Guess who's back with avengance? Actually I was back since saturday but I've been doing a bit of vacation recovery (read: getting in contact with all my friends to make sure they're all still alive)
It was actually kind of hard to get back into the flow of things...so, I apologize if my writing is a bit scratchy in this chapter, soon to improve I assure you! Also...I started my story "Michi ni Mayou" on the Genbu seishi, for anyone who's interested.
On a final note, I have drawn pictures of the Byakko seishi, and by request I can e-mail them to you. Just write to byakkokokie@aol.com.
That is all. ^_^
"The darkness must flow, down the river of night's dreaming. Flow morphia slow, and let the sun, and light come sinking...into my life...into my life."-Riffraff (XD!)
Chapter six
With a dazzling grin that gave him the expression of a mixture of stupor and excitement, Toroki stepped up to the magician. "I volunteer! I really, realllly do!"
The green-haired man closed one eye and fixed the other on Toroki skeptically, before his face lit up and matched Toroki's face in childlike delight. "Okay!" It was as if he had expected no one to volunteer (which was often the case for the unfortunate performer, he was too excitable and childish for people to trust enough for him to experiment on), he instructed Toroki to close his eyes, and he did...waiting patiently for the magic to happen.
The change didn't set in all at once; at first Toroki felt nothing but a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, a lick of nausea. Then he felt the ground close in around him, he felt himself falling and pitching forward. His bones were snapping and he cried out in pain, though what came out was a small, high pitched...
Bark. Toroki's eyes flew open and he looked down to see a pair of furry paws. Above him he heard voices murmuring, the most distinct being the magician saying thoughtfully "No...no, that's not right." Every sound, however, resounded to his ears as if through a plastic cup, but he had no hands with which to feel if any cups were strapped to his ears. Toroki danced about nervously on his tiny paws and howled his desire to be normal again, but if anyone could translate his yapping, they didn't say anything.
"Oh, phoo!" After a third failed attempt to undo his mistake, the magician knelt down and scooped up the jittery Chihuahua "I think I'm oughta poof for the day, boy...I guess we'll have to put the horseshoe idea on hold..."
He clambered clumsily to his feet with Toroki in his arms and took one final look at the audience before taking a bow and then making his grand exit, disappearing in a cloud of dust. The crowd, still confused as to what it was they had seen, stood in silent wonder for a moment before slowly, reluctantly dispersing. Tatara, Suzuno and Subaru ran up to catch the tail ends of the conversation. "...weirdest thing I've ever seen." "Poor kid...I'd hate to be a dog."
Tatara caught up to one of the spectators and got them to slow to a halt. "What...is everyone talking about?"
"Awww! Dude! You missed the -coolest- show! You see there was this guy with teal hair that got turned into a DOG! It was awesome!"
Tatara thought that perhaps in his panic he might have misheard him, or the person he was talking to had had too much to drink. "Turned into a...what?"
"A dog! There was this magician that comes around every day 'er so...sayin' he can do some weird shit. Well, no one ever really volunteered to help him until today...and man am I glad I volunteered to do my family's washin'!"
Well, he seemed...sober. The teal haired man could almost assuredly be Toroki, and if he was turned into a dog, which still sounded absurd to him, it would explain his disappearance. Tatara swept his fingers through his mane of hair and ruffled it a bit to let air circulate to his scalp, asking "Do you know where this magician went?"
"Naw...he disappeared, just like that!" The teenager snapped his fingers and shrugged. "Sorry...but maybe he'll be back tomorrow. Man...that was awesome..." He continued to talk as he drifted away, leaving a perplexed Tatara to stand there alone and think. After a few minutes he turned and jogged to catch up with Suzuno and Subaru. Their eyes grew to the size of dinner plates as he explained the slightly ridiculous tale.
"We have to search the town. If that magician or Toroki is still here...we're going to find them."
"I think I'll name you....Peppy. Peppy the Chihuahua!" With a noise that sounded similar to 'squee', the magician set a shivering Toroki down on one of the tables of the outdoor restaurant. He pulled up a chair and plopped himself beside the dog, grinning from ear to ear. So the trick hadn't gone...-exactly- as planned, he was proud of his new pet. He was still cooing at the Chihuahua when he was surrounded on all sides by three people, not one of them looked happy.
Toroki lifted his little muzzle and recognized Subaru, though in dog-vision the image was somewhat grainy. He danced on the table and howled.
"I think you have our...ah, our dog." Subaru told the magician, her arms crossed and an unpleasant expression pasted to her face. Her eyes made him cringe as he said meekly.
"My doggie."
"Listen...that man you turned into a dog for a trick? That's one of my friends and we um...need him, to find out where he...parked the horse?"
Everyone took their attention off Toroki and turned to look at Suzuno oddly. Her ears grew red and she glanced down at her shuffling feet, saying no more.
"Look...is there any way you can turn Toroki back into a human?" Tatara turned back to the magician, who was curled up in his chair, twirling a strand of emerald hair around his finger.
"I'm outta 'poof' today." He responded, then he looked to the collection of faces hovering over him, from Tatara, to Subaru, to Suzuno. There was something...different about that girl; she seemed foreign, out of place. He couldn't...quite put his finger on it, and so he ignored the odd feeling he got, scooping Toroki up into his arms and petting the reluctant dog's head. "You'll have to wait."
If Tatara had been a violent man, he would have strangled the skinny man, but as it was, it was Subaru that reached out and smacked the magician across the cheek. The magician meeped and withdrew, debating disappearing at that moment, when Subaru grabbed the collar of his robe and pulled him forward. "LISTEN! Something -very- bad is going to happen if we don't get to the palace in the next few days, and we -need- Toroki to help us get there. I don't care WHAT you say...you must not have been trying hard enough, I want Toroki back and I want him NOW!"
Obediently, he slipped out of the chair and plopped Toroki's paws onto the ground. When he knelt down beside the Chihuahua and placed his hand on his back, Tatara caught a glimpse of something marking one of the magician's feet, near his ankle. A symbol.
"What's...your name?" Tatara asked as he watched the man put all of his concentration into molding Toroki back into his old form. The picture wasn't pretty, so Tatara kept his eyes trained on the magician instead, while Suzuno and Subaru looked away all together.
"Chi-yuen!" He said proudly.
"But everyone calls me Kokie."
It was actually kind of hard to get back into the flow of things...so, I apologize if my writing is a bit scratchy in this chapter, soon to improve I assure you! Also...I started my story "Michi ni Mayou" on the Genbu seishi, for anyone who's interested.
On a final note, I have drawn pictures of the Byakko seishi, and by request I can e-mail them to you. Just write to byakkokokie@aol.com.
That is all. ^_^
"The darkness must flow, down the river of night's dreaming. Flow morphia slow, and let the sun, and light come sinking...into my life...into my life."-Riffraff (XD!)
Chapter six
With a dazzling grin that gave him the expression of a mixture of stupor and excitement, Toroki stepped up to the magician. "I volunteer! I really, realllly do!"
The green-haired man closed one eye and fixed the other on Toroki skeptically, before his face lit up and matched Toroki's face in childlike delight. "Okay!" It was as if he had expected no one to volunteer (which was often the case for the unfortunate performer, he was too excitable and childish for people to trust enough for him to experiment on), he instructed Toroki to close his eyes, and he did...waiting patiently for the magic to happen.
The change didn't set in all at once; at first Toroki felt nothing but a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, a lick of nausea. Then he felt the ground close in around him, he felt himself falling and pitching forward. His bones were snapping and he cried out in pain, though what came out was a small, high pitched...
Bark. Toroki's eyes flew open and he looked down to see a pair of furry paws. Above him he heard voices murmuring, the most distinct being the magician saying thoughtfully "No...no, that's not right." Every sound, however, resounded to his ears as if through a plastic cup, but he had no hands with which to feel if any cups were strapped to his ears. Toroki danced about nervously on his tiny paws and howled his desire to be normal again, but if anyone could translate his yapping, they didn't say anything.
"Oh, phoo!" After a third failed attempt to undo his mistake, the magician knelt down and scooped up the jittery Chihuahua "I think I'm oughta poof for the day, boy...I guess we'll have to put the horseshoe idea on hold..."
He clambered clumsily to his feet with Toroki in his arms and took one final look at the audience before taking a bow and then making his grand exit, disappearing in a cloud of dust. The crowd, still confused as to what it was they had seen, stood in silent wonder for a moment before slowly, reluctantly dispersing. Tatara, Suzuno and Subaru ran up to catch the tail ends of the conversation. "...weirdest thing I've ever seen." "Poor kid...I'd hate to be a dog."
Tatara caught up to one of the spectators and got them to slow to a halt. "What...is everyone talking about?"
"Awww! Dude! You missed the -coolest- show! You see there was this guy with teal hair that got turned into a DOG! It was awesome!"
Tatara thought that perhaps in his panic he might have misheard him, or the person he was talking to had had too much to drink. "Turned into a...what?"
"A dog! There was this magician that comes around every day 'er so...sayin' he can do some weird shit. Well, no one ever really volunteered to help him until today...and man am I glad I volunteered to do my family's washin'!"
Well, he seemed...sober. The teal haired man could almost assuredly be Toroki, and if he was turned into a dog, which still sounded absurd to him, it would explain his disappearance. Tatara swept his fingers through his mane of hair and ruffled it a bit to let air circulate to his scalp, asking "Do you know where this magician went?"
"Naw...he disappeared, just like that!" The teenager snapped his fingers and shrugged. "Sorry...but maybe he'll be back tomorrow. Man...that was awesome..." He continued to talk as he drifted away, leaving a perplexed Tatara to stand there alone and think. After a few minutes he turned and jogged to catch up with Suzuno and Subaru. Their eyes grew to the size of dinner plates as he explained the slightly ridiculous tale.
"We have to search the town. If that magician or Toroki is still here...we're going to find them."
"I think I'll name you....Peppy. Peppy the Chihuahua!" With a noise that sounded similar to 'squee', the magician set a shivering Toroki down on one of the tables of the outdoor restaurant. He pulled up a chair and plopped himself beside the dog, grinning from ear to ear. So the trick hadn't gone...-exactly- as planned, he was proud of his new pet. He was still cooing at the Chihuahua when he was surrounded on all sides by three people, not one of them looked happy.
Toroki lifted his little muzzle and recognized Subaru, though in dog-vision the image was somewhat grainy. He danced on the table and howled.
"I think you have our...ah, our dog." Subaru told the magician, her arms crossed and an unpleasant expression pasted to her face. Her eyes made him cringe as he said meekly.
"My doggie."
"Listen...that man you turned into a dog for a trick? That's one of my friends and we um...need him, to find out where he...parked the horse?"
Everyone took their attention off Toroki and turned to look at Suzuno oddly. Her ears grew red and she glanced down at her shuffling feet, saying no more.
"Look...is there any way you can turn Toroki back into a human?" Tatara turned back to the magician, who was curled up in his chair, twirling a strand of emerald hair around his finger.
"I'm outta 'poof' today." He responded, then he looked to the collection of faces hovering over him, from Tatara, to Subaru, to Suzuno. There was something...different about that girl; she seemed foreign, out of place. He couldn't...quite put his finger on it, and so he ignored the odd feeling he got, scooping Toroki up into his arms and petting the reluctant dog's head. "You'll have to wait."
If Tatara had been a violent man, he would have strangled the skinny man, but as it was, it was Subaru that reached out and smacked the magician across the cheek. The magician meeped and withdrew, debating disappearing at that moment, when Subaru grabbed the collar of his robe and pulled him forward. "LISTEN! Something -very- bad is going to happen if we don't get to the palace in the next few days, and we -need- Toroki to help us get there. I don't care WHAT you say...you must not have been trying hard enough, I want Toroki back and I want him NOW!"
Obediently, he slipped out of the chair and plopped Toroki's paws onto the ground. When he knelt down beside the Chihuahua and placed his hand on his back, Tatara caught a glimpse of something marking one of the magician's feet, near his ankle. A symbol.
"What's...your name?" Tatara asked as he watched the man put all of his concentration into molding Toroki back into his old form. The picture wasn't pretty, so Tatara kept his eyes trained on the magician instead, while Suzuno and Subaru looked away all together.
"Chi-yuen!" He said proudly.
"But everyone calls me Kokie."