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~What Needs to be Done: Pink Bubbles~
Aimee happily tossed the ball back and forth with Rei. She hadn't ever had a real friend. She didn't think that the tall blonde man that no one else could see could be counted as 'real,' especially because he never seemed to be able to touch things.
She didn't know the words to describe her feelings, but she knew that Rei somehow didn't act as 'grown up' as she did. But Rei was a very happy, cheerful person. Even if she seemed a bit childish, Aimee enjoyed being around her.
Rei was starting feel that tossing the bright pink ball back and forth was boring. It was a nice ball, but it wasn't too interesting. "I'm bored," she announced to Aimee as she tossed the ball.
Her new friend caught the ball and regarded her curiously. "What do you want to do?"
She thought seriously about that question. "I like playing dress-up or exploring. What do you like to do?"
Aimee didn't know any games, besides the ones that they let her play at school. "Um, what you said sounds fun." Her eyes lit up. "There's a lot of rooms in Warren's house. I've only been in a few of them, but the house is big!"
"Really?" Aimee nodded. "Then let's go!" Rei said happily. "Since I'm not leaving the house, my big brother won't be mad at me."
The two friends walked off to begin their new game. They walked across the living room and up the stairs, where a missed step tripped Rei. Aimee caught her so that she didn't fall. She accidentally dropped the ball, but she decided not to pick it up.
The pink ball bounced slowly to the bottom of the stairs, where a blonde man in blue armor caught it. "Nyan-Nyan," he said monotonously, "what are you doing here?"
The ball made a popping sound, and suddenly it was a green-haired girl in a pink dress sitting on the bottom of the stairs. No one noticed either her or the blonde man. "Nakago," the Nyan-Nyan said with a giggle, "I didn't expect to see you here! Getting attached to your reincarnate?"
"I don't see why, but I am. Tell me this: if I am reincarnated, why am I not in the body?"
She made a peace sign. "Simple, simple! You will eventually become part of her when she grows up, but right now she's too young for your personality to merge completely with hers. The part of you that isn't merged with hers appears as a separate spirit, even if the soul is one."
"Hmm." His face showed no expression, but his eyes turned to watch the 'pool party' that the Suzaku and Seishi were having together. "I realize now that I was wrong to have the ambition that I did. The world is cruel and uncaring towards humans, but it would be unjust to get revenge on the whole race."
"And?"
"The way I fought against the Suzaku seishi was…wrong. It created strife between Seiryuu and Suzaku that still has not been solved. Both wish to forgive their brother, but they cannot because their humans do not wish for it."
"They sent their celestial warriors here, to this world, because it gave them a chance to fix everything," Nyan-Nyan said neutrally. "When they die in this world, they will go on to be reborn in the priestesses' world. Kotori is Miaka's preincarnation, but at the same time, she has not been born in Miaka's world. Her soul will be enriched by this life, and so it will be more prepared to summon Suzaku in the next… or, the one after the next, for Kotori's next life will be in this world."
"Such a feat must be possible only for a god. It is the same for Yui-sama, correct?" Nakago asked dryly.
Nyan-Nyan smiled. "Right! And the gods are merely warping the space-time continuum slightly to get their wishes fulfilled."
Nakago raised an eyebrow regally, but he did not comment. Instead, he said, "I will go and keep watch over…myself…now." He walked past the Nyan-Nyan and up the stairs. "You should do whatever you were sent to do."
The magical being called Nyan-Nyan smiled and chose a seat in the living room. I think that I will let the new warriors have their fun first. Taiitsukun had sent her with an important message, but it was not too urgent. She was supposed to wait for all of the seishi to gather, and Tomo and Soi were still missing.
A large wave of water smacked into Hikaru. "Derrick!" she yelled, pissed, "What the hell do ya think yer doin'?"
Derrick smiled innocuously as he floated on his back in the water. "I was just seeing if I really had telekinesis. You just happened to be there."
"Damned Suboshi powers," Hikaru complained unhappily. "I didn't want to get wet."
"Why not, Hikaru?" asked Erick curiously.
She turned red. "No reason at all! I just…didn't want to, that's all. Ahahaha…." She scratched the back of her head sheepishly.
"I know why," Tahir said smugly as he looked away from a water gun fight he was having against Lee, Rayna, and the priestesses. "You don't know how to swim, do you?"
"She doesn't know how to swim?" Lee had an evil gleam is his eyes.
"No, she doesn't," Tsunami said firmly, "so don't try to do anything stupid like throw her in the pool."
"Alright," he agreed reluctantly. He yelped in surprise when a blast of water from Kotori's water gun hit him in the back.
From inside, the Nyan-Nyan commented, "The Suzaku no Miko is certainly getting used to this way of life." She sensed something at the front door and smiled. "Fate is working hard today!" she said as she turned back into a pink bubble and floated up the stairs.
The doorbell rang, and Warren went to answer it. "Hello?" he said as he opened the door.
It was Cleo, a girl from his drama class at school, and a boy. "Warren? You live here?" asked Cleo distastefully. "I didn't know that you were this rich."
"What do you want, Cleo?" he said impatiently. He didn't get along very well with her.
"I was just driving along this road, and suddenly my car broke down!" she said dramatically.
The little boy spoke up, "She means that she tried to fry-" Cleo clapped a hand over his mouth.
"This is my little cousin, Ryan. Also known as the brat," she explained. "What he meant to say was that he was annoying me so much, I couldn't keep my concentration on driving anymore! I almost ran into a tree, and suddenly the car blew."
"Because she fried it," added Ryan. "She was trying to fry me for making her hallucinate." A sense of familiarity suddenly stuck Warren.
[Let me handle this,] Miboshi suggested. With a mental nod, he receded into his mind and let Miboshi come forth.
"Hello, Soi, Tomo," he said to them. "This is an unexpected visit."
Ryan – Tomo – understood first. "Gah! He's Miboshi!"
"That's right." He nodded. "Why don't you come in so that we discuss this? The Suzaku warriors and most of the Seiryuu warriors are already here." Warily, they entered the house.
From upstairs came a giggle that no one else heard. The Nyan-Nyan was amused by the convenient twists of fate. Seiryuu and Suzaku are trying really hard to apologize indirectly, she thought to herself. Her bubble-body floated up another flight of steps, unseen by all, as the arrival of the two Seiryuu warriors caused a commotion downstairs.
Soon, Ira also arrived, and then all became involved in a serious discussion about the future. Warren discreetly made a call to Peter as Hikaru's temper flared at a snide comment from Ryan, but Vidal soothed her with a few words. The ties that bound them all together were so obvious to Nyan-Nyan's eyes that she knew they had been there since the rebirth of the seishi and mikos. All that Suzaku and Seiryuu's power had done was strengthen the links.
She continued to float up the stairs until she found the room that Aimee and Rei were in. The little girls had somehow found a closet of old Halloween costumes, and now Rei was dressed up as a frog. Aimee had found a prince costume, and the two were making up a game as they went along. Her appearance disturbed Rei, though by all rights the girl should not have been able to see her.
"The pink bally is floating in the air!" Rei said as she stared at the Nyan-Nyan bubble.
Aimee shook her head. "I don't see anything," she said. She only saw Nakago and Rei in the room, not Nyan-Nyan.
"It's there!" Rei insisted as she pointed towards Nyan-Nyan.
The Nyan-Nyan thought this revelation over. If Rei could see her, then either she was a very sensitive child, or a very innocent one. She popped back into her human-like body that even Aimee could see. "Hello, hello!" she greeted them cheerfully. "It's nice to meet you. My name's Nyan-Nyan!"
"Nyan-Nyan's a long name," said Rei wisely in the fashion of a five-year-old. "Do you have a nickname?"
"A nickname?" No one had asked her that before. "Nooo…" All Nyan-Nyan's were part of each other, so all Nyan-Nyan's were called Nyan-Nyan.
"Nyo? Okay, that's what I'll call you."
She sweatdropped. This child certainly was different. "Okay… Then my name's Nyo." It felt strange for her to take a separate identity from her fellow Nyan-Nyan's. She was hit with a feeling of distance from her sisters that made her feel almost sad. She had never felt sad before, and she didn't like the feeling.
"What are you here for?" asked Aimee quietly. She was in one of her serious, un-childlike moods.
"Ah, nothing. I just need to talk to Warren and the others. Everyone's gotten out of the pool now and are talking downstairs. Why don't you go, too?"
"I'll go with you!" Rei said energetically. "Aimee, are you coming?"
She looked at Nakago, who nodded. "Okay, I'll go," she agreed and took off the cape and crown that was her costume. "Aren't you going to leave your frog suit here?"
Rei looked down at her frog cape. It was the hood of it that looked like a frog's head. "I like this…"
"I'm sure Warren will let you keep it," Aimee sighed at her friend's childishness. "Let's go."
Happily, Rei bounded down the stairs in front of her friends. Nyo hung back and turned back into her bubble form. That isn't a dramatic enough entrance. As the humans took the stairs, she floated through the ceiling until she came into the center of the living room.
She noted that everyone was there as Aimee came downstairs to complete it. The Suzaku seishi, the Seiryuu seishi, and the mikos had gathered in another lifetime, and again had to summon the gods for peace on earth. But this time, the peace of heaven was also at stake.
"Hello, Aimee. Where have you been?" Warren asked.
"Playing upstairs with Rei," she replied. "There was also this strange pink bubble thing."
"Pink bubbles?" Ryan sniggered in his nine-year-old superiority over five-year-olds. "Only a girl would make up a pink bubble friend."
Nyo thought that smacking him would feel nice right now, but she instead decided for a different approach. She made her bubble-body visible and solid and landed on his head before bouncing onto the center table of the living room. She popped back into her regular self with a peace sign. "Nyan!" she said cheerfully.
The seishi, who were sitting in a large circle around her, all looked shocked. "It's…a Nyan-Nyan," said Erick with disbelief.
"That's right!" Nyo held her hands palm up in front of her and summoned the both copies of the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho to her. The Seiryuu copy appeared on her right hand a second before the Suzaku copy appeared on her left hand. "I was sent here by Taiitsukun with some information for you."
"Why would Taiitsukun send a messenger to us?" inquired Rayna. "Isn't she busy running the Universe of the Four Gods?"
"Dummy! This has to do with the Universe of the Four Gods."
She had their attention now, and she took a deep breath before continuing.
"All of you need to travel into the Universe and journey to Taiitsukun's mountain immediately. You have five hours to prepare."
It was obviously not a request.
~TBC~
Chibigreen's Ending Rant: Eesh, I still haven't really finished any of my stories (with the exception of the 3 chapter Death's Angel), and already new ideas are popping in my head! Crazy ideas, too… I mean, what muse of mine actually wants me to write a Digimon/Fushigi Yuugi crossover?
Rime: The very idea sickens me.
Crystal: {I'd like a Digimon/Suikoden crossover more…}
Nyo and Snow: *whistle innocently*
Chibigreen: Anyway, my brains going crazy because it has all these new ideas, and I can't get them out. I've noticed that I seem to like writing crossovers, so that's what I'll be sticking to for the most part (once I finish this story). Anyway, now it's time for me to 'Review my Reviewers'. My muses will be helping out again, but they won't be eating the reviews this time. *sweatdrops* Which muse actually wanted to eat reviews?
Crystal: *looks innocent*
Rime: I thought so. Hmm… Eria wrote this one. Chibigreen's glad that you liked the plot twist with Miboshi/Warren. Thank you for reviewing…yeah. (Chibig, am I getting paid for this…?)
Chibigreen: No. Crystal, why don't you take the next one?
Crystal: {Sure! You see, this one's from CLAMPraven, and she says that she likes me! Obviously she has good taste, even if she thinks Rime is okay, too. Very good author, this one, especially with that reptile-friendly character, Irasa, but now I'm beginning to rant like that pink monk. I'd also have to comment that while Chibigreen did think of the Chiriko/Miboshi pairing before reading a fic with it, it was slightly mentioned in Skipsida's What if…? It never became a true pairing, though.}
Chibigreen: My muses insult me and praise me in the same sentence…
Snow: {Don't worry, Chibigreen! We really do support you. After all, we came up with that nice tidbit about Hikaru's fear of water in this chapter. LanaPanther asked what would happen in her nice review, and I think we answered her question well enough.}
Nyo: I agree! But now for Flying heart's review. No, Chibigreen doesn't know Grace. Grace just requested via e-mail to be notified of updates. ^-^ And I'm glad that you liked the Miboshi/Chiriko scene. I oversaw it personally.
Chibigreen: And now we have… three separate reviews from PrincessKitty-Chan. Shoot, I'm out of muses! Tsunami, you take this. *tosses review to character*
Tsunami: Hai! Okay, in her first two reviews, she's very hyper… Is that PrincessMeow-Chan popping up? In the third review… PrincessKitty-Chan, thank you for convincing Chibigreen not to give up on this story. All of us characters protested it… except for Warren and Vidal, but I heard them muttering something about 'character abuse.
Chibigreen: Well, that's it! ^___^ This story is certainly turning out longer than I thought it would. Thank you for reviewing!
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