Raven White as Snow

Tale of a Cheshire Cat

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:26:38 GMT

Title: Tale of Cheshire Cat
Type: Poem
A/N: I have no idea what this is, it somehow spun off of Jungian musings. Freaking disturbing really. Raw format, edited only for mistypings so grammatical/punctuation errors are left on purpose. Very stream-of-consciousness.
Music to put you in the mood: Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of a War Drum by A Perfect Circle
Beware of insanity but...

Come my pretty little precious
come join and join my play
Here and there and never there
as I lead you, then lead you astray
Run in fear but never fear
We are all mad here
Mary mary quite contrary
But not as contrary as I
Now I am here but disappear
with the wink of a Cheshire cat's eye
Oh pretty pretty little thing
oh how I love you so
Pretty as a bauble ring
Or a little doll's eye
Cheshire here Cheshire there
cheshire cat no-where
spinning spinning in the air
cheshire here Cheshire there
Cheshire cat was never there
Alice alice my little doll
I'll pick you up if you shall fall
Little pieces on the Ground
Alice Pieces all Around
Oh little doll
if you should break
safe into my arms I'll take
Little alice in the ground little alice all around
All the kings horses and all the king's Men couldn't put alice Together Again
whenwhenwhenwhen will alice be put together again
whenwhenwhenwhenwhenwhenwhen
little Alice together again?
Find the Pieces pick them up Put them in a little cup
Pour some tea and then we'll see
Little Alice Together Again!
Little Alice Little Doll
Watch her shatter Watch her fall
Down and down off the wall
again and again and again and again
Wasn't that fun let's play a game a silly little guessing game
With that little girl what's her name?
Oh my little Alice
My precious little Alice
Here
and there
But never there
Never HERE at all
Or am I?

...I'm going insane aren't I?

Psychoanalysis: Like I said, this is spun out-of-control musings on Jungian Philosophy. I also blame Pandora Hearts. And the up-coming-not-coming-fast-enough MF Tim Burton omgwtfbbqheartheartheart Alice movie. And a lack of Halloween. I always hold off on Halloweening until the last minute and then wind up celebrating the Halloween spirit the rest of the year in some sort of defense mechanism battle/warped fusion with the xmas season worthy of a Burton*heartheartheart* xmas special(or should I say THE Tim Burton Xmas Special better known as 'Nightmare Before Xmas')
Oh, and I also blame the Invader Zim xmas special. It came to mind today so yes, it is probably the main blame-source for all this. Sorry.
And a big round of blame goes to the inherent insanity within all creative types. Edgar Allen Poe, Vinnie Van Gogh, Blurry-eyed Monet, Picasso, Keats. Stephen King says it normal (in Tommyknockers)... So... make up your mind there.
Do the same for this poem.

Ayakashi Ch. 4: Gikongan

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:05:36 GMT

Title: Ayakashi Chapter 4: Gikongan
Rating: PG13

'Another beautiful morning walking to school. Past the wierdo's shop again... Maybe I should start using a different route...'
“Ohayo Gozaimasu, Fenton-san!!” [1]
Danny glances towards the shop as the greeting of the said 'wierdo' fills the air. And notices Kuchiki Rukia, his shinigami classmate, at the shop with him, stopping him in his tracks.
'Crap, the shinigami-girl's there with him.' Danny notices a mischevious glint in the shopkeeper's visible eye. 'Don't you dare you bastard!!'
“Have you met, Kuchiki-san... A Shinigami like you are??”
'Damnit!!!' Urahara appears to be immune to the deathglare now directed at him as Rukia reacts to the information.
“Uso!! He's a shinigami?!” [2]
“Yes indeed. Saw it with mine own eyes.”
“How the heck?! I knew he had high spiritual energy but-”
Danny finally decides it's best just to make a run for it. Glancing down at his watch, he feigns surprise and cries out, “Aah!! Look at the time!! If I don't run I'll be late for school!! Ja ne!!” [3] and dashes for dear life.
“Get back here, you!!” Danny is already far down the street. “...He runs fast,” she comments in awe.
“Well, I am sure Kuchiki-san will catch up with him later. Now what was it you wished to purchase?”

Danny has three periods safe from Rukia but full of nervous dread of her eventual appearance.
'Damn that shopkeeper...'
Ichigo and his friends are in the back of the class[4], gathering around the large boy, Chad, and his cockatiel, now missing the ghost inhabiting it. As Keigo tries and fails to get the bird to say idiotic phrases about him looking like Ewan McGregor, the dreaded arrival appears.
“Good morning everyone!!” she greets in a (fake) cheerful voice. Danny decides to attempt to hide behind a textbook.
After greetings are exchanged back, Rukia asks Ichigo for a word.
'Oh crap, she's gonna tell him now...'
Ichigo refuses... and receives a punch to the gut.
“Are you all right, Kurosaki-kun?! Oh no! I'll have to take you to the nurse's office!” she exclaims as she drags him by the head towards the door. Glancing over his textbook at the scene, he meets Rukia's smiling deathglare as she addresses him, “Come and help, Fenton-kun!”
'Goddamnit.'

“So... You're a Shinigami,” Rukia confronts him in the school courtyard with a now-conscious Ichigo.
“Whaat?!” cries Ichigo, pointing. “He's a Shinigami?!”
Danny stays silent, crouching against a railing as Rukia continues in her interrogation, “Is Urahara right in thinking you're like Ichigo here?”
'Her real attitude is really different from that fake one...' thinks Danny to himself.
“Really?? Like me?? No way!!”
“Eh? What do you mean by that, Kuchiki-san?” Danny questions, buying time. 'Should go with that answer? What if she asks for details?'
“I mean, did a Shinigami give you their powers in an emergency situation like I had to with Ichigo? Or are you a real Shinigami? You'd better answer.”
“Anou... Hai, aah... Yes, my powers were given.”[5] Danny rubs the back of his head nervously. 'Well, that is pretty much the truth, they were given to me... Just not by a Shinigami... Hmm... An emergency...?'
Danny's train of thought is interrupted by more questions from Rukia, “Really? Where are they now? What was the situation?”
'Damnit. Wait a sec... the best way to stop this now is to... But do I really want to?... No choice. If she digs any deeper I might get in trouble...'
“The situation was...” Danny raises his head, looking Rukia straight in the eye and bracing himself internally before he continues, “Both of my parents were eaten by hollows and my sister was about to be eaten next.”
Rukia's eyes widen and Danny looks away, realizing he wasn't quite prepared for what he just did.
Ichigo speaks up from besides him surprisingly quiet, “Your parents... were eaten by hollows?”
Danny's glances over to him and he sees the honest concern marking his face, quelling the spiteful comment that was bubbling to the surface.
“Yes...” he answers quietly, gripping his knees closer, half-mindedly playing with the goggles around his neck. 'And there was blood everywhere, the air was thick with the smell of it, and I could barely tell my parents remains, they were ripped to shreds, only tatters left and fragments of bone left by the feeding frenzy and-'
Danny's dark train of thought is interrupted by Rukia's voice, “Wait... Hollows, as in plural?? What were so many hollows doing there?” Danny snaps.
“Because I turned it on!!” he yells aloud before he can stop himself, clutching his head in his hands.
“Eh??”
Danny doesn't have the presence of mind to notice who spoke aloud at that moment, too busy quelling the tremors trying to wreak his body while at the same time attempting to think his way out of the mess he threw himself into. 'DamnitDamnitDamnit, why'd I say that damnit??'
Eventually he manages to calm himself down enough, and grips his knees tightly and takes a deep breath before beginning, “My parents were scientists that were very interested in ghosts and spirits. One day... they made a machine that they hoped would create spiritual energy for study. However, when they completed it, it refused to work. They were devastated, it was their life's work. So... after they went to bed... I went down into the workroom and I... I mangaged to fix it. And then I... I... Then I...”
'Turned the portal on and brought forth my parent's demise with my own hands.... All my fault...'
Danny sinks so deeply in these dark thoughts that he barely registers Rukia showing Ichigo something she bought for him at Urahara Shouten. Until she starts beating him up.
“So what if I like bunnies?!” Rukia yells, stomping Ichigo on the head.
“...I just didn't understand your explanation...”
“Try it! You'll understand the situation if you try one!”
Ichigo follows her advice and takes a pill from the... duck-headed pez-dispenser-type... thing.
'Is that “Soul Candy” written on the side?'
Ichigo swallows the pill and a moment later, his soul bursts out of his body.
“I really did come out!!” he exclaims, his body now draped over the railing beside him.
“Surprised? Fu fu fu...” chuckles Rukia. “Also, nobody will notice you left, since the temporary soul has already entered your cast-off shell!”
“Ooh!”
Seeming to take this as a cue, Ichigo's body begins to stand up... And it salutes and exclaims in a cheerful voice, “Nice to meet you! My name is Kurosaki Ichigo! 'Early to bed, Early to rise,' that's my motto!”
'That's the scariest thing I've ever seen,' thinks Danny to himself as the body laughs cheerily and Ichigo freaks out. His rant to Rukia is interrupted, though, when her cellphone beeps.
“Hm?” She removes it from her pocket to read the screen. “It's an order. Perfect! Let's leave it to him and get over to the scene.”
“Are... Are you stupid??”
“Don't worry! I'm sure Fenton-kun can help out! Can't you, Fenton-kun?”
“Oh yeah... Oi, Fenton, will you be okay?” Ichigo asks concernedly.
Danny smiles reassuringly (if not a little sadly) before he answers, “I'll be fine.”
“See? He'll be fine!” Rukia grabs Ichigo by his uniform and starts dragging him off. “Stop complaining and let's go!”
“Hey, 'me'! Better not cause a scene!” Ichigo calls back while being dragged away.
“Leave it to me, Master!” the fake soul exclaims cheerily as he waves and laughs.
Danny sighs and stands up, dusting himself off. “Hey, you.”
“Yes, Master?” the fake Ichigo replies cheerfully.
Danny twitches and continues, “Classroom 1-3 is our class. Do you think you can find it okay?”
“Are you going somewhere, Master?”
“Haa, somewhere. Tell them you have no idea where I am.”
“Yes, Master!”
“...And you should try and tone down that cheeriness. Ichigo is not very... genkigenki[6] like that.”
“Yes, Master, I'll try!”
“...Whatever... See you.”
“Goodbye, Master!”
“And tone down that cheerfullness!” Danny half-shouts. 'Creepy...'
“I'll be right here practicing, Master!”
Danny is far out of sight when all cheerfullness drops from the fake Ichigo's mood.
“Take your time...” he says, somewhat darkly.

Meanwhile at Urahara's...
“What shall we do, manager?”
“We have no choice.” Urahara replies to his employee, Tessai, “We've got to find it and stop it before it causes any trouble. Who knows what it will do... having gained a human body.”
[Dundundundun!!!!!!!]

Later...
Danny manages to avoid getting caught up in the happenings of the day until the late afternoon, spending his day in shinigami form, atop a large building. He sits there, playing with the goggles around his neck, Genzou laid besides him, as he stares into space, lost in thought.
His reverie is broken by the voice of a certain meddlesome shopkeeper.
“Ah, there you are, Fenton-san!!”
“Go to Hell,” Danny replies coldly, glancing back to deliver a deathglare with one cold blue eye, pausing Urahara for a moment.
A moment later his grin is back on his face as if nothing happened and he continues, “Maa, maa, Fenton-san. [7] I just need a small bit of your time...”
'Fat chance.'
“You see... Kurosaki-san and Kuchiki-san had a bit of trouble with the Gikongan I sold them... So now I need your help tracking down Kurosaki's classmates to erase their memories.”
“...What?” Danny blinks in surprise. “What happened?”
“Ahh... Well...” the man scratches his chin somewhat nervously and continues, “We accidentally sold Kuchiki-san a defective product. If you want the details, you should probably ask those two, by the time we arrived, the situation was under control. So I agreed to erase the memories of the witnesses... However, school had ended by the time I arrived.”
“So you need my help finding our classmates...”
“Bingo! Help in that form if you wish to avoid contact with them, all I need is for you to point them out.”
Danny glares at the idiotically grinning face, before sighing and raising to his feet. “Fine... You have my help.”

Several memory modifications later, Danny has the general idea of the events that occurred from overheard conversations, while Urahara stays sketchy on what it was about the artificial soul that made it defective.
Soon after Danny left him alone, the soul leapt up to the window of their classroom on the third floor, where all the class's girls and several boy students were eating lunch and caused a scene.
'Wasn't that exactly what Ichigo told it not to do?' Danny thinks dryly.
It seems that he kissed Inoue Orihime, considered the hottest girl in class by most of the boys... and Arisawa Tatsuki, the class's resident tomboy and martial arts queen, who proceeded to wreck the classroom in response. The fake Ichigo then fled at the appearance of Rukia (and probably Ichigo too) straight out the window again. Tatsuki got in trouble for the mess, until the girls stuck up for her and said a stranger broke into the classroom and Tatsuki was trying to protect everyone.
“That's good,” declared Urahara. “It means there's a good base for the new memory to form around.”
They eventually track everyone down and finish the job. Urahara thanks Danny for his help and once again asks him if he would work for him, which Danny once again declines.
Danny is so exhausted by the job that he doesn't think before he turns back to his human form, much to the surprise of the older man.
“Ahhh... This is not normal... Riight...” Danny stands there sweating under Urahara's stare until, “Ja ne!!” he dashes off full blast away from the shopkeeper.
“He does that far too often...” Urahara comments to himself. “I'm starting to get annoyed.”

The next day, Danny finally takes an alternate route to school that doesn't take him past Urahara's shop. He knows he can't avoid him forever but he really can't stand to see the man at the moment, both nervous about what he revealed to him in his exhaustion and angry at him for the revelation to Rukia.
The classroom that morning is still abuzz with talk about the stranger that invaded the school and was driven off by Tatsuki. Then Ochi-sensei entered and the talk reluctantly ceased as class began, with Danny lamenting being even further behind than before.

“Oi! American Boy!,” greets Keigo at lunch, still refusing to give up on the nickname he's given Danny[8]. “Where were you yesterday?”
'Oh crap...'
“Its a love triangle with you and Ichigo vying for Rukia's attention isn't it?” he continues.
'Then again, Keigo's an idiot...'
“I told you that's not it!!” yells a flustered Ichigo in reply.
“That is not it,” agrees Danny.
“Ooh, it's a threesome then.”
This comment earns Keigo a simultaneous kick from both Ichigo and Danny.
“That's not it either!!” they yell together.
“Then what is it?” asks Mizuiro. “All you've told us is what it's not, but not what happened.”
“Err... Well...” stalls Ichigo as he and Danny frantically think of an explanation. Danny is the first to come up with one.
“A bunny.”
“Eh??”
“Kuchiki-san saw a bunny plushie at an arcade and wanted it so badly, she had us get it for her.”
“And it took all day?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, you really love bunnies, Kuchiki-san.”
“Hee, hee. Yes, I do.”

[Graaaagh!!! I give up, I tried and tried to write this but it's not happening so here's a summariness of it:
After school Ichigo, Danny, and Rukia go to get the 'Bunny Plushie Worthy of Battle' to cover their cover story. Danny pays for it. Ichi offers to pitch in, Danny says it's ok, mentions account from godfather, plenty of money. (good plushies are damn expensive btw, there was an uber-wonderbar super-sugoi giant Totoro plushie at Otakon for 500 bucks, I so wanted but I couldn't, so I hugged it goodbye, holding back tears so I didn't ruin it... *weep* dammit now I'm depressed again... Fare Thee Well Totokun, I love you verily, forever and ever and ever and ever!!!!!!!!! T__T )
Anywho, Usa-tan is bought, Ruki is escastic and forever in Danny's debt, lol, and Ichi, concerned over making Danny skip school and getting further behind in classes and hearing Jazz isn't home cuz of school, invites him to his house for dinner so they can study things. (huhuhu yess, things... wink wink nudge nudge *is 'purified' by Danny and Ichigo* DX ) Soo, here we are...]

“Tadaima!”[9]
“Ojamashimasu”[10]
“Hey Yuzu, this is Danny. Alright if he stays over for dinner? I'm gonna be helping him study tonight.”
“Oh, okay, Ichi-nii. Konban wa, Danny-san, we're having oyakodon[11] tonight, is that alright?”
“Ah, yes, that is fine, Yuzu-san.”
“We're gonna get started studying then, c'mon Danny.”
Danny is led upstairs to Ichigo's room, marked with a plaque bearing the number '15' [12] and the two study together for a while until they are called down to dinner by Yuzu where Kurosaki Isshin, their father, proceeds to be his usual crazy self.
“Oh, Masaki! Your children no longer respect their dear father!,” he laments to a giant framed poster of his late wife, sporting a bruise from his fight with Ichigo.
“Nobody would respect a father like you,” mutters Karin.

“Sorry about my dad, he's a bit of an idiot.”
“It's alright... My dad was pretty crazy too. Not in the same way but still... it means I am pretty much used to things like that...”
Suddenly there is the sound of a door sliding and a voice speaking up.
“Gomenasai gozaimasu!” apologizes Rukia in a seated bow... inside Ichigo's closet. “I have behaved rudely and insensitively earlier and I must apologize for this.”
“...” Danny is shocked into silence by her sudden and unusual appearance and apology but then recovers. “Ah... It is quite alright Kuchiki-san... You did not know...”
“You apologize too, Ichigo.”
“Eh?? What for? You're the one who did everything. Anyway, I'm helping him study for the classtime missed because of all this.”
“Anou... I hate to interrupt but...” Danny turns to Ichigo “What is Kuchiki-san doing in Ichigo's closet?”
“I dunno, she's the one that decided it without asking.”
“Where else would I stay? Also, this way I can inform Ichigo when we have orders.” she replies, holding up her cellphone.
“Ah... I see...”
“You know...” Ichigo begins, holding up the pill holding Kon within it. “We should really figure out a way to get at this guy for causing us so much trouble...”
“Like find him a body? Sounds creepy.”
“Well, not a human body... (like we could find one anyway) maybe a dog or cat hit by a car or something...”
“...That's still really creepy...”

[1] Ohayo gozaimasu: (note: the 'u' is silent) 'Good Morning', polite form
[2] Uso: 'no way!', 'you lie!'; lit means 'lie/untruth'
[3] Ja ne: 'see ya!', there are so many versions of the phrase that means this that I decided to put it in japanese to show which one.
[4]You won't believe the trouble I had with this one little segment. I think they're in another classroom after gym, waiting for lunch to start. But for a while I though they were in a different class for lunch. But they usually eat on the roof and the weather isn't bad... But maybe they did go in there for lunch 'cuz of Chad's 'parakeet'
[5] Anou: 'Well...' or 'Umm...', it's a word used as a pause in this case
[6]genkigenki: happy-dappy, super-cheerful, genki means cheerful or full of energy
[7] Maa, maa: 'Now, now', a phrase used to placate someone
[8]AmeBoi/AmeBouya btw XD
[9]Tadaima: 'I'm home”, 'I'm back'
[10]Ojamashimasu: 'Excuse me for disturbing you', greeting said upon entering someone's home
[11]Oyakodon: kinda a japanese version of chicken and rice soup. I kinda felt sorry for Yuzu-chan having Danny come over kind of at the last minute so I gave her something quick and easy, haha. ^_^;
[12]A pun on Ichi's name 1 and 5 are ichi and go. There is another number pun on his sisters calling him 'Ichi-nii' because it sounds like they're counting 'one, two...'

Poor Danny, I depressed him and got him annoyed by Urahara, and made him miss all the fun of the 'incident' as it will forever be called by Ichigo (because he can't say the word 'kiss' without freaking out, haha) At least he got to catch up to his schoolwork.
And a note: Urahara talks really polite to Rukia if you've noticed. This is because the Kuchiki family is high nobility in Soul Society.

Aah, I just noticed I did two days together, I think I really didn't feel like separating them I guess... consider it an apology for taking so long. (though the only one I think I'm apologizing to is Lava... >_< )

Yaay, now we're over this manga-centric segment and since there's a timeskip now I can now put in some DP-centric things. Like a villain. Guess who. X3
Okies gonna update my timeline first. I've reached the end of what I have written.

Sorry if the end of this chap seems kinda forced or anything, there's a big timegap between when I stopped and then came back to it so I kinda lost my flow.

Dream Diary

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:59:21 GMT

Hee, fun dream last night.
Dreamed that the captains from bleach were in my front yard for some reason (my most fun dreams take place this way, hee) planning a dangerous and life threatening mission. Ukitake said so himself. To which I, a shinigami myself in the dream (I was shunpei-ing and junk wheeeeee!!!!!), replied "Hee! What fun!" clapping my hands in front of me in that excited way. Kenpachi then took a liking to me and I was adopted by him and lifted onto his back (wheeee!!!) where I got to ride with Yachiru who adopted me too as my tiny big sister (cuz despite how she looks she's like prob'ly a hundred at least) I never got to know what the mission was really... my alarm went off beforehand. >_<
But I rode this subway train, made friends with these goths and one said she'd put her cell in my phone as a kind of safety thing for this place we were all heading cuz it was supposedly dangerous with random monster attacks or something. And I was trying to get to this place called Edenton and every time I said I was people started laughing and it turned out that was the place noone went cuz it was too dangerous and it was on the surface or something and nobody went there anymore. I remember being really annoyed cuz nobody was telling me this and just laughing at me. So they had this whole underground that looked a lot like my old dorms where people were staying and junk and never went to the surface anymore there. Really wish I had been able to sleep more, it was really getting interesting.... *sigh*
Oh well, Ken-chan and Yatchan adopting me was fun XD *happy dance*

DP/Bleach Crossover Fic: Ayakashi Ch. 3

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:52:38 GMT

Title: Ayakashi Chapter 3: Mimei
(early dawn; grey of morning)
Rating: PG13
Other chapters: [1] [2]

Early morning in Karakura Town, several months later...

"Gyaaah! Get off me Cujo!!" Daniel Fenton struggles under the weight of the giant tail-wagging beast. Finally, after finishing his morning greeting, Cujo reverts to his maller size and jumps off, leaving Danny covered in drool.
"Looks like you need a shower, little brother," Jazz giggles as she surveys the scene.
"Bleh, no kidding."
"I'll put your change of clothes in there right now. Don't take too long, remember, you have to take your entrance exam today."
"Thanks, Jazz."
One shower and a change of clothes (and a breakfast) later, Danny is free of drool and walking down the streets of Karakura with his sister.
"Geez... I wish I had my car so we wouldn't have to walk all
this way."
"And I could just sleep on the way." Danny sticks out his tongue at his sister's glare. "I'll have to walk this way every day anyway, though. You're going to the university so you won't be able to take me even when your car is shipped over. Man that'll be a pain..."
"And it's frowned upon to be driven to school every day anyway. I think this is actually considered pretty close. It isn't unusual for a high school student to transit up to two hours to school every morning," Jazz orates.
"Yikes. Now I feel better."
As the two pass by a small shop, the two children sweeping the front pause in their duty (or at least the girl was actually sweeping while the boy was pretending to play baseball with the broomstick).
"Well that's something you don't see every day," comments the red-haired boy to his black double-ponytailed companion as the siblings walk by, a floating puppy trailing behind them.

Exhausted from the testing, which he passes, Danny splits ways with Jazz as she goes to the market for dinner supplies. Danny returns home the same way they took that morning, once again passing the little store.
This time, a man exits the store as he passes. He is wearing a dark green gi with a black haori coat, a green and white striped hat over his messy blonde hair, and carrying a cane and fan. There was something else besides his strangeness that put him off-guard, he
just couldn't place it...
"My, my. It really is true, a little puppy floating in midair!" exclaims the man, waving his fan over his grinning face, half-hidden by the shade from his hat. "Is he yours?"
Danny was planning to walk right past this obvious weirdo until he utters these words, stopping him in his tracks. He glances at Cujo, walking in midair behind him and looks back at the grinning maniac before him.
"Ahh, ye-Hai, he is mine."
"Aah, how interesting. It has been a long time since I've seen an inugami and his inugami-mochi." [1]
"Eh?" Danny questions, but the man continues.
"...But I have never seen an inugami-mochi that is also a shinigami," the man finishes, tilting his hat up so one grey eye glances from the shadows. Danny stiffens in surprise, causing Cujo to pause in his play.
"Who are you? How do you know that?" he asks warily as Cujo hovers by his master, sensing his tenseness.
"How? I saw your reiraku.[2]" Suddenly, Danny is surrounded by white ribbons coming out of the ground, waving in an invisible breeze. A red ribbon appears before him and the man grabs it. "See? Red for Shinigami." He has to jump back as Cujo leaps between him and Danny in his giant form, taking the man's move as a threat against his master.
"Cujo, heel!" Danny commands. Cujo backs off to sit back at his master's side, still in his large form. Danny reaches up to scratch behind his ear to calm him. 'Probably shouldn't attack this guy right now, he hasn't shown himself to be a threat... yet.'
"He is very protective,"comments the man from his safe distance, still waving his fan over his face, not seeming very unnerved to have just been attacked by the (now) large dog.
"Hai."
"Well then... I suppose now is a good time to answer who I am, since you seem so very suspicious of myself." The man closes his fan and uses his cane to lift the brim of his hat to show his face. "My name is Urahara Kisuke[3], proprietor of this humble shop." Urahara points his fan at the store's name above the door (which Danny can barely read) in a grandiose manner. "The wares of which include: delicious candies (Try our famous "Space Candy"!), various household goods, and also..." Urahara covers his face with the fan. "Shinigami supplies."
Danny blinks at this revelation. 'Well, that explains a lot of things...'
"I see..." he states aloud.
"Would you like to come inside to browse our humble wares," the shopkeeper asks hopefully. "Mister...?"[4]
"Fenton Danny. Not at the moment, sorry. I need to get home." Danny rubs the back of his neck. "My sister will probably ruin dinner if I am not there."
"Ah! Is your sister a shinigami as well?"
"Hm? No, she isn't a shinigami-" Danny pauses as he realizes what he just revealed. He knows his situation isn't normal; shinigami don't come from normal, living humans and normal souls aren't allowed in the mortal realm.
Urahara speaks up, the fan still covering his grin, but his eyes peering at him calculatingly. "I was right, it seems... You aren't a typical shinigami, are you?"
"Uh... Aah! I gotta run! My sister is probably burning dinner right now! Goodbye!" Danny dashes off down the street, Cujo bounding behind him. ["Ooh a game! How fun!" I'm sure he's thinking.]
"How very interesting," comments the shopkeeper, watching them run away into the distance.

"Are you okay Danny? You seem a little distracted," asks Jazz during dinner.
"Just nervous about school tomorrow."
'Among a few other things...' thinks Danny to himself. 'That guy probably is a shopkeeper, but he definitely isn't telling the whole story. Albrecht[5] told me himself that only 'Knights of high stature' can see Soul Ribbons. And I feel a lot of spiritual energy around him. He's hiding something... I just hope it won't turn out to be anything bad...'

"'Night, Jazz. I'm going to bed."
"Goodnight, Danny. Remember to set your alarm."
"Yeah, I will."
Danny is getting into his pjs when an ominous feeling fills him.
'Damnit! It's a hollow!' he curses silently as he hastily stuffs objects under his blanket to make a human-shaped lump. 'It's not close, luckily...'
Turning out the lights, he then shifts to his shinigami form and phases through the wall in the direction he senses the presence, Cujo following closely. Dashing over rooftops, he reaches the source... just as it disappears.
'Crap, it vanished. Did it leave or did... Wait, I sense a shinigami, guess that answers it.'
Danny leaps to the street and hides behind a corner wall just as a orange-haired boy in shinigami garb carrying a smaller girl in pajamas dash out of a giant hole in the side of a building and off opposite the way Danny just came.
"Well, I guess that was a waste of time..." Danny sighs.
"C'mon Cujo. Let's get back home."
As Danny runs back the way he came, he never notices a certain shopkeeper watching him from a distance.

The next morning, Danny is walking to Karakura High for his first day of school and passes by the small shop. And is immediately assailed by the voice of it's (insane) owner.
"Ohayo gozaimasu, Fenton-san!!"[6]
'Joy.' thinks Danny dryly as the man walks out of his store towards him, hiding his grinning behind his fan.
"Ahh, where is your doggie, Fenton-san?"[7] asks Urahara, looking around.
"With my sister," Danny answers honestly.
"Can she see him?"
"Yes."
"Good, good. A person with enough spiritual pressure to see ghosts is a favourite target for hollows."
"I know," replies Danny and then looks the man straight in the eye as he continues. "And I also know about about those ribbons, even if I cannot see them myself... Because only someone of a high level is able to."
Urahara doesn't bat an eyelash at Danny's revelation, in fact, his grin only grows wider and he waves his fan over it.
"My, my... You are knowledgeable, Fenton-san..."
The man pauses and so does the fan. "Since we seem to be exchanging knowledge, I will inform you of something I know about you, Fenton-san..." Danny stiffens as the man continues.
"I myself know that a normal shinigami has no living relations, which I am sure you are aware of due to your fleeing the previous day. Nor does he attend the local high school... But no need to worry about what I know, I won't tell a soul!!" Danny
sweatdrops at the sudden cheeriness of the last sentence.
Urahara then continues more seriously, the grin vanished though the fan remains, "There is something you should be aware of, Fenton-san... There is another abnormal shinobi besides yourself. The orange-haired boy you saw last night, in fact." Danny
glares at this revelation.
"Are you stalking me?" he asks, unnerved.
"Not at all, Fenton-san!" Urahara waves his fan in a placating gesture. "I was merely curious as to what had you running around so late in shinigami garb!"
"So you were stalking me."
"Maa maa...[8] let's not bicker over details, there is something important you should know." the fan returns to the face. "His name is Kurosaki Ichigo and the young woman with him is Kuchiki Rukia, both are shinigami and both are attending your school."
"What?? How??" Danny panics at this news, as Urahara continues.
"Not to worry, Fenton-san. Kuchiki-san is a true shinigami who gave all her abilities to Kurosaki so she is the one to look out for. Keep your head low around her. And Kurosaki has the spiritual sense of a rock. So no worries about him!"[9] he declares cheerfully.
Danny absorbs this information, 'I'll have to be careful around them then... I don't want this to leak out further...' Danny sighs and bows politely to Urahara, surprising the man.
"Thank you for the information."
"It was nothing," Urahara replies.

"It's true!! A Yakuza sumo-wrestler with a bazooka came to my house and blasted a hole in the wall!!" declares a red-haired girl to her friends.
'...So she's the one that was attacked yesterday... What a strange mind...'[10]
The girls declare that there's no way that her story can be true and she's being silly, as usual and the girl's name is revealed to be Orihime.
The homeroom teacher, Ochi Misato, comes in and everyone settles down. She calls roll and then asks Danny to come to the front to introduce himself.
"Pleased to meet you." Danny bows to the class.
"My name is Fenton Daniel. My older sister and I have just moved here from America."

"Hey, American boy! Do you have any plans for lunch?" greets a boy with brown meduim-length hair.
"Ahh, no..." replies Danny. '...American boy??'
"Then come have lunch with me and my friends! Come on, I'll show you where to buy lunch!" the boy then drags Danny off.
Danny and the boy, Asano Keigo he eventually learns, reach the roof where he and his friends are having their lunch.[11]

"Hey guys, mind if we join you? I brought the American boy with me."
"Hey, Keigo. Hey umm... American boy?" Ichigo asks questionly at Danny's new nickname.
"Haha. Fenton Danny," he answers.
"Eh? Chad's not here?" Keigo asks, looking around for the apparently absent friend.
"Nope," answers Ichigo.
"Oh yeah... I haven't seen him," says the other, a baby-faced black-haired boy.
"That's weird. Where'd he go?"
"Hello, Fenton-san!" greets the black-haired boy.
"You can call me Danny if you want."
"Okay, Danny then. I'm Kojima Mizuiro. This guy here is Kurosaki Ichigo and over there is Kuchiki Rukia."
"Whoa!" Keigo (over)reacts dramatically. "If it isn't the beautiful new transfer student Kuchiki-san!! Why are you here?!"
"Ichigo asked her out," answers Mizuiro.
"Idi... No, I..." sputters Ichigo.
"What?! Ichigo??" shouts Keigo and then he pats the mentioned boy on the shoulder and gives him a thumbs up. "Good job!!"
"Ahh... Yeah... So happy you're crying..."
"Hello, umm..." queries Rukia.
"I'm Asano!! Welcome to this place of men!!" he salutes (still crying). "Awesome! We got both of the new kids!! (Though Ichigo's catch is better.) Today's lunch is a party!!"
"With coffee, milk, and bread?" answers Ichigo dryly.
"Shut up!! It's the spirit that counts!"
Suddenly, Keigo is kicked in the back by a hulking bully, looking for a fight with Ichigo, which Ichigo is willing to grant. The guy, whassisname, (Danny isn't really paying attention, having decided to help Rukia with a drink box she seems to be having trouble figuring out, earning her eternal gratitude) pulls out a brass knuckle... and gets knocked into next week by a guy that makes him look like a pipsqueak. He turns out to be the missing Chad and it turns out he was late taking a person to the hospital who hit him with a motorcycle. Chad barely has a scratch from the incident, nor from the previous night where apparently an I-beam fell on him.
'What's this guy made of??'
The giant boy then takes a cage from off his back and sets it down. It contains a cockatiel.[12]
"Hello! My name is Shibata Yuuichi!" chirps the bird. "What are your names?"
"Danny," he answers without thinking.
"Nice to meet you, Mister Danny!" answers the bird back, shocking Danny.
'Ah, crap, he's a ghost,' thinks Danny.
"Wow! He speaks so well! My name is Asano Keigo! Can you say 'Asano'?"
"Chad..." says Ichigo, looking unnerved."Where'd you get the parakeet?"
"...Yesterday..." Chad begins. "...........I got it."
"Hey!! You decided not to tell because you were too lazy, didn't you?" accuses Keigo. "That's a bad habit! Tell us!"
'Hm...' thinks Danny as Keigo bickers. 'It looks like Ichigo and Rukia have noticed at least. Those two will probably take care of it. Saves me the trouble of finding where this guy lives if Ichigo already knows him...'

School finally ends, much to Danny's relief. 'Man it's such a pain learning in a different language... Especially when I don't have the writing down quite yet.[13]'
"Hey, Danny. Want to go do something? Mizuiro and I are going out on the town," Keigo asks Danny as he leaves the classroom.
"Ah, no thank you. My sister and I are still unpacking at home."
"Awww... I wanted to hear an American do kareoke," he pouts on his way out the door.
"Hey, are you okay with Keigo?" Ichigo asks Danny.
"He's not bugging you is he?"
"No problem. I have a friend like him back home."
Danny rubs the back of his head. "So I am used to stupidity like his."
"Hn... Stupidity is definitely the word. See ya."
"See ya."

Danny is nearly home when he is met by Urahara outside of his shop.
"Good afternoon, Fenton-san!"
"...You are stalking me," Danny answers bluntly.
"Maa maa... That's no way to answer someone who helped you earlier today. So, how was your first day at school? Was my information helpful in any way?"
Danny sighs. "Yes, it was. Thank you for warning me about the two, I would not have been as prepared if not for that." he admits.
"You are quite welcome, Fenton-san! Is there anything else I may assist you with? Perhaps you would like to purchase something, a kiokuchikan or a gikongan perhaps?"
"A what?" Danny asks, confused.
"Ah! You don't know? A kiokuchikan is a replaces a human's memories-"
"With what their mind considers the most likely event," continues Danny. "I know that one, though not by that name. I do not know what a gikon...thingy is."
"I see... A gikongan is a replacement soul used by a shinigami to remove a body's soul. It was originally used to remove unwilling souls from their corpses, but it can also be used by a shinigami like yourself to remove oneself from their own body."
'Well that sounds interesting... Though I definitely don't need it.'
"Haa... To tell you the truth Urahara-san, I really do not have the money at the moment to spend on things that are not a necessity."
"Then you could work for me!!" the shopkeeper announces cheerfully.
"No way," Danny bluntly replies.
"How mean! Why ever not?"
Danny decides to be truthful, "Because I do not trust you."
"Is that so?" replies Urahara, grinning behind his fan. "And why is that, may I ask?"
"There is something you are hiding."
Neither the smile nor the fan disappear, but something in his eyes is different as Urahara replies to Danny's statement, "You are very perceptive, Fenton-san... But are you not hiding something as well?"
Danny glares at the grinning man and walks off without another word.

The next day, Danny makes it to school without running into the man.
Sitting at his desk, he reads over his textbook and notes while waiting for class to begin as are many other students. Just as the bell rings, Ichigo bursts through the classroom door, demanding to know if anyone's seen Chad. He runs off when he finds out he isn't there, passing the teacher as she enters.
"All right~! Everyone get seated!! Time for fun, fun Modern Literature! " Ochi-sensei says cheerfully[14], then she realizes Ichigo just dashed past her out the door. "Hey!! Where are you off to, Kurosaki?!?" she calls after him.
"Sorry, got a stomachache!!" he yells out as he dashes away.
"What's with him? Did he eat a poisonous mushroom that makes people run around?"
"Dunno..." replies Keigo. "Seemed like he was looking for Chad..."
Ochi-sensei sighs and scratches her head and then says, "Oh... Okay!"
"It's okay?" questions Keigo.
"He'll show up eventually! Roll call!"
'Damnit, something's going on,' thinks Danny, frustrated. 'But I can't just leave, I'm bad enough in this class already. Damn you Ichigo.'
Danny begins the class on his second worst subject made even worse with a bad mood that lasts the rest of the day. His feeling is compounded by his sensing a hollow while stuck in school and hating not knowing what's going on even while he tells himself he really
shouldn't go or else he'll blow his cover.
Finally, the day ends and Danny is fed up enough that as soon as he's out of sight of anyone, he transforms into his shinigami form and takes off in the direction he senses the hollow energy. Halfway there, it disappears from his senses and Danny heads home, cursing
under his breath.

Meanwhile at Urahara Shouten...
"Hmm... I missed him today..." mutters a certain
shopkeeper. "What shall I do for fun now?"
Urahara Kisuke. Favourite hobby... annoying people. [<3]

[1] Inugami: Literally translates into "dog-god",
it's the spirit of a dog with terrible powers, contolled by its
inugami-mochi, "Dog-god posessor".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inugami
[2] Reiraku: spirit ribbon
[3] Last name first in japanese names
[4] I feel like being a nerd and saying that, unlike how many
manga/anime/whatever are translated, you don't ask for someone's name
this way. But I don't feel like being confusing because the one way
to ask I was thinking of is just leaving a blank where a name should
be or a spoken prompt
[5]Can you guess who Albrecht is? The fact that he's a Knight should
be a clue... Which are the western equivalent of shinigami, btw.
"Ye there! Ye boy of crimson ribbon!!" Imagine him saying
when he first meets Danny. XD
[6] 'Good morning, Mr. Fenton!', polite form of 'good morning'
[7] Wan-wan is the japanese word he's saying here, which is
highly hilarious. XD
The sound of a dog barking, btw. The word used for 'puppy' previously
would probably be 'inu-chan', '-chan' being a
diminutive suffix.
[8]'Now, now...', a phrase used to placate someone
[9]Guessing on this reading the manga. She has the spiritual sense to
sense a hollow herself beforehand and afterwards she seems to always
use her cell-phone detection device from what I've noticed.
[10] Haha, Hime-chan really is very silly. X3
The strange mind comment is about how, with the shinigami memory
modification, the person's mind replaces the real memory with what
they consider the most likely. XD
I mixed two translations for her sentence, the Viz (which kinda
sucks) and an online one. And a little bit of what I remember from
the anime... It's one of my favourite scenes. <3
Besides all the Urahara ones. <3<3 X3
[11] Where you actually aren't allowed in real life, I've heard, but
pretty much every manga artist in existance that writes a school
setting has lunch eaten there. Maybe it's because they all wish they
could have. XD
[12] Also known as a parakeet apparently. XD
He is called this the whole manga, lol. Apparently, Kubo-sensei
doesn't know his budgie from his backside. XP
[13] Kanji is freaking hard DX, it's based on the chinese pictoral
language, japanese kids don't get it down pat until High School so
guess how hard a time Danny's having. Poor Danny.
[14] 'sensei' means teacher. Ochi-sensei is an awesome teacher
btw. She's one of the cool-types. X3

Ah, there we go. <3

I really hate those fics where a person pretty much takes everything
and plops another character into it or replaces the main character
completely and completely rewrites the plot word-for-word. I wrote a
little bit of the manga happenings but I tried to stay away from it
mostly. For those not in the know, (haha sorry Lava) I'll write a
quick summary of events down below.

Did I have to write Urahara's actions word for word? Why yes, yes I
did. Kisuke is awesome dammnit and everything he does is awesome.
Every mannerism done by his sexy self must be written! XP

Wow, can you tell who my ultimate crush of doom is? I rewind the
anime and flip through the manga just to watch that man. XD

(Gonna cosplay as him too once I collect the full outfit, gots his
smexy hat and a cane X3 )

And yes, he is stalking Danny. XD

But in a "ooh! This looks interesting, let's find out more"
way, not a creepy way. Though he probably would love to creep Danny
out. He likes messing with people. *heart*

Danny's testing: My knowledge of this comes from my Fruits Basket
manga, I seriously can't find anything on it anywhere else. I know it
took all day for Kyou because it was commented that he and Shigure
left that morning and don't come back until dinnertime and it turns
out that that's what was going on. So there. XP

Okay, just wanna say that Danny switches straight into his shinigami
form, kinda like he does with his ghost form in the show, unlike
Ichigo who has to leave his body.
aka, His kishi converts straight into reishi and back. (The substance
that makes up the physical world (molecules then?) converts into what
makes up the spiritual world (ectoplasm then? XD ))
An interesting psycholocial change I made in Danny in this story is
he is actually very concerned with learning and knowing things. He
learned the hard way that if you do something without knowing the
consequences, bad things happen.(bloody, horrible mask-faced bad
things o__o )
He also has trust issues. Smart people can probably guess why, but me
not telling you gives me an illusion of superiority and
overlord-ness. Muahahaha!!!! >3

Chapters will start in the morning and end at night. If one day is
not enough to fill enough in my opinion then I will do the next day
and it doesn't matter how long it gets, I will end it at the end of
the day even if it goes past midnight in the story's time.
This may change during a future plotline though, just not for now.

Ummmm.... I can't really think of anthing else to tell you (except
the summary next) so feel free to ask questions if you're confused
over anything.
Ye gods, I'm starting to wonder if LJ has a word limit in posts...
7 pages in my open office program, ye gods not guilty zomg!!!
Toldja I'd make last chapter up to you. In 2-3 days too! That's what
a outline does for ya. ^__~

Ultimate Bleach Summary of DOOM AND DESTRUCTION(to the author's
typing fingers) as Pertaining to the Fic

We meet punkass kid Kurosaki Ichigo and learns he can see ghosts as
he kicks the arses of some skateboarding punks who desecrate a
roadside shrine to a dead girl. The girl's ghost thanks him and he
goes home to the med clinic his family runs. And is roundhoused in
the face by his wacko doctor father because he missed his 7 o'clock
curfew/dinner. They beat each other up for a bit and Ichigo is
haunted by another ghost and we learn that Ichigo and his one twin
little sister Karin can see ghosts, the other twin, Yuzu, and the
dad, Isshin, can't (though Yuzu can see a fuzzy something). Ichigo
finally gets fed up with his dad that he goes upstairs to his room
without eating dinner (oh noes Ichi-kun, you're a growing boy DX )

So he gets to his room and then he notices a black butterfly. Then
appears a shinigami through his wall, Rukia Kuchiki. She thinks he
can't see her so she ignores him completely when he tries to talk to
her, so he kicks her, which shocks the heck out of her. She tells him
she's a shinigami which he doesn't believe and he tells her to go
play shinigami somewhere else (her appearance is that of a kid
because people don't age as quickly in the afterlife). This ticks
Rukia off so she performs a binding spell on him that binds his arms
behind his back and paralyzes him. She sends Ichi's stalking ghost to
the afterlife via konso ('soul burial ceremony', press hiltbase of
sword against the forehead of the ghost, remember?) She then explains
the duties of a shinigami, helping spirits pass over and vanquishing
hollows, with cute drawings of bunnies and bears. (and draws a
mustache on the helpless Ichi-kun when he comments on the crappiness.
'Baron-sama!' XD)

Rukia reveals that she hasn't been able to sense the hollow she's
chasing. Ichigo then asks her what that horrible screaming sound he's
hearing is and a moment later she finally hears it. The hollow
attacks the house and Rukia dashes out Ichi's door to fight it. As
soon as she opens it, she's assailed by the hollow's spirital
pressure and she's wondering what's going on. Karin appears, crawling
down the hallway injured, trying to warn Ichigo and passes out after
telling him about the attack on their dad and them. Ichigo freaks out
and breaks the 'kido'(key-doh) on him which is freaking impossible
for a human Rukia thinks and she wonders what the heck he is. Ichigo
runs downstairs and sees his bleeding unconscious father and sees a
hollow for the first time. He attacks it with a baseball bat (the
Kurosaki Anti-creep Stick? lol) when he sees it has Yuzu in its hand
which doesn't do a bit of good (byebye bat). Rukia comes along as
it's about to attack Ichigo and gets it to drop Yuzu who Ichi catches
by cutting its arm (which are creepily just like a humans in the
manga. The manga gives the hollows human arms and legs on the creepy
monster bodies which makes them even creepier, especialy in this one
that was a caterpillar body with all these human hands and feet on it
o__o ) She tells him to stay calm and that none of his family is dead
yet. He asks her why because she had told him that hollows eat human
souls and she tells him they are drawn to those with high spirit
energy but they also attack whatever's nearby. She tells him that she
has never seen a human with enough spirit energy to be able to see a
shinigami or break a binding spell and she believes then that the
hollow's after him. (There seems to be a hierarchy on seeing: Ghost
to Hollow to Shinigami (Karin didn't see Rukia but she did see the
hollow and Yuzu couldn't see the hollow)) "So it's all my fault
they got attacked?"

Rukia is blindsided by the hollow when she tries to explain that
that's not what she meant. Ichigo then stands up to the hollow and
tells it that if he's the one it wants then to fight him mano a mano
better just eat me then biach. So Rukia has to jump in between
and get nearly bitten in half instead.

"Fool... Did you think it would be over if you offered him your
soul?"

She is now obviously too injured to fight so both are probably about
to be eaten so she offers him the chance to become a shinigami. He
must pierce his heart with her zanpakutou to give him half of her
power temporarily, or it may kill him. Your choice Ichigo.

He choses to take a chance to protect his family and kickass
awesomeness ensues (made even more awesome in the anime by the song
"Now I feel like numbah one! Shining bright just like the
sun!!" in the background. Seriously, freaking awesome stuff
there. XD )

It's like boom! hollow's arm is gone and Ichi's standing there
all badass with a freaking huge sword all cooltastic and then he
goes and pwns the hollow like crazy.

And Rukia at the time has lost all her powers instead of half
and she realizes that Ichigo has freaking mindblowing levels of
spiritual energy and what kept her from sensing the hollow before was
his spiritual energy confusing her senses.

And the next end-sketch later shows Rukia kneeling next to a
collapsed-from-exhaustion Ichigo and the leg of a certain shopkeeper
who just so happens to come across the scene to help out the
now-stranded shinigami...

Oh you slytherin, Kisuke, you... XD

Ichigo's family the next morning thinks that the hole in their
kitchen/dining wall is from a truck that crashed and left and they
slept through it all. (Poof! Kiokuchikan!)

Ichigo is late to school helping clean up and... Tada! Rukia's
there!!

What's that written on her hand she's showing Ichi? "Make a
scene and I'll kill you"... o__o

It turns out she's lost her powers completely because of Ichi
stealing them and now she's stuck in a gigai, a temporary body, until
she gets them back. And guess who gets to do her job while she waits?
Ichigo!!!

"No freaking way!!!!" he refuses. He only did it earlier
to save his family and he's not about to fight monsters for total
stranger's sake. So Rukia faceslams him out of his body with her
special glove and drags him off to a nearby park where a hollow's
about to appear. (She got's a nifty cellphone-looking thingy that
tells her these things) The hollow attacks a kid's ghost that haunts
the park and Rukia stops Ichigo from helping the boy, telling him
that he can't pick and choose who he saves just because he knows
them or because he sees them being attacked right in front of him, he
must do it because it's his duty as a shinigami and be willing to
sacrifice himself for it.

He saves the kid, but announces that he doesn't believe in all her
sacrifice and duty crap. Did she sacrifice herself the previous night
out of duty? Duty is no reason to sacrifice oneself!

But he does agree to help her out because he owes her for saving him
and his family.

The next day (the same day Danny takes his testing) while Ichigo's
doing batting-combat practice (seriously) in another park while Rukia
reads horror manga with loli-crossdressing guys (viz, your
translation sucks, it's a hardcore gay guy, not a girl), Ichi's
classmate Inoue Orihime comes across them. Rukia notices a bruise on
her leg that Orihime thinks is from a car that hit her the previous
night but Rukia recognizes it as the imprint of a hollow's hand.
Rukia asks Ichigo about her and he says he doesn't know her very well
but reveals that she had a brother that died at their clinic from a
car accident three years earlier. Rukia decides they should go home
and Ichigo asks her where she lives then (since she's from Soul
Society, what they call the (good) afterlife). She ticks him off by
telling him it's none of his business.

She's staying in his closet, sleeping on top of his extra bedding. XD

Ichigo finds out when she bursts out of said closet to knock him out
of his bed (and his body) when a naga-hollow attacks where he just
was out of nowhere.

He fights it and makes a glancing blow to its mask... revealing the
face of Orihime's brother!

So Ichigo learns that all hollows were human once and are souls that
weren't sent over and eventually transformed. This freaks him out
because he thought they were just monsters to be destroyed. Rukia
replies that they do need to be destroyed because they are
monsters now. And she reveals that Orihime is now in danger!
(dundundun)

Because hollows eat souls to try and fill the emptiness they feel
inside at the absence of their heart so when they first transform,
they go after those they loved in life. It's after they do that they
start going after the most filling souls.

Over at Orihime's house, her friend Tatsuki is visiting, who is also
Ichigo's friend.

One of Orihime's plushies falls off its shelf and she goes to pick it
up and she notices blood coming from it and... a freaking hollow hand
of doom bursts from the teddy through her chest!!!! (ZOMG!! Death
teddy!!!!!!!!!)

Orihime drops down dead(-ish) and suddenly Tatsuki is knocked around
by an invisible force (to her). We see that Orihime is knocked out of
her body, but still attatched to it by her chain of fate. She knocks
the hollow away from Tatsuki and he gets angry that she doesn't
recognise him (You've really changed dude, of course she doesn't) and
then Ichigo arrives.

Orihime can see Ichi because she's a spirit blah blah Ichigo fights
Acidwire (her brother's hollow name) blah blah blah gets knocked
through a wall (hollows don't seem to like walls) ooh he's called
Acidwire cuz he spits acid like a spitting cobra does!

Anyway, Orihime finally recognizes Kakei and he tells her that he's
very upset because she was forgetting about him and not praying as
much for him anymore thanks to her meeting Tatsuki and becoming
friends. Then, when she entered High School and met Ichigo, she
stopped praying for him altogether. So he wants to kill them both!

Orihime is upset over this and tells him he's not the brother she
used to know and love. Hearing this, he starts choking her to death
yelling that it's all her fault he became that way.

Ichigo cuts his hands off and then asks him, "Why are older
brothers born first? To protect their little sisters and brothers who
come afterward!" (love this quote!)

Flashback: "I was 15 when my sister was born. She was more like
a daughter to me than a sister. Our parents were truer monsters than
I am now. The kind of monsters who would silence a baby's cries with
beatings. I hid her... And quieted her cries... And when I turned 18,
I took my 3-year-old sister and fled that cursed house. . . I raised
Orihime! I own her!"

"Inoue doesn't belong to anyone, she belongs to herself!"

Acidwire attacks Orihime "If she won't live for me, she'll die
for me!!" but when he bites her, she hugs him and says she's
sorry she made him feel lonely. She didn't want to burden him with
her sadness by mourning for him anymore, she wanted him to see she
was happy so he would be happy too.

She collapses and Kakei, now back to his senses, and Ichigo freak
out. Rukia reassures them by saying that as long as her chain of fate
is intact (the chain that was attatching Hime to her body), she'll be
fine and she can heal her.

It's revealed that a pair of hairpins she wears all the time were a
gift from her brother before she died.

Kakei takes Ichi's zanpakutou and breaks his own mask himself,
wanting to pass on before he loses himself again.

"Kakei, have a safe trip." Orihime says as her brother
vanishes into nothingness.

Aaa... I wanted to keep things simplified but I have failed...

Okay, next day from head only!! DX

Okay, the cockatiel...

Chad got him from a friend the previous night who said it was a
cursed parakeet and tried to pass it onto him cuz Chad likes cute
things. XD

That night Chad gets in a 5 car pileup near the Kurosaki clinic and
winds up there. Mostly uninjured except for a giant handprint bruise
on his back. He leaves that night and Ichi finds out that morning.

Ichi looks for Chad with Rukia and eventually finds him, but then
his sister Karin shows up, coming back from school cuz she's sick
from seeing Yuichi's memories, he saw his mother killed before his
eyes. She collapses and Rukia tells Ichigo to take her home or else
he'll be too worried while fighting the hollow.

While Rukia is chasing after Chad (who's running away from them so
they don't get involved) she's attacked by the hollow. Yuichi points
this out but tells Chad not to do anything because he doesn't want to
see Chad hurt. (Chad places the cage on the ground. "No! Don't
go Mister, it's dangerous!" Chad picks up the cage and puts it
up on a wall. "I didn't mean dangerous for me, like from cats,
I meant for you! Don't go Mister!")

Chad manages to punch the hollow as it's attacking Rukia, even though
he can't see it, at all. So the hollow flies up in the air.
And Chad rips up a telephone pole and whacks him with it. XD

So the hollow attacks them with little mini-hollow that are actually
a part of him. Chad gets rid of them with his brute strength. So the
hollow flies back up again even higher. So Rukia talks Chad into
doing a 'Fastball Special' (or whatever that move Collosus and
Wolverine and once Wolverine and Jubilee did was called [oh noes Stan
Lee I have foresaken thee!!! DX ]) She gets him to throw her at the
hollow.

But his little monsters spit leeches from their foreheads that he
uses his tongue like a tuning fork to explode. His guys then bring
Yuichi's cage and use him as a hostage to keep Chad from running
after them as he and Rukia play 'exploding-leech tag'

But Ichigo shows up and saves her and fights the hollow.

The hollow reveals that he killed Yuichi's mother but was tripped and
killed by him by falling off the balcony. Well the hollow made a bet
with Yuichi that if he could run for three months as a cockatiel in a
cage then he would bring his mother back to life and every time
Yuichi tells him he doesn't want to see people getting hurt by him he
says that he should think about his mommy, doesn't he want to save
her?

This pisses Ichigo off and he grabs the leeches and punches them into
Shrieker's mouth before he can explode them. Then, acting kinda
freaky, he asks the hollow "Aren't ya gonna use that tongue of
yours? Well... If you won't use it then... I'll just have to take
it!!" he rips his tongue out.

Then Ichigo cuts his mask and instead of dissolving like usual, a
light comes out of the vertical crack and a freaking scary as hell
gate appears, the Gate to Hell. It opens and the hollow is impaled by
a giant knife from a freaking scary as hell giant demon and then the
gate closes and dissolves away.

Rukia checks out Yuichi and says that his chain of fate is completely
severed so he can't return to his body. So Rukia starts telling him
that Soul Society is a great place and he'll never get hungry there
and he'll be really happy there. And then Ichigo cuts in and tells
him that he can see his mom there, she's waiting on the other side.

Before Ichigo performs konso on him, Yuichi thanks Chad for taking
care of him and Chad replies by asking if, when he eventually dies,
he can carry Yuichi around again.

Okay, all done for now! More next chapter after I finish that one. DX
Ja bai bai!

gaaah, I need to find a way to post that doesn't take so much trouble!!! This way screwed up the layout!!! Had to go through and fix this third mess by hand! x__@

DP/Bleach Crossover Fic: Ayakashi Ch. 2

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:32:39 GMT

Title: Ayakashi Ch 2: Aika
Rating: PG13
Other chapters: [1] [3]

Aika: (n) (1)lament (song); elegy; dirge; sad song

I'm so sorry for the shortness. But the next chapter's done(and the next one nearly done), even if it is a timeskip chapter of DOOM. DX

“Daniel?” Danny looks up blearily in reply to the voice, confusion appearing in his eyes as he does.
“Uncle... Vlad...?”

The man before him is one that Danny knows very well, he is practically a second father after all. But right now Vladimir Masters is standing there in an outfit that Danny has never seen him wear before in his life. A samurai-type outfit, all black except for the sash and under-robe which are white. White as his face with an expression of panic upon it, Danny notes before his legs give way... And he is caught and held upright by Vlad.
“Daniel, please, you must tell me. Where is your mother, Daniel? Where is Maddie?” Vlad implores, his voice as shaky as Danny's hold on consciousness.
“Dead,” is the reply, barely above a whisper. “Mom... and Dad... They're both dead...”
“What??” Vlad inhales sharply. “Are you sure? Are you sure, Daniel? Answer me, Daniel.”
But Danny is unable to reply to Vlad's pleas as he finally loses grip on the waking world and slips into the darkness of oblivion, teardrops glistening down his face.

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Black is replaced by the stark white of a hospital ceiling. There is a fleeting moment of disappointment that it isn't a sky of stars his eyes open to before it is interrupted by a voice beside him.
“You're awake!” Danny looks over to the source to see his sister Jazz lying in the bed beside him, apparently engaged in the task of reading a large psychology tome until now.
“Jazz... You're okay...”
“I'm fine, thanks to you carrying me out of the house after the explosion, little brother.”
“...Explosion?” Danny asks confused, Jazz looks at him worriedly.
“You don't remember? You did hit your head pretty hard... maybe I should ask the doctors to give you a MRI...”
“I'm sure there's nothing to worry about, Jasmine, I'm sure it will all come back to him eventually.” Vlad Masters enters the room, dressed impeccably in a black armani suit and carrying a cane. “Daniel already received one, as is typical for head trauma, the results came out fine,” he continues, calming Jazz's impending panic.
Danny gazes at the man before him as the memories of him in that strange outfit, carrying a sword surface in his mind. 'Was it all just a dream?' he wonders. 'No... It was too real to be a dream. But why does Jazz think it was an explosion, then?' His thoughts are interrupted when Vlad addresses him.
“It's good to see you awake, my dear boy. I will admit, I was beginning to worry. You were the one with the worst injuries. It was exceedingly brave of you to rescue Jasmine in the shape you were in.”
A vision of the monsters enters Danny's mind suddenly. Their white skull-masks and glowing eyes. Their appetite for human flesh. The remains of his parents flash through his mind.
“Are you alright Danny?” his sister asks, her voice laden with concern as she watches tears fill her brother's eyes.
“Mom and Dad... They're... They're dead...” Danny whispers. An unreadable look flashes through Vlad's eyes, unnoticed by Danny with his downturned gaze.
Suddenly, arms envelop him as Jazz embraces him. They both allow the tears to fall together in mourning of their lost parents as Vlad stands solemnly watching.

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The day of the funeral was far too cheerful for the event taking place. Bright and sunny with cute fluffy clouds in the sky.
'Isn't it supposed to rain during these?' thought Danny morosely as the preacher carried on about 'In a Better Place' and 'Commend into the hands of the Lord' to the gathered.
Vlad stood behind him, hand on his shoulder for support, as Jazz held his hand, crying into a hankerchief. Danny himself hadn't cried since that time. It was as if all his tears had run dry in that one outpouring.
Tucker and Sam stood a small distance away, giving them some privacy but still lending support. They had both visited the hospital later the same day Danny had awoken. Tucker confided in Danny that he was about to skip school to see them but Sam had stopped him. Sam threw back that they needed to take notes for Danny so he could catch up, so they couldn't skip, even to visit him. Jazz agreed. Danny wished they had skipped so he would have an excuse for not being caught up.
After they were dismissed from the hospital, Danny stayed with Tucker's family and Jazz with a couple who were friends with their parents.
Thankfully, Tucker was glad to keep things as normal as possible and he and Danny spent their time playing videogames, allowing Danny to keep his mind off things for a while, though Danny did catch concerned glances from time to time. Just as thankfully, Danny and Jazz were allowed time off school before the funeral for the arrangements. Vlad Masters did most of the work, however, occasionally asking Jazz and Danny for ideas on small things like which flowers and which gravestone they thought best. Danny wasn't sure if he could handle school just yet, the looks the Foleys gave him were bad enough...
Vlad is called to the podium to give a final speech about the Fentons and their life and his friendship with them and how lucky he was to have it. Danny hardly pays attention.
Then the speeches were over and Jazz and Danny were allowed to approach the caskets to lay down flowers atop them and give their final farewell. Then the caskets are lowered into their graves. Empty caskets. Empty as Danny's heart now feels.
The funeral is over and guests begin to leave, filing past Danny and Jazz and Vlad, giving condolences along the way. Aunt Alicia, who made the trip all the way from Arkansas for her sister's funeral tells the children they can come and visit the rhubarb farm whenever they want. The Mansons offer usual polite condolences and Sam gives Danny a hug before she leaves with her parents. The Foleys also give their condolences but much more sincere than the Manson's and leave as well, Tucker laying a supporting hand on Danny's shoulder as he goes. Danny is surprised to see the popular girl Valerie Gray there with her father Damon and barely manages to utter out a thank you in reply as they file past. The Arakida couple, who Jazz had been staying with, offer their condolences rather formally and accompanied by a bow, but Danny and Jazz know it is heartfelt, the couple had been very good friends with the family for a long time. They thank them and return the bow.

Finally all the guests are gone and Vlad leads them towards his limo. They settle in and the driver is ordered to go to the hotel for a luncheon full of quiet rememberances...

((Timeskip!))

Danny and Jazz idle away their time until they reach Wisconsin in their private jet arranged by Uncle Vlad, who could not escort them due to 'an urgent engagement'.
Their stay in Amity after the funeral was brief partially due to an occurance involving the bully Dash, Danny, and a locker, but not in the usual fashion. This wasn't the only occurance, however, since the dynamics of High School popularity generally consists of preying upon the weak and being completely tactless of other's feelings but it was the most memorable and the last. Another memorable event was Valerie Gray standing up for Danny in his defense and told him about her mother who died in a car crash. Jazz passed along later that Star agreed that Paulina was being a real bitch and she was sorry she didn't stand up as well. Jazz went on to explain some psychological things like stratification and social stigma and then went on to the caste system for reasons Danny didn't understand, mostly because he had tuned her out by that point.
Hopefully things will be better with their Uncle Vlad...
With a new home comes new beginnings...

Notes and Explanations
I hated high school and middle school, can you tell? Worst 6 years of my life. Classes were great, I love learning, but people are a bitch. What is it that makes people such jerks starting in 6th grade? One of my best friends from elementary school completely turned on me when we reached middle school and became one of my enemies. I barely remember my school days now... it must be repressed memories. Lots of bratty boys and Paulina-like bitches. Actually, Paulina's pretty mild compared to my torturers, but Butch wasn't a teenage girl in High School (gaah, bad mental image bad mental image!!!). Girls are much worse than boys, bruises heal quickly, mental scars take longer. (On many of their defense, most of my bullies, boys and girls, matured by senior year [or lost interest in me...] one, Dante White from 6th grade who I threw a (Nancy Drew) book at for doing something jerksome, later apoligized in 10th grade or so during lunch. Another boy apoligized through one of my friends. Candace Smith, however, was still a bitch. Probably still is. She's probably stealing from the elderly as a nurse now...)
Okay, okay lets stop ranting now.....
Ooh, and doing research I found out that Star is one of Jazz's friends so that's why she passed things through Jazz. (ZOMG, I need to buy the boxset. My DP knowledge was mostly from youtube and now that's gone... DX )
It has been said by others that she's probably smarter than she acts and she does do Danny's algebra homework in that one episode. Would you want it done by someone that isn't good at it?
Gee, I could have had Jazz stay at Star's now but then how do I introduce my Deux ex Machina couple?? XD
And the Paulina Incident is actually written, but I felt it would interrupt the flow (which was interrupted by Otakon anyway...) so I didn't keep it in. Separate post. It's funny. In a way. And yes, Paulina is indeed a bitch.
Did you like Valerie's role? I really like having her as one of Danny's friends so I decided to set up the foundation while I could. Though my evil muse wants to knock it down again like in the series... o__o
See, she's the one torturing Danny, not me!! I'm innocent(ish)!!
Shini: You know you like it. >3
Me:...Yeah, but I'm still not going with this. Where would she get ~~ghost~~ whatever hunting equipment anyway?
Shini: -censored for spoilers-
Shini:... -censored for cursing- can't I say that -censored for spoilers- giver her-???
Shini: *deathglare*

I just remebered I had stuff planned to happen in Amity DX, but I was never sure how to do it anyway and it works better in Wisconsin or elsewhere anyway so oh well. (something could still happen in Amity though *grin*)

Now for explanations I guess...
Why is Vlad there?: I'm still not telling. XP
Seriously, things are planned to be explained in Wisconsin. I actually wanted it to be part of this chapter but it's not happening. *sigh*
But things were recently changed/modified in his role. I've still been somewhat vague on his status as a villain, I'm not even sure. And there's this possibility that exists in the Bleach universe where one can be a villain without ever really having any free will in the manner and I'm not talking about hollows. Won't spoiler (yet) for those not in the know.
Some major players will appear soon. I might make a list of all the characters I've found a role for if not their role... Some villains may actually be allies... and possibly vice versa?
((I'm still not listening to you Shini... Lalala I can't hear you!!!! Danny's miserable enough!!!
Shini: But building up people's happiness and then crashing it down is fun~!!! <3))
And Cujo will show up!!! The adorable little ghost-pup will have a major involvement in the plot! <3
And some special objects to hold emotional significance for Danny if not a slight plot significance. X3

Vlad's outfit: It's typical Shinigami garb. X3
Eheh, kinda a spoiler? But it's obvious now to anyone who watches Bleach so...

Jazz and Danny's hospital stay:
Would they have really shared a room? My explanation if normaly not is that the doctors are being nice with those two being the only family left or Jazz bullied them into it. X3
Absence of some wounds?: Well... who arrived on the scene? Yeah, some shinigami powers can involve healing if one learns how to. I think Vlad wouldn't have learned very much so he couldn't have healed them completely so Danny will have some scars. He probably left some wounds there anyway because escaping a pile of rubble without a scratch gathers quite a bit of attention. Also, thinking back to one Shinigami's use of healing arts in a severe case, she only healed the most life threatening wounds and left the rest to heal more naturally because that was the best she could do and she was pretty well experienced if not in the healing arts.
I am not going to help you read the unreadable look because it is unreadable. XP

Funeral, left Danny out of school because I didn't feel like writing his interaction with his peers into the plot there.

Arakida family (aka the Deus Ex Machina couple): Well, I'm not too sure I can fit in an explanation into the storyline so I'll tell you about them here ( still will if I can though).
Arakida Takai & Yuuno: a pair of Japanese spiritualists and ghost researchers. Were good friends with Maddie and Jack and enjoyed exchanging ideas and contrasts between japanese and american hauntings and methodology. Possibly known at least one from college days?? Anyway Danny and Jazz learn Japanese language and some customs from them from an early age. Therefore they are a Deus Ex Machina for when they go there. XP

Aaah, I really really wanted to get to Wisconsin and the events that unfold there but Otakon killed my muses (with glee!) and so... epic fail on that plan.
...This chapter really sucks... >__<

Screw this, I'm extending it to at least Cujo.
Okay, failure on that. I have decided to just skip on ahead back to Karakura. But don't worry, you'll see lots of Cujo!! <3
It's really better this way because I found out while writing those chapters that it really helps me with the Wisconsin/Amity stuff in deciding what will happen and what Danny learns about the spiritual realm and junk.
Other good news is that the next chapter is already done then!!
Huzzah!!
Say it with me! Hip Hip Huzzah!! Hip Hip Huzzah!

Ayakashi Art

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:27:25 GMT

Well, I'm currently in the middle of a future chapter, having skipped over, when I decided to draw my vision of Skulker.
Like he is in DP, he's a smaller being inside a giant robot. In Ayakashi, his robot is a giant Gorillabot, which I tried to draw and... epic fail. Gorillas are hard to draw, forget about Gorillabots. >__<
Anyway, I did manage to draw his smaller self....

Tiny monkey of doom!!!! (pics.livejournal.com/junpaku_karasu/pic/0000ybre/)
This is probably up there on the list of scariest things I've ever drawn. o__o
I'm so happy, it came out better than I thought. <3
Can't you imagine Danny chasing him around after defeating his mech? XD
BTW, if you're wondering how the fic's going, I've skipped ahead and those chapter's are going smoothly, so good news there. I'm thinking of skipping everything and doing stuff in flashbacks too. So, is that good news?
Well, the bad news is that I can't seem to finish the miniscule amount between it. DX
...I'll get on it... >__<

Jörmungandr: Völuspá, Chapter 1: Brahma

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:42:27 GMT

Title: Jörmungandr Saga: Völuspá
Chapter 1: Clotho
Rating: PG [implied yaoi (Clockwork/Dan, Clockwork/Danny?), implied death and destruction, implied Evolution (le-GASP) ]

He is there at the beginning of All. The cosmos is but a speck, Time exists but Space does not. And then it Begins, roaring past him towards it's Destiny.

Stars will form. Galaxies will form. Planets will form. Earth will form. And with the Earth he will come. His love.

And so he waits. Waits for stars to form and galaxies to form and planets to form and Earth to form so that he may follow his own Destiny and watch over it all, to be the Guardian until...

'I can stop it all now,' he thinks 'Stop it all from ever beginning.With no beginning comes no end. Except an end to the suffering.'

But he cannot. An end to the suffering of the others still means suffering to him. For he will always remember. Always suffer for his sins. Always.

He knows he should. Why let others suffer when it is he who sinned? Why let this cycle of torment continue? Why not break the chain?

But the thought of his love stops him. He cannot erase his existance so easily, so quickly. 'I still have time,' he reasons. 'There is still time to send it off course when I am finally able.'

And so he waits.

Finally, the Earth begins to form, a collision and the Moon forms as well. 'Now, stop it now' a voice whispers within his mind. But he doesn't listen, there is still time.

The Watchers have already come. Already found him. To annoy him with their Righteousness. To torture him with their accusations.

They know his sins. They know All Things. Except when they don't, but the refuse to acknowledge the existence of such and so it does not exist.

'So let me live the dream of my love coming before I end it. I still need it for now. Please let me dream a little longer.'

And so he waits.

The history of Life upon the Earth begins. He could stop it now. Keep the Earth barren, a wasteland. If there is nothing to live, there is nothing to die.

But he still needs his Dream. The pain is still too fresh. So he allows single cells to become multicelluar organisms, plants to become animals. He allows them to become complex and then invade the land. Never once raising his great hand and erasing it all.

He lets his Dream continue.

And so he waits.

He lets himself imagine, as the Great Rock collides with the planet, that he finally allowed things to end, finally allowed everything to die. Finally allowed his Dream to end.

But he knows it will not, he remembers enough of science class to know this well. Life will survive, Life will begin anew.

'Now, the time to end it is now!' the voice is louder this time and he knows it is right. Everything is at its most vulnerable now, he could end it all completely or change it enough that, at least, the same events will have no possibility of occurring anew.

Changing it all so he is never born. Changing it all so he is never born. His love.

'It can't happen again! It can't happen again! It can't happen again!' the voice persists, but he still allows himself to dream.

'Soon. I will end it soon,' he answers.

And so he waits. And Dreams.

He knows he is lying to himself. The pain will never heal, he will never stop dreaming, he will never end the Dream. He knows this, he knows Everything, but he ignores it as well as the voice that urges him to end it all as mammals evolve and spread.

'End it! End it before it's too late!' it screams.

'Have I not suffered enough?' he screams back. 'Can't I be allowed some Peace? Can't I be allowed to Dream a little longer? Can't I be allowed to dream of Love?'

'No! No! End it NOW!' it screams as hominids walk the earth and begin their primitive civilization. Which gives way to higher civilizations, which fall back into primitive civilization, which rise again. Echoing the cycle of life and death. Echoing the cycle he knows he is trapped within. Over and over, the serpent devours it's own tail anew.

'It's not too late, I still have time. I can still Dream a little longer,' he repeats to himself.

And so he waits. And Dreams.

And then the moment arrives. 'Too late!! Too late!!' the voice screams it's loudest, seeming to shake his mind with its volume. 'You've waited too long!! Now it's too late!!”

And the Dream is shattered as he awakes to Reality.

Oh how Morpheus has ensnared thee in his web of Dreams.

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Notes:

Völuspá is the Norse tale of the beginning and end of the world.

Brahma is the creator-god of Hinduism

Yes, yes I am mixing Nordic myth and Hinduism together ~~horribly~~.

Blame the cyclical nature of both. And that the original chap. title of 'Clothos' I just remembered is going to "Like Clockwork".... I think.

Well they're already mixed anyway so I might as well go with the Hindu Creator-Maintainer-Destroyer trinity rather than the Greek one of the Moirae.

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And I guess I just feel like saying, after writing the universe's forming the way I have, that I believe in God, I am a Christian, but I also believe in Facts. And the facts as I see them say that yes, evolution did happen in some form, the fossil record is there, the DNA is there.

But I also believe in Creation in some form. Because life is far to complex to have formed on its own. Look at all the freaking steps in photosynthesis for goodness sakes! (And I have my own personal Facts that let me believe in God.)

So God-guided Evolution is my belief. Because the best way to create something is to do it in steps.

Dream Diary: ZOMG creepout

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:32:45 GMT

Just as my alarm's going off I hear a woman's voice say "Where is that half-elf girl? The fun is about to begin."
No dream where that would fit in, just that voice. That CLAMP female villanness voice.
And I'm the half-elf. I have an half-elf fanchar from back when I was more obsessed with LotR.
So I was a little creeped out when I woke up to that.

...ZOMG, I think it was Yuuko's voice. *squeeee*
Yeeee! Tell me the price Yuuko-dono, let me go to another world!! X3
(Yaa-y Yaaay Magical Journey to other worlds *dancey dance*)

Okaay, title doesn't work anymore now I've decided Yuuko was talking to me. *squee*
So how's this: One of my pet Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches escaped her cage and I think the night before she visited me. o__o;
yeeeeeew
Shino-chan, please be a good girl and take the food bait so I can put you back in your home with Chibi-chan... >__<

ICON MEME

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:02:06 GMT

I usually don't post these things on this journal but since it's for the icons from here...

1. Reply to this post to tell me you'd like to do the meme, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including this meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

Icons chosen by invderlava

"I ship big banana X manhole. X3"
Do I really have to explain this one? *shiftyeyes*
Icon=YAOI=two males doing the bedsheet bingo=me drooling myself to dehydration <3
But specifically, this icon is for Dan/Danny (though I do use it for other yaoi) because with my fics it fits oh so well. nehehehe...
Icon born from a brief convo with invderlava about how suggestive the icons used to make this one were. <3

This flavor needs to exist. NOw.
I mean it.
Strawberry jelly is the best and Pearl Jam rocks, therefore a combination of the two would produce the ultimate awesomenessness!!!
Do iiit...
*prints out fake labels and runs off to the grocery store to glue them to jam jars*
SPREAD THE AWESOME!!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!
or we could all petition Ben&Jerry to make this an ice cream flavor. XD

Icon made by her awesomeness tavalya_ra.
I have it because I am in love with writing Dan/Danny noncon fics for reasons unknown to even myself!!!! x__o <3
And because Dan is indeed the porness. <3 XD
BIG BANANA X MANHOLE SQUEENESS!!!! <3<3<3<3

Writers block, oh how you... something....
...GAH!! IT STRIKES AGAIIIIIN!!!! *dies*
I both love and hate this icon. It's funny, it's a perfect one to use when bemoaning my condition, but I also think it jinxes me. o__o
Though I don't get writers block due to an empty head, but instead one too full. x__x
CURSE YOU ADHD/ASPERGERS/WORK/LACK OF SLEEP/INSOMNIA!!!!!!
waiit, no cursies lack of sleep, my best comes when I'm nearly comatose x__o

Tablet Practice Art

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:30:23 GMT

Got a new tablet, so I'm putting up my attempts on it that are even too crappy to put in my DevArt scraps... DX

Gyaa, WTFness abound... X__X

Better... >__<()

I sees joo!!!!!!

I love GIMP, Corel was going all crappy with the pressure and junk and Gimp does the same crap almost anyway if you find the right brushes... Whee! XD

Now I'm gonna go spazz on my journal account. XP

Dream Diary

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:28:16 GMT

I had a dream in which I was exploring a large, spacious, and totally nonsensical mansion (floating escalator staiiirs and glass waaalls and a treeeehouse!! ) and then a lawyer came along and told me that there was this idea I had made about a robot dog and Butch Hartman had stolen it for his new show. My response was pretty much "Eh?" and "That's kinda stupid... " because I was starting to become lucid at this point. And I was pretty well distracted by the ice skaters in tuxes dancing and the tux-wearing robot ice-dancing a long with their pretty musical-choreography. The robot kinda looked like the Cromartie High one except he looked a little like he was a old computer mainframe that came to life... He looked funny with a tux, but kinda cool at the same time. He distracted me most of all, and I was like... "okaaaay... I'm dreaming about a robot wearing a tux ice-musicaling O__o"
Told you I was lucid. XD
BTW, I concluded that the lawyer was part of an evil plot to ruin Hartman. XP

Aand, the robot dog part is so the fault of my kawaii little I-dog. <3 ^__^()

DP/Bleach Crossover Fic: Ayakashi, Chapter 1

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:52:02 GMT

Ayakashi: (1) ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; (2) something strange or suspicious; . . . (4) Noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters

Rating: PG-13 for violence and some language

Ch 1: Rankan

The sun shines merrily in Karakura town as two people, Jazz Fenton and her younger brother, Danny, arrive in front of a small apartment building in their taxi.
“Welcome to our new home!,” exclaims Jazz, much-too-cheerfully.
“Hn,” Danny replies, the effects of jet lag clearly visible as his sister drags him into their new Tokyo home.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

A year earlier, their parents had finally succeeded in finishing their life's work, the Fenton Ghost Portal, a device that would pierce through the very fabric of existence into the realm of spirits. But it didn't work, and the disappointed Fentons abandoned their project at last. That night, Daniel Fenton snuck into the basement, his parent's disappointed faces in his mind's eye, and entered into the gaping mouth of the inert portal in hopes of fixing it. Looking back, Danny always thinks to himself 'I should have left it alone' but he didn't and that decision has haunted him ever since. The events linked to this decision would change Danny forever... For, while inside the machine, Danny trips and falls against the 'on' button which was for reasons only known by the mind of Jack Fenton was inside the machine. The portal awoke, filling the basement with fey light as Danny's own world went dark.....

Then there were stars. Hanging, shining, the only light in the obsidian sky stretching above. It was quiet. The only sound the rustling of the grass surrounding him in an endless field. Strange how the stars gave such little light, but he could still see his surroundings. Suddenly, a voice spoke from behind him, “Konbanwa, Daniel-san.(1)
Whirling around, Danny sees a man standing there. He has long, white hair and piercing green eyes and is wearing a black outfit with light armor over his chest and shoulders.
“Ummm...Who are you?” Danny timidly asks. The man smiles softly and replies,
“I am one who will be very important to you from now on. A 'partner' you might say. When you awaken from this inner world of yours you will find me with you, but in a rather different and unexpected form I might say. It is important that you remember this, and that you remember my name. For without my name, you cannot wield me as you should. So remember my name: Genzou.”
“Gen-zou?,” repeats Danny.
“Yes.” The man smiles again and then turns and looks into the sky. “It is always evening here... The stars always shining. You like the stars, Daniel-san? As do I. So please try not to overcloud them, even if events outside cause you sadness.”
The starlit world fades slowly away as Danny returns to reality.....

And awakens into a world filled with blood. All around him, splashed on the walls, on the ceiling, on the floor. On him, staining his clothes with crimson warmth. Scattered amongst the scene are various small body parts. Such random pieces of what were once a human being that they are unidentifiable until Danny notices scraps of cloth, blue and orange.
“Mom... Dad...” whispers Danny, horror reflecting on his blood-flecked face. He begins to stand up when a clatter brings his attention to an object that was lying atop him. A sword lies there on the floor, a japanese katana.
“What...?” Danny picks it up and holds it up examining it. As he does so, a thought, a memory drifts into his mind. “It can't be... Impossible...”
Suddenly, a scream pierces the air, his sister's voice, followed by an unearthly shrieking roar. Both sounds chill Danny's very soul.
“Jazz!!” Ignoring the pain that wracks his body, Danny leaps to his feet and dashes up the basement stairs, leaving the carnage of the lab behind him.
He finds this floor of his home in a state of disarray, but nothing to the scale of that below. Hearing another scream come from outside it in sync with a loud sound suspiciously like concrete being torn up, Danny exits through a massive hole in the side of the house to find a group of... creatures pursuing his sister. Pitch-black bodies marred only by holes gaping through and bone-white masks like grinning skulls, they can only be described as monsters. One of them manages to catch up to the fleeing Jazz and pin her down under it's massive, clawed hand.
Danny finds himself sprinting towards the monster at an inhuman pace, slashing with his sword, unsheathed while crossing the distance. The sword stops partway into the behemoth's arm and becomes stuck.
“Oh, shi-” Danny is flung aside by the creature, crashing down some distance away. Dislodging and throwing the sword aside, the behemoth lumbers towards the new object of his attention, battered and bleeding on the ground.
As he stirs atop the concrete, Danny notices that some ribs were broken by the blow. Before he can focus too much on the pain, however, new pain replaces it as the monster pins him under his massive hand, claws piercing flesh.
“Gyaaah!”
“Ahh... Shinigami desu. Oishii...,”(2) the monster purrs, taking delight in the torment of it's prey. Opening its grinning maw, it reveals another mouth within, teeth gnashing with hunger.
Through the haze of pain and distance, Danny hears his sister screaming.
'Jazz.... She's in trouble... 'I have to save her...'
The bleached-bone mask looms closer.
'I can't let her die too....'
The monster lowers it jaws around Danny.
'Like Dad... And Mom...'
Teeth close in around him.

Danny doesn't know how exactly he got free, leaving behind a furious monster with broken teeth as he dashes towards his fallen sword, snatching it up just in time as it catches up to him. He turns around to face it, unsheathing his sword... as jaws close in around it and his arm, crushing his shoulder as they crunch down on him.
“Ghk... No...” As pain, both physical and emotional, begins to crash through him, a voice pierces through, echoing from within.
'Call out my name...'
“Gen...zou...” Danny gasps. It's the last thing the creature ever hears.
Icicles shatter through the mask from inside, the creature's body dissolving as the bone-white shards litter the ground and they too disappear into nothingness. Danny turns on shaky feet towards the rest of the monsters, paused at the events that just unfolded, and utters their last words.
“Don't you dare hurt my sister.”

A figure steps into the scene of giant spikes of ice melting away and a boy standing among them, wavering on his feet from bloodloss and exhaustion.
“Daniel?” Danny looks up blearily in reply to the voice, confusion appearing in his eyes as he does.
“Uncle... Vlad...?”

Rankan: (n) (1) guardrail; handrail; bannister; (2) (arch) (a person) shining like the stars or moon; (a person) crying endlessly

(1) “Konbanwa, Daniel-san”: “Good evening, Daniel.” (note: The suffix -san denotes respect. It is often translated into “Mr.” but that really doesn't seem to fit right here...)
(2)“Ahh... Shinigami desu. Oishii...”: “Ahh... A Shinigami. Delicious...”
Shinigami: lit. 'Death God', translated in the Bleach manga and anime as 'Reapers' (suddenly imagines the cast of 'Dead like Me' going off and slaying monsters XD) [More in 'Explanations']

Explanations:
((Giant Explanation Chapter-Unto-Itself of DOOOOOM))

Karakura town: the setting of the manga/anime Bleach. It's a imaginary suburb of Tokyo (aka lotsa little building instead of the gigantanormous ones)
The apartment building is a 2 story. I'm still considering if it's like Orihime's (one of the Bleach chars), or like those other typical japanese apartments which are kinda like a motel in appearance. Link
Flashback: Yeah, I know I switched from past to present tense somewhere in there, but I don't care. I never could keep in past tense for long and anyway it's kinda how a flashback works innit? Merging into the present of the past. Or something like that... >__>
WTF is Genzou?????: Genzou is Phantom. (^_______^)
['Genzou'- phantom; vision; illusion ^^]
Oookay, but what the heck is going on in there??: Hot yaoi. Just kidding. XP
Ummm... It's kinda difficult to explain 'cuz half is interpretation and guesswork on my part because there is no clear explanation on what exactly a zanpakutou is.
Zanpakutou is the name of the sword that shinigami use as part of their job. But it's not just a sword, it's alive and linked to the shinigami. (Breaking the sword harms the shinigami, and reflects an overpowering of them by their foe) My speculation is that they're an inner self of the shinigami, as the clues point in that direction to me. (So all shinigami have MPD, lol) This spirit of the zanpakutou resides in the inner world of the shinigami, which reflects them in a way. Danny's world is full of stars, reflecting his love of them. And btw, when Genzou says his line about them being obscured, I got that from Ichigo's (the main character of Bleach) zan reflecting on the rain that pours in the inner world when Ichigo is depressed. (swords don't like rain because it rusts them XD )
Shinigami are the good guys (mostly-ish) and their basic job is to send souls to the afterlife. They do this via a 'soul funeral' which is performed in two ways. One is done to normal ghosts (called Pluses by shinigamis), where they press the hilt of their sword against the spirit's forehead, sending them to the afterlife. The other way is used against hollows, the monsters in this chap, where they slice the crap out of them. X3
Hollows are corrupt(ed) souls. Their name comes from the holes through their chest which represent the emptiness inside them which they attempt to fill by eating souls. Shinigami are considered great delicacies by them due to their high levels of spirit energy. The masks on their faces represent them shielding themselves from the outside world. Their masks are also their weak spot, destroy the mask and the Hollow is defeated and sent to the afterlife, cleansed of their sins committed while a Hollow. If they have great enough sins committed while they were still alive, the Gates of Hell are summoned and... a giant hand wielding a giant sword impales them and drags them through. o__o;
Ahem, which brings up the causes of hollowfication. 1. A bad person dies and instead of becoming a normal ghost, they become a Hollow. 2. A ghost stays too long on earth without passing on. (In this fic, this will be changed slightly, or possibly not-at-all, some facts may make this fit into my version) 3. A Plus is devoured by a Hollow. 4. A person is so grieved by their death, they become a hollow and devour the souls of their loved ones in order to keep them with them in a sad, twisted way. (Thus is the cause of those dying of 'broken hearts' soon after their loved one's death.)

Okay, went off on a little tangent there, back on course now...
What's with the name-calling?: Okay, okay, I'm sorry already. I didn't mean to call you a... Oh, you mean the calling out of Genzou's name. Umm, nevermind then, eheh-heh. ^__^;;
There are 3 levels to a zanpakutou. A sealed state, an upgrade state, and a super-deluxe-with-fries-and-a-bag-of-chips uber-state. The latter two hold the names of Shikai and Bankai respectively. But Shikai is the one relevant at the moment:
Shikai means 'initial release', it is an 'upgrade' to the normal sealed form of the zanpakutou reached by calling aloud its name. With this state comes special abilities, like Danny's ice-spike attack. The zanpakutou also changes in some way during this state. I couldn't fit this in, but Genzou changes into a karasugatana I think it was called (can't find the link at the moment), it's a strange blend between a katana and a chinese straight sword (which looks like an european broadsword). Essentially, it's a double-bladed katana, though the back-blade only extends partway up. I thought it was an interesting sword that reflected Danny in the way it mixes east and west in it's style.
On Danny's shikai abilities, I was a little torn between whether to give him ice powers or sound powers but in the end I decided on ice. (Ember got the sound powers instead.)

And I know you're probably wondering about Vlad. I won't tell you why he's there, but I will tell you that his relationship to the Fentons is different here than in the show. Here the time he spent away from them after the accident is shorter (only a couple months, year at most). Though this isn't exactly a good thing, since he became so much more bitter towards Jack, being forced to see his Maddie living happily with someone other than him. It's a wonder Jack had lived this long...
Also, yes, Vlad does have shinigami powers as well. But they're different from Danny's. How?
Well....
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... It's a secret!! Muahahahahahahaha!!!! XD

DP fic-fragment: Jörmungandr: Ragnarok Chapter

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:00:01 GMT

Here's a fragment of a fic idea I have. I wrote these drabbles that won't show up in it like they are, but I like them, so I'm posting them as a sort of preview, I guess. umm... they're kinda an overview too. umm cuz the theme is something pretty transparent in a way.
Jörmungandr is a giant serpent from Norse myth, it is curled around the world devouring it's own tail. It will let go of his tail at the time of Ragnarok, the battle of the end of the world, aka the Norse apocalypse.
Because Jörmungandr is eating his own tail, that makes him an ouroboros. Ouroboro represent the eternal cycle of creation and destruction. Which fits this fic extremely well.
See, transparent theme. x__<

Title: Drabble of Jörmungandr: Ragnarok Chapter
Rating: PG (implied yaoi-ness, implied death, implied etc. XP)

Clockwork faces his foe, scythe in hand. He knows he must destroy him. He sees the future that will come if he does not. Armageddon, Ragnarok, the End of All.
It will happen, it has happened already. Over and over and over again.
Life Death Rebirth. Life Death Rebirth. Life Death Rebirth.
Clockwork knows he must end it. End this endless cycle. Kill the Destroyer before it begins anew.
But he knows he cannot.
Maybe next time around he will stop it. Maybe next time around... he won't fall in love.
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Clockwork sees the future in his mind's eye. He sees his own death, like Odin destroyed by Fenrir. He sees the fall of 'Heimdall', watcher of the border between worlds. He sees then Surt, with his fire burning the world to ash.
Ragnarok has come. His love will destroy the world.
Because the one he loves is Fenrir. The one he loves is Loki. The one he loves is Jörmungandr. The one he loves is Surt. He is all of those.
He will turn the world to dust.
But, Clockwork knows that love will save it again. Love and loneliness... and Despair.
Shiva will destroy all... and then restore it once more.

*Shiva is the Hindu god of Destruction and Restoration.

Dream Diary, Beginning

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:56:49 GMT

Hullo, I decided to start a dream diary on here. The reason being, sometimes I have dreams that give me really good ideas. So they're a look into my inner creativity (and insanity). ;P

Well, I'm going to start with some old dreams/dream overviews and such I have written down... In the best chronological order I can put them...

(1)I had a Vlad/Danny-esque dream on night. One that totally caused me to fall in love with the pairing. X3 I have it written down somewhere, once I find it, I'll post it, okies?
(2)Thought I'd let you know, 'Like Clockwork" is based on a dream-brainstorm I had. The beginning note-ideas were written half-asleep. x__x
(3)I had a wierd dream that I don't completely remember, but it was about being a private eye investigating soemthing... about the rich... and I think a lot of it was in sepia tones... ooh, it was some kinda film noir detective thing with fantasy elements. Like being in a 20s world, but there's magic and stuff, the detective could read people's stats? Those in the PI class could? No, I think the PI could, therefore became a PI. Was a cop. Quit because of corruption in the nobility (yup, nobility, as in a monarchy being the form of gov). I have written down: "Prophecy through reading stats, possibilities (saw possibilities through reading stats I think) special skill.
nyuu, awesomeness.
Anyways, there were also words that were in the vocab in my dream that were pretty interesting: Lawyer='toad' PI='tyke'
And an insult from the... protagonist?: "Your grandmother knits forks!" XDDDDDDD Oh and he was so serious too... X3
I'm so going somewhere with this... <3

(4)Monty Python and the Holy Grail Danny Phantom Style
Well, with mentions of insults towards family, my mind drifted to MPatHG and it became fused with DP somehow... And...
...
...
French Technus!!!!!!! X333333
nyuuu.... X3
*cough* "Your mother was a small pet rodent and your father smelt of the seed capsucules of the member of the genus. . ."
and blahblahblah so on.
I killed Sam I think in my dream-pondering...:
"?-To pass you much answer 3 questions!
?-What is your favourite colour?
Sam-Black! *smuggrin*
?-Black isn't a colour, you lose.
S-Aaaaaaaaa!!!!"
noesies!!! Sammies!!! Well, I later brainstormed that Danneh saved her. I love way too many conflicting parings, don't I? X__<
Anywho... Jack is King!!!! w00tness!!!! XD :
"?-What is the average velocity of an unladen crow?
Jack- Ghost or non-ghost?
?-I don't kn- Aaaaaaaaaaa!
. . .
Jack- I'm the king, I have to know these things!"
eheh, well you can see that I don't know who the bridgekeeper is... Not Vlad... maybe Skulker, but I don't think so... Fright Night taken by Black Knight role... Ooh, mebbe it's the vultures... but I kinda think of them helping out Technus with the insulting... Hmmm.. something to ponder...
Anywais... hey, wait, I misread myself, Tuck was King... meh, Jack fits better. *changes it*
Anywhosies.... Killer Bunny of Caerbrannog=.................CUJO!!!!!! <3
He won't tear anyone apart, just scare them, Cujikins would never hurt someone like that <3

(5)Dream-brainstorm convo between chars from my story "Starlit Tears":
Dibenna: I really like cats, but I like being something with wings more.
Fuela: Why do you not become a cat with wings then?
Di: Oh no, we mustn't play with God's creation like that!

[quick backstory: Di and Fue are chars from a medieval-fantasy-ish tale that I'm in the process of developing. Fuela is a sorceress, or at least she is the daughter of and becomes one, and Dibenna is her 'familiar'. Umm.. there's lots more, but there's a lot of things I want to keep secret. Well, anyways, Di can change her form between different animals. None of those are her true form, but I won't say what she really is. Fue's people call Di's 'demons' in my original notes, but I'll probably make another word from entemologies like I've done with a lot of the language of Fue's world(s) [kukuku], or find another word of similar meaning, like I did with the 'vampires' *evilgrin*. Whatever I use, I will tell you that it will be latin in originess, because Fue's mother's people have a latin-esque language. Fue's current people's is germaniac/old english. Anyway, the last thing I'm calling Di's race is 'demon', because of the somewhat-inspiration of the "His Dark Materials" book trilogy WHICH IS COMING INTO THEATRES IN DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cough* Yes, I love that series. But they are different. The only similarity is animal-spirit-type beings that hang around with their humans, because I'm basing Di and others on familiars, the animals like 'witches' cats and the demon-summon familiars. Dibenna will be actually 'summoned' by Fuela, at a time she has to do so, her 16th or so bday. It's a type of 'coming of age' of sorcerers and sorceresses, but Fue's situation is really less than ideal...
...
...FORGET I SAID THAT!!!! eheh *shiftyeyes* nuthin to see here folks...

Ummm, okies, this was actually a 'less than quick' backstory. Or, then again, it is pretty brief compared to the actual backstory... Much of which is left secret for a long time in the story, muahaha. >3
I may post a better overview of he planned story laters... ]

(6)Does it count as a dream if you're walking around half-awake before one's morning caffeine? Thought process based on this wierd 80's or so movie I can't remember the name of, where this kid plays this video game and is like the 1337 playah of it and it turns out that the vg is a secret way of recruiting pilots for this intergalactic war and the kid then gets to fight in the war and helps win it.
Well, I had this dream kinda based on it and after I got out of bed, I kept thinking about it and evolved a different idea, and I listed my thought processes evolution/diff ideas, that kinda evolved from that story taking place in modern times, with our much more believable vg graphics (XD):
-A scifi video game seems like a very advanced AI but is actually real, signal sent, fighting real war in space w/ drones.
-Special contest to get part
-higher levels=harder missions, more imp.
-signal cut by enemy
-forced into real piloting

-fighting for safety of Earth but don't know
-nobody does
-part of Galactic Law: Earth must defend self, cannot be exposed to advanced tech unless emergency [no other alternative type of emergency]
-when a battle is lost/enemy attacks, thought to be some other phenomenon

-Or not Earth
-Race has the technology, but not the tactitry
-[alien enemy does attack Earth once found out though [gee, thanks. we're about to be destroyed because Earthings pwn at vgs and you guys are the suxx0rs.]]

-Another tie into the 'is Earth' scenario could be that the aliens want to help us, but again, they don't have the tacticry so they help us through the vg

Well, there ya go (if anyone read all that). Now time to try and get myself remembering all my bizarre and twisted dreamings...

DP Fic: 'Like Clockwork' pt. 2

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:29:34 GMT

Previous Chapter

Like Clockwork: Part II
Rating: PG-13?

Not turning from the viewing portal, Clockwork addresses the Observants, “I suggest that you leave. I should be arriving shortly.”
“We refuse!”
“You have many questions to answer, Clockwork!”
“We will not leave until we get those answers!”
“No,” Clockwork replies sharply. “This is something best done without you two here.”
“Know your place Clockwork!” an Observant cries out angrily.
“We will not leave until you tell us how it is possible that Danny Phantom and you are the same and how you kept this from us!!” the Observant's tone reaching a point of hysterics.
“Hwah?” All turn around at the noise that comes from the doorway. Danny Phantom, Fenton no longer, stands there, in a state of utter confusion. He is much the same as his usual ghost form. Much the same, except for the gaping hole in his torso and the jagged scar over his left eye. Eyes which are now the light blue of his human form, glowing slightly.
“There he is!”
“Worst paradox I've ever seen!”
“Worst potential disaster we've ever seen!” Danny cringes slightly at this remark. Clockwork turns on the Observants.
“Would be quiet before you make this any more traumatic for him??” he growls.
“Not until we get our answers!”
“You will get your answers later. If at all.”
“WHAT??” the Observants cry in unison.
“What makes you think you can dismiss us like that??”
“You are under our command, Clockwork!”
“Only because I have allowed it so far.” Clockwork replies, shocking the Observants into silence, thus allowing him to continue uninterrupted. “You have had your uses, and the best way to use you is to let you feel you are in control. That way you never realize that you yourselves are the ones being controlled.” The Observants start to protest until Clockwork glares them into submission once more.
“The problem with you two is that your sight is very limited, you only see the most likely path out of the thousands of possibilities. Therefore, it is extremely easy to blindside you two, even without a distraction of the magnitude of Dan Phantom.
“I'll admit the possibility of evil was there, the potential for evil exists in us all, it's always there. That is why I created him, to protect my potential self from you two idiots who are too blind to see the the ever-shifting potentials. Because I knew if I didn't, you would take one look at that type of future, at a moment when it really is most likely, and do everything in your power to destroy us to keep it from happening. (Most likely creating that future in the process as all self-fulfilling prophecies are wont to do.) Which is exactly what you tried to make me do after I shifted things enough to allow Dan to create the scenario that created him. As I knew you would.
“After focusing you on the 'Dan Possibility', I had taught myself a valuable lesson and obtained guardianship of myself as well. Three birds with one stone, so to speak.” Clockwork smirks, then continues, “However, I no longer need to protect myself from you two, we are now too powerful for you to control. There is nothing you can do against us anymore. I no longer need to follow your idiotic whims. Observe the door.” Those last words and accompanying glare make it clear that there is absolutely no room for argument and the order should be obeyed or there would be Consequences. Needless to say, the Observants finally left.
Clockwork now turns to Danny who has been watching the whole scene with a slightly unfocused and confused look on his face. He tilts his head, looking very much like a curious puppy. A slightly mauled puppy. Clockwork cringes slightly at the sight of the gaping hole in his torso.
“Let's get you cleaned up first and then I'll answer any questions I know you have.”
Danny looks down at himself and blanches at the sight, then looks back at Clockwork to nod in agreement. Clockwork floats over to a nearby table and picks up a black cloak with white lining and a pendulum case. Returning, Clockwork hands Danny the cloak and then, much to Danny's surprise, shoves the pendulum case into the cavity in his chest.
“There. Now that that is taken care of, what do you wish to ask me?”
Unsurprisingly, Danny takes a while to answer, at first being unable to and once able, he uses his regained ability of speech to send a few choice words Clockwork's way.

Whee, lotsa talking here. CW needed to let out some pent up stuff here...
eheh, I like messing with the Observies.... heehee

Nyaa, I took a while in updating... And the sad part is that this is what I already had done before I was forced into hiatus. I wanted to write more, but I've decided it's about time to freckin' update it already...
Anyways, the hiatus was caused by my muse deciding to break my brain again
(apparently it's still broken too...). Well, back while I was writing this, she came up to me and said:
"You know what would be even more bizarre and paradoxial than Danny being Clockwork?... Dan being Clockwork."
"Gyaaaaa!!!" *dies* X__x
"Mwahahaha!! That'll teach you for conspiring to take the rum away!! *cough* I mean... Oh my!"

...I think that muse is Shini in disguise, she is my Muse of Evil, Angst, and General Dark Stuff(tm)... And after that she held the fic hostage in exchange for yaoi. Dark yaoi. Dan/Danny noncon with a PitchPearl background. o__o
Yeaaaahhh.... I don't think I'm going to post it anytime soon... Unless someone really wants me to...

And then lots more stuff happened on top of that...

So now I'm going to attempt to continue this...
Next chapter is some more questions answered, I guess... What was I doing again?... x__x;

Hullo, kaa-kaa!

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:04:09 GMT

Ake_no_Koru here! This is what is to be my writing journal. My fanfics, original fics, and possibly some art will be posted here. My other journal will be for my emo rants. XD

Anyways... A quick bit of info about my name here. Junpaku Karasu pretty much means "Snow-white Raven". It can also mean "Pure Raven", the word junpaku meaning something along the lines of the purity of snow.

This name fits pretty well with a writing journal for me because of one of my original fics/manga in the works that has the Native American deity Raven as the main character. Though, that story probably won't be showing up on here for a while...
What I will be posting will be fanfics, mostly of Danny Phantom it seems at the moment ^^;