The Book of Donuts and Humor
Chapter Six
A/N No one wants to be at the party! Oh well. I'll just add a bonus chapter if someone would fill out the form in the last chapter. Stupid people. Don't you even read the Author's Notes?! I bet not. And the only reason I put stuff here is to give an annousement. Oops! I'm ranting, aren't I? One with the story!
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"How did you-?!" Before Vash could finish, Aurora interupted him.
"I've met your brother, Mr. Ericks. It was a pleasent meeting, believe it or not. He really cares for you, you know. He thinks the 'spiders' have brain washed you or something. He stayed here as well." She just smiled kindly, a good front smile that didn't reach her eyes. She was a lot like Vash, in some ways. "You are Vash the Stampede, Humaniod Typhoon with a bounty of 60 billion double dollars on your head, correct?" The look on Vash's face was her answer.
She just laughed. He'd looked worried, like she was going to reject him for who he was. That wasn't possible. They were kin, in a way, as she would soon explain. "No need to worry, Vash-san. I won't tell your brother you were here. That would cause unneeded attention from the already wary villagers. The only reason they let me teach in their school is because I know so much."
She stood, replacing the curtain over her picture. "I will explain more of my past to you, if you wish. And no need to talk. I can speak mind to mind with you, like you do with your brother. I already have before, and you didn't seem to notice." The gunman's face was expressionless as he followed her. She knew he had a lot to think about, like weither or not to trust her.
She turned back to look at him, not stopping her walking. Her face was serious, but there was also a mishcheifous tint to her eye. 'But know this, Vash; You are not alone. There have been other Plants such as yourself. And I am related to you and your kin, in a way.' That left him one more thing to puzzle over.
*********Jamey and Xani Yue**********
They'd arrived halfway to Xani Yue's bedroom when a door opened and Milly and Wolfwood stepped out. They looked calm, not lost at all. And they had just come out of the ciroprater's room. 'I wonder what they did in there,' thought Jamey, stopping as his charge did. 'Sis was teaching me some of that stuff a few years ago. Just enough to get by, atleast. Normal human's are so fragile, I wonder how they can stand it. Of course, that's all they've known.'
Milly was the first to spot them as her friend lit a cigerate. Some how they had survived the trembling and were still smokable. The cigerates, that is.
Milly waved happily at them, pulling Wolfwood and his cross with her. He seemed to never leave the thing, just like Meryl had a few drigers with her. The bigger of the insurence girls smiled happily at them as the priest leaned against the wall nonchalantly. Jamey smiled in return, his eyes on Xani. Sis had told him to take care of her, so he had too, or she would get mad. Not real mad, that would be even more dangerous, but mad enough to probably hurt him on accident.
Xani cracked a smile, standing as straight as she could after using so much energy. Wolfwood was staring at nothing, it seemed, but Jamey had lived long enough to know what humans thought without reading their mind. His total attention was on them, Xani, Milly and himself. This could be interesting.
"Hey! There was an eathquake and the house started shaking. What happened? Is everyone alright?" The questions seemed innocent enough, but Wolfwood was listening closely to enery word they said. The speaker, Milly, seemed genuenly concerned.
"Everyone's fine, Miss Milly. Are you alright?" was Jamey's reply. Xani didn't say anything, letting him handle this. She was too tired anyway. She hadn't seem practicing her powers resently because the villagers had become even more nervous and wary around them. Of course, his charge never left the grounds, let alone the house. That was way she was so pale. She hadn't been getting much sun.
Milly just smiled and answered cheerfully, "We're fine! Do you know where Meryl and the others are?" Wolfwood was still listening attentively, but Jamey answered truthfully nonetheless.
"Mr. Ericks is with Sis. I don't know where Meryl is. We haven't seen her."
Then Xani stepped in, fianlly. "Would you all care to have tea in my room? We needn't go to the kitchen-I have a way to make it on my own." Jamey hoped it was the stove as Milly excepted for them both.
As they walked, Wolfwood knew that Knives would be VERY interested in this.
**********Vash and Aurora/Shisha*********
Aurora led Vash into a hige white room. She walked over to the wall beside the door after closing it. A control panal popped out and she began to type. Vash knew this was lost tecknowledgy, something he had never seen. It was the kind of thing Rem had told him about-a holographic simulater that felt and looked real. This was even before his time, things that had supposibly been stuck on Earth.
Aurora stopped typing and stared at the cealing expectingly. There was a flash of light that blinded him for a moment, then he was standing in a feild like the one in the ship that brought him here-SEEDS. Something was bounding toward him, something he had only seen in books and videos. It was a canine being chased by it's owner. Suddenly the dog was gone and he was being chased. That is, until the guy through a ball at him. It almost hit him in the head and-
The feild was gone. He was in the white room again with Aurora looking appoligetic. "That was a dog training simulation. Sorry. Let me try again."
~*~*~*Twenty Tries Latter*~*~*~
The cannon balls rained down on Vash, passing right through him. They stopped suddenly and a rather hysterical Aurora stood laughing at him. He just glared at her, wondering if she was doing this on perpose. Dog training, potty training, rythmic gymastics, football practise, and hair styling were only some of the programs he'd gone through. The last one had been a remake of a pirate battle, he knew not why anyone in their right mind would want to go through it.
Aurora turned serious and lifted up her blouse sleeve. They were long and flowy blue things that matched her eyes. He hadn't known why she'd worn long sleves in the desert all the time, but now he did. There was scars worse then his from her elbow up, horrible things that looked like she had been stuck with a needle involunterily multiple times. Her arm began to transform, like his did when he used the Angel Arm. But it didn't look like a weapon at all. There was no pain on her face either.
Her fingers formed together, creating something that would fit into a newly appeared hole in the wall. She stuck her hand in up her elbow then withdrew it a second later. Her hand returned to normal as a new control board came out the wall.
'No need to be shocked, Vash-san,' said her voice in his head. Her face was serious, but her eyes were smiling. 'I am not even in my true form. Also, I just uploaded some of my memories into the computer. I will show you my life now, if you wish.'
He nodded in reply, expression grave. This could be a long one.
`So you know, it took hours to explain. You, reader, have been in thier minds and see how they think. I am Aurora, the one reporting this. I will just give you the short version of information. While this was going on, the other guests, including Meryl, had tea and sake and passed out. I won't envy Mr. Wolfwood in the morning. He'll have a headache as big, maybe even bigger, than Milly's.
Short Info:
I was born around 2009 and frozen for testing when I was only four. My mother had been a pateint of my late father and been murdered by her. When she gave birth to me, she named me Shisha Rose, a beautifully cursed name. That was the same name as her scientist mother. She abandoned me and I was found by the Angency my father had worked for. Knowing that they would be short of subjects to test in the future, I was frozen and forgotten.
When the testing started for my kind, I was unforzen and given the latest sample. My brain excepted it but my body didn't. Since the tecknowledgy had advanced much in the twirty years I was frozen, they replaced my body. It was almost the same, a body of a distent relitive the same age. By same age, I mean four, not twirty-four.
After ten years of switching bodies and testing, I was frozen again. Since I was the highest advanced at the time, and the most likely canidate for 'Queen', as they called it, I was needed to be the last subject. Years went by and I was never reawakened.
When they finally unfroze me again, I was in a six year old's body. I noticed someone like my mother also being unfrozen, and it was her. She didn't know me, but I knew her the way a child knows it's mother. After that, I learned she was a canidate of the SEEDS project, the one Vash was a resolt of. She became pregnate and gave birth to the only lone Plant child. The rest were born as twins. No one knew why.
I was raised with her for a few years, until my body became useless again. They put me in a new body, a Plant body. She knew me when she was me. I knew her, of course. And we got a new nurse. Rem's great-grandmother, I think. Someone related to her.
Well, my half sister's brain failed after a terrible test, and my body was becoming useless too. It had been only ten years since the last replacement. I was given my sister's body. The body held my power and is the one I am in now.
It was around 3002 when everyone had to leave Earth. I was in the last ship, the one that crashed here after floating in space for a while. This new body was frozen and was aging backwards. I don't know why it was, but it did. You know the rest.`
When Aurora finally finished her tale, even though she had only shown him her memories and not talked, Vash was crying. He'd heard sad things, lived through sad things and depression, but he hadn't thought anything like what had happened to her could accually happen. Know what I mean?
Aurora just smiled, a true smile. Only Jamey knew some of this. Vash and Knives, who were her 'brothers' and the other Plants that helped the humans were her brothers and sisters as well, were the only ones that knew. Knives hadn't seemed moved when he showed him, just more descusted with the 'spiders'.
The gunman wiped the tears away. Something so terrible happening to her made what had happened to him look like a simple drama, atleast to him.
"You and Knives are the only ones that know, now. Use this knowledge wisely. And remember this, Vash; if you ever need anything, just come to me. That includes your friends too. Now, let us sleep. There is a bed ready for you upstairs." She pressed a button on the control panal and the sitting Vash was lifted through the roof by the floor. Aurora stayed where she was, smiling at the painful memories.
********The Next Morning********
Meryl awoke to the light of dawn. She remembered last night, the drinking she hadn't taken part in and the tea. She was tucked up against something nice and warm, comfortable even. She snuggled against it more, her half asleep brain not registering what it was. For some reason it shifted, and she grab onto it, hugging it tightly.
Vash awoke to something warm against him. It seemed small and delicate, fragile even. He was still mostly asleep, Aurora's explaination out of his mind at the moment. The something against him moved, making him uncomfortable. He shifted as well. When it hugged him tightly with thin arms, he became wide awake.
Meryl was against him, hugging him tightly. This was scary. If she woke up and they were in this position, he would get a good head smashing. He tried to move slowly away from her, trying not to wake her. She only gripped tighter. As he resorted to prying her off, Meryl's steel eyes snapped open.
From down the corridor outside the room, Aurora, Jamey and Xani Yue sat drinking tea as the noise started. There were shouts, but Xani and Jamey couldn't make out the words. Aurora could, and she only smiled mischeifly.
"You really shouldn't have done that, Sis." Jamey sounded stern, but he was amused. Xani was as well, though she didn't show it.
"I know. I just couldn't help myself. Atleast they have something to think about now. I have also instructed Miss Meryl's other Self to be more persistent. She will awaken soon, you know. Vash will have his hands full then. I should have told him she was decended from the Seconded most powerful of us."
Jamey grimised. He'd met the cocky guy after Aurora had awakened. He and Sis were related, even though Aurora was a thousand years or so older than him. "That cocky guy? Where is he now?"
Aurora just smiled. "Over seeing Meryl and Milly. He is their boss, the one I had keep an eye on the girl. Miss Meryl's power will rival his own, even if she will never been as powerful as me. Not that I care. I just don't want anyone else to go through what I had to." She was the Watcher, guardian to their secrets and 'Queen' of them all.
~*~*~*A Few Hours Later*~*~*~
As Aurora saw everyone off with Xani and Jamey at her side, she sent Wolfwood a message. 'Don't even think about reporting this to Knives or I will erase your memory of me as I did to Vash in July. Too bad his brother interfeared.'
Wolfwood just glanced back and nodded, a little unnerved that the girl had the power to enter his mind.
Meryl was still mad at Vash, who had his glasses on and was thinking about Aurora's story. Milly smiled happily, thinking of what to write in her next letter home.
~The End~
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A/N This is the last real chapter of this story. If you want a bonus party chapter with Vash & Co. and my OC, just reveiw. If you want to come tothe party, read the ending note in chap[ter five.
Credits:
All the people who reviewed me, thank you. Real Credits in bonus chapter, if you review.
Chapter Six
A/N No one wants to be at the party! Oh well. I'll just add a bonus chapter if someone would fill out the form in the last chapter. Stupid people. Don't you even read the Author's Notes?! I bet not. And the only reason I put stuff here is to give an annousement. Oops! I'm ranting, aren't I? One with the story!
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"How did you-?!" Before Vash could finish, Aurora interupted him.
"I've met your brother, Mr. Ericks. It was a pleasent meeting, believe it or not. He really cares for you, you know. He thinks the 'spiders' have brain washed you or something. He stayed here as well." She just smiled kindly, a good front smile that didn't reach her eyes. She was a lot like Vash, in some ways. "You are Vash the Stampede, Humaniod Typhoon with a bounty of 60 billion double dollars on your head, correct?" The look on Vash's face was her answer.
She just laughed. He'd looked worried, like she was going to reject him for who he was. That wasn't possible. They were kin, in a way, as she would soon explain. "No need to worry, Vash-san. I won't tell your brother you were here. That would cause unneeded attention from the already wary villagers. The only reason they let me teach in their school is because I know so much."
She stood, replacing the curtain over her picture. "I will explain more of my past to you, if you wish. And no need to talk. I can speak mind to mind with you, like you do with your brother. I already have before, and you didn't seem to notice." The gunman's face was expressionless as he followed her. She knew he had a lot to think about, like weither or not to trust her.
She turned back to look at him, not stopping her walking. Her face was serious, but there was also a mishcheifous tint to her eye. 'But know this, Vash; You are not alone. There have been other Plants such as yourself. And I am related to you and your kin, in a way.' That left him one more thing to puzzle over.
*********Jamey and Xani Yue**********
They'd arrived halfway to Xani Yue's bedroom when a door opened and Milly and Wolfwood stepped out. They looked calm, not lost at all. And they had just come out of the ciroprater's room. 'I wonder what they did in there,' thought Jamey, stopping as his charge did. 'Sis was teaching me some of that stuff a few years ago. Just enough to get by, atleast. Normal human's are so fragile, I wonder how they can stand it. Of course, that's all they've known.'
Milly was the first to spot them as her friend lit a cigerate. Some how they had survived the trembling and were still smokable. The cigerates, that is.
Milly waved happily at them, pulling Wolfwood and his cross with her. He seemed to never leave the thing, just like Meryl had a few drigers with her. The bigger of the insurence girls smiled happily at them as the priest leaned against the wall nonchalantly. Jamey smiled in return, his eyes on Xani. Sis had told him to take care of her, so he had too, or she would get mad. Not real mad, that would be even more dangerous, but mad enough to probably hurt him on accident.
Xani cracked a smile, standing as straight as she could after using so much energy. Wolfwood was staring at nothing, it seemed, but Jamey had lived long enough to know what humans thought without reading their mind. His total attention was on them, Xani, Milly and himself. This could be interesting.
"Hey! There was an eathquake and the house started shaking. What happened? Is everyone alright?" The questions seemed innocent enough, but Wolfwood was listening closely to enery word they said. The speaker, Milly, seemed genuenly concerned.
"Everyone's fine, Miss Milly. Are you alright?" was Jamey's reply. Xani didn't say anything, letting him handle this. She was too tired anyway. She hadn't seem practicing her powers resently because the villagers had become even more nervous and wary around them. Of course, his charge never left the grounds, let alone the house. That was way she was so pale. She hadn't been getting much sun.
Milly just smiled and answered cheerfully, "We're fine! Do you know where Meryl and the others are?" Wolfwood was still listening attentively, but Jamey answered truthfully nonetheless.
"Mr. Ericks is with Sis. I don't know where Meryl is. We haven't seen her."
Then Xani stepped in, fianlly. "Would you all care to have tea in my room? We needn't go to the kitchen-I have a way to make it on my own." Jamey hoped it was the stove as Milly excepted for them both.
As they walked, Wolfwood knew that Knives would be VERY interested in this.
**********Vash and Aurora/Shisha*********
Aurora led Vash into a hige white room. She walked over to the wall beside the door after closing it. A control panal popped out and she began to type. Vash knew this was lost tecknowledgy, something he had never seen. It was the kind of thing Rem had told him about-a holographic simulater that felt and looked real. This was even before his time, things that had supposibly been stuck on Earth.
Aurora stopped typing and stared at the cealing expectingly. There was a flash of light that blinded him for a moment, then he was standing in a feild like the one in the ship that brought him here-SEEDS. Something was bounding toward him, something he had only seen in books and videos. It was a canine being chased by it's owner. Suddenly the dog was gone and he was being chased. That is, until the guy through a ball at him. It almost hit him in the head and-
The feild was gone. He was in the white room again with Aurora looking appoligetic. "That was a dog training simulation. Sorry. Let me try again."
~*~*~*Twenty Tries Latter*~*~*~
The cannon balls rained down on Vash, passing right through him. They stopped suddenly and a rather hysterical Aurora stood laughing at him. He just glared at her, wondering if she was doing this on perpose. Dog training, potty training, rythmic gymastics, football practise, and hair styling were only some of the programs he'd gone through. The last one had been a remake of a pirate battle, he knew not why anyone in their right mind would want to go through it.
Aurora turned serious and lifted up her blouse sleeve. They were long and flowy blue things that matched her eyes. He hadn't known why she'd worn long sleves in the desert all the time, but now he did. There was scars worse then his from her elbow up, horrible things that looked like she had been stuck with a needle involunterily multiple times. Her arm began to transform, like his did when he used the Angel Arm. But it didn't look like a weapon at all. There was no pain on her face either.
Her fingers formed together, creating something that would fit into a newly appeared hole in the wall. She stuck her hand in up her elbow then withdrew it a second later. Her hand returned to normal as a new control board came out the wall.
'No need to be shocked, Vash-san,' said her voice in his head. Her face was serious, but her eyes were smiling. 'I am not even in my true form. Also, I just uploaded some of my memories into the computer. I will show you my life now, if you wish.'
He nodded in reply, expression grave. This could be a long one.
`So you know, it took hours to explain. You, reader, have been in thier minds and see how they think. I am Aurora, the one reporting this. I will just give you the short version of information. While this was going on, the other guests, including Meryl, had tea and sake and passed out. I won't envy Mr. Wolfwood in the morning. He'll have a headache as big, maybe even bigger, than Milly's.
Short Info:
I was born around 2009 and frozen for testing when I was only four. My mother had been a pateint of my late father and been murdered by her. When she gave birth to me, she named me Shisha Rose, a beautifully cursed name. That was the same name as her scientist mother. She abandoned me and I was found by the Angency my father had worked for. Knowing that they would be short of subjects to test in the future, I was frozen and forgotten.
When the testing started for my kind, I was unforzen and given the latest sample. My brain excepted it but my body didn't. Since the tecknowledgy had advanced much in the twirty years I was frozen, they replaced my body. It was almost the same, a body of a distent relitive the same age. By same age, I mean four, not twirty-four.
After ten years of switching bodies and testing, I was frozen again. Since I was the highest advanced at the time, and the most likely canidate for 'Queen', as they called it, I was needed to be the last subject. Years went by and I was never reawakened.
When they finally unfroze me again, I was in a six year old's body. I noticed someone like my mother also being unfrozen, and it was her. She didn't know me, but I knew her the way a child knows it's mother. After that, I learned she was a canidate of the SEEDS project, the one Vash was a resolt of. She became pregnate and gave birth to the only lone Plant child. The rest were born as twins. No one knew why.
I was raised with her for a few years, until my body became useless again. They put me in a new body, a Plant body. She knew me when she was me. I knew her, of course. And we got a new nurse. Rem's great-grandmother, I think. Someone related to her.
Well, my half sister's brain failed after a terrible test, and my body was becoming useless too. It had been only ten years since the last replacement. I was given my sister's body. The body held my power and is the one I am in now.
It was around 3002 when everyone had to leave Earth. I was in the last ship, the one that crashed here after floating in space for a while. This new body was frozen and was aging backwards. I don't know why it was, but it did. You know the rest.`
When Aurora finally finished her tale, even though she had only shown him her memories and not talked, Vash was crying. He'd heard sad things, lived through sad things and depression, but he hadn't thought anything like what had happened to her could accually happen. Know what I mean?
Aurora just smiled, a true smile. Only Jamey knew some of this. Vash and Knives, who were her 'brothers' and the other Plants that helped the humans were her brothers and sisters as well, were the only ones that knew. Knives hadn't seemed moved when he showed him, just more descusted with the 'spiders'.
The gunman wiped the tears away. Something so terrible happening to her made what had happened to him look like a simple drama, atleast to him.
"You and Knives are the only ones that know, now. Use this knowledge wisely. And remember this, Vash; if you ever need anything, just come to me. That includes your friends too. Now, let us sleep. There is a bed ready for you upstairs." She pressed a button on the control panal and the sitting Vash was lifted through the roof by the floor. Aurora stayed where she was, smiling at the painful memories.
********The Next Morning********
Meryl awoke to the light of dawn. She remembered last night, the drinking she hadn't taken part in and the tea. She was tucked up against something nice and warm, comfortable even. She snuggled against it more, her half asleep brain not registering what it was. For some reason it shifted, and she grab onto it, hugging it tightly.
Vash awoke to something warm against him. It seemed small and delicate, fragile even. He was still mostly asleep, Aurora's explaination out of his mind at the moment. The something against him moved, making him uncomfortable. He shifted as well. When it hugged him tightly with thin arms, he became wide awake.
Meryl was against him, hugging him tightly. This was scary. If she woke up and they were in this position, he would get a good head smashing. He tried to move slowly away from her, trying not to wake her. She only gripped tighter. As he resorted to prying her off, Meryl's steel eyes snapped open.
From down the corridor outside the room, Aurora, Jamey and Xani Yue sat drinking tea as the noise started. There were shouts, but Xani and Jamey couldn't make out the words. Aurora could, and she only smiled mischeifly.
"You really shouldn't have done that, Sis." Jamey sounded stern, but he was amused. Xani was as well, though she didn't show it.
"I know. I just couldn't help myself. Atleast they have something to think about now. I have also instructed Miss Meryl's other Self to be more persistent. She will awaken soon, you know. Vash will have his hands full then. I should have told him she was decended from the Seconded most powerful of us."
Jamey grimised. He'd met the cocky guy after Aurora had awakened. He and Sis were related, even though Aurora was a thousand years or so older than him. "That cocky guy? Where is he now?"
Aurora just smiled. "Over seeing Meryl and Milly. He is their boss, the one I had keep an eye on the girl. Miss Meryl's power will rival his own, even if she will never been as powerful as me. Not that I care. I just don't want anyone else to go through what I had to." She was the Watcher, guardian to their secrets and 'Queen' of them all.
~*~*~*A Few Hours Later*~*~*~
As Aurora saw everyone off with Xani and Jamey at her side, she sent Wolfwood a message. 'Don't even think about reporting this to Knives or I will erase your memory of me as I did to Vash in July. Too bad his brother interfeared.'
Wolfwood just glanced back and nodded, a little unnerved that the girl had the power to enter his mind.
Meryl was still mad at Vash, who had his glasses on and was thinking about Aurora's story. Milly smiled happily, thinking of what to write in her next letter home.
~The End~
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A/N This is the last real chapter of this story. If you want a bonus party chapter with Vash & Co. and my OC, just reveiw. If you want to come tothe party, read the ending note in chap[ter five.
Credits:
All the people who reviewed me, thank you. Real Credits in bonus chapter, if you review.