Blissful Memories by Lunar Wave
Disclaimer: I don't own PPGZ
Chapter Start
Memory 1: Bliss
A figure floated in non-existence. She stood in space while staring at the events that unfolds in front of her. "… Momoko…" Akatsutsumi Bani, or Lunar Bliss, stood above the scene, sighing as she watched helplessly how her once host and best friend get sucked in by misery. Bliss sighed as she stared at what's going on.
"This is not exactly blissful, watching my friend suffer. I can't talk to her either… I tried to but I can't…" Bani said, frustrated as she sees her sister lay in her room. "Why can't we ever be together? Why can't we co-exist?" Bani yelled as she sighed. Bani recalled the previous days.
/Flashback Start/
July 9, 2035, Monday
"Momoko!" Kaoru called. Momoko continued walking, her eyes clouded by grief.
July 20, 2035, Night of the Full Moon
"Momoko?" Miyako asked, concerned. They were a bit late in heading home.
"What is it?" Momoko said as she stared at the full moon from the sky as they walked home.
"You're still sad about Bani, right?" Kaoru noted. "It's not healthy to be keeping if all in."
"Tell us… Let it out." Miyako nodded. "Don't keep it in your heart." Momoko slowly, but surely smiled and nodded. But as she was about to tell Miyako her feelings, her parents suddenly ran towards her and pulled her away from the other two. Behind her are Miyako's grandma, and Kaoru's father. Miyako proceeded to her grandma's side as Kaoru solemnly walked towards his masked father's side. The three girls made a fleeting look at each other before they were pulled away. Momoko… was never able to tell the other two how she felt. And everything was locked away.
Akatsutsumi Home
"Momoko… Why didn't you tell us that you work at that lab?" Kakiko fidgeted.
"So you finally figured it out…" Momoko sighed, her eyes still sad. "How?"
"Kuriko yelled that she wanted to visit the lab." Hachizou nodded. "We told her no and she complained that you go there every day! Why didn't you tell us? You might have suffered from radiation for going there almost every day!"
"I bet that's what caused your sudden memory loss last June!" Kakiko sternly said. "We're gonna send you into the hospital for a check-up! Why did the mayor allow you to be there anyway?"
"I knew that when Mayor asked to bring Momoko to the lab, something fishy was up." Hachizou gritted. "They were trying to cover up for their mistakes!"
"You'll be sent to the hospital and be checked for any signs of disease! Immediately!" Kakiko said. "And as soon as you get out, you're grounded for a whole month! And part of that sentence is that you are not allowed to use the phone or any electronics!"
Gotokuji Home
"… Ms. Akatsutsumi informed me, Miyako… And I'm very disappointed that you kept such a secret." Kiyoko sighed. "You will immediately head home as soon as possible, and do the everyday chores."
"Yes… Obaa-chan…" Miyako sighed. She went to her room quietly and lay down on her bed.
Matsubara Home
"You're grounded, got that, Kaoru? If you are not home by 3:30, I'm gonna slash your allowance. And you are not allowed to leave the house in the whole summer!" Tokio nodded.
"Sure, whatever you say. As long as I'm allowed to go to the competitions I have over the summer." Kaoru shrugged.
"That too… Yeah sure, you can go." Tokio shrugged.
"Looks like I still have something to look forward to this summer. But not much." Kaoru sighed.
July 23, 2035, Monday
"Hey, Miyako! I heard you work at the lab, right?" A girl approached her. "You know? Thelab. The HQ of the PPGZ!"
"Miyako, you must get us into that lab too!" A girl pleaded with the blonde. "No fair you, Kaoru, and Momoko get to be with the PPGZ all the time!"
"Trust me; you don't want to be in that lab! I just got grounded because of working there!" Kaoru said gruffly. "And Momoko was hospitalized by her super worried parents!"
"Right…" Himeko said with a huff.
"I heard you tried to bribe your way in." Sakamoto noted. "When will you learn that money won't make things any better?" Himeko brushed off Sakamoto's comment.
"Summer's about to come…" Kaoru sighed. "And I'm not allowed to go out of the house at all this time. I've never felt so annoyed about summer, ever!"
"Well, I'll just spend it with obaa-chan." Miyako nodded.
"If I recall correctly, you're the only one of us three that wasn't grounded." Kaoru shrugged.
"But I got a punishment similar to it." Miyako sighed.
August 4, 2035, Saturday, Hospital
"Finally, that testing and the quarantine were done. See, I came up clean!" Momoko told her father. Something about Momoko spooked her father. She was paler, a lot less peppy, but she still talks like the same old Momoko. Hachizou shrugged it off as a hospital thing.
"Remember, what we told you about being grounded still stands. You are not allowed to leave the apartment, nor are you allowed to use the electronics." Hachizou told her.
"Right." Momoko stared at the sky blankly. That's when Hachizou finally felt the spooky part about Momoko.
"So, we going home or not?" Momoko asked her father. Hachizou shrugged the feeling away and started the walk home.
/Flashback End/
"I disappeared at the beginning of July, or specifically, July 5, 2035." Bani noted. "For two weeks, Momoko wasn't able to smile nor converse with her friends. Then her parents had discovered that she was secretly working part time at the National Research and Science Lab. They sent her straight to the hospital to check her for any abnormalities. She spent her July in the hospital quarantine till she was finally let out. She was found normal and clean but the testing ended at around the start of August. Momoko wasn't able to see her friends since July 20, causing severe problems on her reactions to whatever is thrown at her. She was then grounded for the whole month of August. She was disallowed from using the phone and unable to leave the house." Bani sighed as she summarized the events that she recalled. Then she went on to Momoko's psychology problem.
"Right there is the obvious mistake made by the Akatsutsumi family. Momoko never told them that I died or even who was I to begin with, which was the reason of her depression. Momoko never told them that she was a member of the Powerpuff Girls Z, under orders of Prof. Utonium and Mr. Mayor. But the thing is, they still insisted on grounding her, disallowing Momoko to be able to pour out her emotions to her friends, who knew about the incident. She did have her communicator compact with her, but she cannot use it long and often enough and she can't leave the house, which is under strict surveillance by her father. Momoko's emotions had bounced around her heart, not allowed to be let out, till her heart adapted and became hardened by the events. She can smile, she can laugh, but all these smiles and laughs are only a front for what she truly feels. She became unable to tell Miyako, Kaoru, or, indeed, ANYONE about her troubles, destroying her slowly and painfully." Bani sighed. She could make a good psychologist if she wanted to. Bani did a quick tap dance and looked carefully at Momoko's parents.
"Hachizou-san and Kakiko-san meant well, but Momoko's psychological health is in pain as she's about to spend two whole months without talking to her friends… I should help her then… But how? I'm not exactly alive for one thing… Hmm… What Momoko needs is a friend. A friend that she can tell her story too. But I can't go with Miyako or Kaoru. Both are out of the question, as they were also saddened and frustrated by the events. What I need is a person that has no connection to the whole of my story…" Bani planned her course of action to help the trio. The burden of being the only Powerpuff Girls Z and her apparent death was destroying the trio.
"Why is it that I'm the fourth Powerpuff?" Bani sighed. "After all, four can be pronounced as shi which pretty much means death…" Bani sighed. She scanned the world for any possible friends for Blossom. She found a brunette who was schedule to move to Japan on August 19.
"Perfect. She's smart, and incredibly gifted. Nice, too." Bani nodded as she checked the brunette. "And she definitely knows too little about the Powerpuff Girls Z for her to know much about me…" Bani searched around for more possible candidates for Momoko's friends. Soon she found a girl and a boy, packing up their clothes.
"Yin and Yang huh?" Bani noted as the two conversed. The girl had white hair and was quite meek, definitely not Yang. She talked in a slightly more passive way. The boy had jet black hair, but can't be associated with yin. He's strong, but there's something about him that makes Bani feel more capable. Maybe this boy can help out… "Though I doubt he'll become a Powerpuff Girl Z." Bani snickered.
"Now, I found people who could possibly remove the cement from her hardened heart, but I might need a few more… It'll be a painful process, but Momoko… I wish you luck." Bani looked towards her only family, Momoko. The only person she ever looked at as a family. At her bedside stood a picture of Bani, hugging the trio.
"I'm going to live up to my namesake." Bani nodded. "I'm no Easter Bunny, but I'll bring blissful memories to everyone!" With that, she faded into the space.
Chapter End
Prologue Chapter, over. This will be the premise of the story. Friendship and Relations. A way of getting to a person's heart. And Bani's involvement with random matters. Don't expect to see much of Bani though...
The characters that was shown being visited by Bani are OCs of other fellow Fanfiction dot net writers. They are owned by certain people, but as I don't want to spoil the fun for most people, I won't name them yet, and therefore, I'm not gonna put the credit line here, but starting on the chapter the character is fully introduced. If you want to ask to place your OC in… I'll check if they're any good compared to the one I still have on request. There's a certain test for which chars I like or dislike. I'm not in the mood to insert characters that are boring, mind you. Though I swear, this is not a help wanted sign. I'm not desperate to put new OCs. I already have a certain character in pending of a certain person's answer, and I'm gonna wait till he replies.
This story is on hold till that guy responds.
Next up: Memory 2: Picture
