9Chapter 1: Little Lost Saru:
Where Sky and Land Meet
Week one
I've been here for only a few days yet I feel lonely already. I miss them and hope that soon they will come to take me away from this place.
Week two
It seems that it will take them a little longer than I thought. The darkness here is quite disturbing. I have started to explore but the fact that I can see absolutely nothing is a problem, which limits my exploration.
Week three
They still have not shown and in this room is the only place I can find light enough to see. I have found no food supply and am limited to the small parcel, which I carry on myself. This parcel is indeed small and I am glad that I had decided to change my eating habits when I first arrived here. It now contains only one bottle of water and three left over meat buns from the shopping trip that had occurred before I was lost into this dark void of vast emptiness, which has become my inhabitance for the time being.
Week four
I keep careful track of days with the light in this room. Each time the sunbeam dies I scratch off another day but I must ask myself is that really a sunbeam or am I simply delirious and have lost track of the real time? Of this I do not know.
Supply has run out.
Hakkai, Gojyo, and Sanzo had been looking for Goku for four weeks now and they were getting deeply depressed. The saru had mysteriously vanished and the group was wondering if he had decided to leave the group even though it was most unlikely since he had seemed to only be looking for someone named Kara. Sanzo's nerves were on edge and he was extremely nervous lately. He would jump at small things and had not even threatened Gojyo for weeks never mind pull out his harisen or gun.
"Hey miss have you seen a young boy with gold eyes brown hair about this tall?" Gojyo asked an old woman. " Oh poor thing," she started talking to herself and shook her head, "the darkness takes all who fear it." "The darkness? Excuse me ma'am but what do you mean by the darkness?" Hakkai asked curiously.
"Foreigners are you? Lately people from surrounding villages including this one have been disappearing. It is said that those who fear the dark will be consumed by it in that cursed cave up there. It was a cave where a young girl was said to have gotten lost about 500 years ago. Many of the villagers knew her. She was a demon named Kara and was said to adorn a silver circlet and she was searching for something she had lost. It was said that she often talked about a silver necklace with a crescent moon on it, which had been the other half to a key. The other half of the key belonged to her brother and was supposedly a golden chain with a sun on it. It was known that her brother feared the dark and legend has it that is why all men who fear the dark are disappearing into that cave. She probably wants here brother back and is searching for him and the golden necklace."
"Kara! Interesting. How much of that do you think is true?" Gojyo asked turning to Hakkai. "I tell you all of it is true! The only part that might be wrong is our guess as to why all this is happening," the old woman yelled making it clear that what she knew was pure fact and that no one should challenge her knowledge. "OK, thank you miss very much," Hakkai said and they walked away out of the woman's sight then started to converse. "Well what do you think?" Hakkai asked. "I think we should go and check it out. We have nothing to loose, besides she said the same name Goku did. That has to mean something," Sanzo said and they started off towards the cave.
"MAN I HATE THIS I HAVE NO FOOD AT ALL AND I'M NOT MAKING ANY PROGRESS!" Goku screamed as loud as he could to break the silence. He picked up a rock and started to explore. He pushed the hard rock into the softer rock wall and started making a gash in the wall so that he could feel his way back (I don't know If that's possible but deal K). He let his feet carry him and closed his eyes. He then opened his eyes when he noticed that there was a blue tint he could see. He found himself face to face with a young girl that looked much like himself and was enveloped in solid ice. Her eyes were open but they remained frozen in place.
The whole room was filled with this blue light and it seemed to be being emitted from the girl. Her eyes were silver and her hair was blue. She wore a silver circlet and a white gown that looked like a nightgown. "Sister."
"Where's the entrance to this damn thing?" Gojyo complained, "Hakkai make one for us. I don't think there is one." Hakkai formed an energy ball in his hand and shot it at the cave wall they were currently facing. A huge whole appeared and they walked in. "Man its dark in here. Kappa fetch us a light," Sanzo ordered. "Why me?" Gojyo complained. Click "Point taken!" Gojyo came back with a torch and they continued to search the cave until they found a room with a small beam from the outside shining in. They spotted a book on the floor with a old ink pen next to it.
"Hey this is Goku's!" Hakkai said in surprise remembering how they had spotted the small journal and pen in a food store. The owner had been trying to get rid of it. He had said he found it while cleaning his attic and had no use for it. Goku for a strange reason had taken an interest to it and asked for the small black book. The owner gave it to him for free (after Goku bought more than half the condense of the store with Sanzo's credit card). Hakkai opened up the journal to find that it had been used and Goku's handwriting was gorgeously formed into perfect cursive writing. The vocabulary level was also extremely high considering that it was Goku, or at least that's what Gojyo said later.
"What's that? Did Goku write that!" Gojyo asked in surprise after seeing the writing. "Hey Kappa quite shouting and come over here. "What is it? Huh there's a line on the wall." They followed the line until they came to a room with a bright blue light and saw Goku staring at what appeared to be a girl version of Goku frozen in ice. Goku then turned into a Fire version of himself, which led them to believe he was being burnt to a crisp, not the cause however. "Goku!" Hakkai shouted in worry but it didn't seem like Goku heard him or even noticed that he was there.
The ice was melting. Soon she would be free from that prison of ice and light. That prison that I knew she hated so much. "Emoc ot em. Eb eerf morf tath nosirp fo eci dna etil. Emoc ot eth senkrad chiw uoy evol os chum." I would soon have my sister back. (What he said isn't really that important but here's the translation "Come to me. Be free from that prison of ice and light. Come to the darkness, which you love so much.") The ice shattered and she fell into my arms. I felt the warmth leave me and then everything went black.
Goku returned back to normal and Hakkai caught him when he fell along with the girl that Goku was holding in his arms. "What the hell just happened? I'm not the only one confused here am I?" Gojyo asked. "No, your not. We better head back," Hakkai said and then tried to get the girl out of Goku's grasp so he could carry them separate. He failed however. Goku's grip was firm and despite being unconscious tight and solid. "Looks like I'll have to carry both of them," Hakkai said with a smile then placed Goku on his back on the floor then scooped them up in that position.