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Diego's Journal
The looking glass
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The Looking Glass pt.2
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April 17, 2008, 09:25:pm
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This is all so strange how can, i even begin to believe any of this? There’s no way any of it is real.
It was the morning after my birthday, after all the insanity that had occured. After the old woman pretending to be my dead grandmother, storming into the house, my Dad using strange powers... No i wouldnt think about it, thinking about it mightm ake it make more sense, thats stupid. Well at any rate i wont give it the chance.
"Diose! You’ll be late for school at this rate if you dont get up!" Dad yelled from the bottom of the stairs. There! That proves it he wouldn’t have bothered about school if any of that was real! They had said I couldn’t go to school now that i had my powers! Good then it was a dream. Time to shower and get ready for the day. The shower felt refreshing and relaxing, i stood there letting the water run down me hot enough that you couldnt see the far wall through the steam. It started while i was drying my hair, an itching sensation, on my shoulder blades, and eyes. The eyes were strange it wasnt like they were irritated or even as though it were the eyelids, it was as if it were the pupils themselves that itched. Scratching the eyelid did nothing to help, in fact it made the itching worse.
"GAGHGGHG THIS ITCH IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!" I shouted in exasperation.
"Then scratch it stupid." It was the voice again, Terentis’ voice, that wierd double voice.
"Where are you? NO your not real i must be... asleep still, yea! thats it asleep!" i tried to rationalize the voice, but the whole time he was chuckling to the point of roaring with laughter. "SHUT UP YOUR CRAZY BASTARD NOTHING IS FUNNY!!! YOU ARENT REAL THINGS THAT DONT EXIST ARENT SUPPOSED TO LAUGH!!"
"WILL YOU SHUT THE HELL UP DIOSE AND GET READY THE MORE YOU ARGUE WITH HIM THE MORE PWERFUL HE BECOMES!" It was the crazy old bat from last night! What the hell was going on?! I put a towel around myself and opened the door, "What is going on here?! You, you arent real it was a.." i stuttered, but she cut me off.
"A dream? I thought we settled this ’you’re not real thing last night’"
"But Dad said that i was going to school i thought last night you said i would be unable to return now."
"Not to human school you can’t. You’ll be going to our school in our demension. Where it is required that you have powers." She said satysfied.
"How will i do that i dont know how to cross demensions. And what about Grandad isnt he out to kill Dad and me? Plus what if my powers arent white i will be killed wont i?"
"The school you will be going to is in a nuetral zone everyone from every demension who has powers goes there. Without fear of retaliation for reason like that. And as for the demension problem you’ll taking the bus."She said smugly.
"What supplies will i need?" i asked
"I have packed a suite case for you." she replied
"A suite case? I thought i was going to school not camp!" i shouted
"In this case its the same thing you will be staying at the school until graduation. The school works as follows, depending upon ability you will attend any where from 1-4 years 4 being that you have alot of ability to work with. Classes, you will not be consciouse for, this stops others from learning the highly valued teachings of how to use your powers for specific things. The only class you will be awake for is gym, so you may practice what you learn. Every end of the year there will be an exam, a test that demenstrates your capabilities. Depending upon how you do you will either graduate or go on for more advanced training." she told me all of this while walking me towards the kitchen for breakfast.
"what about other students?" i asked
"All i can tell you is stay out of the way of the older students, even if they are only a year ahead of you they will be vastly stronger than you." she told me this very seriously.
"Will others in my class already know spells?" i asked apprehensivley
"Yes and no, depending on where they come from some will know spells yes, and those who do will vary in strength, some will only know defensive spells, others attack spells which arent very powerful. Others, whom are the most dangerous at this point will know only how to imbue themsleves with energy in their arms or legs for use as more powerful than normal weapons."
"What am i supposed to do if someone picks a fight with me?" i asked more than a little apprehensive
"Dont let them." was all she would say.
The next thing i knew there was a blatting horn noise and a purple gash in the air opened next to my house. "Thats your ride," she said and pushed me out the door to it, "Remember dont get into a confrontation with an older student no matter what!" Then i was on the bus and another rift opened up and we entered it the bus was going to school but i had no idea where the hell i was going.
END OF CHAPTER
The bus was far larger than it looked on the outside, in fact it looked like a medium to large house now that i could see well enough. The void we were traveling through made everything in the bus dark, as far as i could tell the only people that werent completely human looking were normal enough, with only small differences: A tail, pointed ears, a horn or two. The most outlandish were animal based like tiger people, lizard people. Of course there were purple skinned and green and blue and red. But nothing i couldnt handle. I must have looked a little afraid when i sat down, which is always a mistake, because once i got seated immeadiatley i noticed a little bit of staring was coming my way. More than the normal amount, it hindered on rude, the feeling wasn’t going away either, in fact it was intensifying. I looked at the window, and saw someone staring back! "You gonna let ’em stare at youlike that bro? i cant believe it man say somethin establish your self, or i will!" it was Terentis!
"I dont know anything on defending myself what if they choose to fight i could get vaporized or something!" i replied.
"Look who do you think know anythin on this bus? Guess what its the humans who know anything none of the others know a damn thing, the most dangerous is sitting in the darkest corner across from you, he knows the most. Look straight at him and say ’What the fuck do you want Specs?’"
"And if he beats the hell outta me with fire or something like that then what?" i replied
"He doesnt know any fire he’s a little gifted with air is all, he colors the air red so it looks more dangerous, people get scared and the freak and it cuts them with staples and shit like that he throws into from his pockets. Look if he tries anything other than ’ i am sorry for staring at you please forgive me’ and stops staring then say this, and you cannot hesitate either if you get the imulse to say it then do even of he does apologize, your instincts must be trusted otherwise your dead, say ’Shakkaho!’, that should do the trick, at your level of strength it wont kill him, it would be as good as if you punched at half strength." he said, i had no idea why but i couldnt help but think he was telling the truth.
"ok." i said.
"Hey Specs what the fuck are you staring at?!" i shouted towards the darkness acros from me. At first there was no response then there was a chuckle as though someone had made a semi amusing joke. From out of the darkness there was a flash as though from glasses being adjusted on someones nose.
"I am terribly sorry but it seemed for a second as though you were speaking to me boy." there came a voice i would associate with someone who was picked on for his entire life but just recently came into a power of some kind, it was dispicable.
"You were right, for a second it seems, because i was talking to you, boy" i replied the disgust must have been evident in my voice because the darkness was lifted and there sat a boy who fit ’nerd’ in almost every way, not a geek because he was not ugly, just small, large cranium, large glasses, button up collard shirt, with pocket full of pens, and thin straight black hair with a hair cut that looked like his mom always cut it.
"It appears you havent fully realized where you are Diose, yes i know you, although i doubt if you would know who i am, being as popular as you were. You would even get the highest test scores. I would always get second, but never noticed for my ability with school! ITS NOT FAIR THAT YOU SHOULD ALSO HAVE THIS TOO THIS PLACE THIS POWER IS MINE ITS NOT FAIR THAT YOU SHOULD BE HERE AS WELL!!!!" he shreiked this last sentence and slashed his hand downwards towards me, and an entire seat came hurtling towards me! ’NOW!’ shouted Terentis inside my head.
"Shakkaho!" i shouted and was amazed as a red ball of energy blasted forth from my fist that i had sub- consciously rasied in attack! It blasted through the seat and into the kid knocking him into the far wall of the bus! My fist was smoking from the energy, "No theres no way you could do that! You couldnt possibly have this power Diose! Not yet, it should be mine Seshinrou Mizoko i should have this! Bashanro!" he shouted and two seats came flying at me!
’Say byakurai!’ shouted Terentis.
"Byakurai!!!" i shouted, and a bolt of lighting shot from my finger, which Terentis had raised like a gun. It ripped the seats apart and blasted into Mizoko, making him go rigid for a second, then dropping him like a rag doll, where he stayed.
The bus came to a screeching halt and a voice came over an intercom, "Kurohitsugi Highschool your trip has come to an end. Please depart the bus leaving your belongings they will be given to you later." the intercom cut out.
Nobody moved at first then the back of the bus erupted in flames! "When we say do something we mean it!" the intercom said but this time it was an evil screeching noise. Everyone ran towards the exit, But Mizoko was still laying unconscious if he didnt get up he’d be burned! There was no choice i’d have to get him out of there!
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"Seschero, look at this. The Diose boy is now taking the kid who attacked him and carying him off the burning bus. Why would he do that?"
"It seems you’re right Kemito, he is carrying that boy off the bus. Very noble, however at this rate he won’t make it in time. Oh well so much for promising students" As Seschero turned away from the monitor fully resolved that his calculations about My survival were correct he heard Komito gasp and the room was lit with a flash of green light and the speakers popped as all the sound from the fire on the bus was cut off by the shield I had created energy, although i was not strong enough to destroy the fire, i was strong enough to hold the barrier long enough that when it failed the amount of oxygen that rushed into the flames made the hot air expand with enough force to launch me and Mizoko from the bus.
"Hmmm, maybe he does indeed have greater potentional than even you thought Seschero." said Kemito silkily.
"Perhaps." replied Seschero in his usual uncaring voice, although there was a slight frown on his normally expressionless face.
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Laying next to the bus that had, moments before been engulfed in flames, but now was pulling away looking brand new i could not help but wonder why the hell i hadnt just let myself be content with having the window open the night of my birthday, why the hell did i have to climb out onto the garage?
’ Not bad for your first day brotha."’ sneered Terentis although i could tell, he was proud.
To be continued.
Mood: devious
Music: Static X destroyer
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The Looking Glass pt. 1
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April 17, 2008, 09:23:pm
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My name, well i guess you must know, my name is Hitnomia, Diose Hitnomia i'm age 17 and i live in Kyoto, Japan. I'm a senior in highschool, and i am, was, was a normal guy. I was a really popular student with the teachers and my classmates, i had it all. I thought nothing could go wrong with my life, until i got it. The thing that messed everything up, the Looking Glass, on the outside it appears to be just a normal hand mirror ornate and beautiful, old too, like before the time when Japan was being modernized, back in the days where it was killed or be killed and government could only wish it were in control. Not alot of things survived from that era, what with the constant wars and border changes almost nothing could be thought of as stable, especially here in Kyoto where it was said the most bloody battles were fought, the most savage killing went on. I never really paid that much attention to those things, except for how they had to deal with a test, they weren't things that had any meaning or impact on my life. Until i got the mirror.
It was my 17th birthday and i had thought i had gotten all my presents, and it was after the party, so i figured i would go out onto the roof of the garage that my window overlooks and just look at the night sky, or what little i could see of it here in the city. I was enjoying the night air and the dull buzz of the street lamps, when i heard what sounded like a pipe gurgling, it was louder than one would expect a pipe to be especially as there were none on the surface around here, so i got up from where i was laying and looked down on the street for the source of the noise, and i saw an old, man, i guess and he was very old indeed with a gnarled cane supporting his bent frame, the noise came again and i realized he was making the noise, he was clearing his throat. "Well are you going to come down here? Or are you going to make an old woman go all the way up there to you?"
" What? You're a woman?" i asked.
"WELL OF COURSE I'M A WOMAN YOU IDIOT WHAT ELSE ON THIS ROCK COULD I BE?!" she yelled insenced at being mistaken for a man.
"I'm sorry i didn't realize it's very dark you know." i apologized, that cane looked very sturdy and i had no intention of being hit with it. I jumped down from the garage and walked over to her, "So what can i help you with mam?"
"Well you can start by calling me by the right name, as i am your grandmother." she replied dryly.
" Umm, i'm sorry you must have the wrong house, my grandmother is in the house already, asleep." i replied slightly embarassed at having caught someone in a senile moment.
"Oh so you only have one parent huh? I'm guessing you were hatched then eh? YOU MORON YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE GRANDMOTHER!! YOU HAVE TWO PARENTS SO OBVIOUSLY THEY EACH HAD TWO PARENTS!!" she yelled, "I am your fathers mother."
But that was impossible my father's parents were dead, a car accident or something, he didn't like talking about it so i didn't press him on it. What the hell was this bagg talking about? "Umm my dad's parents are-" i began to explain.
She fixed me with a look that cut me dead, and said in an icy voice, "Don't you tell me that my son has gone and told you that I and my husband, though lord knows he should be, are dead?"
"Well yes, he did." I said meekly what was it about this old lady that scared me so much? It's not like i was a wimp or anything, i was the inter- school thai champion i had faced guys 3 times my size and kicked their asses how could this little dried up husk frighten me so?
"Well then Chiro and i will have to discuss this!" she said with such finality that there could be no arguement, with that she handed me the bags she was carrying and marched straight to the door and kicked it open! "CHIRO!! YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING LYING SON!! I DID NOT GO THROUGH 12 HOURS OF LABOR FOR YOU TO DENY MY EXISTENCE! NOR DID I BANISH YOUR FATHER SO THAT HE WOULDN'T DESTROY YOU FOR YOU TO RUN AWAY TO THIS ROTTING LUMP OF A DEMENSION NOW COME HERE!!" There was an explosion of sound in the kitchen as my dad came blasting past the front room for the back door and on his back it looked as though there were traces of light... what could that be? "Oh so you think you can use hikari tsubasa on me and get away huh? I INVENTED LIGHT WINGS RETARD!! AISU KIZUNA!!" as she screamed the last sentence my vision started to go, my world was shrinking down to the size of a dime and as i went out i saw what looked like light blue bands encircling my father.
End of Chapter 1
I felt something ooze past my face as i was lying on the ground checking to see if i was still alive, i still hadn't opened my eyes afraid that the old hagg blown my fathers insides all over the living room with those blue bands. I shivered, why was it so cold? Had that woman blasted the house apart as well? Or was i outside? Just as i was about to open my eyes an eerie voice that seemed to fluctuate between being one to two people spoke, "Ahhhh he's awake is he? Hey brother you took quite a nasty fall huh? Didncha? Well can you speak patna? Doesya know how to speak on this plane? WELL?!" The last part he yelled apparently he had become anoyed with my lack of answers, this individual was very unstable in the emotions department it seemed. I got up, while opening my eyes, i opened and closed them multiple times to make sure i wasn't seeing things, everything around me was dark and murky with some kind of black mist flowing around everywhere.
"Where am I?" i whispered.
"We! where are WE?! There are two of us in here you know brother." Said the voice again.
"Who and where are you? It might help if i can see you." I replied annoyed at being messed with by someone who wouldn't show himself.
"Hmmmmm, interesting. You want me to show myself? Are you sure brotha? You know once i do there's no going back right?" he replied silkly in his double- voice. He said, "No going back?", what could that have meant?
"Well yes i'm sure, and why do you keep calling me brother?! I don't have a brother! Now where are you damnit?!" i exclaimed having reached my limit with this voice that for some reason had an uncanny ability to get under my skin.
"Very well, look over here." the voice said from somewhere to my left. I looked over and saw nothing.
"There's nothing there dumbass now where are YOU?!" i yelled.
"Just walk that way and you'll see soon enough brotha." he said this and snickered at the end of the sentence as though it was a private joke he alone shared. I walked to my left and after what seemed more than twenty minutes just as i was growing impatient and was about to yell at him for being asanine again, i saw a form in the mist, i walked closer and saw that it was an old ornate table, black as everything else here with a hint of red that made it stand out. I walked up to it and saw a mirror on it.
"Well touch it..." he said he seemed a little closer now. I was wary of picking it up it was an old ornate hand mirror with kanji written on it something about twin souls and opposites of everything with the elements placed around it in a circle air opposite earth and water the same for fire, as well as light opposite shadow. Strange, i thought, the mirror was beautiful yet hideous somehow it was frightening i was even more adverse to touching it now. "No no no, you have seen it now you must pick it up. NO GOING BACK remember?" As the voice said this my hand shot out of its own accord and touched the surface of the glass, and i felt a sickening sucking sensation and i realized i was being pulled through the glass!!! I hit fell through space and finally hit the ground, i got up and looked around upon turning to look behind me i saw him, immediatly i knew it was his voice, it could be no one elses. He was very strange in appearance his very pose saying insolent, as though the mere mention of obediance was a joke and that the subject of order was a laughable one. His skin was as pale as to be colorless the very definiton of gray, his eyes, they were the strangest black where there should be white and red where there should be green, blue, brown or any normal color. His teeth were also gray, his hair as well. He had the same build as me and everything, he was dressed in a flowing white robe with a red under wrappings like an old Japanese gunner, with loose, flowing white pants tucked into his boots. He was armed as well, with many weapons, his forearm had a metal brace on it which had a hidden blade underneath, at his side was a scimitar, on the wide black plate belt he wore were several kunai throwing knives, as well as behind the black plate shoulder pad on his left shoulder, on his back a curved short sword. his boots were tipped though you wouldn't know unless he was kicking you with them. I knew though, i knew because i had drawn this outfit, when i had drawn it it was on me though.
"How did you find out about this outfit?" I asked unnerved and starting to notice why he was smirking but unwilling to believe the horrible idea that was surfacing, the idea which he confirmed as he said,
"Why wouldn't i kno about this outfit? After all we created it Brotha!" No i refused to believe that he could even be someone i knew let alone-
"Why do you keep calling me Brother? I don't even know you!" I shouted stumbling back away from the creature that responded by confirming without a doubt that he was not my brother he was me!
"Well you see brotha is easier than saying ' the good reflection of me' everytime i speak to you. Don't you agree?" he said fluidly.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" I screamed falling back away from the man, the creature who could not be but inescapably was me the darker me, who didn't want to bother shaking hands after a match the one who wanted to laugh in the face of those who had tried to beat me, the one who wanted to take my girlfriend now instead of waiting until we were ready, he was, was all instinct all want and desire and rage. He would use the weapons he had to get the job done as fast as possible no matter the concsequences to anyone else, it only he mattered if he got what he wanted, if that happened then everything was perfect damn the suffering of others.
"Diose! Diose wake up! Wake up son! Please show me he didn't get you!" my father was shouting at me, worry apparent in his voice.
"Back up Chiro i'll wake him." It was the old woman speaking, i was about to ask why she was still here, when a blast of icy water smashed into my face.
"BAAAAGHGHGHGHGHGH!!! WHAT THE HELL?!! ARE TRYING TO DROWNED ME IN MY OWN HOUSE OR SOMETHING YOU CRAZY OLD BAT?!!" I blasted out, the cold water had felt like daggers on my face. At first i thought the old lady was going to knock the crap out of me, instead she said,
"Yup looks like he's ok Chiro, you apparently didn't do to bad of a job with this one at least." My father had looked relieved until the last part of the sentence, he suddenly looked very angery and i thought he was going to shout at the old woman, instead when he spoke he was very quiet, "You swore you would say nothing of him."
"I didn't did i?" she replied equally quiet.
"But you did say something, and you did it so he'd ask, and you know it." my father replied still in that quiet voice.
"Your making it worse Chiro, you know that right?" she replied, "Now he'll definetly ask and it will be your fault." she finished triumphantly. I felt as though they were discussing my reflection in that nightmare of a dream i had just had, but how did they know about him?
"Yes Diose," it was my father speaking, "we know about the reflection in your dream, and i want you to know that, he is only apart of you, not your reflection. That is actually your older brother, who's true spirit is no longer with us." my father seemed deeply saddened as he said this to me.
"True spirit-?" i began to ask before the old hagg cut me off.
"Your father means that the thing that will tell you it is your brother is actually a shell compared to what your older brother was originally before he joined your grandfather. Now all he is is a pumped up Dread Judge for the Crusade for True Light. Paah! 'True Light' huh your grandfather never did understand that color has nothing to do with it." she spat.
"What your grandmother means is that, well we aren't really from this demension we are from a place that is directly in line with Kyoto. What i mean is that the reason we can come to Kyoto so easily is that our demension is actually right inside Kyoto, at least the part we were in. The Crusade for True Light is a commanding force that believes it is right in all things and is after a power known in our demension as True Light. You see your grandfather is the Master Judge of the order, which is the leader. The shell that calls itself your brother is his right hand the highest in the highest order of warriors in the Crusade's army that order is the FelJudges, their commander being the Dread Judge. Now your grandfather believes that True Light's form is white as white is pure therefore everyone within his domain must use only white light. And i dont mean what color their lamp bulbs are, son, in our demension we can use power. Power as in move things with our minds, blast buildings apart without dynamite. Like in those anime's you're always watching. You also have this power, it awakened once you saw Terentis, that's your brothers name. Now there is no going back, we cannot allow you to continue going to school here, having just attained your powers.
to be continued
Mood: devious
Music: static x behemoth
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