Ok! Thank you, someone the annon. Reviewer! Yes! Princess Mononoke! I haven't seen the movie in a while so the personalities'll be a little wishy-washy. I meant to put a scene divider in that last one! Sorry! IT was SUPPOSED to be...
'She blushed slightly as she remembered she was so close to saying those three words...
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"That water spirit is getting to be quite the trouble...'
I'm sorry! Anyway, the delay won't be much longer!
Disclaimer: I don't own Carmaine...sadly, I do not. Actually, both Master Gray and Carmaine are based off of true characters. So, I don't own either of them. They belong to Growlanser...now, who made Growlanser? Darn, I forgot...
War on My World
Chapter 5: Light is the Only Salvation
"So, San, war is spreading on this world, too?" Chihiro asked. San nodded.
"The town nearby wants to destroy this forest. Ashitaka is trying to convince them otherwise, since Iron Town has already been rebuilt, but it's not working." San said.
"I think something is happening to the worlds. Someone wants the worlds to shatter." Asbel said.
"Asbel, you really think so? That's possible, considering the unnaturally strong wind in the Valley. Usually the wind doesn't pick up so fast." Nausicaä said seriously, nodding her head. Suddenly, San's earrings made a bell-like noise.
"Shhh. Someone's here." San said, leaning down and looking around. Haku practically pushed Chihiro down, but she didn't mind because she knew it was for her own safety.
"Stay down." Haku whispered, and Chihiro nodded and covered her head with her hands and squeezed her eyes shut.
"Everyone, get ready! I feel a malevolent force entering the area!" San said, and everyone nodded.
"En garde!"
"Huh?" Chihiro opened her eyes. She realized that everyone was staring at a astonishingly raven-haired young man, though he was certainly three or four years older than herself. He had tantalizing silver eyes, just beckoning you to go over to the darkness. He wielded dual rapiers which were so thin they could separate a door from it's hinge in a split second.
"Why are you here?" San asked immediately. The young man just 'hmphed'.
"Wouldn't you all like to know." He just replied cooly. Chihiro did a double-take, she didn't feel the malevolence that San felt. In fact, Chihiro felt that his aura was of Serenity and Benevolence rather than malevolence.
"You're someone from Styx! No...maybe not from Styx...but, somewhere...but I know you're Carmaine!" Chihiro shouted. 'Wait...how did I know that? Maybe I can read people's minds?' Chihiro thought.Carmaine blinked.
"You're a very intelligent Princess. How'd you pick up that aura-reading trick? It seems you read through my mind as well." Carmaine said.
After an awkward silence, the sound of steel clashing against steel echoed into the forest. San appeared, her dagger trying to pierce through a rapier Caramaine was holding to block the dagger.
"You can't fight me." Carmaine said. San backed off, and was ready to charge again.
"San, don't fight! I don't think he's here to hurt the forest!" Chihiro shouted. San nodded and backed off completely.
"I will not hesitate to kill you if you endanger the wolves." San said. Carmaine chuckled.
"That's nice to know.I didn't come here to hurt some wolves." Carmaine said.
"What DID you come here for? Certainly not for talking or taking a walk in the forest." Asbel asked suspiciously.
"Well, if you must know..."Caramine said, and disappeared. Everyone looked surprised.
"It's his magic that's allowing him to do that, everyone! We have to keep our guard up!" Nausicaäsaid. Asbel nodded.
"Nausicaä'sright.Who knows who may be dead next. It's a scary thought, but it'll only happen if our guard is kept up." Asbel said. Carmaine reappeared. Chihiro looked exceedingly surprised. For Carmaine's dual rapiers were held against her neck.
"Let her go right now!" Haku shouted. The rest nodded in agreement.
"Don't you dare hurt her! She's our friend!" Nausicaäsaid, and Asbel nodded. Of course, Chihiro was their ticket to getting back home. But they didn't want Chihiro to go for their selfish reasons. She was both of the Royalties' friends.
"On one condition: You give up your life." Carmaine said. Chihiro shook her head slightly as to not get cut.
"Haku! Don't do it!" Chihiro shouted. 'Something's not right...why did San sense malevolence when I sensed a feeling of tranquility? I still don't sense evil, but something's not right here!'
"I can't give up my life. I'm a spirit." Haku said, turning into his dragon form. San's eyes widened quite a bit in surprise at first, but then she got used to it.
"Haku is a spirit? I would have never thought of it." San said to Nausicaä and Asbel.
"When I met him for the first time I would never have thought so, either." Asbel said. Carmaine let go of Chihiro and slashed at Haku. He dodged and flew over to Chihiro. At least she was safe now.
"Master Gray was right." Carmaine said and smiled. "Well, at least I get to have a challenge." Chihiro was still confused. Then, the lightbulb inside her head popped on.
'Master Gray? What if he's being brainwashed? Maybe that was why I sensed peacefulness when San sensed evil! But how to get him out of that brainwash?' Chihiro thought for a moment, when it came to her. 'Brainwash! So, maybe if Haku can clock him hard enough on the head he'll go back to his senses!' She nodded to herself.
"Haku! Try and hit his head!" Chihiro said. Haku glanced at her, but noticed her determined look, and nodded. Up into the sky he went, ready to come down to do some forceful damage. Nausicaä, Asbel and San ran up to Chihiro and stood in front of her so Carmaine couldn't get at her. "Wow, you guys really meant what you said?" Chihiro asked, surprised.
"Of course! You're a friend of ours, Chihiro." Asbel said. San nodded. Chihiro looked up, and saw Haku come down with blinding speed.
"Don't hurt yourself, Haku!" Chihiro shouted. She then looked to Carmaine who held his rapiers up to make sure to block the attack. Haku came down, but moved out of the way of the guard and hit Carmaine in the back of the head. He went down. Haku transformed back into his human self, and Chihiro ran to him.
"Haku, are you ok?" Chihiro asked. Haku nodded and smiled at her.
"Just a slight headache." Haku said. Chihiro smiled back. She felt as if her heart had been melted. Not used to this type of feeling, she clutched her heart and her face got all red. Haku placed his hand on her shoulder. "Chihiro, are you ok? You look like you have a slight fever."
Chihiro just shook her head. "I'm fine." She said, but that didn't make her feel any better. She looked down. 'Oh...what am I supposed to say? I don't know what this feeling is, but it's kind of regret. But...why would I regret anything? I haven't done anything bad...' Oh, she knew now. Making Haku's head hurt.
"I'm so sorry!" Chihiro said, and practically bowed down to him. "I'm really, really sorry! I didn't mean it! I'll never do it again! Please, forgive me!" Haku looked confused. But once he realized what she was talking about, he just shook his head and smiled more.
"It's just a little headache! Not a serious injury! It's not your fault, Chihiro. Besides, I didn't have to do it if I didn't want to." Haku said. Chihiro nodded and faced him again.
"So you forgive me?" Chihiro asked. Haku laughed, but Chihiro frowned and faced the ground again, most likely in embarrassment.
"Of course I forgive you! What makes you ask such a question?" Haku asked. Chihiro smiled in spite of herself and shrugged, facing him for the third time. She then shook her head.
"Um...nothing! Oh, um, errr..." Chihiro looked at Carmaine, who was starting to get up, but,(and Chihiro must have not noticed or she certainly wouldn't have done it) she was standing on Carmaine! Chihiro may not have weighed a lot, and sure, maybe his back didn't snap, but heck, someone standing on your back for a long time wearing SNEAKERS on is quite a lot of weight.
"Please...get..off..." Carmaine said, and then coughed.
"Sorry!" Chihiro said, and stepped off of him.
"Thanks." Carmaine said and stood up. "Um...who are you all?" He asked. Chihiro looked at San.
"San, do you sense it to?" Chihiro asked. San nodded.
"His aura has been changed. The evil I sensed before has been removed." San said. Chihiro nodded.
"Yup. Oh, look! His eyes changed color! Look, they're gold now!" Chihiro said, and pointed, without meaning to. It was true, Carmaine's eyes were pure sun gold instead of moonlit silver. Carmaine cleared his throat again.
"Who are you people?" He asked.
"You can't remember you just tried to take Chihiro's life?" Haku asked warily, not wanting to risk it if he was just pretending to have amnesia, and stepping in front of Chihiro.
"Chihiro? Really? Chihiro's here?" Carmaine asked. Chihiro glanced at Haku with a confused expression as he only shrugged. "Don't leave me hanging! I gotta see my little sister!" Carmaine begged. Everyone's mouths dropped to the floor(except for San's, because she didn't really know Chihiro that well).
"YOU'RE HER BIG BROTHER?" The whole gang(besides San & Chihiro) asked simultaneously. Carmaine nodded.
"Uh-huh. I'm the two-sided Prince of Gates Carmaine, at your service." Carmaine said, bowing. Chihiro looked like Haku just asked her to marry him or something. She looked absolutely stunned.
"So you know our parents? And, uh, who's Master Gray? Could you explain this all to me? I'm a little confused." Chihiro said. Carmaine nodded.
"Certainly. Let me explain one thing first. I'm two-sided. My good, sunny side, and my enigmatic, sightly sarcastic side that'll say mean things when I don't mean it. There's a reason for that: A. All the Princes of Gates are two-sided-" Carmaine was just about to say another word, but a question from Chihiro stopped him.
"But you don't have the Connection Wing, right?" Chihiro asked. Carmaine shook his head.
"Nope. The Goddess of all Worlds entrusted that to the Princess of Gates, and the God of the Sun, Helios, and his wife, the Goddess of the Moon, Selene((which is incorrect in Greek Mythology)) entrusted the power of the sunlight and the moonlight to the Princes, causing them to be two-sided. One side of the light, and the other of the dark. That way they could control the sun and the moon without being biased and giving one planet more time in the sky than the other." Carmaine said, and cleared his throat.
"Well, at night, my dark side comes up, but in the day, the light side comes up. But, someone of Styx has been manipulating the darkness inside me, making me turn dark when I'm not supposed to. So, I've been listening to Gray-I guess that's his name then, and our true enemy. He has magical powers beyond belief. I know he's the one who's making the worlds fight. I don't know what his motives are, but I bet we're gonna have to band the worlds together and fight. I don't think there are any more Styxians left, besides Gray."
"Oh, and, the reason I stumbled upon Gray was because I was looking for you. Mom opened a portal to all sorts of worlds she said she thought I could handle. Father didn't want to come, he said he was a useless fighter. He's not, you know, but he's been depressed for a while now and in his 'Twilight' mode. I guess the males of the Gate are actually three-sided. Sunlight, Moonlight, and Twilight, though Mom doesn't understand why Father's like that. There's no record of it in any of the legends of the Princes or Kings, even, of the Gate to have a Twilight side."
Chihiro gasped. She had never heard about her parents before, so Haku and her were listening intently. Haku was listening because Chihiro had her hands clasped on his left arm because she would squeeze it whenever she wanted to say something, because she didn't want to interrupt such an interesting story. Asbel, San, and Nausicaä were having a lively conversation about the state of their worlds while half-listening to what Carmaine was saying.
"Well, I went to Styx because even though it's a destroyed world there maybe some remaining citizens there and the Styxians might've sent you there. So I tried it just for the heck of it, and I met Gray there. And, well, I fell under his hypnotism and he brainwashed me and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Carmaine said.
"What do our parents look like?" Chihiro asked next. Haku wondered on that for a moment, even though the question wasn't directed at him.
"Our mom has light, light brown hair and green eyes. Our Father has really black hair and, well, right now, he has violet-blue eyes." Carmaine said. "You look like our mom. I look like ourFather." He said. Chihiro opened her mouth, but Carmaine shook his head. "Leon and Trinity."
"Leon?" Chihiro asked, with a lot of emphasis. Carmaine nodded.
"You see, you used to have a twin sister named after our father. But...when the Styxians attacked, you and her disappeared. I was hoping Leona would've came with you, but, I guess not." Carmaine said, and frowned. Nausicaä looked at Carmaine strangely.
"Leona...wait, did you just say Leona?" She asked, in worry, looking at the younger Princess with an alarmed look. If Leona was a Princess of Gate, then, oh geez, did they have a problem.
"Uh-huh. Looks exactly like Chihiro. Maybe a little different, I'm not too sure." Carmaine said, sheathing his rapiers((yes, they HAD been in his hands all this time)) in their blue sheaths, or sword-holders, or whatever.
"Chihiro! We've got to get back to our world!" Nausicaä said, pointing to her and Asbel, who was listening to how Maro(however her name is spelled) died, and in return, Asbel was sharing a story about how his pet rabbit he had when he was four died of the toxins in the Toxic Forest, then, after that, he explained how his twin sister, Lastelle, had died.
Nausicaä grabbed Asbel's arm. "Asbel!" She said excitedly, "We're going back to our own world!" Asbel nodded, and finished up his conversation with San. Nausicaä tried not to glare at San, but she just couldn't help it. After all, she loved Asbel, and not San.
"Goodbye." San said with a nod as Chihiro tried to make a portal to Nausicaä and Asbel's world. It was a gray with white mixed in it.
"Ok! Ready everyone! Once the portal's opened, I can teleport everyone to the world the portal leads to." Carmaine said. Everyone nodded as San stepped back. "Ok, ready...1,2,3..."
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"Ummm..." Asbel looked around, his hands on his hips, and nodded to himself. "Ok, either A) You've got some teleporting problems, B) Chihiro opened a portal to the wrong world, C) My eyesight is seriously screwed up, or D) All of the above."
Nausicaä looked around, too. It was snowing. And the ground they were standing on was ice, as far as the eye could see was snow, ice, and some weird icicle-tree-looking things. "No, this is definitely not our world." Chihiro started to shiver and wrapped her arms around herself, as her jaw began to chatter.
"Ya cold?" Carmaine asked cheesily. Chihiro glared at him, as Haku hugged her from behind.
"T-Th-Thanks, H-H-Haku." She chattered. Haku smiled.
"Not a problem. Now...where are we?" Haku asked.
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"Just as I suspected, Chihiro recognized her older brother. So now they're in Glacier, eh? Perfect. Just as planned..."Gray said, smiling deviously.
Next chappie! Sorry, Anon. Someone, but they'll come back to San's world, and...-covers mouth with hands- Oh no. I accidentally spilled out what was going to happen? -drmatically falls to the floor- Whatever shall I do? Er, I'll make y'all review if it's the last thing I do! So, PLEASE!