Recap

Rhythm couldn't take it anymore she had to saying it. " Mai IS! Aria!" This caused the older woman to look at the 18 year old. All Mai did was bit her lip until it started bleeding, " Ayako… I … HATE YOU!" with that Mai ran out of the room. "MAI!"

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Chapter 5

From all the commotion the boys had ran straight into the base seeing the new woman coming into play, Ayako was leaning against the wall looking down tears falling from her eye's. Rhythm was looking furiously at the camera's trying to figure out where her friend had gone.

" Can someone explain to me what the HELL IS GOING ON!" Shouted a very angry Raven haired boy. 2 of the 3 look to him, " I'm sorry we just ha-" " No be quiet Rhythm, it's my fault Naru, I .. I never knew… I'd been searching for her ever since her mother past away… I didn't know she was right in front of my eye's all along." monk walked over and let the woman cry on his shoulder.

" In any case, we still have a spirit wandering around I want everyone looking for M-" "Found her! She's down at the ice ring." Rhythm shouted, everyone went to go but Sonota held up her hand. " the person that should go is" She looked over to Ayako "Is you,"

Ayako looked to the floor and nodded, she began walking to the door " Monk go with her you two, its late, do what ever you want go home or stay… damn Mai better make me some god damn good tea for this."

With that Monk and Ayako went off going down to the ice rink.

Mai was sat on one of the benches at the back, she had her knees curled up to her chest, and a hand holding her left shoulder, she had re-opened up the wound when she ran out of that room. Closing her eye's why… just why had anyone told her she had a aunt that lived in Tokyo? Why hadn't anyone told her that she was the woman she looked up to as a mother figure while her real mother had passed on because of her faults.

Hitting her head against the wall a few times to try and dull the pain in her shoulder she sighed, " Mum I wish you was here…" she herd the door open and saw monk walk in, she gave a small smile until she saw Ayako and her smile faded turning her head a little.

Monk walked and sat in front of the young girl. " Mai… what's going on? Why did you run off?" Mai just looked down to the floor. "Mai! Please… I'm worried about you. I told you earlier not to run off and you did." Mai snapped her head to the man. " Then ask her where she's been for the last 5 fucking years! Or wait I should say 3 cause 2 of them was with me and I didn't know anything about it!"

"Mai what you talking about?" Monk spoke he saw the tears rolling down her cheeks, he saw the sadness and hurt in them. Ayako walked over and noticed Mai's shoulder, taking off her jumper in the cold ring she undid Mai's bandages and began changing them. "What are you doing?"

"I'm a doctor Mai whether you like it or not, and if you keep re-opening your wounds I will have to send you home." Mai gave out a bitter laugh, " Oh? Trying to take on the role of my mother? Well get this… she's dead! I have no other OLDER! Living blood relatives, I was told I had none by the hospital… and guess who's hospital it was at."

She looked to Ayako, " Why? Just why! Didn't you take responsibility? Why did you have to have me and the twins separated?" Ayako looked to the ground, " You have to understand Mai I was still a medical student at the time, I cou-" " Bull shit! What about your parents? I don't care about myself but them twins was only 5 years old! How do you think that makes them feel!"

"ENOUGH! TELL ME WHATS GOING ON!" Monk shouted, he had enough of the bickering. " Monk, Mai is really Aria Harune… she's my Niece… the one I've been searching for." Monk's eye's widened, Mai … was Ayako's Niece? "But.. Why the name change?"

Mai sighed " Because, I didn't deserve the name of my family. I didn't deserve the name of someone who couldn't raise her own sisters at the age of 13 monk… the doctors at the hospital told me I had no other people. No one would take my twins in… I had been lied to." monk turned to Ayako, " I wasn't… ready, for the responsibility to look after my sisters children. I was just 22, I knew Aria wouldn't be a problem… but the twins with being so young. I couldn't juggle work, training and raising children. Not on my own Mai I'm so sorry… I'm so so sorry.. I don't want forgiveness, but for the past 2 years… I have wanted to adopt you, I never knew you was Aria, you never told us anything about your past. It was hard, I know it was hard for you all." she finished tying up the bandages and sat back on the bench.

Mai looked down to the group, her hand on the freshly bandaged wound. " no.. I should apologise, I never should have acted the way I did. I… don't hate you, it's the opposite, you have been the mother that's not been there for the past 5 years. I just wonder sometimes, does she agree on the path I've chosen, does she agree to the price I gave up in payment for their death… the fire that started in the bakery, it was all my fault. We was all having fun, I don't know how it really started but, my dad… and a boy called Sho was having an argument… I pushed my dad into a candle that knocked over. Screaming at him for him to stop. I had really liked Sho at the time. But before we knew it the fire was out of control, mostly everyone had made it out, I had managed to get the twins out safely, but I ran back in… my parents, Itsuki and rhythm was still trapped, I saw Rhythm, she was caught in a corner, a beam was about to fall on her and I ran using my body as a shield… her star Tie, the metal clip was hot and it burned my arm… but when I looked up I saw them… the three of them, my dad protecting the two, my mother called out Itsuki was already dead. She told me to run with Rhythm…. I refused at first but Dad … he screamed for me to get out of there with my best friend…. So I did, I got out, I received medical treatment, but the 3 of them… died."

By then, Mai was crying, So was Ayako, Monk brought them both into a hug " None of it was your fault Mai, it was no ones fault, it was a accident. I don't care if your Mai my little Jou-chan or whether your Aria, by the way… if your Aria, you know Rhythm doesn't that mean …"

Mai nodded as Monk widened, " Dance!" Mai shot her head up to him, " No… I can't." this caused the older woman to look at the girl. " I gave up dancing, its my regret for not saving them… I can't… I can't dance no more."

Mai stood up and walked down to the rink, " I wish I could… its like a part of me has forgotten how. Back then I didn't just dance for myself, I danced… for Rhythm, For Sona-chan to come back to Rhythm, for Mion, for my family… for the president… for everyone. Eventually over time it became a part of me. An now… I just can't."

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Morning soon came, Everyone was sat in the base, including Rhythm and Sonato, Mai was sat asleep next to her Aunt Ayako. Who looked down at the girl stroking her hair, they had explained details to Naru about what happened but left out the part of who Mai really was, if anyone had to tell them. It was her.

The door suddenly bust open the president was stood there, " you've got to come!" everyone including the young sleepy Mai shot up and ran following the president. They came to the locker room, it had been trashed, everyones things all over the floor, a young blonde haired girl kneeling in the middle looking terrified. Mai and Rhythm ran to her side. " Mion!" the young blonde looked up to them, she pointed to the wall behind her "look…"

On the wall the messaged relayed ' Prism Queen you haven't forgotten how to dance, I will show you how to once more!' Mai widened, no this spirit…. It was after her, but why did it try and attack Rhythm the other day?. Suddenly Mai's eye's went Wide as she felt something go threw her body, looking down a stream of white hit her right in the stomach, but there was no blood no nothing, a second later she fell forwards hitting the floor.

"ARIA!" Screamed Rhythm, Everyone's eye's then went wide, Mion looked to the girl on the floor, "Aria?" Naru rushed over checking the girl over, "She's fine, but what ever happened we will have to hope she can fight her way out of it. Masako!" Masako nodded and closed her eye's " the sprit…" her eye's snapped open, " Is inside her!… it seems sad but determind… she wants to show her how to dance… how to take the stage again, but… why?"

Mion stood up as Naru carried Mai in his arms. " Because, She is the prism Queen, Aria Harune." placing a hand to her own head. " of all the things… ghosts…" they walked out. Naru placed Mai on an infirmary bed.

Dream land

Mai was stood on the ice, looking down she was wearing the same arteries as before. She was out of breath and didn't know why, she looked up and smiled. " The move … its complete, but… I'm afraid… there is still something missing to it."

She went over to the bench and sat down, her body, it was shaking, it felt weak, " no one… will ever perform this move again. I .. its too dangerous," looking to the side was her notes for the Auroru Rising jump, she picked up and crumpled up the book.

Mai was then shot out of the woman's body, she looked to the side of her " GENE!" He nodded, " Why did you let her take over you?" Mai blinked and then remembered. She sighed and looked down. " I don't know" She looked up a week had already flown by but the woman's weak state was increasing she couldn't think, couldn't sleep, couldn't eat. "Its because she did the Auroru Rising…"

Gene looked to Mai wondering on how Mai knew this. Until the young girl screamed " No don't!" the woman was in the middle of the ice. Standing on a stole and a rope hanging down. " I will wait.. .for the day the prism queen is able to master the auroru rising" she jumped from the stole with the rope around her neck, she had killed herself.

Suddenly the woman appeared in front of Mai, " I spent my whole life creating that move, and I still couldn't get it right, but for some reason, you was able to master it, and bring a bright new future in front of us with endless possibilities. I watched you come into this studio knowing nothing about this part of the world, and over the year you walked away as the Prism Queen. Mastering my own move you brough the pureness and light out into it, but , you threw away the life because you think you did something stupid."

Mai looked down knowing the woman was right. She did, she did all that, " You had friends that you helped out but didn't let them help you, you have a family now but don't want them to get close to your heart because your afraid of losing them. Aria.." Gene shot his head to Mai but the girl nodded.

" You need to get them feelings back, you need to let the power of the clothes speak to you again, you need to let the people you love in again otherwise you will never be able to create a new significant jump. Something better than mine. I am not the one that attacked you the other day but there is a spirit here that wants you. It will stop at nothing, you saw him in my first dream. He thinks I've been re-born into you. He saw you do the jump. You need to prove to him that we are not the same."

"But why, I don't even know your name!" The girl looked to Mai and smiled, " My name is Kei. No not the coach that trained Rhythm and her mother, remember this jump has been going back over 60 maybe longer years. Please…. He's the one that pushed me to suicidal… he would never look at me after I attempted the jump. He left me alone with my child. And then he made me leave my child alone in the world."

" What is your last name?" Mai asked and the woman smiled. " My full name is Kei Harune" Mai's eye's widened, this woman… was her family!

"Now go, its time for you to awaken my child. Gene, please continue to watch over her, please give her the confidence to dance again" gene nodded and then the world began disappearing.

Mai's eye's opened up, her tears was falling, everyone crowded around her as she slowly sat up. " I'm sorry but… I still can't dance."

Naru looked to her "What did you see?" Mai took a deep breath and told him everything, Rhythm, Sonota and Mion was shocked to find out about who originally created the jump, others was still shocked about Mai being the famous Aria Prsim Queen from 5 years ago.

Naru placed a hand on his chin, " But, I haven't sensed a second spirit here Mai" Masako spoke, Mai looked down, until the smell of metal hit her nose, she knew that smell anyway, the dirty rusty smell. "Blood…"

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So Mai is the great great grand daughter of the person who preformed the magnificent Auroru Rising Jump. ( If you wanna know what it is, you tube it or watch Pretty Rhythm it's a good Anime!)

Stay tuned for more!

~Cure Dream 90 over and out!