Hitomi no Hikari
(Eyes of Light)
An Aura story
Shugo…I'll be waiting for you
There was once a king
Who still ruled young
In ages to come
His sword he had broke
The sword from the stone
In legends old
'Go my King'
Merlin the Wizard said,
'There ye true Excalibur lie,
In waters cool
With a Mistress close by
Ride to the Lady of the Lake.'
The King rode to the Lake there
Where the sword was held by the Lady fair
Not in the water, but up in the air.
'I give you Excalibur, dear Arthur King,'
Said she,
'But may I inform it belongith to me.'
The King then said, 'Fear not My Lady,
I'll see thee again and bring thy sword
Back before I die.'
Such a peculiar story…
"…So King Arthur took a boat to get the sword. And just as he grabbed it from the Lady's hand, she disappeared as if the Lady was never there. The King then rode away to adventures ahead until he met the Lady again in his dying days."
Shugo let out a huge sigh and flopped on the artificial ground thinking of how telling stories can be so stressing. "The End." The boy concluded.
End… Aura pondered on such a word.
Silence overcame the children once more. Shugo looked back at the cloud-haired girl who seemed deep in thought.
"I'm not good at telling stories… Sooo, what do you think of it?"
Aura turned to the boy and answered. "Its…Interesting…"
"What?" The boy then turned to his side, giving Aura a puzzling look.
"It is also sad, the story. The King doesn't see the Lady again until the day he dies. Why do you like stories that are sad, Shugo?" She tilted her head, making the high moon mix with her azure-violet eyes.
The boy scrunched his face. "It's not sad, it's… fantasy, I guess. I didn't mean to have the story be sad," Shugo then began to stand up tall as a tree in front of the sitting pale girl. "Just that it's the beginning to a wonderful adventure!" Shugo slashed about with a pretend sword of his own, destroying imaginary enemies. This made Aura giggle.
"King Arthur was a great hero, one of my favorites." The boy sheathed his make-believe sword. "He had wonderful journeys and battles and eventually became the King of all Britain!" Shugo widely smiled at the girl in front of him. "I want to become a hero like him!-"
"Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-boooooooooooooh? WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING ON MY COMPUTER!" The angry voice echoed through the programmed forest. Shugo cowers in fear.
"Shugo what's wrong? Who was that voice?" The cloud-haired girl stands concerned and goes to the nervous boy who seems to be looking off into a place where Aura can't see.
"JUST A SEC! I'M GONNA GET OFF SOON!" Shugo yelled back in reply.
Aura gives him a puzzled look. His opens his mouth to speak to her, but is afraid to tell.
"I gotta go."
The pale girl's face turns into sadness. "Go?" And it's just when they were having the most fun.
The boy didn't want to leave her sad. He winks and smiles at her. "Hey, I'll come back. And when I do, we can play 'hero', ok?"
Out of the blue, the cerulean eyed girl jumps onto Shugo in a big hug. This almost made him loose his balance…wait…he did loose balance. The boy opened his eyes after the fall hit him. The girl before him gives Shugo a smile. "When we play hero, can I be the Lady of the Lake…um…only with a bigger part?"
Shugo smiles again and sweat-drops, "Uh, yah sure." and gets himself up. With a last look at the girl who seems to be still sitting on the ground where he fell, he gave his good-bye and brings his hands to the headset.
"I'll be waiting for you, Shugo!"
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Soft crying is heard from not far away. Why am I like this? The little girl thinks. She lies alone in her bed, curled in a ball. The girl lifts her head and notices heat streaks on her face.
"You are crying, sadness. It's a human emotion."
Aura jumps in a sitting position, trying to find the origin of the voice. Then a woman with long blond flowing hair stands at the foot of the pale girl's bed. The woman smiles lovingly and she opens her arms, waiting for an embrace.
"M-Mama!"
The woman holds the girl warmly then ever before. Aura smiles brightly and laughs. The mother smiles, yet not happily. The child doesn't see this smile because her face was still in the comfort of her mother's shoulder.
"Mein kind (my child)… Ich habe irgendeine Sache, die wichtig ist, Ihnen zu erklären. (I have something important to tell you)."
"Mutter, warum Sie seak in unserer Sprache tun Sie? (Mother, why do you speak in our language?)"
"Dummes Kind, wünsche ich kein uns hören. (Silly child, I do not want any one to hear us.) Ich habe ein anwesendes, zum zu geben Ihnen. Er ist ganz speziell. (I have a present to give to you. It is very special.)" A simple light shines within the right palm of the mother's hand. The glow grows into an outline of an old book. Aura looks closely at the book, perplexed.
"Mutter, warum geben Sie dieses Buch? Muß ich es lesen? (Mama, why do you give this book? Do I need to read it?)" The child gazes at her mother with her azure-violet eyes, no, they already turned oceanic sapphire. The mother smiles at her child.
"Ich sah Sie früh mit diesem Jungen. Ich hörte ihn, Ihnen über die Legende des Königs Arthur zu erklären. Jetzt mit diesem Buch, können Sie Ihre eigene Heldlegende beginnen. (I saw you earlier with that boy. I heard him telling you about the King Arthur legend. Now, with this book, you can start your own hero legend.)"
"OH-, Dose Shugo ist in meiner Legende auch? (Oh, can Shugo be in my legend also)?" Aura asks pleadingly.
"Ja wirklich er ist ein großer Held, Sie denken? (Yes, actually he will be a great hero, do you think?)"
Aura nods happily and holds the book tightly. The mother bends down and plants a light kiss on her daughter's soft cheek. "Mein Kind, muß ich Sie von hier lassen an heraus. Ich bin traurig. Jetzt erinnern Sie sich, stark zu sein. Selbst wenn es nur Schwärzung nach links gibt, irgendwie gibt es Licht. (My child, I have to leave you from here on out. I am sorry. Now, remember to be strong. Even when there is only darkness left, somehow there will be light,) hikari." Emma, the mother, lifts her child's chin to make aura's glossy, innocent eyes to her. The mother smiles dearly. "My Hitomi no Hikari." Emma now kneels in front of her child to hug her closely. "Das Buch... ist es ein Teil Ihrer Seele. Halten Sie es sicher. Führen Sie an das Buch zuerst zu jemand anderes anderes dann Shugo. (The book…It is a part of your soul. Keep it safe. Pass on the book first to someone else other then Shugo.)"
The girl struggles to get out of her mother's smothering grip as she tries to look into her mother's blank eyes wondering why Shugo couldn't have the book first. "Er ist zu jung, lieb. Warten Sie wann. (He is too young, dear. Wait a while.)" The mother smiles again, only sentimentally. Emma moves to get up to her feet, walking a ways from the curious Aura. She tries to hold in the tear that threatens to come out. 'No, I want Aura to be strong. So I too will have to be…until the end.'
"Aishiteru. Sayonara (I love you. Good bye)."
Emma walks away, leaving her daughter on the bed, distraught. The mother disappears into the dim moonlit forest.
"Mamma?"
A brush of pain in the abdomen, it dulls as she puts her hand on the place where synthetic flesh and spear meet. A dim smile rises from the woman's face. "Gomen nesai, Aura. (I'm sorry, Aura)" Emma coughs into her hands and sees, faintly, drops of blood.
A cold stare borrows into the blond woman's back. She holds the end of the dagger close to herself, as if trying to hide something. Her long and wavy dark locks cover her beautiful features, but they cannot shield the dry-blood-brown glare of the woman. The dark haired woman chuckles. "'n brudd , iawn 'n brudd chennych at d 'ma a darfod i mewn 'ch ferch s chysgoda. Adwaen wrth gwrs. 'ch 'n ddau ydy fel 'n anwahanadwy Emma. (Wise, very wise of you to come here and die in your daughter's shadow. She will know of course. You two are so inseparable, Emma.)"
"We are, I guess. I do not want to see her cry for me, Morganna. I hope she'll find better times then this." Emma slumps a bit as strength within her fades. Morganna brings an arm over her victim so that the blond leans on her. Slowly, the dark-locked woman lowers both herself and Emma to the forest ground. "I suppose you are free, now." Emma closes her eyes as the younger woman lays down her head.
Morganna huffs unsatisfactory "Mo dan Ca 'r buchedd chan 'ch ferch , Ewyllysia. (Not until I have the life of your daughter, I will.)" She feels a warm hand on her cheek. Confusingly, Morganna notices that it is Emma's hand that touches her.
"You don't know, but I loved you like my own as I did to Aura. Both of you are born from me, here in this limitless space." A sigh escapes from Emma's lips as a tear falls from Morganna's blood orbs. "For Aura's life, I must die here. You had to too. But…I did hope you could live a while longer. To live is a wonderful thing, Morganna. J-Just" Words from the mother's mouth becomes impossible for the younger woman to hear. Morganna leans in closer to Emma's face. "Don't hurt my Aura too much. She is lonely. Stay by her side as Shadows do in moonligh…" Last breath escapes from the lying woman's lips.
"Mamma?" Tears fall from both the Hikari (light) and the Kage (shadow).
Second dream sequence end
Aha! Finished! Kinda tricky with three languages in a fic. No, I don't speak any of them. Wish I did. Well, I knew the Japanese part. Wink! Thank you Freaky Person O.o, Alex Warlorn, Sarah1281, Helbaworshipper, Murgatroyd, and Blackheart Syaoran as my patrons in reviewing! Whee! Six reviews! I'm happy.
The languages symbolize the background behind the character. German for Aura and Emma because they are from there…in a way. I picked welsh for Morganna because that's where the root of her name is from. Plus, welsh is one of my favorite languages, very mystical.
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