Live for the Third Time
By: Moon-chanz!
Moonchanz- I'm creating so many stories from watching too much anime! . All this is giving me too many ideas! I recently seen the last episode of Cowboy Bebop and just got this idea. Oh yeah, before I forget, I have a guest here to help me with my Author's Notes.
Spike- Hey.
Moonchanz- That's right! I invited CB's Spike! ::glomps him:: Oh, I love you! I do I do I do!
Spike- ::struggles to let himself free:: You're…hurting…me…
Moonchanz- Will you stay for every chapter?
Spike- Hell…n---::I think something cracked:: OKAY! I WILL, I WILL! LET ME GO!
Moonchanz- ::reluctantly lets him go:: Now. State the disclaimers, onegai, Spikey-chan!
Spike- ::muttering bunches of unnecessary words::
Moonchanz- Wha?!
Spike- ::sweatdrops:: Moonchanz do---
Moonchanz- That's Moonchanz-sama!
Spike- Moonchanz-SAMA does not own Cowboy Bebop or Sailor Moon but she claims she does and I hope someone would just sue the girl so I ca---
Moonchanz- ::gags him:: Let's just continue.
Spike- Mrrmphmurrrrrmhhpp!
Session #1:
Another Unwanted Chance
After defeating the Red Dragon Syndicate's newest leader, Vicious, Spike stumbles down the stairs. Looking at the surprised members around him he holds up his fingers in the shape of a gun and smirks.
"Bang…"
With that he slowly dropped down to the floor slowly, dying…fading ever so slowly. Lying on the staircase, he thinks back on what happened in the past few hours. When he had told Jet about his past lover that he left behind. He had finally met the woman he left behind, only for he to dye protecting him. How had left and seen Faye straining to hold her tears back when he went after Vicious. How his battle with Vicious ended and his feeling of pain where his enemy's final strike of a sword was planted.
'Onegai…Onegai, don't die yet…'
Spike's eyes slowly open and everything around him is in a blur, "Who is there…?"
'Onegai…Please come for another chance…""A…nother chance…? Who…are you?"
'I'll give you a third chance of life. You have already lost two what if I can give you another…?'Spike thinks back on his life with the Red Dragon Syndicate, trying to run away from the syndicate with Julia only to be betrayed, and his life with Jet, Faye, Ein, and Ed as a cowboy*. Two different lives lead to one result…one solid death. He was being given another chance of life, a chance to live again and escape his solid death. And yet…wouldn't Julia be waiting for him after death? Julia…the only woman who he could ever love…would he want to escape his chance in spending an eternity with her…
'Julia…she's been reborn into another life also…but she won't ever remember you. She has to start over. Your love has to begin and end again. No…it'll only end if you let it.'
"What the hell are you talking about…?" The members of the syndicate stare at Spike mumbling to himself (or so they think) and feel absolutely confused.
'She has been reborn into a completely different person, Spike. She will never remember you or anything else. But…she still has that irresistible womanly charm. That charm that you were spellbound by. The charm of an enchantress…tehee…I shall give you a third chance…you cannot complain. It will not help at all…'
Spike groans, "No…let me die and be with the Julia that I loved…"
'Too late…live and find Julia reincarnated!'The voice giggles and fades away leaving Spike lying on the stairs. He was begging to think that it was a dream until a black haze enveloped him. The darkness was burning his heart and he was oblivious of the mesmerized people of a former syndicate. He could hear the voice echoing in his head and his heart was corrupted by darkness he couldn't describe. He felt lost without Julia, Jet, Ed, Ein, and Faye.
~*~
Usagi merrily walks down the street. It was her seventeenth birthday and she was happy as ever. Ever since Chaos's defeat life had been supremely peaceful. She had decided to move into her own apartment for the sake of her own privacy and was doing quite well…thanks to Makoto of course. He grades were greatly improving…thanks to Ami for helping her. She had a major fashion sense…thanks to none other than Minako. She was great at cleaning her apartment…with a couple of lessons from Makoto and Rei. The blonde also thought that she had the most magnificent boyfriend in the world. It was a shame that he was in America; he would have been so happy that she had matured so much.
She happily walked through the park, enjoying the summer beauty. Looking around at the benches she had to say that she envied the couples sitting together, making out. She only spoke to Mamoru in letters and he never sent her pictures. She sighs and walks over to the lake.
Sitting at the edge she sees something floating on top of the water that resembled a…human body! She looks further out and sighs as she notices that the wind wasn't strong enough to pull the body-like thing in…she would have to swim for it. She kicked of her shoes and dived into the ice-cold water.
'Kuso! This water is too damn cold!' she thinks as she swims out to the body. When she reached the thing she gasped as she realized that it was a human. Taking the heavy male form she swims to the shore and takes the time to notice his features. He was a tall, handsome man with green hair and pale skin due to lying in the freezing water.
She picks him up, forgetting about her shoes, and stumbles under his weight. "Geez…I wish I was as strong as Mako-chan." She continues to walk down the sidewalk, ignoring people's stares, until she got to the apartment building she lives in. Pressing the elevator button 'up' she silently wonders how this man got into the lake in the first place. Suddenly she frowns and sighs.
"I'm sure other people seen him floating out there…thoughtless bastards…" she grumbles as she walks into the elevator. Getting off the elevator, she unlocks and roughly shoves open the door to her apartment. She sets him down on the couch and smiles at her accomplishment. Looking down at her hands she gasps and rushes to the man's side. Touching his waist, she can feel warm blood.
"Oh my Kami-sama! He's bleeding!" She quickly takes off the shirt and notices that he had a nicely built chest. 'No time to be thinking about that!' rushing into the bathroom she pulls out her Medical Kit and proceeds to clean his wound.
~*~
Spike feels himself plunged into a coldness and shivers. This feeling…he was in water. Floating…floating.
"Julia…damn that stupid voice…" he coughs up some water and finally passes out. About thirty minutes later he could feel himself being lifted from the depths of the water. Someone had come to finally save him. He could tell it was a female because he was being held close to a pair of soft breast. After a while, he could feel that they had finally reached land and she was taking him somewhere. He knew he was a heavy burden by the occasional grunting. After a while he got tired and fell into a long sleep about his 27 years of life.
~*~
Spike wakes up with wide eyes and sweat dripping down is body. Trying to get up, he winces in pain and notices the bandage on his side.
'That's right…that voice took me somewhere after my fight with Vicious.' He looks around the room and observes the sliver, blue, black, and gray hue in the room he was in. There were pictures of a blonde-haired girl with odangos with what seemed like her friends. Resting his head he also notices the bed was quite comfortable too. He sat there for about 5 minutes until the door to the room finally opens to reveal a certain young blonde with a Medical Kit. She notices that he was awake and smiles brightly.
"Good morning, sir!" she walks over the bedside and begins to unwrap the bandage. "Where am I and who are you? How long have I been out?" She finishes putting the ointment on and new bandages and grins up at him. "You're in my room, I'm Usagi Tsukino, and you've been out for about a week. If I hadn't have found you in the lake then you would've surely died. But…why were you in the lake?" Spike turns away and says nothing.
She nods understandingly, "If you don't want to talk about it yet then I won't force you. So…" she pauses and looks him in the eyes. They were two different shades—a cranberry and a darker cranberry—"So…what's your name?"
He stares at her, still thinking of what the voice said, before answering, "Spike Spiegel." She smiles and nods. They sat in silence while she was putting away the things used to clean his sword cut. A low grumbling from Spike's stomach interrupts the silence and they sweatdrop. "I guess you're hungry?" He nods slightly, "Yeah…"
She nods and gets up, "I'll make some beef stew for dinner." Spike grins, "My favorite. My friend back home used to make it all the time…though sometimes it'd be without the beef." They laugh for a minute before Usagi excuses herself to start dinner. "If you need anything, don't hesitate to call!"
Spike smiles after the young girl and lays his head down on the soft pillow. Why had that voice kept him alive? Where was he now? All these questions were unanswered and he drifted back to sleep.
~*~
Usagi mixed the broccoli, beef, bell peppers, and gravy into her slow cooker and sat on the couch for a minute. 'I wonder how he got in the lake…it seems like a touchy subject though.' She watches the television and flicks channels for about an hour. 'It's kinda quiet…he must've went back to sleep…' she looks into her room and smiles at the site of the man sleeping peacefully. 'I wonder how old he is…' She blushes and shrugs off this thought.
Walking back into the kitchen she notices that the stew was just about done and gets out a pair of china bowls. She takes a ladle and fills each bowl setting a pair of chopsticks in each. The blonde rushes over to the table and sets down two glasses of soda along with the beef stew. She then smiles in satisfaction.
"Looks good." A voice says behind her. She yelps, jumping on the table, and turns around to see Spike standing there looking at the meal. "I-wha…uh…thanks. I thought you were sleep.' She finally spills out. He grins, "The smell woke me up. Now, let's eat. I'm hungry!" She nods and they sit at the table eating in silence. Usagi, wanting to show manners to her guest, eats slowly but after seeing the way he scarfs down his food she speeds up to normal pace. She takes a sip of her soda and stares at him. 'There's no way he could be over twenty…'
"Uh…how old are you anyway?" she asks. He looks up from his bowl and gulps down a piece of beef, "27." Usagi nearly fell out her chair in shock, "T-twenty seven?!" she sighs, ' Mamoru isn't even that old. He's six years younger…' He nods, "Is that a problem?" she blushes and vigorously shakes her head. "How old are you?" he asks, finishing his stew. "Uh…seventeen. Today's my birthday." Spike raises an eyebrow, 'I could've sworn she was older than that…' They sit silently staring at each other, sipping their sodas.
The door opening broke the awkward silence and they quickly tore out of the staring to see whom it was. "Usagi-chan! I decided to let myself I—oh…" Minako stood at the door looking between Spike and Usagi then at the dinner for two. "V-chan, what---" she stops her sentence as she notices Minako grinning slyly and slinks over to the blushing Usagi and whispers, "I didn't know that you had company Usagi-chan…you bad girl you." Usagi turns scarlet and nearly falls out her chair, as she whispers back, "No It's not like that!" Minako continues to tease Usagi and the birthday girl tries to explain.
Spike stares at the two bubbly girls and grins, 'They must be best friends…' He suddenly starts to feel dizzy and notices that his wound was bleeding again. He slowly passed out and dropped to the floor. As he was losing consciousness he could hear Usagi and Minako gasp in surprise and rush over to him.
See You Lost Cowboy…
Moonchanz- Oh…an interesting romance this will be right?
Spike- ::angrily bonks Moonchanz:: That's illegal! It's a Lolita complex!
Moonchanz- ::grins:: I know! That's the interesting part!
Spike- ::frowns:: I'm ten years older than her!
Moonchanz- ::shrugs:: Age doesn't matter in love! HAHAAHAHAHAHA!
Spike- I hate you.
Moonchanz- ::glomps Spike:: You don't mean that Spikey-chan…
Spike- Try me.
Moonchanz- ::eyes narrow:: …Or I'll have to do something much more evil than this ten year age difference thing…
Spike- ::shrinks and sweatdrops:: Uh…I…::mumble::
Moonchanz- ::raises an eyebrow:: You what? Say it so the readers can read it…
Spike- I…l-l-l-l-love you.
Moonchanz- ::hugs him:: I love you too!
Spike- Please…I beg you readers not to review so she won't have the morale to write anymore. This Lolita complex is enough damage to my reputation. I don't want--- Mrrmphmurrrrrmhhpp!
Moonchanz- Please don't mind Spikey-chan…he's just a little off the edge at the moment. Anyway, R&R please! I love you all! Now Spikey-chan and I have to rehearse with Usagi for the next chapter! BAI-BAI!