"Right here, I got this strange word, Yam-"
"Famak!"
Before Kokoro could pronounce the whole word thousands of strings descended upon her. Several pierced her hands holding the book. Some hit her shoulders and more still her legs and the rest of her arms. Strings were straight, from the sky well into the ground. If Kokoro were to try and move her hands would be ripped apart.
"If you give us the book now, the scares from these strings will be barely visible, but these can get thicker and much more painful" he said in a high scratchy voice.
Sai ordered the two from the roof top, "Hurry up and give the kid the order to give us that book, Kokoro, after all this has got to hurt."
The boy had picked up his book, "I'm not giving it up this soon!"
"Fine," Sai glared at Kokoro, "we gave you a warning Kokoro"
Pocket Notebook
Chapter 2
"Famak!" Sai shouted to the air, the thin threads that pierced Kokoro grew pencil thick and raced down the thin strings from the wicked child's fingertips.
Kokoro just bent her head lower and whimpered slightly.
"Stop it, you're here for me aren't you!" the boy yelled at the two on the roof.
"Okay," Sai muttered and half the strings in Kokoro snapped from the child's hand and they viciously whipped themselves into the ground. Lashing at Kokoro's back in the process. Kokoro's scream was a tiny, almost inaudible squeak. Her hands, legs and shoulders were still all pierced, just a couple hundred less threads.
"Famak!" a single cord, with the thickness of a large man's thumb stabbed the boy's shoulder.
Unlike Kokoro, he screamed. Kokoro's eyes widened in fear. Sai, her Sai, was going to stab the two of them to death. The strings now paralyzed the two of them. It was clear to Kokoro that this boy would not be giving that strange book up to Sai. A slight whimper from the white dog beside her gave her an idea.
"Yuki sweetie" Kokoro whispered, "honey, stay there, when I hit the ground attack the thin rope over there," her eyes glanced at the boy holding his shoulder in clear pain. He was still holding the strange book in his hand with blood running down his arm, "can you do that for me?"
Yuki, the white dog, gave a quite moan to show he understood.
"Good boy," Kokoro smiled. Then all at once she let her body go limp. Her body fell against strings. They cut against her skin. She bit her lip deeply wanting to scream. If she screamed that would destroy everything.
Sai starred at Kokoro's limp body, "She fainted," doubt was quite clear in her voice, "I thought she could endure much more. Oh well" the strings binding Kokoro were released and whipped into the ground in the same fashion as before.
Yuki raced across the yard and viscously bit the cord. Successfully the cord snapped it was much easier then Kokoro had thought. As the cord whistled dashing to the ground Kokoro jumped up to her feet, and her tired body ran at Bijutsu. The second the rope had passed through Kokoro picked up the boy and ran.
"Yuki! Come boy!" Yuki glared at the rooftop and growled. The boy's blood that had dripped down the cord showed on his mussel. He turned on his tail and ran after the two.
"Sai! Why don't you give chase, cast the spell!" the evil child yelled holding his arm in their direction.
"I've got other things I want to do today, besides, if I just finished her off now where the old times sake fun in it?"
"Miss Kokoro where are we running?" the boy asked; now running on his own right after her.
"My big brother and Mina's house. Sa-Sai knows them, but she's never been over to their house. If you need to find tonight you can pra-probably stay with us to-tonight" she stammered for breath.
They ran up to a house that was a dog-less clone of the one the fight had taken place. Kokoro, the boy, and Yuki dashed into the front door and slammed it behind them.
A woman's voice yelled form the kitchen, "Katori! I've told you to--" a black haired tall woman, wearing an apron over her light blue T-shirt and jeans froze at the sight of Kokoro and a child with wounds and Yuki with blood stains around his mouth. "KOROKO! OMIGAWD! YOU'RE HURT AND THESE TWO! YUKI YOU BAD MUTT! YOU WERE BITING PEOPLE?"
"Mi-mina, if Yuki hadn't been there we would have died. Onee-chan I-I really" Kokoro's eyes blurred, "really hurt, this kid too" and with that Kokoro collapsed on the floor.
Kokoro's eyes opened fuzzily hours later, she could only tell this because it was dark out side and in the room. The boy's orange hair covered his face. He was sitting cross-legged, and hugging his precious book.
He looked right up into her blues and she saw right inside his red eyes. Immediately she looked down and madly blushed. "kid…" she whispered, "what happened today,"
"Your niece poked my shoulder for the longest time and you sister-in-la-"
"You know that's not what I was asking. Why did Sai change, and your book, why did she want it?"
"Your friend, Miss Sai, right? She got entangled with a Mamodo child with no heart."
"A Mamodo child? Mamodo's are just imps and monsters of myth,"
"We're real."
"'We're real'? You're one of them too?" emotion was carefully kept out of her voice.
"Yes, we've come to fight to become the King of our world, in order to do so we must partner with a human, the human that can read our spell book. The child that fights and doesn't have his book burn is the new king."
"Do you want to become the king?"
"Who doesn't? If you're the king, everyone is your butler and you can get all the fish you want."
"Your greedy, you stupid imp!" she whispered, lying on her side facing away from him, as she fought back her tears. "Why does Sai fight me, why did she try to kill us" she voice trembling slightly.
He sighed and starred at his feet, "I said Sai encountered a child with no heart, if a Mamodo has a stronger evil will then it's human partner they can easily play mind games with them."
"I want my Sai back, how do I get my Sai back." she quietly spoke, as she crunched her body in a circle.
"Burn the book, if the Mamodo book is burned its ties with this world is broken. This would probably include breaking spells placed upon a human heart."
Rubbing her eyes Kokoro spoke trembling slightly less, "so, I burn that thing's book and that thing's gone?"
Gripping his book, "yes,"
Kokoro sighed and got to her feet. Some one had bandaged her up and changed her clothes into a white men shirt and white comfy shorts. The guestroom she was in had a cream carpet and vanilla curtains hung next to the window showing the starless sky. An alarm clock sat beside a table lamp on the nightstand. It blinked two 'o four.
Kokoro had stayed here so often that when she opened the closet behind the sliding mirrors it was her spare clothes, and extra red school uniform, and basic supplies. Such as bath towels, soap, and shampoo. "Okay, I need a bath, when I get back be asleep in the bed, but leave some room for me okay?"
It took Bijutsu a moment to register what was said, but he smiled and crawled into the bed.
"And kid," Kokoro said looking at the wall in front of her.
The boy curiously answered, "Yeah?"
"What's your name?"
He happy smiled, "I am I!"
Kokoro turned and faced the boy, some how her face had gone evil, "answer me for real!" she whispered in a harsh voice.
The boy was ready to cry, "Bijutsu."
Kokoro's face snapped back to normal, she turned and walked out of the room muttering, "oh, Art"
Kokoro drew her bath herself and she sat in the middle of the steaming water, no one was around, she wouldn't draw attention t her self from unwanted eyes. She covered eyes in her wet soapy hands.
A single memory ran trough her head, the day Sai and she had met.
"Kokoro your red brown hair is so weird. Why is it so messy?" a little boy snared in her face.
"I it just---" Kokoro tried to answer.
All the children around her burst into laughter.
"Why is it so long? That's really old fashioned and ugly" the girl beside the boy laughed.
"Daddy likes--" once more the children burst out laughing.
Another one of the boys yanked Kokoro's hair. "I've got scissors, let's update her image a bit!" he yanked hard and pulled out a craft zig-zag edge scissors. One girl in the back suddenly ran off, no one noticed.
All the kids burst out laughing as more children grabbed Kokoro's arms.
"No, No! I like my hair! Don't, don't--" to late the scissors had sliced through the hair beside her ear. The children sliced her hair into a puffy mess. One of the boys pushed Kokoro to the ground and kicked her stomach. All the kids joined in and kicked her and stomped on her.
"Cut that out!" a man and a woman stood next to a small girl shouting at the children, who took of. One yelled back, "Sai you stupid tattle tale!"
Kokoro was left on the ground as Sai helped her to her feet.
At the time Sai's coca eyes were large and her hair was the same brown. They uttered apologies and thanks and from that moment Kokoro had always clung to Sai. Nowadays Sai had bleached her hair and Kokoro had grown her back out.
More thoughts ran through Kokoro's head, she had been dependant on Sai, it must have been annoying.
The next morning, despite Mina's yells, Katori's cries, and Hino's pleads, Kokoro got up in the morning and marched her was to school, carrying the book and Bijutsu followed her hidden in the trees.
Kokoro arrived at the school with no problem that was until…
"Kokoro! Kokoro!" Fuyu, the girl with short black hair, jogged up, wearing red pants instead of her skirt.
Kokoro grabbed her heart; man did that scare her. "WAH! Oh, hey, what's up Fuyu? Huh, why are you in guys uniform again?"
"You know I've told you that guys clothes are comfier, but that doesn't matter! Kokoro, you've got to get Sai under control, she has gone to a new level of strange, you two are the best of friends, she looks like a whore!"
Kokoro was blown over by the news, "Sa-sa-sa-sa-Sai, Sai looks like a wh-who-who- that?"
"Yeah! And what happened to your arms and legs?"
"Nothing," Kokoro stammered as she was pushed into a classroom full with perverted upperclassmen. Sai stood in the middle, a smaller skirt that was tight on her butt had replaced her red skirt and it had been cut and re-sowed to be short as a mini skirt. Sai had obviously gone to one of the expensive hair and make up places.
"Sa-Sai? Um, Fuyu and Yuki outside the door ah, have a spa-a spa- a spear skirt for you to-to use.
"Ah Kokoro," Sai said calmly pushing the boys out of the way. Sai forced her way into Kokoro's face.
Kokoro was blushing and trembling, speechless with Sai's actions.
"You think that in front of people you know your safe from my attack? Safe from Matsuro and I? Think that things will return to normal? Sorry, you're wrong. Today after school lets met at our old playground. I'll crush you then leave this forsaken school and get rich. I'll have power and you'll be left here with nothing for you, not even a five-year-old child.
Sai pushed Kokoro into the nearest pervert and stomped out of the room, not even glancing at Fuyu and Yuki as she left school for the day.
Kokoro rushed herself away from the guy trying now to grab what was thrown at him, hey, for him it was a freebie.
A/N:
I edited this chapter to make it readible.
I don't own Zatch Bell,
chapter so please enjoy:
Me: Kokoro get on stage
Kokoro does so wrapped in a towel
Me: for this act you get into the bath and you cry, remember your friend just full out attacked you and are your going to have to fight her.
Kokoro: yeah I get that, what I don't get is how come I'm taking a bath as a mummy. Doctors always say not to get stitches wet so why am I getting all my holes wet.
Me: the audience won't notice, just walk sexy
Kokoro: I don't want to walk sex
Me: hey I'm writing this!
Kokoro: fine.
Kokoro walks into bath hesitates with her hands under water. Brings them up and hid her eyes in them.
Kokoro: ow! Crap this hurts! Soap!
Me: Kokoro that's not in the script!
Kokoro jumps out of the water and goes to sink and flushes the soap out of her eyes.
Me: uh… retake in five.
Yes this came to me as I fell asleep.