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Althe: Hey guys! Whew! Just managed to finish up this chapter. Hope it's good and long enough for ya^^ gomen! It took so long^^;;;
Oh yeah, Aya! Hope your having a good vacation! ^^ I would send you an e- mail about it, but my account's going haywire on me ^^;;; Here let me see if it works. oh! Your e-mail's out of storage space ^-^;;; Need to talk about Yugi fic with ya! So clear out some space for me!
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Ayashi No Ceres Entering the World of Angels and Hell-Meeting Fushigi Yuugi
2. Wild
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(This part takes place when Aya was sitting under the willow tree)
Tasuki shadows his face with his hand from the hot burning sun. The horse that he was riding on was slowly slowing down to a turtles pace, panting madly from the heat. The other three horses in front of him were doing the same.
"Chichiri!" he yelled angrily looking at him as he walked on the dry dirt road, "Why the hell did you make us travel in a weather like this??? We could've stayed in the inn with nice cold wine and nice cold ice and nice cold chicks!"
Chichiri didn't look at Tasuki. He kept his eyes on the road as he said; "If we stayed there then we won't be in the next town until midnight no da. The weather won't be changing for another week no da. I can feel it no da."
Tasuki groaned.
Nuriko looked up from his horse.
"Quit your complaining Tasuki. You had tons of wine before heading off."
Nuriko tossed his bangs away from his eyes. The road ahead was getting blurry. His eyes were out of focus. He squinted his eyes and kicked his horse gently to make it go faster. The horse ignored him and continued his slow pace.
'The heat's getting to me,' he sighed to himself, grabbing a bottle full of water from his side and splashing it all over his face.
Tasuki stared at Nuriko in alarm.
"Nuriko you jerk!" Tasuki screamed, waving his arms fiercely at him, "you're stealing all our precious water!"
Nuriko stared at Tasuki with his angry, wet dribbling face. He stood up on his horse and with great balance he did not fall.
Nuriko pointed his second finger at Tasuki in outrage.
"You're the little bastard that drank all my wine!"
Tasuki stood up on his horse as well. He also didn't fall.
"It wasn't even YOUR wine! Yours could kill a cow with it's strong taste!"
Nuriko threw the empty water bottle at Tasuki with all his might. The bottle landed on Tasuki's forehead leaving a very painful red mark. Nuriko burst into laughter making him almost loose his own balance.
"Oh, you wanna fight eh???" Tasuki yelled in outrage. He pulled out his diamond-crusted fan and slapped it on his hand.
"I'll give you a fight pretty boy."
Tasuki grinned evilly, aiming his fan directly at Nuriko. Nuriko pulled up his fists.
"Give it your best shot fang bat."
Tasuki's grin faded and he became serious.
"REKKA SHINEN!!!" He cried swishing the fan towards Nuriko.
"AHHHHH!" Nuriko screamed throwing a punch towards Tasuki.
Hotohori stepped in front of the two, facing Tasuki.
"Stop it you two! Your acting like-."
But before Hotohori could say another word, he was splashed with burning flames from Tasuki's fan and pulverized from Nuriko's fist of might.
Nuriko gasped in horror and a teardrop appeared on Tasuki's forehead as he backed away cautiously as Hotohori lay on the floor well burnt and crisp.
"Children." Hotohori finished as smoke puffed out of his mouth.
"Oh my," Chiriko said eyeing Hotohori carefully from his horse.
Mitsukake stepped in front of everyone and held out his hand in reassurance.
"Never fear," he said calmly, kneeling down towards Hotohori, "I can heal him!"
And with that last word, green glowing light shone from Mitsukake's outstretched hand facing Hotohori, showing the sign of Suzaku.
Hotohori's burns seemed to have ceased as he opened his eyes slowly. He blinked and stood up in amazement.
"Thank god," said Nuriko, smiling cheerfully at the now revived emperor.
"What happened Mitsukake? Did you revive me?" asked Hotohori eyeing Mitsukake with a now relived face.
"Hai."
"Thank you. You now have my debt and gratitude."
Tasuki started to slap Hotohori's back while laughing out, "Well, that solves all our problems! Now we can just move on-."
Hotohori suddenly stood up in Tasuki's mid sentence. Flames were beginning to grow out of his body. He made a tight fist in front of his own face.
"Wait just a minute Tasuki," spat Hotohori evilly.
He stood up on his feet, with his back towards Tasuki.
"You almost came close to ruining my precious hair and nearly burning my expensive customized silk wear, which was shipped from China."
The flames burned even more as Tasuki stepped away from Hotohori slowly, preparing to run for his life.
"Yo man, gomen! It was an accident! You can forgive me-."
"What you did is unforgivable until I punish you!!!"
And with that, Hotohori swung his fist fiercely at Tasuki, making him fly up into the air and disappeared in the cloudless, hot sky. Hotohori's flames vanished from his body and steam raised from his clothing.
"Ne, Hotohori-san, weren't you being just a bit too harsh? I know Tasuki's a stupid jerk, but-."
"Nuriko," Hotohori said suddenly, interrupting him in his mid sentence. Flames shot up from his body once again.
"You nearly dent my beautiful sensitive face, you've killed practically all of my intelligent one of a kind brain cells, and now your defending the wrong who deserve to be punished."
Nuriko slowly sat down on his horse. A teardrop appeared on his forehead as he looked at Hotohori.
"Hotohori-."
"Now that," he interrupted, raising his fists as if to fight, "IS UNFORGIVABLE!!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Nuriko screamed kicking his horse continually. "RUN HORSE, RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!"
The horse lurched and started galloping with all his might, crying from the pain Nuriko was giving him with his superior strength. Hotohori ran after Nuriko, puffing out fireballs towards him in rage.
"HOTOHORI-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! I BEG FORGIVENESSSSSSS!!!"
"NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"
The remaining people had teardrops on their heads, but in the end laughed together at the outraged mad man emperor and the distressed and scared strong man.
Tasuki appeared out of nowhere, crawling towards shade where he could hide his noticeable face.
"Is he, is he gone?" whispered Tasuki peeking out of a small rock.
"He's gone no da," smiled Chichiri.
He looked out at the remains of the dirt road and sighed a relief.
"Thank god."
"What's the matter Chichiri-san?" asked Chiriko worriedly.
"Well, since those two are already ahead of us by a mile, we'll all be able to ride on the three remaining horses and get to the next town much quicker."
Chiriko smiled in delight.
"Your right Chichiri-san!"
"Right, now. Tamahome-kun? You take Mi-." Chichiri stopped talking and eyed Tamahome with a teardrop on his head.
"Ah, Tamahome-kun?"
Tamahome was embracing Miaka tightly as Miaka returned his hug.
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Mia-."
"TAMAHOME-KUN!!!" Chichiri shouted, snapping Tamahome and Miaka out of their romantic trance.
"What? What???" shouted Tamahome, looking extremely irritated at Chichiri.
Even though Chichiri was wearing a happy mask, you could see an evil grin appear on his face from underneath.
"Mitsukake?"
Mitsukake stepped forward and cracked his knuckles as if ready to fight.
"Hai," he said emotionlessly, like a navy soldier out to war.
Chichiri nodded and Mitsukake went up to Tamahome. Tamahome held Miaka tightly as if Mitsukake was a wild boar.
"Gomen Tamahome-kun, but you are an interference to Miaka-sama."
-Five Minutes Later-
Mitsukake was carrying Tamahome as he mounted him onto a brown horse. Tamahome, naturally, was kicking and screaming on Mitsukake's back, throwing many threats at him. All, of coarse, failed to muse Mitsukake to throw Tamahome back onto his own two feet.
"Let me go you horrid beast! Miaka!"
"Tamahome!"
Miaka was fine (no one was holding her down because she wasn't struggling.) Tasuki was helping her onto another brown horse, which he would steer.
"Geez you guys," Tasuki said as he got onto the horse with Miaka, "you make this sound like an execution or drama play, geez, and you're beside each other too."
Tamahome banged his fists onto Mitsukake's back. Mitsukake flinched, but continued to settle himself onto the brown horse.
"Shut up Tasuki! Why the hell did we have to get separated Chichiri??? It's not like we're gonna do it on a horse!"
Tasuki mumbled a cruel remark while trying to suppress thousands of hooting laughter.
Chichiri smiled.
"Because these horses are very wild no da and if you keep on er *cough* um- ."
"Hugging," finished Tamahome grumpily.
"Yeah, hugging (whatever) then sooner or later the horse might get wild, no da and you know, drag your corpses on the ground no da."
"Why don't we get 'tamed' horses then?" remarked Tamahome crossing his arms.
Chichiri mounted onto his horse with Chiriko.
"They're too expensive no da."
*Silence*
Tamahome raised his fist as a vein of anger popped out of his head.
"They're too expensive when we have the EMPEROR by our SIDE??????"
Chichiri pointed at Tasuki casually.
"Hotohori's money was spent by Tasuki to buy wine no da and we can't go across half a country just to get more money no da."
Tamahome lowered his head in outrage.
"TaaaaSUKI! BAKA!!"
Because Tasuki was so close to Tamahome, Tamahome was able to throw a mighty punch at Tasuki. With his great stupid luck, Tasuki dodged with no scratch. Unfortunately, the punch was shot at Tasuki's horse.
The horse cried in pain leaping and kicking on the things around it.
Miaka screams in horror.
"TASUKI!!! MAKE HIM STOOOOOOP!!!"
"HOW THE HELL CAN I MAKE A WIILD HORSE STOOOOOOP KIICKING??????"
Suddenly the horse kicks Mitsukake's, and the two leap and start kicking each other.
"Oh my," Chiriko said, looking at the four hopeless ones nervously.
Chichiri leads his horse towards the two fighting horses.
"Stop it you two! We're never going to catch up to Hotohori-sama and Nuriko- kun at this rate!"
The horses twitched their ears as if they heard Chichiri's very words. They sprang to their feet and began galloping towards Hotohori and Nuriko's direction. Chichiri stood there flabbergasted as he heard faint voices of Tasuki, Miaka, Mitsukake, and Tamahome in the far distance.
"Chichiri-san!" Chiriko cried in alarm, tugging his sleeve quickly, "if we don't hurry then we'll lose them!"
Chichiri nodded.
"Right!"
At his very words, Chichiri kicked his horse and headed towards the others.
If you were to stand a far distance away from the Suzaku senshi, you could see a straight line of three horses galloping towards a town called, 'Mikinto.'
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-Where on earth are Hotohori and Nuriko?-
"HOTOHORI-SAMA!!! GOMEN!!! PLEASE STOOOOP!!!"
"NEVER NURIKO!!! YOU NEED TO BE PUNSIHED!!!"
Nuriko was still riding on his horse, which was galloping with all its might. Nuriko could see the horse was beginning to tire and was about to collapse, but he couldn't stop now. Not with Hotohori on a rampage.
He bent down towards the horse's ear.
"Please don't stop! I'll give you water and groom you till your heart's content if I make it out of here alive."
The horse huffed for a sign of agreement and continued his extraordinary pace.
"NURIKO!!!"
The town's outline was clearer now. Just a few more miles and they would be there.
"HOTOHORI-SAMA!!! WE'RE NEARING THE NEXT TOWN!!! PLEASE STOP OR ELSE YOU'LL EMBARRASS US BOTH!!!"
Hotohori stopped suddenly.
"Your right Nuriko... I'll punish you later."
Before Nuriko could sigh a relief, he found that he could not control his horse to a halt.
Apparently, the horse took Nuriko seriously and wasn't going to stop.
Not for a long time to come.
"You can stop now!!!" Shouted Nuriko in horror, pulling on the reins, but it was no use. The horse wasn't tamed enough to follow second orders.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
The town was just seconds away. And by the looks of it, this wasn't your average small village. It was a populated area with plenty of victims to get caught in the horse's tracks. If the horse wouldn't stop now, then it'll never stop after.
"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"
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Aya quickly attempted to swim away from the force of the water, but it was no use. She didn't have enough experience of this kind of pressure. The tear had finally disappeared into the invisible force and by the looks of it, the force wanted Aya.
'Ceres, what's happening?' Aya thought to herself frantically still keeping up her desperate struggle.
'Don't struggle Aya. You'll only make it worse. Rest.'
Aya suddenly felt sleeping. The lack of oxygen was getting to her.
'Rest.'
Aya felt her feet sink into the force. The feeling was like half finished jelly. On the other side of the force Aya could feel cool air washing away her feet.
She began to struggle again as the force began to engulf her legs.
Soon it engulfed her stomach.
Her arms.
Her neck.
And her head so there was no trace of her, only her air bubbles, which will be the last thing that anyone sees of her for a very long time.
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Nuriko screamed warning as he entered the busy street of a large town.
"GAIN WAY!!! MOVE ASIDE!!! MAD HORSE ON THE RUUUUN!!!"
Town's people screamed in horror as they dodged the mad horse, which was running in many different directions. Children cried and men cursed as Nuriko went passed them.
"Slow down you stupid fart bag!"
The horse didn't seem too keen being called, 'stupid fart bag.' This only encouraged the horse to go faster, hoping that his rider would smash into a tree or something solid.
"AHHHHH! MOVE IT!!! GAIN WAY!!! SLOOW DOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!!!"
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Aya didn't know what happened after, but she felt herself falling into the cool sweet air. She felt herself land on a soft dry dirt road.
'So soft...'
The smooth dirt brushed her hair as a cool breeze swept her.
Aya felt like she could lye here all day.
'I hear hooves...' she thought to herself, but she didn't care. She didn't feel like moving. All she wanted to do was sleep..
"MOVE ASIDE!!! OUT OF THE WAY!!! MAD HORSE ON A RUUUUN!!!"
Aya flinched. She could hear voices. Lots of them.
"Mmmmmm..."
She couldn't move. Her body felt so heavy and drained. Her eyes felt like they were being pressed down by metal.
Aya gave up her struggle to move and lay on the ground. The whole area seemed deserted, but she could smell the essence of fright in the air.
Was her body stiff from fright or was it the impact from the invisible water force?
"HEY! YOU THERE!!! MOOOVE!!!"
Aya could hear someone calling her. She stayed motionless.
'If I die then so be it... I just want to rest..'
She felt exhausted as if she had ran in a 100 mile marathon.
Too tired to speak. Too tired to move. Too tired to do anything but close her eyes and drift off....
"HEEEY!!!"
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Nuriko waved his arms out at the people in front of him. All of them obeyed and ran back to their homes frightened.
'Good. No one's getting hurt,' he thought to himself. He looked down at his disobedient horse.
"Please stop!" he hissed at the horse, giving a huge tug at the reins.
The horse ignored his rider's commands once again and continued his rampage through town.
Nuriko could hear running from behind him.
'Hotohori's right behind me, thank god.'
Nuriko turned his head behind him. He couldn't control his horse anymore so what was the point to guide the dumb thing? He saw Hotohori huffing and puffing towards him.
"Hotohori!" Nuriko shouted over the pounding of the horse's hooves.
"Nuriko! *huff* Are you okay???"
"Fine! But I need some help!"
"I'm on it!!!!"
Nuriko turned his head to his front just in time to dodge a bamboo pole that the horse had ran into.
"Come on," he hissed to the horse, "your going to kill us all."
The horse chose to ignore this comment and started slamming into walls and stands, seeing if his rider was strong enough to dodge them. Nuriko screamed in outrage as he missed 20% of his obstacles and in the end was covered in blisters.
"STUPID HORSE!!! STUPID! STUPID! STUPI-!"
Nuriko felt a drop of water roll down his cheek. He looked up. Was it raining? It couldn't be, the place was burning up and there wasn't a rain cloud in sight.
Then what was that drop?
He shook his head and continued his futile attempt to stop the horse in its tracks.
"Come on, stop....MOVE IT!!! GAIN WAY!!!"
Suddenly up in the path in front of him was deserted.
'Thank god, no people to get hurt...what the?'
Nuriko felt a strange force tighten a grip on his heart. His whole body froze and he couldn't move.
'That's strange....'
Nuriko remembered this feeling before... But where? It can't be.. The only time he had ever felt this way was when he felt the priestess of Suzaku, Miaka, had entered their world.
Is there another Priestess arriving?
Nuriko looked up. His eyes widened in amazement. He saw two feet in thin air dangling. Then the legs came. The body. The arms. The neck. And a head. A girl's head.
'What's going on???' he thought to himself.
The girl started falling. She landed with a thud in the path in front of him. She was probably unconscious from the fall. Nuriko turned his head.
"Hotohori???" he called, but Hotohori was gone. He must of lost him when the horse sped up in sharp turns.
'Oh no, I'm going to hit her!'
Nuriko saw three children slowly crawl out of their homes. They were curious of the girl.
"MOVE ASIDE!!! OUT OF THE WAY!!! MAD HORSE ON A RUUUUN!!!"
The children looked up and screamed, scuttling away to their homes in pure panic.
The girl lay motionless. Was she dead? No. Nuriko could see her flinch. She had to move or else the horse would kill her in its tracks. Nuriko took a deep breath, his last attempt to get the girl moving.
"HEY YOU THERE!!! MOOOVE!!!"
She didn't.
Nuriko grew panicky. The horse wasn't stopping and she wasn't moving.
'What am I going to do now?'
"HEEEY!!!"
Still no response.
By now she was probably out cold. Nuriko thought hard. In ten seconds he was going to hit her and probably send blood flying.
He knew this because of his last experience with a wild horse and its victim.
Kourin.
Tears swelled up his eyes. Nuriko blinked them away.
'No,' he thought to himself.
'No. I'm not going to let the same fate to happen to this girl that happened to Kourin. I won't let it happen. I won't.'
Nuriko clutched the reins on the horse tightly. He only had one option left.
'I'll save you.'
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Althe: Cliffhanger eh? ^^ I tried to make it really long to make it up to you guys! ^^ It's been awhile since I've updated, so yeah^^
Hope ya enjoyed it!
R+R If you want me to continue!
Althe: Hey guys! Whew! Just managed to finish up this chapter. Hope it's good and long enough for ya^^ gomen! It took so long^^;;;
Oh yeah, Aya! Hope your having a good vacation! ^^ I would send you an e- mail about it, but my account's going haywire on me ^^;;; Here let me see if it works. oh! Your e-mail's out of storage space ^-^;;; Need to talk about Yugi fic with ya! So clear out some space for me!
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Ayashi No Ceres Entering the World of Angels and Hell-Meeting Fushigi Yuugi
2. Wild
*****
(This part takes place when Aya was sitting under the willow tree)
Tasuki shadows his face with his hand from the hot burning sun. The horse that he was riding on was slowly slowing down to a turtles pace, panting madly from the heat. The other three horses in front of him were doing the same.
"Chichiri!" he yelled angrily looking at him as he walked on the dry dirt road, "Why the hell did you make us travel in a weather like this??? We could've stayed in the inn with nice cold wine and nice cold ice and nice cold chicks!"
Chichiri didn't look at Tasuki. He kept his eyes on the road as he said; "If we stayed there then we won't be in the next town until midnight no da. The weather won't be changing for another week no da. I can feel it no da."
Tasuki groaned.
Nuriko looked up from his horse.
"Quit your complaining Tasuki. You had tons of wine before heading off."
Nuriko tossed his bangs away from his eyes. The road ahead was getting blurry. His eyes were out of focus. He squinted his eyes and kicked his horse gently to make it go faster. The horse ignored him and continued his slow pace.
'The heat's getting to me,' he sighed to himself, grabbing a bottle full of water from his side and splashing it all over his face.
Tasuki stared at Nuriko in alarm.
"Nuriko you jerk!" Tasuki screamed, waving his arms fiercely at him, "you're stealing all our precious water!"
Nuriko stared at Tasuki with his angry, wet dribbling face. He stood up on his horse and with great balance he did not fall.
Nuriko pointed his second finger at Tasuki in outrage.
"You're the little bastard that drank all my wine!"
Tasuki stood up on his horse as well. He also didn't fall.
"It wasn't even YOUR wine! Yours could kill a cow with it's strong taste!"
Nuriko threw the empty water bottle at Tasuki with all his might. The bottle landed on Tasuki's forehead leaving a very painful red mark. Nuriko burst into laughter making him almost loose his own balance.
"Oh, you wanna fight eh???" Tasuki yelled in outrage. He pulled out his diamond-crusted fan and slapped it on his hand.
"I'll give you a fight pretty boy."
Tasuki grinned evilly, aiming his fan directly at Nuriko. Nuriko pulled up his fists.
"Give it your best shot fang bat."
Tasuki's grin faded and he became serious.
"REKKA SHINEN!!!" He cried swishing the fan towards Nuriko.
"AHHHHH!" Nuriko screamed throwing a punch towards Tasuki.
Hotohori stepped in front of the two, facing Tasuki.
"Stop it you two! Your acting like-."
But before Hotohori could say another word, he was splashed with burning flames from Tasuki's fan and pulverized from Nuriko's fist of might.
Nuriko gasped in horror and a teardrop appeared on Tasuki's forehead as he backed away cautiously as Hotohori lay on the floor well burnt and crisp.
"Children." Hotohori finished as smoke puffed out of his mouth.
"Oh my," Chiriko said eyeing Hotohori carefully from his horse.
Mitsukake stepped in front of everyone and held out his hand in reassurance.
"Never fear," he said calmly, kneeling down towards Hotohori, "I can heal him!"
And with that last word, green glowing light shone from Mitsukake's outstretched hand facing Hotohori, showing the sign of Suzaku.
Hotohori's burns seemed to have ceased as he opened his eyes slowly. He blinked and stood up in amazement.
"Thank god," said Nuriko, smiling cheerfully at the now revived emperor.
"What happened Mitsukake? Did you revive me?" asked Hotohori eyeing Mitsukake with a now relived face.
"Hai."
"Thank you. You now have my debt and gratitude."
Tasuki started to slap Hotohori's back while laughing out, "Well, that solves all our problems! Now we can just move on-."
Hotohori suddenly stood up in Tasuki's mid sentence. Flames were beginning to grow out of his body. He made a tight fist in front of his own face.
"Wait just a minute Tasuki," spat Hotohori evilly.
He stood up on his feet, with his back towards Tasuki.
"You almost came close to ruining my precious hair and nearly burning my expensive customized silk wear, which was shipped from China."
The flames burned even more as Tasuki stepped away from Hotohori slowly, preparing to run for his life.
"Yo man, gomen! It was an accident! You can forgive me-."
"What you did is unforgivable until I punish you!!!"
And with that, Hotohori swung his fist fiercely at Tasuki, making him fly up into the air and disappeared in the cloudless, hot sky. Hotohori's flames vanished from his body and steam raised from his clothing.
"Ne, Hotohori-san, weren't you being just a bit too harsh? I know Tasuki's a stupid jerk, but-."
"Nuriko," Hotohori said suddenly, interrupting him in his mid sentence. Flames shot up from his body once again.
"You nearly dent my beautiful sensitive face, you've killed practically all of my intelligent one of a kind brain cells, and now your defending the wrong who deserve to be punished."
Nuriko slowly sat down on his horse. A teardrop appeared on his forehead as he looked at Hotohori.
"Hotohori-."
"Now that," he interrupted, raising his fists as if to fight, "IS UNFORGIVABLE!!!!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Nuriko screamed kicking his horse continually. "RUN HORSE, RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!"
The horse lurched and started galloping with all his might, crying from the pain Nuriko was giving him with his superior strength. Hotohori ran after Nuriko, puffing out fireballs towards him in rage.
"HOTOHORI-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! I BEG FORGIVENESSSSSSS!!!"
"NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"
The remaining people had teardrops on their heads, but in the end laughed together at the outraged mad man emperor and the distressed and scared strong man.
Tasuki appeared out of nowhere, crawling towards shade where he could hide his noticeable face.
"Is he, is he gone?" whispered Tasuki peeking out of a small rock.
"He's gone no da," smiled Chichiri.
He looked out at the remains of the dirt road and sighed a relief.
"Thank god."
"What's the matter Chichiri-san?" asked Chiriko worriedly.
"Well, since those two are already ahead of us by a mile, we'll all be able to ride on the three remaining horses and get to the next town much quicker."
Chiriko smiled in delight.
"Your right Chichiri-san!"
"Right, now. Tamahome-kun? You take Mi-." Chichiri stopped talking and eyed Tamahome with a teardrop on his head.
"Ah, Tamahome-kun?"
Tamahome was embracing Miaka tightly as Miaka returned his hug.
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Miaka."
"Tamahome."
"Mia-."
"TAMAHOME-KUN!!!" Chichiri shouted, snapping Tamahome and Miaka out of their romantic trance.
"What? What???" shouted Tamahome, looking extremely irritated at Chichiri.
Even though Chichiri was wearing a happy mask, you could see an evil grin appear on his face from underneath.
"Mitsukake?"
Mitsukake stepped forward and cracked his knuckles as if ready to fight.
"Hai," he said emotionlessly, like a navy soldier out to war.
Chichiri nodded and Mitsukake went up to Tamahome. Tamahome held Miaka tightly as if Mitsukake was a wild boar.
"Gomen Tamahome-kun, but you are an interference to Miaka-sama."
-Five Minutes Later-
Mitsukake was carrying Tamahome as he mounted him onto a brown horse. Tamahome, naturally, was kicking and screaming on Mitsukake's back, throwing many threats at him. All, of coarse, failed to muse Mitsukake to throw Tamahome back onto his own two feet.
"Let me go you horrid beast! Miaka!"
"Tamahome!"
Miaka was fine (no one was holding her down because she wasn't struggling.) Tasuki was helping her onto another brown horse, which he would steer.
"Geez you guys," Tasuki said as he got onto the horse with Miaka, "you make this sound like an execution or drama play, geez, and you're beside each other too."
Tamahome banged his fists onto Mitsukake's back. Mitsukake flinched, but continued to settle himself onto the brown horse.
"Shut up Tasuki! Why the hell did we have to get separated Chichiri??? It's not like we're gonna do it on a horse!"
Tasuki mumbled a cruel remark while trying to suppress thousands of hooting laughter.
Chichiri smiled.
"Because these horses are very wild no da and if you keep on er *cough* um- ."
"Hugging," finished Tamahome grumpily.
"Yeah, hugging (whatever) then sooner or later the horse might get wild, no da and you know, drag your corpses on the ground no da."
"Why don't we get 'tamed' horses then?" remarked Tamahome crossing his arms.
Chichiri mounted onto his horse with Chiriko.
"They're too expensive no da."
*Silence*
Tamahome raised his fist as a vein of anger popped out of his head.
"They're too expensive when we have the EMPEROR by our SIDE??????"
Chichiri pointed at Tasuki casually.
"Hotohori's money was spent by Tasuki to buy wine no da and we can't go across half a country just to get more money no da."
Tamahome lowered his head in outrage.
"TaaaaSUKI! BAKA!!"
Because Tasuki was so close to Tamahome, Tamahome was able to throw a mighty punch at Tasuki. With his great stupid luck, Tasuki dodged with no scratch. Unfortunately, the punch was shot at Tasuki's horse.
The horse cried in pain leaping and kicking on the things around it.
Miaka screams in horror.
"TASUKI!!! MAKE HIM STOOOOOOP!!!"
"HOW THE HELL CAN I MAKE A WIILD HORSE STOOOOOOP KIICKING??????"
Suddenly the horse kicks Mitsukake's, and the two leap and start kicking each other.
"Oh my," Chiriko said, looking at the four hopeless ones nervously.
Chichiri leads his horse towards the two fighting horses.
"Stop it you two! We're never going to catch up to Hotohori-sama and Nuriko- kun at this rate!"
The horses twitched their ears as if they heard Chichiri's very words. They sprang to their feet and began galloping towards Hotohori and Nuriko's direction. Chichiri stood there flabbergasted as he heard faint voices of Tasuki, Miaka, Mitsukake, and Tamahome in the far distance.
"Chichiri-san!" Chiriko cried in alarm, tugging his sleeve quickly, "if we don't hurry then we'll lose them!"
Chichiri nodded.
"Right!"
At his very words, Chichiri kicked his horse and headed towards the others.
If you were to stand a far distance away from the Suzaku senshi, you could see a straight line of three horses galloping towards a town called, 'Mikinto.'
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-Where on earth are Hotohori and Nuriko?-
"HOTOHORI-SAMA!!! GOMEN!!! PLEASE STOOOOP!!!"
"NEVER NURIKO!!! YOU NEED TO BE PUNSIHED!!!"
Nuriko was still riding on his horse, which was galloping with all its might. Nuriko could see the horse was beginning to tire and was about to collapse, but he couldn't stop now. Not with Hotohori on a rampage.
He bent down towards the horse's ear.
"Please don't stop! I'll give you water and groom you till your heart's content if I make it out of here alive."
The horse huffed for a sign of agreement and continued his extraordinary pace.
"NURIKO!!!"
The town's outline was clearer now. Just a few more miles and they would be there.
"HOTOHORI-SAMA!!! WE'RE NEARING THE NEXT TOWN!!! PLEASE STOP OR ELSE YOU'LL EMBARRASS US BOTH!!!"
Hotohori stopped suddenly.
"Your right Nuriko... I'll punish you later."
Before Nuriko could sigh a relief, he found that he could not control his horse to a halt.
Apparently, the horse took Nuriko seriously and wasn't going to stop.
Not for a long time to come.
"You can stop now!!!" Shouted Nuriko in horror, pulling on the reins, but it was no use. The horse wasn't tamed enough to follow second orders.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
The town was just seconds away. And by the looks of it, this wasn't your average small village. It was a populated area with plenty of victims to get caught in the horse's tracks. If the horse wouldn't stop now, then it'll never stop after.
"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"
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Aya quickly attempted to swim away from the force of the water, but it was no use. She didn't have enough experience of this kind of pressure. The tear had finally disappeared into the invisible force and by the looks of it, the force wanted Aya.
'Ceres, what's happening?' Aya thought to herself frantically still keeping up her desperate struggle.
'Don't struggle Aya. You'll only make it worse. Rest.'
Aya suddenly felt sleeping. The lack of oxygen was getting to her.
'Rest.'
Aya felt her feet sink into the force. The feeling was like half finished jelly. On the other side of the force Aya could feel cool air washing away her feet.
She began to struggle again as the force began to engulf her legs.
Soon it engulfed her stomach.
Her arms.
Her neck.
And her head so there was no trace of her, only her air bubbles, which will be the last thing that anyone sees of her for a very long time.
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Nuriko screamed warning as he entered the busy street of a large town.
"GAIN WAY!!! MOVE ASIDE!!! MAD HORSE ON THE RUUUUN!!!"
Town's people screamed in horror as they dodged the mad horse, which was running in many different directions. Children cried and men cursed as Nuriko went passed them.
"Slow down you stupid fart bag!"
The horse didn't seem too keen being called, 'stupid fart bag.' This only encouraged the horse to go faster, hoping that his rider would smash into a tree or something solid.
"AHHHHH! MOVE IT!!! GAIN WAY!!! SLOOW DOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!!!"
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Aya didn't know what happened after, but she felt herself falling into the cool sweet air. She felt herself land on a soft dry dirt road.
'So soft...'
The smooth dirt brushed her hair as a cool breeze swept her.
Aya felt like she could lye here all day.
'I hear hooves...' she thought to herself, but she didn't care. She didn't feel like moving. All she wanted to do was sleep..
"MOVE ASIDE!!! OUT OF THE WAY!!! MAD HORSE ON A RUUUUN!!!"
Aya flinched. She could hear voices. Lots of them.
"Mmmmmm..."
She couldn't move. Her body felt so heavy and drained. Her eyes felt like they were being pressed down by metal.
Aya gave up her struggle to move and lay on the ground. The whole area seemed deserted, but she could smell the essence of fright in the air.
Was her body stiff from fright or was it the impact from the invisible water force?
"HEY! YOU THERE!!! MOOOVE!!!"
Aya could hear someone calling her. She stayed motionless.
'If I die then so be it... I just want to rest..'
She felt exhausted as if she had ran in a 100 mile marathon.
Too tired to speak. Too tired to move. Too tired to do anything but close her eyes and drift off....
"HEEEY!!!"
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Nuriko waved his arms out at the people in front of him. All of them obeyed and ran back to their homes frightened.
'Good. No one's getting hurt,' he thought to himself. He looked down at his disobedient horse.
"Please stop!" he hissed at the horse, giving a huge tug at the reins.
The horse ignored his rider's commands once again and continued his rampage through town.
Nuriko could hear running from behind him.
'Hotohori's right behind me, thank god.'
Nuriko turned his head behind him. He couldn't control his horse anymore so what was the point to guide the dumb thing? He saw Hotohori huffing and puffing towards him.
"Hotohori!" Nuriko shouted over the pounding of the horse's hooves.
"Nuriko! *huff* Are you okay???"
"Fine! But I need some help!"
"I'm on it!!!!"
Nuriko turned his head to his front just in time to dodge a bamboo pole that the horse had ran into.
"Come on," he hissed to the horse, "your going to kill us all."
The horse chose to ignore this comment and started slamming into walls and stands, seeing if his rider was strong enough to dodge them. Nuriko screamed in outrage as he missed 20% of his obstacles and in the end was covered in blisters.
"STUPID HORSE!!! STUPID! STUPID! STUPI-!"
Nuriko felt a drop of water roll down his cheek. He looked up. Was it raining? It couldn't be, the place was burning up and there wasn't a rain cloud in sight.
Then what was that drop?
He shook his head and continued his futile attempt to stop the horse in its tracks.
"Come on, stop....MOVE IT!!! GAIN WAY!!!"
Suddenly up in the path in front of him was deserted.
'Thank god, no people to get hurt...what the?'
Nuriko felt a strange force tighten a grip on his heart. His whole body froze and he couldn't move.
'That's strange....'
Nuriko remembered this feeling before... But where? It can't be.. The only time he had ever felt this way was when he felt the priestess of Suzaku, Miaka, had entered their world.
Is there another Priestess arriving?
Nuriko looked up. His eyes widened in amazement. He saw two feet in thin air dangling. Then the legs came. The body. The arms. The neck. And a head. A girl's head.
'What's going on???' he thought to himself.
The girl started falling. She landed with a thud in the path in front of him. She was probably unconscious from the fall. Nuriko turned his head.
"Hotohori???" he called, but Hotohori was gone. He must of lost him when the horse sped up in sharp turns.
'Oh no, I'm going to hit her!'
Nuriko saw three children slowly crawl out of their homes. They were curious of the girl.
"MOVE ASIDE!!! OUT OF THE WAY!!! MAD HORSE ON A RUUUUN!!!"
The children looked up and screamed, scuttling away to their homes in pure panic.
The girl lay motionless. Was she dead? No. Nuriko could see her flinch. She had to move or else the horse would kill her in its tracks. Nuriko took a deep breath, his last attempt to get the girl moving.
"HEY YOU THERE!!! MOOOVE!!!"
She didn't.
Nuriko grew panicky. The horse wasn't stopping and she wasn't moving.
'What am I going to do now?'
"HEEEY!!!"
Still no response.
By now she was probably out cold. Nuriko thought hard. In ten seconds he was going to hit her and probably send blood flying.
He knew this because of his last experience with a wild horse and its victim.
Kourin.
Tears swelled up his eyes. Nuriko blinked them away.
'No,' he thought to himself.
'No. I'm not going to let the same fate to happen to this girl that happened to Kourin. I won't let it happen. I won't.'
Nuriko clutched the reins on the horse tightly. He only had one option left.
'I'll save you.'
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Althe: Cliffhanger eh? ^^ I tried to make it really long to make it up to you guys! ^^ It's been awhile since I've updated, so yeah^^
Hope ya enjoyed it!
R+R If you want me to continue!