Episode 21 - Morning Musume(Final-Episode of "The Beginning")The girls say good-bye to Kid and prepare for their second ever dimension jumping. This time Eri has to concentrate on Risa instead of Aichan. With a bright light they leave the dimension.
It again doesn't take more than a few seconds until they arrive in a new world. They appear on a huge field and no person is around. Are there really no humans in this world? Everyone looks at Eri. Her importance already seems to be magnificent within the group.
"North", she points straightforward.
Yossie looks at the horizon and starts to walk. Eri has to stop.
"I can already feel the energy outbursts.", Eri is worried.
Yossie understands what she wants to say and tells her not to worry. She tries to look confident, but in reality she doesn't really have a plan. What will they do when they face Risa? Will she attack them? However, they start to walk, but suddenly Aichan collapses. Her body is still too weak. Yossie looks into the faces of the girls.
"We will split here. Miki and me will get Risa, the rest waits here."
"But....", Koharu wants to comment.
"This wasn't a question. Miki, let's go.", Yossie stifles the discussion before it even starts.
She starts to walk while the others still stand around Aichan. Yossie must have noticed that the girls all look exhausted. This doesn't mean that she isn't exhausted as well, but she doesn't want them face a fight again. The recent events already sharped her character more than she probably knows. A true leader seems to rise within her.
Miki looks at the girls and the leaving Yossie.
"Wait for me", she says to Yossie and follows her.
Aichan looks at them with an exhausted expression. You can bet that she wants to get to Risa more than any other of the girls. Koharu and Mitsui sit down in the grass. Eri tries to recover Aichan a bit more and Reina walks around. Suddenly Reina feels something and turns around; nothing.
"This place is scary.", Sayumi says out of the blue.
Reina looks at her with confusion. "Did she feel the same?", Reina thinks. "Somebody is here", she says to herself.
Yossie and Miki head north. So far there only has been fields and a small forests. Then they suddenly see a path.
"A path?", Miki asks.
Yossie looks around, "maybe we are not alone."
The path heads into the same direction and they decide to follow it. In the distance they start to see something. It looks like a small village or something. Near the village they can already explosions, but can't see anything yet. The two girls walk into the village and the people start to behave oddly. They quickly get into their houses and shut all doors and windows. Miki wants to talk to one of them, but they all run away. It doesn't take long and nobody is out of their houses anymore.
"Go away!", some man shouts from one of the windows.
"Why are you so afraid?", Miki asks.
"Risa...", Yossie answers.
"You look like her! We don't want any trouble, please leave!", the man shouts.
"I can't believe Risa is the reason for all this.", Miki says.
"It's not the Risa we know.", Yossie realizes and suggest to keep heading north.
And so the two leave the small village. Not far away from it, the fields start to look burned and destroyed. Risa still must be in a pretty big rage.
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The other group of girls are still at the same place. Aichan wants to try to get up, but Eri orders her to stay down. New tones from Eri? She usually isn't the person that orders other around. Anyway, Aichan obeys and stays down so that Eri can continue her work. When you look closely you can see the sweat in Eri's face. She must be at the edge of her powers already with all the healing and reviving. Still, Eri doesn't want to look weak to the others. It's a situation she likes; to be important. Hopefully she won't overestimate her powers. Mitsui and Koharu started to pick flowers out of boredom. Sayu also sits in the grass, but is completely nervous and frightened. The others don't make a big deal out of it, since she often has her weird five minutes. Reina is the only one still standing. She looks up at the sky. The sky is slightly orange and looks like the sky in the dawn. Reina looks north and wonders whether Yossie and Miki already found Risa.
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Yossie and Miki seem to be pretty close already. They are surrounded by burning fields and the ground shakes from time to time. The destruction is unbelievable, no wonder that the villagers were so scarred of them. Yossie looks around and can see something through the smoke.
"Risa..", she says.
Miki now looks as well and it really seems to be Risa. She completely stands still in the middle of a field behind the burning fields. The two girls slowly get closer to her. The fire didn't reach this field, yet. Risa's clothes and skin is blackened with soot. She looks to the ground. You can see that she is taking deep breaths.
"Risa!", Yossie tries to call her.
Risa slowly raises her head and looks at them.
"Please stop it now. Everything is okay. Aichan is..."
"Aichan?", Risa interrupts.
"Yes, she...", Yossie wants to explain.
"You....", Risa interrupts her once again.
Yossie doesn't know what she is trying to say. All of a sudden she rushes towards Yossie. Yossie hesitates to do anything. It is too weird to fight against her, but she is running out of time. Now Risa is already only a few meters away and comes closer very quick. Yossie still doesn't prepare to block and...
*BAM*
Miki stepped in front of her and blocked the attack. With a powerful attack, she punched Risa away. She turns around and slaps Yossie in the face.
"Wake up", she says, "come up with more effective words or fight."
"But..."
"At least block her attacks!", Miki is becoming serious.
Risa stands up again and concentrates her energy for another attack. Miki on the other side does the same to block it. The attack comes earlier than expected, but Miki can still block it. Yossie still only watches. Miki looks back at Risa.
"Shit..."
She shouldn't have looked over to Yossie. Risa took advantage of her distraction and attacked her. Miki can at least block it a bit in the last second, but gets thrown over the half distance of the field. Risa turns her head towards Yossie now. She slowly approachers her.
"Risa, please listen..."
Risa points at her and a small energy ball appears in front of her hand. Yossie now finally realizes that she has no other choice than to pull her sword. It is impossible to talk to her.
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Back at the other group. The girls still sit in the grass. Everyone doing something else to kill the time. Suddenly Aichan gets up, ignoring the words of Eri. She puts her hands on Eri's shoulders.
"You can teleport us to Risa, right?", she asks.
"Huh? Ah...yes..I think it would be possible, but..", Eri answers.
"Do it...NOW!", Aichan begs her.
Eri refuses, but Aichan's begs become more intense. "Trust me, I know what I am doing. My soul didn't wander without a plan during my coma.", she whispers into Eri's ear. Eri can't follow her, but Aichan's expression is so overwhelming that she can't continue to refuse her request anymore. Aichan smiles and takes Eri's hand.
"Hurry!", she says.
The other girls are confused.
"And the others?", Eri asks.
"They will wait here."
"No way!", Reina interferes.
"We have not time!", Aichan says.
Eri looks at the others....
"ERI!", Aichan presses Eri to teleport them.
"Okay, okay...", Eri answers and prepares to teleport.
Reina comes closer, but the two girls disappear. She can't believe it and starts to head north as well. Koharu and Mitsui don't know what to do. It would probably be safer to stay here, but they still decide to go with Reina.
Sayumi keeps sitting in the grass. It looks like the other girls forgot her, but she actually looks like she is concentrating on something else. She stands up, walks a few meters and then stops. Sayumi looks at something, but there is nothing there.
"Who are you and why are you hiding there?", she suddenly starts to say.
It still isn't sure to who she is talking to, but when you look closely...yes, there is something. It's something like a heat-flickering. She continues to stare at it and suddenly it transforms into some kind of woman. Her skin is completely red and flames come out of her body. Sayu doesn't look scared at all. They both look at each other without saying a word.
"Leave us alone", Sayumi tells her.
The woman only giggles and shoots an enormous fireball at her. The fireball reaches Sayu, but nothing happens. It simply puffs out. The woman is surprised. Sayumi repeats her words and tells her to leave.
"You girls won't destroy our plans again.", the woman says and disappears as sudden as she appeared.
Sayumi keeps looking at the area to make sure that she is really gone. She then finally starts to head north as well.
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Yossie still stands in front of Risa. While Risa puts more and more energy into her attack, Yossie doesn't do anything. She has the sword in her hands, but she doesn't know what to do. It's still too weird for her to attack her, although it would be the smartest way to attack her before she can attack. Then the energy ball suddenly stops growing. Miki gets up on her feet again and looks at the two.
"Oh no..", Miki realizes what is going to happen.
She starts to run towards Yossie, but this time she is too far away. Yossie prepares to block the attack with her sword, but compared to the energy ball it looks like a toothpick. Then it happens. Risa shoots the ball. Miki is still too far away. Yossie looks at the bright energy ball. Suddenly something blue shimmers in front of her.
*BANG*
Yossie has to close her eyes and cover her face. It's a huge explosion. Even Miki has to stop and cover herself. However, nothing seems to have happened to Yossie. She opens her eyes again and looks in front of her. The crater oddly stops right in front of her. It looks like a...
"Shield?!", Yossie looks around.
She is right. Aichan stands not too far away from them. She must have casted a shield right before the energy ball hit Yossie. Risa is becoming more and more angry now. She turns her head towards Aichan. Eri hides behind Aichan and doesn't know what to do.
"Stop it now, Risa...", Aichan says to Risa.
Risa really pauses for a moment, "Aichan....?"
"Yes.."
"NO WAY!", Risa's mood changes to angry again.
"Risa!", Aichan tries to get through to her.
"Stop it! Aichan is dead. How dare you to fool me like this!", Risa's mood changes to way more than only being angry now.
Miki takes advantage of the moment and attacks Risa, but Risa's strength must be at a new level now. Miki's attacks don't bother her at all. Believing that those girls only play a trick on her, increased her rage drastically. Aichan still looks calm. She gets down and picks some flowers. Eri and the others can't believe what they are seeing. Risa is so tense that she could probably blow up a whole planet and Aichan has nothing better to do than picking flowers. Aichan gets up again and looks at Risa.
"Risa..."
"GO TO HELL!", Risa's pure anger talks out of her.
Aichan puts the flowers in her hand makes a fist. The flowers are still in this hand. She doesn't stop to look at Risa, "Risa, sort your mind...".
Aichan reaches out and suddenly some powder appears out of the hand where the flowers were. All the girls are confused. Risa streaks out for an attack, but Aichan interrupts her. She steps back and blows the powder right at Risa. Within seconds it reaches her. Risa stops her attack, lowers her arms and suddenly becomes completely calm. She looks around and is confused, then she collapses. Aichan cleans her hands and turns to Eri.
"You can take care of her now."
Eri looks at her with disbelief. What just happened? Aichan only smiles.
"I told you", she explains, "my spirit has been on a journey while my body was in a coma."
Eri still is confused, but Aichan only tells her to go and heal Risa.
"Whatever", Eri sighs and decides to go and heal Risa.
Miki and Yossie come closer and also want to ask Aichan what just happened, but they get interrupted by Risa's coughs. Both girls are scarred, but Aichan calms them down.
"She is normal again.", she explains.
The three walk over to Risa and Eri. Eri is still healing her, but Risa is already conscious again. She looks around and is confused.
"What happened?", she asks.
Aichan knees down in front of her, "Don't worry, everything is okay now."
"Aichan!", Risa smiles and hugs her.
Yossie is relieved and Miki gasps. Who knows what might have happened without Aichan. Reina, Koharu and Mitsui arrive at the scene. Mitsui immediately runs to Yossie. They wonder what happened, but the others don't want to talk about it. Miki looks around and wonders.
"Where is Sayumi?", she asks.
The other girls look around and also can't see her. Then they hear a voice from far away. It's a shrill and annoying voice, it's Sayumi. She accuses them of leaving her back there. However, the whole thing quickly turns into laughter and everyone finally seems to be relaxed again. They wonder what they should do now. Some girls want to do something relaxing and ask Eri to teleport them somewhere nice. She isn't sure whether the teleport thing also works this way. Suddenly a mobile rings. It obviously comes from Eri.
"You have your mobile with you?", Miki asks.
"No.", Eri is confused as well and looks into her bags. There indeed is a mobile, but she has never seen it before. She opens it up, "1 new message".
"What the...", she opens the message.
"Yes, the teleport thing also works this way. - Shiro"
Eri gets a shock and looks around. He has to be somewhere close, but she can't see anything. The phone rings again, another new message.
"You deserve some time off. Don't forget that you have to follow your hearts, it will lead you through this journey."
The girls look at each other and nod. Time to have some fun now. They had enough stress over the last days. Before they all gather around Eri, some man suddenly interrupts them. It's somebody from the village. He is scarred and doesn't come really close. However, he sees that the girl isn't ravaging anymore and is brave enough to ask them one question.
"Who are you?"
The girls smile and answer simultaneously, "We are Morning Musume!".
They laugh and gather around Eri. She holds the amulet and tries to find a place where they can relax. The man still looks at them until they disappear into a bright light.
Their journey has finally began.
--------------------------------------------------------------This might be the final episode of "The Beginning", but I already started to write the first episodes for "The Secret", the new season.
I will continue this fic in here and won't make a new topic.
The 'seasons' only exist to give the episodes some kind of theme.
Expect the new episodes during the next days.I hope you liked it so far.
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