Enter: The Substitute for Artemis, Apolla!
(Oh, and basic insanity enters more or less like stampedes in too! Enjoy! I just got back from the fabulous, fabulous, fabulous, Las Vegas! Viva, Viva, Viva!)
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"Me? I'm Apolla, your substitute for Artemis!" the person standing in the door way replied happily. Everyone looked rather stunned at this; this person was going to be Artemis' substitute? Where did she come from? Who called her there? And why on earth was Artemis not teaching? But, those questions were all masked by a rather similiar feeling that passed through almost everyone. They all one thought on their minds; was she going to be better or worse than Artemis...?
Apolla noticed all of their rather mortified, shocked, and untrusting expressions. She resisted theurge to roll her aquamarine eyes; why, why, why did her twin sister always choose the weirdest jobs with the most aggravating people? She mentally shrugged; at least one of them were sane... that was like a blessing from heaven for the family, after all, having two magickal parents who did not care about what their two twin daughters were doing, (This is included Artemis 'accidentally' burning down the house and Apolla 'innocently' playing with poisonous animals of all sorts...) being sane was the closest thing one could get to being normal in their family!Especially if your twin sister's pet tiger (cough Artemis cough) thought all people were free chew toys...
While Apolla was thinking deeply about the past, the sixteen rather bewildered students began to whisper to each other. Quite loudly, so obviously, Apolla, who was not deaf, could hear them all. They all remarked rather stupid things that were pointless, in her opinion.
"She has blue eyes! NO ONE has blue eyes around here!"-probably Kagura
"Oh my gosh... do you think she's an alien!"-Kaede
"Don't be stupid, she doesn't look like one!" hissed InuYasha
"InuYasha, SIT!"small-shrieked Kagome, causing InuYasha to plummet to the floor; Apolla raised her eyebrow at this, she would have to learn that spell too!
"Wait... she looks related to Artemis!" hissed Miroku.
"Huh?"-Sango
"What?"-Rin
"How?"-Hakudoshi
"Yeah, Miroku, they don't look alike; I mean, Artemis has greenish eyes and this person has blueish eyes!" InuYasha said after shooting a killer glare at Kagome. Kagome looked dangerously at him; he turned away quickly, otherwise, he'd be 'sat' again.
"But, InuYasha, look!" hissed Miroku, "They both have the same kind of black hair and they both-" Miroku was cut off Sango- who was next to him. She glared at him. He scooted back. Respecfully.
SLAP!
"Disgusting creep..." muttered Sango.
"Hey, Sango, you cut Miroku off; now we don't know what he was going to say!" small-screamed Naraku.
"Was it important?" asked Sango in a dangerous way.
"Y- OW! Hakudoshi, what was that for?" Naraku screamed loudly (almost everyone shushed him for this; as if they weren't being loud too.) Hakudoshi had elbowed Naraku.
"What he meant to say, Sango, was that it was not important." Hakudoshi said evenly. Ignoring Naraku's dagger glare.
"Yes... just as I thought..." whispered Sango as she calmly smacked Miroku in the face again. Miroku was out again.
Meanwhile, Apolla remembered that Artemis had told her that if they would not shut up when she was there, all she had to do was read off every single thing on the paper that she had handed to Apolla. She wondered for asecond if this was a good time to read off of it, she had almost decided against it, until she heard Naraku's yelp. She got the paper out of her pocket and began to read directly off of it. Every immediately shut up as they listened to what the paper said.
"Greetings, everyone! Artemis has written this specifically for her substitute, Apolla, for when her students donoe behave. She had used a bit of magick to creep into your minds and discovered some 'interesting' facts about each and everyone of you! She would like to share them with everyone! So listen up, all sixteen students...
InuYasha's first sword was a little twig, about two inches long, and he used it to cut little pieces of grass for his idol, Sesshomaru! (InuYasha paled at this, Koga rolled onto the floor with laughter, and Sesshomaru raised a delicate eybrow)
On Sesshomaru's first day of demon preschool, he was soooooo terrified of the teachers, that he would not allow his mommy to leave until school was over! He didn't learn anything, and just sat in the corner, sobbing his eyes out! (Sesshomaru made no emotion at all towards this, though in his mind, he was using all his will power not to die from embarrassment, InuYasha was rolling with laughter, along with Naraku)
When Sango first tried to lift Kohaku up, it was on a little tree stump! She fell and landed in mud, with Kohaku safely on top of her! (Sango turned deep cherry red at this, Kohaku tried to remember that time, and Miroku was leaning on the chair for balance. That earned him a good 'ole whack upside of his head.)
When Kagome first tried to use a bow and arrow, she cracked the bow, and her anger, she flung the arrow... and it broke her glass! (InuYasha was howling by this time, and Kagome was soooo embarrassed that she sat InuYasha into a crate before he could take a breathe!)
The first time Kohaku ever walked, it was only because Sango has been dangling a cookie from up high and he chased her around the room while tumbling... just like a dog chasing a butterfly! (Kohaku paled at this, and Rin, Shippo, and Kaede were rolling on the clean floor with laughter.
Oh, THIS is interesting... when Kagura first used magick... she blew herself into a tall tree by accident and hung there for quite a while, hanging on a tree limb... until it cracked! (Kagura fainted at this and Naraku was howling with laughter while most of them were just snickering and giggling at the thought)
Hmmm... it says here that when Kikyo was ten... she seemed to have twisted her bow into some gruesome shape... and loaded it with roses that she then fired at InuYasha... oh! It also says that she missed every single time! (Kikyo fainted at this, right on top of Kagura and mostly everyone was howling with laughter, InuYasha was having a hard time imagining this, though!)
Oh! When Rin was age seven she- AHHHHH!" Apolla was abruptly cut off by the wind blowing hard; breaking some windows, and blowing the paper out of her hands. Rin smiled and thanked Kara mentally; she was not ready to tell them that story... she probably wouldn't be in a millenia. Everyone turned to look at her as she let out a sigh. Their looks all said, 'Did you purposely do that...?' She reddened and suddenly found the tiled floor very interesting.
"Hey, Rin! We were all embarrassed! You should have gone too!" InuYasha said.
"Yeah! Apolla, what was written there?" Kohaku said angrily.
"Huh...? I dunno, I didn't read that far! All I read up to was 'age seven!'" Apolla said quickly; everyone could tell that it was a lie; through and through. Most just arched their eyebrows but made no further comment.
"So... back to whatI was saying... if you guys don't behaveI have another list of interesting facts right here... and five more after that! (Everyone paled at this) I am Apolla, Artemis' twin sister and I will be your substitute for about a week or so, because Artemis was attacked by a vicious snake... but she will be okay in a week because Silver Shivvers, her pet demon's venom has the cure! (she smiled brightly at this) So, in the time that I am teaching, I hope you will all behave yourselves... (She smiled as everyone shifted rather uncomfortably at this) and we will have a pleasant-all of you; learning about magickal beasts!" Apolla said, just as the intercom button sounded off and Principle Kim began to talk.
"Rin... I reapeat, Rin, please report to the office, you have a visitor who would like to urgently see you!" his voice blared loudly and the sixteen noticed Rin had paled.
"Well, Rin, I guess you had better quickly go! Are you okay? I mean, you look pale? Do you want to go the nurse's office?" Apolla said in a worried manner. Rin shook her head; too terrified to speak and hurridly sped off in the direction of the office. In her worriness, she crashed into the wall a couple of times along the way.
"Why, Hello, Rin!" the tall, handsome, stern faced man said to her in a false nice tone, "I've missed you oh so! Did you miss me as well, little miss...? I hope you are faring well!"
"Why are you, 'Uncle' Ayano...?" Rin replied coldly, completely ignoring the man's false sweet tone. At this, his face became more malevolent and violent and twisted into a cold, vicious, snarl.
"You dare defy me?" he roared, Rin flinched, "I am your uncle Ayano! I raised you after you murdered your parents! I raised you with loving care! How did you repay me? You robbed me! You selfishly robbed me! Me! Your Uncle Ayano! Just when I had found you a very good mate that was rich! You ungrateful little Beeeep! And then, you fled and spent almost all of the money for yourself! Did you give me anything? NO! NOTHING!" the man roared at Rin angrily and she flinched when he said 'murdered.'
"Well, none of that money was yours! My parents willed it to me!" she shot back.
"You weren't of age! So, I kept the money as your dowry!" he roared back (Principle Kimhad secretly put earplugs on)
"Well, I HATED that man and we both know it!" Rin shot back; desperately holding back tears.
"Well, he was rich!" the man screamed back, "He paid the most!"
"Well, I didn't like him and I know my parents wouldn't have wanted to marry me off with that... that thieving, ugly, unmannered man!" Rin shouted back, still desperately holding back tears.
"Your parents, eh! Well, they probably hate you know that you MURDERED them! They would have abandoned you if they knew it was going to happen!" the man angrily roared.
"No! They would have forgiven me!" Rin shot back, tears trickling down her face, "They would never marry me off with that beast of a man!"
SMACK!
Ayano whipped his hand onto Rin's right cheek.
"You. Dare. Insult your husband you stealing Beeeep, you murdering Beeeep, you Beeeep of a girl!" Ayano sweared at Rin as she fell to the floor.
"Well, your are much worse than me!"
"At least I did not murder my parents!"
"I-I did not!"
"Tomorrow, we are leaving, I will warn you, do not tell anyone, as I have told you, you have no friends. No one would actually like you for who you are. You are a murderer. I accepted you, now come back to me. Or else I will slay off everyone in this school." Ayano commanded as Rin numbly nodded and slowly walked back to her tent; she began to pack up and took off her moonstone necklace and squeezed it hard. Then, she gazed at it; it was the only thing that her mother had left her.
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Sad tears slowly splattered the beautiful moonstone as Rin sadly wept while packing everything up; this place had been her favorite place yet. People had actually accepted her as a student, a member, and most importantly, as a friend. And now, once again, Ayano had come back to ruin her life and take away the little patch of happiness that had been planted at this school. She sobbed some more. Everything seemed so hopeless; so why bother hoping? She finished packing, decided to skip dinner, and plopped onto her bed and dozed off to sleep.
Rin's Dream:
It was happening once again. I felt the anger well up within me. Then, the flames came, soon, the earthquakes came right after. The ground shook, things dropped off of the walls, everything was being burnt. I smelled fire. I saw smoke. I could not breathe. I wanted to die then. I really wanted to die then. But, I did not. Instead, they died. Mother and Father died. I remember it as if it were just the day before. Smoke everywhere, both of them suffocating, and then, both of them vanishing in a quick burst of flames. I remember Mother telling me that when Immortal body's perish, they vanish in a brilliant flame that blinds the mortal eye. I saw that. I was not blinded. That meant I was immortal. I would have to carry that sadness with me forever. I began to sob. And weep. I remember not much after that, except that 'Uncle' Ayano took me in and made me go to school. School. Those very words were like torture upon my lips. The children there spread rumors about me. They forced me to eat strange and wicked concoctions, and threw pebbles, sticks and other objects at me. But worst was the words. 'Murderer!' was heard everywhere, 'Witch! Begone!' was also another common one, no one talked to me as a friend. I was all alone. All alone. All alone. And it was all my fault. Everything was my fault. I felt the darkness swallow me up.
Rin woke up and got into casual clothes as she went outside, carrying an oversized suitcase and she bitterly took down the tent and went to the office.
"Well, Rin? Let's go. Backhome, okay?" Ayano said in a fake cheerful tone.
"Yes... 'Uncle' Ayano, let's go 'home'" Rin said numbly as they both headed out the door.
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So... thus this concludes another chapter, sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry for the extreeeeeeeeeemely long update!Well, Rin's deepest darkest secret is revealed to all! TA-DA! Yes, it is STILL K-plus rated because the same thing happened in 'Lion King' but it was rated 'G.' So, by the way, since school is starting again, I'll probably update once a week, after all, I have sooooo much homework; ninth grade is hard! PLEASE TYPE THE WORD 'bunny' IN YOUR REVIEWS TO TELL ME THAT YOU ACTUALLY READ ALL THIS! Arigato Gozaimashita tou Sayonara!
Ja Ne!
Till a week to a day!
MoonMagicks