A/N: I know how cruel it was of me to leave you all hanging off at that point of the story,
and even crueler to do a `fake update' ^_^;;; But now it's for real! And I am keeping up
the outtakes at the end of each chapter, affectionately titled: PaRdOn ThE PaRoDy.
No air, cold, wet, silent. All warning signs that Temichica long knew to abide to for the
sake of survival. Yet, as she struggled to awaken her body, it would not respond. Her
mind and spirit both screamed at the vessel that refused to move. She paused when it
occurred to her that she could open her eyes, and none of the cold liquid rushed into her
nose or parted lips.
`Am I dead? Surely it would take me longer than that to die,' she thought vaguely as she
watched the shimmering light of the sun grow fainter and smaller by the second. Then,
she stopped sinking, and seemed to be held in suspended animation. She still felt herself
\ unable to move, and slowly, reluctantly sunk into a trance of the water's crisscrossing
patterns on the surface, and the dull, hypnotic silence of the lake's depths. Some part of
her mind that still functioned pondered why it was so silent. Usually, you could hear
things... moving, swimming, hunting, escaping, living. Dead. The whole lake was...
dead. For some reason, that silence, that deadness coursed more chills through her than
any thoughts of death she had ever had before.
"Are you alright?"
Temichica jerked, temporarily defying the invisible bond that held her, panicking as the
sudden intrusion brought her to reality.
"No! No! Please stop moving! You'll drown yourself!"
Under different circumstances, the panicked creature would have ignored the inaudible
call, and continued to struggle free, but something in the speaker's voice, a desperation,
made her stop. Still frightened and edgy, she struggled to answer in the same, unspoken
mode. "Wh-who are you?"
A sigh of relief. "It's alright, I don't want to hurt you. If you had struggled too much,
then the seal I created would have been broken, and you would have drowned."
"What...so you're... saving me?" A hum of confirmation. "So... it'd be nice to know the
identity of my rescuer, ya' know?" She was unsure how to react to a complete stranger
saving her.
" I-I'm a spirit... though I wasn't always...but that doesn't matter. Listen, you must leave
this place as soon as I return you to the surface! Never come back, please!" Again, the
tone of desperation.
"Why? It isn't because of that creep is it?"
"Please don't ask questions, just leave this horrible place as soon as you reach the top!"
With that, the water jaded sun started to grow bigger and brighter as she rose upward
with alarmingly increasing speed.
"Wait- I need to know why! I-" Temi's demand for more information was halted when
suddenly a bright red light surrounded her, then vortexed to the surface, taking her
savior's presence with it. At that instant, the water rushed into her nostrils and still parted
mouth, jerking her into action to reach the surface.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Unnngghhh..."
Cerberus started at the sound that came from the body draped over his back. Before he
had the chance to poke some fun at Yue for sleeping through so much, he saw a sight
that banished all humorous thoughts from the lion's mind.
"Marin! Oh dear Kami, please don't say she's-" Cerberus landed beside the stricken
sorceress, laying on the ground. Yue groaned again and opened his eyes.
He immediately wanted to close them again. All this time, what he thought was a horrific
nightmare, was reality being detected by his subconscious. The capture, his memory
being searched, his whole soul exposed to his enemy, the creature attacking his siblings who were trying to rescue him, Temichica falling, unconscious, into the water and
sinking into-
Yue jerked, suddenly brought to life once again by- his little sister, she was- he
desperately reached out to feel her presence- `In the lake, oh gods, she's in the lake!'
"TEMICHICA!!!" The thought of his younger sister drowning gave him an explosion of
power, and he leapt off of Cerberus' back.
"Yue! Wha-"
"Stay with her!" Yue ordered his brother, then turned heel and took off in the direction
they had just come from. Cerberus strained to follow Yue, but then halted and did as he
said. He knew better to question his brother when he spoke in that tone.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
PaRdOn ThE PaRoDy
Readers: ... WHAAAAT!!?!??
Mateem: *tosses out some outtakes for readers to tear through first then runs for dear life*
Chapter 5: Mage of Good Will
Take 1:
Marin: Are you guys okay?
Yue: *wolf whistle* I am now! *_* *gets socked in the jaw by Marin*
Take 2:
Cerberus: Aaannd the ultimately handsome guy saaaves the day again! Thank you, thank you, all my loyal faaaahhhhh- *squeaks and eyes cross*
Mateem: Ah, Temi, I think you aimed a little too low on that one...
Temi: Sorry `bout that...
Yue: *hisses through his teeth in sympathy*
Take 3:
Marin: I-I think it may be me he's after...and people are suffering simply because
they're in his pathway of destruction
Temi: Why you?
Marin: Because he's been...harassing me lately...
Temi: Then for get a restraining order on `im! Whadda waiting for!?
Marin: Er, Temi, first, wrong line, second, who the heck is going to put a restraining order on Clow Reed!?
Temi: Ghostbusters of course!
Cast: *falls over*
and even crueler to do a `fake update' ^_^;;; But now it's for real! And I am keeping up
the outtakes at the end of each chapter, affectionately titled: PaRdOn ThE PaRoDy.
No air, cold, wet, silent. All warning signs that Temichica long knew to abide to for the
sake of survival. Yet, as she struggled to awaken her body, it would not respond. Her
mind and spirit both screamed at the vessel that refused to move. She paused when it
occurred to her that she could open her eyes, and none of the cold liquid rushed into her
nose or parted lips.
`Am I dead? Surely it would take me longer than that to die,' she thought vaguely as she
watched the shimmering light of the sun grow fainter and smaller by the second. Then,
she stopped sinking, and seemed to be held in suspended animation. She still felt herself
\ unable to move, and slowly, reluctantly sunk into a trance of the water's crisscrossing
patterns on the surface, and the dull, hypnotic silence of the lake's depths. Some part of
her mind that still functioned pondered why it was so silent. Usually, you could hear
things... moving, swimming, hunting, escaping, living. Dead. The whole lake was...
dead. For some reason, that silence, that deadness coursed more chills through her than
any thoughts of death she had ever had before.
"Are you alright?"
Temichica jerked, temporarily defying the invisible bond that held her, panicking as the
sudden intrusion brought her to reality.
"No! No! Please stop moving! You'll drown yourself!"
Under different circumstances, the panicked creature would have ignored the inaudible
call, and continued to struggle free, but something in the speaker's voice, a desperation,
made her stop. Still frightened and edgy, she struggled to answer in the same, unspoken
mode. "Wh-who are you?"
A sigh of relief. "It's alright, I don't want to hurt you. If you had struggled too much,
then the seal I created would have been broken, and you would have drowned."
"What...so you're... saving me?" A hum of confirmation. "So... it'd be nice to know the
identity of my rescuer, ya' know?" She was unsure how to react to a complete stranger
saving her.
" I-I'm a spirit... though I wasn't always...but that doesn't matter. Listen, you must leave
this place as soon as I return you to the surface! Never come back, please!" Again, the
tone of desperation.
"Why? It isn't because of that creep is it?"
"Please don't ask questions, just leave this horrible place as soon as you reach the top!"
With that, the water jaded sun started to grow bigger and brighter as she rose upward
with alarmingly increasing speed.
"Wait- I need to know why! I-" Temi's demand for more information was halted when
suddenly a bright red light surrounded her, then vortexed to the surface, taking her
savior's presence with it. At that instant, the water rushed into her nostrils and still parted
mouth, jerking her into action to reach the surface.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Unnngghhh..."
Cerberus started at the sound that came from the body draped over his back. Before he
had the chance to poke some fun at Yue for sleeping through so much, he saw a sight
that banished all humorous thoughts from the lion's mind.
"Marin! Oh dear Kami, please don't say she's-" Cerberus landed beside the stricken
sorceress, laying on the ground. Yue groaned again and opened his eyes.
He immediately wanted to close them again. All this time, what he thought was a horrific
nightmare, was reality being detected by his subconscious. The capture, his memory
being searched, his whole soul exposed to his enemy, the creature attacking his siblings who were trying to rescue him, Temichica falling, unconscious, into the water and
sinking into-
Yue jerked, suddenly brought to life once again by- his little sister, she was- he
desperately reached out to feel her presence- `In the lake, oh gods, she's in the lake!'
"TEMICHICA!!!" The thought of his younger sister drowning gave him an explosion of
power, and he leapt off of Cerberus' back.
"Yue! Wha-"
"Stay with her!" Yue ordered his brother, then turned heel and took off in the direction
they had just come from. Cerberus strained to follow Yue, but then halted and did as he
said. He knew better to question his brother when he spoke in that tone.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
PaRdOn ThE PaRoDy
Readers: ... WHAAAAT!!?!??
Mateem: *tosses out some outtakes for readers to tear through first then runs for dear life*
Chapter 5: Mage of Good Will
Take 1:
Marin: Are you guys okay?
Yue: *wolf whistle* I am now! *_* *gets socked in the jaw by Marin*
Take 2:
Cerberus: Aaannd the ultimately handsome guy saaaves the day again! Thank you, thank you, all my loyal faaaahhhhh- *squeaks and eyes cross*
Mateem: Ah, Temi, I think you aimed a little too low on that one...
Temi: Sorry `bout that...
Yue: *hisses through his teeth in sympathy*
Take 3:
Marin: I-I think it may be me he's after...and people are suffering simply because
they're in his pathway of destruction
Temi: Why you?
Marin: Because he's been...harassing me lately...
Temi: Then for get a restraining order on `im! Whadda waiting for!?
Marin: Er, Temi, first, wrong line, second, who the heck is going to put a restraining order on Clow Reed!?
Temi: Ghostbusters of course!
Cast: *falls over*