Two Tainted Hearts

A fan fiction by Kate-chan 91

Disclaimer: This is a by-product of my mind with existing characters; get it in your head, already!

Kate-chan 91's tidbits: Woo-hoo! I updated again! Well, here's the toast & replies to the reviews!

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Thank you once again! Now, I'll present the third (but definitely not last) chapter of Two Tainted Hearts. Enjoy!

Chapter Three: School and the Start of Misuse

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It was the dawn of a new day, and the girls were in their homerooms undergoing the ever so boring and unneeded roll call. As Nerissa and Cassidy's homeroom teacher Mr. Robbins called out his student's names, Cassidy was passing notes to another friend of hers and Nerissa was pondering & scribbling down about what she was going after school with the Heart of Kandrakar.

"What's that?" the girl next to her, who also happened to be looking over her shoulder, asked innocently.

Nerissa grabbed and put away the purple notepad she was writing on. "Uh… just random stuff to try to clear my mind from really, really stupid ideas." She nervously chuckled as she attempted to have the girl leave her alone.

The girl blinked at her before going back to looking at the white ceiling.

Okay… Nerissa thought. Roll call's a little too boring and long- how about I speed it up as yet another contribution to society?

The black-haired girl pointed her index finger under her table towards the clock. A pink bolt of energy then emerged and zapped towards the clock, making time speed up on the face. Similar to a strain of the flu, the pink energy then started affecting the remainder of the clocks in the school; as a result this caused the middle-aged principal Ms. Knickerbocker to turn on the intercom to call out that morning's announcements faster than usual. Nerissa just slyly smiled as everyone was talking about how time seemed to pass by a little faster at that moment. On the other side of the room, Cassidy, the only person who attentively noticed the event, copied the expression on Nerissa's face only this time a quiet giggle was added in.

Aside from that brief episode that morning, the rest of the school day was overall uneventful to Nerissa's disappointment.

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"I'm home!" Nerissa yelled as she entered her home. After throwing her yellow book-bag onto the hall floor, she walked upstairs up to her room and closed and locked the door when she got inside.

Situating herself on her bed, she started to get ready into attempting to use the Heart she was assigned to keep by the Oracle. First of all, she closed her eyes and started taking in slow, deep breaths. Though it was difficult, she managed to clear her mind of any thoughts as she was attempting to meditate. When Nerissa finished with that, she positioned herself in order to scrunch her toes, fingers, shoulders and other body parts tightly. After holding them in that position for a minute, she let go of them and relaxed.

In her opinion, it was now time for the Keeper of the Heart to control the Heart's powers for another purpose other than getting the guardians ready for closing portals. Feeling relaxed and ready, Nerissa held out her palm in the air and waited for the Heart to emerge.

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Four minutes. That's exactly how long she waited, and not a millisecond longer. Blood rushing down internally in her arm, the saddened girl was just about to give up and place it down when a glow of white light starting to shine- it was coming from her raised hand.

In its undefined glory, the Heart of Kandrakar slowly but surely emerged from her palm and floated a couple of centimeters above it. With glee, Nerissa reached out both of her arms and cupped the magical charm of energy in her hands. Holding the warm and glowing charm, she started thinking about what she should initially practice using it on before she actually did something big. Her thoughts came like this:

Should I use the Heart to see if it will finish my homework? Nah, that's extremely childish and I think I would burn my paper anyway… Or how about I use it for cleaning up my room? After all, it is pretty…"disorganized". I guess that work since Kadma can do that and she has earth powers…

And with that, she concentrated all her energy onto the Heart and then towards a messy drawer in a corner of her room. At the same time, she closed her eyes so she wouldn't get dizzy, tired or both. As she was seeing black and the occasional green spot, a result of closing her eyes, she started hearing some noises, like as if something was being arranged at the exact corner she was trying to focus her energy on along with the Heart.

Sure enough, she found the area spotless when she opened her eyes. Because it was successful, she thought of other ways to use it in case the room cleaning was just a result of unknown telepathy. As a result, Nerissa carried her wastebasket into the center of the room and concentrated on it and the Heart, only this time she kept her eyes open no matter the risk of what would happen if an error occurred. To her amazement, it turned out she could control the Heart for other purposes due to the fact she saw the wastebasket get engulfed with hot pink rays. In order to make sure it wasn't her power, she slowly let go of the Heart, which was identical in color, not to mention it was also discharging the exact same rays. It was only when she witnessed the rays moving and shocking the wastebasket across the floor did she know it was a complete success.

Nerissa started thinking of other ways to use it, but she started to reject them all since it's not everyday when you find out you can direct power over something powerful and magical. Suddenly, she remembered all of her enemies, those whom taunted and pushed her around all those years. Signs of rage flashed in her eyes as she walked toward her window, which looked over the Johansson's residence. Nerissa had known the couple's daughter, Marion, since they were in preschool, and even then, Marion spared no mercy for Nerissa as she pulled her hair, smashed her block sculptures, stole her apple juice and poked her as she slept on her Mickey Mouse beach towel as she was sleeping during naptime. By Middle School, Marion stole her pencils and gym uniform, tripped her in track and field and beat her up in order to have Nerissa give up her brown bag lunch.

As she thought of those awful memories, she organized an entire diabolical plan that she wouldn't have even dreamed of a day ago. When she took a deep breath and opened her window, the Nerissa, the unknown daughter, friend, and student everyone knew simply disappeared even though the body was still there. With the combined aid of the Heart and her own still pretty weak electrical powers, she barely managed to cause storm clouds to replace the sunny, cumulus cloud filled blue sky. Out of the blue, a clap of thunder sent the streets of Heatherfield a-rocking and rumbling. Wild strikes of white lightning started dancing in the sky and the rain came down like the sky was tap dancing. Nerissa started using all her strength in order to send a bolt of lightning on the olive green house across the street; this was a success since a bolt of light from the sky did indeed strike on the house's roof. Orange flames erupted onto the house and black smoke poured into the already darkened sky.

For the first time in her life, Nerissa didn't feel guilt or pity. Instead, she felt sort of satisfied with that point of revenge, even though she knew that path wouldn't hit a dead end for a long, long period of time. As she stood against the white windowpane in her bedroom, she giggled evilly and almost silently, which was out of character even for her. "Heh! Serves her right, torturing me all those years," she said as she saw the clouds of smoke going higher, higher and higher into the air and flames consuming the house; the blaring alarms of fire trucks could be heard rushing down the street.

End of Chapter Three

A/N: Nerissa is becoming consumed by the Heart's power now… this is not good!

Ja Ne!

Kate-chan 91