Chapter 5
Chp. 5 Faded Memories/Once Upon a December-Anastasia Part II
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
"So you're saying you think I am the Princess Anastasia?" I asked all snarkily wrinkling my nose at the thought. Wincing as though I could smell brustle sprouts and other yucky vegetables.
"Yes." Kiku insisted holding my hand and feeling it as she were trying to read my palms for a fortune but I smacked her away.
"I knew you were both crazy..." I said pointing to Kiku's parents.
"But now I seriously think you're both MAD!!!" I yelled throwing my arms up into the air after pushing them all away and standing up dramatically.
The librarian glared at me and I just stuck my tongue out at her because I was getting REAL sick of her s**t.
"Think about it, Raven." December said smirking almost as big as a glasglow smile and a bit like a conman.
"You have the red hair of Darkness clan..." He extended his long bony white hand with long claws running it through a strand of my hair enigmatically.
He looked like Sephiroth. His hair was pulled behind his ears so he reminded me a bit of Legolas from Lord of The Rings and the elves in it but he definitely had the dirty hands of Rasputin. He was so ugly inside and out because his heart was black and rotten inside of like an apple in the garbage. Othewise handsome. He had a monocle and judge hat like Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dam. He also had cane and cape and a sword.
I shrugged and pulled away resisting.
"No...it's...it's just...it's just plain crazy..." I shook my head extremely in denial. My natural beauty peering through even in fear. My big amethyst eyes popping as my brows furrowed. My plush lower lip trembling. I looked just like Ariel when she explained to Eric that she can't speak and December gave me the same disappointed look Eric gave her but with more hatred.
I trembled more and took some steps back knocking over one of the chairs and bumping into a shelf of books. Some of them falling down around me like an avalanche shaped like an Oreo.
He grabbed my shoulders pinning me to the wall more leaning in, looking into my eyes, and shaking me.
"The brows of anger, the fires of the pain and suffering...you have the perfect jawline...the perfect appearance. You and Ember are far too similar even in your misguided actions!" He lectured me loudly and crazily.
I freaked out screaming and crying.
"That's enough!" My parents demanded pulling him off of me.
Kiku tried to walk over to me.
She reached her arm out to comfort me but I just pushed her away and ran out crying as fast as I could. The droplets of anguish melting down my expression! I wasn't looking where I was going at all! I didn't even want to look at anything ever again especially myself in the mirror in my cursed beauty!
I tripped and fell over but not like a dumb blonde whore in a horror movie. More like a giselle trying to leap over The Great Wall of China and obviously failing.
I fell to my knees like a prayer.
"Why did God have to make me so beautiful..." I sobbed poetically.
I cried to hard I began to weep blood as a snowstorm was forming.
My fangs growing, I could hear myself growl and moan, my emotions had overtaken me, the memories did too, and giving into the ultimate transformation into Vampire Mode.
The whole family ran over to me but I did an explosion of air-like limbs like Elfen Lied teleporting away. The blast coating the snow in ashes and flame and knocking over everyone and everything. It was a collision of the elements.
I went somewhere else to cry. I was alone in the snow and the blizzard only got a whole lot worser. My hair fell down and whipped in the whispy wind. My waves of red grain entwining with the colors of the wind. It was like in Pocahontas and The Northern Lights all mixed in one! Maybe even like art.
They all finally caught up with me.
They all walked the entire way panting even my uncle, Youkai, and Kira were there! My vision was blurred by the bright glowing of my eyes and the snowflakes.
I was at the very tippy top of Mount Everest or Mount Fuji(I dunno but it was huge and far away so it may as well have been. Just don't ask!) I looked down at how high I was as I was snapping out of it. Shaking my head I felt like I was going to fall forever!
Before they could run up to get me I fainted and fell off the edge.
I felt my death upon me.
No going back. I couldn't even save myself.
This is where I go to die. It was set in tombstone(Get it?) It was as if I plummeted and skyrocketed from Niagara Falls and space and from the highest point in the entire universe! I knew this was the end and no one could do anything about it.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Everyone screamed in protest ready to hear my crunch and see my shattered remains.
I fell harder than a fallen angel.
"She's gonna die do something!" Kiku said crying. Her tears seemed to have powers like Princess Peach in that one Mario game because then Kira swooped in on my pet wolf with angel wings named Midnight. She is all winter ashen black and looks like Youkai but with somewhat lighter and sharper almost deep evening sky blue fur and large fluffy white feathered wings which while strong are softer to the touch than marshmallows and hugs from your grandmother and drier lint and dust bunnies and ash. She can only be summoned in Vampire Mode like my black katana so this was an amazing miracle. Kira Shinobi's name was extra suiting to him. You could tell he was like a ninja warrior from how he caught me in his arms like a hero or a prince or that one scene in Final Fantasy X where Yuna escapes her wedding by falling on that first Aeon/dragon.
I woke up and was out of it.
I shook my head all confused.
"What happened?" I asked looking all innocent like a lolita or baby doll.
Kira looked down at me all serious.
He was silent but then he said "I'll never let you get hurt again."
He looked into my eyes sweetly but hurt deep down inside.
"I'm so-sorry Kira-g-gomen..." I weeped.
He shook his head and shooshed me putting a finger to my lips.
I almost blushed.
He was scareder than a deer in the headlights.
"I'm just glad you're safe..." He sounded mysterious and enigmatic like a hollow ghost. All that was inside him was pain. I nearly broke his sensitive emo heart.
"Yeah..." I agreed blushing and resting my head on his chest.
I could hear his heart pounding and mine too. The metronome of adrenaline, sadness, and love playing together like a classical composition or a soulful duet. Tears ran down our pale cheeks a little. I was so pale especially in the coming and roaring storm that looked untouched by anyone's hands. Like a pure smooth porcelain or marble but pigmented with pixie dust and snow. I was chalkier than chalk. I was completely spotless and it showed. This ordeal was insane nonetheless.
We glided down soon after like ascending angels. It was super amazing. It was THE ultimate dramatic moment! It was surreal. I can only imagine how neat it looked especially if a human saw it! It was like we fell down a waterfall made of feathers. It was magic. The fact that I survived was a miracle and I felt like I was made of titanium.
The WHOLE incident was really pretty crazy to say the very least! I am crazy so what else do you expect? But still...it was prettier than the Mona Lisa I think. But then again that painting is boring in my humble opinion.
We landed and Midnight disappeared in flash.
It took only a split second and blink or less for her to appearify away in a dark ominous mist. Midnight looked me in the eyes as she did. She calmly nodded at me, blinked, looked down, and bowed to let me know that The Royal Family's blessing had answered our prayers then poofed away.
Youkai, Kiku, Dracula, and parents ran over to us.
"Raven, are you alright?" Kiku asked coming up to me and hugging my neck immediately crying again while Youkai whimpered like a pup and twiddled his claws in the background. His ears were down and stuff. I leaned into the hug with her. Not hugging back though because I was so shocked. I almost tipped over.
"So now what?" Kira asked confused like a bear looking at a teddybear.
He scratched his blue hair which was had emo bangs, shaggy spikes, and it grew down to his neck. It was so sexy but I was too afraid and damaged and broken from the news that I couldn't appreciate it.
"So this is your boyfriend?" My father Himura asked. His arms crossed. His thick black eyebrows looked very angry like they always did but far worse. His thin gray white upper lip twitching scowling and almost trembling. I saw his hands form into fists almost. He looked like he was going to become a monster of some sort like maybe the basilisk from Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets! His hair in that Wolverine from X-Men shape. He was arched with folded arms and disapproval.
He did not want to see his baby girl like a dad especially would to wed with someone human and he didn't even know but accepted even if she was a princess not a pauper.
"Yes." I said looking down all guilty hanging in my head in absolute shame and misery and woe!
"And he is human?" My dad Himura Atarashi asked to me again. He sighed and groaned deeply out his nose like a panting bull charging for a red cape!
"Yes..." I was hesitant but couldn't hold back anymore. It was too grating! Living a lie especially from my family was simply far too much! I wanted to give up on the world and like everything.
I started to cry again. Weeping like a willow(kidding, kidding).
My beautiful orb of bloodstained pasty glowing like a freshly picked diamond of the highest bizaare in an extra creamy vanilla cake with bits of rubies and fragmints of rubies and strawberries. I felt fire in my face like a chili pepper and quickly looked like one too! I was THAT blushy and red!
I nearly choked in nervousness gulping my swan neck. My starry dreamy pink sunset flower cherry blossom eyes faded with a purple rose glaze. They were sparkly like stars and constellations and told all the world's stories and secrets and deep emotions since I was really emo(still am) at the time. I was emotional like a song with lyrics of heartbreak inked in blood. It was important and stuff so yeah.
"Then let's not waste any more time." Himura said looking up at me.
"...wh...what?" I was so super confused and a few other things too!
"The wedding ceremony should be soon. He's your true love after all." He said bluntly.
I got a sweatdrop on my head, blushing, and I fell over.
Kira caught me. He was blushing too. His face was redder than a chili pepper and he just barely caught me again.
Kiku's parents Kikyo and December muttered to themselves. They were such jealous haters. Gossiping like little schoolgirls.
"Well, maybe not right now..." Added my mama Ariel. "Just after we figure out this legend situation..."
"I don't think we can stop it." Kikyo replied crosser than a Christian. She barked her words like Youkai on Garbage Day.
"But you don't know my daughter!" Ariel shouted back. It was the exact same as the part in Quest For Camelot when Lady Julianna defended her daughter the same way.
"He's just a weak little human boy he couldn't finish The Blood Trials and he'll taint our blood...Heaven forbid we have..." December shivered. "...hybrids..."
"Yes, Heaven forbid we have TRUE LOVE in our kingdom!" My uncle Dracula replied shutting them up.
He pwned them making them storm off into the storm.
Youkai snorted and growled at them as they left "I HOPE YOU ******** GET FROSTBITE!" He said flipping them off with a claw.
But they were too chicken to come back. We all laughed at them hoping the cold would make them suffer a bit.
We started to walk home so we would not get caught in the blizzard and continued to discuss all of the wedding plans.
"So...I am required to marry her?" Kira asked. His eyes looking swirly and confused as he got a sweat drop on his brow still blushing a lot with me.
"Yes. I'm afraid so." Himura responded.
"...But the good news is that there's hope." Ariel commented with optimism fluffing her head's garden of roses. Her purple greek gown looked divine.
"Yes. With true love there is always hope." Himura finished her sentence and they looked at one another suggestively like Morticia and Gomez from The Addams Family.
"Even if I don't fully approve of the human thing..."
"There's still time and the girls have more than proven with their special talents that they can stop the pattern from reoccuring." My uncle Peterson Dracu'ul told us. "This wedding could be what saves our family from chaos!"
"Maybe..." I said muttering still blushing all tsundere and still in shock at how well my parents took the news of me keeping my boyfriend secret for months now especially since he's people and not a vampire...yet. I prayed to God that I would not kill him.
"I'm still confused...." Said Kiku who is the smart one so it was a really big deal.
"I just want...ya know...a sign! ANYTHING!" I shouted to the Heavens throwing my arms up.
I see a black flash and I knew it was a ninja. It was a spy with an inside job.
He whispered "Shhhh!" as he dropped a locket necklace in my hands. I examined it. It was made of pure gold and rubies.
There was text carved in that said "Meet Us Together in Tokyo" and that's when I knew we had to visit the real palace in Japan.
So we did just that!
To be continued...
 RavenDarknessAtarashi · Wed May 15, 2013 @ 11:54pm · 4 Comments |
