[Episode 203327] [Episode 203327]Usagi ran hard, feet pounding the pavement and a piece of toast clenched in her mouth. Some would think it cute, but evidently her teacher was not one of them. Usagi started to panic at the sound of the school bell.
“Duhmnd giff me murf ssshinssh,” she muttered around the bread. Evidently her earth fury understood clearly enough, for renewed strength suddenly seemed to flow up her legs with each step. Usagi rushed forward at a ground eating pace.
There were times, like this, that she wished she were better at air crafting. Drawing strength and stamina from Diamond served well enough, but drawing true speed and lightness from the wind eluded her. Despite her earth fury’s best efforts, Usagi arrived late. Again.
The school gate was closing as she entered the final approach. No way could she make it on time just running, Pulling the toast out of her mouth, her features took on a determined frown as she called on her fury. “Diamond! Groundwave!”
The pavement behind her rippled and heaped up, as if some great burrowing animal were surging towards her at great speed. Usagi leaned forward and jumped slightly as it reached her, coming down on just ahead of the crest in a surfer’s crouch. The groundwave beneath her feet, propelled her forward.
The gates grew closer faster but the gap between narrowed even faster. Usagi’s frown grew stubborn as she realised she was not going to make it. “Throw me!” she insisted and braced herself.
The ground swelled suddenly, as if struck from below, and the pavement shattered as Usagi was launched over the gates. She cleared the iron gates just as they snapped closed, and stuck her tongue out in triumph. Then turned and realised she’d forgotten something.
‘Oh, right, landings,’ she realised as the ground came up to meet her. With contact with the ground broken, her ability to summon her earth fury was not only greatly diminished, but Diamond would not be able to find her to catch. ‘I keep meaning to work on them.’ Arms and legs flailing wildly, Usagi struck the side of the shool building.
She slumped to the ground and lay there with her eyes swirling. The earth bulged beside her, and formed into a granite gray form of a giant rabbit. Eyes like multifaceted gems glittered the fury nudged it’s crafter with gentle concern.
Usagi shook herself back to awareness, and reached out to hug the comforting presence. Diamond could hardly be called soft and cuddly, but the fury’s always been there for her since the day her call had been first answered.
Little Usagi had been playing in a kindergarten sand pit with some other girls when a bear had emerged from the bushes to menace them. Usagi had been terrified but the other girls were cowering behind her, so she could not run away. She’d called out for help, and then…
“Hold it! Hold it!” little Akane cried out. “Hang on. That’s not what happened at all.”
Little Akane had been playing in the sandpit with her sister and another girl when a bear emerged from some bushes to menace them. Akane had bravely stood up to the beast while her sister crouched bawling behind her.
She readied herself to beat off the pest when the sand erupted beneath her feet, knocking her aside. Why if it hadn’t…
“Yeah, right. Whatever,” said little Usagi with a huff. The important thing was that something had answered her call and chased the bear away. She’d always wanted to summon something cute, but faced with the bear-menacing-little-girls-playing-in-a-sandpit problem, big and powerful had suddenly seemed more important than cute.
Thus she had wound up with a six foot tall stone gray bunny companion. Not what she had originally had in mind, but she had no complaints. All in all, it beat getting a kitten, hands down.
“Right, enough day dreaming,” Usagi declared as she pushed her fury away. “I’ve got to get to class fast before teacher notices that I’m late..”
“Usagi Tendo, you’re late. Hallway!”
“Awe,” Usagi sighed and took up her usual place. Lifting her leadshot ladden buckets, she turned in cheerful greeting. “’morning, Kuonji-san.”
“Good morning, Tendo-san,” Makoto replied. “Sleep in again?”
“Yes,” Usagi sighed. “Still had to fight those boys?”
Makoto complained, “you know my old sempai will never admit defeat.”
“Upperclassman Kuno is such a jerk,” Usagi agreed. “Kinda cute though.”
“Pah! Cute isn’t all it’s cracked up to be,” Makoto decreed. “I’ve had no luck with cute sempai! One left me stranded, and the other won’t leave me alone!”
(Posted Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:40)
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