Chapter 2
POV - Luroi
As I slowly awaken to the sound of an alarm, I wonder why it's even going off. Thinking about it, I shoot up off of the couch when I realize why.
"Shit! First day of school today!" I quickly turn off the alarm from my phone, and start getting ready for the day. After showering and getting dressed, I walk into the kitchen to see Miyuki standing there. As soon as we make eye contact, Miyuki quickly blushes and looks away, more than likely thinking of what transpired the day before yesterday. I quickly grab an apple, and after Miyuki finishes getting ready, we walk to the school. After entering the school, I pull down my hood and, after Miyuki points me into the direction of the office, I go and grab my schedule. After talking with the counselor, I start walking back to the cafeteria, where I come upon Miyuki being cornered by a blaziken morph, joined by two machine morphs, in the hallway.
"C'mon Miyuki. Just one date? It couldn't hurt to try, eh? I'll be gentle..." says the Blaziken.
"Fuck no, you jackass. I'd never date you, even if you were the last man on earth," retorts Miyuki, and as I creep forward, a feeling of rage starts to rise in the pit of my stomach.
"Gah... fine you bitch, if you want it the hard way," exclaims the blaziken, pulling back his hand to slap her. Feeling my rage build to the breaking point, I quickly rush over and grab his hand from behind.
"I'd reconsider your options," I say. The Blaziken morph quickly looks at me, surprised. He narrows his eyes at me.
"Why should I care?" He says, clearly annoyed about me getting in his way.
"Cause, dumbass, if you so much as touch her, I'm gonna send your ass straight to the hospital," I growl out, and the blaziken glares at me for a second.
"Fine," He says, snatching his hand back from my grip, and snaps his fingers and walks away with his two buddies. "I'll make sure you get payback for this later."
Turning away from him, I look over at Miyuki, who stares shocked at me. "You alright?" I say.
"Yeah... thanks for the save," Says Miyuki, and I start walking with her to the cafeteria.
"Who was that guy?" I say, feeling myself begin to cool off. Miyuki looks at me for a second, and sighs.
"That was Preston. He's been trying to get into my pants since freshman year. He also is the captain of the football tram, and his dads the coach for gym. Which means," she says, turning to me. "You already have a bad rep with one of the worst people to anger at the school. Anyway, lemme see your schedule."
She quickly snatches my schedule out of my hands, and looks at it for a few seconds.
"Wow. Looks like you got put into all of the same classes as me," she says, handing me back my schedule.
"Really? I guess that must be James's doing. Probably wanted to make sure I actually know what I'm doing, huh?" I chuckle, and we walk into the cafeteria.
"That reminds me," she says. "How smart are you? Since you lost your memories, how are you gonna do in class?"
"I'll be perfectly honest, I have no idea." I say, and before she can respond, we hear a voice from across the cafeteria.
"Hey Luroi! Miyuki! Over here!" As we both turn to the voice, we see Sasha, Saki, Luke, and Zeke all sitting at a table, with two seats left open, which we quickly sit down at. After comparing classes with everyone else other than Miyuki, I learn that I have Calculus with Luke, Physics with Sasha and Zeke, English with Saki, lunch with everyone, History class with just Miyuki, and finally Gym class with everyone again to end the day. After I finish comparing schedules with anyone, Luke turns to me.
"Hey Luroi, what's the deal with your fur anyway? And where are you even from?" he asks.
"Yeah! I wanna know too!" exclaims Sasha.
I sit still for a few seconds, puzzled as how to answer. After thinking it over, I turn back to them. "Well, Miyuki may not have told you this, but I don't really know. You see, three weeks ago I woke up in the hospital with a necklace with my name on it, and I have no knowledge of anything before that." As soon as the words leave my mouth, the table grows quiet. I shrug. "It's not that big of a deal anyway. I'll figure it out eventually."
Sasha is the first to speak up. "You have no memories? Like, at all? Zilch? Zip? Zero?"
"Yep."
"Geez... I thought you were a bit odd, but that's really something," says Luke, leaning back and scratching his head.
"Yeah... how can you just shrug that off? You mean you aren't curious at all about who you were?" says Zeke, giving me a serious look.
"Look, all I'm saying is that I don't necessarily need them right now. I mean, I just met you guys, and you let me into the group as if I was a long time friend. Hell, Miyuki's dad even let me stay at his house when I had nowhere to turn to. Whatever my life was before, I'm happy with it being like this for now," I say. After the group finally settles down, Miyuki pulls me to the side.
"Hey... did you really mean what you said there? About how your happy with your life right now?" she says, and I look at her with a serious smile on my face.
"Yeah. I figure, what could go wrong? I mean, you guys treat me like family. That's all I could ask for," I say, and Miyuki turns away, and stares off in the distance with a cheerful look on her face..
After a little while, the bell finally rings, and Miyuki, Luke and I all walk to our first class, to start the day.
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"Damn, I knew this would be hard, but this is insane!" I exclaim, looking at the mass of papers I have stacked in my hands.
"Well to be fair, you have joined in when we are already almost a quarter into the year," says Miyuki happily.
"Yeah, who knew?" I say sarcastically. "At least there's only one more class left. Hopefully, I might actually be good at this one."
When we get to the gym, we quickly join the rest of our group on the bleachers. Once the bell rings, a charizard morph bursts into the gym, walking towards the class, and I notice that he seems to be glaring at me.
"Alright class, listen up. Today, we're gonna be doing some simple battling. Anyone want to volunteer?" As soon as the words leave his mouth, two people in the bleachers quickly jump up.
"We will!" says a familiar voice, and when I look at him, I groan inwardly. Standing up is none other than Preston, along with one of the machine from earlier. They walk down the bleachers, and the teacher smirks.
"And who would you like your opponents to be?" He asks, and knowing the answer, I sigh.
Preston seemingly contemplates the question for a few seconds, then quickly turns and points directly at me.
"Him. Just him." While I stand up, the teacher looks at me with a glare.
"It seems today might be a good day for two versus one, don't ya think, class?" He adds quickly. The class is silent, staring at me.
"What!? How is that fair? He just got out of the hospital!" says Miyuki, quickly standing up.
"And? He looks fine to me." says the coach, and I sigh and turn to Miyuki.
"Sit back down, Miyuki. I can handle this, and nothing's gonna stop them anyway. Might as well get it over with." As I say this, Miyuki turns to me in worry.
"Are you sure? You haven't even done something like this before, and those are the two best football players in the school."
I put my hand on her head. "Don't worry about a thing, like I said, I can handle it."
As she sits down dejectedly, I jump down the remaining stairs, and turn to Preston.
"Alright Preston, I accept. Any rules?" I ask, turning to the coach.
"Nope, just gotta choose a weapon from the closet. Other than that, just don't kill each other. At least, I sure hope they won't." He says the last part sarcastically, quiet enough for only me to hear.
"Fine. Lead the way." As we walk to the closet and the teacher opens it, I look at all of the different wooden weapons.
There is a great mix of different sizes of swords, shields, and many other weapons. Glancing over them, I don't find anything that catches my eye. Finally, when I reach the end, something clicks as I see something stuffed into the corner. I pull it out, and quickly walk out of the closet, satisfied with my choice.
The teacher snorts. "Really? That piece of junk? I'm surprised it hasn't rotted over the years no one had used it."
"Well teach, it just feels right." I say, and I weigh the weapon in my hands, before resting it across my shoulders.
What I had chosen was a simple looking wooden scythe, seemingly frail and weak looking. I walk to the middle of the gym, and examine my opponents more closely. The machoke, holding a giant great sword, and Preston, holding a longsword , smirk at me.
"What you gonna do with that piece of shit, freak? Cut some grass?" Preston says, and I look at him with a devious smile.
"Nope, I'm looking to harvest some over cooked chicken." As I say this, the class explodes in a mixture of oohs and laughter.
"Careful, freak. You ouch me any more and you'll be the one roasting." says Preston.
Laughing, I notice a speaker in the corner of the room, and I pull out my phone.
"The fuck you think you're doing? Last time I remember, we were about to fight, not taking calls." Says preston, and I just shake my head.
"Preston, don't you know? A good fight," I say, walking to the bleachers, "Needs some music."
I pick the song, and throw my phone over to Luke, who catches it. I give him a nod, and I walk back to where I was, before the teacher starts the countdown. When he hits one, Phantom Power and Ludicrous Speed by Pierce the Veil starts playing.
"You're gonna get it now, freak." Says Preston, and he rushes me, attempting to slash me right down the middle. I quickly sidestep, but before I could do anything, I'm knocked away by a forceful blow. I slid across the floor, and it takes me a second to recover, before I look at Preston and the Machoke that just hit me.
"You're gonna regret that." Letting instinct take over as the Machoke rushes at me again, I pull the scythe off of my shoulders and prepare to take him on. He attempts to make a huge slash to my side, so I quickly duck under the blow, and get right behind him. I spin my scythe downwards, and, catching both of the Machoke's legs, I pull and flip him onto his back while Preston attempts a stab. Barely dodging it, I use the momentum and hit Preston directly in the head with the blade of the scythe, knocking him to the ground. I quickly step back as both of them start to get up again.
"What's wrong? I thought to win, you need to hit me," I taunt.
Enraged, Preston charged up a fire blast, and quickly launches it at me, followed up by a flamethrower right behind it. Attempting a sidestep, I am quickly caught by the Machoke, who managed to sneak to my blind spot behind the fire blast. I drop my weapon as he holds me there, and I take the most of the fire blast and flamethrower, with the Machoke using me as a human shield. Feeling my fur and skin slowly burn, I throw my head back as hard as I can, and at the same time stomp down my right foot on the Machoke. He yells in pain, and loosens his grip. Quickly, I break out of it, and the Machoke is left to take the ending hit of the flamethrower. I hear Miyuki gasp as I stumble out of the fire, and the Machoke attempts to lunge at me again, but I quickly punch him with as much force as I can, hearing a crack. He falls to the floor, and I look over at the stands, where I see Miyuki and the group somewhat near her looking concerned, and I look back to the teacher, expecting him to say something. I find him looking straight at me, and he smirks. Enraged, I turn back to Preston with all the rage I can muster.
"You're gonna pay for that one." I say.
He falters, and I charge up two dark pulses in both of my hands, before walking towards him slowly, getting more and more pissed by the second. Preston freaks out, and throws more fire blasts at me, but I easily dodge the hastily aimed fire. As I get close, he throws one more fire blast, but it isn't aimed at me. Time slows down as I follow the trajectory, and see that it is aimed right at Miyuki. As time slowly speeds up, I start running right for Miyuki.
No... I won't reach her! I will myself to do something, anything to get to her. Feeling a strange pull, the world slows down as darkness envelops me, and I see the world in a black haze. Not questioning it, I feel my vision blur as I go even faster and my vision corrects itself as the haze falls away, and I see that I'm right in front of Miyuki. I throw myself up with my back to the fire blast as it hits me full force. Feeling my fur burn for the second time, I look to Miyuki as she gives me a shocked look. When the fire blast ends, I crouch down, stopping as I begin to feel the full force of the blows. I look back at Preston as he runs out of the room. Uninterested, I look back to the teacher, who just smirks and walks out of the room as well. I look back to Miyuki as she shakes out of her shocked stupor.
"Oh my god... How are you still standing?" She says, and I stare at her confused. She points to the metal bleachers around me, and I notice that they have been melted with the force of the attack. I look back at my body, and I see that I am covered in burns and scratches. The back of my shirt and jacket are both entirely ruined, and my back is covered in burns. Strangely, my necklace is fine. I shrug it off, and look back to Miyuki.
"You're ok, right? James would kill me if I let you get hurt." I say, and Miyuki tears up and nods. Smiling, I find myself falling back, losing consciousness at the same time. Before I hit the ground, I feel two pairs of hands grab me, but before I can question it, My vision fades entirely to black.
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I awake to feel myself floating. As I open my eyes, i see shadows everywhere, with no visible light source around.
Am I dead? I question, and a deep voice laughs from within the darkness.
"No... you are most certainly not dead. You just awakened something, a dark secret locked away in your mind. A curse, but... you get to choose whether it's good or bad." Says the voice, slowly fading away.
"What? What do you mean? What curse? What does that have to do with anything?" I throw question after question at the mysterious voice, but i am left with nothing other than a deep echoing laughter, which slowly fades away. As it fades, I feel myself start to rise, and a bright light rushes at me. Before I fly away, I yell one more question at the voice.
"Who am I!" I yell, and as I am whisked away, I hear the voice say one last thing.
"You'll find out soon, especially if you continue upon this path." As soon as he finishes, I am finally whisked away towards the light.
POV - Miyuki
Why... why did he protect me? And what was with that weird shadow that made him appear in front of me? As I stare at an unconscious Luroi, these thoughts keep repeating throughout my head. After he fell unconscious, Luke and Zek helped catch him and they carried him over to the nurse, who helped heal most of his major wounds, and luckily said that he was fine, just needed rest. After staying in the room for a while,Sasha, Luke, Zeke and Saki all left, while I stayed, intent on waiting for him to wake up. I jump up as Luroi starts to stir, and his eyes snap open as he immediately sits up and starts looking around him. Focusing on me, he visibly calms, before falling back in the bed.
"Thank god Miyuki, I tho-"
"Why?"I ask, interrupting him. "Why did you do it? Why did you protect me?"
He sits still for a second, then sighs.
"I... I don't know. I just saw him throw it, and I didn't want you to get hurt. Same thing happened this morning, I saw that you were about to get hurt, and I acted on impulse." He says, and I feel tears rush to my eyes.
"Hey, why are you crying? I'm perfectly fine." He says.
"No you're not! You almost died protecting me! You were already injured, yet you jumped in front of a full power fire blast, and to what! Just keep me safe!" I exclaim, and he jumps. I turn away from him. "What if... what if you really died? What would I have done after that? I've only known you for a couple of days, and you risked your life to save me." I feel the tears run down my face.
After a few seconds, I hear him move behind me. I turn back around, about to tell him not to move, when I feel his arms wrap around me. Stunned into silence, I slowly return the hug as i feel even more tears rush down my face. We stay like this for a while.
"You ok now?" He says, and I nod while against him. Reluctantly, I pull away, and I look straight at him. I examine his face, looking deep into his piercing crimson eyes, and I feel... something. Pulling closer, I close my eyes and kiss him. He stays still, shocked for a second, then quickly returns the kiss. We finally break apart, both panting slightly.
POV - Luroi
"Wow..." I say. Miyuki's face turns red in an instant, and she turns away from me slightly.
"S-Sorry..." she says. She yells when I grab her and pull her into a hug.
"Don't worry, I liked it too." I reassure her, and all of the tension she had quickly goes away, and she melts into my arms.
"Really?" She asks. In response, I pull her into another kiss, this one slightly shorter.
"Does that answer your question?" I ask, and she just blushes even more.
"Yes..." she says, looking away shyly.
I glance over at the clock, and I jump with a start.
"Holy shit! It's already 9 o'clock?! How long have I been out?" I exclaim, and Miyuki looks at the clock and jumps as well.
"I didn't realize it was that late," she says, and, reluctant to leave each others embrace, we get up, and I notice that my entire torso is covered in bandages.
"Huh... this seems familiar," I say sarcastically, and Miyuki and I start laughing.
Finally, we grab the rest of our belongings and we walk back to Miyuki's house. When we walk in the door, we see James sleeping at the table. As we walk over, I tap him on the shoulder.
"Wha-oh, it's just you," He says with a jolt. As he turns away, he quickly turns his head back towards me, looking at the bandages. "What the hell happened to you?"
"Nothing, just a little incident at school," I say with a shrug, and Miyuki glares at me, but doesn't say anything.
"Looks a little more like a major incident, but ok..." he says, not fully convinced. He sighs, clearly exhausted. "Anyway, I'm gonna head upstairs and go to bed, I've had a long day."
He heads upstairs, and me and Miyuki sit in silence until we hear his door close.
"Really? A 'minor' incident?" she questions, and I shrug, grabbing her and pulling her closer.
"Well, it was either that or he learns that I almost died and freaks out. Actually, I'm surprised that the school didn't call him or anything."
"Well, the school isn't exactly great at that sort of thing. It doesn't help that the coach is on everyone's good side since winning the playoffs for football, and he knows how to pull some strings," she says, and I shrug it off. Giving her one last kiss, I pull apart from her and head to the couch. As I settle in and close my eyes, I hear a thump and Miyuki snuggles into my arms. Opening my eyes, I stare at her.
"And just what do you think you're doing?" I ask, and she snuggles even closer, and I instinctively wrap my arms around her.
"Well, I figured you might be lonely," she says, feigning innocence. Smiling, I pull her closer and kiss her, and we quickly fall asleep in each others arms.
Okay, so this is the second chapter of Oblivion! Woot! *insert confetti cannon* But seriously, this is the most I've been writing in a long time. This was already close to being done when I uploaded the first chapter, so the third chapter might be a bit longer, and it also depends on how much free time I have while exploring Europe. But going off of how it's been, it should be up within hopefully next week. My writing still feels rushed and stiff to me, but it's getting easier as I write more. Anyway, thanks for reading, and drop a review if you want, and possibly hit that favorite and follow button too! See ya!