Title: God of Man, Destroyer of Innocence
Author: Memy (Missheru)
E-mail: midnight_wing@hotmail.com
AIM: MemyWing
ICQ: I really don't use it much.
For Aurora's Background you'll get hints of it here but the whole thing can be found in Eternal Light: The Beginning. Used a lot of Trigun. Kind of apparent isn't it? Please don't sue.
Chapter 14: Aurora's Room Opened
"Black hair would look very pretty with your blue eyes."
"I don't care about that right now Vash. Something is changing and I don't know why or how."
"It's not gray hair."
"That is also not the issue."
"Well then tell me so I can understand."
This wasn't his flirty fun loving self. Vash was truly concerned and wanted to know. "Come with me. I'll try to show you."
I lead him into my room. I started to paw through a drawer in the dresser. Vash was looking at the photos framed all over the wall. "Who are all these people?"
"Some of them memories, some friends, some are even me."
"You?"
I walked over to the entrance of the room. "Best to start at the beginning of them ne?"
He trotted over to the painting. It was a scene that looked out of fantasy. "The unicorn is Mercurius and those two were my dragons, Drago and Dracul."
"Where are they?"
"I lost them when the Earth died."
I explained a few more old paintings. I came to the photographs. "These are the five souls I was sent to protect and help to prevent Armageddon."
"Where are they?"
"There're here. They have made a life here that Fate didn't allow them in life."
"Who's this?"
He pointed to the next picture. This one was of me in human form and of a tall man with dark hair and eyes. "That's Mephistopheles and me when I found a way to change into a human for real instead of illusion."
"So that's why you look older."
"Yes, I grew old and died. Mephistopheles only figured out how to follow me after he found the pain a death brings."
I noticed he passed by the picture of Phoenix without a question or second glance. He stopped at a family portrait. "Who are they?"
"My family, at least then. I was reborn to try to live a life as a human the whole way through."
"That can't be you. The hair is way too long and the star mark is absent from the forehead."
"I was never a Mystic in that life so the mark of the horn isn't there."
He went around the room asking about each image that flashed before his eyes. Finally he had made it around the room. He looked back into it. From the ceiling crystals were hung sending light everywhere and rainbows across the floor. By the window there was a small fountain. Mist flowed down the slope into a moss covered collection bowl. "Why don't you have any of Iris?"
"That's what this is for."
I held up my compass, which I had pulled from the drawer. "How?"
"Come on I'll show you."
I walked out to the fountain and sat on the edge. I looked into the clear deep water. Vash sat next to me. "Vash, you'll need to be quiet for a moment while I concentrate."
"Okay."
I stood on the edge of the fountain. Vash looked up at me wondering what I was going to do next. I grasped the compass in my hand and coiled the chain over it. I held it over my hand and with all my might threw it into the deep water. I closed my eyes envisioning the compass as it drifted deeper into the water. I jumped down from the fountain. I grabbed Vash's hand. "Time to get up."
He stood up and walked a few paces from the fountain with me. I closed my eyes again. I could feel Vash's gaze of concern for my health, and his if Mercurius learned I passed out again showing him something. I held my hands above my head again. Promise and the bracelet were both glowing now. I could feel the heat and energy radiating from them. I dropped my hands and opened my eyes as the compass flew from the water and now hovered about two feet from the surface. It had opened and the hands of the clock were spinning backwards as images flowed over the calming surface of the water. The hands stopped. The water was dark, black as night. "Come on Vash you wanted to know."
I walked over to the fountain. I looked up at the compass. "Forward."
Light and planets appeared in the refection of the water. "This is where I once lived. That was Iris."
"And the little one that looks just like her?"
"That was I."
" You don't look like that at all."
"Just watch."
Vash saw as I died and rose from the ashes full grown and in the colors of fire. "Wow."
"That has been the only time I changed appearance."
"Can I see more?"
"Sure. This will take a lot of time though."
"Can it go faster?"
I looked to the compass. "Expedient."
The images now were flowing through the water at a great rate. Vash now had seen my entire history. The images abruptly stopped. My compass shook with the violent force of the time coming back into place. I reached my hand over the fountain pushing Vash to the side. The compass fell from the air and I caught it before it hit the water. I looked at it in my hand. "Resume."
The second hand started ticking at a normal rate. I closed the cover and hooked the chain around my waist. "You have such interesting toys."
"Do you see why I'm worried?"
"I guess. What can you do about it though?"
"Nothing right now."
"Then don't worry. You should take a nap."
"Is this the caring part of you or the self preservation side?"
"Both."
"I think I should talk with him tomorrow."
"Do I have to come?"
"No pressure but I'd enjoy the company. I'd give you a chance to make friends."
"I drank last night."
"And I fixed your hangover. He'll probably offer to make you a dink when he figures that out."
"Great."
I walked back inside and made my way to my room. I kept the door open a crack. I really didn't like it closed and there was now no secrets I had left to hide from him in there. I slipped into bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Author: Memy (Missheru)
E-mail: midnight_wing@hotmail.com
AIM: MemyWing
ICQ: I really don't use it much.
For Aurora's Background you'll get hints of it here but the whole thing can be found in Eternal Light: The Beginning. Used a lot of Trigun. Kind of apparent isn't it? Please don't sue.
Chapter 14: Aurora's Room Opened
"Black hair would look very pretty with your blue eyes."
"I don't care about that right now Vash. Something is changing and I don't know why or how."
"It's not gray hair."
"That is also not the issue."
"Well then tell me so I can understand."
This wasn't his flirty fun loving self. Vash was truly concerned and wanted to know. "Come with me. I'll try to show you."
I lead him into my room. I started to paw through a drawer in the dresser. Vash was looking at the photos framed all over the wall. "Who are all these people?"
"Some of them memories, some friends, some are even me."
"You?"
I walked over to the entrance of the room. "Best to start at the beginning of them ne?"
He trotted over to the painting. It was a scene that looked out of fantasy. "The unicorn is Mercurius and those two were my dragons, Drago and Dracul."
"Where are they?"
"I lost them when the Earth died."
I explained a few more old paintings. I came to the photographs. "These are the five souls I was sent to protect and help to prevent Armageddon."
"Where are they?"
"There're here. They have made a life here that Fate didn't allow them in life."
"Who's this?"
He pointed to the next picture. This one was of me in human form and of a tall man with dark hair and eyes. "That's Mephistopheles and me when I found a way to change into a human for real instead of illusion."
"So that's why you look older."
"Yes, I grew old and died. Mephistopheles only figured out how to follow me after he found the pain a death brings."
I noticed he passed by the picture of Phoenix without a question or second glance. He stopped at a family portrait. "Who are they?"
"My family, at least then. I was reborn to try to live a life as a human the whole way through."
"That can't be you. The hair is way too long and the star mark is absent from the forehead."
"I was never a Mystic in that life so the mark of the horn isn't there."
He went around the room asking about each image that flashed before his eyes. Finally he had made it around the room. He looked back into it. From the ceiling crystals were hung sending light everywhere and rainbows across the floor. By the window there was a small fountain. Mist flowed down the slope into a moss covered collection bowl. "Why don't you have any of Iris?"
"That's what this is for."
I held up my compass, which I had pulled from the drawer. "How?"
"Come on I'll show you."
I walked out to the fountain and sat on the edge. I looked into the clear deep water. Vash sat next to me. "Vash, you'll need to be quiet for a moment while I concentrate."
"Okay."
I stood on the edge of the fountain. Vash looked up at me wondering what I was going to do next. I grasped the compass in my hand and coiled the chain over it. I held it over my hand and with all my might threw it into the deep water. I closed my eyes envisioning the compass as it drifted deeper into the water. I jumped down from the fountain. I grabbed Vash's hand. "Time to get up."
He stood up and walked a few paces from the fountain with me. I closed my eyes again. I could feel Vash's gaze of concern for my health, and his if Mercurius learned I passed out again showing him something. I held my hands above my head again. Promise and the bracelet were both glowing now. I could feel the heat and energy radiating from them. I dropped my hands and opened my eyes as the compass flew from the water and now hovered about two feet from the surface. It had opened and the hands of the clock were spinning backwards as images flowed over the calming surface of the water. The hands stopped. The water was dark, black as night. "Come on Vash you wanted to know."
I walked over to the fountain. I looked up at the compass. "Forward."
Light and planets appeared in the refection of the water. "This is where I once lived. That was Iris."
"And the little one that looks just like her?"
"That was I."
" You don't look like that at all."
"Just watch."
Vash saw as I died and rose from the ashes full grown and in the colors of fire. "Wow."
"That has been the only time I changed appearance."
"Can I see more?"
"Sure. This will take a lot of time though."
"Can it go faster?"
I looked to the compass. "Expedient."
The images now were flowing through the water at a great rate. Vash now had seen my entire history. The images abruptly stopped. My compass shook with the violent force of the time coming back into place. I reached my hand over the fountain pushing Vash to the side. The compass fell from the air and I caught it before it hit the water. I looked at it in my hand. "Resume."
The second hand started ticking at a normal rate. I closed the cover and hooked the chain around my waist. "You have such interesting toys."
"Do you see why I'm worried?"
"I guess. What can you do about it though?"
"Nothing right now."
"Then don't worry. You should take a nap."
"Is this the caring part of you or the self preservation side?"
"Both."
"I think I should talk with him tomorrow."
"Do I have to come?"
"No pressure but I'd enjoy the company. I'd give you a chance to make friends."
"I drank last night."
"And I fixed your hangover. He'll probably offer to make you a dink when he figures that out."
"Great."
I walked back inside and made my way to my room. I kept the door open a crack. I really didn't like it closed and there was now no secrets I had left to hide from him in there. I slipped into bed and fell into a deep sleep.