YUME-MI
A fanfic by Jashi
Hola. I am trying to make my chapters longer…but I am used to writing shorter things. It's simply easier for me to keep track of my story, as I have several other stories going right now…(my friend knows this. Just ask urd302.) So, I'm sorry for making chapters shorter, but I will try to make them longer. Thanks, Ja, and enjoy. Also…I'm kind of a poet, so there is going to be lots of…random musings of Ayako's mind in poetic form.
Um…I'm afraid to say I've received my first…well, flame. At least for this story. Even in if it was only one sentence, it made me think. And now I'm set to defend. Maybe I'm making too big a deal out of this, but I've already been flamed on another fic by this same person. She said it wasn't a flame, but it was, and she knew it.
Thanks quite a lot, Hanah, for your flaming sentence. This is not a rip-off of X. This is a Fushigi Yuugi fic. Prophets do not 'belong' to X/1999. Seeing dreams and prophesizing are two things, one and the same, and yet they differ within each authors perspective. And how dare you say I rip off X. I only use Hinoto as an example as someone who sees dreams and the future. Hinoto, in X, dreams of the future as an ended world. Ayako is different.Ayako has a purpose, something other than constantly Yes, Ayako and Hinoto are both yume-mis. It's true I got the title for this story of an X site, because at the time Yume-Mi was in it's early stages. Because dream-seers are all the same, though different. As for being Mary Sue, Ayako is the main character. Go flame someone else's stories, Hanah. Why don't you go to all of the fics that say they have prophets in them and say they rip off X? And stop reviewing my stories. You obviously don't have anything nice to say to me. So just don't say anything at all. I'm tired of being flamed for doing something new. I'm sorry. I apologize before hand.
For the rest of you who like this story, more power to you and me. Enjoy.
Chapter Twelve…
(AYAKO'S POV)
Falling…
Don't wake me up from the fall.
It's not the landing.
It's the fall that kills.
I'm descending
Don't wake me from this descent.
Go against your morals, go against your laws
Go with what your instincts say.
I'm losing my innocence
Becoming sharp and jaded as I fall
Oh God, where are you.
You're not there, obviously.
I'm falling.
Don't wake me from the fall.
But….
Someone, grab my hand.
Oh god, just grab my hand.
Don't wake me from this fall…
But save me if you can.
God…someone grab my hand.
Darkness and I'm falling. I don't know where I am. Where am I? Maybe I'm awake or asleep. But I'm warm wherever I am. Maybe I shouldn't have attempted to go back. This feels like the test, where I didn't know what anything was. Suddenly there is a burning branch in my hand.
I scream.
Thousands of burning branches, all around me. Fire burning crisp ashes burned skin screams death pain pain memories. I scream and scream and scream. I can't remember those years. No. No. NO!
I give myself to the dark blackness.
(CHICHIRI'S POV)
I stare into the spot where Ayako disappeared. Oh Gods, she's gone. I try to figure out how she did it.
"How. The. Hell. Did. She. Do. That." says Tasuki, green no longer.
"Daaa…I suppose she used the water as a medium to transfer her energy in such a way that she could go backwards. It seems the water went counter-clockwise, so she definitely went backwards if she went anywhere." I say with not a lot of enthusiasm in my voice.
"So…if she didn't go back to the mountain, where did she go?" Miaka says worriedly.
"She could be…ano…anywhere no da." I say. Anywhere is a huge place. She could be in the afterlife. She could be in Kutou. Or she could just be back at Taiitsukun's mountain.
I don't know. And I can't tell if she'll be alright.
I can't tell anything.
(AYAKO'S POV)
Somehow my eyes open. Somehow. Miracles happen to few. And I think I have just received one.
I'm in a BED. I can tell it is Taiitsukun's mountain. I flop backwards, only to feel sharp pains in my arm.
There are tiny scratches all over my arms, as though I wrestled a rosebush. And I feel like crap; totally wasted.
My hand feels as though it will fall off. I can tell it has bled and bled and only recently stopped. Itai, itai, itai. I wonder how long I have been unconscious. I wonder if I made it back here after I fainted.
I stand from the bed, and walk out the door.
A living bomb is waiting there for me.
Also known as Taiitsukun.
((AYAKO!! YOU BAKA, BAKA, BAKA! *multiple mental mallet whacks* YOU WENT TOO DEEP INTO THE SPELL! YOU ARE NOT READY FOR TELEPORTATION YET! YOU COULD HAVE DIED AND BEEN LOST IN THAT LITTLE STUNT YOU PULLED BACK AT THE SHIP!!!!))
She rants and raves on and on and on.
((Taiitsukun…did that crazy stunt work?)) I think softly.
She sighs.
((Yes…) she mind-speaks.
And now it is time…time for dark sleepy-sleep.
Time for sleep.
Kokoro no naka de nemuru kimi wa mezameru koto nai kedo
kaerarenu mirai o sono te de kanjite
Inside your heart you are sleeping…
But you will not wake up.
Feel the hand of a future that cannot be changed.
I wake up, and it is morning. I still ache inside. I feel empty, lost. I slept a dreamless sleep; rare. Not really. I haven't had any real dreams lately. Maybe Taiitsukun's blocking them and they'll all come back in a mad rush. I'm not particularly looking forwards to that, but I don't really look forwards to anything. I stand up, and dress.
Taiitsukun has told me to wear total black.
After putting on the rest of my clothes, here comes my favorite item: the cloak, baby, the cloak.
Hehehe.
Time to go out and face the world. I step out the door.
Later in the day……………………………
I stare at the water. Again. Again I am staring at this pitiful bowl of water, silently praying to whatever God there is up there that nothing will go wrong this time.
Silently praying.
I stare. I breathe in, breathe out. Feel the water. Be the water. I am the water. Now I must try to see something in the water. Please let me see…I don't care, anything. Just something.
It is the wave of power that overwhelms me.
I am spiraling again. Spiraling down down down down down . Past the point of no return.
There is lots of blue. I suddenly realize I've been taken into a dream, not done the water-mirror's work.
Am I at the ship? I can't see anything. But I feel. I feel lots of blue around lots of red.
Masaka! I cannot be feeling these auras at this stage.
The red…who would have a red aura? Auras have pretty random colors, I think. It's the power of the aura, the intimidation of the feeling that makes it so…aura-like.
But there are only two colors, and I can see them. It's like the little colored balls little children would play with when they were small. Marbles…
But there are only TWO colors, which makes it odd.
Hmmmmm…
The auras all seem to have the same…texture. As though they are children from the same mother, but they are different. Then I realize, holy shit, the blue is all ONE aura. And it circles as it gathers 'round the few red ones.
What is red and what is blue, these auras that plague me, what do they do?
Circling…surrounding!
What would have to do with magic, or power that is color-coded?
Think, think, think, Ayako! You're smarter than this. Colors…colors…what do I know that's red?!
*mental click*
Suzaku! Suzaku's red. Suzaku's seishi would have red auras! That means….
Kuso.
The blue must be a Seiryu seishi.
A Seiryu…is coming to attack the Suzaku seishi!
I break, I crack the dream into two pieces. I awaken, and I see Taiitsukun nodding at me.
I close my eyes and shoot my mind…across the land…to the sea…to a small vessel with seven people on it.
((CHICHIRI!)) I shout in my mind to him. He immediately looks up, shocked.
"Ayako?…"
((Hai, hai! It's me. Chichiri, please be careful.))
"Why no da? Have you seen something?"
((Yes…I have. Be careful, Chichiri.
There are Seiryus about.))
"About…you don't mean…"
((YES! A Seiryu is coming, and it's powerful. Please be careful. The Seiryu is coming.))
I break the connection.
I look up and sigh.
Please heed my warning.
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Hola. To all. Not much to say. Hehe, ja ne, minna san! ~Jashi.