I don't own any of the characters in here. Just one. 83 I'm a bit rusty, so please bear with me, since my last fic 2 years ago my style's changed. Hope you enjoy this! Reviews and feedback would be nice.
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Ok... Uh... So I lied about being unpacked. Technically I was MOSTLY unpacked, just had like, 3 boxes of stuff left. Dammit I thought I'd be done in like, a day but noooo, my friends had to tempt me with Left 4 Dead.....! If you've played zombie shooter games, then you would all agree that watching zombie movies, and shooting them in the head are two entirely different experiences.
The latter is more fun, and leaves a nice demonic grin on you're face when you're done.
"AAACK!" I tripped over a box and managed to catch myself before I bashed myself into the window.
Yeah, hazard zone... You see, I'm in the middle-end of moving. Yup, I am 17 years old, and I've already been semi-forced to move out of my house. Only because, my mom owned this condo apartment thing, and she wanted me to move in here to kick out a tenant that was... Taking advantage of my mom's generousity.
Well... It was at least close to the college I was planning on going to- I'm not smart enough to go to University... Maybe once I get my butt in gear but that's doesn't seem like any time soon...
I grumbled kicking the boxes scrawled with Sharpie marker in huge labels with my messy writing and stacked them up in the corner. Maybe if I combined enough of them I could make a table...! I'm cheap, I can't help it... I heard something clunk in a box when I picked it up, and I set it down, checking the label.
Well well, figures. There wasn't one.
I opened it and shifted through it a little and pulled out a red ribbon.
Man, what I wouldn't give to go back... I reached in to see what other memories I could pull out from the box, when there was a few bangs on my door and after looking out at the peep hole, opened it.
"About time you guys got here...!"
"Well excuse us for almost getting attacked by your garbage pile outside...!." the smallest of the girls said with amused sarcasm. We usually call her The Overlord, but for the sake of sanity, which, doesn't seem to exist whenever she's in the vicinity- We're calling her DracoWolf.
"Sorry Draco, must be garbage day today..." I mumbled taking the box of goldfish crackers that my other friend KuroSuzaku had brought with her, "Where're the others...?"
"Mina and Ten had stuff to do..."
"What're they busy with...?"
"STUFF." Draco shrugged making way straight to the fridge, "Ooh, Coke...! You shouldn't have!"
"You're right, I shouldn't have..." I sulked collecting some garbage and recycle into a bag. Great, there goes like, a forth of my work money in one night... "Just don't go drinking it all in one sitting, you're gonna get sick." I tied up a bag of what little garbage I had and stepped out to the small balcony, slipping some slippers on. Hey, I just moved in, it's still dirty!
Kuro quirked her head a little, "Taking out the trash?" When I nodded, she waved in dismissal and started to shift through my boxes, probably for the X-Box controller and my copy of Tales of Vesperia, "Have fun, but it's windy outside so careful you don't kill anyone."
Tossing the bag off the edge to the already forming pile near the front of the apartment, I looked up at the darkening sky, sighed and smiled when something bright dashed across the dark canvas.
A shooting star! SWEET!
I clapped my hands together, praying, seriously wishing really really hard.
'I wish, that I could go back to the game worlds! One more time, just one more time! Please please star let me go back! And Kuro-sama too I guess!'
I looked up, seeing a second falling star.
... OI! SECOND STAR! PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL AND HELP THE FIRST STAR!
I stared up at the star, falling falling....
Falling towards my apartment...? Staring at it a little harder, I realized that the object was in fact, soaring and getting closer to my position.
"SHIT!"
"Hey watch that languAAAAAAGH!" I grabbed both Kuro and Draco, tossing them off the couch the next room and hit the deck, covering my head as the thing flew into my apartment, bashing into the floor with a hollow BOOM! And slamming into my couch, sending it sliding from the living room into the kitchen.
Slowly getting up to my feet, I shuffled back inside seeing a large blood stain on the floor where the thing hit the ground.
It's like it literally went SPLAT! Even though it made a BOOM sound...
Grabbing my bokuto from behind my TV (Yes... It's from the anime convention... I used it for cosplay.) and held it to my side, walking into the kitchen where skid marks had dug up some of the carpet and linoleum.
... Mom's not going to like this....
Keeping a bit of distance, I circled the couch until I saw what had landed--I mean crashed, on it.
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A body... A CORPSE?! U-Usually that's not a good thing... Right...? RIGHT?! ANSWER ME DAMMIT!
I shifted away from it for a moment before slowly inching back and giving the body a light poke in the arm, which in its hand was clutching what looked like a black toque or something.
It wheezed.
AAAAAH!! WhatdoIdo?! S-Should I throw it outside...? Should I call the cops- Wait, cops are really slow when they're called... It'd be out there in the snow for three hours and and, what if someone else found it instead...?
But it IS garbage day today....
I yelped when something hard hit me over the head.
"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SHOVE ME IDIOT!" Kuro yelled, having hit me over the head with a stray shoe, "Is it raining idiots and corpses too?! What the hell is that thing on your couch?!"
Draco laughed and snickered at that.
"Heh, it's raining corpses~ Hallelujah~" she began to sing to the tune of 'It's Raining Men' Which, is also technically the same but....
"Kuro, can you try and help me find the first aid kit? I think it's in one of the boxes…" I called and went to look for the said kit- like that'll help. Draco shuffled over to the guy and blinked at him.
"You left to take out the garbage, and you came back with a corpse?" she cocked her eyebrow at me, "Dibs on the wallet!"
"I don't think he has one..." I opened a cupboard, and seeing nothing, moved on to another one.
"Then I dib the pants!"
"NO!" Again, empty.
".... How about those boots? I can pawn them off for 200 dollars!" Draco rubbed her hands together, "Hello new computer~"
"I SAID NO!" Reaching into the unlabelled box, I felt around and feeling leather, pulled out a small sac. Blinking, I looked inside of it and saw little red and yellow candies.
…. Seriously?! I don't even remember—Oh, wait… I do.
Draco went quiet for a moment, "...We need a stick to poke it with."
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THAT'LL ACCOMPLISH?!" I exclaimed, bringing the bag to the corps- I mean man.
"We need to poke it! It's the only way to prevent it from becoming a zombie!"
"HE'S STILL BREATHING SO HE'S NOT DEAD!"
"Kay, you know what, stop yelling." Kuro frowned then stared at the bag in my hand, "… Are those…. Gels?" If you're familiar with the Tales of Series, then you know what these are.
I nodded, taking a deep breath in and letting it out, "I'm sorry, It's how I cope with this kinda stu- DRACO DON'T POKE HIM!" Draco had grabbed my bokuto in turn and began to nudge the man in the shoulder with the tip.
"But it's got a huge hole in its chest...! I wanna see if I can find its liver..."
"You sadist stop poking the corpse- I mean person!" I dug in the bag for a red gel looking thing and gently tried to push it into the guy's mouth. Sure, it went it, but he wasn't chewing so...
"You need to grab his jaw and move it for him! Open mouth, close mouth, open mouth, close mouth, This is called chewing." Draco noted. I got ready to follow her instructions and then looked up at her.
"Heeey, if you're so good at that, why don't you do it?!"
"Have you seen that guy's teeth? He looks like he has fangs! And I do not intend to become a creature of the night. Maybe in 2 weeks, but not today." I was ready to jump up and make a move to strangle her until Kuro lightly pat me on the arm and gestured to the guy, who was trying to spit the gel out. I promptly shoved it back in with a finger.
"Eat it, or else you will die..." I said and when he tried to spit it out again, I shoved in a second gel causing him to make a choking sound, "PLEASE EAT IT!"
"Maybe he's allergic to apples! Have you ever thought of that?" Draco said opening a can of coke.
"But it's medicinal!"
"Yeah, allergies shouldn't be a problem." Kuro agreed and the held up a yellow gummi, "Should we try a lemon gel?"
"He obviously doesn't have scurvy, so no." Draco perked up, "Hey! We can put them all in a blender! It'll become a rainbow gel!"
"..... Ew."
"YOU'RE NOT HELPING." I threw my hands into the air, "Agh why did this have to- Oh, he's eatting them..." The three of us watched as the man slowly chewed at the gels, and when he was done, he let out what sounded like a small sigh. Seeing his mouth was still kind of open, as well as that gapping giant hole... I quickly fed him a Lemon Gel and sat back.
Kuro sat beside me, holding the bag of gels while Draco calmly drank another can of coke.
Eventually, his bleeding subsided, and after nudging the hole in his shirt open with a chopstick, saw the wound was reduced to a smaller slash. I fed him one more apple gel, just to be safe...
"Man, I am so glad we met Jade Curtis when we did..." I sighed sitting back as Kuro set the bag of gels on the table.
"No kidding... So, this guy seriously randomly fell out of the sky...?" she asked standing up and trying to avoid any of the blood on the floor. I nodded and she rubbed her chin, "I automatically blame YOU if the universe explodes."
"WHAT?!"
"Maybe he's Sora in disguise! Sora random falls through hundreds of layers of water." Draco started, "Now about that wallet..."
"You know what? If you ever found his wallet, I'm guessing it'll probably either a different currency, or maybe even just 5 dollars. Think of the coke as your payment or whatever." I huffed and sighed, standing up and stretching, "You guys better head home... If this guy has any trouble he's brought with him, I seriously don't want you guys to get mixed up in it all."
"... He's a guy?" When I gave Draco a look and she meerly smiled, "What? His long hair gives him away." Kuro just kinda, well, huffed a bit then gave my shoulder a pat.
"Careful alright? You're still coming to school tomorrow?" she asked.
"Oh yeah, don't worry." I gave her a reassuring smile and led them both to the door,
"I'll see you guys tomorrow."
"Night then, good luck."
"I still want his pants..."
"NO." I closed the door and locked it, sighing a little before turning back into the kitchen, finally getting a chance to slip my shoes off. Hearing a moan, I turned around seeing the man slowly pull himself into a sitting position on the couch.
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"Arya arya... Isn't this interesting..." he muttered and grunted and looked in my direction, "Hey! What's with that sword...?! Put that away, it's dangerous you know...!" he cried and winced, clutching his chest. I didn't even realize my wooden sword was still in my hand and I set it down against the wall. Hey he's got a hole right through him, the most he could do is die-And.... probably leave me with the problem of having a corpse in my apartment....
Sighing a little I rubbed the back of my neck and walked out to the balcony, this time without my shoes. I really didn't care if my black socks got dirty at this point...
I looked back up to the heavens--and yelled at the top of my lungs.
"YOU STUPID STAR! THIS IS TOTALLY NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!"
Gah! I'm too poor to afford damages... and I am NOT wasting my student loans to fix it...!
Stupid wish didn't work... I wanted to go back! I didn't want anything to come here... Especially not this long haired, bloody blondie who left a dying message on my carpet!
I felt a pat on my shoulder and jumped away, raising my hands up defensivly, seeing it was the man before huffing a little and leaning my back against the railing.
"You shouldn't be walking..."
"You shouldn't be screaming at the sky, it hasn't done anything to you has it?" the man asked with a toothy smile.
Yeah, it dumped you here...
"It's been a while since something like this has happened." IT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, DAMMIT.
Sighing almost in a happy way, the man leaned on the railing beside me, fiddling with the hole in his giant tanktop and rubbing at his wound, which had now shrunk to a semi-shallow cut. He held his hand out to me, despite the fact it was a bit bloody.
"I'm Joker. And you missy are…?"
I blinked, staring at his hand for a moment before smiling a little and taking his hand, making a mental note to not touch anything later.
"Kiako. Ornitier."
He grinned, giving it a firm shake before looking back out from the balcony.
"So, Kiako-chan... Mind telling me where I am?"
I gestured to the city.
"Well, I can tell you that you're probably not where you came from." I replied, "This is my world."
Authors notes: Yeah.... This felt like it needed a rewrite....