Author's Note: Not a good writer. Trying to improve. Bare with me. Also, I apologize if there's any OOC-ness because there may be some and I might not notice it. I dont intend on putting any OOC-ness in this fic. By the way, I think Ceres could do just about anything. She's cool like that.
I also have some ramblings to do about this fic at the end of this chapter.
Dislcaimer: Ayashi no Ceres and all its characters belong to the Almighty Holy One, Yu Watase, and its other rightful owners. I don't own anything but myself, but I sure as hell wish I owned Yuuhi Aogiri. *grins*
Helen was lying on a cold floor and slowly opened her heavy eyelids. She sat up and saw nothing but darkness.
"Yuuhi? Yuuhi! Where are you?"
"You," a voice said.
"What? Who said that?"
A shadow of a feminine body surrounded by a bright light appeared in the distance in front of Helen. She stood up and walked toward the shadow.
"You," the voice said again, "are not Aya Mikage."
"What? Who are you? Where am I?" Helen began to wonder what was happening. She took a better look and saw that the light disappeared and a woman with beautiful long blue hair appeared.
"My name is Ceres and we are in talking in your unconscious mind."
"My what? Are you telling me that I'm currently unconscious?"
Ceres nodded. "Yes, I used my power to cause you to become so. You will wake up, however. Do you know how you came here in this world?"
"I...don't know anything," Helen said with a shrug as she looked at her feet. "I was just in my backyard one moment, and the next moment, I was here."
"Aya wished to temporarily get away from her life," Ceres answered. "She wanted to trade lives with someone else for a bit. You and Aya coincidentally made a wish to be somewhere else other than your lives at the same time. You could have gone back if you had willed it. Aya, however, wasn't feeling very well and I could tell she didn't wish for it from her heart."
"If I willed it?"
Ceres nodded again. "Yes. Why didn't you? Why is it that you're still here?"
"I...I...don't want to go back." Helen imagined Yuuhi's smiling face.
"You will have to. Your presence here will alter things significantly."
Helen turned so that her back was facing Ceres and looked straight ahead into the darkness. "I know that."
"Look into this mirror," Ceres said. Helen turned around and saw her real reflection. She saw her dark brown hair, her round brown eyes, her own self. "Do you see your true self?" Helen nodded. She then saw her friends and family. "Now, do you see everything you consider important in your world?" Helen nodded again. "Why don't you want to go back to that?"
Helen didn't answer. Ceres made her decision and said, "Very well then. To make things easier for everyone, I will have to return you and Aya to your rightful bodies with my own power." Ceres raised her right hand and some of her power began to glow.
"Ceres! No!" Helen shouted as she ran towards Ceres and fell to her knees, begging. "Please, not yet. Just a little longer. I'm happier here. Please, let me stay a little longer."
Ceres stopped and could tell she was desperate because tears were coming from her eyes. "Alright then. Just a little while longer. But only under one condition. You must help me get my hagoromo back as Aya had promised me."
Helen got up and wiped her tears. "Yes, I will," she said as she nodded. "Thank you so much, Ceres."
"If you ever need my help, just call out to me and I will appear. Also, there is another thing."
Helen looked at Ceres with her round brown eyes. "You will have to set aside your feelings for Yuuhi. Love is blind and he loves Aya. If you tell him how you really feel or give even a hint, he will take it as though it is Aya who is saying it to him, which is what he wants to hear. Do not make that mistake."
Helen slowly nodded and Ceres disappeared. "Aya..." she heard a faint voice from far away say. "Aya..."
Helen lay in the hospital bed and opened her eyes. Her vision was blurred but she could tell Yuuhi was sitting by her side by his red headband. "Yuuhi," she said as she smiled. "...set aside your feeligns for Yuuhi..."
"You've been out for a couple of hours," Yuuhi said in relief.
"Aya!" a little girl with pigtails that looked about ten years old yelled and ran to her other side.
"Ceres," she whispered. She recalled her conversation with Ceres and immediately sat up. "Ouch," she said as she rubbed her right temple.
"They said that you hit your head on the floor when you fainted," the little girl said.
"Who...are...you?" Helen asked the little girl.
"WHAT??? AYA!!! IS YUUHI THE ONLY PERSON YOU REMEMBER??? DID YOU GET AMNESIA???" the little girl yelled.
"That's Chidori Kuruma," Yuuhi said. "Chidori, it's a long story. We'll explain later."
"You better! I'll be waiting outside!" Chidori said as she walked out and closed the door to the room, leaving Yuuhi and Helen alone.
"Did you just whisper 'Ceres'?" Yuuhi asked.
"Yeah...I talked to her. Yuuhi, we have to find the hagoromo."
"In order to do that, you're gonna have to get outta here first, don't you?"
A knock on the door was heard and a doctor with reddish hair and green eyes walked in. "So, you've woken up," he said.
"What the hell are you doing here," Yuuhi said as he quickly got up from his chair. "You're not a real doctor, so why don't you go back to where you came from."
"Technically, I am qualified to be a doctor. It's all fabrication. Aya Mikage, you can go home. Nothing seems wrong with you, except the small wound on your forehead."
Helen looked at Yuuhi, then at the doctor and wondered why Yuuhi would say such things to him.
"I better get going now. I have other patients to see," the doctor said as he walked out of the room.
When the door was closed, Helen asked, "Yuuhi, who was that? Do you know him?"
"Yeah," Yuuhi replied. "You do too. That was Tooya. That good for nothing son of a bitch. That fraud."
Helen looked at Yuuhi as he said those words and saw the negative emotion he felt towards Tooya in his eyes. "I can go home, right?" she asked him.
"Yeah, let's go."
In a blink of an eye, Helen was out of the room and running down the hall of the hospital, looking for a receptionist or a nurse.
"Aya! What the hell are you planning to do?" Yuuhi yelled to her.
"Just wait for me outside with Chidori!" she yelled back. "E-excuse me," she said to a nurse when she saw one. "Did you see a doctor with reddish hair and green eyes come down this hallway?"
"Oh, the new one? So you think he's good looking to, huh?" the nurse asked and gave a wink.
"Um...yeah, the new one. I have something important I need to talk to him about. Do you know which way he went?"
"He went straight down this hall," the nurse said as she pointed ahead. "He's right over there."
"Thank you," Helen said as she ran to catch up with Tooya. "Doctor! Doctor!" Dammit, I should've asked for his name, she thought. "Doctor," she said as she grabbed his forearm when she caught up to him.
"Yes?" Tooya said as he turned around.
"Tooya, I need to talk to you in private," she said quietly, hoping no one would hear.
Tooya gave a somewhat surprised look and nodded. "We'll talk in my office," he said as he led her there.
Helen followed him down the hall and waited as he unlocked the door to his office. He walked in first with her following and closed the blinds. She stood by a chair, facing his desk, which was positioned in front of the blinds and waited for him to be ready to listen. She saw him walk towards the door and turned around, watching his movements. She saw him lock the door and noticed how dark his office now was, with very little sunlight coming from small cracks in the blinds. She stepped back as he stepped towards her. She stopped and couldn't step back anymore since the desk was blocking her from anymore backward movements. Tooya captured her in an embrace.
"I've missed you, Aya," he said as his hands reached for the edge of the back of her shirt. She started to panic and didn't know what to do. Oh my gosh...Is Aya even still a virgin???
"T-Tooya?" she squeaked. "I...need to talk to you...it's important."
Tooya began to kiss her bare shoulders, since she was still in her tank top and shorts.
Helen began to panick more and said pulled him away. "Tooya, I have to talk to you about something important. I'm not Aya. I look like her and sound like her, but I'm not her. I'm supposed to be her. We switched bodies. It's kinda hard for me to explain. So, if you could, could you please suspend your feelings for Aya until she returns?"
"I'm sorry," Tooya apologized as he let her go.
"Tooya, I didn't want you to get hurt, which is why I'm telling you this. I didn't know whether I should tell you or not. I don't want anybody to end up hurt, but if someone has to, then it should be me. I know it's gonna be hard."
Tooya just nodded and reopened his blinds. "Well, then...I'll see you around, Tooya," Helen said as she walked out of his office.
So what do ya guys think of this? This chapter was revised so many times, which is why it took me a while to upload it. I had to keep checking to make sure which parts were appropriate and which weren't. Also, it takes a while for my laptop to load so I only did this when I had a lot of time on my hands that I wanted to kill. *laughs nervously* Well...there was this one part that I took out because it made Tooya seem like a sex-crazed child molestor or something. I guess you guys might have an idea of what it was. Go ahead, think what you like. Let your imagination run wild! I know I am.
Okay, this fic probably doesn't fit into any particular time in the series, but I just thought it'd be cool if I made certain things happen. Like Ceres being able to do things that I don't think she can officially do. I just think Ceres is just so awesome and that I'd like to have power like she does. *grins*
I really don't know where to go with the rest of this fic. I have no idea what to do. Now, if I made it some kind of crossover, think of all the madness I'd create! I'd like to see a crossover between Oh! My Goddess and Ayashi no Ceres. Just think: Skuld making inventions while Mrs. Q gets excited over them. A cooking contest between Belldandy and Yuuhi. Oh boy. I'm giving myself fanfic ideas! As for this real one, my mind is a blank. If you have any ideas, feel free to contact me on AOL Instant Messenger under the screen names:
I havta pee NOW
LiLPrincessPucca
I'll be sure to give you credit at the end. I use both screen names, but not at the same time since I don't have the AIM Clone. It's just that certain situations help me to decide which screen name I'd like to use.
Well, I hope you guys are enjoying this! (I doubt that people are...)