The woman in armor sat upon a black horse and waited. Her breath made steam in the air as she breathed out through the helmet. It wasn't like her sister to be late; after all, this was the only time they ever met. Once every twenty-four years Keira would come to the very place her sister became a Dullahan to meet with said sister. She could hear the sound of her cell phone ringing to tell her it was midnight. It was strange that her sister was late, even when she was alive she had always been punctual.
"Something isn't right…" Keira spoke to her horse that nickered in agreement, "… Malise, do you think something could've happened to her?"
The horse nickered again as if she really were answering Keira. The small woman slid off the horse's back and looked around as she tried to feel her sister nearby. She felt nothing; she couldn't feel another Dullahan anywhere, something was seriously wrong.
"I don't feel her…" Keira gasped as she held the reins and petted Malise's cheek, "… I know she isn't dead… I would've felt her die…" Keira shook her head and then climbed back onto Malise's back, "Come on Malise I'm going to find Celty."
The feeling of being watched caused Celty to sit up in bed. She was alone, the curtains were drawn, and no one was watching. It was more like someone was looking for her and she wondered if her head was trying to find her for a change. She sighed mentally at herself as she slid out of bed and walked into the living room to see that it was almost five in the morning. She shrugged and decided that she'd stay up until Shinra woke up rather than going back to bed.
It wasn't long until she felt the searching feeling come over her again but then it stopped and didn't return for some time. Shinra got up and greeted Celty happily and soon Celty forgot about the strange feeling. When it finally came back it was fainter than before and seemed more like it was moving away from her. She didn't mind, for all she knew it could've been another Dullahan.
Keira walked up the stairs that led to an apartment somewhere in Japan. It was kind of strange that her sister would be here since most Dullahans never left their place of origin. She couldn't help but worry about what could've happened to cause her sister to flee from Ireland. Keira had gone to other lands and nations of course, but Celty just wasn't the type to leave without a reason.
She knocked on the apartment door and a woman in a green sweater opened it. She stepped aside and let her in and Keira looked around. Her sister wasn't there, but a man sat at a desk with a smile on his face.
"You're a foreigner? Do you speak Japanese?" The man asked standing up.
"A little." She said with an Irish accent.
"I can speak English if that would be easier?" he offered and she nodded to him.
"I… my sister… umm…" Keira wasn't sure how to start off. It would be strange to tell this man that she felt her sister here but yet… she wasn't here.
"Are you looking for your sister?" he asked with a smirk, "I can try to find her but I'll need her name."
"Celty Sturluson…" The girl said as the man turned to his computer and then froze.
"Celty-san?" He said with surprise, "She's your sister?"
Keira stared at the man who was looking at her with a wide and amused smile. It freaked her out slightly that he knew who her sister was. Dullahans weren't social creatures, and they most certainly didn't socialize with humans. Was this man even human?
"How much do you know about my sister?" She asked carefully to the man.
"She's a Dullahan." He said with a smile that made Keira want to smile back but she didn't.
"Do you know why I can sense her here?" she asked and the man seemed to become slightly nervous. It wasn't that he was showing his nervousness it was just the emotions she could feel coming from him.
"I have no idea, but I can take you to your sister if you want?" he told her with a smile. Keira smiled down at him and then sighed.
"Sure," she said with a knowing smile, "lead the way."
"Uh… Izaya-kun what brings you here?" Shinra asked as he looked at the odd pair in his doorway. One was a girl that was just a little shorter than Izaya but had blue eyes and face shaped like Celty's, or at least it was similar to the way her head looked the one time he saw it.
"Shinra-kun this is Keira-chan," Izaya said stepping aside so that he could look at the girl, "She claims to be Celty-san's sister."
"WHAT?" Shinra shouted in shock and the girl flinched.
"Why is he yelling?" she asked Izaya in English.
"H-how can you be Celty-chan's sister?" Shinra asked her in English.
"Well, my mother is her mother thus that makes us sisters, or half sisters." She said like she was talking to a child.
"Are you her older sister?" He asked excitedly as he could see the resemblance already.
"No, I'm… well let's just say I was twenty-two when I stopped aging and she was twenty-five or six." She said with a shrug, "so she's the older sister."
"Celty-chan is actually out on a job right now but she should be home soon if you'd like to come in." he told her and Izaya followed as he lead the small girl down the hall.
"Would you like some tea?" Shinra asked her as he walked into the kitchen and she shook her head and stood off to the side and looked around. Izaya watched her with interest as she looked around wearily.
"Nothing's going to jump out and get you." Izaya said into her ear.
"It's just… I haven't seen many modern homes…" she said softly, "… my own home doesn't even have running water unless you count the creek that runs through the yard."
"That sounds like an interesting place," Izaya said spinning around to face her, "hey, why is it that your head is still attached to your body."
"I'm not a Dullahan." She said not even blinking at him as he stood extremely close to her.
"What are you then?" he asked bringing his face so close to hers that their noses nearly touched.
"I don't exactly have a name to call myself… but I am one of the fae." She said with a smile as she cocked her head to the side slightly, "… Are you human?"
"… Yeah." He said a little surprised that she had asked, "Do you look like Celty-chan?"
"She and I have the same shaped face and the same colored eyes but my hair is black while hers is a brown-blonde…" she said and then grinned, "… she lost her head didn't she?"
"Yes, how'd you know?" Shinra asked as he came out the kitchen with two cups of tea. He handed one to Izaya who took a sip happily.
"It's obvious," she said with a sigh, "he asked if she and I look alike, if she had her head the resemblance would be uncanny. My sister and I once shaved our heads when we were nine and our mother couldn't tell us apart unless we spoke."
"You do look kind of like her…" Shinra said and Keira raised a brow at his comment.
"You've seen her face?" she asked.
"Uh… my father was the one that stole her head…" Shinra said quickly.
"You've seen her head before and yet you didn't tell her about it?" she said shaking her head, "my sister has always been soft on people but…" Keira looked up at the hallway entrance and cocked her head to the side. Celty walked in without her helmet on and jumped when she saw Keira. "Hello sister," Celty began typing on her PDA rapidly, "Why are you using that thing to talk, I can hear you perfectly."
"You can hear her?" Shinra asked grabbing the girl's hand to turn her to face him and smiled at her, "What's her voice sound like?"
"Uh… like her voice…" Keira said jerking her hand away from Shinra and backing up into Izaya, "Oh s-sorry."
"It's okay." Izaya said smirking at her as she nervously backed away from the overly excited Shinra and the smirking Izaya.
"I don't remember you…" Celty said to her and Keira froze where she stood and stared at Celty.
"What do you mean you don't remember me?" she asked her with hurt showing on her face and in her eyes.
"Celty-chan lost most of her memories when she lost her head." Shinra said to her and she nodded but smiled.
"Then maybe I could just tell you about our past?" Keira offered her.
"I'd like that…" Celty said, although only Keira could hear her.
"Uh, can you still speak Gaelic?" she asked her sister who stayed silent, "I'll take that as a no then…"
"What's Gaelic?" Izaya asked Keira.
"Our native language, uh, it's more commonly known as Irish." She told him and he smiled.
"Say 'how are you today' in that language?" He asked her excitedly.
"Conas tá tú inniu?" she said and he smiled happily.
"Interesting…" Izaya said getting closer to her face and looking at her as if she were a bug on a leaf, "… Where'd you learn English?"
"I went America… I learn things just from being around it, that's how I learned the small amount of Japanese that I know." She said to him and his eyes widened.
"How long will it take for you to completely understand it?" he asked getting even closer to her face.
"Probably about three days before I can speak it fluently and a week before I can write it halfway decently." She said with a shrug.
"You're the most interesting… uh fae creature I've ever met." Izaya said and she laughed.
"I'm guessing my sister and I are probably the only ones you've ever seen, or at least recognized as one of the fae." She said not bothered whatsoever by his proximity to her face.
"Yes, but I've researched things about the fae." He told her and she started to laugh again.
"Humans think they know everything," she giggled at him as if he were an animal that did something cute, "there are far more fae on this planet than there are humans, trust me you couldn't name them all even if you wanted."
"Hmm, does that mean the Unseelie and the Seelie Court really exist?" he asked her excitedly.
"Yes…" she said coldly. She was trying to get him to drop the subject and Izaya knew it but wasn't about to let go of good information.
"Is it true that Dullahans are part of the Unseelie Court?" he asked her with a wide smile. Keira narrowed her eyes at him and realized he was going to take her hint and drop the subject. Meanwhile Celty and Shinra had no idea what they were talking about.
"I was exiled from any contact with any of the fae but her," she said jerking her thumb in Celty's direction, "for all I know Dullahans could've been kicked off the court."
"Uh… What are you talking about?" Shinra asked them and Keira sighed.
"Google it, Shinra-kun," Izaya said to him with a smile.
"Okay…" Shinra said a little put off by that, "… Um, so how did you get to Japan?"
"I can't explain that to a human." She said honestly to him, "If I told you I'd be executed as well as the rest of you."
"Okay, let's drop that subject then!" Celty both wrote and told her sister. All of them nodded silently.
"Well you sure do know how to kill a conversation." Izaya said to her cheerfully.
"Gee thanks." She said sarcastically to him.
"You're welcome." He said smiling and Keira smiled back but shook her head.
"So… Deirfiúr what would you like to know about…" Keira started to ask Celty but then trailed off.
"Deirfiúr?" Celty would have blinked if she had eyes.
"It means sister in Gaelic…" Keira said with a smile.
"Well I'll see you guys later~!" Izaya said realizing it was going to get boring.
"Uh, see ya later Izaya-san." Shinra said waving as Izaya walked out the door.
Ladybug's Ramble: Sorry if the 1st chapter sucked, but they'll get better with time. If anyone has questions about this fic PM/review about it. Tell me what you think so far? I always love reviews. Favorite, alert, all that good stuff if you like this fic~! I've been working on it for a while and I know the end of the chapter is kind of a jumbled mess. I might fix that... idk when... I made this one day when I was just thinking, "What if another fairy noticed Celty wasn't in Ireland anymore...?" and thus this fic was born... I almost went all powder puff girls there for a sec... *giggles* (this is why I call it a ramble~!) Tell me if I got anything wrong or if anyone is OOC. Ladybug out~!
