Summary: {Chapter 2} Trail and error leaves Vivi with more knowledge than
she could ever want about herself.
Disclaimer: For the last bloody flippin time....I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING RELATED TO GENSOMADEN SAIYUKI!!! GRRRR!!!!!!! Ahem. Yes I'm crazy.
Pairings: Let's see...Oh I know! This is an Oc/Kanzeon fic! I'm kidding. Really. This is an Oc/Sanzo fic. I was just messing with you. I swear. Pelted by tomatoes Ow! Stop that! It tickles!
Rating: R, cuz little kids are insecure enough in the front seat of a car. Potty mouths, violence, and general creepiness.
AN: Hmm.....someone read this...wow.....Well! As requested! All poetry in this belongs to.....me! Here we go! Sorry, I couldn't resist the urge to put something in here. Well, at least now we know what I listen to while writing fics. Oh...I apologize for my interesting sense of humor. That comes into play in around......Five seconds.
Chapter 2:
Frozen Devotion
It had been two months since the Sanzo party had come to include the Hou Long Vivi. She already had a sizeable fan club, full of.....boys and perverts. Vivi had adopted a sort of Hakkai-ish attitude around her fans, and turned down no request. Even one for poetry.
Sanzo sighed. Why the hell would anyone want her to write poetry? She's a Hou Long, not a damned scholar or a monk!
Vivi nibbled on her favorite pen. A fan had sent it to her. It was black, but when you held it in the light, a changing flame pattern appeared. An elegant red lacquered dragon was coiled around its shell, and the ink was blood red. "Sanzo...I need a subject."
Sanzo tried to keep from yawning. What the hell does this have to do with me? "Ask Hakkai or something."
Vivi had taken to retreating to Sanzo's room whenever the fans got weird. "That's not helping."
Sanzo leaned back in his chair and lit a cigarette. "Death. Or faith. Pick one woman."
Vivi smiled. "Both! Kill two birds with one stone!"
Sanzo shrugged. "Whatever you want woman."
-------Morning
Sanzo found Vivi hunched over her poem, asleep at his desk. He smiled softly, and eased the paper out from under her arm. "Well. I wonder what she wrote."
Faith Every night I play a game,
A game called faith.
I pray to something to let me die,
But this faith,
It's too hard,
It will never let me die.
So in the end there's only a simple girl,
Hoping for the freedom that she will never get.
I'm about to die,
Won't you please keep my faith?
A young girl's faith in death,
That was the game I played.
Sanzo blinked. Deep meaning to that. Even though it follows no form whatsoever.
Vivi yawned as she got up, working the kinks out of her muscles. "Do you think she'll like it?"
Sanzo looked at her. "This is for a girl?"
"Umhmm. A fan asked me to write something for him to give to his girlfriend. I know who his girlfriend is too. She keeps trying to work up the nerve to talk to me. At the rate this is going, I'll take her out for tea so she'll leave me alone." Vivi had gotten up and pulled the paper down from in front of Sanzo's face. "Do you think she'll like it?"
Sanzo nodded. "It'll do."
Vivi smiled softly. "I hoped so."
Sanzo walked out of the room, holding his oddly tattooed arm.
--------------Road
"Sanzo! Are we there yet?"
"This isn't a field trip you stupid monkey!"
Vivi smiled. "This is boring. Let's liven it up a bit....Heehee. MWOOOHAHAHAHA!" Vivi held her hands close together with her fingers spread stiffly out. She twitched her fingers, and an immense fire ball appeared. "Hou Long special!" She flung the ball into the air, and used her creepy Hou Long powers to make it look like a snaky dragon. She flipped into the air and landed neatly on its back. "MWOOOHAHAHAHAHA!" She let the dragon take on movement, and infused it with her own personality.
Goku and Goyjo cheered. "Awesome Vivi-san!" "Yatta! So cool!"
Hakkai let the Jeep take its own course. "Race you to that rock formation!"
Vivi smiled. "You're on little man!"
Sanzo snorted. Don't hurt yourself!
Vivi stopped smiling. I won't. Worrywart.
Sanzo held up his fan. "Everybody stop!"
Vivi landed her fiery dragon. "What?"
"When the fan falls, go for it."
Hakkai and Vivi nodded. "Right!"
Vivi leaned forward. I wish...for just one moment...I could fly on my own..... Her dragon roared, and scratched the ground.
Hakkai smiled his speed smile.
Goku and Goyjo looked at each other and clung on tight. "Nooooo!"
Sanzo dropped the fan.
Vivi kneed her dragon, and off they went. She felt the wind in her face, and she smiled as her dragon gained the lead over the Jeep. Faster! Faster! I want to really fly! Her dragon began to glow, and in an instant, the flames extinguished, leaving Vivi traveling forward, and down, at 95 mph.
Sanzo stood up in the Jeep. "She's going to die if she falls from that height! GOKU!"
Goku stood up. "I can't catch her! She's moving to fast!"
Hakkai hit the gas in desperation.
Sanzo grabbed the front window. The arm with tattoos burned for some reason, and the dragons themselves started moving off his arm. The red dragon and the blue dragon took the head position, twining around themselves in a sort of curlicue. He winced as the dragons flew off his arm. Tattoos where supposed to stay tattoos.
Vivi felt something in the corner of her mind. A distant, nagging sense of something very important. She looked at the ground rising in front of her, and leaned her body in an instinctual position. She felt something in her change....and she gritted her teeth for the impact.
Sanzo grabbed the dragons before anyone else could see them and stuffed them back up his sleeve. Do something girl!
Vivi fell forward at an alarming rate of speed, so much she began to catch on fire. She squinted her eyes as she plunged. At the last moment, she shot out her legs and used her momentum to rise again. She smiled, and a ripping pain in her shoulders caught her attention.
Hakkai spun the Jeep to avoid a large rock. He glanced up, and saw that Vivi was, 1) glowing, 2) growing wings, and 3) still moving at 95 mph, and getting faster.
Goku stared in awe. Vivi-san was so cool....
Goyjo couldn't help thinking one thing: She looked exactly like a dragon.
Sanzo gritted his teeth and fought a war against his own tattoos. He watched Vivi, and silently wished she could have her dream of flying on her own.
Vivi felt the joints in her fingers pop and crackle as her fingers grew claws. Her mouth ached when she bit down, so she let her jaw hang loose. She could feel her wings...hell....she could move them on her own! Sanzo! Look! I'm flying!
Sanzo looked up at her soaring figure, and actually smiled. Good for you Vivi. Good for you.
---------Later
It was pouring outside of the cozy tent. Vivi had lit a fire with her Hou Long skills. Sanzo watched her as she wrung out her now blonde hair. "This reminds me of my favorite song."
Goyjo (eager to please the young woman), cocked his head. "Sing it then."
Vivi rolled her eyes. "Sure."
Cold: Year of the Spider: Rain Song
"When it rains,
I don't mind
Let me stand here own light
Did she take her own life?
Let me know she's all right.
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end
I'll stay strong
I'll be fine,
Carry on with my life.
I'll still stare at the sky,
Pray for rain all the time.
Why'd you run?
Did you hide?
Why'd you leave, no goodbye?
When the clouds leave the sky,
Does a soul give you life?
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me.
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry for me.
I'll never be the same
But I
I'll never be the same,
Be the same,
Be the same.
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me.
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end"
Goku stopped eating. "That was a sad song."
Vivi snorted. "Sounds better with guitars, drums, and an acoustic system."
Hakkai wiped away a small tear. "That was beautiful"
"It reminds me of my sister. She drowned herself in the middle of a rainstorm. Ironically, I burned alive." Vivi leaned back against the rock that formed one side of their shelter.
Sanzo started watching the rain. "You are a sadistic woman. Did you know that?"
Vivi left through the other side of the tent.
Goyjo looked at Sanzo. "You have no skills with women whatsoever."
Sanzo beat him on the head. Vivi....you all right? Vivi? Answer me dammit!
Vivi stood in the pouring rain, awe on her pretty face. "Shui Long...." She screamed, her soprano voice breaking through everyone's reverie.
-------------Morning
"Damn! I can't find her!" Sanzo had been searching, alone, for Vivi for quite some time now.
Goyjo put an arm around Sanzo's neck. "Girl problems? I can help you know."
Sanzo clicked the hammer of his gun and put it to Goyjo's head. "Shut up."
A single raindrop fell from the sky. From it stretched up a beautiful woman with pale blue hair and blue eyes. "Looking for my sister?"
Sanzo stepped back. "Your sister?!?!"
The woman put a cold hand on Sanzo's face. "You're pretty. Tell me you're a pretty boy and I'll let you see her."
Goyjo opened his mouth to say something, but Sanzo pointed the gun at him.
Sanzo grimaced. "Bishounen desu."
Goyjo fell to the ground. Sanzo had just said that he was a pretty boy....Wow. That's devotion.
The woman smiled. "Yes you are aren't you?" She snapped her fingers and a puddle nearby shimmered. "Look in there."
Sanzo looked at her angrily. "I thought we had a deal."
The woman laughed. "But I never said I would let you see her personally."
Sanzo looked in the puddle, and his eyes opened wide in shock. There she was. Vivi. Screaming as water repeatedly lashed her, raising steam. "Let her go!"
The woman grabbed him close and kissed him. "You're my element. She doesn't deserve you! Never!"
Sanzo shot the woman, and coldly slapped her away. "Give her back."
The woman hissed. "NEVER!" A tree behind her moved. "Mu Long! Stay out of this!"
The tree broke, revealing a small boy with brown hair, and green eyes. "The balance is destroyed. Metal and fire are out of place. Tu Long is threatening all out war on you Shui Long. Hou Long is to be let go at once. You are overruled Shui Long."
The woman gritted her teeth. "I will not let that freak roam this place! Do you know what she did at my funeral? She laughed! Laughed at me, her elder sister! She just stood there and laughed her heart out! She's evil!"
Sanzo looked straight at Shui Long. "I don't think she is."
Shui Long whipped around. "You're supposed to be on my side!"
Mu Long waved his hand, and the puddle was held by a wooden bowl. "Let her go freely or it's open war."
Shui Long slapped Sanzo. "I could have given you everything! Immortality! Godhood!"
Kanzeon popped up. "He's already had that. Let Hou Long go. I have here in my hand a declaration of war from Heaven to the Longs if you do not cease this disorder."
Goyjo brandished his metal staff. "For once I'm glad to see you."
Shui Long vanished, the puddle stretching up.
Vivi fell forward, a shocked and frightened expression on her face. "Sanzo..."
Sanzo lunged forward to grab her, and she gripped his dragon arm with an untold strength. He could feel one of his tattoos leaving him.
Vivi held up her arm, displaying a red dragon. "What is this?"
Mu Long held a green glowing hand over her. "You'll be better soon. But that little thing...hm...That appears to be an elemental mastery tattoo. Interesting for a monk to have one."
Vivi smiled before falling over. "I'm just glad....it's over."
Mu Long smiled. "She's a fighter."
Kanzeon grinned. "She'll need it for this battle."
Mu Long nodded as he faded into the tree. "Especially then."
Kanzeon waved a hand over Vivi's open eyes. "She'll recover....eventually."
Sanzo snorted. "That's a comfort."
Kanzeon stood up and walked away. "Of course it is." She disappeared.
Sanzo held Vivi's fire-free form close to him. "Pity...."
Goyjo watched in silence. She was going to be all mine....All mine.... He gently walked off, leaving the two alone.
---------Twenty minutes later
"Sanzo?" Vivi dabbled her feet in a spring.
"Umm?" Sanzo stood nearby, supposedly keeping guard.
"What did she tell you? My sister I mean." She traced the path of a leaf on the water's edge.
Sanzo looked up at the clear sky. "I don't know what you could possibly mean."
Vivi let tears fall down into the clear water. "My sister has an ISSUE with me. I laughed at her funeral. I admit it. I had tried to bring her pet hamster to her funeral so it could say goodbye. Said hamster escaped from my pocket and started running all over me. Thus, making me laugh at a somber occasion."
Sanzo snorted. "So that is the extension of your sisterly love. You brought her hamster to her funeral. Wow. That is just deep and significant."
"Shut up. I was six years old."
Sanzo perked a brow. "So how old are you now?"
Caught up in the discussion, she didn't catch the trap. "Seventeen."
Sanzo noticed her tears, and sat down beside her. "I'm twenty-five."
Vivi leaned her head up against his shoulder. "At least you aren't thirty- five."
"I'm eight years your senior."
"So? You're point is? My cousin Guinevere is dating a guy fifteen years her senior."
Sanzo looked at her. "What does that have to do with anything?"
Vivi snuggled up under Sanzo's arm. "She's twenty-five."
Sanzo did a bit of math in his head. "That's sick! She's dating a guy who's forty?!?!?!"
"He's balding, has serious gas, snaggleteeth, piggy little eyes, and he is dirt poor. She's in it for love." Vivi closed her eyes, and listened to the birds.
Sanzo had noticed her last comment. "For love huh?"
Vivi made no sound. She was out of everything.
------------Present day and world (in other words Earth in 2004)
"Viviane! Oh thank goodness you're all right! I thought you had died!" A strawberry blonde hugged Vivi's body, lifting her up from the starched white hospital bed.
"Sanzo?" Vivi managed to mumble out a single word.
"What's a Sanzo? Oh well! I bring you greetings and salutations from everyone online. Good God! I never thought you would end up in the hospital!" The red head scratched her head. "Some weird seniors from our school came by to see you. The nurses flipped out. They were way cute though."
Vivi tried to get up. "What kind of seniors? Did they tell you their names?"
The red head smiled wickedly. "What a pleasant discussion this is. The blond called himself Konzen. The sexy red head said his name was Kenren. The cute little kid was Goku. The freaky lady that came with them said her name was Kanzeon. The sexy mysterious one didn't say anything. Um! If I could get my hands on whoever messed with your van I'll-"
"You'll do what? Pop em in the face?" A blond man leaned in the doorway, and looked quite a bit like Sanzo, complete with dragon tattoos and an eternal scowl. "Leave it to us. Well look who's finally up. Kenren! Goku! Hurry up already!"
Kenren came sauntering in, carrying a large box. "This isn't no lightweight present. Could you have at least gotten her something less expensive?"
Goku struggled with his box. "I can't see!"
Konzen popped Kenren in the head. "Who said I bought it? My aunt did!"
Vivi struggled not to laugh, and politely held her hand in front of her mouth delicately. "Lemme guess, you bought a computer."
Konzen smiled. "We thought it might be a nice thing. We've got extended leave from aunt to do this."
Vivi smiled, and tried not to yawn. "I'm so tired..." She fell backwards.
"Shit! She's back in it again!" Konzen grabbed her and shook her by the shoulders. "Wake up dammit!"
------Saiyuki world
Sanzo shook her by her shoulders. "Wake up dammit!"
Vivi opened her eyes. "What happened?"
Hakkai passed a green glowing hand over her head. "You passed out."
Goku looked at her. "Who's Konzen?"
Vivi gave him a blank look. "Who?"
"You keep saying that whenever you fall asleep."
Kanzeon chose to pop up, again. "I should think you would."
Vivi gave her a blank look. "Auntie?"
"In this world, no. In your world, yes. But only to the boys, not you."
"Did I miss something here?" Goyjo tried lighting his cigarette.
Kanzeon gave him an evil glare. "In your world, they resurrected your body. You aren't dead."
"I'm not dead?"
"No. But the time may come when you must choose one world or the other. By the way, when you are here, your body is in a permanent vegetative state."
"I'm in a coma?"
"Yes. You could say that."
"Nifty." Vivi fell back down, her eyes glazed over.
-------Present
"Hey! Am I good or what! Vivi! If you do that again, I'll smack you!" The red head girl put down the empty pitcher.
Kenren looked at her in awe. "That was sexy."
"I know right! By the way, I'm her cousin Guinevere."
"Kenren Taisho. Nice to meet you." Kenren kissed her outstretched hand.
Konzen handed Vivi a towel. "Hey....who's Sanzo? Some boyfriend of yours I should know about?"
"Um? Sanzo? You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Sure I would. Try me." Konzen pulled a chair around, and sat in it backwards.
"Later....when I'm not so tired..." Vivi flopped down, her eyes glazed over.
---------------Saiyuki world
"You need a stabilizer or something. You can't keep doing this." Kanzeon stood over Vivi's body, a bucket in her hand.
"But it's interesting." Vivi struggled to sit up. "What do you mean choose?"
"People like you can't exist in two worlds that have an equal claim over you. You'd have to die in one of the two worlds."
"How fun. I can't just turn my back on everyone I know."
Kanzeon slapped her. "Hou Long! Make up your mind!"
Sanzo looked at her. "Which version do you like better?"
Vivi looked at him. "What?"
"Which version of the world do you like better?"
Vivi looked at him, hate in her eyes. "Whichever one I can be myself in."
Sanzo stood up and walked away.
Vivi felt her heart break, and she calmly laid down. "If I die in both worlds.....what happens?"
Kanzeon kissed her forehead. "You go to the realm of the dragons, your home."
Sanzo eavesdropped on Vivi's thoughts. I want to go home....I'm sorry Sanzo. I love you!
Vivi held Kanzeon's hand as she guided the loaned knife to her throat. "Kanzeon. Do me a favor?"
Kanzeon looked at her. "What?"
"Don't tell him where I went."
Kanzeon nodded. "I'll leave you to it." She disappeared.
Sanzo came back. "I do....kind of....love you."
Vivi smiled. "I know. But I'm not meant for you."
Sanzo pulled her into a standing position, and kissed her. "Want me to do it?"
"I die with honor." She stabbed herself in her stomach as she leaned on his shoulder.
Sanzo felt himself make a tragic decision. No matter what, he would find her again and make her happy. He laid her down and put a blanket over her dead body.
-----------Present
Vivi woke up with a stifled scream.
Konzen grabbed her. "You all right?"
"There's something I need to tell you."
Konzen leaned back, and waved everyone else out of the room with a glare. "I'm all ears."
Vivi closed her eyes, and concentrated on the feeling she had begun to master in the Saiyuki world. When her eyes snapped open again, they were no longer a merry blue. They had changed to fire. Vivi put her hand to Konzen's face, and told him everything.
------Three hours later
"So you're saying that there's another me, and his name is Sanzo?" Konzen smoked one of his many cigarettes.
"Yes. That's pretty much all of it." Vivi reached for her suitcase. "My hair is a mess! God! Pass the hairdryer and the brush?"
Konzen cheerfully obliged. "You do look awful with that wet hair."
"Haha." Vivi got up and went into her allotted bathroom and plugged in the hair dryer. She ran a bathtub full of water, and flicked on the hairdryer. She took a deep breath and stepped in the tub, laid down, and lat the hairdryer fall.
Konzen stood in the doorway. "No matter what Vivi...I'll find you again....and I'll kill that bastard Sanzo."
-------------Courtyard
Vivi landed with a thump into her new home, the world of the Longs. She took a deep breath, and found it constricted by a choker. She felt for it, and whistled.
"Someone would tell you that that's unladylike. But not me. Welcome to Longland Hou Long." A young man stood in the shadows, his gray kimono matching his pale gray hair. His eyes shimmered like copper, and held little bubbles of more gray.
"Who the hell are you?" Vivi stepped back in surprise.
"I am Jin Long. The Long Wang wish to speak to you." Jin long handed her a mirror. "In case you were wondering what you look like."
Vivi gracefully took a brief look at herself. "Oh God! I'm gorgeous!"
Jin Long bowed. "Of course. There are four Long Wang you need to deal with. Brief history lesson here: Long Wang or Dragon King, in Chinese religion, is king of the dragons and ruler of the waters. Chinese dragons are traditionally regarded as water creatures, and in Chinese astronomy the appearance of the Dragon constellation was supposed to herald the rainy season. There are traditionally four principal Long Wang, each governing one of the four oceans of the world. The four brothers Ao Kuang, Ao Jun, Ao Shun, and Ao Chi' in serve the highest deity in Chinese religion, the Jade Emperor. Each lives in a crystal palace and together they rule over armies of aquatic creatures who police the ocean depths."
Vivi raised an eyebrow. "I know Fung Shui...but I have never heard of that."
Jin Long smiled. "I should hope not. Before I forget, we don't just have Long here."
Vivi raised her eyebrow higher. "Beg pardon? Explain."
Jin Long gave a short bow. "Of course Hou Long. Here, we have the Eight Immortals. And they are: (1) Zhongli Quan, a fat hermit who knows the secrets to longevity and holds a feather fan with which he can revive the dead; (2) Zhangguo Lao, an elderly man with the power of invisibility, who rides a white donkey and beats a bamboo tube drum to announce his arrival; (3) Lu Dongbin, an immortal who carries a sword to rid the world of evil monsters; (4) Cao Guojiu, a courtier who has a writing tablet and serves as the patron deity of actors; (5) Li Tieguai, a man leaning on a crutch clutching a smoking gourd, the smoke of which frees the spirit from the body; (6) Han Xiangzi, the patron deity of musicians, who carries a lute and can cause flowers to bloom; (7) Lan Caihe, a person with both male and female characteristics, who carries a basket of flowers; and (8) He Xiangu, a girl holding a lotus blossom."
Vivi perked her other eyebrow. "So in other words, every facsimile of Chinese mythology is embodied here."
Jin Long nodded. "Pretty much."
"Anything else I should know?"
"Well....we have the Jade Emperor exiled...so....right about now, no."
"Good. That was much too much for me to remember, so keep telling me all that."
Jin Long bowed. "It would be my pleasure."
Vivi snorted. "Don't I have a meeting?"
Jin Long straightened, and led her off. "After we get your affairs in order. There hasn't been a Hou Long in quite a while, even if we do exist out of the stream of time. You can watch mortals in anything you want. I prefer a polished metal bowl."
Vivi followed after the metal dragon, flinging herself into her new life.
-------Saiyuki world, 3 years later
"Sanzo! Are we there yet?" Goku whined from the backseat of the Jeep. His longer hair flew in the breeze as his yellow eyes looked dubiously at the scenery.
Goyjo lit a cigarette, and scratched his shorter red hair. "Shut up stupid monkey."
Hakkai smiled softly, the only one having the same look as before. "We aren't."
Sanzo let his tattooed arm hang in the breeze. "Damn good thing I figured out how to use these."
Goyjo snorted. "After many accidents."
Sanzo held his hand near Goyjo's head. "I did manage to learn Vivi's little trick."
Goku laughed. "I'd love to see that."
Sanzo jumped out of the Jeep as it drove by at high speed. "This is it!"
Hakkai hit the brakes and turned the Jeep furiously. "Warn me first ok?"
Sanzo snorted. He had gotten rid of the bulky monk's garb a while ago, saving only the Sutra. Heaven and Earth hear my plea; send fire and water back to me. Let wood and metal carry my soul past the gates of Long. "Let fire open a way for me through water. Let metal be my path, water my guiding light. Let wood be my heart, earth my salvation. Carry me through to heart and hearth, let all those hear my plea and speak."
Goku cleaned out his ear. "That was weird. Nothing's happening anyway."
Hakkai smiled. "Wait."
A small fire appeared on the water Sanzo had stopped in front of. It stretched up higher to around Vivi's height, and spewed forth a path of fire. A small, dainty foot stepped carefully on the path, followed by a naked leg, and another dainty foot and naked leg. In the end, the fire spewed forth a beautiful woman clad in a toga like dress. She held a fiery staff, capped by a ruby. Her eyes snapped open, revealing their golden red orbs. "Who called?"
Sanzo held up his tattooed arm. "I seek safe passage to the Long for my companions and myself."
The woman nodded. "Granted, although Lady Hou Long will be very angry with me for it. It will be the greatest gift I could give her."
Goyjo looked at her. "Are you obsessed with another woman?"
The fire maiden smiled. "Long can choose what they want to be. Lady Hou Long usually only takes two forms, a woman, and a small child. I have seen her change to a Long before. She was beautiful in her fiery scales, her golden whiskers trailing down....Oh look! We're here!"
The maiden had brought them to the Long without even blinking an eye. She turned, and screamed as the shadows moved.
"DAMN GIRL!" A large clawed hand, like that of a massive dragon, snaked out and grabbed the maiden. "WHAT DID YOU BRING THIS TIME?!?!?!?!"
Sanzo held his arm in front of his face. "Well you sure as hell got mean."
The dragon snarled, and shifted to a small girl. The girl had golden red eyes, and the same hair. No matter how you looked at her, she was beautiful. "Don't like it? Go home."
Sanzo sighed. "After all the shit I went through? Hell no."
The girl raised a brow. "Hell can be arranged."
A beautiful young man with grey hair and golden eyes wrapped an arm around the girl's shoulders. "So this is this Sanzo character that was so determined to see you happy?"
The girl rolled her eyes and shifted shapes to that of a golden retriever. She sat down on her haunches. "No. It's Satan, following me with a pestilence."
The man laughed and shifted to a beautiful greyhound. "How ironic. Shall I kill him then?"
The dog growled, and shifted to that of a white rabbit. "That would be a bad idea."
The greyhound laughed, and shifted back to the beautiful young man. "Show some manners Hou Long."
The rabbit twitched its nose, and shifted to that of a beautiful young woman, clad in a bikini top and a high-slitted skirt. Her golden hair and eyes dazzled Sanzo's human ones, and sent Goyjo into little mental fits of ecstasy. Her skin appeared to be brushed with a bronze color, matching her golden hair with a darker hue. She wore no shoes, but instead wore an elaborate golden chain that connected a collar, her wrists, and her ankles with fine chain. She yawned, showing pointy white teeth. "Well. There you have it. Take it or leave it."
Sanzo perked a bow. "So how old are you now?"
The woman sighed heavily. "Twenty-one. Big deal."
The pretty boy behind her gave Sanzo a look that could peel paint. "Come on Hou Long. You have a meeting with the Long Wang about your idea."
The woman spun around and spin-kicked the pretty boy in obvious anger. "Why the fuck didn't you tell me sooner!!!!!?!?!?!?!!!!!!"
Sanzo perked his brow. "What idea?"
The woman stopped bashing in the pretty boy's skull and looked at him. "The Long are making a peace agreement with Heaven. The most destructive god/goddess is going to marry the most destructive Long."
Goyjo looked at her. "Who came up with that shitty idea?"
The woman gritted her teeth. "Since it's the only trait we have in common.....But it was MY idea....so I should know the details. Which I have explained very clearly to Long Wang. Enough so, that I shouldn't ever need to talk to them again."
The pretty boy sniggered. "I know something you don't know!"
"SHUT UP OR TELL ME JIN LONG!!!!" The woman grinned evilly. "Or you could get a tiny little....penalty."
Jin Long's eyes opened wide. "On a fellow Long? Are you mad?"
The woman smiled evilly. "Kee kee kee."
Jin long backed away. "You are one crazy Long!!!"
The woman rolled her eyes. "Care to know your punishment?"
Jin Long cowered down. "No..."
The woman brandished a live lobster. "It's to spend three hours with a LIVE lobster in your pants!"
Jin Long backed away slowly, and then all out sprinted, only to have Hou Long catch his pant edge and drop in the lobster.
"That's cruel." Goyjo stood there with his eyelid sagging and his mouth held open.
"And unusual." Sanzo just stared, an actual expression of surprise on his face.
Jin Long squirmed around, digging at his pants trying to get the lobster away from certain areas. "No!!! Not there!!"
Hou Long smiled evilly and laughed. She pointed her finger at him. "Now do you understand?!!? I will not be disobeyed!"
Jin Long had tears streaming down his face. "Yes Lady Hou Long. Please remove this lobster!"
Hou Long smiled evilly. "No. Three hours with that in your pants. And I know you don't wear any underwear."
Jin Long wiggled on the ground, obviously in pain.
Hakkai hid a laugh behind his ever polite hand. "Don't you have a meeting?"
Hou Long smacked a fist into her hand. "That's right! Wiggle wiggle." She sprinted for the large pagoda, changing her shape to a large peregrine falcon after leaping into the air.
Sanzo watched her flight path. "That was odd."
-----------Earth, thirty years form now
Earth was a desolate planet, the rest of humanity turned to look for its guidance from a bunch of humans who called themselves gods. They had used their advanced technology to create a sort of visible Heaven over their favorite city, Tokyo. They had made the world into a perfect paradise, if you followed what the gods said. Humanity had a new ruler, in the form of a young blonde man named.... Konzen. He ruled with an iron fist, rewarding humans if they brought a certain scroll to him. This scroll had been lost for ages. The Codex of Long. The ultimate guide to Long and how to reach their holy plain. And Konzen had finally found it. This Sanzo character was going to die a very painful death.
AN: That was it folks. Chapter two. As you can see, I have many mental issues. My dog Theo says hi. He's a mini Schnauzer. He's just so cute!!!!! Great. He just drooled on my leg. Gross. But I shall prevail! After I go run to the bathroom and disinfect my entire body! And that's going to really hurt like hell! In the words of the infamous Black Knight from Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail: "It's just a flesh wound! Come back so I can bite your kneecaps off!" Anyways, I'm only in high school, so I have to take a mandatory summer vacation. In English: no more chapters until like.....September. Unless I miraculously find a computer with internet access, cuz I sure as hell can't use my mother's! So enjoy rereading this over...and over....and over.....Did you know that if you read my fics with a perverted mind, you can actually see what I was really writing? See you September! Don't hurt me AsianOrange. I can't help who I live with.
Disclaimer: For the last bloody flippin time....I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING RELATED TO GENSOMADEN SAIYUKI!!! GRRRR!!!!!!! Ahem. Yes I'm crazy.
Pairings: Let's see...Oh I know! This is an Oc/Kanzeon fic! I'm kidding. Really. This is an Oc/Sanzo fic. I was just messing with you. I swear. Pelted by tomatoes Ow! Stop that! It tickles!
Rating: R, cuz little kids are insecure enough in the front seat of a car. Potty mouths, violence, and general creepiness.
AN: Hmm.....someone read this...wow.....Well! As requested! All poetry in this belongs to.....me! Here we go! Sorry, I couldn't resist the urge to put something in here. Well, at least now we know what I listen to while writing fics. Oh...I apologize for my interesting sense of humor. That comes into play in around......Five seconds.
Chapter 2:
Frozen Devotion
It had been two months since the Sanzo party had come to include the Hou Long Vivi. She already had a sizeable fan club, full of.....boys and perverts. Vivi had adopted a sort of Hakkai-ish attitude around her fans, and turned down no request. Even one for poetry.
Sanzo sighed. Why the hell would anyone want her to write poetry? She's a Hou Long, not a damned scholar or a monk!
Vivi nibbled on her favorite pen. A fan had sent it to her. It was black, but when you held it in the light, a changing flame pattern appeared. An elegant red lacquered dragon was coiled around its shell, and the ink was blood red. "Sanzo...I need a subject."
Sanzo tried to keep from yawning. What the hell does this have to do with me? "Ask Hakkai or something."
Vivi had taken to retreating to Sanzo's room whenever the fans got weird. "That's not helping."
Sanzo leaned back in his chair and lit a cigarette. "Death. Or faith. Pick one woman."
Vivi smiled. "Both! Kill two birds with one stone!"
Sanzo shrugged. "Whatever you want woman."
-------Morning
Sanzo found Vivi hunched over her poem, asleep at his desk. He smiled softly, and eased the paper out from under her arm. "Well. I wonder what she wrote."
Faith Every night I play a game,
A game called faith.
I pray to something to let me die,
But this faith,
It's too hard,
It will never let me die.
So in the end there's only a simple girl,
Hoping for the freedom that she will never get.
I'm about to die,
Won't you please keep my faith?
A young girl's faith in death,
That was the game I played.
Sanzo blinked. Deep meaning to that. Even though it follows no form whatsoever.
Vivi yawned as she got up, working the kinks out of her muscles. "Do you think she'll like it?"
Sanzo looked at her. "This is for a girl?"
"Umhmm. A fan asked me to write something for him to give to his girlfriend. I know who his girlfriend is too. She keeps trying to work up the nerve to talk to me. At the rate this is going, I'll take her out for tea so she'll leave me alone." Vivi had gotten up and pulled the paper down from in front of Sanzo's face. "Do you think she'll like it?"
Sanzo nodded. "It'll do."
Vivi smiled softly. "I hoped so."
Sanzo walked out of the room, holding his oddly tattooed arm.
--------------Road
"Sanzo! Are we there yet?"
"This isn't a field trip you stupid monkey!"
Vivi smiled. "This is boring. Let's liven it up a bit....Heehee. MWOOOHAHAHAHA!" Vivi held her hands close together with her fingers spread stiffly out. She twitched her fingers, and an immense fire ball appeared. "Hou Long special!" She flung the ball into the air, and used her creepy Hou Long powers to make it look like a snaky dragon. She flipped into the air and landed neatly on its back. "MWOOOHAHAHAHAHA!" She let the dragon take on movement, and infused it with her own personality.
Goku and Goyjo cheered. "Awesome Vivi-san!" "Yatta! So cool!"
Hakkai let the Jeep take its own course. "Race you to that rock formation!"
Vivi smiled. "You're on little man!"
Sanzo snorted. Don't hurt yourself!
Vivi stopped smiling. I won't. Worrywart.
Sanzo held up his fan. "Everybody stop!"
Vivi landed her fiery dragon. "What?"
"When the fan falls, go for it."
Hakkai and Vivi nodded. "Right!"
Vivi leaned forward. I wish...for just one moment...I could fly on my own..... Her dragon roared, and scratched the ground.
Hakkai smiled his speed smile.
Goku and Goyjo looked at each other and clung on tight. "Nooooo!"
Sanzo dropped the fan.
Vivi kneed her dragon, and off they went. She felt the wind in her face, and she smiled as her dragon gained the lead over the Jeep. Faster! Faster! I want to really fly! Her dragon began to glow, and in an instant, the flames extinguished, leaving Vivi traveling forward, and down, at 95 mph.
Sanzo stood up in the Jeep. "She's going to die if she falls from that height! GOKU!"
Goku stood up. "I can't catch her! She's moving to fast!"
Hakkai hit the gas in desperation.
Sanzo grabbed the front window. The arm with tattoos burned for some reason, and the dragons themselves started moving off his arm. The red dragon and the blue dragon took the head position, twining around themselves in a sort of curlicue. He winced as the dragons flew off his arm. Tattoos where supposed to stay tattoos.
Vivi felt something in the corner of her mind. A distant, nagging sense of something very important. She looked at the ground rising in front of her, and leaned her body in an instinctual position. She felt something in her change....and she gritted her teeth for the impact.
Sanzo grabbed the dragons before anyone else could see them and stuffed them back up his sleeve. Do something girl!
Vivi fell forward at an alarming rate of speed, so much she began to catch on fire. She squinted her eyes as she plunged. At the last moment, she shot out her legs and used her momentum to rise again. She smiled, and a ripping pain in her shoulders caught her attention.
Hakkai spun the Jeep to avoid a large rock. He glanced up, and saw that Vivi was, 1) glowing, 2) growing wings, and 3) still moving at 95 mph, and getting faster.
Goku stared in awe. Vivi-san was so cool....
Goyjo couldn't help thinking one thing: She looked exactly like a dragon.
Sanzo gritted his teeth and fought a war against his own tattoos. He watched Vivi, and silently wished she could have her dream of flying on her own.
Vivi felt the joints in her fingers pop and crackle as her fingers grew claws. Her mouth ached when she bit down, so she let her jaw hang loose. She could feel her wings...hell....she could move them on her own! Sanzo! Look! I'm flying!
Sanzo looked up at her soaring figure, and actually smiled. Good for you Vivi. Good for you.
---------Later
It was pouring outside of the cozy tent. Vivi had lit a fire with her Hou Long skills. Sanzo watched her as she wrung out her now blonde hair. "This reminds me of my favorite song."
Goyjo (eager to please the young woman), cocked his head. "Sing it then."
Vivi rolled her eyes. "Sure."
Cold: Year of the Spider: Rain Song
"When it rains,
I don't mind
Let me stand here own light
Did she take her own life?
Let me know she's all right.
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end
I'll stay strong
I'll be fine,
Carry on with my life.
I'll still stare at the sky,
Pray for rain all the time.
Why'd you run?
Did you hide?
Why'd you leave, no goodbye?
When the clouds leave the sky,
Does a soul give you life?
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me.
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry for me.
I'll never be the same
But I
I'll never be the same,
Be the same,
Be the same.
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end
And every time it rains
I feel her hold in me.
And every time it rains,
All the angels cry end"
Goku stopped eating. "That was a sad song."
Vivi snorted. "Sounds better with guitars, drums, and an acoustic system."
Hakkai wiped away a small tear. "That was beautiful"
"It reminds me of my sister. She drowned herself in the middle of a rainstorm. Ironically, I burned alive." Vivi leaned back against the rock that formed one side of their shelter.
Sanzo started watching the rain. "You are a sadistic woman. Did you know that?"
Vivi left through the other side of the tent.
Goyjo looked at Sanzo. "You have no skills with women whatsoever."
Sanzo beat him on the head. Vivi....you all right? Vivi? Answer me dammit!
Vivi stood in the pouring rain, awe on her pretty face. "Shui Long...." She screamed, her soprano voice breaking through everyone's reverie.
-------------Morning
"Damn! I can't find her!" Sanzo had been searching, alone, for Vivi for quite some time now.
Goyjo put an arm around Sanzo's neck. "Girl problems? I can help you know."
Sanzo clicked the hammer of his gun and put it to Goyjo's head. "Shut up."
A single raindrop fell from the sky. From it stretched up a beautiful woman with pale blue hair and blue eyes. "Looking for my sister?"
Sanzo stepped back. "Your sister?!?!"
The woman put a cold hand on Sanzo's face. "You're pretty. Tell me you're a pretty boy and I'll let you see her."
Goyjo opened his mouth to say something, but Sanzo pointed the gun at him.
Sanzo grimaced. "Bishounen desu."
Goyjo fell to the ground. Sanzo had just said that he was a pretty boy....Wow. That's devotion.
The woman smiled. "Yes you are aren't you?" She snapped her fingers and a puddle nearby shimmered. "Look in there."
Sanzo looked at her angrily. "I thought we had a deal."
The woman laughed. "But I never said I would let you see her personally."
Sanzo looked in the puddle, and his eyes opened wide in shock. There she was. Vivi. Screaming as water repeatedly lashed her, raising steam. "Let her go!"
The woman grabbed him close and kissed him. "You're my element. She doesn't deserve you! Never!"
Sanzo shot the woman, and coldly slapped her away. "Give her back."
The woman hissed. "NEVER!" A tree behind her moved. "Mu Long! Stay out of this!"
The tree broke, revealing a small boy with brown hair, and green eyes. "The balance is destroyed. Metal and fire are out of place. Tu Long is threatening all out war on you Shui Long. Hou Long is to be let go at once. You are overruled Shui Long."
The woman gritted her teeth. "I will not let that freak roam this place! Do you know what she did at my funeral? She laughed! Laughed at me, her elder sister! She just stood there and laughed her heart out! She's evil!"
Sanzo looked straight at Shui Long. "I don't think she is."
Shui Long whipped around. "You're supposed to be on my side!"
Mu Long waved his hand, and the puddle was held by a wooden bowl. "Let her go freely or it's open war."
Shui Long slapped Sanzo. "I could have given you everything! Immortality! Godhood!"
Kanzeon popped up. "He's already had that. Let Hou Long go. I have here in my hand a declaration of war from Heaven to the Longs if you do not cease this disorder."
Goyjo brandished his metal staff. "For once I'm glad to see you."
Shui Long vanished, the puddle stretching up.
Vivi fell forward, a shocked and frightened expression on her face. "Sanzo..."
Sanzo lunged forward to grab her, and she gripped his dragon arm with an untold strength. He could feel one of his tattoos leaving him.
Vivi held up her arm, displaying a red dragon. "What is this?"
Mu Long held a green glowing hand over her. "You'll be better soon. But that little thing...hm...That appears to be an elemental mastery tattoo. Interesting for a monk to have one."
Vivi smiled before falling over. "I'm just glad....it's over."
Mu Long smiled. "She's a fighter."
Kanzeon grinned. "She'll need it for this battle."
Mu Long nodded as he faded into the tree. "Especially then."
Kanzeon waved a hand over Vivi's open eyes. "She'll recover....eventually."
Sanzo snorted. "That's a comfort."
Kanzeon stood up and walked away. "Of course it is." She disappeared.
Sanzo held Vivi's fire-free form close to him. "Pity...."
Goyjo watched in silence. She was going to be all mine....All mine.... He gently walked off, leaving the two alone.
---------Twenty minutes later
"Sanzo?" Vivi dabbled her feet in a spring.
"Umm?" Sanzo stood nearby, supposedly keeping guard.
"What did she tell you? My sister I mean." She traced the path of a leaf on the water's edge.
Sanzo looked up at the clear sky. "I don't know what you could possibly mean."
Vivi let tears fall down into the clear water. "My sister has an ISSUE with me. I laughed at her funeral. I admit it. I had tried to bring her pet hamster to her funeral so it could say goodbye. Said hamster escaped from my pocket and started running all over me. Thus, making me laugh at a somber occasion."
Sanzo snorted. "So that is the extension of your sisterly love. You brought her hamster to her funeral. Wow. That is just deep and significant."
"Shut up. I was six years old."
Sanzo perked a brow. "So how old are you now?"
Caught up in the discussion, she didn't catch the trap. "Seventeen."
Sanzo noticed her tears, and sat down beside her. "I'm twenty-five."
Vivi leaned her head up against his shoulder. "At least you aren't thirty- five."
"I'm eight years your senior."
"So? You're point is? My cousin Guinevere is dating a guy fifteen years her senior."
Sanzo looked at her. "What does that have to do with anything?"
Vivi snuggled up under Sanzo's arm. "She's twenty-five."
Sanzo did a bit of math in his head. "That's sick! She's dating a guy who's forty?!?!?!"
"He's balding, has serious gas, snaggleteeth, piggy little eyes, and he is dirt poor. She's in it for love." Vivi closed her eyes, and listened to the birds.
Sanzo had noticed her last comment. "For love huh?"
Vivi made no sound. She was out of everything.
------------Present day and world (in other words Earth in 2004)
"Viviane! Oh thank goodness you're all right! I thought you had died!" A strawberry blonde hugged Vivi's body, lifting her up from the starched white hospital bed.
"Sanzo?" Vivi managed to mumble out a single word.
"What's a Sanzo? Oh well! I bring you greetings and salutations from everyone online. Good God! I never thought you would end up in the hospital!" The red head scratched her head. "Some weird seniors from our school came by to see you. The nurses flipped out. They were way cute though."
Vivi tried to get up. "What kind of seniors? Did they tell you their names?"
The red head smiled wickedly. "What a pleasant discussion this is. The blond called himself Konzen. The sexy red head said his name was Kenren. The cute little kid was Goku. The freaky lady that came with them said her name was Kanzeon. The sexy mysterious one didn't say anything. Um! If I could get my hands on whoever messed with your van I'll-"
"You'll do what? Pop em in the face?" A blond man leaned in the doorway, and looked quite a bit like Sanzo, complete with dragon tattoos and an eternal scowl. "Leave it to us. Well look who's finally up. Kenren! Goku! Hurry up already!"
Kenren came sauntering in, carrying a large box. "This isn't no lightweight present. Could you have at least gotten her something less expensive?"
Goku struggled with his box. "I can't see!"
Konzen popped Kenren in the head. "Who said I bought it? My aunt did!"
Vivi struggled not to laugh, and politely held her hand in front of her mouth delicately. "Lemme guess, you bought a computer."
Konzen smiled. "We thought it might be a nice thing. We've got extended leave from aunt to do this."
Vivi smiled, and tried not to yawn. "I'm so tired..." She fell backwards.
"Shit! She's back in it again!" Konzen grabbed her and shook her by the shoulders. "Wake up dammit!"
------Saiyuki world
Sanzo shook her by her shoulders. "Wake up dammit!"
Vivi opened her eyes. "What happened?"
Hakkai passed a green glowing hand over her head. "You passed out."
Goku looked at her. "Who's Konzen?"
Vivi gave him a blank look. "Who?"
"You keep saying that whenever you fall asleep."
Kanzeon chose to pop up, again. "I should think you would."
Vivi gave her a blank look. "Auntie?"
"In this world, no. In your world, yes. But only to the boys, not you."
"Did I miss something here?" Goyjo tried lighting his cigarette.
Kanzeon gave him an evil glare. "In your world, they resurrected your body. You aren't dead."
"I'm not dead?"
"No. But the time may come when you must choose one world or the other. By the way, when you are here, your body is in a permanent vegetative state."
"I'm in a coma?"
"Yes. You could say that."
"Nifty." Vivi fell back down, her eyes glazed over.
-------Present
"Hey! Am I good or what! Vivi! If you do that again, I'll smack you!" The red head girl put down the empty pitcher.
Kenren looked at her in awe. "That was sexy."
"I know right! By the way, I'm her cousin Guinevere."
"Kenren Taisho. Nice to meet you." Kenren kissed her outstretched hand.
Konzen handed Vivi a towel. "Hey....who's Sanzo? Some boyfriend of yours I should know about?"
"Um? Sanzo? You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Sure I would. Try me." Konzen pulled a chair around, and sat in it backwards.
"Later....when I'm not so tired..." Vivi flopped down, her eyes glazed over.
---------------Saiyuki world
"You need a stabilizer or something. You can't keep doing this." Kanzeon stood over Vivi's body, a bucket in her hand.
"But it's interesting." Vivi struggled to sit up. "What do you mean choose?"
"People like you can't exist in two worlds that have an equal claim over you. You'd have to die in one of the two worlds."
"How fun. I can't just turn my back on everyone I know."
Kanzeon slapped her. "Hou Long! Make up your mind!"
Sanzo looked at her. "Which version do you like better?"
Vivi looked at him. "What?"
"Which version of the world do you like better?"
Vivi looked at him, hate in her eyes. "Whichever one I can be myself in."
Sanzo stood up and walked away.
Vivi felt her heart break, and she calmly laid down. "If I die in both worlds.....what happens?"
Kanzeon kissed her forehead. "You go to the realm of the dragons, your home."
Sanzo eavesdropped on Vivi's thoughts. I want to go home....I'm sorry Sanzo. I love you!
Vivi held Kanzeon's hand as she guided the loaned knife to her throat. "Kanzeon. Do me a favor?"
Kanzeon looked at her. "What?"
"Don't tell him where I went."
Kanzeon nodded. "I'll leave you to it." She disappeared.
Sanzo came back. "I do....kind of....love you."
Vivi smiled. "I know. But I'm not meant for you."
Sanzo pulled her into a standing position, and kissed her. "Want me to do it?"
"I die with honor." She stabbed herself in her stomach as she leaned on his shoulder.
Sanzo felt himself make a tragic decision. No matter what, he would find her again and make her happy. He laid her down and put a blanket over her dead body.
-----------Present
Vivi woke up with a stifled scream.
Konzen grabbed her. "You all right?"
"There's something I need to tell you."
Konzen leaned back, and waved everyone else out of the room with a glare. "I'm all ears."
Vivi closed her eyes, and concentrated on the feeling she had begun to master in the Saiyuki world. When her eyes snapped open again, they were no longer a merry blue. They had changed to fire. Vivi put her hand to Konzen's face, and told him everything.
------Three hours later
"So you're saying that there's another me, and his name is Sanzo?" Konzen smoked one of his many cigarettes.
"Yes. That's pretty much all of it." Vivi reached for her suitcase. "My hair is a mess! God! Pass the hairdryer and the brush?"
Konzen cheerfully obliged. "You do look awful with that wet hair."
"Haha." Vivi got up and went into her allotted bathroom and plugged in the hair dryer. She ran a bathtub full of water, and flicked on the hairdryer. She took a deep breath and stepped in the tub, laid down, and lat the hairdryer fall.
Konzen stood in the doorway. "No matter what Vivi...I'll find you again....and I'll kill that bastard Sanzo."
-------------Courtyard
Vivi landed with a thump into her new home, the world of the Longs. She took a deep breath, and found it constricted by a choker. She felt for it, and whistled.
"Someone would tell you that that's unladylike. But not me. Welcome to Longland Hou Long." A young man stood in the shadows, his gray kimono matching his pale gray hair. His eyes shimmered like copper, and held little bubbles of more gray.
"Who the hell are you?" Vivi stepped back in surprise.
"I am Jin Long. The Long Wang wish to speak to you." Jin long handed her a mirror. "In case you were wondering what you look like."
Vivi gracefully took a brief look at herself. "Oh God! I'm gorgeous!"
Jin Long bowed. "Of course. There are four Long Wang you need to deal with. Brief history lesson here: Long Wang or Dragon King, in Chinese religion, is king of the dragons and ruler of the waters. Chinese dragons are traditionally regarded as water creatures, and in Chinese astronomy the appearance of the Dragon constellation was supposed to herald the rainy season. There are traditionally four principal Long Wang, each governing one of the four oceans of the world. The four brothers Ao Kuang, Ao Jun, Ao Shun, and Ao Chi' in serve the highest deity in Chinese religion, the Jade Emperor. Each lives in a crystal palace and together they rule over armies of aquatic creatures who police the ocean depths."
Vivi raised an eyebrow. "I know Fung Shui...but I have never heard of that."
Jin Long smiled. "I should hope not. Before I forget, we don't just have Long here."
Vivi raised her eyebrow higher. "Beg pardon? Explain."
Jin Long gave a short bow. "Of course Hou Long. Here, we have the Eight Immortals. And they are: (1) Zhongli Quan, a fat hermit who knows the secrets to longevity and holds a feather fan with which he can revive the dead; (2) Zhangguo Lao, an elderly man with the power of invisibility, who rides a white donkey and beats a bamboo tube drum to announce his arrival; (3) Lu Dongbin, an immortal who carries a sword to rid the world of evil monsters; (4) Cao Guojiu, a courtier who has a writing tablet and serves as the patron deity of actors; (5) Li Tieguai, a man leaning on a crutch clutching a smoking gourd, the smoke of which frees the spirit from the body; (6) Han Xiangzi, the patron deity of musicians, who carries a lute and can cause flowers to bloom; (7) Lan Caihe, a person with both male and female characteristics, who carries a basket of flowers; and (8) He Xiangu, a girl holding a lotus blossom."
Vivi perked her other eyebrow. "So in other words, every facsimile of Chinese mythology is embodied here."
Jin Long nodded. "Pretty much."
"Anything else I should know?"
"Well....we have the Jade Emperor exiled...so....right about now, no."
"Good. That was much too much for me to remember, so keep telling me all that."
Jin Long bowed. "It would be my pleasure."
Vivi snorted. "Don't I have a meeting?"
Jin Long straightened, and led her off. "After we get your affairs in order. There hasn't been a Hou Long in quite a while, even if we do exist out of the stream of time. You can watch mortals in anything you want. I prefer a polished metal bowl."
Vivi followed after the metal dragon, flinging herself into her new life.
-------Saiyuki world, 3 years later
"Sanzo! Are we there yet?" Goku whined from the backseat of the Jeep. His longer hair flew in the breeze as his yellow eyes looked dubiously at the scenery.
Goyjo lit a cigarette, and scratched his shorter red hair. "Shut up stupid monkey."
Hakkai smiled softly, the only one having the same look as before. "We aren't."
Sanzo let his tattooed arm hang in the breeze. "Damn good thing I figured out how to use these."
Goyjo snorted. "After many accidents."
Sanzo held his hand near Goyjo's head. "I did manage to learn Vivi's little trick."
Goku laughed. "I'd love to see that."
Sanzo jumped out of the Jeep as it drove by at high speed. "This is it!"
Hakkai hit the brakes and turned the Jeep furiously. "Warn me first ok?"
Sanzo snorted. He had gotten rid of the bulky monk's garb a while ago, saving only the Sutra. Heaven and Earth hear my plea; send fire and water back to me. Let wood and metal carry my soul past the gates of Long. "Let fire open a way for me through water. Let metal be my path, water my guiding light. Let wood be my heart, earth my salvation. Carry me through to heart and hearth, let all those hear my plea and speak."
Goku cleaned out his ear. "That was weird. Nothing's happening anyway."
Hakkai smiled. "Wait."
A small fire appeared on the water Sanzo had stopped in front of. It stretched up higher to around Vivi's height, and spewed forth a path of fire. A small, dainty foot stepped carefully on the path, followed by a naked leg, and another dainty foot and naked leg. In the end, the fire spewed forth a beautiful woman clad in a toga like dress. She held a fiery staff, capped by a ruby. Her eyes snapped open, revealing their golden red orbs. "Who called?"
Sanzo held up his tattooed arm. "I seek safe passage to the Long for my companions and myself."
The woman nodded. "Granted, although Lady Hou Long will be very angry with me for it. It will be the greatest gift I could give her."
Goyjo looked at her. "Are you obsessed with another woman?"
The fire maiden smiled. "Long can choose what they want to be. Lady Hou Long usually only takes two forms, a woman, and a small child. I have seen her change to a Long before. She was beautiful in her fiery scales, her golden whiskers trailing down....Oh look! We're here!"
The maiden had brought them to the Long without even blinking an eye. She turned, and screamed as the shadows moved.
"DAMN GIRL!" A large clawed hand, like that of a massive dragon, snaked out and grabbed the maiden. "WHAT DID YOU BRING THIS TIME?!?!?!?!"
Sanzo held his arm in front of his face. "Well you sure as hell got mean."
The dragon snarled, and shifted to a small girl. The girl had golden red eyes, and the same hair. No matter how you looked at her, she was beautiful. "Don't like it? Go home."
Sanzo sighed. "After all the shit I went through? Hell no."
The girl raised a brow. "Hell can be arranged."
A beautiful young man with grey hair and golden eyes wrapped an arm around the girl's shoulders. "So this is this Sanzo character that was so determined to see you happy?"
The girl rolled her eyes and shifted shapes to that of a golden retriever. She sat down on her haunches. "No. It's Satan, following me with a pestilence."
The man laughed and shifted to a beautiful greyhound. "How ironic. Shall I kill him then?"
The dog growled, and shifted to that of a white rabbit. "That would be a bad idea."
The greyhound laughed, and shifted back to the beautiful young man. "Show some manners Hou Long."
The rabbit twitched its nose, and shifted to that of a beautiful young woman, clad in a bikini top and a high-slitted skirt. Her golden hair and eyes dazzled Sanzo's human ones, and sent Goyjo into little mental fits of ecstasy. Her skin appeared to be brushed with a bronze color, matching her golden hair with a darker hue. She wore no shoes, but instead wore an elaborate golden chain that connected a collar, her wrists, and her ankles with fine chain. She yawned, showing pointy white teeth. "Well. There you have it. Take it or leave it."
Sanzo perked a bow. "So how old are you now?"
The woman sighed heavily. "Twenty-one. Big deal."
The pretty boy behind her gave Sanzo a look that could peel paint. "Come on Hou Long. You have a meeting with the Long Wang about your idea."
The woman spun around and spin-kicked the pretty boy in obvious anger. "Why the fuck didn't you tell me sooner!!!!!?!?!?!?!!!!!!"
Sanzo perked his brow. "What idea?"
The woman stopped bashing in the pretty boy's skull and looked at him. "The Long are making a peace agreement with Heaven. The most destructive god/goddess is going to marry the most destructive Long."
Goyjo looked at her. "Who came up with that shitty idea?"
The woman gritted her teeth. "Since it's the only trait we have in common.....But it was MY idea....so I should know the details. Which I have explained very clearly to Long Wang. Enough so, that I shouldn't ever need to talk to them again."
The pretty boy sniggered. "I know something you don't know!"
"SHUT UP OR TELL ME JIN LONG!!!!" The woman grinned evilly. "Or you could get a tiny little....penalty."
Jin Long's eyes opened wide. "On a fellow Long? Are you mad?"
The woman smiled evilly. "Kee kee kee."
Jin long backed away. "You are one crazy Long!!!"
The woman rolled her eyes. "Care to know your punishment?"
Jin Long cowered down. "No..."
The woman brandished a live lobster. "It's to spend three hours with a LIVE lobster in your pants!"
Jin Long backed away slowly, and then all out sprinted, only to have Hou Long catch his pant edge and drop in the lobster.
"That's cruel." Goyjo stood there with his eyelid sagging and his mouth held open.
"And unusual." Sanzo just stared, an actual expression of surprise on his face.
Jin Long squirmed around, digging at his pants trying to get the lobster away from certain areas. "No!!! Not there!!"
Hou Long smiled evilly and laughed. She pointed her finger at him. "Now do you understand?!!? I will not be disobeyed!"
Jin Long had tears streaming down his face. "Yes Lady Hou Long. Please remove this lobster!"
Hou Long smiled evilly. "No. Three hours with that in your pants. And I know you don't wear any underwear."
Jin Long wiggled on the ground, obviously in pain.
Hakkai hid a laugh behind his ever polite hand. "Don't you have a meeting?"
Hou Long smacked a fist into her hand. "That's right! Wiggle wiggle." She sprinted for the large pagoda, changing her shape to a large peregrine falcon after leaping into the air.
Sanzo watched her flight path. "That was odd."
-----------Earth, thirty years form now
Earth was a desolate planet, the rest of humanity turned to look for its guidance from a bunch of humans who called themselves gods. They had used their advanced technology to create a sort of visible Heaven over their favorite city, Tokyo. They had made the world into a perfect paradise, if you followed what the gods said. Humanity had a new ruler, in the form of a young blonde man named.... Konzen. He ruled with an iron fist, rewarding humans if they brought a certain scroll to him. This scroll had been lost for ages. The Codex of Long. The ultimate guide to Long and how to reach their holy plain. And Konzen had finally found it. This Sanzo character was going to die a very painful death.
AN: That was it folks. Chapter two. As you can see, I have many mental issues. My dog Theo says hi. He's a mini Schnauzer. He's just so cute!!!!! Great. He just drooled on my leg. Gross. But I shall prevail! After I go run to the bathroom and disinfect my entire body! And that's going to really hurt like hell! In the words of the infamous Black Knight from Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail: "It's just a flesh wound! Come back so I can bite your kneecaps off!" Anyways, I'm only in high school, so I have to take a mandatory summer vacation. In English: no more chapters until like.....September. Unless I miraculously find a computer with internet access, cuz I sure as hell can't use my mother's! So enjoy rereading this over...and over....and over.....Did you know that if you read my fics with a perverted mind, you can actually see what I was really writing? See you September! Don't hurt me AsianOrange. I can't help who I live with.