Title: Waiting For Minako Part 13 Author: Dark Day For Anime (Mark A Page) Email: ayanami@merlin.net.au ICQ: 9845111 IRC: Saitou^Hajime on DALnet #AJAS Fic Rating: After the fall of human civilisation.... Wait.... That's the crap english opening to "Bastard", isn't it? Where did that come from? Waiting for Minako by DDFA (Mark A Page) Part Thirteen - The Unlucky -------------------------------------------------------------------- Scene: A beach, supposedly in North Queensland (cue banjos) but this has not been confirmed by our operatives. Ami and Makoto are lying on the beach, battered and bruised after a beating by an angry Tenjou Utena, annoyed at their apparent prejudice against pink- haired bimbos.... I mean people.... Ahem.... It is now night, and they are staring up at the stars. Makoto: I think I'm missing a couple of teeth. Ami: ..... Makoto: I can still taste the blood in my mouth. Ami: ..... Makoto: Are you conscious, yet? Ami: ..... Makoto: Didn't think so. You know, I'm beginning to wonder, why were we waiting for Minako, back in Tokyo? Ami: ..... Makoto: It seems like so long ago, now.... Standing by that wall, in the park.... What were we waiting for? Precious minutes of our finite lives, wasting away like that.... Ami: ..... Makoto: I guess it is our destiny to suffer like this.... Ami: ..... Makoto: Of course, we aren't supposed to die, or anything. Not only are our characters supposed to have eternal lives, we are the products of the minds of others.... As long as something of our performances exists, we shall never die. Ami: ..... Makoto: Of course, you know, this means we've never lived, either. A fictional character has no real life of their own, other than that that exists in the minds of real people.... Ami: ..... Makoto: Everything we've suffered, recently, is merely the product of a sick-minded individual, sitting in front of a computer, somewhere in the world.... And more than that.... We've all died, so many times, in so many different ways, in the minds of people all over the planet.... It makes me wonder, sometimes, just what constitutes life.... Ami: ..... Makoto: I mean, everyone knows who I am.... I'm Kino Makoto, also known as Lita to some.... I'm the tall Sailorsenshi in the green and pink costume that runs about, shouting lines pertaining to Jupiter. I'm a great cook and housekeeper, and regard Usagi as a little sister, protecting her because of some perceived sense of strength on my part.... I beat up petty thugs in the street, making it safe for ordinary people.... My sense of independence.... perhaps engendered by the passing of my parents.... Ami: ..... Makoto: But I am nothing more than a character in the minds of others. I never had any parents. To argue otherwise is futile. And is my role, as Sailorjupiter, nothing more than an extension of the thuggish behaviour I used to be party to before I met Usagi? Ami: ..... Makoto: I don't know why I'm saying all this. All I'm doing is talking to the stars.... Billions of them, in the night sky.... A sky that exists only in the minds of those who read this.... How truly unlucky can someone get, to be nothing more than the figment of the imagination.... Ami: ..... Makoto: It suggests that there really is no reason for people to concern themselves over what happens to me.... I don't really exist.... They can beat me and rape me and kill me as many times as they like. I'll just keep coming back, in stranger and stranger adventures, all within the mind, for one must get stranger to extract something new from a character that has been written out too many times to contemplate.... Ami: ..... Makoto: You know, any moment now, we could both die.... Die, because the person writing for us wants us to.... I mean, all my sentiments, everything I've just felt, weren't really my sentiments or feelings at all. I'm like a puppet, being controlled from on high by someone who, perhaps, doesn't really care about me at all.... Or do they? If they do, they're certainly hiding it well. We could both die, at any given moment, and then be resurrected to face more trials and torments. That is our sad, unlucky destiny. Ami: ..... Makoto: I mean, Usagi is in Hades at the moment. She ended up with an arrow through her head.... I mean, what kind of death is that to give someone? nobody wants to die that way.... It's so.... so STUPID. It makes me so angry to think that someone can just go ahead and do whatever they like to someone I care about.... Ami: ..... Makoto: But my feelings are not real. I don't really care about Usagi. That is just what I've been made to do by the person who created me.... I'm not real. I'm not real. Ami: Mako.... Mako-chaaaan.... Makoto: Ami? Makoto turns to Ami, but the girl is still unconscious. Ami: Mako-chan, wake up.... Mako-chaaaaan. Makoto: Ami? What is.... What is going.... The world begins to swim in front of Makoto's eyes, then she sits up straight in surprise, Ami kneeling next to her, both looking the worse for wear. Makoto: What.... What the hell was.... Ami: Thank goodness, you're finally awake. Makoto: What happened? Ami: That bitch, Tenjou Utena, beat us up, then said something about us never being worthy for the bride of the rose, or something like that.... Dunno what she was talking about. Makoto: Ouchie.... I think I'm missing some teeth. Ami: That's nothing. My arm is broken. It hurts to move it. Makoto: I can taste the blood.... It's horrible.... I hate that taste. Ami: My right arm, it is. It has gone all dark and swollen. She whapped me one something brutal, there.... It hurts so much. Makoto: I tasted blood, so long ago.... First time I ever got in a fight.... This guy thumped me across the jaw. I decided I never wanted to taste it, again. Ami: Ano.... Mako-chan.... My arm? Makoto: Your arm? Ami: Yes.... My arm. Makoto: What about your arm? Ami: I think it's broken. Makoto: Nothing that a few nails and some superglue can't fix. Ami: Ano.... this IS an arm we're talking about, here.... Makoto: Yes, and a fine specimen of one I may add, too.... Ami: Mako-chan.... My arm is BROKEN.... This is a medical condition, not something that can be fixed by a home handyman. Makoto: ..... Ami: ..... Makoto: Have you ever tried? Ami: It's not a matter of trying, fer Chrissakes.... It's a matter of basic common sense. If I don't see a doctor quickly, I could be in real trouble. Makoto looks around at the darkened beach. Makoto: You're in real trouble. Just thought you'd like to know that. Ami socks Makoto one across the chops. Makoto: Owwowwwowwwwie. Ami: There goes another couple of teeth.... Meanwhile, in Hades.... Usagi: You know, this is the first time I've ever had a conversation with a wall. Wall: Well, you know what they say.... "Walls have ears". We've just never had mouths to match, that's all.... Usagi: Ah, I see.... Wall: ..... Usagi: Did I ever tell you about the time I had a conversation with a field of flowers? END OF PART 13 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Minako ever arrive? Have Ami and Makoto really been beaten up by Utena? Is Usagi really in Hades with an arrow through her head? Or is it just a figment of their imagination? For no answers to these questions, stay tuned for the next exciting chapter of the interminable saga of Ami and Makoto in "Waiting for Minako". For the never to be repeated price of $1,000,000.... With a rip like that, you know why it'll never be repeated. ^_^ _________ / @ \ DDFA (The Right Dishonourable Mark A Page) / / ^ ^ \ \ ayanami@merlin.net.au /\ Chief Propoganda Officer, Keeper of \/ \/ the Tapes and Co-Founder of the Saitou-chan \___________/ Appreciation Society - Adelaide Japanese /_/ \_\ PU Animation Society Version 1.0 - I can hear the mountains calling... Awoooooo Awoooooo Otherwise known as Thursday 22nd October 1998.... Well, it could be worse.... It could be Tuesday.... Then you'd be two days behind yourself. Awoooooga Awoooooga.... Ooops.... There goes the Brain Melting Alarm.... Must stop before I gosdflaagfaergkegr.ekaf.vqerg2