Sailor Earth
By: Kin-chan Pandun
A/N: I hope I got the wordz for the song right ^^;; I know I messed up on some though. hehe. Don't flame for it please!!! This is only my second fic I've uploaded, but I wrote it befor the other one., so we're just gonna see how this goes, eh? I'm not too funneh in this a/n for some reason…probably because I'm uploading this to FF.Net at Maresuke-kun's house and she has Black Black Heart by David Usher playing…oh well, I'll edit this later, so please forgive any mistakes, 'kayz?
-Admiral Kin-chan, Leader of A.N.W.O.
CHAPTER ONE: The Goodbye
Boys and girls wanna hear a true story?
Saturday night was at this real wild party.
And among all this other junk,
There were six or seven strippers tryn ta work for a buck.
Well I, took one girl outside with me.
Her name Lani, she went to junior high with me.
And I said: what chu doin' out 'ere workin' for cash?
I guess a whole lots changed since I seen you last
And she said:
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
Then I said:
Girl you ain't the only one with a baby
That's no excuse ta be livin' all crazy.
Then she looked me right square in the eye
Sayin' every day I wake up hopin' ta die
Did God know about paycuts?
Me an' my sisters ran away so our Daddy couldn't rape us
Before I was a teenager
I had been through more shit than you can even relate ta
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
-Hold up-
Well, what would you do?
Get up off my feet and let go of every excuse an'
What would you do?
'Cause I wouldn't want my baby
Ta go through what I went through an'
What would you do?
Ge tup on my feet an' stop tired excuses
Girl I know my mother can do it,
Baby, you can do it
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
(Man's Voice)
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
And as the music faded into the background Tierra sighed. So much pain. It was almost sung in the spirit of the people of earth. Life is bad but don't let it get you down. That's practically our motto, she thought. But at the moment she felt too depressed to abide by it. And her life wasn't even that bad! Yet somehow she felt as if the world's sorrows rested on her shoulders. Unfortunately, she was more right than she knew.
She closed her textbook. She had been studying Japanese for her foreign language exam, but she didn't feel like it. It didn't matter anyway, she was practically fluent in it and she was going to be a foreign exchange student there in a week! She wouldn't be able to escape her imaginary burden (that was how she thought of it), but at least she'd be able to spend her time someplace interesting.
She got up to water her bonsai plants. That usually brightened her mood. And as she was watering her plants, per quota, she began to feel better. By the time her mother called her downstairs to answer the door she was attending to her miniature Zen garden and was halfway through the song "Kryptonite".
"Coming!" she replied as she traversed the hallway to it's end. From there hung a full length mirror into which she checked upon her appearance. Her long brown hair with it's golden sheen was gathered elegantly into a loose French braid that reached down to the end of her spinal cord. Her large green and brown-flecked eyes met their reflections as they meandered down to check on her dress. Some might have said it was something you would wear to a renaissance festival, but for her it was normal. it was a dark forest green to match her eyes and it fitted tightly around her torso. At the hips it flared out. The skirt was so large that she could have spun 'round real fast and revealed her underwear if not for the tight dust brown leggings she wore underneath just for that purpose. They matched in color the loose knit shawl she tied around her waist and the sleeveless, tasseled leather vest she donned on her top.
She ran down the stairs practically giddy. Her parents had invited over her two best friends Latoya and Carla for dinner as a kind of going away present. When she opened the door there stood her friends. Carla in her long-sleeved red dress that fanned out around the hands and hips, ruby drops in her ear, and hair up in a bun. And Latoya wearing, surprisingly enough, not what was at the pinnacle of fashion that week, but traditional African clothing!
Later that evening, after dessert, she realized this was not only just a get together but that each and every one at the table was going to give her a gift. Her Dad had just given her a diary and a stationary set. After hugging him profusely and saying: thank you! Thank you! Thank you daddy! Over and over again her Mom approached her.
"Okay Tierra here's my present."
"Cool! What is it?"
"Well open it silly so you can find out!" she proceeded to do so and she gasped as she stared at the gift her mother had just bestowed upon her. It was a Buddha statue carved of jade that was no taller than her largest thumb digit (the one before the one with the thumbnail).
"Ohmygosh! But Mom! This is… It's been in the family for years!"
"Well, I had been saving it for your college graduation or when you got married," she said playfully. "But I had a dream in which Grandma Anne told me you might need it."
"Grandma??" Tierra asked, her voice wavering. "Was she mad? Or disappointed?" she quested, almost too afraid of the answer to hear it.
"No Boobalah, she wasn't." At this point Tierra broke down crying, letting all her sorrows seep out through her tears and anguished cries of release as she was held by her mother. Only her mother knew of the great amount of guilt Tierra carried with her about her Grandmother's death (we'll go into this later), so only her mother could comfort her.
Once her tears subsided, Ahnya, her little sister at age twelve demanded her attention. "Don't forget about me, stupid! I've got something for you too!"
"What is it, an insult frog face?"
"Nope! You wish though! Here!" she said pulling out a battered stuffed koala from behind her back. It was Abebe. Ahnya had had her since before she was born! "But remember, that you're only borrowing her. Got it?"
"You betcha fuzzball! I wouldn't have it any other way."
"I think you're forgetting us Tierra!" teased Carla in her singsong voice.
"What? Really? I am?" Tierra shot back, the most innocent look on her face. The girls burst out laughing after staring at each other blankly for a few seconds. "Anyway," Latoya amended. "Here's our present," she said lobbing it over the table. "It's from both of us." It was a small package and pretty light compared to the one with the Buddha in it. Reverently, she opened it. Inside it was a ring. It looked like it was silver, but Tierra knew better. It was platinum. Not only was it platinum, but it was engraved with Asian characters of some sort and the ancientness exuding from it was practically visible.
"But how did you…?"
Tierra had seen the ring before. It had been sitting in the window of an antiques shop for ages. She had passed it every day on her way to and from her Aikido and tai kwon do lessons. Not to mention kendo. That was practically all her life, that and school and mysticism.
"Don't be silly! Once we found out you were leaving we knew we had to get you something extra special!" Carla explained. "And every day to and from our martial arts lessons you would stop and look at that ring! Even if we were late! So we used our salaries from summer jobs and stuff to buy it for you!"
"But it must have cost a fortune!"
"Oh, believe me, it did!" interrupted Latoya. "But, hey girl, you're worth it!"
Tierra was starting to get teary eyed again. She ran over to her friends on the other side of the table and hugged them viciously. "You guys are the greatest! How did I ever get such great friends!"
"Just lucky, I guess!" they replied in unison. They all burst out laughing.
A/N: Okay, you all probably know where this is going by now. The first chapter, that'z really sad, huh? I mean, on the FIRST CHAPTER?!?! Anywhooz, let me know if ya'll want me to stop an' I might..but… ONEGAI, REVIEW!!!
By: Kin-chan Pandun
A/N: I hope I got the wordz for the song right ^^;; I know I messed up on some though. hehe. Don't flame for it please!!! This is only my second fic I've uploaded, but I wrote it befor the other one., so we're just gonna see how this goes, eh? I'm not too funneh in this a/n for some reason…probably because I'm uploading this to FF.Net at Maresuke-kun's house and she has Black Black Heart by David Usher playing…oh well, I'll edit this later, so please forgive any mistakes, 'kayz?
-Admiral Kin-chan, Leader of A.N.W.O.
CHAPTER ONE: The Goodbye
Boys and girls wanna hear a true story?
Saturday night was at this real wild party.
And among all this other junk,
There were six or seven strippers tryn ta work for a buck.
Well I, took one girl outside with me.
Her name Lani, she went to junior high with me.
And I said: what chu doin' out 'ere workin' for cash?
I guess a whole lots changed since I seen you last
And she said:
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
Then I said:
Girl you ain't the only one with a baby
That's no excuse ta be livin' all crazy.
Then she looked me right square in the eye
Sayin' every day I wake up hopin' ta die
Did God know about paycuts?
Me an' my sisters ran away so our Daddy couldn't rape us
Before I was a teenager
I had been through more shit than you can even relate ta
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
-Hold up-
Well, what would you do?
Get up off my feet and let go of every excuse an'
What would you do?
'Cause I wouldn't want my baby
Ta go through what I went through an'
What would you do?
Ge tup on my feet an' stop tired excuses
Girl I know my mother can do it,
Baby, you can do it
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
(Man's Voice)
What would you do if your son was at home,
Cryn' all alone on the bedroom floor,
'Cause he's hungry,
And the only way ta feed him is ta
Sleep with a man for a little bit o' money
And his daddy's gone,
So we're smokin' rock now.
In an' outta lockdown
I ain't gotta job now
So for you this is just a good time,
But for me this is what I call life.
Hm-m
And as the music faded into the background Tierra sighed. So much pain. It was almost sung in the spirit of the people of earth. Life is bad but don't let it get you down. That's practically our motto, she thought. But at the moment she felt too depressed to abide by it. And her life wasn't even that bad! Yet somehow she felt as if the world's sorrows rested on her shoulders. Unfortunately, she was more right than she knew.
She closed her textbook. She had been studying Japanese for her foreign language exam, but she didn't feel like it. It didn't matter anyway, she was practically fluent in it and she was going to be a foreign exchange student there in a week! She wouldn't be able to escape her imaginary burden (that was how she thought of it), but at least she'd be able to spend her time someplace interesting.
She got up to water her bonsai plants. That usually brightened her mood. And as she was watering her plants, per quota, she began to feel better. By the time her mother called her downstairs to answer the door she was attending to her miniature Zen garden and was halfway through the song "Kryptonite".
"Coming!" she replied as she traversed the hallway to it's end. From there hung a full length mirror into which she checked upon her appearance. Her long brown hair with it's golden sheen was gathered elegantly into a loose French braid that reached down to the end of her spinal cord. Her large green and brown-flecked eyes met their reflections as they meandered down to check on her dress. Some might have said it was something you would wear to a renaissance festival, but for her it was normal. it was a dark forest green to match her eyes and it fitted tightly around her torso. At the hips it flared out. The skirt was so large that she could have spun 'round real fast and revealed her underwear if not for the tight dust brown leggings she wore underneath just for that purpose. They matched in color the loose knit shawl she tied around her waist and the sleeveless, tasseled leather vest she donned on her top.
She ran down the stairs practically giddy. Her parents had invited over her two best friends Latoya and Carla for dinner as a kind of going away present. When she opened the door there stood her friends. Carla in her long-sleeved red dress that fanned out around the hands and hips, ruby drops in her ear, and hair up in a bun. And Latoya wearing, surprisingly enough, not what was at the pinnacle of fashion that week, but traditional African clothing!
Later that evening, after dessert, she realized this was not only just a get together but that each and every one at the table was going to give her a gift. Her Dad had just given her a diary and a stationary set. After hugging him profusely and saying: thank you! Thank you! Thank you daddy! Over and over again her Mom approached her.
"Okay Tierra here's my present."
"Cool! What is it?"
"Well open it silly so you can find out!" she proceeded to do so and she gasped as she stared at the gift her mother had just bestowed upon her. It was a Buddha statue carved of jade that was no taller than her largest thumb digit (the one before the one with the thumbnail).
"Ohmygosh! But Mom! This is… It's been in the family for years!"
"Well, I had been saving it for your college graduation or when you got married," she said playfully. "But I had a dream in which Grandma Anne told me you might need it."
"Grandma??" Tierra asked, her voice wavering. "Was she mad? Or disappointed?" she quested, almost too afraid of the answer to hear it.
"No Boobalah, she wasn't." At this point Tierra broke down crying, letting all her sorrows seep out through her tears and anguished cries of release as she was held by her mother. Only her mother knew of the great amount of guilt Tierra carried with her about her Grandmother's death (we'll go into this later), so only her mother could comfort her.
Once her tears subsided, Ahnya, her little sister at age twelve demanded her attention. "Don't forget about me, stupid! I've got something for you too!"
"What is it, an insult frog face?"
"Nope! You wish though! Here!" she said pulling out a battered stuffed koala from behind her back. It was Abebe. Ahnya had had her since before she was born! "But remember, that you're only borrowing her. Got it?"
"You betcha fuzzball! I wouldn't have it any other way."
"I think you're forgetting us Tierra!" teased Carla in her singsong voice.
"What? Really? I am?" Tierra shot back, the most innocent look on her face. The girls burst out laughing after staring at each other blankly for a few seconds. "Anyway," Latoya amended. "Here's our present," she said lobbing it over the table. "It's from both of us." It was a small package and pretty light compared to the one with the Buddha in it. Reverently, she opened it. Inside it was a ring. It looked like it was silver, but Tierra knew better. It was platinum. Not only was it platinum, but it was engraved with Asian characters of some sort and the ancientness exuding from it was practically visible.
"But how did you…?"
Tierra had seen the ring before. It had been sitting in the window of an antiques shop for ages. She had passed it every day on her way to and from her Aikido and tai kwon do lessons. Not to mention kendo. That was practically all her life, that and school and mysticism.
"Don't be silly! Once we found out you were leaving we knew we had to get you something extra special!" Carla explained. "And every day to and from our martial arts lessons you would stop and look at that ring! Even if we were late! So we used our salaries from summer jobs and stuff to buy it for you!"
"But it must have cost a fortune!"
"Oh, believe me, it did!" interrupted Latoya. "But, hey girl, you're worth it!"
Tierra was starting to get teary eyed again. She ran over to her friends on the other side of the table and hugged them viciously. "You guys are the greatest! How did I ever get such great friends!"
"Just lucky, I guess!" they replied in unison. They all burst out laughing.
A/N: Okay, you all probably know where this is going by now. The first chapter, that'z really sad, huh? I mean, on the FIRST CHAPTER?!?! Anywhooz, let me know if ya'll want me to stop an' I might..but… ONEGAI, REVIEW!!!