Ahh, chapter 8. Warning: this one will not be funny. I can handle it...can you??
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Chapter VIII - When It Rains, It Pours
Marron jumped as she heard her door slam. She had been going through her books, and checking the class schedules. Now, she was staring into the piercing blue eyes of an extremely pissed off Bura Briefs. "What is it, Bura?"
"Where are they?" she yelled.
"Where are who?"
"Those damned spirits, who else?"
The two fizzled in.
"Can we help you?"
"You sure as hell can!" she spat.
"Bura, what's happened?"
"They know exactly what they've done, and they'd better fix it!"
"Fix what?" Marron asked confusedly.
"It's as we suspected," Elese whispered.
"Damnit!" Epica banged her fist on a nearby table.
"How do the two of you plan fix this mess?"
"What mess? Will one of you kindly tell me what is going on?"
Elese stood from her perch on Marron's desk. "I'm going to see Dende about this. Maybe he knows something we don't." She snapped and disappeared.
"Epica, Bura! Tell me what is wrong!" she shouted.
"No. There's no reason for you to get upset about this until we find out something from Dende."
"Damnit, Epica. I'll tell her myself."
Marron waited anxiously as Bura found the right words.
"Okay, here's the deal...my brother is falling in love with you--well, actually not you. He's falling in love with Rayne."
"Are you serious?"
"Yes, she is. We suspected it the other day."
"Well, then what's the problem? We'll just tell him Rayne is moving away, and you guys can make her disappear."
"It's not that simple."
"Epica."
They all looked at the ceiling when they heard Elese's voice. She, however, was nowhere to be seen.
"Nani?"
"Try to tap into Marron's thoughts."
"Okay..." Epica began to concentrate, and soon, a look for frustration appeared on her face.
"What is it?" Bura asked.
"I-I can't read her clearly." She shook her head a couple of times, then put her hands over her temples, closing her eyes. "Kuso!"
"I'll be back on Earth in a second," Elese said. She poofed into the room. "We've got a problem. A BIG problem."
"Well, tell us."
"Alright, the truth is that Trunks is falling in love with Rayne. Now the good news is that he hasn't completely fallen in love with her."
"And the bad?"
"If he falls completely in love with her, then Marron will become Rayne."
"Well, that's not so back," Bura began, "I mean you'll just look different. You can tell everyone that you're really Marron."
"No, she won't be able to do that. If she does become Rayne, she will forget everything about her life as Marron. Friends, parents, everything."
"But-but that's impossible. Why will this happen?"
"Because we are prohibited to drastically alter the lives of any mortals, aside from Marron's. If Trunks falls in love with someone who we created, but doesn't really exist, then that person will come to exist," Epica explained.
Marron, who had been quiet for the past few minutes, stood up, tears beginning to fall. "How could you do this to me?"
"Marron, believe us, it wasn't supposed to happen this way. We never thought--"
"You got that right. You didn't think. Don't you understand that this will RUIN my life. How could you be so damned careless?"
"Marron--"
"Go, please, all of you. I want to be alone."
"But Marron--"
"JUST GO!!!!" she yelled.
Marron sat on her bed, knees curled up to her chest. Her face was tearstained, and she looked utterly miserable. The first thing that she had thought about was the dragonballs, but Roshi had recently used them to get a lifetime supply of hentai. 'Baka,' she thought. They probably wouldn't help too much anyway. The only thing had really thought of wishing for was that her desperate prayer had never been answered. That wouldn't do her any good.
She had finally done it. She had accomplished the impossible. She had forgotten her love for Trunks. The whole time, it had just been something silly. Something to hold her back from doing the things that she wanted. Something to keep her from feeling the true pain of a broken heart. Now Trunks was gone from her heart, and somehow, this image that the spirits had created had found its way into his.
So now, she was presented with that problem. Trunks loved her, or at least who she pretended to be, and she didn't love him. 'I never thought things would turn out this way.' Just a few weeks ago, her not loving Trunks had been unimaginable. Now things were just down right crazy.
Why did it have to be Trunks? Any guy but Trunks. He had to be the most persistent man she had ever met, and the Saiyan in him sure wouldn't give up without a fight. But there had to be some way out of this. There had to be some way that she could just make his feelings for her disappear.
Maybe the spirits could do something. No, if they could, they would have told her. She knew that they were loosing their connection with her. They could no longer read her thoughts, not clearly, at least. She had hoped to be rid of them soon. Once she had realized that the love was fading away, she had thought they would be able to leave. She figured that they couldn't go with the threat of her becoming Rayne permanently.
Absent-mindedly, she wondered if she was still 'in love' with Trunks, would she be willing to change into Rayne forever.
"How do you make a Saiyan prince fall out of love with you?"
She had no idea what the answer was. Was there a way to repulse him? Not that she could think of. She began to rack her brain, and two hours later had still come up with nothing, but a migraine. Then, she suddenly started laughing insanely. She couldn't believe it. After all of this, she was going to have to try to be the spirits.
The problem was that she did not have any powers. 'No powers, no plan, and the only incentive, is staying Marron.' It was hilarious. When she was a teenager, she had dreamed of something like this happening, of her becoming another person, and Trunks falling for her.
It seemed like all those dreams had done was get her into a whole bunch of trouble. She could try telling Trunks everything, but Bura had suggested that, and Epica had said that it wouldn't work.
This was just so unfair.
"Isn't there some way we can help them?" Mr. Popo asked Dende.
"We can do nothing. The spirits knew that they couldn't effect the lives of others."
"But what about poor Marron? What's going to happen to her?"
"We'll just have to watch and see."
After three hours of searching, Marron had finally found what she was looking for. She had come to a decision, and now she was going to accomplish her goal. She had a slight resistance from the valve, but it moved at last.
She got up from where she was kneeling on the studio floor. She had been at the studio for quite some time, and now she grew tired. She took a deep breath and walked over to the piano. She wasn't sure what made her want to play. She usually only played when she was in a good mood. Today, she definitely was not. It was slowly becoming night. She watched as the sun began to slip farther and farther away from her.
She began to play a few notes of "Return To the Heart" on the piano, and the song slowly came together. She normally made up words to it, but she wasn't in the mood to sing.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked herself once the song was over. She wrapped her arms over her chest and restlessly rocked back and forth.
"I have to," was her reply, as endless tears fell.
"What about your life? What about Marron?"
"Either way, Marron's dead. I'm already dead. At least this way, I won't have to die three times."
"How can you say you're already dead? You're still alive."
"Nothing left. No hope, no love, no dreams." She took another deep breath. "No hope, no love, no dreams. Nothing." She closed her eyes and fell to the floor, the gas taking effect.
More to come soon; don't worry because it's certainly not over!