I follow the stranger, shamefully and fearfully,-'cause he was really pissed when I compared him to Odri-for another twenty minutes until my feet begin to feel sore. But I highly doubt he would give a f-
"How prematurely you have visited us Mizuki," a woman standing in front of the stranger states. "However, I'm never surprised by anything."
"How do you know my name? Does he know my name too?"
"Yes, I do," the stranger replies as he takes his place by the side of the woman. Her hair is long and silvery, and like her partner-in-crime, wearing a celestial robe.
"I have a feeling that I'm in space," I share my weird assumption, waiting for them to laugh in my face and call me crazy. Instead, the apathetic woman nods.
"I expected your arrival much later in the future. Alas, that is not my forte," the stranger comments, taking a seat in an invisible chair. "It took you quite a while to realize this."
I shrug.
"Do I get to know your names?"
"Mizuki you far too familiar with us. Besides, we have many names to give you-everyone calls us something different. Aren't I right Brother?" says the arrogant man ambiguously.
"Correct, Brother."
"Huh, what? But she's…"
"Mizuki, we have no true form," the woman claims, sitting down. "Let's discuss you for just five minutes…oh."
I feel something coming from behind me; with alacrity, I turn and block the invisible force that almost knocks me down to the surface.
"What're you doing?" I ask the two puzzling people, since I'm not sure any more about who's a girl and who's not. I deflect more inconspicuous jabs, until I'm grabbed by the throat and lifted into the sky.
"That's not necessary-" nonchalantly says Maybe Not A Man, rising from the chair. Transgender Lady emotionlessly watches my struggle silently, raising a hand to Maybe Not A Man.
"Dori that is enough."
I swiftly kick whatever is latched onto my neck and it works! I drop back to the invisible surface while waiting for another strike. How am I predicting each strike so perfectly? It's an amazing feeling-it's like I know what's going to happen next.
"Enjoy your power while you have it," mumbled Maybe Not A Man in a sour tone. Then he turns towards his "brother" and eerily asks, "How long are we going to keep playing?"
"Patience."
"What was that about? What's really going on here?" I put my hands on my hips. "Don't just gawk at me like I'm speaking gibberish."
"Oh well, she certainly is as boisterous as her mother," Transgender Lady says in a low tone while staring idly at me. My eyes widen and I can hear my heart pounding wildly against my chest.
"What did you say?"
"You heard me." Transgender Lady stands up and menacingly stands over me. "You and your mother are nothing but the same. That is why she's gone from your world. She wasn't fit and she disrespecting me and my brother. I will not tolerate her children's actions either.
I stand petrified, unable to respond to her insult. All I know is that somehow, my fists are tightening and I'm crunching my teeth together. The precipitated hatred I suddenly have this woman-man, ugh whatever-makes we want to strangle her.
"Mizuki, you haven't gained the true power needed to slay Mother," Odri's familiar voice warns in my head. "Don't do anything regretful-"
"How do you know about my mom?" I bark furiously.
"We both are too familiar with your mother Mizuki. She's the reason why everything is the way it is," Maybe Not A Man takes over, rising with renewed annoyance. "Without your mother, you would not have the life you so desperately hate."
My fists tremble, eager to land a hit in his plain face.
"The destinies of you and your brother would have had a brighter outcome," Transgender Bitch adds, just dying to piss me off even further. Unfortunately for these two assholes, it's working.
"Shut up! You know nothing about me or my family, so stop acting like you do," I blurt out, ready to punch one of them in their godly faces. "You're both lying to me! Now tell me what happened to my mom!"
I hear a faint chuckling echoing around me.
"Mizuki, you are quite the passionate girl," Odri comments cheerily, ignoring the tense atmosphere. "You're infuriating both Mother and Uncle."
My ears focus in on Odri now, forgetting about the two asses in front of me for a second. "Mother and Uncle? I'm so confused about everything-not even just gender anymore. You're related to these jerks?"
Before he can answer, I'm shoved back by an inexplicable force, distancing me from the two "beings". When I get to my feet and lunge at them, yellow-eyed monsters prevent my advancement. Just like when I was predicting movements earlier, my eyes turn white and I relentlessly jab through the swarm of varied-size Heartless.
"What do you know about my mother and my brother?" I scream in the midst of Heartless chaos. "When I reach you, I will beat it out of you if I have to!"
"Try your very best Mizuki," taunts Transgender Bitch. "By the time you reach me, you will learn nothing."
"Oh yeah?" I run through the swarm, kicking and jabbing Heartless where their white spots lie. After forty seconds of beating, I reach the end, and charge at my antagonists. However, something holds me back from landing a punch on her face; I strain and grunt, trying to give her what she fricken' deserves. Wait a second, where are the white nodes in her body? That was the only way of beating her.
"I already told you, this is not our true form. We merely use the body of a mortal to communicate among the specific galaxies," informs Maybe Not A Man with his hand stretched out in front of him.
"Then what the hell are you?"
"A question that will be answered in time. Your time here is coming to an end Mizuki-therefore the newfound powers you have will dissipate," explains the stone-faced girl thingy. "The Chaos…"
My cries of sheer hatred and anger make her mouth move, but no sound follows. I've never felt this weird hatred towards another person before, but these "things" are making me go ballistic! I'm trying my very hardest to calm down, but seeing their stolid, blank expressions as they say all that false shit disgusts me. Unfortunately, by the time I calm down, it seems the Transgender Bitch is just about wrapping up her explanation.
"…are ready to face the Darkness. Farewell Mizuki, we shall meet again, and you will not dare return with this tantrum."
The surface beneath my feet instantly vanishes and gravity shoves me down, harshly, to the forever-stretching stars and blackness. Those two stone-faced things watch, in subtle delight, my descent away from them, until I return to the void I had entered thirty-five minutes ago. I listen to the strange silence that follows.
"She can still hear us," says Transgender Bitch. "The Emeralds should be removed from body in seven more seconds. Brother, you seem distressed."
"Disturbed is the better word. I did not expect to see her act like her kin."
"They are twins. Besides, Evelyn-"
Evelyn? That's my mom's name.
My hands are still screaming in pain. But I don't have the time to stop and soak them in some water, no no no. Instead, I'm carrying Ms. Coma on my back so that Egglady doesn't shoot our heads off.
"Uuuung, Jesus, what happened?" groggily asks Mizuki, no longer Ms. Coma. I immediately unlatch my arms from under her legs. "Ow, the hell! Why did you drop me? Where-am I?"
"Watch the attitude," I snap while massaging my red palms. "It was you that nearly got us killed, but I'm the one who saved your-"
The shotgun fires rapidly in the air. I guess she woke up after I immobilized her-I gotta get us outta here.
"What the hell was that-a gun?"
"No, it was the gingerbread men marching towards us-yes! We need to escape the same way we came."
"But there's-"
I glance at my left arm and suck in my teeth.
Crimson liquid protruded through the dull, maroon spandex.
"Oh shit, you're bleeding."
"No kidding, that's why we have to get outta here!"
I hop to my feet and we take off running, letting the brisk air hit our faces. That Transgender said something about chaos-did she mean something to do with Chaos Emeralds? Oh yeah, right before I blanked out and went to space, the Chaos Emeralds were all over my body and I was in so much pain.
"Hey what did you do with those Chaos Emeralds?" I shout, unable to speak coherently while running.
"You wanna go back for them?" she screams back astonishingly. Another gunshot keeps us on track towards the upcoming exit. "Go right ahead, she's waiting for you with open arms."
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"That's the last time I'm ever asking you for help me-grah!" grunts Spandex Girl as she extracts the bullet from her arm. "Look at this, a tracker."
For once, my hidden taciturn nature kicks in. There's too much on my mind to even think about Spandex Girl and her bullet wound. Chaos Emeralds and those two things that disrespected me and my family are the main dilemmas that I have to really think about. I mean, how could I just let that "person" say all those stuff about Mom?
Just as Spandex Girl and I are about to go our separate ways, a white snowflake falls from the sky. As we glance up, more descend upon the city.
"Working with you is certainly exciting," she comments with a smirk.
"Thanks, but I like living and not getting shot at. And hey, you never explained why we went there in the place."
Her expression turns somber. "My friend."
"Leather Jacket Guy you mean-"
"Give him a little more respect than that."
"What'd he do?" I shrug casually.
She crosses her arms and stares at the nearly snow-covered sidewalk. "He did something really stupid… with the last Chaos Emerald I had, he might've woken up, but of course, you had to mess up the plan."
"Where is it?"
"Back at Egglady's base."
I guess that's the one who was shooting at us-well her aim sucked because I move as slow as a snail. Besides, Leather Jacket Guy ends up with all the Chaos Emeralds in the end, so why should that matter?
"Wait, so why-?"
"No more questions, they bother me. I'm outta here!" she jumps on the bridge railing. "Adieu!"
In four seconds, she's-ok, why do I keep doing that? I'm always so specific about the time, it's starting to annoy me.
Done. Review please! Happy New Years!
