Disclaimer: not mine, not mine, not mine.
A/N: again, things in s are when the character is speaking Japanese. Go crazy.
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+*+Kakyuu in Oz+*+
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Kakyuu darted as fast as she could around the farm, making sure all of the livestock was held securely in their pens and stables. By the time she had finished, the winds were so fierce that all she saw was dust as she tried to make her way back to the house.
"Seiya? Taiki? Yaten? Are you still with me?" she yelled. She had to yell, the fierce whistle of the storm was drowning out almost all sound.
She heard answering yelps. They sounded distant, but when she looked down, Puppy-Seiya was nudging at her feet, and she saw the others nearby. "Let's get inside then, shall we?" she said, and her voice was too raw from yelling and inhaling excess dust to properly convey the relief she felt, knowing they were still okay.
But when she reached the storm cellar, though she could only barely see the door through all of the dust and dirt, all relief faded as she was unable to pry the door open. She tried it every which way she could, but it wouldn't budge. It was locked and held fast.
"Shimatta!" Kakyuu said, and in an act of desperation, grabbed the puppies (Yaten by the tail accidentally, to which he loudly protested) and pressed them to her body as she blindly made her way into the house.
The door to the kitchen had swung open easily, but Kakyuu had to push all of her weight against it, then wedge a chair under the knob to hold it shut. She was barely hiding her panic when she directed her guardians-cum-puppies upstairs. "We first arrived in this godforsaken place in the bedroom, so maybe we can get the hell out of here from there," she reasoned.
Once she was there, however, there was no question that this would *not* be an exit. The windows had blown open, the frames banging repeatedly against the walls, and what few possesions were strewn around the room --none, of course, were anything Kakyuu recognized-- were now flying around the room on hellborn wings, propelled by the angry storm.
"Oh, this is great," Kakyuu bemoaned, sitting down on the bed. "What are we supposed to do now?"
Her puppies didn't have time to issue a proper warning before a heavy tome of a book careened through the air, and smacked soundly into the back of Kakyuu's head.
She collapsed backwards on her sheets, out cold.
***
When Kakyuu returned to the world of the living, she wasn't sure what to expect when she opened her eyes. Her familiar royal quarters? A decrepit farmhouse?
She fluttered her lashes open, and was greeted by the farmhouse once again. Proving, perhaps, that it hadn't been a dream. "I'm still here," she muttered woefully, and sat up. "Minna?" She looked around, but didn't see the Sailor StarPuppies anywhere. Taking in the contents of the room, the floor was littered with debris, but the air was still at last. The door was open, and past it she could see the staircase, leading into the dark downstairs of the house.
The windows were still open, and out of them she did not see a dusty country landscape, but a rather lush, colorful scenario, one that made her get up and move closer to the window to investigate.
Before she had made it to the other side of the bed, however, she was lured from her almost trance by a chorus of barks from downstairs.
"Oh!" she said, and gathering up her skirts, chased the sound down the stairs.
Her puppy guardians were running about in erratic circles in front of the open kitchen door. The same picturesque scene from upstairs greeted her here. It was no more confusing than waking up in a farmhouse, maybe even less so. "What are we waiting for?" Kakyuu said. "Let's go."
The puppies looked at her dubiously, but the promise of adventure and frolicking in the tall grass, sniffing new things, was far too great of a lure for any of them to put up much resistance.
Kakyuu, Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten, crossed the threshold into their second mysterious land that day.
A/N: again, things in s are when the character is speaking Japanese. Go crazy.
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+*+Kakyuu in Oz+*+
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Kakyuu darted as fast as she could around the farm, making sure all of the livestock was held securely in their pens and stables. By the time she had finished, the winds were so fierce that all she saw was dust as she tried to make her way back to the house.
"Seiya? Taiki? Yaten? Are you still with me?" she yelled. She had to yell, the fierce whistle of the storm was drowning out almost all sound.
She heard answering yelps. They sounded distant, but when she looked down, Puppy-Seiya was nudging at her feet, and she saw the others nearby. "Let's get inside then, shall we?" she said, and her voice was too raw from yelling and inhaling excess dust to properly convey the relief she felt, knowing they were still okay.
But when she reached the storm cellar, though she could only barely see the door through all of the dust and dirt, all relief faded as she was unable to pry the door open. She tried it every which way she could, but it wouldn't budge. It was locked and held fast.
"Shimatta!" Kakyuu said, and in an act of desperation, grabbed the puppies (Yaten by the tail accidentally, to which he loudly protested) and pressed them to her body as she blindly made her way into the house.
The door to the kitchen had swung open easily, but Kakyuu had to push all of her weight against it, then wedge a chair under the knob to hold it shut. She was barely hiding her panic when she directed her guardians-cum-puppies upstairs. "We first arrived in this godforsaken place in the bedroom, so maybe we can get the hell out of here from there," she reasoned.
Once she was there, however, there was no question that this would *not* be an exit. The windows had blown open, the frames banging repeatedly against the walls, and what few possesions were strewn around the room --none, of course, were anything Kakyuu recognized-- were now flying around the room on hellborn wings, propelled by the angry storm.
"Oh, this is great," Kakyuu bemoaned, sitting down on the bed. "What are we supposed to do now?"
Her puppies didn't have time to issue a proper warning before a heavy tome of a book careened through the air, and smacked soundly into the back of Kakyuu's head.
She collapsed backwards on her sheets, out cold.
***
When Kakyuu returned to the world of the living, she wasn't sure what to expect when she opened her eyes. Her familiar royal quarters? A decrepit farmhouse?
She fluttered her lashes open, and was greeted by the farmhouse once again. Proving, perhaps, that it hadn't been a dream. "I'm still here," she muttered woefully, and sat up. "Minna?" She looked around, but didn't see the Sailor StarPuppies anywhere. Taking in the contents of the room, the floor was littered with debris, but the air was still at last. The door was open, and past it she could see the staircase, leading into the dark downstairs of the house.
The windows were still open, and out of them she did not see a dusty country landscape, but a rather lush, colorful scenario, one that made her get up and move closer to the window to investigate.
Before she had made it to the other side of the bed, however, she was lured from her almost trance by a chorus of barks from downstairs.
"Oh!" she said, and gathering up her skirts, chased the sound down the stairs.
Her puppy guardians were running about in erratic circles in front of the open kitchen door. The same picturesque scene from upstairs greeted her here. It was no more confusing than waking up in a farmhouse, maybe even less so. "What are we waiting for?" Kakyuu said. "Let's go."
The puppies looked at her dubiously, but the promise of adventure and frolicking in the tall grass, sniffing new things, was far too great of a lure for any of them to put up much resistance.
Kakyuu, Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten, crossed the threshold into their second mysterious land that day.