I sighed in frustration. Tonight was going to be one of those nights I was inflicted with writer's block. I'm in the middle of writing a juicy fanfiction story about Watari and Tatsumi from Descendants of Darkness and my mind is now a total blank. All my friends like my fanfiction stories and I guess their good, I can't tell because it's my writing. My friend Jenny says her favorite one is 'Surprising Results', she read it on the site I post my stories on. I dropped my fingers from the keyboard and got up from my desk. I walked over to the armoire I keep all my movies stored in, I open the doors and pull out my DVDs of Descendants of Darkness. I might as well watch them, maybe they will inspire me to pick up where I left off in my story. I look out my living room window and noticed that a storm was brewing outside, I was glad I was nice and snug in my house. I inserted one of the DVDs into my DVD player.
I turn off all the lights but one and sat down on my sofa, pulling one of my velvet throws over myself. I pick up the remote and press the play button. As I am watching DoD, I see the character Tatsumi come onto the screen and I practically drool. Seichiro Tatsumi was one of the sexiest anime characters I had seen in a long time. I loved his silent broodiness and his glasses made him even sexier. Smart guys normally wear glasses and I'm a sucker for a nerd. I wondered what Tatsumi's body looked like under those suits he always wore because he sure filled out them out nicely. Then all of a sudden, I hear this loud rumble of thunder and seconds later my whole living room lights up. My television flickers for a second but stays on. I got up, went to the window and looked outside. Then another burst of lighting came down but this time it strikes my house. Everything goes dark and I hear something crash in my living room. There are no lights anywhere, not in or outside my house .
I walk across my living room to get my lighter so I can light all my candles. Thank Goddess, I have candles all over the house, no self respecting witch wouldn't. (Oh, did I forget to mention that I'm a witch. Well, I am and have been for most of my life. Being a witch has helped me a lot in life. I have my own pagan store and I'm going to college. I'm anthropology major at the local university. Sorry, I got sidetracked there for a second . . . giggle .^_^.) As I was inching my way across my living room, I tripped and landed on something. It was warm and it groaned, I jumped up and backed away quickly. What in the fuck is that? It's black as pitch in my living room and all I want to know is how did something get into my house when I'm the only one here. I reach out with my hand and it came in contact with one of my living room walls, I smiled as I remembered that I have a sword on each wall of my living room. I inch myself along the wall until my hand comes in contact with the sword hilt. I grab the sword's hilt and pull it from its mounts, I nearly drop it because of its sheer weight. I realize that it must be my Scottish two-handed broadsword, it's similar to the one Mel Gibson has in the movie 'Braveheart'.
I turn quickly when I hear who or whatever it was move around on my floor, I could hear it mumbling under its breath. I raise the sword above my head, ready to swing in its direction, when the light in my living room pops on. My eyes widen as I slowly lower my arms and the sword to the floor. I stare in shock as I see Tatsumi from Descendants of Darkness stand up in the middle of my living room and he isn't a cartoon either but a flesh and blood man. HOLY FUCK! He turned and looked at me, his eyes widening. I raise a hand to my mouth, I must have said that out loud. I watched as his eyes narrowed while looking at me. I could see his dark power swirling in the depths of his midnight blue eyes. I watched in slow motion as he pushed back his glasses with one hand and raised the other, then I realized he was about to cast.
"WAIT!" I yell and he stops. His hand is still in position and he's looking at me warily. "You're Seichiro Tatsumi, aren't you?" I ask him, his eyes narrow even more.
"How do you know my name?" He says in a dark sexy voice that sent shivers up my spine.
"You're not going to believe me but you're a character from a manga series called Descendants of Darkness. You're a Guardian of Death for the Summons Bureau of the Ministry of Hades."
"How do you know this, woman?" He raised his hand even higher. Oh, my god, he's going to kill me before I can show him one of the mangas! Wait, I can turn the DVD back on and let him see himself on the anime.
"Wait! Wait! I have proof! I can show you that I'm telling the truth!"
"I don't believe you but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and let you prove yourself." I slowly inched my way over to my sofa and picked up my DVD player remote and the TV remote. I turned on the television and the DVD player, I went through the menu on the DVD and pushed play.
"Here's my proof, just watch the television. Look there you are!" Tatsumi looked over at the television and the moment he saw himself on the screen, his attitude changed. His hand dropped and so did his mouth.
He stared at himself on the screen in fascination. "What dark sorcery is this?" he asks.
"It's not dark sorcery, um, Tatsumi. Oh god, I can't believe you're really in my living room!" I said with a squeal and a huge grin pasted on my face. He looks at me like I have lost my mind or something.
"What?" I asked him. "You're my favorite character from Descendants of Darkness. I don't know how you ended up, in the flesh, in my living room but I don't plan on questioning the Goddess or her divine movements." Then I noticed how distressed he looked. I placed the sword across one of my armchairs and walked slowly over to where he was standing. He looked utterly shocked and confused.
"What's wrong?" I asked as I laid my hand on his arm. The muscles were warm and bunched up under my touch. He looked down at me, I could see questions floating around in his midnight gaze. Damn this man is tall, I'm about to break my neck looking up at him.
"If what you say is true, then I'm not real and if I'm not real then how am I here in what is obviously your house." I rubbed my hand along his arm in reassurance.
"I don't know but the Goddess works in mysterious ways." One minute he's looking at me then I watch as his eyes roll into the back of his head and he collapses in a heap back onto my floor. Then all of a sudden, the room goes dark, I look around and there is nothing, just emptiness. I look down and see Tatsumi sprawled at my feet but when I looked up there is nothing, just Tatsumi and me in utter darkness.
"What in the hell?" I say and it echoes throughout the darkness. I then realize I am not in my house any more. I must on another plane of existence.
"Yes, you are, Mimi." I heard a female voice say to me. I look around the empty space and then see a woman walking towards me. She is as pale as the moon and her hair looked like it was dusted with starlight. Then, I realize she is the Goddess, mother of all creation.
"Oh, Divine Mother!" I say as I drop to my knees in reverence. Then I felt her hand under my chin. She tilts my head up and I look into her fathomless crystal blue eyes.
"Get up, Mimi. You never have to bow to me, I am not that special." she said with a giggle. Her giggle filled me with instant happiness. I stand up and she drops her hand from my chin. I watched as she walked over to Tatsumi.
"Seichiro? Wake up, Seichiro." she whispered and I watched as Tatsumi opened his eyes. He sat up and rubbed his head, he must have hit it when he collapsed. The Goddess reached out and touched where he was rubbing. He lifted his head and his eyes widened when he saw the woman standing above him.
"My Lady Amaterasu!" he said in surprise and bowed down before her. She giggled and shook her head.
"What is up with you humans? Please stand before me, Seichiro Tatsumi. You don't have bow before me, I'm really not that special." She helped him to his feet and he just stared down at her in awe.
"Now since I have both of your attentions, I will tell you why I have appeared to you. Mimi Uesegi, you have lived your life in isolation from others because you don't wish to be hurt. You shy away from relationships because of your differece. I understand why you do this completely, my daughter."
She turned, looked at Tatsumi and smiled. "You, Seichiro Tatsumi, are a character of a manga. You don't believe that you are real and you wonder why you were brought to life. You have always been real not only to your creator but also to the people who read the stories you are from."
I was still in awe of my glorious goddess standing in front of me. I had always wished I could tell her that I wanted her to take away the power I was given because it had made me different from others. I hated being alone in this world and there was no one who understood how I felt. I looked over at Tatsumi and sighed. I had always felt kinship with Tatsumi, he was the one I identified with in the DoD mangas. He was silent, always alone and had to be strong. He depended on himself instead of others because of his strength.
"That's exactly right, Mimi, his strength is why I gave him life in your world. Remember, Mimi, I see and hear everything you do or think, I know your past and your future. Seichiro, I know your deepest wish is to be loved for yourself , for someone to see the man beneath the power. I have brought you to Mimi's plane of reality because of your wish. You both carry the power of the shadow realm, which in itself is a feat, especially for a human."
"Why me? Why not any of the others?" Tatsumi quietly asked.
"Who said I haven't brought over any of the others? You are the last of the Guardians I have given this choice to. None of the others have made the choice to stay because they were more attached to the life they already had. Mimi was a teen when her power developed itself and she became a witch to help to control it. She is bonded to the Shadow realm like you Tatsumi. Maybe you two will be able to help each other learn how to be more accepting of the world around you. You can help her learn how to connect to other people and she can help you learn the wonders of this world. If you need me, just call and I will hear you my children."