D.Fushigi-man
Aaaaahhh!! Gomennasai! Gomennasai! Gomennasai! TuT I've taken so long...urgh...Apologising a million times would still not express how sorry I am for taking this long! (I've been on holiday and everything, and schoolwork gets on my nerves REALLY BADLY. You know how it is. Well, maybe you don't, if you're older and have forgotten or something). Yes. Cough. On with the story!!!!
DISCLAIMER: Sadly, don't own D.gray-man, nor Fushigi Yugi.
llll EPISODE 6 - EVEN IF I DIE... llll
Allen blinked a couple of times. He opened his mouth to say something, but couldn't really think of anything. He closed it again and frowned. The other Allen was smirking, with his arms folded, obviously enjoying the 'show'.
"Are you my...Black Side? The one that plays poker for me?" Allen asked the figure. (Evil Allen sweat dropped.)
"Maybe, but not really...? Basically, I'm you. The you reflected in the mirror, that is. I'm not some 'Inner Spirit' or anything," Evil Allen cackled a little.
"Ah, but-but, I'm you? I'm me, but you're me, too, so does that mean I'm you, even though I'm me and you're you, but then how can I be me if you're me as well, and does that make me you-"
"SHUT UP!!!" Evil Allen was about to strike but a shout interrupted them.
"Moyashi!! Get yourself down here RIGHT NOW before I fucking have to drag you out of where ever you are SCREAMING!!" Anyone could guess who that was. And indeed, Kanda was shown in that large, circle glass window from the direction Allen had come from. And despite what the man had said, Allen was very happy to see him.
"Kanda!" He exclaimed rushing towards the image of the samurai, but was harshly pushed and found himself on the floor. He struggled up.
"Out of my way," sneered Evil Allen. "You can stay here and eat all you want!" He gave a small wave and without looking back, strolled right through the glass.
"Hey! Wait! Let me out!!" Allen dived nose-first into the glass. But it was solid. A solid disappointment, Allen thought as he slid down, crying waterfalls.
"No way. If I let you out, you'll screw things up for me. I love Lavi waaay more than that other one, what's his name, Kandy? Ah, you should honestly learn how to tie these things," Evil Allen adjusted his ribbon and pouted (just for practice). "That's why, I'm going to stay with him here for ever!" Evil Allen grinned, um, evilly. Allen froze. What..?
"That's right. I don't want to go back to our OLD world. I much prefer being here, as the Priest of Suzaku, being honoured and served by everyone in China. It's a lot better than CROSS MARIAN back home, isn't it?" This got Allen to be silent. Meanwhile, Evil Allen took the mirror, which was now only about the size of a palm, and whispered for 'nice' Allen to sit back and enjoy the show.
"B-but, wait, Let me out..." Allen gave a few more half-hearted bangs on the glass.
No one outside can hear you, a deep voice echoed around the room. Try and break my spell, Allen. That is, if you really ARE the Priestess of Suzaku.
"Who..?" Allen turned around, but he could see no-one. All that faced him was a chair and an enourmous table of delicious food.
"..."
Allen decidedly forked down everything he could plunge his cutlery into. It was all wolfed down within seconds. He let out a sigh of relief, relaxed a moment and then got to buisiness. "All right! Who are you!? Who's there!?" He shouted. The deep voice didn't answer. (He was too busy pondering as to why someone would eat so much food in a life or death situation. And who could blame him?)
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Meanwhile, Kanda trudged back over to Rinali and Lavi.
"Find him?" Lavi asked timidly, yet hopefully. His face drooped when Kanda shook his head 'no'. But then, his ears perked up. "Someone's here!" He hissed. Everyone turned to where the sound was coming from. It was...
"Allen!!" Lavi sighed with relief. Kanda was glaring.
"Moyashi, where were you?! What happened!?"
"Ah, no where in particular," Evil Allen narrowed his eyes and gave a small smile. "Were you worried about me, then?"
"C-Che, like I would," Kanda replied, stuttering slightly.
"Waaaahhh, get AWAY from Kanda!!!" Allen bashed the glass, fully aware that no-one could hear.
Fortunately, Kanda turned away. Unfortunately, Lavi came up and said, "It's alright, as long as you're ok, ne-" he was interrupted as Evil Allen threw himself at Lavi. "DAARRLING!!!" He yelled while doing so.
Lavi's eyes widened and a blush spread over his face.
Kanda's eye twitched.
If looks could kill, Rinali's would be the murder of the century.
Real Allen fainted.
"Ah, forgive me, my dear..." Evil Allen had his arms around Lavi as Rinali shook - anger, possibly disgust. One thing for sure: Things would not be GOOD between them.
"ALLEN...WHAT - DO - YOU - THINK - YOU - ARE - DOING!!???" It wasn't a shout or a yell, but the tone was dangerous enough to be typed in capitals. Rinali pointed accusingly at Evil Allen as he turned around, smiling 'innocently'.
"Oh, got a problem with it?"
"You bet I have..." Rinali hissed, nearing to him.
"Give up already. Lavi obviously loves me more than you, so don't keep your hopes up just because you're a girl, Rin. Or, should I say Rinali."
Rinali swayed, bangs hiding her eyes. Thunder struck in the background, making her advisor's cap fall off. A wave of dark-green hair cascaded down her shoulders. She stared in shock and horror, and absent-mindedly tied her hair up into two bunches. Lavi stared at her. Kanda stared at her. It was enough to root everyone to the spot. "I knew you were too pretty too be a guy," Lavi finally said quietly.
"HOW COULD YOU!!!! YOU TOLD THEEEEEEM!!!" Rinali wailed and ran off into the woods, punching every tree in her way and knocking it down. Kanda and Lavi could only sweatdrop, while Real Allen recovered from his black-out.
"Please, figure it out already, Lavi, Kanda!!" Real Allen closed his eyes and leant against the glass. "If you don't stop that maniac, everyone will end up hating each other...and then how will I get back..?"
"Never mind that silly girl, Lavi. Why don't you come with me instead?" Evil Allen broke the silence between the three of them. "I want to talk to you," He added, and he dragged Lavi off by the arm. Kanda watched.
"Hn...how troublesome..."
Allen readied himself and charged at the round looking-glass. He only wobbled from the impact and fell to the floor.
Evil Allen had brought Lavi to a small, private clearing in the woods. "Saa, what did you want to tell me, Moyashi-chan?" Lavi lifted an eyebrow as Evil Allen clung to his royal clothes. Kanda stood nearby, hiding behind a tree. He watched to see what would happen.
"Let's stop this," Evil Allen said softly. "Let's not go to Taiitsubookman's place."
"W...What!?" Lavi had obviously not expected anything of the sort.
"Ah...you see, if I can be with you,I don't have to go back..." Evil Allen pulled closer, smirking. "You love me, don't you? And I love you..." Evil Allen closed his eyes and started leaning in. Kanda flinched. On reflex, his hand moved towards his sword.
"No...NO!! That's not me, Lavi!!! I'm here!! LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!" The real Allen screamed from inside the mirror. Back in the library, Komui listened closely. He was sure he had just heard Allen...He turned back to the book. "The being with the appearance of the Priestess of Suzaku was about to kiss the young Emperor, when..."
A sword flashed in front of the two's eyes. Kanda had pulled Mugen from his sheath and Lavi shot him a greatful look. Together, the two men chorused their main question:
"Who the hell are you!?"
"W-who am I?!" Evil Allen jumped back, away from Kanda's Katana.
"The Allen-chan I know doesn't act like that," Lavi continued. "Show your true form!" He demanded, drawing out a small hammer from a hidden pocket in his robe. 'Good thing this was also given to me, along with the scroll all that time ago...thanks, panda...' Lavi thought to himself as he and Kanda got prepeared to fight. Evil Allen stared at them for a while and then giggled. Kanda's glare intensified.
"Where's the real Moyashi?" He said with a menacing tone.
"Right here in front of you, of course! I'm Allen's reflection. Nice to meet you," He smiled, lifting up his left red hand. When no-one shook it, he suddenly started to mutate. Evil Allen's body became blacker, more wrinkly, his eyes bulged and his hair fell out. Evil Allen continued: "I'm a part of Allen that even he himself doesn't realise is there. His deepest, darkest thoughts that occur to him but he immediately stores them away, not even acknowledging them are what I am."
"So that is it..." Allen blinked, looking thoughtful.
"You are a foolish man, Lavi. After I finally confessed my love to you..."
"ENOUGH OF YOUR NONSENSE, YOU AKUMA!!!" Lavi yelled and ran at Evil Allen. "Oozuchi Koozuchi...man, Man, MAN!" The hammer grew to an abnormal size and Kanda also charged towards the monster. Evil Allen grinned and held up the small mirror. Instantly, both men dropped to the floor.
"My...my strength...is draining...!" Lavi gasped, breathing hard.
Allen held a shard of a plate he had broken a few seconds ago. It was pointed at him. His hands shook, but he did not waver.
"If that...thing is part of me, then...I should just disappear..." Without further thought, Allen plunged the sharp plate piece into his chest. He gasped and coughed up some blood. It hurt...Allen fell to the floor, wincing with pain. He was hoping it had hit his heart, and then, death would be guaranteed...and his reflection would not be alive, either. His white school shirt was soon soaked with blood the colour of the ribbon that was tied gently around his neck.
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Komui dropped 'The Universe of the Four gods' and backed up against a bookcase. Blood was dripping from a wound slightly to the left side of his chest.
Back with Lavi, Kanda and Evil Allen, something was happening. Sparks flew from the small mirror that was pointed at the men.
Allen slowly stood up from the floor. "Go away, reflection of me...!!" Allen pushed the shard further in.
'It can't be...' Bookman's eyes widened. 'He can't be trying to...!'
And now, the sparks turned into bolts. Evil Allen screamed; he didn't understand what was happening.
"GO AWAY!" Allen yelled.
Evil Allen dropped the mirror, and the glass shattered. A large wound appeared on the demon's chest and it bled green liquid. Lavi and Kanda slowly stood up. "My royal strength has returned, heheh..." Lavi smiled. Kanda smirked and stabbed the demon with Mugen. When Evil Allen's arm extended, he craftily dodged while Lavi smashed the arm with his hammer.
"Everyone outta my way!!" They heard a yell and jumped away just in time as Rinali flew at the monster and crushed Evil Allen into the ground with an almighty kick. "I knew something was wrong there. Never underestimate the power of high-heeled boots," She finished triumphantly while Lavi stared. Rinali looked around. "So, where's the real Allen...?" She gasped. "Oh my god!!"
Kanda was standing by Allen, who had appeared just after the monster was defeated. Allen was bleeding, badly - and he was unconscious. Lavi quickly joined Kanda. "How is he?! Why did he do this!?" he yelled to the Samurai, who didn't even hear the emperor.
"Now that I think about it..." Lavi swished around to see Rinali with a sombre expression. "The monster from before bled from the same place, didn't it...did he do this to save us...?"
"Baka Moyashi...we didn't need saving..." Kanda glared at the form of the small boy on the grass.
"Hang on, Allen-chan!! Open your eyes!! Allen!"
Allen opened his eyes. He was somewhere starry and cold and unfamiliar. Nowadays, he was often somewhere unfamiliar. He didn't even bother to question where he was anymore.
'I hear their voices...' Allen got up from the invisible floor. 'I wonder what happened to me..?' he saddened. 'Oh yeah...I stabbed myself...'
Bookman watched from his large chair. "I never thought he'd go that far...he's only a young boy, too...Could he be the prophecised Destroyer Of Time...? I wonder..."
"Listen, you two, calling his name won't help him!" Rinali sighed.
"Mou, what can we do?!" Lavi turned around. A bead of sweat rolled down his face.
"Both of you, turn around. That means you too, Kanda!" Kanda Che'd and turned around.
"Wh-what are you going to do, Rin? I mean, Rinali?" Lavi said, his voice slightly muffled due to not facing her.
"We need to take his top off to treat that wound, right!?" Rinali stared down at Allen, thinking of how she should treat the wound.
"Yeah, but...you're a woman...and, we're men..? Besides, it's just his top..." Lavi slowly turned to face her and snapped back again when he saw her expression. Exasperation mixed with agitation mixed with anger and fury? Eep.
"Whatever! I'm a female, so I know what to do! It's not like i'm unfamiliar with the male anatomy since i draw doujins anyway so LEAVE ME ALONE and give Allen some PRIVACY!!!"
Kanda grunted. "Women and doujiinshi..."
Rinali was carefully unbuttoning Allen's shirt. She glanced at the wound and flinched. "This is pretty bad..." Her voice cracked slightly. "He really did a job on himself..!" Carefully, she pulled out a piece of porclain still stuck in his chest and ripped her shirt sleeve off. Shredding it into small pieces, she wrapped his wound with the strips of material. "Okay, I'm done," she breathed out with relief.
"Will he be alright?" Lavi asked, half-fearing the answer. Kanda also listened in closely.
"Yeah. He didn't hit anything vital. Just barely." Rinali informed them. Lavi sighed in relief. "However..." The emperor tensed up again, his one eye filling with dread of what might come next. "Now it's only a question of his will to live."
"Kuso...he doesn't have that much of it..." Kanda glared at Allen again. The white-haired boy gave a small, closed-eye glare back in his unconscious state.
"Oh no...! The bleeding won't stop!" Rinali exclaimed as the bandages turned red. "At this rate...!"
"Moyashi..! Wake up, dammit!"
"Allen-chan!"
"Allen-kun!!"
If I hadn't been so cold...no, it's not my fault...yes it is...Damn, if only i didn't say that stuff to him...Moyashi! Kanda mentally kicked himself. He really shouldn't have been so stupid. 'Cause now Alle- Moyashi was in danger.
"Aaaa..!! His face is getting paler!" Lavi went pale himself and Rinali cast a worried look at him. Kanda twitched.
"If only we could give him some blood...but we don't have any equipment!" She pointed to Allen. Kanda flinched. Dammit...Dammit!!
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Allen stood up in the wide, open, starry emptiness. "I can't hear anything anymore...no-one else is here...I wonder, am I dying?" He looked at his arm, which looked a strange silver in the light. "But I caused so much trouble for other people...I was useless, and selfish..." A sudden glow penetrated the darkness. Allen turned to see a meadow; it was full of flowers, and warmth seemed to radiate from them. "Will I be happy if I go there?" The boy pondered. He took a small step forward.
"Allen!"
Allen froze. Komui?
"Allen, where are you?!"
"I don't know, but I'm still in that strange world you and I went to together..." Allen figured Komui would hear him.
"I thought so...tell me," Komui struggled for a breath, "You're badly hurt, aren't you...?"
Allen was startled. "How did you know?!"
"It doesn't matter! Allen, come back to our world!"
"No, it's no use...I don't think I'll ever be able to get back..."
"Wha-!? You can't give up!! Come on, Allen, I haven't even shown you Komui version 10.9..! Come back!!"
"Moyashi..." Kanda stared at the boy's pale face. Lavi looked frustrated.
"Why..!? I'm the emperor, so powerful, and yet...I can't even save the life of one young boy!"
"Come on, Allen! I'll find a way to get you back to our world, ne!? Just don't give up! I'll do it...I'll think of a way...but it's all useless if you don't want to come back!"
"But, Komui, it's too late..." Allen closed his eyes, prepeared to take another step.
"You think dying will make ANYONE HAPPY!?" Allen's eyes snapped open.
"Listen closely, Allen! Can't you hear anything?!"
"Listen?"
"Listen to the voices of the people that care about you! You idiot!!" Komui yelled.
Lavi picked up the shard of plate that had been used by Allen a few minutes before. "If he needs blood, then, then...mou, I'll give her all the blood I have!!" Rinali paled as he prepeared to slit his wrist. Kanda also drew his sword and pointed it at his chest. "Live, Moyashi!" He whispered before stabbing himself. Lavi drew the shard sharply across his wrist and two drops of blood from each man landed on Allen's chest, while Rinali stared in horror.
"Live, Moyashi!"
"Don't die Allen!"
"Come back, Allen!!"
"Everyone..." Allen's eyes watered and he smiled. "I won't give up! I won't! I won't die!!"
"Allen..." Komui was relieved. "Yeah...you won't die, Allen..."
Allen twitched his left hand. It really moved!
"The bleeding's stopped!" Rinali exclaimed in disbelief. Allen's eyes fluttered open.
"Kanda...Lavi...Rinali...you're there...stop glaring, you stupid ponytail..." Allen giggled at his words. Kanda frowned and suddenly hugged him. Rinali and Lavi stared.
"Don't you dare worry us this much ever again, idiot..."
"Welcome back," Lavi grinned lopsidedly and Rinali chuckled. Maybe it was going to be OK after all.
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"Because all of his friends called him back, The Priestess of Suzaku kept his life." I knew it, Komui thought. Allen really IS the Priestess of Suzaku! "The Priestess, along with the three celestial warriors, suddenly found themselves at Mt. Taikyoku."
Indeed, they were at the mountain. Small, pink bubbles floated around the travelers and there were little pavilions scattereed around on the mountain as far as the eye could see. Clear waters run across canals and ended in crashing waterfalls. The sky was a pastel blue and even without much decoration, it was a place of undeniable beauty.
"What the-? Weren't we just..." Lavi stared around, searching for some sort of tree. There was none. "We're not in the forest anymore, guys..." He stated the obvious.
"You've shown me exactly how all of you truly feel about one another," A voice echoed through the valleys.
"Who are you?" Kanda snapped, getting up from his position by Allen.
"The one you seek." A figure surrounded by a shining blue light appeared slightly higher than their current position. It was a dark silhouette, and the four watched on with anticipation. "Welcome, Allen! Or, should I say, Priestess of Suzaku!"
"T-Taiitsubookman?!" Allen voiced everyone's suspicion.
"You care very deeply about these three of your warriors, and they are loyal to you...In honour of this, I shall tell you how to get back to your world."
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Ah, there we go. This episode drained me of my energy. I really wanted to get it done before 2008! And guess what, I did. Just barely.
My resolution for next year will of course be to UPDATE REGULARY!!!! YOSH!!!