A/N: By now, most of you (two of the three of you) have figured out that I love songfics. Music means a lot to me and I've been a poet for a long long time. So lyrics and tunes make up my life. I can't live without my car radio. So I write a lot of song-fics and my favorite digi-destined is Yamato Ishida. SUFFER =P
A 2nd N: Dedicated to BluEydMnstr. Cuz she just needs the lovin'.
A 3rd N: The song was 'Return to Innocence' by Enigma in the previous chapter. The winner was BluEydMnstr. The answer to quiz two was Prince Lir from 'The Last Unicorn.' And the winner was Reviewer #100, aka Vie, and it turns out like it did, cuz she cheated.
Mik fingered the crystal now hung around her neck, another gift from another session with Kitala. She still insisted on being called by the name she'd known her whole life. Much to the old mother's disappointment. Mik wasn't losing any more ties to her real world than absolutely necessary.
The most surprising of all to find was she was the daughter of the tribe. Like a princess, and so being, she had to forgo her pants. Even in the forest. Even as a wanderer, rider, and explorer. Her dress's fabric was made of an enchated material that always hung delicately and never caught on anything, among being created from one of the strongest fibers in the world. It would protect her from blades.
She became increasingly nervous.
And why not? Having been thrown into a familiar society she hadn't EVER remember seeing, learning to protect herself from weapons that would definitely be used against her... it's not like she had anything to WORRY about or anything.
At least no one would be shooting at her with a gun.
Stupid Gohan, she thought as she smiled. He had long since been forgiven. She had survived. No hard feelings. Stupid Gohan, she thought again, sighing contentedly as she did.
Kami, how she missed him.
Her green dress was a full length cut, but fell off her shoulders, and flared to her wrists from her elbows. It was trimmed in grey fox fur, and her simple slippers never left a footprint, no matter how hard her treadfall. Her red hair was braided back, and her pale skin glowed in the moonlight. She leaned against a tree, shoving Gohan to side in her thoughts and concentrating on what she had been told from Kitala, rubbing the crystal, seeking it's blue warmth to fill that cold part of her soul she always had leaving her love.
She never heard Kaiya appear at her side. Her boots must be made of the same leather and enchantment that her slippers were.
"Do you hear that music?"
"It is your heart, Mikayla. Your heart and your forest home. They are singing to each other. It is why you chose the path you did. While you were gone, the forest could hear your heart's pain. The nightmares..."
"My nightmares."
"The forest knows of them. Can feel them. It told us. It is how we found you."
Mik shook her head. "I don't understand. How can a forest have conscious feeling and thought?"
"Because it has a heart, Mikayla. You can feel that yourself."
Mik sighed. "I just want to get this over with as soon as possible so I can get home."
~~You are home, Kayla~~
"Huh? Did you hear that, Kaiya?"
"Hear what?"
"Uh... nevermind. How am I supposed to fight in this stupid dress anyway?"
"Your maternal ancestors have worn that dress for years beyond now. Great huntresses and warioresses. None of them had a problem."
Mik's only response was to grumble and cross her arms. She reached back up for the crystal again.
The music in her head grew louder and she thought of Gohan. An old love song she would play in her head before Hygram finally managed to beat it from her came back to her mind. She hadn't thought of it until now since then. Softly, she began to sing.
Always makes me think of you
Are you thinkin' of me, too?
When you see it shine
Gohan stood by the window of Mik's office, grumbling. Pan had long since been in bed and he had been trying to sleep himself. But since Mik had disappeared... AGAIN... he had been doing very little of THAT. He had a very, very bad feeling and he was very angry at the girl for leaving.
But I'm smiling
Imagine that
Cuz we were lucky to have what we had
He was going to have a very... VERY... long talk with her when she returned.
In the background he heard Fred working furiously on the computer, keys clacking away pausing only momentarily here and there. He could almost hear him collect his thoughts at those moments.
Did ever the flame burn any higher
Wasn't it so sweet
Wasn't it, didn't we love?
Fred sighed. "Sorry, Gohan. Nothing yet."
"I didn't ask now, did I?"
"No, but I'm sure the window pane appreciates my efforts."
Sometimes I just get this way
I can't forget you anyway
I wouldn't even try
Gohan looked at his hands and the now cracked sill that he had been clutching. As he relaxed his hands, he felt his jaw also relaxing. He had no idea he had been so tense.
Fred sighed, and went back to work on Mik's computer. He remembered Mik had been on the computer the day before her disappearance and wondered if he could find any leads in her files on her hardrive.
No such luck as of yet.
Then never to have known at all
It was heaven after all
If only for a time
Fred paused in his work. "Cookies!!"
Gohan turned to look at him questioningly.
"Mikayla NEVER cleans her recycle bin OR her cookies folder. I can pull up her cookies and see what sites she last accessed!"
Did ever the flame burn any higher
Wasn't it so sweet
Wasn't it, didn't we love?
Two hours later, Fred sighed yet again. "I found Jack."
"Jack who?"
"Jack Shit."
Didn't we have it all back then
Will I feel that way again
Where the fuck are you, Mikayla???
Did ever the flame burn any higher
Wasn't it so sweet
Wasn't it, didn't we love?
Piccolo glowered to himself. Shit, Mik. What the hell kind of trouble did you get into where I can't find your ki anymore let alone try to hide it!
Isn't it, didn't we....
Loooooooove......
Kaiya stood entranced by her cousin. She was very beautiful. But she had so much pain. How could anyone have survived what she had and yet everytime something new gets thrown to her, become so accepting of her fate? It was admirable, her adaptability. She could hear the echoes of her past pain in her voice. No wonder the heart was able to find her so easily. There's not another aural signature as identifiable as hers.
"The heart knew what it was doing, Kayla. Trust in it."
She let the slip of her name go for now. "How? I can't... I barely trust myself, I'm not gonna leave my future to the decision of something I've never even seen."
~~But you've always felt me, Kayla. Always. And I've always felt you.~~
"Huh? What's that?
~~Every broken rib, and broken heart I've felt, too, my love...~~
"WHO'S OUT THERE!?!?"
"Mik... what are you rambling on about??"
"I'm hearing this voice... Can't you hear it?"
Kaiya gave her cousin a skeptical glance... "Maybe we should head back to the camp..."
"I KNOW what you are thinking and I really did hear it!!"
"I'm not saying you didn't, but why don't we go ask Kitala about it?"
Suddenly, Mik saw a short burst of light in front of her eyes and immediately she landed on her back. (a/n: @.@ Okay, I've just decided to add 'fantasy' to the long list of genre's for this ficcie. I don't think I'm in control of this anymore!!!)
"Excuse me! Pardon me!" a tiny crystalline voice sang from it's spot on Mik's chest.
The brownish/yellow glow faded and Mik blinked her eyes. "HUH!?"
"Oooohh," Kaiya cooed, "a wood fairy!" She leaned down and watched the tiny, pretty thing shake its tiny head.
A sudden red glow caught their attention above, and all three of them glanced up to see another tiny fairy, laughing her pretty little red head off.
"Ohhhhh, I'll get you for that, Vie!!" the tiny little gold fairy shook her tiny little gold fist.
"Shaw RIGHT, Bluey!!" With that, the little red fairy took off.
"Are you hurt?" Kaiya asked.
The little fairy began to dust herself off, "oh just peachy!" she grumbled. Then she paused and looked at Mik. "I'm sorry about that... I just got my wings and that FLUFF BALL," she yelled that, "thought it would be funny to land on my head. Hard." She ruffled her brown locks.
All of the sudden, a tiny little 'thwack' was heard and upon glancing up, they saw the previous little red fairy flat against a tree. Gold Fairy lost it and laughed herself right off Mik's body.
A high pitched scream brought Mik to her feet and running towards the sound. Kaiya stayed a moment longer to check on the fairies and followed once assured that they were all right. And fairies, being fairies, were of a curious nature. And Bluey and Vie, being Bluey and Vie, decided to tag along. Once they caught up with the eloquently dressed human, they landed on her shoulders.
Mikayla gaped at the dismembered and demolished body that lay in the grass at her feet. Kaiya was soothing the woman that had found her dead husband's body, using soothing words Mik recognized as a relaxation spell. She didn't feel the fairies rest on herself, but heard their tiny conversation.
"Ohhhh this is bad, Vie."
"Ya think!?"
"There is evil here..."
Both fairies glanced at each other before taking off again for a dark part of the forest.