Complete Opposites
Chapter Twelve: Can't Make Me
And so, the four heroes…no, that's not right. The four guys…that's not right either…
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The three guys and the girl headed to school, no one dared to mention the recent event which involved a mime and a miniature Dark. Dark and Krad didn't mention their even more recent event of watching the sunset nor did Daisuke and Satoshi mention their little coffee break. It was a quiet morning.
They woke up.
They had breakfast.
They went to school.
Boring? Yes.
It was all beyond boring until the teacher announced some sort of school wide project which had to do with parenting…and eggs. That sounded so wrong…
"And so, class, the whole school's doing a project which involved parenting skills and eggs," when she got a class full of wide eyed kids, she sighed and shook her head, kids these days… "and no, it's not what you think." Now she had a class full of kids giving her suspicious looks, "Stop staring!" Dark raised his hand, "Yes Dark?"
"And what exactly is this project? Which involves parents and…eggs…"
Gods these kids were perverted… "Well Dark, you will all be paired up with a partner and you'll have to take care of an egg for a week."
Dark raised a brow, "…what kind of egg?"
"A chicken egg!"
"Oh…"
The teacher huffed and flicked her hair back, "Now I'll assign you your partners…" and after a long long list of peoples who aren't important enough to be mentioned, "Akio and Hazuki, Dark and Krad…" and she went on, but who cares about those people?
Krad watched Hazuki shoot a glare at her partner before giving him the cold shoulder. Akio just looked apologetic and a bit stupid. Then she looked at Dark who was still giving the teacher a suspicious look, the look he was giving basically said, an egg…we're taking care of an egg? Krad had a similar thought in her head, only less…openly suspiciousabout it.
"And now, get together with your partner and I'll hand the chicken eggs out."
The thief's lips curved up to a smirk, he was trying hard not to laugh at the wrongness of it all. He got up and headed to Krad, "So we're partners eh?"
The blonde looked bored, "You weren't listening either?"
There was a moment, then the teacher came by and put an egg down in front of them, also known as, on Krad's desk. The egg had a little belt on it, with a wig and a cape and maybe some drawn on spandex, it could look like superman in an egg form. The two started at it, and they stared at it, and they stared at it. Mentally willing it to either hatch or boil on the spot. And the egg just stayed on the desk looking rather…eggy.
Dark picked it up, "This? We're supposed to be taking care of this? How hard could it be?" He threw it up and caught it, earning a glare from the teacher. And then bam! The egg started crying, Krad stared at it rather horrified while Dark nearly dropped it, they stared at the egg in his hand, the crying egg in his hand. "Holy McKrappers! It's crying!"
"Yes, Dark, that's what happens when you mistreat or neglect your child."
"I thought it was an egg."
"Well it is, but it's your temporary child."
"But it's an egg! With a belt!"
"Pretend it's your kid!"
"Do we have to feed it?"
"Yes."
"How? It doesn't have a mouth."
The teacher passed out a little baby bottle shaped magnet, "You use this."
Dark looked at the magnet then at the crying egg, "How can you tell whether it's hungry or sleepy or something?"
"They have different cries for each one."
"It won't have accidents or something will it?"
"No! Now stop that egg of yours! The crying is driving me crazy!"
"What do I do? I don't think it's hungry…"
"Rock it!"
Dark blinked, the first thing he thought of was chucking a rock at the egg but then he doubted that's what the teacher mean and started shaking it rather violently, "It's not working…"
"What are you trying to do? Kill it? Rock it gently!"
"Ohhh…" Dark stopped shaking it and began shaking it gently soon it stopped crying while everyone else's began to cry. The teacher gave a maniacal scream and ran out the class. The thief stared at his and Krad's egg and blinked, "Come on Krad, let's get out of here, I wanna see who Dai-chan's with."
The blonde shrugged and headed outside with the thief, the hallway was no better, there were crying eggs everywhere and egg yolk splattered against the walls, Krad blinked, "I see some of the eggs have been murdered already…"
"Hey Dai-chan!" The redhead smiled and waved to the two, in his other hand, held an egg, "I see you have an egg too."
"Yup!"
"Who's the mom or dad? Depending who's more masculine…"
"Hiwatari-kun!"
The thief half choked, "What? Aren't you supposed to be paired up with a girl?"
"Our class has more boys than girls so I'm paired with Hiwatari-kun. You look happy, I can only imagine who you were paired with."
"Krad of course."
"I thought so."
"Dark-san!"
The three blinked and looked at the brunette running towards them, Dark looked at the blonde who had her fists clenched already, thank god the egg was with him or else it might not be exactly…eggy anymore…
"Dark-san, mou, I can't believe I was paired with Takeshi! We shouldn't be paired up by class! It's not fair is it?" The thief remained silent, "Don't tell me you were paired up with her…"
"But I am…"
"That's completely unfair!"
Then Riku came out and dragged her off, "Risa, your fellow lezzie chums are beckoning you."
"I'll be right back!"
Dark and Krad blinked, and took the chance to walk away before that ever happened. "You think she's actually…"
"I don't know."
Then someone stopped them half way, the two blinked, "You two."
Dark frowned, "Who are you again?"
"I'm your manager for your modeling career club thing. Hagane Ando."
Then he remembered, "Oh yea…has that club even started yet?"
"Yes, you're just not aware of it, but it has, and now we have this contest thing that involves a fairytale theme so you two have been cast into the drama production."
"What?"
"You two have been cast into the drama production which is actually by the class which you just came from and they needed extra people and we needed the theme thing so you two are in the play."
Krad's eyes narrowed, "What play?"
"Little Mermaid. Hikari-chan, you're the mermaid and Dark, you're the prince."
Dark whooped while Krad felt her jaw drop, not literally. The little mermaid needed her jaw for the play after all… The thief grinned, knowing that he, of course had ended up with the role for the fairest of them all, in male terms. The hunter on the other hand, mentally slapped herself over and over and over again trying to wake herself up, needless to say, it didn't work. And so, Hagane, their manager for the club that they had involuntarily joined which had started without them knowing, shoved a script into their arms and headed off, "Get your lines memorized in a couple days!"
The thief flipped through the script, there were only what? Twenty lines max. He looked over at the blonde to find her still frozen in spot, he grinned and gave her a light kiss on the lips which immediately snapped her out of her trance. She blushed, "Ugh! Why'd do you that?"
"To wake you up little mermaid dear."
Krad grumbled under her breath and began to read over the script while Dark gave a yelp as their eggy child began to wail again.
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Deep down near the bottom of the sea, a little mermaid who went by the name of Krad swam happily along with her many sisters.
Why was she the mermaid? It wasn't fair!
Krad had always been fascinated by human beings and couldn't wait till her next birthday when she'd finally be old enough to go to the surface and watch them.
That was a filthy, filthy lie, she hated humans! She wished she could kill each and every single one of those useless whiny little mortals…
She'd often collect their treasure which had ended up in the ocean for one reason or another, she hid a cave-full of them, away from her father, the king of the sea. For he held no love for the land creatures.
They made her sound like a thief! Dark was the thief! She mentally screamed.
Finally, on her birthday, she took the opportunity to go above the surface to watch the humans which had intrigued her so. It was a stormy night, Krad heard a distressed call from one of the ships she had been watching.
Geeze…they made her sound like a stalker…she'd been 'watching' them…ugh…
Apparently the prince, who was on the ship, had fallen overboard.
Ha! Take that!
Krad swam as fast as she could to the drowning prince.
He really shouldn't have been in a boat if he couldn't swim…he was just begging to be drowned.
As fast as she could, she brought him ashore onto the sand where he laid motionless. The little mermaid bit her lip worriedly, then leaned in until their lips met and she breathed into him.
Ew…just, ew, who'd want to save the idiot?
The prince coughed and sputtered, Krad waited until he was breathing quietly again, she decided to leave but found herself unable to as she was mesmerized by the beauty of the prince.
Pffft, they only wished…
But she was snapped out of her trance when voices approached them, calling out rather loudly, "Dark-sama! Dark-sama!" The mermaid sighed and quietly slipped back into the water and watched from afar as people went and rescued the prince.
Great, she was a thief, some kindly mermaid and a coward, a shy coward who ran away at the sight of people.
Dark was sputtering senselessly about the 'golden angel' he had saw on the brink of death.
Golden eyes rolled…again.
The mermaid's heart suddenly felt incomplete, over the next few days all she could think of was the prince. How she wished to be human, to be able to walk around freely…with the prince. Finally, the desire became overwhelming and she went to seek help from the sea witch.
Oh goody, a sea witch…now if only she had a wall to bang her head against...
"Oh how I wish to be human! Won't you help me please?" Cried the little mermaid in her melodious voice which was the joy and pride of her father.
Krad half choked, ignoring the semi-concerned look Dark shot her, great, now she had to beg. Not to mention she had to have a 'melodious' voice…she snorted.
"Do you truly wish to be human that much?"
"Oh yes! More than anything!"
Don't do it! You twit! Being human sucked! No! Why did they have to go and make her some idiotic, kind and wimpy little mermaid?
"Very well, but there's a payment to all this of course."
"Anything!"
Was she really that desperate? Desperado was an understatement...
"You will have to give up your voice and if he doesn't fall in love with you wholly enough to defy his parents and marries you within a week you'll disappear forever."
"What if he does?"
"Then you'll get your voice back and you'll be able to live happily ever after."
All for the price of her beloved voice…
No! Don't do it!
"You have yourself a deal."
Ahhhh! What an idiot! Why did the make her so stupid?
And so, the witch casted a spell.
And hopefully the witch screwed up and she blew up so the story would end.
And when the blonde tried to speak to thank the witch, nothing came out. "Go now, before you die without reaching the surface. When you reach the surface, people will soon see you as the fairest of the land."
Why did that sound so…familiar?
Taking the warning seriously, the little mermaid swam to the surface only to find that her flipper soon disappeared half way and was replaced by legs and some article of clothing that got in the way as she kicked to reach the surface.
Damn, so much for the story ending…at least the rest of the story would only involve her miming things out…
When she broke through to the surface with a gasp, she crawled onto the beach and inhaled deep gulps of the invited air. She stared in wonder at her feet and kicked them about, testing them, then she heard a voice, "You!"
Oh bloody hell…
Krad looked over to find a figure running to her, moments later, she found that it had been the prince, she tried to speak but no words came out. So she just continued watching him as he approached. "It's you! The golden angel that saved me…are you not?"
Well, since she couldn't speak, she merely blinked and watched him offer a hand to help her get up. She accepted it and was pulled to her new wobbly feet, unable to balance at first, she lost her balance and fell into the prince who caught her.
Great, now she was partially handicapped too and she needed help from Dark! Dark of all people!
They stayed in the same position for a moment longer before Krad tried to stand again, this time, she succeeded, and she took an experimental step forward. The mermaid was delighted as she walked and jumped about.
What? She was to frolic about? Suddenly, Krad feared for her dignity…or what was left of it.
The prince smiled at her delight and laughed along with her, "Fair lady, will you grace me with your name?"
Krad opened her mouth, but again, not a single sound came out. She couldn't help but feel terribly saddened inside. She tried to mouth the words, hoping that Dark would guess the right name. "Kray? Kuralle? Krad?"
Krad was speechless at the stupidity of it all…she really was.
The mermaid shook her head happily at the last name guessed, Dark smiled to himself, proud that he had gotten the maiden's name. Soon she found herself dressed in the finest silk while following the prince around the castle ruled by his parents. Beautiful female slaves and servants sang before the royal family, one singing better than the other.
So Dark was a slave owner now? Good gods…
The little mermaid felt crestfallen, if only the prince knew that she'd given up her voice just to be with him…Dark had noticed the sorrowful maiden looking down at her feet, sympathizing how horrible it must be to be voiceless, he look her hand and lead her to his room. "You will stay by my side forever, little angel."
Ack…cheesiness…Dark sounded like a pervert...no wait, that was normal! Who would've thought...she rolled her eyes again, sooner or later her eyes were going to roll out of her sockets...
And so, she had accompanied him in all his activities, from walking around on the beach to simply sitting around on the top of a hill that they had climbed. At night, when the household were sleeping, she'd sneak out to the beach and watch the waters which she'd come from.
Then a sea monster came up and ate her!
Then she saw her sisters, she waved and beckoned them with her hands, they swam over to the shore and wept for her. Krad could see her father watching from afar, not daring to swim as close to the shore as her sisters had. Her sisters whispered their love and care for her as dawn broke and she had to return to the prince.
Krad sighed, cheesy, cheesy, cheesy, her poor, poor pride…
Krad had grown to love the prince more fondly, though he still hadn't thought of making her his wife, nor was he aware that in a couple days, when he was to marry another, she would die and never return…the mermaid looked up, eyes pleading, 'don't you love me best?'
"You are dearest to me, little angel." Dark said, "you remind me so much of the angel that had rescued me when I was thrown overboard…she is the only one I could love. But you're just like her and I find myself forgetting her when I'm around you. Good fortunes have sent you to me and we will never part."
The blonde had a sudden humorous thought, would Dark actually be able to memorize these long lines? She had but what? Three lines? Poor, poor Dark, his brain might explode…
'He does not know it was me who saved him…' She thought sadly, 'he probably thinks we'll never meet again but here I am standing beside him…' They soon boarded a ship which took them to a neighboring country where the prince's fiancé was.
They were on a boat again? Weren't they the least bit worried about the prince drowning…again? He didn't know how to swim for god sake! A little push and…a grin lit her face.
"You don't fear the sea do you?" Krad blinked and shook her head and continued looking out the deck, the prince sighed, "I do not wish to marry this princess of a distant land…if possible I'd rather marry you. But I cannot deny my parents' wishes…" He kissed her and let his hand play through strands of gold before heading back to his room.
In the moonlight, Krad once again sat on the deck by herself, watching her sisters swim along the ship, crying for her. She knew she had been tricked by the sea witch for there was no possible way for her to be married to the prince with but a day and night left.
…man was the mermaid gullible, all this for Dark? …that sounded so wrong…
The next day, while waiting for the princess to show up, the little mermaid had sat on the beach looking out into the sea with longing in her eyes. She gave a sigh when foot steps approached her, "It was you wasn't it?" She blinked, "You were the golden angel who saved me from the brink of death that day! I can't believe I never noticed! And here you've been…always tolerant and patient with me…forgive me little angel…"
Dark didn't notice much apparently...
Krad embraced the prince, feeling her heart break. His wedding was the next morning, her last hours alive…
Self-sacrifice simply sucked…Krad sighed and read on.
When the princess showed up, the prince had kissed her while she played with his hair. The little mermaid looked away and headed back to the boat. That night, her sisters appeared again, only this time, they no longer had gleaming long hair, "We've given our hair to the sea witch for this." They held up a dagger, "This knife is very sharp.
Again, golden eyes rolled, hmmm...a knife, now why on earth would it be sharp? Krad thought sarcastically. Mermaids simply had no logic, like knives are sharp, jelly fishes stung, sea witches were evil and Dark was an idiot.
"You must pierce the prince's heart with this tonight. And when his blood flows to your feet, you will have a fish's tail again and you can come back to us! You must make haste, you have but a couple hours before dawn and then you will vanish eternally…"
Finally, an interesting part, Krad mentally cheered at the thought of stabbing Dark.
As Krad pulled away the curtain to the bed, she found Dark asleep with his bride asleep on his chest. She gave him a kiss on the lips, when she looked out, she could see the sky reddening. Dawn was approaching. She held the knife above him with trembling hands, and when he whispered the name of his bride in his dreams. Krad drew the knife back and clutched it against her chest, tears streaming down her face, a hand covered her mouth as she wept.
It was the first time she'd cried, she wept for her sister who had sacrificed their hair, she wept for the fact that she was never to see them again, she wept for the prince she could not kill. The little mermaid found that no matter the circumstance, she simply couldn't bring herself to kill her beloved prince. 'I'm sorry…I'm sorry, I love you too much to do this…'
Then she chucked the knife into the ocean which ended up staining the water red as it dissolved. Krad looked up at the sun which had rose now and looked back at the prince as she began to fade, "Dark…goodbye…"
And then she was gone completely. Moments later the prince awoke, he thought he had heard for the first time, the voice of the golden angel. But when he looked around, there was no one in site with the exception of his bride. He got up and looked around the ship wondering where the blonde had disappeared off to. Then he looked over at the water seeing the red stains in the sea, his heart snapped in half as he realized that he was never going to see the angel ever again…
The End.
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Whoa…Krad blinked, that certainly was…touching…to some extend. Dark was watching her waiting for a reaction. He got nothing. Hagane on the other hand, showed up and smiled, "What do you think of it? Ready to act?"
The blonde watched him for a moment longer before declaring, "You can't make me!"
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Nya
Here's the drama part of the fic! Little mermaid along with Krad's side comments! I always wanted to make this into a play XP This isn't the disney version, nope, it's the hans christian anderson version, the original! Only the original, little mermaid turns into one of the nicey nicey spirits...Krad just kinda dies XP I always liked the original more than the disney version...As for the eggs...imagine fifty million crying eggs at school >.>;; bloody hell! But I have plans for them :)
As for reviews...well...my internet's acting messed up believe it or not -sigh sigh sigh- and won't load the reviews page T.T But hugs and kisses (chocolate version) all around :) School started and I'm having hell of a (bad) time...so if I don't respond to reviews as much it's simply because I don't have time -sob sob sob- and...what else...oh yea, coffee is good XD and mimes are perverts! yea...enjoy enjoy and thanks:D