DISCLAIMER: Ojamajo Doremi © Toei Animation in 1999-2004. I don't get any commercial benefit from this fic.
The Future Story 2
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Chapter 3 – The Consequences and the Decision
They fell onto the floor… along with a small pink magic crystal which suddenly lost its shine…
All people around them shouted their name, made sure that both of them were still alive. Hana then checked both Doremi and Fami's condition, as she also was a doctor, and she found out that both of them were alive, it was just that…
"She did it. Her crystal isn't broken and she was alive…" the new Queen stated, "but still, her condition isn't really well. The pulse…"
Hana couldn't finish her statement. She was so confuse to talk about the weak pulse which she could feel from her mother, as it was the same pulse with the one that Fami had a few minutes ago. She was also confuse to say that Fami's condition was better now, as she felt the better pulse from the pink haired girl.
Both Kotake and Murasaki kneeled onto the floor behind them. The older man quickly hugged his wife's body tightly while the younger ones stroked his daughter's long, pink hair.
"Don't leave me alone here…" said Kotake softly near Doremi's right ear while his tears were starting to drop, "You know that we should be together forever, right?"
"Fami… I'm so happy that you look healthier than this morning, but…" Murasaki looked at Fami's face, "I don't know what should I feel now…"
The others just turned their attention to the four people who lived there, at the house where they were reunited, and each of them thought about something different.
Hana still didn't understand how her mother could think to do something extreme like that. She knew that Doremi loved her granddaughter so much, but she just didn't understand why Doremi was so sure that Fami could help her to reach her goal even better than if the one who helped the new Queen was Doremi herself. She just couldn't understand about Doremi's thoughts.
The new Queen then looked at Murasaki and Fami, and when she focused on Fami's face, she suddenly got another vision…
'She seems potential…' Hana mentally said, 'Is it what Doremi feel when she decided to sacrifice herself… just for this girl?'
Meanwhile, Tsubomi looked at her parents while remember about something which her mother had ever said before, not so long after she revealed her mother's secret…
Right on the same day when she revealed the secret, a wizard named Oyajide came there and took his dinner with her family, and when they talked about Hana, Doremi wondered if later she could meet Hana again or not once the blonde became a Queen.
That time, Tsubomi assured her mother that they still could meet Hana once she became a Queen, and now it was proven that what she said really became true; all of them could meet again.
Even so, now she could understand about her mother's worries. However, they just could wait until the day came, but they couldn't predict about what happened before and after that, or anything related to that day.
Tsubomi then remembered that Hana also had ever been afraid about the same thing, but then the former Queen sent her mother's fairy to live with them, to make sure that her mother would be save from anything which made Hana afraid, and speaking of the mentioned fairy…
"Wait a minute. Where's Dodo and the other fairies?" Tsubomi immediately asked while she realized that Dodo, Rere, Mimi, Roro, Nini and Fafa weren't reunited there like her parents and their best friends or like herself and her own besties, "Hana-nee, aren't they reunited here too like all of us?"
"Ah, I recall that they were with Toto at the old Maho-dou, and they promised to me that they'll come here later, but…"
"Queen Hana!" suddenly, Toto flew into the house with the other fairies, and all people there could see that Dodo was unconscious while Rere, Mimi, Roro, Nini and Fafa brought her there, "We don't know why, but when we talked with Majorika and Lala at Maho-dou, Dodo suddenly fainted!"
"Eh?!" Kirarin, Monica and Himawari shouted, while Hana and Tsubomi sighed after they looked at Dodo.
"I know it. Dodo can feel what okasan did a few minutes ago…" Tsubomi bowed her head, looked back at her parents, "That's why, she also fell unconscious."
"Wait, what happened here?" asked Toto, "Queen Hana, do you know about…"
"One of my niece was seriously ill, and then… Doremi…" Hana finally said while she started to cry, "She used her power just to heal her granddaughter… I tried to stop her but I can't… What should I do now?"
"Hana-nee," Tsubomi grabbed both of Hana's shoulders, "Okasan will wake up, right? Then, Dodo also will…"
"I'm sorry, Tsubomi-chan, but I doubt that we can save them," replied the new Queen, "Fami-chan was nearly dead when Doremi casted her magic, and… I just can't guarantee that she will stay alive longer."
"No way…" she pulled her hands away from Hana's shoulders, "Hana-nee, you're the Queen. Can you just cast some spell so that you can save okasan?"
"I wanted to, but I can't. I'm really sorry, Tsubomi-chan," Hana tried to explain, "Doremi casted a forbidden magic, and it's the consequences which she should get, and I…"
"I hate you!" Tsubomi shouted, "Why can't you just do something for her? You're the Queen!"
"Tsubomi-chan… don't blame her…" someone opened her eyes, and it was the redhead (old) woman. She then tried to give her daughter some explanation in a soft tone, "Hana-chan's right… I… casted a forbidden magic… and it's an absolute rule that… even a Queen can't make any exception."
"Okasan…"
"This… is my decision… and you can't blame anyone, okay?" said Doremi, still in Kotake's embrace, "I'm ready to face anything that will happen with me… If my fate says that I should go, then…"
"Dear, please, I want you to stay," Kotake interrupted, "I can't live without you."
"You can, honey…" she surely added, then turned her head to see her son who still accompanied her unconscious granddaughter, "Murasaki-kun… is Fami-chan awake?"
"Well…" Murasaki looked at his daughter's face, watched her as she slowly opened her eyes and asked him, "Otousan? But how can I…"
"Fami-chan… come here…" Doremi hardly called her granddaughter, "There's something that I want to talk with you."
"Obaachan!" Fami immediately came to her grandmother, but then she realized something, "Wait, I recall that I just recently got a heart attack and then… I was even still not feeling well since this morning, but now I extremely feel better and… you…"
"Let's just say that… I give my heart to you…"
"Wait, what?! Obaachan, you can't do that!" Fami then looked at something on the floor, between her and her grandmother, which was her grandmother's magic crystal, "How can you do something like this? I never ask you."
"This is my decision, Fami…" Doremi tried to smile, "I want you to stay alive…"
"But…"
"Now you just need to touch that crystal with your hands…"
Realized about the thing that was going to happen, Hana rushed to them and asked, "Doremi, are you sure, you don't want to change your mind? I mean, Fami-chan is too young, and…"
"That's why I do this… Hana-chan, you need someone like Fami-chan, not me…" Doremi gave her reason, "Alright, maybe I'm… still not really old, but… I know what I can do… and I just can do this…"
She then turned her attention to everyone in the living room, "Minna, I hope all of you can understand that this is the only way that I should do… and this is the best solution for all of us… So don't blame Fami-chan just because of what happen with me today… However, this is my choice."
"Okay, I understand," Hana sighed, "Fami-chan, you can touch that crystal."
"But… what will happen with obaachan if I touch that crystal," Fami frowned, "I'm just… not sure…"
"It's okay… Fami-chan… I'll just… meet with your mother…"
"No!"
"Please… just touch that crystal and say 'goodbye' to me…"
"Obaachan…"
"I can see your future… and I know… this is the best for you…"
Fami was speechless, as she didn't know what she should do, but then Hana persuaded her to do what Doremi said.
"Honestly, I don't want something like this happen, but… I also see that you just can do this, for Doremi's sake… for your grandmother's sake, Fami-chan," said the new Queen, "Please touch the magic crystal."
"Ah… Auntie Hana…" Fami thought for a few minutes before she finally nodded, "Fine, I'll do it."
The pink haired girl then touched Doremi's magic crystal with her right hand, and suddenly, it sparkled again. In a moment, the magic crystal was dispersed into five different taps which Doremi had ever used in the past, but then all of those taps were fused into a new tap while Doremi's performance was back to normal and she closed her eyes.
"Obaachan, you changed back…" stated Fami, but then she noticed that her grandmother didn't respond her anymore…
"Obaachan!"
.O.
Several days later…
After the sad reunion day, everything changed. Right at the same day when Kotake held his wife's funeral, Hana put the unconscious Dodo in a small box at Maho-dou. Now, she was there with Majorika, Lala, Rere, Mimi, Roro, Nini, Fafa and Toto.
"I don't understand," said Rere. The glasses fairy flew around the mentioned box, "Dodo-chan still can stay alive, while Doremi-chan… passed away…"
"It's because their bonds were broken right after Doremi casted that spell," Hana explained, "I learnt that the bonds between a witch and her fairy comes from their heart, and that's why, when you all were recently born, the only one who could understand all of your words was your own partner. Then…"
"In this case, as Doremi gave her power to her granddaughter, it also means that the bonds between her and Dodo is going to move," Majorika continued, "and that's the good news which comes from this unexpectable condition."
"Good news?" Mimi tilted her head, "Majorika, what do you mean? Dodo-chan is unconscious and you said that it was a good news?"
"At least she isn't dead," replied the old witch, "and when the day comes, someone will be her new owner, a new witch apprentice."
"Who is she?" asked Roro.
"Obviously, she's Fami-chan," answered Hana surely, "Well, it's true that the bonds between Dodo and Doremi is broken, but not between Dodo and Doremi's magic power, and speaking of that power, it also means that Dodo will have a new bond with its new bearer."
"Then, Fami will be Dodo-chan's new owner…" Nini concluded, "Even so, how about her memories with Doremi-chan? Will it be gone from her head, or…"
"I haven't known about it yet," Hana shook of her head, "It's still possible for Dodo to remember it, but it's also possible for her to forget it."
"Well, maybe if Fami keep trying to remind Dodo about her grandmother, she'll remember about her past life," Majorika crossed her arms, "Even so, Dodo's phase of life will return back from the start."
"Then, it means that she'll be younger than me now, right?" stated Fafa. Both Majorika and Hana nodded.
Hana then realized something while she looked at the clock in the wall, "Alright, it's time for me to call Fami-chan and the others. However, we should start Fami-chan's apprenticeship soon."
"Besides, we also should ask Hazuki, Aiko, Onpu, Momoko and Poppu to live in the witch world, as it's better for them to live there now," added Majorika, "So, do you want to call them by yourself? Then it's better for you to wear human clothes."
"Eh? But Majorika…"
"Honestly, you were so lucky in that gloomy reunion, because there was a small parade near Misora Park, so everyone who saw you wearing your gown there would think that you came from the parade, but now they will see you as a stranger if you wear your gown out there," the old witch reminded the new Queen, "Just wear a regular clothes, Hana."
"Oh, okay," Hana flicked her fingers, changed her glamorous gown with a peach shirt and dark blue skirt, "I'll go with this suit."
Hana then walked out from the old shop, but unexpectedly, a few hours later, she came back with more other people…
"Hey, why do you all come here with all of your granddaughters?" asked Majorika, "Hazuki, Aiko, Onpu, Momoko, Poppu… I ask you five to come here to talk about your moving to the witch world."
"Well, we're sorry to say this, but… I think we also can't help Hana-chan to reach her goal…" replied Hazuki, "We also think that… maybe it's better if we pass down our power to our granddaughters, so that they can help Hana-chan to re-open the relationship between the witch world and the human world, along with Fami-chan."
"Even so, how can you all think about this?" the old witch asked again, "Don't you want to use your magic power for something else?"
"We just want to encourage Fami-chan, so that she won't ever blame herself anymore," Aiko admitted, "Besides, we have become accustomed to live without magic, so it's better for us to give our power to our granddaughters. It's just like a relay runner pass down the baton to the next runner."
"Are you sure with that?"
"I'm perfectly sure, because Nozomi-chan keep asking me to do so," Onpu smiled, "Even Rizu-chan kept coming to my house just to persuade me."
"Obaasan!" Rizuko pouted, "Is it wrong if we want to do something to encourage Fami-chan? I, Nozomi-nee and the others just don't want to see Fami-chan sad."
"No, it isn't wrong. I'm just proud of you, Rizu-chan," Onpu stroked Rizuko's light purple hair, "I'm glad that you think about it."
Nozomi walked to her younger cousin, while Shiroyuki, Molly and Izumi looked at their respective grandmothers. All of them then walked to Fami and stood up around her.
"So… all of you come here with us just to… encourage me?" asked Fami in disbelief, "I think you all come here to let your grandmothers live in the witch world…"
"Nah, I don't want it happen. You know how melodramatic Tooru-jiichan is, anytime obaachan go out from their house," Nozomi shook of her head and giggled, "Besides, you're my cousin, and I want to support you to do your mission."
"Nozomi-chan…"
"She's right, Fami-chan. Let's we be a good team like our grandmothers," added Rizuko, "Well, we aren't really like them though… because I'm a year younger than you, Nozomi-nee, Molly-chan and Shiro-chan."
"Rizu-chan…"
"I and Shiro-chan just recently meet you, but we also want to help you," said Molly, "Fami-chan, let's we do our best!"
"Molly-chan…"
"My grandmother said that your grandmother was her childhood friend, and they were so near with each other," Shiroyuki looked at her grandmother's face before she turned back to Fami, "Well, we aren't a childhood friend though, I want to be near with you. Maybe even nearer than our grandmothers."
"Shiro-chan…"
"Let's we do our best, Fami-nee," Izumi held both of the older girl's hands and looked at her face, "We'll be a great team."
"Izumi-chan…" finally, Fami smiled at the five other girls around her and nodded, "Let's we do our best."
All of the six girls then formed a group hug, and after they broke it, they turned their attention back to Hana and Majorika.
"Alright then, Fami, take your tap out and press the button," commanded Majorika to the pink haired girl, "Then try to change your clothes quickly before the music ended."
"Uh… I never try to push it before, but…"
"Just press it and don't say anything!"
"Okay okay, I'll try it now… uh…" confused and a bit nervous, Fami asked, "Majorika?"
The old witch sighed, "Alright, it's not wrong for you to ask. I haven't introduced myself to you six yet. Now just press the button and transform."
The pink haired girl nodded, then pushed the button on her tap. Surprisingly, when she finished her transformation, she shouted something nostalgic while struck a nostalgic pose, at least for Hazuki, Aiko, Onpu, Momoko, Pop and Hana…
"Puritti Witchi Famichii!"
The five other girls looked at her in awe, while the others looked at her in disbelief.
"Wait, how can you know about that phrase? And that pose?" asked Majorika, "Did someone tell you about those things?"
Fami shook of her head, "I don't know. Suddenly, I just think about that phrase and… it was just out from my mouth, then I think to make a pose."
"Hmm…"
"What do you think about, Majorika?" asked Nozomi, "Is it wrong if my cousin say something cool and make a pose like that?"
"That's not the problem, Nozomi-chan," replied Hana, "You know, Fami-chan do something which all of your grandmothers and I always did every time we transformed in the past."
"Cool! So that's why all of you are surprised…"
"Not only because of that," Majorika added, "Actually, a witch apprentice doesn't need to say that phrase and make a pose, but all of your grandmothers did it back then, and…"
"And?"
"The one who thought about that phrase and the pose first between them was Doremi."
"Obaachan?" asked Fami in disbelief.
Majorika nodded, "On top of that, you make the same pose which she made in that time."
"Eh?" Fami's eyes widened. She frowned, "Well, I'm sorry if actually I shouldn't say that phrase and struck that pose…"
"You don't need to apologize, Fami-chan," Hana giggled while tapped Fami's left shoulder, "It's okay if you want to do all of those."
"Really?"
"Of course," the new Queen smiled at her niece, then said to Hazuki, Aiko, Onpu, Momoko and Pop, "Then, now for the rest of your team. As they should have a tap like you, all of their grandmothers should perform a Magical Stage to give them their own tap."
The five (old) women nodded, then quickly performed a Magical Stage with their own magic crystals, fused it and dispersed it again into five taps which similar with Fami's…
And with that, the new adventure began…