Meiun: Goddess of Doom

Meiun: Goddess of Doom

Chapter 1: MR. SANZO

"Come with me then. I'll help you."

Hmm…for helping me…he wasn't very helpful. I followed the man with the pointy ears and the scary sharp teeth through the woods.

"Um…Mister…I don't think anyone would be looking for me out here." I said quietly.

He turned and grinned, revealing once more his sharp teeth. "That's the point." Then he lunged towards me. Startled, I stumbled back, falling into a sitting position and gazing at the pointy eared man in terror. He headed towards me, closer, closer.

"Please stop! You're scaring me!" Still he approached, his teeth gleaming sickly in the light of the ever watchful full moon.

He grabbed my arm and jerked it up to his mouth, about to bite down when a loud BANG resounded through the woods. My attacker fell to the side, blood seeping from a wound in his back, and I was left even more afraid now. A man with blonde hair and purple eyes walked over to me. He had a gun in his hand and wore a robe like a monk would wear. Or at least…at think that's who would wear it…

"Are you ok, kid?" He asked me.

"I-I-I-" I managed to just barely stutter. I watched as his gun gleamed, quite similarly to the teeth of the pointy eared man, in the pale moonlight.

He noticed where my eyes went and said. "I'm not going to shoot you. What's your name?"

"M-M-M-Meiun." I answered shakily.

"My name is Sanzo. Why were you out here? Where's your family?" He demanded.

"I-I don't know…"

"Did you get separated from them in a youkai attack or…?"

"I…I can't remember. That man…he said he was going to help me but…I…I don't know…I…" I shook my head, despair filling me to the brim.

"Get up. I'll take you to the inn and we'll see what Hakkai thinks of all this. You're pretty damn lucky I decided to take a walk, kid." He told me, putting away his gun and offering me a hand.

"Yes, Mr. Sanzo." I got up and followed after him, afraid of whatever other evil creatures could be lurking in the shadows.

I tried hard to think; about friends, about family, about home. But there was nothing. Somehow those words were nothing more than an empty shell to me. My first memory was waking up and meeting the pointy eared man.

How was it that I could remember nothing of who I was, yet many things of this world? Did that really make sense? Do I even make sense now? What exactly is sense?

"What the hell are you mumbling to yourself about now?" Sanzo demanded in a somewhat harsh, yet somehow comforting, tone.

"I'm sorry. It's nothing, Mr. Sanzo." We exited the woods and I looked at all the buildings in the village. That is the store, that is the bar, that is the inn. But what are the store and the bar and the inn? Are they merely hollow shells like friends, family, and home? What is what? What is life? Is life a hollow shell like store, bar, inn, friends, family, and home? Am I a hollow shell? Is Mr. Sanzo a hollow shell?

Tell me, what is existence? What is the meaning to the world, to life, to breathing in the air of being? What is being? What are the guidelines; the rules? What is the structure? How do we function? What is life?

And why can I find only questions with no answers.

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here

"Kid, are you coming or not?" Mr. Sanzo asked me, pausing in the doorway to look at me.

"Um, yes Mr. Sanzo. Sorry." I followed after him as he went up the stairs and into a room where another man sat on a bed feeding a little silver…thing…This new man wore a kind smile and a monocle.

"Oh, Sanzo, I see you've made a new friend." He smiled. "Hello."

"Hello." I said, feeling reassured by the gentleness of his smile. It was not at all frightening as the pointy eared man's smile had been.

Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?

"What's your name?" This new man asked in an even more gentle voice.

"Meiun." I answered softly.

"Meiun; what a pretty name."

"Thank you, Mister."

"I found her out in the woods with yet another freaking youkai. The b-- had been trying to eat her." Sanzo said, sounding both apathetic and annoyed.

What is apathy? What is annoyance? Are they merely as fleeting as the rest of this empty, hollow world?

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

"Oh my. Are you alright, Meiun?"

"Yes. Mr. Sanzo saved me." I nodded.

"Mr. Sanzo, huh?" This man chuckled lightly. "Well I'm glad. But what about your family? Where's your home?"

"I can't remember." I said sadly, shaking my head.

"You can't remember your home?"

"What is home?" I asked him, hoping to finally get an answer to my question.

This kind man merely looked to Mr. Sanzo, apparently a little shocked. "We can't leave her on her own if she's like this."

"Dammit. I figured you'd say that." Mr. Sanzo sighed. "Listen here, Meiun, and listen good; you will do as I tell you when I tell you. You will never argue you with me. And you're not sleeping in here. You'll share a room with Gojyo and Goku from now on."

I nodded. "Yes Mr. Sanzo. Your word is my law. But…I do not understand…what is from now on?"

The very kind man smiled to me once more. "You'll be staying with us now, Meiun. That is, until you remember where your home is and we can take you there."

"Oh." I nodded. "But what is a Gojyo and a Goku?"

"They're people, Meiun." Mr. Sanzo sighed again. "And as I said, you'll be sharing with them."

"Ok Mr. Sanzo. If that's what you want." I agreed.

"She complies with you quite easily Sanzo."

"Mr. Sanzo scares me a little but…" I smiled brightly, glad to have found at least one answer. "I believe he is a good man inside."

The two men stared at me, stunned, before the nice man finally ushered me out the door. "C'mon now, Meiun. I'll take you to the other room so you can sleep."

"Ok, Mister." He opened a door, and showed me in.

"I'll set up a fouton for you and-"

"It's ok, Mister. I can handle it myself." He blinked at me in shock for a moment, then relented.

"Alright then, Meiun. Good night." He left quietly and I crawled over to the window, positioning myself so that my back leaned against one of the beds and my legs stretched out across the floor. Then, in the light of the ever watchful moon, I slept.

A/N: So, what do you think so far? It was an idea that I had come up with when I was trying to fall asleep on the long bus ride to school. Please please please review!! They make me oh so happy!