Ok, I have wanted to do a Miyazaki fanfiction for AGES. I love his work, and cannot express my adoration of his works in an intro, therefore I stop. To those of you who don't know me, Hi. I'm XT, (Joe) and I'm crazy. Love or hate me, I don't really care, I am writing this story out on a whim. (Like, literally, I thought this up yesterday.) Basically though, it is a story, (partially inspired by... what's his name, Shadow something. *checks* Shadow Wasserson,) about the future of Ponyo and Sosuke. It is designed to be a bit tragic at the begining, leading to a better ending, I hope... I am actually a bit upset with this... it is gonig to end up a LOT shorter than I wanted it due to a lack of creativity in the next chapter. If I am stumped (which is scarce, really,) I might, (MIGHT) ask for help...
Either way, On With the Show!
Enjoy!
So you've all obviously watched "Gake no Ue no Ponyo", AKA "Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea", and probably wanted to read more into the series. Well, lucky for y'all I write all of my adventures after the occur, and, with that handy-dandy skill you call mind reading, (it really isn't that hard, I don't understand why you silly humans haven't figured it out yet,) I can get a grasp on the whole story, record it, and make it a fancy tale to tell.
Now mind you, I had nothing to do with this, this time. Granmamare tricked me into playing the role of Guardian. I would've done it anyway, but, that's beside the point. All the while, while Ponyo and Sosuke were growing up, I was wandering around Hyrule and Mobius and Earth and all her variations, doing my thing so innocently. Ponyo's tears brought me over…
Anyways, here you go, I'll start at a fair point. (A/N: Oh yeah, my lamer introduction that was apart of the story, kind of... this was from the point of view of me/XT so, don't really worry about that so much...)
"Sosuke! Hurry! We're going to be late!" The dashing young redhead yelled to her adoptive brother.
"I know Ponyo, I know." Sosuke, a dark haired boy clambered down the stairs and sat in the back seat of his mother's car. Ponyo had already taken the front seat.
"I swear, you are the laziest boy on the planet!" Ponyo grumbled, fiddling with a golden, fish charm on her neck.
"I'd beg to differ, you should see his father when he's home…" Lisa, Sosuke's mother countered gently.
"I can't help it, Ponyo turns the alarm off in the morning, I can't wake up that early, and I don't have my own."
"We can't really afford another, honey."
"If you want, I'll start setting the alarm every morning." Ponyo sighed, twiddling now with her bright curly locks of hair.
7 years and 2 months had passed since Ponyo became a girl, and the memories were so hazy to the two kids that they both shrugged it off as a dream. Lisa, with the help of Ponyo's true parents, was given custody of Ponyo, and just explained that she adopted to all, including the kids as they grew up. The oddities of that day were left as legendary fairytales. No one remembered exactly how Ponyo came into the world of humans. No one remembered how she nearly caused the world to end. And no one, not even Sosuke himself, remembered exactly what he promised Ponyo and her family when he allowed her to remain human.
A human, let alone a five year old one, is not the greatest promise keeper in the world.
Sosuke and Ponyo had both grown up. Now on the verge of their teen years, romance was a commonplace in school. Sosuke and Ponyo both heard of the kids who were dating, and kissing, and this made them feel strange in their own environment. Both knew of this strange friendship between a boyfriend and a girlfriend, but each was too scared to actually go out and do something about it.
Ponyo and Sosuke both grew more attractive with each year. Though not the cutest or the handsomest of their kind, Ponyo was a cute, yet beautiful red head, and Sosuke, a sailor's son, was growing stronger muscles and a tougher, cooler build. Both had potential to be dating material, and some of the girls in Sosuke's school knew this very well, as did Ponyo herself.
But did she ever say a compliment to how attractive Sosuke was becoming? Never.
Did Sosuke ever tell Ponyo she was a beautiful girl? Maybe once or twice when she'd ask how she looked, but nothing like a spontaneous compliment. Not what she would have liked. Besides, to him, she was his sister. And to him, you don't date girls that live in your house, or your room, for that matter.
SCHREEEECH
Lisa always had a way with her car.
"I'll pick you two up after school, ok?"
"Yeah Mom." Sosuke nodded, grabbing his bag and waiting for Ponyo to exit the car.
The two walked into the school slowly. First days were always bad ones. The school was really small, and everyone pretty much knew everybody. Practically about 50 kids went into that school, and two teachers taught them. The teachers were the same, and the students scarcely changed.
Walking to their lockers, always next to each other, they prepared themselves for school.
Sosuke looked a bit melancholy today, and Ponyo noticed this well. She always seemed to be tuned in to his emotions.
Sosuke doesn't seem too happy, I wonder what's bugging him? He is usually a little more excited on days back at school, he has so many friends and loves talking to them…
Ponyo decided it was best not to ask, and left Sosuke be until later.
Class began and everyone took their seats. A few announcements were said, a few goals for the semester and then lessons took place.
Boring, boring, same old, same old. Sosuke mumbled mentally, oblivious as always to the pairs of eyes looking at him.
And in the blink of an eye, lunch came.
"Ponyo, aren't you coming?" Sosuke asked, a little happier now that lunch was coming around.
"Um, sure, but I have to ask Ms. Rotaka a question about that math… silly me, it doesn't make sense unless I can relate it to water!" That fact had never changed about Ponyo. She loved the water, she loved aquatic wildlife, and she loved swimming. She was abnormally fast, even without her powers, and won first place in just about every swim meet she ever entered in, always helping the family out with a few first place prizes.
"Ok, well, see ya there, right?"
"Yep!" Ponyo beamed, letting Sosuke go start eating lunch without her.
"Ponyo? What is it that you have a problem with?" Ms. Rotaka smiled as she aided her student's progress.
Ponyo walked out to her locker, grabbed her lunch, and then pranced out of the building to the field where they ate their midday meals. Ponyo and Sosuke always had a secret spot to eat their lunch, right on a rocky outcrop overlooking the ocean. It was like a miniature date each day they ate lunch, and, though nothing special, seemed to make Ponyo's day all the time.
To see another girl near Sosuke on their spot was upsetting to her. More than upsetting really, it was disheartening. Fury, sadness, and a lurch in her heart were all felt in a single bizarre emotion that she couldn't describe.
"Um, Komiko, what are you doing here?"
Komiko looked up and over at Ponyo, she seemed to have been in a discussion with Sosuke, as he looked up at Ponyo as well.
"Is it wrong for me to be here?" She asked in a less than snobby, but agitating, tone of voice.
"Well, no, but Sosuke and I have sat here every day and ate lunch together since like, kindergarten?" This is my time with Sosuke, please leave?
"Yeah, well, whatever. Sosuke, what do you say?"
"Sounds ok." He admitted to a conversation Ponyo had nothing to do with.
"What are you talking about?" Ponyo asked.
"Nothing, see yeah fishgirl." Komiko strode away. While Sosuke had many friends, most seemed repelled from Ponyo. No one knew where she had come from exactly, and her deep red hair was the envy of many girls at the school.
Her speed in the water and affinity for all things H2O gave her the nickname of fishgirl, and she tried to wear the title with pride. Sosuke too called her this on occasion, but then he'd always laugh and tickle her. Some days were better than others with the name calling, this was obviously one of the worse days.
"What were you two talking about?"
"Oh, nothing." Sosuke shrugged it off, rather suspiciously too, "Did you have any troubles with the math?"
"Not after Ms. Rotaka explained it, all made sense after that." She smiled, throw it was hard too. Something was nagging her inside. Something was up. She was just unsure of how to approach it.
The two awkwardly ate their lunch together, too afraid to make a comment about the Komiko incident.
"Ponyo! Sosuke! Class is starting! You don't want to be late!" Ms. Rotaka called to the two as they packed up hastily.
Then, more class, and before either of the two realized it, Lisa's car was waiting to pick them up. To Ponyo, it was indeed another mostly uneventful day.
But, for some reason, ever since lunch, Sosuke had been a little more excited about going to school.
"I have to go to the market again, so, you two do your homework, and don't do anything too crazy, ok?" Lisa cautioned as they got home.
"Can I still go swimming Ms. Lisa?"
"Yes Ponyo, and please, you can call me mom if you want."
"I don't feel comfortable with it." Ponyo exclaimed calmly.
"Take care you two, I'll be home later tonight, ok?"
"Yeah mom, see you later." Sosuke waved goodbye to his mother as she zoomed back down the mountain, leaving the two alone as she usually did.
"So, do you want to come swimming with me?" Ponyo smiled at the boy.
"Sorry Ponyo, I have a lot of homework, and I'm kind of worried… and besides, you swim stronger than a fish, I know you'll be safe alone." Sosuke admitted modestly, and pulled out his math book with a single leaf of paper in it.
"That is a load of crap! You are like, amazing at math, and that's a single sheet of paper and- oh fine! I'll go swimming all by myself!" Ponyo stormed off in her blue bathing suit and fled to the bottom of the cliff.
For about an hour, she just sat there, almost crying at her anger towards Sosuke. Why he hadn't wanted to swim with her, as he almost always had, was beyond her, and upsetting and scary to her.
Her feet grazed on the surface of the gently rocking water as she stared it down, feeling the rough rock warm her body from the bottom up, only to be cooled again by the frigid ocean water. She didn't feel like swimming.
And if she did swim, she would probably only attack the water to vent her frustration, and would be upset, cry, and might compromise her ability to swim against the water.
After a few more minutes of deep thought by the water, and a vague sense of longing towards the sea, she felt a twinge in her heart, and she went back up the cliff to dry off.
"Sosuke, I couldn't swim, sorry I-" Ponyo stopped dead, and her train of thought stopped in its tracks. The only thing she heard was the loud beats from her heart, pumping louder and louder as she stood in shock.
There was Komiko from school, leaning over Sosuke, her hair pulled back as her lips were intertwined with Sosuke's. As the door naturally swung shut, Komiko exited her trance and turned her head, eyes still in a daze as she comprehended that potential competition was present.
"Oh, Ponyo, I didn't think you were coming up yet." Sosuke commented, as he looked, blushing at her. Shaking his head in embarrassment, he stood up, leaving Komiko on the couch.
"So-Sosuke… What, what is this? Why are you… are you? Who… why… Ko-Komiko?" Ponyo felt woozy and faint.
"Oh, sorry Ponyo, I guess I should've told you I was coming over. It our first date." Komiko smiled, almost with pleasure, at Ponyo.
It was too much.
"SOSUKE! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!" Ponyo screamed, eyes bursting into tears. It was true, a memory from long ago reminded her that she and Sosuke had loved one another. But, to kiss another was a betrayal to this love.
Ponyo ran into her room, sobbing and sobbing and sobbing. The tears cascaded from her eyes like waterfalls, leaving a small trail of water all the way up to her room.
Sosuke felt his heart sink. He didn't think it would her Ponyo that bad. Komiko had told him she wanted to come over for a little bit, just to hang out. But when she had asked him if he thought she was pretty, she followed up with asking to kiss him, and he had little opposition to this, she was indeed a pretty girl. It felt great too, so, he decided to continue with it, experimenting with this girl.
"A date? Komiko, I think you're pretty, but, I'm not going out with you. Sorry."
"What? You kissed me! Why would you kiss me if you didn't want to date me?"
"I don't want to date anyone… I just… it felt good… Komiko, get out of my house, ok? You are causing too many problems right now…" Sosuke grumbled.
"What?! You're causing the problems here!"
"Get out!" Sosuke pushed her out the door and slammed it shut.
The troubled young boy plopped himself on the couch and thought for a moment while the sound of Ponyo's wails echoed throughout the house.
Sighing hopelessly, Sosuke walked upstairs contemplating how he was going to explain this to Ponyo.
He stood at his bedroom door, listening to Ponyo cry. He made the decision not to enter until she stopped crying, which, at this point was completely incoherent, making him feel worse and worse.
Way away, in a space between spaces, a lone robot zoomed about.
Note: crying. Possible Origins: Depression, heartbreak, sadness. All "origins" prove reasonable nodes for intervention. Status: Intervention: Gathering of information.
Cries originate from Earth, subvector 1615142515. Preparing route. Route Prepared. Leaving: now.
The air around the robot fizzled and shimmered until its purple and silver plating seemed to melting as his narrow green eye winked.
Sosuke opened the door after what seemed to be another hour. He entered with tears in his own eyes only to find the room empty, wet, and with a thick, salty smell in the air. Ponyo's suit lay empty on the ground.
"Ponyo?" He wondered aloud. The window was open, but, he didn't think Ponyo would run away. Where would she go?
Quickly, he thought and called his mother.
"Mom? Ponyo's gone! She ran away!"
"No… what happened?"
Sosuke was silent. He did not want to tell his mom he was kissing another girl while she was away, "I don't really know… she has been acting a little differently latterly…"
"Yeah, you both are, sooner than later I'm going to have to explain puberty to you… oh dear, you're getting so old, both of you…"
"Do you know what to do? Should I look for her?"
"No. Absolutely not. Stay home, we'll get a search party ready. YOU didn't upset her, did you?"
"N-not that I know of, mom." Sosuke tried to hide it.
"Understood… I'm coming home, ok?"
"Thank you… I'm scared… what if she gets hurt? Or kidnapped? I worry for her." Sosuke's fear was plain and visible in his voice.
Sosuke lay down on his bed and looked outside, it didn't look as if she left the room at all.
He buried his face in his pillows and did his best not to cry.
Incoming communiqué from subject Granmamare.
"XT-421, what are you doing in my domain?"
"Dear Aunt, it is but a formality. You know me, and you know my mother, where there is heartbreak, I appear." XT replied mentally.
"Who then?" The warm voice of Granmamare entered the robotic nexus of XT's skull.
"I do believe it is a girl named Ponyo… odd name, really."
"My daughter?"
"Oh dear, I do believe this will be interesting. Can you brief me, especially on dialect? They won't understand me if I'm speaking Rinocian…" Light surged around XT as he felt the fabric of Granmamare's Realm beneath his talons and face.
"In short, she became human to be with her friend, but I only permitted it if he loved her and accepted her first and foremost as a fish."
"So she was a fish, and became human? Nice… and this lasted how long? It would appear that she is a teenager…"
"7 years."
"Granmamare! She was five?! I have had some loony relatives before, but this?"
"But the Trial of Love was…" XT dulled his sensed, and spoke quietly within his head with Granmamare, if it was vital to his mission he wasn't going to let anything out to anyone.
"OH! Now THAT is GENIUS!" He blurted, and continued his conversation and information gathering in quiet.
Notification: Realm Entrance Imminent.
"Granmamare, the mother does know, correct?"
"Yes, I shall console her immediately." The communication ended.
Entering.
Sosuke looked out his window pitifully, imagining where Ponyo must be right now. Then something peculiar occurred. Four stars shot across the sky slowly, arced across the nightsky once, and then came back. In front of Sosuke's window, a few miles out to sea, the stopped. At their middle, they connected forming a large X, they spun to one side and formed a large T. This 'T' opened an odd door of white light over the horizon.
Sosuke watched, rubbing his eyes as if he were dreaming.
"What is that?"
The square of light spun rapidly until it became a circle, and then, as if pushed back into other folds of dimension, it shot up, down, across, backwards, forwards, around, then up again, forming a large, connected pattern, '421' in the sky, the '1' being at the top, stretching into the outermost sections of space. A small dot appeared in that tunnel, and descended rapidly through it, all the way through to the bottom of the 4.
Out it plunged, with gargoyle wings and two green, narrow eyes. It stared right at Sosuke as it rocketed towards his window.
In a moment, it had already broke a hole in his wall and was standing, or rather, hunching, over him in his room. But the metallic creature wasn't staring at him, it was staring at the wet stain on the floor.
"Gah! I come to tragedy!" It said with a distinct, manly voice, therefore indicating a designated gender.
Sosuke trembled with fear at the robot and the cold air that now blew on him through the wide hole through the wall.
"You! You must be Sosuke!" The robot growled angrily, taking a large step towards the boy. Sosuke was not interested in dying today, so he ran as fast as he could to the door, scrambling to the knob.
In a deft move, the robot got in his way and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, and lifted him up effortlessly.
"Not a chance in hell, boy. You've done a bad deed. You killed her!"
"Who are you?!" Sosuke screamed.
"I am Xavier," he spat without liquid, "Model number XT-421 of the Rinocian Empire, I am a fully sentient artificial intelligent lifeform on a mission to- that is unimportant right now. You are an idiot Sosuke, and I am going to make you pay for it."
"I didn't do anything! I swear!"
"Oh really? Then why is THIS here? Eh? Eh?!" XT pushed Sosuke close to the stain in the floor, it smelled just like Ponyo's hair.
"Po-Ponyo?"
"Bingo, twerp. You killed her."
"I-I don't know what you're talking about!" Sosuke cried, tears flowing from his face.
"Sit, we have much to discuss." XT set him down on his bed.
XT was tall, about 6 feet, which towered over most islanders, and he seemed to be an advanced robot from another future.
"So, basically, I had a long talk with your Sea Goddess, Ponyo's mother, and learned of a- you did know that her biological mother is the Goddess of the Sea, right?"
"Uh-huh… is this a dream?"
"Crap… Kid, no. This isn't. Tell me, how did Ponyo come into your family? I obviously have to start from scratch."
"My mom adopted her from a faraway land, America, I think."
"Ok… do you remember capturing a little fish when you were five?"
"Yeah… kind of… I called her… Ponyo? Wait a minute… Were they… No… that couldn't have happened…"
"That's kind of what I thought. You don't remember a thing. But yes, indeed it is true that Ponyo the fish you caught and Ponyo the sister you just lost are one and the same. She came back to you, remember?"
"No way! Magic is… not…"
"Real? Boy, tell me something, tell me if this is real." XT grabbed Sosuke's arm and pricked his skin twice, leaving an small, yet deep, 'X' on his skin.
"OUCH! So… you are real… and Ponyo is a fish… and her mom's a Sea Goddess? What the hell?"
"Yeah kid, your life just became abnormal again. You see, she burst into bubbles because you kissed that girl. You were supposed to have loved and cared for her all your life when you had that Trial of Love."
"So… I loved… Ponyo… and by… kissing another girl, I broke my promise?"
"Yes indeed." XT purred.
"Oh my gosh! I… I killed Ponyo…" Sosuke's eyes wept.
"Now you see why I'm mad at you?"
Sosuke just looked down at the ground, pitifully upset.
"Well, what are you going to do, sit there and cry?"
"What else is there to do? She's gone, right? What can I do?"
"Hmm… if you could do something, what would you do?"
"Right now, I… I really wish I could bring her back and-"
"Yeah, tough luck there." XT interjected.
"Ok then… I wish I could show her how sorry I am…" Sosuke sighed.
"I could arrange that. But, how sorry are you?"
"Extremely. She's like my fricking sister and I killed her! Killed her XT!" Sosuke looked up and shock and frustration.
"Well, prove it you fool." XT grabbed Sosuke's hand and pulled a small golden bead from his innards. "I was created by a demon in another dimension to be used in an interstellar army to conquer the galaxy. A goddess gave me a soul, and forced me and a few of my comrades to redeem ourselves. Now I serve idiots like you, teaching you lessons that will shape your futures. With this bead, I can access a portal to the Other Side. There, somewhere, Ponyo will be. You can apologize to her there."
XT pinched the bead and it cracked into a faint gold mist. With the snap of his fingers and a circular wave of his arm, the mist swirled into a two foot diameter vortex of golden and yellow mist.
XT shoved the young brown haired boy into the portal just as another being walked into the room.
"Good luck, Guardian, may the testing commence." The red headed lady whispered.
"Granmamare, I am XT-421, I am the king of relationships. They will be pushed to their limits, I promise you that. Auf Wiedersehen."
And with that, XT lunged into the portal, leaving Granmamare to deal with Lisa when she arrived home.
So, what do y'all think? Shall I continue? Or do you want me to just kind of give up here and not bother continuing? (Sure, if ONE person wants me to continue, I will, but, I do have tons of other projects, so, lol, I'll TRY to make room for whatever is wanted the most.)
Hopefully, to be continued...