Side stories: Ina and Hikaru
A/N: I still need permission from Kinu's creator, Kono's creator, the Assassins' creator, and Hana's creator. Please let me know if I can use them in my sequel or not! Also, for new entries, please PM them to me, my friend Ryu-NGS warned me the FanFiction police might get me if I don't. I've been ok so far! This isn't an interactive story though, I just borrow characters. It's still my story. Art contest voting is up as a poll now.
WARNING: This chapter gets quite violent and bloody. I was watching a five-hour Bones marathon on my iPod (thank you Hulu!) and am a little fried. Also, there is OC death. (I apologize to the creators of Ina and Hikaru. I need to stop watching Bones)
KARUNE MIKA'S POV (3rd person)
Mika had been trapped in Enbizaka for about ten years when she met Ina and Hikaru. All of the children in Enbizaka were about Mika's age, and they still hung out together. Miku would always tell the others the latest story or myth that she had heard, and the group would set out to prove it right or wrong. It was often times wrong, but it took Mika's mind off of her immortality. This week's myth was the Dark Woods Circus. "Deep in the woods, there is an evil circus. Kids are taken and deformed and made to perform. If they misbehave, acid is thrown on their faces. They take anyone who is unlucky enough to see the circus or become mad. They have a diva with goat legs, Siamese twins, a man with the brain of a dog, a pair of women who are a hundred feet tall, and more! Well gang? Shall we set off?" Miku said. Mika shook her head. "It's a traveling circus, right? We have to wait for it to find us." she rationalized. Miku nodded. "Right! I think Mei-chan said a circus was coming to town soon. I remember being surprised. I guess they heard there was a lot of kids here." the tealette said. "So it's settled. We're going to see the circus." Luka said, and everyone nodded in agreement.
In a few weeks, Mika and the others walked through the woods, clutching flyers for the "Dark woods Circus" and hoping it wasn't as bad as Miku had said. "This isn't going to wind up like the time I went to the abandoned orphanage from Hell, right? I don't feel like getting symmetrical." Mika said, flashing her hand with the missing pinky. Miku shrugged. "I honestly don't know. I hope we get there soon, though." she said. Everyone sighed. Go figure the guide was clueless. "Wait, I think I see a light!" Rin shouted and ran forward. Len quickly followed after. Everyone sighed again and ran after the twins.
Luckily, it was the circus tent Rin had seen, so the group went inside. Mika gasped. The first exhibit was a freak show. Of children. They were all in cages and horribly deformed. The first cage seemed to hold a boy with long purple hair. His flesh was rotted, his teeth yellow and falling out, his nails looking long and unkempt. The tag on his cage read "The Zombie Samurai". He looked at Mika with big purple eyes, full of sadness, and Mika quickly turned so he wouldn't see her cry. She quickly went to the next cage. This one contained a girl with short green hair. Her skin was covered in green scales and she had peacock feathers on her back. One of her eyes was a reptilian yellow, the other a human green. Her name was "The Emerald Monster". Mika felt sorry for her, but moved on to the next cage. This one contained two cat girls, jointed at the tail. One had white hair with red eyes and the other had ashen grey hair, but her pink eyes hinted it was not her original color. Both girls sported black cat ears, and black cat tails that connected them. There were visible acid scars on their faces. They both turned to Mika when they saw her looking at them. "The Juggling Cat-Twins", according to their card, looked sad. "We've been trapped in here for so long. Couldn't you help us?" The grey-haired one asked. "The others too." the white-haired one added. Nekigo, sensing cats in distress, meowed for Mika to do it, so she agreed. She strolled over to the others and quietly told them what she wanted to do, and they came up with a plan.
Late that night, after the circus had closed, the group snuck back. Rin and Len were lookouts while Miku, Luka and Miku busted cages. But as Mika was freeing the neko girls, her hand slipped and the cage clattered to the ground. Everyone froze. "WHO IS THERE, TRESPASSERS IN MY CIRCUS?" the booming voice of the ringmaster shouted. Mika quickly finished her work and everyone ran to safety while the ringmaster raged behind them.
Gakupo, otherwise known as the Zombie Samurai, was good with sharp knives and precision, so he was in charge of separating the neko girls. One quick cut and some bandages later, the girls were free. "I don't believe we know each others' names. I am Hikaru and that's Ina. And you are?" the ashen gray one said. "Mika. Karune Mika." Mika cheerfully replied. The three shook hands and exchanged "It's nice to meet you"s. Mika smiled, unknowing of the imminent tragedy.
For the next couple of weeks, Mika, Ina, and Hikaru all played together and got to know each other. They grew to be great friends, and they all loved being together. But Aiko must have been keeping tabs on Mika, and seen her happiness. Mika should have known that Aiko wouldn't like being beaten. One day they were all laughing happily together, when three people came out of the bushes. "Hello Kitties. I'm Furonin and these are my friends Mai and Raiden. Now for two of you, this is a goodbye." the one who seemed to be the leader said. In the blink of an eye, the other boy and the girl had knives to the throats of Ina and Hikaru. Tears streamed down Mika's face. "No, don't! Don't kill them! NOOOO!" she shrieked. "Man, what a loud girl. Alright, time to cut and scram." Furonin said. Nodding, the other two assassins pulled back the blades. "No friends for prisoners." Furonin remarked before leaving. All Mika could do was sit in a pool of her friends' blood and cry.
A/N: Oh, voting is extended to the 20th. Man, I did NOT know I could get that dark. Or that detailed with character death. But this DEFINITELY explains Mika's reaction some chapters back when Furonin threatened to kill her friends. I was playing my new Phantasy Star 2 demo with my friend hovering over my shoulder, and she wanted to know if I had named Mika after the game character. Funny coincidence. Sayonara!
~Neko