Dancing to Find Nemo
by Snea a.k.a. Rakushi
A/N: Evil bastards deleted my fanfic:( Here it is again...edited.
Disclaimer: Like I own something. I'm a teenager!
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Ichi (One): Hearing Legends
Hi! I'm Bubbles Utonium of the Powerpuff Girls! Hee hee. But you probably don't really want to know that, do you? Anyways, I've just pretty much grown up with my sisters. We've finally turned 15, and are currently getting ready to go into 10th grade, with, once again, Ms. Keane as our teacher. But enough about school, age, and all that other stuff.
Besides boys! We (as in my sisters and me) LUV to talk about guys! It's just hard not to.
Though Buttercup seems to talk about them as friends rather than as crushes... Hmm...
Blossom and I prefer talking about them as crushes. Well, Blossom does, and I just listen to her talk about them while occasionally commenting. See, I don't like any of the boys at our school, Pokey Oaks High (is it just me or is that name on everything?), I'd prefer someone else. Only problem is, my sisters (and the Professor for that matter) wouldn't agree with my choice.
Which I guess is what this story is really about. See, I like a villain, and not just any villain, but a Rowdyruff Boy.
That's right.
Bubbles fell in love with a dead guy!
How's that for convenient? Not very, am I right? Well, at least I thought he was dead-dead. Till earlier this summer...
Now to describe how we look. We're all tall, 5' 6 1/2", very...cough...feminine looking (females, you know what I mean), and still pretty thin, though Buttercup has gotten a pretty "hour-glass" figure that Bloss is pretty jealous of (I'm not), me, I'm just starting to get a figure as Buttercup stated. Oh well, looks like Bloss got left in the dust on the figure part of the formula. Though as she says when I mentioned it, 'I make up for it with smarts.' Boy did I not tell her that Ms. Keane and Ms. Birchwright, our grade councilor, wanted me to be switched into all honors classes. To which I nicely declined with crying and saying I didn't want to leave my old classes and my sisters.
Pfuit. Yeah, right. Like I was even contemplating the truth to that. Really, I just didn't feel like having the 'attention of the family.'
Don't tell her that though.
Especially if you like living.
Once again. Especially if you like living 'cause she's gotten to have a terrible temper.
Blossom has really long straight-curly hair, as usual. It nearly reaches the floor now, just 3 inches till it does. Buttercup has mid-back length straight hair since she says it's distracting when we're fighting. I have curly hair that reaches the base of my back and is actually tres distracting when fighting, but I don't have the heart to cut it.
Now, there is our Guardian (not the Professor). She's 9, almost 10, but still older than we are. Now, how is she our Guardian and older than us? In reality, she's over 5 million Eons old Eon: the basic measure of years in Eletsuol and Spritul; 5 Googles to an Eon. She's an Elemental, basically she made and controls an element, for example, she controls fire. Our previous two Guardians, who we had until she was of age, where two of her older sisters (she's the youngest (like me) of 5 (not like me) and second strongest of them (once again, not like me, I think)), Liz and Jackie, who are paternal twins born a year apart. Liz controls water and the moon (most of the time for the moon), and Jackie controls ice, water, and the moon (as well as the rest of them according to Liz, but we're not allowed to tell Jackie since she had her memory edited, so she doesn't know).
Our Guardian's name is Marri, which is short for Marritza. She's the one who controls fire. She's about two inches shorter than me, which makes her 5' 3". She's built like Buttercup, only thing is her legs are longer and her torso is slightly shorter. She's African-American like her dad, and even though her mom was Caucasian, she's not as light skinned as her sisters. In fact, it's kind of odd, because Niko (her oldest sister) is really light skinned, then Liz (2nd oldest) is a little bit darker, then Jackie (middle sister) is barely darker than that, Natalie (older sister) looks somewhat Hispanic because of how in-the-middle-colored she is(as she puts it), and then Marri is a pretty chocolate color. But we love 'em anyway!
Really, it's hard to describe an Elemental, because they change their appearance subtlety every day. Anyway, she's an excellent fighter, great singer (she and the rest of her family (and everyone else living at her house) are all singers), great dancer, speaks just about every language (except Korean, don't know why), and can do things no human can ever imagine.
To say the least. Being an Elemental is extremely cool.
But then again. Being a hybrid Elemental is cool too. :)
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"Come on, Bubbles! Strike! If you wanna learn how to use a sword, SWING IT!" Marri barked at her. Bubbles looked up from her crouch on the training room floor. The sword she held stood hilt up, tip sunken down in the sand packed floor, in her grasp as she crouched there. Panting, she stood and swept hair out of her face. She pulled it from the ground and held it at the ready position. Marri nodded 'start' to her and she lunged.
Blossom and Buttercup were lounging outside the hologram/training room with the Professor, waiting for their turns. "How long have they been in there?" Buttercup asked impatiently. She'd just gotten home from volley ball practice and already she was bored. Blossom glanced at the clock, "Four hours," she replied nonchalantly, turning back to her book. Buttercup gaped at her.
"FOUR HOURS? And they're still going at it?" She asked, disbelief evident on her face as she watched Bubbles block a downward swing from Marri. The Professor nodded.
"Yep. They've been doing this since school let out. Marri's already suggested they take a break twice, but Bubbles just won't quit." He sighed, "I'd stay and try to get them to stop, but I have an important conference to get to." He turned to look at the girls, "You guys feel okay about pizza for dinner?" Buttercup perked up.
"Pizza Hut! Please, Professor!" She begged, holding her hands together in front of her. The Professor glanced at Blossom who shrugged and nodded.
"Sure." He said, smiling as Buttercup pumped her fist in the air. "The money will be on the dining room kitchen. The office number's on the fridge, and I'll be back around nine, so I expect you all to be in bed when I get back." He said, opening the door. "Including Marri!" He called over his shoulder as he shut the door. Buttercup snickered.
"Poor Marri. She's gonna end up babysitting us." Blossom shook her head. She opened her mouth to say something when a sword blade went straight through the hologram room's window, stopping its progress when it reached the hilt. Both Powerpuffs stared at it.
"Sorry!" Bubbles called sweatdropping.
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Bubbles sat on her baby blue bean bag chair munching at her pizza with her left hand as Marri bandaged her right arm. "...really need to learn how to block all sides of you," Marri was saying. Buttercup and Blossom were stretched out on the floor in front of them watching TV and eating. They too sported a few bandages, though not as many as Bubbles, who'd managed to get Marri to give her another practice round in the newly-repaired-and broken-again-by-another-sword hologram room. Marri looked at Bubbles, who was still munching at her pizza like she'd never eaten before. "- - Bubbles? Are you even listening to me!" Bubbles looked at her from the side of her eye and gave a small nod.
Marri just looked at her. "Yeah. Right." Marri said A/N: Kinda curt for 10 year old, don't'cha think? as she finished tying the bandage with a sharp jerk that caused Bubble to choke and Buttercup, who had been watching, snort with laughter.
"Ow! That hurt!" The youngest Powerpuff complained to her Guardian. Marri grinned and grabbed herself a slice of pepperoni and mushroom pizza before settling down on her own flame red bean bag chair. Bubbles glared at her as she looked at her arm bandage. She still wasn't sure how she'd missed that block, and she still wasn't sure how she'd be able to prevent it the next time. (A/N: I know I'm kinda rambling here, but I'm multitasking by doing my algebra and this at the same time! Aren't I smart? DB: No. Me: Shut up! LOL! I just let my laptop read this A/N it has a program that reads Word Documents to you and it's hilarious! this just shows how much I really understand my algebra HW, doesn't it?)
Bubbles suddenly lifted her head up from looking at her bandage. Had she just heard something? She heard it again and jerked her head around behind her, searching for the source. The sound was that of laughter. Male laughter, probably not much older than she was. But there was a soft tinkling noise too. An eerily familiar tinkling because Marri did it when she laughed in her Jipp form/. Bubbles listened for a few more seconds, blocking out the sound of the TV to hear the laughter again. Shrugging after a few seconds, she turned back to the TV, her pizza, her sisters, and Marri. She decided to ask Marri about it later.
After all, hearing something and not seeing it meant that you were seeing into the Realm of the Dead through a dimensional rift. And hadn't Marri said something about an Eletsuol legend that said those who were chosen could listen for spirits who return to the world where they were missed?
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I'm not racist! Plz don't think that, I hate it when ppl say I am just because I say Caucasian. The reason I wanted to describe this is because it will be important later on in the story, 'kay?
Well they don't have corners now do they?
Jipp is pronounced like 'yip' and the second 'p' is silent.
Elementals can change form, and their primary forms are Jipps, which look like the Dash Card, only without the diamond shape on the forehead, or the socks on their legs.
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A/N: Kay, I know I should have had the chapters up before now, but FF.N blocks you from uploading stuff for a selected period of time after deleting stuff. XP Anyway, hope you enjoy this. I worked hard on it, believe it or not. :)
NOTE: I used to have this up as To Luv Death and Its Companions, but I got a new title from my Latin class and the movie, Finding Nemo. In Latin, nemo means no one. So, translated, the movie title ended up meaning Finding No One. This is a slightly A/U PPG/RRB fic, btw, b/c I rarely ever see the episodes now.
6/1/2005: Sorry! Updated the wrong chapters! Again! XP