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Title: Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship - Part II
Author: Raya
Theme: Hotaru / Torture
Genre: Drama
Version: PGSM S (Spoiler Level = Pallas, i.e., NONE)
Rating: G
Word Count: ~510
Disclaimer: Tomoe Hotaru, her father, her school, and her classmate all belong to Takeuchi Naoko. I have only captured their images as holograms and manipulated them to illustrate my story.
Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship - Part II
A/N: Continued from Part I
Hotaru tried to walk slowly and smoothly. Her father had just scolded her for not using her wheelchair, saying that she was still too weak from her last set of surgeries to walk all day no matter how strong she felt, and she did not want to prove him right. As the heat from the early summer noon day sun made her skin prickle, however, she unconsciously began to speed up.
She shivered a little at the sensation and looked up towards her protective barrier. 'It's just my imagination,' she scolded herself as she reached a brisk walking pace. 'The ultraviolet rays cannot penetrate the umbrella's special cloth. I know that. Even if it did somehow, the uniform would protect me. There is nothing to worry about. Nothing at...'
Suddenly, her whole right side froze mid-step. Hotaru's black eyes widened in shock as she felt herself begin to fall. Instinctively, she dropped the umbrella from her left hand and tried to turn herself so that she could land on her left shoulder instead of her newly reconstructed right arm. Hotaru cried out in pain as her heavy body crashed into a wrought iron bench, and then again as the new electronic nerves in her right arm began to short circuit. The pain of her quickly burning face and neck seemed inconsequential when compared to the agony that filled the right side of her body as her leg began to short circuit as well.
Hotaru tried to curl into a fetal position as the tortuous pain danced across her nerves. The movement made her slip off of the bench, and she cried out a third time as she landed on the hard ground.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Jumping to the roof of the sheltered walkway on her way class, Cyprine smiled maliciously in surprised triumph. "Well, well, well... What have we here? Did our precious little darling fall down and hurt herself? Maybe I should help her up..."
The slim, older girl summoned her Dark Star Staff, and began to make a swirling motion as she drew it up from waist height to shoulder height. Her school uniform and braided brown hair fluttered as a wind spiraled around her, and then danced wildly as she threw it towards the garden. "Ribbon Buster!" Hotaru's umbrella tumbled and bounced across the flowers and out of sight. "Oops... Missed," the youngest magus said snidely as she surveyed the fallen girl.
An uneasy frown slowly grew on her face as when she realized that Hotaru had not responded to her little trick. The smaller girl lay unmoving beside a lacy looking bench. "Get up," Cyprine whispered. "You idiot, get out of the sun!" She shifted nervously from foot to foot as the seconds ticked away. Professor Tomoe would be very upset if his precious daughter were seriously hurt by her little prank. When Hotaru still did not move, Cyprine began to fear that something was seriously wrong with the girl. She leapt to the ground on the far side of the covered walkway and ran to find help.
Continued in Part III
Author: Raya
Theme: Hotaru / Torture
Genre: Drama
Version: PGSM S (Spoiler Level = Pallas, i.e., NONE)
Rating: G
Word Count: ~510
Disclaimer: Tomoe Hotaru, her father, her school, and her classmate all belong to Takeuchi Naoko. I have only captured their images as holograms and manipulated them to illustrate my story.
Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship - Part II
A/N: Continued from Part I
Hotaru tried to walk slowly and smoothly. Her father had just scolded her for not using her wheelchair, saying that she was still too weak from her last set of surgeries to walk all day no matter how strong she felt, and she did not want to prove him right. As the heat from the early summer noon day sun made her skin prickle, however, she unconsciously began to speed up.
She shivered a little at the sensation and looked up towards her protective barrier. 'It's just my imagination,' she scolded herself as she reached a brisk walking pace. 'The ultraviolet rays cannot penetrate the umbrella's special cloth. I know that. Even if it did somehow, the uniform would protect me. There is nothing to worry about. Nothing at...'
Suddenly, her whole right side froze mid-step. Hotaru's black eyes widened in shock as she felt herself begin to fall. Instinctively, she dropped the umbrella from her left hand and tried to turn herself so that she could land on her left shoulder instead of her newly reconstructed right arm. Hotaru cried out in pain as her heavy body crashed into a wrought iron bench, and then again as the new electronic nerves in her right arm began to short circuit. The pain of her quickly burning face and neck seemed inconsequential when compared to the agony that filled the right side of her body as her leg began to short circuit as well.
Hotaru tried to curl into a fetal position as the tortuous pain danced across her nerves. The movement made her slip off of the bench, and she cried out a third time as she landed on the hard ground.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Jumping to the roof of the sheltered walkway on her way class, Cyprine smiled maliciously in surprised triumph. "Well, well, well... What have we here? Did our precious little darling fall down and hurt herself? Maybe I should help her up..."
The slim, older girl summoned her Dark Star Staff, and began to make a swirling motion as she drew it up from waist height to shoulder height. Her school uniform and braided brown hair fluttered as a wind spiraled around her, and then danced wildly as she threw it towards the garden. "Ribbon Buster!" Hotaru's umbrella tumbled and bounced across the flowers and out of sight. "Oops... Missed," the youngest magus said snidely as she surveyed the fallen girl.
An uneasy frown slowly grew on her face as when she realized that Hotaru had not responded to her little trick. The smaller girl lay unmoving beside a lacy looking bench. "Get up," Cyprine whispered. "You idiot, get out of the sun!" She shifted nervously from foot to foot as the seconds ticked away. Professor Tomoe would be very upset if his precious daughter were seriously hurt by her little prank. When Hotaru still did not move, Cyprine began to fear that something was seriously wrong with the girl. She leapt to the ground on the far side of the covered walkway and ran to find help.
Continued in Part III