Illusion
It's not like I enjoy scaring the heck out of little girls.
Wait, no, yes I do.
But that wasn't the point of hiding out in the park like that!
Wait, no, yes it was.
I was waiting in the wooded area of the park, ready to pounce on anybody foolish enough to come close. That was one of the reasons Clow created me actually. To scare people away. Or to distract them. I was the harmless alternative to other magical attacks or defenses. I won't go into other uses he found for me.
Not that I'm actually harmless. If I became an illusion of solid ground over a pit of spikes I could be quite deadly.
I was really just hanging out though, getting practice. I didn't want to lose my edge since I hadn't been used in centuries. Some of these girls got scared of the silliest things, but they gave me some wonderful ideas.
I've been doing this for a while, since we were all scattered. Now though, one girl came back as if obsessed with scary things.
I was prepared to give her my all by appearing at the scariest time of the day, as soon as her mind wandered to something truly terrifying.
I realized too late that she had brought friends.
So, instead, I became many things, all more terrifying than the last.
A beautiful woman with long hair...wait, that shouldn't have been scary. Oh. A ghost? Someone she knew?
I shrugged and moved on to the next.
Next I was blurry and pointy eared...scary, but still not enough.
I eagerly awaited the next imagination to touch me.
The girl that kept coming back saw me as being round, with one huge baleful eye staring at her. Ooohhh...getting there!
What was next?
Pink? Er...okay, not a scary color, but she saw me with a huge mouth and fangs. That was suitably horrifying.
The next girl had to have the image of something terrible. Horrible. Disfigured maybe? I mean, she was scared into shock obviously--she was too scared to even change her expression.
Yes, the image was huge! Flesh colored…or bread colored?
Bread?
This wasn't right.
I was covered in bread.
I was...a really big nikuman?
She was scared of food? Wait a minute!
This was so not right. She wasn't scared at all, she was just hungry!
I had failed.
I was a failure.
I was food.
I was suddenly depressed. I sighed and went off to sulk.
Okay, bring on the card captor. I was ready to go back to the book and ask the other cards what I had done wrong.
And if the card captor got scared in the process, all the better, right? Right!
Author's Notes:
Who has the best reviewers on earth? I do! You guys are all great! Wonderful!
Yes, I didn't finish the episode. I'm aware of this. That's because...Fly is next! Finally!
So, thank you to Atom Bunny, Kira, Peacewish, L-chan, Youko Duet, Litwolf689, CCSROX, and Hotaru Kamiya. You guys are awesome and each review means the world to me! I hope you enjoy this chapter and the next ones. Some will be funnier than others...there's only so much I can do with some of these cards! So, thank you for reading!
