Amazing What Time Can Do (Chapter 2)
By *~A White Rose Petal~*
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Madison looked at her surroundings. It was a dark room and smoke was all over the place. There was bottles and jars on the shelves and none of them were food…she hoped. She looked over at the old lady.
She had white hair and all over the place. Her face had deep wrinkles and you could hardly see her eyes.
"W-What am I doing here?" Madison got out. The old lady didn't smile or say anything to soothe her.
"Japanese?"
"Are you talking to me?" Madison asked.
"Yes."
"I'm not Japanese if that's what you mean…" She said. The old woman kept on looking at her, scaring the heck out of Madison.
"I hope you're not a hopeless case like the last ones." She said. The young girl just looked at the woman freaked out.
"What do you mean 'the last ones'?" She asked timidly.
"The last children that came to me, the ones I had to train!" The woman snapped. Madison narrowed her eyes to slits.
"I am not a child." Madison started to pick herself up off the dark wood floor things were happening way to fast. Maybe it was all just a dream… A dream! Madison thought. She closed her eyes and pinched her arm. When she opened them again she screamed. In front of her was the old lady, looking at her straight eye-to-eye. Madison was a little confused. The woman was about a foot smaller than her and now she was looking her in the eye? She looked at the old woman's feet and saw that she was standing on a stool. She rolled her eyes.
"You girl, have much to learn…" The woman mused. "From now on, you will call me sensei. Nothing special around the word no name to tell me apart from the rest. Just sensei." Madison nodded her head lightly. The woman nodded her head roughly back. "There is much you need to learn…" The sensei repeated.
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It was raining around Fanailia and the queen was looking out her window. She was wearing a dark green dress that matched her eyes. Her light brown hair, that she grew out, rested lightly on her neck. She closed her eyes tightly, remembering what she saw before. A new war…magic will be the only weapon. Skill will of course be needed…She shook her head lightly, trying to get all those thoughts out of her head. Her husband already knows of her worries. Right now, all she can do is wait and hope that she is right about everything that is happening.
She hears the door opening behind her, but she doesn't turn around. She already knows who it is.
She feels two arms enveloping her waist and she leaned back into his chest and sighed while tucking her head under his chin.
"Van…"
"Hitomi."
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Madison looked around the room she was in. Her sensei left for a while, giving her time to look around. She saw many things that made her get sick to her stomach. Jars were full of goo that she didn't want to touch. She passed a square jar that looked like it was made full of fluff. She stopped in her tracks. Why would the sensei need fluff? She thought. She went back to the jar and looked at it. It was then she saw what it was. Bonsai Kittens *. She swallowed. She was one for animals, and hated it if they were treated badly. This however was just sick. At least to her anyway.
She sighed, knowing that she could do nothing for it.
She kept on looking around and chose to look up. She screamed. At the top of the cottage was a man, a dead man. He was all pale and his eyes looked straight forward. Her sensei came in. Madison slowly lowered her gaze from the dead body to her sensei.
"How many other dead bodies do you have in here?" She asked shyly. She was easily scared right now. Her sensei looked as though she was in deep thought and then turned back to Madison.
"About fifteen, why?" Madison nodded her head dumbly. Her eyes were bugged out she started to bite her lip, a habit when she was nervous.
The old woman was holding a jar. Madison couldn't tell if it was a powder or a liquid. It looked as though it flowed in the jar but at the same time if you shook it, it wouldn't. Her sensei pointed to a stool on the other side of the room.
"Sit down."
"Why?"
"SIT DOWN!" The older woman yelled. Madison backed away from her a little bit and slowly started over to the chair, keeping her eyes on the woman.
"Alright, alright, no need to have a cow…" She mumbled.
"What did you say?!"
"Nothing!" Madison said sweetly. Sensei was eyeing her disbeleivingly but the shrugged lightly. Her eyes looked the same though. She grabbed the bottle again and opened up the lid. Madison could now see it was a powder that changes into a liquid when turned a certain way.
"Take off your glasses." The older woman ordered.
"I need them to see!" Madison said. Her temper was very famous for being short, it was easy for the others at school to get her pissed.
"You need this to see!" The woman said bringing up her hand with some of the red stuff. It looked like there was powder underneath now and a lot of water going over it. There were small sparks that was coming off the 'mixture' to.
"What is that?" She asked, looking at it strangely.
"You need this to see now take off your glasses girl!" She said it all in one beat, and her voice held warning in them. Madison tentively took her glasses off. She squinted her eyes so she could see. She was able to see some movement from wear she thought the old lady was. It looked like she was throwing a blob…maybe the red stuff she had before? She was throwing it at…
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Madison said, bringing her hands up to her eyes. She wanted to cry but the red stuff that the lady threw on her eyes seemed to be blocking it.
"It hurts worse than your world's 'pepper spray' I believe its called…" The woman said. Her voice wasn't any different and Madison already knew that she probably didn't look any different either. She's a lot of fun! Madison thought in her head. Her sobs were more than likely deaf to the woman's ears. Her eyes wanted to water because she couldn't cry and and they still couldn't even do that. The salty water was making the burning worse, mixing in with the red stuff. Madison bit her lip and tried to stop trembling. She couldn't and screamed again.
"It hurts…it hurts…" She whimpered.
"You should get some rest now."
"HOW THE FUCK AM I GOING TO GET SOME REST WHEN THIS DAMN STINKEN' RED STUFF IS BURNING MY EYES OUT!" Madison screeched. In her mind she had every reason to cuss this woman out. She brought her hands to her eyes again.
"One. It's not burning your eyes out, it's making it so you don't have to wear your glasses. Two. I must say, I'm impressed. Your language is lively." Sensei said the last part sarcastically. Madison forgot the pain as she nodded her head up and down in a sarcastic motion. Madison decided that crying and all of that was not going to help her.
"If this hurts worse than pepper spray, why am I not still screeching?"
"You were a few minutes ago."
"Not anymore." Madison pointed out.
"Yes…This is different then pepper spray. The reason I believe you stopped screeching was because you understand that it's helping you." Madison thought that was a pretty good answer… I'll be able to see without glasses! That's the coolest! She thought. Madison hated her glasses and the way they made her look. Glasses on other people make them look smart sometimes, other things, not on her however. She bit her lip lightly as she carefully stepped off the stool. Her eyes were still burning and she still couldn't see. She tried to figure out where the old lady was.
"Where's my room?" She asked lightly. She felt the end of a staff enter her hand. She wrapped her fingers around lightly.
"Hold on, I'll walk you there…" She heard the woman say. They both started walking to her room. Madison fell into sleep not-to-easily, but still got to sleep all the same.
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Bonsai Kitten- A Bonsai Kitten is a kitten that is kept in a jar. The give it special food so that its bones go all flimsy and they're able to mold themselves as, like I said in here, a square. They can not move inside the jar and can't bathe themselves. They have tubes to be fed with and will be like this for the rest of their lives. (I'm against it, not saying you have to be…)
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A/N: I hope that you liked this part… The next part will have her training and stuff… I have to go now…buh-bye!!