Animeland
"Hello and welcome to our special edition of the
Anime world." Fenril spoke into the microphone that was turned off at the
moment. "Today--"
"It's not turned on!" Someone offstage whispered
loudly.
"What?"
"It's not on. The microphone is off."
"What? I can't hear you!" Fenril screamed even
though this someone can hear her just fine.
"It's not turned on! The microphone! It's not on!"
The someone screamed back at her just as loudly. Fen was startled and turned
it on.
"Oh! Haha, why didn't you just tell me? Man, don't
have to yell at me or something!" Fen looked up and noticed the camera
was still filming. "Oh no, well, I guess I'll just have to start again..
Today on our special edition of the Anime world, we will be journeying
into unknown territory." She started walking off to the side while the
camera followed.
"You're walking the wrong way!" The same person
said in a normal voice offstage. Fen quickly turned and walked in the other
direction.
'I'm not made for this job, why did I have to
host it?' "We often wonder where the charas, in the anime shows we
all know and love, go after we stop watching or when the charas 'retire,'"
she stopped and thought about it, "or at least someone does to put a program
like this on," she said in a whisper. "Well thanks to our very cooperative
friends from Evangelion, we can actually see today, the world that they
live in." She stopped walking and pulled someone out from the side next
to her.
"Uh, hello." Shinji waved and smiled, nervously.
"Loosen up, Shinji-kun. Okay, Shinji here will
be leading now." Fen gave him the microphone and walked offstage. Shinji
just stood there until the screen blacked out.
"Okay, here we are and uh..hello? Um, Mr. Cameraman?
I think you should turn on the visual part of the camera." Shinji's voice
was there but it was still a blackened screen. The screen blinked into
color and showed Shinji standing in a giant meadow with a building in the
distance. "We didn't show you how to get here, of course, in fear of rabid
fans. Here is the front lawn of where we ALL live. It's a pretty big house
and every time someone new comes, we add another room to the building."
Shinji started walking towards the building.
"Hey cool! No bugs in the grass! And look, there's
grass growing under all the shade from the trees." Someone ran up in front
of the camera and pushed the camera to face the grass. "And the grass is
GREEN!" The camera came back up to show three people rolling on the grass
towards the house and Shinji staring at them.
"Uh, maybe you should turn off the camera until
we get to the door, its gonna be at least a 10 minute walk from here."
Shinji came up to turn the camera off while the cameraman was telling him
not to touch it and sounds of a fight brewing started before the screen
blackened again.
When the camera turned back on, Shinji was standing
in front of two big wooden doors with gold handles and a mailbox the size
of a rather large computer monitor, no flat screen stuff. Shinji also had
a bruise on his left cheek and some smeared blood on his right cheek.
"Here is the front door along with the mailbox.
We would show you the whole front of the house but we would just have to
walk back to where we started and maybe even further." He took out a pair
of keys and opened the door. There was a big staircase while heading in.
"That's the main staircase, there are other staircases somewhere in the
halls and about four stories on the last count along with the two basements.
There is a west, east, north and south wing, no questions about that please.
There is a guest house for newbies who are waiting for their room and a
directory on every floor in every wing."
"Hey Shinji, have you seen Kai? I think he made
off with my gundam again." Amuro was walking towards his direction with
Char.
"And did you see Zechs or Milliardo, which ever
name he goes by. I think he took my mask." Char touched his cheek which
was covered by the mask he was wearing. "I have extra in my room."
"Uh, I just got here. Hey, uh, how about you say
hi to all the people watching?" Shinji started to walk away from the view
of the camera. While the camera looked at the direction of Amuro and Char,
they both turned around and walked away. "Damn." Was all Shinji said.
"Okay, keep talking." Someone offstage commanded
Shinji.
"Damn. Well uh, if we walk down this way, we'll
enter the main kitchen." It was a room the size of a basketball court,
almost. "Hey, Hikari!" A girl in pigtails looked over and waved. "That's
Hikari, she's a really good cook."
"You need some soy sauce. Uh, that's vinegar. Add
a little sugar.. that's MSG. No no, that's white pepper." A voice that
sounded like it held a vast amount of patience came from the far end of
the kitchen.
Shinji squinted at the two figures cooking. "I
think that's Kasumi and Akane. You know, from Ranma." He walked closer
to the camera and said in a low voice. "Don't take any kind of food that
Akane made. ANY." He backed away and noticed someone coming in. "Oh, that's
Tomoe, from Kenshin." He dropped his voice to a whisper. "Don't ever put
her and Kaoru in the same room, especially with Kenshin at least in a one
mile radius." He brought his voice back to the normal volume. "Okay, let's
go down the hall."
"…should really practice more. It was such an easy
game, no contest! I thought all you guys from Slam Dunk could do a little
better than that!" A particular braided bishounen glistening in sweat said
coming from down the hall.
"Shut up." Sakuragi said blandly. Sweat rolled
down the side of his face. "Let's get something to…"
"They're really friends, just some friendly competition.."
Shinji looked anywhere but the camera. He stopped at two big wooden doors
and opened one by the gold handles.
"…is not strong enough!" Allen easily blocked Van's
thrusts and swings. Van didn't respond, he was in his creepy fighting mode.
Allen blocked again and pushed him away. Van fell to the floor and was
about to get up but the point of Allen's sword was at his throat…again.
"Ugh, next." Van said warily and pushed the tip
away. Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth came up. She took her stance and
waited for Van to get up.
"Let's go." Shinji sweatdropped and smiled. "I
don't think you'll want to see this and I don't think he wants to be embarrassed
by showing you how uh… untrained .. he is." He started to push everyone
out.
"I heard that! Next time I'm training in Escaflowne,
you're gonna be my opponent." Van looked from the corner of his eye. Shinji
smiled nervously and closed the doors.
'I'll still beat him either way.' Shinji
thought with a smile. He started walking down the hall without saying anything
for about 20 minutes, lost in thought.
"Shinji? Shinji?" Someone tapped him on he shoulder.
"Shinji?!"
"Huh? Oh, right. Uh, over here is another room."
The camera zoomed in, ready to see what's inside. "Over there is another
room." The camera didn't move but you could hear the cameraman whispering
something about 'the same thing' and 'does he know whats he's doing?'
"Can we go in here?" Someone motioned to the door
still in the picture. A few mumbles and the door was opened.
"Just give up!"
"No."
"Yes!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!"
"I can still beat you!"
"No you can't!"
"Yes I can!"
"No you can't!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
Everyone in the room sweatdrops. "That's Goku and
Master Roshi. From Dragonball." The doors closed. "That's the training
room for people that can use magic and stuff like that. This hall is basically
all the training rooms."
"Shinji! Baka! You take so long and it's so boring!
I don't know why Fen-chan put you as the first person to show the place."
Asuka was wearing her usual yellow dress and red shoes, standing in the
middle of the hall. "She should have left you out completely and put me
first!"
'Fen-chan likes me better, that's why. Besides,
she's not crazy to do something like that. ?? Since when did I add "chan"
to her name?' He would think this but never dare say it out loud,
in fear of Fen glomping him and Asuka's fist in his eye. "Yeah yeah. Take
over then. My part is done." He gave her the microphone while she snatched
it away from him with a sniff.
The screen blackened.
***
i'm doing each thing in segments? whenever the
tour guide is switched, its another segment? ew, why does it smell like
a burning beach? i don't even live by the beach. oh, it stopped. no, i
have a partially stuffy nose. anyway, hope you enjoyed the story so far.
please be kind and review it. that smell is back...
