A/N: I'm back with the third chapter already!
Julia: W00T!
fg00: I know, even though the genre humor is included with action/adventure, things weren't really funny in the last chapter, but they'll get funnier from now on!
Hannah: is that even a word?
Chanelle: Well it is now!
fg00: Okay, anyway, here's the next chapter, staring Hannah!
Hannah: Oh, and prepare for some magic spookiness!
Chanelle and Julia: O.o
Disclaimer: Look at the past two chapters!
Chapter 3: Hannah and Seong-Mina
(Hannah's POV) (A/N: I'm doing this in alphabetical order, not by character importance, in case that's what your thinking.)
"Ungh, what happened?" I asked out loud as I woke up. The last thing I remembered was falling into a dark green colored light and Chanelle and Julia-wait a second, where are they? I sat straight up and ended up smashing heads with someone who was standing over me.
"Ow! Could you have given at least a little warning that you were going to do that?" A voice said. I rubbed my head and looked at the person standing over me. It was a fairly young girl who had light brown eyes, now narrowed in either annoyance or pain. Her brown hair was in a ponytail that fell over her shoulder. (A/N: Again, I am really bad at describing clothes, so let's just go with green and white shirt and green and white pants, okay?)
"Sorry, I didn't know you were there." I apologized. The girl shrugged.
"It's okay. It didn't hurt that much." She said, and I now recognized her. She was Seong-Mina from Soul Calibur 3! Ironically, she's my favorite character.
"So, who are you?"
"I'm Hannah. And have you seen two blonde girls, one really tall with blue eyes, and the other shorter with brown eyes?"
"I'm Seong-Mina, but just call me Mina. And no, I haven't seen anyone who looks like that. Sorry." I sighed.
"Okay, so where are we?"
"Well, we're in the Ling Sheng Su temple, or rather, the ruin in Asia." Asia! Wow, how's that for traveling?
"I was actually looking for Soul Edge, to get it before my idiot cousin Yun-Seong gets to it."
"Is he really that bad?" Mina laughed.
"You have no clue. He's so cocky."
"Yeah, my little sister Julia, the girl with brown eyes I'm looking for, can be really annoying. She gets hyper so easily, then she tortures everyone with her insanity." Mina laughed again.
"Wow, sounds like she and Yun would get along easily." (A/N: Yes, I know Yun-Seong has a first name. However, I can't remember what it is, nor do I care, so he'll just be referred to as either Yun-Seong or just Yun.)
"Yeah, sounds like it."
"So, where are you from? You definitely don't look like you're from around here…" Great. I'm a really bad liar, so I told her the whole story, telling her about Julia and Chanelle, what our world's like, and when we were sucked into the TV, ending when I woke up here.
"Wow, that's quite a story!" She said when I was finished.
"So you actually believe me?" I asked, startled. I expected her to laugh.
"Well, some pretty strange things have been happening around here lately, so I'm starting to believe almost everything!"
"Such as?" I couldn't help but ask. I needed to know.
"Well, there's been the return of Nightmare, who I could have sworn was defeated. Also, there have been rumors of a man with a scythe cursing people, causing them to disappear mysteriously. The first one I'm not sure I believe, but the cursing people? Yeah right!"
"Well, you never know. It does sound pretty ridiculous, but with Soul Edge having the power to take souls, I suppose anything's possible." She looked at me with a thoughtful look in her eyes
"You know, I never thought of it that way. I guess it is possible." I got up and stretched. As I bent to the side, my hair fell all the way down to my toes, now in a long braid with a dark green clasp keeping it together. Also, I wasn't wearing my Converse sneakers, but dark green boots that came only halfway up my legs. 'Well this is really strange.' I straightened, and my hair came down to just above my butt. I was now wearing shortish dark green shorts, and a sleeveless crimson shirt. A carrying belt hung from my shorts, along with the sheaths of two broadswords. I also had a silver bracelet with a dark green wolf on it, along with what looked like a leaf on either side of the wolf. Heh, I bet either Chanelle or Julia would love this. Those two love wolves. 'This is incredibly strange. I guess this is to blend in with the Soul Calibur people…'
"So, what do you know of Soul Edge?"
"Just that it's a demonic blade, it can devour souls, it's current wielder is Nightmare, who is supposed to have been defeated but I guess really wasn't, and that several people are currently searching for it, some to destroy it, and others to use it for their own personal gain."
"Wow, that's a good deal of information! How old are you anyway?"
"I'm fourteen. Why?"
"You just seemed older. Wow…let's see…that makes you the youngest person that I know who might be looking for Soul Edge!"
"And the second youngest would be…"
"A girl named Talim. Boy, is she ever strange." Talim is Julia's favorite SC character…yeah, she is pretty strange.
"I've heard of her. She always talks about the wind, right?" I asked. Mina laughed
"Yeah, she does." In her best imitation of Talim's voice, which wasn't very close to her actual voice, she said, "Wind, guide me." I laughed at her bad imitation.
"Nice try, but that's her alright. Chanelle has a running gag, where if we're talking about Talim, she'll say 'the wind is better than you!', and she can almost perfectly imitate Talim's voice!" I imagined her doing that, while Mina cracked up. I really missed her, and Julia, even though it was a bit quieter with out her.
"Well, sorry to stumble upon your little moment, but I'm afraid you two have to come with me." A mysterious voice called out of the darkness. Mina and I jumped to our feet, her leveling Scarlet Thunder, and me pulling out my broadswords. The hilts were indigo in color, and the blades were thick in width, but thin in height, but very long and shone emerald green in color.
"Who's there?" Mina called. A man in a dark blue cloak stepped out of the darkness, along with several others in dark red cloaks, all bearing Chinese blades and swords. The man in the blue cloak had a scar across his left eye, which was covered by an eye-patch, his other black. He looked old, and had thinning grey hair. He seemed to be a captain of some sort. Hoods hid his men's faces.
"Why do we have to go with you?" I demanded, getting into a fighting stance.
"Because our- wait, why should I tell you? Just come along like good little girls, and no one gets hurt." Mina and I shot each other an, 'as if!' look, and charged at them. I knocked some of the men away, not wanting to kill them, but not wanting to get hurt either. Some tried to get in my way, only to get knocked aside and assumably killed or fatally injured by Mina. As I fought, I found myself suddenly surrounded, unable to escape with out being gored. 'No! I can't die, not like this!' As the men were closing in for the kill, a strange power suddenly started flowing throughout my body, also seeming to affect my mind, because strange thoughts began to flow through my head. Thoughts of the ground opening up and swallowing the assailants, while leaving Mina and myself unharmed. As I thought this, the ground started to shake, cracking open before my very eyes! Somehow, this didn't startle me. Almost like I was expecting it to happen. As the ground crumbled away, the dying screams of the warriors filled my ears as they fell down into the great rift that I suppose I created. My body just watched it calmly happen, as my soul screamed in surprise and horror.
I turned to the captain, his eye widened in shock as the earth swallowed his men.
"Wh-what…what are you?" He stammered.
"Leave now, and bother us no further, unless you wish to end up like your soldiers." I said, my own voice sounding foreign in my own ears. His sword showed my reflection, my expression cold, and my eyes glowing a dark green. He turned and ran away with the remainder of his men. The earth closed back together, looking as if nothing had ever happened. Mina brushed herself off and turned to me, surprise obvious in her eyes.
"Wow, that was a quick way to end that! Why didn't you tell me that you could do that?" I shook my head, coming out of my trance-like state.
"I…I don't really know. Just some power started to flow through me and…kind of took control, I suppose. I didn't even know that I could do that!" I glanced at my reflection in Mina's Scarlet Thunder. My eyes were they're usual light green again.
"Well, now I know not to get on your bad side!" Mina joked. I laughed and scratched my head embarrassedly, but then sighed. The head-scratching thing was what Chanelle would have done if it were she. Man, I really, really miss them. I then started to feel a little dizzy, and fell over, slowly blacking out.
"Hannah!" Mina cried, but her voice seemed so far away. I found myself staring at a long field with emerald green grass. I was observing the view, when someone shouted "Hey! Hurry up!" Suddenly, Cassandra ran into view, motioning for me to get my butt moving. I sighed and said, "Alright, alright, I'm coming! Sheesh." except, not in my own voice, but in Chanelle's. 'Chanelle?' I asked. A hand came into view, and held my head…or was it mine? No, it couldn't have been mine. The bracelet was blue with a silver bird on it, with three curved lines on either side. I then realized I was seeing things through her eyes. 'Hannah! Okay, I miss her a lot, but now she's become a voice in my head? Great, I've become schizophrenic.'
'No, I don't think you have. Something happened to me, and now I'm seeing things through your eyes.'
'Typical for you to be the reasonable one and figure that out. Do you know what happened?'
'No, I don't. But now I have elemental powers!'
'Really? Wow. And it's kinda freaking me out that we're having this whole conversation in my head' She mentally laughed, and I did as well.
'Yeah, I agree, but I don't know how to get out, sorry.'
'Don't worry about it. Let me at least tell you my story.' She explained that she had woken up after falling through a silver light in Cassandra and Sophitia's house, had almost gotten beheaded by the former, and had then befriended the two sisters by beating the stuffing out of Tira, and was now going on an journey with Cassandra to destroy Soul Edge. In turn, I explained my story, beginning with when I woke up, and ending with what was happening to me now. I saw Chanelle now running after Cassandra, yelling for her to wait up.
'Wow, seems you've had quite a bit of fun.' She thought/said as she ran.
'Yeah, you too. Bet that was fun to beat up Tira.' She laughed
'It was. You know how much I don't like her, especially now. And I think I might have figured out a way for you to get back to your own body.'
'Really? How?'
'This sort of things happens a lot in the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce.'
'Your favorite author, right?'
'Right. You just have to think of going back to your own body. At least, I think so.'
'Alright, but before I go, have you heard anything about Julia?'
'No, I haven't sorry.'
'Oh, okay. I think I should return to my body.'
'Yeah, you should. I'll figure out a way to talk to you again.' I thought of my own body, back with Seong-Mina, and I felt something pulling me back.
"Hey, Hannah? Hannah, wake up!" Mina's voice filled my ears, and I woke up.
"Huh, what?" I opened my eyes and found myself staring up at Mina. She sighed in relief.
"Oh, good, you're okay. You kinda blacked out."
"Yeah, but not just that." I told her what happened to me. Her eyes widened, shocked.
"Whoa! That's so strange! I guess you two must really be close."
"We are. She's like my third sister, except we don't bicker anywhere near as much as I do with Julia."
"I see. Well, if we're going to find Soul Edge before Yun-Seong, the brains of the family (not) gets to it, we better get going." She walked into the temple, leaving me stunned for a minute. 'Wow, this is going to be great!' She then came back, with two packs filled with food, water, and other supplies.
"Alright, we better get going. We'll want to get to the next town soon, if we want to get a head start." She said, taking charge. I nodded and got up, brushing myself off and taking the offered pack. She gathered her things and we set off, taking the mountain trail. 'Well, so much for a boring day at Chanelle's house. I just hope Julia's okay.' I was off, now fully part of the Soul Calibur world.
fg00: Well, that was Chapter 3! I hope you liked it!
Hannah: How can they not? There was Action and Humor. And it was from my POV! And why did I have to talk to Chanelle? You're making her more of the main character again.
fg00: Well sorry! I can't help it! She's my OC and Julia hasn't had her chappie yet, so I don't want to spoil any later plot details.
Julia: TT Meanie. But my chapter is next! Yay!
fg00: I said I didn't want to spoil any details! whacks Julia on the head
Julia: Owie…
Chanelle: AHAHAHAHAHA!
fg00 & Julia: O.o
Chanelle: What? She sounded like Rikku in FFX-2! everyone sweatdrops
fg00: Anyway, will you three do the honors
J, H, & C: Sure thing! ahem
Julia: Please R&R!
Hannah: And all flames will still be given to Inferno!
Chanelle: And flamers will be burnt! BURN BABY BURN! DISCO INFERNO!
Everyone else: O.o Anyway,
J, H, C, & fg00: BU-BYE!