Title: Bad dreams
Author:
Ree
Theme: Hotaru/Saturn (worthless)
Genre: General
(dark?)
Version: Anime/Manga
Rating: G (pg?)
Hotaru and all her friends and enemies are originally from the mind of Takeuchi Naoko. Any character she didn't create must fall to me.
Bad dreams
Hotaru sat up quickly, pushing the covers down to her waist. Her gaze darted around her room looking for someone, anyone, that had invaded her private domain. She saw no one in the dim glow put out by the fiber optics lamp on her desk. Settling deeper into the dark pool in the middle of her bed, Hotaru drew up her knees and then rested her head on them.
The nightmare was back. It was the scary one where she was being devoured from the inside out. It reminded her of the parasitic wasps she was learning about in science. Some types of the Ichneumon wasps lay their eggs inside of an another insect. When that egg hatches, the larvae eats its host alive, and, once the meal is done, it emerges from the left over shell an adult.
In her dream, somehow an egg got inside of her. No matter how many times she had this dream, she could not find out who or what put the egg inside of her. And she wasn't sure she wanted to know. Then the egg hatched and instead of feeding on her flesh, it fed upon her soul. On the one part of herself that was still whole, still completely hers. The part that scared her the most was that the larvae was getting older each time she had the dream.
Her eyes focused on the lights of the lamp as they changed color. For a moment her mind replayed the final images of the dream.
She was suddenly surrounded in complete darkness. She lost all sense of smell, touch, taste, of everything but hearing. The newest part of the dream was the echoing laughter and someone crowing that the worthless hoste was gone.
Hotaru shuddered as she heard that voice once again. It was the same one she heard in class the other day. And it always called her worthless.