What would your fave character say once transported into another dimension?
Hello..uhm.... Would you mind terribly if I passed out right now?--Hotaru
Where the fuck am I? Who the fuck are you? Why the fuck am I in my underwear?
How the fuck did I get here? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON! WHY THE
FUCK DID HE HUG MY HEAD?--Duo
I hate this! Everyone just sits around looking cryptic and never EXPLAINS
anything. Yeah, so will anyone care to elaborate on THIS week's apocalypse?
--Buffy
Dammit! Not again!-- Trunks
How are these gonna work? Wait and see!
Lost Ones
By: Random Artemis
Disclaimer: I own nothing! Nothing at all except my laptop, Steve, and my
crapmobile , Roxy, and I'll fight to the death for either of them! C/C
PLEEEEEEEAASE! If anyone wants to edit, or has a story idea, please e-mail me
at cath_6@hotmail.com
Harry winced slightly as his scar throbbed painfully in his sleep. He was
having a nightmare. Again. "Please!" He thought desperately, "Please, make it stop!
Stop him! I don't want to do this again! Please not again! Make it stop!
Someone...Anyone...HELP ME!!!"
He continued to writhe painfully, not-quite-so-blissfully unaware of the
bright green light streaking across the cosmos to strike the great dimension matrix.
Upon reaching the matrix, it splintered and split into many different colors and
energies, each traveling along one of the many roads to a new dimension. Purple,
red, black, and gold, they went their separate ways, knowing (if a beam of mental
energy is sentient that is) that it wouldn't be too long before they would be whole
again. If anyone had been watching at that moment, they would have been struck by
the eerie resemblance to a certain pink floyd album cover, but there wasn't because
the gatekeeper was on his/her annual trip to Cuba.
Purple:
Everyone asks :Why me? Every once in a while. Yeah, that's normal right?
What I don't understand is why I have to ask it every five minutes. The main
reasons for this self-questioning were both sitting across the cafeteria from me. Josh
and Sara. My crush and my arch nemises. I sighed dejectedly and brushed my short
hair back out of my face, wincing slightly as my hand hit a sensitive portion of my
skull. I fingered it gently under my hair and wondered if anyone would notice a
purple glow radiating from my hand for a few minutes. Hmm, I decided in
disappointment, No, I'd really better not.
They had thought it was SOOO funny, yeah let's hide a bloody cow's heart
in the weirdo witch Hotaru's locker. Reeeeally fucking hilarious Sara. Har de
fucking har har. It was even funnier how she screamed and fell backwards, cutting
her head on another locker door. Well, on the bright side, at least the bleeding had
stopped.
I sat all alone at in the obscenely crowded cafeteria, an entire table to myself.
I wasn't sure, but I think this defied the laws of physics somehow.
The popular table, where Josh and Sara are sitting, suddenly bursts into
laughter. Sara is performing a re-enactment of my humiliation this morning. Josh is
rolling on the floor and clutching his sides. He can hardly breathe he is laughing so
hard. I will not cry. I won't.
I have the senshi right? No not really. I don't have anyone I can really call a
friend. I mean. All my relationships there are based on surrogate parents or elder
sisters. I love them with all my heart, and would trade my life in if it meant theirs in
a moment, but it's not the same. I'd like to say that this happened just recently, in
soon enough be back there, sitting right beside Josh and Sara, but sadly, I've always
been this way. The freaky little witch. They used to hate me, now they just make
fun of me. It's hard to believe but it hurts even more that way. In fact, the only
friend I've ever had was the daughter of the leader of our superhero team from the
future. Normal? Why yes! In every way.
So that's it, no friends, a family of odd relationships with people who have
distressing tendancies of dying on you (though they're always re-incarnated), a
pain-filled past that no one would believe, even if I told it, and destined future I
can't escape. It's not that bad, but it's lonely. So damn lonely. And it'll always be
this way, and no one will ever know.
So I sit here, calmly eating my lunch. I'm not crying. I'm not.
Black:
They say there are only two certainties in life; death and taxes. For me there's
a third. After all the fighting is done and as hard as I try and struggle against fate, I
always end up alone again.
I heard once that the way of avoiding death in a war is to bring it swiftly and
en masse to others. That way, on the battlefield, death sees you are doing his job for
him and thus ignores you because you are helping his cause. I think my entire life
has been that battlefield. I never meant to cause the deaths of others, but they
always seemed to happen everywhere I went.
The plague on L2, the maxwell church massacre, both dark shadows of my
past, indiscriminate slaughters that wiped out anyone to come into contact with
them. Except me. Never me.
Even with the curse of survival that some call a blessing, (is it truly a blessing
to always be the one left over to pick up the pieces?) I never expected to survive the
war. Neither did my compatriots (who would all stare in gape jawed shock that I
can spell a word as long as compatriots, let alone know what it means, of use it
causally while thinking). It seems they have curses of their own. Quatre, the gentle
soul who felt each death he caused deep in his soul, those deaths caused scars that
still pain him under that happy exterior. He never told any of us, or asked for help,
but he still cries for them at night. Trowa, the silent, nameless boy, beaten down by
the world, cursed to be reminded of his painful past every time someone spoke his
name. Wufei, who cannot let go of the memory of his first love, and lives in
shadows of the past with her ghost. He is fading, slowly, now that he no longer has
even his gundam, his 'nataku' to honor her. Heero, who cannot die no matter how
many times he's tried. His curse is in coldness, any emotion he had has been long
since beaten out of him. War was his reason to live, his usefulness, is gone and
over. He can now have a normal life, though all normalcy has long since fled
amongst peace treaties.
And then there's me. The one who hides beneath cheery smiles and practical
jokes. I used to be able to fool myself that that me was real, the mask had briefly
come to life. The past, however does not let itself by forgotten and smoothed over
so easily.
Hilde died two months ago in an accident at our scrap yard. I was angry, but
now I just miss her. I miss her so much. The expression I used to wear in private is
returning more and more often. It lingers in the back of my eyes, even when I'm
wearing my mask. It is the hardened expression of a loner. The haunted look that
says that when all is said and done, it will once again be left alone, all alone. It
scares me.