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Chapter one: Kibou
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(Kibou's PoV)
I walked around not really knowing where I was going. My head throbbed and I could barely see past my black bangs that were infront of my eyes, wet from the pouring rain. I put a jacket on and my hair, that was neatly put into a french braid wwas completely ruined by the rain and my hand because of fustration. I finally came to a large building with huge lettering at the top saying:
TACOMA PUBLIC LIBRARY
I walked inside and I saw every eye in there stare at me breifly, but then went back to what they were doing. I started to walk up and down the isles. I got really far into the library when a book fell on my head. I lost my balance by the sudden shock and rubbed my head that throbbed even more now. I picked the book up.
THE UNIVERSE OF THE FOUR GODS
The story of a warrior
english translation
That would be a strange title for a book. I opened the book dusty book and I could easily feel that it was fragile. I opened it and started to read it:
This is the story of a Suzaku Warrior, one of seven destined to protect the Preistess of Suzaku,
the warrior Chiriko, the seishi with the power of knowlegde. This story is a curse and when the
first page is turned the story begins and the reader becomes Chiriko. The fate of this person
depends on the gender of the person and the choices that the person makes throughout it.
Confused, I tried to flip to the middle of the book, but a red light surounded me and I felt myself lift from the groud as if flying. Pressurre then suddenly pressed against me and soon I oculd feel, hear, or see anything.
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I woke feeling a warm towel on my fore head. I opened my eyes and saw myself under an unfamiliar ceiling that I could barely see. I could see the light of a candle dimmly lighting the room. I sat up but then a horrible pain came to my head and I instantly layed back down. I grabbed my head in pain and tossed and turned around the bed until the pain went away.
"You should try to stay resting." said an unfamiliar voice of a young male.
I looked to the side and saw a shadow of a figure of a person sitting in a chair. I couldn't quite make out what he looked like. "Where am I?"
"Your in Shouryuu."
"Shouryuu? Where's that?"
"It's a small town, I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of it." he replied.
"Who are you?"
"Ri Houjun."
"Thank you for taking care of me. I'm..."
I tried to think of it....I couldn't remember my name! Now that I think about it....Why couldn't I remember anything? "I'm...." I tried harder to think of it, then a name came to me, Chiriko....But something inside me told me that wasn't it. "I don't remember," I said feeling foolish.
"You don't? It must've been because of that head injury."
I felt my forehead, it was burning. I tried to trace back in my memory of at least my name. "K.." I began...I started with a "K." "K-Kibou...Yeah, that was it! My name's Kibou."
Houjun lit another candle so I could see his face. Eyes that seemed reddish but were probably brown, blue hair that was tied back in a low ponytail. "Can you remember anything else.
I shook my head. "Maybe my memory will come back to me when I don't have a headache. I seem tor remember all my words, but I don't remember any real memories."
There was a knock at the door. "Houjun?" it was a young female's voice. "Can I come in?"
"Yeah." he answered.
A young girl with brown hair wearing a pink dress came in. She smiled when she saw me. "You woke up. I was starting to get worried, you were asleep for 3 days."
"Really? I'm surprised, I'm Kibou."
"I'm Kouran." she said.
She then turned her attention away from me and looked to Houjun. "Houjun, can I speak with you?"
Her eyes clearly showed that it was bad news. Houjun got up and went outside the room. I heard nothing but muttering outside the door. "Kouran, wait!" ssaid Houjun's voice, but I only heard running off. They must've been together...Houjun came back in, he had an expression of anger but I could still see that he was very greived. He held something in his hand but the put it down in a table next to me. An engagement ring droped from it. (Did they even have rings? oh well, now they do.) They were engaged..
He suddenly slammed his fist into the wall. "I swear I'll kill him!"
I saw tears fill his eyes and stream down his face. "Don't try to think to harshly on it." I said trying to calm him. "I'm sure she just had a misunderstanding and has no way of handling but like this...I'm sorry for eavsedropping but I heard a little bit...I'm sure she really loves you."
"But my best friend....how can he do that?!" he yelled furiously.
"If you just--.....I'll talk to Kouran. I'm sure she'll understand."
He looked to me a bit shocked. "Your sick, and you just woke up, I don't want to be a burd--"
"Don't worry." I said interupting him. "I already feel better. I probably need some fresh air. I'll talk to Kouran, she's your finace`, she has to be understnading, because she wouldn't of said yes unless she loved you."
He help me out of bed. "Thank you." he said.
He told me where I might be able to fin Kouran. I found her half way there by a pond. I heard thunder, clouds were already above me, a storm was coming.
"Kouran." I said as I sat next to her, she was crying. "Kouran, your being foolish, you love Houjun, don't you?"
"I betrayed him." she sobed. "I kissed another man, I can't possibly marry him now."
"But he still loves you, and you love him, you can still marry as long as the love stands." I said no looking to the sky.
"I can't...I feel too guilty." she said hugging her knees.
"You have to think about his feelings too Kouran! Your being stubburn, he's not mad at you! He loves you!" she didn't respond. There was no convincing her. "Come on Kouran, we have to get inside a storm's coming."
Strong winds winds started to come around by the time we got to Kouran's house. I heard the rain starting to pour outside. And it was really pouring! I looked out the window. I had a sudden vision before my eyes, a quick flash of a girl who looked like me but in strange clothes, walking in the rain..I blinked. I rubbed my arms, I somehow became cold, and I could feel that girl's emotions, anger and fustration, but I couldn't figure out why.. I heard a loud crash in the distance and a flash of a dam breaking came to my eyes and I fell backwards and away from the window. Instantly I ran to where Kouran was. "We have to get out of here!"
"Why, what's wrong?" she asked getting up abruptly.
"I have a bad feeling about something, come on, we have to get to a higher elevation!" I yelled as I grabed Kouran's arm and burst out the door, I was completely wet almost instantly. I pulled her to a higher land up hill and the flood was already proceeding and it was going through rather quickly. The whole town was already starting to ruin. The dam was broken..We kept going and the water came to our feet and kouran being behind me, she triped. She shreiked, I quickly turned around and grabed her arm. Water rose very quickly up to her chest. I tried to pull her up, but I wasn't strong enough. Already I felt greived, and I wanted to pull her up, if she died, who know's how Houjun would feel. Tears of pain and greif started to fill my eyes as I tried harder to pull her up. "Hang on Kouran!"
Then pressure came to my stomache, I was hit, a rock! It was flying fast and knocked the air completely out of me. I tried to hold on but my grip was loosening. I tried to hold on as I saw the flood come up to her neck. "Please Kouran! Hold on!!"
Her grip was starting to get a bit more weaker as she fell more unconsious. A migrain struck me and I could barely see her, but I held on. "Kibou....Stay with Houjun....don't leave him...."
She made her grip completely loosen and I wasn't strong enough to hold on, her head buried into the rushing water. Tears streamed down my face. "Kouran!!"
I clenched my hands. "Kouran.."
I put my right arm over my stomache and was crouched down feeling a terrible pain in my stomache. My vision was strait because of the headache that I could only try to ignore. I saw in the distance, Houjun, fighting his friend. I ran to him. When I came close enough, I wanted to stop him but his friend was in the exact situation that Kouran and I were at, Houjun was holding on to him. I tried to fight the wind to help him, but then a speeding log came flying towards him. "HOUJUN! DUCK!!!"
He looked over and the log him right in the face and unwillingly let his friend go...His friend instantly disapeared. The log wasn't broken and came towards me, and me not fast enough, it hit me right on my upper arm. I grabbed it in pain and fell to my knees. With every inch of my body aching badly, I crawled to Houjun who was screaming in pain from losing his left eye, his hand that held the eye was completely bloody and the blood had stained his hair but it was dripping out from the pouring rain. I came next to him and riped the sleeve off that was almost riiped off anyway on my left arm. "Come on, we have to get that bleeding to stop."
My left arm, too numb to feel pain, but barely moving, riped the sleeve a little more. "Tilt your head back."
I seemed to remember some information that I learned, but I couldn't tell where I learned it from. "Calm down Houjun."
I wraped the cloth around his eye tightly and tied it. I quickly turned away from him when I felt something come up my throat, my head felt like it was about to explode like a bomb was just set off. A hurtful cough came out and I squeezed my eyes shut, but after, the pain in my head went away a little. I opened my eyes and saw a pool of blood in front of me.
"We need to find help, I don't know if the bleeding will stop from your eye." I said very weakly.
Houjun riped a part of his own clothing off and wrapped it around my arm. "Your more hurt than I am, you should be more concerned for yourself." He picked me up as the I felt the wind starting to clam and the rain starting to slow down. Houjun and I were the only surviving of the flood....
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It's a depressing start and I'm just added some things of my own as a dam and the time when Kouran broke off the marrage was different because Kibou was there. Anyway, please tell me what you thoughtt of it and if you would like me to continue. And it's two thirty in the freakin morning, I'm freakin tired! Review! ^^
~*Cosmicmoon
Chapter one: Kibou
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(Kibou's PoV)
I walked around not really knowing where I was going. My head throbbed and I could barely see past my black bangs that were infront of my eyes, wet from the pouring rain. I put a jacket on and my hair, that was neatly put into a french braid wwas completely ruined by the rain and my hand because of fustration. I finally came to a large building with huge lettering at the top saying:
TACOMA PUBLIC LIBRARY
I walked inside and I saw every eye in there stare at me breifly, but then went back to what they were doing. I started to walk up and down the isles. I got really far into the library when a book fell on my head. I lost my balance by the sudden shock and rubbed my head that throbbed even more now. I picked the book up.
THE UNIVERSE OF THE FOUR GODS
The story of a warrior
english translation
That would be a strange title for a book. I opened the book dusty book and I could easily feel that it was fragile. I opened it and started to read it:
This is the story of a Suzaku Warrior, one of seven destined to protect the Preistess of Suzaku,
the warrior Chiriko, the seishi with the power of knowlegde. This story is a curse and when the
first page is turned the story begins and the reader becomes Chiriko. The fate of this person
depends on the gender of the person and the choices that the person makes throughout it.
Confused, I tried to flip to the middle of the book, but a red light surounded me and I felt myself lift from the groud as if flying. Pressurre then suddenly pressed against me and soon I oculd feel, hear, or see anything.
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I woke feeling a warm towel on my fore head. I opened my eyes and saw myself under an unfamiliar ceiling that I could barely see. I could see the light of a candle dimmly lighting the room. I sat up but then a horrible pain came to my head and I instantly layed back down. I grabbed my head in pain and tossed and turned around the bed until the pain went away.
"You should try to stay resting." said an unfamiliar voice of a young male.
I looked to the side and saw a shadow of a figure of a person sitting in a chair. I couldn't quite make out what he looked like. "Where am I?"
"Your in Shouryuu."
"Shouryuu? Where's that?"
"It's a small town, I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of it." he replied.
"Who are you?"
"Ri Houjun."
"Thank you for taking care of me. I'm..."
I tried to think of it....I couldn't remember my name! Now that I think about it....Why couldn't I remember anything? "I'm...." I tried harder to think of it, then a name came to me, Chiriko....But something inside me told me that wasn't it. "I don't remember," I said feeling foolish.
"You don't? It must've been because of that head injury."
I felt my forehead, it was burning. I tried to trace back in my memory of at least my name. "K.." I began...I started with a "K." "K-Kibou...Yeah, that was it! My name's Kibou."
Houjun lit another candle so I could see his face. Eyes that seemed reddish but were probably brown, blue hair that was tied back in a low ponytail. "Can you remember anything else.
I shook my head. "Maybe my memory will come back to me when I don't have a headache. I seem tor remember all my words, but I don't remember any real memories."
There was a knock at the door. "Houjun?" it was a young female's voice. "Can I come in?"
"Yeah." he answered.
A young girl with brown hair wearing a pink dress came in. She smiled when she saw me. "You woke up. I was starting to get worried, you were asleep for 3 days."
"Really? I'm surprised, I'm Kibou."
"I'm Kouran." she said.
She then turned her attention away from me and looked to Houjun. "Houjun, can I speak with you?"
Her eyes clearly showed that it was bad news. Houjun got up and went outside the room. I heard nothing but muttering outside the door. "Kouran, wait!" ssaid Houjun's voice, but I only heard running off. They must've been together...Houjun came back in, he had an expression of anger but I could still see that he was very greived. He held something in his hand but the put it down in a table next to me. An engagement ring droped from it. (Did they even have rings? oh well, now they do.) They were engaged..
He suddenly slammed his fist into the wall. "I swear I'll kill him!"
I saw tears fill his eyes and stream down his face. "Don't try to think to harshly on it." I said trying to calm him. "I'm sure she just had a misunderstanding and has no way of handling but like this...I'm sorry for eavsedropping but I heard a little bit...I'm sure she really loves you."
"But my best friend....how can he do that?!" he yelled furiously.
"If you just--.....I'll talk to Kouran. I'm sure she'll understand."
He looked to me a bit shocked. "Your sick, and you just woke up, I don't want to be a burd--"
"Don't worry." I said interupting him. "I already feel better. I probably need some fresh air. I'll talk to Kouran, she's your finace`, she has to be understnading, because she wouldn't of said yes unless she loved you."
He help me out of bed. "Thank you." he said.
He told me where I might be able to fin Kouran. I found her half way there by a pond. I heard thunder, clouds were already above me, a storm was coming.
"Kouran." I said as I sat next to her, she was crying. "Kouran, your being foolish, you love Houjun, don't you?"
"I betrayed him." she sobed. "I kissed another man, I can't possibly marry him now."
"But he still loves you, and you love him, you can still marry as long as the love stands." I said no looking to the sky.
"I can't...I feel too guilty." she said hugging her knees.
"You have to think about his feelings too Kouran! Your being stubburn, he's not mad at you! He loves you!" she didn't respond. There was no convincing her. "Come on Kouran, we have to get inside a storm's coming."
Strong winds winds started to come around by the time we got to Kouran's house. I heard the rain starting to pour outside. And it was really pouring! I looked out the window. I had a sudden vision before my eyes, a quick flash of a girl who looked like me but in strange clothes, walking in the rain..I blinked. I rubbed my arms, I somehow became cold, and I could feel that girl's emotions, anger and fustration, but I couldn't figure out why.. I heard a loud crash in the distance and a flash of a dam breaking came to my eyes and I fell backwards and away from the window. Instantly I ran to where Kouran was. "We have to get out of here!"
"Why, what's wrong?" she asked getting up abruptly.
"I have a bad feeling about something, come on, we have to get to a higher elevation!" I yelled as I grabed Kouran's arm and burst out the door, I was completely wet almost instantly. I pulled her to a higher land up hill and the flood was already proceeding and it was going through rather quickly. The whole town was already starting to ruin. The dam was broken..We kept going and the water came to our feet and kouran being behind me, she triped. She shreiked, I quickly turned around and grabed her arm. Water rose very quickly up to her chest. I tried to pull her up, but I wasn't strong enough. Already I felt greived, and I wanted to pull her up, if she died, who know's how Houjun would feel. Tears of pain and greif started to fill my eyes as I tried harder to pull her up. "Hang on Kouran!"
Then pressure came to my stomache, I was hit, a rock! It was flying fast and knocked the air completely out of me. I tried to hold on but my grip was loosening. I tried to hold on as I saw the flood come up to her neck. "Please Kouran! Hold on!!"
Her grip was starting to get a bit more weaker as she fell more unconsious. A migrain struck me and I could barely see her, but I held on. "Kibou....Stay with Houjun....don't leave him...."
She made her grip completely loosen and I wasn't strong enough to hold on, her head buried into the rushing water. Tears streamed down my face. "Kouran!!"
I clenched my hands. "Kouran.."
I put my right arm over my stomache and was crouched down feeling a terrible pain in my stomache. My vision was strait because of the headache that I could only try to ignore. I saw in the distance, Houjun, fighting his friend. I ran to him. When I came close enough, I wanted to stop him but his friend was in the exact situation that Kouran and I were at, Houjun was holding on to him. I tried to fight the wind to help him, but then a speeding log came flying towards him. "HOUJUN! DUCK!!!"
He looked over and the log him right in the face and unwillingly let his friend go...His friend instantly disapeared. The log wasn't broken and came towards me, and me not fast enough, it hit me right on my upper arm. I grabbed it in pain and fell to my knees. With every inch of my body aching badly, I crawled to Houjun who was screaming in pain from losing his left eye, his hand that held the eye was completely bloody and the blood had stained his hair but it was dripping out from the pouring rain. I came next to him and riped the sleeve off that was almost riiped off anyway on my left arm. "Come on, we have to get that bleeding to stop."
My left arm, too numb to feel pain, but barely moving, riped the sleeve a little more. "Tilt your head back."
I seemed to remember some information that I learned, but I couldn't tell where I learned it from. "Calm down Houjun."
I wraped the cloth around his eye tightly and tied it. I quickly turned away from him when I felt something come up my throat, my head felt like it was about to explode like a bomb was just set off. A hurtful cough came out and I squeezed my eyes shut, but after, the pain in my head went away a little. I opened my eyes and saw a pool of blood in front of me.
"We need to find help, I don't know if the bleeding will stop from your eye." I said very weakly.
Houjun riped a part of his own clothing off and wrapped it around my arm. "Your more hurt than I am, you should be more concerned for yourself." He picked me up as the I felt the wind starting to clam and the rain starting to slow down. Houjun and I were the only surviving of the flood....
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It's a depressing start and I'm just added some things of my own as a dam and the time when Kouran broke off the marrage was different because Kibou was there. Anyway, please tell me what you thoughtt of it and if you would like me to continue. And it's two thirty in the freakin morning, I'm freakin tired! Review! ^^
~*Cosmicmoon
