I come here for a pretty weird reason I been have this reoccurring dream of being here alone with a book in my hands.
No title, no author...it just has a blank green cover. What could be written inside? A fantasy stowy? Daily entries for a journal? Information about some sort of science? Or are its pages blank too?
I still don t know. The dream always comes to an end when I open it. At dirst I thought nothing of it, but eventually this dream began to haunt me.
So that s why I m here... carelessly passing time alone in this library. Pretty lame, right? I think what I really want is jus to stop having that dream.
DING
Huh? What was that? I think I heard something. Did it come from over there? I walked towards where the sound came and in a table was... Wait. It s that book.
Am I dreaming? But this dream will end if I open it, right?... Might as wel wake uo now I guess...
I closed my eyes and opened the book and when I opened my eyes I was in an enterally different place. It was dark and rusty. I was in the middle of a street, I looked up and the moon was... green?
Wh-What? What just happened? Wh-Where am I? I started paniking when I heard a male s scream that was coming closer.
"H-Hey! Get outta the way!" I only turned around when somebody crashed on me, I let a squeal of surprise as I felt my ass hitinh the ground, HARD.
"Ugh..." I opened my ayes and a black gloved hand was in front of me, I taked it and the man helped me standing up. In front of me was a tan guy, maybe in his early 20, he had a black hoddie, caqui pants, a black choker with pins, big and shiny grey eyes, brown hair and... cat ears? and whats behind him? a cat tail?
"Please excuse me. Are you all right?" he asked me with a soft voice.
"Y-yeah... I m okay" I taked my hand back and he looked at me worried, but he smiled quickly "Oh good. I wouldn t be able to forgive myself ir I hurt a lovely lady like you" I felt heat rose to my cheeks. What s with this guy?
"Hu-huh?"
"He s over here!" I heard someone scream not to far from us. His face changed in a second as he quickly grabed his sack and took all the stuff that fell from it.
"Whoops. Gotta go!" I barely noticed from his quick movements that he grabed my book as well.
"W-wait, that s...!" before I could finish he runed off, I chased after him. "H-hey! Get back here!" A blond man quickly passed me "Huh?" At the distance I could see a very tall man in an officer suit chased after the cat-boy as well. The blond guy that once we stopped I noticed has some old fashioned clothes, he turned around and looked at me with blank silver eyes.
"Hey, leave this to us"
"But..." What am I suppossed to do? But I don t even know what s going on...
The guy grabed my wrist and started running again, dragin me with him.
"Wh-what?"
"You want to catch him, right? C mon!" We runed after the cat-boy, before I noticed we were in a bridge.
"Don t let him get away!" The blond guy told me, maann... It would be easier if I know his name. At the distance I could see a man s form at the end of the bridge, he told something to cat-boy who had stopped running a few meters away from him, he took a knife out of his boot and like it was nothing cut one of the straps of the gate. The bridge shock and I lose balace and before I knew it I was I touched the ground someone catched me.
"Thanks, Officer. I knew that I could count on you" I heard cat-boy call over.
"I though I was done for..." I looked at my side and noticed a hat, a hand quickly grabbed it and I looked up and saw the officer from earlier.
"A-are you all right?" he asked me worried.
"Y-yeah, thanks. Whew. You really saved me." I said while standing up.
"D-don t mention it. Um, g-good bye"
"H-hey, wait-!" but he was alredy gone. I stood there a few minutes when I heard footsteps coming closer, I turned around and the blond boy and another black-haired guy were walking towards me while chating.
"*sigh* We lost him...again" the tan guy complained, he opened his turquiose eyes and stared at me before contuaning "But geez. I can t belive that Giraffe actually did comething useful today" did he mean the officer?
"Are you okay? Sorry, I didn t mean to drag you into something dangerous" The blond guy told me. I looked at them confused.
"I m still dreaming, right?"I asked them and the tan guy looked at me like I was crazy.
"What re you talking about?"
"I think I know what s going on. You re a traveler, aren t you?" the blond asked me.
"a traveled...?" I said blond jus nodded.
"Right. I can tell that you re not from this world by your clothing" oh oh...
"I-I don t like where this is going"
"What do you mean?" the blond asked me and that what made me snap.
"I got here by opening up some magic book... but that guy took it after I bumped into him... So am I struck? I can t stay here. I have to go home!" The blond man closed his eyes and sighed.
"Calm down. We ll catch him and get your book back. Until then, you can stay with us" Uh?
"W-wait, what? You can t be serious" the tan guy exclaimed with a granky look.
"We can t just let her sleep on streets." "But..." the other guy didn t semmed so sure "Ugh, whatever"
"So, what s your name?" the blond asked me "Karina..." I answered him.
"Cool. I m Terrance" The blond guy introduced himself and looked at his friend."Introduce yourself too" he indicated him "*sigh* Elias" I keept silence after that. Terrance looked at me.
"Don t look so worried. *sigh* I think we re all tired. We should head back now, huh?" They started walking towards someplace, I followed quietly. When we were in their living room they talked about something, but I didn t paid attention since I was in my own thoughs.
"Don t mind us" oh boy, I didn t "Just make yourseld at home. You can use my bed for now. I ll sleeo on the floor" I was about to complain when he stoped me. "It s the best I can offer, please accept it"
"thanks" I thanked him and he nodded before walking towards his room I guess. I walked outside before sighing "I don t belong here. I feel so lost in this world" I closed my eyes and when I opened again there was the cat-boy, who I learned is named Veon, was grinning at me casually.
"Yo!"
"y-you...!" He gaved me an apologic look.
"Sorry. I didn t mean to take this" I don t know from where but he gived me back my book. I looked at him confused.
"You ll need it to get back to your world"
"What?"
"Its magic only workd when the moon is full, but right now the lunar cycle s on the new moon. You ll have to wait about a month until you can leave this place" He explained to me.
"H-hold on a second" "Don t worry. You ll be fine. This city isn t as dangerois as it udes to be" He told me as trying to calm me.
"...Who are you?" He grinned at me and in a quick movement grabed my hand, bent over a little and looked at me directly at eyes, making me uncomfortable.
"The name s Veon" I took a step back and got my hand back at my side.
"I mean... how do you know all that stuff about this book?" A troubled face replaced the flirty one and he was silence for a moment.. Then the apology look come back "It s a long story, I better not tell it now. This place isn t too safe for me with those bounty hunters nearby. Let s meet again soon, Princess" I felt heat rose to my cheeks again at the nickname"
"W-wait!" I called after him, but he had got over a nearby roof and disappeared. I looked around me and sighed. After think it a while I decided to take a look around.
I went east, to a plaza, to a west street and there in a bowl next to a shop, was a red marker. I just picked it and walked inside the shop. There were plants and roses all around the shop.
"Huh? Um, hi there. Welcome... to my shop" I heard a voice behind me, I turned around and there was a very normal looking guy, brown hai, blue ayes and normal clothes.
"Did I came here at a bad time?" I asked after looking at his troubled face. He give me a nervous look.
"N-no, not at all. Sorry, that wasn t a very warm welcome. I was just surprised to see... a new face aorund here. I nodded with a smile and he smiled back."So, can I help you find something?"
"Sorry, I don t have much money on me" and that was true, since I don t think they accept cinagam money in this world.
"Oh, that s okay. Feel fre to hang around then" he answered me with a hearty smile. I don t know why but I feel comfortable with this boy. I did as told and walked around the store looking at the roses, I felt an intense look on me and I turned aound to find the boy staring at me.
"Don t stare at me like that" I told him looked surprised at me .
"Huh? Was I staring? Sorry, I was... just thinking about something..." I nodded and he contuined "Hey, about that green book you have...where did you get it from?"
"From a library. It s actually magical you know" I answered him honestly since I don t see the point in lying. "Really? Ha, that s pretty neat. So it s like a pell book, right?" He easked me.
"actually, no... it took me here, against my will I may add" He nodded and smiled at me again, maan, this guy sure smiles a lot, some pleople tell me I do to, but...
"So, my name is Aiden. What s yours?" When he said his name something ringed in my head but I decided to ignore it.
"Karina" His smile just incresed.
"ah. Cool, nice to meet you"
"Nice to meet you too" "Girls around here sure don t dress like you do, but I like your look. It s cute" I blushed a bit and looked at him confused.
"Um, thanks?"
"I mean it. You re just being modest" I blushed even more at that.
"o-okay... thanks...hey I m really tired so I will go to sleep, see you later" He nodded and I leaved the store, while I walked back to the hideout I could feel someone staring at me, but when I looked around me there was nobody near.
When I was finally back, Terrance was sleeping in the couch, I walked to his room and took off my shoes before falling sleep on his bed.