Ok, my ONE AND ONLY chatspeak thing: ROFLMAO. That was to Hanjuu's review. I should put that. Seriously. If I do, then yeah. Her line, not mine.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. But I do believe that one day...-Canadian flag appears in the background-
ARPPFTDOMM(A random person pulled from the depths of my mind): Let's continue with the story, people! She's so BORING with her lectures!
Note: There's a lot of reference to 'ice hearts' which refer to 'mean, cold-hearted' people.
Kami: God in Japanese
War on My World
Chapter 8: An Ice Heart Won't Ever Melt; Part 3
"Guys! You seriously aren't planning on taking him out, are you?" Chihiro shouted. All the guys and their weapons(Asbel decided to sit on this one, and Haku was going to transform into a dragon if needed) were standing up, in fighting poses. Except for Haku, he just kinda...stood there, but still looked cool.
"It's Miss Laura's wishes." Haku said. Chihiro frowned, and stamped her foot when she stood up. "Kami! You three can't be serious!" She said.
"An ice heart won't ever melt, Chihiro." Laura said, her eyes still closed.
"But how can you say that? Before you seemed so..." Chihiro balled her hands into fists and shouted, "HOW CAN YOU WANT TO KILL YOUR OWN TWIN BROTHER?"
"I told you, Chihiro. Personality remodification. Still, Haku's right. We can't go against Laura's wishes." Carmaine said. Suddenly, Lawrence disappeared. "Kami! He's fast!" He shouted.
"He has some sort of special power, like you, Miss Laura?" Haku asked politely, well, as politely as he could knowing the situation. Laura nodded, now hands over ears.
"He has the power to move at 300,000 Kilometers, only through the phase of air or in a vacuum." Laura stated. Chihiro gawked at her, and only regained her composure when Leona smacked her head in reminiscence of her ridiculous position.
"Er...uh...what does that mean?" Chihiro asked, rubbing the back of her head, slightly giving a glare at Leona, who just shrugged.
"He moves at the speed of light." Laura restated.
"Would've been helpful if you stated that in the first place." Carmaine said, placing his rapiers in the guard position, and Daryl and placed his scythe in a guard position, and Haku was, just, well, getting ready to transform if the need to do so arose.
"Be on guard." Laura replied.
"Yeah, ok." Carmaine replied curtly.
"Oh, and before you complain, he has knives." Laura warned. Too late. Lawrence reappeared, only to be stabbing Haku in the back. Haku winced, then turned around and in a blink of an eye, turned into his dragon form.
"Haku! Are you alright?" Chihiro asked, worry evident in her tone. Haku nodded, lashing out at Lawrence. He bit down hard on his shoulder, and Laura winced, feeling some distant, far-off pain.
"Get it over with!" Laura screamed, with a lot more emotion than I'm giving her credit for. Daryl and Carmaine rushed forward, as Lawrence couldn't escape because his shoulder was searing in pain. Not only that, but he couldn't move if he wanted to. And he wanted to.
-Slash-
With a swift cut with Daryl's scythe, Lawrence feel to the ground; dead.
"I...I thought I could trust you, sister..."Lawrence whispered before succumbing to the darkness completely. Laura winced in pain.
"At least he'll...finally be able to...rest in peace." Laura choked, then composed herself. "I think we should leave this world and go to another one. After all, no one here will be useful in our Army." Chihiro, Leona, Haku(who Chihiro was wrapping bandages around),Nausicaä and Asbel looked at her with a incredulous look.
"What the heck..." Leona started, but Chihiro finished for her,
"Are you talking about?" Laura looked promptly surprised, started to speak, but Carmaine interrupted her.
"Gray isn't someone to be trifled with. He caused the destruction of an entire world, and we'll need all the best people from every other world to join up with us so we can destroy him." He said, sounding like some corny Army commercial. Then he flashed the most stupidest, happy, grin you could ever hope to see in your entire life, "And besides, tons of people are gonna be willing to join because you're our Captain, Chihiro."
Woah. That thought was in her mind right now. Her, a captain? She had no military experience! Not only that, but she didn't know if she had the ability to lead others into battle.
"Why me?" She asked. Maybe his head was screwed on a bit too loosely, there was no way possible. No way. 'I mean, come on, why would they chose me? I'm like, 5 years younger than Carmaine, and he's obviously experienced more battles than I could ever hope to! Why are they choosing me?'
"Why not you? Everyone that thinks Chihiro should be our leader, say 'Hai'." Carmaine said. Immediately everyone shouted 'HAI!' "There you go."
"But I'm not a suit leader! I mean, I doubt I could make sacrifices or anything like that!" Chihiro responded stubbornly. Carmaine sighed.
"But you're a fit leader." He said. Why couldn't she just understand that? Maybe because she was a kid, but that was only her aging. She was much beyond that age, in mental capacity. Certainly, she was immature at times, but the way Chihiro could act sometimes was enough to surprise even an adult.
"What qualities of a leader do I possess?" Chihiro asked, finishing wrapping Haku up.
"For one, you have a sense of responsibility. You know what's best for others, you can't leave them hanging. You wrapping Haku up is proof of that. He'd still be bleeding if you didn't care about others and didn't bring something along in case something like this would happen. No one else did, I'm sure."Carmaine said. It was true, Chihiro had grabbed a bunch of bandages before exiting her room before, but she just forgot about them until she saw Haku bleeding and then his wound reminded her."And you can perform First Aid better than all of us."
That reply earned Carmaine a couple of chortles.
"But how can you tell all of this by me just bandaging someone? I mean, come on." Chihiro said, hands now on hips.
"You really don't think you're suit enough to be a leader? Honestly? You can't act on your own? I have to hold your hand through the battles? You need to be told what to do? You're so forgetful; I have to remind you to bring First Aid Kits in case there's an emergency, that's right, right? You hate everyone else, which is why you're willing to not cooperate, so we all have to deal with it, right?" Carmaine asked. Chihiro sighed.
"Fine, I got what you're saying. Let's just go to the next world, ok?" Chihiro said. Everyone saluted.
"Yes, ma'am!" They said, not skipping a beat. Chihiro sighed, as she was about to concentrate on making a portal.
"Oh, before I forget, if you and Leona open a portal up together, it'll be easier and it'll take less energy." Carmaine said. Leona nodded, stepping up to her twin sister(which was unconfirmed if she was older or not), and holding hands, they both concentrated on opening a portal to the same world, using their telepathic link, despite what Carmaine had said before.
"And if you both concentrate on what a world should be like, then, with the two of you combined using your telepathic link, it should come close to your criteria." He said, now giving them the a O.K to use their link.
'A World up in the sky!'
Yeah, ok. There'll be dragons and such!
'Yeah, and pretty clouds!'
And really strong warriors to aid us!
Focusing on an world up in the sky, the twins opened a portal, completely white, and in the sky. It looked exactly like the moon so you couldn't tell if they had actually opened a portal or not.
"'Kay guys, let's get going!" Chihiro said, as Carmaine teleported them to the next world.Not a moment later, Gray teleported inside the world they had previously occupied.
"Hmmm...Lawrence, his name was, wasn't it? Well, dear Laura, I'll make sure he has just a joy ride on my side," Gray said, smirking evilly as he strode towards the castle, a spell book in one hand and nothing in the other.
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"Oh! A castle in the sky! It looks so pretty!" Chihiro exclaimed. There was a white castle in the blue sky, tan cat-walks in the sky going into the castle. She looked down. All she could see were clouds.
"Well, we got what we wished for! A World among the clouds! Maybe we'll meet pretty angels!" Leona mused dreamily, placed hands on her cheek in a dreamy manner.
"Should we just barge into the castle? Or do any of this world seem familiar to any of you?" Chihiro asked.Everyone shook their heads.
"Well, we'll have to knock! C'mon, everyone!" Chihiro shouted, waving her hand as she started up the, platform.
"Told ya she could be a leader." Carmaine said to Haku, who nodded. Then, Haku's sharp eye caught something.
"Chihiro, watch out!" He shouted. But it was too late. The Gate Princess tripped over the cat-walk. Before she tripped, Chihiro had reverted her vision back to the aim they were going for; the castle. But she must've not noticed how close to the edge she was. For when she looked back to see how far behind the group was, all she saw was sky. Then it occurred to her that she was falling.
She was too scared to look down, so she just closed her eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable. When it didn't happen, she assumed Haku had swooped down and saved her. But that assumption was far off by a long-shot.
I'm sorry for another cliffhanger. I couldn't quite decide where to end it. I know the death-scene was incredibly, incredibly crappy, but, hey, it's K+. I don't want to make it TOO gory. though we can't all sit in a circle singing 'Kumbayah', either.