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Wind's view

I looked at Jeb's face. He hadn't appeared for ages, and somewhere during that time his face had gained a troubled, serious, grave look that had not been there before. His fiery hair was smaller than usual, his eyes a bit duller. I looked at him worriedly. What had happened? Even Dusky had said that Jeb hadn't been appearing in her dreams for the past few days.

'Hi Jeb.'

'Wind.' He acknowledged me. I widened my eyes in shock. Something was definitely wrong. He didn't even say his normal hi!

'What the hell happened?'

'Language, Wind.'

'Sorry.'

So I just went into the bare tree where I sat near him. His old-but-young-at-the-same-time looks (hey, he looked like a old man but at the same time looked like twenty year old/six year old at the same time. After headache-ing over it for awhile, I just gave up and thought he was like an old grandpa.)

He frowned, his eyebrows knotting together in the middle of his forehead, and turned to me and in the oldest voice I've heard him use (he always acted like a six year old until now. This was starting to really freak me out) he talked to me quietly.

'Some higher ups are giving me trouble...' I frowned at him.

'What trouble?' He seemed to be mulling over it awhile before telling me.

'I haven't been doing my paperwork. I hate paperwork...' he said in a depressed voice.

I burst out laughing.

'So that's it! Just stop procrastinating and get to it then!' He turned into his own Jebby self.

'But I don't want tooooooooo!' He whined to me, giving me a long suffering look. I chuckled a bit.

'Ah, stop making excuses and get to work.' He immediately acted depressed again. His hair drooped.

'Yeah... I wanted to play chess though. I studied so hard...'

I sighed and changed the topic.

'Hey Jeb, I'm doing the operation right now. I wonder what's happening?'

'Yeah...'

'Stop acting depressed already!'

'Yeah...'

'Jeb, are you even listening to me?'

'Yeah...' I scrunched up my face in annoyance. I tried another approach in making him at least look like he was paying attention to me. Hmm, what should I say?

'You like dancing in the nude in front of your lady friends.' I said bluntly.

'Yeah...'

I sighed. Plan fail. Time to give a pep talk.

'Get back to work then you dolt. The faster you finish, the faster you can play right?' He suddenly looked at me and stood up with renewed vigour.

'It was nice meeting you, Wind. I'm probably going to die from all that paperwork.'

'You too, you too.' I smiled at him. 'Now do your work and come back to play chess with me.' He sighed.

'Ok. I always lose anyway. See you in a few weeks... So troublesome. I won't be able to help you for awhile, so just cope, ok?' in his normal grandfatherly voice.

I made a crossed-eyed face at him and he just stepped side-ways and disappeared, giving me his customary wave. I smiled. It was nice to know that he was (slightly) more normal now. Not that he was ever "normal".

Jeb's view...

I sighed again. I was probably going to meet hell over this. Maybe even needing a few weeks to clear up. Though I knew it was going to clear up. Because I didn't do anything wrong.

I hadn't lied to Wind about the paperwork. I just didn't tell her which stack of paperwork I haven't been doing. I'll probably go into prison again, not that I minded because they did all my paperwork last time I got sentenced. I had just lazed about watching TV for about two weeks while they slaved away at my workload. I had a sneaking suspicion that they had let me out because they had gotten sick of doing my work for me while I relaxed and did nothing.

It was boring though, doing nothing for more than a few days. I sighed. I didn't want to get bored...

I stepped out of the portal into my office and immediately got surrounded.

'Middle-universe first citizen Jeb. We arrest you on the ground of withheld information on the subject of the wish...'

Blah blah blah... Don't they have anything productive to say?

I carefully wrapped my computer in its case. My beautiful computer couldn't be left here to collect dust! What if it got sabotaged, or worse, killed by my assistants for their technological deficiency?

I interrupted them mid-sentence after wrapping my computer carefully and putting it under my arm.

'So can I go to the jail now? It's so boring sitting here just hearing the words I've listened to before twice in my life already.'

The people surrounding me smiled. They had been the ones who were in charge of arresting me before too.

'Yeah. I remember the first time was because of withheld information as well. And then later it was found that it was because you were too lazy to do work. The second time too.'

'Yup. Though I am a bit tired, with the new wish from the planet EARTH being a handful. The people involved are fun to play chess with though. I always lose.'

'You? Lose? There's a surprise. We always knew you sucked at chess, First-citizen Jeb.' My arresters laughed good-naturedly.

'Well, I'm improving. I've been studying chess methods till my hair drooped. See?' I patted my head. 'I think I need that new hair-product to get it up again...'

'Fancy a game in prison then?'

'Why not? I kinda love prison; they do all the paperwork for me... Though now I can't play chess with my charge. She's kind of like a grand-daughter to me now. I can't help her situation in jail either...'

'Yeah. You're lucky then, to get a girl who can play chess. I remember when I had a charge from this land where these weirdo blobs ruled the world. It was a horrifying experience, I tell you...'

I trailed after him. The other guards were acting kind of relaxed.

'Hey, can you help relieve my boredom in jail?'

'Nah, have other work to do.' My hair drooped again.

'I hate being bored...'

'Act your age for once. I remember you whining about it the second time. If you hate jail so much, start doing work!'

'I AM acting my age...'

They just laughed and, somehow at the same time, sighed at me. Hey, I was a prodigy here! All the other stars my age were still finishing university!

I shook my head later. They just don't appreciate higher intelligence levels. I wonder how Wind was doing?

Maybe I should have told her that her little brother had remembered her. And was visiting her every week…

Wind's view...

Well, after Jeb's wonderful, startling revelation of him not doing paperwork (was it really that depressing?) I had just started to laze about and do nothing.

It was boring.

I sighed.

What was going on in the real world? I tickled a piece of yellow grass against the tree. Maybe it was all frantic and hectic...

I yawned and rolled on my back again. I looked as bright yellow clouds floated over the yellow sky. I closed my eyes and just breathed in the air.

I bet Dusky would be so worried right now. And then yell at me for sleeping so peacefully in here…

Dusky's view...

'Dusketha-sama! Dusketha-sama!' a frantic knock on the log-book door came through. I had been sitting in the log-place with Kurapika, Gon, Killua and two boys named Henry and Tsume with Leorio sleeping next to us.

They had called me this morning from training to talk to me about that note…

I yawned and splashed my face. It wasn't even dawn yet, and I had to be up training these big element-controlling oafs. Loveable oafs, but still oafs.

I staggered outside the door and a maid immediately guided me to the training rooms. I sighed as my eyes met another scene of them sleeping with booze bottles next to them. What was with these people and alcohol? I kicked the nearest one in the ribs.

The person groaned and glared at me. Then realised who I was and immediately tried to jump up, but tripped over their feet instead.

'AAH DUSKY-SAMA! WHY ARE YOU SO EARLY?' He sounded panicked. I closed my eyes.

'It's training time, you dolt…' I yawned. 'Wake them all up. Now.' I heard some crackling and opened my eyes. I laughed out loud then. All of the people's… umm…backsides were on fire. Literally. I wiped my eyes and clapped my trusty guard on the back.

'You can stop now.' The fires immediately went out. The other guards glared balefully at him.

'Traitor.'

'How can you do that to us?'

'Look! I have a hole in my pants!'

They grumbled good-naturedly at the poor guard I had ordered, at me, and everything and anything in general, while rubbing their butts. I sat down on a comfortable couch and clapped, laughing quietly at this bunch of loveable lugs. Serves them right for drinking and sleeping in while I had to get up and train them. Everyone snapped to attention.

'Right. Now clean the training rooms without your powers and start running sixty laps around the field. Then do eight hundred push-ups, then eight-hundred sit-ups, then eight-hundred of those knee-training thingies and then repeat. That's all for today.'

They gaped at me.

'Dusky is being unnaturally nice.' They muttered while huddling in a group. My ear perked up.

'Yeah. Let's take advantage of it.'

'Shouldn't we do something more, or something?'

'Stop being a goody-goody, K'

I let them off, just this once. I curled up in the comfortable chair and nearly drifted off to sleep.

'You can start anytime before the century ends, boys.' They jumped and immediately tried to look busy.

'We are working!' They called, as they scrambled everywhere, tripping over one-another. I sometimes wonder if they really are the strongest troupe in the country. Why the heck were the so afraid of me?

'Good…' I mumbled. Then I fell asleep again.

'Dusky! We are having a meeting in the log-place!' I heard a man's voice say somewhere in front of me. I cracked one of my eyes open and glared.

'Who dares to wake me from my sleep?'

Another person immediately pulled away the person trying to wake me and whispered quietly, but still audibly, to him.

'Don't wake up Dusky! If anyone besides Wind-sama does it, she literally maims them! The last butler who tried is still in hospital!' I heard a gulp and then a sharp jabby thing jabbed me in my ribs.

I sat up.

'Who is it?' I said, fully awake now. I had been having such a lovely time in the blue-dimension too. Every person in the room shrank away and pointed to a guy who was holding a broom.

'Hi,' he grinned at me.

'Leorio.' I growled. 'What do you want?'

'We're having a meeting. It concerns Wind.' I was out of the comfortable chair in a flash.

'Lead the way.' He nodded, smiled and went towards the door. I glared at the silently cheering people behind me. Some were already slacking off.

'If you try to slack off, I will know. And I will punish you appropriately. And you know what that means.'

They immediately stopped cheering and went pale.

'YES, DUSKY-SAMA!' They yelled in unison. Some of them couldn't keep their grins off their faces though.

'Good.' I nodded and followed Leorio.

In the records place, Leorio rapped a beat onto the door and Gon's eyes peeked out.

'Leorio! We were just talking! Come in Dusky, and Leorio, remember to get Chiiyo!' Leorio nodded and went off again. I remembered my silver contacts.

If you ever go anywhere near Kurapika, remember to wear your silver contacts. No buts. Wind's voice echoed in my brain. I quickly turned around, grabbed my container of silver contacts and put both of them in carefully. Then I turned around again to smile at Gon.

'Lead the way Gon!'

'Ok!' He nodded happily and led me to where Killua, Kurapika (my inner fan-girl screamed), and two boys sat. Gon sat between Killua and one of the two boys.

'Hi, Henry!' Gon said the, who I presumed was Henry. Henry nodded at him and cracked a grin.

'Hi, Tsume!' The boy next to Henry smiled and waved gently.

I moved forward and the two boys looked up. And blanched. And then immediately got up and saluted me.

'GENERAL LIANNE-SAMA! I'M SORRY FOR THE IMPUDENCE OF SITTING BEFORE YOU!' they practically screamed out in fear. I raised an eyebrow.

'Why?'

'You're a legend! They say you beat one-hundred assassins that wanted to kill Wind-sama once! In one hit!' The boy Henry stuttered out nervously.

'And that you learnt more than one-hundred and one ways to kill a person in a single attack!'

'And that you are fantastic at martial arts and a training demon in disguise!'

'And that the royal guards, the best in the country live in fear of upsetting you!'

'And that even Wind-sama shows you respect!'

'And there's the one where you climbed up the highest mountain in all of Avril to rescue a certain…' I held up a hand.

'Whoa whoa whoa, who the hell told you that?' I said with a raised eyebrow. Was that why the boys (a.k.a the Royal Guards) were so afraid of me? I need to ask them about this…

'Please don't be modest, General Lianne! As a page that will one day become a guard, I really want to be the best of the best, which means joining the royal guards division, which you head! You're my hero! Actually, it's every page's dream to join the division you lead!' Henry beamed at me, his eyes shining. Literally. Stupid creepy anime side-effects.

I backed away, multiple sweat-drops sliding down the back of my head.

'Err…'

'Please sit, General Lianne-sama!' I sat uncomfortably, ignoring the snickers coming from Gon and Killua.

'Please just call me Dusky.'

'I can't say your name with such informality!' Henry almost shouted my ear off. Tsume had already sat, looking at the exchange amusedly. Kurapika was staring fixedly at a piece of paper, trying to suppress his smile (my inner-fan-girl nearly screamed her voice to death at seeing Kurapika suppress his smile. His expression when he did that was so CUTE!).

'I really must insist.' I said firmly.

'Then I will take this honour with utmost seriousness and sincerity!'

He sat down across from me and gazed at me with respectful eyes. Now I was getting really uncomfortable.

'Umm… can you please not stare at me?'

'I'm so sorry!' He immediately turned his head to the floor, his eyes fixed at some random speck on the ground. I now understood why people who got hero-worshipped a lot sometimes said they felt uncomfortable. I arranged my plain old steel staff next to me.

A knock sounded and Gon went and came back with Chiiyo and Leorio.

'I locked the door already. We can start talking now.'

Kurapika nodded and everyone looked at him.

'Please read this note, Dusky and Chiiyo.' He handed it in to me first, and after I read it, I felt my eyes growing hot. My hands started shaking.

'Who is trying to kill Wind?' I said angrily. Everyone looked at me. I handed the note to Chiiyo and I clenched my hands into fists. Gon, Killua, Leorio and Kurapika looked at my eyes. Kurapika was frowning weirdly.

'Are you angry, Dusky?'

'I'm very angry.' I looked at him, my eyeballs nearly steaming with the heat my anger generated.

'Your eyes didn't turn red.' I looked at him confusedly, my anger stopped rising as confusion took its place. Of course it doesn't turn red! I had my contacts on!

'Of course it doesn't!' My anger was fading, and the hotness from my eyes starting bleeding away.

'Oh.' Kurapika seemed happy and disappointed at the same time. I looked up and nearly squealed out loud. He was so cute! My inner fan-girl screamed again. I couldn't take it anymore. I pinched one of his cheeks and pulled.

'Kurapika! You're so cute!' I said while shaking my hand. I was acting like an old aunt with a toddler nephew or something. He frowned and brushed my hand away.

'That hurt.'

'We should get back on topic.' Chiiyo said, finished reading the note. Kurapika nodded and we started talking about possible suspects, etc. (Leorio dropped off to sleep some time there) until the frantic knock came.

'What?' I came to the door, my solid steel staff tapping on the floor. I unlocked the door and a frantic looking messenger started blurting the news.

'The black-elemental division had gone up in fire! And because his Royal Highness Jared II's specialty was chemicals, it started burning and the normal fire-controllers couldn't control the fire anymore and so Wind-sama went in to rescue the people still trapped inside!' I blinked as the words sank into my brain. Then I cursed.

What? That stupid and idiotic... My eyeballs began to grow hot again.

'What?' Someone burst out behind me. I looked back to see Gon trying to calm Killua. 'Where is she now?' Killua shook Gon off and asked the messenger quickly.

'I don't know, but the last I heard she had already saved about thirty people…'

'No, where is the fire?'

The messenger rattled off the directions nervously. Killua immediately took off, followed by Gon trying to catch up with Killua and calm him down. I nodded once to the messenger and looked back.

'Make your own way there. I have something to do. Try to be as helpful as you can, in any way possible.' Henry immediately saluted and ran off. Tsume followed him, and Chiiyo trotted off somewhere. Kurapika went back to wake up Leorio and I looked back at the messenger.

'Lead me to the Royal Guards' training grounds.' He immediately ran off, and I ran after him.

I burst into the door.

'Wind and his Royal Highness Jared II are in trouble. We go now.'

The guards immediately took action, and were ready in a matter of seconds, their faces stony and professional. Their happy personalities were gone in an instant. The messenger gulped nervously.

'Lead us to the fire, quick!' I ordered. The messenger squeaked out something akin to 'yes!' and scurried away really fast. We all ran after him, and I noticed a huge ball of fire outside a window. What the heck was happening?

We ran outside and we reached the building. There were many high earth-walls which obstructed our vision, but it was obvious that the ball of fire was sinking lower and lower. Then it suddenly winked out and a wave of cheers broke out.

Probably Wind's work.

We strode in, and the survivors and other people moved back respectfully.

'Where is her Imperial Highness and Prince Jared the second?' A man came up to me and bowed low.

'They are at the front.' I nodded and looked at my troops.

'Be as helpful as you can. We are Royal Guards, but in certain times, there is also a need to help the needy. Go and assist the people. DO YOU HEAR ME?' I roared.

'YES MA'AM!' Some spectators looked at us, impressed, and the royal guards immediately set to work. I nodded in approval and stopped one of the earth-controllers. I remember he was an organised guy, and was a dependable person.

'Try and clean this all up, ok? Set up rosters, list who survived and who did not. Get details, and tell the others to give me a full report on this later.'

He clicked his heels, saluted to me professionally. Then he winked.

'Better get back to Wind-sama, Dusk. She might need help. Don't worry; we'll sort this mess up for you.' I smiled gratefully and nodded. Then I ran to the front.

Doctor Creed was already there, with Killua and Gon and a little boy who was talking sarcastically to him. They put Wind on a stretcher, her ridiculously long hair scraping the floor and shouted for the people to move.

I followed them, standing next to Gon, looking worried out of his wits, and Killua in a relaxed pose, tension etched into every carefully arranged line of his body.

The little kid was obviously scared for Wind's life too, the tremor in his voice betraying the fear he was hiding behind all the sarcasm.

As they loaded Wind onto the ambulance, the little kid in a scared voice asked 'Is she going to die?'

'Let's hope not kid, let's hope not,' said Killua, his voice neutral and calm, his voice already betraying his own thoughts about the subject.

I jumped into the car.

'General Lianne-sama! You shouldn't be here!' I looked scathingly at Doctor Creed. Who did he think he was, telling me to stay away from Wind when she was in danger?

'Who are you, to order me around? Get back to work.' A flash of annoyance flickered on his face, but it disappeared so fast I couldn't be sure if it was just me and my still-hot eyeballs, especially since he had bent down again, hiding his face, and injected something into Wind's system.

I held her hand, as the ambulance rushed down empty roads. I wished that this was just one of her tricks, that she would wake up and yell surprise or something. Anything but this.

'We need to start the operation immediately after they reach my operation room! Get the equipment ready, and drive faster! Or Wind-sama might die!'

'Yessir!'

I closed my eyes and prayed.

Tama – Earth

Benny passed the ball to me. I dribbled the ball forward and kicked. It went flying into the net, the goalie being too slow to match my awesome soccer skills. I wasn't the star player for nothing.

BEEP!

The whistle blew, and everyone in my team cheered and bumped each other.

'WE WON! Tama that was a good goal!' Benny yelled enthusiastically.

'Haha, thanks!' Everyone clapped me on the shoulder and I smiled at them.

'Want to go eat some ice-cream? I have some vouchers!' Everyone yelled an approval before the coach came, smiling at our frenzied antics.

'Boys, you need to go to the middle of the field to shake hands with the other team. Come on!' We jogged to the middle of the field and shook hands with the other team, murmuring good game and everything else that we were supposed to say. I smiled. It really had been an exciting game though.

'Are you coming, Tama?'

'Naah, you know that I have things to do after our game!'

'Hey, it's Sunday! Can't you take a break?'

'Nope, I'm visiting someone.'

'Ok then, maybe next time!'

'Yeah!' I grinned and hi-fived him. He grinned as well, and my team started heading towards the ice-cream parlour down the street, laughing and chattering so loudly people could probably hear them a few streets away. I went the other way, turned a few corners that led back to my house then turned a left instead of a right at the last corner.

To the right was my house. To the left was the hospital.

I smiled and got a few coins out of my pocket. It was part of my weekly allowance. I went into the hospital and smiled at the lady at the gift shop. She smiled back at me, already used to me coming on Sundays.

'Hey Tama! Are you here to buy a card again for your sister?'

'Yup! Can I have that one with the frog on the cover?'

'Of course you can! How many weeks have you been coming already?'

'Five. This is the sixth card I'm going to put on her table!'

'I hope she wakes up soon!' she said as she got the froggie card out of the card holder.

'Me too! I want to ask her something!'

She nodded and smiled as I counted my money on the counter.

'Here!' I shoved the money in her direction. She took it and whispered to me.

'Next week I'll give you a discount, what about that?' I grinned up at her.

'Ok. Thank-you!' I whispered back and skipped happily out of the gift-shop. I distantly heard a exclamation from her to the other people behind the counter saying 'He's so cute!'

I scrunched my nose up as I went to the elevator and pressed the button, just reaching if I stood on my tippy-toes. Then waited impatiently for the elevator to get up to the coma floor. I wasn't cute, I was manly.

After realising that my nee-chan was in a coma, I had read a lot of books about it. Most of it was confusing, but many said that talking to them about, well anything, helps them wake up. So I go after soccer, buy a card and write a message on it and then put it on the table next to her. After that, I talk to her.

I started skipping and stopped, remembering that skipping was a girly thing to do. I walked manlily to the door and went in.

She was on her front this time, and on her head was a bit of fuzz. I remembered from one particularly confusing coma book that coma patients needed to be turned regularly, or it wasn't good for them. I grinned and sat down on the cushiony chair next the the bed.

I started chatting happily to her, telling her of my latest pranks and exploits at school, while writing something on the card and drawing a funny picture she could look at if she woke up and I wasn't here.

I swung my legs and took her hand. It was warmer than mine, probably because of the sunshine pouring from the window onto her.

'You know, it's lucky I'm nine. Because they said that you weren't allowed in here if you were younger than eight. You probably don't know, but I've turned nine already! We had this huge mango cake you know…' I rambled on, holding her hand and swinging my legs.

Then I sighed.

'I hope you wake up soon… Then you can surprise mommy and daddy! And I can introduce my friends to you after your hair's grown long enough for you to not be embarrassed! Do you know, I made it into the soccer team, and we have a major game next Sunday, so I might be later than usual.'

I set down next to my cards a book that I had stolen from the empty room across from mine. It was nee-chan's room, but for some reason, all her stuff was stuffed inside the cupboard, and mommy and daddy never went in there.

'I found this book in the cupboard in your room. If you wake up and I'm not here, read the cards and the book, ok?' I smiled cheerfully at her and stood up from the chair. I put my pen back onto the again, so I could use it to write in it next week.

'Oh! And…' I dug some photos out from my pocket.

'These are some photos of me and my friends and daddy and mommy! I'll leave them in the packet so that it won't get dusty. I asked the doctor how long you would be staying in this room, and he said that you would be living in this room until you woke up. They won't change your room, so I'm not worried about losing these things. Bye bye!'

I grinned cheerfully and left the room, peeking in a few times to make sure the new froggy card wasn't going to fall down. Then I left the hospital, walking down the road to my house.

So did you like the chapter? I really like Tama (personally I think he's really cute! You're all going to get a description of him next chapter, so keep out on the lookout next week!)

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