Clarissa

Clarissa would never listen to what Jason was saying. It was too bothering. Why did she had to stay put when they were all playing in the garden? It was easy. They were older and she would bother them. She didn't like to be a bother but she knew that she could run as fast as them. She knew she could catch the ball and score a goal as well as them. She really didn't want to play with dolls. But they weren't giving her the ball anyway, no matter how fast she ran. They were being unfair.

But now it was raining and she was running to the door. She was going to lock them out and that would teach them good. She was already laughing at the trick but unfortunately she wasn't the first to get to the door. What a bother again! She took her shoes of before entering. Her mum had already prepare towels for the kids to dry their hair. She sighed as her mum rushed the towel on her head. She was bid enough to do it herself. Why was everybody always treating her like a kid?

She starting to have problems to breath. She had been running for a long time. It was happening more and more frequently lately. The pain in her chest as she was struggling to get her breath back. She didn't want to show that to Jason, he would laugh again and make it a point that she couldn't join them. But it was becoming harder and harder to hide it. She put a hand on her chest and staggered for few steps. She tried to hold herself to her mum but she couldn't feel anything in her left hand. It was as if her hand had disappeared. Soon I'll be able to walk through things like a ghost she thought, she wanted  to laugh but laughing was painful. A voice that she didn't recognize as hers came out of her throat like a grumble, she didn't know her voice could do that, that made her want to laugh too, she was sounding funny. 

She staggered again and fell on on knee before her mum could catch her.

"Clarissa, what's wrong baby?" she heard her mum said. Her voice was strange too, it seemed worried and very far away.

"Nothing, I'm ok", she wanted to answer, to make sure that Jason wouldn't laugh at her but her voice seemed stuck in her throat. 

 She heard her mum panicking and calling her dad. Jason pleaded to go to, she didn't now were they were going but her dad said no. She felt him pick her up, she couldn't see anything, only the ceiling. She had never noticed it was so white, in her bedroom she would count black spots when she was to bored to get out of her boredom. She was still trying to breathe, she tried to cough to make it better but she couldn't do that either. She tried to bring her arms up, she didn't know why they were hanging down like that but she couldn't move. It wasn't funny anymore. Her dad put her at the back of the car. It wasn't funny anymore, it was starting to be scary, she could feel her mum next to her in the car, she wondered what was wrong with her. She couldn't see anything it was all white. She could hear the voice of her mum so far away. She could feel the vibration of the car racing, her father was driving so fast. Suddenly there was a shock, a big noise painful for her hears, she felt herself flying through the car's glass. She was flying like a bird, she thought only for a second before her head hit the ground. Then it wasn't white anymore, everything had turned black. 

"This one is still alive", she heard a strange voice say. That guy either had a big cold or a really strange voice, she couldn't make out which. She felt something was forced down her throat. It wasn't agreeable at all, it was feeling sticky and disgusting. her tried to remove it with her tongue but she couldn't. Suddenly she felt her chest moving up. That thing was breathing for her. "I can breathe", she thought. She knew how to do it, how to get the air through her nose then out from her mouth like they had been teaching her in sport class. Once again she wondered why everyone was treating her like a baby.

"She seemed to have a heart condition", she heard the funny voice say. 

Her chest was painful now even more than before, that machine was making her breathe too slowly, she wanted more air. She tried to speak but she could only feel to big tube in her throat. 

"Let's take her to the hospital first", she heard the voice say. 

She didn't want to go to the hospital, her dad was taking her somewhere nice where Jason wasn't allowed to go. 

She felt someone pulling on her hair, it seemed viscous and wet. She was sure to have dried herself properly with the towel. Slowly the only thing she could do was to listen to the ambulance siren.

Clarissa is one of the main characters of "Rainbow catcher".

Brownie

Brownie half opened her eyes wondering what time it was.
She tried to find the alarm o'clock groping, her eyelid feeling heavy with sleep. She didn't want to wake up just yet, it was way too early even though the sun was already shining through her curtains.
She looked at the o'clock before putting it back on the bedside table with a sigh. 10.30am. How could she have slept so much without even noticing it? She pulled the blanket back on her face to avoid the sunlight and tried to fall back asleep.

There were noises in the corridor, she could hear them now. It was hard to concentrate on sleeping any longer. She turned around trying to forget about it but her slumber seemed to be gone. She tried to remember her dream but she couldn't. It had been agreeable, that's why she wanted to go back to it but it seemed to have escaped her memory.

She finally decided to go out of bed, she pushed the blanket slightly but changed her mind and wrapped it around her body and sat on the bed. She had some time left before meeting Yue. She wondered how she would dress. He had refused to tell her where they were going.
She stood up her naked feet looking for her slippers. She stood up and walked to the window. She opened the curtains, it was early spring and the air was still cold outside. She looked around in the sky trying to find any traces of Yue but it was way too early. He was probably still sleeping. She walked to the bathroom for a shower. She didn't like to wait but it would take her some times to decide on her clothes and make up.
Why didn't he tell her where they were going? It was crazy.
"I'm not telling you, so that you don't go looking forward to it, just in case I can't make it back." he had said.
That was crazy, even if barely, he was always making it back. And she was already looking forward to it anyway. It was just making her life more difficult, as if she needed that. Dating a demon, she should have been prepared for it but she was still somehow expecting him to stop going to the demon world and to stay over here with her. It was too dangerous.
"I have a job, and I need to gain more powers if I want to survive and sustain my family." He had said.
She had argued that he wouldn't need powers in the human world and that she could sustain for herself. But there was no way to change his mind.
"I'm the man here, I need to be responsible", he had said.
She could sigh all she wanted, fighting in the demon world was more than a job for Yue, it was his way of life, the one he had chosen, it was fun. She knew that being with her he was probably feeling like a wolf in a sheepfold without being able to kill or torture anyone around. He had to be a nice demon, no fighting, no dealing with death. It was probably killing him, that's why he needed to escape so often and was coming back bruised and bleeding. But it was his choice and to be with him she would bear with it. 

Last night he was on a new job, something he had been waiting for quite a long time. He had talked about celebrating with her once it was done. She didn't know what it was exactly. At first she had been questioning him about his jobs but he would never answered. 
"It's not stories for little girls", he had simply said. 
And she had soon given up. All she knew was that he wasn't doing anything recommendable. Horns had been growing on his head. Demons' horns were growing every time they were doing bad things so when you were to meet a demon you knew exactly what kind of person he was depending on the size of his horn. It was a good things to know but seeing horns growing on Yue so rapidly was still scary. 
What if he was to bring his darkness around her. People had been talking about it over and over again. 
"Aren't you scared?" they were saying, "He is just playing with you, he is a demon, he is bad, he'll break your heart at best, if that's all he does to you." 
But she wouldn't listen. She knew that somewhere inside, Yue was a good guy, he had never even made her cry. 

"So celebration it is", she said joyfully getting out of the shower. She walked to her closet and passed several dresses in front of her body before discarding them. She opted for a light blue dress. It wasn't really warm enough for the season but it was Yue's favorite color and she could always wear a cardigan while they were outside. She picked up the shoes to go with it and opened her make up case. Today she would use paillettes even though Yue might call her glittering choco-cookie again. He liked to make jokes about her name, then she would get mad at him and he would try his best to be forgiven. It was almost a daily routine now. 

She was ready waiting in front of the window when the door bell rang downstairs. 
"Brownie! It's Yue" she heard a voice say.
It took her sometimes to realize that they were calling her. 
Yue would never use the door, it was too troublesome for him to have to face her siblings questioning looks. He was always coming through the window at the most unexpected moment.
Instinctively she knew something was wrong. She ran down the stairs. Yue was standing in the middle of the entrance, some people had gathered in the corners, looking at him. Normally he would have been dancing from one foot to another and rushing for her to get out of there. But he wasn't.
"Hi" he said, "Apparently I was supposed to come here but I'm not quite sure why. Is there any other demon in the house?"
Brownie walked to him trembling inside, his voice had changed, it was empty. When she looked in his eyes, they were empty too. 

Brownie is a main character of Demon Soul and "Demon World" and appears as secondary character in Attic Mirror and "Demon and fairy". 



 

Azazel

Azazel was running as fast as he could in the forest trying not to fall on the prominent tree roots. 

"This time she will never find me" he thought stopping in front of a very large tree with a lot of low branches so that he could climb easily. 

Every time before he had run as far as he could so that he couldn't hear his sister count anymore, then when she was finished, he didn't have any time left to hide. Now, he had learned. He was still close to her, he could hear her voice and the numbers, fifty-one, fifty-two. He just needed to get in this tree and to hide, as high as possible. He wanted to fly there but he knew that she would hear his wings flipping in the wind so the only solution was to climb, sixty-three, sixty-four, he was almost there. He needed a comfortable position, not to have to move. He was hidden in the leafs, she couldn't see him from the ground, if she couldn't hear him, it was done, he would be hidden forever.

The voice of his sister suddenly stopped. Azazel waited and waited but he never heard her say that she was coming, he listen more carefully wondering if he had missed it. It seemed impossible, he had never missed it before, his sisters would always yell as loudly as they could  because they knew he was always running too far away to hear them. They would always repeat themselves several times, just to give him a chance. 

Azazel sat on his branch feeling that something was not quite right.

He waited in his tree for a very long time. Soon the night was there. He thought that he would be happy not to be found but he wasn't. They should have been looking for him and calling him for diner now. He pushed the branches in front of him to look at the ground. There was nobody to be seen. He flew down slowly. He didn't care about making noises anymore. He could reuse this hiding place later, maybe, but for the moment he was just worried.

He flew back to the house, not straight, he was hiding behind the trees as much as he could. That's what his dad had said they must do if they didn't feel too safe. His dad was teaching them to hide, that's why they had been playing hide-and-seek everyday now. It was silent, too silent to be real. He smelled the blood. He had seen a lot of blood before, the night they had first come here, he remembered the smell too well. He landed on the ground lightly, trying not to make the branch crack.

"Azazel run away!" He heard his father said.
His father would always hear him approach, always. He turned around ready to take off and go back to his hiding place but he heard his mum yell.
"You better come here if you want to see your family again" he heard an unknown voice say.
He hesitated, just a little but that was enough. They were out of the house holding his sisters and his mother. They were wearing the same black robes with this bleeding cross on the front, they were the same who had come the day they had escaped. The one his father had called "The Watchers". He wondered where his father was. His father was strong, he could have taken those guys on easily. He wondered where his father was before realizing that the blood on those demons where not theirs. It was the reason why his mum had yelled.
"Run away Azazel, and never come back", she said weakly.
He was already feeling the anger feeling him.
"If you come over we will let them go", one of the demon said stroking the cheek of his older sister. He could read the disgust on her face at the touch.
"Run Az, run!" she said.
The demon leaked her neck.
"You have such a nice sister. Don't you want to protect her?" he was smirking.
Azazel already knew that there was no way they would let them run away. If they were freed, they would attack. He didn't know how they had come to be captured, it just seemed unreal. He took a step toward them, slowly, trying to see where the danger would come from but it was impossible. If he was to attack one of the demons, the other would kill his family, it was desperate. They would die if he ran, they would die if he stayed but he couldn't let them like this.
The first demon jumped forward to get him. It was big, it was easy to avoid his arms, Azazel had always been small for his age. He threw a fire ball at him while moving forward but missed. The other demons laughed. They were going to play the mouse and cat game with him. Letting him get tired before catching him for real. He was not strong enough to fight them. He wished he could make a big earthquake like his father had done the night they had escaped but he couldn't. He was weak. They continued to play with him, they were enjoying themselves and he was becoming more and more desperate. He couldn't see the way out.

They finally caught him.
"So you think he is the one", one of them said.
"There is no doubt about it", another one answered.
"Show us your power of Chaos", the one with the larger horns said holding him by the chin above the ground.
"Azazel", he heard his mother said.
The demon smirked.
"Let's begin!"

They started with her. They hold him tight so that he couldn't move and forced him to watch as they cut into her skin, deeply. Soon her entire body was blood only.
"Show us your power kid, show us the Chaos", they repeated every time they added more suffering to her body.
His sisters were yelling for them to stop. Azazel was yelling at them that he didn't have that power, that he didn't know that power and they would only laugh. When they were finished removing her skin, they attached her to the lower branch of a tree by her wings, piercing two large holes in them for the heavy chains. She had already lost consciousness. She wasn't debating herself anymore, so they took his older sister to inflict her the same treatment. Azazel was desperately trying the find a way to stop that nightmare but he couldn't. He was trying to find that power of Chaos inside of himself but it wasn't there.
When they were done late the following morning, the demon with the largest horns turned to him again. He was holding a piece of metal turned red by the fire. He pulled on Azazel's sleeve and applied it on. Azazel thought it was his turn, that he was going to die too, the sensation of burning and the smell of his own burning skin suddenly overcame the smell of blood. He closed his eyes ready to finally die. He felt his arm changing into a wood piece for the first time.
"Take him away! And make sure the others are dead!", the demon said.
He didn't turn around for a last look at his family, he didn't have too, the horrible image of their skinless body was engraved forever in his memory. He wondered if he would ever remember anything else from them.

Azazel is a character from "Demon and fairy" and "Demon World".

The end of RMOD challenge 1.5

So the last 15 days of March were dedicated to the Read More Or Die Challenge which I miraculously started on time (for some reason I was convinced that it would be taking place in April). Seeing how busy I will be with Camp NaNoWriMo and the A-to-Z challenge, I'm grateful that it doesn't. When I did it for the first time in January, I started without a goal. At that time, I didn't have any idea about how much I could read in Japanese. Of course I was reading already but not in a consistent manner. This time, I had planned to get up to 1000 pages and I'm happy to have surpassed it with 1249.6 pages. I finished to read 花ざかりの君たちへ　and ツバサ RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.

I am looking forward to the next round of the RMOD Challenge starting on the first of May. I have already my weapons ready for it but I leave it as a surprise for later.

Here are my reading progresses.

Camp NaNoWriMo : Let's get's started.

In 24 hours is the start of Camp NaNoWriMo, one month of literary abandon as they like to say around there. 

The rules are a little bit different than for NaNoWriMo which is an advantage for me this time. I do not need to start on another new novel, I can just continue and hopefully finish my old ones. So I will start with "Demon World" and when I'm done with it I will continue with "Rainbow catcher". 

I have already 83346 words for "Demon World" I'm at the critical part when Yue is going to meet with Brownie again finally even though they are not completely alone in the room and the other demons are all converging to the same place. I'm telling you, it's going to be a mess.

I still only have 55885 words for "Rainbow catcher", Jason, Alban and Pyrrhus are in the never explored east side of the desert and they ran into a group of rather famish giant crabs. What is going to happen next? Well hopefully you will discover it by the end of the month.

The update of my novel writing progress will appear on Mondays during the month of April as other days are already reserved for the A-to-Z challenge.

With a goal of 50000 words I might have enough to finish "Demon World" but I'm not sure I will be able to reach a good size for "Rainbow catcher". Anyway, I'll do my best to entertain you and to work out two other nice novels. 



 

The start of A-Z blogging challenge

The A-Z blogging challenge will be starting in three days and I'm really excited about it. 

During the month of April I will be blogging everyday for this challenge except on Mondays which leads to 26 days of blogging.

My blog posts will take a new and unusual format as every blog title needs to start with the alphabet letter of the day going from A to Z.

I decided that to be able to successfully manage this challenge, I needed a theme so that each post will be linked to one another. 

My theme is : "My novels characters".

I already wrote 4 full drafts and 3 partial drafts as well as a script that you might have read or not. So I have a lot of characters. Every characters has his/her own little stories and I know things about them that don't appear in the novels. When I create a character, I start by giving him/her a background story which will determine his/her choices and how he/she will behave in the future, so that they don't act out of temper or character. I think that it is really important to build a consistent behavioral pattern for your characters other wise you could as well swap them around. I want each of my characters to be unique and to have there own personality. All of this add up to a lot of elements and flashback which are often unnecessary to the plot of the novel, but it's still there. During April I would like you to meet with the secrets and mysteries of my novel characters by reading some chosen pieces of my hidden collection. So every day, I will be presenting a different characters.

However I still find a little problem with my theme. I don't have a character for every letter of the alphabet even though I still have several for the same letter. Therefore there will also be some surprise and I will ask you to help me with filling the blanks.

The first task I am giving you is to ask me some questions about my characters which will appear on the Q-day. You can ask anything, the best questions will be gathered and answered.

The post for the challenges will be labels in Novel so that you can find the link to them on my facebook author page, but also A-to-Z challenge so that you can find them directly from the cloud on the right panel of this blog. Of course a link to all of them will also appear every day on this blog post.

I hope you will enjoy reading there story.

Birth of a blog : 日本語だけでいってみよ～

Mes crazy expériences diversify. You already knew it as an English blog with French translation. Now it has a little brother :

日本語だけでいってみよ～

I can't translate Mes crazy expériences in Japanese as I'm not confident in writing that much in Japaneseyet and in my Japanese skills. So this new blog will have original content in Japanese only. It won't be as huge as Mes crazy expériences I hope you'll enjoy reading it with all my foreigner's mistakes. I'll do my best to post regularly and keep you entertained. 

Here is the first post :  私はあまり日本語できない