Owl, Horse, Shark!
Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn! If I did, Colonello and Lal would've kissed AAAGGEESSS ago. BUT WHO CARES BECAUSE IT'S CANON! IT'S CANON PEOPLE! IT'S CANOOOOOOOOOON! –fangirlrage-
Chapter 16: Not Me
"How did you get in here?!" Dino faced Morte who stood in front of him with a smirk on his face.
"I'm one of those people who you see once and already my image is burnt into the memory," Morte flicked a few strands of hair out of his astonishingly blue eyes. "What's wrong Cavallone? Don't you want revenge for me shooting the first two friends you've ever had?"
Dino gritted his teeth and clenched his fist hard until his fingernails dug into his skin and blood trickled down his palm. Morte watched brown dust rapidly gather in Dino's hand forming into a whip. He raised his eyebrow at Dino, "A whip? Can a useless twat like you even use such a weapon?"
"It doesn't matter if I can or not!" Dino bluffed as he darted towards Morte.
"I'm back huh?" Squalo slowly sat up and looked at Reborn. Reborn nodded and then Squalo asked, "Are Dino and Minerva back yet?"
"Nope," Reborn shook his head and then turned to Minerva and Dino lying on the ground unmoving.
"I'm sure you've realised by now," Dark Minerva's grip on Minerva's neck didn't waver, "that I'm here to take over your body, permanently."
"Then kill me. Do it, I dare you," Minerva put on a courageous face, yet her voice stuttered. Dark Minerva hesitated. She let go of her neck and then took a few steps back, her shoes clacking on the purple and black tiles. Dark Minerva opened her hand and then summoned a sword to her hand. She positioned it down to her side, ran forward and then slashed upwards…
The whip snapped his face as he fell to the ground and rolled to the side. But who got hit? Was it Morte or Dino?
Of course it was Useless Dino…
Morte watched Dino scramble up to his feet laughing loudly, "How pathetic! And you're the only candidate to Boss?!"
"Shut it…." Dino didn't bother picking up the whip and he reached his arm forward. Suddenly, the wooden floor beneath Morte shattered into chunks of wood.
"Have you noticed that I haven't had my turn yet, Cavallone?" Morte disappeared and then Dino's gut twitched. He spun around to see Morte right behind him with the black gun pointing at his head point blank. "That's just too bad, Cavallone," Morte smirked and pulled the trigger.
The rusted chains clattered together as Minerva fell on her side. Her wrists still tied by the chains kept on bleeding. Dark Minerva towered over her with the sword by her side. She looked down at Minerva's body on the ground with a pool of dark red spreading across the purple and black tiles. "Even though I'm technically you, you didn't know me long enough to realise that I don't care about anything. Not even you."
"But unfortunately," there was a voice behind her as Dark Minerva spun around, "you don't know me well enough to know that I don't do dares without a trick up my sleeve." In the darkness she could see the corner of a green skirt and a bloodied fist clenched.
Morte towered over Dino's body lying on the ground. The round wound on his forehead spilled fresh, crimson blood as it stained the green rug. "I guess that means I get your body now."
"No it doesn't," Morte looked down at Dino panting as his blood was slowly sucked back into the bullet wound. "You're not me at all, you're not even the part of me that doesn't care."
"That's impossi-"
Dino interrupted him, "Yes it is, otherwise you wouldn't be here…" the small hole in his head finally closed. For a second everything became blurry, then Dino's sight faded into white. Morte's voice trailed behind, "That's right…you're too kind of a person to not care about anything."
"Hey he's back!" Squalo shouted to Reborn.
"No kidding Squalo, I'm not dumb," Reborn walked over to Dino lying on the ground and leaped on his chest. "Hey Dino WAKE UP ALREADY!" Reborn sent a strong kick on the side of Dino chin and suddenly he rolled on the ground, "OWW!"
Squalo watched Dino sit up with a jolt and Reborn shouting at him, "What took you so long, Useless Dino?!"
"REBORN WAIT!" Dino shouted and raised his hand up in front of him.
"What?"
"Is Minerva back yet….?"
"Yes Dino she's back s-"
"Really!?" Dino's eyes lightened up until Reborn hit him in the face again.
"NO SHE'S NOT, I WAS BEING SARCASTIC."
"I can hear her friends shouting right now, how noisy…" Dark Minerva ran her fingers through her bright red hair.
"I don't need you to tell me that," the person in the darkness didn't move. "Nor do I need you taking my body,"
Dark Minerva raised her eyebrow, "Now that I think about it…" she turned around to look at Minerva 'dead' on the floor, "by now I should've waken up."
Suddenly the figure disappeared and found itself right in front of Dark Minerva. "That's because I'm still alive," Minerva kept an indifferent expression and jumped up with a spin. Before she knew it, Dark Minerva was flown backwards by a kick. Minerva's eyebrow twitched as out of the ground came a black bird cage. There was the loud clang of metal as the door immediately shut itself and a large lock enclosed Dark Minerva inside. "This is my body, I do what I want with it."
Everything around her shone into pure white.
"REBORN STOP HITTING ME! OWW!" she heard Dino's voice echo louder and louder.
She heard Squalo's voice as well, "VOOII! DINO YOU'RE SO STUPI-"
"MINERVA!" Dino's voice made her eyes snap wide open. Dino and Squalo looked down at her with concerned looks on their faces. She stared into their eyes for a moment until…"MINERVA ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!" Dino suddenly wrapped his arms around her.
"Y..yeah I'm fine…"
"Give her some space…Dino…" Squalo sighed and then smiled at Minerva, "I'm glad you're alright."
"Just because you couldn't get to her first," Dino didn't let go but looked at Squalo, poking his tongue at him.
"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?" Squalo shouted at Dino.
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" they both suddenly fell backwards on to the ground as Reborn landed softly on the ground on both of his feet. Minerva looked at all of them blankly. Then Reborn pulled out a pink box from his jacket and then handed it over to Minerva, "This is for you."
Squalo and Dino sat up and watched her gently pull the magenta ribbon out of the perfect knots. She gently placed the box and the ribbon on the ground and then gently opened the box with two hands. At the sight of the contents, Minerva's eyes widened and thick tears started gathering in her eyes. The lid dropped out of her hands as she began sobbing with happiness, wiping the tears with her sleeve.
Inside the lid was a pile were memories on a special paper called photos. Under the photos were unforgettable captions:
HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY, FROM EVERYONE.
SIGNOR FESSO BEING THE USUAL BASTARD HE IS…
HERE'S YOU WHEN YOU PUNCHED DINO! LOL I ACTUALLY HAD A PHOTO OF THIS.
WE KNEW YOU WERE IN THE OLD BALLROOM THE WHOLE TIME! HEHEHE.
BTW ONE OF THE LEGS ON YOUR CHAIR ARE BROKEN. SIGNOR FESSO STOOD ON IT A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN YOU WERE ABSENT.
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Minerva nervously stood outside the wooden classroom door, clutching on to the door knob with her sweaty palm. Finally, she turned the knob, opened the door and then walked into the classroom…
-OWL, HORSE, SHARK! END-
GOMENASAIIIII! I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN OVER A WEEK! （￣ロ￣；）
Yep…it's over…Owl, Horse, Shark! is over. This is my best story yet…Well, it's not reallyover. I'll be starting a sequel in 'I Don't Know When but I Promise I Will'. I have waaaay too many fanfic ideas… (）︵
BTW MY EXAMS ARE OVER! Except for piano…Noooo! So much pressure! Yes even though right know… -checkstime- it is 12:23pm on a Tuesday. I should be at school. But today I'm sick so…
I want to pre-order the GazettE DECADE book except I think it's only in Japan and also it costs 5000 yen and also to enter the lotto for 50 able-to-win GazettE signed posters which there's 99% chance I can't get because it's $50AUD and I'm still a kid! Real depressed right now… (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
Also, just a quick plan of the sequel so far: It is set approximately 3 months after the 2nd chapter. Does that ring a bell?
HERE'S TO ALL THE PEOPLE READING 'TIL THE END AND THE PEOPLE WHO FAVOURITED AND PEOPLE WHO ADDED TO THEIR ALERTS AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO REVIEWED! (ﾉ ｡◕ ▽ ◕｡)ﾉ ﾟ･:,｡ﾟ･:,｡ ﾟ･:,｡ﾟ･:,｡
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