The story is set in Bleedman's Power Puff Girls Doujinshi. I really like that thing. The animation is great (he was able to make Dexter look almost cute in some of the scenes, can you believe it?). The plot is good too.
Now, for the ones that have never read Bleedman's Doujinshi, the first part of this chapter is a little summary, in Blossom's POV ('cause she's the one remembering), of what happens in the Doujinshi, so you'll have a picture of the whole thing. I hope you'll like it.
This story is dedicated to two of the greatest people around here: The Nimian Flyer and SithKnight-Galen who told me about Bleedman's Doujinshi. Thanks guys!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, but the plot.
The path to death
Chapter 1: Memories and a shock
She stared at the ceiling, with nothing clear in her mind. She had got into a fight with her sister... again. She looked at the paper she had on her wall. She had made it after they found out. There, she noted every one of their fights and arguments.
She took the piece of paper and noted the fight she just had. "June 19, 2006." She whispered while writing. "The first day of the summer holiday and we're already fighting." She sighed. She turned her eyes to the black clock that was on her nightstand. "11 a.m." it read. "Hm, I've been here for an hour now and our little chat lasted for at least half an hour." She thought. Then she smirked "I should be honored Bubbles woke up so early just to 'talk' to me" she thought.
She closed her eyes and stayed like that for about 5 minutes. Then she opened them and looked at the paper again. Every day was marked with at least two fights. The girl sighed.
"I don't like fighting with you guys" she whispered getting off her bed. "But you have to understand... she's important too."
She went to her desk. It had a neat pile of books on it. She looked through them. There were two math books, one on history, one on science and two novels. She found what she was looking for. It was a photo-album.
She went back to her bed and opened the album. She glanced at the photos. She smiled as she looked at the ones with her and her sisters, when they were little. "I whish we could still be like that." She whispered. "To be friends, to love each other... to trust each other." She continued. She kept looking through the pages. The first ten only had pictures from the time they were still in Townsville. "Maybe it was a mistake to come here." She thought.
On the 11th page there were a few pictures of her new class. Next, pictures of different events: parties, picnics, outings... Her eyes fell on a picture of her and a red headed boy with glasses, both holding up a gold colored trophy. The boy's name was Dexter and the picture had been taken some years ago, when they won their first science competition, working together. The Pink Puff wasn't very sure whether to smile or to frown at the picture.
She remembered how they met: on the first day at the Megaville Elementary school. They didn't have what could be called a good start. Blossom smiled as the memories came to her. They had got into a fight. He wanted a demonstration of their super powers. And, as always, Buttercup was more than willing to give it. He proved to be a real challenge.
She looked out the window flashbacks of that battle filling her brain. At one point Buttercup was losing, though she would have never admitted that to anyone. However, Blossom knew her sister too well to believe her when she said that she could handle the situation. She gave her one of her little lectures. She knew her brunette sister didn't like them on normal terms, not to mention in the middle of a battle, but she had to put her in place.
"But back then, we were a real team." She whispered. She wished that could have stayed the same, but it hadn't. And she couldn't do anything about it. She remembered how all three of them attacked Dexter. She wanted to finish the fight as fast as possible. She had been very surprised when he wasn't knocked out by their attack.
She wondered what would have happened if their fight would have continued. But it didn't. One of the teachers had stopped them. At that moment she thought that they'd get detention, but luckily Professor Jack was a nice person and didn't punish them on their first day.
The image of the teacher popped in her mind. He was tall and well built. His raven hair was always in a ponytail and his eyes always held a kind look. She smiled. He even had a fan club. She sometimes wondered if he knew this.
She turned around, now staring at the wall. He was a very good person. She remembered the little dog he was taking care of. Bubbles immediately took a liking in the little pink doggy named Courage.
But he had proven that he could be tough too. After they met Courage, Bubbles went to play with him and that was when a monster attacked her. The dog came back and tried to tell them about it by doing a lot of funny stuff. The little animal always made her laugh. But back then, there was nothing to laugh about. She understood what the creature was saying and they all went outside.
The monster had captured Bubbles. Like always, Buttercup got to action, but she was caught too. Blossom tried to do something too, but Dexter had stopped her. Then, Jack came. He took down the monster rather easily and saved her sisters. She eventually found out more about him. The most interesting thing was that he was a real samurai. That really fascinated her.
The next day they met Susie and Tootie and some other girls whose names she had forgotten. They were members of the Samurai Jack fan club and they had initiated a Buttercup fan club, because she had been saved by Jack. Blossom knew that her sister was too proud for a thing like that, but something told her that Buttercup would've liked to be a member of the Samurai Jack fan club too.
Back then she remembered that she had classified those girls as stupid and weird, and in her book they still were. But now she didn't really care. They didn't like her, just like all the others. But she could be a little grateful to them because if it wasn't for them and their stupid little act she would have never bumped into Dexter and, maybe, she wouldn't have the chance to get to know him so well.
She thought of what happened those days. Maybe Dexter would've preferred that she wouldn't have learnt so much about him. She remembered following him in his secret lab and finding a robot girl. Later Otto explained that it was a copy of Dexter's sister, DeeDee, who had died some years before.
She found out that Otto was a time traveler. He took her back in time and "introduced" her to DeeDee. Dexter's sister was somewhat the crazy type and was a real danger to his lab. But she and her little "stunts" were what made Dexter do his best in the lab, always repairing everything and creating new things.
DeeDee was also the one that helped Dexter every time he needed. When he didn't feel right in the lab he would ask for her help. Then, she would share her experience with nature with. Once, before they began their "lesson" she had asked him to promise her that if something should happen to her, he wouldn't interfere with his science to change things. At that time he hadn't understood what she had been talking about, but he agreed to make that promise anyway.
He found the meaning of her words later. His arch enemy, Mandark, had attacked his laboratory with the intention of destroying it. Dexter did his best to defend his lab, but, in the middle of the battle, DeeDee came. She saw that one of Mandark's robots was aiming at her brother. She saved him. "She gave her life for him" the red headed girl thought.
Dexter wanted to save her, but his lab was destroyed. He couldn't have done anything.
He told his parents about happened and about his lab. They hadn't been mad. They were really nice people and they understood.
Dexter had tried to bring his sister back. He hadn't been able to save anything of her body, but that didn't make him give up. He tried to make an android that would be just like DeeDee. He wanted it to be as alive as possible so he began using human organs to make it.
But at one point, something happened. The android talked. Or maybe it wasn't the android that talked. She wasn't sure. What she knew was that it reminded Dexter of the promise that he had made. He stopped his attempts to revive DeeDee.
After that experience, the Pink Puff went to her sisters and hugged them. She realized that if something would happen to either of them she wouldn't be able to handle it. They were a little taken aback by her actions. Buttercup got mad because she thought that Otto had done something to her red haired sister. Bubbles was just surprised.
She had told them to go home without her because she needed to clear her thoughts. She went outside town so she'd have some peace and quiet.
There, she met Bell, another not so pleasant meeting. Was it just her or those things were happening every time an important person came into her life? Bell looked just like a Power Puff Girl. She had long white hair, big white eyes and she wore a white dress, just like the ones her sisters and her wore. In fact, after she got to know Bell she found out that, in a way, she really was a Power Puff Girl.
But back then they weren't really in the position to chat. Bell was there to capture Blossom. They fought. She was really good. She remembered how much the girl cared for a little thing she called Gir.
In fact, Blossom herself thought that the little creature was cute. Back then she hadn't had the time to think of this because more evil creatures had come and she hadn't been able to fight them all. She had been captured.
When she woke up she was in Mandark's hideout. He had tried to use her as bait to make Dexter come to him. The red haired boy came, as Mandark said, and they fought. Blossom learnt that the death of DeeDee made them both suffer. The raven haired boy tried to shift the blame of the girl's death on her brother.
She turned her head back to the window. Mandark had tried to kill her too. He had tried to drown her. And, in a way, he had managed to do it. Dexter had, indeed, got her out of the glass prison where the other boy was keeping her, but it had been too late. She was already dead. She knew that she had been dead. She had seen the Grim. He wanted to take her away, but then DeeDee appeared. She had been rather impressed by Dexter's sister. She had long blonde hair and big sky blue eyes. She had a pair of white angel wings on her back, but the red head was sure that she got those after her death.
The blonde girl convinced the Grim to leave Blossom alive. "Hm, I think I owe her one." The girl thought smiling. DeeDee gave her a great present: her life.
They managed to get out of Mandark' hideout, after he had activated the self destruction of the lab.
They escaped with the help of one of Dexter's friends, Coop. The guy wasn't bad. He was kinda' stupid and ignorant, but he was nice. He had blonde hair and green eyes (A/N: are Coop's eyes green or blue? I'm not very sure.) and he was really fat. If there was something that Coop paid more attention to than Megas, his giant robot, that was food, food and again food. It was rather freaky.
After that little adventure, Blossom told Dexter about her dead sister, Bunny. She wanted to say more, to tell him about DeeDee and how she saved her life. However, Buttercup was a "little" suspicious about what they were doing and interrupted them. She smiled remembering her sister's goofy act.
(A/N: O.K., for the ones that haven't read the Power Puff Girls Doujinshi, this is, mainly, what happens in it, but it's in Blossom's POV. I hope that you got the point. You should really read the thing in original. I missed some parts that aren't really important in my story, but have an important place in Bleedman's plot.)
She sighed and began looking through the photo-album again. She found many other photographs.
She smiled. So many things had happened since she moved in Megaville. She had lived many adventures and many pleasant moments as well as bad moments. She looked at a photo taken at the end of the 6th grade. Almost all her friends were there: her sisters, Dexter, Otto, Mandy and many others. She smiled. "O.K. it wasn't so bad that we came here." She thought.
She turned another page and saw a picture of her and Bell. They were smiling and holding Gir who looked like he was out of air. She gave a small laugh. She had changed her opinion about Bell a long time ago. And the white haired girl did the same with her.
It happened two years ago. Susie was celebrating her 13th anniversary. She invited almost everyone at school. But the Pink Puff didn't want to go, so she let her sisters go while she stayed home. At some point she got bored of the book she was reading so she decided to take a walk.
She wasn't sure how long she had been out, but she ended up near the town's beach. She sat down taking advantage of the warm night and relaxed.
Suddenly she heard a loud growl and a scream. She opened her eyes and saw that not too far away from her position was a giant snake-like creature with three heads. For a few moments she stood still looking at the creature. Then she saw a white flash and was surprised to see Bell attacking and screaming at the monster.
It had felt rather strange because she had seen the girl act like that way before: when she had taken Gir. She seemed so desperate, so afraid. She really cared for the little thing. She searched for the small creature. She spotted it between the fangs of one the beast's heads.
She saw the monster attack her. She dodged most its attempts to hurt her. But the white haired girl didn't notice the head that was slowly going behind her. Blossom had wanted to say something, to scream at her to look out, but it would've been useless. The monster shot a weird substance at the girl. She fell on the ground, the strange liquid covering her body.
The monster was ready to attack when Blossom decided that she had done enough watching. She charged at the beast full force and knocked it backwards. She never looked back, but she could still remember how she felt Bell's eyes on her.
The monster had recovered fast and charged at her. But Blossom, being the quick thinker she is (A/N: I couldn't resist), already had a plan in her mind. She dodged the snake's attack and flew behind it. Then she blew her ice breath at the monster and froze it. Then she charged at the ice statue and reduced it to a pile of ice with one punch.
The red head caught Gir before he could hit the ground. Then she flew to the place where Bell was struggling to get free from the sticky substance. When she felt someone else there she looked up to see Blossom with Gir in her arms. She opened her mouth to say something, but stopped when she saw the Pink Puff putting the little creature down and kneeling beside her.
The pink eyed girl asked the other one if she was O.K. and the white haired girl barely nodded. She had been very shocked. Blossom had smiled at her and blew her ice breath on the substance that was covering Bell. It was frozen in a second. The White Puff was then able to get free.
They both got up and stared in each other's eyes for some minutes. "Thank you." Bell had said. With those words their friendship bloomed.
They had managed to be friends in secret for two years. A part of them wanted to tell everyone that they were friends and act like that in public, but they knew how many problems they would have if they did. Especially Bell.
So they got together in secret, talking, playing and helping each other. Bell loved to hear the stories that Blossom knew. Her favorite was "The Little Mermaid". She always asked Blossom to tell her that story and she always came up with new questions to ask about what was happening and how the characters felt or any other thing that came into her mind.
Blossom just loved her questions. They were always so interesting. She always ended up with a whole philosophy. Although she grew up surrounded by villains, the white haired girl was surprisingly innocent. And that was a thing Blossom really loved about her friend.
The Pink Puff looked up and was surprised to see the sky. She didn't realize that she got out of her room. "Oh, well, might as well take a walk." She thought heading towards the town.
She watched the clouds on the sky. "Two years" she thought. That was the time she had been secretly friends with Bell. But now their secret had been discovered. In a way, she had had more problems than Bell. The White Puff was only given a severe lecture, but she ignored it. That was one of her biggest qualities: completely ignoring anything she didn't want to hear. She wasn't sure that her friend even heard all the things that the other villains were saying.
She hadn't been so lucky. All her friends and her family wanted her to forget about Bell. They never understood that you can't forget two of the most wonderful years of your life. That was the way she classified those years: the most beautiful of her whole life. Now, every time she met one of the people she thought were her friends, they would turn their back to her. "At least now I know who they really are." She thought, frowning.
The worst was with her family. The Professor and Bubbles started a fight with her on that theme every day. Buttercup didn't do it so often, just when the subject would accidentally come up into the conversation. And thanks to the other two, it came up very often. And today was no exception.
Bubbles started the fight by insulting Bell and Blossom defended her friend. After 15 minutes during which she had heard the blonde insulting Bell in every possible way, Blossom lost it and slapped her sister over the face. That earned many screams from the blue eyed girl. This had woken Buttercup up and she came down really pissed and stared yelling and swearing. It ended as usual: with Blossom as the guilty one.
She often wondered how people could act like that just because she had a friend. She was from the other side, but that wasn't important. Bell was a great person and her best friend. And she wasn't about to give up on her just because the others didn't accept it.
The red headed girl approached a small cafe where she used to go with Bell. No one ever knew who they were because they were always dressed up so they wouldn't be recognized.
She went in and bought an ice cream. She sat down at a little table in the cafe and she started to eat it.
Her thoughts drifted to Bell and all they had done together. She really cared for her friend and she was very worried. She knew that, apparently, her situation was worse than her friend's, but that wasn't true. All she got were a lot of fights, but she could handle it. However, she knew that the villains could take action and harm Bell.
She had told her friend about her worries, but the white haired girl said that Dr X. would never let any of the members of the Darkstar Council lay a finger on her. He needed her powers too much to lose them.
Blossom accepted this and tried to calm herself down. She couldn't do anything serious, because she always had the sensation that something bad would happen.
She got up and walked towards the little bathroom in the cafe. She went in. There was no one else there. But she felt like something wasn't right.
She sighed and went to the sink. She washed her hands and splashed some cold water on her face. Then she looked around. It was the same old bathroom. Nothing had changed since she had first stepped in the cafe for the first time.
She sighed again and headed towards one of the stalls. She grabbed the doorknob, her nose picking up a strange smell that didn't have anything to do with the ordinary smells that usually were in a bathroom.
She opened the door and the image that greeted her made her gasp in horror. She took a few steps back and grabbed the sink to support herself. Her eyes didn't move from the spot they fell on when she had opened the door of the cabin. She stared in horror and shock.
That was the first chapter and I hope you liked it!
Now that this thing took off and we'll see where it goes! I just hope that it won't make me go more insane than I already am.
See ya' in the next chapter!