Let Us Dance Among The Stars
Chapter 2
"The Rose Bride?" Mikage asked. "Anthy Himemiya? Is that you? My Lord, I-I thought you died years ago? You left Ohtori Academy."
"Yes, it is me, Mikage-sama. I did leave Ohtori in search for something eternal myself."
"Were you successful?"
"Yes."
"What was it? What did it feel like?"
"An undescribable feeling indeed. I found my freedom and an eternal place for the once I now love the most."
"It must be nice," Mikage sighed. "Anthy...are you dead now? Is this your ghost that I am now talking to?"
"No. It is but who I left behind at Ohtori before I left this school." Mikage did in fact remember the Rose Bride and her prince. But, who was the prince? Who were the duelists? Mikage remembered everything about what he did, but he could not recall what happened around him. No memories were left for him. Not one shard of hope, except that name-Mamiya. But there was that name Utena. Also, End of the World. How did this connect? Mikage was lost for answers. Trying to remember, he asked Anthy what he should do.
"I cannot do anything for you, Mikage-sama," Anthy sadly said.
"This place, Ohtori, holds so many memories of all the students. Can memories die so easily that they stay in one place for so long and are simply forgotten?" Mikage asked to himself out loud. Anthy sat down beside him. "Is it a sin to abandon everything and live off of things that cannot help you when you need help the most?" Mamiya's name rang in Mikage's mind. Mikage was going to lose it if he didn't get some answers because this wondering and desperate discovering was going on long enough for him.
"Mikage-sama...think for a moment. Where should you be right now?" Anthy asked, putting her hand on his shoulder. Mikage looked at her then her cloths fell to the floor without her body. Mikage's eyes were so lost that he didn't care when the fax machine started to reassemble itself piece by piece. A pink-haired girl stood over the fax machine holding a sword toward Mikage's chest.
"I will never lose to a manipulative string- puller from the shadows like you!" the girl shouted. She swung her sword at Mikage, but she and her sword vanished before touching Mikage. The fax started printing again. Message: UTENA
"Utena?" Mikage said. Was she Utena? String-puller? Me? The fax printed the constant message like crazy. DANGER!!! Mikage stood in the moonlight watching the roses fall even more than they used to. Beautiful fragrances soothed under his nose. He never imagined he would see Anthy again. He did remember he was planning on killing her for his own twisted purpose. How could he almost forget? Th fax stopped again and fell silent.
"This is too much," he thought to himself. "I must be having some kind of angst dream. I should start going to bed more earlier and stop reading all these romance/horror novels." Mikage undressed himself then suddenly froze in place. The faint sound of piano music started to play. Before his eyes, a blue-hair, fair-faced boy appeared playing on a grand piano. The mirage shook Mikage to the break of possible insanity.
"If only I can master this piece without the last piece of sheet music," the boy said. "The Sunlight Garden...I hope it sounds just right." The fax started up once again. Message: DANGER!!! COFFIN NAMED IMMATURITY!!! It went dead. The mirage left Mikage shocked.
"You know where you should be," Anthy's voice came.
"Stop! Enough! Leave me alone!" Mikage warned. The fax, another message: MIKI.
"Miki?"
Another young woman appeared at Mikage's desk. She was beautiful with orange curls and deep azure eyes. She appeared to be crushing something in her hand.
"Miracles...what a ridiculous concept," she said. She snapped her attention straight at our pink-haired hero. "You still believe, don't you? Otherwise, why are you here? If miracles do not exist, then why are you here?" She disappeared. Message: DANGER!!! COFFIN NAMED OBSTINACY!!! It went dead. Roses continued to multiply more and more by the minute. The fax started. Message: JURI.
"You know where you should be," Anthy's voice came again.
"Enough...I don't want to see this," Mikage whispered. "Who are these people? Why do they come to me? Are they memories like Himemiya? Why? Why do they come now?"
"It's not the same. Let's get out of here, so I can't be in a perpetual, useless state," said a voice from behind. A green, long-haired, handsome young man, followed by an equally handsome, red long-haired young man, stared out the window; a window that was different from the window Mikage looked out from. The other did not show the rainfall of rose petals. Message: DANGER!!! COFFIN NAMED ASSUMPTION!!! It went dead.
"Neither I, nor you, can retrieve that power that we bestowed upon ourselves so long ago. We've changed," the red-haired guy said to the green haired guy.
"I'll say. I just want to leave this so-called WORLD of ours. I do; I want to leave. Because I want to see what I can do!"
The green haired guy vanished. The red-haired guy lingered over the fax then put out his hand and said: "To revolutionize the world? Hmph. I can see now. Utena...what a fool." He shattered into pieces of glass then each piece dissolved into the floor. The fax. Message: SAIONJI. TOUGA. It went dead.
"Mikage-sama," Anthy's voice said, "go. To where you should be."
"What is this? W-What-What...is this??" Mikage buttoned his shirt vigorously. He tried to get his thoughts together by going for a walk whether or not it was ten-thirty at night. Looking into the mirror for a split second, Mikage saw the tan-skinned, lavender-haired boy from before with him. Shocked and scared, Mikage punched the mirror. Pieces of glass fell everywhere. Within each shard, the different memories of which Mikage saw reflected. Blood dripped on the glass, the piece that the boy was found in. Mikage rushed for the door and closed it behind him. The fax went crazy with printing a message: I TOLD YOU: DANGER!!! END OF THE WORLD.