Let Us Dance Among The Stars
Disclaimer: As much as I love Mikage and Mamiya, I do not own them. (Darn it!) But I have made this exciting fic all about them! They are owned by Chito Saito and Be-Papas. Enjoy!-
The distant chimes of the midnight bells stirred Mikage up from a short slumber. The starry night sky was so breath-taking that he felt as though he had been in love for such a long time without realized that he yearned for Eternity. Papers flew to and fro off of his desk. They had nothing written on them. Faxes kept printing out that perpetually read the same message: DANGER! DANGER! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! DANGER! STOP! DANGER! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! DANGER! Though the fax machine was off, the papers continued to come. Mikage stared out his window from the black room, wondering why he wished for something so powerful and insuperable as Eternity? Mikage, without noticing because of the constant message, his fax printed out a name that read: MAMIYA.
Then, in dead silence, the fax machine stopped printing. Mikage ignored it. The candle on the other corner extinguished itself. Mikage looked into the dead abyss and found that another bed was stationed next to his own. He did not remember having a guest in his gloomy, dark abode. The sheets smelled of roses.
"Ah, black roses...my favorite," Mikage said to himself. "Why do I have the feeling that I have been here before?" The fax started again. The name UTENA was born from the ink.
"Utena?" asked Mikage, addressing no one in particular. "Utena...where have I heard that name before? I'm working too hard." The faxed printed another name": END OF THE WORLD.
"End of the World?" Next message: ETERNITY. Message the second: THE PATH YOU SEEK HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR YOU. Message the third: THE POWER TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD! Mikage, nervous and anxious, rushed to the fax and tried to make the paper stop printing. "It is off, then why? Why does it keep sending me messages? Stop. Stop!" The fax ceased. Message the fourth: THE DUEL NAMED TRUTH. "Stop!" Mikage shouted, shaking the machine. Message the fifth: SEE YOU AT THE FINISH LINE END OF THE WORLD. The fax machine, though off, fell apart piece by piece. Mikage stepped back and looked blankly at the papers. "What is this?"
Outside the window, moonlight leaked into the morbid room and rested on the papers that bore messages to Mikage. All the messages disappeared in the moonlight. All the messages, except the first one: MAMIYA. Mikage studied the name for a moment; it was too eccentric to be reality.
"Mamiya..." he spoke. "No, no. It cannot be. Mamiya, he died so long ago. He cannot be alive. He cannot. I must be dreaming. I should sleep now and forget this ever occurred. End of the World...sounds so familiar. I'm definitely dreaming." In denial, Mikage is familiar with End of the World. The only thing he knows about End of the World is that they have a contract that has not been fulfilled. Was that it? Is that why he wishes for something eternal? Eternity? Is that what End of the World is trying to accomplish through him? It will be a tricky business, Mikage thought. Mamiya...what a beautiful name. Now that he was so tied up on Mamiya's name, Mikage could not sleep. Outside, the moon concealed itself behind the platform on the other side of Ohtori Academy. That is the rose garden, he thought. With more than one hundred steps to climb, the rose garden was the highest point in the entire school. He brushed silky, pink strands of hair behind his ears listening to the faint sounds of the night. One black rose petal fell in front of Mikage behind the stained-glass window. Then another colored red. More petals, red and black, fell like rain. All the petals fell from the garden of roses. Mikage was memorized at the beauty of the storm of roses.
"Mikage-sama..." he heard a voice say next to him. Mikage looked at the opposite bed and found a exceedingly attractive boy with lavender hair and tanned skin with crystal green eyes that stared into Mikage's deep red eyes. The boy had on a torn and ripped boy's school uniform and looked so innocent to Mikage that he was so beautiful. "Mikage-sama...I----you-----...." Mikage couldn't hear the words in between. He blinked. The boy was not there now. The roses multiplied as they dropped . Mikage thought he was losing his mind because a pretty young lady with the same colored skin as the boy only with a darker shade of purple appeared next to his bedside. She smiled at the roses then to him.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Mikage asked the girl.
"I am the Rose Bride," she answered.