Falling
Author: Aki
Focus: Shizuka Maboroshi, Hiroyuki Tanaka
Rating: PG
Shizuka was walking around on the school roof when she decided that be fun to jump off. So she climbed up onto the fence, smiling as the sun shone down on her face and a breeze gently blew, and jumped off. As she fell, Osric told her that it was a very lovely day for jumping off of buildings, but an even better day for flying. With that, he grew a pair of green butterfly wings and flew off into the sun with Oroka, who had somehow managed to grow a moustache.
She continued to fall and hit a bird, who squaked in indignation and flew off. Shizuka then started to yell that she was sorry after the bird, even though she was pretty sure it spoke Mandarin, which she didn't know a word of. Upset, the brunette girl began to cry and soon she flooded the world. This was a bad thing, because Shizuka did not know how to swim, and her dolphin friends could not save her because they were not endowed with the magical power of pretty sparklies.
When she was about to hit the water, Shizuka suddenly stopped falling, because someone had grabbed onto her shirt. It was Hiro, who was placed her onto his back, and they flew off into space and the stars. Suddenly, he was a prince with a castle, and they lived together ruling over a happy kingdom full of ponies and chocolate cake. Then she saw a star, the prettiest one she had ever seen, and she watched it, chasing after it even as Hiro chased after her, sobbing and crying out her name. He continued to call her name as she flew through the stars, crashing and disappearing.
And then she woke up.
"Shizuka! Shizuka! Wake up. You said you'd go buy new supplies for the new term with me, remember?" Hiroyuki hovered over her, on the couch where she had aparently fallen asleep.
Shizuka yawned and sat up. "You caught me when I was falling, but I couldn't speak Mandarin, so I couldn't say I was sorry."
"Uh, that's okay. Are we going, or do you want to sleep some more?"
She yawned and stretched, "That's enough dreams for today."
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