CCS does not belong to me.
In this world where danger lurks...ROY presents to you: BM Ch 6: The Cloud
The Cloud
(written partly in first narrative and then in third)
"Um." I said. "Hm. Hmm, hmmm."
"What?" Kanari asked.
"Hmm." I replied.
"They can't be too far away." Nakita said. "I mean, logically, if we are in the park, only fifty years ago, then they should be too, and the park isn't too large."
"This place is surrounded by trees!" Kanari exclaimed. "Look at this place! Has it even been civilized?"
"We're only going back fifty years, and this is America, duh." I said. "Of course it's civilized. It's just um, not as hi-tech and plus, we're out in the middle of nowhere."
"And there are trees and jungles right, left, and this way and that." Nakita said. "We seem to be in a forest. Is this supposed to be the park?"
"I don't know." I said.
"Let's look for the others." Nakita suggested, sprouting her wings. "C'mon, let's go."
"This is a desert, Vash." Doughboy complained. Vash narrowed his eyes.
"Um, duh." He said. Doughboy opened his mouth and let his tongue hang out.
"I'm thirsty." He whined. Vash opened his mouth to tell him that he was more likely to even lose more water that way, but then decided to let Doughboy dehydrate and not waste his precious own. They trudged through the hot sand. "I see an oasis."
"I don't." Vash said. "Besides, if you do, it's probably just a mirage." He looked across the horizon. "Rene has my laptop."
"Yeah, well we know that's all you care about, that laptop." Doughboy said. "What about others like you who are thirsty?"
"What about you?" Vash asked, not turning from the horizon.
"I'm thirsty!" Doughboy yelled.
"So am I." Vash said, he turned his head to face Doughboy. "Live with it." Vash started to walk. "With I had some sun screen." He mumbled.
"You'd need it." Doughboy muttered angrily under his breath. Vash turned around.
"What's that supposed to mean Doughboy?" Vash demanded.
"You're outrageously pale." Doughboy said.
"Oh, I'm pale." Vash took a while to let this sink in, then decided to be a good sport, save his water, and ignore Doughboy. He continued walking, Doughboy muttering behind him "Pale boy!" Vash quickened his page. Rocks were common now. He dodged the rocks and walked quite fast.
"Vash, wait up!" Doughboy yelled. "V-oph." He grunted. Vash figured he must've fallen down. Shrugging, he walked on. Doughboy got up and scrambled after him. They came to the edge of the desert, to a great ledge of mountains. Doughboy wiped his brow. "Oh no."
"Oh great." Vash said, glancing from the mountain to the sun. "And neither of us can fly!"
"We're helpless." Doughboy said.
"That's certainly true." A voice said.
"Ah, who was that?" Vash asked, looking in all directions.
"Who do you think I am?" The voice repeated. Vash shivered and ignored the bumps going down his spine.
"Hey Vash, it couldn't be Queen Jewel again, could it?" Doughboy asked. Vash shook his head.
"It's not her voice." He said, puzzled. "But I feel like I've heard it before."
"Really?" Doughboy closed his eyes. "So have I!" Vash rolled his eyes at him. A cloud began to form on top of the mountain.
"Sometimes, things have to be sacrificed to the earth." The voice said. "Ever heard of sacrifice?"
"Yes." Vash said, thinking of Lair.
"But sacrifice for rain?" The voice said. "This didn't used to be a desert, Vash."
"How do you know my name?" Vash asked. "Doughboy?"
"What?" Doughboy asked.
"You told her my name!" Vash said.
"And you just told her mine!" Doughboy protested.
"So you think I'm a her, do you?" The voice said. "That's extremely amusing." The voice seemed to be mocking them. "Hm? Oh yes. Weapons to kill sacrifice. Now, which one should do the job? The skinny pale one is too little, but the big fat one isn't half as healthy and pure."
"Wouldn't it be better to slay both and use both for their purposes?" Another voice, this time a males, came out of the cloud.
"Indeed." The female voice said. "Flying saucers." A sharp disk like thing came flying at them.
"Run!" Vash said. "For cover!"
"What cover?" Doughboy asked. Vash ran in front of him. "Ah, Vash, are you trying to trip me or something?"
"You make the perfect life blanket Doughboy." Vash grinned.
"This is no time to play like this!" Doughboy yelled. "I'm getting out of here!" He ran as quick as he could, but only succeeded in slipping on the sand.
"Ow!" Vash cried. "We're sitting ducks out here!" He started to run towards the other direction. "Run!"
"Ah, wait for me!" Doughboy said, watching the disks come whirling after him. "Whoa!" Vash turned back to see Doughboy's shoe being sliced by one and another cut off the top of his hair. "Gee, it's a good thing that I have tough shoes." He felt his head. "Ah, my hair, what happened to my hair?" Vash snickered and ran. This was like a game of hide and seek.
"Well." Kelli said, sighing in relief. "Water, water, water."
"And not a drop of it to drink." Rene said distastefully. "I do believe we're on an island."
"Perhaps." Reni said. "But it's an island that I'd like to go on a cruise on."
"Yeah, with perhaps some civilization." Snowy muttered, glancing around. "A nice resort on this side of the mountain, with a swimming pool and some-"
"I wonder if there's anyone around for miles." Reni said.
"I have an idea." Kelli said. "You guys wait here." She sprouted her wings. "I mean, hey, we don't have magical powers for nothing." Winking, she sped up towards the sky. Looking around, she saw that it was indeed an island, but land wasn't too far away. "Hey guys!" She yelled as she descended. "We're on an island, but we can get off it soon."
"This is a beautiful paradise." Rene said dreamily.
"I'd like to stay here, if you don't mind." Reni said. "At least just for a little while."
"I'm hungry." Snowy said.
"Hello, we have a destiny and a job to do." Kelli reminded, a little angry. "Hello?"
"I think we're all hungry, though." Reni said. "Fruit is abundant on the island. Perhaps we should bring some with us when we leave."
"Two of us could carry Reni, and then one could hold all the fruit in the world." Snowy said. "And we can make baskets."
"I can carry one too!" Reni offered.
"I was thinking a boat." Snowy said.
"Do YOU know how to make a boat?" Kelli asked slyly. Snowy scratched the back of her head. "Thought so."
"My dad and his friends made boats." Reni said. "And I used to watch him. But we don't have the right tools."
"Too bad." Snowy said.
"I can weave baskets out of leaves." Reni offered.
"What could be better than a few girls picking fruit on a nice, spring day with a cooling breeze." Rene said, closing her eyes halfway.
"It's um, summer." Snowy said.
"I know, but look at all these flowers in bloom." Rene said.
"I wonder." Snowy said, pulling out a necklace. Tied to it was a small book. She took out her wand and flashed it at the book, which turned into a huge volume. Snowy sat down in the sand. Rene and Reni dipped their feet into the cold, refreshing sea. Snowy flipped the book open. "There should be a spell on making baskets and boats." She sighed and started to look through the book. "Hey, watch this!" She flashed her wand in the air and said a few magical words. The next second, they were by a little pool wearing light angel clothing, surrounded by flowers and fruit trees. "What could be better?"
"Where are we?" Rene asked.
"I believe just farther up the island." Kelli said.
"I believe this is fresh water." Rene said. "Have you a cup, Snowy?"
"Cuppos." Snowy said. "Easy to remember." Rene picked up the cup that Snowy had summoned and dipped it into the pool.
"Yup." She said, smiling. "Fresh water. C'mon." She drank a cup and passed it to Rene. "Much refreshing." Kelli walked over to the fruits.
"Look at these, plums and pears." She said. "This is one good island."
"They must've not had much pollution five hundred years ago." Snowy said, taking a drink.
"And such beautiful flowers." Rene said dreamily.
They made the baskets, and enjoyed the fruit, which was in such abundant supply that they did not think anything but filling their baskets. At last, the fog started to creep in.
"I'd like to take a picture." Reni said, looking around at them in their little white dresses and then at the foggy green island. "What a beautiful and truly amazing place."
"I fear we're all going to be bald by the end of this!" Doughboy cried.
"What end?" Vash asked, racing across the desert. "We're in a desert, and we're still sitting ducks out here!"
"My hair keeps falling out!" Doughboy cried.
"I got a fairly good haircut." Vash said, dodging the disks. "Good thing fifty years ago they didn't know how to make disks that kept coming back after the target until it actually hit them." He muttered. Vash was breathing heavily. He had been jogging for over fifteen minutes now at full speed, and had fallen in the process of dodging a couple of disks. His clothes were slashed, his shoes gone, and now he ran on with a burning sensation in his feet, while his white socks sucked in the heat from the sun. Doughboy, with black socks, was even worse. Doughboy huffed and puffed to catch his breath. Vash's sword had already saved him many times. "It's a good thing this is tied to a necklace." Vash said, fingering the tiny sword necklace around his neck. Kelli's was like the same.
"Whoa!" Doughboy said as a disk came flying at him. He flipped over and landed on this face. "Ooh."
"Doughboy!" Vash yelled. "C'mon!" There came a sound of evil laughter.
"Together, you are strong." The voice seemed to boom. "But by yourselves." He male voice chuckled. Vash clenched a fist. "C'mon, give me your best shot." He laughed. Vash used his eyes to flip over Doughboy first. This may have been an act of help, or may have been to prove to Doughboy and to show him what Vash was really capable of. Then he stood on the sand, and lowered his gaze.
"I have come into this world of which I know nothing to protect the innocent." He said. "Atomic Shock!" This powerful attack hit the cloud and it exploded, but only for a brief second. In the next second, it came back, chuckling.
"Nice shot." The male voice said. Vash frowned, and looked helpless. Five whirling disks came flying towards him. "Now watch this." Vash knew there was nowhere to run. He slumped down into a kneeling position on the sand.
"Vash." Doughboy moaned.
Vash glanced from Doughboy to the five disks coming his way. They were aiming straight at him, no place to run, forward, back, right or left.
"Ah!" Vash cried. The sound from the whole world seemed to disappear, and all he could see was the five disks in front of him. And he couldn't hear anything either.
He was alone.
There came the sound of a drip, as if from a leaky faucet. Vash stood up, closed his eyes, held out his hands:
"On this very minute
Give me to powers infinite
To call away from the past
Everywhere searching, to find this vast
This vast source of power
We'd all love to devour
Locked up within three girls
Glittering like golden pearls
Covered by streaks of black brown and gold
Lighting up the sky, ever so bold
The eyes with their loveliness
The hair with its softness
The brains with their smartness
The hearts with their love, courage, and braveness
All three I put between me, me and the powers of darkness"
Sound returned to the world once again, and for an instant, Vash couldn't believe what he was seeing. But truly, in front of him, where the three girls: Yuki, Nakita, and Kanari.
"Key of Clow, Release!" Yuki yelled. She raised her staff and cut off the path of two disks, which came to a stop by her feet. Nakita took out her bell, and (oddly) started to blow it, sending the disk the other way, towards Doughboy and the Cloud.
"Yikes!" Doughboy said, rolling over. The disk passed over him. Kanari shone her weapon and melted two disks.
"Wow." Vash said.
"You know what?" Yuki said, calmly. "I feel it's weird and unsafe around us when we don't bring any of the pets." She glanced at Cherry, who as always, was curled up in Nakita's arms, never talking, and hardly noticeable. "Except Cherry. But we forgot Kero and Suppi and Anora, you know?" She stomped her foot. Nakita ran over to Vash.
"I'm so glad you're okay!" She said. Vash smiled, rubbing his head. "Oh, um, nice haircut." Doughboy, lying nearby, groaned.
"Where'd the Cloud go?" Kanari asked, scanning the skies.
"It's gone." Vash said.
In this world where danger lurks...ROY presents to you: BM Ch 6: The Cloud
The Cloud
(written partly in first narrative and then in third)
"Um." I said. "Hm. Hmm, hmmm."
"What?" Kanari asked.
"Hmm." I replied.
"They can't be too far away." Nakita said. "I mean, logically, if we are in the park, only fifty years ago, then they should be too, and the park isn't too large."
"This place is surrounded by trees!" Kanari exclaimed. "Look at this place! Has it even been civilized?"
"We're only going back fifty years, and this is America, duh." I said. "Of course it's civilized. It's just um, not as hi-tech and plus, we're out in the middle of nowhere."
"And there are trees and jungles right, left, and this way and that." Nakita said. "We seem to be in a forest. Is this supposed to be the park?"
"I don't know." I said.
"Let's look for the others." Nakita suggested, sprouting her wings. "C'mon, let's go."
"This is a desert, Vash." Doughboy complained. Vash narrowed his eyes.
"Um, duh." He said. Doughboy opened his mouth and let his tongue hang out.
"I'm thirsty." He whined. Vash opened his mouth to tell him that he was more likely to even lose more water that way, but then decided to let Doughboy dehydrate and not waste his precious own. They trudged through the hot sand. "I see an oasis."
"I don't." Vash said. "Besides, if you do, it's probably just a mirage." He looked across the horizon. "Rene has my laptop."
"Yeah, well we know that's all you care about, that laptop." Doughboy said. "What about others like you who are thirsty?"
"What about you?" Vash asked, not turning from the horizon.
"I'm thirsty!" Doughboy yelled.
"So am I." Vash said, he turned his head to face Doughboy. "Live with it." Vash started to walk. "With I had some sun screen." He mumbled.
"You'd need it." Doughboy muttered angrily under his breath. Vash turned around.
"What's that supposed to mean Doughboy?" Vash demanded.
"You're outrageously pale." Doughboy said.
"Oh, I'm pale." Vash took a while to let this sink in, then decided to be a good sport, save his water, and ignore Doughboy. He continued walking, Doughboy muttering behind him "Pale boy!" Vash quickened his page. Rocks were common now. He dodged the rocks and walked quite fast.
"Vash, wait up!" Doughboy yelled. "V-oph." He grunted. Vash figured he must've fallen down. Shrugging, he walked on. Doughboy got up and scrambled after him. They came to the edge of the desert, to a great ledge of mountains. Doughboy wiped his brow. "Oh no."
"Oh great." Vash said, glancing from the mountain to the sun. "And neither of us can fly!"
"We're helpless." Doughboy said.
"That's certainly true." A voice said.
"Ah, who was that?" Vash asked, looking in all directions.
"Who do you think I am?" The voice repeated. Vash shivered and ignored the bumps going down his spine.
"Hey Vash, it couldn't be Queen Jewel again, could it?" Doughboy asked. Vash shook his head.
"It's not her voice." He said, puzzled. "But I feel like I've heard it before."
"Really?" Doughboy closed his eyes. "So have I!" Vash rolled his eyes at him. A cloud began to form on top of the mountain.
"Sometimes, things have to be sacrificed to the earth." The voice said. "Ever heard of sacrifice?"
"Yes." Vash said, thinking of Lair.
"But sacrifice for rain?" The voice said. "This didn't used to be a desert, Vash."
"How do you know my name?" Vash asked. "Doughboy?"
"What?" Doughboy asked.
"You told her my name!" Vash said.
"And you just told her mine!" Doughboy protested.
"So you think I'm a her, do you?" The voice said. "That's extremely amusing." The voice seemed to be mocking them. "Hm? Oh yes. Weapons to kill sacrifice. Now, which one should do the job? The skinny pale one is too little, but the big fat one isn't half as healthy and pure."
"Wouldn't it be better to slay both and use both for their purposes?" Another voice, this time a males, came out of the cloud.
"Indeed." The female voice said. "Flying saucers." A sharp disk like thing came flying at them.
"Run!" Vash said. "For cover!"
"What cover?" Doughboy asked. Vash ran in front of him. "Ah, Vash, are you trying to trip me or something?"
"You make the perfect life blanket Doughboy." Vash grinned.
"This is no time to play like this!" Doughboy yelled. "I'm getting out of here!" He ran as quick as he could, but only succeeded in slipping on the sand.
"Ow!" Vash cried. "We're sitting ducks out here!" He started to run towards the other direction. "Run!"
"Ah, wait for me!" Doughboy said, watching the disks come whirling after him. "Whoa!" Vash turned back to see Doughboy's shoe being sliced by one and another cut off the top of his hair. "Gee, it's a good thing that I have tough shoes." He felt his head. "Ah, my hair, what happened to my hair?" Vash snickered and ran. This was like a game of hide and seek.
"Well." Kelli said, sighing in relief. "Water, water, water."
"And not a drop of it to drink." Rene said distastefully. "I do believe we're on an island."
"Perhaps." Reni said. "But it's an island that I'd like to go on a cruise on."
"Yeah, with perhaps some civilization." Snowy muttered, glancing around. "A nice resort on this side of the mountain, with a swimming pool and some-"
"I wonder if there's anyone around for miles." Reni said.
"I have an idea." Kelli said. "You guys wait here." She sprouted her wings. "I mean, hey, we don't have magical powers for nothing." Winking, she sped up towards the sky. Looking around, she saw that it was indeed an island, but land wasn't too far away. "Hey guys!" She yelled as she descended. "We're on an island, but we can get off it soon."
"This is a beautiful paradise." Rene said dreamily.
"I'd like to stay here, if you don't mind." Reni said. "At least just for a little while."
"I'm hungry." Snowy said.
"Hello, we have a destiny and a job to do." Kelli reminded, a little angry. "Hello?"
"I think we're all hungry, though." Reni said. "Fruit is abundant on the island. Perhaps we should bring some with us when we leave."
"Two of us could carry Reni, and then one could hold all the fruit in the world." Snowy said. "And we can make baskets."
"I can carry one too!" Reni offered.
"I was thinking a boat." Snowy said.
"Do YOU know how to make a boat?" Kelli asked slyly. Snowy scratched the back of her head. "Thought so."
"My dad and his friends made boats." Reni said. "And I used to watch him. But we don't have the right tools."
"Too bad." Snowy said.
"I can weave baskets out of leaves." Reni offered.
"What could be better than a few girls picking fruit on a nice, spring day with a cooling breeze." Rene said, closing her eyes halfway.
"It's um, summer." Snowy said.
"I know, but look at all these flowers in bloom." Rene said.
"I wonder." Snowy said, pulling out a necklace. Tied to it was a small book. She took out her wand and flashed it at the book, which turned into a huge volume. Snowy sat down in the sand. Rene and Reni dipped their feet into the cold, refreshing sea. Snowy flipped the book open. "There should be a spell on making baskets and boats." She sighed and started to look through the book. "Hey, watch this!" She flashed her wand in the air and said a few magical words. The next second, they were by a little pool wearing light angel clothing, surrounded by flowers and fruit trees. "What could be better?"
"Where are we?" Rene asked.
"I believe just farther up the island." Kelli said.
"I believe this is fresh water." Rene said. "Have you a cup, Snowy?"
"Cuppos." Snowy said. "Easy to remember." Rene picked up the cup that Snowy had summoned and dipped it into the pool.
"Yup." She said, smiling. "Fresh water. C'mon." She drank a cup and passed it to Rene. "Much refreshing." Kelli walked over to the fruits.
"Look at these, plums and pears." She said. "This is one good island."
"They must've not had much pollution five hundred years ago." Snowy said, taking a drink.
"And such beautiful flowers." Rene said dreamily.
They made the baskets, and enjoyed the fruit, which was in such abundant supply that they did not think anything but filling their baskets. At last, the fog started to creep in.
"I'd like to take a picture." Reni said, looking around at them in their little white dresses and then at the foggy green island. "What a beautiful and truly amazing place."
"I fear we're all going to be bald by the end of this!" Doughboy cried.
"What end?" Vash asked, racing across the desert. "We're in a desert, and we're still sitting ducks out here!"
"My hair keeps falling out!" Doughboy cried.
"I got a fairly good haircut." Vash said, dodging the disks. "Good thing fifty years ago they didn't know how to make disks that kept coming back after the target until it actually hit them." He muttered. Vash was breathing heavily. He had been jogging for over fifteen minutes now at full speed, and had fallen in the process of dodging a couple of disks. His clothes were slashed, his shoes gone, and now he ran on with a burning sensation in his feet, while his white socks sucked in the heat from the sun. Doughboy, with black socks, was even worse. Doughboy huffed and puffed to catch his breath. Vash's sword had already saved him many times. "It's a good thing this is tied to a necklace." Vash said, fingering the tiny sword necklace around his neck. Kelli's was like the same.
"Whoa!" Doughboy said as a disk came flying at him. He flipped over and landed on this face. "Ooh."
"Doughboy!" Vash yelled. "C'mon!" There came a sound of evil laughter.
"Together, you are strong." The voice seemed to boom. "But by yourselves." He male voice chuckled. Vash clenched a fist. "C'mon, give me your best shot." He laughed. Vash used his eyes to flip over Doughboy first. This may have been an act of help, or may have been to prove to Doughboy and to show him what Vash was really capable of. Then he stood on the sand, and lowered his gaze.
"I have come into this world of which I know nothing to protect the innocent." He said. "Atomic Shock!" This powerful attack hit the cloud and it exploded, but only for a brief second. In the next second, it came back, chuckling.
"Nice shot." The male voice said. Vash frowned, and looked helpless. Five whirling disks came flying towards him. "Now watch this." Vash knew there was nowhere to run. He slumped down into a kneeling position on the sand.
"Vash." Doughboy moaned.
Vash glanced from Doughboy to the five disks coming his way. They were aiming straight at him, no place to run, forward, back, right or left.
"Ah!" Vash cried. The sound from the whole world seemed to disappear, and all he could see was the five disks in front of him. And he couldn't hear anything either.
He was alone.
There came the sound of a drip, as if from a leaky faucet. Vash stood up, closed his eyes, held out his hands:
"On this very minute
Give me to powers infinite
To call away from the past
Everywhere searching, to find this vast
This vast source of power
We'd all love to devour
Locked up within three girls
Glittering like golden pearls
Covered by streaks of black brown and gold
Lighting up the sky, ever so bold
The eyes with their loveliness
The hair with its softness
The brains with their smartness
The hearts with their love, courage, and braveness
All three I put between me, me and the powers of darkness"
Sound returned to the world once again, and for an instant, Vash couldn't believe what he was seeing. But truly, in front of him, where the three girls: Yuki, Nakita, and Kanari.
"Key of Clow, Release!" Yuki yelled. She raised her staff and cut off the path of two disks, which came to a stop by her feet. Nakita took out her bell, and (oddly) started to blow it, sending the disk the other way, towards Doughboy and the Cloud.
"Yikes!" Doughboy said, rolling over. The disk passed over him. Kanari shone her weapon and melted two disks.
"Wow." Vash said.
"You know what?" Yuki said, calmly. "I feel it's weird and unsafe around us when we don't bring any of the pets." She glanced at Cherry, who as always, was curled up in Nakita's arms, never talking, and hardly noticeable. "Except Cherry. But we forgot Kero and Suppi and Anora, you know?" She stomped her foot. Nakita ran over to Vash.
"I'm so glad you're okay!" She said. Vash smiled, rubbing his head. "Oh, um, nice haircut." Doughboy, lying nearby, groaned.
"Where'd the Cloud go?" Kanari asked, scanning the skies.
"It's gone." Vash said.