(Disclaimer: I do not own YST nor RW, they are owned by Sunrise. Neither do I own the characters of the original series.)
(Author's Notes: Please, DON'T BLAME ME if some of the details are insufficient, since I had never seen the entire series before. I'm just fascinated over the series, that's why. Some of the characters added are of my own and not related to other anime, in short, ORIGINAL. So please, enjoy reading and review it! This is my first taste of writing fanfiction, and I'm not too good at English, so please BEAR WITH ME...)
SAMURAI PHANTOM REKKA: CHAPTER ONE
Episode Six: THE CALLING
Ryo...
"Huh? Who's there?"
Ryo...
"Who... Who's there?"
Ryo...there's no more time left...
"No time? What do you mean?"
You have to move quickly...
"But... just who the hell are you, anyway???"
He found himself floating into nowhere: in his usual loose sleeping clothes. to his surprise, he also wears his lucky charm necklace--a small silver crystal ball pendant in a leather strap adorned with small cat teeth. He usually take it off before going to sleep, that's why he was surprised to see himself wearing it without noticing.
"Where...am I?" he asked himself, when suddenly his surroundings glowed into fiery red like there's a big fire. He protected his eyes from sudden glow. As soon as he get used into the light, he was shocked to see the whole place--in FLAMES!
"Whatta..."
He felt sudden heat on the place; he felt like he was in Hell about to be roasted! "But I didn't do anythin' wrong in my whole entire life!" he shouted a the invisible being he'd spoken to, "Whatever I did somethin', I'm sorry! I really don't..."
We have no more time left...
"Please, SHOW YOURSELF!" suddenly his pendant glowed red like bursting flame! Surprised, he even didn't get what's really happening. He just felt that the intense heat penetrating his body began to decrease its temperature like the flames were AVOIDING him. Does his necklace did it? "But how...?" puzzled, "It... saved me..."
The mysterious manly voice continued, I need you, Ryo...
"You need me? On what purpose? Show yourself first!"
I'm right here... in front of you...
Ryo faced front as the voice said. With popped eyes, he deeply wondered how in the world his stuffed white tiger got there!
"...You're kiddin' me..." in his anguish face.
You have the answer... The stuffed toy TALKED!
His face can't distinguish his true emotions about this mystery. He shook his head as if he didn't believed in everything he sees today. "This... this is..."
...The answer...
He cannot bear it any longer. He looked at the whole scenario. It seems that nothing is real at all. Besides, how in the world he could float in nowhere like that? And how would his precious stufftoy could actuallt talk like that? He curbed his lips.
"This... is nonesense... This isn't real..." and he went near to the floating stufftoy, "It's not real..." and took it, "It's just a DREAM!" he shook his stufftoy, "Hear that? THIS IS JUST A DREAM! I'm tellin' ya! A DREAM! INLY A DREAM! ONLY..."
KKKRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"ACK!"
He immediately got up, blinking. Seeing the place, he realized that he is still in his own bedroom. He guessed it right. It's just a dream.
And the clock tells him that it's already five o'clock.
He looked around, then at his desk. He took a deep breath, thanking to himself that it's not true after all, seeing his necklace on top of it...
But WHERE IN THE WORLD IS HIS STUFFTOY?
He was so sure that he didn't play with it so much nowadays since he turned fourteen last year. Till then he realized that he is holding something soft and squishy, furry and light. Shaken, he set his eyes to something very, very surprising:
HOW COME THAT HE'S HOLDING THE STUFFTOY SINCE IT'S ON TOP OF HIS DESK???
He froze. Doesn't mean taht what he had dreamth a while ago is really TRUE? Or just a matter of having a sleepwalking disorder?
Ryo shook his head to take all these strange happenings in his mind.
He immediately got out of his bed and fixed it. He still have an hour left for breakfast. Still the stufftoy is in his hand, Ryo can't help but to take a glance on it with a big wonder.
It's been a year ago... he thought to himself, and maybe it all started when I saw that meteor shower... which no one had noticed it but me...
And it was been a year ago...
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(To Episode Seven! Please R&R! Thanks...)