AN/ Hello, again! Chapter two is up. I know the chapters are small, but it's because I have only a bit of it written down and I want time so that I won't reach a point where I'll have nothing to update.
Disclaimer: Nop, I only wish I owned Durarara ((I think I forgot to put that in the previous chapter, should I change it?))
With all that said and done, Please enjoy and tell me your opinions with reviews ^_^
"Eight hundred thousand yen" He said like it was nothing, smirking at my obviously shocked face.
"E-Eight hundred thousand?!" I asked hysterically "Y-you're lying!"
"Nop, I'll give you this much in a month. It's more than enough for taking care of things here, right?" He asked
I was a little taken aback. That much money is not something one can deny easily, right? Maybe I could buy a more comfortable apartment later.
"I'm in!" I said with no hesitation. If only I knew the hardship that would bring me later.
"Great! You can go pick whatever you need from Ikebukuro. Shinra will take over things till you're back" And one more problem. Where the hell was I?
"Ahh… No idea where I am" I said as the doorbell rang.
"Perfect synchronization! Celty can take you!" Shinra said, a bit more enthusiastically than before, running towards the door.
A couple minutes later, he came back to the kitchen with a woman wearing black tights and a cat-eared helmet. She showed me the screen of her phone, where was written [It's nice to meet you. I'm Celty, Shinra's roommate]
I nodded "You can take off your helmet" I said. The room fell into silence. Shinra was looking towards Celty while Izaya's smirk was awfully huge. He was the one to break the silence. "You're new around here. I guess you haven't heard the urban legend of the headless rider yet, right?" He asked.
"No…" I said a bit scared of what to expect next. Celty seemed as tensed as me.
"Don't worry Celty! Electra isn't normal either!" Shinra said as excitedly as ever.
[Not normal?] Hey! Isn't that an insult?
"Headless rider?"
… More silence…
"Electra knocked Shizuo out, using the electricity from her body!" Shinra said with a wide smile on his face. She hit his stomach. Yeah, I know lots of anatomy. It helps with using my powers in many ways without killing. The spot I "patted" Shizuo earlier, was the point before the nerves, coming from his head, spread through his body. So, the electricity was spread along the nerves, making him unnable to move for a couple of minutes.
[What do you find so exciting in that, idiot?! And what do you mean, the electricity from her body?] She typed and I showed her the same thing as I did with the two men earlier. She remained silent for a few seconds. [Are you ready?] She typed again. I nodded and she took off her helmet.
My eyes grew as wide as ever. *No head… she's got no head* I was thinking. There was only smoke coming out of her neck. "But… how..?"
"Celty is a creature called Dullahan. An Irish fairy." Izaya explained. It seemed unbelievable.
"Is it invisible?" I asked in an attempt to understand things, but I was only laughed at by the other two.
"Actually, she has no head at all! I mean, she has, but for some reason it's not attached to her body… and… she lost it, years ago" Shinra gave further explanation.
"That sounds sad…" I said "Is the whole city full of people like us?" I asked looking at Izaya, hoping to hear something about him.
"If Izaya has some kind of power, that would be breaking information like it's nothing, leaking it everywhere like it's nothing and remembering it like it's nothing. Seriously, it doesn't matter what it is about, he will find it in no time" Shinra answered my silent request.
*Ehh, I got excited over nothing. So, he has no special power whatsoever*
"But! To be precise, you are the fourth person that appears to have powers. You, Celty, Shizuo and a school girl, Anri, also called the Slasher" I was processing all the new information in my head. Too much for one day.
"Five, if you count Simon" Izaya added "He's got strength like Shizu-chan, but he's not as strong"
"You don't mean… The scary, huge, black guy right? That's not Simon, right? I mean… he's way too scary…" I said. Izaya blinked a lot of times, as if processing something impossible.
"Let me get this straight… You saw Shizu-chan out of control, throwing street signs everywhere" He paused
"Yeah…" I feel like I just said something wrong "One of them almost hit me"
"You saw that Celty has no head" He paused again and I nodded "And you're scared of Simon, the pacifist?!" He asked in an amused, but at the same time confused tone.
"I just don't get what pacifism you find in the 'eat sushi or die' expression" I pouted and the others laughed at my attempt of making a baritone voice, like Simon's.
"That's Simon for you" Shinra said "Right! Celty, can you help Electra take some things from her house? She's new and doesn't know the places around here and she will be taking care of Izaya" Celty nodded with her helmet and with that, we left.
Getting out of the building, I saw a big, black motorcycle. I hesitated. Father says motorcycles are dangerous and that I should avoid them, especially when the driver is a stranger. Celty must have noticed that, because she put her cellphone in front of my face and it read
[Do you like my horse?]
"Horse? I only see a motorcycle" I answered
[Have a closer look] She wrote and I looked at it again. Even if I'm wrong, I couldn't have mistaken a motorcycle for a horse, right? Still, I looked, trying to understand. What I saw, made me want to go to the optometrist and check my eyes. *I must have said it at least a couple thousand times already but… WHAT THE HELL?!* The motorcycle was… uhh… changing forms? Between a motorcycle and a horse? I just couldn't get it and there are times that I still don't.
[Its name is Shooter. It really is a horse, but, like me, not a normal one. It's more like a shadow and he can take many forms] She wrote again. After a few more seconds trying to get used to another new piece of info, I decided I wasn't sure how much more I could handle in one day. I then looked at Celty and found out she was holding a scythe. *Hooooly crap! Did I piss her off somehow?* I immediately took a fighting stance. I could at least defend myself! Seeing that, she made it disappear in an instant. So, that was shadow stuff too.
[Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. Shinra trusts you, after all] She wrote and I relaxed a little [I just thought this would help you to trust me a little. We can be friends] I was a little dumfounded. Friends? Even though I was planning to act normal, I was never expecting to hear something like that, especially from someone who knew I'm a monster. Well, I wasn't counting the chance of meeting another one though. *Ahh… this is all so confusing! How am I supposed to answer this one?* I remained still as ice for a few moments. She put her hand on my head and it felt like she would have been smiling, if she had a head.
[You're not the only one, so, you don't have to be alone. Humans are scared of us, but there are many others that will understand us, like Shinra and we still have each other, so, think about it] She said and climbed at her motorcycle.
I shrugged, thinking that it couldn't be worse than it already is if I wanted to trust someone. I took her hand, climbed up the motorcycle and we sped off.
At the same time, from the huge window of Izaya's apartment, the two men were watching Celty and Electra.
"Isn't it just wonderful? My Celty is finally having another girl-friend! It's so hard for me to stay calm, when most of her friends are males! They could steal her from me!" Shinra cried out
"Isn't that right? But I guess… monsters tend to gather together, huh? Are you ok, being around them?" Asked Izaya
"Huh? No matter how much you try to look different, you are one of them too, and judging from your theory's point of view, Electra-chan chose you to be around, another monster. Poor her, she doesn't know you're the worst one" Shinra said in a more serious, but, at the same time, teasing manner.
"Ehh? You're so cruel Shinra! That hurt you know!" Izaya said, acting like he was actually hurt. "But you know… This monster picks my interest a lot… just like Shizu-chan… so unpredictable…" He said, looking at the direction the motorcycle sped off.
"Can you really call her a monster? Despite her powers, she stood up for you and saved you"
"She's only doing it for the money. I offered too much, so that she would stay" Izaya answered. It was almost inaudible, but Shinra knew him for years, so he could hear the melancholy in his voice.
"You know, if you want people to stay close to you on their own will, you should stop acting like that towards them" Shinra advised
"You're not one to talk Shinra" Izaya took his gaze off the window and onto his friend
"I'm not interested in humans, you know. I only need to have Celty by my side"
Izaya remained silent after that.
"You could have put Namie-san in her place"
Izaya turned to look at the illegal doctor, glad that he hadn't pressed the matter, and smirked "Between a boring person and an amusing person, who would you choose Shinra-san?"
"Well, the amusing person of course… but still… you're not planning to do anything to her or something?"
"My, my Shinra-san you really believe I'm such an awful person?!" He mocked but returned to his usual smirk "Like I said, she is a monster. I love humans and only humans, and I hate monsters, especially the ones that remind me of Shizu-chan. She is one of those monsters, which means I don't have to love her. No, it's not that I don't have to. I hate her species" He explained while looking away.
"I feel bad for her, having to deal with all this, after she rescued you. She looks like a good person after all" Said Shinra, scratching the back of his head, feeling that it was hopeless to try and change his friend's mind.
"Who knows? It's not like I despise her, but, from experience, I have to keep my guard up. Besides, what's so bad in making a joke or two?" He asked, smiling like the devil.
Uhhmmm…. So… There were a couple of things that could have been explained a bit better, but I'll leave that for now, cause I'm planning to use the small gaps in later chapters ;)
Btw, it took me a while to figure out how to post a new chapter ^^" ehehe...
Until next time ^_^
