Finals are done and I'm free at last! So anywho I think I've made a strange but new friend, A raven has been following me everywhere and the other day it even sat in on a lunchin with my friends after we sang at a funeral (we're a church choir and besties ) I'm not the only one who saw it Hawkeye the only guy in my group saw him too but my bestie Arietta is terrified of birds so we kept quiet about it (just so you know these aren't their real names I just gave em unofficial code names for the hell of it) My other friend is Violet Ray and Surefire (Violet Ray and Hawkeye are currently dating so wish them luck!) I digress… So any who while talking to my father about yet another weird event that happened today (my life is a story in its self LOL) So long story short my Dad and I were looking at cars at a lot and he was interested in this 07 dodge lonestar and it was after hours so we didn't expect anybody to be there and nobody was but we discovered 1. the truck was unlocked and 2 after my dad had barely touched the ignition the truck turned on by itself! We freaked and my dad called the dealership owner (who looked a lot like Charlie Sheen LOL) it was an interesting day… Oh! And my school has a new family of owls roosting at the clock tower they are white owls and they are soo cute! Theres 2 newborn owlets and mommy and daddy owl….. I digress again…. Oh! Yeah so while speaking with my dad I came up with this chapter so thank him and all my lovely friends for this update! So onto the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara no indeed, I do not own them so you see…. (LOL :p)
Kazomi's lips lifted in something that resembled a smile as he witnessed the two teen's little romantic scene on the wall of the koi pond from the water below in the form of a koi fish.
Foolish children haven't even realized my presence! He thought to himself then he noticed the two teetered and fell on top of him. The young prince's foot pinned kazoumi's tail fin almost suffocating him until the boy stepped out of the pond with his love in hand.
Insolent little wretch! I should have made sure you drowned in that well! Kazomi peeked his head above the water and watched the two lovers laugh their way into the mansion. Laugh while you can! My master has a plan for you yet!
Kazomi settled into the bottom of the pond as he reflected on the past few weeks:
After the epic failure at the concert Gozen was in a heated rage and if not for the fact that Kazoumi hadn't been completely useless he probably would have done away with him then and there, or maybe it was the fact that Gozen was getting weaker, the Tsukiyomi magic was fading away and the curses were slowly dwindling, even the princess' had broken she just hadn't realized it yet, fortunately. However the fact was that Gozen needed the one power that was greater than any other power in existence and that was the living Amulet who countered his curse swearing her descendent would break his curse at the end of 500 years when his power would weary.
Kazuomi was sent to look out for the Living Amulet, the most powerful other-worldly being in existence. If Gozen were fortunate enough to capture a living Amulet before she had matured and realized her power he would steal it for himself and live forever as the ultimate being. The problem was no one knew the true identity of the Living Amulet and the clan had lived in secret for thousands of years.
The only clue was that the Living Amulet would be around a cursed of the Tsukiyomi family that wasn't in his imprisonment in his keep were all but the one that got away, the one Kazoumi was supposed to kill the first night, the Black Cat. Prince Ikuto who was potentially the most powerful of his family, not only did he have the ancient Tsukiyomi blood running through his veins but also the Royal Hoshina blood which was equally powerful, he and his sister were a deadly force but the sister was nothing in comparison to her younger brother, it took powerful magic to seal his barely maturing power, if it was fully active, Gozen, much less Kazomi, wouldn't have stood a chance.
But here the child was stuck in the form of a helpless cat, a cat able to speak which was even more disturbing since the original spell was meant to make him silent forever! The stranger thing with him was the girl whom he followed around. This, Amu Hinamori, who didn't even seemed phased by the fact she lived with and conversed with a talking cat. She was either lonely, insane, or something not entirely human. It became apparent the day Kazomi followed the girl and the prince to the place called "Suu Prize" in which the spell had been muted by the collar she gave to the prince that this girl wasn't human, in fact she was a budding sorceress whom, if she had such power to mute the powerful Gozen's curse, had to be no other than the Living Amulet.
Also an interesting revelation appeared "The Order of the Carnation" had secretly lived behind the scenes planning the Prince's revival and were guarding the girl. It was all too obvious.
Sunlight peeked into the pond and shone on something that Kazoumi hadn't noticed before the collar that had muted the prince's curse was sitting at the bottom of the pond un protected and ready for the taking, I shall take this to master Gozen he will know it's power the minute he sees it!
Jus then the young prince in his cat form appeared the other koi mindlessly gathered to him, Kazoumi dived to the bottom quickly and grabbed the collar before Ikuto could see it unfortunately the cat did spot him dragging the collar across the pond and even dived toward him making himself fall into the pond. Kazoumi darted out of the way but could feel the vibrations from the cat struggling, Maybe this time you'll actually drown!
But the cat was saved by the Fujisaki leader.
Damn!
Kazoumi couldn't clearly understand what they were saying but they left and as they did he quickly changed back into a man briefly then into a bird and took to the air, the collar clenched in his claws.
He cawed once and the bright blue sky instantly turned into a black vortex and he dove in, but not without feeling uneasy and landed right before the throne where Gozen was sitting and he seemed annoyed at Kazoumi's presence.
"Did I summon you, Kazoumi?" He said bitterly his copper gold hair glinting as a surge of power flickered across his body as to intimidate Kazoumi.
Trembling, Kazoumi regained his human self and lifted up the collar, "I've come to bring you this."
Gozen looked at it with a stoic, uninterested expression, then his demeanor changed as realization began to dawn on his face. He flicked his finger upward in a jolt like action and the collar flung into the air and into his open hand. He examined it closely as if he were taking in all of it's parts piece by piece and analyzing them.
A slow, maniacal, smile crept onto his lips and then he burst into harsh grating laughter, "Kazoumi, you did well!"
He stood his robes falling around him and tossed the collar in the air and it vanished in a bolt of energy, "We've found her…"
He snapped his fingers and his clothes changed into that of a normal teenage boy's school uniform, "The Living Amulet is finally ours for the taking."
Then with just a flick of his hand Gozen vanished and appeared in a bakery supply shop where he saw a girl with pink hair shopping with another lady with green hair.
"Suu-san, did you remember to get the replacement attachments for the blender?" The girl rang. The Woman touched her cheek thoughtfully, "Oh dear! I completely forgot it, I did!"
The girl with the pink hair half smiled, "I'll go get it then. You wait right here."
"Very, well." The Green lady said watching Amu disappear behind the isles of the store. Gozen followed her and pretended to bump into her, "Oh Sorry, miss." He said in a sweet voice.
Amu flustered for a bit over dropping a spatula, "On it's fine really." Amu said bending over to pick it up. Gozen then dove for it in front of her, "Let me help it's my fault really."
Amu stood straight and accepted the spatula with a straight face, "Thanks" was all she said before she turned to the attachments she had been looking at before.
Gozen grimaced briefly and then leaned over her casually, "You know you're pretty cute. I don't think I've seen you here before."
Amu glanced at him briefly and took a step aside to get out of his leer and again only said, "Thanks, new job."
"I see," Gozen pressed stepping closer to her, "My name is Hitachi, and you?"
Amu glanced briefly at him he could tell that she was deciding whether or not to tell him her name finally she said, "Amu." and made an effort to look preoccupied. She was beginning to get on Gozen's nerves he leaned over casually toward her, "hey, I was wondering maybe sometime we can go to dinner or something."
This time she glared at him then returned her attention to the attachments finding the one she needed with a brief sigh of relief, "Sorry, Already have a boyfriend."
Gozen/Hitachi laughs darkly, "You know, you're pretty sick for falling in love with a cat, what do you call it zoophilia?"
Fear, confusion, and a brief flinch crosses Amu's face and she turns away to leave but he grabbed her arm and held it in a tight vice grip that hurt her, "Ow."
"Oh, what's that pain?" Hitachi chuckled darkly, "You're still young if you still feel this" He squeezed harder and the pain was so bad Amu dropped all of the packages she was carrying, "W-why?"
"Because child, that damned prince cat save you now," Hitachi laughed as his true form began to form before her eyes, "You're mine now!"
Amu reached out briefly and screamed at the top of her lungs before she and Hitachi disappeared into a dark vortex. Suu and everybody in the store heard the scream and came rushing to see what happened when Suu saw the abandoned packages that Amu had been carrying lying on the floor by themselves and no Amu he heart dropped to the bottom of her chest, "Oh dear." She whispered and dropped all of her own packages and turned on her heel and headed out the door, what do I do? Amu-chan has been kidnapped!
Oh and the curtain falls right on the suspenseful moment and the audience starts ambushing the stage and are now after the author for more….. Just Kidding! But I promise a new chap will follow soon! But I'm going to leave it hanging for a while just to let you guys dry out a little from the juicy epciness!
Okay I know there is a little conflict with the time stream in this chapter and it can be explained very easily…. Magic! I'm dead serious… Kazoumi's a hack in magic so he's not very good with time/space portals so he ended up in Gozen's castle a few days later than planned! And a little fact here from what I gather "Gozen" roughly translates "boss" in English so I decided to give Gozen and unofficial name thus making him "Hitachi"! It will be what he goes by from now on. In the revision I'm going to try to work in these factors but for now I'm just gonna mention them in the Author's notes. So I'm curious on how you all took in the facts I installed here about Hitachi slowly losing grip on the Tsukiyomis and how the Living Amulet is actually a generation of Sorceresses! Didn't see that coming didja? I was originally going to wait until the second story to spill the beans on the Living Amulet but since this chappy was going to be incredibly short I just decided to include that!
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