Hello, again, everybody. I hope you haven't deserted this story! I have written another chapter for you all and I hope you will like it. I admit I was excited to see how many views, favourites, follows and reviews I had. Here's the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Gakuen Alice.
Chapter 2: A dragon? A fairy?
My eyes opened to the steady 'whoosh' of something, followed by a loud, deep rumble beneath me. Light blue filled my blurred vision.
"I'm just in my room. It all was a horrible nightmare, I guess," I mumbled to myself out loud. The loud but slow and steady 'whoosh'-ing noises, vibration of my bed, and incredibly loud rumbling noises are normal. I hear and feel them every day. Nope, nothing strange going on here. My alarm clock just fell under my pillow again and I'm just very hungry for breakfast. My bed shook, and I shivered from the cold. Probably my mother snatching away my blanket. "Just ten more minutes, mother," I mumbled lazily.
A deep chuckle came from in front of me. Huh? Why is there a manly chuckle? No guy should be able to step foot in my room. I am going to kill this guy before he can get out. There shouldn't be any flapping sounds. Is someone playing a prank on me? I shot up straight, my vision clearing. The blue was the sky. I am in the sky? I'm in the sky! I freaked out, screaming.
"Hey, calm down. There's nothing to be scared of," A deep yet amused voice came from in front.
I stopped screaming and looked down at what I was sitting on. It was black, but glowing. Strangely, it didn't feel evil. It felt safe and felt like it would protect me. I reached down to touch it. The thing was hard, scaly and warm. I giggled slightly, the thing felt nice to touch. I looked for the source of the flapping sound, and saw two large scaly wings moving up and down slowly and rhythmically.
"What happened? I found you falling from a great height. You were unconscious, too. You're lucky I caught you, you could've died! I'm Rei Serio, but you can call me Persona, like everybody else does," The man told me.
I ignored him and his suggestion. If I were to call him, I would call him Rei. He has a name, and it should be used.
I was falling? I tried to recall what had happened, my brows furrowing. That was when the events rushed into my head, I wasn't dreaming! I looked around once again. I've died, haven't I? Warm light surrounded me, this was what mother claimed Tian(Ti-ahn) looked like. Ancient Alys folklore had spoken of Tian as a holy place where good people go to, when they died. I felt dizzy, like I was floating. It felt like time did not exist, everything just happened.
I looked straight again, and saw that Rei had a set of wings, this time, instead of the hard and scaly ones that the thing we were sitting on had, his were thin, translucent and black. They looked like they could break easily. Out of curiosity, I reached out a hand to touch his wings.
To my surprise, my hand went right through the wings! I made a 'huh' noise, which caused Rei, who was in front of me, to look behind at me. A mop of short black hair was on top of his head. He wore a white mask and had a smile on his face. He seemed to like black a lot, his entire appearance was black and white, no other colour visible. It reminded her of chiaroscuro art. His whole attire was black and white, and strangely, he had black high heeled boots, nail polish and lipstick. That was definitely something a guy would not wear. This guy was weird.
Black orbs met hazel ones, and he started speaking. "I caught you falling through the sky. That was extremely lucky. Did you have a wing cramp? Did they stop working or something?" He looked very concerned.
It's all an act, I told myself. He just wants something out of you. Keep up your walls, but don't let him get offended. I don't know if he's good or bad yet.
I ignored him and asked, confused. "Why do you have wings? Where is Alys? Where am I? What's happening?"
He chuckled again. "You have wings, too," He pointed out monotonously. He ignored my other two questions completely.
I whipped my head around, looking at my back, surprised to find a pair of wings there. They were a pair of wings which were translucent white with orange designs. What was going on?
"Your wings are pretty cool, while you were unconscious, the orange part changed colours at a constant rate. They are the first ones that I know that does that. Your outfit is cool, too. Nice job creating them. Mine sucks. What's your name?" He asked me.
"Just call me Sakura," I replied confidently. I looked at my clothes when I replied. I was wearing a beautiful white dress with black trimmings and a nice bow over my heart. I lifted a hand to my hair to find that it had been let down from its pigtails and tied differently. (A/N: There is a picture of the dress I'm going to upload on my profile if you want to see what it looks like. The hairstyle is like the one she had when she was 16, in the last few chapters)
For a moment, Rei froze. "I don't think I heard you right. Did you say your name was Surname?" He stared at me.
"It's my surname." I stared at him weirdly.
"Is your name, by any chance, Mikan?" He asked, as if he could read minds.
This time, I sat still, not blinking. "EEEEEEH? How did you know my surname?" I yelled childishly. My walls were down. I quickly brought them up.
I waited for a reply, but instead, I got an instruction from the mysterious guy in front of me, telling me to hold on tight. I did as he said and he suddenly burst out. "Let's go, Kuroaki!" He shouted loudly.
The thing we were sitting on tilted and started descending, shooting off like a roller coaster. Many questions were in my head, and I wanted them to be answered. Now wasn't the time, though, because I feel something moving around within my stomach, rising. I heard joyful laughing in front of me, and I knew immediately that he was having fun. Curious, I looked over his shoulder and saw that we were actually sitting on a big, black dragon!
I was so shocked, I let go of my grip from Rei and almost fell off. Before I could say that that was the weirdest thing I had ever seen, I saw some floating islands! WHAT?! Many of them had trees on them, growing healthily, and other people, all with wings.
The dragon which I guessed was named Kuroaki continued flying and finally landed on the biggest island in sight, along with the biggest tree possible. The grass which the dragon had landed on looked soft. Without any hesitation, Rei hopped off Kuroaki. I followed suit and hopped off immediately, sighing in content as I felt the grass between my toes. I resisted the urge to roll in it. I suddenly froze, and only just then did I realise that my shoes had disappeared.
"Oh, and about your surname, I know because," Rei started to say slowly, then paused for a second, "I am your older brother. I ran away from home when you were only two, so you probably won't be able to remember me. My name is actually Rei Yukihira." (A/N: I know I'm changing some stuff here, but I need somebody to be her older brother)
Mother never told me anything about an older brother. She never said I had any siblings. I had always thought I was an only child.
I barely had any time to recover from the shock of the newfound information when I knocked into something that was around the same size as me. I fell onto my bottom and heard a sweet voice from far away, coming closer. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, my friend accidentally hit you, are you hurt?"
My eyes opened, and met with those of two out of the four people I have been wanting to see for a long time.
Thanks for reading this chapter. If you have been waiting for this chapter for too long, I apologize, because I am a horrible person for doing that. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, together with the first chapter.
I know that you all may not like the idea of fairies and dragons, thinking it is too childish, but fairies and dragons are not necessarily childish, right?
If you read the first chapter, not expecting the childishness then I'm sorry. I tried to warn you in the summary, but I couldn't give spoilers, once again, sorry.
Another apology, if this chapter was too short. I tried, I really did, so can I get some brownie points for effort? :D
Anyway, Review to give helpful tips if you want to read a better story.
Once again, no cookies, but, I did make some.
You get to pat Usagi, too!
Ruka will give you permission.
~Akame Taki
Note: I just edited chapter 2, enjoy.
Oh and I just realised that there were so many mistakes T-T I hate myself OAO
