Hey-lo! I'm back and it's time to wreck havoc upon the world of fanfiction… I love my job.
BUT I DON'T GET PAID!!!!!
*runs around room screaming* I'm going bankrupt from trying to buy all the Flame of Recca manga!!!!
*pause*
But nevermind… anyway, I have more news that all you FY fanatics will murder me for.
Guess where I spent the last 9 days.
IN CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*grins at everyone with cheesy-I-know-I'm-gonna-be-killed smile*
Howza bout THAT eh!
I went to Shanghai (no, only souvenirs for Sansele, Zel, Kai and Dragonfly), Suzhou and Hangzhou. Very fun. Since I learnt a lot about China… and since I'll probably use some of this information, on some chapters I'll be having a new segment called…
*ancient brass gong sounds*
Lessons from Ancient China!
Oh yeah. The one souvenir you galz and guys will all kill me for.
I GOT A BYAKKO SYMBOL WALL HANGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*disappears before anyone can murder her*
~Draconsis
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(……) Authors Notes/ Comments
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[Fushigi Yuugi Belongs to Yuu Watase]
[I do not own Gundam Wing. I do not watch Gundam Wing. I don't even know what it is.]
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Draconsis Presents:
A Draconsis Fanfiction
The Great Wars of The World
~ Flowers of the Sands Arc / Sabure no Hana Enko ~
[Chapter 04 – Bon Voyage]
"Wars take many lives away. Humans never forget the grief, but they also never stop the fighting. Streams of blood and tears are only an ornament for their destructive ritual."
- Duo Maxwell
Gundam Wing
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The Byakko shrine is located at the western end of the Sairo palace. The circular tower stretches up and up, rivaling the height of the palace itself. The outside of the tower is riddled with intricate carvings, and the inside is equally, if not more, grand. This tower is referred to by all as the Byakko tower.
The wooden double doors open into a round open space, richly carpeted and furnished. The sides of the room are slightly elevated, and four staircases rise from the sides, each facing one of the four directions. These staircases lead to the rooms for the miko and her seishi. The center of the room is dominated by a winding staircase, carved out from a single tree. The banister features elegant cloud and lightning carvings, and the steps have been varnished until they shine. Walking up this delicate yet strong masterpiece, one will reach the inner sanctum of the Byakko shrine.
The Byakko shrine does not have walls, rather, it has supporting pillars around the perimeter. Between each of the pillars runs ropes, designed so that they appear taunt, yet loose enough that they sway with each passing breeze. Along the edge of the ceiling, wind chimes have been hung, and with each zephyr tinkling melodies fill the room. Alternating with the wind chimes, either a small mirror or a sun catcher has been hung, resulting in a wonderland of colors flitting around the room.
The center of the room contains a magnificent statue of Byakko in his tiger form. The statue is made of pure white gold, interlaced with black opal to form the stripes. For eyes, two azure sapphires have been used, bringing the statue to life. Byakko is show climbing down from the heavens, the clouds parting to admit him to earth. The presence of the statue dominates the room, the blue eyes always watching, watching…waiting, waiting…
The weapons of the former Byakko seishi hang against one of the eight pillars each. Suzuno's mirror was placed at the statue's feet, in a small niche specially there, it seems, for the shinzaho. Although the shrine was made long before the seishi appeared, the condition of each of the articles in the room had never changed, and it was eerie how each memento of them seemed to fit into one spot, as if somehow, it knew it was going to be there…as if it was meant to be there…500 years ago when the shrine was first built…
In the final empty pillar of the shrine, a full-length mirror leans against the pillar. The mirror is framed by a shimmering silver outline, with a maple leaf carving winding itself around the outline, each maple leaf inlaid with amber. This is the magical mirror of Byakko, the one that foretold the coming of the Suzuno, Byakko no Miko, and the one that will foretell her successor…
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"Yui-chan!"
Miaka opened the door to the apartment she and her husband Taka shared, then proceeded to drag Yui into the living room.
"Ne, where's Tetsuya?" Miaka peered around, looking for Yui's boyfriend.
"Tetsuya got stuck in a traffic jam." Yui plonked herself down on the one sofa around the TV. "Are you or Taka making the dinner?"
Yui was promptly rewarded with a light slap on her shoulder.
"Yui-channnnnnnn~~~!!!!! My cooking isn't that bad! Plus I've improved a lot!" Miaka pouted. "I took classes too!"
[Dear Miaka…still acting 15 when she's 19 and married no less!] Yui smiled. "Well, Taka isn't dead so I suppose it must be okay."
Miaka pouted once again before pinching Yui. "Anata~~~!"
The two mikos were interrupted by Taka's head peering around from the kitchen doorway.
"Yui!" He greeted the former Seiryu no miko while wiping his hands off on a towel. "Daijoubu! I supervised Miaka-chan while she was cooking."
Miaka shot him a death glare but before she could retort she felt a familiar warm feeling engulfing her ring finger. She held up her shinzaho, noticing it was glowing with red light. Taka's matching ring was also glowing Suzaku red.
"Miaka!" Taka hurriedly crossed the room and clung onto her, and not a moment too soon. The red light engulfed the suzaku no miko and her seishi, and when it cleared, only air remained in the space that they had once occupied.
Yui was stunned speechless for a few seconds, before feeling warmth from the ear in which she had placed Nakago's earing. She spun around to face the mirror on the opposite wall to confirm this fact, barely able to mutter a word before she too was returned to the Shi Jin Ten Chi No Sho.
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Tetsuya stood on the driveway in shocked disbelief at the familiar red light that had just been emitted from the Sukunami residence.
[OH SHITTTTTTTT! YUI!!!!]
Tetsuya raced for the front door, but he was too late.
His hand was already on the doorknob when the blue light of Seiryu filtered out through the windows, then faded. He slammed open the door, only to be faced with an empty room.
[Oh great. Just great.]
He sank down onto the sofa that Yui had occupied.
[Seiryu, keep Yui safe. Suzaku, keep Miaka and Taka safe.]
He removed his sunglasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose before rising to call Keisuke.
[Kami-sama help us all.]
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The enchanted mirror's surface flared up, various splotches of colors rearranging themselves to for a face.
The face was the normal Sairo skin color, a tanned brown, and the Sea-green tinted hair was worn in a short, unruly mop. The eyes were sapphire blue, and on the narrow side. The high nose bridge and grim mouth did nothing to dispel a somber quality about the face. What ever could be seen of the clothes pointed to the new miko being one of the richer members of any society, and the background was one of a white wall. But most surprising was that the new Byakko no miko was unmistakably…
…A male.
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Seigi slumped to the floor.
[What on earth just happened?]
Her own flood of memories hit her. Surfing the net, dragging some of her friends off to various anime conventions, getting screeched at by some teachers in school, and somehow managing to annoy eight other people so much that they continuously tried to murder her and yet remained friends with her at the same time. And a flashing computer in the school com labs…
Her two sets of memories suddenly clashed against each other. Utter confusion ran through her mind for a while before clearing up. Seigi realized a start that she was in an anime.
[Kewl yo!]
She glanced at the still faintly shimmering seishi symbol.
[This would be hmmmmmm…AMEFURI'S!!!!!! YIPEE!!!!! I'M A BYAKKO SEISHI!!!!!!!]
A faint thump to her right alerted her.
[KURO-CHAN! Wait, what's she doing her?]
The past few seconds suddenly reappeared in her brain.
[Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
"Eep!" Seigi shot to a standing position as she realized she was still in the presence of the empress of Sairo.
The ruler of Sairo shot Seigi a bemused look. "This is interesting. Two new seishi in a week."
Kokie had managed to sit upright again after her initial drain, albeit a bit groggily. [I think I'm getting used to this…]
The empress clapped her hands twice, and two attendants appeared by her side. "Hasu, help Kokie-sama to her room. Kaede, help Amefuri-sama to shift her things from the Vanguard barracks to the room adjoining Kokie-sama's." She barked off the orders in a crisp voice.
Tora Hikaru turned back to the newest member of the protectors of Sairo, smiling her ever enigmatic smile. "Welcome to the inner palace, Amefuri-sama."
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@
) Ka-san,
(
) Things have been just peachy here in Hanasaru. Unless you count stray
( arrows from Ryu-chan, and another guy who thinks mirrors are the greatest
) invention since the torture chamber. I'm bored out of my wits as sand grain
( counting isn't much fun. Maybe you could send a couple of advisors over for
) me to pick their brains? Or at least send me back to the palace. It's much
( more fun studying indoors when there's something interesting to look at out of
) the window other than sand, sand, and more sand. Plus the occasional village girl
( come to gawp at the three handsomest guys in the village.
)
( In other words, I'm probably gonna go crazy unless I get some sane people to
) talk to. Actually, semi-sane people would do. The people here are very weird.
( Even a psycho would be better company.
)
( Love ,
) Tora Byakuya, Prince of Sairo yadda yadda yadda
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Tora Hikaru sweatdropped at the newest letter from her son. [Oh well. I'd have to get him anyway.]
Another though crossed her mind. [OF COURSE! What better way to transport Bya-chan safely back to the capital!]
The empress continued smiling as she stowed the letter, leaving a very confused attendant giving her a blank look.
"Yanagi-san." The empress turned back to face the girl.
"Hai." Yanagi curtsied.
"Tell the Seishi to prepare themselves for a journey."
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Kokie tapped at her fellow seishi's door. "Amefuri?"
She had finally overcome some of the shock at realizing she was in Fushigi Yuugi, and a seishi no less. She had also been pretty surprised when she realized that her given names were the same in both worlds, and that she still looked the same.
[Now to see if Sei-chan remembers…]
The door was flung open, and a super genki and hyper 17-year-old pounced onto her.
"KURO-CHAN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~! Isn't this cool yo? We're in Fushigi Yuugi!!! And we're seishi!!! And I'm finally out of the stinking barracks…"
Amefuri paused, realizing she had gone hyper again. [Oopsies.] "Err…do you remember anything?"
Kokie paused for a moment before using the infamous kokuro fingernail attack on her friend. "YES YOU BAKA!!!!!!!! YOU NEARLY GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK!!!" She continued to dig her fingernails into Amefuri's arm.
"Yowch!!!!!! Leggo!!!"
As if on cue, a strong wind swept up in the narrow corridor on the second level of the Byakko tower. The wind pried off Kokie's fingernails, then died down.
"Hey~~~~~! Cool yo! I can control wind!" Amefuri pranced around the corridor. "Bye bye to murder via fingernails!!!"
Kokie had begun to search the surrounding area for something suitable to murder her friend with when Heika-sama's personal attendant, Yanagi, appeared.
"Ano…Kokie-sama, Amefuri-sama, am I interrupting anything?" Yanagi lifted one of her eyebrows at the weird duo.
Amefuri paused. "Ah…no." She sheepishly rubbed the back of her neck.
Yanagi lifted her eyebrow again. "Heika-sama wishes for both of you to prepare for a trip to Hanasaru village on the outskirts of Sairo. She says you are to leave tomorrow morning. The maps and other traveling necessities will be provided tomorrow morning along with three horses for your use." Yanagi curtsied again before leaving the Byakko tower.
A long pause followed her going.
"Ne, Sei-chan. Where in Sairo is Hanasaru village." Kokie threw the question at her friend.
"I have no idea." Amefuri managed to reply.
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"Urumiya."
Hai. The pale-faced young man strode up to his fellow Genbu no shichi seishi.
Inami shuddered inwardly as he regarded the sallow-eyed young man. He removed a scroll from his sleve and handed it to Urumiya.
"Burn it afterwards."
Hai. The seishi calmly took the scroll from the most powerful eunuch in the Hokkan palace, before turning on his heel and walking out of the room.
Inami collapsed into his chair after Urumiya had left.
"Uruki, I know you're here. Come out."
One of the two female new Genbu seishi walked out from under a wall hanging.
"Inami-chan, Urumiya gives me the creeps." The companion of the empress dowager of Genbu crossed the room and sat down in Inami's lap. She flung her hands around his neck.
"Daijoubu, Uruki-chan. We'll soon gain what is rightly ours. A creepy guy who thought-speaks isn't going to hamper us in anyway."
Uruki smiled, a sly, dangerous smile. "I can't wait Ina-chan."
-~=*[ Tsudzuku ]*=~-
Life is a journey, our body is our ship and our spirit is our fuel.
Bon Voyage.
~Draconsis
Notes:
READ DEECHAN'S FUSHIGI YUUGI: THE NEXT CHAPTER FIC!
*breathes dramatically*
Nyan Nyan: You thought up the last bit?!
Yeah.
Nyan Nyan: The world is being covered with cheese!!!!!!!!! Drac-chan said something meaningful!!!
*whips out magic CD case and traps Nyan Nyan inside*
HA! And to distinguish you from other nyan nyans, I'll just call you nyan-chan!
Nyan-chan: Seikun-samas! How have I offended you!
*Snaps shut the CD case*
And in case you galz and guys are wondering, I did think up an akugi for this chapter. But it's on the hentai side and I don't like it anyway. (.) So I'm not putting it up.
And if you people are wondering about the sudden about face in character for my OC's, they act like this cuz they're friends. And yeah, Amefuri is going to be a character that annoys other characters. Live with it.
Japanese Guide
C'mon…it wasn't that hard in this chapter was it? If you still need help just review.
Character Synopsis for this chapter
Hasu, Kaede and Yanagi – Palace maids
Urumiya, Inami, Uruki – Genbu Seishi. Yeah, they're the bad guys. ^_^
Oh yeah! And Tetsuya-chan is now a record holder in my fics!
Tetsuya: *blur look*
You're the first character in my fics to use a bad word!
Everyone: *fall over*
You might wanna familiarize yourself with the seishi's real names…I'm gonna use that a lot. And Urumiya's thought speak is in …
Amefuri: *reading from [ideas for Wars]* In chapter four…Ame and Kokie meet up with Sub-
*Grabs back her list*
Amefuri…
Amefuri: *sweet smile* Hai?
You are so dead.
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Signing off,
Draconsis
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