Ah, things seem to be heating up a little now! *hehe* 
Uhm... comments... Comments... Let's see now... Gotta come up with a very original one for this scene...
*thinks very hard*
uhm...
Nah, can't think of anything. How's about a good old fashioned 'job very well done'? ^^;;
And, of course: Looking forward to the next installation *very much*!
Thank you, urban and Tiamat! *bestows upon both of you copies of Excel Saga* ^_^
Scenes 11 and 12, cause it's been a while.
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Tai was having some trouble processing current events.
*My sister is kissing me.* The thought rose up from the bottom of his brain like a balloon. The higher it went, the more frantic Tai became, until it bumped against the top of his skull and he just flipped out.
*My* sister *is kissing me, my* SISTER *is kissing me, my goddamn* SISTER *is* kissing *me!*
The balloon in Tai's head swelled like a rapidly-growing tumor, the string dangling down into his spine and sending jitters throughout his whole body. *My sister, my sister, sister sister sister sister--*
Kari moaned, and shifted forward, slipping her upper lip between her brother's.
*SISTER.*
The balloon popped with a BANG! that delved deep into the crack between the halves of Tai's brain, cracking it with a sickly ripping sound that filled the boy's ears. His eyes went blank and dull, reflecting nothing, looking like pools of contained, stagnant brown sludge. As his left hemisphere began to break up, his eyes closed slowly, lids descending before his muddy eyes like garage doors. He slumped slightly, his forehead resting against Kari's, as he completely lost control of his thoughts.
Behind his heavy lids, the world became a backdrop of hazy pink, in front of which a shapely figure stood, arms spread wide and high, a massive flop of hair hanging between. Tai began to approach the figure, not walking or running, but seemingly floating towards it, as if propelled through space. As he neared, he realized that he was clothed and the figure was not, and that all the bits thought best covered in common society were right there in the open.
With this realization a small, round bulge appeared on the crotch of Tai's shorts, traveled up across the crease made by the zipper, and flipped up into position with the soft sound of shifting cloth. Huzzah, instant hard-on!
Back in his uniformly pink universe, Tai's scrambled mind was only just realizing that the figure was Jun. She gave him a mischievous wink, but he just barely saw it before his eyes dropped down to her chest. Visions of Jun's sugarplums dancing in his head, he leaned over and began to nibble upon her sweets. His hand gave one of the imaginary girl's buttocks a hard squeeze, and from there Tai was completely lost in the lustful fantasy.
***
Kari, too, had her eyes closed, but not to escape the goings on. On the contrary, they were shut to further savor the situation, which was, in the girl's mind, quickly approaching nirvana, heaven, Eden, pick a paradise, any paradise, they'll all do!
*Is this how it's always like?* she mused. *Will I fly every time I kiss?*
Soaring in her head though she was, she was really on all fours on the table, her right knee crushing her partially-eaten slice into a cheesy, greasy, pasty mess. In some part of her mind she registered the heat of the sauce seeping into the folds of her flesh, but that hardly mattered. She was riding the sky, friends and felons. She was *gone*.
Panting lightly, she slipped her tongue past Tai's lips and caressed his teeth.
***
Reality, being a bitter and honest thing, chose to break away the shell of daydream at the pinnacle of Kari's flight.
***
A vibration on his lips, a foreign slug in his mouth. That was all it took to crack the fantasy.
It began with the nipple Tai was ever-so-eagerly consuming. In the blink of an eye he knew it was really his sister's lip he was gnawing on, not the older girl's nub. After that, the fa
Red Mage Dragon Tiamat
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My prayers are heared.
I just wondered what happened, coz it was a long time, but after all it's worth the wait. You did a great job again, and it is very enjoyable to read your story, man. ^_^
Doujinji addicts are neither weird nor evil, but still:
NICE WORK!! :D
*wonders what's going to happen next*
Bwahah, thanks Tiamat and urban. *smiles happily*
Well, this update has been around for some time, I just haven't gotten a chance to post it here. -_-
Scene 13!
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Tai dashed across the food court, intent on locating Kari as quickly as possible, and, if necessary, to defend her in any way he had to to keep her safe and whole. He was on a holy mission, one given to him by some metaphysical (or maybe ectoplasmic?) higher-up. Nothing could stop him. He was invincible. Unstoppable. Courageous and dauntless and--
And then he saw the crowded path, and realized--
*I've got no idea which way she went.*
He stopped and stood there, staring at this centipedal, shifting swarm of *homo sapiens*, the one thing standing between him and finding his sister. Ominous though the sight was, his sense of purpose remained unshifting.
As he saw it, there were two possibilities: to the left, or to the right. The question was, which way?
He looked to the left. The centipede scrambled across the manmade path.
He looked to the right. More of the same. How repressing.
*Left or right? One way goes back to the entrance, the other...I don't know where the other goes...if I go one way, but that isn't the way Kari went, I'll just be wasting time and putting her into more danger.*
*Pick a direction, just DO SOMETHING.*
*But what if I go the wrong w--*
"Hey."
Tai blinked, then looked behind him.
The pizza guy waved at him, half-grinning. "She went thataway." He pointed.
Tai frowned, and pointed in the same direction.
The guy nodded, pointed once more, then turned away to tend to a new customer.
Tai's frown deepened. He turned to face the centipede again, turned back to give the pizza guy a doubtful look, turned back again, took two steps back, and ran full-speed towards the path, arms trailing behind him like the strings of balloons.
He pushed deep into that dark mass.
***
This second trip into the crowd found Tai struggling against two separate flows of people, who, though mindless in their movement, nonetheless seemed to be actively working against him. As he pulled and pushed and shoved his way past one person after another, he was constantly knocked into, sometimes mistakenly, sometimes with most ill intent. His head alone received several good whacks, sending it flailing from side to side. Bodies pounded into his sides, making him careen all over the path.
By the time he stumbled out of that mass he was horribly dizzy and sore. The horizon twisted and turned in his vision. The lines between the white bricks that made up the path began to curve and spiral. His eyes rolled around in his head.
He had pushed straight through the centipede, and now his body throbbed as a result.
"HEY THERE, LITTLE MAN!"
Tai, still ungainly and discombobulated, stared up at a garishly ghastly ghoul. It's red nose and white skin made its face seem to glow like the ethereal flesh of a ghost. The sun reflecting off its silver suit (which looked essentially like a big mylar trashbag with sleeves) made him flinch and look up--where six orange pompoms cycled through the air. They passed from one of the creature's hands to the other.
"HEY! HOW YA DOIN'?" it screamed, leaning in close to Tai's face, still juggling the pompoms, grinning at him with teeth that were even whiter than its dead face. "YOU LOOK DOWN, LITTLE MAN! WHAT'S UP? LOSE YOUR GIRLFRIEND?"
Tai pushed the loud clown away with both hands, sending the awful visage of its face back and *away*. The pompoms rose in the air--and dropped to the ground with soft *pff* sounds.
"Get *away* from me!" the boy screamed, hands still held out in front of him.
The clown gave him a scowl that defied his painted-on smile. "Fine, kid. Just settle down!" He got up, dusted himself off, and retrieved his pompoms. "Jeez, kids these days..."
Tai didn't bother to watch the clown go. He was too busy--
--desperately looking for Kari--
--examining his surroundings.
He was standing on the edge of a large, semi-circular, paved area of the park. He could see a good deal of booths scattered in-between all the people walking around; they appeared to be for dealers, not games. A Ferris wheel spun on its axis to the far right, and on the far left a couple massive concrete cubes--generic park buildings with generic park architecture (i.e., none to speak of)--sat like a child's discarded building blocks. Somewhere behind the Ferris the sound of roller coaster cars rumbling along a track could be heard waving in and out of range. Shrubs and trees lined the borders of this area, an attempt by the creator to make it look alive with vegetation.
It was not the booths nor the rides that Tai's mind focused on. It was the people. Or, more specifically, the *amount* of people.
*There's too many. Too many. Way too many.* His eyes bulged as he took it all in. *I'll never find her in here.*
*Oh, but everyone who isn't supposed to find her* will, *won't they?* a sneaky, serpentine voice hissed in his ear. *They'll find her and take her and strip her and rape her and kill her and it'll BE ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT, won't it TAI?! You'll be ALL TO BLAME! ALL YOUR FAULT! YOURS!* YOURS *AND* YOURS *ALONE*!*
*Not my fault. Not my fault. Not my fault,* his mind rambled against that insidious voice. *No, it's not my fault, it isn't, it can't be, I didn't DO anything to her!*
*You let her kiss you.*
His head twitched to the side. *No.*
*Yes,* it sneered. *Yes, yes, yes. You let her do it. And you got an ERECTION! A grand ol' BONER! And you've still got it, don't you? It's still bouncing around in your shorts, isn't it? Flopping to and fro, a happy little sex-stick! What do you say to that, Tai? What do you say?*
*I say go to hell,* he thought with clenched teeth. *And stop bothering me, I've got to find my sister.*
*YOU WON'T FIND HER SHE'S DEAD YOU WON'T--*
*SHADDAP.*
Tai gave the area one last scrutinizing look, then stepped up to the side of the closest booth. The owner, a burly man with a buzzcut, raised an eyebrow at him.
"Have you seen a little girl about this high...?"
***
Next comes...THE SCENE.
Oh yes, THE SCENE.
^_^
agz
The scene? THE SCENE? *eyes widen in awe* The scene! THE SCENE!
lol
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the scene... hmmm, sounds interesting. ^^
Very curious about what the scene brings.
Unfortunately, this is not the Scene. The next scene is the Scene. I am unconsciously attempting to delay the inevitable. -_-
Anway...
Scene 14, take 69! I mean, uh, 96! 609! Whatever!
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Twenty minutes passed in stealth as Tai ran from booth to booth, asking the same question at each one, and receiving the same answer in return. Between booths he'd ask the people walking around, and they, too, would respond with the exact same words:
"No, I haven't seen her. Sorry."
And then they'd move on, leaving the boy--working on becoming a young man--to continue his search with despair digging ever deeper into him, stabbing and cutting into his hope until it lay dead, blood pooling beneath it from wounds that cut down right to the bone. That bone was stripped clean, and then broken, marrow flying.
And lo, the lifeless corpse of hope is known as dread.
Tai stumbled up to the next booth, his legs aching, his head clouded by worry and growing fatigue. He leaned against the booth, trying to regain whatever energy he could. He looked up, eyes bleary, and said, without even looking at the owner, "Have you seen a little girl this high--" He raised his hand to about Kari's height. "--with brown hair down to here, brown eyes, wearing a yellow shirt and pink shorts?"
The answer came. He sighed, pushed away from the booth, took two steps and stopped dead. He turned his head to look back at the owner. "*What* did you just say?"
The owner pointed with one long-nailed finger. "I said, 'I think I saw her go in there.'"
Tai followed the finger, eyes widening as realization dawned on him. "Oh. Thank you."
She peered at him. "Kid, are you all right? You look like shit."
Tai gave her a blank look.
She shook her head and waved her hands in the air. "Fine, fine, I won't ask. Just go." When he continued to stand there, looking blankly, she made a shooing gesture with her hands. "Go!"
He went. With steps that grew steadily more stable and speedy, he went, his head clearing, eyes focusing, and all the aches and pains invading his body retreating in defeat. Adrenaline, oh adrenaline, how we love thee.
He charged right up to one of the blocky park buildings and stopped in front of the door. A blue circle with a white stick figure of a person wearing a skirt etched into it was nailed to the surface. The ladies' lavatory. He took the doorknob in one hand.
Suddenly, all sound seemed to drop away. The buzz of human activity ceased to exist in the park. Human heartbeats grew quiet and breathing stilled. It was as if all the Earth's atmosphere had been swiftly siphoned away and replaced by a noiseless, airless vacuum.
A vacuum in which Tai was the Great Attractor.
Tai suddenly felt very, very self-conscious.
There was a baby of nine months in a stroller just to his left whom he was *sure* was staring at him. The mother pushing the stroller was gazing at him with wide eyes. A passing single father gaped at him as he walked past, head turning to remain focused on him. Everyone around him was looking at his hand on that shiny silver doorknob, or at the blue-and-white emblem on the door. He felt a sudden rush of heat in his fingers, and knew that even the sun was staring.
*It's in my mind it's not real none of it is real none of it don't think about it don't don't don't even consider it don't don't don't think about it don't don't don't even muse upon it don't don't don't' don't don't DON'T THINK ABOUT IT.*
His resolve firmed, he gripped the knob tighter and began to turn.
"Mommy, why is that boy standing there?" queried a little girl.
His resolve faltered, his fingers went slack.
*This is so childish,* he thought, squeezing his eyes shut tight. *I* need *to go in there. I* need *to find Kari, and if this is the last place* anyone *saw her, this would have to be my best bet so far.*
*So just step inside.*
*I can't!*
*DO IT.*
The knob turned. The boy entered.
***
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well ok that's something (embarrasing)
Not the scene? :shock: Noooooo!!!! The horror... The horror... :(
Ah well. You still did a nice job :) Although I'd hate to be in Tai's situation now ^^;;;;;
All right then. Let's see if I got this right. The scene after the scene which is the present scene will be the scene, which is the scene after the present scene, judging from which the scene, which is the scene after the present scene, will be the next scene, not the scene which is the present scene. Ooo-kay... I think I've got it now. :P
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