Apart from the Ocean part 4
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estiroseHere's part 4 of Apart from the Ocean.
Title: Apart from the Ocean (part 4)
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Fandom: Kamen Rider Kiva
Words: ~1000
Characters: Shinoda Aya (OC), Kuramae Noboru (OC)
Warnings/Rating: 13+/PG-13
Prompt: Table 2, prompt: Ocean
Summary: Aya has to live with the fact that monsters don't think like humans.
Author's Notes: I'm hoping to use as many of the 25 prompts as I can for one story, and am therefore designating parts as I go along. Any left over prompts will be used as snapshots on Aya's life. Since the characters are Japanese, I've used Japanese name order here. The universe itself belongs to Toei and TV-Asahi, as does the original version of Kuramae Noboru.
Aya woke up in the ocean.
No, that wasn't quite right. It was water, and it felt right, not like the chlorinated water of the average swimming pool, and it had salt, but it wasn't boundless. It was contained. She could tell that without opening her eyes. It was as if somebody had tried to bring the ocean inland.
The real ocean was somewhere kilometers off to her left, she could tell. She wondered how she got there, if someone was playing a joke. But who would go to the expense to do ocean water? People that weren't her or her dad wouldn't know the difference.
She opened her eyes. White ceiling; white walls decorated with a sea motif. She looked down; she was naked. There were restraints at her arms, waist, and legs, under the water, keeping her from drifting further into the water and drowning. Most of the room was under the water, it looked like. She had to wonder, again, who had kidnapped her and why they'd gone to all this fancy expense. Had it been Kuramae-san? Being in his car was the last thing she remembered, after all.
The door to the room slid open, and a smiling woman slipped through and then closed the door behind her. It clicked, as if locking. "Shinoda-san, I'm glad you're awake."
"Where am I?" Aya asked. It was a good, logical question. It didn't answer why she was in the water and didn't have any clothes on, but she'd start with it.
"Monyou research facility," the woman said. "Would you like me to undo those restraints? We didn't want you to drown, and it doesn't seem like you're quite adapted for an extended time underwater yet."
"Yes, and by the way, what am I doing here?" she asked. Her mother had raised her to be polite, after all, and she did want to hear why she had woken up practically up to her neck in seawater.
"It's because you're Merman, of course," the woman told her, as if that was the most mundane thing in the world. Aya couldn't help but stare as the woman snapped the restraints off. Aya sat up, rubbing her wrists, unable to say anything coherent. The last time anybody had called her a Merman, or at least of the Merman Clan, it was her father in one of those last conversations they'd had before she'd screamed at him to stay out of her life for good. He'd blinked up at her with a wounded expression, the one he was so good at, but she hadn't cared. "Dry clothes are on the bed."
Aya picked up the clothes, surprised to find that they were some that she'd packed for the trip. She spotted a dresser across the way from the bed, boxes and her suitcase stacked in front of it. With the woman watching her every move, she quickly and efficently got dressed, sitting down on the bed. The woman pulled a folding chair out from beside the bed. "I'm Dr. Hamagaki," the woman said. "I'm sure you're confused."
"Just slightly," Aya said, wanting to say more. But she held off. She was sure that the doctor would tell her why she was there in good time.
"To start with, this is not your home universe," Dr. Hamagaki said. "We Fangaire... we killed off our own Merman Clan, along with two other species, a century or two ago. Monyou research facility was built to try to revive those species, but we haven't had much success. Either the bloodlines are too weak to produce anything useful, or the bloodline's disappeared on us. You have quite a bit of Merman DNA, enough to infuse our fading Merman bloodlines. We wish we had a fullblooded Merman, but we haven't found one in your universe yet. So, it's up to us, and you, to restart the Merman clan in our universe."
"You're Fangaire," Aya asked. She'd absorbed the rest of Dr. Hamagaki's words, but she didn't want to think about what the implications of the last things the woman had said.
Dr. Hamagaki smiled gently, and as Aya watched, her eyes became tinted with rainbow colors, and colors formed a mosaic on her face and neck. And then the effect was gone. Aya had seen the display once, on TV, but now she got to see it in person.
"We're trying to trace your father now," Dr. Hamagaki said. "You had an address for your mother in your apartment. Did you know you have some small amount of Merman ancestry from her as well? The majority of your DNA is from your father, of course, but somewhere long ago one of her ancestors was Merman as well."
Aya personally thought that her mother would be less than thrilled about being of Merman ancestry, given what trouble her father had caused. "If you're asking if I know where my father lives, I have no clue. Nor do I care. He is fullblooded Merman, though." She paused. "And wait, you went through my apartment?"
"Not me personally," Dr. Hamagaki said. "But somebody did when we relocated you here."
"Relocated?" Aya echoed. She wasn't sure she liked the sound of that.
"You're starting a new life here," Dr. Hamagaki said. "We need you more than anybody in your old universe ever did."
Aya rather doubted that, given the way her father had reacted when they'd first met, but she decided it was best to keep her mouth shut.
"Feel free to unpack, make your room the way you like it," Dr. Hamagaki said. "The corridor beyond is secure, and there's a bathroom clearly marked down the way." She paused. "And I have someone here to see you."
Dr. Hamagaki opened the door, slipping out as Kuramae Noboru walked in.
Title: Apart from the Ocean (part 4)
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Kiva
Words: ~1000
Characters: Shinoda Aya (OC), Kuramae Noboru (OC)
Warnings/Rating: 13+/PG-13
Prompt: Table 2, prompt: Ocean
Summary: Aya has to live with the fact that monsters don't think like humans.
Author's Notes: I'm hoping to use as many of the 25 prompts as I can for one story, and am therefore designating parts as I go along. Any left over prompts will be used as snapshots on Aya's life. Since the characters are Japanese, I've used Japanese name order here. The universe itself belongs to Toei and TV-Asahi, as does the original version of Kuramae Noboru.
Aya woke up in the ocean.
No, that wasn't quite right. It was water, and it felt right, not like the chlorinated water of the average swimming pool, and it had salt, but it wasn't boundless. It was contained. She could tell that without opening her eyes. It was as if somebody had tried to bring the ocean inland.
The real ocean was somewhere kilometers off to her left, she could tell. She wondered how she got there, if someone was playing a joke. But who would go to the expense to do ocean water? People that weren't her or her dad wouldn't know the difference.
She opened her eyes. White ceiling; white walls decorated with a sea motif. She looked down; she was naked. There were restraints at her arms, waist, and legs, under the water, keeping her from drifting further into the water and drowning. Most of the room was under the water, it looked like. She had to wonder, again, who had kidnapped her and why they'd gone to all this fancy expense. Had it been Kuramae-san? Being in his car was the last thing she remembered, after all.
The door to the room slid open, and a smiling woman slipped through and then closed the door behind her. It clicked, as if locking. "Shinoda-san, I'm glad you're awake."
"Where am I?" Aya asked. It was a good, logical question. It didn't answer why she was in the water and didn't have any clothes on, but she'd start with it.
"Monyou research facility," the woman said. "Would you like me to undo those restraints? We didn't want you to drown, and it doesn't seem like you're quite adapted for an extended time underwater yet."
"Yes, and by the way, what am I doing here?" she asked. Her mother had raised her to be polite, after all, and she did want to hear why she had woken up practically up to her neck in seawater.
"It's because you're Merman, of course," the woman told her, as if that was the most mundane thing in the world. Aya couldn't help but stare as the woman snapped the restraints off. Aya sat up, rubbing her wrists, unable to say anything coherent. The last time anybody had called her a Merman, or at least of the Merman Clan, it was her father in one of those last conversations they'd had before she'd screamed at him to stay out of her life for good. He'd blinked up at her with a wounded expression, the one he was so good at, but she hadn't cared. "Dry clothes are on the bed."
Aya picked up the clothes, surprised to find that they were some that she'd packed for the trip. She spotted a dresser across the way from the bed, boxes and her suitcase stacked in front of it. With the woman watching her every move, she quickly and efficently got dressed, sitting down on the bed. The woman pulled a folding chair out from beside the bed. "I'm Dr. Hamagaki," the woman said. "I'm sure you're confused."
"Just slightly," Aya said, wanting to say more. But she held off. She was sure that the doctor would tell her why she was there in good time.
"To start with, this is not your home universe," Dr. Hamagaki said. "We Fangaire... we killed off our own Merman Clan, along with two other species, a century or two ago. Monyou research facility was built to try to revive those species, but we haven't had much success. Either the bloodlines are too weak to produce anything useful, or the bloodline's disappeared on us. You have quite a bit of Merman DNA, enough to infuse our fading Merman bloodlines. We wish we had a fullblooded Merman, but we haven't found one in your universe yet. So, it's up to us, and you, to restart the Merman clan in our universe."
"You're Fangaire," Aya asked. She'd absorbed the rest of Dr. Hamagaki's words, but she didn't want to think about what the implications of the last things the woman had said.
Dr. Hamagaki smiled gently, and as Aya watched, her eyes became tinted with rainbow colors, and colors formed a mosaic on her face and neck. And then the effect was gone. Aya had seen the display once, on TV, but now she got to see it in person.
"We're trying to trace your father now," Dr. Hamagaki said. "You had an address for your mother in your apartment. Did you know you have some small amount of Merman ancestry from her as well? The majority of your DNA is from your father, of course, but somewhere long ago one of her ancestors was Merman as well."
Aya personally thought that her mother would be less than thrilled about being of Merman ancestry, given what trouble her father had caused. "If you're asking if I know where my father lives, I have no clue. Nor do I care. He is fullblooded Merman, though." She paused. "And wait, you went through my apartment?"
"Not me personally," Dr. Hamagaki said. "But somebody did when we relocated you here."
"Relocated?" Aya echoed. She wasn't sure she liked the sound of that.
"You're starting a new life here," Dr. Hamagaki said. "We need you more than anybody in your old universe ever did."
Aya rather doubted that, given the way her father had reacted when they'd first met, but she decided it was best to keep her mouth shut.
"Feel free to unpack, make your room the way you like it," Dr. Hamagaki said. "The corridor beyond is secure, and there's a bathroom clearly marked down the way." She paused. "And I have someone here to see you."
Dr. Hamagaki opened the door, slipping out as Kuramae Noboru walked in.
