I seriously rewrote this at least five times, and this isn't one of my normal jokes. I really rewrote it too many times, and that's what bugged me about writing this story since I didn't expect to delete a bunch of content at least five times. Ugh, number six or whatever this content is, better be good and worth it, and it'll be judged by you guys, whether or not if you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own the lovely HxH. (WHICH THE MANGA HAS CONTINUED!) If I did, I'd probably be redrawing like one panel for the twentieth time, no joke.
囧THM囧
-The Hollow Mirror-
-Chapter 1-
-Fainted Colors-
They say if you want to live, you must be strong.
That must mean I'm weak.
They say to get through countless battles, you must be brave.
That must mean I'm a coward.
And they say to live a life of freedom, with protection and being cared for, you must be happy about it.
I might've skipped over that one.
Flick...flick...flick...
The half dead light flickered violently most of the time as I stared through the window.
I tapped my finger gently on the table I sat just centimeters away from. My chair creaked anytime I even moved it a millimeter and I couldn't sit still even once. My fingers continued tapping and I couldn't make them stop. The habit was annoying, but I was easily ignoring it, but I still wanted it to stop.
Wind rolled through the outdoor air and trees were bending like they were being punched. Leaves danced on the wind's frail floor as they did flips and spins.
I wish the wind would take me away. I wish it would let me dance away from my tragedy, to prevent what my fate was. The future wasn't being very nice to me.
My magenta eyes shook during the moment's stress I'd pulled in not on purpose.
And my slightly brown in my orange hair partially tickled my skin. I then begged my nerves to give my hand the urge to move the strands out of the way, but I for some reason couldn't get myself to.
The light flickered more and more until it couldn't stand itself and it shut off completely, broken without shards of glass on the floor, even though glass was sitting on the floor underneath one of the bigger lights. I had no idea where the broken glass came from in the first place. It was still a mystery to me, yet not the kind I wanted to waste time and solve.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, my legs functioned. My conscience must've woken up or something because I didn't really want to get up, but I did, and ended up walking down the hallway to the front door.
The wind blew viciously at my face as I opened the door. A leaf flew to the ground from its lack of blocking gravity, and the wind began dying down.
I didn't set eyes on anything for the next minute. I stared around expressionless while I moved down the dirt path ahead of me, barefoot.
It took me a good two minutes to find a good spot to sit at while I waited for the sunset to not show itself and cease to exist for the night.
And I waited only another twenty or so minutes before the last bit of light was the fireflies swimming through the air.
I scrunched up, small enough I could probably fit into a duffle-bag. My face was buried in between my chest and legs, and my arms wrapped around my skinny legs, somewhat covered with my faint silver dress.
A tear formed, for a reason and buzzing and flickering surrounded me.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
It took me a little too long to lift my drooping head up and see silver hair covered in a teal jacket. Long hair was all I could make out of the features of this girl's head. It laid still, finely straight. The rest I saw was that she was putting her hands in her jacket pockets, wearing a yellow top and slight tan in her khaki pants.
The stranger kept her head down, too oblivious to know I was here. But I didn't care anyway.
A small glittering pond laid in front of me and the girl crouched in front of it, being on the exact opposite side of it I was at.
My eyes didn't sparkle, but I was stunned to see someone here, and even better had she looked my age.
I placed a hand on the dirt battered floor, colored a more tan color.
She looked up at the sky and then at me. She saw me. I could tell by the way she changed her face, but it had nothing to do with excitement.
Her mouth started to move and I could barely make out the words, "Who are you?"
I gulped, slowly standing up. The bun connected to two thin braids on my head wasn't very neat anymore, only I didn't bother trying to fix it as I noticed looking at my reflection in the pond. Fish swam peacefully inside.
Multicolored lights filled the pond as the girl moved towards me.
A fish glowed, and then another. "Protect me if I need any help," I told telepathically, stepping forward.
Millions of lights glowed past the water and beaming lights shot the air, leaving a rainbow of colors from sea level to around ten feet above.
The girl stopped in surprise to the glowing light. I'd seen this plenty of times to know it was safe, so I kept on walking forward.
She blinked and shook it away. Smacking her head multiples times she proceeded forward and because she continued, it only took a brief amount of time before we stood just a foot away from each other.
I finally saw her eyes. But they were just a dark color. Of blue? Or purple? Or green? Or maybe it was just plain black mixed with a few dark grey's. I couldn't tell.
Me being the first to speak, a scowl reached and grabbed my face. "How did you find this place?" I asked with much concern.
She looked at me murderous-like, then responded quietly. "I don't have the desire to answer that question."
I grit my teeth fiercely. "No answer. This isn't a joke...Nobody comes here this easily. Heh, they don't even live long enough to get past the guards." A small snickered fell out my mouth as I smirked smartly.
"Oh, you mean those alligator rats, yeah, piece of cake." (Yes. Those things are real in my world.)
What?! I mentally face palmed. Of course they didn't do their job. Why did I commit to this?
"Well, whatever reason you have for coming here, I'm going to have to ask you to leave," I informed, but she stayed the same. Too stubborn, huh? "If you hesitate any longer, I won't hold back on attacking. I'll take you as a threat and bring out my weapon."
"Weapon?" The girl stared in bewilderment. Then I noticed an eyebrow twitch. "Look. I'm not here to attack and play to the death games. I came here for a reason, just like you asked," she explained, but I wasn't buying it.
"Oh, really. What is this reason you have? Or are you going to remain silent and defend yourself. Answer me." I was probably on her edge.
"No thanks." To my own surprise, she still didn't tell me. I looked wide eye as she strolled right past me. I blinked a couple of times, and shook it away. "Hey! Don't just go off away from me in that direction. Why're you being so stubborn?" I said, turning towards her. "Who're you anyway? I need a starter for one thing."
She paused and turned at me. "Risé."
"Well, Risé, I need you to turn the other way and head out of this place this instant!" I ordered, but she didn't listen. A tick mark appeared on my forehead. "Transformation to start. I want this person out of here. This is an order."
The lights grew brighter and a figure formed inside of it.
Standing on the water, a mix of rainbow colored figure holding black knives, flipped the knives in the air, catching them again.
Is this the threat master?
"Attack this Risé girl."
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Don't go on and kill me off." Risé waved her hands to prevent what she guessed I was about to do.
"Why shouldn't I?" I mentally smirked, but physically kept a scowling face. "You won't obey my order and leave. At least tell me why you're here? Like I said...no one stumbles upon this place uninjured and not half-dead."
"You leave me no choice." Risé sighed deeply, placing her fingers on her forehead. "Alright. I'll blow the cover off." Her eyes opened and I could finally tell they were a dark green, a very, very dark green, the definition of a dark forest where green is the only color you can find other than black.
I lowered my guard and put my hand up sort of behind my back. "You can leave." The multicolored figure left its fighting stance and sunk into the water wih a nod. The beaming lights died down and it was dark once again.
"Alright. Spill the beans."
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I sat on my bed, exhaling loudly out of total misunderstandment. Risé's reason for coming seemed pretty exceptable and I allowed her to be here for just one night and by dawn tomorrow, she had to leave. That should've given her enough time to at least make it around three fourths of the area, searching for something she told me about.
Footsteps creaked from the stairs outside the white wooden door.
It must be Sensei, I thought.
"Bexly!" Too unfocused by my stubborn behavior from earlier, I ignored the fact that someone was calling my name in vain anger.
A door slammed opened and a woman with short green hair, in her late teens crossed her arms disappointedly and frowned solemnly.
Seeing her, I faced away from her in a rude manner. "What's up Saw."
"You disobeyed my orders! And talk to me formally. It's Sakura, not Saw. As your teacher, I need you to listen to what I have to say!"
I scoffed to that. "Oh, yeah. For someone who can't even find good guards thinks she can order me around like this. It's not my fault she got in! They didn't do their job correctly!" She ignored my excuse, crossed even more than before, or in general.
"It's not the fact that this person got in. It's the fact that you allowed her to stay...For something you could care less about finding and observing." I didn't feel bad for what she told me. It actually triggered my laugh button, scorning her hilariously.
"Wow! You're a real jerk, you know. It's not like she was even here to attack anything or anyone. The only thing she attacked was the guards and you can easily replace those with something waaay stronger." I continued to laugh mockingly.
"This isn't funny, Bexly. I didn't know a nine year old could make their way into an extremely dangerous area, unharmed and uninjured. And for someone the same exact age couldn't think of a way to convince this person to leave, even with your guardian," Sakura explained, and by the way she was talking, I assumed she was going to menace me at any moment. "If you let one more person in to stay even an extra minute, I'll force you to never leave this place again." See. Right there. Menace. But a bad one for me because that was my goal ever since I came here, being accepted from her and to leave this filthy place.
Sigh. If only I hadn't agreed and just ran away instead. I probably wouldn't end up dead anyway if I was fast enough.
Sakura placed a hand on her forehead and sighed quietly. Her eyes opened to show a blue-purple mixture in them as she turned around.
"You know what? I'm going to show you something tomorrow that I think you're ready to know about. I'm losing time anyway, so I might as well." She spun back around and kept a serene expression on. "If she's not gone by the time you told her to, then I'll punish you and postpone your deadline. So..." She put her hands on her hips, then raised a hand and pointed at me with a slight smile to her usual attitude. "By the time she leaves, I want you to head for the gardens as you should know where it is. I'm allowing you to enter this time."
I reluctanly nodded, slowly. She nodded her head once and faced the door. Stepping out, now alone, I fell back into my bed and closed my eyes.
Such a horrible day its been.
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Blurry images was what I saw the next morning. I blinked a few times before my vision cleared. Must've been my tiredness blocking part of my vision.
I sat up, rubbing my eyes with a yawn. It was dawn and I expected Risé to be gone by now, but at the same time I felt more like she was still searching and wouldn't leave until she's satisfied that whatever she's looking for isn't here.
Setting that thought aside, I jumped out of bed. Quickly changing into a pair of light blue jeans and a striped black and white shirt, I fixed up my hair, putting it into the same style I always did: the bun on the back with two thin braids attached to it, sitting above my ears.
And as soon as I finished, I made my way to the front door and stepped outside.
I sniffed, smelling fresh salty air. Must be coming from the garden because you can find the weirdest plants with the craziest smells there, or even just the looks are not your usual kind of look.
Forgetting to go there as I was told to, I followed the path down to the pond where fish swam peacefully without care that I was here.
I dipped my hand inside, sitting on my knees. The fish as if they were blind of sight, smell, (if they are able to smell things) and hearing, didn't notice my presence and went on their merry way just eating underwater plants or just moving around carelessly.
One on the other hand found my hand touching the shallow section where I touched a patch of milk chocolate brown dirt.
It's red eyes mixed in with its pink scaly skin. And as I already knew, the other nine fish not near me had a color different than the rest (a.k.a. Dark green eyes with light green skin, dark blue eyes with light blue skin, etc.).
I lightly slid my finger down its skin as it didn't flinch. It was as if it had no care for any presence or being touched, as long as it could breathe.
Seconds later something began to glow. Underneath my fingers, a bright red light colored the bottom of my pale skin. I closed my eyes as a wave of air rushed past me, blowing my hair back and my bangs to the side.
I lifted my available hand to hold it up above the water.
The other nine fish of green, blue, purple, yellow, orange, white, black, brown, and clear made their way over, the clear one coated with a clear color on its eyes, presenting of a much bigger size than the rest, lagged behind. By my guess as I've done this before, it started to spin in a circle.
I mumbled words in utterance. "Of the ten demensions: Ess, Hal, Mry, Uro, Phi, Gwo, Jaq, Stm, Wyt, and Bruwse, I command the ten princes to be summoned and pulled together. In order of the master, I allow them to do their duty in which I will control them. Arsgue Kruk herm lei utsi kadwu ai! (Open the gate to this world)
Light from above reflected off of the multicolored light that I created, of the mixture of the nine colors (taking out clear). I opened my eyes to see the clear fish slowing down and soon stopping.
It's tail wrapped around its body and it squeezed itself. The much clearer light that was reflected, angled itself towards the water. Eventually it hit the clear fish where it glowed itself.
A darkness erupted into the reflected light and the multicolored lights were pulled in and taken into the clear fish with a spinning motion.
The colored fish disegrated, and the colored light fainted away.
The darkness exploded into a million pieces as the now big multicolored fish let itself free from own's grasp. It swam towards me and jumped into the air and disinegrated as well. An object formed.
A thick clear bracelet with charms of the ten fish connected like you would glue them on instead if hanging them formed and I allowed it to fit through my hand and it stopped at my wrist, where it shrunk in size and tightened around.
I sat back, no longer on my knees and held with my left hand (without the braclet) on the braclet. On the very top middle had the clear fish been, the charm bigger than the rest. The clear braclet acted liquidfied, but with a hard case enclosing it.
I exhaled, relieved I did this correctly.
"I better go to the garden then," I said to no one wih my head facing almost behind me.
I jumped up and headed for the garden.
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Hiking my way to the garden I was greeted by a particular being.
"I thought you were going to leave at dawn, Risé."
"I'm not done searching yet. But I believe what I'm looking for is inside that gated area." I raised an eyebrow.
"Inside the garden. That's unbelievable. Unless you're looking for a specific plant, then there's a possible chance."
"It's not a plant."
"Then just leave for my sake!" My eyebrow twitched, realizing something. "I'm going to get in trouble if you don't leave now. Hurry up and go. Maybe if you tell me this item I can search for it and see if I can find it."
"Yeah, no. It's secret and I'd rather not tell you. I'll go then because I bet it's not actually here." She crossed her arms and took a few steps forward. "Oh, and I'll accept that offer. I can give you a clue to what this item is...If you find a small glowing object of any color the shape of a three dimensional diamond that can take you away from this place, no, anywhere you are, then notify my. I have a phone actually."
I sighed quietly. "I have some pencils and paper you can write the number down." I waved my hand. "Come on. This is the only reason I will let you in my house for. Once you finish writing it down, then leave immediately after."
I had the feeling she nodded, but I couldn't tell because I wasn't looking at her.
Away we went, and a bird finally chirped.
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Once inside, I grabbed the nearest pencil I could find and found a small note card on the table.
Risé quickly sketched the number down.
Taking a quick glance at the number I folded it up and put the paper in my pocket.
"By the way, don't expect me to even find it soon or even try to find it. I don't always keep promises and there's a high chance I'll end up giving up on this," I explained briefly.
"No need to mention," she said, opening the door. "I only asked to make it go by faster. I have plenty of time before I'm going to give up. I'll at least thank you for taking the offer. See ya then."
I folded my arms and moved to the door. Staring over the field of grass, I watched her to make sure she was really leaving. Up ahead I could see a tall black metallic gate where later I saw Risé make it past in time before the sun was up too much.
Once she was too far for me to see, I did my job of walking and headed for the garden again, where I actually made it there like I wanted to before.
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If you are normal then it'll take you at least half an hour to realize you are in a bad situation, like a really, really, bad situation. If you're not normal like me, then it should only take you before you even get to the place to realize. So I guess it's more like...I don't know...a bad intention to even begin with.
Anyways, I knew once Sakura told me about revealing a certain object that this object wasn't going to be good. Really. It isn't. From the top of my head I could come up with many things that would possibly be it, but never get it right. All I knew for the most part was to try and avoid this 'object' as much as I can for the remainder of my life, or as I prefer, until I throw it away, unseen.
The black gate unlocked, I pulled myself through a small gap big enough to fit in. Of course, Sakura was bending her legs enough to sit on them and hold her weight by her two feet. Her shoulders were moving very little, so that must've meant she's just putting her hands in the air, or holding something like if she were to drop it, it would be fragile enough to break into a trillion particles.
I glanced at the plants. Nothing new even though I rarely came here for the past few years.
I crossed my fingers in hope that I could get over this in less than five minutes. But what's the likelihood of that happening, especially considering this woman wasn't a fast going person? Sigh. Just. Please Sensei. Don't torture me with your turtle-like ability.
I just wish I turned into a fugitive without getting caught. I'd love to leave this place.
But, I was glad I had no take backs on what I was just thinking.
Stopping behind her, I called her name around seven or so times, and she finally felt the urge to turn around and notice I was here.
"'Sup, Saw," I greeted in an unkindly manner.
Sakura frowned. "Stop calling my Saw, idiot."
"Whatever you say. What's for dessert tonight?" I chortled half-heartedly. "By which if you can't tell, the item," I translated.
"I'm blooming it right now. It'll take another minute."
Huh?
Question marks flew above my head mentally.
"The item is created by this special flower, as well as something else I'd like to keep to myself," she explained, looking back at the green plant.
How is that a flower? I thought to myself. It didn't have petals. Unless since it's blooming, petals must be starting to form.
I shook the thought away. Why should I care anyway? I'll end up throwing the thing away sometime soon, forgetting about it the next day.
A magenta light appeared and petals the same magenta shaded color came out. A small diamond shape crytal sat inside.
Whoa.
I rubbed my eyes in case I was just zoning out or hallucinating. Nope.
This was real. And I kinda...liked it in a way. Maybe I won't throw this away. Well, as long as it's what I'm acquiring.
Hopefully.
I took a step back and forced my head to jerk back to prevent blinding myself from the bright beaming light. I blinked multiple times to get rid of the bluriness.
Seconds afterward, the light disappeared.
I watched as Sakura took ahold of the crystal (or gem by another guess) and examined it.
"Okay!" She stood up, handing me the object. I examined it myself and it probably wasn't any ordinary crystal that most likely was just dyed the magenta color. I noticed a design in black: a dot in the very middle and a non-filled semi-circle on each four sides, connected together, leaving the dot alone.
Amazed, my eyes lit up and widened.
"Oh, uh...thanks." I suddenly remembered Sakura was still standing there.
"Don't lose it, or think about getting rid of it. It's a special gift only you can handle. I'm trusting you to take care of it."
I nodded, slipping it into my pocket. "Yes can do!...Only, what's it for?"
"That's for you to find out. I do know, but I want you to see for yourself. But don't worry, it'll eventually occur to you," she assured me, crossing her arms once again.
I nodded in understandment to her statement. Obviously I was going to find out as soon as possible.
But it turned out differently than I imagined.
This is where my fate started.
Well...sorta.
囧THM囧
Sweet cheese and crackers! I finally came up with the beginning. Though, originally, this was suppose to be a prologue, but what prologue has around 4,000 words in it? I got too into it once I came up with the idea for this chapter.
We'll be getting into the real plot possibly by next chapter, else, chapter three. I guess you could think of this as an introduction, or an extremely long prologue that happens to be just as long as normal chapters in the future. (At least if it turns out to be around 4k words.)
A big thanks for stopping by! ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ