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 Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:41 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:03 am
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Kyokai Antanimoto
Kai nodded and let her form phase slightly, seeping into Erin slowly as she entered her body. She put up a mental barrier that would keep her from entering her memories and spoke to her from inside her head. Erin, I hope I did not cause you any discomfort. I have not done this before and the Elders merely tell us how to do it. I believe that we, well you living ones, call it a possession but it is more than just that. The benevolent spirits will never possess anyone like that, we always ask and set bounderies to keep from touching anything we are told not to. The melevolent ones are the ones that will take full control and do as they wish.
Kai used Erin's eyes and focused on Ashika, using what she remembered of her to find a faint trail of green mist that marked where she had moved through. She focused more on her own memories, but as she did so the images of her past found their way into Erin's mind. The Elder Elementals had never told her of such a rebound, thus she had put up no blocks to stop it and was completely unaware.
-"Ashika, do you like art? I always see you drawing things in your book." She asked one day in school after the math class had finished.
Ash looked up at her, obviously unaware that she had been seen drawing. "Uh, yeah. I love art and writing." She ran her left hand through her hair in obvious embarrassment. "I guess that's why I'm failing this class. I'm not even good at math and I don't get why they have to make an already evil thing more horrific by adding letters."
Kai smiled at her softly. "Kawaii, and I can help you with the math. It is simple for me."
She saw Ash smile at her and her heart fluttered slightly, wondering if this was what love felt like.-
The trail grew slightly stronger but still not easy to follow and she fought to think of something stronger.
-"Come Ashika, it is up these stairs." She told the girl as she pulled her up the tenth flight of stairs.
Ashika laughed softly as they ran up the final flight, a look of anticipation in her eyes. Kai had refused to tell her what she was going to show her but she knew that this girl would find it beautiful. She threw open the door and they stepped out onto the rooftop, the setting sun casting stunning golds and amber tones onto their skin and the building. Kai looked back and saw the amazment in her eyes as she looked around, able to see the entire city from up here. "Oh Kai, this is beautiful. How did you ever know about this place?" She heard her companion ask in awe.
"I found it when I ran away from home a few years back. I come here often to think and get away from everything. You like this, hai?" She asked softly.
She watched as the girl nodded and stepped over to the railing, watching the sun set. Kai saw the dying rays touch her skin softly and felt her breath catch as it seemed to make her glow. "Ashika, I would like to ask you if you are interested in dating me. I find that I enjoy whatever I do as long as you are with me, and I..." She felt her face turn bright red from nerves. "I would like you to be my girlfriend."
She watched as the smaller girl smiled brightly and ran over to her, wrapping her arms around her waist and laying her head on her chest. "I would like nothing more than to be with you Kai. I've been too nervous to ask you out myself." She confessed in a whisper.
Kai felt her heart race at her words and she lift her chin to kiss her lips softly, holding her close as their lips touched in the setting sunlight.-
The trail grew slightly brighter and she knew that she had to delve even deeper into herself, to find a very strong memory.
-They walked down to the bar, the dance club a few buildings away. She kept glancing at Ashika in her blue flower dress, each look making her heart pound even more. She looked beautiful in it, her hair was styled in a soft wave and her lips seemed even more beautiful from the color she had used on them. "Watashi no ai, I must get a glass of water. Wait here for me, dozo?" She asked her.
Ashika nodded and kissed her lips softly. "Hai. I will be here for you."
Kyokai smiled and kissed her back softly before entering the bar and getting a glass of water. Suddenly a scream that made her blood freeze came from the alley as she stepped out and she ran to find a man cornering her girlfriend, a gash on her stomach that was bleeding heavily. "Get away from her you scum!" She screamed as she slugged him hard on his jaw.
The man looked at her in rage, his hazel eyes slightly insane with his anger. "Back off b***h, she's mine." He growled at her coldly.
She shoved him into the wall and landed a palm strike on his chest, making him gasp. "Īe. She is her own person. Get out of here before I call the cops." She said back, equally as cold.
He punched her in the gut and she doubled over, glimpsing the knife that had cut her lover so horribly. "If I can't have her, no one can." She heard him hiss and he advanced on Ashika as she leaned against the brick wall, clutching her wound. Kai knew what would happen, she knew he would kill her, his eyes told her as much. She had a choice, to let him kill Ashika, or to die, and she knew that she had no real option in this. She ran and threw her body in front of her lover's, her hands braced against the wall as she put her body in the path of the blade. A horrible pain erupted throughout her body from her mid back, and she coughed softly, tasting blood in her mouth. She heard footsteps running away from them and she felt her legs begin to fail her. She fell into Ashika slightly and slid down, feeling the other girl grab her and lower her down. "Somebody get me some help!" She heard her girlfriend scream into the night, her body feeling less pain then before.
She looked up and saw her crying, looking at her in fear and saddness. "Please. Hang on. Please Kai, you have to hold on. Just hang on for me, okay?"
Kai could feel the blood sliding down her back and pooling under her and onto the arms of the girl who was holding her. She knew that she wouldn't live, and that broke her heart. She had so many plans for them both. She wanted to take Ashika to see her Mother, who was longing to meet the girl that had made her so happy. She tried to smile at her, but she knew it looked wrong. "I... I think I'm done w-watashi no ai." She told her as the pain surfaced once more.
The look in the other girl's eyes was enough to make her heart stop, the pain and overwhelming guilt hurting her more than her own body. "No! You said we'd be together forever! You promised me that you would never leave me!" She heard her say loudly.
Kai wanted nothing more than to live at this moment, praying with all of her might that she would somehow survive this and live the rest of her life with this girl that had stolen her heart. "Hai, but I also..." Kai winced from the pain that racked her body. "I also promised to protect you. This was our forever watashi no ai. And I.... I loved every moment of it. Yurusu watashi, d-dozo." She begged her, knowing that such a prayer was useless.-
Kai felt her spirit crying as she kept remembering their last moments, the trail growing as bright as the setting sun that they had first kiss to. A final memory surfaced all on it's own as she tried to see where the trail led to.
-Kai was floating, her body didn't feel quite there anymore and she saw a small patch of trees, a large pond, a small fire, and a cloud before her. She felt her feet touch the bright white floor that wasn't there. The group of nature spoke to her, but not to her ears, she heard their voices in her bones. The trees spoke first, somehow male and the embodiment of the earth itself. "You are no longer among the living Kyokai Antanimoto. We are the Elder Elementals, and we have come to greet you and answer any questions you may have before you may cross into the Afterworld."
She looked at them in awe and found the courage to speak. "Ashika, will she live?" Kai asked them in a soft voice filled with fear and wonder.
The pond spoke next, somehow female and the essence of the water that flowed through everything. "Yes, she will live. But she will have a very hard path to journey upon. Much of her life has been sorrow and she must find the strength to continue on her own, and others to help her when she has no strength of her own." It told her gently.
She smiled at the first part, but then frowned at the second. She didn't like knowing that her love would not have a good life. "Why did you take me away from her? I was supposed to be with her forever." She demanded, growing angered at them for her own death.
The fire answered her, female and strong, the fires of passion and the strength of volcanoes in it's voice. "You were not to be her love Kyokai. You were merely the catalyst for her to find her true love. We are always truly sorry for doing this to souls such as yours. You are a gentle and loving soul and we did not wish to do this. The Elemental Lord commanded this, and we must obey." It replied to her kindly.
She felt her eyes want to cry, but no tears fell. She knew now that she was not ment to be with Ashika forever as she had promised her, that it was all created as a lie. Īe, you helped her to find the one she was ment to be happy with Kyokai. Is that not what you wanted for her? True happiness? You helped to ensure her happiness, let that be enough. She told herself softly. "I have one more. Please tell me, in this Afterworld, will I be able to see her while she is alive?" She asked them.
This time the cloud spoke, soft and male, but somehow everywhere and billowing through her soul like the wind. "Yes. You may see her anytime you desire. Elemental Lord, did she meet your requirements?" It seemed to ask something unseen to her.
A sudden voice from her own heart answered, and she knew who the Elemental Lord was, the element of the spirit. "Yes, Elder Wind. She has proved to be pure of heart and true of the spirit. She may enter. Kyokai Antanimoto, I, the Elemental Lord, the Overseer of the four Elemental Elders Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind, grant you passage into the Afterworld. You have passed the test and now you may be given your wings." It said, neither male nor female, but the essence of life itself.
She felt something pour from her back, and she turned to see wings almost like tribal tattoo shadows stretch out behind her. "Go into the Afterworld Kyokai. Welcome home." The Elementals all said together, and she felt at peace.-
She saw the ending of the green trail and showed Erin in her mind where it ended. She is there Erin, and she is safe. Kandace is with her, and you should go to her as well. Go Erin, go to her. She said and allowed herself to vanish from the world altogether and return to the forest.
{My choice was no choice at all, but I don't regret it.}
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:42 am
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Erin Joyce Lee
"They tell me that love is wonderful..."
Erin gasped when Kai first entered her. She couldn't feel any physical difference, but it was eerily similar to having Lizzy back in her mind. She could see the faint green trail that Kai saw, and began following it eagerly.
But she could not stop the flood of memories that Kai accidentally transferred to her. Tears ran down her own cheeks at the sight of Kai in the Afterworld. 'How could anyone be so cruel... Kai deserved to be with Ash... What kind of God would give Ash to me, when Kai is so much kinder, so much worthier... So much better for her?' Erin jumped a bit when Kai spoke in her mind.
'Y-yes... I'll go to her... Thank you, Kai, thank you,' she whispered before Kai left, letting her emotions show through in her mental voice. She knew that she would never be jealous of Kai again. Erin was ashamed for being jealous in the first place. She shook off her sad thoughts and brushed the tears from her eyes, running to where Ash was and falling to her knees in front of the girl's wheelchair, hugging her tightly.
"Ash... Thank the gods... I was afraid... I'm so sorry... Are you okay?" she babbled in a rush, smoothing the hair back from Ash's eyes so she could look into them.
"...but how can something so painful be wonderful?" |
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:27 pm
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Kimberliegh Naruse
Kim stopped looking at the charts in her hands and gave him her full attention. "I only know of two, Mr. Bennet. You must be joking with me, and doing a very bad job of it." She replied, her eyes narrowing at him.
"N-no Ma'am! I can get you Ashika, and that Erin girl. But I know where those two nekos are too!" She heard him say in fear.
She paused, suddenly intruiqed by his sudden knowledge of choice subjects. Her eyes softened and she smiled at him. "Well, Dr. Bennet, I must say I am impressed. I'll take you on, but I must ask what's in it for you?"
He gave her a look of cool calulation and replied in a voice that was almost as cold as her own, "I want to make Dr. Rawlings and that b***h Dr. Tayashi pay. I will do anything I have to do just to see them suffering."
She smiled even wider at him, and shivered at his conviction. "And through the twins, we can do that and so much more Dr. Bennet. Welcome to our team."
[Ah, but don't you see? You have been living in a dream. Now it's time to face the nightmare.]
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:42 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 12:50 pm
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Kandace Bellafado
Kandace smiled at the tall girl when she introduced herself, placing her hand on her hip and leaning slightly. "It's nothing. Me and Dagger here are neighbors, and it's been a while since I saw her." She looked at the girl in the wheelchair with a sad gaze. "And I'm sorry you went through all that Dag. Really I am. You don't get a bit of bad luck sweetie, when it rains, it's a tsunami for you. You take care of yourself, and tell Pitt to stop by and give me updates, okay? I havn't seen him for a while and I miss him stopping by the flower shop. I gotta find Bubbles now, you ladies have a good time and try to stay together will ya?" She said as she walked away, melting into the crowd.
{Yep, I like him. But I'm invisible to him.}
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:03 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:21 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 1:36 pm
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