A/N:
d.s: hiya
Amu: no time start the story!
d.s: okay okay...I don't own shugo chara...:))
:chapter 4:
"Amu-chan, let's go now", Rima said tugging at my sleeve.
"Did you pack everything", I said checking my own bag.
Hand full of arrows.
Bow.
Needles in their separated casings.
Check, check, and check.
They all nodded towards me.
"Let's fill up quickly, this time stay close so we can get to the rendezvous point", Utau said.
It almost brings me to tears when she acts like a leader, a kind and willing to support kind of leader.
"Let's go free loaders".
And it was gone in an instant.
It took me some time to realize, we were somewhere in the Alps.
I didn't feel cold, because, yet again, I came to realize I was cold blooded.
"Let's go".
We broke out into 2 groups.
I was with Rima.
"Amu-chan, if it's that unsettling, I'll knock out the first few for you", Rima offered.
"Is it okay with you", I asked.
"Yes no problem, I need to work at my agility", she said and ran off.
After a couple of agonizing minutes.
I heard the screams and shrieks of nearby people.
I put my hands up to my ears.
In front of me, little Rima dropped a whole bunch of people.
I waved my hand in the air before me.
They were part of some gang that was planning to steal the money of one of the banks in town.
"Hurry Amu before they wake up, my stickers will wear out", she said laying them out in a line of some sort.
I had my fill. It seemed greedy almost.
But the deed has been done, the bodies disappeared into ash.
"Let's go to the rendezvous point", I said my back turned to Rima.
She didn't say anything.
I turned around to find her just looking up at the moon.
"Yeah, that's a nice moon Rima-chan, now let's go", she didn't budge.
She shook her head.
And pointed to something in the distance.
2 flying objects coming towards us at high speed.
"Rima", I said under my breath.
"Rima", I said a bit louder.
"RIMA...SCREAM", I yelled at her.
I couldn't here anything.
I looked up to see that the sound waves distorted space and time altogether.
It was huge.
The 2 figures were shot down.
Just about a couple of yards in front of us.
We ran as far as the rendezvous point.
"Tell me why again our rendezvous point is a field with flowers", I asked putting my hand on my hip.
"It's spacious".
"So do you think those things are gone", I asked looking behind.
Rima shrugged.
Hmmmm, I checked my watch.
"So I guess it's the time difference since the sun is way up in the sky right now", I said covering my eyes.
She nodded.
"And plus, no body else but us know about this place, no humans", she said twirling around.
Just, where are we?
I felt something hard hit my head, a small pointed rock.
"Dammit, I missed the nerve", Utau said with a dis-satisfied look on her face," You've skipped days of training".
She said with Yaya trailing behind her, out of the woods.
"Let's start with a death match", I offered.
The others nodded in agreement.
I tossed my bag with the others, and grabbed my weapons.
"Two on two, I call Rima", I shouted over to the others.
They got in their stances.
Utau, she tied her hair with her long ribbons, I didn't know what it was used for, it looked heavy to me.
She wore 2 pouches, held by a string dangling from her waist.
I know she can make tornadoes with just the motion of her finger.
And she used spells with some kind of powder.
Yaya, had a rope coiled in the palm of her hand, and I knew that she was a shape shifter.
Beside Rima held up a couple of stickers in the creases of her hand, they were like ninja stars, but Rima-fied.
On my back was my arrow case, in the side pocket was my needles.
I slid my bow over my head, and held it there for now.
"1", Utau started the count off.
"2", Yaya.
"3", Rima.
"4", and everything was all jumbled.
We started darting around some boulders lying around.
I knew the consequences of this match, when I was younger and inexperienced, Utau broke my arm and ankle.
I have had bite marks from Yaya.
And I almost have gone deaf because of Rima.
I had to make the first move.
I loaded my bow and pulled it back to make sure.
I had a weird feeling that Utau and Rima were near. In my peripheral vision, I though I saw an image, invisible, just distorted reality, like when Rima scream, the air is like... crumbly.
I shot at the glob.
And I heard a few cusses behind the shroud.
"Dammit, how did you know", she said pulling the arrow out of her shoulder.
"Fix your shroud, I could see you obviously, just the shape", I said walking backwards.
"First one to get paralyzed, is out for the entire thing", Yaya said jumping up and down.
"Verge of death", Rima asked grimly.
I nodded.
The adrenaline spiking through me.
Hmmm, since you brought it up Yaya.
I looked at her.
I heard a click in the back of my head, like a key opening a locked door.
Yaya started screaming, she clutched her sides and fell down in the grass, curled up in a ball, she was unconscious.
I loaded my bow with one of my needles, and pointed it up at Utau.
"Ugh, bitch", she muttered and disappeared.
I shot Yaya in the neck.
She gasped for air, but she didn't have any use of her body, just her head.
"Heeeyyyy, AMUUUU-CHIII, hmph, no fair, I didn't even get to start", she said with a huge pout plastered on her small face.
Rima dragged her aside, and I tossed her one of my healing needles.
And she joined me again by my side.
I felt her nudge me.
"What is she thinking Amu-chan".
"She's just cussing, now she changed to a different language, but still cussing", I said under my breath.
I felt something come closer on my left.
Rima felt it also, and screamed in the direction.
But suddenly she stopped and fell to the ground.
I saw Utau reappear, shoving a small green ball in Rima's mouth.
Paralyzed, Rima awoke.
"Why'd you have to hit so hard Utau-chan", Rima said, monotonous.
"To win the game", she snickered.
Obviously busy, I hid myself in the opposite world.
It is a world that lives side by side the human world.
But once I got changed into a vampire, I was able to conjure up the world of the vampires.
A world beside the human world, the vampire world.
There were different portals, that are in between both worlds, but they only open on specific occasions.
Whereas for me, I am the portal.
"That's just like you Amu, hiding and running away from your problems, what if we're all in trouble, would you save yourself because your the only one who can live between both worlds, pfft, yeah", Utau said calling me out.
I opened the mouth of the portal vision wider, and shot out an arrow at her thigh.
She cringed.
"Hmmmm, I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't like to play fair", she said spitting out red liquid out of her mouth.
She threw something indistinguishable into the air above her.
And a giant silver star landed in her hands.
Far away it does look like a big star.
But it had razor sharp edges and the point looked deadly.
"This should be the first time you've seen my main weapon, right Amu", she asked me, sliding one of the edges clean off her finger.
She bled.
And dropped a few drops in the middle of the star, near the points of the star there were holes where on one, Utau held on to it.
Amazed I just stood there.
It took me a few minutes to administer on what was happening.
I heard a whiz of something pass my ear.
Then as if on contact.
The cut on my sleeve, started to sting a little.
"Don't be so sure of yourself Amu, it's tainted with my blood", she said with a small satisfied smile.
I injected myself with one of my needles.
I knew what was going to happen, another thing that makes Utau especially famous, is that, when her blood is in the body of another person.
She can control them, out of their own free will.
Utau, started to cry all of a sudden.
And I didn't even do anything, yet.
"What is this, some kind of trick", I asked, my defenses still on high alert.
She swiped her tears furiously.
And shook her head.
"It's that, you can end this, all of it, you don't even need to lift a figure, and yet you have more power than anyone has expected, just one look at somebody, their lives could just end, but you, you want to learn magic, you want to improve your combat skills, you want to properly handle potions and weapons, and yet nobody can touch you", she said squatting down on the grass folding her arms over her chest.
"Just get it over with", she said looking away, distantly.
I pulled back on my bow, and a needle stuck out on her neck.
I shot a second needle in her arm.
She pulled them out, and surprisingly, handed them to me... nicely.
Maybe I hit her a little too hard?
"Since we're done here for today, Amu-chi, can we go to the other world today", Yaya asked looking at me expectantly.
I shrugged and nodded.
With my finger, I made a shape of a door, and a doorknob in mid air.
If I went with other people, they always had to chant the rhyme of acceptance.
It sounded cheesy when I first heard about it.
But that was when I was able to conjure it myself.
I raised my hand for them to start the rhyme.
"When the portal opens, it accepts life,
people of it's kind, and the ones a like,
anything can happen, in this land before time,
with my soul and heart I accept what is rightfully mine,
with solitude, respect and grace, you can be crowned,
a life beyond what is right, can be found".
They said perfectly in tune.
A light shown in the cracks, where the door should be, it opened.
Utau took the lead into the dark entrance.
And we all followed behind her.
I felt the presence of other beings.
But when I looked behind me, the door closed shut and disappeared.
"You guys can go and head on, I bet there are some people you haven't seen in forever", I said shooing them away.
But Rima held on to my sleeve and shook her head.
"We'll go in pairs", she said looking at Utau and Yaya, they just nodded.
"You don't know what could happen Amu-chan", she said still holding onto my sleeve as we walked.
I remember perfectly what happened last time I came over to the 'other world'.
I had gotten kidnapped.
And I couldn't remember anything after that.
My memories come and go as they please.
We passed one of they many few graveyards in the town we were in.
"Oh my...", Rima said as we passed some of the tomb stones.
There weren't many, because vampires could live forever, just the ones who get caught by hunters, or get killed by specialized weapons have their ashes transferred over to this world.
Rima let go of my sleeve and started walking deeper into the graveyard.
"Rima", I called out to her, she didn't stop or look back.
I followed to where she was heading, then she abruptly stopped in front of a familiar tomb.
Then it hit me, like lightning on impact to a tree.
That analogy sucked, but it was true.
It was Tadase's grave.
I missed him, well I missed the memories that we had that I could at least remember.
I remember that when we were younger, Utau would make fun of him because his dream was to rule the world.
And I could see in his eyes that he knew he could do it, and I had faith in him for that.
But something terrible happened to him after my mind was altered.
I don't even remember what he had looked like.
Rima bent down and placed some indistinguishable things on top of his grave.
It wasn't particularly safe, but it was to help him know that we still remember.
I placed 3 of my needles next to her's.
And we walked back to the road.
I felt that we were being watched, but everyone in this town was being watched.
We have government officials here in this world called 'the shadows'.
Literally they were shadows.
They follow every move of every citizen that come in and out of the portals.
Their name wasn't as clever as I first thought it would be, since it's so common.
But since that's what they really are, I won't complain.
They don't usually watch me and my friends, since I am the portal.
They usually report back to higher ups.
The shadows are like cameras, that are being controlled by people.
I could shoot one down and then it would slither away.
It was like a pet.
We reached the town square.
Where it was busier than usual.
"Umm, excuse me, could you tell me what's happening here", I said to a near by stander.
I forgot that this world was still stuck into the 60's old fashioned English/Japanese style.
She fixed her bonnet for a better look, and curtsied.
"Good noon mistress Amu, so glad that you could join us after such a long time, why it's the festival for the blue moon, this particular blue moon come here every 50 years, we can all wait that long can't we", she said and giggled, leaving us.
I turned towards Rima.
"It's been quite a long time since I've seen the blue moon here, isn't it that 1 year back home, is equivalent to 10 years here", I asked.
She nodded.
"Looks like nothing has changed", Rima muttered.
"Hey you twits, come over here for a sec", Utau said calling us from behind.
She was holding up an old fashioned letter.
And read aloud:
~You have come this far through the portal,
where we have slipped into a place for no mortal,
you were careless enough to not be aware behind you,
we have came this far too,
come and find the treasure,
where danger lies in great measure~
"Pffft, I bet this is a game for the festival, and Amu, probably someone slipped in through the portal you forgot to close", Utau said burning the letter in her hand.
"The letter was found in front of this alley", Yaya said pointing down the dark path.
"Well let's go," Rima said trailing behind the lead of Utau.
I followed close behind.
"A dead end", Utau said standing in front of the solid brick wall.
I shook my head, it surprised me that I knew what to do.
I walked through the wall with ease.
With the others right on my tail.
The wall led us out into a forest trail, where a letter just like the one before was on the gorund.
~Too easy, right,
I don't like rhyming so I would just like to say,
your hot~
"Perv", Rima muttered, obviously in a bad mood, since this supposed joke wasn't funny at all.
"Plainly saying that this is a trail right? Then we're hot on their trail", I said walking forward.
It seemes to be that we were walking on the same trail for a couple of minutes.
"Heyyyy, I saw that shrub 5 minutes ago", Yaya complained.
"We're in an illusion", Rima muttered.
"Utau, could you do something about this", I asked.
She shook her head.
"All I got is a bit of powder left, because someone had to go on and piss me off", she said crossing her arms.
"Rima", I asked.
We stood a bit behind her, as the image before us started to fade.
We have been walking in a tunnel.
The ground started to rumble.
"You can stop screaming now, Rima", Utau said, holding on to the wall next to her for support.
"I'm not", Rima said from behind me.
We were being ejected up on a platform.
The sky here was blue, we were in a columned arena, I looked over the edge of the arena.
The ground was no where in sight.
The arena was floating above the clouds.
The sun shone brightly over our heads.
And arrow shot suddenly in front of my feet as I took a step forward.
I looked up.
On each of the columns someone was perched up on top of one.
One sitting, standing, laying back on one, cross legged.
Their faces darkened by the sun above.
The shadows on their faces were unnaturally thick.
"Who are they", Utau whispered in my ear.
"So nice of you to join us".
"Sorry for the lame notes and the whole illusion thing".
"It was to buy us some time".
"Time that we don't easily offer".
"What are you talking about", I asked, sticking my hand in my bag, grabbing 3 of my needles in between my fingers.
"You should have closed the portal".
A/N:
d.s: I had writers block towards the end, and i find it a bit boring... right?
Amu: really? you put this there?...*throws script in fire*
d.s: getting meaner by the minute...
Ikuto: -_-... rate and review