DISCLAIMER: For the love of God, don't you people still get it?! This is Fan Fiction. FAN FICTION I TELL YOU!!! *mouth starts to froth*
Kuwabara: *reads from a piece of paper* Kodomo Hikari does not own YYH, CCS, YnM and Harry Potter. They belong to their respective creators and for that, she is eternally grateful. She loves them so much she decided to have a little fun with them.
Everyone: O_o
Hiei: Did you just write that crap?
Kuwabara: Ano na, why are you always pinning every screw up on me? Yusuke wrote this.
Hiei: Figures. You're both blockheads.
(Both boys fight.)
Yusuke: *sighs* Oh well. Major spoiler alerts for YYH, CCS, YnM and Harry Potter Book 5!
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K.H.: For my readers, who in a way have become my friends too...I have a treat at the end of this chapter. ^-^ I also have a mailing list where I can interact with my readers personally, inform them of updates and respond to FAQs. If you want to be part of the mailing list, please leave an email address. ^_^
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Chapter 6 is here. More puzzle pieces will be given away. ^-^ First one to put it together wins...my respect (hey, I'm a confusing person so if you figured it out man have you got brains ^v^)
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Word Watch:
advert = Ok, it's not in the story but it's short for advertisement. I'm lazy. So sue me.
IC = in character
Imoto/ Imouto = sister (relation)
Tzolkin = Sacred Year for the lost civilizations of South Americas
Daes dae' Mar = the Great Game (I borrowed this term from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time novel series.)
Amerindians = Short for American Indians. Columbus stubbornly believed that America was India so he called everyone there Indians.
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Chapter 6: Poetry
Eriol heard a soft knock on his door. Seconds later, it opened and Kaho Mizuki entered the library. She gave him a soft smile as he gestured to the couch in front of his own. Before taking her seat, she walked over to the child-man and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek.
Eriol looked up to the beautiful smiling face of Kaho Mizuki. His friend. His confidante. His lover. But most importantly, his soul mate. Another irony in life. Kaho was a descendant of Clow Reed's paternal side. In the past, the paternal side did not exactly approved of Clow Reed. And here he was, Clow Reed's reincarnation, in love with a woman from a family that hated him. Perhaps what was miraculous was that she loved him back. She saw through his young body and saw a man. There relationship was not a secret to a few trusted friends who in one way or another had been touched by the web that Clow Reed had spun when he was alive. However, to the rest of the world, they were discreet. After all, he was in a 16-year-old body and she was a 26-year-old woman.
"You missed dinner, Mizuki," he said, smiling at her.
She took her seat and crossed her long legs before replying to him, "I grabbed something to eat along the way. Was held up at the university. I had to finish a few things since I'll be gone for a while." She brushed a reddish-blonde strand of hair away from her face.
"Do you like poems, Mizuki?" he asked her.
She looked at him, one fine eyebrow arched in question. He was up to something again.
Eriol grinned then started to recite,
"In the First Sun, Water ended the World,
The Second Sun brought the Divine Wind,
While Quakes and Storms heralded the end of the Third Sun.
And as the Fourth Sun entered, the Jaguar walked the Land.
When the Fifth Sun will rise on the Tzolkin, the Cadmeans
Will once again walk this world and decide its Fate."
Mizuki looked thoughtful for a while, "Sun?" Then understanding lit up her face. "Ah, yes...the ancient civilizations in the South Americas use the word Sun to signify an Age. The First Sun ended with the Deluge, the second was a war between gods, while the Third was a war of Gods and Men that destroyed most of civilization..."
"And laid the foundations of the 10 Commandments," Eriol finished for her.
"But what about the Fourth and Fifth Sun?" she asked.
"We are near the end of the Fourth Sun, Mizuki. In this age, great and terrible beings have risen and done great and terrible things. They may not have the power of the old ones but they are powerful nonetheless."
"Such as?" Mizuki asked.
"Such as Hitler. Such as Bin Laden. Such as the wizard Voldemort."
"Such as Clow Reed," Mizuki added quietly.
Eriol stopped, stared at her then smiled, "Ah, I suppose you are right. He...I mean I could have chosen to use my gift to take over this world and extend my life..."
"But you chose instead to make Clow Cards and a rather unusual set of guardians," she said, amused at his reaction.
He shrugged, "For some reason, world domination does not appeal to me."
"You prefer to watch, ne, Eriol?" she teased.
His eyes twinkled, "I guess you're right...but we digress. The Toltec called this age the Jaguar because to them the Jaguar was a symbol of both Life and Death.
"And the people you've just mentioned have both played with Life and Death."
"Exactly Mizuki." A tea set suddenly floated towards them and started pouring drinks for the two. A short while later, two steaming cups of tea was placed before them and the tea set wandered back somewhere in the library.
Mizuki sipped her tea then set it down, "If anyone told me that it was absurd that an extinct civilization could foresee the future I would have believe them." She sighed dramatically, "But since I'm all tangled up with Clow Reed anything is possible. You mentioned a Fifth age..."
Eriol took a small piece of sweets that had suddenly materialized on the coffee table in front of them before answering, " Uhm, yes. The Fifth Sun...the beginning of the end of the Fourth Sun and the beginning of the Fifth Sun will commence on the Sacred Year or what the Amerindians call the Tzolkin."
"The significance being...?"
"The significance being that the Cadmeans will once again walk this world."
"The Cadmeans? You mean the Ancients?"
"Yes, Mizuki. The Cadmeans. The Ancients. The Aeons. They have many names. I just call them the Endless for convenience. The Endless could be our salvation or our destroyer."
Kaho gave him a wry smile, "For someone who knows all these you seem very calm."
Eriol returned her look, "Ah, but there's really nothing we can do. The players for this Daes dae' Mar, this Great Game, had already been chosen a long time ago."
"And when will the Tzolkin occur, Eriol?"
"Based on the Long Count Calendar of the Mayan's...on Miriya's and Yukito's birthday."
She sat still as the implications set in. Knowledge handed down from her family plus the information she learned from Eriol as she stayed with him combined to let her see where this was going. She finally understood why the two families did not approve of the union between Clow Reed's parents much less Clow Reed himself. But then, even if Clow Reed weren't born would this have never happened?
"The Wheel of Time will continue to turn, Mizuki, with or without Clow Reed. Someone else will be chosen instead." Eriol said, reading her thoughts.
"It is not fair to the girl," Mizuki said sadly.
"That is why you will be her guide." He pushed a golden box in front of her. "Just as you helped Sakura get her second chance with the Judging so will you again help Miriya."
Mizuki lifted the golden lid. Inside the box, lying on soft white cloth, was a deck of the strangest looking cards to the casual observer. They were longer than most cards and a disc surrounded by symbols of the star, moon and sun dominated the design at the back. Unlike the Clow and Sakura cards, this deck was all purple, gold and silver. She lifted one card and saw that its name was The Silver. On its face was a young silver girl, her eyes close, hands crossed on her chest. She had a tiara on her forehead. Surrounding the image of the girl were stylized border versions of the back design but now the disc had wings and the wings seemed to enfold the silver girl in a loving gesture.
"Clow cards?" she asked. They were the strangest Clow Cards she has ever seen and Clow Reed was a pretty strange man by anyone's standards to begin with.
Eriol shook his head, "Clow made 2 cards. One for himself. One for his beloved sister."
"Imoto?" she asked, surprised. "I didn't know he had a sister."
"He did. Nevertheless, he could only see her once a year. The families separated them when she was born. They did not want him corrupting her with his ideas." A flicker of sadness crossed his face. "I'm sorry, Mizuki. I have Clow's memories. I know that he loved his sister. I know of his pain when they were separated. I feel his sorrow when she died."
"How did she die?"
"Magick. She was born with it just as him but her body was weak and so it slowly killed her. The families hoped to seal that magic away from her and forbade him to see her but they both found a way to see each other once a year. He made these cards as a way for him to be there for her even if he was not physically there. She was happiest when she was with him. These cards bear not only Clow Reed's magic but hers as well."
"Why are you giving it to me?" Mizuki was confused.
"I want you to give it to Miriya. She has earned them."
For the first time, Mizuki noticed that the Silver card was warm to the touch. She returned it to the deck and found that the entire deck was warm too.
"The cards draw their power from the Master or Mistress of the Deck. Once the Master or Mistress dies, the deck grows cold and become ordinary cards, "Eriol said.
"But these are warm."
Eriol smiled but his dark blue eyes were troubled, "Ah, that is the interesting part. It seems that they did not die after all but simply waited for their next master."
Mizuki looked at Eriol. Like him, she had the gift of seeing the near future. What she saw was a tangled web. And that bothered her.
A few miles away, a fox woke from a troubled dream that he could not remember and a boy with a lightning shaped scar on his forehead screamed silently in his sleep.
TBC
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K.H.: When I could not update these past few weeks, I spent my time instead revising and editing the previous chapters taking into account reviewers' feedback. I fixed what needed fixing.
Now for the promised treat...anyone here wants to be part of this fic? This is a FANFIC after all. You have two choices:
1. Be one of the Hogwarts students. Give me your name, what you look like, how you want your character to be (a short description), and how you want to interact with the cast.
2. Remember the seven new characters I will introduce later on? I have made a few changes. How would you like to be one of them? My condition still stands though. Pick one.
1. An exotic Egyptian beauty that's Harry's age. (Girl)
2. A proud boy who is a year ahead of Harry and of Aryan descent.
3. Son of a mighty chieftain in Africa.
4. An American teenager who is into anything MTV. (This could be a girl or boy)
5. Australian angel. (Girl)
6. A descendant of South America's Lost civilizations (boy)
7. A descendant of Sumer. (Boy)
My only request when you name yourself is that you be named after real or fictional characters in history, myths, legends, prehistory, ancient or lost civilizations etc. Feel free to provide descriptions and powers. The more outlandish the power and description the greater the chance of being pick.
I know a lot of you are going to react on the Eriol-Mizuki pairing. All I can say is that you'll have to watch the entire CCS series to understand. Or you could surf the Net for more info. Second, don't ask why the action is taking to long. There's a reason for everything. Ever chapter, every item will have a relevance to the story. I do not include things or situations here on a silly whim. Third, before I let all the charas meet up I have to provide a little background first because I don't want throw them in there like some WWF Royal Rumble melee. The characters all came from different Animeverses (Anime Universe) and it's not easy to tie them all together. Fourth, I read way too much Stephen King and Anne Rice so I think they may have influence my writing style. As to whether I'll earn as much money as these two has yet to be seen. Fifth, I didn't expect the story to turn out this way. What I had in mind was a simple straightforward plot that should be finished in a couple of chapters. Instead, the more I write each chapter, the more I am drawn to this world, and the more I realized that I had just stumbled into the proverbial rabbit hole that led Alice to Wonderland. So don't worry dear readers…we're both making this journey together.
So go ahead. Take your time. Knock yourself out. It will be awhile before Chapter 7 arrives. Email me or push that purple button at the bottom of the screen. R and R! Ja ne! ^-^
