Author: Phantom's Angel89

Title: Stand My Ground

Disclaimer: I would never own MÄR, IN A MILLION YEARS!!

Pairing: PhantomxOC/slight PhantomxAlma

Summary: Chikara's little brother had been missing for almost 2 weeks now. She's desperate to find him, but now she's heard strange voices, beckoning her to another world. The gateway opens, she follows pathway led through this strange door into another world…and hopefully to her only brother. There she finds new friends, a war she never asked to be a part of, and an enemy-she never will be able to hate…

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(Chikara's POV)

Once we got to my house, I saw my mom, crouched up in a ball on the couch bawling.

"MOM!" I yelled running to her.

"Chi-Chikara!" She said choking up on her tears.

She looked up and noticed all of us and said, "I'm sorry kids…this is so embarrassing. But the tears won't stop."

"I know! How about I fix you up something to eat Mrs. Toramizu? We can all have a nice meal together! Then I'm sure you'll feel better!" Koyuki exclaimed, running into our kitchen.

"Well, I guess Teriyaki Pork made famous by Chikara is out…" Tōshirō said.

It was followed by Karin elbowing him in the gut as he made a loud 'Ooff'.

"Karin! What the heck was that for?!" He said snapping.

"Now is not the time!" Karin said scolding him.

I noticed he look over at me stroking my mother's back as she was still crying.

"Oh right…sorry." He said with guilt.

I just gave him a small smile and nod to let him know it was going to be okay. With that he let out a big sigh.

"Hey, the meal is almost done guys! But here's some tea!" Koyuki said running out with a plate of 5 brown simple cups filled with hot green tea.

"It's still hot, so be careful." She said handing us each a cup.

"Here Mom." I said handed my mom her cup.

"Thanks kido." She said sniffling as she took the cup from me.

It was very quiet. Way too quiet. We all just sat there awkwardly sipping tea. Nobody said a single word for the next 15 minutes. It was very uncomfortable.

"Here we are! I made some fried chicken and rice!" Koyuki exclaimed coming out of the kitchen. She had 5 sets of chopsticks, one big plate of food, and 5 little serving plates. I was very thankful she came. If she didn't the awkward silence would have remained.

"Dang Koyuki, you'd make one heck of a waitress someday!" Karin said to try and lighten the mood.

Koyuki giggled a little from Karin's comment as she set down the plates and chopsticks. We all each took a plate, including my mom, who still had a few wet tears on her face. We then grabbed the chopsticks and began serving ourselves.

"Guys…" My mom said.

"Yeah mom what is it?"

"Do you think…it was my fault? Is it my fault that Ginta ran away?" She struggled to say as more tears fell from her face.

"BUT HE DIDN'T RUN AWAY!" Koyuki yelled.

We all were startled by Koyuki's shout-we each turned and looked at her, puzzled, waiting for an explanation. Koyuki blushed out of embarrassment-noticing the attention she has drawn.

"Oh, um…I'm sorry! I didn't mean to shout." She said turning redder.

"Koyuki?" I said.

"You know…I just saw Ginta." Koyuki said with a beaming smile.

"What?!" I muttered in shock.

My mom jolted her head up in shock as well. Everyone stared at the young 14 year old girl, waiting for an answer to the obvious questions that were running through our mind.

"I see him every day as a matter of fact!" She said excitedly!

"Koyuki! How is he?!" I said anxious for her answer.

"It's only in my dreams though, but he's doing just fine!" She said with an even wider smile.

My heart began to sink. I jolted my body up, I was rather angry at this foolish babbling that Koyuki was going on about.

"How could you say something like that?! We've been worried sick! You went and got our hopes up!" I said rather harshly.

The moment I said those rather too sharp words, a pang of guilt pierced through me. Koyuki is still a kid like Ginta…I had no right to get after her. She wouldn't understand what my mom and I are going through, but in her own innocent naïve mind, she was trying to help us. Relieve some worry and stress that we've obviously been going through.

"I'm sorry Koyuki. That was rude. I keep forgetting sometimes that you and Ginta are still kids." I said sitting back down. I looked up and noticed Koyuki's cheeks began to swell up like a three year old pouting.

"Fine don't believe me! But it's true! Ginta is in the world of his dreams!" She exclaimed. A smile then returned to her face, "I remember these dreams perfectly you know. I was a princess of a powerful kingdom; there were some bad people after me. I sealed myself away. It was cold and scary…but you know who came for me? Ginta! Ginta came and saved me!" Koyuki then began to blush immensely and stuttered, "We-we…th-then…oh my!"

We all looked at her very confused, but were interrupted by the sound of my mother's laughter.

"Mom?" I said.

"Koyuki, you're starting to sound like our little idiot-Ginta! Maybe I'll believe, but only just a little bit." She said with a small smile.

"Mom…" I thought, looking at her with a sullen shock.

"Good! Because you know Ginta and I made a promise! He's going to come back, and tell us all about his adventures!" Koyuki said.

"There is no way this is true, but Koyuki would never lie. And it isn't like Ginta to run away. This whole thing is weird. I just don't know. But…I guess deep down. I know it's true. I just never wanted to believe it. Because Dad always believed in this kind of stuff, and now he went and left us…Ginta too. But I know it's true…because…Ginta and I, we always had dreams about some other world all the time." I thought.

(Flashback)

"Ginta! Enough already!" I yelled.

"NO! YOU JUST WANNA FORGET ABOUT YOUR DREAMS! BUT I WON'T! DAD DIDN'T EITHER! MAYBE IT ISN'T EVEN THE DREAMS YOU WANNA FORGET ABOUT! ITS DAD ISN'T IT?! SOME DAUGHTER YOU TURNED OUT TO BE!" He said slamming the door to his room.

"WHY DON'T YOU GO AND DISAPPEAR LIKE HE DID! THEN I CAN FORGET ABOUT BOTH YOU EYESORES!!" I yelled on the top of my lungs.

(End of Flashback)

"That was the last thing I ever said to Ginta before he disappeared. Ginta was right…some daughter and sister I turned out to be." I thought sorrowfully.

"Chikara is something wrong?" Tōshirō asked.

"Hmm…yeah I'm fine. Why do you ask?" I said, lying of course.

"You barely touched your food." Karin said.

"Well…" I said as Ginta came into my mind again.

"Koyuki, I think-I mean…" I sighed, for some reason; it's always the hardest thing to admit when you're wrong, "I think I believe you Koyuki. Ginta isn't the type of kid to abandon his family…neither was my father."

"Chikara." My mother said looking at me with shock.

"Ginta knew, but I was so angry I didn't want to believe him, my father loved us, and he wouldn't just up and leave us unless he had a reason. When I see Ginta again, I'll tell him that." I said with a smile returning to my face.

"Great!" Koyuki said.

"Finally…we're connected!" that same voice said.

The apartment started to get dark, dark as night. A ghost appeared, he had plus shaped eyes, one blue-one yellow, and his tongue was sticking out. The Ghost wore a red hooded cloak and his face was literally white, he also had no nose.

"What is going on?!" Karin yelled.

"Please tell me this isn't me going crazy?!" Tōshirō exclaimed.

"This is the same!" Koyuki said with a smile.

"What are you talking about Koyuki?!" My mother yelled.

"The day Ginta disappeared at school. This all happened the same! The ghost, all of it! A doorway to another world will show up now too!" She said with excitement.

"Greetings, I am called the Gate Keeper Clown!" It said.

A silver door that was huge appeared behind the ghost. There was a head on the doorway that looked just like the ghosts. I noticed scenery behind the door. There were mountains, lush greenery, and a village.

If I had the slightest doubt about other worlds, this completely erased all of them.

"Could this be the other world that Ginta is in?" I thought in awe of what was before my eyes.

END OF CHAPTER!!

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