Resonance

Chapter 1: Stranded! Fighting Mutant Rabbits in the Woods?

A sound soul, dwells within a sound mind, and a sound body...

"Explain to me why we are out here again?" My partner Harumi muttered, irritated.

"My grandmother said it builds strength and character." I said, leaning back against a tree.

Right now we were standing in a woods in the middle of no where. It was pretty bright out, but all the trees made the woods dark and gloomy. I agreed with my grandmother that it could help build skill and everything, mainly because she didn't give us any tools to use. We would have to do everything by ourselves.

"Ugh. I'm starving! Do you have and food on you?" Haru moaned, holding her stomach. I stuck my hands into my jacket pocket and felt some plastic in the left pocket. I pulled it out and there was a small package of smashed peanuts. I ripped the top off the package and put a few in my mouth. I suddenly started choking and gasping for air, and was finally able to catch my breath. I threw the bag of peanuts down in disgust.

"You sir, are a disgrace to assorted nuts everywhere!" I shouted. Haru smirked.

"Well, we aren't going to find our way out of here by just laying around. Lets go." She started walking away, her long red hair flipping back and forth in its usual braided ponytail. I quickly got up and ran to catch up with her. I wrapped a piece of my long dark brown hair around my finger and examined the hot pink ends.

I really need a trim...

I stumbled over a pile of twigs and waved my arms frantically to keep my balance. Haru rolled her bright green eyes and kept walking. I huffed and started to look around at the woods, taking in every single detail.

I have always had a tendency to look for the very last detail in everything. Ever since I was a small child I have been driven to find one special treasure, one that I care about more than else. I think this is the reason my name was changed to Takara, which means treasure. Unfortunately I haven't found my treasure, but I'm not going to stop until I do.

Since the day I was born I was destined to become a Meister. My mother was a Meister, and my father was her partner and weapon. They were a really great team, but they're gone now. I'm not sure if they are actually dead, but when I was only five, they went missing after being assigned to a difficult task. No one has heard from them since. That is when I started to live with my grandmother, who was also a Meister when she was younger so she made sure that I knew everything, down to the last detail.

I think that's when my desire to find my treasure first started. I developed a bit of obsessive compulsive disorder as well, I needed for everything to be clean or I wouldn't be able to concentrate. I've gotten a lot better though. I used to not be able to stand being in a room when there was a smudge on the coffee table; I would have to clean it right that second. Now I don't have the urge to clean it instantly...maybe a few hours later, but not instantly.

"So what are we supposed to do out here? Fight evil?" Haru said with sarcasm in her voice.

"Yeah, I don't know. What's so evil about a woods?" I replied, but then ran straight into a tree. "Oww..."

"Apparently, trees." Haru snorted. I rolled my deep pinkish-purple eyes and kept walking, starting to scan the area again."Something wrong?" Haru asked, with a little concern in her voice.

"I can't miss anything...because if I did, then I could miss "it"...and that can't happen." I replied in a small voice.

"Your such a obsessive freak. I think if you stop looking for "it", then you might find it sooner. Just relax." She replied, sounding a bit annoyed.

"I just can't forget. I've been driven to find "it", whatever "it" is, ever since was born." I mumbled. I didn't notice that Haru had stopped walking and I ran into her. "What the heck, Haru?!" Her face was blank.

"Does something seem a bit...off...to you?" She said, her eyes darting around to different places. Just then some bushes started rustling in front of us."Whose there?!" Haru shouted, "Come out now!"A small gray bunny jumped out of the bushes and stared up at us. We stood there in silence. But I couldn't hold it in any longer and I snorted.

"Bahahaha! It's just a little rabbit!" I managed to squeak out between fits of laughter.

"Right...well I guess it was nothing." Haru muttered, annoyed. The rabbit sniffed the ground, then suddenly transformed into a massive, evil looking rabbit with razor sharp teeth. I gasped and stopped laughing instantly. Haru stood there in shock with her mouth hanging open. Then she sprung into action.

"Kara!" Harumi yelled, turning into a red braided whip, her weapon form. I caught her and made a quick cracking noise to try to frighten the rabbit, but it didn't seem to affect it at all. Instead, it bared its teeth and swatted at me with its front paw. It's claws dug into the front of my jacket and slammed me into a tree.

"Ow!" I screamed and dropped the whip. Haru turned back into her human form, grabbed my hand and started to run.

"Wait! Wait!" I yelled, "We can't just leave it, we need to kill it!"

"I know that! I just need some time!" She replied.

We reached a small little shack that looked like an old rest stop, and it just happened to have an old, battered telephone booth. Haru climbed inside and started dialing a number.

"What are you doing?!" I shouted hysterically, "There is a monster rabbit trying to rip our heads off, and you're calling someone?!"

"Just distract it for a little while! Trust me!" She yelled back.

My mind was racing.

What the heck am I supposed to do to hold this thing back?

The rabbit was knocking over trees while racing through the woods. It took a huge leap and landed a few yards in front of me. I said the first thing that came to my mind.

"Well hello there Mr. Rabbit. You're looking dapper today." I greeted it. It just started at me with its crazed, beady eyes, like it was confused. It grunted and raised its left front paw into the air and slammed it down just missing me by a few feet.

I sound like an idiot...

"Wow, that's a nice paw you've got there. You know, we should go get a manicure together sometime. With nail polish and-" The rabbit opened its mouth and screeched loudly in my face. "Ok, ok. That's cool. You've probably have a ton of other mutant bunny friends to go get manicures with. It's all good." I said, my voice high. I backed away from the rabbit slowly. I heard a clang as Haru hung up the phone.

"Kara!" She yelled again, running to me and then turing back into her weapon form. I caught her again and pointed the end of the whip directly at the rabbit.

"Well, Mr. Rabbit, since you refuse to settle this peacefully, I guess you're just going to have to die." I smirked. The rabbit growled and pounced into the air. I ducked and flicked the whip up and it wrapped itself around the rabbit's back leg like I intended for it to do. I started to pull up on the whip a little, hoping that the rabbit would start to lift up, but it wouldn't budge. I sighed heavily.

"You can do this Kara. You've been trained. It's just a little heavier than a human. Just focus." Haru whispered to me.

I took a deep breath, clearing my mind of all the thoughts of failing and started to think about defeating the rabbit. I yelled as I started to pull the whip forward; it felt like I was lifting a thousand pounds.

"You can do it! Focus!" Haru whispered again.

I jerked the whip forward and the rabbit flung into the air like it was as light as a feather. I started to spin the whip so that rabbit would start to spin. It got faster and faster, then finally with one last flick, the whip unwrapped itself from the rabbit's leg and sent it flying head-first into a tree. It groaned, and fell backward onto the ground unconscious.

"Wow...gran was right. Those ab workouts really do help..." I said trying to catch my breath. I tossed whip up into the air so Haru could change back into her human form. That's when I noticed the small group of men staring at us, shocked.

"There's your rabbit." Haru said awkwardly to the men, "Well, bye!" And she pulled me away from the scene.

The weather seemed to change suddenly as the the light from the sun flooded into the woods, revealing a small path.

"What the heck?" Haru said quietly.

"Well that would have been nice to have before." I muttered.

The path lead us out of the woods and to a random and large flight of stairs, which lead to probably the biggest building I have ever seen in my life.

"What is this place?" Haru asked, shielding her eyes from the blinding sun.

"I'm not sure...but it seems like I've seen it before..."

~Author's Note~

DreamingOfOceans (Kara): Hey! Thanks for reading the first chapter and we will be posting more soon! Please tell us what you thought of this chapter.! Also Kara belongs to me and Haru belongs to hubba17. (:

Hubba17 (Haru): Hello there!