Chapter I
Daily Life at Hinata,
or is it?
It was a
gorgeous morning in the spring at Hinata, the water was sparkling, people
walking to the public baths for a morning bath, the cherry blossoms where out,
Haruka opening her tea shop and...
"KEITARO!" screamed Naru which was heard even by the town elders in their shops
down the hill from the Hinata Apartments.
Haruka sighed
and looked back at the hill where Hinata Apartments were, "Sounds like Keitaro
and Naru like usual," she said.
On the
first floor Keitaro wearing only a towel was running like crazy from Naru, who
was also wearing a towel. "Keitaro! Come back here!" she yelled.
"I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, I'M SORRY!" he yelled running around the corner bumping into
Motoko.
"Urashima!"
stated Motoko pointing her sword at his face, "What have you done to Naru now?"
"Nothing,
I swear!" pleaded Keitaro.
"You
pervert!" yelled Naru coming behind, "You jumped into the
"You got
it wrong, I only tripped on some soap in my..." said Keitaro as Motoko pinned her
sword closer to his chest.
"Urashima... How
dare you peep at maidens bathing!" yelled Motoko, "Secret Technique, Rock
Splitting Sword!"
With one
stroke, Motoko sent a powerful blast of Chi energy that sent Keitaro through
the wall and flying over the town. The
town elders looked up as the "only human who could fly" flew over head and into
the sea. "Ah, to be young again," said
one of them before resuming to their morning duties.
"Everyone,
time for breakfast," shouted Shinobu.
"Yay! Breakfast!" yelled Kaolla running down the
stairs passing Shinobu and putting her in a spin.
A few
minutes later, everyone including Keitaro who managed to get dressed into dry
clothes, was eating breakfast. "So
what's your plans for today Mr. Urashima?" asked Shinobu trying to get a
conversation going to smooth the rough situation that had happen a few minutes
early.
Keitaro
put his bowl down and thought for a moment, "I don't really have any plans for
today. It will still be a while before
my first semester at Tokyo U starts, and I already have all my materials I
need."
"Is that
why you decided to peep at me?" asked Naru giving Keitaro a dirty look.
"I'm
telling you I'm innocent!" yelled Keitaro.
"What
about you Naru?" continue Shinobu.
"Me? Well I figured I would do a little shopping
for some school supplies than just relax for the rest of the day," replied
Naru.
"I'm
Finished," yelled Kaolla as she jumped on Keitaro's head and off to the
door. The force of Kaolla's jump shoved Keitaro
into Motoko where his face landed in-between her breasts.
"Urashima!!!"
screamed Motoko followed by another blast sending him to
After a
few minutes of laying on the bridge, Keitaro got back to his feet and brushed
off some of the dust on his shoulder when a soft breeze blew from the other
side of the bridge, away from Hinata.
Keitaro turned around to see a young woman on the bridge carrying some
baggage walking toward Hinta. She was
abut Naru's size with long pink hair wearing a brown skirt that went to her
knees with an orange sleeveless shirt.
She
continued to walk till she reached Keitaro who was still on the ground, she
bent over and offered her hand to help him up.
"Are you ok?" she asked.
Keitaro
nodded, "I'm fine, this happens a lot, so I'm used to it."
"That's
good, I'll see you later then," replied the girl as she walked off the bridge
and turned left towards some shops.
Keitaro
wasn't sure what she meant by ‘See you later' and didn't have a chance to ask
her. He watched her as she went out of
sight and then began to walk back to the
It was now around
"Hey
Keitaro, check out my the new addition to my Mecha Tama 3!" yelled Kaolla with
a remote control.
"That's
ok, I rather pass!" yelled Keitaro
dodging heat seeking missiles that launched from the Mecha Tama's shell.
"Kaolla!"
yelled Shinobu as Keitaro took a hit and flew towards the stairs just in time
to slam into Naru's breasts.
"You
PERVERT!" yelled Naru punching him to the other side of the hall by the window.
Keitaro
slowly grabbed the rail of the window and proceeded to get up when he noticed
someone approaching the
"What are
you looking at?" asked Naru wondering why Keitaro was so still.
"I think
we have a guest," said Keitaro walking downstairs.
"A Guest?"
asked Shinobu, "We rarely get guests."
"Excuses
me, can I speak to the manager?" came a voice from downstairs.
Naru,
Shinobu and Kaolla ran downstairs just to see Keitaro walk up to their new
guest. "Hello, I'm Keitaro Urashima,
manager of Hinata Inn."
"Ahh, so
we meet again," started the girl, "I'm Emeral Bellosom. I heard that there was a room available here
and I'm hopping I can rent it for a few weeks or so."
"I'm very
sorry, but we don't have any rooms available," said Keitaro with his eyes
looking back.
"You sure,
I heard room 303 was open," said Emeral.
"Room
303?" started Naru, "Of course it's open, it's a closet."
"I'm told
that the
"Don't
know why you won't believe me, but I'll take you too it," said Naru waving her
to follow.
After two
flights of stairs, Naru, Keitaro, Shinobu, Kaolla, and Emeral were on the third
floor where they went to room 303 at the back of the hall.
"See, it's
a closet," said Naru opening the door.
As soon as she did Keitaro fell to the ground, "What happen to the
closet?" he yelled. Naru looked and also
feel to the floor as the room the door lead to was a normal size apartment
room.
"But, But,
But I could have sworn it was a closet," said Naru getting back on her feet.
"Well
then, would it be alright if I can stay for a while, I have the rent money
right here," said Emeral handing Keitaro an envelope with enough money for two
months.
"Woa, this
is way more than enough," said Keitaro.
"That's
ok, I would just end up spending it on sweets anyways," said Emeral.
"OK then,"
said Keitaro a bit hesitant, "Welcome to Hinata Inn."
"Thanks,"
said Emeral as she walked into the room passing Naru.
"Wait,"
started Naru, "Have we meet somewhere before?"
Emeral's
pupils shrank slightly as she turn to Naru, "I don't think so."
"Deja-vu?"
thought Naru as Emeral closed her door.
Emeral
walked to her bed and sat down, "That's odd, she recognized me." Emeral looked out the window than laughed
softly, "It's a shame I can't tell her the truth. Like she would believe me if I told her we
meet in the digital world during our journey to the fourth castle."
Chapter II
The New Resident,
Emeral
Later that
day Motoko arrived home from visiting with her friends and Kitsune had finished
buying more sake. Both of them happened
to arrive at the same time at the stairs leading to the Hinata Apartments and
were walking up when they noticed a young woman with pink hair sitting on the
roof reading a book.
"We're home,"
called Motoko as she entered the apartment.
"Say Naru,
who's that on the roof reading a book?" asked Kitsune as Naru came around the
corner to great them.
"Her name
is Emeral Bellosom and she's the new resident here at Hinata," started Naru.
"What? But where is she staying, we have no more
room available?" asked Kitsune.
"She's
staying in room 303," started Naru.
"303? That's a Closet," said Motoko.
"I thought
so too, but there is a room there," said Naru.
Motoko and
Kitsune looked at Naru in disbelief before they took off and checked 303. Sure enough it was a room and Emeral had
already unpacked. There was a bed in the
bedroom with a small desk next to it. A
picture sat on it that showed a group of kids about 12 years old. One of them looked like Emeral, left of her
was a short, brown haired girl with green eyes, with a boy with brown eyes and
hair. To the right of Emeral was another
boy slightly taller than she was. He had
green eyes and black hair.
Sitting
beside the picture was small stack of books.
Motoko picked the top one up and read the title which was in English,
"Lunar, The Story of the Silver Star".
Kitsune picked up the next book which was also in English, "Chicken Soup
for any and all Souls – By Marry Madison".
"What kind
of books are these?" said Kitsune just as they realized someone was behind
them.
They
quickly turned around to find Emeral behind them smiling, "Hello, I don't
believe we've been introduced."
"Y..Yea,
we heard there was a new resident and wanted to meet you," said Kitsune putting
the book back, "I'm Mitsune Konno but my friends call me Kitsune."
"I'm Motoko
Aoyama," said Motoko bowing.
"Pleased
to meet you, I'm Emeral Bellosom" replied Emeral placing the book she was
reading earlier on the table. Kitsune
noticed the book was in a language they didn't recognize while Motoko was
staring at Emeral with a serious face.
"Well It's
a pleasure having you here at Hinata, we hope to see you later," said Kitsune
grabbing Motoko by the arm and running out of the room. Emeral looked at the door for a bit than
smiled.
"That was
close," started Kitsune, "She came in right when we were snooping on her." Kitsune looked at Motoko who still had a
serious look on her face, "What's wrong?"
"I'm not
sure, but I believe I sense a strong presence from Emeral, something... Not
human," replied Motoko.
"Oh come
now, It is probably the fact that she startled was why we were snooping around
that is making you feel a bit uncomfortable," replied Kitsune.
"Then how
do you explain how a closet suddenly turns into an apartment inn?" asked
Motoko.
"Well this
inn is rather strange, we probably just always assumed that was a closet when
it really was a room," replied Kitsune.
"Maybe you
are right," replied Motoko as they went back downstairs.
As soon as
they were out of site, Emeral came out of her room holding the book she had
earlier in her hand, "I guess I underestimated you Motoko," she said in a soft
voice, "Oh well, back to my Klingon romance novel."
A little
later Shinobu was getting ready to start dinner while Su was constantly moving
to one side of her to another trying to see what was for dinner.
"Kaolla
please, it's difficult to cook with you constantly over my shoulder," started
Shinobu.
"Alright,
I'll go play with Keitaro for a while," said Su jumping out of the kitchen to
the
Soon a
small buzzing sound was heard approaching the
Soon
Keitaro and the planes were making laps around the hot spring while Emeral just
sat reading her books. She didn't even
give a sign that she was aware what was going on around her until Keitaro took
a hit and made a course correction to avoid the rest of the planes. He couldn't see since his glasses were
knocked off by the laser that he was on a collision course with Emeral.
Su looked
to see Emeral was in Keitaro's path and called out to her to move though she
gave no sign of acknowledgment. Soon
Keitaro was right on top of her when her eyes moved to look behind her. She jumped with incredible speed over Keitaro
and passed the planes in the air. When
she landed she smiled as 4 small pops were heard and Su's planes smashed into
the ground.
Keitaro
and Su just stared, not sure what to do after seeing what appeared to be
Martial Arts from Emeral. Fortunately
Emeral moved her right hand in her hair and closed her book, "Time for dinner
you two."
"It is?"
asked Su as Keitaro walked up. Soon they
could hear Shinobu, "Dinner Everyone!"
"How did
she know?" asked Keitaro walking with Su to the table.
Dinner was
quiet that evening, no one seemed to find anything interesting to say for a
while. Since they had a new resident,
they couldn't predict how she would react to normal conversation. Finally Shinobu got some courage and began to
ask questions.
"So where
are you from Ms. Bellosom? Asked Shinobu.
"You can
call me Emeral-chan," started Emeral, "I'm from the west coast of
"From
"Why thank
you," said Emeral.
"What kind
of work do you do?" asked Naru.
Emeral's
eyes soften a bit as if she wasn't sure what to say, "I work for a security
company monitoring alarm systems and secure areas. We had a lot of issues lately so I decided to
take a vacation."
"Is that
so?" continued Kitsune.
Motoko was
silent and watching Emeral, "What is she hiding?" she thought to her self.
Later in the living room...
"So, um,
what do you think of our new resident?" asked Shinobu holding a cup of tea.
"She seems
like an interesting character, one that is hiding her true nature," said
Kitsune, "She could be a serial-killer in disguise making plans to kill us
all!"
"D...Do you
really think so?" squirmed Shinobu with big worried eyes.
"It's
always a possibility," said Kitsune in a relaxed matter.
"Kitsune,
you are scaring Shinobu," said Naru giving a look at Kitsune.
"I do
however feel she is hiding something," said Motoko sipping her tea.
"You
do? She seems nice to me," started
Keitaro before Naru gave him a look.
"What are
you thinking now you pervert?" snared Naru.
"Nothing,
I just think she is a nice person!" defended Keitaro.
"Naru-sempi,
what do you think of her?" asked Motoko.
Naru
pondered for a moment, "I do have this strange yet peaceful feeling about her."
"Peaceful?"
asked Keitaro, "What do you mean?"
"It's like
she is a big sister or something, someone who is trusting and caring. And the strange thing is I feel like this
isn't the first time we met," replied Naru.
"You asked
her that earlier today," said Keitaro.
"Yes I
did, strange isn't it," replied Naru.
"Well it's
late, I'm going to go to bed now. Good
Night everyone," said Shinobu placing her tea cup on the table and leaving.
"She's
right it is late, I'm going to turn in too," said Naru getting up.
"Wait,
where's Su?" asked Motoko.
"YAAAA!"
came a voice followed by Su delivering an air kick to Keitaro's face.
"Never
mind," said Motoko.
Later that night...
"They
already starting to speculate about me," said Emeral with a smile. She was on the roof looking at the full
moon. There was a soft wind that was
blowing through her long pink hair. She
looked towards one of the wings of the apartments, "Maybe I should give them
something to add to their speculation. A
little mischief doesn't hurt unlike the mischief of someone I know."
She gave a
nice grin as she lifted her right hand into the air on pointed her index finger
straight at the heavens. Suddenly a soft
pink glow came from the very tip of her finger before is dispersed like a
firecracker and faded away.
Chapter III
Yume
"Are you
having a good time Naru?" asked Keitaro.
"This is
wonderful, thank you for taking me," replied Naru in a white dress.
"I would
do anything for you," replied Keitaro holding a leash to the horse moving their
carriage through the park. They went
through a long path in the park lighted by light poles before they came to a
cliff with a spectacular view of the city with all it's lights twinkling.
"Oh
Keitaro," said Naru looking at him.
"Naru..."
replied Keitaro closing his eyes as they moved towards each other for a kiss.
"Mister,
hey Mister!" came a voice in front of Keitaro.
Keitaro
slowly open his eyes to find Emeral in a red hotel bell girl jacket blinking at
him confusingly.
Keitaro
screamed for a second as he jumped back.
When he calmed down he found himself in a large hall. The floor was made of glossy tile with large
stone pillars going to the ceiling that was 2 stories up. There were stairs in the center of the room
that lead to the third floor and chandeliers every so often on the
ceiling. Opposite of the stairs was a
glass wall with a dual door that lead to what appeared to be a white fog.
"Sir, are
you alright?" asked the bell girl behind the stone desk.
"Um, I
think so," replied Keitaro.
"Good,"
said the bell girl as she looked in a drawer in the desk.
"Emeral,
where are we?" asked Keitaro.
"Emeral?"
replied the girl, "I'm not Emeral."
"What?"
asked Keitaro as the girl pulled up an envelope and an access card.
"Here is
your info and key sir, the place of meeting is on the sixth floor. You'll need the key to open the elevator to
it." Replied the girl.
"Um, thank
you," said Keitaro looking at the enveloped entitled "Hinata Seminar".
As he
walked up to the third floor he opened the envelope to find a set of rules:
No Pre-Mature
awakenings
No Realizations
Law's of Nature may
or may not apply.
Keitaro
puzzled, walked to the elevator where he inserted his key and went in.
"Now all I
need is the white wine," said Naru looking in the cabinet. She was in the kitchen with various food
items out. She was busy preparing a dish
when she noticed something strange about the door that lead to the dinner
table.
"What is
that?" asked Naru as she opened the door to find a large hall. She stepped through to find herself coming
through two glass doors with white fog instead of a kitchen, "Where am I?"
"Miss,"
called out the bell girl, "Miss, I have your info and key here."
Naru
walked up, "Emeral, what are you doing here?"
"That's
the second time someone has mistaking me for this person called ‘Emeral'," said
the girl handing an envelope and access card.
"What do
you mean?" asked Naru puzzled.
"Please go
up to the third floor, there you will find an elevator to the six floor where
the event will take place. Please hurry,
you don't want to be late," replied the girl.
Naru gave
a confused look before she hustled up the stairs.
"I got you
now Seta!" yelled Motoko delivering a chi blast at Seta. Seta moved at the last moment out of the blast
before it smashed into something.
Motoko
stared for a moment wondering what her attack just hit as it was nothing but
air. Soon the dust cleared and there
laid a hole in thin hair to a smilar hall Naru and Keitaro had been. Motoko put her sword up and looked in finding
herself coming out of a hole in the wall.
"Don't
worry miss, we'll have that repaired shortly," called out the girl behind the
desk, "But you better hurry, you are expected on the six floor. Here's your info and access card!"
Motoko
walked up and took the envelope and card, "But where am I, and why are you here
Emeral?" she asked.
Just then
a ding came from a bell on the desk, "This is Security, the Tama Tama Turtle repair
crew has arrived, shall I let them in?" came a voice.
"Yes,
please let them in," replied the bell girl, "I'm sorry, but I'm not Emeral,
though you are third person to think that today."
"Tu..Turtles?"
stuttered Motoko as the front doors and a crew of repair Tama Turtles came
marching in with repair equipment. As
soon as they entered Motoko gave a small scream before she darted upstairs.
"Be
carefull," said the girl waving her hand before she put her left index finger
on her cheek, "Where have I heard that voice before?"
At Security...
"I still
think Washu's improved turtles would have done a better job," said a man in a
black cloak with his face hidden. He was
sitting on a chair monitoring the security monitors through out the room. He than reached for a cup that sat by a logo,
"Powered by MM Unix."
"Ok Class,
it Banana Snack time!" yelled Su in her adult form! All her students cheered and ran out of the
room to the Banana Orchard that was outside.
She gave a soft laugh before she walked through the door to find herself
not outside, but in what looked like the same stone room as Motoko had been.
"Where is
this?" asked Su walking up to the stone desk before the girl popped up from
under it.
"Hello
Miss, here is your info and access key.
Everyone is waiting for you," said the girl.
"Emeral,
what are you doing??" asked Su a bit confused.
"Not
again..." started the girl, "For the fourth time, I'm not Emeral. My name is Ruby!"
"Sorry,"
replied Su, "So where do I go?"
"Go up the
stairs, take the elevator up to the six floor," said Ruby.
"Ok!" said
Su running up the stairs.
"This is
wonderful Sempi!" said Shinobu in a summer kimoto walking next to Keitaro.
"I'm glad
you are having fun Shinobu, why don't we go to the haunted house next?" replied
Keitaro.
Soon
Shinobu and Keitaro were entering the haunted house when they were blinded by a
white fog. Soon Shinobu slammed into a
glass window nose first.
"What's a
window doing here?" asked Shinobu before she realized she was no longer at the
festival. She looked in to see a bell
girl quickly run to a stone desk from a hidden door a few meters back.
"Young
Miss!, Young Miss! I have your info and
access card!" yelled Ruby.
Shinobu
walked up and took her envelope and card before she started to speak only to be
interrupted by Rub, "Let me guess, I look like this Emeral character."
"Um, how
did you know I was going to ask that?" asked Shinobu.
"Because
I've been asked that 4 times already!" said the girl, "At any point, go up the
stairs to the elevator and go to the six floor."
"Um...Ok
then... Bye..." said Shinobu walking up the stairs.
"Weeeee!"
yelled Kitsune in a 2 piece jumping into a huge cup of Sake. She popped up smiling, "I always wanted want
of these."
She swam
over to the edge where a latter lead to a high dive. She climbed out and went to the very top
where she jumped off only to land on her head against a tile floor. After rubbing her head and getting back to
her feet she looked over to find Ruby bringing a dry towel.
"There you
are, we almost though you wouldn't make it," said Ruby handing over the towel
in one hand and an envelope and key card in the other hand, "Here is your info
and access card."
"Say
Emeral, what's going on?" asked Kitsune all confused.
The
expression on the girl's face went from pleasant to crossed within
seconds. Her vampire like fangs showed
up and her eyes turned red as her head grew five times larger, "I'M NOT EMERAL,
MY NAME IS RUBY!" she yelled shaking the entire room.
"Sorry,
SORRY!" yelled Kitsune. Ruby's head
instantly turned to normal size and her expression had no hint of anger in it,
"Everyone is waiting for you, please go up the stairs and use the elevator to
the six floor," She said in a pleasant voice.
"Talk
about split personalities," said Kitsune to herself as she walked up the
stairs.
After
Kitsune was out of sight Ruby ran over to a hidden door which lead to a hall
way with many doors in them. As she ran
down them one of the door's suddenly opened and smacked her in the face.
"Oh I'm
sorry," said a man in a black and dark grey uniform offering his hand, "I
didn't know you were there."
"That's
alright, the cross roads between dreams is a dangerous place," said Ruby being aided
up.
"Yes it
is, but at least I can meat a beautiful young lady while I'm here," said the
man.
"Why thank
you," said Ruby blushing, "Oh my I got to hurry, nice talking to you."
"Like
wise," replied the Man as he went the direction Ruby came.
"That man
is nice, unlike my husband," thought Ruby.
"She was a
lot kinder than my wife," thought the Man as he started to go through the door
titled, "USS: Titan"
Suddenly
both Ruby and the man sneezed at the same time.
"Blessed you," they both said to each other before they left each
other's sight.
Soon Ruby
came up to a door labeled "Change Room".
She opened went in and shut the door.
After a few minutes a girl with black hair, black eyes, and a black
showcase host outfit came out. "Now let
the fun begin," she said.
At Security
"Well now,
I didn't expect them to run into each other... Or did I?" grinned the man in his
cloak, "Still, this ought to be interesting."
On Floor Six
Each of
the residents had found their way to the six floor at the same time. They were all in separate elevators when the
doors opened revealing a huge meadow with flowers, grass, trees, and a river. After a few minutes of gazing, everyone
noticed everyone else.
"What are
you doing here?" asked Naru walking in, "KITSUNE! Why are you in a bathing suit?"
"I don't
know, one moment I was enjoying my self in a swim, the next minute I'm
here. Come to think of it, What are all
you doing here?" said Kitsune.
"You
finally all made it," came a voice as a girl in black hair and in a black game
host outfit appeared in a few meters in front of them, "Welcome to Hinata's
first Seminar!"
"You kinda
look like Emeral," said Su.
"I'm
sorry, I'm your host, Sapphire!" said Sapphire with her hand in the air.
"So what's
this seminar about?" asked Keitaro still not understanding what was going on.
"Simple,
you are to fight each other in this wilderness course while trying to knock out
the balloons on your fellow residents.
The last one standing with a balloon wins." replied Sapphire.
"What
balloons?" asked Shinobu just as she relized there was a balloon on each
shoulder and one of her head, "Oh, these balloons."
"Is this really
a fair fight? I know who's going to wind
within a few seconds," said Keitaro staring at Motoko.
"Oh not to
worry, you all start at random places," said Sapphire snapping her fingers.
Suddenly
Keitaro found himself in a patch of bushes with no one else in sight. He moved out of the bushes to find where he
was. After a few minutes of exploring he
moved back into the bushes. "This is
probably the best spot to hide from Motoko," said Keitaro.
"Think
again Urashima!" yelled Motoko popping out from behind with her sword in the
air ready to slice his balloons in half.
"AWWW! Motoko!" yelled Keitaro as he squirmed to his
feet and pulling a small vine that opened a trap door behind him. Keitaro fell in missing Motoko's attack and
landed on something hard, bumpy and round.
"Come and
fight me you coward!" yelled Motoko squinting to see Keitaro. Within seconds of Motoko finally seeing
Keitaro she screamed and began to swing her sword widely popping her own
balloons. She than dropped her sword and
ran for the hills.
"What was
that all about?" asked Keitaro when he realized he was in a bit of turtles,
"Ah, now I see. Well I better take
Motoko's sword and give it back." With
that, Keitaro picked up the sword and
started to go where Motoko went.
A few
minutes latter Kietaro ran into Shinobu and Kitsune. Shinobu was holding a
pointed stick while Kistune had a bottle opener. Both were staring each other down trying to
figure who would go for the other's balloons first. Keitaro stopped and watching, not sure if he
should interrupt when suddenly a fleet of spring turtles came from behind him
and zoomed past him.
When he
got back on his feet, he found the turtles had destroyed both Shinobu and
Kitsune's balloons. They were both lying
on the ground out cold from being tackled by a few too many turtles. Kietaro ran over to them to see if they need
help but soon he found he needed help.
Several Mecha Tama's had popped out from behind him and were now chasing
him.
"Why
ME!?!" he yelled as ran for his life.
Meanwhile
up ahead Naru was having a similar problem except she saw who was behind the
Mecha Tama's.
"Su STOP
IT!, this isn't fair!" yelled Naru dodging a fireball from one of the Mecha Tamas.
"I have
you in my sights!" yelled Su as she fired a missile at Naru.
"HELP ME!"
screamed Naru as the missile blew up behind her throwing her into the air and
smacking into Keitaro destroying both of their balloons.
"YAY! I
win!" yelled Su just as she heard something approach her from behind. She turned around to see the same group of
Hot Spring Turtles that got Shinobu and Kitsune come at her and destroy her
balloon.
Su stood
still for a moment before she turned around, "Where did they come from?"
"Well this
was unexpected," said Sapphire walking up to them, "I didn't expect us to have
a draw."
"Who's
turtles are those anyways," asked Keitaro.
"Good
Question," replied Sapphire placing a finger on her cheek thinking, "Why do I
get the feeling like I know who's doing it."
Back at security
"I'm
surprised you haven't figured it out," said the old man, "Oh well, I guess I'll
be kind this time and leave a note."
The old
man pulled out a piece of paper and a pen and quickly doodled something in
Klingon. When he was finished he
whistled and an black owl came out of no where and took the note.
The Next Morning
Keitaro
laid in his mat as his eyes began to open.
He apparently had a rough night as his blanket had been thrown off. He sat up and rubbed his eyes with left hand
for a moment. "What a strange dream," he
said as he got up and noticed he was holding something in his right hand.
He lifted
his right arm up to find he was holding Motoko's Blade just like he was holding
it in the dream. "WHAT THE," Yelled
Keitaro just as Naru slammed on her floor making a thump sound in Keitaro's
room. Soon the wooding block that sealed
the hole on the ceiling was moved and Naru jumped down in her Pajamas. She was breathing in a panic and was holding
what appeared to be a wing of a missile.
"What's
wrong Naru?" asked Keitaro?
"I don't
know, I had the strangest dream with all of us popping balloons on our
shoulders. When I woke up, I was holding
a piece of a missile that attacked me in my dream!" said Naru.
"That's
odd, I had a similar dream, and when I woke up I had Motoko's Blade!" replied
Keitaro.
"Urashima! GIVE ME BACK MY SWORD YOU THEIVE!" yelled
Motoko slamming through Keitaro's door and going straight for Keitaro.
"Motoko,
did you have a strange dream too?" asked Naru just as Motoko took back her
sword and was about to be-head Keitaro.
"What do
you mean Naru-sempi? Did you have an
unpleasant dream of being in some sort of competition ran by turtles?" asked
Motoko.
"Yes, we
both did, and when we woke up, we found items in our hands, see," replied Naru
showing the piece of the missile.
"I too
found my blade's chive in my hand when I woke up," said Motoko backing down
from Keitaro.
Soon they
heard some glasses crash on the floor and everyone took off to Kitsune's room
where they found her on the floor staring at a bottle opener in her hand.
"Kitsune,
what are you doing?" asked Naru.
"That's
what I would like to know sugar, I woke up with this here bottle opener. Come to think of it, I was holding one in the
dream I had," replied Kitsune.
"So
Kitsune had the dream too," said Motoko, "Should we go see if Shinobu and Su
had it too?"
"We
should," said Naru running out of the room followed by everyone including a
half-asleep Kitsune.
They
arrived at room 201 to find Su already waking up Shinobu, "Hey Shinobu, Shinobu,
I had this weird dream I want to talk to you about."
"So you
had the dream too?" asked Naru running in.
"Don't
know, I had this dream where I popped your balloons before some turtles broke
mine. I woke up with a Mecha Tama Remote
Control in my hand," replied Su.
"What's
everyone doing in here?" asked Shinobu a bit freighting by everyone being in
her room before she gave a soft scream, "What is this stick doing in my hand?"
"Isn't
that the stick you were using to duel me in my dream?" asked Kitsune.
"What do
you mean, I was using it to dual you in MY dream!" yelled Shinobu.
"So
everyone here has had a similar dream and ended up waking with an item from the
dream in their hand," said Keitaro.
"Not
everyone," started Naru, "We haven't check on Emeral yet."
"I have a
feeling she is the cause of this," said Motoko as everyone went up to the third
floor.
When they
got there the door to room 303 opened and Emeral in a light green, chinese silk
gown, came out. She lifted her left hand
to her mouth and gave a soft yawn before she noticed everyone at the stairs.
"Oh, good
morning to you," said Emeral, "Did you all sleep well?"
"Um, not
exactly," said Naru, "We were wondering what kind of dream you had if it isn't
too much trouble to ask."
"Dream?"
stated Emeral with a blank face, "I just drempt at being in a Sweet Factory
Store in the Mall at
Everyone
fell face down into the floor at this before they got up, "You didn't have any
dream about shooting balloons or turtles?" yelled Kitsune.
"Nope,
afraid not," replied Emeral.
"Say
Emeral-chan," started Shinobu, "What's that in your right hand?"
Emeral
looked at her right hand, it had a small piece of paper in it rolled up and
tied with a small black string. She
didn't even noticed it was in her hand till now. She removed the string and unrolled the
paper. Her eyes began to move left to
right reading the paper before she gave an expression that even made Motoko
jump back in fear.
"Is
something th.the matter Emeral?" asked Naru.
Emeral
made an effort to put a smile back on her face, "Yes it's fine, just a note to
my self that I had forgotten," she said, "If you will excuse me."
Emeral
walked into her room and shut the door.
Everyone just stared for a moment before Shinobu spoke, "I'll go start
breakfast!"
In room
303, Emeral was shacking her fist, "That blasted no good for nothing...... I'm on
vacation, can't he just leave me alone!" she said to her self throwing the
paper on the floor.
The paper
flattened on the floor to reveal more klingon writing that read:
Just wanted you to
know I stopped by, nice trick you are playing btw.
Best Regards, MM.
Dream Room Rental:........................................................... 200
Q-Dollars
Balloon Rental:................................................................. 10
Q-Dollars
Mecha Tama Repair............................................................ 400
Q-Dollars
Security Fee.................................................................... 1000
Q-Dollars
Subtotal:........................................................................ 1610
Q-Dollars
Tax:.............................................................................. 5%
Grand Total:.................................................................... 1690
Q-Dollars
Later that Day...
"I better
read another book to get him out of
my head," thought Emeral as she sat on the roof on Hinata and opened "Chicken
Soup for any and all Souls".
Shinobu
was over on the upper deck hanging clothes up while Su sat on the roof nearby
just watching the sky. Naru was down in
her room cleaning up her shelves while Mitsune was laying on her bed in her
room. Motoko was sitting in the backyard
meditating and Keitaro was washing his face.
Everything seemed peaceful for a bit...Until a small fleet of Mecha Tama's
came out of no where and started to chase Keitaro around on the second floor.
Chapter IV
Is it Su, or is it
not Su?
"I've had
enough of these turtles! It's bad enough
they haunt me in my dreams," yelled Keitaro dogging several missiles. Soon Keitaro navigated himself to the third
floor and ran into Naru's room closing the door behind him. The turtles zoomed right on by and Keitaro
gave a sigh of relief before he was punched by Naru.
"Have you
ever heard of Knocking!?!" yelled Naru.
"Sorry,
but I was in a hurry to get away from those mecha Tama's," replied Keitaro.
"More
Mecha Tama's? Will Su ever stop making
those things?" asked Naru looking to the side.
When she looked back at Keitaro his facial expression had changed to
that of seeing a ghost, "What's wrong with you?"
"Lo..Loo...Behin..You!"
said Keitaro darting off through the door and running like hell.
By this
time Naru had gotten the picture without even looking. There were now 10 Mecha Tama's floating
behind her with bright glowing red eyes.
All of them opened their mouths and began to charge a particle beam.
"Wait for
ME!" yelled Naru running out of the room as the turtles released a beam that took
out the entire door and hallway wall, "When did Su make these things so
powerful!?"
Naru and
Keitaro ran out to the outside upper deck and flew by Shinobu with a lot of
wind force. Shinobu was barley able to
keep her balance and before she could ask what was going on, 10 metallic green
blurs flew by her putting her into a spin where she finally collapsed from
being dizzy.
When they
got to the end of the deck, both Naru and Keitaro made a jump for it and
navigated their way to the backyard where Motoko's meditation was interrupted
by a particle cannon knocking down a tree.
"Do you mind, I'm trying to mediate," said Motoko before she realized
what was going on. "Tu...Tu...TURTLES! Damn you Su!"
"But they
aren't mine," said Su who had entered the scene without notice.
"What do
you mean they aren't yours!?" yelled Keitaro as one of the turtles tackled him.
"That's
beside the point, I'll bring in my own to take out these intruders," said Su
pulling out a remote, "Tama Tama Fleet, GO!"
Soon 10 of
Su's turtles were out and chasing the other mecha Tama's. For a while, it looked like Su had the
advantage as her turtles were pounding on the others with their lasers. But that all change when suddenly the
intruding Tama's eyes flickered and shields formed around them blocking the
lasers.
"Hey no
fair, having energy protection!" yelled Su as her remote took a hit deciding
victory to the intruders.
"I guess I
have no choice," said Motoko pulling out her sword, "Blazing Wind!"
A gust of
Motoko's chi came rushing out of her sword and smashed into the turtles causing
little damage as their shields absorbed most of it. But after the second strike, sparks were
begging to fly out of the intruders.
"One more
should do it," said Motoko getting ready for another strike when suddenly the
10 turtles began to retreat to the forbidden door.
"After
them!" yelled Su as everyone including Shinobu, and Kitsune who had joined
them, chased the intruders to the forbidden door where they stopped and took an
formation.
"End of the
Line," said Kitsune as Motoko prepared for another strike. Unfortunately the turtles had another trick
up their sleeves, as they suddenly smashed into each other to form a huge mecha
Tama with a trident as a weapon. Seeing
the opportunity to attack while everyone else was stun, the king Tama fired a
beam smack dap in the middle of the Hinata group sending them flying back to
Hinata.
"What is
with this thing?" asked Naru getting back on her feat.
"This is
definitely not Su's work, its is beyond dangerous compared to Su's work,"
replied Keitaro.
"Quiet!"
yelled Motoko as if she heard something.
Within
seconds of the group shutting up, a tree was sliced in half in front of them
and the King Tama de-cloaked a meter from them.
"No Way, I
want one of those!" yelled Su.
"This
isn't the time for that Kaolla!" panicked Shinobu.
"It was
nice knowing you all," said Keitaro as the turtle powered up for it's final
assault and everyone braced themselves, until they heard a strange crack,
smash, and growl coming from the turtle.
When they looked up they saw a long snake like dragon with a round
face. It was roughly the size of a light
pole and had a small sphere at the end of it's tail.
This
dragon had punctured through the stomach of the turtle and was now rapping
itself around the turtle trapping it. It
than gave out another growl before it opened it's mouth and launched a blue
mist like a flame thrower onto the turtle.
Within seconds the metal of the turtle began to age a 100 years a second
until it was nothing but dust. The
dragon then flew into the sky and vanished.
"What...What
was that?" asked Shinobu.
Not being
noticed, Emeral stood on the roof behind the gang looking at them, "Damn him, I
had to stop reading in order to save them from his practical joke," she said when the dragon that had rescued them
appeared out of thin air behind her.
"What is it?" she asked turning around.
The dragon
moved it's tail to her revealing it grasping a note. Emeral took the note and read the Ferengi
writing on it:
First and Final Failure to pay
notice: Your bill for your dream rental has not been paid. Please pay it in one Hinata Day or be
finned. – The Dream Management
"Like I'm
going to pay for having a dream," laughed Emeral walking off to continue
reading her book.
Chapter V
Rule 21 of Cursing:
Never place friendship before fun.
Everyone
was exhausted at the table during lunch, that is all except for Emeral who
hadn't noticed anything as she was too caught up in her book.
"Your
serious? You didn't notice a thing?"
asked Naru in disbelief.
"Sorry I
didn't, when I read a very interesting book, I tend to zone everything around
me out," replied Emeral, "This book is by far the most interesting one I've
ever read."
"What's it
about?" asked Kitsune.
"Basically
its thoughts, ideals, suggestions for everyday life," replied Emeral.
"That
could be handy," said Keitaro.
"Sorry to
interrupt," came a voice from the other room.
"Oh Mutsumi,
please come in," called Naru.
Mutsumi
walked in and found Emeral sitting at the table, "Ah, let me introduce the two
of you," started Naru, "This is Emeral Bellosom from
Emeral stood up and gave a traditional welcome, "I'm please to meet you
Mutsumi," said Emeral.
"Haven't
we meet before?" asked Mutsumi.
Emeral
stood still for a moment, "No, I don't believe we have."
"Strange,
I feel like I know you from a long time ago," replied Mutsumi.
"Would you
like to eat with us?" asked Naru dismissing Mutsumi's question as part of her
klutziness.
"I would
love too," replied Mutsumi walking over to the table but tripping and falling
on Keitaro.
Keitaro
helped Mutsumi up, "Are you ok Mutsumi?" he asked before Naru came running,
"She would be fine if you got your perverted hands off of her!" she said.
Keitaro
than realized that he had helped Mistume off of him the wrong way just as Naru
punched him out of the apartments and made him air born once more.
"So do you
have any plans before we start our first semester?" asked Mutsumi sitting in
the living room with Naru and Keitaro.
"Nope, not
really," replied Naru.
"What
about you Mistume?" asked Keitaro.
"Me, I
don't have anything planed either," said Mutsumi, "To tell the truth, I came
over because I haven't had a bath in the hot spring for a while."
Naru
almost collapsed at this, "That's all?"
"Well I
also wanted to see you guys too, after all we are all friends," said Mutsumi,
"So would you like to join me Naru?"
"Sure, I
guess," replied Naru, "After all someone needs to watch you to make sure you
don't hurt yourself."
"You two
have fun then, I'm going to take a bath too," said Keitaro getting up and
walking up stairs.
"Have a
good bath now," said Mutsumi walking with Naru to the spring.
After
changing out of their clothes and a towel in their hands, the two walked
outside and found Emeral in the hot spring reading her book.
"So you
decided to take a bath in the hot spring too," smiled Mutsumi.
Emeral
looked up and smile, "I'm here to relax after all, what better than to read and
lay in a hot spring?" replied Emeral.
"I always
enjoy a bath in the hot spring during the day," said Mutsumi.
"It is
kinda nice," replied Naru.
The two of
them walked in moved their separate directions to a rock to sit against. Mutsumi rubbed her face with her towel than
looked at Emeral. She stared for a bit
before she spoke up, "You sure we haven't met?"
Emeral
looked at her, not sure why her intuition was so strong about her. "Nope, I don't believe so," answered Emeral
when a quick flashback came to her mind.
In her
mind she could see two young girls and one young boy by a sand castle. One girl was older than the other, and the
boy seemed to be roughly the same age as the older girl. The youngest one was wearing a white kimono
with flowers on it and looked like Naru.
The older one had on a stripe shirt, brown pants and looked like Mutsumi. The boy was in a yellow shirt and looked like
Keitaro. They were all playing at a
sandbox they were in, and talking to each other and looking a few times at
Emeral's direction. Emeral than noticed
she could see hands and relized she was looking through someone's eyes.
Before she
could even figure things out the flashback disappeared leaving Emeral very
curious about the flashback. Was it her
memory, or Mutsumi's memory she had saw?
She never remembered being in a sand box with Mutsumi, Naru, or Keitaro,
so it had to be someone's memory other than her own.
"Emeral,
are you ok?" asked Naru who noticed Emeral disappear into thought.
Emeral snapped
out of it and smiled, "It's nothing," she said.
Later that
night Emeral walked outside to the side of Hinata, deep in thought. For a change, she wasn't carrying a book, but
instead she was carrying a pink Ocarina.
She climbed onto a tree and sat on one of the large branches and gazed
at the full moon.
"What was
that I saw?" asked Emeral to herself, "I came here to relax from all the stress
that he caused during the past
year. But he keeps bugging me and now I am having flashbacks. Can't I be allowed to have a vacation without
being bothered by anyone."
Emeral
than chuckled a bit, "Maybe I shouldn't have told my husband to go on his own
vacation alone. It's only been a few
days and I already starting to miss him, but then again he didn't take my side
against him when he made me give
birth to that...that THING" she thought.
After
another moment of looking at the moon, she laid back and began to player her
Ocarina. Within a few minutes, Naru
heard the Ocarina and woke up. She
looked outside for the source of the music but couldn't see past the
building. So she went outside and found
Emeral sitting in the tree. The melody
she was playing was rather peaceful and tranquil and soon Naru fell in a trance
like state.
A soft
wind blew while Emeral played as the moon gave a glitter to her hair. She played for what seemed like hours before
she finished and noticed Naru below the tree.
"I didn't
see you," said Emeral.
"That was
beautiful," said Naru, "What song was that?"
"Desire,"
replied Emeral smiling.
"So do you
play that Ocarina often?" asked Naru.
"I play it
every once in a while," she replied, "I like to come out under the moon and
play it now and then. I'm sorry that I
woke you up."
"That's
ok," said Naru getting back up, "Please play again for me sometime."
Emeral
smiled, "Sure."
Naru
turned around and started her way back to the apartment when she suddenly
realized something, "That song, I know I heard it somewhere before... " She
thought.
That morning...
"What on
earth is this?" asked Kitsune walking into the living room finding a large
package sitting on the table.
"Good
Morning everyone," came Mutsumi's voice from the door, "I hope I'm not
intruding."
"Good
Morning Turtle Lady," replied Kitsune examining the box, "Hey everyone, we got
a package from someone!"
"We got
what?" asked Naru coming downstairs as quickly as she could with Tama on her
shoulder.
"What's
going on?" asked Shinobu coming from the kitchen followed by Su.
"A
Package?" asked Keitaro followed by Motoko coming down the stairs shortly after
Naru.
"Yea, I
found this package here addressed to the residents of the Hinata Apartments,"
replied Kitsune.
"Who's it
from?" asked Naru.
"Doesn't
say who, and the return address is made of two English letters, ‘MM'," answered
Kitsune.
"Oh my, do
you mind if I stay to see what it is?" asked Mutsumi getting cheerful as Tama
moved from Naru's shoulder to hers.
"Sure,"
replied Kitsune opening the box to reveal 7 smaller boxes addressed to everyone
who was standing in the room.
"So the
package contains a package for each of us," said Kitsune handing out the
packages, "Lets see what we got!"
Meanwhile
Emeral was in her room laying on the bed by the window enjoying her book when
she heard a tap on the window. She
looked up to find a brown and rather large bird carrying a small tube pecking
at her window. "What's a Pidgeotto doing
here?" asked Emeral opening the window.
The Pidgeotto hoped in and with it's beak moved a letter out of the
tube. Than with chirp it turned around
and flew off.
Emeral
opened the letter which was written in Cardasian and read it;
Dear valued customer, you have
failed to pay your dream bill by the final due date. It is with great regret and satisfaction that
we must inform you that the punishment is an MM specialty curse in a package
now being opened by the other tenets of your apartment. We hope this will remind you in the future to
pay your bills on time before something like this happen again.
Best regards,
MM Dream Inc.
Emeral
just stood there for a moment in shock before she dropped the letter and ran
downstairs. Just as she arrived everyone
was opening the lids of their packages, "STOP, DON'T OPE... " Yelled Emeral but
it was too late. A quick puff of purple
smoke popped out of the boxes and engulfed their holder. A moment of coffin commenced before the smoke
cleared and Emeral fainted at what she saw.
"What was
Emeral saying?" asked Keitaro just as he realized his voice was different.
Everyone
looked at Keitaro to find a brown, long haired girl with glasses, Keitaro's
clothes, and a family resemblance to Keitaro.
"Who are
you?" asked Naru in a masculine voice
that caught everyone's attention.
After a
moment of looking around, they found the room consisted of three girls; Emeral
who was on the floor, Mutsumi who had also passed out, and a girl that looked
like Keitaro; five boys that looked similar to Naru, Su, Shinobu, Kitsune and
Motoko; and one large looking turtle with spikes on it's shell, horns and hair
on it's head, and claws.
After an
additional minute, the realization of what had happened finally clicked in
their brains and everyone started to run around screaming hitting each other
and passing out. The turtle stared for a
moment before it began to dance around, "Mahahaha, I Bowser, king of the
Koopa's shall take your coins!" it said as it went over to each resident and
took their wallet. It than pulled out a
transparent rainbow box with a "?" in the center of it and broke it. Within seconds Bowser vanished, "Time to go
to the local bank, mahahaha!"
A few
minutes later Emeral regain consciousness to find the mess everyone was in and
to find her wallet missing. "Oh My
GOD! What am I supposed to do now!?"
yelled Emeral before a light bulb popped over her head. "Oh Yea, I'll call Clean up!"
She pulled
out a small cell phone and dialed some numbers, "Hello, this is Agent Rose here
in Realm LH4452, I need a clean up crew on the double to remove one of MM's
curses!"
"Oh, Hello
Rose, I'm sorry to say we don't clean up on bill-related curses," came a voice
on the other end.
"WHAT!?!?!"
screamed Rose, "But this is an emergency!"
"Sorry, we
can't do anything till you pay the bill in full," said the voice followed by a
click.
Emeral
growled at the phone for a moment before she threw it in the air, pointed her
left index finger at it, and shot a blue energy blast at the phone vaporizing
it, "Damn Them!" she yelled. After a
moment of relaxing she pulled out another phone and dialed some numbers...
At a bank
somewhere in
"Yea, this
is Rose of Light. I just lost my wallet
and I need to make a quick withdraw of money," said Emeral on the other end of
the line.
Bowser
looked at the safes that was now spotless clean than looked back at the phone,
"Sorry Rose, one of the Employee's of this bank rolled a ‘Bowser Potluck' and
as a result, I am here with all your money in a bag," said Bowser before
hanging up.
Emeral
stood there with a angry face with steam coming out of her head, she clicked
the reset button on her phone and dialed some more numbers...
At Maison
Ikkoku at Room 5, Yusaku Godai was looking at a dirty magazine when he heard a
phone ringing somewhere in his room. He
went over to his phone and picked it up but found it was not the phone ringing.
"For
heaven's sake, pick up the phone," said Yotsuya coming out of a new hole he
made in the wall.
"It's not
my phone!" said Godai digging through his junk.
"That what
is it?" asked Yotsuya also looking until he found what was a phone with an
antenna, screen, and no wires, "What on earth is this?"
"Looks
like a phone, but how is it ringing without a wire?" asked Godai.
Yotsuya
examined the phone for a moment before the door opened and the man with dark
hair from the dream at Hinata came in startling Yotsuya causing him to throw
the phone into the wall smashing it.
"Great, I
knew I left my only phone in here, and now it's broken," said the man.
"Sorry about
that Joe," said Godai, "But how does that phone work?"
"It's
experimental, it's called a cell phone," said Joe picking up the remains, "I
guess I shouldn't have brought this thing in the first place."
After a
minute of waiting, Emeral's phone clicked and an operator began to speak in
English: "We're sorry, the number you dialed is no longer in service. Please hang up and check the number you are
dialing. If you need help, do NOT dial
your operator as they are busy debugging cursed lines."
Emeral turned
off the phone and looked at the group, "DAMN YOU MM! THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY VACATION!" she
yelled. Suddenly the room got dark as a
thunder storm suddenly appared outside.
Without warning, a huge booming voice came over the apartment, "You Don't
Deserve a vacation after splitting me in two!"
Then as quickly as the storm came, it disappeared follow by the room
returning to normal light conditions.
"Maybe he
has a point about the splitting in two... .", she said looking around before
speaking again, "BUT THAT STILL DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN DO THIS TO ME!"
After she
calmed down she finally noticed Mutsumi was not cursed like the others, so she
went over to her and took a closer look.
"That's odd," thought Emeral, "Her curse is different, instead of having
a gender change, she simply has been put into a deep sleep."
After a
few minutes of watching Mutsumi, Emeral got up, "Better get you guys to your
rooms," she said snapping her fingers transporting everyone to their rooms
except Mutsumi. After that she walked up
to her room and took out her phone again.
"Who else should I try," said Emeral, "Ah, I know!" Within seconds the phone was ringing and a
young male's voice came out, "Jeremy here,"
"Hey
Jeremy, it's Rose, I have a small favor to ask," said Emeral.
"Sure,
what is it?" asked Jeremy.
"Your
father has cursed my vacation spot and I can't get a clean up crew over here,
nor can I withdraw money from the bank.
Could you lend me some money?" she asked.
"Sorry
Rose, our bank just got robbed by a copied version of Bowser," replied Jeremy,
"In fact sis and I are at the bank right now looking for clues to where he came
from."
"I see,"
said Emeral in a depressed voice, "Maybe you can talk some sense into your
father?"
"Him? SENSE?" said Jeremy, "Hey sis, Rose wants us
to talk some SENSE into DAD!"
After a
small pause, insane laughter was heard from the other end of the phone followed
by a click. Emeral started to get mad,
than she decided to try another number.
"Lupin The
Third Here, How may I help you?" said the voice on the other end.
"Hey
Lupin, I got a job for you," said Emeral, "Can you steal the source code to the
curse MM has put on Hinata for me?"
"Are you
NUTS?" yelled Lupin, "Like I would still from my best vacation planner!"
Emeral started
to notice Lupin's voice echoing outside, she turned around and looked out the
window to see a tall figure in the distance coming out of the forbidden door
with an artifact. "Wait, You aren't at
Hinata Are you?" asked Emeral.
"Yep, and
I see you over there through the window," replied Lupin, "Well sorry to cut the
chat short, but I got to deliver this item to a new client named Bowser."
Emeral
grumbled before she looked at the phone, "I have no choice, I'll try Q," she
said.
"This is Q
from the Q-continuum, may I help you?" came Q's voice over the phone.
"Hey Q, I
have a proposition for you," said Emeral, "If you help me break a curse MM
placed on my vacation spot, I'll let you off permanent vacation for a while."
Silence
was heard for a moment before Q burst in laugher, "You expect me to stop one of
MM's hilarious curses!" laughed Q, "That's a GOOD ONE!"
Q laughed
for a bit longer before the phone couldn't take it any more and exploded
leaving Emeral smoky black with extra crispy hair.
After fixing
her hair, Emeral walked downstairs thinking on what to do. She walked to the sofa and sat down when she
saw Mutsumi still asleep. "That's it,
I'll keep them asleep until I fix this problem," said Emeral. She quickly rushed upstairs and came back down
with a jar of "Vileplume Sleeping Powder" and proceeded to sprinkle it on each
of the tenants.
"That
should do it," said Emeral whipping her head with the back of her wrist, "That
should keep them out for a few days until I can fix this."
Unfortunately
Emeral had spooked too soon as moments after she spoke, screams could be heard
from the rooms upstairs. The group had
awakened and noticed their new forms.
Emeral put her right elbow on her leg and rested her head on her hand,
"Figures," she said tossing the jar of sleeping powder casually behind her
smashing it.
Emeral
just sat there staring at nothing while the screams continued and the gang ran
back and forth trying to figure out what was going. Finally Emeral got up and teleported to her
room. "Might as well act the part," she
said looking at a mirror.
With a
snap of her fingers, she changed into a young male with blond, spiked
hair. She now had on a rose red suit
with a black suit underneath. "Hope you
don't mind if I borrow your form, Vash the Stampede," said Emeral. With that done, she took a large breath and
started to scream like the others followed by running out of the room and
smashing herself into the wall.
Outside of
the apartments at the shops ran by the town elders, Bowser was at it
again. He was pointing a toy gun with a
cork at the old man demanding money, "I don't have all day, hurry up with that
money!" The old man, more afraid of a
giant turtle like creator than the gun quickly gathered all the money he had
and gave it to Bowser.
"What is
this?!" yelled Bowser looking at the bill finding it to have a picture of a
elephant head instead of a normal
"I'm
sorry, but that's all the money I have," said the old man backing off.
Bowser
sighed, than place the money in his pouch and walked off to the next shop and
performed the same thing he did at the previous.
"What is
it with this MONEY!?" yelled Bowser.
Back at
the apartments, everyone had calmed down and was now in the living room looking
at each other trying to figure who was who.
Emeral had been laid on the floor as she was still knocked out with her
rendezvous with the wall. As for Mutsumi,
she had started to sleep walk around the house, tripping here and falling there
due to her klutzy nature.
"Please
tell me this is another dream," said Keitaro, "Just one weird and scary
nightmare!"
"I have no
clue, the last time we didn't know till it was over," replied Naru,
"Wh..Wha...WHAT
IF THIS ISN"T A DREAM!??!!" cried Shinobu.
"Than I
guess we just live our lives in our new gender," said Kitsune.
"I don't
know about you, but I am not going to accept this as a permanent change," said
Motoko getting up and walking upstairs to meditate.
"But I'm
still curious to why the turtle lady didn't change," said Kitsune.
"Maybe
she's an alien!" shouted Su.
"I don't
think that it Su," replied Kitsune.
"So now
what?" asked Keitaro just as Mutsumi walked behind him and dropped a watermelon
on him splattering all over everyone.
"She's
still a klutz, even in her sleep," said Naru, "Now I need a bath."
"So do I,"
said Keitaro getting up and walking towards the
"HEY, what
do YOU think you are doing," yelled Naru, "Only girl's are allowed to take
baths in there!"
"In case
you haven't noticed, I'm now a girl, and you are a man," snapped Keitaro giving
a good ‘look' at Naru scaring her. He
than turned around and went into the baths.
Shortly
later, Emeral came back to her senses and was informed by Naru of the current
events, though Naru didn't know much anyways.
Emeral was still shaken from being turned into a boy, but otherwise she
was alright.
"And the
scary part is I think Keitaro is acting more like a girl now," said Naru.
"That is
scarry," said Emeral, "But what's worse is now he is a female manager of an
apartment that has only male tenants."
Naru
looked up at disbelief, she hadn't relized that until now, "I foresee trouble
in the future."
Once Naru
had left the room, Emeral got up and went outside to think. "The only current means of removing this
curse is to pay that bill. But my wallet
and bank account have been stolen by Bowser.
It could take days to find where he is hiding," she thought to her self
just as Bowser was walking by her as he went out of Hinata with another bag of
goodies. Emeral continued to think for a
bit when she looked up with wide eyes.
She turned around to see Bowser walked down the stairs to the town with
his bag of watermelons he stole from the sleeping Mutsumi.
"Hey,
Bowser! Give me back my money!" yelled
Emeral running after him.
Bowser
turned around and pulled out his toy gun and shot a cork at Emeral which sent
her flying backwards, smashing into the wall of the apartments, "Damn, that
thing really packs a punch," said Emeral getting back on her feet to see Bowser
use another warp block to teleport away.
"What's
going on out there?" called Naru running out of the front door to Emeral.
Emeral
turned to Naru to speak when a sudden sensation occurred as they made eye to
eye contact. The two stared at each
other for a moment before Emeral snapped out of it and answered, "Just one of
Su's gadgets," she said.
"Oh, ok,"
said Naru, not sure as to what just had happened. She turned back and walked into the apartment
as Emeral stayed outside looking at where Bowser had been. "What on earth was that?" asked Emeral to
herself.
It was now
late in the afternoon, and things at Hinata weren't getting any closer to
normal. Bowser had robbed two more
stores while no one saw anyone from the Hinata Apartments. Emeral was sitting down in the living room
adjusted waiting for Bowser to show up.
She had failed to capture him the last two robberies. Mysteriously Naru was reading "Lunar: The
Silver Star Story" that Emeral had lent her.
Motoko was
in her room in deep meditation while Su did what she usually did. Shinobu stayed locked up in her room, to
upset about her suddenly change to face anyone, and Kitsune was drinking Sake
like usuall.
Keitaro
had just finished doing some chores and was walking into the living room when
he tripped over a watermelon Mutsumi had dropped and fell on Mutsumi. Emeral spotted this and saw Keitaro's hand
over Mutsumi's breast and got extremely angry.
Without warning she jumped up and charged at Keitaro. "Why you PERVERT!" she yelled as she twirled
around and kicked Keitaro through the wall and into the sky.
After a
moment Emeral placed her hand over her mouth, "Why on earth did I just acted
like Naru?" she said out loud. She
turned around to look at Naru to find her so interested in the book that she
didn't even noticed what happened. After
a moment Emeral had got the idea, "I see that cork cursed me, and I ended up
switching personalities with Naru," she said to her self, "The more reason to
find Bowser in a hurry."
Just then
Emeral sensed Bowser in the area and ran out the door just as Naru looked up,
"Take care," she said in a care free manner.
Bowser was
now at the public baths raiding their safe when Emeral, now in her normal
female form, appeared behind him. "I got
you now!" she said jumping into the air and kicking Bowser in the face. She than proceeded with an Atomic Punch,
followed by an twirl kick to knock out Bowser.
"Having Naru's personalities does come in handy I guess," said Emeral
smiling as she grabbed Bowser's sack and disappeared.
After a
few stops by local and non-local shops to return the money Bowser stole, Emeral
put in the money she owed for the bill in an envelope and handed it to another
dragon like creator outside her window to deliver. After it vanished, Emeral started to count
down from ten, "..5, 4, 3, 2, 1" she said when the entire apartment was filled
with a bright light and everyone was returned to their normal form.
Emeral
wasted no time in performing Clean up
duties. She first put a sleeping spell
on all the residence, than proceeded to alter the memory of events to actually
make it seem like a dream. After the
memories were alter, she took the boxes and placed them in the center of the
living room and placed a cracked bottles in them labeled "Sleeping Potion
#3". Once that was completed, she
teleported everyone into the room and made it look like they had just
collapsed.
"Alright,
everything is set," she said looking around, "oops, forgot Tama." She quickly teleported and brought back Tama
who had stilled been knocked out at the public baths. As she placed Tama down on Mutsumi's
shoulder, she noticed Tama was carrying the toy gun she had when she was
Bowser. "Good Bye to this curse," smiled
Emeral smashing the gun.
"Ok, is
that everything? Good, time for the wake
up call!" said Emeral snapping her fingers.
Soon everyone was moaning as they got up, "What happened?" asked Keitaro
getting on his feet.
"You've
guys have been asleep for the entire day," said Emeral.
"What? How?" asked Kitsune.
"It looks
like the packages wasn't handle with care," replied Emeral, "there were bottles
of sleeping gas in the packages, but were cracked. Opening the package must have let the gas out
of the crack and knocked you guys out."
Motoko
picked up the bottle in her box, "But who would send us bottles of sleeping
potion?" she asked.
"Don't
know, maybe it's a new company giving samples to random people. If you ask me, I think they should get a new
Package provider," said Emeral looking at the still sleeping Mutsumi, "By the
way, does Mistume always sleep walk?"
That
evening everything was back to normal, Emeral had successfully fooled everyone
into thinking what happen was a dream due to a sleeping potion and erased all
memory of Bowser from the Town's people.
Emeral was now in the hot spring relaxing from her hard day's work when
she noticed Keitaro looking at the stars from his bath on the third floor.
"WHAT DO
YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING YOU PERVERT!?" yelled Emeral punching in the direction
of Keitaro sending him flying while screaming, "How do those punches
connect??!!"
"Honesty,
when will he ever stop," said Emeral sitting back down. After a few minutes of resting it finally
snapped in her mind that she had just acted like Naru again. "No, it couldn't be," she said to her self
getting out of the hot spring and back into the apartment. After getting dressed she quickly looked
around for Naru only to find her in her room, reading a book she borrowed from
Haruka.
"Damn,"
Emeral thought to her self, "This curse is still active!" Emeral started to walk back to her room when
she bumped into Shinobu. "Oh Sorry,
Shinobu," said Emeral a bit shaken from bumping into someone.
"It's
alright," said Shinobu acting a bit confident as she continued to go down the
hall. As she passed Naru's room, she
noticed Keitaro pop out from the hidden door to ask Naru a question.
"KEITARO! KNOCK BEFORE YOU ENTER!" yelled Shinobu
running up to Keitaro and kicking him like a soccer ball out of Naru's room and
into orbit.
"Oh, hey
Shinobu, didn't see you come in," said Naru who just noticed someone else was
in the room with her.
"Did
something just happen?" asked Mutsumi walking in, "I just heard Keitaro
scream."
"I caught
that pervert sneaking into Naru's room," said Shinobu.
"My, you
seem a bit different Shinobu," replied Mutsumi, "Say what are you reading there
Naru?"
"Just a
book I borrowed from Haruka," replied Naru as Mutsumi sat down next to her and
leaned over to see the book.
Just as
the two came into contact, the entire room froze as time stoped, and a
transparent image of Emeral popped out of Naru as a transparent image of Mutsumi
came out of Mutsumi. The two images than
moved to the other person where they were absorbed.
"That was
strange," said Naru putting down her book and getting up only to trip on her
feet and fall on the ground.
"Careful
Naru," said Mutsumi starting to walk out of the room, "You don't want to hurt
your self now."
"Good
Night Mutsumi," said Naru smiling.
"Ya know,"
started Shinobu, "Something doesn't seem right."
That
morning Seta's car came rolling over the trees and smashing right by the front
door causing Emeral to wake from the sound and literally jump to the moon.
"Good
morning everyone!" called Seta getting out of the car with his head bleeding as
usual.
"Papa and
me are back!" yelled Sara running in to great Su.
"Nice to
see you Seta," said Keitaro walking down the stairs.
"Seta! Nice of you to drop by," smiled Naru walking
from the Kitchen followed by tripping on the side of the door way and smashing
into her face.
"You ok
Naru?" asked Seta walking up to her before he got interrupted.
"Seta! It's so great to see you again! How was your trip?" asked Shinobu running up
to Seta.
"You've
been acting strange today Naru-sempi," said Motoko helping Naru up.
"Yes,
something isn't right," said Naru walking over to the sofa and sitting down,
"How was your trip Seta?"
Motoko
started to walk over to the sofa when she tripped on her Kimono and fell to the
ground.
"What's
wrong with her?" asked Sara looking at Su.
"Don't
know," replied Su, "Hey Motoko, what are you fooling around for?"
Su jumped
on Motoko as she got up resulting is Su to loose her balance and fall to the
ground. Motoko on the other hand leaped
onto the Sofa and sat down, "I'm hungry, when's breakfast Shinobu?"
Just then
Tama came flying in and landed on Naru's shoulder which freaked Naru,
"Wha..HELP! TURTLE, GET IT AWAY FROM
ME!"
"There you
are," said Motoko grabbing Tama, "I'm in the mood for some turtle soup!"
"You can't
eat TAMA!" yelled Emeral running in from the front door in her Chinese gown
which had some white dust on them. She
ran up to Motoko and snatched Tama away and placed her on her shoulder.
"Did I
miss something?" asked Seta, "First there is this weird behavior, and now it
seems you have another guest here as well."
"Oh it's
just another one of those days," said Su finally getting up and walking to the
sofa only to be smashed into by Naru who was still panicking over Tama.
Chapter VI
Personality Day
"I see,"
said Seta, "So Hinata has been hit with some strange events."
"First
there was the dream, than attacking mecha Tama's that weren't Su's, than this
other dream, and now this," said Keitaro, "And it all seemed to start when
Emeral showed up."
"Emeral,
the woman who was in a gown with white dust right?" asked Seta.
"Yea her,"
replied Keitaro.
"She
seemed strange right from the beginning," said Seta, "The fact that the white
dust looks very similar to moon dust."
"Moon
dust? Why on earth would that dust be
moon dust?" asked Keitaro.
"Don't
know, maybe I'm just thinking to much," responded Seta, "At any point, I say
the current situation is getting out of hand."
Just then,
the once quiet room where Keitaro and Seta were talking turned into a war zone
as Motoko came running in with remote control airplanes and started shooting at
Keitaro. Kitsune followed yelling at
Motoko to behave while Naru just followed them enjoying the sight. Soon Su came in with a sword and was helping
Kitsune stop Motoko followed by Shinobu with red cheeks joining the fun with a glass
of sake in her hands.
"Yea, I
definitely would say this is strange," said Seta to himself as everyone
continued their business.
"Your
telling me," said Emeral who happen to appear out of no where behind Seta, "All
I wanted was a vacation for a couple of weeks and I ended up with this!"
"I didn't
notice you come in," said Seta a bit alarmed, "So where are you from?"
"
"
"Over
there," pointed Emeral.
Sarah was
in a corner waving her arms begging everyone to stop. She was giving a very troubled look on her
face just like Shinobu.
"What's
going on here?" asked Haruka finding Emeral placing yellow tape with the words
‘Hazard Zone!' on it around Hinata.
"It's for
everyone's safety," said Emeral looking up, "Something awful is happening here
and it appears to be contagious!'
"What on
earth are you talking about?" replied Haruka.
"THAT!"
pointed Emeral to Shinobu coming out of the front door drunk.
"Oy
Emeral! Hurry and come in, we're about
to party!" yelled Shinobu as Keitaro came running pass her followed by Motoko
with laser guns firing at him.
"Yo
Stupid!" yelled Emeral grinning as she jumped in the air and delivered an air
kick to Keitaro's face.
"What was
THAT FOR!?" yelled Keitaro.
"Sorry, I
couldn't help it," said Emeral blushing, "I just can't seem to control my
personality. At any rate, Shinobu is
having a party, lets go in and join her!"
Keitaro
nodded and got up and headed for the front door just as Motoko resumed her
pursuit blowing up the front door to Hinata.
Haruka just stood there, not sure what to think. She finally sighed and went back down to the
tea shop.
Inside
Hinata, everyone was sitting down drinking and laughing. Sarah had prepared a wonderful meal and was
passing it around to everyone. Naru was
eating some watermelons while Su sat in a discipline matter and drank some
tea. Kitsune was having a good time with
Keitaro as Motoko gulped down everything in sight. Emeral was sitting on the sofa trying hard to
stay focus and not get caught up in her new personality. She finally decided to turn on the TV.
"In other news,
"Panty
thief?" said Emeral to herself, "No, it couldn't be..."
In Kyoto near the Aoyama Shrine
"What a
haul, what a haul!" yelled an old man about half a meter tall in a brown suit
and a scarf tied around his head and nose.
"Prepare
to be punished!" came a voice from above.
The man
looked up to see a woman in her twenties in a red and white samurai outfit fall
on top of him, "Secrete Technique, LIGHTING BLADE!" Soon the entire ground exploded as shock
waves of lighting flew everywhere.
"That will
teach you," said the woman standing in the middle of a huge crater.
"Not bad,
but you missed," said the old man who was sitting in a tree smoking his pipe.
"WHAT?!"
yelled the woman, "I Tsuruko Aoyama failed to stop an old man!"
"Don't
take it too hard," said the man taping his pipe knocking some ash out of it,
"After all, I'm at least a hundred years more experienced than you are."
"Impossible! My Swordsmanship is one of the best in
The old
man jumped to his feat, "Allow me to prove it!
Founding School of anything goes martial arts final technique; Hoppo Panty Swipe!"
Before
Tsuruko could do anything, the old man vanished followed by her feeling a
draft. She turned around to find the old
man grinning holding up her white panties.
"Why...WHY YOU!" yelled Tsuruko as her face turned demon like and a powerful
battle aura formed around her sending pulses of wind around her.
Moments
later the old man had been launched into the air, but he wasn't at all
depressed, but in fact delightedly happy.
Tsuruko stood there taking deep breaths, "Who, or WHAT was that?" she
asked.
Later that night at Hinata
"Does
everyone usually act this way?" asked Emeral walking with Keitaro around the
halls.
"Not this
bad," replied Keitaro, "I mean they are weird, but not this weird." Keitaro stopped and looked out the window,
"Say, what is that?" he asked.
Emeral
looked out to see a red blob appear in the sky and slowly take the shape of a
circle.
Somewhere else...
"That
should do it," said an old man hidden in a black cloak. He placed down his brush that had red paint
on it and looked at the painting he was drawing. The painting was a night sky with Hinata in
the background with a red full moon.
Back where we know what is where...
"How can a
red moon suddenly appear out of no where?" asked Keitaro.
Emeral had
a mad expression on her face, "I don't know."
"Wait... Red
Moon... that means Su will transform!" yelled Keitaro running to Su room to find
Motoko there in Su's wedding gown.
"Oh
Keitaro, I've been waiting for you," said Motoko running up to him and grabbing
him, "I've long for us to be together."
"Motoko-chan! What are you doing!?!" yelled Keitaro before
foot steps were heard and Kitsune came running in.
"What do
you think you are doing you PERVERT!" yelled Kitsune delivering a
Naru-specialty sending Keitaro into orbit.
Emeral
looked up at the hole now in the wall and was smiling, "That idiot had it
coming!" she said before she slapped her hand on her mouth. After a moment she walked out of the room,
"Lights out you guys!" she said snapping her fingers causing everyone to fall
asleep.
"Good
Morning," said Emeral sitting down at the table with everyone else. Sarah had prepared everyone a great breakfast
and Emeral decided to pick up the news paper to get her minds off of
things... Until she read today's headlines.
UFO Sighted by the Hobble
Telescope, leaving strange debris in orbit!
"Last night, NASA reported seeing a
strange UFO that looked a lot like an old man fly by the Hobble Telescope. The UFO was within several hundred meters of
the hobble telescope leaving a strange debris behind it. Current analysis has yet to identify what the
debris is, but one scientist believes that it is female undergarments. The pictures to your left shows the UFO and
the debris it was leaving.
Emeral
looked at the picture to see an old man in a brown suit giving a victory sign
with his fingers to the camera. The
picture beside it showed several varieties of braziers and panties including a
rather shiny white one.
"It can't
be, It just CAN'T BE!!!" thought Emeral as sweat poured down her forehead. A few moments later Emeral felt a familiar
aura just as a knock came at the door.
Emeral and
Sarah got up to the door to find a young boy in a yellow shirt and blue pants
with a rather large backpack standing at it.
"Excuse me, but do any of you know how to get to Furikian High?" he
asked before he noticed Emeral.
Emeral
almost did a double take before she quickly yelled, "Oh My God, what is that!"
pointing to the sky. Both Sarah and the
boy looked up, giving Emeral a chance to make a bucket of water and splash the
boy turning him into a small pig. She
than snapped her fingers teleporting both him and her else where.
"I don't
see anything," said Sarah turning around to find Emeral no longer there, "Wha?"
"What the
hell are YOU doing here Ryoga!" scolded Emeral at the pig. They were now at the
"You know
I can't talk when I'm a pig," yelled back Ryoga.
"No, but I
usually can understand you, but I currently have lost that ability. So WHY ARE YOU HERE!" replied Emeral.
"First
off, where is HERE?" asked Ryoga.
"Not to
get into details, but you are definitely not in your dimension!" replied
Emeral.
"I know I
get lost, but this is ridicules! I knew
something was wrong when those scientists I ran into started to turn on that
thing of their's," replied Ryoga.
Emeral
slapped her head, "Let me guess, those damn American scientists."
"The same
ones," said Ryoga.
Just then
a loud scream was heard from above. Both
looked up to see an old man slam into the hot spring splashing all the water
out of the spring.
"Damn it,
I hate it when I am right..." said Emeral, "It was Hopposai causing those problems!"
Hopposai
crawled out where he took a look at Emeral, "WHA..WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" he
yelled.
"I could
ask you the same question," said Emeral.
"That's
simple, I stole a ride in those American's Dimensional Node Portal to find a
new source of women's underwear!" replied Hopposai.
"Oh my,
who might you two be?" asked Naru holding a towel in front of her naked body as
she came out to take a bath.
"SWEETO!"
yelled Hopposai jumping and clutching onto Naru's breast. Suddenly a huge gust of wind began to pulse
out of the two as Hopposai's perversity began to move into Naru.
"OH GOD,
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME THAT..." said Emeral just as an explosion occurred, followed
by Naru jumping on Emeral and knocking her skirt up revealing her panties.
Before Emeral
could get back on her feat however, Naru wearing only a towel jumped out of the
back yard and headed for the town. Soon
screams and eeks could be heard as every female in town found their skirts
flipped up by a mysterious blur. Emeral
just stood there, dead to everything in the world as she had just passed out
due to the shock.
After a
few minutes, Naru had returned and was putting her clothes on giving one huge
grin. When she was done, she ran into
the living room and was about to do some more perverted stuff when she got a
huge migraine. She fell to her knees in
agony holding her head, as if it was ready to explode. About this time Emeral had regained her
senses and ran in just in time to see Hopposai's perversity blast out of Naru's
head creating a huge shockwave.
When
Emeral came too, she found everyone else just waking up AND acting normal. She looked around for a moment before she
smiled, "Leave it to pervercity to break a curse," she thought running back
outside and sending Hopposai to Namek.
"Hey! What about me?" asked Ryoga.
"You? I don't need to worry about," said Emeral,
"You'll end up loosing your way back home."
Chapter VII
Sketch Book of
Reality
Everything
at Hinata had finally returned to normal that night, if you called it normal
that is. Sarah and Su returned to
exploring the hidden passages of Hinata.
Motoko was in her room meditating while Kitsune drank like she usually
did. Naru was taking a bath with Mutsumi
who had came over shortly after the curse was lifted while Keitaro was in the
male's bathroom taking a bath. Shinobu
was cleaning up the kitchen and Emeral had taken to the roof to continue
reading her Chicken Soup book.
"You think
we have the entire area mapped yet?" asked Sarah following Su down a corridor
below Hinata.
"I think
so," said Su before she noticed a steal door to her right, "Say, I never
noticed that before."
"Lets
check it out!" yelled Sarah as the two ran in knocking some dust off the sign
near the door, which read "Washu's MM Specialty Cursed Experments: Keep maniacs
like Su Out!"
Meanwhile...
Emeral
shivered for a few seconds before she wrapped herself with her arms, "What a
chill," she said, "I hope nothing bad just happened."
Back with Su and Sarah
"WOW! Look at all these neat gadgets!" yelled Su
picking up a pistil like weapon labeled ‘Type II Phaser: Experiment P87', "I
wonder what this does?" Su than pushed
the button but nothing seemed to happen, "Maybe the batteries are dead."
However,
somewhere in
"Hey Su,
look at this!" yelled Sarah picking up a shiny silver sketch book with nothing
inside, "You think Shinobu would like this?"
Su placed
the phaser in her pocket and ran over to Sarah, "Yea, lets give it to her RIGHT
AWAY!"
The two
rushed out so quickly they failed to noticed a small piece of paper that fell
out of the notebook, ‘Washu's Reality Experiment, Powered by MM Curse
Energy. Stability currently unknown'
A few
minutes later Sarah and Su were back in the main room of Hinata running up to
Shinobu, "Hey Shinobu!" yelled Su, "Look what we found!"
Shinobu
was handed the shiny sketch book, "Is it alright for me just to have this?" she
asked.
"Yea, it
was in an old storage room," said Sarah, "Come on Su, lets go take another look
at that place!" With that Su and Sarah
took over back down one of the hidden passages leaving Shinobu with the sketch
book.
"HEY!,
What happen to that room!?!" yelled Sarah looking around where the steel door
had once been.
"It
vanished!" replied Su.
Shinobu
opened up the sketch book and found a unique pin with flashing lights. She picked it up and decided to doodle
something. A few minutes later she had
doodled her self cooking with Keitaro in the kitchen. "Wow, I've never been able to decided on a
scene to doodle this quickly before," she said to her self walking up to her
room.
A few
minutes later Naru came in from her bath and walked into the Kitchen to find
Keitaro and Shinobu cooking a huge lobster dinner. "Wh...WHAT IS THIS!?" yelled Naru, "We just had
Dinner!"
"I know,
but I wanted to spend special time with Shinobu making a special meal," said
Keitaro giving a gentle smile.
"Wh...What
are you talking about, Special Time," started Naru.
"He's
training me to be a great wife for him," said Shinobu giving also a gentle
smile.
"W..WIFE!"
yelled Naru before she charged at Keitaro, "You PERVERT! She's only in Jr High!" Naru delivered a punch only to have Keitaro
disappear causing her to smash into the wall.
When she turned around, she found no sign of a lobster dinner, but she
found Keitaro at the door.
"What's
wrong Narusegawa?" he asked a bit confused to Naru's action.
Naru just
stood there blinking, not sure what had just happened.
"Finished!"
yelled Su holding up the phaser that was now twice as big with extra gismos
attached to it, included an eye for it's emitter point.
"Lets give
it a try!" said Sarah excited to see what it do.
"Roger!"
said Su pointing it at the window and firing, "Soon a huge pulse of energy
blasted the entire wall to pieces and went into the star light sky.
"WHAT A
PUNCH!" said Sarah getting back on her feat.
Su got
back up and was about to pick the phaser off the ground when it startled to
sparkled. Before she could even comment,
Motoko ran into the room, "WHAT ON EARTH WAS THAT?"
"That was
my..." started Su when the Phaser started to give loud beeps.
"RUN FOR
IT" yelled Sarah jumping behind some debris for cover.
Motoko was
so confused that she stood where she was when the phaser exploded. When the dust cleared Su and Sarah looked
where Motoko was and just stood there STUNED.
Motoko tried to speak but found that she couldn't. Suddenly she heard Tama behind her and she
turned around to be face to face with Tama, at the same time.
"Motoko! Is that you!?" yelled Su getting up and
running to the red shelled spring turtle that was flying next to Tama.
Motoko
quickly flew to her room where she went to a mirror to find her self staring
back at a turtle. A few seconds later
Motoko began to fly around like a wrecking ball smashing through walls and
doors while giving a turtle like scream.
After a few minutes of smashing into almost every room in Hinata, Motoko
smashed through the roof which caught Emeral's attention. She looked up to find Motoko in a turtle like
form.
"Not
again," said Emeral quickly jumping off the roof. Moments later a woman in blue hair wearing a
red robe appeared in the sky right in front of Motoko where she caught her and
threw her into the Hinata Hot Spring. As
Motoko resurfaced from the water in her human form, the woman opened a bottle
with the label "In case of a Jusenkyo Curse" and poured it on Motoko before she
disappeared.
"What else
should I draw," said Shinobu staring at the sketch book. She padded her head for a bit before she
decided to draw some scenes of the gang at the beach. Within minutes she had a nice sketch of the
sea and the beach. She added some palm
trees next and even added a volley ball net.
As Shinobu
drew, the surroundings of the apartments morphed into a sandy beach. After a few minutes, there was nothing but
sand and ocean, as Hinata was now on a small island in the middle of no
where. To make things even more
confusing, the sun popped up in a record time of 0.6 seconds.
"What on
earth?" asked Keitaro looking around before he spotted everyone in Hinata,
including himself playing volley ball.
"WH...WHAT am I doing down there!?" yelled Keitaro.
"You, what
about ME??" yelled Naru who showed up behind Keitaro scaring him to death.
Emeral
finally took her nose out of her book to notice the change. She was sitting on the roof again as she
looked around, "GOD DAMN MM!" she yelled as she closed the book and walked down
the roof.
"MM?"
asked Naru who heard the yell as she watched as Motoko one had challenged
Motoko two to a duel. The two Motokos
began to duke it out, each using special techniques with their Hina blade.
Emeral was
walking around Hinata following the Aura of MM's magic, thought she was sure
she felt a technology aura that felt very much like Washu's. She finally came to Shinobu's room where she
noticed Shinobu drawing in a book.
Emeral put her hand out and blew softly sending blue powder into the
room. Moments later shinobu was fast
asleep.
Emeral
walked over to the book and placed her hand over it and the pen. She closed her eyes and began to say a chant
while her hand glowed. A few seconds
later the pen reacted, creating a rather big boom. When the smoke cleared, Emeral's hair was all
black and spiky, and her face burnt. She
puffed out a puff of smoke, "Note To self, never think something is that easy,"
she said.
After
cleaning up, Emeral made a replica of the book and pen Shinobu had, without the
curse of course, and sent the real book and pen to quarantine at HQ. A few minutes after that, Hinata returned to
it's original spot, under a almost full moon.
Chapter VIII
Emeral's true Form
In
"I'm sure
you've sense the odd aura's going around," said the old man, "It's like a power
demon is near by."
"I have
sensed a very unusual aura coming near
"Oh, you
must not know about this type of demon than," said the old man, "It has the
ability to mimic a human perfectly, hiding almost all of it's aura to those who
can sense it."
"I've
never heard of such a demon," said Tsuruko being a bit suspicious of the old
man.
"Most
people don't, as it's really a myth. But
when I spotted it at Hinata, I changed my mind about that," said the old man,
"Hinata has been going through some rather strange events recently."
"Hinata
you say," said Tsuruko looking up at the sky.
Emeral was
leaning against the wall sitting on her bed reading her "Chicken Soul for any
and all Souls by Marry Madison". She
just finished a chapter that ended half way through the book when she noticed
the next chapter's title, "Love Hina – Room 303". Emeral blinked blankly for a moment. She quickly started to skimmed through
finding everything written was exactly what has been happening for the past few
days.
In shock,
she flipped to almost the last page to find it blank. Suddenly the words "Don't try to read ahead"
appeared and shot a pie in her face.
Emeral whipped the pie off and turned to another page. The page she turned herself to shocked her
even more. Everything that was happening
now, was being written now. Emeral had
basicly turned to now now, as everything being happening now, was being written
now. She continued to read,
"So where are we now?" asked Marry
"We are at now now," replied MM.
"So go back to then" said Marry.
"When?" asked MM.
"Now," replied Marry.
"Can't" said MM,
"Why?" asked Marry.
"We just missed it," said MM.
"When?" asked Marry.
"Just now!" said MM.
"In that case, can we stop talking
to each other seeing we are the same person?" asked Marry.
"Good Point," replied
MM.
Emeral grew REALLY angry, "YOU BASTARD," she yelled
throwing the book through the window where it hit Keitaro on the head,
exploding, sending him to orbit screaming, "What did I do this TIME!?"
Tsuruko Aoyama had just arrived as she saw Keitaro take off
to space like he normally did. She
looked at the apartments for a moment before she walked in. "Motoko, are you here?" she called.
"Si...Big Sister?" yelled Motoko rushing down the stairs,
"Why are you here?"
"Never mind that," said Tsuruko, "Lets go some where
private."
Meanwhile Emeral was pacing back and forth in her room,
steam coming out of her head. "I've almost
had it!" she yelled to her self, "Every
time I start to get relaxed HE shows up!"
She continued to pace around wearing the wood on the floor. "Grrr, I can't relive this stress," she said
finally stopping, "I think I'll go take a bath."
Emeral went down to the changing room where she undressed
and picked up a towel. She walked
outside to find Motoko talking to someone who seemed to resemble her.
"You sure that she is a..." asked Motoko just as she noticed
Emeral, "Oh, hi Ms. Bellosom."
"Hello," replied Emeral walking up towards them.
"Let me introduce you two," started Motoko, "This is Emeral
Bellosom, our new resident, and this is my older sister, Tsuruko Aoyama."
"A pleasure to meet you," said Emeral putting her hand out.
Tsuruko looked at her for a moment, "Tell me something Ms
Bellosom, are you human?"
Emeral tilted her head, "I beg your pardon?"
"You don't emit a human aura," started Tsuruko, "I give you
credit on mimicking one however."
Emeral stood back a bit, "How can she tell? I've been emitting a normal human aura since
I got here... wait," thought Emeral, "I smell a MM trick. MM must have giving her the ability to notice
in a small away what I am."
"I take your silence as saying you are not," said Tsuruko
pulling out her blade and charging for Emeral with a slash.
Emeral easily dodge the attack and jumped back dropping her
towel and landing on the other side of the hot spring. "Why are you attacking me, Ms. Aoyama?" asked
Emeral.
"Silence you demon," replied Tsuruko releasing her battle
aura, "Motoko, assist me!"
Motoko nodded and pulled out the Hina sword as Tsuruko made
another slash attempt on Emeral. Emeral
quickly dodge landing one footed on a rock bending over to dodge Motoko's
blade. Emeral than quickly turned around
and threw Motoko into the spring as Tsuruko made a slice down attempt on
her. Emeral quickly turned around and
caught Tsuruko's blade with her palms.
Emeral started to smile, "Ya know, this is just what I
needed to relieve some stress. I hope
you don't mind if I really fight back now."
Tsuruko gave a clueless expression as Emeral threw
direction of Tsuruko sword away and shoved her palm at her. "Blue Dragon Palm," she said as her Ki
manifested and turned into a dragon head sending Tsuruko back into the wall.
"You'll pay for that demon!" yelled Motoko coming from
behind.
Emeral smiled and suddenly vanished. Motoko stopped dead in her tracks trying to
figure out where Emeral went. But before
she could figure anything out Emeral was already behind her where she grabbed
her by the arm and threw her towards Tsuruko.
Tsuruko looked at Emeral before she pulled out a small
black dart. She than recalled what the
old man told her, "This dart will home in on the demon where it will strike it
rendering it's illusion powers useless.
Use this dart to reveal the demons true form." Tsuruko smiled and charged at Emeral once
more.
Emeral dodge her attack just as she realized Tsuruko state
of mind change, but before she could react Tsuruko had threw the dart. Emeral jumped back but the dark followed her
movment before it hit her. She landed by
the spring as she pulled the dart out wondering what it did.
Suddenly Emeral felt a bit strange and noticed her skin
starting to turn pink. Relizing what was
happening, she pointed at Tsuruko and Motoko.
The spring than blasted it's water out them with enough force to stun
them unconscious. Emeral, who's shaped
had turned into a pink "Sonic the Hedgehog" figure without the back hedges with
4 wings and a rose on her right ear, started to cry before she took off in a
pink blur.
Nearby Naru was looking over the corner. She had saw the whole thing, and saw what
Emeral turned into. Naru seemed a bit
sorry for her, as she saw Emeral cry after the fight. Tama flew over to Naru's shoulder where it
gave her a "Meee".
"Your right Tama," replied Naru, "We should find Emeral,
I'm worried about her too. Funny thing
is, I'm sure I've seen that pink figure before."
Chapter IX
Rose of Light
Naru leaned back on a tree near Hinata and look at the
pretty sun setting in the distance. It
was now
Tama shook its head before a small drop of water fell on
its face. It looked up before giving a
happy "My" and taking off into the tree.
"Where are you going Tama?" asked Naru looking up to find
Tama sitting on the pink figure's shoulder.
Emeral eyes were tear filled as she was curled up on the branch of the
tree, staring at the sun set.
Naru climbed up to another branch where she placed her hand
on Emeral's shoulder startling her, "It's alright Emeral, I was only worried
about you," said Naru trying to keep Emeral calm.
"You don't have a problem with my true form?" asked Emeral
in a sad voice.
"Of Course not," replied Naru with a smile, "We're friends
after all."
A few minutes later, Emeral began to explain what was going
on to her, how MM was torturing her during her vacation. "That's mean, no one should have to go
through that on their vacation," replied Naru.
"Tell that to him," replied Emeral.
Naru gave a sorry look to Emeral before she placed her hand
on Emeral's hand, "At least you got a friend her to help you through it."
Emeral gave a smile, "Thanks Naru, you truly have been a
good friend." She took a sigh for a
moment than looked at the sun, "I suppose I should tell you a little about my
self," she said.
"That's alright, you don't have to force anything out,"
said Naru.
"It's alright," replied Emeral, "You see I'm really a type
of life form that is able to move through dimensions. My real name is Rose, Rose of Light. After going through heck trying to stop
another being like my self from his evil plots, my husband and I decided to
take a vacation. Due to the stress I had
went though, I told him I wanted to take one by my self, so we went our
separate ways, myself coming here."
"Your husband," asked Naru, "What's he like?"
Rose smiled, "He's a kind and gentle person who cares
deeply for life. He's bold, courageous,
and a bit stupid at times," she said with a wink.
At Maison Ikkoku...
"Aaaacheeewww!" sneezed Joe sitting by Soichiro who glanced
up at him.
"Oh my, Do you have a cold?" asked Kyoko who was sweeping the
sidewalk.
"Don't think so," replied Joe, "I wonder if she is talking about me.
Back with Rose
The two girls were now laughing, while Tama circled around
them having fun. After a few more
minutes of enjoying themselves they stopped, "So what do you plan to do with
Motoko and her sister?"
Rose went into thought, "I really prefer not to do anything
to their memory," she replied, "If they knew I wasn't a threat to them, they
probably would leave me alone."
"Let me handle that then," replied Naru putting her hand to
her chest, "I'll take care of Motoko, while you wait here until you can retake
your form as Emeral."
"Thank you Naru," said Rose as she watched Naru and Tama go
off back to Hinata.
"I see you made some good friends," came a voice somewhere
near by.
Rose stood up, "So you finally show your self!" she said
flying over to the Teahouse. She landed
on the roof to meet an old man in a cloak, hiding his face, "I see you don't
change your wardrobe either."
"I've had the same wardrobe for over ten billion years, why
would I change now?" asked the old man.
"Oh shut up MM," said Rose obviously hating MM getting in a
good point.
"Being a bad sport as usual," snickered MM.
"BAD SPORT!?" yelled Rose, "You've been putting me through
hell since day one of my vacation!"
"Well you're the one that split me up," said MM.
"Your Responsible for getting me pregnant with that THING!"
yelled Rose.
"It was Nadeshiko that sent the wrong Pokemon," yelled MM.
"It was YOU who let her on the console in the first place!"
yelled Rose.
"Good Point," said MM pulling out a notepad, "Don't let
Nadeshiko on MM Cursix Consoles again."
"Isn't that a bit too LATE!" replied Rose.
"Better late than never," smiled MM.
"And what's this Cursix?" asked Rose.
"New OS I made," said MM pulling out a black box with his
MM logo on it, "Here' s a free copy for ya, courtesy of Jusenkyo Enterprises."
"Why Thanks, you can be generous after all," said Rose
before she realized what she was doing, "What am I saying!"
MM grinned, "Caught ya off guard didn't I?"
Rose blushed for a moment before she got serious, "Would
you PLEASE leave me alone now and stop ruining my vacation!"
"Now why would I stop?" asked MM who was obviously enjoying
himself.
Rose was getting desperate and finally let out a plea,
"Please Grandfather! Please just leave
me alone!" A moment later Rose slapped
her mouth after realizing what she just called MM.
MM gave the most peculiar look at her, before he responded,
"I'll tell ya what, you try out my Cursix and I'll let you be, for the most
part, for the rest of your vacation."
"For the most part?" eyed Rose.
"I promise, it won't be anything serious like your true
form, jusenkyo curses, bla bla bla,," said MM, "OK?"
Rose hesitated but than agreed, "Deal", she said shaking
his hand.
"Good, I'll see you around, granddaughter," snickered MM as he vanished.
Rose looked at the box reading it's description, "MM
Cursix, by Junsekyo Enterprises And MM Inc.
So Easy to Curse, no wonder it's number one!" Rose lifted an eyebrow, "What kind of OS is
this," she asked before grinning, "Perhaps I could use this on Sonic, once I
get the hang of it." She than put the
package under her arm and looked at her hand.
She focused for a bit before her form began to shift back to Emeral, "I
guess I can go back now," she said jumping off the roof.
Back at Hinata, Naru was pleading with the Aoyama's,
"Please, Emeral is not a demon, just leave her alone."
"I cannot allow anyone, demon or not, to cause trouble,"
said Tsuruko.
"She doesn't want to cause trouble," yelled Naru, "She just
wants to relax, she's been through hard times, she deserves to rest!"
"Naru-sempai, why are you sticking up for Ms.
Bellosom? Has she possessed you?" asked
Motoko.
"Your Wrong!" yelled Naru seeing this was going no where,
"I just trust Emeral, that's all!"
"Why would I possess Naru?" asked Emeral walking through
the door, "And why do you insist I am a Demon?"
"Silence you, you hide your true form, that's reason
enough!" yelled Tsuruko.
"What on earth are you talking about?" asked Emeral,
"Furthermore, if you don't trust people who hide their identity, why did you
trust that old man that told you I was a demon?"
Tsuruko eyes opened and basically went into shock, though
it wasn't sure if she did because Emeral knew about the old man, that Emeral
was right, or a combination of both.
"She has a point there ya know," said Kitsune.
"She sure does," said an old man with a cloak over his head
who appeared at the front door. Everyone
jumped back from the statement, so the old man took that time to remove his
cloak revealing no head. He than laughed
before he faded off as Kitsune, Shinobu, Keitaro and Motoko joined Tsuruko on
the floor. Kaolla simply looked around thinking
it was one of the coolest things she saw while Naru looked at Emeral who was
placing her hand on her head.
"I think I'll go to my room," Emeral said as she walked
upstairs, "Good Night ya'll."
Chapter X
Run for the hills, we have a novice using Cursix!
"Lets see here," said Emeral looking around her room,
"First I'll need a desk and a chair."
Emeral snapped her fingers as a desk with a chair appeared in the corner
of the room, "OK, now for the actual Computer," she said snapping once again
creating a PC. "Now, first things first,
lets read the manual," she stated as she opened the box. She pulled out a small piece of paper that
was included with a Jewel Case with a Q-DVD inside, "That's it? Nothing else is in here?" she asked looking
inside.
"So what does this paper say," she asked looking at the
paper.
MM Cursix Release 1 (Shonmaoniichuan),
Version 1.00.3600
Head Developer: MM
Head Graphic
Designer: MM
Head Kernel Coder: MM
"Yea Yea, I know MM made all this stuff," thought Emeral
looking past all the credits."
Instructions: Insert
CD and Let Cursix do the Rest.
Disclaimer: MM, MM
Inc, and Jusenkyo Ent. Are not responsible for any curses or cures that may
result from the usage of Cursix. Also,
the instructions were too large to fit in the box, until a compact PDF can be
made, Use at your own Risk!
"What kind of bull crap is that?" yelled Emeral putting
down the box and taking out the DVD and inserting it into her drive. A few seconds later Cursix was installing
setting up all the options needed for her computer. After three minutes of setup, the DVD popped
out and the screen popped up with Cursix Final Setup Program Running, asking
for a password for root. Emeral walked
over, put up the DVD and entered a password.
A moment later the main kernel was up waiting for Emeral's commands.
"Lets see," thought Emeral browsing the file system for a
bit before she found something that sparked her interests.
"Hmm, Plant life related curses," she thought, "I do think
this place could use a few more flowers.
So lets give this a try."
Emeral typed in a few commands before she felt a rumble,
"An Earth Quake?" she thought before vines popped out of the floor and
entangled her and the room.
"Did someone forget to weed the garden?" yelled Kistune
trapped in her room.
Navigating her way through the apartment, Emeral found that
the entire place had been overran by huge vines that covered both the inside
and the outside of the apartments.
"Figures I goofed up the command," said Emeral taking out a pair of huge
clippers.
After an hour of gardening work, Emeral returned to her room
exhausted. She walked over and fell in
her chair looking at the interface again wondering what to do next. It was then she heard Keitaro and Naru
fighting downstairs follow by him falling, Naru calling him a pervert, and him
blasting out of the apartments. "That's
an idea!" cried Emeral.
She quickly navigated her way through the system looking
for a curse that would stop Keitaro from falling on the girl's panties. She finally found her way to the clothing
section, finally landing at Women's underwear.
Emeral than studied all the commands carefully, making sure she
understood what they did, what the possible screw ups were, and above all,
making sure she didn't do a typo.
"OK, lets have any woman's underwear within the Hinata
area, repel Keitaro if he gets within three centimeters of them, that way he
will never land on them," said Emeral smiling at the thought of actually NOT
screwing up. She finished the final
syntax of her code, and hit enter with out realizing she had her finger holding
down the ctrl button. Emeral than
stretched as she got up to grab some Romulan Ale she stored in her little
fridge in the other corner. She failed
to notice the notice message however that popped up on her screen.
Control was held
while pressing enter! Cure will now do
the opposite of what was inputted.
Is This Ok? (Y/N)
You didn't respond in
three seconds, assuming Y...
Now Setting
Curse...Warning, Attraction range for Curse of Female Undergarments to
Object.Keitaro is too small, upping to three meters.
Meanwhile, near the laundry room, Keitaro was walking by
when suddenly the basket of laundry in the laundry room shot at him, breaking
through the door and knocking him on the floor.
Motoko who was inside with just a towel taking out her load of clothes
pulled out her sword, "How Dare you peep at me Urashima!"
"What are you talking about?" asked Keitaro taking the
basket off to find all the bras and panties in the basket had attached to his
face.
"YOU SHOW YOUR TRUE SELF!" yelled Motoko blasting Keitaro
out of the apartments. Stragne enough
though the undergarments that were blasted with the chi blast zoomed towards
where Keitaro went.
Back with Emeral, she has just finished a small glass of
Romulane ale and taking off her clothes.
She threw her clothing in a small basket before she went to her drawer
and pulled out a blue silk night gown and put it on. She went over to her mirror and proceeded to
comb her hair when her key on her neck glowed softly.
"You say something is wrong?" asked Emeral continuing to comb
her hair. The Key glowed back and forth
as if it was using Morse code. "Your
just imagining things Hikari-chan," replied Emeral, "MM Promised to back down,
and I know I entered the code in right on the PC, so nothing should be
wrong." The key gave a sharp glow before
it returned to normal, Emeral smiled and got in her bed, pointed her finger at
the light switch turning it off, and went to sleep.
Emeral woke up early that morning, not because she wanted
to but because Keitaro was screaming while running around the house. Emeral yawned as she got up out of bed and
slipped on some pink slippers and walked out the door to the hall. Keitaro came around the corner running away from
Motoko, Kitsune, and Naru and heading straight for Emeral.
Emeral began to yawn again so she turned her head the other
way and covered her mouth with one hand as she put up the other hand stopping
Keitaro dead in his trap without hurting him.
Emeral finished yawning and looked at him, "Isn't it to early in the
morning for this?" she asked before she notices some panties and bras stuck to
his body.
"You aren't going to get away with his," said Naru walking
up to Keitaro.
"I'm telling you, I didn't do anything!" yelled Keitaro.
"You expect us to believe that?" said Motoko glaring at him
with evil eyes.
Emeral stood there with a blank look on her face as Keitaro
took off once more followed by Motoko and Naru teaming up on him. Kitsune didn't go with them this time, she
found Emeral's expression more interesting.
"You did know Kietaro is a pervert, didn't you?" asked
Kitsune. Emeral just gave a blank stare,
as if no one or thing was nearby. "Say,
you ok there Emeral?" ask Kitsune waving her hand infront of Emeral.
After a moment Emeral snapped out of it, "Oh Sorry," she
said rubbing the back of her head, "I just spaced out, that's all."
"Spaced out? More
like you went into shock," said Kitsune.
"Oh no, I'm fine," said Emeral giving a small laugh as she
walked into her room.
"Why do I get the feeling she's behind this," said Kitsune
eyeing Emeral's door.
"What in the Matrix did I do wrong now!" said Emeral
walking over to her screen. A moment
later she fell over her chair after reading the error message that had came up
yesterday. After getting on her feat
again, she started to type in commands to undo the curse, checking every syntax
and only hitting enter.
After an hour of carefully entering syntax codes, Emeral
was successful in sending a cure command to the underwear. She sighed with relief before she turned off
the computer, "That's it, no more cursix for me, it's to dangerous for me to
use here," said Emeral before she gave a grin, "I'll play with it later when I
get home, and use my husband as the test subject."
Emeral walked over to her bed before she put her hand under
the collar of her gown and pulled out the key that she wears, "I guess I owe
you an apology," she said to the key.
The key gave a small glow causing Emeral to smile. She placed the key back under her gown and
laid down in the bed, "I guess I'll sleep in today," she said closing her eyes.
Emeral peacefully drifted off to sleep, well at least for
six minutes. "WOW, I didn't know this
tunnel was here," said Sarah popping out of the book shelf.
"And here we thought we had all the secrete passage ways
marked," said Kaolla dropping out behind Sarah, "YAY, Emeral has a Computer!"
Emeral's eyes shot open right at that moment as she flew
her self out of bed, "Don't you dare touch that computer!" she yelled.
"You want to play too Emeral?" asked Kaolla pulling out a
military grade laser and blasted Emeral out of the apartments like Keitaro.
"Cool, where did you get that?" asked Sarah.
"This nice old man was selling these guns in town this
morning, he was even kind enough to accept my currency," said Kaolla smiling.
Over at the public baths, Keitaro, Naru, Shinobu and
Kitsune were coming out having taking a bath there.
"I'm sorry about this," said Keitaro, "I'll have all those
vines out of the hot spring by tonight."
"You better!" said Naru giving him an eye.
"Hey, do you guys here something?" asked Kitsune looking
around.
"Sounds like something falling," said Shinobu looking up.
Just then Emeral in her night gown came out of a star in
the sky and came zooming for Keitaro.
Keitaro saw this coming and attempted to catch her, only to misjudge the
landing force and falling with her on the ground and getting his face stuck
between her breast. Emeral's face turned
red while Naru gave the most ferocious growl.
"YOU PERVERT!" yelled Naru and Emeral together punching
Keitaro in the face on the opposite side of each other, resulting Keitaro's
head to become flat as a pancake.
"Come on Emeral, lets get you back to Hinata," said Naru
helping Emeral up and hurrying her off.
"Why me," asked Keitaro before collapsing on the ground.
"You ok Sempai?" asked Shinobu.
Naru rushed Emeral up the stairs to Hinata, "How did you
even get out in public wearing only a night gown?" asked Naru.
"Su blasted me out of my room," said Emeral looking away
like she was embarrassed it happen.
"Figures, she's always up to..." said Naru before she stoped
dead cold. Emeral soon followed her as
they both looked at Hinata.
The Apartments were now covered with banana trees with
small mecha tomas gathering the bananas.
"Great, Su got on my computer," said Emeral smacking her
hand on her head.
"Computer?" asked Naru.
"Forget it, lets go stop Su before she does anything else,"
replied Emeral.
"Too Late," answered Naru pointing ahead. Emeral looked up to find
"Is that for real?" asked Naru with a shocked look on her
face.
"As real as it is going to get," said Emeral grabbing
Naru's hand and teleporting to her room.
"Now lets turn off that PC," said Emeral just as a blast
smashed into both her and Naru. Soon an
entire inventory of defense guns, lasers, missiles, and even banana peels were
firing at the two girls.
"How could Su install this many weapons in such a short
time," yelled Naru getting smashed by another blast.
"Beats me, but I HAD ENOUGH!" yelled Emeral. Emeral took a fierce stance as her body
glowed bright pink, suddenly a pink shield formed over the two of them
protecting them from the blasts.
"GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" yelled Emeral causing a shockwave to
blast out annihilate all of Su's gadgets, and taking out the back wall with it.
Naru fell on her rear, "Wow, you are dangerous when you get
angry!"
Emeral blushed, "Lost my temper there for a bit," she said
walking over to the PC and waking it up.
"WHAT, When did this have a GUI?" yelled Emeral.
"It always had one," replied Su walking in, apparently
having finished in the spring of drown girl, "all you had to do was type startgui."
Emeral smashed her head on the keyboard, creating a
strength test bell on the screen, shooting the bell to the top and making a
ding.
Chapter XI
Forgotten Memories
Emeral walked out of the hot spring's changing room, "I
don't know why, but I always feel much more relaxed when I take a bath in
Hinata's hot spring," she said to her self.
She walked over to the stairs where she was going to go upstairs when a
trap door on the wall under the stairs opened and Mutsumi, Kaolla, and Sarah
tumbled out.
"Oh, Hello there Emeral," said Mutsumi, "Did you have a
good bath?"
"Yes I did," replied Emeral helping her up, "What are you
guys doing?"
"We're doing more exploring of the secret passages," said
Sarah.
"I thought you guys already mapped out all the tunnels,"
said Emeral.
"How you know that?" asked Kaolla.
"I heard it somewhere earlier," said Emeral turning her
head to the side for a bit.
"I was told that a few new tunnels were found the other
day," said Mutsumi, "But we can't find them anymore. Say, would you like to join us?"
Emeral looked at Mutsumi who had her hands pressed together
and had an eager expression on her face like a little kid, "Sure why not."
"Great!" said Mutsumi as happy as she could be as Kaolla
and Sarah went back into the trap door followed by Mutsumi and Emeral.
A few minutes later the group came to the corridor with
doors on each wall, the corridor itself extended into the dark so it wasn't
possible to see the end of it. "Rather
long corridor," said Emeral looking around being the first time she was
actually down here.
"Earlier there was a room labeled Washu something here,"
said Sarah pointing to a spot on the wall, "But now there isn't even a door
there anymore."
Emeral looked at the wall for a bit before she noticed a
door that had "Moe" written on the nob.
"So this is where Moe is," thought Emeral looking back at the others who
were examining the wall.
Emeral walked over to Moe's door and opened it. She quietly walked in where she shut the door
and turned on the lights. There in front
of her was an object sitting on a chair covered by a cloth. She walked over to it and removed the cloth
to find a life size wooden doll dressed in a red dress.
Emeral knelt down and looked at the doll for a bit, "You
have a kind heart Moe," said Emeral softly before the doll's head moved to
where their eyes were staring directly at each other. Emeral, in shock, fell backwards hitting the
ground knocking herself unconscious.
In Emeral's mind, she
started to see a white light that seemed to growing closer to her. Than like flashes of a camera, she began to
see images from the light. The first
flash showed her in her true form battling a "Dark Hedgehog" who she recognized
to be DS. The next flash showed a
collision of fire that blasted both of the figures. The flash after that showed her laying on the
ground by some tree's in a park injured.
The flashes of images
continued like a slide show showing three young children approaching her. After a few more flashes, Emeral had morphed
her form to a young girl forum followed by flashes of them playing in the sand
box. Another flash showed her husband
coming by and picking her up...
"Emeral? Emeral, are
you ok?" asked Mutsumi kneeling by Emeral.
Emeral moaned as she rubbed her head before she opened her
eyes, "Wh...Where am I?" she asked.
"We're in Moe's room," said Mutsumi who was glad to see
Emeral was ok, "I found you here on the floor."
Emeral sat up and looked around, the Moe Doll was where it
should be and had the sheet over it. Emeral
rubbed her head a bit more before she stood up, "I think I'm fine," she said
with a smile.
Mutsumi smiled before she looked at Moe, "Did you come in
here because you wanted to see Moe again?"
"Again?" asked Emeral a bit shocked, "What do you mean?"
"You mean you don't remember?" asked Mutsumi.
Emeral thought for a moment, "I'm not sure," she said.
Later that day
Emeral was leaning on the railing of the third floor
looking out at the sky. It was now
"Hello Emeral," said Naru walking up to her and taking a
place next to her to also look at the sky.
"Oh, Hello Naru," said Emeral taking a small glance at Naru
before returning to the sky.
"Beautiful day, isn't it?" asked Naru.
"Yes, it is," replied Emeral.
The two gazed at the sky for a bit before Naru looked at Emeral. Emeral seemed to be occupied in thought; her
expression looked as if she was confused about something. "Are you ok Emeral?" asked Naru.
Emeral continued to look at the sky, "Have you ever
suddenly felt like you have forgotten something special or important in your
past, but you just can't remember?" asked Emeral.
Naru looked at Emeral, "I suppose I have," she replied
before looking back at the sky, "I can't recall much of when I was little and
living here at the apartments. I know
something very important happen, but I can't recall it," said Naru.
"What if it wasn't something that happen when you were too
young to remember, what about something that happen somewhat recent in your
life and you forgot it," said Emeral with her expression saddening.
"I don't know," said Naru, "Never had something like that
happen before."
"I see," replied Emeral, "I know something rather important
happen to me a while back, but I can't remember. I don't know if it is because I don't wish to
remember or if I simply forgotten."
"Does it really matter why you can't remember?" asked Naru.
"To me it does," said Emeral, "I cherish my memories, even
the bad ones. For me just to forget
something like this is just horrible."
"What if you suffered some sort of head injury, wouldn't
that cause you to forget without knowing it?" asked Naru.
"It's possible, but its never happened to me before,"
replied Emeral.
That Night
Emeral laid in her bed tossing
and turning in her sleep. She moaned as
she kept moving around from her restless sleep.
Finally she sat up and looked around.
"It's now good, I can't sleep," she said as she got up and left her
room.
She walked outside and stood and
looked at the moon as a soft wind blew through her pink night gown. She stood there for a while before she
noticed someone was next too her. She
turned her head to her right and looked towards the ground to find Moe looking
at the moon with her.
"Pretty Night, isn't Emeral,"
said Moe smiling at her.
"I thought you weren't able to
move anymore," asked Emeral.
"I can move when someone needs my
help," said Moe, "And you need my help."
"I do?" asked Emeral kneeling
down.
"You've forgotten haven't you,"
said Moe.
"I don't know," said Emeral
frowning, "I feel something is missing."
"I figured you would," said Moe,
"After all, you were hurt when I first met you."
"Hoeee?" asked Emeral.
"Let me show you," said Moe as
she took Emeral's hand.
Emeral nodded and together they
walked into a blinding light.
Chapter XII
The
Playground I once Played On
The sound of children laughing
could be heard as Moe guided Emeral through the blinding light. A moment later Emeral could see three
children playing in a sand box. She
recognized them a moment later to be young Keitaro, Naru and Mutsumi. The three of them were having fun until a
blast of blue light came from behind a corner getting the children's attention.
Moe signaled Emeral to follow as
the children went behind the corner to see what was going on. When she got to where the children were, she
notice they were staring at something.
She looked up to see the source of the blue glow to be a pink humanoid
figure with four wings laying on the ground.
"That..That's me," said Emeral,
"Me in my true form..."
"Yes, it is you a while back,"
said Moe, "When you crashed here after being injured in a battle."
"That explains why I look so beat
up," replied Emeral looking at her self.
"What is it?" asked Mitsumi as
little Naru hid behind her.
The pink figure slowly opened her
eyes and put her hand on her head moaning as Keitaro came to her.
"Are you alright?" asked Keitaro.
The pink figure looked at Keitaro
obviously confused. She looked around
for a moment before she gave off a bright pink glow and morphed into a small
girl with pink hair. She gave a smile to
Keitaro, "Yes I am, my name is Rose, what is yours?"
"My name is Keitaro, this is
Mitsumi and Naru," said Keitaro.
"Please to meet you," replied
Rose as she rubbed her head, "I've seem to have gotten lost though I can't
remember what I was doing."
"Would you like to play with us
till you remember?" asked Mitsumi as Naru came over to look at Rose.
"Sure," replied Rose in a
cheerful matter.
Soon Rose was playing with Naru,
Keitaro and Mitsumi having a blast making sand castles and telling stories. Emeral watched herself carelessly having fun
with the children, not even once being concerned about her husband or anyone
else.
"You see Emeral, you were hurt
and suffered a blow to the head," said Moe, "Not knowing much about yourself,
you became a mere child having fun here with Kei-kun and not worrying about
anything else."
"I had amnesia," replied Emeral,
"And I ended up not remember anything that happen while I had it."
"Say, want to see Moe today?"
asked Keitaro dusting some sand off his pants.
"Sure," replied Mitsumi as Naru
gave a delightful nod.
"Who's Moe?" asked Rose.
"She's a friend of ours," replied
Keitaro, "Come and meet her."
"OK," answered Rose with a happy
look on her face.
Keitaro and his friends than took
Rose over to the Hinata Apartments playing tag on the way. As they reached the stairs ways down to the
hall where Moe was kept, Mitsume lost her footing and fell down the
stairs. The rest of the group quickly
ran to her to see if she was hurt.
"It hurts!" yelled Mitsumi holding
her left ankle.
"Hold on, I'll get grandma," said
Keitaro before Rose stopped him.
"Let me try something," she said
walking over to Mitsumi and placing her hands over her ankle. A soft pink glow than began to emit from
Rose's hands as she held on to Mitsumi's ankle for a bit.
"All better," said Rose taking
her hands off Mitsumi's ankle.
"Wow," replied Mitsumi get on her
feet, "How did you do that?"
"I..I'm not sure," replied Rose,
"It just came to me."
"Since Mitsumi is alright now,
lets go see Moe," said Keitaro with little Naru holding his hand.
"Ok," replied Rose and Mitsumi as
they got up and went to Moe's door.
"Could that have been the reason
why Mitsumi was protected from that gender curse a while back," asked Emeral
walking to where the kids had been.
Moe giggled, "I don't know, but
you were sweet healing Mitsumi despite not know you could do it."
Emeral blushed, "So this is how I
met you?" asked Emeral as they walked through the wall to where the kids were
talking to Moe.
"Yes," replied Moe, "I could tell
from the start you were more than what you appeared to be."
"Hey Moe, we have a new friend,"
said Keitaro, "her name is Rose."
The Moe doll sitting on the chair
moved her head and smiled, "Hello Rose."
Little Rose gave an astonished
look before she gave a proper greeting, "Hello Moe, pleased to meet you."
"We had a lot of fun together
after that," replied Moe as the room lit up with white light transporting them
back to the sandbox. The sun was now
setting and Keitaro, Naru and Mitsumi were getting ready to leave.
"So where are you staying?" asked
Keitaro.
"I'm...I'm not sure," replied Rose
rubbing her hair.
"You mean you forgot where you
live?" asked Mitsumi.
"I guess so," said Rose before
she felt something and turned around.
In the sunlight, a young man in a
red robe and hat walked up and stood by Rose.
He looked at her for a bit with a smile as Rose stared back feeling that
she knew him.
"You alright Rose," asked the
man.
"I think so," replied Rose.
The man smiled again and turn to
Keitaro, "Thank you for taking care of her."
"No..No problem," replied
Keitaro.
"Come on Rose," said the man,
"lets go home."
"Good Bye Rose, take care!"
called Mitsumi.
"You too," waved Rose as she
disappeared in the sunlight.
"After he took me home, I slowly
recovered from my injuries and soon forgot all about this place," said Emeral.
"It isn't your fault," replied
Moe giving a gentle smile, "After all, you were in a stat of amnesia."
"That's true," said Emeral
looking at the playground, "Thank You Moe, thank you for reminding me of this
day."
"That's what friends are for,
right Emeral?" said Moe fading away.
Emeral stood outside where she
was before Moe had appeared. The moon
was a bit higher in the sky and a soft breeze blew. Emeral looked at the moon and smiled before
she went back inside.
Chapter XIII
Vacation's
End
"So your leaving back for
"Yes," replied Emeral, "I feel
relaxed now so I can go back to work."
"It's just a bit sudden," said
Kitsune.
"I know," replied Emeral.
"Do you need any help getting
your baggage?" asked Keitaro.
"No, I'll be fine," said Emeral,
"though I think I'll take one more dip in the hot spring before I go."
"Mind if I join you," asked
Mitsumi walking in.
"The turtle lady!" called Su as
Shinobu got up to take her plate into the kitchen.
"I don't mind," said Emeral.
"I'll join you two as well,"
replied Naru getting up and taking her dish over to the kitchen.
A little while later, the girls
were soaking in the
"Say Emeral, did you remember
yet?" asked Mitsumi.
"Remember? What do you mean?" asked Emeral not lifting
her head.
"I'm not sure, I just have a
feeling you remembered something," said Mitsumi.
Emeral smiled, "Yes, I did
remember."
"You remembered your lost
memories?" asked Naru.
"Yep," replied Emeral.
"What was it?" asked Naru.
Emeral smiled, "I'm sure you'll
remember too one day."
"Uh?" asked Naru as Mitsumi gave
a giggle.
A little later Naru and Mitsumi
walked out into the changing room to dry while Emeral laid back. Her key, Hikari, glowed a bit on her chest.
"I understand," said Emeral,
"This was something for me to remember on my own. Thank you Hikari."
"What about me?" came voice.
"What?" asked Emeral looking at
her right finding a woman sitting there, "WENDY!?!"
"Wendy's my name, don't ware it
out," said Wendy, "So you going to thank me for not telling you either?"
"You mean you knew as well?"
asked Emeral.
"Of course I knew, what kind of
question is that?" asked Wendy.
Emeral gave a sour look before
she finally smiled, "Thank you, grandfather."
"Would you at least call me
grandmother when I'm in a female form?" asked Wendy.
"Oh alright," said Emeral.
"Is that everything?" asked
Shinobu as Emeral walked down the stairs carrying only one suitcase.
"Yep," replied Emeral as she
walked to the door and turned around.
"It was a great pleasure staying with you all," said Emeral to the gang.
"You take care now Emeral," said
Naru.
"Keep in touch," said Kitsune.
"Visit again some time," said
Shinobu.
"Don't forget to bring bananas
with ya!" replied Su jumping on Shinobu.
"Until we meet again," Mitsumi.
"Farewell," said Motoko looking
at Emeral with one eyes.
"It was a pleasure having you
here with us," said Keitaro walking up to shake Emeral's hand but slipping and
landing on her breasts.
"KEITARO!" screamed both Emeral
and Naru punching him into the sky.
"WHY ME!?!" yelled Keitaro as he
disappeared in the distance.
Naru and Emeral looked at each
other for a moment before they started laughing. Soon everyone else started to laugh. Emeral than waved good bye and took off.
"So now we know we have a spare
room," said Kitsune as she walked with Motoko to room 303.
"Maybe we should have it purified
first," said Motoko.
"Give it a rest, Emeral was no
demon," said Kitsune opening the door to 303 to find nothing but a closet,
"Wh...WHERE'S THE ROOM!"
Naru was in her room when she
heard Kitsune screamed. She paused for a
moment than smiled, "They'll figure it out one of these days."