Okay... This is my first story on this website... It's not exactly a fanfiction but it is a cross between' Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Shugo Chara, Sailor Moon, Macoss Frontier, and Tokyo Mew Mew. I took a few aspects from these that I liked and created a story using them. I hope you enjoy, because this is taking me forever to complete and edit! So please be kind on reviews because I really poured my heart into this story, Thank You!
Neko Mimi Magica
Chapter 1
I guess I have always been a sort of... space cadet. I sometimes space out and stare at people blankly until they figure out that I actually don't care about what their saying. Only, sometimes I really do care about what's happening to me and what I'm listening too. Especially when I'm listening to a cute guy named Len.
My legs were crossed behind each other and I rubbed my hands against my arms, creating a warm friction. I wore the school uniform, since I was at school. It's a cute sailor's outfit with blue, red, and a cream color. I was wearing my favorite purple ballet flats, though they didn't match my uniform, they fit my feet perfectly and were surprisingly comfortable. I had short blonde hair and a thick swoop bang that was on the left side of my face I also had blue eyes that were the color of the sky.
A guy stood in front of me, Len. He talking about something, but I couldn't understand a word he was saying...
All I heard was my heart racing, it was so loud I wondered if he could hear it. Every few moments or so, it would skip a beat and I would be left gasping for air. Whenever I saw him, my heart skipped a beat as I got lost in his soft blue eyes and his calm, sweet voice.
Len also wore a school uniform that looked great on him. It was a dark blue outfit with a red tight that was slightly faded. He had fluffy blonde hair that was tied back in a short ponytail and also had sky blue eyes. He was 156 centimeters tall, exactly 4 centimeters taller than me... don't ask me how I know that.
"So, is that a yes?" He asked in a calm was blushing, so much that his face was a light shade of pink. His arms were behind his back and he stared into my eyes. I got lost in them again, I tried to regain consciousness.
I shook my head, trying to get back to earth and erase the weird thoughts in my head of bagels and cats. I tried to recover what just happened, what he was just talking about. This happened almost every time I talked to him... I would space out completely and then feel like a moron afterwards. I felt completely brain dead, but mostly really stupid.
"oh," Len said, now looking disappointed, "I guess it's a no..."
He began to walk away sadly as I watched him I felt that I needed to say something, but what!?
"Hey!" I raised my arm to the ceiling and waved. He turned towards me, "I'll think about it, ask me again tomorrow, okay?"
I tried to recall what it was he asked me, "why can't I remember!?" I thought as I smiled and waved to him. I really hoped he would repeat what he just told me, tomorrow. At least I had a whole nother day to figure out what he was talking about.
I felt like a complete idiot, just standing there, waving. I was so glad no one else was out of class right now, everyone else was still in their 8th period class, but we got dismissed early today. I would of died of humiliation if anyone else saw me standing here like a complete idiot.
"This is so embarrassing," I thought as I smiled widely and waved largely.
"Okay then, I'll see you tomorrow." Len smiled innocently and sweetly and then walked away. He walked down the hall slowly, not fast enough, though. The bell was about to ring and I was about to be completely embarrassed.
I stood there when the last school bell finally rang, my heart beat was finally slowing down, but I could still faintly hear it. It only returned to normal once Len turned the corner and I could no longer see him.
A crowd of other students were flooding into the hallways where I stood there. My arms quickly fell to the sides of my body the second I saw another living soul walk down the hall way. I was still standing there like a space cadet in the middle of the hallway with my eyes closed, unable to stop smiling. The students talked and laughed so loudly I could barely hear myself think.
Some guy randomly pushed me into a locker, while I was standing there like a space cadet. I turned around to see he was one of the football players, the quarterback- I think- he was laughing extremely loudly as he also shoved a person into a wall. He was acting like a spoiled brat like he and the other athletes did all the time. I saw him push kids around all the time like he's the king of the world. It drives me a bit insane to see how poorly he treats some people, especially those who are a bit on the geeky side... like me.
"What a complete jerk." I thought, I was sort of used to people being jerks to me, but to see someone abuse another person, I felt like I needed to stop him. I was just about to scream at his face when-
"Hey!" I turned my head to see a different guy- one I've never seen before- stand in the hallway in front of me.
"Stop acting like you're the king of the world, you're screaming is making my ears bleed, this act is really getting annoying!" He began to say something else as he walked closer and closer to the football player, but I couldn't hear it over the loudness of the hallway.
He had short blue hair and wore completely black with white lining on the collar and sleeves, obviously not a student here, he may be transferring, but he seemed too old to be a student here. He had dark blue hair and dark stormy blue eyes. He appeared much taller than me, from his height I estimated he was about 16 years old, or so.
I followed him with my eyes, eager to see what his next step would be. But I lost him in the crowd he descending into it. That made no sense, he was so much taller than everyone else, but I still couldn't see him. It was as if he disappeared from the hallway, but that would of have been impossible.
I shook my head, once again trying to get weird thoughts out of it, and I then walked away. I walked down the hallway, but stopped suddenly. I thought I heard someone calling my name in the distance, "Lanie! Lanie!"
I immediately turned my head, but no one was there, just the crowd of students that were slowly getting their stuff and clearing out. I shook my head in disbelief of my illusions and once again saw that dark blue hair that had earlier descended in the crowd.
For a short second I thought I saw cat ears on his head and a blue tail behind him. Only an illusion of my imagination, I thought as I blinked. My mind had been playing tricks on my all day, I could barely pay attention in any of my classes, especially math. But it's math class, who can pay attention in it!?
His head was down, facing the ground. I glanced into his blue eyes that's casts dark shadows on the surrounding world, well only what I could see from where I stood. As he walked past me he looked up for a mere second and then he looked in front of him, away from me. He stopped, a few feet in front of me, only he didn't even bother to glance or turn towards me, he only looked straight ahead of himself. He stared intently down the hallway, almost like he was seeing through the wall and observing something behind it.
"They won't be bothering you again, or anyone in that matter." He said, in a deep voice, not willing to turn towards me. He spoke softly, almost a mutter.
"What?" I asked, I stepped closer to him, he didn't move an inch. It was like he didn't even notice anyone else in the hallway, only that footballer that had just vanished a moment ago, the other person he seemed to notice... was me.
"That guy who pushed you, I doubt he won't do it again, to anyone." He then walked through the hallway and out a door that connects to the front entrance. The strange guy with dark blue hair didn't even leave me time to respond to his actions and to his words. I didn't see his face as he walked away, it was hidden, in what was like shadows. Another illusion of mind, I supposed. But who can be so sure?
I shook my head once more, trying to get what just happened out of it, mostly the randomness of everything that has happened today. I stood there for a few moments, I took in a deep breath and then turned and walked away, leaving the awkwardness behind me.
As I walked, I still went over what just happened in my head, I played the scenario over again and again in my mind, but I couldn't figure it out. I still could not piece it together, especially because the football player just randomly disappeared and the illusion of the cat tail and ears on him. I concluded that I was most likely going insane.
"A murder, maybe?" I muttered to myself, "no, too many people, only a complete idiot would murder someone here. There would of been so many witnesses he couldn't of gotten away with it."
I still could not get my head around this, this guy- a complete stranger- just stood up for me!? That had never happened before, I was just another invisible person in a crowd of people. there was nothing special about me... Nothing. I didn't really have a "cool" look or anything. I wasn't unique in that way, considering that there is 1,400 people who look exactly like me, and everyone in the world.
A memory flashed into my head, the first time I ever spoke to Len. It was a memory from in first grade or so, about the time when I first devolved a... Never mind what I just said...
I had seen Len around school before, talking with people and laughing with people. He usually gave cold glares at the people who admired him so much, that they would stalk him.
Of course he never knew that he was being stalked by a group of girls that were way too obsessed with him. That is what I found the most funny part about all of this, but if you look at it in a weird twisted way, I was stalking Len more than any of those other girls. Well, I was sort of watching the girls stalk Len, and I did watch him from a distance. I don't think it would be considered stalking, I just didn't have enough courage to tell him what was on my mind... until one day.
I sat in the hallway, my head was buried in my knees, I was completely unable to breathe. I leaned up against a wall with my back touching the wall. I was in one of the hallways in the lower school building, I was only in first grade when this happened to me.
I couldn't see anything clearly, everything was a blur in my eyes, from all the tears. All the colors I saw were slowly vanishing, turning into shades of black and white. I often wondered if that was normal and happened to others; eyesight losing the ability to see colors. Apparently, I was thought to be going blind, slowly. Only, the colors in my eyesight would return again, making me wonder how that was even possible.
I sobbed over and over again, no one paid any attention to me. I was just one of those kids in the hallway, people just assumed was spoiled and only crying because I didn't get what I wanted.
I even heard gossip from some of the parents at times, trash talking students that were in my school. I would sometimes interrupt and just repeated shakily, "shut up, you have no right to talk that way about people." I sometimes got sent to the principal's office for standing up for what I believed in, I even lost a "friend" over standing for someone I truly trusted...
But, I always recovered, only sometimes I needed someone to be there next to me. I needed someone who would hug me when I was having a bad day.
I saw him, Len, walk down the hallway. He immediately saw me sitting there, sobbing. Len stood there, down the hall staring at me, wondering what he should do, a few seconds later he walked down the hall and kneed down in front of me.
"Are you okay?" Len asked in a sweet voice. He was obviously worried about me, but I could not find it in my heart to believe him. I did not find trust in a person so easily, I would usually just suck it up and deal with the world by myself.
"I don't get you," I muttered, "out of every girl in the school, you talk to me, why is that?"
He sat there, "because you're unique, I can tell."
"unique," I repeated, "in what way?"
"Appearance-"
"How am I unique if there are 1,400 people who look exactly like me?" I asked, my head was still in my knees. I trembled where I sat, unable to look up, only able to frown and thinking I can never smile again.
"1,400 people? That's a good question..." Len didn't know what to say to make me feel better, but Len was still calm. He hesitated for a few second, carefully thinking of what his next words should be.
"If you are trying to make me feel better it's not working." I muttered, I probably sounded like I wanted him to leave, but I didn't. I wanted him to stay here with me, I wanted him to talk to me. I just needed someone to talk to to, someone to explain to and to trust.
"But it's working to me, just talking to you is making me feel better." Len said, he smiled.
I lifted up my head and smiled. Just knowing that I made someone "feel better" lightened my spirits. Even though I barely knew Yuudai Len, I began to find it in my heart that I could trust him.
I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around him, hugging him tightly.
"Thank you," I whispered.
I walked down the hallway to my locker, memories still flashed through my mind as I walked. I scanned the locker room to see if anyone else was there. No one was, everyone had already left school grounds, I quickly unlocked my locker and opened it up. A note fell out, it was folded in a neat square and fell to the ground at my feet. I reached down to pick it up and stood straight up again. I felt it in my hands, fidgeting with it constantly as I got my stuff together. I finally unfolded it delicately.
I scanned the note and turned it over, thinking I was reading the wrong side. I read the other side, only there was nothing to read. Both sides of the note were blank, not a single word was on the paper.
"Is this a joke?" I muttered.
I folded the paper back up and stuck it in my jacket pocket, though I felt I should of have recycled it or something like that, but I felt it had a different meaning. I put on my jacket and grabbed my messenger bag. I closed my locker and placed the lock back on the door. Without a second thought I walked out the front entrance of the school.
I yawned as the bright light of the day shed light upon me. I walked off of the school property grounds and into the city. I walked on a sidewalk that would lead me into the the most busy part of the city. I shuffled through crowds of people as I squeezed past them and carried on my routine.
I continued walk, until I felt uneasy about where I was going, about what Len was talking about, that guy with blue hair, the note that was completely blank. I immediately stopped and looked around. I was lost, just a second ago I was in the center of a city, but now- I was in the same place, only no one was there. It was empty, as if all the people in the world disappeared. For a quick moment I thought this was a huge prank by that one football player from earlier, but there was no way that someone of that low intelligence planned this. How could everyone just disappear so quickly!?
I spun around, trying to locate a single living soul. No one, no one, no one was here. I was alone in this place. My feet felt glued to the ground. I couldn't move a single inch, I couldn't breathe either, I felt so weird, terrified.
"Hello!?" I screamed, terrified something might of have happened to everyone. A disaster perhaps. I then imagined a giant earthquake shaking the city rapidly and collapsing buildings, killing many innocent people. I then imagined a tsunami following the deadly earthquake, its wave stretched over 30 feet tall, it destroyed everything in its path, no one was safe.
All the sudden the ground shook vigorously, I thought what I had just imagined a moment ago was coming true. I began to scream from the top of my lungs, "an earthquake!?"
I fell to the floor as the ground shook, I covered my neck with my hands and kept my eyes open to try to spot a person.
"Help me!" I screamed, unable to get up or move at all. Buildings shook around me, I thought they were going to collapse on top of me at any moment. Lights on buildings began to shake into colors I'd never seen before. The light flooded out of the buildings in a queer matter.
Beautiful color surrounded me as the earthquake grew at ease. When the shaking stopped, the colors only began. Greens, reds, purples, blues surrounded my body. I felt a tingling sensation throughout it as I saw moments of my life flash before my eyes.
"So, this is what it's like to die," I muttered as everything was turning shades of white and black. Though my eyes were still wide open, everything was turning a shade of black and white, just like how they used to do when I was younger. Like I said, apparently I am slowly going blind, someday all of my eyesight will be gone and I can never witness the wonders of the world the same way. In the end, everything all faded away into darkness, my few thoughts were that I was dying or going blind.
My eyes slowly closed to the surrounding world. I didn't want them to close, I had no more control over my body, it was like another person had control over it.
"So this truly is what it's like," I repeated to myself, trying to be sure it was the end, "to die?"
"Not quite," said a voice, I recognized it from earlier that day. It was the boy with dark blue hair.
