A woman's hands were unwinding rope around an old picture of two small children, one male with black hair and the other female with blonde hair. She threw the rope into a smoking bowl and kept repeating "The bind is broken return what is lost." Over and over again. "Finally she dropped the picture into the bowl. "The bind is broken return what is lost," she said for a final time and the contents of the bowl disappeared
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Juunanagou had a hard day.
He just couldn't shake the feeling of want, the longing to know about his
past. "I wonder if I'll ever know." He said
to himself as he was knocking a tree down
for firewood. Then he had a vision.
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"Kasan!" a little girl
called out. "Adrian got into a fight today!"
The girl ran to a woman with short black
hair and warm green eyes. She looked up at the woman with sparkling blue
eyes, her blonde hair framing her face.
"Sara," the woman said
warningly. Then a little boy the same age as the girl walked in, he had
black hair like the woman's but his eyes were
blue like the girl's.
"Hello Kasan," he said.
"Adrian," the woman said,
"Try to stay out of trouble."
"But they were.."
They were doing what
they always do. They are never going to stop, so lets forget about today."
She leaned down to the boy, In almost a whisper she said "If you get them
to throw the first punch you won't get in trouble."
Then she stood up straight.
"Today's Friday." she said, "You know what that means."
"Cookie day!" both
the boy and the girl said happily.
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Juunanagou found himself
on the ground. "What was that and why did it feel so familiar?" he asked
him self "It was almost like a memory" he
said. He stood up. "If it was real I have
to know more." He thought about the memory for a moment. "Unfortunately,
I don't have anything but names and faces. He heard a snap as the tree
he was cutting a while ago finally fell. How conveient, he thought as he
put his hands up so he could break it into pieces.
The tree stopped in mid-fall.
Juunanagou looked up. He didn't say anything. The tree wasn't the only
thing that stopped. The wind stopped
blowing but the leaves were frozen in
a position that looked like the wind was pushing them. There was also a
bird that stopped in mid-flight.
Juunanagou moved out from
under the tree's shadow. "It's like time stopped." he said. Then without
warning The tree fell, the wind resumed
blowing, and the bird continued flying.
"Did I stop time?" he asked himself looking around the forest. Then he
had another vision.
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"Adrian." The same woman
from the previous vision said with authority, "Go inside, look after your
sister."
"But Kasan!" Adrian
said.
"Go!" she said. Adrian
ran toward the house but didn't go inside, instead he hide behind a conner
of the house with his sister.
Then a shadow appeared
and took the form of a man. "Ellana, it's been 10 years. I've waited every
day of that time thinking of how I'll carry out my revenge on you."
"Funny, I haven't given
you a second thought." the woman said.
"I'm hurt."
"Not as much as you're
going to be when I'm done with you."
"I thought you enjoyed
my work."
"Demon, you killed
my family."
"And you thought you
killed me. Get on with you words little girl."
"I won't make the same
mistake twice." The woman put her hand out and the demon slammed into a
tree.
"Bitch!" the demon
said getting up.
"I banish you to hell,
demon!" The woman said then she out her other hand out. The demon went
up into the air with the woman's hand motions and exploded.
"Kasan!" the boy and
girl called out revealing their hiding place.
"What did you
do?" the boy asked.
The woman smiled,
"Magic." she took both of their hands. "Now lets go inside."
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"Damn." Juunanagou said.
"I need to talk to Juuhachi." Juunanagou walked to his car and sped off
to Kamesennin's island.
*Author's note *
Okay, I know I have to give Akira Toriyamma
and Toei animation credit for all Dragonball characters and I think
I have to give "Charmed" and it's creators some credit for the power of
three thing I will use and The wonderful Book o' Shadows. Juunana's name
in the past you'll understand if you've ever seen "Highlander" the series.
Just that Adrian Paul is so cute I had to give Juunana his first name.
This story is still in the works and more will come as I write it.