Disclaimer: This is a parody of X. X, the characters, plot, etc. do not belong to me.

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Warning: The story contains plot spoilers. It is also incredibly silly.

X PARODY CHAPTER THREE: MIDDLES CONTINUED

PART ONE: Hinoto, the albino dream seer of the Dragons of Heaven dreams on under the Japanese Diet building's basement. Her sister, Kanoe, invades her dream.

"So, Kamui has chosen to be a Dragon of Heaven." Hinoto says, sadly.

Kanoe gloats. "And Fuma is now a Dragon of Earth, and therefore mine all mine! Mine to play with, mine to manipulate, and mine to smarm all over as I always do in my own inimitable style."

"Kanoe, you can't keep thinking of the Dragons of Heaven as your own private playthings. They are not dolls, they're human beings."

"Hah! You're just jealous because your Kamui doll is broken. Well I won't share my Fuma doll with you ever."

Hinoto sighs. "You always were a spoiled brat."

Kanoe sticks out her tongue and exits the dream, leaving shattered black shards in her wake.

Meanwhile, in a bed at the tastefully decorated CLAMP school, Kamui lies unconscious, still in a state of shock after witnessing the death of Kotori by her own brother, his friend Fuma. The Dragons of Heaven nearest to his age, Subaru, Sorata, Arashi, and Yuzuriha gather around his bedside.

Sorata shakes Kamui. "Hey! Wake up! Get out of bed or no breakfast!"

Arashi glares at him. "It's two o'clock in the afternoon, Sorata. Your threat of 'no breakfast' doesn't make sense."

Sorata shrugs. "It always worked on me back at the monastery."

Arashi leans in close to Kamui and whispers, "If you don't wake up, the final battle will never be fought, and I'll be stuck with this clown for eternity." She slaps him across the face, hard. "Now snap out of it."

"Hey!" yelps Sorata.

Yuzuriha shoves past Arashi and Sorata. "I know! Ice cream. Kamui, if you come back I'll give you ice cream!" When there is no reaction from Kamui, Yuzuriha sighs. "Well, if that didn't work, I don't know what will."

Subaru rolls up his sleeves and stands by the bed. "Step aside and let the master have a shot. I will now mumble an incomprehensible magic incantation and invade Kamui's subconscious, speaking directly to his inner child, and convincing him to come out and play."

Sorata looks on admiringly. "Now why didn't I think of that?"

"Because thinking requires a brain?" asks Arashi sweetly.

Subaru leans in close to Kamui and places his forehead against the younger boy's head. He merges with Kamui's consciousness and emerges into a whirling vortex. At the center a small boy, sobbing disconsolately, stands next to a bloody Shincan Sword.

"Boy, why are you crying?"

The Younger Kamui sobs, "Because Fuma killed Kotori and now the sword's all dirty and it's all my fault."

Subaru kneels by the child. "Kamui, once I was like you. I too, lost someone I loved, and I could not stop it from happening. I escaped from reality because it was too painful. But now I have overcome my sorrow and you can too. I will now make you watch a replay of my sister's horrific death in which Seishiro plunges his hand through her heart so she can fall in slow motion to the ground and lose her bead necklace." He presses the 'play' button on the dreamscape and shows Younger Kamui the scene.

"Eew! Gross! Why'd you show me that?" Younger Kamui makes a face.

Subaru's voice lowers. "If you don't come back with me now I'll show it to you again and again." He whips out a remote control and places his finger over the 'rewind' button.

Younger Kamui raises his hands in horror. "No! Anything but that! I hate reruns!"

Back in the bedroom, Kamui wakes up, amid great rejoicing. Soon the leader of the CLAMP school shows up with Karen, dressed in a high necked form fitting red dress with slits up the sides, and Seiichiro dressed in a conservative tan suit, in tow.

The Man From CLAMP addresses Kamui. "Kamui, we have recovered the Shincan sword that Fuma used to skewer your hand, and his sister. It's time to put it in storage." He leads the group down to the garden where a vast circular pool lies with a headless Greek statue of winged victory in the middle.

"Now what?" Kamui asks.

The Man From CLAMP points toward the center of the pool. "Walk forward to the statue, Kamui."

Kamui, carrying the Shincan sword, plunges into the pool and splashes his way to the statue at the center.

The Man From CLAMP points to a dry concrete path set over the pool leading to the statue. "Er, there is actually a walkway."

Kamui turns and gives a basilisk stare. "I am the chosen one, the Dragon of Heaven. I will somehow avenge Kotori's death and bring her brother Fuma's old personality back, and save humanity. Walkway? I don't need your stinking walkway!"

The Man From Clamp sighs, and steps across the walkway, motioning to the other Dragons of Heaven to follow. "Just place your hand on the decorative brass nameplate and get on with it then."

Kamui places his hand on the brass square. Immediately, the water drains off the pool, revealing a massive staircase leading to a vast, high tech subterranean lab with storage modules lining the walls. The Dragons of Heaven descend, following Kamui and the Man From CLAMP.

Yuzuriha squeals as she glances around. "This is so cool! It's like something from a James Bond movie, like when a Missile launches from a secret base in the ocean!"

The Man From CLAMP explains. "This storage facility is in the heart of the pentagram. Many people collaborated in its creation, including the princess Hinoto. Many celebrities, even governments, rent space here." He passes by green tubes containing alien embryos, President Kennedy's missing brain from the Texas autopsy, and the lost Ark of the Covenant. He stops the group at a storage platform. "We must store Kamui's Shincan here and immobilize it so that the other Shincan sword's powers will be useless as well, until the day of the unsealing."

Kamui plunges the Shincan sword into the center of the platform. Chains whip out from the walls of the facility and secure it. A star shaped beam of green light shoots out to the sky, pinpointing the spot where the Shincan is stored. The shock waves ripple out over Tokyo, alerting all the Dragons of Earth, and causing the Dragons of Heaven to cover their ears and wince.

The Man from CLAMP grimaces and mutters, "Great! So much for our reputation for secrecy and security."

PART TWO: Kanoe's lair. Kanoe sits in a strangely carved throne-like stone chair, dressed in her usual skintight black skirt-suit and magenta blouse, unbuttoned to her navel. Nataku - the oddly pale androgynous clone fresh from his storage tube, Yuto - still in his dapper pink suit, Satsuki - the computer nerd girl, Seishiro - sullen and dressed all in black, Kusanagi - still in army fatigues and leaning against the wall, and Kakyo - comatose and slumped against the wall, attend her.

Kanoe speaks. "Satsuki, do you have that report on the top secret genetics lab that spawned our dear Nataku yet?"

"My machine, Beast, and I have not yet been able to break their security codes." answers Satsuki in a monotone voice.

Kanoe's face twists in disappointment. "Rats. Yuto! Get me some coffee! I need caffeine!"

Yuto runs over with a porcelain teacup. "Yes, dear. Right away. I love to serve."

Kanoe hugs herself gleefully. "Fuma is getting closer! I can feel it!"

Fuma enters Kanoe's throne room. "I have arrived."

Kanoe jumps up from the chair and throws herself at Fuma, hugging him. "I'm so glad you're here."

Fuma tosses her aside and walks over to sit in Kanoe's throne. "I know everyone's wishes, and I can grant them, if I feel like it."

"Isn't he cool?!?" asks Kanoe rhetorically, sitting on the floor where she landed after Fuma threw her down.

Nataku falls at Fuma's feet and lays his head on Fuma's knee. "I only wish to stay here with you. See? I'm fawning all over you like a puppy dog because you remind me of my dad."

Fuma pats Nataku on the head. "Nice puppy. I will grant your wish because I like fawning. Now, go fetch me my Shincan sword." Nataku runs gleefully away to comply.

Satsuki stares at Fuma. "That is illogical. Nataku is a clone. He cannot have a father, he is only a copy of another human. Humans are dull. Anyways, how can you possibly grant wishes?"

Fuma smirks. "I'm the Head Dragon of Earth. I know everything."

Satsuki points at Kakyo slumped on the ground. "Then what's his wish?"

Fuma smiles. "That's an easy one. He wants to die, to rejoin his lost love in death since he can no longer be with her in life, since Seishiro killed her. Soon I will kill him, but not until I've wrung every last bit of prophetic information he possesses out of him. I just love granting wishes that give everyone what they want. I get to indulge my murderous tendencies and he gets to be murdered."

"Boring! I'm going back to Beast." Satsuki turns on her heel and leaves the room.

"Don't you just love him?" gushes Kanoe.

PART THREE: Underneath the Japanese Diet Building. Princess Hinoto sits in the middle of her shrine, attended by her two female servants and Daisuke, kneeling respectfully at a distance.

The attendants touch her robes respectfully. "Dear Princess, you work yourself too hard. Let us get you some medicinal tea so that you can have a private conversation which Daisuke who we both feel has a huge crush on you." The girls run away giggling.

Daisuke blushes. "Princess, I assure you I have the utmost respect for you, and for your gift of seeing the fate of the world. I just wish you did not have to bear such a heavy burden."

"Actually, it hasn't been so heavy lately. My dreams are being blocked. In fact, I may lose my dream seeing ability altogether, then there would be no need for you to guard me."

Daisuke speaks emotionally, eyes lowered. "Even though I've been told since day one that I was born to guard you, which I've been doing for the past eight years (without pay, or medical/dental benefits) I'd do it willingly all over again."

"Oh Daisuke!" Hinoto turns her blind red eyes, beginning to mist up sentimentally, in his general direction.

"Oh Hinoto!" Daisuke looks up from his respectful bowed position and gazes at her adoringly.

"Oh Daisuke!" Hinoto clasps her hands in joy.

The female attendants enter with a tea tray, observe the couple and comment (to each other), "Oh brother, they're at it again." They stop, bow, and say, "Princess, the Dragons of Heaven are here to see you." The Dragons troop in en masse.

Kamui moves forward to confront Hinoto. "I've got a question for you. Did you know what would happen to Kotori? And Fuma?"

"Yes, I did know." answers the blind seer.

Daisuke jumps defensively in front of Hinoto, along with the two female attendants who strike up defensive ninja poses: "Back off, angst boy." Daisuke growls. "Hinoto had a good reason for what she did. Leave her alone."

Seiichiro places his hand on Daisuke's shoulder. "Calm down, nephew. We must all trust one another if we are to work together."

"Can't we all just get along?" whines Sorata plaintively. "I get along real well with Miss Arashi!"

Arashi sniffs dismissively.

Yuzuriha breaks in with, "Can we go for ice cream? I'm hungry!"

Hinoto lifts a hand towards her female servants. "Attendants, please go get ice cream for everyone."

The attendants leave grumbling. "If we'd known all we were going to be were glorified waitresses we wouldn't have wasted ten years of our lives on ninja training."

Hinoto speaks. "It was Kotori's destiny to die, there was nothing I could do, just as I could do nothing to halt the cruel fates of Kotori's mother, your mother, and your aunt. If you hadn't become a Dragon of Heaven, then Fuma would have taken that job and you would have become a Dragon of Earth and you would have murdered Kotori."

"Oh." Kamui pauses to think a minute then says, "Is there no way to change Fuma back to the annoyingly cheerful twit he used to be?"

Hinoto ponders. "I...don't know. My dreams have not revealed this, but logic dictates that if you do manage to change him back, his memories will be intact. Everything he's done will stay with him. Regardless, your destiny is set. At least it was until my dreams stopped coming."

"Destiny Shmestiny." grouses Kamui. "I will now devote my life to changing Fuma back so he can go through the torments of hell knowing that he brutally murdered his sister, the only family member he had left."

"We'll go with you!" The Dragons of Heaven chime in, in unison.

Kamui brushes them off. "No, stay here and eat ice cream."

Daisuke steps up to Kamui. "I'll walk you out. I now feel bad about not trusting you earlier." Daisuke and Kamui get into the elevator.

Suddenly Hinoto gasps. "Daisuke!" Her bowl of ice cream drops to the floor and shatters. "I had a dream, a dream..." She collapses, sobbing.

The Dragons and her attendants gather around (except Yuzuriha and Karen.)

Yuzuriha swallows a spoonful of ice cream. "Do you think we should go after Daisuke and warn him Hinoto just had a dream about him?"

Karen glances longingly at Yuzuriha's bowl of ice cream and replies. "Sure, I'll hold onto your ice cream for you."

Yuzuriha clutches the ice cream protectively as the spirit dog, Inuki, moves in front of her to snarl threateningly. "On second thought, I'm sure he'll be fine!"

In the elevator, Daisuke and Kamui eye each other uncomfortably.

Kamui clears his throat. "Ahem. Now that I am the new, improved, Dragon of Heaven Kamui, I will show an uncharacteristic interest in those that I have wronged. How are the wounds I gave you when I ground your face into the concrete at the construction site when we first met?"

Daisuke, looking exceedingly uncomfortable, answers. "Uh, fine. Water under the bridge. Don't mention it. Besides," He turns red and stares at the ground. "I may have said some pretty, well, nasty things about you that day."

Kamui responds gruffly, also staring at the ground. "Yeah well, I'm.......sorry."

Daisuke pulls at the collar of his school uniform. "Can we talk about something else? How 'bout those force fields?"

Kamui grumbles, "I can't make force fields."

"What?"

Kamui repeats the sentence, loudly. "I CAN'T MAKE FORCE FIELDS!"

"Gee, I thought all Dragons of Heaven could."

"Well, I can't." mutters Kamui, miserably.

A long silence ensues. Daisuke breaks it.

"Bummer."

As they step out of the elevator and walk through the building's entrance, both look up as a massive explosion rocks the city.

Kamui's gaze sharpens. "That explosion, I think it was caused by a Dragon of Earth."

Daisuke looks around then points. "Yeah, and it's coming from that top secret genetics laboratory over there. Let's go!"

PART FOUR: At the ruins of the genetics lab, the elderly head researcher lies pinned to the ground by chunks of fallen concrete. Nataku, the pale clone, stands over him.

"Nataku, why would you do such a thing? Why destroy the lab that was your home for so long?" asks the old man, feebly trying to extricate himself.

"Because my new master asked me to!" responds Nataku.

"What new master?"

Fuma grins evilly and appears from behind the wreckage of the lab. "It is I, Fuma, the 'Other Kamui'."

The Head Researcher cranes his neck to get a glimpse of the dark clad villain. "Huh? So what is your name? Kamui, or Fuma?"

"My name is Kamui." asserts Fuma, angrily.

The Head Researcher looks confused. "But I thought you just said it was Fuma."

"It was Fuma, but now it is Kamui, the Dragon of Earth, not to be confused with Kamui the Dragon of Heaven."

The Head Researcher looks even more confused. "Wait, there's two Kamuis?"

Fuma stamps the ground in frustration. "No! I'm the real Kamui. I'm the only important Kamui."

"So you're the Dragon of...Heaven one then?" asks the Head Researcher doubtfully.

Fuma yells, "No! I'm... oh skip it! Just kill him, Nataku." He pauses, and cocks his head as if listening. "What's this? I sense Kamui approaching. This should be fun."

Kamui reaches the top of a skyscraper next to the demolished lab before Daisuke. "If this building is not strong enough to withstand the coming battle, many innocent people will die. Funny, I never used to care about innocent people or property damage before, but now that I'm the new and improved Dragon of Heaven Kamui, I find I'm vaguely interested in them now."

Fuma jumps up onto the skyscraper to confront Kamui. "Still haven't figured out how to do force fields yet, Kamui?"

"How did you know?"

Fuma smirks. "Because I get to be the cool Dragon, the Dragon of Earth, and I know everything." He grabs Kamui by the throat and smashes him with a burst of raw energy until he's unconscious, hanging limply from Fuma's hand.

Daisuke appears, after climbing over a pile of rubble. "Stop that! I'm here to save Kamui."

Fuma drops the now unconscious Kamui, and faces him. "Don't you mean Princess Hinoto? I know people's deepest wishes, and your deepest wish is to protect the princess. You'd even give your life for her, wouldn't you? I know ALL your secret wishes about the princess. The little house with the white picket fence in the suburbs with the dog in the yard, the SUV and the patter of the feet of little pink eyed children playing hide and go seek and...."

Daisuke raises his hands in a shushing movement, in a panic. "Shut up you idiot! She's a dream seer, that means she can hear what you're saying!" He begins spinning a wind spell.

Fuma shakes his head mockingly. "Oh please! You're so pathetic! Wish number one granted. You die." He nonchalantly sends an energy blast that annihilates Daisuke.

Kamui wakes up. "Fuma! You slime-ball! You killed Daisuke, the one ally I actually tried to be nice to!" He plunges his hand through Fuma's shoulder.

Fuma grabs Kamui's arm and pulls it out of his body, regarding Kamui's bloody hand dispassionately. "Hah hah, you missed my heart."

Kamui stares, incredulous. "There's something seriously wrong with you." He looks at Fuma staring intently at the bloody hand, attached to his arm which is still locked in Fuma's grip, and asks suspiciously, "You're not going to lick blood off me again are you?"

Fuma considers a moment then says, "No, that would be trite. I will now throw you to the ground instead of finishing you off, and look; I'm not even hurt! Pain means nothing to me. You, on the other hand..." He throws Kamui against a chain link fence.

Kamui flies through the air, remarking, "You know, Fuma, this is not the way to win friends and influence people." He lands hard and is knocked unconscious.

Subaru appears at the edge of the building and attempts to blast Fuma, who dodges it easily and confronts him.

"Look at me, Subaru." Fuma changes one of his brown eyes to milky grey.

Subaru is taken aback. "Yikes! You now look like Seishiro, the Dragon of Earth who murdered my sister! The resemblance is incredible."

"Ha ha! Made you look!" Fuma sends a barrage of rocks Subaru's way, which knocks him off his feet. Fuma leisurely walks over and kicks him. "I'm the Dragon of Earth who knows everyone's secret wish. I will now poke you in the eye, blinding you in that eye." He does so.

"Aargh!"

Fuma regards his handiwork proudly. "Your second best wish has now been granted. For your first best wish, you'll have to apply to Seishiro. You've now been blinded in the left eye. Now you look like Seishiro too."

Subaru raises his head, his hand over his bloody eye. "Did you say left?"

"Why yes, I did."

Subaru groans. "It's the right eye that Seishiro is blind in, you idiot!" He yells, and faints from the pain.

Fuma shrugs. "Hey, nobody's perfect. I will now unaccountably run away even though I have two Dragons of Heaven knocked out cold, completely at my mercy, practically begging to be killed." He exits.

PART FIVE: Outside Subaru's sick room, Sorata, Arashi, and Yuzuriha wait anxiously by the door. Kamui exits, looking grim and unapproachable as usual.

Sorata leans against the wall. "Ya know, it seems like we four always end up together, without the older Dragons of Heaven. Why is that?"

Arashi answers icily. "Perhaps because Karen and Seiichiro are gainfully employed and have jobs? Unlike you?"

"I'm the lovable high school student! I'm not supposed to have a job, or any homework either, come to think of it." ends Sorata, looking thoughtful.

Yuzuriha chimes in, "I think Mr. Seiichiro is actually out looking for the Dragons of Earth since Princess Hinoto can't seem to see them in her dreams anymore."

Sorata kicks at the hallway's carpet desultorily. "Yeah, she really hasn't been much help for a prophetess."

Suddenly, Kamui punches a hole in the wall and leaves his fist there, posing dramatically. "It's all my fault. I couldn't stop Fuma from killing Daisuke."

Sorata thumps him on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it. I couldn't stop Fuma from beating the snot out of you earlier in the story either."

Yuzuriha jumps up and down. "Me neither! I couldn't help in time either!"

Arashi crosses her arms and looks glum. "None of us could."

A long depressed silence ensues.

"Well paint an "L" on our foreheads and call us losers!" Sorata says in a loud voice.

Kamui growls. "I don't need your pity! Or your feeble attempts at humor, commiseration, sympathy, good will, friendship, empathy, or anything else. I am the tortured hero. I will now go off on my own." He stomps off.

Yuzuriha looks after him. "Maybe we should go help look for the Dragons of Earth. I'll go look in all the ice cream shops. C'mon Inuki!" Brightening, she scampers off with her spirit dog.

Sorata straightens his posture. "I agree! But I don't think we should split up. It's too dangerous. So, Missy, if you'll just step this way..." Sorata bows and extends a hand, pointing down the corridor to his left.

Arashi turns and walks in the opposite direction from where Sorata is pointing down the corridor.

Sorata calls after her. "You're weakening! Deep down you know I'm growing on you!"

"Like a fungus, maybe." Arashi mutters to herself as she leaves.

PART SIX: A bridge spanning Tokyo Bay. Seishiro, crow-like in a long black trench coat and sunglasses waits for Subaru.

Subaru appears at one end of the bridge and walks toward his archenemy, Seishiro, who begins walking toward him as well. They reach each other and stop. Seishiro gets out a package of cigarettes.

Seishiro speaks first. "Got a light?"

Subaru gets out a cigarette lighter and lights Seishiro's cigarette. Seishiro smirks slightly and continues walking down the bridge, past Subaru.

Subaru pipes up,"Uh, excuse me? Weren't we supposed to fight?"

Seishiro stops, and smiles mockingly. "Drat, I knew I was forgetting something. How cute you are for reminding me. Well, let's get to it."

Subaru whips out a pack of cards with mystical symbols stenciled on them and hurls them at Seishiro. The cards turn into white birds, which are pulped when they hit Seishiro's force field. Subaru counters by putting up a big green barrier field around the bridge.

"Fuma-Kamui told me that only I can fulfill your wish. You want to kill me because I murdered your sister, don't you?" Seishiro throws a bunch of black cards at Subaru that turn into rocks.

Subaru, dodging the rocks, sends an energy burst Seishiro's way. "Nope. Guess again."

Seishiro hurls a huge ball of eldritch energy at Subaru while jumping onto one of the support pylons on the bridge. "You want to kill my sister to even the score?"

Subaru twists to avoid it and returns fire with another energy blast as he, too, leaps up on a different support pylon. "You don't have a sister."

Seishiro causes the bridge cables near Subaru to snap and wrap around his body, imprisoning him. "Well, if you want to kill my mother you're too late, I already did."

Subaru takes a breath and snaps the cables, which somehow turned into cherry tree vines. "That's not it either, and I'm not even going to ask about your warped familial relationships."

Both leap up into the air and continue the fight.

"It's killing me, isn't it? You're just being coy."

Subaru glares. "I already told you! That's not it. My true wish is..."

A great lightning burst appears as Subaru and Seishiro crash together and land on the ruined bridge. A horrified Subaru pulls his now bloodied hand out of Seishiro's chest cavity.

Subaru gasps. "Dang it! That wasn't supposed to happen! Wait a minute, how exactly did that happen? I don't remember aiming my hand at you."

Seishiro coughs and slides forward onto Subaru's shoulder. "Well, it could be that last spell your pesky sister, Hokuto, cast as she lay dying in my arms. You see, she..." He coughs again. "Oh heck with it. Just watch the flashback!"

PART SEVEN: The courtyard outside a temple. Beneath the branches of a blossom laden cherry tree, a younger looking Seishiro hold a dying temple priestess, dressed all in white save for the dramatic splash of blood around the hole in her chest.

Hokuto grabs Seishiro's sleeve. "Promise me you won't hurt my little brother."

Seishiro gently disengages her hand. "Sorry, I'm going to kill him, even though I think he's kind of cute."

Hokuto pleads with him. "But if you try to kill him, the spell I just cast will make your actions boomerang and you'll be killed instead, so please don't try to kill him, or you'll die!"

Seishiro looks down at her wounded chest. "Look, kid, I just killed you. Why would you care if I died?"

Hokuto giggles as she reaches up to touch his cheek. "I've got a soft spot for sociopaths. Didn't you know? We nice girls always fall for the rude obnoxious types." She dies.

PART EIGHT: Back on the bridge.

Subaru speaks emotionally. "For years, I tried to find you to avenge my sister's death, but I realized that I couldn't hope to match you. So then I just tried to become good enough and skilled enough so that you'd consider me a worthy enough opponent to fight. You see, my true wish was for you to kill me!"

Seishiro looks at him incredulously. "That was your wish?' You could have told me that BEFORE I killed your spell-casting big sister." He ends reproachfully.

"But something's bothering me. If you knew that attacking me would lead to your death, then why'd you attack me?" asks Subaru.

Seishiro grins. "Oh, just to be contrary. We sociopaths thrive on doing the unexpected." He whispers in Subaru's ear and keels over dead.

Subaru frowns. "Darn it, Seishiro. You'll do just about anything to have the last word."

END CHAPTER THREE

Will the Dragons of Heaven ever get their act together and save the world? Will the X characters figure out some other way of killing each other BESIDES shoving their hands through each other's chests? Will the author ever get on with writing the end of this parody? Review please!