It was in the bright sunlight that a young girl sat sprawled out upon a lush green lawn that was carefully trimmed and nurtured by its inhabitants and was enclosed by several tall trees that seemed to make the border. At the heart of this artificial jungle was a comfortable white house with a westernized style.
While Chihiro and her family were in the spirit world for a year, the little two bedroom house they had originally bought sat empty. Like any typical middle-class family, Chihiro's family had a small mortgage on the home that required monthly payments. Well, not paying a debt for more than six months does tend to upset even the most sympathetic loaners and the bank reclaimed the home while the family was gone.
Upon their return to the mortal realm, Chihiro's father invoked every curse known to man on the bank, until his wife told him about the child she carried. The family moved to a spacious four bedroom home at the edge of the city, provoking Chihiro to believe that her parents had more in store for her than one sibling, but she really didn't mind.
Wondering just how much had changed while she was in the spirit world for the second time, Chihiro trembled from her spot on the ground, unsure if she should go look. The girl crept up to the house, eyeing a large window that looked into where the kitchen and living-room would be. Her movements were slow, as if she was fighting to control her muscles….
A handsome little boy sat in the middle of the living-room floor.
Straight long brown hair just covered the child's eyes as he sat cross-legged on the spotless cream carpet with his hands holding up his face. Another window at the other end of the house permitted the red beams of light to outline his figure.
"Why Chihiro?"
The girl realized she could hear his half-mumbled whispering inside the house.
"Darling Sen, or should I say, Chihiro, how delighted I am to see you again!" a very feminine voice purred.
Chihiro jumped and looked up to where the voice was coming from. A long green dragoness lazily sat atop the roof of her home, partially faded. Slack jawed, Chihiro quickly recovered her wits, the hairs on the back of her neck were rising and her muscles tensed.
"Now, now, Chihiro, no need to attract unwanted attention," she chided.
"How did you get here?"
The dragoness narrowed her eye ridges at the dragon in human form, "I followed you here. Now," Mara spoke as she slid down the side of the house without a sound. "Normally, spirits without a territory here aren't allowed into this realm, let alone an aggressive monster like me. However, once you killed Dairy, there was no one there to guard the gate."
A set of narrow pupils glared at her as Mara walked near Chihiro until the girl was beneath the chest of the dragon.
"What are you going to do?" Chihiro barely breathed.
Mara let out a laugh that was sounding deeper and more inhuman with each syllable. "I've turned your brother into a dragon."
The girl wanted to sigh, but the mocking smile on Mara's face congested that comfort, "Why should I be scared?"
"He hates you."
"Bade is only a child, but we're siblings; he loves me and I won't believe your lies."
The instant her sentence was finished, Chihiro was knocked clear across the backyard. She could only lie on the ground with her orbs squeezed shut, struggling to fight the throbbing in her jaw and concentrating on transforming to her dragon form.
"You abandoned me, killed Kira, and drove Mom to death!" a young male's voice broke the morning silence.
Opening her eyes, Chihiro stood on four paws to face a black dragon like her own form in shape and size but with leathery wings. Sharp yellow eyes glared at her as his tail cracked the air and the serpent seemed to pant.
"Master, how much more pain will there be?" he directed his question at Mara but without breaking his eye contact with Chihiro.
"As soon as you kill Chihiro, it will be gone."
( Slighty Haunted ): Yea, I'm trying to keep up.
IMPORTANT QUESTION: Alright, do I bring Kira back and should she be with Raider?
LadyRainStarDragon: Thanks! I really need to go review some of your stories!
RogueRobin: hehe, I like Dairy too. Then again, he is friends with Raider...
Animeangel290: yes, I tend to come up with strange events. I never even thought of such possibilities until I started to type.
