The Future - Chapter 2: A Princess of the Ages
By: Ryoko-chan
Disclaimer: We all know the drill...the real disclaimer resides in Chapter 1.
A/N: Just for reference, the next chapters cover the "futures" of the characters in alphabetical order. They all will be significant...somehow. Don't be sneaky and just read the characters you like. ::shakes her finger at the sneaky reader:: I will know! hehehe. =D Its too late to be writing a story...I need sleep!
THE FUTURE - CHAPTER 2: A PRINCESS OF THE AGES
By: Ryoko-chan
Ryoko, Aeka, and the other girls impatiently followed Washu into her laboratory after the small genius had slowly finished her breakfast.
"How is this going to work, Washu? How do we know that you're not just making all of this up to mess with our minds?" Ryoko asked, suddenly skeptical of the genius' plan to reveal each of the girl's future.
"As fun as that might be, Ryoko, I wouldn't do that. I'll simply connect the subject...one of you girls...to the machine and run a few sequences through the computer, mess with the time-space grid a bit, and a day of your future will be visible on that." Washu pointed to a monitor to her right.
"A day? We don't have time to watch a whole day of everyone's future life." Ryoko said.
"It won't be a full day. It will just be the basics. Husband, kids, jail time." Washu said, looking directly at Ryoko as she mentioned that last statement.
"So you're going to connect us up to something?" Aeka asked.
"Yep. I'm going to connect you to the mainframe of my time machines operating system. That way it will have your bio energy to calibrate itself for the future time scan."
"So its nothing electrical that can kill us?" Kiyone asked, looking at the wires.
"Of course not. Who wants to go first?"
Kiyone, Mihoshi, Ryoko, Aeka, and Sasami all looked at one another. Each of them remained silent.
"Fine, we'll go in alphabetical order. You're first, Aeka." Washu said as the other girls stepped away from Aeka.
After about a half hour, Aeka was connected to Washu's computer by about fifty wires. She sat perfectly still, afraid of what might happen if she shifted wrong.
"Be careful, Aeka. If you move wrong you might get sucked into another dimension." Ryoko said, leaning against one of Washu's computer panels.
"Get off of that!" Washu scolded, shooing Ryoko away from anything breakable.
"Um, Washu? Could we go ahead with this?" Aeka asked, shifting slowly on the stool she sat upon.
"All right, Aeka. Don't move." Washu said, pressing a button on her holo-laptop.
There was suddenly a bright light and the monitor to Washu's right began to glow with the image of a young girl with purple hair.
"Are you sure you didn't go back in time?" Ryoko asked.
"Shut up, Ryoko!" Aeka said, looking at the monitor.
-Aeka's Future-
The young purple haired child wandered about the garden where there were plenty of plants she had never seen in all her three years. Her mommy and daddy were around somewhere. She just didn't know where, so she started to walk. At least she walked as well as a three year old could.
"Himiko! Where are you?" A familiar voice called.
"Mommy!" The young girl smiled happily as her mother walked into her view.
The girl's mother smiled warmly.
"Aeka, could you come here and help me with Himiko?" The woman asked in a neutral tone."
"Yes, ma'am." The familiar form of Aeka, the first princess of the planet Jurai appeared from the nearby gazebo.
Dressed in plain clothing, Aeka no longer wore the familiar kimono she had worn on earth. She was back on Jurai now, called back two years prior to assist her family with a civil dispute on the planet. That civil dispute turned into a civil war and Aeka's family was eventually banished from Jurai. Aeka got separated and abandoned by her family and now worked as a maid for the new royal family of Jurai.
The power of Jurai, granted to the royal family, seemed no match for the current rulers of the planet who turned Jurai into a worn down trading post. It saddened Aeka to see the planet in such disrepair, but it depressed the girl even more knowing that there was no way for her to see the friends that she had left on Earth.
"Aeka, stop daydreaming and take Himiko inside. She needs her bath." The current queen of Jurai snapped harshly.
Aeka snapped out of her reverie and shooed the girl, Himiko, inside. She bathed the girl, put her to bed, and continued with her normal duties until well after nightfall. Once night fell, Aeka slipped away from the palace and into a secret spot known only to her and those she met there.
"Aeka! It is about time." The leader of this small group snapped in an unpleasant tone.
"I'm sorry. My duties kept me later than usual." Aeka said, brushing the dirt from her skirt from when she had fallen on the way over.
"Did you get the blue prints this time, Aeka?" Another person asked her.
"Yes, I don't understand how you are going to use them though. The family is strong...Stronger than my family was."
"Don't worry about that, Aeka."
Aeka looked around the small cell where she met these people every other night. She didn't know their names and she never saw their faces. Nothing about them seemed familiar, but somehow she felt she could trust these people. These rebels that supported her family who was now in exile and planned to overthrow the current Jurai king and queen.
"Is that all then? I can't be gone from the palace too long. I think they have started to suspect something." Aeka said, already beginning to leave.
"Be careful then, Aeka. Meet us again the day after tomorrow. We will make our final preparations then."
Aeka nodded and left, hurrying back to the palace before she was caught by the palace guards. She proceeded the way she always went and ran straight into a Jurain palace guard.
"Miss Aeka?" One of them said, recognizing her. These guards were the king's personal guards.
"What are you doing wandering around out here, Miss Aeka? You know you're not supposed to be outside of the palace at any time without an escort."
"I know. I just needed to go for a walk. To get some fresh air."
One of the guards shook his head slowly and sighed.
"We're going to have to take you to the king this time, Miss Aeka. This is the third time we've caught you out here. We can't let it slide this time."
"I was only out for a walk, the same as I do every night. Why do you have to report me this evening?"
The two guards sighed in unison.
"We're sorry, Miss Aeka." They said, all ready leading her into the throne room where the king and queen always sit.
Aeka was starting to wonder if they ever left the throne room.
"Aeka? What are you doing here and with these guards?" The queen asked.
"We found her outside. She said she was taking a walk."
"You found her outside of the palace?" The queen asked, glaring at Aeka.
"Yes, your majesty." One of the guards spoke up.
"This isn't the first time." The other guard said.
The first guard and Aeka both looked to the second guard who didn't bother to look at either of them.
"Is this true?" The king asked the first guard.
He nodded solemnly.
"Yes, your highness."
Aeka stood quietly not bothering to defend herself, knowing that anything she said wouldn't be heard.
"Take her to the cell in the basement. We'll decide what to do with her in the morning." The queen said harshly.
The two guards nodded and guided Aeka downstairs.
-Monitor blanks out-
"Whoa, Aeka! Who knew you'd be a political prisoner on your own planet." Kiyone said in disbelief.
"A freedom fighter, huh Aeka? Obviously not a very successful one." Ryoko said.
"Miss Washu, how accurate is this thing?" Aeka asked, her face bright red in embarrassment or anger.
"I told you Aeka. The things you see with this machine will most likely never happen now. At least not the way you're seeing them. You're knowledge of them stops it from happening either for the better or the worse." Washu explained.
"So no matter what I do, Jurai is going to be overtaken and my family dethroned?" Aeka asked.
"There's no way to know, Aeka. It might happen, it might not. Nothing is certain once you glimpse your own future. Who's to say that witnessing this didn't cause everything to happen?"
"You mean to say that whatever we see with this machine might happen just because we've seen it?" Ryoko asked.
Washu nodded. "That's one possibility. But its nothing to worry about. Now, c'mon...who's next?"
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-End Chapter 2-
Next:
Chapter 3: Forever Cursed
By: Ryoko-chan
Disclaimer: We all know the drill...the real disclaimer resides in Chapter 1.
A/N: Just for reference, the next chapters cover the "futures" of the characters in alphabetical order. They all will be significant...somehow. Don't be sneaky and just read the characters you like. ::shakes her finger at the sneaky reader:: I will know! hehehe. =D Its too late to be writing a story...I need sleep!
THE FUTURE - CHAPTER 2: A PRINCESS OF THE AGES
By: Ryoko-chan
Ryoko, Aeka, and the other girls impatiently followed Washu into her laboratory after the small genius had slowly finished her breakfast.
"How is this going to work, Washu? How do we know that you're not just making all of this up to mess with our minds?" Ryoko asked, suddenly skeptical of the genius' plan to reveal each of the girl's future.
"As fun as that might be, Ryoko, I wouldn't do that. I'll simply connect the subject...one of you girls...to the machine and run a few sequences through the computer, mess with the time-space grid a bit, and a day of your future will be visible on that." Washu pointed to a monitor to her right.
"A day? We don't have time to watch a whole day of everyone's future life." Ryoko said.
"It won't be a full day. It will just be the basics. Husband, kids, jail time." Washu said, looking directly at Ryoko as she mentioned that last statement.
"So you're going to connect us up to something?" Aeka asked.
"Yep. I'm going to connect you to the mainframe of my time machines operating system. That way it will have your bio energy to calibrate itself for the future time scan."
"So its nothing electrical that can kill us?" Kiyone asked, looking at the wires.
"Of course not. Who wants to go first?"
Kiyone, Mihoshi, Ryoko, Aeka, and Sasami all looked at one another. Each of them remained silent.
"Fine, we'll go in alphabetical order. You're first, Aeka." Washu said as the other girls stepped away from Aeka.
After about a half hour, Aeka was connected to Washu's computer by about fifty wires. She sat perfectly still, afraid of what might happen if she shifted wrong.
"Be careful, Aeka. If you move wrong you might get sucked into another dimension." Ryoko said, leaning against one of Washu's computer panels.
"Get off of that!" Washu scolded, shooing Ryoko away from anything breakable.
"Um, Washu? Could we go ahead with this?" Aeka asked, shifting slowly on the stool she sat upon.
"All right, Aeka. Don't move." Washu said, pressing a button on her holo-laptop.
There was suddenly a bright light and the monitor to Washu's right began to glow with the image of a young girl with purple hair.
"Are you sure you didn't go back in time?" Ryoko asked.
"Shut up, Ryoko!" Aeka said, looking at the monitor.
-Aeka's Future-
The young purple haired child wandered about the garden where there were plenty of plants she had never seen in all her three years. Her mommy and daddy were around somewhere. She just didn't know where, so she started to walk. At least she walked as well as a three year old could.
"Himiko! Where are you?" A familiar voice called.
"Mommy!" The young girl smiled happily as her mother walked into her view.
The girl's mother smiled warmly.
"Aeka, could you come here and help me with Himiko?" The woman asked in a neutral tone."
"Yes, ma'am." The familiar form of Aeka, the first princess of the planet Jurai appeared from the nearby gazebo.
Dressed in plain clothing, Aeka no longer wore the familiar kimono she had worn on earth. She was back on Jurai now, called back two years prior to assist her family with a civil dispute on the planet. That civil dispute turned into a civil war and Aeka's family was eventually banished from Jurai. Aeka got separated and abandoned by her family and now worked as a maid for the new royal family of Jurai.
The power of Jurai, granted to the royal family, seemed no match for the current rulers of the planet who turned Jurai into a worn down trading post. It saddened Aeka to see the planet in such disrepair, but it depressed the girl even more knowing that there was no way for her to see the friends that she had left on Earth.
"Aeka, stop daydreaming and take Himiko inside. She needs her bath." The current queen of Jurai snapped harshly.
Aeka snapped out of her reverie and shooed the girl, Himiko, inside. She bathed the girl, put her to bed, and continued with her normal duties until well after nightfall. Once night fell, Aeka slipped away from the palace and into a secret spot known only to her and those she met there.
"Aeka! It is about time." The leader of this small group snapped in an unpleasant tone.
"I'm sorry. My duties kept me later than usual." Aeka said, brushing the dirt from her skirt from when she had fallen on the way over.
"Did you get the blue prints this time, Aeka?" Another person asked her.
"Yes, I don't understand how you are going to use them though. The family is strong...Stronger than my family was."
"Don't worry about that, Aeka."
Aeka looked around the small cell where she met these people every other night. She didn't know their names and she never saw their faces. Nothing about them seemed familiar, but somehow she felt she could trust these people. These rebels that supported her family who was now in exile and planned to overthrow the current Jurai king and queen.
"Is that all then? I can't be gone from the palace too long. I think they have started to suspect something." Aeka said, already beginning to leave.
"Be careful then, Aeka. Meet us again the day after tomorrow. We will make our final preparations then."
Aeka nodded and left, hurrying back to the palace before she was caught by the palace guards. She proceeded the way she always went and ran straight into a Jurain palace guard.
"Miss Aeka?" One of them said, recognizing her. These guards were the king's personal guards.
"What are you doing wandering around out here, Miss Aeka? You know you're not supposed to be outside of the palace at any time without an escort."
"I know. I just needed to go for a walk. To get some fresh air."
One of the guards shook his head slowly and sighed.
"We're going to have to take you to the king this time, Miss Aeka. This is the third time we've caught you out here. We can't let it slide this time."
"I was only out for a walk, the same as I do every night. Why do you have to report me this evening?"
The two guards sighed in unison.
"We're sorry, Miss Aeka." They said, all ready leading her into the throne room where the king and queen always sit.
Aeka was starting to wonder if they ever left the throne room.
"Aeka? What are you doing here and with these guards?" The queen asked.
"We found her outside. She said she was taking a walk."
"You found her outside of the palace?" The queen asked, glaring at Aeka.
"Yes, your majesty." One of the guards spoke up.
"This isn't the first time." The other guard said.
The first guard and Aeka both looked to the second guard who didn't bother to look at either of them.
"Is this true?" The king asked the first guard.
He nodded solemnly.
"Yes, your highness."
Aeka stood quietly not bothering to defend herself, knowing that anything she said wouldn't be heard.
"Take her to the cell in the basement. We'll decide what to do with her in the morning." The queen said harshly.
The two guards nodded and guided Aeka downstairs.
-Monitor blanks out-
"Whoa, Aeka! Who knew you'd be a political prisoner on your own planet." Kiyone said in disbelief.
"A freedom fighter, huh Aeka? Obviously not a very successful one." Ryoko said.
"Miss Washu, how accurate is this thing?" Aeka asked, her face bright red in embarrassment or anger.
"I told you Aeka. The things you see with this machine will most likely never happen now. At least not the way you're seeing them. You're knowledge of them stops it from happening either for the better or the worse." Washu explained.
"So no matter what I do, Jurai is going to be overtaken and my family dethroned?" Aeka asked.
"There's no way to know, Aeka. It might happen, it might not. Nothing is certain once you glimpse your own future. Who's to say that witnessing this didn't cause everything to happen?"
"You mean to say that whatever we see with this machine might happen just because we've seen it?" Ryoko asked.
Washu nodded. "That's one possibility. But its nothing to worry about. Now, c'mon...who's next?"
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-End Chapter 2-
Next:
Chapter 3: Forever Cursed