Let me explain – This may seem difficult to understand at first but please continue to read and it will soon make sense.
The ancient Greek Hero of Legend, Perseus held his distraught soulmate in arms trying desperately to console her from her impending fate. The princess Andromeda, the most beautiful woman in all of Greece sadly had a evil curse placed upon her by the evil Goddess Thetis, not only was she jealous that Andromeda's beauty, a mere mortal surpassed her own, but also became extremely bitter after she had refused to marry her son Calibos, an arrangement that had been made since her birth in exchange for Thetis help banish her father's enemies to keep him as King. Calibos had been transformed to into a hideous monster by the Gorgons, to which Thetis assumed the reason Andromeda refused to marry him, but she wasn't that shallow, she simply couldn't love him for she found a new love, her Perseus. If she were to fall in love with another as soon they psychical gave into each other, Thetis would sacrifice her in revenge for the tragedy that had befallen her son.
"Do not fear my beloved, I shall go venture, no matter how treacherous the quest to find a way for us to be together," he gently caressed her face, looking deep and meaningful into her light blue eyes.
"But I do fear, my most cherished one, I fear for your safety. I have made my intention to you many times; I would be willing to marry Calibos if it will keep you alive. I would not be able breath another breath if I lost you, especially knowing it was on my behalf. My heart would stop beating the same moment at yours," she begged, running her hands through his brown curls.
"I must leave for I shall not condemn you to an unhappy life for my sake, I shall not fail. Please believe in me, believe in us," he cradled her gently while placing a final passionate kiss upon her cherry lips for he did not know whether it would days, weeks, months or years until he saw her again, "farewell my love, I plead for you not to forget me for your image shall always be emblazoned on my mind for eternity.
He left rapidly so she could not protest any more though she still reached her land out longingly to capture his hand. Upon knowing he would risk his life for her, a useless endeavour that would only lead to certain death for them both if he did not return soon, her departure from this mortal world but for her beloved to leave to would scar soul with her eternal guilt, she broke down completely into a sobbing heap on the marble floor,
"My dear Perseus," she announced out to loud, "I implore you to grant me absolution but I am unable to endure your absence, my conscious tormented every waking moment therefore I own not another choice but place myself into an indefinite sleep until your courageous homecoming"
Preparing for her rest she scrambled up upon the bed, moving the hanging curtains out of the way and sliding her silky soft legs into the white sheets, she uttered a variety of ancient long forgotten words of a complicated enchantment while waving her hand in a curling motion in front of her face as if to enchant her into hypnosis. She was so gifted she instantly fainted down, her red-wine hair fanning the pillow. And there she remained lounged out, for 5 minutes, 8 minutes, 10 minutes before one eye winked opened.
"Wherever is she?" a very frustrated Midori quietly whispered to herself, "typical Nishikawa."
The Goddess Thetis just walked in, she was beautiful, long blonde curls and blazing blue eyes but had a very bored expression slathered across her face. Making her way to the front of the bed of where Andromeda lay, obscuring her from her view, she had her back turned to her and spoke.
"I am more beautiful than you and I always will be. I am better than you at everything," bragged Thetis, her hands at her waist while pushing her bosom out for all to see, "I will get you. I will always win."
Midori even with her lids closed, rolled her eyes. Not one single word of that which Nishikawa had said was even in the script but Midori knew why she had spoken those words. She would tackle her later about it, but as for now, she was a professional and would stay in character no matter how hard Nishikawa tried to upstage and annoy her. Midori continued to wait, getting very impatient; waiting for her to deliver the next line but Nishikawa just was boasting and posing her body off in a way to make all believe she was more beautiful. (As if!)
"You are suppose to summon Calibos' followers to come and collect me, prior to you placing a spell on me to separate mind from body so I willingly come with you!" muttered Midori from the side of her mouth.
"Yes thank you, I remember now," she sneered down at her before getting back into character, "Umm yeah, Cyrano and, and ... um"
"Gyuri." Midori muttered, helping her again to her.
"Gyuri, come and get this bitch, on behalf on my son take this stupid whore back to the Underworld," Nishikawa said without expression or without action. Two hideous deformed human like creatures covered in fur with black slanted eyes appeared from nowhere, bowing low to her, awaiting further instructions, "you will take her to back to Cerbelus to do with what he wants to."
"His name is Calibos," Hohki (Gyuri) corrected her.
"No it's not I have read the script you imbecile!" flipping her back her hair she proceeded to cast the spell upon Andromeda, "you broke the contract so you got to come now and pay for what you did, your body will rot here but your soul will be tortured forever. You will come now you ignorant wench."
Midori mentally face palmed. Hohki and Yoshitomi (Cyrano) glanced towards each other. That wasn't even the spell to which she was supposed to perform; actually it wasn't even a spell! Most was the lines Calibos was to deliver later in the play. She yanked Andromeda out of her bed, Midori grazed her knee but still acted as if she was unconscious, stepping slowly to her feet in her trance, Nishikawa pushed her backwards, (she was scripted just to rub her hand over her head.) Midori would of seriously injured her back if Yoshitomi hadn't of caught her in time. Passing her to Hohki he lifted her over his shoulder.
"I beg your pardon, Goddess Thetis but our master's grows weary awaiting to finally claim his bride, we can delay no more."
The theatre curtain come down to change the scenery upon the stage. When the curtain reponed the set had altered to the interior of a dark temple, one that could ever exist in Hell. The two most prominent features among the decor of skulls, bones and candles, firstly was the throne to a terrifying beast, the same terrifying beast who resided there now, the same terrifying beast Andromeda had been forced to marry. The second, in the dead centre, was a table, an altar made of the blackest granite; black roses wove around the pillars that were adorned with skulls of fanged creatures, but mainly the 4 shackles to hold someone in place in other words, a sacrificial table. Cyrano and Gyuri entered stage right, Gyuri carrying Andromeda, bowed lo to Calibos.
"Now." ordered Calibos, pointing the altar, "I will not allow this woman who betrayed me to live a moment longer, proceed."
About to rise so they could obey their masters' request, Calibos himself stood, his cloven hooves clomped steadily and meaningfully across to where there cowered. He knelt to retrieve Andromeda from Gyrui's clasp, choosing instead to decide to be one to take her on her final small trip across to where she was to breathe her final breath. Placing her down, non too gently, he gave a brief flick of his hand to his to right hand men to start binding her down, the hole time he had not took his red eyes off of her beautiful sleeping face, a claw tangling in her dark red hair.
"Who would have thought a beast could love while an angel turned out to be so cruel. The way you so callously played with my heart so in return," he declared, brandishing a sharp ruby encrusted dagger placed squarely over her heart, ready to plunge, "I shall take yours. With your death I will devour every inch of your corpse after presenting your unbeating heart to your Perseus."
It was as if the sound of her lover's name had broken the curse, Andromeda opened her sapphire eyes, blinking slightly she gasped aloud as she looked up to see the point of the dagger ready to embedded in her chest.
"No I must fight, fight for my true one and only. I must survive for my Perseus. I may not in this fight but I must try. Dear Goddess Aphrodite I plead to you, you see the love I bear for Perseus, I must do this for him, please bestow upon me enough strength to be able to defend myself and leave this wretched place behind. Dear Goddess Hera I plead of you to watch over my life and keep it safe until I am free," she spoke out loud in monologue.
Slowly she balled her right hand into a fist, straining against the shackle at her wrist she used all her might to break free. She did! And within that instant she miraculously caught the tip of the dagger between her delicate fingertips. Yanking it from Calibos' hand she turned the dagger around and threw it straight back at him, it didn't kill him but injured him bad enough for him to fall bleeding to the floor. Pulling her left wrist from its restraint, she quickly set about unbuckling her ankles. The iron shackles she ripped from the table and threw them one by one at Cyrano and Gyuri, hitting their temples to knock them out.
The sacrificial altar was too high for her to simply step off, she had no choice but to jump. Taking a gasp she took a leap of faith only to stumble upon the hard floor and graze her leg. Sobbing and grimacing in pain, Andromeda stumbled to her feet holding her injury as she tried to limp to freedom. Which was sadly short-lived thanks to the Goddess Thetis, Calibos' mother, who swooped in out of nowhere to capture poor Andromeda. One arm encircling her waist so tightly as if she was trying to crush her insides, the other had a firm hold on Andromeda's face so she could hear clearly the poison words she intended to spout.
"Nishikawa, what are you doing? You are not even supposed to make an appearance again until the final scene!" hissed Midori to her, "let go of me and go and read the damn script!"
"Oh Andromeda you try so hard but I will always stop you in your tracks. You may have beaten my son but you will never ever be able to succeed me. All your attempts will fail miserably," laughed Nishikawa / Thetis in her ear, holding on tight to the struggling Midori, "I will take you back and let Calibos murder you and if he doesn't then I shall insert that dagger deep within your chest, without hesitation and I will take utter pleasure in doing so."
"This has gone far enough Nishikawa, I mean it let me go," Midori knew those ords was actually directed to her, not to her character. It was obvious by their such hateful relationship of each other, but she didn't know what game Nishikawa was trying to play but it had to stop right now, it was ruining the rehearsal. She struggled against the grasp, but Nishikawa held on tight, fighting against her, swinging her back and forth. Midori fought back against her grip. Then it all happened ...
An ear splitting scream, a sickening sound of bone breaking followed by the clash of instruments as Midori was hurtled from the stage, landing in the orchestra pit, smashing her ankle to pieces in the process.
"CUT! CUT!" yelled Koji, the play's director, running to her aid, like all the cast members and stagehands to help her, "Midori are you OK? Someone quick, fetch the nurse."
"I think I twisted my ankle is all, but it's fine, I don't need one," she tried to convince them, holding it or rather trying to hide it from the gathering eyes of all. Yes she had broken it, but by now it was already healed, but everyone had heard her howl of pain, everyone had heard it snap, and mainly, everyone else in the whole theatre was human. How could she explain to them it that a broken bone miraculously mended itself? I will have to try and change the conversation! "So Koji, when are you going to sack Nishikawa?"
"I'm going to have to," he sighed, "her father will kill me though."
"Father?" questioned Yoshitomi.
"Her father is very rich and it's he that's helping fund the production," explained Koji, "but I might as well close it all down now our star is injured, and our second can't even act."
"Yes, she brought her way on to the cast list like all the other plays and films she's been in," Midori explained, smirking towards Nishikawa who she could still see showing off on the stage, though no-one was noticing her.
"At least I didn't have to be a whore and sleep my way through all the Hollywood directors," she laughed evilly back at her. If it wasn't for the fact that Midori was a vampire, a lady and pretending to have a broken ankle, to put it plainly, 'she would of beat the shit out of her after ripping her apart with her fangs' Haha I would love to reveal to her I'm a Vamp, she'd die of fright! Luckily though Midori had all the others happy to back her up.
"Hey bitch," called out Shiro (Calibos), "Midori gets in on pure talent, something that you you've never had, I wouldn't even be surprised if you didn't know how to spell it!"
"Hmph! Well talented or not she can't perform with a injured ankle, so Koji when you finally see sense, I shall be in my dressing room waiting for you to come and beg me to play Andromeda!" with a swish of her hair she left.
"Wait a minute, did she throw Midori off stage just to get her part?" asked Yoshitomi.
"Yup, she's just that evil," she answered.
"More like desperate," Shiro chimed in.
"She deserves to be out just for that, well if the worse comes to the worst, I shall have on the extras play Andromeda. No way is she. I want to fire her fully it's just the money," sighed Koji.
"I brought the nurse," Hohki announced as he entered with a short plump middle aged woman, in a nurses' blue and white uniform carrying a bag, who immediately went to work on checking Midori's 'broken' ankle. Oh no, how am I going to explain this?
"I think I need to bandage the foot tight to help keep pressure on it, I do need a better look though but for the sake of patient privacy I ask if any of you gentleman would be kind enough to carry Miss Shiki to her dressing room."
"Of course," smiled Shiro.
[[MXR]]
Midori sat on her dressing room's leather couch, 'her injured ankle' perched on a foortstool, in front of the nurse, who was currently examining it thoroughly. Hands feeling all over Midori's toes, feet, ankle, legs ...
"I have only one cure for this I'm afraid."
The nurse placed Midori's foot to her mouth, slowly trailing her tongue around each toe, kissing the tip of each until she reached her big toe which she sucked lovingly.
"Hey! What are you do-" Midori as caught mid-speech as the nurse looked up to her and it was this moment Midori realised, she hadn't thought to look at the nurse's eyes. Her ocean blue ones became transfixed with ones that was mis-matched, ones that as blue and red, ones that she kne only too well...
You may of guessed, but if you didn't know, the play is based very loosely on the film 'Clash Of The Titans' if you haven't watched it I recommend you do, especially if you love mythology.
Can anyone guess who the nurse really is ...?