Miss M (fuzzyspacekitty) wrote in pup_prompts, @ 2008-07-25 19:44:00 |
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Entry tags: | prompt 1 |
Pup: Mai Takano
From: The Ring, but throwing her through the vortex into UTR
Writer: Mandy
Warnings: There are gross parts.
**NOTE** This is a little exercise I'm doing to decide if I want to bring in new pups. I've got a few in line, and I want to make sure it's a pup that I can write before bringing them in. If you like them and want to see them in the game? Let me know. Also, if you have any pups you think would CR with them as friends or whatever, comment and let me know. That'll help influence my decision a bit.
What did she do to me?
The first thing she noticed was the blindingly bright light. She raised her hand to shield her eyes. It took a moment for her head to clear enough for her to remember who she was.
Mai Takano. She was a university student in Tokyo. At least, she had been. Her vision hadn't adjusted to the light yet, but this city didn't sound like Tokyo. The people were speaking a different language--English, she was almost positive--and the sounds of the traffic were somehow different. And there was a strange smell of citrus in the air..
Slowly, the events of the past few hours were coming back to her--at least in part. She had woken up to find herself on a rooftop by the docks, down in some sort of hole that was open to the sky. She wasn't sure why the hole had been built originally, but she knew it was at least six feet deep and the walls had been brick. She'd woken up--with no real memories of the previous week--to discover that she was pregnant and about to give birth. She'd known immediately that it wasn't human. The thing that had crawled out of her had been a monster. It's agility minutes after birth had been shocking. She watched it eat it's own placenta. Then the newborn thing that called itself Sadako Yamamura had climbed out of the hole on a rope--something the 22-year old Mai had been physically unable to do in her condition.
And it had left it there. Left her there to die.
Her mind was entirely hers since that the thing possessing her body had left her womb. She was abandoned, thoughts reeling and desperately trying to understand how and why it had all happened.
But here. Now. Was she hallucinating? The concrete was still against her back, but it was warm now. Her belly was flat again. For some reason, this was harder for her to believe than herself--a virgin--waking up pregnant in a hole. If one was a dream, surely it was this. She didn't believe in rescues. There were no white knights, no happy endings. Her beloved professor Ryuuji--brilliant and healthy, only in his thirties--had died of sudden heart failure and from that point she had been drawn into this dark nightmarish world where there was no possibility of escape.
Slowly, she sat up. She looked around, bewildered by the people passing by so quickly. As she climbed to her feet she grimaced, expecting to feel pain shooting through her sprained ankle. It didn't even sting. She looked down at her foot incredulously.
Where was she?
Still looking down, she realized that her shirt was wet. They were tears. She was crying. She knew she had been crying in the hole. Did she ever stop?
"Hey. Hey lady."
Mai blushed, looking up. There was a young man, maybe in his early twenties with a strange hairstyle and clothing, standing in front of her.
"You might wanna move before somebody runs you over." Mai had been standing in front fo the open doors of a hotel, and a bellboy with a large cart of luggage was heading toward her. As she started to move, her body still feeling somewhat detached, the boy noticed that she was crying. He would probably regret it later if she decided to spend the next two hours crying and pouring her life story to him, but he had to ask. She looked so confused and out of place. "Say, you okay lady?"
"Where am I?" she asked, her English heavily accented.
The boy was nice enough. He didn't look at her like she was some crazy escaped from the nuthouse. They all had their days. Certain substances he'd come into contact with had made him forget where and when he was, too. "53rd St."
Mai looked at him, tilting her head. It was rude to stare, but his hair had just moved. As she looked closer, she realized that it wasn't hair; there was a cat on his head. "Oh!" she said, partly to his answer and partly to the cat.
He glanced around. He didn't want to get too involved, but he felt kinda bad just leaving her like this. "Look, do you have somebody to call or something?"
"Um.." Ryuuji was dead. She wouldn't have any idea how to explain her current wherabouts to her parents--How was she supposed to be able to afford a ticket back to Japan, anyway? She looked down at the purse on her arm. It wasn't hers. She had never seen it before, but at the same time, she knew it belonged to her. She opened it and dug around for a cell phone. It was one of those fancy 'smart phones' that she had wanted for Christmas. She wasn't at all sure she would be able to operate it, but as soon as she touched the keypad, she was able to bring up the address book as if it were second nature.
She didn't recognize any of the names. They were mostly Western names. Suddenly, though, she felt herself drawn to the web-browser part of the phone. As the homepage loaded, she looked up at the boy. "Is there somewhere to sit?" She glanced around. "And where is that orange smell coming from?"
He pointed her to a bench, and followed her. "Orange smell?"
He didn't smell it? That was strange. Mai looked back down at the page. 'Under The Rainbow'... Interesting.