Starwind

Emilio was kind of just following these people, he hated to idea of leaving a fight, even if he had almost no chance of winning it still seemed like a waste to him. He watched the leader, his name was bale or tale or something like that, whoever he was as long as he paid him up it didn't really matter. Emilio watched as he and that other demon started going at it when he finally decided to step up again "Hey, where are we going? And why didn't we at least try to fight those guys, it could have been fun for a change."

Tommy could feel a sudden chill in the air, as he stopped Kiya put her hand on his shouder "What's wrong?" Tommy sat up and began to get dressed. Kiya seeming even more concerned "Tommy, what's wrong?" Tommy looked to her "Something's wrong here, it doesn't feel right." She too climbed out of bed and degan dressing herself "What's not right?" Tommy looked to her with urgency in his eyes and tone "Can't you feel it, that cold chill in the air. Something is happening." Kiya walked over to him "Why didn't we sense it before?" Tommy looked to her "I don't know. All I know is, we need to get out of here." Tommy took her hand and started for the door, when Kiya stopped him "But your hurt, what if we get attacked. I can't protect both of us." Tommy held her hand "Don't worry about me, you just worry about you and I'll make sure everything is okay." With that She took Tommys' hand and he grabbed his Wan-dou and claws and they walked to the door.

James huffed "You had to steal the show didn't you?" Dante looked at him and chuckled "Of course. Dead mans got to make a good reappearance." They both looked at each other and started laughing. James looked at Dante with a smirk plasterd on his face "So, you ready for one last battle before we blow this pop stand." Dante with same smirk looked at him "Sure, sounds like fun." They turned to look at the road ahead. They both spoke at the same time "Let's get the show started." As they walked Dante glanced to James "You sure you wouldn't rather sit this one out." James huffed again "You gotta be kidding. Me run away cause of a little thing like this...." Dante returned the huff "Right, what was I thinking?" They both started laughing again as they walked shoulder to shoulder into the flames ahead of them.

Shun began tos trip down and climbed into bed "Man, today was really something." he said to himself. He couldn't clear his thoughts of what had happend, first meeting Lee and Hitomi, then the hot springs thing, then that voice following him. Something weird was happening to him and it all started when he met that girl. SHe was an awfully pretty thing, but she was some how tied into this. Shun layed on his stomach "What's wrong with me? Why am I hearing those voices and why did it suddenly start today?" Shun sighed heavily "Oh well, I guess I'll have to figure it out tomorrow."

Shun smiled at them as they continued to go back and forth on each other. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone "Whoa, sorry every body, but I've gotta get home. Hope everyone enjoyed their ice cream." Everyone waved to him as he ran out the door to the cafe and headed back home. As he ran down the street he could feel those eyes again, this time it was like he wasn't just being watched, but also followed. He went from a light jog to a run and was suddenly filled with fear, like he couldn't escape. He started hearing whispers, like something was leaning right up into his ear. As he went further and further the voice became clearer "Death ... open up ...... embrass ...... Die." He started running more frantically and as suddenly as it started it stopped. He looked around and wonderd why, then he looked up and saw he was standing just outside his apartment. He walked to the door and turned the key and walked in. Despite the fact two teens lived in the house it was surprisingly clean. IT had a very typical feel to it, though for Shun and Nanasei (For those of you who haven't paid a ttention that's his cousin)it was a serious step up from where they were. Shun kicked his shoes off at the door and walked in "Nanasei I'm home." he shouted. His cousin came from the living room "10 o'clock on the dot, nice work Shun." Shun smiled and gave her a hug "I'm really tired. I goin to just go straight to bed, don't worry I already ate." he aid as he walked into his room. His room was, to say the least, really bare. He had no posters or any real identifying marks. It had a dresser, a night stand, a bed and a TV. Nothing special here, just another day in the Life of Shun Ibuki, but today was the most exciting day, and perhaps the most pivotal one, of his life.

Anno raised his hand and waved the young waitress over "yes we would like to order. We'll all be having the ell bowls please." The waitress nodded and went back to the kitchen. Anno turned to Sani one more time "I wasn't trying to pretend I know how your life has been, all I saying is...." He stopped for a moment and looked to the ceiling and looked back down to Sani "Maybe were the good thing that was meant to happen to you, I don't believe that a person is destined only for bad." Sani hesitated and turned her head with a huff. Anno looked back in front of him and out of the corner of his ear he heard a "thank you" from Sani and that was good enough for him.

Shun couldn't help but laugh, he was realized to see Lee was okay and it was pretty funny watching Hitomis mood swings. Shun stood up and went next to her "Ice cream sounds good, how about I treat the rest of us to ice cream." Hitomi looked at Shun for a moment as all the other girls got whipped up into a frenzy over it, already saying what flavor they wanted. Shun was finally feeling alright with these people "Okay, I'll take a rocky road here and uhhh who wants what again." all the girls seemed to move like a giant wave toward the counter, all saying there orders at once. Shun started to laugh again "Man, that poor guy working the counters gotta be having one hell of a night huh." he said looking back to Lee and Hitomi.

Shun got down to his knees next to Lee, pushing th others off him "Give him some room." Shun peeled his eyes open and looked into his pupils. He then set his head on his chest. Hitomi started getting impatient "Well, whats wrong with him." Shun kept his eyes on Lee "His pupils are dialated and his heart beat is irregular. It looks like some kind of seisure, but not like any one I've ever seen." Tomoe was also becoming worried "Well then what do we do?" SHun trying to keep everyone calm "Well, if it is a seisure we can't do much of anything. Just move these things away from him and give him some space, he should snap out of it." Hitomi started poking his shoulder "and what if he dosen't come out of it?" Shun looked to her "You go ahead and call an ambulance." Now every one seemed real worried "Whats going to happen?" Shun looked to Lee again, trying to keep him stable "He won't die of a seisure, but what ever is causing it might. Call an ambulance now."

Anno looked her over again, she took notice of this "Hey, what are doing there?" Anno looked back up "Well, I was just thinking, why does such a beauty have such a grim look on life." She looked back down "Well, someone like me has had to live a hard life, so I understand hardship better then the light hearted like yourself who have probably never even seriously used a sword." She said looking away from them. Anno clenched his fists for a moment "But your wrong, just because I'm an optomist dosen't mean I'm naive.I .... " Anno stopped an tremmbled for moment "I to have seen bad things happen, but I also know that there are lots of good things out there too, you know." Anno stopped for a moment and looked up to the roof. Auska looked around to his face "Are you okay?" Anno shock his head lightly adn looked back to Auska "Yeah, just reflecting is all."

Well, going out with some of the others that definetly made him feel a little bit better. He sat back down and relaxed, he still couldn't get over that cold hand on his back. He sat up, bringing the water back to his chest and ran his fingers through his hair, he did this whenever he was in deep thought. For some reason he could still feel that hand on him, like it was following him. He turned to Lee "You haven't noticed anything weird have you?" Lee looked at him, eyes bobbing for a moment "No, not really." Shun slid back in the water 'so it was all just in my head' that was a load off his shoulders. So he stepped out of the water and grabbed a towel "Well the, even if we are paying for half, girls invited us to dinner, lets get ready and enjoy it cheif." he said to Lee feeling a little akward calling him chief, guess hearing Hitomi say it to Lee just made it stick. He wrapped the towel around his waist and walked out into the hall and headed back to the lockers to get his clothes when he bumped into Hitomi "Oh, hey there." She was still wraped in a towel, which made him a little unconfortable, which she could obviously tell. She looked him over and smiled "Why do you look so nervous there Shun?" Shun was a bit strapped for what to say. He was turning red at the thought of her underneath that towel. She smiled again, only making him more uncomfortable "Are you trying to undress me?" Shun started to look to the ground and thought what she said over "So you enjoy teasing me?" She giggled "Yeah, but only cause your the new guy, don't put too much stock in it." Shun kept his eyes down to the ground "So I'll see you in a little bit for that meal you mentioned." He heard her giggle again "Okay, see you in a bit." Then he heard her walk away, he looked back up and walked to the lockers to get his clothes and hoped that the rest of the night wouldn't be that akward.

Shun sunk down to his chin "That's more than just a little akward, don't you think?" Lee glanced at him "Careful nottot drowned there." Shun looked up to him "Shut up. It's akward enough to go to school with girls, let alone being so close in the bath." Lee shot him another akward glance "Goin to school with girls is weird?" Shun kind of looked away "Well for me. My parents were kind of weird about that kind of stuff, so I was always in boys only schools or I was home schooled. It was like they were trying to cut me off from girls all together." Lee looked at him with another akward look "Your right, that is weird." Shun smirked a little. He moved to the other end of the bath, like he was trying to escape the girls voices. It was as he reached the far end of the bath and he began to lose sight of Lee in the mist he felt a chill down his spine. It was like a cold hand went down his back, which caused him to spin around quickly only to see noone there. "Alright now I'm really uncomfortable." He could feel some one watching him, eyes burning into his shoulder blades then it all disappeared all at once. He turned and started to look around "What the hell was that?" It was at this time he saw some one coming his way.

I've only recently finished the series and I have to say that it is one of the funniest animes I've ever seen. I love the idea of women and men phisically being on different planets, as to the real world where we are only mentally on different planets. But seriously, it has good music (esspecially the first stages opening is my fav), it has a good story and funny characters. This anime has everything that I want in an anime, I gotta tell ya. This one gets a 10 from me.

Tommy rolled over and put his hands on Kiyas stomach "I could think of a couple things." he said, then lightly kissed her neck and began to go down to here chest. She smiled and looked down on him. She took her hand and ran it down his back. He looked back up to her and put his hand up and under her shirt and kissed her again. He rolled back over and was now on top of Kiya. He started kissing her and running his hands along her ribs as she giggled. He slowly moved his hands down a little lower and lower. She looked at him and nodded her head, Tommy kissed her again and slid his hands to the hem of her pants. He set his thumbs under the hem and began to slie her pants down little by little. She, at the same time, started to take his shirt off. As her pants began to reach her knees he began kissing her neck again. He lifted his hands from her pants, which were now on her ankles, and set his hands under her shirt and lowly pulled it up as well. He felt her legs beat and watched her pants come off and land just off the foot of the bed. As he top her shrit off he began kissing her chest lightly. He sat up slightly and took his own shirt off and laid back down on her. She then rolled him and herself over and she started to take his pants off. She slowly peeled his pants off and then laid on top of him and kissed him again. He wraped his arms around her and gently slide his arms down her spine as she giggled and shiverd. He felt his hand come to her panties and he began to feel around the edges as he kissed her. He could then feel her hands sliding there way into his boxers. As she grew bolder he did as well. He put his hands inside her panties and she began to moan. She rolled her head back and he started kissing her neck and chest. She started to move her wrists and slowly moved his boxers off as he did the same with her panties. She laid perfecly flat on top of him, she then started to kiss his neck. He began to run his bands against her bare, warm flesh, she started to giggle again. He put his hand on her back and began to undo here bra. She put her hands around to his back and felt her way lower and lower. He set his hands on her waist and gently massaged her bare thigh. He pushed his hands back a set his hand on her butt and pulled her down on him.

Shun was finally back in his street clothes and began to leave the school. His nose still stung pretty bad from snaping it into place but it was better than before. He stopped for a second about a block from the school "So, where are these hot springs they were talking about." Shun reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone, he started to to dial a number "Hey Nanasei, It's me Shun. I'm going out with some friends and I won't be back til late, okay. Yeah ...... I know ...... I love you too ...... I'll be back by 10 ...... Bye." He hung up the phone then started to look around him. He spotted a girl walking from the school "Hey, do you know where the hot springs are?" She stopped and looked him over briefly "Yeah, I'm headed their now. Just follow me." SHun smiled to her "Thank you very much." He walked beside her and they didn't really speak, but Shun was just happy nothing bad happend on the way there. They arrived and Shun saw large building that looked like a hotel, it was a light orange in color and had a red shingle roof with a sign that read 'Ai Hot Springs' the place seemed very nice from the outside. Shun walked in and began to recognize a lot of kids from school, though he didn't really know any of them since he was still the new kid. He walked up to the ocunter and paid his way in and headed to the springs. He went and got a towel, undressed and quickly enterd the hot springs, paying little heed to where he was going. He sat down and relaxed for a moment "Ahh, now this feels good af ter a hell of a long day." He sat in peace and breathed deep being completely surrounded by steam. As he sat in the spring he felt a chill run down his spine and he heard someone else in the spring

Shun woke up finally, how lomg he had been out he couldn't tell. He couldn't even remember why he blacked out int eh first place. he sat up and looked around, he was on the bleachers, hsi nose was red from the bleeding and a disgarded coke bottle was sitting right next to him. He looked out to the field and saw that everyone had gone home. He didn't see anyone near him at the moment, but he knew he wasn't on the bleachers when he went down, so someone must have moved him here. He put his hand up to his nose and felt that it was flat "Owww, crap, yep it's broken. Need to fix that." Shun started to get up when Lee came up to him "You sure you should be moving, you took a pretty bad hit." Shun looked ovr at Lee who was at the far end of the bleachers opposite the way he had been layed down "Yeah, I'll be cool. Thanks for getting me off the field." Shun felt his nose one more time and squinted again in the pain. He turned himself to face Lee "Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a set of pens you don't particularly care about do you." Lee looked at him for a second "Sure,... I'll go get them. I'll be right back." And as he said, like he had moved with lightning speed he was back with a blue and a black pen in his right hand. SHun reched forward and took each in another hand "Thanks man." He took one end of each pen and put it in each nostril. Shun hesitated then "Okay, one....two .... Three!!!" He shouted pulling both pens forward as his nose came back into place with a snap. Shun screamed and almost passed out again.

Personally my favorite anime style video game is the Shin megumi Tensei series. This includes the digital demon sagas part one and two which were both amazing games and great for newbies and veterans alike. I would advise this game series to anyone esspecially Shin Megumi Tensei: Nocturne, talk about a 10 for 10 on an RPG.

Tommy looked to her and smiled "it's okay. I was being a little reckless out there." He said as he put his hand on his wound "Yeah, I just got to watch myself better." Then Tommy changed his tone "On another topic, where did all those spirits come from so fast. It was weird, like they were lying in wait or something." Kiya/Vadane "But why would they wait for us and not just attack in full strength last night when Kiya was still injured?" Tommy groaned and hummed "That's where my problem starts. There must have been some motive. They wouldn't have jsut passed an opportunity like that up. if anything I've learned that tese spirits are very oppurtunistic." Kiya/Vadane spoke up "Agreed, but what was there motive? When we figure this out, we will know how to move next. The council is conviening now, hopefully they will come up with an answer, until then we should enjoy the peace we have now." Tommy smiled "Yeah your right." He rolled over and put his arms around Kiya and kissed her.

I've seen some pretty weird ones, but the weirdest I've seen is weird in a different way from the others already named. One of the wierdest anime I have ever seen has to be Boggie Pop Phantom. The others mentioned so far were weird because they were so off the wall, this one however was weird because it was so dark. Further more it was like there was no sense of chronology, you were constantly going back and forth through the time line and had a hard time firugring out what was happening. Pretty much every person you come into contact with in this series, no matter how insignifigant and weird some of there appearances seemed, played out there own story in a later episode. They never really give a full explanation to what happend and why this is all happening and the true enemy is even more obscure. Trust me this one was sycadelic weird, watching it makes you feel like your on a bad acid trip.

Shun walked out into the feild as Hitomi walked right past him "Nice try Shun." This made him feel a little better, but that didn't mean his game was going to improve. He headed for the right and slid his glove on his hand "Okay, do or die time" he said to himself as he watched Lee step up to the pitchers mound. Lee took his stance and pitched the ball to the girl up at bat, she swung quick and hard and, of course, the ball came right to Shun. He heard Lee yelling at him "Grab it, grab the damn ball!!" Shun jumped forward and slid on his stomach only to miss the ball. he felt pretty good since he came pretty close, but Lee was fuming "Idiot, pick it up and throw to second!!!" Shun jumped to his feet in a hurry and pitched that ball right to the catcher at second. The girl stopped at first and Shun felt good that he was at least contributing though you couldn't tell from the look on Lees' face. Shun kept his head up and stood back again in his postition. Shun watched yet another girl take the plate and hit that ball high and far, thsi time it went to the left so Shun didn't have to throw himself out there this time. The ball popped up and was caught out in the left, so she turned and went to the dugout. Next up was Hitomi, she took her palce witha smirk plasterd across her face. She looked to Shun for a second and smiled, this made him feel a little akward. Lee hurled that ball at her and to Shuns surprise for not being very tall, Hitomi could hit like a giant. That ball took off and flew right back to Shun, now he got it she was smiling cause she knew to hit it to him. Shun stood out there and watched that high ball come down to earth like a comet. He hestitated then started to step back and put his hand out to catch the ball. his eyes were set straight into the sun and for a moment it was as if the world around him stopped and all he could hear was his own thoughts. This lasted, overall, about five seconds til the ball landed square on his nose anf floored. Shun blacked out shortly following and didn't remeber much when he came back to.

Shun sat and watched Lee smash that ball [I]'man, that guy can play'[/I]. He sat and watched all the girls out there and thought to himself 'man there are a lot of pretty women here'. He looked at all the other guys in the dug out and began to feel akward as he realized that he didn't know any one else here. He felt kind of stupid for deciding to play, since he didn't have the faintest clue how to play and was still amazed that he hit the ball. He looked out into the field and with out a thought in his head. he was tring to keep his thoughts simple and pure, kind of hard with all those girls in bloomers out there he had to keep his thoughts out of the trash. He wasn't used to this, the last school he went to was guys only. He felt kind of uncomfortable living here now, since he had to rely on his cousin, Nanasei, to take care of him. She had to drop out to look out for him, so he had to do his best at this new school. He looked back out to the feild as another guy stepped up to bat, it was at this point he realized he didn't know how many outs there were. He looked out to the field and looked out to the right feild, since that was where he was headed. He couldn't keep himself together, it was bad enough he didn't know any of the guys, but now he was playing a game of softball against some of the hottest chicks he had ever seen, which was both a little exciting and sad since he seemed more excited then any of the other guys. He saw the ball fly into the guy and a girl in the center catch the ball and the girls begin running to the dugout. Shun sighed "Guess I've got to take the field."

As Emilio watched the woman leave, still seeming pretty pissed, he leaned to Gale "Hey, whats her problem." He leaned back to Emilio "You and those two are." Emilio shrugged his shoulders "Ehh, whatever. So let me guess, you want me to cover the other street in order to avoid the angry chick." Gale kinda frowned "Yeah. and don't call her chick, she hates you enough as it is." Emilio nodded and took his place hidden in the shadows of the north bound street waiting for more victims. He turned and saw the other two demons approach the two humans still at the door. He quickly put his attention back on the road. He decided to move forward, those soilders had guns and his new employers didn't, he needed to keep the enemy out of range. As he moved forward he realized again he was low on water, now he was really strapped for ideas. It wasn't that he couldn't handle the soilders with what he had left, it's just that the little he had left little room for creativity. He moaned a little at this thought then noticed the primitive gully in the middle of the street. Peole in thsi region used it like a sewer and it had lots of water flowing through it, none of it very clean but still. This was enough to fuel Emilios imagination. As new and unique ideas ran through his head, he began to hear foot steps approaching.

Tommy woke in the room back at the shrine where they had started "Damn, let that little nat of a nothing get the better of me." As he said this Kiya walked back in the room with something to eat and saw him walking about he room "Hey you your still hurt. You need to lie down." Tommy turned to Kiya "Didn't vadane heal me?" She looked at him with a strange glance "Well, whoever you were fighting must have enchanted there weapon because she was only able to stop the bleeding." He looked to his side and shrugged "I feel fine." As he tried to bend over to pick up his Wan-Dou he felt a jolt of pain run through his ribs. Kiya noticed and quickly ran over to him "See, I told you so." She said as she set him down on the bed. She went back to the door ans picked up the tray she was carrying and brought it back to the bed "Now listen, you are to stay in bed and I will go talk to Valencia about what happend. Hopefully we can leave tomorrow, Okay." Tommy rolled his eyes "Yes dear." Kiya smiled at him "Thank you honey." She leaned in and kissed him and turned to the door "Now remember stay in bed." She said as she left the room. Tommy looked down to the tray which had soup, bread, water, and an apple on it. Tommy smiled and began to eat the soup, as he did he couldn't get his mind off of something. Right befroe he passed out, he thought he saw a black dragon. He thought on this for a while and decided to let it go for now, it's not like he could do anything in th shape he was in. He would just have to wait for tomorrow, but this still upset him. He felt like he let the others down, they had to come all the way back to square one since he got his stupid self hurt. He didn't think Kiya would be upset, but he knew striker was gonna be pissed, se he decided that he should avoid him til he felt better, couldn't take the smack he was probably gonna get for him til he felt up to strenght again. he chuckled as he thought this to himself and continued to eat the food on the tray Kiya had given him.

James looked at the blood soaked Jory and set his hand on her stomach. He began to chant incohearantly, as he did the bleeding began to stop. He lifted his hand which began to steam as he moved it. Kat looked at his hand "Did you just burn youse-" She was cut off as she grabbed his hand. James stared at his own hand "Far from burning, My body is freezing right now and I'm going numb. I haven't got long before my strength begins to fail again." He looked at Jory then at Kyle "What I did stopped the bleeding but I'm afraid that's all I could manage. she still might get infected and she has little blood left, treat her. Now if you'll excuse me I have some unfinished business to attend to." James said coldly as he walked away from the group. Kat came up behind him "Hey, I thought you were trying to find them? So, now your just leaving." James without even a glance "That's about the size of it." Katrina was upseted by his cold indifferent response "Hey, on't you even care a little that Jory got hurt for you?" She said as she kept on James' heels "Yeah, and that's why I have to go. Your alive and I can count on you to look after them, me, I started this, so I'll end it." He said without even glancing. Kat grabbed his shoulder "Just wait, let us help you. Jory said were a family right, well family stick together." James stopped for a moment but still didn't look back to her "I know, and I do consider them family. As such, I love them very much and for that I will protect them. She has already done so much for me, all of you have. Now it's my turn to return the favor." Kat stopped following and began to run back to the others. James sighed heavily as he finally turned bac k to shout to Kat "Don't worry. I won't die." He said as he turned back and walked toward the center of the city. He walked with a firm stance in his walk, though he couldn't feel a thing anymore. He could see a black shadow mounting in the distance, what was left of the eatters forces were mounting all there forces for there final attack.

Shun was sitting in the bleachers when he heard some of the others talking about playing softball, well he wasn't much of a player, but it still sounded like fun. Plus it would be a good way for him to break the ice, he had only been at this school for a few days and he still hadn't had a real comversation with any of the other students. He stood up and went down to one of the girls standing on the side of the court "Hey, I hear you guys are going to play softball, mind if I join you?" SHe looked him over "Are you any good?" Shun hesitated then smiled wide "Not even a little bit." He said almost sounding proud. The girl looked at him for another moment then chuckled "Okay, sure. It'll be the boys on the girls." Shun took on a smile again "Okay, I'll see you out there." Shun felt prettty good about himself, he finally went and talked to someone, and a girl to boot and a cute one at that. As he walked away he stopped and realized something "Hey, miss. I didn't get your name, I'm Shun." She looked back at him " My names Hitomi." Shun smiled at her "All right Hitomi, hope I get to see more of your pretty face in the future." He said as he ran out to the rest of the guys and as he did all he could think was[I] 'god that sounded really cheesey'.[/I]

Emilio stepped forward from the alley "I've never seena harmonizer before. I'd like to get to know youa little better, but perhaps another time." Emilio said as he malked closer and closer to the group at the door. He brushed his hair back and walked to them "Hey, Emilio Batou is the name and Mercnary is the game. I'm here because I noticed that you have had some trouble that I could help you deal with. So what do you say?" Emilio said with his hand out. The chick with the wings was the first to step forward "How can we trust you?" Emilio looked her dead in the eye "I like you. Your not too trusting and know to dout what you hear. I can see you living quiet a long life for it, but given the situtation, you have to either trust me or get along with out me. Again, what's it gonna to be?" Emilio said sounding much firmer this time in his tone of voice. The girl looked him over with un trusting and judgemental eyes, she reached forward and slapped his hand "Okay. I trust you for now, but I'll be watching you, all of you." She said as she walked back to her buddies still standing by the door talking amonst themselves. Finally one of the men stepped forward "So we'll let you stay for now and discuss your fee later. My name is Gale, I am the commander here. The woman you just met, we just call her Chrys and the man next to her is Achilles. We are the last line of defence for this city." emilio looked around "Yeah and you look like your having a hell of a time." Chrys jumped forward again "You trying to say something?" She said sounding irratated. Emilio smiled "Just that you fight too fair, if you want to live you have to get dirty."