HEY EVERYONE! YES, I KNOW I'M CRAZY FOR STARTING ANOTHER STORY, BUT IT JUST WOULDN'T LEAVE ME ALONE!! I KEPT TRYING TO FINISH THE DUEL WITH GOLDEN EYES BUT THEN I'D START WRITING ABOUT THIS SO... I HAD TO GET IT OUT OF THE WAY!
(SMILES INNOCENTLY)
SO HERE'S MY NEWEST STORY AND YOU CAN EXPECT GOLDEN EYES TO BE UPDATED BY THE END OF THIS WEEK! HOPE YOU ENJOY!
OH, AND IT'S A CROSS-OVER BETWEEN GX AND MAXIMUM RIDE IF YOU COULDN'T TELL BY THE TITLE! THANKS FOR READING!
Prologue:
He stood, frozen, replaying the scene that he had solely witnessed over and over again unable to stop, though he desperately wanted to. She jumped before his eyes again and again, the wind capturing her beautiful golden hair, her passionate hazel eyes closed. Her blue academy shoes parted with the grass, sending not even one blade out of place, before her slender body curved—and she dove towards her death.
That same betraying grass seemed to root him to the spot, tangling his red shoes to the forest floor and the wind that had captured her beauty stole his voice as her graceful descent played over again in his completely blank chocolate eyes. He couldn't believe it, didn't want to believe it, rejected it with every aching particle of his being, but his eyes could not deceive him more thoroughly than this horrible image. Still, he could not accept the fact that he had just witnessed a suicide, and suicide of the one person that he had ever fallen in love with for that matter—Alexis Rhodes.
Soon, his eyes closed and he fell to his knees, waiting to hear the fatal crunch of her perfection hitting the ground below. Tears threatened to cloud whatever sensibility he had left and his palm bit deep into the unforgiving earth, which would soon swallow up his own dearest one. He waited for what could only be eternity, but then he heard an entirely different sound. Something seemed to catch the air and move it up and down, up and down. His ears listened to the soft sound, trying to comprehend it, for he did not want to trust his eyes. But he opened them, and watched as another dark figure rose from where Alexis had fallen, its body outlined perfectly in the moonlight. It looked out over the sea while its large wings beat towards the ground, keeping it away, defying gravity. It moved forward with grace that only she possessed and its face appeared in the silver lighting—Alexis Rhodes.
The observer felt everything in him freeze. She was alive, she was alright. Then the second wave of emotion hit him harder than the first. Shock. He had just seen her jump off of the overlooking cliff, the same cliff that she had spoken to him on when the world was in danger by three sacred beasts. Now, however, she was rising far above his head and disappearing over the ocean, her form looking now like a large bird. It was just about all he could do not to check himself into the nearest insane asylum. He had to be hallucinating—or dreaming for that matter. Alexis, Alexis was human. She wasn't one of the flock. She wasn't a mutant. She was a human. She is a human. She's not...
He repeated the message in his head, glad to be rid of her fall and her ascent, but his eyes would not let him believe what he desperately clung to. He was no longer aware of his actions, or where his feet were taking him, he was only aware of the shock that continued to course through his very soul.
"Hey Jay! Crowler kept you in detention for a long time today—Jaden?" Syrus chattered, coming to a halt when he noticed the condition of his best friend. His eyes were dilated, and he did not seem to respond to anything that he had just said.
"Serge?" Hassleberry asked, his head appearing upside down from the bunk beds as Jaden sat down. The brunette put his head in his hands and continued to stare blankly out into space, unaware of any of his friends' worried calls. The other boys made their way to his side and put their hands on his shoulders, feeling him tremble under the pads of their fingers. They shared a sideways glance and gently shook the shocked Slifer. He gave no sign that he was aware of their existence. No, Jaden seemed to be miles and miles away, locked inside his own prison of thoughts, and far out of reach of the two friends. They understood that all they could do was continue to talk to him and try to snap him out of it, but it would be a while before they could hear their best friend speak to them again.
Jaden saw the problem laid out before him as clearly as day. He had two options, two paths. And he could only believe in one of them. But he didn't want to believe in either of them. Either Alexis was surely dead and he had hallucinated seeing her fly because he so desperately wished that she could so she would not die, or that he, in fact, was not insane and that she was really one of them: one of the flock. Both ways were not good for him in any way.
If he chose to acknowledge the fact that Alexis had committed suicide and had jumped off that cliff, he would forever bare the misery of losing the person he loved and the nagging guilt that if he had confessed to her sooner, that she may still be alive. He would always have to live with the shame that he could not see her suffering, and the horrible image of her jumping, and himself being powerless to stop her.
Then there were the wings. If he accepted that she was not all human, that a small part of her was avian genetics, he would also be dooming her. Her kind was not supposed to be around anymore, she would be locked up in a lab somewhere to be terminated like all of the other mutants except for the seven members of the flock, whose whereabouts were currently unknown. And if he knew it, then so would she because of...
He clenched his left fist and looked down at his wrist with intensity, starring at the unmarked flesh with a burning anger that startled his roommates.
Either way, she would be dead. And either way, it was him to blame.
NEXT CHAPTER WILL GIVE YOU GUYS MORE INFORMATION ON 'THE FLOCK' AND WHY JADEN IS STARING AT HIS WRIST LIKE THAT! AND IF YOU HAVE ALREADY READ MAXIMUM RIDE BY JAMES PATTERSON, THEN YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHY!!
MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT A CROSS-OVER, PLEASE BE NICE. (IN OTHER WORDS, YOU FLAME, I TEST OUT THE ABUSE BUTTON) BTW, WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT THING DO?
EVERYONE: (ANIME-FALLS)
WHAT?
QUOTES FOR FIRST CHAPTER:
"ARE YOU ALRIGHT JADEN, WHO HURT YOU?"
THE YOUNG CHILD SNIFFLED AND CLUNG ONTO HIM LIKE HE WAS HIS LAST LIFELINE. "IT WAS THE BIG DOG, BIG BROTHER. THE BIG DOG GOT ME AND HE GOT MOMMY AND DADDY TOO. WILL THEY BE ALRIGHT? DID THE WOMAN TRY AND HELP THEM?"
"WHAT DOG? WHAT WOMAN JAY?"
"THE ERASER, OSAMU. THE WOMAN TOLD IT NOT TO HURT ME. THEN SHE PUT SOMETHING IN MY BOO-BOO AND WRAPPED IT UP. SHE SAID SHE WAS THE DIRECTOR."
