Why I Love You. E-mail@: MrsHankey@hotmail.com By: Amber “Devil caller” Stilton My hair clung to my back and neck as I soaked in the pool known as the bathing pond. I was soothed, but not emothinally. People think of me as cold, but when it comes to my Tenchi...sigh, how I love him. And it’s not just infatuation! It’s something, deep inside, something that feels good when I meet him, yet makes me unsure and giddy and, oh! The first sip of sake touches my lips. Good taste tonight...I just wish that I could share it with Tenchi. I tried drinking this odd blue out of my head by drinking a while back, eating, and even, going on the Internet on Nabyuki’s computer and found some interesting lemons. I grined, then laughed at the ridiculousness. Mihoshi and Tenchi? Puh-leeze! Any ways, they were funny for a few minutes...but then, Tenchi’s beauty and inspiration came to me. So, I got out the water proof laptop from Washuu’s lab, and started typing this. It’s just a nice story talking about my feelings. I read in a weird Earth Book that Tenchi reads, that it’s good to write stories or poems about your feelings. This is mine. Some ask me, “Why do I love Tenchi?” Well, I don’t quite know. After the first night of knowing him, some where in my mind and heart, something said “Be with him, go with him, and help him, for he is for you..” As if Destiny-Chan wanted to speak to me right then me this weird message. I thought it was insane, me falling for a Earthling boy, but then I saw him smile...it was and tell like a wave of stupidity hit me, though I’m charming and talented and good at holding my cool, I stumbled a bit. I don’t know, I just go all ooshy gooshy! I remember as a kid, sitting in Washu’s lab and chasing the fish in the ponds, watching the mass form and split, and munching on little jelly treats that spewed fourth a gooey sweet mixture of goodness. Washu was watch and laugh as she typed on her holo-lap top and sing sweet melodies to me when I would’nt take my nap. I’d fall asleep by the creek in her lab, as grass swayed against my little nose and brow. I remember Nagi, and her mom coming and visiting. She was small like me with long purple hair. She looked more like Aeyak back then then she does now. She would wake me up gentley and eat jelly treats with me. We’d try to catch fish with a little net on a handle and laugh at how the fish got out of our hands. Nagi’s mom, Maril would laugh and talk to Washu, as Washu served tea in a tea ceremony much like Earth’s. Every thing seemed so perfect....no boy named Tenchi, no man named Kagato, nothing spooky or frightening. Until.....when I was very young still and I saw an image through a pond of many planets in the middle of Washu’s lab. The second to last pond titled “Jurai” had a young man, tall and brave looking, was sitting on a rock, breathing in rest, after some sort of excersize. “That’s our king, little Ryoko” Washu smiled down at me. I looked back at the pond. He did’nt seem rough enough to be a king. “But....how?” “One day, you will have to take flight in the sky and fight a battle with him at your side.” “I can fly?” “Yes you can. You were born to be the second leader of the Jurai royal battle ships.” “I’m not a space ship....” “Yes you are, your that and much more---” “BUT I’M NOT A SPACE SHIP!!!!!” I ran and ran until I fell in one of those little circles of water. Washu screamed and reached in after me. I kept falling until I hit the ground. There, I saw lots of trees, too many for it to be my planet, and lots of green green grass. I got up, my dress was scratched and dirty, and there in front of me, was a little boy that looked alot like Tenchi. Except he had red hair. He looked at me with such innocents. His dark brown eyes swirling pools of love and joy. I smiled at him, but then I was picked up by the back of my color by Washu out of mid air. I waved at the boy and he waved back, as me and Washu flew through the air back out of the pool. Part II: The appearance of Tenchi. I used to run through the garden of Jurai ships, while they were in tree form. I’d run and run and jump from island to island, looking for another one of my kind, that had a face like that boy. But it was all a lie, bleeding in my soul. This boy, I felt I’d never see him again. Washu was in the Science Academy, and I was left in Jurai’s care. Most of the people there thought of me as a nusiance, because I got into regular trouble. I sat under the leafy shade of Tsunami’s tree. I began crying. I was almost an adult, but people saw me as an annoying little kid. Tsunami came out of the tree and hugged onto me. I shivered at another Jurai space ship’s touch. She was like a long lost sister. I leaned into her hug and smiled, glaring up at the light through the many trees. “I am but a second mother, Ryoko, you can come to me when ever Washu is no where to be found...” I smiled up at her. She looked so beautiful, something like the mother I wanted if Washu died, or never came back. She just held onto me, and let me load all my problems on her ears, she barely ever talked, but when she did, she was enthusiastic and full of empathy. I don’t know to this day if she has disowned me because of my actions....probably not, knowing her. But still.......I’m afraid to ask. I finally broke free of Jurai’s iron grasp. I made a few hundred of their best fleet go against them, and with my own power, shot out a whole frontal attack. I don’t know how many died, or if any one died at all, but I did’nt care. I was free. All of Jurai’s best ships were shot down by cannons and such, and I had to escape by bringing out my own little sprite. I threw an orb up in the air, and it formed a large ship. Another of Jurai’s best scientists’ (Washu) creations. “Ryo-ohki! Take me to Washu!” I jumped up in the ship and took the main hold. I flew with all my might to the planet where Ryo-Ohki sensed my mother, Washu’s power. Too bad, that Washu decided to take a trip to Earth to get samples. I was followed closely by the elusive fighter, Yosho. Then I was tagged, he pulled me out of my ship and told me to fight him face to face. I nodded and fought him the best I could, until, Izaka and Kamadake got a hold of me with their barrier. I was slung back in the moutains, and silenced for a long time. I did’nt know what to do. I could see Yosho staying there and building a shrine around where I landed. I growled, thrashed and shook violently. I could’nt move. I was now immobilized, thanks to what he did. He had put me in Jurai Ship commision. I thought he was the dirtiest thing alive. Then, as he was done building the shrine, I saw what he looked like in the face. He looked alot like the boy! Oh well. I did’nt think I’d get out this place...alive. Then, I saw him...a while later, seemed like thousands of years, came a small boy and his mother. The mother held onto him, as he giggled and cooed in his cloth blanket. This was Tenchi. I heard his name from his mother, Achika. He was such an adorable boy. Dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes with gorgeous eye lashes. He cooed and giggled, until...he saw my cave. He cried. I cried, silently, but that’s all I did. Why me? Was I such a monster? I silently sang a bit of that old song....that song, that Washu would sing....and though he probably did’nt hear me...I felt hope. He seemed, so gorgeous. And now, he was smiling. His eyes, lit up with love! I felt blessed. I sang some more, hoping he’d give me another smile. And he did. I cried in joy. Love at first sight. Sometimes I strive so hard to get that same smile, it hurts....does any one understand? Probably not. I am love stricken! The end....?