I'm back! I took a break from writing Rozen Maiden for a while, but I aim to get my ongoing fics finished. I'm a little bit rusty though, so I'm doing this first as some practice.
What is this? Well it turns out there were a bunch of Drama CD's released for Rozen Maiden. These were never released in English though, only Japanese. However I was able to find Spanish transcripts of those Drama CD's online. By running them through a translator I can get a badly mangled English transcript. Using that, I hope to write an English version fic based on the original character drama CD's. It takes time though, and the only one I have translated so far is Vol.3 - Suiseiseki's episode.
This fic is therefore based on her drama CD. I think it takes place the morning after episode 4 of Traumend, which was the episode where Suiseiseki made Jun her Medium. I will do my best to keep it faithful to the drama it's based on, but I will probably adlib a lot to try and get it to make sense. It will likely contain mild Suiseiseki x Jun shipping moments, but nothing major. If this fic goes well, I might do similar fics for the other character episodes as well. So let me know what you think! Here is part one. I think this story will contain six parts/chapters altogether.
Covenant
Part 1
Suiseiseki and her Medium
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!
Suiseiseki's mismatching eyes fluttered open and she groaned, rousing from a deep sleep and some very pleasant dreams. Something was making a dreadful din, an electronic racket that insisted she wake up. The Gardener doll pressed a hand against the side of her head and moaned.
"What a terrible noise ..." She blinked several times then opened her eyes fully to see where she was. To her astonishment she was not inside her case where she should be. No, in fact she had actually fallen asleep somewhere else. With a dawning sense of horror, Suiseiseki realized that the soft warm thing she was lying on was actually Jun. She had fallen asleep against him. She was even on his bed.
"Wah?" She gasped, staring at the slumbering human whilst his alarm clock continued to shriek in the background. How? Why? What the heck was she doing sleeping with Jun? She clapped her hands to her face and almost shrieked at the horror of the situation. "Ahhh! Why am I ... what am I doing in the runt's bed? What was I doing sleeping with him? How could things have gone so far?"
Jun continued to snooze despite her frantic monologue and the persistent alarm clock that only served to add fuel to the fire of Suiseiseki's panic. It was true, Jun was her Medium now, but that didn't mean ... it wasn't as if ... it was just a contract! It didn't mean they were married or anything! So what was she doing with him?
"Huh? Oh, that's right!" She grabbed a hold of the book that had slipped from Jun's grasp. It was his algebra homework. Now she remembered - Jun had read it to her last night. A bedtime story, just like Grandfather used to do for her. They both must have nodded off together, Suiseiseki curled up in Jun's lap. This realization almost helped her to calm down, but the stupid alarm clock was still grating on her nerves.
"That damn thing!" she growled, "It's so pissing me off! How do I stop it?"
She tried and failed to get the thing to stop. How it had failed to wake Jun up she had no idea, but presumably he knew how to shut the damned thing off. Suiseiseki grabbed a hold of the sleeping boy and shook him frantically.
"Come on you! Wake up right now and stop this infernal noise!" she yelled. Jun groaned and mumbled something, but continued to sleep. Unbelievable. Narrowing her eyes, Suiseiseki took a hold of a single hair on Jun's head and plucked it out. The sharp pain this caused finally jerked him awake, and he groggily blinked his wide brown eyes at her.
"Huh? Sui ... Suiseiseki?"
"Finally!" she waved her arms at him. "I only went to the trouble of personally waking you up."
Jun focused his gaze on her and frowned, momentarily confused. "Wait, what are you doing here?" he asked. Suiseiseki gawped at him in amazement.
"Wha? What did you say? I so don't believe it! You've forgotten already that you entered into a covenant with me!" The little doll reached forwards and started attacking Jun, swiping at him with her tiny hands. Jun raised his own hands in an effort to defend himself.
"Ouch! Hey, stop that!"
"Shut up! You so deserve this, you puny no-good runt, you!"
The combined noise of boy, doll and alarm clock finally awoke the rooms other inhabitants. Shinku's case swung open and the blond doll sat up, before casting an irate glance in their direction.
"What a frightful scandal," she protested in her usual rich tones, "And so early in the morning as well."
Hinaichigo opened her case up and pressed her hands to the side of her head in protest at the commotion. "Why is it so loud? Hina can't sleep with all this noise ..."
Jun finally managed to hold Suiseiseki at a reasonably safe distance so that her short arms could no longer strike him. He barred his teeth in annoyance at her behaviour. "Cut it out! I remember, okay? Damned if I know why I made a covenant with you though." He finally turned his alarm clock off and picked up his algebra textbook, while Suiseiseki hopped down off his bed and folded her arms.
"I would have thought that was obvious; I - the one and only Suiseiseki - am amazing of course. Why else would you want to be my obedient servant and pledge your undying allegiance to me?"
"Huh?" Jun rubbed the side of his head, "I don't remember doing that!"
Before she could snap off a reply, they all heard Nori shout up to them from downstairs, informing them that breakfast was ready. Grumbling and muttering to himself, Jun opened the bedroom door and headed down, Hinaichigo hurrying after him. Shinku stifled a yawn and strolled past Suiseiseki.
"Did you and Jun sleep well together last night?" she asked with a hint of coyness as she swept past. Suiseiseki turned bright red and shook, but Shinku was gone before she could think of a suitable answer.
"Suiseiseki, please make yourself at home and feel free to eat whatever you want, m'kay?" Nori said cheerfully. Today was Suiseiseki's first day living at the Sakurada house since she had reunited with her twin and moved out to stay with the Shibasaki's last year, and Nori was determined to welcome her back.
"You don't need to tell me," Suiseiseki replied as she eyed up the fried egg and bacon breakfast laid out before her, "Now that Jun is my Medium everything that belongs to him also belongs to me as well. Isn't that right, Shinku?"
"Like hell!" Jun snapped before Shinku could answer, "This is my house, and my things are mine, you got that? Don't go getting ideas just because I'm your Medium now."
Suiseiseki scoffed at him and turned her head away, as if the mere sight of him offended her. "I am so not listening to a word you say. Suiseiseki follows her own rules." She chuckled for a moment and then tucked into breakfast with a gusto.
Shinku watched her sister wolf down her food and winced. "Be that as it may, I would nevertheless appreciate it if you could eat in a less unseemly fashion - your table manners are appalling Suiseiseki."
The Gardener doll stopped momentarily and mumbled something to Shinku with her mouth crammed full, thus rendering her words unintelligible. Shinku sighed and bowed her head. Meanwhile Hinaichigo, seeing Jun's barely restrained anger, turned in her seat and gave Suiseiseki a pleading wide-eyed look.
"Please Suiseiseki! We depend on Jun and Nori, so you have to be nice to them and do what they say!"
Suiseiseki swallowed her food and then glared at the little blond doll, her eyes flashing dangerously. "Shut up you! You are so not my mother, so stop acting like you are, you puny dolt!" She brandished her fork and reached across the table, using it to spear one of Hina's fried eggs. She then sat back and stuffed the entire thing into her mouth, gobbling it down in the face of Hinaichigo's shocked disbelief.
"Aaaahhh!" Hina cried out, "Suiseiseki ate Hina's fried egg!"
Suiseiseki swallowed and then shrugged unapologetically. "The early bird catches the worm. And my, what a delicious worm indeed! Mmm-mmm!" she licked her lips in satisfaction. This drew a gasp from Nori, whose eye twitched slightly. A moment later Jun's sister exploded, shoving her chair back and slapping her hands down on the table, startling everyone present.
"Suiseiseki!" she yelled, causing the Gardener doll to jump in her seat.
"Ahh! W-what?"
Nori pointed her finger at Suiseiseki's nose in a scolding fashion, a deep scowl on her face. "Do not steal food from Hina's plate! You already have more than enough on your own."
Suiseiseki gaped at Nori in absolute fear, almost trembling in her chair. "B-but ..."
"Everyone should be treated as equals," Nori went on firmly, "That is a rule in this house."
"Equal?"
"Yes. Do you understand?"
Suiseiseki gulped and nodded hurriedly. "Yes! Understood!"
Nori's expression shifted from dark to sunny in a heartbeat, and she sat back down with a cheerful smile on her face once more. "Good. Now if you're hungry, just tell me; here, you can have one of my eggs."
Suiseiseki watched as Nori forked one of her fried eggs onto her plate. She mumbled a 'thank you Nori' and watched as the girl got up and took her plate over to the kitchen sink. Still eating her own breakfast, Shinku smirked slightly.
"Really now Suiseiseki, you should know better than to anger Nori."
Hinaichigo nodded enthusiastically. "When Nori gets angry, she's really really scary!"
Suiseiseki let out a sigh of relief. "I so remember now. Nori is the true boss monkey of this house."
Jun swallowed a forkful of bacon and smirked at the frightened doll himself. "Well hopefully you've learned your lesson, and maybe now you'll show us humans a little more respect."
"What?" Suiseiseki glared at him. "Nori is one thing, but don't think for a second that I'm intimidated by a pathetic bumbling bumblehead like you!"
Jun lowered his fork a fraction. "What did you just say?"
Hinaichigo whined and covered her hands over her head. "Ohh, they're fighting again ..."
Shinku sniffed and turned her nose up at them all. "Let them. They are both equally childish."
Suiseiseki slammed her hands down on the table and stood up on her chair. "'Equally' my butt! As the greatest and most amazing of the Rozen Maidens I so will not be compared with the likes of that runt! Honestly! I swear, I am so totally unappreciated in this house. None of you realize just how magnificent I truly am!" She hopped down out of her chair and strode off, muttering to herself.
None of them understood! But she would show them, oh yes! She'd show them all that Suiseiseki was not to be underestimated!
