A/N:: Writing this while watching Kamen Rider W is called multitasking.
Byakko Monogatari
[Byakko] Chapter 08
Madness
[Outside the Book]
[—Namimori—]
A woman with silver-grey long wavy hair serves a tea to Luca who thank her with smile, and gave tea to the butler who is standing behind his master.
After some hours of long ride, Luca and his butler have able to reach her house and now on the inside of her messy house.
Piles of books and papers were everywhere the place; when Luca and his butler enter they got huge hesitation to get in as various papers were scattered on the floor.
With insistence from the woman with silver color eyes they step on the papers while Luca has sweat drop on his head and his butler has urge to clean the place.
'Hev-sensei never changed.' Luca sighs, remembering his time with the said teacher on her area in the faculty room. It always surprising him how come the other teachers just ignore her mess.
Luca heaved a sigh of defeated before presenting the book of the Universe of the Four Gods on the woman.
"Where did you get it Luca-kun?" she asked while taking the book out of her former student's hand.
"In Kunigigaoka High School; in one of their plays."
"Kunigigaoka?" Hevlaska questionably said while sitting on the couch across her guests. "But… how come that they got their hands on this?"
Luca shrugged his shoulder, "Who knows?"
"So… what is it? What is that thing that bothering you?"
"You know Hev-sensei, I'll be prank to you; for me all of your ideas about another world is all absurd to me. To tell you the truth, I once thought that you are an insane person."
"I know Luca-kun."
"But right now, you are the only one that can help me and my sister."
"Chiharu-chan?"
"Yes. I know this is too sudden but… Chiharu was suck inside that book right in front of my eyes."
"Y-You're joking right? I-I mean like you said they are just absurd, too good to be true!"
"But it is true! Chiharu is inside and her life is always in danger!"
Radius stares at his master with wide eyes.
He knows his master more than to anyone, and he is very well aware that his master would never believe in such; but there he is saying his stepsister was inside the book and her life are in danger.
Such absurd thing to happen but he knows that his master would never lie.
Hevlaska opens the book, wanting to know if what Luca has said were true and she was beyond when she found the name of her former student's stepsister.
"Chiharu hold the frantic elder woman as the warriors of Byakko were fighting against their opponent."
"No way… this is—"
[Inside the Book]
[—A Village—]
On a small apartment on a village somewhere in Sairo, a woman who has pale skin and dark circles around her eyes, her hair were tied up in a bun and wearing long Chinese dress is sitting on her bed while staring into her silver pocket watch as the long hand is moving towards 12, and shorter hand has placed in eight. She is staring at it with shaking hands and wide open eyes.
"Three… two… one… ze—" she cut off when loud blast was heard from the next building.
The elder woman known as Miranda look out from her window and saw the great mess on the building, below were the soldiers from the palace, laughing wholeheartedly as they walking away from the scene.
The next building was filled with Byakko worshippers, so according to orders: once they've caught they'll be kill instantly. No remorse or whatever and looks like the soldiers even find it ridiculously fun.
Miranda was shaking in fear.
No she's not a worshipper but she scare to got caught with those explosive.
No scratch the whole thing, that's not the reason why she is trembling in fear.
Unbeknownst to anyone, their village caught up in some weird situation; and been happening for half a year now.
For some unknown reason Miranda is the only who weren't affected by the repetition; yes only Miranda. Or maybe—as Miranda thinking—she is already an insane person.
Can you blame her?
For her whole life she is always a clumsy, slowpoke, weak, coward, useless, unlucky and an ugly elder woman.
Because of her clumsiness, weak, unlucky, and slow poke she is tend to fire from many jobs she get into; she didn't even lasted for a day.
"Miranda! Miranda! Poor Miranda! Unlucky, ugly, useless! Always looking for a job, and yet the lazy bitch gets fired!"
Is always like this even there's no repetition: once she left her building, kids would start singing such lullaby about her; insulting her all the way till to next road.
After passing the singing kids, she witnesses a restaurant that got caught with hungry white tigers. Even knowing those tigers won't chase her, in fear the repetition went out by chance she runs away from the scene.
After panting heavily, she continues walking towards her destination.
The only place that wants a helper.
A pub where she will break many plates which will become reason to lose the job.
She just lasted for one hour, after breaking—though unintentionally—the owner fired her.
With distress that shouldn't exist since it is already expected, Miranda went back to her small apartment while lamenting her worst luck.
It's not her fault for not being caught up with repetition, but there she is, almost in madness—no—she probably already broke.
Well who wouldn't, witnessing everything happen repeating every day is something someone like her could handle.
After entering her apartment, she exhaustedly plops on her bed and cares the silver pocket watch that's in her hand.
She always carries it; take care of it, treating it with care.
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"I give you this!"
"What is this?" Miranda questioned as she accepting the silver pocket watch from a young lad with orange-hair and amethyst color eyes.
"It's my treasure from my mother but…"
"But?"
The young lad chooses not to continue and smile to Miranda, "Please take care of this, Mir-san."
]
"Shuu-kun." Miranda murmured while staring at the silver pocket.
Shuu is the only person she considered her friend and the only person looking at up her as an equal human.
[—Dessert—]
"Closed Village?" Chiharu and Allen questioned to Xiu as they moving for the next place.
Xiu nodded "It is a village which no one can enter."
"If no one can enter it… then why are we going there?" Allen asked.
"Simple, it is probably some sort of uncontrolled celestial power; and I actually thinking that it is not just a closed village but it is actually connected on time flow."
"Subaru, huh?" Allen mutters which Xiu nodded with.
"Right, Subaru is a celestial warrior that can manipulate the time; and aren't the emerald gave us the clue of 'Time' and with that I was thinking it is the time to investigate that village."
Allen and Chiharu nodded in understanding,
"We don't have a clue whatever happening inside that closed village. It's either their time has stop, or a repetition. But from the information I gathered, seems like the village stop welcoming outsiders was started half a year ago."
"Already half a year, eh… then if that's the case there's a chance that if we enter that place then we might not be able to get out?"
Xiu nodded to Allen with playful smile.
"Wait a second! Then we will be trap in there as well?!" Chiharu asked, scared and frantic.
Xiu nodded "But it's alright. We will solve it and then leave the place, and if we were lucky we might leave with a new Celestial Warrior."
"You are so optimistic today Xiu…" Allen point out while staring at his fellow warrior.
"Hm? Am I?" with innocent smile.
"You are." Both teen answers; agreeing at each other.
"Are you really like that, Xiu?" Chiharu asked, before Xiu make their horse stop.
"You aren't at all Xiu." Allen answers instead, as he halted as well.
"Right, it is La—" Xiu smile sadly, deciding not to continue.
It will shock the two if they learn his relationship with their enemy.
"It is…?" both were waiting for his answer,
"A friend's."
"I wonder who this friend of yours; he's good at rubbing his personality on you." Allen stated with amused smile "I want to meet him." He added while the three of them climb down from their horses.
'You already met him.' Xiu wanted to say but couldn't.
The three travellers look at to the tall walls that disconnecting the village to the outside world.
"Well look at that, we're here now; at Toki Village." Xiu announced as he smirking in full amusement.
Though, that smile didn't last long as his mind remember what he had done to his friend.
'Please be alive, Lavi.'
[—Toki Village Inside—]
The loud blast from neighbourhood, the kids singing their insulting song and the hungry white tigers; nothing, nothing! Nothing has change! She still trapped in repetition!
"What I should do?! I'll go crazy! SOMEONE SAVED ME!"
"AH! MIRANDA HAD GONE CRAZY!" although the kids screamed, they are more making fun of her instead.
They run far away from her while keep insulting her.
"What I should do?!" tears were overflowing out from her eyes and don't have intention to stop anytime now. She broke down on her knees and let her tears continue.
"Are you alright, miss?" a gentle voice asked.
Miranda upon hearing the voice quickly looks up on the person standing before her; but instead of finding one, she found three people: two boys and a girl.
The first one is have white short hair and moonlit eyes, he has unusual red scar on the left side of his face.
The second boy has short jet-black hair and honey colour eyes.
And the girl has long dark green haired, wearing eye glasses and behind those are beautiful ocean colour eyes and have a mole on the left side just below her mouth.
Miranda cannot recognize them.
They are unfamiliar.
They are…
They are…
"MY SAVIORS!" she scream as tears still continues, holding Allen's hand that he used to offer to the elder woman.
Sweat drops appeared on each of the three as they suddenly confused on her, and their situation.
"YOU GOING TO SAVE ME FROM REPETITION NEH?! NEH?!"
"Uhm, please calm down first!" Allen ask to the elder who crying nonstop.
After—not totally—calming down the elder, they went into the nearest restaurant. Xiu, Chiharu and Miranda ordered tea, while Allen ordered all meals in the menu, which caused a sweat drop on the elder.
"So… while Allen is munching on his foods, let's hear Miranda-san." Xiu suggested as they watching Allen gulping all the foods before him.
"O-okay… well it all started half a year ago. At first I find it strange that what happen yesterday were happening again I thought that I'm just tired and it is just my imagination but… all of it repeated all over again!" Miranda explained as her hands slowly finding their ways on her head.
She then looked straight ahead on the two guys, before her and Chiharu.
"You guys! You guys will help me right?! RIGHT?!"
"Calm down Miss Miranda! We will really gonna go down there since if we didn't stop this repetition then we wouldn't be able to leave this place either." Xiu explained.
"Really?! Then you can stop this repetition?!"
"Well about that… we can do it with your cooperation." Xiu stated, at the same time Allen finishes his dishes.
"Thanks for the food!" Chiharu has sweat drop on her hair with awkward smile, while staring at the white haired boy rubbing his stomach.
'Where all the food he just ate goes?'
"My cooperation?! B-BUT I don't have anything about this!"
"Calm down Miranda-san! You—as someone who aren't affected by this phenomenon—there's a big chance that the cause of it is something to do with you."
"Then you were saying that Miranda-san is actually a—" Xiu nodded onto his gluttonous comrade,
"Yes, Miranda-san is might be a Celestial Warrior." Xiu half whisper declared; making sure that none of the other customers were able to hear him, after all it is dangerous if someone found out about them.
"Ce—ce—ce—celestial war—mhm!" Xiu covers Miranda's mouth as quickly as he can.
"Please calm down Miranda-san! It will be dangerous not just for us but also for yourself if someone hears you talking about it!" Allen explained. "You know that right? The order from the emperor four years ago."
Miranda nodded furiously after understanding their tight situation, but when Xiu removes his hand on the elder realization strikes her.
"THEN YOU GUYS ARE—mhm!" This time it was Chiharu who cover her mouth before Xiu could do it.
"Like we said! Calm down!" Allen whisper screams on her.
Xiu sighs; this will be a long~ day.
"Where's your house Miranda-san?" Xiu asked, while Chiharu removes her hands.
But then a strong gust of wind interrupted them as that wind destroys the restaurant's walls and equipment inside, making everything may it be people or objects flew on opposite direction where the wind came from.
Allen quickly summoned his white cowl and covers Xiu, Chiharu and Miranda.
When the gust finished blowing everything that it's near, Allen remove his white cowl on the other three and found a lady with long dark green haired ties in twin tails; slowly landing on the ground.
"Who's that?" Chiharu asked, cowardice activates again; Miranda is in the same—no scratch that—she's worse than Chiharu.
"A new enemy?" Allen questioned, sensing the same presence the person has carrying with Lavi.
"Lenalee-sama…?"
All three heads turns onto ravenet's direction, shock to hear the ravenet to call someone or better called an attacker with such a respect.
"Xiu?" Xiu gulped as he nodding his head fixated his sight on the lady outside the restaurant.
"That's the princess of Sairo, sister of current emperor, Lenalee."
A/N:: Finished this chapter with Kamen Rider W 's ending.
