This is what you get when you watch a really old movie and the name of the main character is the same as some guy you called in your own story.
Disclaimers: Hey, I don't own. I mean… come on. Who wants a school like this? Actually, it's kinda cool…
Ratings/Warnings: … ?
Pairings: Still nothing? Well, I expected as much…
Other: It's an interlude. It's weird. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't have Daisuke (really) so you really don't have to read it. But hey, maybe I can start the next chapter soon. Interludes will be most likely focused on the minor characters, to give them background, personality, you know, the usual. XD
Crossover with: Oh dear… the Never-Ending Story? Who thought it would still be existing?
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What? Does this have no reason behind this? Did we ever know?
Oh well… on with the show…
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Interlude Chapter (One): Stupid Pink Dragons… (If you can call it that)
A boy with messed up brown-blonde hair looked around the school almost curiously, although he had been attending it for quite a while now. It was loud, it was chaotic, it was… something. Yeah, that was it. It was a building that promised that another student would be in the hospital soon enough. There was no stopping it and everyone knew it.
The main idea was to avoid the dangerous people at all costs. Yep, that was what he was doing right now. Major painkillers would do the job as well, but lots of people relied on their magic, so what was one person supposed to do to change their mind? No, there was no way to change it.
Ugh, and now he was getting confused.
Bastion slammed his footlocker closed just as an explosion outside on the grounds reached his ears. He turned, just slightly; only to be knocked over as a girl with brown hair flying everywhere cannoned into him rather painfully. More than painfully. Okay, it was incredibly painful. He groaned.
"Ah! Bastion! I am so sorry about that!" squeaked the girl, jumping up and then offering him a hand, "It was just that that stupid guy whatshisname decided to mess around and then--" she blinked, "Hey, are you okay?"
"Who, me?" the blonde-brunette asked as he got up and brushed himself off, "Sure, I'm fine." He then added as an afterthought; "But Kinamora is going to die for that." He was walking towards the front entrance, but the girl held him back, "What, Cecilia?"
She refused to let go as she explained, "You really don't want to be caught in the middle of that."
Bastion would have asked why so, but the answer beat him to it. Insults were hurled and yells could be heard and the sound of people running into – or sent flying into – walls didn't exactly help the mental image either. He sweat-dropped.
"See what I mean?" Cecilia said.
"Right. We should get to class then."
Bastion was a thirteen year old with the brains of an old man… or something. Okay, scratch that. He was quite intelligent and a fast learner and that was why he'd been moved up a year so now he had to deal with people older than him. Not that it made much of a difference.
"Miranda!" called the brunette girl, waving over to someone who had dyed blue hair and had it tied up in a long plait, "Hey, how long have you been here then, huh? Didn't catch you on the way to school."
"Hi, guys," Miranda smiled and tugged at her hair, "Yeah, my dad dropped me off today because he had to go early for work, so you know. It just seemed right. I've been reading some of the theory of magic for studies and all, but it isn't making too much sense at the moment."
"Really? I haven't even opened that book yet!"
The two girls fell into conversation as they entered their classroom and Bastion drifted off to look out the window, where a number of students were lying on the grass and concrete path, groaning. There was a moment of short argument, and then the familiar bellow of one of their teachers as he marched into the scene, followed by a few more.
Okay, they were in for it then.
The door slid open abruptly and a redhead tumbled into the room, looking halfway through shock, fear and surprise. Or were they all the same thing? Bastion recognized him as the new student whoever it was and ignored him.
Cecelia and Miranda, being who they were, greeted 'Niwa-kun' and he returned the greeting before dragging himself to his own desk near the back of the classroom. His demon bunny thing began to hop around the room for no reason.
"With! Not now!"
As soon as they saw it – right on cue – the girls began to squeal. It wasn't one of the long ones that burst your eardrums, though, but it was still pretty annoying. Bastion was glad that they weren't like that all the time.
Yep. Just another ordinary day.
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By the time their roll call teacher – Mr. Loony – stomped into the classroom, at least a third of the students were in the infirmary and not looking their best, if there was a best. He slammed his folder on the front desk and every student looked up at him in unison.
"Right. About this morning…"
One of Bastion's friends, Chester, raised his hand, "It was Kinamora's fault, sir. He tried to pick a fight with Cless and then there was that explosion for some reason and then--"
"Shut up!" he barked, looking furious, "Don't talk until I've spoken! As I was saying, about the fight this morning. I think you are well aware now that fighting with or without magic is not permitted and --"
"Then how come the upperclassmen get to fight all the time? And why are we taught that as a lesson then?" a student retorted. "There's no justification with the rules, then." There was a murmur of agreement, which steadily got louder until you could almost see the teacher's vein pop.
"QUIET!"
At this point, Bastion looked out the window from his book in magical theory (blah blah blah) and then noticed that he was looking at some weird thing. Some weird PINK thing. He blinked.
'O… kay…' he told himself. 'This is odd…'
"Now stop fighting! Everyone, I'm calling the roll! NOW."
It also looked like Mr. Loony had snapped once again. Oh well, who could blame him?
…
A boy with green hair sighed before pulling out a wad of paper, scrunching it up, and then throwing it at the back of Bastion's head. It hit him, bounced off, and somehow fell into the bin, but not one was paying any attention because the blonde-brunette now had the other boy by the collar of his school shirt and shook him just slightly.
"What was that for, Shugo!"
"What? It's been thirty minutes, the class is in chaos, and there's still no teacher. What do you think?" the other boy muttered in defense of his actions. It was true though, but it happened all the time. Maybe their teacher had finally resigned from the job and had tried to do something worthwhile. Not that there wasn't anything worthwhile with teaching students and all. Very dangerous students, anyway.
Oh, the fate of life was incredibly cruel, wasn't it?
Bastion scowled at this but didn't say anything because he noticed the pink thing out the window again. He pointed it out to the other boy, who looked at it with a faint amount of amusement plastered on his face.
"Do you think it's stalking you?"
"How should I know? It's the first time I've seen it."
"Yeah yeah. Whatever. So… now what?"
"I dunno. That's why I'm asking you."
"Ask it to go away."
Silence.
And a lot of staring.
Finally, the blonde-haired-brunette gave in and he sighed in annoyance. "Why today of all days…"
It was true though, seeing that usually nothing ever happened to HIM, so why now? There was no reason, but he wanted one to come out of nowhere anyway. It just seemed fairer.
Some of the girls in the class were now comparing notes and arguing among themselves, constantly dragging another poor person into it, but Bastion's focus was on the pink thing that was hovering by the window. It was the – second? Third? Fourth? Ugh, a high one, anyway – floor and it was a long way to the ground below, and he pulled the window open.
'Okay…'
It looked like one of the cheaply constructed things. He couldn't explain it. It was pink, it had those weird plastic eyes usually put on toy bears, had floppy dog ears and it was freaken' PINK (oh wait, we already mentioned that). And it was still floating.
Honestly, what was the world coming to now? They had technology and stuff, so why now!
"Bastion," the pink thing rumbled in a low voice and he raised an eyebrow, "You must follow your destiny…"
"Uh… what?"
"You must go to the land that only you can go to…"
"…"
"You must save the land of Fantasia…"
"…" 'What a nut. Is he talking about Final Fantasy now?'
"You must find the Never ending Story and complete the tale!"
"Uh, dude," Shugo popped up next to him and pointed a finger at the pink thing, "If it's never-ending, doesn't that mean it can never be finished?"
Silence.
Then—
"You must complete your quest."
"I think you have the wrong person, then," the boy said impatiently, not really caring a bit about this whole ordeal, "Now can you leave me alone? I have more important things to do."
"But you are the chosen one," the pink puppet-thing persistent, getting on the two boy's nerves, "And you must save the child-like empress."
"What the--" Bastion had to cover his friend's mouth to stop him from swearing and one of his eyes twitched. Just slightly.
"Like I said. You have the wrong person."
"But--"
"Look. Who are you?"
"Wha--"
"I thought so. Now buzz off." Bastion slammed the window shut and somehow managed to locate a can of paint that appeared out of nowhere and he painted the glass so that no stupid pink thing could annoy him.
At least for now.
The teacher stalked into the chaotic classroom.
"Turn to page 158. NOW!"
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"No way. You're being stalking by a pink puppet now?" asked Cless, arms crossed as they walked out of the classroom for recess. Bastion shrugged and looked at his shoes, not really knowing what to say. What could he say in this predicament anyway? Not much.
"Well, I think it would be very annoying," Miranda commented, looking annoyed for the younger boy, "Who wants to be told about some crazy empress who's CHILD-LIKE, really? I mean, if she's an empress, she's supposed to be able to take care of herself, right?"
"No, I don't think do," Cecelia corrected her, "They usually let other people deal with that kind of stuff. All strange, in the end."
Shugo was walking backwards and trying to see what Bastion was thinking, but since that didn't work, there wasn't much he could do so they left the building and exited to the grounds, only to have the pink puppet thing float over to them. On strings.
Oh happy, happy day.
"Bastion, you must go back to the world--" it rumbled.
The blonde(/brunette) snapped.
"YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG GUY! I AM NOT GOING TO GO ANYWHERE!" he summoned a ball of dark purple energy before he even knew what he was doing, "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"
He sent the ball flying and the puppet was gone before they knew it. Shugo whistled and slapped his friend on the back, grinning.
"Well, who would have thought you could put so much energy into that blow? I'm surprised at you."
The teacher ran up to them, probably seeing the whole thing. "All of you. In. NOW."
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So at the end of that tiring school day, Bastion and his friends were told that they had to have detention for the one spell, but it wasn't like detention meant that they did anything. There wasn't even a teacher there.
Odd. But oh well.
Shugo leaned on his desk curiously so that he could speak to the blonde-brunette next to him, who was still grumbling under his breath, "Did you understand anything about what that pink thing said to you? Cause I'm still at a loss."
"You think you're the only one lost? I don't get it…" he replied moodily, head on desk and eyes unfocused, "My parents aren't going to be happy, though."
"Oh, they aren't the magic sort of people, are they?"
"No."
"Must be tough."
"Yeah…"
"Hey, Bastion," Cless called, "I think Chester found something that might explain a few things."
"Really?"
"Yep. Go ahead."
Chester cleared his throat slightly, "Ahem. Well, apparently there's this kid called Bastion in a movie – and book – called the Never-Ending Story. Simple enough, right?"
"Yeah, so simple that we have to sit here for a couple of hours," muttered Miranda, "And I need to be at my part-time job. They're going to KILL me!" she squeaked the last word in sudden horror, but Bastion was looking out the window again, thinking of only one thing.
'Stupid Pink Dragon… ruin my day like that…'
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And yes, every day was going to be different for them.
But that was later.
Much later.
Oh yes.
But back to the normal story then, right?
Right.
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Well, this happened to pop into my mind when we dug out the movie of the Never-Ending story 2 and… yeah. Stupid pink dragon… if you know what I'm talking about… well, who knows. Otherwise it's just random stuff.
0 Scardiecat: I admit that there is no storyline, but maybe eventually. Nothing too heavy, though, but I'm doing my best. Thank you so much for the review!
0 Hakudoshi-chan: Thanks!
0 Luna: Yeah. They will be there… eventually. Actually, I should mention them a bit soon, otherwise I'll forget… thanks for the review! Aheheheh… fanclubs… it would be unbearable…
0 Salioka: Thanks for the review and I'm glad you liked it! I mean, yeah. Sure, I've taken a look but haven't reviewed, but… yeah, the internet's been evil and I keep forgetting. Anyway, thanks!
0 marthawolfer: I updated… but it's not really on Daisuke, or the others, is it? But I think I've got the spark back… (grins) So back to the drawing board, huh?
0 T: Good idea, actually. (thinks) No, Risa doesn't even go to the same school, but they were friends at Dai's old school. He has yet to be aquainted with Sato and who knows what will happen. It's all a game of chance. I have nothing against that kinda stuff, so it's okay. Thanks for the suggestions!
0 algarnna: Waaaaah! It's not my fault this took a long time! Actually, that alone is a long story, so I won't talk about it. I'll be putting a proper chapter up soon (I really hope so, anyway. If I can find the time) and there's really no chance of Dai and Risa getting together. They'll talk and stuff sometime… but I doubt it. Anyway, thanks!
I am so sorry to everyone for no updating and all, and I'll do my best to get another chapter up! But that's only if I finish Darkened Heart… and whatever else I'm trying to do. (grimace) I don't know what I'm doing.
Oh, and if you have the time, please read Evil is Everything, which is set in the same scenario, and there's actually a promise of the HP world being introduced! I know that much! But it's set about two years after… so yeah. I think Daisuke and Satoshi are kinda together… but I don't really know. Anyway, yeah. You don't have to read it.
And I want to thank you all for reviewing and waiting and everything else, so you get toy plushies and everything!