Utena, Revolutionary Girl Fan Fiction ❯ Under Your Spell ❯ I'm Under Your Spell ( Chapter 1 )

Title: Under Your Spell

Author: Topaz Kat

Rating: PG? (It's obviously more if you actually know the show)

Disclaimer: Utena belongs to someone that isn't me that I can never remember who owns it. The lyrics to "Under Your Spell" belong to Joss Whedon. I only take responsibility for writing this, the idea is not my and therefore I can't be blamed.

[....] Song lyrics

Author's Note: This goes back and forth between Utena and Anthy. I will make a little score card at the end, but see if you can guess who's who. I will also warn that this might not make as much sense if you haven't seen the whole series.

 

[I lived my life in shadow

Never the sun on my face

It didn't seem so sad though

I figured that was my place]

 

I have always been in the darkness; my brother said that it was my power that made me that way. I was used to tending to my roses, never feeling the light that blessed them. It's my own fault though, for hiding the prince the way that I did. It's my punishment for sealing away the light that would have saved the world.

 

[Now I'm bathed in light

Something just isn't right

I'm under your spell

How else can it be

Anyone would notice me]

 

I follow my own rules, because one day I will be the one to do the saving: how else will I find my prince? So I saved my friend Wakaba, and in the process I found you, poor lost bride. With your power, I'm now able to fulfill my promise to my prince. But first, I need to get past everyone else. It's odd; they wouldn't have looked at me without you by my side.

 

[It's magic I can tell

How you set me fee

Brought me out so easily]

 

I know I'm still being manipulated, and I know that I'm doing it too. But this time, this time, it feels different. I feel something that I haven't sensed in a very long time: a sense of self, for a while I know what I'm doing, I know I'm not happy about it.

 

[I saw a world enchanted

Spirits and charms in the air

I always took for granted

I was the only one there

But your power's shown

Brighter than any I've known]

 

I know magic, I am magic: I am the darkness that trapped the light. I have danced with spirits and made charms for as long as I can remember. I used one to save him, because he was dying and the world was killing him. And in payment, I was cursed. I've seen all of this, and yet your power is even stronger than mine.

 

[I'm under your spell

Nothing I can do

You just took my soul with you

You worked your charm so well

Finally I knew

Everything I dreamed was true

You made me believe]

 

I would have followed you to the end of the world, and I certainly followed you to the end of ours. I trusted you, I believed in you and everything that you had told me about you, about your brother, about what it meant for you to be the bride. And even though I knew I wasn't going crazy, I knew something was wrong. What could have been bothering you so much otherwise? You must have had a reason to try to leave me.

 

[The moon to the tide

I can feel you inside]

 

When I've seen it so many times before, it makes me wonder why I am drawn to you. I can't pull away. It's almost like before, but different: for when you fight for me, to set me free, I can feel it.

 

[I'm under your spell

Surging like the sea

Pulled to you so helplessly

I break with every swell

Lost in ecstasy

Spread beneath my willow tree]

 

I don't care how you've lied to me, mislead me or lead me to harm. But I'm drawn to you, and so I can't leave. It's as if I can borrow your own power, using it as well as my own at last. I promise you that I would make you free, and I will not be denied. You will be saved and at last I can hold you and help you to stand!

 

[You make me complete

You make me complete

You make me complete]

 

I left today, and I will find you.

 

I am lost without you, please come to me.

 

We will be together, I swear it.

 

I wouldn't want it any other way.

 

First set: Anthy

Second: Utena

Third: Anthy

Fouth: Anthy

Fifth: Utena

Sixth: Anthy

Seventh: Utena

Last: Both