chuckles-the-jester asked:
this is for samurai jack, but all i can think is jack and ashi becoming new parents
cutegirlmayra answered:
(I'm gonna have to make a statement… I would rather not do stories involving 'making them parents' or 'having kids' because it's very uncanon and out of character. I will do my best with this one but after that, I hope you will understand how I'm dedicated to producing the best writing I can. I appreciate the ask and shall do my very best, but no more along these awkward topics.)
Stating that as I do, I will try and make this canon as possible.
Prompt:
Jack, having journeyed long across a mountain range, and finally stopping near a solid slab of earth, sticking out ruggedly from it's protrusion on the mountain side, hit his bare fist on it's surface after a second of examining it.
All was still but the air, as Jack squinted his eyes, seeing the rock hold it's place.
Jumping up on it and landing with his knee bent and his leg stretched out, he stood straight and made a place for himself against the mountain's side, and sat there, seeing it to be a sturdy foundation, and removed his hat.
He sighed, looking up and smiling slightly at the sight of a great, massive eagle… it's wings spread wide with it's magnificent cry before circling a nest and dropping in to it's young. Looking regal, it closed it's eyes and stood proudly over it's young, as they chirped and squawked annoyingly at their parent for food and attention.
Jack began to grow drowsy, and suddenly fell into a deep… sleep…
Waking up, he jolted as he looked around him. "Wh-what?!" He took a second to examine his surroundings, before jumping off the… "A bed?" gripping his sword's hilt before looking forward.
The room was a lovely homes, and there were portraits of him and children all over the place, and then, a woman, pushing the door with her bottom open and walking backwards, suddenly turned to smile to Jack.
"Ashi!"
"Samurai!" Ashi beamed, but he wasn't used to this new reality, and questioned it, keeping his hand hesitant on his sword…
"What has become of you? Why am I here?"
"Here?" She looked confused, blinking. "You're here cause I found you."
"Found…?" He suddenly was surprised by little ones who came from behind her, laughing and throwing their arms up, bouncing around him before wanting to be held.
"Father, father!"
"F-father?"
In all of Jack's time in Aku's world… he had never heard the name for countless ages…
His heart was softened to their faces, completely lacking that suffering he was so used to seeing.
His hand… slowly… withdrew from the sword's hilt, and he let his arms rest to his sides.
"What is this place?" he looked confused, but didn't see any bad in this strange realm.
He looked to Ashi for answers, "Where have I been taken?"
"All will be revealed, Jack." She smiled, before walking up and taking his hand, leading him out into the living room with the tray she was carrying.
He was so confused, seeing the children and her eat at a table, and felt awkward as he tried to join in on the food.
But something was off, the food didn't have the same taste he was used too.
It was well made, beautifully put on the plate. This confused him greatly, most of his meal came from the wild. And since the wild was scarce with Aku's doing, he fasted and spared many times a meal to continue living in peace.
Sacrifice was all Jack knew, and now…
He looked up.
Ashi smiling to him. "Come, we have much to show you!"
They went outside, and Jack was shocked and in awe at the beautiful world around them. The wind was fresh, the colors bright and wonderful.
"What is this time?"
"You ask so many questions." Ashi smiled to him, picking up a child.
"Who are these children?"
"They're your children." The child in her arms held theirs out to Jack, who stepped away a moment.
"M..mine?" he continued to watch the child chuckle, wanting to be held.
Slowly, he reached for the child, and placed it in his hands.
Suddenly, he chuckled too, something he hadn't truly, sincerely done in a long time.
Ashi closed her eyes and smiled contently.
But suddenly,…
"Father! Mother!"
The two immediately turned to the sound of the helpless child, having his ankle gripped by a dark root of a tree.
"NO!" Jack spun around, seeing the whole world suddenly spring up with roots, and Aku's head became the moon, his firey silhouette revealing itself.
"I'm always here, Samurai Jack! I'm always here…"
"Ashi!" Jack turned to see that she was fighting off a root, before it gripped her mouth and pulled her away into the darkness.
"No!" the child in his arms was being snatched by a root, and he fought to hold on, before having it taken from it. "Stop!"
He drew his sword, slashing and destroying, not even having his eyes fully opened as pain seeped into his being and countenance.
"NOOO!" he shook his fists as he shouted up towards the sky, the whole of the world turning to nothing but Aku's gripping designs of destruction…
And misery.
"HA!" Jack awoke from his dream and gripped his head, breathing deeply a moment before calming himself down.
The mountain's fierce wind had created a cold chill, and snow began to fall.
Hopelessness crept over him, and he looked desperately up, slowly, to the bird's nest.
The eagle and it's children… were gone…
They had escaped the storm… so he had hoped.
He got up, putting his hat back on his head, and began to once again scale and walk along the mountain…
The warmth of that world… still remained an aching reminder within his heart…
That such a fantasy… was only made to remain a fantasy….