Scarefest...or not
A rare occurrence from me indeed, a comedy fic and in the My Hime section no less. This is something I thought of awhile back and decided to throw it together to at least get it out of my head before another violent fic takes hold of my mind. Anyways please read and review. I do not own My Hime, it is owned by Sunrise and distributed by Bandai.
On the island known as Fuuka, peace and quiet reigned. To anyone passing by in either a plane or a boat, they never would have known that a terrible series of battles had taken place there, fought by a group of super powered young women known only as HiME. Nor will those passer-bys ever discover that truth due to the masterful abilities of certain branches of the Japanese Government that know more than enough about info gathering and manipulation. But the fact that the former HiME didn't have reporters or investigators breathing down the backs of their necks about the previous events was one thing they were all grateful for, as it meant a chance to go about their lives as normal civilians for a change. This also extended to the non super powered populace of the island. Here is one such story of one of those people trying to live a normal life in such an aftermath, and how even that can bring its own troubles even without the aid of Orphans and Childs, but with close friends and acquaintances.
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Eight P.M. The final hour had arrived for one Yuuichi Tate, and a long overdue plan of his was only a half hour away. Walking over to the aisles, he soon began to gather up the necessary ingredients for his little celebration. First off was a selection of various unhealthy snacks, consisting of various kinds of potato chips: cheddar and sour cream, Lay's barbecue flavored, and a few cans of regular flavored Pringles, plain flavored potato chips, and a small bag of Munchos to even out the plain chips with the flavored ones. Yuuichi then made his way over to the one snack you could never have enough of when it came to movies, monster or otherwise. Popcorn. And a special night like this called for special popcorn, so it was best to select the best variety for the evening. Grabbing up a packet of the plain kind and a packet of garlic flavored. According to a source online, it was a very tasty variety, and would go along nicely for when he sat down to watch one of the scarier vampire flicks ever filmed: Salem's Lot.
Afterwards he got a few Two Liter bottles of Coke and a bottle of Bacardi Silver. The bagged food was set. Once home Yuuichi planned to order a pizza to finally kick off the event.
After finally logging out from the computer to signify that his shift was done, and throwing his vest into his locker, Yuuichi set about carrying the heavier bags with him.
Arriving outside of the store, Yuuichi hurried over to the bus stop, lugging the heavy bags of chips and various bottles with him. Once seated, He went over a mental checklist of the films he'd be spending time watching over the course of the next 4 days and nights. First was Halloween, the original classic from nineteen seventy nine starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance. The next one would be the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the one that had some people believing they were watching a snuff film by how beat up the camera looked and how convincing the acting was on the part of the female victim. After that it would be time to sleep and rest for six or seven hours at the most, and then breakfast, and followed up by returning to the marathon with the original Friday the 13th film. Not even a single glimpse of a hockey mask anywhere in the film but still an effective film nonetheless. Following that film would be the first Nightmare on Elm Street film, before its main villain Freddy Kruegger became a catch phrase spewing anti villain. How an entire generation could come to love and admire an undead child molester with burnt skin and claws for hands was beyond Yuuichi's grasp. This would be the last thought on the matter as the bus Yuuichi was riding had come to his destination, his apartment.
Laying the bags on the counter, Yuuichi proceeded to set the mood for his little festival of fright and closed the blinds on the curtains, turned the television on and then proceeded to turn off the lights. Watching a horror movie in a brightly lit area only called you on being cowardly or uninformed on the true art of the horror movie world and how to view such creatures. Picking up the phone, Yuuichi dialed the number for the local pizza parlor and phoned in his order. "Yeah is this Satsuki's Pizza? I'd like to order two large pepperoni pizzas and have them delivered to the SouthSide Apartment complex. An hour? Okay yeah that's fine. I'll be sure to pay up front, k' thanks" Yuuichi said to the voice on the other end of the line as he hung up the phone.
Walking over to his entertainment center, Yuuichi opened up the locked door with a key he had on his keychain and threw open the three foot tall door and perused the selection of dvd's. It was thanks to much mental recognition that Yuuichi knew where the DVD for Halloween was kept amongst the large selection of his films such as the special editions of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune's biggest hits, including The Seven Samurai, The Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, and The Hidden Fortress. Yuuichi's collection also included a bunch of obscure Chanbara films from the 70's that had inspired him to take up swordplay in the first place, to a few anime he had gotten into with his friends back in Tokyo. Finally settling on the simple edition of Halloween that he had on his mind, Yuuichi popped open the case and upon turning on and setting up the dvd player, placed the disc onto the tray and sat back on the couch, a bag of Munchos within reach of his grasp.
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It was at least a good fifteen to twenty minutes into the movie and Yuuichi had just seen Donald Pleasance' character, Sam Loomis pull up to the Smith's Grove Insane Asylum to find all the inmates walking around outside of their padded cells that he heard a knock at his door. He almost wondered for a moment if a man with a pale, white mask that resembled a younger William Shatner would be on the other side waiting for him, butcher knife in hand. Deciding to brave it, Yuuichi opened the door to reveal Natsuki Kuuga. "Hey I just came by to give you back that copy of Torque you lent me" Natsuki said, handing the borrowed dvd back to Yuuichi. "So, how was it?" he asked the resident biker of Fuuka island. "The bike riding was good, but everything else kind of sucked" Natsuki responded. "Eh I've been thinking about throwing this thing to the local pawn shop anyways" Yuuichi said back. "To make it up to you, you can come in and borrow something from my Chow Yun Fat collection. All Hong Kong era, I promise you. No Bullet Proof Monk or Dragonball Evolution I promise" Yuuichi said in response. Natsuki's curiosity was piqued at the thought of seeing some of the gun battles that inspired alot of what Hollywood was already churning out, and was able to give in. "Alright, let's see if you have Hard Boiled or The Killer for me to watch this weekend" Natsuki said walking into Tate's apartment and guided over to the large dvd collection of Yuuichi's entertainment center. She was about to begin looking for the film when the paused film on Tate's television screen caught her eye "Is that Halloween?" Natsuki asked. "Yup, the original too" Yuuichi replied.
"I haven't seen this in ages, is it alright if I stay in and watch it?" Natsuki asked. Yuuichi had nothing against Natsuki. He had let the whole getting clocked upside the head and knee to his stomach from her back on the ferry slide since it had been so long ago, but he had originally planned to just watch the large list of horror movies by himself, but it was just Natsuki, and odds are she would just watch Halloween and then take off. So to that Yuuichi couldn't bring himself to say no. One little roadblock in his plans wasn't going to permanently ruin things. "Sure, pull up a seat on the couch, got a full line up of junk food and a couple pizzas should be here within a half hour or so" Yuuichi said. "Cool, thanks" Natsuki said making herself comfortable. Yuuichi took his place across from her and turned off the pause button and the film resumed.
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The two friends sat side by side watching the film move along, and they had just gotten to the part where young Tommy Doyle had just run into the boogeyman himself, Michael Myers. A knock at the door brought them back to reality. Noticing the quick jump Yuuichi gave off, Natsuki spoke up: "You expecting the boogeyman to come over tonight Yuuichi?" she said jokingly. "Nope, the pizza man" Yuuichi said back. "Ok what horror movie guy goes by that nickname?" Natsuki asked with her right eyebrow raised. "Probably Freddy Kruegger. Either way I'm hungry for something Italian so let me take care of this" Yuuichi said, pausing the movie and making his way to the door. Opening it, he found that it was indeed the pizza man, and the former class president Shizuru Fujino.
"Hey Yuuichi, you pay the guy yet? I want to see the rest of the movie" Natsuki asked as to why Yuuichi hadn't returned and pressed the pause button to let the movie resume. "No but I'm pretty sure there's something here at the door for the both of us" Yuuichi said in response. "What? Did you order one with maiyonaisse as the special topping?" Natsuki joked. Trying his hardest not to lose his appetite at the thought of a pizza with mayo instead of tomatto sauce, Yuuichi spoke again, hoping to get Natsuki's attention. "I think you better just, come on over" Yuuichi said. Deciding to finally see what Yuuichi was talking about, Natsuki rose up from the couch and walked over to the doorway and found her girlfriend Shizuru waiting for her. "I was waiting for you for almost an hour, it shouldn't take you that long to return a dvd Natsuki" Shizuru said, almost breaking her trademark calm appearance and even tone of voice.
Noticing the struggling Pizza man, Yuuichi led him inside. "Come on, let's get those paid for before you drop them" Yuuichi said as he led the deliveryman away from the two chatting women. Thus far Yuuichi had hoped that it wouldn't turn into something ugly or into a horror movie of its own right in his doorway. Slipping the pizza man the right amount of yen and sending the man off with a decent tip, Yuuichi carried the pizzas over to the kitchen table and opened the boxes up. His nose was met with the trademark scene he had always welcomed from Satsuki's pizzas. Two large pepperoni pizzas with classic horror films, on a dark Friday night, a winning combination. Till Yuuichi again factored in the arguing friends in his doorway. The evil part of his brain was tempted to just shut the door on them and let them have their fight away from he and his marathon in peace, but they were friends and peace was the last thing he'd get. Hoping to smooth things over, Tate interjected.
"Ok, Ok now look. First off I was just watching Halloween and Natsuki came over to return the dvd. I offered to let her borrow another film from my library since she didn't like it as a means of making up for it. She came in and saw that I was watching Halloween and asked if she could come in and watch it. I didn't know that she liked the movie so I didn't know she'd come in and see it. She's a friend so I didn't want to just tell her to get the heck out so I let her stay and watch it. I'm the reason she stayed late. I apologize" Yuuichi said to the student council president. Shizuru relaxed and uncrossed her arms. It took alot of guts to come forward and take the blame off of her girlfriend like that, and it was proof as to why a certain redhead had indeed fallen for him. "Ok Yuuichi, I forgive you, and Natsuki. So I hear you're having a horror movie festival in your apartment?" Shizuru asked. "Yup, kicked it off with Halloween and I plan on watching a few more all through out the weekend" Yuuichi said. "Well, how about I tag along and make sure Natsuki doesn't hog all the snacks to herself, and tune in when you throw in a copy of a good vampire movie" Shizuru added.
'Add another one to the list' Tate thought to himself. "okay now that that's settled, lets get back to the movie" Tate said as he reached for the remote. Only to have it snatched away by Natsuki. "I'll be taking control of this, now how about you go round us up some food. Better hurry up or the pizza's gonna get too cold" Natsuki said as she hit the pause button. 'So I go from audience to host' Tate thought again and he quietly sighed to himself and went to go get some paper plates from the cupboard for the two girls who had unknowingly barged in on his own private event.
Returning to the girls with a plate with two slices each, Yuuichi settled down on the neighboring recliner just across from the couch, since Shizuru had made herself comfortable right beside Natsuki.
The film had continued on with Michael Myers appearing before one girl wearing a sheet over his body and her recently slain boyfriend's glasses. The girl was foolishly unaware that she would soon be joining him. The events leading up to this moment had helped Yuuichi to forget about the previous interruptions. Until another knock at the door changed all that. "Either of you two order anymore food?" Yuuichi asked the two girls. A pair of heads shaking from side to side was his response. Natsuki still had claim of the remote so Yuuichi hadn't bothered trying to pause the movie anymore and just went to see who was knocking at his door this time. Walking to the door, Yuuichi revealed Mikoto Minagi, Mai's room-mate, slumped over and muttering to herself.
'You have got to be kidding me' Tate thought to himself.
Well here's the first chapter folks. Hope you liked it and I hope you stick around for the rest. Read and Review, sorry if any film bashing offends you.