Differnt Forms - pt.5
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Author's note: To satisfy boys and girls alike... two boys reborn as girls... and their destined love for one another.
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"I want to hear your voice. Which way...do I go? I can't make it back...alone."
~*~
Kenshou pulled over towards, what appeared to be a large stadium. "Welcome to... my second home," she announced, jumping out of the car.
"What is this place?"
The younger girl swung out her arms and gestured to the entire arena. "This," she said, "is where I spent alot of my childhood. It's also where I met Koji. This is the racetrack. I just wanted to show it to you. We don't have to go inside." She smiled and pointed back to the car. "So, where do you want to go m'lady?" she asked in a gentlemanly manner.
"Kenshou?"
Chishiki and Kenshou turned towards the voice, and they saw someone standing near them by a mototcycle, a dark helmet over his head. "Koji," Kenshou groaned, holding her head in her hands.
He pushed up the screen, his face screwed into a serious expression. "So," he said rather bitterly, "you're Chishiki, eh? Kenshou's tutor?"
She nodded, looking away, her face flushed. "I-i-i-i-i- Nice to meet you," she stuttered.
"What are ya doin' here Koji?" Kenshou snapped.
"I race here, ya got a problem with that?"
"Just stay outta this, will ya?"
"I wasn't even going to make a comment. You noticed me first."
"You fuckin' bastard Koji."
He snapped the plexiglass over his face, meaning the discussion was over. Mounting his bike, he revved it and took off. Kenshou spat on the ground, her hands stuck deep into her pockets. "What was that about, Kenshou?" Chishiki asked, slowly.
"He's just a damn shit--" she sighed and ran her fingers through her short hair.
"I'm so sorry... I wish there's something I could do. Friendship must have a stronger bond tha--"
Kenshou waved off the comment, even before she could finish it. She didn't want to hear anything about friendship. "Look, he's just as stubborn and pigheaded as myself. In fact, sometimes I think he's worse... but then again, that could just be my hatred towards boys speaking," she spat.
She sighed and climbed back into her car. "Well, let's go Chishiki..."
~*~
That was really the last thing Chishiki remembered before she was surrounded by a warm feeling of water rushing around her body. She felt herself being pulled away from the world she knew as home, and for a moment she fell. Now, she felt the solid warmth of earth upon her back. Opening her one good eye she stared up at a light blue sky nearly white with clouds. She groaned and rested a hand against her forehead. Suddenly she jumped up crying, "Kenshou!!"
She looked around in bewilderment. Her surroundings were not of the busy streets of Japan, instead she was sitting in a large field of tall grass. Shaking, she rose to her feet, her knees knocking together as she tried to regain the balance she lost, who knows how long ago. Suddenly a breeze seemed to brush past her ear, whipping her hair gently. It seemed to whisper, "Welcome warrior, welcome warrior, welcome to my game."
"Game? Who are you!?" she cried into the wind.
"I have summoned each of you, each of you to play my little game," the breeze whispered in reply.
"Each of who?" she asked again, her voice becoming more frightened.
"Each of the warriors... the warriors of Suzaku.... Play my game, find the others and you will be free." And then, the voice, the breeze, both gone. Chishiki wrapped her arms around herself in insecurity. A choked sob escaped her throat, and she slid to the ground. Why the salty tears were streaming down her cheeks, she didn't know, but she felt so lost and detached... the same feeling as when she was suddenly locked in prison, the same feeling as when HE was locked away for her sake.
"Looks like I found a little lost kitty-cat!"
Chishiki looked up as a shadow loomed over her. She could barely make out the face, but there was the familar black and blue coat, and bright red hair. She jumped up and wrapped her arms around Kenshou sobbing, "I was so afraid!!"
"Hey now... ya gotta be calm in a situation like this. Don't tell me yer afraid of some kinda voice now, are ya?"
"You heard it too?"
Kenshou nodded, a smile on her lips. "Yeah," she said casually, "I figured that this is some kinda joke, some kinda game, like the voice said. We ride it out until the end and we go home, ya know?" She pulled Chishiki from the tight embrace and looked her in the eye. "Besides, I'm here, ain't I? I'll protect the both o'us. Even though you ARE older," she added with a smile.
"Easier said than done..." the two heard whisper in their ears. Suddenly the scenery seemed to shift, change shape like a hologram. The ground shook, and grew rocky beneath their feet. The grass grew thick and wild curling up the trees that sprung from the ground. As the sky darkened from the heavy limbs crossing over their heads, they knew where they were.
"A fuckin' forest," Kenshou swore, looking around for a way of escaping.
Chishiki puffed out her chest and cried, "Okay! We'll play your sick game! Now, lay out the rules!"
An owl hooted from behind them, a low, "Hoo, hoo, hoo."
The two girls turned around to face the gray barn own. It's small beak opening with each, "Hoo," it's head turned slightly to the side. The owl raised both wings for a moment and then it began to speak. "The name of the game," it said, "is to find a way out of this area. Continue along the path until you find your little friends. She's made sure to bring them here as well."
"Friends? What friends?" Kenshou cried out, leaping towards the owl. "You leave Koji outta this! It's bad enough you had ta bring Chishiki inta all dis!"
"Who's Koji?" the owl asked, its head turning even more.
"I don't have any other friends," Chishiki said slowly, her brow furrowed in anger.
The owl let out a short series of hoots, as if it were laughing. "Ah yes, your friends," it said, still chuckling, "She hasn't harmed your friends from now. Just from then." It flapped it's large wings and flew off, rising above the limbs and escaping through one of the small openings.
Kenshou sat down on the ground, and a moment of silence passed between the two. Finally she asked, "Ya don't got any other friends?"
Chishiki shook her head slowly while she whispered, "I don't have any other friends that can be hurt..."
"Whadya mean?"
The blue haired girl's hand rose to her bangs for a moment. She brushed it lightly, as if she were about to push them aside. Again her hand fell back. "It's... nothing..."
Kenshou stood up and brushed off her coat, absentmindedly. "Well, let's get outta here," she said and started off. Chishiki ran up to her, catching the girl from behind.
"Hold on," she hissed, "where are you going?"
"Outta here!"
"You don't even know the surr-"
Kenshou turned around and shook the elder girl by the shoulders roughly. "Listen 'ere, Chishiki. We don't know what's beyond dis forest, so all we gotta do is head out. And there's an exit in every direction. Forests don't stretch on foreva, ya know that!"
"Al--"
Kenshou held up a hand for silence, and she whirled around. Something else was in the forest with them, she could hear the ground cracking beneath its feet. She pushed the elder girl behind her protectively, one hand outstretched. Suddenly something jumped out from behind the trees, and tackled her to the ground. Chishiki screamed, watching as a cat-like beast threatened to bite the younger woman's head off. "STOP SCREAMING!!" Kenshou cried, her hands moving to clamp the monster's mouth shut.
The blue haired woman obeyed, and backed up against a tree.
The creature clawed away at the dirt, fighting to get it's jaw free. Suddenly a claw took out a part of Kenshou's jacket and shoulder. She grunted, and cried, "You're SO DEAD!" Suddenly the demon was surrounded by white hot fire, and it roared. It staggered around, freeing her at the same time, until the cat-beast fell to the ground, nothing left of its body. "AHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Kenshou whirled around and saw Chishiki being wrapped up by vines, pulling her hard against a tree. The blue haired girl was screaming, her face contorted in pain. The firey haired girl suddenly heard a series of distict cracking, the sounds of a spine under too much pressure. "OKAY! TOO MUCH AT ONCE!" Kenshou cried, charging towards the tree with her elbow. Her felt her bone strain upon the contact, but the living tree let up, releasing Chishiki.
She coughed, a hand clutched to her chest. Her breath was heavy and rattled, but she managed to croak, "Ah-are you alright, Kenshou?"
"Yeah... a little beat up, but it's all good." She grunted and gripped a hand around the wound on her shoulder. "I guess this game won't be as easy as I thought," she added with a grin.
Chishiki knocked Kenshou's hand out of the way, and she took the girl's shoulder into her hands for a moment, blowing on it to clear the wound of the dry dirt. The younger woman hissed, feeling the coldness of her breath on the raw flesh. "Okay," Chishiki said slowly, "this might hurt."
The older girl ripped a piece of the blue stole, and eased the cloth into the wound to remove the remaining dirt. Then, with another peice, she tied it around Kenshou's shoulder to stop the bleeding. "There," she said with a smile, while folding the ripped part under her arm, "all better!"
Kenshou moved her arm a bit to test out the bandaging. "Th-thanks Chishiki."
"No problem!" Then, as if she were taken over by a whole new spirit, she pointed in a direction and exclaimed, "Now, let us march forth, and we'll keep going until we find someone we can talk to!"
"S'long as its not a talking owl, or a moving tree, I'm up fer it!"
~*~
The forest seemed to extend forever and without end, but the duo didn't encounter any further attacks... for the time being. Kenshou groaned in irritation, stopped in her tracks and complained, "We've been walkin' ferever! Why can't we stop and take a break?"
Chishiki turned around, and extened a finger towards her. "Look, we can't stop here! We're almost out of here, I think... but it doesn't matter! We have to keep going or we'll be easy prey!"
"B-b-b-"
"Besides, a journey is made step by step you know... We just have to keep continuing onwards. When nightfalls, we can rest!" With that Chishiki started on again.
"NIGHTFALL!?" Kenshou fell backwards onto the ground crying, "No no no!! Can't we just sit 'round now? I'm so tired and I don't think I can wa--" Suddenly she was hit in the head with a rock.
"Don't be so lazy!" Chishiki scolded. "Now get up and walk!"
Suddenly the two girls was over come with a great sense of deja vu, but neither understood where it was from... and neither wanted to mention it. Kenshou jumped to her feet and caught up to the older girl, who sighed and gestured through the trees saying, "Let's go."
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author's note: Well... now this is up to you readers. You gotta tell me whether or not you want this fantasy type plot, or a more realistic fiction. I actually have two ways that this story could go in my head. This chapter is the start of the fantasy way, and another chapter is in the works. That one will be more toned down of the creatures and other worldly stuff, and the most fantasy will be the occurance of dreams(which will occur in this version too)
So, if you guys want, tell me which way to go... cuz I could REALLY use your input. If not, I'm going to stop writing this, because unless I know what the readers want... there's not point. *taps head* SO long as I can see Tasuki and Chichiri together at the end, I don't care. So PLEASE don't just review, take the poll(by reviewing!)
POLL
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oFantasy(current plotline/this chapter)
oReality(other plotline/the chapter in my head)
oThis story sucks, stop writing it((this would make ME cry!))
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Author's note: To satisfy boys and girls alike... two boys reborn as girls... and their destined love for one another.
****
"I want to hear your voice. Which way...do I go? I can't make it back...alone."
~*~
Kenshou pulled over towards, what appeared to be a large stadium. "Welcome to... my second home," she announced, jumping out of the car.
"What is this place?"
The younger girl swung out her arms and gestured to the entire arena. "This," she said, "is where I spent alot of my childhood. It's also where I met Koji. This is the racetrack. I just wanted to show it to you. We don't have to go inside." She smiled and pointed back to the car. "So, where do you want to go m'lady?" she asked in a gentlemanly manner.
"Kenshou?"
Chishiki and Kenshou turned towards the voice, and they saw someone standing near them by a mototcycle, a dark helmet over his head. "Koji," Kenshou groaned, holding her head in her hands.
He pushed up the screen, his face screwed into a serious expression. "So," he said rather bitterly, "you're Chishiki, eh? Kenshou's tutor?"
She nodded, looking away, her face flushed. "I-i-i-i-i- Nice to meet you," she stuttered.
"What are ya doin' here Koji?" Kenshou snapped.
"I race here, ya got a problem with that?"
"Just stay outta this, will ya?"
"I wasn't even going to make a comment. You noticed me first."
"You fuckin' bastard Koji."
He snapped the plexiglass over his face, meaning the discussion was over. Mounting his bike, he revved it and took off. Kenshou spat on the ground, her hands stuck deep into her pockets. "What was that about, Kenshou?" Chishiki asked, slowly.
"He's just a damn shit--" she sighed and ran her fingers through her short hair.
"I'm so sorry... I wish there's something I could do. Friendship must have a stronger bond tha--"
Kenshou waved off the comment, even before she could finish it. She didn't want to hear anything about friendship. "Look, he's just as stubborn and pigheaded as myself. In fact, sometimes I think he's worse... but then again, that could just be my hatred towards boys speaking," she spat.
She sighed and climbed back into her car. "Well, let's go Chishiki..."
~*~
That was really the last thing Chishiki remembered before she was surrounded by a warm feeling of water rushing around her body. She felt herself being pulled away from the world she knew as home, and for a moment she fell. Now, she felt the solid warmth of earth upon her back. Opening her one good eye she stared up at a light blue sky nearly white with clouds. She groaned and rested a hand against her forehead. Suddenly she jumped up crying, "Kenshou!!"
She looked around in bewilderment. Her surroundings were not of the busy streets of Japan, instead she was sitting in a large field of tall grass. Shaking, she rose to her feet, her knees knocking together as she tried to regain the balance she lost, who knows how long ago. Suddenly a breeze seemed to brush past her ear, whipping her hair gently. It seemed to whisper, "Welcome warrior, welcome warrior, welcome to my game."
"Game? Who are you!?" she cried into the wind.
"I have summoned each of you, each of you to play my little game," the breeze whispered in reply.
"Each of who?" she asked again, her voice becoming more frightened.
"Each of the warriors... the warriors of Suzaku.... Play my game, find the others and you will be free." And then, the voice, the breeze, both gone. Chishiki wrapped her arms around herself in insecurity. A choked sob escaped her throat, and she slid to the ground. Why the salty tears were streaming down her cheeks, she didn't know, but she felt so lost and detached... the same feeling as when she was suddenly locked in prison, the same feeling as when HE was locked away for her sake.
"Looks like I found a little lost kitty-cat!"
Chishiki looked up as a shadow loomed over her. She could barely make out the face, but there was the familar black and blue coat, and bright red hair. She jumped up and wrapped her arms around Kenshou sobbing, "I was so afraid!!"
"Hey now... ya gotta be calm in a situation like this. Don't tell me yer afraid of some kinda voice now, are ya?"
"You heard it too?"
Kenshou nodded, a smile on her lips. "Yeah," she said casually, "I figured that this is some kinda joke, some kinda game, like the voice said. We ride it out until the end and we go home, ya know?" She pulled Chishiki from the tight embrace and looked her in the eye. "Besides, I'm here, ain't I? I'll protect the both o'us. Even though you ARE older," she added with a smile.
"Easier said than done..." the two heard whisper in their ears. Suddenly the scenery seemed to shift, change shape like a hologram. The ground shook, and grew rocky beneath their feet. The grass grew thick and wild curling up the trees that sprung from the ground. As the sky darkened from the heavy limbs crossing over their heads, they knew where they were.
"A fuckin' forest," Kenshou swore, looking around for a way of escaping.
Chishiki puffed out her chest and cried, "Okay! We'll play your sick game! Now, lay out the rules!"
An owl hooted from behind them, a low, "Hoo, hoo, hoo."
The two girls turned around to face the gray barn own. It's small beak opening with each, "Hoo," it's head turned slightly to the side. The owl raised both wings for a moment and then it began to speak. "The name of the game," it said, "is to find a way out of this area. Continue along the path until you find your little friends. She's made sure to bring them here as well."
"Friends? What friends?" Kenshou cried out, leaping towards the owl. "You leave Koji outta this! It's bad enough you had ta bring Chishiki inta all dis!"
"Who's Koji?" the owl asked, its head turning even more.
"I don't have any other friends," Chishiki said slowly, her brow furrowed in anger.
The owl let out a short series of hoots, as if it were laughing. "Ah yes, your friends," it said, still chuckling, "She hasn't harmed your friends from now. Just from then." It flapped it's large wings and flew off, rising above the limbs and escaping through one of the small openings.
Kenshou sat down on the ground, and a moment of silence passed between the two. Finally she asked, "Ya don't got any other friends?"
Chishiki shook her head slowly while she whispered, "I don't have any other friends that can be hurt..."
"Whadya mean?"
The blue haired girl's hand rose to her bangs for a moment. She brushed it lightly, as if she were about to push them aside. Again her hand fell back. "It's... nothing..."
Kenshou stood up and brushed off her coat, absentmindedly. "Well, let's get outta here," she said and started off. Chishiki ran up to her, catching the girl from behind.
"Hold on," she hissed, "where are you going?"
"Outta here!"
"You don't even know the surr-"
Kenshou turned around and shook the elder girl by the shoulders roughly. "Listen 'ere, Chishiki. We don't know what's beyond dis forest, so all we gotta do is head out. And there's an exit in every direction. Forests don't stretch on foreva, ya know that!"
"Al--"
Kenshou held up a hand for silence, and she whirled around. Something else was in the forest with them, she could hear the ground cracking beneath its feet. She pushed the elder girl behind her protectively, one hand outstretched. Suddenly something jumped out from behind the trees, and tackled her to the ground. Chishiki screamed, watching as a cat-like beast threatened to bite the younger woman's head off. "STOP SCREAMING!!" Kenshou cried, her hands moving to clamp the monster's mouth shut.
The blue haired woman obeyed, and backed up against a tree.
The creature clawed away at the dirt, fighting to get it's jaw free. Suddenly a claw took out a part of Kenshou's jacket and shoulder. She grunted, and cried, "You're SO DEAD!" Suddenly the demon was surrounded by white hot fire, and it roared. It staggered around, freeing her at the same time, until the cat-beast fell to the ground, nothing left of its body. "AHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Kenshou whirled around and saw Chishiki being wrapped up by vines, pulling her hard against a tree. The blue haired girl was screaming, her face contorted in pain. The firey haired girl suddenly heard a series of distict cracking, the sounds of a spine under too much pressure. "OKAY! TOO MUCH AT ONCE!" Kenshou cried, charging towards the tree with her elbow. Her felt her bone strain upon the contact, but the living tree let up, releasing Chishiki.
She coughed, a hand clutched to her chest. Her breath was heavy and rattled, but she managed to croak, "Ah-are you alright, Kenshou?"
"Yeah... a little beat up, but it's all good." She grunted and gripped a hand around the wound on her shoulder. "I guess this game won't be as easy as I thought," she added with a grin.
Chishiki knocked Kenshou's hand out of the way, and she took the girl's shoulder into her hands for a moment, blowing on it to clear the wound of the dry dirt. The younger woman hissed, feeling the coldness of her breath on the raw flesh. "Okay," Chishiki said slowly, "this might hurt."
The older girl ripped a piece of the blue stole, and eased the cloth into the wound to remove the remaining dirt. Then, with another peice, she tied it around Kenshou's shoulder to stop the bleeding. "There," she said with a smile, while folding the ripped part under her arm, "all better!"
Kenshou moved her arm a bit to test out the bandaging. "Th-thanks Chishiki."
"No problem!" Then, as if she were taken over by a whole new spirit, she pointed in a direction and exclaimed, "Now, let us march forth, and we'll keep going until we find someone we can talk to!"
"S'long as its not a talking owl, or a moving tree, I'm up fer it!"
~*~
The forest seemed to extend forever and without end, but the duo didn't encounter any further attacks... for the time being. Kenshou groaned in irritation, stopped in her tracks and complained, "We've been walkin' ferever! Why can't we stop and take a break?"
Chishiki turned around, and extened a finger towards her. "Look, we can't stop here! We're almost out of here, I think... but it doesn't matter! We have to keep going or we'll be easy prey!"
"B-b-b-"
"Besides, a journey is made step by step you know... We just have to keep continuing onwards. When nightfalls, we can rest!" With that Chishiki started on again.
"NIGHTFALL!?" Kenshou fell backwards onto the ground crying, "No no no!! Can't we just sit 'round now? I'm so tired and I don't think I can wa--" Suddenly she was hit in the head with a rock.
"Don't be so lazy!" Chishiki scolded. "Now get up and walk!"
Suddenly the two girls was over come with a great sense of deja vu, but neither understood where it was from... and neither wanted to mention it. Kenshou jumped to her feet and caught up to the older girl, who sighed and gestured through the trees saying, "Let's go."
~*~
author's note: Well... now this is up to you readers. You gotta tell me whether or not you want this fantasy type plot, or a more realistic fiction. I actually have two ways that this story could go in my head. This chapter is the start of the fantasy way, and another chapter is in the works. That one will be more toned down of the creatures and other worldly stuff, and the most fantasy will be the occurance of dreams(which will occur in this version too)
So, if you guys want, tell me which way to go... cuz I could REALLY use your input. If not, I'm going to stop writing this, because unless I know what the readers want... there's not point. *taps head* SO long as I can see Tasuki and Chichiri together at the end, I don't care. So PLEASE don't just review, take the poll(by reviewing!)
POLL
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oFantasy(current plotline/this chapter)
oReality(other plotline/the chapter in my head)
oThis story sucks, stop writing it((this would make ME cry!))