A/N: I gave up another fic for this one. Happens when no one reviews.
Summary: And just like that, I'm now the older sister of a boy with blue hair, a girl with red eyes and, to maximize the craziness level, an amnesiac goddess, who could accidently destroy the world any time. This was totally not my day.
Short OC description: blonde hair, blue eyes, normal skin
1. Uh, 'kay?
We all have those days, when you just want it to end as quickly as possible. Today was one of those days. It all started with waking up pretty early, because we couldn't drive the day before to safe the stress. Yeah, my parents' logic.
So I was up, 4 in the morning, hasty brushing my teeth, taking a shower and not even bothering dry ing my hair. But of course my mother INSISTED on me getting make-up, dress and everything else ready what you need for a party with the richest people in the world. And of course we can't afford to use the family private jet, but that was just bad luck. A volcano was spitting ash into the air for the last three days and it didn't seem to stop anytime soon.
In short we would drive for at least 8 hours with the limo. Even if it is a limo, try sitting around for 8 hours, not being able to stand up once. Okay, I was sure we would take breaks, but knowing my par ents we would only take a break after the first four hours. The only thing you get from that is more disciplinary than from a karate club.
Now the cliché thing that should happen on such a trip is to get into a lot of traffic jams, red lights and taking longer ways, because they're currently repairing this and that road segment. At the be ginning that was the case. I was bored shitless out of my mind, so bored that I actually started playing video games. The thing is whenever I start playing or reading something while sitting in a moving vehicle, I started to feel really sick, and so I only did it, when I was really bored. And belief me, I was bored, when I played until all of my consoles were out of energy.
I was a fan of retro, so I had quite the collection of portable consoles. I even started playing with the junk from McDonalds and Burger King until the batteries died. Those things lasted the longest and after that episode I heard peep sounds everywhere. Why did I put me under that suffering? My brain was totally spinning, just by looking out of the window. So I tried to sleep, but I almost grossed out, my head was spinning that much.
We finally made a break around 14:00, but today just didn't seem to be my day. The toilet was dirty all over, it stunk and no toilet paper. I understand this kind of thing happens in the man's room, but hello? We women have to sit down for fuck's sake. Years of experience taught me to bring some dis infect papers with me. But belief me, I was ready to clean this place up all by myself, just so it would be clean for once. I may belong to the so called 'high society', but I'm cleaning the room by myself, go to fast food joints, I even prefer that stuff over the other at home and hell, I even buy cheap clothes. I don't need the newest things or anything. Okay, every now and then I use my families money to my advantage, I just can't resist. On a side note, my dress was ruined.
My mom was furious, but luckily I was the one who always thought ahead and had all the experience about those stupid trips and already had a second dress ready. A third and a fourth too. Belief me when I say, I'm totally not overdoing it. Stupid dress, I have to admit I look good, but I still don't like dresses.
I must have used up all my luck this month. Our driver crashed into another car and I lost my phone. Oh well, it just got empty anyway, after playing all kinds of mini games. Second dress ruined by the way. Told you I was not over exaggerating. I got away with no injuries, same went for my parents. As for our driver, he got fired both figuratively and literally. Poor guy.
While my parents looked for alternative transportation methods, I looked for something with what I could kill the time. My mp3, but I wasn't allowed to wear my headphones, because it would ruin my (already ruined) hair. Despite this all being an unlucky day, I wished it would keep up with becoming more and more interesting. Oh girl, be careful with what you wish for, it just so might so come true. Just saying.
In the end my dad called the guys, I already forgot the name, we were going to visit and they send us one of their own limos. It was slightly bigger than the one that was now trash. Why do these guys always have to show off? The rest of the trip went like the first part, just without an accident. We were totally late and my parents would soon have to endure some jokes about cheep drivers and all. I could only roll my eyes at them. Handshakes, some even held the old tradition of kissing my hand and a bunch of other kids I never planned on meeting. Some were like me and we exchanged hiding places at the mansion where each of us could play with their personal games or call up friends without being disturbed and some were just those cliché show-off kids.
You want to know about the mansion? It was big. Point.
The guys who own it? 15th marriage anniversary. My mom got a business relationship to them.
My parents' business? I never cared.
My plans for the future? Am still thinking, but definitely something simple.
On those trips, I met a bunch of business men, but no one who actually had his hair tight up in a ponytail. I thought: Wow, this guy got guts. His hair was reddish and he wore a brown business suit. Was he a cosplayer? That guy looked like Philemon from the Persona-series, just without the butterfly mask. Oops, I stared too long at him, now he noticed me and is approaching me.
"Excuse me, Ma'am. Can I help you?" he asked politely.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You look like someone I know, but I've been mistaken. My apologies."
The man chuckled. "There's no need. Now if you would excuse me. It seems I was mistaken, when I thought I could escape the world of business for a few hours." I looked behind me and saw some men and women holding up Champaign glasses. I looked to the man in front of me and smiled. I kind of liked the guy. "Oh well, I'll see you later." I walked off into the garden, where torches made a great atmosphere around. A few people, mostly couples, were outside, but I still found a lonely spot at a bench and placed myself there. I managed to get some earphones from one of the gas stations, so my hair wouldn't get messed up. I preferred earphones because they were more comfortable, but at least I would be able to do something I like, without becoming the gossip of the party.
I had listened for about an hour, when I felt a hand touching my shoulder. At first I thought it was some guy who wanted to dance with me, but it turned out to be the guy I talked to earlier. I pulled out my earphones and smiled.
"Trying to escape the fuzz?" he asked smiling himself. Straightforward, I really start to like the guy.
"Yeah, I don't know why my parents are still taking me with them. Oh well, next year collage and I can live in some rundown apartment, pretending I'm just a poor girl, trying to get through life."
We both laughed a little and he placed himself next to me. "Unhappy with your life?" he asked, sipping from his Champaign. "Not really to be honest. I think I have the problem every teenager got: like something is missing, something that makes me complete. Something likes a little sister who goes to these parties, while I can hang out with my friends at the next best burger joint."
We both laughed again. Never thought I would find some guy like him on one of those stupid parties. I looked up to the stars and sighed. The moon was half full. "Do you belief there are other worlds out there? Worlds like this?" he asked out of the blue. I looked at him and found him looking into the sky. I looked back. "Who knows? I heard they found a planet similar to our earth. It's spring there the entire year or so I heard." There was a moment of silent before he talked again. "Would you like to go to one of those places, if possible?"
I chuckled. "Are you working on a spaceship program?" He smiled at me. "Something along the lines."
"Alright, where do I sign?" I asked jokingly. As it turned out the guy knew some tricks. He seemingly let a paper appear out of nowhere and then he pulled a pen from behind my ear.
"I've been looking all over for that."
I signed the thing, not even bothering to read its contents. Stupid? Totally, but to my defense I have to say that I was tired from the day. Suddenly I felt a little dizzy and my head hurt lightly.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"I had a rough day. Guess I need some sleep. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
I stood up and talked to a butler who directed me to my guest room. There, I finally got out of that stupid dress and put on my night clothes. There's one good thing about headaches: it helps you fall asleep. I had a feeling I haven't had in a long time, since my childhood actually. It was the feeling of the entire room spinning and then falling all of the sudden. It's actually a good feeling. Only this time it felt real. Way too real. A dream?
O.O
You never suggest all things happening around you being a dream. And, you never think this straight in a dream. Slowly I opened my eyes...
"WAT DA FAQ!?"
I literally WAS falling. I was falling down towards a city! I could see the lights coming closer and closer. Too close for my taste! "AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! I SWEAR I'LL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT THOSE PARTIES EVER AGAIN!" Like that was going to help, but it was worth the try. I closed my eyes and waited for the unavoidable impact. Only it never came. When I opened my eyes, I found myself flying right above the ground. I gulped. And then I landed on my nose. "Owie~." I complained. I got up on my bare feet and looked around. Didn't know drug dreams at least felt that realistic. Well it was either drugs or I got sick. Maybe I accidently inhaled some gas after the accident.
I shivered because of the cold air. Drug dream or not, I needed some proper clothes, than-
"The hell am I wearing?! The hells wrong with my voice?! And why the hell is everything so big?! The hell man!" Drug dreams officially were pretty high on the list of things I didn't like. I saw my reflection in a window display. I was in a body like between 6 to 8years old. I wore a blue dress and a necklace with a golden butterfly and four sapphire gems, two attached to each wing where the 'eye decorations' were on some species.
I touched the necklace and all of the sudden I had blue, shining, and transparent butterfly wings on my back. I jumped backwards, exclaiming WTF a few times. You know how strange and cool it is at the same time to have wings? I had two new limbs! I could feel them! And belief me, they were totally different from arms or legs! I flapped the left one and my right arm. I flapped with my arms and then all of the sudden I flapped with both wings all of the sudden, making me fly half a meter high, before I ungracefully landed on my feet and fell on my butt.
I stood up again and shivered even more. Was this really a dream? It felt way too real to be one, but this all couldn't be true, right? Well, it just kept on getting better. Suddenly the world turned green and all the lights went out. Blood puddles appeared out of nowhere. I gasped, but then I calmed myself down. Dreams come out of your memories sometimes! So I was dreaming about Persona 3 and this meant I was most likely in Iwatodai! How did I overlook that bridge right next to me?! Drug dreams officially got higher on my list of liking.
I heard a loud crash sound and looked over. There was a car that crashed into another one and it was on fire! Dream or not, I had to check if anyone was hurt! So I ran over, ignoring the pain that jolted through my feet and covered my face with at least my arm from the smoke. I had to walk around because of the heat. When I got around, I found a boy and a girl getting out slowly. The boy was almost carrying his poor sister, who probably inhaled too much smoke already. She looked like she was about to pass out. "Let me help you!" I shouted and ran over to the side, carrying the girl now with the boy. She was heavier than I thought, but we managed to get her away.
"Wait here." I told them and ran back to the car. I knew my time was really limited. That car could explode anytime! From the outside I could see two grownups passed out on their seats. I just wanted to open the car, but the heat was keeping me away. Unintentionally I touched my necklace and shouted: "Bufu!" An ice spike appeared in the fire and then there was a loud 'shhhhhh', like when you put hot water on a cold spot. Smoke was still coming out, but the heat wasn't overwhelming anymore. I didn't get what was going on and I used the excuse of this being a drug dream to keep myself calm. I ran over to the car and opened the vehicle. "Wake up!" I shook the man, but he was not waking up. I noticed a head injury bleeding pretty badly. So I unbuttoned the man and at least tried to carry him away. I almost fell to the ground, when I put him over my back and his legs scraped over the ground as I carried him away.
I was beat, when I returned to the car in order to get the woman out. I wanted to make a break so badly, but I couldn't, not when I came so far. I knew I couldn't do it, but I simply had to. I collapsed with the woman on the ground. I couldn't move an inch. I couldn't even try to get up. All I was doing was lying there and trying to catch my breath, when all of the sudden a pair of shoes entered my vision. And another. I looked up and found the boy and the girl hovering above me. The two crouched down and pulled up what I assumed to be their mother. Together the three of us walked towards the place where their father was lying.
I collapsed to the ground and breathed very heavily. We pulled it off, I couldn't belief it. We were safe. But I celebrated too early. I heard gunshots, a lot of them coming out at once, like from a machine gun. Looking up I found a blonde robot girl and a demon fighting against each other. Aigis, she and Death were fighting. Oh right, I remembered now. It was obvious that Aigis was losing. Her armor had multiple cracks and I could see sparks coming out here and there. "Proceeding." she announced and summoned her persona. However Death just raised a hand and the persona was engulfed in flames.
"Incapable in defeating enemy. Activating prototype sealing device. Need vessel. Scanning..." She dodged an attack and looked over to us. "Scan complete. Two capable vessels found. Initiating sealing program."
"No, don't!" I shouted. But it was of no use. Aigis summoned her persona and a chain of light came out of Palladion and ended up in Death, who was frozen on the spot for some reason. Without warning two more came out and got inside the two kids, who were frozen as well, eyes widened. I had to stop her, before the sealing was complete! "Aigis! Stop!" I ran up to her, but it was like I hit an invisible wall. I grunted and got up, ignoring my body's protests. If only I could cut the chains or something! Or maybe I could use magic! I touched my necklace. "I'm sorry Aigis. Bufu!" The spell hit, but it didn't do much damage. She didn't even seem to notice. "Damn, okay, let's try ZIO!" I announced. A small lightning hit her, but thanks to her persona's weakness, she was knocked out. The chains exploded and all of us were blown away a little way. I screamed up as my back hit the ground.
Supporting myself on my arms, I got up a little. Death just threw Aigis away as if she was a piece of trash. Next he came over to me and hovered above me dangerously. I felt my heart almost breaking my ribs, it was beating that fast. "Please." I whispered desperately, tears streaming down my face. "I don't want to die. I helped, didn't I?" In my head I told myself over and over that it was just a dream, yet I myself believed it less and less. It all just felt way too real.
Instead of killing me, Death held both arms above to the air, the moon to be precise. My eyes widened when something like an energy beam came down and engulfed Death. I was blinded by a violet like light and the next time I opened them I saw Nyx' avatar right in front of me. My heart felt like it was about to get cramps. She looked down at me, her mask showing me that creepy smile. I touched my necklace. But what the heck can I do? I already figured I got tear 1 spells, but hello? This was a real time goddess. Dream or not, I stood no chance against her. My grip increased on my necklace. If the chain wouldn't have been made out of gold, I was sure I'd have ripped the thing off already.
Nyx all of the sudden crouched down and touched my right shoulder with her left hand. Suddenly it was glowing black and I felt weakening, slowly but steadily. "Sleep little one." she whispered into my ear.
"Please. I don't want to die. Please give us a chance." I was really desperate. I've never been this desperate ever in my life. If I had known at this time it wasn't a dream, oh girl, I would have broken down ten times already. I heard Nyx chuckling and my vision started to blur. "Please..."
Without warning my chest started to burn and the hand, which was holding my necklace as well. Instinctively I let go of the thing, only to be blinded by a bright light. I opened one of my eyes and didn't look directly into the thing. A small beam escaped the necklace and hit Nyx directly. If the goddess was fazed, I couldn't see it, because she was still wearing that mask. All of the sudden she was the one engulfed by light and not the little thing hanging around my neck. She shrunk and her formed changed until a little kid was lying in front of me, only wearing a black dress. She had long black hair, totally pale skin and unconscious. As the adrenaline left my body, I felt my body hurting all over and was glad, when finally darkness took over.
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What a dream. I thought, when I woke up, my body feeling completely sore and worn out. I didn't bother opening my eyes. It just felt too good lying down like this. The smell of disinfectants entered my nose. I could figure out what really happened. The accident we had must have been really severe and I must have lost consciousness. In fact I felt something touching my head, probably bandages. So I hit my head during the accident and must have been dreaming for longer than I suspected.
At least I now knew that my day couldn't get any worse. And hey, I've had a pretty cool dream. Well the second part had been really cool. I slowly opened my eyes in order to not get blinded by the light. Slowly my eyes adjusted to it and I could open them fully. It looked like any other ordinary hospital room. I was attached with wires to one of the machines that show your heartbeat and all. Was there anywhere a button to call a nurse or something?
I didn't find one, but a nurse came in. Her parents or she herself must be from Japan. "Oh, you're awake." She walked over to me. "How do you feel?" she asked me with a smile. "Like I've been thrown out of an airplane and dived until I hit the ground of the deepest ocean." Something was wrong with my voice, but I couldn't put my finger on it. The nurse seemed to suppress a giggle or something. She put a hand on my shoulder and spoke. "Don't worry. You'll be fine in no time. I'll go and get the doctor, so stay tight, okay?"
"I prefer to lie for the time being."
That got a small laugh out of the nurse and she walked out. Ten minutes later she came back with a Japanese doctor. Did I get into a Yakuza hospital or something? The doc approached my bed and smiled down at me. I just smiled back and nodded. I still felt drown and just closed my eyes, taking a deep breath. Damn those people around here were pretty big. I opened my eyes and put my hand up to rub my head, because of the headache that came out of nowhere. It was then that I noticed, that some little, tiny thing was wrong with it. It was a little bit too small.
During the time I was reminiscing about my hand, the doc removed my bandages. "No scar. You're one lucky girl, you know. You were fast asleep for a week."
"I WHAT?!" I exclaimed, shocked about the sudden development. Then I noticed what was wrong with my voice. It was way too high pitched. I took another closer inspection on my body. The lack of breasts was answer enough actually.
"That wasn't a dream?" I asked to no one in particular. The doc and the nurse looked at each other worried. The nurse bent down and looked at me with a sympathetic look. "I'm sorry to ask, but what do you remember little one?" she asked.
"Car accident, fire...there were others, weren't there?" I asked. Maybe I was acting too smart for my age, but I needed to comprehend the whole situation and answer the two in front of me at the same time. Luckily I didn't use a high word. For example I wanted to say that I inhaled a lot of smoke.
"They're fine, don't worry." assured the nurse. "What's your name?" she asked.
...
Umm, hello brain? Get to work?
Okay what I said next was probably to my advantage and disadvantage.
"WHAT THE FUCK?! WHY DON'T I REMEMBER MY NAME?!"
The two adults were taken aback by my sudden exclamation, especially my choice in words, but I couldn't care less at the moment. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse. Why was I 'here' in this world? What exactly had I done? Just what the heck?!
"What's going on?" I asked in a desperate tone, putting both hands on my head. I must have had a crazed look on my face and for a moment there I thought I really was going crazy. "Okay girl, breath." I told myself. "In...and out. In...and out." I did this at least ten times, before I calmed down. The nurse bent down and pulled me into a comforting hug, but I pushed her away with as much force as I was capable in doing so with my tiny body.
"Sorry. Can you leave me alone for a few minutes?" I asked. The two looked at each other and nodded. "Okay." The two left the room and I was stuck alone in the room. There was so much to think about, so much to consider, so many scenarios to be played out. But in the end my mind just went blank, just like this. I was staring out of the window, watching the clouds moving slowly above in the sky. Eventually I told myself over and over, that this was just a dream and soon I would wake up in the real hospital with my parents on both bedsides. But the more I wanted to belief this, the more I realized I wouldn't 'wake up', because I was already fully awake.
A single, only a single tear ran down my cheek. More just wouldn't come out. I buried my face in my pillow and just blocked the world around me out.
When the door opened, I didn't bother looking up or even listening to the various voices around. I felt a hand being brought down on my shoulder, but I shook it off and remained in my position. I felt a much smaller hand taking mine. I don't know why, but I pressed the hand firmly. I felt some weight shifting on my bed and two more hands touching the one that held that one hand. It was all hands of little children. I glanced over and found three pairs of eyes looking straight at me: one blue, one red and one green.
"Onee-san?" the girl with the red eyes asked. She had auburn hair, which was hanging loose down her head. Was this the female protagonist? Looking over I found the boy with the blue hair. Even at his young age, his hair almost covered one of his eyes. He smiled when I our eyes met. Finally there was the third girl, the one with the green eyes, pretty long black hair for someone at her age and deadly white skin. I recognized this girl immediately. "Nyx." I whispered only so loud that I could hear it. The goddess only looked back at me with those big eyes, it was really adorable. They ALL looked so adorable and cute. And they all looked like they were worried about me. I finally got up and looked straight at them. Immediately the kids' faces brightened up. "ONEE-SAN!" The auburn haired girl exclaimed and hugged me to death. "Urrgh, need air..."
"Now, give her some space Minako-chan." A woman with blue hair and red eyes asked. I looked up to her and wondered how this was possible. Next to her was a man with black hair and cobalt blue eyes. Okay, I don't understand much about genetic, but shouldn't their children have either blue or red hair? Again, everyone was looking at me and I got a little nervous. "Uh...'kay?"
"You're the one who saved us, right?" asked the woman.
I turned red, embarrassed. "I guess..."
"THANK YOU!" shouted the same girl that strangled me earlier and did so again. Her brother pulled her away from me. "Sorry." he muttered. I barely heard him. "Is okay." I grabbed my throat and massaged it carefully. "I would introduce myself" I began "but...I don't even remember my name." "You're like me?" asked the girl with the black hair. She doesn't remember her name? I'm not sure whether I should be glad or worried. "You don't remember either?" She nodded. "So uhh, what now?" I asked.
"Well, while we're at it, I'm Makoto Arisato. This is my wife Hana Arisato. This here's our daughter Minako (Hi!), our son Minato (*nods*) and our newest member Mana Arisato." Nyx didn't show any reaction. "Mana?" I asked. Yeah, I briefly remembered that being an actual name in Japan. "Who gave you your name?" I asked Nyx directly. She looked to the site. "I did." she mumbled. "Did anyone asked for me?" The two adults looked troubled at each other and I sighed. I hate lying about my family, but right now I had no choice. "I don't remember my family either..."
"Aw, you poor thing." Hana bent down and gave me a comforting hug, like her daughter. Only this time it didn't hurt. I let out a deep sigh. "So, what do you say if we adopt you?"
"Hana, aren't you a bit too blunt?" Makoto asked.
"Really? Do you...even have enough space?" I was totally not acting like a 7 year old girl, but I was still a little confused. The woman laughed. "Don't worry about this little one. You saved us, so it's only natural." she ruffled my hair.
...
"Alright. My name is...Cho." It meant butterfly and considering what happened the other day, I found it fitting. "Yay! Onee-san!" This time all kids landed onto me, pressing the air out of my lungs.
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And just like that, I'm now the older sister of a boy with blue hair, a girl with red eyes and, to maximize the craziness level, an amnesiac goddess, who could accidently destroy the world anytime. This was totally not my day.
It all happened so fast, my brain barely had time to comprehend the whole situation I was in. Yet at the same time I had too much time. Meaning? I was bored shitless out of my mind, lying in the hospital bed. Now matter from what angle I looked at the situation, no matter how hard I tried to comprehend it: it just didn't make any sense, yet it felt way too real to be a dream. You see, my brain still didn't surrender to the situation at hand. It sure would do soon. You see, I stayed up the entire time, bringing my brain close to overheating, when it happened. And with it, I meant the dark hour. Everything turned green, yellow moonlight shined into my room from the windows and blood appeared out of nowhere.
Oh, you haven't heard the best part. Two of this blob like shadows with their masks on appeared in my room. Good thing about my brain is, it is adaptable and easily switched from not-believing/panicking to fighting status. Problem was: they took my necklace (because I was still attached to the sensitive medical instruments) and I had no idea where it was. Some light caught my eyes. It came out of a slightly opened drawer. Instinctively I opened it and took out the shining object, without even looking. I kept an eye on the shadows and was unusual calm about the entire situation. After I put on the expensive looking thing, I felt even confident, maybe too confident, because I was really pushing it this time.
I figured I could use spells just by touching my necklace and saying the name of the spell out loud. However I didn't know if I really had any limits. So I just tried it out. "Maragidyne!" I yelled and regretted it immediately afterwards. There was a loud explosion in the middle of the room, with the shadows disappearing in black mist. Just a split-second later I broke out in cold sweat and couldn't move an inch. My head hurt and breathing itself became a challenge, at least for the first few seconds. Well at least I had no problems falling asleep anymore. My last thoughts were: This is not my day.
