Chapter 2
As I walked through crowded streets with Nepgear, I noticed that she kept spacing out and talking to herself. Maybe she was just thinking about something personal or why she was letting some random boy, who she had just met, stay at her home. Whatever the reason was, I wasn't going to bother her, because that's just rude. When I looked at where we were heading, I saw that it was towards the tall tower I saw earlier.
I whispered to myself. "There's no way she lives in that huge tower..."
As expected, she did live in the tower, but only a certain part of it. When I walked into the tower, or rather, the Basilicom as she calls it, it gave off a church feeling. The room looks like a cathedral, except instead of pillars everywhere, there are flat cream gray walls with black outlining and lights hanging from them. The walkway is a lime green glass floor with rows of black chairs on either side and at the back of the room, was an openable giant rainbow colored window, with a circle and triangle pattern, and a pair of gilded door handles at the center of the window. There were also workers wearing purple and white priest clothes, frantically, trying to finish doing a whole truckload of paperwork. Man, that reminds me of one of "those" times back then, the building part at least. I shook my head. Thinking about that was so bad and it brought back so many painful memories. Then, I felt a tug on my sleeve, turning, I saw Nepgear signaling for me to continue following her. She led me towards the window and pulled it open, revealing a meeting hall with a round table split into two sections, chairs tucked under the tables of their side, and a section, in between the divided tables, that served as a walkway leading to the left, right, and up towards a elevator overlooking the room. While Nepgear led me up the tower, I looked around the room, in a state of pure shock. How was it possible for a girl to live in such a beautiful home, have workers, and still be so nice? I remembered back in my dimension, that there had been some nice rich people, but never this rich or nice.
When we entered the elevator, I noticed a whole bunch of buttons. This was floor one, but the highest floor was a floor fifty. But there were still more buttons on the right side of the elevator, another fifty buttons. I collapsed onto the chrome metal of the elevator. Now, I honestly felt like an asshole for staying with her in such a nice home. As light started beaming the corners of my vision, I turned around to see a glass panel overlooking the city known as Planeptune. As I was about to start having a thinking session, I heard something move behind me, or rather someone. Nepgear slowly squatted down until she was sitting on her bottom, she hugged her legs, and looked up at me, giving off a sincere smile that seemed to take away all my worries. I smiled, she really reminded me of "her".
"What's wrong, Tolise? You haven't talked much since you came here." She asked as questions marks seemed to pop up on top of her head.
I smiled. "Nothing's wrong, I'm just thinking about how grateful I'm feeling that you're letting me stay here."
"O-oh...u-um...it's..n-nothing. You looked kind of lonely when I found you, so I thought I'd take you in."she explained. "B-but...I-I'm...glad...you...decided...to...b-because..." I couldn't hear the last part of what she said, even though I probably knew what it was, I didn't want to jeopardize being friends with such a sweet girl. We didn't talk for the rest of the way up, but I could see her trying to steal glances at me with her flushed face.
By the time we reached the top, the evening sky was almost finished consuming the blue sky, and Nepgear was asleep on my shoulder, muttering to herself. And no, I'm not going to get excited from this like some stupid main character in a book. Sure, I wasn't perfect, far from it, but I knew better than to expect something more from this, she had simply fallen asleep, and I had let her sleep. When the elevator door opened, Nepgear was still nuzzling against my shoulder, so, I picked her up and carried her like princess, the classic princess carry. She didn't weigh that much, actually she hardly weighed anything at all, so it was easy to carry her. As I walked down the only corridor, with it's colorful purple, pink, and blue alternating walls and cream yellow tiles, I was met with a futuristic looking door, with silver and pink colors, I found a green button on the side, pushed the button, and watched the door open before me.
As I stepped into the room, I was at a loss of breath. On my right, there was a kitchen with white counter tops, a white stove, and a gigantic white fridge with a yellow sticky note that read: Don't Touch MY Pudding (0_0). On my left, there were glass panels that stretched the whole wall, a purple couch, a plasma television, with a console, that looked like a giant black D-pad with the center part purple and four disc ports, a purple carpet, and a doorway at the end of left side. As I set Nepgear down on the couch, she slowly rubbed her eyes open, and looked up at me.
"Tolise?"
"Yeah?"
"Why am I asleep on the couch?"
"Because you fell asleep on the elevator."
"I did!?"
"Yup, and little 'ol me had to carry you up here." The funny thing about that, was that she was shorter than I was.
Nepgear slowly sat up. "G-goodness. T-thanks...Tolise."
I shook my head. " It's fine, I'm just paying off my debt that I owe you for letting me stay here," I say as I plop down beside her.
"I-it's fine. Anyway, I need to-"
"INTRUDER! HE'S TRYING TO TAKE SIS' BOD! DON'T WORRY SIS! I'LL SAVE YOU!"
As I look up to see what was the cause of this noise, I see a wooden sword coming down towards me. Crap.
*SMACK* *SLAP* *CRACK* *BREAK* *CRASH*
It was at that moment, that I knew I had fucked up. And before I could say anything else, my vision faded to black, once again...
Well, I was actually planning to release this on Tuesday, but I found some extra time and decided to get this one out. This chapter might seem a nit slow, but the next chapter should be a bit faster. Anyway, in case you're wondering, this takes place after Re; Birth 2 and before Re; Birth 3. Also, I decided on a schedule of uploading on Tuesday, Thursday, and maybe Friday. once again, thanks for reading all the way through, reviews would would be great for feedback and ideas, and I hope to see you in the next chapter.
