Blah! I have minor writer's block… , Therefore I hope this chapter turns out well!
Two new Bios this time! ^-^
Lilleky08
Name: Lillie
Age: 14
Appearance: She's short and has long wavy blonde hair that goes almost all the way down her back and bright blue eyes. She also has some freckles on her nose. When in mermaid form her hair turns orange and her eyes turn green.
Personality: She's timid and can be very shy when you meet her but after you get to know her she can be very talkative. She always apologizes for things even when they aren't her fault and she loves animals.
(Right, I might have put this bio in already, but it wasn't recorded on the chapter beginning, in my computer… so if I added it in, it would be with fanfic editor, and I… well, I don't have net at home, and prefer to have a referral within a chapter for me, so I'll see about taking it out the other one, and getting rid of this note… *sweatdrop*)
Maria GV
Character Name Meanings:
Selene – Of the moon; goddess of the moon (greek)
**plus it sounds kind of like a mermaidy name.
Liam – strong-willed warrior (Irish)
Satoru – perceptive; wise; understanding; persuasive; fast learner; knowledgeable (Japanese)
** had lots of meanings – similar to each other but I was fortune to fine a good one for him (his took me forever to fine).
Brighid – stregth (Irish)
** stegth seems like a good trait for a mom to have. :)
Character Profiles:
Name: Selene
Age: 17
Height: 5'4
Hair: Bright Blonde (Land). White with streaks of golden blonde running through (Ocean). Wavy & down to the middle of her back.
Eyes: Bright Green / Fuchsia Rose
Skin: Tanned
Love interest: ?
Job: Helps at Bookstore
Tail: Pink & Orange
Top: (look at the picture I sent) Fuchsia Rose & pale pink
Pearl:
Ocean: ?
Clothes:
Pink sundress with flowers along the collar & heeled sandals in same color (spring & summer).
Blue Jeans with flared bottom, a pink & brown peasant top (can be on or off shoulders but keeps it on), jean jacket & same type of shoes but in black (fall & winter).
Likes: Summer, pink, books, chocolate, animals, Baking
Hates: Spiders, storms, Winter, jerks/bullies
Personality: Selene is quiet (not because she's shy but cautious), caring, & compassionate. Speaks more when comfortable with people –likes providing information or advice when she can. Selene is more open with animals than with people. She doesn't like talking about where she's from or why she left.
Defends people and animals who are being bullied, especially friend though she doesn't have many. When she's not reading she like watching the ocean, sky, or people. She doesn't mind being by herself but she gets lonely easily –especially when people watching. She likes to laugh and people with a sense of humor.
Even though she sees them as friends, maybe even as a second family she's always thought of it as a temporary place till she figured out where to go. She still works in their bookstore and does chores around the house to pay for letting her stay, as well as saving her when she first arrived on land.
**she made the mistake of leaving home when during a bad storm. It took a lot more effort to make it to land safely, and even when she did she had to walk for hours to reach town. She was exhausted, cold, and feverish. She collapsed right infront of Liam and Satoru.**
Name: Liam
Age: 19
Height: 6'2
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Job: Works part time at the book store
Clothes: Black jeans, black boots, black leather jacket, and a brown tshirt with the words: "I'm Busy, Don't Disturb Me" in yellow.
Personality: Serious, smart, strong, protective, reserved though can get angry fast. Liam doesn't appreciate his brothers jokes (he knows it's him doing them on purpose). He picks on his brother that usually leads to them knocking stuff over and having their mother yell at them.
Liam saw Selene turn into a mermaid once to save a kitten out in the ocean but hasn't mentioned it –sometimes wonders if he was just seeing things. He follows her around sometimes to see if it happens again. He's in college studying myths, folklore, ect because of that moment, although everyone thinks he's in school to become a mechanic, and studying to become a pilot. He thinks it would be helpful to know whatever he can about mermaids and incase there comes a time that Selene needs his help. He drives a motorcycle.
**obviously studying doesn't mean he's getting accurate information, that's why it's myths right? Oh, his mom doesn't really like his motorcycle or shirts.**
Name: Satoru
Age: 17
Height: 5'10
Hair: Dark Brown with a hint of red, wavy
Eyes: Hazel
Job: works part time at his moms book store
Clothes: Tan Carpet pants (those pants with all those pockets), Red with tan stripes polo shirt, ad brown boots.
Personality: Smart, perceptive, friendly, out going, smiles often, & takes work seriously. Satoru enjoys teasing his brother (especially about Selene) and pulling harmless pranks. He thinks Liam has romantic feeling for her, which Liam denies, be he's unsure whether Selene dos since she's often quiet. He tries to be there for Selene, especially when she looks lost or lonely. He wants to be a doctor.
**What I mean with jokes/stunts Toru pulls: he likes to knock Liam into Selene, he puts them in awkward situations so he can gage Selene's reaction & try to figure out of she likes Liam, he'll put harmless spiders in the areas Selene is working in so she screams & Liam comes running to the "rescue". Ect. His brother denies his interest in Selene but Satoru can see it.**
Name: Brighid
Age: 44
Heights: 5'1
Hair: Auburn, curly and down to shoulders
Eyes: Hazel
Job: Runs a bookstore
Clothes: Long dark blue skirt with a white stripe on the bottom with teal coloured flowers. A puffy sleeved white blouse, and dark blue flat shoes.
Personality: Protective, kind but strict, nosey about her kids love lives, & has a mischievous nature that she passed on to Satoru. She sees Selene as a daughter, and enjoys teaching her to cook and bake.
**Didn't know if you wanted a last name… Kumanoya, unless you come up with a better one. Their moms Irish in case you're wondering, and they're dad was Japanese. Hence their different names.**
Name: Lion
Age: 3 1/2
Fur: Yellow tabby with brown-orange stripes. Short haired.
Eyes: Yellow
Personality: Adores Selene. He likes to cuddle. He follows her around when she's home and sits close by the door waiting for her when she's gone. He sleeps on. Selene's head when she's asleep. He knocks book and drinks on Liam whenever he's around Selene. Selene and Brighid are the only ones he listens to.
**couldn't come up with a better name.. so if you do please share. We need an animal that's not a mew around sometimes right? :p**
Stuff in ** ** is just sidenotes that I thought could help you out when writing then in, so they're not part of the profiles – unless you think some of them are real important but otherwise just side notes. I didn't know if you wanted a reason why she left home or had one in mind. Whatever works.
Well, that's it for bios, they were typed out exactly like how I received them, mistakes and all, so don't kill me? (hahaha…) anyways, yup… now, onto the chapter.
Rose's POV
It was quiet and dark in my room. Zanegar had wanted to take Aquous back to the place where they and their other friends were staying, but I wouldn't budge on my argument.
He was my boyfriend, and he was going to stay at my place. Unless Rukia or Serenity wasn't okay with it of course…
But, they were both fine with it, teasing too. Needless to say, I was thrilled at the discovery of a lock on my door.
"Oh Aquous, what am I going to do with you?" I murmured softly, quietly, not expecting him to be awake, but he was.
"You're going to stop worrying, it's-" Aquous flinched in pain, and struggled to stay conscious, "it's fine okay Rose? Just, don't worry," he paused slightly and softly added, "I love you." before he fell comatose again.
A warmth flushed my face as I blushed, I hadn't realized what I had been saying when I had been shouting it desperately at him earlier when I thought he was going to die, but I had told him I loved him. And I did, and I was so scared less then half an hour ago, there had been so much blood!
"I love you too." I told him, gently caressing his sleeping face. A nearly undetectable light glowed for a few seconds after the caress before fading, I looked around for the source, only noticing it for the fact that the lights of the room were off, with the curtains drawn banishing the strong moonlight.
I suddenly found the source of the light, with traces of a residual glow, and my new strong mew eyesight. It came from a swirling pattern that wrapped around Aquous' right-hand ring finger, and from my own right hand ring finger.
I looked at the source of light from my hand, it was my purity ring. I then studied Aquous' finger carefully, and with a cold shock realized that the band of my purity ring that had gone missing was now wrapped around Aquous' finger in the form of a tattoo.
The only difference between his band, and my original band, was that 'Hope' had been written in English on mine, and on his it was written in traditional Japanese.
I wondered what had happened to make my purity ring, and the symbol of my mew powers transfer to him. And then I realized, he'd never had that tattoo before a certain night, and I hadn't been missing my band before then… I'd also never kissed a boy before then either.
Light's POV
It was late at night, and everyone had gone to bed, I had only left for bed after Zanegar had come back explaining Aquous had gotten into a fight and that he was at his girlfriend's place, and that he was tired.
I stared up at the ceiling, my vision long since adjusted to the dark saw only shades of gray as I looked upon a normally white roof. I stared and tried to drift off into sleep, but sleep wouldn't come to me. A sigh escaped my lips. Then an unusual feeling swept through me. It was a sort of tugging sensation.
I got up careful not to disturb Tera, my roommate and crept out into the hallway. No one was around, so I scrawled a message on a paper towel with a sharpie that had been lying around. Then I left the house with no more sound than the whisper of a breath.
Once outside I followed the sensation in an almost trance like state and walked along the near-dark sidewalk. I mildly wondered where I was headed, but the thought was swept from my mind almost as soon as it had come.
For a while as I walked, I admired the glow of the streetlights and how they shone a warm yellow light through the otherwise dark night. Then I continued on in silence, eventually I knew I was nearing the place I was supposed to go to.
'But why am I coming here again?' I asked myself. But even after a few minutes of deep concentration, the answer didn't come. And then I walked out of the way of the streetlights. The darkness fell over me, and I shuddered, not from the cold.
A man stepped out from the deep darkness that lay ahead of me, and caressed my face, his fingers slowly tracing along my jaw, he held me tenderly and kissed me deeply and all thoughts flew away from me save one. My boyfriend.
Zanegar's POV
I dreamt I was asleep and that I walked away free from the confines of my body. I dreamed I was walking down a pathway, with many forks, and at each fork in the path I was to choose which way to turn. Left or right.
And as I chose each path, walking down the way I had chosen, I saw memories of the past flicker through my mind. However, I also saw the memories of things that may have happened had I chosen differently.
As I continued walking, I came upon a three-way split in the road. I didn't know where to turn. I tried to take a step forward. But a man's voice called out to me, it wasn't harsh, but it was firm, yet it was also gentle, and caring.
"Not yet my child." Was all he said. And then I was flying through the darkness, air rushing past my head at a nauseating speed. I kept falling for what seemed to be years, an eternity passed by me, and still I fell.
Eventually my descent slowed, and I landed gently upon the ground. However, it was not on dry land where I now stood. It was within a room underwater, in a castle, it had a sense of darkness in the castle, and it was not because of the blacks, deep browns, and rich mahoganies that coloured the palace. But a deep sense of wrong, of evil. I walked forward into the room where a man stepped forward and held out his hand in greeting.
I reached for his hand but pulled it back just as quickly, something inside me warned not to touch him. He laughed. It was a poisonous sound.
"So, you're smarter than you appear young fire shogun." He said with a grin. To me it looked more like a smirk.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" I asked him. He lowered his head for a minute in thought, or perhaps to restrain himself from laughing. When he looked up his dark eyes flashed with malice and a cold fire.
"You know exactly who I am; you just don't want to admit who I am to yourself."
"What do you mean? I've never seen you before in my life."
"You might not have seen me face to face, but you are quite familiar with my work, and so is your dear friend, Aquous is it not?" He looked at me with a wild gleam in his eyes.
"What are you talking about?" I demanded through clenched teeth.
"Shall I show you my handy work?" He asked mildly, as if this was a tea party. He waved his hand and six people stepped from the shadows.
"I do believe these are the ones you are most familiar with." He commented. My blood ran cold, and a surge of adrenaline began flowing in my veins as I recognized most of the people there, their names escaped my lips in a soft, horrified whisper.
"Miki, Momoji, Cassi, Jackson, Marzipan… but… w-what do you mean your 'handy work'?"
The man grinned again, his eyes flashing, his dark hair tousled, he looked like a true sociopath.
"These are the results of my work, but you forgot one, you forgot Zeechu, or have you not run into him? Sorry, I thought you would know all of them." He said.
"Give Miki back." I demanded in a dangerous voice.
"Naw, I don't want to, I spent quite a while on this one, and she's close to you, isn't she? So I think I'll hang on to her for a while more. But, if you really want her, why don't you come visit my castle, the invitation is open."
"Yeah, but where am I supposed to find you?" I asked flustered at his casual way of referring to those who had been infected by the darkness, as if they were nothing but toys. And with a sick realization, I realized that to him, they probably were.
"Oh, don't worry about that, one of your little friends will know where to find my, or should I say her, palace." He smiled once more. And then my dream faded into black.
I woke with a start, cold sweat coating my body. I took off my shirt and sat up, after letting my heartbeat slow down and my eyes adjust to the dimness of the room, I stood up; then left the room silently.
To my surprise someone else was awake. Erina sat at the kitchen table holding a warm mug of hot chocolate.
"You know Ozzy, seeing you in nothing but feudal-time version boxers, is a sight I could have lived my whole life contentedly without seeing." She commented dryly.
"Nice bra." I shot back, her face flushed a deep red.
"Well, everyone was supposed to be asleep, and other than you and the kid, oh and Aquous, we're all girls, so seeing one another in a bra and pj pants is nothing. But you have to go and be a big pervert…" she trailed off, her face still hot with embarrassment.
"Just be glad it's just me and not Nagi-Kenko…"
"Point taken. So, you can't sleep either?"
"Nightmare, you?"
"Minor insomnia… it only acts up on occasion."
"You sure it's not just too much caffeine?"
"I'm sure."
"Okay, hey, is Aquous back yet?"
"Nope, you better collect him from his girlfriend's house, I'd rather not he do something that she'd regret."
"Good idea, I don't want him getting laid before I get laid for the first time… he'd never let me live it down…"
"You sir, have horrible reasoning…"
"Well… have a good night!" I told her, she rolled her eyes and took a sip of her cocoa. I left the house after putting my undershirt and cloak back on, then headed down to the address where Rose lived at.
Aquous' POV
I opened my eyes slowly and let them focus again, I could feel a deep ache in my chest where I had gotten knifed by Jackson, I was about to call out to Rose who was looking outside of the window, the pale moonlight illuminated her face, when I was once more struck by her beauty.
Then she began to talk in a soft whisper.
"I got it, if… if I kissed him once, and my purity ring transferred like it did, it must have also transferred some of my mew powers. If, I were to do something deeper… then, maybe another band would transfer over to him and then maybe he'll heal better, I mean, with my mew powers my immune system is increased. After all, I'm a wolf aren't I? Ya, all I have to do is… is go a step… further…" I saw her blush, she closed her eyes tight and then opened them again, a resolve shone within them.
"Right, but, how much of a step further do I have to take? I… I want to still stay pure… I mean, I know I'm not ready for anything too far, I… um…" she swallowed hard, and her blush increased, "I want to stay a virgin, but I have to help him… I love him. Wow… I… I love him. I have to… I must do anything I can to help him, perhaps I could just…" she trailed off in thought.
"Yes, right, I could do that…" she stood up, and I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep. I did not want to alert her to my aware state. Perhaps it would be easier for her if she thought I was still unconscious.
And even though I couldn't see her, I could still hear her. Her breathing was sped up, and I swore I could nearly hear her erratic heartbeat. I desperately wondered what she was going to do.
Naturally my mind thought of a thousand inappropriate scenes that I'm pretty sure as a man, only other guys would think such things. I was suddenly quite glad she could not read my thoughts, if she could, her blush would be much worse. And it would mirror my own.
Then I felt her, she hesitantly swung her leg over the edge of the bed, and sat right over the area where my… oh god, it took all I had to keep myself un-aroused. However I couldn't keep a blush from spreading over my face; it was like a fire of warmth had just flooded me.
Then, I felt her small delicate hand take my own hand in hers, and slowly ease it up her shirt, her skin was soft and smooth, it was also burning. I could imagine her face, set in a crimson blush. As she slowly worked my hand higher up on her body, for a second she dropped my hand, and by sheer willpower I let it fall is if I was merely sleeping.
I heard a soft click, and then she picked up my hand again, more hesitantly than before. I risked a quick look. Rose's eyes were closed, thank god, and her face was in a deep red blush. Her plain bra lay discarded beside her, and I realized why she had let go of me for a second.
I closed my eyes again; then concentrated on feigning sleep and dis-arousal. I was acutely aware of the feel of her naked body beneath her shirt. I felt as slowly and uncertainly my hand traveled up the expanse of her body. I felt her finally move my hand over her warm exposed breast, I felt her soft skin beneath my hand, and ached to grip her more tightly, to hold her close and kiss her as we touched.
As my imagination was running more and more wild, I could feel Rose's pulse quicken more and more.
"Why isn't this working?" she asked in a frustrated, flustered voice. Then the bedroom door opened and I heard a sadly familiar voice, and an unfamiliar voice.
"Aquous! You perverted player!" Zanegar exclaimed.
"Rose, I didn't think you would move so quick!" Exclaimed the other voice at the same time. I couldn't hold it anymore, my eyes snapped open to see Rose's red-hot face, Zanegar's face of disbelief, and a red-head's face of mischief. There was another longer haired, red head in the hallway glancing in, but she remained silent, almost like a shadow.
"Y…you're awake? H… how long?" Rose asked me, fear in her turquoise eyes.
"Not long…" I told her, my hand was still on her breast, and I was glad for the sake of her decency that her shirt was still on her, even if her bra was not.
"My plan isn't working…" she stammered awkwardly, Zanegar and the red head exchanged a look that almost shouted "WHAT PLAN?" Then I decided to do something which mostly ended up making things work out in the end. I acted on instinct.
I put my other hand on Rose's head, pulled her down and kissed her deeply, with tongue. I was blushing from white-hot embarrassment as I knew that not only was Zanegar, and Rose's two friends were watching, but I knew that Rose could probably feel me, and not by my hand on her breast, or my tongue in her mouth. I almost wished I could die. However, I was practically making out with a perfect woman…
And then the anticipated light burst forth. A bright silvery glow that washed the walls in light. I almost felt the flowing script of the next band-tattoo of Rose's purity as it was surely on my skin by now. And then there was a feeling I hadn't expected, it was a sort of a tingling sensation. Kind of like when the hair on the back of your neck raises when you just know someone's watching you.
The light engulfed me and swarmed my vision. And suddenly, all that was around me was pure light. A small animal walked up to me, a serious, knowing look in its eyes. It raised its small clawed paw up to me, and placed it on my chest, and then it went inside me. I think.
Then I was thrown back into the embarrassment-filled room with Rose still wrapped up on me, and three of our friends getting a good show.
I passed out.
Keiko's POV
A beautiful red sunset willed the sky and cast its falling light inside my room where I was readying herself for the official's dinner. Already my white hair had been twisted into an intricate knot and laced with ribbons and beads.
My face had already been touched up by make-up, however not that much as I did not like the feel of the substances of the make ups on my face.
I had also gotten into my dress for the night, it was cherry blossom pink and fit tightly around my torso, but was loosely piled with excess fabric at the neckline, the sleeves were fall of the shoulders and wrapped around my arms till they became loose cuffs. The hem of the dress was floor-length, and the fabric of the skirt of the dress was also loose flowing.
With a final twist and ribbon in my hair and coal black eye linear, I was ready. I stood up quietly and left my chambers. A serving girl approached me in the hallway; she was the one who was going to do my readying for me. But I am capable enough, I had told her, and have given her a break from her duties.
"Akatsuki-Sama, please, let me escort you to dinner." She said. I nodded.
"Alright, thank you." She smiled at me, and began to lead the way. I would have smiled back and have simply enjoyed this night, but something was bothering me immensely, for a while now it had just been a mild nagging on the outskirts of my mind, but now it was like a screaming blaring thing.
But what was it? I thought about what could possibly be influencing me. I turned to speak with Umeko as I walked, he would probably know.
However, when I turned he was not there. I realized that must have been what was bothering me. He had left hours ago for a walk and had yet to return, the thing that bothered me about this was that Umeko was not the type to stay out that long, and he should have been back home, back with me by now.
An uneasy feeling swept through me. I tried to ignore it, but as we continued walking and as I entered the dining hall and took my place at the large table, the feeling only grew. It came to a point where it was driving me insane.
"Father," I asked turning towards my father at the head of the table, "may I pleased be excused?" he gave me a disapproving look.
"Tonight is a very important dinner Keiko; this is not like any dinner where you may skip to play around instead."
"Father, Umeko is missing."
"He is nothing but a pet."
"FATHER!"
"Keiko," he said his tone warning, "do not raise your voice against me." A new voice broke in.
"Ah Akio let the child go! We may still have a good time yet!" The official said boisterously; a cup of warm, high-quality sake in his hand.
My father relented, and I left as politely as possible. Once outside I began to search more frantically, I lifted the skirts of my dress and ran.
He was not in the palace gardens, he was not with his mother, he was at the fountain.
"UMEKO! WHERE ARE YOU?" I cried, I heard a faint snarl, and I turned to the direction of the noise and ran faster than I had ever run before. But came to an immediate stop when I came upon Umeko; he was backed up against a tree, his haunches raised, his ears flat and teeth bared.
He was snarling towards a creature before him, its wicked blackness swarmed about it, a red mist also flowed from this creature, it flew forward, and I couldn't help but let out a cry as I saw it go to attack my beloved friend. However, it did not attack him. It instead went deep inside him
"Umeko!" I exclaimed, I ran towards him, however before I could make it to him, his eyes began to glow scarlet and he began to grow right in front of my eyes, he snarled viciously again, this time towards me. I stood my ground though I was terrified, he stalked up to me and raised his paw aiming to come down on my head and kill me. I still did not move.
He struggled with this… thing that had happened to him. His paw came down, however instead of a killing blow it smashed into the side of my face slicing into my right eye.
The pain was horrible. But the pain of what was happening to Umeko was worse.
Suddenly I was no longer on that ancient beach. I was standing in the ruins of my palace; I looked upon a girl with hair like red fire, and large wings like milk. She chatted happily about things, and I smiled at her, but inside my pain was tenfold of what it had been years ago. I reached forward as if to do something. But suddenly I was no longer there either… I was in a dark quiet room, and dawn was just coming, its light filtering through a window in the room.
Where was I? Oh, yeah… Rui's… this was the present. I shook my head gently and tried to cast off the negative feelings the dream had left on me, but it was harder than I thought it would be.
I sighed and got up and left the room.
Titan's POV
We walked towards the one place we thought Lucy may be in. It was quiet, dark, and near the ocean. It was an old abandoned wharf, near a dark rocky cliff.
As we approached I spotted two figures standing in the darkness of the cliff overhang. A sense of dread filled me and I felt sick. It was the beautiful girl with the sunrise coloured hair, and clear blue eyes that hinted at shades of violet.
I didn't know her that well, heck, I'd only ever seen her once, and then I'd shot her. But, there was something about her. I had felt something, it was wrong I knew, I didn't know her, but… she had still affected me in a way that I refused to admit. Besides, how could I ever like anyone ever again after… I shook my head and closed my eyes.
Adam took out his staff and prepared to attack Taushin, I closed my eyes in this indescribable, un-allowed and yet still forthcoming pain.
Selene's POV
I looked out of the window into the dawn of the morning; it was a bright red sky.
"Red at morning, sailors take warning," I murmured, "a storm is coming."
Right! Sorry for taking so long to update! I've had writer's block and got stuck about what to write after the AquousxRose awkward part XP
Anyways, I hope you liked it! ^-^