Title: CPR
Words: 261
Genre: Humor
Rating: PG
Details: A drabble based on Hikou's
dream.
Disclaimer, I don't own Final Fantasy VII, Hikou or Snow. I only own Mikari. This is based on a dream Hikou had, I added some detail to Mikari's side of the story. Credits to Hikou since it's still her dream, this is just my misinterpretation.
CPR
Mikari didn't like being trapped in the middle of the ocean, she didn't like cruises, she didn't like water, she didn't like leaving her room, but she did like amusement.
In that dreaded water surrounded floating device, her only source of laughs was Reno and his less than considerate sparring style.
And she was amused, and she felt no pity for the kid they were supposed to train, and as expected it ended badly.
The splash Reno's weapon made would be the boy's funeral song; especially since, Jenova knows why, the Turks would have to harpoon a miniature whale to get it back.
There would have been one less on the boat if not because Snow and Hikou, and less enthusiastically Mikari, decided that they did not want the cost of a dead trainee to be deducted from their pay checks, even if he was dispensable and there were many replacements laying around Edge.
If those events preceding this one were the cause of it all, or simply preceding events irrelevant to the following occurrences, Mikari did not know.
But she did know that the kid Reno still wanted to kill, and she was quite willing not to stand in the way, was standing around watching while Hikou, from Mikari's perspective, made out with Genesis.
Despite her willingness to watch Reno murder the boy who threw his weapon overboard and brought about the entire mini-whale harpooning ordeal, she instead dragged him away muttering something about not only getting a room, but also remembering to lock the door.
Because she never forgot.
End
Day 7: April 21
Title: Angel of Death: Chapter 7
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Warning: language, death
Words: 7,240/30,000
Summary: The life of a reaper can get boring, so why not spice it up with a little game? Ferrymen and zombie laws are not a problem for a reaper of her power who can even reap unmarked humans. Her target is the newly revived Chika Akatsuki.
Chapter 7
He thought he saw someone, and the elderly man goes to take a closer look. Maybe the boys from Z-Loan finished their work quickly and came down to the first floor again, they had stopped going to work so he thought they had moved on from their jobs there after they were done with high school, but today they retuned. He turns a corner following a shadow, an unknown figure. He feels a little frightened but pushes the thoughts away to the back of his head where they stay. Humans have a sixth sense sometimes that against their better judgment they often ignore.
He continues down the deserted hall, plastic plants forming odd shadows, the silence heavy and the light very dim. The figure stands in front of the elevator pressing the button for it to come down and the man breathes in relief. "Ah, it's you Miss Kita," the janitor finds what he had gone to investigate. The night shift could be eerie but the building was so busy and crowded during the day and that left no room for cleaning.
The lavender haired girl turns around, and looks at the man standing there looking relieved as he should not be. "Only the Z-Loan people and the cleaning crew would come here this late."
The janitor laughs in agreements. "That's true. I'm glad it was you, for a minute I thought I was imagining things." Or worse yet, he had thought for a moment that he might -not- be imagining things, and that those things were real.
"Oh no you're not imagining anything, I am indeed here... death is very real," a scythe appears in her hand and her appearance changes this time she looks like one of the corpses from the in between. She is similar to the movie zombies in an unknown ironic reference to Z-Loan. Her lavender hair is much longer, split and greasy. Her flesh is rotting, green eyes glowing unnaturally. "Time to say goodbye Fuji."
Fuji yells and runs for dear life. He heads for the stairs and dashes up with speed beyond what one would think he can achieve. He stops for a moment and looks back. He then looks towards the elevators and sees the lights on. He rushes down the stairs again, assuming she has gone up the elevator.
He stops at the end of the stairs, seeing the zombie reaper standing before him. "Came back to face your destiny?"
Fuji realizes that the elevator's light must have been on because Chika, Sotetsu or Yuuta are coming down, maybe even Bekko himself. He runs up the stairs again. "Chika! Sotetsu! Yuuta! Bekko!" He yells as loud as he can. "There's a..." what is she really? "a monster!"
The elevator doors open on the first floor, Chika Sotetsu and Yuuta rushing out. "Damn it Fuji!" Chika rushes towards the back exist were he was sure Fuji's voice was coming from. He should have known Fuji would be next, but somehow he didn't.
"Chika!" Yuuta yells for him to stop, they can't beat a reaper like her, the one without a name, not unless they find a weakness and she might not even have one.
Sotetsu rushes after Chika, Yuuta following as well. Sotetsu calls out his axe, as the only zombie of the group he is the only one capable of materializing a weapon in such a way. "Chika, out of the way!" Sotetsu spots the reaper, in the shape of rotting Michiru. He brings the axe down on her and noting happens. He had hit something so solid, so invulnerable that even the sharp axe of plasma had no effect.
"Stop this!" Chika stand between the reaper and Fuji, "why keep killing people simply because of their names, they're not even marked!"
"Chika!" Yuuta warms him. If the reaper is angered she could easily kill them all.
"Because it's so fun to play with you. I have your full attention now, don't I Chika?" The reaper laughs evilly and her appearance changes again. Her flesh is pale but healthy, her clothing made of black leather similar to what Ember was wearing when she died, her hair a fiery red in a high ponytail and on her back a pair of black bat wings.
Chika attacks while Sotetsu futile continues to hit her with his axe and Yuuta yells and screams and nearly begs for them to leave the deadly creature they can't hope to beat.
The reaper stretches her wings, one wraps around Chika and the other around Sotetsu trapping them both. Yuuta stands before her a terrified Fuji lays on the floor trembling. "Please don't... you have no reason to, what would you gain?"
"What would you know little mortal," the reaper lifts her scythe but Yuuta doesn't move, he will not abandon everyone.
"Even if I break the rules of my own little game, it doesn't matter, I'll kill you too Yuuta." The reaper lowers the scythe and at the last moment Yuuta is pushes out of the way.
Fuji receives the impact but this time the scythe does not leave the scars it left on A, B and C. It is similar to the death of D and E, a death without scars, simply reaped. "Killed and guided, you can't make this one a zombie even if you try."
In shock and desperation, Yuuta jumps to his feet and attacks, Kenken and Konkon in tightly close fists. He is easily pushes aside and along with Chika and Sotetsu, Yuuta is left there, at the back exist of the Z-Loan building, next to Fuji's dead body; and the next day the story would be that old Fuji died of heart failure.
The reaper fades away, casting one last look at Chika and speaking as she disappears. "Try to stop me Chika..." because she likes his attention on her and she likes his strong emotions, even if they are made of hatred and anger; and she doesn't understand why, she fades away to nothingness.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I don't own Zombie Loan.