Tenshi- Dame!(not good)
Spirit- nope. hopefully I'll be bale to at least get one chap of my other two fics out before X-mass. but anywho. heres the next chap to this one!
Diclaimer- i claim no ownership to Sailor Moon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Practical Magic.
Pairings- Hotaru/Yami Marik, Steven(oc)/Minako/Yami
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It nearly took his breathe away when she finally opened her eyes. They were a dark purple color, violet, and huge. The girl sat up and looked around, she then turned to him. "Where am I?"
Marik raised an eyebrow. "You mean you don't know?... You've been sent to the Shadow Realm."
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"What's the Shadow Realm?" Hotaru asked blinking. The boy with long gravity defying sandy hair looked at her in shock. She found his hair style rather odd. It stuck up in chunks and was really thick. His eyes were a soft lavender, but looked menacing, and also exotic. His skin was very tan, like he spent his whole life out in the sun. It was almost as if he were her opposite.
"You've got to be joking? You don't know how you got here, or even where here is?" he snapped.
The violet eyed girl glared at him. "No, I'm afraid I don't! Care to inform me?"it was now Marik's turn to narrow his eyes at her. How dare she talk to him like that. She was just some weak human girl. Probably a spoiled one too, with this kind of attitude.
"You should watch how you say things girl. I'm probably the only chance you got of surviving this place."
"Hotaru."
"What?"
"My name, it's Hotaru. I prefer to be called that than 'girl'." she stated and tried to stand. The thing looked like she would fall over any moment. Sighing Marik got up and pulled her to her feet by her arm roughly. Not the nicest way of doing it, but this was after all Marik.
As soon as she was up she pulled back her arm. "I'm Marik. So 'Hotaru', do you remember what you were doing last? That might help us figure out how you got here."
"I was..sleeping. I had just gone to bed, and the next thing I know I'm here." she explained.
Marik smirked. "Well this isn't a dream so you wont find it as easy to get out of. I've been stuck here for a year."
"Why?" she asked. He nearly flinched at the innocence in her voice.
"That's none of your business!" he snapped.
Hotaru just shrugged and looked around. All Marik could look at was her. If it wasn't for the look in her eyes, he would have thought she was just some weak, snappy, but normal girl. However her eyes warned him against that thought. They held pain, death, and sorrow. Her violet orbs opened up to a world even darker than this one. Perhaps even deadly.
Though she didn't look like it, the air around her reeked of magical power. The kind of power he once held. The power to destroy all in its way. Something else clung to her though. A type of healing and soothing effect. It was as if the girl had the power to destroy a world, and yet save it. If it wasn't for that healing factor, she would have been just like him. The fact that she wasn't like him, was what drew her to the sandy haired teen.
"Why are you staring at me?" his lavender eyes looked up to see she was looking at him funny.
"Your beautiful." he stated as if it were nothing. A smirk tugged at his lips when the girl blushed. He wouldn't mind spending the rest of his sentence in this hell hole with her, which was for all eternity. She would provide some amusement for him.
"Um..so..what exactly is this place?" she asked, trying to change the subject off her.
Marik looked around. "It's a grave yard in a sense. Monsters, and sometimes even people are banished here. There's a being called the Reaper of Cards. It destroys all the monsters sent here, but it has yet to come after me. I guess it doesn't have an interest in humans."
"The Reaper of Cards?.." that sounded familiar to her, but she couldn't quite figure out where she had heard it.
Marik looked back at her. "Normally humans have to do some pretty bad stuff to be sent here. You haven't been bad have you?" he asked smirking. Hotaru just glared at him again.
"No I haven't. The worst possible thing I last did was lie to my guardian or call some guys jerks. But I doubt that's much of crime for this place." Marik nodded.
Great now he was stuck with a goody two-shoes. But if the girl hadn't done anything wrong than why was she here? Of course what Hotaru said had been a lie, she had after all put that revenge spell on Clay. . but that was just a little spell. Wait, maybe she had done something wrong with it, and it went to her instead of him. That might explain how she got here.
Suddenly a sound drew their attention to behind them. Marik growled as the girl gasped. There stood a Pale Beast monster. It studied them and began to approach cautiously. The thing had found it's prey. Quickly taking the girls hand, Marik made a run for it. He had no power in this realm to fight a monster. He looked back to see it following them. Where the hell was that damned Reaper of Cards?
Hotaru was having trouble keeping up. Her body wasn't liking this much activity. It wasn't long before she couldn't take it and fell to her knees. Marik stopped running when he felt her slip out of his grip and looked back at her. The violet eyed girl clutched her chest as a wave of pain washed over her. Something kneeled next to her and she found it was Marik.
"Get up unless you want to die!" he shouted.
"I...can't..." she gasped. They heard the beast growl and turned to see it leap at them. Hotaru closed her eyes. 'Oh mighty Hecate, please protect us.' she silently prayed.
The next event came as a shock to all three. Hotaru's eyes turned black and were glowing. The girls face became serious and her hair became weightless. An eerie purple aura surrounded the two teens. Suddenly a dark light shot out and hit the beast. It gave a ear-splitting cry, before it disintegrated.
Marik looked at the spot where it once had been. There was nothing there. Not a trace of the creature was left. Hotaru reverted back to her normal self and collapsed completely. She could barely stay conscious. She had never done anything like that before. Had Hecate used her body as a vessel just then? Or was that her own power?
"What...what the hell did you just do?" Marik asked, but the violet eyed girl was to weak to answer.
Sighing he sat down and lifted the girl onto his lap. She didn't notice for she was in to much pain. Now Marik had an idea of why she was here. He had been right about her dark, tainted soul. The power she just displayed could probably destroy a lot tougher of a monster than a Pale Beast. Perhaps she had no real control over it, and was thought to be a threat.
"Hey, can you hear me?" he asked. Hotaru nodded. "Good, you need to stay awake. I don't want you passing out. That means I'll have to carry you back."
Through her half closed eyes she glared at him. "...a ...thank you...would be nice..." she breathed. He just smirked.
"I don't do nice."
Hotaru just closed her eyes, and focused on calming her body down. It wasn't long before her breathing slowed and became more even. The pain in her chest subsided, but she still felt to weak to stand. However she was able to sit up. It was then that she realized she was on the boys lap.
Her cheeks became a light pink color. "Um you can let go of me now." he smirked.
"And what if I like holding you?" her blush darkened. What was with this boy? Healing people was enough to freak them out. Marik had seen her "witch" side though and was still acting like a flirt to her. Was this guy insane or something? He did say this place was for people who have done horrible crimes. Perhaps he was insane then. "Hey what's happening to you!" he suddenly cried.
Looking at her hands she found she could see right through them. "I don't know.." fear took over her. Was she disappearing? What was going on? Marik tried to keep a grip on her, but before long his arms went right through her body. She began to float out of his lap. The violet eyed girl reached out to him.
"Marik help!" she cried. He got up and tried to grab her, but it was to late. She was gone.
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Hotaru opened her eyes and sat up. She looked around to see where she was. The surrounding area sunk in and she blinked. This was...her room. She was in her bed covered in her sheets. It was like she had just woken up from a nightmare...or at least a weird dream. Suddenly the door opened to reveal Michiru.
"Didn't you hear me calling? I said breakfast was ready. Hurry up, we also have a surprise for you and Minako." Hotaru nodded and the aqua haired woman left.
She then got up and put her purple robe on. Had it really been a dream? The pain was to real for it to be fake, and she remembered feeling Marik when he was holding her. Then it was no dream. Somehow when she slept she had unconsciously gone to another Realm.
Spirit- Don't think Mariks just going to be nice to her now. Trust me i have more drama for those two.
Tenshi- the next chap will be more Minako centered
Spirit- Yep! I'll be kind of switching between the two, until more later chaps. well hoped you liked it, Please Review! Ja ne
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