Alright I'd just like to start off by saying that I am planning to write and am writing a fullmetal Alchemist and shaman king crossover, Christine and Co. will be making an appearance but so will Yoh and Co.
This chapter is Hilda-centric mostly, because for the obvious reason that I need to develop her more, I'm trying to keep her out of the angsty teen because my daddy is mean cycle a lot of fanfictions have, even if from the looks of it it's headed that way but you pretty much have to realize Hilda's over the angsty angry teen stage and got over that before she met with Christine and Blake and the others, so she pretty much just wants to prove now that she dosen't need her sister's help with everything.
To be honest I never had Hilda mentioned having a sister before because well I never really thought of it, but I suppose I'll write in my reasons for her not telling them.
"Did you hear Hilda Wilkins is back in town?" a very bold looking tall dirty blonde girl asked some of her friends.
"Really?" a teenage boy who looked like a reject from a rap group
"Yes, Herkins, runs the Andover Inn, said she reserved for only a night though." the girl replied
"I heard her sister is starting a career in music," the boy said smiling a bit
"Heh, I've got the demo CD, always knew she was talented." Another teenage boy said, he was a bit shorter than the others.
"Hey, she's hot too, you got to admit." The first boy laughed a bit pointing to the cover of the CD the second by was holding "Guess the looks didn't quite run in the family, I remember Hilda from back in high school, didn't look anywhere near as good as that." He added
"She was about a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10, I heard she did some things with a few guys in 10th grade but they're all probably liars." The other boy agreed
"Her sister must have earned the looks and talent from god, the girl did so much for her family after their mother died, sacrifice like she made could only be rewarded with such." The blonde girl said awe fully
"Hilda was pretty smart though, I cheated off her back when we had Bio' tougher, if she hadn't moved out she would be close to graduating at the top of our class." The other boy said
"She was so anti-social though, at first I just figured she was shy, but I tried to be friendly to her; she hardly ever said anything to anyone." The girl sighed a bit
"She was such a brat." The shorter boy scoffed
"I wonder why she's decided to come back." The girl said
"Beats me." The first boy said picking up a book bag "We should go on to school we're seniors about to graduate, no reason to be late now right?"
"This is where you lived?" Charger asked eyeing the outside of the house, it was fairly good sized, upstairs and downstairs, the yard was well taken care of, looked as if it was owned by a family still.
"Yep, you do realize, that whatever happens in here, you can't tell the others."
"I won't, I am your guardian spirit after all, but don't you think the others would like you to tell them?"
"Well as much as they'd like it I wouldn't, besides if they knew they'd want to come and if I told them they couldn't they'd get worried and come anyway, and that would only cause trouble."
"I suppose so; after all he's not a shaman if there were a fight it wouldn't take much to take him down."
"I don't intend on fighting Charger."
"Just saying is all…"
Hilda made her way to the front door, Charger wasn't sure but he thought he actually saw her hand shake as she rang the doorbell. She was very quiet wondering if she would hear footsteps at all, instead of hearing footsteps the door simply opened.
"Hilda, didn't think I'd be seeing you again, outside world a bit harder than you thought it would be then?"
"It wasn't what I expected, but I won't be around long, I plan on leaving in a few days, I've come here to take care of a few things then I have some matters I need to help take care of, not really my matters but it's a favor fro a friend I said I'd help."
Charger had noticed that neither Hilda nor the man he assumed with reasoning was her father would give one another eye to eye contact.
The door swung open further and Hilda took the invitation to walk in Charger quickly followed behind her as the door was closing, the man must have not been able to see him, he could have always simply went through the walls but it would have seemed a bit intrusive to him.
The first thing Charger noticed about the inside of the house was the size of everything, it wasn't overly spaced but the house had the perfect amount of room, everything was very clean too and everything looked expensive the house was lavishly decorated Charger figured that a wifeless and childless man living alone couldn't possibly make a house look quite like this.
Hilda didn't seem to notice, Charger figured it must have not been a new thing to her.
"Well you know where everything's at and you know what time lunch is." The man said
"You've taken up cooking?" Hilda asked she seemed a bit shocked
"No, but I have the spare money to pay for maids and people to do such things. Go to your room and change before lunch." He walked into one of the other rooms
Hilda let out a sigh of relief as she slid her boots off, "That just proved, I don't need Ana or anyone else to take care of me I can choose my own path and follow it I don't need others unless I want them." She said this satisfyingly "Well Charger, this is home, he's really taken care of the place, it's strange, Ana must be keeping in touch with him, speaking of Ana I should call her and maybe rub this in her face just a bit." Hilda started going up the stairs in almost a run "Come on Charger! Never seen a girl's room before?" she almost laughed a bit as she opened her door.
Her room was just as she remember leaving it, compared to the rest of the house it was a huge mess, several posters and pictures almost covering all of the wall, thick clashing curtains, carpet that looked as if it used to be at least 3 shades whiter many years before, even a few empty cans of soda on a desk with a dusty computer accompanying them.
"Now where did I put that phone?" Hilda said as she started to throw clothes that had been lying around the room off the top of her bed and tables, "here it is, still works too figured it would have died sitting on the base that long, ah well cordless phones for you I guess."
Charger watched as she pulled out a small book from her pocket and started looking up her sister's contact number, she seemed very happy but Charger kept getting the worst feeling and he couldn't tell why.
"Ana, guess where I'm calling from?" Hilda asked inn an ego tone
"HILDA, I've been worried sick about you where the heck are you, south of the boarder."
"Oh Ana that's the greeting I get from you? You know I would have called if a phone was near by, and no not south of the boarder."
"Is it some kind of night club?" Ana asked a bit uneasy
"Keep guessing." Hilda started to laugh a bit
"Amsterdam, you didn't get a job there by any chance because there was a girl on the news the other day she fit your description and if you did I'll have you know I'm coming down there and I'll drag you back with every ounce of energy I have and it's nothing to be that happy about!"
"N-No Ana nothing like that what kind of idiot do you take me for?" Hilda laughed a bit after finishing that sentence "Well you'll never guess so I'll just tell you, I'm at home."
"You're where?" Ana asked sounding worried
"Home, its okay his reaction was better than I thought it would be."
"Hilda, you should have…"
"I know I should have called you but it was something I needed to do alone I didn't need you or anyone else tagging alone, you see I've really…"
"G-Grown a lot, but Hilda that doesn't mean a thing, sure you'll be an adult in a matter of two months but Hilda, I'm worried about you and dad hasn't exactly seemed well lately you shouldn't stick around there I'm worried he might have a relapse into his old behavior and I know you think you're a hot shot shaman now and you can kick anyone's ass but you could be in serious trouble now!"
"Ana, there's no need for you to worry now I don't need you to protect me like I used to I've had a lot of experiences I can look after myself now if I have a problem I know I'll be able to stop it."
"HILDA HAVEN'T YOU EVER PAIED ATTENTION TO ANYTHING ANYONE EVER SAID! You're physical state is fine; you really are a very strong girl physically sometimes I wonder how strong you really are emotionally. You've been through a lot, we've been through a lot I worked hard all those years to make sure you were alright and you usually were smart enough to take my advise, even if this might sound crazy to you I don't want you staying there long without anyone else around… promise me that you'll go if you want to see father at least bring someone else along."
Hilda sighed "Ana, you're so stubborn but if you say so I will, but I guess I shouldn't run dad's phone bill up any longer, I call you soon kay?"
"Alright Hilda, take care."
Hilda hung up the phone "Wonder what's eating her?" she said aloud "Probably just shocked I did this, she'll get used to the thought soon and probably call and say I was right, can't blame her for worrying though I guess." Hilda gave Charger a weak smile
"Wonder what the others are up to right now." She had changed the subject
"Remington, Aaralyn you two have no idea how glad I am to see you! How was the shaman fight?" a lady who looked to be about in her mid twenties to early thirties had dashed out of the building to ask
"Marina, hey, a lot happened, we'll explain it in a bit but we won't be able to stay here for long, the fight got called off but we're planning to help our friend, this is Christine Weathers." Remington said nodding at Christine who nodded back "I've heard a good bit about you from Remington." Christine said
"And that's Blake Onterrie and Kennard Weathers, fellow shamans." Remington explained "We had the time for a quick break before handling other matters so Aaralyn and I wanted to pay a visit back here."
"Well come on in tell us of how it was there, I'm glad you two got back seems we did do a good job training you."
The building smelled very sweet like cookies were baking all the time, it was a very homely looking place, Christine could tell why Remington and Aaralyn liked it there. Typically when you think of an orphanage you thing of a dusty old building that's dark and drey depressing and sad, this would be the last place Christine could think of as an orphanage. Not only did the place seem very nice all the kids there were really nice and all seemed very happy, Christine couldn't really see how, she might have lost a lot of her family but she figured she wouldn't have been near as happy had she not gotten some time with them, most of the kids there were even given last names because when they came there they didn't have a name at all. Christine had lost herself in thoughts and hadn't been paying much attention to Aaralyn and Remington telling about their experiences in the fights, she had heard them all before anyway so it's not like she was missing out on anything, her train of though would be broke when Marina said "He made you kill other shamans?" horrified
"Yeah." Remington answered bowing his head a bit
"I should have known sending two children into something like that…" Marina said sobbing a bit
"No, I'm glad you got us to enter it, and when the fight starts up again we're going back, not every kid like us is as lucky as we were coming up, in a way I think what we went through is to make up for having such an easy life, we did consider not tell you but it wouldn't be fair not to tell you." Remington said
"This other thing you're going to do, how dangerous is it?" Marin asked
"Well, no one's sure it might be easy and it might not but it's because of Christine and Blake and Hilda Aaralyn and I got help, we wouldn't have survived that day I know it somehow, and if Christine hadn't met Blake and Hilda the chances of us getting saved would have been slim. For what they did, I'll follow them off a cliff if it means helping them." Remington said.
"I will see to it these two are alright, there's no need for you to worry, what we're going to do might be dangerous but I've watched over this kid in secret since she was 10 and that's no easy task, but I won't hesitate to risk my life for the good of them and I don't think anything you say could stop them, as adults the only thing we can do is keep the safe in the end." Kennard said
"In that case I want to come to." Marina said
"No, these kids here need you as much as we did, this place wouldn't be the same without you Marina, I don't want to think of how the kids here or us would have turned out without you, besides if I have to hurt anyone I wouldn't be able to do it in front of you, doing it in front of Aaralyn is hard as it is." Remington said
"We did do very good in the fight though, didn't lose a battle, when it starts back up we'll be even better, we're not bad shamans and we've grown up a lot mentally and physically, it's almost been a year since we left for the fight and a lot's happened, but what we're about to do, knowing you're sitting here worrying won't help." Aaralyn said quietly
"If you say so, but once you get done with that come back here and visit again even if you don't stay."
"Of course we will." Said Aaralyn smiling
"We'll be getting a hotel room for the night, and swing back by here tomorrow before we leave town again." Said Remington
"Why don't you all stay here?" Marina asked
"We don't want to milk this place, sure you all do a great job of running it but the kids here need the food and beds they can't get else where I'd feel bad about it if we stayed here." Remington explained
Christine's mind wondered off yet again so she didn't hear the rest of the conversation for some reason she couldn't get Hilda and Charger out of her head, she wondered if the others were the same way right now or if it was just her. "Typically shamans can sense danger from far away if someone they care for is involved." The words Stella had said to her one day when she was training wouldn't leave her head, she was wondering if she should ask the others if they had this feeling as well but they didn't look like they did, but neither did Christine, she looked just like she always had, she never was one to show a lot of emotions especially the negative ones, as well as she knew Blake and everyone else she still wondered if they were the same as she was about that kind of thing.
"God I sure lost a ton of weight on that trip, these pants would fall off now, besides I don't see why I wore pants like this in the first place, they look cool but thinking back they were really dysfunctional." Hilda laughed a bit throwing a pair of pants aside "Let's go down stairs, dad would have a fit if I were late for food.
"Hilda, I…" Charger was going to say he didn't feel good about this whole thing but he stopped himself, Hilda seemed very happy and he didn't want to stop that
"What is it?" she asked
"It, It's nothing." He said quickly
The rest of the day went by pretty quietly for Hilda and Charger, Charger still didn't feel everything was quite all right but every time he looked at Hilda he thought it must just have been him, the only other time she ever looked this happy was with Christine and the others.
Hilda had went to bed pretty early that night and told Charger that trips just made her tired, Charger didn't have much better to do than roam around the house, the hall nearby Hilda's room had lots of pictured of her, her sister and mother. There were an abundance of family pictures even ones made after her mother died.
"My family was just like this, we were always happy, if I hadn't been off chasing dreams I could have been there for my parents' funeral, Hilda my muse I wish I could live again and not make the mistakes I made." Charger said aloud looking at Hilda asleep, surely if she had heard him talk like that about he she might try to cross him over but he did have strong feelings for her, he was dead now so he knew he'd have to give up on them, Hilda had more than enough sense to not love the dead in such a way
"Such a stupid girl I had." Charger saw Hilda's father walking down the hall "I guess you try to fix the mistakes you make and when you can't fix them you get rid of them, so foolish to eat and drink the food earlier as if she trusted me not to tamper with it, suppose I should hurry and get her into the car, time to get rid of this problem."
There really wasn't much Charger could do besides follow and watch as her father took Hilda out the door and into the car which he made sure to get in along with Hilda, he had considered poessing him but didn't have a clue how he would have done that.
Hilda didn't even wake up until the next day "Where in the heck am I?" she asked
"We're going on a trip, to Hudson New Hampshire, the old lake house you and your sister always liked it there I wanted you to see it again, and what am I saying, you can't rebuild trust, I wanted you to see that place one more time, honestly I thought I might have put one too many pills in that food yesterday it's nearly noon."
"What in the hell…" Hilda said looking over at Charger who gave her a worried look
"We're almost there, this is the road we had to pull over on that time because you lost your stuffed cat from the car window when you were three."
"Dad, what in the fuck is going on?" Hilda asked
"You should've talked to your sister, since you ran out of me I had quit buying my pills since I never did feel the need to lash out at anything else, I got your letter the other day and to say the least it ticked me off, you're nerve so for that and all the other problems you've caused me you're going to have go be done away with, some mistakes you can't fix."
Hilda started to look for anything to oversoul with, but this wouldn't do her any good there weren't any weapons nearby by and when she learned to properly use her oversoul she didn't know much about regular spirit control.
She was so scared she didn't say a thing for the rest of the trip, this wasn't her dad's usual anger, he seemed oddly calm and that's what worried her the most.
The lake house looked just as she had remembered it, back when their mom was alive they used to spend a lot of time there on the weekends holidays and during summer, she had always thought he sold the place
"Before I unlock the car doors I want you to know if you struggle with this, things will only get worse for you so let me do this." He seized the back of her shirt and pulled her out of the car. She was too scared to run, if she did run how far would she get anyway, there still wasn't a thing to use as an oversoul Charger looked just as scared as she did if not more "H-Hilda…" he said
The only thing Hilda could do was close her eyes, she hadn't remembered being this scared in a long time, even as a bonafied shaman there wasn't a thing she could do.
"You're such a stupid girl, even now."
Hilda felt herself being thrown into the cold water and couldn't help but gasp from it, it wasn't deep so she came back up pretty fast coughing from the water that had gotten in to her lunges, and when she had fell her head had also hit a rock, she figured she would be bleeding, but couldn't very easily tell as her head was being shoved under the water again and this time she didn't think she would be coming back up.
Hilda really did think she was going to die, the only thing she could do was try to keep her eyes open so she'd know she was still alive, a smarter person would have fought back but she couldn't for some reason it was like something was holding her back, almost like it was a bad dream, you want to move but your legs just don't work. She felt her eyes slowly close even though she was trying so hard to keep them open, she seriously thought she was going to die.
Out of the blue she felt herself being pulled from the water, she could hear screaming all around here, the voices seemed familiar
"HILDA DAMN IT YOU BETTER BE ALIVE!" that voice was Ana's but how did she know, Hilda felt herself gagging on the water and coughing it up "Ana?"
"Don't you Ana me, you didn't listen to me, when haven't I given you good advise I was going to tell you not to stay there because dad's been off his medication, I had to get a lot of help to find your friends and get them here because you know I can't fight and even you as a shaman have your limits so don't fuck around with risky crap because you think you're powerful! Your head is freaking bleeding what in the hell happened?"
"Hilda, I, I had a bad feeling about it and I didn't say a thing to anyone, I-I'm sorry." Christine had just ran over to Hilda and Ana on the verge of tears
"Christine I did to so don't blame yourself!" Aaralyn said who had ran up right behind her
"Give me a good reason why I shouldn't kill you?" Hilda heard Kennard say this
"I really though, I was going to die…" Hilda only managed to say this before blacking out.
Hilda didn't have a clue about how much time had went by she could hear voices all around here again "She's lucky we showed up when we did." She figured by how quietly that was said it had to be Aaralyn
"I don't know how to even start to thank you." She knew for sure that only Ana would say something like that
"You don't have to Hilda's our friend like I said, we take care of our own." Obviously that was Christine's voice.
"Someone's finally coming to." She recognized this voice as Blake's voice
Hilda opened her eyes and sat up slowly, her head was killing her, and she honestly was shocked to be waking up at all she figured for sure she was a good as dead.
"Ahem." Elizabeth said "I think Christine and the others should go to get some food."
"But that's a one person job." Blake argued
"You'll need to get a lot." Elizabeth flew at Blake's face giving him a stern, 'don't judge my judgment type' look.
"R-right." Blake said as he and the others filed out of the room leaving only Ana and Hilda
"You could have at least told your friends the situation." Ana said slowly
"No I couldn't have, we've all got enough issues with things in our little group I figured it would have just been extra needless baggage and before Kennard came I was the oldest and I needed to be a good example." Hilda said smugly
"Good example huh?" Ana sighed "If you didn't come close to dying earlier I would have just slapped you Hilda, they're your friends and from what they've told me you've been playing big sister pretty much but in that same reasoning if you were going to be playing big sister it's your job to be able to trust them and tell them things like that or else they won't come to you when they need you either."
"I didn't come to them because I didn't need them for this." Hilda turned her head to face the other direction
"How can you even say that, if we didn't show up when we did you'd be-"
"As good as dead, I know, can I guess bringing them there was your handy work Ana?" Hilda asked
"Of course it was, I had more than enough resources and friends in high places to track them down for me, afterwards we went to dad's house and when we saw no one was there I figured the lake house was the only place else he'd go."
"Always were smart, huh Ana?"
"Sure as hell have to be with a sister like you, who won't listen to my reasoning."
"Guess so, didn't quiet expect that fuck to act like that."
"Neither did I, he used to act on whims I didn't expect quite that, I don't blame you for staying even though I told you with good sense not to, that Kennard guy, he's devoted to keeping you kids safe, we had to stop him from killing dad to call the police, he was pissed."
"If I had been awake I would have told him to go ahead and kill him."
"yeah but he is still our dad, no matter how crazy he is, it's still hard to think of what would happen if he died, after all he gave us life." Ana sighed "the police said they'd be keeping him for a while, but since his mental state is like it is he'll either be freed on the terms that he takes his medications and if the state catches him not using them he'll be placed in a nut house."
"Good for him."
"But you don't go back near him unless you talk to me first, there's no way you'll be able to talk anything into him or even begin to reason with him."
"I don't plan to Ana, as soon as I can leave I'm going with Christine and the others, I owe them double now for saving my life after we take care of that business I'm not sure what I'll be doing, I promise I'll stay in touch with you, but that was the last time I have a thing to do with dad, it's strange even though I'm a fairly descent shaman I was still useless in that position I don't want to be in it again, but doing what we're about to do could be pretty dangerous I might very well end up in a situation like that again, even if I do I'll have an alternative then somehow."
"Just don't get killed after what we just did to make sure you lived Hilda, I know nothing I say is going to stop any of you from doing something like what the others told me your plans were but at least don't die, if you die I'll find you ghost and kick your ass."
"You just make sure you don't end up suckered in a porno video trying to become this big shot singer."
"You know I've got better since than that, I practically raised you, not an easy task mind you."
Hilda was able to leave the hospital later that day and as planned the group decided to head on after going to pay Marina another visit.
Since that day Hilda refused to talk to anyone about what had happened, the others decided that was for the best to, after all she did almost die it wouldn't be something good to remind her. Charger had filled the others in on what had happened though while Hilda had been asleep at the hospital earlier that day, but as he said he didn't have a clue as to what had went through her head. Hilda never liked anyone being able to get inside her head anyway.
"So where are we going?" Christine asked Kennard
"We're going to go to the main area the fighting will probably take place, it's a pretty rural place there are a few people on our side of things already gathering there. Stella made it pretty clear she didn't want you getting involved in any of this, but after watching you all those years, even if I told you no you'd still do it wouldn't you?"
"You know I would." Christine laughed a bit
"Even so, things are going to get pretty dangerous from here on out and I want to make it perfectly clear, if I tell you to run you run no matter what, since it's my job to ensure your safety it might mean giving my own life or at the least risking it."
"Gotcha." Christine reluctantly agreed
"We'll all be alright, we've lost enough in the past we won't lose anything else life isn't that harsh." Blake laughed easily, he knew well that things could get pretty ugly but he really did want to put a good face on it.
The group had to take a few train trips for the next few days, finally they were at their final stop.
"I love rural places, nothing but rolling hills and grass for miles and miles." Blake laughed
"Hard to imagine anyone wanting to fight in a place like this." Christine said looking ahead as far as she could see.
"Hard to think of but it's true." Everyone was able to recognize this voice as Jenna, who certainly knew how to make a loud entrance by stirring up so much dust with her spirit no one could see too well through the dust clouds.
Christine quickly oversouled Elizabeth into her sword, she usually liked to use Koncho a lot because he was a good help to Skya and had fast reflexes and a good connection to her but Elizabeth should have a very good reaction to something that was once hers.
"Christine the day has come." Christine could just make out Jenna within the dust "Today's the day you die, and the others get a front row seat." Jenna had not come along and had made sure to have other shamans who could hold the others right where they were "Neither of us are getting help in this fight, just me against you, if you have any objections forget them because if you do your friends are in a position where I could easily kill them right now, so don't do anything stupid."
And that readers is where I end this chapter, mostly for neatness and because the next chapter is going to be nothing but fighting and then I'll have a chapter to tie up the lose ends in the story after that.Sorry it took a while for me to type I kept getting stuck on things, and my dog had to be taken to a vet for stitches he had about a 5 inch cut on him not sure where from.
I do hope this chapter explained Hilda a little bit, and such but I'm coming near the end of this fiction anyway so I guess I might be losing the spark I once had for it… I did rush this chapter near the end though so sorry about that. ...don't know anyway if you will review.
As a side note I really got to stop putting things off.