Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine. I take no credit. THERE, all you freaks who actually watch for disclaimers can kiss my arse!! Now you can't sue me!! I AM BEYOND YOUR POWER!! WAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
Let's get down to it.
A DOOM WORSE THAN DEATH
(Or, the madness that ensues when I have too much homework and need to take a break)
It was just another day.
Or was it?
Tasuki of the Suzaku warriors was minding his own business, strolling alongside the cobbled road, dragging his feet a little since he had been pushing the sake again.
Now, for some reason, the fanged bishonen wound up taking the long way back to the castle, which was an old dirt road lined with the tall, shimmering trees of the forest. As he walked along, warmed by the summer sun, he hummed to himself in his usual cheerful manner. Therefore, he wasn't really paying attention to where his feet landed, and he just so happened to trod over an old man who had fallen asleep against a tree trunk, stretching his legs across the road. Tasuki's weight on his calf was quite enough to wake him up. He screamed at the top of his lungs, making the birds in the area leap into the air, and Tasuki leap out of his skin.
"AAAAAH!! SHOW YOUR FACE, YA SORRY SERYUU BASTARDS!! I'LL GET Y... oh, it's you, old man. Hell, don't do that," he sighed, putting his tessen back into its straps.
"What?!" the old man replied, angry. "Young men should watch where they're going!! You probably broke my leg!!" He said, swinging it around to show him. He leapt up and bounced from one side of the road to the other and back again, looking down both ways as if straining to see a pin a mile away.
"They could come any minute! Chasing me! Chasing me! I'll never escape if my leg is broken! Nooo, I'll never get away!" He howled in a desperate tone, assuming the fetal position and gripping his head with his hands.
Tasuki squinted at him. He was an old man with wrinkled features and short gray hair. He wore a long, white, tattered coat, the kind the professors wore in Miaka's world, and he had a plaque with her language's letters engraved in it; Tasuki made out "OAK." He wore brown, ripped-up trousers, and had some sort of weird wallet-like device in one of his pockets. His eyes were darting back and forth quickly, and his whole disposition was shaking like mad. His whole appearance made Tasuki wonder whether or not the man was insane.
"Hey, it ain't my fault you fell asleep in the middle of the road. If anything you're lucky; at least I'm not a cart..."
Tasuki suddenly found the old man's eyes directly in his. The man inhaled deeply through his nose, making Tasuki back away from him in puzzlement, one eyebrow arched.
"You're a drinker. Alcohol is in your breath, yeeeessss," the man said, circling him now, hunched down, scuttling low on his legs and craning his head up to view Tasuki from all angles.
"What the hell're you..."
"Heeheeheee, you're young and strong, too. Like I used to be! This will do nicely, yeeeessss. I'm going to use you for my revenge!!"
Tasuki did quite plainly understand the word 'revenge.' "What are you trying to pull, old man? What are you talking about? You don't seem like you'd be sent by Seryuu... then again, they send all sorts of stuff..."
He was getting annoyed now, and the crazy old man pulled out his little wallet device and started pushing buttons on it.
"Whaddaya think you're doin' now..."
Suddenly, the little square glowed a brilliant white light and forced Tasuki to cover his eyes. From a birds-eye view, a blanket of light spanned across the world, spreading like a ring of smoke around the earth.
Finally, it died down. Tasuki uncovered his eyes, and only heard the old man's monologue:
"WAAAHAHAHAHAA!! Finally, someone else shall feel it's wrath; I will not be alone!! Everyone I met, everyone I saw, was infected with it like it was some sort of virus... And now, you will be me!!
NOW, IT BEGINS IN THIS WORL D AS WELL!! ALL YOU KNOW, ALL YOU HOLD CLOSE... YOU WILL ALL FEEL MY CURSE!!"
And, laughing in a pitch far too high to be normal, the voice faded away.
Tasuki blinked a few times. What had just happened? That was a bit too weird to feel okay about. Maybe it was the sake.
But suddenly, he felt a little... odd.
He scratched the back of his neck in puzzlement. But to his shock, he felt no hair there.
"Charmanchar?"
He almost screamed. What the f***?! He had wanted to say "what the hell!" What was going on?!
He looked at his hands. Again, he nearly screamed. His hands weren't his hands, but two claws, attached to what weren't his arms, but orange, chubby limbs. He looked down at his body... or rather, what used to be his body. Yellowish skin covered his stomach, and the rest of his body was covered in orange scales. He wagged his tail in his panic... wait a minute. TAIL?!?
That was too much. Hollering "CHARMANDERCHARMANCHAR!!!" over and over again (which is untranslatable due to the mere PG-13 rating), he waddled as quickly as he could to the nearest pond. He saw a little orange lizard's body, with a long tail that was aflame at the end. Big black eyes stared back at him in the reflection.
"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA **gasp!** AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!"
Suddenly, there was a brilliant flash, and Tasuki spun to face it. To his shock, he could make out a figure, stepping out of the light... and once the blare had disappeared, he saw that it was a woman, standing right in front of him.
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Let's get down to it.
A DOOM WORSE THAN DEATH
(Or, the madness that ensues when I have too much homework and need to take a break)
It was just another day.
Or was it?
Tasuki of the Suzaku warriors was minding his own business, strolling alongside the cobbled road, dragging his feet a little since he had been pushing the sake again.
Now, for some reason, the fanged bishonen wound up taking the long way back to the castle, which was an old dirt road lined with the tall, shimmering trees of the forest. As he walked along, warmed by the summer sun, he hummed to himself in his usual cheerful manner. Therefore, he wasn't really paying attention to where his feet landed, and he just so happened to trod over an old man who had fallen asleep against a tree trunk, stretching his legs across the road. Tasuki's weight on his calf was quite enough to wake him up. He screamed at the top of his lungs, making the birds in the area leap into the air, and Tasuki leap out of his skin.
"AAAAAH!! SHOW YOUR FACE, YA SORRY SERYUU BASTARDS!! I'LL GET Y... oh, it's you, old man. Hell, don't do that," he sighed, putting his tessen back into its straps.
"What?!" the old man replied, angry. "Young men should watch where they're going!! You probably broke my leg!!" He said, swinging it around to show him. He leapt up and bounced from one side of the road to the other and back again, looking down both ways as if straining to see a pin a mile away.
"They could come any minute! Chasing me! Chasing me! I'll never escape if my leg is broken! Nooo, I'll never get away!" He howled in a desperate tone, assuming the fetal position and gripping his head with his hands.
Tasuki squinted at him. He was an old man with wrinkled features and short gray hair. He wore a long, white, tattered coat, the kind the professors wore in Miaka's world, and he had a plaque with her language's letters engraved in it; Tasuki made out "OAK." He wore brown, ripped-up trousers, and had some sort of weird wallet-like device in one of his pockets. His eyes were darting back and forth quickly, and his whole disposition was shaking like mad. His whole appearance made Tasuki wonder whether or not the man was insane.
"Hey, it ain't my fault you fell asleep in the middle of the road. If anything you're lucky; at least I'm not a cart..."
Tasuki suddenly found the old man's eyes directly in his. The man inhaled deeply through his nose, making Tasuki back away from him in puzzlement, one eyebrow arched.
"You're a drinker. Alcohol is in your breath, yeeeessss," the man said, circling him now, hunched down, scuttling low on his legs and craning his head up to view Tasuki from all angles.
"What the hell're you..."
"Heeheeheee, you're young and strong, too. Like I used to be! This will do nicely, yeeeessss. I'm going to use you for my revenge!!"
Tasuki did quite plainly understand the word 'revenge.' "What are you trying to pull, old man? What are you talking about? You don't seem like you'd be sent by Seryuu... then again, they send all sorts of stuff..."
He was getting annoyed now, and the crazy old man pulled out his little wallet device and started pushing buttons on it.
"Whaddaya think you're doin' now..."
Suddenly, the little square glowed a brilliant white light and forced Tasuki to cover his eyes. From a birds-eye view, a blanket of light spanned across the world, spreading like a ring of smoke around the earth.
Finally, it died down. Tasuki uncovered his eyes, and only heard the old man's monologue:
"WAAAHAHAHAHAA!! Finally, someone else shall feel it's wrath; I will not be alone!! Everyone I met, everyone I saw, was infected with it like it was some sort of virus... And now, you will be me!!
NOW, IT BEGINS IN THIS WORL D AS WELL!! ALL YOU KNOW, ALL YOU HOLD CLOSE... YOU WILL ALL FEEL MY CURSE!!"
And, laughing in a pitch far too high to be normal, the voice faded away.
Tasuki blinked a few times. What had just happened? That was a bit too weird to feel okay about. Maybe it was the sake.
But suddenly, he felt a little... odd.
He scratched the back of his neck in puzzlement. But to his shock, he felt no hair there.
"Charmanchar?"
He almost screamed. What the f***?! He had wanted to say "what the hell!" What was going on?!
He looked at his hands. Again, he nearly screamed. His hands weren't his hands, but two claws, attached to what weren't his arms, but orange, chubby limbs. He looked down at his body... or rather, what used to be his body. Yellowish skin covered his stomach, and the rest of his body was covered in orange scales. He wagged his tail in his panic... wait a minute. TAIL?!?
That was too much. Hollering "CHARMANDERCHARMANCHAR!!!" over and over again (which is untranslatable due to the mere PG-13 rating), he waddled as quickly as he could to the nearest pond. He saw a little orange lizard's body, with a long tail that was aflame at the end. Big black eyes stared back at him in the reflection.
"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA **gasp!** AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!"
Suddenly, there was a brilliant flash, and Tasuki spun to face it. To his shock, he could make out a figure, stepping out of the light... and once the blare had disappeared, he saw that it was a woman, standing right in front of him.
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