Somehow I got myself to write this chapter. It's been months since I last updated and I feel bad that the people who like this story didn't get another chapter. :( But because I'm back, I do hope this is enjoyable.
Please read the author's note at the end, even if you're not going to read the chapter.
Chapter 3 Flashing Into Your Backstory
"Where has she been off to?" Mito worried about Nikka.
For Nikka, she was off in the forest, where she was exploring.
"Kon!" she called. "Kon!"
Kon walked around, sniffing some bushes.
Kon then ran up to her and jumped, making her fall right down.
"I've been looking all over for you. Ha, I even tried tracking you and I did a much better job than you did."
The beast sniffed, confused.
"Okay. Okay. You found me first. Let's just go play something.
And she ran off.
After an hour or so, playing with the foxbear, she hung from a branch without shoes on, and she and Kon tackled each other's hands softly in aplaying manner, until...
"Nikka!" Her ears rung and she sat up in the branch.
"Oh, darn." She sighed. "Sorry Kon. I have to go." She jumped down from the branch, Kon then licking her.
"Hey, stop it." She began to laugh, slipping her shoes off.
"Nikka!" She heard much more loudly. She sihed once again and finally finished slipping on her second shoe, and she ran away with a 'see ya' waving barely. Kin whimpered until she disappeared behind the trees.
She ran to the front of the forest which had been nearby.
"Nikka!"
"I'm coming! Sheesh. Can't you wait for me to get over? It's takes time you know!"
In front of her, was Mito, who had a worried look written all over her face.
"What happened to you?" On her face were bruises, and her legs had cuts, along with her arms bleeding.
"Um...I kinda fell off a cliff," she lied, obviously that was what she decided to do for tricks.
"Don't mess around."
"Okay. Okay. I wrestled a bear. But I did it for fun, not because I was attacked in a different way."
Mito sighed, watching the black haired girl almost pout. "Come on. We need to get you cleaned up."
"For what? I thought I was allowed to stay here for as long as I wanted," she wined a bit.
"He passed."
"Huh?" She looked at Mito confusingly, blinking.
"He caught the Lord of the Lake and I'm allowing him to go to the exam now."
A grin formed on Nikka's face as she jumped. "Are you serious?" Mito nodded. "Can I go too?"
"No!" This time anger reached her. "I can't just let both of you go like that."
"Then why are you letting Gon?"
She sweat dropped, then sighed. "I promised him since he wanted to go."
"Well I want to go!"
"No! And won't promise you anything so you can't go. That was a mistake with him."
"Hmmmgh," she grumbled. "I don't like this. I'm going back inside the forest." Slowly, she turned away, but Mito grabbed onto her shoulder.
"He's about to leave. So hurry up and clean up."
She sighed, muttering under her breath about how annoying it was, turning back around. "Fine," she spoke aloud. Then she ran off to the house up ahead.
Wiping off the blood, cleaning herself up, she put on some casual clothes quickly; a green shirt, black shorts, green boots (shorter than Gon's but still tall) and a green hair band with held her hair back into a pony tail. She knew that she had to go. This could have been the last chance she would get to see him, at least for months she thought of. Of course, that was just an exaggeration of a thought.
Soon then, she walked off, heading in the direction of the docks. The ship's horns honked, and every single ship left at the moment she had gotten to the edge, too far away for her to see where he was.
Take a short-cut of course. She ran into the forest, climbed a tree, and ran across them until she got to a cliff. The ship's had been by there, and she called out.
"Hey! Gon!" No answer came. She grabbed a rock, threw it hard, hoping she would get someone's attention. Luckily it reached the bost close enough for someone to notice. She waved hard, smiling. She saw her brother's hand wave around, back and forth. Then she quietly spoke some words. "I hope to see you again. Please...come back."
Nikka's eyes opened up. Her head was on a desk and she was drooling. She must have been dreaming of the past, even though it really didn't happen. It was just a trick her mind played, so she could forget about the other side, which it could have been.
She stood up from her chair, and walked down the stairs. She opened the front door, walking outside. Yawning, she greeted Mito with a 'good morning'.
She had been doing the laundry, setting some sheets on a line, hanging.
"You're up later than usual," Mito stated a bit out of irritation.
"I stayed up later...well not too long." Then she waved her hand up and down and faced the forest. A smile formed. "I'm going back out to the forest. Gon's probably in there too."
"Make sure you're back by noon then. I don't want you to arrive late like you always do," Mito reminded with a slightly lifted eyebrow.
"Yeah. Yeah. I know. I'm not doing anything that should take me a long time anyway," Nikka terminated with a lack of politeness.
And with that, she ran off.
Of the days you reap your soul, a soft bitter voice declared, you will fail to them all. Once you reach your destination, the beach before you will cause bewilderment in your eyes, creating disaster striking to the walls of the barrier between worlds. There will be no turning back. The end will be one or the other.
"Blah. Blah. Blah. I'm just hearing things in my head," Nikka told to no one but herself. "It sounds like a prophecy, at least one that won't come true."
Suddenly she wondered the feeling she got about why she heard a strange voice in her head. "Unless it's true." "Aw, but that's nonsense to my ears, am I right bird?"
A bird (randomly on her shoulder that happened to pand on her at the moment) squawked loudly, loud enough to call a whole flock of it's same species.
"Yeah, I'm probably crazy talking to this bird right now and hearing things."
"Oh, but you're half right."
She jumped only half a second later.
"Uh, that wasn't you, Mr. bird, was it?"
She shifted her head behind her direction, noticing a strange black figure standing tall, but hidden behind thay black cloak.
Nikka soghed out of relief, and placed hand on her chest. "Oh, thank goodness, I'm not acting crazy by hearing things." A small breathe cloud was let out. She stood straigter and put and hand on her hip. The bird flew away and she pointed right at the cloaked, or more like black figure. "Hey! Next time you find me, don't try and scare me like that. Now who're you?"
"Me? I thought you remembered who I was."
"Excuse me? I've never seen you in my life Bari-sa...ih..." The finger lowered. "Wait a minute." She could tell a smirk was slapped onto Bari's face as she twitched an eyebrow. "How do I know your name?"
A flash hit her and she remembered the memory of him sending her through something. A glowing light. Bright. Unknown. Mysterious. It was hard to amke out the name for a couple of seconds, until.
"The Magic Portal." She lowered her head slowly. Then her eyes widened. "You sent me here on purpose to toy with me!" she screamed out of pure anger. A tick mark appeared on her clean forehead. "Not only that, you erased my memory of my real world and caused me to act that I have a twin brother when I really live with a retarted step brother, not that he's actually retarted though, but someone who I still don't like-"
"Then enjoy this place," Bari interrupted all of the sudden. If you really like the people here, then enjoy it."
"You're such a jerk. Yeah, maybe I like this place better, but what you did shouldn't have been done. Now give me back the rest of my memories!"
"About that...hm...nah, I'd like to keep them away from you for awhile or at least once you figure it out yourself. But don't worry. The effect I did to you shouldn't take long," he explained.
Multiple tick marks appeared right then.
"I'll kill you for this," she murmured in unison.
"But I can tell you how to return to your normal world. The portal has its different ways you can get through."
Nikka's eyes softened at the word 'return' and she demanded him to tell her.
"I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means I have to possibly kill myself."
"Oh, you're making this too cliché. The prophecy."
"The what...? Wait! Was that what I was hearing?"
"Certainly. The gem told you."
"Huh?" Confused, she lifted up the red gem. It looked somewhat like a ruby, yet it didn't seem like one. Attached to the gold metal texture, the metal nade a clinging noise.
"What I'm saying is that the red gem you're wearing is the Magic Portal. It does four things: one, it opens the portal between worlds, two, it tells you the your fate, three, it tells you your prophecy to what is going to happen while you're hear, and I assure you that all of it will come true before you leave for good, and four, it contains the memories of the world you recieve just like you did yesterday."
"Well that pretty much explains it I guess." She stared vacantly. "But still, what am I suppose to do to cause the prophecy to come true? It's not like I can right it down on a peice of paper and claim it's true."
"I have no determination to that. Figure it out yourself. But that doesn't mean I can't help you along the way. Trust me all you can because I'm your only hipe amd especially, I'm the only one besides you who knows about what happened to you or why how you got here."
"I won't trust you as much then. That's better than nothing."
"Are you prepared then?"
"One more question actually, maybe even a second one," she began concluding. "What if I forget the prophecy?"
"You don't need to worry about that. The gem tells you if you look close enough. It can even read your thoughts, so be careful what you think of because things happen sometimes and it depends on what you're thinking."
"Okay, that's simple." She paused for a moment. "I do have a second and final question acutally."
"And what is that?"
"Who are you really?" A smirked widened on both faces, but he almost couldn't answer that.
So, yeah, that's all I'll give you for now. I'm sorry it took so long. To update, but I had reasons for why, and school's not the only problem.
To all those who are wondering, yes, the Magic Portal is why I called this "Magic Portal" The stories mainly focused on Nikka trying to return to her world, and btw, she lives in a different world thats runs at the same time earth does. She also speaks a different language, it was translated in the prologue. But it's kinda cool how it's not like those average stories "dying and reborning into a new or world or suddenly appearing in it without reason why." I'm not saying those stories are bad, nor am I making fun of them, it's just that this is different than those.
One last thing, please read my profile if you get the chance. I have something SUPER important on there that goes with my two stories that you might wanna know.
Thanks for reading and cross your fingers that I'll update sooner than, was it five, six months?