Info: I have the song "Natsuhiboshi" from naruto stuck in my head... Gonna fall asleep... -snore-
"K-KARI!" Oni shrieked when the energetic girl collapsed to the ground. "K-Kari! Say something, Kari!" He rushed to her side, holding her up slightly. Her breathing was fast, her face was reddish purple, and she shivered endlessly. "K-Kari...?"
Skipping back. It was a rainy day; fat gray clouds hid the sun and cast a long almost endless shadow over the earth below. There was a strong wind sailing across the deciduous forest making the trees dance. It was raining heavily, but the trees did block out some of it.
"I hate muggy weather," Kari commented as she followed Oni across a log. "What's your favorite weather?"
"Makes no difference to me," Oni kept walking. "Weather... is just weather. Sunny, or rainy, it doesn't bother me but... I guess I like sun better for battle, you don't slip on mud."
"Haha! I can imagine you doing that!" Kari was so lively and in a great mood, she took strides of happiness it almost seemed. "A serious battle... in a golden plains... rain squishing under every step taken as you run towards Majora... and... Splat! Slip in mud, very skillful," She smiled.
"You're just jealous," Oni stuck out his tongue. "Kari, you seem a tad bit redder than yesterday, are you feeling alright?"
"Huh? I am? I feel fine! The rain keeps me chilly so I don't get hot... I actually feel better than normal, weird enough." She stretched. "Worry about your own problems like you normally do."
"That makes me feel oh so kind," Oni made a face as he said the sarcastic remark. "Perhaps it was something you ate... Agh, Terminan body systems are so confusing!"
"But you have one yourself."
"I don't get sick, I don't feel heat or cold, there's only one system I care about the r-"
"I already know, no need to tell me," Kari waved a hand as she held the other one to her forehead. I am starting to feel kind of dizzy... I hope I'm not getting sick... She exhaled noisily. My legs feel stiff... Oni seemed to notice her pause in footsteps and stopped, turned back. He's saying something...? I can't tell... everything... Energy was sucked out of her body like a kid's juice from his sippie cup and she fell flat on the ground.
"K-KARI!" Oni shrieked when the energetic girl collapsed to the ground. "K-Kari! Say something, Kari!" He rushed to her side, holding her up slightly. Her breathing was fast, her face was reddish purple, and she shivered endlessly. "K-Kari...?" She coughed twice, weak. Tugging at his heart, he picked her up bridal style (Not being perverted though XD) (Kari: So we hope...) and began running out from the forest. "Hold on Kari, I just need light to see..." In truth, he had no idea what to do. He had never dealt with a sick person... Village? I think there's a village up ahead, I've never been there before, alright! He grinded his teeth as his legs carried him almost in flight as he arrived at the village entrance in a few moments. Villagers stared. "Please! Someone help! Where's a doctor!?" He bit his lip as no one responded, and he carried her throughout some more, asking.
"M-My boy! Bring her in here!" A man in priest-like robes opened doors to a small shack. "I know some healing arts!"
"T-Thank-you!" Oni rushed in and gently set Kari on a bed the man instructed him to. "K-Kari..."
"Alright, you're going to have to help me, for your friend's sake. See that bowl? Fill it with those green herbs and pound them together..."
...
"She'll be fine now, she must have eaten some rivberries; they look exactly like raspberries..."
"Thank-you... er..." Oni felt like smacking himself, he hadn't even asked the savior's name.
"My name is Edward, father Edward. I am a priest of this town... Sad place... no one trusts many because of the poverty," Edward opened a veil over the curtain. "It is not their fault... the last man that came to this town stole all the crops and burned the place to the ground... He was very strange, and demanded where to find magic ore..."
"What?.." Majora? "What was his name?"
"Something with a 'M'... He opened a mine a few miles away, he's harvesting magic rock for something... I stay from it, and you should too. He gives off really bad vibes." Not at all, Oni thought sarcastically, he's only a god who plans to live on by raping defenseless girls... He sighed. "Do you know him?"
"Huh? N-No, only heard of him, I hear he's evil though..." Oni lied as he glanced at Kari again. "I believe she was had a close encounter with him, though." Too close... Anger bubbled in his mind.
"And survived? Amazing! Well, at this point, your friend... er...
"Kari, she's Kari and I'm Oni."
"Ah, Kari, yes, she'll wake up later, but rest is good for her as well. When you start traveling again, make sure to stop frequently." Edward smiled kindly. "Well, I must go for my daily sermons at the church... If you walk around, make sure to lock the door behind you."
"Y... Yeah, sure..." Oni nodded as he pulled a chair beside the bed. "Weird. You're all hyper and you collapse on me, you'd better not be PMSing." He half-wanted her to spring up and yell at him, something. "You're too peaceful when you sleep, you look dead." I wonder just when she'll wake up... Maybe I shouldn't be here... Maybe I should let her get a break from me... He stood up, walked out the door, and locked it behind him obediently. The priest had not been lying, Oni assumed as he strolled throughout town. People would stare at him, whisper, and wonder. The main color schemes were brown and dead without a single crop field. There was one pile of hay, but only two or three animals in total. A small town... I like Termina Main Town better... Not so... gloomy...
PLUCK! He felt his wallet get pulled from his pocket and noticed a young boy with black hair run off as fast as he could. So poor even kids are stealing, sad. He turned away, ignoring what had just happened as he sat down beside a dead tree. He watched the kid glance back at him, and wonder why he wasn't chasing him. Gingerly, the kid walked back: "Hey, mister ain't cha gonna try to get your wallet back? Wait... Is there no money!?" The kid searched the wallet but sighed in relief.
"I have no need to. If you want it, take it. Money is merely a solution of metals that have been labeled with value."
"If you're so carefree, can I have your sword?"
"Nope, I draw the line there, bucko," Oni couldn't help but smile. "This sword consists of magic stones found only in the chambers of the four giants, and it's very precious to me. Besides, my wallet has a whole silver rupee, what more does a kid like you need?"
"As much to buy medicine," Oh snap, for a second I thought he was gonna say Mol pipe weed... Schwoo... He chuckled quietly. "Unlike you, I don't have money to buy stuff. As you can see, this town is dirt poor but I can't travel because my mom is too sick. If I make her better, we can move to Termina Main Town and start over..."
"Mm, good cause I guess. Here, let me see it," He held his hand out for the wallet but the kid hesitated. "Oh come on, I promise to give it back. I don't need money." When the kid finally gave it to him, Oni's hands began glowing yellow.
"W-What are you doing!?"
"What's your name boy?"
"C-Chas..."
"Chas, then, I hope this helps your mother out," He held the wallet back out and instead of one silver rupee, there were twenty. "Twenty-thousand, if my math is right."
"A-A-Amazing!" Chas exclaimed. "How did you...!?"
"This land isn't fertile, is it?"
"N-No... The soil used to be but Majora, this one man, came and it suddenly died out... And it hasn't rained..."
"Ok then... Let's replenish what my dear enemy has done," Oni strode over to a patch of crunchy dirt and got on his knees, pressing his hands to the ground. "Oh with the power the four giants have invested in me... Oh c'mon, why do I even have to say such a corny thing?" His hands lit afire with green flames, but they didn't burn. "Recolor this land and replenish the life taken by a dark shadow... I, protector of Termina under the four giants' laws," People stopped and stared at him, "give this land new hope." Almost at the last world, color exploded from his hands and the land flooded with green smoke that raced across the dirt in stampedes, people jumped up to dodge it. Where the green smoke went, grass was left behind and the dead tree blossomed with pretty pink petals as well as white blossoms. An old field burst anew with seed lets that in mere seconds grew to full corn stalks... "Let the clouds cry." The words escaped his lips and gray clouds appeared in the sky, and let loose to a calm rain. "Relieve this land."
"I-It's raining!" Chas gasped as he jumped up and touched the falling drops. "It's raining!" Villagers raced outside and into the rain, everyone gathering buckets to keep a steady supply. "Sir, how did you...!?"
"... Kari's advice..." He stood up and the green fire on his hands disappeared. "Chas, I don't think you'll need to move now anyone... Use that money for this village, as well as your mother, alright?"
"Y-Yeah! Of course! Thank-you!" Chas nodded fast at the powerful being that, with one touch of his hands, made a drought end and the land sprout.
"Mm, I've set there to be continual rain, there will be no more drought... When it stops raining, there will always be one rain cloud on its way..."
"O-Oni!!"
"Huh!?" Oni jerked to see Kari on her feet, still red, but healthy looking. "K-Kari!!" He zoomed over. "You're alright!"
"O-Oni, I was only out for a little while! This village... I've been here before, but it didn't look like this..."
"Uh... I guess the simplest way to say was that I took your advice."
"You mean you... Oni, alright!" She hugged him. SHE hugged HIM. Not he hugged her. "You did, didn't you? I knew there was some hidden character." I wish I could feel warmth about now... Oni secretly thought.
"Oni, huh?" Oni and Kari looked down to see Chas. "That's your name... Thank-you Oni, I hope I can grow up to someone like you..." As Oni started smiling, Kari cut him off.
"Actually, I don't think you should grow up like him-" Oni put a hand over Kari's mouth and laughed it off.
"You know, we have to leave now, Kari, and Chas probably doesn't want to hear some boring stories. Good-bye Chas, leave you later." He wrapped an arm around Kari's shoulder and had her walk a few feet away before releasing his grip and hand from her mouth. "Trying to ruin a perfectly good moment?"
"I just think he shouldn't grow up like you," Kari folded her arms with a 'hmph.' "We don't need any more perverts in this world of ours, Oni." She grinned when he stuck out his tongue. "But, I have to say," She pat him on the head, "I'm proud of you Oni."
"We shouldn't be too happy..."
"What? Why?"
"I found out Majora is working on harvesting magic ore... People like me use those to make powerful seals... He might be trying to find another way to survive the giants' judgment than yo-"
"Don't remind me!" Kari yelled as she covered her ears. "Terrible! Bitterly disgusting! I'd never want to have his child! I'd prefer having y-" She stopped herself. It was the second she almost said that.
"Y... Y- What?" Oni gained that smile. "Yours? You'd rather have miiiine?" There was a teasing tone in his voice as he spoke.
"S-Shut up! It was a mistake of my mouth! I was going to say having one years later, long time later!"
"Really? Cuz I can arrange that mistake of yours..."
"Agh! Shut up Oni!"
"But you're so cute!"
"Agh!"