The Memory Arc
Disclaimer: I don't own Konjiki no Gash Bell
Spoilers: Up to episode 77
Pairings: Zeon x Koruru, Gash Bell x Tio, Kiyomaro x Megumi,
Chapter 6: Yuku-Part 2-Meru meru mei!
Kafka Sanbiimu, to Megumi's great distress, had been called away on business to Hong Kong. To Umagon's great distress, Sanbiimu told Umagon to stay with Kiyomaro's mother.
However, the small, 4 year old horse demon wanted to go with his partner…
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Umagon looked around in both directions, before kicking the door open to the Takamine household. He ran to the kitchen door, to see if Takamine Hana, Kiyomao's mother, was awake yet and making breakfast.
"Meru meru?" whispered Umagon, barely raising his voice. Dare he open the door, or should he speak again? Umagon spoke clearly this time. "Meru meru?"
Once more, no response. Umagon took a gulp, and put a hoof to the door. Nodding to himself, Umagon pushed open the door. The tan furred demon ran in circles, checking every nook and cranny his small body and fingerless hooves could get to, be they cabinets, the refrigerator, or a pot, Umagon left nothing unturned.
"Meru…" Umagon breathed a sigh of relief, and left the kitchen. Next, he had to go up to Kiyomaro and Gash's room. However, this would be risky. Going up the stairs was no easy business with hooves, and not only that, he would have to tread past Hana's room in order to reach Kiyomaro and Gash's.
Umagon tip-clopped, seeing as he can't tiptoe because he has no toes, towards the stairs, knowing he needed to get what he needed and hurry. Sanbiimu's plane left in three hours, and Umagon was worried he wouldn't make it in time.
Umagon stopped his tip-clopping when he realized he was standing before the stairs. Putting his front legs on the first step, Umagon pulled himself up, slowly and almost silently. Repeating this, Umagon eventually climbed the staircase. Smiling to himself, Umagon stopped and listened carefully, as to make sure Hana wasn't up.
"Oh, koibitoooo…"
Umagon frowned. Yes, Hana was asleep but she was talking about her husband in her sleep again. That meant she was going to wake up soon, and Umagon knew if Hana woke up, his plans would never come to be!
"Meru…" stammered Umagon, an he cautiously took a step forward. However, his hoof stepped on a candy bar wrapped that held a candy bar Hana had been eating before she went to bed. "MERU MERU MEI! MERU MERU MERU! MERU MERU MEIIIIII!"
Umagon's screams continued to issue from his throat as he painfully tumbled down the many stairs. His cries intensified when he realized he would be caught, and he wouldn't get to go with Sanbiimu.
With a loud thump, Umagon landed at the bottom of the staircase, tears streaming down his face. However, to his great surprise, no one came out of Hana's room. No bed springs creaking, no footsteps, just silence. Frowning, Umagon made no attempt to be silent and ran up the stairs. Sensing silence again, Umagon tip-clopped over to Hana's door and creaked it open, but only just a small crack.
"Meru meru mei…?" whispered Umagon as he looked inside.
"Faster, koibitoooo…" moaned Hana as she clenched the bed sheets tightly. Umagon tilted his head, and left the room, before going through the hallway to Kiyomaro and Gash's room, where the object he desired lay. He did not understand what Takamine-san meant, but he wasn't about to wake her up to ask and be misunderstood.
Umagon continued his tip-clopping, until he stood before Gash and Kiyomaro's room. A grin spread Umagon's horsey face, and he pushed the door open and looked around.
Breathing a sigh of relief that Hana had not woken up, Umagon, using the newfound strength he had gained from fighting Darmoss and Pamun, galloped before jumping onto the desk, bouncing off it and landing safely in Gash's hammock.
"Meru meru mei!" whispered Umagon excitedly. He tossed Gash's blanket to the floor and looked over Gash's belongings. Old, marked, and broken Vulcan 300s, a picture of himself and Tio from when they went on that date with Kiyomaro and Megumi, three Buri skeletons, and finally, what Umagon wanted:
Gash's duffel bag costume.
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It was raining, pouring even. But the call that echoed through the rain was far from distressed.
"Meru meru mei!" cheered Umagon as finished pulling the door closed with his teeth, as his had no fingers and wasn't tall enough to reach the doorknob. Umagon was inside the duffel bag costume, his hooves a head poking out of the normally invisible and impenetrable holes.
Umagon looked both ways, down both sides of the street. No one was coming, the coast was clear. Umagon quickly clopped across the street, reaching the sidewalk. Just as he was about to cross the next street, a car sped past, splashing him with water. Umagon screamed and fell backwards.
"Meru meru mei!" exclaimed Umagon, jumping up and shaking a hoof at the retreating car. It had no effect, and with another sigh, Umagon crossed the next street, and did so until he was extremely tired and barely any closer to his goal.
Umagon rapidly shook his head and shifted into a dream world, a flashback.
Umagon had just led Sanbiimu to the chamber where Darmoss had been fighting Reira, Kiyomaro, and Gash. The two had quickly surveyed the situation. Sanbiimu realized what Umagon had meant when he was pointing at the book and shaking his head. Kiyomaro must have given his book to one of his friends, so his partner wouldn't have to return to the Makai.
"Meru meru mei!" yelled Umagon, shaking his head at Darmoss. Sanbiimu walked up besides him, opening Umagon's brightly glowing book and yelling out the first spell.
"Shudoruku!"
"Meru meru meiiii!" With newfound strength and determination, Umagon let out a cry and charged forward, moving at least five times faster than his previous pace. It would still take a lot to reach the airport on time, but Umagon's chances had definitely increased.
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Umagon stared up at the large building, panting. He had made it, with an hour or so to spare.
"Meru meru…" whispered Umagon proudly to himself. He looked left and right, and smiled. The guards were chatting and eating donuts. There were only two flights that night, one was boarding and the passengers of the other were going through customs. It was time for Umagon to make his move, and he would have to be very quick about it.
Umagon saw one of the guards going into the building, chortling at a joke of the other guard.
"You're hilarious buddy. I'll be back in a sec, those beans just aren't agreeing with me. Slow night anyway…"
Umagon was unsure how beans, which as far as he knew; were edible and not able to talk, could have an argument with someone. It was not the fact he wasn't a human, it was the fact he was an innocent 4 year old demon.
As soon as the guard opened the doors to the airport, Umagon ran as fast as he could into the building, the pouring rain masking the clopping noises his hooves made. No one noticed the small horse demon in the duffle bag as it ran by.
After getting into an empty area, Umagon closed his eyes and thought hard. Which gate was Sanbiimu going to?
Umagon's eyes flashed when he remembered the ticket:
C-18
Umagon dashed towards the gate where Sanbiimu would be getting his carry on luggage checked. Umagon glanced at the clock.
"Meru meru…" whimpered Umagon sadly, staring up at Sanbiimu. The German man smiled down at his partner.
"See the clock?" questioned Sanbiimu, pointing at the cat-shaped clock on the wall.
"Meru." Umagon nodded, confirming that he had indeed seen it.
"Well, when the small hand reaches the eight and is close to the nine, and the large one hits the eleven, my plane lifts off. You should be able to see it from Kiyomaro's house, or if you're helping out Megumi, at her apartment. Good bye for now, Umagon."
Umagon looked at the clock. The small hand was slightly past the eight and the large one was at the five. He had five minutes. Galloping as fast as he could, clopping noises echoing through the empty halls of the airport, Umagon ran like he had never ran before.
"Meru meru mei!" exclaimed Umagon, looking up at the signs and all the stores. When he saw a line of people, he skidded into a halt and went right into a women's lingerie store. Umagon poked his head out of a pile of skimpy bathing suits, and looked around.
Completely empty, save a snoring teenager at the cash register. "Meru?"
Unknowingly dragging a thong under his left back hoof, Umagon slowly walked over to the line, where Sanbiimu stood near the end. He set a bag identical to the one Umagon was in on the conveyor belt and moved through the metal detector, and Umagon leapt through the air, landing on a black backpack behind Sanbiimu's bag. Thankfully, everyone was on the other side of the metal detector.
Umagon kicked Sanbiimu's bag to the ground, which only had a few magazines in it, and went inside Gash's bag, holding perfectly still as he moved. Unknown to him, he was about to be x-rayed. Thankfully, demons aren't affected by x-rays in the way humans can be when subjected to too much.
"Hey, look…" whispered one of the two men manning the x-ray machine.
"Nani?" replied the other, glancing at the x-ray screen. A stuffed horse was in a duffel bag.
"So?"
The first man pointed at a blonde, green eyed, German man. Both guards sniggered and remembered to laugh out loud later, so they don't get fired.
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"Was my bag really this heavy?" Sanbiimu asked himself as he boarded the plane. He shrugged and put it in the overhead, before sitting on a chair and closing his eyes. He was asleep almost instantly. A small, horse-like head poked out of the duffle bag.
"Meru meru mei!" whispered Umagon happily.
-End Chapter 6
