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...::crosses his arms::.....well, since my little outburst did little to stimulate your attentions, I'm only going to be posting the first part of the fanfic. Serves you right.
Act One, Part One, Scene One
Act One, Part One, Scene One
"Of course I don't believe it! How could anyone believe such an incredibly fake story?!"
Her voice was like a slap of reason against the house of fairy tales. Not quarter of an hour ago, Victoria Amoji was having the most normal day of her seventeen-year-old existence. It was to be expected, as she was nothing more than a normal city girl, living her life completely oblivious from her surroundings and totally content with the mundane activities she regularly engaged in. It was her normal routine to simply wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast, finish primping, and walk calmly to her incredibly prestigious high school, Sei-Hei Prep. She spent her time there diligently pursuing her studies, went home, did her homework, called her friends, and on the weekends, would go out with them to the movies or off shopping. Never, ever before in her life, had something exciting happened, nothing beyond the basic dramas of high school life. There were no car accidents, no family tragedies, there was no famous actor that she met, or a chance encounter with the lead singer from her two favorite bands, POLYSICS and Despairs Ray. In fact, her life was so bland, so normal, so uneventful, that it was almost as if something was always in her way, keeping her from achieving anything more than good grades and even better looks, for she was, in fact, the prettiest girl in Sei-Hei, as voted by her fellow classmates. Some would even go as far to declare that she had even better looks than some actresses, and famous professional models. The things that was coming out from the mouths of these peculiar people were things that Victoria had never even heard about on TV, much less contemplated on an intellectually stimulated level and expected to come up in such a casual conversation.
"You don't believe," asked the woman in black, "any of this....simply because you have not heard it before? Because it has not been brought up in conversation by those whom you believe to take you in and accept you as one, those who continue to elude your expectations and, in turn, never truly blend with you and that which you call a 'friendship'?"
Victoria stared blankly at the lady and the man next to her. She was unable to clearly understand any of this, and, though it seemed as if the woman was implying that Victoria's friends were lying to her about something, she wasn't quite clear on the complete idea within the woman's words, and looked hopefully at the boy for assistance, but, alas, his face clearly told her that he failed to understand even the slightest bit, and was no more of a help to Victoria as a Phil Collins CD fits into a Malice Mizer concert. Victoria tried to make words come out of her mouth in protest, but, unfortunately, Victoria was the type of person to always think things out before she actually did something, and there were no complete ideas that were being formulated. In fact, Victoria was so confused by the woman in black, barely any thoughts beyond "I could really use a cookie right now" were being contrived in her honor-student brain. The woman in black smiled, nodded her head, and took one of the glasses of alcohol that the boy beside her was carrying.
"Even though you have a wish, your thoughts are so burdened by the safety that you feel from your everyday routine that you can't tell what your wish even is. It is sad, disappointing, and even somewhat of a pathetic action, but it is an action that you yourself are totally comfortable with. This, in itself, is fine....for the moment....but there will be times in the near future that you need to prove yourself to those that wish nothing for you. Those who believe that you will be nothing, have nothing, receive nothing, give nothing, or even wish for that which is 'normally' desired."
Victoria was able to understand the woman's words this time, but, she took the words in as another poke at her character, and immediately rose to her feet. She told the woman in a very stern voice that it was not her right to deny Victoria's wishes and dreams just because they are something simple and mundane, and that the woman should cut back on alcohol before she lashes out and starts insulting people. "Besides," Victoria said, "this is almost the exact opposite of what you were saying earlier. Earlier, you were saying that..."
The woman in black cut her off. "Earlier, I was stating the obvious. You are not originally from this world. You are from a place that is neither similar, nor even remotely the same, as to this one. It is written all over you. And the ear-ring that you allowed me to examine after your arrival. Your wish...it's roots lie deep within the world from where you originally came from. However, you have spent these many years within another world, and the memories have slowly, but surely, been repressed by the surroundings of your daily life and the routine that makes you feel so safe."
Of course, such a thing pushed Victoria almost to the point of laughter. However, Victoria was able to tell that the woman in black was absolutely serious, and that fact was scaring Victoria more than anything else at the moment. The woman, who was simply smiling at Victoria and drinking, might or might not have known what Victoria was thinking, but all the same, she told Victoria to take her time. Which was probably a bad idea, because this made Victoria feel further insulted, as if the woman expected her own intellect to be greater than Victoria's. So, Victoria once again asked how anyone was expected to believe such lies, and the woman repeated her same cryptic speeches for the second time. As the woman finished telling Victoria that she was from another world, the poor Sei-Hei girl was ready to burst.
Victoria slumped back into her chair and stared at the woman in black. Her mind was screaming, "This woman is ******** crazy," but something inside Victoria was faintly, but very distinctly calling out to her, "She speaks the truth! You must remember!" Inside herself, Victoria asked this voice why she should trust such an odd woman who keeps a black toy on her head and an even weirder boy like Kimihiro Watanuki as hired help. It was well-known in the school that, despite his very casually appearing looks, Kimihiro Watanuki and Shizuka Doumeki were very far from normal. Doumeki was much more sensible than Watanuki, but that was mainly due to the fact that Watanuki talked to himself and tried to fight back imaginative enemies when he thought no one was looking, and Doumeki didn't. The voice simply said to her, "Because she is the witch of wishes! She listens ONLY to the heart!" After the voice died away, Victoria suddenly realized that she didn't even know who she was speaking to, so she rose her own glass of tea, and asked the woman in black for her name. She simply replied, "Yuuko Ichihara".
Victoria's mind was still in shambles and she was feeling a tad dizzy from all this nonsense, so she asked Yuuko if she may leave. Yuuko looked at Victoria with near-piercing eyes, but smiled the entire time. She nodded, closed her eyes, and asked two young girls named Maru and Moro to escort Victoria out of the house. When Victoria had exited the house, and was heading for the front gate, Yuuko whispered a few words to the greatly confused Watanuki, setting her empty glass on the table for the first time all through the talk. "Watanuki," she said plainly, but quickly, "I think we are going to need the sage named Saigejo for this case. It looks like it won't just be you and Doumeki this time." Watanuki looked confusedly at Yuuko another time, then cleared his head and took Yuuko's empty glass.
"Where is that lazy b*****d, anyway?!" he asked cockily.
"Who," said Yuuko, "Doumeki-kun?" At this time, Victoria had just taken her second step beyond the strange fence around the house, and stopped dead in her tracks.
"He's helping the customer."
Victoria let out a scream and dropped her school bag as she beheld the most grotesque, giant, and foul-smelling of beasts drooling a thick, black liquid of obvious high viscosity onto the street in front of her. It leaned in, sniffed at Victoria a few times, and let out a roar of hunger. The face of the creature, cut up and bloodied, with arrows sticking out of one of it's eyes, came closer to Victoria's face, so close that the stench from it brought her to her knees, and she tried hard to cover up her mouth and nose, and to try to dry her eyes, which were beginning to water. The beast was so large and it's face so close to her own that Victoria was unable to see the rest of the body, but she was ready to bet hard money on the fact that it was probably just as big as her imagination could contemplate, and smelled just as awful as the beast's breath. She was ready to pass out when, suddenly, and arrow of light went clear through the beast's face and hit a nearby street sign. The face dissolved before Victoria, and, as it did so, she could see Shizuka Doumeki, in his Archery Club outfit, his bow in his hands, standing next to another boy from their school, one who was still wearing his school uniform. It was odd, though, because Victoria had never remembered seeing a boy with blue hair before at school. And definitely no boy as hot as this one. But, of course, it was barely anything compared to the fear that she just experienced, and after Doumeki offered his hand to help her up, she promptly passed out, and the boy in blue had to bring her into the strange house of fairy-tales once again.
"Ah, Percifa-san," said Yuuko as the blue-haired boy walked into the reception room, still carrying the girl in his arms, "I see you're still the lady killer."
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