to take on Phoenix King Ozai. Finally reclaiming his ability to enter the Avatar State, Aang almost kills Ozai before restraining himself and instead calls upon the lost art of Spiritbending to remove Ozai's bending abilities altogether. The war is over, Zuko is crowned Fire Lord, and alongside Aang, he ends the war and promises to bring harmony to the entire world. The season ends with a cliffhanger as Fire Lord Zuko visits his father in prison and demands to know the location of his mother right before the whole group is together for tea in Iroh's teashop in Ba Sing Se. It is said from Michael Dante DiMartino that Zuko's mother whereabouts was never really thought about. They were supposed to create a spin-off of avatar(if they made Zuko's father say Zuko's mother's whereabouts), but this never was thought out.
