At 04:45 PM 6/8/00 MDT, you wrote:
{Huh? I'm...} Nagisa awoke to find herself floating naked in
space. {Am I in space? How can I be alive?}
{You were reaching out for me, Nagisa... and Raura. You wanted to
come back to me.}
{Iczer-1?}
{Sou desu. Even unconscious, that was enough to keep you alive.}
{Iczer-1... arigato. I'm coming back to you.}
[Both Sal and Wan plug their ears as Warhammer goes on the rampage in the
theater.
Sal: Now I'm starting to think Jar Jar Binks would have been a better idea.]
* * * * *
A streak of blue light shot through the cosmos, heading towards the
green light which was coming from another direction. When they had each
almost contacted the other, they stopped, and revealed their true forms -
those of Iczer-1 and Nagisa. Nagisa reached out to embrace Iczer-1, and she
cried, both from the pain of her torture and the joy of release. Iczer-1
also wrapped her arms around Nagisa, not needing to speak, but simply to
feel her love's emotions.
[Sal: (frowning) Oh, get a room!]
Topaz: Where do you think they're going back to right after this?
Sandra: Hey, one lemon chapter is quite enough!
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TSUZUKU
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One word...
WHEW!
And the dark part isn't over yet.
[WH: Just as long as Nagisa still gets some more torture, I'm fine with
that!
Sal: But she escaped!
WH: Grrrr...]
Andrew: Well, she might eventually.
Ruri: Not in the next couple of chapters, though.
Lightsphere seems to get harder to write every chapter! This is (I think)
the longest chapter so far, I had to let some parts wait until next chapter,
and I also had to make probably the hardest decision of the fic so
far (whether or not to omit a certain passage - I did end up deleting it,
and no, I don't still have a copy which I can send to anyone, even if I
wanted to (which I don't)).
[Wan: Can't win em all I guess.]
Those of you who are familiar with Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With a
Thousand Faces" may recognise this as the "Inmost Cave/Ordeal" stage of the
journey. I wasn't familiar with Campbell's work when I started writing the
story, but I am now, and am using elements of it in Lightsphere.
[WH: I think I'd better take a look at that, while trying to read Orson
Scott Card.]
Ruri: Another good resource along the same lines is "The Writer's
Journey", by Christopher Vogler.
Thanks to Elsa Bibat for her essay "On the Necessity of Cruelty and Pain",
which helped encourage me to actually write out the nasty things I had
planned for characters in this and future chapters.
[Wan: Ah! That one! I used that as a reference when I was teasing Bud.]
And, as always, I need all the C&C I can get!
I've got to write essays for the next few weeks, then maybe I'll write that
Nadesico fic I keep talking about. The next chapter will come after that.
NEXT CHAPTER: Cyan and her team battle the Rhadam for Sarya, and Star
launches her vendetta abainst Saber!
WH: Not bad Andrew, this certainly has gotten better with the passage of
time. Keep it up!
Sal: Ok, now what about the clones.
WH: That... (pulls out a transceiver) Dawn! Charge up my laser tank and get
those clones on the shooting range! I'm in a good mood!
Iczer-2: (Warps in and baps WH on the head) What was that all about when you
saw me earlier?
WH: (doesn't answer, instead, turns into SD form and repeated smacks Iczer 2
on the cheeks at SD speeds. It doesn't hurt, but it sure does get annoying.)
Like you even need to ask! After what you did with Saber and all.
Iczer-2: (blinks and teases with a smirk) Why Warhammer, if you just wanted
to get into the sack with my, why didn't you just say so? *TEKNO PUNCH*
**CRASH INTO THE WALL**
WH: (flaring red aura and eyes) DON'T INSULT ME, WOMAN!
(Wu Fei pops in)
Wu Fei: Hey, that's MY line! [Starts ranting about how stealing people's
lines is unjust. Ruri teleports him out]
Ruri: Baka.
(aura dies down and
he turns with another frown) As WH or in real life, I have NO intention of
selling myself so cheaply.
Iczer 2: (Her hand slowly reaches over and grabs his shoulder. She whirls
him around to show her with the brightest aura you'd ever see her have, plus
the biggest toothy grin her face is capable of holding.) It's about time you
grew a back bone, hammerhead... now you're gonna die with it!!
WH: Just try it!! (both pull out weapons)
Wan: Round One!
Sal: FIGHT!! (Thinks: The repair crews are going to LOVE this one...)
The End.
Andrew: Thanks for the MST!
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Andrew Dynon
"When will those bloody adolescents learn to leave my Mobile Suits alone?"
- Bright Noah, from Kathleen Moffre's fanfic "Russian Roulette"
"Keep 'em guessing. Never tell anyone the truth. Try to confuse them."
- Stefan Elliot on dealing with Hollywood executives.
"Stories have to be told to exist. They exist in the telling and retelling."
- Itzhak Roeh