I would like to have it known that I was not being MEAN to FangedBandit 19.
I was just being the more evil side of me. Oh, and for those of you that
don't get the Herseyoctacocofu the fireflower, don't worry about it. I
think that only I truly understand the mystic flower. Oh, and I only own
the girls. Sadly. And Jaime. Wait, I don't own him anymore. I gave him to
the Queen. Hehe. Sorry. Oh well. ON WITH IT ALREADY! Fine, fine. Sry. Evil
half. It's being evil. NO, YA THINK? Hehe. 'scuse me. The fic.
Solei rushed up to Selene, ignoring the pain shooting up her back as she crushed her sister in a hug. Her sister, however was quick to notice the blood that seeped through the cloak.
"Solei, what have you done now?" She asked, moving Solei into the adjoining room so she had some privacy before Selene stripped her of her cloak. Solei just grimaced as her sister's hands played over her back, healing the wounds from Nakago's whip. Selene shook her head. "Tell me everything. From the moment they arrived in that AWFUL place you were confined to till now. EVERY detail. NOW." Solei complied quickly, blushing slightly as she described the sword fight with Nakago. She began to describe the dance, and Selene's eyes grew wild.
"They had you do WHAT!?!" she asked.
"The dance." Selene growled and motioned for her twin to continue. A few moments later Solei finished the argument with Seiryu and she chocked back tears as she explained the wounds on her back. Selene's eyes narrowed.
"Was it him, or Seiryu?" Solei paused.
"I'm not sure. They're so similar, I don't know. There was no hesitation, no pause, no fight. Just strike after strike." Selene nodded.
"What did your note say exactly?" Solei closed her eyes and began to recite.
"I'm sorry that I was such an imbecile back at the temple. I thought at first something might be there, but I was wrong. I apologize for my stupidity regarding my actions, and wish only to inform you that you will no longer see me, since it is evident you do not want to. Once more want to apologize and I will not take up anymore of your time. I will do my duty as I must.
Sincerely,
Kyoueino Solei
Goddess Protector."
Selene stared at her, mouth hanging open in amazement.
"You IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Solei looked sharply at her sister.
"What do you mean, Selene?" Selene sighed.
"You're in LOVE WITH HIM!! It's OBVIOUS! The way you blush when you speak about him, and the true extent of pain that's in your eyes."
"I always have pain in my eyes. It is my curse." Selene rolled her eyes.
"So do I, Solei. I can see the betrayal in your eyes. The flicks of his wrist to send the whip into your back means more than you believe." Solei collapsed into quiet tears.
"Maybe I do love him, and maybe it does mean more than I want it to, but you didn't see the look of pure venom and hatred he had in HIS eyes. I've been played for a fool." she choked out. Selene reached through her shadow and pulled a pair of black pants and a simple white blouse out of the shadow pocket, handing them wordlessly to her sister. Solei took them with a grateful smile and quickly exchanged them with the scraps of silk that had once been a dress.
"GET BACK HERE YOU!!" Solei and Selene were instantly out of the side room, glaives in hand. They found Amber chasing after Tasuki, the tips of her hair slightly singed. They relaxed, leaning on their staffs as Amber got more and more pissed at the object of her affection and, currently, fury. Selene felt Amber's chi level rise, and she and Solei cringed as they heard a VERY loud *SMASH*. When they looked over at Amber and Tasuki, they found a very confused Amber with a giant mallet in hand, one end flaming happily, and a flattened Tasuki who looked more than slightly burnt. Amber looked at the mallet in her hand, stunned.
"How did I do that?" she asked. Solei motioned for Selene to explain.
"You got angry. Your chi flared up and created the weapon. If you poke the button on the end it shrinks into a ballpoint pen." Solei nodded then added her own explanation.
"So every time that you get angry, it will appear. Unless you already have it." Liz sat up.
"What was the smash?" she asked quietly. Five fingers pointed to the flattened form of Tasuki. She started to say something, but decided not to. Amber, noticing the pause began to hound her friend to find out what she might have said. Liz remained firm in her decision, and folded her legs under her, muttering in Spanish. Solei and Des stared at what she said, then collapsed in laughter. Amber turned eight very distinct shades of red before her face settled to the colour of a sun-dried tomato. She was sputtering curses, and that only made Liz, Des and Solei laugh harder. Tasuki stood up, brushing ashes off of his shoulders.
"Wa's so funny?" he asked, glaring at Amber. They all looked at Liz to explain. She held her hands up and shook her head.
"I'm not saying." Solei finally managed to stop laughing. Quickly she walked over to her sister and reached into Selene's shadow, rummaging around for a moment before giving a triumphant cry. Something white flew towards Tasuki and landed on his head. He pulled it off his head and stared at it for a moment. Selene sighed.
"It's a shirt, Tasuki. Liz was suggesting that you put some clothes on before you burn down the house. Or before we all drown in Amber's drool." Amber lifted her head up defiantly and looked away from Tasuki, a faint blush colouring her cheeks. He did not comment and pulled on the shirt that Solei had tossed at him.
"May you teach them to live." The words rang clear in his mind as he returned the book to the shelf. Carefully fingering the white-bladed knife that Solei had left behind, Nakago thought about her. When they had first met, her eyes had caught his attention. As she spoke to Amiboshi, her eyes were a smoky blue, but when her gaze had shifted to him, they had flashed silver for just a moment. Now he knew what the silver meant, but the reason still confused him. Why would her dark half react to him? Her uncle's words flashed through his mind.
"Do not play games with her heart, General." Nakago wondered where the game had ended and true feeling had begun.
'She'll never trust you.' His inner self said quietly. 'Not after you whipped her like that.'
'I wasn't the one whipping her. That was Seiryu.' He responded, knowing it was a feeble defense at best.
'You could have fought against him. You could have refused. You could have helped her.' Nakago did not answer. He heard a quiet rapping on his door.
"Yes?" the door opened and Suboshi's youthful face popped through.
"Nakago, Solei left this in the adjoining room. I thought you might know what it is." Suboshi handed him a blue velvet pouch with a gold sunburst on the front. Suboshi left the room, sliding the door shut behind him. Nakago gently lifted the tiny mirror out if it's pouch. He had heard of the Mirror of Ray, and knew of its ability to find anything. He ran a thumb over its fogged surface, willing Solei to appear. An image came swiftly to the mirror, signifying that she was nearby. As he watched through the mirror Nuriko put his arm around her and she relaxed into his embrace. Nakago replace the mirror in its pouch. It had all been a game.
Solei had explored the small hut, and was surprised to find a large number of cots stacked in the back corner of a closet. She set some of them out and was lounging on one of them when another knock at the door jolted her out of her peaceful relaxation.
"Now who?" Nuriko wondered. Tasuki turned to Amber, whose face had returned to its normal colour.
"Do ya have a twin sista as well?" She shook her head. The door opened.
"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" a gruff voice asked. Nuriko recognized the voice immediately.
"MITSUKAKE!" he cried brightly. Solei and Selene got slightly frantic and very guilty looks on their faces and tried to escape into the shadows before Mitsukake saw them.
"I know you two." They froze.
"Hello Mitsukake-sensei." They chorused.
"Well...?" They exchanged glances and stared at the ground.
"We're REALLY sorry about...yeah..." Solei muttered softly.
"We didn't mean to...it just happened." Mitsukake sighed and waited. Solei and Selene grinned and tackled him. Nuriko and Tasuki stared in amazement as the three began to train, blows flying faster than the eye could see. Nuriko grabbed the nearest person, who was one of the twins, he did not know which, and tried to pull apart the fight. Next thing he knew he was flying through the air over her shoulder, heading towards the ground at a very rapid rate. A tree caught him, and he landed with a slight thump. The fight stopped as suddenly as it had begun, and Mitsukake was giving the girls pointers on their grips for throws. Solei, or Selene, he still could not tell the difference, laughed brightly at Nuriko and Tasuki's confusion. Solei walked over and helped Nuriko stand, still laughing.
"We needed that. Thank you Mitsukake-sensei." He nodded and led them back inside.
"Who are the other three?" he asked, spotting a fuming Amber, a laughing Liz, and a thoroughly confused and sleepy Des.
"I'm Liz. Or Liz Beth." She said. Tasuki answered for Amber.
"The feisty one's Amber." He glanced around furtively and continued in a stage whisper. "She's a weird one." Amber got even more pissed, if such a thing was possible, and turned to Mitsukake.
"Excuse me. I need to kill him." Mitsukake nodded his consent and Amber started chasing after Tasuki with her mallet, flaming side facing her quarry. Des took a deep breath before launching into her own introduction.
"I'm Desaria! If you call me Desaria I'll be forced to pull out your entrails and hang you with them. So just call me Des. That does sound like a short version of Desdemona however, and that is completely unacceptable, so I'll have to sacrifice my brother's teddy bear so that it can lay an egg in the mystic lands of the banjo..." The whole crew, excepting Mitsukake groaned and rolled their eyes.
"Must we tell you again to SHUT UP?!?!" Des nodded brightly and continued.
"If the teddy bear doesn't lay a egg, I must find the crazy hermit who prophesizes and kill him, burning his kidney as a gift to the all powerful gods of the spleen, taking great care that the blood does not drip onto the mystic two-stringed guitar flower known only as..."
"SILENCE!!" Selene yelled, eyes flashing silver, then white.
"Billy-bob." She finished quietly. Solei started to laugh at the look of fear on Des's face, finding amusement in the littlest things. A smash cut her off, and she turned to see Amber signing v for victory as she stood over her smashed victim.
"YEAH!" Amber cried. They all started laughing. Tasuki picked himself up, grumbling something about pesky demons. Unfortunately for him, Amber heard and took the opportunity to make him into a pancake again. Solei knew that the sequence would continue for awhile, so she sat down with Mitsukake on a cot and began pressing him about what had happened, cringing every once and a while as a sudden smash interrupted the flow of conversation.
Caelestis smiled as he sat on his throne, listening to every word his younger daughter said.
"So she plans to kill me. Her own father. I'll just have to kill her and her pesky sister once and for all." He glanced into the shadows, silver eyes flashing. "Zephyr." A tall, lanky demon stepped out of the shadows. "Tell your master the demon god I require your services." The god appeared before him.
"Just tell me." He said. Caelestis nodded in consent.
"My daughters plot against me." The demon god raised an eyebrow.
"Really?"
"Really. I seek to destroy them once and for all." The demon god nodded.
"I will assist you. Just make sure that Shunhi'a Chi is not hurt. I crave a new mate, and she has my blood running through her veins." Caelestis gave him a questioning look. "It makes them sweeter." The demon explained. Caelestis slit a line down his palm, blood dripping on the white marble below. The demon god did the same. Pressing their palms together they spoke in unison.
"To partnership."
~~~~~ k, does anyone have any ideas for pairings for Liz and Des? And someone, well, more people, tell me who Solei should end up with. I NEED HELP! Oh, and finals are over. *does a little dance* Hurray! WHOOP-DEE-DO. REVIEW!
Solei rushed up to Selene, ignoring the pain shooting up her back as she crushed her sister in a hug. Her sister, however was quick to notice the blood that seeped through the cloak.
"Solei, what have you done now?" She asked, moving Solei into the adjoining room so she had some privacy before Selene stripped her of her cloak. Solei just grimaced as her sister's hands played over her back, healing the wounds from Nakago's whip. Selene shook her head. "Tell me everything. From the moment they arrived in that AWFUL place you were confined to till now. EVERY detail. NOW." Solei complied quickly, blushing slightly as she described the sword fight with Nakago. She began to describe the dance, and Selene's eyes grew wild.
"They had you do WHAT!?!" she asked.
"The dance." Selene growled and motioned for her twin to continue. A few moments later Solei finished the argument with Seiryu and she chocked back tears as she explained the wounds on her back. Selene's eyes narrowed.
"Was it him, or Seiryu?" Solei paused.
"I'm not sure. They're so similar, I don't know. There was no hesitation, no pause, no fight. Just strike after strike." Selene nodded.
"What did your note say exactly?" Solei closed her eyes and began to recite.
"I'm sorry that I was such an imbecile back at the temple. I thought at first something might be there, but I was wrong. I apologize for my stupidity regarding my actions, and wish only to inform you that you will no longer see me, since it is evident you do not want to. Once more want to apologize and I will not take up anymore of your time. I will do my duty as I must.
Sincerely,
Kyoueino Solei
Goddess Protector."
Selene stared at her, mouth hanging open in amazement.
"You IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Solei looked sharply at her sister.
"What do you mean, Selene?" Selene sighed.
"You're in LOVE WITH HIM!! It's OBVIOUS! The way you blush when you speak about him, and the true extent of pain that's in your eyes."
"I always have pain in my eyes. It is my curse." Selene rolled her eyes.
"So do I, Solei. I can see the betrayal in your eyes. The flicks of his wrist to send the whip into your back means more than you believe." Solei collapsed into quiet tears.
"Maybe I do love him, and maybe it does mean more than I want it to, but you didn't see the look of pure venom and hatred he had in HIS eyes. I've been played for a fool." she choked out. Selene reached through her shadow and pulled a pair of black pants and a simple white blouse out of the shadow pocket, handing them wordlessly to her sister. Solei took them with a grateful smile and quickly exchanged them with the scraps of silk that had once been a dress.
"GET BACK HERE YOU!!" Solei and Selene were instantly out of the side room, glaives in hand. They found Amber chasing after Tasuki, the tips of her hair slightly singed. They relaxed, leaning on their staffs as Amber got more and more pissed at the object of her affection and, currently, fury. Selene felt Amber's chi level rise, and she and Solei cringed as they heard a VERY loud *SMASH*. When they looked over at Amber and Tasuki, they found a very confused Amber with a giant mallet in hand, one end flaming happily, and a flattened Tasuki who looked more than slightly burnt. Amber looked at the mallet in her hand, stunned.
"How did I do that?" she asked. Solei motioned for Selene to explain.
"You got angry. Your chi flared up and created the weapon. If you poke the button on the end it shrinks into a ballpoint pen." Solei nodded then added her own explanation.
"So every time that you get angry, it will appear. Unless you already have it." Liz sat up.
"What was the smash?" she asked quietly. Five fingers pointed to the flattened form of Tasuki. She started to say something, but decided not to. Amber, noticing the pause began to hound her friend to find out what she might have said. Liz remained firm in her decision, and folded her legs under her, muttering in Spanish. Solei and Des stared at what she said, then collapsed in laughter. Amber turned eight very distinct shades of red before her face settled to the colour of a sun-dried tomato. She was sputtering curses, and that only made Liz, Des and Solei laugh harder. Tasuki stood up, brushing ashes off of his shoulders.
"Wa's so funny?" he asked, glaring at Amber. They all looked at Liz to explain. She held her hands up and shook her head.
"I'm not saying." Solei finally managed to stop laughing. Quickly she walked over to her sister and reached into Selene's shadow, rummaging around for a moment before giving a triumphant cry. Something white flew towards Tasuki and landed on his head. He pulled it off his head and stared at it for a moment. Selene sighed.
"It's a shirt, Tasuki. Liz was suggesting that you put some clothes on before you burn down the house. Or before we all drown in Amber's drool." Amber lifted her head up defiantly and looked away from Tasuki, a faint blush colouring her cheeks. He did not comment and pulled on the shirt that Solei had tossed at him.
"May you teach them to live." The words rang clear in his mind as he returned the book to the shelf. Carefully fingering the white-bladed knife that Solei had left behind, Nakago thought about her. When they had first met, her eyes had caught his attention. As she spoke to Amiboshi, her eyes were a smoky blue, but when her gaze had shifted to him, they had flashed silver for just a moment. Now he knew what the silver meant, but the reason still confused him. Why would her dark half react to him? Her uncle's words flashed through his mind.
"Do not play games with her heart, General." Nakago wondered where the game had ended and true feeling had begun.
'She'll never trust you.' His inner self said quietly. 'Not after you whipped her like that.'
'I wasn't the one whipping her. That was Seiryu.' He responded, knowing it was a feeble defense at best.
'You could have fought against him. You could have refused. You could have helped her.' Nakago did not answer. He heard a quiet rapping on his door.
"Yes?" the door opened and Suboshi's youthful face popped through.
"Nakago, Solei left this in the adjoining room. I thought you might know what it is." Suboshi handed him a blue velvet pouch with a gold sunburst on the front. Suboshi left the room, sliding the door shut behind him. Nakago gently lifted the tiny mirror out if it's pouch. He had heard of the Mirror of Ray, and knew of its ability to find anything. He ran a thumb over its fogged surface, willing Solei to appear. An image came swiftly to the mirror, signifying that she was nearby. As he watched through the mirror Nuriko put his arm around her and she relaxed into his embrace. Nakago replace the mirror in its pouch. It had all been a game.
Solei had explored the small hut, and was surprised to find a large number of cots stacked in the back corner of a closet. She set some of them out and was lounging on one of them when another knock at the door jolted her out of her peaceful relaxation.
"Now who?" Nuriko wondered. Tasuki turned to Amber, whose face had returned to its normal colour.
"Do ya have a twin sista as well?" She shook her head. The door opened.
"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" a gruff voice asked. Nuriko recognized the voice immediately.
"MITSUKAKE!" he cried brightly. Solei and Selene got slightly frantic and very guilty looks on their faces and tried to escape into the shadows before Mitsukake saw them.
"I know you two." They froze.
"Hello Mitsukake-sensei." They chorused.
"Well...?" They exchanged glances and stared at the ground.
"We're REALLY sorry about...yeah..." Solei muttered softly.
"We didn't mean to...it just happened." Mitsukake sighed and waited. Solei and Selene grinned and tackled him. Nuriko and Tasuki stared in amazement as the three began to train, blows flying faster than the eye could see. Nuriko grabbed the nearest person, who was one of the twins, he did not know which, and tried to pull apart the fight. Next thing he knew he was flying through the air over her shoulder, heading towards the ground at a very rapid rate. A tree caught him, and he landed with a slight thump. The fight stopped as suddenly as it had begun, and Mitsukake was giving the girls pointers on their grips for throws. Solei, or Selene, he still could not tell the difference, laughed brightly at Nuriko and Tasuki's confusion. Solei walked over and helped Nuriko stand, still laughing.
"We needed that. Thank you Mitsukake-sensei." He nodded and led them back inside.
"Who are the other three?" he asked, spotting a fuming Amber, a laughing Liz, and a thoroughly confused and sleepy Des.
"I'm Liz. Or Liz Beth." She said. Tasuki answered for Amber.
"The feisty one's Amber." He glanced around furtively and continued in a stage whisper. "She's a weird one." Amber got even more pissed, if such a thing was possible, and turned to Mitsukake.
"Excuse me. I need to kill him." Mitsukake nodded his consent and Amber started chasing after Tasuki with her mallet, flaming side facing her quarry. Des took a deep breath before launching into her own introduction.
"I'm Desaria! If you call me Desaria I'll be forced to pull out your entrails and hang you with them. So just call me Des. That does sound like a short version of Desdemona however, and that is completely unacceptable, so I'll have to sacrifice my brother's teddy bear so that it can lay an egg in the mystic lands of the banjo..." The whole crew, excepting Mitsukake groaned and rolled their eyes.
"Must we tell you again to SHUT UP?!?!" Des nodded brightly and continued.
"If the teddy bear doesn't lay a egg, I must find the crazy hermit who prophesizes and kill him, burning his kidney as a gift to the all powerful gods of the spleen, taking great care that the blood does not drip onto the mystic two-stringed guitar flower known only as..."
"SILENCE!!" Selene yelled, eyes flashing silver, then white.
"Billy-bob." She finished quietly. Solei started to laugh at the look of fear on Des's face, finding amusement in the littlest things. A smash cut her off, and she turned to see Amber signing v for victory as she stood over her smashed victim.
"YEAH!" Amber cried. They all started laughing. Tasuki picked himself up, grumbling something about pesky demons. Unfortunately for him, Amber heard and took the opportunity to make him into a pancake again. Solei knew that the sequence would continue for awhile, so she sat down with Mitsukake on a cot and began pressing him about what had happened, cringing every once and a while as a sudden smash interrupted the flow of conversation.
Caelestis smiled as he sat on his throne, listening to every word his younger daughter said.
"So she plans to kill me. Her own father. I'll just have to kill her and her pesky sister once and for all." He glanced into the shadows, silver eyes flashing. "Zephyr." A tall, lanky demon stepped out of the shadows. "Tell your master the demon god I require your services." The god appeared before him.
"Just tell me." He said. Caelestis nodded in consent.
"My daughters plot against me." The demon god raised an eyebrow.
"Really?"
"Really. I seek to destroy them once and for all." The demon god nodded.
"I will assist you. Just make sure that Shunhi'a Chi is not hurt. I crave a new mate, and she has my blood running through her veins." Caelestis gave him a questioning look. "It makes them sweeter." The demon explained. Caelestis slit a line down his palm, blood dripping on the white marble below. The demon god did the same. Pressing their palms together they spoke in unison.
"To partnership."
~~~~~ k, does anyone have any ideas for pairings for Liz and Des? And someone, well, more people, tell me who Solei should end up with. I NEED HELP! Oh, and finals are over. *does a little dance* Hurray! WHOOP-DEE-DO. REVIEW!