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Chpt 11 - The Beginings End
Her day progressed as had become her usual as of late, yet there was always the haunting thought in the back of her mind, and the hope that what she thought must have been a dream could have been true. While her mind contemplated the thoughts of the previous night the day passed quickly around her and the final bell signaled that the school day had indeed come to a close. Slipping her pink backpack onto her shoulders the young girl edged her way toward the door, in no real hurry to be any certain place. Reality found, for the first time that day, a place in the young girl's mind as a pressure was added, ever so slightly, to her shoulder. Turning gently to find its source, Rini's eyes fell upon the hardened face so familiar as of the last few days. Mishy's piercing ice blue eyes stared back into her own, and for the first time she had ever seen, shown with an emotion of caring instead of the usual anger. His hardened look broke for merely a second as he smiled faintly at her, causing her to almost forget about the cresent moon scar that would forever wrap around his eye.
Her heart was overjoyed to see that the one person who had once stolen what little happiness she had found was now willing to allow her into his life, but then things changed yet again. In the time it would have taken for her to smile back her heart grew strangely cold toward the other and her smile became a frown of annoyance. Apparently senseing the change in her mood Mishy's face resumed it's usuall hardness as he continued his passing by into the freedom of the outdoors. Opting for said freedom herself, Rini squinted in the afternoon light as she stepped into the outside air. Lifting one hand to her forehead she both blocked the sun from her eyes but more importantly to her, scratched her forehead in confusion. Why had she reacted so coldly to the one person she felt that she should want to care for right now. Her mind made no sense to her right now, and her actions made even less, she had to appologize. That would have to wait though. For as she turned quickly back, hoping to admit her wrongs, she found that he had simply vanished, how he moved that quickly she was not sure.
Within moments, Rini could be found moving lazily down the familiar path that lead her toward the place she called home every afternoon after school. Her feet scuffed against the pavement that covered the trail in the park, the only sound for what to her seemed like miles. The Cherry bloosoms bloomed all around her, bathing the park in a beautiful tint of pink and white and leaving her mind to wander yet again. She was startled back to the present by the sudden racket of all the nearby birds leaving their roosts within the branches of the park's trees to fly away, shrieking wildly. Her small pink pigtails bobbed from side to side as her head turn first one way than the other in search of the disturbance that had so bothered the poor creatures. The sky above her darkened in a way she had not known it to ever do so suddenly. It was then that Rini first noticed the other there with her. She stood with a calm demenor a short distance away, witin the shadows of the cherry blossom trees. It was the same woman that had haunted her in her dreams, her midnight blue hair fell well past her sholder, held out of her face by a crown of thorns, and her cobalt eyes seemed to delve deep into Rini's soul. Her lips curled up into a grin that could only belong to a dark spirit, and it was then that Rini felt the tug on her mind, the pull toward the darkness that seemed so right, yet so wrong. A rush of wind and flash of white pulled her from the depths of despair and darkness that her heart now sunk into and Rini stood tall once again, her vision clearing to find the mystery boy who had haunted her for so long.
He stood before her in a manner both strong and comforting, his long, light hair trailing down one half of his face leaving only that one eye for the world to see and attempt to remeber him by. The three now stood in nearly a strait line, he between the ladies. To any passers by it would have been an odd sight indeed. A tall woman with dark blue hair and a shimmering blue derss to match staring down a boy in white arab garb and a small girl just off from school.
"Remove yourself boy, this is not your fight..."
The woman's tone was harsh and biting as she warned the boy to say out of her matters. Yet his reply was in a tone even more harsh than Rini had thought possible for someone apparently so young.
"All matters regaurding the princess are mine, you should know that..."
Princess, how could he possibly know of Rini's true postion, especially since in this time the position as 'Princess of the Moon Kingdom' didn't even exist yet. Her mind was awash with newborn thoughts and possibilities, was this child truely from the future as she was, or was he merely someone who knew far to much? She watched with egar eyes to as the other two faced off before her. The woman's eyes narrowed to slits that seemed to burn with hatred before she spoke again.
"Fine, if I can't have the girl, then no one will have the girl..."
Turning ever so slightly to face Rini the angered woman lifted a single palm into the air calling forth a small ball of dark energy. Purple streaks of lightening jumped from the inky surface only to dive back into the depths from wence they had come. Her shrill laughter cut through the air between them as the ball of energy glinted suddenly and she lowered it to hover before her.
"SHATTERED DARKNESS"
With her command the ball of energy broke into thousands of small shards of dark energy and hurtled themselves at Rini's small frame. She looked onward, anticipating the blow which was certain to come until, with a speed unseen to any other human, the mysterious youth threw himself before her and caught the full of the blow. Being thrown backward he landed heavily in the arms of the small girl, knocking her to the ground. She sat there, as the laughter echoed in the background from the evil woman, cradleing his broken form. Crimson seeped forth from nearly the whole of his body, as his single eye stared back at her around the bundle of hair that covered his face. A gust of wind blew by in the silence of the aftermath brushing aside the hair that covered the youths face revealing what Rini had never expected to see. There, hidden beneath all that platinum blonde hair, was a single blue eye, wrapped in a cresent moon scar.
"I'm sorry...I...I never told you...I...(cough)...I..."
His voice trailed off as slowly his head slid to one side. She attempted to hold him close, praying that it was not true. There was no way that she could ever hold him closer than she was, though, because as she moved to hold him tight, his form burst into a cloud of silver dust which seemed to float as a whole away from her and dissapear into the sky. All that was left in her arms, was a single white rose. Saphire spilled from her eyes as she clutched the rose to her chest where she found her locket. Instantly she had begun to glow and with a flash of pink there no long stood before this woman of evil a young girl, but a warrior of the moon. Rising to stand, she held her head down casting her face into the shadows laid by her bangs. A single tear fell from the tip of her chin to shatter as it hit the pavement below and with that her head jerked up. Fire blazed in her eyes as she glared down the other, then her hate filled words filled the air about her.
"You took him..." her voice barely audible seemed like a scream to her, then it rose to a yell, "You took him... he was all I had left.... You WITCH..."
Her arm rose before her, the single bloom clasped tight at its end. The whole form of the flower began to take on a life of its own as it began to sway and move in the windless air. It was then that the bloom began to glow a bright white and that the girl holding it decided to speak again.
"ROSEPETAL REAPER"
With that the bloom of the rose held before the young girl burst into the air about her, each petal shining with energy all its own. Forming intricate patterns in the air about her the petals seemed to tance about, uncertain of what to do at first. Then, with a suddeness unlike any other, they all came to a halt about the small girl and at once shoot off toward the dark woman. Each petal became a small blade like that of a scythe, cutting first shallow gashes, then deeper as each stroke continued. The petals moved at an ever increasing speed, leaving small trails of light behind them until they had reached such a pace that the trails merged so that it appeared the other had been englufed in a ball of light. Small black shards of enegry attempted to pierce the ball of light but failed misserably each time. Finally, all of the petals came to a halt, just as quickly as they had started to move, hovered only a short moment in the air, and then fell to the ground alongside a small pile of shimmering blue-black dust. All that was left of such and evil being was that dust, and the crown of throns that lay atop it.
It was over, the one who was pulling at her mind had been taken down, but then why did the sadness still remain. The cost had been a life she didn't even know, and thought she had hated. So why did it bother her so? He had called her princess. How did he know her? There was too much for one mind to bear as slowly she sank to the ground. Her sailor uniform faded away to become her normal clothes as she sad in the middle of a park pathway, her eyes streaming cerulian and her heart shattered into too many pieces to count.
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And this, my friends, is where it ends. But do not worry because I will not leave you to ponder but I figure that 11 chpts is enough for one tale. There will be a sequal so check back with my profile sometime to see if I have it posted yet. I want to appologize for all the spelling errors in this too, my spellchecker has wacked out lately and won't work, please forgive me, I'm trying my best. I also want to say that it has been brought to my attention as I reread the story today that i changed seasons about halfway through the story from autum to spring even though all this takes place over one weekend, it was ment to be set in spring but in the begining i just got confused and though autumn souned good. Until lata my good friends...Good night.
~MK~
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Chpt 11 - The Beginings End
Her day progressed as had become her usual as of late, yet there was always the haunting thought in the back of her mind, and the hope that what she thought must have been a dream could have been true. While her mind contemplated the thoughts of the previous night the day passed quickly around her and the final bell signaled that the school day had indeed come to a close. Slipping her pink backpack onto her shoulders the young girl edged her way toward the door, in no real hurry to be any certain place. Reality found, for the first time that day, a place in the young girl's mind as a pressure was added, ever so slightly, to her shoulder. Turning gently to find its source, Rini's eyes fell upon the hardened face so familiar as of the last few days. Mishy's piercing ice blue eyes stared back into her own, and for the first time she had ever seen, shown with an emotion of caring instead of the usual anger. His hardened look broke for merely a second as he smiled faintly at her, causing her to almost forget about the cresent moon scar that would forever wrap around his eye.
Her heart was overjoyed to see that the one person who had once stolen what little happiness she had found was now willing to allow her into his life, but then things changed yet again. In the time it would have taken for her to smile back her heart grew strangely cold toward the other and her smile became a frown of annoyance. Apparently senseing the change in her mood Mishy's face resumed it's usuall hardness as he continued his passing by into the freedom of the outdoors. Opting for said freedom herself, Rini squinted in the afternoon light as she stepped into the outside air. Lifting one hand to her forehead she both blocked the sun from her eyes but more importantly to her, scratched her forehead in confusion. Why had she reacted so coldly to the one person she felt that she should want to care for right now. Her mind made no sense to her right now, and her actions made even less, she had to appologize. That would have to wait though. For as she turned quickly back, hoping to admit her wrongs, she found that he had simply vanished, how he moved that quickly she was not sure.
Within moments, Rini could be found moving lazily down the familiar path that lead her toward the place she called home every afternoon after school. Her feet scuffed against the pavement that covered the trail in the park, the only sound for what to her seemed like miles. The Cherry bloosoms bloomed all around her, bathing the park in a beautiful tint of pink and white and leaving her mind to wander yet again. She was startled back to the present by the sudden racket of all the nearby birds leaving their roosts within the branches of the park's trees to fly away, shrieking wildly. Her small pink pigtails bobbed from side to side as her head turn first one way than the other in search of the disturbance that had so bothered the poor creatures. The sky above her darkened in a way she had not known it to ever do so suddenly. It was then that Rini first noticed the other there with her. She stood with a calm demenor a short distance away, witin the shadows of the cherry blossom trees. It was the same woman that had haunted her in her dreams, her midnight blue hair fell well past her sholder, held out of her face by a crown of thorns, and her cobalt eyes seemed to delve deep into Rini's soul. Her lips curled up into a grin that could only belong to a dark spirit, and it was then that Rini felt the tug on her mind, the pull toward the darkness that seemed so right, yet so wrong. A rush of wind and flash of white pulled her from the depths of despair and darkness that her heart now sunk into and Rini stood tall once again, her vision clearing to find the mystery boy who had haunted her for so long.
He stood before her in a manner both strong and comforting, his long, light hair trailing down one half of his face leaving only that one eye for the world to see and attempt to remeber him by. The three now stood in nearly a strait line, he between the ladies. To any passers by it would have been an odd sight indeed. A tall woman with dark blue hair and a shimmering blue derss to match staring down a boy in white arab garb and a small girl just off from school.
"Remove yourself boy, this is not your fight..."
The woman's tone was harsh and biting as she warned the boy to say out of her matters. Yet his reply was in a tone even more harsh than Rini had thought possible for someone apparently so young.
"All matters regaurding the princess are mine, you should know that..."
Princess, how could he possibly know of Rini's true postion, especially since in this time the position as 'Princess of the Moon Kingdom' didn't even exist yet. Her mind was awash with newborn thoughts and possibilities, was this child truely from the future as she was, or was he merely someone who knew far to much? She watched with egar eyes to as the other two faced off before her. The woman's eyes narrowed to slits that seemed to burn with hatred before she spoke again.
"Fine, if I can't have the girl, then no one will have the girl..."
Turning ever so slightly to face Rini the angered woman lifted a single palm into the air calling forth a small ball of dark energy. Purple streaks of lightening jumped from the inky surface only to dive back into the depths from wence they had come. Her shrill laughter cut through the air between them as the ball of energy glinted suddenly and she lowered it to hover before her.
"SHATTERED DARKNESS"
With her command the ball of energy broke into thousands of small shards of dark energy and hurtled themselves at Rini's small frame. She looked onward, anticipating the blow which was certain to come until, with a speed unseen to any other human, the mysterious youth threw himself before her and caught the full of the blow. Being thrown backward he landed heavily in the arms of the small girl, knocking her to the ground. She sat there, as the laughter echoed in the background from the evil woman, cradleing his broken form. Crimson seeped forth from nearly the whole of his body, as his single eye stared back at her around the bundle of hair that covered his face. A gust of wind blew by in the silence of the aftermath brushing aside the hair that covered the youths face revealing what Rini had never expected to see. There, hidden beneath all that platinum blonde hair, was a single blue eye, wrapped in a cresent moon scar.
"I'm sorry...I...I never told you...I...(cough)...I..."
His voice trailed off as slowly his head slid to one side. She attempted to hold him close, praying that it was not true. There was no way that she could ever hold him closer than she was, though, because as she moved to hold him tight, his form burst into a cloud of silver dust which seemed to float as a whole away from her and dissapear into the sky. All that was left in her arms, was a single white rose. Saphire spilled from her eyes as she clutched the rose to her chest where she found her locket. Instantly she had begun to glow and with a flash of pink there no long stood before this woman of evil a young girl, but a warrior of the moon. Rising to stand, she held her head down casting her face into the shadows laid by her bangs. A single tear fell from the tip of her chin to shatter as it hit the pavement below and with that her head jerked up. Fire blazed in her eyes as she glared down the other, then her hate filled words filled the air about her.
"You took him..." her voice barely audible seemed like a scream to her, then it rose to a yell, "You took him... he was all I had left.... You WITCH..."
Her arm rose before her, the single bloom clasped tight at its end. The whole form of the flower began to take on a life of its own as it began to sway and move in the windless air. It was then that the bloom began to glow a bright white and that the girl holding it decided to speak again.
"ROSEPETAL REAPER"
With that the bloom of the rose held before the young girl burst into the air about her, each petal shining with energy all its own. Forming intricate patterns in the air about her the petals seemed to tance about, uncertain of what to do at first. Then, with a suddeness unlike any other, they all came to a halt about the small girl and at once shoot off toward the dark woman. Each petal became a small blade like that of a scythe, cutting first shallow gashes, then deeper as each stroke continued. The petals moved at an ever increasing speed, leaving small trails of light behind them until they had reached such a pace that the trails merged so that it appeared the other had been englufed in a ball of light. Small black shards of enegry attempted to pierce the ball of light but failed misserably each time. Finally, all of the petals came to a halt, just as quickly as they had started to move, hovered only a short moment in the air, and then fell to the ground alongside a small pile of shimmering blue-black dust. All that was left of such and evil being was that dust, and the crown of throns that lay atop it.
It was over, the one who was pulling at her mind had been taken down, but then why did the sadness still remain. The cost had been a life she didn't even know, and thought she had hated. So why did it bother her so? He had called her princess. How did he know her? There was too much for one mind to bear as slowly she sank to the ground. Her sailor uniform faded away to become her normal clothes as she sad in the middle of a park pathway, her eyes streaming cerulian and her heart shattered into too many pieces to count.
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And this, my friends, is where it ends. But do not worry because I will not leave you to ponder but I figure that 11 chpts is enough for one tale. There will be a sequal so check back with my profile sometime to see if I have it posted yet. I want to appologize for all the spelling errors in this too, my spellchecker has wacked out lately and won't work, please forgive me, I'm trying my best. I also want to say that it has been brought to my attention as I reread the story today that i changed seasons about halfway through the story from autum to spring even though all this takes place over one weekend, it was ment to be set in spring but in the begining i just got confused and though autumn souned good. Until lata my good friends...Good night.
~MK~