Otakus' Task



Chapter Three

Disclaimer: " Awww… do I have to. It makes me so sad. L Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" cried Crysta as she ran around the dark room screaming and crying. " I don't want to! YOU HAVE TO FOR THE SAKE OF THE WHOLE WORLD! " And who made you boss?" THE CREATORS OF THE ANIME YOU LOVE! "Alright, alright, already, I'll say it. All anime that are in this fic are not mine or Ai's except for those that were created by us. Crysta glares at the ceiling " Are you happy now! You have just made me really sad." THAT'S ENOUGH SO YOU MAY NOW CONTINUE. " Yeah now I can get started and so onto the fic.

Chapter Three

In Crysta's Room:

" What were the details that you wanted me to know," Hotohori asked as he took sight of the room. The room had changed to Crysta's personality and had taken the royal and red hues to decorate the entire room. In this world, the student's rooms changed to fit the person's personality. Hotohori was watching the sunlight filter through the windows when Crysta launched herself into his arms, taking the breath out of his body. 'What's she doing ' Hotohori thought to himself when Crysta looked into his eyes and then burst into tears. No guy likes to see a girl start crying and so Hotohori asked in his very kind and charming way," What's wrong, Crysta?"

" Hotohori, I'm so sorry for breaking down like this but I am just so worried. Trowa has gone missing, Amboshi died and now I haven't heard anything from Lantis. He's been acting weird all this week. Today when I was asking his friends where he was, they said that he hadn't been to class yesterday and today. I'm just so scared about what's happening." Crysta sobbed as she kind of collapsed in Hotohori's arms.

Hotohori, then feeling quite at a loss as to what to do picked her up and carried her to her four-poster bed. After laying her down on the velvet coverlet, he asked, " Why are you so worried about Lantis? He shouldn't be in any trouble. After all he is one of the best magic swordsman in this world and he can take care of himself. If he was in trouble, he could deal with whatever it is."

" Like how Amboshi thought he could save Ai, but ended up dying instead," Crysta whispered softly. The potpourri that burned in the room was making her a little bit sleepy. Hotohori's face started to blur when he started shaking her.

"Crysta. Crysta. It's bad manners to fall asleep when someone is talking to you." Hotohori said teasingly to Crysta. He started to pat her on the head like a child.

"Sorry, again. Anyway," Crysta turned her tear filled eyes to Hotohori's comforting and gentle chocolate brown eyes, " I just have this bad feeling about what's happening. Ai finally told me all of the details that happened on the day of Amboshi's death. She told me that Deacon, Dekin, oh forget his name, the evil guy."

" It's Dekim" Hotohori supplied to Crysta.

" Oh it doesn't really matter what his name is, that guy wanted to kidnap me and Ai and was going to kill anyone who got in his way and so he killed Amboshi because he was trying to protect Ai. I think that there is something sinister going on in this world and someone is trying to get us out of the way for some reason." Crysta told Hotohori. During the conversation, he had stopped patting Crysta on the head and had watched her speak.

" Crysta, look at me, " Hotohori commanded. Crysta turned her head at looked directly into Hotohori's eyes. " I don't know how you feel about me, but I know that no matter what happens I will protect you and I would risk my life in order to save you from any danger. I promise." Hotohori's hands were cradling Crysta's face at the time.

" Really?" Crysta exclaimed. Her eyes had by then become little stars.

" Yes, really." Hotohori said laughingly, as Crysta's stars grew bigger and brighter. Then Crysta threw her arms around Hotohori.

" Thank you. I was so scared, but now that I know the you are going to protect me I will try to be brave." Crysta said.

" Are you really that worried about Lantis?"

"Yes, I am." Crysta said looking very downcast.

"Since you are that worried I call Chichiri. He should know about everything that's happening around the world. He'll help us and anyways he loves a challenge."

" Oh, thank you Hotohori. I'm so grateful. I'll pay you back for doing this." Crysta cried out adoringly.

" Anyway, what were the details that you were going to tell me about?" Hotohori said in the manner of a person trying to change the subject.

"Well, you know how Ai and Tomo always were fighting or insulting each other."

"Yes."

"The thing is that this is strange behavior for Ai. I knew her for a long time and she was never that rude to anyone, even if the person was the biggest jerk in the world. So I knew that she was feeling something else other than anger toward Tomo."

"Frustration?" Hotohori supplied helpfully.

"No, it wasn't that but passion."

"What?"

"Yes, it was passion. She usually isn't this way around other guys. She usually acts like how she was with Amboshi. She is usually extremely loving, clingy and doesn't see all the flaws of the person. She just thinks of the guy as the greatest in the world."

"So what's the problem with that?"

"Well, if you can't see the flaws of the other person then you can't make a good relationship and talk about what's wrong!" Crysta yelled at Hotohori. She was getting a bit angry."

"Oh, sorry." Hotohori said sheepishly."

"Oh that's ok. Anyway, I knew that she liked him and I could tell from how Tomo was acting that he liked her, so I just kept putting them alone together. Finally, when I sent Tomo home to apologize to AI, they told each other their feelings. Isn't it sweet?" Little hearts and cupids started to fly around Crysta's head. Hotohori sweat dropped.

" I'll call Chichiri, if you go and tell Ai to set another plate for him right now.'

"Ok, I'll go tell her right now," and with a dash of speed and a small dust cloud she was gone.

As he was calling Chichiri, Hotohori's mind was racing. 'She must be really worried if she was crying. She always seems to be very happy. How much doest she care for Lantis? Does she love him?' Jealousy streaked through Hotohori's body at the thought of the tall, handsome bishounen. 'It seems that way, but why?' His chest started to tighten at the thought of Lantis and Crysta kissing each other passionately. 'What do I feel about this girl? I think that I will take a shower to clear my thoughts.' And so with that Hotohori left Crysta's room and went to the bathroom.

While Crysta and Hotohori were talking, Tomo and Ai were trying, unsuccessfully, to cook dinner.

"Ok, I need to add a little salt, some rosemary and… Tomo stop that." Ai exclaimed as she hit Tomo's hand with a wooden spoon. "Or we'll never finish cooking dinner." Tomo had been periodically kissing Ai while she was trying to finish up dressing the fish.

"Ow that hurt!"

"Well, it should cause if you don't stop I will never finish before dinner starts."

"Well, ok." Tomo replied with the pout of a sulky child.

"Will you stop that?" Ai exclaimed laughingly." Does it really hurt that much?"

"Yes."

"Then I should just kiss it to make it all better.' And so Ai kissed Tomo's hand, which then led on to a total make out session. After ten minutes of continuous kissing, AI said," I really better finish.'

"Ok, I'll let you finish as long as you finish in ten minutes. I think that is how long I can wait before I start kissing you again." Tomo replied with a smirk.

" Well, its better than nothing." Ai said, as she then started finishing up the dressings of the fish.

Tomo had become bored watching Ai for about a minute and said," I'll go and start on the soup right now."

"Ok," Ai called as her mind thought of ideas to get revenge on Tomo for disrupting her work.

Five minutes later, Tomo was stirring his soup while trying to ignore Ai who was kissing him on the cheek and blowing into his ear. "Hey that tickles."

"Well, this should tell you not to wake up people by hissing in their ear and also to stop distracting people from their work by kissing them."

"Should it?" And with that they started to make out again.

This was how Crysta found them forty minutes later. They had moved from the stove and were leaning against the refrigerator. " AWWWWWWWWW! Isn't this so cute!" Crysta exclaimed as she took in the scene. Her eyes and smile grew larger as she saw some of the mess that was created by their kissing. Flour had littered the floor, cans had rolled off the countertops and there was a lot of disorder around the kitchen.

" Well, uhmmm." Tomo started to clear his throat and then he directed a death glare at Crysta." Shouldn't you stop popping in like that?"

"Sorry I can't stop. And anyway, it's a gift. I just came in to tell you that Chichiri is coming for dinner and that we…" Crysta had stopped because at that moment black smoke had started to billow out of the oven. ": Dinner's burning!"

" My salmon!" Ai cried. Total chaos erupted as people were trying to put out the fire.

Tomo had put on chicken shaped oven mittens and had opened the oven. Black smoke started to cover the whole kitchen then. His mittens had fallen into the fire and without realizing this he grabbed his pot of very hot soup and threw at the flames, burning his hands in the process. " Oww owww ow ow ow!" Tomo exclaimed.

" AI was busy searching for a fire extinguisher in the closet. Mops, scrubs, and paper towel rolls were being thrown everywhere in her search. One of the mop heads landed on Tomo's head. He looked like a Jamaican rapper with dreadlocks. Crysta had reached the sink and was grabbing the hose. She then sprayed the water at the fire, drenching everything in its path, including Tomo. He started to get red in the face making him look like a Raggedy Andy.

The whole kitchen was like a disaster zone. Trails of sugar streaked the countertops and objects started to float in the flood that was forming on the floor. Canisters and cans were rolling off the counters and there was chaos everywhere.

"Dinner's totally ruined!" Big teardrops were forming around Ai's eyes before she threw herself into Tomo's arms. "I was hoping to make this really special for us because we are together now."

"It's ok. Remember we're going on a date on Friday and I'm wearing those pants you like."

"Really." Ai's eye's turned into hearts.

"Really."

"Awww…. Isn't this cute. What a very sweet moment," Crysta broke in.

"Baka…. Now what are we going to do about dinner?" Tomo asked with an exasperated tone.

"I think that I will go and ask Hotohori to take me to a take out restaurant. He's sure to know the best restaurants, but while I'm doing that you guys are going to start cleaning up the kitchen, ok." And with that, Crysta sprinted out of the door.

"What!" Tomo and Ai yelled at the spot where Crysta stood. They turned around and looked at the chaos. "We're going to get her for this." They said as they started the task of getting order into the kitchen.

Crysta was searching the house for Hotohori. She searched everywhere and when she finally found him, she threw herself into his arms. " Yea, I found you. I was searching for you everywhere. " Crysta said as she looked up into Hotohori's eyes.

Hotohori was stunned. He had taken the shower to clear his mind of Crysta, when she throws herself at him at the end. Also he was naked. 'I hope she doesn't notice right now or we'll both be terribly embarrassed' He thought as he tried to control his emotions. "Uhmm...why were you looking for me?"

"Well, you know how you told me to tell Ai that Chichiri was coming for dinner."

"Yes." Hotohori said as he tried to stop himself from blushing. She was still hugging him, but she hadn't noticed. 'Thank goodness for small favors. What am I thinking? Didn't I want to clear my thoughts of her, but now I am like that she is hugging me. Do I like her more than as a friend.'

"When I got there I found them having a total make out session, when suddenly there was smoke. The dinner was getting burned and to make a long story short, everything was ruined. So I was wondering if you could take me to a take out place so that we can eat?"

"Ok, we'll go out for dinner as soon as I finish changing." 'This should get her attention and have her get out quickly.'

"What! Ohh!!!" A blush started to form on Crysta's face making her look like a ripe tomato.

"Gomen nasai…sorry… I'll get out now."

"Ok."

"Sorry again," she said as she ran out of the bathroom. ' I was hugging Hotohori naked. I think that I better change right now.' And with that she raced into her room. She started for her closet because she got a little wet when she hugged him.' Oh my gosh, he is so hot! What? Don't I like Lantis? But they're both so hot and cool. Hehe. How can they both be hot and cool? Anyway, he's taking me out to a restaurant. It's like a date. I am so confused.' She thought this as she took out a little red cocktail dress and black high heels.' This closet has everything. Anyway why do I get this rush of hope and anxiety whenever I see him? Do I care for Hotohori more than as a friend?' Crysta asked herself these questions as she finished dressing, but one thought always crossed her mind. 'I hugged Hotohori while he was naked.' This always brought a blush to her face.

Hotohori was again questioning his feelings for Crysta while he changed into a tight dress shirt and gray slacks. 'What is it about that girl? I thought I loved Miaka, but when I came to this world, I knew that my feelings for her were induced my desire for a girl who could understand me. Many have thrown themselves at me because of my looks, but she doesn't just take me at face value. She seems to want to get to know who I am inside. Why do I want to be around her so much? Usually I would never go out somewhere because I would get mobbed, but here I am changing just to get some dinner. I need to make some order out of this chaos.' And with that he finished dressing, checked out the mirror and left the room.

Crysta was already waiting and to Hotohori she looked gorgeous. The dress wasn't able to hide anything. "Wow... I'm stunned."

"Do you always say that or are you telling the truth?" Crysta asked coyly.

"Why would I need to say a line, they always throw themselves at me?" Hotohori asked a little confused.

"Oh… never mind. What was the name of the restaurant?" Crysta said with a disappointed tone.

"It's called Sakura Blossoms. They are one of the best restaurants in the area and also the closest."

"It sounds like a great place to go on a date."

"What? Are you thinking that Lantis might bring you there?" Hotohori asked a little hurried.

"No, its just… uhmm… if Ai and Tomo wanted to go there it sounds perfect.'

"Well… anyway it overlooks a lake and it has one of the best tasting cuisine ever."

"Your making my mouth water, just talking about it. Let's go!" Crysta then dragged Hotohori out of the hall and outside. They then went to Hotohori's black Porsche.

"Cool, I get to ride in a Porsche."

"With the money I make modeling, I just buy what I wanted." They both got into the Porsche and Hotohori started the car. They were off to Sakura Blossoms.

"Well, if I had that kind of money I would go and fulfill my dreams."

"What dreams?" Hotohori asked keeping his eyes on the road. It was a beautiful night. The stars gleamed and the moon cast it lights on the streets creating a romantic mood. The soft light of the street lamps cast shadows on the buildings, making it seem like they were the only ones in the world.

"I know it may sound silly, but I want to travel all over the world, experience every kind of pleasure, have my first kiss and find my prince, my knight in shining armor." Her eyes had then turned into shining stars.

'That isn't a silly dream." Hotohori rebuked.

" It just seems that most people want adventure and such. Or they would want everything their heart desires. To me it seems that I just want to live a normal life." Crysta was downcast. "Reality always seems to want to crush me down. That's why I love my dreams."

"Why aren't you making them come true? It seems simple enough."

"To me it doesn't look that easy. I am very afraid."

"What did I tell you when I was in your room? I told you that I would always be there to protect you. You shouldn't be afraid." Hotohori smiled and they soon saw the lights of the restaurant." We're here." He then veered off to valet. " Might as well go into public with style. Coming, Crysta."

" I am. Let's go order." And off they went to order a feast for dinner.



While Crysta and Hotohori debated on whether to order seafood or beef, Tomo and Ai were cleaning the kitchen or rather little elves were cleaning and Tomo and Ai were watching TV and making out.

Tomo saw that the program was finished and turned off the TV. He turned to Ai and said, "It's a great thing that I remembered that 24 hour cleaning service or we would have had to so it ourselves." He then started to tickle her.

"Stop that." Ai said trying to push Tomo's arms away. He then started to increase his efforts to tickle her. " Hey stop that… hehe, really please… haha... stop."

"Ok I will." Tomo then started to put.

"Quit that as well. Instead of tickling me, you could kiss me instead."

" Now that's a task I'd be willing to do." Then he started toward here and began kissing her when a noise bothered them.

"Uhmm… we're done. Can you please pay us?" A blue colored elf asked them.

" Ok as long as it will get you out of here. Here's fifty dollars."

" Thanks. Nice doing business with you." And the elves were gone in a poof of smoke.

" Now where were we?" And they started to make out again.

"What type of food does Chichiri like? "

"Almost anything."

" Ok, then we'll just get one order of each type of food."

" Let's finish ordering then."

A hat appeared in the living room and out came Chichiri. "Hello, anybody here, no da!" He peered around the room.

"What!" Tomo yelled as he got up.

"Hello, Tomo. It's a nice night, no da! Hiya, Ai. Where' s dinner, no da?" He looked at Ai leaning against Tomo.

"Oh, dinner should be here in a few minutes. There was a fire and uhmm … dinner got burnt."

"No worries, no da. I think that Hotohori and Crysta are just coming in right now, no da."

"Tomo, Ai, we're back."

"We're in the living room," called Ai.

Hotohori and Crysta walked into the living room where everyone was talking. "It's about time," grumbled Tomo. He was glaring at Chichiri for breaking in. ' When can I ever get a moment alone with Ai, when everyone seems to barge in.' "Well what are you here for? Is it just to bother Ai and me?"

"No, I didn't come here to do that, no da! Hotohori called and told me that Crysta was worried about Lantis. I came because of that and something else, no da."

"Anyway, we have dinner and when we set it up, we can start talking about Lantis's dissapearance." Hotohori replied, trying to break the tension that seemed to build up in Tomo.

"Sorry, no time for that no da." And with that he grabbed Crysta and Ai's hands and pulled them through his hat to another part of the world.

"Well, I think that we should start to set up dinner." Hotohori said, smiling at Tomo.

"What!!! Why did you invite that nutcase to come for dinner? We could have found out everything about Lantis's dissapearance. Now, he has taken them to some unknown area and we can't find them." Tomo yelled at Hotohori. Little anger marks forming on his head.

" Relax. He'll come back and I don't think that Ai would want to be away from you for a long time." Hotohori said slyly.

" Shut up. Let's just go and set up dinner before the girls come back." With that, they went off the dining room with Hotohori laughing along the way.

The girls had popped out of the hat and were in a large room with many electronic instruments.

" Hey, Chichiri, what did you do that for and where are we?" Crysta said as she looked around the room.

" Mysterious as ever, Chichiri.' An unknown voice called. " Shame on you for not telling them why you took them here." A short figure entered the light. It was Aska from Rayearth.

" Sorry, milady, but I thought you wanted them here as soon as possible, no da." He said in reply.

" I did want them here soon, but you didn't have to just take them away that quickly. You could have explained it to them." Aska said exasperated.

" But that would have made you job much easier and I like annoying you. So good bye no Da!" He then vanished again.

"What will I do with him? Anyway I know that you are not true anime characters, but humans."

"What! How do you know?" Ai said. Ai and Crysta both had listened to her and both found it hard to understand that someone would know.

" This facility was designed by the Goddess to protect this world from anything that would destroy it. Chichiri is one of this agency's top agents, though he sometimes is a bit crazy. It was convenient for us to have Hotohori call him to help you because it would have taken more time to bring you here ourselves. Anyway you are here because you need to have your powers awakened and get weapons to fight this evil threatening this world."

" Why did you need us to fight this evil in your world?" Crysta asked.

" We would not be able to destroy it because it originates from your world of reality. Reality destroys the imagination and we were first figments of imagination before we became real. So to destroy it, we needed people who know of reality but refuse to give in to it. These persons would have to truly believe in anime to go through the portal into this world. That's why you were chosen. You both are true otaku's and would do anything to save anime."

"Ok, since we know why we are here, what do we need to do now?" They asked Aska.

" To awaken your powers we need to test you. These tests are not games but combat with computer generated monsters. The powers you have should awaken within you and protect you from any danger you cannot handle as yourself. Once we analyze the data given from our machines about your powers you will be equipped with weapons. When all this is done, you'll be sent back and in a week you will need to go on a journey to save this world."

Crysta and Ai looked at each other. They were discussing, whether or not they would go through these 'tests'. Crysta asked, " Would you risk your life for anime?"

" I would." Ai replied.

" Well, then. There is nothing more to talk about." They turned to Aska." We're going to go through with the tests."

" So shall we get started? Both of you will be separated and go through the Juggernaut test. At the end of this test, your powers should have awakened and then chief artisans we create and design your weapons. Are you both ready?" Aska turned to them.

" Yes."

"Then off to the tests." They then walked into the dark corridors toward the rooms.

Chichiri had returned to the house that Crysta and Ai were living in. " Hello, again. I'm back, no da."

" Where did you take them?" yelled Tomo as he grabbed the front of Chichiri's shirt.

" Hey don't worry. They'll be back soon. So what's for dinner no da?"

The girls were fitted in a suit that had sensors to gain data of what they did. " Ok, the tests shall begin. You both will have to go through the challenges. Your suit will tell all of what is happening in the rooms. The rooms will both be side by side and at the end you will be able to see each other. So ready set go!" Aska yelled.

The girls were off. They started to go through the challenges as if they were thin air. At the end of the Juggernaut was a large egg.

'Hey what is that?' they thought when the egg started to hatch. Out of the egg came a manticore and its mother soon came. They both battled hard against the monsters and when all hope seemed to be lost a strange burst of energy broke within them.

" What!" They cried at the same instant. Wings started to form from their backs. Ai's wings were the color of water, the sky and the clouds. They were opalescent and looked like dragon wings. Water seemed to form the wings. She then called a spell to destroy the monsters." Ice-Dragon!" A huge torrent of water in the shape of a dragon then swirled around the monsters, finally running through them until they were destroyed.

Crysta's wings were the color of fire and the darkness of night. These wings were like a phoenix's wings or raven's because they were black but had fire licking across it. A spell came to her mind. " Starfire Burst!" Huge comets of fire started raining down on her monsters and they were ash at the end.

When they exited the Juggernaut, they looked at each other. Their appearances had changed. Crysta's hair had a reddish sheen to it and her eyes had little stars in them. Ai's hair and eyes had changed too. Aska then walked in. " Ah, it's as I thought. You two are the destined ones to save this world."

" What! You weren't even sure if we could save this world." They both yelled.

" It doesn't matter now. There was a legend in this world that two saviors woud fight and protect this land. Their powers, though elemental you call for the other side of their personality to awaken and fight. When dormant, the person would act like usual, but when the power is used, the other side of their personality would take over. You, Ai have a more optimistic and innocent or kinder personality than Crysta's. Crysta's other side is more dark and mysterious. These saviors are called _____. The weapons of these warriors would change according to the person wielding it."

"Ok, so now do we get these weapon?"

"yes and fortunately we have them here." They went off to another room. " In this room is the weapons for the ___. Crysta's your items are over to the left and Ai's is to the right. These items will all change to fit you. After you're done getting them, they will become light and go into a special pendant. The pendant you will need is on both of your sides. Also, your powers will fall asleep as soon as you grab the pendant. So now grab what is needed and then you can go back. And to make it easier for you to get them out, grab the pendant first and all the equipment will go into it. "

"Ok." And so they went to their sides and grabbed the pendant and everything happened as Aska said.

" Now that you are done. We'll take you back home.' Aska then called out in an unknown language words. They then were returned back to the house.

"Finally we're back." Crysta said. "Back to dinner?"

"Yes." And so off they went to the dining room.