Ouki wa Oboreru

[Ms. Elsewhere]

This is a story about one of the Six Wizards and how she came to be committed to the leader of the gang, Chi Inu. It's a work in progress, but just wanted to share! Enjoy! It is a Harry Potter Fan Fiction because it is based in the time and world of Harry Potter, but it is also an original idea by Salemboy as well. The story of the six wizards has the makings of a seriously wicked Fan fiction! Also.. the title is supposed to say "Ouki drowns".. but I forget how to write my verbs in present tense?... if someone knows how to say that properly, please pm me so I can change it. Thanks!

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She was on holidays with her family at a lake, and her parents and sisters didn't notice that she had gotten caught in a current near the river mouth. She was dragged off for miles, Her little body scrapping and breaking along the rocks. She fought for her life, the water was cold and it burned her throat and lungs. She was dying, but the water relentlessly dragged her down stream. Her vision was all water, and then it became darker, like she was sinking into a deeper abis. That's when she felt the pull. She was yanked back into life and thrown onto the grassy bank. She coughed and coughed and threw up, then rolled over weakly and let the hot sun warm her face. She squeezed her eyelids once, twice and then fluttered them open and saw that the sun was no longer shining; someone was blocking it. Weak as she was she tried to back away.
"I'm not going to hurt you." the voice was almost kind. "It's not your turn to die. Today." Ouki squinted her eyes, trying to focus. It was a boy, about the same age as her. He was soaking wet, the water dripped off his shoulder length black hair. He knelt down beside her.
"What was it like?" he asked, staring into her eyes. Ouki tried to move. Her whole body ached.
"I... I can't move." she croaked. Inu kept staring at her.
"Tell me, what was it like, to almost die like that?" Inu acted like he hadn't even heard her. Ouki felt her heart crushing.
"Please..." she squeaked, tears starting to form in her eyes, burning them. "I can't move, my whole body... I think my legs are broken." Ouki lifted her hands to reach out to the boy, and saw that her hands were cut up and seeping blood. The boy took one of her hands. Ouki froze. He held her hand between his hands.
"So fragile." he muttered. He looked her over, assessing the damage. Then he looked at her face again. Ouki rolled her head so she didn't have to look at him.
"Look at me." he commanded. Ouki closed her eyes, like a child who believes when she closes her eyes, the monsters can't get her. She was wrong. She felt herself being pulled up to a sitting positon. She cried out in pain. "Open. your. eyes. Ouki." the boy said pointedly. Ouki's eyes shot open.
"How do you know my name?" she whispered.
"You come here every summer. I know you." Ouki's blood ran cold when he said 'I know you and not, I know who you are. How could this boy know her.
"You are not like your sisters. You are strong, independent, smart, and you're bored. You've also got a secret." the boy whispered the last.
Ouki paused, her mouth was so parched. The boy held her in his arms. "What secret?" She breathed. She felt so dizzy. She was loosing so much blood.
"You like to watch things die." the boy's eyes widened and he smiled. Ouki's eyes widened too.
"How..." she tried to say. Her eyes rolled back into her head as she nearly passed out. She felt her cheeks being slapped. She refocused.
"come on! Pay attention!" The boy kept patting at her cheeks until she brought up one hand and grabbed his wrist. Pure adrenaline. He laughed.
"Now there's a fiesty girl!" he said. She held his wrist firm still. "I've seen you, Ouki. You do it. You go out into the forest, you find creatures and you start it. You feed them poison, you cut them, you break them, and you watch them die. You listen to them scream. I listen to them too." Ouki continued to listen to the boy.
"who are you?" she asked.
"My name is Chi Inu." he bowed his head politely. then he set about talking once more. "Was it quiet?"
"What?"
"The water. Nearly dying. Was it quiet?"
"It was.... it was sort of peaceful.... it hurt so much, but then, it just started getting dark." Ouki tried to drag the memory out.
"All that pain. And you didn't make a sound. You were like a rag doll, being tossed around. You didn't look alive. Imagine! Suffering all that pain. And you never made a sound." Inu stood up and looked around. "Come on." he said, and he scooped her up like she was lighter than air.
Ouki fell asleep as Inu carried her up the ridge. She woke up in a hospital bed, both legs in casts and an iv drip in her hand.Unfortunately, even a magical hospital still had to set your bones back in place, even if they did manage to heal faster than muggle medicine knew how. Her mother stirred beside her.
"Oh Ouki! My sweet! Oh God! Baby don't move. You've been through so much. Are you alright?" her mother threw herself across Ouki's chest, hugging her. Ouki set her hands on her mothers back, hesitantly.
"Where's Chi?" she asked.
"Who?" her mother said, pulling away and grabbing some tissue.
"The boy who saved me?"
"Oh, well they.. well they just brought you back to the campground, and then we rushed you to the hospital and I..."
"I want to see him. What did he tell you?" Ouki tried to sit up a bit more, but was still so weak.
"I don't know who you mean, sweetie. There was no boy, only a man and a woman in a truck. Maybe this boy was there son. But he didn't come back with you." her mother eyed her with concern.
"So... no one said anything?"
"Other than that they found you on the side of the river half dead? I think that was enough, don't you??" her mother was becoming hysterical.
"It's okay mom. It's ok." Ouki let her head fall back. She pondered what Chi had said, about the silence.

Ouki's dreams for every night after that day in the river were of the silent pain she had suffered. At first it sent her screaming into consciousness, and then it changed her. She began to study it, to test it, and to master it. The dreams helped her focus on inflicting that pain on everything else. It wasnt' until she had drowned her older sisters cat that her family really knew what she was. She was home for Christmas when she found the cat had eaten her fighting fish. So... she killed him slowly. Using her magic to fill his nose, his mouth, and ears with water until he convulsed and spasmed and slipped away. Her sister walked in as she was doing it. She never recovered from what she saw. Her mother screamed and screamed and cried and cried. "How could you be such a monster?!!!" she wailed.
"I've always been a monster!" Ouki screamed back. That day she left home. That day, she set out to find Chi Inu. She knew he would accept her. She found him, and he encouraged her skill. She started taking human lives. There was no turning back. Not that there was a place where mom and dad's little princess was real -ever.

[salemboy]

Sounds a lot like teenage angst mixed in with a naturally Sadistic side. Very good. Although, would she be the first one to have joined Inu, or what?

[Ms. Elsewhere]

Inu is actually a year younger than Ouki, according to the profiles listed in RPG Six Wizards discussion. However, the school years run from September to June, so they were in the same school year. Inu was the youngest in his class. (Actually, just like I was, when I went to school in Canada my bday is September 23 and we started school Sept. 6th or so) I think it would make sense that Ouki and Inu stared the group. Here are all the bdays.

Buta: November 1971 (21)
Yuta: October 1972 (20)
Ouki: June 1970 (22)
Damien: Feb 1974 (18)
Neko: Feb 1972 (20)
Inu: Sept 1971 (21)


ooops.. looking a bit closer.. I've noticed Ouki's weakness is fire. Must remember that when writing her in RPG.

will post more of my thoughts on this soon.. gtg. :)

[salemboy]

Wow. Ouki digs a guy four years younger than her. I'm in high school, so that's a 18 year old digging a 14 year old. Of course, I have to remember that as people get older, the difference in age matters less. But still, wow.

I hadn't really checked the ages. Damien's a baby compared to the rest of them, lol.

[Ms. Elsewhere]

it's not the same as 14 and 18! Although 18 is still worlds away from 20. Still, a girl going after a younger guy is different than a guy going after a younger girl. Or maybe not.. it all depends, really. Also, Damien seems older than he is, the way he philosphises and so on. However, he would not have been with the group for long, now that I think of it. He would have finished school and then went rogue? And then Ouki would not have known him for long either. I think we can save this scenario but pointing out that in spite of their age differences, they still have much in common, and can still fall for each other. Hmmm... 4 years is nothing really anyway. Not for people like the sadist six!

[salemboy]

This RPG is maybe, three months after he joined (you know, so that he could settle in a bit, but they're not too deep yet). I think he left school as soon as he turned 17. Actually, I know quite a few people where the wife is older than the husband, so it's really not that wierd. It's as wierd as an older guy liking a younger girl (of course, in High school, the difference is much bigger, because we change so rapidly in high school that even two years can make all the difference).