Crystal: What is there to say…what to say...OH YEA…disclaimer…
DISCLAIMER: If anything in this story belonged to me, I would make it into a video game, but nothing does. The only thing here that belongs to me is the character Mickey. I also do not own the character Alethia Black, she owns herself.
Crystal: Hmm…these are becoming boring now…I'll just have to add in characters to chat with as soon as I get some that I have actually…talked too…that sounded lame -.-;
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Mickey smiled as the girl of sixteen, maybe only a bit younger then her, by just a few months, looked around herself. A door appeared at the side of the large window, and Mickey stepped through it.
The girl looked at her frightfully, her two, blonde braids flipping drastically around her head, and her bright green eyes widening.
"Welcome to the Akuna Yume Realm, Alethia" Mickey said. She continued to stare at her in a frightened fashion, when Mickey laughed slightly.
"It's alright, I won't hurt you. But, if you would come with me, I'd like to explain to you" Mickey said. She led Alethia out of the portal room, out of another door, and down to a door with a green silver plaque on it. It read 'Alethia'.
"Ok, this is really scaring me" Alethia said, and Mickey just smiled. She opened the door, leading Alethia into a completely green room with a bed and many shelves, along with sheets.
"This is your room, and you may put it as anyway you like. Now, why don't you have a seat for a moment" Mickey said, and a chair appeared behind Alethia, as well as herself. She took a seat, and Alethia did as well, sending curious and fearful glances around the room.
"My name is Mickey Weber, I sent you that mail" Mickey began, and Alethia nodded. "Now, this is the realm I created, and right now we are in the center, in the Realm Station, from here known to you as RS. And here is your passport" she said, handing her a silver booklet trimmed with green. "It is your only way to get from world to world and back, and before you go anywhere, you must consult me" Mickey said.
"Inside is one white ticket, your only ticket home. If you ever decided to leave, you may, but you can never come back after that time" she explained. "In the letter, I asked you many questions, and you will find everything you told me inside your letter is inside that closet" she said, pointing to the large, green closet at one side of the room.
"Also, here" Mickey said, handing her a black, very fancy pencil, with the Japanese kanji for 'time' on it. She also handed her a flip-out fan, with black dyed wood and green silk, with black, Japanese time kanji embroidering it.
"This" Mickey continued, pointed to the pencil, "Is a very important article. You can freeze anything happening in the anime world by taking it out of an enclosed area, and just trace a few lines, in a complete shape, around the character. When you put the pencil away, time will un-freeze, and everything will return to normal. And, with permission, you can draw with the pencil as well.
"This" she said, pointing to the fan Alethia was holding, "Should be dealt with very carefully. Though you can freeze time with the pencil, like everyone else will be able to, this will do more. You have the element of time, making it possible to time travel and stop time longer then the pencil ever could. You can slow time down, speed it up, and go forward to the future. Do you understand this power?" Mickey asked.
"I understand" Alethia said with a nod.
"Then I suggest you get ready, and meet me at my room. We'll wait for the others to arrive there. You'll be able to find it by the way" she said with a smile, as Alethia opened her mouth to ask where it was. "Trust me." Mickey left the room with that, disappearing into her own.
Alethia looked around her room, walking towards her closet. She opened it, and gasped at what happened.
The walls suddenly covered with pictures of Miroku and Inu-Yasha, as well as pictures from the animes Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, and more from Inu-Yasha. There were posters of Setsuna Meioh and Kurama adorning the walls as well. The bed was covered in black sheets, with green embroidery of her new favorite kanji. Time.
A Samurai katana was leaning against the wall by her door, with a hook hanging above it. Alethia walked over, hanging the fan, pencil, and passport there, which all had hanging strings of black.
Suddenly, a large dog bounded out of her closet, running over to her and jumping on her. He had a green color with a black, silver tag with the name 'Sirius' on it. Alethia laughed, pushing the dog off lightly, and standing. Inside her closet were also a set of dress clothes, and a set of night clothes. In fact, all of her dress clothes were exactly the same, a replica of the same thing eight times, with two night outfits.
Seeing that she was only in a dark green sweat suit, she changed into the clothes she would have to get used to. She slipped a green tank top over her head, and a pair of khaki cargo pants up to her waist. Over the tank she put a thin, black, button up jacket, with all the buttons hanging loose.
There was a red, crescent moon across her green tank, and around her neck hung a pendent of silver heart, intertwined with a dragon. She found that she also had a pair of ankle black boots, but her khaki cargo's covered them like mine covered Mickey's.
She slipped the last article on, two black wristbands on each arm. She flexed her hands, looking down at herself, before a small smile crossed her lips.
"Maybe this won't be so bad after all" she said to herself. She looked around her room once more, grabbing her fan, and stepping out through the door. She shut it, and a small, green key appeared in the key hole. She twisted it, the door locking, and pulling it out, putting it into one of her pockets, and her fan in the other, which seemed to shrink to fit. She walked off down the hallway, finding that Mickey had been quite right. The door to her room had been very easy to find.
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"Did you find everything to your liking?" Mickey asked, smiling at Alethia as she took in her room.
"Let me guess" she said, "Hiei fan-girl?" Mickey laughed a bit.
"Yes, we're actually pretty good friends. All the times I've sewn up Kuwabara's mouth, I've lost count" Mickey smiled. Alethia laughed a bit, when another one of the portals began to glow.
"Looks like we'll be having company, but not for a while now" Mickey said, walking over and sitting on her bed. Alethia sat next to her.
"You're from Arkansas, ne?" Mickey asked, and Alethia nodded.
"How do you know so much about me?" Alethia asked, and there was a small pop. A manila folder fell into Mickey's hands, and she opened it. Inside was the letter Alethia had wrote, a picture of her, and millions of facts.
"Trust me; I only invite those I know much about. I won't be giving something powerful to someone who has an evil reputation" Mickey explained. "If they did something bad, and tried to return home, their ticket would be shredded in the machine, and then they would be sent off. And even if they did happen to make it out, once you step out of the portal room, a spell is put on you. If you left, and went to tell someone about your life here, you'd suddenly find yourself with a loss of speech" Mickey continued, and Alethia nodded.
"So, where are you from?" Alethia asked.
"I don't really know, but I found myself one day with this large responsibility on my shoulders. Someone asked me to create a realm for those who need it, and so I did. After living here for so long, I can't remember where exactly I'm from, or even what my own parents look like. But I have no intention of leaving" Mickey explained, "Not when I could return to my home and find that my family is dead, and I'd be left on the streets" she said.
"Which reminds me" Mickey said as she pulled out a small pouch, made of black silk. She picked out a silver coin, a star (matching the one hanging from my neck) engraved on it. "This is the money used on the ship. We have stores, and the people I have running them only accept this. You get money when you complete a mission, but I've asked that no missions be sent till I have my full team.
"We also have restaurants, clothes stores, junk food shops, things like that" Mickey said. "And, when you want to visit somewhere else, there is a currency changer in the main room. It has eight buttons, one per planet, each a different currency" Mickey said, and Alethia nodded. There was a blinding light, and each of them stood, looking down upon the new members of the team.
To be continued…
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Crystal:…that's all folks…I still have nothing to say…-.-;